KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
An Indian of full blood named Le’
Birder Burnett is teaching a public
Bchool with good success in Readmond,
Mich. He is believed to be the first In¬
dian regularly employed as- a teacher ol
white children.
Illinois has now been a State fot
seventy years, and yet of the fifty-one
members of the present State Senate,
but nineteen were born in the State.
Of 147 House members, but fifty-one
claim Illinois as a birthplace.
It is a bad sign, remarks the Atlanta
Constitution, to see our cities growing
much faster than th* States and country
at large. In 1820 New York and Brook¬
lyn contained one-tenth of the popula¬
tion of the State. Now they contain
more than one-third. It is estimated
that twenty years hence New York will
have 3,500,000, Philadelphia 2,750,000,
and Brooklyn and New York 4,500,000
together. The crowding of a dispropor¬
tionate share of our population into large
cities is a great evil, and it will increase
the gravity of some of the social and
economic problems now pressing for a
solution.
AH men in public life must have
noticed the youthfulness of the reporters,
says the Epoch. No man who has had
much to do with these busy interroga¬
tors needs to be told that nineteen in
twenty are young fellows between
twenty-one and thirty years of age. The
Bev. William M. Taylor once declared
that he could not tell the reporters apart.
“They all have the sanguine tempera¬
ment to such a degree,” he said, “that
they actually look alike. Their hair is
of the lighter shades, their faces are
round, they have blue eyes and light
mustaches, and they are all young, eager,
ind enthusiastic.”
Archdeacon Maekay-Smith,in Harper's
Magazine, says that the colleges never had
so many professing church members in
them as at present. A few examples wil
show this. Yale College, in 1793, had
but four or five students who were
church members; to-day nearly one half
hold such membership. Princeton, in
1813, had but two or three openly pro¬
fessing the Christian faith: to-day about
one-half, and among them the best
scholars. In Williams College 147 out
of 248, and in Amherst 233 out of 352
are members of churches. In many
other colleges, as proved by Dr. Hodge,
from whose carefully prepared tables
these figures are taken, the proportions
are still more favorable to the prospects
of religion.
It seems perfectly certain, predicts the
New York HeraU, that the productive
power of the wheat lands will be very
greatly reduced long before 1900, unless
the profits of the wheat grower are sc
much augmented that he will be en¬
abled to improve his lands by the liberal
use of choice fertilizers. It is asserted
on the authority of the Department of
Agricultural Statistics of Indiana that
in 1884 there were 123,000 tons of pot¬
ash and 87,000 tons of phosphoric acid
taken from the soil of that State in the
production of the year’s crops, while
only 1051 tons of phosphoric acid and
sixty-five tons of potash were supplied
to the soil by all tlfe commercial fertiliz¬
ers sold in the State. Such drainage of
any soil cannot long continue without
impoverishment.
The contrast between the treatment
of old soldiers in the United States and
other counties may be seen from the fol¬
lowing : In the little town of Pontypool,
England, lives an old veteran, now in
his hundredth year, who, as a private,
fought under Sir John Moore, and wit¬
nessed his death in the retreat of the
British army, before Corunna, in 1809.
He also served under Lord Wellington,
through nearly the whole of the Penin¬
sula war, from Fuentes d’Onoro to Vic¬
toria. Invalided and discharged in
1817, he re-enlisted in 1826, served
through the Caffre war in 1833, and was
not finally discharged until 1845. After
forty years of arduous service, broken
down in health and unfit for labor of
any kind, this veteran was retired on
the munificent pension of one shilling
a day 1 _
European Libraries.
The European country which posses*
pes the largest number of public librar¬
ies is, says the Libraay Journal, Austria.
In Austria there are no fewer than 577
public libraries, containing 5,375,000 and
volumes, without reckoning maps out
manuscripts—a total which comes
at 26 volumes per 100 of the population. libraries,
France possessei: 500 volumes public and 135,
containing 4,598,000 volumes 100
000 manuscripts, or 12 per
of the inhabitants; Italy ranking next
■with 493 libraries, 4,349,000 volumes
and 330,000 manuscripts, or 16 volumes
per 100. Iu Germany the public librar¬
ies number 398, containing 2,640,000 11
volumes and 58,000 manuscripts, Britain or
volumes per hundred. Great
possesses only 200 publio libraries ac¬
cording to these statistics, volumes
numbering 2,871,000, and the manu¬
scripts 26,000. There are 145 libraries _
in Bussia, with 925,000 volumes and
24,000 manuscripts, or a fraction over
one volume to 100 persons. It is note¬
worthy that in Bavaria alone the publio
libraries number 169, with 1,868,000
DOMINION.
Spirit and clav—
Strange voke-fellows they 1
Spirit and clay,
Linked for a day,
Then away, away—
Tarrying not for yea or nay—
One comrade goes;
Daisies bloom over one’s repose.
What did it mean, this union brief?
Strange! Could the sky ling by no other birth
Have come to earth?
For the twain were at war, till for base relief,
The nobler cringed—ay, shame to tell!
Cringed to the clay, and its sceptre fell,
And all the world did see
The usurper’s victory.
Sweet is the rest
In earth’s mother breast:
Sweeter the rest
Up with the blest,
When earth’s transient guest
Flies through the vast like a bird to its nest
When time is done,
Quenched all the fires of star and sun,
Calm o’er the wreck > 1 all tha spirit soar.
Yet (shuddering keavi ns, breathe not the
tale,
Lest angels wail.)
Wrecks more than matter are strewn on
life’s shore
When spir t with clay is too weak to cope.
Child of such destiny!—born to such hope!
Behold that fair hope lost
And weep for a battle’s cost,
Spirit or clay
Shall the scepter sway
Spirit or day,
Which shall obey,
Since either may?
(Trembles the balance such issues to weigh.)
Dissolve we must—
The dust return to its kindred dust;
And shall it not bow to the lordlier mate
And willing wait on its proud behest,
Till God see best
That itself be lifted from mean estate?
For He who created dishonoreth not,
And even the dust shall be unforgot,
And spirit to glorified clay
Be linked for an endless day!
—Rosalie M. Broadus, in Independent.
KINGS OF THE JUNGLE.
tnat j, h . a e Hon ssrjtswjswr or tiger is always bent on at- ?
tack, and that to meet one is to bring on
an encounter. This is far from being
true. When infuriated by a wound or
pressed dangerous by hunger to almost but any there wild
is man, are occa
sions when the most ferocious of them
desire peace at any price.
At Nellur, on the west shore of the
Gulf of Bengal, I went out with a party
of British officers to search for a
eater who had created great
to the west. He had, indeed,
most of the natives out of a section
miles square and the number of
it was said he had eaten was above
ty.. The tiger’s iair was in a krge
which backed against the coast range
mountains. In the midst of this
was an old rum, and the beast
had his bed there. There were ten of
in the party, including natives, and we
had begun to beat up the thicket when
stepped ank into a hole and wrenched
e. That settled me, for the day
least and I was assisted back to camp,
which was about half a mile from
thicket. A sort of easy chair was
for me at the foot of a tree, and one
the natives was left to attend to
wants. I heard the hunters beating
the game, but the pain took away my
terest in the hunt. I had my boot off,
and the man was softly rubbing my
with brandy, when all of a sudden
fastened his eyes on something
me, and his face became terror-stricken,
‘ \Vhat is lt—a snake?” 1 whispered.
‘No-tbe tiger!” he gasped in reply,
•Is he close at hand?”
“Not fifty feet away, sahib, and
. right at
mg us.
My gun was ten feet away, and we
were perfectly before helpless. Overhead
safety, but I could reach my feet
and pull myself up by a branch the
would have me.
‘‘Can you catch the branch over
head?” I asked of the native.
“les, sahib, but I cannot leave
‘‘Save yourself if you can, or we shall
both be knocked over. If you
into the tree the tiger may be frightened
off by your action.”
The man straightened up and made a
spring, and the next instant was safe
the branches. He was hardly quiet
fore I heard the tread of the tiger in the
dry grass pered: a few yards away and the
tive whi
“Say your prayers, sahib; he is here'”
In a few seconds length^ the ti^er came up. I
sidera'bly was lying higher at full than my head con
my feet, and so I
saw his every move. He looked me full
in the face and uttered a low growl, but
it was not one of anger. I saw that the
beast was full of curiosity and wonder,
and hope sprung up in my heart. He
sniffed at my right hand, which lay be
side me, passed his nose down my in
jured foot, and the fumes of the brandy
seemed down and to began delight him. He lay flat
to lick my foot and
aukle. His tongue was hot as fire and
as and rough tlTen as spite a cow’s, and I winced now
in of my efforts not to
It was something new for the man eater,
and he was delighted. He licked awav
until I ihought lie had taken all the skin
off, and then he rolled over and over on
the blanket, as you have seen a cat do
after feeding.
The hunters and beaters had been
quiet all this time, havinrr come together
for counsel,but now thev began to shout
and tom-tom, and the noise came down
to us very distinctly. The tiger sat up
and snuffed the air and growled. A gun
was fired and he growled a^ain, looked
up at the native in the tree around the
camp, and down at me, and then delib
erately walked off into the woods. Next
day he was routed out of his lair by the
beaters, and, without being wounded or
unduly angered, he charged among them
with great ferocity and killed two and
wounded a third.
Eighteen months later, in the Bengal
ese district, I went out to a village
called Mauday with two officers, to
if we could not rid the neighborhood
a man-eater who had as bad a
as the other. The beast was so
that he entered the village
nightly, invariably coming and going
a certain route. The nights were
down moonlight, and when the sun
we commanded the people to
quiet and took up the stations
to cover the approach. I was the
est to the huts—indeed, I was seated
side one of the huts which had
vacated by its terror-stricken owner.
The next man was 150 feet away,
the next 200. We had planned for
converging The tiger fire on one particular spot,
had always appeared be
tween 11 and 10 o’clock. Ten
came and we had seen nothing of him.
just I pulled noted out my watch again, and
that it was twenty minutes
after 10 when I heard a loud purring
close to my ear, and next instant the
man eater was beside me. The shock
was so sudden that 1 almost fainted, and
there must have been a full minute when
1 was unconscious of what was going on.
On the ground beside me was a large red
silk handkerchief. When I could realize
what was passing the tiger was playing
with that, exactly as a cat would. He
tossed it up, caught it, pulled it along
the ground, had and for fun. three When or four he min
utes he great was
through he and rubbed with against left me hand and
purred, smoothed his my The old fellow I
back.
purred louder and louder, but after a iho
meat some noise in the village disturbed
him, and he uttered a low growl and
walked off without even turning his
head. Five minutes later he attempted
to leap into the window of a hut, got
caught in the small opening, and we
killed him while he was thus held a
prisoner. There was a witness as to
what happened between the tiger and
myself, Unknown to me, one of the
hunters had slipped back to one of the
huts for a drink of water, and he saw
the tiger skulking along between the
huts, having entered the village by a new
route. He was not over forty feet from
us, as the beast made himself so agreea
ble.
Captain Stevens of the Bengal Infan
try was on one occasion waiting in a ra
vine for a shot at a tiger which the beat
ers were trying to drive out of a thicket,
when the beast approached him from be
hind. Its presence was not known until
it uttered an uneasy whine. When the
Captain whirled around he could put
his hand on the beast. He was which greatly the
upset for the moment, during
tiger smelled of his legs several times
and licked his long boot legs, which had
been freshly oiled that morning. After
three or four minutes, the beaters com
ing nearer with their confusion, the
•
1 “T!.
While . the .... lion country , the n
m on
of Good Hope a party of thirty of
were one day crossing a sandy plain. woods
were not within a mile ot the
and it was the hottest hour of the day
sudden cry was raised, and a big
came charging us across the hot sands.
He came Horn the woods and that
out the slightest provocation blood. dozen on our part, of
and he came for A
Area at him, and he was hit twice
he reached us but he came right ahead,
and had knocked a native down and was
standing over him when he got his
us He was an immense fellow
well along m years. We tried to
some explanation of his conduct,
A™ 11 ? concluded that he had been
huuted and perhaps wounded and
become reckless and desperate.
I once had such an alarm from ailion
“to send me to bed foracouple sand of days. with
We were riding on a strip of
the heavy forest at our right and a scat
tering me of bushes on our left when
our attention was called to some.thing
skulking in the bushes We dismounted,
three of us, and crept forward, scatter
mg as we went I made for a bush,
whence I hoped to secure a better obser
nation, and, as I turned it, being on my
hands and knees, I came face to face
with a big lion who was skulking m the
hollow. I was within four feet of his
head when I discovered him. His eyes
were open very wide, and his bi eath
came to me with sickening odor, but he
neither growled nor moved for a
rmnutB. We looked mto each other s
eyes, n I was
J. wa3 bke one paralyzed for the
tlme ,
-
eyes had the , brightness . . , of , electric , burn , .
hghts. Indeed they seemed to
mine, and the feeling did not leave me
for four or five days.
After a minute or so the lion uttered a
low growl, and sat up for a better look
at “«• 1 was oa m y kne ;f > and ha
snuffed at me and uncoveied his , great
teet h- Perhaps another might have
fired at him, as his big head and chest
offered a target like a barn door, and I
kad m y S ua a H ready, but I hadn’t the
power to raise my turned arms. He around growled and
again, and then
sneaked off through the bushes and got
away. When my companions came up and I
was too weak to walk to my horse,
on reaching camp I had to go to bed.
It was while referring to this adventure
some time later that a native related his
queer experience with a lion. He was
returning to his him. village He one afternoon obliged
when a snake bit was
to stop and find certain roots, and make
a poultice, and thus got belated. As he
hurried on in the twilight a lion sud
denly leaped into further the path before Had him
and barred his progress.
the man turned to flee he would have
been struck down. He stood there,
gasping with fright and ready to col
lapse, when it suddenly flashed upon him
that the lion appeared and in playful rolled mood,
The beast lay down over,
pawed at the earth, and when the native
advanced a step it became certain that the
lion was in for a lark.
“While I was frightened “I had almost to
death,” said the man, sense
enough to humor him. I jumped at him,
and he lrisked and bounded like a
P ll PPy- Then I retreated, and he raD
after me. It was two miles to the village,
and we kept up the play until within a
few rods of the first hut. I had my hand
oa him twenty times,and when 1 entered
the village I had some of the hairs of his
mane to prove the particulars of my ad
venture.’
While the tiger has more natural
ferocity than the lion, he is not to be
dreaded as much when enraged. the tiger In
charging among the beaters is
generally satisfied with knocking this a he
person down, and after feat
invariaoly make a bolt. The lion, on
the contrary, if once aroused to fight
his life, means to die right there,
doing all the harm he can.
We were in the Mutable Land, Africa
—a Government expedition men—and hud
of upward of 200 hours before
into camp two
one day at a pool when one of the
men fired at a lion who was makiug off.
The king of beasts had been
in the shade of Some bushes in the open
j plain, and had remained quiet in
wo would pass. When he saw us go
| camp ho of made mile a sneak and for the had forest,
quarter a away, almost
! reached it when the shot was tired. There
was no hope of hitting him, but more by
accident than intention the ball struck
j the target. The lion was wounded in
the 1mm. We saw him turn and bite at
the wound, he and were laughing headed for at his
antics when suddenly the
camp. Although he was it a big fellow,
his mane stood up until seemed as if
he was the size of a two-year-old steer,
His leaps were something tremendous,
and he roared at every springy
At least twenty shots were fired at the
lion ns he charged, and some of the
bullets flung dirt into his face, but we
might as well have tried to stop a hurri
cane. He had been insulted and
wounded and he wanted revenge. The
first thing he came to was a horse hitched
to the hind wheel of a wagon. He
knocked the horse over as he sprang,
lacerating its back in a terrible manner,
Then he knocked down a native, break
ing the man’s collar bone, pulled another
down and shook the life out of him, and
then attacked a second horse. He was
on the horse’s hack as two of us fired
and hit him hard. He fell to the ground,
rolled over, and then sprang to the seat
of ground. a wagon I and him pulled seize a the native to the
right shoulder saw native by
the and fling him about as
if he had been a stick. He got another
bullet here, and with a roar of pain and
rage he reared up beside another horse,
fastened teeth and claws in the animal’s
neck, and pulled him down by main
strength. He then fastened his teeth in
the horse’s throat and dragged him
thirty or forty feet. Nearly all the
camp had taken to flight or sought safety
in the trees by this time, but just as the
lion was approaching another horse a
bullet broke his spine and ended his
career. We found that he had a very
sore hind foot, probably fiom a thorn or
sliver, and this perhaps accounted for
his ill-temper and wonderful audacity,
though there are numerous instances that
a wounded lion fears nothing on earth
except a wild elephant .—New York Sun.
Tlie Tulip Mania in Holland.
A remarkable financial delusion (for
it could hardly be called , a swindle) . ,, „ was
into ysrszs Europe m 1634, ™ and in Holland, * ** for
some reason unknown, Wealthy it sprang into
f t favor with tll0 and fash
onable burghers . In another year ita
ponu | ali tv had increased and gardeners
were i| pagating nevv spe cies, many of
whic brought b f great prices £ for their
rarit J 0ne bull of t e Adm iral sold
for 4 400 floriM , Anot her variety, the
s <t r Au fc t brous! ht 5500 florins,
0ne undre thousand florins was paid
for forty / root3 in Kotterdam. and that
tran8act Thig on started j the gambling, Everybody had
wa8
gone ° tul]p |’ IIlacL Grave „ld Dutchmen
moked t eir pi 'J d talked tulips _
Nob]emen turn garden ers and raised
tuli ' 0n ’Change tulips were listed,
and putS) calls and futures were watched
a3 c i ose ly as “Old Hutch” or Phil Ar
mcmrwatcb the h and wheat markets,
Feople l 0 f all classes invested all the
mouey £ they could rake and scr ape in
t H / Business boomed for awhile and
for uncs were , ogt and won>
The Dutch seemed to think that for
u t , t0 come pe0 k ple f in all parts ' of
wor]d would c nt nue t0 pa y fabu _
1qus 1 icflS for Holland , g tulips. The
flowe r had alrea dy achieved a short
livcd ^ popu / , arit y in p ar is an d London,
but s lio nabie people ‘ ^ were tiring of
^ wonderful new pla thi ven which the Haarlem,
a variety, of one root
sold for twelve acresof and improved gr 0 un all d
jn > ; i 6j f grew common seemingly
at onc( the tulip market slumped.
Then there wa s a liowi. Tulips could
hardl be % j Every man was
h naih = bo r of having led him
- nto lhg (raze Defau , t8 on con t rac ts
and payments ” were commo n all over
Hoila d The courts refused to take
cognizance of them because they were
° b]j and it w;;a years before the
'
ountry ^ fully recovered, though it was
jn wes merely a shif ting of
wea th ’ not takino-it out of the < ountrv
To this day however, the genuine
’ tulips
Hol , ander look s upon his as the
English farmer does his fat cattle or the
„ . u( . k j an his blue-erass-fed ® brood
mares.
Men Secretly Fend ot Jewels.
“Because a man displays no jewelry that
upon his person it does not signify said
he doesn’t care for such things,”
Editor Rothschild, of the J\ew York
Jeweler's Weekly, the other day.
“There are plenty of men who are as
passionately fond of jewels as any woman
who ever lived, but they seem to regard
the feeling as a weakness which they are
half ashamed of. Some men will own
right up, but they don’t like it to display
their trea ures, because is not
considered good taste to wear much
jewelry. “1 know of half dozen business
a men
and professional men who do not wear so
much as a watch chain; yet they carry
about in their trousers pockets thou
sands of dollars’worth of unset jewels,
This is a little out of the ordinary, but
it is a fact nevertheless.
“The late Henry Ward Beecher used
to carry in his pockets a number oi
beautiful diamonds, pearls and other
precious stones, which he would some
times take out in his hand and gaze at in
admiration for several minutes at a time,
He explained something this habit by saying and beauti- that
there was so pure
ful about the gems that they delighted
and fascinated him. He used to say that
it was one of the traces of our far-back
barbarian origin—the innate fondness
for bright gems. physician town who,
“I know of a up
while riding about in his carriage on
sick calls, entertains himself by jingling
a lot of unset diamonds, rubies and
emeralds in his hands. He sometimes
groups them on the seat opposite and
looks at them, while his face is lit up
with admiration and pleasure.
“Do ladies have this habit.- Well, I
think not. I never met a woman who
cared to hide her jewels in her pockets,
On the contrary, they always like to
have them set and displayed as con
spicuonsly as possible. the light Jney of their dontbe
lievo in hiding gems
under a bushel.”
The possibilities of the South in horti
cultural productions are and always must
beenormo s.
THE ALBATROSS.
A GIGANTIC BIRD THAT SK.
THE SOUTHERN OCEAN.
Distinguishing Characteristics of
the Stormy Petrel—Utilizing the
Mariner's Bird of Omen as
a Life Preserver.
I have made certain general remarks
about the p ss. , ' ,, “ h4on i*nr
.h» ««„
•as
Kr S d! e ’°.r th ® ™ e ter ’ ku t tr eads ™ ter
on M?dnm walkiniT^honDin^^n g ri«.T2S. , y tbi°watpi the 1 water; eg ir «
feet thlLpfT 8 T face; f a “ e,g a “ ^ d °AA odd< et f t
^ T aV e 0Wn , P ?
alight on a ship’s «k ’ k boom-end at sea and
keep tilhl- up an agreeable whistling all night
ta eep i > “-' A° W r at
a «» demed ™ °? tke + k
-
unth\h V y bright moonlight nights, ,
i - 1 ’ g S ?i ay
the ’
™ | d Hvl y la S b0Hl n end and a watch r , the
ivater, “ . you will | see dozens of sleeping
pass under y° u - 80 sound asleep
,
y e InL rl th;r en W 6 ! P
uns r H br m t0 tkena then t k vk they only
'
■ £VXd? , and sle
3 ga n aw & J h ®. a blrds that appear g0 to to follow ep
’
a ship , continuously for weeks-be.ng
T k ’ SUC a a P le ?k 0f
St probably V rest i on the water k r i u at / r e mght u
A,, 1 h C „ f .„ t h r Occ.»bM,o.nbe
kept ahve for any length of time m co d
weather, and with perfect comfort to
themselves, on a ship’s deck. They re-
8 ent k° n V ^ Ut thCre 8hould
gantic wandenng albatrosslo llurope ffi
I kept an albatross for six weeks, giv-
11 a S° od bath ever y morning, and
K fee ^ U P “ eoostautly wet flan
ael bags to , keep the delicate membrane
VvitHrfiT its re objections f USed t0
hv lth ° Q the beak Wltk P lece3 of
nnrt- pork until it > snapped at them, and get-
1lt 7 al *?.7 ed
horn te f 0 la blt 1 ^ ^
when when WP we reached aeVied tk the t tropics ‘- and found j
it he fattest albatross I ever skinned
f ander ‘ n g albatross were mtro
luceci into our hemisphere, it would, in
deed, be a noble addition to our birds.
can lesser see no reason why it should not 1 e;
its congener thrives well enough.
bele 18 a ^ amo ' ls 8tor y of a m an
ba h„ I‘“S kept himself afloat, after falling
overboard, until picked up, by seizing
hold of an albatross that came within
LhnVrr,L h thing impr.obable in
Ve ee >i?^ 0 Ur b0ai<
albatross myself, n P lf and T I lound f i the bird
quite day manageable in the water I was
one hawks catching Cape hens and molly
with a fine twme line and light
hook made from a bent needle when a
large albatross plumped suddenly down
Dn mv bait and was hooked before I
oould prevent him. The ship was barely
moving through the water, so that I
was able, after a long time, to keep him
on and play the big bird right up to the
stern. Now came the crisis—would my
line lift him out of the water? I thought
it would. I raised its weight gently,
pulled cautiously up—another foot, and
I would have been able to grasp the
neck. At that moment he gave a wave
of his wings; the extra resistance broke
the twine, and down he flopped into the
water, wings extended, but making no
effort to leave the spot. For a second or
two he lay still under me,almost within
my reach and yet free. Off 1 went to him,
seized a wing in my right hand,and found
myself having a regular rough and tumble
with the bird in the water. It never offered
to bite, I was able to change hands and
get the struggling brute by the feet with
my right hand; then drawing my breast
up over h s tail, I grabbed the neck with
my left hand. I had a pretty hard
tussle to do this, for the bird was pretty
strong when and fought trom under me; but
I had the neck in my left hand, I
let go the legs with my right, and took
hold of the right wing close to the body.
I had only dropped about ten yards
astern in doing this, but now the bird
swam with me on its back, and I was
able to steer it after the ship. I made
great way, overhauled the ship, and
swam right alongside. A rope’s-end
was thrown me, and I made the bird
fast, let it go, and saw it hauled on
bourd, swimming with the ship. After¬
ward I went up the rope’s end myself;
albatross having actually caught and mastered an
in the water by hand, a feat in
bird pursuit to be proud of as an ornitho¬
logist or a sailor.
I have in calm weather, when birds
have been sitting on the water near,
often gone overboard and dived, swim¬
from ming under the birds, and tried to come up
beneath seize them by the
feet, but never succeeded. They always
see you, and swim away faster than you
can follow; the feet and under sides' of
them look quite near from below, but
the keen-siglited birds always keep just
out of reach.
The Thinking Habit.
published One of our “passion poets” has lately
which a metaphysical poem, one
stanza of will suffice to give aa
J dea of what it is:
Think health, and health will find you
As certain as the day,
And pain will lag behind you
And lose you on the way.
Why not pursue this same line of reason¬
ing to the bitter end, somewhat after this
fashion?
Think wealth, and you will get it—
Think A million, more or less;
silk, and in the closet
You’ll find a gros grain dress.
Think land, when you are drowning,
Beyond all human reuch,
And by this happy theory
You’ll b : washed up on the beach.
Think bread when you are hungry,
And a feast will there be spread;
Think sleep when you are weary, bed
And you’ll find yourself in
However much “thinking” may help
lo matcrali/.e all the good things thus
promised,one grand result will certainly
be accomp ished, for it cannot be denied
that the thinking habit will produce a _
thoughtful generation.— Harper's Month
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Influence of Names on Character. 1
In bestowing names upon children
parents often perpetuate family names,
however ugly and distasteful. They take
little account of the feelinus of those
who are to bear those names through lite.
and who may suffer unceasing tortures
under the infliction of “Jacob,” “Ebene
zer,” “Sarah,” “Harriet” and the like.
The Pittsburg Telegraph- Chronicle says;
The names will frequently be out of cor
respondence with the physical and men¬
tal organization of the persons doomed to
answer to them, and a refined anddelicata
woman with even poetical susceptibilities
will be obliged to writhe under a nama
suited to some coarser nature, or a man
of rare gifts be weighted with a name,
that ought to be borne only by a field,
hand.
Names indeed have a subtle influence
on character, and this consideration
should be regarded in choosing them.
Fancy names and names savoring of af¬
fectation may exercise decided influence
upon the character of those to whom they
are given, and it would be better to se
iect the plain names if they are not pal¬
pably ugly, than “highfalutin” ones caD
culated to inspire counterfeit ways. A
name that inspires distinction without
being superfine is a good one to give,
and the shorter the better. Strong short
names sound well and carry weight. The
hole business is one that is managed
with too little discretion.
A Big-Headed Hoy.
Living on a farm near Cherrytre^. six-,
miles from Titusville, Penn., is RaJpin
Alcorn, a boy thirteen years old, who.
has the largest head for his years on
record in that State. Three years ago
his measurement was for an 8j hat. Two.
years later his head had grown to re¬
quire an 81. Last season an dicet
was ordered for him, while this week 8f
was the size required. The boy is very
bright and quick-witted, has a wonder¬
ful weighs memory, 108 is pounds, good-looking, and, though well built,' ia
it
very large, his head is regular in shape:
and pcilcctly formed. Iu playing he is
obliged to abstain from running, tor,as he
says, he is lialilc to become overbalanced
and to fall. The physicians say that ia
the end he will experience no incon¬
venience’from his big head, as the body
will in time catch up with his head and
thus even matters. — Chicago Herald. ,
Beasts of Burden in China. 1
Chinamen have such regard for beasts
of burden, such as the ox and the mule,,
that they make companions of them
when alive and never use their meat for
food when they are dead. These animals,
usually live iu the same building with
their masters, but in a separate apart¬
ment, which is especially devoted to
them. They are not required to eat at
the family table unless they wish to, and
meals are served in their rooms without
extra charge. They are expected to re-,
port any incivility or inattention on thw¬
l art of servants to the master of the
ouse. A pair of oxen can reside in the
house of their master and enjoy all the
privacy they would have in a stall of
their own, and a sensitive and retiring
mule is never in Yet any danger people of being think; in-,
truded upon. some
Chinamen are not polite .—Texas Sift¬
Feasting On Cahoon and Monkey. 1
We worked our way through a sandy,
worthless region, covered with a vat
riety of red pine and growing so closely
af distance to. permit one to see but a short
land this through, but still further in¬
what is called “pine the terrace” “Cahoon is succeeded by
that section in which the "cahoon ridge,” 01
This “cahoon” palm palm"
grows. richest soil, but it requires tha
very abounds only in
these Belize, Central America. Though wild,
“cahoon” forests appear as ii
r&S 1 1 aressstf
sprig on it. The trees grow about fif
teen feet from eacho,ller . and the ever
green roof is so impervious to the sun
thatthe rich soil underneath bears but
little herbage. The “cahoon” grows
each year a crop of nuts, each one a
little larger iXnclt than a dnrk’«i f S tv,™
very much g “short
d0 - and with proportionately
stems. Some large bunches showD as
curiosities had as many as 10 50 nuts.
The natives extract a valuable oil from
the nuts in a very J crude manner. The
meat of th(! n tastes lik th Brazil
nut , but is much ric her in oil. The hard
shel1 is cracked between atones, then the
kernel is mashed by rubbing Ts it between
rough stone surfaces; this boiled in
water unt ji nea an/vapor; rly all the water has gone
off ln steam then this pro
ducti8 heated in pans to drive off any
remaining in bottles water, and then it is placed
for market. The commercial
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125 nuts produce oue quart but with de
cent third machinery the yield J would i e ° one- n ^
tcr In th ligt/than hj „ h lands t
natives use no other the “fat
SShj’ng b!™od bSt^cafoon’^il, 1 and
**-* h “
These forests are the home of hundreds
of varietifc3 of bright f p i um aged birds, as
well small dcer ” ’
as a a out th gize of our
antelope. A small black monkey, with
long hair, lives in the “cahoon” tree, and
the natives who accompanied us pre
ferred that to anything we had to offer
them . Among us°were the dozen natives who
came with two very old shot.
Runs, and with these they brought down
fonr fat monke ,, iu about a dozen shots.
Wh Ie some were skinning and cleaning fire?
t he game the others built a circular
A 8lick about f 0U1 - f ee t long is then cut
and 8t ,i pped *,* 0 f its bark and pointed g “
sh at e end . The stick is t cn ru
in and out of the skin down the bacc
bone,and when the monkey ) is thus firmly, y
impa i ed the stick is p ^ aute ,, in tb
ground near enou “ b to t e fire to roast i
and one native tur s the monkey aroun(
the stick to equalize the cooking. If the
monkey himseifdoes not furnish enough
fatto c00 k in his flesh is well rubbed
with a “cahoon” nut. When thus pro
Lt d the meat tastes not unlike chicken,
when one is not very hungry tS cannibal? such i
come9 rather too close
ism for enjoyment. J -New York Times. *
