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THE OON8TITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Propria tor.
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VOL. XL VI.
PARTED.
M. J. HEADER SMITH.
IHH n.crninp hen I lie sunbeams rose.
Ami tmii ii' J t tie ciowii on furest rears,
nit in l lif i; lui y tl I he daw n,
Wi:h Hfins Ttukle1 all Ihfl lar.n,
(jurejcs tre brimming o'er wllh tears.
For In thi dawnluij's brightness we
pltiuctlv view another scene.
A ifefl lilil. a flowing river,
(i prnLi' li lie nunbeaiii dam e and quiver
ft lib iivii uf i ceil spread out between,
VVbere to no down an orchard Data
lo tell 'ove's story Vr anam.
Ihe tcet are ymina that brush the dew,
jt od Ir.-li and new. untried, but true,
Ibe Hi'-' thai bind (lie happy twalu.
j he i.ictu'e ha lies all dm with tears.
Ihe .uililul twain are sundered far.
l ove's piMeu links are sadly scarred.
Ami wieU' iied apart. The chain so mar
red. Becmi.cs a broad dividing bar.
A careless word, a luckless speech,
A iil unbent, thoiuh loving much
l,i hands iinciiisiied, two laces turned
Asidi' ti h de the tires that bumea.
Anil gluwtd btuejth an Angel, touch.
Ttien i.1.r urt-w their steps apart.
Till sreen m ass ere. t their paths between.
That i l.oki d and smothered Love sweet
bl.H.lll
While memory built upon its tomb,
A miaiiiuieni Dial i'nde uolh screeu.
And so a lovly morn' like this,
Lilim bai-k the bappy past lo me.
A.nu we l.ve o'er weary years,
Aim.ii we shed "ome bitter tears.
Which Li-ne but Hod can see.
A LITHE LE?& " II AN KIN.
BV B! V. TaKulMJKII WOOD, F.E.S.
Quite irrespective of the more or less
diiant relationship which is by many
supposed to exist between the two, the
members of the monkey race will prob
ably continue to exercise a atrorjg fis
ciu:itiou over tlie ruiud of nuture-lov-ing
ruiin. Probably it was in this fact
that Kiu Solomon found his reason
for including thesd animals amongst
Lis royal curiosities. Be that as it
may, they lis J a special place in the
palace gardens of "the Preacher, the
sou of LaviJ, Kirg of Jerusalem."
And still, ihe man who would give bis
"heait to search out by wisdom all
things that are doue under heaven,"
ruay find material for interest and
thought, if not ulso for humiliation,
iu tkee strangely composed creatures.
There is something in their impish
cuuuinx, something in tbeir seeming
pomer-sion of mental characteristics
otherwise unknown in the lower crea
tion, something, in short, in their
grotesque rehemblacce to a dt graded
humanity, wh cli charms whde it re
pub, aud dives, aud must give, to these
strange beings au unique attraction in
the eyes of all students of the animal
world. And as there are very few of
us although perhaps we know it not
who are not in some degree students
of this wonder-teeming kingdom, this
is equivalent to saying that monkeys
Lave an interest for us all.
The term "monkey" is a comprehen
sive one, for it includes creatures so
widely dissimilar as the gorilla
and the lemurs, the chacma, and
the marmoset. At one end of the scale
we have an animal which some writers
seein to consider as almost half a man,
and at the other end another which is
certainly almost half a bat. And
though we mar subdivide the family
iuto a) es, gibbons, baboons, monkeys
proper, and lemurs, yet by the popu
lar miud the distinction is never drawn,
and a monkey is a monkey, although it
may have little that is really monkey
like about it.
Ureutiy is it to be desired that we
might have more frequent and more
favorable opportunities for watching
the habits of the great apes in cap
tivity. It is said that no adult gorilla
has ever as yet been taken alive; cer
tainly none has ever been brought
to Europe, And, until the fabled
unieorn is discovered and captured,
one can hardly conoeive of a more at
tractive and interesting addition to a
menagerie. We have, it is true, more
than once succeeded in bringing a
juvenille gorilla from across the sea,
but only to find, either that travellers
are altogether wrong in their state
ments regarding the animal, or else
that the gorilla in early life is a total
ly different being from the gorilla in
maturity. Probably the latter is the
more likely. Undoubtedly the yonng
gorilla does lack that expression of
brutal, savage ferocity which is ao
painfully conspicious in even the most
Ill-prepared skin of the adult Cer
tain, too, it is that the young animal
is timorous in the last degree, and is
so painfully shy when under observa
tion that to gain any idea of its real
character cr its natural habits is alto
gether impossible. When "Qena"
was brought to the Crystal Palace
come ten years ago, I enjoyed almost
unique facilities for observing her dur
ing the whole of her lamentably brief
existence. 1 was present when her
case was unpacked, together with a
number of others, who probably,
like myself, were expecting to see a
wild and farious monster, of hideous
aspect and gigantio strength, tearing
at the bars of its prison, in foaming
but impotent fury. And all that we
did Bee was a cowering little blaok crea
ture, about two feet high, doing her
beet to hide behind a chimpanzee,
her companion in captivity. And in
all the three subsequent weeks 1 do not
thick that I once saw the poor little
animal otherwise than in state of
pitiable timidity. She never for a mo
ment Feemed to leave her self-appointed
protector, which, with bared
teeth and gleaming eye, fiercely re
sented any attempt to separate it from
its tiny charge. She never responded
even to the advances of her keeper, nor
betrayed the least interest when ap
proached In the manner traditionally
dear to the monkey nd. But this
may have been owing to the weakness
and -weariness caused by the rapid in
roads nf disease; for lei-re the month
was out the poor little gorilla had suc
cumbed to rapid consumption.
The seeds of this fatal complaint
seem to Lo sown in almost all the
lurger apes almost as soon as they leave
tho torrid climate cf their native land.
Their bright activity rapidly gives
way to a dull apathy; the frame is torn
tJ a raiking congh; the piteous, plead
ing look iu the eyes gives one a weird
impression that the sufferer is sadly
familiar with death, and loresees the
successive steps of its deadly com
plaint. And in a few short months, at
the most, all is over.
To this sad rule the only exception is
in the case of the chimpanzee, which
seems to be of hardier constitution
thau its fellows, and occasionally lives
in expatiiation and confinement to
what, comparatively speaking, is a
grien old age. Quite recently passed
from us the lamented "Sally," of Re
gent's Park celebrity, who for nearly
fight years bad been one of the stand
ing attractions of the Gardens, and, un
der tbo able tuition of a persevering
keeper, had acquired the art of cor
rectly counting up to five, with other
accomplishments of almost equa note,
the chimpanzee stands, as jar as
the larirnr x.. ...
: . iT a concerned, on a
sort of intellectual pedestal. Its men
tal capab.lt.es do not diminish or dis
appear ,u the heavy ferocity which
come, with age. It is alonamong
apes in understanding the principle
o combination, and lives in anTall colo!
mes, which are banded together by
tack and defence. It is posted of
suffic,ent tactical skill to pSst leutries,
who transmit warning of approaching
danger to the main body
which every member of the com
munity understands. And we have
even been informed by a recent travel
lernot, however, it is right to add,
upon his own personal a nthority that
it has learned the secret of producing
nre by friction, and is acoustomed,
when it mades its raids upon the plan
tations, to iilum nate ita midnight way
by carrying a blazing torohl
Setting aside, however, the extreme
lmpr,.babUitJ that eTen chimpanzee
should attain reasoning powers so ad
vanced to allow it, not only to over
cona natural dread of an element
which animals seem almost universally
to regard with the utmost terror, but
also to control and utilize a force
which no living creature but man has
ever been known even to produce, we may
acoept it as perfectly certain that so
cunning an animal, even if it possessed
the faculty in question, would be far
too clever to make use of it. For if,
as we know, the chimpanzee is Bufli
ciently wary to avoid even the needless
cracking of a dried twig, when on
predatory excursion bent, it would
scarcely be likely to cha lenge the at
tention of those whose property it was
stealing by providing an illumination,
which its own keen eyesight, moreover,
would render perfectly unnecessary.
Most of the monkeys which live in
society appear to adopt the same tao
tics in their nocturnal raids. A cer
tain number are told off to act as sen
tinels, while the actual robbery is en
trusted to a few of the most experi
enced, the remainder acting as receiv
ers of the stolen goods, and conveying
them at once to a place of safety.
Among the most interesting of the
monkey tribe are the highly acrobatio
Gibbons, whose wonderful activity of
hand and foot pats that of even the
most accomplished human gymnasts to
utter shame. I have never yet been
privileged to see these creatures save
within the bounds of a comparatively
small cage; but even in those narrow
limits, which must greatly have ham
pered the freedom of their movements,
their agility was perfectly amazing.
The eye literally could scarcely follow
them in tbeir flight. They swung
themselves with the most marvelous
grace and lightness from branch to
branch and from bar to bar, touching
each in turn for but the merest frac
tion of a moment, and passing with
perfect ease through twelve or fifteen
feet of space. Yet never once did they
overshoot their mark, or come short
of it by so much as a single inch.
They did not appear to put out the
slightest exertion as they darted
along, and the impetus of "the first
leap seemed inexhaustible. So that it
was rather hard at first to realize that
these were actual living beings of flesh
and blood, and not the fantastic crea
tures of a poet's dream. No wonder
that many a traveller, when first he
sees a troop of gib Ions darting ont
from bough to bough in the distance,
mistakes them for giant birds, for cer
tainly there are not a few of the fea
thered race which could scarcely excel
them in speed of their flight.
One member of the monkey tribe
the colugo is said to fly; but incor
rectly. It has indeed the enviable
faculty of skimming for a limited dis
tance through the air, for the skin of
its sides and flanks is widely extensi
ble, aud is connected with both fore
and hind feet, so that, when the little
short legs are stretched stiffly out,
the animal is converted into a kind
of living parachute. And by mounting a
lofty tree, and then leaping in the di
rection of a distant branch, it can pass
at a single bound through eighty yards
or more of space. But of flight, in
the strict and proper sense of the term,
it is wholly incapable. It oannot beat
the air with the membrane which con
stitutes the so-called '-wings." It can
not alter its course when once it has
launched itself into space. And it can
not alight at a level higher than that
from which it sprang. In faot. it is
simplv bnoyed up by the air during an
extended leap, just as an oyster-shell
is buoyed up for a time when flung
edgeways from the hand of a thrower.
So, too, with the petaurists of Aus
tralia, the 'flying" squirrels of India
and America, and the "flying" dragon
of Borneo and Java, which do not
really fly at all, but simply leap from
one branch to another, and are enabled
to pass through an unusual extent of
intervening spaoe by the peculiarities
of their bodily structure.
And yet the colugo although some
naturalists are insisting that it is really
a first cousin of the hedgehog snd the
mole may fairly be regarded as a
connecting link between the monkeys
and the bats. In the general princi
ples of its struoture which, how
ever, is in many respects abnormal
It is a lemur, and therefore a
monkey; bnt in the singular develop
ment of the skin of the sides of the
body, and in the use made thereof, we
can trace at least an approximation to
the wonderful wing-hands of the bats.
For in these also the frame work issop
plied by the fore-limbs, greatly extend
ed and attenuated, while the connect
ing membrane is identical in character
with that which enables the colugo to
skim through tie air without actually
flying.
Lemurs are very odd creatures.
They have been called "the monkeys
poor relations,"jnst as monkeys' them
selves have been styled the tKor rela
tions" of man. And ;certainly they do
give one a kind of impression that they
are snfferinir from a deep sense of in
feriority and bumiliatiqp. Perhaps it is
because they are nocturnal vj nature,
and consequently extremely uncom
fortable when one sees them in open
daylight. And they well deserve their
popular title of lemurs; for there
is something strangely spectral and
"uncanny" about them. Their dark
ling habits; their slow, measured move
ments; their stealthy, silent tread; and
the weird expression of their large,
rounds, staring eyes: all these com
bine to give the observer an undefined
notion that he is looking upon creatures
from the world of shadows, ghosts,
perhaps, of monkeys dead and gono,
which some stern fate compels to wan
der by night on this upper earth. As
a recent writer puts it, -they re the
mere phantoms of monkeys, agile as
goblins, with the wailing voices of ban
shees, the fitful ways of an apparition,
and the half-witted, wistful, but fear
eome look in their eyes that changeling
children are said to have."
The Howlers are so-called from the dis
mal olulations which they keep up in i
concert from dusk till daylight They
MIFFLINTOWN.
All the forest with sound, and that of
the most hideous description. "Noth
ing, says Wharton, who passed mauy
night in the Uuianan woodland,
da 4? BPeaki,1 in particular of the
Ked Howler, "can sound more dread
ful than its nocturnal howlings. ion
W.!ld ""PP080 hH the wild beasts
of the fore.t were collecting for the
work of carnage. Now it ia the tre
mendous roar ot the jagnar, as he
springs on bis prey; now it changes to
his deep-toned grow lings aa he is
pressed on all sides by superior force;
and now you hear his last dying
moan beneath a mortal wound."
Other travellers tell us that
the din which these animals
maintain inoessantly throughout the
night oan be heard at a distance of ful
ly two miles. The males are the prin
cipal vocalists, and seem to endeavour
to outvie one another in the harshness
and power of their utterances, while
the females chime in at intervals in
gentler fashion, like an undercurrent
of chorus accompanying the main
chant.
A year or two ago, in a pichare ap
pearing in one of our leading illus
trated newspapers, a group of monkeys
were represented as performing an
act of which I do not believe that any
monkey can be justly accuFed that,
namely, of pelting an offending travel
ler with stones. The artist himself
described in the accompanying letter
press the scene which he had repre
sented with his pencil; doing bo with a
circumstantiality strangely at varianoe
with the fact that, although the adven
ture in question was said to have taken
place in India, every monkey in the
sketch is a spider monkey. And pider
monkeys are peculiar to America!
I subjoin the account :
' I had started in the early morning
on a march between Barrrmoola and
Muree. The road led along the side
of the mountains, and in many places
was a mere path hewn out of the solid
rock. In one part there was a pro
jecting rail at the edge of the track; on
the right was a sheer drop of several
hundred feet; on the left rose an al
most perpendionlar cliff. As I ad
vanced along the path I saw two large
monkeys seated on the raiL One of
them when he saw me jumped up on
to the rock. Just for fun, 1 picked up
a small stone and threw it at the other,
when he, too, bounded up the cliff and
disappeared. 1-thought no more of
the incident, bnt before I had gone
forty yards a couple of stones whistled
close by my head. I looked up, and
there on a ledge of roci were about a
dozen monkeys, all busy throwing
stones at me. "They seemed to "shy"
them just as a maa would do, and very
fairly straight, so much ao that 1
thought it wise not to stay to make a
very critical examination."
The illustration in this case is obvi
ously incorrect, possibly the narrative
may be so also. For no authenticated
case is on record in which a monkey
of any kind has teen seen, in the
strict sense of the term, to throw.
Even in the case of mankind the faculty
of throwing is altogether an acquired
one, which only eomes by much prac
tice, and by many is never learnt at alb
And probably no monkey, living or
dead, has been much more successful
in this respect than a baboon which
lived for some years in the monkey
house at the Crystal Palace, and whose
performances I have myself repeatedly
witnessed.
He was an ill-tempered brute, as
baboons mostly are in captivity, and,
in order to prevent him from injuring
a number of smaller monkeys which
inhabited the same nage, he was fast
ened in one corner by a chain, which
allowed him to roam over about one
fourth of the whole available space.
His fellow-prisoners were perfectly
aware of the exact limits within which
it was safe to venture, and used to ag
gravate tbeir tyrsnt intensely by sit
ting just about two inches outside the
magio boundary, and ostentatiously
eating the nuts, io., snpi lied to them
by the visitors. This prooaeding al
ways roused the insulted baboon to
furious anger, and, after spluttering
out a quantity of what I imagine was
monkey bad language, he would gather
up a quantity of straw from the floor
of the cage, and hurl it with all his
might at the offending animals. For
this operation, however, he invariably
employed both hands; and therefore it
could not be properly described as a
throw.
Certain monkya are considered as
sacred in India to this day; and it is in
teresting to find that baboons were
among the animals held in special rev
erence by the ancient Egyptians, who
even in some cases elevated them to
the rank of actual gods. "Somet;mes,"
says Sir Gardner Wilkinson, "a Cjno
cephalut (t. e., dog-headed baboon)
placed on a throne as a god holds a
sacred ibis in its hand; and in the judg
ment scenes of the dead it frequently
occurs seated on the summit of the
balance as the emblem of Thoth, who
had an important office on that occa
sion, and registered the account of tue
actions of the deceased. The place
where this aniiaal was particularly
sacred was Hermopolis, the city of
Thoth. Thebes and the other towns
also treated it with the respect dne to
the representative of the Egyptian
Hermes, and in the necropolis of the
capital of Upper Egypt a particular
spot was set aside as the cemetery ol
the sacred apes. Mummies of tht
Cynocephalua were put up in a sitting
posture, which is usually that given to
the animals in the sculptures when
representing the god Thoth; and its
head forms one of the covers of the
four sepulchral vases depicted in the
tombs of the dead."
HabittjaIi drunkards are cared for in
a singular and withal effective manner
in Norway and Sweden. The penalty
ia imprisonment, and during incarce
ration they are fed on bread and wine,
no water being allowed to them. The
bread is steeped in wine for an hour
before it is brought to the cell, night
and morning. It tastes good at first,
but after eightr ten days the prisoner
is so nauseated by it that he refuses
it. The cure is considered quite as ef
fective as any gold treatment can be.
There are many fine collections of
intagli in Europe, one of the finest
being The Hague.
Suspension bridges which were built
in the time of the Han dynasty (202 B.
C. to 220 A. V.), are atill standing,
striking examples of early Oriental
engineering skill.
The City of Paris has 87,655 trees in
its streets, and each tree represents a
cost to the city of 175 francs. This
makes in ronnd numbers $3,000,000
worth of trees in the streets.
At Oreencastle, Ind.t there are two
maple trees, growing about fifteen feet
apart. At the height of fifty feet one
of them makes a sharp angle, trrowins
rolidly into the other so that their
identity above that point is entirely
loax.
JUNIATA COUNTY.
STARS AND SCISSORS.
Bow to Make Five-Bayed Stan at a Slasle
Stroke.
Tills Is the way to obtain the exact
shape of a star with five rays, by a
siugle cut in a straight line wiCh
pair of scissors in a single piece of
paper.
Take a letter sheet double, folding
It on the left, A B, as in figure 1.
Then fold It according to the line
,C D, figure 2, so that the angle A B
snau oe nan or the angle a u u.
You will get this by folding the sheet
according to the line C E, which is
do other than the prolonged line C B
of figure 2.
Your sheet Is now in the form in
jdicated in figure 3. Now double it
HOW lO CUT riVI-BATID STARS.
over as indicated by C A. If the line
C E tomes upon 0 D it will show
that you folded correctly according
to tlx lire 2. If it comes a little out
aide or inside, modify the first fold
C U.
When you are sure that the line C
E comes exactly on C I), cut with
your scissors along the straight line
marked by dots, and, unfolding the
paper, you will have the star with
five rays, aud can cut as many thous
ands of them as you like on the same
plan.
Electrlo Light on BattleUelile.
The ubiquity of electricity is be
coming almost proverbial. From the
"brightest spot on earth" to the
blood-stained battlefields is rather a
far cry, but there Is no end to the
application of electricity. A recent
telegram from Austria described
some experiments of great interest
which have recently been carried out
successfully there. The difficulty of
searching for the wounded on the
night after a great battle has been
one which has long occupied the at
tention of military reformers, and
the army medical service In Austria
has been endeavoring to determine
how far the electric light may be
utilized for this humane end. The
value of powerful search-lights with
reflectors has been proved in naval
affairs, and at Saukim and elsewhere
soldiers have found them very effec
tive on open ground. They would
be equally effective, under similar
conditions, for assisting in picking up
the wounded, but when the battle
has raged over a wide extent of coun
try, or when the fighting has occurred
amidst woods and brushwood, the use
of this class of light is attended with
difficulty. The need for a special
form of lijrbt for this purpose having
been recoguized, the Austrian medi
cal service have been experimenting
with portable electric lanterns fed by
secondary batteries contained in the
knapsacks of the men who carry
them. These experiments, concludes
the Electrical Keview, have been
carried out under conditions as nearly
as possible similar to those which
would occur iu actual warfare, and
the results were so encouraging that
it is highly probable that the port
able "search-light" will be taken up In
earnest by the military authorities in
'ther countries.
Pocket Flre-Eeeape.
A correspondent of the American
Architect describes the successful
working of a novel fire-escape. If
the invention is what it appears to
be it is very Ingenious, and likely to
prove of great benefit to mankind.
A public trial of It was made from
the top of the new Masonic Temple
at Chicago.
The pocket fire-escape consists of a
metallic tape one-quarter of an Inch
wide and a thirty-second of an Inch
thick, running on a steel reel which
Is fastened to a web belt passing
ttout the waist.
The reel is provided with a brake
by means of which the person can
control the speed of his descent.
There is also an automatic brake to
keep a required tension on the tape,
and thus prevent a sudden drop.
The end of the tape is provided with
a thumb-screw, which can be fastened
to the window-sill or any object in
the room. In appearance the ma
chine Is like a fisherman's reel, and
is about twice the size of a' spool of
thread.
The beginning of the experiment
jeeraed perilous in the extreme.
The inventor fixed the thumb-screw,
fastened the web belt about his waist,
and stepped off apparently into space
from the twentieth story.
At first he descended slowly, theu
faster and faster, till it seemed as if
he must have lost control over the
little machine, the slender tape of
which could scarcely be seen, and at
any time looked no larger than an
ordinary cord.
At the tenth story he stopped
suddsnly, and then descended aain,
rapidly and slowly by turns, until he
came to the scaffolding where were
several workmen. There he took
tbrcc men on the "escape" with him,
vnd thus dropped to the ground.
Oacchue.
The aucient Greeks always repre
sented Bacchus and the Bacchanal
ians as vine-crowned. The ancients,
men and gods, appear as If they could
,not enjoy tlieir liquor unless they
were "crowned" with some sort of
flowcrjr or vegetable coronal. Gar
lands of leaves and flowers were out
ward and visible siirns of merriment
and rejoicing. People liked to "dress
themselves up" when they were
happy with anything of this kind,
just as children do now. Chaucer de
scribes one such
A gerloud badde be sette upon hie head.
As gret as it were for an ale -stake."
i This habit of crowning the ale
take with leaves and flwwers put
ting a "gerlond" on top of it, In sort
was the first public-house sign. In
many parts of Belgium, France and
Germany It U the paly outward jlgn
PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 10. 1S92.
of a drlnklng'house to this day.' Even
when modern pretentiousness has
caused the host to adopt some other
high-sounding name for his "hotel,"
the green branch, bush or "gerlond"
hangs in front "Good wine needs no
bush," says the old proverb, in allud
ing to this ancient custom.
One Mu't Expedient.
When the Doctor entered the room
the man on the bed indicated by a
motion of the hand that his wife
should be sent outside. The physician,
accustomed to many queer things,
contrived to send her away without
any apparent design, and then the
sufferer turned to him and said:
"Doc, are you a married man?"
"Yes," replied the man of prescrip
,lons.
"Ah!" sighed the patient, with evi
dent relief, "then you'll understand."
"Well?" queried the M. D., hoping
to get at the trouble in the case.
"Perfectly. Never was better io
ny life."
This was somewhat of a startler to
the Doctor, who had been railed In a
great hurry. He retained his nerve,
however, and asked:
"What did you call me for?"
"Why, because I've got to be sick.
It's this way, Doc. Last fall 1 made
fun of some of my wife's purchases,
accused her of getting swindled, and
told her to take me with her when
she did her spring shopping. She
took me up, made me promise to go,
and yesterday she began to talk of
starting out. I'd rather live on baled
"hay for a week than go."
"Oh, I see," interrupted the Doctor,
"you want to be sick until the shop
ping is done."
"Exactly."
"Well, how would grip or pneunic
iia do?"
"Not any. If she thought I wa&
sick she wouldn't leave my bedside
Give me something easy, something
just hard enough to keep me in the
house and let me send her out. You
advise her to go tell her she need
air."
The Doctor "saw," and made a life
long friend. Detroit Tribune.
An elaborate Fire Extinguisher.
An original method has lately been
proposed by a New Hampshire in
ventor for the extinguishing of fires.
To accomplish this purpose a chemi
cal generator as large as may be
needed for the case In hand Is first
provided, and pipes run from this
into each room in the building; at
the top is a jar in which acid Is
stored, inside of which is a cartridge;
an open circuit battery is used. The
thermostat in each room is set at
whatever figure Is desired, perhaps at
eighty degrees. On the occurrence
of fire the mercury runs up to this
figure, and the circuit is closed; this
explodes the cartridge in the jar, a
valve drops down, and the chemicals
are sent to the room through a sys
tem of sprinklers. In connection
with this device there Is a system of
dry pipes, and in case it is found that
the chemicals do not extinguish the
fire an attendant on the outside of
the building is able to tell by the
enumerator in which apartment the
fire Is located, and by turning a
switch can flood the room with wate
What Makes Stenographers Weep.
"Whom do you find the most diffi
cult witness to take?" asked the Her
ald man of A. M. Griffin, one of thr
oldest court reporters.
"Decidedly a woman with a griev
ance," he readily replied. "A Pole in
a passion is bad; an Irishman de
nouncing an enemy is equally so; a
Frenchman rendering meaningless his
words by ejaculations Is still more de
plorable; but none of these can hold
a candle to a woman with a grievance.
If Sam Weller had ever happened to
have been a reporter he would have
overlooked the widow and warned his
friends to beware of a woman with a
grievance. By the way, I can always
tell the profession of a man by the
manner in which he gives his testi
mony. The real estate man, the ac
tor, the traveling man, the doctor
all carry their profession with them
Into the witness box," Chicago Her
aid.
Why They Knelt.
Charles II. of England was noted
for his good nature, and although he
was sometimes called "Unthinking
Charles," yet his heedlessness was
more an apparent than a real charac
teristic The extravagance of his
reign went band-in-hand with poverty,
and on some occasions even the royal
table was but poorly served.
There Is a story told of Grammont,
who one day dined in state with the
King.
Charles bade the Count to notice
that he was served upon the knee, a
mark of respect to guests of the King
not common at other courts.
"I thank your Majesty for the ex
planation," answered Grammont. "I
thought they were begging pardon for
giving you so bad a dinner."
A Kite Flies m Boy.
James Donovan, a 14-year-old boy,
while attempting to fly a kite six feet
in height made of linen cloth, was
carried about twenty feet up in the
air. Fearing that he would be car
ried atill farther up, the boy let go
bis hold and fell heavily to the
ground, striking on his side. A doc
tor was sent for. The boy was found
to be severely bruised, but no bones
were broken. New Haven Palladium.
Miscalculation.
The Boston Globe prints a story
which reminds one of the old saying
about the shoemaker and his last.
A Yarmouth captain had a small
coasting schooner lying in port, and
decided to give a lesson to painters in
general by himself painting the ves
sel's name en her bows. He could
not reach high enough from the float,
and did not care to put out a swing
ing stage, so he reached down over
the side to do the lettering.
After finishing the job on one bow,
he went ashore to view his handi
work, and this Is what met his gaze.
3IOO V K
Men of science estimate that every
year a layer eqnal to fourteen feet deep
of the surface of all oceans and other
bodies of water Is taken into the atmos
phere as vapor. .
Spiders hare bright ayes.
HOW WE MOVED: AS TOLD BY
JOHNNY BROWN.
BY LILLIAN OBKT.
I ain't much used to tellin' a story,
out this is jest how it was: We hadn't
moved before in a long time, bnt pa
has had his t alary raised, so he said he
guessed we could afford to live in a
Better house: an ma said so, too.
Aunt Hester helped us move. Ma
told her she needn't take the trouble,
an' pa said she better not, for it might
break her down for life; but it didn't
stop her.
She said it needed somebody with
experience an' a level head to manage
tnovin,' an' bein' we was bound to do
it, she was bound to see ns through,
btill she thought it was a piece of non
sense, an' the house we was in was
plenty good enough.
She is pa's aunt, so that makes her
aunt to all the rest of us. I don't like
her not so very much. Pa says that's
wioked. He says she's got quite some
money, an when she dies she can't take
it with her.
He likes Aunt Hester real well, only
he didn't like her to go house huntin'
with bim an' ma, 'cause there didn't
nothin' suit her; they come home all
tired out both days; an' then they
that's pa an' ma they went off by
theirselves and hired a house without
any trouble. Aunt Hester was kind of
miffy about it, an' said most likely it
was damp, or somebody had died in it
of some catchin' disease, 'cause if it
waa all right the folks wouldn't think of
movin' ont theirselves.
She don't lika me much. She says
I'm the worst boy that ever drew the
breath of life, exceptiu' pa when he
was little, an' I am a limb of the old
block. Pa langhs an' says he guesses
I'll eome ont all right after a time; an'
she goes at him, an' shows him all how
he orto bring up his olive branches;
that's what she calls me an' the girls.
The girls is older'n I be.
I ain't such a dreadful bad boy most
times, either. My clothes are always
gettin' booked onto the picket fence
or on nails or something, an' they tear
awful easy. The cloth isn't no ways
stout enough, for Aunt Hester will
make me trousers out of pa's clothes,
in' then they tear, an' she rolls np her
eyes an' says it takes half her time to
patob. She don't have to do it, for
the don't live with us all the time.
Uncle Peter's folks have to have her
ome; but when she comes to see us
ihe stays an' stays, an' then comes
back in a little while an' stays some
nore.
She's always pickin' at the girls
tbout their hair an' clothes an' lessons,
in' patchwork; an' if they speak np to
tier, then she goes to pa, au' says she
isn't treated with due respect and
shildren wasn't brought np that way
when she was young; an' pa he has to
lalk an' talk to smooth her down.
I started to tell about movin', bnt
ther things keep comm' iu the way.
Aunt Hester said there had got to
oe some system about it or she
wouldn't lift a finger, an' so days an'
lays before the time she begun to pick
up little things around an' pack 'em
ap. She got pa's razor an' blackm'
brush put away, an' had to hunt 'em
up; an' we eat without any tablecloth
two or three days cause they had to be
all washed an' counted an packed to
gether. We had newspapers spread
n our table, an pa eat to a restaurant
eal often.
An' when we got the carpets all up,
the rooms seemed so big an' funny, an'
made a lovely noise when I run through
'em, an' up an' down the stairs; but
Aont Hester said I had got to stop
that, for the racket made her head
crack. She only said that to make me
be quiet, for there wasn't a thing the
matter with her head only a little bald
pot on top of it. She says trouble
made that an' turned her gray before
her time; she's got little gray curls that
bob when she shakes her head, which
ihe does most all the time. Ma says
she's been disappointed, an' it's had a
wurin' effect on her temper.
An' come to think, how funny it is
that there ain't no women with real
bald, shiny heads, as there is men. I
always conut 'em when I go to meetin;
we've got lo s of 'em to our church.
Deacon Smith's is the worst; he's only
got the least bit of hair back if his
ears. Mebbe Aunt Hester will git jest
like him yet. if she has any more trou
ble; an' won't she look funny then? I'd
love to aee her.
Well, there, I ain't told how we
moved yet It didn't rain, as we was
afraid it would, but was as nice as if
made a purpose. Aunt Hester said.
She got us all up awfully early, an tore
the beds down, an' the house looked
bke fury. I had a lot of things to
move. She said they was more'n half
trash an' ought to be burned, bat pa
said I should keep 'em if I wanted to;
an he got me a big box to put 'em in,
an' she said I was indulged past all be
lief, an' 1 wonld be ruined forever 1 was
groweiT np; then pa laughed an'
laughed.
MINEKAL WAX.
At the month of Nehalem Kiver, on
the coast of Oregon, is washed ashore
at high tide a substance having the ap
pearance of a mineral and the qualities
of fine beeswax. It is nlso lonnd on
shore in black soil where trees are
growing, at considerable elevations
above the water. It is Bold in Astoria
at the regular price of beeswax. It
belongs to the hydro-carbon series, al
lied to amber, a fossil remain of the
resinous trees of the Tertiary age.
Our truckman took one load off, an'
then another truckman came with the
folkses things that were goin to live
in our old house, but Annt Hester
wonldn't let him bring in a scrap of
anything till ours was all ont, an' made
him set them on the stoop au' in the
yard. He was mad as bop, an' said
bad words to himself all the while
he was unloadin' an' when she took him
to do for such language, he said some
swear words at her; she said be wasn't
' no gentleman, an' she'd have the law of
him, an' then our truckman come back
an' said the other one was in his way,
an' they got to jawin' at each other.
They was goin' to fight, but just then
Annt Hester pnt her head ont of an np
stair's winder, an' ordered our man to
come np an' git a wash-stand that min
nit. She's always puttin' in an' spoil
in' something. The men said they'd
settle tbeir trouble some other time,
but I won't be there to aee it.
Ma an' the girls went over to the
new houae,but Aunt He tar an' I staid
till the very last thing had gone, an' I
worked like a dog all the time. I was
kind o' sorry to go leave Ihe old house
after all. Ma carried the cat herself;
we've got an awful nice cat, an' she
would move him. Aunt Hester was
horryfied about that; she said we court
ed bad luck; au'ehe told of Iota of fam'
Uea that bad moved their eats, aa'
I
something awful had happened W
every single fam'iy of 'em; but ma said
she'd risk it an' Jackson should go
ith his folks.
The new house looked like every
thing when we got there. We was all
about starved, too, t n' ma hurried an'
made some coffee, an' boiled some
eggs; but when she came to open a big
box of vittlea she jest screamed. She
had some biled bam in it, an' a big
pan of baked be ma, an' a lovely eake
an' some biscuit; but Annt Hester had
found a bottle of bluein' that hadn't
been put in where it orto, so she
tucked it in the box with all them good
ies, au' the bottle had got smashed an'
the gl is an' blue stuff had run all
over the beans an' things.
Ma pat 'em straight into the ash
barrel; an' Aunt Hester says we was
the most wasteful fam'iy ever she see,
an' if we didn't come to want she'd
miss her guess for once.
There wasn't many of the dishes an'
things broke, only a couple of vases
that ma thought the world of, an' a
pitcher that was give to her when sbe
was married, an' some cups an' plates
an' such things, nothing like as much
destruction as might have been expect
ed, so Aunt Hester said. She wonldn't
have a single bedstead put np till the
carpets was put down, so that night we
slept on the lounges an' floor. Some
of us got awful colds an' pa said he'd
take his family an go to a hotel if there
couldn't be some beds put np an' we
live like Christians; so there was Borne
fixed right away, an' things finally got
bo we knew where to find 'em an' looked
good.
Ma cooked a lot more vittlea soon as
she could; an' I've got a nice big room
with a key to the door of it, an' I've
got all my things in it, an' nobody
can't snoop when I don't want 'em
to.
We have taken lots of comfort in our
new hoase since Aunt Hester went
away. She had to go. Sbe said she
knew Peter's folks was a-snfferin' for
her presence, an' we most git along
the best way we could; she couldn't be
in two places at onoe. She's goin' to
stay there all summer. I'm glad I
don't live to Uncle Peters'.
A SEAL'S INTELLIGENCE.
A few years ago some fishermen
were following their vocation off a har
bor on the Main coast, when they ob
served a commotion on the surface, and
soon made out a seal leaping from the
water as if follow d by some enemy.
It came near the boat, swimming
around it several times, and then, mak
ing a leap, the men saw that it was be
ing chased by a larg e fish.
One of the fishermen dropped his
line, and, stepping into the bow, leaned
over and held out his hands. To his
amazement, the seal immediately
dashed toward him, and, with his help,
scrambled out of the water into the
boat, just in time to escape the sharp
weapon of a sword fish that darted by,
its big eyes staring, probably in won
der at the method of escape, to its fishy
intelligence being evidently a case of
out of the frying-pan into the fire.
But the little seal apparently knew
better, and it need not be said that its
confidence was not misplaced, as the
men were so pleased with its action in
coming to them they kept it as a pet,
and the seal became a familiar object
about the shore.
The fishermen had a small house
upon the beach, in which their boats
and nets were stored, and here the
seal made its home, sleeping on a pile
of old nets, and during the day lying
upon the sands, lazily rolling over in
the enjoyment of perfect freedom.
When the men came down to the
shore, the seal was there to greet them,
frisking about and attempting to crawl
into the boat. When not taken in, it
would follow the boat out, swimming
alongside, with its intelligent black
eyes fixed upon them. If taken into
the boat, it wonld lie on the forward
deck and watch its protectors, occa
sionally eating a fish which they tossed
over to it, or diving over alter one
which they threw away.
During the winter, the seal was
moved np to the home of one of the
fishermen, where it spent much of its
time by the kitchen fire. Chas. F.
Kuider, in Golden Day a.
FOREIGN PAPER MONEY.
The Bank of England note is five
inches by eight In dimensions, and is
printed in black ink on Irish linen,
water-lined paper, plain white, with
ragged edges.
Inn notes of the Banque de France
are made of white, water-linei paper,
printed in blue and black, with nnmer
ons mythological and allegorical pic
tures, and running in deaominations
from the twenty-franc note to the one
thousand franc.
South American currency, in most
countries, is about the size an,d general
appearance of American bills, except
that oinnamon brown and slate blue
are the prevailing colors, and that
Spanish and Portugnete are the pre
vailing language engraved on the face.
The Oerman currency is rather ar
tistic. The bills are printed in green
and black. Thty run in denominations
from five to one thousand marks. Their
later bills are printed on silk fibre pa
per. The Chinese paper currency is in
red, white and yellow paper, with gilt
lettering and gorgeous little hand
drawn deviaea. The bills to the nrdi-
J nary financier, might pass for washing
bills, bnt they are worth good money
in the Flowery Kingdom.
Italian notes are of all sizes, shapet
and oolors. The smaller bills five
and ten-lire notes are printed on
white paper in pink, blue and carmine
inks, and ornamented with a finely
engraved vignette of King Humbert.
The one-hnndred-rouble note of
Russia is barred from top to bottom
with all the colors of the rainbow,
blended as when shown through a
prism. In the centre, in bold relief,
stands a large, finely-executed vignette
of the Empress Catharine I. This is
in black. The other engraving is not
at all intricate or elaborate, but is well
done in dark and light brown and
black inks.
The Australian bill is printed on
light colored, thick paper, which shows
none of the silk fibre marks or geo
metric lines used in American currency
aa a protection agaist counterfeiting.
Ka'eid scope is from the Greek kalos,
beautiful, eidos, form and skopein, to
look , and the sentence-like word means,
to look upon beautiful forms. The
lenses, mirrors and broken bits of glast
making this wonderful toy, have been
well named.
A enrlous relic of old Riman life
found recently at Lannrlum (Porto
Portese) and now stored in the British
Museum, is a thin slab of stone that
was anciently a circus poster,
NO. 34
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Teak ranks as tha best wood for
ship building.
When terrified an ostrich will
'.ravel at tne rate of 25 miles an hour.
New York is said to be the b st
market for English damask linen in
the world.
There Is but one suiden death
among women to every ten among
men.
Horse flesh has come into general
ose among the poor of Europe as aa ar
ticle of diet.
The umbrellt business does not
flourish in Aden Arabia. During the
last 29 years rain has only fallen there
twice.
A thimble is only etvmologically
considered a "thumb bolL" the original
thimbles having been worn on the
thumb.
In Quito, the only city in the
world on the line of the equator, the
tun rises and sets at 5 o'clock the year
round.
The custom of adoption Is universal
in Japan, where it is resorted to, to
keep family names fiom becoming
extinct.
A recently designed Incandescent
electric lamp, supported by springs, is
Intended for use in carriages and other
vehicles.
A French community will try the
experiment of supplying electricity to
drive 18,000 looms scattered about in
private nouses.
Pasco county, Florida, boasts of
having the oldest Soldier in the United
States. His name it Jonathan Pratt,
and he Is clalrred to be 103 years old.
In the time of Kenry VI IL Parlia
ment passed a law which declared that
on and after that dale pins should not
be sold for more than $1.(56 per 1000.
A dlsh-wasblng machine has been
for some time in use in a New York
hotel. With two persons to aitend
it, it wasLes one thousand diihes an
hour.
A large cave was recently discov
ered in Montana which contained the
bones of hundreds of animals which
bad fallen Into it and weie unable to
escape.
When the Orand Duke Paul of
Russia travels he cariies his bed with
him. He Is so tall that no ordinary
bed will enable him to stretch his
legs.
The latest use of the electric motor
in replacing human energy in the man
ipulation of the death-dealing Uatling
gun uas been found to work with great
vuccess.
Three factories In the United States
consume nearly 2,000,0:0 eggs a year in
ranking the peculiar kind of paper used
by phoiograpuers known as albumen
paper.
The underground electric railway
proposed for Paris is to traverse the
ciiy in the direction of its greatest
length, which will causo It approximate
'y to follow the course of the Seine.
Jay Gould's outlay in pocket-money
amounts to about iZ a month, and
he rarely has more than $1') in his
clothes. Nearly all his purchases are
paid for in checks.
It has been said that Washington
died duting the last hour of tbe day. on
the last day of the week, in the last
month of the year and the last year of
tbe century.
There Is still a fire burning In In
dia a sacred fire that was lighted by tbe
Parseea twelve centuries ago. Tbe fire
is led with sandal and olber fragrant
woods aud is replenished live times a
day.
Labrador, a country which we al
ways associate with Arctic snow
drifts, icebergs, etc., has 900 species of
flowering plants, fifty ferns and over
250 species of mosses and l'.ch
ens. What will be the largest electric
locomotive in the world i being con
structed at Baden, Zurich. It is to
develop 1500 to 2000 horse-power, and
will make its trial trip In a few
months.
The teak, which has passed into
proverb as the best material for ship
building, Is superior to all other woods
from tha fact that It contains an essen
tial oil which prevents spikes and mala
driven Into it from rusting.
The grouud on which Zioc's Luth
eran Church stand at Manhelm, Penn ,
was granted to the congregation 120
years ago by Baron Henry Selgel for
the consideration of the annual pay
ment of one red rose.
The delvers among the wonderful
in nature h ive discovered ao ice cave in
Kilcklial county, Washington. It is
said to be of enormoui size, but per
vaded by an atmosphere so intensely
cold as to prevent thorough explora
tion. There are seven brothers and sis
ters In New London, Conn., whose com
bined ages are 512 years. Their
family name is Comstock, and their
Christian name are Emily, Orlando,
Cordelia, John, Frank, Ezra, and
Stephen.
A stream near Tucson, Arizona,
petrifies all soft substances thrown
into it. It is In the great Colorado
potato beetle belt, and at tbe time of
their migrations thousands of them
strike tbe water and are converted into
solid stone.
An English firm has Invented an
Ingenious device for turning on tbe
currents for electric lamps at a certain
hour. Ad ordinary clock is so adjusted
that at tbe desired moment a spring is
released, permitting a pair of pivoted
contacts to fall into mercury cups, thus
completing the circuit.
Tbe rate of progression of a storm
Is often fifty miles an hour, and a aeries
has been traced in a direct line from
north to South, a distance ot 400
miles. Mr. Marriott thinks that the
average altitude of a thunder storm
does not extend beyond about 5030 feet
bove the earth's surface.
The man who has the courage to fail
In trying to do right, rather than suc
ceed lu wrong. Is the real hero, no
matter whether be wears a paper cap
or a crown on bis head.
Our life U determined for us; and It
makes tbe mind very free when we
give up wishing, aud think only of
bearing what Is laid upon us, and
doing what is given us to do.
The man who says he will welcome
death at a release from a life made up
of sorrow, generally sends for four
doctors when be has tbe colic.
People Intend to do their test, but
somehow they do nothing during tha
day they can think of without regret
when they are alone at night. 1
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