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BUTTERFLIES
A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF
THE WINGED INSECTS.
A Room in a New York Broker's
House which Contains lOO,
OOO Butterflies Collect¬
ed at a Great Cost.
There arc butterflies that say grace¬
fully through space within (he bounda¬
ries of New York State that tire worth
$10 apiece. Think of that, ye home¬
less tramps Gocatcha dozen, and then
take them to Berthold Neumoegen, and
he wiil give shekels for them, for he is
desperately tion, and lists enamored given of much butterfly $100 crea¬
as as for
a single specimen of the gauzy creatures.
Mr. Neumoegen is a member of the New
York Stock Exchange. In the top story
of his nous j is a room which contains
100,000 butterflies and 100,000 pins, for
every butterfly in Mr. Neumoegen’s col¬
lection is defunct, and is impaled upon a
pin. but those have
None who seen a hun¬
dred thousand butterflies, each of them
differing considered from the other in some particu¬
lar important by science, can
have the faintest conception of the won¬
derful beauty of many of these most
delicate creations of nature. Nothing
iu art can approach them in delicacy of
texture, or is to be compared to Them in
coloring, exhibit marvelous tome of the rarer specimens
combinations of color
and arc so surpassingly beautiful that no
description could do them justice. There
are u4 two c Elections in the world that
can compare with that owned by Mr.
Neumoegen. One is po3-essed by the
British Museum in London, and the
other is found in a public institution iu
Paris. Mr. Neumoegen has been collect¬
ing butterflies for twenty years, and his
hobby has cost of him in money,
to say nothing devoted the va tic of the time
h>' ha-, to the pursuit or without
cal uiating the daily expense entailed by
the collection and the reputation it has
gained constantly for its possessor. employed Tw o men are
almost in receiving
ami ship ing specimens, continually for butterfly
collectors are exchanging
specimens. One day hist week Mr.
Neumoegen by shipped to a single collector
in Europe, the ste unship Saule, 20,
000 butterflies. He generally keeps in
stock about 100,00 t specimens for pur
poses of fiis exchange, and these are exclu
sive of collection, rot one of which
he would dispose of unless he felt cer
tai:s of being able to replace it.
When the King of Belgium sends an
expedition inlo Africa Broker Neumoegen
take; a share in tie enterprise. ills
correspondent iu Belgium gives him an
i lea of the character of each member of
the expeditionary force. This enables
him to select the best man for his
purpose, and the selection having boeu
made and terms agreed upon ‘awkits the butter
fly collector patiently results,
His emissary will devote alibis spare
time to securing specimens of all the
butterflies in the country visited, and
will ship them at his convenience,
Generally the captives are packed in a
triangular bit of paper and then put into
a cigar mail. box or Specimens something like it and sent
by have been seven
mouths on the road, and upon their
receipt condition. are not always iu the freshest
Now every butterfly in Mr.
Neumoegen’s collection is perfect. How
is this result attained? In what are
mistakenly termed the good old days the
specimens were “relaxed" placed on wet sand until
they were in a has condition. Mr.
Neumoegen invented a process
which he believes to be a vast improve
Blent over the old style, and the condi
tiou of his collection proves that his
belief is well founded. He places newly
received specimens in a small tin box.
The latter The is cork provided dampened with a cork
bottom. 13 and the
temperature and moisture is controlled
by a pipe that connects the interior of
the box with the outside air. In four
weeks the most hardened specimen has
never failed to respond favorably to this
mode of treatment. When the specimens
have become sufficiently relaxed they
are placed V upon * spreading ^ boards
vm These 1 boards are f from .1 three inches to
three feet 111 width and all of them have
a groove in the centre. Into this groove
fche bodied lit. The wings and
are spread upon a fist different surface, and five
pins aro inserted into portions
of the insect? Then'glass or tin weights
are placed upon the specimens, and when
these are removed the butterflies, with
few exceptions, exhibit all the beauties
of their natural state.
The great African explorer, Living¬
stone, lias furnished Mr. Neumoegen
with some of his rarest butterflies.
Others have been furnished by Stanley,
others again by Lieutenant i-'ehwatka
and members of the Greely relief expedi¬
tion ; in fact, his collection lias been en¬
riched through the efforts of some me m
her of every exploring expedition that
has been organized within the past fif¬
teen years. In his collection are butter¬
flies that refused to freeze on the shores
of Lady Franklin's Bay, within 500 miles
of the north po.'e; that have disported
themselves on Greenland's icy mountains
and India’s coral strand. Others lazily
flew from flow er to flower on the hanks
of Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria Nv
auza. captured Gorgeous-hued headwaters victims were
near the of the
Amazon. Borneo and Labrador, Thibet
and Alaska, China and Siberia,Turkestan
and Ivamschatka have furnished their
contingent; so have the Himalayas, the
Rocky Mountains and the Alps.
Some of the butterflies in this army of
100,000 are so small that several of them
wouldn’t incommode an ordinarily sensi¬
tive optic, while others measure seven¬
teen inches from tip to tip of their
wings, and shot these look big enough to
waste small upon. But every but¬
terfly, small or big, is labeled, and upon
each label is marked the name of the
specimen, the family to which it be¬
longs, its sex and the name of its dis¬
coverer. There are several butterflies
named in honor of Berthold Neumoegen,
and one of these, the Neumoegenia
poetics, a night-moth, which is
in Arizona, he has fallen in love with.
It is small, and its wings are snow-white
on the outer edge and golden-hued next
the body. Curiously enough the male
butterfly than is much handsomer, generally,
the female. The latter is usually
the more strongly built. To the uniniti¬
ated some of the female butterflies do
not look as if they belonged to the same
family as the males of the same family,
they are so much less attractive in color¬
this ing, difference and, iu some respects, leads in astray form. the But
never ex¬
perienced collector .—Nero York Tima.
Scenes . Japan,
in
We had boatmen take us over the
at wa(er all - the skirting little moss-covered the shores and touching
dotted along the shores. temples There that
arc were
n(> pi'Tsfs, no signs of life or occupancy
at any of the little temples, but from the
curious way in which one boatman was
toliid off to watch us it was not intended
that the shrines should suffer any loss
or desecration, nor their altars be be
spoiled of one of tire scores of little
black wooden images with which they
were decorated. From the water
Chuizonji village appears as a small yel
^ ow spot between, the unbroken slope of
Nautasbm and the great lake Its fine
ten-houses nse straight from the waters
edge, each with a triple row of outer
gidh-rks looking out upon the beauti
ful view. Tsutnva, Idzumiya and Naka
-narya arc the names of three of these
P r( -‘t!y inns, and than life in them is much
more Japanese at the much-fre
quented and tables, inns at there Nickk-o. the We foreign have chairs
but conces
sions cease, and we look out for our town
knives and forks, bipad, butter, milk,
beef, or go without. We sleep on the
A°ar, wash our faces iu a common Vasin
on the inside gallery of the house, and
g° a ' >ont in our stocking feet in the
house. When we want a servant we slide
a screen, clap our hands, and a vigorous,
long-drawn “ Iley 1 ” announces that, the
rosy-cheeked mountain maid has heard
us - The gentle rocking of the house
tells tllat the vigorous maiden is running
U P the stairs of the fragile bu lding.
The washing of the rice and vegetables,
an d kJ' hen utensils, ana the family
clothes, all goes on from the little plank
of fl° a pier of the that house. runs out Each from hotel the lowest has
or a
similar pier, and there are sociable times
when each pier lias-one or more maidens
washing rtce in bamboo baskets. One
morning at sunrise I slid the screen to
look mountains out on the wreathed glorious in panorama rose-colored of
green
c' oi 'ds and reflected in the still mirror of
the lake, and saw a solitary figure brush stand
ing at the end of a pier, tooth iu
hand and lost in contemplation of the
scene- rpu The servants on VV onfa nf of thp the lioiiKoa houses take
the whole lake to wash their faces and
brush their teeth in each morning, but
uow that the nights and mornings are
almost frosty Qlohe-Democra'.. they do uot plunge in to
doit-—
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A good souled, child is a fortress of
strength between its parents and sin.
The burcst stump is beautiful when over
run by the honeysuckle.
A Scheme for Killing Rabbits.
The offer of a prize of £25,000 by the
Government of New South Wales to the
discover of a means of killing the rab¬
bits which are devastating the colony
has attracted the attention of M. Pas¬
teur. He sent a letter on the which subject he
to the Temps, suggesting Hitherto ideas mineral
thinks may be of use.
poison has been employed to destroy
the animals, but they increased with
such frightful rapidity that poison has of
proved a very insufficient is means wanted,
meeting M. the plague. What poison
Pasteur suggests, is a en¬
dowed, like the animals themselves,
with life, and multiplying with similar
rapidity. An attempt should, he thinks,
be made to introduce a disease among
the rabbits which would become epi¬
demic. There is such a malady, known been
as the hen cholera, which has
carefully studied in his laboratory. The
disease is common to poultry and rab¬
bits.
Among the experiments which he
made was the following: He shut up
within a limited space a number of hens.
He gave them food tainted with the mi¬
crobe which is the cause of the hen
cholera, and in a short time all of them
perished. Sometimes poultry this yards kind, are
devastated by epidemics of
which spread doubtless through of the the
tainting of food by the droppings thing he be¬
first sick fowls. The same
lieves would happen to rabbits, which,
returning to their burrows, would there
spread the disease. Nothing would be
more easy than to communicate the dis¬
ease to a few of the animals. Round a
burrow M. Pasteur would place rabbits a mov¬
able fenoe, within which the
would circulate in search of food. Ex¬
periments have proved that it is easy to
multiply to any extent the microbes of
hen cholera in all kinds of flesh soups.
If the food of the rabbit were watered
with these liquids full of microbes, the
animals would catch the disease and
spread it everywhere. M. Pasteur adds
that the disease, of which he domestic speaks
does noc attack four-footed
animals, and as fowls do not live in the
open country there would be no risk of
destroying them,
It is told of Beethoven that on one oc¬
casion he was with liis brother, when
they were both obliged to give their
name and position. “I am Karl von
Beethoven,” “landed proprietor.” said the brother “And pompously, I,” said
the great musician in his turn, “am
Louis von Beethoven, proprietor of a
brain.”
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