ABOUT THE BOERS. THE PIONEERS OF CIVILIZATION IN AFRICA, tiate the English So In. Why They fensely--How They Punish Intemper. ance—Idesl of Womanly Beauty. To those vvho have not lived among the Boers it is almost form any idea of the real of things in the Transvaal, or to under afand the thousand and one petty an poyapnces which infest the daily life of the English under the Boer rule. A Boer bates nothing under sun worse than an Englishman. 1 say Eng- lishman, for a woman, be she English or of any other moe, Is with kindness and mpossible to state the treated consideration by the of the Transvaal This hatred is Boér since the days of invasion, General Craig was ap] governor of the Cape. A vions to this, the French Flusuenots, emigrated to amd fo this blending of the Duteh am Freoeh race we » Boer of The patri the old 1" code and man #{ill Hives In made he civilization a simple | cenfories the Englis meant weall the English; benee the Bo be conquerer fuller life When at found the go antrodden reg believed] hls tied! down nnd Andries 1 a stafe the b the Iwo centaur yolnted century refugees, the Cape to-clny the Irony of poor Boer his count and diamo: farm gat the whole the sold This {im readily, for father an grant far advanees of fhesn the worth of aloe of t} ing and needless berome n it to practic alls fm the Tr claimed, w forins ns made the very badly financial was af « this crit evel atl Nhebha sprang vj berton. famons ¥ a olor of t {ottering public on the Wi thrown onen as a wiveh I right, provided the; calms and pald by the Vaolkamad Jobannes! camp of shanties, q and ther groveth of the + in thi= : speedily mad who had bull fhe tov, to say Band In forma that fittle be will give "hint as i ine dns bear of for dron fo pot it 1 fegia Troe strictly enforced advocates of pt sternation can be more than described of do-wells who swarmed to the search of a fort of their through fash! If was a terrible and filled the respeciable portion of the community with seeret amusement. Revertheless, it soon became a great evil and degradation to the white man, Fuagziish or otherwise, be Pbrovght te the level of the Kafir threngh the medium of the whip. Another system of curious practice was that known as “jumping,” vik. stealing another's clafms, which con- sisted In paying up overdue taxes un known fo the original owners of the gold claims, and taking possession of the ground “right under their noses.” fo 10 speall Ag.de frinm all political and financial questions, the Boer is not a bad neigh bor, neler is he an uninteresting friend or companion. He has a certain one « f fos fo change camp in © To be deprived fear of the state of affairs whisky to stranger at the first blush, but is ex- eeedinglydroll on a closer acquaint. sex kas an abiding charm for him, al beit his Ideal of beauty is not exactly on a parallel with ours. A fie, healthy, plump vrou is to him as attractive as the grace and delicacy so necessary to attractiveness In a woman according to the English taste, With the Boer ‘the substantial is a great quality, be it fm bis woman or his lite stock, from #%e sheep to the horse i a he Boar has many least of which Is that of temperance, i and no doubt this the Boer owes his splendid health and fine appearance together with that clear-headedness which has stood him such good service in the many exciting which hig country has passed recently, One of the most fatal things In n cli mate lke the Transvaal is the tend encyto much That, wether with bad food and lack of sani tation “killed off” more Englishmen in than any virtues, not the Oo wiirs through “howe! too fips the early days of the Rand privation or hard work endured by the digger and prospector of those times A last word for the Boer women, who are a kindly, hospitalble class, al belt a trifle stupld to the average Euro pean. They have all our love of fash ion and predilection for shopping, as the fine shops of Johannesburg prove Paul's Magazine, it OBSTINACY OF LLAMAS, LY Mules Are Vacillating Compared With These Stubborn Brutes The boy called, “Un-pal” to lifting trail the Hamas, his finger as to point the Ordinarily waottld 11 FERERL"} sand build $05 10 iit de him } Nolwddy but a Peruvian Indian ean do anvthing with a Peruvian camel, gnd Ramon has just shown us the proper tactics. Hurt the animal, and be only grows more sullen: but the pebbles merely tease him un til he can no longer bear it. And really he repays patience when he behave: well, for he is the only animal that can work effectively at these terrific alti tudes, where horses and mules are practically useless. But adelante (for ward!)"-8t, Nichqlas, a fire bes ¢ would pot get up Trees Five Centuries Old. Gerike, the great German forester, the pine In Norway and Sweden have lived to the latter age. Next comes the gilver fir, which in the Bohemian for ests has stood and thrived for upward | for 400 years. In Bavaria the larch has | reached the age of 275 years. Of foll- nge trees, the oak appears to have sur vived the longest. The best example | is the evergreen onk at Aschoffenburg, which reached the age of 410 years, | tbr onks in Germany have lived | to be from 315 to 320 years old. At i Aschoffenburg the red beech bas lived | to the age of 245 years, and ax other | points to the age of 225 years. Of other trees, the highest known firs: Ash, 170 years; birch, 160 to 200 years; aspen, 220 years; mountain maple, 225 years; elm, 130 years, and red alder, 145 years, i NOTES AND COMMENTS, British are nicknamed bheeleater The annual col sumption of meat in Great Britain pe 124.8 pounds, of which 65.7 mutton, 28.6 pork, 2.2 othe woe IN The without reason, head is Fignres just compiled show that dn the vear 1880 seventy-four rail totals show only thirty-one roads placed ingolvent, while the { A savings bank of New York keeps | During thu IRE there one nctol there but a were 720 laborers: therk was was only 1.302 tallors; editor, while were ther thers single but ond and 337 peddler bakers but vers : lots of shoemakeoers walters, cigarmakers musicians, liquor dealers, lnwyer Only aud one fi leemen five p { or policemen soldier of land nvicis {oo Hp work f supervision ol the x | Wiis thn "he result 20 bales of cotton HMw hughels of $7 OHH v2 i miles, {54.6000 miles; Europe, O80 Africa, 2 and The United] St length than any JO 000 miles, and comes next, although European Russin The in this order Austria-Hungary, Tiny: 61,400; 1.400), Luss £ §7.500 miles ates grote g ot het ountry Ruxsin ther coun Germany, British In da, Italy, Turkey, the Argentine Re in point of however, Belgium leads, miles of territory: * Germany United Kingdom bas 280 miles of tele graph for every 1.000 miles of country ence to women, The first charges I8 not of any particular mo ment, All men are more or less con- coitex], The difference, however, be- tween the masculine conceit and the feminine quality of vanity must be borne in mind. The second charge is a very serious one, Deference to wom: an Is a quality the absence of which is incompatible with everything like re finernent, It is at the base of ail chiv. alry. It keeps men from the ensy fa- miliarities which are the marks of the social degenerate, It promotes the re- gerve, which Js the first and most nec essary thing In the social relations. A man who is not deferential to women, tolerns wer, WW ill mann pd haldtually not be his fellow followed Hoentgen's oxperiments ! efforts of othm been by ‘he the newspaper Vy ive vars along saints Hnes, together vith VELL wide and connnon (th Hoentgen ultra to the ea efly. 1'ro Konrad Roen whereby artiel poptilar thought pnversation a tendency town entitle and the abstruse HyK, X ive—the words as familiar Stated bir rave, eathode ravs violet the alphabet, Willelm found a means teen ha { behind fen] prague substnnees, or contained there phied and thelr po it'on nceurately defined, The pletures Hight often shadows Their Feed ve in, may be photogra hus obtained are on the plate the mils character is determined by density of he inclosing atten If the envelope tothe X IY ent slight obstruct on of the obiect the lmpression otigeh is proportionately Kin nll Henceforth ' i f¢01 rip was enjoy ane of tix COC In all on Lim Never of $118 clothes plained game day he during io ry BOTOTITER was scalded got doctors and others to use this treat know this treatment, becguse I have spoken to several about §f, but in my business hot lead and tin and frequently burned by the apm ttering upon us We keep a bottle of ammomnia at hand, and we never have any sore places from the burns” ment i that we have to use et Thought He Knew Cold, The Butte (Mentanay Inter-Mountain Wilson, who owned the famons Paris mine in Park county, Mont. Wilson was visited by some Englishmen one English patiern—one who knew all about mines and a great deal about everything else, In his own opinion gold, and he panned out some very fine colors for thelr edification. “But that isn't gold” pronounced the youtliful expert, after nu critical examination, “Me deal fellah, 1 am a graduate of the English School of Mines, and | know gold when 1 see it, you know, That ie iron.” Wilson didu't say much. Hie just leaned over and took the al leged expert confidingly by the ghoul der. “Mebbe Is isnt,” he sald, “but don’t go and give it away to those fel lows dew at the Denver mint, for 1 have been selling this staff to them for gold all slong.” FOURIN-HAND, of the Civil War, an Oid Soldier. Story good gun fpge nnd good 1 soned troops ammunition, fd the tn hed neon ngon i te it a point { upplied. 1 ke he best w always f for the the best team: and wii was in act tion, if it the 1 ees was where a 4 dammunitiion field wagon right on to th Here, for § nacotion 4 TF'OWS Willie road near may be road i fd Ge RINngE ms gtr al drama of arid Amer ene ica. In the hand { cans of a singnant Mexi irrigation indians and the Southwest, Was art, but the white popula on which it elec. tricity and pew mining prog The lower races merely knew that if crops were expected fo grow on dry land they must be artificially watered, proceedad to pour on radest method, manded to Know studied it with the tion hans thusiasm a4 me lestows upon SRO” the water by the I'he Anglo-Saxon de best supplied to meet their pends, through the borhood associations, proached hy gradual steps true seen. tific methods, which are producing re. the world. Century. The Ways of the Opossum. present day should have chosen to con sider the opossum an animal of a lower order than the stupid znd helpless sloth, and the third order from the lowest of all, i= not so easy to under stand as if ought to be. As a matter of fact, nature has done a great deal for the opossum -far more than for the great majority of quadrupeds. Note what the creature is, and can do, and mateh it if you can, It ean eat almost anything that can be chewed-—wild eggs, young birds and quadrupeds, wie prompts gerne it farce water through the bose, 0 sip aferring the to a rotary nuachine rom the do mudguard pearing i change in the power fro i prung TWO Arms running rear axle, much as braces, are let when the chine is ready to work at a fire and serve as stanchions to hold the na chine firms. At the time they raise the rear wheels from the gronad, permitting them to without moving the quad wheels are then throw into action with the rear Lube and serve as the power to work a rotary pump hung in the rear framing. ore 13 i i down an KR Ie revolve (sear The Fake Telescope. A wellknown scientist, walking along a London stiyoel, came AeTOER aR ftinerant astrondner, and applying his eye to the instrument was astonished to see a beautiful full moon, although at the time the moon was only in her second quarter. The instrument was not a telescope at all, but simply a tube, with a hole where the eyepiece should be, and a transparency of ihe full moon, with a light behind it at the other end. On the scientist asking the exhibitor how he could so cheat the public, the man simply remarked: “It's all right, sir. 1 used to have 8 proper "scope ouce, but I turned it up This way pays better and gives more
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