BANDON RECORDER.
The Son« of tin’ Grouse.
Certain birds when the period of
courtship comes round repair to partic
ular trystiug places and announce their
presence there by well known calls or
signals.
The ruffed grouse, as every one
knows, seeks an old log or other con
venient perch and drums with his
wings, a him to any lady grouse with
in hearing that “Barkis Is willlu.”
The performance of the grouse is one
frequently heard, but comparatively
seldom seen, aud for many years there
were numerous conflicting theories
concerning the means by which tin*
drumming was produced. Some said
that the sound was vocal, and others
declared that tlie grouse struck the log
with Its wings. Even today Hie pre
cise cause of tlie sound is not known,
for, although the bird lias been closely
watched, its wing movements are so
rapid tliat it is next to impossible to
tell exactly what takes place. This
much, however, is known: During the
performance tlie grouse stands upon
the leg or other perch and strikes the
air In front of hlx body somewhat after
the manner of an elated barnyard cock.
The first few strokes are measured, but
they become faster and faster until tlie
individual thumps are lost, as In the
rolling of a drum. Whether the sound
Is due entirely to beating of tlie air or
whether it is Increased by the striking
together of tlie wmg tips is a question
yet to be settled.—Hartford Times.
Wlij Dinah Wept.
Not long ago a lieutenant in the navy
was ordered away on a three years'
cruise. The order had been dreaded
for weeks, aud when It came the young
wife, who was to be loft in a Brook
lyn flat with a baby and a colored serv
ant, was In despair.
She controlled her sorrow very well,
however, until (lie actual moment of
parting came, and then she wept as
though her heart would break. The
cruiser was to leave the navy yard
early next morning, and the lieutenant
bad gone to report for duty.
In the midst of her lamentations the
young wife heard a sniffing mid sob
bing In the dlniug room, and upon
glancing through tlie door she saw
Dinah, tin* colored maid, rocking Iler
body to mid fro In a chair mid weeping
violently.
“Why. D-D-Dlnab, what's the ni-nint-
ter?” cried the mistress “You seem
to t-t-take Mr. Blank's departure as
much to heart as I d-do.”
“’Deed I doesn't. Mix' Blank; 'deed I
doesn't!” sobbed Dinah. "What am'
boderln dis chile nm de fac' dal a cttl-
lud gemman friend <>' mine am gwlne
sail hlsse’f on dnt same ole crulsah!"
New York Herald.
! aud which holds a mass of velvety pan-
JSiSSSSSS ****** ******* * : ' sies, w as once the smokestack of au en-
| POLLY LARKINl ’|
Igine. In the fountain the shade for
the fish was also formerly a smokestack.
m numi»; The “queen’s chair” is composed of
rounded stones. Ln the crevices grow
violets and thé fragrant native creeper,
Better than costly monuments of Yerba Buena. Blue flag flowers lift
marble or granite to commemorate the their heads side by side with the
date of his birth and death and keep graceful fleur-de-lis, and the wild roses
his name in evidence before the people vie with the products of the florist’s
after he is dead and gone, is the legacy art. Here the little children love to
George Lyndon has left to keep hi« hunt for the luscious wild strawberries
hut grow to perfection here. Under a
name ever green among ti
cathedral of young redwoods a platform
young of Boulder ('reek,
has been laid of boards which drifted
reads like a romance, but it is
down the river, and benches and tables
those o’er true tales that is based <
kindly heart, tilled to overflowing with complete this secluded little picnic
his love for humanity and for the beau ground, and there are a dozen of these
ties of nature. The Santa Cruz Surf «hady little retreats. For the old la
baa done full Justice to the subject in a dies who enjoy a cup of tea he has built
nicely written article of three columns. a Dutch flreplace of bowlders and mud
But the work of George Lyndon should and a chimney which was once a sew
be known far and wide. This is the er pipe; a teakettle hangs from the
crane. A rude shed contains a stove
story:
for those who wisli to cook a meal.
< leorge Lyndon, who lias now reached Close down by the river bowers are
the ripe old age of 79 years, was many formed of alders where anglers can sit
years ago a policeman in San Francisco and smoke while they cast a fish-line
with a Kearny street beat. He had in the pool below. Rock work and fern
been twice to Eurojie and half a dozen eries abound everywhere, and roses,
times across the continent. Then he which are liis hobby, sweet peas, for
found himself at tlie age of tliree-score- get-me-nots, pansies, marigolds, daises,
yearx-and-ten at Boulder Creek, Santa etc., are running riot. He culls his cot
Cruz county, penniless and hungry. tage “my little home,” ami around it
His fortune had taken wings. He he has laid a cinder track of thirty
camped in the chaparral on the hillside laps. The old man has challenged tlie
near tlie dejsit, and, lying under the State for a walk on this track of ten to
stars, lie reviewed his life and thought one hundred Hille«,
of the fickleness of friends when for
Loug ago the citizens of Boulder
tune and prosperity hud flown. Lying
on tlie hillside, with only the stars as Creek ceased to smile at George Lyn-
silent witnesses of his bitterness of don, and the progressive citizens met
thought and ins firm resolve to build one night to diseuss Lyndon Park and
himself a monument which would its owner, and the result was that a
arouse the esteem of his fellow men for nickel-in-the-elot l«>x was placed in the
years to come, he planned a park. Lyn park, in which all passers-by are asked
don went to work as a common laborer to contribute therewith toward the
for the railroad, and shortly after wrote support of the owner. George Lyndon
to one of the officers of the Southern was opposed to the plan until he found
Pacific Company, whom lie had known that it wax not compulsory and chil
in his palmy days, and requested per dren were not expected to pay.
mission to build a cabin on one of the
waste billsides near the depot. The
And this is no “fairy tale,” this little
land was thick with brush, steep and story of George Lyndon's patient
stoney, and useless for any purpose, so handiwork, but is all gospel truth, and
tlie request was granted. People in if every visitor front home mid abroad |
Boulder Creek thought lie had little does not drop a liberal contribution
wheels in his head, and laughed at the into tliut small box when they visit
gentle old man when, bubbling witii Lyndon l’ark, then Polly will believe
enthusiasm, lie unfolded his plans und tliat gratitude, admiration and appre
showed tlie lease given him for life by ciation have gone out of tlie hearts of
his former friend. They termed it mankind and that we are mt ungrate
"Lyndon’s Folly.’’
ful people.
A TEST OF G DRAGE
TORTURES WHICH INDIAN SCOUTS
BORE WITH SMILING FACES.
II Wan Ip to l.l<>utriau( Farrow
Once to Emulate Tbelr Example,
bot the Went Pointer Teed Illa Wits
and Escaped the Ordeal.
The Indian scouts that joined forces
with the United States army in 1878
to make prisoners of the Sheep Eaters
in western Idaho were skeptical at
first of Lieutenant Farrow’s abilities
to lead them Into battle. They had
never seen Ids courage tested and
plainly Intimated l»y word and action
tliat they had no Intention of obeying
ids orders unless he should prove hlm-
Belf braver than any chief, subehlef or
buck In the command.
First they gave themselves up to all
kinds of physical torture as a lesson
to him. They slashed their bodies
with knives without showing pain.
They slit the skin on their chests, run
skewers thereunder and jerked off
cutaneous and fleshly strips while smil
ing happily In hlx face. They split
tlielr ears, pierced tlielr noses, lacer
ated their cheeks, butchered their arms
and legs. Tlielr stunts were so fur
beyond anything Farrow could Inflict
upon himself that the poor young lieu
tenant thought he “saw bis finish.”
Suddenly, while rivulets of cold per
spiration trickled down bls spine, the
West Pointer recollected that In his
schoolboy days he. was an adept at
driving a pin’ Into the thick of his
"vastus externus” without feeling pain
and tlie joyful Inspiration to thus illu
minate his courage seized him.
Tlie necessary pin was In the lapel
of his fatigue Jacket, Ruthlessly be
silt the front of ids breeches leg from
pocket to knee, then his drawers till
the front of the thigh was exposed to
the wondering gaze of the Indians
gathered close around. Then dramat
ically exhibiting tlie pin, an affair of
an Inch and a sixteenth, he reached
for a fiat stone and drove the harmless
bit of wire down to the head In the
unresisting muscle. His handsome
face was as unclouded as when lie
bel|>ed to haze Ills tlrst plebe.
The red men nodded approvingly,
grunted, looked wise and sat down on
tlieir haunches. They bad seen some
thing new, but wanted something more
convincing, Farrow realized this and
was in the seventh heaven of despair
as he smilingly pulled out the pin and
held It aloft for inspection,
To show the white feather meant In
that hostile country Insubordination
and treachery. Involving Farrow's
mysterious death, It was a moment to
trj* a soul—und to fry it. The lleuten-
nut whispered to ills trusted sergeant:
“1 am going to take a desperate chance.
I nm going to shoot myself through
tlie bead with my revolver, but you
stand beside your horse, and Just an
instant before I shoot you fire your
rifle, yell ’Sl-wash!’ mount and make
off through tlie woods as fast as you
can ride. Don’t forget to lire before I
do, else I shall lie n dead man.”
Sitting upon a Jagged rock, lie ex
plained to the Indians what lie was
about to do, and with great delibera
tion and some fine theatricals lie cock
ed tlie pistol and placed the muzzle
against Ills temple. The Indians were
wrought up to a high pitch. They had
never seen a man shoot himself through
the head and live. Surely here was
the bravest of all brave leaders. They
would follow him through hell.
The sergeant, unnoticed, fired his ri
lle, liis “Sl-wasli!” woke tlie echoes of
Shoshone and Bitter Root, aud the clat
ter of Ills horse’s hoofs rang down tlie
Clear Water as far as Fort Lapwai.
“Sl-wash?" The Indians knew what
that cry meant. In less time than It
fakes to tell It Farrow was alone. His
forces had scattered to the four winds.
In the course of a few hours all were
united again, but the courage test was
not renewed.
Twenty-two years after this exciting
incident, on a certain evening in 1990,
Farrow occupied a box in the Madison
Square Garden when Buffalo Bill’s
Wild West was in full blast Chief
Joseph, the celebrated commander of
the Nez Perces, whom Farrow had cap
tured 22 years previously and whom
he bad not seen in the Interim, led a
wild, whooping, yelling, screeching
mob of painted Indians out Into the
arena for a dash around the circle.
But tlie charge was Interrupted—cut
short. When Joseph reached the curve
near the Madison avenue end of the
amphitheater, he pulled his horse sharp
ly to the right cutting across the first
file of warriors in most dnngerous fash
ion. In a mad gallop be poked his
charger’s head Into an arena box.
straightened up in Ills stirrups, held
out Ills hand and cried: "How! IIow!
IIow!” The old fellow had caught
sight of Farrow, and nothing could
prevent him from riding up to salute
ills captor of 1878. It was a dramatic
Incident.—New York Tress.
The lease was for four acres of an al
BRIEF REVIEW.
most precipitous liill, stretching from
The U bite Shark.
tlie railroad yard to the river below. It
What We Spend for Drinks.
The shark of sharks, the real “man was overgrown with brush so thick tliat
According to tlie American Grocer,
eater” and lhe one most dreaded, is a bird could not fly through it. Through
the white shark. This variety reaches thia tangled wildwood an occasional we, tlie people of the United States
a length of 35 feet and a weight of
(including Kansas and Maine), spent
2,900 pounds. Its head is long mid second growth tree poked up. Lyndon one thousand and sixty million dollars
began
by
grubbing
out
a
path
to
a
knoll
flat, and the snout far overhangs tlie
last year for alcoholic drinks. Count-
month. Its six rows of teeth are sharp where stood some flue trees, as he had
as lancets and notched like saws. Its dreamed to build his house there. ing our population at seventy millions,
month Is very large, so that one hns Boulder < 'reek looked on and smiled, tliat would be about $15 apiece. The
been known to cut a man's body com but Lyndon had strong will and mus United Kingdom spent last year for
pletely in two at n single snap of Its cle and lie persevered. Hegrublied the drink about seven hundred and eighty
cruel Jaws and another to swallow one entire hillside and dug out root and million dollars, or $10 apiece for its in
at a gulp. Near Calcutta one of these limb of all the noxious growths, ten habitants. It would seem from this
sharks was seen to swallow a bullock's
derly caring fifr tlie valuable trees and that the Americans only drink about
bead, horns and all.
shrubs.
The bulbs and plants of the one-fourth less per gullet than tlie peo
From the stomach of nnotlier a bull's
hide was taken entire, aud the sailor wild flowers wete never disturbed but ple of tlie British isles, but we must re
who made tlie discovery insisted that were fostered and nourished. The trees member that spirits and wine are very
the bull had been swallowed whole were trimmed of all dead branches, the much cheaper there than in this coun
and all except the hide bad been di saplings were propped, and at the end try, and tliat even beer is somewhat
gested. From tlie stomach of another of a season the place looked like a pic cheaper, so that $19 in England doubt
was taken a lady’s workbox, filled with
less buys at least twice as much alco
the usual contents, scissors mid all. It nic ground. Tlie work was done early holic beverage ax $15 buys here. One
Is commonly tlie white shark which and late. He would steal a few min would like to know tlie truth about
follows the vessel at sea day after day utes in the early morning before he tills American billion-dollar expendi
went out with tlie section hands. After
and week after week.
supper lie tailored until dark, and then ture for drink, what proportion of it
I.n null tor.
lie snatched a few hours’ rest, and promotes health and happiness, what
Laughter Is a positive sweetness i of when tlie silver moon rose he was up projHirtion of it prejudices both. There
life; but. like good coffee. It should I be and busy again, oftimex working until will lie little dispute tliat a very consid
erable share of tlie money could be
well cleared of deleterious substni nee 3 in tlie morning.
before use. Ill will and malice and th, ie
more advantageously expended in other
desire to wound are worse than ehico »•
ways. The Prohibitionists and their
After many months of toil his cabin sympathizers will hold it that it is all
ry. Between a laugh and a giggle then *e
Is the width of the horizons, I could seemed ms much a Spanish castle as it much worse than merely wasted. Philo
sit ail day and listen to the hearty am 1 had been tliat tlrst night when be slept sophical oliservers and persons of more
beartsome ha. ha. of a lot of bright
brighi under the stars, for he could not save
and Jolly people, but would rather I e enough money for the lumber and other moderate views will disagree with tliat
shot than be forced to stay within ear necessary materials. But the star of conclusion, but will doubtless grant tliat
tlie nation’s rum bill could lie dimin
shot of a couple of silly gossips. Cui-
tivate that part of your nature that Is destiny was coming his way, bringing ished at least one-half without detri
quick to see the mirthful side of things hope witli it, for the winter rains came ment to the welfare of any one except
so you shall be enabled to shed many on, and later the freshets collected a such of our fellow citizens as subsist on
of life’s troubles, as the plumage of the mass of driftwood in the river, and with the profit there is in making and sell
bird sheds the rain. But discourage this simple base of supplies Lyndon ing the rum.
all tendencies to seek your nmiwem<-in started to construct a cabin which was
at tile expense of another's feelings oi to Is* Isith comfortable and artistic,
Traffic of the Seine.
In aught that is Impure. It was Goethe and with the little home complete he
who said. "Tell me what a tnan laughs began to beautify his surroundings.
Every one knows that Paris is oil the
at and I will read you his character.”
He terraced the slope, but words can Seine, but very few people know, or
not convey the meaning of the hours of perhaps care to know, the amount of
An llilcrninnlc Bull.
Some time ago a follower of one ot hard labor it took to level the rough traffic along its waters. The traffic is
the city aldermen cast covetous glances places and to complete the terraces. much more than people imagine. The
upon n desirable newsstand under the Tons ami tons of stone was carried up Minister of Public Works lias pub
elevated railroad stairs. Straight lie tile steep incline to form the walls. The lished some statistics which show tliat
went to bls friend, the alderman, and old man constructed a harness and car during 1900 no less titan 50,048 Ixtats of
Budget.
made known Ids wishes, which were ried the cobbles up on his back. Big various sizes were at work on tlie Seine.
The origin of the word “budget,1
tliat the news denier should be evicted
'Flic
boats
carried
10,008,000
tons
of
simsith granite rocks, almost circular
meaning* an estimate of government
from the locality.
merchandise, of which 049,087 tons revenues and expenses, Is thus explaln-
“All right, me boy; leave It to me." in shape, weighing from twenty to fifty
said tlie city father and began to pull pounds, were packed. Wherever an were used in Paris. But what of tlie ed:
Almost from time Immémorial It was
wires. Finally lie got an order direct incline is a little steep these stones little passenger steamers that are seen
Ing tlie newsdealer to show cause’wliy were formed into steps, and from the gliding from pier to pier? Well, they the custom In England to put the esti
be should not get out, hut that O' stl- terrace to the river ixittom there are at number 131. They can each carry from mates of receipts and expenditures pre
nate Individual still remained. Then least twenty of these (plaint staircases. 225 to400 passengers,and last year they sented to parliament In a leather bag,
the word budget being thus borrowed
he drew up a formnl compl.T it. which Meanwhile he planted flowers, trees conveyed about 27,000,000 passengers.
from tlie old Norman word bougette,
was duly laid before one ol the J I.tex and vines, and now there is not another
which signifies a leather purse. Curi
The complnlnt, after telling I nw tlie
An Episcopal congregation in Phila ously enough, t I k word has passed back
newsdealer had been ordered to leave such garden spot in all Santa Cruz
county. All the water for irrigation delphia has decided to hold services again into Fiance from England.— New
aud find not done so. concludes:
“And now we have to complain, was carried up the hills from the creek which for originality Is’ats all records. York Tribune.
your honor, that not only Is this same in two kerosene cans on a pole balanced The congregation is eom|M>sed In part
"J love company,” said a local Mrs.
stand still there, but the defendant has over his shoulder. Henry Middleton, of Germans, whose language will l>e
replaced It by a bigger oue.”—New who owns much of Boulder and is in used in a short address to precede the Partington. "It makes things bright
York Commercial Advertiser.
terested in amateur gardening, olmerved English sermon. The Lord’s Prayer and lively—It breaks the anatomy.”—
New York Sun.
ititlla and Ceylon nave competed so tile hard work of the old man and laid and the Creed will be recited aloud,
successfully with China In tin* produc a water pipe to his door, and told him and the Psalms read in Isith languages
From a cliff 1.000 feet high one
tion of tea that whereas iu 1880 2.100,- he was welcome to all the water he at the same time.
Hear vision can see a ship at a
•XM) hundredweight of the leaf wore could use.
lance of 42 miles.
exported from China only 1,031,000
The Po, in North Italy Is ¡100 miles in
hundredweight left the country In 1809.
Entrance to this little paradise of length. Thede|>ositsat its mouth have
Dellcnrtes Oat of Season. .
At the Paris exposition the United Lyndon’s is through a trellis of roses to caused the coast to gain upon the sett
Old Moneybags was tired of hearing
States weather bureau was awarded a a garden walhxl in with xninll cobble so rapidly tliat a point which in the all this stuff and nonsense about the
grand prix. Gold medals were also
time of Augustus was a sea|s>rt town is poor. Some one had called bls atten
awarded to Professor C. F. Marvin for stones. In this rock are planted all now eighteen miles from tlie Adriatic. tion to Ills own way of living, with deli
the
rare
and
lacy
ferns.
The
walls
Instruments, apparatus and appliances
cacies out of season on Ills groanlug ta
aud to Professor A. J. Henry for cloud twist and curve around and lead to un
ble and—
expected nooks and tete-a-tete seats.
photographic
"Delicacies out of season!” he thun
He
has
deftly
converted
junk
Into
artis
Not For His Health.
dered. “What if I ilo get to use Ice In
Hubbub*—Why are you moving from tic effects. The discarded jerk-rope
the summer time? Don’t the poor get
from the engine forms the liorders of
four suburban home?
to use It in the winter, when It’s fresh,
the gaftiens, where fragrant violets
Sulibulis— I am all run down.
Envelopes were first used for letters and I have to put up with the cold stor
Holilitflis- Malaria?
grow. A large vase planted with long in 1839, and the first issue of postage age stuff? B-r-r-r-r!” — Indianapolis
Press.
Subbulis—No: gossipy neighbor*.— stemmed pink oxalis crowd tlie rim stanq« was authorized in 1847.
CHOICE MISCELLANY
CHASED THE SUPER.
Exciting Knee Between Kean
and lhe Stage Hand.
Some strauge tales have been told by
old timers In the stage business about
the Keans, both the elder and the last
to be seen on the American stage.
Some have said that bard study made
them a little wrong at times, and some
of the thlugs they did certainly looked
queer.
It is told by an old New Orleans
horseman, who Is here from the Cres
cent City, that when Kean the youn
ger was playing there he nearly scared
a super to death aud came near “plul*
Ing" him.
It was in “Richard III,” in the scene
where he sees the ghosts. The stage
manager was a bit the worse for drink
and determined to have some fun. He
did not like Kean, as lie was a hard
man behind the scenes. Among the
supers was a raw Irish lad who had
never seen a stage before. The man
ager told this fellow that If be would
run across the stage when he gave him
the tip he would stand to earn $2. The
poor fellow was broke, and a two spot
looked to him like a national bank,
lie agreed, and the stage manager gave
him a gaudy oilcloth banner bearing
these words. "Smoke General Jackson
Cigars.”
It was nearly a panic that this Irish
lad started, lie ran across the stage,
and when Kean saw him he was furi
ous. He made a lunge at the unfor
tunate super with his sword, and, ns
the “rag” came whizzing down to a
hurry call, lie chased the poor standard
bearer off the stage, down tlie passage
und to the street. For two blocks lie
followed him In Ids Richard costume,
and finally the super escaped down n
dark alley.
What effect it liud upon the show the
turfman does not say, but certainly It
•viis only the super's agility of foot that
saved him.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Torture of u Flax Shirt.
The most trying ordeal that Booker
T. Washington was forced to endure as
a slave boy was the wearing of a tlax
shirt, in his autobiography, “Up From
•Slavery.” lie says:
“In the portion of Virginia where I
lived it was common to use tlax ax part
of the clothing for slaves. That part
of tlie tlax from which our clothing
was made was largely the refuse,
which of course was the cheapest and
roughest part. I can scarcely imagine
any torture except perhaps the pulling
of a tootli that is equal to that caused
by pulling on a new flax shirt for the
first time. It is almost equal to the
feeling that one would experience If he
had a dozen or more chestnut burs or a
hundred small pin points in contact
with the flesh. Even to this day 1 can
recall accurately the tortures that I un
derwent w hen pulling on one of these
garments. The fact that my flesh was
soft and tender added to the pain. But
I had no choice. I had to wear the flax
shirt or none, and had it been left to
me to choose 1 should have chosen to
wear no covering.
"In conned ion with the tlax shirt my
brother John, wlio is several years old
er than 1 am. performed one of the
most generous nets that I ever heard of
one slave relative doing for another.
On several occasions when I was being
forced to wear a new tlax shirt he gen
erously agreed to put it on in my stead
and wear it for several days till it was
‘broken in.’ Until I had grown to be
quite a youth this single garment was
all that I wore.”
The Itenln Enter«,
"Resin eating.” said a south Georgia
doctor, "is a habit acquired by the
Cracker settlers who live in tlie neigh
borhood of a turpentine still. The resin
tl>“y use isn't tlie hard, shiny resin of
commerce, hilt lias been dipped out of
the cooking caldron nt an early stage
of the process, anil when it cools It can
be kneaded between the fingers like
wax. Tlie backwoods resin eater will
bite off an Immense chunk and chew it
placidly until it disappears. Tlie heat
of tlie mouth keeps It fairly soft, but If
the chewing becomes too deliberate it
Is apt to ‘set.’ ax they say, and cement
the victim's jaws together In n grip of
Iron.
“On one occasion a big, rawboned
backwoodsman who used to hang
around n still I operated came rushing
Into my little office, clutching his face
lu both hands mid making a horrible
gurgling noise In Ids throat. ‘What on
earth is the matter?’ I asked in alarm.
‘His rosutn’s sot,' said another Crack
er, who brought up the rear. I was non
plused at first, but finally grasped the
fact that tlie man had been chewing a
monstrous slab of resin and hnd
thoughtlessly suspended operations
long enough to allow It to solidify and
clamp Ills teeth like a vice. We finally
pried bls mouth open with n clilsel and
broke a couple of molars In the opera
tion. Next day I saw him chewing
again.”—Exchange.
Some Exploded Food Fallacies.
Fish ax a food of the brain worker
must be consigned to the limbo of
vanities, though certnln forms of fish
are the chextpext of nil foods, notably
the bloater. Oysters and turtle soup
are frauds. It would take 14 oysters
to equal the nourishment of one egg
and 223 to provide the same amount
of nutriment contained in a pound of
beef.
Salt fish, especially salt fat fish, is
the most valuable food for the poorer
classes. and whole races In the south
of Europe live on the Newfoundland
cod. Canned salmon we see at 18
pence a pound is no more expensive
than cod at sixpence. Millions of peo
ple live on it. and the North American
settler who Is not well provided with
cash finds it a good substitute and
change from flesh meat at times.
Frogs' legs are not of high nutritive
value, which need not surprise us.
Turtle soup from the chemist's point
of view Is not worth a tenth of the
price paid for it.—Exchange.
Lndrrsfood Mt l.nst.
“Hello, Central Give me one triple
nought South.”
"What?’
“Don't you catch It? One zero, zero.
Zero South.”
"Wli n t?”
“South one double nought, nought.”
"Can’t you speak plainer?"
“One thousand South — ten hundred
South. Get It now?”
"Ob, you mean South one onght, dou
ble ought. Al) right”—Chicago Trib
une.
Queer News and Fl<nre«.
While the emigration from Ireland
increases from year to year a curtous
phenomenon is observed tn the United
Kingdom. The number of marriages
Is increasing, and the number of birth*
Is decreasing. There never were so
many marriages in England as there
were In the year 1899. But the records
of the birth rate run down to the low
est figure. England that was so proud
of her Increase in population from 12,-
000.900 to 40,000,000 since the com
mencement of the French revolution,
while during the same period the pop
ulation of France Increased only from
23.000,000 to 38.000,000, now finds her
population diminishing.
But the
strange thing about It is that the same
phenomenon Is observed in Australia,
In New Zealand and In all the coun
tries Inhabited exclusively by Anglo-
Saxons. The London Dally Telegraph
gives a cause for the phenomenon
which may perhaps be the true one,
and this cause is none other than the
rebellion, often noticed by close ob
servers, of the Anglo-Saxon women
against maternity, a rebellion which Is
the consequence of their passion for
Independence and their constantly In
creasing desire to become equal If not
superior to men In Intellectual occupa
tions and iu physical exercises. In
saying tills we refer particularly to
American women. For the ladies of
the law and the medical and journalis
tic ladles maternity Is a nuisance, just
as It is for those whose greatest de-’
lights are bicycle riding, tennis, golf
and hockey.—Independence Beige.
Invention aa n Profession.
It has been often said that every man
Is an Inventor if lie had only the oppor
tunity of exercising his talents. In any
case, it seems clear that the faculty of
Invention Is not so much of a born gift
as Is generally supposed. Why should
not the technical pupils be encouraged
to attempt at least to invent by the ex
ercise of some very simple means of ed
ucation? Surely It would not be diffi
cult to prepare a series of mechanical
models more or less imperfect in opera
tion and call upon the pupils to employ
their wits in devising Improvements In
them.
The Intellectual training entailed by
such a course of Instruction would in
itself be most valuable and the results
peculiarly interesting. It would teach
pupils to "think” and induce a habit of
mind In the examination and criticism
of mechanisms that should prove of
the greatest use to them in their subse
quent careers.—London Express.
Uncle Sam’s Freak Batteries.
Only a few years ago a battery of
pneumatic dynamite guns was erected
at Sandy Hook at the expense of the
United States government and a simi
lar battery at San Francisco. Some of
them are of 15 Inch caliber, throwing a
shell carrying a maximum charge of
nitrogelatin of 500 pounds about a mile
and n half. These are the same type of
pneumatic guns which were mounted
on the Vesuvius and which popped
away at the bluffs of Santiago without
doing any harm. These guns must be
placed In the category of freaks In
view of the fact that long before their
construction It was well known that
there were a number of high explo
sives as powerful as dynamite which
could be safely thrown with gunpow
der and at much higher velocities and
to much greater ranges by means of
guns and projectiles of far greater sim
plicity.—Home Magazine.
Known About Morocco.
Nobody knows what the population
of Morocco is. Estimates place it all
the way from 2,500,000 to 9,400,000,
says a correspondent of the New York
Press. A large part of the country is
totally unexplored. The French lately
have gone In behind Morocco and ex
tended the boundaries of Algiers so as
to take In the Ttiat region, a chain of
fertile oases through which run the
caravan routes. The sultan has ex
postulated and Is still expostulating,
but with no effect so far as can be
seen. Morocco is sometimes called
the “sick man of the west,” but those
best Informed believe that it is a pretty
lively sick man.
A—
An Odd Occnpntion That Pays.
The cultivation of cocoa In Trinidad
Is one of the few industries that can be
relied upon to make a handsome re
turn for the time and capital Invested.
I would advise any young man who
possesses a good constitution, a few
hundred dollars and a capacity for
hard work to Investigate the possibili
ties of the island In regard to the cocoa
industry. Already there are among
us scores of young Americans who own
cocoa plantations, and I have yet to
learn of an Instance in which one has
failed to make money.—E. Nelson Dade
in Success.
(JSfXG AN ESTHETICS
THE FACTS ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF
CHLOROFORM AND ETHER.
CVII Deed" Are Not Eaay to Do With
the Aid of Those Drugs—Some Pop
ular Misinformation on the Subject
Corrected.
A curious case of robbery under
chloroform which was decided In Lon
don not long ago was followed with
great interest by writers on medical
jurisprudence, Hitherto many such
writers have expressed great doubt
about these cases, for the process Is by
no means so easy of use as people
tblnk.
Very extravagant Ideas prevail
amoug the public as to the power of
anaesthetics, owing perhaps to the li
cense employed by novelists when they
describe “fancy” cases in their books.
One reads, for instance, of a man
In a railway carriage waving a hand
kerchief before the face of a fellow
traveler and producing instantaneous
unconsciousness. This is absolutely
Impossible. Another Imaginative writ
er recently described a murder carried
out by pushing a towel saturated with
a powerful anaesthetic under the bed
room door of his sleeping victim. This
also Is nonsense.
In another tale the more feasible plan
Is carried out of entering the sleeping
man’s chamber, pouring the anivstbetic
on the bed. the murderer standing by
and watching his victim die. But even
this is stretching the truth rather se
verely.
The true facts about chloroform and
Its companion ana'stbetic, ether, are
as follows:
First, with regard to administering
the drug during sleep, doctors have
made very exhaustive experiments, for
it would be of great advantage to a pa
tient on whom an operation has to be
performed to chloroform him while
asleep and save iiitn the horror which
so many people Imve of.the inhalation,
and they sum up the results, showing
that very rarely can chloroform be ad
ministered to a sleeping person without
awakening him. Grown people are,
with the rarest exception, awakened by
the Irritating fumes. If a man were
tired and If Ills nose were naturally In
sensitive to unpleasant odors, nud es
pecially if he were under the influence
of drink, it might be possible to make
»Im unconscious while asleep. But not
even every doctor could do It. The op
eration would require the highest skill,
and the most skillful administrator
would succeed only once In a hundred
times.
If we take the case of spilling the
chloroform In a room and thus Impreg
nating all the air of the room, the thing
Is out of the question. Yet not only do
novelists assert that this can be done,
but many people have been actually
charged In real life with doing It—for
the purpose of blackmailing them, for
Injuring them or perImps to throw off
suspicion from the pretended victim
who has committed tlie robbery him
self. If the room measures, say, 12 feet
square and Is 9 feet high. It would
probably take a gallon of chloroform
spilled on the floor to make a man un
conscious. All the chinks and crannies
would have to be stopped up tlrst.
moreover, and the operator himself
would have to be poison proof or he
also would succumb.
As a matter of fact, the only way to
render a person unconscious by the use
of chloroform 1 b in the way practiced
by surgeons in the operating room And
this is by no means an easy task. There
are several ways of doing IL The chlo
roform may be dropped on a handker
chief. which is then held over the face
at some little distance, or It may be
dropped on a sponge, or it may be used
io one of the innumerable machines In
vented for the purpose. But the vnpor
must be mixed with air before it Is
breathed. That is the reason the hand
kerchief or the sponge is held some
Inches from the face. As a rule It
lakes from five to eight minutes to
make tlie person unconscious, and dur
ing this time be generally struggles
very violently.
It Is probable that many of the
charges of chloroforming which have
been made are false. Sometimes the
pretended victim asserts that be has
become unconscious Imjpgdlately. But
it has been shown in evidence that the
time necessary to bring about this re
sult Is at least four or five minutes.
Sometime" he says be could not cry
out. yet be describes all the circum
stances of the administration minute
ly. Now. the first effect of the chloro
form is to produce confusion of the
mind, while, on the other band, the
patient can cry out almost up to the
last He becomes mentally confused
before he loses the power of speech.
These few facts are sufficient perhaps
to demonstrate that some charges of
possible chloroforming are necessarily
untrue.—London Mall.
Queer Town Names.
The following towns In Pennsylvania
are enumerated Mi the twelfth census:
Jersey Shore, Loyal Sock, Nlppenose,
Picture Rocks, Wolf, Cherrytree, Corn
pie uter, Scrub Grass, Victory, Twi
light, Parnassus, Freedom, New Free
dom, Paradise, Red Lion, Moon, Slip
pery Rock. Daisy Town, Scalp Level.
Snow Shoe, I’opcopson. Licking, Paint,
Chest, Fox, Bald Eagle, Oil Creek,
Woodcock, Rush, Andy, Fair Chance.
Warriors Mark, Wampum, Jeddo,
Shickshinny and Warrior Run.
A Dutch View of England’s Deca
dence.
Great Britain has reached and passed
the zenith of her prosperity. If a war
with two small states reduces her to
these financial straits, what sort of a
figure will she cut when she is locked
In a struggle with Russia or, as may
happen, with Russia and France? If
only the plea for arbitration so often
advanced had been accepted!—Amster
dam Handelsblad.
Cork intends to follow Glasgow with
an Industrial exhibition in 1902. Lord
Cadogan lias signified his Intention of
subscribing £250 toward the fund.
which has already reached £5.000.
A dispatcn to a Lonaon newspaper
from Rome says that the pope has or
dered that about 150,990 old swords,
halberds, spears and battleaxes In the
Vatican armory be melted and the
iron sold. A furnace for the purpose
has been erected In the Vatican gar
dens. The weapons are useless ex
cept as curios and coat a great deal
to keep them polished.
Not Quite Wbat She Meant.
A very stout lady while out walking
In a certain part of Edinburgh came to
a gateway which appeared to be tie
entrance to a private road Not being
certain, however, she asked one of
two messenger boys who were standing
at the entrance whether she could get
through the gateway or ooL
The boy looked her up and down and
across. Then, winking to bls friend,
be replied:
“1 dlnna ken, missus, but tblnk ye
miebt try. as 1 saw a horse and cart
gang through a wee while since.’’-Lon
don Tit-Bits.
He Knew When He Wax Well Off.
Teddie slept in a big bed with his
mother, and one winter’s night, being
right In the middle of It when bls
mother’s bedtime came, she suggested
to Kitt to move on bls side. He blink
ed up at her rebelllously: “No. I t’lnk
1 won’t move. It's cold everywhere I
•Is’t.”—Harper’s Bazar.
The largest tree In the state of New
Jersey is a white oak situated three
miles north of Mickelton, Gloucester
county. Its dimensions are: Height,
95 feet: diameter of trunk three feet
above the ground. 7 feet 10 Inches;
spread of branches, 118 feet. This
tree antedates the settlement of the
colony.
Considering what a wet place Eng
land is, the country Is singularly 111
supplied with water powers. There Is
water everywhere, but hardly a drop
for driving.
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