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ABOUT thirty years ago the members ef a celebrated circus company were exhibiting In the City of Boston, and a youth about sixteen years of ago, who was very fond of natural history, every day paid a viBit to the entertainment, attracted by the display of a large collection of wild ani mals. ' He was particularly interested in watching the manoeuvres of a very fine Bengal tiger, who by its restless movements showed its disapprobation of the confine ment it endured, and he took delight In an noying the captive brute, who roared with impotent rage, and by the flashes of its ma lignant eyes and the display of its deadly fangs indioated what its tormentor's fate would be if at any time ho should be in its power. One morning he visited the me nagerie before the usual hour of the per formance, and rinding no iorson at the ticket takor's office he entered the room where the animals were confined. Advanc ing to the cage of the tiger, to his great surprise he perceived that it was empty ; and without thinking of the danger he in curred, his curiosity prompted him to enter the cage and endeavor to realize how the creature folt when it was a captive. For tunately for him, be closed the door of the cage when he entered, and the instant after he had fastened the bolt he perceived the tiger protruding its head from behind some boards that were placed at the back of the menagerie. With a roar of malig nity and triumph the fearful brute advanced to the cago, and inserting one of its paws between the bars endeavored to seize the youth and drag him to bis fate. The poor boy was bo overwhelmed with horror at the dangerous position in which he had placed himself that be was unable to call for as sistance, and could only press himself as closely as possible against the back part of the cage. He then perceived with terror that the fore paw of the animal reached within two inches of his dress, which the infuriated beast endeavored by every means in its power to grasp with its claws. Trembling with horror and despair, the boy pressed himself as far back as possible, and seemed almost to flatten himself against the back of the cage ; but in spite of his utmost attompts to compress himself into the smallest possible compass, the ti ger by a sudden movement of its paw managed to grasp bis jacket with one of its claws, and dragged the unfortunate youth towards the bars. He said afterwards, iu describing his emotions, that he seemed to live over again his whole life ; every inoident passing through his brain with such wondrous rapidity that the few seconds of his jeop ardy seemed to him hours. When the tiger had dragged him within a few inches of the bars the cloth of the jacket gave way ; and, in consequence of the force the tiger was exerting,the sudden separation of of its claw from the dress caused its fore paw to be withdrawn from within the bars of the cago, and the boy availed himself of the opportunity to press himself once more against the back part of the den. The ferocious brute finding itself baffled in the attempt to again clutch tho boy, uttered a low, menacing growl, and then commenced to walk slowly around tho room all the timo -casting uaalignaut glances upon the boy its eyes gleaming with baleful light, and seemiug at times to flash with sparks of fire. Suddonly it crouched to the ground, and then sprang at the bars of the cage with such fury and rage that it seemed to strike the cage like a thunderbolt, and then rebounded from the iron bars as a football rebounds from a rock. The boy now bethought him of a pen-knife he carried in bis pocket, and de termined to defend himself. Opening one of the blades he calmly awaited the attack which the maddened animal evidently in tended to make ; and as soon as it protru ded its paw again into the cage he struck at it with all his force, and drove the point ed blade into its flesh, which it penetrated to the bone. When the brute felt the pain of the wound it uttered a mingled yell ef rage and agony ; and the keepers hearing the noise rushed into the room, and Irome uulr )aiiiutf IL; situation they seut for one of the performer, who was a olrcus rider from South America, and who had been in the habit of capturing wild horses on the plains of the South. The rider has tened to the menagerie, bringing with him his lasso, which was a strong string or rope about thirty feet in length, and with a loop at one end. This he threw over the bead of the tiger, and drawing it tight around its throat almost strangled it, and the keeper getting a large net drew it cau tiously over the now helpless beast and easily secured it. The boy was soon re leased from his perilous position, bis cu riosity being fully gratified. He never again was desirous to know bow a tiger felt when it was confined in a cage. tW A Western Sunday school idea is this i biblical exercises are held every week, in which some scriptural subject, as "The Itivers of the bible," is dealt witb. Each participant is previously given one river, upon which be writes a sketch, giving the events connected with k. The research necessary in the preparation of the essay leads to careful Bible reading, and tb entertainments are interesting. The Man In the Moon. There are many superstitions about the man in the moon, nod almost every coun try in the world has a story about him. In New England the nurses tell the children that this man was found by Moses gather ing stlcks'on a Sabbath, and that, for be ing so wicked be was doomed' to reside In the moon till the last day. "If you don't ' believe it," they say, 'look in the Bible. It is all told in the fif teenth chapter of Numbers." The Germans have the tale this way. Ages ago there went one Sunday morning an old mau into the forest to cut wood. When he had made a bundle he slung it over his shoulder, and started for home. On his way he met a minister, all in bis bands and robes, who asked him : "Don't you know, my friend, that it is Sunday on earth, when all must rest from their labors?" "Sunday on earth, or Monday in heav en, it is all one to me !" laughed the woodman. " Then b.oar your burden forever," said the priest ; " and as you value not Sunday on earth, you shall have Monday in heaveu till the great day." . Thereupon the speaker vanished, and the mau was caught up, with cane and fag gots, into the moon, where you can see him any clear night. In Norway they think they see both a man and woman, and tho story goes that the former threw branches at people going to church, and tho latter made butter on Sunday. In the clear, cold nights of win ter they will point out the man carrying his bundle of thorns, and the woman her butter-tub. A Curious Property of Sand and its Ap plications. If a quantity of dry silioious sand be placed in a bag of canvas or thin box of sheet iron, the mass, after slight compres sion, forms a conglomerate, capable of re sisting pressures of ovor 00 tons. So far as the envelope is coucorned, the sand within acts as if it were an enclosed solid, pro ducing no effect on the covering exoept a trivial amount where the contact occurs with the load. The sand, however, re mains perfectly divisible, and, no matter what may be the superincumbent weight, escapes freely though slowly out of small aperture made iu the bag or box. A simple piece of paper, however, placed over the orifice, is sufficient to stop the flow, oven under the load above notod. M. Beaudemonlin, who discovered this peculiar property several years ago, has lately published in Franco a work suggest ing various modes of its application. For building walls it is well adapted, since the tilled bags or boxes need merely be held in place by a framowork ; while, being very thick, they would form a protection, in case of being used for dwellings, against variations of temperature. Such walls, beside, would be fireproof. It is nlso sug gested that for lowering heavy weights or eveneutire buildings, which by a change of street level, havo become located too high above the roadway, the sand bags could be placed beneath and their contents allowed gradually to escape, thus letting the load slowly settle down. , , How a Woinnn did Business. ' A woman who lately worked a plantation near Augusta, Qa., and who was a new band in the cotton trade, walked into ono of the city banks, a few days ago, and, ac centing the courteous paying teller, asked him to tell hor if sbo could get tho money for her bale of cotton. . She wautod it, and she must have it. lie said he couldn't tell her that, but he could tell her that be wasn't paying for cotton just then. She said she didn't want any foolin' about it ; she had sent hei cotton to Augusty and she wanted the money. - The gentleman, knowing that " hell hath no fury like a wo man scorned," ohanged bis jocose tone and asked her to wtiom she consigned it. "I didn't consign it to noboby," she roplied ; " I jiat sent it to Augusty !" " Well, but to what merchant did you send it?" "I never sent it to nobody at all. I jiat sent it to Augusty." " Ye 1 yea !" said the teller, now getting impatient, a the long line of check holdeis was momentarily increasing, and the woman was stopping hi business. " Yea, I know you sent it to Augusta, but to whom did you ship it?" "Ship it. I never put it on any ship at all," she indig nant roplkxL " I , jist put it on the cars and sent it to Augusty, and I want my money for it !" Here some one suggested to her to go to the railroad and she would no doubt find her bale of cotton, which she did. - - Peculiar Properties of Flgnre. Any nuntber of figures you may wish to multiply by 5 will give the same result if divided by 2 a much quicker operation ; but you must remember to annex a 0 to the answer when there is do remainder, and when there 1 a remainder, whatever it may be, annex a S to the answer. Multiply 404 by S, and the answer will be 2,830 ; divide the same by 3, and you will have 233, and, a there I no remainder, you add a 0, Now take 859, multiply by 5, the answer is 1,703 ; and dividing this by 3, there is 170 and a remainder ; you therefore place, a S at the end of the line, and the result it again 1,705. A Lesson for Smokers. Plain speaking was formerly considered a duty by the Quakers. It is a pity they do not practice it often on smokers, taking the following as a specimen. :. ' ltecently, a Quaker was traveling in a railway carriage. After a time, observing certain movements on the part of a fellow passenger, he accosted him as follows : " Sir, thee seem well dressed, and I dare say thee considers thyself well-bred and would not demean thyself to do an ungen tlemanlike action, woulds't thoe ?" The person addressed promptly replied with considerable spirit, " Certaiuly not, if I knew it." The Quaker continued : " And suppose thee invited me to thy house, thee would not think of oflbring mo thy glass to drink out of after thee had drank out of It thyself, wouldxt. thee?" The interrogated replied " Abominable 1 No! Such, mi, offer would be most insulting." The Quaker continued : " Still leas would thee think of offering me thy knife and fork to eat with after putting them into thy mouth, wouldst thee?" The interrogated answered : To do that would be an outrage on all decency, and would show that such a wretch was out of the pale of civilized society. "Then," said the Quaker, "with, those impressions on thee, why shouldst thee wish me to take into my mouth and' nos trils the smoke from that cigar which thou art preparing to smeke out of thine own mouth?" Poverty. Dr. Mutchmore, of the Prtibyterian is in the habit of writing some pungent edito rials. He wrote one recently about the "Ills and Trials of Poverty." Wo ex tract that part which relates especially to poverty : " Poverty is a great curse, despite of all the fine sentiment we hear about it from people in warm bouses, who are well fed, and have good clothes on their backs. It embitters manhood ; it saturates woman's heart with gall. It begets envy and fret fulness with one's lot ; it makes men roll fiery eyes and utter hard speeches on the good of others, only beoause It Is not their own. It furrows the face of beauty with crow's feet, or unsoftened lines of care. It makes its victims hard-hearted, bard faced, and quarrelsome in speech and con duct. It robs the heart of all refining in fluences, by taking away all means of culture. It puts intellect and taste on the treadmill iu quest of broad. It makos the soul go on all-fours to furnish food to the body. It changes a man's nobility to his stomach, which goads him to desperation by its unappeased cravings. And through all, man siuks at best to the level of a ra tional brute. How Does he Know I , James Freeman Clarke, in nu article en titled "Have Animals SouIh," published in the "Atlantic," relates the following ; "On Sunday I have boon in the habit of driving to Boston to church ; but ou other days I drive to the neighboring village, where are the post office, shops of me chanic, and other stores. To go to Bos ton, I usually turn to the right when I leave my driveway to go to tho village, I turn to the left. Now, on Sunday, if I leave the reins loose, so that the horse may do as he pleases, he invariably turns to the right, and goes to Boston. On other days ho as invariably tarns to the left, and goes to the village. He does this so constantly and regularly that none of the family have any doubt of the fact that be knows that it is Sunday ; how he knows it we are unable to discover. I have loft my house at. the same hour on Sunday and on Monday, in the same carriage, and the same number of persons in it, and yet on Sunday he al ways turns to the right, and on Monday to the left. He is fed at the same time on Sunday a on other days,; but the man come baok to harness him a little later on Sunday than at other times, and that is possibly hi method of knowing that it is the day for going to Boston.-. But see bow much of observation, memory, and thought i implied in all thi." Peculiarity of a Nutmeg. , If a person begins to grates a , nutmeg at the stalk end, it will prove hollow throughout ; - whereas the tame . nutmeg grated on the other end would have proved sound and solid to the last. ,Tbis oiroum stanoe may thus be accounted for : The center of a nutmeg consist of a number of fiber issuing from the stalk and it con tinuation through the center of the fruit, the other ends of which fibers, though closely surrounded and pressed by the fruit, do not adhere to It. When the stalk is grated away, the fibers, having lost their hold, gradually drop out in succession, and the hollow continues through the whole nut. By beginning at the contrary end the fiber above mentioned are grated off at their core - end, with the surrounding fruit and do tuft drop out and cause a hole.' . . .. i . , ,: , t3T A Colorada . exchange say : "The Canon oily girl don't take kindly to cro quet. They say' it is too high-toned for them, Leap-frog U their best bold." How. Ho Lost It. In a pretty Connecticut village lives-a. gentleman whom I will call Mr. Qj, a man, of wealth) ot prominence in the church, in, fact one of the leading men of the place, . and withal, very fond of a jokeIndeed one of those rare men who enjoys a jke on himself, ne was the ownor of a magninn cent diamond pin ; the envy of i his-friends, . and an article which he took.pride.-ln wear ing in a conspicuous place on bis- shirt bosom. He was obliged to go. away. on business for a week or two, andi the. next morning after his. return was rnet by. a. neighbor and intimate friend, who. con gratulated him on his safe return? and was. about to pass along, when he exclaimed : ; " Why, Mr. Qj, where' your diamond, pin?" "I've lost It," was the reply. "Lost it Host that pin ? you dou't mean it ; how. did you lose it?" "Never mind how I lost It, maybe I'll toll you sometime." "Telli . me now," said the friend, "how. did you. lose It?" Qi looked around, apparently afraid of being overheard, and said, "if you will promise not to let it out, I'll tell, you." His friend, agreed to. keep ita.se ciet, and never mention it to- any one, when Q., with some hesitation, remarked, "The fact is, Ii lost it while sleeping, with a strange woman," and thereupon turned and walked off.. His friondikept the secret nearly tweoty-four hours, when, under a pledge of seoreoy, he told his wife,, and. ' then well, we all know how such, things, go. Mr. Q., was obligedl to go away, on, business again for two or three days, and. found, upon his return, a pretty kettle of' fish. The news had spread like wild-fire, and although be was liked by almost every body in the town, many were ready to say that they always thought he went away a good deal, eto., eto. At last the churoh. took it up, a committee requested him to. be present at the weekly praypr meeting, the members were requested to remain, after the service, when the person who. led the meeting (it might have been tho pas tor), asked Mr. Qi, if ho had.stated thus, and so, and if so, what it meant. Uhere was silence for a moment, when the orirul nal, his eyes twinkling with fun, arose and stated, " that on his woy to Boston ho took a seat with a strange woman, the car be ing crowded, and being very tired,, he fell asleep, and Blept a long. time. Upon, reach ing the hotel he found his diamond pin. had been stolen, and supposed it was taken by the woman who was in the Beat with him,, and on his return home, having boon, asked by a friend where his pin was, be had told him he had lost It while sleeping with a strange woman, which was the truth, and be was not aware that be had done any- -thing out of the way." By this time tho hugeness of the joke became perceptible to all present, and the meeting adjourned sine die, and the great scandal died out. Very likely, many stories which are cir culated about just as good men have even less foundation. Squclehlng a Legal Bfllly. There was, five and twenty years ago, au attorney practicing in court named Booton. Had ho been on the frontier he would have been either a blood-letter or an arrant cow aid. I don't know which ; but here he was simply a noisy, coarse-grained bully ; and his chief delight was to badgor and. bully witnesses of the opposing counsel on the. stand. Oue day a horse cose was on trial in which Booton wos attorney for the defend ant. By and by counsel for the plaintiff ' called a witness who was supposed to be something of a horse doctor. He was a middle-aged, easy, good-natured man, olad in home-spun, whose bronzed brow and bard hands betokened sweat and toil. Hi testimony, which was clear simple and di rect ; made things look a little dark for the defendant, and when Booton got hold of him he proceeded to cross question him iu -hi usual brutal mauner. Said cross examination woundup rather abruptly as follow s "Well now." demanded the counsel, with a tomahawk-like flourish, " what do you know about a horse, anyhow t Do you really profess to be a horse dootor? "No, sir, not exactly.- I don't profess to be a horse dootor, but I know a good deal about the nature of the beast." . " That is," said Booton glariug first at the witness, and then smiling at the jury, nodding graciously at the Court and sweep ing a triumphant glance over the audience "that is to say, sir, you know ahorse from a jackass when you see them ?" " Ah ya-as jes' so," returned the wit ness, with imperturabto good humor and gravity, " between the two beast I should never take you for the horse 1" For once in hi life, at least the bully was effectually equelohad, and amid the wild roar which followed he threw himself into hi seat, and allowed the witness to leave the staud. Jouh Billings on Bats. I suppose there is between 50 and 60 millions of rata in a Amerioa ( i quote en tirely from memory,) and i don't suppose thare is a single necessary rat in the whole lot. Thi (how at glance how many waste rat thare U runnin' around. Rats inborn in number faster than shoe peg do by maobinery. One pair ov healthj rata iz all that a man want to start the rat business with, and in nluety kases, with-, out eqy outlay he will bare ratj to tuva Oph.
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