• A Frontier Hunch,
In all American cowboy -which
was Jack —accompanied by two com
panions, penetrated south from Ari
zona, and as he looked l'rom the moun
tains over the fair plain of Bavicora,
he said, "I will take this." The
Apaches were on every hand; the
country was terrorized to the gates of
Chihuahua. The stout heart of the
pioneer was not disturbed, and he
made his word good. By purchase he
Required the plain, and so lunch more
that you could not ride round it iu two
weeks. He moved iu with his hardy
punchers,, and fixed up Bavieora so it
would be habitable. He chased the
Indians off liis ranch whenever he "cut
their sign." Aftei a while the Mexi
can vaqueros from below overcame
their terror, when they saw the Ameri
can hold his own with the Apaeho
scamps, and by twos and threes and
half-dozens they came up to take ser
vice, and now there are two hundred
who lean mi Jack and call him patron.
They work for him, and they follow
him on the Apache trail, knowing ho
will.jievef run away, believing in his
beneficence and trusting to his cour
age.
I sat on a mud bank and worked
away at a sketch of the yellow sunlit
walls of the mud ranch, with thegreat
plain running away like the ocean in
to a violet streak under tlio blue line
of the Pena Blauca. In the rear rises
a curious broken formation of hills
like millions of ruins of Rhine castles.
The wolves howl by uight, and the
Apache is expected to come at any in
stant. The old criada or serving-wo
man who makes the beds saw her hus
band killed at the front door, and
every man who goes out of the patio
has a large assortment of the most im
proved artillery on his person. Old
carts with heavy wooden wheels like
millstones stand about. Brown peo
ple with big straw hats and gay serapes
leau lazily against the gray walls.
Little pigs carry on the contest with
Nature, game-chickens strut, and
clumsy puppies tumble over each other
in joyful play; burros stand about
sleepily, only indicating life by sug
gestive movements of their great ears,
while at intervals a pony, bearing its
lithe rider, steps from the gate, and
breaking into nil easy and graceful
lope, goes away into the waste of land.
—Frederic Remington, in Harper.
Petroleum for Diphtheria.
In the village of Neuville-Champ
d'Oisel, about nine utiles from Rouen,
France, a malignant type of diphtheria
broke out last year. The country
doctor, M. Frederic Flaliaut, treated
the eases in the usual way, but the
deaths were numerous. Remembering,
as he says, that the English use petro
leum as an anti-spasmodic and an anti
septic, he determined to try it as an
experiment.
His first trial was in the case of a
little girl seven years ofd." He had al
ready given her up and proposed to
the parents to make the experiment,
which consisted in swabbing the throat
with common petroleum. He had
little hope of the success of his new
method, but to liis astonishment he
noticed an improvement after the first
application. He continued the treat
ment and the child recovered. Then
he tried it successfully with his other
patients.
This year he hid forty cases of diph
theria to treat, and he was successful
in every one. In order to be perfectly
sure that the eases in question were
ones of malignant diphtheria, he had
the expectorated matter submitted to
the analysis of Professor Francois Hue
of t|if Rouen College of Medicine,
and the professor reported that he
had eh ■ally discovered the presence in
it of numerous baccilli of diphtheria.
Moreover, his diagnosis was confirmed
by Drs. Lesliaves, Lerefrit and Bailey
ot Rouen, t|ie last named being the
physician-in-chief in that city.
The treatment presents little difti
culty or danger. The swabbing is
done every hour or every two hours,
according to the thickness of the mem
branes, which become, as it were,
diluted under the action of the petro
leum. The brush, after being dipped
iu the petroleum, should lie shaken to
prevent any drops falling into the
respiratory channels. The patients
experience relief from the very first
application. The disagreeable tasto
of the petroleum remains for a few
moments only.
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MRS. PEARY AT THE FOLI.
THE ARCTIC EXPLORER'S WIFE
WRITES OF HER EXPERIENCES.
Hfo Among the Ksklmos— Comical
Adventure With 11 Ilnby Walrus
Ksklmo Method of Osculation.
MRS. JOSEPHINE PEARY,
the wife of the explorer,
has published a journal of
(i her twelve mouths' experi
ence on the shore of MeCormick Bay,
midway between the Arctic Circle an<l
the North Pole. She is the only white
woman who ever penetrated so far
within the frozen zone as did the
members of Lieutenant Peary's last
expedition. The most interesting
chapters 111 tlio book are those which
Mrs. Peary devotes to the manners
and mode of life of the Eskimos with
whom she came in contact.
These natives belong to a little tribe
of about 350 individuals completely
isolated from the rest of the world,
and dwelling on the northwest coast
of Greenland. They are separated by
hundreds of miles from their neigh
bors, with whom they have no inter
course whatever. They had never
seen a white woninu before, and some
of them had never beheld a civilized
being.
The steamer Kite, which left New-
York on June ti, 1891, landed Lieu
tenant Peary aud his party near Whale
Sound, and a camp was built here and
named Redeliffe. The sailors went in
search of an Eskimo settlement, and
brought back several of the natives,
who were induced to live at Roddiffe
for nearly a year. Mrs. Peary says
they were the queerest, dirtiest-look
ing individuals she had ever seen. Clad
entirely in furs, they reminded her
more of monkeys than of linman be
ings. Ikwa, the first man who came,
was covered with a garment made of
bird skins, the feather work next the
body, and outside of this a garment
made of sealskin, with the fur on the
outside. The two were patterned ex
actly alike, made to fit to the figure,
cut short at the hips and coming to a
point back and front. A close-fitting
hood was sewed to the neck of each
garment, and invariably pulled over
his head when Ikwa was out of doors.
His legs were covered with sealskin
trousers reaching just below the knee,
where they were met by tanned seal
skin boots. Mrs. Peary learned later
that sealskin trousers were worn only
by those men who were not fortunate
enough or able to kill a bear.
The woman's dress differed from the
man's in pattern only in the back,
where an extra width is sewed in,
which forms a poueli extending the
entire length of the back of the
wearer and fitting tight around the
hips. In this pouch or hood the baby
is carried; its little body, covered
only by a shirt reaching to the waist
made of the skin of a young blue fox,
is placed against the bare back of the
mother, aud the head, covered by a
tight-fitting skull cai> made of seal
skin, is allowed to rest against the
mother's shoulder. Mrs. Peary
writes:
"Early in the morning Ikwa came
running into our house apparently
much excited, crying. 'Awick, awick !'
This we had learned was walrus. The
boys tumbled out of their beds and ill
a very few moments were in the boat
with Ikwa, pulling in the direction of
n spouting walrus out in MeCormick
liny. In a short time they returned
with a large mother walrus and her
baby in tow. The mother had been
killed, but the baby—a round bundle
of fat about four feet long—was alive,
and very much so, as we found out a
little later. Mr. Peary wanted to get
photographs of the little thing before
it was shot, and the boys left the baby
walrus about a hundred yards up on
the beach. Suddenly we heard cries
of help coming from the shore. On
stepping to the window 1 saw one of
the most comical sights I have ever
seen.
"The little walrus WHS slowly but
surely making his way to the waters
of the bay. Mane, with her baby on 1
her back, was sitting in the sand, her
heels dug into it as far as she could i
get them, holding ou to the line at- I
tached to the walrus without ap
parently arresting its progress in the
least, for she was being dragged
through the gravel and sand quite
rapidly. While I looked, Matt came
rushing to her assistance, and taking !
hold of the line just ahead of where !
Mane held it, he gave it one or two
turns about his wrists and evidently
thought all he had to do would be to
dig his heels into the svnd and hold i
back; but in an instant he was down
in the sand too, and both he and
Mane were plowing along, the sand
flying, and both shouting lustily for ■
help. So strong was this little
creature that, had the other boys not |
rushed out and secured him, he would
easily have pulled Matt and Maue to
the water's edge, where, of course,
they would have let him go, and he
would have been a free walrus once
more."
Mrs. Peary spent a Thanksgiving
Day at Redclifte, and by that time
there were several native women about
the place. She writes:
"The native whom Ikwa brought
back with him from Kaati is named
Mahoatchia, and Ikwa says that he and
the one-eyed bear hunter, Mekhtoshay,
exchange wives with each other every
year.
"While I am writing two native |
women, M'gipsu, wife of Annowkali,
with her baby ou her back, and Tooky
mitigwah, the twelve-year-old girl, are
both sitting tailor-fashion on the floor,
chewing deerskins. The native method
of treating the skins of all animals in- ]
tended for clothing is tirst to rid then;
of as much fat as eau be got of}' by
scraping with a knife; the': they are
stretched as tight as possible and al- j
lowed to become pt i lectly dry. After :
this they are tfiken by the women and
chewed and sucke I all over, in order
to get as much of the grease out as pos
sible. Chewing the skins is very hard
011 the women. 'hey cannot chew
more than two deerskins per day, and
are obliged to rest their jaws every
other day."
Writing in her journal just before
Christmas Day, Mrs. I'earysays:
"M'gipsu is sitting ou the door iu
my room sewing, and her husband,
Annowkali, comes in as often as he can j
find excuse fur tlning so. Ho fre- I
quentlv rults liiu tace against hers, and
tlu-y sniffle at each other: this takes
the place uf kisiuiig. 1 should think
they could smell each other without
doing this, but they are probably so
accustomed to the—to me—terrible
odor that they fail to notice it."
Mrs. Peary spent thirteen months at
Redeliffe, and she says she felt home
sick when she finally packed up her
things to return to civilization.—New
York World.
WISE WORWt
Where there are no bmlu &e bat
will be king.
The collector of mummies will in
time be one.
The ignorant are never defeated in
any argument.
When the sense of shame is lost ad«
vancement ceases.
Genius hears one individual and then
comprehends ten.
With a mote in the eye one cannot
see the Himalayas.
Before trying horseback one should
learn to ride on oxen.
Negligence looks at the battlefield,
then makes its arrows.
Give to the hero the jewelled aword ;
to the beauty, perfume.
Be not lenient to your own faults;
keep your pardon for others.
A 1000-foot embankment will be
broken by the hole of an ant.
Who steals goods is called a thief;
who steals dominions a ruler.
The fish which escapes from the
hook seems always the largest.
The bat, hanging upside down,
laughs at the topsy-turvey world.
Society, more a stepmother than a
mother, adores the children who flatter
her vanity.
Seeking information is a moment's
shame; but not to learn is surely a
lasting shame.
He who does not bestride success
and grasp it firmly by the mane lets
fortune escape.
Next to the pleasure of admiring the
woman we love is that of seeing her
admired by others.
Sit in quite and consider your own
faults; do not spend your time in dis
cussing those of others.
If the water be too pure fish cannot
live in it; if people be too exacting
fellow-beings cannot stand beside
them.
If the niiud is clear even in a dark
room there will be a radiance ; if the
thought is dark, at noonday there will
be demons.
Superiority ot American Fruit.
On the subject of fruit growing in
America, Mr. de Vilmorin, a famous
French pomologist, said: "It is evi
dent that much attention is being
given, and with handsome pecuniary
results, to the growing of fruit in this
country, but more especially in the
State of California. The display of
fruit at the World's Fair after August
and continuing to the close of the Ex
position was probably the finest and
most extensive and varied that was
ever brought together. I find that a
great deal of attention is being given
to the subiect in each State, not only
by private independent growers, but
by the local horticultural aud agricul
tural organizations, and by the aid of
the experimental stations supported
by the different States and by the Na
tional Government. Through this sys
tematic organization a comparative
study of the fruit developed and the
adaptability of particular varieties to
particular States and sections of the
country are intelligently determined.
With this study of the influence of lo
cal conditions is associated investiga
tion as to the particular insects most
destructive to different species, and
much knowledge is gained of a valua
ble nature with regard to fungus dis
eases, so that fruit-growers are famil
iar with all the recent appliances
which science has discovered to aid
them against their enemies. In con
clusion, I may say that more attention
seems to be paid aud to better pur
pose to fruit-growing iu this country
than in most European countries. The
apples, peaches and grapes exhibited
by the different States at the World's
Fair and renewed by daily contribu
tions from exhibitors, was one of the
striking features of the conduct of
that department. Large consignments
of fruit were sent every morning from
different States, so that the specimens
should be kept fresh all the time, aud
their display gave, not. only proofs of
successful cultivation, but. of enter
prise and organization which it would
not be possible to match in any other
part of the world." New York
Tribune.
Rise and Fall of Clipper Ships,
Clipper ships were first built in 1840,
at the time when English steamships
were beginning to take business away
from the Yankee packets. The latter
had been the rulers of the seas from
the establishment of the Black Ball lint)
in 181f>. That was just after Uncle
Sam's rights on the high seas had been
j vindicated by the outcome of the War
of 1812. The first clippers were built
; for speed, regardless of carrying ca
pacity, but were not very profitable,
because of their small freight and their
structural weakness.
They were called iuto being by the
demands of the California trade, and
in 1851 the secret of building swift
ships that were also stanch and ca
pacious was solved by the Challenge,
the Invincible, the Comet and the
Swordtisli. These vessels were of enor
mous size for those days, the Challenge
being of 2000 tons, and their appear
ance ,vas beautiful in the extreme.
The arrival iti the Port of New York of
u clipper that had won repute as a last
sailer always excited the wildest and
most patriotic enthusiasm. She caused
corresponding emotions of chagrin
j when she touched at British ports.
Xor was the advantage altogether sen
timental, for the swift Yankee ships
could command much higher freights
than slow British vessels, #3O a ton
freight being readily paid to American
skippers from China to Liverpool,
; while s'2o was thought enough for En
glish masters. Had it not been for the
fact that the English were tirst to use
iron in buiMiug steamships, and the
destructive v ork of the Alabama during
the Civil War, America might yet be su
preme on the wave.—New York Times.
In 1880 the Argentine Republic im
ported (1,000,000 bushels of wheat;
this year the exports of wheat will
, amount to 38,000,000 bushels.
ROOTS AS FEED.
If it pays to import sheep from 1
abroad in order to improve our breeds,
one would imagine it would also pay
the sheep-raiser to study the process
by which theso sheep have been raised
to their present state of excellence.
One of the most potent factors has
been the feed. A mixed ration should
be supplied in which roots play tho
most important part. Sugar beets,
mangolds, rutabagas and turnips are
all of great value to the flock, and
crops of them should be sowed and
harvested regularly, if wo would make
a success of sheep-raising.—New York
World.
SCABBY I.EOS AMONG CAGE BIRDS.
The cause of scabby feet and legs
among canary and other cage birds is
the same as among domestic fowls, that
is, the presence of mites, which breed
and live in the scabs or scales on tho
feet and legs. The development and
multiplication of these pests is due to
want of cleanliness and thorough clean
ing of the bird's cage. Your bird may
have been infested with mites when
you bought it, or they may have been
in the cage, and from it reached the
bird's legs and feet. To kill themit.es
and remove the scabs you have only to
anoint the bird's legs and feet daily for
perhaps a week with flowers of sulphur
mixed to a thin paste with common I
kerosene. Apply with a soft hair
pencil, merely painting tho feet and I
legs with the mixture. The scabs will
soon drop otf and leave the feet clean.
The cage and roosts should also be
thoroughly cleaned with boiling hot
water. —New York Sun.
IMPROVED METHOD OF FATTENING FOWLS.
Some time ago a method of fatten
ing poultry practiced among the
French was described in some of the J
American papers, its novelty giving j
interest to it. The method consisted i
in forcing the food down the bird's j
throat by means of a pipe and a sort
of force pump, operated by the per- j
son's foot, by which a certain quantity j
of the soft food was pushed into the j
throat. The birds were confined in '
boxes in a large circulating frame, j
which was turned as needed to bring !
all the nests in turn in front of the !
machine for feeding. Nothing came
of it, aud probably the method has j
been abandoned by its inventor by
this time. The method of fattening
geese in Strasburg, Germany, for the
sake of the enormously large livers
thus procured, is somewhat similar to
this. The food is rolled into a sort of
pill, long and narrow, and these are |
pushed down the throats of the birds, ■
confined in coops for the purpose.
This method has long been practiced
and still exists for producing the large 1
livers, made so by disease, for the j
making of a very popular kind of pies i
called pates de foie gras. —New York !
Times.
ECONOMY OF TIME.
It is a great complaint with farmers j
that their time is wasted with una- i
voidable accidents, as sick animals, j
escaped stock, insect pests, and what
not, writes Louise M. Fuller. It cer
tainly is true that weather means more i
to the farmers than to any other class.
"The weather must lift the mortgage
on the farm, pay the taxes and feed j
and clothe the family." The farmer j
must deal hand to hand with all the !
forces of nature as well as human na
ture, and, however wisely, he cannot |
count his time like other men, or say j
positively what he will do on the mor
row. Nevertheless, the farmer's time j
is worth as much as any man's from a j
bnsiuess point of view, because of
the economy of nature, which seconds I
every honest effort at economy of j
iime in her own way. I learned this |
by watching the way tho best farmers (
work, and, noticing that, like nature, j
they are never in a hurry, but they |
never lose any time; they find some j
use for every sort of weather. That j
weather which is too wet for anything
else is good for fence corners, which
the thrifty farmer can never consent |
to leave to their accidental fate of
weeds and briers. A town lot gives j
room enough for the experimental !
proof of this theory. During the \
worst season for rain that I ever saw,
I managed to work my two hours a
doy on all but one day outdoors. On
that day seed stakes, etc., wer-j pre
pared indoors. I doubt if the time
ever came when it was profitable to
give lip to complaining. While we are ;
bewailing something is sure togo un
done.—New York Tribune.
BUTTER BACTERIUM.
So far as 'the quantity of the butter
is concerned, says Walter Thorp in
London Dairy, our old friend, the lae- ,
tieacid bacterium, seems to be the .
chief if not the only agent, but it does j
not seem to be directly concerned in
the production of the butter flavor.
°ut of the many bacteria occurring in
ripening croam Storch found only one j
species which was capable of produc- ;
ing the true butter aroma; the rest j
produced either indifferent or bad
flavors. Since only tliis single species j
from among so many is capable of giv
ing to the butter such a flavor a* we ;
desire, the odds against its overcrowd- j
ing the rest are very considerable, and
we canuot wonder ut the difficulties of 1
producing a high-class butter of uni
formly agreeable flavor. If by culti
vatiou of the bacterium, which is said
to produce the true flavor, we can iu-
Bure the success of our cream ripening
as far as flavor is concerned by inocu
lation with this particular bacterium
at an early stage, then we ought to be
able to produeo cream of a uniform i
and proper degree of ripeness without
difficulty.
The bacterium found by Htcrcii has j
beon cultivated and used in some of ,
tho German creameries, and it. is
claimed for it that it insures certaiuty
in the results of the ripening. Dr. 11.
W. Conn, of the Wesleyau University,
also claims to have found n micro or
ganism which produces the true but
ter flavor, but the result of his experi
mentß with it are not yet published,
and there is a great deal of work to be
done before we can attain the practi
cal results we are hoping for.
THE CARE OF SEED POTATOES.
Successful growers of potatoes have
learned that to insure a good crop the
seed must be selected carefully the
previous fall. The befA results come
from making the hills AS they are dug,
choosing well-formed potatoes, free
from scab or prongs and with smooth
surfaces. Neither the very large nor
very small potatoes should be taken.
The first will be misshapen, and the
last will be apt to bo poorly ripened.
Something depends on how the potato
has been grown. If the vines kept
healthy until the crop of tubers was
fully ripened, the very smallest make
good seed. After selection the main
point is to keep the seed at as low a
temperature as possible without dan
ger of frost. These conditions are best
secured by keeping potatoes in dry out
of doors pits. In our Northern cli
mate after the covering of the pit has
frozen over it will not thaw out again
all winter. If there is danger of thaw
ing too early, a covering of straw will
maintain an even degree of tempera
ture below freezing, while protecting
the potatoes from too much cold. The
tubers will come out with eyes as dor
mant as when they were putin the pit.
The potatoes will be harder by evapo
ration of their moisture, while those
kept in cellurs will bo made soft by
starting of the eyes, which rapidly
take out the substance needed to give
the potato set its first start after being
planted.—Boston Cultivotor.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Never jerk or whip a colt.
Old-fashioned perennials are coming
in again.
All weak queenless colonies should
be united with others.
Pure cane sugar is one of the best
foods for wintering bees.
If honey is not sealed it is liable to
become thin and watery.
It is a mistaken notion that all
honey which candies is pure.
Now is tho time to barrel the road
dust aud keep it in a dry place.
It is best not to winter your own
cockerels for breeders, as a rule.
By increasing the yield per acre tho
cost of production is diminished.
The number of eggs depends largely
upon the amount of feed and care given.
in raising a colt the feed should bo
liberal and varied, but not excessive.
A colt's education should begin
when the animal is twenty-four hours
old.
The second year a hen only lays
half the number of eggs that she does
the first year.
The ideal diet for poultry should be
neither too soft nor too hard, but a
happy medium.
New raspberry canes should be
pinched back to induce throwing out
side branches.
When the cat and chickenß lie down
together the latter are always given
the inside place.
Because turkeys are good foragers it
will not pay to let them go without
proper feeding.
One pound of cut meat and bone is
considered the proper daily allowance
for sixteen liens.
Anything in the vegetable line, pro
vided it is sweet and clean, will form
acceptable food.
Colts should be handled with kind
ness and may be halter-broken when
four months old.
Bran for chicks should always be
scalded and allowed to stand for a
time in order to soften.
Quinces do well in either sandy or
clay soils, the principal requirements
being fertility and good tilth.
Generally, the smaller the farm the
better the cultivation and the greater
the profit for the expenditure.
Pigs should be taught to eat before
being weaned, so as to make the
change from milk to feed easily.
It is not desirable to give too much
red pepper and ginger to the poultry.
Once or twice a week is sufficient.
A good breed is not alone sufficient
to make money. Good care, good
food and good quarters are also neces
sary.
It is cheaper to make your stables
warm than it is to supply your horses
with the extra feed necessary to keep
out the cold occasioned by cracks in
the stable.
For horses ensilage should be used
sparingly, as full feeding upon it
sometimes induces colic, but it may
be safely used to some extent in con
nection with grain and hay.
Ilest Diet lor Consumptives.
The respiration apparatus invented
by Professor Voit, of Germany, and
recently received by the Yale Medical
School, is the first to come to America.
Its purpose is to measure the oxygen
absorbed by the body and the carbonic
acid and water given oft'. From the
data thus obtained the decomposition
of the body can be determined, and
the decomposition caused by the di
gestion of various kinds of foods com
pared.
Animals will bo used for the first
experiment. They will be placed in
glass cases after having been fed on
particular kinds of food, and the vari
ation in the oxygen, carbonic acid and
water within the glass cases in twenty
four hours will be determined
means of the apparatus. From this
relative values of the foods will ba ob
tained.
It is hoped that the experiments will
result in the selection of diets that will
prolong the lives of those suffering
from consumption and other diseases.
- New York World.
Prussian troops on fron
tier have used snowshoes with satisfac
tion for several winters.
THE HIUHEST AWARD,
Eovnl BtklnK Powder has
Honors—ln Strength and Value :i<' '
p«r cent, above Its Nearest Com- <
petltor: i
The Royal Baking Powder hnR th<: j
onviable record of having received the j
highest award for articles of its claws
--greatest strength, purest ingre
dients, most perfectly combined
wherever exhibited in competion with
others. In the exhibitions of former
years, at the Centennial, at Pnris,
Vienna and at the various Htate and
Industrial fairs, where it has been ex
hibited, judges have invariably award
ed the Koyal Baking Powder the high
est honors.
At the recent World's Fair tli3 ex
amination for the baking powder
awards were directed by the chief
chemist of the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington. The chief chem
ist's official report of tho tests of the
baking powders, which was made for
the specific purpose of ascertaining
which was the best, shows the leaven
ing strength of the Koyal to be 160
cubic inches of carbonic gas per ounce
of powder. Of tho cream of tartar
baking powders exhibited, tho next
highest in strength tested contained
but 133 cubic inches of leavening gas.
Tho other powders gave an average of
111. The Koyal, therefore, was found
of twenty per cent, greater leavening
strength than its nearest competitor,
and forty-four per cent, above the
average of all tho other tests. Its
superiority in other respects, however,
in the quality of tho food it makes as
to lineucss, delicacy and wholcsome
ness, could not bo measured by fig
ures.
It is these high qualities, known and
appreciated by the women of the coun
try for so many years, that have
caused the sales of the Royal Baking
Powder, as shown by statistics, to ex
ceed the sale of all other baking pow
ders combined.
Fishes That Fight,
So aggressive is the plakat, a little
fish from Si am, that the entertainment
it affords has become a National
pastime, but not a very creditable one,
to say the least. The fishes are trained
togo through regular battles, and are
reared artitically for the purpose,
while the license to exhibit them to
the general public is farmed out, and
brings a large amount of money into
the royal coffers.
They are kept in aquariums built for
the purpose, and fed upon the lurvie
of mosquitoes and every possible care
taken of them. Several years ago a
few of them were presented to a Eng
lish gentleman by the King of Siam.
When the fish is in a quiet state, with
the fins at rest, the dull colors are not.
at all remarkable. But if two are
brought together or within sight of
each other, or even if one sees its own
image in a looking glass, the little
creature becomes suddenly excited.
The fins are rawed and the whole
body shines with metalic lustre and
colors of dazzling beauty, while the
protecting gill membrane, waving like
a black frill round the throat, makes
grotesque the general appearance. In
this state of irritation it makes re
peated darts at its real or reflected an
tagonist. If, now, two are placed
together in a tank they rush at each
other with the utmost fury. The bat
tle is kept on until one is killed or put
to flight, but not until they are en
tirely separated does the victor shut
his gaudy fins, that, like flags of war,
are never lowered until peace has been
declared.
In South America there is a small
fish that not only attacks its fellows of
the sea and river, but is greatly dreaded
by the natives, who, during certain
seasons, have to ford the streams in
which the carbites is found. Bathers
are often attacked by them, the sharp,
chisel-shaped teeth taking a bit from
the flesh wherever they attack. They
are perfect scavengers, eating the ani
mals that float down the river.—Pitts
burg Dispatch.
The tallest stone tower is the Wash
ington Monument at Washington ; 555
feet.
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world's best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Svrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative: effectually cleansing the system,
disix'lling colds, headaches and fevers
ana permanently curing constipation.
It has giveu satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is p-rfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale bv all drug
gists in 50c and if 1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
I ho Western & Southern Immigration Co. offer cheap
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