FULL-GROWN SPECIMENS ARE
RAISED FROM THE EGGS.
Strange Adventures of the Butterfly
Collectors in All Parts of the
World.
The chasing of butterflies has a |
fascination which does not always |
end with childhood. There are men
who have never ceased to feel the en-
thusiasm of the hunt, and, combin-
ing with it the knowledge and
resources of mature years, have gath-
AFTER THE HIGHFLYERS.
ered butterfly collections which num-
ber thousands of specimens and worth |
thousands of dollars. There are many
of these collectors in New York, but
flies.
Jrooklyn he has a caterpillar farm
While others are paying hundreds of |
dollars for rare butterflies, Mr. Doll |
is receiving the tiny e much
lower prices and rearing them until
they burst into gorgeous butterflies.
‘*An egg,’ he said the other day at |
the farm, standing amid the shrub- |
bery and wire cages under which were |
thousands of caterpillars
‘“ doesn’t necessarily mean
you are going to get a butterfly. You
are lucky if you get one out of ten |
egos. And it is mostly the fault of
the wretched little ichneumon fly.
This parasite, which is the everyday
wasp, stings its vietim and leaves |
some eggs in its body. The cater-
pillar goes on feeding, and after full
growth has been attained winds itself
in the cocoon exactly as its fellows |
do. But instead of a beautiful but-
terfly emerging there nothing but |
a mean little wasp.
“There is another difficulty. The
eggs come from all parts of the world
and the caterpillars want the food
their fathers Very often they
won't touch any other and then they
die, as half the time you have no idea
what plant they feed on, and couldn't
get it if you did Jut it o hap-
pens that a caterpillar from Mada-
gascar, say, will
of our native leaves.
ges at
is
ate.
ten
take kindly to one
Sometimes you
They eat all right and
Then morning
you find them dead. The eate
pillars didn’t the plant
they arrived at a certain stage of de-
velopment. Then it
them. I have dozens
you haven't.
begin to grow. some
11
ii
a
dislike
of different
a different species of caterpillar is
feeding.”’
GOT ANY 'BACCA?
“What are the stages of a butter-
fiy's growth?’ I asked.
“Well, to begin with the egg, it
may be sent from the Alps or the
Good Hope. I receive them on leaves
inclosed in boxes. I keep the eggs in
the house until the caterpillar crawls
out. Then 1 determine, if 1 can, to
what species the little fellow belongs
and what he likes to eat, and put him
on a plant under one of the cages,
where he feeds and grows, meanwhile
changing his skin two or three times,
When he shows signs of having had
enough of the world I put him into
a box with two feet of earth in the
bottom. He burrows in and is seen
no more until he is ready to assume
the gay life of the butterfly. This
may be a few weeks later, or, as is
the case with some species, it may be
two or three years. When he does
come up he getw a few hours of life as
a butterfly, and then a sniff of chloro-
form, which makes him ready for the
-eollection.
“How Iarge is the collection?
Well, 1 suppose there are between
60,000 and 70,000 specimens, includ-
ing the duplicates. Let me show
them to you.”'
With this Doll led the way indoors
to the butterfly room. It is a room
of cases. They begin with the floor
and end with the ceiling. Every
climate that will produce a flower
which the gorgeous creatures eat has
paid tribute to this collection. There
are butterflies whose wings measure
nearly a foot across, There are tiny
ones not hall so Jago us a ten-cent
~ piece, There are magnificent
Asiatic group In velvets of the most !
brilliant black, crimson, green and |
orange. The snow butterflies are
here, far from (he mountain tops,
where they flit over perpetual snow.
There are the Satrus Argentini from
Chili, whose wings look like bitg of
burnished silver; and the Caligos,
whose reverse side bears a striking
resembiance to nn owl, and the beauti-
ful Thaliurae Rhipheus from Mada-
gascar, with wings that glisten with
a wonderful mingling of old gold and |
red and blue and yellow.
“The males and females are side
by side. In many cases it is the
former that wear the brighter colors
A marked
example of this is seen in the curious |
and gorgeous sack bearers, whose
females are crawling, wingless ereat-
ures,’’
In
the collection are many silk
There sre members of |
the family gaudy with markings on |
the wings which are almost perfect re- |
But |
not the ones
It
meanest looking |
these fine creatures are
and
makes their co-
silk threads which |
The spinners |
from China, but]
thrive wherever the mulberry can be
be woven. silk i
came
It would be an endless task to de-|
the strange denizens of
sands of varie-
this insect
collector
There are
and
family that
tenth part
Furthermore,
are
.
collectors i
tion. thou
ties, yet go vast is
no has
of
aone
the
many
0
whole number
varieties
Every
nd butterflies which they
in ex-
Unknown, Ven?
A WESTERN ADVENTURE.
! 4 1 x : . i
rat a loss to classify It is nis |
ossibility of capturing insects which
§
’
ery rare orare complete strangers
5
hat lends so potent a « harm to scien
tific butterfly hunting
Once Mr. Doll was engaged
in the Rocky Moun-
rity flitted past
over a precipice.
s a A »
on a fiower. :
work of a
while
3 wots butte
him and disappeared
Far below it alighted
ns | the
as bl moment for
the
Then they lowered |
depths. Suspended in
mid air, with a
stream hundreds
deftly swept
rushing mountain
of feet below
butterfly into
he
his
It was well worth the perilous
the only one of its
hie
descent, being
kind ever found.
The Indians took great interest in
hunt- |
They would ride a long distance |
to see what was!
going on.
“What
doin’ ?"’
one of the blank- |
When told that they were after
man would turn
at in- |
wheeled around again |
variably he
“Any tobac?"’ :
It is not necessary to go long dis- |
attraction for the
or night flies, have brought
the collectors, and in the woods and
swampy ground of Long Island and
New Jersey a fly is occasionally |
caught which is worth much more |
than its weight in gold. But it is al-
most impossible to capture them |
without a minute knowledge of their
time and manner of flying.
be
THE GREATEST COLLECTOR OF ALL.
“Just last night,”’ said Mr. Doll,
“I and a couple of friends went to a
swamp near Brooklyn to see if we
couldn't catch some wood borers.
While these are not a particularly
rare fly, they bring $1 or more aplece.
It was 7:80 when we arrived at the
ples and not & buses was 16. be seul
ut all of a sudden at ten minutes to
8, they began their low and rapid
flight trom bush to bush,
_'* ‘I've got one,” somebody shouted.
There was another and the
another, until we had secured five.
But they stopped flying as suddenly
as they began, and by 8 o'clock it was
as if the insect never existed. This
is always the way. They feed for five
minutes or so at twilight, and for the
remainder of the time keep in hiding
places that collectors have rarely
discovered.
“My methods in catching butter.
flies? Well, except for those that fly
rapidly a bottle containing a little
chloroform is best. You can put it
over the victim and brush him in
without the handling which a net
necessitates, and which is so
disastrous to his beauty. The chlo-
are attracted by a lantern, the bigger
and brighter the better, and you can
the trunk of a tree. The manner of
habits. These are carefully studied
by the successful collector. The late
Prof. Hahnel spent five years doing
this very thing along the banks of the
Amazon. Noticing that the rare and
beautiful Morpphos fly above the tree
i secured enough
supply the collectors
’
of the world.’
rh
fais
SOMEWIIAT STRAN(
i
SEASONABLE HINTS AND MAT = |
TERS OF MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventuros
Which Show that Truth is Stranger |
Than Fiction.
Dr. Guraerig, of Edinburgh, after |
sarrying on ragged schools in that
city for a number of years, sent in-
vitations to a dinner to boys who had
found a blessing in the schools. Two
hundred and fifty responded, one
gentleman traveling 500 miles to be
present.
A TAME crow with luminous logs |
is owned by Zebedee Smith, of Elks
tun, Md. At least, Zebedee claims
that peculiarity for the bird, when it
is placed in a dark room and some-
body whistles ‘Sweet Marie.”” This,
he asserts, will cause its legs to twin- |
A HUMAN face cloux is on view in
the window of a St. Petersburg, Rus-
sin, watchmaker, The hands are piv.
the and
spoken into its ear are repeated by a
phonograph through its mouth. It
nose, Any messages
nee
very cl
an
;
Ive Work by
oculist, pear nat in a
Lid § 1 60
wore
hundred ! SOnNs8, one
of the workmen, in wi ing his ham-
i 11 2 $ 1 ..
mer, carelessly allowed it to slip from
It flew ha
his hand. if
room and struck a felloy
the left eve Ti
his eye wi
nougn 8
ans
for
of
| offers of ¢
Under the
factory was responsible
conrts
& joss of half
fused al
law the « the
injury
t of
lieved that
resulting from an this
and although he
the man was shamming, and
:
sind
that the
case was an attempt at swind-
y his mind
led to pay
he day of the trial ar-
open
for
be com pe
the claim. 1
and in
ist retained
court an eminent
the
OX
ember,
jefensd
jured n
and gave it as hi hat it was
as good as the right ey«
plaintifl’s loud pr
to
8 Opinio
Uponthe
test of his ing i
see with |
yroved him ¢
and
1
l
court
claim.
And how do yon
simply |
C20rs green atu
1 two different glasses
the rig being red
for the left eve consisting o
1 hen
and he wan
nt eve i
f wold 3 Gry
{ ordinary
rigs was handed
zie
him a the
writing on it. without
was at once
fitted
was unable to dis-
hesitation
exposed. The sound right
with the red gl}
the green
black surface of the
left eye, which he
sightless, was the one with which the
reading had to be done.—{Sheflield,
England, Telegraph.
eye
A
writing on the
card, while the
pretended
Sacrifices to the Sea.
To the adventurous globe-trotter
who has elimbed the rock-path to the
sailor's church of Notre Dame de la-
sacrifices and offerings for perils
passed and to come must be no old |
story, says Lieutenant J. DD. Jerrold
in deseribing
There
is a
leons, in the rusting
the shrines, These grace’
after danger. these insurantes agains’
to come, circle the world, N
people have escaped the influence o
such hopes and thanks. Our Indiant
were fettered by them, and no cere
monious offerings were more come
mon than those which went to ap-
pease the angry Spirit of the Waters,
On the upper tributaries of the Miss.
jssippi, the Indians, with occult rites,
gave tribute of tobacco from a beet
ling cliff to the Great Spirit of the
the water with blasts from the cav
erns of the jealous gods. Algonquins
in the North, Aztecs, sons of Ata-
hualpsn and Marco Capae, in the
South~-all blew incense out of their
pipes, and strewed upon the currents
and tide-ways just such offerings of
tobacco as, in our more subjective
days, we give with lost meaning to the
minor gods who rule the man’s hour
in our feasts,
Superstitious Chinese Sailors.
Chinese junks and boats have eyes
carved or painted on the bows, which
are usually supposed to be a mere
fanciful form of ornamentation. But
they have a real meaning, as a recent
traveler found. In going up one of
the rivers from Ningpo, he was
startled one day by seeing a boatman
seize his broad hat and clap it
over ono of the “eyes” of the boat,
while other boats on the stream were
similarly blinded. Looking about
for an explanation, he saw a dead
body floating past, and he was told
by the boatman that if the boat had
been allowed to “see’’ it some disns-
ter would surely have happened
either to passengers or crow before
the voyane anol od. ~{New York Dis
I.
hich
a Rockville,
Brahma rooster w
James LeepoMm,
farmer, has a
of
a company
were performing
Whether this
i hiel
ward from the
hatched
strolling
Lee
anythi
act, 1s
rung
while
perobats
barn.
ng to do with this une
1
was
1
in lom's
has
he
ure
Hixtox, a farmer
gton, Ga., found the other day
¢
% 0
i
CHARLES
his sheep had got a large
maypop lodged in its throat He took
his pocketknife out and cut t
turs’s the maypop
the wound The
Hinton had had n
but
throat
removed
ad ni
iup
aver,
sh
| rec
at
nary experience is naturally
geons in Stony Strat
are puzzled over the
who has shed
Wenver,
sets of tecth Years.
with a rubber
1
athing
soothing
in
ribs his gum
and doses him
twenty
wife
is cutting a new
»
when he
i marks inte
funeral.
id a Ket
A few
days
surpri
father
Patona
tirceece, alter
ar He never
which he was bor
i He
i sins $e
jegrin his priestly o
fond was
i¥
ies
he do Bec
be.
unrise, and to retire promptly
His ii i i hearing were in
R day of his
i n made use of
glasses. He was in the active min-
istry for ninety-nine y¢
BE
(fi Ne never
A MARRIAGE resulting in an extra-
ordinary state of complicated family
relations recently took place in Bir
mingham, England. The woman had
been married three times before, and
each time had taken for her husband
Her fourth
husband was a widower, and. as he
had children by his first wife, who
was herself! a widow with children
when he married her, the newly mar-
ried couple started their matrimonial
companionship with a family com-
posed of no less than eight previous
marriages,
Ir is a unique position which a
young Englishwoman. a Miss Hamil-
ton. of London, will fill in the palace
of the Ameer of Cabul. She
simply to pose as a lady for the in-
mates of his harem. With an un-
usaal liberality of spirit for an Asi- |
atic potentate, he perceives the
advantage to be received from his
wives’ intercourse with a refined and
intelligent woman, and he is giving
it to them. Miss Hamilton is highly
accomplished, and a physician as
well, but she goes to the ameer's |
court in the sole capacity of lady,
and is well paid for it.
Mus. Erver Harnaway, of Gering |
Neb., has a little more presence of
mind and a trifle more of muscular
activity than most women. The
other day she left her two babies in a
wagon while she stepped into the
post-office. In a moment she heard
a shout, and looking down the street,
she saw her team running away,
with the babies behind riding to al-
most certain death, Instead of
screaming, she ran into the road,
and, as the flying horses dashed past
her, she seized the end gate of the
wagon, pulled herself up into the
box, secured possession of the reins
and brought the frightened animals |
to a stop. And all the babies did |
was to smile.
* Dip you ever see people bathe in |
blood and drink it by the cupful?”’
asked Ellwood Johnson, of Boston.
“1 saw that very thing recently in
Rome during a tour of Europe, It
wae at a place called the Zorronnle
Insitute, and it is quite a fad there,
I have heard of people drinking blood, |
fresh from slaughtered animals, for |
the cure of consumption, all my life,
but at this institution people drink |
the blood, or bathe in it, for the cure
sf gout, rheumatism and the malaria,
vhiel is such wu curse in the marshes
wound Kome. The Roman doctors |
wve great faith in the cnmtive !
cra of blood, and t t e wim |
0 bu baned at.
is
fi vice
such,
to me, revolting methods.”
Oxe use of the whalebone to which
the Esquimaux put it, and one case
of which came under my personal ob-
must not allow to pass
Fugene Mellville,
of the United States Navy. When.
or 80, or dug up a cache of re indeer
meat just when it needed, or in
any way have aroused the ire of the
he takes a strip of
whalebone about the size of those
used in corsets, wraps it up into a
compact helical mass like a watch
spring, having previously sharpened
both ends, then ties it together with
reindeer sinew, and plasters it with a
compound of blood and grease, which
was
sufficiently strong to hold
the sinew string ove ry second or
third turn. This. with a lot of
lar looking baits of meat and blubber
is seattered over the
at
simi-
snow or ground
and the hunery wolf devours it
with the ]
thawed out
:
others and when
warmth
4
stomach, it
well known ef of whalebone on
advantage Of
are more rapid
with the most
couple of days,
“A FEW years
Patterson
ered
over to a cot i
everything he
hurried In
ieted
ONY
nocked out
ins
fs by al
and the third by su
Zanes
ns ro
id he
about
#3 why thes
suffering ‘and
shock. Ido
He was
pole when the shock came
sitting with his
around the pole. “*“When the shoek
* he it just knockea me
backwards the same as if you had hit
the head with a
down I went, but not very
far, because my locked heels caught
and
numbed
least sen-
is ( rit
é
; was half bad Up on a
:
and was
logs interlocked
came, anid
me in
head first
on the lowest cross-bean
I bung. My senses were
right off, and 1 hadn't the
sation, except waiting rather uncon
cerned a couple of then |
lost my senses,’
odds the worst
seconds;
stas the sunstroke
ture as Dante deseribes,
he had done in his life kept parading
themselves before him. He could
hear the people say that he was dead.
gions over ways and means to deter.
mine whether there was a spark of
life left—all this was going on for
several hours until he did really lose
all consciousness, After that he was
for three weeks in a hospital
A USIQUE operation has been sne-
cessfully performed by Dr. James Ha.
ley, a veterinary surgeon of New Lon-
don, Conn. A handsome little cocker
spaniel was brought to him a short
time ago suffering with curvature of
the spine, as the result of a kick ad-
ministered by some brute. The little
fellow’s back was twisted out of shape
and he was practically helpless. His
not move. He was always a sufferer,
and kept moaning and whining. Dr.
to kill him, but he was such g hand-
some little fellow the doctor thought
to save him. After
was straightened and the dog was en-
eased in a plaster paris jacket, swung
in gtraps and given vroper medicine
and food. Finally the plaster was
for a moment in a surprised sort of a
spring into the air, and, with a loud
bark started off on a dead run ina
He kept it
up for about ten minutes, and seemed
anxious to show every one he was all
right. He is just as good a dog now
us he ever was, climbs stairs without
trouble, and gets about with just as
wich ease as any of his play fellows,
The doctor is quite proud of his
fob and the owner of the dog is, of
wnree, greatly pleased, to say noth
ing of the dog ldmsell.—{New Yor
Dispateh,
so Sr ———————
NOTES AND COMAJAENTS.
Tue first Sabbath school was instle
{ taited in 1787. There are now in the
| United States 108,939 Babbath
| sehools, with 8,649,000 scholars. The
| world has 20.078 596 Sabbath school
i scholars.
| Tur statistics show that the city
thaving t rate in the
{world is Rheims
28.62
he greatest death
France, the propor.
being per 1 GO in each
Dublin follows with 27.00 and
tion
| year,
i New York with 26.27.
rf
i pute the worth of the gentler sex in
Oceasiox ALLY it is possible to com-
| hurd cash. “Two Little Girls in Blue”
| represent at least $12 000, i
{what the pretty
i New Rochelle
(zlenroy
i yo
built
which 1s
residence at
Mr. W. H.
fa.
yuthor of i
new
cost
home
profit
MoUs few
beer
{ BON.
}
ns
NUupreme
time ago
Roman Catholic died in
bile and bequeathed $2 000 Lo
i for the mas for
“8% JOT 118 SOU. 1 he
YOId Decallse
150 structures destroyed
{ fire represent 8 money value
i (HN),
capable of produ
are OH (KK IRN Ww
URL EIREE ERTS FT i
$2 a
2 ANN IKK) earning
| $120 a year
is0
ar
MINS
little over ye
florins
annual
The situ-
ation of small property-holders is noi
1.690 000 whose
wages exceed that amount.
{ much better. During the last thir
teen years 46.989 farms, valued at
205 077.000 florins, ha
the
! which sum wen
ve been sold by
nsiderable part of
to banks and money
courts a8
{| lending societies,
Exrenon Wiiniam of Germany has
{| shown his versatility in many ways,
i and it was not until a few weeks ago
| that he made his debut as a matri-
{ monial agent. The debut was suc-
cessful. Recently a young man and
| two women from Berlin went to Pots-
| dam to view the Park of sSan-Souci,
the favorite one of Frederick the
| Great. They lost their way, how-
| ever, and were obliged to accept the
assistance of a soldier who was fa-
| miliar with the grounds. He showed
them everything of interest, and fi-
nally bade them farewell at the sta-
| tion. But one of the young women
. had taken a fancy to the private, and
began to long to see him again. After
days of indecision she wrote to the
Emperor, asking him to find out the
name of the soldier who had been so
kind to her. His Majesty began the
investigation at once, soon learned
the name of the young man, and
granted him a leave of absence to
spend in Berlin. The young woman
is well-to-do and the volite guide is
to become her husband in a few
weeks,
M. Berrueror, at a banquet of
chemists held in Paris recently, en-
tertained the guests with a prophetic
picture in the twentieth century.
“Before the coming century is far
advanced, chemistry will have solved
the problem of existence so as to
render the cultivation of tire soil un-
necessary,” he said. ‘Already man.
ual labor has been, and is every day
still further being, replaced by steam,
which is nothing more than chemical
combustion. To secure this chemical
combustion we have now to dig coal
from the bowels of the earth, and
soon we shall have exhausted the sup-
ply. But before that exhaustion comes
upon us, we shall have found means
to tap the solar heat, and utilize
the latent heat in the centre of the
earth. There woe have thermo-electrig
and chemical ene lying at ha
ready to be used. ere are no m
chanical difficulties in the way
tapping these sources of ene
yond the capacity of human
nity ; and the achievements of ¢
cers show that when the
arses means will be found
Laas she sun or the internal