THE COYOTE.
Hels the Dirty Tramp and Sneak- Thief |
of the Plains, |
Mark Twain has made the coyote fam- |
ous—or notorious, if you please, In|
“Roughing It” the poor animal is de- |
scribed as the sneak-thief of the plains, a i
tramp of the desert, Whether
bad as he is painted or not, the California
Legislature ih placed a price i
head. As a result, within the six months |
just passed, 20,200 of these lank animals
have been killed in the Golden State, at |
a cost to the government of $101,995, |
says the Kansas City Times,
The coyote is in reality nothing but a |
wild dog, with a suggestion of a wolf in |
the shape of the head, Its
ame, canis aternas, sugirests its general |
type. It is common throughout the Pa-
cific slope, and is classed with “‘varmint”
because it will, in the absence of other
prey, steal barnyard fowls, or kill lambs |
and sheep. Its grayish yellow fur, |
whiter beneath the body, is much like |
that of the timber wolf, and its pointed
muzzle, sharp eyes, and erect ears are
fox-like. It lives by preference in the
wooded districts or where it can find
thickets for shelter. By day it usually
remains concealed and only ventures out |
at dusk, when it
stealing about in search of food, t is a
sociable little animal, often traveling
packs, and usually in company with
of its kind. When night has
the coyote be l
prolonged ery that is not
of tl ]
ie
he is as |
on
his |
saientiiic
mav sometimes be seen
Od
{ lose d ii
‘omes noisy, vel
animals ofter
are more than a match for
Although despised
time was when t
with divine attriln
Among the Nava] y In
the Cahroc tril ]
the deities of
believing it te *
The hangdog lool
glips away from human sigh
of the coyote's i i
shy at times, but
cernedly by the road
He is
only sly instead.
any animal except
long.
courageous in ¢
as any animal tl
otic, if one may
refuses i
leave the lif
accustomed
BO
have bee
tn Spe al
ance §
KDE,
i
need not
not 1
saying
made
all about
of the world we
pre servi
them.
to preserve the balan
by nature.
as well worth
pia minerals, am
nia fauna. v
more than 2.000 j
have been Wij i
rewards,
Killing c«
RZ
Are y by
is most easily procu
and others
and when ti
from
strychnine,
he flesh and
e. If ther
borhood it is sure
effluvium from the mu
gure to feast
To cut
+3 frit
Liem Int
+
*
away
y Cash 18
law,
Chinese Never Save Life.
Much ha
ities and eco
it is not generally
of the Celestial em
another from accidental
At: Fran
ago six Cl
by three half-i
easily have been
were two or tl
fire in San
borhood which could
the windows and
rescued from
were hundreds of
ing on at their franti
Yet they offered no as
no evidence of sorrow
A man who had
gpeaking with a ( suid they
were very heartless, and this
Francisco fire as an example, whereupon |
the Celestial exclaimed
“ tell you. You
Almighty, allee samee
him Joss: Melican call him Gol. Call
him anything. Allee Now you |
say Gol Almighty make ebleting
“Yes, everything.” i
“Make allee ment”
“Yes.” !
“Know ebletingi” |
Yeu" f
“Now, vou think you know more than
Gol Almighty?”
“No. 1 donot?”
“‘He makes alle men. He see one man. |
He think him no good. He say: ‘You |
no use: go die.’ You think you know |
better Gol Almighty. You go swim;
you no let man die. Gol Almighty he |
gay: ‘He velly smart; that man he begin
new. He cally that man’s life, all him |
gins, all him troubles, all him bad luck.
You hab heap good things?”
“No."
“No hab much houses, much money,
much land
“No, not much.”
“All light, you nebber hab much Juek.
How many you savei”
‘About fifty."
“Oh, you nebber get out.
all fifty life. Ebleting yo do no finish: |
work alle time; heap trouble. You neb-
ber get old ; you live long time. Babee
fifty life. You live hundred years—hab
bad luck alle time, Gol Almighty,
he sabee best." —[ Fire and Water,
A Carious Church Custom,
saved many lives, in
ese, once
cited San
’
sabbee Joss?
Chinaman
samee,
You cally |
Last month twelve childrea in the
parish of St. Ives, Hants, England, gath-
ered together in the parish church and
threw dice for the possession of six
Bibles. This curious custom dates back
to 1675, when a certain Dr, Wilde pro-
vided by will that once a year six Eng.
Mish Bibles should be raffled for by twelve
warthy children in the parish. The sum
of $250 was devoted to this end, and
this amount was invested in an orchard,
the rentals of which are annually devoted
tice of throwing dice for the six Bibles
has Deen religiously observed and the
erable ceremony. [Chicago News- Rec
A ROYAL JOURNEY.
What It Costs Queen Victoria o Travel
in State,
It will doubtless be of interest to give
particulars of the cost of the
Queen's holiday abroad. All the arrange-
ments for the journey, the renting of the
hotels, their disposition for the Queen's
the
to
hands of Mr.
courier, He is the
Dosse, (Jue ns
SUCCCRSOT kanne,
The rent of the two hotels at Costebelle
wis fixed at 40,000 frances for fou
and, if Her Muiesty remained five weeks,
then 60,000 francs was paid If
the Queen had only stopped fou
M. Peyron, the proprietor, wot
been loser by his bargain
As it was,
cause the Hotels Ermitage and Cost
1
WEeUCRS,
to be
WHUURS
iid have
even, he made Ii
at Costebelle
ni
SOME Years
and
jo country, sucha
remote dangerous
the type of
communit
rectangle, InCioRing A
The
formed an entire
public square in the middle outer
windows, so thes pres ated a blank w all
height to any robber foe. On
side of this ruin it a great tower,
with part of the fifth story still standing,
and still showing the loopholes through
which the besieged Pueblos
of great
one
their besiegers. This pueblo
snd forgotten
three hundred and fifty years ago.
All these great houses were bait
stone, very well laid
and the like.—{C. F.
Lumrais,
————— a I AA, sian
A Squirrel Round-Up,
Squirrel hunts on the round-up plan,
after the manner of the juck rabbit hunts
lar in Washington State, A party is
formed, and either works as one band or
divides into two sections, the section
bringing in the fewest tails paving a for
feit of a dinner. Ata squirrel hunt a
few days ago, in the vicinity of Tekon, a
party of eleven persons brought in over
900 squirrel tails as the result of the day's
sport. —{ Boston Transcript,
a piece
clubs and pitchforks, Then they went
to law about it, and up to date have
spent about $400 in lawyers’ fees, The
cuse is still on, :
WOR THE LADIES
MONE 5» (IR FOR THE EY] BHOWSR,
Clip the eyebrows and anoint with a
little sweet oil. Should the hair fall out,
having full, the
productive of mu h wood
quinine, ive grains + hol,
This will als0 restore
burned, and is ex nl sr the las
applied to the roots witl finest
pencil, New York World,
following wash is
Sulphate of
OUnee
been
ong
vebrows when
nke it slight
inch
Wer i
to six
than in front aver a silk
t
trained foundation Round
instead of p
gathered ruche of
back
doubled,
and about three incl
that is now preferred
“tie backs
low the belt,
the first At
two
Lh
below
wrinkles by filling then
n by
It i= much better practice
face
der
fac
the
Or eve enamelling
ussian bath
principle of the Russian bath for
is to bath hot water that it
ump every time it is applied,
and then a minute later to
water, The
causes in the blo
5 such
makes one
ak it
which
wl will make it gl
tingle with warmth, Then it should
ribbed dry with a towel before retiring
Day by dav the skin will grow firmer,
cold reaction
Ww
and the wrinkles will gradually disappear
The use of hot and cold for the
face is important in many ways. Hard,
cold water will not remove the grease
and dirt which settles in the pores of the
skin, but if bathed in hot water first,
and then cold, the dirt will be
and the skin strengt ened. Dirt, grit
and grease will settie in the skin when
water
water and SOAP,
injures the color and softness of it. One
anyway, if a fair complexion is desired
The water should be softened with a
little borax, or a few drops of ammonia.
When the face is very hot it should not
be bathed ; wait until it cools off a little,
In travelling where one knows nothing
about the water, it is better not to use it
for bathing the face. “If necessary, add
a little sleohol, and then rub with a little
vaseline, In this way a fair complexion
may be obtained and retained that will
be a pride to any lovely woman, | Bos.
ton Transcript,
CARE OF THE WARDRORDE,
A professional ladies’ maid, imported
expressly to care for a fashionable Chi-
cago dame and her belongings, gives the
following valuable hints as to the care
of a wardrobe: Woolen dresses, not in
constant use, should first be thoroughly
cleaned and then hung up separately in
brown Holland bags, with a bit of
camphor at the bottom and tied tightly
at the top. Light colored silks or
woolens, by being thickly strown with
bran and closely wrapped in silver paper,
are not only kept in condition, hut nre
improved, When wishabie goods are to
be put awny they should not bed wl but
be left dry. The inside of the
collars of frequently
rough
Adresse who
niy « jeansed
colo White
3 %( ription are ke pr
by being first encased in
a good ed lor
tin tho
prep i RIWAVE prefer
wrapping
w hits
purpos
paper is likely
in contact with it
All clothing, whether
111g t}
1ire hi
1G 1h
It is no ot
walled ina
They should be taken o
and combed
Laces not in w
beaten
month,
CIeAY,
sun and be carefully wraj in dark
pra Tr. i
first having
with a clean toy
the cide
blue nproved by
ved by rabbing
wrong
} ON
3 o a
MACK MITUUS
ind cle sn sed
hed our leg
und bills are being introduced
Tea
has
to secure State aid in the matter (30x
roads are things which no class of persons
physic
wotild they bring
would appreciate more than
tO none
rect personal
and NOTE
comfort, and even practical
On a good road the cot
doctor can travel ten miles an hoy
The time
quired in doing his work is deubled, the
increased, the
visiting rendered possible is
Besides this, the patient suf-
fers, for the doctor's visits are delayed
and less numerous, He cannof watch
the patient so closely, and he brings to
his work a wearied body.
Perhaps the horse would argue most
cloquéntly of all, if he could speak in
favor of good roads. His working life
would be lengthened and his working
days made easier. With good roads the
bicyele could be utilized, and through
its invigorating influence, perhaps, the
country doctor would cease, as years
yolled on, to become obese from too much
sitting in a wagon, his wits would be
sharper, his profesional work better.
By all means, then, let the doctors
take up the gospel of good roads and
urge forward their construction. They
make intercourse more easy, work less
burdensome, life more enjoyable; and
they are in fine an index of the progres
siveness and civilization of a community.
|New Yori Medical Record, ;
——
irs ’
on 8 bad one barely five, re.
weariness is
of
phy wie al
amount
BND SAAB
Origin of the Masher.
Herman Merrivale has caught on” to
the origin of the word ‘“‘masher,” and
“done it up” ina London letter. He
tolls us that in the old Romany tongue
the word *‘masha” means the fascination
of the eve. This fmparts a flavor of re.
spectability to a hitherto frivolous word,
and is sufficient apology for its secming
{ntrusion,~=! New York World,
COLOR OF WAR VESSELS,
Nor White Desirable
A Neutral Tint Preferred,
The best color to use for painting our
ships
nti tL { % 4 2
attention ol Val Gif " it
in a subject engaging
g the
t time,
which wa
ively for painting
4
VESECIE, not
q ping tdi
Afterward
etter
expense in Ke
§ fri] condition
» the vessd
it
But
jut
& 1i¢
ori
rin out o
painted th
funnel, i
the
sealers to escape Gf
Blockade runs
anv other for their ¥
ors
This color is CRpect
sole in tropu il waters,
discolored, like white,
time causing the vessels painted
much cooler than those painted black
A Fine Rifle Shot.
“The best rifle shot [ ever saw was an
East Tennessecan who acted as scout for
the army of the Comber and,” said
Major R. B. Baer at the Southern “lis
name was Brownlow, but whether he |
was a relative of the fighting person of
that name 1 do not know. Br walow
was a tall, lank specimen of humanity
and looked like a typical frontiersman.
He wore a coonskin cap and carried a |
rifle a foot longer than himself, with |
which he could put half an ounce of |
lead squarely between a man’s eyes at a
distance of nearly half a mile. He fought |
for sheer Jove of it, was always hunting |
for victims, and used to boast tha he
averaged a dozen a week. He hung on
the enemy's picket lines night and day,
and when Old Tom,’ as he called his
lingering eternity of a gun, cracked
there was certain to be a death, One
day, during a sharp skirmish, Brownlow
ensconced himself in a big cottonwood
tree and was dropping Confederates as
fast as he could feed bullets to ‘Old
made a sneak for another tall cotton.
wood about six hundred yards distant,
The Teuncsscean spied him, there were
two puffs of smoke from among the
wn leaves and the two Killers came
down head first, with their long deer
rifles rattling after them.—{St, Louis
Globe Democrat,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS,
ny .. lan A &
Epitome of News Gleaned fro
Parts of
thet
Tue Peoy
Gray Hairs,
The tact that some pet 13 begin to
show gray hairs while in r twen-
ties does not indicate a premature de.
cay of the constitution It is purely
a local phenomenon, and often co-
exists with great physical vigor A
medical journal says Many feeble
persons: and others who have suffered
exiremely, both mentally and phy-
] not blanch a hair unuil
past middle life; while others, with.
out assignable cause lose their capils
lary coloring-matter rapidly when
about forty years of age
Race has a marked influence. The
traveler, Dr. Orbigny, that in
many years he spent in South America
he never saw a bald Indian, and
scarcely ever a gray-headed one. The
negroes turn more slowly than the
whites.
In this country sex appears to make
little difference. Men and women
grow gray about the same period of
life. In men the hair and beard
rarely change equally. The one is
usually darker than the other for
several years, bul there seems no
general rule as to which whitens the
first.
The spot where grayness begins
differs with the individual, The
philosupher Schopenhauer began to
turn gray on the temples, and coms
do
Savs
The correlation of gray heirs, as
well as its causes, deserve more ate
tentive study than they have re.
weived. Such a change is undoubtedly
Hndicative of some deepseated physis
ological process; but what this is we
«an only ascertain after some extens
sive observations than have yet been
submitted to science. :
Tas aged K.ag aud Queen of Denmark, fok
we Wish of tsa 803 jects, recently
on exhibition tas magaitiosnt gifts
which they rsceived at the caslsbration of
their golde adding. Atm ses ons by
thousand people took advautags of wie op
vortunity. . i e—