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OCCIDENTAL JIHANCli
(irouiiil llroken for an Immense
Irrigation liuh.
SNOW PLOWS USEFUL IN IDAHO.
Reduction In the Price of KiUns Dues
Nut Increase the Sali-s lh':
Condi. Inn df Mttkct.
The Ph.enix (A. T.) V. C. T. U. will
erect a $10,000 building.
Work has commenced at Salt Like to
lay the mains through which natural
gas will lie supp to the city.
Snow plows have alre-idy been found
necessary to keep tin railroad I r un Mis
soula into the t'o'iir d'Alem a open.
A decision in the Oregon Supreme
Court, JiiHt rendered upholds th anil
quackery net, and physicians must ob
tain a license More they cm practice.
The liellef in general in Fresno that
tlist city has an organized band of mur
derers In ita midst. An ell'irl iH Icing
made to turret them out.
C. K. Thurmond, County Superintend
ent l ScIiooIh lit Santa Barbara, has I sen
held for trial on a ehae of altering the
rmordaof tliu Comity Hoard of Kluca
ti't.i. Excellent fruit has been pranced in
Murray, Idaho, thia season. 1 he hucccbh
which has attended thia initial venture
has encouraged many, who will plant
orchards In those high altitude i this full.
According to recent estimates thede
ciduoUB fruit crop of Southern Calitornia
for thia year will reach lO.tK'O carloads,
valued at $3,000,000, and that the citrus
fruit will reach tl.OOO carloads, valued at
$;,,500,000.
The Secretary of the Sealers Associa
tion of British Oolumhia estimates th tt
the total Beal catch of the British Co
lumbia Kealera will he ahout 45,00.1 skins,
which, compared with (he catch of lust
year, shows a falling oir of 15 per cent.
Referring to the finds of remains of
extinct animals, none is more curious
than that of finding the antl-rs and
Iwnea of an elk IDS feet below tin sur
face In a shaft that was being sunk on a
ledge near Newbridge, Or., this season.
They were found imbedded in a stratum
of gravel.
The census bureau has maile public
the statistics of the maufaetiiriiig and
mechanical industries of Los Angeles,
which for 18110 are aa follows : Number
of industries, 8;$; number of establish
ments, 747: capital invested, $(i,K07,0H8;
hands employed, 4,115 ); wages paid, $3,
474,018; cost, of materials used. $5,008,
102; value of product, $11,877,905.
U... Intnrnqtmir Indian imillllllies
are in the possession of Dr. Morrow of
Pendleton, vr. iney wem .nm-nnm
one year ago on Long Island in the Col
umbia river, buried in a mound of sand.
One of them la a figure of a full-grown
adult, evidently of great, aire. The other
la of a young child. Both are perfectly
preserved, having hair and teeth intact.
oi, anil sf thn vmmtrnr one has been
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removed, showing the covering of the
brain, rue moccasins are yet on uu-in,
and are hardly changed.
The Delamar Mining Company is
threatened witn an apex sum mat my
hitit.nrical in the hislorv of min-
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ing litigation in Idaho. Inn Regan,
ni uin.(ti.linnf the Stod.lard nron-
erty, claims that it holds the apex of the
Delamar Company's ore bodies. I le has
recently been doing some work to prove
his theory, and expees aoon to com
mence suit for an accounting. A very
large amount of money will be ipvolvad.
The JJeiamar uorapany recency pm
chased the other three-tilths.
1 Ima tiAnn liroken for the inv
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noa .lifi.li (n 1i enimt.riicted tlil'OUl'tl
the Columbia delta by the Walla Walla
and Columbia Irrigation Company, and
by March 1, 1893, tho proposfd reclaim
ing of 10,000 acreB of as fine land as can
le found in the Pacific Northwest will
have been made possible by Bt curinir for
that land a supply of water more than
sufficient for all purposes of agriculture.
The water will be taken from the Walla
Walla river at a point about nine miies
above Wallula, and at this point the
work, was begun.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Movement Agilird the limployineiit of
M. in led Women as le.uheis In
the I'uhlk Spools.
Harvard gives aw ay $S7,000 Himiully
ill aid of its students.
Yale freshmen and Cornell freshmen
have given up their annual ruuh at their
respective college.
Lincoln t.'iiiversil.v, the colored e;ll"ge
at Lincoln, Chester countv, l'a , hits re
opened with 'JM) students enrolled.
The l -tr it Hoard of ivliiealion has
shut out all teachers from the puhlie
k'Iioois who are not uradii'.ilea of the
schools.
Cooduca ion has attained to such a re
markable decree of M)j.iilnril v In Maine
that two married con pies have entered
Colby I'niversity.
Colorado College is overcrowded with
students. Its present frecliinan class
contains double the number of last
year's freshman class,
The Chicago University hai mder
c ui'iideraiioii a plan whereby classes
w II bo f ruied to systematically study
World's Fair exhibits.
In the " Isiard schools " of Dundee,
Scotland, w hich are similar to our pub
lie H'liools, instruction in sw immiiig is a
part of the eiurieulmo,
The I'niversity of Wisconsin has or
ganized a university exten-ion depart
ment under L;. man 1. l owell, formerly
if Johns llopk.ns I Diversity,
('(ilnmbia ('ollei;e a.i-oiinls for the de-
crease of iimubers noticeable in the class
: iHMt in the Hrts department, by the
act that the standard of tcholarship has
raited.
In the early years of Yale College and
until 17(17 the names of the gradualc
were arranged not alphabetic illy, but in
the order of the social rank of the fami
lies to which they Is-loriKed.
Throuuhbut all Spanish America no
young man is considered thoroughly ed
ucated until he can speak at least, two
binguiiges U'Side Ins own. In Chili
rrencli and (terman are universally
earut d, and it is now becoming the fash
on to study Knglish.
l'hys'cal Director Slangthat's what
they call him has decided that the stn-
lents iu the Cbicfgo University shall
kick football three times a week for ex
ercise, at least the young men. The
young ladies walk an hour, and take uf-
tccn minutes exercise in tliegyninasiuiil.
The New York I'oard of I'Mueatioii has
taken a caution- steo toward the intro
duction of the I-'rocbcl system by mak
ing mi appropriation of f'.'ii.OOi) for kind
ergarten classes in the primary schools
of that c tv.
The movement (tgairiHt the employ
ment of married women as teacher in
the public schools has extended to Chi
cago. That city employs 3,0110 teachers,
!5 per cent, of w hom are women, and
400 or T) XI of these are married.
PURELY PERSONAL.
The Clay Model of the Statue of General
( ieorRe H. McClcllan Scrutinized
by the Vice-President.
The Duke of Kiinbiirgh is composing
music to a libretto by Carmen Sylva.
10 x Senator Plait once led the village
choir, and was considered a fair Hinger
by the church members.
Mr. Cleveland's l'nz.ard's Bay resi
dence, (irav Cables, is for Bale. It is
stated that Mr. Cleveland will again
make his summer home at Marion.
One of the best portrait painters of
Biston Is a woman, Mrs. l'hiebe Picker
ing Jenaa, who devotes he'Belf exclu
sively to the portraits of women and
children.
Mrs. Martha A. Hogan, Mrs. Mary A.
FasHettand Mrs. Sarah A. Fassett, trip
lets, were present at a celebration at
Walthain, Mass., the other day. They
are (iil years old.
Mary A. Dickens, daughter of Charles
Dickens, Jr., who was for a time on the
stage, is now in literature, and contrib
utes to the Journal -that I.er lamer edit
and which her illustrious grandfather
once carried on. .
The clay model of the statue of Gen
eral George B. McClellan, which is to be
erected in Philadelphia, lias been senv
tinized by Vice-President Morton and
Major McClellan, brother of "Little
.Mac," an 1 they regard the likeneBS ex
eelleiit.
Boatswain John C. Thompson, U. P,
N.. who lias been attached to tho Brook
lyn navy yard for the last fifteen years,
has been placed on the retired list
Boatswain Thompson is a veteran of the
Mexican war, and h:is seen fifteen years
of active service.
The Sultan of Turkey has conferred
upon Mrs. Kllic t, daughter of Sir Clare
l .1 - It .!.' .1. .-..I. 1 i I
flora, i ne oriusn AimwsBiwinr at Vjou
Btantinople, the Order of Sne'kakat.sec
ond class. This decoration has been
crea ed by Sultan Abdul Ilamid, and is
bestowed on ladies of distinction.
Rome threo or four months ago Baron
Ilirsch distributed all his earnings on
the turf for the previous year, amount
ing to $70,000, among deserving English
charities, lie has since accumulated
fresh profits from the races won by his
horse?, and he intimates that a further
sum of $100,000 will be available for
charitable purposes at the beginning of
18!K'.
The Pone is now in his 83d year, and
in Paris Field Marshal Canrobert is 85,
and Marshal McMahon, who is still
straight as a dart and retaining a mag
nificent seat in his saddle, is 83. Kos
suth, the Hungarian patriot, has just
celebrated his 90th birthday. Prince
Camilie Rohau has receutly died at the
age of 92, and the same can be said of
the late Karl ot i.8Hex.
eONI) THE ROCKIES.
'icri-I'icri Arrives at New York on
Hoard a Vessel."
A NIC0TINELESS CIGAR INVENTED.
The Stijiwlor bf the Order of the Sisters
of Charity for the United
States Appointed.
Chicago barred "Ta-ra-ra-lwom-de-ay"
from its civic parade.
Stamford, Conn., has Just celebrated
its L'"t)th anniversary,
Severe weather is reported by the in
coming Atlantic steamers.
The Lake Shore road is being double-
tracked between Bull'alo and Chicago.
A society has )eeri formed at Phila
delphia to promote the eating of horse
llesh.
The late Gen ral John Pope left sn
estate of about J.',OiH) or $.10,(100 to his
children.
Chicago is fortunate in having discov
ered a new supply of natural gaa at this
juncture.
Kansas commercial travelers have or
ganized a State association for mutual
benefit purposes.
A Pittsburg inventor savs he can make
fuel gas from oil that will be cheaper
than natural gas.
The government has decided that no
more contracts with Indian attorneys
w ill be approved.
A lead and r.inc mining company has
lieen organ zed at Last St. Iouis with a
capital stock of f 1.000,000.
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the Philadelphia
specialist in nerve disease, has invented
a cigar containing no niotioe.
Collector of Customs Fannigan of El
Paso has been indicted for assisting Chi
nese to enter the United States.
Toe Mechanical R'.iblier Company,
w ith a capital of !5.oOO,000, was incor
porated at Irenton, N. J., last week.
The Dean typewriter, invented by a
Minneapolis man, has passed to the con
trol of a New York tniBt company for
l.'JOO.IXM).
For the first time in the experience of
the New York police a Chinaman was
arrested there the other day for being
drunk in the streetB.
A vessel has reached New York with
cases of the disease known as lieri-beri
in Japan on board. It resembles yellow
fever in some respects.
Ann O'Delia DisDebar, tho apook
priestess, was arrested at Quincy, III.,
one day last week for stealing $1,000
from a Ine ml at r.lgin, 111.
At points north of Reading, Pa., water
is eo scarce that the railroads have to
guaid their tanks, and mountain tires
have broken out in several places.
An ollicial of the Big Four says that
the manifest svstem now in use on the
road is worth 1,500 Ciira to the company,
so much more promptly are freights
moved.
A circular issued by the order of Rail
way Telegraphers to operators contains
a number of questions which railroad
managers object to have their employes
answer.
Father Haire, who was pastor of the
Immaculate Coucep ion Church of Balti
more for a little over a year, has been
appointed Superior of the Order of the
Sisters of Charity for the United States.
Vitr fnrniflhlnir medicine tr an IK.venr-
old girl at Columbia, S. C, for a crimi
nal operation uoionei j. ji. aiorrow, uie
well-known horseman, gets Bix years'
imprisonment.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor says he will recom-
moml tlm fttiluriatiitn in Ivwnnt t a 1 1 rf fho
Carnegie Steel Company's product
uirouguoiu uio uniieu oiaies.
A railroad with a guage of but twenty
four inches is now being built in North
Carolina. It is run from Hot Springs
near the Tennessee border to Laurel
river, a distance of twenty-four miles.
Tipperusalem is the name of a town
in Oklahoma. Tipperusalem was the
happy compromise between ond pro
moter who wanted to name the piace
Tepperary and another who desired to
call it Jerusalem.
Wheat at St. Louis is lower than ever
known. The market is weighed down,
and the flow of wheat from farmers'
hands is like a deluge. This is the result
of the "hold-your-wheat" circular of
last year.
Another leper has been discjvered in
Philadelphia, and the victim is a woman.
The woman will have for her compan
ions a Chinaman and a Japanese, who
have been at the hospital for some time
awaiting death from the dreadful dis
ease. Chinamen are now being smuggled
into the United States from Windsor,
Ont., via a new route. Formerly they
were landed in Detroit, but now they
are put aboard a steamer and taken
down the river and across the lake to
Toledo and vicinity.
The suit for the ownership of land
now occupied by railroads on both Bides
of the river on which rests the Interna
tional bridge at Buffalo, N. Y., has com
menced in the Superior Court at Buffalo.
It involves the city's rights and about
$2,01)0,000 wortb ot property.
Rev. Dr. John Hall and Rev. Robert
Russell both have resigned from the
Board of Directors of the Union Iheo
logical Seminary as a result of the com
plications following the seminary's diS'
puie Willi uiu l resuyieriHii imurcu. 11
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is said the other directors will withdraw.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Three Boise Banks Agree to Advance
Money That Idaho May Make a
Creditable bxhibit.
A hirge model of Columbus' ship
Santa Maria, made by a deaf mute in
Madrid, is to li sent to the Worl J'a Fair
in Chicago.
A big row between the national and
local otlicera of the fair regarding the
rules for governing the exposition next
year is now on.
The Prince of Walea is not likely to
visit Chicago next year. If the fair is
kept open a second season, he may come
over and look at it.
.-Kilty-seven l'lsquimanx have arrived
iu Chicago toexhibitai the World's Fair.
They have with them a number of dogs
and a variety of native curiosities.
The naval authorities at Halifax, N.
S., huve received word from the Admi
ralty office in London that her Majesty's
ship Blake, the largest war ship in the
world except one twin ship, will visit
New York in April, representing Eng
land in the World's Fair naval review
there. The Biake is the fhg ship of the
North American station.
The three local banks of Boise City
the Boise National, the First National
and the Capital State have agreed to
advance $5,000 for the nurpoae of aiding
Idaho in making a creditable exhibit at
the World's Fair. Commissioner Wells
has discovered that many people are
willing to guarantee the repayment of
the money advanced to the Commission
er if the next Legislature fails to grant
him a sufficient appropriation to carry
on the work. In case tiie Legislature
makes the ner-essary appropriation, the
$5,000 will be returned from the amount
set aside for World's Fair pnrposeB to the
banks making the advances. Otherwise
the parties who have pledged themaelvee
as sureties will have to see that the
banks are repaid. The $5,000 will great
ly aid the Commissioner in his work.
Among the thousand and one attrac
tions at the Columbian F'air not the least
will be the dairy school, as it will lie in
effect. It is the intenti n of Chief Buch
anan of the agricultural department of
the fair to make the dairy branch an
object lesson of the highest value to
every farmer who attends the exposition.
His plans, which have been long under
consideration, have already begun to
crystallize, and unless the unforeseen
prevents, the dairy school will lie a su
preme example of what such an exhibit
should be. In the first place he has se
cured from the owners of valuable stock
the promise to furnish him selected cows
representing all the leading breeds,
while the general government has agreed
to put experts in charge of the tests and
analyses, and the directors of the fair
will equip the neceseary buildings with
all needed appliances.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Chili's Indemnity Draft for the Balti
more's Sailors Sent to Paris for
Collection Etc.
The new postal card with a paid reply
has been placed on sale in all first-class
cilices.
Secretary Rusk says in regard to the
alleged discovery of pleuro-pneumonia
by the BntiBh inspectors among Ameri
can cattle that the American inspectors
assert it was catarrhal pneumonia.
(Jeneral Kinder, chief of ordnance, in
his annual report calls attention to the
inadequacy ol the general appropriation
for arming and equipping the militia,
which at the last session of Congress
was still further reduced.
The annual report of Adjutant-Gen
eral Williams of the army recommends
that the annual appropriations for the
National Guard be increased from $400,-
000 to $1,000,000. Referring to the ques
tion of the advisability of enlisting In
dians, the report states that it has been
confirmed by the experience of tne past
year.
Chili's $75,000 indemnity draft for the
Baltimore's sailors has been sentto Paris
for collection. Since it was turned over
to the State Department it has. passed
through the hands of the Secretary of
the Navy and Secretary ot tne Treasury,
the latter having it forwarded through
the regular channel for collection, for,
when honored by the Paris bank upon
which it is drawn, the amount will be
deposited with the United States Treas
urer, from whom it will be drawn by the
beneficiaries upon checks Bigned by the
disbursing officer of the Navy Depart
tuent. The plan of making the allot
ment is still unsettled, but Secretary
Tracy thinks favorably of a proposition
for a department board to make the dis
tribution after examination into the
medical records of the men injured and
other reports made by the officers of the
Baltimore. s
President Harrison has acted upon
two applications for pardon, granting
them both, for the reason that the pns
oners concerned were about to die, and
to be effective the pardonB must be is
sued at once. In this view the Presi
dent was prompted to put in abeyance
for a few minutes hia own great personal
sorrow. One of the prisoners Dardoned
is Lee Sing, convicted of perjury in the
United States Court for the Northern
District of New York January 26, 18t2,
and sentenced to the Albany peniten
tiary for one year, lie was charged with
being unlawfully in this country, and an
investigation proved the charges. His
pardon w as urged by the Superintendent
and physician or tne prison and tne via
trict Attorney. The other is Marshall
Wheeler (colored), convicted in the
United States District Court of South
Carolina of carrying on business as a re
tail liquor dealer without having paid
the tax. He was sentenced August IS,
1892, to six months' imprisonment in
York countv mil. ihe lau physician.
Sheriff and District Attorney recom
mended the pardon.
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Rich Australian Purchases Lord
Tennyson's Birthplace.
THE NEGRO POPULATION OF FRANCE.
The Cruiser Capltan Prat Will Represent
Chill at the Naval Demonstra
tion Next Spring.
Deaths from cholera in France since
last April have footed up 3,184.
The Pall Mall (Smeltr. London, baa
been sold for jCIOO.OOO, it is said.
All the hotels of Switzerland have had
a summer of exceptional prosperity.
France has gained many important
concessions from the Sultan of Morocco.
The Q leen is said to be disturbed be
cause of the mutiny among the Windsor
troops.
An American author in Paris named
Harris has received the Legion of Honor
ribbon.
The threatened strike of cotton opera
tives in England will affect 13,000,000
spindles.
The young King of Spain is recovering
from the cold he caught at the Seville
Columbus fete.
Lord Randolph Churchill, it is atated.
has practically abandoned politics for
commercial intereats.
The French war office has provided
for the enrollment of between 6,000 and
7,000 bicycliata in war.
The government has decided to pur
chase a number of trunk telephone sys
tems throughout Ireland.
Rev. James Spurgeon has so far recov
ered his health aa to be able to resume
his paetoral duties in London.
Starvation threatens thousands of the
poor of London. Many deaths from
hunger have already occurred.
In London the opinion is widely enter
tained that the Queen will appoint Sir
Theodore Martin poet laureate.
The increase of crime in Glasgow ie
said to be due to the "abnormal thirst
of the laboring classes for liquor."
It is believe 1 that General Booth of
the Salvation Army is desirous of aban
doning bis '' Darkest England " scheme.
A monument to Millet has been un
veiled at Cherbourg, France, with great
ceremony, and is pronounced a fine work
of art.
Five villages in Kutsia in Transcau
casia have been deetroyed by an earth
quake. Many lives are reported to have
been lost.
Great Britain is to issue a new stamp
of the value of 44 pence 9 cents to be
available for all postal, telegraphic and
revenue purposes.
A dispatch received in Brussels from
the Congo Free State confirms the re
port that the natives had murdered Sub
Lieutenaat Biegois.
In Paris the authorities are endeavor
ing to put a stop to the bogus picture
sa es constantly occurring, and at which
many are swindled.
Children's dances are all the rage in
Paris, the most popular of them being
one known as the Maska, which has been
imported from Russia.
The approaching reconsecration of the
Luther Memorial Church in Wittenburg,
Germany, promises to be a ceremony of
extraordinary splendor.
It is reported that a valuable discov
ery of nitrates has been found near
Mount Darwin in the direction of the
Hanyani river, South Africa.
The official information shows that,
while the cholera is decreasing in Ham
burg, Germany i in increased danger
from an invasion from Russia.
The proportionate number of births in
Russia is nearly double that of France,
while the German population increases
faster than that of any other country.
Paris with a population of about 2,500,
000 has fewer than 100 negrces within its
limits. It is claimed that the colored
population of all France is less than 550.
The law of Denmark now gives to
every Danish subject, male or female,
the right to a pension at 60 years of age
except in cases of convicted criminals.
A golden throne of the value of 20,
000 will be presented to the Pope by the
chapters of the various cathedrals in
Christendom on the occasion of his ju
bilee next year.
It is officially announced in Spain that
tin new commercial treaty between
Spain and the United States covering
trade with the Antilles is favorable to
Spanish industries.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is endeav
oring to secure British help in having
his illegitimate eon recognized as the
successor to the throne, which hia sub
jects violently oppose.
The institution at Wiemar known as
the Goethe-Schiller Archives is about to
become a universal German archive to
contain the literary remains of all the
great German writers.
English papers are bubbling over with
praise of the graciousness of the Czarina
in kissing a hospital nurse who had been
in the midst of cholera infection an
impulsive, womanly way of showing her
admiration for the nurse's bravery and
self-sacrifice.
Mrs. Pyne has been admitted to the
London Society of Compositors, and re
ceives the same wages as the male print
ers in the establishment in which she is
employed. Thia is spoken of as a new
thing in London. The printers' unions
in this country have long admitted wom
en to their ranks.
A Hroom Hpealatlon.
A 0 foot Yankee, seated upon aloadot
brooms, drove his team np befonj tn
door of an establishment where he ex
pected to find a purchaser. Jumping
from his seat he entered the store and
the following colloqny took place:
Yankee Can't 1 sell you a load of
brooms today, mister?
Dealer No; don't want any.
Yankee Better take 'em eell 'era doj
cheap.
Dealer Don't want 'era; got enough
brooms.
Yankee HI tell you what 111 do. If
you'll take the lot I'll let 'em go for one
dollar a dozen. You know they're wuth
double that.
The dealer stroked hia chin for a mo
ment, as if in deep thought, and then re
plied: "Well, I don't want any brooms, as 1
told you, but 1 don't mind making a
trade with you."
Yankee What sort of a trade?
Dealer Well, HI take your whole load
at one dollar a dozen and pay you one
half cash, you to take the other half in
trade.
Yankee No you don't mister! You'll
charge me such an all fired profit on the
other half that I might come out at the
little end of the horn.
Dealer Oh, no; 1 promise you that
you shall have the goods just at what
they cost me.
Yankee Wall, mister, that's what I
call square dealin. It's a bargain.
And he commenced to unload the
brooms in a pile on the sidewalk. When
he got through he walked into the store.
"There yon are, mister; fourteen
dozen, which 1 calcurlate makes just
seven dollars comin to me."
Dealer Yes. that's right; there's the
money. Now what goods do you want
for the other seven dollars?
Yankee Wall, I dunno. You see,
mister, I hain't much posted in your
other truck, so 1 guess I'll take brooms.
House Furnishing Review.
I'npleaxnnH.v Affectionate.
An English traveler in Persia had ar
rived at Abadeh. where a European tele
graph official, Mr. O , welcomed him
hospitably and invited him to remain
for tjjie night. He says:
An hour later I was comfortably set
tled upon the sofa when my rest was
suddenly disturbed by a loud bang at,
the sitting room door, which, flying
open, admitted two enormous animals,
which 1 at first took for dogs.
Both of them made at once for my
sofa, and while the larger one curled
comfortably around my feet and com
posed itself to sleep, the smaller one.
evidently of a more affectionate disposi
tion, seated itself on the floor and com
menced licking my face and hands, an
operation which, had 1 dared, 1 should
strongly have resented.
But the white, gleamiug teeth and
cruel looking green eyes inspired me
with respect, to use no stronger term;
for I' had by this time discovered that
these domestic pets were panthers! To
my great relief, Mr. G entered at
this juncture.
"Making friends with the panthers, I
see," he remarked pleasantly. "They
are nice, companionable beasts."
That may have been true at the time.
The fact remains, however, that three
months afterward the "affectionate
one" half devoured a native child! The
neighborhood of Abadeh, Mr. G in
formed me, swarms with these animals.
Tets of English Itgiments.
It may not be generally known that
there is a special reason why the Royal
Welsh Fusiliers should have a goat.
They are a very ancient corps, and at an
early period of their existence it was the
custom to have a goat with a shield and
garland on its horns to march at the
head of the drums. Every 1st of March
being the anniversary of their tutelary
saint, David, the officers used to give an
entertainment, and after the cloth was
taken away a bumper was filled around
to the Prince of Wales, and the goat,
richly caparisoned for the occasion, was
led thrice around the table in procession
by the drum major.
In 1884 the then regimental goat of
the Welsh Fusiliers died and her maj
esty presented the regiment with two of
tho finest goats, from a flock the gift of
the shah of Persia in Windsor park,
and since that date the queen has cou
tinued to supply the Welsh Fusiliers
with goats as occasion required. The
pet of the Second battalion Derbyshire
regiment used to be a ram; that of the
Eighth King's Royal Irish light dra
goons, now hussars, a horse; the Royal
Warwickshire had an antelope, the Ros
shire Buffs a deer and the Fifteenth
lancers a tiger. Pall Mall Gazette.
A Bit of Correspondence.
A remarkable correspondence has been
published, ending in a true Irish fashion.
It begins: "Mr. Thompson presents his
compliments to Mr. Simpson, and begs
to request that he will keep his doggs
from trespassing on his grounds."
"Mr. Simpson presents his compli
ments to Mr. Thompson, and begs to
suggest that in future he should not
spell 'dogs' with two gees."
"Air. Thompsons respecis 10 xur.
Simpson, and will feel obliged if he will ;
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mill i.iih H . m in i.iia iii.nL win if 111 una
note just received, so as to represent:
Mr. Simpson and lady."
,"Mr. Simpson returns Mr. Thompson's
note unopened, the impertinence it con
tains being only equaled by its vulgar
ity." London Tit-Bits,
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