t . V ' ll-ii: cf Avt rti Cd') I'ljiuirn ( 1 i urii,, .niif 1 m "! !rn - ! if.cS 1'inrii " fm uiolMi - - 3 M notf'U!r " time mmitlis - 0 CO t )'i' y' n:rf " mio yp'-r - - 10 Oil T'.vo W'pinros, ntirt jf-nr - - - J5(o QuarterCol. " - - "0 (' .'.. - f.O OiJ On " " - - - - ' "0 T.pp&l notices at established rio(. M-irrinprf nm! drni.h noticr's, srralU. All bills f'r vnrly advprtmpmenf-s col looted 'quarterly. Temporary advertise ments itmit l'f p.'iid for in advance. Job work. Cu.-u on IVlivery. 19 Tin Li-ii i i r.vvux wf.ii';i."iu v, EI.M GTKIXT, TT0;?FSTA, FA. TEIIM. 11.00 TEA IV. No Nuleriptions revived for a hrtfv p 'i ! 1 tn.'iii threa months. 'orrPH;,onil(ico nolieitod i nun nil parts l Hi-.' country. No notion will l.e taken Anonymous communication. I T ft:! J v' MIC VOL. XIV. JSTO. 28. TIONESTA, PA., OCT. 4, 1881. $1.50 Per Annum. I m r t r i !i a 'fho Boys and (Jlrls. God wants th boyM, the merry, morry boys, Tho noiny boys, the funny boys, The thoughtless boys God wants tho boys, with all their Joys, That he us gold may make them pure, And teach thcra trials to endnre; His heroes brave He'll have thom be Fighting for truth And purity. OonWATCTSTHK DOTS. Ood wants the happy-hoarted girls, The loving girls, the bout of girls, The worst of girls Gol wants to make the girls his pearls, And so refloat his holy face, . And bring to mind his wondrous grace, That beautiful The world may be, And filled with love And purity. OoD WANTS TDK 0IRL8. Sunday-tchool Timet. HELEN HYDE'S GOOD DEED. ""Tea," said the doctor, solemnly, " she shows every indication of going into a decline. Best, relaxation, change of air and scene that's what she ought to havel" Mrs. Dardanel looked perturbed. " Dear, dear," she said, " what a pity. And sbo's quite a pet of mine, too, dear little thing. She is very quick with her needle, and really ingenious nd the way she puts trimmings on a dress posi tively reminds one of Madam Antoine hernelf." " The Seaside cottage would be the place for her," suggested Dr. Midland. "Yon are one of the lady patronesses, I believe, and " " Ym, but the Seaside cottage is full," paid Mm. Dardanel. " Not an inch of r.tow unoccupied. I had a note from the matron yesterday I" " Ah, indeed ?" said the doctor, fum bling with his watch-seals. "Unfor tunatevery." " But," cried Mrs. Dardanel, an idea suddenly occurring to her much be pnffed and bofrizzed head, "there is Mrs. Daggett's farm, a few miles further down the shoie. She takes boarders far five dollars a week, and I believe it is a very nice place. If you think it ad visable I will take a month's board for the girl there. I really feel as if the dear little thing belonged to me." " An excellent plan, madam, an excel lnt plan," said the doctor, oracularly. " I have no doubt but that a month of sea air would make quite a different Terson of her." Helen Hyde could scarcely believe her own ears when Mrs. Dardanel beam- inglv announced her intentions. ','The seashore I" she cried, her pale face flushing all over, " the real sea ! Oh. Mrs. Dardanel, I have dreamed of it all my life. And for a whole bright, long summer month I Oh, bow shall I ever thank you 1 "By fretting well and strong as fas as you can," said Mrs. Dardanel, really , touched by the girl's innocent enthusi asm. "And here is a ten-dollar bill for you," she added, with a smile. " You may seed some little trifle of dress, or there may be a drive or a pionio or an excursion going on, in which you will want to participate. No, you shall not give it back it is a present from me, and T choose that vou shall keen it." Helen Hyde's . heart beat high with deUghttvhen first she saw the Daggett farmhouse, a long, low, red building, with an immense stack of chimneys, cluster of umbrageous maple trees gar landing it about with shade, and a door yard full of sweet, old-fashioned flowers, while in full sight of the windows the Atlantio flung its curling crests of foam along the shingly shore. Mrs. Daggett welcomed her warmly; she had been Mrs. Dardanel's housekeeper once, and knew the value of that lady's patronage, " I've just one room left, my dear," said she. "Under the eaves of the house. It's rather small, but it's fur nished comfortably, and there's a fine view of the ocean. I could have given you better accommodations if I had re ceived Mrs. Dardanel's letter a day earlier. But four young ladies, teachers in the Ixwood institute, came yesterday, and I'm sleeping on a sofa myself in the parlor. But we'll make you as snug as possible, and the very first good-sized room that is vacated you shall have. And Helen was very happy in her lit tie nook, from whose casement she could see the sparkling plain of the sea. all dotted with white sails. Mrs. Daggett was a driving, ener getic business Woman. Farmer Daggett ivas a vacant, honest-faced man, who "nvariably fell asleep of an evening, with his chair tipped back against, the rail and every available inch of the house was filled with summer boarders, mostly ladies. There were only three masculine appendages to the house be sides its master a superannuated clergyman, whose parishioners clubbed together every summer to treat him to 4 six weeks' vacation a literary man of large aNpiratioos and small income, who had come thither for rest and op portunity to study up the " skeleton " for his next novel, and old Mr. Mifflin I It was some time before Helen Hyde fairly comprehended who old Mr. Mif flin was. A bowed, bent over little man, with silver hair curling over the collar of his coat, a ruffled shirt like the pic tures of our revolutionary forefathers, and dim blue eyes which glistened from behind silver spectacles, ho shuffled in and out to hia meals aftep an apologetic fashion, and sat all tho long bright af ternoons under the maples, staring at the sea. " Who is that old gentleman ?" she at last ventured to ask Mrs; Deiggett. That lady frowned, impatiently. " It's old Daddy Mifflin," said she. " And I Vf'wh. it was anybody eb?a 1" "Is he a boarder? asked Helen. " WelL he is and he isn't I" rather obscurely answered Mrs. Daggett," who was picking over currants for a pud ding while nelon sat by and watched her. . " But he won't be here long:. You see, my dear, be hasn't any fi fends. "When me and Daggett came dowa from Vermont and bought this place we got it cheap because of old Mr JMifflin. We was to give him the northeast cham ber, and they were to allow us so much month lor his keep. It am t every body, you see, as would be willing to have an old man like that around the place. But he's harmless and innocent enough, and I won't deny that the two dollars a week helped along. But now E rices have gone up, and Breez-y Point as got to be a fashionable locality in summer time, and things are altered. And, what's worse, his folks have left off sending the money." " I wonder why f said Helen, with her large dreamy eyes fixed pityingly upon the old man, who sat in his Ufiual lace under the maples, wistfully watch ing the sea. , " They're dead, p'r'aps," said "Mrs. Daggett. Or, p'r'aps they've got tired of him. Anyhow, it's three months since we've heard a word, and me and Dag gett have made up our minds we can't stand it any longer. So we're goin g to put him on the town. Lawyer Boxall says it's legal and right, and they cau't expect nothing else of us. fciquire Sodus is to bend his covered carryall next Saturday, and old Daddy Mifflin '11 suppose he s goisg for a ride. And so things 11 go oil all smooth and pleas ant." " Smooth and pleasant I Helen Hyde looked across the grassy lawn to the little old man with his mild, ab stracted face, his ruffled shirt front, the silver hair that glistened in the sun shine, and the white, claw-like fingers that slowly turned themselves backward and forward as he sat there. " He owned the place . once," said Mrs. Daggett, "but his sons turned out bad, and he indorsed for Squire Sodus' cousin, and lost everything And here be is, in his old age, without a penny I What is it, Becky? The oven ready for the pies? Yes, I'm coming." And she bustled away, leaving Helen alone. A sort of inspiration had en tered in I o the girl's heart as she sat there with the briny smell of the ocean nllinfr her senses, the rustle of the maple leaves murmuring softly over head. She took Mrs. Dardanel's ton- dollar bill from her pocket and looked long and earnestly at it. She thought of the little one-horse carryall, which she and the girls from the Ixwood in stitute were to have hired together to drive over the hills and glens, all those sweet, misty summer afternoons; of the excursion to Twin Kock by steamer, upon which she had counted; of the new black bunting dress, wnicn sno had decided to buy. She must abandon all these little darling extravagances, if she indulged this other fancy I " As if there could be any choice," she said to herself. And then she got up and went softly across the grass and clover blossoms to where " Daddy Mif flin" sat. " Do you like this place ?" she asked, softly. "It's home, my dear," he answered, seeming to rouse himself out of a rev erie; "it's home I I've lived here for eighty odd years. I couldn't live any where else." "But there are other places pleas- anter I " It may bo, my dear, it may be," he said, looking at her with troubled eyes tbror.gh the convex lenses of his glasses, " But they wouldn't seem the same to me!"- Helen went back to Mrs. Daggett, who was baking pies and rolls and strawberrv shortcakes all at once I Mrs. "Daggett," said she, "here are S1U which Mrs. Dardanel gave to me to do as I pleased with. And I please to give it to you to keep old Mr. Mifflin here five weeks longer." " Mercy sakes alive !" said Mrs. Dag gett, " he am t no km to you, is he ? No," Baid Helen, " but he is so old and feeble and friendless, and and-- pleaso Mrs. Daggett take the money, And perhaps by the time that is gone I shall be able to send a little more. My employers are going to pay me gener ously m the city, and I feel myself grow inor better able to work every day." Ho Helen Hyde adopted the cause of one even poorer ana more menaiess than herself, and for a year she paid the two dollars a week steadily, and Mr. Mifflin never knew what a danger had menaced him I At the end of that time the old gentle man a grandson came from some wide, wild region across the sea, a tall, dark eyed young man, with the mien of i prince in disguise. My father has been dead for a year," he said. - "And his papers have only just been thoroughly investigated, so that I have recently learned, for the first time, that there is an arrearage due on my grandfather's allowance. 1 hope he has not been allowed to saner "Oh, he's all ritrht," said Mrs. Dag gett. " We've took excellent good care of him." " You are a noble-hearted woman.' said the young man, fervently clasping1 her hand, " and I will see that you are no lostr by your generosity, i "It ain't me," btiid !is. Dttett, turning red and white, for Helen Hyde, now spending her second summer at the farmhouse, sat by quietly sewing in the window recess. "I'm free to allow that me and Daggett got out of patience and was goia' to put him on the town, but Miss Hyde here, one of our boarders, she's paid for him ever since. "IbegyoT n if I have inter fered," said i.. on, blnfdiing scarlet as the large dark eyes fell scrutinizingly on her face, " but he seemed bo old and so helpless, that" " God bless you for your noble deed I said Ambrose Mifflin, earnestly. But there was something in Helen's manner which prevented him from of fering any pecuniary recompense to her, " My grandfather will need your cares no further," said he. " We have been fortunate in our Australian investments, and I am prepared to buy the old farm back again and settle here permanent- r ... And when Mrs. Dardanel began to think about getting her winter ball dresses made up, she received a note from Miss Hyde, which ran as follows: "Deab Mrs. Dakdanel : I am sorry to disappoint you, but I cannot under take any more orders. For I am to bo married next month to Mr. Ambrose Mifflin, and we are to live at the Dag gett farm. And, oh I how' proud I should be if you would come here and visit me next summer, when the roses are in bloom and the strawberries ripen. Ambrose is all that is nice, and I shall have the dearest old grandfather-in-law in the world. Affection itely, "Helen Hyde." And'all this life romance had grown out of Helen's month at the seaside. In the Sew York Cat Market. A number of Maltese cats and kittens occupy cages at the entrance to a curious basement in liberty street. When they are not asleep they mew dismally and plainly long for the liberty of a house top or a back fence. " Can it be possible that any part of this community buys cats ?" the keeper of the basement was asked. He was unable to answer at once, for a man brought in just then a barrel full of stale bread. The dogs of all varieties in the basement clanked their chains and yowled, the poultry crowed and cackled, and the cats, too, mewed and looked anxious. "Do people ever buy cats?" the dealer was asked again. " Well, somewhat," he Baid. ' I've sold 400 Maltese kittens in the last three months." What are the ruling rates for cats now ?" " Maltese kittens bring from three to five dollars. The old cats don't sell so well, because they are not so likely to stay at home and keep early hours, ami the disreputable habits of the Toms hurt their sale a good deal. The kit tens, though, are in demand." " Where do they come from ?" " These are Ohio cats. They come in crates from Alliance." "Are they bred there?" " They run wild as common cats do here, and are caught for nothing. Toey cost us here about a dollar or a dollar and a half." "Who buy them V " People passing here on their way to the ferry often stop in and get a cat or something. No, I never had an old maid here, or even a lady of any great age except once. Some of our best custo mers are in Virginia. We have orders for fine cats at from $8 to $10 from Richmond, and for dogs too. The Mal tese are plenty, and the demand Is good; but if we cpuld only get Angora cats, we could sell them at a rush at about $50 apiece. There are few of them in the city." " Is there any sale for what are called common cats' by some people, and harder names still by others ?" " Not to speak of. People would be glad to get rid of them. But they are just as good mongers as well-bred Mal tese kittens. Aew York bun. Population of Africa. People who have forgotten their school statistics may be surprised to learn that the population of Africa is much greater than that of North and South America. We are apt to think of Africa as mostly desert and wilderness, with here and there a few tribes of Arabs or villages of negroes. Beyond the borderland with which civilization is familiar, it is natural to think of the inhabitants of Africa as few and far be tween, like our Indians. As a matter of fact, Africa is much iflore thickly in habiteu than America. Authorities which set the population of the latter at 84,542,000, give the former i!03, 300,000. In the Soudan the population is rated at 80,000,000, one town on the NiRer containing 00,000 inhabitants. East Africa is rated at 30.000,000, and equatorial Africa is rated 40,000,000 souls, it is estimated that the mem bers of the negro race number 130,000,- 000. Manv of the tribes, says our an thority, are above the condition of sav ages. They have fixed Habitations, though merely mud huts, defended by stockades, and they have some laws or customs favorable to commerce. Among several tribes the native merchant is greatly esteemed, and property is safe even during tne war. lue lana is cui tivated ; the inhabitants wear dyed cotton clothes; gold and iron are in geniously manufactured, and a certain kind of intelligence seems to be very slowly wpreadmg. now dots Futlu r Tine truvol ? Bi cycles, f course. FACTS AND C03IMENTS. ' The White House cellar has beon converted into a curiosity shop, with a miscellaneous collection of traps sent on from all parts of the country for the benefit of President Garfield. There are at least twenty-five beds, including one which is five and one-half feet long, and was sent all the way from Minne sota for the accommodation of a man over six feet high. A Michigan man sent a cage with two white mice to amuse the President's children, and a lady in the remote west contributed a stuffed humming bird "to relieve the monotony of the sick room." The Chinese government, for some reason not stated, recently issued a de cree commanding its subjects to abstain from shaving the head for a period of 100 days. Detected in the act of dis obeying this arbitrary regulation, be tween fifty and Bixtv persons in the city of Foochow afone were on the eleventh of June sentenced to receive costigation with bamboo rods and to pay each a fine of 3,000 cash ($6). It is stated by the local journals that before liberation the heads of the offenders were, as a wholesome warning to others, carefully painted and varnished. " The flow of Italian emigration to this country is comparatively small, and one reason is that South America has proved a more attractive region for them. The Argentine republio already contains 500,000 Italians, and they constitute more than one-half of the population of Buenos Ayres. . They lately opened and carried on successfully an industrial ex hibition, in which the raw and manu factured products of the country and the machinery and mechanical inven tions chieily used by the Italian resi dents were brought together. The re sults were astonishing to the native Spaniards. The Italians seem likely at no distant day to become the dominant people of the South American republio as the English-speaking races are of the United States. Some people have such odd ideas of a joke I A e ' 11 on board an Australian steamer just j .ving Plymouth Harbor Bhouted : "Man overboard 1" The life boat was lowered, bu, became entangled, and two men were drowned. As nobody, except the two, were missing, it was be lieved that somebody shouted " man overboard " for " the fun of it." Again, a peaceable man was walking the streets of New York, when he heard a man say to another in an excited manner : " Let me go; I'll have his heart's blood." Breaking away from his companion, he approached the peaceable citizen, raised his clenched hst, and then whipped out his knife. The citizen cut his hand in struggling with the ruffiian, but finally knocked him down. Upon being taken before a magistrate, the rowdy explained that he was "only fooling a little." The American express company has introduced into New York the system of harnessing three horses abreast, after the fashion of the London omnibuses. The change has been made on two of the wagons for an experiment, with very satisfactory results. The wagons aro supplied with two poles instead of one, and each of the three horses is attached to a separate whiffletree. This is found to be a decided improvement over the system sometimes used of putting one horse in shafts and another at each side. The harnessing is practically the same as with two horses, with two poles in stead of one. The experiment is tried npon the wagons that deliver goods in the upper part of the city, not only be cause the loads are frequently too heavy for two horses, but to enable the driv ers to make up for lost time with an in creased rate of speed, when from any cause they are delayed from the start. Garfield's wonderful power of endur ance under the operations perfoimed upon him recalls other instances of the kind even more marvelous, as having oc curred in days when surgery was far less skillful and humane than now. Lord Peterborough, the conqueror of Spain under Queen Anne, underwent the most frightful operation known to science when past Bixty, and a week later started on a journey across Europe with post-horses, feeling no ill effects whatever. Nelson, naturally sickly, and having already lost an eye and arm, was struck at the battle of the Nile by an iron splinter, which literally ripped from the bone the entire flesh of his upper face, leaving it hanging like a veil over his eyes and mouth, yet he not only preserved his consciousness during the dressing of this horrible wound, but actually continued to direct the course of the battle. Luigi Uornaro, the famous Venetian Benator, nephew ol the celebrated Doge of that name, having broken the bone of his thigh at eighty-three, bore the Betting of it without flinching, and subsequently re covered the full use of the limb. Equally resolute, though loss fortunate, was Duke Albrecbt, of Austria, who, when the court surgeon shrank from operating upon his diseased limb, placed the edge of a battle ax on the joint, and with one blow of his mace drove it right throng h ne survived this primitive surgery only three days. A German statistician reckons that the world contains 1,455,020,000 inhabi tants, or 16,778,000 more than it did a quarter of a century ago. He allots 834,707,000 to Asia, 315,92(.),000 to Europe, 205,679,001) to Africa, 95,405, 000 to America, 4, 121,000 to Australia rilyneia, and 82,000 to the Polar regions. FOB THE LADIES. Algerlne Oddities. In going about Algiers, what strikes one most is the endless variety in the costumes of the inhabitants Jews, Arabs, Kabyles, Mozabites, Negresses, etc., all dressing differently, And in bright, beautiful colors. The Arab women with the hnik and white veil covering all but their dark eyes, look like ghosts gliding in and out of the crowd; but when at home they, too, dress in a gorgeous way. The jewels they wear are quaint and of a very rough beauty; for, if the stones are real, they do not mind of their being full of flaws, and irregular in shape and color ; their pearls are rough, and the Arab women grease them that their color may be yellow ; the diamonds are set in lead, which give them a dull, heavy look. We went onoe to an Arab wedding, and as both the families were rich, the dresses and jewels worn by the ladies were most splendid. The bride herself a poor little thing of fourteen looked anything but happv. seated on a cush ion on the floor, while her mother and a professional dresser, painted, pow dered, and gilded her face, plaited her hair, and then dressed her up in costly clothes, with all the family jewels heaped upon her. All the time her toilet was going on, three frightful ne gresses played and sang wild Arab music close to the bride's ear, and others, down stairs, uttered the curious cry of joy which is a sort of trill on one high note. Little garlands of white jessamine blossoms were given to every one, and when all was ready she was led to her husband, who was waiting her in an other room. He was a very ugly man, more than twice her ago, and when the poor little bride saw him she burst into tears in a most pitiful way. We wished very much that an artist could have been with us, for there were so many beautiful Arab ladies sitting round on divans and cushions; but as no man ex cept a near relation may see a woman unveiled, our wish cas a vain one. On our way downstairs after the wedding, we saw the servants of the household seated in a ring on the floor, eating from one large dish of conscoussou, which is the principal food of the Arabs; it is made of the emoule of Algerian hard wheat, and if only mixed with good butter it is very nice to eat. But what the Arabs generally give us is made with bad butter, and it is almost impossible to swallow it, however much we wish to please the kind giver, who stands close by, urging us to eat more, and almost forcing it into one's mouth in his hospitality. Matters were not mended by a friend of mine, who dex teriously conveyed the rancid morsels into a handkerchief on her lap; for as in a hasty search for coppers the con tents of the handkerchief were scattered over the upturned faces of an expectant crowd, it must Bomewhat have dimin ished the satisfaction which her ap parent good appetite had afforded her host. Leisure Hour. Fashion Motes. The Jersey glove is a late novelty. India cashmeres will be much worn. Campagna red is a new name for brick dust. ' Floral cake decorations are coming in vogue. The dressiest evening toilets are sleeveless. Fine cut black jet never goes entirely out of fashion. Plain hosiery in dark solid colors are the highest style. Moire antique is the leading silk nov elty tiimmmg this fall. Shaded plushes come in a brilliant style; the colors are very effective. One of the novel styles of plush goods has furrows running across the material. The splendors of the loom were never more dazzling than they are for the Au tumn season. Pointed girdles of watery silk or vel vet are to be worn with woolen gowns next winter. Dotted plush belongs to the delicate style of goods ; it is extremely lignt, and is admirably finished off. Tiger plush comes from the past ; it is a lovely texture and combines very handsomely with satin merveilleux. Black gros grain silks begin to appear once acain. combined with black watered silk or moire and satin striped fabrics. They have, however, never gone out of style with a certain class of the most fashionable ladies, who prefer quiet colors and plain, elegant toilets. Large Gypsy hats are worn, trimmed with wreaths of scarlet berries and deli cate clematis blossoms, and tied down with long scarfs of black Spanish lace, which are wound gracefully about the throat, and then carried down to the belt, where they are fastened by a spray of berries. California, which once so distanced all other States in the production of gold and silver, now stands second in the list. Colorado is the banner State, having produced last year $23,000,000 worth. Nevada, which led during the decade ending 1880, now stands third, having produced last year $15,000,000. California being second with $19,000, 000. Following in order are Utah, Da kota, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Oregon ud New Mexico. The young belles of New York are becoming vaccinated, and as there are plenty of young doctors there to do'the work they are correspondingly happy, Compensation. For every leaf of groeu, A golden leaf ; For every fading flower, A ripened sheaf. For every parching beam, A drop of ra.'n ; For every minny day, The stars again. For every warring wa-re, A pretty sholl ; For every sound of woe, A Joyous bell. For every pasning cars, A mother's kins : And what eonld better be, Dear child, than this ? Oeorqf COfrr. HUMOR OF TUB DAY A put up job preserves. The sorrel nag is a horse reddish. What is that which no man wishes to have, and no man wishes to lose ? A bald head. Adam is the patron saint cf the West ern pork raisers, because he had the first spare rib. What word is there of five letters, from which, if you tako away tvo, yen leave eix ? Sixty. " Water-melon-choly scone," said the small by when the farmer s dog chased him out of the patch. Modern. Arjo. It is a srrave offence to rob a soldier when on duty. The other night, how ever, a sentry was relieved of his watch. Be careful about trusting a - secret to old father Time, for there is a proverb, you know, that Time will tell. Somcr- -71- T I villa tuurnui. When a man puts plenty of provisions in his will they should amount to a val uable legal currency at current prices. Wi7ie( ling Journal. "There's always room at the top," said the customer when he saw the way the grocer filled the measure with po tatoes. Steubenville Herald. When the Emperor of Russia yawns, those about him look in awe upon the urmidfirfnl czar-chanm which he dis plays. Detroit Free Press. An exchange suggests that perhaps the reason why' a Moscow paper was re cently suspended was that it actually published an item of news. y What is that which, if you divide into two parts, you have only one-quarter remaining. Did we hear you murmur fifty cents? Yonkcr's Statesman. Some men when they go to church, never think of studying the frescoing on the ceiling until the collection plate is being passed around. Korristown Her- Dame Fortune is blind, but her daughtor, Mis Fortune, has her eyes wide open and can easily lay holdjjof the wisest of the sons of men. Boston Transcript, You can't always judge a man by the' coat he has on his back, but a policeman can make a pretty shrewd gueas on a man whom he sees getting out of a clothing-house window with a coat on his arm. Saturday Night. A Snake as a Tecthiujr Ring. Mr. Robert James, who arrived in this city yesterday from Chicot county, tells of a horrifying incident which he stated has jast taken place in that county. A farmer returning at noon from the field, whil 8 passing through the yard, discov ered his little boy, about a year old, sitting near tho fence with one end of what seemed to be a leather strap in his mouth, while with both bands he held the strap near the middle. Approach ing the father was horrified to find that that the child held a snake, and the Bnake squirmed, but the little fellow pulled and closed his mouth a3 tightly as though he were trying to bite off the serpent's head. The father ecized the child and tore the snake from his hands. The snake was of the blaok species, and though not poisonous, might have wound its body around the boy and choked him to death. This would seom io settle the olddinpute as to whether or not a human being's ft Rr of a snake is innate or the renult of education. It may have been that the child was tec-thing and wanted something to bite, and in the absence of rubber or a painted stick adopted the snake as a substitute. Those who naturally feel an interest as to the fate of the snakn, may rett as sured that it was killed. Mr-mphia Term.) Appeal. Superstitions of Whale Fishers. At the present day it is the common est thing in the world for whale Ushers to burn an efflgy in order to "bring luck." If the ship has fallen in with few whales the crew attribute their bad fortune to their having some unlucky individual on board, and by burning his effigy they believe that his mahgii in fluence is got rid of. The most unpopular man in tho hhip is generally picked upon as the offond iug party. Sometimes two or three pictures are burned, one after anothf if luck is very bad, and on un average one is burned in each whale ship every season. N i The practice is a very old one, nd is said to have taV en riao from a fciuiilar cuHtom which prevailed among the her ring fishers of Banffshire, by whom it was introduced on board the Peterhead whalers. A century or two ago not, merely effigies, but living nin and woman were burned on wunpieion of casting a blight upon the herring fi n ery. L,and and WaUr.
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