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VOL. II.
The Eagle’s Flight.
O’er the mountain topclomh hung,
Between the earth amt the heaven swung
Till they almost seomoil to rest
On the pine tree’s heaving breast.
From the shade an eagle flew,
Circling higher, fainter grew,
Higher yeU until at last
Into nothingness lis passed.
“He is lost,” the watchers said,
'•In the clouds and mist o'er head.”
But the eagle in ids (light
Sailed above the clouds through light.
—[Flavel Scott Mines, hi the Ledger.
LOST AMONG BUBBLES
While spending a fetv weeks shoot¬
ing iu Labrador early in a recent
autumn, I had an adventure which
was so singular that I am sure the like
of it has never come within the exper¬
ience of anyone else.
I was living at (lie house of a fisher¬
man who had a little hut among the
rocks at tlie foot of a great clifl'.
From lliis place I could pass, at low
tide, to tlie east or west of the cottage
for a considerable distanco along tlie
ccnst.
Tho coast was a senes of bights or
coves, all open to tho ocean, but
nearly every ono sheltered at tlie sides
by a long reef of rocks which ran far
out into tlie sea. Tlio point always
protected tlie cove,and made it. smooth
when tlie wind blew up or down tlie
coast.
During such a gale myriads of sea-
oirds seek the sheltered side of the
reef and dive for small univalves
which cling to the rocks.
One morning I took my dog to a
cove which I knew would contain
many sea birds. It was surrounded,
save for the front, by high cliffs, and
at one side a high ridge of rock ran
out into tlio sea. It was blowing a
gale, and throngs of ducks floated un¬
der the ice side of this point, as tlie
water (here xvas smooth.
As I lay on one of tlie shelves of
this reef, l noticed that a constant
stream of foam passed across from tlie
windward side of tlie point, where
the sea was chafing and churning
against the rocks, to tlie littlo cup¬
shaped cave beyond.
Great masses of this foam, lighter
than thistledown, had already gath¬
ered in the shelter; and as a flaw front
the gale touched it, tho mass quivered
from end to end.
YVliat a mass it was! I could hard¬
ly believe my eyes as I stood among
the rocks and looked across at it. It
xvas probably about an acre and a half
in area, and Iioav deep I could not tell,
though I Avas sure that it must liavo
been forty feet deep avcII back in the
cove, and not less than ten feet any¬
where.
The mass was not Avhite, but yel¬
lowish, though whenever (lie sun
burst through the scudding clouds the
bubbles all along the top gleamed in
rainboAV colors. Still more foam came
drifting across the reef, settling on
the top and rolling along to find a
level.
Great masses of foam like this are
very common in tho far north. They
disappear in a feAV hours after the
storm Avlpcli causes them, leaving
nothing but a soft, greasy paste on t!i°
rocks. It Avas pretty generally be¬
lieved at one time that meerschaum or
sea-foam pipes Avcrc made from tliis
matter.
Tills great, unstable, quivering mass
had an unaccountable fascination for
mo. I Avas seized with a strong de¬
sire to go doAvn and into i!; and that
was just Avliat I did, leaving my dog
beside my gun on a small pateli of
sand.
Noav as I have said, the coa’o into
which tliis froth was heaped tvas closed
round Avith straight cliffs except for a
little opening in front through Avhich
the sea ran gurgling in a narrow chan¬
nel. I had to jump across this chan¬
nel; and then I found eight ov ten
square feet of bare beach, from which
the foam rail slantingly backward.
The bubbles were of all sizes, some of
them being no larger tiiat a grain of
shot, some of them more than an inch
in diameter.
The dog jumped across to where I
stood and looked into my face, won¬
dering what I was about. I ordered
him back, and he turned atvay very
unAVillingly.
I first thrust iny hands and arms
into the heap, and it became nothing
in my grasp. Of course all tlie hub¬
bies had air in them, I Avas sure
that I ran no risk of suffocation in
plunging into tlie mass.
Ducking my head I tvent in, under
a mass fully 40 feet high, advancing
carefully lest there should be holes or
rocks in tlie way. It seemeC to me as
if I was moving Hie Avliole mass in the
30 ve, and very likely I Avas.
T put the bubbles aAvay from my
lace, and opened my eyes; before the
foam closed down again I noticed a
faint light. But my attempt atbrpath-
THE ENTERPRISE.
ing was not comfortable. When I in¬
haled a number of bubbles went into
my mouth and broke there, but tho
air they contained was pure, and went
into my lungs.
1 (ben found it best to hold my hand
across my mouth, straining tho air be¬
tween my lingers. As I drew in inv
breath many bubbles pressed against
my hand, and I could feel tire tiny,
soft explosions.
I had walked thirty or forty pace*
when I shouted again and again. My
voice seemed very low, but I could
hear a million bubbles quivering round
me and above me. Whenever 1 was
sure die ground was level 1 walked on
rapidly, Hinging my arms about me.
Hut in spite of the air in the bub¬
bles, the sensations I experienced were
not agreeable, and a dull pain came
into my head. The light I had noticed
on opening iny eyes was dimmer, and
1 supposed 1 was near tiro cliil at the
back of the cove. So I turned about
to go back, having had my very novel
experience, and taking, as near as!
could judge, the way by which I had
come. Walking as rapidly as possible
for three or four minutes, I supposed
that I must bo close to tiro spot whore
I had entered. Hut evidently 1 was
not, for the hard face of tho cliil
stopped mo.
Then I turned and walked along the
edge of the cliff toward the opening;
but presently a great rock rose in my
way. In my confusion and groping
to feel for tho cliff i inhaled numerous
bubbles, so that a salt, slimy paste be¬
gan to f n in in my mouth. It did not
take me long to realize that I had lost
my way, and that my predicament was
one not to be envied.
So, with my left hand over my
mouth and my right hand extended,
I crossed and moved in every direction
that I thongt likely to bring mo out.
Several times I fell by stumbling
against large stones, and my knees
and arms were badly bruised. The
pain in my head, meantime, grew
worse, and there was a strange buz¬
zing in my ears.
After I had been in the place about
fifteen minutes, the weariness grow
so great that I was obliged to sit upon
a stone. I now thrashed the pressing
bubbles from my face with both my
hards and found some relief in the
larger quantity of air that I was able
to inhalo.
But how was I to get out of it? It
was only too certain that if I found
the place of egress it could only be by
accident.
What were they saving, all iliosc
thousands of bubbles, that pressed
around and above me, so soft, so eva¬
sive, but so persistent and so numer¬
ous? For there came into my ears
the strangest din of small sounds that
the oar of mortal ever heard.
Sometimes it was like the crying
music that you hear in a sea sited;
again, it seemed as if a myriad voices
were whispering mockeries in resent¬
ment of my intrusion upon their
domain. 1 flung up my hands and
dispersed tho crowding tormentors,
but they settled down upon me imme¬
diately.
Though my senses were becoming
dull and benumbed, and it was very
clear to me that my situation was
serious. it occurred to me that some
of the coast people might have dropped
around this way and that, having seen
mv dog and gun, they would make
search for me. S> once more I cried
out.
As bofovc, Hie sound seemed noth¬
ing, though it made tho mass all about
me quiver and tremble violently.
There avus no human voice ill re¬
sponse; but once I thought 1 heard
tho faint barking of my dog. I nerved
myself for another trial, counting my
chances of success. Alas, they Averc
small!
The thought came burning through
me. Would it not be awful to die in
this way? After a time the storm
would cease and foam Avould not
drift across. My' body Avould be
be found there, and Hie people never
could guess the can c f my death.
I stumbled on and on, and as usual,
Avcnt against Hie cli 11'. Turning again,
L set out in die opposite direction, be¬
coming more confused all tlio tvliile.
My heart Avas beginning to sink and
longed to lio down, with tliis va-t
covering above in*, and go to sleep.
Nevertheless I stumbled on and oa,
not knowing whither. Then my foot
touched something soft, tvliich moved-
Then (lie tiling whatever it was, rose
and touched me upon tlie body. Then
it barked, it Avas my dog.
Tlie dear brute jumped about in tlio
wildest excitement, continually dart-
ing away from me and then return-
ing. Stooping, I laid iny hand upon
the dog’s neck and said as loudly as I
| could, “Home, just Jack! Avhat lie On, needed. boy!” lie
. This was
j set off at once at a rapid walk. I still
j feeling liiin with my hand- II® led
CARNESVJ.LLE, GA., FRIDAY, .ILLY 3.1891.
me, aa it seemed, by the most devious
ways, around great rocks, gently
across great holes, over level places,
till it seemed to mo as if I had trav¬
elled miles.
Then a great flash came upon my
eyos. It was tho honest light of day,
and I was saved.—[EdmundCollins,in
Youth’s Companion.
“Keeker” Mining in ’49.
The most expensive instrument of
tiie early minor was tho rocker, which,
though simple in construction, costs
in the mines from fifty to ono hundred
dollars, in general appearance it was
not unlike a baby’s »radle as used by
our grandmothers and still seen on
dio frontier. It consisted of a fiat
bottom with two sides that flared out¬
ward, and an end board at tlie head,
while the foot was open save a riffle
about an inch and a half high at the
bottom to catch the gold that might
pass another riffle across tlie bottom
near the middle. At the head of tlie
cradle was a hopper about eighteen
inches square, with a perforated sheet-
iron bottom or wire screen. Under
this was an apron, or board, sloping
downward towards the head. Two
substantial rockers under tlie whole
completed tlie simplo machine which
gave to tlie world millions of dollars.
Tho modus operandi may be described
as follows: Two sticks of wood hewn
on the upper side wore imbedded at
Iho river's brink, one four inches
lower than tlie other, on which the
rockers wore to rest, tints securing a
gnulo in the machine to facilitate
the outward flow of tlie water
and sand. Two miners usu¬
ally worked together as part¬
ners. One shoveled the earth into tlie
rocker, while tlie other, seated on a
boulder or block of wood, dipped tlie
water from tho river, and poured it
upon the earth in tho hopper with one
hand, all the time rocking with (lie
other. When the earth was thorough¬
ly washed, he rose, lifted the hopper
from its place, threw out the stones
and gravel, replaced it, and thus the
work went on. As the ground about
tlie rocker became exhausted to tlie
bed-rock, recourse was had to the
bucket, and the earth was carried
sometimes a few rods, making la¬
borious work for the miner. To keep
tlie rocker g'oing another hand would
be employed to carry earth, and each
would carry two buckets at a time.
Hard work of this kind suggested im¬
provements in mining. At noon the
gold and black sand collected above
the riffles were taken up on a scraper
and thrown into tlie pan. which was
carried to tho river and carefully
washed to remove as far as possible
all but the gold. The yield of tlie
forenoon was carried to tlie camp,
dried over a blaze, tlie dry sand blown
out, and the gold weighed in scales or
guessed at, and poured into the part¬
nership purse and deposited under the
bed or anywhere else out of sight.—
[Century.
Bears Make Hood Pets.
“Bears make good pets,” said Lieu-
lenant Clark. “When I Avas in the
Revenue Service at Alaska avc liad
one on tlio boat and lie made tilings
limn. Wo named him Wineska. He
used to climb to the cross trees, going
up band over hand by the ratlins.
One day lie ventured out on Hie yard¬
arm and there lie stayed. We bad to
get a rope and haul him doAvn. When
Ave Averc in the cabin lie avouHI back
down tlio companion way and come to
us for his mess of grog. He dearly
loved rum and molasses. Once ho
vaulted over tlie head of our Chinese
cook and went into Hie lockers, Avhere
lie helped himself to sugar and butter.
Wo had a tackling made for him,
much the same as a harness of a pet
pug, and avo would drop him over¬
board, Avith a rope attached, to take
his hath. Once lie landed in a native
boat and nearly frightened the occu¬
pants out of their Avits. Ho Avas as
playful as a kitten, and although be
sometimes disobeyed lie Avas never
treacherous or unkind. When hcAvas
lost or hid himself, as lie oflen did,
avc AA'otild look in Hie dark till avo s.tav
l avo little balls of lire. These were
liis eyes, and gave him away every
time.”—[New Orleans Picayune.
A Dangerous Pet.
S. F. Price of Albany, Ga., owns a
pet catamount, it tvas captured when
young, and lias been reduced to a
degree of docility which enables its
oAVner to handle and play Avith it, not
without, hoAvever, a degree of con¬
sideration as to Avliicli Avay lie strokes
the cat’s fur, for the natural fero.
ciousr.ess of Ids nature is, even after
a year’s imprisonment and training,
easily aroused, and tlio snarls and tlie
greenish glitter of liis eyes at such
moments make him anything but an
object of affectionate consideration
from the average citizen. He is rap.
id.v cleanMJ? Ins ouartev? °? rate.—*
MEXICO’S “SPORT.
How Bull- Fights Are Conducted
Across tho Border.
A Very Dangerous, But a Lu¬
crative Occupation.
C. E. Gonzales, a member of one of
the most prominent families of Mexico
and one of the city council of Chihua¬
hua, being asked by a San Francisco
Examiner reporter to give an idea of u
bull tight in all its details, replied:
“Well, the president of the city
council where the exhibition is to be
given appoints a member of tho coun¬
cil as judge. This judge commands
(lie light to begin. A bull must first
go after a horse three times before lie
is allowed to go after the men. If lie
refuses he is sent back to live pen.
Usually lie goes after them live or six
times, and it tiros him a little for the
benefit of the footmen. Of the six or
seven ban ierillo, but ono may east the
darts, lie approaches close to the bull
with a banderillo in cacli hand. These
he sends into the hide of the animal.
After four pair are in, the matador
chief prepares to kill, liis object is
to kill tho bull with as few strokes as
possible. He attempts to scud liis
blade directly into the heart, piercing
it from the shoulder. This is a certain
slab, the bull toppling right over. The
more gracefully it is done the greater
glory to the matador.
“The most renowned of Mexican
matadors is Ponciano Diaz. lie is a
strong, active man, about 80 years
old. A short time since lie went to
Lerdo, in Durango, and liad a most
fortunate season. He killed 22 out of
26 bulls, each with one stab. He, of
course, had brave bulls. A brave
bull who will charge straight on tho
matador is easiest to kill.”
“In case of death of the matador,
bandnrillo or horses, what is done?”
“If tho horses are killed others are
immediately supplied; if any of the
men arc killed the exhibition is brought
to an end. I saw Solery, the most re¬
nowned banderillo of liis time, killed
at the city of Puebla. In addition to
their cloaks, they may use a pole about
eight feet in length. As the bull
rushes at them tlioy suddenly plant
ono end in the earth and spring com¬
pletely over the maddened animal’s
back. Solery liad attempted two or
three times to vault over a bull, anil
each time the animal, instead of con¬
tinuing liis rush, stopped short a few
feet from him. Finally the bull-
figlier made his last leap. The bull
halted and waited for him. Solery
fell upon the horns and was twirled
by the vicious brute for fully live
minutes before his body could be re¬
covered. It was his benefit, too, poor
fellow, and there were fiflly 8000
people who witnessed liis awfifl
deatli.”
“Well, the matador supplies all big
own assistants, pays the license re¬
quired by the city council and engages
tlie pen. The usual charge for admis¬
sion is from 50 cents to $1.50. A
clever matador usually makes a profit
of from $500 to $1000 for each exhi¬
bition. The season is about nine
months in the year. In April, May
and June the people arc too poor.
“The public demand good bulls,
and if they are not supplied they show
their displeasure by tearing up the
benches and chairs and flinging them
into the pit. I have seen them lire the
place in the City of Mexico, the 300
policemen called out being unable to
preserve the peace. The courts also
impose a line of $500 on the matador.
All money received from hull lighting
is devoted to tho support of public
schools.”
“What is required for a young man
to become a matador?”
“He must first attach himself to a
troupe of bullfighters and lead forth
the hulls. lie will be taught how to
familiarize himself with tlie buil and
its ways and will be made a banderillo,
or footman with tho cloak. Tlioy be¬
come very proficient in dodging and
learn to read an infuriated animal’s
intention by liis eye. When they are
thrown into the dust they lie as if
dead. Convinced life is extinct the
bull may bo tempted away. One
movement by the man would bring
the bull upon him like a flash and lie
would he gored to death.”
“Is bull-fighting profitable?”
“It certainly must be so. There
are three splendid pens in tlie City of
Mexico alone. The Plaza de la Re-
forma cost $60,000; the Plaza de la
Poseo, $40,000; and the Plaza dc la
Bucorcli, $10,000. The last place is
owned by Ponciono Diaz,the matador.
He must surely be worth $150,000.
The most celebrated matador in I he
world, Manzautini of Spain, is al o
very wealthy. lie visited Mexico in
1889, bringing sixteen halts, valued at
$16,000—big splendid follows. Each
of his exhibit ions must imva yielded
from $10,000 to $12,000. Ono day
ho was caught against the wall by n
maddened bull and slipped betwopn
I lie wide horns, tho crazed uniinnl
boring into tho boards, When tlie
bull backed for a fresh rush Mnzan-
tlid lonpod gracefully over his head,
smiling to tho people.”
Female Street Car Conductors.
The principal streets of Valparaiso,
Chili, are traversed by tramways, mid
the cars are all two-storied—“double
deckers,” so to speak—sccoiu1-clas s
passengers climbing up some narrow
outside stairs to scats on top, where
the fare is just half the amount that, is
charged inside. One pleasant innova¬
tion is that when the seals are ail
taken, no more passengers are ad¬
mitted, nobody being permitted to
stand. However the clouds may pour,
or whatever tlie exigencies of the oe.
casion, you may stand on tho streets
and signal in vain, if the seating ca¬
pacity is filled—not a car will take you
on. The consequence is that in times
of unusual crowds, like the Diez-y-
oelio and other festival days, every¬
body liies liini to Hie starting point
and makes a grand rush for tins empty
cars as they emerge from tlie stable,
greatly to the detriment of dignity ami
good chillies.
Another innovation is the universal
employment of fcmnlc conductors.
Tlie experiment of allowing women to
Servo in this capacity was first tried
by tlie street car managers a few years
ago, when tlie able-bodied men had
all gone north to whip Hie Peruvians,
and it proved so successful that their
retention lias become permanent, not
only in tliis city, but all over Chili
wherever tramways are in use. At first
sight a young woman with a bell punch
docs not produce a pleasant impression;
but one gets used to it. in time as to
most other novelties and soon wonders
why tho idea lias not been adopted in
other countries. Tho petticoatcd con¬
ductors wear a uniform,consisting of a
plain bine flannel dress, a man’s felt
lint and a big white apron, with bib
attached and capacious pockets for
holding cliango and tickets. Each lias
a small leather hand bag slung over
tier shoulder, in which she carries the
overflow of her pockets, lunch, hand¬
kerchiefs,penliaps a surreptitious pow¬
der puff and other distinctly feminine
belongings. Their salary is $25 per
month. Each passenger after paying
liis fare is given a yellow paper ticket,
which lie is expected to destroy. The
conductress is charged with a certain
number of tickets, and when she re¬
ports again at headquarters must re¬
turn the money for all that are miss¬
ing out of tiiat number or make up
tlie deficit from her own salary. This
plan naturally attends to make them
attentive to their duties and also pre¬
vents free riding on the part of their
relatives and favorites. Though these
women are generally young and often
extremely pretty, it should be men¬
tioned to (lie credit of Chilians tiiat
(hey are seldom insulted or otherwise
annoyed in tiic discharge of flioir
daily or nightly task. When they are
disturbed (ho rule is to call on the
nearest policeman. The latter gentry
stand at every corner and would not
Hesitate to eject a troublesome passen¬
ger, without listening fo liis side of
tlie story, or to march him off to jail
under suspicion of drunkenness.—
[Washington Star.
A Queer Distinction in California.
There >vero some queer distinctions
in those old mining days. One Sun¬
day, going to tlie butcher's boot]), I
found a customer abend of me, avIio
inquired if he could not have a piece
of Jivor which was hanging on a treo
in plain siglit.
“Don’t know if you can or not,”
said the butcher.
“I’d like t- know Avliy? I’ve been
trading with yon ail along, and never
asked for liver before; but I want
some variety now.”
“Stand around and let me look at
you. No, you can’t have any liver.”
“YYell, why?”
“There ain’t enough to go round. 1
have to have some rule about giving it
out, and I have decided that; no minor
can have a scrap of liver from me un¬
less he wears a canvas patch on Ids
pants,” patch badge of
Tho canvas was a
precedence as tvoll recognized in our
camp on the Trinity as tlio star of the
Order of the Garter is in Great
Britain.— [Century.
-O
Tliis ( hick Has Four Legs.
A curiosity in Hie shape of a chicken
has just been found on tlie farm of
James W. Freer, near Poplar B! tiffs,
Mo. The chicken lias four legs, two
of them in tlie right place, and one in
front of them and one on the back
of taem. They are webbed together,
— fSt, Louis Globe-Democrat,
I’HILDKEVS COLUMN.
MORNINU.
Will there really bo a morning?
Is there such a thing as day?
Could 1 sec it from the iimuntalr
If I wero ns tall as they?
Has it feet like water-lilies ?
Iliis it feathers like a bird?
Is it brought from famous com. .
Of which l have never heard?
Oli, some scholar! Oh, som • sailor!
Oh, some wise man from the skies!
l’lense to tell a little pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies!
—[Emily Dickinson, in St. Nicholas.
run honk i;vs mtoKic ranks.
The Key. .Robert Collyor tells nit
amusing story of a trained troupe of
monkeys ho ouco saw in London on a
stage. They had been drilled careful¬
ly to go through a series of military
exercises in uniform, and were mak¬
ing a lino display of their attainments,
tv lieu a man in the gallery throw a
handful of nuts on the stage, and the
monkey soldiery at once broke ranks,
threw down their guns and scrambled
for the hard-shelled dainties. — [New
York Sun.
HAYl't A CAT l’ARTY .
Miss Jane Osgood, a wealthy lady
of Norwich, Conn., is very fond of
cats, and in her luxurious homo she
lias a lot of them that are beauties.
Miss Osgood recently gave a cat party,
which was attended by a score of cals,
who brought their owners along. The
invitations were printed on linen pa¬
per and there was a picture of a sleek
and beautiful cat at the head of tlie
card The cats got acquainted with
each other readily in half an hour,
and then all had a feast, which com¬
prised various kinds of fish and other
Viands.—[Chicago Herald.
T1IK CODFISH WAR.
To be sure there have been riots and
outbreaks in Holland, ns In all other
thickly settled parts of the world—
perhaps more than elsewhere, for
Dutch indignation, though slow in
kindling, makes a prodigious blaze
when once fairly afire. Some of tlicso
disturbances have arisen only after a
long endurance of serious wrongs;
and some seem to have been started at
once by Hint queer friction match in
human nature, Avliicli, if left unguard¬
ed, is sure to bo nibbled at, and so
ignited, by tlio lirst little mouse of dis¬
content tiiat finds it.
There wns a curious origin to one of
tlicso domestic quarrels. On a certain
occasion a banquet tvas given, at which
were present two noted Dutch noble¬
men, rivals in power, who liad several
old grudges to settle. Tito conversa¬
tion turning on the codtisliery, one of
the two remarked upon tlie manner in
Avliicli the hook (lioek) took the cod¬
fish, or kabbeljaauw, as the Dutch call
it.
“The hook take tho codfish!” ex¬
claimed the other in no very civil tone;
“it Avould be bettor sense to say tiiat
tlio codtisli takes tlie hook.”
Tlio grim jest Avas taken up in bitter
earnest. High Avoids passed, and (ho
chieftains arose from the table enemies
for life.
They proceeded to organize Avar
against each other; a bitter war it
proved to Holland, for it lasted one
hundred and fifty years, and avus
fought out with all the stubbornness
of family feuds. The opposing par¬
ties took tlie names of ‘•hocks” and
“kabblejaauws,” and men of all classes
enlisted in their respective ranks. In
many instances fathers, brothers, sons
and old-time friends forgot their ties,
and knexv each other only ns foes. Tito
feud (being Dutch 1) raged hotter and
stronger in proportion as men liad
time coolly to consider the question.
A thicket of mutual Avrongs, real or
imaginary, sprang up to further en¬
tangle tlio opposing parlies; fninilic 8
Averc divided, miles of smiling conn
try laid in ruin, and tens of thousand*
of tnen slain—for what?
Those avIio fought, and those avIio
looked on, longing for peace, arc
alike silent iioav. History cannot
quite clear up tlie mystery. I know
how hard it must have been to settle
Hie knotty question Avhetlier hooks or
codfish can more properly be said to
bo “taken,” and how dangerous tlio
little thorns of anger and jealousy be¬
come if not plucked out at the onset,
it is certain, too, that the hocks and
kabbeljaauws were terribly in earnest;
“But AVhat they killed each other for
I never could make out.”
The kabbeljaauws had one advan-
tag”. When a public dinner was
given by their party, tlie first fish
brought in by the senechal (or stew¬
ard) Avas a huge plate of codfish elab¬
orately decorated Avith flowers; some¬
thing not ornamental only, but sub¬
stantial and satisfactory; while the
corresponding dish at a lioek festival
contained nothing but a gigantic hook
encircled by a flowery Avreath, — [St.
Nicholas,
NO. 26.
My Lady.
My lady frowns—amt a crescent of ec.Ilpss
Falls upon her brow and lips
And dims tho lift
While tho mountains wenvs a mesh wit'
dew impcarled
To throw it far across the world;
And saddened nature sighs.
My lady smiles—and tho hearts qf purple
hills
Beat beneath the hat! a ted rills
In half-awakened lands,
While lavish lights and floating emerald
shades
Paint the gray clad oaken glades
In trailing dewy hands.
My Indy scolds—shrill trebles palpitate
Where tlie gusty breezes wait
And ruff tlio robin’s wine.
My Indy's name?—swells the cuckoo’s view
less flute,
And tlie bluebirds’ reed like lute
Ke-echoes: ‘‘It Is soring!”
— [Minnie Frances Murphey.
HUMOROUS.
Lately landed—tlio notvly engaged
young man.
1 ono respect (he ladies have a par¬
allel. The spring chicken never tells
its age.
The man who lots lived for himself
has tho privilege of being liis only
mounter.
Wliero there’s a will there’s a way,
of cottrso. When a woman lias a will
she lias to have her way.
Ono of tho pleasant things about
candor is tlie ease with which it may
be made to fit our neighbors.
A Parisian wit once defined experi¬
ence as n comb that ono became pos.
sessed of after having lost one’s hair.
If a dumb man could suddenly re¬
gain liis spoceh, the first long-pent-up
words he would utter would doubtless
be—l told you 6o!
Little Dot—l’apa, 1 nuts’lmvo a new
dwess to play in. Papa—What is tho
matter with tiiat one? I.illlo Dot—It’s
all worn out, ’ccpt Hi’ button-holes.
Blinkers—Hello, Winkers. I hear
you married a woman witli an inde¬
pendent fortune? Winkers (sadly)—
’Twas a mistake, my boy; I married a
fortune with an independent woman.
“Don’t you ever tiro of this drift¬
ing, objectless life you are leading?”
asked the philanthropist. “Tiro of it?”
answered Weary Watkins. “Fact is,
it makes mo so tired 1 can’t do nothin’
else.”
Mamina—But, Flora, how do you
know tiiat this young man Jovcs you?
lias lie tohl you so’ Flora—Oh, no,
mamma. But if you could only see
the Avay lie looks at me when I am not
looking at him!
A Frog’s Development.
The phenomena of the life history
of somo species of frogs and toads are
very curious. The ordinary course
of a frog’s development takes place
tints: Tlio approach of spring calls
them forth from their winter retreat,
Avliicli is generally ill mud under
water. Great numbers of them often
nro dug tip in the winter time all
clustered together iu tho ntnd at tlie
bottom of a pond. Jn Hie month of
March their Avell-known croaking
makes itself heard in England, and
though itself unmclodious, it possesses
a certain charm through its connection
Avitli tho vernal outburst of nature. It
is then that tlioy congregate for egg
laying. Their eggs are little dark,
round bodies, enclosed in no solid
shell, but only in a thin glutinous en¬
velope. The latter quickly SAvells in
the Avater, so much so tiiat the “spawn”
in the case of the common frog soon
comes to have tlie appearance of a
great mass of jelly, through Avltich
dark specks (tlie yolks of the eggs)
are scattered. By degrees the little
dark mass assumes the form
of a young tadpole, Avltich
emerges from tho egg toward
tlie end of April. At first it has long
and filamentary processes of skin pro¬
jecting from either side of the neck,
and these are tlie lirst gills or acqua-
tic breathing organs. Tlioy soon be¬
come absorbed and aro replaced by
other shorter gills, which do not pro¬
ject visibly from tlie nock. Little by
little the limits bud forth and grow,
and at the same time tlie tail is ab¬
sorbed, Avliile apertures on cither side
of the neck close up, Avltich Avcre the
external openings of tho chamber in
which tlio secondary gills lie, and the
young frog then breathes by means of
Hs lungs in tlie ordinary Avay. Tlie
tadpole is extremely unlike the frog it
is to grOAV into. Not only does it
breathe by gills in Avater instead of by
lungs in air, but at first it has a very
long tail, Avith Avhich it sAvims, and no
limbs; while, when a frog, it has no
tail, but long limbs, which aro its only
locomotive organs. Hie tadpole has a
very smalt mouth and very long intes¬
tine, and feeds on vegetabio substan¬
ce 5 . The frog has a very large mouth
and very short intestine, and feeds
only on animal matter. — [New York
Sun.