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NIKE PIGS FOR A BRIDE.
A MATRIMONIAL AUCTION BALE
AMONG SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS.
Girls Arc Secluded for Years and
Then Sold to the Highest Didder
—Fat Girls In Demand.
Every New British community is
sharply divided into two clnus, known
respectively ns the Maramara and the
Pikalaba. They are most intimately
associated in all the business and
pleasure of life, they live in the same
houses, in fact, no household can exist
without having representatives of each
clan. That there may never be any
doubt of tho clan to which any par¬
ticular individual belongs the device of
the clan is prominently displayed in tat¬
tooed lines upon bis hack and breast.
Far from being a division of the com¬
munity, these two clans tend toward its
closer union, for no person may marry a
member of his own clan, but must choose
from the other. This plan is still further
complicated by the subdivision of each
clan into four co-ordmnte groups which
are named respectfully after some fish,
plant, bird or beast. The natural object
whose name is borne by each group, be¬
comes in some sort its totem and in tat¬
tooing upon the body and in rude carving
upon the doorway is displayed as a de-
vice. The group in each clan which bear
a kindred device are looked upon as too
elosedy related to allow of intermarriage
between members of each although their
clans are indistinct. Likewise the in¬
dividual must not marry into the group
of either patent or one cognate therewith
in the other clan. This may seem far
from clear—a concrete example will serve
for illustration. Hememtjcr that there
can be no doubt about the clan and group
of any individual, for the most cursory
glance at his body will at once show liis
position.
Lumic we will take for example, a
young man who has built himself a house,
who owns a whole fishiug net nnd lias
the equity of a yam plantation or so and
many cocoanuts. His house seems lonely
and he wants a wife. This is how lie
goes to work. His own father belonged
to the Pikalaba clan and the fish group,
his mother was a Maramara of the plant
group; thus, he, inheriting nothing from
his father and everything from his
mother, is likewise a Maramara plant.
He is therefore debarred from marriage
with any member of a plant or fish group,
but must restrict his choice to the Pika¬
laba birds and beasts, say to one fourth
of the girl population of his town. This
is indeed no great hardship to him, for
he has known from his earliest child¬
hood that some of the maidens were
positively prohibited to him, ami by
the time his thoughts bend toward
matrimony he must have become re¬
signed to his fate and is prepared to con¬
fine his attentions to every fourth girl. A
young man so prosperous as Lumic seems
to be could not be cxpectcil to mate with
any but the daughter of a family equally
as wealthy as his own. The poorer girls
whom he will see about the town may
become wives to him, but they must wait
until he has made selections of his chief
wife and then they without any cere¬
mony are summoned to take the minor
positions, which are in little different
from slavery. But of the maidens of high
degree he has no view, for they are all
carefully caged at their seminary in the
bush under the protection of the dread
tabu. Upon a morning early the women
of the town are in commotion; they have
learned through some mysterious channel
that a girl will on that day be brought
home from her seclusion of from six to
eight years. Who the debutante may be
they do not know, but they gleefully
spread their news about the town. All
other plans must yield to the great
event; the fishers on this day draw no
nets, the warriors grant one nay's respite
to the towns on either hand—all busy
themselves with guessing who it is whose
education has been completed and in ab-
surb speculation as to what she will fetch.
As the sun climbs high and nearer to
its midday point the villagers flock out
along the path which leads to the girls’
retreat and crowd about the latticed
hedge from which dangle tho cloth
streamers and fillet or hair which mark
the tabu; well to the front will be found
Lumie and any others who may be ready
for marriage. Upon the other side of
the slight bulwark people are heard mov-
ing about, and at the moment of high
noon the guardian of the young girls ap¬
pears and lends into view her charge, who
perhaps would blush if she were not as
black as a bag of soot. After one mo-
meut of interested inspection, a murmur
of dissatisfaction arises from many of the
young men, who find her to belong to a
clan and group prohibited to them. But
not from Lumie. He spies upon her
breast the Pickalaba mark, and tatooed
above it the outstretched wings of a
bird; by this he knows that she is eligi
ble. Led by the chief and by all the
young men who seek to marry her, the
young woman goes down to her old home
in the village, and nods and speaks to
those whose faces arc yet familiar after
her long absence. She sits upon a small
mat before her father's door to receive
her friends, and at her side sits her
guardian, who now and again conde¬
scends to a gratified smile when one and
another compliment her upon the fatness
of her charge. Meanwhilea feast is prepar¬
ing in the house behind her, to which all
the village is invited. In the high post
of honor sits tho maiden just about to
make her eutry into the world of so-
ciety, thus placed on exhibition that her
chance of finding a husband may be
better. The morning after the feast she
is put up at auction on the village green.
The bidding begins at two pigs, for that
i’ the amount which has been expended
upon her education; pig by pig it runs
tip to seven or eight nnd then, if Lumic
has any earnest competitor, it may creep
slowly up now by a bid of an additional
cowrie or a palm of shell money until
nine pigs is reached and the girl is
knocked down to the highest bidder,
That is all the ceremony there is. Lumie
drives his pigs to the house of his father-
in-law, leads the girl to his own house
and she is his wife. To bring as much
as nine pigs a girl must lie very fat and
be furthermore the daughter of a min
wealthy enough to be a chief; seven
pigs is a high figure and few run over
six. But if the amount realized bv the
auction does not satisfy the father of
the property sold he can show his scorn
of the higher education of women by
quietly throttling the schoolmistress.
These new British marriages are mere
matters of bargain and sale, sale, too, by
the public auctioneer. The buyer pays
so many pig* or their equivalent in cow¬
his ries purchase or strings of shell money, he takes
to his home and looks to
her domestic services to make good the
amount which he has paid. Such a sys-
tem affords no room for any of thosoftei
sentiments, it would seem; no such thing
as love, it would appear, could exist
where marriage is n mere matter of pigs.
Yet husbands and wives in New Britain
display great affection and aro as true as
though their marriage had been sol¬
emnized with the most elaborate vows.
After marriago the clan division is
ceremonially perpetuated in the house,
not to the extent of interfering with do¬
mestic harmony, but upon certain sol¬
emn occasions. The doorway is in the
middle of one of tbc sides, the fire-place
directly opposite on the other, Between
the two a line is drawn; one side of the
house is the husband’s side, the other is
the wife's. Each retains the individual
ownership of their separate property; he
keeps his possessions on his side the line,
she on hers, and nothing is moved from
one side to the other without an equiva¬
lent. Tho children belonging to each
are said to be “in the door,” and it is
only as they grow up or in the event of
the father’s death that they definitely
go over to tlie mother's side .—Net Or-
leant Picayune.
SELECT SIFTINGS,
A talent of gold was $13,800.
A finger's breadth is equal to one inch,
A cubit was nearly twenty-two inches.
The area of New Orleans, La., is 227)
miles.
A Biblical shekel of silver was about
fifty cents.
A hand’s breadth is equal to three and
five-eighth inches.
Canaries fed with cayenne pepper ac¬
quire a ruddy plumage.
The first American library was founded
in Harvard College in 1638.
There are 13,000 different kinds ot
postage stamps in the world.
Over 500 music leaf turners have been
patented in the United States.
A petrified bat was recently discovered
by railroad laborers in Arizona.
There are more farmers in the United
States than any other nation possesses.
More girl babies were born during
1863 and 1873 than in any ten years
since.
A walrus hide weighs forty pounds, is
one inch thick and as hard as an oak
plank.
The first newspaper printed in England
was the Englith Mercury, issued in thf
reign of Queen Elizabeth.
A cigarette carelessly throw’n aside
caused the burning of 135 acres of wheat
in California a few days ago.
Black ice cream is a new Philadelphia
dainty. It is colored bv the addition of
charcoal and the juice of Turkish prunes.
The Mongolian pheasants introduced
into the State of Washington have ia-
creascd largely, and are now thoroughly
acclimated
At a depth of thirty-seven feet, at
Springport, Ind., a veiu of water was
struck which gushes several feet above
the surface and is clear and cool.
Judge Gunto, of Pary, Fla., has a
camphor tree on his place. The cold
does not seem to injure it at all, and he
believes tho trees can be successfully
raised.
A Frenchman has discovered how to
make silk straight from the mulberry leaf
without resorting to the silk worm. But
it is inferior in richness and gloss to the
present silk.
It is said that from the summit of
Mount Blanc, Switzerland, one can see
the Tyrol, portions of France, Germany
and Austria, the Mediterranean and Italy
as far as the Apennines.
The luckiest tenderfoot in the Leadville
(Col.) mines was an Illiuois farmer from
the back districts, who, after prospecting
in the mountains for three months
started home with a bank account of
$380,000.
A postage stamp was recently found
by a Connecticut physician in the ear of a
little patient, and on its removal a severe
pain, from which the child had suffered
and which caused the visit to the doctor,
disappeared.
The finest Australian eucalyptus of its
ago in California is probably one that
grows on Alameda Creek, about thirty
miles from San Francisco. Vick says
that it is seventeen years old from the
seed, and girths nine feet eight inches.
Among the immigrants landed at the
Barge Office in New York city tho other
day was an Irishwoman seventy years
old, whose face was adorned by a long,
silky, curling mustache, two inches in
length. She was in America newly for¬
ty years ago.
Isaiah Powers, of Curtis, Neb., has an
orchard of Russian mulberry trees that
are gifted blossomed with a second blossoming.
The trees out nicely at their
proper season this year, but frost com¬
pletely destroyed the blossoms, and then
the trees agaiu bloomed.
The Original Buffalo Bill.
There is probably no better known
name throughout the entire length and
breadth of this country than that of Buf¬
falo Bill, and at this time there are but
few who do not know that William F.
Cody is tlie bearer of the title. Mr.
Cody,however,is not the original Buffalo
Bill. There is nothing underhand or
illegitimate in his bearing it. He is fully
entitled to it, but for all that, he comes
by it second handed. The original Buf-
j fain Bill is now living, an aged, wealthy,
prominent and highly respected citizen,
■ and the President of a savings bank at
1 Wichita, Kan. His name is William
I Matthewson. He is a thorough Demo-
crat, and is high up in the Order of Odd
Fellows. Years ago Mr. Matthewson was
a bold frontiersman on the plains, en-
I gaged in hunting and trapping for a !iv-
} and >ng. Nebraska He supplied with tho buffalo; forts and of his Kansas
■ suc-
| ' css in this work was so great that he
was given the title of Buffalo Bill. Dur-
’“g this time be engaged a boy to work
for him, and the lad was so diligent and
faithful that he remained in Matthew-
son's employ until the latter quit the
business to settle down to a more quiet
life. As a reward the employer turned
over the hunting contracts to the em-
ploye, who then followed in his late
master's footsteps. That he was success-
ful, that he earned honor, fame and
wealth for himself, cannot bo denied
when it is told that his name is William
F. Cody. With the business rights he
’• as given the title his employer had
borne. The world knows he has kept it
bright, and that neither stain nor tarnish
has touched it. — Chicago Herald.
Senator Ilearst s new Washington hous«
Ron suivont.v rnmno.
FOR FARM AND WARDEN:
VIGOR IN THE FLOCK.
No flock will pay unless healthy
and vigorous. If your fowls are often
sick, while those of your neighbor ap-
pcar in good health, Loth having good
management, it indicates constitution¬
al defect of some kind and a lack of
vigor. It requires too much time to
attempt to breed vigor into sucti fowls
and nothing shorbof a complete change
-of stock can effect a cura. Vigor in
tho flock means plenty of eggs,healthy
birds, wholesome meat on tho table
and less work in the care and manage¬
ment botli of adults, and chicks—N.
Y. HcraJl.
TAKING FELL LOADS TO MARKET.
Tho time spent in marketing pro¬
duce, both for men and teams, is an
Important item in farm expenses, It
pays to have good teams, large, strong
wagons, and to load them well. There
is no gain in sending a man with a
one-horse load, or to carry any less
than a full load with two horses.
Well-made loads have something to do
witli this. On a macadamized road
there is no reason why fifty ti sixty
bushels of wheat may not be drawn to
market, as well as half that amount on
a poor road. The cost of man and
team is in cacli case the same, With
some crops that have to be peddled
•mailer loads may be allowed, but
grain or crops sold at wholesale should
he brought in the largest loads possible.
— [Boston Cultivator.
THINNING OUT PLANTS.
One of the great and most frequent
mistakes made by gardeners is to tie-
lay tlie thinning out of plants too long.
Instead of leaving this work until the
plants have made a second or third
pair of leaves, the thinning out should
be done as soon as the plants are nicely
up, and before the true roots of the
plants are formed. If done early
the plants that are removed will
not disturb the remaining ones, as the
first root is perfectly smooth, while,
if left until it is a mass of fibrous
roots, it will disturb all tbc adjoining
plants, so :hat growth is checked, and,
in many instances, to such a degree
• hat the plant never recovers its full
vigor. This is particularly true with
root crops; and “lingered” carrots and
parsnips can be attributed to this more
than any other cause.— [American
Agriculturist.
COWS LEAKING MILK.
The teats of cows are provided with
a ling of contractile muscle at the
lower end by which the orifice is
closed. In some cows this muscle is
naturally weak, or becomes so as the
cow grows old, and it permits the
ini Ik to escape when the udder is fully
charged with milk or tho formation of
tlie milk is excited by any cause. No
positive remedy is known for this de¬
fect, but an application of photo¬
grapher's collodion, which forms a
tough film that shrinks oil drying, to
tlie end of iho teat after milking con¬
tracts it and keeps the orilico closed.
Tlie film is broken easily when tlie
cow is milked. This application lias
in course of time tended to strengthen
the muscle and remove tlie difficulty.
Any druggist can supply the collodion,
which is a'so useful to apply to
scratches and cuts on the teat, drawing
tlie edges of the wound together, pro¬
tecting them from tlie air, and causing
rapid healing. When cows arc much
troubled in this way and arc yielding
much milk it is advisable to milk them
at intervals of eight hours each, that
is, three times in the 24 hours.—[New
York Times.
PIGS ARE PROLIFIC AND PROF IT A RLE.
The pig is the most prolific, and
when well kept, most profitable of all
tlie domestic animals. A sow will rear
two litters in a year, and will Unis
multiply herself from twelve to twenty
times. By judicious feeding the pigs
may be made to weigh 150 to 200
pounds when nine or ten months old.
With a clover pasture, and on a butter
dairy farm where waste milk is to he
lmd without actual cost, because of no
other use for it, the pigs may bo kept
in excellent condition, and if a small
quantity of cornnteal is given with
the inilk they will be in good
condition for pork ns soon as cool
weather brings a market for tlie meat.
Six Spring pigs may easily make 1000
pounds of meat, worth at least 7 cents
per pound; six Fall pigs fed through
tlie winter, at a small expense over
the Spring pigs, may make as easily
1500 pounds of meat, thus a year’s
product of a good sow would be
2500 pounds of meat, worth $175.
For the small cost of pasture, for (he
waste of milk nnd corn for fattening,
$35 will be ample return, leaving $140
or 400 per cent, profit on the cost. A
good sow kept four years in breeding
may thus afford a profit of $560 to her
owner and pay for herself besides.—
[New York Times.
TIIK CAWBAGE-WORM AND ITS TARASITE.
The gradual decrease of the import¬
ed cabbage-worm during tlie Inst seven
years, writes Walter A. Lynn of Iowa,
to the American Agriculturist, changed
last year to an enormous increase—at
least in Central Iowa. The d.’crease
was attributed to its many insect eue-
n.» es. Lust year the butterflies hov¬
ered over the calbage patches in
swarms and were so plentiful that
eggs were deposited on many allied
plants, a3 turnip, radish, wild mu»-
tnrd, *lc. Hand-picking (he worm*
and trapping tho butterflies, which
have been practicable during tho last
few years, were out of the ques¬
tion where tho patches were
jarge. In our patch, contaiu-
ing only about half a hundred plants,
we picked 8000 worms and eggs, and
then gavo up in despair. In a few
days after resigning tho cabbages to
their fate, we noticed that the long-
Jookcd-for parasites had arrived, and,
as if to make up for their tardiness,
t hey appeared in great numbers.
Scarcely a worm escaped. We killed
several which were literally tilled with
the larva) of tho parasite. Thirty
were counted in a single worm.
We did not kill many *of
the worms, as it would only destroy
the parasites, and the worms were
already doomed. We attribute the
unusual amount of cabbage-worms to
the mild winter of 1888-89 and the
small number—caused by some tin-
known reason—of 1 he parasitic Ily-
menoptcrous flics. The present year
the cabbage-worms will probably be
few, unless some disease has attacked
our friendly parasites, whose clusters
of small yellow cocoons can now be
plentifully seen all over the garden,
under leaves, etc.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Keep no hogs in the horse pasture.
Protect all insect-destroying birds.
Care well for the young orchards.
Poor, shackly tools often cause dam¬
age.
Provide a clover pasture for the
pigs.
Taking full loads to market pays
best.
Guinea fowls consume grubs and in¬
sects.
A good clover sod turned under fits
(lie ground for almost any other crop.
See that all tire machinery is in good
working order, ready for use when
needed.
Generally the nearer the market the
better the product when it reaches the
consumer.
Grow for home use what is liked at
home; grow for the market what the
market calls for.
A ventilator pnt through the centre
of a stack, rick or mow will decrease
the liability to spoil.
Burn the limbs trimmed from your
fruit trees. By so doing you will de¬
stroy many insect pests.
The proper preparation of the soil
for the crop is quite as important as
proper cultivation afterward.
With a good variety of grasses the
hay harvest can be lengthened and the
crop be saved in better season.
Hay is less liable to spoil in tlie
stack or mow if it can be put up with¬
out being exposed to a rain or dew.
Hay cai be mowed away much
greener if stacked in a tight barn
if stacked out instead in an
mow.
Horticulturists are of tho opinion
that the heavy rains in California have
done much toward destroying vine and
tree pests.
A Pigeon’s Pace With n Train.
Many experiments have been made
to test (lie speed of carrier pigeons.
The results are often wonderful, but
we a e better able to appreciate the
power of the bird when it is racing
against a rapid train of cars than when
it flies simply against time. Suc’i a
race from Dover to London was de¬
scribed in an English paper.
The race took place between (lie
Continental mail express train and
a carrier pigeon,conveying an urgent
document for the French police. The
rails, carriages and engine of the ex¬
press train were, as might be expected,
of the best possible construction
power and speed.
The pigeon, which is known as a
“Belgian voyageur,” was tossed
through the rail way-carriage window
by a French, official as the train left
the Admiralty pier, tho Wind being
west and the atmosphere hazy.
The train bad made more than a
mile before the poor bird decided
which direction to tpke. It circled up
in the air, rising all the time in wider
rings, while the train, which made no
stop, was speeding along at the rate of
sixty miles an hour, and the railway
officials were ready to lay any odds on
their train.
But the race was not to the strong,
for a telegram announced the arrival
of the bird twenty minutes before the
train was heard of 1
Lightning Strokes Statistics.
The siatistics of lightning strokes in
Germany during the past 20 years
have been investigated by Herr Kast-
ner, who shows that the annual num¬
ber of cases has more than doubled in
that time. Last year there were no
fewer than 1H5 strokes. They are
most frequent in the hottest months'of
tho year, June and July, and in the
hottest hours of the day, or those fol¬
lowing them (from 8 to 4 p. m.). It
appears that the thunderstorms pro¬
ceed from tho hills, and the parts of
their course most liable to bo struck
are woodless and flat places, valleys
of rivers, and low meadows, near
lakes, while wooded and hilly districts
generally escape. This last deduction
is hardly in accordance with our pop¬
ular ideas on the subject.—[Loudon
Globe. I
Some form of the knife has been Used
for centuries, but forks were Introduced
into England in the sixteenth century.
The custom of using them came from It¬
aly. queen Eli/.abeth was the first Eng¬
lish sovereign to use a fork, and the ex¬
ample was only very slowly followed.
Dorks, however, came slowly into use,
though George even as late as the reign that of
I, they were so little known,
few inns provided them for their guests.
do Tuts is the time find for degrees, but you
not want to the thermometer
morning. registering too many of them in the
It is not always proper to address the
young man behind the soda fountain as
doctor, even though he is a fiz/.ician.
Timber Rand* anti .Radiitie*?
are bought and Bold extensively by Thomas
Camp, manager for doe fk N ix, of Atlanta,
Ga., who, with an experience of twenty-two
years, has sold more Steam Engines* Sawmills,
Cotton Gina and other machinery than any
house in Georgia, bur patrons who desire to
buy machinery or sell lands will do well to
write to Mr. Camp.
Habit Is a cable; we weave a thread each
day, and at last we cannot break it*
Children Enjoy
The pleasant flavor* gentle action and sooth¬
ing effects of Syrup of Figs, w hen in need of a
laxative and if the father or mother be costive
or bilious the most gratifying results follow
its use, so that it is the best family remedy
known and every family should have a bottle.
With whom do mermaids probably flirt?
With swells of the ocean.
Smith’s Tonic Syrup gives perfect satisfac¬
tion wherever tried*—/. \V. Cochran , Ilrmville,
1ml,
Flannel shirts are almost ripe. Some of
them arc certainly red.
E. A. Rood, Toledo, Ohio, says: “Hall’s
Catarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen
years ago and she has had no return of it. It’s
a sure cure.” Sold by Druggists, 75c.
There has been no inquiry for fur-lined over¬
coats this week.
Erie Railway.
This popular Eastern Dine is running solid
vestibuled trains, consisting of beautiful day
coaches, Pullman sleeping and dining cars,
between Cincinnati, Chicago, New* York and
Boston. All trains run via Lake Chautauqua
during through the tickets season, privileged and passengers off holding this
are to stop at
world-famed resort. Be sure your tickets read
via N. Y.. L. E. <fc W. R. R.
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FOR DYSENTERY.
BILE BEANS.
Try "BILE BEANS SMALL” (40 lit¬
tle beans in each bottle). Very
small—easy to take. Price of
either size, 25 cents.
*srBUY OF YOUR DRUGGIST.
We have nsec! “Bile Beans” Carter, Tex., Jan. 19.
fora long time, and
they have given perfect tatisfaction m each case.
J. 0. McDanei.l.
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made, and full length—3 yards to the roll.
An 8-yd. roll White hack Paper, 3 to <> .
An S-yd. roll Gilt Paper. 5 lo 10c.
An S-yd. roll Embossed Gilt Paper, Sto 15c.
Gilt Borders, 4 to IS inches wide, 2 and
3c. per yard.
Border* without Gilt, 2 to 9 inches lc. per
ynrd.
Send 4c. In stamps for samples of (he best and
greats st bargains in the country.
F. H. CA3DY,
305 HIGH STREET,
Mention this paper. Providence. U. T.
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For Bilious anil Nervous Disorders.
“Worth & Guinea a Box” bit sold
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