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VOL. I.
NOT TO BE MENDED ACAIN.
You oan take a piece of china that’s been broken by the mahl,
And can put the thing together if you know the mender’s trade;
You can mend the thing so neatly that no one will ever know
That it has e’er been shattered by an uneonsidered blow.
You can take a heart that’s broken by some small flirtatious girl,
•knd can mend the fractured pieoes till they’re smooth as any pearl,
Av say that that heart’s possessor feels as sturdy as an oak,
And forgets that o’er it happened that his heart was ever “broke.”
You can fall from a bicycle and make pieoes of your nose;
You eau break your collar-bone, or you ean fracture all your toes;
You can crush your arm in splinters; you can smash your either leg,
And a doctor he will fix it till it’s whole as any egg.
You oan smash an oeean record, but that record still is there,
You may break a trotting record with a rapid little mare,
Aud leave the old one standing a-huzzaing just as whole, through quite the as street. complete,
As when it sent the jockeys
But alas! if. you arc angry, and have angry words to say,
Beware a broken silence, or you’ll surely rue the day.
For fl silence, that is broken, by the women or the men,
Is a thing that eau’t be mended, can’t be rendered whole again,
The Cavern of Flies.
w < W/T CRUZ,
Ji Mexico, June 21
/ —At F e c o h,
State of Ynca
tan, and at other
-JijfcY=31 Hlliil ~ •fe' Pisces State, the in
sun
V has been ob¬
scured for sev¬
eral days by
clouds of flies, which came from the
interior country.—The New York Sun.
Is this the proof of the story
by the late General Jo O. Shelby,
Confederate who never
but who, nevertheless, died
States Marshal for the Western
trict of Missouri? Has the Cavern
Flies broken loose?
it was near this same Fecoh,
cording to the General’s story,
Walter Andrews Balister,
living near Kansas City, Mo., won
fortune by entering the famous
of Flies.
The Cavern of Flies is one of
most wonderful and, at the same time,
one of the most hideous places in
world.
Balister’s advent ure, in daring
inexpressible terror, is not
by the most extravagant flights of
tion. The memory of his
undoubtedly wore upon
mind, for he packed up six years
and left his home, saying:
"I am going to Greenland, where
is too cold for flies. ’
It is not known in what year
went to .Yucatan. By a strange
of fortune this tall, thin youth,
the district of Missouri, where
James boys bad their haunts,
himself shipping from New Orleans
one of a party to explore the
ruins of Yucatan.
When he returned to Jackson.Conn
ty in 1880 his old frieuds did not
him. His face and hands were eov
ered with countless tiny blue spots,
jf he had been tattooed. Ho
plenty of money, although he
from the Missouri lulls with
except the six-shooter in his hip poc
ket.
He built a fine house. Each
of the house was provided with firm
wire netting. A summer house in the
grounds was built, enmeshed entirely
with netting. When asked why he
used all this expensive wire netting,
Balister replied, gruffly:
“To keepout flies!”
Soon his black servants told a
strange story. Their master’s chief
requirement was that they should let
no flies into the house. If lie heard
one buzzing, every person iu the
house was ordered to kill that fly, to
do nothing until the fly was killed.
One day Balister found a black boy
asleep with a fly perched on his nose.
He struck the boy a blow that all but
killed him!
It was too near the big up-to-date
town of Kansas City for black boys to
be struck down by their masters,
hence Balister was arrested for assault
with intent to kill.
He declared he aimed at the fly, not
’the boy. This excuse was considered
a bit of grim humor.
It was this circumstance that led
the strange man to tell to the late
General J. O. Shelby the story of the
“Cavern of Flies. ” General Shelby
told the story several times in con
yivia! moments.
Balister’s father was one of my
bravest soldiers,” said General Shelby,
“and rode to Mexico with me rather
than surrender to the Yankees. I met
young Balister, but never asked him
what made bis face blue. Gentlemen,
that man was blue all over! When he
Was charged with trying to kill the
boy, <<’ he said to me:
‘General, it is no joke—I did aim
at the fly!’
“Then he told me the story which,
he said, had never passed his lips be
fore, it was so painful for him to tell,
“It seems that somewhere in the in
terior of Yucatan, near Fecoh, two of
the expedition, accompanied by Balis
ter, found a lot of ruins covered by
forest trees. An immense hill of lava
attracted them, and it was around the
bill they found these ruins.
“Among the peculiar features of
ancient temple was an underground
tunnel, which, by observation, they
found to lead into the hill of lava rock.
“In their efforts to follow ^his tun.
Murray News
STRING PLACE. GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 30, 1897.
net the party was driven back by
swarms of flies! The walls and ceiling
of the passage were covered with a
species of flies which puzzled the ex¬
plorers. They had never seen flies. any
flies of that sort in that laud of
“Determined to solve the mystery
of the underground passage, the party
covered their faces and hands with
cloths and pushed resolutely on
through ever-increasing clouds of flies.
As they went further the ancient air
grew warmer and moist, and an intol¬
erable odor assailed them. They were
driven back.
“The next day they tried again, and
were rewarded by Bigns of light. En
couraged by the light, they fonglit
through the swarms of insects aud en
tered what seemed the crater of an ex¬
tinet volcano. The terrible smell was
from masses of flies underfoot. Warm
fumes still arose from the rocks,
High above them were the apertures
j through which came the daylight,
“‘It is a burial place!’ exclaimed
the explorers,
“Balister knew nothing of the de
light of unearthing the traces of ex
tiuct nations, his business was to inau
age mules, but he was filled with won
der to behold row s up on rows oi erect
skeletons along the walls. The Bones
of the mysterious dead were covered
with flies.
■• T he uext discovery was that the
arms anti ankles of the skeletons were
deeorated with braoelets. Pendants
hung from grisly necks upon empty
rd}S (l:u | diaphragms!
“It was Balister who cried, ‘They
are gold!’
“Almost blinded by the attacks of
i nseo ts, the men began to wrest the
treasure from the spectres of an uu*
kll0wn past.
“Balister knocked grinning skulls
of queens and nobles from their shoul
ders aTld strung his arms with rich
„eekiae.es of virgin gold,
“Then arose a sound like the gib
geviug of ten thousand fiends,
“Frightened and half running for
t h e mouth of the tunnel, the men re
alized that it was not the augry mnr
muriaga of the ghosts of a forgotten
race, but the uprising of countless
millions and billions of flies!
“The swarms blotted out the rifts of
daylight, The torches were extin¬
guished, and the men fell upon their
faces to escape the attack.
“Then, joining hands, they sought
to find the tunnel through which they
had entered. The pests got under
their clothes, under the cloths over
their faces, and they were bitten in a
thousand places.
“Balister said his companions
screamed with agony!
“They groped along the sides of the
cavern, but everywhere their frantic
hands felt nothing but the bony legs
of the dead.
“Balister, gentlemen, was not a fat,
spectacled scientist. He was a strong,
fearless young man of the stuff that
never surrendered. Yet he said that
he felt his mind melting like a snow¬
ball in an oven. He wanted to scream
and gibber!
“But, observe Missouri instinct all
this time—he clung to his booty!
“He does not know how long the
three men struggled in that avalanche
of insects that choked them, that bit
them in the gullet even as they were
swallowed.
Balister , lost , , hold ,, of . , his .
com
panions. Their screams, he said,
sounded muffled in the angry roar of
the myriads of flies which were eating
them alive!
Almost ready to fall and have hie
bones picked, Balistei, by Missouri
instinct, drew his gun and began to
shoot !
“Although Bhooting at flies was
mere madness, Balister said that the
act of shooting saved his sanity. It
" as 80 natural an act for a Missourian,
gentlemen!
“‘I yelled,’ Balister said to me,
‘when I saw, by the flashes, the mouth
of the tunnel!’
“ ‘Come on!’ he Bhouted to his com
panions, shooting as he ran and
bled through the tunnel. The flies
pursued him every step.
“He plunged into the court of the
ruined temple, threw down his booty,
and there tore off his clothes and
brushed from his flesh the flies tha+
clung like leeches. He was black
with them, black and red—for the
blood ran in streams.
“Running to the cam)) he smeared
himself with ointment.
“So engrossed was Balister with his
own torments that he did not, for the
time, think of his employers.
“Gentlemen, they never came out!”
“Balister assured me on his honor
that he went back the whole length of
the tunnel, in vain, thinking he might
find them lying there unconscious.
“He told me he remained among
the ruins several days. He couldn’t
sleep because, at night, he thought he
heard screams in the tunnel.
“Once he screwed up his courage to
go to the mouth of the passage and
call when he heard the screams. He
said he thought he heard mocking
laughter in reply. the Mexi¬
“Balister concluded that
can authorities would laugh at his
story, shoot him as a murderer and
take Iris gold. idea, he hid
“Possessed with this
the gold in the pack saddles of his
mules and made his way to the coast
without attempting to find the rest of
the expedition, which searched vainly
for the men who were eaten alive.
“ ‘I am perfectly sane,’ he told me,
'but I can’t bear the sight of a fly.’ ”
—New York Journal.
A riRcc For tile Wheels.
When the bicyole first became o
popular method of locomotion, and be
fore it was regarded as more than a
fad, to run its course as other fads,
tkere was much complaint on the part
of some merchants when wheels were
stacked in front of their places of bnsi
ness to the obscurity of low signs and
to the danger of plate glass. At Beta
few places notioes of “No bicycles
were displayed. As the wheels be
came more aud more numerous the
enterprising merchants provided racks
for the rvheeis of their customers, and
now a merchant on the avenue lias
outstripped competitors by placing a
large sign in his window: Wheel
rack inside for customers. One of
the “no bicycle’ signs that was given
a place in front of an F street store for
a year or two was lately taken down
and thrown into the ash barrel. Its
exile came about for commercial rea
sons. One day the proprietor met one
of his old customers on the street am
incidentally remarked that he haun t
made any purchases for a long time.
“No,” replied the customer. I
went to your store about a year ago
on my wheel to make a purchase. I
dismounted, and upon looking fora
place to rest it, my eye came in con
tact with that sign, ‘No bicycles. I
couldn’t put the wheel in my pocket,
aud consequently I remounted, found
a store where there was no prejudice
against wheels, made my purchase,
and there I have dealt ever since.
That experience was enough to cause
the dealer to remove his sign from his
window front to liis ash barrel.
Washington Star.
American Peanut OIL
The first peanut oil factory in the
United States will be established in
Norfolk, Va., at an early date. The oil
is highly valued in Europe, and it is
stated that fully $5,000,000 worth of
peanuts are brought into Marseilles
annually for the manufacture of oil,
which is used in toilet soaps and for
other purposes. The peanut flour is
quite extensively used in Europe and
made into bread, cake, biscuit, etc. It
is one of the favorite articles of food,
according to consular reports, in hos¬
pitals in Germany. The capital stock
or the present company is $60,000, and
it is operating under the patents of
Mr. Weatherly, which cover the ma¬
chinery and methods of decorticating
the kernel of the inner skin. Accord¬
ing to the estimates made, the cost of
a plant for treating five tons of pea
nuts daily is as follows: Machinery,
$9000; building, $6000, while the ex
penditures, including labor, insur
a rice and taxes, amount to $337 per
day. In a prospectus issued by the
company it is calculated that the re
ceipts from five tons of peanuts will
amount to 235 gallons of refined oil at
$1 per gallon; 175 gallons of crude oil
at fifty cents; 3680 pounds of flour
and meal, at two cents, and 3680
pounds of stock feed, at sixty cents j
per 100 pounds, making the total grow 4
receipts $415.90 per day, which, it
estimated, would give a yearly profit
on a five-ton factory of $19,725.-At
lanta Constitution.
They no Not Marry Young,
The average age at which people in
England marry has steadily risen for
a good ma ny years. Sir Brydges Eng
Hennjker, Registrar General for
] a tid and Wales, has only now com
pie t ed his detailed reportfor 1895, and
be states that the mean ages of those
who entered wedlock in that year were
a bout twenty-eight and a half years
for men and slightly over twenty-six
years for women. These figures, how
ever, include the ages of widowers
n nd widows who re-enter the rnatri
, monial estate, and who ought properly
j to be excluded from the calculation,
for the average age of widowers who
re-marrv is over forty-four, while that
of widows is forty, If, therefore,
we deal only with the caseof bachelors
and spinsters, we find that the mean
; ages on marriage are twenty-six and t
half and twenty-five respectively. Tht
number of under-age marriages regis
tered in 1895 was the lowest records
for between forty and fifty years, ...
HORSES KILLED TO SAVE GRASS.
A Perplexing Problem Which Confronts
Northwest Kanchmen,
The interesting news comes from
the oity of Butte, Montana, that in sev¬
eral parts of that State horses are so
numerous and there is so little use for
them that they are being killed by
ranchmen aud their flesh fed to liogs
as food instead of corn In 'Madison
County several horse meat canning es»
tablishmeuts are now in operation,
and the product is said to be shipped
East and then to Europe. Horses can
be bought for $3 tl head or even less
when purchased in large numbers.
These facts suggest the inquiry as to
what is to become of the horse. With
the introduction of electricity on street
car lines, where, until a few years ago,
horses were practically the sole motive
poiter, and with the ever-increasing
use of the bicycle, there horse seems to be
less use for the than ever.
This use of electricity and bicycles
makes it probable that horses will be
bred in very small numbers hereafter.
In the States of Montana, North
Dakota, Idaho, Washington aud Wy¬
oming hundreds of thousands of dol¬
lars have been invested in cattle,
sheep and horses. Large herds were
formerly driven from Texas and the
Southwest to fatten on the nutritious
grasses to be found in flhe States
named, but the constant increase in
Fie number * of cattle, especially those
0 j (q ie Half breed variety, has also
caused a redaction iu their value,
Tlio establishment of oanning fac
to ries in Madison County, Montana,
where horse meat iB put up is not the
firgt expei . iment of the kind in the
Nort]awes t, In 1895 it was made in Port
bmd, Oregon, where horse meat was
canned and shipped to France. It was
found, however, that the enterprise
did not pay) tlle demand being insuf
fio ; entj w h.ile packers of , beef refused
to add horse meat to their line of trade
because of the prejudice which would
nr j 8e
Reports from Madison County state
a j g0 jj la t horses iu some instances are
driven into corrals on the ranches,
kjlll , d and the bodies dragged out into
the fieldSj wLere the hogs can devour
It seems almost incredible that
this- should be the case, but it* has
cume be a matter of self-preserva
districts, t - ou , vjth tho own6rs 0 f large grazing
wliere there was danger that
the horses would eat up all the grass,
thereby leaving no fodder whatever for
beef cattle.
it is not only the half breed horsos
that are found to be a drug on the mar
but such fine stock as Clydesdales
and coach horses are being offered by
r anchnien there for very small figures,
Q ne ranc Lman in Madison County is
said to liave tt herd of seventeen hun
dred horses of Clydesdale and Norman
stock which he is willing to dispose of
for g 15 a j lead . He is unwilling to
sacrifice his stock for canning pur
poses, although the herd is eating the
grass required for the grazing cattle
aud sheep.
The cattle herds in the Northwest
are numbered by thousands, the prices
for which are ridiculously small. The
feed on the ranges is not increasing,
while the cattle are, thus making the
problem of finding feed more difficult.
These immense herds roam the prairies
of North Dakota, Washington, Mon¬
tana and Idaho.—New York Herald.
Moving: Hospital#.
The railway hospital car is the latest
novelty in foreign railroading. In the
event of a serious accident, these cars
can be run to the place of the disaster,
where the injured may be picked up
and carried to the nearest large city
for treatment instead of being left to
pass long hours at some wayside station
while awaiting surgical attendance.
B also enables ,, the railway ,, companies
»t certain seasons or upon special oc
casions to transport large numbers of
invalids to health resorts or places of
pilgrimage. The interior of the car is
divided into a main compartment, a
corridor on one side and two small
rooms at the end The largest corn
partment is the hospital proper; it
contains twenty-four isolated beds,
Each patient lies in front of two little
windows. Each bed is provided with
f movable table, and A cord serves to
Hold all the various small objects
which the patient may require The
corridors on the outside lead to the
l»nen closet and the doctor s apart
“ent. Various trap doors in the floor,
when opened, compartment disclose for to the view disinfec¬ an ice
chest, a provision
tion of soiled linen, and a
cellar. If necessary, a portion of the
hospital chamber may be transformed
into an operating room for urgent
cases. Finally, as customary abroad,
a small chapel for religious worship is
provided. This ear will be put in
charge of a surgeon and nurses, and
will be chiefly used to carry invalids
from Belgium direct to the health re¬
sorts of France.
Bum Dam Ballets.
Dum Dum bullets, as the modifica
tion of the Lee-Metford small-calibre
missile modified by softening the tip
is called in India, have proved success
ful. Surgeons, after experimenting
with them, say that the wound inflicted
will not only stop the most determined
enemy, but will render him useless for
toe rest of the campaign. The bullet
“sets up” very much on impact and
uakes a particularly severe wound
,vhen it strikes the bone.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
The offender never forgives.
More have repented speech than si¬
lence.
Woman lives for sentiment, man
for action.
He that is slow to wrath is of great
uuderstailding.
Of two evils, choose the least; ol
two sins, neither.
It pleases a woman to be told that
she is fascinating.
It pleases a woman to call her a sen¬
sible little woman.
Speak well of yonr friend, of your
enemy say nothing.
He who says what he likes will hear
what he does not like.
Satisfaction comes by inches, disap¬
pointment by the foot.
Opinions are mortgages the world
holds upon our liberty.
He who has a thousand friends has
not one friend to spare.
The doctor is often more to be
dreaded than the disease.
Cupid has given some people the
hardest fall they ever got.
Recollection is the only paradise out
of which we can not be driven.
Some people, like the earth, have to
be broken up before they become use
ful.
They who cannot have what they
like should learn to like what they
have.
Opportunity makes short calls.
When one is out it leaves a card and
moves on.
It pleases a woman to be told that
she improves a man by her companion¬
ship.
There is pleasure in meeting the
eyes of those to whom we have done
good.
Thinking well is wise; planning
well, wiser; doing well, wisest and
bestofall.
The bitterest medicine is sweet to a
boy if he thinks his younger brother
wants it.—The South-West.
Alleged Occurrence of Frog;* in Stone.
The occurrence of living frogs aud
toads inclosed iu blocks of rock or
stone or in clay, many feet below the
surface of trie ground, has often been
reported, but never substantiated, Bays
Leisure Hour. Dr. R. H. Traquair,
keeper of the Natural History Collec¬
tion in the Museum of Science and
Art, Edinburgh, has examined this
delusion, among others, and he puts
all such reports down to want of pow¬
er of accurate observation. A stone is
being broken, a frog is seen hopping
about close to the place, and forthwith
the lively imagination of the quarry
man persuades him that he has seen it
actually come out of the cavity in the
rock. Dean Bnckland made experi¬
ments for the purpose of ascertaining
how long frogs and toads could live
shut up in cavities of stone ami ex¬
cluded from air and food, with the re¬
sult that most of them were dead with¬
in a year, and none survived more
than two years. Yet frogs are alleged
to have been found inclosed in rocks
which, geology teaches, were deposit¬
ed under water millions of years ago,
and afterward subjected to a pressure
which has crushed all the fossils con¬
tained in them as flat as paper. If
geology is right, the frog stories are
utterly incredible, Or, as Dr. Tra¬
quair puts it, the blow of the hammer
that disclosed a live frog inside a block
of stone without an opening would at
the same time destroy not only geol¬
ogy but the whole fabric of natural
science.
Very Large Dog.
Nero, a dog owned by Wayne Bailey,
of Rutland, is said to be the largest
canine in the world, says the Vermont
Phoenix. He tipped the scales Friday
at 267 pounds, and would undoubtedly
have gone ten pounds better three
weeks ago.
Nero is a handsome half German
and half English mastiff, fawn brindle
in color, his huge head being of a tn
fie darker shade. He is as agile and
lively as a eat. He makes a splen ie
watch dog but is a kind and affection
ate animal.
Mr. Bailey bought him at West Exit
land when he v,uS six months ol , ie
ls now four years old. At the time of
purchase Nero weighed 162 pounds
The animal stands up horn e
ground thirty-five inches and girths
fifty inches. The dog s neck is unusu
ally large, measuring thirty inches, and
from tip to tip he measures six feet
five and one-half inches.
Bat He Got the Woodehack.
Charles , Freeman, T , ten . years old ,, re
siding on the Ford farm, Derby Hill
Conn while chasing a woodchuck had
one of his toes so badly injured it is
feared it will have to be amputated.
The groundhog had plumped into a
stone wall and to get at him the boy
loosened a heavy stone from the wall.
This hs held up with one hand, while
with the other he grabbed the wood¬
chuck, and as he did so the stone fell
on his bare foot. Though he suffered
mu oh pain, he pluekily’held the ani¬
mal until assistance came.
The average yield of potatoes to the
acre in France is 102 bushels; in Ger
many, 121; in Italy, 164; in Holland,
177; ia thf United Btates, 75. _____
NO. 49.
IF WE OilLY KNEW.
Ah! sisters, if wo only knew each grief
That rends the other, we could never hate,
Nor even think remorse could come too
late,
8o she brought with her a more kind belief.
Most surely prejudice is a foul thief
Who steals love’s blossom through the
very gate It
Which we would shut against him. is
fate
That hands wtiich might extend us sweet
relief
Press down upon its thorns our coronet,
And when wo sob (or water reach ns gall,
And when our hearts ache thrust our
sides with seorn.
Oh, women, women! do yo then forgot
How all must stumble, though some only
fall?
How ye might stay with hope the feet
forlorn?
—Amelie Hives.
PtTH AND POINT.
“Give a poor fellow a lift,” solilo¬
quized the burglar, aud he lifted a
frozen diamond rings.—Washington
Capital.
Lady—“Where is my trunk?” Por¬
ter—“I couldn’t find any trunk, mum,
but I’ve got the handle with the label
on. ”—Standard.
Freshman—“What makes you think
these eggs were stolen?” Clubmate—
“You can see yourself they’ve been
poached.”—Princeton Tiger.
Doctor—“Your friend shows some
improvement.” Patient’s Friend—
“Does he?” Doctor—“Yes; he ad¬
mits that lie’s a crank.”—Puck.
Wife—“How people gaze at my new
dress. I presume they wonder if I’ve
been shopping in Paris. ” Husband—
“More likely they wonder if I’ve been
robbing a bank. ”—Tit-Bits.
Hamm—“From the very first time
I went upon the stage my aim has been
a high one.” Tom Mentor—“Yes,
I’ve always noticed that you invariably
played to the gallery.”—Boston Trans¬
cript.
“What does that man Slickly do for
a Hying?" “For board and lodging
he floes the hotels, and for clothes
does his tailor. Outside of that he
does the best he can.”—Detroit Free
Press.
Chambermaid—“Last evening Mon¬
sieur took me for his wife.” Cook—
“Ah! He kissed you, I suppose?”
“Not in the least! He called me names
and made a terrible scene.”—Le
Figaro.
“I guess there’s something the
matter with our rubber-tree, ” observed
the small boy. “I’ve been watching
it for a year or two now, and it
hasn’t sprouted any overshoes yet.”—
Harper’s Bazar.
Mr. Bedford—“I believe in reci¬
procity iu underwear. ” Mr. Webster
— “What do you mean by that?” Mr.
Bedford—“Stick to your winter flan¬
nels until they stick to you.”—Pitts¬
burg Chronicl 3-Telegraph.
The Judge—“Didn’t I tell you the
last time that you were here that I
wanted to see your face iu this court
no more?” Weary Watkins—“You
did, yeronner, and that is exactly wot
I tole the cop."—Indianapolis Jour
nal.
Telescope Proprietor—“Step up,
ladies and gents, and view tho planet
Mars. Oue penny, mum.” Old Lady
—“Oh, law! Hain’t it round and
smooth?" Telescope Proprietor—
“Will the bald headed gent please step
away from in front of the instrument?”
—London Tit-Bits.
Husband — “Dearest Mathilde, 1
have made up my mind to grant all
your wishes, You shall go to the
mountains six weeks, you shall have a
new dress, and the parlor shall be sup¬
plied with new rococo furniture.”
Wife—“Oh, Charles! What have'you
been doing?”—Fliegende Blatter.
“Mercy!” cried Mr. Barker at the
restaurant. “Waiter, is this Neuf
chatel cheese?” “Yes, sir,” said the
waiter. “Well, I must say it tastes
like very old chatel cheese. Bring me
some cottage cheese instead, and be
sure it is made of some cottage since
the original Queen Anne period.”—
Harper’s Bazar.
sta*-Himtin* at Night,
Wonderfully elaborate open-air
f eteg| 0 ft en the scene of some mum
m f or coup de theatre celebrating
8ceI eg in conneotion wit h venery,
were frequent \ occurrences. Thus
Louig XI more than once held
stag-hunts * at night; ^ and for that pur¬
illumiua the 4 d t with fo egt torches, of Chantilly and was the
bunted stag | wasfoxoedtopasBtiiTough thousand
avenuefllin d b y several men
holding » brightly * J flaring flambeaux in
fteir h nd8 8e verftl of the prin<)eg8 e B
of hig court were dari ng riders, and
f rom the letters of one of these royal
ladies, a Duchess of Orleans, we learn
that in four J years she was present at
th deflth over a thousand stags,
Her de80ripticn8 & o{ the sport are most
8nthusia8t have had twenty-six
faH but have hurt myself only once,”
ghe J in one of her letters.
„ 8 ^ tg in the Seventeenth Century,”
in Century * .
A Tramp .rent Sea.
In the neighborhood of the Bermudas
the sea is extremely transparent, so
that the fishermen can readily see their the
horns of lobsters protruding from consider¬
hiding-places To in the entice rocks the at
able depth. crustaceans
from these crannies they tie a lot of
snails in a ball and dangle them in
front of the cautious lobster. When
he g rabs the ball the y haul him up.