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WAYCB083, - - - GEORGIA.
r Every Amcrcan Indian corts the
United States government $3,000 a year,
estimating the Indian population at
260,000 and the appropriation at $7,000,-
000. _____
Canadians are beginnings worry over
their lota of forests. In the more thick!y
settled parts of Ontario only ten percent,
of woodland remains, and wells most be
dug to the debt of forty or fifty feet
where formerly water could be reached
at six. _____
f The small waiting-room at Professor
Pasteur’s laboratory in Paris presents a
curious spectacle during the hours of in
oculation against hydrophobia. There
are present* Parisians, Provincials, Rus
sians, Austrians, Roumanians, Italians
and Spaniards. 8ome are elegantly
dressed, others are in rags. In several
cases the patients have brought their own
doctors with them. The variety of
languages spoken makes the little room
a veritable babel.
The new oil fields of Wyoming in the
'Bingham basin are directly south of Bil
lings, Montana, near the boundary be
tween Montana and Wyoming. They are
eighty miles, long by forty wide. The oil
'is said to contain forty per cent, of min
eral sperm oil, twenty-seven per cent,
kerosene, with small percentage* of gaso
line, benzine and naphtha. Its illumina
ting power is of a high order, and it is
so pure thst ranchmen in the vicinity
have been burning it this winter in their
lamps.
In the capitol, Montgomery, Ala., Is
religiously preserved a large Bible,
printed by the American Bible society in
1851, and bearing upon a flyleaf this sen
tence: “The oath of office as first Presi
dent of the Provisional government of
the Confederate State) of America was
administered to Jefferson Davis upon this
Bible by Howell Cobb, President of the
Provisional Congress, at the front portico
of the capitol in Montgomery on the 18th
day of Febroaiy, A. D. 1861.” The
book, It may he added, is still used iu
swearing in governors of the State.
LIGHT AND SHADOW.
When twilight draws her silvery vsC
And phantom ships on white wings mil
Shoreward so peacefully,
While hovering angels guard and Mesa
Thiss
When darkness bide) the sea and land,
And dktaat thunders roll,
Whils waves are shattered on the strand.
This thought steals o’er my soul:
The night that broods above the sea.
The wrecks the wild winds blow,
Are like the woe and misery
ay know.
—Lucy ItcKeone Stapleton.
Twenty years ago the chief featuro At
the plains beyond the Missouri was the
countless herds of buffalo everywhere to
be seen. Now all have disappeared.
Theodore Roosevelt says there are not
4,000 buffalos in America. It is said one
may travel 1,000 miles ou the plains and
sever be out of sight of a dead buffalo
nor within sight of a live one. Bat Har
per't Bator has the curious statement
that a new species of Buffalo is develop
ing in the woody precipitous regions of
the mountain ranges; it shuns the open
plains, lives in small herds, is endowed
with great activity, and is a clear of
the “survival of the fittest.”
It is often asked, when an ocean-going
vessel has been lost at sea, and it is sup
posed she has foundered, why nono of
her timbers rise to the surface again and
float, os submerged wood will nearer
•shore. The explanation is that if the
vessel has been sunk in deep water the
pressure to which it is subjected will bo
«o great that a certain quantity of watcy
will bo forced into the pores of the wood,
and thus render it so heavy that even
when detached from the ship a piece of
the timber could not float. It is because
of this constantly and rapidly increasing
pressure, too, that a diver cannot de
scend to any very great distance below
tho surface.
In his new book telling of lifein Corea
Percival Lowell mentions this matter of
interest for those whose curiosity is so
healthful as to run round the globe it
self: Four little stars flash out upon the
brow of Nam San, the great South Moun
tain, within sight of the chief city, Soul,
“Poised so high in the heavens,” says
Mr. Lowell, “they might well be the
light from other worlds.” But in fact
they are watch-fires, a signal to the city
that all is well in Corea. They burn for
fifteen minutes and vanish. All through
the country a cordon of such beacons is
established, which transmits the message
of peace and safety daily, or rather
nightly, to tho capital.
Mr. Hazen, the third assistant postmas
ter general, makes the following sugges
tions to the public: Write or print your
name and address, and the contents of a
package, upon the upper left hand comer
of all mail matter. This will insure its
hnmc Jhte return to you for correction,
if improperly addressed or insufficiently
paid, and if it is not called for at desti
nation it can bo returned to you without
going to tho dead letter office. If the
patrons of the mails would avail them
selves of this privilege it would enable
the department to restore at least ninety
per cent, of all the undelivered matter.
Letters would ba returned free, and the
parcels upon payment of the return post
age-
The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette is
authority for the statement that “the affix
title of esq. is out of date, , and its use is
in bad form. In addressing a gentle
man now you must prefix*Hon. or Colonel
or General as a compliment to his states
manship or military genius. Whether
he is President of the United States or
president of a ward club, the leader of
an army or the leader of a clique of
voters, it is all the same. In a case of
extreme doubt yon may address 1dm as
Mr., hat under no circumstances is a mil
itary title under the grade of captain al
lowable. Sometimes, in accosting a man
whom yon have already met, the slipping
of hit name from your memory may cause
embarrassment, bat a little presence of
mind will save you. Address him as
General, and you are all right.” ,
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was
given an informal reception recently by
Dr. and Mrs. N. A. Hyde, at their resi
dence in Indianapolis, on the occasion of
the meeting of the Indianapolis Minis
terial association. Mr. Beecher made
some remarks in which he recalled some
of his Indian experiences, among them'
the following: ‘The baptisms in the old
time were interesting to the people.
Sometimes the ministers united for a pub
lic immersion. On one of these occasions
I had a big carpenter on hand. He was
nearly seven feet tall. We walked into
the water together, and when I was in
nearly to my shoulders my friend was
hardly wetting his knees. I turned to
him and suggested that either this thing
would have to stop or I should have to
swim. Being a carpenter, he said he
would double up like a rule. When he
was on his knees I got on very well.
One evening lately a herd of Arizona
gcats, which were being herded by Miss
Teresa Tallert, on Lost river, D. T.,
came home early and rushed for the
corral, a heavy log concern, eight feet
high. The gates were opened and the
herd 1st in, after which the little lafiy,
dashing over the prairie, mounted on her
fiery bronco, scoured the foothills, but
found no cause for alarm. In the night
Miss Tallert was aroused by her dog
whining at her ear, and, getting up, dis
covered some wild animals in the corral.
3he went in and found four mountain
lions, and, without a moment’s hesita
tion, attacked them with an ax. Two of
je lions jumped the corral and fled,
he other two rushed toward her. She
dealt one a blow with the ax, laying its
bead open to the bone; then both fled.
The next morning fifty of the valuable
goats were found dead and thirty
wounded, fourteen of the latter dying
afterward.
The New York elevated railroads have
some 4,000 employes, including about
500 repair men, constantly on duty. This
is an extremely large proportion of labor
for repairs and track inspection, which
is necessitated by the peculiar character
of the road, and it is a kind of work
where the men are particularly exposed
to accident and to injury to their eyes.
The managers have, therefore, estab
lished a regular medical department,
with one doctor for the eastern and one
for the western division of the city lines,
with facilities for prompt communication
with any portion of the track. The com
pany pays where men have to be taken to j delicious, drowsy sense of repose.
the hospital, bat its own doctors attend I «**,«■ b =’° '“J 0 ™
. v. * - - . • . , on this turf and sleep!” she thought. “I
to the slight injuries, which are very j wonJ „ whlt woaJ g be io
numerous. A large satchel, with instru
ments, bandages, etc., stands ready for
emergency, and is carried by the surgeons
on duty. Among other functions dis
charged by the surgeons is the examina
tion of employes for color blindness,
sight, and hearing. Those not considered
in sound condition are given other and
less important positions, where these
physical qualities are of less consequence.
This medical attendance is without charge
to the employes.
CASSIA.
A great white rambling house facing
an acre of thick trees and dense flowering
shrubs, with the murmur of ever-beating
waves in the distance—a house that hid
itself among the elms and oaks,
and shrouded even its doors and win
dows in thick-hanging jasmine and cy
press vines.
* Nine o’clock in the morning, but nota
crcature-was.visible outside; the; matted
balconies were empty, the hammocks all
unoccupied. Indeed, every room opening
from the lower balcony was darkened ex
cepting one. In this room the blinds
were reversed, and a faint breeze
moved the thin white curtains. A
table was laid hero for three people,-
and the preparations on it seemed to im
ply that their event was momentarily ex
pected.
Presently the door opened, and a
beautiful girl of about sixteen years of
age entered. She was dressed m a fine
long robe of white muslin, trimmed
with knots of pale green ribbon, and in
her hand she carried a bunch of pansies
and lilies.
“Leroy?”
“Yes, Miss Cassia.”
•Tell Colonel Bauvare I .am wait-
In a few moments a stout, handsome
man dressed in white linen en
tered. He kissed the girl on the brow
softly.
“Where is mamma?”
“She will not appear this morning.
She lay awake all night planning about
the ball, and is too fatigued to rise.”
“But surely to give a party is not such
a very important affair, papa?”
“The people whom I entertain is a very
important affair indeed, Cassia.”
“Dear me! I had not thought of it in
that light. I should just invite all the
good dancers and nice people in the
neighborhood. There are plenty of nice
people around us.”
“Fortunately this is a very select neigh
borhood ; there are no better families in
the country—in the world, I might say—
than the Bauvares, the Peytons, the Lc
Croixs, the Des Moines—”
“And the Riveses, papa. I remember
young Herbert Rives so well! He was
the handsomest youth I ever saw. We
must not forget Herbert Rives, papa.”
“Cassia, I wish you to distinctly under
stand that Mr. Rives and I have had a
bitter quarrel—an irreconcilable quarrel.
If the public sentiment was raised to a
proper pitch here, I should shoot him
with a great deal of pleasure. I hope I
shall never hear you speak of either tho
father or son again.”
“I want Herbert Rives to come to my
ball, papa.”
“It is impossible, Cassia.”
Cassia was silenced, but not convinced.
Toward evening she went out to walk.
The negro girl with her had a little
bucket, and was gathering wild straw
berries as they walked. As she entered
the grove skirting the Rives estate the
thick, intensely green turf, as soft as vel
vet, delighted her; the shade and warmth
and sweet earthy smell filled her with a
Alfred Krupp, the great German gut
founder, owns probably the largest busi
ness in .the world dependent on one in
dividual. The works within the town
of Essen occupy more than 500 acres,half
of which are under cover. According to
a census taken in Septem v er, 1881, the
number of hands employed by Mr. Krupp
10,605, the members of their families,
45,770, making 65,881 persons supported
by his works. Of the laborers, 11,211
were engaged upon the works in Essen,
the rest being employed in the surround
ing mines, the branch works at Neuweid
and Sayn,and the mines in Spain (Bilb:a)
from which, though less extensive, the
finest ores are brought. Mr. Krupp
owns 547 iron mine) in Germany. He
owns four sea steamers, and there arc con
nected with bis Essen works forty-two
miles of railway, employing twenty-eight
locomotive and 883 cars, sixty-niue
horses with 191 wagons, and forty miles
of telegraph wires with thirty-five sta
tions and fifty-five Morse apparatuses.
The establishment possesses a grand
chemical laboratory, a photographic and
lithographic atelier, a printing office with
three steam and .six hand presses and a
bookbinding room. The establishment
even runs a hotel in Essen.
Five at a Birth.
A remarkable statement was made by
an EngliJi member of parliament in the
course of a recent debate in the house of
commons. He had vainly endeavored to
induce the government to' lay upon the
table a return of the amounts expended
upon war ships and their present esti
mated value. Failing to obtain official
information on the subject, he investi
gated matters himself, and the result
which he announced considerably aston
ished the house. It appears that the ex-
j navy of Great Britain has cost birth to a very "pretty quintet Mr.'Malen
On a well stocked farm near the vil
lage of Lawson ville, Ky., lives Thom is
Maten, a well-to-do farmer and stock rais
er. Among Mr. Malen’s possessions is a
cow, which, in the very brief career of
four years has made a record for fruitful
ness that is probably not excelled. At
four years of age this modest-looking
kine is the mother of ten calve), all
healthy and active. This record has been
by steps, and arguing from her post ex
ploits there is a great future before her.
At the age of two this cow bore twins; a
year later she brought forth triplets, and
now another year las passed and she has
evidenced a spirit of progress by giving
in a very admirable manner,” he said,
complacently.
Mrs. Bauvare smiled scornfully at the
self-complacent father. “Colonel,” she
replied, “of all the men I ever knew,you
are the most easily deceived. Cassia has
not accepted the situation; she has gone
round it, you may depend on that. If
■he had accepted it ahe would never hare
been so very pleasant about it. I dare
■ay she lias met Herbert Rives some
where, and that she is meeting him every
day.”
/‘Great heavens! Mrs. Bauvare! why
did you not suggest this view of the case
before?”
“Because I have the boll on my mind
at present, and I cannot possibly attend
to two things at once, and do justice
to both. Beside. I was afraid, if I told
you my suspicions, you. might in some
way or other mismanage things.” m ^ mmm
It was the day before the ball, and the
house was topsy-turvy. Cassia seemed
to be far too busy to meet any one that
day, and the colonel felt himaelf so far
relieved from duty that he went off for
a long ride over the estate. Thus it hap
pened that, being detained several times
by the overseer, it was mid-afternoon
when he reached the little wood that was
Cassia’s and Herbert’s trysting place.. “1
will turn - in there/’ he said to himself,
4 •and have a smoke, and perhaps a siesta
under .’the trees.*? •
The lovers could not see him, and they
were far too much occupied with their
own conversation to hear his approach.
Milly perceived the colonel first, and
made some fruitless attempts ta warn the
careless couple, but they re illy saw noth
ing of their danger until the singly father
stood almost before them.
His first feeling, was that of compla-
ency at having found Cassia out; but his
second, one of intense anger at her. He
handed her her. hat, which was lying on
the grass, and said, with a severe polite
ness, “I presume Mr. Rives is not aware
that he is trespassing; there is, howeveT,
a notice on yonder tree to that effect.”
‘Oh,yes, he is, papa; but he asked my
permission to trespass on you fora little
restand shade, and I gave him it.” She
said the last word with an ominous flash
of light and color in her eyes and cheeks.
Herbert apologized with frank polite
ness, and seemed determined to win at
least a ceremonious courtesy from the
colonel. He spoke of the'weather, and
was answered with an infinnativc bow;
and at last, being desperately determined
to obtain an invitation to the ball, he
said, “I hope you may have a pleasant
evening for your dance to-morrow, col
onel.”
The colonel stiffly said he hoped so.
“I have not been invited,” said Her
bert, with the charming strait forward
ness of youth. “I do wish that you
would ask me, colonel.”
# The colonel “believed Mrs. Bauvare 1
list quite full,” and after that there wa
nothing for Mr. Herbert to do but mount
his horse and gallop away.
“Papa, I am ashamed of you!” Those
were Cassia’s first words. “1 never
thought you could have been less than a
gentleman.”
“Cassia, I am ashamed of you. I never
thought that you could have been less
than a lady.”
“I never have been. If.you were
going to shoot a man you would bow to
him, and treat him like a gentleman.”
“I do not consider Herbert Rives a
gentleman.”
“I am sorry, for I am engajM to
him.”
“Such nonsense!”•.
“And I intend to marry him.
The colonel kept a stern silence, and
only showed his. extreme anger by the
passionate way in which he strict down
the grasses and flowers with his stick.
The ball went off with great eclat,and,
in spite of the colonel, Herbert was pres
ent, not in the house, indeed, but in the
gardens, and on the balcony after the
guests were gone; and Cassia had spoken
to him a dozen times—in fact, had ar
ranged with him the time and place of
the next meeting.
For it was now a trial between wise
old parents and a pair of dauntless
young lovers, and the lovers got the best
of it. They met by night and they met
by day, and they never met twice in the
same place. It was impossible to detect
their messages, or lay any plan to-prevent
their meeting. Every servant on both
plantations was in their interest, and
they had safeand happy meetings in the
shut-up drawingroom and the cool sweet
dairy when Cononel Bauvare and Rives
senior were seeking their disobedient
children a couple of miles away.
In the mean tirqg troubles of many
kinds were gathering round both house
holds. Great political questions which
had little to do with {love and lovers were
tearing every city home in twain.
•These are times when even a brave
man may honorably fly, but Cassia must
go with me,” said Herbert to himself,
and an hour afterward he was saying the
same to Cassia.
“I dare not stay another dav, beloved;
if I do, I must betray my allegiance to
my country, or get into serious trouble
with my father and the people here. For
such a place?'
She had scarcely ceased wondering
when she saw a splendid black horse
quietly feeding, and under a tree not far
away a man lay either dead or sleeping.
Not dead surely? She must at least see to.
that. In a moment she stood over him.
He was a young man, handsome as En-
dymion, and fast asleep.
When they had gone a little apart 6he
paused, thought a minute, and then took
her handkerchief, and with the little gold
pencil at her chain wrote. “Love has been
with thee, and thou knew it not.” Then
stepping softly back, she laid it on the
turf beside his head.
Not until they were a quarter of a mile
away did Cassia speak: then she said,
softly, “Milly, do you know who that
is!”
“Lor, yes. Miss Cassia—Massa Her
bert Rives. Done forgot my berries, Miss
Cassia. Kin I go back fur ’em?”
“Yes; lean see the house now.
back if you wish.” ^ __ ,
When Milly got back to where she had even father is urging me in this matter,
left her bucket, the horse was saddled, j He is determined I shall compromise my-
away.
tae young man was slowly riding self, and if it comes to fighting, as I be
Milly watched him out of sight, lieve it will, ho will gladly senamc awaj
and'saw him examine the handkerchief in the hopes that it may forever separate
carefully, then kiss it and put it in hs ( us. Darling, life would be very bare and
breast; all of wh'ch proceedings she re- cold without you.”
ported, with *som3 slight additions, to j “It will be death to
ner mistress.
It
scry natural that both young j
me, Herbert; but
can at least die together. Perhaps
our graves they will know how
people shou’d revisit the scene of this - cruelly they have treated us.”
arivpntnnv Tint for two dnvs notbimr “Tlpfir Piissin wa want to lie
adventure. But for two days nothing'
more came of it. Thev went at unlucky
hours and only crossed each other. On
the third day they were fortunate. Cas
sia. sitting with » book in hex lap—
which she was not reading—heard tho
fiery gallop of a horse, and instantly
afterward horse and rider vaulted over
the zigzag fence which divided the Bau
vare and Rives estates.
'Dear Cassia, we want to live together,
not die together. I would rather call you
wife than have a new,Shakespeare write
a new play about ns. <A home is better
than a mausoleum, sweet. Will you go
with me!”
“I will go wherever you go, Herbert.
‘Then farewell till morning. Meet
me at the north gate at 5 o’clock. We
cun reach P in two hours. I know
Before Cassia could rise, Herbert had ] a minister there^ oh old schoolmate of
, 1,000. tnd that its present value. : received several flatterin'. offers for
making allowance for ships that I productive piece of cow-
, ® , , • . 1 , , flesh, but he refuses to part with her.
become obsolete, does not exceed '
showing a total loss of
ie idols are the latest umbrella
! handles for idle young men.
dismounted, thrown the reins over his
horse's neck, and, hat in hand, advanced
to her feet. His manly grace and beauty
and hi* unaffected delight in their meet
ing ccmoleied the conquest which had
been gained while he was unconscious of
the power of his attractions. He pre
tended no ignorance of Cassia’* person;
he addressed her frankly as Mis) Bau
vare. and reminded h?r of their girl and
boy friend-hip. He confessed that he
had been watching for a gl : mpse of her,
and that he had dared the tre3»a?son
the Bauvare land for the pleasure of seek
ing her.
Cassia met him in the same humor.
There was no formality and no embar
rassment, and the conversation drifted
insensibly into low, short sentences, made
wonderfully eloquent by passionate
glances ana whispered, queries that Cas
als answered only by smiles and blushes
After this meeting Cassia was exceed
ingly amiable and obedient, and she en
tered with charming ease and interest
into all her mother’s social plans. The
hall list was made out without any dis
sent or opposition.
The colonel was delighted; he took all
the credit to himself. “Cassia is a sen
sible girl; she saw that I meant what I
said, and she has accepted tho situation
colonel may suspect onr route. I think
n’t, but he may.”
' ct, the colonel suspected it much
than they anticipited. He had
irlicr than usual tb * morning,
_ determined to send a challenge as
soon as it was possible to Captain ttivfa.
He went to the stable for his favorite
horse, and found it gone. There ’ivas a
hubbub and great confusion at once,
though it was not until all the servants
had been examined that the real culprit
wa* suspected.
Then there was saddling in hot haste,
with many hot words and not a few pro
miscuous blows, and after swallowing a
cup of coffee the colonel followed straight
to P .
The colonel found the happy bride
and bridegroom taking breakfast with
the minister. He lifted his hat cour
teously to the latter, but took no notice of
Herbert.
Sir,” he said, “you have done s. very
foolish thing this morning. You have
married that child there to a very worth
less and unworthy man.”
4 ‘I think you are mistaken. Colonel
Bauvare. I have known Herbert Rives
intimately for six years.”
The colonel lifted his eyebrow* dis-
scntingly. and turned to Cassia. “Come
home, my daughter. Wait one year, and
then, if you still wish to marry this man,
you shall at'least be married respectably
from your father’s house. Your mother
wishes you to return also. Come back
with me.”
‘My mother has yon. father, and she
will forgive me, for she will remember
that she ran away with you, father. I
must stay with Herbert now.”
She had ri*en. and stood by the side
of her husband; and even the nngry
father was struck by the extreme beauty
of the young couple; he said, in a softer
voice than might have been expected, to
Herbert.
“Where are you going to tako that
child?” ^
‘To New York, sir.”
He left them without another wo -d.
On the other hand. Mrs. Bauvare wroto
Cassia a long lette* that very night, for
gave her everything, sent' her love to
Herbert, and "begged her to transmit
weekly bulletins of everything that might
interest her.
Unfortunately political events of the
gravest character soon put a stop to
Cassia’s weekly bulletins. Of course, if
I had been drawing a h»ro as splendid in
character as he was handsome in person,
I should have insisted on Hcibert going
to the war and carving his way to glory
with his sword. But Herbert united
with his magnificent physical bexuty
only a very prosaic mind. He preferred
to make money and live comfortably
with his beautiful wife and children;
and somehow men generally thought just
well of him for it.
However, if he had a prosaic mind, he
had by no means prosaic affections. One
evening, soon after the close of the war,
he came to Cassia with a radiant face.
Darling,” he said, “do you remember
your father saying we were a couple of
fools, ajjd that when we came to our
senses we could let him know?”
‘I remember, Herbert. Poor pupa!
How I should like, to see mamma and
papa again?”
“Can you be ready to start to-morrow,
and take both the children with you?'*
‘Oh, Herbert! do you really mean it?”
‘I really mean it, Cassia.. I have come
to my senses, dear. Since our little Julia
has grown so near and dear to me I have
estimated better how hard it must have
been fer your father and mother to give
you up. I hope, however, I have been
able at least to do something which will
S rove to them I know the value of the
ear girl I stole away from them.”
•What have you done, Herbert?”
‘Redeemed both the Rives and the
Bauvare estates. You shall take the
title-deeds of the Rives place to my father,
and our little Herbert shall give Bauvare
back to his grandfather.”—Harjnr't
Weekly.
The Artful Turtle.
It may be safely asserted,’ that from
the highest to the lowest grade, animals
have their own and wonderful devices to
prey on their natural enemies, or to ]>ro-
cure their food. The turtle is a remark
able and successful fisher. The writer
had the curiosity to know how this slov
enly and slow amphibia lived, and found
to his astonishment, in a ninety-pound
specimen’s stomach, three trout, as they
are commonly called in the south, but
which in reality are bass. On close ex
amination, whether they had been de
voured dead or alive, I found that the
last had evidently not been caught by
his turtlcsbip more than twenty-four
hours, as it had not decomposed any,
showing the marks where it had almost
been bitten in two.
The resalt of my search proved to me
that when the turtle’s appetite calls upon
him, he lays down in his favorite fishing
place, closes his eyes, opens his mouth
to its fullest eapacity, plays his angle-
worm which is to all intents and pur
poses, a perfect counterpart of a worm,
on the end of his tongue, and he is ready
for business. The game fish which is
out looking for worms with his habitual
rapidity fairly flics into the laws of death.
Thus the turtle fishes until hiq appetite is
gratified.
The fact that he lives on such fine
food gives his flesh that richness which
is eo highly prized by epicures, and
which renders his soup so highly priz ed.
BUDGET OF FUN.
Tho Neighbor'* Wi»h-A Womnn'i
Courage—They Always Rite-
Some Pungent Scotch Ro
tor! a—The Prairie Chicken.
August 15th the local paper announce*
m the first editorial that “prairie chick
ens are now ripe.” This means the-
minions of the law will not talk, about
arresting you if you shoot one on or after
that date. The prairie chicken is now
much wilder than before. As soon aa
the sixty-dofiar bird dog sits down vio
lently on the short and stunted rose bush
tixe chicken flics up. The experienced
hunter at this point shoots and brings
down the bird. The one who isn't quite
so seriously charged with experience
blazes away and kills the dog. Also he
frequently arranges to have hi*
gun explode and blow off three of hi*
fingers.
Prairie chicken, properly cooked, is
much sought after by the epicure. Also
by the man who is pretty hungry. . As a
humble representative of the latter das*
we have frequently overpowered large
and satisfactory quantities of cooked
prairie hen with the best of results.
The thoughtful student of current
events has probably noticed that thi) is •
a far from perfect life. There are draw
backs even to prairie chicken mastica
tion. There is the bird shot which it
bring) on to the table concealed about its
person. When coming down on to *
piece of prairie ch cken spare-rib with
both feet, figuratively speaking, it is
very uncomfortable to have * shot shove
a tooth into your jaw bone about an inch
and a half. After a protracted engage
ment with roast prairie chicken seasoned
with No. 6 Shot w* have had our testh
become so over-loaded with lead that
our under jaw has hung down like an old
boit sole ripped off clear back to the
heel.—Estellme {Dak.) Bell.
POPULAR SCIENCE. „
The proportions of the different colors
in eyes amoug the people of Italy is thus
estimated by Professor Mantcgazza:
Black eyes, twenty-two per cent.; chest
nut, sixty-four; blue, eleven, and gray
cjc«, three percent.
Dr. Burney Yea, of London, re]>orts
the curious observation that there arc
persons who usual’y drink tea without
injury, but Uv whom, when in a depressed
mental condition, it occasions indigestion
and palpitation of the heart.
The average height of Europe has
been estimated by a German geographer
to 1)3 974 feet Switzerland shows the
greatest men height, 4.G24 “feet, and
the Netherlands the least, thirty-one feet.
Intermediate are Spain and Portugal*
2,298; Austria, 1,698; Italy, 1,696;
France, 1,202; British Islands, 714;
Germany, 701; Russia, 548; Denmark,
115.
The codfish continues to grow indefi
nitely, without regard to age, so long as
it has a plentiful supply of food. The
oldest codfish are the largest, and they
sometimes grow to be as long os a man
is high. They swim about near the bot
tom of the sea, not often ascending to
the surface, feeding on all sorts of ani
mal life, such as crabs, shellfish and
other small fish, but not on vegetables.
Speaking of sudden deaths as the re
sult of mental anxiety or excitement, the-
Medical Neie* sensib'y says: There is no
treatment which will prevent this class
of sudden deaths, and physicians are
powerless to avert its onset. All they
can do is to advise * calm, unexciting
mode of life, with freedom from worry
and anxiety. Such advice is very easy
to give,but as difficult to follow os would
b3 a suggestion that it is not advisable to
die at any given time.
In * report to the French academy oT
sciences the 172 tornadoes recorded in
the United States in 1884, Mons. Faye
considers it established that there is *■
definite portion of an are* of low barom
eter most favorable to tornadoes. The-
signal service reporters are now endeav
oring to determine this “dangerous oc
tant” still more accurately. A memora
ble day in the history of tornadoes was
February 19, 1884, when no less than
r. . , — » - -» --—.forty-five were recorded in the South-
Genesis, Adam was put into the western States, attended with a total loss
garden of Eden to dress it, and to keep c f S00 lives, 2,500 injured, 10,000 houses
‘ and buildings destroyed, and 15,000
The other evening at a concert a. long
haired pianist was aocompanying his per
formance at the instrument with epilep
tic contortions. An old lady was carried
away with admiration.
“Ah, how grand it is,” she cried,
4i you hear the noise of the cannon! The
city is taken by assault—they fight In the
streets—the soldiers arc .pillaging the
houses!”
“Alas!” sighed a neighbor, “if they
would only carry away the piano, too!”—
French Fun.
A Woman’s Courage.
“War is a terrible thing. The first
fight I was in was the battle of Shiloh. I
tell you, boys, my heart was in my mouth
when the rebel) commenced firing on us,”
said old Tommy Hayficld to visiting
neighbors;
“You were a coward, Tom,” remarked
Mrs. Hayfield. “It would doubtless have
frightened me if T had been a soldier in
that battle; but it wouldn’t have scared
me till my heart jumped into my
mouth.”
“Oh/I don’t doubt it/’ rctoitcd the old
man. “You are a woman, and a woman
never lets her heart get in her mouth.”
“Humph!” ejaculated the old lady, “I
suppose you think that the reason a
$roinan never gets her heart in her mouth
s because she hasn’t any heart?”
“No, my dear,” replied the old war
rior, between whiffs of tobacco smoke,
“it’s because if her heart was in her
mouth she couldn’t talk.”
They Always Hite.
A good-looking, well-behaved stranger
bad been stopping in a country town in
this State for three or four days, when
one day, as a dozen men were* hanging
around the hotel doors, a humble youth
with white eyebrows and lowered head
passed along, leading a calf. Both
traveled as if it were an every day thing,
but no one thought of this until after
wards.
“Boy I” called the stranger from the
hotel steps, “what do you ask for that
calf!”
“Won’t sell him.”
“How much does he weij
“Nigh upon 160 pounds.
“It can’t be. Gentlemen, I’d like to
wager that I can come nearer that calf’s
weight than any of you.”
A dozen citizens got up and walked
around the calf and squinted their eyes
and mentally estimated. Then a sort of
pool wai formed to scoop the stranger,
and $25 was contributed. There were
eleven guesses to his one, and they ranged
from 147 to 158 pounds. He guessed 158$,
tnd when the animal was placed on the
scales the stranger was only two ounces
short. As he raked in the pot and the
boy and the calf passed on, a man drove
up in a buggy and called out:
“This ’ere game has been played all
over the county, and it’s time to move on
Somebody 1 Where’s the villain ?”
“Here I am,” answered the stranger.
/‘I arrest you! Get in*o the buggy.”
His satchel was ready and he got in,
and it was a whole day before the
villagers found out that the man with
the\buggy was a confederate employed to
do that very thing.—Detroit Free Press.
Pungent Scotch Retorts.
Scotchmen are fond of an argument,
and delight to pick flaws in an opponent's
logic. Two blacksmiths were once con
versing as to which was the first trade in
the world. One insisted that it must
have been gardening, and quoted, from
Genesis. “Arlnm wns nnt inf a
—Arkansan Traveler.
mine; he will marry ns at once, and from
P-— we can get a railway train for
New York. Will you be there?”
It was not in the heart of woman to re
sist such an eager, handsome lover,'and
such pleading, passionate eyes, and Cas
sia said, “I will be there, Herbert."
“Then, dearest, I must go now.
the clouds are breaking ana the storm is
over. Say nothing even to Milly, and
ride Selim, for he is the fleetest horse you
have. We will leave him at P , to be
sent back to the colonel.” Then they said
good-bye a dozen times, and still came
back to say it once again.
Leaving a few tender lines for her
parents and a special little note for her
mother, Cassia went forth at 5 o’clock
the next morning to her lover. Two or
three of the house servants saw her go to
the stable and saddle Selim and ride
rapidly away, but they bad always made
it a point of honor to know nothing of
Miss Cassia’s rides and walks, and they
only glanced at her and went eu with
their work. Herbert was waiting for
her, and in a few minutes the young
lovers were happily galloping away to
P .
“W.e shall be there liy 7 o’clock, Cas
sia. and 1 will call up my friend at once,
and we will be married, because the
Iron Ocean Steamers.
The first iron vessel was launched in
1817, and is still in existence. Bat not
till 1832 did the work seriously begin.
At that time the Lloyds began to baild
small iron steamers for short voyages.
A certain amount of prejudice had to bo
overcome, for there were many doubts
as to its strength and buoyancy. But it
made its way, and the first successful
iron steamer made a transatlantic voyage
in 1843,the Great Britain,launched by the
Great Western company. In those days
the Great Britain was rated as an unusu
ally large sized ship. It was a ship of
3,000 tons burden, and was an iron screw
steamer combining the new methods of
propulsion and construction. The voy
age was successful, and the ship is still
in existence, and, till within a few years
at least, ran to Australia. Her success
led to imitations in the English marine,
and in 1850 the Inman line was estab
lished between Liverpool and New York
of iron screw steamers. It had no profit
able mail contract, and was purelva
commercial undertaking, but under skill
ful management has been very success
ful. In the United States iron ship
building has never taken root the way
it has in England. Americans began
early to build small iron steamers, and
do now, but only for coasting lines. We
only use iron in cases where we are En
tirely cut off from competition, or where
driven to it, a) it is impossible to
“Ay, John,” retorted the other, who
had stood up for his own trade; but whae
made the spades?”
The reply recalls an old story illustra
tive of the pride of a Highlander in his
clan. A MacPherson aud a MacDonald
were disputing as to which of their re
spective clans was the oldest. The Mac
Pherson, waxing emphatic in as-ertion,
said:
“Why, mon, a MacPherson went ashore
with Noah from the ark!”
“Well, that may be; but he found a
MacDonald there to tak him by the
hand!”
The Rev. Mr. Campbell, of Selkirk,
was much annoyed by the dirty water
flowing from a brewery near the manse.
He spoke to the brewer, a Mr. Haldane,
about the nuisance, saying it was con
trary to certain acts of parliament.
“Acts of parliament!” exclaimed the
brewer. “Acts of parliament, indeed!
It would be more like your profession if
you were expounding the Acts of the
Apostles.”
The minister, not unfrequently, when
reproving cn offender against good
morals, drew forth a repartee which
amused him by its witty evasion of his
censure. Among the parishioners of the
Rev. Dr. Campbell, of Fife, was Janet,
an old woman who spun yam for a liv
ing.
One evening, on returning from the
market-town, where she had sold her
yam, and drank too much whisky, Janet
encountered her minister.
“Oh, Janet,” said he, “I see you're
rather reeling.”
“Deed ay, sir,” she promptly retorted,
“ye ken we canna aye be spinning.”
The.Prairie Chicken.
The prairie chicken is the leading
game bird inhabiting this region. It is
somewhat smaller than the ordinary do
mestic hen found scratching in the gar
den and flie3 faster when you are shoot
ing at it. It seems to have acquired the
fly habit early in youth and it bangs on.
After a hunter has shot $5 worth of am
munition into the limitless void from
whence the prairie chicken recently flew
he is seldom adverse to stating, for pub
lication if necessary, that in his opinion
its fly education lias been far from ne
glected.
During^ this season of the year the
prairie chicken is engaged in looking the
ground over and chanting its low, capti
vating melody before breakfast. As soon
as the weather will permit, the hen will
withdraw from the whirl of social life
and lay seventeen ashes-of-gnm-shoe col
ored eggs in a nest in the grass. Seldom
awaiting to be asked she then takes her
seat ana for the space of three glnum**--
weeks seems to be lost in meditation.
Probably one of the - most pleasing
sights in nature is a female prairie hen-
thus buried in thought and speculating
as to how she will probably feel after
use wood for much of the coasting ser- | waiting three weeks for breakfast.
rice.
It has been discovered that foxes ::e- <
card terrapin eggs as a special delicacy, ,
and cause by their efforts a scarcity of 1
diamond back terrapin.
At the_ end ’of the time seventeen
young prairie chickens come out of the
shells and commence to fly while the hen
gives up her sedentary life and swallows
a young and unexperienced grasshop
per.
people left homeleso.-
A highly interesting piece of work is-
at present'being executed at the Berlifl
Royal Academy, under the direction of
medical and artistic exports, the wax
model of a carefully prepared human
body of life size. From it a cast in zinc
is to be made, showing with rigid exact
ness the muscles, arteries and veins. An
idea of the nicety of the work may be
formed fio n the fact that thus far fifteen
months have been spent upon the head
alone, which is nos expected to be fin
ished under three years more. Tho im
portance of the work for anatomical
studies, when completed, will amply
compensate for the trouble, time and
money spent tipon it, which, when fin
ished, will be exhibited and bought by
the government.
L
A Man’s Fight With a Wolf.
London Newt correi
about the fourteen wolf-
who were sent to Paris for treatment by
M. Pasteur, says:
One of the finest men I ever saw was
a peasant coachman in his prime, who, to
save a woman from the jaws of the wolf,
engaged in an epic struggle with the-
rabid animal. I did not know what his
antecedents were when he entered, and
was so struck with his quietly resolute
air and lordly carriage that I asked
whether he also was a nobleman in diffi
cult circumstances. He saw the wolf on
the woman, and went up to seize it by the-
scruff of the neck, knowing that if he
did so it would relax its hold to turn on
him. He mcaut to hold it in such a way
that it could not bite him until he or
somebody else could kill the brut?, but it
was too quick for him, and caught him.
by the left arm. He seized the neck with
the right hand, and getting astride on tho-
wolf, pressed it down with all his weight
on the ground, and then got a knee*
firmly on its loins. When the brave
Moujick coachman, with his left
arm all the time in the mad wolfs maw,
was kneeling on the animal he saw*.
hatchet and called to the owner to give-
it to him, but the feeling of avarice pre
vailing in the latter, he cried, “No, no;
if I do the skin "will bo spoiled.” The
unconscious hero then stretched out his
right hand to seize the implement, in do
ing which ha had to relax the pressure of
his knee, which enabled the wolf to stipe
the other arm. His left arm was nearly
dead from pain, loss of blood, and inju
ries inflicted on the muscles, which are
badly larceratod, but he resolved that
either he or his rabid adversary should
perish, and, making c supreme effort,
got it between his knees, with which he
field the body tight, threw himself for
ward, clutched the hatihet, half raised
himself, and with the left hand inflicted
such a blow on the neck and shoulders
as to cleave the body in twain. . What
was remarkable in him was that he did
not seem to know he was worthy of any
sort of admiration. It is also note worthy
that his companions who described the
fight did not elect the hero of it their
head man when they were coming to
Paris. His wounds were hideous, and
tile flesh of the right arm. was in rags.