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THE BOOMERANG.
Km the Australians Kmw Link
About Its Mysteries.
"The Australian boomerang," said
t collector of queer weapons, "is
formed of a bent stick, one side
rounded, the other flab The Australians
make it from boughs of
acacia pendula or from some tree of
limilar growth, giving to the green
* wood the desired curvature in the
- a- a
Jire. IE is necessary iu cuwusc a
very hard, strong and heavy wood,
and the best plan is to cut a piece
from a natural bend or root of a
tree and to let the curve of the
boomerang follow the grain of the
wood.
"One hardly ever sees two boomerangs
of the same shape, for they
vary from a slight curve to nearly
a right angle. They differ also in
length from fifteen inches to three
and a half feet and in breadth from
two to three inches. They should
be about three-eighths of an inch
thick, tapering toward the ends,
which may be either round or pointed,
while the edge must be sharpened
all around. One 6ide must be
convex, the other flat, the sharpnesa
of the edge along the convexity of
the curve varying in different boom
erangs.
"When thrown the boomerang
travels forward for some distance
end then generally returns in an
ellipse to within a few paces of the
thrower. If the boomerang strikes
its mark it falls to the ground. In
throwing it must be grasped at one
nd, stretched back behind the
ihoulder and then brought rapidly
forward above the head, the inside
of the curve facing the direction in
which it is thrown.
"It may either be hurled upward
ijsto the air or downward, so as to
ftrike the ground at some distance
from the thrower. In the first case
it flies from a rotary motion, as its
shape would indicate, and after ascending
to a great height it suddenly
returns in an elliptical orbit to a
spot near its starting point. When
thrown downward to the ground it
rebounds in a straight line, pursuing
a ricochet motion until it
strikes the object at which it is cast.
"To throw the Australian boomerang
in such a way as to make
pure of its doing exactly what one
wants is one of the most difficult j
feats in the world. Alfred W. Howitt,
who has seen the natives of Victoria
practicing with the boom
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lUtmiUUCU LlUll. lie ^UCJllUU"
ed some blacks as to whether they
^ thought it was possible to throw it
f 90 as to insure its returning to the
hand of the thrower. Seven 6aid
HO and characterized the statement
M fet bolian?!. ?., a falsehood.
The eighth said he once made a
boomerang that when thrown on a
Calm day with great care would gyrate
around and around until it deicended
to the ground not far from
him, moving as slowly as a leaf fallJgg
from a tree, and that lie once
ran forward and nearly caugh? rt.
Be 6aid also 'no kurni (black fellow)
can catch a wunkan when he is flying?he
would cut bis hands open.'
The throwing of boomerangs has
always been carried on in the open
lir, and no Australian native has
tver attempted to use them in a
building."?Exchange.
What Puzzled Him.
It is said of the Marquis of
Townsend that when a vounc man
and engaged in battle he saw a
drummer at his side killed by a cannon
ball, which scattered his brains
in every direction. His eyes were
at once fixed on the ghastly object,
which seemed to engross his
thoughts. A superior officer observing
him, supposed he was intimidated
by the sight and addressed him
in a manner to cheer his spirits.
"Oh," said the young marquis, with
calmness, but severity, "I am not
fri ghtened. I am only puzzled to i
jnaKe out how any man with such a
quantity of brains ever came to be
here!"
His Peers.
A distinguished lawyer of Indiana
when a struggling young attorney
had a client whose mental soundness
was questioned. There was a
lunacy inquiry, and the client was
adjudged insane. The squire asked
the lawyer:
"Do you wish to appeal this case
which has been decided by a jury of
your client's peers ?"
"No," replied the young lawyer.
"Since your honor says that the
orn Viic rw>f>re T fVlinlf WO
r? - will
let it go at that."?New York
Sun.
( Cash Terms.
A.?You have called me a swindler,
and I am not going to stand it.
I shall go to law and make you
iroart for it.
B.?All right.
1 A.?You will have to pay a fine
of at least 50 marks.
B.?You are quite at liberty to
take any course you think proper.
A.?Look here! Tomorrow I
fcave a payment to make. If you
will 6ettle up at once I will allow
you 5 per cent off!?Berlin Journal.
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ALPINE CLIMBERS.
"Mountain Sera tetters" Held In Contempt
by the Natives.
There are few things that rouse
the Swiss inhabitants of Alpine vil-}
lages to contemptuous anger so
much a6 the spectacle of ignorant
tourists anrious to attack the un- j
known heights of dangerous mountains.
The;? villagers have spent
their lives among the mountains
and realize their perils.. When they
see some stupid newcomer starting
out alone on what may be nothing
j less than a suicidal venture, 6ays the
Ix>ndon fcxpresp, they say lo eacn
other, "Another mountain scratcher
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The sensible tourist never by any i
means purchases an ice ax. One
day I noticed a man enter one of
the shops. He looked at the ice
axes and finally bought one. "No
one but a mountain scratcher would
buy an ice ax at a toy shop," said
my guide.
The next day I started out for an
easy excursion to the glacier, having
the same guide with me who had
pointed out the mountain scratcher
at the shop. He at once told me
that the "scratcher" had also started
for the glacier unattended.
When we began to get on the
glacier the guide fastened the rope
around my waist. Not being a
climber, I had only my alpenstock.
The guide's ice ax was ample for
the cutting of necessary steps.
In a short time we saw the mountain
scratcher. He was chipping
away with his ax on a broad slope of
ice that reached away into illimitable
distance.
Without wasting words the guide
stopped me and untied the rope.
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"May wnere you are, ne Baia.
"That fool is right in the track of
the avalanches. I must get him out
of that at once. He may be killed
any moment"
The guide soon came near his
man, but he was over him, and a
deep crevasse separated them. I
taw the guide thrust his ax forward,
but the man's nerve failed, and he
did not grasp it. The guide saw
that he must act promptly and
thrust the point of the ax into the
man's coat and under his leather
belt and pulled him up by sheer
force.
The two came back to where I
was waiting. There was a low rumbling
noise, which grew louder and
louder. White drifts of moving ice
came hurtling down over the slope
where but a few moments before
the man had been standing. We
had reached him just in time.
PropoMd In Public.
One of the most unique specimens
of the courting crisis on rec
or<3 occurred &t a London dinner
party. He had long made love to
her, and while at the table he learned
from a friend sitting next to him
that his rival intended to "pop the
question" that very day. What was '
to be done? He was some distance
from her, while the dreaded rival
was at her side. Tearing a leaf
frqm a notebook, he wrote on it
with a pencil: you be my
wife? Write your answer, yes or no,
on this paper and return it to me."
Thi6 he sent to her by a waiter,
saying: "To the lady in blue at the
end of the table. "Be very careful."
This servant was careful enough,
but the sender forgot to give hym
the pencil for the lady to use. She
didn't have a pencil, but she coolly
put the note into her bosom and
answered to the waiter, "Tell the
gentleman yes," with as little betrayal
of excitement as if she were
pf^ntinc nn invitation to a game
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of cfoquet.
Humors of the Law.
Law and equity are two things j
which God has joined together and i
man has put asunder. When' a prisoner
in Justice Maule's court was
asked whether he had anything to
say why sentence should not be
pronounced upon him, he replied, j
"I wish God may strike me dead if
1 stole the ducks/' Maule waited
for about a minute and then said: ,
I "Prisoner, as Providence has not in- j
| terfered I must. Three months1 ,
hard labor."
A mayor on taking his seat on the
her.ch for the first time informed
the bar that during his year of office
he would spare no effort to be
neither partial nor impartial.?Address
of Sir Albert Rollit in London.
The Sleep of Hortes.
When the horse sleeps, it is said
that one ear is directed forward,
why is not known. A writer in the
! English Mechanic thinks this is to 1
' guard against danger, being a sur- 1
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| vivai OI IIS Unglllttlljr miiu naui u>. i
lie says: "Watch a horse asleep |
through the window of his stable j
and iflake a faint noise at the front. j
That ear will be all attention, and
probably the other will fly around
i sharply to assist. Now let him go !
to sleep again and make the same I
noise to the left. The forward ear j
still will keep guard, with possibly
a lightning flick round, only to resume
its former position."
MEDICAL SUPERSTITION.
OwtlaarfMi Practices Still Prevail la
Parts of Ger-rr.arry.
AH sorto of outlandish medical
ideas and practices are to be found
in active prevalence in the marsh
lands of the Weser, north of Bremerhaven,
and in the Luneburg
heath, a barren region between the
Elbe and A Her, in German v.
In both of these districts the
touch of a corpse's hand is still regarded
as a curative of many local
ills. In the Wesermarsch the practice
is to steal secretly into the room
where the dead person is laid out
and with the dead hand stroke the
afflicted part. In the Luneburg
heath the application is especially j
used as a cure for warts and for
cramps ifi the stomach.
Less grewsome is the remedy for i
hernia 6till applied in the marsh
country. On the night of St John :
the Baptist's day, June 24, the pa- ;
tient must be dragged through the |
split of a cleft ash tree. Three men ,
bearing the first name of John j
must perform the operation, and it j
must be conducted in dead silence, j
Some of the cures depend, on the '
contrary, upon verbal formulas. For
hiccough the sufferer must cross ,
a little wooden footbridge over a
stream?an easy matter in the ;
marsh lands with their manv drain- j
age ditches. As he crosses he must i
repeat the nursery rhyme:
8nlp-op un lk gungen ober dat stcg
Snlk-op fult herin un ik gung weg.
This bit of dialeotic German may
be translated:
Hiccough and I went over the bridge;
I went on, Hiccough fell In the ditch.
For erysipelas a fire is lighted j
and a pinch of ashes from it is rubbed
on the skin to the accompaniment
of a saying to the effect that
the ashes and the sore went over the
Red sea together, the ash came
back, but the sore never again. Numerous
other sayings supposed to
have ihe force of charms, usually j
when uttered simultaneously with
some action, are quoted. The Luneburger,
for instance, who has warts
makes the sign of the cross on the
warts while gazing at the (jjescent j
moon, saying, "What I see, that I
win; what I wash, that disappears." 1
It rhymes in the German dialect.
Sometimes the formula is not
spoken. The Wesermarsch folk
have a saying which they write on
a 6lip of paper when any one has
fever. Then they burn the paper.1
The Luneburgers have no formula,
but they write the name, year of
birth and birthplace of the sick person
in a lonely place three nights j
running. Other remedies for fever
consist in ewallowing spiders or dust
filed from a church Dell.
When a tooth comes out the loser
must throw it backward over his
head. Hair combings must not be
thrown out of the window, because
the birds might get them and fly
away with them. In that case the
person who was separated from
them would speedily become bald.?
Allgemeine Zeitung.
Theophile Gautier.
In spite of his exceptional
strength and the magnitude of his
desires, Gautier was a dreamer,
straved into the midst of a restless,
implacable civilization which rushed
pa6t him and over him and trod
him under foot, while he, unconscious
of the fact, made no com-1
plaint. "Poor Theo!" he sometimes i
exclaimed, and we, his friends, knew
what depths of unspoken suffering i
were compressed into that cry. He
lived in a world of dreams far away,!
so far away indeed that he was
aware the fantastic existence he had
imagined was not to be realized'
upon our earth and therefore made:
the best of the indifferent circum- j
stances in which he was forced to
live. ? "Literary Recollections," '
Maxirae dr, Camp.
Beauty Everywhere.
The remotest corner of the globe'
is full of wonder and beauty. The J
'?- ?x 1 1- ~ on'OTT f-r/xm '
JilZieSl uailtv HI I.11C n yjl iu, nnaj
towns, where no artists do congre-:
gate, upon which no farm laps, j
where no vines hang their cooling 1
clusters, nor flowers spring, nor
grass invites the browsing herd, is
yet spotted and patched with moss'
of such exquisite beauty that the
painter, who in all his life should
produce one such thing, would be,
a master in art, an immortal in
fame, and it has the hair of 10,000
reeds combed over its brow, and its
shining sand and insect tribes might j
win the student's lifetime. God's
least thought is more prolific than
man's greatest abundance.?Henry,
Ward Beecher.
Riley'a Rye Patch.
Whitcomb Rilev was looking over
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a fence on nis larm at a neia 01 rye
when a neighbor who was driving by
stopped his horse and asked:
"Hello, Mr. Riley! How's youi
rye doing?"
'Tine, fine!" renlied the poet.
"How much do you expect tc
clear to the acre?"
"Oh, about four gallons," aaswered
Mr. Riley soberly.?Success '
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AMBERGRIS.
TKb Valuable Sulxatanee Come* From
Dtaaased Sperm Whales.
Ambergris is one of the foost val- i
uable products of the sea. The
mariner who spies floating on the ]
waves a grayish mass, fatty in ap- J
pearanee, will, if he knows what ]
ambergris is, betray considerable ex- t
citement, for the substance brings J
high prices.
The origin of ambergris was once J
a mystery, but it is so no longer. It .
is a morbid secretion due to a dis- i
ease of the liver of the sperm whale, '
in the intestines of which animal
lumps of it are occasionally, though *
rarely, discovered. Dr. C. II. Stc- J
venson of the United States fish
commission, who made a special 1
study of the subject, said that the J
whales which yield ambergris are
invariably sickly and emaciated.
Anciently the substance was .
kncwn as amber, a name which was '
subsequently applied to the fossil I
gun now commonly so called. But
to distinguish the two one was called
"amber pris" (gray) and the other
"amber jaune" (yellow).
So it app?ars that ambergris
means simply gray amber. Like the
fossil gum, pieces of it were found
now and then on the seashore,
where they had been cast up by the
waves; hence doubtless the giving
of the same name to both.
Ambergris usually contains the j :
beaks of cuttlefishes, on which the j
sperm whale feeds. Sometimes it is j
black, but the finest is gray in color.
When dried, to cure it, it is light
and inflammable and yields an odor
faintly resembling honey. On being
melted by heat it evaporates slowly, *
leaving no trace behind.
The substance has been used for
centuries in sacerdotal rites of the (
church and with fragrant gums was
formerly burned in the apartments
of royalty. To some extent it was
employed as a medicine and to flavor
certain dishes. .Nowadays it is
utilized almost exclusively by perfumers
in the preparation of fine
scents, being first converted into a
tincture by dissolving it in alcohoL j
?Saturday Evening Post.
A Losing Agreement. J
A Jenkintown grocer says that
there is nothing nice being accom- ?
modating, even if it goes 60 far as to
cause a loss in cash. About a year
ago a character well known in that
section of Montgomery county, who
lives alone in a small house nearly
a mile back in the country, happened
to be in the store and said his
stock of provisions was low. He fj
asked the grocer to sell him 8 cents'
worth of flour. "Why don't you buy "
a dollar's worth ?" asked a bystander.
"I ain't got no bag," was the a
reply. "Oh, well, I'll lend you one,"
said the merchant. "But I ain't
got no money with me," the man
said. "You can pay for it when you
bring back the bag," was the reply, and
the man went home with his
flour. One day last week the man
was again in the 6tore, and the gro- <
cer said to him: "I have a little bill '
against you for flour. Do you re- '
mpmhpr about it ?" His eves ODen- 1
ed with astonishment as he gazed at
the grocer and replied, "I ain't
brought the bag back yet." The
bill has been charged to profit and
loss.?Philadelphia Record.
No Room For Argument.
Promotion time in the public
ichools is invariably a season of undue
elation and of heartburnings
among the pupils. "Did you get
promoted?" asked a small girl in
front of a Brooklyn school of a
larger companion.
"Yes. It was easy for me in that
class," was the reply.
"Well, they left me back," remarked
the small girl, and then,
with bitterness, "But you're not so
smart anyway."
"Oh, I don't know," said the other,
with an air of superiority.
"There ain't many in this echool
that has a better education than me.
I was promoted, and the teacher was ,
left back."?New York Globe. ,
Cells of the Honeycomb.
Honeybees are generally credited with
instinctive skill in making the
cells of the comb hexagonal in ^
shape, but it is probable that this (
construction is merely the ordinary *
result of mechanical laws. Solitary ?
bees always make circular cells, and ;
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tne Dees in a mvc uu uuuut man.c
them circular also, but mechanical
pressure forces them into a hexagonal
form. A well known naturalist
in speaking of the matter says
that all cylinders made of soft, pliable
substances become hexagonal
under such circumstances.
Stood Up For Him.
"Do you think your sister likes j
me, Tommy?" j
"Yes. She stood up for you at
dinner."
"Stood up for me ? Was anybody
saying anything against me?"
"No, nothing much. Father said
he thought you were rather an ass,
but sis got up and said you weren't ;
and told father he ought to know
better than judge a man by his
looks."?London Tit-Bits.
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Indigestion
Stomach trouble is but a symptom of. and not
d itself a true disease. We think of Dyspepsia,
Heartburn, and Indigestion as real disease*, yet
hey are symptoms only of a certain specific
lerve sickness?nothing else.
It was this fact that first correctly led Dr. Shoop
n the creation of that now very popular Stomacn
Remedy?Dr. Shoop's Restorative. Going direct
o the stomach nerves, alone brought that success
jid favor to Dr. 8boop and his Restorative. With*
Hit that original and highly vital principle, no
uch lasting accomplishments were ever to be had. 1
For stomach distress, bloating, biliousness, bad i
ireath and sallow complexion, try Dr. Shoop's ,
Restorative?Tablets or Liquid?and see for your,
elf what it can and will da We sell and cheeiw
oily recommend
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