a I A
FOR TRE LADIES,
WOMAN'S CHANCE TO MARRY.
A woman’s chance to marry at from
15 to 20 years of age is said to be 144
er cent. From 20 to 26 the chance is
increased to 52 per cent; from 23 to 30
it diminishes to 18; from 30 to 85, to
15% per cent; from 35 to 40 the chances
of an unmarried woman sink to 3% per
cent: from 40 to 45 a still greater dim-
inution is seen, her chance being but 2%.
From 45 to 50 the old maid's chance
of getting a husband is but § of 1 per
cent., while trom 50 to 55 she is sup-
posed to have but $of 1 per cent, of a
chance, —[ New York Journal.
LACE CAPES FOR SUMMER WEAR.
ace capes fashioned very much like
the winter models, with velvet or jetted
yokes and collars, have made their ap-
petsatice, like many other of the season's
ashions, long before they are required.
These capes are very handsome, indeed,
especially those which are only garni-
tured with expensive cut jet ornaments
and fringes. Some costly French capes
have yokes and collars of gold and jet
net, dotted with cabochons, and a few
models are lined throughout with rows
of jetted galloon in stripes falling over
the cape from the yoke. The cape is
thus stiffened to such an extent that it
from the soft, natural folds
lace should fall.—[ New York World.
———
MOROCCO REVIVED.
Morocco, an old-time favorite that has
not been quoted for many years, is again
announces Ada Bache-Cone, It has al-
ways been there, but in disguise and de-
graded to a pretense of something It is
not,
Morocco and French kid are the skin
is from the grown kid and “French kid”
is from the young animal while it is still
fed on milk. Grass feeding makes a
coarser skin. Cheap grades of French
kid shoes are morocco in disguise. It
wears as well, I believe, but is not as
choice.
But morocco in its own proper guise
is not without its beauty. Formerly it
took well only such simple dyes as red
but recent experiments have enabled the
dyers to produce in it fine mixed tints,
Wear,
The slipper de luxe for bedroom wear
is of quilted satin outside and fur within.
ing effect. —[Chicago Record.
PARASGLS oF "03,
Lace, chiffon and silk, either singly or
in dainty combinations, go to form the
parasol of the season of ‘93. All shades
and tones are scen in profusion, both in
the stubby-handled but very swell coach-
ing affairs, with
the fluffy bit of prettiness that will add
grace to the elegant toilets of the dame
of fashion.
The white ones, suggestive of brides
in their snowy wedding garments,
promise to be very much in favor
the light and airy costume of the summer
girl. A Viennese novelty, which has a
fall of delicate chiffon from the under
side of the sunshade, is certain to please,
as there is something peculiarly pictur
esque in the drooping material. The
outer portion is very much beruffled and
at the very top gathered intoa full choux
of fine lace that gives a perfect finish to
a most exquisite creation
A bit of Parisian fancy is of copper-
colored silk overlaid with fine black
point d'esprit. Each rib is outlined
with narrow copper-colored velvet rib-
boa, and the net caught in festoons be-
tween them and wandering in half-length
jabots from the poiut of the golden-
tipped ribs to the top. An ecru affair,
with the lace of the same hue artistically
disp~~ed in sathered leaf form, is another
beawcy in the notable collection. —{ New
York World.
QUIET LIFE OF AN EX-EMPRESS,
The widowhood of ex-Empress Frede-
rick of Germany is passed in sem iretire-
ment and in the performance of acts of
charity. She is one of the few royal
take more than passing interest in scien-
bluestocking, she devotes considerable
time to literary studies. Since Frede-
rick's death she has wielded but little in-
fluence in public affairs, although the
San Francisco Report, says she possesses
marked ability in that direction. Of
course everybody remembers the diplo-
matic story crediting her with procuring
the downfall of Bismarck and his with-
drawal from his commanding position in
German politics, and that it was brought
about to even up an old score she owed
the grim chancellor. Ex-Empress Fred-
erick’s years of widowhood are passing
quietly and uneventfully, Her devotion
to Frederick's memory and her love for
her books are the predominant features
of her life. She treasures jealously the
desk at which her husband wrote his
diaries. She is greatly liked by the poor
of Berlin, to whom she is a veritable
Lady Boustiful, with a big private list
of pensioners. Her hair is slightly
silvered, bat she still has the same quiet,
soft voice and ‘fascinating smile that
made her look like an angel to those who
saw her by the bedside of her husband
at San Remo four years ago. Three
brief months of imperial honors have
been followed by a life of sadness, un-
relieved save by her studies sad her love
for her son's children.
THE DISPLAY OF BRIDAL GIvrs,
_ Fashions in New York remind one of
the scriptural all relating to the
brevity of human life, A new mode
ht.time, is freshened
dew of
naw regime with shouts of joy, Yes,
to-day it is highly commendable to dis-
play wedding gifts for the edification,
amusement, or admiration of one's
guests,
The library is now deemed the proper
place for the holding of the exhibition,
and no ordinary amount of taste is shown
in the grouping and placing of it.
China, silver, glass, napery, bric-n-brae,
books, pictures, bronzes, marbles, and
even ponderous pieces of furniture, are
set about with admirable taste. Here,
after congratulating the bride, guests
hurry to see what has or has not been
given, and to gauge the state of the
De Jones’ finances by the present they
offered, Everyone's card is carefully
laid on or near the gift given; and at the
last wedding of the kind I attended, a
flunky in simple livery lingered carelessly
in the doorway. He was there ostensibly
to render any services needed; but from
excellent authority I hear he was in
reality a private detective, —{Demorest.,
HOW TO MAKE A MILLINER'S BOW,
In an article on home millinery a Lon-
don journal endeavors to impart to the
amateur in cold print the fleeting, in
tangible essence of a successful “bow,”
i as follows:
your ribbon.
{ allowed if you wish to trim a fair-sized
hat.
is finished.
ribbon in your right
side uppermost, holding it toward you,
| Then plait it, keeping the plaits as
| straight as possible. Change the ribbon
into the left hand while—with the right
tightly round with thick { No. 18) cotton.
Change it back to the right hand, and
make a loop, as long or short as you de
the first plaits are fixed. Plait tuis loop,
and join again. Turn the loop and hold
it toward you, make another loop, and
proceed in this manner until your bow
13 as large as you require. To
i velvet, ete., the right side outware
before plaiting give it a half twist
| the remaining end round the ceatre of
| the bow, being careful to hide the cotton,
and then slip it through, drawing it
tight. If using one of the popular
buckles, pass the end through the
off, or secure it at the back.
“In making velvet bows, be careful
{ not to crush the velvet when passit 14 it
through the buckle or in kootting it.
| The tighter your ribbon is tied the better
your bow will stand up. The length of
the loops can be varied according to
i some of the loops to make sharp ends.
hemmed
worn on hats and bonnets
each tie—bow--—should
" the loops on
exactly corre
long ard short on each side. For prac.
ticing bow making get some long strips
{of colored glazed cambric, and make as
many differeat-shaped bows as you can
devise,
tied, it can be pulled into any position
In narrow ribbon, it is not nec essary to
join each loop: turn the loop each time,
holding it firmly, as in the broader bows,
and when as large as required, form the
bow by passing the end through and
drawing it tight
“Remember that much of the success
i of your hat lies in the manner in which
{ the bow is fixed. If badly fastened on,
it will not stand up in the professional
way, and that home-made effect you were
i so anxious to avoid will be produced
| Cheap zibboa is seldom a success in mil.
linery, and good ribbon should never re
| quire moving." —{ New York Times,
geranium are two
Every-day and business dresses are
made of heavy eamel's hair in durable
qualities,
| Some new dresses of woolly looking
{ camel's hair are trimmed with ruffles of
{ black satin ribbon.
| The sleeve has at last begun to shrink,
| 80 a private letter from a society woman
now in Paris says.
Turndown collars and large puff sleeves
are revivals of Louis XVI. and English
Charles II. periods.
The use of lace for trimming will con-
stantly increase from this time on
throughout the summer,
The latest thing in fans have an outer
edge of bat wings in neuteal colors, The
stem is of white and gold.
A pretty trimming for an evening
skirt is a deep flounce of lace, headed
with two or three narrow puffs,
Plumetis, a French dotted Swiss, with
tinted designs, is one of the dainty
things in fabrics for summer gowns.
A novelty in evening dresses for the
season's wear will be spotted colored
tulle, draped over silk of the same color,
The long vamped button boot, with
perforated patent leather tip, is the sc.
cepted style for walking or carriage
wear,
The vogue of wearing bodices con-
trasting in material and color with the
skirt has a constantly increasing popu-
larity,
Plain materials are employed more
largely than they would otherwise be,
because of the many beautiful trim.
mings,
Crepon wrought in small dots is the
fashionable thin fabric for summer, and
will be used by June brides for calling
Eton jackets, with pelerine ruffles fall
ing across the shoulders in the back and
giviag a rever effect in front, are seen
new costumes,
Fue, Fretich on iba, ahoun in all,
over designs, a larger figure
flower thrown to the surface, are charm-
ing novelties for the summer,
Irish ins are among the attractive
tah Boplin for handsome costumes,
The lorgnette case has appeared m
charming designs of white, rose, azure
and violet kid, trimmed with gold and
provided with a golden chain and clasp.
Now gowns from the gay city of Paris
show a careful lack of crinoline. 'i’hrec
scant guffles flaring at the bottom, which
is frequently soslloped, are seen on the
skirts of these frocks,
Gorgeous little house jackets, closely
copying those worn by the Turkish
ladies, show rich embroideries of untarn-
ishable gold thread upon a blue, black,
or scarlet velvet background,
Among the new, very soft and beauti-
ful woolens are those covered with small
flower-sprays in colored silks. Costumes
made of these fabrics have vests and
pipings the color of the flowers,
Fancy pins for hats and bonnets have
taken a new lease of life, and real gems
and clever imitations are while
cats’ eves, turquoises, pearls, and bugs
and insects in Russian enamel are much
in favor,
seen,
Efforts are being made to popularize
dress skirts gathered or plaited at the
waist, but as yet the attempt has not
been effectual, for the majority fit closely
New stationery shows a pale lilac, with
address or monogram in darker tones
and dark green are also
shown, and a dark blue, with white
lettering, is a novelty, while gray in the
softest dove tints has the address in
silver,
Black bordered stationery is no longer
the correot thing for mourning. A
dead white paper, with the ad.
dress engraved in rather heavy script,
and the envelope closed with black seal
ing wax, is what the fashionable
HOW Ses,
woman
The cape promises to be the outer
garment of the season Of velvet,
veteen, cloth, silk, ribbon, and lace, in
deed any combination so that the said
garment but possess at least three capes,
the wearer may
with serenity,
vel
don the garment
The Empire coiffure has a strong hold
on the feminine fancy and is very gener.
ally becoming. It is formed by gather
ing the hair together at the crown of the
head, fastening it there and then dis
posing the ends in coils and pufls, keep
ing all close together.
A lovely morning gown for a bride is
jacket of i ti
fined
ribbons
pink and
and gray
white guipure lace. t is con
the waist white velvet
For a simpler gown a striped
gray French flannel, with pink
ribbon, is pretty,
at with
AROUND THE HOUSE.
§
A wringer can cleaned in two
minutes by saturating a cloth with kero
and rubbing it
be
sene oil over; it will
Fiatirons that show a disposition to
rust may, while yet a trifle warm. be
rubbed on edges and face with tallow:
when next put to heat they should, as
soon as warm, have the tallow wiped off
with an oil cloth,
found bright and smooth
when they will be
A splendid fluid for taking out grease
is as follows: Take two ounocs
ammonia, one teaspoonful of
one ounce of shaving soap, scraped
and one quart of
NOCOSKAry.,
soft water weneat
for
grease out of carpets, to exterminate be
bugs and to take out tha: was
mixed with oil,
:
his is excellent taking
:
paint
Don’t sweep with the broom in front
of you, as though you were shoveling
the carpet. As sure as you do the dust
will rise to the ceiling and you will dig
the nap from the carpet and shovel it up
in the dustpan. More carpets are worn
out by hard sweeping than by regular
‘wear and tear.” Sweep with a down
ward, regular stroke, keeping the dust
under the broom. Wring out a house.
and see how clean and
will look.
bright it
Blowing up Condemned Cannon.
Near Mouocacy, Penn., parties were
recently engaged in the novel business of
monster steel guns made by the manu.
facturers of cannon for the government
which, after being cast, are found to be
imperfect. The slightest flaw, abrasion
or crack cause the inspectors to condemn
them. These discarded guns cannot be
remelted unless they are reduced to
small pieces
The cannons are taken in an out of
into them aud then set off with dyna-
mite, of which material a ton is used per
month. Nearly all the guns are shipped
to Monocacy station and Birdsboro,
whence they are carted to the place
where the dynamiting is done. They
weigh all the way from four to twenty
five tons, and cighteen to twenty-five
horses are frequently required. From a
half to three pounds of ymamite is used
r blast. Some days as high as 200
slasts are made, and none of the blasted
pieces must be larger than a cubic foot,
After being reduced to pieces they are
sent back to the gun foundries. —{Cin-
cinnati Enquirer,
AAAS
Which Was First Admitted,
It will never be known which was ad
mitted first— North or South Dakota
says the Detroit Free Press, which makes
this explanation: “When the two
{SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIVE,
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven,
tures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fletion,
Acconpine to the Chicago Horseman,
| the question of color of a horse is a very
important one with a Russian, and
gentlemen of means would never permit
other than a white, gray, or black horse
lo occupy a position in their stable,
{ Their particular fad is to drive a cross.
{ match span composed of a black and a
{ white horse. The majority of Russian
| horses, however, are grays. Of course
{ there are some mixed colors, but these
tre used only by the poorer classes of
| peasants for rough work in the interior
| districts, So high a value does the
{ Russian place upon color that the Govern-
ment will have none but white or
| stallions on their breeding farms. In
| Russian horsemen believe that the gray
| norse possesses far more
{ sapable of standing the rigors of their
| Winters better, has greater powers of
: endurance, and better blood than that
| of any other color. Their 125 years of
| Government
| nearly reduced the question of trans
| mitting colors to a science that
{ Government will have only white or
| gray stallions in service, claiming that
| olor goes with the sire almost
| ally, per cent. of
! Russian race horses are white or gray.
Beventy-five the
It apreans from British consular re.
on the face of the globe where intoxica
tion, instead of being regarded BRE 8 vice,
is looked upon as a virtue, and
drunken laborers are actually at a
premium, This peculiar condition
affairs prevails in the Portuguese posses.
sions of South Africa. It seems that the
aatives there, when employed for any
definite object, have to be carefully and
iaboriously instructed how to perform
their work.
his habits he will in one or two
sarn sufficient to maintain himself
of
sequence is that he returns to his home,
sand the instructions which have been
given to him are ontirely lost, With an
intemperate native the opposite state of
affairs Month alter month, on
the receipt of his wages, he speads his
sntire earnings in liquor, and
having sufficient funds to take him home,
remains with his employer for vears, be
coming more and more
passes by reason of the fact that the
repetition of instructions becomes gradu.
ally less necessary.
of
ROTI
exists,
valuable as time
Warrenton, . Was
excellent a few
ays since and the producer was a one
armed hails from
Florida he derful feature about
| this talented
forms splendidly on three instruments at
the same time,
wil. Having only
for him
His arm his off
to this
size of vour
Tue town Ga
treated to Masic
colored
musi i r
guitar, harp and a eall
one arm it seems im-
to perforin this great
near the
a stick about the
little finger and eight inches
the
guitar strings instead of picking them
On shoulder hie b
the harp in p'aze
with his foot It is
how he can handle
with such accuracy,
iid dancer.
possible
feat
0
elbow,
he fastens
n length, which he uses to beat on
his to hold
is also a splen-
Savs a medical practitioner of loag ex
perience: “1 believe that a good many
people who are to die of
| hydrophobia scare themselves to death,
: They are bitten by a dog-—perfectly
| harmless dog, usually—and they brood
(over it and worry it until they
{develop all the symptoms of hydro.
| phobia, 1 should test every case of
supposed
about
| the patient under chloroform and watch
| ing Bin during the stupor when he was
| coming out of it
i continued then the case would be
| genuine, but if, in that interval, the
| patient had forgotten what ailed him, |
should laugh him out of it. Dog bites
are the commonest of injuries. Even a
rabid dog may bite a man without pro
ducing any ill effects.”
Ix other countries than England there
{ are peculiar and unaccountable pro-
| nunciations of proper names. The isl
{and of Terra Nuova, off the coast of
Honduras, is called “Turnefl.” The
| Boea o’Agua, in Jamaica, is ealled
“Bogwalk,” and the Agua Alta, in the
same country, is known as the ‘Wag
water,” In Scotland there is a county
eailed “Kirkoobree,” of which the cor.
rect spelling is Kirkendbright., Then
| there is the Toliver family in this country,
| whose name is properly spelled Talia.
| ferro,
Forn miles southwest of Mount Ver.
| non, Texas, is a great phenomenon on
{ the farm of Marvel Holbert, Last July
{ he dug a well, Going to the depth of
ifty feet and getting no? water, work
| was suspended and the well sovered up.
One day recently Mr. Holbert, Jassing
by, uncovered the well, and to his sur-
prise hot steam gushed out in his face,
and on examination it was found that a
vein of hot water about six inches in
diameter had burst in through the bottom
and stands at a depth of eighteen feet,
boiling like a teakettie over a slow fire,
Querx Vioronria's fondness for domes.
tic pets is indicated by the fact that in
the grounds of the dairy there are
two monuments erected by her Majesty's
order to the memory of two dogs which
she once held dear. One of these canine
favorites was a dachshund named Boy,
in 1862; the other a
ment is so strict in enforcing this mw
that a young woman of she City of
Mexico who started the other day to
cnter a convent in this country was ar.
rested by the authorities and taken back
to the city, The plea was that her re.
latives were opposed to her taking the
veil,
Aw earnest hand-clasp caused
dewily of Dennis O'Leary, of Bristol, Pa,
ile was walking in a Boston park, where
he met a robust friend, The latter
squeezed his hand so forcibly that the
nails entered O'Leary's palm, causing a
slight wound, from which a few drops
of blood issued. Blood. poisoning re-
sulted, and in a few days O'Leary was a
Corpse, :
1
ne
Srarex IsLaxp has its double at the
southern extremity of South America,
and the name, like that of the New York
island, is manifestly of Dutch origin,
for its near neighbor is Cape Horn, more
properly Hoorn, named for a village on
the Zuyder Zee, and not far away are the
not of Irish but jo
and properly spelled
Magalhaens,
Near
Ax Ohio man has a queer hen.
the barnyard there is a large ‘‘cooler”
) and the hen in
question insists on regarding this cooler
her nest, he does mot get into it,
however, but sits perched on its rim, ir
consequence of which her egos are all
ns
A mupicar gentleman in Kansas has
succeeded in an agricultural experiment
i He has
the potato, and
rhich possesses
He
both articles.
interest all classes,
Cre aed the tomato
produced 8 vegetable
some of the qualities of
He calls it the *‘potomato.”
Wee Hux Pex, who wascook ina
mining camp only three is no
wee in the financial sense. He
the whole of one and the half of
another important mine in Arizona, and
is reputed to be worth at least §3,000,-
000,
wit}
VOArS ago,
longer
OWS
THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.
A Goop Dexrmirnice.—Strawberries
eaten after meals make an excellent den-
trifrice, Besides testh
there is just en make an an-
tiseptic rushed and used
the brush leave a deliciously
clean taste in the mouth,
teaning the
{Ine
on will
J
Nuornition Axp Coxsexrriox. —{on.
sumption is the process of pulling down
tissue, and the needful to check
and counteract it ts work is to have
perfect nutrition so that tissue building
will go on as fs as the destruction.
rong t
great
ie
i
in
ist
4 $4 sstladimier § shi fannvndatic
Tissue building is the foundatis
treat-
It
t
however, that fead-
ing is not nutrition, and the best of diet
may sasimiiated and hence tissue
building is not progressing.
consumoplives were
yet they
mn
i 8 » «
its stages
ment of tuberculosis in all
must be understood,
not be
stuffed with
oy wi bi . +4
rew hi bu
ant t
Only su
: noer
treatment is now abandoned. :
foods an be assimilated.
Nearly all cases differ. Every consump-
tive formerly was fed upon cod liver oil
but now it wal
There must often be
Are given as ¢
is given «led ones,
oxygen to
¢ the nuiritive org to the
stimula
proper performance duties
are pow
treatment
f
Proper food and
unt in
supp e 1
consumption suppiy of
oxygen artificially ch patients
cannot as a rule li out of doors enough
went oxygen
»
generally
to get suffi
“Srourise” 1x tae Cua. —Grawn
people and children slike are inclined to
fall into a bad habit of sliding
down into a chair and sitting for hours
with the sp a hall
cle. That this is injurious thousands of
people who indulge in it never so much
as dream, but a medical authority asserts
that who have investigated the
subject are well aware that it is the
cause of many serious ilis. The con
tinual strain upon one side of the spinal
column, with the corresponding com
pressions on the other, gives rise to ner-
vous difficulties and affections of the
| brain. Dizziness, nausea and blind
| spells are not infrequently the result of
| this practice. While the strictly up-
| right position is undoubtedly the most
| healthful, it seems rather hard work to
| persuade the voung and indolent to
| maintain it. Lazy people and those who
| love luxury have a habit of “‘slumping,’
{80 to speak, into their chairs and re.
| maining in a semi-recumbent position,
with the spine as nearly telescoped as
may be. That portion of the human
anatomy Foearally known as the back-
bone was intended to be worn in an ap
right position, and the constant pres
sure of the sections of the vertebra
upon each other is productive of various
ills.
very
ine bent almost in cir.
those
————————
Meat Ext racts in Sickness.
We have witnessed many changes of
opinion respecting some of the common-
est articles of diet for the sick. The old
view, that calves’-feet jelly was of ex.
ecceding nutritive value, was at one time
so controverted that the jelly ceased to
be much used, It is now sanctioned as
having a piace in dietetics, and I believe
it may be safely regarded as a temporary
form of nourishment of no inconsiderable
alue,
Beef-tea has been in and out of repute,
but we have, or should have, no doubt
now as to its stimulant and reparative
properties. We can not think lightly of
t as commonly pre , for it can cer.
tainly prove harmful, w
EUROPE OUTSTRIPPED,
The United States Now the Leading
Manufacturing Count ry.
R. H. Edmonds,
Magazine, says
The United States is now the leading
manufacturing country in the world, We
have far outstripped all other nations in
the magnitude of our industrial opera-
tions. It is almost incomprehensible
that in ten years the increase in capital
invested in manufactures should exceed
the total invested only twenty years ago.
The value of our manufactured products
increased about 60 per cent. ; add 60 per
cent, to the output of 1890 and we would
nave $13,700 000,000 in 1900 but that
is t70 much toexpect. The same ratio
of growth in mining interests in this de.
ade as in the last would make our
mineral output in 1900 nearly $1,200,
000,000, while a smaller percentage of
gain only equaling in volume the
total increase in 1890 over 1880 would
bring the figures to over $350,000,
000, If our coal miners add to
the output of 1800 as many tons as they
added to that of 1880. ignoring in this
the percentage of growth, 217,000,000
tons will be the production of 1900 No
other country in the world everadvanced
in population and wealth as the United
i i The pr the
past shows no signs of halting
in the Engineericg
doing.
States is weress of
the development of our foreign an
mestic trade and «
industrial interests §
out,
merce,
Contrast our
with Europe,
those of al
ducing possil
imber and ci
f and practi
heir profitable utili
populati
ple unvexed by the arbitrary re
of half a dozen different
1d free from the drain standing
the Un i States istiy
3
nds the wonder and admiration
*
rope,
t
Feneous of 635,000,000
sruiations
governments,
nies, Com -
of the
ionger tae manu.
ig center of the we
taken the {
Its
world, for
oremost position in that
steel business is
3
wo yroduction,
vast i sisi
VAaSL Iron an
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it cant
190, «
foodstufls. Oa
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Fishes That Do Not Move.
—
well-known fishes
ristmas to Easter,
ch longer period. 1
chief Canadian
srinten
fish
hatchery, which is under the su;
lence of Mr. Wilmot, at Newcastle, Ont.
early in December. In someof the tanks
were carp, and in others were eels, {Ine
large eel was in the form of a letter 8,
aod poised midway in the water; when |
returned to Newcastle, early in March,
the eel had not changed its place or its
form, and Mr. Wilmot assured me that it
had not moved in all that time. The
carp lay close to the bottom of the tanks,
and did not move either. They like to
go into deep, reedy lakes or ponds, get
close to the bottom, and remain there till
the ice above their heads has melted,
Unless they are disturbed, [ doubt if some
of these hibernating fishes move so much
as a fin during the winter. A frog will
remain for four months, looking appa-
reatly into the beavens with wide-opened
eves, without once moving them or any
other portion his body.
At the New York Hospital they related
to me a curious occurrence bearing on
the hiberpation of fishes. In the con.
servatory in the upper part of the build
ing they had several glass jars in
which were goldfish, which is a species
of carp. One morning the caretaker
found a jar broken and the water frozen
through and through, the fish, of course,
being as rigid as ice. The lump was
taken away and thrown into an old rub.
bish barrel, where it remained several
weeks. One March day the sun was ua.
usually strong and it split the cylinder of
ice, but what was the astonishment of the
caretaker to see the tail of a fish wrig.
ling out of a part of the broken block.
e sctual freezing had not Killed the
fish, which was removed to another tank,
where it swims about as if nothing had
befallen it, {Our Animal Friends.
African Pluck.
Mr. Alfred Coode Hore, in his Eleven
Years Ju Centinl frien, a of
the t 0 angan region,
which be finds are peaceable and indus.
trious for the most part, but turbulent and