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England nnd France want to be- con
nected by a tunnel, and yet are afraid ol
of it
The number of visitors to New York
City every month is said to be grentei
than the total number of ita fixed resi
dent. Cable cara have rather lost their popu
larity, fiuds the Bt. Louis Btar-Sayingi,
inco the electric systom has proved a
success.
A President's expenses amount in font
years to about $80,000. His income foi
the same period being $200,000 it is not
difficult to see thnt ho hni nn excellent
chance t? start a bank account.
An idea of the enormous travel in New
York streets may be gnined from the an
nual reports of the railroads just filed at
Albany. Those show that during 1890
the eleviltcd and surfneo rornis enrried
over 400,000,000 nassenccrs.
Among those who can reasonably coin
plain of hard times is the Government of
Portugal, which, with a population . of
8,000,000, is about $700,000,000 in
debt,with an annual interest charge which
la considerably more than half of the
revenue.
A significant development of the Cen
sus of 1890, notes the AVashington Star,
I. the fact that tho increase of wealth
and manufacturing in tho South was
greater than the increuso of population.
In the decade from 1880 to 1890 the
Southern States gnined in population
19.9; in actual wcnlth, C2.5, and of
capital invested lu manufacture, 20.7
per cent.
The canned fruits and meats exported
by the United States havo improved
thirty per ceut. in the last two years, urn!
are again being largely purchased in
countries which had utmost outlawed
them, announces the Detroit Free Preen.
Packers found that adulterating their
goods, in haste to get rich, simply
killed a market in one season, and only
Brat-class goods are now shipped.
Professor Bickmore, says the Now
York Svn, is not alarmed by the five
arthqunkes, two of them in this country,
that have been recently reported. Yet
be holds thnt thero is always danger of
these convulsions of naturo iu tho United
State, as well as in South America. Ho
ays that the workings of tho forces of
tho under world havo been extensive
during this century, aud that the time of
movement in the rocks of the earth's
crust is by no means at an end. But tho
discoveries of the age have not enab'-ed
man to do anything to prevent earth
quakes, y
The discovery of tin ore in juan
litiea on the Colorado P xas, is
a. most importnut lnltrit- ,untv avers
. the Washington Star. f Naturally cx- j
cites intense interest. Heretofore thero
fcave been few deposits of tin out of
Cornwall, England, the mines of which,
having been worked, since early Cartha
genian times, are becoming unproductive.
There are deposits in tho Muck
North Dakota. The tremendous devof
opmcnt of the canning industry in tho
Unitod States has, however, required tbo
use o: raoro tiu than was readily sup
- plied, and tho discovery of large addi
tional deposits will still further stimu
late tho business. I
: George William Warren, tho well
known organist and composer, says that
tho writing of church music is largely n
labor of love. He begau composing over
forty years ago, and has published ovor
one hundred works, but the royalties ho
receives from them form a comparatively
small part of his income. Dr. Warren
was born in Albany, N. Y., aud his
father tried to make a hardware dealer
of him till the musical instinct in tho lad
asserted itself. Besides playing the or
gan in St. Thomas's Church in New
York City, and directing the music of
the pariah, Dr. Warren lectures at
Columbia College, and has enough pupils
to keep him busy tho rest of the time.
Mrs. Henry M. Stanley, wife of I he
explorer, gave an interview ut Minne
apolis, Minn., to a reporter. Sho said
it was the first interview sho has granted
in this country. Asked as to her idea ol
the United States, Mrs. Stanley suid:
"Oh, it is very great, and I cannot find
words to express my admiration of the
inauy things I have seen. There are such
magnificent buildings and luxurious
homes; such straight, broad and well
planned streets in fact, everything is
on such a huge scale." She thinks New
York City lacking iu finish, its streets
beajtly dirty and kept in wretched re
pair; the Elevated Railroad, although a
capital method of locomotion, very ugly.
The Auicricau people she considers I ex
tremely hospitable, and thu America re
porter came in for his share of atten
tion ou account of tho numerous intcr
views written by him which havo no
basi in fact.
HIS FAVORITE POF.M.
f Jame Whitoomb Riley, the Hornier port,
say tbe subjoined is lila favorite English
poem. He first saw it twenty years ego in a
country newpaper, and lias been trvlngever
sine, to learn the name of tbe autlibrlt
Kravb love.
He'd nothing but bis violin;
Ti nothing but my song-
But we were Wed when skies were blu.
And summer days were long;
And when we rested by the hedge,
The robin came and told
How they had dared to woo and win
W hen early spring was Cold,
We sometimes supped on dewberri es,
Or slept among the hay
But oft the farmers' wives at ev
Came out to bear us play
The rare old tunes the dear old tunes)
We could not starve for long
While my man had his violin
And I my sweet love-song,
Th world has aye gone well with us,
Old Man, since we were oner
Our homolnes wandering down the lanes
It long ago was dona.
Bnt those who wait for gold or gear-
For houses and for kine,
Till youth's sweet spring grows brown and
sere
And love aud beauty time,
Will never know the Joys of heart
That met without a fear
When you had but your violin
And I a song, my dear.
"QUITS."
When one is fluffv-hnired. cheer torn
pered and twenty-three years of ago
and little Lady Loveday was ail three
uuo uue uoi rcgaru witn unmixed rap
ture the prospect of a wholo week with
the British Association for theAdvance
inent of Science. But Sir James had
been elected President for the year, aud
his wife, as in duly bound, was obliged
to accompany him,.
The town of Madchostrr, with its for
est of tali chimneys and its perpetual
gloomy pall, nw.y possibly represent the
sinews aud strength of E'uglund, but it is
not exactly ar. ideal place in which to
spend thcear'y days of September. Else
where there tre blue skies, heather-clad
moors and grouso on the wing, but Mud
cheater, for somo inscrutablo reason, pre
serves the same gray and depressed ap
pcaranceyurin and year out. Sir James
Loveday, however, full of tho temporary
importance which attaches to the emi
nent scientist who is President of the
year, was delighted with the wholo
thing, and especially proud of showing
off his pretty, young wife to his scientific
colleagues, whose spouses, though unit
ing iu their persons the manifold virtues
of the British matron, could hardly lay
claim to cither epithet. Ho had only
been married a year. They had met on
a bomeward-bound Cunarder, and
though this particular ship had beaten
the record, there had been time enough
for Sir James to become enamored of
Miss Leua Gardner, who, finding no one
younger to her tastoon board,had smiled
on the elderly scientist until ho had of
fered her his name and his fortune. She
w8a sensible young woman, with a nice
appreciation of tho good things of this
life, and, in six weeks titco from their
landing ut Liverpool, they wero quietly
married in London.
Qi.ite a littlo murmur of admiration
and a notablcraniug of masculine necks
greeted Lady Loveday as she made her
appearance in the Town Hall of Mud
chester on the niirht of the oncninsr nil-
dress. It was her first introiluntinn to
tlie scientific world, and men of science,
Jfiueh liko other men, are Bpt to ap
preciate good looks. In her whito brocade
mantle, a boa of cstrich feathers encir
cling her throat, and some diamond
arrows thrust through her blonde hair,
she looked a radiant vision of youth and
beauty in the crowd of ill-dressed, gawky
women who mado up the feminine por
tion of the audience. Devotion to tho
toilette forms no part of tho programme
to the ladies who attend meetings of tho
British Association, the' advancement of
science being more important in their
eyes than the plaiting of hair nnd wear
ing of gold. And so Lena was able to
make her little sensation. Sho entered
the largo ball alone, for Sir James was
already in his place on tho platform, and
was even giving tho preliminary cough
wiiieu preceucs me opening address.
"By Jove!" said a bronzed young man
to himself a young mun who hail
strolled in lute, nnd now nil nil riim-
self in the very back oi the vast hall-r-
"li mat isn t i,eual Odd that I should
see her the first week I arrive in Ene-laud !
What is she doing here? Wonder if she
has forgotten? Well, it's three veers
ago."
The opening address was an enor
mous success, as it always is. During the
week the popular enthusiasm, cooled by
many scientific lectures, muy abute; but
on tlie opening night no judge on the
bench is surer of a laugh thau the emi
nent scientist who opens the meeting.
Tho mildest jokclets are received with
rapture, the feeblest similes get a round
of applause Lady Loved' was sur
rounded by admiring rV biolo
gists and botanists by tb Je tho large
audience was filing out. I .
"You'lJ come with oJ expedition ou
Thursday, Lady Loveday, won't you?"
urged a thin young professor from a
Scotch University, wiiose appearance
suggested the suspicion that he
had recently come out of an eye hos
pital. Lady Loveday smiled, and made up
her mind to tho inevitable. After all,
he was only a little worse than the rest.
All the young men at the meeting wore
turndown collars, and coats which hud
apparently been made for somebody
else.
"I shall bo delighted," she said, iu
her most cordial tono. "Where are you
going, aud w hat are you going to do to
improve me I"
"Oh, it's an expedition down a salt
mine. We shall huve to take you down
iu a bucket. You won't mind, will
you!" urged tho weak-eyed young man j
eagerly.
"Hot at all, if you will insure th
rope not breaking."
But, all the same, when Thursday
arrived, and Lena found herseif alono at
tho railway station for Sir James had a
commUtee meeting that morning, and
could only join her later in the day
sho felt somewhat depressed at the
prospect before her. There was a largo
and somewhat weird-looking crowd On
the platform. A slight drizzlo was fall
ing, and the ladies of the party had
unanimously elected to appear in bag
like waterproof garments, though, to bo
sure, their male kind ran them hard in
the matter of curious raiment. Most of
the travelers had invested in paper bags
full of Bath buns, for an expedition
with the British Association is generally
fraught with peril in thd mutter of sup
plies. The weak-eyed young man was
in a state of excitement bordoring on
delirium, Lady Lovoday sighed as her
eye ran over tho mass of pushing, per
spiring, be-maekintoshed human beings
oh tho platform.
"There isn't a soul here that I want to
speak to," she thought, settling into the
comfortable corner-place which the
youthful professor had secured for her;
and then, as her eye caught the squarc
shoulddrcd back of a check-coated man
in tho distance, she added, mentally!
"That looks like a nice man. His hair
is cut beautifully short, and he's got a
brown tuck and a properly ironed collar.
He reminds me of poor Dick."
JJut, directly after, tho train steamed
out of the station and Lady Loveday 's
reminiscences camo to an end. She had
to mako conversation with her cicerone
for the day, and a wholo carriagcful of
other people. By tho time they had
arrived at tho pit's mouth and were
waiting their turn to go down, Lena was
not sure that she wanted to engage in
such a perilous experiment.
Only a quarter of tho trainful of peo
ple could bo accommodated under tho
shed which covered tho shaft, tho rest
were waiting outside. Finally, however,
she was jammed with some seven or
eight other people, including her scienti
fic admirer, in tho baize-covered bucket,
and was emptied out, after an uncanny
descent through a black void, into tho
brown-walled cavern at tho bottom. The
niiuo had been decorated with thousands
of candles in honor of the event, and each
visitor was provided with a tallow dip
ctuck into a wooden handle. Down in
the depths of the mine tho Scotch pro
fessor waxed confidential.
"This man is getting a bore," thought
Lady Loveday, "I must really cvado him
somehow;" and with another turn
of the rock she managed to slip away
irom nun. candle in hand, she followed
a group of people in front of her. Pres
ently one of the party the young man
whoso back sho had seeu on the platform
stopped, and, with an action which
sho rcc ignized nt once, struck a match,
stooped his head, and lighted a cigarette.
"Why, it is Dick I" sho murmured;
and just then he turned and saw her.
"I thought you were in Afghanistan,"
she went ou, hurriedly, as he stood gaz
ing at uer.
too I have been, for the last two
years. I bat frontier business took
longer than I thought. And you!"
Lady Loveday blushed and looked
down. Here was an adventure after her
own heart. Sho was a curious mixture
of practical worldliness and theoretical
sentimentality. Sho had liked him, hand
some, penniless Captain Bramwell, mors
than any man she had ever known, pud
lie well, she wus quite aware he had
worshiped the very grouud sho trod on.
But all that was three years ago, and in
three years there are many changes.
"I saw you the other nieht," he con
tinued, presently; "you came iu nn aw
fully fetching cloak, with a white, fluffy
thing ruuud your neck. I'vo been trying
to nnd you out ever since, but nobody
that I asked could tell me anything about
.Miss Uarduer.
Lady Loveday smiled. He did not
know of her marriage, then? The ca
price took her not to tell him just yet
she wanted, womanlike, to sco if ho had
remained faithful all these years.
"Ob, I m sucl an insignificant person
in the midst of all these bigwigs."
uicK smiled DacK nt her no bad n
charming , lie and they wandered
along to' ', each with a tallow dip
flickering and spluttering, aud fitfully
ighting tbeir handsome young faces. She
hnd not altered ono bit, he s:id ; and she
declared he was as brown m a Hindoo,
uud would have to be scraped white.
Time flies when old lovers meot, and
nearly nn hour had gone before Dick had
told her that he had come down to the
association to read a paper in the geo
graphical section. Would sho come and
hear it? Of course, of couse, sho would!
Poor old Dick I Why, he was just ns
hurd hit, sho firmly believed, as ever.
When they at lengtli got back to the
bottom of the shaft, there was not a soul
to be seen. The awful truth begau to
dawn upon tlicm that they had been left
behind. How easy that might be, with
the five or six hundred people who had
come with the excursion, they both saw
nt a glance. What was to be done?
Nothing absolutely nothing. Lady
Loveday turned greenish whito us
she leaued against the rock.
"Sir James," she moaned "Sir
James would never let mi die liko a dog
in a hole."
"Sir James?" said Dick, surprised.
"You mean .tho President? Is ho u
great friend of yours?"
"He is O my poor Dick! he is my
husband!" the faltered, not daring to
look at him now. Captain Bramwell
gave a littlo whistle and turned away.
What a farce, aud how liko Leua the
wholo thing was I Lady Loveday did
not see him smile.
"Forgive me!" she murmured, step
ping nearer to him, and, laying a caress
ing hand on his arm. Hhu was very
fond of the drama, and that was always
what they said iu plays, when tho old
lover camo back from India aud found
the heroine faithless.
"My poor child," he answered "rave-
ly, "I'll forgive you unythiug us long
as we ever cot out of this nit."
Lena could hardly conceal her disap
pointment. Was it possible actually
possible that he did not care, that he
diil not remember) It couldn't be he
i
had loved her too well i He must b
pretending, just to look as if he were in
different. They waited a long time, and it was
4 o'clock before the whirr of the bucket
was heard coming to her relief; An ex
planation of Cnptairi Bramwell's equan
imity with regard to her marriage was
ofTorded Lady Loveday on their arrival
at the top of the shaft. Hurrying toward
the pit's mouth was seon Sir James, ac
companied by a pretty girl in blue, a
girl whose naive delight at seeing
Captain Brruiwcll was obvious to all the
bystanders.
"And who who is the exuberant
young-Woman in blue?'1 queried Lena,
with not quite a pretty smile,
"That, dear Lady Loveday," said
Dick, quietly, as he handed his com
panion out on to terra firma( "that is
my Wife I" London World,
Hponge Out Headache.
The ordinary nervous headache will bs
greatly relieved and in many cases en
tircly cured by removing the waist of
one's dress, knotting the hair high up ou
the head out of the way and, while lean
ing over a basin, placing a sponge
soaked in water as hot as it can be borne
on the back of tlie neck.
Bcpcat this many times, also applying
the sponge behind the cars, and the
strained muscles and nerves thut have
caused to much misery will be felt to re
lax and smooth themselves out delicious
ly, and very frequently the pain prompt
ly vanishes in consequence.
Every woman knows the aching face
and neck generally brought home from a
hard day's shopping or from a long
rounu ot cans ana attcrnoon teas.
Sho regards with intense dissntisfac
tion tho heavy lines drawn around her
eyes and mouth by tho long strain on tho
facial muscles, and when she must carry
that worn countenance to somo dinner
party or evening's amusement, it robs
her of all the pleasure to be bad in it.
Cosmetics are not the cure, nor bro
mides nor the many nerve sedutives to
be had at the drug store.
Use the sponge and hot water again.
bathing the faco in water as hot as it can
possibly be borne; apply the sponge over
and over again to the temples, throat
nnd behind the ears, where most of the
nerves and muscles of the head center.
and then bathe the face in water running
cold Irom tuo faucet. Color and smooth
ncss of outline como back to the face, an
astonishing freshness and comfort is the
result, nnd if a imp of ten minutes can
Tollow every trace of fatigue will van
ish.
The samo remedy is invaluable for
sunburn, and the worst case of this lat
ter affliction of sensitive skins will suc
cumb to the hot-water treatment. Tho
cold douche should not follow in this
case; instead a light application of vas
eline of cold cream, which prevents
peeling of tho skin, as tho hot water pre
vented inflammation.
Nothing so good for tired eyes has
yet been discovered as bathing them in
hot water, and neuralgia nine cases out
of ten will yield to applications of cloths
wrung out in hot water in which tho
hand cannot bo borue. Boston Globe.
Teeth and Hair Not Indispensable
With us there is, to say tho least, a
strong and decided prejudice in favor of
luxuriaut tresses and pearly teeth. But
it is only a prejudice, nnd by no means
universal. We sco no lack of beauty in
the infant's naked, rosy scalp, or in its
sweet littlo toothless mouth. Wo even
see a kind of majestic beauty iu the ivory
dome mat covers tlie sage s busy brain.
A white, shining billiard ball is by no
means unpleasing to the eye, aud no ono
cuu fancy ita beauty improved by cover
ing half of it with a coat of hair, how
ever soft and silky, lustrous, brown or
golden. Birds had teeth once; how
should we welcome a prospect of the re
turn, a retrogression, to their former
semi-rcpliliant conditiou? Would you
think your canary or your brilliuut-hued
cockatoo improved iu its nppearanco if
the smooth, even edges of its bill were
garnished with saws of pearly teeth liko
a littlo feathered and winged alligator?
Tho possession of a full complement of
teeth has always been regarded as an in
dispensable condition of perfect health.
To our prehistoric aucestors, who had no
other grain mills than their molars, it
must huvo been so, and the modern sol
dier in active servico would find his
hard-tuck and leathery salt beef rather
unsatisfactory faro without the dental in
tegrity which the examining surgeon so
(roperly insists upon. But the constant
ly improving science of cookery supplies
the remedy for tho civilian, aud as to tho
soldier, ho is, like his teeth, a relic of
undeveloped civilization. The "dogs of
war" must go, teeth and all. Experience
has demonstrated that the luxurious diet
of civilization, which gives so little for
the teeth to do, is, ou tho whole, more
coucucive to vitality and longevity than
the hard fare of savagery. Long before
toothless gums shall havo becomo tlie
rulo all occasion fcr teech will have
passed, either for beauty or use. North
American lit lie to.
A Hunter's Paradise.
A correspondent, writiug from the
State of Washington, says: In this un
known lund, bear, elk and the uoblo
black-tailed deer exist in almost couut
les numbers, uud in all but perfect fear
lessness of mail, and here, from the great
ditliculty of access to their domain, thu
enterprising sportsman may find them
ages hence. Until tho summer iut
passed, no hunter's, protpector's or
explorer's rifle had ever awakened the
echoes of their hills. The hunter's para
dise is tho peninsular lying west of Puget
Sound, and embraces all tlio territory
west from tho Sound to tho Pacific
Ocean, aud the. Straits of San Juan de
Fuca south to the northern liue of Che
liulisli County, comprising the i-utire
counties of Clallam and .b-ll'i-rs in, and is
locally known us the "Olympic Kaugu
Country." A glance ul u map will beat
inform the reader of tho extent of this
territory, where until lal summer the
noblest gMine on the coutiueul has lived
iu undisturbed pxuee.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. '"
tt seems not Unlikely that electricity
Will be applied to smelting furnaces id
the near future.
Manufacturers are beginnig to intro
duce electricity into their factories as a
motive power by subdividing it into
units,
A very extensive domestic industry in
Russi.i consists Of the manufacture ol
wooden spoons, which are made to tho
extent of 300,000,000 annually, mostly
of birch.
The average pulse in infancy is ono
hundred and twenty a minutcjin man
hood, eighty) nt sixty years, Bixty. Tho
pulse of females is more frequent than
that of males.
The loss of heat in the pipes of A
central steajn supply system, when laid
tinder ground and protected, will
Hiuouui. io auoui. miy per cent., as
(dated by superintendents of plants of
this kind.
Dr. Stephen It. Emmons, tho inventor
ol the explosive "emmonsitc," has given
directions for an alumnium-bronze gun
nt tho Pittsburg Reduction Company's
works. The gnu will have a range of
fifteen miles.
A petroleum engine has been intro
duced in a lighthouse in Scotland for
working thu siren of the fog signal ap
i pnratus recently installed. The result
iB sRid to bo excellent, giving security
and promptness.
In his lecture on caves, at the meeting
of the American Association, the Rev. Dr.
Hovey exhibited a photograph made by
L. Farini, of Bridgeport, Conn., from
an ordinary negative, by means of the
light of tho fire-fly.
The Great Western Argentine Rail
road is about to try the experiment of
burning crude petroleum ir. its engines.
It has contracted with a Mendoza com
pany to take 100,000 cubic metres of
ctudo petroleum at $12 a metre.
Ono of tho latest crazes in St. Louis,
Mo., is that of riding upon tho electric
cara to cure rheumatism, and hundreds
of victims of tho dreaded affliction who
bavo borne their sufferings in silence are
uow eagsrly seeking for information and
testing the new cure.
A. lasting machine that ennbles one
operator to last 3000 pairs of shoes a
week is one of the latest thing! in labor
saving machinery. It tackles anything
from light feminine footgear to the
heaviest brogans, and tho product is
superior to hand-work.
A well-known manufacturer claims
that the only proper way of making a
ready-mixed paint in which there is a
considerable portion of white lead and
zinc white present, to keep indefinitely, is
to emulsify the oil. Th's prevents the
chemical action which the painter knows
as "fatting," that is, prevents the for
mation of that particular kind of lead
soap which will not dry.
John T. Campbell presented, in the
American Association, tho evidence in
support of his belief that there was, iu
tho Wabash River, one last great flood
near the close of glacial time, and that
then the water-supply was so cut off or
diminished that there was never another
freshet large enough to wipe out or
modify the marks it left. This flood, in
tho opiuion of the author, carried about
one hundred times as much water as do
the greut floods of the present time.
Tcgetnble Caterpillars.
One of the queerest things of Tasmania,
New Zealand, and other parts of Austral
asia is the bulrush or vegetable caterpil
lar. This wonderful plant is a fungus,
a sphaerin, which grows seven or eight
incites ubovo tho ground, generally iu n
single stem, round and thickly coverod
with brown seed for some five or six in
ches, ending in a curved worm-like point.
It is usually found growiug at the roots
of a particular tree, the "rata" of tl.j
natives. When this plant is pulled up its
singlo root is found to bo the exact
counterpart of a largo caterpillar, say
one three or four inches long, which, al
though it preserves every detail of such
grubs, dissection proves it to be solid
wood.
Intelligent persons of the countries
named above say that this curiosity is
formed iu the following manner: A
lurgo species of moth feeds on tho "rata'
tree; tho grub of this moth burrows iu
tho grouud; the seed of the spaeria gets
lodged betweeu the scales ou tho grub's
neck, strikes root and completely turns
the interior of tho creature into u woody
substance. In every case tho shell of tho
grub is left intact, no small rootlets punc
turing it at any point. Scientists say that
tho above explanation is nil "bosh," and
that the plant develops tho form of u
caterpillur because it is its nature to do
to. If this be true, why should wo laugh
at the stories of tho Mandrake Mau and
tho Scythian Lamb, specimens of which
are preserved in tho Surgeon's Museum,
Loudon? t'hiciiijo Herald.
An Obliging Voun? Indian.
Two young women were aloucouo day
when a young Indiau bravo whom they
kuew camo to seo tho man oftho houses,
says a iuuKtou (IN. IJ.) letter to the
Springfield lki'iihli un. Tho mau was
away and tho ludiau sit down to wait
for him. During this interval tho girls,
being of a lively turn, bcMU usking him
questions about his former inodo of life;
amoug other things they asked him to
give a war-whoop and show them how
ho sculped people, but he gave no uu-
swer. borne tiuie utter when tliey were
talking of other subjects, and had for
gotten all about him, ho sprang up sud
denly, gave a war-whoop tliut mado tho
house-top ring; then snatching his big
knifu that lay on tho table with one
band, he took the topknot of one of the
iris in the other, uud ran I ho back of
the knife uround her scalp. They wero
t-uch sculped iu th's iniinui r and wero
nearly frightened out of their wits, but
he sut dov.ii and bi -aii tt, -i v;'li an J told
them be had only douu what they asked
liiiu to do. ( They soon recovered from
ihe shock i tlaughed heartily at the
ludiau's jo.
' A BIRD CHARMER TALKS. 1
HOW HE MANAGES TO CATCH THE
FEATHERED SONQ8TEES.
Smearing Limb or Tree With Ttird
Lilme Trapping liirds With a
Cate-rUl8tiiK Mocking Dirda.
"Come in." said the bird man to a
Washington Star reporter, us the latter
passed his door a few days ago; "I want
to show you a genuine bird charmer."
The rcpoftcT entered. Inside the storo
sitting on a hot before tho 'stovo a tall,
muscular individual was stritchcd out.
He was dressed in a full corduioy suit
and a wide brimmed whito lint on the
sombrero order adorned his head. This
was the bird charmer. He looked more
like an elephant trainer.
"Yes, I catch birds," said tho bird
charmer in reply to tho reporter's in
quiry, "but my specialty is mocking
birds, although I catch anything that flics.
But mocking birds are my stnnd by, and
the littlo fellows earn mo a good living.
How do I catch them) It takes two re
plies for me to answer that question, for
I employ as many means liming them
nnd trapping them. Tho first named
method is simplo and very efficacious.
"Bird lime is a sticky substanco and
holds on tightly to anything that touches
it. How is it made? Ob, I can't toll
you. If I did every boy in Washington
would be stuck on sparrows," nnd the
bird charmer laughed nt his wit. "As
I was saying this bird lime is very ad
hesive and when a bird touches it he
enters the bonds of slavery. When I
start out to uso bird lime I generally
select a place whero tho birds aro thick
est. Taking my limo pot in ono hand
and a long flat sick in the other I smear
tho limbs with the lime and do tho samo
thing to T-shaped perches which stick
in the ground. A light sprinkle of grain
about the perches completes the work.
The birds soon return and thoso which
aro not caught in the trees fly down to
tho perches to examino more critically
the food placed about them. The result
is apparent. I then gather in the birds
and move on to another spot.
"To trap them is entirely different. A
cage is used with two wing attachments,
one on cither side made of twine. These
wings are so arranged with tho help of a
spring that their normal position is closo
to tho cage. When ready for uso tho
wings aro pulled away from the cage
proper and held in that position by a sec
tional perch. These perches are so sen
sitive that the minute a bird lights upon
them he fulls nnd the wings close, shut
ting tho bird in. Tho bird is not hurt,
but his pulso goes up to 1000 he's so
scared. I forgot to mention that wo uso
a decoy bird that is, a tame bird. Ho
is in tho cage proper and his song draws
the others. That is the way wo cutcb
birds, but the bc3t mocking birds are
hand raised that is, they are taken from
their nests when threo weeks old nnd fed
by hand. They are hardy littlo fellows
and rather enjoy being orphans.
"Great attention has to be paid to tho
food of these younsters, for improper
food and irregularity of meals breed
sickness. Haid-bciled egg and potato
is a very good food and spiders und little
iusccts also do them a great deal of good.
Ot course when tho bird grows older
prepared mocking bird food should be
given it. A great many people prefer
hand raised nestlings to youug trapped
birds. You can readily understand the
reason for this. Hand-raised birds be
como attached to you and soon learn
tricks. Tho hardest part ubout the sale
of mocking birds is tho shipping ot
them. Every year I ship hundreds of
them to this city, but thu result is not
very satisfactory. The express companies
aro not very particular ubo-.t the cure
they give the little fellows, und they neg
lect in many instances to give them
w iter and tho poor little fellows die."
"The great fault ubout mocking
birds," put in the bird fancier, who was
standing near by, "is that it is dilHcult ;
to distinguish the male from the feinal." i
Why, that's easy enough, " iw'.doc' tho
bird charmer, "but a great mimy people
do not kuow how to distinguish the
difference and unprincipled dealers often
impose upon them. The way to tell the j
sex of a mocking bird is by i s wing.
To examine the wiug of a mocking bird,
the bird must be caught firmly iu thu
left liuud and the wings extended to their
fullest extent to the right; looking ut
tho wiug at the upper side, the while
coveriug will bo observed to be the
longest of the feathers nearest tip of th.
wing, and tho extent of tho white color- '
ing will greatly diminish on the feathers
nearest the body. If the white mark- 1
ings arc splashed with black and do '
do not cxteud exactly across the feathers
tho bird is' a female. Tlio feuialo bird
does not sing at all, but merely utters a
harsh, sharp cry. It takes ubout three
weeks for a mockiug bird to attain its
full size. There is just ono thing more !
I want to say about the mocking bird, '
and that is that I consider him the finest
feathered songster iu thu world. He '
commences to sing us early us eight '
weeks old, und his voice increases in
volume nnd compass with age. He is a '
perfect mimic ami c:iu imitate nnythiug I
from a buzz saw to a humming bird."
(Jlvinjc Poultry a tiiuuey I'luv-r.
A farmer of E ist Bradford informs w
that a good way to givo poultry a namcy
and wild tasto is to cut up sae, tliyine,
parsley, potherbs and celery inlo "very
liue particles and put it iu with bran and
coarse coruineal mixed up with warm
water, aud tho flavor that it j.ives the
fowls is rcully delicious. Try it mi l you
will find that it will succeed always'
VctcieUr (Col.) JUrord.
Prepared ( bulk for liio Teeth.
Says a druggist: "In the care ol the
teeth as well :is other things the simplest
thing is tho best. Buy a little prepared
c halk such us wcmieu uso on tlu-ir laees
and a largo and s.ilt brush. Dampen the
brush, dip it in lh chalk uud use Uco
a day, riusiug uflerward. If this h fol
lowed out for a week it will whiten 111.
wortt teeth aud hiln the
emus."-
Klli''
INDIRECTION.
Fair are the Bowers and the children, but
their subtle suggestion is fairer;
Rare is the rosoburst of dawn, but the aocret
that clasp, it is rarer: - j
Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain
that precedes it is sweeter; I
And never was poem yet writ but tho moan-
ing outmastered the metre.
Never a daisy that grows but a myater
guidcth the growing;
Never a river that flows but a majesty scep
tres the flowing.
Never a Shakspeare that soared Jout .
stronger than ho did enfold him;
Nor ever a prophet foretells but a Ulightiel
seer hath foretold hiin.
Back of tlx canvas that throbs tho palntol
is hiutod and hidden;
Into the statue that breathes the soul of th.
sculptor is bidden ;
Under the joy that is felt lie tho infinite is
sues of feeling;
Crowning the glory revealed is tho glory
that crowns the revealing.
Great are the symliols of Mug, but thai
which is symboleJ is gronter;
Vast the creato and beheld, but vaster the
inwarl creator;
Back of the sound broods tho silence; back
of the gift stauds the giviug;
Back of the hand that receives thrill th
sensitive nerves of receiving.
Spaco is as nothing to spirit; tho deed is out
done by the doing;
The heart of the wooer is warm, but warmer
the heart of the wooing;
And up from the pits where theso shiver,
and up from the heights where thoso
shine,
Twin voices and shadows swim starward,
aud the essence of life is divine.
Richard Realf.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Set a hen on a china egg and sho is
better off.
Promissory notes are frequently classed
as paper-waits.
A good thing Ky have nrouud tho
house A fence.
When it is very cold it is not so bad
to be between two fires.
The crayon artist is not supposed to
have political aspirations because he fre
quently takes tho stump. lioiton Cour
ier. Sappy "Very fow people get what
they deserve in this world." Miss
Caustiquc "Aren't you gladi" Mun
ley'i Weekly.
"Emmeline, enn you keep a secret?"
he whispered hoarsely. "I don't know.
I never tried to. What is it?" Phila
delphia Timet.
A young mau who married a "butter
fly of fashion" was unable, a year later,
to provido "grub" for his butterfly.
Norriitown Herald.
Papa "Come here, Toddlekins.
Whom does papa love better than any
ono else in tho world)" Toddlekins
"Papa." Aett York Sun.
Mabel (confidentially) "I was awfully
stuck on you once, Jack." Jack (grati
fied) "When was that?" Mabel "Bo
fore I knew you." Epoch.
Little John Jones says that his teacher
in arithmetic ought to be dismissed
from school because .sho invariably sets
him a horrible example. h'lmira Uaiette.
A cliiellet by the brooklet,
With his gimlet loaded full,
Let go a leaden bullet
Aud killed old Silting Bull.
ll usiiuifuii Star.
A bridegroom six feet seven inches
tall has just taken to himself a bride who
measures three feet ono inch. Lovo mo
little, lovo mo loug was thu burden of
their sou;. Chieayo Mail.
"Yes, I onco failed for a hundred
thousand," remarked the red-heudcd man
who hadn't treated yet. "You see, the
girl was worth that in her own right aud
refused me." PhiUidrlihia Times.
Photographer "Your sou , tho st udec t ,
ordered this likeness from me." "It is
certainly very much liko him. lias bo
paid for it?" "Not yet." "That is still
more like him." Flieinuh Iilm tter.
"Griud-tone, havo you ever tried a
raw ouiou as a remedy for sleeplessness?"
"Tried it ouee, Kiljordau." "How did
it work?" "Had to go to sleep to get
rid of the taste." Ano York World.
Fred "I didn't mind Taylor's dis
charging me so much us 1 dij the insult
ho subscip untly offered inc." Fruuk
"What was that)" Fred "He adver
tised for u boy to fill my place." Yan
kee Wade.
Mrs. Gottlcft "Do you know what
everyone says? They all say you mar
ried me only for my money." Mr. Gott
lelt "I don't see how it ever gut out.
I urn sure I never told uuy one." In
diaiiiijuiltH Journal.
Mrs. Yerger "What is the matter)
You seem to bo very much iiuii'ij ed."
Mrs. Pcterhy "I havo jjood reason to
be unuoyed. That ttddlc-patcd goose,
Mrs. Jones, treats mo as if 1 were but
her equal." Trxus Si'tinye.
A few little sprinkles
Of (ll'liCHtU h riuklus
And oyelu.sscs just a bit stroic.vr
A sill llllaulltlll'opic,
U'ln-u uo is ihu i.iic
Maud isn't u Um uny loii. i-.
U ii.ilitiujtttn
Butcher, who has been rejoiced by tlio
birth of a son, is iuformcd that thu child
weighs nearly eight poumU. lie lakes
him in his urms to fed his w. iglit and
calls out astonished : "By .love, so ho
does!" then niter a moment's pause adds:
"But with the bones, mil tl you.1'
t'lityeiide Mutter.
With trembling voice, thou ;!. ai-.h-nt look,
He family usUlv hoi "i-oiiid s:ie coos.'''
She owned she e-Mli'l, Nil. I, Ut der ivwn,
Ho naked her if sh -l lie liis own.
"Indued?1' Mtitl bin-, v.itti Uer nus. u-eurl;
'1 supposed you were vt nut ing ti line irl.'1
lUfltl Htl fitt: is JiHtl tutl.
A farm journal said: " There isgoin
to bu more money in poiiluy than hen--tofote."
The uetiav a larim-i's ile
found a uicki l in a chicken's him, and
told her husband that il was tie- tir-,1
time she ever saw anything ie!i,i",e iu
nil agricultural paper puuU'iied ii - .
city. AvtrUtvteii UernU " -