A HE P P5 THES.,UAYEOPLE JOURN95. V~~. 5, ~PICKENS, 8, C., THURSDAY, MTAY 16,18.Nq1. THE PESTS OF INDIA. eMeots That Render the Lives of Europeans Miserable. BAdents That Browse Upon One's Mair and Reptiles That Are Numerous and Soolable-An Undeilrable Poe. to Live. "Along with the intense heat," says a returned East India traveler to a New York Sun man, "there go many varieties of noxious Insects. The mosquitoes swarm the year round. Every bed is covered with a tent of mosquito not ting, and It Is the business of your boy, after having made the bed In the morn infVto scare out all lingering mosqui toes and then draw the gauze curtains close and tuck them under the mat tress. On going to bed you make a 1it tle hole In the tent, get in quickly and draw it tight again. House files are a constant nuisance, and there are great flying cockroaches, two inches long, which sometimes bite, and at certain seasons leave their great wings lying about the house. They eat one's patent leather shoes. Flying ants, great black 'creatures, come in swarms and also leave their wings over everything. The centipede, an inch and a half long, and more venomous than that of this coun try, gets into the house and often crawls upon the sleeper. So long as one keeps still there Is no danger, but the creature, if one moves, is likely to dig his claws into the flesh and make an unpleasant sore. Scorpions abound. They come out of old woodwork, and you find them in books that have long lain unused. Their bite is poisonous, and sometimes fatal. "Along with the insects come the serpents. The cobra is the most dan gerous. It seldom comes Into the houses for some reason, though my .small sister slept upon a pile of mats 'nder which a sleeping cobra, was aft. erward found. The cobra, however, comes into the compound and often bites the natives. Europeans are sel 4om bitten by the cobra or other nakes, because the European goes about in boots that give the serpent notice of his coming, and also pernaps protect him from the bite. As a matter f fact serpents commonly met in India do not voluntarily go after hnman prey, but are probably more afraid of man than man of them. A barefooted native, treading noiselessly, gives the serpent no notice of his approach, and may unconsciously step upon him, and ihon the creature bites in self-defense. I knew a native gardener to be bitten !by a cobra. Ie fil1ed himself with whisky and walked to keep himself pwake. An Englishman whom I knew was bitten by a cobra, and his friends romptly applied the same remedies. hey walked him all night against his hrowsy protests and his earnest prayer that he be permitted to sleep. His life .was saved, but he never really recov tered from the shock, though lie lived mtnav. years after. The bracelet snake is a familiar and venomous little wretch 'that takes pleasure in coiling up in one's boot during the night or in get ting Into the holes of one's garments, One soon learns to shake one's boots before putting them on. The natives have a Curious aversion to killing snakes, and they have a superstition, -shared by some Europeans, that if a cobra be slain its mate will come to avenge the act. Of course, there is no foundation for it, save perhaps that a widowed cobra comes in search of her mate and incidentally meets the slayer. "Rats abound in India and get into houses and swarnm aboard a ship. One ,great Indian rat, the bandicoot, with a snout like a pig, visits one's bed at night gund chews the ends of one's hair. I knew p. red-headed fellow on~ board ship who used to grease his hair with oil or bear's grease. He was visited one night by a bandicoot, and camne upon deck next morning with the oddest evi dence of the bandicoot's barbering. The muskrat swarms in India, gets into tl'J1ouses as all sorts of wild creatures do, since the doors are merely unclosed openings. His smell is something tre mendous, and when he merely crosses the cork of a soda water bottle he seems to scent the contents. "The bite of an insect, even though slight, or a small sore of any kind that vwould soon heal in a temperate cli mate, may hang on for days or weeks in the heat of India, and a slight ill. ness greatly weakens one. Europeans luckily seldom take the native diseases, and, though cholera is constantly pres cut in- India, it is only In cases of pe culiarly widespread epidemics that it reaches the European population. There Is no yellowy fever there, but smallpox ravages the natives. It is amazing to see how many natives are pock marked. The natives have small faith in European doctors, but they always 'take the European cholera mixture, of gourse no European submits himself to a native doctor. Abscess of the liver is the groat terror of the European, 'though the land breeze comes laden with all sorts of horrible possibilities. "T he change of climate as one goes frotV the coast into the mountains is like magic. On the journey up from IBombay to Materan one starts with a pocketful of Indian cigars, trichiinopo lia, cheap long rolls of tobacco with a strr,w througl hem tha~t tiheyr~n draw. This is because thog itre ei tremely wect, but when one reachi6 Materan he finds his trichiniopolis ad dry as a punk. The thin atmosphere of the heights has sucked thorn dry of all their moistur. Everybody is familiar wit)} thp act verse criticisms passed by sh~opkeepedq on articles not p1$rchased from thern Here is an Instance: A woman had a handsome Russian aable skin presented~ - to her, with head and feet i perfec condition. She took It tq 4 furer M have it miade into a bow. 1P0 e furrier examninedi it olos'ely. !'lleputiful ski, isn't it?"'remarked the womtan. "Yes,' rep)lied the shopmnan, "but I don't thid'k you have the right kind-of a head ob e""Wll,?' returned the womam "as e lP~i to be the kind'tttimd puit RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. -The .Independent Congregational- US Ists claim 14,120 members, and 166 ohurches, worth $1,486,000. - -A .new compulsory education law 054 went into effect In the state of New aid York with the opening of the new 10 year. thi -Michigan tcaehers in session at n Lansing declared in favor of free text era books and against teachers using to. nei bacco. liq -In New Mexico the woman's exeon- tio tive committee of home missions has tul more schools than all the government me and other denominational, including noi ]Roman Catholic, schools combined. dri -The career of the Presbyterian old women's organization for the further- thd ance of home missions spans the period q 1878-94. Fifteen years ago the -entire dr3 receipts were less than is now received lif in any one month. feo -The value of medical missions is wil shown by the fact that, of twenty-five Th recent additions to the Second Presby- leo terian chioh in Canton, China, eleven ths had been treated as patients in the the mission hospital, which isboth medical shi and evangelistic. tui -Bishop D. B. Knickerbacker, of the Episcopal diocese of Indiana, who died sa December 31, was a stamp collector of universal perseverance. He had col leoted 1,000,000 of canceled stamps ex which he sold for charitable purposes, ha and had acquired one-tenth of his sec- 4 ond million when death put a stop to du his energies. -The statistics from 335 college as sociations indicate that 82,000 men in round numbers are members of evan- wi; gelical churches ri the colleges with 115 which the associations are connected. ha There remain apparently 43,000 men e who are not professors of religion. the There are altogether, it is said, 200,000 P young men in the institutions of higher f loarning on this continent. nel -The eastern communities connect- 611 ed with the pope and known as Uniat I churches are: 1. The Chaldee church, xI with five archbishoprics and six bish. ere oprios -in Turkey, in Asia and Persia. for To this belong also over 200,000 Christ- is I ians in Hindoostan. 2. The Uniats of on the Syrian rite, who are subject to the Cho patriarch of Antioch, and have four at 4 archbishoprics and seven bishoprics. tat 8. The Church of the Maronites, with eight dioceses. 4. The Melchite ha% church, subject to the Greek patriarch W" of Antioch, with six archbishoprics Th and eight bishoprics, extending from Th Constantinople and Alexander to Ispa- the han. 5. The Uniat Armenian church, ter the most important of all, whose head, t the patriarch of Cilicia, resides at Con- set stantinople and is the representative of all the Uniat chiurchcs in the east. As There are about 13,000 Uniat Copts in E1gypt and 25,000 Uniat Abyssinisns. In . Europe there are 42,000 followers of lat the Greek Uniat rite in lower Italy and dri Sicily, and a small number in Greece tra and Constantinople; 8,000 Uniat Armen- a a ians live in Austria and 24,000 in Rus- sto sia. The number of Uniat Greek Rou- sue manians is 1,100,000; that of Greek pri Ruthenians in Austria over 5,000,000, lar while 70,000 Greek Bulgarians of the of Slavonic rite live in Macedonia and har Thrace. _wh: WIT AND WISDOM. ren trei -Young man, don't you know you ides ought to lay something by for a rainy of a day?" "I do; my rubbers."-N. Y. Re- say corder. oreg -Irish Nurse (shaking patient vigor- yes ously)-Come, now, sor-r, wake up an' tha swallow yer slapin' dose; it's time.- our Tit-Bits. *Whl -Living Skeleton-What's the mat- laa ter with the glass eater to-day?" Fat prkc Woman-I hear he has a pane in his the stomach.-Philadelphia Record. bi --Teacher-Therec are three kinds of 9n I' poetry. You have mentioned two, ago lyric and dramatic; now what is the an< third? "Well-epi" Elsa-Epidemic. ma: --Fliegender Blatter. two -"Jack," said mamma, "run into the was! parlor and see whether your father is P< asleep or not." "Not quite," exclaimed ear anud a few muttered wordls, and wait until they get to the toqp of hills to begin~ te ttlle. Yqu mgir~li ig after your Albanuian guide and anothuer. On you go andl forget you mect anybodly, when suddenly, arriving at the to1) of a lill, your le turns around aind yells out, '"O, rg lo-o-o!" or w haitover the name 'bo, spluning out the syllable to t length. Tihe echo has' hardly .away before Gbeorgio answers in his hill, and these two leather. ged fellows roar at eagli tAther for laps a half hour. at an interval of a rter mule oy muore. y they keep this ugasperating hait nopn )wB, and no Albanian will telL den Days. MR. SLOQE> THE MEDIUM. Vhe Veet Brownng Datqteasa Impost. ton on His Wife. Mr. Frederick Greenwood, In his per. sonal - reoolleotions, written for the "Realm," tells the following story: "Everybody who lives with books has heaM' thaVRobert Browning's 'Sludge, the Medium,' reflected upon Home, and most people have also heard that the celebi'ated creature succeeded in bring Ipg Mrs. Browning under his Influence completely. But the trick that unde qeived her (we must suppose) is not so well known. It may have got into print, but, If so, I, for one, have. never seen it, and tell the story as it was told by Browning himself. 'Home had been about the Brownings a good deal, knew many people known to them; was, in his tea-party why, an agrecable'sort of person; and there were sednces hero and seances there; 'and,' said the poet, casting a vague look about the room to express his bewilderment, '1 don't know lhow it was. I did my. best, but little by little he gained her over. to believ ing in him; how much to my distress, imaginel' After awhile Home found a yet more excellent way of working on the poor lady's mind. She had lost a little child by death, and, her own wishes running out to embrace the promise, he began to hint that some day he would bring the little one's spirt into her presence. But he was slow in performing this promise-naturally; for, otherwise, he would have lost the ad vantage of an excited expectation, often stimulated and as often baffled. At last p4 pyioing was named when the mother's yearning gliuid l satisfied. In the customary way, light was shut out of the room when the three sat down, and the usual rap piugs and questionings and invoca tions went on for a time, and then then the child's spirit was to ap pear. And, sure enough, there did arise pbove the edge of the table some thing that was wWter thq the darlc, that seemed to have a motion of its own and the luminousness of a living thing, and that might veritably be what poor Mrs. Browning fancied it. But, conscious of her trembling state of mind, her husband was -in another guess sort of passion. 'I suddenly sprang up, dashed my arm across the table, and took hold Qf-vhat do you think? The scoundrel's obscene footi nakedI' The flaming anger in which Browning finished the story-after so many years, too-left no doubt about what happened next to the celebrated medium-Rome. Ile was instantly and literally kicked out of the house; his shoe and stocking after him, no doubt." POLAR BEAR AND WALRUS. Strange Association Existing Between the Two Animals. Old voyagers in Behring sea tell of a strange association between the wal. rus and the polar bear. The walrus furnishes the principal foood' of this great carnivore, which is his deadliest. foe, in fact, yet to see them together, as they frequently are encountered, one might think they were boon com panions. Lying upon the field ice will often be seen "patches" of walrus con taining from thirty to -fifty, and with each of these groups will be found the polar boar. They all are apparently resting together in the happiest sort of unity. Occasionally a walrus flops into the water and sinks leisurely into the depths, while others will be see emerging therefrom and climbing u on the ice. The bear becomes hungry and de cldes he will dine with the walrus thjat day. Hie rises to his haunches and sways himself heavily upon all fours. After a yawn and a stretch ho saunters to the nearest walrus and swings his power-' fuil paw in a crushing blow on its' head, instantly killing the animal. He then proceeds leisurely to make a ceom fortable dinner off the infortunate ob ject of his selection. This perform anee, apparently, does not startle the others. They continue to bask un-. disturbed, seemingly indifferent to the fate of their comrade an~ ryaitipg their turn like stoios. The female wali rue with young, however, does not told erate the presence of the bear. She regards him with merited suspicion, and promptly takes to the water with her offspring on his appearance. TIPS IN E NGL AND. Gsakeepera Soorn Anything Ivesu Than a Five-Pound Note, A retired Anglo-Indi~an officer has published his notions on the subject of "tips."' Thackeray's Col. Neo'me, it will be remembered, made a sort of royal progress through England on his return from a long sojdflrn in the east, rewarding postboys with gold and mak ing waitera happy with handfuls of silver, says the London Daily News. This reminds the Anglo-Indian officer that there are no tippers so hardened and profuse as Anglo-Indian $1ppopg. T i is so novel for tA~m to be waite on by I white faces that they feel Inclined to I reward the most trifling sortice. They are, moreover, pleased to be at home again, andl touched with thec civility they meet with in their journeyings toI and fro their hands are everlastingly in I their pockets. Thle 'retired .I ndl~an inftlce does not ph~ject, to tips Ini the abstraet, but he I enter's a protest against the givfig of gold to any domestic in a hoiuje where one has been staying. It spoils thel market and is unfair to those witig slender purses. Five shillings, he con., siders, is a suiflicqnt r(oWvivd for a lin ie e:St11a trqulblo. TliIS IS very well, but what about the gamekee-pers-a large class, as some of us know to our cost who are accustomed to return tile shooting guest's sovere ign w~thrglite intimation that they p pyer necolgt 'es than ppey,'' Kept lioth Placos. WVhen the c'zar wvas made colonel of the Royal Scots Grays an offlee of the regiment said to his orderly: "Donald, 1:lve you heard that the new emperor pt Russia lhas been aippointedl colonel of the regiment?" "Indeed, sir," replied Ugnld, "It Is a vera prood thing." Thien, after a pause: "Beg pardon, sir, bnt wn11 he be able in kreen both ~ HOW HE WAS USED. The Woeful Tgio Of an Obliging Young Gothamnite. I boarded a Sixth avenue "L"train at 125th street the Qther afternoon. At 116th street two pretty girls, ingenious looking, entered the car I ocupied. After looking around in a sort of where-are-we-at way for a moment they came to the section where I w'as sitting, riding backward. bny vis-a-vis was an old lady. One ingeziue sat be side me, the other beside the old lady. Before I had time to offer my seat the one beside tle old lady asked: "Won't you please change seats with me, sir?" "Certainly. I was about to offer it to you," I said. "Oh, thank you." After riding as far as 104th street, she jumped up and exclaimed, with a peachblow pout: "Oh, I can't ride backwardl Won't you change again, sir?" "With pleasure," said I. "Sorry to trouble you, sir." "Don't mention it. I could keep this up all day." "Have you the time?" she asked, in a few moments, leaning toward me, not half far enough. "My watch is stopped, but I'll just step off at Ninety-third street station, tell the conductor to hold the train a moment and look at the station clock," I said. And I did as I had promised. "Seven minutes' past three," I said on my return. "Are you sure that clock is right?" "I prpslme so, but to make sure I'll open the window and ash tho ticket chopper," I said. This I did also. She nodded her pretty little head and smiled bewitchingly. "How long does it take to go down to Forty-second street?" sweetly asked the ingenue in a moment. "About twenty-five minutes." "fWo want to patch a train at the Grand Central at 3:40. Do you thi4lj we can do it?" "I should think so, if you take a cab at the station." "Those horrid cabs! I don't like 'em. Do you, Mollie?" No. Mollie didn't either. Mollie asked in her ain't-he-a-nice-young-man cattenish voice: "How much do they charge, do you know?" "About fifty cents apiece. Perhaps they'll take you both for seventy five." "How far do you go, sir?" "I go to Thirty-third street." "You couldn't get off at Forty-second I suppose, and help us with our traps into a cab?" "Oh, certainly. I have all day to my self. 1 only work at night." "Well-how's that? Are you an actor?" "No, I am a newspaper man." "A reporter?" "Copy reader." "What's that?" came from both pret ty mouths simultaneously. I explained. "Forty-second!" cried the conductor. "Oh, here's where we get off, sirl Will you kindly-" I "kindly." I carried their traps jvn stairs, bailed a cab, asked what the fare was. Seventy-five cents. Boh opened their pocketbooks. Neith er had change. Jehu had none either. I was asked if I had. I gave ub the last three quarters I hud, saluted and started to walk to the office. Just then I heard one sweet ingenue say to the other indignantly: "Strikes mec he's rather fresh on first acquaintance."-N, Y. Herald, SWAPPING STUPIDITIES. A Short Session of Bomne Saecharine So ciety Swells. "Let's tell the stupidest thing we ever did in our lives," suggested a so siety girl, one of a group sipping ehocolate in a confectionery store. "Put it in the present tense," said the girl with the side combs in her bangs. "I regularly light my alcohol light with the greatest trouble and. when I have coaxed it into a blue flame* shut a drawer immediately be low it, and whiff'! out she goes." "That's nothing," said the girl with her hair parted in a straight line. "I uised to make afternoon tea for mom mer, but every tinrlQ I lit the spirit lamip I get fire to the lace draperies in the alcove and called out the fire de partmen t. "How awfully swell," said the girl *n the picture hat. "Now my forte is ralling down stairs. I :neyeri visit any where wihou getting up an excite nent of that kind. I just forget about ny unfortunate habit, and instead of ilinging to the balustrades tumble lown in a heap." "Girls, your oxperience Isn't a cir mmnstinee tn ie," said the blond >ud, holding her spoon fr1 the air. "You cnow that dear Perdimmons boy-just ionmc from Europe--lots of money isps and wears glasses. Well, didn't ie go home with me the other night reom the .Smith function and wlen~ lhe eft mec at the door 40 hp4 gy fan ny 'is lockeot and forgot to yeit to m, oifepasked li'im or it?" "Oirla, I did. Wasn't it awful? I oat the opportunity of my life." That ended the session of the dlear tupids for that day.-Dectroig lyrgo ?ress. Wiltd Fnough, At the dinner table in a country ho ol a guest says to the waitress: "Miss, are you sure that this is Syg1 Luck that you've given mei?" "WildI W9Uh I shopld think it was. f yon could 'a' seen us chasin' that luck more'n forty times round the tarn yard 'fore we ketched it, I gu 'Oui'd believe 'twas , '~ouths '~ompaniQq, A mpor tant begal Paint. "You wished to see me?" ad4d M awyer as the living skeletan from the lime-~useum approached. I'Yea, sir. I want advice on an im iortant point." ''Go on.'' "I am in love with the two-head.4 Phl If I maanr he ean [hamrg.-+ LANI*4DAPES OF CUBA. Its Most lieautiftil istricts Seldom See by Visitoro. A good deal delends upon the season of the year in whic1h Cuba is visited as to the ipressiin piro.hted tmoching Its verdure. Columiibus reacicted lhara coa just as the autium rains had done their work of magic revival. The northern visitor of too-