OR UBIO NEWS OF THE WEEK. — An examination of the accounts of M. M. Small, deceased, bookkeeper of H. Groby & Co.'s bank, at Miamis- burg, Ohlo, shows that he embezsled $12,000. His peculations extended over a period of ten years. ~The loss to Washington connty Penna., by the recent storm as footed up by the Commissioners, is §150,000. Fifty bridges were washed away. —A train struck a carriage at Stevenson, Alabama, on the 26th, con- taining J, F, Moulton, wife and child. Moulton was killed, the child fatally injured, and Mrs, Moulton slightly in- jured. Moulion attempted to drive across the track when the horse balked. The Northwest limited passenger train going west ran off the track near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, en the 26th, de- molishing the locomotive and severely injuring Engineer George Arnold and Firemen John Hosock. The passen- gers escaped Gnhurt. —Forest fires are burning on all sides of Ishpeming, Michigan. The fires extend on both sides of the raflroad for many miles. Many buildings have been burned and the farmers have lost sverything. It 1s thought that there will be a heavy loss of life as the smoke is so heavy that people In the country lose their way and the fire sur- rounds them. —Joseph Elliott shot and Killed Harry Spear, at Fort Worth, Texas, recently. They quarreled over the sale of a lot of cattle Two bystanders were shot but not fatally, Dr. A. G. Paddock, a leading citizen and retired dentist, while temporarily insane, shot his son in Ridgefield, Connectiout, on the 25th, and then took his own life, Frank Carson and Adle Pierce, resi- dents of Brandywine village, Delaware, quarreled on the evening of the 25th, and Pierce struck Carson a blow with his fist, which caused him to fall dead. Both men bad been drinking. Thomas Jeffries shot and killed Jacob Pollock, at Umontown, Penna., on the evening of the 25th. Pollock assaulted Jeffries because the latter slapped a boy in the face, They were both intoxicated. —Four beams on the fifth floor ofja new building in West Eighty-third street, New York, gave way on the 25th on account of being overloaded with matenal, and four men wer? whom fell to the cellar. were severely injured. John Durgin died on the 26th. The bodies of three boys, supposed to be the remains of Frederick Stosterman, 19 years old; William Keizer, 19 years old, of Brooklyn, were washed ashore at Can- arsie Beach on the evening of the 25th, The boys left home on the 22d for a fishing excursion to Canarsie, and have not returned. A train on the Pennsylvania Railroad ran down three tramps near Jersey City, New Jersey, killed, one fatally and the other seri. ously injured. The boller of a thresh- ing machine exploded on the farm of Frank Stranaban, Corry, Pa, on the 24th, William Clough and Arthur McCray were killed and Perry Corry and Jefferson Boutwell were severely injured. An explosion of twenty thousand pounds of powder occurred in the drying house of the Giant Powder Company, Dear West Berkeley, California, on the 24th, Two white men and three men were killed. — A despatch from Marquette, Mich- gan, says forest fires are raging all ong the railway lines of the peninsula. At Mumford 25 bulldings have been burned. Wooden Ware Company lost 500 cords of staves, a barn and 40 tons of hay. Brown & Co. lost $29,000 worth of bark and cedar posts, It is feared that in 1he back districts there will be loss of e. ~Policeman William Tillman, while on duty in New York early on thé morning of the 27th, was detected by Roundsman Bingham in the act of robbing a plumbers store. When caught he had taken a lot of lead pipe and brass goods, and was throwing them over the yard fence. Tillman is a prominent member of Reno Post, G. A. B. At Williamstown, New York, on the evening of the 26th, three farmers surprised a burglar while wrecking a safe. He dashed through 8 window and was shot and danger ously wounded in the side. He refuses to disclose his identity, Wiliam F. Clark, alias Colt, who has been arrested in New York for forgery, has, it has been discovered, been operating quite extensively. His forgeries will aggre- gate zbout $10,000, and his victims business firms, A man call- Haas, of St. Paul, on the 27th. He gave them a draft on Savage & Green for $3974 in payment. After selling the steers he « The draft was worthless, and Savage & Green have ne such agent, w several persons were badly Injured, Thomas Lewis, a switchman, in Lou. isville, Kentucky, had ls foot caught in a frog on the evening of the 20th, and before he could be released it was struck and killed by a locomotive, Charles A. Doran, a clerk in a hard. wars store in Detroit, Michigan, was on the 27th struck on the head by a box of hinges which fell down the batch- way, and fatally injured, Robert and Ralph Mulvane, brothers, were fatally Injured by the fall of a plasterers’ scaf. fold at Canton Ohio, on the 27th. ~N. B. Lutes, a lawyer in Tiflin, Ohio, purchased a fine dog as a play- mate for his ehildgen, On the 27th, he was out walking with his little girl and the dog was taken along, Suddenly the animal began to froth at tha mouth and attacked Mr, Lutes, who took the child in hisarms, and, with a heavy cane, succeeded, after a bard fight, in driving the dog away. The dog was finally killed at the water works before he had bitten any person —During a storm is New Bruns. wick, New Jersey, on the afternoon of the 27th, the tagstaff and cupola of the New Jersey Rubber Works was struck by lightning. The cupola was set on fire, but the flames were soon extin- guished. There were 300 persons, a majority of them women, in the rooms, and many of them were stunned and many became panic-stricken. Great excitement prevailed ~ AS Michael YT. Daly vas about to open his butcher shop in Boston on the 27th, he was fatally stabbed by an un- known colored man. Joel Dredzynski, a Polish lumber shover in Chicago, was fatally shot on the 20th by an wun- known man who made his escape. In Columbus, Indiana, on the evening of the 26th, Frank and Elam Hall, broth- ers, quarrelled about politics with Jacob Reany, a man {of 65 years of age. A fight ensued, in which Reany used an axed. Frank's skull was frac- tured and he died soon after, while Elam, who also sustained fatal injuries, died on the 27th. ~—A motor and car on the South Side Electric Rallway, in Pittsburg, | ran away on the morning of the 25th {ult. At the bottom of the hill it jumped the track and crashed intoa telegragh pole. were injured; Mrs, Rachel Herron, it {a feared, fatally. The engineer lost coptrol of the brake, Two trains, 8 freight and passenger. collided on the Dayton and Michigan Raliroad, near Lima, Ohlo, on the 25th ult. Several | passengers were slightly injured, | lagman sent to warn the passenger | train failed to perform his duty. | disappeared after the collision, {extra freight train ou the Chicago, | Burlington and Quincy Railroad col- | lided with a construction train at Rock | Creek, Iowa, on ! 27th ult. Tencai« «nd an engine were | wrecked, G. A. | and Patrick Healy & | section men, were bh... | men were injured, Two other | —The steamship DBratsbud, with | a rock at Cape Chette, in the Gulf of | St. Lawrence, on the 25th uli, and | was run aground at Ste, Felicite., On | the evening of the 26th ult, a terrible | storm arose and on the 27th ull. the { captain left the vessel taking with | him two lady passengers. The crew of | seventeen men remained om board | until next mbroing, when the ship | began to break up. They tried to reach 2 | were upset and fifteen of the seventeen | men were drowned. ~The yellow fever report from Jack- gonville, Florida, on the 28th ult, showed 21 new cases for the 24 hours ending at 6 o'clock, There were three deaths, —Two sections of a freight train on the Pittsburg and Western Railway collided on the morning of the 28th ult, pear Bessemer Junction, Penna, Nine cars were wrecked and William Fitzer, Bagman, was killed. James Gazlin, a young man well known as a turfman, was killed on the morning of the 28th ult. at Bowling Green, Kentucky, by being crushed against a stall by an un- ruly herse. Effie Williamson, aged 18 years, was killed by a train near Long Branch Station, Virginia, on the after- noon of the 27th ult, Berta and Edna Smith and Fred, Barpard, all about 12 years of age were drowned on the 28th ult. at Hyannis, Massachusetts, by the capsizing of a boat, ~H, 8, Benjamin and F. A. Bales, members of the bankrupt mining stock firm of Moore, Benjamin & Co., iu Milwaukee, Wisconsin, haves been ar- rested on a charge of conspiracy and their bail fixed at $10,000, The charge ¢f conspiracy is made in connection with a civil action bronght by Mrs, Tlelen Warner to recover $30,000 from the bankrupt firm. She placed her money in the firm's mining stocks, and Sli that she was guarauiead against 088, —A heavy white frost covered the und in the lowlands at Dover, New {ampshire, on the morning of the 28th ult. The damage to the crops wil ba large. ~Frank Lavelly was arrested in Shickshinny, Penna., on the 20th uit, for passing counterfeit money. Cone. siderable of the spuriows money and a got of tools were secured by the officers, Lavelly made a confession, implicating a number of people of standing. Herbert L, Smith, of Washington, D. ., Was committed in New York on the 20th ult, on the charge of passing a —It is reported that a race war is threatened at Wabbassa, Arkansas “The pegroes have a township ticket, there is a compromise ticket with whites and blacks divided, and the straight Democratic ticket. A negro politician, named John Taylor, 18 the cause of the trouble, the whites vow- ing that, unless he desists from crooked practices, thers will be bloodshed. Taylor has taken to the woods.” —Miss Mary Cross, of Orange, New Jersey, had her pocket picked of $300 at Asbury Park, on the 20th ult. Pickpockets are very active at that place, ~—While partridge hunting at lake Placid, in the Adirondacks, on the 20th ult., Daniel O'Connell, Assistant U. 8. District Attorney of New York city, accidentally shot John Buey, his uide. Shey. whose regovery is doubt- ul, bas made a statement exonerating O'Uonneli. —Mrs, Mary C. Hume, wife of I’ro- fessor R. W, Hume, dropped dead while preparing to bathe in the surf at Goodground, Long Island, on the afternoon of the 20th ult, She was 60 years of age. ~The boiler of a freight engine on the Lehigh Valley Railroad exploded while ascending the mountain near Wiikesbarre on the afternoon of the 20th ult, Joseph Vanborn, a brake- man, was killed, and two other train men were slightly injured. A collision between two freight trains on the Chesapeake and Ohlo Rallroad at Clifton Forge, Virginia, ox the moin- ing of the 20th ult, resulted in the death of two brakemen and one engi- neer, Joseph Newman, The other engineer was badly hurt, Mrs, Ann Jack was struck and killed by an ex- press train at Eatontown, New Jersey, on the 28th uit — Peter H. Head, a farmer, and his son-in-law, Samuel Milton, who had long been at feud, met on the road near Springfield, Kentucky, on the af- ternoon of the 27th ult.,, and began firing at each other. Head was mor- tally wounded aud died in a few hours, In Kansas City, on the evening of the 27th ult., Charles H. Jackson, from New Mexico, married the sister of George Lee, much against Lee's { wishes, Meeting on the street on the | 27th uit., the two men exchanged pis- i tol shots and Lee fell dead Jackson i but his wife has left him | —Dr. R. H, Milner, a rrominent | citizen of Chester, Penna., committed | py shooting himself in the head. He | Breed, Assistant Cashier of the Hart- {ford National Bank, in Hartford, | Connecticut, committed suicide on | He was 30 years of age. He was a | been short on all of these. Officers of | the bank say his accounts there are all | right. —(ieorge Shethart, a farmer, near | Winsmac, Indiana, while fgbling a | stubble fire, on the 29th ull., was over- leome by the heat and falling to the | ground was burned to death. ~ Mrs, H. M, Dubois has been ar- red in Oak Grove, Michigan, on ths charge of arson. The house was | insured, as was also her husband's life. Coal oll was found scattered over {the entire house. John Gregory, an- {the 50th ult, at Shickshinny, Penna, | John B. »icCutcheon, who was Treas urer of Lafayette, Indiana, and who | died a few weeks since, is found to be | short in his accounts to the amount of 1 $3190, | —A passenger train on the Cumber- {land Valley Railroad on the 30th ult, | struck a four-horse team belonging to {Joseph Horst, near Hagerstown, | Maryland, killing Horst’s twelve-year- oid son and three of the horses, —Early on the morning of the 30th ult., Frederick Schuneman was shot and killed in Chicago by foot pads, It 1s thought he was being robbed and attempted to defend himself. His as- sailants cut one of this pockets open to get his money, and took his watch, breaking the chain, There is no clew to the murderers. Dr. J. W. Amold was shot and killed by W. J. McMath near Shreveport, Loulmana, on the 20th uit, It 15 not known what they quarreled about. A. J. Throckmorton, a nephew of Governor Throckmorton, of Texas, committeed suicide in Den. ver, Colorado, on the 20th ult. De- spondency, caused by poverty and whisky, 1s supposed to be the cause. —Michael Angelo Latouche, Antonio Latouche and Francis Moore were killed near South Bethlehem, New York, on the evening of the 20th ult. They were clearing away the debris from a two weeks’ blast in the rock, when one of them struck a dynamite cartridge, which exploded, The boiler of a portable engine at the ice works in Denton, Texas, burst on the 20th ult, killing Robert Kirkpatrick, the engi- neer, and fatally injuring John Benson, foreman, One end of the Hagemister Brewery Company's shed, at Green Bay, Wisconsin, fell out on the after- noon of the 20th uit, killing Charles Lebanon and August Zass, who were filling a bin with coal at the time, FP, W. Van Antwerp from Cincinnati was found in the street in Chicago on the morning of the 31st alt, with his skull fractured. He had been following Frank Kline, a notor fous train robber, for several months and at last found him in Chicago. When Van Antwerp attempted to ar. rest Kline he was struck on the bead with some blunt Instrument. Kline ult, at the grocery store of Henry Fiske, in Cliftondale, Massachusetts, In prying open a shutier the thieves, three in number, set off a burglar alarm, which awoke Charles W, Amenge and ¥. W. Price, who slept in an upper room. Price shot at the bur- glars as they were leaving the store, the bullet striking ose in the head, and causing instant death. ~The new alr shaft of the Mount Pleasant Colliery, at Hyde Park, Penna., was blown up on the afternoon of the 31st ult, by the ignition of the gas in the mine below. The head of the shaft was blown fifty feet into the air, and the fan and head house were wrecked, Several men were injured, but none fatally. ~At New Lisbon, Ohio, Mrs. Thompson gave birth to a child sev- eral days ago, and her husband, then absent, was telegraphed for. He re- turned on the evening of the 20th ult., but instead of going home, went toa saloon and got drunk. His conduct s0 affected his wife that on the morn- ing of the 50th ult. she left the house and drowned berself und her infant in a small stream near by. John Fillhart, aged 93 years, hanged himself in his son’s barn in Depauville, New York, en the evening of the 30th uit, No cause is assigned for the act. George Buchanan committed suicide in Albany, New York, on the evening of the 80th ult.,, by jumping from a fourth story window. He was despon- dent over the dcath of his wife, —A telegram from Mount Washing- ton, New Hampshire, says that on the evening of the 27th ult., there was a heavy thunder storm, accompanied by huge bailstones, On the 28th ult,, the mercury fell several degrees below the freezing point, while the wind blew at the rate of over 100 miles an hour, By the morning of the 20th ult., ice nearly four inches thick covered the weslern windows of the station. The telegraph lines to the summit were broken down by the weight of ice and were not re- paired until the 31st ult. —W. J. Crocker, a brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was kuocked from a car and killed by a miles from Washington, on the 20th ult, { operator of the Crystal Colliery, fatally injured on the 3Jlst ult, while | assisting in making up a train of coal iears. Through the failure of a defect Mr. | Soudiers dled in a short tune, Jt rained all day on the 31st ult, in {was done to cotton. Trains on the Little Jackson Rallroad were delayed | by floods, Advices from Villa Lendo, | stoppage of all communication except | ~The horse attached to a barouche | containing the fainily of Captain J. J. | Vandergrift mn away in Pittsburg on | a lamp post and was demolished, Mrs | grift and Miss Victoria Vandergrift | were saverely hurt, The driver had | his right shoulder broken. Both hor. | ses were killed. The boiler of Uhler’s i Saw Mill, pear Sherman, Illinois, ex- ichard, Willlam Martin, and fatally injuring William Yocum. A SENATE, In the U., 8. Senate on the 27th, another conference was ordered on the Army Appropriation bill. A resolu- tion heretofore offered by Mr, Stewart, calling for coples of reports, aflidavits and communications on which the General Land Commissioner based his letter on the subject of timber depre- dations was adopted, with an amend- ment by Mr” Edmunds, excepting “guch as ought to be withheld for pur. poses of justice.” The report of the Judiciary Committee on the Jackson, Mississippi, election was taken up, and subject, Mr Walthall, of Mississippi, replied to Mr. Wilson, after which the matter went over. A message was re- ceived from the President vetoing the bill appropriating $150,000 for a public building at Sieux City. Adjourned. In the U, 8 Senate on the 28th uit, the resolution offered by Mr. Hoar on the 24th ult, and amended by Mr, Ed- mands was agreed to, calling on the President for copies of correspondence, ete., with Great Britain in relation to the treatment of American vessels in port on the Sundry Civil bill was ex- plained by Mr. Allison, The discus- pending which the Senate, after an ex- ecutive session, adjourned. In the U. 8, Senate on the 20th ult, Mr. Reagan introduced a bill, which was referred, to permit the introduc- tion of jute bagging free of duty. A resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Plumb was agreed to, asking the Sec- retary of the Interior to ascertain and report next session the extent of the rt of the Sundry Civil bill was again discussed, and further conference was ordered on the bill. After an executive Canadian goods, bas been permitted across the territory of the United States since July 1, 1885, when Article 20 of the Treaty of Washington and Section 3 of the act of March 1, 1878, are sald to have ceased to be in force. Adjourned. In the UU. B. Senaté on the Slst ult., the Hou'e joint resolution {0 ex- tend until September 15 the temporary provision for the expenses of the Gov- ernment was Mr, Cullom’s resolution in relation to transit of goods to and from Canada in bond was considered and went over. The For- tification bill was passed with amend- ments, and a conference ordered on the disagreeing votes, Mr. Stewarl gave notice that on the 34 he would insist on the consideration of the bill to ad- mit Washington as a state, it being the unfinished business, The Senate ad- journed. - HOUSE. In the House on the 27th a number of bills were introduced under the call of States and refused. Leave of ab- sence for 16 days was granted to Messrs, Hovey and Matson, the rival candi- dates for Governor of Indiana. The House went Into Committee of the Whole on the deficiency bill, and the decision of the chair ruling the French Spoliation Claims section out of the bill was sustained by a vote of 105 to 50. ‘The bill was reported to the House and passed. Mr. Hooker, of Missis- sippl, introduced a joint resolution au- thorizing the President to suspend, for a given period, the duty on cutton bag- ging. Adjourned. In the House on the 28th ult,, leave of absence was granted for ten days to Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, who has an engagement to make speeches in Maine, Leaves of absence were also granted to Messrs, Stewart, of Texas, and Tuner, of Georgia. Mr, Holman introduced a bill, which was referred, suspending all laws touching the dis- posal of public lands, except the Home- stead law, The Oklahoma bill was adjourned. In the House on the 20th ult, a { joint resolution was passed to provide temporarily (until September 15) for the expenditures of the Government coming under the Army and Sundry Civil bills. The bill **for the printing of Government securities in thé highest style of arl’’ was passed. . Division of the Pension (Bureau was | considered, The Oklahoma bill was | pending which the House adjourned. | Iu the House on the 30th ult. a let | ter was presented from Representative | Tracy, of New York, resigning his | membership in the Committee on Coln- age and Pacific Railroads. The resig- | nation was accepted. Mr. McCreary, | of Kentucky, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a substitute | for the Wilson Retaliation bill, It was | ordered printed and recommitted. The | Oklahoma bill was considered in Com- | mittee of the Whole, but no action was taken on amendments, owing to the | impossibnlity of gelling a quorum. { Adjourned, In the House on the 31st ull., a con. ference report on the Sundry Civil bill | was considered, pending which a re- | poss was taken, ! was devoted to private pension bills, THE SEVENTEEN YEAR LOCUST. Habits of a Remarkable Insect Which Lives seventeen Years in the Soil Professor 1Riley has called attention {to the facts that during the | year two broods of the periodical cicada | or so called seventeen year locust will | make their appearance in different parts { of the country. He asks in a circular | sent out from the department of agri- | culture at Washington for information | in regard to the appearance of thee | locusts whenever seen. Readers who { send this information to Professor Riley | will doubtless do a service to science { and indirectly to themselves, { In its winged state the seventeen year 'old locust is of a black color, with | transparent wings and wing covers, the | thick anterior edge and larger veins of d orange red, and near the tips | of the latter there 1s a dusky zigzag line in the form of the letter W, supposed by the superstitious to indicate war. The eyes are red, the rings of the body are edged with dull orange, and the legs are of the same color, The wings and one-quarter inches, In its many years af underground life this insect does more or less damage by feeding upon the roots of plants, but its manifest injury is when in the per- fect state the female deposits her eggs in the twigs of fruit and other trees, where punctured limbs, as a rule, lun- guish and die soon after the eggs are hatched. The eggs are of a white | color, about one-twelfth of an inch long and taper at each end. The insects hatched out are grub like in form and are covered with little hairs, They soon find their way to the sol, into which they descend to where the roots are most abundant. The only change to which they are subjected during the jong period of their subterranean con- finement is an increase of size and the wore complete development of the four small scale like prominences on their backs, which represent their future wings, When the time arrives for them to issue from the ground they coms out during successive nights in t numbers, come up the trees, i themselves to the same with their claws and to cast off their skins, WM long rent appears in the skiu of the back, and turough this the cicada itself, and withdrawing its legs and wings from their separate cases, crawls away, leaving its empty pupa skin. Within a fortnight after their final transformation the females begin to their and in six weeks the w becomes extinet, Such are in f the general habits of this pemarkable fuseel, which passes seven. teu Years of to in the soil and at to life above LEGENDS OF TREES. What is Said of Them in Mytholog: fecal Story. The tree figures in the earliest cos- mogonles. In the Garden of Xden stood the tree of life, whose frull would have bestowed perpetual youth upon the first pair, and near it was the tree of knowledge, fatal to them and to the destiny of man, According to a medieval legend, the former was trans- planted to Abrabam’s garden, a thou- sand years after the fall of man, and an angel came down to tell him that upon it the Redeemer would be sacri. ficed after having descended from it. A Scotch tradition assigns to the apple tree the honor of being (he tree of knowledge. In Norse cosmogqny, the tree plays a still more important part. It is here the world tree—Y ggdrasii— whose follage is the clouds, the stars, its fruit and the sea its bed. At its foot bub- bles the fountain of life, and from its branches fire was brought to man, Under it sit the three Nornes who weave the events of man’s life. Its roots extend into the highest heaven and into the deepest hell. This tree was an ash, and another legend says Odin created Adam from the ash and Eve from the elm, Like this is the famous soma Lree, which stands on an island in the mid- dle of a lake, guarded by fsb, From it is distilled the soma or amita, the drink of immoftality. Near it stands another tree, called the invioiate, bear- ing the seeds of all plants and fOowers, In its branches are perched Lhe eagles When one rises a thousand branches break off, scattering the seed over the earth, Like the Norse world tree, the intel ligent oak of Dodona had its roots lo deepest hell, and a fountain at its foot gave forth the oracular sayings of Ju piter. This evergreen oak spoke Ms thoughts, even when cut down, for of it was the intelligent prow of the Ar- gos made, The *‘tree of life’ was pot merely a | figure of speech in ancient belief. Many | Greek and Persian families claimed | descent from trees, Cadmus sprang | from a tree, the Achamenidae claimed | a mmilar descent, and even Mars, ac- { cording to one legend, was the offspring | of a tree, Pliny says there stood be- | fore the temple of Quirinus, at Rome, | two myrtle trees—one the patrician, the other the pleblan—and that, as these | orders of socieiy grew or diminished in | importance, its tree flourished or | pined. | Among savage tribes the tree is often ia god. The Ojibways thought certain | trees were deities, and made offerings |to them. The Dacotahs worshipped | many trees, especially medicine wood. | Carolina Indians ventorat the youpon, | or wild fig tree; the Mayas recognized { a divinity in trees; the Tepanecs wor. | shipped them, and Darwin saw a tribe { which venerated a tree, the home of a | deity called Wallechu. They poured | libations through a hole bored im It, { and around it were the bones of horses | that had been sacrificed. Indian tribes | generally worshiped trees, and some | thought that they spracg from them, Darien tribes descended from trees, | and some of the Aztecs claimed their {origin from two trees in a wooded | gorge. As the tree was the origin of life, it was also thought the home of souls | after life wasended, Empedocles says souls of the highest virtue passed into trees, The old classical tale of FPhlle- | mon and Baucis assigned them a tinal home in trées as a reward for charily {shown to Zeus, Another tradition says the penitent Myrrha became a | tree, and the drops which fall from the { bark (myrrh) wre ber tears. Dante | traversed a jeafless wood, in the bark | of every tree of which was imprisoned ! a suicide, and he spoke to Pletrodelle | Vigne. The Greek Dryads were fabled to have their abodes in trees. Ojibway | Ind;ans thought trees possessed souls, | and never cut them, some [earning lo | pain then. In many places in Ger many trees are thought to be the fist abodes of inrants, The tree of knowledge also occurs ip popular lore, In north Germany, when the master dies, some one must go inl the garden and stand under a tree and say: *‘Master 1s dead,” for, If the tree is not informed, there will be another death. An Ojibway tale represents tree as whispering a tale of love to @ certain maiden who dedicates bhersell to it, dies, and 1s often seen wandering in the forest. According to a Maor joined in an embrace so close tbat then children had no place to dwell Dut Tanemahuta, father of trees, pushed them asunder with his branches, These ideas concerning the divinity of trees led to their worship in primitive times, In the deepest groves abide the gods Primitive nations inhibited the forest, and the tree was their first shelter. The centre of the early Greek as wel as of the Teutonic dwelling was a tree, around which spread Lhe house, Groves were the first temples, and the Gothic church is but a groveiurned into stone, ia old German dialects temple and
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