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VOL. V. -NO. 39.
CHESKWTS.
... on-hard, all the day,
J*” 31:1 ?'f”ned and dropped away; ~ '
T*HP 11 *, ■“ d rcd they fell.
the .turjy chestnuts ovw the hill
Bating their burly Umb. in vain.
„ . ... „ ld the frost; “If you’ll hold yottr breath
vallev are still m death,
Till bd* 8 “ gZgU that shall opeu wide
Tta green where the treasures hide.
(Mr the roofs of * he sleeping towl1 ’
.Mr the hillsides bare and brown :
v,H and meadow and wood were crossed
Bj the Shining trail of the silvw frost. x
riose at the door of each guarded cell
He breathe.l the words of his wonderful spell,
"nd the bristling lances turned aside
And every portal opened wide.
rp sprang the wind with a Hud “Ho I Ho!”
Ann soured &e treasures to and fro;
And thiprnildren shouted, “ Come away!
There r . sport in the chestnut woods to-day.”
F How to Mimi a Baby.
First a man must have one to take
care of. It isn’t every one that is fort
unate enough to have one, and when he
does his wife is always wanting to run
ever to the neighbor’s live minutes, and
.he has to attend to the baby. Sometimes
she caresses him, and oftener she says,
sternly, “John, take good care of the
child "till I return.” You want to re
monstrate, but cannot pluck up courage
while the awful female eye is upon you ;
sc you prudently refrain, and merely re
mark: “Don’t stay long, my dear.”
She is scarcely out of sight when the
luckless babe opens its eyes, and its
mouth also, and emits a yell which
causes the cat to bounce out of the door
as if something had stung it. You tim
idly lift the cherub, and sing an operatic
sir; it does not appreciate it, and yells
the louder. You try to bribe it with a
bit of sugar ; not a bit of use, it spits it
out. You get wrathy and shake it. It
stops a second, and you venture an
other, when, good heavens! it sets up
such a roar that the passers-by look up
iu astonishment You feel desperate;
your hair stands on end and the perspii a
tion oozes out of every pore as the ago
nizing thought comes over - you, what if
the luckless child should have a tit!
ion try baby talk; but “ litty, litty
lamby” has no effect—for it stretches as
fl a red-hot poker hud been laid upon
its spine, and still it yells. Yon are
afraid the neighbors will be alarmed,
snd give it your gold watch as a last re
source, just in time to save your whis
kers; though it throws down a handful
of your cherished mu-taches to take the
watch, and you thankfully find an easy
thair to rest your aching limbs, when down
comes that costly watch upon the floor,
nnd the cause of all the trouble breaks
into an ear-splitting roar, and von set
your teeth and prepare to administer
personal chastisement, when in rushes
»ne happy woman known as your wife
snatches up the long-suffering child
from your willing arms, and, sitting
down, stills it by magic, while von gaze
mournfully a t the remaius o{ . wat , h
and cherished mustache, and, uttering
a malediction on babykind in general?
and on the image of its father in partic-
’ vow to take care of the ba,, y
again—until the next time. J
Ingenious But Ineffectual.
In Illinois some gentlemen bad a most
elaborate plan for obtaining drinks,
they formed an association for the
avowed purpose of promoting temper
ance, friendship, and such-like virtues.
Jne of the associates was already the
B ppy possessor of a dramshop; the as
sociation bought him out, hock, stock,
and barrel; then—for he was a jolly good
Jow— they elected him to the honor
.fi onerous position of treasurer,
Wid left him in charge of the old shop.
»k„ a ? xl ? U8 were le promoters to extend
fn benefits of temperance and
fc .V 'ti doors of their society
r °P en to imy and to all who
, T to pay the nominal fee of
io . ti" ‘ ar ’ J n token of payment of the
whin? 6 m<-mber received a ticket upon
tw< / Wer . e numbers from one to
of the IDclusive - Wheu moved by one
P . '‘l’e&sone why men drink;
Or u ?¥ n ?’ a friend, because I’m dry,
Or lest 1 should be bv and bv,
or any other reason why,” "
.caMed n P«n the treasurer,
Pwt ? 1 ticket ’ had 11 “umbei
dear rece i v ed Iris liquor or his
cav» Jd ,e treasurer took all the money,
boutrhf nil C °j to tl,e others, arid
The • » and smoicables.
■lindedn. i VaS 80 P re i n( liced, narrow
intluf ’ U( ! opposed to the enlightening
that of temperance and friendship
frail L?“ 8 ? deie<l the whole affair a
that th! ♦ deVlCe to eva,l,! tho law » and
tuiivSi :r , ! rer -' vas » uik y ° £ uniaw -
In liquor.
i n/‘7iiT t i al)liK ] lnM ' nt whenever a cub-
i ß aret te he was
The court •,J rea to a glass of whisky,
•oual ~v , know mg perhaps from per
ficlJ J.!l ne^ ce the cost of such ar-
Shbm’itted > aviD P, evidence thereof
tion was a f a?* 1 that tbe transac-
of theci,, arptl .® oft ia ' vl, ! Bk y well a s
Jf, p /• te’ an<£ a*ted accordingly.—
ia Albany Law
'‘Dert^H. n 0 \ Ca ??V anini is pronounced
J; ' Bplen<hd and just too awfully
b y the bang
bS? g i aaießol New York.-.Vem Or
( Awfnl ’.Y too too
tootootis P p n ? ,u “a ivocal’.st not a
" It’s of nn as Aiubl say,
•uir ci^ uo °° ’
.. n
finial that tlm T. 80 eiir ages the
he indicted ’* eS a man ’ can the
the SeeV: P “ 3 T c e X y befWe
®ic Dolton Skgus
In an Insect’s Place.
What a horrible place must this world
ippear when regarded according to our
deas from an insect's point of view! The
lir infested with huge flying hungry
Iragons, whose gaping and snapping
nouths are ever intent upon swallowing
;he innocent creatures for whom, accord
ng to the insect, if he were like us, a
aroperly constructed world ought to be
ixctusively adapted. The solid earth
iontiuually shaken by the approaching
'read of hideous giants—moving mount
lins—that crush out precious lives at
ivery footstep, an occasional draught of
she blood of these monsters, stolen at
ife-risk, affording but poor compensa
tion for such fatal persecution.
Let us hope that the littlej victims are
less like ourselves than the doings of
mts and bees might lead us to suppose;
that their mental anxieties are not pro
portionate to the optical vigilance indi
cated by the 4,000 eye-lenses of the com
mon house fly, the 17,000 of the cabbage
butterfly and the wide-awake dragonfly,
>r the 25,000 possessed by certain spe
cies of stid more vigilant beetles. The
insect must see a whole world of won
ders of which we know little or nothing.
True, we have microscopes, with which
we can see one thing at a time if care
fully laid upon the stage; but what is
the finest instrument Ross can produce
compared to that with 25,000 object
glasses, all of them probably achromatic,
and each one a living instrument with its
own nerve branch supplying a separate
sensation? To creatures thus endowed
with microscopic vision, a cloud of sandy
dust must appear like an avalanche of
massive rock fragments, and everything
else proportionally monstrous.
Insects are probably acquainted with
a whole world of physical facts of which
we are utterly ignorant. Our auditory
apparatus supplies us with a knowledge
of sounds. What are these sounds?
They are vibrations of matter which are
capable of producing corresponding or
sympathetic vibrations of the drums of
our cars or the bones of our skull. When
wo carefully examine the subject, and
count the number of vibrations that
produce our world of sounds of varying
pitch, we find that tbe human ear can
only respond to a limited range of such
vibrations. If they exceed 3,000 per
second the sound becomes too shrill for
average people to hear it, though some
exceptional ears can take up pulsations
or waves that succeed each other more
rapidly than this.
Reasoning from the analogy of
stretched strings and membranes and of
air vibrating in tubes, etc., we are justi
fied in concluding that the smaller the
drum or tube the higher will be the note
it produces wheu agitated, and the
smaller and the more rapid the aerial
wave to which it will respond. The
drums of insect ears, and the tubes, etc.,
connected with them, are so minute that
their world of sounds probably begins
where ours ceases; and what appeal’s
to us as a continuous sound is to them a
series of separated blows just as vibra
tions of 10 or 12 per second appear sep
arated to us. We begin to hear such
vibrations as continuous sounds when
they amount to 30 per second. The in
sect’s continuous sound probably begins
beyond 3,000. The bluebottle thus
enjoy a whole world of exquisite music
of which we know nothing. —Belgravia.
Idle Men in the House of Commons.
Everybody who has ever read it re
members Carlyle’s famous description
of the work-house of St. Ives, in Hunt
ingdonshire, and what the picturesque
tourist saw: “I saw sitting on wooden
benches, in front of their bastile, and
within their ringwall and its railings
some half hundred or more of these men.
Tall, robust figures, young mostly, or
middle age; of honest countenance, many
of them thoughtful and even intelligent
looking men. They sat there, near by
one another, but in a kind of torpor, and
especially in a silence which was very
striking. In silence; for alas! what
word was to be said? An earth all ly
ing round crying: ‘Come and till me,
come and reap me;’ yet we here set en
chanted! In the eyes and brows of
these men hung the gloomiest expres
sion, not of anger, but of grief amlshamo
and manifold inarticulate distress and
weariness; they returned my glance
with a glance that seemed to ‘Do
not look at us; we sit enchanted toefce we
know not why.’ The sun shines ar.d the
earth calls, and, by the governing powers
and impotences of this England, we are
forbidden to obey. It is inpyissilde,
they tell us! There was somethiig that
reminded me of Dante's hell in the look
of all this; and I rode swiftly awuy.”
An exactly similar scene may be uri t
nessed any night by a tourist, pictur
esque or otherwise, who finds his way
to the House of Commons. There they
are, moody and listless on their benches,
flitting aimlessly hither and thither from
corridor to corridor, sauntering through
the tea room, idling in the smoking
room, all at their wits’ ends how to get
through the dreary hours, and hoping
against hope that the morrow may break
the horrid spell. And so “many of them
thoughtful and intelligent looking meu.”
—Pall Mall Gazelle.
Did it ever occur to you that the band
usually stops playing just after you
have opened the window, knocked down
a shutter, and destroyed a lace curtain
or two in endeavoring to hear it more
plainly ?
♦
The planting of elm, maple, and othei
forest trees at proper distances along the
highways increases the value of adjoin
ing property and adds to the beauty and
comfort of the section. .In Germany
fruit trees adorn the waysides.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1883.
A STORY WITH A MORAL
IVtiat the Cnrryliiflr « r n Rnnqtiet to the
Wr«»tix 110 t»e l.fTerie I.
[Johnny Bouquet, in New York Tribune.]
It was not long ago that a gentleman
said to me—he was in wine—“ Johnny,
I will take your best bouquet—that big
one on a tray, fit to be the bridal bed of
Eve—if you will carry it to this ad
dress. ”
“All right, boss,” was my response,
as I took his SI 0 bill, ami observed a
rather devilish light in his eye, while he
wrote a name on a card. It was a beam
of the light that shone in the eye of
Cain as the discriminating flame of
heaven shot past his offering and blazed
on Abel's altar. However, I was not
particular about what was going on in his
mind, and he slipped the card in the
bouquet, and I started off to deliver it.
Stopping close by to change my note
and eat a bit of lunch, a good many peo
ple gathered near the great prize bou
quet and began to talk about and smell
it, and so, whether some jealous rival
stole that card, or whether I had dropped
it on tho street, the card was missing
when I took up the great salver of
flowers again.
I hastened bad. to the place where I
had met the gentleman. He had gone
away in a carriage. I told my trouble
to the hotel clerk, the gonial Gillis, and
he said, “Pshaw! take it to his wife. He
is no sporting man.”
Now, that gentleman I knew, by an
accident of passing his house, and I had
often admired the inflexible, the solitary,
the lofty aud self reliant quality in him.
He was kind to bis inferiors, manly to
his equals, haughty to his superiors.
About onee or twice a year he showed
liquor in his eyes, as if Cain bad bred on
Abel’s stock, and a little liquor brought
out the consanguinity. I said to my
self: “These flowers will wither for
which I have been paid. I believe he
meant to send them to his wife, and I
will take them there. ”
I rang the door-bell of his house and
asked for the lady. Shown into the par
lor I saw my buyer’s picture over the
mantel The house was not expensively
furnished, but looked like tbe abode of
perseverance in some moderately com
pensating profession and slow but gain
ing conquest on half fortune. A lady
entered the parlor and beheld the flowers.
She turned to me and said: “Who are
these for?”
“For you, Madam.”
“For me ?” Her face flushed. “Who
has dared to send flowers to me ?”
I saw I was in for it somewhere, and
that there was no safety save in con
sistent lying. “Your husband sent
them, Mrs. .” I heard his name,
and felt that this was his wife.
“My husband?” Her voice faltered.
“How came he to send me flowers?
Have you not made some mistake?”
“No, madam. He has never bought
flowers from me before. He is riot a
customer of gallantry. There is no
mistake about it.”
She seemed all fluttered like a widow
told that her dead husband has returned
to life. Looking now at the flowers,
again at his portrait, her eyes dilated and
her temples flushed. She walked to me
like a woman of authority, and under
some high mental excitement. Looking
into my eyes, she said:
“What did my husband say?”
“He said, madam, ‘I have not made a
present to my deal wife for years. Busi
ness and care have arisen between us.
Take her these flowers, that their blos
soms may dispel the winter from our
hearts and make u« young again.’ ’’
She turned to the bouquet, and rained
tears upon it. An orange bud she took,
all blinded so, ami hid it in her bosom.
She sank upon her knees, and laid her
head among the flowers to let the cool
ness refresh her parched, neglected
heart, and sobbed the joy of Jove and
confidence again. I stole away like a
citizen of the world.
As I went up tbe street and stopped at
the same hotel, the husband was there.
“Johnny,” said he, “did you deliver the
bouquet ?”
“Yes, I took it to your wife.”
“To my wife ?”
“Yes, boss, you are too good a man to
wander as you wished to. The ice is
broken. Your wife is full of gratitude.
Saved by a mistake, embrace the blessed
opening made for both of you; plant
those rich blossoms on the grave of your
estrangement, and in the words of the
great good Book, ‘cling to the wife of
thy youth.’ ”
He staggered a moment, looked as if
he ought to knock me down, and rushed
from the place.
Next day I met her upon his arm.
“Johnny,” said he, “bring her as big
a bouquet every week, and save one
scarlet rose for me.”
Recreation.
In a lecture by Dr. Romanes, of Lon
don, before the National Health Society,
the phvsiology of recreation was briefly
described as consisting merely in a re
building up, reforming or recreation of
organs and tissues that have become
partly disintegrated by the exhausting
effects of work. It thus appears that
the one essential principle of all recrea
tion must be variety —that is, the sub
stitution of one set of activities for an
other, and, consequently, the successive
affording of rest to bodily structures as
they become successively exhausted;
and so the undergraduate finds recrea
tion in rowing, because it gives his brain
time to recover its exhausted energies,
while the historian and the man of sci
ence find mutual reli ' te their respect
ive faculties in eaclm ner s labors.
“I GO AGAINST m’ ” murmured I
Bh e sweetly, ns sb fondly kamd on
William’s arm, ns t meaudeied fO the |
theatre.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Lobd Debby has an income of .$750,-
000 a year.
Lake Ebte is 344 feet higher than
Lake Ontario. The falls of Niagara are
162 feet high.
The butter, cheese, egg, and milk
business of this country are estimated
to be worth $10,00.,400.
The British Government spends $700,-
000 annually on its consular service, ami
the United States only $300,000.
Three firms are now engaged iu can
ning Boston baked beans, and their an
nual production is not less than 4,000,-
000 or 5,000,000 cans.
In various parts of Ireland, Scotland,
and Wales are remains of beehive-shaped
huts, underneath which are chambered
burial places. These huts are of great
antiquity.
About the year 400 of our era died
Simon Stylites, a Syrian, who had lived
in self-imposed martyrdom for thirty
years on the top of a granite column 30
or 40 feet high.
On the New England coast, moss is
collected in great quantities. The white
kinds are kept for food, forming an im-
> portant industry, while the coarser kinds
> are placed on the farms.
I Near Jerusalem is a building entirely
» rock cut, about 90 feet wide aud a 100
feet high, which is reported to be the
i place to which the Apostles retired be-
I fore the siege of that city.
In Australia the average temperature
for a certain three months was 101 de
’ grees Fahrenheit in the shade. In tbe
winter snow-storms often last three
1 weeks, and cover the ground to a depth
i of 12 to 18 feet.
Fragments of celestial bodies iu the
form of meteors occasionally reach us
from the distant regions of space. The
‘ stones exemplify the same chemical and
crystallographic laws as the rocks of the
earth, and have afforded no new element
‘ or principle of any kind.
The Marquis of Lome receives $50,-
000 a year salary as Governor General
; of Canada. The Princess Louise has an
annual grant of $20,000. She received
on her marriage, which brings
in $6,000 more, and with an allowance of
about $15,000 to the Marquis from his
father, the Duke of Argyll, the couple
have an annual income of aboutsloo,ooo.
Strict economy is the rule at Rideau
Hall, as it is at Windsor Castle.
In the tropics of the Old World the
, annual rainfall is, according to Dana,
about 77 inches, while it is 155 inches in
' South America. In the Eastern United
' States it is 40 to 50 inches, but west of
tbe one hundredth meridian, beyond the
Mississippi to the Sierra Nevada, it is
, mostly 12 to 16 inches. The annual
einount in Great Britain averages 35
inches; in France, 20 io 21 inches;
farther from the coast, in Central Ger
many and Russia, only 15 to 20 inches;
' but about the Alps, it is mostly 35 to 50
inches.
Some Men’s Luck.
Gen. Gordon was severely wounded
four times in one battle and within an
hour, and lived to fight again ; aud this
is only a specimen of the singular good
luck that attended some men. In 1864
a Michigan cavalryman named Drake
was out foraging in the Shanandoah val
ley in company with a comrade named
Cooper. Cooper was in a smoke-house
after meat and Drake was on guard at
the door when thirteen Confederates
I suddenly appeared. They were mount
| ed, and advanced at a gallop, part oi
l them firing as they rode up. One bullet
found a suitable opening in the stone
wall of the smoke-house, and flew in and
killed Cooper dead in his tracks. Drake
was standing beside his horse, and his
saddle was hit by three bullets, one of
which glanced through his hat.
As soon as the trooper could realize
what had happened he swung himself
1 into saddle and dashed at the circle
around him. The moment he happened
in view he was a target for carbine and
pistol. His horse made a rush at the
line, but was driven back. Followed by
Cooper’s horse he galloped around and
across a circle not over 100 feet across,
all the time under a steady fire by the
■ Confederates. This fire was soon re
turned by Drake, who fired away seven
cartridges and then drew his saber. His
seven bullets, as afterward vouched for,
killed two men, wounded two more, ami
killed one horse. His tire broke the
circle, and begot out of it, but for thirty
rods, as he made off, he was exposed t<
tho fire of nine or ten men. Cooperh
horse was killed in tho circle, whih
Drake’s was hit no less than nine times
and yet not disauled. As for the rider,
his comrades, on bis return to camp,
counted up a record of a tiuly-miracu
lous escape. Three bullets struck his
scabbard, two his hat, four went through
| his clothing, one burned his cheek, one
I raked his knee, and two hit his left ;
I boot. While one single bullet killed the
! one trooper, the other had sixteen fired
i point blank at him and yet did not lose
! a drop of blood. Cooper’s horse was
killed by one bullet, while nine failed to
disable the larger and more-exposed ani
mal.—Detroit Free. Press.
.—.—
In Germaiiv, including the free cities,
aliout 85 per" cent, of the jiopulatioii
have incomes under $300; m Berlm,
Hamburg and Bremen, 14.0 per wdl.
have incomes from S3OO up to$l,oO<),
and one-fifth of 1 I» r
say about 3,000 persons ip th< time I,
' cities taken together) have
ending sls, OOOper nm.u n.
I not give one a great m<« *' 1 »
I of Ctenmmy. .
The Girl Opposite.
The editor of the Philadelphia Times
has been flirting with “the girl opposite”
and gives his readers the benefit of his
experience in a lengthy article:
“It is a wise and merciful dispensation
of nature that there nearly always is a
girl opposite. Possibly a dweller in the
proverbial vast wilderness might hit
Upon an exception to this far reaching
rifle; but the chances are just as he was
thinking how dismal it was that ho had
come at last to a region where no girl
opposite was to l>e found he would see
the ‘savage woman’ out of Lbcksley Hall
peeping at him from among the bushe’’
on the other side- of the stream—ami
then the usual flirtation with the look
ing-glass would begm. For the flirtfl*
tion always does begin with a looking
glass, and so, after all, the self-alleged
inventor of lieliography is only a base
copyist. Millions is but a thin rhidlow
sort of a word to express the number of
men who have at one rime or anoth-r in
their lives been subject t • the will of the
1 girl opposite, and who have regulated
their personal affairs—their comings and
goings—not by the requirements of their
professions, but by the eccei tric stand
ard of her disappearance and visibility.
Why, did governments impose upon men
one-tenths part of the burdens and in
conveniences which they willingly bear
i for the girl opposite, the world would be
more or less swimming in tho sea of rev
olutionary blood pretty much all the
time! These assertions are not made
rashly nor carelessly. Have yon over
stopped to calculate how much time you
have fooled away in making love to the
girl opposite; that is to say, to all the
i girls opposite to whom you have made
love in your life long? And have yon
ever stopped to think how few things
there are in this world that you would
sacrifice so much time to for so small a
result? We say “fooling" away time
advisedly. If flirting with the girl op
-1 posite ever led to the inevitable marry
ing that in the long run every fellow
must attend to, then it would be a r< as
onable thing to do. But it never d ies,
1 never. Yon marry some other girl, and
[ the girl marries some other fellow, and
‘ the whole performance is just a sheer
1 waste of time. And yet., after all, worse
ways than this is have been invented.
1 Even if you do marry and go to live in
Dan, and the girl marries and goes to
live in Beersheba and you never lay eyes
on each other again or hear a word about
each other to the very end of your sev
eral days, yet, somehow, you have al
ways a little soft spot in your heart as
you remember her standing there framed
in the window, like the pretty picture
that she was —‘reproof on her lips, but a
i smile in her eye,’ and simply irresistible,
i and you cannot help belie ving that down
Beersheba-way there is somebody who
remembers all about it, and feels a good
; deal the same way you do. Truly, the
girl opposite is a good deal of bother;
but the time for legislating her out of
i office has not yet come. No indeed.”
Letter-Writing.
Youth of both sexes may learn from
the following extract how to do that
which many attempt and few do well.
We refer to the art of letter-writing—a
“10-t art,” owing to postal-cards and
newspapers, but which, when done at
all, should be so performed as to show
the writer to be a person of culture : '
As a rule, every letter, unless insult
ing in its character, requires an answer.
To neglect to answer a letter, when
written to, is as uncivil as to neglect to
reply when spoken to.
in the reply, acknowledge first the Re
ceipt of the letter, mentioning its date,
and afterward consider all the points re-
quiring attention.
If the letter is to be very brief, com
mence sufficiently far from the top of
the page to give a nearly equal amount
of blank paper at the bottom of the sheet
when the letter is ended.
Should the matter in the letter con
tinue beyond the first page, it is well to
''commence a letter above the middle of
the sheet, extending as far as necessary
on the other page.
It is thought impolite to use a half
sheet of paper in formal letters. As a
matter of economy and convenience for
business purjaises, however, it is cus
tomary to have the card of the business
man printed at the top of the sheet, and
a single leaf is used.
In writing a letter, the answer to
which more benefit to yourself than
the person to whom .you write, inclose a
portage-stamp for the reply.
Letters should be as tree from eras
ures, interlineations, blots and |mst
sciipts as possible. It is decidedly bet
ter to copy the letters than to have these
appear.
A letter of introduction u recom
mendation should never be sealed, as
tho bearer to whom it is given ought to
know' the contents. Jlill's Manual.
Matter-of-Fact People.
A very slight srietch of imagination is
required to depict the amazement o<
that inquisitive old gentleman of a bo
tanical turn of mind who inquired of the
gardener in one of the public places ol
promenade: “Pray, my good mon, cun
you inform me if this particular plant
belongs to the arbutus family ?’\ w hen
he received for reply: “No, sn ; it
don’t; it belongs to the corporation .
The same applies to that ambitious
young lady who was talking very eain
wtly about her favorite authors, when
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TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR.
THE RROWTH <>P A CHUD.
Interesthitf Observations in th«
cbological Slud}-of Infants.
! The Medical Record reproduces the
leading features of the studies of Prof.
W. Preyer, of Jena, in a field as yet nl-
Unbroken—that is, in the psycho
' Krgical study of infants. This study be
gins, the professor says, with the o’bser
' vation of tho movements and sensations
of a child, and then proceeds to note the
development of the different senses, the
, formation of speech, etc., and the effect
of all these things in awakening the in
telligence. The first manifestation of
voluntary motion occurs about the four
teenth week, when the infant logins to
hold up its head. After four months the
head is usually balanced well, and at ten
months the i>ower to sit up is acquired.
Ability to stand Wils usually, in the
cases studied by the prOtewor, gained
suddenly at the end of the fir-'t year.
The first grasping motion of the Jumdiu
the first quarter few is entirely
and mechanical, the first voluntary ai
tempt to take hold of an object not being
noticed before the seventeenth week, A
child does not show seif-CODM’iousness, a
knowledge of its independent existence,
until the second quarter of the second
year. The sensibility of the skin of a
new-born child is very low’, and it will
give Designs of discomfort it it be pricked
on the nose, or lips, or hands. The eyes,
too, close slow'y when touched, and do
not close at all in the bath. An increase
of sensibility, however, appears iu a day
or two niter birth..
All infants are deaf nt birth, because
the oltfer ear is closed and there is a<
yet no air in the middle ear. A response
to a strong sound is observed at the
earliest in six hpurs, but often not
for a day or two. The awakening of the
sense may be defected by the blinking
which a loud noise oc'casious. No other
organ is thought to contrllmu* to the in
tellectual development of th© child so
much as the ear. The first perceptions
are those of light. '1 he infant shuts its
eyes as s >on uu light enters them; withiit
i a week it turns its glance to the window,
but it is three weeks before tho eyes
will follow a light moved before them.
The stupid expression on the child’s
face does not leave it until the second
quarter year, and the face grows more
human and spirited with the increase of
> the power of seeing intelligently, lhe
power to distinguish colors follows that
of intelligent attention, and light and
bright colors are preferred, but the
power to distinguish them by name do s
not come until the beginn ng of the thud
year. The recognition of form, size and
distance comes slowly. In the first
month the infant pays no attention to
the swift approach of the person s hand
to its face, and in the third year it will
show ignorance of size and no apprecia
tion of distance The proh sor set
down in writing every sound utteied by
a child during its first two years, and
which could be so represented.
At first only vowels are heart, but
even in the first five weeks these sounds
are so diversified us to express different
feelings. Thus, the professor says, the
periodically broken cry, with knit eyes,
denotes hunger; the continuous whine,
cold, and the high, peiietsiting tone,
pain. The consonant m was h ard in the
seventh Week, and in the seventh mouth,
b, d, n, v, and, rarely, g, h and k were
distinguished. Its perfect imitations of
sound were heard in the sixth month,
and at this time voices began to be Jis
tmguished by the child. Great progress
is made in the imitation of sounds after
the third half year, and the poweri
of articulation become well developed by
the fourth half year.
Capturing Monkeys.
The monkeys are frequently captured
in nooses and traps built in the shape of
houses. The only entrance is a trap
' door in the roof/ which communicates
with a trigger s<t upon the ground.
Food is spread about inside, the mon
’ keys enter, and, skinni hing around,
disturb the trigger, and the trap shuts
them in. The third method for catch
ing them is a most ludicrous one. An
old, hard cocoanut is taken, and a verv
small hole made in the shell. Furnished
with this and a pocketful of boiled nee,
the sportsman sallies into the forest,
and stops beneath a tree tenanted »y
monkeys. Within full sightof
quisitive spectators he first cats ft little
rice and then puts a quantity into the
cocoanut with all the ostentation possi
ble. The nut is t) en laid upon the
ground, and the hunter retires to a con
venient ambush. The reader may be
sure that no sooner is the man out of
sight than the monkeys race helter-skel
ter for the cocoanut. The first arrival
peeps into it, and, seeing the plentiful
store of rice inside, squeezes his hand
in through the tiny hole, and clutches a
handful. Now, so paramount is greed
over erarv other feeling connected with
monkey nature, that nothing will induce
the creature to relinquish Ins hold.
With his hand thus clasped he cannot
possibly extract it, bnt the tiionght that
if he leaves go one of his brethren will
obtain the feast is overpowering, lhe
sportsman soon appears upon the >
the unincumbered monkeys fly in all di
rections, but the unfortunate brute, who
still will not let the rice go, » thereby
handicapped beyond hope with a coeou
nut as larre as himself -a state of affm™
quite fatal to rapid
terrestrial or nrborei . huut
I that he falls an gre«t. E™
er, a victim to t /„. actions
when cmiflht he b ; uin <>f hie
his cepter e r a ll the herder;
rice, end he clutt" lit does when