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INTEM-ECTUAL anS thB Y are SAID TO Th- THE MOBT IN -lELLIGENT OF INSECTS. They H.ve PoUtid » a <l Social tion , That “•* »• to Thoae of MaB _8om« Work, While Other* Do Wo jjjbor, but live Suinptnoualy. <«Go to the ant, thou sluggard; con nder her way* and be wise, ” said Solo mon over 8,000 years ago, and the re gearohfli of modern naturalists have confirmed the excellence of the w jse man’s advice in holding up the ant aS an example for man, for among in vertebrate animals the ant holds the same position that man does among the vertebrate. The ant is the most intel lectual of all insects. Ants are truly wonderful insects. They build houses, train soldiers, en slave ants and other insects inferior to themselves; they are capable agricul turists, for they keep a species of milk kine, clear the ground, sow grain, reap and gather into barns. They are social Lj. insects, and in many respects are exam ples in miniature of man. They have, their monarchs, pride themselves on their aristocracy, and also indulge to excess in intoxicating liquors. Ants are divided into three classes— males, females (or queens) and neuters (workers). The two former are winged, and their sole duty in life is to multiply their species. Immediately after pairing the male ants die, and the queens, re nouncing the pomps and vanities of this world, henceforward devote themselves to the duties of maternity. To the lot of the neuters falls all the work. Some of them are told off to wait on the queens, whom they feed and care few with the greatest attention. Each batch of eggs, as soon as they are laid, are carried away and deposited in the hatch ing chambers open to the rays of the sun. Hie workers nurse the ant babies when they appear, putting them in the warm upper galleries by day and re moving them at night into the snuggest lower chambers. After several months* careful nursing and feeding, the larva passes into the pupa stage, and spins itself into a co coon, from which it emerges a full grown ant. It is these cocoons that are sold as “ants’ eggs;’’ the real eggs are so minute that even the ants themselves could not pick them up in their mandi bles were not several fastened together by a natural gum. Queen ants, accord ing to Sir John Lubbock, live as long as ten years, while Dr. Dallinger states that worker ants live from four to six years. The queen ants are treated with the utmost reverence, and while the corpse of a worker ant is usually imme diately disposed of the body of a queen is often preserved as long as 18 months after its death. The ant has three simple and two compound eyes, the latter consisting of from 250 to 1,300 lenses each. In pass ing, it may be mentioned"that the ordi nary house fly has 4,ooolenses, the gad fly 11,000 and the dragon fly 30,000 lenses to each eye. Physically, as well as intellectually, ants are the giants of the insect world; they can easily carry even ten times their own weight The ant hoqses are most marvelous examples of /Construction. Part of the nest is above the ground and part below \ it These houses are often 40 stories in height, and are built of stones, leaves, sticks and earth. The subterranean part is honeycombed into passages and cells and all the tunnels and galleries run into one common center—the public hall of the ant colony. The government is a republic, and' various colonies have been known to mass together for the purpose of defense. A Swiss scientist has discovered a regular empire of ants, covering an area of 4100 square yards, and containing 200 colonies or republics with a population of 40,000,000 ants. There are many species of ants which are incapable of managing their own nests or of rearing their young, and these in consequence impress into their service the workers of other species Os ants and leave all the rough work to their captives. Periodically the master ants set off on a slave hunting expedi tion. They find out the nest of a special ant whose aid they need. They raid it and, overcoming its defenders, enter and bear off triumphantly the pupae. These are carried to the masters’ nest, where they are speedily hatched, and knowing no other home and forced by instinct to work they toil industriously for their masters. So lazy and dependent upon their willing slaves do the master ants become that at length they are unable to feed themselves. Food has been placed before these lords of the ant cre ation, and they would not even take the trouble to eat. Then some slave ants were introduced. They tidied up the place and fed their masters. The ants have some method ofjrnow ing members of their own tribe. jQEJhg ant is put into a strange colony, it is in stantly killed as an intruder, while if one is taken from its home and restored to it after a long lapse of time it is im mediately welcomed and recognized. Sir John Lubbock took 12 ants, 6 from each of two different colonies, and made them drunk. Then they were all put back into one of the colonies. The ants inspected them, carried away their com panions and took care of them until they recovered, while the foreigners were dropped into the water. A large dead fly was put on the table, and one ant immediately went over and pulled it, but found himself unable to ®ove it. He then went away, and speedily returned with three compan ions, and by their united efforts the fly was carried away. • It has long been known that some »pecies of ants are in the habit of acting in exactly the same manner as man in keeping insect cows for the sake of the ®ilk they supply. The ordinary green “J, or aphis, is to the ant what the cow is to man. This green fly is capable | « ex ®ding from two nipplelike projeo- I tions a sort of liquid gum, of which ,j *nts are extremely fond. - A DEVOTED PIGEON. She Broke Through » Well to flaanai Her Nestling. In the animal kingdom there are many strong examples of mother love, and the birds are particularly noted for , displaying it. A remarkable instance of this maternal instinct was recently no ticed ueiar Elwood, Ind. A mother pi geon whose young one had mysteriously disappeared searched unceasingly for weeks for the little one, and one day last December she was seen flying vio lently against the side of a frame build ing in the city. Each time she came in contact with the house she chipped off a small bit of wood with her bill. For nearly two days the old bird kept this practice up, often during that time falling exhausted from the repeated shocks and fatigue. In the afternoon of the second day she had pecked a hole in the wall, the wood of which was old and soft from the weather. This bole was large enough to admit a man’s head, and through this the mother bird went and came. Every time she entered she carried grain or seeds or grass. Some curious people investigated the hole while she was absent, and there they found the ' little lost pigeon, just below the hole, wedged in between the weatherboards. For two days more the bird continued to bring the little one food K and would stay fluttering near the hole, chirruping and trying to cheer the little prisoner up. Many times it entered and seemed to be trying to extricate its young one, but it could not succeed in doing so, try as it would. The prisoner had flown in to the building, which was empty, and managed to get between the weather boarding, near the top of the inside. Falling a considerable distance, it lodg ed in the narrow space, which did not permit it to use its wings in rising again. Its plaints had reached the mother, and she, not being able, to reach it from the inside, had cut through from the out. An admiring man thrust' his hand through the hole and brought out the fluttering young thing, to the great delight of the anxious mamma bird.—Chicago Chronicle. BREEDS SNAKES TO SELL. The Peculiar Discovery Made by an Eng liShniMi In Id<Ub« The bounty given by the Indian gov ernment for snakes’ heads in order to exterminate these reptiles has led to a few of the dishonest natives breeding them for a living. An Englishman recently traveling through central India made a peculiar discovery. In the heart of a dense jungle be came across a rude hut, and close at hand was a large pit covered with a tight fitting wooden cover. He found the occupants of the hut, two disreputa ble looking natives, and asked them the meaning of the peculiar pit They informed him that they were breeders of snakes and put •them in the pit, the bottom of which was covered, over with dried grass and leaves. ( They kept the snakes there .some six months, feeding them on all kinds of small animals and birds. They then filled a large earthen pot with poisonous herbs, lighted it, low ered it into the pit and secured the tight fitting wooden cover, and thus smothered the reptiles. The cover was allowed to remain on for a few days. It was then removed and the snakes were taken out by means of a long pole with a spike at the end of it. Their heads were then cut off, and one of the rogues set out for the nearest government agency to obtain the boun ty, while the other one caught fresh snakes for the pit. The snakes very often devoured one another, but the mothers generally man aged to bring up their young, though it was a marvel they bred at all in such a place, it being, .one would think, con trary to their nature.—London Corre spondence. The Shah’s Turkish Ambassador. His excellency Mirza Mahmoud Khan, the shah’s embassador at Constantino ple, holds his distinguished office upon conditions which are quite without prec edent in the diplomatic world. The Lord of the Lion and the Sun does not devote a penny of his revenue to main taining a representative at Stamboul. He has in that city about 15,000 sub jects, and these are duly taxed for the purpose. Mirza Mahmoud has no reason to complain of the arrangement, for by the help of half a dozen ablebodied col lectors he secures an income of about £20,000. True, he is compelled to hand over £4,000 yearly to his oolleague-at Vienna, but the balance enables him to live very comfortably. The contribu tors, however, insist upon his spending -a certain amount on hospitality, and whenever he gives a dinner party to ths corps diplomatique a committee of tax payers is posted in an anteroom, whence they can satisfy themselves that their embassador does the thing in proper style and keeps up the dignity of ths nation.—London Chronicle. A Division of Recreation. Mrs. Chugwater—Josiah, it seems to me you are very stjngy in taking that new novel yourself before anybody else in the family has had a chance even to look at it Mr. Chugwater—What are you kick ing about! There’s the second voluma Can’t you read that while I’m going through the first?—Chioago Tribuue. Distinctions* It is net pretty to say of a woman that she talks too much, but she looks complimented when you tell her that she is a fine conversationalist—Somer ville (Mass.) Journal. There are parts of the Ganges valley in India where the population averages 1,300 to the square mile. Since 1870 Victoria, Australia, has voted mere than |500,000 for the de struction of rabbits. A GREAT HELP TO SURGERY. ’ Dlacovery of a Teung Surg«, o AntMMti to the Aeademy of Mcdlelna. > At the last regular meeting of the Acad emy of Medicine a young physician who • has made rapid strides in his profession > read a paper on “Intestinal Irrigation.” . The paper was illustrated by an exhibition Os the appliances used by the physician in ’ irrigating the intestines. The appliances, it seems, are of his own invention, and by their use physicians are now enabled to ’ accomplish results in the treatment of in testinal troubles which before the young doctor began his experiments were dtffi cuM and in many cases Impossible to a> coinplish. Briefly the appliance invented by the young doctor to this: To the pipeof an or 1 dinary fountain syringe he ha* attached two nozzles. Through one of these the ir rigatlng stream passes, and from the other the water used in the irrigating process , fipws out. By the use of these two nozzles and by keeping the reservoir of the syringe' filled, an uninterrupted flow of water may be maintained. 1 When ths reading of the paper was con -1 eluded, it was discussed by some of the best known physicians in town. Dr. Rob ert H; M. Dawbarn said that until sur i geonshad learned of the experiment and , the invention they bad not known of any t satisfactory way of treating patients for shock following surgical operations. • “Although so great an advance has been made in the science of surgery in the last hundred years,?* said Dr. Dawbarn, “little has been added to the surgeon’s knowledge ofteeating shook. Many more persons have died of the shock following the oper ation than from all the other effects of the cmeration combined. Now that we have the result of these experiments and this invention, w» need no longer fear death from shook. The.doctor has experimented with a solution of salt in water. When I learned of the result of his experiments, I procured one of his syringes fitted with the double tube. I have used this in 13 or 14 ; oases in.the hospital after seriotis major operations. The operation performed, I would open a vein and lrrigate it with the saline solution. In every caea the patient did not suffer from shock at an, and in each case the patient is now w«U. Ide ' not think ft would have been possible to ' eave some of these patients from death from shock had I not known of the doc tor’s appliance and his experiments. For surgery I count what he has accomplished Almost equal to the discovery of the vac cine virus.”—New York Sun. Looking Out For the Future. He was an odd looking man. The prin cipal of the edudaXfonal institution was prepared by his for some un i usual ideas. He took off his flat crowned i hat and making a bow observed: “I look like a crank, don’t I!” "I—l don’t care to venture an opinion,” replied the principal. “That’s all right, sir. You won’t hurt my feelings in the least. I have been called a crank so often that I’m used to r it. Formerly when I’d have an impression that I hadn’t heard somebody else men tion, I used to struggle to conceal it. But I have got over that. I tell my own thoughts out plainly and let people think what they like. You attend to the educa tion of young boys!” “Yes.” ' “Well, do you use copy books!” ' 4 “Ym.” V Would money be any indu ementto you to try and educate a boy without em? ptoringthem!” “Why, I suppose we could teach him to write in some other way-” “I don’t want yod to. I desire him to learn everything orally. If there is any thing that positively demands a record, you can put it in a phonograph and let him keep the cylinder. I’Hpay for it You see, he has an uncle in the diplomatic service, and with his assistance I hope to secure a similar career for this boy. My heart is set on making a diplomat of him and I wish to remove from his path every possible temptation to write personal let ters. Tfaat’s an idea that I got in the past few days and, do you know, the more I think of it the more I suspect that maybe I am not such a crank as I look!”—Wash ington Star. An Earthquake Warms a Spring, And now phenomenon can be attributed to the earthquake of last No vember, which ebook things so generally in Montana. In Helena it was reported that a deaf mute bad found speech a* the result of the earth shaking itself. Senator Alex Metzel of Twin Bridges, or, as he calls it, Puller Springs, so named from a famous hot spring on his ranch, Says that the quake increased the temper ature of the water of the Springs a dozen degrees. The day after the earth trembled one of the senator’s sons thought he would go out to the springs and take a bath, as was his custom. He got into the pool, and then he got out, for he found the water unusually hot. A thermometer was brought jnto use, and it was found that the temperature was over 110 F. Before the earthquake it was along in the nine ties. Several tests of the temperature tak en since the earthquake have shown the same considerable increase over what it was before the earthquake. “I am firmly convinced that the in ternal troubles that resulted in the earth quake turned on a warmer supply of wa ter and raised the temperature of my springs from 10 to 20 degrees,” said Sen ator Metzel. “We have been keeping track of the temperature of the springs for years. It never increased or decreased until the change that was noted the day after the earthquake. I was in the east at the time, so I cannot vouch for this part of the story, but the boys say that besides being warm er the water for two days after the shock was milky white.”—Helena Herald. A Thrifty Indian Girl. There is a thrifty Indian girl in the Seller school in Oklahoma who has a surprising record for aptness, wit and good sense. When she became a pupil .a few years ago, she had no education whatever and was apparently as nonprogressive as the others of her race, but in a short time she was earning money in the sewing room, and a little later took a salaried place, such as the government allows to Industrious learners who want to earn “pin money” outside of the regulhr study hours in the farm, sewing room or other departments. Out of her savings she bought a harness, team and wagon, a bedroom set and a sewing machine, all in view of her pro spective marriage to a young Indian. She saved some money, too, and did ft all in three years. ' v Net Reprehensible. “Hit nevuh pays,” said Uncle Eben, “foh er man ter lose ’is temper. But dar is ’casionswhen be do seem jestified in de liberately gettin red o’ his good nature. ” —Washington Star. • - THE PURSER’S NERVE SHAVED TO KEEP HIS WITS WHILE THE SHIP WAS SINKING. Me VeM the Story to the Gallia’s Ship wrecked Psasengorc la the Matter es Nerve Ba Went the Smatear Nheteg rtnhtr One It was a oozy room, with antique hangings and furniture and walls hung with handsome works of art which oould be only indistinctly seen by the light of the flickering fire on thrhearth. The little party agreed with the beau tiful hostess that the room was just dark enough tar a ghost story. “I don’t know a ghost story, ” said one of the men, “but the dramatic rescue of the Veendam’s passengers by the St Louis reminds me of my experience on board the old Gallia when she was caught in a hurricane in midwinter about 700 jmiles from Queenstown. The waves broke in our decks and flooded the cab ins, and nobody thought for a little while that any one on board the vessel would ever see land again. There was DO panic, no shouting, no weeping, and it seemed that all were perfectly pre pared to go, though they looked far from happy floundering about in the water dressed in such garments as they oould grasp when they were aroused from I their sleep by the crash which sent tons of water into the ship. It was about 7 o’clock in the morning. The stewards had begun to set the table for breakfast, and, as I recall the picture, I can see men dhd women, most of them with heavy wraps over their night dresses, standing on the table and danc ing a forced minuet between the guard rails and the dishes. ' “At one end of the cabin, while others were silently praying, stood a young fel low with nothing on but a suit of blue and white pyjamas, holding a snap camera in front of him. ‘lf you folks’ll hold Mill a minute,’ he mid, ‘we’ll have, a picture of this if weever get out of it.’ And for a moment people forgot the terrible situation, and I have always believed that one of the women adjusted her water soaked gown so that she might look well in the picture taken under the shadow of the destroying an gel. “Well, we got through it all right, although we came to Liverpool in a sad ly battered condition, and when they hoisted the trunks from the hold the water ran out of them as though each piece was a sieve. We had service on board the ship the Sunday following our disaster, and, although two days had passed since we thought we were gone, we seemed only then to appreciate fully what had happened. Men and men who had shown no sign of fear note-' moped in corners with trembling lips, unable to speak because of the lump in their throats, and the service of song was a flat failure, because no one could sing any more than the young woman at the organ oould get a note out of that water soaked, dripping piece of furni ture » “We reached Liverpool too latest night to leave the ship, and the men, who had become better acquainted than they would have been on a less tem pestuous voyage, gathered in the saloon and for the hundredth time exchanged congratulations. “ ‘This was nothing,’said our purser, ‘to the experience I once had, and not so long ago. To go down with all hands must be hard enough, but to be the only one of a whole shipful to go and to see all the rest saved—that’s pretty hard. That came near being my case, and I don’t want another similar experience. “ ‘I was an officer on the Ohio when she knocked a hole in her bottom, and I helped transfer the passengers and save what we could. When all had been sent to the ship which came to our re lief, we made ready for the last boat load, of which I was to be one. We had a lot of money and valuables in the ■hip’s safe, and I went below, took a tablecloth from the cabin table, and into this dumped the contents of the various compartments of the safe. I made a bag of it, carried it on deck, and when I came to where the boat should have been I found that it had gone, and I, with the treasure, was left in the rapidly sinking ship. loan think of any number of situations which I would have preferred to mine just then. The wind being against me, I could not make myself heard. I put up signals, and no one would ever guesrwhat I did then. I wanted to keep my wits about me and block all chances for nervous ness, so I did what requires a man’s full attention—began to shave, and I doubt whether I ever did a cleaner or a better job. | “ ‘By the time I had finished my companions must have missed me, for I could see them returning, and when they came alongside there were not many inches to step down 'from the sinking big boat to the little thing that took us away. I tell you this story to show how necessary it is to.have nerve on board ship.* ” i “And did he tell It for a true story?” asked the hostess. “He swore to every detail.'* “Then he did have nerve/’’— New York Tribune. Th« Dear Child. , Little Tommie—Sister Lillian likes to have you come here. I Mr. Simperling—Aw, indeed! How ho you know that! Little Tommie—Well, people always like what makes them glad, don’t they! ! Mr. Simperling—Generally. But how do you know I make her glad? I Little Tommie—l heard ter tellin one of the otter girls today that she just had to laugh every time she looked at you. —Cleveland Le»der. i i. . ■ ' i.... . I South. I “Have you ever traveled in the tenth?” mfred’ the New Orleans man of the chap from Bangor, Me. I “Oh, yes, indeed,” said the Maine man. "I bare been to Boston and New York. Htagtar’s Bazar. AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ CASTOBIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” Xb wr trade mark. x DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, 908 the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,** the same that has borne and does now on eoery bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original" PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. 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