SEA AAA 2h HR 0 SAREE
Kitty Clyde.
Dch! swate Kitty Clyde, don't bother me
sol
Wid yer bonnie brown eyes so bright;
Wid smile on your lips, yer checks
aglow,
Yer swate beauty, sure, dazzles my sight,
0, say, Kitty Clyde,
Will yez be my bride
i love none but thee, 1 vow!
Wher'er 1 may be,
I'll ne'er forget thee,
But love thee aver, as now.
all
#
Och! sure, Kitty Clyde, tazeing me
now;
While yer purty lips wear a smile;
Yer nate little foot keeps Lateing, 1 vow,
Like ’twould tread on my heart, all the
while,
0, say, Kitty Clyde,
Will yez be wy brid
I'll love nona but thee, J
Wher'er I may be,
I'll ne'er forget thee,
But love thee ever, as now
EAI SRR Nos.
CLAIMING HIS SKELETON,
When John Wentworth pat his last
touches to his work he stood back and
regarded it with admiration. Ile stood
with his hands in | pockets and
cap well back on his bead, and he felt
that glow of self-satisfaction
yor
vow!
11s
and arduous task.
“Well,” he said, as he turned hs
ead, now this way and then that, “i
call that a slass job, by George!”
frat
ted, yet perfection is never altogether
appreciated, and when Mrs, Jones, thi
landlady, deceived by the silence
supposing that Wentworth had gone ou
and thinking the present a good time to
fixup the room, came in, shegave ascream
yf terror, and on catching her breath
ried:
“paws Mr, Wentworth, what a start
that hornd thing did give me.
pot going to keep that horrid thing i
the house, Mr. Wentworth?”
“Mrs. Jones, let me present you toour
distinguished fellow-lodger, J. W. Stod
{
t
Vy
ef,
found in Ann Arbor, Mrs. Jones, if
did wire him myself, John W, will g
sou little trouble, Mrs. Jones, and i
when we're out,
touch up with the duster, he
nly appreciate 1t, but you will also
oblige Mr, Smilie and myself, for w
are partners in J. W. Stodgers.”’
“Mercy sakes, I'll never coma into
this room if that skeleton is to be here.”
“Oh, John W. is harmnless., Desides
he has been in that box here for sou
wecks. I've only helped him to collect
hiunself, as it were.’
you
1
skull dropped with a ¢lick to an angie
»f forty-five, and Mrs, Jones gave an-
yther little shriek as with
averted gaze at the sort, of dry, bouy,
silent fixed laugh of the skeleton.
“That,” said Wentworth, with par-
lonable pride, *‘is a little device of my
ywn. That jaw stays in place about
salf an hour and then drops. Dy the
way, just nolice what a lovely set of
weeth John W. has,
ind with most of our American skeld
They have poor teeth. It seemed
0 Smilie and me that this fellow must
nave been an Englishman, he had such
good grinders, so we chistened him Stod-
gers, an aristocratic name over there, I
am told.”
“1t gives me Lhe chills to look at 1,”
said Mrs, Jones, The fading afternoon
she looked
Ans.
sockets that gave Mrs, Jones an uneasy
feeling that the skeleton was looking at
her,
get use to John W. He's an unobtru-
business with the exclusiveness J. W,
1oes there wouldn't be much trouble in
this world.”
remark later on.
At this moment
n.
“By Jove,” said Smilie, in admira-
tion, “you've done that up tiptop, John.
Thunder, 1 eall that vrinmph,” and he
walked around and took a side view of
t. “That’s what I calla deuced good
it.
job for a first attempt. Wid you ever
young Smilie came
“Mrs. Jones thinks she
Wentworth.
“It's awful,” shuddered Mrs. Jones,
has,” said
sd around like the rest of us!”
strange a story’? Smilie.
“That's so, It’s rough
it?
quoted
nedical students closed the door,
“His jaw drops a little, John,”
sioilie
“That's all right; shows the action,
you knew,’ and Wentworth with a ru-
said
sid the two gleaming rows of
ame together and remained in that fix-
wl grined characteristic of all skele-
Ans,
Wentworth had placed a narrow table
igainst the wall, and an it John W. sat
gently to and fro, when the door opened
ir a breeze came through the window.
The medical students sat down, and
Wentworth was telling Smillie how he
had overcome certain difficulties in ar-
ticulation, when there enterad with ua-
necessary silence a stranger.
“Excuse me, gentlemen,” he said,
“Beg your pardon,’ said Wentworth,
“I didn’t hear you knock.”
“I didn’t knock.”
“Ohi
*“Take a chair,” said Smille,
“1 will stay but a few moments,” re.
plied the stranger.
Of course neither of Lhe young men
knew all the hundreds of students at the
University, but they thought the stran-
ger belonged to one of the departments,
although it seemed odd that he should
enter without rapping.
“Have a cigar,” said Wentworth,
pushing his box toward him,
**1 come on business.” said the other,
sud, 90 nos smoke, That is my skele-
|
|
“Oh, excuse me,’" cried Wentworth,
1 articulated Join W. myself."
“Whom?”
“John W. We call
John W, Stodgers.”
“Oh! youdo,”
“Yes, For convenience, Don't sup-
pose that was lis name,”
“It certainly was not."
“How do vou know?"
“‘Because [ tell you
mine."
“Show him our receipts for the body,
Jolin. You don't understand, | gunss
that Wentworth and I bought the body
and have the receipts, It’s not a slore
skeleton It is John's upper and my
lower and so we fixed up the bones our-
selves,”
“1 wish to see no receipls
him Stodgers,
thie skeleton Is
Youdon't |
When I was
of my body,”
“When vou were alive.
“Certainly.”
“Whatare vou now? Youdon’t mean
» pretend that you palm yourself off as
Fat
the
1H
“If vou have any doubts about
Smile at once took the stranger at his
the ruler met no opposition, |
but apparently passed through ths spec- |
At |
that instant the jaw of the skeleton fell |
with its sudden click, and in the silence |
that ensued it seemed to regard the |
spirit with a sort of gleam of recogni- |
Wentworth went across the room |
16 ruler Coming back
down,
“That's singular
John,’ said Smille, helplessly,
At this moment there was a K
the leas
to say
¥ Ye ¢
WC R
“Come,” shouted Smilie,
In the
i
gloom they recoguized Tom |
me,’ said Tom, seeing a
“Excuse
draw.
“No, no, come
the man we want to sea,
Com took the chair offered him.
“f Jon’t just know how to introduce
you,’ said Wentworth, “Tom this is |
~gentiemnan
who claims to be
ie original possessor of
on."
“ Ah—dispute as to ownership, eh?”
“That tendency,” answered Went-
: 15, 1u fact,
mn, Tom; re just |
*»
You
te oie ol
this skelet
a—well, a
gentleman kas been dead for
Lit
il
some time,’
explaining having seemingly got beyond
Wentworth, **And while alive this was
his skeleton,”
Oh, come nowy, Smillie, w a
giving us?”
“Fact.” sald Smilie, ‘Yust U
Try it.
Fulmer hesitated,
“It will perhaps convince you quick-
er than anything else, and don't
e me in the jeast said Lhe
Fulmer tossed
the same result as bafore,
veniend
rit lar
the ruler
ie
v weit by
On. « WILD
Was very
glasses and peered across the table at
the ghost,
had done from the first,
“I say, Wentworth just st
light, will you.”
Wentworth the large lamp
stood on top of the bureau.
appeared an ordinary-l
dressed as any man might
mer, with corrugated brow,
him while Smilie and Wer
a sort of momentary pride of ownership,
as if possession of skeleton
ike a
it
The ghost
NE Ai,
be, Ful-
gazed at
OK}
their the
The amiable skeleton, which now
OWneTr,
“Sit down,” said Falmer, *'I bats
talk to a—person—standing.”
The specter sat down,
“Now, what use is
you?’ began the young lawyer, his pro-
fessional instinct getting tbe betler of
to
one’s business but my own,
I want it placed where I
worth.
philosopher and friend-—as well as in-
structor.”
“Just let me handle this case,” said
Fulmer with a backward wave of his
“Now what shall I call you?!
“What you please.”
“Well, we will say the plaintiff, Now,
plaintiff, in the first place you would
ry that this Is your skeleton. We deny
“Of course we do,” put in Smilie.
it "”
“1 don't mean that. The defense
takes the ground tha: this particalar
skeleton is not the bonesof the plaintiff,
but the bones of John W, Sto igers, de-
ceased. Now it would rest with you to
ter mysell we would have you right at
the beginning of the case.’
“You are a very young lawyer,” re
plied the ghost, with a sort of post mor-
tem sneer. “If you examine the teeth
of that skeleton you will ind the one on
the left lower side next the back filled
with silver, and if necessary, | can tell
your intelligent jury the sort of cap that
is under the silver to cover the nerve
that once was there,”
All the young wen looked at J. W.,
who, as if enjoying the point made by
its otuer self, suddenly chicked down its
jaw and beamed on Fulmer with its si-
kent laugh, Wentworth x up the
lamp and looked at the lo aw.
“Yes, Fulmer’ he said, ‘‘that’s so,”
“Well, we'll walve that point— we'll
waive that point.”’ said the young law.
yer, with ill-affected airiness,
*I think you might as well,” said the
ghost, dryly,
“But the real nub of the case would
be in this: Can a man once uead lay
claim to any part of the y he
owned while alive? Idon’t recollect an
lel case to yours exactly, but
ve some knowledge of the statutes of
Michigan,” this modestly, “and I think
all the tendencies of law would be
ageanst vou, Wien a mn isdead thers
is no question but that his next of kin
have the right to cremate, to emnbalm or
to bury lus body, They might sell it |
first class-society. Now the point
would make before a jury would be."
‘I have no wish to discuss law with
you. | have demanded
and I propose to have it whether
wre willing or not,”
“Just write that down. boys,”
Fulmer, He hints at burglary.”
“See here,” sald Wentworth,
are nou vie man we dissected,
you're a fraud.”
“Do you?" returned the gnos.
convince you Lo save myself further
troubls. I can take any one’s form.
For instance that of a rising lawyer.”
And with that the figures before them
was an exact counterpart of voung Fal-
mer. ‘The next instautl the ghost was
himself again,
“By Jove,” said Smilie,
splendid lightning change
would make,”
‘*Say,”’ said Fulmer, ‘“‘what
tike for a might at the
personate the head of
University and sing ‘I want to be
you
seid
“yon
| helieve
a
he
“what
artist
would
“al
“1 am in no mood for chaff,’ said t!
specter, severely, “Finally, will
give up my skeleton?”
“let him have his old bones,
Smilie,
“I certainly wil not,”' cried Went-
worth, “Why, Smillie, I had todril
hundred and fifty holes in that
No sir! J W.
i?
you
“Remains 18 good,» said Fulmer,
“Well, Mr. Wentworth, when
get red of the fight just give
on a decent barial.’”’ With
you
hat
hat
t
s
tha
{
cried smilie,
ihe 3 1
iO long,
“What
It’s you
’
“Do? Why keep J. W., of course.”
Next day there was an astoundis
charge against Wentworth, A passe
ears
been mel on the road from
e station by a student exactly answer-
mg Wentworth's descript who
manded money at the point of a pist
nd the passenger would undoubtedly
ve been robbed if two others coming
along bad not frighiened the culpr
who escaped. Nothing but Smilie’s
hat Wentworth was asleep
me--it was Saturday morun
saved Wentworth, On 3
Aun Arbor was scandalized as it cam
¥
"on
train had
+
on, de-
oath t
¥
i
Sng
g the street in a
intoxication, The
the coals, and it
he had spent th
gering aon
hauled him over 3
rain that he protested
trying ¢
u
the 1
JAW,
ler and smashed ln the
The ruler «
its spectral ¢
Next
1d not 1%
unterpart,
Wentworth
oi
day was too iil
tie jeft him and wen
college, He had 1%
while the Professor was
names preparatory
when an unearthly yell atts
top tier of i
| descended one by oae down
ating table. There
§
ed has
taken hi
# i ©
wilng down
way to
S Seal
i
|
’
. titre tt
quiz
ed all eyes to the cals thal
#
$4
Weut
} Lhe Oper.
$3
stood worth
he shoul
the Lacks of the seats, jumping over the
| students heads, hopping lightly on the
“subject’’ that lay covered up on
revolving plank, then sprang among the
| lady students, who scatiered screamin
and thence up to the topof the «
tier.
| “Now fora jump across the arena.
| Never attempted by any ene outside of
wr
the
y
i.
tn
L
:
pose
. “ab als t ” 3
‘Catch him, sh
i uted
{ “He's insane.”
another after
He beat them easily across the
{ catopus and entered the door of his
boarding place.
| When the two students burst into the
(room they found Wentworth
| dolefully looking at the damaged front
of
{ been out that worning.
Next day he got notice of
from the Univ rsity.
As he sat by his window stubbornly
refusing to be conquered by a ghost,
| and yet aware that perhaps some people
i would not believe the whole story if he
| told it, he saw his double on the oppo-
| site side of the street,
out with him, If they see us both they'll
believe my story,
He seized the ruler and started out.
Tue ghost Jooked behind him, aud then
it too had a ruler in its hand. Nearing
the postoflice the ghost came suddenly
up to a group of men, hit out right and
leit with the cinb, struck a policeman
across the face, and fed towards Went.
worth. The crowd pursued. As it
came to Wentworth it vanished into
thin air, and the next instant Went
worth was in the hands of the outraged
constable,
From the lock-up the dejected young
man wrote to Smilies:
For my sake, buy a cemsatery lot and
bury John W, Stodgers, charging the
cost to me,
Yours,
WextTwonr™,
That ended the fight. Wentworth, I
regret to say, is not the first student
who came to grief by letiing spirits get
the better of him.
0 A tau
Heavy Winning.
li ——
Despite the fact that the proprietors
of the gaming tables at Monte Oarlo
have odds In their favor, the public won
recently £100,000, The ran of ill luck
was commented on in the French
papers, and Parisians flocked to the
tables, there being as many as 600 play:
mg in the room on a single night,
BLEEDING AT U8 ost, ~The
re y at as
given by Dr, er iCaad ing ak Hit Lok
tures, is in the motion of the
A
jaws as If in the act of che
case of a child a wad of paper
be inserted, and the child directed to
chew it hard. Itis the mot the
4
OF Unknown Origin, and Safer to
Trap Than to Hunt.
“I don’t know whether they doit any
more oat there or not,” said a former
resident of California recently, *‘but
| when [ lived in San Joaquin county we
| used to have more fun than a honse
afive at the quet little pastime of trap-
ping wild hogs, No one ever seemed to
know extwotly where the wild hogs
the San Joaqain tule lauds camo from,
but there they are, at lowst thee they
| were ten years ago. They probably
of
stock. These wild hogs were 50 shy
that it was rare that any one ever got
a glimpse of one, and then it would be
{ only by accident. They held themselves
| entirely aloof from eivilization, and it
captured,
ida lt:
“it was no trouble to find where a
| drove of hogs was feeding, for they
left abundant evidences of their pres
ence,
| they were, and for that
| thought that it was more
raason
than likely
| tillery-fed swine. Anyhow, some one
| San Joaquin wild hog would risk his all
for it was barley, and so we took ad-
vantage of the discovery and went
| tempting the wild hog to his destruc.
tion, The first step in the conspiracy
againgt him was the balding of a corral
or pen, big enough to hold a dozen
In one s:de of the pen
heavy drop-gate was set, whieh
raised up snd held in position by a rope
| that extended to the side opposit T
mi
a
hogs or go fn
Ihe
rove was held taut by being fast ued to
a sort of figure-four drop, whieh the
slightest touch would sj The cor
ral was placed on the trail of a drove ©
HOES,
““I'ue next step was to lay a liberal
train of barley from the gate of the eor-
ral some distance from 1t slong the tral,
Barley was socatierod mside the
Mall, thickest about the gate, and grad
3 i flown as the dead-fall was
approached, As soon as the hogs struck
the trail of bariey they followed up,
srowding and pushing, one
trying to get the biggest
pose, just as natural
When they reached the
rushed, the frst cue wi
bariey lay thickest, until they
erowded further the
jot behind, It was only a
ter of a few peconds before some one
the leaders had to be jammed Up against
the dead fail, That i Down
i come the hi
would nsually bea d
nuder it, an i
porkers inside,
buatehered with
If there ware any
ral we lassoad them
for future reference,
“1 never saw a drove of wild hogs
loose but once, and from what 1 saw of
them and their methods then 1 was sat-
jafied to hunt them with
corrals, and leave the free
chase to ese. 1 was out
shooting birds one day, aad as 1 was
passing through a dense thicket 0 get
an open where I expected good sport 1
heard the unmistakable snorting and
tusk-grindiog of wild hogs. I thougit
some ove had a corral set near by, and
had got the drop on some hogs as usual,
I drew toward theedge of the thicket,
and then it seemed to me thal the
was too voluminous and the
too far-reaching and penetrating to be
| made by a dozen penuved-up porkers,
butl kept on. When 1 reached
edge of the thicket I peered out into the
Well, that's ali I dud. I han no
desire to proceed further
**Sach a sight I never saw before nor
think there must have been
Wing.
abon
it
and each
RUATre, i
a8 tame
gate in they
iz where the
Ware
su p-
bogs,
pp
$
*.
in BOending,
mat
Oy
greedy
5 ‘
0!
there
3
woul
“4
bariey-baited
aud
open
pen
some one
ry
on
opeu,
i €inos,
seres, congregated in that open. They
huddied together like freemen at an out.
door ward meeting,
half way down their backs.
| on a storm-lashed coast, Rage gleamed
from every eve, and voiced itself in
every every snort, I stood there, peer-
ing out on the extraordinary scene,
wishing myself ten miles away, and not
daring to move, for fear the furious mob
of hogs would detect me and parcel me
| up among them, It was five minntes
before I discovered what was the cause
of this turbulent gathering and the ob.
jeot of its fury, when I saw, in the
midst of the wild concourse, a poor,
lean, and haggard wolf, gathered to-
gother on the top of a stamp, just be-
yond tho reach of the biggest boar in
the drove, and with the most abject
look of terroron his face that it was
possible to express, I don’t know
what the wolf had done to bring this
avenging army of hogs down upon him.
Bat there was this valpine, unfortunate,
trembling, and haggard, perched on a
pinnacle barely large enough to give
room for his four feet, geging out over
this waving sea of uptarned tusks. He
was a cowardly, thieving wolf, but I felt
sorry tor him,
“The hogs never let the woll rest a
second, Bome big fellow would hit
himself up against the stump on one
side, with a snort like a thundérciap,
and quick as a flash the wolf would turn
his face away. Then sauother long-
tusked brute woanld jump up and let go
a howl, and around the woll would go
toward him like a flash. Aud so it went
all around the stump, and it was a won-
der to me how that terrorized woll man-
to keep his footing on the stump
aged
stall, Byand by 1 ired watahing
the Proline, Ey wou
I raised my
mf
fii
:
i
aif
t
|
THE WILY SEAL.
i ai———
Bad Lock of an Adveniurou: Sports
man,
After ten minutes of very hard
ing and running we arrived at a
near which the black specks had been
seen lying, We turned cautiously to-
ard the beach and dodged from sand
point
ridge of sand lay between us and the
surf. Then we lay down in the snow,
crawled along on our elbows, and look-
ed over, Two plump, bhalfegrown seals |
were lying lazily en the sand a few feet |
above the surf. They looked like good- |
natured babies taking an afternoon
sleep. They were of a light-brown |
color, with round, dark-brown heads, |
Slowiy 1 raised my gun above the ridge
| and glanced along the sights, Then,
| while feeling carefully fora vi spot
in the seal nearest me, the child-like |
appearance of the animal impressed me
| and 1 lowered the gun.
| “We will cateh the seal alive,” 1 said
| to the fisherman at the sgme time rising |
| cautiously to my knees, Then, wit
| shout that must have thrown t
imtoo an ecstasy of terror,
brilliant dash the
turned
Lids
hal
he seal
we nade
heact
al
The |
awkward swift
ina highly une hoblile, made
ter. Ina Wie were |
Seizing the larger seal by
flipper, as near up to tt
Goan
with Hess
and, uth
i for the wa
| upon them,
e right fore
moment
i 1 \ ti
body as | could conveniently get
ced my feet |
lifted
hauling I got him up on his 8
turning upon
3
A
me like a
Hy O Wailer, AiG 81
tail hit me a vicious si
I went
sad caught
101 had
ow
my breath
me Lo my
were regard
the crest of a wave
sea. Almost
d been struck by a hu
the
ped
heads
hie Tes
UIACK
BOL
as ang
101
had sent
¢ Waller,
where the
had
yok %y
hi 13
ey
pray
it aoain
again,
He seas
» it 4
iii 8 :
in the day we
he bay side «
when 1% AR
His first precaut
air hole, yh
several rods nea
fhought thal as
was only a cake of
moving toward hi
dent to keep
vigilant about
headway.
th starti i
black head and plump br 16
{ up from below, The fisherman heaved
the boat hook v ic force, and a
boat hook
1 the opposite
hole, and the fisherman fol-
fall the water
i
oun
i a) 4
K shot
aide of the
lowed it so far a
head frst. The seal escaped unhurt,
By means of a boat hook and
dingy's painter | managed to get tb
fisherman hauled upon the ice, I
stowed him away under the boat's deck
| and started back to Fire Island. F
| tunately the tide had turned and was
setting strong toward the shore. We
reached the life-saving station rood
| time, but somewhat the worse for wear,
—————
Italy's Soldiers in the Crimoea.
410 into
the
the
out
Sl
in
in
Mgr. Rotelli, the Apostolic delegate
at Constantinople, and a great friend of
the Pope, with all the pastorsof the
European quarter of Constantinople,
lately assisted at the inauguration of a
monument erected by the Italian Gov.
ernment to the Italian soldiers who per-
{shed in the Crimea, This monument
was erected in the Cemetery of the for-
mer hospital of Yeni-Kiol, As the
Italian Ambassador Count Corti, and
the soldiers of the Italian army were
present, the presence of the Apostolic
delegate has been much commented
upon. Although Mgr. Rotelll has been
part in this ceremony, il i8 evident that
he was directed to do so by orders from
the Vatiean. The Ambassa’or, in
praising the dead soldiers, did not re.
frain from hinting that the Crimean
war was the beginning of [talian resur-
rection, and the first stone of that unity
completed in Rome,
The inauguration occurred on the 24
of October in the cemetery. The monu-
ment is a pyramid of red granite from
Baveno, six meters high, It cost 150,-
000 francs,
650 soldiers. The front has the Italian
arms, with the following inscription:
To the remains of the soldiers of
Italy, who died in the Yeni-Kiol hos.
pital during the war of 1855-050, this
grateful country has here
ble rest by a decree of 1882,
The Ambassador delivered his speech
in the cemetery, then wien mass was
Di te Sh —-— ih al
at requ wi
the Latin clergy of Constanti and
Ro-
telli
"
¢ THY YEVA
The Saumoleds from the Icy Zone..-
swifi-footed Siberian Reindeer,
at the
: ‘
Every year, beginning of
mowed tan. -
inhabitivg the shores of
ocean-——make their appear-
wl
Hes tribes
thirty or forty reiudeers, and a dozen
roughly-constructed slcighs, They
erect a tent upou the banks of the
frozen Neva, and pear it corral theh
reindeers with s simple rope guard,
Their object Is to furnish sleighing
parties with the rare sport of riding
after the wing-footed Biberiap deer,
Ther costume is well adavted to thelr
home io the icy zone, Over a common
shirt is worn a suit of reindeor skins,
a baggy pair ol paola
jacket, the hairy side of
beiug outside, The jacket
to the kuee, k
The eap of deer
the skin
buttoned up behind.
skin is well wadded and ornamented
with long fur car-laps, The high ani
ronghlyeoustrueted boots, also of deer
resch to the and have
thick soles, The effect oi this pleinr.
esque garb is desiroyed by covenog it
a long, eosttn priot
govn, well wadded quilted, with
#0 wide that vo movement of
rif
es
with COG
Aha
plocve
the arm is disceraibile,
Lueir slel hs con a box, about
wide an even long, rest.
pegs Teel high,
into ners, which
turn up 1u ciglit of four
or five feet and sliarp points, A
tit whifll treo,
runners
board seats,
prironiz-
{noe not en
mm the ice,
ir tongues
indicating
winter is
wrens is also
reindeer,
r of a mule
d ya, with
bide take
G8 Are
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fitting
upon
wlick
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ndeer sk 3 SO% r {hie
public,
i the
warty apa
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evel
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®
s
that ury
tropical to them,
composed of toe skios of Lhe
ind Tet
Huds
{
A Ua} loy¢ d
at the side
invites the cur
ide the Neva,
which 1s not
When a number of
ured the sleigh is
noied seats himself on
i his g line in
ia the other, and
start, Oaoe
the se
seals cov
On
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log
land.
a rs are prolib-
from
approaching too near the oor-
raled deer, as a vicious animal 18 capa
of 1 sting great injury upon the
visitor with his long horns, the Samoi-
ing beld respousible by the po-
lice for any harm done sightacers,
[he tent erected to ascoommodate the
families have much the resemblavce of
au Indian hut of the American front
of the same shape, ana COVeTred
deer skins, The interior 18 made co
fortable with felt and fur mats, Tue
fire is niways placed in the middle of
tents. From a high poie bangs
a chain at to a kettle 1a wich
provisions cocked, During heavy
storms the opeaing at the top of the
tent for the escape of the smoke must
| be closed, so that the female and juvenile
portion of the colony are not very pree
possessing in outward appearance, their
gaudy dress, brass chains, brass buttons,
brass arm and ear rings notwitnstanding,
In the latter part of February they
betake themselves back to their A a
abodes, keeping only enough reiwuu t
to transpor: them thither, Tue others
are slaughtered, and the meat preserved
for the nomeward journey. As soon as
killed, the women and children fall
upon the bones, split them, and v 1
| ously sunk the marrow from them wi
| the snimal is still warm, The bain is
also eaten with great gusto, The eyes
| of the der are then taken by the
| women and buried, where it will not
happen that a marned woman or full.
| grown gfcl walks over them, as such an
| occurrence might bring proat fatality to
{ the whole Samoied tribe, The Bt.
| Petersburg curiosity-scekers often buy
| whole new suits of these frigid zoners
for purposes of masquerading, while
their boots and shoes sell readily on
account of their imperviousness to wet
snow, Many of these Samoieds who
have thus exhibited themselves, and
through their reindeer sleghing on the
Neva, have sccumulated small fortunes,
ted
ble fi
oy
10
er,
th
a
Ww
these
tached
are
Led
Stoves in the Olden Times,
Previous to 1825 the use of stoves
generally of the box pattern and of very
| rude construction—was confined to
stores, hotel barrooms, school houses
and churches in the larger cities and
towns, Country churches ‘mere not
usually warmed, but the older women
carried their foot-stoves and the men
protected their feet with stout leather
overshoes known as “boxes.” In the
residences of some of the more wealthy
city families cannel and other Englhisa
coal, generally referred to at the time
as “sea coal,” was burned in imported
grates or in Rumford stoves lined with
fire brick, The rest of the world used
the capacious, old-fashioned fireplace,
The cheapness of fuel, the Shour'ultitel