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SIMILARITY OF PROVERBS.
A SOUDANESE THREAT.
», , The Africans Propose to Tarn tho Nile
Ideas Which Sects to Bo Indieenoas to from Its Coarse.
Fvo™ nL C T' " le — E f an ' ,,lM - The warliko Soudanese, who have
of ideas wmch seem to bo so stoutly resisted the' introduction of
minf n £” 1 i,?°“ ntrles °^ cu ^ to tho civilization into thoir land, aro now
ZJZ lld ^'" s _^ dundl ? ncy : found, according to Sir Samu
‘One swallow does not make ..
spring” wo And alike in English, Ger
man and Russian. In the gunny south
it takes tho form, “One TOwer does not
„ to Sir Samuel Baker,
to be masters of the situation to a de
gree for which even tho fall of Khar
toum has not prepared the outsido
~ T"“■wivcruucsuuj world. They hold the key of tho Nile,
iwke a garland. In Italy wo find nn d prudent and thoughtful men who
F™ “n^ PS “ ’ less .& ets ’ •» know tho geography of tho SouX°
bimk C ho,ii H ° ? mbraccs to ° m n°k and tho resources and recklessness of
• ri\! .;i? 'u? n l ” OU A OW .?r, C -°’J nt 7- tho natives beliovo that tlwt they aro
fwi*?« i °f ,P ur Birds of a capable of turning that great river out
hwhn Tt oc .i? ^her is represented of its present courso and bringing irre-
nL ” i» It ^ Wn i P??* 7 kkc covers its trievable ruin upon Egj-pt. It appears
like, the Greek, A comrade loves a that in thn innwessififn fncfn™L£
comrade; the Frer
seinble, s’asscmblc.”
. . that m tho innccessibio fastnesses of
’ i yui so ras- the desert, where tho bayonets of
Flato declared Europe cannot reach, there is a snot
fifin t Mot A IVI- .1.1. .. _ - — - A P * . *
S t l i J ^ lh ? t A , te ' where even savage African engineer
f , i - f ° f a !w? nd , h ,° ,las ing will suffice to find tho Nile a short
ou dnnechom our “W hat’s begun | cut to tho sea, and they have already
s haU done, and in tho Italian threatened their enemies with this di£
Who commences well is at tho half '
of the task.”
There is truo Oriental ring
aster.
, I If the work is done a fertile land
about ] nearly equal in extent to tho states of
such proverbs as “Among, the sandal iRinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan
aci-pents,” “Rivers will bo changed into a desert an3 a
• a '° ?, tusc . 3 ’ but . also alligators. It population of millions will bo blotted
rt needless to suggest the western cor- out of a country that is tho oldest in
relatives. “By a number of straws history. No such gigantic menace has
ever before been held out in tho annals
of tho world, nnd never beforo lias it
twisted together elephants can bo
bound,” is again only tho Indian form
of tho Scotch, “Many a little makes a
mickle.”
Tho Greeks, wishing to cast doubts
upon a man’s probity, declared him to
bo “A sheep with a fox's tail,” which
answers to our “Wolf in sheep's cloth
ing,” nnd^the French, “II fait is bon
apotre.” The familiar “Finis coronet
opus” lias passed by literal translation
into French and Russian. “All’s well
that ends well,” bears a strong like
ness to tho German “Endo gut Alles
been so possiblo that a grave threat
would bo fatally carried out.
It is a figure of speech when wo
talk about tno nations changing tho
map of Europe; tlio wild spearsmen of
tho Soudan liavo it in tho hollow of
their hands to alter in fact and deed
tho map of Africa. They can, if tlioy
E ’ -ase, wo are told, spread tho Sahara
o a great yellow pall fully across
tho continent from sea to sea. They
can build a rampart of sand
b nn • i .i . . . vu “ « iiiuiuuu Ul Del IIU
I a «“ nst progress that progress can-
proveb, “Let a cur’s tail bo warmed,
pressed out straight nnd swathed with
bandages; if released after twelve
years it will nevertheless return to i:s
natural shape.” It is easy to trace the
similarity of idea our “You cannot
make a silk purse out of a sow’s car.”
“Man proposes, God disposes,” ap
peal's in tho German, while in lie.- .in
it takes tho form, “God mak tho
crooked arrow straight." “Charity
begins at home” in Russian assumes
tho more graphic and suggestive form,
“One’s own shirt is nearest to one’s
body.”
not cross,
such a
ucli tremendous power,
mischievous possibility,
! gives an interest to the Egyptian prob-
' 1cm that brings it homo to every
nation. Tho pyramids hnvo stood
since tho inornmg of time; empires
r.ml dynasties liavo risen and liavo
fallen, and they have not been stirred.
; Yet the ignorant savages in tho desert
| aro their masters and can bring tho
! sand upon them to bury them as tlio
H0ME8 OF THE JAPANESE.
No Window* Nor Itegnlar Doom—Walla
and Floors—Tho “Go Down.”
Japancso houses consist often of
only ono story, and very seldom of
more than two. They do not, of
course, resembloone another exactly,
any more than English houses do; but
it may bo said of them generally that
they have no windows in our sense of
tho word, and sometimes no regular
doors, but they are always provided
witli a veranda beforo the lower story,
and, when they liavo a second story,
with a balcony.
As to solidity, it is a fact that tho
Japancso do not even aim at making
their houses substantial, as English
houses nre, or as, even when con
structed by a “jerry builder," they
profess to bo. Tlie outer walls of an
English houses aro always intended to
bo fixtures, nnd so far durablo that
when once put up they cannot bo
pulled down without sending for
workmen; but among the Japanese
two or more of tlio sides are not per
manent walls, but aro closed with slid
ing screens, which can bo set up and
taken down at tho pleasure of tho in
mates. On a hot day, or when I borough
ventilation is required, tho whole side
of a room can be opened to the outer
air.
_ Of course, people who aro not par
ticular about having a permanent
wall between their rooms and tho out
side world, do not care to have im
movable partitions between ono part
of tho houso and another. Although
in England rooms are occasionally
parted from one another by a curtain,
or by folding doors, yet, as a general
rule, they urc separated by walls,
which, however flimsy their construc
tion may be, are fixtures, ant! cannot
bo taken away and replaced at will.
But in Japan ono room is commonly
parted from tlio next merely by n
screen—a framework of wood covered
with paper, which runs in a shallow
groove on the floor nnd a deeper
groove on tho ceiling, a plan which
gives tho inhabitants tlio power of
adding to or decreasing tlio number of
their apartments at their pleasure.
Baron Nordenskjold, tho famous Arc
tic traveler, has recorded tlio surpriso
with which bo woke up ono morning
“BnJIct Playing” In Scotland. His Most Exacting Position la tho Hanks
The Scotch miner has many ways of of Railroad Employes,
amusing himself. Quoits is a favorito The passenger train conductor has
K 0 ™ 0 * ,J ,18 > 60 ki a gamo_ called ) In many respects the most difficult
mnndnra —a sortof bastard cricket— position in tlio railroad ranks. He
self is popular among tho ' " " '
, but with them football
Wo discourage carrying “coals to
Newcastle,” the French deprecate talc
ing “water to tho river.” Wo “drink
as wo brew,” or would if wo could;
tho French “sleep on the bed n3 they
Lave made it.** T rtlfl Alltnnlnn wno
templo of Jupiter Amnion and tlio ut a Japanese inn in quite a small
Sphinx itself were buried. If tho room, having gone to bed over night
savage wills the sacrifice, a flood
fatal nr. that in which Pharaoh
perished can sweep Egypt out of exis
tence, slowly, perhaps, but surely. It
is the land of tombs and memories, the
world’s graveyard; perhaps it is time
a,, - that it should bo interred itself. Civi-
Tho old Athenian was fixation waits upon tho Soudanese. 1*
“ ' o News.
Subjects for Industrial Training;.
Mrs. Laura Osborne Talbot finis de
scribed to tho American association
heraixpcriences of tlio effects of a little
industrial teaching upon thirty
in a very large ono.
It has been suggested that tho reason
why tlio Japanese do not build their
houses more solidly is that, in a land
like theirs of continual earthquakes, it
is not worth whilo spending a long
time on rearing up n building which
may lie tumbled down again at any
moment. But it is doubtful whether
this explanation is a true one, for
earthquakes violent enough to destroy
really strong building do not happen
very often at any ono pjace, am 1, I)C-
sides, tho Japancso do erect durablo
as much concerned to seo a bull in tho is for them to say.—Chi
city as wo aro when that quadruped
appears in a china shop. With us “still
water runs deep;” m Russia they
“swarm with devils," a much more
vigorous figure.—Tho Examiner.
Concerning Consanguineous Marriages.
Dr. Shuttlcworth somo timo ago
communicated to tho British Medical
association the results of the inquiries
which he had made into (ho influeneo “Wo were limited in every way, hut houses fall an easy prey, and by which
of consanguineous marriages on off- wo found these children of tho lowest ! l ar £° parts of tho towns aro continu-
I s:
I houses, which tho
rounders’
and cricket itself i
younger men,
is tho favorite pastime. Leaping, run
ning, throwing tho hammer, and toss
ing tho caber aro all practiced, and in
some parts a game called “bullet play
ing" is in high favor. I liavo never
seen this played except in thoLothians
and Stirlingshire, and there it was at
ono timo tho crack amusement. Rather
a peculiar amusement it is, too. It is
played in this manner: A certain dis
tance, say a milo out nnd a milo in, is
fixed upon as tho ground to be covered
by tho players, and tho man who does
so in tho fewest number of throws is
declared the winner. Tlio bullet is a
polished ball of hard whinstono, and
weighs from ton to fourteen ounces,
and this hall tho player takes into his
hand, nnd, running to a lino drawn on
tho roadway, ho swings his arm and
throws with all liis might. This is
termed “hainching the bullet,” and a
good player can cover tho milo in fivo
or six throws.
Tho game is ono mainly of strength,
hut a good deal of skill can bo shown
in it. Each player lias a man in front
to show where tho bullets should bo
landed, and liis business is to seo that
if his directions aro followed tlio bullet
of his player will have tho best part of
the road to run on. Tho game is always
played on tho best, highway in the
neighborhood, and [tho authorities ob
ject to it ns being dangerous, although
I never liavo heard of any accident
arising therefrom. A bullet match is
to tho Scotch minor what a dog fight
[ should be a first class freight conductor
; and a iiolished gentleman to boot But
, in his long apprenticeship on a freight
■ train ho has very likely beon learning
how not to fulfill tho additional re
quirements ofn passenger conductor-
snip. In that service bo could be un
couth and even boorish and still fill
his position tolerably well; now he
i feels the need of a lifo timo of tuition
in dealing with tho diverse phases of
j human nutu:-- mot with on a passen
ger train. i!e must now man ago liis
train in a sort of automatic way, for
he lias liis mind tilled with tho care of
liis passengers and tho collection of
tickets. lie must bo good at figures,
keeping accounts, and handling
money, though tho freight train ser
vice has given him no experience in
this lino. Year by year tho clerical
work connected with tho taking up of
tickets and collecting of cash fares has
been increased until now on many
roads an expert bonk dork would bo
nono.too proficient for tho duties im
posed. Tho conductor who grum-
Dlingly averred that "it would tako a
Philadelphia lawyer with three heads”
to fill his shoes was not far out of tho
way.
Every daji.und perhaps a number
of times a day, ho must collect fares
f if fifty or a hundred persons in lees
imo than ho ought to have for ten.
Of that largo number a few will gen
erally liavo a complaint to make or an
objection to offer or an impudent asser
tion concerning a fault of tho railroad
company Which the conductor cannot
• , . , , I IIH.I1 IIIL VUIIUULIAll V. Ill
is to hisrsorthumbruiii or Staffordshire) remedy and is not responsible) for. A
congener or a prize fight to an East ‘ woman will object to paying half fare
pnd Londoner. Tlio fact that it is for- \ for a 10-year-old girl or to paying full
hidden by law adds to its attractive- j rates for ono of 15. A person whoso
ness, and it affords amplo opportunities j incomo is ten times larger than lio de
fer hotting. Bets are made on the j serves will arguo twenty minutes to
tbrow, on l’.:o distance out, and on tlio J avoid paying 10 cents more (in cash)
complete match, and when two “dons” J than ho would liavo been charged for
ure played the excitement runs high, a ticket. Passengers with legitimate
Nineteenth Century. questions to ask will couch them in
Invention of tho Shot Tower.
There was onco a mechanic nt Bris
tol, England, who had a queer dream.
Watts was his name, amt ho was by
trade a shot maker, Tho making of . ,.
tho little leaden pellets was then a inanity (excepting tiioso who travel
vnguo and back handed terms, nnd
llioso with useless ones will tako inop
portune times to propound them.
Theso are. not occasional but every
Jay experiences. Tlio very best nnd
most intelligent people in tho corn-
grant boys whom she, with somo other I downs,” for tho pro
ladies, induced to attend for threo
years an industrial school at Howard
ih call ^
. n of their
property from loss or accident. Tlio
most common accident is by fire,
university ono morning in tho week: J which tho inllammablo Japancso
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spring. For want of a uniform basis i
of comparison positively accurate con- •
elusions are hard to reach. His opinion J
kind were delighted to work with
tools, nnd somo of them have set up
carpenter shops of their own,
littl
ally being burnt down. On tho ap
proach of a conflagration tlio prudent
Japanese, ns far ns possible, pulls his
quiries to tho life historic.', of the
parents, ho found that in the greater
number of cases causes of idiocy could
bo discovered in addition to or inde
pendently of consanguinity.
This is in harmony with*the conclu
sion published by Dr. C. F. Withing-
ton, that inor! id inheritance rather
than specific degenerative tendency
will account for all the infirmities met
with in the offspring of cousins. Wo
may therefore ursumo that "the great
danger in tho intermarriage of cousins
lies in tho circumstance that when
there is a neurotic inheritance, there
arc two certain morbid factors to con
tend with rather than n possible one.”
Ou tlio whole, “tho balance of evi
dence would appear to bo in favor of
tho conclusion that where a close
scrutiny fails to discover any heritable |
weakness, neurotic, or otherwise, con
sanguineous marriage per so is not
necessarily a thing to he prohibited.—
Popular Science Monthly.
The Huckleberry uml Hluebcrry.
They arc the only ones of the popu
lar berries, says a contemporary, that
liavo not been improved by cultiva
tion. Middle aged men can recall tho
time when the strawberry and black
berry were rather poor, commonplace
fruit, but they liavo been cultivated,
grown from seed, and the result is
tho toothsome berries which now
adorn our tables. But tho huckle
berry wo cat now is the tamo which
tickled tlio palates of otu- great grand
fathers. Word hits gone forth to im
prove this berry, to grow it in gardens
from reed, and select the variety which
gives tlio iiost result.
It is not generally known, hut nearly
all our edible plants anil fruits wore
originally weeds, or of so inferior kind
as to bo scarcely fit for human uses.
'But for countle^ generations man has
[been Lmproving^us environment, but
•more especially tho grains and fruit
[upon which lie now lives. Tlio human
•palato itself must liavo been greatly
[improved in sensibility, owing to tlio
[difference between what fruits and
vegetables were and what they ore.
There aro tiioso who think that this
process is to go on, and that other
weeds will bo turned into useful
plants, and that by scientific methods
the quantity of food will bo at length ;
o great that no human being will
ever die of starvation. — Scientific
American. •
hoys
criminal class.
“Each hoy as he entered the class was
taught in the tailor shop to mend his
clothes, aud in the shoo shop to mend
his shoes. One lamo colored boy from
the orphan asylum became, so skillful
in sliocmaking that ho could not only
mako his own shoes, but could cut up
tlio larger, half worn shoes cud make
them over for I ’ y feet. All of this I
term the best !...:<! of economy, espe
cially in a city like Washington.”-—
Popular Scieiar ' Monthly.
••Greenland's Icy ylountain*.”
“I heard an odd story tho other day
about Bishop Ilelier’s beautiful hymn,
‘From Greenland's Icy Mountains,’”
said a well known Cincinnatian.
“What is itl” “It relates to the music
for tho hymn. You remember that
Bishop Eober wrote it while in Ceylon
in 18--1. About a year later it reached
America, und a lady in Charleston,
S. C., was struck with its beauty.
“She could find, however, no tune
that seemed to suit it. Sho remem
bered a young bank clerk, Lowell
Mason, afterward so celebrated, who
was just a few steps down tho street,
and who hud n reputation as a musical
genius. So she scut her son to ask
him to write a tune that would gc
with, tho hymn. In just half un hour
tho hoy canto back* with tlio music,
nnd tlio melody dashed off in such
haste is to this day sung with that
song.”—Cincinnati Star.
The Increase of Ilahtncu.
It is curious how caducity has in
creased, and tho prevalence of it taken
away tho old reproach. All tho argu
ments aro against its existence, and
all tho facts provo that tho arguments
arc misleading. People lead healthier
lives now than they used to do, and
yet they are balder. Pcoplo lead
longer lives, and yet they glow bald
earlier, and, morever, it is tho
healthiest pcoplo who are often
tho baldest. Indeed, it almost be
comes a question whether in
these days baldness is evidence' to 'a.
very reLiable extent cither of ago or of
delicacy. Of tho decay of vital power
it is certainly no conclusire proof.
Consumptive patients and persons suf
fering from lingering [disease are not,
as a rule, bald, and more frequently
than otherwise seem to nut a great
deal of Ktreurrth into thoir hai-.'
thickly coated with fireproof clay, vt
strong nnd substantial, but very s
dom used as a home.
The floors of Japancso rooms aro In
variably carpeted with rush mats of
very careful construction, some two or
threo inches thick aud about six feet
long by three broad. As these mats
aro all of ono pattern, the sizo of a
room can lie determined by tlio num
ber ofmatsit contains, and it is do
scribed us a six mat or twelvo mat
room, ns tho oaso may lx?. Since the
commonest rooms are either of six or
of eight mats, nnd since an eight mat
mat room is only about twelvo feet by
twelve in extent, it will ho seen that
tho rooms of a Japancso house, liko
tho Japanese house ilself, aro generally
small. Tho Japanese fireplace is gen
erally a portable brazier, made of
bronze, porcelain or wood, lined with
clay, in which not coal, but charcoal
ashes are burned. Sometimes, how
ever, there is a clay lined hole in tlio
floor, containing a lire of tho same
kind.—Cassell’s Family Magazine.
Tricks of Female Smugglers.
“Yes,” tho inspector said, “I do
know something of smugglers’ tricks
—especially female smugglers, who, I
must say, carry on their nefarious
business with tho most charming ef
frontery. Of course, there are smug
glers or both sexes, hut for cunning,
boldness end determination tho women
cannot bo approached. Do you know
that women are born cheats? Oh,
well, I mean in this direction. A
woman’s dress affords her more facili
ties for hiding small but costly articles,
and it is far less easy to detect them
than men, and, as the older Weller
would say, almost impossible to •cir
cumvent.’ It takes an experienced
searcher to say whether a woman lies
got anything concealed about her per
son, and, as wo cannot search every
body, somo of the clever ones manage
to get through without dctectiou.”—
Brooklyn Eagle.
Steel r.nil V.'rou-'.:: lira.
A rurgi.itgive:;as;: reason why
steel \.i!i not weld us readily as
wrought iron that it is not partially
composed of cinder, as seems to be the
case with wrought iron, which nrel -is
in forming a fusible alloy with tho
scale < ■; i.xicatian form' d on the sur
face of the iron in the furnace.—Les
ion Budge!.
slow, laborious and, consequently,
costly process. Watts had to tako
great bars of lead and pound them out
into sheets of a thickness about equal
to tho diameter of the shot he desired
to make. Then ho cut tlio sheets into
littlo cubes, which ho placed in a re
volving barrel or box and rolled until
tho edges wore off from tho constant
friction and tho littlo culics liecamo
spheroids.
Watts had often racked his brain
trying to deviso a better scheme, hut
in vain. Finally, after an evening
spent with somo jolly companions at
the alehouse ho went homo and turned
into bed. IIo soon fell into a deep
slumber, but tho liquor evidently did
not agree with him for ho laid a had
dream. lie thought lie was out again
with tho “hoys.” Tlioy were all try
ing to find their way homo when it
began to mill shot. Beautiful glob
ules of lead, polished and shining fell
in a torrent and compelled him nnd
liis bibulous companions to draw their
hoavy limbs to a plaeo of shelter.
la the morning, when Watts arose,
ho remembered tho dream. IIo thought
about it all day, and wondered what
shape molten lead would tako in -fall
ing a distance through tho air. At
much) are among tiioso who oftenest
Icavo their wits at homo when they
tako a railroad triu.
All theso pcoplo must be met in a
conciliatory maimer, blit without
varying the strict regulations in tlio
least degree. Tho officers of tho rovo-
nuo department are iuexorahlo mas
ters, and passengers offended by
alleged uncivil treatment are likely to
mako absurd compluints nt tlio super
intendent's office. A conductor dreads
an investigation of this sort, however
unrcasonnolo tho passengers’ com
plaints may bo, bccauso it may tend
to show that ho lacked tact in handling
tho case. But after becoming habitu
ated to this sort of dcalingSj there aro
still left tlio occasional disturbances
which no amount of philosophy can
mako pleasant. These are tlio en
counters with drunken and disorderly
passengers. Tho conductor, starting
at tho forward cud of his train, finds,
perhaps, in tho first car ono or two
’•toughs” who refuse payment of faro
and aro spoiling for a fight.
Care must bo token with this sort of
character not to punislnliim or use tho
least bit of unnecessary severity, for
ho will, when sobered oif, quite likely
bo induced by a sharp lawyer to suo
lust, when ho could rest no longer, ho j tho railroad company for damages by
carried a ladlcful of tho hot metal up ; assault. Tlio conductor, however, u
into tlio steeple of tho church of St. ho bo ono who has (in his freight train
Mary, of Redelilfo, nnd dropped it
into tho moat below. Descending, ho
took from tho bottom of tho shallow
pool several handfuls of perfect shot,
far superior to any ho had over seen.
Watts’ fortune was made, for lie had
conceived tho idea of tho shot tower,
which has ever sinco been the only
means employed in tho manufacture
of the littlo missiles so much used in
war and sport.—Chicago Mail.
In»x>ortanco of Ilccnrdlns Deeds.
Due record of deeds is a matter of
vast importance in transfers, even
though a (l-'cd lie “perfectly good with
out record against tho grantor himself
and his heirs,” and although “a deed
not recorded is just as good as if it had
been recorded against any partiesortho
heirs of any parties who took tho land
from the grantor by a subsequent deed,
even fora full price, if they lmd at tho • c if is seen in thocaso of tho Onondaga
time notice or knowledge of the prior tribe. This tribo owns a reservation
(in his freight 1
experience) dealt with tramps is able
to cope with his customor and confino
him to'tho baggago car or put him off
tho train. But a tusslo of this land is,
at best, far from soothing to tho tem
per, and tho very next ear may con
tain tlio wifo of a millionaire, who will
expect tho most gdntcol treatment and
critically object to any helms ior on
tho part of tlio conductor which is not
fully up to tlio highest drawing room
standard. Experiences of this land, it
can be readily imagined, uro exceed
ingly trying* Tlio conductor cannot
give himself up completely to learning
gentility, for ho still has need for his
old severity.—B. B. Adams, Jr., in
Scribner’s Magazino.
Tlio Onondaga Indian Tribe.
A good picture of tho state of affairs
reprobated by tho recent Indian coun-
and unrecorded deed.” Neglect of
registration is a fruitful causo of ex
pensive worry and litigation. Regis
tered judgments, heirs unexpectedly
turning up, mortgages whoso satisfac
tion has not been recorded, rights of
dower and courtesy, both of which
conveyancers would gladly abolish in
order to facilitate transfera, are diffi
culties in tin? way cf undisputed title.
Equity ultimately decides in courts- of
law who is entitled to possession, but
duo pr. caution in search and record
would, in most instances, nullify the
need of resort to it, All titles are
cleared by ;sa_lo under judicial decree.
—Richaitl Wheatley in Harper’s Maga
zine-
» Prujihocy of tho Phonograph.
And now they ray that Tom Ilocd first
planned tho phonograph; ns witness this,
from liis "Comic Annual’' for 1809: “In
this century of inventions, when a self
acting drawing paper has been discovered
for copying visible objects, who knows
of G.b.’jO acres on tho sito of tho old
; council fires of tho Six Nations. These
10.00) acres aro uniformly of tho
j choicest farming lauds, nnd include
• sto:v quarries of the finest gray lime
stone. But U:o Indians neither farm
their 1....tLi nor work their quarries.
• There are twenty-six chief:i for 100
members of tho tribe. Tho old Indian
language is still in common use. Tho
stuto of morals is absolutely indescrib
able in decent English. Tiie tenure of
land is tribhl. The renunciation of
Christianity is a requisite to election
os a sachem; but nominal Christianity
i.s professed by about half tho_ tribe.
The Feast of tho White Dog is cele
brated with indecent ceremonies. Tho
question of what to do with tho In-
tiiaus is now necessarily to Lx? recon
sidered. It is not enough to hold them
ou reservations and feedthem.—Globe-
Democrat.
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... , t Tho White House at Wasliington
but that a future Niepce, or Dagnerre, or derives_ it3 namo from tho fact that Iho
Ilerschel, or Fox. Talbot, may find out Virginia freestone, of which it is
somo sort of Boswellish writing paper to built, was painted white to conceal tho
repeat whatever it licars?”->-New York'^DhxMOi'atious caused by smoko and
Tribune. v - f 1 water.—New York Evening World.