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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-— ■" 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. 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