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Only two per cent, of tba Siberian
runaways escape with their live..
Tli cro are now 7000 loan associations
in this eountry, with a membership of
2,000,000 person.
It ia said that Christian missionaries
in foreign. countries have mora trouble
to convert Mohammedans thaa an other
class of people
The Chicago llorald bolioves "it is
fo to say that almost every five miles
of main public road iu Groat Britain is
bettor than almost any Ave uiilos of pub
lic road in our country."
The (Ire lost for 1803 for the United
Statot and Canada foots up $132,704,
700; a large sum of money to be com
pletely wiped out of existenco in twelve
months, observes the New York Inde
pendent. A correspondent of the Chattanooga
Times, writing from Qlou Mary of the
abandonment of sheep raising on account
of the raids made by. clogs, says that
' there is not a farmer in that small section
but losses twenty -Ave percent, or more
of his sheep through tho work of worth,
leas curs. Tho dog question is a lively
one in Tennessee just at this time.
Dr. Parker; of the London City Tem
ple, not long ago held a service for the
unt.nployed, and invited eich of his
hearers into the vestry after scrvloe and
presouted him with a small sum of
money. One of tho recipients, with
cynical candor, said to some one as hs
catne away: "I've not done a day's
work for scvcu-tind-twcaty years and I
don't moan to P
Reports lately made concerning the
oyster fisheries of Louisiana lead to the
belief, says the Chicago Herald, that a
large share of tni country's supply of
oysters will come from that quarter in
the future. It is roporte j that the beds
are of enormous proportions, possess
every natural advantage for the growth
' of the shelltish, and in many cases are
hardly touched by the rake.
I 1
Bcientifio distinction by women is .so
seldom acquired, even when deserved,
that of special interest is the recent ac
tion of the Academy of Science in Ba
varia in electing a woman' to full mom-
, bomhip. This honor' has been con
ferred upon the Princess Thoresa, sister
of the Prince Regent, the only woman
whose scientific, works have been con
sidered worthy such recognition.
In round numbers, there are 80,000
convicts in the penitentiaries and 20,000
able-bsdied men confined in jails, mak
ing a total army of 70,000 men available
for employment in road improvement in
the United States. Why not employ
them in this work! suggests the Farm,
Field and Firesido'. Many of them are
lying in idleness, fed at the people's ex
pense, while the labor of others in the
penitentiaries is let by contract to manu
facturers and employed la direct com
petition with honest labor.
A man recently offered to carry the,
mails between Booasborough and
Keedysvilie, Maryland, daily, except
Sunday, free of charge. The distance
between the two towns i about three
miles, and the bidder thought ttat be
bid low enough to secure the cootraot.
It was not awarded to him, however, for
another roan offered to do the work for
aa annual compensation of one cent, and
to him the contract was awarded. - Tbe
man who offered to deliver the mail free
of charge is now wondering why be was
not permitted to-do so.
"m
It looks to the Now York Sun as
though the cave-dwelling race, which
once lived in Arizona and tbe regions
thereabout, had been discovered as far
north as Alaska, or upon a small Island
off the Alaskan coast which was recently
visited by the United States cruiser
Bear. Tbe Bear's officers, while explor
ing the upper surface of the rock known
as King's Island, which rises above the
j waters of the Bering Strait, fouud an ab
original tribe of oave dwellers, who seem
to possess some cf the characteristics of
the curious people which iu old time
Minted far to the southward. From the
account given of the dwellings we infer
that, in construction and iu grouping,
they resemble those of tbe cliff dweller
of Arizona, New Mexico aud Colorado.
Some of their implements are similar to
those that were made by tbe cave and
cliff .people elsewhere; but their food ii
not like that which v. as used by their
southern kin, who had no opportunity
of fattening upou whale blubber or wal
rus meat. It is hardly worth while,
however, to speculate about these Alas
kan cave dwell'-r until we have fuller
information concerning them. That the
island had some inhabitants was known
before it was visited by the Captain of
the Bear, whose report is likely to be of
interest to American archajologists.
THE SKOW.WaVSR'S bono.
Book and forth tbe shuttles go,
Fashioning the cloth of snow,
A ftd the weaver you may bear
At tbe wind loem singing clean
"Hlnmber, little Sowars, and dream
Of th. silver throated stream, '
Shining through the April day
As it were a mnsle ray
Bearing meloly along
From tbe mellow sun of song.
- Slumber, littl. fragrant faow,
Dreaming in your quiet place.;
Soon the dreams shall pan and then
You and spring .kali waks again t"
Thus the weaver at his loom
Binfrs away the winter's gloom,
While he weaves tho coverlet
For the dreamers who forget:
"Slumber, littl. flowers, and dream
Of the April's golden beam
Which shall com. and fill your ey
With the sunlight of surprise;
Wi king, you shall hear onoe more
Hong birds at the daybreak's door.
Klumber, little fragrant faoes,
Dreaming in your quiet places, ' '
Soon th. dreams small pas. and then
You and spring shall wake again !"
Frank Dempster Sherman.
NINETTE'S CAREER.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
T was snowing still,
sharp prickles of
whiteness in the
gloomy December
ausk, when Ninette
Beau voir was driven
up to ber cousin s
house. The air was
intensely -cold, the
houses on either side
of the street loomed
up lib a huge phan
toms, and tbe gas
jets seemed to thrill
and shiver in tbe wind. And tbe wel
come of Mrs. Berry, her cousin's house
keeper, was a dead match for the weather
and the wind.
"I ana expected, I suppose!" said
Ninotto, wondering why tbe woman did
not open the door a little wider.
'What name!" cautiously inquired
jura, worry.
"Miss ' Beauvoir,
Georgia."
from Atlanta,
'1 have heard nothing of it," said
Mrs. Berry, without opening the door
a fraction of an inch farther.
"Mr. Trebleton is at home, I suppose!"
"No, Miss, he's not," still frigidly.
"I will come in," said Ninette, trying
to swallow tbe suffocating sensation
her throat. "I will wait for him. It is
so cold, and I I am "half frozen.".-
Mrs. Berry hesitated a moment, then
opened the door, ungraciously enough.
"Well," she said, "I suppose you can
wait in tbe study until he comes."
She showed Ninette into tbe red-curtained,
cozy little room, lined with
books, lighted by tbe soft ring of flame
that streamed from a shaded gas-jet,
warmed with tbe glow of a coral-red lire
upon tbe hearth. And here, surrepti
tiously turning the keys in the secretary
drawers and writing-table and takiug
them out, Mrs. Berry left her.
"There ire the paper-weight," said
Mrs. Berry to herself, "and the ivory
paper-cutters and tbe inkstand with tbe
stag's head in bronze; but I don't be
lieve she'd take tbem I"
While Ninette, left alone, crouched
down in the low chair before the fire
and burst into tears.
"Is all tbe North as cruel, as hard, as
frozen cold as this!" she asked herself,
with a convulsive shudder. "Oh, it
would have been better to have died of
starvation in my own sunny, golden
South! If a stray dog, there, had crept
in out of the storm at night, tbey would,
at least, have given him a bone and a
kind w.ord. But for me there is no such
welcome I" -
When Mr. Trebleton came in at nine
o'clock, he found Ninette still looking
at th tire through eyes that swan like
tears.
"I am Ninette Beauvoir, your cousin's
child," said she, rising with varying
color.
"Happy to make your acquaintance, I
am sure, said Mr. Trebleton, apparently
so busy in removing bis gloves that he
never noticed her offered hand. "What
can I do for you, Mias Beauvoir!"
Ninette looked at him with large,
grave eyes.
"Papa said, before he died," she
faltered, "that you would give me a
home with your daughters. I huve no
longer a home of my own. Papa's ill
ness was expensive and took all our
means."
"Quito out of the question; quite out
of tbe question," said Mr. Trebieton,
hurriedly, as be took up a poker and
bepsn beating the topmost lumps of coal
on tbe fire. "Perhaps you are not aware
Miss Beauvoir, that I have a large and
expensive family of my own, and I
couldn't think of undertaking any ad
ditional expenses."
Ninette listened, apparently incredu
lous of her own seuses.
"But what am I to do!" she asked.
What do other girls do who are
thrown on their own resources!" rather
curtly demanded Mr. Trebltton, secretly
wishing that tbe interview was over.
"I don't know," said Ninette, simply.
"I am only an ignoraut Southern girl.
No one every told me. I supposed, of
course, that I could come and live with
joui"
"Humph 1" ssid Mr. Trebleton.
''They teach; they take in sowing; they
go into stores, shops, faetories. Tbey
strive for independence."
"Cousin Trebleton," said Ninette,
with a quivering lip, "if I could see
your wife your daughters they are
women like me; they"
"I am very sony," said Mr. Trebleton,
stonily, "but they are out of town.
There, there ; don't cry. If there's any
thing I hub), it is to see a woman make a
scene. Of course, you can stay here to
night. My housekeeper, Mrs. Berry,
will take core of you- in the morning
you will be better able to look things in
tbe face."
Mrs. Berry, still, stiff and silent, con
ducted Ninette to an arctio-cold bed
room at the top of tbe house, where tbe
very candle seemed to shiver.
"What's tbe matter now!" said Mrs.
Berry. "Why are you crying!"
"I am so hungry," sobbed Ninette, in
whose nature starvation had completely
overcome tbe horoio element. "I have
had nothing to eat since eight o'clock this
morning."
Airs. Berry bit her lip Impatiently.
"And tbe kitchen fire gone down,"
said sbo, "and not a drop of milk leftl
Well, I'll go down and see what I can
find."
But when she came back, poor little
Ninette, who had crept iuto bed to get
warm, was sound asleep. And tbe nig
gardly sandwich and slice of withered
cake were too late.
Mr. Trebleton took Ninette to a gen
teel intelligence bureau the next day.
"This lady," be said to her, indicat
ing a stout female in b'ack-silk behind a
tall desk, "will procure decent lodgings
for you, and put you in the way to em
ployment. And, if I can be of any
further service to you, pray let me
know."
And he bad given ber band a fish-like
pressure and was gone, before she fairly
comprehended that this was his way of
getting rid of her.
Poor Ninette 1 Poor little tropical child
of the South, how infinitely lonely she
felt at that moment.
But tbe stout female took op a pen,
opened a big book and began to ask
questions with bewildering brusqueness
and rapidity, and Ninette soon caught
the infection of her energy. -
The rest of the week was like the
shifting scenes which Ninette remem
bered to have seen at a pantomime, years
and years ago. She was hurried from
place to place in the great, noisy bedlam
of a city. Nobody wanted a nursery
governess; the school lists were crowded
to overflowing; from tbe stores Ninette
shrank with trembling horror, after she
bad seen the smooth, nice, oily-faced
superintendents of one or two.
"I can do nothing more for you,"
said tbe stout female at length, "unless,
indeed, they can give you employment
at the Decoration Rooms. It won't cost
anything for you to go and seel"
To the Rooms of Decorative Art Nin
ette accordingly went. Tbe directress
was engaged. She would see tbe young
person presently. -Let her be shown into
the workroom.
A great, bright, well-ventilated apart,
ment filled with busy workers, some at
frames, some at tables, some standing
before easels; and one pale, middle-aged
women was drawing a dosign for wall
paper on a huge sheet of coarse paper
daisies, corn-flowers, trailing vines, all
tangled together.
"That is not right!" exclaimed Nin
ette, involuntarily, as she watched the
slow, uncertain progress of the pencil.
Let me show you how to bring that
vine out!"
Tbe woman stared, but Ninette had
caught the pencil from her hand, and,
with two or three bold strokes, altered
the whole character of the design. From
mediocre it 'became original; from stiff
ness it took on a wild, woodland grace.
"How did yo-i do that!" asked the
stupid, middle-aged woman in bewilder
ment. "I don't know," confessed Ninette,
crimsoning. "Hot don t you see can't
you comprehend! It couldu't be other
wise! It must come out sol
A band was laid lightly on ber shoul
der, and turning around she found her
self looking into the calm, amused eyes
of the directress.
"You are right, my child," said she,
"it could not be otherwise. But it is
not one in a thousand who would know
it. Come here, I must talk with you!"
That half-hour in the work-room of
the Decoration Sooiety was the turning
point of Ninette Beauvoir's life. She
bad found bet niche in life's temple.
She could scarcely reckon up within
her own mind the number of years that
had passed when she sat aloue in the
little private parlor of the Decoration
Rooms in tbe soft dusk of a March even
ing, with the rod gleam of the tiro filling
the room with dreamy softness. She
hnd grown from an impulsive child into
a tall, beautiful, self-poised woman, who
presided over the ramifications of the
great society with queenly dignity and
well-balanced judgment. Aud Ninette
was happy now in having discovered her
true career.
The girl entered with lights. Misi
Beauvoir glanced up.
"I shall not need the light, Qretchen,"
she said. "I am going home as soon as
the carriage comes for me."
"There is an old gentleman. Miss
Beauvoir, to see you," said the girl,
apologetically. "I told him it was past
hours, but he said be bad walked a long
distance to see you, aud seemed so old
and feeble that I didn't like to refuse
him. He has a portfolio under his arm."
"Where is he, Gretchen! In the re
ception room!" interrupted Miss Beau
roir. "I will go to him."
A tall, stooping old man, with scanty
locks, threadbare clothes and gloves
mended uutil they resembled a piece of
mosaic, turned as she entered.
'Do I speak," he asked, "to the bead
of the establishment!"
Miss Beauvoir inclined ber head. In
the dark silk drets and mantle edged
with iur she looked even older, more
dignified than her years.
"I am very poor," he said. "I have
met with reverses in business aud am
quite dependent on the exertions of my
daughters. They have been brought up
ladies, and, consequently, are compara
tively helpless; but thev have done a
little needlework, for which they would
be glad to obtain a fair price, and"
"Mr. Trebletoul" oried out Ninette,
holding out both ber hands.
He Hushed deeply.
"That is my name," he said,' but I
was not aware"
'Have you forgotteu me?" she inter
rupted. "Little Niueltu Beauvoir 1
Don't you remember that we are cousins!
My circumstances are good," she added.
naloring a little. "I receive an ex
tUlcnt salary here and have money laid
uj.. Do you think I can allow my
fatiur's cousin to wantf I have a com
fortkole home; it shall bo yours, and my
cousins' also. My carriage is at the door
now. Let us go together to your home."
And Minette, in her enthusiasm, over
ruled poor Mr. Trcbleton's feeble objec
tions. "A comfortable home" she bad called
it, but to the poverty-stricken inhabi
tants of a tenement-house on Grand
street the little brown-stone dwelling
seemed a palace, with its bright open
fires, its sweetness of hot-house flowers,
its moss-soft carpets, dark oiled boards
and walls tinted with the softest of
colors.
Mr. Trebleton sat feebly down in the
big velvet arm-chair; his pale, sickly
daughters stood beside him, embarrassed,
yet happy in their young cousin's warm
Southern welcome.
"Do you mean," he faltered, "that
we are to live here always!"
"What else could I possibly mean!"
said Ninette, kneeling to arrange the
coffee and fruit on the table at his side.
"Are you not my cousins! Where should
your home be but with me!"
Mr. Trebleton brushed something
from his eyelashes.
"Ninette," said he, faintly, "I do not
deserve this. I I didn't treat you so,
when you came a solitary orphan to my
house I"
"Let all that be forgotten," said Ni
nette, gently. "Remember, only, that
you are welcome, more than welcome to
my hearth and home I"
So Stephens Trebleton and his daugh
ters stayed on, always, in the sunny lit
tle brown-stone house. And Ninette
was harspy, for she had it in her power
to bestow happiness.
"Of what use is money, if not to help
others with!" said sweet Ninette. "And
they are my cousins, toot"
But Mr. Trebleton had not argued
thus on that snowy December night
when Ninette Beauvoir came, homeless
and solitary, to him.
"Lord be merciful to me, a sinner,"
he breathed. "But I never knew, until
I saw it in the uncompromising light of
the past, what a miserable, selfish brute
I was." The Ledger.
She Remembers Her Newsboy Friend.
"There is a young man in Mobile,
Ala.," said Colonel Robert McEachin, of
Winchester, Va., "who has cause to re
member Amelia Rives, the writer, twice
a year. When the now distinguished
lady was a little girl and lived in that
city, she became fondly attached to a
newsboy who cned out his papers every
morning in the neighborhood in which
she lived. They met one day and a friend
ship sprang up between them that has
lasted to the present time. After the
boy's stock of papers were sold in tbe
morning he would call for the pretty
little blue-eyed miss and theywould take
long strolls down Froscute road, pluck
ing the orange blossoms and: the magno
lia blooms. They soon got to be fami
liar figures on Government street, as they
would walk along that busy thorough
fare with the young girl's head garlanded
witli wreaths of beautiful flowers and the
little boy's arms filled with vines and
evergreens. Tbon Miss Rives moved far
away iuto Virginia, but she never forgot
her newsboy friend, for it was ber custom
almost daily to write him, telling how
sadly she missed tbe walks and strolls,
his joyous, sunny face and the music of
his boyish laughter. I doubt if Mrs.
Cbanler, as she now is, ever wrote love
lier or more poetic or passionate sen.
fences than those she used to send in her
letters to her newsboy sweetheart. The
boy met with a misfortuue some yaars
ago which crippled him for life, lie is
poor, but his purse is twice a year re
plenished by a postoffice order from Mrs.
Chanter. One of these arrives in Mobile
on his birthday, which ia in June, and
tbe other on Christmas Day.'' St. Louis
Republic.
Surgical Progress Illustrated.
In one of the best known restaurants
in this city a few weeks ago there was
seated at a table enjoving a hearty lunch
a well known physician aud a well known
lawyer. When the feast was about endod
the physician, rubbing the region of his
stomach covered by the lower part of his
vest, said: "I'm out of order down here.
I believe I'll go to Dr. (naming a
well known young surgeon of this city,
who has a reputation for skill and ra
pidity in the use of the knife), and have
my stomach cut open to see what's the
matter." Tbe lawyer was amazed, and
unwilling to take tbe doctor at his word,
askei him what he really meant.
"Why," said the doctor, "I mean what
I say. The right way to treat the
stomach is by opening it and finding out
what's the matter. That's what surgery
is coming to. It will be the regular
practice in a few years iudeed, it is
frequently done now. They used to
think it was certain death to expose the
bowels, but they've got over that. I am
in medicine, but not in surgery, but I
know what tho surgeons are doing, and
even now they take out a man's bowels,
fix tbem up again, and put them bock all
right." St. Louis Globe -Democrat.
Pari Doles ou Horacfiesh.
O.ie of the most properous industries
iu Paris is the sale and disposal of horse
flesh for food. There are in the city of
Paris 180 shops for tbe sale of horseflesh,
and in the course of this year more than
21,000 horses, sixty-one mules and 275
donkeys have been killed and eaten by
tbe Parisians. The moat singular point
about this traffic is that the price of the
flesh is equal to .that of good beef, 20
cents a pound. It is only fair, however,
to add that two-thirds of this meat has
been converted into sausages, so that it
is more than possible that the consumers
aie ignorant of tbe source of their tooth,
some dish. It is now easy to under
stand how it is that good hor.e are so
scarce in the Paris fiacres; at 20 cents a
pound a fat horse would be worth more
wheu he was dead thau alive. Chicago
News Record.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Wood pavements cause opthalmanta.
A diamond for cutting glass lasts
about three months.
Psycologists say that people do their
dreaming, or most of it, after 4 a. m.
A German savant has discovered what
he thinks is a sure means of disinfecting
rivers.
Physicians are now able to wash out
the system through the natural ohannels
of circulation by means of injected
fluid.
The copper plating of sheet tine has
been successfully accomplished and the
process is recommended where wear
takes place.
Pittsburg now claims tbe largest glass
flattening oven In the world. This new
oven will take a sheet seventy -five inches
by 111 inches, or in narrow glass one of
thirty inches by 131 inches.
The most valuable bit of ore ever
melted in the world, so far as is known,
was a lot containing 200 pounds of
quartzholding gold at tbe rate of $50,.
000 per ton, and was found in a mine at
Ishpeming, Mich.
It is said that one of the new armored
cruisers will have smokestacks 100 feet
high. These high funnels will be un
sightly, but appearances are to be sacri
ficed to utility. The increase In height
will give additional draft in ordinary
steaming.
Recent studies of cancer not only in
dicate that it is an organic growth, but
almost ceitainly prove that it is itself
liable to the attack of another parasite.
Better acquaintance with the relations of
these parasites may possibly bring tbe
long-sought method of arresting cancer.
There are two fixed rules for propor
tioning tbe human form ; . just two.
They are that eight heads (that is, skull
lengths) make tbe total height of the
figure and that the invarinblo center of
the total length of tbe whole figuro
should be the front termination of tbe
lowest part of the pelvis.
By placing two iron bars at seven or
eight yards distance from each other and
putting them in communication on one
side by an insulated wire and on the
other side with a telephone, it is said
that a storm can be predicted twelve
hours ahead through a certain dead
sound heard in the receiver.
Sneezing is averted by pressing the
upper lip, because by doing so we dead
ea tbe impression made on a certain
branch of the fifth nerve, sneeslng being
a reflex action excited by some slight
impression on that nerve. Sneezing
does not take place, when the fifth nerve
is paralyzed, even though the sense of
'smell is retained.
Paper tough as wood is said to be
made by mixing chloride of zino with
the' pulp in the course of manufacture.
It has been found that the greater the
degree of tbe concentration of the zinc
solution the greater will be the tough
ness of the paper. It can be used for
making gas pipes, boxes, combs, for
roofing and even, it is added, for mak
ing boats.
Still another use for aluminum has
been found In the construction of slate
pencils. It was accidently discovered
that aluminum would give a stroke on a
slate, and a German forthwith set about
manufacturing pencils of tbe new metal.
They are five millimeters thick and four
teen millimeters long. They are said to
need no poiuting, and are practically in
exhaustible and unbreakable. The
writing, which can be erasedwith a wet
sponge, is as clear as that of the ordin
ary pencil, only requiring a little more
pressure.
Tbe Tale of the Telepho ic
The first telephone that was ever used
was not electrical, nor was it a scientific
instrument in any sense of tbe term. A
little more than fifty years ago the em
ployes of a large manufactory beguiled
tbeii leisure hours by kito flying. Kites
large and small went up daily, and tbe
strile was to see who could get tbe
largest. The twine which hold them
was the thread spun and twisted by the
ladies of the village.
One day to the tail of tbe lurgest kite
was attached a kitten, sewod iu a can
vas bag, with a netting over tbe mouth
to give it air. When the kite was at its
greatest height, some 200 feet or more,
the mowing of tbe kitten could be dis
tinctly beard by those holding tbe string.
To the clearness of tbe atmosphere was
attributed the hearing of the kitten's
voice. This is the first account we re
member ot speaking along a line.
Sheffield Telegraph.
Some Carious l'anisliiusnU.
During the time of Richard I., and by
the advice and consent of that monarch,
tbe British Parliament promulgated same
strikingly original codes for the main
tenance of order on bis Majesty's fleet.
Thus, if any seamau killed another ou
shipboard he was to be bound face to
face with his victim by means of stout
thongs "of not less than tbree-ply," the
living and dead bundle to be thrown
overboard together. Any man who
maimed another, the same having been
done with malice intent, was ordered to
be served in like manner as his victim.
One section of this law read as follows:
"lie who draws bloude from another by
wilful blow struck, he that blow struck
with a weapon or with hee's hand only,
must lose the baud with which tbe wound
was inflicted ; a hand blow that causes
no bloude to flow must be punished by
ducking the offender thrice. St. Louis
Republic.
Cuurars Abound in Washington.
Complaints are made in eastern parts
of tbe State of Washington that cougars
are entirely too plentiful for comfort to
the settlers. Several of tbe animals
have lately visited stock pens and farms
in Spokane County, and one was seeu
calmly trotting alon the uiaiti luad just
outside Spangle. This latter Iwasl was
not at all frightened at the approach of
men, but auibled off into the woods at a
leisurely gait.
YARNS SPUN M WHALERS.
ftTJ EKE STORIES TOLD BT AEOTIO
BLUBBER HUNTERS.
Slnsrnlar Effect at the Moon on
Whale's Kyee The Crew Umally
Humanity's Odds and Ends.
STORIES of the sea always have a
fascination for the landsman,
and so it was that a group of
Arctic blubber hunters bad a
lot of interested auditors.
"How would you like to hare eight
or ten thousand dollars on a string!"
asked one of tbem, knocking his pipe on
the edge of tbe stringer and addressing
the group of landsmen collectively.
"Well, I've had that much many a
time," he went on without waiting for a
reply, "and it makes a fellow rather
nervous guessing whether he's going to
land his fish or whether he'll get flipped
overboard. I've been to sea now thirty
four years and I expect I've struck about
as many whales as the next one, but it's
pretty exciting business yet. Why, last
season one ot our boats struck a big sperm
whale aud he started down. Our ship
bad five boats and each boat carries 280
fathoms ot line. That whale took down
tbe whole five of 'em 1400 fathoms in
all. It began to look as we had lost the
whole thing, but he was too tired, and
when he came up we feathered into
him."
"Yon wouldn't believe that fish at
least spouting fish are influenced by the
moon!" said another of the group.
"Well, they are. I've seen it time and
again, and I've called other people's at
tention to it, too, but I never found any
one else who had noticed it. Sometimes
when you are at sea and whales are to b
seen frequently it may be at the full
moon or at new moon well, all at once
they will disappear and you won't see
one for two weeks. Then just as sud
denly the water will be full of them.
I've compared notes with other vessels.
Maybe they were sixty miles or more
away at the time and the whales there
would be numerous just at the same time
they appeared near our vesse1.. Ob, you
fellows needn't laugh. There is some
thing in it.
"And then I've noticed another thing
about this same class of . fish. When you
catch them you will always find that
they have the pupil of the eye the same
shape as the moon at that time. If the
moon is full tho pupil will be round, and
it it is a half or a quarter the sight will
be like a crescent."
The Captain stopped to light a fresh
pipe and another one of the whalers
spoke up.
"I've had some experience myself,
said he, "but two years ago I came the
nearest taking alter Jonah that a man
ever dhi. We had made a stnke all
right and the whale went down, not
very far, but when he came up he had
his mouth open, and some how or other
he came up with one jaw on the port and
the other ou tbe lea side of our boar.
Surprised! Well, that whale looked
very much as If bo was ready to receive
company, but I wasn't invited, so I made
a streak for another boat."
"You would be surprised," said the
first speaker, changing the direction of
the talk, - "what queer mixtures there
are in a whaler's crew sometimes. Why
I've had lawyers and doctors and any
number of young men with a degree of
some kind. And once I shipped a fel
low that turned out to be a preacher,
and I wish I could get him again, for
we got eight whales that sesson. I be
lieve he was a mascot. One poor fclljw
who went overboard in agkle, had in his
trunk a physician's diploma, and any
numberot letters with high recommend
ations, but I guess Le bad gone wrong
time how, and wanted to get out of the
way for a while. lie succeeded better
thsn he intended. I guess they won't
think ot looking for him at the bottom
of the Aictic.
"We get lot of men for a season's
cruise that way. If a fellows wants to
hide himself for a while I don't know ol
any place he could do it better than on
board a whaler. Nobody would think
of looking for such a man in this busi
ness, and then they couldu't look much
if they wanted to. That kind of a sea
man never makes you any trouble. It's
the shiftless fellow you pick up here on
the wharf that you've got to handle
pretty roughly before he learns how to
keep a decent tongue in bis head."
"On one of ray cruises I had a big,
black West Indian in tbe crew," said the
first speaker. "One day for some reaaou
he jumped overboard. The sea was a
little rough and it was quite a white be
fore we got the boats lowered, and we
lost sight cf blm. But we pulled back
a little way aud I soon saw him, swim
ming with all his might, but in the op
posite direction from the boat. I yelled
to hiiu, and when he saw he was discov
ered he mado no further effort to get
away. And whore he wasgolnj is more
than I know, for it all happened in mid
ocean. We hauled him into tbe boat,
and made for the ship. It was four
months before we made port and yet in
all that time, Sandy, for that was his
name, never spoke a word. No one on
board could get a sound from him. Some
times he would lie down on the deck
and seem to be asleep and some of tho
crew would slip up aud stick bim with a
pin. At fisst he would twitch a little
and then would not move at all. We
made a bed for him do-.ru below and
kept him away from a knife or other
weapon. You could tell bim 13 take tbe
wheel and he would steer right eoough,
but if you asked him what course the
ship was making he was silent as the
grave. And when we made the first
port he went ashore and I never saw bim
again. But some of the crew said he
regained his tongue on land and thought
he had been 'playing' us all the time.
But it was a strange case." San Fran
cisco Kxamlner.
Only 2.'itilJ sea otter skins were
imported to Kuglaud by the Alaska
Commercial Compauy and other traders
iu lSai. Thep were sold at an average
THB OLD BACK STAIR.
Of all th. sport of childhood,
I know of none o rare
As sliding down the banisters
Of
th.
old
back
stair.
I rwfnetnber wH th. circuit.
And th. fun it wed to bring.
While watching fexrlnm rider.
A-dashing 'roun 1 the ring.
But this jolly old attraction
Could never near compart
With sliding down the banister
Of
tbe
old
back
stair;
Then t recollect the barn loft.
Chocked full of clover hay;
Mother used to send us there
To paM a rainy day.
But I often .tola away from that
And while mother wasn't there,
B. sliding down th. baaistws
it
the
oW
bvk
stair.
I have grown into manhood now.
And often wander home
Th. old folks always welcome me-
They're glad to have me come;
But whil. they're not looking
I'm tempted, I declare
To slid, down th. banisters
Of
the
old
back
statr.
C. E. Edwards, In Kansas City JouruaL
HUX0R OF THE DAY.
A bouncing baby Tbe rubber doll. '
Fair and square Tbe angular blonde
girl.
Settled out of court The confirmed
bachelor.
Gossip will very soon die without
proper ventilation.
Fighting tooth and nail The dentist
and the chiropodist.
The barbed wire fence is tbe thing
that can give you points.
A bird that can't sing and will sing
ought to be made into a pot-pie.
When a bad example is set it is apt to
hatch mischief. Kate Field's Washing
ton. Many a man has made a goose of
himself with a single quill. Texas Sitt
ings. Sleep is not the period of conscious
ness; it is only the coma, so to apeak.
Boston Courier.
It takes years for a wise man to ma
ture, but a fool can get ripe in a minute.
Washington Star.
The diamond that poets praise,
Though still a favored jewel,
Will be outranked era many day,
By carbon used as fuel.
Washington Star.
This would be a much happier world
if we couldn't borrow trouble without
collateral security. Puck.
"A little learning is a dangerous
thing," as the poor skater remarked as
he picked himself up. Puck.
"This is a first-class sugar loaf," said
the candy merchant as he retired from
business. Washington Star.
When some people get on the roll ot
honor they must roll it up and take it oS
with them. Galveston News. -
The height ot impudeuce Taking"
shelter in an umbrella shop till the
shower is over. Le Monde Comique
It has been demonstrate 1 oft
A man ne'er reaches fame.
Until tb. world familiarly
Make, use of his first name.
Washington Star.
Photographer "Now, madame, a
pleasant expression, please-" Son-in-law
(in tbe back ground) "Whew I I must
not miss that!" Fliogeuda Blaetter.
'I am not afraid to say what I think,"
exclaimed Ililadd. "I always express
my views." "They are too heavy to go
by mail, I suppose," replied Larimer
She "Dudes haven't more than half
sense." Mr. Sappy "Aw, Miss Mawy,
are there no exceptions!" "O, yes, Mr.
Sappy; some haven't any." Brooklyn
Life.
"Poor Mr. Mills is so sympathetic, I
think." Dolly "What did he do!"
"To-day he sat with his eyes closed on
tbe car rathsr than see the ladies stand
up." Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"What have you got all those pictures
out on tbe window sill for!" asked a
friend of an amateur photographer. "I
am simply airing my views," was the re
sponse. Yonkers Statesman.
Oh, novelist, a littl. light
VV. humbly beg of you.
Why are th. clocks of which you write
Ail mode of ormolu?
Washington Star.
"Hello, Diowiddiel" exclaimed Shin
giss, when the two met on Fifth avenue,
"I haven't seen you in an age. What do
you do for a living now) ' "I breathe,"
replied Dinwiddie, languidly. Pitts
burg Chronicle.
Neighbor's Boy (looking through the
fence) "My father's a heap bigger man
than your'n I" New Boy (with cold dis
dain) "Size ain't no-thin' 1 When my
father coughs you can hear him half a
mile I" Chicago Tribuue.
Elderly Maiden (out rowing with a
possible suitor and a little sister who is
frightened by the waves) "The.idora I
If you are so nervous now, whut will
you be at my age!" Little Sister (meekly)
"Thirty-seveo, suppose." Tid-Bila.
Stranger "I notico you called your
friend Professor. Is he really a pro
fessor!" Boweryite "I should say so.
Why, dat feller swollen a sword eihteeu
inches, stands ou his cur and eats glass
out of a churu. Professor! Well, I
should just smile." New York Herald
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