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Newnan, Ga., Friday, Jan. 13, 1888.
Insect Gem Hunters.
‘‘There is the original garnet mine, and
the miner as well,” said my companion,
as we were riding among the mountains
of New Mexico.
Following the direction of his glance I
saw a tall, well formed Navajo Indian
standing motionless by what appeared to
be a small sand heap. Wishing to inves
tigate we drew nearer and found that
the statesquc native v.;as watching one f
the many ant hills that dot the country
through New Mexico and Arizona as
well.
As we approached he hardly looked
up. appearing indifferent after the fash
ion of his race, and his object was still
an enigma,-at least to me. The Navajo
tribe bad never produced a naturalist,
and it was hardly possible that he had
been studying the habits of the active in
sects. Perhaps he was trying to collect
enough for dinner-—Indians have been
known to eat rats.
Hut the Indian was. after all, a close
observer, and was reaping his reward,
for when I asked him what he was doing
he held out a small bag, t lie contents of
which I turned upon my hand-garnets,
small but good, in great numbers, bits of
quartz that gleamed like diamonds, here
a bit of turquoise, large quantities of oli
vine, and a single gem. an emerald, of
but little - value, hut an emerald after all.
An ant hill was a curious place from
which to take such a strange assortment,
but, as my friend bad suggested, this
was the original mine, and the real
miners were the ants. In piling up their
dome like houses they brought out the
minute gems one l>v one and placed them
among the bits of sand, where they
gleamed and Hashed as if inviting col
lection.
The Indians had discovered their value,
and in this way did their mining, allow
ed tak-
ir. >ught
• range
a large
tinned,
1 leaps,
s and
ing the ants to do all tin
bug the g-::isas fast as tin y \
vtp. Tin stones found in tbi
in size from the head of r. {
pea. and. besides the ones
rubies have been taken iron
These stolen gems are sold
used in various kinds of jewelry. Nearly
every ant hill is examined .. is way
and the mound gone over, often the ants
being watched and the gems taken from
them as soon as brought up.
Whether the little insects have a liking
for glistening objects it is difficult to de
termine, hut, from the fact that so many
gems are brought to the surface, there
would seem to he reason to suppose they
had. It would be extremely .difficult to
name an industry followed by man that
did not have its prototype in the lower
animal kingdom. Our humble friends
have their trades, their seeming arts and
sciences, just as we have. Hence, we
need not be surprised if we find miners
whose work compares favorably with
that of human beings.
In an ant family that I have been
watching for some time, well up in the
Sierra Madre mountains, southern Cali
fornia. the work is carried on in a very
methodical manner, the workers appar
ently being protected by soldier ants,
with huge heads and powerful jaws.
For some time I watched these miners
at work, noticing the regularity with
which each ant seemed to deposit its
load in the same spot, and finally I
allowed the sun to pass through my
hand glass and form a bright spot at the
entrance of the mine. A worker sewn
passed under it, and, feeling the fierce
heat, evidently rushed below with the
news, for almost immediately out came a
horde of big jawed fighters, who darted
about, biting at the sun spot, and show
ing by their actions that they had deter
mined to attack the foe, whatever it was,
and when I placed my magnifying glass
upon the ground they rushed at it in
great fury, fastening their jaws upon tho
silver case and refusing to be torn away
—even parting with their heads, that re
mained for a long time clinging to the
glass.—Golden Da vs.
Measurement of ITumau Beings.
Dr. Edward Hitchcock, Jr., of Cornell
university, road a paper on the uses of
•hysical measurement to the individual,
n the attempts to establish antliropome-
ry on a scientific basis the weight of in-
lividuals was first taken as a standard,
iut this had to be abandoned, and he
bought we could now say with a certain
legree of exactness that human measures
ncrease with the height. It is extremely
lifficult, if not indeed practically impos-
ible, to secure the exact dimensions of
.ny man. Especially is this so when it
s attempted to obtain the measurements
if the chest and shoulders. Six experts
night examine the same individuals, and
heir measurements would probably all
Idler. The testing of lung capacity is
•ery variable, some individuals giving
esults which are of value. wh.!o others
lo not use the thoracic ix - a at all,
>\it simp;, bring into pia. , : mscles
*f the pharynx. gome force untries,
■ecoguizing the difficulties a. way of
ibtaining exact measuremeu > parts
vhicli were liable to vary, a.-’opted
lie length and breadth cf ! V ear,
oot and finger, and the heigf f a man
n the sitting position, as the Lest, mak-
ng use of them in descriptions of erimi-
lals.—Science.
Over-Dressing of Children.
A spirt of unwholesome rivalry is
engendered in children by the absurdly
rich way in which many parents over
dress them. They sacrifice their own
appearance in order to lavish money on
the little ones, and the only result is to
make the children proud, vain, seldsh,
and, when old enough, disappointed with
the position in life in which they find
themselves. Not long ago I noticed in a
car a pretty little girl, clad in a coat of
silk plush, trimmed with chinchilla. She
had pretty new hoots and silk stockings,
one or two rings and a gold necklet and
chain. “A pretty child.” I said to the
conductor. “Yes, sir. She is mine.
That’s her mother,” he answered, point
ing to a common looking woman rather
poorly dressed in a dingy brown suit
made of some cheap goods.— Julian
Magnus in The Epoch.
Aquatic Street Urchins.
Before the ice is out of the river the
talk begins among the boys of this town
as to who shall be “the first in.” Any
body who has not been a boy himself will
not, of course, understand what it is to
be “the first in.” It means the first boy
to take a swim in the waters of the North
or East river. By the middle of April,
anyway, some boy has laid the founda
tion for rheumatism by taking a header
off a dock. He may not have stayed in
long, but he has achieved a feat as great
as dropping oil the Brooklyn bridge.
The first swim, being only for distinc
tion, is not of long duration. If the boy
“goes under,” or in other words sub
merges himself entirely from the crown
of his head to the soles of his feet, he has
taken the licit for the season. About
twelve seconds is enough for him to go to
the bottom, clutch a handful of mud and
come to the surface. When his head pops
up out of water he blows like a porpoise
and makes straightway for tho strhic-
piece of the dock. He pulls himself out
and reserves his exhibition of endurance
under the water or on the surface of the
water for a time when it does not seem
as if he had dropped into the tank of the
Business Men’s Moderation society in
front of the post office, which is loaded
up with ice every morning in order to
give a wintry taste to the Croton that
runs out of the faucets during the day.
He is as blue as a whetstone, his teeth
rattle like a loose casement in the wind,
and the cloth trunk, if lie has taken tho
trouble to put one on, feels in the cutting
air like a piece of flexible ice around his
loins. As soon, however, as he has got
his clothes on and run up and down the
dock a few times to set his blood in cir
culation, he feels like a young Comanche
brave who has lifted hair for the first
lime. He goes down on the river front,
around the Battery and up the other, to
let every boy who is perched on a scrub
bing post know that he is the earliest
ablutionist.
There are a number of free baths sta
tioned along the river front, but the wa
ter just outside of them feels different to
any boy from that inside of them. It is
contrary to the city ordinances for any
boy, or anybody else for that matter, to
go in swimming in the vicinity of any
dock where passengers embark or disem
bark. It is also contrary to the city ordi
nances for anybody to go into the water
at any point improperly dressed, and as
there can be no change from bathing to
street attire without trauscending the reg
ulation, at least for a moment, swimming
in any event puts the swimmer under the
ban of the • police. The same spirit that
animates the bald headed, red headed or
any other headed eagle to fly high and
roost out of the way of buckshot—the
desire for freedom and immunity from
danger—animates the small boy in keep
ing out of the reach of the blue coated
and brass buttoned minions of the law
when sporting in forbidden water. It is
one of the greatest problems that a po
liceman ever tried to solve to catch a
small boy in the water when the water is
so warm that the boy can stay in it with
out the danger of the blood congealing in
his veins and thus filling his system with
icicles.
At this season of the year the young
water dogs can float in tho water all day,
which is a good deal longer than a police
man can stay on watch. The boys have
to go to the open piers to reach the water,
the hands on the covered piers refusing
to have them around. They' slide down
tho big piles and get on the stringpieces
underneath, where they proceed fi> dis
robe. A policeman might think ho would
have the swimmers at his mercy if he
could get under the pier and obtain pos
session of their clothes. He might be
able to get under the pier, but he would
find obtaining possession of t he clothes a
different thing. He would be about as
able to work the combination of a bank
lock as to find the clothes. The boys
know that to hang their clothes out in
plain sight on the beams would be to in
vite appropriation by the police or larceny
by the tramps. There are hiding places
under the piers such as only boys are ca
pable of finding out. Holes are formed
by the woodwork built on the piles and
the boys discover them by crooking their
arms around posts and timbers. Then
they dig out the decayed spots in the piles
and poke their clothes down in the aper
tures, covering them with dirt and rub
bish.
The boys go swimming in coveys, and
the more there are of them the more de
fiant they .are to the police. A guardian
of the peace may hang loweringly over
the end of the pier and shake his club at
a dozen boys in the water without ex
citing more than derision from them.
They will put their thumbs to their
noses, wriggle their fingers in the air and
then execute a somersault in the water
and disappear toward the bottom. The
newsboys and bootblacks are the most
persistent swimmers. They live around
the docks in summer when they are not
selling papers and polishing leather.
They "know all the avenues of escape and
the police find them as slippery as eels.
The good little boys who run away
from Sunday school and from day school,
too, are the ones most apt to be visited by
just retribution in the shape of a police
man’s awful grasp. It is a powerful
enigma to them how the bad boys, who
spend their pennies for cigarettes instead
of putting them on the collection plate,
escape.—New \oik "World.
A Very Kare Shell.
A very rare shell, the Conus gloria
maris. was recently found in a house in
Cebu, Philippine Islands, by Mr. Mollen-
dorf. German consul at Manila. Its home
is in deep water, and only a severe ty
phoon drives it on shore. It is said that
there are only two similar specimens in
existence—one in the Royal museum in
London and the other in Paris. The new
specimen goes to the Berlin museum.
—Harpers Bazar.
Possible Uses for the Phonograph.
In all that has been written about the
uses to which the forthcoming Edison
practical phonograph, nothing has been
said of the facilities it will give people
who can neither read nor write for cor
respondence. Indeed, there is no doubt
but there will be an immense demand on
the wonderful powers of the instrument
from this class. The instruments into
which books have been read will also
repeat them to the blind, and thine thus
afflicted can have the choicest treasures
of the libraries of the world at their
service day or night.
The invalid, too. whose friends are
away or busy or asleep, can have his
faithful reader always at command. But
all these things are not pertinent to this
“railway world.” The thought that sug
gested the paragraph is this: "VVhat a
valuable thing a phonograph would lie on
a rapidly moving train during a long
journey. It is hard on the eyes of many
to read in traveling, or at night the light
is insufficient or the car is darkened for
sleeping. The restless passenger may
have his faithful phonograph in his berth,
and with the earphone adjusted can listen
to its sweet voice at> will, without dis-*
turbing anybody. Then, too, all know
the difficulty of writing on a train. This
will now be overcome. Not only for
business correspondence may it he used,
hut an author’s best thoughts often come
to him amid the waits or among the in
spiring scenes of a long journey. These
may be faithfully recorded.—Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Cost of Kare Orchids.
European flower collectors have visited
all the countries in South America in
search of rare orchids, and during six
months of the present year $8,639 was
paid for these curious plants in one town
in Venezuela.—Chicago Times.
Che porter who takes care of ISenator
land Stanford's private car receives
M) a month. This is more than tin
ir^tge college professor earns.
The woni knowledge strictly employed
implies three things, viz., truth, proof and
conviction.—Whately.
Fifteen young Moors from Morocco
ltave gone to Italy to study in the military
colleges.
Tho Germs of Consumption.
Dr. Brown Sequard, who has been
preaching that bad ventilation of sleeping
rooms and poor and monotonous food arc
the great causes of pithisis, treated of
that disease at the last meetiug of the
Academy of Sciences, in Paris, taking
many of his examples frofn England.
Wherever population is dense, and sleep
ing rooms ill aired or overcrowded, con
sumption prevails. Dr. Bailey reported
that in Milbank prison there were, out of
100 deaths, forty-five from this disease.
According to the illustrious French
doctor, a room in which a consumptive
person sleeps is reeking with contagious
germs if the air he exhales is not carried
off. But how get rid of it in ill built
houses or very cold weather, when it is
as dangerous to open windows as to keep
them shut?
To meet this difficulty Dr. Brown Se
quard showed the academy an apparatus
of his invention. A reversed funnel, the
shape of a lamp shade, is placed at the
end of a tube, so arranged in its curves
and angles that when it is placed beside
a bed the reversed funnel will be above
the sleeper, and draw up the air he
breathes. The other end runs into the
chimney of the room. If there is none
it is taken through a heating apparatus
to an air hole. The heat is great enough
to burn the disease germs,—London
Standard.
Savings of the Chinese.
The Chinese in California d© not de
posit their savings in our banks, but
leave their surplus earnings with, some
storekeeper for safety until they are
ready to send the money to China. The
storekeeper does not pay the depositor
any interest; on tho contrary, he charges
him a small sum for taking care of the
money. The result is some of the prin
cipal merchants in San Francisco have a
large amount of money in their hands
all the time. The danger of being robbed
is very slight, as all the employes and
attaches of the store sleep there, and
there is no time, day or night, but what
some one is awake and moving about.
The money is generally kept in a fire
proof safe or vault.—San Francisco 1 Cor.
Chicago Herald.
Fortunes of the Rothschilds.
It would seem that the fortune of the
Rothschild dynasty is getting scattered by
the recent marriages of the young people.
Now it is Mile. Aline who marries a Sas
soon; the other day it was her elder sistet
who married M. Lambert, of Brussels,.
and her cousin, Mile. Helene, who mar
ried a Dutch diplomat, Baron von Zuylen;
not long ago a Mile, de Rothschild be
came Princess de Wagram. anothei
Duchesse de Gramont, another simple
Mine. Eplirussi and another Lady Rose-
berry. Tradition says that the old Baron
James left a fortune of 830,000,000 francs,
which was divided among his children,
four sons and a daughter, the Baroness
Nathaniel. Thus each inherited 175,000,-
000 francs, which have doubtless increased
and multiplied.—The Argonaut.
An Astronomer in Command.
Gen. Mitchel was at this time 52 years
old. He was of an extremely wiry
frame, and was possessed of wonderful
endurance. His hair had lately grown
gray, which mr.de him look older than he
really was. He was accustomed to ride
a horse whose gait was a pace. Ou this
horse he was all over the camps at all
hours of the night and day. The guards
were never certain of his coming. The
men soon learned of his previous occupa
tion, and called him “Old Stars.” A
sentinel who had been repeatedly visited
while on duty once remarked that he
“never could look up without seeing
‘Old Stars’ coming along on his screw
propeller.”—“Life of O. M. Mitchel, As
tronomer and General.”
What is more charming than an
agreeable, graceful woman ? Here and
there we meet one who possesses the
fairy-like power of enchanting _ all
about her. Sometimes she is ignorant
herself of the magical influence, which
is, however, for that reason only the
more perfect. Her presence lights up
the home; her approach is like the
cheering warmth; she passes by and
we are content; she stays awhile and
we are happy. To behold her is to
live; she is the aurora with a human
face; she makes an Eden of the house;
paradise breathes from her, and she
communicates this delight to all with
out taking any gutter trouble than
that of existing beside them. Is not
here an inestimable gift?
“We wish,” says a Colorado editor,
“to retract our statement made last
week that our esteemed fellow-citizen,
Hon. Mr. Plumley, never was known
to keep his promise. After reading
the item in question, Mr. Plumley hap
pened to remember that during the
heat of the recent political contest he
promised to kick us out to the fair
grounds, and he immediately came up
to the oflice and executed his promise.
In fact, he not only kicked us all the
way out there, but he kept it up most
of the way back, and if he bad not run
out of breath, we think lie would have
been kicking us yet. Mr. Plumley is a
gentleman of his word, cultured and
polished, and can kick like an Asiatic!.
elephant.”
There is a law in some of the States
compelling the railroad companies to
pay $5,000 for every person killed when
it is through the fault of the company.
If a person is simply injured he may se
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in case of an accident, to kill people
rather than simply to injure them.
It might seem that no corporation
would be so devoid of conscience as to
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1888.
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1888.
HARPER’S YOUNG PEOPLE.| HARPER’S PERIODICALS.
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