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About The Enterprise. (Carnesville, GA.) 1890-1??? | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1890)
VOL. I. %"he Supreme Court of Wisconsin has decided that the Bible has no place in the public school*. Nearly overy town in Georgia is pre¬ paring to put up a cotton seed oil mill. And yet but a few years ago these seeds ■were considered worthless. The House Committee on Pensions estimates the number of survivors of the Federal army at 1,200,000, and that the average age of the surviving soldiers is now 53 years. An attempt is being made to propa¬ gate Chineso quail iu California, and 600 have been sent to the large ranches in great valleys. Tlio birds resemble English snipe or the American meadow lark in size and color. Calhoun, in Illinois, is the banner county of the Union. There is not within it a railroad, telegraph, bank or express office. The county jail has not had an inmate for five years and tho courts rarely have any lawsuits to settle. A numismatist suggests that a certain coin—say the fifty-cent pieces—issued during any administration be stamped with the head of the President of that date. They will thus serve as an aid to history, as do tlio coins of ancient days. A remarkable coincidence in connec¬ tion with the death of the president of an electric railway in Ohio is that he was killed while violating a rule which lie himself had made, forbidding pas¬ sengers to get on or off the front plat¬ form while the cars were in motion. His coat got caught in some way or other, and he was thrown under the ■wheels. A hill 400 feet high, c< mposed of copper, silver and gold, has been dis- covcre 1 in the Mexican State of Chiapas. A river flowing on one sido of the hill has largely uncovered tho deposit, and many thousand tons of ore are in sight. The ore assays from three to four ounces of gold and forty to sixty ounces of silver per ton, with from 23 to 25 pqp gent, of copper. According to a French paper the in¬ quiry mado by the administration in order to carry out the new lawgiving certain advantages to fathers of more than seven children, has shown that in France at present there are 2,000,000 households in which there has been no child; 2,500,000 in which there was one; 2,300,000, two children; 1,- 500,0( 0, three; about 1,000,000, four; 550,000, five; 330,000, six and 200,- 000, seven or more. Smugglers are reaping a rich harvest near the Canadian frontier. They pursue their unlawful work in houses built on the boundary line, half in Canada and the other half in the United States. Generally these houses contain a tramway, upon which cars, contain¬ ing contrabrand goods, can be moved from ono country to the other. When United States officers make a raid the cars arc pushed over into Canadian territory, and vice versa. The Cana¬ dian government wilt take measures to prevent n ronlinurnce rf the fraud. A number of capitalists have fitted out a fast steamship at San Francisco for seal poaching in Biln-ing Sea. As every skin is worth $12. 5 ) these capi¬ talists believe that illicit scaling is profitable. They have no fear of being apprehended by the Government author¬ ities, as the revenue cutter Rush cau only make eight knots an hour, and the Bear is equally slow. It is intended that the poacher shall make twelve knots an hour, so that she can kill seals wherever she pleases and then run away from the Government vessels: “It may have been noticed,” says the Galveston News, "that the widow of Jefferson Davis, since his death, signs her name ‘V. Jefferson Davis. ’ Many persons doubtless suppose she has added tho name Jefferson to her Chris- tian name Varina. But this is not the proper explanation. V. s tho abbre¬ viation of veuve, the French for widow, ancl it is the custom iu Louisiana, and perhaps in other parts of the South, for widows to place that letter before the Christian names of their deceased husbands, V. J; Herron Day s simply the widow of Jefferson Davi a ’ means . The new Braz lian marriage law makes civil marriage obligatory. Any marriage not made before civil powers is null aud void, The parlies have to pay to the judge $1 and to tl.e clerk 50 cents if tho mairiage is performed at his office, and double that if in a pri- vite house, besides the cost of carriage or traveling expense 3 , Relatives of the first and second degrees, girls under fourteen and boys under sixteen years are prohibited from marrying. Widows may not marry until ten months after the decease of tl.eir husbands. Civil marriages may be preceded or fo lowed by religious services. THE ENTERPRISE. A §onsr for tho Times. “Be sure you’re right, then go ahead,’ This golden maxim keep in view; Ere opportunity has fieri Perform the work you have to do. Upon the threshold of your task Stand not, my friend, with faltering feet, Brace up! In leisure’s sunshine bask Not till your structure is complete; When shines the sun, when bright’s the day To make your hay at once begin; With night will come the time for play— Go in aud win! If golden fortune be your aim, Take off your coat, your sleeves uproll; Though Fortune is a fickle dame, She smiles upon the brave of soul. But if she frown still lioe your row, Pursue her—no surrender make; The favors she will not bestow I’pon you, you by force may take. fife's priz s are by labor got; They come to those who toil and spin; Strike, strike the iron while ’tis hot— Go iu and win! If Beauty be your heart’s desire, Your mode of action is the same; Be bold, persistent, never tire, Unswervingly pursue your aim. If other suitors round her press, Give them no chance their love to t Be prompt your passion to confess; Kusli in and storm the citadel. For Beauty smiles c n those who dare, And flies the craven, as ’twould sin, “None but the brave deserves the fair.” Go in and win! —■Boston Courier. THE PRINCESS LATOKA. AN INDIAN LEGEND. Marshall County, in the north of Mississippi, contains a pretty little town called Holly Springs. In olden times —in the glorious days before the war, it was often styled tho Athens of the Sou'h. Today, though a dear little place where a wealth of flowers bloom, and the far-famed magnolia trees lift aloft their stately blossoms of snowy whiteness anl tropicil odors, it is not what it was in tho storied days of the ‘‘Old Ssuth.” Like many another place in the valley of the great “Fathar of Waters,” this has a history peculiarly its own. The woof and warp of tradition lend a charm to oven very commonplace local¬ ities, and ever since the time when the red man owned and loved this vast re¬ gion, there have been legends and won¬ derful stories connected with its fields and forests. Aud this is the one which tho stately old trees that stand guard along the broad walks of the town of Holly Springs whisper under their breath to each other during the long moonlit bights when mocking birds sing and give voice to the shadowy spaces. A long time ago there lived where the town now stands a great Indian chieftain. He had his wigwam here and hunted through all the forests for the graceful deer and huge bear that abounded. It was a pretty wigwam the old chieftain had, all painted aud ornamented with curious devices drasvn in red and blue paint by the hand of the young Princess, who, as she grew taller and taller, was like a comely plant, so tho old father said, or like the graceful youug crops myrtle trees that stood about their horns. The days flew by, and tho youug Princess was a child no longer, but a rarely beautiful maiden. Her hair was dusky like the blue-black smoke that curled above the wigwam, and it swept about her liko tho clouds when a storm is gathering, but the large, luminous eyes that rivaled it in co or wore soft as the young rose and full of a light which seemed to attract liko a magnet all upon whom they rested, Her lips wero like the flush on tho flams bush for color and brightness, and her soft, glistening skin was as tho chestnut when it is ripe and realy for bursting. Very, very beautiful was the youug Princess Latoka, still she knew it not. Yet a day came when, going with her father to the stream a few miles distant, she gazed more aud more upon the face that looked back from its waters and wondered upon tho change that sho saw there. Then a time came when, as she wan¬ dered under- the grand trees, a new pathos seemed to thrill in the notes of tho mocking birds that called to eacli other and made much ado in tlio swny- ing branches, Even the recDt of the flowers seemed changed in a manner, to possess some new essence, but she knew not what it meant nor realized that a sense of loneliness had come into her life, that she longed for companionship, and finding it not felt, as never before, the all-pervading loveliness of nature, and discovered with it a mystical kin¬ ship through the song of the birds, and through the exquisite fragrance of the flowers. Now, among the young braves who came to her father’s wigwam, svho had been wont to come since first she cou'd remember, was the matchless Tuih- homa, brave in fight, skilled in chase, envied by all bis brotheis, adorel by a 1 the maidens, She could not look back upon a time that Tullahoma was not known to her. Now be, tho fiery, tho willful Tul¬ CARNESVILLE, GA., MONDAY, MAY lahoma, loved the maiden with all the power of his untamed heart, and ouly a vow to th3 old chieftain had kept him from telling her so many moons ago. “No, no,” the old man said; “she is hut a blossom—but a half-blown flower; leave her with me in peace for yet twelve moons. "Whon they have waned, if she will, thou mayest take her to thine own wigwam, that she may be thy wife.” So Tullahoma dared not toil in words his lov# to the Prluccss, but oftentimes she found his coal-blrek eyes resting upon her in so strange a manner that perforce she would rise and leave his presence, would go out to hold com¬ mune with the birds, with the flowers, or to watch tho fnr-eff azure that was liko unto somo distant ever-changing lake of rest. She wondered, and could not explain, that in these days she felt afraid of the young chief. Something made her trcmblo under his gaze; something held her back when she would have had speech with him; something drew her eyes away when sho would have lifted them to his face. And now there came one day another young brave with a band of brothers to hunt in the rich forests about Latoka’s home; her father gave consent and they followed the game for many weeks ere time for departure was arrived. But the youug chief, I’aoln, tall and supple of limb, strong and graceful as (he giant magnolias, soft of speech as the wind whon it kisses their snowy blossoms, he found other game in the forest, in the wigwam whoro dwelt Latoka. He came, and his eye", dark and lu- minous as her own, rested upon her face, then fell before its beauty; he lifted them once again; her lips parted and she would have spoken, but some¬ thing—neither divined what—arrested speech; they both wero silent, but each looked at the other for the space of a mcm.'ut, then Pacla turned from the wigwrm and went away by him¬ self into the forest. Days passed, anl coming and going he saw the in liden, and a great love and masterful, grew up in his heart. Now, one nightfall, when the young moon had just lifted her cresceut and tilted it down toward the little path that led to tho home of Latoka, Paola drew noar the place and suddenly saw the maid standing beneath a great tree; he could not know between the night and her dusky tresses, nor discern where her robes mingled with the shadows, the light was so uncertain, but through a rift between the branches came a silver shaft of radiance, anl up¬ lifted to tho heavens was her face—and all the glory of this light rested upon her countenance. In soft tones she communed with her own soul, and liko zephyrs fresh from jasmine vines were her murmured words. Paola, the proud, the noble, would not spy upon her reveries, but silently drawing near, stood beforo her in the light aud looked into her upturned face. One moment it was so; then he leaned toward her and whispered: "Latoka, come.’ ’ She gazed at him with a strange, wondering luster in tho nmrvelou eyes, just for a second—then answered sim¬ ply, “It is the will of tho Great Spirit; I come.” With these words she paused, then he drew her to his bosom and folded about her the strong, brave arms that would shield her now for- ever more. So they stood, and a lifetime compassed in the completeness of the moment. They heard not, they saw not, they only knew each tho presence of the other. But like a vile serpent came a wily creature through the darkness, two glaring eyes reitoi upon the lovers, and quick as thought a poisoned arrow on - lered their paradise—wingei by the crafty Tullahoma,it flew on its mission, piercing two hearts ns one,and together they fell on the coot mosses. One moment gave them tho life of love, the next the life of death. * * * The Great Spirit had loved these beautiful children with a even¬ drous tenderness, and just where thoy fell his tears gushed forth in two beau¬ tiful springs, whose waters soon min¬ gled in a clear and sparkling stream. Then he gave command, and tall, grace¬ ful holly trees, emblems of undying jove, started into being all aglow with berries, blood-tinted, like their warm drops that had stained tho earth. And these trees grew beside the water and the place was called Holly S irings by the braves who soon began lo hold their councils here. 8e they did until the palefaces came and then slowly the red man wandered westward, leaving this legend to tell itself ia the whispering of the branches and the murmuring of the fountain that still I ub’j'.cs up near the centre of the town, —Hcmph 8 Commercial. How Losenges arc Made. “Tho lozengomakor dies, but tho lozengo nover,” said Robert H. Moses, a wealthy New York cx-merchant to a Star reporter. • “Years ago,’’ ho continued, “all lozougos were made by baud, Tho dough or pasie was rolled out as a pas¬ try cook rolls out hit work, and then stamped by hand into the circles, hearts and diamonds so dear to the juvenilo eye. In those days there were many Irzengc-makcrs. But into tho trade, as into every other industry, the inven¬ tor, found his way, and in a few yoars made so many labor-raving machines as to drive the workmen into other trade?. Today lozengc-mnkmg is simplicity it¬ self. Tho ingredients are thrown into a large trough, and a kneading machine converts them into a fine dough. This is put into tho lozengo machine iu quantities of fifty to a hundred pounds at a time. The machine rolls it into fine sheets, cuts it into nny possible pattern, revolves the dough between the shapes, embosses the lozenges, prints monograms, initials, or namos upon them, or writes such pleasant sentences as ‘I love you,’ ‘Yes, darling,’ •Come off, please;’ then moves them off to drying hoards and rings a bell to an¬ nounce when each board is covered. They are dried in huge crates, and then cleaned, poli hed and barreled or boxed by a third machine. Tho entire cost of manufacture is so slight whon these ma¬ chines are employed that it ii possible to turn out finished lozenges at a frac¬ tion over the cost of tho sugar. Under such conditions it is impossible for hand labor to compote.” ‘‘Where do lozenges go?” “To every where, is the host answer. They are still the favorite filling for all mottoes, and seem as popu’ar with children as ever before. Tho sale is larger, proportionately, in the country than in the city, just as it wa3 20 years ago. Besides those sources of demand, an immense number is manufactured for druggists and patent medicine men. Cough lozenges and those for dyspepsia, sleeplessness and other ailments arc made almost exclusively by these ma¬ chines, which accounts for the'r per¬ fect uuiformity an l finish. It may be a good thing for the public, but it has been ruin to the skilled workmen who once made a handsome living in their manufacture.’’ Poison for Arrosy Tips. We are indebted to Frank Smith of Whitewater for a very graphic account of the manner in which a Piute Indian prepared his deadly arrows. He gath¬ ered a dozen or more rattlesnake heads and put them in a spherical earthen ves. scl. With these ho put half a pint of a species of large red ant that is found hereabouts. The bite of this ant is more poisonous than that of a bee. Upon these he poured a bit of water, and then sealed up with moist earth and a lid this vessel. He then dug a hole two feet deep into the ground, in which he built a roaring fire and put in somo stones. Whon tho interior ol tho hole aud the stones were red hot he made a place in the bot¬ tom for the earthen vessel and put it in. About it and upon it he put tho hot coals and stones, nnd Upon the top ho built a fierce fire and kept it up for 24 hours. Then lie dug out his vossel, and, standing off with a long pole, he disengaged the top and lot the fumes escape. Ho insisted that had they struck his face it would have killed him. Tlic mass left in the vessel was a dark brown paste. To test the (fficacy of his concoction, the Indian with his hunting knife made a cut in his bate leg, j below the knee, and let the blood run down his anklo. Then, taking a stick, lie dipped it into tho poison, and touched tho descending blood at the ankle. It immediately began to sizz'e as if it wore cooking the blood, and tho poison followed the blood right up tho leg, sizz'ing its way, until the Indian scraped tho blood off with his knife. Ho assured our informant that had he allowed it to reach the mouth of the wound he would have been a dead man. Women’s Four Words of Admiration. Women use but four words to ex¬ press their a l miration of works of art, at least, as ascertafned the other day at an exhibitien in one of the local gal¬ leries. Whether the picture represent¬ ed some religious subject, or a land scape with peacefully-grazing cattle, or two lovers in an affectionate em¬ brace, or some beautiful Adonis, or an old cathedral, the exclamations of ap¬ proval always were, “Lovely!” or “Ele¬ gant!” or "Sweei! ’ or "Splendid!” — Albany (N. 7.) Journal Gazzam—When aerial navigation be¬ comes common, it will be necessary to frrbid quarrelsome people to take such means of conveyance. Maddox—Why? Gazzam—Because they raigh^ fall out .—Muntty > Week'y. ARCTIC SEALING. How The Newfoundland Hunt¬ ers Capture Their Prey. Slaughtering the Animals Among the Icebergs. Describing what ho saw while on a Newfoundland scaling vessel among the northern ico floe", a writer in the New York Timet says: As the morn¬ ing brightened out tho seals could be seen with tho naked eye, scattoroii here and there in little coveys and lying quite still. How glorious the sight was when the clear, bright sun arose out of the distant castl Everywhere stretched a white gleaming field; the summits of tho bergs sentineling tho floe caught tho sun first and fairly quivered and scintillated m flame. The side turned to tho cast was burn¬ ing gold; the sido «w«7 from tho sun was a steel blue. Biids which make these icy peaks their home till they reach their breeding haunts further in tho south roso and circled in swarms about tho top of tho berg, lint when the sun roso about tlio smooth-ice level it sent long spears of yellow fire, so numerous and so bright that you could not look at tho pathway of seiutillntiug light. It needs no orders from the Captain to get the man out on tho ice such a moruiug as this. Every man of them, except the regular crew, sailed forth, his gaff in his hand. Tho gaff is a weapon with a stout wooden handle and a steel spear and gripping con¬ trivance at the end. This is the hun¬ ter's wenpon of slaughter. He carries a coil of rope on his shoulder and his great knife iu his bolt. He has no fear on this floe, for all the armies of the world and all their horses may rest upon it with safety. Il consists of a vast aggh meration of "pans” or "cakes,’’frozen together and compact except when the floe begins to break up. Ocean ice always forms in this way, and never in great sheets, as on rivers aud still water. Tho wintry 1 * ocean waves arc forever in motion, which would break up largo areas of thiu ico. The bergs are regular ocean wanderers aud get imprisoned by tin flat ice, but (hey break away as tlio spring advances aud have a fond less for the track of ocean ships, of all other floating tilings they aro, iu foggy weather, the most deadly menace to ships. Tho writer went out for slaughter with a groat brawny hunter who soon showed how the work was done. Here and there on a broad ice pan was a covey of three, four or five seals, all sunning thcmselvos, and apparently su(k:ug the ice. They have no other food in this wilderness so far as cun he seen. They go on tho ico to bring forth their young, and also perhaps to get a free ride down from Greenland to Newfoundland and the shores of the Canadian provinces. They seldom make much effort to get away ns you come up to them, hut the hunters declare that there is a look of terror in their soft, dark eyes, and they have, moreover, tlio firm belief that tho seal sheds tears. Lifting his heavy gaff the hunter strikes tho animal on the head, ptrikes every one of them iu tho group, then taking out his knife he strips off the pelt by opening tlio ani¬ mal back and front down to the lean meat. The skin, which is gray, goes with the blubber or fa', and tho carcass is left on the ice. These pelts arc left where they are till ail the animals in a convenient radius liavo been secured. Then,tying several of the pelts together the hunter proceeds to collect them, putting them all together, and marking them with a miniature flag from his ship. Here is tho advantage of the steamer; she can work her way up, following the lend of the men from day to day pick¬ ing up the pelts. 'i’iie sailing vessel remains where sho gets fast, and 1 lie hunlers are oligo.l to drag thoir tropdiies for miles over the ico. They get lame at first from ice travel and they all get ice blind unless thoy wear green gog¬ gles, as they call that kind of glasses. The seal is not the valuable fur ani- mal from which ladies’ jackets and muffs are obtained; he is known as a white-coat, and tho fur is not in much request, being coarse and presenting a bristly appearance. In about a week the ship had over 20,000 polts, worth about $5 each, and in another fortnight had added nearly another 10,000. This filled her to the hatches, and tho men slept on top of the cargo, Their clothes were saturated with seal oil an 1 they smeded strongly of it. There are hosts of sea birds on the ficc3. and some good sport can be had. The greenhorns looking for adventures would go after the huge stemmatopus, or hooded seal, but they usually left in much terror. Heavy seal shot has little effect on tfie “dog hood.” He covers his head and lios defiantly on tho ice beforo tho hunter's gun. llo is noarly as largo ns an ox. A curiosity is tho small whito fox known ns tho ico fox. Ho comes out to feast on tho carcasses left by tho scalpers, but if there is any chance of au off storm, which would blow tho tloe oif from laud, he scampers shore¬ ward, llo is an excellent weather proplrot. The Crow and the Drake. A duck with a broo l of ducklings was walking along the odgo of Hunk- ing’s pond, near Pleasant Mont, Ponn., when one of a flock of crows that w'oro hanging about tho spot lit on the ground near tho ducks and peeked and struttod lo anil fro, in hor indifferent sort of way, as though not noticing tho prcsonco of tho ducks, but all tho time drawing closer and closer to them. Finally the crow mado a sudden move¬ ment, capture l a duckling and flow away with it, greeted by a loud chorus of congratulatory caws from its com¬ panions, who had bocn perched in a free not far away, as quiet us mice. There was great commotion in tho duck family over tlio loss of ono of its members, and the old duck’s drake, which had boon swimming iu the pond near by, hurried to her and quacked his condolence. Aftor a few minutes another crow, probibly envi¬ ous of tho sucees of its follow in secur¬ ing so delicious a meal so neatly, drop¬ ped down on the ground and began a system of similar maneuvers. Tlio caw¬ ing of tho crows ceased instantly and the oyc3 of the flock were evidently fixed on their scheming companion, watching the result of his wiles. A farmer who had beon an oye-witnoss of the first performance, now thought it strange and stupid on tlio part of the ducks, after their experience, that thoy did not tnkc their little ones in tho wa‘e r where they could protect them better. Rut ho did not interfere, being curious to see what succoss tho second crow would have. Ho soon discovered that the ducks had longer heads than ho had given them credit for. Tho crow pecked and sidlod along until it was quite noar the ducks, wdion it darted forward to seize a duckling, But tho drake had Us eye on tho marauder, and beforo the crow had the duckling tho drake ha l the crow. It seized the b’.nclc robber by ono leg, and in spito of the latter’s yolls and fluttering, plunged in tho pond with it. The drake swam a few feet and then (lived with his prisoner. The capture of tho crow filled tho flock of crows with alarm, aud they arose iu a body and circled about with donfoniug cries. Tho sudden disappearance of their comrade beneath the wa’er aroused alt their sus¬ picious nature, and they flew rapidly away. Tho drake remained below for an extraordinary long lime, and when it came to the surface the crow was not with it. It appeared soon afterward. It was as dead as a stono, the avenging drake having drowned it. The drake swam back to its mate and family, and a loud quacking of congratulations fol¬ lowed, after which tlio whole family launched themselves into tho water for a triumphant swim. Eycslght aw a Help lo Speech. An interesting inithod has for some time past been practiced by means of which deaf mutes aro easily enough (aught to speak in a passable manner. M. Goguillot, professor in tho deal mutes’ institution, Paris, in a published account of the ossential features of this process, shows that it is at least charac- terized by entire simplicity. Tho pro¬ fessor emits any given sound, ns, for instance, that of o or a, and obiigos tho pupil to look at him—at his mouth— and at tho same time to put his hand on his face or chest, to feel the vibrations of these parts; tho pupil then adopts the same expression, tries to do with his mouth what he has seou the mastei do, and puts his hand to his own che3t or face, to feel the vibrations, and trios to reproduce those ho has felt, In this manner young deaf mutes may be trained to speak in a tolerably intelli¬ gent fashion, and thus, though incapa¬ ble of being taught to hear, many get to understand what is said to them, through the eyesight; that Ls, thoy look at the mouth of the person who is speaking, and understand the conversa¬ tion in this manner. However, one must speak slowly, and exaggerate somewhat the real movements of tho dps to insure comprehension. — Chicago Timet. Accounts Kept on Doorposts. The government of Saratoff, Russia, sells each year to tho people an im¬ mense quantity of far for use in thoir business. Ail the sales are on credit, and as the peasants can neithei read nor write the account of each is kept by means of certain signs mado with the tar upon his doorpost. Pay day comes every fall, and then only are the doorposts of baratoll wished clean un¬ til a new account is started, NO. 20. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Metal ties for railroads aro proving very satisfactory. It is proposed to reduce cows’ milk to a dry pnwdcr, ns being bettor few transportation and superior to con¬ densed milk French engineers propose ascending tho Jungfrau by a succession of slanting roads forming a zigzag to a height ‘ of some 12,000 feet, landing nearly at tho summit of tho mountain. There hns lately been a plague of lo. ousts in the province of Gizole, Egypt. In five days tho authorities destroyed six tons of them. Exposure to the sur is said to bo fatal to their eggs. Experiments with tho 25,000 candli power search lamps show that vessels three miles oil can readily be detected, and that, by throwing tho light on the clouds, signnliug is possible at a dis¬ tance of fifty miles. Sending pictures by telegraph is one of tho latest inventions. The salient points of the picture arc established by a previously agreed upon system or co¬ ordinates, aud the details arc filled in by tlio descriptive words added. Tho best wearing rubber pavement, which has been iuvented by Busse- Hunuouor, consists of 85 per cent, of ground stone and 15 per cent, of a rub¬ ber mass, which after a special treat¬ ment is mixed with the stone powder. A very ingenious electrical device has lately been patented by which the hands of a clock set (o a certain hour aro made to comploto nil electric cur¬ rent connected with tho kitchen stove so that tho firo is stnrtod when tho given hour arrives. At n Into meeting of tlie’Lodon Zoological Hociety an attempt was mado to provo that the variclioi of tho do¬ mestic dog owe their origin to wolves and jackals, tho habit of barking hav¬ ing been acquired under the influence of domestication. A raro phonomcun is reported from St. Mato. Recently three suns wero seen nil in a row a llttlo abovo tho west¬ ern horizon. Tho real sun, which was in the centre, shono with unwonted brilliancy, while from its supporters darted rays of prismatic colors. Distressing or excessive palpitation of tho heart can alwnys be arrestod by bonding doublo, tho head down and tho hands hanging, so ns to produce a temporary congestion of tho upper portion of tho body. Iu nearly every instance of nervous palpitation tho heart immediately resumes its natural function. From tho investigations by Profess¬ ors Forster and Do Freytng, salting or pickling seems to have very little de¬ structive power on many of tho com¬ moner forms of bacilli, which may be found in diseased moat. The bacilli of typhoid, erysipelas, tubercle and in¬ fectious porcino disoascs wore found alive after having been in picklo two months. The weather plant as a barometer has been destroyed by tho discovery that tho ordinary rising and falling of the leaves depend on variations in the intensity of light. Tho position thought to foretell snow and hail is producod by a parasite; tho position for fog and mist and for electricity in tho air is caused by varying light, and the position taken to indicate thunder and lightning seems to he a result ot dis- caso. A singular case of “mind blindness" recently occurci, the subject being a man of eighty who had complained for a month of inability to find his way about, to tell bis own position in a room, and to rec gnize objects, ai- though his perception of light was scarcely impaired. Although ho could not recognize objects by looking at them, he at once perceived and named them by means of tactile or auditory impressions from them. Fraud in Books. i was talking with Charles Sotherh, the bibliopolo, about tho al ulteration practiced in many trades, when hesaid: "There aro adulterations in my trade against which wc have to fight. They will bind old books in handsome bind¬ ings, and then age tho latter with chem¬ icals until they look as if they had come out of the last century. They repro¬ duce whole books by photogravure or gelatine processes, and print them upon old paper, or new paper that his been aged artificially, until a facsimile is brought forth that will dicoivo any one but an expert. A person could fill a volume with tho acceunt of these for¬ geries, imitations and frauds. One of the chief functions of a book expert is to detect or to prevent these deceptions. But little of this crooked work is done in the Uuitod States, and consequently there are very few experts here. Ia Europe it is very different, ai d there i» a perfect army of experts distributed among the great literary critics of that contineqt.:— N. 7, Stir.
