The Democratic times., February 20, 1890, Image 2

' was paid out of French hoards. An
I fee'-sur'e" iliyTdd i rlend tho'roughty be-
THE COLOR OF BIRDS.
ax-Governor of the Bank of England,
: iieved all this—he is too old to have
in his evidence before the Bimet- How It May Be Affected by the Use ol studied biology at a board school or he
The Famou« Parí«« Burial Ground in the
Cayena, 1‘epp.r.
City of Bombay.
alism Commission, estimates the con­
might be wiser. Perhaps this belief is
Dr. Sauermann, whose high reputa­ held elsewhere, but I do not remember
‘•How many p«*opl«, I wonder, who
tribution from hoards as equal to two-
tion
among
the
physological
societies
have visited the fair city of Bombay
thirds of the amount of the Indemnity,
ever meeting with it before.—Bp“
. have thought of inspecting the famous
(n illustration of peasant hoarding he of the world gives great weight to his tator.
-—
Párs^é burial ground?’’ writes the cele­
related how one of the leading French conclusions, has lately made a series of
—Out in Nevada electricity rims the
Mint Have Been False.
brated novelist M. Petrocokino. “Few
bankers told him that at the time of the investigations into the effect that cay­
very deep mines and has increased pro­
indeed have done so if report be cor­
Little Roger Uncle John, i heard liege of Paris he left Paris to go and enne pepper has upon birds, fowls,
rect, but those few, 1 am sure, have papa say you got pretty well soaked (look at his estate in the neighborhood. pigeons, and other species of the feath­ duction 25 per cent The men who
• ' been amply repaid by the sight of these last night. Did it rain very hard?
He went up to one of the peasants and ered family. These in vestigatious wo.-e 1 work 3,100 feet deep live about two
years, notwithstanding the fact that
wonderful and awe-inspiring towers.
Uncle John (with a sickly smile)—1 told him that be had just come out to undertaken in connection with the ob­ they work only two hours per day.
In no cemetery, in no burning ghaut, don't exactly remember, Roger; I know look after his affairs, and that he was served fact that canaries fed with cay­
have i ever felt the sensation I experi- 1 was dry enough eurly in the evening. very anxious to pay his people their enne pepper acquired a ruddy plumage They get more pay than the eight-hour
' enced bn visiting this strange place. -Puck-
wages, but that under the circumstances, This diet was found only to produce the ' men. They work fifteen minutes and
Words fail to express the awe and
tie had no money.
The peasant said: effect stated upon young birds when i rest fortv-five^^^__
dread that seized me as I stood in the
. “If 40,000 francs (£1,600) ars any good 1 given to them belore they moulted. The
NATURAL PAVILIONS.
lovely grounds amid the waving palms
to you, I have got them in a stocking color of the feathers of the old birds RELIGIOUS AND EDUCAflONAL.
and sweet-scented tropical plants out of Mammoth Trees with Many Trunk*—The I1 der my bed, and I will go and fetch was not affected at all. although a con­
—The 30,000 Christian nations of the
which arise, bold and defiant, the white,
Bunlau Described by Nearchu*.
them.'* They were in gold coin. These siderable amount of the pepper was Friendly Islands give $15,000 a year for
circular walls of the Towers of Silence,
The banian tree of India grows to a hoards the French Government wisely given at different times, extending religious objects.
some of which date back more than a ' marvelous size, sometimes covering a I Attracted by offering inducements to over an interval of several weeks.
—Hawaii, one of the Sandwich is­
century ago.
circumference of five acres, and capa­ the peasant classes in e way of prefer- Moisture was found to facilitate the lands, is said to have a Christian con­
“In a few words, however, I will try ble of sheltering ten thousand men un­ ■ sntial allottmentof the vents, or through change of color to a ruddy hue, which
gregation of 4,500 members.
to describe my visit to this burial der its branches. Banian trees are premium on the price paid.
Hoards was again discharged under the influ­
—On the diffusion ot education among
ground. 1 arrived in Bombay with my continually increasing in sizx and. I Aie not common in Ge-many; but there ence of sunlight or of a cold, dry at­
friend Lord Tenderden. Being inform­ contrary to most other animal and veg­ is a large war hoar'1 lying at Julius- mosphere. The whole of the pepper is the people rests the preservation and
ed that a pass was necessary to allow etable productions, seem to be exempt- thurm, in Spandau, .elonging to the not required to produce the change, a perpetuation of our free institutions.
—Father O Connor, the converted
strangers to visit these memorable tow­ ad from decay; for every branch from I government, of 120,'»o0,000 marks, of portion of it being quite inactive, as
ers, I at once applied for a pass, and the main body throws out its own £6,000,000, which go- under the name for example the piperin and soveral ex­ priest, is said to have led 800 Catholics
after a little delay received a card en­ roots, at first in small, tender fibers, d " the German Empire War Treasure
tractives; similarly the red coloring into Protestantism in five years in Now
matter alone had no effect on the color York City.
titling us to visit the grounds after four several yards from the ground, which —Chambers’ Journal.
—In the city of Omaha, Neb., there
p. m. From what we gathered, the fu­ continually grow thicker, until, by a
of the feathers. It is rather the trio­
VICES OF' p OULTRY.
lein, which occurs in the pepper in are over twenty Societies of Christiau
neral rites were performed between the gradual descent, they reach the ground,
hours of ten and four p. m., during where, striking in, they increase to a How to Cure Hen* of Egg Eating «nd large quantities, together with the 1 Endeavor, and the number is oonstant-
which time no stranger is allowed in large trunk, and become a parent tree,
characteristic pigment, which brings j ly growing.
Feather Pulling.
—The latest educational report is-
the grounds. After a pretty and some­ throwing out new branches from the
Two difficulties— egg eating and about the change of color by holding
what long drive our carriage drew up top. These in time suspend their roots, feather pulling - « re met with, and be­ the red piginent ot the pepper in solu­ i sued in Russia shows that only about
before a large iron gateway and de­ and, receiving nourishment from the ing the result of habit, which is ac­ tion. Glycerine may be used instead one-tenth of the children in the Empire
scending we entered the grounds, which sarth, swell into new trunks.
quired, can not easily be remedied. As of triolein to bring about the same re­ attend school.
A new Illinois law provides that no
are prettily and artistically arranged on
A banian tree, with many trunks, soon as a hen learns to eat eggs she sult
a steep slope. From the gateway noth­ forms the most beautiful walks, vistas teaches the vice to the others. To pre­
The same statement holds good with | person who can not read and write the
ing is visible to lead anyone to suppose and cool recesses that can be imagined. vent the vice is difficult, unless spe­ regard to the feeding of birds with ani­ English language shall be eligible for
otherwise than that the place was a I have spent many deligntful days, cially contrived nests are arranged, or line colors. The red pigment of the the office of school-director.
well-kept, pretty garden, but, follow­ with large parties on rural excursions, unless the hen is so situated that she pepper is also stored up in the egg yolk
—The American Baptist Education
ing the pathway u > several small under one tree supposed by some per­ can not well reach the eggs. To pre­ as well as in the feathers. The first Society is now an incorporated body
flights of stone steps you find yourself sons to be that described by Nearchus, vent the vice, make the nests dark, or appearance of this colored pigment in under the laws of the State of New
on an eminence quite close to the white­ the Admiral of Alexander the Great put them in a dark place. The nest the yelk can be observed as a colored York. The charter was drawn by Dr.
walled towers on which are perched High floods have at various times swept should have a top, so as to compel the ring four days after the commencement H. L. Morehouse and Secretary Gates.
dozens of bald-headed vultures await- away a considerable part of this extra­ hen to walk in, instead of jumping on of feeding with the pigment dissolved
—The Buddhists have established a
'
ing their prey.
ordinary tree; but what still remains is it It should be high enough off the in fat Continuing this diet for forty­ missionary magazine in Kyoto. It is
“At the top of the steps you are met nearly two thousand feet in circumfer­ floor to prevent the hen from standing eight hours will result in the coloring published in English, and its object is
by an aged Farsee, the keeper of the ence, measured round the principal on the floor and eating out of the box, of the entire yolk. As these experi­ to recommend Buddhism to all the
place, who acts as your guide and : stems; the overhanging branches, not and the opening of the box should face ments have proved so instructive and world for adoption in the place of
points out the chief objects of interest. | yet struck down, covered a much larger the wall. Instead of the light, so as to interesting they are to be continued Christianity.
First of all you are taken to a spot space; and under it grow a number of have the nest dark. To make such a throughout the present season, when
—It is calculated that out of 3,000,000
where you enter you’ name in the visit­ custard-apple and other fruit tr^es. | nest, take a soap-box and knock off the the results will be embodied in a report converts in all the foreign mission
ors book and are shown a list of all The large trunks of this single tree front, leaving the boards on the top, to the Berlin Physiological Society.— fields, 30,000 have gone as missionaries,
the personages of
oyal and noble amount to three hundred and fifty, and bottom, sides and back end. At the N. Y. Times.
being one out ot every hundred, while
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• 4. * blood who have visited the spot Then the smaller ones exceed three thou- opening of the nest, nail on a strip (at
Protestant Christendom has sent forth
INCENSE
IN
CHURCHES.
you are shown a little model of the | land; each of these is constantly send­ the bottom) three inches high, to pre­
but one out of every 500.
Towers of Silence, as of course you are ing forth branches and hanging roots, vent the hen from rolling the eggs out Many Have Smelled It, But Few Know
—Religious jealousy in India beta eon
Where It Comes From.
not allowed to approach the real towers to form other trunks, and become the The floor of the box should be seven
Hindoos and Mohammedans is said to
Few
know
what
is
really
used
to
pro
­
nearer than adistanceof thirty or forty parents of a future progeny.
inches off the floor, which (with the
be fit to involve the entire coutgny in
feet
This magnificent pavilion affords a strip in front) will bring the opening duce the clouds of fragrant smoke war the moment the British authority
known
as
incense
in
churches.
Indeed,
“From the model you see that the shelter to all travelers, particularly to 1 to the nest ten inches from the floor of
should be withdrawn. Lately a Mus­
interior formation of the towers is the religious tribes of Hindoos, and is the room. The hen will fly up to the the ignorance extends even to those sulman procession to celebrate a con­
most curious.
Running around the generally filled with a variety of birds, opening, lay her egg and come off, as who use it There is an amusing story, vert was attacked with great fury, and
whole length of the well is a large snakes and monkeys; the latter have she will not have room to eat the egg to the point, told of some of the Catho­ some fatalities was the result
t
iron grid, which extends with gentle often diverted me with their antic while she is on the nest, and must come lic clergy, not much more than half a
—In regard to popular education in
slope till it nearly meets in center of tricks, especially in their paternal af­ off, in which case she can not reach it century ago, when their church acquir­ France statistics show that the compe­
ed
Home
freedom.
They
wished
to
give
the towers. This grid is divided into fect on for their young offspring, by from the floor. The nest^box should be
tition between municipal or secular
three parts or layers. The largest, teaching them to select their food, and only large enough to accommodate the a little more solemnity to the church and Csthollc or monastic schools has
service
and
to
revive
what
they
had
not
• • ■ next to the wall of the towers, is for to leap from bough to bough. On a hen.—Farm and Fireside.
had the effect of sensibly Increasing the
dared to practice in penal days. They
the reception of men’s bodies, the next shooting party under this tree, one of
aggregate attendance. In 1882 there
a soldering T outfit .
found an old censer, but were at a loss
layer, of smaller circumference is that my friends killed a female monkey,
were 5,341,000 children at the elemen­
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for the women's bodies; the nert layer, ind carried it to his tent, which was IVliy Every Farmer Should Have One- what to get for incense and finally fell tary schools. In 1887 there were 5,526,-
back on the rosin filling of a plated
How to U«e It.
next to the center of the tower of still soon surrounded by forty or fifty of the
000. The private lay schools, however,
Soldering la a vary simple operation, candlestick.
smaller circumference, is for the bodies tribe, who, making a great noise, ad­
have 43,000 pupils less than in 1882,
and
every
farmer
should
own
a
kit
A
The
odoriferous
gum
that
goes
by
the
of children. In the center is a large, vanced to it in a menacing posture.
while the private Catholic schoolshave
deep well of water, mixed with chemic- On presenting his fowling-piece, they soldering iron is the first thing. It ii name of incense or gum olibanum, is a 143,000 pupils more.
not
an
iron,
but
a
piece
of
copper
resinous
gum
produced
by
the
Uoswelia
it
als, to kill any impurity that may retreated, and appeared irresolute; but
—According to recent statistics there
arise from the incessant flow of blood, one, who, from his age and station Weighing from one-quarter to one-half serrala or thrifera, a tall tree growing are in Cuba 720 public and 537 private
and for the destruction of osseous mat­ in the van, seemed the head of the pound, with an iron handle either in the mountainous parts of India and schools, with an average attendance of
ter.
troop, stood his ground, chattering and twisted around the piece of copper, or belonging to the Terebinth family. The 40,352 children of both sexes. The an­
“There is a narrow pathway on the menacing in a furious manner; nor inserted like a hammer handle in a leaves, which grow at the end of the nual cost of maintaining the public
grids leading to each layer to allow the ?ould any effort less cruel than firing Isole drilled from side to side, near one branches, are in ten pairs, oblong, al­ schoolsis $560.226. which amount is
The end ternate, pubescent. The flowers are small
carriers to place the bodice of the dead Irive him off He at length approached end of the piece of copper.
furnished by the 135 municipalities on
in their last resting place. Once the »he tent door, when, finding his threat- farthest from the handle should be and green, and in clusters smaller than the island. The proportion of schools
body is laid down the thousand of vul­ anings were of no avail, he began a sharpened like a hatchet for some jobs, : the leaves. Each flower has five petals to inhabitants is one to every l,205.and
tures which are gathered round about lamentable moaning, and, by every but to a square point like a rail fence and ten stamens. The seed-case is one child attends school for every
I three-sided and has three divisions,
each of the towers or in the trees of token of grief aud supplication, seemed post for general work.
,,
Never heat a soldering tool red hot oach containing three seeds. The resin- thirty-eight inhabitants.
the ground, swoop on their prey. In ,o beg the body of the deceased. Or
It
destroys
the
tinning
and
hurts
the
j
ous
fluid
that
exudes
from
the
trunk
j
less than five minutes the corps is be­ this, it was given him. With tender
WIT AND WISDOM.
reft of every particle of flesh, and only sorrow he took it up in his arms, em- tool. Hold near the face when re­ and hardens rapidly is the incense. Jt I
the bare skeleton remains. The vul­ □raced it with conjugal affection, and moving from the fire, and a little prac­ forms in hard, semi-transparent, red­
—Were every one to sweep before his
tures again relapse into repose, stand­ carried it off with a sort of triumph to tice will enable you to tell just the heat dish or yellowish drops, about the size own house, every street would be clean.
ing on the tower walls basking in the his expecting comrades. The artless needed. Keep a wet rag in a blacking­ of a pea. Incisions are made in the
—Man. with all his wisdom, never
sunlight or seeking cool and shade in oehavior of this poor animal wrought box in one corner of the kit. This rag trunk to increase the flow. An inferior knows who is his best friend as weW as
incense
comes
from
Africa,
produced
is
to
wipe
the
tool
free
from
ashes
as
it
the deep foliage of the trees. Not a <o powerfully on the sportsmen that
a baby.
also by a tree ol the same family.
sound breaks the silence. Your own they resolved never again to level a gun is removed from the fire.
—He who puts a bad construction on
Incense
was
highly
esteemed
in
an
­
To
solder
a
hole
in
a
tin
pan,
while
voices, hushed, as it were, out of re­ it one of the monkey race.—N. Y.
the tool is heating scrape all around cient times, and was used in the wor­ a good act, reveals his owe wickedness
spect for the dead, alone and audible, Ledger.
the hole until the tin is bright and ship of many countries. The thus, or of heart
a-id the palm trees creaking in the
—The multitude is like the sea—it
clean; dust on somo powdered rosin. It incense of the Hebrews and Greeks was
HOARDING IN EUROPE.
breeze is all that breaks the silent*
the tin coating is worn off dip a stick the styrax of Arabia. Some ascribr either bears you up or swallows you,
and peace. Slowly we retrace our
in the acid bottle and wet around the the use ot incense among the primitive according to the wind.
steps to the spot where we first met the How Million* of Money Are Withdrawn
hole. This covers the iron with a thin: Christians to the necessity of purifying
from Circulation.
—As the mind must govern the
guide; here he presents us with a nose­
It has been remarked generally that coating of zinc, to which the solder the air in the catacombs and other sub­ hands, so in every society the man of
gay of flowers gathered from the
will unite. Test the tool for heat, wipe
grounds, and with a low salaam leaves thrifty people like the French, Swiss, on the rag. then toucn to a stick of sol­ terranean places where they were intelligence must direct the man of la­
us to descend the steps alone. As we Belgians and Dutch hoard coin more der. A drop will adhere to the tool I forced to worship. —St. Louis Globe- bor.
—It is not possible to make a silk
drive off we look back and catch a than the Scotch and English. The carry it to the hole. •>nd the hot solde:; Democrat. ---- —— —
purse from the ear of a swine. Take a
glimpse of the white walls; a hugh vul- Irish were addicted to hoarding bank (if every thing is dean) will flow
A Stupid English Superstition.
hog from a pen to a mansion and he
.
lure rises slowly with a few flaps of his notes, but the practice prevailed in for­ around and over tbs hole, making a
neat, round spot on the tin. and the!
The following instance ot a curious will still be ahog. —N. O. Picayune.
wings sails majesticly from one tower mer years more than now. In Ita’y
job is done.—American Agriculturist.
belief held by country folk may inter­
—If a man does not make new ac­
'.o another. A shudder passes over us large quantities of gold and silver were
est some of your readers. An old man quaintances as he advances in life, he
(
as we turn our heads toward the city ol hoarded fiom 1862 to I860, because pa­
Bombay, wich is bathed in golden sun­ per money was then declared legal
—Onb'01 tiffe secrets of successful liv­ in this parish (in East Kent), who is in will soon find himself alone. A man
tender, or forced on the country. In ing is the steadiness of aim and the full possession of his faculties, and, ' should keep his friendship in constant
set.”
1881-3 the gold standard was establish­ resolution of will by which one bends moreover, has a considerable stock of ' repair. —Johnson.
Birds and Telegraph Wires.
ed in Italy, and the gold necessary to circumstances or events to the working knowledge of things connected with the
—Implicit trust in the ultimate in­
,
It has been supposed that birds be­ effect this change was drawn to a great out of his own purpose; the other great farm and garden, informed me the tegrity of human nature is all very well
come accustomed to the presence ot extent from hoards. In France a great secret of life is hearty, intelligent, and other day of the following remarkable in a prayer-meeting, but it won’t work
telegraph wires, and are careful ta leal of hoarding has existed for a long complete submission to Its conditions fact (!) in natural history. He told me, for a cent in an ordinary grocery store.
avoid them in flying, but it would seem time, especially among the peasantry, and to all that it bringa—Rural New quite serloujly, that if a hair be taken Somerville Journal.
during summer from the tail of a horse
either that this is a mistake or that ths who are the most parsimonious in Yorker.
—The man who lives mainly within
Many causes have contrib­
• K <• ..feirds on the Scotch and English moort Europe.
—“Doctor,” said the patient, "I be­ and placed in a running stream, it th« limits ot his physical senses cer­
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are less intelligent than their fellows. uted to the creation of this habit, not lieve there is something wrong with would before long become a "water tainly lives on a small scale, and at a
Systematic observation there along a the least being the insecurity arising • my stomach.” “Not a bit of it,” re­ snake or an eel,” the result depending, low level, as compared with his possi­
line of telegraph wires has shown that from the unsettled forms of govern­ plied the doctor, promptly. “God it appeared, upon the “bread of the bilities.—N. Y. Independent
Lately, however, made your stomach and He knows how horse. ” The root of the hair becomes
great destruction of bird-life goes on ment in Franca
—Our service in life should not be
throughout the year, and that at cer­ these ho irds have been extensively to make them.
There's something the head of the new creature! This constrained, yet it is necessary some­
tain seasons the r< adside is literally drawn on in connection with the pay­ wrong with thestuffyou putin it, may­ experiment he had tried, and though, times that we compel ourselves to do
strewn with the remains of unfortunate ment, at the close of the Franco-Ger­ be. and something wrong with the way somehow, he had not seen these hairs our duty. When the flesh is weak, the
.
grouse, black game, partridge, snipe man war, of the French indemnity of you stuff it in and trama it down, but grow to full maturity, he had undoubt- ■ spirit must drive it to its place and
edly seen life developed in them. I j performance^-United Presbyterian.
and other birds. Every morning at £80,000.000. Of this amount one-half your stomach is all right”
TOWERS OP'SILÉÑCE.
uawn mat anaiug'Danus oi rooas conn
from the lowland woods to feast on the
dead and dying, and the farmers and
shepherds in the region declare that
more grouse are killed annually by th«
telegraph wires than by all the sports­
men. —Sportsman.
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