THE MOOSE HUNTER.
How He Entices the Bull With a
Bireh Bark Trumpet.
The moose calling hunter is one who
WHERE HUXLEY FAILED.
One “Art” In Which He Was Sure
passed by a Porter.
Rather a good story is told about
Professor Huxley when he was dellv-
ering a lecture to the Literary and
Philosophical Newcastle-on-
Tyne.
graphical Distribution of Fossil Re-
mains of Animals;” consequently nu-
merous diagrams were required. Old
Alexander, the porter of the institution
and quite a distinguished character
amoung the members of the society,
was assisting the professor to hang
the diagrams. The screen on which
the diagrams were hung was not very
large, and Huxley, do as he would,
could not prevent the blank corner of
one diagram overlapping the illustra-
society,
tion of another one on which the pro- |
fessor placed great importance,
‘What was to be done?
or asked Alexander to bring a pair of
scissors, Lord Armstrong (then Sir
William), Dr. Watson and several oth-
ers were present at the time. The
scissors were brought, but as the joint
was somewhat loose the professor was
not able to cut the paper and threw the
scissors down in disgust, adding that
they were useless.
“Yera guid shears, professor,” said
Alexander.
“I tell you they won't cut,” said Hux-
ley.
“Try again,” said Alexander.
will cut.”
The professor tried again and, not
succeeding, sald somewhat angrily,
“Bring me another pair of scissors.”
Sir William Armstrong then stepped
forward and ordered Alexander to go
and buy a new pair.
“Vera guid shears, Sir William,” per-
sisted Alexander, and, picking up the
scissors from the table and placing his
thumb and forefinger into the handles,
he stepped forward and asked Huxley
how he wanted the paper cut.
“They
“I tell you they won't cut,” said the |
professor.
“Bring me a new pair instantly,” said |
Sir William.
“A tell'ee ther'r vera guid shears,
only the professor canna cut wi’ them,”
replied Alexander,
“Well, then, cut it there” sald Hux-
ley somewhat tartly, at the same time
indicating the place with his forefinger.
Alexander took hold of the paper and,
inserting the scissors, pressed the
blades together and cut off the required
portion as neatly as if he had used a
straightedge; then, turning to the pro-
fessor, with a rather significant leer
and twinkle of the eye, said, “Seeance
an’ airt dinna gang thegither, pro-
fessor.”
The professor and all present col-
lapsed, Huxley put his hand into his
pocket and, taking out a sovereign, gave
it to Alexander, adding at the same
time, “You have dene me.” The same
evening Alexander related the story
with great gusto to a friend. When
asked how he dared to make so free
with such a distinguished man, he re-
plied with great emphasis, “Lord, mon,
they bits o' professor bodies ken neath-
ing at a’ except their buiks.”—West-
minster Gazette.
THE GOLDFINCH.
Changes In Plumage That Are Pase
zling to the Novice.
Most every one in America is ac-
quainted with the goldfinch, but many
people know the bird by the name of |
lettuce bird, on account of its bright
yellow color. Goldfinch is a very appro-
priate name, as the bright yellow of
the male, when in breeding plumage, is
like burnished gold. The female gold-
finch is more modestly dressed than
her mate. The changes in plumage of
the male are very interesting and to
the novice somewhat puzzling. Until
student becomes acquainted with
bird he may wonder why he sees
males during the winter, The truth
at this season the flocks of supposed
emale goldfinches are really of both
sexes, the male bird having assumed
the previous fall, usually by the end
October, a plumage closely resem-
that of the
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ruary, when one can notice a gradual
change taking place in some of the
birds. This renewal of feathers is ac-
The profess- |
The subject was “The Geo- | ings.
your stand. I once called from a hill at
sunset and learned later that my
friends four miles away heard me dis-
tinetly, and therefore a moose with his
keen hearing might have heard it five
| or six miles off.
The experienced hunter begins very
low, as there is always a possibility of
! a bull lurking in some near thicket, and
| calls not more than once in ten min-
utes, some think every twenty minutes
! often enough. It is probably too fast
| once the response has come. The bull's
answer is a deep, long grunt, varied by
the snapping of branches as he plunges
forward through the woods, but stop-
ping at times to thrash some bush in
his course,
It is indeed one of the most impress-
ive sights in the animal world when at
length in the last dim afterglow the
much heralded monster heaves his bulk
| into view, overtopping the shrubbery
| like an elephant, locming huge and
black against the last streak of red
light. No matter how much we may be
expecting it, the coming is always a
| thrilling surprise. We knew how big
| he was, yet how startlingly huge he
' looks, and those heavy antlers, a heavy
burden for a man, he switches about
| as an Indian does the eagle feathers in
| his hair.—Ernest Thompson Seton in
| Seribner's.
Jackson and Polk.
| One of the last carthly things that
| Jackson did was to read a note from
| Polk asking his advice about the ap- |
pointment of certain federal officers in
the south. Polk had been in office only
a few weeks at the time, and he want-
ed to get the indorsement of Jackson |
for his administration. In order to
| win Jackson's favor Polk was called
| “Young Hickory” by his admiring
| friends, but “Old Hickory's” favorite
| for the nomination in 1844 was Van
| Buren and not Polk. Jackson was a |
| Texas annexationist, as was Polk,
| while Van Buren's opposition to an- |
| nexation was what caused his defeat
| for the candidacy. Yet personally he
| preferred Van Buren. Polk, after his
inauguration, made war on Francis
| P. Blair, who edited Jackson's and Van
! Buren's old organ at Washington, the
{ Capital, and thus displeased Jackson,
| though the latter knew that Blair had
| been lukewarm toward Polk In the
| canvass. Blair was forced to get out,
| and the Capital was changed into the
| Daily Union, with Ritchie of Richmond
! as its editor. From the hour of his re-
| tirement until his death, through Van
| Buren's administration and in the open-
| ing days of Polk's, Jackson remained
| an influential figure in the Democratic
| politics of the time—St. Louis Globe-
' Democrat.
Early English Lotteries,
Probably the tirst public lottery ever
| eid took place in England in 1567,
when 40,000 chsnces were sold at 10
| shillings each, the prizes cousisting
i chiefly of plate and the profits going for
| the repair of certain harbors. The
drawiug took place at the west door of
St. Paul's cathedral. In 1612 another
lottery took place at St. Paul's. This
was for the benefit of the Virginia com-
pany. The highest prize was £1,000,
and £20,000 profit was gained. Again,
in 1630, a lottery was promoted In or-
der to bring water into London, and
after the civil war another lottery help-
ed to replenish an exhausted national
exchequer. Private lotteries soon be-
came very common, and, being general
ly conducted on fraudulent principles,
an act of parliament was passed early
in the reign of Queen Anne suppressing
them “as public nuisances.” In 1694 a
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A CREATIVE VOCATION.
it Is a Constant Tonic as Well as a
Perpetual Delight.
If you want to be contented and
happy, if you want to experience a
perpetual satisfaction as you go along,
choose a creative vocation. A routine
life where there is nothing new, noth-
ing special to be learned, is discourag-
paralyzing to ambition, but cre-
ing that you have created, that you
have brought something new into the
added to the real wealth of the world;
that you have not been merely working
over what somebody else started or
created, but that you have brought
something out of the mysterious realm
of mind, made it tangible and effective
and started a new impulse in the world.
We get closer to nature when we are
creating, whether in art, in literature,
in invention or in working at new and
progressive ideas. We can feel our
mind reach out into infinity and grasp
and bring back something fresh, new,
something never seen on this earth be-
fore. It is perpetual delight and a con-
summate satisfaction.
This is why brain workers are longer
lived than other people. Creations
keep the creator always young, since
we are perpetually in contact with the
new, the youthful, when we are cre-
ating. When we are stretching the
mind into the unknown and calling out
something new we seem to touch hands
with the Creator himself.
People who never think or do any-
thing original—mere automatons, cogs
in the wheels of the great world’s ma-
chinery, the mere routinists, do not
know the exhilaration which comes
from the consciousness of creating
something new and fresh every day.
The creator feels that he is accom-
plishing something worth while; that
he is doing something which the world
needs, which will make it a little better
place to live in, and the very newness,
the novelty, the mystery of creation,
! makes it the most fascinating thing in
| the world.—Orison Swett Marden in
| Success Magazine,
Heart Burials.
The body of Louis IX. after his
| death at Carthage in 1270, is related to
have been boiled in wine and water in
| order to preserve it for transportation,
| and it was then shipped by Charles of
Anjou (1.) to Sicily. Here the flesh and
viscera were deposited in the Benedic-
| tine Abbey of Monreale, near Paler-
| mo. The heart and the bones remain-
| ed, by desire of the soldiers, in the
camp, Later his son Philip (Le Hardi)
| having carried them and those of his
brother, Tristan, into Italy, they were
taken to Paris in 1271. On March
21 of that year the bones, reduced to
ashes, were deposited temporarily in
Notre Dame, whence they were pres-
ently borne in state to the Benedictine
Abbey of St. Denis, and at each spot
by the way where the bearers paused,
seven in number, Philip subsequently
caused a cross to be raised.
Charles of Anjou dying at Foggia.
1285, his Leart was sent to Angers,
while his body was entombed in San
Gennaro, at Naples. His viscera re-
mained in the Duomo at Foggia.
Philip III. (Le Hardi) died of pestl-
lence at Perpignan Oct. 5, 1285. His
flesh was buried at Narbonne. His
bones were transferred to St. Denis.
His heart was given by Philip IV. (Le
Bel) to the Dominicans of Paris.—Lon-
don Notes and Queries.
Not a Safe Rule.
“I believe,” said the -enthusiastic
young author, “that the first thing a
man should do when he proposes to
write a paper of any kind is to get
full of his subject.”
“1 disagree with you,” replied his
more mature friend. “In fact, I shud-
der to think of what might result if I
followed your advice.”
“What are you working on?”
“An address on intoxicating liquors
to be read before our temperance so-
ciety.”
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Of marriage in the abstract Johnson
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fact, made a profound study of wo-
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yet Johnson never took women quite
seriously and would not hear of their
assuming an equality with men, either
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MANHATTAN DRIPS
A five Table Syrup in one qoart,
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NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES
The finest new crop New Orleans—a
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MARBOT WALNUTS.
These Nuts are clean and sound,
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EVAPORATED FRUITS.
Peaches 10c., 12., 150. and 18c. per
pound. Apricots 150., 18¢. and 20.
per pound. Prunes 5o., 80., 10c. and
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per pound, either seeded or unseeded.
Currants 10c. and 120. per pound.
Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel.
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The foundation of our Mince Meat
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FOREIGN FRUITS.
We are now receiving some of the
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Florida bright and sweet fruits. This
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and ab reasonable prices. Lovers of
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the fruit we have. Lemons for some
time past have been a difficult proposi-
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PEERPER
Twelve years ago ground black pep-
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and not the best at that. We thought
we could save our customers money
by buying in large quantities, direct
from the men who imported and
ground it—packing it in pound pack-
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Singapore Pepper, and for five years
old it to you at 15¢ the Ib.—then itad-
vanced to 20c. For the past three
years we have sold it for 22c., itis
sifted free from stems and dirt before
grinding and is just what we repre-
sent it. t
PURE SINGAPORE PEPPER
The price is still 22¢. the pound—we
invite your trade for pure spices.
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