a variety of guns, differing widely as
“A LITTLE NONSENSE.*•
to weight and bore, have about conclud
—She—“I wish the car would come
ed that the lighter the gun the better.
Live and Clay Pigeon Shooting and The day of heavy-weight guns for trap along.”
Ho—“1 thought you liked
1* > w Experts Do It.
or wing shooting has passed away. The walking best; in fact, you said so.” She
Fraucotte gun, the Scott, Greener, Wes —“Oh, that was before we bad the oys
ley and Richards are widely used. ters.”—Munsey’s Weekly.
l*h« Propet Equipment for a C lub of Be-
These guns cost all the way from nine-
—With the Parental Blessing.—Mr.
finner.-' at Trap Shooting A Sport
Stickney—“I have come, Mr. Henpeck,
d|*t Is Growing Mure Popular
Every Year.
to ask for the hand of your daughter.”
Mr. Henpeck—“Bless you, my boy, take
■ [COPYRIGHTED tsyU.J
her; and may the Lord have mercy upon
For the busy man who lows the sound
your soul.”—Time.
of a gunl yet u bo can only indulge in
—Jaggs—“I think I am entitled to a
a shooting excursion once or twice a
pension.”
Pension Agent—“What is
year ip (fo season, it is .a standing re
your claim?” Jaggs—“\ II, my feel
gret tbalhis lack of practice between
ings were hurt by several people calling
season« pi its his hand out of trim for the
me a coward because I wouldn’t enlist.”
birda. He finds that he is bv no means
—Philadelphia Inquirer.
as good a shot at the opening of the
—Mrs. Gadd—“That new family next
season al he was at the close of the pre
door to you must be pretty well off;
vious year, and it takes very nearly his
they’ve got a planer.*' Mrs. Gabb—
whole hfLday to regain his old skill.
“Huh! They don't own it; it’s rented.”
ButtbisEs all being rapidly changed.
‘.‘How d’ye know?” “By the way they
Trapsbqot.ing, which has taken hold of
bang on it.”—Philadelphia Record.
the public fancy to a very large extent
1. Clay Pigeon Trap.
—“Can you tell me where I’ll find the
2. ‘-The But.”
|
rackfl in recent years, affords the opportunity
Senator?” said the wife of a prominent
8. Pigeon with Clay Tongua
tlfeifl for practice so greatly desired, and if
servant of the public to a page at the
4. Old Style Clay-Bird.
of all J the sporpman is lucky enough to be a
“J member to f a club, he can have all the teen to five hundred dollars. A good, sapitol. “Yes, ma’am; he is in the ante
room,” “Dear! dear! That man seems
nth (J practice h” wants at little loss of time hard-hitting gun with Damascus steel to think of nothing but cards.”—Wash
>erhJ and small cost. He has the satisfaction, barrels, English walnut stock, check ington l’ost.
! up .J too, when he takes his holiday, of find ered aud engraved, can be bought for
—“You look as if you had been kissed
‘rd or J ing bims< If no longer awkward and fifty dollars and upward.
by a breeze from the Wild North Land,”
In loading for trap shooting, for a
Mil J blundering with rhe gun. His hand
said a poetic young lauy to a pretty
othn J and eye Ire quick, his aitn is true and twelve-guage gun. three drams of powder friend, whose cheeks were glowing with
«« cut J he is able to hold his own with other and two wads are put back of one or
Dolor. “O no!” was the laughing reply;
oompetijbrs in the hunting-field.
one and one-eighth ounces of No. 6, 8
*
“it was only a soft heir from Montreal.”
Trapshooting was, until a few years or 10 chilled shot, according to wind and —N. Y. Ledger.
ciutgj. Trap
confined almost woolly to profes- distance.
*bl« ago, ooi
—Righteously
Indignant — Barber
U(thts| siona|8,*iand very few amateurs were I Under the rules of the National and (suggestively)—“Your hair is very dry
•wanl J skillful Enough to be ranked as experts. American Association which have been and harsh, sir.” Customer (wrathfully)
'o m J Now, however, there arc clubs in every revised within the last few weeks any “And one of your earB is a good deal
<1 the J big city, and some of the amateur sports weight gun is permissible, but it must bigger than the other, but you don’t like
men would not make at all a bad showing not be over ten-bore in calibre. The to have people twitting you of it, do
«
ed, gtu J even by tho side of such distinguished powder charge is unlimited and the you?”—Chicago Tribune.
enib^l shots M
"
«llogard
us, ~
Dr. Carver and other I charge of shot for ten-bore guns is fixed
—Minnie—“What made you speak to
Each
of the trap and hunting- at one and one-quarter ounces.
he ha noted guns
|
, contestant must shoot at three or more that poor beggar so sharply? Perhaps
h the lougi field.
In she was really deserving of help.”
icthHj Trap shooting with artificial birdsis birds before leaving the score.
Mamie—“Maybe she was, but she inter
le gave. one of the
tie least expensive sports, vet
yet doubles both traps are sprung simul
rupted me just as I wa^s having a good
ureS[. one of fiie most enjoyable. So many taneously and each contestant shoots at
cry over the poor girl in my novel dying
blsoTB, improwbi.>nts have been made recently i three pairs, firing at two birds while
on the rich man’s doorstep.”—Terre
in the manufacture
i,
mam' ------ of ' clay
'....... pigeons
:------- that
•' ‘ , both are in the air. When the traps are
Haute Express.
men
the natural I action of the bird is now i set in a straight line, instead of in the
—“Do you think your sister likes to
•erty. simulated with remarkable fidelity and ' segment of a circle, a rapid-firing sys have me come here, Jamey?” “You bet
ble us. -r practiceiat the inanimate birds is con tem is used, the traps are screened and You take her to the the-a-ter and bring
numbered and the marksman stands op
1 it, or i! sidered Just as good for the marksman
posite the first trap, shoots his bird and her candies.” “1 am glad I can make
USUI as though he were shooting at live pig
her happy.” “Yes, and the young feller
W el«.]| eons. A great many clubs use the arti- then passes on to the right shooting what she’s engaged to don’t mind it
exclusively, the most prom from the successive traps till he reaches
either, for it saves him that much money
• ard h-.; inent in the East being the German the end of his score. For live birds the toward going to housekeeping.”—Life.
ry thint I Gun Club, of New York, and the South boundaries for both singles and doubles
—A Pertinent Question.—A Texas
in every I side Club, of New ’■!< N. J. The favor are fixed as the segment of a fifty-yard clergyman, who ata former period of his
enueiq j ite birdslare the Ligvw>ky clay pigeon, circle and a dead-line where the marl s-
life had gambled a little, was absorbed
nen who | with clay tongue; “the Bat” which may man stands.
The rise for 10-bore guns is thirty in thought just before divine services
be thrown from a clay pigeon trap or a
ity of j________
regular Ibat
the American ciay
clay yards, for 12-bore twenty-eight yards, began. He was approached by the or
. j rvg'uiar
i ul trap; me
Uli11} bird, wbfich is exceedingly hard to hit, for 14 and 16-bore twenty-six yards. The ganist. who whispered, referring to the
itly bejJ
but whop hit is easily broken, and the rule as to ammunition is the same as for opening hymn: “What shall I play?”
s that nJ
Standard and Keystone, both of which clay birds. There are clubs in a num “What kind of a hand have you got?” re
;rp y,
I are facsimiles of the blue rock pigeon. ber of States affiliated with the Amer sponded the absent-minded clergyman.
n.
One of the birds formerly used had a ican Association, and all shoot under —Texas Siftings.
the rules quoted.
—A Strike.—Paterfamilias was giving
■ paper tongue; but it was found that in
The organization of a trap shooting Johnny Freshleigh. ’93, some wholesome
this would become limp
nowin : wet weather
The most reliable club is not a very expensive affair. advice on the ma*ny opportunities that
and refuse to
The best way for a company of ama were to be had at college, and that he
teurs to proceed about it is as follows: ought to make the most of them, quot
Let them first secure their ground and ing, as a final word, the maxim of Crom
then buy three traps for clay birds, well: “Not only strike while the iron
i of iU
which will cost them about two dollars. is hot, but make it hot by striking.”
»ctsof
These traps can throw any kind of A^id then Johnny struck his father for a
e case
artificial bird, and are easily changed cool hundred, not only making the metal
h the
to shoot in all directions. A first-class hot, but his father too.—Harvard Lam
afternoon's sport at the clays won’t cost poon.
the members over two dollars each, al
A THOUGHTFUL WIFE.
lowing them forty shots apiece. They
• mate
should dig a pit on the ground about Stie Gets Up a Pleasant Surprise fur Her
Over-Worked Husband.
a force
three or four feet deep, and protect it
Wife (with solicitude of tone)1—It
; of the
by a screen for the use of the men who
1 very
set tho traps.
If they want to kill must be very lonesome sitting all by
hich c»
live birds a trap can be made very yourself at night, John, balancing' your
wr ùde
cheaply by any carpenter. It is a box books, John.
Husband (tenderly)—It is, my darling.
keeptteiL
shaped device, ten by eight inches long
W.—I have been thinking about it for
>r these jsl
and seven inches deep, and can be
some time, and now I have got a pleas
is sprung□ L Dr. Carver's Unique Pose.
either of wood or metal.
>ome and
1. The Approved Posidon.
It should be painted green, which ant surprise for you.
II.—A pleasant surprise?
3. The Hu linglianfs Position.
color does not distract the eye of the
W.—Yes, dearest. I sent for mother
Ion of the! have aiclay or a wooden tongue, The marksman. The trap is secured in place
x posed ? I best clay pigeons, when bought in quan by two iron pins driven through the yesterday and I expect her this evening.
be the n tities for the use of clubs, cost about bottom and into the ground. It consists I mean to have her stay with us quite
ractingfJ two cents each.
of six pieces held together by hinges awhile. She will take care of the house
ilers, seal In s4me recent big matches shot in and so arranged that when sprung to at night and look after the children,
and I can go down and sit in the office
i fluence fl
this neighborhood the birds cost an av release the pigeon the top and sides,
)us powfl erage of two dollars apiece, and in a front and rear, shall fall outward, leav- with you while you work.
II.—The dev----- that is to say, I
ìeat of tu‘1 match (between Dr. Knapp and Major
couldn’t think of you going down-town.
due to th»! Floyd Jones not long ago several hun
W.—It’s my duty, dearest. I ought to
lmost eno dred bBds were kill ed, costing a dollar
have thought of it before, but it never
each. *Tb'* pigeons for these contests
came to my mind till yesterday. O,
nsion of M come from different parts of the coun
John, forgive me for not thinking of
id lower try, but the best are from Baltimore,
your comfort sooner. But I will go and
ry to afl where the famous blue rock breed is
sit with you to-night.
i and cor;. raised«!? The blue rock is a small bird;
H.—To-night! Why I—I—the fact is,
i the pr*»-. Jhard, firm and l?eavy for its size. A
I got through with my books last nigh t.
md case : great many gunners who have not had
W.— You did? How delightful! And
r in the? much Experience in live-bird shooting
you can now stay at home every even
im of hon^make we mistake of selecting big birds
ing. I’m so glad!
nquestiosjBunder »he impression that they are the
And the delightful wife ran off to
in very :> ¿strongest and the fastest flyers. Ex-
mako preparations for the reception of
n gettingiports, however, will pick out the small,
T11K THAI» SHUT AND OPEN.
her mother, while the husband with
e boiler firm Mfd, as they know’ by experience
that they will fly faster and are in every ing the whcle affair flat on the ground. somber brow sat looking at the picture
in the glowing grate of a poker party
o often
ter suited for the traps.
There is a lateral sliding door on the with one member absent.—Boston Cour
it
)B ¡Booting either at live or artificial rear end, through which the bird is ad
ier.
it care in mrus
birds a good deal depends upon the mitted, and the front is barred like a
or those 1 weather.
Windy weather has an effect coop.
MARRIAGE IN PERSIA.
In the center of the trap is a
>1 lowed
both on t.he flight of the live birds and metal or wooden tongue, pivoted on a
It is Held to Be a Shame for a Girl of Six
e raised \- the artificial ones. If the day be hard spring, and to this tongue a red rag
teen to He Unmarried.
nd the -‘-I— and
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cold and pretty windy, the live is attached. To spring the trap the
Persia is, par excellence, the country
/a ter, so birds got up wilder and the clay ones puller takes hold of a cord attached to a where marriage is made easy, especially
rature DU;J BaturBlly sail faster with the wind. leather strap on top; a single tug re among the poor. For a mechanic, sol
leases the fore-end of the top and as it dier, laborer or servant, is no more ex
comes up. the sides and ends fall away pensive for a man to maintain a family
with a clatter. At the same instant the than to maintain himself. The few ar
spring on the tongue is released and ticles of furniture required, the scanti
____
These traps should throw the bird, startled by the noise and the ness of attire, the cheapness of the ma
|<btfd ' from forty to sixty yards. The sight of the red rag, flies upward with terial used by the poor for clothing and
Stands six feet behind the shooter a rush.
the low price of their usual fare, such
and pul
r's commend, ir
In two cases lately brought by the as bread, fruit, mutton and chicken, all
B too early, tlx- marksman ran Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to tend to make it very inexpensive to sup
the bird and he is then entitled Animals in Trenton and Philadelphia, port a family.
the heath
L
In single bird shooting, the decisions were in favor of the right
and dnn^l
It is held a burning shame for a girl of
le rate and-3 the rfth is regulated according to the of the clubs to shoot live birds. A few sixteen not to be married, and old maids
gun
us<
d
and
runs
from
thirteen
to
of
the
States
stilly
prohibit
pigeon
shoot
red to.-*2
are practically unknown in Persia. One
•igbtefen yards: in doubles it is from ing. Connecticut being one of them; but
of the many sisters of the Shah never
eleven
With in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl
married, but she was for that reason
Proceed, j singlet. one barrel only’ is loaded at a vania and in the West generally, the a source of wonderment to the people.
time.
sport
is
allowed.
»wns in
Love in our sense is unknown among
Position has a good deal to do with
nor
—PlaywrigLt—“How do you like my the Persians.
r. such a •,- succeflil in trap shooting. Although the
Boys, if of good family, get a seeghay
weddiif J markthian in all except the National new drama?” Friend—“I'm delighted and often a couple of female slaves when
neeT’fr*
bs may MMMH0 any with it. The dialogue is so natural,
¡je on
you know.” Playwright (with a blush but sixteen or seventeen years old.
>ny of *4 standin
Young fellows will, also, if their fathers
find »<
<>f those of his own choice of pleasure) — “O, you flatter me ”
funeral
be influential, be appointed toafat office
The late Friend—“Not a bit of it. Your characters
e chord • ungraceful and ineffective.
talk commonplace and bandy old jokes, A hen hut half grown. Thus the son of
x>ii red J J Ira pki'
just the same as people do in real life. the present Minister of Foreign Affairs
u
n
ev ***31
' Mousheer-ed-DowlehI. when but four
Ml
; the barrels raised to an angle You've made a great hit, an intensely
here
realistic one, 1 assure you.'*—Boston teen and standing but five feet high, was
of
fort
I
ready
for
the
ancy, **"9
made Governor of Kaswin. an important
Transcript.
word.
And flourishing province, and al that age
u.
—The Worm Turned. — Mr. Bully Rag
■lltogar s {n variably held bis gun be
rung. »J 5
—“Now. sir. you have stated, under had already a small but select andoroun.
lo
w
1
elbow,
with
the
barrel
slightly
Fintiij *■
lie was. it is true, more mature in
ccording to Hurlingham Club oath, that this man had the appearance
M>r. Hu’
Will you be good body and mind than many an American
>r. Carver's pose is unique. His of a gentleman.
boy of eighteen, and he did not admin
Is held porfcctly straight, the enough to tell the jury bow a gentleman ister affairs of the province worse than
bis
looks, in your estimation.”*
Down
id
grasping
the
barrel
far
for**
bad his prede< essor, a man of sixty.
be corp» ;
d the stock of the gun near but trodden Witness—'Well, er—a g. ntie When full grown the young man takes
object JR
Bing the chest below the armpit. man looks—er—like—er—.’* Mr. Bully a legitimate wife, usually chosen among
little R
osition officially adopted by the Ragg—“I don't want any of your ers, sir; bis female cousins, and the seeghays
de i«t*1
| association and approved by and remember that you are on oath. (or “temporary wives'*) are then dis
en bytkj
t clubs is to have the stock of Can you see any body in this court room missed. but are often reinstated later
uestt » J
i held lightly below the armpit. who looks like a gentleman?” Witness on —Cor. London Time«.
dr <raFn|
higher than the elbow, the bar- (with sudden asperity)—“I can if you'll
— Bright grenn colors are dangerous
to a level with the chin, the stand out of the way. You're not trans
when first put on. because poison« are
»g
t and the feet squarely placed, parent.” —I *uclc_____________
¡ 5
used in the coloring matter.
left foot advanced. This po
—A Boston sign bears the artless t»-
lls for the least change before
— Even the humblest toiler in the land
scription: “Cigars and cigarettes sold
is actually delivered.
can resolve to live for a hire purpose.—
er important consideration is on the babbath for medicinal purposes
Washington Star.
Eastern experts, while using S.U.-
d.(J
1
J
-REAhY! PI'LL!!” PANO.
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A
LAMENTABLE
FACT.
THE
FEMALE
DEMON.
Tlie Rapid I>erny of Sound Lit- r.iry I'aste
in the United state«.
A River Fienil Anciently Believed to Haunt
the St. Lawrence.
There was never a time a hen so many
books were published in the English lan
guage as now. They come flying from
tne presses of the great publishing
houses on both sides of the ocean in
such showers as to darken the literary
heavens and to obscure for us the great
lights set in the intellectual firmament
for all men and for all time. It is also,
of course, true that there was never so
much reading done. The messenger
boy carries a cheap novel in his pocket
and snatches time to read it, and from
this boy upward through the scale to the
man of learning in his library, every
one is a reader, each in his own way.
zlnd what do all these people read? By
far the greater number of them might
answer with Hamlet: “Words, words,
words.” for there is little else within
the covers of the worthless books which
form their mental sustenance.
It is a lamentable fact that the rank
growth of cheap and ephemeral litera
ture has not only crowded the classics
of the English tongue from the market,
but devot on to reading of the shallow
and crude sort has perverted the public
taste, dissipated the public mind, and
is giving us a generation which can not
swailow or digest a wholesome literary
meal.
Nor is this confined to the less intelli
gent and educated people. Our colleges
and high schools fail to surround their
pupils with a literary atmosphere or—
save in the case
some individual
whose natural bent is too pronounced to
be denied—to seAd into the world men
and women of nice literary taste. A
story is told of the great Liszt that he once
took a pupil of rare promise and kept
him playing an exercise month after
month. Occasionally the learner would
mildly hint at his desire for a change,
but List only told him to be patient At
last, at the end of three years, the mas
ter said: “You may go and need not
come here again!” “Why? Have 1 of
fended you?” asked the astonished and
distressed scholar. “No; but you play
that exercise perfectly. That means
that you can play any thing. I can
teach you no more.”
The story is apocryphal, but *t teaches
a great lesson. All really broad and
comprehensive critical taste in letters
depends upon a knowledge of the mas
terly works which furnish our only fixed
standard. Put a school boy on a desert
island with only a copy of the Spectator;
compel him to read this every day for
five years to avoid mental starvation,
and he will come out with a better
foundation upon which to build a lit
erary education than h is equally bright
fellow who has been at home reading
without direction or advice the books
from half a dozen circulating libraries.
But the classics can not stand beside
the “popular” books of the day. “Airy
Fairy Lillian” will easily drive “The
Scarlet Letter” from the field: “Ouida” is
far more than a match for Thackeray;
Bellamy is a more acceptable philoso
pher than Carlyle or Emerson, and so it
goes until one pauses in glad surprise
when he sees any one with a copy of any
worthy book in his hand.—Detroit Free
Pre as.
In a very entertaining article enti
tled “Some Legends of the Old St.
Lawrence,” contained in the New En
gland Magazine, J. Macdonald Oxley
writes as follows:
Retracing our course somewhat, and
doubling the Gaspe promontory, we find
ourselves in the Baie des Chaleurs.
whose entrance is guarded by the Island
of Miseou. than which no other spot, rot
even Anticosti itself, has borne a richer
harvest of legend. Tales of marvelous
monsters, and traditions of war, famine
and shipwreck, and harrowing human
suffering abound. Once it was a very
prosperous fishing center, but that day
has long since passed, and now only a
handful of French Canadians eke out a
miserable existence, aided by the har
vest of wild hay which grows upon vast
meadows daily overfiewed by the tide.
According to Governor Deny, the island
possessed in his time—that is two hun
dred or more years ago—a notable
natural wonder, which is thusdescribed:
“A few hundred yards from the beach
there spurts from the briny sea a gush
of fresh water as big as your two fists,
which retains its freshness for a space
of twenty yards, without in any wise
blending with the surrounding salt
liquid, either at high or low tide. Tho
fishermen come there in boats to fill
their casks, and draw it up as if it were
from the reservoir of a fountain.” Anil
Mr. Lemoine, who is still with us, avers
that the truthfulness of the old Gover
or’s narrative has been vouched for to
him by seafaring folk frequenting those
shores.
But the most famous and far-spread
legends of Miseou are those connected
w’ith the Gougou, concerning which mys
terious monster we had better let its
first chronicler, Champlain, speak for
himself. I translate the following from
his Voyages: “There is,” he says, “a
wonderful thing here, well worthy of
mention, which many of the natives
have assured me is a fact, to-wit, that
near the Baie des Chaleurs lies an
island, upon which dwells a monster
with the form of a woman, but eff dread
ful appearance, and of such a stature
that the top of their masts would reach
only to her waist. They describe her
as being appalling. She has devoured
many of their number, and continues to
do so, putting her victims when she has i
seized them in a huge pocket, which
some, who Lave been so lucky as to es
cape from her dreadful clutches, de
scribe as being big enough to hold one
of their vessels. This monster is con
stantly making horrible noises, and
bears the name of Gougou, and when
the natives speak of her it is always
with bated breath and trembling lips.
Yea. the Sieur Frevert de Saint Malo,
while on a search for mines, assures me
that he passed so close to the lair of
this dreadful creature that he and all on
board the vessel heard the strange hiss-
;ng noises she made, and that the na
tives who were with him told him that
was indeed the Gougou and were so ter
rified that they hid themselves wher
ever they could, dreading least she had
come to bear them off. I am of opin
ion.” continues Champlain, by way of
judgment upon the evidence before him,
“that the island is the residence of some
demon which takes delight in torment
ing the people in that way.”
GENESIS
OF
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I
DEATH.
Complexity of Organization Fatal to the
Perpetuation of the Organism.
From the dawn of life the structures
best adapted to ^surrounding conditions
have betyi victors: whatever features
have proved useful have been seized up
on by natural selection and secured !
dominance. The enormous mass of the I
lower forms have persisted to this day,
because the balance established between i
them and their surroundings has re :
mained unaltered- But wherever the I
balance between living things and their I
surroundings »has been disturbed new .
demands have been made upon them, to
which they resj»onded, or, failing that re
sponse, perished. Hence it is in the i
first complexity of structure, the first
departure from simplicity, that the seeds
of death were sown. For that death be
comes a necessity. S b far as its occur
rence by natural causes is concerned,
we know that as organisms get older
(although this applies more to animals
than to plants, in which the cells, as
they become liquified or converted into
wood, are overlaid with new cells' their
power of work and of renewal isles«ened.
The cells which form the vital fabric of
tissues are worn by continual use; the
waste exceeds the repair, and death ulti
mately ensues, “because a worn-out tis >
sue can not forever renew itself, and be
cause a capacity for increase by means
of cell division is not everlasting, but
finite.” Why there should be this limit
to cell division we can n >t say, but it is
clear that with the modifications of or
gans according to the work which they
discharge there results a subtler struc
ture which is less easy to repair and is
shorter of duration. The on<-<*elled or
ganisms have found salvation in sim
plicity. We are, therefore, driven to
the conclusion that since there is, prima
facie, no reason why growth should be
limited or why function should come to
an end, death must have been brought
about by natural selection, which deter
mines survival or extinction from the
standpoint of utility alone.
There
needs no showing that It is to the ad
vantage of the species that individuals
should die. Their immortality would be
harmful all around: nay, impossible,
unless vigor remained unimpaired, and
the multiplication of offspring does not
overtake the means of subsistence. “For
it is evident,” as Mr. Russell Wallace
remarks in a note which he has con
tributed to Dr. Weismann’s essay, “that
when one or more individuals have pro
vided a sufficient number of successors,
they themselves, as consumers of
nourishment in a constantly increasing
degree, are an injury to those successors.
Natural selection, therefore, weeds them
out, and in many cases favors such races
as die almost immediately after they
have left successors,” as, e. g., among
th® male been, the drone perishing
while pairing, def th being due to sud
den, nervous shock.—American An-
—Jupiter, Fla., can boast of the most
intelligent mule nn record. The ani
mal is twenty-one vears old. Every
night he proceeds to the life-saving sta
tion. It is customary for the man on
watch to di sc h<irge his roston signal (a
r**d light) whe n vessels come too near
the beach. Th e mule has “caught on”
to what this m agnal means. So every
night at eight < »’clock the sailor’s four-
legged friend proeeeds to walk the
lieach, and if a1 vessel comes too near
the shore the nnule, instead of a coston
signal, sends f<orth a neigh that makes
night hideous. “Port or starboard your
helm,” is tl*e order on the ship, an4
away sail the u’.y tars In perfect safety
«nd with a gra teful heart to th® four-
legged patrolman.
HOUSEHOLD
BREVITIES.
—Two ounces of common tobacco
boiled in a K^llon nf watoi’ ruhb*Ml “«»
with a stiff brush, is used to renovate
old clotheH. It is said to leave no smell.
-Chicken Fricassee.—Cut the chicken
into pieces and boil it until tender in
just enough water toi’overit. then drain
it and fry it brown in plenty of nice
butter. Remove it to a dish, th'cken
the butter with flour and add the liquor
in the kettle, making a rich gravy. Ln v
some small slices of toasted bread in the
d’sh with the chicken and pour th® gravy
v» r all. after seasoning it to taste.
To Corn Beef.— For < ne hundred
oounds of beef take twelve pounds rock
salt, one quart molasses, two ounces
saltpeter, three gallons of water and one
ounce of soda. Put all together, boil,
and skim until clear, then dip in tlx
beef while the liquid is boiling. When
the beef is cool pack it closely. Let lh<
brine become cold, then pour it over the
beef, add a small bag of salt and e
weight to keep the beef under the brine.
Liver Pudding.—Take two nicely
cleaned hog's heads, two lights, two liv
ers and the best parts of half a dozen
molts, half a dozen sweetbreads and
three or four kidneys split open. Soak
all in salt and water over night, and boil
with two slices of salt pork the next
morning. When done add some of the
grease skimmed from the water in
which they were boiled and grind in a
sausage mill. Season with pepper, salt
and finely chopped onion, and press into
a mold. — Household.
— Oatmeal Broad. -Boil two teacupsful
of oatmeal as for porridge, and add a
teaspoonful salt, and when cool, half a
teacupfui molasses and the same amount
of yeast, if the home-made is used, oi
half a small cake of compressed yeast:
stir in enough wheat flour to make tlx
batter stiff as ran well bo stirred with a
-poon. Place it in well greased bread
pans, and set it in a warm place to rise,
as it must be very light before it is
baked. Bake an hour and a quarter.
1’he above quantity will make two
loaves.
—Rice is almost a remedy in itself for
some kinds of sickness, as cholera and
bowel complaints. It makes easy work
for the digestive organs, and being so
nutritious it is valuable to both the sick
and the well. It is a <l«*h of which one
never becomes tired, and once a day is
not too often to place* it before the fam
ily. It would I m * advisable to one who
d(M*s not relish it to cultivate a taste for
this easily digest« d food. Its cheapness
s another merit, and it. bears a lucky
name, or it would not be such an im
portant accessory at every wedding.
The Housekeeper
—Apple Tarts. — Pare and cook very
tender a dozen sour apples. Mash fine
and pass the same through a sieve.
Beat smoothly together one and a half
teacupfuls of sugar, half a teacupful of
butter, the ju ce and grated rind of two
lemons, three well lieaten egg«, or, if
eggs are plentiful, the yelks of six
then stir in the apple «auce. I tn® pt”!
with nice pastry, fill with the to -1Sure
and take in a quick ov»-n
L ». the
whites of th® eggs stiff, add a b’.’. e
sugar and spread it on th® t ■. of ihe vc#®
and return to oven a mvturo v
Orange Judd Farmer
— Turn a man with I v htue w Be
wall. If he in pertec'J v a»v. j>.*d «ad
symmetrically made bxs
4- i x/uob
the wall, his now •
h/a/ acbe*
away, his thigh*
iBche®
the vuv
of his tor« three um
THE
FACTS ABOUT SHELLS.
Where th** Ch«»h*eHt Vmleth*-» < .»i n* l-'ron*
mik I Uh tt 'I lie.» Ar«* Worth.
There are only a few people who know
any thing about the beauty of color and
form in shells, yet Ruskin ranks the
nacre of shell far above tho colors of
jewels excepting only the opal in its
native rock. Among rare shells the
thorny or porcupine clam, which is
found in nature in all variety of shades
from a rich crimson to a pale rose
flushed white, and in pure white, is one
of the most expensive. Good specimens
in which all the spines are perfect and
the color beautiful, shaded rich in the
shadow and delicate and tender in the
light, bring often S25. Smaller, less
perfect shells are $5 and 88. Sea trum
pets mottled in shades of brown are
sought after by collectors of curios and
fine specimens readily bring 880.
“Those strange-looking shells with
many horns are sea scorpions,” said a
shell dealer talkingof his wares, “these
little ones are spider shells. The num
ber of horns varies with the place where
the shell is found. This one you see
has only six horns while this has eight
and this one seven. They all came
from different location».
They are
worth about 81 each. This shell (hold
ing up an exquisite crumpled shell) is a
murex from the Mediterranean Ocean.
We have black and white, pure white
like this one, white touched with rose*
color, and crimson like this.” Ho took
up last a beautiful murex shaded in
rose-colors and bringing to mind the
roseate purple dyes which the Syrians
obtained from the liquids secreted by a
species of this mollusk.
“Such shells,” contirued the dealer,
“are one and two dollars each, according
to their quality. This small whorled
3holl is a music shell; if you look at it
closely you will notice a very fair repro
duction of a bar of music with notes.
This small shell is in the shape of a
harp and takes its name from that, and
this specimen is a tent shell; the black
and brow'll lines on its surface look
something like a field of tents. This
long-spiked shell is a pearl oyster from
the Mediterranean, and this is an olive
shell. This is an ear shell, the opening
singularly shaped like the human ear.”
The dealer now displayed a number of
beautiful whorled flat shells of exquis
ite mother-of-pearl. Some were cut out
and traced near the opening in a pattern
resembling Honiton lace and mounted
on a piece of shell as a base. “These.”
he said, “are nautilus shells. They come
chiefly from the Indian Ocean and are
bronght here by sailors, who sink the
rough shells in any decaying part of the
fruit that usually forms a portion of
their cargo, and this fruit acid is strong
enough to remove completely the out
side* coating that lies over its beautiful
mother-of-pearl. The ornamentation of
tho shells is also done by the sailors,
who cover the surface with paste and
etch the patterns on and out with acids,
sometimes tracing out the air chambers
in the whorl.” The undecorated nau
tilus-shell is generally preferred by col
lectors of curios and makes a beautiful
hanging basket for a sunny window,
where its lovely iridescent colors can be
seen in their full beauty.
Beautiful conch or fountain shells are
also shown at the shell store. From
the queen conch, which is shaded in the
loveliest browns and copper reds, shell
cameos are cut. There are also many
kome-like, old-time cowry shells, which
recall the faint rose leaf fragrance of
old-fashioned parlors, where one or more
of these smooth usually mottled shells
always decorated tho mantel shelf.
Ther6 is th© mettled tiger cowry, tne
marbleized, and the serpentine cowry
and others called from their marking.
“Some of the sea snails in the Indian
Ocean produce the most beautiful mother
of pearl, but after all,” said the dealer,
“it is difficult to get good specimens of
shells in this country, and wo have to
pay high for th<‘in when we got them.
London is the great market for shells,
which are brought there from Zanzibar,
Singapore and ot her ports under control
of the British Government. Very beau
tiful shells are also sent from Mada
gascar and all coasts of the Indian Ocean
and from the Mediterranean.”—N. Y.
Tdbune.
_
_
BRITISH INVESTMENTS.
The Result of Their Pouring Into the
United State«.
It is no wonder, then, with a constant
aggregation of capital pouring in upon
Great Britain, with an inability to make
it yield a profit within her own domain
and, still further, the impossibility of
finding any other country where it can
be so safely invested, she should turn
in tho direction of the United States,
which alone of all nations seems to
combine all the elements of safety and
profit. From a list recently published
it appears that the amount of English
money which has been invested in indus
trial enterprises in the United States
has equaled, in the last two years,
about 81,0<>(>,(»()(> a week, amounting in
all to about 8100,090,000. * * * It is
not difficult to estimate the ultimate
influences set in motion by s ich a prac
tical union of material intero ts bet w<*en
the two gn at English speaking nations
of the world. Mr. Gladstone, in his
Paris speech, ref<*rring to the predic
tion that at the end of another hundred
years the population of this continent
may be 000,000,000, recognized “th®
prospective and approaahing right of
America t.o be the great organ of th»*
powerful English tongue”; and. allud
ing to tho United States and Gr»*at
Britain, added these significant words,
that “there was no cause upon •■art!)
that-should now or hereafter div;
n
from the other.” That the in*
mankind at large will he advan* • >1 by a
close bond of union between t*o xr«*ut;
Anglo-Saxon nations, n un
i i u . >L
and nothing will contribu ** moc* ***r-
tainly to this harmony chan
■ u la.
Ity of interests which is •• ’ta. i o »»•
created by the investment; x druish
oapital in Aux ri-an ¡nd
t outer-
prises. Erastus W rian. inNor’11 \ uer-
ican Review
________
l.onfeviti *>•
«»inen.
Pt<agre**abl® thoagti 'he I mato of
England may au -eifcr
tile uninitiated.
y®titw ayea^n Jy ®und>«oiv® <» lun-
flevity. In
o Mr GI ..kton.
wbone
1. M»d
>1 »'I
•dvarh-ed oid up* ar*» well known
•Srvugnoui. no *o*id, there ar®
*tw or ’wn <x:tog®narian mem tiers of the
GREAT
NAPOLEON.
Why H® Wn* Sent to St. Helena bjr the
Government.
After Waterloo and the dissolution of
the grand army Napoleon returned to
France. The storm of revolution was
already gathering; the tide of opposi
tion to him had arisen and overflowed
Franco; his son had been passed over by
the Chamber of Representatives; his
own services as General had been re
fused; he had endeavored to escape the
vigilance of the British cruisers that
guarded the coast, and finally he went
on board the Bellerophon and surren
dered himself to the commander.
Captain Maitland. The great, fallen
leader was informed that there were no
conditions to be made in regard to the
surrender of Napoleon, but that he
should be conveyed to England to be re
ceived there in such manner as the
Prince Regent should deem expedient.
He had written to the Prince Regent
from Rochefort that he had terminated
his career, and, “like '1'hemistocles, I
come to seat myself at the hearth of
the British people. 1 place myself un
der the protection of its laws, which I
claim from your Highness as the most
powerful, the most constant and
the most generous of my enemies.”
The concurrent testimony of
the
historians of the times is to the effect
that Napoleon’s life was in imminent
danger in France. Blucher had threat
ened to execute him. and he gave him
self up because there was nothing else
to do. No graver questions ever faced
a civilized nation than the disposition of
Napoleon and Jefferson Davis when
their public careers came to an end.
In Europe the experiment had been
tried of banishment, or rather restraint
to Elba, but that had failed. Europe
•would never be at peace; its awful
slaughters on the battlefields, by dis
ease, exposure, in all the ghastly forms
of war. would not cease unless the
cause were securely, permanently re
strained; while to hold him beyond the
reach of activity in Europe would be to
imprison him. This was the condition,
those were the reasons, that led the
British Government to decide to send
him to St. Helena. For this purpose
an act of Parliament was passed “for
the better detaining iu custody of Na
poleon Bonaparte,” «nd another act
providing for the proper and special
government of the island of St. Helena,
lie was detained on the Bellerophon
until August 4 and then transferred to
the Northumberland, and on October
15 arrived in St. Helena, never to leave
it alive.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
CROWNED
AFTER
DEATH.
Tlie Only Queen Who Never Knew Her
Royal Station.
There is no more remarkable page in
all history than the one which tells of
the crowning of Inez de Castro’s flesh
less skull as Queen of Portugal. She
had been married clandestinely to young
Don Pedro, and was murdered three
years later by assassins instigated by
her father-in-law. When the young Dorn
heard of her death he was beside him-
seJf with grief and rage. Two of the
¡wassins fell into his hands and suffered
terrible torture, which only ended by
their hearts being torn out while they
were yet alive. When Pedro came to
the throne a few years later he had the
bones of Inez taken from the grave,
placed upon a magnificent throne, robed
in royal purple, and actually crowned
Queen of Portugal! The court was sum
moned and compeled to do her
homage, just as if she Wore a real
living Queen. One ficsniess namx
held tho scepter and the other the
orb of royalty. On the second night of
this weird ceremony the flesh loss Queen
was borne before a grand funeral cortege
extending^ several miles, each person
holding a torch. Lyinf in her rich
robes, her crown upon her grinning
skull, in a chariot drawn by twenty
coal-black mules. Queen Inez, the only
Queen who never knew her royal sta
tion, was driven to tlx* royal Abbey of
Alcobaca. where tho bones were interred
with a< much pomp as though she had
died but yesterday. Tho monument
erected to tlx* Qurrn who was never a
Queen during life, is still to be seen in
the abbe- , standing near the one erected
to her royal husband. “Pedro, the Just.”
Jt is said that the whole cause of this
outrageous proceeding was an attempt
of Philip II. of Spain to secure tlx,
throne on tho grounds that the mar
riage of Inez was illegal. These events
occurred during the three years follow
ing January 1, 1347. the date of the mar
riage of Pedro and Inez.-
THEY
How
LIVE
ON
CREDIT.
Petty Ofix-liil« In R usm I m Nwlndle
TriiMtinic Tra<le<*m«*n.
Full four-fifths of the officials of SL
Petersburg receivo less than $50 a
month. Most of them have a houseful
of childn'ii, and they must all spend
part of the y< ar in town, where lodgings
and provisions are expensive. I have at
last got a clew to the mystery how they
manage it. It is all don® on credit.
Tho creditof a petty official is prtvtical-
ly inexhaustible. He and the majority
of his compeers live—at least in the
country—at the expense of credulous
tradesmen. Their spouses, especially,
are born geniuses in this department of
industry.
“From th® very beginning,” says a
well-known publicist, “they established
their bourn*hoJd on a basis of fraud. In
their houses strangers ar® sure to In»
taken in. Bv•<*ry man, woman and child
who conx*s in contact with them is
pluckmi like ;an eider duck.”
M<»t of thew peopl® pay only half th®
rent covenant ed for. and some manage
to get their meals thrown in. Th®
'ra*l<*smen wiio<'omtM*t® with each other
suicidally, w Ipo oat their last veer’s
debts nattier t han rnn their heads into
now nooses.
The peddltvrs and bagmen, who ar**
continually sibroiling about these ;,d&ees
gs of wares on their bnek«*.
»mall flies for the spider*
weiw woven t>y those “gentlemen. ’ Fhe
lady of the bimt«» 'W her worthy vpouso
n the
eager I y lisfe-
»•rung for thi® cries of the ignorant
venders, wbr r , having no buuks, give
e [mid in pwruiew*.
suddenly ’IJo • ry: Children s boatoi
•* Hi
CThildreti’s Issota!** is watted
nMvny lee® pPeasant things,
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