A Misunderstanding.
Why it was done, we cannot say,
but quite a number of the streets of
Austin have been named after fe
males. Such names as Kmma, Laura
Isabella, stare at you in large letters
The Austin people, or some of them,
at least, have become tolerably fami
liar with Maria, Jane, Susan, and tho
rest, but strangers arc liable to l>o
comu bewildered by this singular
nomenclature.
A gentleman from Dallas, who had
only a foxv hours to spend in our city
wished to take a look at tho new
capital, and not knowing where it
was, he made inquiry of tho tirut
man ho met.
"Can you tell me how 1 can find
the new temporary capitol?
"That's easy enough. You know
where Kmma street is?"
"I do not. I have no acquaintance
xvith any lady of that name. There
is a 'aniily by that name in Dallas,
but I am not acquainted with them.
Does Kmma Street live near tho new
capitol ?"
The Austin man stared at the j
stranger for a moment, ami then j
pointing down Magnolia Avenue, he
said:
"You see where Maria comes into
the avenue?"
The Dallas man looked in tho di
rection pointed out, and per-riving a
fat old negro woman will a big bas
ket on her arm, nodded his head in as
sent.
"Well, you must take Maria until
you get to the corner of Elizabeth, an
witil Peggy and Sarah come together,
and then you will lie all right."
"Look here, my friend, if you think
I sin that kind of a man Is-causo I
come fj. -m Dallas, you an- most con- !
foundiv off. 1 want you to under-1
stand t tint I am a gentleman."
"You dod-gasted idiot!" retorted the;
Austian man, "if 1 was as bad ofT for
brains as you are, 1 would bore a hole
in my empty skull and hire a nigger to
pour in ten cents' worth of cheap oleo
margarine."
The Dallas man shook his list at the
native and >.wd:
"I've always heard that the State
Lunatic Asylum was too small to ac
commodate all the lunatics, but now I
kzi'W it," and he uiovi-d off towards
Esmeralda, while the other party leaned
up against the corner of Ann and Ma
tilda, and gl.iri-d after him as he disap
peared in the direction of Maria.
mftlnya.
Variations of fli-matc.
Dr. ('roll att*ibuti*s the great fluct
uations of terrestrial climate, as dis
played by the former extension of
glaciers on one hand, and the existence
of coal seams and corals in the now
ice-bound shore of Greenland on the
other, to variations in the earth's orbit,
and calculates the period! of three
cycles, extending respectively over
170,000, 260,000 and 100,000 years. I
am unable either to confirm or refute
these calculations, which may or may
not le correct, but quite outside, or
rather within, these there have Isien
curious fluctuations of terrestrial cli
mate hitherto uruiplained. The name
"Gronland," which we literally trans
late "Greenland," is itself a record of
this. It was given to that country
when coloniziil by the Scandinavians,
above 1,000 years ago. It was then
fairly descrilied by its name, and tho
remains of human settlements discov-!
ered hv our arctic explorers in regions
now unhabitable,confirm theold Norse
sages, which describe these colonies.
When Ingolf, with his retainers and
followers, settled in Iceland, A. I).
874, that island must have enjoyed a
very different climate from that which
it now endures, or it could not have
■ become so pop fair a colony as to alarm
TCing Harold the Fair-haired so greatly
as to induce hitn to check the emigra
tion by imposing a fine of four ounces |
of silver ort all Intending emigrants.
The growth of its population until it j
became in the eleventh and twelfth
centuries the focus of European poetic
literature, when its great | H >et, Snorro
Hturleson, attended the meetings of
the Thingvalla or island Parliament,
"with a splendid retinue of 800 armed
men," when houses and ships were
built with native timtier, of which re
mains are now to le found, all indicate
a curious change of climate. I could
quote many other evidences of this if
space permitted. — Gentleman t Maya
gin*.
Professor Crudelli, of Home, points
out in the Practitioner that tho korp
ing of plants in ill-ventilated rooms
may cause malarious infection even In
regions where malaria is unknown.
Professor Eichwald, of St. Petersburg,
reports the rase of a lady who was at
tacked by true intermittent fever while
living In a room containing plants, yet
after the removal of the (lower pots a
cure without relapse was effected.
The unwholesome influence is said to
be due not to the phuits, but to tho
damp earth in which they grow.
SCIENTIFIC KCItAPS.
It is maintained by NnrdonsktoUl
that tho aurora Is a permanent phe
nomenon in polar regions, appearing
constantly when tho sun is below the
horizon and tho moon is invisible.
Four German expeditions are now
prosecuting their researches in Africa,
two from the east and two from the
west side of that continent. Very
interestii g and arcuiato reports of tho
aeverat journeys are. looked for after
the explorers have revised their
journeya
Observations on Russian railways
during a period of six months showed
that seventy-seven per cent, of the
fractures of tiies occurred when tho
temperature was IK-IOW zero, and only
nineteen per cent, at a higher tem
perature.
Professor George L. Goodale stated
in a recent lecture that a sunflower
thnsi feet and a half presents an
evaporating surface of thirty-nine
square feet, and that the roots of such
a sunflower have an aggregate length
of 1,118 feet. According to tho same
well-known botanist, grasses and like
planes exhale about their own weight
of water on a hot summer day.
t is stated that ► -vend kinds of
wood*, says the Knjin'ir, although
of great durability in themselves, act
upon each other to their mutual
destruction. Experiments with cypress
and walnut and cypress and cedar
prove that they wil rot each other
when joined together, but on separa
tion the rot x\ 11 • cease and the timbers
remain perfectly sound for a long
period.
A diver, at dOo yards' distance from
the persons communicating with him,
can converse witli ease with jwrsons
alsivo water by means of the tele
phone, ai was recently proved ly Mr.
Ware, of the Itiver .Meare commis
sioners.
I'EAItI.S Ol TIIOIt.HT,
A war nobly got, or a noble scar, is
a good liver of honor.
No man ever worked his passage
anyweere in a dead calm.
Lay by a good store .f patience, but
)wsure to put it where you can find it.
The repr 'jirh' S of em uiies should
quicken us to duty, and not keep us
from it.
No man can Is- happy without a
friend, or Is- sure of a frit-mi until lit
is unfortunate.
There is no fully equal to that of
throwing aw ay friendship in a world
where friendship is so rare.
Private Iron I ties are very iiiin h liku
. infants, the more you niir.-t- them tho
i bigger they grow.
They that do nothing are in the
I readiest way to do that which is worse
i than nothing.
Act well at the moment, anil yon
have performed a g-sxl action to all
eternity.
Truth, like the sun, submits to lie
| obscured, but, like the sun, only for a
time.
lie who requires much from himself
and little from others, will keep himself
from Ix-ing the object of resentment.
The power of a man's virtue should
not 1- measurisl by his special efforts,
but by his ordinary lining.
Men of great parts are often unfor
tunate in the management of public
business, because they are apt to go out
of the common road by the quickness
of their imagination.
A man should never lie ashamed to
own he has been in tho wrong, which
is hut saying, in other words, that he is
wiser to-day than he w as yesterday.
Italfe's "tirand (ra*h."
Hal fe, the composer, was I Kirn in
1808, and very early developed an un
mistakable talent for music. There is
a characteristic story of his childhood
preserved by his surviving relations,
anil quoted by Mr. Ilarrett. "He had
recently hcard an orchestral land per
form Haydn's 'Surprise Symphony,'
and his lively imagination exaggerated
the crash whieh Haydn introduced
upon the half-close of the first move
ment, to make, as it is said, the ladies
jump. A simple arrangement of th w
themes was one of the pianoforte les
sons he had to practice. His mother
and sisters were engaged elsew here in
the house, when suddenly they heard a
f?arf* i rash, and, as the mother
thought, the screams of. her child. In
territied haste they rushed into the
room in which he had been at work, cx
l>ectingto find the place in ruins and
the laiy a corpse. The mother's fright
yielded to surprise, her surprise to
unger, as she saw the child dancing
and crow ning with delight. In order
to make this 'grand crash' at the projier
point of the munlc he had piled the
fender and fire-irons upon a chair, and
had fastened a cord to them all in such
a manner as to make them fall with a
, clatter, and so rehlizc Haydn's design
' most completely.
THE HIGHEST OF ALL.
An Inlareallni Arrounl or ikr I.nruro lllu-
Mi on <1 In lln- W urlil.
If genuine, the Hraganza, in posses,
slon of the king of Portugal, in by far
the larffe.it diamond, not only now in
existence, but of which there is any
record. Hut its very size, weighing no
less than 1,080 carats in the rough, has
caused it to be suspected, and no OJH
portunity has hitherto been ulTordis)
of examining it with sulllcient care to
warrant anything like a conclusive
judgment us to its true character.
One of the earliest and best accounts
we have of this stone is that given by
Mawo in his "Travels in 11ni7.i1."
"A few leagues," he writes, "to the
north of the Hio Plata is the rivulet
named Abaite, celebrated for having
produced the largest diamond. Three
men named Antonio do Sousa, Jose
IVliz (ionics, and Thomas do Sousa,
having been found guilty of high
crimes, were banished into the interior,
and ordered not to approach any of the
capital towns, or to remain in civilized
society, on pain of perpetual imprison
ment.
"iJriven bv this hard sentence into
the most unfrequented part of the
country, they endeavorisl to explore
n< u mines or new productions, in the
hope that sooner or later they might
l ive th good fortune to moke some
important discovery, which would ob
tain a reversal of their sentence, and
enable them to regain their station in
society.
"They wondered alsmt in this neigh
borhood, making frequent search'* in
it* various mines, for more than six
years. At length they, by hazard,
made some trials in the river Abaite,
at at line when its waters vv ere so low, in
0 >nsi.qui'ueeof a long-ea- nof dr lght,
that a part of its bisl was left expo- si.
Ilere, while searching and washing for
gold, they had the goisi fortune to find
a diamond nearly a pound 1 weight.
Klatisl by this providential discovery,
which at tirst they could scarcely l><-
ieve to be real, yet hesitating between
1 dread of the rigorous laws relating to
diamonds and the ho|x* of rega.ning
their liberty, they consulted a clergy
man, whu advised them to trust to the
mercy of the *'at<-, and ae< > mpani's!
them to \ ilia He i, where he ] rociir.*!
tliein access to the governor. Tli'-v
threw themselves at h.s f. t, and d<-
liverisl him the invaluable gain -,j,
which their hopes rested, rehiring all
■ he circuinstariees connecUsl vvatii it.
"The governor. a-!<u losl at its
magiiitvde,could ret tru-t thee, idem •
of his Beosea, but colled tbe of <r- . i
the csfabl hnient to de< ,de whether it
was a diamond, wh > set tin matter be
yond all doubt. Ilejng thus by tbe
Heist strange and unf>re-.*n a . but
j.ut in p.>-si a. f the largest dia
mond ever found in America, he
thought proper tosusp. nd the*. ntenre
of the men as a reward for having de
livered it to him. The gem was sent
to Hio de Janeiro, from whence a fri
gate was dispatched with it to I.islton,
whither the clergyman was also sent
to make the proper representations n*
si ting it. Tin* sovereign continue.)
the pardon of the delinquents, and
I .est owed aoiuo preferment on the
priest."
This famous *♦. ne, which has lieen
valued at no less than f 1.-VXi.utKVXHi, is
said to lie ahout the ize of a gisMe's
egg. and w eight is usually <-'.imat<*l at
ljxt carats, which, at the rate of l.Vi
carats t>the ounce. Would make rather
over eleven ounces.
Murray tells us that I<.n Juan VI.
Nad a drilled through it, and it
was suspended to his neck on pa La
days. Murray was not aware whether
it was still anionp the rrown jewels
given tip hy Miguel, or had leen pre
viously pledged to rarry on the war
against the French. For this latter
report, current in Murray's time, there
seems to te no foundation : and accord
ing to all recent authorities, the stone
would appear never to have been re
moved from the Portugese treasury,
where it is jealously guard's! against
all inquisitive sight-seers. For obvious
financial motive, the government is
naturally anxious that, whatever lie it s
true character, it should continue to lie
regarded as a genuine diamond. On
this point the strongest doubts have
always I icon entertained.
Murray tells us, on the authority of
a Mr. Magellan, that "a fragment was
broken off from it by the ignorance of
tho person who found it, having
struck it a blow with a hammer."
This was tho old rough-nni'-ready
method of testing stones, the nature of
which was not obvious at first sight.
It was supposed that true diamonds
resisted the heaviest blow of the ham
mer, whereas it is now well ascertained
that they are easily split by cleavage ;
hence tho circumstance here mentioned
would not of itself imply that this
stone was not a real diamond.
With regard to its value, Murray,
rejecting Home l)olisle's preposterous
estimate of $1,.MX),000,000, considered
that, "according to tho method of cab
dilation by Jeffries," its v::V will b
in its present form, $28,224,000. Hut
no jirice ut all can lie set upon a stone
which is still in the rough state, and
regarding tlio true character of which
the greatest uncertainty prevails.
To Tell u Horse's Age.
At three years old the horse should
have the central permanent nippers
growing, the other two pairs wasting,
six grinders in each jaw, above and
below, the first and fifth level, Hit
! others and the sixth protruding. The
sharp edges of the new imisors will
be very evident, compared with the old
eeth. A* the permanent nippers vvc.tr
and continue to grow a narrow portion
of the cone-shaped tooth on each other.
The, mark will he wearing out and the
i crowns of the teeth will be sensibly
i smaller than at two years. Hctwceii
three and a half and four years tin
j next pair of nippers w ill be rhungid,
the central nippers will have attained
nearly their full grow th, a vacuity will
be left where the second stood, and the
corner teeth will 1 m diminished in
breadth. w>rn down, mark in
the center <>f the tooth will become
faint. The second pair of grinders
will lie sheil. At four years the central
nippers will be fully develop**], the
sharp islge somewhat worn off, and
the mark somewhat wider and fainter.
The next pair will be up, but they will
be small, vvitb a mark dc p and ext. rid
ing quite across them. Tim corner
nipper* will be larg. r than the inside
ones, but smaller than before and fiat,
and the mark nearly . ffae.d. The six
grinders will have rjs. n to a level with
; the others, ami the tushes will bgin
to appear. At live years the horse's
mouth is aliicst p. rte.:. The corner
nippers are quite up, th<- !>>ng. deep
mark irregular in the in-i-h- and the
otlu r nippi rs will b< ar ■ \ id.ut tok< ns
of increased wear. The tushes are
nc.ir'y grown, the sixth molar is up
and the third molar is wanting. This
last circurnstanee will j.r. vent the de
ception <>f ntteinjiting to pass a late
four-year-old as a live-year old. At six
the mark on the <>iitrul nipper* is
worn out. At seven years the mark
is wurii out in the f or . < ntral nip|s-rs
and fast wearing ir.v.iv in the e. rii.r
t.eth. The tUShe* are I ud's) .it the
jsiuits and -dg>-*, arid bgintiing to
get rem d in-ide. At < if lit year- old
the tushi - are roundisl in every way ;
the mark is g fr m all tie 1- "■ m
nip].- r-. 'I ,s r> is nothing remainitig
in them that ran afterward > 1 early
show the age of th* te.r After this
the only g id*- are the nipp.-rs in the
ujq.er jaw. At r.me \ear< the mark
will!., xv rn fioiu the middl nipper-,
from the mxt ] air at ten years, and
tr rn all the up].* r nipper* at eleven
y. ars. At nine years the <. nter nip
pers are r. uml instead "f >■'. al. At ten
years the others lgin to |Ur(iitif
rounded; at eleven years the second
]>air are nnKh round.*l; at thirteen
years the corner ones have the
same appearance ; at fourteen years
the fare >f the center nippers In*
eoiiie.s somewhat triangular; at
seventeen years they are all St
fajiiit Ulobr /'f tit -rut.
Qualities of a Soldier.
Sir fiartjet Wolscley. Kngland's mill
Urv chi'fto n. was asked by an Atneri
.•an corresjsindent ;
"W hat do you think are the most es
sential qualities of a soldier and ar
army;" He replied:
"K*pr*t drmrpt and pride. A soldicj
should Is- prmid of his profession, and
he should have the greatest interest
and feeling fr his individual command
lie should Is- dressed well. Even
should he Incline tow ard dandyism that
should he encouraged. The better you
dreas a soldier the more highly he will
Is- thought of hy women, and conse
quently by himself. The Puke of
Wellington said of his officers in Spain
that many of the Iwst of them w ere th*
greatest dandies. Men in the cam
paigns of the past used to pride them
selves In Ix-ing slovenly. To bo un
shaven and dirty was supposed to t>*
the sign of a good officer. The spirit
runs like wildfire amongst an army-
Whatever the officers think fine th*
men will think so. too. It is very dif
flcult to make an Engy*hman at any
time look like a soldier. He is fond of
lotigish hair and uncut wh.skers. In
the field no person should w ear his halt
over half an inch in length. It should
never l>e long enough to part. Xo man
can have smart hearing who ran part
his hair. Hair is the glory of a woman
but the shame of a man."
A dramatic suicide occurred in
Wayne county. Ala., recently. T. A
Cox. a respectable young man, attended
a party. At midnight lie arranged the
chairs around the room, invited tho la
dies to l>e seated and look at him when
he died. He then placed achair in the
renter of the room, sat down upon it,
and taking a pistol from his pocket
blew his brains out before the aston
ished spectators could interft re.
TOPIC'S OF THE HAY.
Women are now eligible to school
offices in Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Vir
ginia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Min
nesota, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wyom
ing, and to any office in Wisconsin ex
cept State .Superintendent. Mississippi
has a State Hoard of Education, which
includes the Governor, Lieutenant-
Governor and eight other persons, one
of w horn is a woman.
In Dallas eonnty, Texas, lives .T. L.
Shirley, who is probably the only man
in tbe I'nitod States who has used
greenbacks for gun wielding. He went
duck hunting with t-KNi in currency in
his pocket, and not having any gun
wiuls, he used paper in boding. He
became so engross**! with the sjtort
that be forgot all about bis currency,
and had -hot about foQof lim wad be
fore he di covered li.is mistake. 11.-,
however, kill**! thirty-seven ducks,
which cost | lulu a triHe o\. r $1 2'<
each.
'I In- area planted to jiotatoes In Eng
land. in I**2 wa- .'.7,o' i acre- less than
in I**l, and the total defieieney in the
. rop as compared to last season is 500,-
0"< tons. In Germany the official re
pots..f th> potato eroji <-lunate de
ficiency of fifty jmt cent, or equal to
1 l.T'.o.mHi tons, while in some of the
other < ..iitineiital countries t) >• jiotato
•.]> W ,1- allle -t a eonijiletc failure.
I he price. . f potatoes in England ar>-
(. y j.er e.-nt. higher than a' the same
time la-t year. It i-evident n-> Euro-
P'an pot.'Oi-s will be shipped hero
during the next tlx ot eight tnoo'V" '
tea t.
An • taUi-hni. Nt has been *., - I
in I-'.iid i called "The Health Home,"
by a Ii s.i .r tjue tin, who jirop ■ -•* t .
• .r< all.e, by a dietary M-'em.
lie | at., nt is handed bv a servant in
Ida •. and g d a card specially jr<—
J.ar.si, on w iu. h he will find h.s soup,
if souji is allow '*l ; Ins fish, if it is
permitted ; Ins joint, if it suits bis c.in
dit.'-n. an !mi on t>. the <• fT-e. There
a o will he find iiv-ril- d the mineral
water suitable to the state .f bis liver.
With dire. ti<.ns respecting the desx-rt.
vvbi.ii w ill consist of a <pg< ti ve jull or
two.a pep-.n s.indw i. b, rse.inc equally
at' r,i. tive icveltv.
A* rding to a comprehensive sta
t ' di> tun. I.it ly published in Ger
many. there are in E<iro]ie nin'ty-tw.>
cit:• - with m<.r> than ]<"".o.i inhabi
tants, out of whi'-h four capitals
show < a 'li a million ]s>].ulat;"n, as f..b
1"W • : I. n, ',.* .2.14"; I'aris, 2.22"-.-
'Jl"; Ihrlin, i,12-'.Vs'; Vienna, I.KG.-
11". I'ut of the ninety-toa ities and
tow ns referrcsl to, England claims 2'..
Germany If., Italy U, France 10, and
Hus-ia *. Th* others are divided among
thesmaller s-tat'-s. There were in the
1 nit.-d Mates in I**o twenty citi-s
hav ing lOO.ti*"' inhabitants and ujiward.
A voting man of Providence has
be ntrave' rvgiri the West and South
west for two years, riding for the most
part on express trains which could not
afford to stop to put him off lietween
the principal stopping places. ]]e made
it a rule never to "sass" the conductors
who let him alone until they reached a
suitable putting off place. In this way
he saved enough money to pay for his
b<<ard and lodging. -Now and then he
suffered hardship, as when he was put
off on an uninhabited island in the
Mississippi and m arly starved to death,
but generally he far<sl well, and ixpe
*ienced no discomfort.
A curious sale is held annually at a
itore-houae in the Rue ties Ecoles,
Paris. The articles sold are of two
classes, such as the garments of a mur
dered man or the weapon with which
a murder was committed, which have
l>cen offered a* evidence in the trial,
and are sold at the expiration of si*
months if they remained unclaimed;
and such articles a have l>elonged to
deceased prisoners, or have l<cen found
and delivered to the police authorities,
and have not leen claimed hy their
owners. It is said that large prices
are often paid for property that has
belonged to notorious criminals.
The old Mormon temple In the little
village of Kirtland, (., twenty-three
mile* east of Cleveland, is undergoing
repairs, and is, according to tho Cleve
land Leader, to le radedicated on the
6th of next April in the presence of a
thousand Mormons from the West, to
tho propagation of the faith once de
livered to Smith, A few members of
the old Kirtland community remained
behind when their brethren departed to
a new Held, nnd still survive, faithful
to the tenets of Mormonism, minus,
it Is said, the polygamy doctrine. The
creed of the rejuvenated Church is ex
pected to make a vigorous declaration
against plural marriages, and in that
case its dcciple* will be tolerated in
Northern Ohio.
• SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A new form of phosphorous—termed
white phosphorous—ha* lfen illscov
i r<-41 by professor Jtemsen, of the Johns
Hopkins' I'Diversity.
captain-general of the Philip
pine# rejrort* that, after a severe hurri
cane, the cholera, which wan of a bad
tyjm, nearly disappeared from Manilla.
I'nripe grapes contain an unmiually
large quantity of extractives, acids,
ash and phosphoric acid. and a small
proportion of alcohol, tin- extractive*
having an a rule, a sort of gelatinous
consistency.
Continuous hatha, as carried out in
Vienna, are reports! unofliejally bv M.
Lenoir as very eflicacjous in the treat
ment of skin dis< asm, ami he warmly
recommends their introduction into the
hospitals if Paris.
W here the air is charged with stil
• fumes the tint. of loliage in the
i fall, so noticeable t-1 si-where, are not
produced, ami there is no hurst of glory
in the woods before the trees sink into
j the repose of winter. Tile ]ea\c.s -1111-
! ply Ida' ken, shrivel up and fail to the
I ground.
j -Mr. F.('. Whitehouse contends that
, the e.avcrns ..f the Island of staffs. in
|'l i : n t.' the famous l ingal's eave, are
urtilie.al, and created hy the hand of
man at ■ im* \• ry early period. He
base his theory on the fiothi' shaj>e of
the ro >ithe sheltered location of the
eave., the lack of evidence of eroso n of
tie- roeks ly water, and the insufficient
mechanical power of the sca-waves at
1 that island toi vc.ivati such cave*.
A< cordingto l'rofe- r Loom:--ab< ut
i one fifth of the entire land surface of
■ the gbdie ha- an arm tl rainfall of I<—s
j than ten inches, and a 'ill larger j art
| ha- a r.i iif.ill -o -in ill a- to n. i.< it
j valueb-s for purj*"'-c.f agriculture,
. e\i c-pt m the Im. ti d d:-trills where
•rr gate II ). tra t.cable. In North
I
America an almost ramh region is
f nnd in >"iitliern t'abfornia and Ari
i, at. 1 in a largedi-trut a!nut s!a\ <•
I.ak' the yearly pr < .pit at ion .f water
0.-ip. ab ait ten inches.
fashion In llogs.
ftflate years the King Charles and
Hl I'dielm sjuiiiiel- ;n sjiite of lh<;r
barful la-M-i-cliing cms, th'.r trailing
<at th' ir 1 int.! Ida KI. -SC-. their -ilkv
" its, and the glor.es of their bushy
; tails and f' ithered legs, have under
g n< rum r;ts| m g!< <t, N r lias the
I'.i an grayli< .ml, f. r all the grace
and Im anty of its slender form, its
taj.i r. almost tran-parent limbs, and
the el.ctio agibty of it- n. veim-nts,
l Us n prirl as once it was. Fashion
has turned it* approved iw-s rather
up n the fluffy white l'limeranian, with
its fox-like j j. kd <ars. and pointed
Thick re i . the Handle Dininont,
i brought into vogue by Sir Walter
Scott's •*uy M.wnoring;" the skye ter
rier. MM' the turnspit the f
, .ill dogs iti pro|x>rtion • its height,
Iwith iti door-mat coat, its
masked cyw, ami otisrnred nnse; arnl
the Malti-se terrier, a duodecimo odi
ti< -ii of the Sky*, shorter of back, fcow
rvcr, and with a whiter and si*kser
| jacket. The pug. too, has recovered
; the f.iTi.r it had 1-t *o completely that
1 U twei-n 1 KV> and IMtithe breed was
| almost extinct in England; it has re
; turnil to society in the retinue of
i tfim n Anne, as it w ere, one of the i m
( Metns and scenic properties f her
reign, its tastes, tnodes and foibles.
Happily the < ruel mutilation of the
■ ars ai the animal which once prevaihsl
as a means of wrinkling and pueker
; ing t-> forehead and muzzle has l*s*n
abandoned. The poodle has never been
so esteemed in England as in the land
of its nativity. Of the Dalmatian,
spotted or carriage dog—popularly
know n as the "plum pudding"—there
has l>ecn some vanishing of late. The
creature, perhaps, was always regarded
as more ornamental than useful, and
then, with the circus horse, he l<rame
the object of suspicion. Could he net,
unlike the leopard, change his sjsta
upon occasion? Were they not some
times due rather to art than to nature?
Stories were told of carriage dogs that
hail gone out spotted and had returned
home pure white. Heavy rain had
f alien. am! the footman hail neglected
to hold the carriage umbrella over the
carriage dog.
The great popularity enjoyed Just at
present by the Scotch collie, or High,
land sheep dog. has to lie reckoned
among the striking events or "land
marks" of canine history. To the collie
have lecn sacrificed almost the entire
spaniel family, ami even that former
favorite of anpiatic romance, the New
foundland dog, Vo long famous as a
savior of Children from watery graves,
and in such wise as a member of the
iioyal Humane society.— London
Graphic.
Sir C. M. Eampson, an enthusiastic
hunter and explorer, is the fur monopo
list of the world, lly far the largest
portion of all the furs worn in civi
lized countries arc .listrihuted through
the liaronct's auction mart in London.