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The great lights bravely beam, and their radiance far away Is the comfort of the nations and the further ance of the day. All men remember when the greet lights were lit, The day is kept in honer, and they name it as they sit And watch the guiding flame, thanking and blessing it. But the small and struggling lights which a breath of storm might kill Each fain to light a continent, but doomed to smallness still, Is there no one to praise them for their service of good will* Yes, one, the Lord of all, who is the source of light, He sees them where they burn in the black ness of Earth's night. And the larger and the less alike are pre cious in His sight. He is the secret source by which their flames are fed. From the beacon’s wide, white ray which flashes overhead, To the intermittent ray which the half- spent tapers shed; And to each he says, “Well done," which has bravely sought to burn. And when the dawn ariseth, and each is quenched in turn. Absorbed into the perfect day for which pure spirits yearn; Each little flame that struggled to make the night more fair. Shall And its place in Paradise and burn in heavenly air. And the Father of all Lights shall be its wel come there. —Susan Cooh'rfgt, (n the Independent. DR, DAPS0N, BY OPIE P. BEAD. The following confessions of Zeb. W. Teal were presented 10 me by the author: It doesn’t make any difference where I was born or where I was reared. I am the proprietor of a grocery store, and by a closeness that involved much self-sac rifice I have managed to buy a home; but this can be of no interest to Any one who may read these confessions. I must have been thirty-five years old before the thought that I ought to marry some gen tle and confiding woman occurred to me. I had never goue into society and conse quently knew but few women, and those whom I did know had haggled so much over the price of sugar or dried codfish that the thought of marrying them was a shock to my fancy. I was at that time living in a large city and boafded at a house situated several m ji e s from my place of business. One day while going home on a horse car, I noticed a woman sitting opposite me. Of course, I noticed women every day, but there was some thing about this woman that especially attracted me. Her face was not impres sively handsome, but there was an intel lectual cast about it, an evidence of cul tivation that I could not help admiring. I must have gazed at her, indeed,! know that I did,but she did not appear to take any notice of me. The next evening when I started home, there she was again on the car. I regaided I his as fortu nate, but was compelled to content my self with simply looking at her. Just before getting off, I asked the driver if be knew her name, but he said that ho did not. The next evening when I started home, I was disappointed in not finding her, and I got off and waited for the next car, but I did not see her. One night I was suddenly taken ill of pneumonia. One of the boarders was dispatched for a doctor, and was in structed to get the nearest one. Shortly afterward the messenger returned with the woman whom I had gazed at on the car. “Is it possible that you arc a doctor!” I asked. “It is not only possible,” she an swered, smiling, “but it is an established fact.” “I am glad to see you again, at any rate.” “See me again!” “Yes, for I was disappointed when I found that you were tot on the car the other evening.” “I don’t remember having seen you before," she replied. I was umeasonablo enough to allow a sharp sting to enter my pride. She had not even noticed me. She felt my pulse, wrote a pre scription and said that she would caff again the next day. She came early at morning and declared that I was much better. “Bull think you’d better come again,” said I. “Pneumonia is a tricky disease, yau know. I bad a friend that was pro nounced cured, and the doctor ceased bis visits and my friend died.” “I have known a patient to die before the doctor's visits ceased,” she re sponded, smiling in a way half pro fessional and half woman. “But you don’t think that I am in a similar danger, do you!” I asked, some what alarmed, for courage was never numbered among my virtue*. “Oh, there is no cause for immediate alarm,” she answered. “I will call again to-morrow.” “Can’t you come this evening!” “That would not be neceeeary.” ••nui cau l you come any wayt j rather like the society of doctors. ] know a great many physicians.” “What physicians do you know!” she asked. That somewhat stumped me. I had never been sick before, and as I was a DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1831. w humble if not a modest grocer, I knew no doctors, but I was, as the Congress men say, equal to the occasion, and I re plied that I knew Dr. Prouty, Dr. Snell and Dr. So-and-So.” “I don’t know them,” she said. Neither did I, but I was determined to maintain my position. “Can’t you come this evening?” I implored rather than asked. “I will come to-morrow mornimr, ” she replied, and in a way so Unsenti mental that I was almost angry, she marched out. By this time I was really in love with her, and in order to keep up her visits, I was resolved to feign sick ness; so, when she came the next day and asked me how I felt, I answcrctl that I thought I was worse. “Oh, I don’t know,” she answered. “But Ida know. I have a pain in my side and feel shaky. By the way, I have not asked your name. I wish to say that I am a very peculiar man.” “My name is Dapson,” she answered. She came early the next morning, and after taking my temperature, remarked that I was so far restored to health that further attention from her would be un necessary. “Doctor,” said I, “it is much better to be oq the safe side. To tell the truth, pneumonia runs somewhat in ou> family, and the worst phase, is, that my people have suffered most from the dread dis ease after having been pronounced cured.” She sat down and laughed. “You arc the first man I ever knew to regard with friendliness an increasing doctor's bill. ’ “That’s all right,” said t, wincing a little, for my economical nature shuddered somewhat at the thought of paying out much money and I was about to suggest that the bill might he cut down, when the doctor said: “It is an odd char acteristic of human natme that men should hate adoctoi'sbiil with so strong a degree of warmth. Men who cheer fully pay an undertaker shy at a doctor.” “Probably they think that the doctor causes both bills,” I remarked, attempt ing to be witty. “And thus contributes lo the support of two Worthy vocations,” she quickly rejoined. “Yes; they render each other self- sustaining. By the way, you arc coming one more time, aren’t you?” “I don’t see why I should.” “But I do.” “And why should I come?” “Because I love you,” “Why, what an impudent patient you are." “That’s all right. 1 love you and want to marry you." “To save your bill!” she archly asked. “Come, doctor, don't make sport of me. Ever since I first saw you I have loved you. I used to watch for you and when you failed to be on the car, 1 was grief-stricken. Now, after this confes sion, won’t you agree to visit me uutil I am able to visit you?” “Your very peculiarity attracts me toward you,” she said. “Then I wish that my peculiarities were stronger. I wish they were strong enough to draw you to my arms.” “Oh, what a trifling rascal you are, to be sure. I don’t really believe that you have been ill at all. It was merely a de sign against me.” “No, I was not aware that you were a doctor. If I had known it I would have been ill long ago. By the way, when will you be ready?” “Ready for what?” “To be my wife.” “I am not looking for a husband.” “Yes, but the greatest treasures are sometimes come upoo by accident.” “You are quite philosophical for a grocer.” “Ah, but let me tell you, Miss Doctor, that the grocery business requires more philosophy than the medical profession. The grocer understands the weakness of the flesh.” “I must go,” she said, arising. “When shall I expect you?” I asked. “You need not expect me.” She did not come the next day, and 1 sent for her. She did not come until night. “I suppose you are worse,” she said smiling. “I am dying.” “Then I can do nothing for you.” “Yes, you can save me with the medi cine of love.” “With the medicine of nonsense.” “Well, that is the formula for love's tonic.” “I did not come to be insulted." "Nor shall you be.” "Tell me plainly what you want.” “I want to marry you.” “But don’t you think that I prefer to look higher than a grocer?” “Possibly, but I don’t prefer to look higher than a doctor. You suit me well enough. Probably you don’t know it, but at one time in my life I could have married a seamstress.” "That’s encouraging, surely. Could you have married anyone else!” “Yes, I think that a female barber was once smitten with me. She did not say so, but she shaved delightfully, and on one occasion refused to charge anything; and I confess that this was a strong pull in her favor. If she had refused the second time I believe that I should have proposed." “I don't know whether to love you or be angry.” “Let me decide. Love me.” “All right, I will.” “When will you begin?” “Let me see what time it is,” she said, looking at her watch. “A quarter past nine. Well, I will begin at ten o’clock.” I could nOt help laughing At this. We continued to talk; She Mid riot a word of love, but looked at her watch occa sionally. “Isn't, it nearly ten?" I asked. “Wants two minutes.” “Do you love me now?” “I will in one minute and a half. How is the grocery business anyway?” “Picking up all the time.” “I bate never known many grocers to get rich,” she remarked, holding her watch open. “I knew one that—" She shut the watch with a loud snap, and looking affectionately at me, said- “I love you.” » • * * v There are many mean people in this world, and 1 think the very meanest is a quack doctor, a fellow named Piddias C. Jones. Why do I think so? I will tell you. The other day, in speaking of my wife, he said: “Dr. Dapson never had but two patients She kilted one and married the ether.”—Ariantaw Traveler. fUn. Sometimes in atiadcaman kic’rswhen there is nothing to boot. In Boston, it is said, there are people who believe the bean to be ahead of rah- bagA When is a timekeeper not a time keeper? Five timee out of ten.—Jew el ere' Circular. If a lovely woman smacks you on one cheek you should turn her the other also. — Wnehmqtm Star. George—“Chapley is one of those fel lows whd have more money than brains, isn’t he?" Jessie—"Y r es, and he is not rich, cither.”—Harper'e Bazar One of the most amusing and harmless of distractions that man is heir to is the fancying what he would do if he were somebody else.—St. Joseph Kewt. “How old is the Hessian fly?” asks a correspondent. Old as the American Revolution. Washington made the Hes sian fly at Trenton.— Terns Siftings. “Did you realize anything in that gi gantic watch-manufacturing scheme you were interested in?” “Yes, I realized that I was a chump.”—Chicago News. JakeJimpson (after the engagement) — “Shall J name the day, dear?” Cora Bellows—“Oh, dear, no!” “Why not, darling?” “You are too procrastinating, Jake.”—New York Herald. Young Mr. Dedbroke—“I want to marry your daughter.” Old Man Sur plus—“What for?" Dedbroke—“Well, I don’t know exactly, but I hope it’s for not. less than a hundred thousand.” Natural philosophers who have devoted much time to studying the subject warn people to be mindful of themselves when both the hour and minute hands of the clock cover I. The dock might then strike one.—Jeieelers' Circular. Willie—“Well, I’ve seen all I want to of this Delsarto business.” Johnnie— "What is the Delsarto business?” “I don’t know, but there’s a lady in there calling on mamma who says she teaches it. It takes her five minutes to sit down." — Chicago Tribune. The “Greaser” Poel. Among the number of those who have recently been invested at Paris, France, with the silver palms and violet ribbon of officer dc 1’Acadcmie, is Adolphe Viart, the greaser poet. For over thirty years lie has been greasing the wheels of railroad cars and trucks at the station of Vernon and Normandy, a writing poetry by night. Possibly it is due to the fact that his verses were mostly composed in darkness and solitude that they are of a mournful and pathetic strain. It is probable that he would have re mained unknown as a poet had not some of his more well-to-do friends become acquainted with his literary efforts and subscribed the money necessary for the publication of his first two volumes. One bears the title "Dark Hours” and the other that of “Lily Dreams.” Although remarkable for their true poetic ring and for their independence, they betray a certain lack of knowledge on the part of the poet, whose education was merely that of an ordinary French public school. It, is manifest from his works that he is a man accustomed to solitude and to commune almost solely with his own thoughts. He has recently retired, and no longer laps the wheels of railroad cars with his hummer or tills the axle boxes with srrease, but resides in a little bit of a cottage at Auberoyu in the department de 1'Eure.— San Francisco Chronicle. Hepi. Hops ate first mentioned by Pliny, the young plant being at that time used as a vegetable, much os we use asparagus. Not until the sixteenth century were they used as an ingredient In making beer. When their cultivation was first Intro duced into England from Flanders, there was a great outcry raised against it. The people petitioned Parliament against al lowing a “weed" cultivated “that would spoil the taste and endanger the people,” —St. Louis Republic. f CONGO CARRIERS. TRANSPORTING GOODS IN AF RICA'.-! CATARACT REGION. Expert Native Packers, Who Carry Heavy Loads Long Distances— Dally Markets Along the Trail —Pay of the Carriers. Matadi is to day the farthest point to be reached ou the Congo Rivei by steam; beyond is a succession of rapids and un- navigable water extending from just above the place for two hundred miles, with the exception of a few stretches, possible, however, of navigation, but at great risk, and only with experienced skill. This part of the country ktiowfl as the cataract region. Further progress into the interior is now to be effected hy an overland march of two hundred and fifty miles, until navigable waters are again reached. Matadi has now assumed vast proportions as a forwarding station for the caravan service from this place Id Leopoldville. At present the only means is manual transport; every pound of merchandise and store? which goes into the interior has to be carried on men's heads and shoulders. The tribe? inhabiting the lower reaches of the Congo, or cataract region, are expert packers; from child hood the boys accompany native caravans from the interior to the coast, and thus receive an early training as pack animals by assisting their fathers and brothers and masters by carrying light loads. In 1889 upward of 60,000 loads, aver aging sixty-five pound? each, were car ried over the road from Matadi to Leo pnldville. This trail is now well worn between these points. From any of the heights along the road a bird’s eye view- shows the winding trail penciled on bill- side and across the plains. In the dry season, when the Streams are easily forded and the carriers have not to suffer the inconvenieuce and dis comfort of the rain, the caravan road seems almost one continuous line of the natives, who tramp along always in sin gle file. One minute a gang of thirty is met, all trudging along with a swinging gait. Each man carries seventy pounds of wire and bales of cotton stuff, and the next caravan to be seen may be partly loaded with sections of boats and tools; others will be carrying boxes of provi sions, and occasionally a native trader with a cargo of elephants’ tusks, or if on bis return journey from the coast, he will be weighted down with the various mis cellany of propcity which old Chief Lu- teto or Makoko have obtained from fhe white traders in exchange for their costly ivory. At different points along the trail daily markets are held, where the natives of the outlying hamlets meet under some spreading tree to exchange their peanuts, palm nuts and oil, yams, sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples, dried snakes and mice, and other African delicacies with the hungry porter for his gay-striped handkerchief, blue baft or beads. The carriers are spare built individuals, but their endurance is phenomenal. A dis tance of one hundred miles is often tra versed by them in five days, which is no feeble task for a man nourished with a fsw peanuts or bananas, and with a seventy pound load on his head. He has no smooth path to travel over. The caravan trail leads through the stifling, heated valleys, where he must often push his way through the long, coarse grass, waving twenty feet above one’s head and drooping across the trail; and the steep ascent, where the path winds un the mountain sides and over the hill-tops, adds not to the facility of his task; but he trudges manfully along, halting in some shady nook when tired, where he enjoys a light luncheon of a few inches of shrieveled snake and a banana or two. At nearly every brook or spring these natives take a big draught of the de licious cool water.and in the middle of th( day throw down their loads and lie dowc at full length and enjoy the soothiug weed in some form or other, some by smoking, others preferring to enjoy the narcotic in the shape of snuff. This latter habit is very prevalent among tht people along the lower reaches of the Congo. Nearly every one has his little pouch of powdered tobacco-leaves and ashes, and the clumsy habit of convey ing the mixture tq their noses on the blades of their big knives gives them s ludicrous appearance, a? their whole face becomes smeared with the brown powder; this snuffy coudition is considered “style.” They are good tempered, friendly folks, and salute all straugers with their greeting of “mbotc,” which word, by the way, has a varied meaning. Good-morning, good-afternoon, glad to see you, sorry you have to go, very well thank you, all right, good-bye, and kindred expressions, can all be inferred by the one word “mbote." In the rainy season, when the streams become swollen, whole caravansare kept waiting until the flood decreases. Some of the streams have to be crossed in canoes, and over some of them swinging bridges have been thrown, ingeniously constructed of rattan cane and plaited fibre. Each gang of carriers is under a “kapitn,” or head man. He gets one man’s pay only, hut iu consideration of the rpsnnnsibilitv he takes in eemurino to deliver all tne loads to their destina tion, he does not cairy a pack; if he does so he receives double pay. These kapitas are generally the older and more influential men of the villages, usually the chief and his relatives. To look at these gaunt, lanky, half- starved-looking beings, it seems incredi hie that they can carry heavy loads over Such distance! ’ Some of them will even carry as many as one hundred and fifty pounds and receive double pay. A car rier receives, for the transportation of a sixty-five or seventy pound charge Irom Matadi to Lscpoldville, eight pieces handkerchief—costing in England forty | cents apiece—besides which he receives ' one extra piece of some co 1 ton stuff to purchase food on the road. The use of :oin is not yet known, except on the -oast The moneys of the country are :loth, beads, etc. With the pay for their packing ser vices these Ba-Uongo porters are able, rfter a number of journeys, to have ac cumulated enough ol the highly-prized cotton stuff to enable them to add to theif connubial bliss by marrying add! tional wives, the mothers in law of fathcis-in-law in that part of the world require a goodly pile of brightly-colored dress stuff, flint-lock muskets, kegs of powder, beads, etc., for their daughter's hand.—Frank Leslie's POPULAR SCIENCE. A committee composed of some lead ing English physician? isgettiug to work on the subject of hypnotism. A curious experiment has been tried it fl hospital in Nautec, France It was the transfusion of goats’ blood ink) three scrofulous children. The acreage of the zoological gardens in Europe ranges from about hall a dozen to half a hundred acres, but hardly one of them has room enough for its ani mals. Doctor Foveau de Courraellcs, of Paris, France, alleges that he. has sue ceeded in conveying by the electric cur rent to diseased internal organs of the human body the constituents of nicclira- ments suitable for their recovery. A well-known cmbalmer, Doctor Vick- ersheimer, has produced a liquid so per fect that it can be applied successfully to game. An embalmed hare served af ter having been shot six weeks was re cently pionounced to be a? good a? fresh. At the International Congress of Hy giene and Demography, to be held in London, England, next August, especial attention will be given to the, infectious, contagious and other disease? communi cable from animal? to man, and vice versa. A German physicist has photographed electromagnetic waves in air. The plates were exposed three hours, aud de velopment brought out bright and dark bands across the direction of vibration, aud dark bands in the direction of vi bration. Mr. Fayo read a paper before the re cent meeting of the French Aoadcmie des Sciences in which he maintained that the most precise of later geodetic and pendu lum measurements of the earth’s shape prove it to be an ellipsoid of revolution, thereby confirming tho well-known theory of Laplace as to the formation of ’the globe. It is believed that an important arch aeological discovery has been made at Rome, Italy. Near the bridge of St. An gelo, while constructing works for the embankment of the Tiber, a column was discovered bearing an inscription com memorating games that were held every one hundred years to celebrate the found ing of the city, and also an ode written hy Horace for the occasion. The Paradise Fish. The paradise fish, like the German canary, is a product of cultivation, a? there is no place known where it is found in a wild state. It is a native of China. There they are cultivated and kept in aquaria as ornamental fish only. The male is the larger of the two sexes, measuring, when full grown, from the mouth to the end of the caudal fin, three and a half inches. Tho body is shaped very much like that of the pumpkin seed sunlish. Its colors surpass in brilliancy any fish heretofore cultivated for the aquarium. The head is ashy gray, mottled with irregular dark spots. The gills are azurine blue, bordered with brilliant crimson. The eyes are yellow and red, with a black pupil. The sides of the body and the crescent shaped caudal fin are deep crimson; the former having ten or twelve vertical blue stripes, while the latter is bordered with blue. The under surface of the body is con tinually changing color—sometimes it is white, at others gray or black. The dorsal and anal fins are remarkably large, hence tho generic name of the fish— macro, large; podus, the foot or fin. Both fins are shaped alike. They are striped and dotted with brown and bor dered with blue. The dull-colored ventral fins are protected by a brilliant scarlet-colored spine, extending three- fourths of an inch behind the fins. The pectorals, situated directly above the ventral fins, are well shaped, but, being transparent, show no color.—"Nature's Realm." The Union flag was first shown on ' '.January 1, 1776, at OambridjuL-Mau. 1 NO. 33. • QUEER BUG TALES. SOME CURIOUS BELIEFS RE- CARDING INSECTS Ants as Dig as Foxes — Fireflies. Glow Worms, Hearhorses and Beetle*—Fireflies as Illuminators. In the forests of Guitttft dwell some very large and exceedingly ferocious bla< k ants, which thrown up hills fifteen and even twenty feet in height. They will not hesitate to attack a man, and tbe!i headquarters sro usually given a wide berth. The traveler Midouet speaks of having witnessed the destruction of one of these fortresses and its inhabitants in a way that was certainly extraordinary. A Irench was dug entirely around it and (Mad with dry wood, which was set tire to simultaneously at all points. Then a train of artillcfy sta? brought to bear and the hill knocked to pieces with cm non halls. The ants, seeking to escape, were all burned in their attempt to cr<c • the fiery gutter. On more than one nr casintl tints hav done so much damage in convents and elsewhere as to be formally excommunicated by the Chtfteb of Rome. In South Africa the hilt Of the whit* ants, known as “termites,'' have often been employed for purposes of torture, the human victim being partly buried in one of the heaps and left there until hi 1- flesh was eaten from his bones. A belief is, or used to be, current among the Mormons, who suffered grievously from the pest, that the locust was a cross between the spider and the buffalo, la China the popular notion is that insects of this description aro hatched by the sun from the spawn of fishes that are left ashore by receding waters. The history of the locust hav iug been a series of the greatest calauiites from which mankind suffered, it is not surprising that they have In an looked upou for ages with a superstitious horror. By the Arabs this speech is pu' into the locust's mouth “We are the army of the great God, and we lay ninety nine eggs, wefe the hundredth put forth, the world would be ours." According to the statement of these people, the locust has the head of the horse, the horns of the stag, fhe eyes of the elephant, the neck of the ox, thfc breasf of the lion, the body of the soorpion, the hip of the camel, the legs of the stork,the wiugs of the eagle aud the tail of the dragon. A common belief in this country is that the wing of the insect is always marke I either with a letter AV, portending war, or the letter P, promising peace. D> odrus Siculus, who lived about 69 B. described a tribe of locust eaters in Ethiopia, who were accustomed to pro cure their yearly supplies of food by sc’ ting much combustible material afire in a valley when the swarms of locusts passed over, so that they were stillled hy the smoke and fell to the ground in va“ numbers, to be subsequently gathered in heaps with salt and so preserved. Owing to their peculiar diet these people never lived to grow old, being eaten up by maggots which bred in their t’.-’sh. Locusts are much used for food in Africa to-day. Flights of them are considered a blessing by the natives in many parts that the rain doctors are employed to fetch them by their incantations. In certain parts of Africa crickets arc said to constitute an article of com merce. People rear them, feed them in confinement and sell them. The natives are very fond of their music, thinking that it induces sleep. Superstition? rc garding the cricket’s chirp arc very va ried. Some believe that it is ominous of sorrow and evil, while others consider it to be a harbinger of joy. One of the most curious of insects is the mantis or “rearhorse,” which is so common in Washington. The popular beliefs are familiar as to its powers of prophecy and other supernatural attri hutes. Presumably the notion as to it? supposed sanctity is derived from its fi vorite “praying” attitude. If a girl takes a mantis to the junction of three roads aud asks it from which direction her lover will come it will respond truly. When the insect kneels it sees an angel in the way. Supposing that it alights upon your band, you are about to make the acquaintance of a distinguished per son. If it injures you in any way,which it does but rarely, you will lose a valued friend by calumny. Never kill a mantis, as it bears a charm against evil. In the works of Piso it is stated that the mantis changes into a green plant of two hand's breadth. The feet are fixed into tho ground first, it is said, and from these roots grow, so that the animal by dc grees becomes a vegetable. Although this seems like an absurdity it is in real ity not impossible that such a thing may have occurred, for it is true that an in sect will sometimes,under favorable con ditions of heat and moisture, produce n plant of crvptogamic. kind. From a cer tain kind of caterpillar that burrows in the ground an edible mushroom that is very highly prized commonly grows. It often happens that the chrysalis of a her, or wasp, or cricket throws out a stem and changes in every respect into a veu etable, though at the root the shell nn ■ external appearance of the parent insee: are still retained. Specimens of these vegetated ammali are frequently brought from the West Indies. In the Argentine Republic a weevil kv/iwn as 'he "diseaced hee’le” !r great request for breast pins and other ornaments The palm weevil of the West Indies is regarded in that country a« i great luxury, fried or broiled. It ie eaten in the larva stage, in the shape ci a big white worm, which is found in the tendcrest part of the smaller palm trees. The historic poem of Brazil makes the astonishing assertion that these worms first become butterflies and subsequently mice. A similar dainty in Java is the larva of a beetle which, in the shape of a white maggot, lives in wood and so eats it away that the hacks of chair.? and portions at other furniture are often, ♦hough apparently sound, actually mew shells. In Sweden the church-yard beetle is regarded as a messenger of pestilence axd deaf 1 , and its appearance always excites violent alarm. A species closely allied is eaten by Egyptian women with a view to acquiring plumpness. Another insect regarded with .superstition here is the so- called “death watch," which by the ticking sound it makes excites a dread and horror of the credulous sick pe.rson in solitude of the night. The poorer classes of Cuba and the other West India Islands make use of the brilliant fireflies native there for lights in their bouses. Twenty or thirty of the insects put into a small wicker cage and dampened a little with watev will produce a very comfortable illumiua tion, quite sufficient to read by. Also they are worn by the ladies for orna ment, as many as fifty or one hundred sometimes adorning a single ball dress. The. insect fs fastened to the costume by a pin run through its body and is only worn so long as its lives, for it loses its ight as soon as it dies. Perforated gourds are commonly employed for lan terns filled with the fireflies, which are aroused occasionally by shaking, so that they shall light up their luminous disks as brightly as possible. The people of Italy believe that glow worms are of a spiritual nature, dwelling in graves, and so they carefully avoid them. The biggest insect of its kind in the world is the Hercules beetle of South America, which grows to be six inches in length. It is said, whether truthfully or not, that great numbers of those creatures arc sometimes seen on the mam nima tree, rasping the rind i-roni the slender branches by working around them with their horns until they cause the juice to flow. This juice they drink •o intoxication and thus fall senseless to the ground.— Washington Star.’ Came Over in the Mayflewer. It is a curious fact that historians in general have entirely neglected to give to posterity a list of the names of the Pilgrim; who came on tho Mayflower. Bancroft, Hildreth, Ridpath, the, stand ard eneyclopa-dias, to say nothing of the numerous biographical dictionaries, are all faulty in this one particular. Decern bcr26, 1883, the Boston Transcript gave what purported to be a “true” list of the passengers that landed at Plymouth 271 years ago; but it, too, was lacking in one essential feature; the women and children were not mentioned, and only the surnames of the servants. The fol lowing list has been prepared especially for “Notes for the Curious,” and is from Hotten’s “List of Emigrants to America Between the Years 1600 and 1700.” The annexed is the list as taken from the work quoted above: William Brewster and wife Mary, Jasper Moore, John Howland, Desire Miuter, William Latham, Love Brewster, Roger Williams fnot he of Rhode Island fame), George Soule, “a maid servant;” Wrestling Brewstor, Elias Story, Richard More (one “o”), Remember AUerton, Mary AUerton, More, Edward Win slow and wife Elizabeth, John Carver, Katherine Carver, William Bradford and wife Dorthy, Ellen More, Bartholomew AUerton, Isaac AUerton and wife Mary, John Hook, Dr. Samuel Fuller, William Cutler (died on passage), John Crack ston (both senior and junior), Captain Myles (Miles) Standish and Rose, his wife, Christopher Martin and wife , Solomon Prower, John Longmore, John Mullens, wife and three children; Rob ert Carter, Resolved White, William White and wife Susanna, William Hol- bcck, Edward Thompson, Giles Hop. kius, Conslautiua Hopkins, Stephen Hopkins and wife Elizabeth, Demaris and Oceanus Hopkins, children of Stephen and wife, the latter born at sea, Edward Doty, John Billings, wife and two children; Edward Leister, Francis Cooke, Edward Tillie, wife and daugh ter; Joseph Rogers, Moses Fletcher, Thomas Tinker, wife and son; John Rigdalc aud Alice, his wife; James Chil ton, wife and daughter; Edward Fuller, wife and son Samuel; John Turner and two sons (names not given), Francis Eaton, wife and son Samuel; John Goodman, Thomas Williams, Digerie Priest, Edmond Margeson, Richard Brit- terige, Richard Clarke, Peter Brown, Richard Gardiner, Gilbert Winslow (r« turned to England ami died), John Al- den and Priscilla Mullens. The last two named were afterward married and are the hero and heroine of Longfellow's celebrated poem entitled, “The Court ship of Miles Standish.”—St. Louis Re- vuhtie. Minnesota’s Legislature has discovered that several men thrive handsomely iq Minnesota hy breeding wolves and sell ing their scalps to the State at $) apiece