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PIECE OF A MAMMOTH.
A Valuable Hollo In the Bmlth-
Bonlan Institution.
It U Only s Sit of Vat (ram thi Body
or sa Animal That Has Bean
Daad for Thousand
at Mtm.
Dr. Dal, of the Smithsonian instltu
tion, during his recent visit to Alaska
secured a natural history specimen that
was a pme indeed. It was u bit of mam
moth fat, from the actual adipose tissue
of an animal that had been dead for tenB
of thousands of years.
Bodies of mammoths in a fresh state
have lwen dug up irom time to time in
arctic Siberia, preserved in natural cold
storage Blnce a period probably ante-'
dating the first appearance of man on
the earth. That is an old story; but
this is the first known instance in which
the soft parte of a beast of this species
nave wen found on the American ranti
sent. It is easy to imagine the scien
tific interest attaching to the discovery,
Ages ago this mammoth died, under
such circumstances that his corpus was
buried in mud. At about that time
there was a great and permanent
chBnge in uie temperature of circum-
polar regions. The climate had been
subtropical; it suddenly became frigid,
The mammoths were literally "frozen
out," the last of the species perishing of
cold. This particular individual, frozen
in a bank of clay, had every prospectof
"keeping" for an indefinite period,
Hundreds of centuries later a stream
flowing through an Alaskan valley
-elded the clay bank referred to and
,-gan to cut it away. At length some
iff bones stuck out, and a native of ex
ceptional courage dug out one or two
of them. This required more of that
i;uallty known in civilized countries as
nerve" than might be imagined, for
'trange monsters, however long they
iiiay have been dead, are regarded with
superstitious awe by savuges.
However, the natives linaily sum
moned courage enough to drag the re
mains of the mammoth out of the clay
link piecemeal. The body of the ani
mal had been preserved so well that a
lairly perfect cast of it was found in the
liiatrix. A quantity of fat, which over
iuv the intestines, was obtained and was
used for greasing boats. Dr. Dall se-
ured a piece of it, and fetched it back
. U aslungton tor an exhibit.
In the office of Osteologist Frederic
. Lucas, at the National museum, is a
. - iimmnth's molar tooth, to which an
!ii story isattached. Itwasgotfroma
ng at I'uso Verde, in the country of
i'upapj Indians. Ever so many cen
;. ips ago a mammoth in its dying og-
nics sought that, spring for water and
'Hintoit.tooweaktocliuibout. There
-i l.ones remain to this day. and the
I'liaus believe that, if they were re
lU'ri, the spring would dry up. Of
-iNv'. siu'h an event in that region
;.ns tit-' obstruction of a village.
Ma3t.odon bones, of course, are fre-
l-..-i;tly dug up in the United States.
1 lie mastodon was a kind of elephant,
but it did not belong to the genus Ele
plias. The mammoth did not belong to
that genus, being known to modern
cience aa elephas primi-genus. It
often happens that farmers plow up the
osseous remains of mastodons, particu
larly in reclaimed swamps, where an
ciently the gigantic beasts became
mired and died from sheer helplessness
to get out The tusks are commonly
found so far decomposed that the ivory
crumbles between the hngers.
The first mastodon ever dug up was
found in 1613. The remains of these ani
mals nre by no means confined to the
United States; they are discovered all
over the world. They are much thicker
set than the modern elephant. The
lower jawbone of a full-grown speci
men weighs nearly 100 pounds. The
firBt mastodon bones that were dug up
were supposed to be those of giants of
an earlier epoch. Washington Star,
When Lincoln Was Postmaster.
John Wanamaker was the principal
speaker at a dinner given by the Phila
delphia Association of Underwriters to
the national board in the Continental
hotel. He told the following story of
Lincoln: W lule at ashington it came
under my notice in the post office de
partment that Abraham Lincoln, in
his early life, bad been postmaster at
ft small Ohio town. In the changes
that took place the office was consoli
dated with Salem, and the man twice
wanted for president was tor once not
wanted for postmaster. Years after it
ns discovered that no settlement had
ached Washington of the affairs of
'hat litt'c postolliee. A visit was made
'o Mr. Lincoln and the case stated,
when the always great man rose from
bis desk .and walked over to a chest of
drawers and took out a bundle of pa
pers, among them an envelope, contain
ing $17 and some cents, the exact sum
in identical money of the (jovernment
safely in keeping until called for. As
be handed it over to the agent of the
post office department he said: "There
it is. I never use any other man's
money." N. Y. Tribune.
Bight and Left Limbs.
The physiologists and scientists in
jr"ucral have been making pome curious
experiments with a view to determine
'ue relative length and strength of
"rii'lit" and "left" limbs. Fifty and
tiiiie-t.'jilliB per cent, of the men meas
nivd iuul the right arm stronger than
the left; lei 4-10 per cent, had the two
.uniiH of njiml length and strength, and
'11 7-10 r cent, had the left arm
si'iMiifer than the right. Of women
l if-K)" Ver cent, had the. right arm
ki KiiMrcr than the left; !M ;-10 percent.
iun.I the left stronger than the right.
!u onler to arrive at the average of.
' I'-i'rl 1. i limbs, 50 skeletons were inens
ir eil, 5 of each sex. Of these 23 had
: ri?'ht arm and left leg longer, si
the left urni and right leg. while in 17
eases nil the members were more or
less equal in lenfth. Home Queem
JIM FAIR'S PRESENCE.OF MIND,
Bamsrkabls Story Told by taa Boa of tfaa
California MlUlonaln.
Charles Fair, the only male heir to the
late James G. Fair, sat in the billiard
room of the Palace hotel talking to j
some pioneer friends of his father.
")o you know, Charley, that a book
of reminiscences of your father would ,
ell like hot cakes? You ought to put
the data in the hands of some publisher !
and let him issue the volume. What j
do you think about it?"
The eon smiled and looked up at then
talker, as he replied:
"Why don't you do It?"
"Me do HI" exclaimed the man 'with
the publishing Ideas. "I didn't kranr
him."
"Neither did I," answered Charles.
"Nobody knew him. I dont think a
man ever lived who enjoyed his con
fidence, I can assure you that he was
the some strange man to me that he
was to others, and his iron rule to keep
his own counsel was never broken,
"Whenever he did fall into a con
fidential-end chatty mood it was to jest
about something or to theorize. I re
call a story he once told Alfred E,
Davis, his old partner. The atorv I
have in mind was woven into a serious
conversation, and he never cracked a
smile over It, Before proceeding, how
ever, I must tell you that in the Corn-
stock mines a ladder goes down the
side of each shaft, and every twelfth
rung is iron, so as to give the whole
additional strength. Well, father said
to him:
" 'Davis, do you know I was almost
killed once in the Crow Point mine?'
" 'How was that, Jim?'
" This way. I was looking down
the shaft to see if everything was all
right and lost my balance. Being un
able to recover myself, I toppled over
and fell yea, Davis, fell. I must have
gone about a hundred feet when it
suddenly struck me that if I didn't be
gin doing something pretty quick I
would go clear through to hades. So
I reached out and grabbed a rung of
the ladder. It broke and I grabbed the
next. That broke, too, but 1 reached
for the third, which also gave way, and
the next, and the next, and so on, but
it broke my fall, and in about five min
utes I reached the bottom, a little
jarred up, but perfectly sound.'
.Davis looked at him out of the cor
ners of his eyes a few seconds and said :
What did you do, Jim, when you
came to the twelfth rung? Did you
grasp at that, too?'
'Why, I missed it. Do you think I
wanted to smash everything that wi
in the mine?' "
When Charles finished his story he
was laugning more heartily than any
one else in the crowd, and could not
be prevained upon to recall anything
more wax naa come from the 1 ns of
his famous financial father. San Fran
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NO FRIEND TO THE RACE.
some of the Colonel', CharacterUUes Con-
aldarad Onjeettonanla,
i was riding out from Memphis to
Col. Jackson's plantation when 1 met ail
old darky on the highway, who was hob
bling along with painful effort. ,As 1
wasn't quite sure about my road I
asked him if he knew the colonel's place.
n.urnei Jackson's plantashun?" he
repeated. "Yea, sah, I knows dat place
right well. Yo' keep right on to do
next co ner an' den turn to de right an"
go a mile."
Do you know the colonel T I asked.
'Kurnel Jackson? Yes, sah. I
knows the kurnel like a book."
"lie is said to be a great friend of the
colored man."
"Hul Who saya dat?"
"Why, I've heard quite a number of
people say so."
Yo' has, eh? Jist said he was a
great friend of de cull'd race, did dey?
tfcu, ouu, u nuraei jaexson ama crent
friend of de cull'd race den I doan' know
It!"
"Perhaps you never wanted any thinir
. ,. . .
oi mm i suggested.
"White man!" exclaimed the old man
as he lifted up his hands, "do yo' ob-
sarve (lis lameness?"
"Yes, you are very lame."
"An' how did I git dis lameness?"
"I don' know." ,i
'Let me tell yo', sah. Two weeks ago
went aown to ilurnel Jackson s Dlan
tashun to see my darter, who works for
him. I started to cum home 'bout 11
o clock at night, an' while I was walkin
long i war suuueniy cotched in a
b'ar-trap. I was held in dat trap two
hours, an' dat counts for my lameness.
Dat's de sort of man de kurnel am nut-
tin' out b'ar-traps to eotch cull'd folks
by de legs."
"Was that bear-trap in front of tho
colonel s meat-bouse?" I asked.
ies, sah right by de doah," replied
xne oiu man.
'Then it was set to protect his meat
against thieves, wasn't it?"
Yes, sah, reckon It was, but was I
arter bis bacon? No, sah! I war iist
gwinc to open de doah an' look in an'
see how much meat de kurnel had on
ban' fur de winter?"
And you explained matters to the
colonel when he came out to let you out
of the Jjiip?"
1 did, sah. Arter I'd hollered an'
hollered an' was mos' dead de kurnel
cum down an' sot me free, an' what hurt
my feelin's de mos' was what he said to
me. Arter I'd 'snlained to himall 'bout
he hit me He ben times wid his cane an'
said dat if he eber cotched me trvin'
to abominate his meat-house agin he'd
istmguish me with such Imnetuositv
dat I'd nebber see anoder well day.
Datsde sort o'a man Kurnel Jackson am,
col. .In'- ,l . -i J ) 1
" bui .um ireu lie am to 00
cull'd people 'round yere." Detroit
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