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SOME ROYAL DOGS.
Nearly All tba Sow*4«n* as Buropa Ira
Foad as Canin* Fata. -
Nearly every one of the severe ;ns
of Europe, it appears, hae one or r ore
pet dogs. The collies of Queen Victoria,
the fox terriers of Princess Beatrice,
with Jock as prime favorite, are known
at least by hearsay to everybody.
The emperor of Russia is also a great
lover of dogs. A London paper reports
that he is always accompanied in his
walks by a couple cf fine Danish
hounds, whose strength and vigilance
their master considers his best safe
guard. The grave czar is often seen
playing with these monster pets. He
himself has tanght them their tricks,
and they are nearly always about him.
The king of Greece shares the czar’s
taste for the Danish hounds, which are
as intelligent as they are strong, and
which, with hardly a bark to announce
their intentions, will fly at the throat
of any one whom their master may
point out to them in case of need.
When the empress of Austria goe* on
her long walks or rides, several pet
dogs always accompany her. But per
haps the most widely known of all the
“royal dogs” of the present day is
Black, the pet dog of the Russian Grand
Duke Alexis. *
Black is a sportsman’s dog, of no
very aristocratic breed. Indeed, if the
- truth must be told, he is a member of
the race of mongrels which the fisher
men in the south of France take out to
sea, employing them to recapture any
wily fish that may fall through the
meshes of their nets or slip suddenly
back into its element after it has been
once landed on board the barge. Black
is still rejoicing in the days of his
youth, but his record, not only as a
common fisherman but as a ’ ’fisher of
men, ” is already great, for he has saved
nd fewer than six persons from a watery
grave.
Some three or four years ago the
Grand Duke Alexis was staying at
Biarritz. One stormy night he went out
on the cliff to get a view of the angry
sea. A boat was just being wrecked be
low, and he saw a dog dashing with
angry growls and barks into the water
and bringing to land, one by one, three
drowning men, while the crowd cheered
the brave mongrel to the echo. The
grand duke approached to caress the
dog, and the animal’s master then
offered Black to him, refusing to accept
any payment.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
CURIOUS INSECT.
▲ Butterfly That Enjoys Only Five Hours
of Life.
It is in August that the naturalists
observe the marvelous insect which is
born, reproduces and dies in the period
of a single night, on the banks of the
Marne, of the Seine, and of the Rhine.
It is the ephemere of which Sirammer
dam has written and .which is spoken
of in Aristotle.
. The life of this insect does not last
beyond four or five hours. It dies to
ward IL o’clock in the evening, after
taking the form of a butterfly about six
hours after midday. It is true, how
ever, that before taking this form it
has lived three years in that of a worm,
which keeps always near the border of
water in the holes which it makes in
the mud.
The change of this worm in the
water to an ephemere which flies is so
sudden that one has not the time to see
it. If one takes the worm in the water,
the hand cannot be taken away before
the change is made unless by pressing
the worm slightly in the region of the
chest. By this means it can be taken
from the water before the change takes
place.
The ephemere, after leaving the
water, seeks a place where it can divest
itself of a fine membrane or veil, which
entirely covers it This second change
takes place in the air.
The ephemere assists itself with the
point of its little nails as firmly as it
can. It makes a movement similar to
that of a shiver, then the skin on the
middle of the back breaks apart, the
wings slip out of their sheath, as we
sometimes take off our gloves by turn
ing them Inside out After this strip
ping the ephemere begins to fly. Some
times it holds itself straight up on the
surface of the water on the end of its tail,
flapping its wings one against the
other. It takes no nourishment in the
five or six hours which are the limit of
its life. It seems to have been formed
but to multiply, for it does not leave
its state of a worm until it is ready to
deposit its eggs, and it dies as soon as
they are deposited.
In three days’ time one sees appear
and die all species of ephemeres. They
last sometimes until the fifth day, for
the reason that some malady has affect
ed some of them and prevents them from
changing at the same time as the
others. —Exchange.
Gold and Silver Gospels.
“The Gold and Silver Gospels” is
the name of a very peculiar book now
preserved in the Upsala library in Swe
den. It is printed with metal type, on
violet colored vellum, the letters being
silver and the initials gold. When it
was printed, by whom or what were
the methods employed, are questipns
which have great interest for the curi
ous, but have never been answered.
Maid and Widow.
By the old Saxon law a maiden and
a widow were of different value. The
latter could be bought for one-half the
sum which the guardian of the maid
was entitled to demand. A man, there
fore, who could not afford to buy a
jaaiden might; perhaps, be able to pur
chase a widow.
The herd of European bisons protected
by the czars of Russia in the forest of
Bjelowski, Lithuania, numbered 1,900
in 1856, but is now reduced to 500 and
shows no sign of increase. The dwin
dling of the herd is ascribed to inbreed
ing, due to the confined area of the rea
ervation. ~ ’
IN WINTER QUARTERS.
Care Taken to Protect Yachts From Cold
and Storm*.
The value of yacht property flouting in
the waters of and adjacent to the shores of
New England and the middle states is in
itself an amount surprising to those who
have given only a passing thought to the
subject. When it can be safely estimated
that invested in the luxurious pastime is
a sum equal to the taxable basis of a city
almost the size of Hartford, much of which
is thoughtlessly exposed to climatic and
other conditions which rapidly depreciate
its worth, it will be realized what a largo
amount of property is constantly placed
at the hazard of unusual risks. This Is
especially noticeable during the winter
months, when the pleasure yachts are out
of commission and arc Often left in charge
of a single keeper, whose position is even
more responsible than that of a captain in
the summer season The latter, if any
thing unusual occurs, has the entire crew
at his command to avert the impending
disaster. This is not so with the boat
keeper, who is forced to cope with any
emergency single handed.
The principal basins wherein yachts are
stored for the winter are interesting in the
extreme to the enthusiastic yachtsman.
With few exceptions the larger boats are
stripped of their sails and running rigging
and are moored in some sheltered spot that
offers protection from the fierce storms of
. the cold season. Their bright work is cov
ered with tarpaulins. The wiso yacht
owner takes the additional precaution to
select a spot exempt from deleterious man
ufactories that tend to pollute the waters
Smaller yachts are hauled out of the wa
ter, spars taken out and the shiping hulls
entirely covered with canvas. They are
not left in this state throughout the frosty
weather, but whenever there is a bright,
warm day storm covers are thrown off,
hatches opened and the sunshine is allowed
to stream in for a few hours. Fires are
also kindled in both galley and cabin, so
as to thoroughly dry the air.
Sails require more carethan the layman
would suppose. Not only does the clever
yachtsman, who values his property cor
rectly, store them in a perfectly dry place,
but three or four times during the winter
he will haul them out and give a chance
to “old Sol’’ to dispel any tendency to
mildew. Then, too, the luxurious fur
nishings of many yachts of the present
day, which are quite as elaborate and ex
pensive as are to be found in the homes of
their owners, require the same considerate
care as the household effects of the man
sion on shore. Unfavorable surroundings
or unpropitious conditions create a ruin
ous effect upon nice materials, bringing
loss and damage with telling rapidity, the
escape from which is the discreet thought
of every careful yachtsman.—New York
Sun.
A Singular Case.
A peculiar case was tried at Dixon re
cently before Judge Givens, says thp Mad
isonville (Ky.) Hustler. Rev. Jesse White
is pastor of what is known as the Chaly
beate church, in Webster county. One of
the rules of the church was that the wom
en should occupy one side of the house and
the men the other. A transgression of
this rule is what caused the trouble.
A young man by the name of Crook,
from Henderson oounty, was in the neigh
borhood and took his sweetheart to church
one night and sat down by her, as he had
been accustomed to do at home. Rev. Mr.
White called attention to the rule- of the
church, requiring him to move to the
men’s side. Crook refused, saying he had
come with the lady, and he didn’t know
of any law he was violating when he sat
by her side. Rev. Mr. White called on
some of the elders to arrest Crook. During
this time quite a commotion arose.
Finally Crook agreed, rather than be
the cause of so much disturbance, to move
over on the men’s side. Rev. Mr. White
informed him it was too late, and ordered
the elder to arrest him. The elder proceed
ed to do so, and a disturbance resulted.
The whole business was brought into
court, and Rev. Mr. White pleaded his
own case before the jury. The jury came
to the conclusion that Rev. Mr. White was
the principal cause of the disturbance and
assessed a fine of 829 upon him. It is
about the first case we ever heard of where
a preacher was fined for disturbing his
own V. orship.
The Antiquity of Man.
Is this not a case in which the imagina
tion may be fairly invoked Ln aid of
science? May we not from these data at
tempt in some degree to build up and re
construct the early history of the human
family? There, in eastern Asia, in a trop
ical elimate, with the means of subsistence
readily at hand, may we not picture to
ourselves our earliest ancestors gradually
developing from a lowly origin, acquiring
a taste for hunting, if not indeed being
driven to protect themselves from the
beasts around them and evolving the more
complicated forms of tools or weapons
from the simpler flakes which had pre
viously served them as knives? May we
not imagine that when once the stage of
civilization denoted by these paleolithic
implements had been reached the game
for the hunter became scarcer and that his
life in consequence assumed a more nomad
character?
Then, and possibly not till then,-may a
series of migrations to “fresh woods and
pastures new” not unnaturally have en
sued, and these following the usual course
of “westward toward the setting sun"
might eventually lead to a paleolithic
population finding its way to the extreme
boarders of western Europe, where we find
such numerous traces of its presence.
How long a term of years may be involved
in such a migration it is impossible to say,
but that such a migration took place the
phenomena seem to justify us in believ
ing.—Sir John Evans in Popular Science
Monthly.
A Cooking Box of Wood.
The various experiments made with
solar engines by the French in Algeria,
where the sun shines at all times and with
great power, have been attended in some
instances with marked success. The best
apparatus is stated to be a simple arrange
ment of boiler and concave mirror, the
steam generated being condensed in a
coiled tube surrounded by water, this be
ing intended for distilling water merely.
But in India an inventor named Adams
has contrived some machines by which
more varied results are accomplished. One
of these is what is termed a cooking box,
made of wood and lined with reflecting
mirrors, at the bottom of the box being a
small copper boiler, covered with glass to
retain the heat of the rays concentrated by
mirrors upon the boiler. In this contriv
ance any sort of food may be quickly
cooked, the result being a stew or boil if
the steam is retained, or if allowed to
escape it is a bake The heat with this
device may be augmented indefinitely by
fnerauJug the diameter of the box.—Phil
adelphia Ledger.
LET “WIFEY” SHOP FOR YOU
She Always Has a Sharper Hom Far
Ilef.l Bargain*.
The sign which caught Mrs. Dawson’s
eye read: “Suits sj>o. P< dtively the
Last Week. Regular Price . 30. ”
Mrs. Dawson had the womanly love
1 for a bargain. She had often spent 10
! cents’ car fare to secure some lovely
treasure that was marked down from
|1 to 98 cents just tar that day. She
was more than provoked that Dawson,
who wds with her, did not grow enthu
' siastic.
“You know you need a suit,” said
Mrs. Dawson. “Why not order it now
and save $lO. ”
Dawson was certain the suits would
be as cheap next week, but his wife re
fused to move on and dragged the help
less man into the store. The polite
clerk assured them that it was the bar
gain of the century and that this week
was positively the last.
With mental protests, but with out
ward calm, Dawson, like day in the
hands of the potter, allowed himself to
be measured. Then he left a deposit
He called in four days and took the
suit away.
“There,” exclaimed Mrs. Dawson, in
triumph, when her husband appeared
arrayed in his new suit “you never
had a better fit nor a more becoming
pattern. Just think how much money
your wife saved for you by being on the
lookout for a bargain!”
Mr. Dawson preserved a dignified si
lence and waited patiently for his bet
ter half to get her hat on straight pre
paratory to accompanying him to ths
city. t
Mrs. Dawson awaited with impa
tience the passing of the store where
she had saved money for her husband.
She wanted to call his attention to the
fact again that he might remain prop
erly thankful.
Withall the faith of a woman Mrs.
Dawson was convinced that the sales
man was telling the truth when he as
sured her it was the last week of the
S2O sale.
She looked for the window, and her
faith was rewarded. It had been the
last week. The sign now read, “Any
Suit In This Window sls. ” —Chicago
Record.
OLD BARBERS ARE SCARCE.
After Reaching <0 They Usually Retire
or Enter Another Occupation.
“Did you ever notice,” said a veteran
tonsorial artist, who had shaved New
Haveners since 1873, to a New Haven
Register man, “that you only see a few
old barbers?”
“Why is it?”
“There are a good many reasons,”
answered the veteran knight of the
blade. “I suppose the chief one is that
a barber’s hand becomes unsteady after
he gets to be about 40 years old and he
has to give up. A good many barbers
drink hard, and that makes their nerves
and hands unfit for service, and they
retire before they cut their customers
throats. Still, I will say that in all my
experience of 87 years I never saw a
man badly cut by a barber, not even by
an accident for which the barber was
not responsible. ”
“What becomes of the barbers after
they retire?”
“Oh, some cf them go to the poor
house, ’ ’ he replied, with a twinkle in
his eye, “and some of them, who have
saved their wages, buy little places and
live on them, perhaps running a farm.
Some of them, of course, go into other
business, perhaps bookselling or else be
come insurance agents. I have heard of
barbers who gave up the business and
became butchers. This isn’t such a wide
difference from their former business
(what are you laughing at?) as it might
seem. No, I don’t mean that they learn
to carve people or even to skin them in
the barber business, but they learn how
to handle a blade skillfully and they
make first class meat cutters. ”
Pipe Made of a Seal’s Tusk.
A pipe made out of a seal’s tusk was
seen at the Weare office recently. The
stem is nearly a foot long and is
quaintly illustrated with representa
tions of life under the arctic circle.
The artist was an Indian, and the
; little sketches in India ink show up
very well against the ivory background..
There is a reindeer about to fall un
der the arrow of an archer. There is a
sledge drawn by dogs. Fir trees, tepees,
a fishing scene, where the captives are
being brought to shore in a net, are all
true to life.
Another ornament of the same char
acter is a pair of walrus tusks, with de
lineations of other Alaskan scenes, with
the fox and the white polar bear in evi
dence; also an Eskimo leveling a gun at
the latter.
It is said that to add to the terrors of
overland travel in the long winter
months the larger wild animals are of
ten driven by hunger to attack the trails
men, and packs of ferocious wolves will
besiege a camp for days, attacking the
horses and reindeer as well as the dogs.
More than one caravan has been done to
death in this manner, as the whitened
bones strewn along the tracks show.—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Usually Needs a Breadwinner.
The young fellow who worries ex
ceedingly in fear that he cannot find a
wife, or rather a girl whom he wants
to make his wife, who is a good cook,
is usually the one who after the mar
riage fails to provide the wife in the
case with anything to cook.—Scranton
Republican.
A Frenchman was convicted of kill
ing his mother-in-law. When asked if
he had anything.to say for himself be
fore taking sentence, he said, “Noth
ing, excepting I lived with her 21 years
and never did it before. ’’
The temperature of the cucumber is
z degree below that of the surround
ing atmosphere. It is, therefore, appar
ent that the expression “cool as a cu
cumber ’ is scientifically correct
A RACE HORSE’S CAREER.
Hl* tot, aa • Bal*, b Hard, For lire
meat la Lacking oa tka Turt.
The history of a tucer from the day
he is foaled until his death has fre
quently furni bed the topic for many
thrilling stories from the pens of able
writers.
When the racer is foaled, u a rule
he is watched from the hour of his
birth until he reaches the market as a
yearling. When he is sold, that ends
the breeder’s interest in him, except
that it is desired that he shMl be suc
cessful on the turf, because his future
brothers and sisters may fetch a higher
market price than if he retiree a fail
ure. Once the yearling reaches the
racing stable he is broken, and his
trials are’Watched with interest
During his 2-year-old career the colt
wins several stakes and in bis 8-year
old form proves himself n breadwinner,
but unfortunately strains a muscle or
ruptures a tendon in a fierce struggle to
win a purse and large wagers for his
owner. When the thoroughbred is led
limping back to his box, the owner
does not exhibit an overabundance of
sentiment On the other hand, he be
wails the losses incurred by the break
ing down of the colt This does not
apply to poor owners. It applies to mil
lionaires who race horses for the sport
to be derived from it and the possibili
ties of being extensivelyffidvertioed by
the press, with a fair prospect of mak
ing both ends meet by winning purses
and stakes and a few wagers judicious
ly placed. The patient thoroughbred,
with his swollen tendon, is carefully
examined.
The aid of a veterinarian is called in,
and many discussions are held as to
' whether the horse will recover or re
main unsound. Then the “knackers”
of the race track begin to hover around
Jike buzzards who scent carrion afar
off. The “knacker” is permitted to ex
amine the ailing tendon and is told by
the trainer that the horse can be pur
chased for a nominal sum. As a rule,
the “knacker” purchases, and the hone
is put through a course of torture
known as firing and blistering. When
he next appears, it is in the role of a
“selling plater,” in the colon of some
hardened wretch who possesses no feel
ing for either his jockeys or his hones,
and when he is no longer of any use to
the “knacker” he is shipped to the
minor tracks known as the outlaw
tracks, where he is starved and beaten
until nothing remains but the frame
and hide of what was once the idol of
race goers.—Exchange.
TIMELY TURF TIPS.
W. Wood, 2:07, has been thrown out
of training.
Du Quoin, Illa, will have a trotting
meeting Sept 14 to 15.
Jimmie Dustin has had to give up
driving owing to his health.
American bred coach and carriage
horses axe liked in Scotland.
Horses are in demand in every coun-
1 try in Europe except Russia.
Tocsin Gbimes, by Chimes,
' has been sold to Vienna horsemen.
Passing Belle, i» the fastest
new pacer of the, year. Sally Toler,
comes next?.
Oratorio will probably, be in good
shape by the time the grand circuit
horses reach Fleetwood.
Parker John, died at Con
cord, N. H., recently. Out of 26 races
be had won money in 28.
Bermuda Wilkes, a Day colt by Ber
muda, trotted to a record of 2:25 at
Portsmouth, 0., recently.
Newton W, by Sour Mash, reduced
the track record at Jackson, Mich.,
when he paced the mile in 2:155£.
A race in which the horses were
driven by women, “attired ia divided
skirts,” was “enjoyed” at Pittsfield,
Me.
There are 11 variety performers
whose trotting and pacing aver
age better than 2:15. Jay Eye See,
2:10, trotting, 2:O6J£ pacing, average,
heads the list.
Will Creadon and McCoy Fight? ■
i It is announced on good authority
that a syndicate of several well known
business men of New York has offered a
purse of $12,000 for “Kid” McCoy and
Dan Creedon to do battle for. The fight
is to take place in November, the place
to be within 1,000 miles of New York
city. The syndicate states that the loca
tion of the fight will be made known to
boxers two weeks before the battle. ’No
names are mentioned, and altogether,
just at present, it looks like a fish story.
There is no place within a radius of
1,000 miles of New York where such a
finish bout could be pulled off legiti
mately, and it is not very likely that
the men would meet in private.—Ex
change. i '■ ——.
Bits’* Trainer*.
If Bob Fitzsimmons engages in an
. other fight, he will have to employ a
new set of trainers. Ernest Boeber and
Dan Hickey, who faithfully trained
him for his memorable victory over Cor
bett and who recently left him, declare
that they will not patch up the
They alleged that the Coraishman
■bused his helpers and failed to live up
to his financial agreements. The trouble
is similar to that which sprang up be
tween Corbett and Mike Donovan after
the Corbett-Sullivan milL—New York
Journal. ■ / ■«-'
Clarke as the WlMwnrm
The crack baaeball catcher, Bill
Clarke, is not loved by fans outside of
Baltimore. Perhaps it jg his grating,
horse radish voice that does the busi
ness. During one of the Baltimore-
Chicago games at Chicago one indig
nant female occupant of a box called
out, “Oh, you mean thing. I’d like to
run my hatpin right through your
neck!” And all because the back stop
called upon the pitcher to “get at him
and make him hit the ball.
York Telegram.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE. ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ as our trade mark.
I t DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now every
bear the facsimile signature qf : wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA," which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you have always bought on
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. /) j
March 8,1897. ,
Do Not Bo Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo”
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
‘‘The Kind Yon Have Always. Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed lou.
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