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OFFICIAL OBMIOF BUTTS COQITY.
It it reported that eastern capitalists
have formed a corporation in Canada for
the purpose of working ten farms, each
containing 10,000 acres, in the north
western territories along the line of the
Canadian Pacific railway. •
Dr. Hainswald, the African traveler,
says that in Zululaod he met the sav
age who killed the French Prince Im
perial, and told him that if he had only
taken the young man prisoner he might
have got a large ransom; whereupon
the Zulu wept with regret and grief.
Only fifty years ago, says Sir Spencer
Wells, tho average duration of human
life ia Great Britain was thirty years; to
day, according to statistics, it is forty
nine years. In this fifty years the popu
lation has increased by 8,000,000. At
least two out of this 8,000,000 of in
crease may be put down as the fruit of
improved sanitary and medical work,
and of victory over preventable sickness.
Even the patient editor will complain
once in a while. A California editor
thus tells the story of his wrongs in his
paper: “We wrote up a whole paper of
‘able articles’ about San Benito county—
left nothing to write about-printed 50,-
000 copies, lost $275 on the venture,
knocked down a dirty, lying dog be
fore we could collect what we did get,
broke our fist on the scoundrelly cur’s
teeth, got blood poisoning, had three
doctors waiting on us, and didn’t get
out of bod for three months.”
As goldsmiths and jewelers the Per
sians are expert, and jewelry is by no
means the exclusive luxury of the rich.
In the first place it is cheap. The most
skilful jewelers are glad to work for two
shillings a day and the profit they can
make on tho very small amount of solder,
they are permitted to use. The Persian
seldom buys his jewelry ready-made; he
orders it. W hen the various pieces have
been cast or cut out from the metal sup
plied by the customer, they are brought
to him for inspection and carefully
weighed. Then the article is put to
gether, either in the customer’s own
house and under his eyo or under the
supervision of his servant. Then it is
again weighed, then chased ani fin
ished, the fillings and waste being col
lected and credited to the customer.
On the Jlst of May, 1883, Marguerito
Bogenval, of Origny, France, went to
•leep, and has not wakened since, nor so
much as stirred a finger. She has been
kept alive by the administration of milk
and highly concentrated beef tea. De
•pite the most careful attentions of those
watching her, she is now emaciated to
an extreme degree, and her bones are
piercing her skin. She lies perfectly
still and rigid, her eyes closed and her
teeth set fast together. A peculiarity of
the case is that in raising one eyelid and
allowing the light to fall upon the eye,
a shudddr is noticed, followed by an im
mediate lowering of the eyelid, or an at
tempt to do so. Marguerite’s respiration
is perfectly normal in its regularity, and
her pulse, though feeble, is not much
below the ordinary rate of beats.
One of the strangest secrets which
death has ever disclosed has just been
found to be true of a miser physician
who ended his existence in New York
city. Hundreds of empty bottles and
packages found in his room showed
that for many months he had lived on
the various nutritious articles widely
advertised in the medical journals. This
had cost him nothing, for he had taken
advantage of the sharp rivalry in wares
of this kind and had written to the pro
prietors for samples, implying that he
might require a largo quantity if the trial
proved successful. His name appeared
in the list of common practitioners, his
requests were freely granted and he Ob
tained all sorts of cereal foods, wines, malt
preparations, koumiss and tonics. His
peculiar diet may have killed him, for
he died of agastric disease.
The buildings for the International Ex
hibition to be held at Barcelona this
year under the auspices of the Spanish
government are being rapidly construct
ed. , They are situated in the public
park and adjacent grounds. The exhi
bition will be opened the 15th of Septem
ber by the Queen Regent and other high
functionaries, and will remain open for
six or eight months. Thi9 will be the
first international exhibition ever held
in Spain. The awards will consist of
diplomas of honor* diplomas of gold,
silver and bronze medals, honorable
mentions, besides the awards of a
national character which may be specially
granted by her majesty’s government.
Numerous applications for space have
come from manufacturers all over
Europe, and so many inquiries have
been received from America that the
executive committee has appointed Mr.
Antomo Cuyas of New York, as its re
rpcseatative in the United States.
While a jeweller was chatting to a
New York reporter a colored lady, at
tired in the latest devices of fashion, pur
chased a brilliant and planked down
$240 without a murmur. “Some of our
best customers arc colored people,” said
the jeweller. “When they have money
they wear good clothes and good jew
elry. Diamond ear-rings are sit off bet
ter on a dark background, and the
colored ladies understand it.”
An ancient naturalist once declared
hfe belief that monkeys were able to talk,
and the reason they did not use the gift
of speech was because they were cunning
enough to know that if they were to
talk they would be put to work. If this
theory is sound we may expect monkey
dom to burst into speech at once, for a
Kentucky man—J. B. Parkes of Kings
ton—has trained seven large monkeys to
work in his hemp field and break and
prepare hemp for market, has sent
his brother to South Africa to get ten
more Simian slaves.
The Rev. Jonathan Crossett, who for
seventeen years has been a missionary in
China, says that one section of China is
still untouched by the missionaries—the
Mongols living to the north and west.
The Mongols go down to Lassa in Tibet
as to a Mecca, and evidence can be found
among them of the teachings of the early
Christians. They are the most tenacious
as to their religion of any people whom
he had ever met. Their deity is called
Borhan, or “light,” and their belief—
Lamaism—is founded upon tenets held
by all Christians. They observe one day
in every seven, and although they wor
ship idols, they have ten commandments,
and their system of morals is very high.
Love laughs at the locksmith more
frequently than at the law, but a youth
ful couple, the children of residents of
Sellesburg, Indiana, are laughing at
both. Having escaped from surveillance
at home they went to the county clerk
for a marriage license; but, as they were
both under age, the clerk refused to
give them one. Their next step was to
induce the girl’s mother to grant her
consent, whereupon the young man
went to a judge to have a guardian ap
pointed who would give the consent
that the would-be groom’s father denied.
The guardian was appointed, and the
consent given, whereupon the young
man’s father blocked the game by
notifying all the clergymen in town not
to marry the couple. But tho young
people saw the stern parent and went
him several times better. With the
written consent of the girl’s mother aind
the young man’s guardian, they fled
into another county, obtained a license,
and were united. Whether they will
live happily ever afterward remains to be
seen.
Out of Sweetness Strength.
It has until lately been supposed that
the busy bee had no other use for his
sting and his poison apparatus than for
purposes of attack or defence, and the
necessity of such warfare seemed to be
sufficient excuse for being In the case of
this doughty weapon and panoply erf
battle. Recently, however, it has been
observed that when at work, after the
little creature has filed the cell on which
he is occupied, with such substance as it
is destined to hold, and has shaped and
closed its tiny waxen lid, sealing it for
future use, he then adds to its sweet con
tents a particle of the pungent acid that
is contained in his poison bag, by quiet
ly stinging the thin scale that forms the
lid, and depositing the acid beneath it.
The part that this acid plays ss in the
prevention of fermentation, and thus by
its means the honey is kept unspoiled so
long as there is any of it left. The cur
ious question of instinct has some new
prominence given to it by this observa
tion, for every student of the disputed
point of the dividing line between in
stinct and reason, must wonder how
many generations of bees it took to
make the discovery and apply the inven
tion in the matter of formic acids pre
venting fermentation and keeping honey
from turning sour. No bee has as yef
taken out a patent.—[Harper’s Bazar.
Mexican Children.
In all my long residence here, writes
Fanny B. Ward from Mexico, I have
seldom seen a rude or ill-mannered child,
their innate politeness appearing to be as
much a natural instinct as the result of
careful training. Upon entering a room
where company is present even the small
est toddlers will go from one to another of
the guests, gravely shaking hands with
each, while submitting to the caresses
showered upon them. If you meet a lad
in the street, eff will come his sombrero
in a twinkling, while he makes an
obeisance which a dancing master might
envy. Even the gamin are famous for
politeness, and the ragged beggar will
acknowledge your gift with the bow ol
a courtier.
Where She Acquired Ambidexterity.
Stookly—lts a splendid thing to be
able to use your left hand as well as
your right. My wife can do it. She
strikes just as hard a blow with her left
as with her right.
Blodgett—lndeed! Where did sh<
get her training I
Spookly - Taught in the public school!
for three terms!—[Cleveland Sun.
The Destiny Maker.
She came, and I who linger’d there,
I saw that she was very fair;
And, with my signs that pride suppress’d.
There rose a trembling wish for rest.
But I, who had resolv’d to be
The maker of my destiny,
I turn’d me to my task and wrought,
And so forgot the passing thought.
She paused; and I who question’d there,
I heard she was as good as fair;
And in my soul a still, small voice
Enjoin’d me not to check my choice.
But I, who had resolved to be
The maker of my destiny,
I bade the gentle guardian down
And tried to think about renown.
She left; and I who wander fear
There’s nothing more to see or hear:
Those walls that ward my paradise
Are very high, nor open twice.
And I, wfco had resolv’d to be
The maker of my destiny.
Can only wait without the ga
And sit and sigh: “Too late! too late!”
—[George Lansing Raymond.
THE MAJOR’S WARD.
The glow and glitter of a tropical mid.
night was over the lonely tent where
Col. Temple lay dying—the monotonous
chirp of some Fast Indian night-bird
filled the air with mournful melody, and
the little clock had just struck 12.
“Darrell, you’ll not forget 1” said the
sick man, suddenly raising himself on
his elbow.
“I’ll not forget, Leopold,” Major
Darrell responded, soothingly. “Lie
down and be at rest; your last wishes
shall be faithfully carried out!”
“I know it is asking a good deal of
you,” resumed Col. Temple; “butshe is
all the relation I have in the world—the
only child of my only sister. Poor
Lily—l sometimes think if I had been a
little kinder to her she wouldn’t have
run away with the villian who married
her. But that’s all past and gone—past
and gone? They sent her to an orphans
asylum somewhere—the child, I mean.
And she is at service now—Lily Tem
ple’s child—my niece and heiress 1 Ha!
ha! hal”
And Colonel Temple laughed a cold,
bitter laugh that changed to a groan.
Darrell bent over him in some dismay!
The turbaued East Indian servant ad
vanced.
“I told you sol” he signaled to his
master’s friend. “He is going out with
the turn of the tide—twenty minutes
past twelve I”
Dhurum Jashee was right. At twenty
minutes past twelve Colonel Leopold
Temple died.
‘‘Children, wtil you Keep still? Hdw
on earth am I ever to commit my spelling
lesson, if you make such a racket as this?’’
Lydia Kempfield sat before the kitchen
table, her thumbs in her ears, her fin
gers thrust through her uncombed tres
ses and her elbows among the unwashed
dishes. She was an overgrown girl of
thirteen, with great black eyes, gener
ally half-veiled by tangled hair, a skin
as brown as a berry and a bib-apron so
dirty that it looked as if she might have
used it—as she probably had—for a dus
ter.
“Bother the spelling. B. A. Ba—K.
A. R. ker, Ba-ker,” barked out Master
Rodolphe Jones, balancing neatly on the
back of his chair. “Wash the dishes
first, Lyddy, or I’ll tell ma.”
“I can’t, the water ain’t hot. Mind
your own business Rode I”
“I know somefin,” croaked Philip Au
gustus Jones, who was making pies of
ashes on the hearth. “May says she’s
goin’ to choke off this ere evenin’ school
business for Lyddy. Ma’s goin’ to take
in shirts and set Lyddy at the button
holes.”
“Tell us a story, Lyddy!” coaxed
Meggy, the youngest and least intolera
ble of the lot. ‘‘Piease 1 Just one be
fore going to school.”
“Well, then listen,” said Lydia, sud
denly turning round. Rodolphe de
scended from his aerial height—Philip
Augustus left his pies to the mercy of
the cat, who at once proceeded to roll
over in them, and Meggy leaned her el
bows on Lydia’s knee.
“Go on, Lyddy, we’re all ready,” they
cried in chorus.
“Once upon a time, children, there
was a palace, -all made of gold, with the
windows of clear diamonds, and—”
But the unexpected opening of the
kitchen door knocked the castles of gold
and diamonds into the dim realms of
nothingness, and Mrs. Jones flounced
suddenly in, while a tall gentleman
blocked up the doorway, his dark, ques
tioning eyes seeming to take in the whole
scene at a glance.
“There!’’ cried Mrs. Jones, spitefully,
“it you want to see my kitchen girl,
here she is, and much good may the
sight do you! But she’s bound legal
and lawful to me till she’s eighteen, and
I’m one as knows my rights as well as
another! No, and ain’t to be cheated
out of ’em, neither—no—not if I know
it!”
Major Darrell’s aristocratic lip curled
slightly. For the life of him he could
not help recoiling in spirit from the un
inviting tableau.
Lydia—dirty, greasy and uncombed—
the clamorous children, the reeking,
kitchen! And Lydia’s great, dusky eyes
saw it all. How she wished she were
a ittle mouse, to ran away and hide
from sight at that instant.
“Exactly 1” said Major Darrell, slowly.
“Of course, your inconvenience will be
pecuniarily considered, Mrs.-i-ahcm!
Mrs. ”
“Jones, sir,” interrupted tb>* virago,
now all smiles and curtisie*. • “To be
sure, sir—l might have knowed you
would ha’ done the correct thing. Aud
Liddy’s a very good g*l, when she ain’t
mooning over her bc*>ks.”
“You will come with me at once, my
child,” said Majrf Darrell. “I am your
guardian—the representative of the
wishes of your deceased uncle, Colonel
Leopold Temple. The carriage is at the
door. ”
And so Lydi i Kempfield vanished from
the domestic stage of the little Jones,
and the castle of gold and diamonds was
never finished.
“Is that the wild girl of the woods
you have with you, Darrell?” questioned
Mrs. Seacord, contemptuously, as Major
Darrell waited patiently in one of the
fashionable temples of the city for poor
Lydia to be measured for a clean and
decent outfit of clothing.
“Lookslike it, does she?” laughed the
major. I think myself she is rather an
unpromising specimen.”
• “What an ugly face!” said Mrs. Sea
cord, lowering her voice. “Whom did
you say she was?”
“Leopold Temple’s neice—and heiress,
by the way—and my ward. Is that
your carriage Mrs. Seacord? Pray allow
me the pleasure.”
As the courteous major escorted Mrs.
Seacord to her coupe, Lydia twitched
herself out of the dressmaker’s hands
and ran up to the great mirror.
“They are right,” she said to herself,
after a momentary survey; “lam ugly;
I do look like the wild girl of the woods,
and I wish I was dead—so there!”
And she sullenly went back to Mrs.
Threadneedle, who sat in a sort of mild
amazement, waiting her erratic notions.
The next day she went to boarding
school. Major Darrell left her at Beau
champ Lodge, with a kindly shake of
the hand.
“Good-by, Lydia,” said he, “I hope
you will do well. Of course, I shall re
ceive quarterly reports of you, and in
case of sickness, or any necessity, pray
call upon me as you would on your owu
father.”
So he went away. Lydia stood star
ing after him, with great, glittering eyes
and set lips.
“He never kissed me —he never
stroked my hair,” she thought. Ho don’t
care for me; nobody cares for a wild
girl of tho woods. Why couldn’t they
have left me alomi in my~KltcHefa..” •
Major Darrell was absent in ladia
eight more years, and when he returned,
the silver threads were beginning to min
gle in his chestnut-brown locks.
“I suppose I must go and see the
little wild girl,” he thought, as he sat
alone by the hotel fire, the first night of
his arrival. And as tho reluctant sense
of duty forced itself on his mind, a soft
tap sounded at the door.
“Come in,” said Lionel Darrell, think
ing only of his slippers or the newspaper,
and in walked a tall, beautiful girl,
slender as a reed and graceful as a lily
stalk, with purple-black curls, looped
back from a low, broad brow, and eyes
of melting violet-black. She wore a
simple gray silk, exquisitely made and in
excellent taste, and a scarlet cashmere
scarf was thrown picturesquely across
her sheu'ders.
“Good evening, guardian,” said she,
gayly. “I’ve come to welcome you
home. I saw your arrival in the morn
ing paper, and as I chanced to be in
town with Mrs. Beauchamp, I took ad
vantage of the opportunity!”
“Eh?” gasped the major, “you—you
are never little Lydia, the wild girl of
the woods!”
“But I am,” said she, laughingly
shaking back her curls. “Time works
wonders, you see, and I’m so tired of
Beauchamp Lodge!” You’ll take a
house, won’t you ,guardian, and let me
come and pour your tea and coffee for
you? And let it be by the seashore,
please; I delight in the sea.”
“It shall be wherever you say,” quoth
Major Darrell, fairly bewildered by the
beautiful vision.
The house was taken and furnished
regally; a vinegar-visaged old house
keeper and three maids engaged, besides
the major’s copper-colored Malay valet.
And Lydia, the homeless, came home.
“My twenty-first birthday, guardian,”
said she, with pretty imperiousness.
“What did you bring me for a present?
I dare say you forgot all about it.”
“No, I do not,’’said the major valiant
ly, “I have brought ycu a husband, my
little girL”
“Whom?”
“Myself! Will you marry the battered,
old campaigner, Lydia?”
And then and not till then, pretty,
blushing Lydia whispered a secret to her
guardian.
“Dearest, I have loved you ever since
that day when you first saw me in the
dirt an 1 dust of Mrs. Jones’ kitchen.”
“And you never told me?”
“It was for you to speak first,” she
laughed.
And this was Lydia’s fortune, better
than any castle of gn'd or diamonds.
The selfish man has the most presence
of mind. He never forgets himself.
artificial ICE.
a. Remarkable Practical Ap
plication of Science.
The Uses to Which Artificial Ice is Pu
in Large Oties.
One of the most remarkable practical
applications of science is the production
of artificial ice, for the preservation of
food in large cities. In New York, for
instance, there is no longer any waste of
fish, flesh, fowl or fruit from heat or de
cay. In all the packing-houses under
the vast freight depots at St. John’s
Park, as well as the warehouse near the
markets, there is a constant production
of artificial ice, which freezes all perish
able food, so that it can be kept any
reasonable length of time until sold.
During the dog-days, turkeys
and chickens are frozen as stiff as
at any time in midwinter. This artifi
cial ice is ever so much cheaper than
natural ice, because it can be manu
factured when required, and does not
call for the labor of handling. Am
monia is the principal ingredient used
in its manufacture. A daily paper on
this subject says: “The artificial pro
duction of cold is, of course, no new
thing. As far back as 1824, Yallance,
iu 1834, Perkins, and 20 years latter,
Twining, made experiments with a view
to producing icc by mechanical means.
In 1855, Twining built a machine in
Cleveland, 0., in which, by the use of
sulphuric ether, about a ton of ice a day
was produced. In 1850, Carre made
ice-making a practical business by the
invention of his ammonia-absorption
machine, which produced a great sensa
tion ut the Paris exhibition of 1867.
Carre’s principle remains to-day that of
tho best cold-producing machines.
Liquefied ammonia, the product of the
compression of gaseous ammonia at a
low temperature, in evaporating and re
turning to its gaseous state requires an
immense amount of heat,
and will take it from any
surrounding material. The problem,
therefore, was to compress the gas until
it liquefied, and then carry the liquid
ammonia to some place where its evapora
tion would absorb heat not wanted.
Thus, if icc was desired, the liquid
ammonia could be carried into a coil of
pipe placed in a tank of water, the ab
sorption of heat by the coil of pipe
would be such as to freeze the whole
mass of water. If cold air simply was
desired, a pipe carrying liquid ammonia,
or. any substance .cooled by the ammonia*
could be carried to the apartment which
it was desired to cool. Carre’s first
machine was simply a strong pump
which compressed the gaseous ammonia
to the point of liquefaction, and a series
of pipes or retorts into which the liquid
ammonia was forced. Having absorbed
the surrounding cold by its expansion,
the gas was returned to the compression
pumps and reduced again to liquid am
monia. All improvements upon the sys
tem of Carre and Twining have been
made chiefly in the lino of greater me
chanical perfection of the condensing
and expansion devices. A perfect
machine would lose no gas
whatever, but would continue using the
same gas over and over again.” But
there are other uses to which the produc
tion of artificial ice can be applied. In
the years to come, living in large cities
drning the summer time will be rendered
more tolerable by the refrigeration of
private houses, as well as public re
sorts, such as churches, places of amuse
ment, and inclosed public gardens. A
machinery, similar to that we employ in
heating houses in winter time, can be
used to cool them during the heats of
summer. Living in tropical regions
also will be rendered more endurable
when the cheap production of artificial
ice is better understood. In northern
regions, we live under cover, as a pro
tection against cold, and with these new
refrigerating agents, an inclosure against
the hot weather will he a protection .in
those regions of the earth that are near
the equator. This manufactured ice, }*
one of the most beneficent and .a!
inventions of modern times.—[Demorest.
The Walk Before Breakfast.
It is curious how ideas change with
the times. Not so many years ago it
was considered the most healthful thing
in the world to take a walk before break
fast. “It is not only absurd, but dan
gerous,” said a well-known physician,
speaking on this subject a few days ago.
“The early morning air is malarial and
will cause catarrh and lung troubles. If
you can avoid it never leave your house
until the sun has warmed the atmos
phere. mind about seeing the
sun rise; it will rise without you assist
ance-take care of your health and let
the sun take care of itself.”—[Philadel
phia Call.
Love’s Strongest Test,
Love is strong. So are onions. Love
can be put to no stronger test than to be
put face to face with raw onions. If a
young lady wants to test to the utmost
her young man’s love, let her eat raw
onions on the night that she expects him.
If he continue steadfast after this trial,
he is without doubt possessed of the si
m on-pure article, or else he is a born hog.
- [Dansville Breeze.
Inveterate Gamb.'ers.
“The Chinese are the most invetemt#
gamblers in the world,” says an orient
ally inclined friend of mine. John?
Chinaman will work all the week, night!
and day, fir the sake of gathering to.,
gethcr a few dollars with which to play
his favorite game on Sunday. He vril||
“blow in” every cent and start for home!
in the small hours of Monday morning]
completely cleaned out, but apparently!
as happy and contented as ever. In the 1
Chinese quarter of New York there is *j
clique of celestial sharpers who regu.j
larlv fleece their less sophisticated!
countrymen. Some of them are worth]
all the way from $50,000 to $100,000,?
and it is simply impossible for their com-1
paratively poor victims to get the best]
of them. The majority of Chinamen!
play simply for the sake of gambling!
and will go back again aud again to the|
dens where they have been repeatedly]
robbed of their hard earned dollars ]
This fact is but too well known to tk j
blacklegs running the fan tan gattrtf/
and I understand that few, if any, oil
the dens are conducted “on the square.”
—I Brooklyn Eagle.
The Dangers from Earthquakes.
It is satifactory to find that, withinj
the area of the United States, two ccn-j
turie3 of historic record and much natu
ral evidence go to show that great earth
quakes are exceptional, but this should
not blind us to the fact that large areas
arc already known to have suffered from
movements which may bring widespread
destruction, where the builder takes no
account of any other disturber of stabil
ity save gravitation. It is not likely
that we as yet know, by experience, the
full extent of country which is subject
to this order of shocks; our historic
perspective is very short, and the nat
ural evidence does not give us any as
surance concerning disturbances of this
lesser order. It is clear that we cannot,
in this country, reckon on an earth as
stable as that of the northern region of
Europe, where our race was bred and
our building system developed. Ittis
equally clear that the mode of construc
tion should be adapted to the new needs
which the less firm ground of this coun
try imposes on us.—[[n Scribner’s Mag
azine for March.
Wise Florida Buzzard*.
On the coldest morning of our late
disagreeable spell of weather, says the
Palatka (Fla.) News, the fishermen
built a large fire on a point projecting in
to the river from East Paiatka, and after
waiming themselves, went on with their
fishii|g and,left the fire burning. Re
turning after a time they were surprised
to see a group of some fifty or sixty
buzzards standing before the fire, kick
ing up all sorts of antics. Not under
standing such proceedings the boats were
rdwed up pretty close, and the occu
pants watched the birds for some time.
It was a very cold morning, and the
birds would stand with one side to the
fire until it was warm, and then they
would deliberately turn around and
warm the other side. Those on the out
side of the group would get so eager t ri
get within the warmth ol the .fire th.*
they frequently crowded the birds on t# J
inside nearly into the flames, and in?
struggle was waged fierce and bitter ioi
advantageous positions.
Accidents at the London Zoo.
“Our records of fatalities at the Zoc
since its establishment in 1826, numbers
two,” and Mr. Bartlett of the London
Zoological Gardens, smiled a smile of
very justifiable gratification. “One ol
these cases was an accident. An old
servant was walking in frbnfc of an ele
phant; someone prodded the brute in
the back, and caused him to staft for
ward! The old man was knocked own,
trampled under foot and killed, flu the
s econd case a man was killed by fe bite
of a cobra. He took the cobra outMiu a fit
of drunkenness,and whirled it arcMnd his
head, crying out: ‘I nm inspire®! lam
inspired!’ The cobra struck mim be
tween the eyes, and in a few Hours he
was a dead man. Now, here, \\M never
allow a man to enter a cage for Meaning
purposes without shutting off Ihe ani
mal by tho usual door. There lis abso
lutely no danger with the animf s if the
men avail themselves of the nMchinery
provided. Accidents are us Ally the
result of an inclination or paradf.”
The Crow i t the Cornfleß.
Two well known artists wentfmt into
the suburbs to sketch crow*, 'lacy saw
a fine specimen in a cor .fiol I ter
approaching him began to *w
ing from life. The nearer thff Jjdt the'
more they admired him. Prcsm tly they
stole up to within ten feet, a a repro
duced even the tint of his toe If* Won
derfully tame the bird seemed# until he
suddenly turned out to be cm': the top
of a burned stump.—[Harpc J Weekly.
He was One.
Young man (to Western young lady)
Yaas, I’m a member of the Hare and
Hounds Club, y’know. At jlast meet I
was one of the hares.
Western young lady—Whit do you
mean by hare, Mr. Sissy? V .
Young man—They are cal Id rabbi tsj
in this country, I believe, 1
Western young lady—Oil yes, those
sweet little atiimals with sue * long ears.
How nice!--[Harper’s BazaaJ