THUNDER
COCHINEAL.
Beliefs That I sed <0 Ells«
Days at Old.
The Way the Tier leoeete Live eng
How They are Gathered.
Odd
Merry millions of little buglets sup
port the vast cochineal industries.
Where the tiny cochineal Insect comes
from Is something of a mystery, but
he does come wherever the nopal plant
grows and for a long time was thought
to be a seed or a floweret of the plant.
The living female Insect is twice as
large as the male, weighs one tenth of
a grain and loses much weight In dry
Ing, so that 70,000 are needed to make
one pound. During the rainy season
many millions of the creatures afe
drowned or washed off the plants, so
that when the long dry summer comes
(here are but a few survivors on each
plant. But these multiply so rapidly
that before long the plants are cover
ed The last act of the female’s life Is
to deposit a large number of eggs, on
which her dead body rests, protecting
them from the burning rays of the sun
until the little ones emerge. In about
six weeks after the beginning of the
dry season comes the first harvest.
The plantation laborers make the
round of the nopalry and with a brush
go over the entire plant, sweeping the
creatures into a bag. They then are
killed by Immersion in hot water, by
exposure to steam or by drying In hot
ovens. The hot water or steam makes
them a dark reddish brown or black
cochineal
The hot ovens make them
a red gray hue or silver cochineal. The
females outnumber the males by at
least 2tX> to 1. a fortunate fact for the
planter, since the males are of no use
to him whatever.
Thunder, just because It Is a noise
for which there is no visible cause, has
always excited the Imagination of the
unscientific, so It Is natural that the
moat outrageous superstitions about
storms should date back to tbe time
when everybody, more or less, was un
scientific. One old writer explains tbe
belief of bls day that “a storm is said
to follow presently when a company
of hogges runne crying home.” on the
ground that “a hogge is most dull and
of a melancholy nature and so by rea
son doth foresee the raine that com
eth.” Leonard Bigges, in his “Prog
nostlcatlon Everlasting” (15561. men
tlons that "thunder in the morning
signifies wind; about noon, rain, and In
the evening, a great tempest.”
The same writer goes on to say,
“Borne write (but their ground I see
not> that Sunday's thunder should
bring the death of learned men. Judges
and others; Monday’s, the death of
women: Tuesday's, plenty of grain;
Wednesday’s, bloodshed; Thursday’s,
plentj of sheep and corn; Friday’s, the
slaughter of a great man and other
horrible murders; Saturday’s, a gen
eral pestilent plague and great dearth.”
After this the gay and lightsome man
ner shown by Lord Northampton to
ward these grave matters In his "De
fensatlve” Is most cheering.
"It
chaunceth sometimes," he writes, "to
thunder about that time and season of
the years when swannes hatch their
young, and yet no doubt It Is a para
dox of simple men to think that a
swanne cannot batch without a crackle
of thunder.”—London Chronicle.
THE CABS OF NEW YORK.
They Are lot an Integral Part of the
Life of the City.
The cab Is no Integral part of New
York life. Venice without the gondola
were as unthinkable as a woman with
out hair. No little of London's com
pelling charm Is In Its swift rolling
hansoms. These things we know. But
one can't think of New York In terms
of cabs. Once upon a time I was In
exile. Only In memory did the great
city rise before me, and what I saw
was tills: Huge canyons of stone and
steel, filled with noise and darkness,
through which great yellow worms
crawled, one after the other, In mid
air. That Is the picture of New York
that haunts the exile, even as the out
Inwod Venetian Is obsessed by slim
black gondolas cutting ncriss I huos of
moonlight. Your true New Yorker Is
a steam projected, electrically carted
person. Only In exceptional moments
of gloom or gayety does he ride “In a
carriage and pair."
He Is carriage
ridden to a funeral. He cabs It In
wlney moments, when the fear of Hod
Is not In him. There are only 2,000
licensed cabs and hacks on the Island
of Manhattan. Others there are. of
course, plying plratlcally In the dark
quarters, but even with these thrown
In the reckoning Is small. No; the New
Yorker Is not a cabby person. Vance
Thompson In Outing Magaalne.
4 College In Rokhnrfl.
There lay behind tlie great arch and
the domes and the minarets a retired
precinct of ancient trees and shaded
walks, a grove In the midst of a city,
colonnaded In quadrangle by the point
ed arches of the students’ cells. I’nder
the trees was a sort of summer house
or pavilion. Two or three young men
were walking In an avenue against the
farther colonnade, and on the stone
steps of a wide, shaded pool sat several
mullahs on their praying rugs.
We
visited a number of the students In
their cells monastic little brick walled
rooms where they live the veer around
(there are no vacations In Mussulman
colleges) and for years on end. It Is
not unusual for a student after passing
the primary school to spend as much
as fifteen or twenty years at his higher
studies, though usually In such a long
course he will go through several dlf
ferent colleges In the order of advance
ment Quiet men. these students, mild
eyed, patient, often middle aged.—Mln
neapoils Bellman.
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feet—four various miles, every one of
which Is still In use.
Then almost every country has Its
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must have been about 3.000 feet In
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legionaries grent stepping capacity.
The German mile of today Is 24,318
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