BORNEO'S GIANT APES. HUMAN BEINGS. birds. They are Going ia droves, | seem almost like { natural acrobats. Nests. “The traveler who visits the island of Borneo cannot be otherwise than struck with the wonderful likens human beings exhibited by the giant apes of that country. Whatever these creatures do is very much as man would do it—that is to ws to 1 gone of their daily lives—eating, drinking, building nests, fighting like roughs, and forth—they resemble our- selves. though in grotesque fashion. Their motions of affection, satisfac. tion, pain and rage shown in thoroughly human-like ways.’ Thus spoke a naturalist in conver- sation with a writer for the Washing- ton Star, and added : “Of course, vou know that the orang-outang is one of the three giant apes. Though found to some extent elsewhere, it h hief hi i Borneo, where it pathless forests greater part of the island is as well dey that of the goril “The most str 80 are nx its ‘over Its brain loped and as large as impanzee of he ¥ wail ow MIeTHRE Te- chest, arms and hands are human lil in their Since the a: 1 ae pend ns upon these meml locomotion t ) of massive The natural position of your hand or mine when at rest is with the bent at the tips that orang with fingers In handling a dead ape of this is often found impossible to straighten even a single finger without cuttin the tendon in the palm of the hand Thus, when an orang is asleep most natural position | assume is firmly grasping ¢ hand. “The eves of the orang are very small, with an iris of dark browr no white v Its teeth ways very much discolored by table acids and each tooth being usually brick red sometimes so ght almost straw cols seems to have no head being set squarely the shoulders. and weak. Like a ¢ sits down in the word. The males by remarkable discs of call on the cheeks These tilaginous and seem to namental. F them. “The males are n ing, as is proved scars found and captive speci fruit-eating animal ine teeth vided chiefly and they use tage. gpecies they ar other's fingers ' Their jaws do not to seize an advantage. “In a fight the chic orang isalways to seize fingers and convey This method of largely becanss wieldiness of the ani gaged in conflict it itself from falling out of the tree by holding on with one hand, and it is hardly practicable to come to ¢ quarters in a r tle. Thus it is more than likely that such encounters rarely terminate fatally to the vanquished, the latter getting away or later with more or less mutilation. In a fight with a ‘man this giant ape pursues the same tactics, and it ag fe for a person to approach too near an orang in a cage lest he lose a fin. ger or two by the venture, “The faces and features of vary a8 much as those of human be- ings ordinarily—certainly as much as those of Ch and Japan- ese. These apes inhabit a wide belt of forest-covered swamps which lies between the sesconst and the moun tain ranges of the interior ¢f Borneo. Out of the swamps isolated hills rise here and there, like islands out of the sea. clothed oo their summits with trees. Many of the trees bear fruit of different kinds, and at the season of ripening the apes repair to the hills for their great yearly feast. Among the fruits are the ‘durion,’ the ‘mangosteen’ and the ‘rambutan,’ as well as others equally unknown to this part of the world. The ‘durion’ | is perhaps the most delicious of all | fruits. uniting the flavors of the peach, the pear ‘and the strawberry. Like! most things nearly perfeet, however, | it has a drawback, namely, that it! leaves a taste in the mouth the next) day after it is eaten which is more abominable than can either be de! scribed or conceived. The animals devour the shoots of the pandanus palm and other trees, as well as cer- tain kinds of leaves. During the hot months they retire into the depths of the forests. “Orangs are the most arboreal of all monkeys. Living wholly in trees, they never come down to the nd, though when thirsty they cend far enough to reach thé water. A more On creature on land could not be imagined. Owing to the great weight of their bodies, and the pecu- liar structure of their hands, they cannot run along the branches, and never dare to spring from one tree to the next, Smaller relatives of theirs, ike size outline. ainly ns of Huey prop srtion but 18 ithe or "- 1 Lie and isible. are al- Vi rie juices, the base of black. The hair is or dark red, though a brown r. The at all down upor as to be nal anit id neck ta} p an h ¢ Its hind legs aresshior herub, it never proper sense of are distingt are on the Kerrrry as ¢ §y en great Like som rotgchs of the hums given nd bitin open shine aria or ita adve them to his mouth 18 adopted he extreme un- While en- is obliged to save bat con Oo: t ral lose sugh-and-tumble bat- sOOner is not orangs nese of the most interesting spectacles imaginable is to see a troop of them | crossing a gap in the forest by throw- | ing themselves in succession in the taking a swing or two Not so the with its | huge flabby stomach and massive head. His weight of 120 to 160 pounds compels him to move slowly and circumspectly, lest he fall. He will swing himself along the under large limb as a gymnast swings along a tight-rope reach- ing six feet at a stretch. When passing from one to another he reaches out and gathers in his grasp a | number of small branches that he feels sure will sustain his weight, and then swings himself a height inches, orang tree HOTOSS, © to four feet six That does not seem very tall, perhaps, but an animal of the maximum height 1 have mentioned will measure, with outstretched arms, cight inches from finger-tip to finger. The able t« ful erect, without withits hands. V1 nests of orangs are utilized for the purpose of repose. All over those regions of the Island of Borneo which are observes feet seven feet orang is not y stand he occupied by these great arrangements for apes one numbers such dwells Od primitive 2. quantity of leafy branches broken and piled loosely in the fork of a tree, The animal a mere sapling and builds its nest in its top, it to nly Ther branches, They consist commonly of a off usually seleets even though his weight SWHY The n dianmet is no weaving together of which are simply piled ¢ fs builds a CRUSES alarmingly. nest is o two or three feet i er. POSSWise, 3 prea; : build one for himseld fact, the beast nest 4% a man would were he obliged to pass tree top, and had neither I have seen night a ax nor Knife. one or two such Ness made by men in the forest, where the iy $ 3.4 3 which tO Work, hands with 11 builder had Or his bare and they were It ike respect the nests of one of orang Ii apes pon this leafy pinatf es Ian long arms and short ward and while he upward firmiy negrest grasping sieeps the ir 41d | n a Siting THE LOST IS FOUND. After Thirty-Seven Years of Sepa~ ration Brothers Meet. sf interesting cases ng Stateler One of the me where the extremely unlikely h pened was recorded by IK agent of the Northern Pacific Fran- Passer. general passenger department at Sar cisco, at the office of General ger Agent Fee. ngo h Thirty-seven years be- a the he and i= brother parted in the shuffle duris and until few thought the other dead. lived in came lost War davs ago each Both broth- Minnesota since 1 a war K. MIR] he years ago, when 1 ler accepted his present San Francisco The that when he his brother fron four i feature of the affair is af heard few days a : i go it was to learn that he was dying and when to Clarissa, where his Wher fhe follo to Minnesota the cits was en route Brother jos dy ing. he we nos wi a reporter related story There we Martin V. the next the youngest enlisted in 1861 in the Fourth souri Infantry. My brother Martin enlisted in 18638 in Hundred-and thirteenth Illinois Infantry. Ms voungest brother served until ary or March, 1862, when ~t. Joseph, Mo. I found after my enlistment ruary 2, 1862, iim. At the time of my enlistment | was in correspondence with my elder brother, who had gone east in 1857. Such correspondence was continued until his enlistment and capture, which occurred some time in the lat. ter part of 1868. After his capture our correspondence ceased. I never heard from him from that time until the early part of this January. He lies now very sick with the dropsy at Clarissa, Minn. “The very peculiar part of it is the fact that he lived in Minnesota from 1870 up to the present time, and | form 1870 to 1888, at which time | left for San Francisco. I am now on my way to see him, and I hope to find him alive.” —[8t. Paul Pioneer Press. re three brothers of eldest. = we 3 being the I was brot her My younger the he died at him just which was Feb- fryat FLIER J Fish in a Cistern. At the regidence of N. M, Hedges, on Keokuk street, there is a large, unused cistern. About two years ago it was cleared out by the Messrs. Hedges and then closed, since which time it has not been opened, except on one or two occasions, There are no outlets to the cistern and no one has access to it and no one has opened it. Recently when it was emptied and cleaned Mr, Hedges was surprised to find two lively fishes, each about soven inches in length, in the bottom of the eis. tern. They closely resembled eo in shape, but they are nearly biae in color. None of the family ean account for the presence of the finny strangers, and Mr. Hedges has arrived at the conclusion that they were not placed there at all, but “just growed.’ ~(Petaluma (Cal) Imprint. the gibbons of Borner, weighing only wl Fumi way, adopted ae NOTES AND COMMENTS. the ‘two Emperor WiLniam says that Russian Czar and himself are princes of peace.’ Loxceviry is by no means a thing of the past in England. The average age of the persons whose obituaries appeared in the London Times during was between 80 and 86 years, and such | a record is said not to be uncommon. Prorre around Niagara Falls ob- ject to the phrase ‘harnessing Niag- | used by some newspaper corre- spondents to describ the application of its power to machinery. They say that Niagara's strength is not appre- | ciably lessened by the fuct that a little water is made to flow through a tunnel, GERMANY, whose population is) increase of 1,121. That §.87 doctors for every! an not En ™ while in other districts number of population. POSSESSES also 915 dentists and 4,988; rermany the Admirals Navy necessi- Tur shifting about of of the United States tated by the approaching retirement of several now commanding in foreign thing of frequent oce because no Rear Admiral ever act Inst year's six Rear Admirals remain the ear Admirals can ree or four years on Admirals Drum { Stanton, wh waters is a i ig enjoys that rank on the Of y thr Few of the ¢1 more than tl ive ‘ : . a Or firl:ve wl remain the itive Wiallser 1st Gireer AT from 44 to 47 years Is the recently {rom steamer Pacific thn trans CRIT Of 6 arrived at a China were a nun ¢ $ boxes o silkworms. in London After in port the worms | ihe steamer arryeaq wera 10 crawl Holes had air Lo of their cocoons bored in the They los crawled a number = deck boxes to give worms SOOT found through then 13 jeceaded ren where we thes Ar Raw mar gar Wher tl a open w 1 4 Suppose that the t LTE ter set in would have vith the turning of the leaves it is known that some open winted cold ones set I have noticed ld weather beginning the turnin sent y and some that the does f tha not The M mark GRVOR pre chigan RO w early There was unusually but th lid not turn until a my the All arranged for an Ww October loa o nth later thas average Lime Open inier ount, and they have not been In to fail Elgin, il. ne taker fact. 1 have kt never ry the sig Trade n is thedairy centre of the universe The total of the territory represented at Elgin the year 1808 was 30,996 525 for which £8 0058 “ 5 cash was received, and 6.361 - pounds of cheese, valued at $572. - The price for IRG3 er was 26 cents, and of cheese The total production of this for twenty-two vears has been 218 404,101 pounds of but. | ter and 180 865, 445 pounds of cheese. | 3 Fd joand of Tus product for 104 To ahi a9 average sh nts, The average price of butter for] twenty-two years has been 28% cents | There are 398 factories represented on the Elgin board. Tie oyster fishery of Maryland the most extensive and valuable the world—has been vexed with dis. | putes for the last seventy ‘years. Legislative attempts to control it sat- isfactorily have been made in vain. Whereas in most other oyster-produc- | ing States the market supplies are chiefly obtained from private grounds Maryland has persistently refused to | encourage the development of pro- | prietary beds, devoting all her ener- | in| gies to protecting the free fishery on | the public domain. Though the pro- | vision of oysters made by nature for this region is so vast, imprudent methods of fishing are threatening to | exhaust it. Already the yield is be-| coming less, though still enormous, and the oysters brought to market are of much smaller size than form- erly. Thus it happens that several Baltimore market men are now im- porting large oysters from elsewhere. Wey the hard times have come, how shall we meet the crisis? asks Professor Felix Adler. With the serenity and courage of stoicism. Happily, our nation is well armed to thus meet adversity. We move in crowds; and crowds may be angry, but are never gloomy, because con. tact exhilarates and encourages. In hard times retrenchment becomes a duty. But we need less instruction In the art of how to retrench than in the art of how not to retrench. We are apt to begin at the wrong end; and we do this when we retrench in the education of our children or in the dispensation of our charities. Hard times should empaasize, not min. imize, the import of develop the mind and character of our needy, they need our help more, not less, when the waves of commercial depression overwhelm them. Tue 8t. Petersburg Gazetle gives a gynopsis of the report of the special commission appointed by the Russian Government to determine on the most practical way of constructing the great Siberian railway, the conclu- gion arrived at being that the work should be accomplished step by step, but with the result that the line should be completed in 1900. It is estimated that the of construc- tion need not 950.000, 000 ost “© x coined would sum of It is, how- go that the treasury have to advance the 25,000,000 roubles a year, f economy would reduce the sum 000 roubles, so that the cost per verst would not exceed from 25,000 to 258. - 00 roubles. The line would be as narrow as possible ; conduits except- ed, all the work would be in wood at the At the beginning of tablished points, most important the en- of and wheels would he employed, except in the steppes where engines of six wheel mum rolling stock reason engines of eight {hint re Another suggestion is romiging of Ye enue be commenced first GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME. est Civilization Prevails. A Finn of the f Eur attempling raphy of number 1 ogists oO ly been stimicier » of Europe Dundred ond yi $1" » 3 4 % 4 every mii ton pedpie Ki fhemseive From all aecording fron i CHell Year, COT ENE 1 Iosser distance lossnl As ter, arises the « tain of Germany hie sden north, sout trian it s from Baxons Clropoiitan « fi greater amotnt around Li Vie Ors o© niry Berlin, New 3) There are BO OK professional than the eou don Nt 1 Paris na, Rome n the arder tershury Oris eriminais 1 constantly mel Londor acing the public peace, t life and p OGne-sAixt? 1 safety roperiv of ail are in pr ! ! Buda-Pesth seem (ton of burglary. Murder propor ion it is with The higher 2 fewer the number itted itl faith ION The GNiyY exe Turkeys i# productive of cOmn i i® in where the Islam a certain 1# sentiment which makes the greatest crime against he vd Wer assaults =. Nx) Spain, where an inereas with 1 C1 divine laws In Greece ther derous inst vear, or one to Next tn bloodshed goes hand in hand the gradual of the Theft, like murder, goes with lack of culture and civilization. it in very mre inn Swe den and Norway, while Turkey, Rus- sin, Hungary and the Balkan States every persons COmes decline country London is a Meces of swindlers, Ger many also makes a bad record of late, honesty in business transactions while Belgium. France and Switzer land rank favorably in this respect. Italy, Turkey. and Buch- arest is known to-day as the greatest It will {reece eriminal map of Europe, showing that certain sections produce murder, just as ton. —{ New Orleans Times Democrat. How to Treat aCut. Adhesive plaster ought to be the ing it in aroll in the drawer, it ought to be cut into strips of different breadths., It is thus ready for imn- mediate use, and there ix no chance of it sticking together as it does if kept in bulk. When if is necessary to use this plaster to keep the edges of the wound together, we must be careful first and foremost to see that the wound is perfectly clean, and that no sand, glass or grit is in it, which would cause festering and prevent it from healing. Never cover a wound wholly up with a piece of plaster; whatever be ita size, use long, narrow strips. Warm the plaster by holding the k of it against a can of boiling water for a few seconds, then apply it across the wound, leaving a small space between each strip to give exit to the lymph. Remember that stick ing plaster has no healing action in itsel!, and the benefits dorived from its use are of a purely mechanical na~ ture. Clean cuts are better bound vp with the blood, simply with a linen mg, for sticking pisster is of no use until the bleeding stops, bays the Popular Science News, In case of seal wounds, the hair must be shaved o before the plaster is applied { SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF | EVERYDAY LIFE. tf i i i Gueer Facts and Thrilling Adve. - tures which Show that Truth Stranger Than Fiction. is Tnomrsox Casrerrr of LBulte Mont., has live sapphires taken from the gizzard of a Montana turkey. The sapphires are all of good size and one of them weighs about two karats Govenrxsor Perer Torsey, of Ten- nessee, though seventy years of age is still an enthusiastic deer and fox hunter. Unele’” Tim Dyer, of Vinal Haven, Me., has just celebrated ninetieth birthday by taking and unaided, fishing in an open dory a halibut weighing 332 pounds. J. (:. Rich. of Bethel, Me, who is now seventy-three years of age, has a ord of having killed seventy-three bers, vy It is evident that the Ameri- Nestor ean do something mire 1 hing b his #ione re. can tall 1 +3 One of thie most strikin na of the Adirondack carrying power of the hur ' the nan vole still weather upon Ines great Persons ashore casily the ordinary conversation of who are so far out upon the lake asi ol. tel guishable nd as be undisti Adirondack Yin i i“ habitus IRILOrs violate the 11 aii sued vy careful not even to whisper a wo I that might betray their guilt fa » vs $1 3 i rowing upon the inkes, rkable about thr Mrs ia who lives im Hartwell ife of cerry { iri a fsern Vickery's a sever was blow down 1 her suddenly and wi cal pe ax she ever did and can ne Mrs Wers $y ss 10% % LW i y Reading NWover ana a white oak cured from the farn a farmer of Maxa- near Bowers Stati y £ ¥ shes in diameter, struck a pie tooth of quartz of the ' every big saw ne sone wa » inches in clams and embedded x thirty feet from the § and inside the solid wood considerable specuiation as he stone got into the trunk tree, There is mile the stood. It must over two hundred it is believed The largest in wiih the quartz f from where t rev have been there for Dine vears, ax the tre geveral centuries of the was fre Was One yYers that section York crema - A Germax resident of New saved S208 the other day by ing his father’s Lody before shipping to Eutope far native place, The cost of shipping a corpse is £300. and the steamship compa aies are anything but anxious to take them at that The agents of the companies take the horrors at the offer of such freight seamen are sure to desert if they get the slightest inkling of the fact that a dea man sail with them. They have a superstition that disas- ter ix sare to overtake a int carries u corpse. When the shipper told the agent that he wanted to send hix father’s body to Germany he felt very uncomfortable, but when he saw the small box, which contained the remains, and learned that the bod) had been reduced to ashes, l interment at his 3 : and some of the is to vessel tl he {eit better, and charged but $2, instead of $300, Tur big four-masted ship Lucipara, which sails from Glasgow, recently made a voyage from Sharpness to Sydney, New South Wales, While sailing along between the Cape of Good Hope and Australia the ship | ran into a hurricane, or was over- taken by one, about midnight. Sud- denly the sea, which had been dan- | gerously high, became calm, and to those on the ship it seemed as if the surface of the ocean had been sub- jected to an enormous pressure, by which the waves were stilled. With. out warning, the men were almost blinded by a sheet of flame which en. veloped the ship from stem to stern and reached half way up the musts, | This wave of fame surged back and | forth, fore and aft, for a few seconds, | and was then snutfed out as suddenly | as it appeared, leaving captain and crew groping about in intense dark- The blinding glare was ex-| tremely painful to the eyes, but caused no damage either to the men or to the ship. Tue Fowler had been for the past three years stationed at Tampico do- ing jetty work. Bhe left Tampico in December for Mobile, via Corpus Christi, for repairs. Her crew cone sisted of nine men, including the tain. The first night out, at 11 o'clock, the chief engineer fnformed Captain N. K. Fley that ‘the vessel was making water fash. All hands wore called to the mps and the course of the v was turned to- wards port until nfathoms of water wore Wr n she was turned due north. ALD o'clock the next day the 2 was eontinued ing, when the exhausted, tug could not be yntil the day follow. men entirely The eaptain saw that the id ordered DECSOTYers and to swim for the The was put hard to irboar priad beached, becnme hye i fil ne men to put on {iu iis beim the the beach rage "EW RW a ise a AW made on the far: OXDERFUL dis ry 14% Deen Anderson Miller 3 i ¥ it 14 Koti hicast rs who lives abou 1 from Barboursville, Kv. the BEN A Cincinnati Enquirer digging Miller had gone down pr babi four ort feet when he struel to be g very hard pounded away a he rumbling a post hole in ST 4 33 ~ appeared and hie iin why y ¢ { 2 wien Was sidaen rid f fg O ara RR 2 u thu and hissi penred to be steam tool wag lifted clear and thrown ses 140 fee a run for water shot forth made Lhe water was [37 sued it tement id 10 wh ed strean | hes wide a nooting its eet and forn hy aim » Des ia City as oldsmith’s the same Sun (:lobe-Den - rod 14 0 § thal residences stores that credit to New York i £ al ho = nt ney freely society brillianey and avery could States. The are closed hat for ot be equalled in the United I was there a no. Ma 3 hotels and oper: 1¢ s1 Wes I'e- sr pros roux cost hundreds lars are given broken panes of i upon a the wind 2 2 of loneliness, over &, and shutt Ie OF | Frewscme r= hanes £ o ig flappis or ir welise it will afford mag of ruins, and even sections of the town beholder of J Millions made and lost, and the history of Virginia City would be one of the r written.’ most thrilling stories ever VERTS 10 COmie ni mt Sed tacies in som fense to the of y Is A ing 8 oily the past Wer n A May swallowed an electric at the City Hospital the other afternoon light Baltimore, Md, He was John Thomas, a white patient, who volun- n order that the 400 students and the faculty of the City College could see how dis- eases of the stomach are diagnosed by the newest fangled method. Prol Julius Friedenwald the most eminent physicians of this eity, had charge of the experiment. Thomas’ stomach was cleansed. then a quart of water was pumped into it through a tube. The water was to expand the walls of the stomach in order thal a plainer view of that organ could be had. Then the small glass bulb of a powerful incandescent electric light was given Thomas and he swallowed it with as little ceremony as if it was a glass of water. Professor Frieden wald pressed the button, the light did the rest and the abdominal cavity was all aglow. The interior machin. ery of the man was faintly visible, Thomas kept the bulb inside for about ten minutes, then it was drawn up by a string to which it was at- He said he felt none the The stu- dents paid close attention to the ex- periment, which was pronounced per- haps the most successful of the kind ever made anywhere, The electrical appliance was of the very latest de- sign, being simply an incandes- cent bulb about the size of a large pecan nut, A BAA A SOA Marine Monsters Fight, 3 3 : . teersd 10 dO the (rick ane of The at spectacle of a fight be tween a ‘whale and a thresher was provided or the crew of the steamer un recently. A huge whale was rising from the water and Rung. ing with great violence, as if driven to ness by some hidden antag. onist, On nearing the creature those on board the vessel saw that a furious battle was between the mone ter and a
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