-
> BABYLAND.
Have you heard of the Valley of Baby-
: land,
lings stay,
Till the kind storks go,
know,
ie And, oh, so tenderly
’ away?
as all
bring
finding,
§{ By all save the storks who under-
stand
The gates and the highways and the
intricate byways
That lead to Babyland,
All over the Valley of Babyland
i Sweet flowers bloom in the soft green
moss;
And ander the ferns fair,
the plants there,
Lie little heads like spools of floss,
With a soothing number the river of
slumber
Flows o'er a bedway of silver sand;
And angels are keeping
sleeping
i
and under
Babes of Babyland.
The path to the Valley of Babyland
Only the kingly. kind storks know:
If they fly over mountains, or wade
through fountains,
No man gees them come or go.
But an ange! maybe, who guards
baby,
: Or a fairy perhaps,
wand,
Brings them strai ightway to the won-
derful gateway
- That leads to Babyland.
”~
And there in the
Under the
ferns,
Like an unfledged
the darling.
whom the
yearns:
they lift
him tightly
In feathers soft
And off with n
walk away
some
with her magle
Valley of Babyland,
and leaves and
IUSSeR
starling, they find
f For
him lightly,
And and snug
lady's hand:
they
as a
rockaway step
Out of Babyland
As they go from the
land,
Forth into the world of
Sometimes in weeping.
sleeping
Before he reaches
breast,
how she hlesses
Valley of Baby
great unrest
he wakes from
the mother's
Ah, him,
caresses him,
Bonniest bird in
band,
o'er and
stork brought her
From far off Babyland
—ELLA WEELER WILCOX.
9UNMORE’S ‘REVENGE.
A TALE OF CUBA.
By Karl Stanley.
That land water, the kind
The Valley of the
the loveliest in
with their pea
darker hue of
irregular distances
orange groves and its
tions: its farms and cottages, bright i
the sunlight Bake the valley,
sinall, peculiarly beautiful,
It is shut in every side
mountains apd high precipices that it
seems like a little world by itself
More than this it seemed to Dick Dun
more when he brought his fair young
wife with him. and settled in the cozi
est cottage in the wih valley, It
was an Eden to | :
Their house, which looked like a bird
house when viewed from the top of the
ridge, was perched on a small Lill, and
with the little farmyard back
aad the kids lying on the grassy knoll
in front. made a lovely
Dick had practiced
ever since he took
cided to follow the
he married and sett
» Many letters
ging me to aod make them a
visit; but it was not until they had
been married nearly three years that
fortune led me that way,
them up in their valley
When I first hed the little
tage, Dick was absent, and Lucia.
pretty wife, received me with unaffect-
ed delight, while on wy part I thought
Yumuri Is one of
Its cane-fields
verdure, and the
scattered at
Cuba.
-ETeenN
the pines
over them:
broad planota
in
&
though
80 On hy
’
pe
of it.
pieture,
healing art
hiz diploma: he de
same calling when
led in Cuba.
had reached
the
hog.
me,
Come
r home.
red cot
the reality,
¥ SBhie bustled about, getting up a delici-
ons warm supper before [ could stop
looking at her. and waited on me, with
a coquettish white apron tied on over
her gay dress,
she said, over the
foe: “to-night
uray of fragrant cof.
of ali nights,
lonely.”
“Does he often have to go out at
night?” I inquired,
“Not often,” she said, smiling,
should rebel.”
“1 suppose, then,
necessity 7’
“1 don't know.’
17.
+
slic said, thoughtful
“If 1 could Tw snre it was a case
tented,”
I looked up in some surprise, and
paw the bright tears in her blue eyes,
“It ian't possible that
could come te Lim?’ was
question.
“He lnughed at me when 1 hinted at
such a thing,” she said; “but it was all
very strange.”
“Tell me all about it, please.” 1 sald,
pushing my chair back from the table,
“Perhaps, if we divide tae trouble, it
will disappear.”
She shook her head, smiling sadly
through her tears, and then guve me
an insight inte her fears,
“It was just after dusk.” she said,
“when a mana stranger to both of us
~came to our door, on horseback, and
asked If my husband was a doctor.
Dick came tothe door, and sent me
.
my next
)
and when Dick came back, 1 begged
him: not to go.
“My Lucia,’ he sald, kissing me
good-by, ‘vou have always been a
little wife-—~don’t fall now. A
man is dying up there in the mountains
50 this man says—but perhaps | may
save his life if 1 go, Will you hinder
me now?
“What could I say?" she continued,
and
and rode away on his
But I am sure I saw, hid-
a band of men,
carefully down the path
What if it was all a plot to get
from home and murder
stole
them.
him away
ows
And she shuddered,
aptain—1 have heard of
and may have sent his men as a
and we shall see him,
before midnight.”
And then, when
began
was still
her of my
I saw she
to tell
sadn,
until midnight.
At that moment Lucia held up her
to enjoin silence, and I heard the
near-
the
sound of a horse's hoofs coming
or and nearer. She ran to open
door, and Dick sprang
safe and sound as when he went
After our tumnltuons greeting
brought a low chair to near
and throwing himself back, with a sigh
of satisfaction, in the chair, he
hegan his story.
Ie had ridden some distance up the
side of the Cumbre, when he and his
guide were suddenly surrounded by a
band of armed men. He began
sorry he had not taken his
and the more when
sisted on bandaging his eyes,
After an hour's ride, they
the handkerchief was taken from
and he was led into an old hut,
standing among thick where he
found a man suffering
made by a dagger thru
The man gave uo
wound, but wanted
could be saved.
“I made an examination, bound up
the wound, left him medicine to
allay the fever, and was again escorted
and here
softly,
, Laueia
be
easy
to be
wife's ad
they in
vice, »i)
eves
frees
from a
ut.
of the
{ his life
aceount
to Kuow
LOMme
foot of the mountain:
little Dek
“with good gold in my pocket
“I don’t eare for the gold, IM
you shall never run such a
He laug! ed] nt her for
all werriment 1
pale.
When
he told
from his wife
a the
am, wife,” sa del,
ck: but
risk again!”
but under
his
irs,
his SAW cheeks
grow
we were alone, the next cay
me what be bad concealed
While I was in the hat,” be said, his
lips trembling, “the door opened softly
and a tiny note was dropped inside, |
had only a of a dark face,
when it gone: but 1 dropped my
hief over t note, and
euredd it withont wing Now
hat do you thind Karl”
i bad put the note in
pened and reas
v this
+ EON DUNMORE, married to
Lucia Tell that her
Marguerette is in the hands of
would appeal to
but that it would
destruction
and
gunrd
a man equal in
A straight jour
through the Lion's Pass will bring
three paths, 1 will tie my hand
Kerchief to a tree in the right path,
and do not come alone
PIRATA DE GOMEZ."
tell Laelia, and
i on the designat.
glimpse
was
handker: he a
“en,
Ww
hands
“Oe
my
It ran
her
‘ousin
fie robber apiain i
wit for help to-night
surely involve us both in
wees from to-night,
with the
Come again, a
I will
left always
strength to two men
nes
vor to
be alone solitary
EE i
with me
ned,
“MARG
I ady
agreed to go with hi
ed day.
The week crept by
day eame. We were
started away at
Lucia with a nei
ing we
near city,
“Ho you know this |
rather a venturesomse
Come an
iseql Lilt pot to
last the
and
leaving
think-
amd at
both armed,
(ny break,
ghbor's family,
were going
on business
Jon's Pass? It
has
wo bel,
“I know it well.”
Aud then we
mountain, until we e
vw here the path divided,
found a red-bordersd handkerchief,
tiedl In a koot to a tali palm tree,
“This is the path! More slowly”
he replied.
autionsly up the
rove £
And, side by side, we crept along un.
der the shadow of the trees,
A little further on. we came to the
hut, and heard a man's voice inside.
Nearer, nearer we crept to the door,
and listened,
“You would have beiraved me. Don-
You have
Is it not true?
was pot a word in reply
the way to our retreat,
But there w
only a sob,
“1 loved sou, and would have made
you queen of my robbers!” he eried,
a passionate voles, “1 loved you,
you are a traitor! Die like a trai
wee
yet
tor.
We both leaped to our feet, foreed
open the door, and entered; but it was
too Inte,
Dick sank down beside the dying
girl, and 1 sprang forward in time to
secure her murderer. Ax her last
breath fled, Dick eame to my side,
“Bring him out!” he said.
And, between us, we tied his hands
and feet, and carried him out doors.
The hut was on the brow of a preci
plee, at the foot of which rushed a
rapid river. Near by. a tall, lithe tree
find been bent over for some purpose,
and its top fastened to the ground.
With lips as pale as death, Dick
bound the robber-captain to the tree,
and cut the fastenings. One mighty
swish through the alr, and the tree
stood upright; but the cord snapped,
and Marguerette's murderer was
hurled overs the brink of the precipice
to certain death,
Between us we carried the body of
Lucia's cousin down the mountain, and
she had a peaceful burial in the little
valley below,
But Dick sold his pretty cottage and
farm. and brought Lucia away to our
Northern home,
Years have passed sipee then, but |
pever think of the beautiful Valley of
the Yumuri without shuddering at the
horrible memory of the mountain trag-
edy.
PERSPIRATION A HEALTH ES-
SENTIAL.
ven If Excessive If Is nn Condition
to be Sought Rather Than Avoided,
“Perspiration is essentinl to health”
Warman in the
Journal, “A person in
suffers from the
unless unduly ex
inconvenienced
but it is a
to he sought
much of a
desirable,
proper diet,
bathing.
in
Ladies’ Home
health never
the cold
One may
by excessive perspiration,
condition of health rather
than avolded.
good thing, however,
Proper care of the body,
proper with proper
will produce the normal condition
which condition the heat will
press any Let me especially
caution against the too sudden check
ing of perspiration. Millions of canals
or tubes from the inner part of the
body open their little mouths at the
surface, and through channels,
ceaseless as the time, a
fluid containing the
ities of the system is passing
and is emptied out of the
Huld must exit
fow lLiours
at the
good
heat or
be
to be Too
is not
exercise,
jot Of
One.
these
flow of
wastes and impur
outward
This
in a
vent
as
skin,
have die
If it
surface of
internal
whe
or we
not have
body it
escape,
loess
nist
Nature
vacuum,
the
some
abhors sho i as does a
i
Heat distends the mouths
ducts and promotes a larger
of these
and more
fluid;
them,
then
the contained
hand, cold
the fHuld is at first
and then it ir
gradually closed
adapt herself to
by opening
great inte
badly, and
the safety and wisdom
after any exer
of cooling off
same elrenm-
perspiration, un
der proper conditions and with proper
Always keep the sur
warm and clean, and
you will be
and ph
on
other contracts
and arrested,
dammed up, rebounds,
mouths
Nature
shy re oes
cireum
these are
has time to
the “ia nees Lier
channels
ferways of
into the ronal wa
the no harm
follows: henoe
of
tion,
slow Is
dauger
under the
Encourage
cooling off
and the
stances,
precant ns
face of the beads
at the
mentally, nu
nd
the
wrally
end of season
yuically
the Point,
is told of a hil
who has
He Saw
The
adelphia
following
mill
yoars
slory
fonaire been
les ad some
came to him one day
aid to
A Young man
amd asked
in lsiness
“Iw you
aire
“noe
start him
“Stop it! ear and
he and
abit
year
broke off the
the
again
fuan
at the end of
came millionaire
“Iw you asked the snoreas.
ful man
“Now
“Ntop itl
and then”
Stop it for a year and then
me again”
man went home and
from the hahit. It took
but finally hie worried
year and presented him
come amd see
The
broke
him some
the
self again
“Do you elu
thropist
“Yes, { do,” wax the desperate reply.
“Stop it! Ntop it for a year, then
amd see me again”
The young man stopped chewing, but
he ney back again. When
asked by his anxious friends why he
never called the millionaire again
he replied that he knew exactly what
the man was driving at,
“He'd have told me that now that |
had stopped drinking and smoking and
chewing I mast have saved enough to
start myself in business, And | have.”
Boston Globw,
Young
away
tithe,
ww?” asked the philan-
come
or
went
on
Si Hoskin's Bor,
Passenger Agent Drake, on his re
Arkansas, from a Little Rock
school teacher who was going to Los
Angeles, This teacher said that below
Little Rock eighty miles was a coun.
Chil
compelled to put on
He
not
Just ax the party got into
a little town that had the only post.
office for forty miles a big burly young
fellow, looking a good deal as Adam
probably looked when he bossed the
Garden of Eden, came tearing down
the rocky street, swinging his arms
and clawing the rocks and clamoring
along pursued by three men. One of
the party asked a young fellow who
stood near the wagon, laughing, if that
fellow running was crazy.
“Naw,” he sald with a drawl; “that's
81 Hoskin's boy. He's twenty-one
years old today and they're trying to
eateh him to put some clothes on him,
Wichita Eagle,
Sea oa dps
School of Whales Driven Ashore.
A large school of bottlenose whales
recently appeared off Thurso sands,
England, and were driven ashore on
the sands, The sea was red with thelr
blood as they lay floundering, and 104
were captured. Most of them meas.
ured twenty feet in length, The eateh
Hea close to the fisher part of the town
and the authorities dread that they
Two Americans in Korea dispersed
2,000 Koreans who were attacking the
employes of the trolley system. ‘This
establishes a new ratio of American
SUpPremacy.
Kansas City, Mo., has established
an institute particularly for substitute
teachers, in order that they may be
kept np to the moderu methods of
teaching.
A German legal decision holds that
Court are servants. Almost
American household will
the reverse is hers true and that do-
mestio servants are simply ladies-in-
waiting,
any
A record has been made in
Schuylkill County (Penn) Court
was never before equalled, In oue
day the grand jury ignored forty-nine
bills of indictment out of sixty-one
that were passed upon The costs
were placed on the prosecutors in all
but one
court trivial cases
escaped,
that
, and the magistrates
The Rocky Mountain states—Mon-
saun, Idabo, Utah, Colorado, and
New Mexico—where mining
was the chief industry a few years
ago, have all found compensation for
the decline in this industry by going
liligently into gold mining, and their
total annual production of precions
metals is actually greater in value
than it was in the great days of high-
priced silver bullion,
silver
t is an extraordinary thing that in
the international college games in
1894 and since the Englishmen carried
off most of the honors in the runs,
and the Americaus axcelled in hammer-
throwing and weight-putting. As re-
gards the running, the Englishmen
must be credited with more
ance, and the conclusion
that the American college
muscular strength, for in
strength the
sorry showing.
endur-
seetus Just
fins more
feats of
Englishmen made a
It is computed that in New York
ity, there are 7,500 barber shops
and 25,000 barbers. For a long time
the barbers were chiefly Germans, or
Americans man but
within ten years the Germans have
cout their control of t
having been superseded
Some former German
gow employees; others
from the business and
have been obli ged to seek other work.
Meantime their Italian successors are
making money,
"5
of (rer descent,
he business
ftalians,
are
retired
sill
bry
“hosses’
Lave
i whe rs
An English murderesa has been
hanged in spite of strenuous efforts
to obtain her a reprieve. The lady
seems to have gained great sympathy
her only crime was that
poisoned cake to her
life bad insured
benefit. Such a
intives seems to have canglhit the pop-
ular fancy, and had ashe
she probably would not have
marriage opportunities, jut Eng
justice refused to be swayed Ly
merciful heart of the public, and
Mmdy was prevented from enjoying
fruits of her enterprise,
she sent
sinter,
for Her
thrifty use
w hone
she
been freed
or
incked
lish
the
the
the
Just pass along those thankyous
when any one has the grace to ‘move
on’ and let you have that debatable
ground--the ‘“‘end seat” facetiously
observes the Boston Transcript. To
be sure, it is notabsolutely necessary,
and in your calmly judicial moods,
you say it is superfluous—that it is
“slopping over.”” But don’t you be-
lieve it— there's a bit of self-sacrifice
involved every time a man or woman
thus surrenders the observation seat
to you, and he or she likes thet little
expressifn of gratitude, and it helps
also to re-enforce a resolution always
to be as uaselfish.
Some friend of the English SPArrow
which so infest our cities, has started
the story that the expulsion of the
sparrows from Boston common has
been followed by an invasion of cater
pillars which are destroying the {oli
age. The story fails through the de-
nial that the sparrows have been driv.
en off, and from the added fact that
the public experience with the spar-
rows is that they will cover a field to
pick off seeds and leave the cater.
pillars and other insects to ravage
the plants around them, The spar-
rows have driven away birds which
are wholly insectivorous and them-
selves seek other food, They are a
public nuisance,
City Council of Oakland, Md, has
taken advanced gronud by passing an
ordinance prohibiting the throwing
of rice at newly married couples in
that place, and providing severe
penalties for violations of the act.
The practice appears to have been
seriously over-worked in
so much 80 in fact that the neighbor-
hood was recently threatened with a
rice famine. The custom might be
only tie their offerings in stout bags |
or put it into barrels, so that the re.
Eipienis conld take the grain home
th them for household use. There |
wonld be an element of utility in that |
sort of thing that sensible people
would appreciate, whereas the present
method is inherently pernicious in
that it sets an example of extravagance
to young persuns at a time of life
when they should be tanght the im-
portance of domeatic economy,
The second yoar's trial of manual
labor teaching in the Garrison colored
school of Kansas City according to
the Kansas City Star a sbandaitly
ustified the wisdom of the e
boys have got on well with
woodwork, and the girls have pro-
fitted by the winter's course in sew-
ing. The pupils have not lost gronnd
in the scholastic department, but
furnish their full proportion of grad-
uates who will enter the high schools,
Books have not suffered from the use
of chisel and plane and needle and
thimble. It is suggested that this
good work among the colored scholars
be extended and that something like
an industrial high school shall be es-
tablished, something on the line of
the industrial high school the white
children enjoy, at least the zelection
{ of a school where pupils from all the
colored schools who desire industrial
education counld gather, say, for an
hour each day, The suggestion of an
{ addition to or improvement in our
| school system is usually followed by
| consideration and adoption,
Just as in the case of practically
every great scientific achievement,
there has for some months past been
| an active course of speculation in
! various channels respecting the prob-
able uses to which liquid air could be
put with benefit to maokind, The
X-rays came in for their share of this
sort of discussion, much of which was
uninformed, some of it harmful to the
accurate judgment of the people, and
some of it suggestive, Liquid air has
been hailed as a great power agency
and as a refrigerant, capable in either
capacity of revolutionizing existing
methods, Later developments have
i served to east doubt somewhat upon
| these sweeping claims. It is found
that there is a serious diffienlty in the
storiug of the power, with an alter-
native of running grave risk of ex
plosions or of suffering loss through
waste, Thas far progress has
been made toward the general adop-
tion of the liquid for either purpose.
Meanwhile a new fleld for it has been
opened-—that of surgery and medicine,
There is little doubt now in scientific
minds that this new agency will prove
f value in many branches of their
little
of
work,
is done to de-
the present rate of cutting red-
wood timber from the California
the supply will be exhausted
within the next generation. The red-
wood 15 of slow growth, the tree uot
reaching a marketable age in less than
fifty years, and then the timber is
only valuable for telegraph poles and
ises of commerce, whereas if
the tree is permitted to attain its full
growth its timber may be cmploved
for any number of ornamental pur-
poses. The tree itself is particularly
beautiful and is found only in Cal.
fornia, where in maturity it is from
twenty to twenty-five feet in diameter
nid reaches a height of from 100 to
400 feet. It is perfectly straight and
for nearly half its height there is not
a limb, It to the age of 1,000
Years: some writers say 1.500 Years,
g from the number of rings
i trunk. The timber is
for wainscotings, panels
ceilings, and being of a smooth
readily takes a flue finish, The
Inmber is shipped to the eastern states
in large ocarg: also to Anstralia,
New Zealand, India other
parts of the world.
Unless something
crease
forests
igEger
lives
stimatin
the
Iv used
an 3
s
i
:
and 10
es from the coast
that lobster crop is a
that an indastry which was
as steady as the ice harvest in
winter or the summer granite crop is
now on its last claws states the New
York World, and that the Maine lob-
ster is destined to go into extinction
with the dodo, the great ank and the
American bison. The lobster’s ob-
jection to living is based not so much
on the injury to his feeliogs caused
by the cruelty of the restaurants in
announcing “broiled live lobster’ as
by the precipitate haste of the Maine
fishermen iu catching him before he
is fit to be broiled at all, and sab-
jecting him to the humiliation of
“canning.” If his feelings were re-
spected hie wonld continue to furnish
gustatory delight to the gourmand in
limitless numbers for countless years
As it is, the “‘ecardinal of the seas”
will take his place in history with the
canvas-back and the terrapin, the lost
heritages of a generation unfit to ap-
preciate them.
The sad
of Mai
failure
wor ¥ com
ne hie
once
The Man-Eating Lion.
The man eater is very different from
the ordinary lion that Las not ac
quired the taste for human flesh,
Lions, as a rule, are not such ferocious
and fear-inspiring animals as many
imagine them to be. They very sel
dom attack any one unless they ame
persistently pursued or have been
wotnded, If they see a person ane
proaching them they usually prefer to
slink off into the jungle and hide in
| its depths, They invite no attack and
are willing a8 man should go his way
if be will let them alone. But it is
very different with the man-eating
lion, It marks the human being for
its prey, and Killing mankind is its
profession. This is the reason it is
very difficult to catch the man eater
in the traps that are set for it. A hut
i reared with a wide entrance and in
side a kid or goat is temptingly dis.
played in such a way that If the Hon
| tries to carry him off, the rope that
ties the intended victim will release
fle door through which the brute has
Pentered. It falls behind the animal
Land it is trapped, and may be des.
patched at leisure, But nine times 15
ten the strategem falls to work, The
King of beasts has not entered the vil
lage in the stillness of the night for
goats or kids, 1t much prefers to dash
through the low doorway of a habita-
tion and seize a sleeping man or woo
man and then bound through the jun.
gle with the victim in its powerful
Jaws, and If in the morning the natives
are brave enough to beat the tall grass
around the setflement, they may find,
ut. | pertags a mile away, the bones of
A HAP BINA HABA. 3805
MARVELOUS UN TRICK.
“alling of the Waters by the Priest-
hood of the Bow,
“A marvelous trick performed by
the priesthood of the Bow, members
of the Arizona tribe of Zuni Iudians”
relates Mr, Cushing, a government
agent, “in the ‘calling up’ of the wa-
ters in the primeval jar, which is a
plece of pottery unnumbered cen
turies old—perhaps as old a relic as
they have In*the Zuni pation. It is a
beautiful plece of workmanship, with
elaborate decorations, and is the or
dinary receptacle of the fetiches of
that priesthood. It is intrusted te the
charge of the master priest and used
once a year—in January—to call forth
the waters, as they term iL
“The jar is placed in the centre of
the circle and incantations take place,
The words of the gong describe the
powers of the elements and offer them
praise, When, In the of the
chant, the god of water is named,
the two guardian priests pour a little
water—perhaps a teacupful into the
jar, witn certain fetiches, This is
known as the ‘water seed.” Then, as
the incantations continue, the water
rises in the jar until it reaches
rim and overflows in a little rivulet,
running toward the altar upon which
image of the god of water stands.
Then the high priest dips a sacred
shell Into the jar and allows each
member of the tribe present to drink.
After the last one bas drained the
shell the water slowly subsides and
the incantation away.”
“How you explain this?
Cushing asked,
“1 do not attempt to explain it,
cept an optical illusion or
ample of hypnotism, but I am
saw that jar fill with water by
invisible agency. There could
connection with undergroumd
for such a thing would be
in Zuni, nor could
poured in water
of
COUTrse
the
the
dies
do ” Mr.
was
“x
an ex
sure |
sone
as
be no
pipes,
impossible
have
The
¢ in
anybody
by
and th
iything
India.
climbing
ee,
unseen
skill the pe rformance
gennity of the trick 1
I have read of the jugglers of
It Is equal to their trick
an invisible rope.”
“Do the Zunis
hypnotism.”
“Yes:
fire
equals a
of
» ’
know anything of
their
of
and os
applicat fons
phenomenal
belles e in
hirpnot-
jentific.
occultism
isin
all sorts of
They
the highest influ
intensity of
faith in
and
them
Powe ry
and are
¢ subject
of
of
mystery.
the
their priests, shamans
men held
the hypnotic
hani
atures, absolute
medicine are make
subject to
Horses Show Sympathy.
of the residents of
itzwater gireets are
to what they regard
of intelli
part of a
More than a score
Twelfth and F
willing to testify
rkable display
ou the
a% ’ Tel
and
3 of horses,
gence affection
teat
James Sullivan,
Hos of
drove an excursion part
a driver in the em
the Gannon contractors,
v to one of the
return to Twelfth
be was taken
was compelled to go inte
ad The of horses
was permitted to stand outside while
he in the store. When he walked
sidewalk and was about
into the wagon be became
he was forced to take hold
awning to bold himself
and ou his
BETOVER,
and Fitzwater
#0 ill that he
p
ug store.
sireets
it team
wis
back to the
{to sien wy
weak that
of an
up.
The near horse pressed close to Sul
livan, obliged to vomit
a result illness, The animal
becas to the back of his head
and rub face against his cheek,
While thus engaged the horse knock
ed Sullivan's straw hat to the pave
ment and afterwards stooped its head
and picked it wp between his teeth.
The off horse, which was standing as
a mute spectator of what was going
on. began to ueigh and the near horse
joined nn the chorus. They kept it
up until Sullivan took hold of his hat,
patted the Kind animals on their jore-
beads and Jumped into the wagon
and started away.—The Ihiadelphia
Times,
post
who was
of his
Hick
its
as
Society te Protect Elephants,
Some English women are about to
band themselves into an association
to prevent the slaughter of elephants
for their ivory. The women argue that
if their efforts could become universal
ivory would cease to be in demand. It
i& estimated that the tusks of fully
forty thousand elephants are used
yearly for manufacturing billiard im-
plements, ete. The exportation eof
ivory from Africa to Europe averages
S00 tons annually.
London ships most of the ivory te
India and the United States. In India
it ix converted into pieces of art and
sent back to Europe. In 1806 the av
erage price paid for 24 pounds was
£162. The average weight of a tooth
is about 1444 pounds,
A Rubber Lem.
An English fnventor” has devised a
very ingenious artificial leg and foot
intended for use in cases of amputa-
tion below the knee joint. It i=
mainly composed, according to the
Scientific American, of a hollow rab
ber chamber, which is inflated in ex
actly the same way as is a bicycle
tire, The skeleton of the foot is of
wood, and contains within it a rub
berfaced joint, which permits of
movements like those that take place
at the ankle. A pair of rubber pneu.
matic pads surround the end of the
amputated Hmb, so thal no undue
pressure is exerted on the tissue. :
' A Faet,
proper to say, Tou cin’ learn. me