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/ $hn gerald and ^tartisq. 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 cure as high as $30,000. With such a law it is to the interest of the company, 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 allow this fact to influence them, but at one railroad disaster an employer was heard to say as lie stood beside the! ECLECTIC MAGAZINE broken cars: “If we kill them it costs | $5,000; if we break their legs the Lord only knows how much it will cost.” j publications. THE CENTURY MAGAZINE W ITH the November, 1S87, issue Thk Century •omniences its thirt.v-nrth volume with a regular circulation or almost 250,000. The War Papers aud the Cife or Lincoln increased monthly edition by 100,- C00. Tl e latter history having recounted the events of Lincoln’s early years, and given the necewarv survey of’ the political condition of thf- countrv, readies » new period, with which his secretaries were most iutimately acquainted. Under the caption LINCOLN IN THE WAR, the writers wow enter on the more important part oi iheir narrative, v;z ; theearl> \ ears ot i he War and! President Lincoln’s part therein. SUPPLEMENTARY WAR PAPERS, following the “battle series’’ by distinguish ed generals, will describe interesting features of army life, tunneling from Libby Prison, narratives of personal adventure, etc. Gener al Sherman will write on “The Grand Strate gy of the War.” KENNAN OK SIBERIA. Except the Life of Lincoln and the War Ar ticles, no more important series has ever been undertaken by The Centitpy than tins of Mr Kennan’s. Wiih the previous prepar ations of four years’ travel and study in Hus si a and Siberia, the author undertook a jour ney of 15.000 miles for the special investiga- lion hero required. An introduction from tn«? Russian Minister of the Interior admitt d him to the principal mines aim 1 prisons, wliere he became acquainted with some three hun dred Stale exiles, Liberals,. Nihilists, and others,—and the series ye ill- be a. startling as well accurate revelation of the exile sys tem. The many illustrations by the artist and photographer, Mr. George A. Frost, yvho accompanied the auihor, will add greatly to the value of the articles. A NOVEL BY EGGLESTON with Illustrations will run Uhmugh the year. Shorter novels will folloyv by Cable and Stockton. Shorter fictions will appear every month. MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES will comprise several illustrated articles on Ireland, by Charles He Kay; papers touching the field of the Sunday-School Lessons, illus trated bv E. L. Wilson; wild Western lif . by publications. 1888. HARPER’S MAGAZINE. ILLUSTRATED. Hakper’s Magazine is an organ of pro gressive thought aud movement in every de partment of life. Besides other attractions, it will contain, during the coming year, im portant articles, superbly Illustrated, on the Great West; articles on American and for eign industry; beautifully illustrated papers on Scotland. Norway, Switzerland. Algiers, and the West Indies; new novels by Wil- liam Black and W. D. 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OF Foreign Literature, Science aad Art. Warner’s Log Cabin Remedies—old- fashioned, simple compounds, used in the days of our hardy forefathers, are “old timers” hut “old reliable.” They comprise a “Sarsaparilla,” “Hops and Buchu Remedy,” “Cough and con sumption Remedy,” “Scalpine, for the Hair,” “Extract,” for External and In ternal L T se, “Plasters,” “Rose Cream,” for Catarrh, and “Liver Pills.” They are put up by H. H. Warner & Co.,- proprietors of Warner’s Safe Remedies, and promise to equal the standard value of those great preparations. All drug gists keep them. The gold held by the Treasury in its vaults at Washington weighs 519 tons. If packed into ordinary.carts, one ton to each cart, it would make a proces sion two miles long, allowing twenty feet of space for the movement of each horse and cart. The silver in the same vaults weighs 7,396 tons. 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Each number lias clever serial . . ’ J - - i volumes contains a fine steel engpav- and short stories, practical and timely ex pressed the opinion that I wasn’t. It’s } mg’ which adds much to the attraction oS tiie i magazine. Harper’s Bazar is a home journal. It combines choice literature and fim-art illus trations with the latest intelligence regarding a cold world, sir,” The Art- of Complimenting. It is a rare accomplishment in man or woman to be able gracefully to make compliments. The difficulty lies in the fact that honest praise or approval always loses by being ‘a little coaxed or petted.” The buiefest expression which bears the air of sincerity is better than the most elaborate effusion and profusion of com plimentary phrases, which “by daily use have almost lost their sense.” One need not be rude to be true; but if, on the other hand, he is too effusive he forfeits his best claim to credit.—Philadelphia Ledger. Oar Oldest Canal. The oldest canal in America is for sale. 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