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Cannibals of tlie Hark Continent.
The cannibals of the Congo basin in
Africa are numbered by millions, and
extend over a vast extent of country.
Though the Congo region js the home of
most of the cannibals of Africa, some
tribes of man-eaters may be found much
nearer the sea than in the Congo country.
Along the delta region of the Niger, and
on some of the the Bight neighboring of Biafra, rivers empty¬ of
ing into are some
the worst cannibals m the world. Un¬
like many of the Congo cannibals, who
have proved themselves by their arts and
tribal governments to be among the most
advanced of savage peoples, the canni¬
bals living near the Gulf of Guinea are
among beings. the most degraded of human
Mr. H. H. Johnston, the British Con¬
sul at Cameron, recently made a trip up
the Cross River, which empties into the
Gulf of Guinea, about 180 miles east of
the main branch of the Niger. He had
not ascended the river more than fifty
miles before the people he met began to
be very wild and excitable. Mr. John¬
ston says the people are all inveterate
cannibals. They are continually fight¬
ing with each other in order to supply
their larders with fresh food. In one hut
which he entered a smoked human ham
was rafters, hanging from the smoke-blackened
and above a hundred skulls were
ranged around the upper part of the clay
walls. One old chief who wished to
convince Johnston of his very friendly
feeling took a necklace from his neck
and presented it to the white man. The
ornament was made of human knuckle
bones.
At one point on the river where the
traveler was received with great appar¬
natives ent friendship, debating he learned the that question the
were
whether to treat the visitors as honored
guests or to eat them, or at any rate to
eat the Kroo boys who had paddled Mr.
Johnston up the river. He decided that
it would not be safe to extend his ex~.
plorations the further, and he started down
river while the natives were still de¬
bating his what to do with him. As he
turned canoe down stream, however,
the noisy villagers gave chase, and there
were a few minutes of terrible anxiety
when the canoe ran aground, and hun¬
dreds of the yelling savages attempted
to wade across the shallow water and
seize the fugitives. Even little children,
Johnston says, armed themselves with
knives, shrieked and, standing the ankle deep in their the
water, at top ot
voices that they would like to eat the
white man. The explorer, however,
managed the to keep and out of the clutches without of
tiring. savages, to get away
The cannibal tribes near the Niger
delta, in Angola and in the Congo basin
are who probably habitually the only human natives flesh. of Africa
eat Some
tribes in East Africa, however, indulge
cannibal practices during religious
and they also sometimes eat
bodies of enemies slain in battle.
believe that they are thus imbued
the virtues of the victim .—New
York Sun.
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Works.
These are some of the prices that
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Goldsmith, $100 for “The
$300 for “The Vicar of Wake¬
and $500 for “The Deserted
Fielding, $5000for “Amelia,”
$12,000 for “Tom Jones;” Dr. John¬
$625 for “Easselas;” Macaulay,
for the “History of England;”
$5000 for the “Life of John¬
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“Virgil;” George Eliot, $10,000 for
“Rcunola;” Walter Scott, $8500 for the
Waverlys, and large sums for later
with $ 10,000 for “ Woodstock ,”
$90,000 for the “Life of Napoleon; 1 ”
$80 for his first story, and $80,000
“L’Assommoir;” Wilkie Collins,
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“Paradise Lost;” Byron, $15,000 for
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Poe, $20 for “The Raven;” Long¬
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the paid for a poem; Whittier, $500
for copyright of his works, which he
bought back for $ 1200; Ten¬
$12 a line for “Revenge.”
According to an expert, French cooks
generally use carbonate of ammo¬
to preserve the color of vegetables.
would lay on the point of a pen¬
knife is mixed in the water in which the
are boiled.
Habits of the Icelanders.
The Icelanders were always a people
of considerable literary skill, and their
tales or sagas are innumerable. They
have a long list of poets, who iu the
Middle Ages were received at the courts
of England and traveled throughout
Scandinavia. They are renowned as
fighters as well as poets.
The Icelanders can all read and write,
and thev have a natural talent for
languages. They easily pick up the
English short time, language they after don’t living here a
selves but adapt them¬
very readily to our style of living,
or at least they think it is very awk¬
ward.
At home they live on farms, each farm
consisting of about ten houses, The with only
one room in each house. chiet
house, the parlor, is called the “Shaoli,”
and there is a fire house, - a washing
house, an eating house, a store house, a
place bathing house, Iceland etc. There is only one
in that deserves the name
of a town, Reykjavik, the capital, a
'place of about 700 inhabitants. There
are no railroads on the island, nor even
carriage roads twenty miles outside of
Reykjavik. the
All traveling is done on horseback
or on foot. The Icelandic ponies are
hardy and serviceable and cost but little
to keep. In the summer they graze in
the public pastures and in winter they
are day content and with a few pounds good of hay a
a little shelter. A pony
can be bought for $20, and travelers on
the island, as a rule, buy their own
ponies before they start on a journey.
Though under Danish rule, Iceland has
its own legislative body, called the
“Althing.”
Few of the Icelanders are skilled
workmen, but all are very industrious,
and when they come here they engage
chiefly in agricultural pursuits and help
to swell the vote polled by the “solid
farmers.” At eventide, gathered about
their hearths, they listen to or tell tales
of the achievements of their fathers long
ago. Every Icelander knows the old
sagas almost by heart, and folk lore is
nowhere more dearly cherished than in
their far-oS land of snow and ice .—New
York Telegram.
An Automatic Life Preserver.
A new automatic life-preserving belt
has been successfully tested at Ridgway
Park, says the Philadelphia Times. The
preserver can be made in the form of a
belt, to fit around the body under the
arms or also be made in the form of a
vest. The belt is in the form of a rubber
bag, covered intended with black Jersey cloth,
and is to be worn at all times
while on the water. It is ingeniously
constructed. Under the left arm is a
metal cap, about six inches in circumfer¬
ence, perforated all the way around. The
metal cap screws down lightly upon a
capsule and about five inches thick, in circumfer¬
ence half an inch which is
perforated the on both sides.
In with capsule is compressed gas. On
contact the water the gas is released
aud fills the entire belt in lass than five
seconds after the wearer has fallen into
the water. The water enters perforated
holes on the outside of the capsule and
comes in contact with the mechanism
and releases the gas.
The capsule then automatically closes
and inside. not a drop of water can penetrate
the
The experiments were made from the
front of Ridgvvav Park. The wearer of
the belts was Frederick Golden, nineteen
years of age, who was pushed and fell
overboard three times,each time the belt
being inflated and the wearer buoyant
before he came to the surface of the
water.
Phenomenal Memories.
Cardinal Mezzofanti, the linguist,who
was said to have known a hundred
languages, declared that he never for¬
got a word he had once learned. To a
friend who congratulated Leyden on his
remarkable memory he replied that he
often found it a source of great incon
venience. On the friend expressing
surprise he exclaimed that he had often
wished to recollect a particular ex¬
pression in something he had read, but
could not do it until he had repeated the
whole passage from the beginning to the
expression ho desired to recall.
An who English clergyman mentions a
man could remember the day of the
burial of every person who had died in
the parish during thirty-five years, and
could also repeat the name and age of
each deceased person, and the names of
mourners at his funeral, But so weak
was trusted he intellectually that he could not
be to feed himself.— New York
Press.
Yellow Fever Treatment.
Take die patient, seat him in a cane
bottomed chair, under which is a small
vessel—say fire; a saucer—filled with alcohol,
set on then cover the patient closely
with a blanket, chair and all, and as soon
as the perspiration starts on his face, give
a half goblet of pure castor oil, and as
soon as patient begins to faint let two
men wrap him closely in the blanket and
put him to bed, clos ly covered. He will
go awake to sleep, and in three hours will
and will unload his bowels freely
and be free from yellow fever. He must
stay in doors for nine days, and will re¬
quire some tonic. Small doses of qui¬
nine will answer. Feed on light diet at
first. After nine days the patient will
not be likely to relapse. In the event he
does during the nine days of convales¬
cence. repeat the treatment, and, it is
claimed by experts, no one will die who
uses this treatment fairly.
Capturing grasshoppers is now a
favoiite occupation in some parts of
Minnesota. The popular method of cap¬
ture is to cover the inner arc of a wheeled
wire-tooth rake with cotton cloth, and
drive where the grasshoppers are thick¬
est. In a short time a few bushels of
the pests are collected on the cloth.
“Just Hear Tliat Child Scream! ”
Said Mrs. Smith to her sister, Mrs. Davis. as
the sound of a child’s shrieks came across the
garden from a neighbor’s house. “What kind
of a woman have you for a neighbor? Does she
abuse her ■—. v children?’’ '“*si* w **.* 1 ' No v ’ indeed,” « replied —u-j
AT..O Mrs. Davis, rtnwia “bhe nci,„ is 1 . one of the most tender
mothers in existence. But you see, she believes
in the old-fashioned styles of doctoring. When
a child needs physic, she tills a spoon with
some her nauseous lap, holds dose, his lays the little victim flat
on his nose till he is forced to
open mouth for breath, when down goes
the dreadful mess. Then come the yells.” ‘‘No
wonder,” Dr. said Mrs. Smith, “Why doesn’t she
use Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets?
They are effective without being harsh, and
are as easy to take as sugar plums. I always
give Mrs. them to my children.” “And so do I,”
said Davis.
The cowboy is like n dramatic star—he is
supported by a stock company.
Conventional “ Motion *» Resolutions.
Rv Whereas, The M ;non Route (L. N. A. & C.
Co.liiesires to make'it known to the world
at link large that it forms the double connecting
of Pullman tourist travel between the
winter cities of Florida a d the summer re¬
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Whereas , Its rates are as low as the lowest;
then be it
Cormick. Gen’l Pass. Agent Mcnon Route, 185
Dearborn St.. Chicago, for full particulars. (In
any event send for a Tourist Guide, enclose 4c.
postage. 1
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The fact that castor-oil, as vile a medicine as
was ever discovered, has so long held its own as
a discovered, laxative, is because,until Hamburg ,, take - Figs ., pi were ]
no medicine could its ace#
Now, however, ladies and children take H am
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