NEWSOF THE WEEK.
—Mrs, Sarah Hicks, a schoo! teacher
n Brooklyn, committed suicide on the
th,
—Ewell Lauter was fatally shot
while resisting arrest, by a deputy
marshal named Cunningham, In Wil
Hamstown, Kentucky, on the afternoon
of the 12th, Edward Hoag, of Denver,
Colorado, went to Owensburg, Ken-
tucky. two months ago to maary Miss
Ella Brown. Two days before the
ceremony Hoag disappeared myste-
riously. On the 15th his remains were
found four miles from the town. He
had over $300 in his possession when
last seen, and it 1s thought he was
murdered for his money, In a saloon
in Walince, Kansas, on the evening of
the 12th, an itinerant sewing machine
mender attempted to make **Tom?"
Dunn, a local *‘tough,’ dance. Dunn
refused to dance, when the sewing
machine man commenced firing his re-
volver, Dunn then shot him dead,
Dunn was arrested, but allowed the
liberty of streets pending the Coroner's
inquest. Herman Hochkoch was maur-
dered at the Yenk Hotel in Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin, early on the morning
of the 13th, He was a rallway laborer
and arrived there on the 12th, having
about $100, Robbery is supposed to
have been the motive of the crime. A
despatch from Corona, Colorado, says
Vorce, the desperado, was not wounded,
and after killing Hollingsworth
mounted his horse and escaped.
--The municipal election in Boston
was held on the 13th and brought out
51,487 votes, the largest number in any
local election since 1853. O’Brien,
Democrat, was re-elected Mayor, he
receiving 206,621 votes to 24.866 for
Hart, Republican and Independent.
**The I.abor vote failed to material-
ize.” The Republicans gained two
Aldermen, the Board standing eight
Republicans to four Democrats. Com-
mon Couneil stands 43 Democrats to
29 Republicans, the same as last year.
License was carried by a majority of
8483. Local elections were 2iso beld
in Lowell, Salem, Lynn, Worcester
and Waterbury. All were carrled by
the Republicans, and all voted for li-
cense. The local election in Charles-
ton, South Carolina, on the 13th, re.
sulted in the success of the Demo
cratic ticket. The official returns of
the vote of Dakota on division show
that in North Dakota the majority
against division is exactly ten theous-
and; in South Dakota the majority for
division is 13.038,
—A despatch from Brooklyn says
that as an engine and siz dirt cars
were crossing the trestlework over
Gowanus Bay,
and Thirty-sixth streets, on the morn-
way, and the cars, upon which were
a number of workmen, were thrown
into the water, Four of the men were
badly Lruised, but all escaped alive.
~A [re occurred in the new rour-
story flat house at Sth avenue and
128th street, New York, on the afters
noon of the 12th, and practically ruined
the building and the funiture of the
eleven families occupying it. The loss
to the tenants is placed at about §35,-
000, There were many DAITOW C3Capes
from suffocation,
bapking irm of H. 8, Ives & Co., was
arresied in New York, on the 18th, oa
a4 warrant, which was jssped on a
charge of grand larceny made by Julius
Dexter, President of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. He
tion. Ives sald he was not guilty.
~Henry Fawcett and his wife, liv-
ing near Point Pleasant, West Vir-
ginia, went to church om the 11th,
leaving their three children, the eldest
being but five years old, locked up at
home.” When the parents returned they
found the bouse in ashes and the chil-
dren burned to death,
~—While haudling & supposed un-
loaded gun, on the 12th, William
Young, of Matinicus Island, Maine,
shot and fatally wounded his brother
in<iaw, George G. Huat. Samuel Shoe
maker was crushed to death by a fall
of earth at the East Harrisburg Brick
Works, in *larrisburg, Pa. on the 13th,
The canning and packing mills of the
Lefiin Powder Works a few miles from
Wilkesbarre, were biown up on the af-
ternoon of the 13th. Louis Learch, an
old employee, was fatally injured.
About & ton of pewder was blown up.
The mud drum of the battery of boilers
in Bwift’s Iron and Steel Works in
Newport, Kentucky, exploded early on
the morning of the 13th, wrecking the
bmilding, John Smith, the only em-
ploye present, had a leg broken. The
works will close for repairs, throwing
300 men out of employment,
~The Senate Finace Committee on
the 13th, held its first meeting and
ordered a favorable report on the Mor
rill bill to refund to the States, the di-
rect taxes impesed by the act of 1861.
The ate ja aboet $15,000,000, It
is the bill passed by the Senate last
scasion,
~-By a collision between two ecar-
riages in Wichita, Kansas, on th evens
ing of the 12th, a man named Johnson
was killed and three women were dan
gerously if not fatally injured.
~A freight train on tho Mine Hill
branch of Philadelphia and Head.
ing Railroad broke loose at Thomas.
ton, Peuna., on. the 13th, owing to the
failure of the brakes and dashod down
the steep At Minersville it eol-
lided with a coal train, Erginee.
Major in jonmping was huiled down an
embankment aud badly injured, Au-
gust Christ, a telegraph rator, who
Was on the
on a brid
Lindsay, at Moun’ Sterling, Kentucky,
nl on the a of the 15th,
Sie ouing Boma Loy
mn A 9
13-year-old son of the propeietor,
~Frank Laybourne, a left
Springlleld, Ohio, on the SOD. aces
despatch says it has since been learned
that he forged 5 number of notes
upon which he secured money. The
amount known reaches about $1200.
1t is thought Lie Las forged notes of
farmers to a considerabie extent, A
despatch from Toronto, Canada, says
the post-office in the village was
robbed, early on the morning of the
10th, of $11,C00 in cash, $500 in stamps
and over $10,000 in notes and securi-
ties. The registered letters were also
taken. Six hundred dollars’ worth of
Botetourt county bonds were stolen
from the safe of the County Treasurer,
in Fincastle, Virginia, on the evening
of the 12th.
—Mr, Crain, of Texas, Intends to
introduce a bill in the House to make
the term of Congress begin on the 1st
of January and terminate on the 81st
of December two years afterward, and
to have Congress meet two months
after the election of Representatives,
instead of waiting thirteen months, as
at present,
—On the evening of the 14th three
boys jumped on a cable car in Cincin-
nati to steal a ride, The conductor
chased them off, but one in getiting
off fell under the wheels and was
killed,
—Sands W, Hopkins, 28 years old,
died on the morning of the 14th in
Kansas City, Missourl, from the effects
of laudanum swallowed the night be-
fore, He inherited a large fortune
some years ago, but spent it riotously.
In 1882, while handling a shotgun, it
went off accidentally, killing his wife,
This increased his tendency to dissipa-
tion. He had been dnnking heavily
for several days before be committed
suicide. A stranger who registered in
Raffer’s Hotel, at Loulsville, on the
Sth, as **T. A. Burchaum, St. Louls,*’
committed suicide on the evening of
the 13th, While at the hotel he received
two letters from B8t. Louis, one of
them reading: **Theo. Burchman: Come
at once. Ma Is sick, Settled at M.
W. Do ail I can for you, Emile.”
hver P, Cardwell, a deserter from the
U. 8. Army, fell desd In one of the
streets of Indianapolis, on the 18th,
from the effects of a dose of strychnine
taken with suleldal intent. Pe be-
lieved oflicers were iu pursuit,
--The boller of a sawmill owned and
operated by Harlow Brothers, near Sey-
mour., Indiana, exploded on the 13th,
Killing William and Henry Harlow.
The boiler was worn out. The boller
in the sawmill of Joseph Lindsay, in
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, exploded
on the 14th, killing W. 1. Stevenson
and severely injuring Benjamin Lind-
say. The boiler, weighing about 8000
pounds, was thrown a distance of 125
yards, The cause of the explosion was
low water in the boiler,
—T. R. Renfroe shot and killed S.
| W. Begley, in Pineville, Kentucky, on
the 13th. Renfroe’s son had snapped a
toy pistol in Begley’s face, and b, Lim
pushed off the sidewalk, The bo: then
struck Begley with a rock, and was
pushed or slapped again. ‘be boy tien
told his father, The latter hunted up
Begley and a quarrel resulted, A prize
fight was to have taken place In the
saloon of Peter Reich, in Hessville, In-
diana, on the evening of the 13th, but
when everything was in readiness
Claude Kimball, a cowboy just from
the West, with a revolver in each
hand, ran amuck through the crowd.
Belch was mortally woundod, Kimball
fled to the wouds., Ho had bees drunk
and cbstreperous easly in the evening
and was put nut of the saloon, Thomas
Powell keeps a general store {n the vi
j lage of Eustern Kentucky Junction,
| pear Kilgore, Kentucky. On the even-
ing of the 13th, robbers entered his
| place, strangled his sister to death,
bound and gagged tho brother gud
went off with several hundred dollars
in money and a guantity of goods, The
reapaing of Charles Fry were found
banging from a tree at Natrona,
Penna, on the morning of the 14th
Foul play fs suspected and the Coroner
is mak:og un investigation.
* — While crossing the Mmssouri river
twenty miles below Dismarcik, Dakotas,
on the avéning of the 13th, Charles
Whalen and bis wife and daughter
were drowned. They lost the road and
the team passed so near a large air hole
that the ice broke and the animai and
people ware lost,
While Victor Simis, aged 16 years,
was cartying a keg of powder from an
excavation in Cincinnati, where work-
men nad just fOnished preparing a
blast, fo a shed near by, an explosion
occurred. The boy was terribly burned.
He can give no reason for the explosion,
and declares that he was not smoking
at the time,
— Luella North 4 years old, war
burned to death in Cincinnati, on the
14th. Her clothes caught fire from a
stove,
~—A traln of empty cosl cars were
wrecked near Ashley, Pennu., on the
14th. Jobn Morrisey, brakeman, was
fatally injured. An express train on
the New Jersey Central Railroad
jumped the track near White Haven,
Peuna.. on the 14th. The passengers
were badly shaken up, but none of
them were Injured,
~The steamer Atias, at New York,
on ihe 15th from the West Indies,
brings newe of a terrible hurricane
which swept over Savaullla during
the first three days of November, de-
stroying a great amount of property.
~Five children named Newell,
whose aves ranged from 5 to 12 years,
died of diphtheria within five days at
the home of their parents in Rockland
Conaty, New York. The funerals
were held on fiye consecutive days.
~=Aunie Burke, 22 years old, daugh-
ter of William Burke, a gardener, in
Toronto, has confessed to poisoning
r, who died on the 13th, She
George Brown, a bartender, drew a
revolver. After exchanging seveial
shots with Dinnie, Brown was fatally
wounded, Dionie escaped injury and
disappeared. The remains of George
Dougherty, a farmer, were found in the
woods near Ogden’s Landing, Kon-
tucky, on the 15th. He had been at
work on a rallroad, and, after being
paid off and selling a wagon and team,
bad §500 in his possession. In Macon,
Georgia, on the 156th, Woolfolk was
found guilty of murder by a jury, He
was sentenced to be hanged on Febru-
ary 10th, In his statement before
sentence he aseerted his innocence and
said the witnesses had sworn falsely,
~A heavy wind prevailed at Cre
scent, a new town ten miles north of
Los Angeles, California, on the 14th,
and a hotel, in which were sixteen in-
mates, was blown down, Mrs, Clem-
entina Arnold and her ten-year-old
daughter were killed. Ali the others
were badiy hurt.
~James Rankin, a young farmer,
living near Broken Bow, Nebraska,
started out for a bunt on December
10th, in 8 sleigh. When Le reached
the woods his double-barrelled shot
gun shpped off the seat, and in als
tempting to draw it towards bim the
hammer caught and both loads were
discharged into his heart. The re-
mains were discovered on the 14th.
**His right hand still held the reins
firmly, and the horses were standing at
the edgeof a Ceep ravine, They had
been without food since the accident
occurred, and had gnawed the sleigh-
tongue nearly through.”
~ Advices just received from Jame
anive, in the southern part of the State
of Tamaulipas, Mexico, state that
there was a riot during the elections on
the 11th. One of the parties opened
the polls, when the other began the
dght. At each of the polis there was
a pitched battle, and the ballot boxes
were destroyed, Eight men were
killed and over forty wounded. The
result 1s that the old Mayor will hold
over for another term,
- An old unsatisfied mortgage, dated
1840, has been found, which, it is sta
ted, effects the title to about one-sixth
of the real estate in Shamokin, Penna.
The amount of the mortgage was orig.
finally $12 000, The Sheriff has of-
Beally notified the landholders that he
will sell the property December 30,
-The stage running between Little
Rock and Carralton, Arkansas, was
robbed on its outward trip. near the
half way station, on the 14th, by three
men, who appeared suddenly from a
thick wood, Six hundred dollars and
two gold watches were taken from the
four occupants,
~A despatch from EL Dorado, Kan-
sas, says that *‘from cgriain gentlemen
who are well posted,’ 1t is learned that
there 18 being secretly organized a
scheme 0 make a raid on Oklahoma
In the early spring. The movement
extends over two or thres States,
They say that 100,000 men will go
into the territory at a given date, and
that the Government has not enough
troops to keep them out.
- Frank Johnezon, colored, was placed
in jail In New Castle, Delaware, on the
16th, on the charge of causing the death
of George Williams, also colored, The
met: bad a fight, and it is said Johnson
hit Williams with a club, The body of
fieorge Green was found suspended
from the limb of a tree several miles
from Flemington, Dakota, on the 13th,
“Green was & notorious cattle thief for
years, but by bis keenness had escaped
the weéahes of the law. Every one
knew he wae guilty, but could not eon-
viet him legally.” He was in custody
at the time, but was captured by un-
known men and lynched, At Canton,
Obio, on the morning of the i6in,
Charles Thomas stabbed to death his
nizce, Miss Briggs, and seversly cut his
sister-in-law, Mis, Briggs. The affair
grew oul of a family quarrel.
—Thurston ice was banged at Bak.
ersfield, California, on the 16th, for the
murder of Jobn Smith, in 1883, Ches-
er Bellows was hanged at Charlies
City, lowa, on the 16th. He declared
fils 1miscence on the scaffold,
~Mrs. Marie Kather was burned to
death in Topeka, Kansas, on the even
ing of the 13th. while attempting to
refill 2n ofl lamp,
~-1t 18 stated that there bas been an
engageinenl baiween the Mexican
troops, under General Soleros, and sev-
eral of Bernal’s band of outlaws, in
which 8 number were wounded on
both rides, and one of the band was
mass prisoner. The prisoner refusel
t< tell the hiding place of Bernal, and
was tied to a tree and hot. A young
Mexican woman, who had been carried
off by Bernal after sacking the town of
Otaer, was rescued, A telegram from
Nogales, Arizopa, says it has been
learned that a scouting party sent to
Cienja in search of the Bernal bandits,
found three men, surposed to belong to
that Land, near Chacala, and shot
them.
-The electric light stalion at West
Chester, Chester County, Penna, was
demolished on the afternoon of the
16th by the explosion of a boiier. Five
persons were killed, among them T,
Walter. Embree, superintendent of
the works, and a girl who was struck
by a fiyiug plank while passing by, D.
O. Taylor, Court Clerk, who was seen
in the burlding shortly before the
explosion, is missing, Five men were
injured, two, nawed William Allison
and Edward Schofield, perhaps fatally,
The eause of the explosion is unknown,
The loss ou property is estimated at
$25,000.
~A collision occurred on the evening
of the 16th between the Old Dominion
steamship Breakwater and the Erle
Railway ferry boat Pavonia, on the
Hudson River, st New York, The
ferry bos! was badly damaged, Frank
Moriarty, ex-Assemblyman David
Henry and Rishan Coughlin, passen-
~Two freight trains collided near
y
BENATE,
In the U. 8. Seuna‘s on the 12th the |
stand:og and select committees were |
constitused, No fewer than 694 bills!
and resolutions wers introducs!, the |
largest number ever offered in one day
in that body. Among them were bills by
Mr. Edmunds for the e:ablishment of
a postu] telegraph, by Mr. Cimeron, to
subsidize ourgmerchant mariae; by Mr,
Dolph to provide for ses cossy de-
fences; by Mr, Beck, to issue coin cer-
tificates 1n lieu of legal tander and na-
tional bank notes of smal! dsaomina.
tions; by My, Aldnich, to apply the
Treasury surplus to the purchase of
United States bonds, or payment of
interest on the pudlic debt; Mr. Far-
well to perpetuate the national bank-
ing system; by Messrs, Mitchell and
Merrill, to reguiate emigration, and by
Mr. Manderson, granting a pension to
évery incapacitated soldier and sailor
and to dependent relatives of d7censed
soldiers and sailors, Aflwer an exec-
utive session the Senate adjourned.
In the U, b. Senate, on the 13th,
bills wers introduced by Mr, Ingalls,
oremo ve Lhe lumitation in the pay-
ment of arrears of pensions; by Mr.
Cullom, to amend the Inter-State Com-
merce Act, establish a postal tei |
egraph, and extend the pension laws |
to steamboat men and others acting
under U B, officers: by Mr. Frye, *to
promote the political progress and com-
mercial prosperity of the American na-
tion;”’ by Mr. Reagan, to allow the
purchase and registry of foreign built |
ghips by American citizens, Mr, Saw- i
yer moved to reconsider the adoption |
on Monday of a resolution creating a |
special Committe on Postal Telegraphy, |
He desired to have the subject left Lo |
the Post-office Committes, which had |
reported bills in the Forty-eighth and |
Forty-ninth Congresses. The motion |
was laid over fur the present. Mr. |
Platt offered a resclution, which was |
referred, providing that hereafter the |
Senate shall consider and act upon |
treaties and Executive nominstions in |
ops session, unless otherwise ordered, |
{
for fortifications and othersea coast de- |
fences,
$126,000,000 to be available as recom-
~§21.500.000 for the first two years |
and $9,000,000 for each of the eleven |
years thereafter until the whole |
amount was expended, “This was the |
only course by which a speedy con- |
struction of saa coast fortifications |
could be secured on any general and i
sultalide plan.” On his motion the bill |
was reterred to the Committe on Coast |
Line Defences, and the Senate ad. |
journed,
In the U, 8, Renate, on the 14th, }
Mr. Hoar presented the unanimous |
report of the Commities on Privi- |
leges and Elections in the West Vir- |
ginia case, declaring Charles J. Faulk |
ner duly elected and entitled to the |
seal. The report was agreed to, and |
Mr. Faulkner sworn in, Mr, George |
introduced a Lill to protect innocent |
purchasers of patented articles, and
Mr. Platt moved its reference to the
Commitiee on Patents, not the Judi
ciary Commitiee, as proposed by its
author. Mr. Platt’s motion was agreed |
to—40 to 25. The bili to regulate im- |
migration introduced by Mr. Morrill,
was taken up, and thal gentleman
spoke in auvocacy of the measure. It |
was then referred to the Commitiee on |
Foreign Reiations, After an execu |
tive session the Senale adjourned, i
Ia the United States Senate on the
15th Mr. Dolph, from the Commerce |
Committes, reported a bill to amend
the act of 1880 in regard to the Imwe- |
diats transportation of duiiable geods, |
Bilis were introduced br Mr, Call to!
prohibit United States Courts from |
authorizing tue borrowing of money
by receivers of railroad and other
corporations lLeyond the amwoant of
toeir pet annual incoms; also, to pro-
hibit the appointment of such re-
ceivers without endencs of the finan.
cial condition of the company. Mr,
Stewart spoke mn advocacy of his hill
to provide for the irsue of coin certifi-
cates for circulation as raoney. When
he Lad finished the bill wes referred |
to the Commitlee on Finance, After
an executive session the Senate ad-
journed,
In the U. 8. House of Representa-
tives on the 19th » concurrent resolu-
tion was adopted proviiing for & hol.
day recess from December 22 to Jan-
uary 4th. Mr. Townshend, of lilinois,
offered a resolution providing that
Monday next shall be devoted to the
introduction and reference of bills and
resolutions. After debate it was laid
over, at Mr. Randall's suggestion,
until Monday, when, he understood,
the Committee on Rules would be an-
nounced. A resolution was adopted
expressing the vegret of the House at
the death of Representsative-elect Roiw
ertson, of Louisiana,, The House
then adjourned.
HOURE,
In the House on the 12th, Mr.
Springer presented the petition of
Owen GG. Chase, who vialms to be
elected Délegate from the ‘Territory
of Clmarron,” commonly known as the
“Pablic Land Strip.*’ and also as “No
Man's Land.” Mr. Springer also of-
fered a resolution referring the peti-
tion to the Committee on elections
when appointed. and meantime giving
Mr. Chase the privilege of the floor.
The petition. and resolution were lzid
on the table. The Speaker vacated the
chair and requested the House to ap-
polos the Comuuttee on Elections. Ad-
journed.
In the House, on the 13th, Speaker
Carlisle called Mr, Mills, of Texas, to
the chat. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois,
then offered a resolution, which was
unanimously adopted, declari the
Committee on Elections constituted as |
follows: Messrs,
tell the Weather,
On a dark, stormy day the ery of the
sea-gull as it flies about over the angry
waves enhances the grandeur aud wild-
ro% of the scene. Few can mistake the
movements of the bold, daring bird;
and considering its knowing and clever
nature, it is a matter of surprise that
the word *‘gull”’ should have been eme
ployed so long to express stupidity,
The sea-gull has from time linmortal
been regarded as furnishing an indica-
tion of tis weather, and un old plece
of weather lore informs us that rain
and high winds fromthe south-south
west follow the appearances of sea-gulls,
Ir Scotland there 12 a popular notion
that the appearance of this bird “in the
fields means a scutheast storm; when it
is over they go back to the beach,”
And, according to a well-known Scotch
rhyme :
eon gull, seagull, zit on fhe sand, :
It's never good weather when you're on the
land.
For many miles, writes Mr. Wood,
this bird will *‘foliow boats so closely
that the very sparkle of its eyes is plain.
ly visible as it twists its wide-looking
head from side to side while watching
the vovagers,
On many of our coasis my
the cormorant, us Llack-feathered bird
with green eyes, As far back as the
this bird was looked upon
as a weather prophet :
be seen
When crying cormorants forsake the sea,
¥ to the ocast wend thelr way
When watchful watery
stand
And strety
herons leave thelr
The
gave
wet weather may be expected.
proverbial voracity of this bird
rise to a man of large appetite being
likened to it, a sense in which Shakes-
peare uses the wordy as “Love's
Labor Lost” (i. 1). Cormorant
ing time,” Formerly the cormorant
was much emploved in this country for
catching fish, a practice «ll kept up in
Chiva, James I., it may be remem-
bered, made ng with cormorants ¢
fashionable amusement, Then
the common tern, or sea swallow, with
its rapid, darting flight, It was sop.
i fishermen to be
welcome harbinger of good It
ANG DOLCE US apbedtasnce was similarly
. .
y the sages of the Norse
ae
sn
f Vigan
LLCS in
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posed by our
wie CK,
he auk *‘a bird
Penna {
never wander
1
i
observed by seamen
beyond soundings,
appearance they dire
being assured that
mote,” But fore: t
that warned
it speaks of
io
A
L their measures,
d is not very re-
among the birds
9
Oi
Lhe sallor the
n their being seen
thousand
untired
probably originated |
land, apparently
and seldom resting or eating.
Fishermen in the English channel
east wind is caused by the flight of these
"Thus Buckland, in his “Curios
ities of Natural History,” tells us how
an old fisherinan one day said to him:
I think no good of them. There's al
a they come, 1
beard em once one dark night last win-
They came o'er our beads all of 2
‘ewe, ewe,’ and the
men in the boat wished to go back, It
came on to rain and blow and was an
awful night, and sure enough,
morning a boat was upset and seven
poor fellows drowned, 1 knew what
mg-billed
curlews, but I never like to bear them.”
says that a sea-bird called the lavy was
thought to tndicate ithe weather by its
mictions, and was consequently careful-
ly watched by Hebrides Islunders,
A bird which has from time immem-
orial been regarded by the seafaring
community with superstitious rever-
ence and fondness is the albatross, It
is remarkabie for the extent of its migra-
tions, and indeed, writes Mr, Jones in
hia “Ciedulities Past and Present.”
“It may also be said to pass, from pole
to pois, aad is seen at a greater distance
from: land than any other bird.” Hence,
it has generally been regarded as a
favorable omen, and Coleridge, in his
“Ancient Mariner,” thus aliudes to it:
At length did cross and aibatross,
Through the fog it came,
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hadled it in God's name.
And a good south wind sprung up behing
The albatross did follow,
Few sailors, therefore, will allow an
albatross to be killed for fear of ill-luck,
Again, the Osprey, which frequents in
such numbers the North American
shores, is always hailed by the fisher-
men with delight, as being the harbin-
ger of success, Wilson, the great Amer-
ican ornithologist, refers to this bird in
his well-knoren “*Fisherisan’s Hymn ;
The osprey sls apove the ground,
The geese are gone, the gulls are flying
The herring shoals swarm thick around,
The nets are lnwnched, the boats are plying |
Yo, yo, my hearts | Let's sock the deep,
Raise high the song, and cheerily wish her,
£111 me the bending net we sweep,
God bless the fish-bawk and the fisher!
It was also popularly nicknamed the
sea-eagle, and, In addition to having a
destructive power of devouring fish,
was supposed formerly to have a fasci-
nating influence, both of which quali-
ties are probably referred to by Shakes.
are in “Coriclanus,”” “I think he'll
be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish,
who takes it by sovereignty of nature,”
Among other birds associated with the
sea may be mentioned the Kingfisher, it
having Leen a popular belief that dur-
ing the days thid bird was engaged in
hatching her eggs the sea remained so
calm that the sailor might venture upon
it without running the risk of storm or
tempest, Hence this period was known
as the “halcyon days,’ a belie” to which
Dryden thus refers
Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be
As baleyons brooding on a winter's sen.
Curious to say, swallows, which are
unlucky at sea. Mr. in his
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mind when he represented Scarus as
saying, in “Antony and Cleopatra :
Fwailows have built
In Cleopatra's sails their vests: the Bare
Fay they kon pot-they cannot toli
grimly,
And dare not speak thelr knowledge
Similarly, the raven is digliked by
sailors, as is also the crow, and wany
stories are related of their omin
character. Occasionally they are pro-
pitiated, and in China, when crows
perch on the mast, crumbs ef bread
are thrown to them in order to secure
favorable winds, Buch are some of the
birds associated with the sea: from most
of which omens for good or evil have
been derived, Beliefs of this kind re-
mind us of similar ones credited by
Greek mariners more than two thou-
sand years ago, for Aristophanes
left on 1ecord how-
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From birds in saflin men instroctions tae,
Now lie in port, now sald and profit mak
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Thebes at Sunrise,
One of the incidents of the tonr i8 a
visit to Thebes at sunrise, The vocal
Memnon will not be heard unless a
small Arab is Wddden, in advance, in a
break in the back of the Colossus, and
instructed to pound with a bit of The-
ban debris upon 8 sonorous stone ine
corporeted between the glant shoul
ders, But assuredly a sunrise visit to
Thebes is well worth an effort, It is
four miles from the Fille to the Ras
seum. The ride Is acroes ths piain,
through dew-covered fields to tix
colossi, and then a turn is made north-
ward, The sounds of the morning
startle one as though never heard be-
fore. Something seems to be impend-
Ing. How black and chill the eole
ook. Everything, evening thedonkey-
boy, is now quiet. The HRamesseurn is
reached, and you stand ir the great hall
of columuns, frightened at their stalely
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The
temples are almost as dark as night,
and you shrink from the thought of
climbing alone up one the great
diner
of
“ai
say nothing of going down to the “*boly
of where the king was accus
tomed to consult the in closest
secrecy. No light enters except from
the broken roof and the loopholes in the
walls, Suddenly a ray pierces the
gloom. The glant columas in unison
cast their long shadows toward the
necropolis, upon one ano her asd upon
the neighboring walls. New ihe morn-
ing light pervades the place, and the
stolid profiles of the Osiride columns,
stationed there as if to guard to fallen
monolith, are lighted witli: a rosy fire
which aceentuates the pldeid expression
of their faces—each one “a likeness’ of
King Rameses II, the great “Pharaol
of the bible,”’ The sun grows stronger
and the coloring is gone. Bul the con-
trasts of light and shade continne as
they have done for the long ages past,
and will for ages to come,
holies,»
deities
A Loyal
A? AS
Woman's Tact
A well-known poet of Spain,
servedly famous for his work, was at
the same tie a man of most advanced
radical opinions, and waged such bit-
ter and open war against the regency
that he at last arrested, tried a
exiled. He was but scantily endowed
with thas world’s go and the
and children he lett behiod soon fell
inte absolute pover'y. The poet petit-
tioned Queen Christina for papdon in
their behalf, and was at once permitted
by her to return to Spain and to hl
family. He obtained an audience and
went in person to tender his thanks to
the sovereign and offer the expression
of his gratitude and homage, He was
graciously treated, less as ths enemy
that was than the future friend.
Buddenly the queen said: “You are
not rich, senor; literary men of merit
seldom are, and yon have a large fan-
ily, have you not¥”
**I have six children, your majesty.”*
“Six,’” continued the queen; ‘tien
there are three for you and three for
me,”
From that day the poet's threes daugh-
ters were cared for and educated at
the queen’s expense, who oensiders
them as ber special and personal charge.
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“My stars!” exclaimed a man, shoy-
ing some one who stood near him, *‘you
have trod on my corn.”
The fellow spatched out a box of
ointment, and replied: *‘I can relieve
you, sir, in 4 few minutes, ®nly ten
cents. Endorsed by the medical frater-
nity everywhere, There i= no use in
suffefirg. Oue box? Thank you,’ he
added, as he put the money in lis
pocket,
“It was an accident you fourd him,”
some one remarked to the salve dealer.
“Oh, no, it wasn’t. If yon ask a
man if he’s got corns be don’t want fo
talk to you, but when you find out (hat
he’s got "em the chances of selling him
medicine are good. 1 advise my medi
cite by going into crowds and sigiy
feeling for corns, Yonder stands a fut
fellow. When the crowd gits thickes
I'll go over and tap his hoof. Oh, ves,
it may be painful, but, my dear sir, the
business of this country must be case
ried on, regardless of sentiment,’
Twelve or fifteen persons were
by eating cake at 4 party mn
iss Wilson’s residence, In Wajnes.
burg, Penua., on the evening of the
16th, "All were made very mick, and
some are still in a eritical condition.
The symptoms indicated arseniocal
poisoning.
There is a gulch near Virginia City,
Nev., whose waters cover all polished
iron steel with a coating of pure
metallic