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whom It was Invented by Bamuel Loyd, the
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movement to erect a great home for newspapet
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solvers. TEN CENTS sent to the "Press. Clul
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HORSE MEAT.
tt I, Not Very Palatable Even to
Han-
gry Soldier.
"You never ate horse flesh, I sup
pose?" said Lieut Russell, of the
Seventh United States cavalry, to a St.
Louis Globe-Democrat man. "I have
seen the t ime when I ate it with genuine
relish, and that, too, without rany salt.
It was in 1877, during Gen. Miles' Nez
Perees campaign. Vve had followed the
renegades up the Missouri to its con
fluence with the Yellowstone, and the
chase was so fast and exciting that we
didn't realize how low our larder was
getting until it was drained, and we
were getting too far away from the
base of supplies to replenish it. The
game had all been driven out of the
country ahead of us by the fleeing In
dians, and when we finally caught up
witn the reusltms anil forced them to
fight we had almost nothing to cat for
several days. We captured about seven
hundred ponies from the Indians, some
of them so round and sleelc and fat as
to appear to us the finest meat in the
world. Our butchers killed the youngest
and fattest of the ponies that night af
ter the battle, and as soon as they were
skinned and dressed we had a feast that
would have made Lucullus turn green
with envy. We lived on ithis pony meat
several days. It was cooked without
salt and roasted over a spit, like a
barbecued beef. The meat had a pe
culiar, sweet taste, not at all palatable
when I think of it now, and it was so
fibrous that we could pull it apart in
great strings. But it kept us from
i starving, and I, therefore, can heartily
recommend pony meat to people in dire
straits."
ORIGIN OF WHITECAPS.
How This Noted ltand or Outlaw, Gained
Its Name.
"I suppose there are fewer people in
this country who know the origin of
the term 'whitecaps' than there are
those who have fallen under the ban of
the scoundrels in Indiana and other
western states," said Hiram Berry, of
New York, in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
"The term did not originate in
this country, but its origin dates back
nearly a century to County Kerry, Ire
land. Nearly one hundred years ago,
when Ireland was more populous than
at present, and when the people were
not so harassed by British misrule,
there lived in County Kerry a large and
influential family named Whitecap,
who, whenever any of their neigh bors
became too obstreperous or immoral,
waited on them in the night, took them
from their houses and gave them a
sound thrashing with a cat-o'-ninc-tails
as a warning to desist from their wrong
i0i2;?intf RTilfilrvCere SfVne'envrltte
caps, not white caps, two words, as they
are written in this country. The pop
ular impression is that the appellation
comes from the form and color of the
headdress that the Indiana regulators
wear when perpetrating one of their
outrages, but this is a mistake, as the
history of the movement proves. The
Whitecaps in Ireland were a terror to
evil doers, and were of value to the
good order of the society of their day,
but I don't know that there is need for
them in any part of America.'
EXTINCT
MAMMOTHS.
Huge Bird,
Which Have
Disappeared
from the Earth.
Those who have read the story of
"Sinbad, the Sailor," will bo interested
to know that there is some foundation
for the supposed-to-be fabulous stories
he told of the roe and its monster eggs.
Ornithologists have figured that it was
a monster specimen of the cpinoris
family of birds, which are known to
have formerly lived in Madagascar.
The prize-takers among the cpinoi-is
stood (according to skeletons which
have been found in guano beds) within
a fraction of twelve feet high, and laid
eggs, specimens of which arc now in
existence, which were as large as a two
gallon jug and had a holding capacity
as great as one hundred and forty-eight
good-sized hen's eggs! The giant moa,
which did not become extinct until
after Capt. Cook's visit to New Zealand,
was larger, in point of weight and
bulk at least, than Sinbad's roe. The
moa was but nine feet high, but he
weighed over a thousand pounds. It
was so clumsy that Cook's sailors had
no difficulty in killing several of them
with hand spikes which were used
about the ship. The great auk, an
other species of birds now extinct, was
not so remarkable for its size as for the
fabulous sum of money now asked and
given for specimens of its eggs. In the
year 1889 an egg of the great auk sold
in London for 11,225.
A Woman's Paradise.
The ideal spot, in the opinion of many
of our American women, is the oasis of
Ghardaia, in the Sahara desert. There
the women have succeeded in emanci
pating themselves to a remarkable de
gree. When they marry they draw up
their own marriage contract, and if the
man in any way breaks it the woman
is immediately free and will have no
more to say to him. The Ghardaians
are Mohammedans, and by the law of
the prophet a man may have four wives
The women, however, do not allow
more than one, and polygamy is prac
tically banished. They have also a pe
culiar objection to drinking and smok-
ing, and in many contracts the hus-
band is told that if he falls into the
fculf , ..,.
habit of "consuming liquors or using
tobacco" he will be divorced.
Coincident Affliction.
The people of Oottenburg, Sweden,
will long remember old Gust Swansen
on account of the curious ease of
coincident affliction which followed him
and his family through life. Old Gust,
bis wife and their three children were
all born August 13. Gust had his eyes
put out by a powder explosion August
13, 1879. Dirkje and Altze, the two
daughters, both became insane simul
taneously on August 13, 18h0, nnd have
both since died. Peter, the son, was
killed by a pile driver August 13, 1633,
and at last old Gust and his wife were
both killed while crossing a railroad
bridge near their home on August 13,
EXILES FflOJI RUSSIA.
Eemarkabla Success of the Men.
nonites in Kansas.
A Self-Sustaining and Independent Peopl
ft'ho Have Nothing to Do With
the Outside World Save In
a Commercial Way.
ljuick as are Americans to criticise
the manners and customs of Russia,
and inferior as the "subjects of the czar
are frequently considered, the settlers
on the western prairies might well
learn a lesson of the Russians who have
their unique settlements among them,
The Mennonites, exiled from southern
Russia because" of their religion, made
as systematic an exodus as did the Is
raelites of old, says a Kansas corre
spondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
They sent out their agents to
:;py out the land, and purchased one
hundred thousand acres of the Santa
Fe and Kansas Pneili,. rniKvnv f.,-
homes. Then the people packed up visitea I!aron von Tresel, a poor noblo
tlieir household goods and came to m.an of Mnnheim. in the grand duchy
America. On the depot platforms they
landed, wearing sheepskin coats, the
woolly side out, and black kerchiefs "n10"? whieli was the bicycle,
over their heads. They carried iron "The baron was a gi-eat person for in
tealtettles and regarded the gazing Tentln- He spent all he had on his
Americans with as much curiosity as ProJects' Bnd was in T reduced eir
tliev themselves attracted. They built uum9tances- Still, he kept on with
their villages of yellow limestone, the th.em' hvln on but ver3' little- IIiB
houses having queer hip roofs, green mlduay meal consisted of a piece of
blinds and double doors like those seen bread Bnd a sma11 bit of sausage. Peo
in a mill. Curious ovens in which P)e called him the crazy baron. Among
prairie hay or straw could be burned llis invcntion8 "as a contrivance for.
overcame the lack of fuel, and a street snuninfe" out a candle when it burned
looked for all the world as though it down the danger line,
had dropped out of an illustration in a '"I'hls was 'or the benefit of folks
Siberian sketch. Such names as "Cuth- wno read in bed. But the bicycle was
erine stadl," "Lcberthal" and "Pfeif- tne Principal thing. The wheels were
fer" grace, their towns, and no man not ot equal size' but nad n0 pedals. The
of Memiouite peiwuasion is allowed in- seat TOSe UP from the mil'l'e and could
side the limits as a resident, though be re?uIatt'd like a piano stool. You
visitors are cordially welcomed. sat on that seat and propelled the ma
The Menonnites' number several chine' b7 striking the feet against the
thousand, but they are never heard of B'r,ounu' He invited me to take a ride
in polities. They are busy tilling their with nim- IIe roao heside me on one
one hundred thousand acres, raising andkoPt me from falling off the other
stock, planting orchards and piling- up until 1 lparnd how to get along,
wealth. The wide-awnke westerner, "It was Pretty awkward, and I re
standing on the street corner explain- memopr that I scraped the toes of my
ingtlie "contraction of the currency" shoes off i" the course of the journey,
to a knot of listeners, sees a half-dozen We ro,le ab""t two English miles. The
odd-looking wagons come toiling up faron never made anything out of his
the road. They tire loaded with wheat inventions, but the government, I be
am! solenin-i'aced Jleiinonniles. who Uve, gave him a little pension to keep
guide the soberer teams, pocket the
payment and trudge homeward. The
orators hold forth in the country
schoolhouse. and the eager real estate
agent plats additions to the towns, but
the Mennonites nnv no ji.ttiriti.,i, I
either. They keen on li:.,.. i 1 .- wwi eiuier nsn or rah
probably, their number considered, bit. A writer in the Rocky Mountain
that Kansas affords. They take few News has known soino very ludicrous
papers, they do not vote, they care things to happen when meanly mis
nothing whether the government is re- ehievous Americans deluded Navajos
publican or democratic in its manage- into eating either of those forbidden
ment. They are as isolated as though dishes, and sometimes there have been
they were upon a sea Island, except bb very serious retaliations for the 111
they bring their produce to the station, mannered joke. Rabbits are wonderful
It is noticeable that nearly all the ly numerous in the Navajo country, be
lauds are in the much discussed "arid ing molested only by feathered and
h"lt." yet the .Mennonites never ask four-footed enemies; but the Indian
aid or seed wheat. They prosper every who would tight to death sooner than
vear. aud tlieir Homes are vernaoio
storehouses of garden and held prod
ucts. To step into them is like a visit
to the. hind of Volga. Curious furni
ture, strange garb nnif peculiar hab
its impress one with the feeling that
lie is in another land and another age.
T!ie houses are for the most part sur
rounded by stone walls and old coun
try fashions in fencing burns, and im
plements are everywhere apparent.
They have their own minister, their
own church and their own schools.
When a "higher" education is desired
(and some of the young people are as dony tipped arrow through him, pin
forward in their ambition for learning ning him to the ground so that ho can
as American youth) there is plenty of not tumble back into his home, as he
money in the village bank to send has a wonderful faculty for doing even
them to Europe or to some eastern col- n death, or a dark hand darts from be
lege to acquire it. During the. hist hind like lightning, seizes his chunky
year, when common complaint oi imru
times went up from the dwellers on
the plains, when seed wheat has been
sent by the thousand bushels to Amer
ican settlers, the Russians have con
tinued to thrive. Their old-fashioned
vehicles have come regularly to the
railroads, and car load after car-load
of wheat has been sent east. Lumber
dealers in the towns where they do
tlieir buying t ay that there has been
no diminution in their purchases, and
that by far the larger portion of their
yards' sales have gone to their Itussian
customers, 'i here is an important les
son iu their success. They have shown
by tlieir works what industry and fru
gality can accomplish upon the prai
ries, and what can be done with the
right kind of effort. Still it is doubt
ful if the American settler could bring
himself aud his family to the grinding
economy of European peasant life
which the Mennonites have trans
planted in their settlements.
A Remarkable Cactus.
A flower has been discovered in South
America which is only visible when
the wind blows. The shrub belongs to
the eiietus family, and is about three
feet high. The stem is covered with
deud. watery-looking lumps In culm
weather: then! lumps, however, need
but a slip-lil breeze to make them un
fold large flowers of a creamy white,
which close and appear dead as soon
as the windsnlisidcH
. TZZ Negative.
And said: Oo asv arp.r-B narar
A Harp of Wood.
Two Frenchmen, the brothers Torre,
have invented a new kind of harp, madt
entirely of wood. Instead of strings,
the inventors use strips of American fir.
The sound is produced, as in the ordi
nary harp, hv the contact of the fingers,
but the pla'yrs "ear leather gloves
covered with' re:,i:i. The tone of the in
strument is ot remarkable purity.
The general mprcnndise establish
ment formerly owned by Coffin 4 Mr Far
land, has lately changed hands, now be
ini? nnder tbe control and mansa'meir
d Mercantile Compsnv,
wbiob continues business at tbe old stand
with a larger stook than ever. a
Highest of all in Leavening
ABSOLUTELY PURE
BICYCLES.SIXTY YEARS AGO.
luey Were Invented by a German Baron
Who Called Theui "Treslnns."
Cyclers will be interested in this talk
from the Baltimore Sun: "It wa
about the year 1S37," said William
Boucher, Jr., one of our oKlest and
hest-known citizens, recently, "that I
of
Baden, my native place, and he
snowea me a number of inventions,
him from want.
lie called his bicycle
invention the 'tresina.
HUNTING THE PRAIRIE
DOG.
Navajo Indians Lure Them from
Harrows with Uf It-m,...
Their
toucn a ueucious ruumu ti;w i niwr
lly fond of the fat and querulous prairie ,
dog. That whole region abounds in
"dog towns, ano uiey are ii-equeuuy -besieged
by their swarthy foes. A Company, at Washington, U. 0., and
Navajo will stick a bit of mirror in the j 'hey will prepare and send tbe neoessary
entrance of a burrow and lie behind application, it Ibey find them entitled
the little mound all day if need be to under the numerous laws enacted for
secure the coveted prize. When Mr. I tuejr benefit. Address
J usa ventures irom ins miuwiu uccp
underground he sees a familiar image
mocking him at the front door; and
when he hurries out to confront the im
nudent intruder, whizz! goes a chalce-
neeic safely beyond tne reacn oi ins
chisel-shaped tcet, and breaks his spine
rith one swift snap.
NOT ALWAYS
PRETTY.
Idolizing
Notorious Women
Fault ol
ltcportera.
When a woman becomes Involved in
any escapade t hut renders her suddenly
notorious she is invariably referred tc
as beautiful, and generally a descrip
tion more or less fanciful of her various
charms is given. That enterprise on the
part of correspondents, says the Chica
go Herald, is entirely unnecessary, be
cause it is not ahvj-ys the handsome
woman who proves r.xt attractive to
the opposite sex or is .-.I'-able of doing
the most, mischief in Uvi world. This
truth is well illustrated in the ease, of
Mrs. Iletherington. She wan variously
described as "ravishingly beautiful,"
as having a "doll face wit h a baby's
complexion," and ns vainly conscious
of her own charms. She passed through
Chicago the other day, nnd a truthful
reporter of the Herald describes her a
plain. She is short and slightly built
and has a sallow complexion and dark
rings around the eyes. Perhaps such a
description accords with the popular
notions of beauty in Japan, that land
of sallow complexions and little wom
en, but we have different ideas here.
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THE WESTERN PEDAGOtilllfi.
We are in receipt uf tbe May number
of our state school paper. It exceed
any of the former numb ts it value.
Tbe paper this month contains innoy
uew and valuable features. Tbe illus
trated series on tbe schools of the state
introduced by a paper on tbe Friends
Polytechnic Institute at Salem, Oregon.
I'hese papers cannot fail to be of great
value both to the sohools an 1 to tbe
public.
There are also seveml fiue articles
liy our best writers mid the departments
"Current Eveuts'-'Snturdiiy Thuughta,"
'Educational News" "The Oracle
Answers', Correspondents," etc., eaoh
ooutnin much valuable reading for
teacbers or parents. The niogazine
bus about 60 pages of mutter, well
printed aud arranged. We pronouuoe
the Western Pedagogue the best eduoa
tional monthly on tbe const.
Everyone of onr readers ebould have
the paper if tbey are at all interested
in education. No teaoher school direc
tor or student can get along well with
out it. We will reoeive subscript. ons
nt this office. Price only 81.00 a year.
Wheu desired we will send the Western
PedHiiniiue and Oszetie one jear lo one
nddress for $300 Call and exnmine
sniple copies. TeBOhers, direotors and
parents, now jp the time mbscribe. tf
. A. It. NOT1CK.
We take this opportunity of informing
onr subscribers that tbe new oommis
"iouer of pensions lins been apooinled
lie isun old soldier, aud we telievo
ihnt soldiers and their heirs will re
oeive justice at his hands. We do not
anticipate that there will be any radioal
changes in the dmiuiatrntinn nt
soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take
ateps to make application at onoe, if
ibey have not already done bo, in order
to secure tbe benefit of the early filing
uf tbeir olsiins in onse there should be
any future pension legislation. Snob,
legislation is seldom retroactive. Ihere
fore it is of (.rent importance that ap
plications be filed iu the department at
I he earliest possible date.
If the U. S soldiers, sailors, or their
widows, ohildren or pare tits desire ta
urmation in regard to pension matters,
t,iev Bhoaj write to the Press Claims
PRVHtl Of if Mil rnMPANV
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John Weddkbiiurn, Msnsiting Attor
ney, Washington, D. O., P. O. Box 885
tf.
SPANISH PLEASURES.
ems to He Uiithcr a Holemu and
Mournful Tiling.
lender of the oi-'liestra began to
in the piano a brief, monotonous
Th
play
air, and the
111:111 looking out be
tween her hall-shut eyes began the
Mahigiiena. It was a strange, piercing,
Moorish chant, snys a writer in the Sat
urday Iteview, sung in a high falsetto
voice, in long, acute, trembling phrases
a wail rut her than a song with
pauses, as if to gain breath, between.
A few words seemed to be repeated over
and over again, with tremulous, inar
ticulate eries that wavered ill time to a
regularly beating rhythm. The sound
was like nothing 1 have ever heard. It
pierced the brain, i'. tortured one with
a sort of delicious spasm.
The next song had more of a regular
melody, though still in this extraordi
nary, strained voice, andstill with some
thing of u lament in its monotony. I
could not understand the words, but the
woman's gestures left no doubt as to
the character of the song. It was as
sertively indecent, but with that curi
ous kind of indi uc.v an almost reli
gious solemnity wn performer and audi
ienec which the Spaniards share with
the eastern ra-es. Another song fol
lowed, given with the same serious and
collected indecency, and re-eived with
the same serious and collected atten
tion. H had a refrain of "Alleluia!"
and tbe woman, I know not why, bor
rowed a man's soft felt hat, turned
down the brim, anil put it on before be
ginning the R-in-r. When the applause
was over she returned the hat, came
back to the t:ible at. w hh-h she had been
sitting, dismally enough, and yawned
nore desperately than ever.
lIonorH, World's Fair.
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