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BICK RAISING.
A. Hnilnß’. • v’/hlch la Increat-
tr y I n-' >ll t>-e B# >t.
£/::ks EiV-hei ii> Incubxtora and X I*
iij ■ ProSt of Sls Cvh.
••Ur nnrbsl.lf." slid » well-known!
*h*nh*r in rr*|on*«* l«> ifwjtiirfr'’* ,
• br t n |M#tb r for tb<- N<*w V»rk
Krprr»» “how rapidly duck
*u* to be u londinjf fcaiiif'* j
tn o U buMw-a Every clay *how* hi in
<rr-3WK'G •!• Ilian I for duck* for *;iling pin - (
7 n»H-< Why i‘ thi- ' B <an < :> hr lx n j
ftMund thnt they an- a delicac y and
far of even chicken* as broiler*.
TWy tommnnd :k hitfh, if not higher.
!«•*< «*» in the m irk -t than < hie ken*. For
the pu two ye’ir* a great *|x*< iulty ha
lirrfi n l< of i i >inx them in the Lt-L I
e*rvc*;i’l\ aroiin I B»*tnn, and now New .
Yorke* and Jrr*> yit< - are loginning to |
IP I into the- bus:;** •< at a lively rat'-. We
Imi-c l. he rto de \ >!<•<! the* larger ;»art of
the tr. on oni < hi< ken ram hto the* rau
lH,*of 'lirkrn*, but ho gr*’at hi' be come
*h< bi. Hid f»r duck- that we have dr
n-tn.ii.- ■ to link tli.at our guilty now
.-. -f/-hi< ki . They c.an b<* hatched
out in tLe io< ib ilor th' Hiitir- a* cluck*, 1
•nd tt • • up raided more easily than
<du/ U< Th< \ arc not si/liable to dis
wkt do ti »t require mi mu h c an-.
Ik ale.' they an- ready for market whe n j
r i» < i . -.th* old and iir • t w ire the weight
of chi* • h‘ at th- -4liU' age.”
• Vr la t kiii'l of 'bi ks arc mo t in d<
•’Th INlutu Pekin-. ••line they have <
no d »r> feiit her-m*l tlicdr fl<'’h is a hand |
Moany :-»w, looking the b'-d when dr*’** j
*xJ Why, in c’arlv market such dm k*
a high ih 50 and GO rent* a jMiund.
Skit t the White Pekin* in demand are :
’ h l ' n 'id the A’ lu J»nr\ Ihr
; d;» iniidi like th'- While- P< kins.
Tl»« p- .ib. in favor of the Rouen* are
th .t il . . glow rapidly and retain their
w*o i.f in.likably well, but their f|r*h
r* n f t«dloi\, and eonwqurntly they
•io n<< ring as good prh-cm in the mar
ftht ”
"W 0 is thr average we ight of duck*
jnmd g. • if*
* 4 J>. .MUiii.ige in wright about six
• >i>d «>r linntt *iz»*<l grenr twelve
pa mi .. But . .me breed* of geese grow j
very .-«• and I have wen a gooxr that
wrij'ir- thirty |M»und-. The br-t food
for «h ks is iniidc of brewers’ grains.
Tiny Ji*'- gicat eaten.”
“Cue you ghr an example of money
made dm k raising?”
i (• is our that i* eauaing mm h
C’in :m ‘ among all poultry dealers ju*t
•mv , u d it i* H ally a rriiiarknblr eii*r.
ft i* t’ ' of a |H»ultiy producer of South
»t? Ma * lie shows an iicfual profit
• I $. » Irom one dm k and of $1,575
1/o.e . its I'm dm k- A a p<»ultr\
pMirn Humriiting on the fact tiuthfui*
iy »•' tJuil it is more than is made
» rd <»f dairy cow* and tin- capital
is mm h lv**.”
K*talm - which win* obtained from
hi* th man slmw.d that his adult
fl** k lost of thirty five duck*, and
?Io • .1 a- i u d 115 fur each. lb
om*-. it I’.-kitH, but think- across be
*w<ei at bi*-. I and the Aylesbury Ml
jwrir’ . <-ul, . His adult dm k* are
•Ibn i hi. 4 trough, through whi< h
fn’*h !« i constantly flow*. Thi* is
< •dhin-4 purple*. The luimbrr
• ><; .• i t \«-ui wji 140 fi*om each duck.
Ihr wer. halclied in his incuba
u» I "in which U.iHl I ducklings were
lai*. the age of from eight to ten
s* id mirkett d. the prive received
»n th l"-ti»n market l»<-iug 30 cents a
. . those that i ime in early ami
I s *' • * pound I»r tie -e that Wert* lnt<‘,
the a\ .;r piitc luing tents a pound.
Jhe ' "■! of lais. ( ;i. h duckling to the
•c* o: ght we«kswass cent* u pc»uud.
Hi* ' ' ! was thus 1* »< nts a |M»und,
Jrt ? the Hilo Jin , produced
pounds t n. it their yield was
«.»' • a $ <Hm O|h« • v\jh uses Midi as
«|imrte’s, attendant <-h . reduced his
• $1,5h5 The young du< k* had
«u n ’ to w:iti! i \vrpt !• : -drinking
jwirp * nml were led in tin same man
'* v •»' iel.s, except that they required
•< «u..m:d fmnl It was found also
t)ul’ « .. h »lu< kling xie’ded from an
Mum- ’ two ounce* .>f leathers, which
«r|| f. 50 c'vnts a puimd. Each adult
du k ud HO <ggx and U-g.mtoliy
*h» • months old. The best prices.
JO ‘t ’*•. pound, w<: obtained about
Mv u die ol May d »:> ising to IS
July. They weighed per pair
«XC 1 nd a W<s»k h each week's
Hrowil. when eight w ek* old. or four
<s • .-It » 4 I tic, |H*Und a Wi-ck.
*rh< y were la st'd in brooders, but wen*
•'Mtrl y wth .. si, Psi often ai d kept
w aru
Kuund to llriiiiiii Single.
B Why d -n l you get married,
" W the fact the gals
Iwvow t<»o I - h lawadHys, they're t«'o
x 1 •uuu(<d I wtiuhln t lik< to have
• w who Was y sujMrior in intellect
>. howled gv
’ll Then y\ . ar,- K.uud to remain n
bwr'bt.A
U Why > •
*4 Be* >a<e tiiey don't allow the girl*
t«. the idiot *' .m» u • 2k r.
«
* A City wf Magnid rul Hunt*.
A corre*|iondent of tin- f/>ndou Tiw
who ar< ompat«i< <1 th cx|**ditiufi to Bur
mah, write a* follow- U - lighted the
ruin* »»f P '/m early <»u the* 2«JI. I !»ev
remnrkabb ruin- <\V-nd for moi• than
eight mih* along the <-a*t/*ni bank of the
|rra-.»<ldy, and average two mile* in
bn-adth. ’n this space there* are the* r<
main* of Ix-t w < «-n bob and 1,000 tempi' -*
und p'ignclu-, ‘.'»me of hem in tolerable
prc-Mcrvj.tioib ami many of them of great
si/'- find maynill' i< - . I he- vile of the
citv i» covered with jungle, and the va-t
fiMM-mblftgc of budding* tow ring abou.-
thc Mirrounding tr< -. and *tn tc lut»g »ts
far a* th<- rye- cun reach, i» ►ingultuly hn
pre-ssive. 'i he old* t<d the p.ijan t -in
pie* are MippoM-<| to dab from about the
year 850, and the* <'ity o:r h<-d thr zenith
cjf it* |H»wr and pr'»-|><-rity about the
time- of the Norman c <>mpie-t of England.
In JB2I the c ity v. ; .-dmo-t (cmiplel«»ly
d< tro\<d during the f'hin'-sc invasion o!
Bunn.di. Then th' king of Pagan poll' d
clown an enormous number of b-mph
some chronicle * Mate a* many a* t.oou
and used the- material* in atrcngtheiiing
the rampaits of the < ity. hen tin* in- •
vid* r* c aptur - l it tin y c-omplcteil the
destruction. Peihrq* th'-most remarka
ble of the '. <t temples in Pagan the
Ananda, which i til! u*< d :ts a place <>f
worship. In plan it. is a square c»f 200
feet to the- hide, broken oil eac h -ide by
th'* piojc-c’tion c.f htrge gable; vestibules,
wide h convert the* plan into an almost pci
fi < f Greek ' . The central pinnacle
re •••hrs to the height of IGbfrtt. Anoth
er "f the -i it t'-mpr of P.i_- <i i- the
Thapinyu, the hpirr of which rises t » Hi •
height of 201 feet above the ground and
overtop* all the other monument*. Tiie
Gan I i Palen temple, dating from 1100,
ri '•»to a height ••! I-J fret. Bin.* i ■
er the.* river than cither the Ananda or
Thnpnnxu it is very conspicious when ap
proaching Pagan, n- w<- did. from the
HouthAard. Glciuning in it- white plan
ter, with numerous pinnacle-* and a tall,
• (-nti.il spin*, it - em--d t when we first
sighted it, like a distant glimp • of Milan
cathedral. Many of the ruins nt Pagav
are so unlike all other Burim--<• building
that if has been suggested by some author
ities thnt these buildings are dm- to the
skid of a wej.rij (’hristaiu or mi iou-iry.
How Golh im (•roll*.
(.‘on'idering tluit la>t y ear was not one
of the best f a money making, New Y -rk
did pretty well in that line, having laid
up $37,000,0(10 or so by inerr->-••• in the
value of real estate*. The gain was
greater in *«»mr previous year*, but $37,-
000,000 is not bad for dull times. There
does not -'em tola* much danger of ( hi
engo getting ahead of Gotham just yet,
except in misccllaticous cusxi-dnexx, and
New York threw up the sponge in tlnd
matter some time ago. There has lately
h(*en some random talk about Chicago ul
timately taking away the bulk of the dry
good* trad, f- in both Nt w York and
Boston, Im! dry goods mm in both cities
say it is all fool talk and that the trade
inert is< sin < ach city every year, d’he
steady ami rapid grow th of N’« w York is
not fully known oven by New Yorker*
themselves. Very few of them have any
idea of how fa-t the new* part of the city,
thescition i or.hot the Harlem river, is
tilling up. That sect ion is about ns large
us the ori- nal Manhattan Island, .aid
mm h of it is now axclosvly built a* Hur
lem was ten year* ago. As for increase
of population that docs not stop a
moment Not from the Old World only,
but from all part* <3 tin- New World, the
stn'am of humanity flows steadily into
New 5 <>rk, and .all tie probabilities are
that it w ill keep on doing s.» w hile there
is room to spread. Some enthusiasts
about the future say there w ill b<- a plan
some day* to arc h over the East river, lay
out street* and build houses on a vast
strut tore supported by pier* nnd < able*,
a* the Brooklyn bridge is, without inter
feting with mivigatmn. mid make New
York. B I* n a • I I. cig Island ( ity a
single < :y. thr lar- -t in thr world. This
may s> em a bnrr-brainc'd notion, but so
did the Brooklyn bridge when it was tiixt
pmih*setl. And : a man had *aid twentx
years ago that families would now be liv
ing on the top floor* of te n story build
ings he would i.ave be«-n called a fool. -
Iboit Shoe*.
The immediate pnaietessen* of Indit.
rublsr shoes, for w< ir in the cities
where |iath* w re prepaml during the
snowy si »son*, wt i\- articles te<-hnicallv
described as , gal«»' b« < ” I'hcy were, in
fact, leather overshoes, save that the pro
tection came to the *o|p of the foot rath
er Hum tool her jmit*. The prototyjeeot
thr shoe* was the am ienl “clog." which,
indeed, wis worn a* a shoe or f«»ot cover
ing. instead of an extramams pr«»te« tor.
11l later year-the “putt* n" of England wa*
kindled to the “gakw he I'here was
always im-thing natty in the app< aranc
of this article, and the facility with
which it could U- dotuied was in it
t.Goi a* well. Yet. w.*e to the individ
( ual who attempted the u*e ot a next pa r
u|M»n icy w.dks where th hard and
stii<*oth soles beguiled frequent downfall
mg to the uuinitiat<xi l'h< original vul
aui/eti niblw r sluw-s had a leather bot
tom, and it <x»nstituted an objection hard
ito uvervorm Itfxaus* they were an al ip.
pery The use of bottoms came as ,t
beniaon to the apprei iatioa of this specie*
| of footwear. a .J iMtAar
TilE l-VERGMIiES.
Millions of A‘-res in Florida
• Swamps to be Reclaimed.
A V?st Region Long Consider 'd Unfit
for Cultivation to be Drained.
A w II known civil engim-rr who lui->
• -r:t!\ i.turm-d from :»n extend'd trip
• in Florida h is m.uiy int -loting thing- to
• tell idwnit that Slat-. “Iml<|M jideiit ly
■ '»! it aalur.d resource*." said he. “Flori
da i- on* of ihe most charming region*
th. t I kn->w of fora man who travrl
w ith his <-y i- open.
The Ex el glad - proper, a-- -tdow non
fh<- map. orenpx over 20.<Hh».(MXl im-h * in
the < \tn-me snothea-tern part of the State.
• In the eeijtral part of the State, however,
in a ii< I work of little lakes, rivers and
i sw amps, which wa* long c onsidered unfit
for any of th pwpo'scs of c-ivjliz -d life.
This region I . m vert In lcs-. Iwtw'een
forty and sixty feet alxive the *'-a level,
so that there wa- m» reason why it should
!»• • on-idei -<l itlidrainablc. The lake*
tiiid *wump- hnv» b<-«-n formed by the
rank \<g» lotion, which for centurir*
grew de< iy -d mid hII int the rix- r-.
thu* dnmminc them up and partially
llooiling th nr founding country. A
ompany obtaim-d from the Government
n grant of all the lands whi< h should be
drained by it. The company brought
down dndg- and began it- work by
< i-aiing oui a ( hamirl from lake to l ike,
Irom Laic Ki- immee to Lake Okcecho
b 'l’li: wii »I<-roimtrv is *o rxtreim ly
llat that thi- -high <ha Kiel, which
>nly lowered th.- water in the northern
lake-ji fool or two. reclaimed about 4.-
000.000 . -w imp land. A f inal
wa- then •ui from Lake Okeechobee
wustxvard to the ('.doos.*diat«-hec Hivcr.
which complft' I he-system of drainage
loth l Gulf. It i* now proposed to cut
jtm.imr (anal 'a-twmd from Lake
Ok< « hob I th Atlantic, a distanc' of
fortx mil* -. If the project is ever car-
• i'-d out. ii will -horl<-n by about 250
mih s the i v<»yag<* between points on
the Atlanta (oa i and the Gulfport-.
Th. • "tiipany al-o <-;it 10l to drain the
south';»-t I.'• rgladc* by tie- -am» method
employ.J in I-' 1.-iinntig the northern
3\x imp*.
••'I'll!' region has m ver been surveyed,
but recently one of the company’s em
ployes made an expedition into the heart
of tin Everglade*, pushing him-rlf
through the swamp- in a small boat. He
report* that tin- project of drainage is
compl'tcly f(-a*ibb In this way the
company hope- to acquire about I>J.OOO,
000 acres nioi«-. Tin- Government grant
im-hided Pine l-kind, at the mouth of
( alo i-ahjicho! Itivcr, on the Gulf < oa*t.
I’his island i* probably destined to be
come :i point of c onsiderable importance.
It wa- sold for £125 mi acre The pur-
( ha*' i *old ;t for $2 50. Al the m-.xt
trail* < r it brought $5 an acre. And
nox*. it ha- been bought by some capita!
principally Boston men, for $lO :m
hr< . It i int ‘iidcd Io build on thi*
island a town, which shall form the
southern tej-nuui of th ■ Fiorida Snuth
'iii Kai I road. Thi - tow n will be on the line
••f the most dire< t < <nnniuni« al ion between
.la< k "iix ilk ;aid tin- north and Havana.
I’hi 11 w ill probably be a line of steamer*
i.m li' twcrn Pirn l-laiid and Havana.
“One of tin most interesting district*
in Florida i- Levy and Marion (‘ountirs,
ju-t - i-tol tin bend in th< Gulf coast.
Thi- is a linic-l<m( • ountry and is almost
w itluml -tr< am* or lakes. All the river*
ire -uliti i ranean. Then nr< number- of
cave- at tie bottom of which one can
I ti th- \<at i tlowiiii: At Silver
Spring* one of these underground
Mteahis emerge- abruptly and form- a
rix < i 150 feet wide and seventy fret deep.
In the sain* region h l,ik< \\ ier. which
has no visible outlet nor inlet, hut is sup
plied ami drain by subicrraih-an chan
nel*.” V . > . Z
Not Pelrilartion*.
R ’iinv to an muoun im t that at a
r ut < xhumati »u in a w.--t rn . . •nrit-ry
>lu I hkl\ of .i won. in w.k found turned
to -toll:. I.oui-ville l/o/,.,.' \ .r,
••”>■•.111011:011 of till' built of U v.-ltlu
bhxxli'il nnii'i.il neve r lut- lneu known,
uiul it i- <|iiit -;il. to-ui nev> , ha-taken
l-taeo. Tli<- oondition of th hod, which
'> ad-to-iii h a ini-coni c ption i- not that
••1 petrification, but >f -apoiiitieation.'
•t i- explained that nitrooenuu-i tissues
give oil am ami thi-. attacking tin
1 it- of the bo.lv, pr*>dne< - adipiM'en*. a
hard form of -o ip. \ writer in an ex
ilian;l n lien at tle* New I >rl< an- Eair**axx' a
bare 1 of )>ork lain hxl. "pound tloating in
tin XI < ill' of
|Kt: ill. atioi. B. iim -kvpt ii ala- to the
ca]K.eiu of rook- to float, he < hipped off
api , ami found that the hoa. like the
human Ix ina under like <in um-tanee-.
bail nteri'ly tnrm-d to adipo. > re.
A l.iatr Rrjoindcr.
‘•I . an't ”iv von any money. A -tout.
Kb b.-hed : How like you to be
• nrning a living."
"But I haven't any work sir."’
"That - ymn own fault, 1 11 venture to
«•X on 1., k . ti. i-gy, Yon don't throw
voiu-e|t into y .itr w ork '
"I wouldn't like to. Not would you.
sir."
“Ob. I w aildn't. eh AX hr not!"
"I'm a iraw digger, sir." Phil-uitl
» ' '
1 SworiKniaushlp in India.
I lb- wax n tine looking fallow in tho
. prime of life, nut withstanding th"
frightfully critical nature of what h w.c
going to do. he moved about with |x - r
feet "ii«e nnd calint.i -s. In one liand he
I held a very long double-edged -word,
harp at the [mint, and with eitge* like
1.1/ >r- ith the other hand h I'd hi
little -on. a child ag d about -i'. years.,
who wa- al»o clearly well uecu-t imed to
what wa- to follow. From the little fel
low'- evident enjoyment of the scene, it
w.i- plain that failure on the part of hi
father was a thing quite beyond the lim
it- of hi* imagination. A* soon as the
usual preleininarv ceremonies hid been
gone through, melt as walking round
and -alaaming to the e.Anmaniling officer
and principal guests, the father placed
his little boy in the centre of the circle,
with a -mall lime (a kind of lemon) about
twice the -ize of a walnut under hi- heel.
Then, taking up his stand a few feet
from the child, he grasped firmly the hilt
ol hi sword, and began brandishing the
weapon rapidly in the air. The blade
wa- thin and ti iely tetll’i fed, -o that it
could be seen to quiver and undulate
throughout its entire length as it flashed
in the raysof the setting sun. Suddenly
tiie muscles of the athlete might be seen
to stiffen themselves; an in-tiint'- pause,
then a sudden and lightning-like swoop,
and the lime under the boy’s heel was
safely -evered.
Ido not think many, even of the old
e-t inhabitants of the east, have often
witne--ed a performance equal to that
which this hnvildar was wont to con
clude his exhibition. The boy having
taken up his po-ition as before, a small
open box. about the size of thos • we use
for tooth powder, was placed on the
ground at his feet. It was filled with a
black powder called soormn. used by the
native- for da kening the eyelashes.
Round thi- little box, and about the boy's
head, the sword was now made to play
with t •doubled velocity , in the midst
of the mo-t dazzling pa-ses. tiie weapon
would dart toward he little box. and
then ri ap|s ir. -tc»dily posed at the full
stretch of th'- performer's arm. in front
of the ev: -of the child: then a sudden
turn of the w rist, and a heavy dark line
powder was lying on one of the boy's
low -r eyel.i-hi'-. placed there by the
-harp point of t!u- long sword. The
one wa- then done to the other eye.
I'hi-feat was performed weekly, always
with undeviating suece-s. and was cer
tainly the n>. -I wonderful instance of
nerve and steadiness that I ever wit
ne-sed. C'thmel. /hii'i'ns.
The President’s Autograph.
A piT-on outside ol Washington lias no
idea of the immense amount of time the
President and his Cabinet are compelled
to waste almost daily in w riting ant •>-
graphs, -ay s a correspondent. The Sena
tor- are comparatively free from thi- nui
sance when one compares the requests
made of the President and hi- Cabinet.
It is almost a sy stem, the making of auto
graphs at the W hite House, and the
President has been eompeUeil to adopt
-oinc met hod. or ot hi t w i-e he would have
to refuse the requests altogether or else
be interrupted every hour. The door
keeper at the Cabinet room is made the
custodian of all autograph book- sent to
’he White House. He pile- these dainty
little volumes on a shelf of his big desk
and lets them rest there until about 5
o’clock in the afternoon, when he opens
each one at the proper page and then
carries the pile to the library for Cleve
land'- inspection. The President rareiv
looks over the hook-, but takes up a pen
and d.-i-he- off hi- name in a rapid man
ner and pa-ses to the next. Then th
doorkeeper carries the pile away and
keep- them until called for. The Presi
dent generally din ing thi- hour writes off
a numlx'r of autographs on -mall cards,
with the words "Executive Mansion"
printed in one comer. They atx- -ent
away by mail, in tui-wer to the hundred
of requests that come through I nch
Sant's e ciiez. Some one suggested to
th'- Pn -ident that he let one of hi-clerks
writ'- his autographs, but he replied: "I
am -till able to use my right hand and
arm. and it docs not take long to write
my name." So th- change was never
suggested again.
Turning Gray.
M. ny ]» r-ons begin to show gray hair
while they are yet in their twenties, and
some while in their teens. This does net
by any means, say -a recent writer, arg.u
a premature decay of constitiitiou. It i
a purely local phenomenon, and may co
exist with unusual bodily vigor. The
celebrated author ind traveler, George
Borrow. turned quite gray before he was
thirty, but was an extraordinory swim
mer and athlete at sixty live. Many
feeble person-and others who have suf
fered extremely, both nuntally and
phv-i< ally, do not blanch a hair until
past middle life, while other-, with
a-signable cause, 10-e their capillary col
ring matter rapidly when alumt forty
years of age. Race ha- a marked influ
ence. The traveler. Dr. Orbigny, -ays
that in tin many year- he -pent in South
, America he never saw :■ bald Indian, and
-careely ever a gray-haired one. The
tiegr.ss turn more slowly than the whites.
In this country, -ex appear- to make
little difference. Men and women spsjrr
gray about the same period of life.
DO ANIMALS THINK?
Interesting Discussion of a
Question Often Asked.
Fact? Advanced to Show Animtls Poa
scss Seme Human Qualities.
A great ’leal has been written to show
jtliat animals think and reason, just as
man docs, though in a lower degree.
Perhap- some of our readers may notice
thing- in animal- which -how that they
have a great deal of intelligence, even if
thev do not reason. Mr. Paul Brocca,
the French author, devoted much atten
tion to this subject. "It has been said
of animals," writes Mr. Brocca, "that
their actions are always mechanical and
without method." This may be true of
domestic pets, who are influenced almost
entirely by the human beings around
them, but does not the beaver change his
plans, acting now as a builder, now as
i.liner, according tu circumstances? Be
sides this, everyone knows thnt the bee
frequently substitues pentagonal, or five
, sided, for hexagonal, or six-sided cells,
j and that this alti ration in tb" work is
! made only when necessary. It has also
been said that animals do not reason.
: What then is done by the foxes, which
in Thrace, are driven on to the ice to test
its strength? These animal- step careful
ly and lightly, with their heads inclined,
and turn back suddenly, directly they
discover, by thc- nind of the ice cracking,
that it is not safe to proceed farther.
A dog, which, in following a scent, ar
rives at a cross-road is seen to stop, con
sider for a moment, then plunge along
one of the roads, sniffing cautiously, turn
back and try another road in the same
manner, anti finally dart unhesitatingly
down the third. It is evident that his
logic tells him that as his prey has not
taken one of the first two roads examined,
it must necessarily have taken the third
road, so he does not waste time in fur
ther investigation. That this is not mere
instinct is shown by the fact that a dog
sometimes makes a mistake in such a
case, and that when the fact becomes ev
ident, he slinks out of sight of the hunt
er-, looking a picture of shame and hu
miliation.
Foresight is a quality, the possession
of which one will deny to ants and bees,
and the former certainly have a sense of
compassion. This is displayed in the
tender care bestowed on the wounded
during the terrible battles fought be
tween different tribes of ants. The suf
fering and helpless ones are not left to
perish, but are carried off of the battle
field by a regular "ambulance corps. - ’
No one doubts the existence of memory
in animals, and as to ambition, is it nec
essary to recount the pitched battles
which take place in bee-hives between
the different candidates for royalty?
How can one pretend that man only has
the gift of language? He must be blind
indeed who does not see that all animals
have some means of communication with
each other. To give only one example:
there is do possible doubt that ants make
themselves understood by their fellows,
by means of the touch of their delicate,
sensitiveantennteor feelers. Beforea war,
a.council is held, and messengers hurry
about. Scouts or -pies are sent out. and
the attack is hastened or postponed, ac
cording to their reports. All this could
not be done without a very complete
method of communication, for the giving
and receiving orders, etc. .Moreover, it
■ animals had no language, how could
they teach their young? That they do
tea’ h them is evident from the fact of
y oung foxes in countries where the ani
mals are hunt ’d, being infinitely more
wary than full-grown ones in other lands 1
How else are we to account for this than
by- lying that the parent foxes tell their
children of danger, and to avoid it?—
Anui ieun Afjnicitlf .
Rail a Dead Arm.
The other day a well-known Detroit
doctor was eating lunch in a restaurant
alongside of a business man, when the
; latter remarked •
"1 just -aw a case to interest you in a
cigar store. There is a man there who
has no feeling at all in his right arm."
"( a.-eof paralysis, ot course." replied
the doctor.
"ob, no: it isn t. He ha- been exam
ined by some of the most eminent sur
geons. nnd they declare that it isn't. If
it was a case of paraly -i- he couldn't
move his arm, you know
"How long has it been so?"
"liver twenty year-, he tells me. He
say- he'll pay any doctor f.qOOo to re
, store the natuial feeling."
"I'll see him,” remarked the doctor,
and when dinner was over the two went
into the cigar store and the medical man
was introduced.
"Did this thing happen all , lt oncc ?-’
a-ked the doctor.
Yes sir. There was no warning
whatever."
"Does the arm feel dead?"
Perfectly dead. You cun stick vour
knife into it without my feeling a -en-a
tion.”
"That's odd. Let me feel of it."
The doctor put out his hand, made
aue grip, and then turned on his heel
ind left the place, his face as red as
paint and hi- gate somewhat eccentric
j It was s wooden arm. The real one
. was -hot off at Gettysburg. F ree Prrs<
Historic Rooms la YY'uahiiigtoi!.
Washington i« full of int-r -tj.,,
rooms, writes a correspondent of the t
eago .IZ’Z. If one could hunt th. m
up and get their history it would i
one of the most interesting little 1>.„,-.,
be had. Tile room in which Henrvf
lived and died, ut the National h»t'
kept very much as it wa- when hi , M1
pi I it. There is an old-fashieneil j
place in the room, with a soap-tone
and pillars surmounted with bra
meats, and the old-fashioned itnuit.,,
and fender are us they were the
he died. The same paper is on the Wii
and on the cracked window p wlK
written the names of a score <>f
win probably have long sinte
the dates opposite their names are
in the '4os and ’sos. In the old eap toi
there is a peculiarly shaped room attlj
north of the supreme court chamber,
was formerly the United States
chamber, which is famous for being tg
place where Moise first successfully
ated the telegraph. In this little r «n
he had an operator whom he had tr,ii
himself, a voting man named Sxveisi Ilw
The room is now a bare anti-room totb
supreme court chamber, and through it
regularly every morning and afterno.>»
the supreme court judges in their rolxj
pass to tiie bench. It was over aline
from this room to a little outdoor static
at Bladensburg, five miles away, tin’
Morse was first able to transmit a tnessag,
The line was then being built on to Bal.
timore, and on the day that the Dinnv
crutic Convention that nominated .king
K. Polk was being held this little riW a
was the scene of great excitement. The
Senators kept thronging in there, and the
doors were guarded to keep out the crowd
of people outside, anxious to learn the
work of the Convention. It was here
that William L. Marcy declined tobsi
come a candidate for the
Wlren the message came over the win,
that he could be nominated, his fa|
words were: “No, no, I will not take
it;” and Senators crowded about him,
trying to persuade him to change his
mind. Up stairs, over this room is a lout
narrow, dimly lighted chamber, which
once was the finest room in the capitol
That was before the xxdngs were
and when the capitol consisted of whit
is now little mon’ than the base of the
dome. This room was Jefferson Ditrei
committee room and the headquarters of
the Southern leaders in the Senate, th
the third floor of the old National hotel,
looking out on Sixth street, is thi’ num
in which John Wilkes Booth wasmakiu
his temporary home at the time heron
mitted the terrible crime wlueh gives hit
name a place in history. It is a plain,
ordinary room, xvhich is seldom used If
any guest who discovers its history.
The Consumption of opinut.
An opium-eater says: There are W
very few people who comprehend thcei
tent to which opium is used. Some ide 1
of it may, however, be gathered fromi
single illustration. An Eastern dnij
firm advertises in all the leading papets
of the country, including the high-pried
magazines, a certain preparation of "|du»
in liquid form. Their expenses for ad
vertising must be enormous. Now. 1
know from careful inquiries that tlii-iut
ticular preparation is sold in bottles J
wholesale to the druggists in this eti
(St. Lottis), and, of course, elsewlierr,ii
25 cents a bottle, each bottle
enough of the preparation to satisfy tin
craving’s of all but the most hardenedi>
the vice fora month. Mind, the 'lnk
store man pays uo part of the adv: rtii;
bills. He simply buy s the Imttles ‘I
wholesale for 25 cents and retail- tM
for 50 cent-. So all the heavy adverts
ing charges, as well as the original c>s
of the preparation, have to be paid lll!
of the smaller sum. The cost of putliM
the preparation before the pirtdic
therefore, only Is- paid, and a
yielded to the whole-trie mat., out »f a
enormous multitude of sales. TlwtH
is evident to any one who will tllinM®
the meaning of the result is that opi®"
consumption is grow ing in thi- 'om"!
St a rate that seriously threatens tlu'P 11 ’
I'e welfare.
A Story of a I»ressingd<ow»>
A well-known citizen of Lynn was**
eently visited by-a boyhood acquaint* 111 '
whom he had not seen before for a 'l o ®
ter of a century. The acquaintance
much pleased with the city sight
the ways of the town, but was a littj
slow in always adapting himself too*
circumstances. The other night hi'-
hostess presented him with a beautt
dres-ing-gown, w hich she hud nia'h’ »-
her own hand-, and adorned witliM"
woven filagree of feminine tastu
This she presented him just pr'-vii®"
his retiring. He was profuse in hi- th*'-’
and immediately retired to his rcni
the morning he came down without '
dressing-gown.
‘AV. 11. where is the dressing U-o* 1
gave you last night?" kindly inq”i"
the hostess.
“The what?"
"Why, the dres-ing-gown?”
“O, that—O, I left it in my ro<®-
"Why don't yon wear it?”
“What! in the daytime? I tuiwt 1
that was to wear night*. NY hy, I
in that la*t night !”
A suppressed smile that gradual!’y
audible swept through the housel"-
Cnl’f.i.