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Forest Republican.
The marriage rate in England in
lower at present than ever before.
A geographical expert estimates tho
fertile portion of the earth' surface
at 20,2(50,200 square mile and the
barren region at 22,900,00 square
miles,
Russia is the only country from
which there has beon an inoreased im
migration into tho United States dur
ing the last ton months, notes the
Rochester rost-ExproHs.
Our trade with the Hawaiian Isl
ands twenty years ago amounted to
only 1, 031,580; Vmt for the lBt fis
cal year exports and imports were
valued at nearly twelve million dol
lars. Competent authority, even in Eu
ropean countries, is unanimous in the
view that the wild flowers of America
are tho finest in the world, yet, la
ments the Detroit Free Press, Ameri
cans know practically nothing about
them.
The Protestant population of all
Europe is about 50,000,000, or equal
to that of the United States ; but while
continental Europo has only about
eight per cent, of the Sunday-schools
of the world, the United States has
forty-nine per cent., or nearly one
half. Henry Labouchero Bays in Londou
Truth: "The rending publio maybe
divided into three classes : Those who
read and remember ; they are few.
Those who read and forget ; they are
many. ThoBO who read little or noth
ing, and they are most. The original
writer of to-day belongs to tho first
class, and, it may be said, ho writes
for tho others."
There has recently been some dis
pute as to the authorship of the song
''The Vacant Chair," which has been
snug all over the world for nearly
thirty years. Tho Watchman, of Bos
ton, says it was written by the Hon.
Henry S. Washburn, in memory of
Lieutenant J. William Grout, who
was shot in tho retreat from Ball's
Blufl. The song was first printed in
the Worcester (Mass.) Spy.
According to tho Glasgow (Scotland)
News it appears that the latest statis
tic issued by the German Imperial
Health Department give to Berlin the
honor of being the healthiest city in
the world. The death-rate is given as
only 16.3 per 1000. The unhealthiest
city is Alexandria, which, despite its
unvarying fine weather, its 300 foun
tains and its soft soa breezes, has a
death-rate of no less than 52.9 per
1000.
Professor Biohard L. Garner is cer
tainly an enthusiast in his investiga
tion of the language of the simians.
Speaking of his recent visit to Africa,
he said : "The world at large expects
too much. People seem to insist jpon
it as their right that I shonld go to the
gorilla country, spend a few months
there, and return with a complete
dictionary to the goiilla language.
Why, if I were sure of lonrning
eventhree words a year, I would
forsake trionds and family, go to
Africa and devoto the rest of my life to
study that yielded such rich result
in tho present and promised such im
mense possibilities for the future."
It is not only in Japan that incom
petent doctors aro punished for pro
fessional failure resulting iu the loss
of Hfo of their pnticuts, but in Russia
also, where physicians are held simi
larly responsible. A well-known medi
cal practitioner at'St. Petersburg has
just been sentenced to sovon days' im
prisonment, to a fine of 1000 rubles
and to the payment of an snuuijy of
800 rubles to a lady who was injured
by his unskilful treatmcut. Russia is
already lamentably deficient as far as
the number of its medical men is con
cerned, and this somewhat drastio
punishment is soaroely of a character
to increase tho popularity of the pro
fession.
Captain Moore, of the sailing ship
Mary Gibbs, tells a suggestive story of
his lost voyage. He whs from Boston
to tho gold coast of Africa, and his
Cargo oonsisted of New England rum.
Oddly enough, he also took out as pas
sengers twovomeu missionaries, who
had been sent out to exort a civilizing
and Christianizing influence on these
benigted people. The brigautine
stopped at thirteen ports to unload the
cargo of rum, which was reoeivedwith
wild enthusiasm by the natives, while
nobody seemed to want the mission
aries. The latter seenied discouraged,
but nevertheless went stoutly to work
to counteract the effects of the rum.
Before he could tell what suooess they
were Laving the Gibbs sailed for
hornet
Almost seventy-five per cent, of the
men manning tho British mercantile
marine are foreigners.
Forty-four out of every hnndred
persons in the United States aro
agriculturists; fifty-six in Canada,
forty-eight in France, seventeen in
Germany and seven in England.
The United States maintains in
China one hnndred and thirteen mis
sionary stations, quite forgetting tho
fact that China maintains, in Califor
nia alone, forty heathen temples.
Mark Twain asserts that there are
less than fifty original jokes in exis
tence, all the others being simply
modifications of these. There are
only seven notes of music, but we get
a great variety of harmony out of
them.
Our Uade with Japan is falling off.
In 1891 88.25 per cent, of the goods
exported by that country came to tho
United States; but in 1893 only 31.49
per cent. In 1891 10.87 per cent, of
all the goods bought by Japan crime
from this country ; but in 1893 only
6.91 per cent.
A triumph of art over nature was
illustrated rooently when a well-known
English artist made a painting of some
old beeoh trees in a Kent pasture,
which he sold for $1400. The owner
of the pasture sold his land and tho
trees together for $500, and called it a
good sale at that.
United States Consul Fenfield, at
Cairo, says that Egypt is aggressively
comparing iu a small way with us, not
only in Europe, but at home, in sup
plying raw cotton, and the consump
tion of Egyptain cotton by New Eng
land spindlers has grown from noth
ing, ten years agoj to more than 60, -
000 bales, and valued at 3,000,OOJ.
Within a few months Pekin will be
nnited by wire with St. Petersburg,
and, in consequence, with the tele
graph system of the entire civilized
world. ' Acoordiug to the latest issue
of the Turkestan Gazette, the telegraph
line from Pekin has been brought as
far west as the city of Kashgar. The
European end of the line is at Osh,
and a small stretch of about 140 miles
now alone breaks the direct telegraphic
communication from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. .
The Secretary of the Interior has
given up the experiments which tho
Government has been making for som j
years past to iudioe rain over arid
tracts. The railroad companies opera
ting in New Mexico and Arizona will,
however, continue experiments along
this line. Getting blood out of a
turnip would not be a difficult opera
tion if the plebian vegetable contained
biood, and so artificial methods might
precipitate moisture in tho form of
rain it there were any in the atmos
phere, but there are places where the
air is as moistureless as a live fish in a
lime basket, and neither powder nor
dynamite can shake out of it what it
does not hold.
The exhibition cpidemio is raging
the world over. Not only have all the
capitals of Europe somo kind of an in
ternational show running this year,
but very many of the smaller cities
have an exhibition on their hands.
The United Exhibitions at Milan were
opened on May C. They comprise ton
exhibitions, of fine arts, oils, wines,
nnd other specialities. An Interna
tional Sanitary and Health Exhibition
is to be holiCm Boulogne from July to
September next. An International
Exhibition opens in Bucharest ou
August 26 and closes November 12.
Aud now Tasmania comes forward with
an invitation to the world to partici
pate iu an International Exhibition at
Hobart on November 10 next.
The balance sheet of tho Suez Caual
just issued cauuot fail iu the opinion
of the Now York Tribune to he most
sntisfaotory to the English nation,
which, thanks to the foresight of Lord
Beaoonslield, secured a controlling
voice in the management of the prop
erty. The aggegate of nearly J, 000,
000 tons of shipping that have passed
through the caual during the fisoal
year that has just closed exceeds even
the most sanguine estimates of Ferdi
nand do Lesseps, and in view of the
fact that the vast majority of the ves
sels passiug through the caual were of
EugliaU register, there being nearly
8000 British ships as compared with
170 French, the British directors have
done the right aud graoefnl thing iu
moving for and securing a vote mak
ing adequate and generous provision
for the wife and family of the now
moribund and completely ruined orig
inator of this magnificent enterprise,
Ferdinand do Lesseps.
THI CLOVER.
Rome sing of the lily and daisy and rnan,
And the panslns and pinks that the summer
time throws
In the green, grassy lap of the modder that
lays,
Bllnkln' op at the skies, through the sun
shiny days ;
But what Is the Illy and all of the rest
Of the flowers to a man with a heart In his
breast.
That has sipped, brlmmln' full of the honey
and dew,
Of the sweet clover blossoms his boyhood
knew?
I never set hevey on a clover Held now,
Or fool round a stable or climb In a mow,
But my ehlldhood comes back just as clear
and as plain
As the smell of the elover I'm snlffln' again
And I wander away, In a barefooted dream,
Where I tangled my toes In the blossoms that
gleam
With the dew of the dnwn of the morning of
love,
Ere It wept o'er the graves that I'm weeping
above.
And so I love elover. It seems like a part
Of the saoredost sorrows and Joys of my
heart ;
And whenever It blossoms, oh I there let me
bow,
And thank the good Lord as I'm thankln'
Him now,
And pray to Elm still for the strength, when
I die,
To go out In the clover and tell It good-by,
And lovingly nestle my face In Its bloom,
While my soul slips away on a breath of
perfume.
James Whitcomb Riley.
MONTE BOB.
Bt GODFRET QUARLES.
OBERT HARRIS
was his right name,
but in honor of his
calling we all called
him "Monte Bob."
I well remember his
advent among the
citizens of Lone
Horse Guloh. It
was in '57, just after
a rich find had
made the heretofore
isolated and lonely
gulch famous in a
day, and caused the
eager gold-seekers
to ponr in from all
quarters. He was
at that time very young. His fresh,
boyish face had apparently never
made the acquaintance of a razor.
His blue eyes were round and laugh
ing, and his mass of jet black hair,
fine and soft as silk, would have been
an enviable source of beauty to any
woman. 'His figure was slight and
youthful, and strongly suggestive of
the truant school boy.
A single day served to make the
newoomer a citizen of Lone Horse
Gulch, and soon after his arrival
"The Kid," -as he was called, on ao
count of his boyish ways, bis soft
white hands and apparent inability
to work, was known to the whole
camp. Every one liked him; but
when one uight he won five thousand
from one of Frisco s most noted sport
ing men, and pocketed the money with
careless indifference, his reputation
was made ; pity was changed to ad
miration ; Lone Horse Gulch was en
thusiastic, and its citizens to a man
vied in doing honor to the new found
hero. From that day forth he became
a leading citizen, and the faro bank
whioh he soon after set up was well
patronized.
Like many others, "Monte Bob"
was very reticent in regard to his past
history. He was frequently the re
cipient of letters bearing an Eastern
postmark. Some were directed in the
weak, nervous hand peculiar to wo
men of advancing years ; the rost in
the round, graceful hand of a school
girl. But it was a noticeable fact,
vouched for by the postmaster, a gen'
tleman of unquestionable veracity,
that "Monte Bob," though he always
read them carefully, very seldom re
plied to the letters received. But, as
the postmaster had been a heavy loser
at Bob's faro bank, these state
ments in regard to his neglect of his
private correspondence were received
with a marked grain of allowance. Oa
the other hand, the agent of the Wells,
Fargo &. Company express line, a gen
tleman of equal standing in the com
munity, asserted that "Monte Bob"
often sent large sums of money to a
certain Mrs. John Harris in the East.
This statement was made before a
crowd of citizens at the Eureka sa
loon, where the testimony of the post
master in regard to the domestic at
fairs of "a well-known business man"
were undergoing careful examination
The trusted agent of tho great express
company was a warm admirer of the
youthful gambler, and always con
cluded tins evidence ol ms nero s re
deeming qualities by saying: "And
you may bet yer boots, he sends that
thar money to his old mother back in
the States; and ten to one he is the
only galoot in this yer camp that does
do it."
And a large majority of the camp
acquiesced in this opinion.
At an early period "Monte Bob"
showed that he was a publio minded
citizen and deeply interested in the
welfare of Lone Horse Gulch. When
it was determined that the spiritual
welfare of the town was sadly neglect
ed and that a place of publio worship
was one of the prime needs, he was the
first to head the building subscription
with a handsome sum ; aud when the
young preacher fell sick of fever aud
after a long sickness died, "Monte
Bob" took upou himself the task of
seeing that he was decently buried
and that all the debts incurred by his
sickness were paid. Then iu a quiet
way he furnished the weak, i'rai
widow means with which she reached
itW frieuda in the East,
And, again, when the dread soouren.
smallpox, boko out in the camp and
scores of strong men sickened and
died, unmindful of danger, "Monte
Bob" put to shame thoso who bid fled
in fear, by closing his bank and nurs
ing those around him as tenderly and
carefully as any woman. When the
scourge died away Bnd those who had
fled came back, he returned onco
more to his fascinating calling and
was never hoard to mention tho good
work ho had done.
Like many other mining town, in
two short years Lone Horse Gulch saw
its inception, its glory and its decay,
One by one the bars petered out. The
dissatisfied miners were forced to seek
newer and more paying fields of labor,
and I lost sight of ".uonte 13ob.
Five years had passed ami I was la
boring on one of the well known Sac
ramento dailies as city editor. In
the hurry and rush of daily journalism
the old life at Lone Horse Gulch had
long sinoe become a thiug of the past,
when suddenly several things occurrld
to bring it back, fresh and vivid, to
mind ; for going to my duties at an
early hour one morning, I chanced to
overtake my old friend "Monte Bob."
Tho flight of time had left its shadow
upon him, and be was changed. A
heavy raoiiBtache coveted the smooth
lip. The rakish high hat had been dis
carded, the shiny suit of broad cloth
had been supplemented by a plain
business suit, and the dazzling dia
mond had disappeared. Ho was teller,
his shoulders broader nnd his step
firmer than when last we met. The
dashing, reckless gambler of five years
before was gone, and his place had
been taken by a quiet, earnest man.
He knew me, and by the hearty, cor
dial pressure of his baud, I knew was
glad to meet me. He talked freely of
the old life at the Gulch, and of those
who had beeu our companions there.
We ohatted for a few moments and
then I left him at the door of a well
knewn business house with au invita
tion to oome and see me. That very af
ternoon I learned from another old
citizen of the Gulch that he had long
since abandoned the life of a gambler,
and was now and had been for two
years working as a bookkeeper. And
let me say that my informant was
none other than "Monte Bob's" warm
friend, the old-time express agent at
the Guloh. I also had it from that
gentleman, that a larger portion of
the young man's wages was regular
sent to his mother and sister in the
East.
Contrary to mv expectation, Bob
availed himself of the invitation I had
extended to bim, and soon after spent
au evening with mo iu my cosy bach
elor apartments. I found him au in
telligent aud pleasant companion.
Besides reading much he had been a
shrewd observer of men ; and in the
flow of conversation the evening
slipped away before we were awaie of
it. When he arose to go it had been
arranged that he should spend an
evening of every week with me. In
the months that followed our acquain
tance ripened into friendship ; from
friends we became confidants, and ere
long I knew the history of his past
life.
His father had died when he was a
mere boy, leaving him to the care of
an uncle. Until twenty his life was
passed at his uncle's house aud at
school. Lacking the kind, watchful
care of a father and deprived by cir
cumstances of the loving thoughtful
ness of a mother, he had been led
astray by the influences which sur
round the youth of a great city. In
the course of time he became heavily
indebted to a gambler, and fearing
exposure, he had forged his uncle's
check to the amount of several hun
dred dollars, hoping to replace the
money ere his uncle should learn what
he had done. This he failed to do
and when his crime became known, ho
was foroed to flee the couutry to save
himself from a felon s cell. 15 y his
mother he was giveu money to aid
him in his flight, aud had como to
California. Made reckless and des
perate, he had first adopted tho gam
ing table as a means of Biipport, and
with what success I well knew. Tho
money given him by his mother and
that taken from his uncle had beeu
promptly rehired. He had also paid
for the education of his young sister
and enabled bis mother, who has lost
most of her property, to live in com
fort. Her love had always followed
him, and through her entreaties an 1
the promptings of his own better self
he had given up drink and nbau.lone.l
the gaming table.
He was working hard; had won tho
confidence of his employers ; was re
ceiving a fair salary aud by frugal liv
ing was constantly saviug money.
Two years had passed since we had
become fust friends, and Bob was now
the confidential clerk of his firm, and
the prospect of his becoming a part
ner was not far distant. There re
maiued nothing for him to do but to
bring his loved ones to California ami
there make them a home. This he
determined to do, and when his sister
wrote him that his mother's health was
failing aud that she had lint a few
years to live, he redoubled his exer
tions, hoping that the pure air and
suuuy skies of California would win
back the health of the invalid. His
salary had beeu increased aud ho was
self-sacrificing iu bis efforts to save;
but, notwithstanding these fads,
mouths, perhaps a year, would have
to pass before he could have his dear
ones with him.
. But in the meant i rue fickle fortune
was preparing to do in a few days what
the hard work of years oould not have
accomplished.
My friend and I both held stock in
the "Ttioliiuiue Mining Company,"
whose veins of oro ha I liu silica
played out and beeu abandoned as
worthless. The stock was not even
.worth the paper on whi'jh it was
printed, aud the world had forgotten
that suvh a company had eyer existed.
But the original proprietor of tho com
pany was ono of a class of mon to
whom many a wealthy man of to-day
owes his sudden rise to riches add
nflluence. He had energy and perse
verance and unbounded faith in the
possibilities of his claim, and kept
working away long after his fellow
stockholders, having wasted their
money, ha I given up in disgust.
At last the labor of yearn had been
rewarded, and he had struck a vein of
ore so rich in quality and capacity
that the stock which had long beeu
ralueloss leaped at onoe to par and
began Rteadly climbing. The papers
were filled with accounts of the rich
find, and the Stock Exchange was
crowded with eager, excited men,
anxious to buy the long-neglected
Btocks. Daily we eagerly scanned the
reports and noted the rapid rise of (
lnolumne Mining Company s stock.
At last when it paused and stood still
at seventy five above par we sold and
found ourselves each seventy-five
thousand dollars richer than we had
been one month before. Bob seomed
but little elated by his sudden rise to
wealth and only thought of the happi
ness it would bring to those whom he
loved. The modest little oottage which
be had rented was given up and a
handsome mansion purchased and
fitted up with ths utmost care. Then
he wrote for his mother and sister to
join him. A month later they came,
and no happier group could have been
found in all the West than tho fonr
who sat down together on the night of
their arrival.
Many years have flown sinoe the
"Tuolumne Mining Company" made
its president and stockholders rich in
a single day. Loving care and most
skillful medical aid could not win
back the health of the good old moth
er and she long siuoe passed to her
home above. Robert Harris is a nmn
well known in the business circles of
Sicramento. His hair is now gray,
and pretty, bright-eyed children
climb upon his knte and call him
"papa." The friendship began in
Lone Horse Gulch so many years ago
has not diminished, but has grown
stronger with the flight of years; for
the lady who sits opposite to me
while I write and whom I call wife,
is "Monte Bob's" sister.
Birds at the Pole.
In the conntrics bordering on the
Polar seas, where the changing seasons
bring alternately the two extremes of
dearth and plenty, birds are more
numerous iu the short summer than
anywhere else all the world over, and
in winter absent altogether. All are
emigrants t ;ere by foroe of oirouni
stauces. In like manner the birds of
temperate climates are affected by tho
seasonal changes, though in a less de
gree, ' through the influence of cold
aud heat .upon their food supplies
rather than by efloct of cold upon
their well-protected bodies. A coat
of mail is not to be compared to a
coat of feathers for safety, so far as a
bird's lifo is conoerned. Layer upon
layer of feathers can withstand any
amount of water or any degree of
cold ; in proof of this see how the
delicate tern, after wintering in com
paratively mild weather, go back to
the ice floes of the Polar Sea and lay
their eggs on tho ice. For two or
three weeks the tender breast of the
sea swallow is pressed against a cold
block of ice. Again, as another ex
ample of the influence of food rather
than climate in governing bird aotiou,
take the colony of beccatlcos. The
beccaAoo is a Mediterranean bird
common on the southern shores of
Spain aud Italy, iu the Grecian
Islands, Sicily and Malta, and on the
northern shores of Africa. Formerly
it was quito unknown iu the British
Isles, but some years ago a large
orchard of fig trees was plantod near
Brighton, and the beccaOcoa havo dis
covered the fact and come over to
sliaro the spoil. Doubtless the
nightingales told thorn the story of
English tigs and showed them the way
over. Be this as it may, tho littlo
birds from tho warm shoros of the
Mediterranean bid fair to become es
tablished as naturalized British sub'
jeots. --Liitoll's Living Age.
(ionlsklus or Sealskins,
It is said that sealskins are going
out of fashion, and perhaps the United
States are goiug to a great deal of
unnecessary trouble nud expense iu
guarding the preserves of the sealskin
monopoly in Bering Hea. Curtain it is
that last winter a great many of tho
fashionables of Europe, who formerly
never appeared out of doors iu cool
weather unloss arrayed iu sealskins,
appeared in other furs, notably the
skins of the thibetau goat, which is a
a very handsome fur. It is hinted
that the parsimony of tho North Amer
ica ii Commercial Compauy is largely
to lilnino for this fact. While the
Alaska Commercial Compauy con
trolled tho output of Jieriug Sea, it
was accustomed, it is said, to make its
wares popular by making sure that
tlio royalties of Europe, the opera
queens and other people, who set the
fashions, had sealskiu saoques and
overcoats of tho finest skins au I latest
cut, aud all for nothing. The past
year, under the present management,
the free list was entirely suspended,
and it is asserted that not a siuglo
complimentary jacket was received at
tho Court of St. James. Ladios of
fashion waited iu vain for their cus
tomary tip, and iu revengj for the
neglect proceeded to array themselves
iu goat aud other furs. It seems rath
er hard to have to give t xpeusive furs
to the people who aie best able topuy
for them. But it is the way, tho
world over. Thoso bent able to pay are
the ones that do not havo to. New
Oileau Picayune.
The in i ii in regions of Califoiu'i
cover a belt of couutry about 2'2 I
I miles long by Iroiu fwrty to 1UU wid.
THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOTJT THIS
PESTIFEROUS INSECT.
How He Grows and Spreads Over
the Country Insect Knemles of
the Locust.
IT i only within the last twenty
years that the locust has attract
ed much attention by its ravages.
H Locusts had several times been
known to do damage to vegetation in
Manitoba and Minnesota as early as
1819, when they are said to have been
very numerous. Indians speak of hav
ing seen them flying in great swarms
in the air, but as there were no culti
vated fields for them to destroy, they
were thought nothing of. There is no
account of their doing much damage
before 1874. Whether swarms of
th tse insects visited those districts as
often prior to their settlement as they
have Bince, it is not easy to ascertain.
The breeding places of the locusts
in the West have been arid plains ele
vated above theBurronnding country,
where the wind is brisk; they are
treeless and without rank vegetation.
When the insects migrate from the
West to the East, as they have been
doing lately, they find no such plains,
bnt they seem to have a faculty of
adapting themselves to their sur
roundings. Dampness spoils the eggs
bo they will not hatch. The general
opinion is that as soon as these lands
are settled and cultivated and trees
planted, which will not be many years
hence, the locust will be greatly di
minished, if not driven entirely from
our Western States.
Eggs laid in June often hatch in
July, bnt the time required varies
greatly in different latitudes, at
various altitudes, nnd at different
times of the year. The young, after
hatching, require from forty ti sixty
days in whioh to mature, varying, of
course, according to the state of ths
weather, the abundance of food, and
also their vigor.
Soon after hatching the little fellows
begin traveling in search of food, as
they are generally hatched on grounds
partially bare. In a very short time
they moult or shed their skin, which
operation is performed four more times
in most cases before arriving at matu
rity. The larva quits feeding and becomes
dejected and drowsy, creeps to some
sheltered nook and there lingers for a
time, when the skin of its head and
thorax cracks and it wriggles itself
out, ft soft and tender looking hopper.
Soon, however, the tender limbs and
body become dry and rigid, and the
locust is again in trim for its raids.
Its appetite is now very keen from its
late fasting, and it devours everything
in its way that is eatable.
The prinoipal change from the larval
to the adnlt locust is the acquisition
of wings. The wings are developed as
folds of the integument and strength
ened by hollow rods called "veins."
There are in the veins of most in
sects fix main veins. These usually
contain an air tube and a nerve. The
arterial blood flows through them, so
that the wings of iDsects act as lungi
as well as organs of flight. As soon
as the wings of the loenst are fully ile
veloped it leaps into the air, unfolds
its hitherto-untried members and takes
a short flight. Each one does this for
himself. Then soon, when there is a
brisk breeze blowing, great numbers
with one accord spring into the air
and begin rising in a circling manner
until they have attained a sufficient
altitude, when they permit the wind
to carry them along.
They do not fly but float on tho
breeze, with their face to tho wind.
When hungry they come down and
feed and then are off again. This con
tinues until near the time for deposit
ing their eggs.
It is evident that the enormous
powers of flight possessed by tho
locust, especially its faoulty of sailing
for many hours in the air, is duo to
the presence of a great number of air
sacs. It will be seen that, once hav
ing taken flight, the locust can buoy
itself up in the air, constantly filliuj
aud refilling its internal balloons with
out any muscular exertion, aud thus
be borne along by favorable winds to
its destination.
The number of enemies of this
dreaded pest is "legion." Professor
Sam Aughy says that during a period
of twelve years, ho dissected t30 birds
of ninety different species, all show
ing their great fondness for the locust
as food. Not only wild birds, but all
kinds of poultry vatthumwithavidity.
Even squirrels, mice, chipmunks,
weazles, skunks uud larger animals
devour them in great number. All
reptiles and fishes do a groat deal to
ward lessening the numbers of this as
well as other injurious insects. How
ever great is the dostruotiou of locusts
by these animals which wo cannot ---ee,
it is carried ou in a much larger scale
by insect parasites which wo do not
notice. These aro very numerous in
species and individuals. Somo of
them confine their attacks exclusively
to the eggs; others to the young ; and
still others only destroy the mature
locust.
The locust also hag internal para
sites, which do much toward dimin
ishing this dreaded pest.
In view of all tho enemies, includ
ing man, this poor insect has, it is
truly surprising that a single one at
tains maturity. N w York Suu.
The Custom Ilou.se receipts iu Guat
emala amounted during the year 181)3
to 31,-) ll.Hln. The tux ou the expor
tation of coffee produced (1,190,81)7,
which gives a total for all resources
from the Custom House, exports and
imports included, of nearly $j,500,
000. There are nine Vale men in the
House of Representatives and , four in
the United States Senate.
THB FELLOW'S MOTHER.
If he knows It all, ss some chaps do,
And thinks he's smart, nnd ssys so, too,
Who holds the same erroneous view
The fellow's mother.
Ifhe'snarrow-ohnsted, weak at knees,
And soft of musole, tell us please,
Who thinks he's a modern Heriulest
The fnllow's mother.
If, In the eyns of woman dear,
He fondly thinks he has no peer.
Who entertains the same Idea?
The fellow's mother.
If the life he leads Is fast and gay,
And If weak his morals, tell us, pray,
Who's la9t to think he's not O Kf
The fellow's mother.
If, perchance, a time comes when
He's slek and friendless, tell us men,
Who hurries to his bedside thenr
The fellow's mother.
If, later on, he should be found
Watering with tears a granny mound,
Who'll slumber there in the quiet ground?
The fellow's mother.
Joseph Banister, in Raymond's Monthly.
IICMOtt OF TIIE DAT.
A lean dog generally growls tho
most. Ram's Horn.
Those who serve friends never lack
employment. J udge.
Beats the world The impecunious
tramp. Texas Sittings.
When a man hears of distress, he
longs to give advice. Atchison Globe.
A Boston woman speaks of a dirt
wagon as a "real estate conveyance.
Statesman.
It is strange, but true, that cold
cash always burns in tha spendthrift's
pockets. Truth.
Mamma "Mamie, don't I" Mamio
"Oh, please don't make me don't,
mamma 1" Judge.
The less people kuow about each
other, the politer they are to each
other. Atchison Globe.
MisBed his calling The fellow who
was forgotten by tho hotel olerk.
Dansville (N. Y.) Breeze.
The fool has one great advantage.
He never lets his better judgment get
away with him. Galveston News.
I always know wlnn comp'ny's here,
I can tell It any day ;
For papa then calls mamma "dear,"
And never calls her "say."
Dutroit Tribune.
"Yes," remarked the egg; "my the.
atrical venture was a success. I Was
cast for the villain and made ft great
hit." Truth.
Farmer "Now, what do you s'pose
that man's a yellin' at?" Son "fl
appears, father, to be yellin' at tha
top of his voice." Judge.
As a supreme test of the bullet-proof
cloth it is suggested that it bo made
into seats and knees of trousers for
small boys. Kansas City Journal.
Little Girl (to her mamma) "What
is a dead letter, please?" Mamma
"Ono that has been given to your
father to post." Jewish Messenger.
Though ambuscades have passed away
Along with things of liyxoue date,
It is a fant that e'eu to-day
The tlsheraian dot i lie iu weight.
ltulTalo Courier.
As soon as a man makes a little
money it fa discovered that his wife is
qualified by birth aud education to
shine in the best society. Atchison
Globe.
There is nothing that gives one such
an idea of the importance of an old
saw as the fact that it sometimes per
versely works just tho other way.
Truth.
He "Well, for my part Hike a pic
ture that tells a story." She "Mrs.
Witherby's portrait ought to suit you,
theu. It makes her positively hand
some." Harlem Life.
Fond youth, though summer bids youshlrk,
For picuii'H ue'er forsake your work-,
Close to your otuVe duties elinir
Don't undertake to push a 8wiii.
Washington Star.
Euglish Visitor "What are the dis
eases peculiar to yer H'mericao
youth?" Yankee "Croup, measles,
ohiokeu-pox, huppiu cough an' love."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
If people would exercise the same
ingenuity in paying a debt that they
do in contracting one, interest rates
would be lower than they are now.
American Investments.
There is no peu powerful enough to
describe the feehugs of a niau on the
oooasiou when for the first time he
goos out walking with his first wife,
wearing his first plug hat. Truth.
Sirs. Newlywed "Aud do you al
ways trust your husband implicitly?"
Mrs. Experience (enthusiastically)
"Indeed I do that is to ay, ol
course, to a certain extent." lioms
Journal.
"I don't mind a woman bein'ueat,"
said old Mrs. Jasou, "but one woman
I used to kuow was jist a little too
neat for any use. Why, that thera
woman used to take a oouple of gold
fish she had out of their tank every
Saturday uight aud give 'em a bath."
Indianapolis Journal.
Some day a great genius will develop.
He will invent a double-barreled alarm
dock that will go off a second tims
after any desired iuterval. After th
first rude half aukeuiug a mau oau
enjoy the best part of any night's sleep
that of not having to get up right
away iu the sereue half-oouscious
confidence of having a sure thiug of
not overalcepiug himself. Puck.
"Carat in the Jewelers' Lauxungc.
Twenty-four carat gold is all gold,
twenty-two carat gold has tweuty-twj
parts gold, oue of silver and ono ol
oopptr; eighteen catat gold 'ias eight
een parts, ot pure gold and three parts
each of silver au I copper iu its ;oui
position ; twelve carat gold is half gold,
the remainder beiu made up of 3j
I parts ot silver aud 1 parts of copper,
ajt, LHU liopublw,