The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, July 20, 1886, Image 2
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