———— Whdue oor finde Legends. a CALE ¢ Yaar Round} OF the hun ov logends the most strik- ing features i tuelr wildness, Is it a rote) wgmindt the dull monotony of fire in tnd ris life less monoton- ous to thie nativs than to the European? Lal Behari= 1 led, anyhow, are wilder Shay the wilt bits of the >Arubian Nights,” 50 ug man puts an egg o TE in, a bed ey obi iy and wut of (0 aes a babe that grows mothe Jo oli t girl the world over saw, The ueenik stone in some snakes’ Iowds 18 wor the wealth of seven Kings. In a cortain eity an elephant is King-maker: bio tae king of his cholae only reigns a doe, for out of the queen's month comes a threadlike snake which slivs him in 1h briual chamber, A Jonglost sin, who had fallen in love with his mo: her, and has mounted the cow honse roof that he may break in and ¢irry her o (, happily hears his life's story from two calves that are quietly dacussing him below, Ghosts haunt prepnl irees, and are as tricky as A at nseanee, A wife, going out of doors on udark night, accidentally knocks up against a Sankchinni, white lady ghost, that sat on a low branch. Tue reveng ful creature at once took Let hy the throat, thrust her into a hole in the tree, and went in, taking her shipe so completely that the mother-in- law, that univ rsal inmateof the Hinda, but, was deceived. The only difference wis that, whereas the wife had been wenik snd Loncuid, the ghost was brisk wud aetive.. "She has turned over a new leaf: so min h the better,” said the mother-in-law, when the errands and the cooking wore done in next to no me, Bint one day the old woman ecanght sight of the ghost fetching something trom the next room ghost fashion, by stretching out a long arm -—for ghosts can stretch their limbs a great way, though not as far as Rakshasis ein. She said nothing, but told her son, and they watched, and before long they saw the kitchen hearth ablaze, though they knew there was no fire in the house, Looking through a chink tiey saw that the wife had thrust her foot into the oven, and that it was burn ing like a bit of wood. “She's a ghost.” they whispered as they went for the ojiha, who tested her by burning tur ghostship by sereaming, and was then and showed where the real wife wa was again beaten until she pron never to do the family any f harm, The poor wife must have beer bad bargain after the active gl she was almost dead, and ve ry got back to ber usual weak health Misconceptions Comeerning Whales, {Cinelnnati Enquirir.) One of the prevailing misconceptions regarding whales is that they are fishes, w hen, on the contrary, they are « losely allied to the horse and cow, being mam mals, and giving milk like them, never taking water in as do fishes, avd breath Ing air just as we do, Another belief held also by old whalers is that whales spout water: this, in fact, is just ax much an 1mpossibility as it would be for a man to fill his mouth with water and spout a stream six inches in height through his nose. There is a special arrangement of valves in the whale to prevent water get- ting into the nostrils. By a special arrangement of blood vessels, whales are enabled to remain under water, or hold their breath near, if not quite, an hour. The breath during this time be comes heated, and the nostrils filled with mucous. Now, when the whale | rushes to the surface, this vapor rushes out of the nostrils with great force, and coming in contact with cold air con- | denses immediately, and becomes water, and falls in a fine shower like rain or pray. This may also be intensified by t mucous in the tubes, and if the | | Each of these persons may be supposed { to have fifty friends or relations. of | | whom 1 per annum dies. If they are | subject to adream or vision once a | week, there is one chance out of seven whale spouts just before it reaches the surface, the intervening water is hurled aloft; but the water is never really forced from the lungs. Paul Morphy 's Chess Men. [New Orleans Times Democrat. } Among the many interesting exhibits to be made § our coming great world’s exposition,” of peculiar interest to all chess players, will be the often men. tioned set of gold and silver chess men, set with jewels, presented to Paul M by a number of prominent eiti- i Ne York, fo of the chess club of that city and others, after his return in 1859 from his triumphal tour in the European chess world. These famous chess men will form part of the exhibit of curiosities and relics pertain. ing to the history of the city and state now being collected by the Lhdies’ City Exhibit association, who, we may add, have also secured and will display a number of other interesting gifts and mementos of the deceased chess king —— - 8 What He Did Find JTexss 8 tings A conntryman from Onion ereek, who was on a visit toa friend in Austin, saw unas hurtling for the first time in his life. He inquired where the gas came from. "Nn all aronnd, two feet under. ! Mis city friend. Sometime after his return home, the countryman wrote to his city friend; “1 have dug up the earth six foet deep all but I haven't yet 8 I got dead with.” | a most enthusiastic fit in the cellar, the | house- maid has given warnine, yout | watch loses time, you lost a hat on the meric under her pose. She proved her | “ | with matches in your hay-loft-—ver ¥ beaten with slippers till she confessed and | | and for a time of health, and behold i trouble!" {| the allotted ration | sho 1} i ore aan “weventy { some of those { lows with all manner of hard things, it | 15 the little wooden horse, the angular | world is so full of love and gentleness | troubled sleep comes to you ‘‘because i the former troubles are forgotten” and “shall not be remembered nor brought | Mental Phenomena Reduced to Figures | consider it quite within the bounds of | visions, ete. This will make half a mil. | We shall have, in one case out of 258. a But light the ot ghage Brow. She looked and smiled saw them through, Our petty souls, our stew wits, yeu abord, puny prion . ma scorn thom still, till we Scorn thein as bitterly as she, Yot show here once, ye heavenly powers, One of some worthier race than ours, Cine for whose sake she once night prove How deeply she who scorns can love, His eyos be like the — His voice like sounds any nights In all his lovely mien lot The magic of the universe! And she to him will reach her hand, And gazing in bis eyes will stand, And know her friend and weep for ee, And ery: “Long, long I've looked for thee" Then will she weep, with smiles, till then, Coldly she mocks the sons of men, Till then, her lovely eyes maintain Their gay, unwavering, deep disdain. BURDETTE ON TROUBLE. Our Little Day Dawns in Clouds—At Even. ingtide, Trouble, [Burlington Hawkeye.) Ah, dearly beloved, **Although affic- tion cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground: yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.!! We “look unto the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish.” Our little day dawns in clouds and mists, “and behold at eveningtide, trouble.” Our bank is shaky, and our mine has been salted, it rains on the picnic, your boots are tight and the cook is like unto the boots, your road-wagon rattles, there's a twist in the reins, your hors bas gone dead lame, there are moths in the parlor carpet and moles in the kitchen garden, your dog gets shot in a neighbor's sheep-lot, the cat dies of election, the neighbors’ bovs are playing we looked for peace, but no good cam W hy shenld any one desire more than i any man wt of thing Ah, i ft poisons carry their antidotes If trouble were altogether wise as he | is disagreeable life would be ton heavy to be borne. Bat when he stuffs your pil { chucks in to make it lumpier, that un { does his work and smoothes and softens | the rumpled pillow. The tired little | { hand falls on your cheek like a benison, ! the soft breathing of the boy frightens | little tin engine, the broken tov that he | i ] away the evil dreams, and you kiss the | dimpled cheeks and thank God that the and perfect trust, and peaceful, un into mind,” and “when He giveth quietness, who then oan make trouble!” Ncimnce ) ] Any physician, we apprehend, will | robability that 1 per cent of the popu ation of the country is subject to re. | markably vivid dreams, illusions, lion such people in the United States that they have one on the same day that | the friend dies L& us suppose that it takes a combi Pi | nation of eigiit separate and independent | points of resemblance, between the friend, to constitute a remarkable coincidence, and that each of these has a probability of one-half remarkable combination of vineidences Putting these results together, we may infer that, as a matter of Yact, some extraordinary coincidence between the circumstances of death and the dream or vision by a friend of the dying per son does occur somew hore in the country nearly every day in the year. Liked to Meet Him. [Arkamsaw Traveler] “Let's cross the street and meet that follow again,” said a man to a compan. jon with whom be was walking “Why didn't you speak just now if you have business with him?" “I have no business with him.’ “Then why do you wish to meet him on?" "Well, you see T used to owe him and in consequence, would avoid meeting him. Kecently I paid him up and now Ilike to meet him. It's like Mark Twain's story of the boy who found a dime. He throwing it out in front of him to fin again, Come on, | want to meet him. 1 wish | had noth. ing to do but to meet hima all day,” SB A * [Chicago Herald.) One pearcely thinks of coral as grow- under the jess and fogg : RL ANIMALS THEIR OWN DOCTORS. Curious Facts About Medicine as Practiced by the Brute Creation, Dr. W. C. Hisom in Veter Journal, 1 have observed in my Practice that animals are their own doctors and their own surgeons, and I observe that medi- cing, as practiced by animals, ix thor oughly empirical, and the same may be said of inferior human races. Animals instinctively choose such food as is best suited to them, and I maintain that the human race also do by instinct, Hence, medical men should respect to the likes and dislikes of their patients, For instance, women are more often h ungry than men; they do net like the same kind of food: yet our young animals, soarcely weaned, are given the same kind of diet, suitable to adults-—corn, oats, hay, straw and other foods which naturally disagree with them. I have found that animal likes and dislikes are the best guide. A large number of animals wash themselves and bathe, as elephants, stags, birds and ants, and | observe, as a general rule, that there are no animals that voluntarily run: the risk of inhaling emanations arising from their own ex- crement, We see that ali animals suckling their young keep them clean. and wean them at the proper time. They educate them, but these material instincts are fre quently rudimentary, or perhaps bred out in women of civilized nations. In fact, man may take a lesson in hygiene from the lower animals. Animals got rid of their parasites by using dust, mud, clay, ete. Those suffering from fever restrict their diet, keep quiet, sock dark, yet airy places, drink water, and sometimes plunge in it. When a dog has lost its appetite it eats certain spe- cies of grass, one of them known as dog grass, which act as an emetic and cathartic. Cats also eat grass when sick; so, also, cows, sheep and hogs when ailing eat of certain herbs. When dogs are constipated they eat of fatty substances until they are purge Horses and other animals suffering from chronie rheumatism always keep in the sun as far as possible The warrior ants have regularly or ganized ambulances I have cut oif the antibrachium of the ant, and the other ants came and covered the wounded part With a transparent fluid secreted from wounded, he stops the bleeding by prin ing the hand on the wound and dressi g It with leaves and grass. When an an ed has a wounded leg hanging bled, it OM ietes He Rmpuiat Means of i fiw! : Y | stung by a viper waz obser | the parts in cold water fo animal eventually wn | Sport BE Gog, run over Ly a can lakd in cold water for two weeks food was taken to it and the ani covered. A pet terrier hurt | remedied the evil by ly ng under ter, avoiding the al altho igh habitually i had ke pt Cong to the fire It adopted a general treat ment of rest and abstinence from The local treatment consisted in cessively licking the upper surface of the paw and applying to the wounded YOR Cats, also, when wounded. treat ! method of | ontinuous Iirngation tHEmber a | themselves by this simple ane where a cat remained with its pos terior extremities in running water for | four days, though suifering from ureth ral difficulty. Also, that of another eat which had the singular fortitude to re main for two days in a stream of cold | water, and found to be suffering from i traumatic fever Animals suffering from fevers treat themselves by the eon tinued application of cold water, which | I consider to be more certain than any ot her met hod In view of these interesting 0 are, | think, foroed to admit that by gene an animals, may be stadied with advan | tage We could go even further. and | say that the veterinary practitioner, and ] pechaps the medical practitioner of hu- man diseases, could gather useful nds cations, and because they are founded upon instinet, and efficacious in the | preservation of health, Genlas Ahead. (Lime-Kiln Club) ) The secretary cleared his dosk of all fa further business by annonncing the fol owing query from Griflin, Ga ‘Does | the genius of this country keep pace | with the demands of the hour!” Judge Cadaver thought she did if there was anything lying amund loose which ganius could not mop the floor with he was ready to lay down and die. The Hon Standc® Smith thought genius was ahead of demand and going two feet to her one Col. Backbolt Green was reflecting upon that very matler only the evening | previous, and he had been obliged to | confess that genius got up powerful early in the morning and was around all day Several other speakers followed in the same strain, and Sir Isaac Yaipole finally remarked . “I reckon genius keeps ahead. In fack I know she does. Indesd, she deter. It am darfore decided dat genius am shead by a large majority, an’ de meetin will now stan’ impugned for one week. A Novelty in Bouquets, [Chicago Tims) A novelty io the way of bouquets was presented Ly an English lady to a gen- tement. The order that vegetables only should be employed in its produetion was carried out as follows: Carrots in i therapeutics, as practioed by In Opposition to Osens Wilde, [Wentworth Huyshe in Pall Mall Gazette] 1foar that it was the alluring allitera- tion of “sex and sanity” that led Mr. Oscar Wilde into a reflection upon m mental powers, I hope and believe | am regarded as a sane man by my friends and acquaintances, and certainly Lam not guilty of any eccentricities of costume which might cause them to think otherwise, There is never any. thiug unusual, for instance, about the collar or the cuffs of my shirt or the cit of my hair. Nor have I ever worn knee-breeches and silk stockings, 11 there be any question of sanity it must be one of degree between Mr, Wilde and myself; between a man who thinks a clog might be *‘a dream of beauty’ and “most comfortable’ on an English lady's foot und one who thinks the Hessinn boot a convenient mud protector on that of an English gentleman, Insane though it may seem to Mr, Wilde, | am bold enough to pit my overcoat with a cape against his short cloak, my conical hat against his broad-brimmed head gear, and my breeches and Hessians against his “short loose trousers’ and “soft boots which conid be worn above or below the knee'—my modification, in fact, of the dress of our great -grand- fathers, against his modification of that of our remoter progenitors of the seven- teenth century. Meantime there can beno harm in tak- ing a step, necessarily modest and timid, in the direction of reform. With that end in view 1 asked Mr. Frederic Weekes to sketeh for me the costume to which I pin my faith. The felt hat is broad enough in the brim to shield the wearer's face from wind and rain, should he unfortunately be caught in a storm without an nmbrella; the cape on his overcoat would perform the same function for his shoulders, and the skirts for his knees; the circulation of the blood of the nether man would not be impeded by the hreoclys. m de of “all wool” material, and properly ont below the knee he is snugly clad in leather boots, which may be as soft or as still as he likes. Beueath his overcost he wears a jacket cut to the figure, and buttoning well up to the neck. 1 not myself soo anything in this costum: | wearer It ix, according to mv notion their mouths, If a chimpanzee be | snpie, manly, convenient | priate. Pert APE BOLI 4 sear Wilde may fUresg ie The Unpleasaitness of Interviewing when A great sd pw "a » 20 Into Aa fam ily where a father lies dead and inter view the son for an obituary its harder still, if there is no son. to face | the widow and have to ask her cold business-like questions. Yet it has to | be don fot Haw aise the Now spaper i wants the obituary — unless it concerns a | famoy Mas Ul Because the reialives it prints Reporters are | ’ : Ih Bardened, calloused wu rials | | some people think they are. They are | i as susceptible to distress as other men, | | though they must face it, being pushed | on by their business. Sometimes the circumstances are too much for them, and they beat a hasty retreat, People in considering reporters are | apt to forget one important fact-—that | he is an impersonation of his paper's circulation Wherever be goes upon a | i business errand he represents all wh reas his paper EY 10) O00 per ¢ ¢ i WTS for the readers of a good | aper are more than twice the number | | of the subscribers. The reporter is al committee of one sent by all those peo ple as it were, to inquire into certain i matters for them. This is a considera i tion which places a self-respecting re porter on a level with the most exalted | man be meets. If he is not a gentle. | man, he ought fo be. in #pite of his nn merous temptations, for there is nol nobler profession on earth than his if he | only complies with its obligations An Actor's Domestic Beonomy. Cor, London Theatre, ) I have read somewhere or other where | cannot for the life of me recol lect —an anecdote of a now forgotton actor called Bosambeau, which is too good te be lost. He resembled the roll- | ing stone that gathers no moss, for he | scidom remained long in any theatre, was always in debt, and, to make mat. ters worse, had several children, who, like their father, lived literally from hand to mouth. One evening while his littls family * were anxously awaiting their customary allowance of bread and milk he discovered, on examining his | pockets, that the few sons in his posses sion would barely suffice for the next day's breakfast. 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