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AMERICAN JOURNALISM.
Its Oddities As Set Forth by a literary
Gentleman In La nolle France.
The common saying; that one has to
go abroad to hear the best of the home
news is admirably exemplified in a re
cent number ot the Annales Politiques
et Litteraires. Michel Delines devoted
a column to the setting; forth of an
astonishing; feature of American
journalism. French newspapers, he
says, do not mind misprints very much.
coquule that does not absolutely
tear up and threaten to brinir the roof
down on the compositors' heads is left
for the reader to correct. At the very
worst, the correction would be limited
to a simple erratum. Far different is
it in America. There editor, proof
reader, compositors attack each other
in the columns of their paper when a
misprint occurs. "This is what happens
constantly in America," Mr. Delines
says, "and the numerous Parisians who
are g'oing; to Chlcago will have occasion
to and it out. as I have just done."
And then he iroes on to relate the
appalling; case that he refers, to. . An
American editor apologizes for his mis
print, laying the blame on his proof
reader, and adding; the remark that if
that careless person would occupy him
self a little less with the pretty girls
who work in the press-room and flirt
with the proofs a little more, such
blunders would not happen. To this
paragraph the proofreader appends a
note to explain that his eyesight is
not very good and that he needs new
spectacles, which he has been meaning
to buy out of the 810.3S which the edit
or has owed him since last December.
Besides, the best reader in the world
would be of no use in an office where
the compositors throw every day more
type at each other's heads than they
set. Then the compositors take their
innings, assailing the reader of proof
with many unkind and discourteous
remarks, of which the least offensive
is that the oldest settler has never seen
him sober. All this, Michel Delines
informs us, is only the plain unvar
nished truth about American newspa
per ways. It is a simple, unexaggera
ted record of events which has just
found "dans nn recent nuniero . de
1' Arizona Kicker," and which he swal
lows whole without one gasp of in
credulity. A STRANGE STORY.
Death of the Notorious lllak Canon ot
Lyons.
The death is announced in Paris of
Abbe Boullan, the famous or in
famous defroque, the Black Canon
of Lyons, the real hero of "La Has,"
says a correspondent. Though he
makes but rare appearance in M. Huys
mans' romance, his influence dominates
the book from beginning to end. And
well it might, for in truth he was
among the strangest spirits of his gen
eration. La Figaro says: "To the cun
ning of an impostor he added a pro
found and devious scholarship. Magic
and the arts of a darker age hid no se
crets from him. When he renounced
his allegiance to the church the arch
bishop of Paris, unwilling to lose so
learned a colleague, sent two worthy
canons to reason with him. But he
called down so many devils upon their
heads that they were only too glad to
leave him in peace. For many years
he has devoted himself to the practice
of his art and profited greatly thereby.
"It was his wont to administer la
messe noire, with all its obscene rites,
in a private chapel beyond the heights
of Mont Parnasse, and from many a dis
traught soul he exorcised a tormenting
demon. He died at the zenith of his
power. It is but a few months ago
that he was called upon to relieve an
unfortunate lady from a double spell.
Not merely was the victim harassed
by physical pain, but trees and plants
withered upon her estate.
"The Black Canon by his incanta
tlons, instantly cured the bodily
anguish and would have restored the
leaves and blossoms of the lady's gar
den had not she too suddenly closed
her purse. A strayling from the mid
dle ages, he leaves none to inherit his
occult power, for he would have de
spised the experiments of so patent an
amateur as CoL de Rochas. Was he
the slave of superstition or a reason
able and contemptuous cynic? For the
sake of humor and his own peace of
mind, it is trusted the latter."
Instinct In Cobras.
It is a common belief in India that
if a cobra is killed and the remains are
left in a bungalow, others of the spe
cies will be attracted to the spot. A
correspondent of the Pioneer. Mail
records an incident which appears to
indicate, as he says, that there is some
truth in this theory. About nine
months ago Col. Ilderton killed a very
large cobra in the compound of his
bungalow at Dinapore, and had its
skin stuffed and aet up by a native mo
chee. Since then the compound has
been infested with these snakes, and
no less than eight full-grown cobras,
measuring from four feet eight inches
to five feet four inches, have been
killed there, one of which was sitting
up, with its hood extended, content
plating the house where the remains
of its preserved friend were. It is a
curious fact that every snake when
found was making in the direction of
the bungalow, and most of them
showed fight when tackled. The last
two were within a few feet of each
other when Col. Ilderton killed them
with a stick, and were advancing up
the carriage drive together. No cobras
have been seen in other parts ot the
station.
Forma of Animal Life.
Humboldt and Cnvier estimated the
number of species of mammalia, or
creatures which suckle their yonng,
to be but little short of 600; of birds,
4,000: insects, 44,000; reptiles, 700; in all
about 50,000 species. In the southern
hemisphere birds are five times more
1 1 numerous than the mammalia. To
ward the equator both birds and rep
tiles are most plentiful and most highly
colored. Cnvier said that the record
left by the fossils proves that the mam
malia were once as numerously reprr-
- -i
present day.
THE CAMEE00NS.
A Country That Is Giving; Ger
many Much Trouble.
An African Territory About Which the
English Government Is Vitally Con
cerned The Dispute Abont
Its Boundaries.
"Battle in the Camcroons," says a re
cent cable. What and where are the
Cameroons? This from the New York
Herald will elucidate a little:
The Cameroons is a territory on the
Bight of lliafra, West Africa, one
hundred and fifty thousand square
miles in extent, and with an estimated
population of two millions. It has a
coast line of one hundred and twenty
miles between the Campo river and the
Rio del Rcy, is bounded on the north
east by a treaty line running north
east to the east of Yola. on the upper
Benue, and on the south by a line run
ning inland, due east from the mouth
-f the Campo river, to about the me-
idian of longitude fif teendegrees east,
vhich may be regarded as the eastern
r inland limit of the so-called "pro
4ectorate." . In 1893 there were one hundred and
sixty-six whites, of whom one hundred
and nine were Gorman and thirty-one
English. It became a (icrman pro
tectorate in 18S4, and is placed under
an imperial governor, assisted by a
chancellor, two secretaries and a local
council of three representative mer
chants. The country is fertile, and
numerous valuable African vegetable
productions grow in profusion. Plan
tations of cacao and tobacco have been
farmed by a company, and numerous
factories carry on an active trade in
ivory and palm oil. On January 1,
18SS, an import duty was imposed on
European goods, and from this the
revenue is mainly derived. The chief
town is Cameroons, and in the South
Batanja, Bimbia and llaltundu Town
are other important trading stations,
and Aqua Town and Hell Town are the
principal native settlements. The im
ports and exports are quite large.
In April lust, Mr. Henry M. Stanley
wrote to the peace association a letter
in which he attributed the increase of
trade in 1892 at African ports under
German administration to the growing
practice among German merchants of
importing into Africa small arms and
ammunition. These materials of war,
he said, were sold to the slave traders
and do inestimable damage. Mr. Stan
ley inculpated also the Portuguese in
his charges, lie appealed to the Euro
pean nations to suppress the traffic in
arms carried on by the Germans and
Portuguese. Unless this step be taken,
he added, all efforts to stop the slave
trade would be useless.
In February a German expedition,
which was under the command of
Freiherr von Stetten, proceeded from
the Cameroons coast up the river San
naga to Balinga, whence it traveled to
the thickly populated district of Tikar
and reached Ngaudere and Yola.
Treaties were concluded with the na
tive tribes In f" districts passed
through. This reappearance on the
coast, the Kreuz. Zeitung pointed out,
was peculiar in view of the statement
made by members of the expedition
that Lake Tchad was their goal. It is
a fact, though at present an inexplica
ble one, that German expeditions fail
to reach the more easterly portions of
the Hinterland of the Cameroons. The
expedition returned in September.
England and Germany had a long
dispute about the boundaries of the
Cameroons, which was settled in May
last. The third section of the agree
ment reads: "The (Jerman colonial
administration engages not to allow
any trade settlements to exist or be
erected on the right bank of the Rio
del Rey Creek or waterway. In like
manner the administration of the Oil
rivers protectorate engages not to al
low any trade settlements to exist or
to be erected on the western bank of
the Iiakassy peninsula from the first
creek below Arsibon's village to the
sea and eastward from this bank to
the Rio del Rey waterway."
According to the German view the
new agreement is a purely fiscal one,
intended to enable the British and
German administrations td cope with
the widespread smuggling, which was
especially detrimental to the Camer
oons. There had been no question of
altering the frontier laid down by the
provisional agreement of 1890, winch,
in consequence of disagreement be
tween the two governments, left the
Rio del Rey out of count and settled
the frontier as a straight line running
from the upper end of the waterway
to the rapids of the Cross river. But
this indetinite "upper end" has now
been fixed as above set forth. Much
satisfaction was expressed in Berlin at
the pledge given by the English gov
ernment not to allow trad settlements
on the Bakassy peninsula, which other
w'se would have afforded an excellent
base for contraband operations.
A Dismantled Monitor.
The monitor Saugus, that took part In
Admiral David Porter's bombardment
of Fort Fisher in Decern tier, 1884, now
lies dismantled at a Philadelphia wharf
awaiting a purchaser who needs a coal
barge. Her armor has been stripped
off and the. spinning turret removed.
The fcaugue was one of the monitors
that, casting anchor within range of
Fort Fisher, opened fire upon it, and
in little more than an hour demolished
all but the bomb-proof portions of the
fort. The attacking fleet consisted of
thirty-five regular cruisers, five iron
clads and a reserve of nineteen other
vessel. According to Gen. Grant
it was "the most formidable armada
ever collected for concentration upon
one given point." The Haugus was
built during the latter part of the war.
In 1891 she was sold by the government
to a Philadelphia firm, which made the
purchase with the, object of reselling
to some South American state in need
of a second-hand warship. The nego
tiations failed, and the Saugus was then
dismantled. She Lad been built to last,
for u WM D(,ct.ss,ary use dvnaralte
, the work of nnsheath no- hir hn 1.
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KILLED HIMSELF FOR A LIVING.
A Parisian Swindler Who Took a Novel
Means of Italslug the Wlnrl.
Gillet, a professional mendicant of
Taris, has the peculiar merit of being
the organizer of a trick for raising i
funds which was unknown and un
dreamed of in the philosophy of the
ablest representatives of the old Cour
des Miracles, says a writer iu the
London Telegraph. He pretended to
hang himself from a tree seven times
during the summer, and on each occa
sion he was cut down from his gibbet
by Good Samaritans, who invariably
sent round the hat for him on the spot.
In some instances the rescuers may
have been Gillet's confederates, but ac
cording to, what can be gathered he
usually preferred to work alone. Hav
ing selected a fine day for his opera
tions, Gillet dressed himself carefully
and went to the woods of , Boulogne or
Vincennes. He next made choice of a
tree near where young children were
playing, and having put a noose round
his neck strung himself up. Then be
groaned and attracted the children,
who ran in alarm to their mothers or
nurses, until in a moment there was a
crowd around him. Men summoned to
the spot, and sometimes the women
who were called, extricated the artful
mendicant from his apparently peril
ous position. He was extended on the
grass, his hands were rubbed, cordials
were pressed to his lips and smell
ing bottles put under his nose.
When he revived the first question put
to him was naturally: Why did he
do it? Pointing to a pocket of his coat
he would say: "Here is a letter which
will explain all!" The document be
ing opened contained a communication
to the effect that Gillet wanted to
hang himself of his own free will. His
desire to die was caused by destitution.
and he had not eaten for two days. A
collection being made for the sufferer
he instantly regained the use of his
limbs, and before leaving his generous
sympathizers treated them to a brief
autobiographical sketch, which set
forth that he was a respectable young
man from the country who had been
stranded in Paris and could find no
work to do. It is recorded that Gillet
performed this trick with great suc
cess between July and September, not
only in the woods about Paris, but
also in the park at Versailles and in
the forest of St. Germain. In the last
mentioned place he had the good for
tune to be cut down just as a generous
Paris banker was passing by, who gave
him a liberal donation. Gillet natur
ally took care to tie his noose in a man
ner calculated to produce the effect
which he intended without imperiling
his life. In the winter, when the
woods are comparatively deserted, Gil
let adopted the old trick of pretending
to faint or to have an epileptic fit at
the corner of the street. His fraud
has at last been detected and charita
ble people have been warned against
his knavery, which has not only de
ceived ordinary men and women but
also astute members of the police force.
PROMOTED BY HIS HORSE,
What a Swedish Cavalrymin Owed to a
Kunaway While FlKhtlnK for Germany.
James Byrne is a Swede who has
bumped around all parts of the world
for twenty-five years, and he landed at
St. Louis the other dav direct from
bombarded Rio. The story of his life,
however, occurred during the Franco
Prussian war. He was fighting on thn
German side as a covalryman, says the
Republic. One day during a hot con
flict the cavalry came to the top of a
hill, and on the crest of another hill,
across a deep ravine, the French had
planted a battery. Suddenly Byrne's
horse reared and jumped arid started
down the hill toward the ravine on a
dead run. Byrne tried to check the
frightened animal, but found that it
had taken the bit in its mouth and was
wholly unmanageable. Down the hill,
across the ravine and up the hill on Use
opposite side the horse sped on like a
streak of lightning. The French bat
tery began belching out shut and
shell, and Byrne then realized that a
runaway horse was carrying him
right into the mouth of hades. As
the cannon boomed the screaming
shells whizzed by tha head of poor
Byrne, but Home unseen hand of fate
prevented them from harming either
himself or his horse. As the horse
dashed up the hill to the very mouth of
a cannon Byrne concluded to make the
best of a dangerous predicament, and
drew his saber for self-defense. He
was surprised to see the Frenchmen
leave their battery and flee like panic
stricken sheep. But Byrne understood
the situation when he looked back
ward and saw his comrades dashing
up the hill on their horses. Byrne dis
mounted and held one of the enemy's
guns as the prize he had captured.
When the other cavalrymen came up
he found out that they did not know
his horse had run away, but thought
it was personal bravery on Ins part,
and that he had urged his horse to
make this marl race into the "jaws of
death." Did Byrne tell them that this
bravery bad been forced upon him?
Well, hardly. Byrne accepted con
gratulations and said nothing. He
was promoted to a captaincy, and all
because of his runaway horse. If he
had not made that ride the troops of
cavalry would never have attempted It.
Kleetrle Lighting In Spain.
Spaniards, al though-slow in the adop
tion of many improvements, are de
cidedly not so in regard to electric
lighting, A large number of the prin
cipal towns, as well as many very small
ones, have insulations of their own.
The latest venture is on the part of the
owner of some water power near the
two very limited towns, Elgalbsr and
Elbar, In the Spanish province of Vls
caya; these towns will shortly be sup
plied with electric current for both
lighting and power purposes. The nec
essary working power will be furnished
by the water of the River Dova.
Borg, the jutreler, is th'' man to fix op
your wstuh or clock, (ie keeps a full
stock of everything pertaining to fail
business.
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CUNNING OF CROCODILES.
They Escape the Net Spread for Them by
lturrowlns; In the Mud.
The following is a fair sample of how
cunningly crocodiles, in common with
all other wild animals, can conceal
themselves in moments of danger, says
the Westminster Gazette. After a
happy week spent in the jungle with
a friend of mine we halted for break
fast, before making the last stage for
headquarters and home, at a place
called Poonarhyn Anglice, garden of
flowers and while at breakfas' were
amused by watching a number of croc
odiles, about eight or ten, sunning
themselves on the surface of a small
lake, or tank, as it is there called, of
about an acre in extent. A sudden
thought struck me.
"1 say, Murray, what fun it Vould be
to try and catch some of these beggars
in a net." "Bravo!" said he. "Let's
try it presently. Appu, send the horse
keeper to the village and tell him to
bring up all the men he can find and
tiomc long fishing nets. We will give
a good stintosum" (present).
The villagers cented some fun, and
with the further stimulus of a santo
suin very soon turnml up to the num
ber of thirty. It was now eleven o'clock
and scorching hot, the air quivering
over the bare, sandy plain in which
the pond was situated. It was breast
deep, as we knew, including about one
foot or eighteen inches of heavy mui.
We tied two nets together so as to
make one long enough to reach across
the tank, about thirty yards, and this
was heavily weighted along the bot
tom and arranged to be drawn with
long ropes from each shore.
Immediately behind the net came a
line, and men about a yard apart, with
long, pointed poles with which to prod
the mud along the bottom of the net,.
and so drive the malingering gentle
men into proper position in front of
the net. My friend and his servant
(for all entered into the sport) fol
lowed close up to the second line.
At it we all now went, splashing,
shouting, stamping and hauling, but
a big but not a sign did we find of a
single one of the brutes that we had
seen before us when we came to the
edge of the wa ter. We dragged that
water backward and forward more
than once, but our only reward was a
deadly thirst that lasted us till late
that night.
They had burrowed deeper into the
mud than we could reach them, for
nothing I doubt if even a rat could
have escaped unseen out of the water.
Great Hrltaln In India.
Great Britain has been stretching
her wings over India. In 184U she laid
claim to (1:1(1,000 square miles of that
country. She made additions to this
every year except 1843, 1845, and 18,r3,
down to 1850, when her possessions
aggregated 85(1,000 square miles. Ad
vances were made in 18, 188a and 1886,
and now the area of India under
British rule Is 927,887 square miles.
Briti.. It India is larger than all that part
of the United States lying east of the
Mississippi river and its popula
tion five times as great as
the present population of this
whole country. Great Britain may
not be able to acquire much fmore
of India. Indeed there is likely to be
difficulty in retaining what she has,
with native disatisfaction and the
watchfulness of her aggravating
enemy on the north, who in the last
forty years has moved his boundaries
over many degrees of latitude.
Hlity Miles of Locusts.
The African Steamship company's
steamer Winnebah, which lately ar
rived from West Africa at Liverpool,
had a most unusual experience when
steaming between the latitudes of
Cape Verde and St. 'Louis, Senegal.
For sixty miles the vessel steamed
through locusts, which were so thickiy
packed together on the top of the
water that they completely covered
the surface for miles around. Indeed,
they appeared to be lying on the sea
as far as the eye could reach. The
locusts hatl no doubt been blown from
the Morocco coast into the. sea. They
resembled gigantic grasshoppers, and
one which was secured was five Inches
in length. Of course, all of the locustH
had been drowned.
WtlnT OF LwES.
Nome Interesting KMarrhes Concerning
a Mather Peculiar Subject.
An interesting noteabout the weight
of bees appears in an American jour
nal devoted to agriculture, says Dr.
Andrew Wilson, it seems that an or
dinary bee, not carrying any load of
pollen, weighs the one five-thousandth,
of a pound. Five thousand bees thus
make up a pound weight. When, how
ever, the bee Is carrying his load of
pollen or honey, as he returns from for
aging amid the flowers, his weight is
Increased nearly three times. He car
ries thus about twice his own weight,
a result not surprising to those who
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ways of insects at large. When bees
are loaded it requires only eighteen
hundred of them to make up the pound.
Details are also given regarding the
number of bees which may exist in a
hive. From four pound to five-pound
weight of bees are found in an ordinary
colony. This means in figures of pop
ulation some twenty thousand to twenty-five
thousand individuals. A big
swarm, it is said, will often double this
estimate.
Talking of bees, if any of my readers
wish to indulge in a very curious and
fascinating bit of zoological study they
should read the story of what is called
"parthenogenesis" in bees and other
insects, such as the aphides or green
flies of the roses and other plants. For
such eggs of the q ueen bee as are fer
tilized when laid turn out workers (or
neuters) or queens, while those which
are not fertilized at all develop into
males or drones. This is very singu
lar, because fertilization of an egg or
seed is regarded ordinarily as neces
sary for its due development. I know
of nothing more extraordinary than
the story biology has to tell regarding
this curious by-way of animal develop
ment. DANGERS OF EMOTION.
The Fart That Fear Plays in Rendering
People Liable to Disease.
Many violent maladies have been
supposed to have been produced under
the operation of moral influences. Sen
nert believed that fear was capable of
provoking erysipelas. Hoffman also
made fear and the adynamy resulting
from it play an important part as the
predisposing cause of contagious dis
eases. Dr. II. Tuke believed, in par
ticular, in the Influence of fear upon
the contagion of rabies. The break
ing out of rabies has been sometimes
observed after psychic emotion, says
Popular Science Monthly. Bouley
cites the case of a dog which went mad
after having been immersed in water.
Gamlcia cites a similar case in a man,
and another in a woman who was
frightened by a drunken man. In
order to avoid the influence of fear,
Desgenet.tes concealed the name and
the nature of the plague; anil it is to
be remarked further that the Turks
died less rapidly of it than the Chris
tians. Cullen supposed that sad emo
tions favor cdntagious diseases, and
particularly the plague.
This disposition to contagion after
violent emotions which deermine dis
charge of the secretions may be partly
explained by the fact that the con
ditions that diminish the proportion of
the liquids of the blood favor absorp
tion. It, however, seems at least prob
able that the nervous discharge is ac
companied by alterations of the blood
and modifications of the interior me
dium which justify the popular expres
sions concerning having bad blood and
turning the blood.
EVOLUTION AND PARTRIDGES.
Singular Changes In These ltlrds In the
Canary Islands.
A striking example of the effects of
environment and changed conditions
of life upon the forms of animals is
furnished by a species of partridge liv
ing in the Canary islands. About four
hundred years ago the Spaniards intro
duced the red-legged partridge from
Europe into these islands, and the
bird has continued to flourish there;
but, as recent examination proves, it
has undergone modifications clearly
brought about by the conditions under
which it lives.
its back has turned from russet color
to gn y. This looks like a case of pro
tective coloration, since the bird passes
Its life amid gray volcanic rocks.
Then its beak has become one-fourth
longer and thicker than that of its an
cestors and of its European relatives,
and Its legs also have increased in
length and grown stouter.
These changes are exactly such as
were needed to suit it to the life thit
it is now compelled to lead amid the
rocks and on the mountain sides of the
islands, where a more vigorous physic
al development is required than was
needed upon the plains of England and
France.
As has been remarked, if such
changes can be wrought by nature In
the animal form in four hundred years,
what might not have been accom
plished in four hundred centuries?
Ma. F. C. Hki.ous, the famous African
hunter, has shot more than one hun
dred elephants and at least twenty
lions. On one occasion he accomplished
the unprecedented feat of killing three
full-grown lions with four shots. The
flesh of the lion is, he says, cupital eat
ing. "Lion pie Is almost as good as
veal pastry, and quite as white."
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