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BRYANT’S EXPEDITION. It Will Sail from New York on the 24th of June. Ito Object I* to Meet 1.1 rat. Peary and Hi* Party at Bonrtoln Bay—The Able Young Man In Charge of the Enterprise. The announcement was made at the monthly meeting of the Philadelphia Geographical club that an expedition, to be known as the Peary Auxiliary expedition’will sail from New 5 ork on .Inno 21, 1894, for Newfoundland. The party will consist of seven persons. Lieut. Peary, before leaving Philadel phia, deposited funds and instructions with Prof. Angelo Heilprin covering this relief project. The leader of the party, says Harper's Wccl.’y, will lie Henry <l. Bryant. They expect to reach St. .Johns, N. I''., in time.to leave that port in the Fal con, which they will there find await ing them, on July I. The first stop will bo at Godhavn, on what is called Disko island, in North Greenland. This is a Danish tettlement, and recognition of the expedition by the officials at that point will be secured through the state department at Washington. Continuing north. Melville bay will be crossed ns quickly as the condition of the ice will permit, and Cape York visited. From here the run will be direct to Peary headquarters at Bou doin bay, in Ingleficld gulf, in latitude seventy-seven degrees forty-three min utes north. They calculate to reach this harbor by July 25. Lieut. Peary and his companions are not expected to return to this point from their long sledge trip through the ice-floes until the last of August. In the meantime the Falcon will be em ployed in original research. The Baflin bay shore of Ellesmere Land wifi bo explored for some trace of the young Swedish explorers, Bjorling and Kall stenius, whoso schooner was wrecked on the Carey islands in the summer of 1893, and who loft a message on these Islands, which was recovered by a Scotch whaler in C.-'obcr, 1893, stating wSL i KICNHY o. BUT ANT. that they proposed to seek refuge among the Esquimaux of Ellesmere Land. Jones’ sound will also be explored for a greater distance than has yet been attempted, and the effort made to map out the 299 miles of unknown ooast-lino forming the northeast shore of Jones’ sound and the western border of Elles mere Land. This triangular area of 100,090 square miles, known as Elles mere Land, is one of the few largo ter ritories the outlines of which have not yet been determined. A tribe of Esqui maux are said to inhabit this land who have not so far coma in contact with explorers. The Fa 100, will bo back at Boudoin bay on September 1, and expects to reach Philadelphia with the Peary party on September 15. Dr. Axel Olilin, a Swedish naturalist, representing the friends of Bjorling and Kallstonius, will accompany the auxiliary expedi tion. The leader will be Henry G. Bryant, who was born In Allegheny, Pa., on November 7, 1859. He is the son of Walter Bryant, a well-known Pitts burgh merchant. Young Mr. Bryant graduated from Princeton college in 1883, and after studying law in the office of Hon. Robert N. Wilson, of Philadelphia, graduated from the law department of the University of Penn sylvania in 1886. He has been an insatiate traveler. In 1884 and 1886 he visited the north ern countries of Africa. Subsequently he employed much of his time in hunt ing trips in the Rocky mountains. In 1891 with Prof. C. A. Kevaston, he started north to Labrador, penetrated a distance of 350 miles inland from the coast., reached the Grand falls after many privations and hardships, and found their height to bo 310 feet. Mr. Bryant was second in command »ot the Peary relief expedition sent out by the Philadelphia Academy of Natu ral Science in 1892, under the leader ship of Angelo Heilprin. Upon his re turn from this trip Mr. Bryant pub lished a volume on Labrador. He is now secretary of the Geographical club of Philadelphia. Idiocy Cured by Surgery. 11 is of interest to note the results of recent experiments made by surgeons in the curing of idiocy in children. Like many other things now in surgery and medicine, these experiments originated in Paris. The idea was conceived that idiocy frequently was caused, where no congenital causes were apparent, by ths premature union of the bones of the skull in infants. Acting on this assumption, the French surgeons removed a por tion of the bony covering of the skull on several patients, the idea being that the brain had not had room to expand commensurate with the growth of the child. The results in many instances proved the correctness of the theory. In some ca*s the results were remark able. In one case an idiot girl of eight years began to show signs of recover ing intelligence the very day after the operation was performed. Facet* in * Beetle'* Eye. 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To every cash subscriber ot The Daily Dis patch a numbered coupon is given entitling the holder to participate in the award of our free ticket to Asheville and return via the Florida Central and Peninsular railroad and two weeks’ board at the Kenilworth Inn, the finest resort in the south, to be presented July 1 at noon. Every monthly subscriber of 50 cents can a secure coupon. HAVE YOU SEEN IT? Fr»k Leslie's Scenes and Portraits of the Civil War. The only official illustrated history of the late war ever published. The greatest book of modern times, which illustrates the principal events of American history, with an introduction by Maj Gen. Joseph B. Carr. Hundreds of stirring battle scenes, grand naval engagement, blockade running oper ations of cruisers and privateers graphically pictured. Nothing recalls the past so forcibly as pictures of the scenes taken at the time and on the spot. A picture is impartial; it cannot represent the success of the victors, without represent ing the heroism of their opponents; it does justice to both sides. Like Memorial day, which the north and south both keep holy, it strengthens the , bonds of sympathy between all true American citizens. Don't fail to examine this publication before purchasing any other war history. Livery. If you want a road hetse the only place in town to get one is at the Pulaski House stables. More of them than all other stables combined. Landaus and Kensingtons for hire by the hour or day. No plugs »r cripples. E. C Gleason, proprietor. 188 and 140 Bryan, rent to PulMkl house. I • ’ F.'n.si To ; - .1, Frtv of »’.v England*.! t uHih’F.v i ionn Can Jb rr.'K i'tl to Ohl England. liven in Connecticut wns y>o skill of the Kuiekei'boekern iwlmired, says Har per's Magazine. A new invention or Unproygimjit wms. said to ‘'beat tho Dirteli. The Delft tiles on the Itearfh, the crockery on the dresser, the blue tiles lining (lie front, of the fireplaces in tlw best houses show how the Dutch had a part in the evolution of the New England house. Hundreds of open fire places in New England were decorated with these tiles ufter tile Dutch fashion, and contained not only “proverbs in porcelain,” but abundant Biblical illus tration. From the evidences of relies nearly as much of the imported tine furniture of t he northern colonies camo from Holland as ft’om England. Not a few of the old teapots and other table service, which followed upon tho in troduction of these oriental hot drinks which drove out the beer and tankards, did indeed come over from Holland, though not on the Mayflower, as so often aniiehronistleally alleged. When, too, the open fireplace gradually gave way to supposed improvement, it was ton Dutch thing with a Dutch name— the stove. Not only in Plymouth, but elsewhere, numerous houses had what can be occasionally seen throughout New England to-day (nor by this do we mean the later substitute of tin) — ■a Dutch oven. It was under this spa cious dome of brick and clay that those famous articles of Yankee diet, the pumpkin pie. brown bread, baked beq.ns aud fish balls had their evolution. No smoker of tobacco in the snow white meerschaum rejoiced more in his coloring of the seafoam clay than did the rosy housewives of Massachusetts bay in the rich hues of bean, bread and flsh. The Browning clubs of early days met in the kitchen rather than in the parlor or vendome. The doughnut may have been too cosmopolitan an article to claim invention at the hands of any one people; yet what Yankee “fried cake” or doughunt ever equaled an olekoek? Was not cruller, whoso derivation confounds the dictionary makers, who call it “a kind of” dougli uut, first brought to perfection by Capt. Kroll Qironouneed anil sometimes spelled crull), the whilom commander and Dutch church elder at Fort Or ange? To this day the “cookey” (koekje), noodles, hodgepodge, smear ease. rulliehies, cold slaw mid other dishes that survive iu New England farmhouses are. despite their ehanged pronunciation and spelling, proofs that the Yankees enriched their monoton ous menu of early colonial days by bor rowing the more varied faro of their Dutch neighbors in tho west and south. As for the popular American winter breakfast luxury, the buckwheat cake, it was introduced from Central Asin by the Hollanders, acclimated, cultivated, named “beechmast” (bockweit), and In the form associated with heat, sweets, aroma and good cheer is a Dutch inven tion. UNDAUNTED by polar cold, The Fursult of Food Tempts Birds to Brave tho Most Rigorous Climate. In tho countries bordering on the polar seas, where the changing seasons bring alternately the two extremes of dearth and plenty birds are more trtii rnerous in the short summer than anjs whore else nil the world over and winter are absent altogether. All apg immigrants there by force of clrcutm stances. In like manner the blrds of temperate climates are affected by the eewoual change*, though in a leu de. cn«> tteeugh nt ai ms lluri bye:. ":of c . • . ..> /. .11- proteei . d holies. Ace .-r 'i . < to Lit teli's Living Age, a coat of mail! not to lie compared to a coat of feather. '>r safety, so fai K as a bird's life 1 <■ u cerned. Layer upon layer of fcatn s Ltv,* o £ w»Ur *. any degree Os cold. In proof of this, see how the delicate tern, after winter ing in comparatively mild weather, go back to the ice. floes of tho polar sea and lay their eggs on the bare ice. For two or three weeks the tender breast of the sea sxvallow is pressed I against a cold block of ice. Again, as another example of the influence of I food rather than climate in governing bird action, take the colony of bee calicos. Tho becenlico is a .Mediter ranean bird common on the southern shores of Spain and Italy, in the Gre cian islands, Sicily and Malta andon the northern shores of Africa. For- 1 ' merly it was quite unknown in the! British isle: . but some years ago a; large orchard of fig trees was planted near Brighton, and the beccafieos have discovered tho fact and come over to share the spoil. Doubtless the niyht ingules told them the story of English tigs and showed them the way over. Be this 1: , it may, the little birds from the warm shores of the Mediterranean ( bid fair to bee ane established as nat uralized British subjects. Ail Old Tlinvr. Abraham Garrison, the broiher of the late Commodore Gurrison, who died at Allegheny, I’a., at the age o! nine: -,, a few days since, said in a reminisei ut mood recently: “In 1846, when I was in Washington. 1 saw Cluy. Calhoun. Web . ster and Benton in the senate. A party of us each paid Samuel B. Morse fifty cents to telegraph our names to Balti more, mid he was glad to get the money. In 1840 I saw Gen. William Henry Harrison drive up to the old ‘ Pittsburg hotel, now the St. Charles , hotel, with an old army comrade. It was snowing, and some men told tho ‘ general to put on his hat, which he . had raised to acknowledge the greet ings of the people. The general laughed and said to the old comrade at his side: ! ‘We have been iu a worse situation than , this without our hats, and itfwon't hurl us.’” Terrible Prison*. ■ It Is said that the prisons of Morocco ■ are the worst in the world. No care or I attention whatever Js given to the pri»- I oners. They uro left dependent on ; their friends for food, and if they have ■ no friends the government provides only a bit of bread or a handful of grain daily ’ to keep them alive, QUARANTINE TICKET. For Free Quarantine— Yes. 1 : For Free Quarantine—No. - : ' : Name • • * -I I : Street Address : ••••••••••’ * • , INSTRUCTION TO VOTERS. Sy-Voters who favor abolishing quaran tine fees will strike out the word “No." If opposed to a removal es the embargo to shipping strike out thejvord “Yes.” This ballot may be dropped in The Da " Dispatch letter box, No. 6 Whitaker street, or pasted on a postal card addressed to the 1 Citv Editor. Daily Dispatch office. — I Go to Suwannee Springs if you are in bad j h«*lth or broken down. It wifi benefit you. 1 SUPERSTITIOUS POSTALCLERKS Mail Shcl * That Have Been iu an Acci dent Arc Kouj'ht After. A group of railway postal clerks, just in from a run, stood in the transfer of fice at the Pennsylvania station the other morning, waiting for the cable car to start up i" order to get home, say; the Washington News. . ‘ Tell yon. felt a bit scary on this trip." observed one of the men as he knocked the ashes from his pipe and glanced at the clock. “What v.a the matter? Inspector on the ear?" asked one. "Flat wheel?" queried another. “Worse than that. Forgot my red. Left it in the office. First time for six months.” “'A here did you get yours?” asked the tall man with the sandy beard. “I've had it a long time. Cub gave it to me. and he got it from the ‘Fat Nancy’ wreck,” was the reply. Just then the whirl of the enisle be came audible in the dear morning air, and the mail slingers made a run for the avenue. “Vdiat's a red?” was asked of a clerk who was still lounging in the room. For reply he opened his valise and drew out a dingy red mail sack. It was a plain canvas pouch, such as is used for nmil matter of the lower classes, and, save for the color, did not differ from any ono of the 100,000 or so that the government owns, “Once in awhile we have a little smashup. you know,” he said, “and oc casionally some of the boys get hurt, or worse. Our ears are pretty danger ous places in the event of an accident., and. if there is any damage, why. it's usually felt most in the mail or ex press ear. It isn't often that they are : erious, but now and then one of the boys get., smashed, and then there is naturally some blood around, and it gets on the mail .sacks. In the old days the government very considerately used to put such sacks out of use. for you can t get the stain out. Then some genius conceived the notion of dyeing them red, but that only served to mark them. “Every business has its supersti tions. he continued, “and I guess we are no exception, for some of us have! nn idea that it is lucky to have a red in the car. I don't know why, I'm sure, unless it is on the principle that the same sack will not be in two bad acci dents. So when one comes our wav wq freeze onto it. and try to keep it handy. “Os cou'rse,” he continued, rather shamefacedly, “it seems like a queer kind of feeling to have a reminder of that sort around, but it's all in the way you look at it, and there are lots of things just as foolish other people do.” THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. A Sportsman, Sportins Man, and a Sport Not the Sarno Thing. There were a knot of men standing on a street corner, says the Washington Post. One of them had just finished re lating some experiences of a bunting excursion which he had taken the day previous down the river. “So you're a sporting man, are you, Jack? I never knew that before, really," said one of his companions. “No, sir,” said the first speaker, “I am not a sporting man; I am a sports man, but I am neither a sporting man nor a sport.” “Indeed! And where, pray, is the difference?” "The difference? Why, great Scott, man, there is as much distinction be tween » sportspaa, upd a ! man, and a sport as there is between a : doctor, u cannibal, and a thief!” The speaker glared at the others, but the first man still looked blank. “Pray define it then,” he said after a pause. “To bo sure. It's something that everybody ought to know, but unfortu nately lots of folks never take the trouble to learn those things. A sports -1 man is a man who loves sport in its 1 truest sense. At least Iso consider it. ; lie is a man who enjoys hunting, fish ing. camping out, and is commonly ' fond of other athletic amusements in the way of boating, swimming, and the like. Ho is, pardon my opinion, apt to be a man of gentlemanly in stincts and brains. A sporting man is an entirely different sort of a fellow. He. is one who takes an interest in sports of different sorts, although he may not engage in any of them nt all. He prob ahly plays the races, drinks bard, takes I in all the prize fights, and spends most I of his evenings, when there is nothing I else on hand, playing cards and whoop ing things up. But a sport is on a still lower scale. He is a fellow who thinks he's big potatoes when he'sreally noth ing but a runt. He need not know any thing about sports or engage in them either. His reputation will be won chiefly by his loud dress, his flirtations with the girls, his hangiro- around sa- I Lions, and his general worthlessness. No, sir; there are a good many persons who are proud to be called' sporting men or sports, but to call a true sports man by such a term is little short of an Insult.” An OdurlcsM Region. “In that country once known as the ‘Great American Desert,’ embracing a portion of Texasand Aria aa. there are no odors," said a citizen of Dallas to a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter. “There luscious grapes and many other fruits grow, especially near the cross timber country, lint there is no perfume; wild flowers have no smell, and careasses of dead animals, which in dry reasons are very plentiful, emit no odor. It was always supposed to lea ti\ less plain, upon which no plant could grow or breathing thing could lire, but u large part of it is now sucoc- .-.fully cultivated, and but for the rarity of the atmos phere. causing the peculiarity 1 have named, and the mirages, which are even more perfect than in the Desert of Sahara, no one would look upon it as a barren country now. Another singu lar feature common to the desert land is that objects at a great distance ap pear greatly magnified. A few scraggy mesquite bushes will look like a noble i forest; stakes driven into the ground ! will seem like telegraph poles,” To Suwanee Springs free. To the person presenting the greatest number of these cupons, cut from The Daily Dispatch by July 1, 1894, they will be presented a round trip ticket to Suwanee Springs via the Savannah. Florida and West ern railway, and one week’s board at that: famous resort; : Thb Daily Dispatch ; I : Free ticket to Suwanee Springs, Fla., • ! : and re urn via Sav., Fla. and West. R. R. : I ! and one week's board. : Name : i : Address '; Cut this cut and present at Andrew Han ley's, 37 Whitaker street. Look! How Is This? Round trip tickets from Savannah to Su wanee Springs, including one week’s board at the hotel, 11 7M STRANGE DISCOVERY. Tlie Ossified Romalita of a Pre historic American. Spine Was Carved So Tlr.it tho Maa Could Not Have Looked Away from the Ground Secrets of an Ancient Mound. An hour's ride south of San Francisco the remains have just been discovered of a community of prehistoric inhabit ants of this country. They were found by a party of students from Stanford university who were on a scientific ex ploration some four miles east of the (University grounds. A pear-shaped mound of earth covers the remains of the colony. It is calcu lated that some thousands of persons are b --' 1 there. The mound lies with its longer axis north and south, and : measures 470 feet in length fcy 320 in i width, and has an area of nctrly two ; acres. In height ij ranges from about two feet at the southern end to ten feet at its highest point, pear the northeim extremity. The soil used in its con-. 1 struction was the ordinary black adobe i of the neighborhood. . It was ascertained from Eqjne of the ■ old inhabitants of Spanish descent in : the vieiiffty that when the whites first ! settled the country there was an Indian village near the mound. But tha would not necessarily indicate any con nection between the Indians and the prehistoric people buried there. The mound is now being explored with scientific care under the direction of Prof. Mary Sheldon Barnes, who has charge of the work in Pacific coast his tory at the university. The first day's excavation resulted in the finding of three skeletons, together with a number of pointed bone imple . ments and two large stone mortars, : such as are used by the Indians for ■ grinding corm One of these skeletons, which is de ! picted here, is apparently that of an old man -who had been a sufferer from a terrible disease, which had caused ai extraordinary deformity. With the ex- 11 - 1 v B OSSIFIED REMAINS OF THE PREHISTORIC AMERICAN. ception of the second joint in the neck there was a complete ossification of all the joints in the spinal column, mailing it as rigid as a broomstick. The ribs were fixed to the backbone, leaving no possibility of motion in respiration. At the points of attachment of the larger ligaments there were deposits of os seous tissue. The unfortunate man with tlie immovable backbone did not even possess the advantage of being able to stand upright. His spine was curved forward from the first lumbar. He could never have seen the sky un less his friends turned him on his back. It is rather surprising that a primi tive people should have taken care es such a useless old man, but possibly they thought his shape was nn indica tion of supernatural power. The larger bone of his left forearm had been broken at some period and reset with considerable skill. The oi man was found reposing on a bed of ashes and his legs had been partially burned. Close at hand was found a large stone mortar, nnd a clam-shell was found near his left hand, indicat ing. possibly, that lie had partaken of that mollusk shortly before his death. Not faraway were the remains of a large quantity of burned shells of the bay oyster, crab and aboline, apparent ly the remains of a prehistoric clam bake. Bones of a deer, elk, skunk and other animals were also found. It was evident that the primitive people fared extremely well. Some twenty skeletons have been found, according to the latest reports. They are those of persons of all ages. The owner of more than one skeleton had met with a violent death. In onp skull a boned spear-head was found imbedded two inches. The skull was that of a child not more than fourteen years old. Thu skulls, as mav b judged from the one reproduced here, are those of a race of small intelli gence. A number of shell ornaments were found, and also perforated disks and pendant s, showing rude attempts at ornamentation. A Nice Old Family. There is living at present in the vil lage of Urussofka, in the Russian gov ernment of Tula, a hard-working and industrious peasant family, the head of u hich is 104 years of age. and was formerly body servant to Prince Schakofskoi. There are nine sons, whose ages range from 50 to 80 years. Two of them performed tlie long mili tary service of twenty-five years under Czar Nicholas. The father is still com ! paratively as active as his younger ! sons of .>0 and GO years, and takes his I full and equal share of the field and farm work. No member of the family is a total abstainer, but father and sons have always led a temperate and frugal life. The patriarch himself, ia his gay moods, is still accustomed to execute with astonishing verve and agility some of the favorite national j dances—dances which always require , a suppleness of limb in the dancer. ■ The villagers invariably consult the old man in their troubles. Popes and Their Beards, If we are to believe the old proverb, prophetshave always had beards for the faithful to swear by; not so with the popes. From the time of St. Peter down to the year 1153 the popes all wore full beards, but for the next four centuries they were cleanly shaven, j Then came a period of two centuries in which they again wore the beard, but from the year 1709 until the present time the smooth face alone has bM* *aen in the papal line.