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THE KING HAS PETS.
THIS REFERS TO THE LION AND LIT- |
TLE ANIMALS HE LOVES.
A Professional Trainer of Wild Animals
Tots Some Interesting Tdetdents -— The
Fearlessness of Pigeons Among the Kings
of Beasts,
HOE YOUR OWN ROW.
It 1s a Profitiess Proceeding to Carry Ovals :
to Newcastle.’
There are more ways than one, my son, |-
of carrying coals to Newcastle, and in
almost every case it is a profitiess pro-
ceeding on the part of the person engag- |
ed in it.
Therefore, my son, save nothing to de |
{
with that kind of traffic—that is to say, |
; j do not encroach upon another's
i
preserves
The way Hons int the tiny creatures | except to admire. Do not attempt. to |
of animal life is a study. It may be that |
there is some animal language, and that |
the legend of the little mouse which sav- |
ed the lion's life by gnawing the net has |
become known to the denizens of the
angle and handed down as animal folk-
ore, or it may be that the king of beasts |
has a positive cor iempt for anything ex-
y small, but it is nevertheless a |
fact that lions will not attack tiny ani-
mals when they sre pat together. Pro- |
fessor Edward Darling, than whom there |
is no more profound student of a lion's |
~ life and character in the commtry, as |
‘made many curious experiments with
his five big beasts.
“1 pever saw a lion kill a rat or a
mouse,” said Professor Darling, ‘and I -
‘have had many of them put in the cage
with my five lions. My attention was
first drawn to this when I was on my
way from London to Batavia, in Java,
on the ship Rotundo. I had my five lions |
with me, and in the quarter of the ship |
in which they wers housed were many
rats. Ome day I saw Leo, my favorite.
lion, lying down and holding between
his paws very loosely a monster ship rat.
I thought perhaps that the cat instinct |
in the lion had made him catch it and
that he would probably play wita it
_ awhile, then eat it, and so I watched. Im-
sgine, however, my surprise when I saw |
him loosen the rat. and the rat made no
_ attempt to get away, but ran up and
over his gigantic paws and played with
him.
“We were a long time making a trip, |
and every day this ship's rat went into |
Leo's cage, and the two played together '
“as gently as two little children. 1 made
several attempts to capture the rat, hop- |
ing that perhaps I might take it ashore
with me, but I could not snceeed, and I!
promise you that old Leo did not like at |
all my attempting to interfére with his
. When we got to Java, we had to |
“take the lion out, and Leo had to lose his |
He cotld have killed that rat a
thonsand times, bat he never did it.
“Thera was another instance subse
quent to this where Leo had a pet rat,
~ which makes me believe that the lion has
a real fondness for the rodent. It was |
in 1851 in Calcutta. We were playing at
the Maidan, one of those gigantic places |
- in far India, and when I went in to see
my pets one morning I saw that Leo had
found another rat for a pet. My five |
" Hons were all together, but thisrat would
play only with Leo. There were many
* other rats in the place, but the other |
Jions would nct look at them. It seems |
.to me to be a fact that the lions consider
these little animals too small to be touch- |
ed. I have known of ruts being found
dead in a lion's eage, but I believe that
they were simply killed by the lion roll- |
ing on them or stepping on them through |
‘carelessness, but lions never eat them.
*In Hamburg once I knew a case of a |
sick tiger to whom it was deemed reces-
gary to give some fresh, warm blood to
tone up his system, and to farther this
end a live rabbit was put in the cage
with the tiger. One would naturally
suppose that the tiger would have killed
it instantly, but such, however, was not |
the case. The tiger played with the rab-
bit for days before he would touch it.
He finally killed and ate it.
- “Wow, my theory is this: A lion, or a
tiger, or in fact any wild animal kept
alone, grows very lonesome. In their
‘natural state wild beasts always run in
They love companionship, and
“when put alone they become so lonesome |
that whep another animal, even though
it is a rabbit, is put inh the same cage
with them, they refrain from killing it 80
as to have its companionship. - Wc have
heard of many instances of men being
_ alone—shipwrecked, if you like—making
"strange friends. Why not a lion? It al-
"ways made me feel rather bad to think
Of Shas siger In Hémivury Yilling wie little |
Transcript.
stock them with your own game.
When a man is salesman in a dry |
| goods store, do not attempt to instruct.
him by the ventilation of ideas of your |
sewn. If he be an actor, do not intrade '
| upon him any of your amatenr notions.
If a clergyman, refrain from Scriptural |
citation and exegesis when in his compa- |
ny. Hi a professional humorist, resist,
| a8 it were the evil one, all temptation to
facetionsness and paronomasia. If ame-
chanic, do not presume to give him points |
in his calling.
But, on the other hand, my son, donot
attempt to interfere with his speaking or |
his calling, profession or specialty. So
lotig as you listen you make no mistake,
and the wing of friendship molts no
feather.
Give ear to the story of his experiences |
at the counter, but interject none of your Ar
own; listen to and applaud his spoutings, |
but spout not yourself; receive with be- |
coming reverence his interpretations of |
holy writ. but meddle not yourself with
that which the lay mind is not supposed
to be able to cope withal; listen and
‘ langh at his wit and whimseys, but
hazard no joke of your own; attend
“while he relates his mechanical achieve!
ments, but vaunt not yourself in the.
same line. ;
It is a common mistake, my son, to
suppose that becanse a man delights in ©0
talking about a certain something in
which he is proficient, he loves to hear
| every babbler that falls in his way des-
cant upon the same subject; that because’
it pleases him to exalt himaelf in a given
direction he likes to hear others in the
same direction exait themselves.
When a man knows a thing thorough-
Iy—or thinks he does, which amounts to’
the same 80 far as he is concerned-—he is |
quite ready and willing to instruct others,
{ but he brooks no incursions by others
into his peculiar domain. When he has |
finished the exposition of his wares, it is
time for you to show up yours, provided
. of course they are of an entirely differ-
* ent line.
There must be reciprocity in the com-
merce of conversation, an exchange of
ecmplementary commodities. Each must
give what the other lacks and receive in
return that in which he is wanting, else
there can be no trade, no harmony.
Yon wonld not ship oranges to Flori- |
da, ice to Nova Zembla or bot a'r fur-
naces to Sahara. Then why carry coals |
to Newcastle?
Therefore, my son, iet each man pad- |
dle his own canoe as it best pleases him. '
Admire, applaud, if you will—and itis |
yoar best holi—bat don’t put in your!
oar, though he be swamping.—Boston !
An Affecting Tale.
Barber—Poor Jim has been sent to an!
insane asylum.
Victim (in chair) Who's J fm?
“Jim is my twin brother, sir. Jun |
has long been broodin over the hard |
| times, and ] suppose he finally got |
crazy.
“Ham! Not unlikely.”
“Yes, be and me has worked side by |
side for years, and ws were so alike we |
couldn't tell each otheg apart. We both
brooded a good deal too. No money in |
this business any more.”
“What's the matter with it?’
“Prices too low. Unless a customer |
takes a shampoo or somethin, it doesn't
pay to shave or hair cut. Poor Jim! I.
| ecsught him tryin to cut a customer's
throat because he refused a shampoo, |
and #0 I had to have the poor fellow |
‘locked np. Makes me very melancholy. |
Soinetimes I feel sorry I didn't let him
slash all he wanted to. It might have,
saved his reason. Shampoo, sir?”
“Y-os, utr. "New York Weekly.
cok tp
African Ants.
Dr. Sharp gives the following extract |
. from Dr. Livingstone’s “Narrative of an
“and that in that they will not eat the
flesh of a fowl. You might tempt them
with a canvasback duck or the daintiest
«quab, but they would refuse it. This is
8 scientific fact. I have tried it many
times. I remember once having a swan |
which bad broken its wing. We killed
Hit carefully and threw it into
_ were massed in silence round the point
"to be asssulted. We could hear the
| sharp, shrill word of command two or '
three times repeated, though until then |
to the Zambezi”
“We tried to sleep one rainy night ina |
pative hut, but could not because of at-
tacks by the fighting battalions of a very |
small species of formica not more than
one-sixtesnth of an inch in length. It
soon became obvious that they were un- |
Siar dlaciplion aul even attempt- |
ing to carry out the skillful plans and
stratagem of some eminent leader. Our
hands and necks were the first objects of
attack. Large bodies of these little pests
{ wo had not believed in the vocal power
' of an ant. The instant after we feit the |
storming hosts over head and neck.”
New York Ledger. »
Count Primoli’s Camsers.
] Count Primoli is a familiar figure in {
Parisian society, spending a portion. of |
‘ the season each year at the hospitable
' house of his aunt, Princess Mathilde, in
their wondrous power and are charita-
ble. They would never attempt to im-
jure something which in no way could
"do them harm. The study of a lion—his
habits, character and capabilities—is one
of the most interesting I know. It offers
‘a field as yet comparatively unknown,
but the more one goes into it the more
- time one takes to find ont just whate |
Hon is and the more he is convinced that |
” he has rightly been named the kingof |
beasts.”—New York Tribune.
\ . pean
. Wife—We must have a piano.
Husband—We are neither of us mu- |
sical. i
Wife—I know, but what is home with- |
Ant o nisng itanp?=-New York Weeklv.
whose salons he formed the acquaintance
and acquired the warm friendship of the
popular novelist, Paul Bourget. He is
noted as being, with the possible excep-
tion of the Duc d» Morny, the most sue-
; cessful amateur photographer in Europe,
. and has spent enormous sums on various
perfected apparatus connected with this
particular fad. —New York Herald.
She Ought to Know.
Miss Imogen Guiney, who entered po
Mtical life to the extent of seeking the
postinistress-ship of her town, says that .
| no woman can earn a livelihood at po-
_etry—the statements of Ella Wheeler
¢ . Wilcox notwithstanding.
A Compromise.
“Your account has been standing e
| long time, Mr. Dukey.”
“Then give it a svat, my dear Shears.”
“Very glad to, sir; shall we make it
‘receiot?” London Judy.
H Nouid $t realty grieve him?
He has spoken at last.
© Shall | take him or leave him?
i .
| HER MAMMA.
Or a penniless masker?
I must find out today
If he’s rich, as they say,
Yor she’s not said him
And again he may ask her.
: Is he rich, as they say,
or a penniless asker?
: =Yatkn Biade.
At the Nice Race Homing.
A race meeting is mach the same all
the world over, and the Nice gathering
' | ean hardly be called the exception.
pris. the reilway station-—the races
at Le Var, some few miles out
of Nice proper—nand the familiar lie
of beggars, blind, halt, lame and more
80, as ready with curses as hlessings—all
the way from the station to the course.
The three card trickster, the fortune
teller and the whole brotherhood of the
ring, each with bag and board, the lat-
' ter bearing an English hame, as a rule,
‘are to be seen, each in his appro-
grater regularity and brilliance and
the - landscape with its slim rows of
eucalyptus trees look more delicate and
| frngile than we are accustomed to, but -
otherwise all has the appearance of the
{ “correct card.”
It is a charming little conrse at Le
| difficult to find anywhere a more repre-
sentative gathering of beauty and fash-
: jon than may be seen in the paddock on
a big day. — Pall Mall Budget.
Misstonnries.
_ Avchioavos Farrar sets forth forcibly
the large debt of science to missions in
these words: *' Is it nothing that through
their labor in the translation of the
Bible the Germen philologist in his
- study may have before him the gram-
{ mar and vocabulary of 230 languages?
Who created the science of anthropol-
ogy? The missionaries. Who rendered
! peesible the deeply important science of
comparative religion? The mission-
aries. Who discovered the great chain .
of lakes in central Africa, on which
will tarn its futare destiny? The mis-
sionaries. Who have been the chief
explorers of Oceanica, America and
“Asia? The missionaries, Who discov-
| ared the famons Nestorian monument in
Singar Fu? A missionary. Who dis
covered the still more famous Mcabite
stona? A missionary. Who discovered
the Hittite inscriptions? A missionary.’
} — ‘Exchange.
A Possible Derivation of “News.”
The word is not, as many imagine,
| derived trom the adjective new. In
former years— between the years 1595
and 1730—it was a prevaient practice
to put over the periodical publications
: of the day the initial letters of the car-
- dinal points of the compass; thus:
? ~ :
i
i
WE
L
uiporting that: Se pers contained
intelligence from the four quarters of
the globe, and from the practice is de-
rived the term newspaper.— New York
Mail and Express.
Mahone's Flesh Wound.
usneral Mahons was wonaded at sec-
ond Manassas, and some one, to comfort |
‘Mrs. Mahone, said: "Ob, dou’t be an
| ensy. It is only a flesh wound.” Mrs. |
Mahone, turough her tears, cried ont:
**Oh_ that is impossible! There is not |
flesh ‘moughb on him for that.’ Those
who have seen General Mahone can ap-
‘preciate the remark.— Buffalo News.
Would Feel Nataral.
have?
Doctor— He will seem rather dull and
| stapid, but don't feel alarmed.
Wife—Oh, no. He's that way when
he's perfectly well, you kanow.—Chi-
cago Inter Ocean. :
To Test Steel.
nitric acid and allew it to act for one
minute. On rinsing with water a gray-
isk white stain will be seen if the metal
. ronto Mail.
Under Officer (to new cavalry recruit)
--Never approach the horses from be-
' bind withont speaking. [f you do,
they'll kick you on that thick head of
yoars, and the end cf it will be we'll |
bave nothing but lame horses in the
~mjuadron.
An oid lady who claims 6 “to know all
gbout it’’ says the only way to prevent
' steamboat explosions is to make the en-
gineers ‘* bile their water on shore.’ In
her opinion: “*all the bastin is done by
cooking the steam on oad the boat.’
There ars fast three women physic ians
ia the state of Delaware, and not one
of these is native bern. There are no
vromen lawyers, women journalists or
women ministers in the state.
Sire was originally reed to designate
“the proprietor of a farm. . Rising in
dignity, it was afterward applied to a
robleman, then used in ‘addressing a
- paonarch.
.. Love with a Fr never so
- serious as with a young girl, because he
bas bis mustache to distract his atten-
i tiom.
SHOE -
There is the same noisy crowd and '
priate place. The sun may shine with.
Var, and in fine weather it would be
Wife—What effect will these powders
fs iron; a black one if it is steel. —To- |
DANIELSON & ENGBLAD'S
SHOP
4th Ave,, pear RB. R. Station. : g
Shoes msde to order and repairing:
of all kinds done promptly. Prices
'| moderate. 18.
AVENUE RESTAURANT,
I R. SNYDER, Prop’r, |
Fifth avenue, hetow Beek's Hotel, will serve
god mens at all hours. Keeps everything wo |
had in a first-claes restaamnt. Oysters |
. served in every styie We make a specialty of |
VSTERS INTHE HALF SHELL.
M A HAFFEY HOUSE"
Mahaffey, Clearfield Co., Pa.
veonmmodations first-class. Best of Liquors
and Wines at the bar. Stabling attached.
: (GEORGE FERGUSON,
otf : Prop’ r.
THE TI LAUNDRY
NEAR THE PATTON MOTEL.
All kinds of laundry work done on short no-
tice and good work mnteed. Prices rrason-
‘able. Work called for and delivered withont |
ext charge. a eft at Scheid's barber
shop, opposite the Beck Hotel, will eesive
prompt attention,
AUGUST K. HUBER,
STONE MASON,
‘Mellon Avenue, PATTON, PPA,
Iam pared to do all kinds of work in my
pre
! {ine at reasonable prices. Contracts taken and |
estimates famished when destrind, Satisfaction ;
guamnteed tive me a onil
F. W. BITTNER.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
: ; Oe
I = Estimates submitted on short notices,
PATTON, PENNA,
R. S. WEesTBroOK,
Manufacturer and Shipper of
161 11th Avenue,
ALTOONA, PENN. *
We are ready for the trade.
Send on your orders.
Telephone No. 283.
P. P. Young & Bro,
Ww eiesle and Retail Dealer is
FRESH MEAT
| ~ OF ALL KINDS.
Bologna,
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ness
Hor
"E. 4. SEUERIN, Prop’r.,
Dealer in and Mapnfeiarer of
Harness, Bridles, Saddles, Col-)
lars, Nets, Whips, Blankets,
Harness Oil, Etc.
REPAIR WORK
A Specialty.
| Railroad Street and Magee Avenue.
FirstNation’ [Bank
OF PA TTON.
Patton, Cambria Co, Pa.;
am—
CAPITAL PAID UP, $50,000.00.
Acenunta of Corporations, Firms, Individa-
{ als and Banks. received upon the ost (kyvom-
The simplest way to tzil iron from
steel is to pour on ths metal a drop of |
banking.
Steamship tickets for sale for ail the lading
lines, Foreign Drafts payable in thy principal
cities of the Old Ward.
All correspondences will have our prompt and
personal attention.
Interest paid on time dep wits
A. E. Parrox Wu. H. SANFORD,
President. Cashier.
EF. LF E.
CoNThicTon & Buu.
25 Years Experience.
All Work Guaranteed to Give Good
Satisfaction According to Plans
and Specifications.
Am stopping at at the Commercial Hotel.
[ard, Etc 2
The following first-class
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Fire | Insurance Corapanies are.
ROYAL, of Liverpum ~ Assets held in U. S, $7460
681.44.
HOME, of New York. —
1 $0,328,754.44.
GERMAN, of Plashont
($514,137.46.
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of
THE LARGEST
| Assets, $15 3,060,052.
‘Office in Good: Building, Over
First National Bank.
Everbody is oridllally | invi
Reserve, sar Sy 37.
: i Surplus, $31,189,815.
DALE & PAT 'ERSON, Agts.,
: Patton, Pa
Ne York.
IN THE WORLD.
to call and see our large stock
of goods which are offered fgr sale at our store
It will be our constant ‘effo
from. We 1 ve a full line of
DRY 60005, BOOTS [AND SHOES, GRGERIES,
Ande verything kept in a
large assortment of CA
"TING, Etc.
WA
All kinds of Shelf Hardwarp kept on hand.
Nc trouble to show
Respettally.
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AM. T
CENERAL
‘A full line of Shelf |
ke pt In a
first-class store of
this kind.
PAI NTS and ons
8 ALL
Ne
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HOTEL
! bie-terms conzixtent with mfr and conservative -
‘One of the Large
Cambna;
A Specialty.
AND SEE.
Mage Av enue,
A
Cash capital $3,000,000 assets
—Cash capital $200,000; assets
to supply the wants of all our :
customers and keep a good class of goods to select
fitstclass general store. We. make 4
Ice Crea m, a Speeiniry of the best grades of i ny
FLOUR, - FEED, - HAY, - GRAIN, - ETC.
JRPETS, OIL CLOTH, MAT-
%ept on hand. Also QUEENS.
ARE, DISHES and TINWARE-
goods. Come in and look around. :
Fanon, Pa.
sm ———
ean Se.
Hardwa are and ev erything
and also DOORS and SASH
H. c. BECK, ‘Propr. :
st Hotels in
Conducted in
"MODERN STYLE.
( ;ood Table
est bra
. The POPULAR
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nds of liquors.
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