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CANNIBALS. . . M In t the Dark Continent Ol"' . . . i mil. I. Traveler. 1 "J " .......,rrttl V nl.l.ri.eilltoil t never so " 1 0 ..." meter Of this the mmiimii i lAfricn thropophngy ""ring n .. !,. ITt.ru.r t.roaa rivnr Vv. ...u. mi rt of tho present your. ffnuip" . ...in 0 ,ie rr ..... in tilt) ..., atnnnoil unil I hnd . pjmMI niui " n Pi . .1" and curried on shore I been Q -en ... ., .. ...... I.f r, .t ... .'.:i lllll Ihv a noisy- w- .... , l..,i nki....! , AFRICAN Tbe' ! the tribe beyond them. I " 8'1108. 0 ' "nrodeeumd pledges, su KITS were at war. Their '. ..Tt . - alnrii ni v rn'rwrittrniia r'-'lrunce. with its tidy plantations of 'P. ........ t notatoes, erouud nuts, col 1 am. r . . mm il,. P IMMI1LI. I'lirn llllll LmmU arunm. ' banana, and the large herds of sleek ..He and the numerous sheep, goats, t if.. .1. intra Kn nl.timl. fowls "u wy - nt Was '()0" DAi;uiiunui um Africans hi their hospitality that in the course of two days they had filled my cunoos with 1,200 yams, a umber of corn-cobs, fowls, ducks. "he.p and goats, until I had to cry: Hold! enough," because tho ennocs were dangerously overloaded. Mora over, they presented a largo bullock to my Kruboys. Any one who knows Africa and tho natural stinginess ol the negro will realize how ubundant must have been the local food supply w account for such easy gonorosity as this! Yet in this land of plonty the people craved for human flesh, to ob tain which they were constantly light ing with tholr neighbors. Hut a little whilo before my arrival a successful "bag" of captives had been made, , feast Inul taken place, and, gj a relic of the abundance, thoro was a smoke-dried human leg hanging from the rafters In tho chiefs nut where I sat and parleyed, which swayed to and fro over tho smoking brands on tho clay hearth. Lower down the Cross river, in tho district of r-.m. Court of the Ibo country), about Iiii;w v I the most cold-blooded cannibalism is rinit to exist which I hnvo ever iv .. . t. . , i heard of. Youths are purchased at tho interior slave markets, and are dealt with as we deal with tho young sheep and oxen which wo turn into wethers ! and bullocks are deliberately unsoxed io that they may fatten quicker, and arethon fed upon yams and nourishing food till thoy are ready for tho feast. : Horrible and incredible as this state ment may appear, it is one that I mako on good authority'; and this phase of cannibalism has also, 1 bollovo, come under tho notice of certain traders and who missionaries of old Calabar have visited tho dis dot I sneak of. There is little doubt that tho abrupt cossation of the exportation of slaves, which was brought about on the west coast of Africa by British intervention, tem porarily increased the prevalence of cannibalism in the Oil rivers and Niger delta. Having no longer a profitable market for their war captives and criminals, tho natives havo found it more convenient toconsumo them than to lot them oat the bread of idleness and cumber the ground; for tho do mestic slaves in these parts soomingly will not work for their living; thoy oppose to all throats and coercion a doggod resistance of stubborn idleness that nothing can overcome. Slavo la bor In Africa is a brokon rood to rely on. Wo want the vigorous, choerful work of free, willing men like Kruboys and Zunzibaris. H. H. Johnston, in Fortnightly Review. MARRIAGES THAT FAILED. Period of Divorce Statistics Covering Twenty learn. The total number of divorces grant ed during the twenty years in each of the several States, and tho numbor of married couples to ono divorce in each during the years 1870 and 1880, are given as follows: . M Iff? t States. : 8 : ML - Q ' IST0. llHWL Alatwn.il Anion Arkunsot California Colorado Connecticut Dakota Dataware Dinrlct ot Columbia. Florida Georula Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansaa Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts M chtgan Minnesota Missliilppl Missouri Montana Nebraaka Nevada. New Hampshire New Jersey New Merloo New York North Carolina. Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina. Tennesaee Tiaa rtab Vermont Viriflnla Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming United Statea 5.9)4 n In M HI IM 841 M '.'17 1,09 I 810 S 5 ifia SMii 3.II8T by-.' 1,0K7 USD ia,fc!7 S.S41 1.10. ,V8 2.1-.H Ml 3, 9f.il Still 36,ir?J ,1!IS lt),MU l.Hdrt mi 407 71 m at (178 4,579 :1 1,7 7 6S1 1.1M M 271 M s Ml 7.1111 liVJiS I.IV.tT 1,8'J H.II --"I LISS is. in 1.S8I Ml 403 l.ool 1,810 Ml M log in at 170 I5,irrs taj 71 s,ren 1,1. 4.(179 774 in JB5 lfj,iCTS,615 15.S.-.5 I, IBS LIB .151 I. '.) s .'1,1 Id v, 907 M 175 sr.l in I 0 118 pet m IB! MM 8 IB.ll (I 1,'tJS M t'18 83. 94!) I. I'll If. I 11.4 4,078 r.'.'i'- IS 3M H73 1.71! 17!' 8.SM 9.9SR 4I 1.041 IN i'-,i 17! 179 SOT US 861 Setting the Matter Right Magistrate (to elderly witness) Your age, madam P Witness Thirty. Magistrate Thirty whatr Witness Years. Magistrate Thanka I thought it might be months. Harper'a Bazaar. A estern paper tells of a dog that after having been whipped in a fight deliberately laid himself down on a railroad track and permitted a train to kill him. Really, our whipped prize fighters don't seem to have as much sense as a dog. They prefer to take another whipping. I. Y. Ledger. -The twin brothers at the Mountain House were singing a duet "Ot we two were Maying." they warbled iweetly. "Poh!" said the sarcastic vniino. ta.1 ir Vf.i.'v mixed UP the months. -Oh. that you two were nri ttuuntin.Ai.int th community." "tircning wouta more bj -- - Harper's Bazar. " THE RUSSIAN POLICE. Aceor.llii Mr. Kennen ,,, chat arterl.llr I. Illahonestj. In a reeont looturu in Boston. Mr. George Kennen referred as follow to am rtusaian DO IMS: .11. . II - M Russia control, by menus of passorts, the movements of all the Inhabitants of the Empire, keep thousands of sus pects' constantly under control, and ceruiy J certify to the courU the liabilities ol iney conduct pawnbrok- nauKrupls. I V .itHiiuB nun eiiiorcc sanitiry regulations, make searches in private houses, read the corresKnd eneo of -suspects,' give certificates to identify pensioners, admonish church members who neglect too long to partake of the holy com munion, and enforce obedience to thousands of multifarious orders and regulations. It is hardly an exagger ation to sny that in the peasant vil lages of Siberia, away from the cen ters ol enlightenment and education, tho police are tho omnipresent and om nipotent regulators of every thing a sort of bureaucratic substitute for Di vine Providence. The police of Rus sia are divided into four classes: The rural police, the common metropolitan police of the cities, the detective and secret police, and the genitiirmc.i. The strongest class numerically is that of the rural police, who enforce tho or ders of the Government In the peasant villages. According to a ree.mtly-pub-lished statement, there are in the forty-seven provinces of European Russia SWtlOO to.vns and villages where intoxicating liquors are sold at retail. If we suppose that for every such village there are two polico olll cers, which, perhaps, is not an over estimate, wo have an army of over .V.HI.O K) men in this one class, without iiieludine Siberia oranv Dart of Asiatic Russia. The rural police are divid into lan. or stations. Thev wear a uniform, and are armed with a saber anc and revolver. Their salaries are from $75 to $118) per year tor a private and $800 for the chief of district. The natural result is that the rural police represent the worst elements of the whole population. A large proportion of them are ignorant and stupid. Those who have brains are generally dishon est und use the orders of the Minister of the Interior in Innumerable in stances (0 extort money from the peas ants." The lecturer asserted that bribery wus almost universal among the otll cials. An instance of this was as fol lows: 111 every village there was gen amltv one Jewish capitalist At a - rf . time when the peaannta were about to float their wheat to market on barges, one of these capitalists proposed to the offlota that when the peasants applied to him for their passports to enable them to travel to the market, he should tell them that they had been sent to the department for renewal, or invent some other excuse to prevent the peaaantl from traveling. Then bo (the capitalist) would buy their wheat at homo for about half Us value, and divide up tho profits with him. To this the official agreed, and the scheme was carried out, with the result that the peasants became discouraged, and agriculture declined. 'Next to tho rural police in numer iotil strength, and far above them in Intellect and power," said the lecturer, "are tho secret police of Russia, who are to bo found everywhere through out the Immense Empire, and who are most numerous in the large cities. A great part of their work consists in maintaining supervision over persons who are suspected of sympathizing with tho revolutionary movement. The number of persons under super vision when tho last Czar came to the throne was Officially reported to bo g;887 i" European Russia, besides about 2,000 in Siberia, all of the latter polit ical exiles. Tho number is probably much greater now. All these aro un do open surveillance; they know the police are watching them, and that their correspondence ia under con trol. "-Ki'ank Leslie's Weekly. Honesty Finds Its Reward. Some time ago a wealthy man died in Brussels, leaving nearly his entire fortuno to ayoiing woman whe was en tirely unacquainted with him. The American Art Printer explains that this is how it came to pass: He was a very eccentric man, and sot out like Diogenes, in search of an honest man. His tub was an omnibus, and his lan tern a small coin. Ia the omnibus he usod to take his seat every day near the conductor, and always showed him self very obliging in passing up tho money of passengers and returning the change,.but to tho latter bo always managed to add a franc or half franc. Then he would watch those to whom it came. They would count it careful ly, notice the extra coin, and invaria bly slip it into their pockets. No one thought of the poor conductor, whose maager salary of three francs a day could ill support such a loss. But at Inst a young woman passed hers back with "Conductor, you have given me half a franc too much." Diogenes, de lighted, followed her home, made In quiries, and. as the answers were sat isfactorv. made his will In her favor though 'he never gave her warning that her half franc was going to bring hei half a million. ! Know my defect!," said B-jen-kins. pompously, and as the bystanders looked at him admiringly, one of them whispered to another sotly: "Whal M awful lot that man must know. -Somerville Journal. Mrs Tulker-'-l'msiek to-day and want you to tell the doctor to come up -m vour way down town and- - Mr. T '(interrupting)-"Whats the mat, ' I. Mn. t.-"I think I'm going to have the dumb ague." Mr. T. (going out, --Thank henven."-W ash.ngton The larger class of destructive wild animals are numerous in New HaXbft SIMM ranchmen losing fifteen . ...ntv ner cent ot meir uiC - - . . ; ,Har!i . panthers and mountain . - -.i i "I" uitiinu mountain lions $2 .i Thu termor a-" r mlums tor . ms lor " M bead, fr bears and panthers f 1 per BOLD ADVENTURERS. On I . pr l . Moft uil rollsheil, tn Oft Kough ami Carrie, Adventurer are of two types the polished and well-bred, and the bluff And rather brutal. The one glides softly from the pavement to the draw ing room, treading on no ono's corns, and corkscrewing his way through all uch openings as he may discern. The ither shoulders his way, and effects by simple push and force what else is done by craft and tenacity. The ad venturer of tho softer type has been a croupier, a nr h r..ntlt.m)in'a gentleman; whereby he ha picked up me current snitit.oit tti, and been aoie to assume the outside varnish of the upper ten. The adventurer of the rougher type has been anioiur miners and cowboys, and has probably served in some half piratical armv. where tho object was less self-defense than plun der. and the discipline meant onlv readiness to fight on all occasions, which experience, if properly managed, gives a certain wild fruit flavor to his talk, a certain heroic seeming to his bearing, which sweeps the heart out of women cursed with imagination and bored to extinction by realities. For till. Hl.'ltllh.in IrtiniB. I... Ml .1.. ....lit. ing without the women. Hrought to the ! Anna ,.i iv, u.... k- .w ... i. must bo helpod over tho threshold by the mistress, as the evil spirits of old were helped across by a baptized hand, ulsocould they not have entered a Chris tian home. The woman must be tho adventurer's unconscious but willing accomplice if he would succeed in his designs. Whatever it may bo that bo has set himself to win, she must be tho goddess Fortune to take him by tho hand; and if she does not his plans will til bo shipwrecked. Hence, he has teamen tne art 01 lujiKing love, as one ; , ... i sv i v . . u t ' ularitv to bo fed. f it does not, as cer must loam the alphabet before master-: ' ... ,, , , , tnii.lv mm I'vciilua Iv be tho ease, know itur the literature: and of all the skilled and skillful adventurers discovered to us by justice there has not been one who was not beloved by woman. We have just seen a most striking instance of this with tho man Prado, who, ap parently without a single physical qual ification, was the master of women as the hawk is the master of tho chickens, j When of the softer type, he makes love sentimentally and flatters his adored ones by artful comparisons. Ho has i known divine Duchesses and Countesses that wero like dreams of beauty, but tins special cniirm. mis particular ue- ,. , . , , , fhtfu Hess, has henover known, and 7? . , . , . . his whole being pass homage as lie ,, . .. . , , never paid it before. Hut if ho is of ,. 1 . . . , . , the rough and more brutal typo . "a. ... u - he rouses her enthusiasm by a ,, ... . , , , narrnt vo of his various feats of daring, and probably poses as a man whom lovo has passed coldly by until now. In any case, he knows his ground and tho best method of tillage. And ho seldom fails or mnkes a mistake. For he has tho magic of temperament as well as tho halo of romance; and, together, these aro as golden chains which lead women captive whitherso ever tho man will. And the adven turer wills to lead them very far down indeed. The first necessity with him is to induce some ono of good family and position to compromise herself with him; when, with this irresistible pull on her, all tho rest is easy. Feur, shame, perhaps remorse, come in when the glamour of the first infatuation is over; the woman who has been a de voted lover, friend and helper, becomes by force, though the loathing victim, both slave and accomplice. The world has never known the screw that lias heen nut on certain women by tho men whose fortunos thoy have made. It will never know tho truth in some eases, where tho M' -rot, well kept In life, is now rendered undiscoverable by death. But strange romances havo been woven between the weakness that gave and tho strength that held be tween tho love that trusted and the dishonor that utilized. St. James' Budget AN ADMIRABLE WOMAN. Tha Confession of th Ugly ' "" tMatlwa nurlmsa o( Orleans. Perhaps no lady was ever bettor rec onciled to positive ugliness in her own person than tho Uuchess of (Jrleans, the mother of the Regent D'Orleans, who governed Frame during tho mi- noritvof Louis XV. I bus she speaks of her own appearance and manners: "From my earliest years i was aware how ordinary my appearance was, and did not like that people should look at me attentively. 1 never paid any at tention to dress, bocauso diamonds and dress wero sure to attract attention. On great days my husband used to mnke me rouiro. which I did greatly against my will, as I hato every thing that incommodes me. une day i maue the Countess Soissoni laugh heartily. Sho asked mo why 1 never turned my bead whenever 1 passed beforo a mir roreverybody else did. 1 answered, because 1 had too much self-love to bear the sight of my own ugliness. 1 must have been very ugly in my youth. I had no sort of features; with little twinkling eyes, a short snub noso, and long thick lips, the whole of my physi ognomy was far from attractive. My face was large, with fat cheeks, and my figure was short and stumpy; in short, I was a very homely sort of per son. Except for the goodness of my disposition no one would have endured me. it w as impossible to discover any thing like intelligence in my eyes, ex cept with a microscope. Perhaps there was not on the face of the earth lucb another pair of ugly hands aa mine. The King often told me so, and set me laughing about it; for as I was quite lure of being very ugly, 1 made up my mind to be always the first to laugh at it This succeeded very well, though I must confess it furnished me with a good stock of materials for laughter." Z-y Y. Ledger. Every man likes to talk about himself, a good listener makes a de Ightful wife. Louisville Recorder. Say," said the city youth to the modest countryman, "hay-seed out o' your hair yet?" "Wal," was the de liberate reply, "I jedge not from the way the oalves run after me." The average club man cares very little about music. If he can only rtrike the key of the door with reason able accuracy he is content Burling ton Free Press. FACTS ABOUT GULLS. IMIhlg In Reliable Authority They Art Kir. I. nl Ureal haraiter, The gull may bo said to be omnivor ous; nothing. Indeed, apparently comci amiss. It will devour small lish. and for this reason Is very fond of follow mi nun I tlft'll in IVNVH I . . .. II a- i: .1 vetsol for the feast to bo obtained .. .i-.i.!- II' l lilt" li-ll' I HI' 'I - r- vtmw their nets mollusks and crustacean! which it finds left by the tide, and, one of its greatest feasts perhaps, the scraps and offal thrown overboard from the cook's galley of a passing ship. So fond, indeed, are the gulls of the meal provided them by the refuse thrown overboard from ships that they will, in a hartMir where a guardship Is moored, apparently observing times and seasons, attend daily with the greatest regularity for the food they know will be supplied to theiv. In addition they will, as we have said, wander far in land in search of worms ami grubs, and when so engaged will not even ilUil.tin on occasion to help themselves to the farmer's grain, though this can not be said in any way to lie their natural food. That a gull, however, can live entirely on corn Is proved bv the fact that tho stomach of 0,16 80 kept Df now preserved in John Hunter Is the museum of the College of Surgeons, (lulls make excellent pets, and are most use ful in gardens, having an illimitable appetite for slugs and a general apti tude for devouring obnoxious Insects. And, strange though it maf appear, considering their natural wariness and wlldness, it I not necessary to obtain them young, as an adult bird, pinioned by a good or lucky shot as the case may be, will, often before its wound his thoroughly healed, havo become so tame that it will come with great rvf and follow the person who la In the habit of feeding it. Gulls In captivity, or rather wandering at largo in a garden, though deprived of their power of flight, are by no means tho misera ble birds that many would imagine. On the contrary, they am most master ful, and evidently consider themselves of very groat importance. Thoy will generally BOOdetOend to notice all the memberi of the household to which they belong, though naturally they have their favorites, giving their pref erence as a rule to those who feed , .,, .. , . ,, ..... them, and will possibly admit certain '""'" t - ...... we -known visitors to a limited in- . .... ,, , ,w- i t inacv; but thoy usually resent the in- . .. 1 . ,v , . trusion of strangers, even to the extent . .,,,. , of pecking their heels a far from , v , . ... . peasant operation fertile vietim.es- 1 1 , , , , , paelally if performed by a specimen of une of the laruer culls. They are, in fact, birds of great character, each in dividual having ways ot its own. The Saturday Keview. FUNERAL REFORMS. Some Snialld KiikksI("' Offered by a Ht. I.mila ClliUjaaaii The custom of inviting tl audience at private anil public (or church) fu nerals to view the remains Is too firmly seated to be easily displaced, but is nevertheless objectionable on several grounds. It causes great delay, which, on short winter afternoons, is a matter of consequence to those who wish to follow the remains to a distant ceme tery. It is also productive, especially when the services are conducted in tho house of deceased, of an amount of con fusion and jostling which must disa greeably affect all persons who love to see things dono decently nnd in order. It is, moreover, a fresh torture to the bereaved ones, who aro expected to lead off in tho sad procession, to look on the white face and pulseless form. Some not satisfied with a view of the face through tho glass of tho caskot, must see the uncovered features. Then frequently ensues a spectacle which must send a shudder through every In telligent nerson. I moan tho passionate kissing of tho lips of a corpse by those too young or too ignorant to know that they are perhaps absorbing diseaso oi doath. Funerals ought to be conducted with solemn brevity. A tender hymn or two. a prayer by tho officiating clergyman, and a brief talk pertUWBl to the life and examplo of the deceased, if a person of approved Christian ex perience, are sufficient Of course, ox traets from the Scriptures, If not too lengthy, are always In good tasto. The burial service of the Protestant Epis copal Church can not. In my judgment bo Improved, unless it be in the slight shortening of tho long quotation fron First Corinthians, fllteenth chapter. Tho popular desiro for short religious services Is making itself felt in the funeral exercises more wisely than In tho unreasonable clamor for hurrying un UriUM on Sunday. In the lat'. W case, especially In tho forenoou service, selfishness is usually the prompter. Nothing is so piggishly unreasonable as a hungry human tieing. But In the mortuary services tho motive is a good one to take the bereaved as rapidly as possible off the tenter-hooks of aftlic tlon. No person of refined sensibllltiei wishes to make a spectacle of his un speakable agonies. Rev. J. U. Fox, in St Louis Olobo-Democrat There is a discussion among phy sicians In England as to whether or not ill health Is a necessary accom paniment of genius. It Is supposed by some that the type of humanity which bestows tho rare boon of genius or luperlative intellectual power is uiu ally associated with feebleness of phys ical development Other! maintain that tho mode of life usually adopted by great geniuses is the cause oi tiioir ill health. No one ever hears any thing about the ill health of Shakes peare; so It is reasonable to suppose that both hiscon-titutionand his mods of life were irood. -Concerning lobsters, experts say that young crustaceans havo to be put in the sea almost as soon aa hatebed, and they begin to feed voraciously. They are born with seuse enough to know that lobsters mako delioioui food, and they attack one another savagely and hungrily. For a few days they swim on the surface, where they find the food suited to their early requirements. Here their destruction is enormous. In a few days the lob ster's walking or crawling members are developed, and he sinks to the bot tom, where he make his home. MISCELLANEOUS. A reputable author says that tho ikull of John Thoathi known aa "Hlacklienrd." the Virginia plrato of 17l. is in the possession of a Virginia family in the form of a silver-trimmed - i i 'i k . 1 1 1 -, i 1 i u,t against a popular music hall artiHl lmvi'H information nlHuit tbl prices paid for songs. The highest puce was CJU0 for "Me Hon t Maul to Fight." "Two Lovely Black Flycs" brought '.'1. Nun ah hee. a ltoston ( hlnaman of wealth and Influence and husband of one of the two Chines., women at tho Hub. Intel v celebrated the birth of hll ion and heir by giving a banquet to 700 of his coiintrvmen. He entertained his iruests at bis bouse and store vith lea and Celestial delicacies, which a Chinese caterer furnished to the tune of ,'! a plate. The youthful Koo has boon named Ames Hart after tho Governor Ol tha State and the newly elected mayor of the city. An instance of presence of mind approaching to the horrible occurred recently in tho (Jrand Theater, Clas gow. MissKose LatV while singing love song, saw a "flyman" fall head foremost from the flies to the stage, a distance of twenty-two feet. She not only continued her song, but moved forward to the front of the stage in or der that the calcium light which was directed upon her might not reveal the form of the dead man to tho audientie, Most of you know that aqua pura II often an expensive item in the prescrip tion which tho druggist obligingly fills. A doctor of my acquaintance has a way of saving his patients' money in this matter, which strikes me as very original. When he wrote out a pre scription for me tho other day 1 re marked to him that medicine was a very expensive luxury. He astonished tne by asking in retuiMi: "Have you paid your water tax?" "Yes," said I. "Have you plenty of watorf "lea. "Then 1 will irlve you the prescription dry and It will cost you throe cents instead of seventy-live cents. auu i found the doctor was right Pitts burgh Dispatch. TRAINING WILD BIRDS. 11... II ('at. lie Dour Without Caging til Kealhrri.il lieauiira. Some vears airo 1 lived with my fam lly in a suburb, a homo where birds of many species abounded. 1 lie nouso was surrounded with forest trees, and the birds built nests and reared their young unmolested. My daughter, who was then a cirl of ten years, took spec ial enjoyment in feeding the birds by mutt no out crumbs from the tame She never frightened them, but always moved slowly. P.itl manifested great imntlnnnsM and kindness toward them By the walk from the front door to the at root was an everirreeti bush. In this i.i. Ir nt robins built their nest about f,,,,,. f..,.l from Ibo fftmund. Bv this neat I dullv nasscd ami repassed. Ink lug oara not to disturb the bird which was hatchinir out her young, ninny times a day my daughter approached the nest, but cautiously avoided (lis turbing the bird. So familiar bad her presence become that the robin would sit on her nest till almost touciieu oy my daughter's haiul. When the young wero batched, then her delight was unbounded, and sho began to feed them ..t.iiT.ilw from the table and worms which she searched for in the yard and L'lirden. Between the care of the par ent birds and that of m.V daughter, II natllnin fattened and L't'ew with raoiditv. Soon tho little ones rocog ni.ed my daughter's presence, aud it i. 1 1 1 1 iv ill i their voracious mouths for the dainty bits sho had provided for them. When they were full-fledged .ml rend v to leave the nest they sul) mitted to being bundled and caressed without resistnnce, and would follow her around the yard as chickens follow the mother hen. If the pair, there were two of them, were up in the trees, she would cull. "Kobio! Koliie! Robie! and they would fly to her as read- II v as chickens. Not only would thoy follow my daughter, but they soon be came attached to me. and would ollon come at mv call and perch on my hand or knees, and swallow the earthworms rhlon I had duir for them. They con tlnued with us on terms of perfect r..,....UI. in for about SIX weeks. t.Sltl weather came on. anil they left for a warmer clime and we saw mem nu more. -William D. Butler, in thoSwlis Cross. The Mosquito"! Poiion Gland! Tbi. bloodthirsty mosuuito il not malevolent as ho ii commonly do- .ei-il.e.1 if we mav accent the Invostl gations of PrOf. George MncLoskle. He h.. been able bv staining, und dlsBCC- tion, to show that the poison gland is one of three minute glands (the other! being ordinary salivary glands) on nith side of the head, and connected with a minute duct which traverses the length of the long pointed piercer ashlnh forma un liwtortant portion ol ill nturU of th moHiiuIto. The ii i t , t umi n ti. Ina that this fluid il ln tended mainlv to prevont the coagula tion of tho proteids of plants which th animal sucks from tho tissues, and thai its poisonous effect upon other unimall ii only secondary. II so, n wouiu per hfltifl follow that it ii not introduced nt.1 tVin llllIIlAn flesh as a poison. It ll difficult to see what purpose tho irrl- latintr effect of the bite Upon OtlKT atll mals can servo the mosquito, since il moat make the chance of Its getting nourishment from the blood of other animals many times losi than It other wise would be. It may bo wormy oi in nulrv whether the irritating effect ll " e ... ..... w ae wo.iet i" it iuj w .-- m.t Incidental and perhaps only occa sional, and due to othor causes than tho fluid which soeras, by analogy, to have another distinct purpose. St Louu hV public. Domingo, the Spanlah painter, long realdentln Paris, for whose work Immense prices have ruled these many years, has hod the honor of painting the baby King of Spain and his mother, the Queen Regent, receiving for the former $i.XU The oldest sovereign is Pope Leo XIII-. seventy-eight years; the young est, the King of Spain, not yet three. m Uhina people In easy clrcum itances buy their cofflni long bofori they need them, ana exninii tueiu vruaineuUl piece! Of furniture. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHY. The Wl.ratatone Mysletn anil lis Ingenlowa ami fiailllll Inventor. Prof. WheaUtoiie. of Klng'i College, bunion, waa ono of the several DtltOM a lio In 1H.'17 claimed tho honor of hav ing invented the electric telegraph. He lrst upplitHl for a patent for making :ho electro-magnet act at long dis tances. In July, 117, wires wero laid low ii from Euiton Square to Camden Town Station, In I.ondon, nnd Prof. vYhontstono sent tho first message to Mr. Cooke, his coadjutor In tho work, iet ii een the two stations. The Inven tion was immediately patented, both in Knglnnd and America, and It Is stated u a curious fact that the American patent granted to Wheat stone & Cooke ia earlier in date by just ten days llian the Brat patent obtained by Morse. Prof. Wbeatslone has made many Id volitions nnd improvement in electri- al machines. In IKK) ho constructed I he first electrical machine for sending several niossiiiros at once. The tele- raph apparatus now used throughout Ureal Britain was Invented ly I roi. rVhaaUtOM We can not givo the full I. 'tails of its construction, but may briefly outline It thus: It Includes a punching mnchlno for producing the perforated strips of paper, a trusmittlni aooaratw through which litest, strips aro rapidly pnssed, and a receiving device which marks on an other strip dots and dashes in ink. fha punching machine will make the holes ill three or even four strips at a time, and in the bands of nn experi enced operator ill punch at toe rate of forty wortls a minute. When the pa per is prepared, it Is run through the transmitter, which oieratos to establish a current whenever certain moving roils can pass through the holes and estalt- lish a contact, the currents being alter nately positive ami negative. If a suc cession of currents in reverse directions are caused to pass umiu the line, the ecelver at the opposite end will record series of dot, lo make a dash, one reversal of the current Is missed; and, In brief, the function of tho paper Is to ri.L'iilate the motion of the transmitter so as to produce reversal or missing of reversal, of tho current at the proper moments, and thus cause the current to form. In its movement dots ami dashes The speed la determined by the tate at which the receiver can receive, liecnuso the apparatus contains a controlling electro-niagiiet, which lakes time to be magnetised Mt) demagnetized, and hence, If the current rsvorsos too qiilck- v, tho n ar'is will run together tiisleatl nl be Inn s eat lite mid distinct, the maximum useful speed Is alxnit ISO words a minute on a short lino. One strip of punched ribbon will do for any number of circuits, so that from a cen tral station a slng'o strip disseminates news U) many places. ( hlcngo Inlor- I Venn. DUTCH WIND-MILLS. Hlrurtiirea That Keen, lo Hum Up tlte Whole LUs r llollnuil. In soma wnv mills aro among tin moil suggostlvo things In Holland; the seem to sum up tho whole life of tin otintrv. It Is hard to dolino lliooxnct ninrosslon they produce; one almost unconsciously assigns to each mill ati existence of Its own, as If no mere ran- lilnn could onuso the swift rhythmical motion of tho sails, that impetuous yol irilnred cntlenco which seems to brine ino Into contact with the living RJfOH of nature. It is perhaps this Intimate issociation with natuie which gives ti: tho wlnd-m'll Its peculiar charm. Tin strong outline of the sails thrown up igalnstn wind-swept sy carries tin magtaatiOO from Iha city lo the lonely lelds. It suggests ihut poetry of soli tude, evon of desolation, which all painters since Hembrantlt seem to have clt to Ihi the distinctive note ot UK vltid-mlll. Ono of the moat curloui ilghta In Rotterdam nro tho wlnd-mlllf lsing here and thoro out of tho blocki ,f houses, standlnu like a countryman fresh from tho field, and hodgorows In in midst of a crowded city. Ibo Itulcl mills almost reach tho dignity of arch! i-eturo. They seem lo possoss that fit ous happiness of design which l( mly reached by tho conscious thought a Hk ii architect, or cist ly the spontaneous working of nature. very thing seems just right, Just wliai ought to 1st, no more ami no less, mi nil-mills at Donll. are used either lot siutitiL' timber or gi intiin'.'eoru, am. tho two tyos aro very distinct int timber mills start from a wiiinro sing bur bawina uDward. with gablo wlngi at either end; at tho top of this stage tho four angles aro cbamTored back U rocolvo the octagon of the mill Itself: nnd at thla level a broad projecting gallery, upheld by timber struts, rum round the mill. 1 ho upper part is oc tagon, and usually covered with weath er tiles or a loft velvety thatch, whloh sets off the sharply-defined lines of th sails and tho great spars by which th top is moved. For somo oxcellent rea son the linos of Uio oight alights of the mill aro not made straight but have h delicate concave curve Tho Dutch builders always had a fooling for the value of a curved line In preference te a i Min.lifht: the same Instinct nptiears In th Ho Heches lo their churches, where th( lid ,les of tho octiwon splro usually have slight curve on tho face Inward. Th a i toi ip of tho mills which carrlos tho sain Is (' overod with thatch. It Is more oi loss circular In plan, and of an Inde acrlbable but most offoctlve form, such at only thatch could cover. Knglish Il lustrated Miura.lno. If church bells did not rinif no one would remember that It was Sunday tin..... .1 .1... I I. .'..till lhiit's whv they rlnif. and it prevents lots of men from starting out with fish polos. Detroit Free Proas. -The tiforaffe hotel clerk knows al most every thing, but he can't tell why i womnn will persist in asking wnal time the five o'clock train leaves. Hotel Mail. Mrs. Hinks -"Ha your daughter made a good mateh?" Mrs. Winks- She married a nice man. "Hloii ber heart. And so iho married rich? Rich?" 'Yea; you aaid sho married an ice man." Omaha World. Wont vou (five my new play a good puff?'' asked an author of a dra matic critic. I hardly think It would be safe." "Whv not?" "Well, it'i SO weak that a puff would blow it to pieces N. Y. Sun. EAST AFRICAN MISSIONS. The romprelmnalve Work Carried On by I roteatant a..l OatMHa Cliurehaa. Missionary Interests have become very extensive In Kuat Africa. The Church MUslonary Society and the Uulversltlos Mission, of tho Church of Knglnnd; the Established and the Free Church, of Scotland; tho London Mls ilonary Society, tho United Methodist Free Churches and tho Church of Romo, all have missions on tho coast or In tho Interior. The Church Missionary Society has two distinct llnesof mlsslons-ono with It basis at Mombasa, In the Kngllsh Sphoro of Influonee. with eight sta tions, somo of which aro on or near tho coast and somo in tho interior. Ono is in tho neighborhood of Mount Kilimanjaro. Tho second lino of stv lions is that which strotehes from Ziui tlbar to Uganda. There aro nine sta tions in this line, beginning with Mam bola and Mpwapwa, nearly due west (rem Zanzibar, ami Including Usam- biro, Msalala and Nasa, south of tho Vieioria Nvan.a, and Kubiiga, in Ugan da, at tho north of tho great lake. TI.,. I'nivHrsllies Mission has twolvo tiitii.iis one at Zanzibar, four In tho Dtambara country north of Zanzibar, four on or near tho Kivor Kovuma, and tim e on thoeaat shore of Lake Nyaa The two Scottish churches have tho Free Church live stations on Lake Nyassa. the Established Church ono Mi Lake Shirwa, at tho south of Lake Nvnssa. Tho routo to this region Is by the Zambesi and Shiro rivers The liondon Society goes lurtnor west than any of the other societies, and plant two station on Lake l'anirnnvika and one at Urambo in tho fjnyamweal country, south of Iha Vic toria Nyan.a, and near tho stations oi tho Church Missionary Society. Tho route was formerly from Zanzibar trough Mpwapwa to Ujiji; now thoro li another route by the Zambesi and Shire, Lake Nyassa and a road thence to tho louthern end of Lako Tangan yika. Tho United Methodist Free Churches havo two missions In tho Mombasa region and one In Uallalaud. Threo (Ionium Protestant sooletles havo Hvo stations throe In Gallaland, ne In Zatulbar and ono in Dar-os-ialain, whore ono of the massacres took place. It Is tho Merlin Society which maintains tho last two stations. Those aro all the Protestant missions between Wlto and tho Kovuma river; but there aro (ierman ami rroucn Roman Catholic stations There are three French stations on or near Lako Victoria, tho most important of which I tho ono In Urganda, under tho con trol of Pero Lourdol; two on Ijiko I'anL'anvlka; ono at llagamoyo, near Zanzibar, and ono or two othora. The lesuits havo also a few stations, and Iha l ierman Catholics have onoatDar- n ftalarn. In all. there aro thirteen missions tlx British, four (ierman and three Froneh. Ono society, tho Church Mis sionary, alono ha spent five hundred thousand dollar- In the last thirty yoars In East Africa. N. X. Indopondont HOW SPIDERS GROW. Curious raela About the Uvea of th Io- teretlng I.lttle rrealurea. The spider ha never boon at ichool l day in his life, ho ha never loarnod l trade or read a oook, yet no cun siako this straiL'htest lines, most per fect circles, beautiful little bridge, and many of bis family can spin and woavo. tome of ihrin can hunt, and swim, and ilve, and do mason work almost aa well as If thoy had a trowel and mor tar. There Is a spider In my garden that makes so many lines and circle you'd think It had been all through geometry. It makes circles, ovory ono a little larger than the other, about twelvo of thorn, and then from the imnllet clrclo begin and makes about twonty-olght straight linos going to tho outside circle, like tho whalebones in an umbrella. It makes this web io porfoct and regular that It Is called the goomotrlo spldor. You'll see lato In tho Buminor cluster of Ms eggs on bushes and hedge. When hatched the ipldors will keep together In a Ittlo ball. You touch this ball and the llttlo spiders will scatter In all direc tions, but a soon as thoy can they'll got togother again as before. I left eiy silk dress last night hanging over a chair near the wall, and this morn ing I found that Mrs. Spldor had been tliera In the nlirht and made a beauti ful llttlo bridge of spider silk between my dress and the wall. The spider that nuulo this bridge for mo had eight lyes. It can not inovo any of these lyoi; each eye has but one lens and can only boo what Is dlreotly In front of It ft had a pair of sharp claws on tha fore part of lta he'ad; with these little pincers it catches other smaller anldem. Whon the solder Is at rest It folds theso little claws ono over the other, like tho parts of scissors, lhls plder has eight feet; moit insects, vou know, have six. At the end of each foot is a movable hook. It haa five llttlo spinneri, or spinnerets, with which to make it web. Each of these spinners has an opening which It can mako largo or small, aa It likes. There U a tube like a little hall com municating into each of these open ings. In this tube are four little r..sirvolrs. which hold tho "gluey lubslanco of which the thread li ipun." As soon ns this Itiuld come to tne air It becomes a tough and strong thread. I suppoio the air acts upon It in soma way.5-(rowinf Airav A certain actress, says stammering can be cured by gently, but firmly iqueezlng tho band between words. Tho name of the young man who cured the adv not if I von. the remedy may effect a cure evory time, but heart affectum mav fol ow. If the patient is vnunr and nrettv and that Is more dangorqps than stammering. Norris- town Herald. -Harry (horrified at seeing Kate puffing at cigarette) "Mercy! Do you imoke, Kate?" Kate "Not be cause I enjoy it, Harry. I want to fill tho rooms with smoke so that shorna a burglar break in, he'll think there s man In tho house." Harry "Well, you're only losing your time and soil ing your lips. A man nerer smokes cigarettes leastwise no man that a burglar need be afraid of." -Bostou Transcript