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Frozen Padding* /delicious pudding is made from half a onpful of rice, three eggs, two cupfuls of milk, half-cupful of sugar, and a pint of whipped cream. Boil the rice until tender, putting it on to cook in a pint of cold water, add a pinoh of salt, and when cooked nearly dry, put the rice in your double boiler with two cupfuls of milk. Cook until all the milk is absorbed, and then put through a sieve. Return the rice to the boiler, add the three eggs beaten until light, and the sugar. When cold flavor, mix thoroughly with the whipped cream, beating it into the rice, and freeze. Better than It efl ard fi ol il Is bodily comfort. This unspeakable boon ls denied to many unfortunates for whoso ailments Hostetter's Stomach Bitten to a promptly helpfnl remedy. The dyspeptic, the rheumatic, the nervous, persons troubled with biliousness or chills and fever, should lose no time in availing themselves af this comprehensive and genial medicine. It pro motes appetite and nightly slumber. 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I worked as hard as ever tue past sum mer, and I am thankful to say I am welL Hood's Pills when taken with Hood's Sarsaparilla help very much.'* Kai. M. M. MESSED o EB, Freehold, Penn. This and many other oures prove that 8 Sarsaparilla Istlie One True Blood Purifier. AH druggists. $1 Prei<arcd only by Of I. Hood Se. Co., Lowell, Maas. Hood's Pilis" aa^.1^^"?* Development o? Oratory. The Southern Oratorical Association will hold its meeting this year in Dan ville, Ey., on the 20th of May. The following institutions will probably send representatives to the meeting thai year: University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Washington and Lee, Uni versity of the South (Sewanee), tho Columbian university (Washington, D. C., Centre college) and the univer sity of Texas. If the purposes of this assooiation are carried ont it will ac complish a great deal in the develop ment of oratory in the south. Presumption Rebuked. 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If he is so rx uph like me no doubt he is a very d >cent fellow." This conversation took place be tween a charming girl and her brother, who were staying at a certain hotel in a well-known seaside resort. To this h Dtel I came in search of health to re I store a nervous system whioh had been j foiling lately, and, indeed, had never j qlite recovered from a shock caused by a horrible accident wh .ch had hap pened to me several years ago. I had been lured by a madman into his house under pretence of playing a game of billiards, to find myself a prisoner with an armed lunatic, who forced me to play the game for the highest possible stake-life itself, fortunately I won ; but my opponent, although he fulfiled the conditions of oar game by shooting himself, with ro fl neme nt of cruelty tied me in a faint ing condition to the billiard table co: that I might witness his death. In died, his vindictiveness went farther than; this, for he branded my leg with a hoi iron and wrote a paper in whioh h ? accused me of taking his life. I was charged with the murder, but acquitted, as the fact of my being dis covered bound and the strange appear ance of toe body attired in the cos tume of Mephistopheles-a character the madman endeavored to assume was sufficient to prove my side of the story. Even the astuteness ot Scotland Yard proved powerless, for all the po : lice could discover, after a long search ! into the antecedents of the unfortun ate man, was the fact that he had been confined in a lunatic asylum. I needed no proof to convince me that the man was mad. Bat there was a method in his madness. Until I met him in a public billiard saloon, whence ho took me to his house, I had never stt eyes on him before. Then what w is the reason for the oruel hatred he evidently felt toward me? Two clews I possessed, but as each had proved uaeless to the detectives, it was not li'tely.that they would lead me to a j a -solution of the affair. First I discovered that in branding my leg the wretch had traced the let ters RACHE. That these letters rep resented the German word "Revengo" I was perfectly aware; but what was I te learn from that?. That the man wis a German? I think not. His ac cent plainly told me he was English. ND donbt revenge was his object, but tlie meaning of those letters remained a mystery. My other clew was a note whioh I found during a subsequent visit to the fatal room, hidden under a carpet. Although it bore no address, I suppose it was meant for me, as it spoke of the w.-iter being avenged at last after a clase hali round the world of one who j bcd stolen hie money, murdered his intended wife and attempted to mur ! dir him. This appeared to be nothing more than the ranting of a mind dis eased, and I soon gave up all hope of ever getting to the bottom of the mys tery of my terrible game of billiards. On reaching the hotel, on the day my story opens, another shook awaited mo, though of ti somewhat different ki id. As I entered the hall a charm ing girl ran up to me, flung her arms around my neck, kissed me and mur mured > "Yon darling, I'm BO glad you've come I" In my embarrassment I said some thing but the fair damsel had flown like a startled bird. "A little thing like that n^kes one feel at home directly," I said to my ee i with a smile, for, as a single man, I knew the val'., of a pretty girl's kiiises, and would have liked a more extended interview. I looked forward to dinner that night with muoh eager ness and longed to see the lady who distributed her kisses so rashly. I In the drawing room, before the gong sounded, my wish was gratified. ! A man of about my own age, who bore a striking resemblance to myself, came toward me with the charming j girl blushing a ' his side. He explained that the kiss was intended for himself, and introduced his sister, who apolo gized for her mistake in the sweetest manner. I sat next Miss Carstairs at dinner, and in the course of conversa tion remarked that once beforo 1 had been mistaken for another man with nearly a fatal result to myself. "On, do tell me about it," she said. I was about to do so when she added : "But, no, please wait until after dinner ; then Max oan hear tho story, ? too." I am afraid my eyes were scarcely lifted from my beautiful companion during dinner. Already love had con quered. You sue, at the outset, be foie there had been time to so muoh as deolare war, the position had been stormed, the citadel "rushed" by that delightful kiss I And now it was suf ficient happiness for me to watch the changing lights in a pair of eapphire eyec, whose dnsky lashes curled up ward as though in wanton ont rast with the tendrils of the auburn tresses above. We three took our coffee in the gar den that warm September night "Now," exclaimed Carstairs, "Bay is dying to hear your story, so go ahead !" "Well,* said I, thinking what a sweet name Bay Carstairs was, "al though it happened several years ago, the inoldent still remains painfully fneih in my memory. It wai an ad ver.tnre I had with a mad billiard player. They both started. "Max," said bia sister, "doesn't that remind yon of what happened at-" "Yea," he replied, before sho could finish the sentence, "but don't inter* rap t. Please go on," he added. In a moment it flashed upon mo that the solution of the mystery lay vit his my grasp, Thia man, wa9 so, Y SOLVED. strangely resembled me, was the in tended object of the madman's re Tenge. "Is it possible," I cried, springing to my feet in excitement, "that yon are the man ?" "I don't understand," said Car stairs, looking as perplexed and star tled as his sister at my sudden out burst of feeling. "Of oonrse not-of course not," I murmured, sinking into my chair. "I will tell you the whole story, then you will know what I mean." As I went through the horrible de tails of that fearful night they listened with rapt attention, and unless the dark ness deceived me, I deteoted tears of sympathy in the beautiful eyes of Bay Carstairs. 'Ton are right 1" exclaimed her brother, as I finished ; "all you suf fered was intended for me. Now, for my story, whioh will clear up the mystery. Miss Cars taira rose. , "1 think I'll runoff to bed, Max. i'm very tired, and it's getting late." ? She kissed her brother, then gave her hand to me. "Good night," sho said, "let us hope it will be fine to-morrow." Reluctantly I relinquished her hand, but there was hope in that reference to the weat fer. Might it not mean a walk together in the morning? V I finished the evening in Max Car stairs^ room ; and while wo smoked he told his strange story. "Mark Malbrain was . the man's name," he continued "and I met bim at a hydropathic establishment in the North, where my sister and I were staying one summer about seven or eight years ago. My sister was then about seventeen, and Malbrain, much to her disgust, fell wildly in love with her. He made himself generally a nuisance by pestering her with unwel come attentions and writing extrava gant verses in her praise, until at length matters came to a crisis. Tab leaux vivants were a favorite evening amusement, and cn this particular night my sister appeared as Marguer ite, I was Faust, and to Malbrain was assigned the role of Mephistopheles. The living picture waa an immense success, and a danoo followed, at whioh we appeared in our st ago costumes. "During the evening Bachel (yes that is her name-Bay is only a fami ly pet name) complained to me of Mal brain's conduct. It seems ho had con tinued to follow her round the room, begging-for a dance, and his manner became threatening when she firmly refused. I at once went to him and said plainly that Miss Carstairs wished to have nothing more to do with him, and therefore I must request him not to speak to her again. "From the manner of bis reply I gathered that he did not know Rachel was my sister, but imagined we were lovers ; and 1 did not think it worth while to deceive bim. I decided to send Bachel home in the morning, but remained myself for a few days long er. Malbrain was furious when be beard that my sister had gone, but he said nothing to me. "One evening after dinner we met in the billiard room. To my surprise he challenged me to a game, suggest ing that we should play for a ?11) - note. I agreed, and the stakes were handed to one of the men present. We played a hundred up, and strange to say, tied at ninety. Malbrain seemed very ex cited and offered to double the stakes, throwing another ?10-note on the table. I agreed, for I felt cool and in good form. We played on, and you may imagine the sensation when again wo tied at ninety-eight ! I am afraid my temper was rising when I sarcastic ally asked Malbrain if he felt inclined to double again. " Tes 1' he shouted, pale with pas sion. 'Fifty-a hundred if yon like !' " 'One hundred pounds,' I said.tak ing out my check book. "It was my turn to play. I tried for a carom and missed. Malbrain seized his one, trembling like the proverbial aspen leaf. He went to pocket the red, but fie missed the ball entirely, giving a point to me. Of course, I won by my next stroke, i "The stake bo 1er handed the ?200 to me, amid th oplanse of the men standing aroun for Malbrain was not liked and m; 'tory was popular. Then the party ce up, but Mal brain waited for i n the stairs. His fac e was livid wi tl ssion. 'I hope you ar?? atisfied,* he said hoarsely. "'I ara sorry^.'I replied, 'if the stakes were too nigh, but later you may have your revenge 1' 1 ' 'Revenge !' ho shouted, losing his self-control. TH have my revenge 1 Wo'll play again and you'll find the stakes still higher-too high for you 1" ' 'I had good reason to remember those words when I awoke one night, to find Malbrain in ray room dresse7 in his fantastic costume of 'Mc#>.. istopbeles.' " 'Come,' said he, 'one of U3 must die to-night. Through you I lost the girl who would have been my wife. My money, too i But come to the billiard room ;. we will play to-night. Did you not promise me my revenge? And the stakes! Y ot will find them high enough. Come! we will play for our lives-you and I! Ha, hal one of us shall die to-night?' "I knew is I sprang from my bed the.t the man was mad ! We grappled together, the candle fell from his bands, and we struggled in darkness. Down we went on the floor, and I felt the cold steel of a revolver, whioh ex ploded and u sharp pain came in my arm. Then I heard doors opening and voioes, so I hold on till some cf the fellows came in with lights, 'Mephis topheles' was carried off to his own room, raving and struggling. The slight wound in my arm was dressed by the doctor oonneoted wich the establishment, who also took the un* fortunate lunatic under his care. "Latcir on Malbrain was sent to a private asylum. The dootor's opinion waa that brain lesion had tl reatened the poor fellow for some time. Whether be had escaped from the asy lum when he met you, or had been discharged as cured, one caanot say. However, my story," oonok.ded Car stairs, "has solved the mystery of your unfortunate eaoountcr with the wretohed man." ?_. ii . "Yes," I said, masing on the strange account I had heard. "Bat I wonder why he charged yon with murdering Miss Carstairs? And he also repeated the accusation in the paper I found. I suppose it was some wild idea he had got hold of in his mad jealousy of yon." "Yee," said Carstairs. "Yon see, he thought we were rivals, and he knew I was the cause of Bay's dis appearance." "Then there is another thing that puzzle me. Why did the madman brand my leg with the word 'Rache?' " "It is German for revenge," said Carstairs. "Yes, but Malbrain was not a Ger man, so why should he use that lan guage?" "Can't say. I suppose the marks ! have entirely gone by this time?" I "Yes; bat the police had them photographed, and I think I have got one of the photos in my portmanteau. " I found the card and handed it to Carstairs. I "It is funny," he said, laughing, "to notice how beautifully the print* ing is done-all except the full atop, which is a bit too high ap. By Jove 1 it mast have been painful though." 4'I never felt it at the time-I wac in a faint, I suppose." a "Ahl I have itt" cried Carstairs. "That full stop explains ii Of comae, the word he meant to trace was 'Rachel,' only for some reason he didn't finish the *L.' Hal hal ha! How Bay will laugh at you when she hears of you being tattooed with her name." So my last thought that night was of charming Bay Carstairs. And how could it be otherwise?-her name-on my body, her image in my soul and her kiss on my lips I AB for the kiss I felt I oould not honorably keep what was not intended for md. But I waa soon able to return i ;, for, ero an other month had passed, Bay Carstairs promised to be my wife-.Tit-Bits. Mourning Costumes. There is not a great deal of ohange in deep mourning from year to year. Henrietta cloth reigns supreme as the correot mourning fabric, while crape veils of varied lengths proclaim the relativo mourned as plainly os the death notice of parent and husband. lu deepest mourning the Henrietta doth costumes made absolutely plain" are the correot ones tc wear. After three months crepe trimmings may be used ; at six months entire gowns of orepe are considered c uite possible. Widows' mourning is the deepest, but the last year or two it has been the fashion (as it has been irom time im memorial in England) to wear the sheer white turned over collar and cuffs, whioh are so becoming, and lighten the dead black. The white ruohe inside the bonnet is. supposed to be the widow's cap, whioh at one time was always worn ; now caps, even for old ladies, are out of fashion, .so that the ruohe is merely symbolical. For a father or mother the mourn ing is almost as deep as for a husband, but the voil is not so long, nor is the mourning worn for the same Space of time. All mourning is now laid aside muoh sooner than *?was formerly the case, a year to wear a long veil being quite the limit. lt is difficult to have crepe bonnets becoming, but there is no reason why they should not be made so if 'only care be taken to have the bonnet shape flt quite close to the head. The folds of the veil will give all the height that is npc?ssary, and any farr?rshapo. only looks grotesque under the orepe, When th? mourning is .first lightened and tho veil thrown back, a few soft 'bows on top of the hat are added, and give a smarter look. Many veils of nuns' veiling and of soft heavy silk tissue-a sort of grena dine-are now used, always with the face veil of net with the orepe border, and by some are preferred altogether to orepe veils ; for wet weather they are muoh the best.--Harper's Bazar, The Earliest Wing-Makers. Some of these early wing-makers lived in the shadowy days of history. Bladud, a British king, was one ; but all that we learn of his flight is that he soared above his city of Trino van te, and then fell upon a temple, thereby ending his wings and himself. Bladud belonged to an unlucky family, being the father of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Simon, called the "magician," who lived about the time of the'Em peror Nero, lost his life in the same way ; another martyr to the science was a monk called Elmer (or Oliver) ol Malmesbury, who had foretold the in* vasion of William the Conqueror, and was therefore taunted by cruel people, when he did not know beforehand that he would break his legs on tak ing flight from a tall tower. This monk is said to have flown one hun dred and twenty-five paces. People laughed at him all the more when he failed because he did not fix a ball to his feet ; but a recent writer, Chane'??-, argues that the monk was very likely right in his conclusion. A hundred years later, and more, a Saracen repeated the attempt, and, like poor Oliver, was killed. Then wc read of a relative of the poet Dante, who made a successful flight over s j lake, end fell in trying to repeat the feat across a square in the oity ol Perugia-though even upon his sec ond attempt he is said to have "bal anced himself a long time in the air," and to have fallen only when hil wings broke, e ot. Nicholas. - Tictlms of Snake?. - persons when they hear a na* -?-'Ulist tell about peculiar doings by o ir de, animals, or reptiles grin and ask about big fish. One tale, which no one but naturalists seems to be lieve, was told in the Forest and Stream recently by Allen Chamber lain. He says he heard a cry down in Florida such as a distressed frog makes and found that a blacksnake was swal lowing a frog. When the frog was out of sight the sn alto was shot through the head and the frog was liberated, At first it was stupefied, but was soon as lively aa ever. Within twenty years the same paper has recorded at least a score of just such instances, re* ported by as many individuals, who gave their real names and address, and who declared they had seen the stupefied toad or frog come to as from a trance, hop about as if dazed, and at last go away as lively os ever. S. D. Kendell, in the Forest and Stream for June, 1892, told about a mother quail which in trying to pro teot her young got within reach of a rattlesnake. The snake was killed in the act of swallowing the bird. When released the bird was for some time stupefied, bat after a while recovered ? enough to stagger off. On the next1 day she was all right and oaring foi hex ohioks. Snakes in Denian J, East Indian snakes are in gf eat de mand for European collections. Every ! German steamer that leaves Ciloutta 1 takes hundreds to Hamburg for cfctri* bution over the continent, WORDS OF WISDOM. Good advice : Don't give any. The stolen kiss is largely a myth. Vanity covers a multitude of sins. Fewwoaenf.ro as pretty as they look. # Xhankinlnesu seldom [becomes ohonio. It is easier tr get out of debt than to stay out. You may borrow trouble-, but you can't lend it. A ehanoe to lose is not necessarily a chanco to win. The under dog may be getting the best of the fight. A woman always thinks an excuse is as good as a reason. It sometimes seems as if there was not justice enough to go round. "He might have done worse" means "he might have done better." It sometimes costs a good deal of money to get something for nothing. The man that wears his heart upon his sleeve must expect that it will be bruised. He that is down need fear no fall, unless something should happen to fall on him while he is down. The world owes every man living, and every man owes it to the world that he should try to make it.-New York Fresa Ambidexterity. A little discussion has been of late going on upon the subject of ambi dexterity, and whether the ability to use both hands with equal facility in dicates anything. It has been argued whether or not ambidextrous people are more intel ligent than others, or whether they are better balanoed than their fellows. It would seem that the proper solu tion of this little problem might be that either acoident or inclination had led these people to use the left hand equally with the right. Children are taught mainly to use the right band, and are consequently very awkward with the left, indeed sometimes al most helpless, as far as any dedicate, operation is concerned. Fraotice, however, will make one almost equally handy with both bands. *tAlady received a severe injury to her right hand, and found ?herself obliged to use the other. It took but a short time, when she set her mind to it, to acquire the ability to do many things very well indeed. She wrote a creditable hand, singular ly enongh, however, as unlike her usual chirography as one could im agine. Indeed, no one would ever have suspected that the two- were the work of the same person, although both were distinct and readable. It is extremely convenient to be able to use the left hand, and every person ought to take a little pains to culti vate the habit of doing so. Aside from its convenience, no one oan tell when some accident may make such dexterity of the greatest value. Chil dren should be taught this, and never allowed to depend altogether on the right hand. Equal use of both sides of the body gives a more symmetrical development, and much more steadi ness and confidence in action of all sorts. -The fact that many ar tides in daily ure are made exclusively for right-handed people no doubt has something to do with this habit ; but ail the same; inclination and early training?' strengthened the tendency until we have become a race- of right handed people.-New York Ledger. . Dypspeptlc Oranges. A mysterious disease whioh has at tacked orange trees in Florida has been indigestion. The Department of Agriculture in its "Year Book" pays speoial attention to dyspeptio oranges, and describes the disease and its cure. Its causo is the same as that whioh so often brings on dyspepsia in human beings-overfeeding. Excessive culti vation and too much nitrogenous man ure affect the orange tree just as too muon heavy table d'hote dinners affect a man. Instead of looking pale and taking pepsin tablets, however, the orange tree turns a very dark green, and a reddish brown sap exudes from the twigs. The tips turn up and shape themselves into S-like curves. The fruit turns a lemon yellow color be fore it is half ripe, and has a very thick rind. As it ripens, the fruit splits open and becomes worthless. The reddish brown resin gets on the frnit before it is ripe and renders it unsalable. Most Of the diseases of the orange tree are due to a laok of cultivation, and it was thought that a tree would not take more nutriment from the soil than it required. This is not so, for the tree takes up all it can get, and then, like a email boy who has eaten too much plum pudding, beoomes sick. The dark green color which the foliage then assumes is very handsome, but it means no oranges, or at least none that are any good. This disease is known as die-back, because the twigs begin to die at the tips and then gradually die back to thebranohes. To euro the disease all that is required is to withhold the fertilizer, but tvhen the disease has gone too far and gum pockets begin to form on the bark there is no cure for it.-Kansas City Journal._ _ Gambled Away $500,000 in One Trip. Captain John A. Duble, an old Mis sissippi steamboat man, tells the Washington Post a story of a game of cards played by a ootton broker named Weed during the war. "He boarded my boat," he says, "at Cairo after he had made a sucoessful trip off a cargo of cotton for tho landing. He placed in tho clerk's office of the boat a box about the size of a candle box, but securely nailed and strapped with iron bands. Weed hailed me as I was pass ing through the cabin. 'Captain,' said he, 'send me a boy and your oarpenter.' When they were on hand bo told the boy to bring the box out and the carpenter to open it. It was full of orisp greenbacks. Then be proceeded to run up against the game of a gang of old river sharks, and by the timo we got down stream ho did not have a dollar. He told me he lost $500,000 between St. Louis and New Orleans. The last timo I saw Weed ho was river reporter in New Orleans, and he seemed as perfectly happy ns though he still had his 8500,000." Fortunes in Flowers. It is commonly supposed that Mr. Chamberlain is the greateat amateur orchid grower m the world, hut this is far from being the oase. His collec tion is worth from $75,000 to 0100,000. The collection of the Dowager Em press of Germany, however, is worth nearly double that of Mr. Chamber lain. Miss Alice Rothschild is a most enthusiastic horticulturist, her collec tion of roses alone being valued at $50,000. The Arohduke Joseph of Austria owns $200,000, worth of flowerr. W. W. Astor recently paid 36000 to on English grower for the stock of a single variety of rose-tree. A FOSSIL HUNT, ODDEST GAME EXPEDITION TS MODERN TIMES. Only Scientists In the Party-The Strange Creatures Which They Are After All Lived Ages Ago. MONSTER hunting expedi tion has just been sent out by Princeton College. It is going to Patagonia, where there are more remarkable creatures dead and alive than in any other part of the world. The members of the party, according to the New York Journal, expect to make notable ad ditions to the specimens of pro-his toric creatures now iu this country. In Patagonia have been dug np re mains of extinct birds whose leg bones were bigger than those of a horse. The gigantic fowls were massively built* and probably weighed as muon as five hundred pounds when full grown. They had enormous heads, which in some instances measured nearly two feet from the back of the skull to the tip of the hugo back. Undoubtedly they were carnivorous, and, it is believed, waders, resembling herons in their habits. They could not fly at all. This strange country of Patagonia was the home of vast numbers of gi gantic sloths, representing numerous species. Some of these queer animals were as big as two elephants, but ex tremely sluggish. They were very stupid^ having nearly the smallest brains of any known mammals in pro portion to their size. Their food was vegetables wholly, and it was a habit of theirs to pull np trees by the roots for the purpose of getting at the foli age. For this purpose the monster would squat on its haunches, its mas sive hind legs and huge tail serving as a sort of tripod, while it grasped the tree trnnk with its forearms and dragged it ont of the ground. Not less strange than the sloths were the oolossal glyptodons-preoursors of the modern armadillos. Though bear ing some sort of resemblance to tor toises, they were mammals. They had skeletons on tho outside of their bodies as well as on tho inside ; in ether words, they were olad in an im penetrable armor of bone from nose to tail. This armor was solid, and not flexible like that of the armadillo. Full-grown specime as attained a length of ten feet and a weight of over a ton. In those days there weie multitudes of huge creatures in Patagonia, whioh resembled modern ant-eaters, of the genus sloth and fully twelve feet long. Over the plains o? Patagonia 100,000 years ago roamed herds of animals re lated to the modern llamas, which are cousins to the camels of the Old "/VorJd. Some of them were far larger than any camel, as is shown by bones that have been dug up. The wholo country is full of the fossil remains of astonish ing creatures, whose species have long since passed away. The modern fauna of Patagonia is hardly less remarkable than that whioh is extinct. At the sonthern extremity of that country the guanacos-animals of the camel tribe -havo a "dying place." It is a spot to which all of these beasts inhabiting thc neighbor ing plains repair at the approach of death to deposit their bones. Dar evin first recorded this strange ic-: tin ct of theirs, and his observations have since been fully confirmed by others. Ac curately speaking, thore are several of these dying places, the best known be ing on tho banks of the Santa Cruz and Gallegos Rivers, where, the valleys are covered with dense thickets of bushes and trees of Ftn?ted growth. There the ground is scattered thickly with the bones of countless dead gen erations, the animals in most cases having crawled before dying beneath and among the bushes. The strange armadillo, one of the most ancient of surviving creatures, figures conspicuously in the fables cur rent among the natives of Patagonia, being represented as an animal fertile in expediente and duping other beasts, eepeoially the fox, just as Br'er Rabbit does. Snakes, venomous or other wise, are its favorite prey, and it kills them actually by sawing them in two with the serrated edges of its sharp, bony shell. The armadillo seems to be proof against the venom of the serpent. In the same part of the world is found a venomous speoies of toad, the bite of which is often fatal. It is extremely hideous, and bigger than a man's fist. Jt snaps savagely at anything that comes near, hanging on with the tenacity of. a bulldog. When teased, it swells itself to such an extent as to appear as if about to burst. There is a speoies of frog in Pata gonia known as "wrestling frog," whioh does not hesitate to attack hu man beings. Dr. W. H. Hudson, the naturalist, tells of an adventure he had while out snipe shooting one day, when, peering into the disused borrow of some rodent animal, he saw a burly looking frog sitting within it. ' 'Though it watched me attentively," he says, "the frog remained perfectly, motion less, and this surprised me. Before I was sufficiently near to make a grab, it sprang straight at my hand, and, catching two of my fingers with its fore legs, administered a hug so sud den and violent as to caused an acute sensation' of pain. Then it released its hold and leaped away." The supposition is that this frog re lies on its hugging power to astonish an adversary, and in the confusion which follows it escapes. What Made Him Dauce. A nice white-haired old gentleman with a snowy beard sat on a bench in the Park yesterday morning sunning himself while ho read a morning paper. Ho was peacefully working through an editorial on tho Brown scandal, his finger keeping pace with his eye along the lines, when suddenly he crumbled tho paper in both hands, snatched off his glasses and danced around like a Piuto in a ghost dance. Some women and children on the grass noarby thought the old man had suddenly become insane, and hastily snatohing up their lunch baskets they ran as fast as they could go for Stanyan street. A park officer came up and was about to place him under arrest, but on investigation found that the sun chining through the old man's glasses had burned his cheeks to a blister.-San Francisco Post. Big Poultry Rauch. Somo hopeful s^joulators who have been counting nnhatohed chickens are about to start a poultry ranch near San Francisco which ie to be the larg est in the world. It is to reach its fnll capaoity in three years, when it is to put on the market annually two million eggs and ninety thousand chickens for broiling. Toe plant will include two incubators, with a capao ity of 2000 eggs eaoh, and no end of houses and pens, whioh will be con tained in a forty-aoro ranch. There will be nine hundred hens laying for the incubators and ten thousand lay ing for the market, HOTES ABOUT ANIMALS, Fourteen sea ducks were brought down at a single shot bj a hunter near Bar Harbor recently. 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