BAHAMA TREASURER.
tnter(itlntr Experience of n Scientific
Party from Feiunylvniila.
Tlio littlo partj' of biologists Bant out
by tho Uuivoisity of Pennsylvania to
make investigations and researches
have returned with abundance of glory
and sovcrul boxes, tubs anil tanks full
of curious Hpucltncns. The primary
purpose of tlio jaunt was to give tlio
party an opportunity to determine upon
the Bahamas as tlio site of a biological
marine station that tlio university do
sires to establish and hopes to have in
existence within tlirco years. It already
has a considerable fund fr that purpose
The residence of the party during
their stay was at a comfortable houso
three miles from Nassau, almost on tlio
water's edge. Tlioy lived in commu
nity, each mumbor taking charge of tlio
men in turn. The cost was oxtrenicly
modest. Tlio men went to work at
once, taking advantago of such assist
ance as tlio peoplo roundabout could
afford. A young boatman and divor
named Brown was found to be of great
ubo. having already served three dis
tinguished naturalists Prof. , Gardner,
who was soot out by tho English Gov
ernment; IVof. Woldon, of Cambridge,
and Prof. Brooks, of John Hopkins.
All the party wore good swimmers,
and soon learned to do their own
diving. Each provided hinisolf with a
crowbar and a water box, a small box
witli a plate-glass bottom. Tho glass,
quieting the ripples on the surfaco of
the sea, enabled them to koo far down
into the depths, many times to tho very
bottom. When any ono saw a bit of
rock-bearing coral, anemones, sponges,
or other objects that lie wished to so
cure he tossed the glass aside, dived
down, and pried the desired specimen
loose with tho crowbar and carried it
up under Ids arm. Practice en
abled them to stay a long time
under water. Mr. Marshall frequently
remained two minutes submerged. Dr.
Dolloys says that any man can re
main under water a considerable time
if he will only dimply make up his mind
to do so. There is an intense feeling of
oppression at lir.it, but Dr. Dolley says
that it is simply nervousness, ami soon
passes away.
Several medicinal plants wero secured
and experiments will bo made as to
their therapeutic value. Among thorn
is a curious beau that animals are very
fond of eating. At iirst the animals
grow fat and sleek. But in about two
weeks their tails and manes drop oil'; in
another week their hoofs and horns, if
tlioy have horns, go. Then they
grow weaker and weaker and finally
die of fatty degeneration. But ovon
to tho end they eat. tho beans witli iu
ifinitc relish. There are other plants
in the collection that aro used by tlio
natives in the treatment of rhoumatisiu
and dysentery with apparent siiccops.
The doctors aro "bushnion." who have
learned tho medicinal qualities of herbs
and root and trees by tradition.
Governor Bluko, for the party, sailed
to tho island of Alaeo one day and
settled the question as to whether
llamingos sit in or stand over their
limits, a question about which natural
ists have been in dispute tltese many
yeais. Dr. Dolley says Governor
Blake reported that flamingos sit in
their nests like other birds. The party
"wont swimming at night in a wonder
ful phosphorescent lake. At every
stroke tho swimmer created waves of
lire, and when they el imbed out upon
tliolr boat their bodies seemed covered
with myriads of flaming sparks. Tho
"sparks," of course, were myriads of
copopods, the littlo glowing creatures
that give tho appearance of tiro to tho
surface of tho lake.
Gome skulls of ih Luyeayans, tho
original inhabitants of tho Islands, who
wero exterminated within thirty years
after their discovery by Columbus,
wero found in a cavo. Philadelphia
Times.
IM
WHAT A MAN EATS.
Amount r Sntlil uml Liquid Food Cou
Miiunit liy lCvrry Iinllvliltiul.
It lias been calculated that on tho
average each man who attains the age
of throe score and ten consumes during
tho course of his life twenty wagon
loads of food, solid and liquid. Atfour
tons to the wagon, this would corre
spond to an' average of about a hundred
ounces of food per day, or say someone
hundred and twenty ounces per day
during adult life, and about eighty
ounces during infancy and youth. Most
modern doctors agree in regarding ono
hundred and twenty ounces of food per
day, corresponding to live or six half
pints of liquid food, and sovoii or eight
pounds of solid food, as in excess of tho
real dally requirements of a healthy
man or woman.
Yet, probably most of us take moro
than this, in one way or another, dur
ing the day. Dr. Lankostor, from an
extensive analysis of tlio dietary o( sol
diers, sailors, 'prisoners and tho better
paid classes of artisans and profession
al men in Loudon, found tho average
daily quantity of solid and liquid fond
to be Mil ounce. Doubtless many take
much less; but unquestionably many
take much more than this. When
some one mentioned bofore Sydney
Smith tho twenty wagon-loads of food
calculated for each man's allowance,
ho turned to Ixml Durham, who, liko
himself, was corpulent (aud not with
out sullleiout reason), with tho quaint
romark: "I think our wagons, Durham,
must bo four-horsed ones." There aro
members of tlio Loudon Corporation, to
nook no furthor. whose wagons must
bo six-horsed ones, and well loaded at
that. Jl. A. Proctor, in Cosmopolitan.
Ho "Now that wo aro marrlod wo
rio one, and I shall insist that this bo
tho last timo you appoar In a low-nock
dross." Sho "Wo vnay bo one, but
you aro only half of us. "d I shall
dreamy half as 1 please." BosIoh
Jitacon.
ENSILAGE RATIONS.
Motes ami Ruccntlon 8nbmltteel by an
Experienced AcrlonlturlnU
Tho individual practices of tho silo
owners of this country aro so varied
and the plans of raising silage so dif
ferent that it is difficult to lay down
any definite rules in regard to silage
feeding. The original idea of ensilage
was to secure by some moans as great
a growth of fodder as possible paying
no attention to grain bearing along
with stalk growth. By this plan silage
was largely "greenness and water,"
and in feeding it a great quantity was
necessary for a ration, and so, perforce,
grain in form of oats, bran, linseed
meal, and liko nitrogenous foods had
to bo fed to givo a balanced ration.
Under this system wo heard of cows
consuming bushels, each, of silage per
day, and a large grain ration in ad
dition. In tlio early days of ensilage
men told me they fed from seventy-fivo
to ono hundred pounds per day to
grown animals, and tho effect was
much as it would bo to gorgo an ani
mal on any other sort of dilute food.
It was not long before tho advocates
of exclusive silage feeding discovered
that the ration was too bulky, and that
not only was it better to direct tlio
growth of tho silago fodder towards
grain-bearing, but that thero must bo
a rotation of crops on tho farm. This
implied some clover and tamo hay, a
certain aniountof stalks from hold corn,
which should bo fed along with the
silage; and so from these causes thero
has boon a reduction in tho amount of
tho daily silage ration f and to my
knowledge last winter from twenty-five
to fifty pounds, along with other feed
ing materials, was about tho average
amount fed.
Necessarily there was a curtailment
of tlio silage ration when tho idea of
grain growth was made prominent in
tlio raising of ensilage fodder. Grad
ually, in this, the amount of cnsilago
seed corn has been reduced to about
twolvo to fourteen quarts per acre, and
this ihinnlng out not only gives a strong,
lusty stalk in placn of tho spindling
one, but a big, well developed oar of
grain on about every stalk, that adds
fully one-half to tho ration, pound for
pound. This season 1 drilled in my cn
silago in rows three feot eight inches
apart, a kernel each six or eight inches
in the row, and tho result has been
more like field corn in its development
of grain not attempts at ears, but
full-sized ears, with filled and plump
kernels. Tho stalks growing twelve
and fourteen feet high, will average
twenty good ears to each twenty-five
stalks, and as wo cut thorn into tho silo,
the silage as it camo falling from tho
"snoot," seemed whito with its mixture
of corn, and must mako a ration that
has moro than twico tho feeding value
of silage that bears no grain for tlio
latter is largely lacking in sugar and
starch and a proportionate smaller
amount must havo equal feeding value.
Tho outcry against silngo for tho
dairy has ceased, and no ono now dis
putes tho excellence of milk made from
a good silago ration and to do so
would bo to ily in tho face of facts
and so how to feed silago after it lias
been "cooked" in tlio pit, is of somo
moment. Tho silago is ready to food
as soon as the temperature has fallen to
about eighty degrees, which it seams to
do readily in about three weeks, after
putting on tho covers. A very desirable
thing to do, when ready to commence
feeding, is to remove tho covers all ofi'
from ono pit, and romovo the silago as
wantod evenly from tho surface This
method gives the silago a chance to bo
cmnn "aired" and loso its fresh, nnd
often somewhat pungent, odor; aud
thon it can not givo to tho milk any
foreign flavor. In feeding the silage
should bo removed from tho surfaco of
tho pit so frequently that there is no
chance for any change to occur in its
chemical character; and observance of
this rule, oven with what is known as
sour silage, prevents any deterioration
in tlio milk.
Whou bran is fed, it is dcsirablo that
tho amount should be divided nnd put
on the morning and evening silago
feeds. The two are then eatou together,
aud go through tho animal laboratory
together fordlgostiou aud assimilation,
and no known method of feeding can
better this.
Handiness in foeding silago is great
ly promoted by using a two-whoeloil
whccl-barrow. Such a barrow is not
inclined to tip over, and if madu to
hold about livo or six bushels, it will
contain silago sufficient for about
twelve cows. By weighing a fow scoop
shovelfuls, ono can quickly learn to
weigh a ration by tho oyo and hand,
nhd tho work of feeding a stable of
cows or steers is quickly performod,
and the bran can bo aildod to the sil
ago in tlio manger, aud the proportion
for oacli animal can bo varied as cir
cumstances may warrant, John Gould,
in Rural Xcw Yorker.
Littlo Goorglo used to say his ovon
ing prayer while sitting In his mother's
lap. Ono night ho hopped down, and
dropping on his knees, raised his hands
in a very devotional attitude, and re
peated: "Now I lay mo down to sloop."
Charmed at tho manifestation of rev
erence, his father askod: "Georgie,
do you suppose God likes to have you
say your prayers this way bettor than
tlio way you used to?" "O, 1 don't
suppose God cares anything about it,"
tho child replied. was thinking of
tho kangaroo." Ho had been to tho
meuagerio and seen the animal sitting
on its haunches witli its foie feot placed
together somewhat as ho placed his
hands in saying his prayers. Boston
Post.
-Allow no cruelty to domostio anl-
uinli.
PRIMITIVE PEASANTS."
The Social Condition or the Simple In
habitant of the Azores.
On our way through tlio country wo
saw wheat being trodden out in the
old-fashioned manner by yokes of oxen.
Tho Scriptural injunction in regard to
not muzzling tho ox wag more honored
in tho breach than in tho observance.
This laxity on tho part of tho inhabi
tants can bo excused, however, when
tho high taxes under which they labor
aro considered. Tlio Government ex
acts and rigorously collects an exorbi
tant toll from every farmer in tiio
islands; bosidos this, ho is taxed for
personal property, for maintenance of
a doctor in ids district, and for school
ing, if obtained at night, which amounts
to tho same as taxing him for day
school, as under the circumstances it is
hardly possiblo fortho young Azoroan
to spond much of fiis timo during tho
day in tho idlo diversion of tho throo
B's. Tho Church, of course, comos
in for its share although this last lux
ury is nominally free
Tho pay of a first-class workman is
usually 60 to CO cents per day, including
meals. Farm laborers are not paid so
well; they got 25 to 30 cents and many
are glad to work for a baro subsistence
Tho dream of a peasant's life in tlio
Azores is to be able to get to America.
This is his El Dorado, and wholo families
deny themselves for years so as to save
enough money to send tho younger
mombers of tlio household to tlio laud
of promise Fifty dollars is accounted
a largo capital with which to start tlio
happy youth in life If this can not bo
raised before he readies tho ag'o of
fifteen ho cither iias to loavo with less
monej' or not leavo at all, as no one is
allowed to emigrate after reaching that
age
The utmost care is taken that no ono
breaks this law, but here as in most
cases tlio world over, "Where thero is
a will thero is a way." Many peasants
whose families were too poortoprovido
them witli tho necessary dot beforo the
age of restriction, by steady industry
and frugality accumulate sufficient
money to pay their passage to America
in somo of the vessels trading between
the islands and tho States. When tho
vessel quits port with a clean clearanco
from the local authorities sho immedi
ately proceeds to put as much distance
between hot and tlio island as possible,
seemingly.' But onco beyond tho view
of tho sharp-eyed officials spocd is
slackened, and under cover of tlio dark
ness sho returns toward tho island and
lowers a boat when off some pre-arranged
spot to take on board the runa
ways. At othor times another plan is
adopted. A vessel touching nt one island
and bound for anothor of tho group
takes on board somo of tho natives as
passengers for tho latter place. This
is perfectly legitimate and nothing is
done to hinder her departure When,
however, it is found that theso natives
am not only ready, but anxious to fore
go the pleasure of landing at tho second
port and signify their willingness to
proceed with tho captain wherover ho
is going, ovon to America, and will pay
tlioir passage, ho usually onds by find
tug tho weather too bad to mako the
port originally intended, and lands Ids
passongers in America under a cortili
cato smoothing to that effect.
Atsixtoen the Azoroap youth is liablo
for military duty and tho glories of a
soldier's lifo aro thrust upon him for five
yoars whether ho is ambitious or not.
Tlio pay of a soldier in tho Portuguese
servico is not calulatod to tiro tho heart
of ovon the poor Azoroan peasant with
martial longings. Two suits of uniform,
consisting of a dingy brown surtout, a
still" shako and a very baggy pair of
brown linen trousers, comploto his out
fit for ono year. Throo cents per day
is allowed him to purchaso bread and
tobacco. If after fivo yoars of this lux
urious kind of lifo he is still found able
to boar arms, hois put witli tlierercrvo,
whore ho remains fivo yoars longer,, sub
ject to bo called upon for duty at a
moment's notice by the military authori
ties. Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
HORSE-MEAT FOR FOOD.
An Article of Diet Which I Quite Popu
lar In 1'itrl uml Ilerlln.
English-speaking peoplo havo nevor
takon kindly to tho idoa of eating horo
llosh, although somo peraons in this
country and many moro in England
havo from timo to time stronuously ad
vocated its use Tlio belief, ltowovor,
that largo quantities of liorso-llesh aro
fraudulently sold for more orthodox
moats, in tho latter country, has re
cently provoked tho pooplo of Manches
ter and Salford to call a publio meeting
and petition Parliament to pass an act
to compel butchers who soil horse-flesh
to label it as such.
In Paris, Berlin and Vionna tho pop
ular consumption of horse-flesh seems
to bo constantly increasing. In 1877
thoroworo slaughtered for food in Paris
10,619 horses and mulos, and in 1878
the numbor inereasod to 11,319. In
tho winter soasons of thoso two years
thero wero slaughtered in Borlin about
6,000 horses, tho flesh of which was
mainly usod for sausages. Tho central
horse-slaughtering establishment of
Berlin comprises an ncro of land, upon
which aro buildings for tho inspectors,
stablos, ote Every morning tlio horses
to bo slaughtered aro mustored for in
spection, and such as appear disoascd
aro condemned to tho knackers. It is
stated that good horses aro gonorally
bought for this purposo, tho butchors
buying many young horses from tho
farmers and breeders which, for various
reasons, aro not considered dcsirablo
to raise Range Journal.
When a lamp burns poorly boil the
niotal burnor in soda aqd water,' Gum
my accumulations from tho oil will bo
removed aud tlio light will burn as
brilliantly it? ever.
HOW TO TELL STORIES.
An
Accomplishment Pomcssecl by nut
Vrvr Mortal.
In all ages and in all lands the art of
narrating a story by word of mouth or
by tho ready pen has been practiced,
and a fow "individuals among the rest
of mankind have been gifted with this
faculty, which they havo exercised In
preparing food for the fancy of their
hearers or readers in fable, epic or tlio
modem novel. These aro akin to tlio
artist who differs from tho moro pot
trait painter. Tho last named can pro
duce a resemblanco which may be per
fect in light and shade and even in ex
pression; but though this may givo us
pleasure it does not stir in in tho admira
tion that wo award to ono who can pro
duco a situation calling forth our emo
tion". Tlio faculty which can produce
this is much moro rarely met with.
A well-told tale is as rare as a per
fect day. It is the result of happy in
fluences, and. liko a woll-doveloped
man or woman, requires favorable cir
cumstances for its development. It
owes much of its interest to tho lan
guage used in telling it and tlio skill
with which it is illustrated, as in tlio
plays of Shakespeare Tlio plots of
man' of tlieo plays arc not original,
but the way in which tlio author lias
made, from what were originally but
phantoms, galleries of life-like figures,
is a striking proof of its power. A
similar effett is often produced by
writers of tales.
It shows great merit in a story wlisn
tho incidents of it linger in the memory.
"Silas Marner," by George Eliot, is a
remarkable instance of this quality.
Any ono who has read this talo must
have noted the ease with which each
incident may be recalled, even a long
time after it lias been read, and this
characteristic seems to result, from its
being free from superfluous matter,
from the way in which tho main inci
dents aro grouped, and from the
beauty anil simplicity of tlio loul
ensemble.
Love and war. with tho troubles re
sulting therefrom, form the materials
of most of tho ancient stories, while the
situations of tho modern novels aro the
results of complicated difficulties inci
dent to a more advanced state of civil
ization. Lifo abounds in incidents for
tho modern talc-writer. There are
many people who confine their gener
osity to what they consider their own
class, and who spend time and money
in deeds of charity, yet think nothing
of wounding tho feelings of those a little
beneath them in rank. They arc kind
after their own fashion, but would sac
rifice their dear friends rather than loso
an inch of their hard-won social posi-1
tion. Such people aro common both in
real lifo and in novels, and when the
story of their doings is well told it ex
cites in the reader much interest.
To read a good story has a similar
effect to spending a few hours in pleas
ant company; it cheers and relievos tho
mind; the small troubles that may have
vexed loso their hold upon us, and when
we return to them wo are so refreshed
and invigorated by tho action of change
that thoy weigh but lightly upon us.
Sometimes an incident recalls to our
memories somo of the pleasures and
pains of that brief season of early youth
of which wo all liko to prolong the re
membrance Stories from other lands
havo a great charm for young peoplo
and children. There is for them the
ndvolty of learning about, foreign cus
toms and seeing that human nature is
jdiko in its deep experiences under very
different outward ways and manners.
Chambers' Journal.
FIERCE DUST STORMS.
Impression Made by a Mot. Wind Day In
AiiHtriilla.
With strict impartiality it speeds
aliko down tho butter's chimney,
formed of old kerosene tins, and the
Elizabethan stacks of fashionable subur
ban mansions, charges up the busy
streets, Hashes through tho omnibuses,
in at ono window aud out of tho other,
liko tho clown in tho pantomime But
not all of itt not the six bushels! Shako
yourself and see Then it spins along
the suburban highways, pounces down
on tho scavengers' heap of dead leaves
and other odds and ends of unconsid
ered trifles, and they aro gone, and
their placo know them no more
Poets seeking new tropes and figures of
speech should try what can bo made of
an Australian dust storm. Every win
dow in tho chios is closed, and the
boated blast chafes and liowls about
tho casements in a fronzy of impotent
rage. Should any ono incautiously
turn a street cornor particularly
sprucely drossod, straightway it makes
for him" Tho air soon becomes a com
bination of atoms as lively as aerated
waters. Tho whole surrounding coun
try scorns shrouded by an atmosphere
which lias been whipped into the con
sistency of poa soup. Ono sido of tho
street is sometimes ns completely hid
den from tho other sido as by a Novem
ber fog in London. Woo to tho unlucky
housemaid who has inadvertently loft
open a single window! llopontanco in
sackcloth and dust is her condign pun
ishment. And thus the enemy speeds
up aud down tho day through. Tho
heat is stilling, but pooplo all seek to
close overy avenuo of approach. Bat
ten down and stew is the order of tho
day. Of two evils it is by far tlio least;
indeed, tho only defense, and every
port is closed as on b-.ard ship in bad
weather. Should the demon succeed in
elfecting.an extrancoho sweeps through
the hall, rushes up stairs, aud bangs
every door liko a maniac. Tho hotel
kitclion is a subject of special anxiety
to tho functionaries concerned, and cer
tain vendors of perishablu commodities
oloso their shops altogether. Murray's
Magazine.
Thero aro twouiy-ono bureaus of
labor in tlio United States. Four yours
go thero wero only sovou.
CALIFORNIA MONKS.
The Foundation, I'rocroK and Decay of
Santa Uarbara Mission.
It makes littlo difference how ono
enters the Santa Barbara valley, for
the mission wli'ch overlooks it is tlio
first object that attracts attention. It
occupies an elevated site at the head
of tho valley, and is clearly outlined
ngainst a background of hills. Tho
church was begun in 1786, and finished
in 1822. In 1812, nnd ngain in 1811.
it was nearly destroyed by earth
quakes. It was intended by Father
Junipero Serrano to build the Santa
Barbara Mission long before it was
really begun, but ho diod boforo doing
moro than select its location and con
secrate tho ground. From 1822 until
1833, when tho act of secularization
was passed, the building was tho cen
ter of great wealth and power. Tho
fathers wero temporal as well as
spiritual rulers of tho land, and their
church was tho best and
largest in California. Tho walls
were of stone, six feet thick,
and plastered with adobe; the
roof was covered with bright red tiles,
and in tho towers was hung a trio of
Spanish bells. In tho roar of the mis
sion tlio fathers had their garden a
shrub-grown half-acre, completely
isolated from the oiusido world. From
tho west tower along L extended at
right angles to tho body of tho church,
and facing this was an open corridor.
The Indian converts liveil in huts, and
tho fathers raised lnrsro quantities of
grapes aud olives. When war was
made upon tho Franciscans, tlio Santa
Barbara brothers wero tho only ones
who dared remain at their posts. That
thoy did so is duo tho excollcnt preser
vation of tho old building. Timo has
changed it somowliat, to be sure, but
has niollowed and softened rather than
destroyed. The stone stops leading to
the facade aro cracked and moss
grown; only ono of tho original six
fountains is left; the Indiaiu cabins
havo disappeared. A fow Franciscans,
shaven, and dressed in long, coarse
robes belled at the waists still inhabit
the baro narrow cells, and loiter about
the corridors and garden, and regular
service continues to bo hold.
There was a decidedly musty smell
to the church, and boih the visitors
spoko in whispers. Edith's guide
showed her all tho paintings, and gavo
tho history of each who this was done
by and when, how it came to Santa
Barbara, and other facts of interest.
Just beyond the choir wero two small
chapels, each with its altar pictures
and ornaments, and a fow steps from
that on tlio right of iho navo the father
stopped beforo a high doublo door
way, and began unlocking the heavy
door. When ho had thrown them
open ho crossed himself, nnd leading
tho way. asked Edith to follow. Doing
so, she foui.d herself in a walled in
closuro overgrown with rank grasses
and rose-lushes. Above tlio doorway
E.lilh saw three whitened skulls set in
tho wall, while tinder the oaves of the
church, which projected upon thick
buttresses, tho swallows were Hitting
back and forth from their nests of suu
baked mud.
"This is our cemetery, scnorita,"
said the father, at last.
"Aro the skulls real, father?" asked
Edith.
"Yes. child."
"And aro many peoplo buried
horo?"
"Oh, yes, very many. Wo do not
use it now. Thoro is not room, to tell
tho truth. You need not dig deep to
find skulh and bones inhere"
It was not a ploasant thought to
Edith to fool that sho wai walking
over the rcsting-placu of sho know not
how many pious fathers and Indians.
It was very quiet. A high wall com
pletely hid tho road to Mission Can
yon, and on tho west was tho church,
abovo which roso tlio towers. Thero
wero soveral vaults, and each had its
wooden cross and vines. Dovos wero
cooing on tho eaves, and tho swallows
chatted incessantly.
On loaving tho coniotory tho father
and Edith returned to tho church, and
passed up tlio long navo to tho altar,
which was covered with a snowy cloth,
and decorated with tall candlostieks
and other ornaments. Behind it, fill
ing tlio end of tho room, was a woodon
rercdos, elaborately carved, and hav
ing lino life-sized colored statues
before each panel. On oithor sido of
tho altar, set on whito pillars, wore
two other statues, and between them
was a largo cross, with tho Christ upon
it. To tho right Edith noticod a curiously-shaped
hat hanging upon tho
wall, which was covorod with dust.
"It belongod to Garcia San Diego,
the first Bishop of California," said
tlio father, wlion ho saw Edith looking
at it. "His body is entombed here,
as tho tablot says. Ho was a patient
workor and a godly man. Would 1
could bo buried bore, in tho very walls
of the church I servo!" Edwards
Roberts, itt Harper's Magazine
Living Mastodons.
D. II. Summers, of Danror, Col.,
who lit s spent somo timo in Alaska,
says that tho cxistonco of living mas
todons is not tho fabrication of North
ern furriers, but the Stick Indians told
him positively that thoy had soon such
animals. One Indian related that lie
had beon attractod by a lingo track
and followed it up until ho camo to iho
animal which mado it Hj described
inu uo.isi us iiuiug inrjjur mail uousc,
with shining yellow tusks and a mouth
largo enough to swallow him at ono
gulp. Many similar stories are cur
rent among tho natives. Chicago
Inter' Ocean.
A great many good mon hnvo
missed tho top of tho ladder by at
tempting too many rounds at tho first
ump. hoe and Leather Reporter.
PTJNGENTHPAftGRAPHS;'
The Englishman who said that hng
"inf was "'armless" was wrong. It is
armful. Lxfe.
Tlio first frost is twico blessed. It
brings down tho chestnut and the Mos
quito. Puck.
Man attributes his misfortunes to
bad luck and his success to shrewdness.
Whitehall Times.
In tho way of a good corn-pl anler,
thero is nothing to equal a tight boot
unless it be a tight shoo Albany Argw.
Speaking about alacrity, you should
observe a clerk tack up an early-closing
notice on a store door. Boston Qlobc.
Language was made to conceal
thought. A dude has no use for lan
guage, then, for ho has no thought to
conceal. Tid- Dils.
A man was arraigned on Saturday
for robbing hackmon. Ho must bo a
criminal of extraordinary ability.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
When a man attompts to warm his
bands over a hotel register it is high
time to inquire into his mental condi
tion. Hotel Mail.
There is no law to prevent a man
making a fool of himsolf. If there was,
some men would bo at n loss how to
pass tho time Texas Siflings.
Two women havo been known to
get along pleasantly in the samo house
for several months, but it so happcucd
that ono of them was blind and Uio
other was deaf and dumb.
First. Citizen "I say, Jack, this is
a queer April, isn't it?" Second Citi
zen "Yes, rather; but is it any queerer
than usual?" First Citizen "I think
so a good deal; I haven't lost a single
umbrella yet!" Xcw Haven Kews.
Her Father "Young man, I do not
object to your calling occasionally on
my daughter, but you mustn't stay so
late It was twelve o'clock last night
before you got away." Young Man
"Got away is very good, sir. I cither
had to stay or got my coat lorn."
Customer (to grower) "I see by
tho market quotxions that quito :i
change has txcn place in tlio prico of
butter," Grocer (startlod) "Is that
so? (To clerk) James, mark that
butter up fivo cents." Customer
"The price hasn't advanced, it has
dropped." Grocer "Oh! (to clerk)
Never mind, James." Texas Siflings.
A Sweet Maid's Query.
Sho kissed hor pug with hasto arose .
And mined upon that creature's noso .$,1
A storm of osoulatlons sweet: ' '
Tho s,well reclining at her feot fSt
Komarkcd, as he looked sideways up, .
"I wish that I'd been born a pup."
Then, smiling coldly from her throne,
Sho said: "And were you born full grown V
lloslon Courier.
Once upon a timo a lion got a
thorn in his foot. He was bellowing
lustily, when a poor peasant, attracted
by the animal's cries, camo along and
extracted the thorn. Tho lion was
quito overcome with gratitude. Said
he: "Good friend, you havo done mo
a servico which 1 can not forgot. I can
never consent to part with so good a
friend." And he devoured the peasant
on tho spot. Moral There, aro somo
folks who will use their friends for all
they aro worth. Ketter let such folks
howl till Hioy burst. They're used to
it. Help them once, and they've got a
mortgage on you for all timo. Ex
change. SERVIAN MURDERERS.
They Confers to llavl.iff Destroyed the
I.Ives of Mxiy Persons.
Muoh sensation lias been caused by
the detection in Servia of an organized
linnil nf lnnrilnmra Tim dispnvnrv ivd
made under remarkablo circumstances.
About a fortnight ago a Russian carpoL
merchant named AbramovicJ arrived
at Pi rot to mako his annual purchases.
Ho took up his quarters at ono of tho
largo inns of tho town. Toward toti
o'clock, whilo ho was making merry
with a party of friends, two gendarmes
called at tho inn and reqqestod
Abramovics to follow them to tho Pre
fecture Although Abramovics ex
hibited his passport in proper order,
ho was taken by tho gendarmes to tho
police station. When ho arrived thoro
lie was shown a warrant of arrest is
sued against him charging him with
spying. Ho was told that lie would
have to bo takon to tho Bulgarian
frontier, and that his olfocts had beon
sent on bofore him. Ho was put into
a ono-horso conveyance, but instead of
being driven to tho Bulgarian frontier
ho was taken to tho intronchmonts,
murdered, and robbed of ono thousahd
fivo hundred napoleons. On tho fol
lowing morning somo peasants found
his body. Information was given to
tho Deputy Prefect, who forthwith sont
troops to arrest tho Lieutonant of gond
armerio and all his men. Tho
prisoners aro said to havo confossod
that during tho last two years sixty
pooplo havo been murdered in tho
same way. Twenty-two gold watches
and a largo numbor of rings nnd
lockets wore found at their houses.
Two correspondents of French news
papers who wero at Pirot during , tho
war aro supposod to bo among their
victims. It is bolioved that a ring be
longing to ono of them has been found,
and a wax impression of it has been
sent to France. Ono of Princo Alex
ander's grooms, on his way back to
Germany, was murdered by tho samo
band. A telegram from Sonilin states
that the Lieutenant of gondarmorio un-
1 der airest charges tlio Deputy Prefoct
of Pirot with complicity in tho crimes.
Ho lias likowiso been takon into custody
and is reported to hnvo confessed, al
leging that in tlio casoof Abramovics
and of anothor murder ho acted on
suporior orders, It would appear
from tiio accounts rccoived up to tho
present thatin several instances politi
cal motives wero at tho bottom of tho
crimes. An official commission' of in
vestigation has been dispatched froiW
Belgrade to PJ rot. 01 asgow MaiL ,