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The wonders of surgery will, it aeem*
never cease. Among the most important
achievements is the transplanting of
muscles. Thia has been successfully
done in the case of a patient who had
for half « lifetime been unable to use
one leg on account of paralysis occur
ring in early childhood. The operation
la thus described: "A six inch longi
tudinal incision is made on the inner
side of the thigh, with the middle op
posite the top of the patella. The sarto
rius is dissected out, cut oft at its in
sertion, brought forward and attached
to the muscular fascia just above and a
little, to the inner side of the patella.
“ the attachment must be made firmly
by splitting the fasda and drawing the
muscle through, so that it becomes ad
herent to both inner and outer surfaces.
Kangaroo tendon id used for sutures,
being the best material. The wound is
then dosed, and the whole thigh. is
bandaged, and finally'g plaster of parts
bandage, or .4 long splint, is applied.
The patient is kept recumbent for two
weeks at least, gentle motion is com
menced at the end of three Weeks, and 1
the plaster is entirely omitted at the
end otfrom five to six weeks. This op
eration has been performed several times
with great success, the only failures oc
curring where the muscles were imper
feotly attached. This state of things
wm enlfirriy remedied, however, in the
later operations.’’—New York Ledger.
Guatemala might easily, sustain ten
times its present population. The soil is
rich and easily cultivated, and, unlike
the other Central American republics,
there is plenty of labor. Some parts of
the country are quite thickly populated,
but the others are covered with dense
forests and a variety, of timber, which
might be easily made marketable if
means of transportation were provided.
But, although Guatemala is much
further advanced thjm the rest of Cen
tral America, her railway system does
not exceed 250 miles; there is nd inter
nal navigation, and the wagon roads are
- in a deplorable condition. The mineral
wealth of the country is supposed to be
large, but it is only slightly developed.
The mines are inaccessible, and, in the
- absence of modern machinery, which at
present cannot. be conveyed to them,
cannot be worked with profit.
The government offers generous in
ducements to immigrants. The land
laws are liberal, and efforts have been
made from time to time to secure the
establishment of colonies and the pre
emption of ■ public lands by private set
tlers. But all the accessible area is at
present occupied, and no foreigner can
expect to prosper in Guatemala unless he
has abundant capital which will enable
him to purchase at high prices planta
tions already developed.—Forum. :
Hla Own Composition.
A recent article in Le Figaro of Paris
is devoted to the American colony in
that city. It says that the colony has
always played the important and bril
liant role in society chiefly because
most of the Americans were “Ameri
.caines.” “It is certain,” continues Le
Figaro, “that out of ten ‘Americaines’
residing in Paris there is but one Amer
ican. Affairs—‘business, ’ as they say
over there —absorbs the sterner sex in
the United States In that country the
men have neither the inclination nor
the opportunity for much leisure, and
only pay us very short visits.
“While their wives install themselves
here the ‘good’ husband only makes fly
ing visits and is very seldom referred
to in the elegant salons of the wives. ”
The writer continues: “I was at an
official ball'not long ago, where one of
them was the hero of a curious ‘his
toire. ’ He wore on the lapel of his coat
a brilliant star, which struck me as
original and somewhat curious in form.
Although very artistic, the order was
unknown to me. Some indiscreet per
- son interrogated the Yankee as to what
order it was. The Yankee replied in a
' phlegmatic tone, ‘lt is my own compo
sition. ’ ”
Superstitions Bonapartes.
The Bonapartes always were super
. stitious, especially the mother of Napo
leon. She always had a presentiment
that the rise and fall of her family
would occur in the same century, that
the glory which was prophesied for
them would be followed by disaster.
And the prediction was verified. She
died in her eighty-seventh year, having
lived long enough to See the downfall
of all her children.
. Napoleon I always feared Dea S as
an unlucky day, and it is related of him
that before every important battle he
would throw dice to ascertain if he
( were to lose or win. The “red men”
whem.he always saw going to battle
with him was'lt deljuSlefi' that paused
him much suffering.—Toronto Saturday
Night A
Not Worried About That. \
Her Father—Wall, if you are deter
mined to marry my daughter, I shall
offer no objections, but before yon take
this irrevocable step I think it is only
nfiht to let you know that I have de
cided to leave all my money to educa
tional and charitable institutions
Glib Suitor—Oh, that’s all right
I’ve got proof that you bet on a bicycle
road race onqe. It’ll be easy enough to
show that you’re of unsound mind.
Chicago News.
An Indication.
“He,” said the fond but firm father,
*is, I fear, a young man of extravagant
tastes.”
“Yes,” the daughter admitted, “he
wants me for a wife.”—Oincinnnti En
quirer.
The largest coffee plantation in Bra
» sil and perhaps in the world is the Du
mont plantation, established by a
Frenchman in thrf state of Minas Ge
-2 - saea. The number coffee plants in
1896 waa4.718.Q00.
The first sermon in Maine was deliv
ered at Monhegun Aug. 9, 1607.
HU Own
B EQTIME AT THE ZOO.
Mamma Blophaat’s Way of Putting Her
Baby to Sloop.
It was sunset time In summer, and
the gentle animals .of the soo in one of
the great cities of the world were in
yards and folds outside the building*
When I reached the inclosure belonging
to mother elephant, there was a large
number of men', women and children
standing along the fence. They were
very quiet, as if they were afraid of dis
turbing some one. As I stopped by the
fence and looked in the jraqd a small
girt touched my skirt, punod up her
mouth and giving me a solemn look of
warning pointed to the elephant*
Mamma elephant '‘had her trunk
around her baby’s neck and teemed to
be whispering and encouraging him as
he rubbed his head against her knee.
He stood a moment, then raised hie
head, flapped his big little ears, gave a
flirt of his little cord of a tail and trot
ted off by his mother’s side to the cen
ter of the yard. There she left him and
went to a pile of hay that stood in *
corner. This she took up, bunch by
.bunch, with her trunk, so nicely that
she did not drop a wisp iff it, and spread
ft around her child, who had not stirred
froth the spot where she left him.
When the hay had been all spread
around the baby, the mother stepped
info the center and began to tread it
down with her feet, the little one fol
lowing her motions exactly till a per
fectly even space had been trodden
down; then mamma elephant stepped
Out again, went to the farther side of
thp yard and fumbled. about the ground
with her trunk. As she came back her
baby flourished his small trunk and
flapped his ears, making at (he same
time a soft grunting sound, as if he
knew what was coming and liked it.
Thistime mamma stood outside the
baby’s bed and beginning with the
back of his ears blew a small cloud of
fine dust info the folds of skin behind
them, then into those around his legs
andunder him till he was thoroughly
powdered for the night This done, she
again put her trunk -about his body; the
little fellow dropped to his knees on his
carefully trodden bed, and after a few
soft pats and a few soft grunts from his
mother he lay as a well trained child
of the elephant family should.
The mother’s work, however, was not
yet dona She took up delicately foe
hay from the edge of ■ the bed, and be
gan tossing it lightly along his sides
and up toward his back, till its ridges
no longer showed.
When all was -done, the small girl
who had warned me not to disturb the
proceedings heaved a . great sigh, and,
turning to me, said, “I would just like
to know what they doit fori” So I told
her, explaining foe habit Wild animals
have of treading their beds, to make
sure there are no snakes in the grass;
the necessity of dust powdering the
young, whose skin is tender in-foe folds,
ahd who are troubled by insects; foe pil
ing up of the dry grass around them, >tp
conceal them from the possible hunter.
—Northern Christian Advocate.
Spanish Mamea on Pullman Can.
“The public is dead sore on Spanish
names,” said a Pullman conductor
as he turned away from looking over
foe register. _ “You may not believe
it, but I have found a strong preju
dice against foe Spanish names on the
Pullman oars, and foe company is ar
ranging to change many of them. The
fire of patriotism is too hot just at pres
ent to put up with anything that even
suggests a don. The company may kick
on it, but one of foe superintendents
told me recently that several of foe cars
had already been sent to foe shops to
have foe names changed. Some of foe
most poetical names in use must go, be
cause they suggest foe queen regent, lit
tle Alfonso or some city in Spain. For
example, such cats as the Cadiz, Blanco,
Castile, Seville, Mercedes, Moreno, Lu
sitania and Andalusia are being square
ly boycotted. And this is no joke.
“In Pittsburg foe other day a passen
ger took a day coach rather than pay
far a seat in foe car named Castile. Up
on foe Erie road foe handsome car
Blanco was pelted with stones and mud
while it was standing outside one of foe
best stations on foe system. The people
simply won’t have these Spanish name*
I just heard how foe Mercedes had been
turned down on foe Panhandle line a
w66k ago, and how foe porter had rid
den 200 miles without a soul in his car.
Os course he kicked. Who wouldn’t?
The porters are disconsolate, and say
there is no use talking, foe fine Spanish
names won’t go these days, and when a
porter gets leary of his car you might
as well take it off.’”—New Orleans
Timea-Democrat
Mamina Naaaatt HaU.
How many of the undergraduates and
alumni of foe College of New Jersey,
asks Mr. MelUck in “The Story of an
Old Farm, ” are aware that their being
able to sing of foe glories of “Old Nas
au” on campus and at annual banquet
a due to foe humility of a colonial gov
ernor? He then tells foe origin of foe
name Nassau hall
In 1756, one year before foe death of
Governor Jonathan Belcher, that digni
tary pre—ted his library to Princeton
college. In gratitude for foe gift foe
trustees requested that they might be
allowed to give his name to foe now
venerable building, then being erected,
which for so many years has housed foe
faculty spd students of sols ancient sfot
of learning. His excellency declixied the
proffereddistifiction.
The governor requested that it should
be. named to "express the honor we re
tain, ” to* quote his words, Vih foie re
mote port of the globe, to the immortal
memory cf foe glorious King William
11, who was a branch of foe illustrious
house of Nassau and who, under' God,
was foe great deliverer of foe British
nation from those two monstrous fpries,
popesy and slavery. ”
And DO It was that foe trustees
ed that the new collegiate buflaing “in
all time to come” should be called
Nassau hall
OUR DEBT TO BUMBLEBEES.
Tba Part There Busy Work.n Play X* foe
fertilisation of Flo wok*.
Barney Hoskin Standish writes an
article on “The Bumblebee” for St.
Nicholas. Mr. Standish says: The work
7f foe bumblebee in bringing about the
cross fertilization of flowers is as im
portant as that of the honeybee, and
these two stand at the.head of foe list
of insects useful in this respect. Baah
has its flowers Which it alone vifjtfc
but there are mahy flowers on neutral
ground visited by both. So we may
say of the bumblebee, as of the honey
bee, the more bumblebees, the more
seeds; the more seeds the more flowers
—especially’ wild flowers, as foe tall
bellflower, touch me not, Solomon’s seal,
gentian, Dutchmen's breeches and tur
tle head. But probably the most impor
tant work this insect does for agricul
ture is upon the fields of red clover.
There is abundant proof that this plant
will not produce seed without the co
operation of the bumblebee. It is im
possible for the wind to bring about the
fertilization of the seed, as it may do
in the case of Indian corn, grain and
some forest trees. The tube of red clo
ver blossoms, too, is so long that other
insects (including foe honeybee) are
not regular visitant* '
Here is proof that this plant must
have visits from the bumblebee; This
insect is not a native of Australia, and
red clover failed to produce seed there
until bumblebees were imported. As
soon as they became numerous the plant
could be depended upon for seed.
Again, the blossoms of the first crop of
the Medlunq clover of our own
country are just as perfect as those of
foe second crop, but there are too few
bumblebees in the field, so early in the
Season, to produce fertilization, hence
Uttlecr no seed in this crop. If bumble
bees were sufficiently numerous, there
is no reason why much larger yields of
clover seed might not be expected than
at present. °
Here is what a well informed farmer
says about it:
“It was formerly thought that foe
world rested on foe shoulders of Atlas.
I,can prove font its prosperity rests on
the bumblebee. The world cannot pros
per without the farmers’ product. The
farm will not be productive without
clover. We cannot raise clover without
seed, and we cannot have clover seed
without the bumblebee, because it is
this insect that carries the pollen from
flower to flower, securing its develop
ment and continuance. Let us learn to
know and to protect our friends. ”
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING.
If AU Saw Things Alike, This WreM Be
an Uninteresting World.
“It is a pity that more of us cannot
cultivate foe twofold why of looking at
thing#,” writes Edward W. Bok in The
Ladies’ Home Journal; - “There would
be less friction th'life if we did, and
• sweeter sympathy, kinder undcrstagcC
ing and broader and fuller living. The
fact is that we never reach the dignity
of true living unless we do learn this
all important lesson. And that it may
be cultivated admits of no doubt. It is
simply a question of schooling ourselves
not to condemn generally what indi
vidually does not happen to be to our
taste. If, for example, we prefer brown
as a color, there is no reason on earth
why we should condemn foe taste of
any one who preferred to wear green.
What foe vast majority of us need is to
be a little more self poised, m<we judi
cial, more willing to see good in the
tastes of others, although they do not
please our own particular fancies. It we
all (bought alike, read the same books,
saw the same plays, wore foe same col
ors, this would be an exceedingly unin
teresting world.
"We. cannot see all things in foe
same way, but we can some near to
justice and true respect by taking a two
fold view of things while still retaining
our strong individual views. Seeing a
possible good or use for everything does
not necessairly mean a weak individu
ality. The most uncomfortable people
in the world are those who assert their
judgments in a hard, decisive and final
manner, as if they were courts of last
resort. On foe'other hand, foe bright
est and best minds are those that have
most respect for foe opinions of others. ”
Remenyi and Pumpernickel.
“My first meeting with Bemenyi,”
says H. J. Cleveland, “was over a liv
ery stable in Council Bluff* A concert
hall was there and he was to play. A
jackass in a stall beneath persistently
brayed. Bemenyi would not play. I was
on my: way to Japan, or thought I was,
and introduced myself to him after his
audience had been dismissed. He beg
ged of me to find some pumpernickel
for him. I searched Pearl street resorts
until I found seme and took It to his
room. He ate with satisfaction and then
played far me, played until, boy as I
was, I cried. That was at 2 o’cloek in
foe morning, and in a large hotel filled
with people. We had foe halls filled
with people in their nightrobes before
that private concert ended. His love for
pumpernickel was no more strange than
that of Janauschek for stale beer, and I
have got many a pint of that for her
after a most thrilling depiction of Mary,
queen of Scot* Chicago Times-Her
ald. ? .
Sensible.
“Who is that I see ypu feeding near
ly every night in foe kitchen, MoUie?”
"That’s my intended, the policeman,
ma’am.”
“Well, if he’s your intended, why
don’t you marry him?”
"I’m waitin till his appetite goes
town a bit, ma’am.’’-—Yonkers States
man.
A Pleasant Annin r—ry.
Mr. Frankstown—Spiffin’s birthday
comes next week. Let’s give a smoker
in his honor.
Mr. Larimer—That’s the very thing.
Spiffins doesn’t use cigars aud can’t
bear the smell of tobacco. —Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph.
FEEBCE NAVAL FIGHT
THfi WYOMING’S HEROIC BATTLE
WITH THE JAPANESE.
> . ;
Against Ovarwirelreiag Odds the Amirriren
Commander McDugall fought One of the
Mott MUI
meats la the History of Marine Warfare.
Strange as it indy seem, the Wyo
ming’s oriental battle is an almost un
recorded chapter of our naval annals,
though it ranks even higher in point of
daring and success against overwhelm
ing odds than the defeat of foe Ala
bama by foe Wyoming’s sister ship, foe
Kearsarge. But the Wyoming never
was in very great In. k as a naval star
She had her part throughout the civil
war in all the hardest of blockading and
cruising service, cud fought well when
ever she had the chance, but she did
not have foe luck of getting into foe
papers. She was sent off at the same
time as the Keamrge to cruise for that
soousge of .the seas, the Alabama, and
just missed her by the merest chance
on two occasions in foe China sea*
It was in 1868, toward foe end of the
dual reign of the tycoon and the mika
do, when Japan was in the throes of
ciyil wu-, and the forces of the rebel
princes ware resisting to the last the
passing of foe old feudal system. The
Prince of Negate was one of these, and
from his tiny kingdom that fronted on
the straits of Simonoseki he declared
himself lord paramount of everything in
sight, including the neighboring seas,
from Which he took generous toll as did
ever foe pirate chiefs of Tarifa. He
had laid violent hands and hot shot
upon foe vessels of various powers, in
eluding Great Britain, France, the
Netherlands and foe United State*
Meantime Prince Nagato throve and
flourished by foe strait of Simonoseki,
and failing one day to wring tribute or
blackmail by any bther means he fired
on the American merchantman Pem
broke and killed a couple of her crew.
There was another diplomatic protest of
the combined foreign representatives to
the Japanese government, and Com
mander McDugall, who happened to be
in port with the Wyoming, suggested
that if foe mikado could not take a fall
out of his rebellious subject the Wyo
ming could and would without much
urging. This struck the government as
a good thing and an easy way out of foe
international difficulty, so McDugall
was given carte blanche to settle ac
counts with the Prince of Nagato in be
half-of all foe powers ■ concerned, and
he forthwith sailed away.
It was the middle of July when foe
Wyoming found herself in the strait
of Simonoseki and in sight of the shore
batteries which were a part of the
prince’s defenses to seaward. Before
stfb had time to open on foe batteries
two Japanese gunboats loomed up, one
ahead and one astern, in the narrow
■trail, and presently a third came cruis
ing out from among foe neighboring is
land* It was a nasty place for a fight,
McDugall being without charts or pi
lots, and the odds were more than
enough for Nelson himself, being 48
guns of foe three Japanese vessels to the
26 of fo6 old Wyoming, to say nothing
of the batteries on shore. There was
Still a chance to run, barring some dan
ger of grounding in the narrow channels
among the islands, bnt foe idea does not
seem to have occurred to any one aboard
the frigate.
Working to windward of foe nearest
Japanese, the Wyoming opened at long
range and worked down on her till,
4hen close aboard, there was nothing of
the enemy left standing above decks.
The other two vessels had come up in
foe meantime and engaged foe Ameri
can on either side, but she lay to and
gave them shot fox shot, port and star
board, till her gunners were smoke
blind aud foe flame of foe guns no ton
ger served to light the battlecloud that
rolled in white billows over the smooth
waters of foe strait. It was desperate
work in foe shallow water, but the
Wyoming was foe best vessel, and she
outmaneuvered her two opponents from
start to finish, though twice aground
and once afire, with as many men knock
ed opt from splinters and heat as from
foe enemy’s shot
Fighting themselves out of one
smoke patch into qnofoer, the three com
batants circled around like two crows
and a kingbird till they had drifted
down in range of foe shore batteries,
which gayly took a hand in foe game.
But McDugall ran across the bows of
one of his enemies, raked her as he
went and left her a floating wreck, and
then turned his attention to foe bat
teries The Wyoming’s men rigged the
smith’s forge on deck and tossed hot
shot into foe works ashore till they set
them afire and the soldiers fled, and foe
other Jape on the remaining cruiser, de
ciding enough was as good as a feast,
followed their example.
So McDugall mended his rigging and
patched his bulwarks, and meanwhile
sent word to the recalcitrant prince to
oome down and settle or he would sail
inland and shell foe royal palace about
its royal owner’s ear*
The prince, who was no less discreet
than Colonel Crockett’s coon, came
down promptly, and of the resulting in
demnity |300,000 feU to foe lot of the
United State* It was many years be
fore this money got info the treasury of
foe United State* but meantime the
state departmeat had charge of it and
had invested it so well that there was a
vesy little short of $2,000,000 finally
turned over to foe government, which,
after all, was pretty good pay for one
day’s fighting, with a loss of only five
killed and six wounded.—Washington
Post .
M—iSireSi«S.
Doctor—l just met your wife. That
medicine I —t her by you seems to
have benefited her greatly.
Dumley—Sent her? Why, doctor, I
thought you said that was for me, and
I was in the hospital a week after 1
took it—Richmond Dispatch. \
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EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “OA8TOBIA,” AND
“PITCHEB’B CASTORIA,’’ as our TRADE mark.
I t DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, MassachuseUs,
908 the originator of “PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the tame
that hat borne and does note on every
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original - PITCHER’S CASTORIA, ’ which has bent
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirl
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind 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 i.-r
kresuieni. a
March 8,1597.
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(because he makes a few more on the in-
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