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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. \ A Ikl I IL, I h ■Uk K Jf #■— VMi B ■KM ■ ■ ■■■ Bbf ■rem _____ WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE 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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