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VOL. 29.
STROUJDSBUEG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MARCH 28, 1872.
NO. 48.
DSATT:A'M:
Published by Theodore Schoch.
T?IS Two tloll irs yeariri advance and if not
jl'iipf.irpthe rnd of the year, two dollars and fifty
be chr?e.l.
v wniir iiiscoatiiuiC'l until all arrearages are paid,
tier nt a, the of lion ot the Sditor.
Uj.iv;riijemeiUs of one square of (right line) or
ris 'i: or lliria insertions $1 50. Each additional
nf'rti a, 50 rent. Lonjer ones in proportion.
jocT pkixtixcl
OF ALL KINDS,
-ter.uteJ in the hishest style of the Art, and on the
mof reasonable terms.
Valuable Properly
FOR SLE.
The subscribers offer for sale,
ifs(their residence in Strvmdshurc.
i I m l& The Lot has a fnnt of 145 ft.
The building? mnsist of & convenient dvell-iii-r
Imuse, storehouse, lam aud olhcr out
l.niirlir.ffs.
' Then; is an abundance ofcW apple, i in character, he long held out against
,r itasraiw od small fruits, with j aU influcuccs 0f Missionaries to either re
jxm cttor. . M. R. STOKES, i (o.rni .h!",se,if or introduce into his em-
- !
DR. J, L ANTS,
Sargcm . Mechanical DJyXKS
smi hi ff,fr xw siru k :
.ne'tse s:r.ntdshf)s and Ue A.tv.rn, htivNcif j
"!i!?j;;Ur::S I
r.n u:s pi.f.-M. fm-i hris fully t-.t if .rm xit ! stant strifes, wars and tumults, until hopes
suii'.vi iKia:cr, ! of his conversion to Christianity were en-
s,.i-r(ai artv.rK )?tfn snn We Natural Teeth ; t tirelv abandoned by the emissaries of both
t- 'Skt; iisrn-m of Artiariat ri-lli on Rubber, , , , . . ...
; .i4. si:'. c:rtu!inu ihs (iiimr, and pcrtcrt m the eslcyan ana Episcopal .Missions es
.!rK5.rd tablithed in Xa Viti Levu. But King
M t B-rsn Who tic 'rr.tl follv and tl.inger rl en- i , i i j
irvmsi''r tkoiktotiie incxpcrieiired. or to iho j lhokambau was at length taken sick, and
-.V-!'- Annua, is7u-iy . for a 00g time hU ife was despaired of,
Dll. C. O. IIOFFN.I., 91. I. and it was these trying ciicumstances that
Would respectfully aninuiu to the j finally induced him, through the influence
ouVir tint fee hs.s removed his office fntiu I of the Missionaries and the Tonga and
):ikhn 1 1 K aKaeii.ir .Ioiirx; Luuufy, l'a.
Trusting thaR many yeT of convtitive
iradii-e a? .wk-is? f.r.a 2"urgMy vm i a
MifRrViiL imaraiitee fortVi? iTubfic eou.fi deuce.
J'Vl-nf.n- -a, J.sji. til
1)
Zl. .1. T. C ISLOW,
Oculist, Aurist &Sar?ten,
SCXUJ'Jir, 2A.
fj tat roiai at tke .Stpondnrj: llawc,
!wli?4--ii: operate J A-c-ii cli ef '
rilie hve iKi 1-ta-, a Uttwniito wr : tuains to ue seen.
j.iri' renins- Scrtxl .iL He k, ! jJei he mQst rowerful aQj ;tlfjaeri
,! urate hvra fez itc practice ol rrieUu-Kv? ; . f . ... , r,
.i.!.ifrrr. Wtlr roor attended f f f1 :f t !1,e Kl.""3 f .he bUt ,h .fcea,S,
!urrc Vrr etiw&af w vt!ciee, lJ- ' lauds. lu services are irerjuently invoked
lV.rsar- 1, 1 S72. oai. by the Mii-sionarie.- of the neighboring
lea. iT'. Jax3r.5Ga.
te & r,V I T X I '
35rS. JAlJiS & !l-ll '
i
DR. GEO. JACKS CIN,
Strsrridsburg,
in the H ,ffeof IV. JL. ItecTee 7cc?lffca
DB. A. XeSAEt
last Strondhmrg,
r,t next d.r icflsii-h Store i:Jd.me
at Ml H IJeJJer
feb. '72-ti
DE 3T. L. PECK,
j If, ratal alice by iece meal.
SSlHGTGOllL 33oiltl?l7, News of their intentions reached the
'- i JJissiou, when no time was lost in prcpar-
Annoup.tP t r. it iiww' jtvs' ir-cflcnprd frm ; ja,, for tj,e rcscuc. An appeal was made
Denial CeUege, Uef.fily n-ppared uaiie ton Thokambau, who, glad for an op
ni6c:al feeth is the inert 4jetutifrf J Me- j tunf(y to avenge himself on an old
like mann-,d .fill decayed tccti i n nd desirous to show bis gratitude
c..rdiBS iaLeme j. ,f repeated acts ol kindness to his
Teeih ci-frswt.td withoiit pain, wtea dc-i l uc . .
ireJ, W tb we f Kitrui ie fily by the .Miwioniry Society, sent
Mlsick k ent-ic'y L-.r.nt-. ftep.irio of J several hundred of his bravest warriors
All M..rt ttaruted. ! ta assist in the rescue. The Missionaries
Chnre reascsahle.
Olice in 5. Cm. Kefler new Brick Ixiild
Ln;, "ai.i gire, Strtdsbur, iPa.
i Attorucj'at LilH,
Off.-f in tLe builJag forme rly cciiiel
ty L. M. Bnrson, and opposite tlje ,Sxroudjj
turj Ihi;k. .Vain street, .StrouJsbur-:, Pa.
inn i:;-tf
1IUUIMS. Jit.'
Attoriscy at Law,
STROUDSBURG, PA.
OfEcc, on Main Street, 5 doors above the
ft'roujLurT House, and opposite Itu&ter'
cl-jihinj 6tore.
(rBusinesof all kinds attended to with
prompt o8 and fidelity.
Way 6, 1639. tC
PLASTEE!
Fresh roifnd Nova Scotia PLASTER,
t Stokes' Mills. HEMLOCK BOARDS.
FENCING, SHINGLES, LATH, PA
LING, and POSTS, cheap.
FLOUR ond FEED constantly on hand.
Will exchange Lumber and Plaster for
Grain or pay the highest larket price.
BLACKSMITH SHOP just opened by
C. Stone, an experienced workman.
Public trade solicited.
' N. S. WYCKOFF.
Stokei Mills, Pd., April 20, 1871.
REV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil
Iiomburgli, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com
pounded at
HOLLINSHEJAD'S DRUG STORE.
07" Medicines fetk ud Pure.
Nov. 21. 1867. W, HOLLINSHEAD.
DOVT FOIIGCT ll:;t wlien
you want any thing in the Furniture
Pr Ornamental line that McCorty. in the
Odd-Fellows' 11-11. Main Street. Slreuds-
h'Zt Pi-, ia the place to jet it. Sept, 2G
FIJIAN CANNIBALS.
There have recently arrived in this
country, from Na Viti Levu, one of the
largest islands of the Polynesian Archipe
lago, Cannibals one woman and three
men. Otavah, the woman, is a grand
daughter ot Thokambou, King of Fiji Is
land, and is therefore a Princess. She
is an intelligent-looking woman of twen
ty years of age, having received an educa
tion from the Wesleyan Mission at Mabau.
She reads the bible in the Fiji language,
and appears to be very familiar with both
the Old and New Testament Scriptures.
The names of the men are Kina bose
Yaca, Kora Tumasamora, and the dwraf
General R Biau, who is about four feet
mm .
i in height, ihc history of these three
Cannibals is brief, but interesting. King
ThoKambau, for more . than a third of a
century has held full sway in the Fiji Is
lands. Conceited, austere, and iniDcrious
rire civilitcd customs and arts.
eraui, King of Rcwa, and King
y fr 1- - r l 1 1
0r tj;e neighboring Chiefs and their sub-
jects. In t lie meantime King Ihokam-
dominions were the scenes of con
Uewa Chiefs to aba
abandon Cannibalism, and
loncr lrtnk uno the Missionaries as
enemies of his domiuions. The inter
course of trade aud commerce, the initui-
gratiou of whites to establish cotton plan-
tations, together with the spread of the
j -Scriptures in the riji language, all these
combined have yiven to King Thokambau
the nominal claim of a convert to Chris-
uity, with what justness, however, re
. ' ' s5ands to assist them to break upthesys
. mr- J-rfiUT. . o bloodshed, murders, strangula
S'H f widows, wars, strifes, and man-
so much indulged in by these san-
csiaary savages. Their horrid practices
iiave never yet been reached by these
i faithful votaries of the Cross. In the
pcr-svince of Burautu dwells a large tribe
of degraded Cannibals, who have Jong re-
evr-td'thc friendly overtures of missionary
laborers, and in consequence of their bar
barities have become a terror to all who
tare sought to carry the Gospel, and con
sfrfjtietjtly, the arts of civilized life into
thisir wretched abodes. While endeavor-i-az
to reclaim them from their errors,
l restrain them from their cruel prac
tjecs, two native Missionaries from Mbau
j were seized by the savages at the instiga
- j tioo of Lovoni, the Kebel Chief, and, ac
! carding to their custom, were doomed to
recommended a peaceful negotion for the
restwratioo of their comrades. King
Thokambau remonstrated, adfising an
open and relentless assault, after making
a formal demand for the captives, should
they not be forthwith given up. A par
ley ensued, when it was finally decided
to adopt the plan of the Missionaries.
The latter were to call the tribes together,
and 6eek, by a friendly interview, to re
gain the native Missionaries from these
blood thirsty Cannibals.
. At first the interview of the Mission
aries, which was witnessed by Mr. W. C.
Gardeohire, (the gentleman who brought
these Fijiaus to America for Mr. Bar
naul,) seemed omioous of good.
All that etiquette and cordiality, which
these brutalized beings know so well how
to counterfeit, was practiced, aud oue
would have thought, says the above-named
gentleman, that the "Millenium for the
Fijiacs was drawing nigh." Lovoni's
cunning eyed 31 it as (the Rebel's messen
gers,) had taken in at a glance the prob
able strength and oumbcrs of the native
missionary teachers, and their aids sent
by King Thokumbau, and after the con
elusion of the ceremonies, as these were
about taking their departure for the
canoes, with the released captives, Lovoni,
the Rebel Chief, raised the war-cry (a
sautu, lamolaviora !) which was quickly
responded to by about 5UQ cf his fellow
ers, when an indiscrimidate hand to hand
fight of the most desperate and brutal
kind ensuad, having probably no parallel
for ferocity in the annals of Fijian war
fare. During the melee, about a huud
red men on each side were slaughtered,
atooQc the rest Lovoni. Thp Burantuans
seeing their leader fall, broke the ranks
and began to disperse in various direc
tions, their valor giriog way to their
superstitious fears, at seeing their brave
leader vanquished. Fortunately none of
. . i 1 1 1 Y
the MittoioDunes were Kiwea. n-iug
; Thokambau's braves blood their ground
nobly, although less in numbers, while
the native and white missionary teachers
lent their aid and counsel in the defense.
Several of the Burautuans were taken
prisoners, and brought to King Thokaui
bau.
Among the captives were Kina bose
Yaca, Kora Tumasamora, and the dwraf,
Gen. Ra Biau, previously mentioned.
General Ra Biau, the intrepid Lilliput,
displayed the most dauntless bravery dur
ing the fight, having killed four of Tho
kambau's valiant warriors with his own
hands, although they were Perizitian
giants compared to him. According to
the Fijian code, these captives were con
demned to death by the most cruel and
systematic torture, viz : To have their
tongues cut out, their brains eaten, and
their skulls converted into drinking cujts,
ichile the bones of their bodies were to be
made into ornaments to be tcorn by the
vanquishers.
However much we deprecate this cruel
custom of the Fijian King, it must be re
membered that in this treacherous act cf
his ancient enemy, a hundred of his brav
est men had been killed, besides suffer
ing the additional insult offered to his
friends the Missionaries, whom he vowed
to defend.
Among the enemies captives, there
were none so imperious and scornful as
the fearless little General Ra Biau. His
walk and mien, although he is but little
less than four feet high, would do credit
to an oriental Sultan, while his skill with
the club, spear, bow and javelin, excites
both the terror and admiratioo of all who
behold him.
The Missionaries, not wishing to see
Cannibalism revived, determined to in
terfere in behalf of the captives.
It may be well to remark, en passant,
that although nominally King Thokam
bau professes belief in Ihe advance theo
ries of civilization, yet it must be confess
ed that on this occasion his actions were
not in accord with his pretensions, and
there is no doubt but his savage instincts
are kept in abeyance only, through fear
of incurring the displeasure of his foreign
subjects, or diverting the channel of trade
which has for a number of years been
steadily flowing toward Na Viti Levu.
The resident Missionaries, failing to
induce King Thokambau to reprieve his
death-sentence, sought the influence of
the American Consul, Dr. J. W. Brauer,
to have them sent out of the empire. At
this juncture, Mr. Barnum's agent at
Levuka, W. C. Gardenhire, proposed to
take them, and pay Thokambau a large
sum for the use of them, and gave bonds
in 815,000 for their safe return in three
years. The Missionaries had many rea
sons for encouraging this humane pro
ject, and through their influence, and that
of the American Consul, the proposition
was accepted, the necessary bonds given,
and certilied by the American Consul,
and the four Fijian specimens whose
names appear at the head of this article,
are already numbered among the living
human curiosities of P. T. Barnum's
show. The Princes Otevah, grand-baugh-ter
of Thokambau, a Missionary convert,
was encouraged by them to accept this
opportunity of traveling in the United
States, to become familiar with the modes
and customs of civilization, in order the
better to prosecute her missionary labored
in Polynesia on her return. Besides
these considerations, her familiarity with
the Fiji language, and her ability to in
terpret the Scriptures might be the means
of converting these savages from their
pernicious habits, and instrumental for
sood at some tuture time.
The dress or costume of these singular
beings is of the rudest kind. In their
native country they appear almost entire
ly nude. A fancy head dress, necklace
of pointed whale's teeth, a fantastie belt
called licu, from which f depend a multi
clored mast, composed of strips of native
cloth beaten out of the bark of the Papuan
Mulberry, and dyed in different colors,
are fastened to a cincture, or broad band
of variegated braid-work which encircles
the waist, the ends extending down from
three to ten inches deep, according to cir-
cumstances. Ihe higher the rank, the
more elaborate the costume, and the more
expansive the method of decorating the
hair, some head dresses girting from three
to five feet in circumference. Among
the common class, in place of the eiabro
ately made rnasi a simple kind of sash is
worn around the waist, made of long stsips
of white native cloth, wouud several times
around the body, the ends being gathered
into curious festoons, while a filament of
dark stuff, resembliog coarse hemp, made
from the stems of a parasite called icalda,
are tied around the legs just below the
knees, giviug them an exceedingly rude
and degraded aspect. Among no other
class of peopl? is there a less exhibition
of taste or good sense displayed in their
dress, the most grotesque and incongruous
objects being arranged into all kinds of
fantastic shapes far their meagre cover
ing
It mav be interesting to note a few of
the curiosities illustrating Fiji life aud
manners, which these Cannibals brought
with them. Among the collection are
arms, clubs, spears, sliugs, bows, ulas,
household implements, native cloths, sam
ples of cloth-printing, mats, baskets, dyes,
Fijian and New Zealaud cauoes, speci
mens of Sea Island cotton, the celebrated
Bich de mar, obelisks, temples, ehrines,
tutelary gods.fiah and turtle nets, musical-instruments,'-
including ' the curious
nose flute ; fisb-boooks, made of human
bones aqd tortowe &hell ; conch ehcll
trumpets, bamboo fans, some well-preserved
zoological and saurian specimens, from
Fiji and New Zealand ; chamelions, liz
ards, whales' teeth, skeleton head of ex
tinct animals, including the Fijian vlacke
vark ; perruques, headdresses, male and
female costumes, Cannibal knives and
forks, used for eating human flesh ; neck
laces of. whales' teeth, fans, bracelets,
combs, spirit-houses, where they suppose
the spirits go after death ; vampire, or
flying-fox ; also tho hand of the late
Lovoni Rebel King, killed in the above
named battle with Thakomba, present
King of Fiji, and presented to Mr. Bar
num'8 agent on the day before sailing.
Nov. 17, 1871 ; and, many other curious
things which arc of deep interest to na
turalists, missionaries and archicoligists.
.
Machine Forged Horse Shoe Nails.
A correspondent of the Commerical
Bulletin has paid a visit to S. S. Put
man & Co.'s nail works, at Dorchester,
Mass., which he describes as follows :
Here was a busy scene, and the utmost
life and activity prevailed in every de
partment. Between 185 and 200 hands
are employed on all the different kinds of
work, and more than 1,000 tons of horse
shoe nails are annually made in this fac
tory, from the best Norway arjd Swedish
iron, which are sold throughout all the
country. The business was established
in 1855. The nail factory is2G0xG0 feet,
of both stoDe and brick, and the machine
shop'is 100x50. Two steam engines, one
200 horse and the other 20 horse power,
propel the machinery, three Harrison)
boilers are kept in constant use, and the
continual clang of 100 nail machines is
sufficient to almost deafen the inexper
ienced visitor. The monthly pay roll
reaches between S8,000 and S10,000.
The men work "by the pound," and earn
from 82 to$5 per day.
Horse nails, from time immemorial,
have been made by hand, forged out on
the anvil by blacksmiths In many parts
of Europe, whole villages are devoted to
this branch of business. The bundle of
iron rods is secured by the head of the
family, who takes it to his home ; and,
with the assistance of his wife and child
ren, it is made into horse nails, and the
product returned to the capitalist, gener
ally at a depreciation of 25 per ceut. for
waste. For many years these nails found
a ready market in this country, under
various brands or marks, like "G" or "A"
horse nails, as they could be imported at
a less cost than our own blacksmiths
could make them. Of late yean, how
ever, much atteution and capital has been
devoted to their manufacture by machi
nery, and Yankee ingenuity has devised
various methods to produce auail equally
as good as those made by hand.
Machiues have frequently been made
to cut the nail from sheets or plates ot
iron, either hot or cold, but it has been
found impossible to produce a uail so com
pact, firm, tough and strong, as can be
made by hammering out on the anvil,
whereby the grain of the iron is compact
ed, refined, and made more ductile and
tenacious ; although many nails of the
former description have come into gen
eral use. Some few years since, Mr. S
S. Putuarn of Ncpouset, conceived the
idea of forging horse nails by machinery
from the red hot rod, and devoted much
time and money to perfecting a machine
which would make a nail equal, if not
superior, to those made by hand. This
invention has proved a success ; prejudice
aud difficulties have been overcome, and
nails made by this machine urc now iu
general use all over the country.
"Money Makes the Mare Go."
As a matter of news and to show the
amount money represented by the trot
ting and pacing horses of the country, we
have taken the pains to go over the calen
dar of 1871, which furnishes us with the
following figures : ., ; . , ,
. There were 1.470 trotting, and pacing
races iu the United States, amounting in
value to S705'23l. , These trots and pac
ing races were, divided as follows: 1.31)1)
trotting aaces in harness, wagou and sad
dle, in 205 of which the amount of the
purse or premium is omitted ; three at
half-mile heats; one at three quarters of
a mile heals ; ten at two mile heats ; one
at three miles; the balance mile heats, or
mile heats best three iu five, amouuting
to S715.051.
There were seventy-one double team
trots, in eleven of which the purse are
omitted, amounting to $28,035.. There
were 10G pacing races (in twenty-one
amount of purse is omitted). $20,145.
There was one half mile heat pace and one
of two mile heats.. ;
Of the 237 trots, and pacing -races, in
which the purses are omitted, it is reason
able to say that they would not fall short
of 820,000, which would give us about
$1,000,000 as to tho amounts of the
stakes, purrses and premiums for the
year 1871. po our readers can judge from
these figures what an . immeuse sum the
trotting turf iu the county represent
Turf, Field and Fa 1 7.
Japanese auctions are conducted on a
novel plan, but one which gives rie to
uone of the noise and confusion which
attend sich sales in America., Fach bid
der writes his uaiue &nd bid upon a slip
of paper, which he places t iu a box.-
When the ' bidding is over the , box is
opeoed by the autioneer, and '
declared the property of the hi
the'goods
i
' "
der.
Religion in America.
We frequently encounter the most exag
gerated - repesentatioos in books, maga
zines and journals, of the numbers and
rapidly increasing strength of the Roman
Catholic Church. We should not deem
the matter worthy of notice did we not
know that the result of these statements
is to revive that feeling of hostility to the
Roman Church that seems to be inherent
in a large portion of our people. The
population of this Rpublic is 38,800,000,
and the Roman Church claims 5,000,000
of these. The aggregate seems at first
sight amazing, but those who take alarm
at it do not reflect that the natural iufer
ence from these figures is that there is in
the country 33,800,000 people who are
not of the Latin faith. But some of the
Romanist writers eke out their case by
comparing the relative increase of the Lat
in and Protestant churches in America.
To this it might be replied that the in
crease of Romanists in America is merely
the trausfer of so many of that faith from
Europe to America. If they had not em
igrated their number and increment would
have enhanced the Latin strength in Eu
rope.
This is notably the case in Ireland,
where the population has declined nearly
three millions in consequence of emigra
tion, and this movement is the main ele
ment of strength of the Latiu Churches in
America. Evidently what the church
has gained here it has lost in Ireland. So
it is as regards the German Catholics in
America, who arc so much dead loss to
the strength of .the Latin element in
Germany, though the American wriers of
that faith do not seem to be a ware of the
fact. The ascendancy of Germany in
Europe under a Protestant Emperor can
not fail to weaken the Latin cause, especial
ly in view of the anti-infallibility move
ment of Doellinger and his friends, aud
the loss of Rome by the Pope. All this
occurs at the very moment that wc hear
most of the increase of the Latin Church
in America, and it shows the truth of
what we have said above, that the Church
grows here at the expense of the Church
in Europe.
By comparing the ratio of incsease of
the Catholic and Protestant Churches in
America, some of these writers undertake
to prove that in a given time the Latin
faiih will be in a majority. But several
things are overlooked in this calculation.
In the first place the Protestant Churches
include in their computations none but
regular communicants, while the Latin
statements include population. If the
Methodist statistics were made on this
latter basis they would exceed those of
the Catholic Church. So would the
Presbyterians and Baptists. Ia the
second place this ratio of increase depends
wholly upon the foreign immigration. If
that should be arrested by any means, the
increment of the Catholic Church iu
America would fall off rapidly. Wc may
here suggest that in the course of twenty
years the German and Irish immigration
will both be heavily reduced. In the
third place, if we allow the past ratio of
increase to be a good basis of calculation,
then it can bo shown that Chicago in a
riven time will have ten millions of iu
habitants, Eric about a million, and so on.
'.Our own belief : is that it is better for
us all that there should be no dominant
Church in America! That the Latin cle
ment has really done good while working
in the minority is beyond denial. It has
counteracted many absurd prejudices, aud
corrected the puritanical taste that render
ed America so long a land uncongenial to
art or wholesome amusements and ration
nal enjoyment. If wc look arouud us wc
see Methodist ehurches rising in all the
matchless splendor of white marble aud
Gothic architecture. Presbyterianism de
corates itself with all the graces and adorn
ment of modern art. Life everywhere
wears a more genial aspect, and we can
not deny that much of this is fairly attrib
utable to the growth aud iotlucucc of the
Catholio Church.
But not one has told us what this
Church, that has. been so useful and so
genial in a minority, would do in case it
should become doiiqaut ; and yet that is
just the question that every enlightened
Americau ought to a?k himself. In Ire
land no concession that a liberal govern
ment has been able .to make has satisfied
the Latin hierarchy. They demnnd the
control cf education there as they did in
Austria. Will they do so here? In
Austria 0ey,refused to recognize a civil
contract of marriage. Will they do so
here ? There Is one thing our Prptestaut
friends ought learn the necessity of
uuion. Let them cease to foster infinite
divisions and multitudiuous sect, and be
cirne nnifed like the Romanists. yorth
i American.
The way the Indians poisons their Arrows.
Mr. Lo, the Indian, is a remarkably in
geuious fellow in the preparation of ma
terials of war. Here is how he manages
to obtain poisoned arrows : "With a piece
of liver, fastened to a long stick, they
(the savages) proceed to the haunt of the
rattlesnake, and, as soon as one of these
reptiles is found, the Indian thrusts his.
meat towards him, at the same time excit
ing and irritating the creature with an
other long stick, carried for the purpose.
,The' angry reptile now strikes furiously
and repeatedly at the piece of liver, aad
soon the meat is charged with the poison.
While the Indian is thus engaged, it is
necessary for him to be exceeding cau
tious that the assailant does not become
the assailed. If the mate of the angry
snake should reach the Indian unper
ceived, he will carry home a charge of
poison in a way not desired. After the
liver is thus charged it is placed aside,
and in a few days becomes a mass of black
putrid flesh. In this the Indian thrusts
the arrows that he reserves for the pur
pose, these implements being specially
designed for human foes. The poisoned
arrows are not baited at the point, but at
the end of the shaft where it enters the
barb, the latter being alwa37s loosely ad
justed to the arrow. When the arrow is
pulled out of the wound the barb remains,
and soon infects the blood of the victim
beyond all chances of recovery."
HoW Long it Takes to Starve to Death.
Bradley Grant, a rich farmer who lived?
near Binghamptoo, New York, recently
committed suicide by starving himself to
death. The time required was just six
weeks. During all this interval he had
uot taken three ounces of any kind of
food. On January 10, the first day of
his long death fast, he ate part of an eggv
beaten up with a little milk. Of this he
only supped two tablespoonfuls. Ilia next
meal was taken fifteen days afterwards,
and consisted of but half a cup of tea and
a piece of toast about the size of a man's
three fingers. Then he went without
food for twenty days. His last meal con
sisted of one ounce of toast, which he was
induced to swallow on the 15th ult. A
few days before he died two tea?poonfuls
of brandy and water were forced down
his throat. This sums up all the food that
passed into his stomach during the G weeks
He was well eff in this world's goods, and
no cause is assigned for tho act. lie left
a wife and infant child. He was reduced
to a perfect skeleton before succumbing
to his terrible self imposed privation.
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Josh Billings has turned weather pro
phet. Witness the following :
"When roosters are observed before
daylite in the morning, soreiug amung
the klouds, and uttering lamentashuns,
then look out for sum suddeu weather.
'When you see 13 geese, walkin injun
file, and toeing in, you kan. deliberately
bet yure last surviving dollar on a hard
winter, and a great fluctuousaess during
the next season in the price of cow-hide
boots.
'When spiders are seen climbing up.
the wall backwards, and frogs cough as
tho they had the hickups, look out fur
rain ; this iz. also a sure sign that child
ren will have the measels light.
;If bees hang around their hives, and
mules are seen in a brown study, a storm
ov some kind iz cooking, and yu will notis
the market for herring is very shifty.
?'Jist before a heavy snow storm ov
3 foot deep, chirubly swallows are un
common sfcarse and in tho moral world
there iz a great luzyness in the agitaalna
of the temperance question.
''If pigs squeal in the night, aud grass
hoppers cum oph ov their roost, and min
gle in free fight, yu may hope for high
winds in a few weeks, and a'so the typus
fever in yure naborhood.
A charitable society in the West has a
novel and incst agreeable method of rais
ing money for various beneficent objects.
Any man sufficiently blessed with courage
and ready cash, takes his seats in the
middle of the vc.au nd pays ten cents in
to the treasnry for every lady that will
come up and kiss him. Of course tho
devotion o! the ladies to the good cause
is measured by tho number of smacks
that the man geU, and the "causo" must
take all the credit aud all U hlame for.
the Vising, a very nice arrangements for
shifting the responsibility. , . A handsome
and a"ieeable man now, we imagine, mast
oeds be well furnished with dimes at
these fairs.
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