SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Tho polar regions of Mars, like those
of tho oarth, appear to bo covered with
ieo or snow.
Looking through yellow glass in a
fog is said to render objects moro dis
tinctly visible.
By tho new mode of tanning mineral
■alts take tho place of tannic acid in
preserving hides
Tho weight of tho cranium varies, in
a general way, with tho weight of the
skeleton, bnt not proportionately, like
the weight of the brain.
Various kinds of foul water, which
are sure to kill when injected nndor tho
■kins of rabbits, become harmless OR
soon as th ey are shaken np with com
mon sand.
Tho moon is gradually increasing tho
length of our day, by enlarging its own
orbit, so that we may reasonably look
forward to a day of 1.400 hours, instead
of twenty-four.
Tho two coldest spots on tho earth
aro not its poles. One of thorn is in
Northeastern Siberia, the other in tho
archipelago north of the North Ameri
can coast line, northwest of the Parry
islands. ,
It is generally supposed that a thick
covering of snow affords the best pro
tection from the severe frosts of winter
to the soil beneath. Experiments by
Deherain and Kayser provo that grass
turf is much more effectual.
The fact that color is nothing but a
function of the eye has been distinctly
shown only within a few decades, al
though Schopenhauer announced it on
theoretical grounds. This discovery
must exert a marked influence on art
theories.
Professor Fadicirio, of Montpelier,
thinks he has discovered a direct
method of destroying the phylloxera.
He nses prnssic acid. Tho destrnction
of valuable vineyards in Enrope by this
insect within ten years is estimated at
three thousand million francs.
CLIPPINttS FOR TIIE (XRIOCH.
The word alderman is derived from
the Saxon "ealdorman."
used by the early Romans
as mediCTne, never as food.
Abont thirty-four millions in silver
dollars are now in circulation.
The cachalot, or sperm whale, has an
enormous head and no sense of smell.
After man the whale's worst enemy
is the grampas, which attacks it sav
agely.
i rows have been known to go to
roost with the barnyard fowls daring a
eold storm.
Twelve million five hMdred thousand
acres are devoted in the
Southern States.
A narrow-gauge road of three feet
eosts in construction abont five-eights
as mnch as a broad gange.
It is said that watermelons may
be preserved for an indefinite time by
giving them three or fonr coats of var
nish.
In the late sale of the library of Mr,
George Brinley, a copy of the first
book printed in New York brongbt
$1,500.
The Ojibways pulled down the honse
in which any one had died, and chose
another place to live in as far off as
possible.
In Oreat Britain there aro three
sheep on every four acres of cultivated
land ; iu the United States there is but
one sheep on thirty-four acres.
Military Terms Explained.
Fatigue duty means details made
from companies for dnty, work of all
kinds, such as loading and unloading
quartermaster and commissary wagons,
repairing roads, ditches, etc. Police
dnty is the keeping of the camp in
order, sweeping, etc , and is generally
performed by the old guard, though
sometimes a special detail is made for
the purpose. A field work is a work of
dirt thrown np for the purpose of giv
ing protection from the enemy's fire.
The best order for firing with the
breechloading rifles is in open order
or ss skirmishers. If a call sounds to
fire, a soldier fires only when ho sees
something to shoot at. File closers
are non-commissioned officers or
men march iog in rear of com
ray and their duties aro to oheok
..I disorders, keep the ranks
well closed up, aod to o ration men who
are firing too high. Fileoloaers nevi
take part in firing unless the oommand
is hsrd pressed, at close quarters and
when every available mnsket is needed.
Teotics is the art of moving troops in
the presence of an enemy. Strategy is
the science of oonduotiug the opera
tions of war onght of sight of the
enemy. An aligment is the line upon
which droops are formed or dressed.
A point of sppni is the point of rest or
toward which com panics are dressrd.
A pivot is the fixed or movable point
upon which a change of direetion is
made. A deploym* nt is the forming of
a column of twos or foars into line a
ploy men t is the forming from line it. to
oolumn.
llnrtal Customs in Europe.
In France, an most people are aware,
no one meeting a fnneral on the stroets
omits to raise the hat or cap in token
of reapoct; bnt in Bpain the nßago
does not exist. When tho " Viatique "
is carried through tho streets, every
ono is bareheaded and knoeling, bnt a
fnneral passing along receives no mark
of respect as in France. Moreover,
while in the latter country a deceased
person is followed to tho c?metory by
oil his relatives, friends, acquaintances,
and even by many who are only ac
quaintances of his acquaintances; in
Spain it is tho habit for persona to
abstain from accompanying tho coflln
to tho grave. If the defunct belongs
to the better classes, his friends send
their carriages to follow, but they them
selves remain at home. The Hpanish
cemeteries differ also materially from
those in Franco. " They aro," said
M. Ernile Maison, who has resided many
years at Madrid, "but walls provided
with drawers, only a few monuments
being seen in the inclosare, erected to
tho memory of the wealthy or dis
tinguished."
To leave Spain and its customs and
halt on Italy's classic soil, there are
one or two things worth mentioning iu
reference to the burial of tho dead,
which is performod with a different
ceremonial in different parts of the
country. One remark which applies to
the whole of Italy may bo made, how
ever, namely, that the hearse is entirely
unknown. Apropos of the hearse, its
introduction into Franco only dates
from Louis XlV.'s time; and when it
was first used to carry tho dead to the
cemetery tho innovation was loudly
condemned by the public. At Turin
the interment of tho higher classes
takes place generally at dusk; tho fol
lowers aro numerous, but are mostly
composed of valets or servants of the
friends or relatives of tho deceased, clad
in rich liveries for the occasion.
At Naples funeral ' ceremonies are
conducted with a certain pal ado and
pomp. The dead man, woman or child
is exhibited, richly dressed, on the bed;
sometimes, indeed, tho l>ody is thus ex
posed to view under tho porch of the
house, surrounded with lighted tapers
and flowers. When the moment arrives
for placing it on the bier the duty is
discharged by a religious community,
excepting in tho oaio of the poor, whose
remains, as in Fra co, aro consigned to
the "fosse commune," which is, in fact,
nothing bm a deep well. In the mag
nificent Neapolitan cemetery, which
forms an amphitheater, there are 365
of those wells, one for every day in tba
year. Every day ono of them is opened
to receive the dead, a quantity of quick
lime is emptied into it, a few pails of
water are poured k on, and the rtone is
replaced, to be removed again only at
the expiration of a twelvemonth. This
is how tho remains of the poorer classes
aro disposed of. With regard to the
wealthier portion of tho community,
they are interred in a monument rosem
bling a chapel. The coffin is not low
ered into a vault, for the reason that
there are none, but is placed in the
chapel itself, and covered with a slight
layer of prepared earth, which has the
property of reducing the body to a
skeleton within a year from the date of
interment. The family of tho deceased
person then proceed with another
funeral ceremony. Tho bones are col
lected, pnt into a fresh coffin of pocnliar
shape, and walled up, the name and
quality of the defunct being inscribed
on the stono which shuts in the coffin.
At Palermo the ilea 1 aro placed in a
bier richly covered with red gilt em
broidered velvot, or in a kind of sedan
chair equally red, and conveyed to the
convent. On its arrival the body, after
the fnneral service has been performed,
is lowered into a large " souterrain,"
which extends under the convent gar
dens. Hero tho unconflned remains
are placed in a vanlt, the ground of
which is formed of extremely fine sand.
Each receptacle is mado to hold six or
eight corpses. It is called tho Roo
latojo," and when filled is walled npfor
a year.— Churchman'* Shilling Mugruine.
Moles.
Who is there among dwellers in (he
country who has not seen dead moles
hanging on sticks in the fields or has
not heard of farmers paying money for
their capture f A correspondent, how
ever, suggests that farmers may have
been making a serious and cruel mis
take. •• I have had," he says, a field
of wheat full of moles sll the year
without doing it the least possible in
jury; but, on the contrary, I verily be
lieve that up to harvest they
crop good. Again, it is said moles eat
seed corn, but this is a great mistake,
for I have examined the stomachs of
soores, but never found a single grain
of ooru in one of them. I believe
fIO.OOb bushels of seed corn are annu
ally destroyed by wirnworma." The
mole, of course, is a great enemy
to this subterranean p<-st.
Graphic.
Thre ia every indication of an *nor
toona travel to Enropo ni>il unmrtiT,
and nearly all the team<dip Hnaa are
inareaaicg their fleet*.
Ostrich Feathers.
During the war ostrioh feathers went
up to an enormous prico in this country.
When wo hail to pay as high as 200
for gold to j>ay not only for tho crude
feathers, hut for the work of proparing
thorn for tho market and tho heavy du
ties exacted upon them in their
finished form, thoy became almost un
attainable. At that time tho arts of
bleaching and dyeing feathers wero
hardly known in this country. A
German, Isidor Oohnfeldt, was tho
first to establish tho new industry
here, and already New York has
tho largest establishment for feather
manufacture in the world, and is en
abled to maintain a lively competition
in this lino of products with the prin
cipal European cities. This principal
establishment employs in its busiest
season—tho spring and summer months
—525 girls und thirty-six men, and all
tho year round finds work for from 435
to 400 person?; turning out 81,250,000
worth of goods per annum. Few peo
ple have any idea of tho amonnt of
ruugh treatment nn ostrich feather will
stand aud has to go through to make
it the beautiful thing which eventually
adorns some lady's Gainsborough hat
or a Knight Templar's chapcau.
As it comos from Africa in its crude
state, it is plain, rough, discolored and
dirty. In that condition it may he
worth anyhero from 85 to 8250 per
pound, acoording to its length, fineness,
absence of color and thickness. First,
after being counted and tied together
by their quills, with long strings, the
feathers aro vigorously brushed, ono by
one, to frco thorn from dirt. Tho
workman trys them on ono brush and
works them with tho other, touzling,
hackling and mnssing them in such a
way that their destruction seems inev
itable. Thoy are then soused in great
tubs of soapsuds, rubbed with brown
soap, and washed more vigorously than
laundresses wash clothes. After that
they aro bleached by a process which
tnrns even black feathers t> snowy
white. From the bleaching tubs they
go to the dye vats. Wo now excel in
this country the European bather
dyers in the delicacy and durability
of all our colors, except the coral tint,
in which the old world is still ahead-
Howevcr, that tint lias not yet been
much in demand by fashion. " When
it is," our dyers say, "we shall of course
beat them in that too." When thor
oughly dried, beaten, redried, combed
and sorted tho feathers pass into the
hands of girls. Tho thick, unsightly
stem of each feather is pared down thin
on tho under aido, and in place of its
stiff and ugly quill a tapering substitute
of wire, covered with cotton and paper,
is firmly fastened on. By careful sort
ing, clipping, selecting out and mat- h
ing pieces from different feathers, a
composite second feather is made, to
| underlie tho long and perfect one which
constitutes the top of each completed
plume, and those various piece* aro se
curely sewed together, so that it re
quires a sharp eye (o detect that tho
flno construction, of doable thickness,
is not a single feather. In exceptionally
valuable plumes, tho lower as w.dl as
tho upper foatbor is whole and not
made up of pieces, but in all cases the
completed pluma is dauble. If the
stem of the tipper feather is disoolored
it is carefully scrapsl.
After steaming, to soften the feathers,
they a-e next curled and "laid." In
tho first process a girl, by passing tho
fillers between her thumb andsdall
knifeblsde, gives them a regular curl
all along both sides of the feather, and
the second consists in giving them a
series of dexterous little twists which
throw the curled ends upon the upper
side of the plume. All this work adds
an average of ten per cent, to tho value
of the feathers. A pound of fine tnee,
suitable for plumes, will contain about
150 feathers, sufficient for seventy-five
plumes, and oosta, say, $250. The fin
ished plumes command from $4 to sls
each, according to length and quality,
hut the general average is lowered by
the small comparative value of the
lower grades.— Net York Sum.
On* Wrong Brick.
Rome workmen were la'ely building
a large brick tower, which was to be
carried np very high. In laying a cor
ner, ono brick, either by accident or
carelessness, wo* set a very little ont of
line. The work went on without it*
being noticed, bnt as each course of
brioks was kept in line with those al
ready laid, the tower was not pnt up
exactly straight, and the higher they
bnilt the more insecure it became. One
day, when the tower had been carried
np about fifty feet, there was a tre
mendous crash. The building had
fallen, hnrying the men in tbe ruins
All tbo previous work wss lost, the ma
terials wasted, and, worse still, value'do
lives were sacrificed—and all from one
brick laid wrong at the start. The
workman at fault in this matter little
thought how much mischief he wss
making for tbe future. Do we ever
think what may come of one bad habit,
one brick laid wrong? Young people
are now building a eharso'er for lire.
How important to see that all ie kept
straight.— Oiere v. ,
■ORAL Alll> RKLIfJIOFH.
The Three llturdest Wurri*.
A very learned man once said, "The
threo hardest words in the English
lan gunge are, ' I was mistaken.' "
Frederick fho Great once wroto to
tho senate: " I have lost a great battle
and it was entirely my own fault,"
Goldsmith says, "This confession
displayed moro greatness than all his
victories."
Do not be afraid to acknowledge your
mistakes, else yon will rever correct
them; and you are really showing how
much wiser yon are than when you
went astray.
■trillion* Krwi Hint Voir*.
Kansas has 299 Proshyterian churches
with 12,044 members.
Leipaio, in Germany, has only seven
churches, all poorly attended, and no
such thing as u Habbath-school. Tho
people uro indifferent to religion, and
look upon a religions person with curi'
osity,
Tho revival movement whieh origi
nated in Ht. Paul's Methodist Episco|>al
church, Cincinnati, under the ministra
tions of Mr. Harrison, has extended to
nearly all tho churches in that city and
its suburbs.
The Bishop of Honolulu has gone to
England for the purpose of soliciting
aid for building the Episcopal cathedral
in tho capital of tho Hawaiian king
dom. The church will be 125 feet
long, and cost 850,000.
The Centennial Methodist mission at
Lncknow, India, is reported to be in a
prosperous condition. The present
number of pupils is 115, comprising
fifty-eight Christians, forty-four Hin
doos and fourteen Mohammedan*.
The Itev. George C. Mi In has de
cided, after all. not to give up the pul
pit of the Unity church, Chicago
(Unitarian j for the bar, his congrega
tion having voted him perfect liberty
to say in his sermons whatever he
wishes.
New Hampshire has eighty-one Bap
tist churches, with a total membership
1 of 8,915. The total amount contributed
in all the churches for the support of
tho gospel and for benevolent and
miscellaneous objects the past year was
j $78,105.4*.
Archdeacon Macdouald, of the Canada
Protestant Episcopal church, has a field
of work on tho confines of the Arctic
circle, and extending over alwut twenty
degrees of longitude. About 1,500 na
tives have been baptised and m< re than
100 aro communicant*.
There are 874 Baptist churches in
New York, with a total membership of
114,491; and 802 Mindaj-aebool*, with
11,993 officers and teachers and 101,272
scholars. The total valrutii n of the
church property is $8,447,251; the total
indebtedness $441,372 and tko total ex
penses of the |<ast year, for mainte
| nines of public worship, $798,518, and
: for charity, $313,206.
Previous Opal.
Since (he time Pliny accurately
described hie opsins to the present
day this handsome mineral has been
pjdecmed a Ram, thongb not always
assigned the name r mk; for fashion, in
{ its capricious vag*rie, (iiaplaoaa and
( reinstate* it in favor at irregnlar inter
! vala lu innate beauty *o happily
characterised in the lines,
" Milk/ opal* that gleam and abioa
Like auliro Area thmjth a pa lid mist,"
coupled with the fact that it i* perhaps
; the only etone really defying imitation,
hea enable 1 it to oventnally bold iU
own. The high rank awarded it in
ancient time* wat undoubtedly largely
due to the o mparative ease with which
it oould be worked, and atao to the
fact that unlik > all other preoiona
atonea much of iu beauty waa
. rove led anil available without any
labor. The atrange popnlar belief of
modern daya that opal ia an unlncky
atone to tke wearer, appeara to be
directly traoeable to Sir Walter Roott'a
romance of • Vine of Oaieretein." In
! it* nana! occurrence in acarna or veins
iu porphyry and igneon* rocka, it ia
plainly an infiltration of gelatinona ail
ica (ailiea in the colloid state), ofhn
mixed with oona'derable cyratalioid ail
ica, and retaining more or Ices of the
rriginal oombiaed water. Indeed, pre
cioaa opal proper seems, aa a rule, to
contain more water than the other vari
etiee. Until within the past few years
the greater part of the material for
commerce haa been of Hungarian
and Mcxioan origin, but a new
source of supply has been discovered in
Queensland. In the variety from thia
locality, which may in some reapecta be
considered unique, the usual fiery re
Action* sre displaced pert IT or eren
entirely by tbe most splendent metallic
hnes—greens end bines of orery con
ceivable shade—the individual color*
in some instances being arranged in
more or leas distinctly defined bands or
sonea, or again imperceptibly melting
into each other and vying with the
pin nago of hamming birds in magnifi
ceioe. Clearly the old deaoriptiona
Will need enlarging to oover this lateat
sd lition to the nnmerona forms of
silica.-* W. Ao(W.
(JUITFAIJ'H PRKSFfITH.
Aritilr* It **•! ve<t br 11* r (*n
dermis** A ■•■••!■ A Cham** f
The ]>opu]ar reprobation of the assas
sin's crime in still manifested in differ
ent ways. The oo mm on mode of ex
pressing the feeling against the assassin,
says a correspondent, in to send a rope
suggestively noosed. These ropes
l>ogan to como hy express and mail !
before tho trial, and are still coming in
They have been sent to tho district at
torney, to Mr. Hcoville, to the warden
of tho jail and to the assassin himself.
A little room at the jail is strewn with
ropes received from various parts of the
country. Homo of them are ropes such
as are generally used in executions,
with the conventional hangman's noose
skillfully made. Many other littlo re
minders of tho fate that awaits Liol
come in the mail to the assassin, but the
warden, as a rule, keeps them from his
eyes.
Cheap comic pictures representing
the gallows with a dangling victim are
also sent to the assassin. In every
nook in tho district attorney's ouice can
be found some testimonial of popular
fueling respecting tho assassin. Many
of tho things received have been de
stroyed. In one corner of Mr. f'-ork
hill's private office is a little heap of
ropes. A bundle of switches was sent
to the scoundrel from Florida A citi
zen of Osceola, lowa, in order to testify
to his feelings in a unique way, invested
80.50 in a pair of white kids and a fine
white satin tic, tho tips of which he
dyed blood red. He sent these with a
request that they l>e worn by the cul
prit on tho scaffold, the red marks to
testify the innocent blood of his vic
tim. They now form a part of the dis
-1 trict attorney's museum.
From Ohio came a little wooden l>ox,
opined on one side. 11 contained a
miniature scaffold, on which a paper
image of a mau was hanging, while a
score of paper women were hauling on
| the rope. These were, according to
i tho inscription on the box, "Ihe women
I of Ohio "
Among other curiosities saved by the
diet rift attorney in a miniature scaffold
and coffin, rery neatly cinstructed, and
a gallows-tree, with an effigy nix or
wren inches long suspended upon it.
There is also a little coffin, the open
lid of Which exposes a death's head.
The coffin is inscribed " Htrangulstus
pro diabolo, 1H82."
All sorts of pictures, cartoons and
letter* hare been receired and de
stroyed. Dnring the early part of the
trial a great many gags of various pat
terns. the oommon form being a corn
cob with strings tied at each end, were
receired, with a request that they t>e
applied to the prisoner. Home of thoe
hare been preserved. In the same con
nection may be mentioned various pots
of glne and mucilage, sent with the
suggestion that the villain's mouth be
glued up. Many j>atcnt mi dicine firms,
doubtless with an eye to an advertise
ment, sent the district attorney sam
ples of their wares, proponing that he
dr e himself with the mixtures so that
his h<*altb should not fail him until he
had convicted the prisoner.
The district attorney has also received
s large amonntof Confederate monev to
bo turned over to the prisoner. Ore
imposing testimonial letter, signed
" Citizens," contained one copper penny
to be given to Mr. Msoville to aid in the
defense. A letter received from New
Wsterford, Conn., from a rope-maker,
proposed to make for the assassin s
red, white and blue rope otlt of silk or
any other material the district attorney
might select. One of the most ghastly
cariosities in the museum is s black
cap sent by an unknown friend of jus
tice.
A letter that came from Chicago rag
! geated aa the proper mode of execution
that the aaaaaain be fastened to a rope
300 feet long, the other end being at
tached to a balloon, which wonid give
him a veritable " flight to glory."
The demon, according to Warden
Crocker, haa 1* oome aa docile aa a
lamb; doesn't insist upon having his
own way as he did during tho trial, and
does what he is ordered to do withont
a murmur. He has lost much of his
accustomed bravado, and does not be
come so excited when in conversation.
Oeneral Cioeker states that be does not
believe any man under sentence of
death ever more fully appreciated the
awful situation than the condemned.
He has become very much depressed in
spirits and shows it. He behaves with
perfect deoorum, and there is not a
sign of insanity in his conversation or
actions He is denied the privilege of
seeing visitors now altogether, and this
seems to worry him.
Jacob Wilaon, ihe town orier of Bir
mingham, England, who has held the
oflics fifty-two years, ia the sixth Jacob
Wilson who has held ihs place daring
the last 300 years, eaoh being the
youngest eon of liis parents, and snc
eeeding without question to a place
that had come to be rec ignlsed as he
reditary. This Jacob Wtlsrn, however,
end# the line, as tha office has been
abolished.
Tbe output of b ill cm from the Utah
mines for lIWI was 510,000,00*
In the flnfrbe* of an Octopus.
A Fulton market (New Tork) flab
dealer pare a reporter aome interesting
information about that uncouth marine
monster, the octopus, or devil-flab.
He .aid: "I'd rather meet half a doseu
shams than one octopus. In al
most an j market in Ban Francisco
you will find them from ten to twelve
feet long. They are aold by the pound
to the Chinese and sometimes to
Frenchmen und Italians. I kept a
stall there once, and I have sold hun
dreds of them. The CLinese call them
Chang Kwei Yn, and they are very fond
of them. Italians and Frenchmen
always wanted them cleaned, bat
Chinamen wouldn't bay them nnless
they were whole. I didn't nnderstand
this until one day when I aold about
fifty of them to an old Chinaman, who
was so particular about tbeir having
hills and suckers on that 1 sent a boy
to follow him. He traced him to a
Chinese doctor, who paid the old chap
more for the suckers and bills than he
had paid me for the entire lot It
seems that these parts were very valu
able to them as medicine; so after that
I made just double on my sales. They
taste something like frogs, but are too
soft and jcliy-like to suit me. Angel
Island is a great place for them, and
any pleasant day you can see Chinamen
hunting among the rocks at low tide
or hauling long nets for them. •
" The largest one I ever saw alivs
bad a spread of about twenty-two feet
It was a good many years ago. I was
knocking about 'Frisco, where 1 met a
friend who had got togethc r a party to
go up the coast somewhere near Van
couver's Island, and hunt for rich wreck,
and I shipped. We discovered the old
hulk in about four fathoms. In the
crew were two halfbreods from Mexico,
who oould stay under water, it seemed
to me, about ten minutes. They were
jtearl divers from the Panama coast,
and when they went down they carried
a heavy stone to sink them and a rope
: to make fast to anything they could
And. When the oldest diver slipped
over we could follow him on the bottom
by the air bubbles. His mate held a
small life line that he signaled by. In
about four minutes the signal came,
and we hauled away. He came aboard
with a jump and said that he had
hooked on to a cask or a box, and that
as soon as he moved it a cloud of mud
or sand rooe, as if some big fish had
moved, and thinking of aharka, he had
j come np for his knife, which he
generally took down at first. He
j seemed somewhat winded, and
! the other man said he would
go. Taking aaharp knife in his mouth,
j he was lowered down, and was soon
I out of sight. After he had been down
' a)out five minntes there came a pull
on the life line that nearly jerked the
skipper overboard. W pulled and
: pulled, until it was evident something
was wrong and we all gave way hard,
and by the waj It came we tbonght the
whole wreck was afoul. In half a
minute *v had Pedro's bead out of
water, but the sight of it almost made
ns drop the line. The poor fellow
seemed almost covered with a mass of
j snake*, that were twisted all over him.
The arms and legs cf the animal writhed
i about, some around his neck, others
around his arms and body, while fast,
ened to his breast was a big bag-like
! body with a pair of eyes like s cat's,
with the me green light you see in
them in the dark. The skipper and the
other diver knew what ft was. snd sung
out for knives. We eouldn't get it
on deck, because three or four of
its arms were slang around the
low cable. The diver lowered him
self, and putting his knife in ander the
animal, he alit it in two. The skipper
in the meantime was at work in the
fore chains, and he out off the arms.
Then with a jerk we had the man on
deck. He was half dead, and we had
to cat the octopua from him piece by
piece, and even after it was cut np tba
two jaws clnng to his chest and had to
be cut out. It took us half an hour to
clear him, as each sncker—and there
were hundreds of tbom—brought
blood when it was torn off. We filled
wo bsrrels with the pieces that ws
took from him, and the whole animal
must hsre weighed 250 pounds, and
probably more. We put it ttgetbsr
afterward on the deck, and it measured
from the tip of one arm to the tip of
the opposite one twenty-two feet
"It seems that the first man down
started the thing, and when the next
one reached the bottom he sros tied up
in a knot For a minute hs couldn't
use his knife, and when hs did make n
cut at the animal it let go its hold aa
the bottom snd sprang at him, and in
that way we healed him up."
Clwrica to tho Fran oh mwtmol
office* are not a© veil paid ai <o
lha atrngglo for piaoaa so jpnat ia
Franca aa in aotne otbar land* On as
! avaraga the 'alar/ i only 2 500 franoa,
: or about I 5 W a yoar, and tba most of
thwn marry on Una and bar* ohiidran.
Rent eoair th*m at loaat SIOO a roar,
clothing and linen another SIOO, if not
sl2<\ and gcna al atpantea ah ml 1100,
tfaaa lea<ia* hna tISO for food, drink,
and lha dowry of Urn danghtaa