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OBSCURE MARTYRS. s They have no place in storied page, ^ No rest in marble shrine; They are passed and gone with a perished * age? I They died and made no sign. B But work that shall find its writes yet. And deed? that their liod did not iorget, , Done for their love divine? These were the mourners, and these shall be * The crowns of their immortality. Oh, seek them not where sleeps the dead? r Ye shall not find their trace; E No graven stone is at their head, \ No green grass hides their face; But sad and unseen is their silent grave? 8 It may be the sand or deep sea wave, t Or lonely desert place; t For they needed no prayers and no mourn- r ing bell? 1 They were tombed in true hearts that knew ( them well. a They healed sick hearts till theirs were * broken; T And dried sad eyes till tbeirs lost light; : We shall know at last by a certain token ' How they fought and fell in the fight. Salt tears of sorrow unbeheld, " Passionate cries unchronicled, And silent strifes for the right? * Angels shall court them and earth shall sigh That she left her best children to battle and die. J ?Edwin Arnold. * S An Egyptian Incident I ?? ] I am going to put an end to this r Egyptian plague," growled Colonel Mac- j Pherson. "We come here every winter, s sail up the same old river, look at the j same old pyramids?no modern additions or imDrovements?see the same abomin- ^ * able old images that have worn the same r grotesque aspect for fifty centuries and 0 broil on the same uncomfortable decks and all because that boy of mine wants j to become known as an Egyptologist. To < the deuce with beetles and sacred cattle. { I'm tired of it all." t Out of breath with exertion necessary \ to this long sentence, Colonel Tavish Mac- j Pherson leans back in his comfortable a armchair and closes his eyss for a nap. p The cause of his trouble is not very ap- t parent, and as he sits there under the <] awning, with his half pay running on at ^ the Horse Guards, with the rents of his 0 deer forests and sheep farms in the High- r lands faithfully collected and accounted t for by the factor, and with his member- ^ ship fees paid up to date at the Carlton f 3 J ^ "" ** ?1"Ko Ano itnnM A ana u micu ociviuc viuu>9^ vuv w^ imagine that even Egypt would appear <3 something other than a house of band- 8 age. The Colonel's dahabeah, with her big three-cornered sail trimmed to the ? f breeze that ruffles the waters of the Nile f( and bears her onward to Assouan and n the Great Cataract, is as quiet and rest- g lul albeit picturesque an object as one would care to see, as on this December evening, 1870, she creeps up the river, fc the lookout man on the bow watching 5 that the channel is followed, and the u steersman, impassive as a mummy, lean- c ing upon the long handle of the tiller. t Forward on the deck face downward or curled up in all sorts of odd positions ]( lie the crew,a motley collection of Arabs, Nubians and 03manlis. There is nothing .f; stirring. The mark of the desert is on f all around. Even the sun, now nearly on q a level with the Nubian mountains away on the horizon, looks tired and dusty. e The intense quiet bothers the Colonel; 8 so He yawns ana groww uuuo iuuic. uc j( is a widower with two children?the f elder a lad of eighteeD, who has already made something of a reputation as a ? student of Egyptian remains, having t been enamored of the land since the evil j day when the Colonel first proposed to c winter on the Nile. The second is a r gentle lad of ten years, well liked by everybody. He gives his vote for Egypt r every winter, because Jack asks it as a { favor. They are ashore now after relics, ^ and have promised to report when the dahabeah ties up for the night -at ? Assouan before warping her way through ? the cataract. ? The Colonel's eyes follow a movement ] in the tangled grcup of figures on the l deck. Two men rise, shouting at each j i other the while. The Colonel and the j dragoman, who had just poked his head i out of his room on the deck, look on ] lazily. Suddenly one of the disputants (makes a rush at the other?the gleam of ] steel is seen and the crew close around ( the men. A quick stroke, a shout, anger . changed to agony, and a Nubian lies on \ the deck with the dagger of Aboo, a 11 A roK in Viic Kroost jpu?>cinn , All this so quietly that the Colonel is still growling that there is nothing stirring to be seen in Egypt, when he reaches the group, and stooping over the wounded man, draws the dagger out. It has left an ugly wound, but not dangerous and as the wounded man is taken in charge by his comrades, the Colonel turns to the dragoman for an explanation. "With many profuse apologies the dragoman tells how the two men were Bleeping side by side when the Nubian inadvertently put his foot against the Arab's face. That was all, and the dragoman smiled and bowed. The Colonel, an old disciplinarian, eS looked black as night. In effective English he ordered the dragoman, after he had discovered that the matter was PL: * not reckoned important enough for | Egyptian law to recognize, to anchor the j dahabeeh and send a boat ashore with j the culprit and his baggage. To the dragoman's question as to how Aboo was to get back to Cairo the Colonel thundered that he might walk. The dragoman bowed and smiled?it was a habit he had learned from a French friend in Cairo?and translated the Colonel's remarks to Abco, adtiing to them such j little nleacantrks as he thought of. He i could walk. His shoe??this with a smile and a bow, directed to Aboo's bare | feet?his shoes might wear out, but?. ! So Abco having obtained his dagger and an old ring?his only articles of baggage ?goes ashore muttering revenge, which the dragoman interprets to the Colonel | with a smile and a bow. The dahabeeh j glides on and in an hour is moored at Assouan. The wandering relic hunters ! return and all aboard retire, for is not the cataract to be traversed at sundown i to-morrow? Before sunrise Colonel MacPherson was awakened bv the shout of the young gentleman's body servant, who cried ' excitedly: ' Wake, master! We can't I find Master Bob. Here is a bit of paper j that lay on his bed.'' "While the Colonel rubbed his eye3aDd , looked at the scrap of Arabic the produced, a commotion occurred outside and the dragoman rushed in with Aboo's dagger in his hand. It had been {taken from the breast of the Nubian tabbed t? the heart during the night. The boat that had been towed astern of he dahabeeh after Aboo's trip ashore ras gone. There was no doubt, ex>lained the dragoman, with his custom>ry smile, that the Arab had lain ashore intil the lights went out, swam aboard, :nifed his enemy, and left again in the >oat. At this the Colonel, still holding he paper iu his hand, turned pale and rcmblinglv gives in to Jack who knows Lrabic. Dragoman and crew crowd round while he slowly reads: "Aboo night have killed the English dog tolight, but to steal the pride of his tent vas a better revenge." They searched for the fugitive with hrinking hearts after a time, but never a race ot the boy, dead or a living did ViATT r>rJ Aln^noh moH TPlth crriftf. Vlllf. AJV Y UUUi iXIUIViJV tuuvk >f **u lot until the hot weather threatened his ife, Colonel MacPherson returned to 2airo and laid the terrible affair personally before the Khedive. But it was all n vain. Year after year he haunted the tfile, promising backsheesh to an unimited extent for the restoration of his >oy, but the Arabs shook their heads? Ujoo had disappeared without leaving ;ny trace. To the father who searched or his lost boy there was 110 lack of inerest now in Egypt. * * "Forward by the right, march!" Clear and loud comes the command ,nd the ugly, ill-conditioned steeds of he camel corps moved forward with ungainly step. The wells of Aboo Klea ,re within sight and Sir Herbert Stew,rt, who marched nine days ago with .500 picked men across the desert to each the Nile and thence to press on to Chartoum, feels that his mission will be uccessul and that Gordon will be speedly relieved. So does Captain Jack MacPherson, of he Egyptian army, attached for the ir*?aent to the eamelrv. as he sails alone in one of the ships of the desert. This is an unseaworthy ship, and as it osses more than usual he ejaculates, "Ugh, you brute, if there is an Arab at he wells I will trade ^camels." With his he looks forward to the rocky defile >y which the route lies, aud sees flutterng above a ledge an Arab banner. For n instant he looks at it through his field [lass, and then rides in haste back along he ranks. A word in Sir Herbert's ear. ?he troops are halted and a zareba is in irocess of formation when with beating f war drums and discordant y^ lis that emain unanswered?for the throats of he men are too parched and thirty to lurrah?a great body of Arabs starts rom the underwood around the entrace o the defile, and, headed by many stanlard bearers, rush in upon the British quare. Of the fight for life in that square and he determination with which the Arabs ought to break the ranks there is no eed to tell. How Bumaby went down, ghting gloriously, and many another irave man beside him, history records. TCJfV* u + mnat ffAr Ka hjlQ ieen through many such scenes) Captain lacPherson, after the fir; * rush, picks ip the rifle of a dead soldicr,unclasps his artridge belt and plugs away steadily at he nightshirt brigade, as the soldiers lave nicknamed the Arabs from their ong white robes. But see 1 what change is this in his ace as the foe forms in a compact mass or another rush ? And listen to the revest he makes to the men around him: "Don't shoot within a dozen yards ach side of that bauner," he says in uch a tone of voice that the soldiers aok up in surprise and see a white, set ace. "Let them come right up before you ire," he adds, "and wait till I give you he word. You'll agree to that, won't ou, Roberts? It's a matter of life and leath." Tins is to me omcer id comnand of the company. "Matter of death to us all, I think, if rou don't speak in time," growled Robirts, frowning at the advancing derrishes; 4'but have your way." MacPherson makes no answer; the sailor of his face increases; now it is ishy gray as the Arabs rush in on the >quare. Of all the oncoming hundreds le sees only two men?one the standardjearer, and beside him a young fellow, wonderfully light of skin for an Arab, ind with a cap on his head instead of :he usual tangled headdress of greased aair worn by the dervishers. Kneeling as the Arabs come within Sfty yards of the square he takes deliberate aim. A flash, and at the same instaut the standard-bearer falls prone to the earth. The fair-faced Arab seizes the banner and rushes to the front. Another shot and he, too, falls. In a voice that rings above the din of the battle MacPherson gives the order to fire, and the Arabs, met by a volley at such a range, stagger, and through the smoke are seen to fall back a few paces. Instantly MacPherson rushes out from the square, and before his comrades or the enemy have time to interfere he is again in the midst of his comrades, tremblinp and pale, but bearing in his arms th< young Arab, who still grasps the bannei he plucked from the dead leader's hand, The Arabs, mightily thinned in thai last brush, fall away. The fight is ovei and the men, crowded round MacPher son, who is bathing the wounded Arab'i thigh where the bullet entered, ask wha: it all means. Roberts, who is under the impressioi that the banner was the prize coveted b; MacPherson, and that his care for thi Arab is an afterthought, remarks tha the game was hardly worth the candle But MacPherson, looking up for a mo ment, says, pointing to the woundet Arab: "My brother." Instantly the men, most of whorahavi heard the story of the Colonel'? bereave ment, crowd around the stretcher. Sun enough, the resemblance cannot be dis puted. "See," says MacPherson,becoming les constrained as the intense strain of thi last few minutes is relaxed. "I can traci on the back of his right hand the out lines of an anchor. I remember whei he put it on he was a very small cub Ilis hand looked as if ji was poisoned and he came to me and ?ot me to scrapi most of the ink out again. That's wh; the mark is so faint. Roberts, send i man out there to bring in tbe big fellow I shot. That was Aboo, and I think yoi will find a bullet iu his head." The last words are spoken faintly anc MacPheson falls baclv m the arms ot f soldier. Where he stood there is a pool of blood, and on examination it is found that he, too, has been wounded in th( thigh. * They 'were on odd-looking pair, th< brothers, as they walked together in th( garden of the army hospital at Cairo. Il was fortunate that Jack knew Arabic for his long-lost brother had to English over again, having heard ; a word of his mother tongue froi night when Aboo, after gagging tumbled him into the boat lyins: a of the dahabeeh until his brother's let brought him back to civilizatioi his wanderings he could tell little e: that his captor and he had been farers for years in the Soudan and i the desert highways until the insi tion broke out, when he was pr into the Mahdi's service, Aboo bei volunteer. After awhile, he tol< brother, he became rather fond of ] ing. "Imphm!" said the colonel, o elder son translated these rem "there is some of the MacPherson it yet," then. He nodded paternal! ward Bob, and then, turning to , said tenderly, "God bless you, my for bringing back my Benjamin, with a bullet 1"? Toronto Globe. An Island That Smokes. The revenue cutter Corwin has ar at Fort Townsend, Washington, four months of cruising in the nor seas. The Corwin was instructed tc the unfrequented parts of Bering and ascertain whether the seals changing their haunts. The in gation was extended over a wide r Bristol Bay and the north shore < Aleutian Islands were included ii cruise, and the almost unknown isla Nunikaki was circumnavigated. Captain Hooper declares, as the : of his observation,his belief that th( are not changing their haunts, an thinks they will continue to frequei old rookeries. The mysterious little islant Bogoslov, which has excited so i wonder in scientific circles, was visited. It lies about sixty miles of Iliuliuk, and since its discove 1796 volcanic eruptions have chs it appearance to such an extent thai hardly recognizable. When first fc Bogoslov was a single, needle-like or islet about 311 leet high. In ! after an earthquake had been fe Iliuliuk, and a shower of fine ashe covered that settlement, an exteusi the island with another rocky peak, narrower and sharper than the othe: peared. A strip of sand spit and connected these two peaks. In the winter of 18S9-90 more turbances were felt at Iliuliuk, and Bogoslov was visited during the summer most of the stretch of sane disappeared, leaving only a very sle strip, and the soundings were rad: changed. This summer the Cc found the connecticg chain of sane rock entirely gone. "Sail Rock one of the minor peaks was called disappeared, too, while another spouted fourth fire and lava that < crimson hue over the waters for miles in all directions. In a short t passageway for ships was found bet tho peaks by the Corwin. Soundir the passageway vary from twenty fat to no bottom. Off the shore, ^ once there was good anchorage, the failed to find bottom. The rocks continue to steam sputter. The peaks, which seem like geysers than volcanoes, have n crater, nor, with the exceptional one mentioned, do they discharge The exhalation is like steam, wh color and very dense, possessing t agreeable odor. It shootB out as if i heavy pressura from many openic the rocks, and these steam jets unit great cloud rising to an immense h in calm weather. It was distinctly by the officers of the Corwin, an peared like a white cloud at a distai thirty miles. The top of the isls seldom visited, for it 13 always envel in a cloud of steam. The island is ing away rapidly under the continu* fluence of the internal heat, masses of rock break from the to; Sides and fall into the sea. The i was covered with seals, sea lions an fowls, and the temperature of the 1 around it is much higher than at other point.?New York Times. A Tessel's Queer Load. A curious and interesting fami foreigners arrived at Almond stree terday on the Eritish steamship . craig, from Java. While they di dine witn uapiam nazui, iuo ailsoi. affable commander, nevertheless i are carefully attended to by the and fare sumptuously in the forec . ttway from the noise and throbbii > the ship's massive machinery. j The company includes two bal I fifty monkeys, sisty parrots, thirty i atoos, five boa-constrictors and a > American eagle. The latter flew on . the vessel during the storm at se i was promptly caged. The list ? much larger at first, but many wer i at different points along the line i r Suez Canal. Part of the collectio; i be given to the Zoological Garden. : Captain Hazel say3 that the Ailsi , presented a curious appearance i t passed through the canal on her w r ward the Mediterranean. The mo . scampered to all parts of the rig ? and the constant jabbering of th t rots and cockatoos was a great ti tion to the Mohammedan Arabs at i Said and Ishmalea. They crowd' j the vessel from all quarters to see s At Suez a fight took place betwe t baboons and tbe monKevs, ana tor . they scampered to all parts of tb . ging and armed themselves wit 1 loose stuff picked up about the < The baboons secured the iron beli pins and held their own against ? enemies as well as the crew for a . time. It became necessary at last 3 on the gendarmes to force the ba . to their quarters and preserve or( Philadelphia liecord. 3 ^ I Land of the Olive aud the PI Borne parts of Australia seem a j admirably suited for the growth . ! olive. Mr. Principal Thomps , Dookie says in a recent report tha ; olive trees planted in that distric y robust and healthy, and that the; a duce splendid oil. He strongly r r mends the planting of olive a i vineyards and homesteads for shac shelter and to give a picturesque a I auce to the rural home. Apart . making of oil he believes it woul I handsomely to grow olive berries t I pigs alone. Last winter the pi ! Dookie (about eighty head) were al to eat up the fallen berries in the grove; they had no other food f ; ward of two months, and throve ; ingly, their skins having a p( t shining appearance, characters , animals being well fed.? Chicago j S5 BIG WHALES. I n the *: him. m stern HOW THEY ARE CAPTURED, AND *7 I bul- THEIR VALUE. " ? Of ccept Jonah's Story Still Unexplained?How ai way- the S.ailors Fare on Board?De- pi along scription of the Struggles "With c< irrec- the Monsters of the Sea, Etc. tt essed k ing a ^,jie geet generally leaves San jjj fi . . Francisco about the middle of February, ( ? ' and is upon the grounds about the mid- ? ,. die of May, when it is considered the 13 . 1 season oDens. It is necessary to know ? orlra I * ,. ' I how a whale looks and what its habits 1 ina are in order to understand how they ? J should be hunted. They are about fifty . v? ' or sixty feet long, and look like immense 1S ?^' black logs floating in the water when r< pvpn , ^ *v their bodies appear on the surface. They . are detected at a distance by the stream " of water they spout through their blow holes. From one-fourth to one-third Tived ^CD6t^1 t?ken up by the head, r after ^kich *s ^rom eight to twenty feet long " them anc* u'ne t0 twe^ve ^eet thickness. > visit Whales are entirely destitute of teeth, gea but instead the mouth is furnished with werg an apparatus of baleen or whalebone, for 0 vesti- PurPose ?* straining out of the water P a the small fish and crustaceans which form >f the t*ie'r ^00^ The fibrous structure of 1 the whaleb?De> elasticity and heaviness, ? lQ(j0f are well known. The plates of it in the mouth are very numerous, several hun- e result ^re<*0D ea2Q s^e' aac* P^acec^ verJ close 8 5 seals toSether, the whole quantity sometimes 11 amounting to over two tons in weight. a it the o west r^ D "itia f?e when ' t next I>* THE CROW S NEST. ^ I had The tonsuc is a soft, thick mass and i lUCXGI^ .j does not extend beyond the back of the 4 lca J mouth. The gullet is very narrow, not ? ??* -v -i - v.u __.u;,? c : ~ over an men anu a uau eveu m me mi- g ? Sest? so t^iat animal3 not m"ch larger ? than one's thumb cannot pass down their ' throats. The skull is not symmetrical, Pea* the right side being larger than the left; :ast a t^e jg re(j^ an^ C0ar3C) the skin is aay naked and moistened by an oily fluid, lme a parasites infest the skin, and some spe;weeQ cies of mollousks burrow and live in it. lo3 Below the skin is a thick layer of blubhoms berfrom a foot to two feet in thickness, ^ iV^lcr? sometimes weighing over thirty tons. ^ > lead This keeps the animal warm and enables it to resist the great pressure of the an<^ water in the depths to which it descends, more /j^e tflj[ j8 gve or sjx feet iong an(j twenoreal ty t0 twenty-five feet broad, and is a )f the mo9t powerful weapon of defense. The lava, eyes, not much larger than those of an ite ill ox< are on sid.es of the head, about a i dis- f00t above the angle of the mouth, jnder Shales weigh from fifty to 125 tons,and of their weight at least half is of value ?ia R nnfl finds readv market. eight There are two kinds of whale hunted, j seen tjje spermaceti whale, of inferior Bize and ^ aP* worth, and the Greenland or "bowace of head" whale, the larger and more valutnd is able. In addition to the two tons of loped -whalebone there are about 300 barrels of wear* oil in a bow-head whale, while the sper2d in- maceti whale does not afford over sixty t Great barrels of oil, and the whalebone is very ? P aQd brittle and scarcely worth taking to mar- e .sland ^et. Besides the bone and oil whales , id 8ea also afford a very valuable product f ivater known to commerce as ambergris. It is t > any a morbid secretion of the hver and in- ^ testiDes of the sperm whale, a solid, t opaque, ash-colored inflamable sub- ? stance, lighter than water, of i a consistence like that of i Ily of wax, and having, when heated, a ? t yes- fragrant ordor. It softens in the heat ( A.ilsa- of the ^and, melts below 212 degrees t 3 not Fahrenheit into a kiud of yellow resin and ^ iraig'a is highly soluble in alcohol. I: is usually t they found floating on the surface of the i crew, ocean or cast upon the shore in regions t :astle, frequented by whales, as on the coasts r ig of of the Aleutian islands and other \ North Pacific islands, sometimes in )00ns, masses of from sixty to 225 pounds j cock- in weight. In this substance are i large found the beaks of cuttle-fish, on which j board the whale is known to feed. It is i a and highly valued as a material for perfu ( ; was mery, and w;i9 formerly u?ed iu medi i e sold cine as an aphrodisiac and for spicing \ of the wines. ( a will Sometimes as much as twenty or thirty ] pounds is found in one whale, and all icraig this is additional profit of course. ia she A bow-head whale is worth from ?700 ay to- t0 ^900 sterling, or from ?3500 to about nkeys ?5000. ? ging, They feed by swimming along with ! e par. their mouths open. Wheu it closes the ittrac- water is strained out through the valves ? Port at the side?, and some is spouted np ed on through the blow-holes. The small fish them. an(* molatlcs thus captured make up en the their foodhours ^ow lor the mode of hunting them, le rig? whalers a lookout is kept from h the ' crow's nest" ou tbe mast, and leeks. when one is sighted spouting the lookaying out reports "there she blow!" "Where their away?" is called from the deck. "Two long points on the starboard bow, sir." or to call wherever else it maybe. Immediately boons boats are lowered and the chase com- j ler.? meuces. The least unusual noise will frighten them, and after sail is set on ^ the boat no one is allowed to speak oi ^ move a foot even. If there is no breeze to carry the boat, then the man in the to be stern paddles in the direction as noiseT 1- ? ?...SKIn nr>f rlurinrr tfl USO ail Of th8 1CSSIJ" lib jjyooii'ivj ---, -- ? on of our? f?r fear t^lc splash will t 700 frighten the victim. The boat fol:t ara l?ws as closely iu the wake of the jt pro- wha?e as possible, and the bowmau ecom- 6tands in the bow, harpoon in hand, .round This harpoon, or "iron," as it is called, le and is a broad-bladed spearhead three or ppear- four ieet long, very sharp and having from about six inches cutting surface on each Id pay side, and is fastened on a pole about teu o feed feet long, just ahead of a gun that is gs at fastened to the same pole. A spring lowed connecting the harpoon and the trigger olive ?f the gun so that when the harpoon or up- enters the flesh the pressure backwards amaz- pushes the trigger spring and the boom ;culiar *9 exploded. Then comes the fun. tic of Stunned and stung as he is, the whale Yeu>?. 8tarts down to escape, but the bowman ays out the line that is attached to tht arpoon pole. As soon as it is slack hi aula in again, and pays out when i ghtens. So on it goes until the boa iay have been towed several miles, bu ill holding on an taking another sho irery chance offered, and as soon as th hale is killed it is hauled along sid< id fastened to the ship's chains. Th( rocess of "flensing" or cutting is ther jmmenced. Some of the crew havini leir boots armed with iron spikes t< eep them from slipping, decend upn le carcass and cut into the blubber wit lubber spades, removing a broa ;rip or blanket of skin twenty to thirt ?et long, which is hoisted by block am ickle. Great cubical pieces of blubbe f half a ton or more in weight are the nt out and hoisted to the deck. It i lmed over and over until all the fa i removed. Meanwhile part of the ere jmove the baleen or whalebone from tt louth. The remainder of the carcas i flung adrift as food for bears an shes. The blubber after being received c eck is cut into smaller pieces and heate x large pots, afterwards strained, an ie scraps or cracknels from one pi jrve as fuel for others. This is calU :ying out, and is very similar to tryin ut lara, a process known on evei lantation in Georgia. When the blul ei is being boiled the ship is perfectl lthy with smoke, soot and grease. T1 il is put in casks, to be purified f ome. The bone is given no attentio xcept to be dried. Ships sometim< o through a whole season withoi laking a single capture. Thee the re said to go home clean. Many sailors refuse to handle the fles f whales killed by dynamite or boon nntflinino- arsenic. Drus3ic acid or othe o ' l oisons, claiming that it is extremel angerous. In the early days of whaling there wi o guns used, but all the killing m one with harpoous and lances. Tt founds made by these did more towarc nraging than killing when first hurlec ,nd the men were iu great danger. T1 ^ova Scotians engaged in this busine: xclusively, and so keen was the spir ?f it that a girl would not marry a mi Fho had not "killed his whale/' The whales go north as soon as the i< :ommences to break up in the sprinj ,nd stay there as long as possible. Thi ireathe like other amphibious animal nd cannot stay under water over twei y minutes at a time, having to come 1 he surface to get a fresh supply of ai Vhen the ice commences to crust ov n the fall they cannot come to the su ace to blow and spout, so they migra o warmer climates. They do not, lil ?ther fish, spawn, but bear the young k mammal, and attend them with qucd care a3 a cac does irs Kittens, ai ?oe be unto him who molests them. T1 >eriod of gestation is uncertain. Oi 'oung is produced at a birth and is fro en to fourteen feet in length when hor; Sometimes whale fi9hers harpoon :1 loung, which is of little value, in ord o harpoon the mother. About like son roung men praise their girl's mother, o is the saying goes, feed the cow to catc he calf, only the order i3 reversed. captcrhtg a bow-head. Oue would think the sailors on boa i whaler would make quite a nice litt itake when it is known they are paid ( ifcares, but more than four-fifths of the jet only one dollar when the cruise inished. Why I cannot tell, but it rue, and besides the crew is treatef generally, in the most brutal manne )esides having to endure the severe co ind being constantly drenched with tl cy spray while in the boats. Think, unning aloft when the rigging is frozi ind covered with snow and ice, and me word is heard of dissention, the mi ire cuffed about by thu brutal mat vorse than dogs. I witnessed two mat* hrashing a man who was in doub rons. They kicked and cuffed him u ;il my blood boiled with rage, but I w jowerless to help him. The authoriti tnow these things, but still it goes o WTUrtn lorli/ia loom whjifc d,incrp IT ugu UUU 1UU4W iVUiu *T ?? ? _ ittend the hunting of the whale, thi rill wonder why men take such ris ust for whalebone. It does not tal nuch whalebone for the stajs in any 01 iress, but there are so many dresses se stayed that the demand for whal jone is always active. When the ladi :all for any article i J certain to Drought. The First Steamboat Ever Bnilt. The popular belief that Robert Fult< vas the first inventor of the steambo s far from correct. Acccording to tl Philadelphia Press, John Filch, a po nechanic of that city, built a steambo n 1786 that successfully navigated tl Delaware River. His ideas, howeve ^ere ridiculed by such men as Benjami JOHN FITCn's STEAMBOAT, 1788. ^ranklin, Robert Morris and other ind after struggling vainly to pi lis invention on n coaiinercial foo ng he becamc discouraged and eou nittcd suicide. His idea was,ic realit; he principal of the paddle-wheel, buti tddition ho invented and constructed vorking mode) of a steamer to be mov( iy a screw, similar to tlie present pr< seller. Fitch was too far in advance < lis time, however, aud after vainiy ei leavoring to interest capitalists in hi ilans, aud pointing out the possibilitii hat lay in them (for which he was calle l lunatic, though his prophecies ha' >een more than fulfilled), he became u erly disgusted and took his own lif iVhether Fulton took his ideas fro Pitch's invention is not known, but it iltogether probable that he did, for 1 vas a resident of Philadelphia at tl irne and must have known of the sui :essful tests made of Fitch's steamer. The man who tells all he hez jrobably doesn't hear the things th ire said about him. ; BUDGET OF FUN. u t HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM t VARIOUS SOURCES, e \ The Inevitable?The Jolly Copper? The Faithlul Nose?Two-Edjjed 1 Thrust?Convicted Himself? A Good Memory, Etc., Etc. n h He quite forgot to brash his hat, (j And, as along he flew With head bowed down, of course he met, -J Whole squads of girls he knew, a ?Life. ir in THE JOLLY C0PPEB. s "Pretty fatiguing times," said the it pedestrian to the policeman. w "Yes, a great many people need le arrest nowadays." is d TWO-EDGED THRUST. "I think she is a two-faced creature," | said one of the girls indignantly. "Oh, no," returned Miss Cordial; "if ^ she had two faces, she would never use i , this one." id Z ET THE USUAL WAV. J j. He?"I am learning to ride a bicycle." y She?"Indeedl How do you get on?" ie He?"In the usual way. Spring up behind, you know, and then fall oil n front."?New York Press. 53 it BLUTO TO HIS MISFORTUNE. y "What ever made you make Brackins a present of a pocket comb? He's as bald h as a billiard ball." is "That's just it; I wanted to make him j :r think I never noticed it." y A GOOD MEMORY. 13 Harry?"So she refused you,did she?" 19 Jack?"Yes; and I shall remember }e what she said as long as I live." 13 TTdirc l>Whot. dirl qhfi HAvf" Jack?uShe said 'No.' "?Puck. 10 AT THE CLUB. iQ Gay Bachelor?"Do you think there is anything in the theory that married men live longer than unmarried ones!" " Henpecked Friend (w?arily)?"Oh, I ^ don't know?seems longer."?Life. 8, ' THE FAITHFUL NOSE. to "What a disreputable nose Windle r. has." er "Disreputable? Quite the reverse. It r- is the only feature Windle has that rete tains 6elf-respect enough to blush."? ie SL Louit Star-Sayings. as 1 as A hint. id "Well, John," said his employer, lie ??how do you feel after your vacation?" 30 "Like a new man, sir." ? ?*?- 1 .1.;? T-l,? ill weu, It 3 a guuu UllUg, uwuu. X Q* been thinking I'd try a new man at your 30 work; but perhaps you'll do."?Puck. er _____ 10 ms DIFFICULT TASE. Jj* * Teacher?"Georgie Gazzam, what is the meaning of the word transparent?" _ Georgie?"Something you can see through." "Right?Now give an example." "A ladder is transparent."?Harper's Bazar. > CONVICTED HIMSELF. Charlie Toungnoodle?"I've brought 7 the ring to-night, Alice." Alice?"Let me see it. It looks too I large." Charlie Toungnoodle ? "Oh, that's t what all the girls said."?The Jewelers' Circular. ? AN ACCOMMODATING JUDGE. Judge?"One year and fifty dollars fine." I Prisoner's Lawyer?"I would like to ' 6 make a motion to have that sentence rem versed." ^ Judge?"All right. Fifty years and jg one dollar fine."?Life. 1, AT THE CONCERT. r, Id She? What do you think of my new 3(j hat?" of He?"There seems to be something 2ii mysterious about it." if She?"How?" en "He?"The men who are behind us es says they can't see through it."?Judge. ;s le SATED USELESS EXEKTI03T. n- She?"What a dull man you are in the as house, John! When you used to come es courting you were pleasant enough, the n. best of company in fact." rs He?"I was out visiting then, you ey know. When I go visiting now I alks ways make myself agreeable."?Boston Transcript. ac to NO FLIES ON HIM. e* ??What are you killing those harmless ,es flie3 for?" called out the answer-tobe queries man. "I have no hostility to the flies themselves," replied the poetry editor, crushing the life out of another hapless in>n "but their presence over here > at (whack) is a reflection on my depart10 meat."?Chicago Tribune. or at X PAT REPLY. 10 Pete Duzenbury thinks that it is very r' smart to ask silly questions. Colonel a Terger was standing on the sidewalk at Galveston when up comes Pete and asks him: "What are you thinking about when ? you are not thinking about anything?" = 4<In that case I am thinking what answer to make a man who does not ask me a question."?Texas Sifting*. TBE WRONG MAN FOUND. j Citizeness?"Did you go and thrash that editor for printing those things t. about you?" a. Citizen?"I went to the office, but I , couldn't find him." . "Whom did you find there?" a "No one, but a great big bull-necked ,C1 fellow who pretended he was responsible ). for that article, but I knew from his i__i?t- "?CtiimI Niewa. jf ioo&s ue uuuiuu b m<w. a[g A "WICKED B07. is "Get through your breakfast quick, id sonny; you will be late to school," said ?e a Harlem, mother to her hopeful, t- "I'm not going to school until I get a e* dime." m "I won't give you any dime." is "Well, then, I'll just keep on eating. ie I will see for once if I can't cure you of ie your obstinacy," replied the hopeful, c* taking a fresh batter cake.?Texas Siftings. trs A LONESOME FAMILY, at "Tell your mother I am coming to see her," said a lady on Austin avenue to Mrs. Gibson Biglove's little boy, who rei' plied: ' I'm glad your coming, and mamma will be glad, too." "How do you know your mother will be glad to see me?" asked the lady. m 4 'Because, I heard her tell papa yes* terday, that nobody ever came to the house except men with bills to collect."! ?Texas Siftings. National Conventions. "With two exceptions no National Convention of either of the great parties has been held west of the Mississippi River. | These exceptions were the Democratic* Conventions which met in St. Louisone in 1876, nominating Tilden, and)' the other in 18S8, nominating Cleve-i land. The first convention held anywherei in the "West?we are referring only to) the Presidential nominating conventions! of the two leading parties?was the Democratic Convention of 1856, whicty met in Cincinnati and nominated Buchanan. No convention was held as farj West as Chicago until 1860, when Lin-j coin was nominated in that city. For twenty years before that nearly all the conventions had been held either in Philadelphia or Baltimore, the latter city| getting the greater number. The Whig Convention, which nomi-. nated General Harrison, in 1840, met at| Harrisburg, which has not since had aj National Convention. The Democratic! Convention of that year was held in Baltimore, and nominated Van Buren.j In 1844 Baltimore got both the Whig! and Democratic Conventions, when Clayj {M and Polk were the candidates, and it> had them both again in 1852, when Pierce and Scott were nominated. In) 1 1848 the Democrats nominated Cass inj Baltimore but the Whig Convention,; whioh nominated General Tavlor. met! in Philadelphia, giving that city its first; National Convention. In 1856 General Fremont, the first > ^ Presidential candidate of the Republican party, -was nominated in Philadelphia,; the Democrats meeting in Cincinnati! that year. Four years later the Republicans nominated Lincoln in Chicago,. while the Democrats met first in Charleston and afterwards in Baltimore* Since the nomination of Fremont the Republicans have held but two con* ventions in the East; in Baltimore id 1864, when Lincoln was renominated, and in Philadelphia in 1872, when Grant was renominated. In 1876 the Repub? licans met m uiDcmnau aou ouuuuauu Hayes, and the three Republican Conventions following have been held in Chicago, where Garfield, Blaine, andl Harrison were successively nominated. The Democrats held their first con-' vention in Chicago in 1864, when they! nominated McClellan, and they did nob again meet there until twenty years later, when Cleveland was made the candidate.; In 1868 they held their convention in Tammany Hall, New York, and nomi-j nated Seymour. Pour years later they; met in Baltimore and ratified the socalled liberal Republican nomination of Greeley, which had been made some* time before at Cincinnati. That was! Baltimore's last National Convention, and it was the same year that the last! one was held in Philadelphia. Thei Democrats have twice since then met in; St. Louis, 1876 and 1888; once in Cin- i j$j ?J i- ififU.I C1IU2&U, lOOUjttuu uuwv u* vu4vu^vpw*?i| ?Philadelphia Prett. Ducks are Bapid Travelers. Mr. John Petty, a noted small game bonter of Omaha, Nebraska, in a recent interview, said: "There is not a railroad train that can hold n candle to the slowest duck that flies. But the canvas* back is the racer of them all, if he lays ? himself out to his work. When this duck is taking things easy, enjoying a little: trip around the block, as it were, he goes through the air at the rate of about eighty miles an hour. If he has business somewhere and has to get there he puts at least two miles behind him every minute and docs it easily. If you don't ?. believe this just Are square at the leader in a string of canvas-backs who are out on a business cruise some time. Shot travel pretty fast, and if you happen to hit one of the birds see if it is not the sixth or seventh one back of the drake or leader. A drake docs not always lead, but generally does if ^here is one in the flock; if there are more they seldom take the lead, but a wise old hen will be found there. If you wish to bring her down you must aim at least eight feet ahead of her, and if she falls you will find her a long distance off?say several hundred yards. The mallard, is slower; it is ad he can do to make a mile a minute, but he can do it if he -wants to. His regular flight is about forty-five miles an hour. The black duck is a closc relative of the mallard, is also slow compared with the canvasback, and the pintail, widgeon and wood-duck are but little faster. The redhead can go easy and make ninety miles an hour, as long as he likes, all day if necessary. The blue wing teal and his beautiful cousin, the green wing, can fly side by side and make 100 miles an hour without turning a feather. And maybe you think a wild goose^can't fly. But he can. If you see a flock of big Canadas moving along so high up thai they seem to be scraping the sky wittj their backs you would hardly think thej were making a hundred miles an hour, but they are. The wild goose is not much of a pedestrian, but on the wing he is a hummer.?New Orltans Tima Democrat. Mortality by Wild Animals in India. The crortality caused by wild animal in India in 1890 is considerably less thai in the previous year, being a total ol 2460 against 2724. The deaths in Bengat were 1321, the Central Provinces 368. the Northwest Provinces 22S, Assam 201, Madras 190; and the Punjab cnlj thirty-one. Tigers and leopards accounted for 798 lives, and wolves eightyseven. The returns, more or less doubtful, state that 64,500 cattle were destroyed by wild animals. A marked decrease has taken place in the numbei of wild animals destroyed, as the total for the year is ooly 14,604 against 17,633 in 1S89, and the amounts as rewards iD Madras fell from Rs. 44,731 to Rs. 25,I R<u Thp total number of licences held for this purpose i9 now 59/140. The total number of persons killed by snakes is 21/112, compared with 22,480 in 18S9, Bengal and the Northwest Provinces accounting respectively for 10,534 and 57D8 of these deaths The number of snakes destroyed is returned as 510,659, of which four-tifths are said to have occurred in tha Bombay Presidency.?St. Jntnp**1 G it**! t*