B. F. BOHWEIER,
THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XLV.
MIFFUNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1891.
NO. 42.
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HYMN.
lioa of the llvlne. In whose .yes
rnil Thy .hole eimtlon lie.,
ill oul are thine: we must not say
Thst lhoe are dead .no pass away:
Proin Ihl vain world of flh se t free,
VS'e know them living unlo 1 liee.
Released fr"" earthly loll anrlatrlfe,
with Tlie Is hidden now their life:
Thlusare their tlioufhti, their works, their
iHt.ers.
All Thine, vet still most truly our.:
For well we know where'er they be.
That all are living uutoTke..
Not "Pin like water on the ground,
Vol buried in a sleep profound,
isot wandering in unknown despair
Beyond Thy oire. 1 hine Arm, TUy eare,
Not lout upon a boundless sea.
Jiutdesd.W living unto Thee.
Thy will be dime, for thou art Just;
to Thee we leave them. Lor J. in trust;
Aad bless Thee for the Love which gave
Thy eon to nil a human grave,
Taut none n i (lit fe.ir I liar, world to see
where all are living unto The.
1ms.
TflR SELF-SAME DIAMOND.
The evauing after the party. What
an Impression of "confusion worse con
founded" accompanies the words!
Mr. Bavard had eaten a Ltd '-cold
brekfst, served by a sleepy maid at
an undraped table, and huriisd off to
bis business.
The drawing-room floor was still
covered with stray knota of ribbon,
withered rosebud:), hairpins and slipper
rosettes; the closed dining-room door
conceal d the relics of the late supper,
which, by a tin ifly bargain driven by
Mrs. Bavard, were to be be "taken
back" at far as practicable by Fach
luetti, the confectioner.
The glittering: batley-sugar castle
which decorated tha centre of the table
had teen on its th'rd evening. The
pair of mac no n pyramids at either
end were a week old, and, with their
delicate tips of froitexl sugar, bad been
much dim red by M. Fachinetti's var
ious customers; and the piece de resist
ance of candled fruit at the left would
have been perfect if Dick Fraru'ey, the
artist, had not been thoughtless
enough to take a glistening apricot
from its side for Miss Dar row's supper
plate, thereby causlug a collapae
of the entire structure, as well as
much thoughtless mirth to the young
people.
'Of course," sighed Mrs. Bavard,
''Fachinettl wi 1 charge me for the en
tire piece, although bis people could
easily build it up again. Facbluetti
always takes advantage of one! And
no matter what you girls say, 1 never
will aak young Framley to one of my
evening, again. The officious brute!
Why couldn't be have left things to the
waiters? They bad orders to let the
fancy pieces alone. Was there
nothing good enough for Owendollne
Harrow without ruining the fruit
piece?"
Poor Mrs. Bavard t For ber, all the
pleasures of social life weie blighted by
the finanoial difficulties associated
therewith.
There were three horizontal wrinkles
on her forehead, and one perpendicular
line between ber handsome black
brows, as she sat In the sewing-room
drinking coffee and thinking how tired
she was, and bow much labor would
be necesary before the bouse could
onoe more be restored to Us aocuatomed
order.
"Jane," she said, sharply.to the slip-
shod servant, ' 'flail the young ladies
again. It's past eleven. This Indo
lence can't bs tolerated."
Esperance Bavard came In presently
a tall, willowy girl, with brilliant
black eyes and a complexion which
was rcse-brlght even a day after a
party.
Her pink cash mere wrapper trailed
on the ground behind ber, and her lux
urlaut Mack hair was fastened up with
a carved shell-pin.
"Yseult will be down presently,
Aunt Kate," said she. "What do you
suppose she Is doing?''
"LylD In bed, probably keeping
the whole bouse awaiting here pleas
ure," said Mrs. Bavard, pettishly.
"Wrong!" cried Esperance, gaily,
"She's selling her last night's bouquets
to a litt'e flower-girl for fifty cents.
The Idea! and they must have cost ten
dollars!"
"A very sensible thing, I'm sure,"
said Mrs. Bavard. "Fifty cents are
fifty cents, and if you only knew the
difficulty I have in getting money out
of your unc'e "
"Money, money always money 1
broke out Esperance, with an impa
tient shrug of the shoulders. "I'm
tired of the very word!"
"That may be,'' said Mrs. Bavard;
"but your uncle says there must be a
top to this sort of thing. 11 is means
won't stand It any lonf er, and at the
end of this season you have to get a
situation as governess somewhere, and
i'sult must go into a store.''
Esperance uttered a groan of dismay.
"Does he really mean It?" said she.
"He really means it this time,"
nodded Mrs. Bavard, the perpendicular
line emphasizing Itself more than ever.
"And I'm sure I can't see why it Is
that two handsome girls like you and
Yseult haven't got engaged long be
fore this. I am sure Mr. Elgrove seems
taken with you. Can't you manage to
bring him to the proposing point?"
Eswance leaned her chin on one
hand and looked gravely at her aunt.
"When I was a girl in the old house
by the sta," said she, "I used to read
of true love and chivalry. Is there no
iich thing left in the world? Is it all
niaiiusuveriug and managing, like a
fHme of chess, or a fox hunt? Oh,
J, I could bring Mr. Elgrove to the
Paoposlng point, but I am not sure
that I want him, arter he Is brought.
He's fat -and he's forty and be puffi
when be waltzes!"
4 "onseniel" cried Mrs. Bavard,
'I'll wager that yon don't sell your ball
fcuquets, Miss Sentlmentl"
"Not I," said Esperance. "Ft. got
very one of them put 1 water the
ar, sweet-scented thimxs! and I shall
keep them until they fall to pieces. I'd
as soon sell you, Aunt Kate!"
"What are you talking about the
bouquets?" aald Yseult Bavard sweep
ing in like a blonde princess on a large
scale, her yellow hair making a sort of
sunshine In the room, her blue eyes
guttering. "Oh, I've made such a
good bargain this morning! It's eqnal
to a pair of those chocolate-colored
Sueae gloves for me. The roses were
extra choice in Hugo Hurdle's bouquet,
so I ma le the giil give me seventy-five
cents Instead of fifty. Good-morning,
auntie, darling; you look as if you had
been boiled P
"And," cried Esperance wratbfully,
"you promised poor young liardie to
keep those flowers forever! I heard
you!"
Yseult laughed.
"There are some promises made only
to be broken, said she. Oh, I kuow
lots of girls who always sell their ball
flowers! This little vender get what
Is called 'second price for them among
people who are fond of flowers, but
can't afford to pay florists' rates. One
must economize."
Mrs. Bavard nodded approval of this
sentiment. Esperance looked gravely
at her sister, wondering what it was
that young Hardle could see in that
shallow nature, that exuberance of
rosy smiles and tangled yellow hair, to
captivate him thus.
A ring at tha door-bell was heard; a
voice inquiring for Miss Bavard fol
lowed. Yseult started up in a panic.
"There he Is now," she cried out.
What possesses him to call so early
before one has fairly brushed the cob
webs out of one's eyes? Tell him I'm not
up yet. Go down and see him, Esper
ance, there's a darliug. Make any ex
cuse you can."
"I shan't tell any falsehood about
it," said Esperance, unwittingly.
"Tell what you please, ouiy go!"
cried Yseult, giving her sister a push.
In the disorders of the reception par
lor stood Mr. Hardle, with a bouquet
in his hand, and to her dismay Esper
ance Bavard recognized the very "Cath
erine Mermel" roses that he had, i he
day before, sent to ber sister by the
hand of a special messenger.
His brow was overcast; his eyes were
full of sombre meaning.
"Good-morning, Miss Esperance!" be
said. ."I am to understand that your
sister is not yet visible? She has not
brushed the cobwebs out of her eyes!
I heard hr say so. Here is the bou
quet she honored me by carrying hist
night. I met a 1 tt'e girl In the street,
who bad it with some others. In a bas
ket. She said she bad purchased them
at second hand. To me It seemed
scarcely possible that a young lady
could sell such tbiugs. I had been
foolish enough to credit some assertions
that she made to me last night, about
keeping them some little time, for the
sake of the donor!'
Esperance was silent; the color that
went and came on her cheek was most
eloquent, however.
"It was, perhaps, a lucky thing that
I chanced to meet the flower girl," weut
on Mr. Hardie. "Your sitter scarcely
took the notice of my roses that I had
expected. See!"
He parted the still bright and frag
rant buds, and from beneath their pet
als took out a small, flat box and a
note.
Or," he added, "she would have
found thesel I wish you a good morn
ing. Miss Bavard!"
And Mr. Hugo Hardie departed, leav
ing the Catherine Merinet rosea on the
table.
Miss Yseult Bavard was nearly fran
tic when she beard the story of the
mute message which had never de
livered ItselL
"It was an engagement ring, of
course," said she, "an' a declaration
of marriage! Oh, wi have I done?
I must see him and have an explan
ation at once!"
But Mr. Hardie resolutely avoided
any such explanation. Miss Bavard'a
mercantile transactions had thoroughly
disenchanted him.
The season ended without any visi
ble advantage to Mr. Bavard 's two
handsome nieces, and the old gentle
man positively declined longer to as
sume the expense of their ma'nte-
nances.
Unwillingly enough, Yseult took a
situation as companion to a capricious
rich lady who was going to Florida,
and Esperanoe became a teacher in a
large private school.
She would have preferred the Flori-
dain trip herself, but Yseult had a smil
ing, selfish way of appropriating the
cream of life and shouldering her
younger sister asi--ao E?prance took
what me rjriiiiani nouae leit.anu maue
the best of it.
But one evening Mrs. Teachall "re
ceived her friends" with a little
music, a little lemonade and a good
deal of conversation and it chanced
that one of the pupils was a young
cousin of nugo Har die's.
He met Miss Bavard with a little
surprise in his face.
'I thought you had left town," said
he.
"No," said Esperance, feeling her
self blush like a poppy. "That was
Yseult."
'You have tried all the evening to
avoid me," said he quietly.
I l thought it wouldn't be p.eas-
ant for you to meet me!" stammered
the poor girL
"On the contrary," saia ne, ir,
Is exceedingly pleasant. xou oo
not know how often I have thought of
you."
"Yseult will be glad to hear"
"Not of Miss Yseult of youl Esper
ance," he added, "there are times when
aman makes serious mistakes. I made
one when I fancied that I liked your
lister better than I did you. Your
face has haunted me of late, with
its sad sweetness. May I oome some
times and see you here? I an sure
Mm. Teachall will not object."
"If you ohooss!" faltered Eiper
ance, her heart fluttering behind Its
blue silk bodies like a newly caged
bird.
And when Yseult Bavard came baok
from Florida, having thrown up her
position with the capricious rich lady
in a fit of temper, she found her sister
engaged t Hugo Hirdie.
"Aud the lovely solitaire ring she
wears," cried the indignant blonde,
"Is the very on that was hiiirinn
in the bunch of rosea that night! The
very one mat came so near being
mine!"
Miss Bavard was right. It was the
selfsame diamond.
the had let her opportunity go by,
and there are some opportunities that
never come twice.
Snow-Packing.
We are not apt to think of the use of
fee, or the obtaining of a freezing tem
perature in warm weather to preserve
meats and other perishable articles, as
a practice of quite recent origin. Our
grandfathers, and even in many cases
our fathers, did not cut ice in winter,
aud accordingly had no store of it to
draw upon in summer. The natural
coolness of an underground cellar had
to serve for the preservation of such
articles of food as would be spoiled by
heat, and the butter was kept hard by
dangling it in a pail in a deep well.
The Komans, however, understood
and practised, many centuries ago, the
art of maintaining an artificial temper
ature. They were fond of oysters,
and transported them inland by the
use of snow. Each oyster was packed
in closely compressed snow which was
surrounded by a layer of straw, and
that in turn by a wrapping of woollep
cloth.
This method succeeded so well that
Apicius was able to send oysters from
Briiulisi to the Emperor Trajan
in Armenia. These oysters by the
way were from Lake Lucrinus
in Italy, which was famous
throughout the ancient times for the
excellence of its oysters. They were
the "Blue Points" of antiquity; and
the Emperor Augustus thought so high
ly of the lake which produced them
that he provided it with a constant
6upply of water from the sea by cut
ting an artificial channel at considera
ble expense.
It would be interesting to compare
the quality of these ancient oyster i
with those of our own day, as might
possibly be done if Lake Lucrinus was
still in existence. But the spot where
Apicius gathered his oysters for th
Emperor Trajan is now covered by s
mountain about four hundred feet
high, which was raised during an
earthquake and volcanic eruption ir
the year 1539.
The epicurean Emperor Hellogaba
ius, undoubtedly understood the art ot
snow-packing, as described by Apicius,
for it Is related that he would nevei
eat sea fish except at a great distance
from the sea. He would then bring
from the salt water, at an immense
expense, great quantities of the
choicest kinds of iiah, and distribute
them among the peasants of the In
land country.
Recollections of Daniel Webster
The Boston Advertiser, reciting some
of the tales of "old Mr. Cook of Red
Hill, N. H.," gives this instance of the
occasional sportirencss of great men :
"Mr. Cook told to us, almost with
theatrical effect, a story of the unbend
ing of Mr. Webster and Judge Story,
on the way up. They came, he said,
not far up the ascent, to a noble oak.
Mr. Webster made obeisance to it, and
asked leave of Judge Story to intro
duce Capt. Oak to him. Judge Story
acknowledged the compliment, and in
return, coming soon to a splendid birch
tree, begged leave to introduce Mr.
Webster to Madame Birch. Mr. Web
ster thanked the judge for the offer,
but remarked that he might save him
self the trouble, as he had had an early
introduction to her in his school-boy
days."
The same correspondent calls our at
tention to the following impromptu
lines, said to have been written by Mr.
Webster in the album of a lady of
Boston, who had requested him to
write his name under that of Lafayette,
whose autograph she had obtained on
his then recent visit to this country. I
give them as from a recollection of
more than thirty years:
"Dear, lady, I a little fear
'Tis dangerous to be writing here;
Hit hand, who bade our Eagle fly,
Trust his young wings and mount the sky-.
Who bade across the Atlantic tide
New thunder sweep, new navies ride
Has traced in lines, of treuibling age,
Hit autograph upon this page.
Higher than Eagle soars
Louder than that thunder roars
His name will o'er the world be sounding,
And o'er the waves of time rebounding ;
While thousands as obscure as I
Cling to his skirts, be still will fly,
And spring to Immortality.
If by his name I write my own,
Twill take me where I am not known ;
The cold salute will meet my ear,
Pray stranger, how did you come heref "
Webster was as modest as he was
sportive, if these lines are a true token-
Yanderbllt's English Stables.
William K. Vanderbilt's stables on
his estate at Oakdale, L I., which were ;
designed by Richard M. Hunt,- have
just been completed, at a cost of $400,-
000. They are filled by thoroughbreds, 1
and manned entirely by English men
and boys. The furnishings, as far as
possible, are English also. There Is a
kitchen for the men and a mess-room.
For the horses there is a bath and a
tanbark ring underpass.
HATED BY EVERYBODY.
K MAN WHO ABUSED III9 FKL
LOW MEN.
ftobodv Dared Attend His Wife's Fu
neral. A man who never was known to
igree with anybody was just buried by
hired mourners at Greenwood, says
the New York Sun. His name was
Henry J. Irving, and he lived for years
in social ostracism upon a farm which
he owned about two miles from Engle
wood, N. J. He was nearly 70, but
he lived entirely alone, because it was
impossible for any one to abide in
peace under the same roof with him.
He died as he had lived, neglected aud
alone, his dead body being found by a
neighbor last Friday upon the back
stoop of his house, where he had ex
pired probably about fifteen hours be
fore. In his early manhood Henry J. Irv
ing was a lawyer of repute in New
York. Little is known of his early
career beyond the fact that he was at
first successful and popular and that
he was at one time a member of the
Legislature, representing one .of the
city Assembly districts. Something led
him to abandon his profession and
soured his whole life. No one among
his neighbors of the past thirty or
forty years knows what drove him
from the city to the obscurity of farm
life, but certain it Is that never within
their memory has this eccentric man
been at peace with his fellowmen.
Quarrels were of his persistent seeking
with all with whom he came in con
tact, until he was avoided as carefully
by the people around about as though
he were afflicted with a plague.
About five years ago his wife,
good woman, died suddenly. She
was much respected by her neighbors,
yet such was the dread of Irving's
quarrelsome temper that no cue at
tended the funeral, for fear the old
man might take it iuto his head to
drive them out with a pitchfork. He
had been known to do such things on
more than one occasion. The husband
was compelled to hire pall bearers to
assist in the obsequies, and to go with
him to his wife's grave. His spirit
was In no degree softened by his
wife's death. He seemed rather to
grow more bitter and violent in his
last year.. Every man he looked upon
as his personal enemy; every man
was a thief and a robber in his eyes.
He was not a miser; but he was
grasping in money affairs. He never
paid a bill of any description without
first heaping a torrent of abuse upon
his creditor. Naturally everybody
avoided doing business with him.
He assumed a peculiar and some
what ostentatious piety. He some
times prayed in public in a conspicuous
fashion. One of his neighbors did his
teaming for Lim, but he hadn't the
courage to present a bill for tlio work
oftener than once a year. On ono oc
casion he called with his bill just as
Irving sat down to supper. The old
man paid no attention to his caller until
he had said grace, a ceremony that
consumed nearly a half hour. Then
he asked w hat was wanted, and the
bill was handed to him. Irving jumped
to his feet and cursed the man with a
storm of the rankest blasphemy that
could come from a man's lips. He
raved until he was out of breath,
winding up with a profane declaration
that he would never pay the bill. Thj
neighbor turned to go.
"Hold on, you good-for-nothing
thief, what are you going for ?" shout
ed Irving.
"You say you won't pay the bill, so
I thought I would bo getting along,"
replied the man.
"Yes, I will pay it, and then don't
you ever let me see your faco again,"
and the old man handed over the
money, while his creditor again started
to go.
"Come back, you dirty Dutch thief,"
hundered Irving. '-Did yoo think
you were going to got away without
giving me a receipt?"
'I didn't know you thought it ncccs-
jary," suggested the long-sufiering
aller.
"Do you suppose I'd trust you ot
anybody else? All men are thieves,"
and the ex-mcmbor of the bar went to
his desk and laboriously drew up a full
legal release from all claims, w hid) he
compelled hi neighbor to sign before
ho would allow him to depart. It was
not long before he applied to the tamo
man to do somo more work for hiin.
Irving's last pubilo exploit was hit
riolent opposition some time ago to th
use of a echoolhouse in his neighbor
hood by Episcopalians for services on
Sunday afternoon.. He made things
so warm for everybody concerned that
'.he services wore abandoned because
of tlio annoyance which his denunci
ation cansed.
Heart disease was probably the
:aue of his death. In the corner of
the piazza was a basin of water, and
the old man was found with his
ilceves rolled np, as thongh he was
about to wash after doing his chores
shout the stable. He leaves consider
able property, though nobody knows
bow much. Besides his farm of thirty
or for,jr acres, he owned other real es
tate is Euglewood and neighboring
lowas worth nearly $60,000. The
funeral took place Monday at Rich,
field. None of the neighbors attended,
and, as in the case of his wife's burial,
it became necessary to hire pall bear
ers to go with the body to the grave.
He was buried by the side of his wife
at Greenwood. Ho leaves no children.
Two or three sisters survive him. One
of them, now living in New York,
whom he drove from his house in a fit
bf anger many years ago, attended the
funeral on Monday.
SOME REMARKABLE THINGS BE,
INO ACCOMPLISHED.
Very remarkable results have at
tended the treatment of cancer cases
by electricity in England. The patient
is anaesthetized : the current is then
passed through the tumor and all the
tissues for some inches around it by
means of fine insulated needles, so ai
not to injure the skin. The effects
produced by the action of electricity
consist in a cessation of growth, grad
ual disappearance of pain, some shrink
ing and hardening of the tumor, and
enlarged glands, followed by improved
nutrition and a better state of health.
The growth, as a whole, does not dis
appear, but remains as an inert mass,
composed, in all probability, pf fibrous
tissue alone. Dr. Harsons of the Chel-
sea Hospital, who has effected many
cures by the adoption of this treat
I ment, says that a repetition of the ap
' plication is seldom necessary, and that
' in nearly every case one operation will
1 cause atrophy of the growth. The
majority of his cases have been those
in which the knife had failed, or in
; w hich the disease had progressed tor
j far for the knife.
The big guns turned out by the Eng
lish arsenals are now fitted with a de
vice to facilitate firing at night. The
ordinary sights are illuminated by t
small incandescent lamp, the rays from
whicji, passing through a lens, are con-
j verged, so that only a minute point oi
line ot sight, just sumcient to distin
guish the sight, is obtained. By meant
of an adjustable resistance the lighl
can be modulated to suit the degree ol
darkness of the night or the eye of thr
observer.
The opening of the first submarine
telephone cable has just taken place.
The cable runs between Montevideo
and Buenos Ayres, and is thirty-twc
miles long, the total length with th
overhead line being 180 miles. On thit
line there are five intermediate stations
all of which ran telephone and tele
graph simultaneously with all th'
other stations.
An electric brake, designed by Prof.
Forbes, has been tested with great
success on an entire train of carriagei
with which it has been fitted for us
on a line in Russia. The chief gain it
in point of ranidity of action. A trait
of average length will feel tho brakt
power throughout its length almost in
stantaneously as against three or foui
seconds required by the vacuum brake.
An electric indicator of the namei
of railway stations is coming into ust
in England. A magnetic apparatui
turning a roller on which are printed
tho names of stations in good visiblt
letters is fitted over the window ol
every carriago with an electric bell t
call the attention of passengers to tht
change. The instruments are connect
ed in 6cries, and arc under the contro
of the guard, who changes the namci
by a simple touch of a button befon
the train stops.
A novel application of electricity ii
a triturator for grinding drugs, whicl
is ingeniously fitted up to work bj
electric motor, to save labor in chem
ists' shops, er for dr.ig gr.nders. Thi
mortar or mortars to tho number re
quired aro mado to revolve by the elec
trie motor, and a vr-y heavy porcelaii
pctlo hangs Inside, tho neccssarj
grinding being assured by tho re vol v
ing of the heavy pestle by fiictioi
against the side of tho aaortar.
A vigorous crusade has been bcgui
in England to put a stop to tho eysten
of folhrtng sham electrical appliancei
upon an ignorant public. A vendor oi
"elcctropathic belts," which were said
to cute sciatica and innumerable olhei
si!meiits, has Leon brought icto court
and punished for obtaiuing money uu-
ficr falso pretences.
Au improved search light consists ol
a powerful arc light, usually of about
21,000-candlo power contained In I
r.i'tal cylinder about thirty itches
high by twenty-four to thirty inchei
in diameter, or.c cud of which is cVecii
by a silvered conclave r6flect;rig lens,
Tliu apparatus is on a pivot, s thai 11
may bo revolved around the cc:-re and
elevated and deprcetcd at vrlM. At 0--dinarily
used the beam ef li-.ht pi-c-
Jected from tic cyslinder le so con
centrated thai at a distance of J.OCfl
yards from the ship it illnm!natu a
path only about fifteen yards in wid'.h.
When necessary this path can be
widened. A search light of S0.000
CA'ulics is supposed to reveal objects af
a distance of two and a half miles.
A military force on the march seems
to suffer less from w hat is popularly
knwn as suu-Btroke than civilians
walking our crowded streets or engaged
In mercantile and mechanical pursuits.
Some plants appear to be able to
grow and develop in total darkness. A
committee of the Koyal Horticultural
Society has been told of hyacinths that
developed colored flowers, although pre
vented by some accident from coming
above the ground.
SOME TUAITS OF MUNEEYS.
They Sack a House With the System of
m Band -f Robber.
Greedy as a monkey is a vulgar ex
pression. Houzeau says that those per
sons who assert that iuonkeys will not
have to do again with intoxicating
drinks after having once been made
their victiuu were more desirous of
teaching a moral lesson than of telling
the exact truth. Most tamed monkeys
are reidy enough to drink wine and
brandy, and will help themselves to
Ihein. They like to get tipsy, and will
indulge themselves whenever they can,
in spite of chastisements. Their in
toxication is characterized by the same
symptoms as mau's weak knees, thick
'ongue, and unsteady movements.
This ideutity of the effects of intoxi
cation extends to other animals; while,
as we have seen, moukeys of different
Specie often exhibit antipathies to one
another, those of the same species will
assist oue another, provided they are
not sexual rivals. Thit trait of mutual
helpfulness appears to exist in all ani
mals that have organs of prehension
as among the climbing birds and those
insects which have mandibles. The
instinct is quite well developed among
monkeys, and those of the same family
or troop exhibit traits of mutual assist
ance that might be very properly com
pared with those shown by men in
their relations with one another.
The moukeys In Sumatra, according
to Cesare Moreno, are very trouble
some in the gardens, aud even in
houses, when they can find entrance
into them; and no kind of Inclosure
seems adequate to protect fruits and
vegetables from their depredations.
Forming a line in order to pass their
spoil from hand to hand, they scale
the walls, enter at the doors or wiu
dows, and leisurely pillage all that they
can find. Then they retire to the
woods, to dress themselves up in gayly
colored cloths which they may have
stolen, while they have a particular
fancy for whatever will give a metal
reflection. They will divide their trinket!
among themselves, or quarrel about
them, and dress themselves up in them
in a grotesque style; and then, like
children having become tired of them,
will leave them hanging in the branches
or let them fall to the ground, and care
no more for them. They seem to be
thieves by instinct, for the mere plea
sure of stealing, when they are not
catering to their appetites; and they
are capable of sacking a house and
carrying off everything movable in it
with the system and concert of a band
of robbers. They observe a kind of
discipline in their operations, and post
their scouts, to inform them in sea
son when it is time to run away; and
this, when warned, they can do with
wonderful simultaneousness.
A Skank Farm.
The skunk farm of Fred Clark Is
about four miles from Mt. Morris (N.
Y.) on the other side of the Genesee
River. It is stocked with 160 skunks,
aud very soon Mr. Clark expect that
this number will be increased to 1000
or more. Mr. Clark began raising
skunks for the purpose of Milling their
skins oue year ago last fall. He select
ed a barren acre of land on a steep hill
side as a site for his farm. He sur
rounded this plot with a close board
fence three feet high and set deep in a
stone foundation which skunks can
neither undermine nor dig through.
He dug long, narrow holes into the side
hill, hollowed out a pit about as big as
a half-bushel basket at the end of each
hole, laid boards over the pits and ap
proaches, and then threw on earth
enough to prevent the penetration of
the cold in winter. Then Mr. Clark
caught his skunks. His neighbors had
laughed at him a good deal when he
first told them of his plan to raise
skunks and sell their skins. When he
built his high board fence and honey
combed his father's sidehill with skunk
nests they laughed harder, and told all
the people at the old Pine Tavern cross
roads and at the Moscow corner grocery
about foolish young Clark, who had
spent so much money laying out a
ikunk farm before he got his skunks.
They didn't know that Mr. Clark
aas a skunk tamer, and they thought
he couldn't catch his stock without an
experience which would sicken him of
the whole enterprise. Mr. Clark went
skunk hunting, nevertheless, with a
spade and two market baskets. When
ever he found a woodchuck's hole
which gave indications that it contained
skunks he dug into it. He found
eighteen skunks on the first day of his
hunt. He picked them up out of their
holes by the back, neck or tail, just as
they happened to come, and they never
objected. They were as docile as kit
tens in his haLds. After he had filled
both basket with skunks, Mr. Clark
came upon two big black fellows,
especially valuable for breeding pur
poses. He caneht them, removed his
coat and tied a knot in tha end of each
sleeve, and tucked a skunk in through
each arm hole. When the neighbors
saw him come home at the end of his
first hunt with a basketful of skunks
on each arm, a coatful of skunks
thrown over his shoulder, and smelling
only of the pines and hemlocks, th y
stopped laughing at him aud his stock
farm.
Mr. Clark's novel business has pros
pered. Last May twenty black she
skunks ou his farm bore and reared
140 little skunks. Mr. Clark then
killed off about thirty head of his old
'stock and sold the t-kins to bnyers for
New York fur dealers for $50. For
the coal-black skins the buyers pay
$1.50 each; for a half-striped skin, $1 ;
for a full-s riped, 75 cents; for a white
sknnk skin only 25 or SO cents. Since
last May Mr. Clark has been killing
off his striped and white skunks. He
has scoured the woods along the Gen
esee River for the finest black he
skunks and has caught some twenty
or more of ihem, coal black aud as
large as tom-cats. He thinks he ha.
In them a guaranty of the blackness of
the 800 or more little skunks which he
expects next month.
It has been estimated that one ton of
coal gives enough ammonia to furnish
about thirty pounds of crude sulphate,
the present value of which Is about 12
per ton, and there being 10.) 00,000 tons
of coal annually distilled for gas, no less
than 133,929 tons or sulphate, of the
money value of 11,607,149, are pro
duced. Leading Euiopean phvslclansexpr ss
the belief In very positive terms that
Mini's disease v curable.
Hezcklah Budl ..g-s Walk.
Hezekiah Budloug is the name of a
portly business man who lives in a
fashionable block in West Steenth-st,
New York, says the Tribune. Now,
Hezekiah has lately been reading about
the importance of walking as an exer
cise, aud, after thinking the matter
over, he determined to walk every day
from his house to his office. So the
other morning, after making his will
and biading good-by to his family
for Hezekiah is a methodical man he
sallied out from his elegant home with
the elation aud anxiety that great ex
plorers always feel.
He swore softly to himself when the
outler of his neighbor, Jinks, who
was cleaning the sidewalks, swept
about half a bucket of water on. him
But when two other butlers did the
same thing before he got to Fifth-ave.,
his language became not only explo
sive, but extremely audible. Inasmuch
however, as it was raining so hard that
an umbrella was useless, be finally con
cluded that he would get wet anyhow,
and therefore the modus operandi was
a matter of small consequence.
He then turned into Fifth-ave. and
was beginning to enjoy the stroll down
that justly admired thoroughfare when
he was almost Bickeued by the odor
from an exposed aud leaking sewer
pipe. But he didn't have time to think
of that long before his nostrils were
assailed by another odor equally vile,
which came from a wagon filled with
garbage of au evidently ancient via
tage. Just at that moment, too, he
passed au ashman, who was in the act
of emptying a large sized ashcan. As
the rain had ceased and the wind had
come up, Mr. Budlong's wet garments
were at once covered with a thick coat
ing of the best grado of Lehigh Valley
red ashes.
The ruin to his clothes was baa
enough, but what tried Hezekiah's tem
er most was that the ashes blinded
him so that he did not see a window
washer who was using one of those
long-handled scrubbers with great vig
or and energy. Of course, therefore,
Hezekiah came into collision with him,
for it is a well-known fact that no
window-washer ever looks out for pe
destrians; he works on the theory that
be owns the t-idewalk and the breadth
thereof. The result of the collision
was that Hezekiah was hit on the nose
with the end of the long pole. This
aroused the indignation of the honest
window-washer, who denounced him
as a vile "chump," 'fer gittin' in der
way." No further mishaps occurred
until Hezekiah was crossing to Broad
way, when he slipped in the slime
which coveres that historic street, and
;ame within an ace of being run over
by a street car and a brewery wagon.
After going iuto a barber shop and
paying a quarter to have his clothes
brushed, he pursued his journey down
Broadway. He had not gone far be
fore a subway worker hit him in the
itomach with a shovelful of odorifer
us dirt, and while he was giving the
;rinning navvy a piece of his mind, a
falling electric wire hit him on the
bead. Naturally ho expostulated with
the careless workman who had dropped
die wire, but tbo only reply of that
individual was, "Oh, wot's der matter
tvid yer; Der wire's dead." This
retort was hugely enjoyed by all the
ivstanders, aud Hezekiah felt that he
aas looked upon as a crank of tho
worst kind.
It would be impossible to relate all
die troubles of Hezekiah en this terrible
aip. He finally reached his ofiice more
dead than alive, and it was fully a
week before ho recovered from the
effects of his adventure. He has not
since tried to walk down town, and,
it is almost needless to say, he has firm
ly resolved never to do so again.
Fanenll Hall Visitors.
Among the first attractive things
that come to the eyes of the visitor to
Faneuil Hall, Boston, is a tin sign, on
which tho following verso appevf in
letters of white paint: f
CRFKrixa.
Each visitor to Faoeull Hall
May on the superintendent call;
You'il welcome be. "The visiters' Bool"
Ides on the table. You msy look
And read the name of many a son
And daughter, too; then writ, your own
No fc to pay. With each 5ew Year
We print ho-r many folks come here.
It is estimated that of the great
onmber of visitors at the hall during
the year, about one-third of them take
heed 01 tho sign above referred to and
sign their names and places of resi
dence in the visitors' book. During
the year 1889 there were 9465 names
of persons, claiming residences in
nearly all parts of the world placed
pon the book, which 1 wi increase of
SI vver tho number on the book of tho
preceding year. This is somewhat
neticoable, because the hall was closed
for repairs about throe weeks in the
rammer season when sightseers a:
meat numerous. The book of 1889
thows the number of visitors by months
to be as follows: January, 824; Feb
ruary, 280; March, 595; April, 671;
May, 965; June, 393; July, 441; An-
rust, 2764; September, 1299; October,
76; November, 625 ; December, 818.
The extreme danger to life attend
ant upon breaking a jam or logs Las
been overcome by usin dynamite cart
ridges on the end of long poles. Theso
are pushed nnder the jam and x-bloded.
NEWS IN MUEF.
-Gold Is shipped abroad In V.egs.
CVabs chew their food wit& their
lefs.
The tomato is a native ot Houth
Ameiica.
Photographs were first produced la
England in 1302.
It is an Interesting fact that there
are no bald headed tramps.
Only six horses l ave ever trotted
twenty miles within one hour.
A Connecticut merchantadvertise
"it on bedsteads an 1 bead ins."
A uuiversity in Denver h"s estab
lished a course of lectures on insur
ance. A dog at Deposit. N. Y., found a
pocket-book containing J-tCMJ a few days
ago.
A miner dressed in armor went In
to a burniDg mine at Republic, Mich.,
to fight the lire.
In the interior of South America
chocolate, cocoanuts and eggs are used
as currency.
There was recently received In New
London, Conn., a banana weighing two
and a half pounds.
The Egyptians had a very remark
able ordinance to prevent persons from
borrowing imprudently.
The Chinese paper currency is red,
white and yellow paper, with gilt letter
ing and gorgeous devices.
It is estimated that it takes 60,000
tons of binder twine to do up the annual
American grain crop.
It Is said that apes have a languages
A new race has been discovered a
the Phillipiue Islands.
An attempt to climb the H'malaya
will be made by Explorer Conway.
The new United States tlx teen
Inch gun will be forty-nine aud a bait
feet long and weigh 125 tons.
J. W. Hood, of Fr.mkfort, Ind ,
has turned blue from the effects of
medicines taken for epileptic fits.
A harness that looks luminous In
the dark has been invented. It is In
tended to prevent collisions at night
From observations ou the transit of
Mercury recently taken at the Lick Ob
servatory, the diameter of the planet Is
given at 211' 0 miles.
Mrs. Mary Lowell, of Sew York, a
practical electrician, has iuvented a
contrivance by which she Is enabled to
light ber kitchen Ore from ber bed
room. It has been calculated that the ao
tual amount of salt contained in the
ocean would cover an area of 5,0u0.00C
square miles with a layer one mile
thick.
A clock "fvr pointing out the di
rection of the earth's orbiUil motion in
the ether" wa9 recenily exhibited to
the Loudon Physical Society by Frof.
Lodge.
A sheet of aluminum 12 inches
square aud one inch thick weighs 14
pounds. A bar of aluminum one Inch
square and 12 inches thick will weigh
1.17 pounds.
The latest improvements in the long
distance telephones have raised the
question of the probability of their be
ing put Into operation between this
country and Europe.
At Cambridge, England, butter Jj
sold by the yard, a pound of the article
being rolled into a roll a yard long and
sold in sections to suit buyers.
Paul Revere, the hero or the fam
ous ride, was the President of Bostou's
first Board of Health. It was organized
in Faneuil UallinlTOU.
A Lewistou (Mo,) girl drowned a
kitten recently and buried It behind
the barn. The old cat dug it up, took
it into the kitchen, aud brought it to
life, and It is living now.
Hannibal Hamlin's grandfatbei
had four sons, named respectively
Europe, Asia, Africa, and America,
but the late Vice-President was a sou
of a fifth, named Cyrus, and was named
for the latter's twin brother, Hannibal.
The low grades of m lasses made on
the Louisiana plantatijns aie now
sprinkled over the dry crushed cane,
and materially Increases Its usefulness,
as fuel for the furnaces.
Among recent Inventions is an auto
matic pump. It shuts itself off by a slow
closing switch when the tank Is full,
and starts again just Lefore the tank be
comes empty.
An automatic life-?aving belt that
can be shaped into a ball, fired from a
gun, or thrown by hand, has recen'lj
been tried on the Thames. It rights
itself upon contact with the water.
The following is a ludicrous custom
affected among the nobility of Bavaria.
Upon any nobleman's engaging In
trade, mechanics, manual labor or like
occupation, he must Deeds d:op hit
title while so employed, but whbn can
be resumed upon givlug up the occupa
tion, Plin'iramon, the St. Bernard, Is the
biggest dog known. At the Birming
ham show, England, on tho morning ol
judging, November 27, 18-:5, he weighed
pounds. He Man 1s thlrtv-five inch
es lilu'h at the Phoulder. He was sold
in 1SS8 to the late .1. K. Emmet, of Al
bany, N. Y., for $6000.
The Sahara, the largest desert In
the world, Is about 30C0 miles in length
in average breadth alxmUHHl miles, and
a total area of al out 2,ooo,000 square
miles. Tarts of it could be made very
productive if a liberal supply of water
for irrigating purposes wore souw t by
means of artesian wells.
An English firm of potters havs
produced the largest v.iso In the world,
it Is of china, its chief feature being a
globe representing the world, which it
supported ou a pedestal and surioundeJ
by mythologies! flames. The vasm -i
eleven feet high and six ftct, four inchej
ladiameter. its cost was $i7,o0J.
A Toons; Hsro n.-nerei.
The secretary of the nvy does honov
(O the memory cf one of the braves!
of the brave in bestowing the name ol
Cushing upon the new torpedo boa',
which the Herreshoft's win lainoh In
few weeks iron; irrefr yard at Bristol,
R. I. Commaader William B. Own
ing, who destroyed the rabe! nam Albe
marle and did a soon of arts of daring
which won for him a national repnt
tlon before he was twenty-three, had s
brief and brilliant career, dying al ihe
early age of thirty-two. He was woi
known in Boston ad Irs vicinity,
where there are many who will he
glad to learn that hi. retrace and Mi
services are to he reognl7cd la tha
naming of the new navy. 4
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