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JOHNNY'S COMPLAINT.
IN A LION’S DEN.
move vaguely and feebly. The wasp tea. attacks her prey quite differeutlj
ORGANIZED THIEVERY.
then smoothes her ruffled wings, and from the Sphex. For the quiet, pass
t Welsh Proiaaatoual Boxer Mlua**-» rtlh
M c M inmvillk ,
...
O bkuon .
ive beetle does not need to be attacked
prepares to carry him away.
Savage Beasts.
A Peruvian Company Whose Object Is the
Pressing her body against his she in a rush like the nimble grasshopper;
An announcement made by the criar
Office and residence on I) street. All
Plundering of the Dead.
calls promptly answered day or night.
clasps him firmly with her legs, and he trusts to his solid armor to protect
A limited liability company has been the other evening that a man named
soaring into tho air with a victim far him. Yet tho Career is has found out formed at Moliendo, with a capital of William Samuels, a local innkeeper
heavier than herself flies straight to the weak joints.
(40.000. It is called the Compaña ind the champion boxer of Wales,
Coming face to face with him, she
her chamber. Here she lays him down
When first I heard him say those words
Anónima Exploradora de Las Huecas would enter alone a den of lions at a
outside and runs in to see that no harm seizes him by tho snout and pins him del Inca, and its business is to be the uenagerie, located at Swansea, eaused
They made me glad, for I, you see.
Was tired, for half-hour sermons seem
has happened in her absence, for she down, and as he cramps up his legi searching of the old burial grounds of considerable excitement in'the town,
Enough lor little folks like me;
has
left her door open. Thon sho re with fright sho presses his baek strong the Peruvian Incas, for buried treasure tnd drew a great crowd to the show.
But gracious! I waa quite surprised
turns, and putting her head out seizes ly with her forelegs so as to make ths in money or other valuables. It has Al uine o'clock the band played “For
To find he’d only just Begun.
When pau^ng for a breath, ho said*.
him by the antennae and drags him in. rings gape under his body, and turning received a concession from the Peru He’s a Jollv Good Follow,” and then
"But one word more and I have done.”
Once safe in the chamber she places her sting under gives one and only one vian authorities, and proposos to go at Samuels, accompanied by Mr. Bostock,
FLEMING, & LOGAN, Prop's.
I wonder what he'd think if I
herself upon him, and lays her sticky blow between the first and second pair its work in a systematic, business-like the manager of the show, walked up
Should say, when at his home I’d sup:
eSg upon his thorax where the grub of legs, and from that moment the 'ashion. The field of the oompany has to a deu containing a lion and about a
All kinds of fancy hair cutting done in
“Just one plum more and I have done,”
th« latest and neatest style
iozen lionesses. A great crowd at
may safely begin to eat as soon as he is beetle moves no more.
Then eat his wife’s preserves all up?
Why then oniy one blow? Because been pretty well worked over already ineo assembled round the cage. Mr.
All kinds of fancy hair dressing and hair
I guess he'd ask me what I meant;
hatched. Nor is her work yet finished.
by
the
horde
of
hap-hazard
plunder
dying, a specialty Special attention given
I’d have to sny I was In fun
A second, a third, and sometimes even in these beetles the nervous centers are ers from all parts of the world, who Bostock mounted a platform and in
to
Just like he must be when he says:
a fourth time she makes the same jour all gathered together in this one spot, llave flocked to Peru from the times of formed the public that his old friend
Ladies* and Childrens’ Work
“But one worn more and I have done."
ney, bringing each time a grasshopper and as the Sphex has learnt whore t« Pizarro till the present day, but there Samuels hud volunteered to per
—
HA pple, in Richmniii Dispatch.
I also have for sale a very fin« assort
ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc
stabbed with three blows, and placing plant her three blows, the Cereris knowi are yet some very substantial legends form a deed of daring such as had
where to strike her one deadly Btab,
never been done in the menagerie since
I have in connection with my parlor,
all in the cell closes it up safely.
of buried wealth that has not yet been
WONDERFUL INSECTS. them
• the largest and finest stock of
But she does not leave tho gallery. leaving us in bewildering wonder at in discovered. Under the old Castle of its establshiueut in 180.5. Mr. White
bead. he said, recently at Cardiff,
Side by side with this cell she now be stincts which have become so true, sc
Providing Living Moat for Their gins another, and only when four cham unerring, that not even a drop of poison Cuzco, for instance, Felipe de Ftimanos entered the cage accompanied by Mme.
tolls
that
there
is
a
vault
containing
Ever in the city.
Young.
bers are made and supplied each with is wasted in providing “living meat foi figures of all the Ineas wrought in Salva, the lion-tainor, and had by his
JK*THiRn S tbkkt M c M inxvii . i . k . O regon .
Lotion caused a great, sensation in South
an egg and food for the grub when insect larders.”— Youth's Companion.
fine gold, and that in his own day
Wales. But Samuels was going to sur
Marvelous Instinct Display« 1 by Some hatched, does she come out and close
they had been seen by a oertain Dona
A JEWELER’S CHAT,
pass this feat, for though urged to let
Members of the Wasp Family—The
the gallery?
Maria de Esquevil.
Sho, tho story
Study of The*« Little Creature«
Rome
Illustration*
of
the
Hlanlflcanca
ol goes, was married to a descendant of Mme. Salva accompany him, he de
Jfow what has she done? It will be,
of Absorbing Interest.
Hovel-el Odd Watch-t'llttrina.
clined to enter the den at all unless
at least, three an four days before the
A Western Jeweler—"Did you ever tile Ineas, and reproached him with allowed to do so alone. This he was
Transact* a General Baukin» Bu*lne*».
first egg will hatch, and ten or twelve
being too poor to support her properly.
“There is nothing new under the
__ days more before tho grub has finished notice tho peculiar watch oharms worn This, at last, so irritated him that he now about to do.
President,............... J. W. COWLS, sun.
The announcement was received with
” wrote the wise man; but who eating tho three or four grasshoppers. by many people’ You have! Well, led her blindfolded through many
Vice-president, LEE LOUGHLIN. would have thought that the secret of But long before this, If the grass just ask a few of them what may be
great cheering, though it was evident
winding
passages
into
a
room
where
Cashier............... CLARK BRALY. preserving frosh meat, wliloh we are hoppers were dead they would have the significance of some oddity which she saw wealth such as no mortal ever that, on the part of many present, there
dangles from thoir watch chains and
was a feeling of considerable anxiety
all now anxiously trying to find out,
Sells exchange on Portland, San was known and practiced ages ago by booonw dry and juice loss In a warm you’ll often hear an interesting dreamed of, and asked her what she and alarm. Samuels, however, seemed
plaoe, and rotten and putrid in a damp
thought
of
that
for
a
poor
man
’
s
nest-
Francisco, and New York.
the wasp family, and that in a way one, so that the grub could not eat yarn. I’ve made it a practice to learn egg. When Humboldt was exploring to share none of those feelings of uu-
the history of every charm worn by
oasiness. Attired as a prize-fighter
Interest allowed on time deposits. much more clever than wo can ever them. But they are not dead.
such of my customers as were suffi n the neighborhood of tho Temple of and with a blue rosette on his breast,
hope to attain?
Fabre, a French entomologist, who
the Sun, at Cuzco, a poor lad, a tie-
Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m
Is it not strange in itself that the spent years in studying these Insects, ciently well known to me, and you can .Cendant of the ancient kings,told him he appears at the entrance of the cage,
almost
use
me
as
an
encyclopedia
on
and, cudgel in hand, boldly entered it.
Apr. 13 tf
solitary wasps, that is, the species in found that after a month and a half
tho story, which is still current among The lions appeared in no wav to rolish
which each one builds its own nest, these strong grasshoppers aro still that subject now.
“Among some of the odd things he Indians, that tho golden ohnir of this intrusion, and it looked as though
though they feed entirely on honey fresh and their limbs are flexible. Nay!
Iho Ineas was sunk in the baths at Pul-
themselves, know that the young grubs tor more than a fortnight their an- which have come under my notice was lamarae, and that there lire gardens Samuels would have had a warmer
a
bit
of
rope
strand
which
hung
from
welcome than he bargained for. Pos
If so be sure and call for your tickets
which will come from their eggs need tennae and legs may often be seen th
via the
the ohain of » successful criminal law with artificial trees of the purest gold sessed apparently with nerves of steel,
animal food? For after flying about inova,
yer of this place. It was once part of beneath the temple. These gardens, the man walked undaunted up to the
among the flowers ever siuce they left
Paralyzed throughout and thrown
by tho way, aro mentioned by tho ear
the’reoeoons, these sand-wasps, toward into profound unconsciousness, yet tho the rope which hung a client of his, liest historians of the Conquest. Hum end of the cage where the animals were
huddled together, awaiting only the
and
he
carried
it
as
a
warning
for
him
the end of July, bogin to burrow in the prey is living still, so that the larva
bolt’s lad, when asked why he did not
-THE-
soft sand, and when they have formed from the time when It first comes out self, I suppose. At any rate I never seek for this hidden treasure, said that slightest encouragement to spring on
a chamber they lay an egg in it and of the egg, till its last meal before It heard of another of his clients who de it would do him no good if he found the intruder, and held his cudgel
provide flies, spiders, grasshoppers or spins its oocoon, has fresh and living parted this world by the “hemp It, but would only cause his neighbors threateningly before the nose of the
fiercest. Growls of rage greeted this
route,’ Our chief of polioe hore also
beetles for tho young larva which is meat prepared for its table.
It is positively the shortest and fin)it soon to be born.
had an odd charm in the shape of a to hnte and injure him. “We have a act; but Samuels, in no way discom
little
field,
”
he
said,
“
and
good
wheat."
Here is Indeed a marvel! and by
line to Chicago and the east and south and
posed, walked among the animals, and
Some bring the food in piece by piece imitating it M. Fabre found out how it miniature policeman’s staff, richly That contented him. This same spirit
the only sleeping and dining car through
made them fly right and left before
line to ’
as their child is ready to foed upon it. is done. By taking a metal pen, with jeweled, which was made from the seems to have animated all the de
hint. This he did several times, and
first
staff
ever
carried
by
him
when
an
Omaha, Kansaa* City, and all Missouri The Bembex, or bee-wasp, may be seen ammonia upon it, making a corrosive
scendants of the ancient race of Peru, on one occasion acted so rashly that
Kiver Points.
doing this in most parts of the world. liquid, and pricking the grasshopper ordinary policeman, many years ago. and encourages peoplo like those who
grave fears wore entertained for his
“About the most ridiculous curio 1
When she has scooped out in tho in the three spots chosen by the Sphe^
have just put (10,000 into the Society safety by those in charge of the exhi
Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed
train service and elegant dining and sand the chamber in which her young for her sting, he was able to paralyze ever saw was a little sealed glass tube Exploradora to hope Unit only a part
bition. These—who as a precaution
mounted in gold, which contained a
sleeping cars has honestly earned for it the grub is to be born and pass its youth
tho insoot as she had done.
title of
few shriveled, stringy looking fibers. of tho ancient treasure has over boon were armed with red hot irons—were
—a smooth, oval cell, at the end of a
discovered.
It
is
alleged
that
the
In
For this clever little insect btings ex
ready to act promptly, when Samuels
short passage—she comes out and flies actly in the throe places whore under They were nothing more than a few dians can generally get gold when they- again obtained the mastery over His sav
straws taken from the stables of the
away.
the grasshopper's body are gathered Queen of England by an enthusiastic actually need it, as at the time of the age companions, and showed his fear
Others may imitate,but none can surpass it
but she soon returns with a little the centers of nerve matter from which
American admirer of royalty who was rebelion of Pumacaqua. in 1814. when, lessness of them by tiring a loaded pistol
Our motto is "always on time ”
golden-green fly in her grasp, flies the nerves spring. In this way she
making
a visit to the household. The according to the story of au old in their faces. Thou, his courage
Be »ure and ask ticket agents for ticket* str ight to the right spot in the sand, completely disables her viotini, while
via this celebrated route and take none
owner of the straws set a pretty high woman of the Astete family, told maintained to the last, he went to the
enters, and, placing the fly on its back her stabs are just of the right strength
Others.
W. H MEAD, G A
value on them, too, but I don’t think co Mr. Markham some thirly years gate of the den and waited in a dan
No, 4 Washington street, Portland. Or. within the oval chamber, she lays up to paralyze but not to kill. M. Fabre ho'd evor have been able to realize »go, her father having been a col gerous position while Mr. Bostock
on its flank a tiny, sticky egg.
league of Pumacaqua and present at presented him, amid the cheers of those
found that if the operation was care over twenty-five cents for his charm.
Then she comes out and again closes lessly performed, the insect died, yet
the time, Pumacaqua entered tho coun present, with a unique chain composed
“A funny story is told of an Amer
iho door of the passage, for she knows so far as he could discover, no Sphex
cil chambers laden with gold and drip of spado and crown, and with a certifi
MR. BERGH ON DUTY.
ican who once ascended Vesuvius dur
that in twenty-four hours the grub ever by mistake kills her prey.
ping wet, from a journey ho had made cate recording the fact that ho had ac
ing
an
eruption.
Approaching
too
Interfering In Behalf of a Fallen Horse. ! will be hatched, and. finding its food
up the bed of the Huatanny to a cave complished his purpose. Immediately
One
more
fact,
and
our
wonder-at
the
near,
the
rash
tourist
found
himself
Under Arrest—A Surprise.
ready to eat, will devour and devour, skill and lustinct of these creatures suddenly almost surrounded by slowly filled with golden figures. Il was al aftorward the band played “See the
On the corner of Avenue A he observes an
overladen horse vainly struggling with a till, in about two days, nothing will be reaches its height Tho Sphex i,an- flowing lava, which settled and sout ways bolieved then, according to the Conquering Hero Comes,” and Samuels
towering load of heavy boxes. The horse ha« left of its victim but the debris of skin gueilocien, which is rather larger than forth its stench only a few feet from historians, that the rebel chiefs had wan borne in triumph out of the men
fallen down an. I i.he brutal driver is endeavor and legs and wings.
the yellow-winged Sphex of which we his point of observation. Not at all some such Btore to draw upon; and it agerie and through the streets. — South
ing to beat him into a perpendicular position.
Here we have no preserving of meat. have been speaking, kills a good-sized daunted, our countryman took a nickel 1 is oertain that after his final defeat Wales Daily News.
His efforts aro fruitless. A crowd has gath We must go to another group to find locust for her grub, and stores only one
Pumacaqua offered the thieves a pile
from his pocket, pressed it against the
TRAINED SENSES.
ered around the scene and various street the skillful meat-preservers.
Here in each cell. Now as this victim is surface of a rapidly-oooling lava block of gold bigger than that of Atahunlpa,
gamins are encouraging tbe driver to stiM
Home Instances of Kxtrema Skill With
the
ancient
chieftain,
as
a
ransom
for
the
Sphex
will
serve
us,
that
curious
very large compared to herself sho oan and breaking off tho piece containing
greater cruelty. Mr. Bergh presses bis way ;
Bye and Hand.
genus so easily known from common not fly with it, so she catches it first, the coin rapidly beat a safe retreat. his life. The offer was declined, und
into the center of the throng.
We
hear
a
great deal about the won
“Take off halt those boxes and your horse wasps by the thin stalk which joins ind afterwards excavates her chamber He subsequently had the impression ho died with the secret unrevealed, al
derful precision and accuracy of ma
will go all right,” he exclaims.
the abdomen to the rest of its body. near. Then she has to drag him into mounted, and delights in nothing more least to his conquerors.
chinery in these days, and of course it
"HeTl go without that,” is the unfeeling There are large and small sphexes,
This Atahualpa. it is a matter of his- is wonderful; but the degree of accuracy
it by his antennae, and as he is large than to toll of his adventure.”— Jewel
reply, as the driver’s blows fall with re
some of which feed their grubs on wd strong, his legs and mandibles still ers' Weekly.
wry, when in captivity, offered a room
____ _
doubled force upon the animal's head.
to which the human hand can be trained
Riled with gold as a ransom, but Pizar is equally wonderful.
“Stop beating him, and do as I tell you, or small grasshoppers, while others at moving after he is stung are very dan
IDENTIFYING A TRUNK.
tack
even
a
good-sized
locust;
but
one
ro
demanded
double
the
amount,
and
gerous to her.
I’ll arrest you.”
Playing cards are required to be cut
At this a cry of derision goes up from the and all they are skillfull practitioners,
Yet probably if she stung him moer A Carol«** Traveler Find* III* BagRaga by the Incas agreeing, sent messengers all with the sides quite parallel to each
crowd. An officer arrives at this moment and know how to paralyze without he might die. for this is not now she
a Revelation.
over the kingdom to bring it. These other, because if a pack be trimmed by
and gruffly inquires the cause of the disturb killing, so as to leave their prey stored
A passenger over tho Lake Shore nessengers, on their way to the cap
gets out of the difficulty. Getting
tho machine slightly wider at one end
ance.
who had lost his baggage check w as ital, hoard that Atahualpa had been
“Officer, arrest this man!” orders Mr. up in a fresh state till the grub needs »stride him, she presses his neck till
than the other, and they become turned
sailed
upon
yesterday
to
pick
out
his
strangled, and they threw down thoir "end for end” in dealing, the excess in
it
pie joints open, and then with a firm
Bergh.
The officer looks first at one of the men and
This time we must not go to loose Broke of her mandibles Bhe presses trunk from fifty others in tho baggage loads of gold, and, it is said, buried width of some cards over others at ths
then at the other. He is acquainted with bhe sand-banks, but to a gravelly soil, or upon the collar of nerve matter collect room. He succeeded in establishing them somewhere in the mountains of end of the pack will be double the vari
brutal driver, of whom he asks tho full par to places where tufts of grass bind the ed round the throat.
its identity after awhile, but when Llanganati, to the northwest of Quito,
ation in any one card, which would
ticulars of the affair.
asked for a list of contents he wont to .hough no search has ever revealed
sand
together
and
make
a
shelter
over
In
an
instant
her
prey
becomes
quiet,
facilitate cheating, a very minute vari
“My horse fell down,” he explains, “and as
pieoes at once.
the spot. Then there is the golden ation being perceptible. The men who
I was gett ing him up this man interfered an! tbe doorway of ..................
the cells, Then, if we she has stunned the locust, and pro
“Have you any clothes in it?” quer chain of the Incas, every link as thick
carefully,
may ’ hear the busy duced the same e fleet as a blow on the
threatened to arrest me.”
| ! listen
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" " we
----------
test these cards for this, make calipers
ss a man’s arm, and its length so great of their Anger and thumb and by pass
“Officer,” interposed Mr. Bergh, cal*nly, f)um of 80me twelve or twenty Sphex brain does to a man, and this lasts for ied the official.
“
I
suppose
so,
of
course.
”
while the crowd enjoys the scene with hila» sand-wasps, each digging out her some time. But it does not kill, nor
that it went twice around the great ing them along from one to the other,
ious delight, “I order you to arrest that separate home, although they work
"Any valuables?”
•quare of lluacapata,
and which detect a difference in width between
even permanently injure the nerve
man.”
"'There is a wutch, but I’ve forgotten is said to have been thrown into
ganglia, for M. Fabre found that after
the two ends which it is difficult to
“I’ll do nothing of the sort,” returns tlrt together for company.
It is harder work than that of the ward. when in the cell, the locust had how it looks. I guess it’s silver, the deep lake of Urcos to save measure by any other means.
officer, “but I’ll arrest you. Come with ms
though.”
it from the Spaniards. There can still
Be-mbex, for the ground is close and recovered from the pressure, and his
to the station house.”
There are men employed in factories
“Any books?"
be seen a drift which tho Spaniards whore dried yeast is made whose busi
“Wait until I take this man’s name and firm, but each one with her powerful limos and mandibles moved as beforo.
"I guess so, but I ain't sure. ”
started through the mountains to drain ness it is to put the yeast into packages
number and I'll go,” replies Mr. Bergh.
jaws digs into the ground, often lifting
Now we might imagine that all this
“Well, what are you sure of?"
This information is soon obtained and tbe out even a small stone and placing it
the lake, but which was never com weighing a certain amount each. It is
movement
would
be
dangerous
to
the
pair start for the station. Before they bad
“Gimme ten minutes to tl bit."
pleted. While these and similar le on a table in front of them in a large
aside,
while,
with
her
forefeet,
she
young and tender grub, and so It would
gone two blocks the officer, who was non
He took fifteen and walked up and gends do very well to flro the ardor of
plastic mass, and there are the scales
plussed at the prisoner! willingness to ac clears in front, throwing out the gravel if the careful mother had not placed down, and at last a revelation come.
dubious Investors in the stock of the for weighing it. But the men do nol
company him, began to tear thaL ke had been with her hind-legs, and redoubling her the egg upon the locust’s thorax exact
“
Say.
I
’
ve
got
it!
”
he
chuckled,
as
he
Society
Exploradora,
it
is
highly
prob
led into a blunder.
efforts and her humming song, when ly where no movement can touch it, came back.
use tho scales. They simply separate
“X don’t know as I care about arresting ever a tougher piece of ground calls
able that the actual work of tbe com from the mass with their hands a lump
and so when the grub is hatched it eats
“
Well!"
you,” he remarks.
pany will be In the less romnntfc line
at ease upon the spot most paralyzed
“Yes, you do. You interfered with me in for all her strength.
“Well, if that's my trunU there are of digging up tho bones of ancient in of it and put it up, and you may choose
In
a
few
hours
she
has
made
a
gal
until
it
has
gained
strength.
the performance of my duty anil now you
six new eucher-decks in a green box habitants (or the sake of the trinkets at randon and put it on the scales, and
it will weigh exactly the right amount,
must take me to tbe station house.”
lery some inches in length and bent
Nor is it only the grub which profits right on top."
which may have been buried with the scales beam just balancing.
“I don’t want to. You can go.”
' like an elbow near the opening to keep by this arrangement
Much as we
“
Any
peculiarity
about
the
cards?*
them. This sort of petty thievery Is
“I will go and you shall go with me. If you I out wind and rain, while at the farther might admire the cleverness of those
Where large numbers of eggs are
“You bet! That’s where I’m solid. less attractive to the imagination than
won
’t arrest me, I’ll arrest you.”
I -— ---- -----------
handled and shipped to market there
“YouP in tones of the deepest amazement end she has made an ova: chamber sand-wasps in keeping their prey alive, Every pack has a marked back, for I
the exhumation of forests of golden is a process known as “candleing" eggs
"Yes,” displaying his gold badge as aS with w U-smoothed walls and floor and yet it would be very horrible if we bought 'em to bamboozle the country
trees and conventions of golden Incas, whicn consists in taking them up in the
could suppose that the grasshopper or chaps out of their shekels. I am go
officer of the Society for tbe Prevention ol ce(qn„
but it will probably pay better In the hands (usually two eggs in each hand
C™Are.TOUAMrm^rghr
I And n0W ehe ?0e9 ,or her Pre>’ Thb the locust were suffering lingering tor ing out of here with a hog show, and
, end.— N. Y. Sun.
at a time) and holding them up before
"It makes no difference who I am. You time it is a grasshopper which is need- tures. But, on the contrary, the very after the show I play poker. Just look
a lighted candle. The light shining
bu for the
me grub,
gruo, and,
»»»<*, as
<«> some
___________
come with ms"
I ed
unwary parts attacked and paralyzed are the for them cards.”
Village Destroyed by Ice.
through them reveals to the practiced
little
chirper
is
singing
his
song,
be
is
nerves,
the
parts
that
feel,
and
just
as
The
trunk
wan
qpened
and
the
cards
At this point in the journe» the officer’»
eye the exact condition of the contents.
ixmnced
upon
by
his
small
but
terrible
a
patient
under
chloroform
has
his
found as described, and the owner
composure entirely gave way.
Ho begged
Advices from the Ashing village of But some of the men soon get so that
nerve-centers for the time deadened, whispered:
and pleaded.
He said it wonl-J nun hit enemy.
KerschkHranza, in Kola, a peninsula they do not need to use the candle, the
future. He was a new man on tbe force. He
There is a struggle as the two roll so that though he may struggle under
"Might I have the audacity to hope
did not see the driver beat his horse very over and over, now one now the other the hands of the surgeon yet he knows you won’t gimme away on this? on the White .He», describe a wonder mere contact of their hands with the
ful phenomonon. new in Arlic annals, shells denoting tho condition of the
much. He had a wife and Ave children who on the top, but at last the wasp con nothing of It, so the grasshopper,
Christopher! but you orter see how the
would starve if be was discharged. At last
which took place oil January .5 last
egg just as Infallibly and much more
Mr. Bergh'« pity was touched. Taking the quers and the grasshopper lies upon feebly moving his legs, cr.n not be sup suckers do bite at this season of the At four o’clock in the morning the in quickly. And they distinguish in that
posed to feel the bite of his destroyer, year!”— Detroit Free Press. .
i—-
man’s name and number and warning him his back.
habitants were awakened by a series way not merely eggs, which are decid
that a repetition of such lukewarmness would
Then follows a curious operation. who begins his meal upon that very
Fearfully Big Fret.
of heavy, dull detonations, like heavy edly bad. but those which are just be
be instantly reportol, he left him and walked Turning her head to the grasshopper's part most strongly paralyzed and as
It wm an Irish lady who ones tnuwl her
ginning to lose their freshness.
briskly in the direction of the abattoir^ on tail the wasp seizes the end of his ab he feeds destroys still more surely the auditors greatly by remarking in a rueful artillery. Shortly afterward a great
Here are three different ways in
Avenue A.—Benjamin Northrop in New domen with her mandibles and holds
ice
wall
to
the
north
west,
several
hun
tone, in tbs course of a conversation on ths
power of suffering.
which extreme skill of the hands Is
dred
feet
high,
was
seen
to
be
mov
York Mail and Express.
it fast, while with her feet she keeps
Such is the history of the meat-pre Mas of feet “My feet are fearfully big— regu
shown by persistent training; First, In
ing
toward the village,
doubt detecting slight differences in magni
his legs down. Then bending her slim serving sand-wasps, rnd yet it is not lar cubic feet”
Well Up In Banking.
,
less in consequence of the pressure of tude; second, in weight, and lastly, in
Business Mao—Now. don't forget, deliver waist so as to bring her sting under half told. For the Sphex is only one
Talking Down the Tube.
the ocean of ice outside. The ice hills texture or character of surface handled.
this note to the president of the Millionaire her she gives three stabs, one in the among a whois group of these insects;
Patron—Give n»e a piece of pie and a fiali camo slowly but, irresistibly onward
4marfaNl Machinist.
han It On no account give It to any one ei» neck of her victim, one further back 1 some of which feed on caterpillars, of milk.
Go right to the president and band him this between the first and second pair of some on flies, bees, spiders or beetles,
Waiter (vehemently) -One clock weight and passed over the village, which they
—The largest johnny-cake known to
yourself. Don't let any of tho clerks take IL legs and the third still nearer to hie
and each and all of these know how and a chai k quarry.—Nebraska State J oumal. completely erased, and kept onward hove been made was thirteen feet long
Mflwengvr Boy—Don't yer tear. Thea
for
a
mile
inland.
Tho
lee
traveled
»,
■ best to paralyze their prey.
.ind in twenty-six parts. each reprv-
abdomen.
dud*, can't fool me
A man dlws.vsr» when ba Isn't wantod by
The beautiful Ceroeris, which feeds a tardy pro<«■ < Í imsuq Tba ««.max» dis i mile and a half tn four hours. The ' -anting a State. It was made by ladies
“Eh, Ever carry merengas to banksF
In a moment it is done and the grace
pillagers saved their lives, but Utti« [during the former Harrison campaign
____ . though
_ _ hla upon weevils and on some lovely staV covare it instinct valy.
hopper resists , „
no more,
“Often."
olsa. Philadelphia Drees.
“How do you And the president T
Lod| stili s" 1 ves slowly and " *■
’“ ISM
hi*
“Look fer the cove In the shabby suit"-
Physician & Surgeon,
Our preacher says—au’ of course he’s right««
It’s very wrong to tell a fib,
(So mother s taught me ever since
She rocked me in my little crib,)
That’s why I can't just understand
Why in his serm ns he w 11 run
Along like sixty when he’s said:
“But one word more and I have done. ••
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