CANNIBALS.
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Tbe' ! the tribe beyond them. I " 8'1108. 0 ' "nrodeeumd pledges, su
KITS were at war. Their '. ..Tt
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r'-'lrunce. with its tidy plantations of
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banana, and the large herds of sleek
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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.
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the several States, and tho numbor of
married couples to ono divorce in each
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Arkunsot
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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
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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-
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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
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