INSECT DYNAMITERS. “HOW A BEETLE PROTECT: 'TJELF FROM ITS ENCM cS aon Used Travelor's _g4 LL AR ary In ~ ne Other telphia Tir “Speaking of insects, ” said the aatursl- Mk. “reninds me that 1 have a dynumiter hero for ex.sbition whenever yok gentle- wes wie rendy * All were ready and the tate wis cleared of the boxes except one, w igh wus (laced in the center. “1 pro- pase. gentiomen, ” said the dynamite fiend, ‘#e whow wot only an explosive insect, Imes Abe elect of the explosion upon athers whe mizhit pos bly be enemies ® Upon thos he lit ide that was attached to thie (wx ue pnediately there appeared swvegal eda sized sprightly beetles tat started off around the table in an wotive go voll please race An en ¢ osure aras soon formed of books and all removed but one and then a ditferent species was intro tiery, untamed feliow, thag + utier at headlong speed. The sib dler ws! ¢ ut first did not seem te ne tice this freaiment, but fivally, when it was fairly krocked over, it seemed to pre- I jiself go resent further attacks, It Jd itself kizh upon its legs, shook its ver rvously and, as the larger vround the ring on a dead i saiddenly, unlimbered itself, o s eak. nnd, as the enemy ap ched, an wxdible report was heard, a ri eznt hung in the air and ¢ tedl sprawling in its tracks 1 spasinedic struggles endeavored sway trom the living cannon. latter still retained its offensive pom heing touched with a ¢ ected, twice in quick suc- a volntie dud that gave out a de punzent odor that was evidently o the larger beetle, A mouse luced, and as it ran by the it received a discharge » squeal with pain and action its hind legs, and for 8 few seconds d as if in a fit A Kitten sub- 1 te lischarge spit and rubbed nose in rage and fear: and finally, ral other discharges; the supply of ammunition scemed to give out, “Theres protection for you, ” said the ighted bug. waich was rather long sad HE the beglos of n a and vel @ heed Over de it lurne ala nnd iT ) 4 IIKE Bller seve Owns DAITOW, having a curious general appearaace from | fuct that the head and thorax were 1 te abdomen. The beetle, ” Le continued, “was brought from by a fr mine, or, ghould me 8 dozen or so of the La'ched them out in my insect case very common in China and Japan and va th Darrower u } iend of say, seul rious parts of the east, and some species in | scientiiic name 8 | fal 0 { I8L, bal America. The Brachinidie—that is, that's the family name—but they generally go by the name of the Bombardier beetle, from their habit of bombarding all intruders at short notice, volatile fluid secreted in the posterior por tion of the body, which the apr has the “power of ejecting with such force that it 18 felt several inches away, and forming for a moment, a cloud as it were of smoke To very small animals this may be fatal south and to larger forms it is quite sufficient to | stop their progress in a given direction It stings and burns the human flesh for several moments and stains it so that the marks are visible for several days. “To show the power of the explosive as a force, 1 have placed a beetle three inches under water and the force of the explosion would make the water boil all about “Experiments tried in hot water showed that the Iatier effervesced. To the human nostril the odor resembles that of muri. atic acid and is extremely irritating. If any one wishes to try it in the interests of science | have another beetle all loaded "— but there were no martyrs present Nearly all the beetles of this family have this peculisr method of defense, and in some localities the odor snd effect is much worse than in others. Burchard, Je well known traveler, had a curious experience. With a party of natives he started out one evening to make some as- tronomical observations, when his atten. lion was attracted numbers of beetles running about upon the shore Being a nat , he directed his men to capture some, which they proceed to do, but the moment the insects were touched they faced about and sent such an irritat ing discharge upon the hands of the men that they dropped them, howling with fear and pain. So painful was the dis charge that only a few of the insects were caught It was noticed that at the time of explosion a white, semi luminous cloud appeared in the air. “Here, ” sald the insect man, taking u the dish of water, “is another living gun, and as he spoke he touched a amall object and a stream of water four inches in length sprang foto the air. “The first time I n this, * continued the speaker, “1 was looking down into the water and was struck by the stream fairly in the eye and upon lavestigation I found that it came from the respiratory organ of the larva of the common dragon fly. This shooting water method is not pecu lia to insects. are a number of fishes that bave a similar habit. One known as the archer fish will rise to the surface and eject a stream of water four or five inches above the surface and so accurate in their aim that they can hit sn object as small as a fly with the test ease. The Jong nosed chaltodon 4 equally remark. able lo this respect. Their bill seems ar ranged to form » perfect airgun, rou which a drop of water is forced at an in sect with unerr " The squids have a similar faculty of ejecting a stream of pure black ink and the writer has seen the face of a person dreached in this way, the Inky stream rising four or five inches from the water, The Latest from the Exposition. [Loulerille Commercial.) “Have you heard the latest from New Orleans? “Dont think I have; what Is 12" ey Lave changed the name of the carnival ® “How's that?" oh, Jeo soa, a acest of the false ofits © © expos n, now speak FE the carnival as El Mabhdl Gras " Nature's Sweetest Gifs Plantation Philosophy | De mole an’ de eagle In de transackshun o' dar bus'ness ain’ no furder er part den de eddycated man widout er soul an’ de rough man wid one. Natur's sweetest gift ter man is kin'ness 0° heart, an’ of she hay hil’ dis back, dar ain’ much ter be hoped frum de slighted pusson. Wood "on the north side of a tree, say» an observer, will pot warp as much as that from the south side, and that if trees are sawed in plases that run east and west, as tree stood, it will warp leds than if cut in the opposite direclion the { man who was the fixs! to first discover the red itself | : TREASURES IM ALASKA, ensrm—— The Undevelepod Mining Resources of ur | Far Novthern Territory. i [Edwards Roberts in Chicago News. | | It is too soom yetio say how much ore Alaska has, but && js certain the supply is | very large. Good deads have been discov. | ered in various ts of the country, but the mines now 1g worked are located near Juneau City, 100 miles northeast of Sitka. Juneau is a.town of limited popu. lation, having not more than fifty white men all told, and i& named in honor of a placer diggings, a tew miles inland, in what is known as the basin. The claims there have ylelded in the last six years some thousands of «dollars and made Juneau rich. At present they are nearly sbandoned, and the excitement of the meighborbood is centered at Douglas, just across the bay from Juneau. * The large mine there ds located within fifty yards of the bay, and was sold by its discoverer, Treadwell, to & San Francisco company, of which Senatar Jones is the rulivg spirit The new oweers have lately sct.up a 120-stamp mill, the largest in the world, 1 believe, and have refused, so it is said, $16,000,000 for their psoperty. The ore is gold, held in white quartz, is easily milled, and appears 10 exist in unlimited quantities, W hat the yield per ton is no oue owside the owners knows | am told, however, every ton will pay $5 and that there sre millions of tong. A resident of Junesa is not particular when giving figures. The will is run by water, and a steamer can be loaded by sw incline reaching from the mine to the wharf, There is no winter to interfere with the work of mining, and native lpdian labor is cheap and aband- sul. Many other properties have been SHADE OF TWCORD, WAS IT PIE? [Ohieggo Herald] Ob, Bhade of Concord, was it That rolled thy fively ronials, In visions of Infinity? ‘That fed thy jack -lantern brain With phosphor fram the radiant train “That nightly tramps the stellar plain, And clap, the brakes on Phoebus’ car t@ne morning in the blue afar Xo “hitch thy wagoe to a star?” ‘@h, Bhade of Concord, was it ple That bore thy soul so loftily 1 That made A spare with gentls ruth All sons of men who love the truth, Whe scorn the sneer asd loathe the sham That filled thee with a noble hate ot Ay pocritae who modulate Each sacred chant Inte their cant And seivel forth each joyous psalm? Prophet and Poot, Fool most wise, We toss this gow-gaw to the skio:, And fod, while blink our dazzled eyes, Oh, trwe American, ‘twas Plo! Mistakes of Modioal Men. [Cor. Harald of Health.) We think & great deal of unpractical nonsense is talked and written on the con- ditions of health, and we arc quite sensi ble of the fact that regimen and dietin may be carried too far. Practitioners | those who set themselves up as apostles of sanitary seiemce are too prone to measure other people's corn by their own bushel For example, a physician or sur econ may himself have been a too free Iver—it is easier 0 preach than to prac tice—and he may have become a vegeta rian just in the nick of time or with great advantage to his health: but this is cer tainly no reason why he should spend the remainder of his days in trying to per sunde others that vegetarianism is oo or necessary for them also opened on the island, but, from lack of capital, few of them have been developed toany extent. The year '84 saw many new mining men come into Alaska, and | in "85 there will be still more. Prospect ing is done at a great disadvantage, but there still are leads that can be discovered. Ounce the fact is known that Alaska has | ore there will be a rapid increase in the | population. And here again the native be utilized. worker 15 anxious mouey Indian will An Alaska Indisu is a good Dirty and depraved as he is, to get employment He likes hose engaged In the Tread well | mine are indefatigable laborers So they | are in the salmon canneries that have been | started. Familiar with their country, they know, if anybody does, where there is | any ore | dian a taking up the dynamite | to Chios | he | larvee and 1 | Itis | | with moss to a depth of a | gountries is out of | only way is to get an Indian who knows | The explosive in this case is a | | the maintenance of | the by paths and the streams ing him float gold may wd | f few had accepted the offer of an years ago, who said he kn of a lead, I should have been rich perhap vy,” said a mun w | row nie If a miner will pay fair wages he can | get good escort and run fair chances of finding ore. Let a man, however, try to | depend on himself and he will most Hkely | Alaska's soil is covered or more, | snd prospecting as carried on in other the question The ithern ‘ N O0% By follow. be found-—as it often has been -—that will lead to the main | vein The Crazy Quilt Mania Waal wi Letter Wives of public men In Washington constantly receive letters from all parts of the country asking for pieces of their dresses or other articles of apparel; also | for neckties of their husbands, to be used | in making. crazy quilts Mrs Logan is | more frequently asked for contributions | of this kind than any other lady in Wash ington. and she almost always complies with the request. It is said that she has not a dress that has not been clipped for this purpose. The eral declares that he finds it hard work to keep a necktie He does not complain, however, .for he enters fully into the spirit which prompts his wife never to refuse such a request when it can be granted. Cast-off dresses and ties are scarce In the house of the Logans. There are hundreds of quilts in all parts of the country specially prized because they have a pleco from one of Mra Logan's dresses, or from one of the general's necktiea ng Eastern and Western Clubs Contrasted. New York Town Topica, In ita “Club® department, says: “I asked a brother club-man recently, who has just returned from a western trip, if he noticed any es sential difference between the clubs-life of the eastern and western cities ‘Well,' he replied, Jet me think. Their whisky is better, as a rule; their restaurants are greatly inferior; and when dining at the Calumet club in Chie ~which has one of the handsomest club bufldings in the country, by the way—I saw, out of sixty men in the restaurant, only two in even ing dress. I found the club at Cheyenne and those in San Francisco the nearest to ours in the points of refinement in dress sod conversation of thelr members, and this was due to the fat that they cain many eastern men.’ I fear my friend was prejudiced in favor of the metropolis. * The Antiguity of the Hace. [Exchange | A recent writer explodes the theory that the human race is 50,000 years old by showing that when the present popula: tion of the world, 1,400,000,000, Is taken, the known ratio of increase figured back- ward therefrom and the loss from pes tilence and wars taken (nto account it will readily be found that even the Genesis figure of 6,000 years is entirely beyond the correct age of the human family, Four thousand four hundred years he puts down as the more proba time since Adam first saw light in the Garden of Children's Spinal Troubles, [Chioago Times ) A hj siciat connected with one of ths hospitals in New York where children re- ceive special attention, says that many of the cases of spinal trouble brought to his notice are the diregt result of the careless handling of baby carriages The matter of how nurses and others handle these lit: tle vehicles is ome to which parents may well pay attention Bennett's lose Machine. James Gordon Bennett's yacht Namouna has been proviked with a dense alr ma chine, which is able to produce 1,000 pounds of foe per day. Yet it is so com. push that it occupies & space only seven vet long, four wide, and four high. How To Be Miserable. Charles Kingsley Jaga: “If you want to be miserable, think about “yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay to you, and what people think of you, It is sald that Weston, the walker, found chewing coca leaves a groal assistance hi wstainlog fatigue, | erably weak digestive faculty | the verge of starvation, | pretending to cure, not curing | on ourselves and on those our practice Says | her superficial area BOT t | 17.607 320 | Is preserving the | condition to be most serviceable to agricul | ture, man . Again, a medical man may have a mis to avoid certain dishes which other folk can take, not only with fmpunity, but with benefit; but that is no reason why he should go about abusing and interdicting { the things that disagree with him, while they agree perfectly well with the major ity of mankind. By pushing dieting to we are simply we impose who confide in France's Revenue from Forests. Boston Herald Mr. Egleston, chief of the bureau, quotes from the Fren forest administration, from pears that the estimated re hh repo which it ap- | forests of France over f of mansgemeut of 17,607, 52 “France has about 5 are in forest, or 1 itti¢ leveloped Aor the LUM, 000 francs with this burden it will be seen France d lerives a rovenue from her 2,44 000 acres, and communes and 1 the care of the fores public estabishmer francs, or near above all expenses and while this handsome revenue she is securing by what can } 3 14 ry Wal ciim bor forests not ney, the ' atic conditions for the health of her peo ple and the success of her gzriculture, and tow of her streams in a be estimated in mo ty ifactures and commerce. * The Genuine Tar- Heel Kis Wilson (N.C) Mirror Up the perfumeswept aveoue of love snd under the roseate archway of Hymen | they had passed into the joy-lit realms of holier existence where soul meets soul, on limpid waves of ec static feeling, aud hearts touch hearts through the blended channel of lips in rapture linked. They bad just been made man and wife and their souls must meet and “swap a swap” of labial endearment And now, how can we describe that osculatory performance? It was not a spasmodic kiss, like a stopper flying out of a champagne bottle; or a suctiooary kiss, like a cow pulling her foot out of the mire; neither was it one of those long, lingering, languishing kisses, which lov. ers give when hid by clustering vines from the glance of the moonbeams. No, none of these, but it was to be alliters tive, a kind of a slunchwise, slantindlctu. lar, goupaappiag. sop sipplag meeting of the lips, which went for the whole hog of endearment or none; and that is the way two hearts began 0 beat as one that higher snd Black: of the Upper Nile Reglon. [Oor. Philadelphia Times | In these Nilotic peoples the salient features of the negro race are less promi nent than elsewhere Although Islam has made some progress, the bulk of these people are still nature worshipers When preparing for battle the “medicine man” lays an infant and places the bleed. ing body on the warpath, to be trampled by the warriors marching to victory. Human fat is a staple of trade The Monbuttu cure for future use the bodies of the slain {n battle and reserve thelr ners for terrible crueltios These Nilotic races in many cases are skilled ln useful industries, as agriculture, iron smelting and casting, weaving and the manufacture of pottery. The form and ornamental designs of thelr utensils display artistic taste, while their iron implements have a temper superior to that of European manufaciure They are cannibals and yet show a regard and devotion to the weaker sex. Missisaippl's Jewels [Montgomery Advertiser | One man who knows how to side cot ton, stick a hog In the jugular vein, and shell corn without making his hands bleed is worth more to himself, the Sounteys and the young women than all the “bloods” that ever chased & fox or knocked the backstep since the world began, Missis. sippl hasn't got any iron and coal, but she has some jewels that know the difference between a of bread and butter and a hp Down in the Comstock. [Exchange | The temperature of the mines on the Comstock vein Is exceedingly high At depths of 1,500 feet and 2,000 feet the thermometer placed in a fresh-drilled hole will show 130 degrees. Very large bod les of water have run for years at 150 de , and smaller bodies at 170 d he temperature is kept down to 110 de. grees by forcing In fresh air cooled over Ice Against the Hules [Chioagy Herald, | Capt. 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