MORAL AND KELIUtOUH.
The Two Moo Inutile.
An olil Indian onco askod a white
man to give him some tolwcco for his
pipe, The mau gave him a loose hand
ful from his pocket. The next day he
came back and asked for the whito man.
" For," said he, " I found a quarter of
a dollar among the tobacco." " Why
don't you keep it?" asked a bystander.
" I've got a good mau and a bad man
here," said the Indian, pointing to his
breast, " and the good man say, ' It is
not mine; givo it back to tho owner.
The bad man say, ' Never mind, you got
it, and it is your own now.' Tho good
man say, ' No, no; you must not keep
it' Ho I don't kuow what to do, and I
think to go to sleep, but the good aud
tho bad meu koep bilking all night and
trouble me, and now I bring tho money
back I feelgood." Like the old Indian
we havo all a good and a bad man
within. Tho bad man is Temptation;
the good man is Conscience, and they
koep talking for and against many
things that we do every day. Who
wins? Htand up for duty; down with
sin. Wrestle with temptation man
fully. Never, never give up tho war
till YOU win. .
KrUnion■ Nrw nnd Nolo.
There aro iu the Canadian provinces
ninety-one Congregational ohtirche#,
with fifty-one pastors and mem
bers.
Mr. Cyrus MeCormiek has added
$50,000 to his former gifts of 8150,000
to the Presbyterian Theological semi
nary, Chicago.
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church of the United States proposes
to celebrate the centennial of its or
ganization in 1882.
Electric lights aro >*ing introduced
into some of the churches, The Mount
Vernon Place Methodist church in
Baltimore, Rev. Thomas Guard, pastor,
has adopted the use of them.
The' Dutch Reformed church in Yo
kohama is the finest Christian building
in Japau. The first 31,000 toward it
was contributed by the Sandwich
Islands Missionary society twenty years
ago.
The Reformed Presbyterian oh arch
(Covenanters) has in the United States
107 ministers, 122 congregations and
eighty-three pastors. Of the congre
gations thirty-four arc without regular
pastors.
The Rev. Stephen Foreman, a Chero-,
kee Presbyterian preacher, is dead. He
was very highly esteemed, and occu
pied various high and res;>onsib!e posi"
tions in his nation. He was a missionary
for many years of the Southern Presby
terian church.
Rev. John Seely Stone, D. D., a well
known theologian of the Protestant
Episcopal church, died in Cambridge,
Mass., recently, at the age of eighty
seven years. He held for a numlnsr of
years the rectorship of several promi
nent churches; a scholar and a deep
thinker, and the author of several in
teresting ecclesiastical works Vhich aro
still held in high esteem.
The Ikam Ituntal.
In natural history, and one which has
commanded marked attention from
ichthyologists and scientists, is the
ikam hnnlal (Tetrocdon solandri), or
bouncing fish. It is nnmerons on the
coast of Borneo, and common to the
waters in Harawak. It is very poisonous
and its bite is fatal.
The appearance of one of these strango
fish on the beach will put to flight a
great body of natives. It is a repulsive
ooking object, its body l>eing flaccid,
and covered with short, flexible spines,
which stand erect when the fish is an
gered. It has brilliant, restloss, snake
like eyes, and sharp, formidable, saw
like teeth, When irritated, it will in
flate itself to prodigions size, and emit
a loud, whistling sound, similar to tho
whip-poor-will. #
It goes bouncing about on the ground
like an indian rubber ball,and ran float
at case upon the surface of the water.
It makes a vigorous resistance when at
tacked, and the lond whistling will at
tract others, who will come to the as
sistance of their neighbor.
Homo years ago thirteen persona
were fatally poisoned after eating of tho
roe of this singular flsb. The tongue
was white and mottled in those who
died, and the month exhibited a strange
blneish tint. Death resulted in twenty
minutes after eating of the fish.
There is a superstition that the Ma
lays and Dyaks can eat thia dangerous
and curious marine " death-shadow,"
as the sailors call it, with impnnity, by
cooking it with a certain kind of plant,
which absorbs and neutralizes the
poison, and thereby counteracts its
deadly effects upon the syatem.
In the beginning of the last century
it waa suggested to the mind of a
Frenchman to nse wood for the manu
facture of paper, by observing that the
nests of wwtps were made of this
material. *
Tewflk, the yoong ruler of Egypt, is
particularly fond of poets and theolo
gians, and keeps his court fall of them.
He is weak, timid and pious, and in
clined to religions mystioism.
SCIENTIFIC SUHAC*.
Earth worms have no eyes, but are
quickly affected by a strong light.
Tho luminosity of tlje sun is MOO,OOO
times that of tho brightest light of a
full moon.
Man has a million mure red cor
jthscles in a cubic milloniotcr of blood
thuu Woman.
In ordinary rainfalls the rain comes
down at tho rate of from two to four
inches a day,
A Philadelphia engineer claims to
have invented a machine by which tho
power of tho tides can be utilized.
Excessively fine blue clouds, bluer'
oven than tho Hir, may be produced
when tho suu's light is ullowed to de
compose certain curbon compounds.
Two Leipsio chemists havo devised
u process for obtaiuing sugar in a
permanently liquid form. This result
is said to bo effected by adding to a
purified sugar solution a small quantity
of citric acid, which combines with the
sugar and deprives it of its tendency to
crystallize.
An exhibition of the arts and in
dustries of liavaria will be held at
Nuremberg next year, and.vigorous pre
parations are being made in the way of
building. Already contributors to the
number of 1,702 havo promised to as
sist, and the whole affair is to be on the
grandest scale.
In seeking for a substance which
would destroy tho microscopic animals
in water without injuring it fo- drink
ing purposes, Dr. Langfelt found that
citric acid (one-half gramme to every
litro of the water) killed all the living
organisms, except cyelops and those
with thick epidermis, within two niin
ntes.
The Scit n/ijk American says that tho
prejudice against American hemlock
tanned leather has disappeared, and
English tanners now appreciate its ex
cellent qualities. Its eajsibilities for
resisting water and withstanding w<ar
by attrition in the soles of.boots and
shoes are said to he quite equal to those
of the best English sole leather, and
greatly superior to the leather of Eng
lish "mixed" tannages or tho generally
poor sole leather made on the continent
of Europe.
Meet Mi' in tlie Morula..'.
He had been absent a year, the
youngest pupil at a boys' school, and
now his mother was expecting him
every day, and she went about proud
and happy, telling her friends of the
imptovement in his studies, and always
ending w:th his being such a good boy.
Then comes a telegram from Willie
himself, the first real message he has
ever sent—how funny it seemed—from
that Imby—and there was just this sim
ple form, "Meet me in the morning."
His mother went about all day with it
in her hand, reading it over as if it ha l
been in the child's own handwriting.
Thn she smiled to herself as she pasted
it carefnllyin a scrap-book, while some
body suggested framing it to hang over
the mantel. Rut all the friends loved
Willie; he was the only son of lps
mother, and she was n widow—and ho
did not come in the morning! There
came instead the dread news of his
hasty illness, and bis mother humed to
her darling boy, but it was too late!
The despoiler had done his work—he
was breathing out bis little lifo in the
sleep from which he never would fully
awaken here. Only once, toward the
last, he unclosed his eyes swiftly and
saw the dear mother's face bending
over him, and murmured, with dry,
husky lips, "Meet me in the morning,
mamma." Dear boy 1 it is morning
with him always—the morning light of
fairer than Italian skies—while we yet
grope among the shadows, Bat lfy.u,d
bye
W. nha!l go home at evening
An<l find it morning there,
Detroit Frr, Pre**.
Webster Described.
His personal appearance, his voice
and manner, then, as always, greatly
enhanced tho effect of everything he
said. The slender boy, nnfit for the
labor of the farm, had developed into a
man of largo and commanding pres
ence. Mr. Webster was less than six
feet in height, yet every artist has por
trayed him as of almost heroic stature.
The fact was that ho impressel those
who saw and heard him as of gigantic
mold. A Liverpool navvy is said to
have pointed at him on the atreet, and
eried out, " There goes a king!" and
Garlyle is said to have reported that
he looked like "a walking cathedral."
Hia head was very large, of fine shape,
and with a most noble brow, beneath
which great looked ont full of
dnaky light when in repose, and glow
ing like fires when he was excited.
His massive feature*, black hair and
awarthy complexion, together with a
manner extremely grand and solemn,
all contributed to render him impress
ive to an extraordinary degree. His
roice was one of great richness and
compass, in tts highest pitch never
shrill, but penetrating to the lowest
corner of h >ll or senate-oha mber, and
In the open air to the very outskirts of
a vast crowd.— Atlantic Monthly.
A Til KILLING NARRATIVE.
The Hiory Told lir 11 Hhlpwrta-lted Mnllur—
Drilling In tllil Of en n In un Open limit lor
TMrtv-lhrcc llara-Almml Drives lo t'an
ii I lui 1 1-in by lliiager iiuil Thirst.
William .(onea, u aailor, gave a Now
York reporter a thrilling account of the
loan of hia ahip iu mid-ocean by fire
and of hia aubaeqnent adventurea in an
open boat. When the tiro waa discov
ered the ahip waa headed for land, but
after Railing three daya the flames burnt
through tho hatchway* and the crew
took to tho boat*. From thin point tho
sailor's story continues aa follows:
When daylight came and no ship wan
to lie aoen in any direction, tho captain
gave orders for the mate and second
mate to follow him with their boats.
Then ho headed toward win re the land
lay, and we followed in his wake. We
kept close in sight of the captain's boat
all that day and all the next uiglit. Wo
did this until the third night afti r th
ship anus. Then it came on to blow
early in the morning. We kept in sight
of the other boats /or a while, bnt after
u bit w- couldn't make either of them
out, so we hallooed to them, but tic ri
wasn't any answer. We felt pretty
blue as W" lay on onr oars and waited
for tho morning to come. At
daybreak we looked all around for the
other two boats, but nothing of them
was to le sfien, We had no chart or
compass, and wo had nothing to tell us
whereabouts the nearest land was. We
knew that our ouly chance lay in being
picked up by some vessel. Our food
and water wore both running short,
and there was no signs of any rain,
and nothing like fish had been secu in
tho water aronnd the boat. Onr chances
looked pretfy bad on the afternoon of
the twenty-second day wo pass< 1 in
that small boat. We bad been on short
allowance for some time, but that after
noon we drank the last drop of water
and cut the last crumb of provisions
that wo had on board. •
We hadn't seen a tingle Kail since ,
tho ship was burned, and the men 1
almost despaired of any help coming to f
uh. We didn't care to sleep tho night
after the provision* gave ont, and as
soon at the light W-gan to break next 1
morning we looked around for a sail.
The second mate had a Bible, which he
read ut a bit during the day, and at no
ship was to be fen we thought we'd
put our trust in tho Lord. The next
morning nothing was in tight, and our
sufferings from hung' rau<l thirst began
!to bo terrible. We didn't mind the
hunger to very much, bat the thirst
was killing us. If it had or.ly rained a
bit we'd hare caught tome water and
i could have atood it. 'ldlings went
on thit way tome fire or
, six daya Wo had read tho Bible
I and put our trust in the Lord
I every day, but still no ship came in
sight. Tho hot weather made our suf
ferings still more horrible. I was get
ting crazy from the thirst. >ome one |
proposed that wo should draw lota on
j the third day if the provisions gave
j out. Tho ono that got stuck was to be j
killed, and the rest of n* was to drink
hit bloo l and pick hit bones. But the
second mate says no; that no cannibal
, business would be allowed on that boat.
I told him wo was going to have a: ie
| thing to eat lie said it wasn't going to ;
; bo human fleah. dust then my eyes
rested on tho loaded gun in tho bottom
of the boat I picked up the gun and
, cocked it and then aimed it at the tee
ond tnate. He didn't move, hut just sat
and looked at me. 1 was crazy from
thirst anil hunger, to I pulled the
trigger. It wouldn't go off, though
I tried to fire jt again. The powder
mutt havo got damp, and I laid
the gun down for a moment. Just then
some one seized it and flung it over
board. In a few minntea i was cooler,
i and we talked the matter over. We
j concluded that we wonldn't bo canniWls
i for a whilo longer at least. Every
I morning the tun rote hot like a ball of
fire, and, after blazing down on us all
day, it would set again without show
-1 ing us any sail. Several times I jaiu|x>d
overboard and tried to drown myself,
lint somehow I would swing back to
the boat and (Tawl on board and take
my place among the rest. Twoorthree
timet 1 got overboard and swam along
; the liottom of the boat under water,
and tried to find tome bar
nacles to eat, but none had
I grown there. I couldn't sleep at
all nights, but I laid awake and tried
to think the noise of the waves was
made by fountains of fresh water. A
dozen people couldn't have held me
back from 1 drink of water then. We
; were all getting hollow-eyed, and a few
days more of that torture would havo
made crazy skeletons of us. On the
j morning of the eleventh d.iy after the
water and provisions gave out no sail
could be seen anywhere on the horizon.
Then we made up onr crazy minds to
kill some one"that day. 'Long in the
afternoon we started to take bold of a
poor devil to bntcher him. He crawled
aft and elnng to the second mate's
legs and begged us for pity. We
was just going to seize him when
one of the men cried nut and
pointed down to windward. We
looked in that direction, and, snre
enough, we saw a trail of amoks over
the horizon. Pretty soon we saw two
spars and thou tint Lnll of a steamship
that was heading along itrourdircction.
Hho might pass us, so wet toro off our
rags and tied them Tin tho ends of the
oars and waved thorn liko wad. Finally
they saw ua, and tho ateamer handed
right toward ua. We felt eaay then
especially the fellow we waa jnat going
to kill. They took ua poor akeletona
on hoard the ateamer, hut thov wouldn't
only give ua a few apoonfula of beef
tea at ilrat. Hut how the beef-tea tuated!
I ahull never forget that.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Thin world lielongs to tho energetic.
Try yonr skill iu gilt first, then in
gold.
What has been unjustly gained can
not bo justly kept.
Those are the most honorable who
am the most useful.
The man who never excites envy
never excites admiration.
Bow good services; sweet remem
brances will grow from them.
Timo once passed never returns, the
moment which is lost is lost forever.
The man who steps out of bis way to
injure another deserves, and will surely
meet, with reprisal.
Wilt novelty is worth the sweet
monotony where everything is known
and lovod because it is known?
Hnocoss soon palls. The joyous time
is when the breezs first strikes your
Rails, and tho waters rustle under vour
bows.
Wo all feel able to accustom our
selves to the possession of wealth, but
to get used to jioverty we have never
learned.
The obscurest saying* of the truly
great arc often those which contain the
germ of tho profoundest and most use
ful truths.
The science of life may be thus
epitomized: To know well the price of
time, the value of things aud the worth
of people.
If it ia your jiur|>OHe in life to make
your face your rttine you must look
w< 11 to it or it will turn out to be your
misfortune.
They say that money doe* not bring
happiness. This is an experiment,
however, which ev* ry one wishes to
try for himself.
Hill Jonco' < atapult.'
Our fellow citizen, 8.1 l Jones -so
called—was one among the large crowd
that attended the Coup circus a few
weeks ago in this city. The feature that
attracted Mr. .Tones' attention more
than anything else was the wonderful
catapult—the flying machine—and tho
daring Lu Ln. The catapult is a wonder
ful machine, an 1 is so constructed that
ly the agency of a large number of rub
bor eords, it will throw a man a gieat
ways in the air. giving him several evo
lutions before alighting. Tliia trick
excited the imitativi ne-s of Mr. Jones,
and he told Johnny Doe and IHrk Boe
in confidence that he e ml 1 fli up a ma
chine that would fling Lira as f*ra the
catapult did Ln Lu, and a small wager
was put up to stimulate Jones in the
nndertaking. a
Now, bo it known, Mr. Jones is the
man who has liecn run over bra freight
train, and a 2.13 tiott.r in full tilt
knocked him within an acre of the
farther hank of the dark liver, and the
hard side of a brick on another occa
sion came n. ar taking the half of his
head ofT, yet, l>eing ncl%flled, he built
s catapult of bis own devising. The
machine was easily constructed, lieing
made of two good sized hickory sap
lings, bent down and cut ofT about fif
teen feet from the earth Across these
a plank was fasteued*. upon which the
would-be Ln Ln was to lay himself. At
about the distance he imagined he
would fall a large lot of loose hay war
placed, so a* to make the descent easy.
Evervthing being put in circua-likc
order, Jobnny Doe and Dick 800 and
the boys in the neighborhood wore
notified to lie on hand. The catapault
was sprung by means of a windlass and
a strong rope. " Now," said Jones,
putting himself in position in away
that would hare excited the etvy of
I.n Ln, the original," when I aay.ready
cut the cord and turn It loose." Ererv
thing was arranged and the command
given.
Dick clipped the cord, and .Tonea
went np aa if he had been shot from a
200-pound; gun, and Johnny Doe aays
he went up as high as the weather cock
on the court-house steeple. He passed
forty feet lieyond the hay pile, and fell
| in cloae proximity to a big atnmp. The
only injury received by Mr. Jones was
fire broken riba, nose dislocated,
knocked breathless, and one arm a little
ont of aocket. His physicians say he
| will recover.— Orijf ln (On) S
Tina BUsabonriU* Uirald eajra : "Two
employe* of the Dalle* (Texan) po*t
ofHoe, on returning from a hnnt in the
country, cnt down 'a telegraph pole,
mistaking it for a bee tree. The hum
ming of the wire deluded them." The
aort of "wire" that "deluded" them is
sold by the pint in Dallas, and a coil of
it is strong enorgh to make a man take
an ax and try to split. rail* off the end
of an artesian well* "
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Nevada used to send out w< ulth ; now
it is taking it in. All the mines in the
Htutu yielded during IHHI about $4,500,-
000 less than enough to pay the cost of
operating them.
Upon the basis of a German statis
tician's estimate that the service of
every man that leaves his country is
worth SI,OOO, the emigration from the
fatherland last year added 8000,000,-
000 to the wealth of tho United Htates,
Mr. W. It. Winaus, of Bultimore,
who is making Englnnd his home, has
built a monster "cigar ship** on the
Clyde at u cost of about 81,000,000.
He thinks she will be able to cross the !
Atlantic in five days Mr. Winans' res
idence is one of tho finest private pa •
aces in London,
An outbreak of tho Hindoos against
British rule iu Nopaul, a small State in
tho northeastern part of nindoostan
and just south of the Himalaya moun
tains, has just been put down in a sum
mary manner. Twenty-one military
officers of native troops were summarily
executed, and a largo nnmlier of the
most influential Nepaulose were at once
arrested.
The vineyards of the Pacific slope are
1 icing more and more employed for tho
manufacture of raisins instead of wine.
The IlivrtmU Pr> or, of Han Bernard
ino connty, California, is authority for
tho statement that the raisin crop of
that State this year will aggregate more
than 150,000 boxes. This new indus
try has grown in three years to an an
nual production of a half million dol
lars' worth, and is rapidlv increasing.
i
Revised reports of the destruction
at Warsaw, Russia, through the riot
which began on Christmas, chow that
2.011 famili' *, numbering about 10,000
persona, Wi-ro ruined. They include
Jib liqnor dealer*. 2*l tobacconists and
other retail shop keepers, 4'.H eating
house keepers and other furnishers of
refreshments, '■ I * workmen and 434 em
ployer*. Luring the riot there were
demolished 202 li juor-saloons, 003 eat
ing houses, warehouses and synagogues,
and private house*, all the property
of Jews.
From a circular just issued by the
secretary of the Miners' National I'nion
it appear* that 31,000 persons have
been killed in various ways during the
past thirty-one year* in English mine*.
"Our modernized mode of working
mines," writes the secretary, "is ren
dering catastrophes of this kind of a
huge m 11: itt di Something nesds to
lie done, and if it be done it mas'. be
by legislative enactments. To do thi
there must be an active trade organiza
tion, aeeking and trying to enforce
necessary changes in the law."
William H. Taft, the son cf ex-Judge
Tatt, who ha* Wen appointed collector
of revenue at Cincinnati, is only tweu
tf four years of age. He was graduated
at Yalo iu 137 ft, where he wa* the l>e*t
boxer, the Wat " rn*hor" and the moat
popular man in his class, as well as the
class orator and salutatorian. He was
graduated from the Cincinnati law
school in 1880, standing first. He then
Wgan the practice of his profession,
snd was appointed assistant prosecu
ting attorney of Hamilton county. He
was aJao the law reporter of tho Cincin
nati Timf'Jot atout a year. He weighs
223 pounds, snd is abont five feet,
eleven inches in height.
Homo idc.a of the size of the match
trade may be gained by a glance at
the figures paid for stamps. The gov
ernment exacts a revenue of one cent
per 100 on matches manufactured.
Daring the year ending May, 1381, one
company paid for stamps $4, 500,000
Tliis year the amount paid will bs in
creased $30,000. There are 200 matches
in a box. The tax is two cents; they
are sold to the grocer for throe cents
and retailed at fire. Four million fire
hundred thousand dollars represent
430,000,000 one cent stamps. As each
stamp represents 100 matches, the
grand total manufactured is 45,500,-
000,000 matches, or 2 77,500.000 fire
cent boxes.
i
Underwood's CoutUrrfeit JWtc'or an
nounces the appearanc of a photo
graphic counterfeit silver certificate of
the denomination of twenty dollars, re
ported from Missouri No. 675,114.
The ccunterfrit la much paler than the
genuine. The Defector aaya: We warn
our subscribers to examine all silver
certificates with great care, aa the pho
tographic process now having Wen
adopted in the prodnotion of counter
feits on tbem, no doubt msny counter
feits will be put into circnlstion. Tho
arrest of a man in Memphis, Tennessee,
with S3OO in counterfeit silver certifi
cates of the denomination of ten and
twenty dollars in hU possession, has
bfen reported at the secret service of
fice in Washington.
No donbt a Florida orange grore is a
good thing to hare, but how shall a
Uiun support himself while the tree* Are
growing? A person of experience an
swers the question AK follows through A
correspondent of the Atlanta (Oa.) (W
"tituiifm: Plant vegetables, plant cas
sava, plant arrowroot, raise melons,
aplit rails *t 81 per hundred, build
cabin A for your neighbor* at 81.50 per
day, raise chickens, catch hah and eat
them, make fertilizer*, shoot alligator*
in Lake Kissimmoc and sell their hides,
hire out to your neighbor* at 800 per
month and work your own place at
night, sell land, swap horses, work on
Homo one of the railroad*, put up saw
millH, cut and haul post* and stakes,
plant nursery trees, flowers, i te. You
can't starve. Fish are for the taking,
and sweet potatoes are indigenous to
the soil. We have 8,000 j*>opl in
OraDge county and only three paupers,
and we have never seen a beggar in the
county.
Professor Morse, whose entertaining
lectures upon Japan have drawn large
audiences to the Boston Institute of
Technology, believes that the ingenuity
of tin Japanese and the remarkable
readiness with which they comprehend
mechanical contrivances are due to the
fact that the little children are carried
around upon the backs of persons in
charge of lLem, and thus aee every
thing that Is 'going on. •• Workshops
and houses," says Professor Morse,
"are open to the view of passers-by,
' and everywhere you will see knots of
| children with babies on their Lacks,
j watching artisans of all kinds at their
work. Tiie advantage to health is also
undeniable, so 1 approve o 1 this Japan-,
ese way of bringing up children. It
is astonishing to see the number of
children with babies on their backs
Little fellows not large enough to be
intrusted with the care of a live
brother or sister will bo equipped with
a rag baby secured in the same msn-
I ner."
The Farallone islands are about thirty
milts from the month of San Francisco
bay, and they are the Lome of innnmer
able N-a fowls. When Rn Francisco
! 'irtt began to be a city, it* constant cry
was for egg*. To supply the lack of
cgg, the project of stealing those of the
| gull* and the manr* of the Farrallone
i islands was undertaken, and it proved
successful and has ever since been
maintained. The birds arc too plenti
ful to count or to estimate, ax may be
! inferred from the fact that the egg
gatherers bring in oflen or used to
! gather 500 dozm in a day ; and a great
■ many of the neats re inaccessible,
while a great many others are devastated
iby the rivalry of the birds. The egg
season is from May to August, and, if
| even 400 dozen is the rale, the har
j vest would be pretty near 500,000 eggs.
! The quarreling between the gulls and
the runhrx causes the loss of a good many
umbra' eggs, which the gulls at every
chance destroy. Tlio egg buxineas is
, conducted by a company, which has
the light. It pays egg gatherer*
live cents a dozen, and sells them
l in Kan Francisco at a considerable
advance.
Hibernating Animal*.
W bat we understand by the bHiernat.
ing of animals ought not, strictly sj>ek-
I ing, to be called hibernation, unco it is
precisely analogous to that which is
common in tropical countries during
seasons of intense heat The Germans
| rail one " winter sleep," and the other
" summer sleep," There seems to be
no essential difference between the two
states; nor is there, in the opinion of
i roost authorities, any difference between
the ordinary sleep of an animal and its
1 long winter sleep, except that the latter
is more profound. It ia a popular mis
take to suppose that the winter sleep of
animals is due to ex trrme cold, since*
as a matter ol fact, almost all hil*cr
| nating creatures go to aleep before
! the extreme cold of winter seta in.
1 Besides, as has been said, a precisely
| similar phenomenon is met with in the
: torrid regions of the earth. Mr. Dar
win, in his journal, SSTS: " When we
first arrived at
ber 7, wo thought nature had granted
ii-arcely a Using creature to this
sandy and dry country. By digging in
the ground, however, several ierects,
large spiders and lixards wero found in
a half torpid state. On the 15th a few
animals began to appear, and by the
18th, three days from the equinox, every*
thing announced the commencement
of spring. The birds began to ley their
eggs, numerous insect* were crawling
about, while the liaard tribe, the con
stant inhabitant* of a randy noil, darted
in every [direction." "It ia srell
known," add* the rame writer, "that
within the tropic* the hibernation, or,
more properly, activation of animals ta
governed by the time of drought."
A Philadelphia surmdk cured the
bu rat band of a man by Bin grafting,
the akin being taken from a Chicago
drummer'* cheek. Tlie experiment srra
not wholly a success, however, a* the
man's knuckles now have a color and
hardnem ao much reaembling brass
that he gets arrested every time he
goes out,— PhiladtipkiQ Xtwt.