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B. F. BOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE DNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Bdltaar sad
VOL. XLVI1I
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1894.
NO. 45
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UNWEEPIMG.OR UNWEtT,
Tnw?pt. unhoeored and unsung'
Were not the worst of Fortune s i rlnlnjj
Dread, rather, thine own eyes an 1 tonui
fnweepini? and luwingln.
tTnweepintf for thy brother, lo:in 1
But struggling in the Soulier Nigh,
Unsincrini; from thy vantage-frroun I
Th happy tidings of tbe Light.
Weep and be sure thou shult tie wept.
Ein; gladly, and the joy-sounds rin;rtnr
Uaf wake some soul, which long bath spt,
To echo back thy singing.
Let fall thy tears ! Let rise thys'r.tln !
Bo canst thou never be amoaf
Those heritors of man's dii.laiu.
The "unwept, unhonore 1 an i unsung.
-J. Edmund V. Cooie, in Independent
Karl Hagenbeck's Adventures
AKL- haoe X
BECK, the famous
dealer in animals,
and I stood by the
rase of boa con
strictor and py
thons in Ham
br.rg. . The hu:je
or 'ntv.res lay quiet
nil still, with
Vnrl r ..or, tl
' a .'J. J tou some curious
lYn? a'lont taoss snakes. That hiie
i.o.-. roa'tr; 'tor," he continued, point-
to n s;ii:ie that lay coiled up in a
r.r:n-r by itelf, "iirts swallowed - fenr
v "iol f ht-ep in una day, and nina days
r t -i svi'.r.l it was ready for number Ave.
j p.-.-i remember onee we threw a rab
bit into a ea?e where there were two
ranUes. While the ionr little animal
v as shiverinar i" a coi-uer with fright
two reptiles fo;ight together as to
Ul-'i of th-'.i should ent it; the
i: -r i lia gained thfl victory, aud
. i- '. : n:i; re'ired to th3 otiiT ead
' tn e.y:s mil l.iy down, ns though
.'nrlL'.l ot by th? convict. Tin other
i n'-:e nuv.m.'ei! noon it- prey, ami nf
i r n while it aNo lay down, with the
i.ibbit insula it. The bigger snake
j -n, seeing the helpless condition of
i.s eui-my, seemed to rouse itself, and
r. moment nfterwar :s it vigorously nt
ticked the crentur-; that lay gorged in
i'.ie corner. We all rushed to sea wh?.t
vj:i' 1 InviiTi. and, I declare to roi',"
r miin ied Mr. Hagfn'wk, "ih".! in. A
Very hhoi'i time the big snn'te had
t.7.a:iu.vcd luo small snake, rabbit aud
rll.
tVonld you like to sea th?m in
ration? 'aid Mr. Hagenbeck to me, and
ns ha tpoke he opened the cage door
sad bohUy atejiped iu among the huge
s'eepy beasts, lie then began lifting
them up by their enormous coils, just
as one would lift up great coils of rope,
and there was noon a mighty stirring
nuiongst the irurt masses. Furious and
e nraged they writhed to and fro, their
fc.'n'.e: glittering in the light of the
mn. With tremendous hissing and
indited rearing back of their heads
pn l conduit projection of their long,
forced tngues, they began to move
abo.it t'uj cage. "I think I will get
ont now," said Mr. Hagenbeck. "I
hid a tight onee before with snakes,
r.nd I don't want to have another," he
continued as he closed the doors.
;I wish yon would tell me about H,"
raid I; '"it must have been very
dreadfully interesting," and also I felt
sure my American readers would enjoy
tome good "snake" stories.
"Certainly I will," he replied, "and
I can assure you," he added, with a
shudder at the thought, "that it was
most painfully interesting to me. I
very nearly lost my life on that occa
sion. It happened in this way. There
were eight full grown pythons in one
cage. I wanted to put them alt Into
one huge box to send them oflf to a
menagerie. I handled the first six all
right enough, collaring them, as is
usnal, by the back of the neck and
dropping them into the box. Then I
went for number 6even. As soon as I
entered the cage she flew at me with
oper. mouth, but seeing her coming I
took off my hat and thrust it at her,
and she bit her teeth into it. I then
collared her with the right hand at the
back of the neck and dragged her
down into the lower partition of the
cage. However, when I was going to
fetch her out she reared her head for
another attack. I then made a cautions
movement forward ; at the same mo
ment she darted her head at me. X
met the second attack with my hat in
the same way as I did the first. I
then got hold of her by the back of the
neck, but I found, to my horror, that
I couldn't let her go, as all at once she
coiled herself around my legs.
"By good fortune one of my assist
ants was standing near. I called for
him and he came rushing np to me,
knowing by the sound of my voice that
there was something very dreadful the
matter, and so indeed there was, for I
saw it was going to be a fight for life
or death. However, I kept perfectly
cool and gave the order to my assist
ant to tiy and uncoil the serpent, which
he attempted to do as well as he pos
sibly could. I also managed to with
draw my legs from her coils. Then I
dropped, holding her tight all the
time, as I was determined to get her
into the box, and I didn't want to have
all that trouble for nothing," continued
the brave man as coolly as one could
possibly imagine.
"However," he went on, "I wasn't
ont of the woods, even then, as yon
English call it, for just as I thought I
was getting away all right and could
get her safely into the box the lust
pvthon in the cage, a tremendous giant,
also tried to attack mc. As soon as I
saw this I called out to my assistant to
throw a blanket over her. This he
managed to do. At the same moment
I moved backwards ont of the cage and
cot Tree of it altogether and then I had
x V.tAc rest. Jfr men tried to dissuade
3 rroin going baci:, each ot tiieiu bay
ag they would not do it. I felt v.-y
rx'httusted, but my temper was fairly
ap and I determined I wouldn't bo
heateu. j, a.cUr a fs.v moments, I
rttnned again into tho cage, caught
the'rn both round Vis lucks of their
teek. ii.vje:l tjew r.s quickly an I
uid to the tde ' thJ cuge and then
I rt-s-cen Mr, v.v t'ueui iito th box.
I n ! ,..,t niv r.Kitu3tii bccl neiir iaJ
i .i'n'ii coill lutf taved IB9 from Vci
i . ,. iooo.: i. dcui'i- Ah ! it was a
t-rrii.io udveataie," toatinued Mr.
ll::ab3k. "audi don't want tvait
f.7fi f-f "'4 never movement
trh'd'i tk''';0'7i totelltheonlook
'4VJ I i'fcOT -tUer th:-y
JVfl I ereshveordead.
V V ft -"Ah!" said
isr experience again, Bow corns ano$
i look at my alligators and I will tell yon
r j . , ... .
ui bu auventure i naci tritn them.
Passing by an enormous aviary in
which flattered and screamed thou-
sands of beautiful parrots, we came at
last to a large tank in which were slow.
ly paddling round some spiteful look- '
iajr alligators. There," said Mr. 1
Hagenbeck, as he pointed to the cruel
looking beasts, "I had a ghastly ad-
venture with them once. I had to
pack sixteen of them np for the Du '
seldorf Zoological Gardens. I grappled
Iw.l 1 f U A 4. 1 1 -
noia oi tne first one and was
puiiing
him ashore, when he gave a frighful
Mow with his tail and knocked me into
the tanV, where for a brief moment, I
was alone with fifteen alligators.
Those who were standing by told me
that as soon as I splashed in a number
of them made a rush. However, I was
ont again like an India rubber
ball ; but the whirl of the water aud
the open jaws of the disappointed
beasts told me that I had not been one
second too smart. This was a very
ritrrow escape an if one of the croco
diles had happened to get hold of me,
all the rest would have attacked me,
snapping and biting at me at one and
the same moment, until there would
have been nothing left of me at all
: "Alligators are the most determined
fighters even amongst themselves.
Hix of them, each about fourteen feet
long, had a frighful fight amongst
themselves once, and so desperately
did they fight that within fourteen
days they were all dead. Three of
them had their jaws broken, and in
come cases their legs were torn right
out of their bodies. This oeourred at
night, and one of the keepers, happen
ing to hear the frightful noise which
was made by the clashing of their jaws.
rushed off to tell me what was happen
ing.
We lit our lanterns and hurried
to the scene of action, but beyond try
ing to separata them with long poles it
was little we could do. They would
only renew the fight with greater
fiereeness than ever, and so terribly
were they wounded that, as I said,
they were all dead in a fortnight.
Now, when I get a new consignment
of alligators I always muzzle them for
four days with a rope ; they then calm
down and I out the rope off; other
wise, if I did not do that they would
begin fighting as soon as they came
out of the box, for the first sight of
daylight after the long journey always
teem to excite- them.
"A fight amongst the snakes, also, is
a terrible thing. I had once five big
pythons, each over sixteen feet long,
in one cage. One of the keepers flung
in a dead rabbit amongst them, and
two of them, being very hungry, at
tacked it at once. At the same mo
ment the other four flew at thera and
in one moment all the six were in one
writhing lump. The keeper fetched
me and I at once attempted to uncoil
them. I succeeded but hardly had I
done so, when the fight began between
the first two. The larger one threw
his tail round the small one's neck and
squeezed it with such force against the
wall, that it lost all power, then the
bigger snake got hold of the rabbit
and swallowed it, after which it
gradually loosened its hold of the
smaller snake. Then came revenge ;
the small snake flew at the big one,
which was rendered almost helpless by
its huge meal, bit it in the back,
coiled round and round it, and
eqneezed it till it could hardly breathe,
although it screamed as I had never
heard any living creature scream be
fore. When I went to see them next
morning they were all right and per
fectly good frfffnds.
"I was once turned out of bed at 1
o'clock in the morning by one of my
keepers, who came in with the news
that the big kangaroo had jumped a
six-foot fence into the next stable, in
which there was a large hippotamus.
When I came down there was a most
wonderful fight going on. The kanga
roo stood up to his belly in water,
whilst the hippopotamus, with wide,
open javrs, snapped at him right and
left. However, the kangaroo managed
to 'set in' a good right and left with
his front legs, and scratched the hip
popotamus in the face tremendously.
When the hipopotamus eame to elose
quarters, the kangaroo jumped up,
gave him a tremendous blow with hia
hind legs, and thsn managed to get on
to dry land. I caught the kangaroo
with a big net, and for all the fighting
there wasn't very much harm done."
Just as Mr. Hagenbeck finished talk
ing, the polar bear at our rear begun
growling. Mr. Hagenbeck went np to
soothe and pet him. Then he said to
me : "I expect I am pretty nearly the
only man in the world who can say
that he ever rut the nails of
polar bear. It was this very beast,
and I will tell you how it all happened.
The poor beast's nails had grown into
its foot, causing it a great deal of pain.
We tried to get the feet into a sling
and pull them through the bars, but
this was very troublesome. So I got
him into a narrow cage which had an
iron-barred front ; this I turned up
side down so that the bear had to
stand on the bars of the cage ; then
the cage was lifted up about four fe-?t
above the ground. I went underneath
with a sharp pair of pinchers, and as
he stood there with his toes pressed
through the bars I managed to pull
the nails out. Then I stood him in
water to wash and cool his wounds,
and in a few days be was all light.
"On another occasion a royal Ben
. yal tiger was suffering very much from
toothache, so two of my men held him
by the collar and whilst one of my at
tendants opened his mouth my brother
! in-law and I took some pinchers and
I pulled out the teeth which hd been
giving him so much pain, and which,
indeed, had grown so badly that they
bad hindered him from biting his food
' properly.
"However, perhaps the most terrible
' dventure that I ever had occurred in
i Munich during the Centennial fete in
1888. I was going in a long proces
sion with eight elephants, and the
streets were very crammed. Now, it
chanced that we had to pass a great
big iron dragon which, by some me
chanical contrivance, began to spit fire
as soon as we got near it. Four of the
elephants at once took fright and ran
awav, which was only natural, and
then the other four followed suit. The
people rushed after them with sticks
and loud cries, which really only made
matters worse. I managed to get be
tween two of them and caught hold I
them, but it was of no good, aa ey
ran witlimtfcJLaj i laajtnjunjL 1
was torn from side to aide, "and, in
deed, at one moment I waa nearly
ruahel tn deAth hv ilium acainftt the
nlli nf m. Knnu At W tn nt)m
elephants came up and I managed to.
persuade them all four to stand atilL.
Just as I had done so the stupid crowd;
came rushing up, and away they wont
again. I was too tired to do anything
more. All four of them rushed into i
house ; the bottom gave way, and they
fell into the cellar. A new house hu
now been bnilt there which is called to
this day 'The Four Wild Elephants.1
.... . '
a tot oi people were hurt ; some, in-
deed, were killed, but, as the Polie
President had seen all that happened,
I was held free of blame. Still it wai
the most wonderful adventure I evei
had, and how I escaped being crushed
to death I cannot understand to thii
day. " Atlanta Constitution.
Poisonous Plants.
Professor Brooks told the Massachu.
setts Horticultural Society, recently,
that there are thirty-nine poiaonoui
plants in the United States which art
now or have been used in the treat
ment of disease; many of the
most virulent poisons are of vege
table origin. By far the greater num
ber of vegetable poison are alkaloids,
a few are acids and gluoosides. Mor
phine derived from the popy is one oi
the best known alkaloids. One of the
most poisonous aoids is oxalic acid;
the buttercups furnish examples of th
gluoosides ; the poisonous essential oili
are illustrated by the oil of hemlock,
tansy and juniper.
The lower orders of vegetable organ
isms develop on such nitrogeniout
foods as fish and meat an active poison
called ptomaines. The numerous in
stances of illness and even death re-
suiting from eating mushrooms should
serve to cause the refusal of all kind
not positively identified. The poetical
allusion to the peaceful cow producing
golden butter from having grazed on
the yellow buttercup, lacks truth, at
the buttercups are more or less pois
onous and cows refuse to eat them.
A virulent poison is the essential oil
extracted from white mustard seeds.
The seed corn cockle sometimes ground
with grain has been known to cause
injurious consequences. Oxalic acid
' is not present in sorrel in such quanti
! ties as to render its moderate use in
' jurious, but the practice of children
eating these leaves should be discour
aged. Death has followed from eating
the roots of the wild parsnip, whiob
are especially dangerous in the second
year. Children should be particularly
warned against eating the berries oi
the black night shade. The poison ivy
is well known and is poisonous to most
persons. A thorough washing after a
botanical excursion is a preventative
of slight poisoning, and a bath in a
weak solution of baking soda will often
act as an antidote. Some plants, like
the potato and celery, are poisonous in
their wild state. The Japanese are
known to use eighty-four kinds ol
plants for "greens" and have discov
ered many poisonous species; theit
workmen on lacquer often become vio
lently poisoned from the vegetable
poisons in the polishes and varn:"s.
' New England Farmer.
Birth of England's Great Bank.
The Bank of England was projected
in 1C94 to meet the difficulty ex
perienced by William IIL in raising
funds for the French war. William
Paterson and Michael Godfrey induced
forty merchants to subscribe to a loan
of $6,000,000 to the Government at
eight per cent., the subscribers being
incorporated as a bank.
Tne scneme
was onDosed in Parliament, bnt the
bill passed and the charter was granted
July 27. 1694. Sir John Houblon bein
the first Governor and Michael God
frey the first Deputy Governor. Tho
bank began active operations July 1,
1695, issuing notes and discounting
bills. The notes were for $100 and
upward and the usual rate of discount
was six per cent.
A River Shunned by Indian.
The Wiahkah River is shunned bv all
Indians. Even when crossing from
the Quiniault or Humptulips country
to the Wynooche they avoid crossing
the Wishkah by going around to the
north of its source. Their tradition is
that many ages ago some great eagle
captured an enormous whale on the
coast and carried it to the head waters
of the river, and that the whale's de
caying body poisoned the entire river,
so that a great epidemic came and
killed all the Indians living along the
stream, and the waters of the river are
dangerous even unto this day. From
this tradition the beautiful river has
its unsavory name, which in the Indian
tongue, means "Stinking waters "
Portland Oregonian.
The Power of Charmlax Snakes.
In India and, to a certain extent. In
other Oriental countries, the profes
sion of serpent charming is said to Im
hereditary, and has been practiced
from remotest antiquitv. The serpent
charmer possesses a power beyond that
of other men of knowing when ne is
within close proximity to a concealed
reptile, long practice having, probably,
given them a fine sense of smell which
enables them to detect the odor emitted
by the serpent, even though it be so
faint as not to attract the attention of
the novice. These wily fakirs usually
ascribe their powers to some constitu-
tional peculiarity, Dut it nas Deen
but it naa Deen
noticea mat tney geuerai.j p j
fangs and extract the venom glands or .
the reptiles handled in giving exnibi-.1
tions. What power the human voice,
1 - : 4 V a mrttmna nf
may uavv iji tuunvii'" ...w
these venemous creatures is uncertain ;
however, it has been noted that ser
pent charmers continually talk, sing,
whistle or have an attendant play npon
some shrill musical instrument during
the time exhibitions are being given.
That these sounds have their influence
there is not the least doubt. The
"charmer" also exerts an influence
over these creatures with his eye, some
reputable travelers declaring that they
have seen fakirs control and govern
their poisonous pets by merely fixing
their iyes steadfastly upon those tf
the serpents. St. Louis Republic.
Tamarack is tba most elastic wood
Imitation vase Una has bean invent
ed.
Cork bricks are about aa heavy as
ordinary noroua bricks,
TiiE BIGGEST GOLD MINE
SITUATED IU THB INTERIOR OX
VENEZUELA.
nas Produced $33,000,000 'WOTth ot
Treasure That Blight Have Been
I- Mined for 3,00O,t00.
FORGE E. WEBBER, JR., for
( the past seven years superin
tendent of the El Callado gold
mine, situated some 400 miles
above the mouth of the Orinoco River
in southeastern Venezuela and thirty
miles inland, arrived in the city a few
days ago, and next week departs for
the South African gold fields as an ex
pert for the Rothschilds of London to
examine into and report upon the pros
pects in the Transvaal.
The story told by Mr. Webber about
the discovery of El Callado and its ex
traordinary gold output would seem
like a page from the "Arabian Nights"
if it had not been fortified by facts. In
18C8 some Jamaica negroes hearing
some stories about gold to be found on
the big river on the South American
coast sailed over to the Orinoco, as
cended it, and stopped near where some
natives and Americans were "placer
ing. " They worked inland and soon
acquired as much information about
placer diggings as the rest of the min
ers, and gradually, when it became
known to them that the formation was
quartz, cut their way with machetes
through the raesquite and chapparal
until they found the cropping of a
ledge prolific with gold. It was not
more than forty feet long and from
eighteen to twenty-four inches wide,
but was so rich in sparkling gold that
it assayed $2 to the pound. Much oi
this ore on the surface went up into the
thousands, but was worked in a rude
and imperfect way. The Jamaicans di
vided the territory among themselves
into numerous little companies, and
when the extraordinary yield of their
work went down to the traders on the
river they called the source from which
it came El Callado the mysterious.
In that way the camp became known to
the rest of the world.
The unexampled prosperity of the
negroes brought trouble not only on
themselves but on the authorities, and
the Prefect of the district finally com
polled them to sell out their claims to
a number of Corsican traders several
hundred miles on the river below.
The Corsicans were men of superior
intelligence, but know nothing about
the mining business, and it cost them
when they took rbarge of tne mines
$200 a ton to extract and work ore,
which in California or on the Corn-
stock would not cost more than $6
ton. Notwithstanding this and the
fact that in 1800-62 all of the machin
ery to work the mines came from Mex
ico, operated by arastras, the rough
method which literally means
"dragged around in misery" the
mines vielded enormously and -up to
1870 produced $15,000,000, the great
bulk of which was pure profit.
The phenomenal yield of the mine
in 1876 attracted the attention of the
Rothschilds. The great financiers sent
the California expert, Hamilton Smith,
w ho from 1868 to 1876 had been super
intendent of the North Bloomfield, to
negotiate for the purchase of the mine.
Mr. Smith offered, on behalf of the
Rothschilds, 82,000,000 for the mine.
The offer was refused, because the
owners believed they could find an
other bonanza lower down. The same
year the offer was refused the mine
turned out $3,000,000 in gold. In 1878
Mr. Smith, after a trio to London,
came back and offered '$3,000,000 for
it, which was again refused, and that
vcar the mine turned out 85,000,000,
' one-half of which was profit
It is said by gentlemen familiar
vrith mining operations that Mr. Smith
made a report after that to the effect
that the mine was petering out, and no
further negotiations for the sale of the
mine were attempted, but certainly
Mr. Smith made a third and successful
attempt to purchase the property in
1883, paying for it around $5,000,000.
The mine up to that time had pro
duced $18,000,000, ..The Rothschilds
incorporated the institution at SI 0,000,
000, and the stock was placed ex
clusively on the London Stock Ex
change and the Paris Bourse. In the
intervening ten years the mine has
produced $7,000,000. How much of
that yield has been profit it is difficult
to ascertain, lmt considering the fact
that much improvement was made on
the old ' style of operating the mine
and the accessibility to the ore, there
necessarily accrued a large profit to
the owners. It was not like delving
below the earth's surface 2500 or 3000
feet, like on the Comstock.
In the earjy days of, the mine so rich
was the ore that the owners were com
pelled to resort to methods similar to
those In vogue in the Natal diamond
fields. It is estimated by Mr. Webber
that $33,000,000 were produced in the
limited urea above discribed, of which
87,000,000 were stolen either by the
Jamaican or native miners. They re
sorted to pretty much the same tricks
as those of the native diggers in the
gouth
African diamond fields. In
portions of the quartz the gold was
pure virgin and the decomposed quartz
had merely to be broken away, and by
a simple manual operation everyone of
thn two or three hundred men em
ployed could stow away two or three
ounces of the precious metal about his
person. In that manner millions were
carried away and given to the village
i ,i
and river trfulers for rum tobacco, and
3neU other BrticlcB as are known to be
llesired on the boraers of civilization,
When the fact became known the
....Hntpn.Wt. hit nm tbe xr.Tt
C
of erecting a searching room near the
inouth of the shaft, where every miner,
whether a foreman or a cross-cut miner,
had to be searched.
Mining men in San Francisco say
that the product of the Comstock mines
ras between '$70,000,000 and $80,000, -100.
In th'it estimate they say t'a.
the proportion of gold and silver waa
fifty-five per cent of the former and
forty-five of the latter. But in the
sase of El Callado it was all gold and
in that respect exhibits the most re
markable contrast to any mine known
in recorded history.
The ore is a perfectly pure gold ore
carrying only oiir-hulf of one per cent,
mhihurct and not the slightest trace'
f silver, and considering the fact 1 hat
in about thirty years it produced more
Uian $1 ,000,000 a year, with the crudest
nethods imaginable, it is regarded with
its net crofits of more than ball thj
output, as ihe greatest mine the world J
ver aaw. Had such a mine been dis- .
covered "in the mineral bearing belt ol
the Pacific coast at anytime within
the past quarter of a century the ex-1
l oi nnn nnn wnnld not
have cost $3,000,000. i
Experts believe that tne mine nai
..li.nulaii Tr? that tha futnri
source of the world's gold supply cat
only be looaea lor irom wo qunrwri
the Pacific coast and the TransvaaL
San Francisco Examiner.
SELECT SIFTIXGS. !
At London a telephone costs S50 a
year.
It would require 12,000 microbes to
form a procession an inch long.
There are tides in the Mediterra
nean Sea, but they are very small.
The catacombs of Rome contain the
remains of about 6,000,000 people.
A convict in the Vermon State Prison
received $12,000 for a piece of real es
tate a few days ago.
The most remarkable springs in the
world are in California ; they produce
sulphuric acid and ink.
Greek temples erected in honor ol
the superior deities were always un
covered or open to the sky.
The smallest bird is the West India
humming bird. Its body is less than
an inch long, and weighs but twenty
grains.
A set of false teeth, around which
oysters had formed, was unearthed by
dredgers near Moorehead City, on the
Gulf coast. .
A man at Charlestown, ML, has just
been convicted under the law of 1723.
His offense was working on Sunday.
The judge reserved sentence.
The whole of Manhattan Island was
purchased from the Indians for sixty
Dutch guildersr "some of them," it ia
said, "being of a doubtful metal."
Aunt Eunice Conrad, who lives in
Pendleton County, West Virginia, ie
116 years old. Sho-is a widow of a
soldier of the war of 1812, and draws a
pension therefor.
The oldest member of the Philadel
phia police force, Daniel Kendig, ie
eighty-two years of age, and still does
duty as a guard at the Mayor's office.
He is as vigorous as the average man
of fifty.
In the basement of the Bank of
England, London, is the barracks
wherein half a hundred soldiers are
quartered from 7 o'olock every evening
until 7 o'clock the next morning for
the protection of the bank.
There were ninety-five words in the
original cablegram, the famous despatch
from Queen Victoria to President
Buchanan. Owing to a defect of the
wires the transmission of the message
consumed twenty-four hours.
The heads of persons beheaded for
state offenses were formerly exposed to
view upon long poles on London Bridge.
The last head so exhibited was that of
Venner, the fifth monarchy zealot, be
headed in the reign of Charles II.
There has been discovered a German
book printed at Philadelphia and dated
1705, twenty years after the settlement
of Philadelphia's suburb of German
town and thirty years earlier than the
date hitherto assigned to the first
printing of a German work in Phila
delphia. About the year 1767 the beats and
calls of the drum, then used in the ser
vice, were put into a permanent shape.
The tattoo, or beat of the drum calling
soldiers to their quarters at night, was
once called "tap-too," from the Ihitch
word signifying "no more drink to bo
tapped or sold."
Crinoline dates from the days of
Queen Elizabeth and survived until the
Commonwealth. It appeared again in
1711 and was enlarged in 1744 and con
tinued to the end of the century. It
was abolished by Georgo IV. From
1856 to 1866 it flourished in all its glory
and attained its largest dimensions.
A dog that sucks eggs can always be
cured by boiling an egg very soft, then
placing it, as hot as boiling watr can
make it, in the dog's mouth and slam
ming his jaws together, so as to break
the egg in his month. No matter how
long he may have been abdicted to egg
sucking, one dose of soft boiled eggs
will answer for the remainder of his
days.
I Geography of the Moon.
' Sir Robert Ball is reported to have
said in his lecture on the moon that
the geography of our satellite was bet
ter known even than that of the earth.
There was not a single spot on the
moon the size of an ordinary parish in
England that has not been photo
graphed and observed. Of course this
remark can only relate to the side of
the moon which is always turned
towards us. Nearly one-half of her
surface has never been seen by mortal
eye, and never will be, unless the lunar
globe should be tilted by collision with
comet or some other erratic body.
Otherwise it is a fact that photography
has done more for the earth's atten
dant than for itself. It is analogous
to the further fact that the only things
which man can predict with certainty
ire not those that happen on the
sphere he inhabits, but the movements
of worlds immensely distant. London
Telegraph,
A Railroad Trip to Cape Horn,
The growth of friendly relatious be
tween this country and the South
American states ought to proceed
more rapidly as the railroad links
between them and us are completed.
It is not generally known bow near to
completion tne scheme to connect all
parts of the two continents has been
brought At present the traveler can
board the cars at New York and step
from them at the City of Mexico,
over three thousand miles away.
Railroad connection will soon be
finished from there to Avutia, a placa
on the northern frontier, of Guatem
ala, 700 miles further on. The drive
Into the continent beyond will be
undertaken as soon as the inter-continental
commission, jointly ap
pointed by this country and South
American Republics, shall determine
bow bast It may ba dona. So that
tha day when si man may talk of run
ning down to Cape Horn for a day or
two -la not nearly so distant as one
niaylhink. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
DPI IIU TAlMAitK
IMJI Vlll a imsiiiaiauaw
XHB BROOKLYN DIVINE'S 8U
DAT SJUtMON.
Subject: "Hadasssah.
Tbbt; "and he brought ap Hadassah,"
EstberiL.7.
A besaiifnl child was horn In the capital
OfPerMa, She ma an orphan an'l a capttve,
tier purits havinr been sio'en from their
IaranHtleb home and earried to Shahn and
had diet, leaving their daughter poor and
tn a stranon Inn l. But an Isriellte who had
been oarrwJ Into the same captivity was at-ewot-i
by the c:i- of the orphan. He edu
cated ber fn bis holv rellirlon, and under tha
roof of that good man this adopted child be
gan to develop a swe-tnK8 and exeelleney
of character, if ever equaled, certainly never
Burpnse-'. Bnuttfnl Hadassah! Coold
that adopted father ever spare her from his
hnupehoM1' Her artlessness, her girlish
sports, her fnnooenee, her orphanage, had
wonnd themselv-w thoroughly around his
heart, jut as around each parent's heart
jmone ns there are tendrils climbtau and
tst"niog and blossoming and growing
i. ronifer.
I expect he was like others who have
lov"'. ones at home wondering sometime if
tickness will come and death and bereave
ment. Alas, worse than anything that the
let ner expects hnppens to his adopted child?
A'wsneru", a princely scoundrel, demands
that FFtdassnh. the fairest one in all tha
kingdom, become his wife. Worse than
death, was marriage to such a monster of ini
quity'! Bow crreat the cbamre when this
young woman left the home where 6od was
worshiped and mlttrion honored to enter a
I'.'ilaee devoted to pride; idolatry and sensu
a iiv ! '.'As a lam to the slaughter !"
- Ahnsueruo knewot that hia wile was a
Jewess. At the insti -m ion of the infamous
prime minister the king decreed that all the
J"ws in the land should be slain. Hadassab,
p ends the cause of her people, breaking
thrq?h the rules of the court and present- .
In ; herself in tho verv face of death, crying,
tf 1 perish. I perish !" Oh, Jt was a sad
time among that enslaved people! They had.
ell heard the deer e concerning tbeirdeatb.
Borrow, tr.iunt an 1 chastlv, sat in thousands
of households, and mothers wildly pressed
their in lints to their "breasts as tho days ot
mnssnere hastened on, praying that the same
swor-i stroke which slew the mother might
so slny the child, rosebud and bud perish
lair in tne same bissr. .
But Hidassah is bus rat court. The hard
henrt ot the king is touched by her story,
iD.l a'thongh he could not reverse his de
cree .or thaslayin? ot tne Jews he sent forth
n order that they should arm themselves
for .elene. On horseonck, on mules, on
dromedaries, messengers sped through the
Imi'l bearing the king's dispatches, and a
shout ot joy went np irom th;it enslaved
people at tne faint hope o! success. I doubt
tot many a rusty blade was taken down and
jn"ri ned. Cniearded youths grew stout a
prints at tho thought of deiending mothers
tin i sisters. Desperation strung up cowards
into heroes, and fragile women grasping
tneir weapons swung them about the oradlea,
Im patient for them to strike ths blow in be
half oi Household an 1 country.
The day of exe.-ution dawneS. Govern
ment offlMal, armed and drilled, cowed be
fore the attle s out ot t he oppressed people.
Tie cry of defeat rang back to the palaces,
hut ubove thn mountains of dead, above
7.000 crushed an-1 mini gled corpses, sounded
the triumph o. tne delivered Jews, andtheir
rnrhu-iasm was as when tne highlands!
ra-ne to the relief of Lucknow, and the Sng
fish army, which stoo 1 ia the very" jaws ot
death, at the su l ien hops of assistance and
rescue lifted the shout above belching can
non nn 1 the denth vrom of hosts, cryljg
V are saved 1 We are s ived !"
SIv subject affoms me opportunity of il-lu-.i
rating what Christian character may ba
n .ertbe greatest disadvantage. There is
no Christian now exactly what be wmts to
be. Tour standard is much higher thaa any
thing you have attained nnto. If thera be
any man o puffed up as to be thoroughly
ausfted with the amount ot ex-ellency ha
has already attame l, 1 nave nothing to say
to sunn a one, but to those who are dissatis
fied with past attainments, who are toiling
under disadvantages which are keeping
thera from being wnat they ought to be, I
have a messige irom God. You each of yoa
labor under difficulties. There is something
in yuurtemp-niovnt in your worldly cir
cumstances, in your calling, that acts pow
erfully against you. Admitting all this, I
Intro nee to you Hailassah of the text, a
noble Christian notwithstanding the most
gigan'io iffl -ulties. 8!ie whom you might
have expects i to be one ot the worst of wo
men is on" oTthe liest.
In the flr-t place, our subj-ct is an lllus
trai .on of what Cnrist ian cnaracter may be
un !er orphanage This Bible line tells a
long slory a out Hadassnh. "She had
neither father nor mother."- A noble:nan
become her iruanl'an, but there is no oaa
who cm take the place of a pan-nr. Who so
able at nicht to hear a child's prayer, or at
twilight to c-niilc voiith.nl wanderings, or to
soothe vouthiul sorrows? An individual will
gothrough life b-iirin;the uiarksof orphan
age. It will requir.! more strength, mora
pertdsti-ac, more grace to make such a one
the rght k -id of a C ihns ian. He who at
tony vears loses a parent must reel under
the t.tow. Even down to old age men are
accustomed to rely upon the counsel or
be powerfully influenced by the advioe of
parents, if they are s-ill alive. But how
niucri greatertheueruavemeiit when it comes
In early lite, before the character is sell re
liant, and when naturally the heart Is unso
phisticated aud ea-ily tempted !
An i vet behold wii a ro dlity of disposi
tion Halassah exhibited 1 Thongh faiher
mother were gone, gra;e had triumphed over
all disadvantages. Her w.llingness to seb
sacrifice, her control over the king, bet
humility, her faitn ul worsnip of Gol. show
her to have been one ol the best of the world's
Christians.
There are those who did not enjoy re
mark able early pnvilo-'es. Perhaps, like the
beautiful captive o: the text, you were an
orphan. You had huge sorrows in your tit
tie heart. You sometimes wept in tbe night
when you knew not wbat was the matter.
Yoa felt sad sometimes even on the play-
groun L Yonr- father or mother did not
stand in the door to welcome you when you
ame home from a long journey. You still
feel the effect of enrly disa (vantages, and
you have sometimes offered them as a reason
for vour not being as thoroughly religious
as you would like to be. But these ex -ases
are not sufficient. God's gracs will triumph
11 you seek it. Ho knows what obstaoiesyou
have fought against, nnd tne more trial tba
more hem. After all. there are no orphans
in the world, lor tbe great Ood lathe Father
f us all.
Again, our subject is an Illustration ot
v ml religion may be under the pressure of
poverty. The captivity and crushed condi
tion of this orn j.ui girl and of the kin 1 man
wba ailotited her suggest a condition ot
poverty. Yet from t ie very first acquaint.
aaee we had with H id issah we find her tba
same bappy ant contented Christian. It
was oniv bv compulsion she was afterward
ts ken into a sphere ot honor and afnueneet
In the humble home of Mor'wji', her
adapted father, she was a Mgst that ft
luiumed every prlvaticn. In soma perloi
in almost every man s life there tomes a
season of straitened elreamstanees, when
t he severest calculation and most scraping
economy are necessary tn.ordxr.to saiat-
ence and respectability. at me ommeaes
ment of tmsiness. at tha entrance pt a
I profession, when LrienJs are lew and the
world is airaia ot you utanun io
luxsitiihtv of failure, aianv of tha noblest
j hearts have struggled against poverty and
i are now struggling.
To inch I bear a message f seed eh
I Too sav it is a hard thing for yoa to be a
1 Christian. This constant anxiety, this un.
; resting calculation, wear out the buoyancy
n vour nirit. and although v havii told
perhaps no one about It cannot X tall that
fhH Is the very trouble wnicti kepa yo
from be:Dg what you ought to be? You hav
no time to think aliout laying up treasure!
In heaven when it is a matter ot great doubt
whether you will be enabled to pay your nexl
quarter's rent. You cannot think of strlvin
alter a robe of righteousness uatll yen
get means enongh to buy aa overaoat to kerf
outtbeeold. Yoa want tha biead of UK
Tou think vou must get alone withCM
until you can buy another kaarel of flaar tot
your wife and children sometimes you sit
down oUcouragod and almest wish ye. w
Again, our suhjeot Hlastrates what mllcttaai I
ay be ander the temptation of personal aa
may
tract! Ten ass.
The Inspire-! record says of
the heroin of mr teat. "She waa fair
Beautiful.' Hsr very nam signified a
yrtle. Yet tha adtaicatioa and paahw and
flattery e' the world dM aot bttgtK her ha
nvliry. The simplicity of her manners and
behavior equaled bar extraordinary attrac
tions. It is tbe same divine goodness whieb.
puts the tinge M tho rose's ohoak, and too
whiteness into the lily, andPthe gleam on the
wave, and that puts motor in the obeek and
sparkle ia the era, and majesty in the fore
head, and symmetry into tne farm, and
graaaraineas iat tha gum.
thrown too verv omasa Ol
appearnnoo, hava beam dsetroyed.
simpering and atkotaMoas and
manors have oitea booa the
of that whioa CH has sent as a
feosaiiMl Jopooioaa,' anemones and hei
httropaa sewr swasjor at the teaMf
whltth Ood planted in tbdr very hue, sepal,
acil and miomu, There ato many flowers
that bow aewa so modest you osaaot too
rh color fa tneir cheek until yoa Hit ap
their head, putting your hand under their
round chin. Indeed any kind ot personal
aMracrioas, whether they ba those of the
body, the mind or the ttenrt, may become
temptations to pride and arbitrariness and
foolish assumption. The mythological story
of a man who, seeing himself mirrored ia a
Stream, became so enamored of bis appear
ance that he died ot ths eaTeota lUuatKttes
tbe fatalities ander which thousands of both
sexes hav fallen by the view of their own
aaperiortty. Buraordinary capacities aaaao
extraordinary temptations. Mea who haws
(rood moral health dowa in the valley oa tha
top of the mountain are seised of consump
tion. Hotrimls, the wits of Uithrtdaies, waa
straggled with her own diadem. Wbtie the
most of is will not have the same kind of
temptation that Hadassab must have felt
from her attractiveness ot personal appear
ance, there may be some to wnotn It will be
an advantage to nom up ine o iaracier ui u,
beautiful captive who sacrinsad not her hu
mility and eernestness of disposition to tne
world's admiration and flsttery. The ohief
secret of the beauty of the violet is that.
awav down in tna grass, irom one weeii s
end "to another, it never mistrusts that K is
violet.
Again, our subject exhibits what religion
may be under bail domtta lnaaences.
HS'lasssn was snatcnea irom me gouty
borne into which she had been adopted and
introduced into the abominable associations
of which wicked Ahasuerus was the center.
What a whirl of blasphemy and drunken
ness and licentiousness ! No altar, no pray
er, no Sabbat b, no God ! If this capttve girl
can be a Cbr.stian there, then it is possible
to be a Christian anxwharc There arc
many of the best people of theworli who arc
obliged to contend "with the most adverse
domestio Influences, children who have
grownup into the love of God un ler the
frown of parents, and un tnr tne discourage
ment of bad example. Some sister or tha
family having professed the faith ot Jesus
Is the subject of unboun led satire inflicted
by brothers and sisters. Yen, Hailassah
was not tno only unristian wno nau a queer
husband ! It is no easy matter to maintain
eorrect Christian principle wtien there is a
tompanion disposer, to snolT &t them and to
tscribc every imper ec-.'OQ of character to
hypocrisy. What a harv. 'bia .or one mem
ber of the family to rightly kc-ep tbe Sabbath
when others are disposed t make it a dayof
revelry, or to inoulcate Fr-P"''y ot spe ch
In the mln'tt of cnililrei srnen there are
X here to offset the instructions by loose or
profane utterances, or to be regularly in at-
:endanoe upon church when tnere is more
lousehold work demanded for the Lord's
lay thaa tor any secular day. Do I speak to
inv laboring under these blighting disad-
rantages? My subject is full of encourage
Dent. Vast responsibilities rest upon vou.
Be faitntul, thoutn you stand as muon
tlone aa did Lot in Sodom, or Jeremiah in
leruaalem, or Jonah in Nineveh, or Hadas
lah in tha court of Ahasuerus. There arc
rare whioh grow the best when their roots
jlutch among the jagged rocks, and you ver
Uy have but poor soil in which to develop,
hat grass is a thorough husbandman and
an raise a erop anywhere. Glassware is
molded over the Are, and in the same way
fou are to be fitted as a vessel of mercy. The
brat timber must bsve on it saw and gouge
aa i beetle. Tbe foundation stone ol yours
and every ot'uer house came out only under
erowbar and blast, ri.es ana wrencues ana
hammers belong to the onnrch. Tbe Oiiris
tl in victory will bo bright just la proportion
as tbe battle is hot. Never despair being a
thorough Christian In any household which
Is not worse than the oourt of Ahasuerus.
Finally our subject illustrates what re
ligion may be in bigh worldly position.
The last we se in the Bible of Hadaasah is
that she has become the queen of Persia.
Prepare now to see the departure of her
humility and self-saeriflce and rolirious
principle. As snepoes up you maysipem
grace to go down. It iseasiur to be bamblc
fa tbe obscure nouse oi ner aaopiea miner
than on a throne of doin nion. Bnt yoa
tnrsiudge this noble woman. What she was
be ore she is now the myrtle. Applauded
for ber beauty an-t her Town, sue lorgets
not the cause of her suffering people, and
ith all simplicity of heart still remains a
orahiper of the God of heaven 1
Noble example followed only by a very
Few. I aldreas some who. through the good
nees ot God, have risen to positions of in
lu nee In the community where you live ia
law, in merchan lise, in medioine, in me
chanics an i in other useful occupations and
professions. You hold an influence lor good
jr lor evil. us see wiieiuei, nw nnun-
ah. vou ean stand elevation. Have you as
much simplicity of charaoter as once you
svidenood lo you teoi as muon aepsnu-
enee npon God, as much . your own weak-
lees, as mucn your accountaouity loriaiems
ntrusted, or are you proud and overdo
mandlng and ungrateful and unsympa
thetio aad worldly and sensual and dev
ilish? Then you have been spoilsd by
your success, and you shall not ait oa
tnis throne with the heroine of -my text. Ia
the day when HAiassah shall com to tbe
grander coronation. In tbe presence of
Christ and the bannered hosts of the re
deemed, yoa will be poor indeed. Oh. there
are thousands of men who can easily endure
-o ie knocked down of misfortune who are
aiteTly destroyed if lifted ap of sueoous.
-atan takes them to the-top of the pinnacle
ot the temple and shoves them oil. Their
head begins to whirl, and they lose their
ba'ance and down they go.
While last autumn all through the forest
there were luxuriant trees, with moderate
out bransh and moderate height pretanding
hut little, there were toliage shafts that shot
far np, looking down with eontempt on the
whole forest, clapping their hands in the
breeze and shouting, "Aha, do you not wish
vou were as high up as we are?" But last
week a blast let loose from the north eame
rushing along, and grappling the boasting
nan hurled them to the ground, and as tbey
went down an old tree that bad
been singing psalms with the than-
drahantred summers cried out, 'Tride
goeth bet ore distinction and a haugnty spirit
be ore a fall." And humble hickory and
pine and chest n at that had never said their
prayers nciore oowea tneir ueaus as uiucu mm
to say, "Amen V
My rriends, "GooJ resisteth tho proud,
but giveth grace to humble." Take from
mv subject encouragement. Attempt the
service of God wnatever your disadvantages,
and whatever our lot let us seek that grace
which outshone all the splendors of the pal
aces ot S.iusba,
TIhv nlio h'.vc ti'C power to ma!:e
t ie lies' of life's niisft'lven'tin s amine
Cidetit- sre likely to r. neb. agretu ;
,ii;e.
In oo-iptninj; his lliet m i neler.
Gabriel David Fai.reiiht it took Li
I itiest point reached m' tho nierci rv
nring the winter of ITOH, at ) itn;i
as bis zeropoiut. He "Hi d on September
10, 1730.
Ptople who arefri'iibled with sleep
issue s should drink coco, ks'fad ol
t a or coff e. at the evening m.;nl
The ciiemtcil composition, of the
el iJennis of tbe lieel h nearly Iht
-ame ns that of the matter of nails,
horns and hoofs.
Mr. Maxim says tij.- the is not try
inir t. make a flyi machine for
freight or passengers, bat purely for
military pnrpost-s.
Paper is nsect in Germany in the
maLufacture of pian e, being employed
for all of tbe parts wbicu are nsuillj
made of wood.
LAUGH AND GR0WFAT
HEALTHY TONIC FOR 1NVAL
IDS OF ALL KINDS.
fjumorens Anecdotes Gleaned from Tarw
one Source Something to Read Which
Will Make Acybody Sleep Well-Dettel
Thaa Medicine When Taken Before Re
tiring.
Strong Iraw if Card.
Bookkeeper (telephone compmy)
Customers are ordering their tele
phones out all over the city. They
say tbey don't pay. Superintendent
Humph! goraethintr tuusi he done.
Write an item lor the newspapers
saying that by attaching telephone
ires to the water-p pes it is possible
to hear what is tteine said in the next
iouse. .New York Weekly.
Conditionally an Heiress.
Mr. Blown Miss Tobinson, er
ill you change your name to Ilrown?
Miss Koblnson Yes. Mr. K Alice,
darling: When? Miss It When my
uncle, Thomas Urown, dies. He
leaves me his money on that cnndi
tlon. Vogue.
Not Quite Bight Yet.
Auntie Aud so you have a do!,
that talks and cries and goes to sleep
and stands alone? You ought to be
very proud of hei. Little V.oee
Yes'm, 1 am; hut I do wish we'en 1
take her to the country she'd freckle
just a little, so's to sh w folks she
hasn't been in t e City all summer."
-Good News.
Dictated It.
An old negro who had business in
i lawyer's office was asked if he could
sign his name. "How is dat, sab-"'
"1 asked." the lawyer answerc 1, "if
vou can write your name." Well,
no, sah, I neber writes my name; J
jes' dictates it, sah." Tid-Hiis
No 1 andsrer.
Well, Mary, what did you think
of the pictures at the academy?"
Oh. mum, there was a picture there
called Two Dogs after Laudseer,'
but I looked at it for neariy half an
hour and I couldn't see no Land
seer." bpare .Moments.
A Considerate Employer.
rublisher You look lama I'eef
kicked out much? Hook Ageni
bout forty times. Publisher (kindly)
Well, leave your end eloped . a here
and canvass with this sample Hible
until your back gets well. ew York
Yeekly.
Not a Kooter.
Hicks It spoils a ball game for tnb
to have to take my wife. Dix How
so? hicks iien one oi our uit-u
scores a home run she 1uok at me
and says sweetly: "Now, i.sn t luat
too bad?" New York World.
Blsing Uiin I'p.
Dudely What would it take to
make a suit of clothes for me? Ta.I-
or Well, from vour appearance, 1
would say $2n worth of padding anc
$5 worth of cloth.
The Innocents at Home.
Children occasionally give some.
very peculiar answers. A little Texas
boy on being asked how many chil
dren his father and mother had, re
plied: "I am all the chilren they
have got" Another little boy on be
ing asked the same question, replied:
Two girls and a boy. I'm the boy."
Texas Siftings.
Too Good to He True.
Mrs. Mulgrew. Thlm newspapers
tells notbin' but lit s all. the time.
Mrs. Mcbrannigan Phwat makes e
say that? Mrs. Mulgrew the ould
man read in yisthetday's paper mat
all the Chinese wor trone to war an' I
see lvery Chinese laundr.ry in Oowan-
us Is open the same as usual this
niornin'. Brooklyn Eagle.
I.ltulU of Delaarle.
Friend Does the Delsarte system
teach you how to act when proposed
to? Uride Yes, I studied that part
carefully. -Did you use it?" "I
used it with three or four whom I
r scted and I did it beautifully, I
know; but when dear Tom proposed
I forgot
all about it" New York
Weekly.
She Came Hlr.h,
"Certainly your income
is
are
I
large
not a
don't
enough to marry on. You
man with expensive tastes.
understand why you hesitate," said
Assistant district Atlorney Mnrdnna
to a friend with matrimonial aspira
tions one day last week. -
"I said all that to h'lr," answered
the friend, sadly.
"What did she say?"
"That I had made a big mit;ike,
for the reason that any one who
wanted to marry ber had tli' iiut
expensive kind of taste." New York
Journn1.
Caught.
This squirrel must be qUito old,-'
said Maud.
Why, no; he's not uioro than a
year old."
"How does it happen be is. so gray?
Judge.
Why He Swore U(T.
First Anarchist I shall ...
drink another glass of p er.
Second Atiarchist Acli! you vos
Itrazy.
First Anarchist No; I vos re. up-
how dot peer vos nis'le, u tit! I to;, i
dot peer preaks de rules of our so
ciety; it vorks, Ham; dotpcer vie k :"
Brooklyn Eagle.
What He Had Against It
Boarder There is only one
have against the beef, iii:nl.rn.
Landlady And what's t,i,i,t. r
Boarder A knife; when 1 o
have a saw. Detroit Tribune.
The Sign or Matritiiony.
Mrs. Spinks Is your friend
a married man?
Mr. Spinks I guess so. lie r
hia suspenders with a hairpin it'
of a nail. Judge.
Probably Correct.
He Are you happy, now .
married?
tine Compa rati vt ly.
"Compared with iviiotn?"
".Mv husband." Lilafc
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