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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 9, 1893. $1.50 PEK ANNUM.
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X.
'Hio birth registers show that "Eu
laliu"' will lo a propnlor name this
aeosoa for now young ladies.
H the Chinamen in the United
Mutes cbiuo from one of tlio eighteen
provinces of tho Celestial Empire
imiht of flit: in from one corner of that
province.
N '
, ssuming tho working age to be
trnin twenty to sixty years, and count
ing only miilo workers, 440 persona
in this country livo on tho labor of
every 100 workers.
A foreign correspondent calls atten.
tion to tho statistics of suicides in the
Gorman nrmy as illustrating more
vividly than words could the intolera
ble horrors of the iron discipline of
German militarism.
Tho Russian city of Bnkn, on tho.
western coost of tho Caspian Sea, is
called by tho natives the "town of
fire." It is the greatest petroleum
center in the world. The sight upon
which it is built as, indeed, the whole
Caspian Sea rests upon naphtha.
. Appendicitis, tho medical term for
fnnnmnuition of a small intestinal ap
endix, the use of which no one has
teen ablo to discover, has become so
common flint physicians are advocat
ing its removal from all infants as a
preventative measure, like vaccination
Frederick J. do Fcyster, President
of tho St. Nicholas Society, of New
York, tho quintcsccuco of Knicker
bocker gentility, declares in a recent
interview that it is moro important to
lie a member of tho St. Nicholas So
ciety than to control 100,000 miles of
railway.
Tho noiseless London hansom, with
lis india rubber tirod wheels, must, in
future, carry bells to give notioe of its
npponch. So many accidents have oc
curred through pedestrians not hear
iug the noise of approaching wheels
that tho commissioner of police has in
troduced this new regulation.
A writer in the Atlantio Monthly de
clares tho American desiro for gregar
iousuess is our National vice, and he
goes far to prove his point by many il
lustrations showing tho eagerness with
which people crowded into cities and
towns, and their refusal to accept good
employment if it requires residence in
the country.
The total taxablo wealth of tho city
of St. Louis is $284,291,800, of which
$45,348,030 is on personal property.
The real estate valuation was made in
181)2. Tho assessment of personal
property was made this year. TTliis is
the plan of tho ofllce, tho two classes
of property being assessed in alternate
years. Tho totals on personals show
an increase of over $4,000,000 over last
year.
A new cannon has just been invented
iu Germany which is expected to revo
lutionise tho artillery of all Europe
ICrupp.it is reported, has offered $750,
000 for tho exclusive right to tho in
vention, and tho inventor, Uerr Ebr
hardt, has refused tho offer. Ho pro
poses to establish a plant of his own
for turning out his guns. It will be
tho most rapid firing cannon in tho
world, so far.
Bees and birds court tho society of
man that is, they seek the localities
where fields and gardens abound, for
they faro better when human industry
extorts from tho soil llio products
upon which they subsist. A Maine
beo culturist says it is the rarest thing
in the world to find bees away from
the settlements or from openings
where flowers grow. It is in the small
patches of forests they are oftcnest
found and generally not far from the
edge of tho woods. It is the same with
birds. Thero are no song birds in tho
northern Maine wilderness and scarcely
anything that can bo called bird life.
Birds cluster around townsand villages.
Tho trustees of the University o(
Pennsylvania have asked tho city of
Philadelphia to deed twenty-five acres
of a tract of land known as tho alms
house property to them in trust for use
as a botanical garden. They promise
to convert the land within five years,
and that the garden shall at all times
be open to the public, Tho property
is not used for any purpose at tho
present time. Tho trustees havo in
view the erection on the tract of a
museum of science and art to cost
$500,000. Work on this building
would begin as soon as the gardon was
thrown open to tho public. The uni
versity does not ask for any pecuniary
aid from the city in carrying out tho
plan, but a number of citizens have
already promised contributions of
$5000, and it is stated that there will
be ii' difficulty in raising the fund
bt-edid,
Mere than two-thirds of fho malt
prisoners in the State's prisons of th
various States are under thirty year,
of ago.
Germany has one postoilice to every
1771 .inhabitants. In proportion to
population the United States has twicu
as many.
Montana is larger than New Hamp
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Ptbodo
Island, Connecticut, New York and
Pennsylvania put together.
The averago weight of 20,000 Bos
ton men was 142 pounds; women, 123
pouuds. At Cincinnati tho averago
of tho same number of men was 104
pounds; of women, 131.
In the United States tho average life
for farmers is sixty-four years ; for
lawyers, fifty-two; merchants, forty
eight; mechanics, forty-seven; sea
men, forty-six ; laborers, forty-four.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Bouthworth as
serts that she is tho author of the first
continued story ever published in the
United States, which appeared in the
Washington Era forty-five years ago.
It was called "Retribution," but it
seems never to have overtaken her.
There is at the Executive Mansion a
so-called "eocentrio file," on which
all letters from palpable cranks are
put. Most of these contain threats
and warnings. This file has been
kept ever since the episode of Guitcan,
who wrote many such notes before he
shot President Garfield.
Doctor Ernst Har t, the editor of th
British Medical Journal, who is now in
Chicago, says: "I consider Chicago's
water supply tho best of all the great
cities in America. Tho greatest danger
was done away with when the old in
shore intake was abolished. But the
city will not be absolutely safe until
the two-mile crib is abandoned and the
four-mile intake used exclusively."
According to Eugene Field "a charm
ing feature of life at the "World's Fair
is the utter indifference to the rest of
the world which possesses ono immedi
ately upon entering Jackson Park. He
who enters there leaves all else behind.
Household cares and business considera
tions are instantly forgotten. It is
epidemic this glorious, health restor
ing, brain-resting, heart-strengthening
enthusiasm 1"
The conquest of arid America has
but fairly begun and will not be com
pleted for some time in the nameless
distant future. Water is taken from
rivers and streams by means of dams,
pumping devices and canals; vast areas
in the mountains are covered by well
constructed reservoirs; springs, see
page and drainage sources are utilized ;
and even the underflow that hidden
and comparatively inexhaustiblo foun
tain is being tapped in many localities.
Artesian wells, counted by thousands,
and nndcrground tunnels and channels
aro flowing, and being constructed,
almost everywhere. That sustaining
element of plant-life, water, is sought
and secured by men of enterprise and
capital.
A writer in London Truth suggests
that an association of girls be formed
who shall pledge themselves to pro
pose to any man whom they may con
sider desirable for a husband. He be
lieves that proposiug should not be
limited to men, and that men, who, as
he claims, are naturally moro bashful
than girls, often remain single because
they have not the courage to propose,
and, as consequence, many girls are
husbaudless. But there is this differ
ence in favor of tho present order of
things: If a man is refused, he soon
forgets it and in a few days is ready to
ask another girl to marry him, while a
girl who had suffered a failure would
first cry her eyes out w ith embarrass
ment, then turn cynical aud never look
at a man again.
It is the opinion of men familiar
with tho character of the Navajo In
dians, declares the Argouant, that a
war with them will provo to be a seri
ous business for tho Government. Tho
tribo numbers about thirty thousand,
of whom nino thousand nre fighting
warriors. The reservation where they
are intrenched is rough and diClcult,
and contains many passes where, ac
cording to one authority, "two Indians
can bold their ground against the en
tire United States Army." Tho Nava
joes have traiucd their ponies to go
without water for two days, if neces
sary. Tho whole tribe is armed with
tho most approved repeating rifles, and
the bucks have been btoriug ammuni
tion for yoars in anticipation of trou
ble. Tho Navnjoes have a perfect sys
tem of signals aud scouts, and are al
ways informed hours in advance of ihe
movement of W,y- i.it ugulust
them, ;. ,
DAWN.
ut of the scabbard of the night,
l Br God's hand drawn,
Flashes his shining sword of light.
And lo the dawn I
Frank D. Sherman, In the Century.
A'STORY OF HINDOO MAGIC.
EARS ago I sat
one day on the
deck of a ves
sel lying at its
moorings bo
fore Calcutta.
I had intend
ed at first to
go out to Gar
den Reach
while the
Hhawmnt was
disc liar a i n g
and taking her new cargo, bnt illness
in the family of the friend with whom
it was proposed I should stop had in
terfered, and I decided at last to re'
main on board.
I was the more willing to do this, as
close beside us lay the vessel com'
manded by a friend of mine, whose
wife had also decided to remain on
board while in port. Tho Fox lay
closely enough for us to call to each
other from our decks, and nearly every
day we spent together. If I Could not
go to the rot, Mrs. King would take
her little niece and come on board the
Shawmut I had my baby boy with
me, and little Nera, my friend b niece,
who was about three years old, would
spend hours swinging with him in his
hammock, which was hung from the
spanker boom beneath the awning,
that the baby might get what little air
was stirring during the heat of the day.
Nera would lie there for hours and play
with baby if he was awake, or with
her doll if he slept.
Capttain King came aft to where his
wife and I were sitting, and said
"Would yon ladies like to see one of
the best of tho native jugglers? 1 have
been talking with the comprador about
it and he says he thinks he can get one
to come off to-morrow if you would
like to see him. According to what he
says the fellow is far beyond anything
in the way of magical performance that
you have ever seen.
As neither of us had ever seen any
thing of the sort, of course we were
eager to have the juggler come aboard,
and the Captain return to the hatch
way and mado arrangements with the
comprador to fetch him the next day.
Mrs. King and I talked of nothing else
during the rest of the afternoon. We
rubbed up our little knowledge of
jugglers tricks, recalled the stale
stories of seeds planted and grown into
a tree within a few moments, of the
boy packed ir.to a bsskot and the
basket cut into ribbons, with an ac
ccmpauiinent of smothered shrieks
and groans from ' the mutilcted child
within, who afterward appeared in the
background, safe and sound, and all
the other accounts of the stock tricks
of the Indian jugglers of which we had
often read.
We decided that this particular
magician would be at rather a disad
vantage, for he would bo working on a
solid deck instead of in tho sand, and
in an entirely unknown place, w-here
he could by no possibility have made
previous preparations to deceive his
audience
Next morning the Captaiu told me
that tho juggler would come on board
late iu the afternoon. Mrs. King, as
usual, came to spend the day with me,
and we sat on dock all day. We felt
sure that as we had been there on the
day when the performance was first
proposed, and all of the following day,
there had been no chance for any trick
to be played beforehand, and that,
therefore, wo were to have a genuine
performance, whatever it should be.
There could be no chunco of deception
by hollow floors or easily moved sand.
Iiato in tho afternoon, or rather
early in tho evening, we saw a small
boat glide toward us, in which sat a
tall, slender form clothed in the white
native robe, with arms folded and
head bowed upon his breast. Beside
him sat a slight form, whether malo or
female wo could not at thnt distance
distinguish, but we supposed it was the
boy who in all the stories wchad read
was one of the most important proper
ties for tho magical performance.
There were no baskets in sight, and
but little else in tho wny of furniture
for setting the stage for the coming
show. Ihe boat came alongside, and
her passengers were standing iu our
midst almost before tho boat had
touched the foot of the ladder, I think.
The juggler was the finest looking man
J ever euw. He was considerably over
six feet tall, nnd was formed like a
Greek god. His snowy robe wrapped
around him left his arms and one
shoulder bare, and his long, slim
hands were as perfect as bronze cast
ings from an artist's master work. He
had the brightest eyes I ever beheld,
but in thoir depths shone a light which
made me shudder with not fear but,
well, I could not tell what tho feeling
was, but I know it was decidedly un
pleasant to meet bis eye for more than
moment. On comparing notes with
my companions afterward I found
that they had all felt this same strango
sensation. It was not fenr, but nono
of us could give it a name, though all
experienced tho discomfort in greater
or less degree.
As the strangers reached the deck
ve saw that the figure which we had
een sitting beside the man iu the boat
was that of a youug girl. Khe was
almost as fine looking n rpecimen of
her sex as the mur. was of his.
They lost no time, but proceeded
with their preparations for our a'rinse
tuent. The man disdained to speak to
Us at all, but gave his directions to the
girl, who repeated whatever it was
necessary for us to hear in a low melo
dious voice. They mkc.l for Severn
things, among others a t ill cane Lr.i!;-.!,
at which Mrs. King and I smiled At
each other ; a slender line, a pan of
ashes, and some other littlo articles
which I have forgotten now.
Ihe line, which was handed the man,
was our spare signal halliard, and after
swinging it around his head a moment
he seemed satisfied and laid down be
side the mat which he had spread upon
the deck. This mat was of woven
grass, like thousands of others we saw
every day.
The only thing which he had brought
with him was a long slender sword and
a small crystal globe, which seemed
filled with some liquid clearer than
water, with a sparkle and shimmer in
its depths even when nothing jarred
the globe to account for the motion.
After a short time the man squatted
down upon his mat and his strange
eyes gazed at each one in the circle
surrounding him for a moment. As
he looked straight into my eyes I felt
a most unusual chill and shudder pass
through my veins. I was not a nervous
woman, and this heart-chill was a new
experience to me. His gaze passed
slowly around our little circle, linger
ing for a moment as it met somo eyes,
and passing rapidly over others. I
thought he paused longer as he gazed
into my face than he did at any other,
but that may have been imagination.
When he had completed tho circle he
raised the crystal globe and held it
poised Upon one hand and spoko some
words to his young companion in the
strange musical tongue in which ho
had carried on all his conversation
since coming on board. She turned
from him and repeated to us his
words: "Tell the strangers to each
think of the dearest one in his own
far-off land and to look deep into the
magio crystal if he would learn what
thnt loved one is doing at this in
stant." We each fixed our attention upon
the globe, and I wondered what my
sister would think if she could see mo
sitting here before this strange Indian
looking into the depths of a glass of
water (if water the globe contained),
and wishing that I could really see her
for but one moment. As these thoughts
passed through my mind I gazed
steadily at the globe and saw the con
tents glitter and ripple as if moved by
some wind which we felt not. Slowly
across the surface passed a dim cloud,
which grew rapidly more and more
opaque.
Then suddenly I saw a corner of tho
old familiar dooryard in my far-off
home. The big maple tree grew into
form before my eyes; its leaves flut
tered and swayed iu an unfelt breeze.
The green grass beneath its branches
waved and tossed as if it felt the fresh
air of morning passing across its ver
dant face. A slender form came swiftly
out of the dim haze which filled in the
background to the picture. It was my
sister, and a look of wonder shone in
her hazel eyes as she seemed looking
straight across the thousand miles of
water which divided us. I started up
and the picture faded away. I saw
nothing but the Hindoo squatting be
fore me, holding tho crystal globe
aloft and watching the faces before
him with a keen intentness.
He sat silent for a moment, then
rose to his feet and began his perform
ance by giving us some of the less im
ortant tricks of the juggler, all the
time his eyes roving from face to face
as if he would read each heart to its
depths, and I for one felt sure that ho
could so read miue, for I could feel his
gaze sink deep into my brain. I was
half afraid of him, but wholly de
termined to do nothing to break up the
sitting.
After some minor tricks of sleight of
hand and of the commoner clusa of
legerdemain, he spoke to the girl in a
harsh, quick tone. She brought out
from under her voluminous robe a
small, flat silver salver, which I noticed
was entirely covered by an intricate
pattern of engraving. This the man
put carefully down upon the exact
centre of his mat, and taking from his
bosom a small silk bag, he ecatterod
tho contents, a white powder, upon
the salver. He addressed tho girl in
earnest tones, aud then took his seat
again upon his mat, with his head
bowed upon his breast and his hands
gripped closely together as if he was
making some desperate effort or was
bearing some terrible agony. The
girl lighted a small taper which had
been among the articles they had
brought with them and put it down
beside her master. Then she also
stood with bowed head and clasped
her hands for a moment as if waiting
some signal from her master. She
waited but for a moment, for with a
shudder he raised his head and spoko
to her in a quick, shrill voico.
Khe in turn repeated to us hisrequest
that we should promise, that, no mat
ter what happened, wo would nono of
us move from our place. If we should
move no ono could tell what terrible
accident might happen. Of course we
all promised, moro or less readily, and
the man, to mako suro of our obed
ience, beckoned us to sit closer to
gether iu a ring almost touehiug the
mat upon which hi) sut. Wo did so,
laughing and crowding together, and
when wo had taken tho required posi
tion he spoke to tho girl, w ho imme
diately cuught up tho signal lino und
proceeded to arrange it in a ring sur
rounding our littlo group as we sat
around our entertainer.
As soon as she had completed her
task she took her station 'w ithin the
ring, and, dropping her outer robe,
stood in a closer fitting undergar
ment, which left her slender limbs un
covered froia kneo tosukle, from wrist
to shoulder.
When nho had tuken 2ier place the
mun arose, and, muttering some in
cantation iu a musical undertone, he
walked urouud outside the ring formed
by the ropo and scattered the ashes
over tho line, covering it front sight.
He then took his plaro again within
th ciivle, and after the girl Ld again
' iiiipreued upon us tliut under no cir
cumstances were wc to move, tho man
took the tape in his hand, and, hold
ing it high above his hesd, seemed to
be invoking some power which he be
held in the air abovo our heads. Ho
then stooped and touched tho flame of
tho taper to the end of tho rope which
encircled us. The flame crept along
the cord, and wherever it lighted a
change took place in tho substance of
the cord. It began to writhe and twist
in a very lifelike manner. The flame
crept around the circle, and tho slen
der line which we had all seen taken
from ouf own signal chest was sud
denly turned to a twisting, gleaming
Berpent, which Coiled and twined
around our circle, hissing and darting
out its fangs at every motion. It v.-as
ono of tho moot deadly of the rori.v
venomous serpents of tho country, and
we shrank together with horror.
"If the strangers sit silent nothing
can harm," said tho girl, with a warn
ing gesture.
We sat still we could do nothing
olse aud the juggler stood erect aud
began again the melodious chant which
had accompanied his scattering of the
ashes. But then it was inarticulate ;
now he seemed domauding aid from
the higher power (or lower, as yon
choose), and his eyes were lighted up
until they soemod burning coals, and
I wondered that they did not scorch
my face when he glanced at me.
He raised tho silver salver with its
contents, and, holding it high above
his head, waited for a moment in
silence.
A flash, and the powder on the salver
burst into flamos. He lowered it to
tho deck, and the flames died away,
leaving behind a mist of smoke, faintly
fragrant, which settled lower and
lower around us until we viewed all ob
jects through its dim haze.
I glanced behind to tho hammock
where the two children wero lying to
see if they wero frightened, but baby
was sleeping and Nera was swinging
and humming to herself as she played
with her doll. She lay with her head
upon baby's skirts and he had one
little hand buried in her hair.
All this time the serpent had twisted
and writhed around us, and the Hin
doo had kept up his low, wailing
chant. The girl stood with bowed
head close beside him, and the smoko
seemed to bend and twine about her
form until it grew dim and seemed to
wave and sway as if in a breeze.
Then all at once she raised her arms
and slowly, softly floated upward on
the cloud waves like a loaf rising on
the eddying winds. The chant grew
more rapid, the smoke more dense, but
still through its vaporous waves we
could see the light form floating up
ward, still up until it was lost to sight
far above the tops of the masts.
Louder and louder chanted the Hin
doo. The smoke rose even thicker
and more dense. We had lost sight of
the girl All eyes were turned to the
spot where she had disappeared far up
above our heads.
The Hindoo stood erect in the midst
of the circle, his form swaying in
rhythmio measnre with his chanting.
He held his hands higher aud his voice
took ou a deeper tone. Then from far
up in the blue void above us we saw a
tiny spot source, visible against the
azure sky. It floated downward.
Nearer it came, until wo could see that
it was the form of tho young girl.
Lower, still lower, she came, and we
could see that she held a burden
clasped in her arms.)
The smoke grew more mistliko as
she descended, until it vanished. She
came down with ihe same swaying,
drifting motion I had noticed when
she ascended. Soon she was below the
mastheads, and in a moment she
floated jiiBt above our heads. Then, to
my horror, I recognized the burden
she bore. It was the form of myboby.
She held him closely clasped iu her
arms, and before I could move sho
had floated across and luid him in the
hammock, where I had seen him calm
ly sleeping but a few moments before
we saw tho girl floating upward iu the
midst of tho smoke. Before I could
move Bhe stood again before the Hin
doo in tho centro of tho circle. Tho
powder in the salver had ceased to
smoke. The line encircling our group
was again nothing moro dangorous
than a simple hempen rope. My nerves
had been so thoroughly unstrung by
tho sight of my child dropping through
tho air when I hud supposed him
sleeping safely by my side, that I did
not care for further exhibitions of the
wondorful power which the Hindoo
possessed. They received their re
ward, gathered up thoir effects, and iu
a few moments wero rowing toward
the shore.
When wo wero a littlo calmer, and
could compare notes, we found that
overy one had seen tho sume wonder
ful sight tho girl, with empty arms,
flout away out of sight, only to de
scend bearing the child on her bosom.
Tho only thing which differed in our
several experiences was iu tho first
vision. SVhcu tho crystal had been
held up for us to look into each saw a
different picture. Each saw tho one
of whom he thought when told to send
his mind back to his best loved friend
at home.
I have not the time to give tho dif
ferent pictures each beheld, but in all
the other wonders of the hour each
saw the same surprising sign. Wo all
saw the twining serpent ; every eye
had seen the same picture that met
mine of tho floating girl ascending
uloue to return bearing tho infant in
her urius. If one had been deceived
all hud been all in our group, that is,
for when in talking it over I turned to
Xeia und buiil, "Who took baby boy
out of tho hammock, Nera, Uiilo we
wero biiny with tho man?" Nera
looked up in wide-eyed surprise and
uuswered : "Why, ho didn't bo tookeii
up, auntie. I lied on him dress all the
time so him couldn't full out, and we
swinge ! all tho time tho man ttood up
and preached-"
"Bnt, Nern, did not you sco the
pretty girl fly up in the air?"
"No, her stood fight still all the
time. Her kept watch of big man
when he swing him arms, but her not
fly, her not do anything."
There you have it. They say now
that the camera shows just what Nera
said she saw that day. Men of scienco
are about agreed that the mysterious
power of tho Hindoo juggler is noth
ing more or less than hypnotism, and
that would account for Nera and the
camera seeing things as thry are, not
as thev annenr to tlionn who havo
yielded their minds to the strango
power of the Hindoo. San Francisco
Chronicle
SCIENTIFIC AS INM STRIAL.
The Chinese hand is small, slim and
with square phalanges.
A map of the smokes of Paris has
been recently prepared by 51. Foubert
of tho Tour St. Jacques.
The first nickel-steel crank ever cast
in this country was turned out recently
at the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Works.
The largest spider of the world is tho
migale of Central America, which, with
legs extended, is sometimes fifteen feet
in diameter. It preys upon birds and
lizards.
The only two foods which contain all
the substances necessary to human life
ore said to bo milk and the yoke of
eggs. A man can livo in health on
these two foods.
In New Zealand a species of parrot
is found that, finding its food entirely
on tho ground, has lost its power of
flight. It differs from the rest of the
family only in this particular and in
being almost voiceless.
A submarine vessel named Gustave
Zede has been launched at Toulon,
France. Its movements resemble those
of a swimming whale. It is easily sub
merged when required and the naval
experts present declared it a complete
success.
The telephone has lately been
arranged for the use of divers. A sheet
of copper is used in place of the glasses
in tho helmet, and to this a telephone
is fixed, so that the diver, when at the
bottom of the sea, has only to slightly
turn his head in order to report what
he sees or to receive instructions from
above.
A rat of the mountain streams of
central Peru enjoys the distinction of
being the only rodent that utterly
discards a vegetable diet and
lives wholly on fish. The animal
has been named Icthoroys Stolz
manni, and tho only known specimen
was obtained by a Polish collector in
1891 and has been placed in the British
Museum.
A technical paper gives the following
rulo for determining the number of
tons of rails required to lay a mile of
track : Multiply the weight per yard
by eleven and divide the product by
seven. For example : Take a seventy
pound rail ; . seventy multiplied by
eleven equals 770, which divided by
seven gives 110, the number of tons
(of 2240 pounds each) required to the
mile.
Doctor Gullipe reports to the French
Academy of Sciences, after eight years'
investigation, that all stones, such as
gravel, found in the human body are
produced by microbes. Microbes are
tho authors of that chemical decom
position which results in calcareous
deposits. Healthy organs may contain
theso . parasites, for so long as the
humors of the body are in a normal
state they produce no bad effects.
When the system becomes diseased the
microbes produce tho deposits which
develop into gravel or stone.
Insects do not breathe through tho
noso aud mouth. Down tho body run
two main pipes. These pipes send out
branches to right and left liko a uet
work, extending to the extremi
ties, even to tho ends of tho
antennas aud to the claws. Each
main tube receives tho external air
through nine or ten spiracles or
breathing-holes, placed at intervals
along tho sides of tho body. Tho
spiracles aro mado water-tight and
dust-tight by a strong fringe of hair,
which completely guards tho entrance.
200 Inches or Kalnfull Per Month.
Cherra Punji, in the Khasi Hills,
Assam, British India, is the "polo of
the greatest known rainfall;" iu othei
words, it is tho wettest region on tho
face of the earth. Mr. Blandford, at
a meeting of the London Meteorolog
ical Society, read a paper entitled
"Rainfall at Cherra Punji" in which
he presented incontestable proof of
tho extreme moisture of the country
in question. Tho recor la go buck for
nearly sixty-five years, but prior to
1872 are rather incomplete, there be
ing several whole years in which no
record was kept. Carefully compiled
data from these weather iottrnuls,
however, incomplete as they are, provo
that quite frequently during tha sum
mer, say from May till September, the
rainfall for a single m.mth ranges
from 100 to 212 inches i Think of it 1
Nearly eighteen feet of precipitation
in thirty lays. Oolouel Sir Henry
Yule's register for the year 1841 shows
that there were 2H4 inches of rainfall
during tbo month of August. That
was something phenomenal even for
AsMim, however, and is not taken into
account in the deductions made above.
St. Louis Republic.
The Peculiar Penguin.
Tho "birds of a feuther" thut "flock
together" do not belong to the penguin
fuuiily, as they aro entirely destitute,
of feathers, having for a covering a
skin of stiff down. Another penguin
peculiarity is that it swims not ou but
under the water, never keeping more
than its head out, mid, when lishing,
coming to tho surface tit such brief
and rare intervals, thut an ordinary
observer would almost certainly mis
take it for a fish, Cuurier-Jouruttl.
the magic Minnon.
Dim clouds aTOfin the flHd thTfl (loot,
And shadows slowly form, com' inn,
And gather shape. A tiny boat
I see, toseod in tho foaming brine.
O rower, wolt ! Brave rower, stay I
Nay, boat and rower fode away.
Airoln the dim rloudi pother o'or,
And slowly shape a battlefield.
And, dead or living, wounded sore,
One lies leido a broken shield.
O warrior, canst thou heed or hear?
Noy, for the vt'lons disappear.
Fling down the shlninrr aurfuce lmro ;
An idle tale it tells to me.
Tho ehadowy form I imai?e ther
1 trace In earth and nir -iu,! ,.,i.
Earth, soaand air, from pole to pol.i
The majrle mirror of my soul !
-May Kendall, iu LoiiKuian'g JJaazmo-
nUHOIl OF THE RAY.
Gardeo truck
Truth. .
-Tho wheel-borrow".
A believer in
cold water The ice-
man. Truth.
The zebra is the most nncomfortablo
of all animals except man. Puck.
As a rulo the giant stands pretty
high in the show business. Buffalo
Courier.
The Arab never leaves his home.
He always takes it with him. Bing
hamton Leader.
The greatest dead-head scheme ever
devised the Chinese deportation pro
ject. Philadelphia Call.
"Did Smiggs marry his wife for her
money?" "No, it was for her futher's."
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"Friend "Well. Psleuth, how is
the detective business?" Old Psleuth
"Looking up." Chicago Tribuue.
It a wise man who keepeth his
own counsel. Yes, but a wiser one
who can sell it like a lawyer. Truth.
It is unquestionably true that some
of the greatest diplomats of tho age
are lightaing-rod agents. Detroit
Free Press.
The trapeze performer's business is
precarious at best. Ho should always
nave some good thiug to fall back on."
Troy Press.
A man is always more truthful in
his opinion of his second baby than of
his first. Women call it more brutaL
Atchison Globe.
No longer wo'll wait
They ore here in their glory,
The fisherman's butt
And tho sea-serpent story.
Washington Star.
"Colonel Bloodygeld's old war traits'
still cling to him." "How so?" "I
dined with him last night, and ho gave
tho waiter no quarter. " Philadelphia
Record.
Droptin "How'd you happet to
call your paper the Sun?" The Editor
"It was started principally to make
things hot for a few people. " Buffalo
Courier.
"Who aro those girls playing four
handed pieces ou the piauo?" "Ono
of them is the daughter of the hostosB."
"And her accomplice?" Fliegende
Blaetter.
"Well I" said tho philosophic fisher
man, as he drew his line out of the
water, "I lost the fish, but I suppose
I am entitled to are-bait." Washing
ton Star.
Old Lady (anxiously) "Does thit
train stop at Liverpool?" tluurd -"Well,
if it don't, ma'uni, you will see
the biggest smash-up you ever heard
of." Tit Bits.
"Oholly, dear boy, don't you think
you are taking cold here?" "Oh, no;
my man alwayB attends to those things
for me ; very clevah fellow he is."
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"Have you received any pio yet?"
said one officcseeker to another. "No,
but I've received provisions of another
sort." "What sort?" "Cold shoul
der." Pittsburg Chronicle Telegram.
We went out Ashing yesterday,
And llshed witli euro und thought ;
liy night we had a splendid mess
Wllk'U some one else hud caught.
Kansas City Journal.
Vickars "Did you hear what
Thompson said about you? Ho told
me thut you were tho biggest ass he
had ever met." Wiekars "Ho told
you thut? You?" Indianapolis Jour
nal. Tho young mclodramatist, telling
the story of his play to the manager,
said : "As the robbers crawl in at the
window tho clock strikes one." Man
ager "Good ! Which one?" Boston
Globe.
"Hquihbs is perfectly foolish about
the safety of his babv, isn't he?"
"Why do you think so?" ' Well,
every time the iiiuse takes the baby
out for an airing there is a policeman
with her." Amusing Jouruitl.
Spencer "There is only ono way of
getting uliead of a 1 if 3 insur.uict
company, und that is to die." Fer
guson "No, there is ono other way."
Spencer "What's that?" Feigusou
"Don't insure." Brooklyn Life,
Papa "So you let the Muxberry girl
get away with all the class honors, th?
I am ulinokt ashamed of you!" Sweet
(Jirl (iraduute--"Oh, well, if I ucivaa
homely as she is I should have gone
iu for that sort of thing myself.' lfl
tliauapolis Journal.
Where Men Play Seeouil Fiddle.
There is a considerable tribo of peo
ple among the Kasia hills, iu the east
ern part of Bengal, w ho consider the
female the superior of the mule. The
former everywhere und in everything
asaert their superiority. The, nu n do
all the housework and perform nil sorts
of duties usually given to women iu
ourpirt of tho world, while the wives
attend to thu more serious alt'aiis of
life. Fven the ownership of proplrty
descends only through tlie women. As
a mutter of course, tho girls of a family
aro held in high voteiiu. 1'iu.vbuiyU
Dlspaijli,