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PESTS OF PORTO RICO. Red Ants, '^i^ers" and Fleas Make Life Interesting. THE IGTJMA ASD THE ARMADILLO. ISotli Are Good to Eat-Hurricanes the Terror of the Island-SLts Once Rich Gold? fields-Some of the Jstaod's Adva sad Disadvantages. IV. Tho island of Porto Rico eau hardly be termed a-,paradise for sportsmen, for the largest quadrupeds there are the agouti, a small animal about the size of a hare, but a vegetarian and good eat? ing withal, and the armadillo, about the size of a woodchuck, with a shell cn his back, into which he retreats at signs of danger. This curious creature is ,very delicious' when cooked and served in that same shell with proper sance and condiments. Then there is the iguana, a small sized alligator, "which chooses to inhabit trees aud bushes,.- mangroves preferred^ rather than live in the water, and is savage in appearance, but timid by nature. There are many worse things for the table than stewed iguana when one is camped in the woods, as tho writer can testify, for the flesh looks like quail and castes like tenderest chicken. As for fish, some of the large streams produce' good fresh water varieties, while the coast swarms w:ith shad, bonitos, bream, sardines, Spanish mackerel, snappers,, dolphins, flying fish, stingrays, sharks, and occasionally those mammals generically classed with the fish family, manatees and whales. The best fishing grounds ?re said to be the magnificent bay of Aguadilla and the harbor of Arroyo, the former on the western and. the latter on the southern coast All these waters swarm with fish of gaudiest colors, rainbow hued and strangely shaped; but notwith? standing their a bundanoejthe people-of all the "West Indian islands import vast quantities of Nova Scotia cod, which is. the main article of subsistence for the blacks. With a shred of salt cod, a bis of breadfruit, a banana or two and cocoanut water to wash them down, the Caribbean negro is sufficiently content and uhas no use" for work. Flowers, it may be said, without de s?ea??ngix), particulars,' bloom here all the year in infinite variety. Incident? ally also it may be mentioned that, though the seasons here are not so well defined as in the north, there is never? theless a winter, a spring, a summer . and an autumn ; but only two seasons are recognized, the rainy and the dry. The first four or five months of the year V __ "-'V^ u ?>_ A STREET SCENE IN are altogether delightful, rain scarcely ever falling to an extent to disturb a country picnic. The rainy season should begin in May or June, but sometimes hangs over till July or August, when the <'hurricane season" ison. In the neighboring is? land of St. Thomas the authorities long ago designated the 25th of July as a day of fasting and prayer for protection against the dangers of the coming hur? ricanes and the 23th of October as a day of thanksgiving in grateful recog? nition of escape from destruction. Hur? ricanes are not so frequent here as in some other islands, but they have been very destructivo ia the past and aro likely to be in the future. The estab? lishment by our government of signal stations ia our new possessions will en? able the Porto Ricans to prepare for coming storms, and the "cyclone cel? lar" of our great west will probably be promptly adopted. After October the weather becomes settled, and November and December are delightful. Some cf the blessings which go to make of Porto Rico an earthly paradise have been touched upon, but the evils attendant upon the life cf a dweller on the island should not be overlooked. One of the disadvantages of a tropical climate-which from its continuous heat and moisture brings forth and sus? tains aa exuberant vegetation-zs the number of insect pests. It is believed that Porto Rico is as exempt as any tropical country, but that is speaking only relatively. The writer has passed many a nighs in the tropic forests, sleep? ing in open air beneath thc? palms and tree ferns; in neglected negro huts, where the thatch swarmed with vermin and the floors were alive with fleas and cockroaches ; he has lived in the West Indies summer and winter several years, yet he can say that he was never stung or bitten by anything more dangerous than an ant or a hornet. This also was the experience of an old naturalist who spent 60 years in Cuba, Porto Rico and other islands in the Caribbean. But we j came near enough t o danger on many I an occasion. Most to be feared are tho scorpions, tar?ntulas, centipeds, wasps, mosqui? toes, black and red ants, ticks, ''jig? gers" and fleas. The "jiggers," or I chigoes, are fleas, but not the hop, skip | and jump variety, being the Pulex I penetrarts. sustaining the same rela? tion to the others that the Digger Indian does to the Sioux or Apache. It pene? trates the skin, and there lays a mass of eggs after snugly ensconcing itself in th? same'hole. If eggs and "jigger" are not promptly removed, trouble results after a few days, and neglected cases sometimes eventuate in the loss of the toe or even the foot. So long, however, as one bears in mind not to walk bare-. foot over old or damp floors and if he feel a tickling sensation in thc toe to investigate at once this insect need not be a terror. - The habits of the other pests are too well known to require repetition here; but it should be particularly noted that the scorpions are the most venomous, the tarantulas the most "ornery," and the centipeds the most chain light? ninglike in their movements of any in? sects of their class, and yet children are reared here without great care, and one seldom hears of fatal cases of insect poisoning. The small black and yellow children run about naked until-well, until they can steal the jam off the middje of the table, and they are as healthy a lot as one could wish to see. . There are fevers, to be sure, but more [ resultant from local causes than from the hot and humid atmosphere. Some of the coast towns are afflicted with yel? low fever, which is almost unknown in t&e interior, and is endemic in San Juan, the capital, only because the most ordinary rules of sanitation are flagrantly neglected. Cholera, dysen? tery, diarrhea-all these are as potent possibilities as they are "up north" if unripe fruit is eaten, bad water drunk or hygienic rules not strictly followed ; but as for boiling all water before drinking, as was advised by the "health sharps" of our army in Cuba, and keep? ing out of the sun, refraining from rid? ing or walking at midday, etc., these precautions are not necessary. At least the people do not think so, and many of them live to a ripe old age. When Ponce de Leon arrived here, about 1510, the rivers, some of them, yielded sands of gold, >nd they do the 'same today, yet nobody has ascertained the source of those golden grains. The first Spaniards adopted merely the prim? itive methods of the Indians, who val? ued the precious metal only for its col? or and ductility, and they simply washed the grains and nuggets from the sands of the rivers or made super? ficial excavations. They have never yet ?uring their nearly 400 years of occupa A PORTO RICAN CITY. ! tion engaged in scientific mining. The first settlers were very much occupied I in subjugating the Indians, who alone ; knew the location of the gold, but not ! long after the Indians were subdued j they were exterminated, and so there ! was no one to search for gold. For these reasons, though the island was discov? ered in 1493 and settled in 1509-11, we are today ignorant of its physical geog? raphy. No one has made any extensive excavations. And moreover, since the island is covered with thickets, it is I difficult to ascertain the quality of the ; soil, particularly in the mountains, j where as little is known of it today as ! at the period of discovery. It was, how I ever, the rchness of the region of au? riferous sands as well as the fertility of the soil that kept the early Spanish settlers in the island, notwithstanding the attacks of the fierce Caribs, the French and English pirates and the re? peated devastations of the hurricanes. In the neighboring island of Santo Domingo the sume ignorance and list- \ lessness prevails as in Porto Rica I have seen nuggets there weighing up to five ounces, a handful weighing ov<<r half an ounce each, and have seen ttie people go down to the streams and wash out gold from the sands repeatedly, but only sufficient for their daily or weekly needs, yet from these same stiearns, in the time of Columbus and the conquista? dores, millions in gold were obtained and ! sent to Spain. The high altar of the j convent chapel in Burgos, Spain, and a missal once belonging to Queen Isabella were gilded with this first gold taken from these very rivers. Indians by thou? sands were murdered for their little hoards, Spanish cavaliers by hundreds risked their lives for the precious metals of Santo Domingo, yet no one knows to? day whence came the golden sands which those streams washed down in such abundance to the sea. Our hustling prospectors will soon probe the secret, however. FREDERICK A. OBER, i rWPPINE ISL?NDERS. ! - The Principal Tribes, Their Kis* ? tory and Characteristics, SEVEBAL CEBT??EIE3 OP WAEFAEE - ?he Difference Eetween British and Span? ish Rule Strikingly Illustrated by the Case of the Scltan of Soulou-Head Hunters of Mindanao and Luzon. V. The average Spanish official has a horror of statistics. He excels in sub? traction and division, but in addition he is unworthy of trust. The census of Spain is an eyesore to all students of statecraft, bet it rises into splendor when compared with that of the Philip? pines, In China they count t:he houses and multiply them by four. In the Philippines the enumerators, are said to make estimates and throw dice as to which set of numbers shall be taken. The least objectionable census of the A NATIVE BUNGALOW. colony was that of 1875, and ?hat states officially that the figures do not include the savages, the untaxed natives, tho mountaineers, the fishermen and the Soulous, The population given by that census was 6,190, OOO. The estimates of the five exceptions mentioned was 440,000, so that the total in 1S75 was 6,630,000. This must ba regarded as below the truth, as it allows practically nothing for the rich and beautiful island of Mindanao, ia the southeast of the archipelago. This noble territory and the adjacent islands are well populated, the inhabitants being at least four times as many as the official estimates. The rate of increase is no less than 2 per cent per annum in the districts which are under Spanish rule, a trifle less than what it is in the independent communities. At this rate the popula? tion today is 10,800,000 at the lowest estimate. The highest estimate is 15, 000,000, made by the Hongkong Tele? graph, one of the leading journals of the far east. The German geographers put it at 11,000,000 and 12,000,000. No attempt worthy of the name has been made to consolidate the Philippine peoples into a uniform whole. The Spaniards have, on the contrary, en? deavored to encourage theclitnand tribe spirit in order to prevent any local in? surrectionary movement becoming gen? eral. The native languages are pre? served and only a minority speak Span? ish. The Tagals look down on the low half castes, :he Visayas despise the j Tagals, and the Soulous detest them all. This policy had many advantages. It ! converted the natives into isolated cr disconnected tribes and enabled the ad- j ministration to employ troops of one J tribe against malcontents of another. I Only in the latest rebellion has there j been widespread and concerted action j on the Tjart of the nativo population. The people of the Philippines are ; such a mosaic of yellow, brown and j black men as to disconcert the ablest ? ethnographer. The natives all agree ! that thc; original dwellers on tne is- I lands w;>re the tribes known as Negri tos. They were and their descendants j are very dar.i in color, some of the j clans being nearly as dark as Kongo j negroes, while others are a rich red brown, like some of the negro-Indian half breeds of the United States. They are distributed over all the islands of the group. Many of them are civilized, others live in a state midway between civilization and savagery, while a third and large class are as savage today as when Magellan discovered the archi? pelago in 1521. The Tinguiaiies are a branch of the Negritos who live in tree huts. These are situated in tall trees and are often 60 and 75 feet from the ground. They are built of bamboo and other light, ? strong timber, thatched with palm and similar leaven and securely lashed to j the trunk and boughs with wirelike vines and nati ve rope. They look frail and unsteady, but are remarkably strong and durable. Ou a platform or in his living room the occupant keeps a stock of stones, whicia are used to drop on the heads of enemies. Small children are protected from the danger of falling off by a stout cord tied firmly around the body just under the arms and fastened :o some pole or rafter of the building. The word Negrito is a lazy Spanish j term which seems to mean much, but j does not. It is used to cover all the j darker skiniusl natives, regardless of j race or language. It includes the black Igcrrote, who looks like a negro, or j Papuan ; the Tinguianes, who resemble j the dark men of Borneo ; the fierce Ma- j lay Moslems cf Soulou, a black people j in Morong whD look like Tamils, or low j caste Hindoos and the head hunting j Gaddanes, who seem to be related to : the Dyaks. At least* four races are in- j eluded .under the term Negrito, whose j only common point is a very dark skin, j Moro numerous than tho Negritos and '. of later arrival in the Philippines :iro ? the Tagals of the north and the Yisayas in the center of the group. They are rather fine looking men of a rod color ; intermediate between a Sandwich Is? lander and a Sioux. These Tagals form the bulk of Aguinaldo's army. To these two divisions may be added th .Mos? lems of Soulou. These are the original races of the Philippines. They have no : history before 900 A. D. The only men? tion of them is found in the Chinese records, yet modern scieuce has begun to throw some light upon the buried years. The picture thus revealed is a tragic story of iuvasion. war and con _ : j ; quest, larger ani longer than that of th" I British isles. j The earliest inhabitants were a low j negroid race similar to the Andaman is I landers, who once occupied a large part ; of southeastern Asia and were exter ? minated or else driven from the niain ! laud to the outlying islands. They found j there but little peace, however, as they I were invaded in turn by a dark brown race, of whom the Igorrotes are the best surviving representatives. These were followed by other dark browu men, of whom the descendants are the Gad danes, Guinaanes, Iraves, Tinguianes j and the Morong negroes. These were j followed several centuries later by the ! ancestors of the Tagals and Visayas. There was another pause, and then about 800 years later came a new in? vasion from Borneo by the progenitors of the Sonlons. The process is going on today. The sultan bf Soulou exercises a peaceful suzerainty over a part of Borneo, from which he draws warriors and sea fighters to strengthen his rule in Mindanao. The case of this potentate illustrates the difference between Spanish and Ar> I glo-Saxon dominion. His territories in j Borneo and the Borneo islands are un ; der the. British flag, those in Sou Icu and Mindanao are under the Spanish. He is a brave Malay, a good ruler and a devout Moslem. The British recog? nize him, pay him an annuity of $25, 000 and leave his religion alone. In re? turn they own and~utilize his lands and have no trouble with him or his sub? jects. The Spaniards, on the contrary, denounce him as a rebel, steal or de? stroy his property and persecute him and his followers as heretics. In return they gain nothing but merciless war. The English have lost no lives. The Spaniards have lost thousands. Besides the black and brown races, lhere are many Chinese in the Philip? pines. There were Chinese in Luzon before Magellan came. There will be Chinese thero when Spain is but a memory. There are said to be 150,000 in the group, cf whom 100,000 are in Luzon. These are the Chinese of full blood, half castes are far more numer? ous. The Malay girls are pretty and use? ful about a house. Although Spain makes polygamy a crime, Spanish poli? ticians use it as a source of revenue. Two-thirds of the male adult Chinese in the Philippines have one or more Malay wives in addition to one at home in China. The result is remarkable. In 1845 there were over 175,000 Chinese half breeds in Luzon. Today the num? ber is said to bs 500,000, of whom 50, 000 live in the province of Manila. These half breeds inherit the quickness and excitability of the Malay with the industry and brain power of the Chi? nese. They supply at least a third of the tradesmen, merchants and planters of the islands. They have furnished the rebellion with many leaders and several thousand soldiers. Taken altogether, they form the best part of the present population. Under Chinese law these children are legitimate, and Spanish colonial society treats them accordingly. The Spanish Malay half breeds num.- I ber about 100,000. They are inferior to their Chinese cousins, inheriting ^he indolence of both Spaniard and Malay. Now and then exceptions to the rule are found in such instances as Dr. Rizal and the Aguinaldos. No distinction is drawn among half breeds as to the na? tive race from which they draw their blood. Those with Spanish fathers take Spanish names and those of Chinese paternity adopt either Chinese or Span? ish patronymics. The half breeds inter? marry, so that the mixing of different bloods goes on continuously. In the same church will be found men of every complexion-black, dari: brown, brown, SOME IGOBEOTE TVPES. red brown, yellow, olive, brunette and white. It is the same in the volunteer companies, the streets and halls of ex? change. The natives at the time of Magellan were savages in the interior and partly civilized on the coast owing to Chi? nese trades and colonists. More than half were Moslems. Tho rest were cos molaters, spirit worshipers, devil wor? shipers anl pagans. The inquisition and the military power suppressed Is- ? lam in the larger part of Luzon and on many of the smaller islands, but only made the unconquered more ferocious toward the followers of the cross. Even today there are districts where no priest or official dare go without a heavy guard. Another product of tierce persecution j is found in hypocrisy and secret rites. Many natives who profess Christianity are really Mohammedans, and some still worship graven images. Buddhism j in its Chinese form has made some progress, but on account of the difficulty in respect to language and the stern laws of the colony it is impossible to determine the extent. Head hunting, an ancient Malay cus? tom, is still practiced in Luzon and Min- ; dunno, the two largest islands of thc group. The custom seems a survival of some ancien*: religious ceremony and is governed by a codo of legendary laws. Cannibalism is also sv.iO. zo be practiced oy a few tribes i TI Mindanao. Wu I.! \M E. S. L-'AUSS. The "Wbil**" rui.? iight. The ' Whop'' fews rieht. NunnaJU't? fine ?mriie? rtmred fresh, 1 riera week at Ch-.r.&'e Drag Store. One Divided by Xnaght. Four men sit ring together were con ! riding to one another their general ig j norance of the matter contained in text I books. One said he had studied algebra ! for three years, but he would find it j impossible to solve thc simplest prob? lem by au algebraic process. Another j said he had been counted a good student j in "geology, and yet he doubted if he j could name the principal periods in I their proper order. "Now let's see how much you do ! know," said one of the men. "How j much is one divided by naught or nothing?" "One divided by nothing?" repeated the man at his right. "Why, that's one. If one isn't divided by anything, ! it remains one. " "I think the answer is nothing," said another. "One divided by nothing is-nothing. Sure, that's right. " "You're the worst I ever heard," said the man who had given the prob? lem. "One divided by nothing-that means how many times is nothing con? tained in one. It is contained an infinite number of times, and the correct an- ! swer is-infinity." Then he had to talk to them for fiv.3 minutes in order to convince them. Chicago Record. The Heliograph. With all its superiority in distances the heliograph is too uncertain for sole reliance. A passing cloud is sufficient to interrupt the clearest signals, per? haps in the critical moment of a battle, or a sun haze may render invisible the rays from tlie largest mirror, so that at any time without a clear atmosphere the system is useless. It is not known that the heliographic system has ever been in use on ship? board, and the sea service has nothing for daylight signaling that approaches its accomplishment in dry atmospheres. For night service at sea the flashlight apr ears to be the best system of signal? ing in all weathers, though on rare oc? casions the long beam of the electric searchlight thrown up on the sky has proved effective for communication when it was possible by no other means. An instance of such use was reported a few years ago by two British ships, which while on opposite sides of a high promontory nine miles in width opened communication with each other by means of dot and dash flashes on the sky from their searchlights.-Lippin cott's. Gladstone's Doings and Undoings. Mr. Gladstone began as the defender of the Irish church; he ended by de? molishing it. No one ever opposed more vehemently the extension of British in? fluence in Egypt, but i t was under his government we bombarded the Alexan? drian forts, fought the battle of Tel-el Kebir and reduced Egypt to the condi? tion of a British satrapy. He was the most conspicuous advocate of peace with Russia when Lord Beaconsfield was in office, until Constantinople was in danger. Five years later he left office, after having brought us to the very verge of war with Russia for the sake of Penjdeh. One year he clapped Mr. Parnell into prison, the next he proposed to make over to him the gov? ernment of Ireland, and then again he deposed him from the leadership. Yet he was always consistent and anxious for his consistency. Circumstances alter cases, and Mr. Gladstone was not above being taught by events.-W. T. Stead in Review of Reviews. Trae to Principles, [ A New South Wales country school teacher recently gave a boy a question I in compound proportion fer home work which happened to include the circum? stance of "men working ten hours a day in order to complete a certain work." Next morning the unsuspecting teacher in looking over the little pack ' of exercises found Jim's sum unat tempted and the following letter in? closed in the page : Sur-I refn.se to let Jim do his suin you give pm; him last nite has it looks to me to be a slur ar S hour sistuin onny sum not more than 8 hours he is vrelcum to do but not- more. ! Yours truely, ABKAM BLANK, Senr. Could Ile Used Often. The following anecdote illustrates Donizetti's susceptibility and quick wit. During his long stay at St. Petersburg he played by command before the Czar Nicholas, who entered into conversation with a bystander in the course of the piece. Donizetti at once broke off the performance. "Why have you stopped:" asked the autocrat. "Sire," was the reply, "when the czar is speaking everybody else should be silent." Pessimism. "There is a great deal of difference," she said with sarcasm, "between the way a man parts with his money before he is married and afterward." "Yes," said Mr. Penny wise. "Be? fore marriage, when he gives her a $3 bunch of flowers, she says: 'Thank you, George. Yon are so good and kind and generous. ' But after, when he gives her three-fourths of his salary, she merely looks hurt and says, 'Is that all?' " Washington Star. Juries lu Mexico. There are no "professional jurors" in Mexico. Nine of a man's peers try him, and a majority is a verdict. If the nine are unanimous, lhere is no ap? peal. To servr on a jury one must have a diploma in law, medicine or some Other profesMon, or an income of $100 a month, or he must be a member of a family whose head has an income of $2,000 a year. An Arizona Huir Cut. "Doesn't it disturb you when they ? have a shooting serape next door?" ask- j ed the tenderfoot who was undergoing au Arizona hair cut. "Disturb notbin!" answered the bar? ber. "It generis .mikes it easier." At this juncture the shooting began at Red Mike's saloon next door. The tenderfoot's hair rose on end, and thc barber trimmed it as expeditiously as if he were shearing a hedgehog.-Chicago STREET GAMIN IN REAL LIFE. Not So Noble Ic Character as the Story Writers Picture Him. "I have reK(l a good many stories," said the city man, "about the honest newsboy who chases a man three blocks to return the ?5 goldpiece given in mistake for a nickel, the sympathetic bootblack who protects the widow's son, or the heroic street gamin who gets run over by a dray while rescuing another boy and murmurs, 'Is Jimmy all right?' and then dies. I have come to the conclusion that these stories are written by girls fresh from school or refined old maids who live in a village, and they are read by men who thought? fully stick the tongue into the cheek while reading. Yet there are men who read and believe. "I saw one of this class the other day who went to the rescue of a bootblack who was trying to fix his broken box. " 'My lad,' said the good man-they always call them 'lads' in these stories -'you are in trouble. Let me assist you.' "Then he knelt on the sidewalk in his good clothes, used a half brick for a hammer, raked up some twine from his pocket and after 15 minutes' hard work made a creditable job. Mean? while about 30 street boys gathered around. One slipped a piece of old iron into his pocket, the grateful bootblack with a bit of chalk decorated his back with a hideous caricature, his hat was knock?d into the gutter as he arose, and one of the boys accused him of stealing a 'dabber. ' "The man flushed with natural in? dignation, ?nd immediately there arose a whoop of derision, and as he strode away he was guyed by the whole crowd for two blocks. While in this frame of mind it would have done him good to have interviewed some of the ladies who write the picturesque tales about the imaginary street boys.:'-Chicago Times-Herald. PANBESA'S LETTER. An Account of an Egyptian City Thirty Centuries Ago. Probably the oldest letter in the world is the letter cf Panbesa, written 15 centuries before Christ to his friend Amenemapt, a scribe. The manuscript is of perishable papy? rus, and it is amazing that it should have survived for more than 30 cen? turies and still be legible. It is preserved in the collection of the British museum. It has been several times translated during the present cen? tury. It presents an interesting picture of life in Egypt in tho time of Rameses IL It is more in the nature of a literary production, a poem composed in cele? bration of the visit of Pharaoh to the city of Pa-Rameses, than an ordinary letter of today. Panbesa "greets his lord, the scribe Amenemapt, to whom be life, health and strength,: ' and then goes on to de? scribe the verdant fields, the thrashing floors, the vineyards, the groves of olives, the orchards of figs, the great daily market?, with their fish and wa? terfowl and swarms of purchasers. The citizens had their "sweet wine of Khemi, pomegranate wine and wine from the vineyards." and to these they added "beer of Kati." There was music in plenty furnished by the singers of the school of Memphis. On the whole, Pa-Rameses seems to have been a pleasant place to live in. "The lesser folk are there equal with the great folk," and Panbesa writes that its maidens were "in holiday at? tire every day" with locks "redolent of perfumed oil."-Washington Star. A Method In Iiis Manner. It was raining cats and dogs outside, and the Columbus avenue car was crowded. A young woman stood looking from oue seated man to another, but the men would not budge. She looked tim? id!}-, then appealingly, then daggers, but they did not care. Finally the worst dressed and rough? est looking man in the car got up. "Here is a seat for you, mum," he said suavely. "Oh, thank you ever so much," said the young lady, shooting glances at the other men which said, "You are gentle? men, but this uneducated laborer could give you a lesson in manners. " Presently she was shifting about on her seat, shielding now her face, now her white stand up collar and looking, with a troubled face, at a point in the ceiling from which the water came down at irregular intervals in splashes as big as a cent. The well dressed men buried their smiles in their newspapers. The labor? er, now ensconced in a corner near the driver, gave his vis-a-vis a wink.-New York Commercial Advertiser. Gooseberries on Trees. Travelers in Burma see many strange things, and perhaps one of the strangest is the way in which some kinds of fruit grow. For instance, gooseberries that at home grow on small bushes in this part of the world grow on trees over 25 feet high. They are not a soft, pulpy fruit, but are. as hard as marbles. Thc real Bunnan grapes also grow on high trees and not on vines. They han;; from the branches and trunk of the tree in clusters on a long stalk and are covered with a thick outer skin, which cannot be eaten. The cachou, or monkey nut, is also peculiar and consists of a large, juicy fruit of soft pulp, with its nut or kernel attached to the outside of the fruit at the end farthest from the stalk from which it hau?s.-London Standard. A J.<??;?CH1 Conclusion. In a recoil. Walla Walla di,-orce suit, in which the defendant failed to ap? pear, the referee made the following re? port: "'The plaintiff appearing in person and by her attorney, and the defeudant not appearing and no one appearing for him. therefore he did not appear." Walla Walla Statnsmam Good fr* we tuc: r ir ti *' cu. J ]f i j a