A GLANCE AT MOROCCO. THE WORLD'S MOST COMPLETE DESPOTISM, One of the Mandates ot Its Ruler is Forelgners—Atrocious Cruelties, It has been often remarked of late that the Emperor of Morocco is about the most absolutely despotic monarch of whom the world knows anything in these days. He has Ministers, but they are merely bis favorites for the time being, and subject to his whim. He has no laws to bother him save his will, and no precedents to respect or unpopular rep- resentatives to fear. He, himself, is law and justice, and 3,000,000 people hold their lives and property subject to his nod. And yet his power is in many direc- tions very narrowly circumscribed. The taken the natives under consular protec tion so freely that Emperor Muley Hassan must frequently have wondered whether or no he has any subjects to punish in that portion of his domains pied by the foreigners. That is a good thing in its way, but a few years ago there was an angry dispute when it was found that, though there were only three Americans in Morocco, our consul there had made 150 American citizens out of the natives, that he himself insisted upon being their judge, and that he was in the habit of thrusting into pri-on any- body against whom they made com plaint. The Emperor has been fright occu dismemberment of his empire; and a few years ago he ordered his subjects implicitly to obey all foreigners and all | people protected by them. Dark crimes agaiost person and property have been committed under this sanction, and many of these shrewd proteges, and not a few consuls as well have grown rich from it, Though the Moors have been nominal rulers of Morocco for 400 years they have | never really been rulers of the whole country. Tho native Berbers were driven to the mountains, and there they have ever since remained, defiant and un. conquered, and the emperors of Morocco have been glad enough to L:t them alone The Kabyles of the Riff coast, who re- cently opposed the Spaniards at Melilla, belong to his stock, and Muley Hassan can in no way control them. They are a far superior 1ace to the Moors, who are in fact largely Arabs diluted with Spanish and other blo d Human slavery flourishes openly and witheat hindrance there, sven in the ac ceasible cities, and almost within sight of Gibraltar; while the poor Jews, al most the only thrifty and peaceful ele ment of the urban populations, are bled most unmercifully. Morocco is a fertile country, and rich in copper and other minerals. But the government will neither develop these resources itself nor allow anybody else to do so. The Moors lack the foresight needful for agricul turists, and they never plant or enough to carry them through till the succeeding season, 30 that one bad har- vost means great suffering The spirit of the Arabs is inherently antagonistic to Christian eiviiization, and were it not so the Government of Moro co would make thrift and industry im possible. Fez might readily be brought into direct steam communication with the world by means of the Sebou River, Instead, it was until very reoent years almost an unknown city. There is not a highway worthy of the name leading from it. Indeed, there are said to be only two wagoos in all Morocco One is the coach presented by Queen Victoria to Muley Hassan a few years ago He uses it, though he makes driver walk, since no man must sit above the Emperor. The young Hessian prince who fifty yearsago took the first carriage to Tangiers, was only permitted to use it after he had taken off its wheels, There is no regular means for the dis tribution of justice and none for the col- lection of taxes When the Emperor needs money he directs the pashas to collect the tenth prescribed by the Koran. The pashas add a tenth for themselves, and ihe actual collectors ut on another tenth for their trouble f there is any suspicion that the man is not paying all he ought, the torture is a prompt and efficacious way of increasing the pile. Justice is openly sold the highest | bidder, and to be accused of an offcuse | against the government is to entail coa- | fiscation of all visible property, whether | found guilty or not. It is not to be | woundcred at, theo, that the inhabitants | of Morocco live in squalor; that they | bury their money whenever they think they can safely do so; that they wear dilapidated clothes and let their houses go to decay. To show any evidence of wealth is to invite misery and perhaps death. Roasting, stretching, pinching, whip- | ping, branding and mutilating are fa miliar forms of punishment in Morocco, Revolts are put down by wholesale mas. sacres. Slow beheading with butchers’ knives and daggers in the public street are of common occurrence. Theft ia punished by cutting off the right hand; eyes ara torn out, enrs and noses are cut off for various offenses, and the bodies of the poor are mutilated in still more horrible ways. Nor does conviction al- ways precede punishment. It is ordina- rily quite sufficient to have been ac. cused, if the persecutor be a person of consequence. —(New York Press, gather the to } hss ——— A DIAMOND IN HIS FLESH. Mystery of a Valuable Gem Cut From a Man's Arm by a Physician, “‘Like the rain that favors none, but falls on the unjust as well as the just, a physician bas to minister to the vicious as couscicntiously as to the righteous and to keep as scrupulously for tae for. mor such secrots as he learns in his at. tondance on them,” remarked a doctor to a Philadelphia Zimes reporter. “1 was a much younger wan than Iam now, when one night my bell rang after I had retired. 1 got up and let in a man whe seomed to shrink from observation until my door was fairly closed on him. Then he took off his cont and rolled up the sleeve of his shirt, exposing the whole of his left arm. He then directed way attention to a hard knot on the Sader side of the arm. “1 folt this and wa: at a loss to diagnose its character, but the man, who seemed to be amused at my perplexity, finally said: ‘I might as well tell you, doctor, what it is. It is that that has brought me to you to-night. That is an | artificial substance inserted in the flesh of my arm by myself. And I want you to cut it out.’ «| stared and at first refused, when he said : ‘If you don't do it the doctor next door will, and from what ['ve heard of you I think you'llact the straizhtest with me about this matter.’ if was not influenced by his threat to go to some other physician nor by his compliment, but I was curious myself to | know what that imbedded substance could | be. So I got out my knife and asked { the fellow if he would take ether or | chloroform, but he declared that he had opened the arm to insert the thing with- out not only nn apmsthetic but any in- { strument except adull dinner knite. The thing, whatever it was, had been in the arm some time, as it was covered with | Hesh and skin that had grown since it had been there, but a few gashes with { my lancet bio ght it to the surface, but | it was so bloody that I could not make out its nature. The fallow was ghastly pale, but had set his teeth and borne without a murmur the pain, and now laughed. * ‘Drop it there, Doc, said we] did 50, basin of wate: he in your aad see what you'll see,’ ys fine an uncut diamond as broaght to this country. I am not lapidary enough to have a very correct idea of its value, but it must 1 thousands of doliars. “‘luvoluntarily, 1 exclaimed, ‘Why, where did you get such a stone?” but the man's eyes hardened in a moment, and he said: ‘If you're the sharp fellow I take you to you know from the pains with which it was hidden that there's a story to that diamond that | ain't giving away But I'm willing to pay you well for your trouble, and I know from what [ heard of you that you ain't peaching of what takes place here.’ “I dressed the cut and he left me $300 for the job, though I only asked him $20, and then I let him out, and that was the and saw was ever have been many be, [ have often speculated how and where he came into possession of the stone, for that he was a common smuggler I do not Putrefactive Polsoning. Permit me to supplement your interest Ing annotation Carr: upon ‘Bullets as Microbe the following remarks, says Pall Mall Gazette. Al case of the bullet ers” by in though in infoactinn INIeCLIOnN the A writer the the with bacteria 18 the earth, pois MOUS wing to strikiog that there is a be aborigines in the New Hebrides who + purposely make use of ate weeidental, yet it is reported of $ ri Huric or earth poison for their arrows, Ou their arrow heads they smear dry earth taken from marshy ground, with the result that the wounds inflicted by their arrows usuaily end fatally in tetanus and lockjaw. A lied micro-organisms the source of those which putrefactis ire probably also leadiy arrow poisons obtained by matter. In the Norwegian =», after havi driven th the shore, they are sur by a pet. which prevents then bh fear returning to the deeper son i : with prepared in wWinies are savages from whale HATDOODS soul : ir: some of the exhibit signs of exhaustior pro mbiy througch septic or supp { irative puisoning, and are heace read tured. lt are imbedded ino masses of inflan gangrenous tig uty ese Arps eap # then found that the harpoons matory 14 ArH remove a and ORT preserved without » | yecd to fully cles 8303 wiped or the next yA Are eating es. The 8 rapid potsoning is due Iarpo ag with the if bacteria of an infective iaflam mation, inoculating the whales by getting inflammation employed fos of whale which these har again used lucing aud their saptic or poisonous propert expl mation of th el His Carry ian up iu ctive or poisonous preparations male from the sea-hair (apiysis punetata), a Kind of sca slug or their Similarly, {rom time immemorial, some savages have used died putrid animal poisons for their arrows to wad animals poisoning ene mies kill Blue Eyes and Bullets, The anoual report of Lieutenant C. L Collins, inspector of small arms practice of the Department of the Colorado, shows some interesting facts. Nation ally, the result of one year's competition with a posal. ble score of 100: Norway, 95.18; Aus tria, 91: Switzerland, S882: Ireland, France, 34: Denmark, $3.91; Scotinod, 80; Germany, 76.80; Canada. 2 East lo- Mexion, 65; (0.53: West Italy. 55; Hol 79; England, 68.79; Iodies, 065: Sweden, dies, 58; Russia, 57.78 land, 45: Wales, 806: Anstralia, 10. There were but one Australian and two Welshmen in the competition Of the 2.200 officers and enlisted men classified as practising in the depart. ment, 63.77 per cent. were borp in the United States: of these 52.73 per cent, are white and 17.27 colored. Compared as to their merit at the target the whites scored 80.42 and the colored men 50.58. In his table showing the merits of the troops and their height, men six feet tall and over rank 83.06 per cent. and 5.5 men 60.56. It is almost a steady plane down hill {rom six feet to five feet tive inches, Men with light blue eyes rank highest, followed in their order by dark blue, slate blue, light brown, dark brown and black. In the colored troops light blue eyes again stand at the top, but followed in this fostance by slate blue, light prows; dark brown, black and dark ue. There is but one troop of Indians in (3e eral McUCook’s command, being I, of the Second Cavalry. This troop not only stands at the head of its regiment for revolver firing, but is at the head of the entire department. This, however, is for troop work, Whites beat them individually. —|Deaver Republican. 5 a mil ion mo ¢ men than women in the United States, ; NOTES AND COMMENTS. | Rossta is making such successful #fforts in increasing her cotton produc tion that within five years she expects to raise all that she nceds for home con- sumption. “My father was a great land specula~ tor,” said an Western Congressman; ‘‘he bought land by thousands of acres; but | the old gentleman had to be satisfied at last with only 6 feet of it.” SratTistics show that over 3,000,000 | women are earning independent incomes | in this country. There are some 2,500 | practicing medicine, 6,000 managing post offices, 275 preaching the Gospel, and in New York City alone 27,000 of | them supporting their husbands, Burap-rreer’'s says that the present | world’s crop of oats is the smallest for | many years past, not even ex epting the Russian famine year of 1801, when the crop in that country was only 400,000, (00 bushels, The world's present erop of gear and 166,000,000 bushels below the | Wrrn the cheapening of silver has its use in the fine People are buying in selid silver many small articles that used to be stituted bhaser in other cases where hitherto metals have been almost ex- Swarr Vise Kaxaxpa, a Brahmin priest, is lecturing in the West on the manners and customs of India, having recently made his appearance in Mione His lectures are more outward aspacts of Indian life than on the philosophy of the faith he represents He appears in the native Indian garb, and be broad -mioded, intelligent and keen in criticism. apoiis oa the to Tag inquest over the corpse of a sot i England brought to light the rather had been insured for $300 by the liquor seller, whom he chietiy patronized. No secret was made of the affair, and said to be quite a common thi England, the liquor seller thus co the loss of business which would the death of a valuable customer Tug persoa who would probabiy t the Brazil in case a monarchy should be established is the young Dom Pedro d’Alcantara, eldest son of Countess d'bu, only child of the ror Dom Pedro. The young Dom Pedro wns 4 great favorite of his grandfather old em The v¢ uth with a AR throne ip the Ie and accompanied him when the peror was driven into exile is 0 tall, fair, i arm, like TINAND em peror, He is, however, an expert horse man and an athlete When was re months ago that the sailed for Brazil he was quietly study His earlier education was carried on in Portugal and France and he i» yw 18 withered na $i ee ported some ing nrinees | 3 pia waa Vienna yg in Prosixexr Chivamen on the Pacific coast are predicting a big exodus of their countrymen from this eontinent and all other lands to the celestial empire within 1 year or two They go to be present at the big fair which occurs there once in #ixly years ind at which every subjeot of great emperor tries present “Hundreds of thousands, maybe mill ions, of Chinese from sll parts of the em pire and the world will be there, interpreter Pon Se, of San Francisco ‘All nations will be invited and everybody for it » He the to be SAvs | ht of a sunded he'd of the ougnt lifetime.” many cent reguiariy since. exXa will be the si; ty OO, + f« i The fair, he says was and has He isnot fate, but it is within two years (yreat preparations are being made for it all ov and announcement of it will avon be made to the world A Loxpox letter says: ‘The Empress Eugenie has sett'ed down into the tude which best coables her to endure Ler memorable and FOTTOWS, Her tall, sad and out cemonyg us with only the recognition of silent sympathy. The empress likes to have communication with as few people as For instance, when she shops she does her own shopping) she likes to be waited on by the same sales man alwass., [ was witnessing an inci dent of this sort the other day. The empress w alked into a well-known West Ead shop and asked for Mr, ——, nam ing one of the head men. She was told he was out, whereupon she remarked that she would eall again, sod went away. [ was told that certainly would come again; that Mr, —— always waited on her, and that she would not be served by any one else.’ bwen Uries ago sure rihe empire ®5id cumulative figure goes in possibia she Save an American now in Japan, in the Chisago Record: "The first gentle man who called upon me at the Grand Hotel. Yokohoma, was Ah Shing, im porter and tailor. He made an early oall—6. 20 He remarked outside the door: ‘Mister, me can measure you suit clothes, Allee samee hot! ‘Call around again, please; I am pot upyet’ Hedid. Called again at 6.30. Desiring to eo- | courage enterprise in a foreign country, | [let him in, ‘Take measure now?’ he | said. Go iL’ 1 replied, because it was red hot and the Japanese sun was shining clear through the panes, shades and | shutters, ‘Make suit $2.50. He had | samples with him in a valise. ‘Sait ready morrow morping.' And, true enough, he did, Ah Shing is a Chinese merchast who has done business in | Japan for several years. He employs | forty-three tailors, and can give some of | our merchants many pointers on priges and promptaess.” Tue railroads, like every other form of business enterprise in the country, have had a hard time the past year, judging from the number who went into the hands of receivers. The statistics, compiled by one of the trade papers, show that there are seventy-one separate companies who became bankrupt. The mileage controlled hy them is between 22,000 and £3,000 miles, and their total stook and bonded indebtedness is not far from $1,300,000,000. This showing fdr the past year is as bad as that for the Propeding eight years put together, ooked at from the amount of indebted ness involved. Not since 1881 have the stocks and bonds of roads that failed in equiled in amount one highest figures reached since 1884 are those of 1885, when the roads that went into liquidation owed stock and bond- holders $385,000,000. The next highest are those of 1892, for which the figures are $357.000,000. What tells the tale of misfortune more forcibly still is the fact that the ronds that failed control nearly two-fifths of the total mileage of track Besides this, the generat feeling of uncertainty as to the future are running them for what can be gotten out of them. INSTINCT OF INDUSTRY. Animals and Insects are Adepts in the Art of Collecting Provisions, A recent and interesting contribution to the sum of popular knowledge of animal instincts is M. Frederic Houssay's werk on “The Industries of Animals,” pub- lished in the ‘Contemporary Science Serivs,” by Mr, Walter Scott. It is an ingenious attempt to bring man and ani- mals into line on the common ground of their provision by industry of the neces The arts of collecting pro visions, storing and preserving food, do- mesticating and managing flceks, and capturing slaves, are quite as well under stood by animals and insects as by man in the carlier stages of his civilization, and show a curious analogy in their de velopment in the case of the more back ward among human communities Ants of the same both have and have not learned to keep ‘‘eattle.” Lespes found a tribe of black ants which had a flock of ‘cows’ which they milked daily. But he also discovered a nest of the same species which had vo flocks. These he presented with some of the aphides used by their cow-keeping relations, The ants instantly attacked, killed and ate them, behaving in exactly the same improvident manner as a tribe Australian “*black fellows ' when pre. sented with a flock of sheep. A little~ keown and s'riking instance of foresight and industry exhibited by a bird is that California woodpecker. Like others of its kind, this bird is an inseot Yet in view of the approach of store of food of a ter, and arranges as an epicure +" species of of the Cater winter, it prepares a different this with as much might devote storage of his wine a celiar in woodpecker lives winter it stores up ha acorn it Doliows a nto which the acorn s ready to be split chara« care the wholly er summed ants as the on ne To hold ea small hole ja a tree, is exantly fitted, and by the strong beak of the climbing wood pecker, tho wh to tightly held to n either by squirrels or other birds, A relation of this woodpecker inbabits the dryest parts of Mexico, where during the dro it mast die of starvation unless it made a store. To prevent this it selects the hollow stem of a speeie of aloe, the bore of whioh is just large enough to held a nut Fhe woodpecker drills holes at intervals in the stem and fills it from bottom to top with the nuts, the separate holes being apparently made access to the columao of nuts within. The intelligence which not only constructs a special storehouse, but teaches wood ped ker to lay by only the nats will keep, and not thie insects which would decay, is perbaps the highest form of bird reasoning which has yet been observed be 101 ibis for convenience of the whieh Growing Flax for Ita Fibre The German linen manufacturers have heretofore cir supplies of flax fibre from Ilussia. but therc 1s now a growing demand for another source of supply. Hon. Frank H. Mason, United States Consul General at Frankfort, advises American farmers to prepare flax fibre and send some to Germany for trial. To do this the flax sown quite thickly, the thin required in growing flax for seed produsng a coarse fibre only fit to be used in the mapaiacture of the coarsest kind of cloth and for sacks and bags. Germany, in 1802, imported 60,691 tous of flax fibre, of which 55.451 tons, or eleven- twalfths of the whole, was from Russia Flax in very inrgely grown in the West W nether it will pay beter to grow the flax for its fibre can only be determined by experiment Writing on this subject, the Prairie Farmer says: The market value of the fibre depends mainly upon four qualities, viz , got 1 must be seeding for its saved required for the manufacture {rom the United States, Germany to New York. Those who are best informed, however, are confident that American flax, properly cured and prepared, will answer all purposes in this country. There need fibre from chants: the principal German spinners wish to buy and import their raw mate rial direct and on their own account. A Tale of Three Cities, The late Professor McElroy, of the knows, was an ardent Philadelphian; On this subjeot he made the following witticiam in his classroom, which for the first time appears in print: “The trouble with Philadelphia,” he said, “‘isn't ite lack of sell-appreciation. It has intelligence and wealth sufficient to make it one of the leading cities of the world, but unfortunately it lacks civie pride, “1 a liberty pole were arected in Bos- ton Common, the oftizens of Boston would unitedly prociaim that it was the finest liberty pole ever erected. “If a liberty pele were erected in Central Park, t ple of New York costliest liberty pole ever raised in the world, “But if in Philadelphia a li wore erected in Fairmount Park, deiphians would at once any one third of Ton involved this year. The A LIBERAL FAKIR. He Takes Pleasure In Giving His Goods Away. A game of “throwing a sprat to eatch a mackerel” was played in a court off Green street the other day, and the fakir who played it was the centre of a crowd which seemed perfectly dazed. He was actually giving money away. The peo- ple could not understand it; neverthe- less, they did not miss the opportunity of getting a little wealth easily, *“There you are, gentlemen,” he said. ¢‘Here a quarter.” Who gives me twenty cents for it? Come on, now, good money, don’t be afraid! I'm the man that sold guineas on London bridge for a penny and couldn't sell one. Who takkes it?" Nobody seemed at first to understand, but presently one man handed up twenty eents and got the quarter Before the crowd could complete an examination, to see if it was genuine, “Here's the twenty, Who gives fifteen for it?” pot long before a man made the trade. nd occasionally “1 don't covert money. | away. I'm the fellow that's driving the fakirs out ef business.’ Then he fished something bag “‘Hete's a watol, said; *‘a ought tu be worth fifty cents if it remarking ive it give it of hi * he worth Nobody? All right! Who wants it? I'll give it away!” A man in the crowd got it “Here's another” watch Won't somebody give me fifty cents for it?” A man handed over the money, the fakir spurned it, saying: *‘Here take your money. giving thiogs away.” Another watch was brought { and offered, money produced Still another wants ! it? “Who tr again. A cents “I guess I'll keep this for luc the fakir Then he gave another away and on doing so, 00 money and keeping it In a few minutes he business and money at a reat mate “Here's a 1ing, three tiers of gold oo it, worth a cent, aod if ought to make a dollar on t i YyoOounu young sionally ac “for luck vas doing a was chanoiug bands ~ solid brass, got ‘18.carats’ marked on the nn He sold the ring then began to throw trinkets in a hat ** Who buys the lot be asked Nobody wanted to bid, i 1 sold lots of into the hat: nobody wanted to buy dropped in a fifty-cent piece purchased the lot for half a dollar. ** Pat it right in your pocket and look out for more bargains,’ said the fakir, and the people secreted their purchases from the eyes of a curious crowd Somebody elise; the people seemed astounded by bis liberality and spent their movey. After a while a number of his customers began to look then sneaked off and examined purchases. One man, who had ently received seventy-five bres! their Appar cents and the trinkets and two cents. The seventy five cents probably went up the faxir's He had given away $1 and made Boston Herald sleeve 20 Seven Wonders of Corea. A Chinese paper describes the seve wonders which Corea, like Oriental countries, possesses, plaved a conspicuous role in anti juity The Corean ‘wonders’ consist, first, of a hot mineral spring which is capable of curing diseases of all kinds. The der is the two wells, one the peninsula, which have the peculiar characteristic that whea ose is full other is empty. The water of the sccond won one The pleasant and sweot taste such force that a strong man to stand up against it, A which cannot be eradicated the tourth wonde.. No matter what in jury may be done to the roots the young trees spring up again like the phoenis from its ashes, The most remarkable, however, is the fifth wonder—the famous pine appears to stand, in froot of a palace erected to its honor. This is a massive rectangular block, free on all sides Two men standing, one on each end, can draw a cord underneath the stone any obstacle. The sixth wonder is a hol stone which bas been lyviog from time The seventh Corean wonder is a sweating Buddba. This is guarded in a great temple, in Ne tree, no flower will flourish on the sacred spot, and even wild creuresut are careful Avalanches Produced by Railways A correspondent to the London Times records a curious and altogether unex. pected result of the tunnelling operations in the St. Gotbard is a lawsuit instituted by the inhabitants of the adjacent valleys, They 8 ue the Federal Government for damages caused by the great increase of avalanches which constantly thunder down the mountain side, produced, it is presumed, by the explosions of dynamite more than by the vibrations of passing trains in the lower tunnels of the rail- WAY. Many witnesses, who have lived in the neighborhood since the early part of the century, will swear to the gicatly augmented number and force of the ava: lanches that now constantly sweep de. struetion down the mountain. The first of this novel case was lately FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS, HER POETRY. A certain small five-year-old has a passion for a sort of poetry which is in. dependent of all literary characteristics except thyme, One dav she wns seco to regard hor doll affectionately and was heard to murmur “‘Her soft brown hair Curled tight to her head; We looked at her sociably And thought she was dead.” KILLED 115 BEST FRIESD, some six months ago (writes a South African correspondent) 1 was traveliog in the Northern Transvaal, when, withic sixty or seventy miles of Pretoria. I me! a Dutchman on horseback, As wedrew aear each other | observed that the Boer was orying. Mesting, at length, | gave him the usual salutations, and asked him if he were suflerin in the dialect of the land he assures that bodily by ¢ ax bur pape Was Very v - ’ sore He wont had killed his best frie He said that sudden! i on to exp He had but its strang with the uty fear that the dog yn some form of turned bis rifle upon bim The dog ran back along the ceeded on his iawaned upon be ufteringe {1 and fired and Later it Boer that he had left hs its owner pi wa sudde« the 3 coat at his i ton i 1 "im 10T on ransvas saving 1 i in his tracks and son arlicie #LOUL ig farmer to think the Boer turned ywwer his lost found not The poor last restr his “ H4 i at but only his ¢ animal, being unable e his master comprehend his safeguard his master's bullet had told its tale dead. — The Million 188 with away from an animal nr carries 14s iu GAriak ‘ he camel spive, fatty mate the camel's | When a we 1 ¥ i * ne ime starts its s hump is big vn out on =a jesert water pouch is full, i has only to when food is i upon itself to yo ux Joe way of getting a and very came} would rather go hungry than do that in way the hump is gradually absorbed, and for long time tine camel! has been aable to find anvthirg to est it can get along very comfortably on what its hump supplies it with By and by, of course, hump is nd then the camel will starve as quickly as aay When water {ails in? voir, and wanting, the hamp 18 Calle Not that the of its hump wer draw on amel helps bites That woul idedly uncomiortabl meal. likely the some alter the sed up other anima A great deal more lik basket is the bag the pelican carries ils food in. The pelican about as un- gainly and odd a bird as can be found, and vet is a very thas great webbed feet, short legs, big ho iy, huge wings and an enormous head Its mostly bill, and under part of the bill is a flabby bag made of tough skin, That bag can stretch and stretch until it can hold an incredible tity of fish, for ic is in that bag that the pelican puts the fish it catches for its food. When the bag is full, lican rises heavily from sea, and with broad sweeps of its great wings flaps slowly to the shore, where it alights and prepares to enjoy the meal it has earned. One by one the still liv ing fish are tossed into the air and come down head into the wide-opened mouth of the hungry bird Then there are American monKevs which little lunch baskets in Evervbody must have seen monkeys stuffing and stuffing food into their mouths until their cheeks were bulged quite out of shape It looks as if the greedy littie fellows were metely cramming their mouths full, he truth is, many of the monkeys have queer little pockets in their checks inte which they can stow enough food for a meal. Nor de the full cheeks interfere at all with the chewing of the monkeys any more than if the pockets were out side instead of inside of the mouth Bu: there is a little animal called the pouched rat which has an odder way than this of carrying its food. On each side of its face is a pouch which looks very tnuch like a kid glove finger drawa in at one end. These pouches stick straight out from the face and can be made to hold a large supply of food, The cow sod deer and savep and other similar animals have still another way of laying in a sapply of food. They bite off grass and leaves and swallow them without chewing at all. The fond goes into a special stomach, there to stay until it is wanted. When the animal is ready for it, a ball of the food is made up in that first stomach and sent up in the animal's mouth That ball is just a mouthful, and the animal can chew it comfortably. After it is chewed aod swallowed it goes inte the pro stomach and ie naiod Eating int way is called ruminating. --{ Harper's Young People. RR ABH MARI London's Rate of Mortality. A geaunine iuvoch 1% interesiiog one head 18 yn the jLAD the noe th La IK ae Bra hrst of the have carious their cheeks South some The rate of mortality of Loudon is shown by a recent report to have stead. ily decreased with the introduction and perfection of adequate means for dis. Jasin of the sewage of the city. In the alf of the seventeenth century the average annnal mortality is estimated at something over 80 per 1,000; at the end the eiehtosuth century it had dropped 56 per 1.000, and in 1802 it was only 19.1 per 1,000, i 3 a The ww of a firateoin ate fli Iydtonom. i
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