THEY LIVE APART. Qiiecr Inhabitants of a Rcok In Bearing Straits. Cave Dwellei'3 Who Know No thing of the Outer World. Bon E. Miller, a Tort Townsend boy wlni m on the United States steam shtp Bcfir during her recent eight months' cruise in the northern ww, has many tales to relate of his adven ture and the sights he linn seen, nays the Tort Townsend, (Wash.) Call. Among other thing he tells of the Beir's visit to King's island, in Behring straits, thirty miles oft' Port Clarence and the. shore of Alaska, where there are about '200 of the most curious islander that ever were aeen. The island or rock tiiey inhabit is about halt a mile wide and a little more than that diHtance long, aud the islanders are cave-dwellers and live on whale blubber, seal and walrus meat. ' On the southeast aid", closely nest ling against the cliff, is a village of cave dwellers. One abode is built over and under the other, ami to the right and left, giving them a strange motley appearance, not unlike the recesses inhabited by bald eagles. There are narrow caves excavated into the nidcs of each crumbling volcauic rock, 'and in the bottom of each is some of the short native grass, form ing a bed on which to sleep. At the mouth of the cave ami just in the in terior tires are lighted, ami there they warnt themselves in the winter. Skins of different kinds are also suspended outside to keep out the snow aud cold. In the summer the hardy natives leave their holes and live in odd hoiisesmade of poles constructed near at hand on the edge of the cliff. These strange people are usually as Strang and vigorous as can be found anywhere. Moreover, they are entire ly contented and as happy as people in Buy of the great cities of America. They have no government, no chief, and no need of laws. Living in fiiini liea and Hutting forth every day in their kinks for the whale, seal, and walrus, they return each night to their ciiveaor pole tents, caring nothing for the outside world. Odd to relate, however, the prestige of the native is determined by the clothes he wears. As they consist of akius and constitute the wealth of the islanders it will be seen that they are not in this respect so much unlike civ. ilized people, lint tiie man with more clothes than anybody else has no more authority. He is respected for his sa gacity, but that is all. Little has been known of the island er hitherto. For a greet many years after the whalers had been going to B:diring Htruits and the great Mac Keuzie it was supposed the huge brown rock was uninhabited. It was like a beacon iu the sea, and about it nothing wag to bo seeu or heard ex cept the roar of the waves and the weird erics of the wild fowl. Finally ome one discerned smoke asceudiug from the other aide of the cliff. A landing was made mid there the iatauders were found. They said they aud their forefather had been there always aud that they knew no other world, though they had heard that there was one. This was only a dozen years ago. Since thou the whalers have kept on eye out for them, for they liked the generous natives, who showed many good traits. Electricity ou ihe Pyramids. Iu his autobiography the late Sir W. Hiomeus relates the following an ecdote: Au Arab called his attention to the fact that when at the top of the pryamid of Cheops, when he raised his hand with fingers outspread, au acute singing note was heard, the sound ceasiug as soou ug he let his Landfall. "I found his assertion," he writes, "to be true. As soou as I raised one of iny owu Augers above aiy head I felt a prickling iu the rin gers. That this could only be caused by aa eleotrica! phenomenon was proved by the slight electric shock felt on trying to drink out of a wiue bottle. "S I wrapped a full bottle of wine that I had with me iu the damp paper, aud thus converted it into a Leydeu bottle, which was soou strongly charged with electricity by the simple device of holdiug it high shove my head. The Arabs had already become distrustful on seeing small lightnings, as it were, issue from the wine bottles held up by myself and eoutpanious, aud now held a" brief consultation. Suddenly, at given signal, each of my companions was seized by the guide who bad led hint up, who now tried to foroe him to go down again, 'I myselt was standing at the very top of the pyramid wheu the sheik of the Arabs oawe to ine aud told me through my interpreter that the Ara hail ib'termiued tint we were at oua to leave the pyramid because we were iiing magic and it might damage r chance of earning a living. On my refusing to obey orders the sheik caught hold of my left hand. I had awaited this moment, and held tip my l ight haud with the bottle in the ntti. tilde of a magician, afterward lowering it slowly toward the point of the shiek's nose. " When quite close to that feature 1 felt a violent shock run through the bottle to iny arm, and was certain that the sheik must have received the equivalent. At any rate he fell sense less on the stones, and a few anxious moments passed before he rose sud denly with a loud cry and sprang down the gigantic steps of the pyra mid with long strides. The Arabs, seeing this, and excited by the sheik's constant cries of 'Magic! magic!' re leased my companion and followed their leader, leaving us complete mas ters of the pyramid !"' So Whiilc In the I.iiH Stream. It is a remarkable zoological, pisca torial or hydrographical fact that whales are never (if allowed to follow the dic tates of their own wills) found withiu the limits of that great ocean river the Gulf St renin. The shrewd Yankee whalers were the first to gain an accu rate knowledge of theextent aud lint its of the great artery which pulsates between this country and Europe ; this by studying the habits and haunts of the whales. It was noted Hint they were plentiful northwest and southeast of certain e'l defined lines, and that the "neutral waters" wcijp several degrees warmer than those which, paradoxical as it may sound, formed their "banks"and boundaries. Finally it was decided, and rightly, too, that the nouwhale-produciug area was the tlu 1 f Stream. Franklin learned this curious scien tific fact from the New England whalers, and, in 1770, published a chart for the benefit of the mail packets or mail ships plying between our large coast cities and London. Curiously enough, this chart was not gotten np for the purpose of adding to the sum total of hydrographical knowledge, nor for the purpose of outlining the Gulf Stream, but solely as a guide to the best route for ships to pursue in order to keep from encountering whales! St. Louis Republic. . Farms In a Volcano. Thirty miles from the city of Ku mamoto, Japan, is the volcano Aao San, which has th'j largest crater in the world. It is more than thirty miles in circumference, and peopled by twenty thousand inhabitants. Think of walking for miles aronnd fer tile farms and prosperous villages, peering into school-house windows and sacred shrines well withiu tb? shell of au old-time crater, whose walls rise eight huudred feet all about you. It gives one a queer feeling. Hot spring abound everywhere. In one place brick-red hot water is utilized to turn a rice mill. The inner crater is nearly half a mile in diameter, and a ateady column of roaring steam pours out o! it. The last serious eruption was in 1881, wheu immeuse quantities ol bluek ashes and dut were ejected and carried by the wind as far as Kuma moto, where for three days it was so durk that artificial light had to be used. Weekly Columbian. Disadvantages uf Au Even Temper. Itls usual to envy th' wen tern, pered people. Those who are never unduly elated or cast down, who "knit on plain" all the time. If one likes that sort of thing it would be equally natural to envy the animals cows aud pigs, for instance, whose so reuity is seldom disturbed. For my part I think those eveu tempered peo ple lose nine-tenths of the pleasure ol existeuoe. The depths of grief aud gloom into which impulsive people are thrown are amply made up for by the equally unreasonable and unreasoning joy into which they spring at the slightest possible excuse, aud the sor row of a quarrel with a dear one is paid for iu the delight of "making up." Parents are very apt to impress ou their children the beauty of this even disposition, but so far as I can see, the only benefit derived from it is au unwriukted complexion. Dona hoe's Magazine. An AbsoiblugTueme. Mr. Jerkius "You ought to be in terested in that woman lecturer, Mbria. She gave a brilliant address on the suffrage. "Mrs. Jerkins (with avidity) : "Of owurse I'm interested. What did she have on?" Chioago News. British ooach and carriage builder import from America their ohoioest spokes, hubs aud ribs for wheel menu feature. SIGXJALK. How Indians of the Plains Meet on Common Ground. Conversing Readily In a Lan guage Without Words. Garrison life has developed some experts iu Iudiau folklore among army officers. One of these is Lieutenant H. L. Scott of the Seventh Cavalry. Lieutenant Scott has made a study of the sign language of the plains Indi ans. In the days of Indian outbreak and wars there was a practical phase to this study, but now that peace pre vail and there are only reservation Indians Lieutenant Seott'a acquisition is remarkable chiefly for the scientific interest which attaches to it. One day during the 'folklore con gress, saysthe Globe Democrat, Lieu tenant Scott borrowed four ludians of various tribes from Buffalo Bill's camps, and, with only such language as he used to explain to the paleface what he was saying, he carried on a long conversation by signs. The Indians were Painted Horse, Flat Iron, Horscs-Come-Last and Standing B.-ar. The lieutenant's h ind moved nimbly when he asked Fainted Horse where lis lived. The old Indian looked home sick for a moment, and then he made a superb motion pictureof a rock with trees on it. "Pine nidge," interpreted Lieuten ant Scott. Painted Horse, having found his hands, kept them going, while his face remained expressionless. Lieutenant Scott adiWd : "He says his relatives live there and (hat he has come a long way and has arrived here." One after the other the Indians joined in the sign conversation with as much enthusiasm as an Indian can manifest. They told their names aud where they were from and to what tribe they belonged. They under stood the lieutenant and each other as well. When Paiuted Horse said Horses-Come-Last was a Brule Sioux Horses-Come-Last immediately worked his hands to say that was a mistake ; he was an Ogallalla. Having started Horses-Come-Last, a magnificent-looking Indian, signed that he knew Gen eral Miles, who was sitting near, and he wanted the general to say something to him. General Miles told Lieuten ant Scott so toll Horses-Come-Last that he remembered hint very well as an Indian who had done good service in the Montana campaign. Lieutenant Scott interpreted by signs, oud im mediately Horses-Come-Last showed his pleasure. Lieutenant Scott has had some striking evidence that the Indians of the plains meet on common ground wheu they resort to the sign language. He was present when Chief Joseph of the Ness Perces addressed several hun dred Indians. The chief told the story of his march from Washington territory across Idaho and into Montana to the vicinity of the Yellowstone Park. A masterly military feat, without a par allel since the retreat of Xenophon's ten thousand. In the crowd to which the chief gave the narrative there were Ariearees, Msndans, firos Ventres, Nez Fereea, Chcyennes and Sioux. They were representatives of six different spoken languages. Yet Lieutenant Scott could see that there was perfect comprehension of the narrative. Not a word was spoken. Chief Joseph uaed uothing but the sigu language, but the Indians all followed him. A literal translation of the sigu lan guage is the best illustration of the for mation. Take the following sentence : "I shot with an arrow last night an eagle which was sitting upon a limb of a tree aud it fell M the ground." The Indian w ill convey this inform ation by sign language, as follows : "Night before trees looking I ssw bird curved beak limb of tree arrow bow aim shoot transfix whirl downward-strike the ground." Lieutenant Scott has taken part in numberless talks where the assemb lages iucluded Indians from almost every prairie tribe from Texas to the Canadian line.' Practically the same signs were used by all. "I must give," he said,- "my unqualified adherence to 1 the belief that the sign - language of the plains ludians does exist, aud that it has reached a high development." Adventure with a Boa. One iustance that ocours to me is a little adventure I have had with a python, a snake of the Molurus tribe, in my owu garden in Colombo. One evening I was smoking on the veranda after dinuer. It was cloudy uight, but the air was perfectly still. What seemed to be the brauch of a tree was lying across the carriage drive, and as I noticed it I wondered how it could have fallen when not a breath of wind was stirrinf. It w perfectly mo tionless, and after while I went down to throw it aside out of the path. But the moment I stepped over it the object seemed (o melt away. Amazed and half doubting the evi dence of my own eyes, I took a step iu pursuit, but the instantaneous con traction of the whole body, ready for a spring, and the long, deep hiss that followed told me of the danger I was in. Each staid without the movement of a muscle for about twenty :eoud, and then the snake imperceptibly dis appeared. One long sigh of relief and a dart into the house that beat the record of a twenty-yard sprint closed the proceedings for me that night. Hud I by mistake laid the slightest touch upon the creature's body the probability is that within lest than half a minute I should have been re duced to a shapeless lump of pulp and broken bones. Rescue would have been impossible. Providence wa merciful to me that night. Soon after we found that the python had taken up its abode in the gardeu, but it had chosen its hiding place so cutiuingly that there w no getting at it. One night a lady, who wai ill was lying awake iu her room, and the room next to hers was occupied by my sister. The door between the two rooms was open, and suddenly the Inly saw a large snake come iu at the window, waving its heal about in search of a place where it might alight. A moment later it fell, w ith a loud Hop on the tloor. Of course, it had dis appeared by the time they had re covered from the shock aud culled for assistance. Westminster Gazette. Picture of a Mexican ki.cheit, A Mexicin kitcheu contains no cook ing stove nor eveu a fireplace. In stead, on one side of the room a shelf is built intd the wall about breast high, on the centre of which a small fire burns built of gnarled and knotty sticks, which thrifty Amarieau house wives would consider unfit fur use. Occasionally this method is varied by m iking a charcoal fire in a large earth en pot and setting smaller cookiu'j utensils upon the coals. So little baking is d ine tint niiny holts. 'holds dispense with au oven entirely, but where one ia used it is built of mud, cither out of doors or at one end of the firedielf. Tortillns are the stuff of life iu Mexi co and consist simply of crush id e ru which hs le?n previously boiled in a weak lye, rolled into balls. Dish washing in a Mexican kitchen is con ducted ou a novel plan. There is uo soap, no dishcloth and no wiping towel, much less a table provided with a dishpan and draining rack. The dishwasher seats herself comfortably on the floor w ith a pail of water beside her and soius sliced amole root, which makes excellent suds, and in plane of a dishcloth she use a tiny, ntiff whisk broom. Dish wiping is uuknown. The dishes are simply tnrued up against the wall to dry, and somehow or other they always come to the table clean and shining. The apoous aud knives of brass and steel are as bright as the traditional dollar, though no brick dust or patent silver polish is applied to them, nothing but common Mexican dirt, dug up iu the dooryard. New York Advertiser. How the Gorilla Walks. The usual picture ef the gorilla do not represent him as I have seeu him. He has not only a crouching habit, but he walks ou all four of his lega oud has the motion of most qnadru peils using his right arm and left leg at the same time, aud alternates with the left arm and right leg. It is not exactly a walk or a trot, but a kiud of nmbliug gait, while the ohimpauzee uses his arms as crutches, but lifts one foot from the ground a little iu ad vance of the other. They do not place the palm of the baud ou. tht groitud, but use the back of the flu gers from the second joint, aud at times the one I have described above seemed to touch only the back of the nails, but this was when she was scarce ly moving at all. I am now preparing to photograph some of tbeiu, and I thiuk I can give a more reliable picture of this animal thau I have ever seen heretofore. MeClure's Magaziue. Matioual (salutes. The United States national salute is cue gun for each state ; the salute for the President, tweuty-one guus: for the Vioe-Presideut seventeen ; aud for cabinet officer end governors and such lesser offioials fifteen guus. The orig inal sulute for the president was ' as msuy guns as there were states, but in 1819, when there were tweuty-one, it was deoided that this number should become permanent as the Presidential salute. SCIENTIFIC WRAPS. In one minute the polypus can change it form 100 time. It is usually considered that an adult should drink about three pint of liquid a day. Electric light is being used a bait by fishermen who ply their calling along the Pacific coast. No living reptile possesses true power of flight, and only one, the flying dragon," ha any power of sustaining itself in the air. A Spaniard has succeeded in extract ing from grasshopper a certain fatty substance, which he claim is capable of being transformed into the finest soap extant. It costs $15,000 a year to feed the animals at the Philadelphia "Zoo." Among other article of diet con sumed by he carnivorous animals last year were '200 horses. The coldest place in the world is the region about the mouth of the McKeii zie river, in British America. The ther mometer there ha been known to sink to 70 degrees below zero. The most wonderful insect is the common ant. The researches of nat ural philosophers have shown that there is not in the world a more ex traordinary bit of matter than the ant's b'ain. The alalysis of a meteorite weighing about twenty-five pounds, which re cently fell near Beaver Creek, in Brit ish Columbia, shows that it consisted of iron(70.72 per cent.), nickel, silica and magnesia. The discharge of a river is the vol ume of water it pours into the sea withiu a given time, usually expressed as so many feet per aeeond. It is es timated by finding thn breadth, the average depth and the average rate at its mouth, aud multiplying. High speed railroading is now engaging the attention of the electrical fraternity in Europe. Speeds of 120 to 150 miles per hour are talked of, and electric power is ad vocated as being equal to the task of producing such rapid movement of trains. Wheu under a microscope milk is found to consist of numberless transparent globules of very minute size, floating in a clear, colorless A lid. These gobulcs ore compost d of milk fat (butter), and they lire each enclosed by a thiu envelope of albuminous material termed casein. He Wanted Wire. A Canadian teacher of Indians in the far Northwest iu the Dominion Government service, realizing that it is not good for a man to be alone, journeyed down to such civilization ns he could find iu Winnipeg not long agoiu anxious quest for u wife and with but six days, available for the search. First he commuuicated with the po lice, but they protested they could not aid hint. Next he sought the preacher's with equal ill success. Then he had recourse to the press. A friendly notice iu a morning news paper allured six-would-be brides for ward the samo day. Ha wa uot quite satisfied with the appearance of any of them, but thought that oue "would do," and set about miking preparations for the nuptials. Almost wheu t late a seventh young w )in in appeared. Then it was a case of love at first sight ou both sides. The half-aocepted yoiiug woman was quietly ignored : ho married the lust comer, and tin next morning ho act forth with his bride for his home iu the Northwest wilds. It is to be h ipedthat they will live happy ever after. New York Times. The Uas (iare Her Away. A long chapter of dentists' aecrcts the secrets revealed to them by cus tomers made unconscious but talka tive by gas ho beeu revealed by a conscienceless tooth puller up iu Pittsburg. The most interesting is this, told by oue dentist of another: "I know a young dentist who was head over heels in love with a pretty girl, but he could uever make any headway with her. He was bashful. That wus the maiu trouble. One day she came to hiiu to have a tooth pulled. He ad ministered gas and before she revived she let enough drop to assure my friend that if he proposal he wouldn't be re jected. She is his wife today, snd if it hd not beeu for the gas I dou't sup. pose the wedding would ever have come off. New York Mercury. A Rule Tlut Werk Bath Way. "Why did you tell that man to knock three time on your door when be called? Was it so' you'd kuow him aud let him in?" "No, it was so 's I'd kuow him and keep hint out. "New York Press. FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. io roi.isn minuKi m-nrst-Kit. For ivory, prepared chalk applied rapidly with chamois leather. For peart, paste of powdered rot tenstoue and olive oil thinned w. h oil of vitriol and applied with tork cov ered with velvet. For Jewelry, spirit of wiue and powdered French chalk. For marble, sand, then emery pow der and lastly putty powder. For horn, scrape with emery pow der and water, finishing with jeweler ouge. ) Detroit Free Press. to WASH C'HIXA SILK. it these davs, when wash silk are in common use, a few words in regard to washing them may be of interest. Aa silk is an animal fiber, like wool, it cannot be treated in the same way an cotton, which can be subjected to waters of all temperatures w ithout in jury. Silk should be washed a ra pidly as possible. Examine the arti cle to be washed, and if there are any parts especially soiled, clenu with a little benzine or gasoline, applied with a flannel cloth. Then prepare a soapsuds of I nken it mi water, and plunge the garments in it, soiming them up and down, and rubbing them thoroughly iu this suds. Binse them into water a little cooler, and then into a third water still a little cooler, and so on until the final rinsing water is perfectly cold. Do Hot blue them. Wring them out as dry as possible with a machine. Lay them in sheet or heavy cloths and roll them as hard as you can in Hi iu rolls. Put them away for an hour, ami at the end of that time iron them on the wrong sido. St. Louis Ili-public. HOW to noit, RICK. These directions for boiling rico sent out by the Louisiana Hice Exhibit of New Orleans: Pick the rice clean and wash it iu two cold waters, not draining off the last water until you ' are ready to put the rice on the Hro. Prepare a saucepan with water aud a little salt. Wheu it boils, sprinkle in the rice gradually so as not to atop the boiling. Boil hard for twenty minutes, keeping the pot covered. Then take it from the back of the fire and pour off the water, after which set the pot on the back of the stove to allow the rice to dry pud the grains to separate. Iteuiein-bi-r to boil rapidly from the time you cover the pot until you take it off; this allows each grain to swell to throe times its normal size, and the motion prevents the grains from sticking to gether. Dou't stir it, as this will cause it to fall to the bottom and burn. When properly boiled, rice should m snowy white, perfectly dry, soft, and every grain aeparate.1 When your family lose their appe tite for potatoes, or if you are a wis woman before then, you will occasion ally omit them from your dinner, aud serve hot boiled rice with your roast. The rice will be better still if yon cook it nearly tender and then put it in the pun with your roast to brown iu the juices of the meat. RKCtPKH. Banana Shortcake. One pint of flour, one large tablespoon fill of good baking powder, one-third cupful of shortening made moist with milk. While baking slice hauanas iu the pro portion of three to oue orange ; grate) the outside of the orange peel and mil with one cupful of sugar. Split the freshly baked cake, butter and All with the fruit. Four teaspoonfuls of swoot cream, beaten stiff, and added to the fruit is an improvement. This ia a delicious cake. Cruuberry Pie. Stew one and half pints of cranberries 10 minutes, and then add a cupful aud a half of sugar (granulated), and cook 10 min utes longer. Line a deep pie plate with rich crust, with rim at the edge, aud bake 15 or '20 minutes. Straiu the fruit, put the jam immediately iu the crust, spread a meringue made ol the whites of three eggs, and two ta bleapooiifuls of sugar, roughly ovet the top, aud place iu a moderate oven, until well set but not browned. Fish Chowder. Take a ood or had dock weighing about four pouuds; skin it, cut iu smill piece aud wash iu cold water; take oue-fourth pound (scant) of suit pork, cut iu pieces aud fry brown in the kettle in which chowder is to be made; pare and slice fle medium-sized potatoes aud one sm til ouiou ; place a layer of potato aud onion iu the kettle, then A layer of fish, dredge iu salt, pepper and flour; put iu alteruat layers until all is used; add hot water euough to cover, aud boil geutly thirty miuutea; add oua piut of milk, six crackers plit aud dipped iu cold - water ) tueaj cook teu miuut'js 'longer, . )
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