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THE KING OF DAYS. |
CERISTMAS AND THE ORIGIN OF
MANY OBSERVANCES.
sm.
How the Date was Fixed-—Festivities
Perived From old Customs The
Decoration of Churches and Dwell.
ings.
We have no means of determining the
exact dato of the Savior's nativity, The |
statement that the date was preserved in |
the public archives at Rome, though as-
serted by some of the early fathers, is!
not now generally credited. As to the |
year, preponderance of opinion und of such
evidenos as we have seem to favor that!
of four or five B. U'. Asto the month
December is the height of the rainy
season in Judea and therafore the fact
as stated by the New Testament, that
shepherds were watching their flocks on
its plains, while stars were shining in the
heavens on the night of the Navior's
birth, makes it extremely unlikely that it
could have cvecurred in that month, |
Many loaned treatises have been written |
and plausible arguments advanced to
prove that it must have taken place in
Uotober, but the question will ever re.
main in abeyance.
For the first three centuries Christ
mas was one of the most movable of all
religious festivals. The eastern church
observed the Gth of January as the anni
versary of Christ's birth. Bat in the
fourth century Pope Julius I. ordered an
investigation of the matter, and after
long deliberation the theologians of both
the east and west united in appointing
December 75th to be kept as Christ's
birthday.
Many of our most familiar Christmas
usages are derived from the old heathen
festivals which Christmas replaced. The
custom of giving Christmas presents,
now so universally observed, was de-
rived from the old Roman saturnalia or
fenst of Saturn. at which it
ary for all the members of a household
to offer gifts to each other.
The yule clog or log—the great stick
of timber placed in olden times upon the
Christmas fire was derived from the
Saxon feast of Jul or Yul, at which a
similar piece of timber gave the princi-
pal fire and the principal light. The
yule clog and the superstitions connected
with it are among the most venerable of
Christmas associations. The vule clogs
that blazed in the il
English feudal barons of the middle ages
were huge trees, and are told that
even just before the f the last
century the mansion of an English gen
tleman residing near
totally destroyed by fire in consequence
of too large a vule having
lighted on the hearthstone. When the
vule clog was not al before
dawn and on into the light of
Christmas day carefully |
preserved until the next Christinas eve,
and were belie ed to bring good
and fortune to all the household. but
should they be scattered and lost death
and misfortune were thought sure to fol.
low,
The custom of
owellings and plac
cvergreens, holly, laurel, bays aud mistle
foe at the Christmas sesson is n
uation of an observance of the old
Prraids, f
indly sylvan spirits sought thes
ments of living green
them, touched und
ping frost, until the
Those same old Draids attached mnch
importance to the mistletoe, ins esting it
with a peculinrly hallowed and mystic
character. They regarded it as an em-
blem of love. and believed that typi
fied the beneficent feelings of their gods
toward mankind. [It ix doubtless to this
old Draoidieal nso iation of the mistletoe
with love that the English custom, which
still obtains, of enforcing the forfeit of
a kiss from auy female who is caught
under a branch of it at Christmas time is
traceable,
We are also indebted to the Druids for
the Christmas game of “snap dragon,”
which is played, as every one knows, by
trying to snatch raisins from blazing
brandy in an otherwise dark room. But
probably fow of those who have plaved it
are aware that the old Druids were ace
customed to worship a flame of burn.
ing spirits into which they cast and from
out of which they plucked certain ob.
jects. By the celebration of Christmas,
with its grand liturgy, its magnificent
music, and its pictorial and dramatic
representations of the principal events in
the life of Him whose birth it commen.
orated the church sought to replace thes:
heathen festivities and to lift up the
minda of the people to something higher
and holier, though from the first the dav
was régurded both as a holy commemora
tion of a most sacred ovent and as a
mirthful, jovous festival. In the middle
ages the festive observances of the dav
aften so fur overtopped its nore sagred
features that the clergy were frequentiv
compelled to cheek the nuscemly mers.
ment of their Hooks. The name of Christ.
mas assiguod to the festival was derived
from Christ nnd the Savon maesse or
mass, and the two words wero dombined
ta denoto a special service in hotior of the
birth of the Son of God.
Probably one ofthe most generally
known of the old Christine observances
next to the giving of presents, is the sing.
ing of the Christmas carols. These were
pious canticles designed to replace the
ribald songs of the old heathen festivals,
and the custom of children, and econ
grown people, going nhout from house to
puso singing them ot the door on
Christmas eve and being rewarded with
Christmas cheer and Christmas sponding
money is maintained fn wany parts of
England even to the present day.
Une of the most elaborate celebrations
of Christmas that ever took place oc.
Ceurred in the your 1252, durtng the reign
of Henry Hi. The marringe of the
king's daughter, the Princess Margaret,
sith Alexen ler, king of the Heots, took
Fuse on that Christmas day. The arch.
ishop of Yok gave G00 fat oxon ant
£2,700 toward the expense. In the vear |
1248 this same Henry ILL filled West.
mioster ball with poor piople awd
feasted then rovally ot his expense
throughout tho whole of Christinas week, |
On another Christmas doy ho caused a
great number of cattle 10 bo slaughtore 1,
and throwing open his palace gates per. |
mitted the populues to enter, and |
was custom
rast halls of the ol
we
close o
shrewsbury was
log been
| eonsumed
burned
ashes were
ite
yealth
decorating churches
os of business with
pe roped
Brit.
izh whose belief it was that
3 %
Orn -
, and hovered
uitharmed by
aeat
near
nip
1 of winter.
it
it
pe det i
each man to earry off as much meat as he
could impale and bear away upon his
dagger,
That royal old Blue Beard, Heary
keeping Christmas. He usually
such as masques and tournaments.
honco our Christmas cve of the present
which in the associations that
cluster around it in its sports and
second only to Christmas itself.
METROPOLIS OF BRAZIL.
Revolution Ocenrvred.
The revolution with which Brazil was
ablaze for several months culminated in
the city of Rio de Janeiro, the metropo-
lis of the country, This eity is one of
the most beantiful in all South America.
It received its name of Rio de Janeiro
river of January) from the fact that
Martin Affonso de Souza, who was one
of the first Europeans to enter the bay
where it is located, supposed that he had
enterad the mouth of a mighty river
rivaling the Orinoco and the Amazon, and
named it after the happy month in which
he made his imagined discovery. The
misnomer now clings not only to the
magnificent bay with its circlet of moun
tains but also to the provinee in which it
is situnted and to the populous city which
sits like & queen upon its bright tropical
shores.
This bay of Rio de Janeiro compels
the admiration of every traveler, saves n
distinguished one of it. “1 have again
and again entered and quitted the Bay
of Rie de Janeiro whon the billows wers
surging and when the calm mantled the
deep, and whether in the purple light of
a tropic morning, in the garish moon, or
in the too brief twilight of that Southern
clime, it has always pre sented to me
new glories and new charms. It has been
my privilege to look some of the
most celebrated both hetni-
spheres, but 1 found
which combined so much to be admired
as the panorama presented in this bay,
“On the height St. Elmo 1 have
drunk in mach beosuty from that
curvilinear bay of Sonthern Italy, upon
apon
of
have never
soenes
one
or
ns
whosze bosom float the isles of ( apri and
Ischia, and up whose
the
margin nestls
np i Vesuvius the
and the pro
city of Naples i
long arm of Nu mito verb
inlle 1} ii
InUY Dri
vit to
y
bined beau
ha
gAZe upon a scene w hich RUTPASSeS
in and grandeur
+}
hess mountain t
waters, poet.
ically termed Famovo Indians,
*Nitherohy }
Fhe city of Rio
bastian, is
(ge Janeiro,
iT
‘ )
teal capital of Brazil,
or San Se
commerce:
orium and
ad internal de
Ory
a metropolis worthy
It is i
the largest
America and
great country,
saith boasts an an
tiguity greater than i
the United States
nicates with the wi
1 deop and nares
granite
‘
SHIC ARS
at the harbor
i 3 1
isiEnds and
: Fy
nding heights that
tently mang by a body of dete
meied men i
ingress of
world
Rio's streets are
Many Ht
excoedinely well
x SINE Y ei
noted
the pri
for
TOWess, 1
are
} _ sides
houses seldom
stories, bat
neips
paved,
three or
than those of
stories in this city. It
has an immense foreign trade, as may be
estimated from the fact that fully two
thirds of the coffee product of all Brazil
pass through its port, while numerous
other articles are handled for foreign ex.
wortation from the entire country.
Mail and Express, ’
exes d
are highes
similar number of
Bugs That Eat Meal,
Insect Life calls attention to
recontly observed instances where insects
have gnawed metal. Une was the case
of lead pipe, ent through by a bug that
was actually found enguged at its work
on tho metal.. The “wood wasp’ for
of that specivs it was—had mode a hole
in the pipe resembling a nail bole. A
similar occurrence is reported in the shape
of a8 “minie ball,” which gnawed
throagh by a wood-boring larva. The
ball had been fired into a red vak tree in
Maryland during the rebellion, and when
split out of the log it»
the track of a full-grown grab, the ani-
mals burrow leading directly through
the bullet, The latter had been struck
by the insect at its conenve end, boring
two-thirds its length and coming out at
one side somewhat below the apex. The
larva was found in the borrow alive. only
i short distance above the bullet, =o it
fould not appear that the story recently
circulated of worms which were alleged
tro
wis
as disco f rod in
in Europe is altogether incredible,
Six Handred Thieves at Sapper,
\s ry curious supper, which has boon
widely discassed, was that given in Lon.
don on a recent night by the Salvation
Army tosis hundrod professional thioves,
Fhe table was laid in the hall in Osford
street and the guests wore inrnished with
plum eake and pudding with tea and
coffee, It was a motley gathering and
furnished nn splendid obicet lesson ta
those who care for studies of “crooks,
while it must be confessed those whe be.
iteve in the innate goodness of man com
Ing out when away from baleful influence,
mst have been shocked when they saw
these human beings or crentures with ali
grosping and tearing the victunls placed
before thom ns if they were starved, To
Judge from their appearance, they were
shysically and intellectually aofit 10
fight the battle of Ife In a square and
honest fashion.
mont, for it surely tolls its own story, is
furnished in the case of one of these
“honored guests’ who picked a pocket
{ outside the hall aud was marched off to
the police station instead of going to
supper. Perhaps in his ease, though,
the individual al
gard for his surroundings, or it may be
| that the ‘crook’ in question took pride
{in the pursuit of his profession and
wanted to show that his skill could sur.
mount more than ordinary difficulties,
iand at the erncinl moment his nerve
i
Pranseript.
Sterilized Milk.
The true value of sterilized milk is
Just beginning to be generally realized,
ical experts.
| but beaten milk in which all of the germs
by fire.
| milk, and the rapidity with which these
ing.
fren from bacterin, but it deteriorates
rapidly.
alarming rapidity. In a few hours after
| spoonful contains hundreds of bacteria.
' From this time onward the milk contin
ues to doteriorate, and before itis exposed
for sale in the cities a teaspoonfnl will
contain hundreds of thousands of
teria. Milk, then, filled with these germs
invalids, when the
body is in such u condition that they can
rapidly grow, It is an important dis.
ease producer inthis way. Health boards
j in cities ure condemning its use after a
and sterilized milk
alone is being recommended for general
as well as special use, Many different
acids have been used to kill the germs in
the milk, but in every it has been
found that they injure the stomach so
that their has been discontinued
Heat is the only effective remedy, and
this mnst be done at a certain tempers.
ture to prevent the of taste, color
and odor. True sterilization is when the
milk is heated at 140 degrees
Fahr. This temperature is sufficient to
kill the bacterin, not make the
milk lose its odor, taste, and appearance
Yankee Blade
bac-
is fod to babies and
{ fow hours standing.
CRRo
sg
'
IWR
ot bor
exactly
and it will
Protection From Farnace Heat,
I'he protection of workmen from
Furnace heat, as Prd tised at the Menden
Tron We
3 .
DF Ineans o B root
{ Schwert
{ : $
3 orks in sit
is said to be
ori Th
er the
: v %
I sOTern nung f
vhich can
vorking side
vashed aside whe
HE an os
bo made to eon
of the furnace, or
fi not required
the
nto uw
ork gol
terferes with i
nl is bent gutter
siight fall in the direction of
and the upper edge in
'
th
i
rsd nt nearest the vith
rigs oles about
throe.quarters of an ing
wod throngh with email }
in connection with
that this
first applied experime
furnaces, has
that it has been fitted to al
furnaces in the
eratives being thas enabled to wor
time the hottest
toston Transeript
anid arrangement
worked
1
works namo
even mm
Flowers in the Window,
»
the agricultural
of New England,
throngh
vy
villages
In riding
towns and
flowers may be seen in mah y windows ¢
indeed, in some places nearly every house
exhibits these signs of refinement and
contentment, It is cheering, espe cially
in winter, to be groected by these many
colored flowers in their green foliage, and
it is an index, often, perhaps always, to
the life that goes on within, If domestic
poace and happiness were overthrown, it
is certain that no attention
given to plants or lowers. Flowers and
discord do not grow together,
The cultivation of flowers
some degree of contentment and happi-
ness is the portion of the occupants of
the house where they are displayed, that
there is asecking after the beautiful, and
that something more than mere life or
Flowers are the
most beautiful product of nature, and
whoever appreciates and cultivates thom
ix subject to an influencs refining and
ennobling, Flowers cheer and elovate,
and the more flowers we have, the more
cheerful and the better we ought to be
American Agriculturist,
would be
shows that
cxistones i= the object,
Vepsin,
The pepain sold in the drag stores is
{the veritable product of an animal
| stomach, and generally of the stomach of
the hog. One factory in New York has
the oldest method of preparing the article
that ever entered into the human mind,
A number of perfectly healthy hoge are
fattencd for market, and for thirty.six
hours before killing time aredeprived of
all found, not oven boing allowed u drop
of water.
appetizing slopes and hog delicacies,
stjueal
for an chance to get at the slops, The iron
netting prevents them from tasting the
food, und while they are still thinking
about the matter they are killed, a
their stomachs being taken out are
found perfectly fu!! of gastric juice,
| from which the pepsin is prepared. Now
if it was not the hog's imagination that
“made the gastric jules How inte his
| stomach In anticipation of a feast, what
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVYERY.DAY LIFE,
*
tures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fletion.
Oxi of the many anecdotes of the late
Ir. Leidy, the anatomist is to the follow.
ing effect, says the Philadelphia Record.
The doctor had heard of two petrified
bodies being weceld ntally disinterred in
an ancient gravevard down town, Very
tv of Pennsylvania, he soon found the
however,
Ax the
doctor prepared to retrace his way, quite
disappointed at his failure, the snperin-
tendent, ina dwawling, half-concilintory
That dignitary
I'l give Hp the bodies to the order of
relatives This hint was safficient.
Returning hone, the doctor hired a furni-
ture wagon, and, fortified
written order reading, +
with a hastily
Please deliver to
grandfather aml
the
Wepre
boare- the bodies of mv
to
On : :
the coveted specimens
drove cemetery
obtained
and are exhibited to this day in the mu-
senm of the aniversin
Tux Clifton Mistol has
pret suid
Bridge by
long been re garded as the
bride of Fuels wl i 0 rece § vk
ay ! HAUTE, al on a Tecen Vk
it score l its thirty victim, It
sirions how any man can want to take
second in
£
hia lif
from such ao spl, ns the sooner
of the sarroanding country is exquisitels
vaatifal: but the attraction, of course
, that the bridee, Vic Isa saxpension
of Tory high and the valley below
sa that when one
tnken
wrssibility of auvibing iu the nstnre of
vxeeedingly rocky,
fatal leap has been there is
a hitch ox ITrng to thwart the compl
1 The
Bath
gentieman of independent means, whos
om the
on of the desperate sin intext
ictim is Mr. Stuart Boucher, of
mangle | body » found recently
BI rocks on the reel side of
river
MN fine
Wineraw Havin
server of I
trained
I himself some time
rooster makes the Aappi
mpnn os his crowing
ra tisort hor
tlio in th
nid Mr bvsonts,
(»
Brn
:
vou think then
€
and albums if the members ross
} Wf the
houses that were good for robbing. Mr
and Mrs. Clarke » the the
They lived
were highly
fA NCYO, and took his notes «
i 3 §
ORGY TE oF
of the
it
respected by all their neigh
ited 1o ten
ore
sang wey iris
i Ovid
i
HTH and were oxtensi oly in
parties, dinners, Leo.
xe af the quoerest superstitions that
that of
finding the body of a drowned man bs
means of hia shirt
was dv
ever entered the human head is
Last spring « man
wned in the river in front of the
East 8. Louis levee. Search was made
with boats for the body. but without suc.
cosa. Some one recalled the superstition,
and the searchers took the shirt the man
had laid aside when be entered the water,
and lot it float awny It floated for a
while, and then sank, and they searched
for the body where the shirt went down,
and, sure enough, found it not far away.
Une case of this kind of sourse does not
make a rule, but the man whe hossad the
Job in this instance said he had seen it
tried a dozen of times and it never failed.
Tree is a most remarkable aw apping
horse Jockey in Belfast, Me.
"Lije Walter, save a local paper
named
Just
in the world “‘Lije” started away from
home ono day on foot nothing in his
pocket but a jackknife. He was absent
just one week. and returned driving a
pairof horses harnessed into a top-buggy.
Hitched to the rear axle was another
horse and a cow, while ahead was a dog.
“See how your papdoes iY said Lij
fo his son, ne he gazed at the time of das
from a handsome watoh, y
had got the whole trout for his jack.
knife and swapping the proceeds into
one thing and another.
Mastaxa, Fla, is talking
wonderfal man in thelr midst. His
name is Ebenezer Long, and he was
born black, sixty vears ago. “He is now
perfectly fair, except a few dark spots
that may be discovered by looking at
him closely. His children nro as dark ns
he was in his youth, while his now secs
to be one of the whitest of white
skins. When he was abou twouty.cight
about n
one place on his arm, and thence spread
over the body. Ebenezer is quite healthy
and looks ten years younger than he is."
But Georgia enters a elaim on him on the
ground that it is bis birthplace,
Mr, J. E. Dissox records in the Vie
toria Naturalist a ourlous fact which
came under his own observation. During
leigh. he was somewhat Surprised 10 soo
n specimen of the ring-tailed opossum
hanking. as he thought, by her claws, to
a sharp-pointed limb of a gum-tres,
about twenty feet from the ground,
Upon closer obsereation be found that
the croature was dead, ond that death
was due to the fact that in her flight she
bad become impaled. “In the pouch were
{ mules und three females. They all ap-
nicely. Considering the nurber they
| are quite lnrge. The cow is ot ordinary
#ize und this is the third time she las
become a mother. She is very
her family of calves amd is as watehful
of ench one ns an old ben ie of a brood
of smull chickens, Mr. Bover has ul
ready received a naomber of flattering
offers to exhibit his anioml
Chisago muoscuins
A wos ecanght in a
1.1 : : ‘
ocd way in Glastonbury Conn,
YooLisn fox ery
recently,
He hind a very long and bushy tail, and
it, for he
fo instead
trailing it along the ground. A pick of
houndx chased nim, and to elude them he
tried to bolt through nn barbed »
mauvhe, was extremely vain of
swished it from side wide of
ire fence;
but somehow that tail curled itself abou
n barb and the fox wax us fast as
fnws of n steed trap him An
the hunters despatched him.
if the
hour later
Bigcu, a farmer Deeatar
Ind., has presented a petition to
Frank
County,
the
stone mounine nl, erected
County Commissiones te have the
in thnt
Inst spring to murk the center of
the
nlf
day “ ng ¥
bounel
gird,
fations
county
Popa
ioved two
A few
m with a
United
id tf LEY
his wife
tion of mintes,
nnd a bh ard his bons
presets I hi
2 wel of triplets, two bovs aud a
=
and he claims that by ea ul ealen.
he
advent has changed th
intion to that extent,
res
hos demonstrated
Center
oiectrie light wire
} Contact wy
fight
“lie
n Pun
wanders
fitidd Dewey St
shouting and
Bris His amma
2
and he had to be sat
remnrkable
rer to ong
i the nuk
Cooonnuls
th The man
Custidl nod iw from
heads
the Chin
nguish
3 11 i
tts, and noeariy sail ol
tad}
Spruce Gam Gone From VYermont,
It it said that gennin pr eum has
ainmumt entirely dina;
mont, which used to
fuantitios,
increase of saw and palp mills.and partis
y
great
fromm or.
proguee it in
This is owing to the great
to forest mills
But the gum.picker is still a pictur.
esque figam the Gireen Mountain
State, The most famous one is Alonzo
h Bshop, of Ww ood ford, in winter,
carrving a bag slung over his shoulder,
Bishop ronms all over the Green
Mountains examining spruce trees. With
a long pole ending with a sharp chisol.
he detaches the gum, His journeys often
take him many miles from human habi.
tations. When the hilisare snow.covered,
Bishop still pursues his indostry travers.
ing the country on spow.shoes, He sells
the gum for fifty cents to $1.50 a pound,
; according to quality The purest gum
is transparent or of a light amber color
filied with minute babbles of air,
Y ermonters who have made new homes
for themselves in the West
great deal of the pure article, which is
sent to them by friends through the
mails, The Ohio and Michigan branches
tof the Olin family, whe recently held
their annual reunion in Desningtown,
bought up all the spruce gum in
Bosto yr Cultivator
in
Consume n
Raunt d
AEFI I
Why Do We Worry!
Any one who is eager to make a family
record for old age must learn to
worrving. He should let nothing prey
on his mind. When troubles loom up
ashend snd while the shadows grow larger
and creep nearer be can lose five years
from the latter end of his life just by
fretting about the impending calamity,
Now, the way he shoald do is to sire
up the trouble carefally and accurately,
Rurelv, we have all noticed how such
things, if one looks hard at them and wi.
flinchingly, really grow smaller as they
COMO NEOTCE,
slap
extent and nature of the impendieg
| gonoity in trying to find 8 way aroond
it, thon if it most be met, lot him face it
and meet it, boldly and calmly, with a
full realization of its probable severity
!ccdet him stand up like a man with a cool
head and stiffened muscles, when behold!
the frowning thing will dissolve like
vapor or ho will ride it as the boat rides
the ware
But to worry! that makes the troublea
real one aml leaves us weaker for every
shock that follows. [The Argosy.
a lamily for one year in
ar pS warts
BRUIN FACED THE MUSIC,
i
Lured to Death by the Bass Horn of
a Brass Band,
George Griswold, who lives en the
FLovalsock Creek, a mile and a hnlf north
On a re.
cent Baturday evening, Griswold tucked
his big horn under his arm and strode
other members of the village organiza.
tion. A little after 10 o'cloek Griswold
the full moon. When he had gone nearly
a mile from the village, where the road
led through Andrew Harper's farm, he
to the right, and looking that way he saw
a bear pawing around and crunching nuts
under a big chestuut tree,
Griswold watched the greedy animal
for a moment, nnd then he stole up to the
fence, squatted behind it, poked his Luss
horn between the rails, and blew u single
blast that sent the echoes fiving among
the surrounding hills. The toot of the big
horn gave the bear an amazing stort. In
hix sudden fright he rolled overs number
of times and then he jumped up and
legoed it across the meadows ut full tile
Uriswold thought he bad scared the bear
balf to death, and he was about to pull
his horn out of the when he saw
the bear tarn mut aod slowly march
back toward the chestnut tree. He said
the brute seemed to be eager to find out
where the noise had come from and what
left his hora in
and kept perfectly still
far ©
but he di
tone,
ab
kad made it, and so he
the fonee
The
treo,
proached the
ander it to paw
He waddled directly to-
ward the fence, sniffed the gir frequently
and hal es fixed on the hom, the
big end of whieh glittered in the moon.
light in front of him. When the inquis.
itive animal was within a few vards of
the fonce, Griswold blew another blast
vith all the had, and the
bear rolled himself and went
dancing across the lot as thourl be had
wen shot
the field
half oa dozen fine
bye autiousiy ap
dnt ston
up more nals
his
ung power Ime
Hii over
Before he had reached the
he faced
int.
suoried
%, und shambled back to
wold kept
r geross the lots
when
the owner of
“na of ghoul,
find ont more abot
the carious brute cave
in thi pear alf an hour
Charies Hay per, a son of
£ way for
y y )
mad, ran Gow the road to ascertain
Wf the horn was Dy
ng ble wn im
ar Griswold pare
iy
iY
ir slave of
it b
id Harper
in un whis
and
ior some
be bear when
nest time
old ploughshare
hat {ime the bear
ore and
(iris.
fa fing,
was
i OI rept a.ong
fre una oon.
bohind the stamp
o the chestnut
i
led hiss :
Rroa ao we : ninod
kind of a
he bear apps dete
Gnd
fis out what machine
§
Mr Drass
thing
in
i #
1 i
his head
iH. Th
if tree
to the
into the top of
sprang atl drove
é }
© ®n
3 Mae
ORY 8 skull with al Mm
Te A roar, red up on hi hind
wd, k iar
raliied at once,
bad taken ten steps
another blow head
to
the ground Griswold then jumped over
the fence with a large stone, but before
he pol a chance to do anything Harper
had killed the bear with the ploaghshare
Parmer Harper was on his way to the
wen the bear turned up Lis toes,
and the three men lagged the carcass to
the barn. The bear was hog fat, and
weighed 406 nounds.— New York Sun.
5 3 5 :
BIG Whole arg RIND
ner off
and, before the bear
hin
with the pl
3 ;
is feet, Harper
on the
him
he dealt
ughshare and felled
“im wi
Panishing Naval Cadets.
It is said that the punishment inflicted
upon the cadets at the Naval A ademy at
Annapolis are carefully devised to have
ns much influence as pessiblein prevent.
ing a rocarrence of the offinse. These
regriations are the fruit of years of ex.
perience and are enforced with undoviag-
ing impartiality. When a cadet is guilty
of tardiness at any formation, he is re-
quired fora given period subsequent fo
report to the officer in charge half an
hour before the time of the formation,
standing by until it takes place. Those
who oversleep themselves in the morning
arc compelled for a month to torn out
one hour before reveille, and at the first
note of the bugle to report themselves
and the room ready for inspection. Visit
ing during study bours is punished by
solitary confinement on the prison ship
Santee as a corrective for too great
sociability. luattention at drill carries
with it the penalty of one or more extra
drills during recreation tours, Habitual
natidiness is cured by requiring the care.
less eadet to report for inspoction to the
officer in charge every hour for a number
of days, usually a month, Should non.
regulation clothing be found in a cndet's
possession, it is seized by the authorities
ax contraband and not restored until the
offender leaves the academy. It is thus
difficult to appear out of uniform. New
Orleans Pieavune,
Well-paid Basc-ball Players.
“Who wouldn't be a star base.ball
itcher ¥ remarked
festive Geary Rich the other day as he
read of Rusie's engagement by the
Chicago Association Club at 86,000 1
Aud Geary Pe
“The seas m is about six
play about (20 games, of which Rusie
will pitch in say 40, and 40 goes inte
por hour
ud Richardson it 4 refustd tu Play as
ants any longer fo year,
and went Teer os Phiideipba er
got three years’ coutracts at Any.