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> County The Irwin EWS. Official Organ of Irwin County. A. G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r. PROFESSIONAL CAROS. •yy L. STORY, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, SYCAMORE, GEORGIA. |^|ARK ANTHONY, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Sycamore, Georgia. Will bo loo-vtoil for tho present at tho Dod¬ son House. Patronage respectfully solicited. T. W. ELGIN, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Ruby, Gkobgia. Calls promptly attended to at all hours, 2 respectfully solicit a share of tho public patronage Office in B, H. Cockrell’s store. j^R. J. F. GARDNER, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Ashborn, Georgia. Ca.ls answered promptly day or night. g^y^Speeial children. attention to diseases of women and JJENTON STRANGE, M. D. SPECIALIST. Cordelle, Georgia, Diseases of women, Strict ires. Nervous and all privae diseases. Strictures dissolv- ed out iu g to 5 minutes by a smooth current of Galvanism without pain or detention from business; and given to patient in a vial of alcohol. Correspondence solicited aud best references giveu. Office north-east cor- ner Suwaneo House. B. M. FR1ZZELLE, LAWYER, McRae, Georgia. Practices iu the .State and Federal Courts, Real Estate and Criminal Law Specialties. *YY A- AAKON, LAWYER, Asiibukn, Georgia. Collections and Ejectinaut suits a Rnacial- ty, jgpOffice, Room JSo. 4, Batts Builuiug. c. tv. fuiAvoow, LAl\ r r , REAL . LSiAlE .. & COLLECTIONS, ’iiETON, Georgi . prompt nttu>uio 4 given to ail business. g-a.- Office, Luva B uilding, Room-No. 1, ' 4 oHN HAltui-i, SHOEMAKER, AsHburn, Georgia. My prices sire low and ail work strictly Guuiuuteyd, *~ ] >IR ItGTOR Y. Mayor —a g. Di-Losch. Councilman—VV, 11 . Dustier. IL Murray, a. v>'. (fcokreff E. R Smith, J. P. Fountain Sm>er:or Courts—Fust Monday Judge' m April October. C. C. Smith, Hawkins- vim-. Ga. c m;' General—Tom Eason. McRae,Ga. , rks i^bu-Court-J. B.D. Paulk, Ir- 1 Y .n-ntr—j':« • P.nlk, RnhypOa. Irwin- . ipuby a i vs—u. L. Piescott, vii. list.; V/uVanHoutew, «•-ycamore, G?l J:„ ,„,v. Qa'-rtJiifs July ”'tw, .-u,d ~lVonday October. J. B. In jni-u.ry. April, Irwm i.ly, CiciuKiiis. JuJge, Ga. u.,° Ult 1J ' 1 ‘ !Ul1 " iviMvPhq OuaiA Mon- Commissioners’ Court—First day i 1 each uioiuii. il. Henderson. Commis- Ordinary’s Court—First. MonSay iu each by Gf (l- County Treasurer—W. K. Paulk, Irwin- Vibe, Ga. 'laxCoflector—J." p.uikq’llffiyAJa. Ga. Purveyor—H. Barnes, Minnie, Chair. Ira ill Ville, Ga ; henry T. Fletcher, Ir- Gj.; L. R. Tucker, Vic, G..; L. i). ttf S ’ 3^' Co " lnan ’ usiic.. courts-flOt Dist. G. M., Second ■ urday in each taoutli Marcus Luke, N. UaviK J - F ; Wm " ^ ” elS> BlUlUr ’ Ga. i86 tS,;- B'totJG. y. Hanley, M., Third J- V Sa unlay David ineach Troup, ^ ; I Third Wednesday in each [- I .dies 1 . C. & p. l Royal, Royal, Huinit's J, p.. sycamore, Sycamore, Gi.; Ga. SS> Disc. G M.. U. X Ray, N P. & Ex- :iq J. P. svc-iimu-e. Gu. '_ LOHG X Dial iCTORY- yciii .iv J-udge, ao 2i0 1’. & A. M. . 11 “ o* uiniuuie&fcionfj limi anu 4lu feaAu - i A. >j biory, W. in.; J. F. Ro,aJ, Sc-e. ' Bib Lo ” gv, F. & before A. M.—Regular tho Sunday com* i-DGl i tiuisjay dtli ‘li mu. . 1*1 j. a. J. Henderson, W. M ; . At . lutiey, Sec’y, Oeiilu, Gu. \ i CHURCH DIRECTORY- SYCAMORE CIRCUIT. (Sycamore’—2nd F.t'st Sunday KUuday, uml Sunday night. Cyciouefi. cow—lird — Sunday and Saturday Fuiey U before. Cleuion’s' Chapel—4th Sunday and Satur¬ day before. jjama cu3—4th Sunday afternoon aud 5th Ruriciri y Prayer meeting ut Sycamore every Thurs- duy night; Sunday school Sunday morning et 10 .3o o’clock. J. W. Connors, Pastor. union primitive baptist. Bruahey Creek—4 h huuduy and Saturday oefore. Creek—2nd Satur- Sturgeon Sunday and day betore. * Salem—3rd Hopewell—1st Sunday & Saturday before, before. Eld Sunday \V, H. and Harden, Saturday Pastor, Little River— 3rd Sunday und Saturday ^Turner’s Meeting House— 2nd Sunday and Saturday before Oakf auuday and Saturday , j i , up NOTICE. Parties are warned that no hunting or fish- iug will be nflowed on iota of land Nos. 13, 14 17, 13, lit and 44, iu 3rd district of Irwin popular. Wjwsr Bretobbb “In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.” SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., JANUARY 12 1894. GENERAL NEWS. Wholesale Summary of the News of the Week Gathered from Every Quarter. The Ohio Legislature is in sessiou. Louisville has several cases of small- pox. The Keutucky General Assembly is in session. The situation in Sicily is assuming very grave proportions. Two new cases of small pox have developed at Chattanooga. The whole of Northern Europe is contending with a terrible blizzard. Jas. A. Fisher, assistant librarian of the house of representatives is dead. Mrs. Lizzie G. Hunt has been ap- pointed as postmistress at Greenville, Miss, their U 1C work co,| hdenCO men ate cities getting in great ill m many shape. The total number of postffices in the United States in operation on January 1st, is 68,806. A thousand deaths have occurred J, f .. om „ u h ’ ■- a a , I, Toneriffe iuieuue, one one of or the me Canary Islands. , An Athletic Club has been organized in Atlanta and will bid for the Cor* bett-Mltchell figllt. The large publishing house of J. W- Burke is Co., of Macon, Ga., is in the hands of a receiver. San Antonio business men have re- nenewetl their offer of .$26,000 for the Corbott-Mitclieil fight. A hording house at Buffalo, N. Y ’ ) was destoved and seven people were killed and many others injured. Two editors in Mexico have been ar- rested and placed in prison because ihey criticized the administration of affairs. • Fire eu the business section of Min- ileu. Lit., Monday night destroyed f y valued at $80,000; insurance, $16,000, Two men were fairly cooked alive j,y a boiler explosion that took place in (lie Cincinnati Southern railroad shops at Chattanooga. O.i last Sunday Dr. J. B. Stratton preachqd his fifteenth annual discourse in the Presbyteriau church at Natchez, Miss. He is 80 years old. Maj A. Pope lias resigned as secre- „„ (ary of the Southern Railway and Steamship association, and has been succeeded bv \V r 1 McGill - Receiver* have been appointed fur the Lou i 8vlll e Evans ville and St. Lou- 18 consolidated ii.i-i *'«dvoad i company, x and i aiso for the Ohio Valley railroad. f he Mississippi -Legislature is in session. Among the most irnportaijj things that will be disposed of by ifcj* ot law mabeis is tho SOUvicMea^ question. Tile colored people in many Cities of the state observed emancipation day in appropriate style on last Monday, It is a verry significant event among the Colored 1 ace. Cummings of Omaha Neb. deliberately set his house on fire and then restrained any of the inmates from escaping. His wife, baby and grandmother with himself were ere- mated. Justice Jackson has ordered the Georgia Central and Southwestern Railroad of Georgia to bo sold within sixty days after the first day of June, unless before that date the default on the bonds shall have been made good. The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn.,,one of the leading trade jour- na ls of the South, has just issued a 202 P 8 * 0 lt » °» e o£ «*?. haui ‘- somest and igost valuable , publications 0 f the kind ever printed in America Sam Lee, an industrious and peace- able Chinaman, of SC was calied to his door at midnight and fatally shot in the S (,omach by a negro 0 who was caught c . boring . holes . , ,, through , the , back , door , trying to enter (lie house to rob Sam Lee, and when caught fired. [The negro & made liis escape. 1 btatistics compiled by the Boise City National bank show the value of the three principal metals produced in Idaho during 1893 as follows: Gold, $1,645,000; silver, $1,502,000; lead, $776,000; total, $3,922,000. This shows a total decrease of over, $3,000,- 000 as compared with the previous year. The case against Corbett and Mitch- ell has been nolle grossed. Tbe Club 1)0W wan t to change the terms of tlie contract with Mitchell to read instead of “within two miles of Jacksonville” to “within the State of Florida,” at first the Englishman flatly refused to sign the new agreement, but after some persuasion came over and did so. a hundred masked men came from the mountains into Calhoun, Georgia, prepared to have their way or trouble. They were moon«hiners whose eiills been captured by -4000 revenue officers, who also destroyed gallons of beer. The men came after (heir stills, 8tc w hioh had been loaded upon a freight car for shipment to court, if 1 h D6y .„ ® 0t tM,n tha», ' A crank carrying a huge revolver, and who said he was commissioned by tho deity to do good, appeared at the county jail in Chicago, and asked to to see Pendergast, the condemned assassin. “Five minutes talk with Pendergast is all I want,” said the crank, “and he will walk out of pris¬ on a free man.” His request was re¬ fused and then pointing at his weapon he said he would commit murder if the Lord ordered him to do so. He was promptly arrested. A dispatch to (lie London News from Paris says excavation in Oisseau Lepetit, department of the Sartlie, have revealed a Gallo-Roman city, which appears to have been destroyed by an earthquake. The city probably contained some 30,000 inhabitants, hut its name is not known in French history. The ruins include a groat temple, part of which is still standing; also a Iheater and monuments. A number of medals have been found, which includes one of the time of Em¬ peror Constantine. At a meeting of the penitentiary board of control of Mississippi it has been decided to substitute a proposi¬ tion to work the Marcellas plantation, in Holmes couuty, owned by James Richardson, on shares. There 2,600 acres in tho tract. The board thinks there will be enough convicts that can¬ not be leased to work most of it. The board is to feed and clothe the con¬ victs, furnish guards and medical furnish at¬ tention and Richardson is to the teams, feed for same, lands, etc. The proceeds are to be equally divided. mins AND KNU*. Atchison, Kansas, is overrun with tramps. Snow in Colorado mountains is ten feet deep. Reports from India slate that there are 60,000,000 people on the verge of starvation in that country. The public debt statement issued on Tuesday shows a reduction of $5,000,- 000 in the balance available for tha payment of the public debt, Governor Mitchell of Florida says Corbett and Mitchell shall not fight in Florida without the Supreme Court decides he has no power to prevent it. The entire plant of the Carneige works at Homestead have resumed opeatious. A reduction of 2 1-2 cents per hour has been made in the wages of machinists and 2 cents per hour t0 ‘ ottiel laborers la00lei8 - News from Valparaiso, Ind., tells of all awful explosiou that occurred at one of the pumpinf stations of the workmeu , .. were iu Z the station Sn^nSId engaged un.im in 1 . i4 0 , )uil . in ,, a i ea k in a pipe tbees- cap took fire from a lantern which they knocked over, aud in r moment an explosion took place which lore t j ie j ron buildinir to pieces aud threw the workmen in every direction, gome of whom were thrown fifty feet > 4111 ! terribly burned. It is thought ihat at least seven are fatally injured. Uoutl Darkoy Gone. An old colored man named Ralph Sieele has died in Eutaw, Ala., ,t, the remarkable age of ninety-eight years, llis birth was recorded in the *amily Bible of the Steele family of Green county, the members of which vouch for the authority of the record. He has been in (he Steele family since 1825, not leaving them after being freed. Several years ago he bought his coffin and his tombstone and kept them in his house ready for the final summons. To the same end he joined the Baptist church about two years ago. Just before he died he called his son and gave him suflicent money to defray all of the funeral expenses, saying he wanted to have eyery cent he owed paid before he died. In 1856 one of his young masters bought him a pair of boots and until bis death he wore them every Sunday to church. They had never been re¬ paired since the day he received them. He wore them when he was baptized and was buried in them at his request. He was known by most of the citizens of Green county and was held in high esteem by all. “After the Ball." A grand ball given nt tlie ranch of Joseph D. jPamerio in Peaces county, Tex., a few nights since. It was at¬ tended by Mexican cowboys for miles around. There was a great scarcity of young women, and there was a number of rows among the surplus young men. The ball broke up in a fight in which three of the young men were killed. The murderers escaped to the Mexican side of the river. Resumption of Iron Mills. At Pittsburg on January 1st, the Sligo Iron Mill, the Oliver '& Roberts, wire and rod mill and the mill of Dill worth & Co., either resumed op¬ eration or increased the number of workmen. At least 3,000 men are now employed in these works that were idle last week. Pendergast is Hopeful. The Attorneys for Pendergast will ask for a new trial for their client and should that be refused will appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Pendergast is very keysiul. WASHINGTON NOTES. Items of General Interest that are Occur¬ ring at the Capital City. in Tho Sctnnie. 16th Day.— When the Vice-Presi¬ dent rapped for order at noon today, there were hardly a score ot Senators in their seats, and it was some time before a quorum was announced. Mr. Eppa Hunton of Virginia reading was sworn of ill immediately after tlie the journal. A resolution was offered by Mr. Fry of Maine relative to rela¬ tions of the Uuited States towards Hawaii, and a bill by Mr. Hill limiting the effects of the regulations of com¬ merce between the several States and with foreign countries. Mr. l’ugh of Alabama, called up a bill, for the re¬ lief of certain aliens who had acquired property in the District of Columbia. After considerable debate tho bill was passed. At 12:40 the Senate went into executive session and at 1 ;23 ad¬ journed : 17th Day —Iu the Senate today Senator Hoar introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for his authority for the payment of special Commissioner Blount for his Hawaiian services. Senator Gray served notice that on Tuesday next the democrats would in¬ sist upon taking up the federal elec¬ tion bill and continuing with its con¬ sideration until the measure should bo finally disposed of. The session was short and uninteresting'the body ad¬ journed at 1:20 until next Mondav. In The Hoiimo. 16th Day. — The House today met at noon but adjourned at 2:00 p. m. for lack of a quorum. There was consid¬ erable animation on the floor in the interim. It was clearly discernable that the republicans propose to force the democrats to enact legislation with their own quorum, when the said leg¬ islation does not set well with them. The democrats realizing the situation instructed the sergent-at-arms to notify all absentees by telegraph that public business was suspended and request¬ ing their immediate presence. I7th Day.—I n the House a repeti¬ tion of yesterday’s experience resulted, for the republicans refused to vote upon any question that did not suit them, and the democrats lacked twen¬ ty-nine votes of having a quorum of their own present. It was fully de¬ cided, however, by the democrats on account of (he opposition they have met to force the tariff' question to a voce before the consideration of any question be allowed. After two un¬ successful efforts to get a quorum to vote the house adjourned. 18tii Day.— Republicans were aga n able to block the proceedings in the house today by refusing to vote. The dommittee on rules, however, made a report that the final vote on the tariff bill should lie taken January 25th. It looks very much like some of the Democrats are in league with the re¬ publicans by the way they keep out of reacli of the roll call, or by refusing to vote when they are present. Oates’ New Bill. Representative Oates of Alabama has introduced the following important bill to provide for the coin¬ age of silver bullion now owned by the United States: Section 1. That all of the silver bull¬ ion now owned by United States shall be coined as speedily as practicable in¬ to standard silver dollars of the weight and fineness now prescribed by law, which shall be a legal tender iu payment of all debts, public aud pri- Vale; provided, that one-seventh part of said bullion may be coined into half dollars, quarter dollars aud dimes in the proportion directed by ihe secre tavy of the treasury aud to contain the amount of pure silver and aiioy as now prescribed by law for such coin¬ age. {sec. 2. That the secretary of the treasury shall set aside 40,000,000 of the dollars coined as aforesaid for the redemption of the notes issued by the treasury and paid out for tho purchase of silver bullion in the manner pro¬ vided in the act of July 14, 1890, and whenever the said sum is reduced be- low $40,000,000 by the redemption of said notes, the said secretary shall, from any other silver dollars iu the treasury not otherwise appropriated, add to the said suiq so as to keep it up to $40,000,000 until tho aggregate amount of said notes outstanding is reduced below that stun, and theu the said secretary shall keep in the treas¬ ury for their redemption an amount of silver dollars equal to tho amount Of notes outstanding until they are all re¬ deemed; provided, that the said secre¬ tary may reissue auy of said notes when redeemed as provided in the said act of July 14, 1890. Sec. 3. That any contract hereafter made by the government of the United States, or between corporations, or be¬ tween corporations and a person or parsons, or between private persous, which is by its terms or by law paya¬ ble in dollars or dollars and cents, may be paid at its maturity or there¬ after in any lawful coin of tho United States. $1.00 a Year in Advance. VOL.IV. NO. 35. t.et’H Retwi’u Thank*. Postmaster General Bissell has giv- on his last order for (lie printing of the Columbian postage stamps, known in the department as the “big Colum¬ bian.” This order was for 1 05,000,- 000, and it completes tho 2,000,000,000 contracted for by Mr. Wanamaker. Iu a lilne or Two, The public debt increased during December $0,801,002. Cash on hand January 1st, $787,014,701. The date of holding the Democratic caucus to consider the tariff bill will not be fixed for several days yet. The Globe Theatre, Boston, Mass., was almost totally destroyed, together with several adjacent buildings. The loss will aggregate at least $1,000,000, which is covered by insurance. The old State Capitol building at Miiledgevilie, Ga., now used for school purposes. The State holds in¬ surance of $20,000 which will cover the losses. O’neill’s Grand Opera House at Charleston S. C. Insured for $22,000. Whitehead and Watkins building, Dublin. Ga, Loss $28,000. In¬ surance, $11,000. The entire plant of the Interstate Street railway company at Farmers- ville, Miss,, was destroyed. Loss $100,000; insurance $60,000. One hundred men thrown out of work. At Toledo, O., a $600,000 fire oc¬ curred on Wednesday. Hot Springs was visited by a destruc¬ tive conflagration the past week. The losses will aggregate about $70,000. Wine Years au(l a Month. One of the most bitter contested cases ever tried iu a Federal Court in the South, has just ended at Jackson, Tenn., and Dr. Howard, a lead¬ ing attorney and Baptist doctor of di¬ vinity has been found guilty of using the mails for fraudulent purposes aud has been sentenced to nine years and one month in the penitentiary at Co- Iambus, Ohio, and fined iu the sum of $1200. To convict Howard (lie gov¬ ernment has spent at least $75,000 The case will be appealed to the su¬ preme court of the United States. »Y MOLES ALE KILLING. A Party 111 Texas Breaks up in altov Three Persons Killed. A dispatch from Columbia, Texas, gives the full particulars of a whole¬ sale killing at a party at Cedar Hill, about fifteen miles from there. E. N. Williams was dancing on the floor and aroused the animosity of Lemmon Gale, who demanded that he must surrender his place on the floor. Wil¬ liams at first refused, but Gale became boisterous, and Williams started from the room, when Gale, with his broth¬ er, Loudon Gale, aud Boh Ealy, began firing at Williams aud others. Lon¬ don Gale shot through the window and and killed Eli Waddy, a boy, when an¬ other boy, Isaac Scott, remarked, “London Gale has killed Eli Waddy,” whereupon London turned aud say¬ ing: “What is that to you?” shot the boy through the body and killed him instantly. In the following fusilade a woman was shot through the breast and is now dead. Lemmon Gale was shot through the body aud will die. A girl was shot in the face near the eye, and another squarely in the middle of tho forehead, the ball glancing and lodg¬ ing next to the skin back ot the head. One boy was shot through the arm, aud another through the right baud, and others received various wounds. After Lemmon Gale was shot, it is said his brother, Loudon, sprang 111 and stood over his prostrate body, Winchester to his shoulder, aud fired repeatedly into the panic-stricken dan¬ of cers, who were unable to get out the house in time to avoid his ven¬ geance. Three are dead, a fourth fa- tally wounded, two seriously wound¬ ed, and about a half dozen have minor injuries. London Gale is reported to be safely locked up in the county jail, and it is reported that Ealy has been captured. The Pangs of Hunger. At Cleveland, O., a large crowd of unemployed men marched to the city hall ana demanded work from tbe city authorities. They were accompanied by fully 100 women, many of whom carried children in their arms. When informed there was no work for them the men became augry and mauy threats were made. “We will have work or tear down the city hall,” said one of the leaders. “Our families are suffering and we must have employment or bread.” The city authorities, Citizen’s Relief association aud the various charitable iustutions are caring for thousands of the unemployed, but much distress still exists. Will De a Candidate. It has been announced that Repre¬ sentative W. C. Oates, will bo a can¬ didate for Governor of Alabama- John L. Bobs up Serenely. John L. Sullivan (be ex-champion pugplist says he wants to challenge die winnier of the Corbett -Mitchell con¬ test. TALLEST EXTANT ANIMAT Malo Giraffes Have Reached a Height of KlKlitoeu Feet. Compared with their extinct allies of earlier periods down of the earth’s general history, it may be laid as a rule that the large animals of the present day are decidedly inferior in point of size. territorial Dur¬ ing the latter portion of the period, for instance, before the incoming of the glacial attained epoch, when mammals ap¬ de¬ pear to have their maximum velopment, there lived elephants along¬ side of which ordinary individuals of the existing dwarfs, species would have looked al¬ most while tho cave bear and the cave hyena attained considerably larger dimensions than their living rep¬ resentatives, and some of the sable- toothed larger tigers than most have biggest been consider¬ ably the African or Bengal lion. Again, the remains of red deer,bison,and wild oxen disinterred from the caverns and other suriicial deposits of this country indicate animals fat superior in size to their degenerate de¬ scendants of the present day, while some of the extinct pigs from the Siwalik Hills of northern India might be com¬ pared in stature to a tapir rather than to an ordinary wild boar. The same story is told of reptiles, the giant tor¬ toise of tire Siwalik Hills, iu spite of its dimensions having been considerably exaggerated, greatly exceeding in size the largest living giant tortoises of either The the Mascarene latter rocks or the have Galapagos yielded Islands. the also remains of a long-snouted crocodile, al¬ lied to the gavial of the Ganges, which probably measured from fifty to sixty feet in length, whereas it is very doubt¬ ful if any existing member of the order exceeds half the smaller of these dimen¬ sions. If, moreover, we took iuto ao- count totally extinct types, such as the megatheres ami mylodons of South America, and contrasting them with their nearest living allies—in this in¬ stance the sloths and anteaters—the dis¬ crepancy in size would be still more marked, but such a comparison would scarcely be analogous to the above. To every rule there is, however, an exception, and. there are a few groups of living large mammals whose existing members appear never to have been sur passed in size by their fossil relatives. Foremost among these are the whales, which now appear to include the largest members of thd order which have evet existed. The so-called white or square¬ mouthed rhinoceros of South Africa seems also to be fully equal in size to any of its extinct ancestors; and the'Same'is certainly true of the giraffe, which may even exceed all its predecessors in this respect. Whether, which however, the fossil giraffes, of the more anon, height were or were not individuals equals iu of the largest of the living species there is no question but that the latter is by far the tallest of all living mammals, and that it was only rivalled in this re¬ spect among extinct iorms by its afore¬ said ancestors. like Moreover, if we gigantic exclude creatures some of the dinosaurian reptiles of the secondary epoch, which, so to speak, gained height an unfair advantage hind as legs regards kangaroo- by sitting on their in a liko manner, and limit our comparison to snob as walk on all four feet in the good old-fashioned way, wo shall find that giraffes are not only the tallest mam¬ mals, but likewise the tallest of all ani¬ mals that have ever existed. As regards the height attained by the male of the tallest of quadrupeds, there is, unfortunately, a lack of accurate in formation, and since it is probable that the majority of those now living are in¬ ferior in size to the largest individuals which existed when the species was far more numerous than at present, it is to be feared that this deficiency in our knowledge Is not very likely to be rem¬ edied. By some given writers the sixteen height feet, of and the male giraffe is at feet, that of the female at fourteen but this is certainly below the reality. For instance, Mr. II. A. Bryden states that a female he shot in Southern Africa measured seventeen feet to the summit# of the horns. From the evidence of a very large though badly preserved speci¬ men in the Natural History Museum it may, however, be inferred that flue males certainly reach the imposing height of eighteen feet.—[Knowledge. Giaut of the Land Crabs. The Titan of the land crab family is Birgus latro, commonly resident called the “purse crab,” a of the islands of the Indian and South Pacilio Oceans. Mature adults full are in frightful looking creatures, 2 feet length and from 8 to 14 inches across the back, capable of “rearing back” and pinching iu defense, a man hip high when acting which they are not slow to • do if molested. The pinchers are, of course, on the first pair of legs, which are large and powei- ful; tlie second and third pairs are armed with but single claws, while the fourth pair (which are much smaller thau either the second or third and not one-tenth as strong as the “pincer car¬ riers") are provided fifth with a pair of weak little nippers. A pair of legs, but so small as to simply be useless rudi¬ ments, are attached lo the body near the abdomen. Although not identical with the “co- coanut crab,” described in “Notes for the Curious” on December 24, 1892, its habits are similar to those of that curious species of tho crustao-a. Like the real “cocoanut crab,” it climbs the coooanut tree and cuts off the nuts with its power¬ ful pincers. When a sufficient number have been secured he slowly and care¬ fully descends to the grouud, pulls the husks from the nuts and, after striking them over a alone or root, devours the meat at leisure.—[St. Louis Republic.