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CHIHUAHUA'S CAPTIVE APACHES
Welcome Home of the
the Captive Squaws
Lack of Pity.
Scouts with
A Ilrntal
f E.1 ward Roberts in San Francisco Chronicle.
But the scalp-bearers had hardly
massed before there came the squaw:
who had been taken. The minute these
bareheaded, dirty, homely, hard-faced
women were seen the cheering and the
excitement increased, while the boys in
the street pressed hard against the
guards and tried to strike at the wives
of those who had killed and tortured
their parents, brothers and sisters
Some of the prisoners held their nurs
ing babes in their arms and heeded only
them. The big-eyed nurslings, held as
lovincrlv by their wild mothers as ever
the women of civilization hold their
young in times of danger, cried with
fear, and even the food their mothers
offered them so piteoasly did not serve
to comfort them. It was enough to
make the heart ache to see these igno'
rant mothers, hated and struck at be
cause born in a wilderness and the
wives of savages, press their children
to their breasts and hold them away
from the cruel hands outstretched to
strike.
And vet so hated is an Apache that
every wail was hailed with joy by the
friends of the victors. I saw not one
face among all the mothers there that
had pity written on it. Women hel
their children up to see the ragged
squaws and laughed at the unhappy
wives and cursed them. Chihuahua for
got its Sur.-day and the people forgot
their religion. The spectacle was as
barbarous as- that which must have been
the accompaniment of Ca-sar's entry into
Rome, with the bleeding captives lrom
Gaul following his victorious chariot.
Did any of those who looked upon these
poor women, who were di-omeu to live
hereafter in drearv prisons far away,
and who marched now within hearing
of the bells which only a few hours ago
had call the people to mass, stop to think
what their religion taught, or did the
clamor of the Spanish brass up there in
the graceful towers only serve to drown
their reason and inflame their hate?
The cathedral stood nearby, the air waa
soft and beautiful, and still not one
mother's heart apparently pitied or
prayed for the unfortunates who marched
to a living death with the scalps of theur
husbands swinging before them
The spectacle was barbarous and in
human, and taught once more that vic
tory know 8 no pity and uncheekedj
hatred rules the day in times of war.
Later on, when the procession had
reached the plaza, the mayor meets the
ranchmen and welcomes them to the
city and congratulates them on their
victory. At the end of his speech the
band plays a march again ; the bells are
rung louder than ever, the dust is raised
in perfect clouds, and after circling
once round the square the pageant
passes out of sight up the street. An
hour lattr the city was enjoying
its Sunday evening quiet.
Ways of a Kentncky Lnwyer.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
But to the man himself. Mr. Bob
bitt is a lawyer, and any worthy citizen
findinsr himself in legal trouble any
where within the precincts of Lincoln
Rockcastle or Pulaski counties need not
telegraph far for counsel. When asked
why he did not also include Garrard,
and make a legal quadrilateral of it
as it were, Garrard being the contigu
ous county, he replied that he always,
some way or other, he couldn't exactly
tell just how it was, but, as a general
thing, his instincts impelled lata to
confine his arguments, his rhetoric, his
eloquence and his law business to the
courts cf certain counties where, upon
the conclusion of a case, the senior
counsel didn't have to be expressed
,home iu a pine coffin. -
"In this out-of-the-way place how do
clients reach you when your services
are desired?"
"Why, they come just as the ancients
did when they desired to consult the
Delphic oracle."
"And how about fees?'!
"I take all they've got and notes for
the balance. If I find out that the
totes are uncollectable I give them up,
and then the would-be robbers think
I'm an honest man."
Xot a Hermit's Life.
Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. 1
Mrs. A. T. Stew art will never again be
seen in New York society. She will
spend the remainder of her life in mem
ories of the past, in cherishing the fame
of her husband, in doing deeds of un
ostentatious chirity, and in enjoying
the companionship of a select circle of
life-lorg friends.
For she doesn't live like a hermit.
Oh.no!
She spends her summers at Saratoga
living there in imperial splendor. She
drivts out, she v alks, she attends the
superb garden concerts. Indeed; she
seems to enjoy life there as fully as do
any of the gayer and younger guests.
In winter she lives in her Fifth avenue
mansion. But not alone. She is never
without pleasant companionship. And
though the lights from the huge crystal
chandeliers scarcely show a glimmer
through the heavy white satin curtains,
every evening her parlors are the scene
of pleasant social life, all in a little
world of its own.
If any one thinks Mrs. Stewart lives
like a hermit in a tomb he is badly mis
taken. Handwlch Inland fronsit. .
Enquirer Interview.
There are great droughts on the
Sandwich islands. There are no great
water-sheds like we have here. I knew
a man who had 18,000 sheep
on one of the Hawaiian islands,
for which he had been offered $1 a head.
He refused the offer, expecting to do
much better with them, but. there was
a drought, . and every sheep died for
want of water. There was absolutely
no possible way of saving them. There
are places on the islands where enor
mous piles of bones mark the spots
where catt' I 1 been in the habit of
drinking. oun tains dried up and
they perished u droves. Both motives
of humanity and pecuniary interest
were paralyzed. There was no help
for the beasts.
Arkansaw Traveler: De wise man an'
de fool doan' quarrel, but two fools or
two wise men kain't get along so well.
Pattern Designing To- Day.
Scientific American.
A writer in our esteemed contem
porary, Cotton, Wool, and Iron, thinks
that our pattern designers for fabrics
have not kept pace with loom building,
rsove J ties in fabrics are very rare; we
imitate foreign makers too much, and if
we accidentally arop on something new
in mutating, w e then imitate each other,
Most of us are satisfied if we do as well
as some who have gone before us.
There are not enough whose ambition
leads them to "look beyond," to reach
into untrodden heids. x or ten years
past the progress in the building of
fancy cassimere looms has been wonder
ful, and the loom maker of to-day can
say. with a feeling that he can fill the
bill, "If vou don't see what you want,
ask for it."
We do not believe the same feeling
holds good with our designer, who has
a chance to-day unknown to the designer
of years ago. He has a loom on which
he can do most anything; he has yarns
of silk, worsted, jute, mohair, etc.,
which he can combine in entirely new
fabrics, if he would only look beyond
and step into untrodden fields. Don't
imagine that vou must do only just
what has been done before, but try
something entirely new. If you get
new fabric don't be set back by any
commiss'.on man, for they are only mor
tal, and as liable to err as any set of
men we ever had to deal with. If you
get a new thing, make enough for a gar
ment, and according to what that gar
ment is to be, go to the most fashionable
maker and get his opinion. If he ob
jects, and you are satisfied you have
good thing, then go to some leaders of
fashion and persuade them to wear the
garment. Don t give up. Remember
that a new fabric is the same as any
new invention, and that a new invention
often takes a lifetime to perfect it. Do
not get discouraged, but persevere
combine new materials and make a bold
stroke for novelty.
xOod-!Vatured Alary Anderson.
Chicago Tribune.
Mary Anderson explained to a Lon
don interviewer (interviewing, bv the
way,
has
become the thing in Lon
don now) how so many of her photo
graphs have gotten into circulation.
simple matter when you know how it i3
managed. I am afraid I am too good-
natured, out wnat am x to do .' X come
down to breakfast and find a beautiful
bouquet waiting for me. By its side
lies a dainty little note. I open it and
find a request from an enterprising
photographer, which runs something
like this :
" 'Madam Every day we have end
less inquiries for your photograph
We have, of course, to send our custom
ers away with out being able to satisfy
their demands. CouicL you sit to onr
artist ? We should be very grateful to
you, etc. Ana it generally ends m my
compliance. When Miss Anderson
goes down to the studio of a photog
rapher she finds herself the centre of
a group of operators. Each has hi
camera ready, and the subject poses
herself, gives the word, and simultane
ously a dozen caps are taken off a dozen
lenses; and Miss Anderson's.face and
figure will appear in twelve different
positions. This must be a formidable
process for the subject, at any rate, but
it effects a wonderful saving of time.
When more elaborate effects are re
quired the photographer takes his
camera up to Miss Anderson's drawing
room, where of course better work can
be done.
A Marble Mountain in eorcia.
New York Tribune.
A number of capitalists have just
purchased 800 acres of land in Pickens
county, Ga., for the purpose of quarry
ing marble. This promises to be one
of the most important of the new in
dustries of Georgia. A member of the
company speaks in the highest terms
of the quality of the marble. "There is
iterallv, he savs, a mountain of
marble on the property, and in every
direction we find rich out-croppings.
The supply is simply exhaustless, and
as to the quality it is superior to any I
ave ever seen for building and interior
decorations. Gen. Ripley, of the Rut-
and Marble company, pronounces it
the best of building marble, but says
that for cemetery purposes it is not
quite equal to the Vermont marble ; yet
we went together to a marble-cutter in
this city, who was working on a piece
of marble. Gen. Ripley pronounced it
Italian marble, while Gov. Proctor
thought it was Vermont. The truth is
it was Georgia marble taken from our
quarry, Jtor cemetery, building or
decoration we are satisfied with the
quality as well as the quantity."
florae Marine.
United Service Gazette.
A well-known traditionary corps will
be no longer fabulous, as the horse ma
rine is about to appear in Tonquin.
According to The Republique Fran
caise, the French government, instead
of sending out regular cavalry to the
ed river delta, propose to purchase
the horses of the country and set on
their backs companies of marines, who
are to be organized, "after the example
of the English," by regular cavalry of
ficers as mounted infantry. We have
used ponies and other quadrupeds
when sailors and soldiers had to make
a rapid march, but we do not remember
any instance where our marines were
set on horseback.
Another Defaulter.
Boston Journal.
In one of our horse-cars a small boy
1 J 11-1 1 m m
was observed to ue suddenly agitated,
but regained his self-control after a few
minutes. Soon after the conductor ap
peared and asked for fare. When he
stood before the small boy there was a
slight pause, and the passengers were
surprised to hear the following:
Pleatho charge it to my papa, l ve
thwallowed the money. "
A Sinking; Mountain.
Deinorest'a Monthly.
The mountain of Naiba, which is
about twice as high as the Crow's Nest
on the Hudson, is gradually descending
into tne bosom ol the earth, a deep ex
cavation being formed all around it as
it settles. There is no volcanic action
accompanying it apparently. The
mountain seems to be gradually losing
its subterranean props.
FLORIDA ORANGES.
Hard Work at the mart and Plenty
of "Writ" Necessary.
New York Tribune.
A resident of Florida, in speaking to
a Tribune reporter regarding orange
culture in that state recently, said : '
"Plenty of good land for orange
groves can be bought in Florida for $
an acre or even less. I know of land
that can be bought for that sum that is
covered with wild orange trees. These
trees only need grafting to become pro
ductive of erood oranges.
"What other expense would there be
besides that of the land and the graft
ing ?
"The land would have to be cleared.
for in that climate all land that is not
in use soon becomes covered with rank
: luxuriant vegetation. . . 1 hen some
buildings would have to be put up, and
there would also be the trouble and ex
peuse of evicting squatters, who are
generally to be found in abundance on
desirable land in Florida."
"Then the expense for land is really
a small part of the cost of starting an
orange grove ?
1 es, and the reason that so many
people fail in. the bus'nessof orange
raisincr is that they start with too little
capital. A young man with a few hun
dred dollars will go down there and
think that, because he can get his land
cheap, he has money enough to start
a grove on, but he generally finds out
his mistake. Besides the - expenses of
which I have spoken, there is the ex
pense for labor, which, although labor
is cheap there, amounts to considerable
and the cost of subsistence for the
orange grower and his family if he
has one all of w hich count up."
"How long before the orange grower
can hope for some return for this out
lay?"
It will be two years before the or
ange trees provided he is fortunate
enough to get land that has wild orange
trees on it, and grafts them will yield
marketable fruit, and all this time he
has to incur the expenses I have men
tioned. When his trees get to beariag
he must find a market for the oranges
and, unless he can be fortunate enougl
to sell them on the trees, he is at an
expense for transportation. Having
once got fairly started in the business.
however, the expense is exceedingly
small compared with the returns, and a
fortune can be made unless the orange
grower is unfortunate with his trees.
" Are there any hardships or priva
tions to be undergone by the young
man who would try his luck as an
orange grower in Florida?"
"Yes; if he goes into the unsettled
part of Florida, as he would have to do
if he got his land cheap, he must con
fine, himself to the society of negro
squatters and possibly one other orange
grower two or a dozen miles distant,
He must school himself to view without
emotion a snake dropping from the roof
onto his dinner-table, or some wild am
mal sittinsr on his front door-step. If
he is fond of beef and milk he wil
find that he might as well sigh for orto
lans and truffles. However, if a young
man has grit and energy, and combines
with those requisites sufficient capital
he can make a fortune as easily and
surely by starting an orange grove in
Florida as in any other way the world
affords."
Deaf Mute? Increasing.
In a paper read before the National
Academy of Sciences, at New Haven,
Prof. A. Graham Bell contends that
something striking and abnormal is
going on among deaf mutes, something
that is tending to create a new variety
of the human race. He quoted reports
of various asylums and institutions for
deaf mutes, showing that eighty-tw
cases out of one hundred deaf mutes
were married to deaf mutes. Thes e re
ports did not give the information
whether the marriage in each case was
between persons congenitally deaf or
between those who had become deaf by
disease, or between one of each kind.
He believed that those who, being
congenitally deaf married congenitally
deaf persons, were likely to have deaf
mute children. The professor presented
diagrams showing tha the probabili
ties were that those who were congeni
tally deaf had in almost every instance
relatives who were deaf mutes also,
The total number of deaf mutes in the
United States was 34,000, or one out of
every i,ouj.
Too Hneh Piano.
Demorest's Monthly.
This raises the question whether
there is not too much piano playing in
this country. Every young girl is
taught to consider that accomplishment
a necessary part of her education, yet
many women have no natural aptitude
for music, and those who do learn
rarely keep up their practice after mar-
riace. lo be even moderately emcient
as a performer requires incessant prac
tice. 4.t is easier to learn two languages
thoroughly than to become an indiffer
ent pianist. Training the voice would
be much more useful. Singing is not
easily forgotten, and then exercising
the voice is wholesome for the body,
which cannot be claimed for incessant
piano thrumming. Then why should
not girls learn to read and to recite.
But no young woman should be forced
to become a pianist, unless she has
strong musical predilections and great
perseverance.
Col. Ochiltree's Crest.
New York World.
Before leaving Europe, Col. Thomas
Ochiltree ordered a crest and coat-of-
avms to be made for himself at the
Herald's college, Birmingham. Col.
Ochiltree appropriated the shield and
quarterings of the late Baron Mun
chausen", which had a Babylonish lyre
gules on argent and a profile of An
anias proper. His crest is the arm of
a cowboy grasping a lariat, and issuing
from, a bale of Texas cotton.
The Force of Habit.
Exchange.
He was a very thoroughly reformed
framhlflr. and thev were clad to a1
him a deacon of the church; but on the
very first Sunday that he assisted in
taking tip the collection, when he met
t.ha nnninr deacon UP bv the chanceL he
whispered softly : "Bet you fifty even
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that 1 ve raited tne uiggest pot.
flefore the Telegraph Came.
Moses S. Beach in New York Sun.
"We never used the telegraph much
untu the Mexican war. There is a lit
tle building on the roof of The Com
mercial Advertiser building which was
built originally for a pigeon-house and
where at one time we had two or three
hundred pigeons. This enterprise was
started about 1844, first on the Pear
Street house, because we did not want
it to be known what we were about, and
a man named D. H. Craig was em
ployed to take care of and train these
birds, and after the thing had become
partially successful we removed them
tocthe top. of our building, because
there was much time lost in the trans
mission of the news from the Pear
Street house to the office. J. he pigeon
scheme was not entirely successful, al
though it enabled us . to get ont some
extras ahead of our rivals. We had
trained them so that ' they would fly
from New Haven to the office in one and
one-half or two hours. We used them
successfully from the race course on
Long Island, and for short distances
they did well. I went down to Charles
ton to report the proceedings of the
presidential convention and had a basket
of pigeons which I loosed at Rahway,
and when I got to the city the extra
Sun met me at the Courtland Street
ferry.
"We had also a method of telegraph
mg by lights or signals, but we never
made much of it ; I had planned out a
system of telegraphing by the sema
phore, and intended to get the steamer
news from Boston in that way; but the
electric system was perfected, and that
revolutionized journalism altogether.
"I should say, in regard to reporting,
that a man named Button came over
from England who had been a short
hand writer on The London Times, and
I think he was the first phonographer
in New York. 'He established a school
here, and I took lessons from him.
Before that Davis and the other re
porters had each his own system of
abbreviated long-hand, but I think
that verbatim reporting began with the
advent of this man Sutton in if my
memory serves the year lo3b.
Literary Whimsicalities.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
A whole history might bo written on
literary trifling, or the various whimsi
calities with w hich literary men have
amused their leisure hours. Greek
poets used to divert their friends by
composing poems from which particu
lar letters were excluded. One of these
lypogrammatists wrote an imitation of
Homer's "Odyssey" in as many books
as there were letters in the Greek al
phabet. He called the first Alpha, be
cause there was not an Alpha in it; the
second Beta, because -that letter was
omitted, and so on through the rest.
A Latin monk, for want of something
better to do, wrote a little prose work,
of which a part still remains. It has as
many chapters as there are letters' in
the Latm alphabet, the first chapter is
without an "a," the second has no "b,"
and so on through the rest. There are
said to be still extant five novels of
Lope de Vega, from each one of which
he excluded some particular letter.
These heroic authors seemed determined
to prove that tiey could get along with
out the alphabet, and taking up each
letter in turn, triumphantly showed it
that they could transact their business
without its assistance.
On the other hand, there have been
literary triflers who manifested unusual
fondness for some particular letter.
An Italian monk named Hugbald wrote
a book, stupid enough no doubt, in
which every word began with the letter
c. There is also another bramlsss
production of the same age, entitled
' Pugno i'ocorum, of which every
word begins with "p." Gregorio, to'
amuse his friends at Rome, wrote a dis
course from? which he excluded the let
ter "r," and when a friend asked for a
copy he replied in a letter in which not
an "r" was to be found.
What the Color of Hnoys Mean.
Detroit Free Press. .
"I will tell you something about paint
ing buoys," siid the pilot. " When you
enter any harbor in the world where
the channel is-marked by buoys you
will find that thosa on voar right as
you pass in are painted red, and those
on your left black. If you should see
one painted in red and black horizontal
bands the ship should run as close to it
as possible, because that indicates the
centre of a narrow channel. Buoys with
red and black vertical stripes always
mark the ends of spits and the outer and
inner ends of extensive reefs, where
there is a channel on each side. When red
and black checkers are .painted on a
buoy it marks either a rock in the open
sea or an obstruction in the harbor of
small extent with a channel all around.
If there are two such obstructions and
channel between them, the buoy on
the right of you will have red and
white checkers, and the one on your
eft will have black and white. check-
era."
"Supposing a wreck obstructs the
channel?"
"A green buoy will be placed at the
sea side of the wreck, .with the word
wreck plainly painted on it in white
etters, provided there is a clear chan
nel around it.. Otherwise an even num
ber will be painted in white above the
word 'wreck' when the buoy is on the
right side of the channel, and an odd
number if the buoy is on the left."
"Mod's Country."
Marshall's "Army Life."
Tho name "G od's country" became
one in daily use in the army. There
was no thought of profanity in its
familiar use. It was the one name that
clearly showed how the soldiers looked
upon the land of their northern homes
compared with the southern country in
which their active toldieriBjj was done.
n their opinion a name having abso-
utely the opposite meaning wou4 be
the only one to describe the rebel coun
try. Of course the feeling of dismce
related more to the people of the south
than to nature's handiwork. In the
soldier's dictionary the name of "God's
country" meant the land of oir north
ern homes. 1
Prof. Swing : The soul is not a nar
row river, but it is an ocean, ana when
the tide runs low upon some shors, it is
running high upon some other coast.
HOW BYRON BECAME A GENIUS
Rlddlnc Himself of Burdensome
Vrossness. His Intellect was Set
Free. I
IJeaffreSon's "Real Lord Byron."
lile he was still at Cambridge,
already a successful author and ap
proaching his twentieth year, he resolved
to rid himself of his "burdensome and
disfiguring grossness." He began the
regimen of starvation, Epsom salts and
hot baths, which he maintained fdr the
rest of his life, and which, while
it brought him to striking and
unusual physical beauty and elegance,
brought him also to such spiritual and
intellectual straits as. outrages against
nature always entail. He systematic
ally sustained life on biscuits and
soda-water, and when hunger grew too
intense to be bearable, he indulged in
feasts of potatoes, fish, rice and vinegar,
which gave him agonies of indigestion.
Ho was nearly, always suffering; from
actual pangs of hunger, and drank
laudanum and sometimes chewed to
bacco to still these pains. j
The effect on his system was as ap
parent at first in his sensations as in his
appearance. Relieved of the burden
of his superfluous flesh, he couhl walk
with apparent ease and security, j The
body that had oppressed him was no
longer nnwieldy and unmanageable.
Obeying his will, it filled him with de
light. And what is even more note
worthy than all the other results of
the regimen taken together, is
that this discipline of j star
vation and drastic depletives
quickened his brain to such a degree
that the man of intellect for thei first
time knew himself to be something far
higher than a man of mere intellect.
The goads and whips of the regimen
had affected the nervous system, so that
he had become a man of genius!. He
had gone to drugs and starvation at the
instigation of personal vanity. Hence
forth he persisted in using them for the I
sake of the delights of that highest life
to which they had raised him, and from
which he soon - sunk surely and quickly
without their assistance.
Seville Ladies.
Chas. D. Warner in The Century.
We spent a good deal of the waiting
time in scrutinizing the packed i seats
for beautiful women, and, I am sorry
to say, with hardly a reward adequate
to our anxiety. I am not sure how
much the beauty of the women of Se
vine is traditional, luey u ave ; good
points. Graceful figures are not un
common, and fine teeth; and dark
liquid, large eyes, which they use per
petually in seillades destructive to peace
and security. And the fan, the most
deadly weapon of coquetry, gives the
coup de grace to those whom the eye3
have wounded. But the Seville Women
have.usually sallow.pajstv," dead i com
plexions. Perhaps the beauty of the
skin is destroyed by cosmetics, for there
was not a lady at the bull-fight who
was not highly rouged and powdered.
mis gave an artinciaiity to their ap
pearance en masse. Beauty of figure
was very rare, and still rarer was that
animation, that stamp of individual
character, loveliness in the play of ex
pression, and sprightliness, that charm
in any assembly of American women
jno. the handsome women in the ring
were not numerous enough to make
any impression on the general mass
and yet the total effect, with the blonde
lace, the artificial color, the rich ; toilet
and the agitation of fans was charming,
Mozart's Superstition.
Cincinnati Enquirer. i
Mozart, the wonderful, who produced
so much in so short a time, was faken
with a queer presentiment in the last
months of his young life. A stranger
called on him, requesting him to write a
grand requiem, not wishing it: for
montn. tie paid Mozart iw guineas
and left. Mozart began his work, and
shortly afterward the horror seized him
that this stranger had bribed him to
write hU own requiem. He did iot
quite finish it be fore the stranger called,
thinking in this way to set his delusion
at rest, and that the stranger would
countermand the order.
The stranger called according to ap
pointment. M ozart told him the requiem
was unfinished, and that it would take
more time. " Very well," said the stran
ger,"if it requires more work you should
have more money," and paid another 100
guineas. Mozart sent his servant to
follow the stranger to find out who he
was, but the servant soon lost him in the
crowd. Mozart was not sure his delu
sionwas correct, and went feverishly
and furiously to work to finish the
requiem, lie finished it in a few days
before the second month was out, but
when the stranger called poor Mozart
was dead.
Oyster Bed Protection.
Chicago Times.
j.ne commission wmcn nas been in
vestigating the rapid depletion of the
Maryland oyster beds will report to the
next legislature a plan conceding all
the shallow waters to the tongsmen.
giving them a really greater area than
they now have, but dividing the deep
water into ten districts, which may be
dredged alternately, with intervening
districts of smaller extent, on which
there shall be no dredging for an in
definite time. It is thought that the
prohibited strips will be permanent
breeding grounds, from which the tide
will carry spat to the neighboring
grounds for their recuperation.
A tattle irl's Idea,
Milwaukee Sentinel.
"No," said mamma, "We can have
no idea of what God is ; He is beyond
our comprehension." "Mamma," ; re
plied little Edith, "I fink I know what
Dod is like ; He must be like a bis'op,
only p'aps not quite so gwand."
Don't ct In the Habit.
Arkansaw Traveler.J
"Excuse me," said a polite citizen to a
colored man. "I didn't kick you on pur
pose." :
NV6ah, kicked me on de shin, sah.
'Scuze ver dis lime, but don't git in de
habit ob it, sah."
Chicago Herald : It is a great mis
fortune to a poor man to be bom with
the tastes of "ten thousand a year." ;
Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have uo mind to.
Hmoklnc la Mexico.
Cor. Indianapolis Journal.
While waiting for coffee, and after
wards during pauses in the conversa
tion, the gentlemen of the family and
not infrequently the ladies also settle
gracefully back in their chairs and en
joy a cigarette or two. I learned a les
son at my very first dinner in Mexico.
It was at a hotel table,' and a stranger
Mexican seated beside me, who hap
pened to finish his dinner first, inno
cently lighted his cigar for the usual
table smoke, which I, in the depth of
mv ignorance, regarded as a personal
insult, nd indignantly left the table.
Since that day I have become "learned
in the ways of the Egyptians," and can
not only tolerate the national custom
with equanimity, but (be not horrified.
01 fastidious friends!) occasionally take
a dinner cigarette myself I When one
is in Rome it is as well to do as the Ro
mans do.
These tiny Mexican cigarettes, rolled
up in corn-husks or tissue paper, are
not at all like the strong smelling
things we have in the United States.
These are not much larger than straws,
the husk is sweet to the taste, and they
have a delicate fragrance which is very
pleasant. In Mexico everybody smokes
at all times and in all places at the
theatre, in the ball room, everywhere.
JLn making formal calls or more ex
tended visits politeness demands an im
mediate and frequent exchange of
cigarettes and " light " with many
courteous words, as "after yon, senora
(referring to the match; precisely as
our ancestors were wont to proffer and
accept the civilities of tho snuff-box,
Every Mexican lady's pocket is supplied
with match-box and cigarette-holder of
more or less elegance, and the dainty
fingers of many a fair young senonta
are discolored like polished bronze at
the tips from much cigarette rolling.
Catehlnsr Ostriches la the Desert.
Cor. San Francisco Bulletin. -
A striking difference exists between
the corraled and farmed ostriches and
those running over the African deserts,
inasmuch an the latter never fight. Dr.
Sketchley hunted for nine months in
the desert. The birds have to be
hunted scientifically. Certain facts are
known, one being that the birds will
always run in a semi-circle. First they
will run with the wind that they may
use their wings to help them. After
they get what the sailors would call "a
head wind," they go around the other
way. They must be Jrun down. One
horse cannot "wind" them. The great
trouble is to keep them in sight. They
will run forty miles on a stretch. If
they ever get a breathing spell they
will'get away. The hunter starts out
with a fresh horse. A bushman boy
rides another and leads one.
As soon as it is seen which way the
bird will run, the boy takes his cue and
drives to where ne thinks tne hunter
will need the fresh horse. In the mean
time the ostrich singled out for the
chase and the hunter, are speeding
along like the wind, the latter straining
every nerve to keep in sight of the bird,
and the bird making its most prodigious
strides for freedom. A great deal now
depends on the bushman boy's judg
ment, in having the fresh horse at the
right place that no time may be wasted.
it is seldom that the boy makes a mis
take. The hunter leaps on the fresh
horse and gains on the bird, which,
growing tired, goes more and more
awkwardly. The hunter has only, when
he catches it, to rap it on the head with
his hunting whip and the chase is over.
There are really only two kinds of
ostriches, the North African and South
African birds. The males are black
and the females drab. All are of one
color, drab, until after they are two
years old.
Arizona's Wild Camels.
Tombstone Epitaph.
The camels now running wild in
Arizona were bought by the United
States government in Asia Minor.
There were seventy-six camels in the
first " colony." They were first em
ployed in packing between Fort Tejon
and Albuquerque, in some instances
carrying 100 gallons of water to the
animal and going nine days without
themselves. Tiring of the cam
els, the government condemned
them, and they were sold at Bene
cia to two Frenchmen, who took
them to Reese river, where they were
used in packing salt to V lrgmia City.
Afterward the animals were brought
back to Arizona, and for some time
were engaged in packing ore from Sil
ver King to xuma; but through some
cause or other the Frenchmen became
disgusted, there being no market for
camels just then, and turned the camels
loose upon the desert near Maricopa
wells, and to-day they and their descend
ants are roaming through the Gila val
ley, increasing and multiplying nd
gettmg fat upon the succulent sage
brush and grease wood with which the
country abounds. " .
Xo Work, Xo'Kat, Xo Wife.
Arkansaw Traveler.
A thiriman, who had married a
white woman, applied to the police
judge the other day for a divorce.
"Don t like the white woman, he said,
by means of an interpreter.
the judge asked.
"Keeps."
"What has she done?"
"Nothing, and that's why I don't
want her. Want wife to work. No
work, no wife. No work, no eat. You
may have her."
The judge refused the generous offer.
and the discontented Celestial carried
his complaint to a higher court.
. Decapitate Insects.
San Francisco Chroni cle,
S. R. Canestrini has been experiment
ing upon the enecrs ox decapitation
upon insects. Butterflies' were able to
use their wings eighteen days after they
had lost their heads. Crickets leaped
on the thirteenth day after they had
beon beheaded and the praying-mantis
showed signs of life on the fourteenth
day after the head had been separated
from the body. He gives still more
singular observations, tending to show
that the head in insects cannot be sub
ject to the same perpetual strain as the
head In mammals in guiding the mo
tions of the body.
BRIC-A-BRAC AMONG ANIMALS.
The Wonderful Museum of n South
Amcricau Marmot Birds That Col
lect All Sort or Otld Things.
New York Sun.
"That looks like a pile of rubbish,"
said an animal collector and sportsman,
"and so it is m the ordinary sense of the
word."
The heap of remarkable brio-a-brac
that caused the remark was arranged on
a wide mantel and about tho grate, and
would have attracted the attention of
Ned Kendall's ghost. There were bone i
of all sorts and sizes; long, thin bones;
heavy, short ones, some intact and oth
ers broken evidently with a purpose ;
here were several human teeth, the
cheek bone of a skull, the dried claw of
a bird, an empty, egg, some curious
seeds, distorted pieces of wood, oval
stones, others resembling human heads,
and one that might have even passed as
a primeval potatoe, while among the
rest was an old-fashioned open-faced
silver watch of foreign make.
"The collection of some crank? sug
gested the visitor, after surveying the
lot.
"Not exactly," was the reply. "That
represents about one-sixteenth of the
collection of a little animal in South
America, called the Lagosromus. You
see, they are all useless articles, but se
lected with exactly as much taste as
hundreds of people use in choosing
things merely because they are curious,
odd or out of the way. I was' traveling
through lower South America, across
the pampas, when I first noticed the
animal. It-looked like a prairie dot?
somewhat, and is a marmot. They bur
row after the fashion of some of our
marmots, and often make riding ex
tremely dangerous. In going along I
often observed tbe'heaps of earth piled
up before their holes, the pebbles, etc.,
but thought it the stuff they dag oat
that had been rain-washed.
One day I lost my spur, a large sil
ver one that had been presented to me
by a friend in Rio, and not wishing to
lose it, I rode back for several miles
over the road I had been driving on.
All by accident I looked over the road
side, which was covered with the biz-
cacha holes, and there saw one of the
animals running along, dragging my
spur. 1 knew it conldn t get in a hole,
so I sat down and watched the animal
half an hour. The spur was solid silver,
heavy, and of the Mexican pattern, very
long, and gave the little creature no
end of trouble, catching among the
stones and low grass, so that it had to
turn round and round, now backing and
lifting, to carry it along at all. Finally,
however, it was dragged to one of the
holes, and not taken in. but placed on
the top of a heap, in the midst of such.
stuff as this here. I went forward and
claimed my property, and judged that
there were two bushels of. bric-a-brac
there, all -collevtfrvl ' uierrelr to grminlj -the
taste of the. animal; in fact, it had
the stamp craze as near as was possible
in a barren country where stamps
could not be found.
"I considered the rubject so interest
ing, continued the collector, "that after
I returned a month or so later I loaded
up a mule with these articles and
brought them home as animal bric-a-
brac."
"Is this an umsual occurrence
"No," was the reply: "in point of fact.
there is the same love of finery among
birds : and all animals that we find
among the gentler sex of the genus
homo. Unfortunately, however, among
birds the female is generally the plain
est, and the love or display is only
shown by the male. The collecting
mania is seen in a large number of birds.
Thus one of the bower birds, a form
allied to the birds of paradise, erects a
sort of museum by inserting sticks into
the ground so that the tops fall to
gether and form a kind ol arbor that is
used for a variety of purposes, as a state
chamber, play-house, ball-room, hall
of courtship, etc. This is decorated or
ornamented with a land arail or Helix
of a certain kind.
"No, it was purely a taste for this
color and siyle, for there are numbers
of other land snails near by that are
equally beautiful and even more at
tractive, but for the same reason that
some persons prefer old fnrnitnra in
new, the bird chooses this variety. An
other bird, called the gardener, found
in the east, only collects botanical
specimens; seeds, flowers, gaudy leaves
and blossoms are brought and renewed
as they fade, until tho site of the mu
seum is often Piled with the withered
specimens that have been thrown aside.
"Other birds, as the bower birds,
in general collect - material with a di
versity of taste equaling that of the
bizcacha, that are, however, a trifle more
aesthetic 1 hey seem to care more for
the beautiful than the odd or curious,
and richly colored seeds and feathers
are selected, or brightly tinted shells
brought from the coast fifty miles or
more, which shows the lalor under
gone . by these collectors. In the
Museum of Comparative Zoology
at Cambridge you will find
one of these bird museums,
and a bushel or more of the collections.
A good example of a domestic collector
is the crow. I had one once whose col
lecting proclivities were so acute that
he nearly reduced me to penury.' I was
walking in the garden one day and acci
dentally spied a silver spoon sticking
out of the gronnd, and an unearthing
showed articles innumerable: keys,
combs, pennies, dollar bills, scissors, a
tooth-brush, a thimble, and among the
rest some papers in an old steel purse
that were of the greatest value. In all.
there was abucketfal of things of more or
less value. ' I gave the collector of them
to a man who had defeated me in a law
suit, and in about a mouth I guess we
wero square; everything of his that the
bird could lift was underground.
An Orange Preservative.
Two New Yorkers who are now in
Jacksonville, Florida, claim to have
discovered a chemical process that will
preserve oranges and other fruits for
twelve months without impairing the
quality of the flavor.
A Prlest' Salary.
A French rural priest's salary aver
ages $240, of which half comes from the
state and half from the commune. He
pays no rent, and gets soiue presents of
food usually.'