pe Pe
HAWATIL
TIMELY FACTS ABOUT
KINGDOM AND TS
PEOPLE.
novation of the Sandwich
Liliog® lanl and Her Palace,
The Megdom of Hawaii is about as
large ag New Jersey and has a popula.
tion as large as that of Hoboken.
The aren of the Hawaiian or Sandwich
{siands is 7,620 square miles,
of New Jersey 1s 8.820 square miles,
The population of the little kingdom
which has just been turned topsy-turvy
is about 80,000. ‘The population of Ho
boken is about the same, Queen Lilion
kalani ruled over about as many people
as does the Mayor of Hoboken,
The twelve beautiful islands of
waii lie in the Pacific Ocean, on a line
between Mexico and China. They are
2.100 miles southwest of San Francisco,
aud it requires only four days’ voyage on
a fast steamship to reach them. They
extend in a line 330 miles long from
vortheast to southwest,
are inhabited, and the others are
islets and uninhabited.
When the adventurous Captain Cook
discovered the islands a century
they had a population of
healthy and happy pagans. These have
been civilized off the face of the carth
till there arc only 35 00) pure natives
left. They are of a bronze brown, and
have black straight hair. Some of the
men are almost giants, and much exceed
Europeans in stature. Excessive fatness,
as in some parts of Africa, is con
sidered beautiful, and native
Ha
sinall
ago
Wie
much admired.
The natives are not Africans and’ not
Malays. They belong to the Polynesian
inhabitants of New Zealand and Samoa,
Five thousand miles of sea
Hawaii and New Zealand, but the two
musical Hawaiian speech may become
the language of American opera.
twice as many vowel sounds as Italian,
The Queen who has lost her throne
Queen Lilioukalani. That is her
wich Island name. Her everyday name
was Princess Lydia
Her neighbors who didn't
called her “Mrs. Dominis.’
there came to the Sandwich Ialands a
name of John ©
i
Sand
Oae day
gay sailor boy of the
He fell in love with the island
3. who was heir to the
Daminis.
prince
his suit was so sw
her never furled
ful that
Only four ¥¢
was walking on Broadway, haviug
to New York with Queen Kapiol
wus on her way to attend Queen
in's golden jubilee. He died a
» ago, and the widowed Queen Lil
oukalani is pow in mourning for him,
She is a cultivated Hawatian
She epeaks English, is a prom:
charity fairs, and gives a garden
once a month to tourists
to reccive by the standing army, the
members of the House of Nobles and ti
Hawaiian brass band
woman
iter of
ty
14
)
[slands is © force of about 150 men, di
vided into the “Queen's Own Guard,”
the “Household Troops,” and the ‘sol
diers of the line
Connected with the palace isa *‘gilded
chariot of state.” and all the machinery
for being a monarch.
The palace is a bx autiful building, and
rooms. It stands in
contains forly the
i
and is built of
costly gifts from the kings of
and the princes of Asia, It. measures
somewhat the progress of the Hawaiian
Islands that, though the Qucen's ances
tors were cannibals in
concrete. It contains
room. In the throne room is the world
famous yellow feather cloak.
There is a beautiful bird on the Sand
wich Islands which has under each wing
a small tuft of golden feathers. King
Kamthameha [. wanted to be a swell in
the Pacific Ocean, and he had a war.
cloak made of these feathers,
feather cloak was forty-eight inches long
and 188 inches wide at the bottom,
It was one of the biggest tailoring jobs
on record. It took nine reigns to make
it. Forests of birds furnished its golden
feathers, It is the only cloak of the
kind in the world. Kamehameha I. was
the Sandwich Island Julius Caesar, and
he wanted to have a mantle worthy of
his greatness,
Everybody remembers when that merry
sovereign, King Kalakaua, ruled the
Sandwich Islands, He was a king, but
he was as bappy at a serving-maa in a
tap room. The king was an cxpert at
draw-poker. According to all accounts,
he could have given ‘‘Hungry Joe"
points on the geutle art of “‘bunco,” and
Kid Miller could have gone to school to
him with profit,
It is said that he “buncoed” a China.
man out of 850,000 in a few hours. His
brother would lave succeded him on the
throne kad he not died in April, 1877.
flis brother's daurhter, Princess Liliou-
kalani, then became heir apparent. King
Kalakaua died in San Francisco in 1891,
and on January 19 of that year the Prin-
cess was crowned, She is past fifty years
of nge.
The present heir-apparent is her niece,
fer Royal Highness Princess Victoria
Kaweliln-Kaiulani-Lomlilo-Kalaninuia-
Kalapnlapa, who is now studying Freach,
ste. in Eurove,
Ohad wagne Two frish
Entering the old Cathedral of Aachen,
or Aix-la- Rapeiin you will be shown
She great arble ehair in which, eold as
le, Charlemagne sat enthroned,
soppize ln hand, robed in Imperial purple,
with diadem on brow, dead. So he
sat when, a centur; and a hall later,
Otho and his riotous courtiers broke
open the vault and stood sobered and
lod before the majesty of death, On
same chair he sat, in similar apparel,
but with the light of life in his eyes, the
new yASgustn of a new Empire, when
Bim. In the streets of the city in which
a
he hoped to revive the glory of
Athens and “he greatness of Rome, they
heard to ery out——*‘Whoso
it for sale.” Thelre
are not oncrous—food and rai-
ment, Their claims stood the test,
One, Albinus, was sped to Pavia, in
Italy; the other, Clement, had the high
honor of superseding the learned Anglo-
the Palatine school of
flere he taught the
and guadrivivm-——grammar,
dialectic, and arithemitie,
geometry, and astronomy-—the
arts, In his school sat Charle-
seven
bers of the Cortege, the Palatines and the
Paladines, destined to power and feats
The teaching of the Irish Pro-
literature which after-
wards took its heroes from their schol-
Their authority was enhanced by
fact that Charlemagne himself
1
vision of the on the Greek
[Contemporary
(rospels
Review,
A Confident Prisoner.
——
It was a case of chicken stealing, and
the prints of bare feet were found in the
been Napoleon
we crossed the Alps;
Bonaparte, never
he would
hi
v hi
The
prisoner was an unknown tramp, and
fence.
them over the
“i You say you don't know anything
about this theft queried the lawyer,
fiercely.
“That's what 1
the trump, meekiy.
“ You were in the back vard of Slam-
tipp's house about supper time po
** Yes, sir.”
“You know the Incation of
house?”
'
swore to, sir, said
the hen
* Yes, sir.
4 You
road In
after dark §’
“You we
replied the x Whi
§ SL h i
by the
it his innocent little
And you
on the doorsten with y
were seen
tinge
ing our sho
ir: there was pebble
ty get
5
I propose to prove
swle those tracks witl
vir wera sieail
me wooden leg,
t sent it clea
mn
n
ist Knocked
‘ankee Blad
Mr. Blaine's Good Memory.
; lawyer, of Wisconsin, told the
folle ing Mr. Blaine's
wonderful memory for names and faces
“In 1874. Mr. Blaine
and he ste
ore 1
Wing story, tlinstrat
made a speed
pped with
.
was ID
fe
Myer, of Fond du
VOArs
Myer came here and [ took him to
on Mr. Blaine. Before we got there
met Mr, Bl When we
forty feet walked qui
without hesitation
Myer, how do you do?’ "
listened to Senator Saw
said: “I was with Mr.
visited Lanpcaster, O.,
Mr.
he got a great reception
all the old
Finally some one brought in a man whom
they said he would pot remember. Mr,
i “Yes [| do: give me a
Pretty soon he remarked
to the man of saw you but
once,” and then he told this story
“Wher | was a boy there was great
hecause a convict
witerw ards
were v
about of him he
forward and
‘Mr. C. L. 4
A man who
story
Blaine whea he
Blaine iin i
and 3
residents,
never
been tracked into that
neighborhood, Police arrested him and
Mr. Blaine said he was one of the crowd
around. The man was taken to a black.
smith's shop and had fetters rivetted on
him by the blacksmith, ‘You,’ he said,
turning to the man, ‘and [ walked home
to Lancaster together after that’
[New York World,
How They Ride in Australia.
In Australia, where population is
sparse and distances are great, some re-
markable feats of endurance in horse
riding are credited to the mounted
police, mays the London News-—feats
more remarkable in some instances,
taking into account all the circumstances,
than those accomplished by the winners
in the military ride between Vieuna and
Trooper Power in February,
undertook an arduous journey
across most inhospitable country in pur.
suit of 8 horse stealor named John Smith,
This zealous officer traveled 766 miles in
twenty-six days without changing horses,
For one stage of eighty miles he was
wholly without water and the country
was in such a bad state for 130 niles
that his two horses had nothing to eat.
tis powers of endurance may be Jud odd
from the statement that he did thirty
miles un day on worn-out horses, along
long dry stages, and with bad water or
no water at all to drink.
Trooper Wilishire on another occasion
rode oahiy-five miles in twenty hours
on one horse. This was May 28, 1887,
two days after the natives had ‘‘stuck
up” Eriduna station, This same man
traveled 200 miles in four days when he
heard that a commde named Shirley had
died of thirst. He did not have ma-
eadamized roads and plenty of fresh
water like the German officers, but ho
had & broiling sun to endure, sand hills
" werub to penetrate,
and was ‘ dled to take
hoo al mothe, ol pers
4
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES, Less than fifty vards
One of the men
thrust down his arm and drew
out the meteorite, The hole and
the meteorite were quite warm
minutes afterward It was of =»
pyramidal or shell-like shape, measuring
5 oinches by 6 inches, and about 3 inchlies
thigh, It was completely enveloped in a
i thin black molten emst. One of the
most extensive fulls of meteoric stones on
rocord was that which happened in Nor
mandy, April 26, 1803. About 1 p.m,
Mixp Convensation.—Mr, WW, H.
Preoce, chief engineer and electrician to
the postoffice, has put up a wire a mile
long on the const near Lavernock and a
shorter wire on Flatholm, un little island
three miles off in the British Channel,
He fitted the latter wire with a “sound
ar” to receive messages and sent a mes
sage through the former from a power |
ful telephonic generator, That message
on the mainland was distinctly heard on
the island, though nothing connected
the two, or, in other words, the possibil
ity of a telephone between places uncon- i
with great
afterward
{ing the country
Nome moments
voeloeity,
for five minutes,
lished. There in a possibility here of | !
proceed from a small cloud which re
inter-planetary communication a good ! H y
deal more worthy attention than any | muined motionless all the time, but at a
for making gigantle electrig | €reat elevation in the atmosphere The
flashes. Wo do not know if | detonation was followed by the fall of an
we can communicate by telephone | immense number of mineral fragments,
through the ether to New York or Mel- | nearly 3,000 being collected, the largest
bourne, with or without cables, but we | Weighing 8 pounds, The sky
do know that if we cannot the fault is in | serene and the air ealm.
our generators and sounders and not in i -
Will our | TUE BODY AND ITs HEALTIL
Was
Dox'r Ovenrax tne Heanr.
sician writes:
into another, and, as
many of them will think, a supersensual
The thought in 8 man’s brain
which causes him to advance
A phy
“Life would be prolonged
by a little more attention to tbe heart,
his foot | by paving a little respect to the most
it, or faithful servant we ever have. Much
down that | grod might
transmitted
of distance! If it moves |
something, internal to the
body, why should it net move also |
something oxternal, a wave, as
all agree to eall it, which on another
mind prepared to receive it—fitted with
asounder, in fact—will make an impact
having all the effect in the conveyance of
suggestion, or even of facts of the audi- | ¢hiy the vear., because of the
bility of words? W hy, in fact, if one freque at changes of the wenther, sharp
wire ean talk to another without connec. | ily at with shrill north
tion, save through ether, should not mind and relaxing a
talk to mind without any wire at alld The
None of uz understand accurately, or outdoor alr to
even as yet approximately, what the con
ditions are; but many of us know for
certain that they have occasionally, and
by what we call accident, been present
to particular individuals, and that, when
present, the communication is completed
without cables, and mind speaks to mind
independently of any machinery
isting within itself. Why, in the
that more of a
GeCUrrenee prohibited by im
how could it be
five or six feet
tench their children the danger of aver
n Physieal
taxing the heart They should teach
them to stop and rest a few moments
| during their play when they begin to
feel the violent throbbing of their hearts
agninst the chest wall,”
Tunoat The
sore thiroat are up ta be Very common at
wo
{
sone milder forms of
season of
times,
damp, fin
s0ft snows, sudden oh
brisk
niges
stove
rooms are likely to
produce ir throat mem.
branes, which, without being positively
langerous, 3 :
{ also from a
heated also pretty
itation of the
may become so by neglect,
and are in any case unpleasant enough to
make
For
| is at the foundation, there are one or two
name of ‘ TT v at
these cases, where no severer trouble
not ex
hand and generally
§ eerie wy i odo Ying $
SCIenoe, 18 miracie, that throat trouble
Is. an ; such
law, than
Preece
mutable
Mr
to Flatholm
the transmission
‘a message from Lavernocol
-! London Spectator
Ancer AnoLiTes
—
meteors
fle made
Many of he COU Waler,
falien i !
s been subjected too
have mach potash ia this
f potash is a drug wi
chemist all a ‘“‘saturat
hemical analy
oments
COM POS d
twenty-four
meteors
meteors 1
iron snd me
Not infre
meteors is attended by a loud de
of voleanie
fall of
i
wr dias
ling water it
+ home
History record
€ meider ible damage h
t property DY
A Chines
cites that a meteor that
gi B. C., broke
illed ten men. On the evening of
13th, 1835, a brill
the department of Alsne, France
traversed
tonation
“OH remieiies
aVihg een
the des: produc
life and
these bodies ors jor
to Keep the patien
dave, A
broken up a
tained
olds are now
catalogue
i fell in January, soon as such a cold is
3 good toni
the family All
believed to come from a
condition of the system
which in itself shows the need of a tonic
Nerve Srorue —Megrim
tional disorder, like most
several chariots and
Now
inant meteor was seen in
It degenerated
from phiyeicien,
north
near
the country in =a
and burst
fire to a
burning the compin
£
minuies %t4 form of
direction
castle, sotting barn
corm
NOE
my fed
and stables and itx depends generally u
and tie io a few
substance, SUPE sel to be an aerolite, asa
cat irritation, ig best nn
Ymerve storm,” and all its symptoms
The
Any
was found near the place after the action
currence. In March, 1846, a lumine
sheaf, transversed the ir wit
ire in reality due to nerve
causes of megrim are numerous
thing which lowers the tone of tl
shan in, !
attack
the «
which 1 BYR
great velocity and noise, fell on a8 barn tem, ver-exertion
in the village of Haute Jaronne and de
vari le FHUS Ant ww nas
build i what
»
Rd Biv
“
tends (0 In
f
»
duce an (hwer-fatigue ©
stroved adjoining muscles of yes, due to the unnatural
the
made to a pictur
out long that have ©
thumped into the earth. The lists show
that the monthly average of these
tors from December to June is less than
the monthly average {rom July to Novem.
ber. That, the months of
March, May, and November
exhibit the numbers, The
lists also indicate that the earth
in its annual course round the
sun would seem to encounter a greater
aumber of aerolites between July and
January than between J MuAry and July,
It has been asserted to be a general rule
that the area over which a shower of
riones fall is oval, measuring from =2ix to
ten miles in length by two or three in
moreover, the largest stones
may be expected to be found at one ex-
tremity of the oval. That's only ove of
ever animals were unable to
conflagration
lists of thu
gallery, ix a most efficient
Too long abstinence from food,
# Over-rich or
snsccustomed food, irregular habits, in
Astronomers have
seroiites alse
especially missing a meal
visi-
digestion and constipation, produce gas
tric irritation, and consequently are im
moreover, mediate canses of megrim. The want of
July
greatest why worsen are 0 much more subject
to this complaint than men, who (how
ever seudeniary their oo upation) are gen
erally obliged to spend a couvsiderable
time out of doors. There can be
doubt but that such games as lawn-
tennix and the gradual introduction of
done much to provi le them with neces
sary and attractive forms of exercise.
In many cases, increased physical exer
| tion has been followed by most satisfac.
tory results,
the causes of megrim are under the di
found entire the stones sre completely
coated or glazed over wit’: a thin, dark. | deliberately transgresses the law he does
so with the certainty of payiog the pen-
ality. Although the regular life which
| those subject to megrim ought to lead
{ may be irksome at first, the relief from
| prostrating headaches is so intense that it
| more tham counterbalances the temporary
{ loss of enjoyment due to the self-denial
| of many pleasures, involving either un-
| due excitement or interference with the
{routine of daily life. Hereditary is an
states that | important factor in the predisposition to
| megrim, and many members of the same
| family may suffer. There are, however,
| two other causes, apparently trivial and
| frequently neglected, but which are,
nevertheless, very common. The first is
an error of refraction, causing astigros-
tiem, and the megrim disappears when
suitable ginsses are supplied, The sec.
ond cause is any constant form of irrita-
tion, ar a decaying tooth, and as long as
the irritation is allowed to continue so
long will the attacks of megrim be fre
vent and severe.—{From “A Family
doctor,” in Cassell’s Family Magazine,
HEADACHE AXD WOT WATER. As two.
thirds of a human being is composed of
warm water, it is very natural to suppose
that warm water must cxercise a very
marked influence upon the system, Many
persons have taken hot teas, hot hb
drinks, and hot stuff” in oases of sick.
ness, when if the truth was known, it is
ible Shat_ simple hot water ig
AVE ANEWe svery rpose quite
effectively as the iar, which they
thought were so efficac ous. Pains are
very frequently caused by congestion
too much b in some Jastion place
discom Beating
hammering pains are frequent! due to
win 0 vn Mart oot turowing in
more and so incromsing the
JON ad bok . a orary
with pein, Ususlly ne
The part which trav.
foremost is sometimes distin-
from that which was in
rear. Sometimes they break
fragments as they disappear,
Sometimes you find a fragment, and
sometimes you do not. The fall of the
Gassendi, He
This being the only aerolite of the fall of
which he ever heard, he supposed it
was the result of a volcanic eruption in
some one of the neighboring mountaine,
The aerolite of Dec. 13, 1873, intro-
duced itself with a loud explosion, fol
towed by a hissing noise, heard through.
out a considerable portion of the sur.
rounding district, A shock was also
noticed as if produced by the falling of
earth of some heavy body. A plowman
saw the stone fall to the ground. It
threw up soil on every side and pene.
trated several inches dee into
the solid chmlk rock. It fell on the
afternoon of a hazy day, during
which there was neither thunder nor
lightning. On April 20, 1876, a mass of
meteoric iron, weighing between seven
and eight povinds, fell at Rowton, Eng.
fand. Shortly before 4 p. m. a sound of
that like thunder, followed by reports of
a cannon, shook the air, and was heard
for many miles in that neighborhood,
but no fireball was observed. The iron
mis was found nearly an hour afterward
in & mesdow, where it had buried itself
in the earth to a of sighteen inches
and when dug out it was
Merch 14, 1881, four milroad hands
ing, roaring sound
feet and
hands or {ect which will relax the blood
vessels and so bring the blood away from
these congested centers, is Hiwely to re-
Nervous headache, or
paine caused by overaction and overs
bare the neck and leaning over un busin
and pressing a towel or sponge wrung
rubbing the neck, and thorougly rubbing
hot water, and afterwards sponging and
rubbing with cold water to avoid the dan-
ger of taking cold, one will frequently
bring the blood to the surface and re.
lieve the congestion and pain. Bleep-
lessness may often be remedied in the
same manner; aod then if a linen head
lessness altogether. Bathing the face in
the
eurs
the bathing throat, and
behind the with cloths
dipped in hot water, and then cooling
the whole with fresh water, will not only
suffering, but give the skin
a healthful and beautiful appearance.
So bathing tired eves in hot water, and
laying upon them cloths wrung out of
temples,
quently relieve distress and effect a per
manent cure. ‘Yhere is probably no
known remedy for la grippe so effective
s the liberal use of hot water. Ha prer-
son attacked with it, in almost any of its
various forms, could drink plenty of Lot
water, and go into a bath tub of water as
remaining there
fifteen minutes, thoroughly rub
skin, and the
oAl gradually, to avoid the dapger
i
oh
the results wound in
hot a8 he could bear it
ten or
bing the then cooling
water
of taking eold,
favorchle and comfortable
Most of our pains
fruit of our own misdoings,
eds
most
snc miseries are td
and the 1
for them is usually much nearer th
we nage, he Safeguard,
Old Men of the Marines.
f py
of Lue car
fe 8 the
od :
ne Marine ay
present
4
fit
favorable
.
cCapnol I
1 { fxtive
He efi L nder existing
there is no retired list for the officer
the Marine, and
nid thes
y whe hey grow
Levenue
!
orgasization
ent withou
ots hs
young {
pressive yf
Captain Shepard and his pre
weginnrs have end svored to force Cone
o
£4
sal sction, but so far their efiorts
Washington Post
{f suo,
The Intelligent Eskimo Dog.
The r
the Seotch collie,
cousin of the Eskimo dog, is undoubtedly
even surpassed by that of his Arctic rela.
Some of the characteristics of the
Eskimo draft dogs are aimost incredible,
Any one who has observed them finds it
much referred to ints
iligenes of
which is a sort of first
soning power. [ had one which
persisted in feigning lameness or sickness
shirk duty, He would sud-
{ise
Hog
back at his driver with a most pitiable
expression, He sacceaded several timea
sympathy, and being re-
harness until one of my
After that I punished him when-
ness would be seen again,
hatness, in which he was an expert, and
made his escape from the ropes in a man.
medium green with envy. This dog
through shirking his work had incurred
they resented repeatedly his wowilling-
gations,
the fierce onslaught of his colleagues
after he had run away from the sled.
{A. B. Schanz, in Milwaukee Sentinel,
Loag Distance Skating in Holland
bn mm———
Skating expeditions of great length
are not unususl features of the winter in
Holland. A popular feat is to visit in
one day the eleven towns of Friesland,
an aggregate distance of cighty miles.
It is necessary to have good ioe, ot]
cally clear of snow, a full moon, Pright
sky, and plenty of previous practice. W.
J. WH. Muller of Haarlem accomplished
this journey a few winters ago in thirteen
hours, of which one-hour and fifty-five
minutes was consumed in resting and
nourishing.
Another remarkable feat is to skate
from Hague to Leeawarden, in Holland,
Its distinctive claim to notoriety is due
to the necessity of crossing the Zuyder
Zoe, which is only ble alter an ox.
ceptionally severe
fe is on record that one Reindert
Reinders delivered in one day, duri
the winter of 1763-84, a letter from Wil-
liam IV. to his mother at Hague and re-
turned, The distance is vaguely de.
scribed by the ph tic natives ax a
~forty: hows walk.” «Koopmans made
a w
milar '§, more recontly.
the mew Co
in number
HE SAW GOOD IN A BURGLAR.
A Story Hlustrating the Feelings that
Prompted a Judge's Lenency.
Recorder Binyth sat” in his judicial on
pacity on Thursday morning, dealing ous
justice to all who came before him in the
Court of General SBessions, The usual
quiet dignity snd despatch characterized
the proceedings which were without in
cident until the cases of the three Italian
burglars was called, and three unkempt
gpecimens took their pinces before the
prisoner's bar, Carlo Hark, Vittorio Gias
seppi and Carlo Cerrutti, were the names
to which they answered when arraigned
Undeniable proof was promptly pro
duced to show that they had broken into
a saloon in 29 South Fifth aveuue on De
cember 18, and had carried away a lot of
plunder. The accused men were sworn
one by one. Uari and Giusseppi pleaded
‘pot guilty,”
The sensation came when Cerratti took
the stand, upd it caused a tremor of ex.
citement to run through the motley
crowd that usually watches the court
proceedings with only Innguid interest.
The Clerk read the oath with a depth
of feeling and a force of expression that
blanched the prisoner's face. When the
Jible wus handed him to kiss Cerrutti
pushed it aside with a look of horror al
most, and rising, he eried out: I won't
gwear: | won't ie, 1 am guilty.”
The Recorder leaned back in his chair,
ton surprised to speak for » moment
Then he turned toward the dirty prisoner
and the two regarded each other intently
for a moment, The court loungers
watched with a curious interest, which
did pot relax when the jury was dis
charged and Cerrutti remanded for sen
tence next day.
On Friday when the three burglars
were arraigned for sentence Hari and
Giusseppi got four years and six months
and three years respectively When Cer
rutti’s turn came the yrder s
{ace relaxed, and he sa “1 congratu
late you on your high-miaded refusal to
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add perjury to the crime with which you
sts charged, snd ny
pleasure at your stand | suspend sentence,
You are discharged
Poor Cerrutti was
ith surprise
nd as A proot ol
:
altnowt overcome
when the fol
dawned
was a study as
man
why he had
Y had
crime, He
of this little speech
art a free
man who
brain the
such a case, |
which
A
surely appropriate i
punishment for
ned to member a story,
of a certain Stats
prison and
inmates All
that they were inne
once % isl
the State began questioning
except
cent and ought to be
exception was a man in
at corner, who sat still and said noth-
The Governor walked over to him
and asked why be was in prison. *‘Be
canse | deserve to be here: 1 stole a
horse, was tho reply. “You
(Governor, “for 1
contaminate these
honest men here Some such inclinas
tion, I think, seized me to let the trio of
talinn burglars part company, sad I
gave Cerrotti his freedom. —] New York
Sun
the one declared
1 3
et loose Ihe
4 ¢
ng
Govern rr,
ghall go free,” said the
feat that you
will
A Herd of Crickets,
‘Yes, cold weather is mighty hard on
my cricket herd,” m K. Woolen
of Greenfield. Te cricket herd?
Why, haven't you read about it? It was
printed in The Republic last spring,
wsst about the time | started in the in
dustry. You live in the middle
of Tennessee, surrounded by the prettiest
lakes the eye ever gazed upon. The
waters are filled with trout and other
game fish, and in the spring, summer aad
fall the Nimrods flock there from all
sections of the country. One of the
most curious facts about Tennessee fish
is that they will eat nothing but crickets
Red worms, sawvers and the like find
no fish that will bite at them in our
waters except suckers and small perch.
The most serious obstacle, therefore.
with the fishermen is to get crickets, 1
organized a stock company with a few
hundred capital and started to work last
spring. 1 Baa a large pasture fenced in
with boards about ten feet high, sowed
grass, built my hothouses and incubators,
and then began gathering in my stock.
My pasture consists of about twelve
acres, and 1 ealculated that I could wel]
graze 50,000 crickets to the acre. They
sell readily to fishermen at §1 per hug-
dred, %0 you see what a rich harvest
there is in such an industry. They
flourished like a green bay tree all dar
ing the summer and fall, bat since the
cold spell has reached them they have
been dying off at a remarkabl rate,
and if the freeze should ar much
longer 1 doubt if 1 will be left with seed
for next spriog. "St.
The Serpent's Venom.
A physivian, while talking with »
group of friends, remarked: *‘It is com-
mon to hear people speak about poison.
ous serpents. Serpents are never poison.
ous; they are venomous. A poison can.
not be taken internally without bad
effects; a venom can. Venoms, to be of.
fective, have to be injected directly into
the circulation, and this is the manner in
which the snakes kill. Their venom,
taken intersally, is dnnoceous,
“Another popular error is the suppo-
no
nn
see. 1
sition that a snake bites,
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