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IN AFRICA.
How
Scientific Gent Was Despoiled of
Ftre Thousand Dollars.
One of tbe most curious expeditions
ever planned by man was that once
undertaken by Dr. J. G. Bunting, of
Portland, says the Lcwiston (Me.)
.Tnnrnn.1. Durincr all his life he had
Wn n plnco Btniipnt of the nliilosonhv
of digestion, and for the purpose of his ,
investigations he had that remarkable
Canadian, Alexis St. Martin, in his
care for twenty years. In order to
clinch matters and provide facts for
some of the doubting Thomases Dr.
Hunting cast about for some one else
upon whom he might continue to ex- I
poriment.
He could think of but one plan, and
that was to go into Africa, buy two
slaves, and operate upon their stom
achs. By opening the body near tho
fifth rib and perforating the stomach
a condition could be produced similar
to that existing in the person of St.
Martin. Therefore the doctor pnr
ehased his supplies and sailed across
to Tunis In the north of Africa. There
he hired a native chief witli forty of
!iis followers, paying them a liberal
retaining fee and promising them al
luring largess when the trip should be
ended. They set forth. The doctor
carried one thousand pounds in his in
side pocket, and the chief probably lay
awake four nights thinking about the
matter.
At any rate, on the fifth night ho
sneaked into the doctor's tent and de
livered a little address over the muz'
zles of two pistols. When he had con
cluded the doctor passed over his
ducats and the chief passed over the
border along with his renegade band.
They htlped themselves to such sup
plies as suited their artless and unen
lightened tastes. The doctor came
back' without a retinue and with a deal
of experience that will never appear
In a medical work.
FROGS AND WASPS.-
The Former Eat the Latter and Seem to
Enjoy Them Very Much.
Some time apfo 1 discovered, acci
dentally, that frog's are voracious cat
ers of wasps. I have in my garden a
tank for watering, with an inland of
rockwork, which is a favorite haunt of
the frogs, tvrites E. E. Bartlett in the
London Spectator. The wasps just no w
are carrying on a raid aprainst my fruit,
and when I wish to gratify at once my
revenge and my frogs 1 catch a ma
rauder between a post card and an in
verted wine glass, carry him off to the
tank, wet his wings to prevent his fly
ing, and set him on the rockwork be
fore the frogs. ..
After a moment's pause a frog d.
vances, and in an kistnnt the wasp has
disappeared, drawn into the frog'R
mouth by a single dart of his long
tongue. Occasionally the wasp reap
pears, wholly or partially, having made
it unpleasant for the frog, but ho is al
most always swallowed in the end.
Usually convuliiive movements may be
noticed id the frog's throat and body,
as though the process of deglutition
were not quite easy; but that they like
Hie diet is evident from the fact that a
single smallish frog has been known
to take three wasps one after another.
Indeed, it is remarkable what very
small frogs, quite infants, will swallow
a wasp with avidity. One afternoon
a tiny frog swallowed a full-grown
wasp, when a big relative went for him
quite savagely, like a big schoolboy
thrashing a small one for presuming
to be helped before him.
Mackerel 1 liberies In Kerry.
A Kerry correspondent of United Ire
land writes: Dingle, on the extreme
western coast of Kerry, is now the
center of very active operations in the
mackerel fishery industry. Largo
takes of mackerel have been taken olf
the coast, and the recent trade which
has sprung up in the curing of mack
erel during the autumn season for the
American market has brought employ
ment and money to the doors of the
the Kerry peasant and shopkeeper.
Dingle is, in fact, a hive of industry at
the present moment, owing to the cur
ing and packing of mackerel for the
American market. Every man, woman
and child is employed, and thousands
of cases are dispatched weekly to Liv
erpool and Glasgow for conveyance to
American ports. The mackerel are
found off the coast in great nhou!s, and
a fleet of boats is engaged in capturing
them, landing the fish in Dingle, where
they are cured and prepared.
SOME WORLD'S WONDERS.
Thk most ancient catacombs are
those of Egypt, over 4,000 years old.
The finest collection of antiquities
In the world is in the British museum.
Thk largest bell in the world is in
the Kremlin at Moscow, 4112,000 pounds.
The largest university is Oxford; it
has twenty-one colleges and five halls.
The largest .American city park is
Fairmount, at Philadelphia, !j,740 acres.
The tallest stone tower Is the Wash
ington monument at Washington, 555
feet.
The greatest inland sea is the Cas
pian, which is 700 miles long by 270 in
width.
The best whispering gallery is in
the dome of St. Paul's cathedral in
London.
The largest ship was the Oreat East
ern, 600 feet long, 118 feet broad; 12,
000 tons.
The most disastrous flood was that
of Holland, 1530; 400,000 persons
drowned.
The oldest known pottery is that of
Egypt; some of it dates from nearly
4,000 B. C.
The oldest written history is that
contained in the books said to be writ
ten by Moses.
Thz largest tunnel is that under the
St. Gothard paaa. It is nine and one
ntif miles.
Thz oldest natural weapon Is the
elub; the oldest manufactured weapon
ia tbe sword.
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A VIVISECTOR
AN EXPENSIVE LIGHT.
What It Cost sin Invstsrata Smoker to
Ignite Ills Cigar.
Inveterate smokers acknowledge
that the habit is a most expensive one,
but it Is seldom that a light for a cigar
costs a smoker a fortune, as in the
atorv told by the author of "Glances
Back Through Seventy Years." lie
was an inveterate smoker, having con
tracted "a diseased habit of puffing
away at a cigar every moment he was
not eating or sleeping." He smoked
only the very best brands, and in those
careless days spent, as he says, more
for cigars than it afterward cost him to
live
Well, one afternoon a day or two
before 'Palmer's Life' was published, I
had been to a prize cattle show at
Chelmsford, and then to dinner with
the Royal Agricultural society; end on
arriving in town by the last train, as I
was walking homeward, my cigar un
fortunately went out and, much to my
annoyance, I discovered I had no fuses
about me. The streets, too, were de
serted, so there was nobody from whom
a light could be obtained.
"On descending Ludgate hill I no
ticed that the glass of the gas lamp
perched high against the wall just
within Belle Sauvage yard was broken.
There being a slanting ledge at the
lower part of this wall I placed my
foot on it and, springing up, succeeded
in lighting a paper spill which 1 had im
provised, but in my rapid descent one
of niy feet unluckily caught the edge
of the curb and I dislocated my ankle
and broke the small bone of my leg
"Quiok as thought I wrenched the
ankle into its place again, but it was
not so easy to unite two pieces of frac
tured bone, so I hopped to a neighbor
ing post and there awaited the pro
tecting peeler's periodic round.
"lie came at last and charitably put
me into a cab, and accompanied me
home. I was carried upstairs, a sur
geon was sent for and the broken limb
was set. Then I was put to bed and
told I should have to remain there a
month or more.
"It was while I was fretting under
this involuntary confinement that my
partner in 'Palmer's Life' paid me a
sympathetic visit and bought me out
of the speculation for a mere song,
without of course saying a word to me
of the phenomenal succesB our joint
venture had already met with.
"Owing to this circumstance I have
always reckoned that the going out of
my cigar cost me about fifteen hun
dred pounds, which actuaries tell me
would, with compound interest added,
have amounted to some six thousand
pounds at this date. A sum sufficient,
I fancy, to buy up all the partagus im
periales superfinoa' in the world."
DR. JOHNSON.
The
Tenderness of a Most
Tyrannical
Dogmatist.
The writings of Hannah More had
made her famous before she was twenty-five
years of Bge, and she attracted
the attention of Sheridan by her verses
when she was scarcely eighteen. John
Lord, in "Great Women," describes
her as stern as a disciplinarian, but
not objecting to healthy and natural
amusements.
She was a model woman; beautiful,
yet not vain; independent, yet respect
ful to authority; hospitable, without
extravagance.
Dr. Johnson was her warmest friend,
whom she ever respected for his lofty
moral nature. He called her his child.
Sometimos he was severe on her, when
she differed from him in opinion, or
when caught praising books which he,
as a moralist, abhorred, like the novels
of Fielding and Smollut, for the only
novelist he could tolerate was Richard
son. Once when she warmly expatiated In
praise of the Jansenists, the overbear
ing autocrat exclaimed, in a voice of
thunder:
"Madam, let me hear no more of
thisi Don't quote your popish author
ities to me; I want none of your
popery!"
But seeing that his friend was over
whelmed with the shock he gave her,
his countenance Instantly changed:
his lip quivered, and his eyes filled
with tears. He gently took her hand,
and with the deepest emotion ex
claimed: "Child, never mind what I
have said I Follow true piety wherever
you find it."
This anecdote is a key to the whole
character of Johnson, interesting and
uninteresting; for this rough, tyran
nical dogmatist was also one of the
tenderest of men, and had a bou! as im
pressible as that of a woman.
A Queer Little Quaker Custom.
Near the city of Philadelphia there
are a few quaint old villages where
Quakers and Quaker customs are to be
found just as they were in the days of
good old William Penn. You have no
idea flow odd some of these customs are.
A few days ago a New York lady was
traveling through one of these littlo
villages, and, being tired, she stopped
at an old brick farm-house to rest. Im
mediately there came out a little girl,
dressed all in gray, who Invited her to
come in the house and have a cup of
tea and some cakes. When the lady
had partaken of her refreshment and
turned to go, she offered the old-fashioned
maid in gray some candy out of a
sweetmeat box which shecarried at her
belt.
"No, I thank thee," said the little
one bashfully. "I thank thee but
no."
"Please take the candy," urged the
lady, "I want to give it to you because
you have been so kind to me."
For a minute the little one hesitated.
She put out her hand, as if yielding to
temptation, and then drew it back res
olutely, as she said:
"I thank thee, no. I may not take
tbe candy now, because when thee
asked me first, if I would have some, I
told thee no, and now I may not take
any until thee comes tome other day."
N. Y. Ledger. .
Borg, the jeweler, is the man to fix np
your watoh or clook. de keeps a full
stock of everything pertaining to bit
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THE CONGO RAILROAD.
Native Africans Have at Last Cesusuted
to Help Build It.
Maj. Thys, who is in charge of build
ing the Congo railroad, sent a letter
home to Brussels, a short time ago,
that excited much surprise. He said
that the Congo natives themselves had
at last begun to show much interest in
the iron highway that is building
through their villages, and many of
them are now employed in the work.
During the two years since the build
ing of the road began the enterprise
has not been able until now to com
mand the services of the Congo natives.
They were glad to engage in the car
rier service, but drew the line at dig
ging on the railroad. The company
was compelled to import all its rail- j
road labor from Zanzibar and ports ;
along the Oulf of Guinea, and this was
both inconvenient and expensiye.
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CONGO TRACK LAYERS. '
Early this year quite a large party of
Chinese laborers were taken to the
Congo and put to work on the railroad.
Not only are the Congo natives now
working for wages on the road, but,
Maj. Thys writes, many of them who
are not in the service daily visit the
scene of track laying and work for
hours, apparently for the fun of it.
Our picture is taken from a photo
graph sent to Europe by Capt. Weyns,
showing a number of these natives en
gaged in laying track. They are in
charge of a white superintendent. Maj.
Thys says they are as easily taught
how to do good work on a railroad as
any blick men ho has ever had in his
service. They have not grown weary
of their new work, and the prospocts
are that the Congo railroad labor prob
lem is solved. If this experiment sue
ceedB, the company will have overcome
one of its greatest difficulties. The
railroad is now approaching the more
populous districts of the lower Congo,
and the company hopes to draw its
working force from these villages in
stead of importing labor from the
Guinea coast. Things havo evidently
moved on the Congo since Stanley la
bored, in vain, to induce these same
natives to help him carry his first loads
of supplies up the river, when he was
on his way to tho Stanley Pool to found
his first station.
LITERARY MISCtLLANY.
Deah Stanley wrote such bad copy
that the printers charged half a crown
a sheet extra for setting It up.
Miss Hii.DFOAitoK Hawthorne, a
daughter of Julian Hawthorne, has
won a prize of one hundred dollars of
fered by Current Literature for the
best world's fair article. Its title Is
"The Arabian Torture Dance."
Tub heirs of the elder Dumas still
have an Income of about seven thou
sand dollars a year from the sale of his
novels. Of his three hundred books
the most popular are: "The Three
Musketeers" and "Monte Cristo."
A niece of Charles Kcade, Miss Amye
Keade, is proving herself an inheritor
of at least some of her distinguished
uncle's talent. The- clever circus story,
"Ruby," is from her pen, and she is
now at work upon a novel to be called
"Zerma."
Ioni Tknnyrov is busy writing the
life of his father at his Isle of Wight
residence of Farringford. Hallam
Tennyson sounds better than Lord
Tennyson, but it comes much easier
to call him by his title than to use it
speaking of the poet, whose dignity it
derogated from.
Miss Grace Demo Litciifiki.ii, whose
charming stories have endeared her to
so many people, is still In wretched
health, as a result of a long-ago attack
of grippe, and will seek the benefit of
the southern California climate this
winter. Miss Litchfield has a larire
fortune in her own right, and her
I literary work is all a labor of love.
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The greatest speed attained by
sailing ships, according to Mulhal, was
by the James Baines, 420 miles in
twenty-four hours, and Flying Cloud,
412. The Red Jacket ran 2,280 miles
in seven days, averaging 825 miles a
day.
The appearance of a ladies' eight on
the Thames has attracted considera
ble attention. The craft in which they
row is a light one, and the members of
the crew are all neatly attired in white,
with ties and hatbands of Leander
cerise.
Tub duchess of Fife (Princess
Louise) has succeeded in maintaining'
her reputation as an expert angler.
She has taken thirty salmon the past
season, and on one day she landed as
many as seven, which ranged from
nine to fourteen pounds in weight.
Recently the Cunard Btearaer
Lucania reduced the Cunard steamer
Campania's eastward record by one
hour and twenty-flve minutes, and the
Campania reduoed the Lucanla's west
ward record by twenty minutes. The
two records now stand: Eastward,
Lucania, 5.13.30; westward, Campania, .
5.13.23.
FACTORY, MILL AND MINE.
The average annnal production of
the precious metals in the world from
1878 to 1880 was: Gold, 8119,975,000;:
silver, $112,500,000.
At a Kansas City packing house a
few days ago, in eleven hours, 8,218
cattle were killed and prepared for the
beef market, an average of about five
a minute.
Twenty years ago there were but
two or three manufacturers of horse
hide leather in this country. The con
sumption of this leather is large and
rapidly increasing.
It is undoubtedly profitable to keep
a cow. A census report shows that the
average yield of milk per cow for the
whole United States in 1890 was 2,082
pounds, or 1,202 quarts.
In 1892 the bituminous coal mines of
the United States employed 212,893
persons. The average number of work
ing days was 219. The grand total of
employes of coal mines was 341,743.
PERTAINING TO PLANTS.
There aro carnivorous plants which
capture and ea.t insects.
I A certain forest plant in Japan
grows to be about six f oet high in three
weeks.
I TlIK most Rinrrulnr nlnnf W i.hn annals
tlve plant. Some of this family are so
delicate that tho passing of a cloud
over the sun will cause thoir leaves to
curl up.
Francois Goks, who has been In
specting tho California vineyards as a
representative of the French govern
ment, is taking back samples of what
he regards as high grades of wines ho
found produced there.
or-ww. T EXPANSION.
The Swell Toad Not Naturally lllg now
to Have Fuo with flim.
What is called the "swell" toad on
the Carolina and Georgia coast is in his
natural state only about six inches in
length and four inches across the back,
but he is endowed with wonderful ex
pansive facilities, being capable of in
flating himself like a Yale football on
the slightest provocation. Many tales
are told of his poisonous qualities and
of the death-dealing fluids that are
Btorcd away at the base of his fangs,
but all naturalist i-irr that the toad
is nonvenomous, ai.d that stories to
the contrary are but bits of Idle folk
lore. He tins as it may, the coasters
handle him (when they condescend to
touch the ugly creatures at all) as
charily as they would a live rattler.
The under portions of tho body of the
"swell" are of a dirty yellowish white,
corresponding almost exactly to the
color of the true bufo's belly, but
where the latti r is smooth the former
is as prickly as the pod of a "jimson
weed." In order to see him swell out
of all proportions it is only necessary
to rub this prickly surface with a cane,
stick or other object. To do this prop
erly the creature must, of course, bo
turned upon his back, and the funny
part of the whole experiment is this:
Ho cannot expel the air which the ir
ritation has caused him to inhale until
he has been turned right side up. Al
though originally a six-inch animal,
the St. Louis Republic says It has been
known to expand until it is as tight as
a drum and had lost all'scmblance to
animated life. It has even been re
lated of them that they would con
tinue to expand nndcr irritation until
tbe body would finally burst from over
inflation. Honors, World's Fair.
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