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A fenMig* H8M In lUlruitu II#
Mm-sp** rnknown,
SctbtrI travi* 1 ng men who hud
passed through Ifil!s<].tlo the evening
before, on tltHr way to I took Inland,
from which city they enmn to Ocnosou,
»ay Unit tho bird Is now on a farm near
H Hind ale, remarks the Qenoneo (III.)
New*, in an artiolo on a wonderful bird
which la nnitl to havo mystified that
neighborhood. It has been running
about with*it dock of turkeys. It is
unliko any bird described by Audubon
or any other writer. It Is distinctly
and strikingly strange in all its appear
ances, attributes and actions. It is ns
tall as a turkey. Its color is snow
white. It gives tho bobolder the im
pression of being “high-shouldered."
• This appearance is caused by its draw
ing its enormous wings so that they
rise nbovo the Jnterv«ning surface
where tho ncok Joins tho body. The
face of tho fowl is a singular combin
ation of tho features of the owl aud
monkey. There are distinct ears rising
above tho surfaco of the bond, and
sharp-pointed. These ears are not
fanciful, as is the case with the horns
of tbs great horned owl of Virginia,
the “boras" of which are made by
tufts of elongated feathers. The ears
of this fowl are genuine. The nork
and legs aro enormously thick and
strong. The nock if dlrestod of the
strange, soft down that covers it,
would be as thick os that of an ordin
ary monkey's. This appearance of
great strength is magnified In tho
wings. It cannot bo ascertained how
long these aro from tip to tip. Strong
men, one at euoh wing, havo attempted
to stretch them; but the bird refuses
to allow them to expand, and the men
could not get them beyond six inches
from tho body. Fronrv Uie point whore
the neck Joins tho body, to and cover
ing the head is a very soft, very long,
and very delicate down. Tho remain
der of the bird is covered with strong
feathers. The feathers extoud down
the outside of tho logs. The fowl has
uttered no sound except a gutters!
croak far down tho throat, as if in
expostulation, when the attempts wore
made to spread its wings. Like the
pelican, it has a big pendent pouch bo-
neath tho lower jaw, which it usos to
carry food in. It has no breathing
places in its bill. Tho actions of tide
queer creature are moro strnngo that,
its appearance. Should tho sun cotm
out warm it hides in somo cool, shady
place. On cold mornings and evenings
It Is happiest. It evinces qot a particle
of the tea* which all othor birds and
Animals exhibit in a greater or loss de
gree. It looks on wonderlugly whoi.
the turkeys scamper away os mon ap
proach. It walkod up to a navago dog
and stared him iu tho face so Inno
cently aud comlodlly that tho dog was
nonplussed and rau away with Ills tail
between his legs. In attempting t<
leap over n fence it does not assist
itself with its wings, but Invariably
falls short tho first leap, striking it*
breast against tho rail. It falls to the
ground with amazement depicted upon
Its half monkoy face. Thou it gives a
tremendous spring and cloars tho tenet-
by five or six foot, and is again os ton
Ished when It lights so hard upon the
ground. Should It attempt to oroBs u
fence holt a minute afterward it will
repeat tho performance of striking It.
It drinks no wntor and soetnB to have
no conception of Its proportion. Tho
other day It walked straight into Rook
river, with tho manifest purpose or
walking across on its surfaco. its as
tonishment upon scrambling out and
observing tho water dripping from its
feather* was laughable. The farmor,
whose name tho travelling mon couhl
pot rocall, upou whoso farm this queer
bird has become established, has no
idea which direction It caino from. It
carao lu the night, ami was completely
(exhausted. Of course theorists are not
jacking. Somo of those say tho crea
ture came from about ono of tho polos,
where man has never poaotrntod, and
where all water is frozen solid. Others
boldly declare their belief that It (lew
jitre from tb« moon, Tho moon 1h but
ninety-eight thoumuid miles away, and
with that enormous pouoh filled With
food, and tho tremendous voloolty with
Which the descent would ho in ado after
getting out of the intluonce of tho
moon’s gravity, gives some degree of
color to tiie moon theory. The thought
USturohy spring* up that it would die
(row look of air. But It bos no breath
ing plMW, and was now mm to open
tte month for tho apparent purpose of
breathing.
’* ••• ■ ■ ' 'i* *
Flaying: Cards. ' ‘
Au efitolal return just issued gives
some interesting information about
tbi manufacture of playing cards iu
England. At present there are nine
teen manufacturers in the United
Kingdom, wh*> pay a license of twenty
‘iiilllngt, aud who produced eight hun
dred thousand packs last year. This
did not moot the demand of the Eng
lish oard-playwr, so half as many again
were Imported from Austrian and
Amerieau makers. The stamp duty
on those cards is now a fairly
important source of revenue. Lost
year It amounted te nearly fifteen
thousand pounds.
A Damaging Admission—Letting a
lot of toughs Into s political couveti-
ttee- , ,
Tho History of tho (Hwnt.rj 1 of Precious
Hmh •s on Mi* OlHuge*
Advettisd in this jvijht.
t In a farm-house, with its largo tahlo
and humiti bon ring a IIIMe and two or
throe old Dutch books, mid the clumsy
rilin leaning In the corner,After tho
evening reading of a chapter in tho
Doer fashion, a trader named Xickirk,
who chunced to be present, told tho
Vrouvr Jacobs that the great white
shining stones they had Just been hear
ing of reminded him of the pebbles
tho children played with, picked up
along the banks of the neighboring
Orange River. As lie spoke, tliero
entered O'ltcilly, an ostrich hunter.
They tried one of the stones on tho
window glass and scratched it all over,
the scratches remaining tliero till tills
day. It was agreed if it turned out a
diamond nil were to shore equally. On
Ids way to Cape Town O'Reilly showed
tho stone, and was laughed at for his
credulity; it was even taken from him,
und recovered with difficulty from tho
street where it bud been thrown; but
“ho laughs best who laughs last," for
in Cape Town the pebble from the
banks of tl.j Orango was pronounced
a diamond, and bought by Sir Philip
WodehouBc for £500. Ten more Buch
were easily found by the vrouw Jacobs,
and early In the next year, 1808, several
were picked up along the hanks of the
VnttJ, among them tho renowned 8tar
of South Africa by a I-Iottcntot shep
herd, who sold it to Nieklrk, the trader,
for £400, who disposed of it on the
same day for £12,000. Then the rush
began in earnest, first to Pnlel and tjio
river diggings on tho Vaal—Pnlel,
which stretched with its sea of tents,
Its hive of men and checker of claims,
down to the lornl and busy river, and
up again to tho populous height of
Kllpdriffc. Here and there, but rarely
upon the nlopo, a canteen of dirty can
vas, or a plank-built store with roof of
corrugated Ison; upou the slope, all
pocked with holes, so thot all looked
like some rudo and careless ctfmetery.
Within three months of the first dis
covery thoro were 5,000 digging there.
—The Comhlll Magazine.
She tins Won a AJetlnl.
Chicago cun boast of us brave a
woman us this country hutt ever pro
duced, and ono whom Congress should,
when it moots, present with a gold
medal. 8ho has tho nerve of a Moll
Pitcher, and will nover weaken on a
bluff no matter how strong is is made.
Her name is LaiuUdowne; and tho
other night site closed her house to do
somo shopping, and on her return dis
covered a burglar busily engaged in
rifling trunks and drawers. When her
eyes rested on tho burglar she did not
faint, or run to the window and yell
for tho police, but Bhe locked herself iu
the room with him, coolly removed tier
bonnet and then tell upon the aston
ished thief and knocked him down
and commenced to hurt him. She beat
hlB head against tire door, dragged him
around the room, and pounded him
until ho lost consciousness; then she
clutched him by tho cellar und dragged
his Ump form thumping down tho
stairway to tho street door, whore she
called u policmnau and surrendered her
senseless prisoner.
Mrs. Lnndsdowne was not at all
excited, and It is said showed no more
fatigue thun If bIio lmd boon pounding
a beefsteak. Tho next morning the
burglar was brougtit into court, and
he looked ns if lie had boon through a
warm personal encounter with a
grizzly bear; and when the kcon, nervy
eye of Mrs. Landsdowno sized him up
ho dropped Ids bond and shivered.
Tho valiant ‘ female in giving her
testimony to tho court stated thut tho
prisoner was not tho first burglar she
hail oneomitomi. On another occasion
she found one concealed in her wood-
uliud, aud despite ids tin oat to kill her
if she attempted to give tho alarm,
eho promptly knocked him into the
clutches of the law ami a state of
InsensibUity with a piece of stove
wood.
A woman who has the courage and
tho ability to pick up % scowling
cracksman, and spank him until he ts
dizzy, Is to bo admired and honored by
n government ns a heroine whose valor
should not be allowed to go unrecog
nized, Let tho glorious Mrs. Lands-
downo bo presented with u medal
without delay. She la oortainly three-
ply and all wool.
Never Heard Daalol Webster.
Daniel Webster once made a great
speech before an audience of thou
sands in a natural amphitheatre among
the Green mountains in Vermont. A
writer recently visited tho spot mid
found it a wilderness. “ Tho desolation
was perfect, and as a bear, utterly
indifferent to on* presence, shambled
across the road in front of ub, wo were
still more impressed with tho ract thnt
the wilderness, with its accustomed
inhabitants, hud long resumed its
ancient reign. Driving along for a
mUa or two, we saw a solitary shanty
and a forsaken looking man who had
just finished milking a starved cow.
We stopped and asked him if he knew
the spot where Webster hiul spoken.
'Webster—who was him? 1 ‘Why,he
was a great American orator, who
made a speech somewhere around her®
many years ago.’ • I never heru on he,
au’ I’ve been heron for moron thirty
roar.'Boston Rost
Fiiw flro ecu* cigars at l cks'i.
J Put Ratlav-IIp.nl Drink.
Imr-ruor flute Hrrlul Jcraloiuy—
follScnl Xw.iitaB—Vtuldiit roMions
'»Ue Itu-r far ,tlunrj .
The alarming disnitsfi of tliiw
country is tiurvmw debility and
prostration. It goes under
many names lmfc it is essen
tially tho same complaint.
Hospitals and private institu
tions for nervous patients ore
crowded. The average of life
in tho United States is de
creasing every year. Sudden
deaths from neivous collapse
among our business, profess
ional and public men axe so
frequent ns scarcely to excite
remark. The majority of sui
cides, committed without ap
parent reason, or under so-called
“depression of spirits,” are
really prompted by nervous
prostration, which is a fruitful
source of insanity and crime
with all their grief and horror.
These facts are startling.
They threaten the very life of
the nation. They assail the
springs of its power and pros
perity. They wreck manhood’s
strength and woman’s useful
ness and beauty.
Every ono should know the
causes. What are they ? The
answer is ‘ dasy and terribly
plain: Out vicious personal
hat >its; our careless and lawless
eating and drinking* the in
tense mental and physical strain
arising from our mad race after
money, position and influence;
the fears and struggles of pov
erty ; the use of narcotics and
stimulants; our fashion of
turning day into night and
night into day; and, briefly,
our , desperate willingness to
pr.y any price, for an hour’s
pleasure or success. So we
burn life’s on.dk uL both end3
and All the lunutic asylums
and the graveyards..
The disease from which wo
suffer and die Is, in plain Eng
lish, Nervous Dyspepsia, as it
is seated in the JNervoa and in
the organs of Digestion, Assim
ilation and Nutrition. Healthy
digestion boiug impeded or des
troyed, the whole body, nerves
included, is literally starved;
even when there is no emaci
ation to tell the sad story.
Nervous prostration sends
out its warnings:—headache
in the morning; a persistent
dull heaviness or aching at the
base of the brain; wakefulness;
loss of appetite and disgust with
food; loss of mental energy aud
interest iu ordinary duties and
■ business; restlessness and anx
iety without any assignable
reason; eructations; bad
breath; foul mucous on the
teeth; occasional giddiness;
palpitation of the heart; sal
lowness of the skin; coated
tongue and gradual failure of
strength and ambition.
The remedy is a total aban
donment. of the habits and cus
toms which cause the disease
in each individual case, and tiie
use of Shak er Extract of Roots
(Seigel’s Syrup) to cure the
mischief already done. This
great, remedy, prepared by the
Shaker Community of Mt. Leb
anon, N. Y., is especially adapt-
ed to eradicate Nervous Dys
pepsia, To do this it. acts
directly arid gently but power
fully upon tho disordered stom
ach, liver and kidneys, restor
ing their tone arid vigor, pro
moting the secretion olE bile, ex
pelling waste matters from tho
system,and purifying the blood.
Upon tho nervous system
Shaker 2?atfrac«(Seigel’s Syrup)
acts as a safe and wholesome
anodyne without the slightest
narcotic effect, and then leaves
tho nerves to regain their nat
ural tone and strength through
its wonderful influence upon
the function of nutrition. *
It is safe to say more nerv
ous dyspeptics have been re
stored by it from .the depths
of misery to a flesh enjoyment
of life and lqlnir tlum by any
or all other forms of treatment
combined.
®1 .J&.jS
C'dw.ev,
a.*v& AW
{axvse& oro.
Cancer of the Tongue.
r My wife, some tJirco or lonr years ngo. was trou*
bled'with aa nicer on the aide of her tongue near
the throat The pain was Incessant, causing loje
ot aleep awl producing great liervon* prostration.
Accompanying thin trouble was theofnattom. It
hiul pwited from the shoulders ami centered In tho
wrist of one hand, oho almost losing the use of It.
Between the suffering ot the two.ltfo haa grown
burdensome. By tho use of a half dozen •mall-
slued bottles of Swift’s Specific, entirely
relieved and restored to health. This was three
years ago, and there has
Sparta, Ga., Jnno 5,1886.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailod f rea
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 8, Atlanta, Out
(5T W. 2SU St., M. V.
The re is evi rv11.iii|£ to discourage
a man who fells medicine*. IIis
best arUclos is |uvnv sure to be u
drug on the lutuke’.
Or Black Leprosy, w a (license whU It in connldored
incurable, bm it hna yielded to the curative proper
ties of Swift's Specific-hmv fcnmvr all over tho
world ns S. 8. S. Mrs llnllev, of West Somerville,
Msss., near Boston, was nllntkrd pevernt years ago
with this hideous black eruption, and was treated by
tho best medical talent, who could only say that tho
discaso was a species uf
-LEPROSY-
and consequently incurable, ft is impossible to de
scribe her sufferings. Her body from the crown of
her head to I he soles of her feet was a muss of decay,
masses of flesh rotting ofl anil leaving great cavities.
i‘.S r J ll 'S cr8 . fcatercd u,, d three or four nails dropped
off at mo time. Iter mtms contracted bv tho fearful
ulceration, and Tor several years sho did not lenvo
her bed. Her weight was reduced from 125 to 60 lbs.
.Perhaps some faint idea of her condition can bo
cleaned from the fact that three pounds of Cosmo-
Une or ointment were used per week in dressing her
sores. Finally the physicians acknowledged their
dofeat by this Black Wolf, and commcodca the suf
ferer to her all-w ise Creator.
Her husband hearing .wonderful reports of the two
Of bwiFT s Specific (B, S. S.), prevailed on her to
try It as a last resort, bhe began its nse under pro
test, but soon found that her system was being re-
llevedof the poison, as tho sores assumed n redand
healthy color, as though tho blood was becoming
pure aud active. Mrs. Bailey continued the 8. 8. S.
until last February; every sore was licalcd; sbo dis
carded chair and crutches, uud was for the first time
to twelve years a well woman. Her husband, Mr.
C. A. Bailey, la in business ut 17ttf Blnckstono Street.
Boston, aud will take pleasure lu giving the details
of this wonderful cure. Send to us for Treatise oa
Blood and Skin Diseases, mailed free.
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