the wide world he is alone in a world like Ruow iow wb ine a thing it is EE eH Great souls have died for truth and left thelr ‘Wears wax and wane, the good and true re How swest love's mine own heart telleth me. y Mine have seem the summer in the Ay Bare psd marty hi pat I may Yo puted o martys bh HY How wili it be when the woods turn brown, Their gold and their crimson all dropped ay, “In the dark 1 am seeking new gems for my crown" We will dam of green leaves, when the woods turn brown, {Lucy Larcom. DAME NATURE'S ZOO. What Professor Felix L. Oswald Says of the Upper Nile Region. [Cincinnati Enquirer.) The country of the Upper Nile was, excellence, the wonderland of the Re world, as it is still the grandest outdoor museum of natural curiosities. Zoologically there is no more densely pulated country. All the wild beasts and birds, made homeless by the de- vastation of northern Africa, seem to have taken refuge in the Nubian high. lands. In the terrace-land of the Nu. bian and Abyssinian Alps there roam herds of elephants, buffalos, wild goats, wild sheep and fourteen or fifteen differ- ent species of antelojes. Further be low the hippopotamus and white rhin- oceros hagot the rivers wamps. Pro fessor Blanford enumerales 200 spocies of water birds, With these harmless settlers less de- sirable guests have crowded in, the spotted hyenna, the jackal, the black and yellow lion, four species of smaller cats, wild dogs and, above all, the cyn- ocephbalus, the wily and mischiovous baboon. Three varieties of these Dar winian peis inhabit the rocks of southern Nubia; the little babuin, the cynogeph- alus proper, and the celada. or mantle baboon, a fierce and powerful fellow, whose shaggy mane protects his body like a cloak, and enables him to brave the climate of the upper highlands Professors Kuppel, Hotten and Maj. W. C. Harris agree on the fact that a t of these brutes, in ravaging a corn-field, will not only hold their ‘ground against all comers, but on the slightest provo- eation take the offensive in a way not likely to be forgotten by the unarmed ga ve no chagge watever against a talk grown baboon. Tie old males do not wait to be tackled, but charge them at once with an energy and skill of co- Sperstion that would do credit to a troop well-drilled soldiers. The hyrax, a queer pachyderm, allied to the Euro pean badger, coinhabits the rocks with a hiternating marmot, and the coast jungles swarm with wild hogs that mul- tiply undisturbed, for the Abyssinian satives share the pork prejudice of their Mohammedan neighbors The Life Insurance Interest, [Inter Ocean.) The immensity of the life insurance interest in this country is as yet hardly more than balf understood. The united assets of th: companies are now over $500,000,000- the exact amount Jan. 1, 1884, was $495,046,566.30. This vast sum, belonging to the policy- holders, and heid in trust for the pres ent and future payment of their claims, is $100,000,000 more than the net an- noal revenue of the United States gov. ernment; five times larger than the total annual sale of money postal orders, and nearly $100,000,000 than the total combined capital invested in the iron and steel and lumber business in this country. The whole amount of life insurance now in force is nearly two billion dollars. Even taken by states separately the amounts are stu New York policy-holders have an aggregate of $244,440,732; those of inois and Ohio each more than $125,000:000. The newspaper property of the coun- try is very ono £0 but the life insur- ance in force in either one of the two latter states alone is considerably in ex- cess of the cash value of the daily jour nals in the United States combined. Give the Pumpkin a Chance, [American Agricultarist.) The pumpkin is an outcast, crowds it- and organ sending 10 , tending to increase the yield, while its yellow color 7 to the rance of the butter. A well known aothority claims that a ton of pumpkins is more valuable for dairy cows than two tons of ruta bagas, and several times as many white turnips. The hard-shel! varieties can be kept well on into the winter, if stored in a very place with hay or straw packing, There are biti! ings for farmers w hava ina than sixty-pound pump ns. ' A Store of Siam, Ee t to nt on ti ant to prevent the mu tds, ub semsousy Sof i i | | | hoary or a, iy it pas, h dag, seems much more ancient. Norway 4ppeats to nothing but mountains, valleys and fjords, the latter as narrow as tho valleys and as as the moun tains are h The people seem so con- tent with the mountains, valleys and fjords that they press no further claim on a tout iy 80 lavish in these, The is very thinly settled and scarcely cultivated at all; farming has a very limited ification, and the farm- houses are far from idyllic. They have no well stocked barn, larder, or what with our ideas would call a dairy; the milk often has a queer taste, butter is bad and the cheese is worse; the pretty and {rightfully dirty children are to be pitied, having no pantry od, 3 to with cookies and finger ples and preservis, farmer in the United States can bave cabbages turnips aud pumpkins and corn; here, the comparatively well-to-do country- man must content himself with Hat bread, milk and the abominable cheese, fish and the poorest kind of meat. This is not the fault of the soil, however. It is because the Norwegian t rather despises v from his scant knowl- edge of them. If ten kinds of vegeta. bles, including asparagus, and seven kinds of berries will grow in Tromso, at nearly 698 degrees north latitude, this is proof evident that they would grow further south, if the natives would but make the attempt to cultivate them, I devoutly wish that a few skillful Americans would come here and do missionary work by planting large gar- dens and raising vegetables and frait for the market and to provide for the hotels. A supply of the best American garden seeds would be an inestimable blessing and a colony of Miss Par loas and Marion Harlands would win the benedictions and thanks of the grateful world of tourist, if they wo teach in Norway the art most needed and which only a tour in Norway, under | present circumstances, will lead one to appreciate properly. Mrs. Durnett’s Well-Trained Boys, [Washington Letter.) Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the well-known authoress, has a craze for the picturesque which extends not only to ber inanimate sur roundings, but to her two boys A lady who has recently paid Mrs Burnett a long visit is the authority for the statement that they are very hand. some boys. Their proud mother is quite aware of their beauty by keeping dressed in a most becoming fashion. She taught them to pose in an artistic manner. If the bell rings and a visitor is announced, Mrs. Burnett turns to her sons and says: “Take your tions." Immediately the well-trained boys fall into the poses best suited to their dress and beauty. The older ene will lean his elbow on the corner of the mantelpiece and rest his head upon his shapel hand, while the younger will stretc hi fin a ful attitude on the heavy far rug in front of the fire. The visitor enters and eannot fail to be struck by the picturesque of the scene and goes away, her mind full of admiration for her frieud's children, and feels almost ashamed of the general roughness of her own boys at home, whom she is much more likely to find gliding down the banister, sitting on the fence or i n poses which oad gadis an artist's heart. Of course the attitudes given above are only those for winter use. For summer an entirely different set prevails, but they are al quite as effective, and, in- deed, they are the pride of Mrs. Bur nett's heart. What the result of this novel mode of education will be isa question which agitates many of the writer's friends, but they will soon have the opportunity of seeing, for a who can lean an , elbow on the mantel piece cannot be so very small. , A Ae Edison's New Phonograph. [New York World ) Mr. Edison has grown somewhat stout these last three years, and is no longer the bony alchemist he wis when he held his midnight vigils, wrestling with the obstinate battery at Menlo park, and lunches of fortuitous pastry summoned the demon of ind wn. | asked him if he should go to Philadelphia to wit ness the fine electric show there. “Yes,” he said, “probably; as soon as I get my Jhontitaph finished. 1 have now in works far the finest talking. machine ever made. It is double grooved, and will receive and utter two voices at once, and as it runs by elec tricity and is regulated to the desired , it will deliver its message exactly as it was en. One prime trouble with the old machine was that the pitch and accents could for the message was onograph, and will give some flues Pho: results not attained before. young swarms who {Froude, in Longmans Magazine. Sunday came, and it was very pretty to see, on the avening before and early in the morning, the reaming u the flord and down from the in lakes, One boat passed the yacht, rowed by ten young stalwart women, who handled their gars like Saltash fish. wives. With a population so scattered, a single has two or more churches to attend to at considerable distances, pastors being 4 inted according to the numbers of the , and not the area which they occupy. Thus at Elversdale there was a regular service only on al- ternate Sundays, and this Sunday it was not Elversdale's turn. But there was a samling-—-a gathering for catechising and prayer—at our bonder's house, where the good man himself or some itinerant minister officiated. Several hyndteds must have collected, the chil ren in largest proportion. The Norse people are quiet, old fashioned Lutherans, who never read a now . and have never heard of a doubt about the truth of what their fathers believed. When the meeting was over, as many of them as were cu rious to seo an English yacht and its oc cupants came on beard. The owner welcomed the elders at the gangway, talked to them in their own tongue, and showed them over the ship. A-—— had handfuls of sugar plums for the little ones. They were plaim-featured for the most part, with fair hair and blue eyes—the man in strong homespun broadcloth, the women in black serge, with a bright sash about the waist, and a shawl over the shoulders with bits of modest embroidery at she corners. They were porfect'y well-behaved, rational, simple, unself-conscious, a healthy race in mind and body, whom it was pleasant to see. I could well understand what Ameri cans mean when they say that, of all the colonists who misrate to them, the Norse are the best—and many go. Nor way is as full asit can hold, and th in old days roved t out in their pirate ships over France and | ] | | | hole | England and Ireland now pass peaceably whole | i M uld | to the far west. A New Sugar<Muking Process, (St. Loads Republican. ] Louisiana planters are directing thei attention (0 & NEW process for extract sugar, invented by Konrad Trobach, of Berlin. It is purely chemical, differ ing materially from the mechanical pro cess now used, and if it shall proveto be all it is claimed to be, will eflect a revo lution in sugar-making and cheapen the article still more. Trobach's process dispenses with crushing and pressing al: together; the cane is cud into slices by means of machinery, and the water ex. tracted from it by a®ohol vapor, which, baving an aflinity for the water, absorbs it, but leaves the saccharine in the des jocated cane. This is then treated with liquid aleohol, which extracts the sugar, and afterward the su is extracted from the alcohol, or the alcohol from the sugar, by filtering through lime and chalk. One great obstacle to the cheap manu- facture of Louisiana sugar is the dill culty of extracting all or nearly all the saccharine from the cane; a considerable proportion is lost in the bagasse, or refuse which is thrown away or burned If this waste could be saved it would cheapen the process 1 cent a pound. The freusst sugar-making machinery im ouisiana would be an impediment to the introduction of the the Trobach method. It is not adapted to the new process, and would have to be thrown away—a sacrifice which the Louisiana planters could ill afford, as their ma- chinery is very costly. Actresses’ Shoes, [Cincinnati Enquirer.) “Actresses are notional about their shoes,” says a shoemaker who has made boots and shoes for actors and actresses for nearly a quarter of a century. ‘Be ing under the glare of the foot-lights, their feet show plainly. The foot is made to appear small by lifting the heel as high as ble. On the foot these shoes are intolerable, sometimes causing the greatest of pain. Usually they are worn only during the scene, after which they are taken off, and easier slippers are put on until the time for the actress to go before the specta tors arrives, when her instruments of torture go on again.” Whistler's Favorite Hoom, [Argonaut } Whistler's most characteristic room in his Chelsea residence is a symphony in dull blue and canary color, skillfully contrasted: matting covers the floor, blue china fills the dressers and is here and there attached to the canary-colored walls, and soft white silk curtains, lined with canary silk, elaborately embroidered in gold thread, hide the windows, and the pots on the mantel hold skelton flowers, ing Why They Loss Thelr Teeth, A celebrated Parisian dentist says that children whose education is forced lose their teeth early in life, and quotes in of his in used nd s used up of professors. THE TRANSVAAL BOERS. ny Character and Habits of the South African Dutch, [Boston Globe, ] Of the character and habits of the Boer there are varying opinions, and there seems little reason to doubt that either party can Jrodues strong evidence in support of their opinions, Brave, relig- lous, hospitable, intelligent, and animated by a sincere love of liberty, according to one authority; brave, hospitable, illit- erate and strongly antagonistic to the native element, SmoBng to positive cruelty and slave holding, 1s the verdiet of the other. The two opinions are ca- pable of easy reconciliation, No Euro pean nation has ever come in contact with aboriginal tribes yet except to the disadvantage of the inferior race, and this is as true of the Dutch as the Eng- lisk colonists in Africa or elsewhere, Capt. Lucas, whose “Camp Life and Sport in South Africa” is one of the most recent works on the subject, and who wrote in opposition to the annexation, ks highly of the hospitality of the ransvaal Hoers, In the course of many years’ military service he came in con- tact with a large number of them, who invariabl ve him and his men the best their houses afforded, and as in- variably refused payment, although supplying liberal rations to men and horses, “They live a patriarchal life in the midst of their flocks, seldom making their appearance in the settlements be youd an occasional visit for the purpose of replenishing their stores, or bringing in their stock or produce for sale. They are tall, as a rule, but sallow, har featured, indolent and phlegmatic. They live very simply, their diet consisting of kid flesh and milk, with quantities of coffee, which they drink at all times and seasons. They are excellent shots with their long ‘roers,’ or smooth-bore guns,” but there are Boers and Boers, And just here seems to be, perhaps, the dif ference wich may account for the varied opinions of travelers away still,’ % the cupying isola tops in the game fre quented veldt, Hive ame author, “oo who eke out a miserable existence the game of Wilden tho additic main part of their rear large herds of gx | herds of large he “trek’’ oxen, liv ing in miserable mud huts, men, women and children together, upon wihenee they acquire the nam «t Foers : lone flesh = nofait subsistence its and tend small wedi herding indiscriminately Every now and then their seanty are swept Away by swarms of locusts. When this happens they are obliged to pack up their house hold goods and ‘trek’ away bodily with their docks to some distant part of the veldt, where they can find grass and water." It is just possible that experience among the different classes of the Boers have led to the various stories. Dr. Livingstone spegks in contemptuous terms of their illiteracy, while he was stromgly impressed with their harsh treatment of the natives. The opinions of the well | ¢ «veler are combated by others ave shown, there is ample oppoi.. ...y for a difference of opinion, depending in large measure on individual experience, The Dutch name “Boer,” from which our English word “boor” is derived means, according to one authority a asant; another a farmer. In an old nglish dictionary a “‘clown” is the def. nition of “toor.” At the present day the word “‘clown' also needs definition, the original meaning of the word (** , ant™) having become almost obsolete. “Transvaal’' it is easily understood simply means “Across the Vaal" (river). Crops A Noveltry in a Candian Fair, {Chicago Journal.) The chief feature of proceedings in the horse ring at the great Canadian fair at Toronto, the other day, were the field trials of the ecolile dogs The collie field trials took place between 1and 2, at which hour there was not a vacant seat on the grand stand, while an enormous multitude surrounded the remaining portions of the ring. Two pens were constructed in front of the grand stand, and half a dozen sheep were placed in each. These were liberated alternately with each dog, who bad to drive them down the field between two fences and then bring them back to the » . The first dog to take the field was T. Telfer's Speed, imported, aged 4 years. He drove the shoep splendidly and penned them in six minutes, in an easy, quiet way, which competent judges thought it would be dificult to beat. Speed turned out to be the best dog tried during the after noon Mr. McKenzie's Sly was next given a trial, but he only did his work moder ately well. 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