TRADITIO.! OF THE HORSESHOE.
mi It Cam. M B s PMMta agar I
tll Spirits.
In Morocco iron is considered a great
protection against demons, who are
the lineal representatives, after all, of
the hostile spirit. Uence it is twnal
to place a knife or damper under a sick
nun'B pillow, his illness, of course,
bcinjr attributed to demoniacal poe
session. In India, records a writer in
Comhill Magazine, the mourner who
performs the necessary but somewhat
dangerous duty of putting fire Into the
dead man's month carries a key or a
knife in his hand, to keep off the aril
spirits. In short, a bit of iron is a rery
useful thing to hare about you at any
time if you desire to escape the un
favorable attention of the ghosts, the
trolls, the fairies and the demons gen
erally. This is a good reason tor buy
ing a pocketknife. It is also a reason
for nailing up a horseshoe. "But why
a horseshoe in particular?" you ask,
"more than any other odd piece of
iron?" Well, primarily, the good luck
depends more upon the iron as iron
than on the special shape or function
- of the horseshoe as a horseshoe. ,
But there are also many reasons why
the superstition should happen to fix
itself more particularly upon horse
shoes. We must remember that in Eu
rope, at least, it is the cattle, the hones
and the domestic beasts in general that
are specially liable to the hostile at
tacks of "the little people." There
fore the aires and trolls are most likely
to be dreaded on farms or in the coun
try, where horses and cattle most do
eongregute. Now, if you want to nail
up a bit of iron as a protection against
the fiery darts of the evil ones on your
stables or cowhouses (which is the
place where one ofteneat seer them),
nothing is more likely to eome handy
to your purpose than a cast horseshoe.
Besides, it has obvious congruity for
the place and object, and it can be
readily picked up in the roads almost
anywhere. Furthermore, it is pro
vided beforehand ' with convenient
holes, by means of which you can
readily hang it up, either over your
own house door or over your sheds and
stables. The various advantages of
cheapness, ease and readiness for fix
ing would have given the horseshoe a
fair start in life, it is believed, as a
charm against fairies, trolls and evil
spirit generally, even without any
other more special advantages,
SOME BIO COUNTIES.
Caltfeeala Has Om Blsaw Vnaa !
East of the Rocky mountains there
are only twelve counties in the United
States containing more than 5,000
square miles Kot one of these la in
New York state, the largest county of
which, Ht. Lawrence, covers only 1,900
square miles One of the twelve ia
Aroostook, the forest county of north
ern Maine, between Hew Brunswick
and the Bt. Lawrence. Another is
Dade county, Fla,, whieh includes the
everglades of Florida along the At
lantic coast, and has an area of 1,609
squaremiles and a total population of
less than 000. Cherry eounty, Keb., fa
the extreme northeast of the state,
with the Snake river dividing it in half,
has an area of 4,868 miles. Three
northern counties of Minnesota lying
south rl Manitoba and west of Lake
Superior, Beltrami. Itasca and Bt.
Louis, have respectively 5,040, 1,490
and 6,880 square miles. Thehuteomv
ty includes the important city of Do
luth, but the first has a population of
only 300 and the second only of ISO.
The population of Duluth is 33,000.
Two counties of Idaho Bingham,
. containing the lava fields, and Idaho,
south of the Nex Fercea' roaarvatioa
contain more than 10,000 square miles
each. Two counties in Texas, reeos
and El Faso, have more than fi,000
square miles. Pecos, which is ia the
extreme west of the state, on the Rie
Grande, has 0,700. El Paso, which ad
joins it on the Bio Grande, has 9,750.
One county of Colorado, Arapaho, has
an area of 5,320 square miles, but it is
still more notable from tat fact that it
has a population of 150,000, including
the city of Denver. Routt eounty, ia
the same state, has aa area of 6,000
square miles. On the Pacific slops
counties, like trees and fruits, are of
gigantic size. Six counties of Oregon,
three counties of Washington, seven
counties of Nevada and seven cow
ties of California have more than 5,005
square miles. The largest of all in the
United States is the county of San Ber
nardino, to the east of Los Angela,
Its area is nearly 21,000 square miles,
nearly half the site of New York state,
and 5,000 miles larger than New Jer
sey, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode
Island combined.
EAT THEIR POQ.
Pailianlr BaMss r the
Ufce Fia--auss.
The nrst thing that strikes a visitor
to a Corean village is the surprising
subpopulation of dogs, says Harper's
Weekly. Every house seems to possess
pack of these spiritless eurs, which
are a gray variety of the Chinese chow
dog. They display a more than passing
interest in a European traveler, and a
free use of one's stick Is necessary to
keep them at bay. On investigation
one discovers that they form the staple
article of diet of the population. Un
like most Asiatic rases, the Corean
are meat eaters, and these dogs, being
always at hand, afford the necessary
food with the minimnm of exertion
and expense. Arrother curious feature
of the Corean diet is the total absence
often, the most universal beverage of
eastern Asia. '
Frequently one sees a Corean forag
ing for the evening meal. The method
is simple, though unpleasant. He is
armed with a short pole, to the end of
which Is attached a noose. This he
throws over the head of tu nearest
dog, and then proceeds to screw the
pole round till the noose tightens, and
slowly throttles the dog, who is aisaa
while prevented from getting to does
quarters with it butther by throats af
the pole, . i. .
, Masttrt
jf4 taMAM ' fcaaefavei a 1
1 his makfQill.'i'nt animal, though acon
aiilt'rr.Wo source of revenue on account
of its valuable skin, t nevertheless
much dreaded by the natives. 80
serious ere the ravages committed by
thcus that the king was forced toorgen
ise a retfuicnt of "royal tiger hunters,"
and these constitute the corps d'elite
of the Careen army.
Traveliug in Corea eaa hardly be de
scribed as luxurious. The Corean is
not lavish of home comforts for him
self, and he certainly provides a mini
mum of the same for the traveling for
eigner. The average Corean hotel com
pares unfavorably with a modern pig
sty, and one lias to sleep as beat one
can in the midst of surprising dirt, a
colony of cattle and fowls, and other
things which shall be nameless. :
ORIGIN OF NAVAL TITLES.
BUUkUT
at, ia ipss aue in rmnsa
In the early days the rank of admiral
was unknown: the chief officer of a
squadron was called a constable or jus
tice. The term admiral as used now ia
derived from the Arable "amir" 01
"emir," a commander (aa ia "Amir-el
Iiahr," commander of the sea.) The
earlr English form waa "amiral," and
is still preserved aa such by the French.
Thj Bpanish and Portuguese forms are
"alrnirante," the Italian "ammiraglio."
The title captain ia not a naval but a
miliouy one, says the Brooklyn Citixsn.
Under the alder organisation the real
captain of a ship waa a master, but a
military officer was placed on board,
though he knew nothing about nauti
cal affaire. As the captain became big
ger and bigger the master became
smaller and smaller until, at the pres
ent day, he fills a subordinate position,
which is gradually becoming obsolete,
being replaced by aa omeer under the
title of a navigating lieutenant.
Commodore comes from the Spanish
"commendador." The title lieutenant,
borrowed directly from the French, is
more modern, and Is meant aa a place
holder, or one who took the place of
the captain when absent. Bub-lieutenant
is still more modern, and at the
same time a misnomer, as he never was
a sub-lieutenant, but merely a mate, or
one who assisted. In former days we
had no cadet, but volunteers. How
ever, with the gradual advance of po
liteness, the more seemly term of cadets
wss borrowed from the French, and
adopted as the title of the young gen
tlemen in our navy. .
In place of paymasters, the ships of
old had pursers, who looked after the
provisions. The naval purser did more,
lie had charge of the atores of the ship
anr! :,the money chest. Burgeons and
surgeons' mates fulfilled the duties of
the doctors. Chaplains are of modern
introduction. Naval instructors and
schoolmasters ruled in their stead.
The term mate was a rather universal
one and applied to all breaches.
FROM THE LIAR)' -CLUB.
Chase ladfeatttl. lane T14 artts atost
la a Virginia forest the other day,
says the New York Recorder, a very
large tree was cut down, near the heart
of which waa found a lock of hair, or
rather two, intertwined of darker and
lighter meshes. By carefully splitting
the wood the initials "I. B." and "P.
P." were discovered, faintly legible, ia
what must have been the bark several
hundred years ago. By carefully
counting the rings whieh- covered the
initials they were found to support the
theory that the mystic letters stand for
I-o-h-a, or "John Bmith" and "Poca
hontas Bowhatan," whose locks of hair
had been in some romantic mood in
trusted to the keeping of- the deft
baric.
Not content with slaughtering wild
anexs m tne nsusi method, - Henry
Jones, of Currituck, procured a Gatling
gun and loaded the cartridges with
bird shot Concealing himself, ho
waited until a large flock approached
him at great speed with a favoring
wind. When they had nearly reached
him he opened fire. The destruction
waa terrible, but such was the impetus
of the birds and the force of the wind
that almost the entire flock which he
bad slaughtered flopped dying upon his
niaing place, and beneath their man
gled bodice Jones perished miserably
oy retriDuuve suffocation.
A lady in Thomaston, lie., has a
fanny which had kittens, as eats so
named frequently do, Bearing her
mistress remark that the kittens must
all be drowned Fanny removed them
one day to a safe hiding place. After
a day or two she brought them back to
the mistress with a air of .triumph. It
waa then seen that she had with teeth
and claws torn to pieces an old canvas
and cork life-preserver and had fastened
a piece of cork around each kitten's
neck. Moved to pity by the sight, the
mistress said: "Fanny, not one of your
kittens shall ever be hurt." At this
the intelligent mother took off the hits
at cork and went to I leap ia perleot
A nsnr atovr.
Pyeng Tang, a city in Corea, was
founded three thousand ana sixteen
years ago. It is known aa the well-less
city. Within its walls is not a single
well, and all the water of the city is
carried up by watermen from the river
which washes its southern wall. Tra
dition shows that this has always been
so, for it is said that when a Chinese
general besieged it two thousand years
ago, believing that he could compel its
inhabitants to capitulate by cutting off
their water supply, he was led to give
up the attempt because the soldiers on
the walls took fish scales and went
through the motions of the baths, and
the scales, glittering in the sun, looked
in the eyes of the astoslahed beeiej(eTt
w ve orona ui water. -
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A tablet recently set np at Naples
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Humbert to the cholera sufferers ia
104. It stands near the spot where
the excommunicated king, Cardinal
Sea Felice and the archbishop of
Naples vet while passing through ths
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