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5;^- ^ i?v-! . ? . The wearing of colored eye-glassen hm ' ' "become fashionable in New York. Thej , are known as dudes' glasses. Their pop. ularity is said to have originated fron the appearance in Gotham of an English society man with colored glasses on hi? * nose. But for wenr in bright summci weather glasses of the proper tent are a great protection to eyes that are weak, and arc cool and comfortable. The law recently enacted in Iowa no| ^oniy requires mat every pactcage 01 out. terine or caseino shall bear, in letters nu inch and a half long, an emphatic state, J rnent that it is an imitation article, bul it requires all hotel keepers and restau- ! rant and boardinghouse keepers to put 8 j placard on every plate of imitation but- | ter or cheese that is brought on tli< j table, stating that it is not the genuine i article. There are forty-eight women lawyer* 1 in practice in the United States, distributed as follows, the states being given in the order in which they first ad. mitted them: Iowa 3, Missouri 2, Michigan G, Utah Territory 1, District of Columbia 3, Maine 1, Ohio 4, Illinois 7, "Wisconsin 5, Indiana 2, Kansas 3, Minnesota 1 (from Iowa), California 8, Connecticut 1. Massachusetts 1, Nebraska 1, Washington Territory 1, Pennsylvania 1. ? m The American hen is not doing hci duty. There are 16,000,000 dozens of foreign hens' eggs brought into tlii? countrv everv vear free of dutv. Th<? / U V ~ v ' " I American hens must scratch around, sajT3 j a New England paper, if they arc to avoid the reproach orallowingthc egg industry to be crushed by the competition of the cheap pauper fowls of the offcte monarchies of the old worl(l. With incubators to help them the American hena ought to make a better record. The acreage in cotton of the cotton growing States last year was 17,322,3S3 acres. The crop for the season was 5,774, G65 bales, equal to 2,742,966,011 pounds of lint or about 8,228,898,033 pounds of seed cotton. The great expense attached to cotton growing is the cost of picking. Tlio lowest price paid for picking in any of the Southern States io fifty cents per 100 pounds. As the crop amounted to 8,228,898,033 pounds, the cost of picking was $41,414,449. The farms of America equal the entire - . territory of the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Portugal. The corn fields equal the extent of England, Scotland and Belgium; while the grain fields generally would overlap Spain. The cotton fields cover and area larger than Holland and twice as large as Belgium. The rice fields, sugar and tobacco plantations woujd.also form kingdoms of no insignificant size, and such is the stage of advancement rcached by American agriculturists that is is estimated that one farmer like Mr. Dalrymple, with & field of wheat covering a hundred square miles, can raise as much grain with 400 farm servants as 5000 peasant proprietors in France. 1 According to some sta istics recently published by an Indian paper, it appears that the people of Great Britain arc considerably behind other nations in the average consumption of tea per head of population. The Australians come first \ with 7.66 lb. per head; the New Zealanders next with 7.23 lb. per head; mVt!ln +Tin nannln /\f ? ?I 1TUUU bUV U1 VJIUUV lilltuiilj UlUUgU appearing third in the list, consume only 4.90 lb. each. Newfoundland and Canada come next, while in the United States the consumption is only 1.80 lb. per head; and in Russia, which is always regarded as a great tea-drinking country, the consumption is only 0.6 lb. per head. Belgium, Sweden, Austria-Hungary, and Spain consume less than the other European nations; but there is not one nation on the continent, with the exception of Holland, in which the annual consumption exceeds 1 lb. per head. There died recently in New York city at the age of forty-four, a business man whose last hours displayed a fortitude and a tenderness that literature might preserve. Whilo superintending the removal of some machinery he was thrown under the wheels of a freight car and had the flesh \ almost entirely stripped from ono of his legs. While waiting for a surgeon he continued to giye his orders to his men, and wrote a telegraphic message to his wife to meet him on the arrival of a certain train. "I have met with an accident," it read, 4'but I write this with my own hand." On arriving at the Grand Central Depot he was borne on a stretcher through the waiting room. As soon as he saw his wife in the crowd he waved his hand to reassure her, saying gayiy, wun a smile, "Here 1 am Annie." 1 ; When told that the limb must 1)9 ampuv . tated, "All right," he replied, "only V leave enough for me to ride horseback 3} v with." The announcement a few hours _ later that he would not survive the oporation, was received with perfect calm; , ness. "It's odd," ho observed, dryly, 'r "that after dodging bullets for four I v years in the war, and after facing danger for twelve years in and around the mines, |\ I should at last be killed by a freight car," Tho next morning he was dead, ;having retained his consciousness and calmuess to the end. ? . < v.< . V v> v-' vA Singular marriage is reported by the | Frcdericton, New Brunswick, Gleaner. I A Dr. Barker claimed to have performed a remarkable faith cure upon a daughter of James Young of Nashwaak. The* young lady was unable to walk for several years except on crutches, aud was bed ridden a great part of the time. Hearing of her condition and that all j medical remedies had failed, the doctor J visited her, and by some remarkable means succeeded in raising her from her sick bed. She gained in strength and was soon able to walk without crutches. Having accomplished this, the doctor offered his hand in marriage, and the two were wedded. One of the strangest coimnun ities in the world lives on the Island of Rcdonda I which is one of the British West Indies, j between Nervis and Montscrrat. It is very rocky and barren, and contains no | vegetation, but has extensive mines of | phosphate of alumina and iron. About fifty men work in these mines, they being the only persons on the island with tho exception of the foreman's wife. Their provisions have to be brought from Ncrvis and Montserrat in small boats. The men live in small wooden huts built for the purpose. The climate of Redonda is beautiful and healthful, and the workingmcn enjoy perfect health. The harbor is excellent and well protected, the highest point on the island being 1000 feet above the level of the sea. Cnnses of Dyspepsia. . The saliva, gastric and pancreatic juices and bile arc produced in very j large quantities, several pints of each j daily. Of course, they must be made from the blood, and, being continually absorbed, the same fluid is used over and over again after each portion has done its Hppropriate work. Therefore, it is impossible for these necessary secretions to be made unless there is an abundaut supply of blood to the organs thus employed. Anything that interferes with the blood supply will cause dyspepsia. If the blood itself is tliin and poor in I quality, everything made from it must be correspondingly defective. In this way, { then, a poor, insufficient diet, large losses of blood, profuse discharges (as in consumption, etc.), the effects of such poisons as that of malaria, lead, mercury and of "specific diseases," act as causes of dyspepsia. Prolonged mental work, with sedentery habits, lack of bodily Exercises, and of fresh air and Sunlight, by directing the blood to the brain, lessen the amount sent to the digestive organs aud cause dyspepsia. Excessive anxiety, grief, worry or any absorbing emotion acts in the same way. Fatigue of the muscles by manual labor, If too prolonged or excessive exercise in amount, produces similar results. Diseases of the heart or lungs, which seriously interfere with the passage of the blood through the lungs and the taking up there of the vitally essential oxygen of the air, produce dyspepsia in anothei way. The blood is prevented from leaving the digestive organs; the latter, inBtead of producing a natural secretion, |>our out a watery fluid that is useless so far as acting upon the food is concerned, and grave digestive troubles follow, not because there is any "disease of tht Btomacli," but in consequence of a slowing of the blood current, which must b very brisk if they are to do their full duty.?(St. Louis) Qlobe-Democrat. Furniture Lumber. Furniture dealers are to-day using lumber which was called worthless ten years ago. Whitewood or poplar is used in immense quantities, notwithstanding its warping qualities. The growing scarcity of our natural supply of lumber leads manufacturers to experiment with socalled worthless varieties. Cypress is working into favor for architectural finish, and we would not be surprised il some enterprising manufacturer should come out with a most desirable niece of furniture, possessing a delicate and finely marked grain, and yet consisting of nothing but unpretentious cypress. Hard pine makes a nice looking job when finished in good shape, but has the serious objection of being full of pitch. Cypres! has much the same appearance of hard pine, but the pitch is happily absent. /The wood commonly known as gum has been successfully utilized. It is being worked into a great many forms, despite its well known warping qualities, which are represented as being so great thai the lumber "will not stay in the sam< county two successive nights." We nr( informed that picture frames have been miccessfullv made of cum wood, nnd rumor adds that the very qualities thai have hitherto condemned it have been utilized in the manufacture of self-rocking cradles.?Forest, Forge and Farm. A Missouri Execution. "Aren't executions a part of your duties that you'd rather dispense with?' asked an Eastern friend of a Missouri sheriff. "I never perform any executions." "Why, I thoughjb nearly all shcriffi wore occasionally obliged to hang somt one?" "You forget that this is Missouri. All I have to do is to mako a show of defending the jail keys and then handing then over to the boys at la?t. They attend tc everything after that."?EsUlline {Dak.) Bell. ' K\ f ' , - . . (r\ ' ' v'-: >. ? >;>' " . . " , -V' i ' ' 1 I Yonth and Ago. > Long ago, long ago, in this valley of woe, The white mists were silver, the sunshine was gold; Long ago, long ago, every dewdrop aglow Was the purest of diamonds of vulue untold. Long ago, long ago, every floweret low Looked out from the grass like a star from tlio sky; Long ngo, long ago. every streamlet aflow In a volume of glittering crystal went by. Now the silvery mist is water, I wist To wllioll Mia crron/1 5 CU VI11UU UJJHUI U is given. Tbo sunshine of golcl is ft wave of light rollod On the earth through tho open portal ol heaven. Tho dew in the grnss now shincth, alas! In my altered eyes like an angel's tears; And tho deep waters roll, the type of a soul, Right on to the sea of eternity near. The flowers in tho gras=, they must die, and they pass From life unto life as to us it is given; For tho mist and tho dew, stream, ilowcr and light too. Like souls are sent down but to climb back to heaven. ?Ffarpcr's Weekly, THE OPEN DRAW. "Now, promise me, Royal? Please promise!" Grace Arclen looked up into her lover's face with wistful blue eves and cheeks 6tnincd with faint crimson. Royal Mcriam looked at her with the laugh of conscious superiority. "What nonsense Grace! As if there were any real danger?" "There is always danger, Royal, in your business, and with?with that liab Ill" "Habit, Grace? Now you are going a little too far. I don't drink any more than other men. It is not a contirmcd habit with me and never will be." "Good-by, Royal!" "You won't kiss me? You are vexed?" "Only sorrj*, Royal. Because I know that papa will never let me marry a man who drinks!" Royal Meriam turned on his heel, and he strode away, muttering something about "narrow-minded old fools, who expected every one to be cut after their own pattern." But he had walked on.y a little distance when the cloud cleared away from his face, and the old, carclesss, goodnatured smile once more came back. "Dear little Gracic!" he said to himself. "Perhaps she's right, after all. I believe I am getting to be more fond of a stray glass than I ought to be, but of course there's no danger. A man can always control himself. Still I'll go back to-morrow and make peace with the little blue-eyed kitten, and if she wants me to promise, why I'll promise." The "Shepherd's Arms" was an unpro4 tending little village hostelry, through whose drawn red curtains the evening lights shone cheerily, and Royal Meriam's boon companions welcomed him uproar iously. "You're coming to the end of your rope, old fellow," said one. "The superintendent is going to strike everybody that drinks a social glass off from the list. Says it ain't business-like?can't afford to run any risks." "I don't know what the world's coming to, for my part," said another, looking into the bowl of his short black pipe. -a man mignt as well be a slave and done with it." "I've heard something of it before," said Meriam, carelessly. "I don't know but what it is a wise enough regulation, on the whole. But there's one tiling certain; I'll drink the superintendent's health to-night, if I never do again." A general laugh echoed this assertion of Royal Meriam; and in the hour or two that followed, poor Grace Arden's piteous request, Graoe Arden's tear-brimming blue eyes, were entirely forgotten. "Drunk?I drunk I Never was more sober in my life. Yes, yes, I know it's time to start, and here I am fresh as a cricket," Royal Meriam swung himself to his place on the glittering, fire-throated locomotive with the careless easo and lightness of a mountaineer. "Go ahead," he called out. The depot-master looked curiously at him. "You may not be drunk," said he, aotto voce, "but you have been drinking, my fine fellow, and you'll get reported at headquarters before the world is twenty-four hours older." So savinc he drew a little leather mem orandum-book out of his vest pocket, and wroto down the words, "Mcriam, engineer Flying Dart," upon it, with the slow, mechanical accuracy of one who considers in his own mind. . Merriam fully believed in his own assertion that he was not drunk. Ho had been drinking a good deal, but then be knew his head could stand more than the average of brains. He felt a sort of lightness?a jocular content?as he sat there at his post. The lights along the road sparkled more prominently than usual; the stars seemed to shine with unwonted brightness, and once or twice he caught himself huskily answering some one who had not spokon. I All of a sudden he grew sleepy?his brain seemed to become confused. "All right," said he?"all rightl Til back the Flying Dart against any engine on the road I Why, she couldn't go ?'. . V ' *' v ' . - ? ' . I ? p ' v u' ' j'*';' ^ wrong if she was to try! Aro we?ara we far from the draw-bridge?" > The fireman suddenly started to hia ] feet, with a hoarse, gasping cry. "The signal!" shouted lie. "The reu light 1 Stop her, for God's sake I Sound down brakes! We are on the bridge, i and the draw is open!" Ill loSS t.lliltl 51 KPPnnrl flin rriiilcf otirl drowsiness, and the fatal lethargy, seemed to clear away from the engineer's brain, and lie had fully comprehended I the awful terror of their position?the express train rushing at dizzy speed tow, ard the yawning gulf, beneath which lay the black river. The signal! And he had not seen it. Mechanically he sounded the whistle, sharp and shrill?two brief, unearthly shrieks?and then sprang out into the darkness, through which the red light streamed like an eye of sullen fire I He had done what lie could to save the fated train, and he grasped blindly at the one chance in five hundred for his own life. He sprang, and striking against the beams, lost all consciousness in the instant that the train skimmed by him, its long array of lights gleaming and vanishing, and faces here and there looking out of the windows, all unconscious that they were going tu Death! ****** A bleak December day, with the snowflakes clicking against the window-panes, a wood-lire crackling on the hearth, and Gracc Ardcn's light figure coming and going like a little brown-robed Sister of Charity?Royal Mcriam's eyes vaguely took in these things, lying among his pillows, before lie remembered? Remembered! Remembered, that lie II uo uu VUIUIIOI Iiitiuu^ I1IV11 a I11UIUC1U1 1 "Grace," lie gasped, "tell me! How came I here? How was I savod?" "They found you on the bridge, dear. Hnsli! You must not talk much. You arc very .weak and feeble. You were ! quite unconscious, and terribly bruised." J "And?the train? Was it totally wrecked ?" "It wasn't wrecked at all," said Grace, with brightened face. "For the draw was not open." "Not open?" "No; it had been, but was just closed again, and the men had not yet taken down the open signal when the express rushed on without any warning whatever. They stopped it on the other side and missed you." "No one was killed then?" he shuddered, feeling ns if a mountain of horror was lifted from his breast. "No one I" "Grace," he wispercd, hoarsely, drawing her down to him. "I was?drunk! If that train had been wrecked the blood of all those helpless passengers, men, women and children, would have been on my head. God be thanked that Ho has not punished me as I deserve!" Royal Meriam, a prematurely old and crippled man, lived to atone for all the j faults and follies of his youth. He never 1 re-entered the old profession?he had not | nerve enough for that, he was wont to ! say, even if they would have trusted him 1 again; but lie work< d hard and honestly for his bread, with Grace his wife standing loyally by his side. Ana never in all the long years that followed did a I drop of ardent spirits ever pass his lips. "I have had my lesson," he said. How Burnside Became a Cadet. Gen. Burnside and Senator Morton, when they were bovs, were apprentices in the Dttle village of Libert}', Ind., Burnside in a tailor's shop and Moiton in a hatter's. One dav the Hon. Caleb ! Smith, then the representative in the | Federal Congress from that district, was j l about to start on an electioneering tour, when ho discovered that there was a rent in his coat. Stepping into a tailor's shop to have it mended, he found no one there but young Burnside, who was stitching away on a coat, while he was attentively studying a volume "Cooper's Tactics," which was propped up by a. "goose" and kept open by a pair of shears. Questioning the young man, the congressman was struck with his selfreliant confidence and the unflinching look with which he returned his gaze, and an unknown influence prompted him frt enr **Vah Ka o aa/IaI- WI liV J JL V/U SJ AA\_* LA IV| UU <l> V/UUUb Kll Y f C5|| I Point 1" This remark changed the young man's destiny. lie sought and obtained an appointment atWest Point, but he never forgot the neat and trim habits of tho J tailor's shop.?Button Budget. The Inventor of the Telescope. A long article is contributed to Ciel et Terre, in which the writer maintains that the real inventor of tho telescope was John Lippershev, a spectacle maker at Middleburg, Netherlands, who was born in Wessel, Germany. James Metiu-, who, according to Descartes, has been regarded as the inventor, wrote on tho 17th of October, 1008, to j t.hn nrovinees of Holland ntnfcintr t.hnf >?? I _ , o - as well as the spectacle maker of Middle* burg, was manufacturing the instrument that brings things near. Another document is a petition to the samo Provinces from Lippershay for a thirty years' patent. > This was refused him the .Qrst time because the instrument could not be used with both eyes at once, and a second time (after he had made the instrument double) because telescopes were then being made everywhere. Scientific American. GLASS-EATING. Men who Pretend to to Chew and. Swallow Glass. A. Probable Explanation of the Manner in which it is Doiio. No matter how absurd anything is> the great majority of people are willing, if they cannot understand it, to accept miy explanation offered and be satisfied with it. This has been especially true of the alleged glass-eating, which has now become a regular *'profession" with a number of men?a woman has never yet tried it. The feat originated in Philadelphia, where, it seems, a negro appeared to develop a peculiar fancy for lamp chimneys and other kinds of glass as an article of diet. The doetors advertised the thing quite extensively at the time by declaring that the man would surely die. He did not, however, to their amazement, and still continues to dupe credulous people into the belief that he consumes "fused sand." His pose as the "original and only" glass-cater was soon Spoiled by the appearance of numerous other applicants for glass-eating glory, and now a dime museum is poor indeed that cannot support one of these "human ostriches." They are the legitimate successors of the sword-swallowers and paters of fire, who were at one time the standard "wonder" at circuses and mu_ scums. The sword-swallower is obliged to educate his tlirout so as to allow a foreign substance to remain in it for an indefinite period. That this is a difficult task let any one who believc'3 to the contrary run even his finger down his throat and mark the result. The fire - eater toughens his mouth with astringent washes, and then uses for fire volatile Bubstanccs, which produce a great deal of flame with but little heat. But how does this glass-eater dispose of his flinty lunch, which, if taken into his stomach, would produce the same effect as a score of lancets or a dose of cyanide of potassium?a most agonizing death? Powdered ?rlass has Ion" been used as a sovo c ercign but cruel remedy for superfluous cats, dogs, tfce. Now, if the stomach of a dog or cat, which 60 easily digests bones and other hard substances, cannot dispose of a little powdered glass, how, then, do the interior organs of the colored "professor" at a neighboring dime museum stand the strain of a dozen, more or less, meals of this kind a day? The most obvious answer to this is that the eater of glass never eats glass, in fact, although those who witness the edifi'ing spectacle and are afforded the opportunity of exploring the dark recesses of the Ethiopian's gullet, may be unable to fully understand what he does with the pieces in his mouth. The explanation by the medical man whose certificate is printed on the bills, of the manner in which the performer disposes of his dyspeptic load is ludicrous in the extreme when one begins to think of the absurdity of it. He Bays: "From a personal examination of the man's stomach, I have found that the gastric juices and alkalies contained therein are just what will dissolve glass, iron or stone." Any one who has dabbled in chemistry knows that the statement is a bare-faced?romance. In fact, about the only acid that will dissolve glass?hydrofluoric?is so powerful that should it get into this pretentious individual's interior it would eat its way out, in less time than it takes to record the fact. But the man really does take glass?not bites out of tumblers, but thin glass such as lamp chimneys are made nf??infn Vila mnnfli on/1 o salt, probably to take of! the excessive freshness of his meal, and a glass of water to wash it down, chews it up and apparently swallows it. At any rate, the glass does not remain in the performer's month as an examination by the writer's lingers proved. And it was real every-day glass, as several pieces taken from the month just as he was on the point of swallowing them are now in the renortnr's nnrlrpf 1 I book?that is, if the sharp fragments have not cut their way out. So this disproves one theory, that the alleged glass "as a clever imitation, manufactured out of gelatine, clarified and made brittle, to represent the real article. The gelatine would, of course, do the man no harm; but would, in fact, prove rather nourishing. Another theory is that the performer had previously been a swordswallower, thereby having made his throat so callous that the glass would not cut it on its passage to the stomach; but this docs not explain how it is digested. From all this, knowing that the glass does not stay in his mouth, and beinfr - ' o equally certain that it cannot go into the stomach, there is but one conclusion to be drawn?that the glass ? intercepted before reaching its destinaL -n. But how can this be done? Very easily. The sword-swallower educates his throat to allow the presence of the sword; the glass-eater prepares his to receive a tube of some description, which probably has a strainer in the end to allow the water which he drinks to filter through, but retains the glass until such timo as he can dispose of it without being observed. That silver tubes can be worn in the throat we all know from the numerous instances In which they have been used in surgical operations. Meanwhile glas-eating is becoming ono of the crowded professions, and it behooves the man a. v '.* "*vji*.-v ' <' $v ,\ i * < V I gers of dime museums to be on tlie hunt for some new dictcticnl curiosity. Glasseating is already a "chestnut."-?Boston Transcript. Ho Holds the Fence. Several weeks ago a Detroitcr purchased a piece of laud in the west end of the county. After the purchase had been completed he engaged a surveyor's services to see if he had been cheated. The discovery was made that al'.nc-fence whs uylt ou ix'.s lauu eight inches. When lie went to the owner of the adjoining property with the statement the man repl ied: "Stranger, the row about that fence began twenty-eight years ago. It was then five feet over the line, and the two men lit and fit nut 1 one waa killed and the other crippled. After awhile it was moved a foot, and then the other owners fit and fit until the lawyers got the two farms. The fence was then moved another foot, and the two new owners spent half the year in jawing each other and the other half in lawing. One died and the other got sold onton a mortgage, and when I got this farm the fence was moved over another foot. Th"u I fit and fit, and two years ago was Kicked in the ribs and laid up for three months. During that time the fence was moved to the- ^ / present line. So it's still on your land?" "Yes." "Well, Impose the proper thing is a row. If you'll go out by the barn with your revolver I'll come out and hunt for you witn the shot-gun. If you git the drop on me don't let go, because I shall shoot to kill." It took the Detroitcr some time to convince the farmer that he didn't care for eight Inches of land, and that he wouldn't have the fence moved for fifty dollars, and when he had succccded the old man drew a long breath of relief and replied; "That's kind o' you, and it leaves my boys a chance to lit and fit after I'm gone. I hope you aint comin' out here to live alongside o' me?" "No." "Glad on't. If you lease, git some man who'll want them other eight inches. The boys and I is lonesome for excitement."?Detroit Free Prcis. A Feline's Fright. Lust week in connection with a study of the carnivora, says a Denver scientist, I obtained a cat from an acquaintance at a dinner and carefully dissected it in a room above our stable. When I had finished the cat was, as may be supposed, hardly recognized. I cleaned the scalpels, placed them in the case, and took them to the house. No sooner had I put them down than I observed our own cat go and sniff all around the case with a peculiar look of intense wonder. I took the instruments away and thought nor more about it; but a short time after I returned to the remains of the dissected cat in order to prepare the skeleton, when I saw our cat standing at a distance of about a foot from the dissection, and presenting an appearance of most helpless terror. She was trembling from head to foot, and in such a condition of evident horror that my presence had no effect upon her. After some moments she noticed me, and then darted away with ' a scared look such as I had never before seen. She did not return to the house that day, a thing quite unusual, but on the next day she returned and entered the house with a fearful caution, as though realizing the probability that she herself might become a victim to science, and her whole conduct was changedThis suggests that the country custom of using dead birds, weasels,etc., as a scare to the like is not entirely unreasonable, and it would be interesting to know /' whether others have noticed similar ef* fects. A Defective Education. "ini3 euication tuey nil boys up -with, now days don't seem ter 'mount ter much. much fer ord'nary use," said a Dakota settler. "What makes you think so ?" asked a friend. "Why, there's that boy uv mine?sent ' him 'way ter school fer pretty nigh two years and he aint capab'l uv taking right holt uv ev'ry day bus'ness yet." "What has he failed in ?" "Well, pretty important p'int now I tell you. When he come back I give him a inid'lin' good hoss and told him ter sec what he could make ov it and I'll be hanged ef he didn't trade a couple uv times and come here with an old plug uv a hoss that wus a colt 'bout thirty-tivo years ago. He couldn't tell nothin' bv _ ? | lookin' at its teeth you see. I'll be busted ef I don't b'lieve you could shove a hoss onto that boy with false teeth fixed up by one uv these 'ere dentist sharks!"?Extelline (Dakota) Bell. An African Trodlgy. The Hamburg Zoological garden has received a full-grown specimen of the Canis pictus, or spotted wild dog, of > central Africa. The Creature is a native of the western Transvaal, and in appearance an astonishing hybrid between a hound and half a dozen other animals. He hat, a size and general form of a deerhound, the tail of a fox, the black snout of a hyena, and the spots and stripes of 1 .1 a icupuru. rus voico is a sort of coughing howl, and ho paces his cage all day long with the restlessness of a captured wolf. ; * ? 'V VVr.V'-K