A SCOURGE OF INDIA.
THE LARGEST, STRONGEST AND
MOST FEROCIOUS OF BEASTS.
Tigers and Thoir Made of Attack—
Their Preference for Human Fle9h
—Many People Killed by Them
Annually.
In liis art-ic'e in the Nineteenth Cen
tury, 011 the number of human lives do
H rnyod by animals, Mr. J. Fayrer says:
The animal lirsfc in size, strength and
ferocity is the tiger. It is confined en
tirely to Asia, and is most common in
India. Its muscular development is
enormous. The tiger cannot only strike
down a cow with a blow of its forearm
and hold it with its fangs, but can laiso
it from the ground and drag or carry it
to his lair, where it is devoured at
leisure.
The tiger attains its greatest size in
the jungles of Tudia. Blytli says truly
that the largest tiger exceeds in size the
largest lion. The statements as to
length are conflicting and s mietimes
exaggerated, errors arising "from meas
urements of the skin being taken after it
lias be n removed from the body and
undergone stretching. The animal
should he measured from the nose along
the spine as he lies dead where ho fell.
One that is ten feet by this measurement
D large, and the full-grown males sel
dom exceed this, though it is certain
that they do oeca ion ally attain to a
greater length. I have been present at
tlie death of tigers ten feet eight
inches and ten feet six inches, accu
rately measured where they fell, and
there are examples on record where the
length ex ended twelve feet; so that,
while fully agreeing with derdon and
others that the average si/e of the male
tiger is from nine feet to nine and one
half feet or ten, I am able to assert,
from indisputable evidence, that they
do s' metimcs attain the length of eleven
or twelve feet, or even two or three
inches more. The tigress seldom ex
ceeds nine feet, the average being be
tween eight feet and eight and one-half
feet, or oecasiona'ly nine feet, and per
haps in exceptional cases even up to
ten teet.
The tigress is smaller; the head, j
neck, and body are liner and lighter ;
she is move active, and, especially when
accompanied by her young, more ag
gressive than the tiger. The geograph
ical distribution is confined to Asia,
front Ararat and Caucasus 011 the west,
it extends 10 Kaghulien 011 the east; and
l'rom Capo Coniorin to the Himalayas;
us high us (>,O M) feet or 8,000 feet. * In
sorno places it is becoming rare, though
the number are still sufficient to cause
serious loss of life, it is also found
among the hil s and rocky country of
Central and Southern India, and locali
ties remote from population and culti\ 11
tion are most frequented ; but when
pressed by hunger the tiger visits clear
ed and cultivated places, and 1 eooines
iho villigevs' dread, who are in constant
fear for their own or thoir cattle's lives.
During tlio cold and wet seasons ho is
restless, wandering from place to plu-o
with no fixed abode, though keeping
within a certain range of country. In
the months of March, April, and May he
is more res'ric ed in his movement 9, tlio
grass jungle baring been burned to a
great extent and the water dried up,
leasing only swamps and pools. The
shelter becomes less extensive, and with
the increasing heat, he becomes less in
clined for exertion; 110 now seeks the
patches of grass or other shelter 011 tlio
edges of the forest and in the swamps,
where, lying a rest during tlio heat of
the day, lie steals out at night in search
of prey, and it is during these months
that lie is often hunted and destroyed,
either from elephants, maclians, or 011
foot.
It has been said that when a tiger has j
tasted human flesh he prefers it toother
food. I cannot say how this may he,
but there is no doubt that whoa ho has
overcome the national dread of the hu
man form he readily kills men, and bo
comes the tevr< rof a whole district. At
Nyneotal a tiger prowled within a circle
of twenty miles, and for three years
killed, 011 an average, eighty men per
annum. It sometimes happens that a
road is closed for weeks by a single tiger;
not only pedestrians, hut even those
traveling in bullock carts, are attacked
and carried off; and yet it is remarkable
■with what apathy the danger is some
times regarded, for natives will carry on
thoir usual vocations as herdsmen
< r woodcutters close to the cover in
which the tiger is concealed. On the
other hand, they will often not pass
along a certain road or path without
turns-torns or torches to scare the tiger
away, while in other cases tlio beatcis
will readily go on foot and heat him out,
though should lie break back he is pretty
certain to strike s une one down, inflict
ing a dangerous, often a mortal wound,
but is less likely to do this if un wounded.
I have repeatedly seen herdsmen who
were willing to a company you on foot |
to the jungle in which the tiger was ly-1
ing, hut who could not he persuaded to 1
mount an elephant for that purpose.
It is a popular belief, not confined to j
the ignorant, that the wounds inflicted
by a tiger are of a poisonous character.
It is possible that the teeth and claws
may be contaminated by septic matter,
but this is the exception rather than the
rule. The real fact is that the wounds
are dangerous because they are deep
punctured and lacerated; otherwise they
nave 110 peculiarity, and often heal
rapidly, though they sometimes sunpu
rate and induce blood-poisoning. I nave
seen severe injures recovered from
rapidly, while others have caused such
suppuration and destruction of tissue as
ultimately to prove fatal.
The tiger does not roar like the lion,
though he can do so occasionally. There
is a peculiar grunting, bark, or growl
when ho is disturbed or frightened, and
this is repeated loudly when he charges.
When calling to each other at night,
tigers make a prolonged wailing howl,
which is very imposing and makes the
hearer g ad to feel the protection of a
camp about him. A wounded tiger, with
his ears laid hack, his eyes glaring, his
fangs displayed, and his hair ere t as he
charges with repeated angry growls, is
a most trying ordeal and very difficult
to meet unmoved.
The tiger general'}' seizes his prey at
night; ho watches the catt o or what
ever it may be until lie creeps within
reach, ami then with a rush or bound
lie grips it by to throat, drags ors:rikes
it to the ground, twis iug it so as some
times to dis'oca e or break the neck; the
fangs are driven in so as to hold the
struggling creature until dead, when it
is dragged off lo Iho jungle to bo oaten
at leisure. His lair is near, and from
this ho proceeds, as appetite prompts
him, to tlie "kill," until it is eaten and
oven tbo bones gnawed, by which time,
owing to the heat of the weather, it is
far advanced in decomposition. The
place is revealed by the vultures, kites,
crows, and udjuJunta soaring over it or
settling on the branches around about
it, and by prowling jackals. The vul
tures sit with a gorged or sleepy aspect
on the trees or on the ground near tlio
"kill." They endeavor to make a meal
when the tiger has left it for a time, and
even try to sna'ch amorse 1 while he is
feeding, a termeritv for which they often
pay with their lives. The tiger is fre
quently found and slain near the "kill."
It appears that during the eight years
1880-87 inclusive, 7,301 human beings,
or a yearly average of 912 persons, and
158,845 cattle, or a yearly a\erage of
19,855 head, have been killed by tigers.
In the ease of human beings the figures
do not vary much; they were 872 in
1880, 831 in 1884, 928 in 1880, and 1,003
in 1887, showing, at all events, there
was no diminution; oven eleven years
previously, in 1870, 917 persons were
killed. In the case of cattle the varia
tion was considerable, from 15,339 in
1880, 14,490 in 1881, gradually increas
ing to 27,517 in 1887. In 1870 the cattle
destroyed were 12,110, which shows a
groat increase for 1887, if the returns
can be relied on.
The number of tigers destroyed dur
ing the year 1887 was 1,408, and the
total amount of rewards paid for thorn
was 40,090 rupees, or an average of
about 28 rupees for each.
A WOMAN COBBLER.
A Daughter of St. Crispin Working
at the Bench.
Can you tell me whore Mrs. Gill lives,
litt'o girl ?" was the question a New
York Press reporter asked yesterday of a
flaxen-haired urchin in Mulberry street,
after lie had spent a fruitless hour in
search for that lady.
44 You mean Mrs. Gill, the shoemaker,
do you i" replied the urchin, and when
the reporter said that was the very per
sonage he was looking for, the child
pointed down the street, indicating
where the only woman shoemaker in
Now York was to be found.
The reporter had little difficulty in
touching Mrs. Gill's little cobbler's shop
in 0110 of the tenements in the rear of
old St. Patrick's Cathedral. There was
little to distinguish it from the ordinary
cobbler's rtall, except, perhaps, an 1111
wonted tidiness and a pretty ornament
hero and there that at once bespoke a
woman's taste. Mrs. Gill herself rose
from her cobbler's bench, where she was
busily engaged in mending a pair of
child's slices, to greet the reporter, and
when 110 said ho only dropped in to have
a quiet chat with her she wiped a stool
with the corner of her apron and asked
him to bo seated.
He saw in this one brief moment that
Mrs. Gill was a woman tlmt might bo
possibly 50 years of ago, gray-haired and
p'easant faced. She was evidently quite
reaiy for a chat, and began by say
ing that she had been told she was tlio
only woman shoemaker of the old school
in New York, or perhaps, the whole
United Statos. She said she wouldn't
vouch for this being absolutely true, hut,
however, she had never heard of any
other woman following the trade at the
bench.
14 Of course," she glibly taked on, with
very little prompting, 44 there are hun
dreds of women working in tlio modern
shoe factories, but any of them would
be insulted if they were called slioe
niakeis. Now, I glory in being a mem
-1 e.- of St. Crispin's 'gentle craft,' and,
though tlio shoemaker of the olden time
has long since been pushed to the wall
by modern inventions, I propose to stick
to the bench to the end.'
44 Were you regularly apprenticed to
the trader 5 ' ventured the reporter.
"I was born to it," proudly replied
the old woman. "My father was a shoe
maker of Northampton, England, when
it was the great shoe emporium of the
old country, and I learned tho trade as
naturally as a duck takes to the water.
I watched my father by the hour, and
when ho saw what a taste I had for
leather ho fostered it more to humor mo
than in any hope that I would ever mas
ter the craft. But I did, and before I
was 14 years of ago I made a pair of
shoes for my mother that I don't think I
could better now. When I was old
enough I went to work in a factory in
Northampton at shoo fitting, and I
worked in Massachusetts factories after
my father came to this country in 18(18.
I have been working here nearly ten
years and have all that I can do, as you
may see,," and tho old woman swept
tho little shop with a wave of her sturdy
arm.
"My work is tho ordinary run of work
done in any cobbler's shop. I repair
men's women's and children's shoes,
and may say I have tho entire mending
of tho neighborhood to do. Sometimes,
perhaps from curiousity, I have a trail
from a fine lady to mend her own or her
children's fine shoes, and I have novel*
had any one to find fault with my work."
How tho Young Coreans Dress.
In describing tho dress of Coroan
children, a writer in tho Washington
Btar says: The best holiday dress of a
little boy cons sts of a very gaudy coat,
tho body of which is made of light
green silk faced with blue, with sleeves
made in bands of nine bright shades of
silk, ami the "folding articles" or
trousers, which are a baggy garment of
pongee silk lined with white cotton.
Queer little socks, with turned up toes,
projecting heels and tying tapes half
way lip the back, are called po-syou.
Tho haing-tjon, or leggins, tio on above
tho stockings and aro of red cotton. A
curious robe of red cotton with blue
sleeves is thrown over tho coat, and a
short sleeved waist of blue silk, lined
with red cotton, goes on over the robe.
Across tho back of this is a stripe of
silk, brocaded, 011 which are printed in
gilt characters that signify such prov
erbs and admonitions as "Have oon-
I sideration for others," "Be just." "Be
1 moderate in your desires," Ac. Over
all tins goes a loose-sleeved outer gar
meet of blue brocaded silk, with little
slashes up tho sides, and at tho back a
long slash extending to the cross-band
1 between tho armholcs. Qn this baud
I aro hung throe little bags, embroidered
and dressed witli tassels, which aro
| worn in honor of three good spirits that
are supposed by tho Coreans to come
j into tho world with every child. An
other article of child's dress is tho hail*
; ribbon of purple gronadine, folded to
: form a point at the top and sewed to
gether part of the way down. 011 this
are characters in gilt signifying " Long
life, riches Vie bequeathed. A circular
device contains seven dots representing
tho seven stars of the "dipper." They
arc supposed to insuro tho wearers
having many children. Tho ribbon is
made fast to the end of tho plait into
whioh tho hair is done up. A sort of
head dress is worn over the head and
| sides of tho face, tied down under the
chin. This is very fanciful, being made
1 of bands of various colored silks and
I ornamented with embroidery and other
| ornamentation. The shoes are male of
red loithcr, bound with green and gold.
A R.ANK abounding in codfish of ex
cellent size and quality has been dis
covered about eight miles off the Oregon
coast ami sixty-live miles south of the
Columbia Itiver. Heretofore tho truo
cod has not been found in the Paoifio
south of Alaskan shores.
AN INDIGO FACTORY.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
INDIGO-MAKING.
Visit to the Beating-Vats—Natives
Waist-Deep in Liquid Indigo—A
Curious Experiment.
In relating some of his experiences
during a fourteen-liundred-milo bicycle
ride from Lahore to Calcutta, India,
Thomas Stevens, in Youth's Companion,
says: 44 One morning I arrived at a
great indigo factory situated near the
road. Not far from the factory was the
commodious bungalow of tlio planter,
an English gentleman, Mr. T , who
had had many years' experience as an
indigo-planter. As I dismounted Mr.
T came out and promptly invited
me to remain witli him as long as I saw
fit. Tlio heat was terrific, and as I was
curious to see something of indigo-mak
ing, 1 readily accepted his hospitality
for the day. We tirst visited tlio beat
ing-vats, 111 each of which about twenty
naked natives stood wa'st-deep in the
liquid indigo. These were the beaters.
Each man was armed with a loug
wooden spade, and they were Hinging
into the air streams of indigo, which
dashed overhead, and splashed about
the vat and over the beaters in showers
of foam and spray. This brings about a
chemical transformation. The fluid, as
it conies from the stalks and leaves of
the plant, is of a greenish color. The
wild work of the beaters changes the
tint into a beautiful deep blue by oxy
genation. At tlio same time that it
changes in color the dve stuff held in
solution granulates anu settles to tlio
bottom of the vats. When the beaters
have thoroughly performed their work
they climb out of the vat and allow the
contents to settle.
44 Mr. T led the way to the farther
end of the row of beating-vats and
showed me one of them which had been
settling for nil hour.
4 4 4 Here, you see,' lie said, 'now it is
settleJ, the liquid has changed color again
from blue to a smoky green. Except
that it is somewhat clearer, it looks
about as it did before the beaters began
to work 011 it.'
44 The foreman now came and removed
a plug from a hole in the wall. The
green liquid gradually ran to waste,
and there was revealed at. the bottom of
the vat a thick, pu'py sediment of blue.
This was the indigo. Men now came
with earthenware jars, which they filled
and carried off to the boiling-room.
Hero the indigo was strained through
wire sieves of fin& mesli, to remove all
impurities. After it lias been strained,
the soft blue mass is poured into big
iron kettles and boiled for two or three
hours to evaporate the moisture and
further granulate the indigo. It is then
dumped into presses and subjected to
heavy pressure by means of lever and
screw. The presses are square iron
boxes, perforated like a colander and
lined with press-clotlis. By this process
all the remaining water is forced out
that can be removed by pressure. The
indigo is turned out of the presses in
dark blue cakes, which are of about the
consistency of a bar of soap. Then it is
cut up into commercial squares and im
pressed with the stamp of the factory.
The cakes are then removed to the dry
ing house, a largo, airy shod, provided
with tiers of open shelves. Here they
remain for two or three months until
they are thoroughly dry, and are then
packed in boxes and shipped to market.
Tlio chief Indian emporium for indigo
is Calcutta, whence it is shipped to for
eign markets.
44 4 Now come this way,' said Mr.
T——, alter we had visited the boiling
and drying-houses. 4 1 want to show
you something interesting.'
Saying this, the indigo-plauter led
the way to a sot of vats similar to those
wo had already seen, but elevated so
that the liquor could bo drained from
them into the beating-vats.
44 4 These,'ho said, 4 aro the ferment
ing-vats. Now see!'
44 Mr. T produced a match from his
pocket, and lighting a stalk of dead in
digo plant, he cast it, flaming, into one
of the vats. The gases that wore escap
ing from the fermenting mass of leaves
and stalks ignited with a sharp report,
and for an inst mt a bluish flame spread
all over the vat. The experiment was
repeated at the next vat with similar
results. In these feimenting-vats the
indigo-plants are packed tighly in lay
ers, as they arrive in the bullock-ghar
ries from the farms. Porous frames are
laid 011 top, and the mass is pressed or
weighed down. Water is then pumped
in with a Persian wheel, and the plants
are allowed to steep.
44 Fermentation soon commences, and
in a few hours the vats are bubbling and
seething to the rim. This continues
for twelve or fourteen hours, when the
fermentation gradually subsides. The
water is then run off into the boating
vats, to bo manipulated in the manner I
have described.
44 Of late years many improvements
have been introduced into the manu
facture of indigo. Much of tlio beating
is now done by machinery, which does
tlio work more thoroughly tliuii it can
bo done by men. A speoial kind of
yeast-powder is used to stimulate and
increase tlio fermentation, and another
preparation aids in the precipitation of
the indigo after beating."
The Harmonigraph.
An invention hails from Now Orleans
for which very remarkable powers are
claimed. This device embodies mechan
ism by means of which music, as it is
played 011 the piano or similar instru
ment, may be indicated 011 paper so
that it may he reproduced as desired,
thus enabling one improvising music to
have the music written as it is played in
such a manner that it may be read and
trans 1 a ted into the characters ordinarily
employed in writing music. The inven
tion is said to consist in the combina
tion in the harmonigraph of the mark
ers and connecting rods arranged for
engagement by tlio keys of the piono or
other similar instrument, and by which
the movement 011 the key may he trans*
mittcd to the marker. In the combina
tion is also embodied a tone marker and
a measure marker. Homo of the finest
ideas of the impromptu player 011 the
piano appear to be the most evanescent.
What composer, while abandoning him
self to the flow of happy extemporiza
tion, has not longed for some means of
catching the exquisite melody or the su
perb orchestral effect, and recording it
before its form and beauty have becomo
impaired and lost? If tlio harmoni
graph can do this, it is truly a wonder
ful invention, and one which will be re
ceived with gratitude by the whole mu
sical world.
E. S. STAMPEII, near Elmer, Ore., cut
down a fir, tree on his farm. Ho got it 12
for the bark. From the lumber ho
built a house 14x20, eight feet high, a
shed-kitchen H feet wide and 20 feet
long, a wooil-slied 14x20, nnd had 000
boards G inches wide and two feet long.
Ho also cut 334 railroad ties and 15
cords of wood—all this from one tree.
SINGULAR VISITATION. .
Winged Ants Swarm and Cover Ten
Miles of a Lake's Surface.
About 5.30 o'clock 011 a recent after j
noon fishermen 011 Lake Keuka began
to ho annoyed by hosts of minute in
sects, which they at first supposed were
some spe -ies of black My. The insects
came upon tlio lake from the southern
and eastern shores, and in such immense 1
swarms that within a few minutes after
their appearance the; surface of tlio Jake
was covered so thickly with them that ;
for long distances they concealed the;
water completely from view. The 1
phenomenon wae the more surprising ,
iiecausc insect posts of any kind 011
Keuka Lake had never been known be
fore, even the übiquitous mosquito
being comparatively rare. These
winged visitors drove many fishermen
from tho lake, as they made it difficult
to either see or breathe, so thick did
they settle and fill the air.
It was soon discovered that among
tho myriads of the nimble insects wore
larger ones, less in number, but
apparently of tho same family,
except that their bodies were brown 1
while the others were black, and
that their abdomens were swollen in- |
ordinately. Tho wings of both species !
were nearly white. Closer inspection !
of the insects showed that they were not !
flies at all, but winged ants. The bodies
of the smaller kind were jet black ami
glistened like polished ebony. The
brown ants, whose bodies were a quarter
of au inch long, were found to be dis- I
tended with eggs, apparently hundreds
being in each nut.
As tho insects struggled on tho surface
of the water it was noticed that they
gathered in large bunches, and it was
discovered that in the centre of each i
group was one of the large brown ants, |
which the small black ones seemed to lu; j
struggling to rescue or protect. 111
ro.ving through this vast collection of
insects tlio wake of the boat would leave ■
a line on the e.lges of which tho ants |
were heaped together as a plough throws j
up the earth from a furrow.
From Hammondsport tho lake was
covered in ill's way by the insects from i
shore to shore for a distance of ten i
miles, and where the rays of the setting 1
sun slanted upon them, thoy appeared
011 tho lake in great patches of delicate
purple forming a most rem arable pic
ture in combination with the surround
ing scenery. When tho insects first
began to drop down upon the lake black
bass wore biting freely along tho rocky
shores and bottoms, but, as tho water
be aino alive with the struggling winged
ants, no bait the fishermen tried could
tempt the bass further, but the constant
breaking of tho water all along the
shores showed plainly that this strange
\isitation of insect life exactly suited '
the epicurean palates of the fish. Now j
and then, where the ants had gathered
in thick patches 011 the surface, some
times an inch or more in depth and a !
rod or more in area, some immense and i
eager black bass would shoot from his ;
lurking place and sweep upward and i
through tlio troubled group of in- j
sects, leaping into aggravating sight in
liis sweep, with his great mouth open,
and leas ing a wide and sharp-cut space in
tho mass to mark his predaceous course.
0110 of these writhing groups of ants
brought groat luck to Major Gardner of
tho Sunny Slope and Inglehook vine- j
yards. He and a New York Sun repor- j
tor were bass fishing oil' Twomilo Point,
011 tho west shore of the lake. When !
tho plague of ants bore down upon them
to such an extent that it forced them to
pull for escape from tho anno ance, I
reeling in their linos as they fled, tho I
Major's hook and minnow, at tho end of ,
200 feet of lino came in conta t with one
of the masses of ants. At tho same in- i
stant a big bass shot from the bottom
and struck in the midst of tho ants,
seeking a liberal mouthful of the
apparently luscious food. Ho took tho
Major's bait and liook in tho haul. After |
a struggle of ten minutes or moro, during j
tho excitement of which even the swarm
ing ant pests were forgotten, tho fish
was lunded. He weighed a plump fro I
pounds and a half, the biggest single ;
bass catch of tho season thereabout. It
may be that the skilful handling of the i
minnow might have called that finny I
prize from his lair, but the weight of !
probability is that lie only included the
minnow incidently in his grab of ants.
This singular flight of ants is reported
to have extended as far south as Hath, |
eight miloß. People driving between
the two places were forced to muttlo j
their faces at much discomfort to escape
tho still greater annoyance of the in- 1
sects. Tho air was filled with tlio ants j
when tho last person went to bed in I
Hammondsport. The next morning, j
with tlio exception of dead ones 011 the i
lake and about tho shores, not 0110 of j
the insects was to be seen. Thoy had
disappeared as suddenly and mysteri
ously as they had come.
Operations of Lightning.
All those who sutler from fright dur
ing thunder storm should regard the
lot of an English woman living in a
largo town as peculiarly on viable, for,
according to Mr. Marriott, the Secre
tary of tho Rovnl Meteorological Society,
these aro tho beings who ot all are most i
exempt from the danger of being struck
by lightning. Mr. Marriott tells ns
that 011 an average less than one per.-011
in a million is annually killed by light
ning in England, while in France nearly
two, in Prussia nearly four and in
Russia and Switzerland more than live
out of every million perish thus an- i
1111 ally. The returns also show thai of
those who die in this manner in Eng
land 81 percent, aro males and 011 y It)
per cent, females, thy striking ditt'er
enco, 110 doubt, being attributed to the
grea'.er number of males engaged in
outdoor occupations. Deaths front
lightning Hle also much rarer in towns
than in the country. The many light
ning rods and high buildings serve t:>
diffuse tho electricity. The Eiffel
Tower is said of itself to form a perfect
electrical conductor, and in the caso of
one very bla k thunder cloud which
passed over Paris and was observed t< •
emit constant Hashes, the lightning
stopped as soon ns it c uno within t ! io
influence of the tower, and recommenced
when it had passed beyond.—(New York
Star.
One Way to Catch Rats.
T. A. Wimbish, Jr., was in town I
Friday from La Crosro, Sehloy coun
ty. He said that his place was just
overrun with rats, and 110 had tried
every way to get rid of them. "A few
days ago 1 took a ten-gallon wasli pot,
tilled it two-thirds with water, ami
covered the water with cotton seed.
The next morning I went there, and
the cotton seeds were all 011 top of the
water, and I had 011 a big disgust, and
thought it best to let the rats have tho
place, and move otf. My wife took a
stick, dipped into the pot, and said.
'lt'R full of rats.' I took out a half
bushel of great big fat fellows. The
next morning it was the same way, and
now I have but few rats."—[Americas
(Go.) Republican,
A DEER HUNTER'S CHAT,
Still Hunting-—Why the Antlers ot
Bucks Disappear.
"I regard still hunting as the only
fair and decent way to hunt deer," said
an old Lehigh (Penn.) wood-man tin
other day. "The hunter pits his inte!-
ligeiu-e and skill against the sharp
sight, quick hearing, keen scent and re
markable instinct of the noble deer, and,
if he shoots with a single barrelled ritle,
as I have always done, the game lias
some chance for its 1 if. The experi
enced hunter knows a great deal about
the deer's habits, and, of course, the
more he knows about their ways, where
they like to feed and what scares them,
the more game he'll get. There is a
strange thing about the young of these
very wild and timid animals. I have
picked up many a little fawn when it
was all of a tremble from fright, and, by
patting it, treating it kindly and carry
ing it a short dishni'-e in the woods,
have made it so contented that it would
follow me as far as 1 would lot it. When
a hunter comes pat upon a doe with a
very young fawn by her side, his sudden
appearance frightens the mother deer
and sends her bounding, away as fast as
she can go, and the tender little fawn,
being unable t > run as last as its mother,
is e isily captured. As soon ;is a fawn
sees that the hunter is not going to harm
it, it will lick his hand and quickly get
over being ul'rn'd of him. Then he can
take it homo if lie e.ues to.
"Bucks and does run together for
only a short time in the fall. The does ,
flock together and house in shcl'ered j
places, while the bucks r am l>y them
selves. I have often seen an old and a ;
young buck keeping one nno'.lier com
pany in the woods. It made me think I
of a man and a boy going around to- I
gether, so closelv do tliev keep to each
other through thick and thin. One hot
August day I saw an old doe, her two !
fawns and a yearling doe standing knee i
deep in a pond cooling their slim legs.
I watched them from the edge of the
woods. By-nml-by the old dee got
scent of mo, threw up her head, gave ;
to alarm and started for the forest on a
wild run, her fu nis and the yearling!
doo following her. ft was a line sight.
" 1 have hoard men declare that no
one ever finds the millers of bucks in i
tlio woo Is. I have found them many a '
time lie ir the swam; s?*ftnd once ] ran I
across a pair in the opon woods. They '
were within two feet of each other, and
it looked as though the buck bad stop
pod there, given his he id a shake and
dropped them. The bucks generally:
loosen their antlers by nibbing them j
against trees when they are ready to j
shed them. The r. ason why the horns j
are seldom found is becauso the bucks •
go into gloomy places when they slits I i
their antlers. The action of the weather
decays them in a season or so. 1 once
shot t a buck just as ho raised his head,
and my bullet hit his left antler. It
popped up from tl.o pith, and awn th 4
buck dashed. I got the liorn, but not
the buck."
Graveyards in London.
A return has just been issued from
the Homo Oilice, dea'iug with the sub- j
ject of metropolian cemeteries. Of the I
twenty-three oases which have fallen
wihin the scope of this inquiry, it ap
pears that tlio City of London -and
Tower Hamlets Cemo'ery, Mile-end,
leads off with a ghastly tenantry of some
247,000 bodies, while All Souls', Kensal
Green, occupies the largest area, com
prising some sixty-nine acres, and also
enjoys tlio priority in l-espect of age.
As regards the space allotted for each
grave, some disparity is ob ervnblo,
nine feet by six I'co six inches being tlio
maximum limit. The common inter
mcnt system is very genera', it being,
for instance, the practice in some dis
tricts to bury as many as eight to ten
adults, or twelve children ami grown up
pel-sons mixed, in a common resting
place. —[London Telegraph.
To Insure Good Vinegar.
The recent law to prevent deception
in the sale of vinegar is being cdled to
the notice of dealers, and the New York
State Dairy Commissioner proposes to
enforce tlio statute.
According to the law as passed by tlio
Legislature, no person shall manufacture,
sell, or otter for sale any vinegar which
shall not have an acidity equivalent to t he
presence of a least 4 i per cent, by weight
of absolute acetic acid. No one is al
lowed to soli any vinegar in imitation
or semblance of cider vinegar which is
not cider vinegar, or vinegar o mtniniug
any preparation of lead, copper, sul
phuric acid, or other ingredients in
jurious to health. Every manufacturer
is required to label kegs or barre's of
vinegar with his name and place of
business. A fine of SIOO is the penalty
for violation of tlio law.—[New York
Times.
Salt Rheum
Orton catuoft groat agony with Ita lutenftc itching
and burning. Hood's Nnrsnpnrllln, tho great blood
puriilor, ouros suit rhouin and all skin diseases. It
thoroughly cleanses, renovates and enriches tlio
b >od. Qlvo It a trial.
"After tho failure of tlireo skillful physicians to
euro my boy of salt rhnum, I tried Hood's Sarsapa
i'l a and Olive Ointment. I liavo now used four
boxes of Ointment and una and a half bottles of
Karsapurilla, and tho boy Is to all appearances com
pletely cured. 110 is now four years old, and lias
been afflicted since ho was six months of age."
MRS. B. SANDERSON, 56 Nowhall Street, Lowell, Mass.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Propnrcd only
by O. I. noOL) & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Moss.
100 Doses One Dollar
' . H ' COPVRIGM^
fkil'lhe mosHoving husband will see
the difference in his home if you use
Sftpotlo* IVsaves labor in house-w tf
Cleanliness and neatness about a house are necessary to insure comfort. M? !u:es
comfort, and if he can't find it at homo, ho will seek elsewhere for it. Good housowives
know that SAPOLIO makes a houso clean and keeps it bright. Kappinoss always dwoHs
in a comfortable home. Do you want cleanliness, comfort and happ Try SAPOLIO.
A PARTY of fossil hunters arc having
good luck in the North Fork country of
Oregon. They have found the bones of
sma'l horses, with ihree toes on each
foot; rhinoceros skulls and other bones
that show, as they think, that Oregon
had a tropical c imate before the gla
ciers caino down from the north and
covered the 'and miles deep with ice.
100 Indies Wanted,
Ynd 100 men to call daily on any druggist for
\ free trial package or Lane's Family Modi
<ine, the great root and herb rcmc ly, discov
•red by I)r. 811 a?* Lano while in the Rocky
Mountains. For diseases of the blood, liver an
kldnoysit is a positive euro. For cotw li ation
md clearing up the complexion it does won
ders. Children like it. Everyone praises it.
Large-bfzo package, "0 cents. At all <ltig
irists'.
Mrs. Lnngtry is reported to lie with Mr.
(fcbhard at Aix lets Rains for the benefit of
her health.
If afflicted with now eyes lino Or. Isaac Thoinp
ton's Ryu Water Druggists sell 2fiti |wr bottle
('hinn hns just negotiated a loan in Ham
burg of 140,000,000.
We recommend "Tumuli's Punch" Cigar.
The average ago of the twelve English
bishops is 70 years.
Do you wish to know how to have no steam,
and not half the usual morion wash-day? Ask
your grocer for u bar of Dobbine'e Electric Soap,
and the directions will tell you how. l)o sure
to get no imitation. There are lots of them.
The nightmare is going out. At least that
is the opinion of the bouibay Surgeon-Gen
eral.
Harvest Kxcurmloti*.
The golden harvest time is tear, and fortun
ately the facilities for enjoying it are ample.
Ihe CUM MOO. ROOK ISLAND & PACIFIC K.VI I
WAY will sell Harvest Kxcursion Tickets to all
lioints in Kansas and Nebraska (west of but not
mi the Missouri Riv r),Colorado, lndi m Terr.-
tory, Now Mexi-o. Texas, Wyoming, Utah,
Idalto, Dakota, Arizona, Northwestern lowa
and Southwestern Minnesota at ONE PARK FOU
L'HK HOUND TitlP. Da es of sale Sopteralier
10th and 24th and October Bth, 1880; return
limit, 30 days from date of sale, thus utfordiug
opportunit es for investment or the location of
farms and homes in growing sections of new
country SUEII AS WKUK NKVKR IIKFORK OFFUKKD,
the territory to •_ hoose from being very much
larger than that included in the scope of any
similar previous excursion. TIIK SOLID VIISTI
ni'i.K TRAINS OF TIIK KOCK ISLAND are com
posed of elegant Day Coaches. Pullman Palace
Sleepers, FRKE Reclining Chair Curs and Din
ing Cars to and from Omaha, and via Kansas
City and St. Joseph through the most desir
able portions o; Kansas and Nebraska to Den
ver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, whore di
rect communications are made with diverging
lines (also at St. Paul) to all points in the I
States and Territories above named. For !
more detailed in orinatlon call oil or address
JOHN SKUAHTIAN, General Ticket and Passen
ger Agent, Chicago, ill.
The French Commander-in-Chief, in en no of
war, would be Gen. de Saussier, Governor of
KNDBRS, PA., Fob. 18, IRB9.
Piso's Onre for Consumption relieved Mie
cough, cheeked the night-sweats and emacia
tion in short, gave a new lease of life to a pa
tient of mine who was rapidly and surely ap
proaching the tinal stage of this dreaded dis-
To-day she ts in the enjoyment of fait j
health, and this result is due to the buneilciul
effects of only a few bottles of Piso's Cure for
Consumption.
if wo take Into consideration the DURATION
of tiiis patient's sickness, tho SEVERITY of thu
symptoms,the SMALL qunniity of the remedial
agent and the BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME within
which a CURE WAS EFFECTED, we cannot fail to
acknowledge the truly wonderful effects of
l'iso's Cure for Consumption.
LEVI JAY KNDKRS, M.I).
In ev. ry community there are living wit
nesses to testify that in naming our medicine
i'i-.'- run- for ('oii-uin,ition, we have not
claimed more than it can (10. Its standing in '
the market also proves its merit. Wo have I
no! published sensational notices; our adver
tisements have been mere signs to indicate the
existence of Piso's Cure for Consumption, in
stead of endeavoring to excite fear our pur
pose has been to encourage hope.
Yet Piso's Cure for Consumption stands to
day at the head of all medicines of its class
requiring for its manufacture a factory full of
skilled workers and improved machinery,
whereas about twenty years ago all the work
was done in one littlo room by ono man.
Price, 26 conts per bottle.
E. T. HAZLETINK. Warron, Pa.
It is calculated that during a London soa-
HOII the average amount spent in flowers
daily is £5,000. U37
gIJACCBS OIL
FOR LAMENESS AND SWELLINGS."
In the Hip. Utlca, Fultoa Co., Dl., Jona, 'BB.
Throe or four yean ago WJVI ta£en with Leineneu
iu hip; wii in bud part of time; tried soverid doc
tors without benefit; wee cured by three or font
application of St. Jacobi Oil. WM HARPER.
Always There. Palmyra, Mich., May 19, 'BB.
llavo uicd St. Jacobi Oil for lamenois with beat
rciulta; have bandied It for twelve yeare; always
in stock. B. V. WHITMARSH, Dragglit.
Swellings. Little Chute, Wis May 31, 1188.
Buflerad three yean with swolllngi from Impure
blood; cured by exteraal me of St. Jacobe Oil No
roturn In five years. ARNOLD VON HAND XL.
AT DRUGGISTS AND DRALERS.
THE CHARLES A. VCGELER CO.. Balllmor,. Md.
ELY'S CREAM BALM
l&j£!!f tutI f
WILL LUKE K^TARfj^fJ
~go CenlsJ i
Apply Dulin >nlo each nostril.
| I.LY DUOS., so Warren St ,JS. Y.HFI\TFOR 50 D
Glf! TO A MONTH can he made working
3l U for us. Agents preferred who can furnish
a horse anil give'their whole time to the business,
spare moments may bo profitably employed a'*m
A fow vacancies In towns and cities. H. F. JOIIN
: SON ft CO., 10011 Moln St., Richmond, Vn. E.B~
; I'l rase state ag■ and business experience. Never
1 mind about vending stamp for reply• B. J'. J. it Co.
*l' "I- 4 -1+ >l* 'I - " *1" *■}* ►W* "I" V *l* *l* *l* A
_ho innll u lui liuh invested i'i-i >iu thrco AJI Wo oiler ino nmti who wnuta service
to live doliurs in n Rubber Coat, ami lf\A (not style) a garment that will keep
at his tlr>t halt hour's experience hi mu m ukui tSOSM him dry in tlie hardest storm. It is
a storm rinds to his sorrow that it is nAff L> ■ called TOWKk'S FISII BRAND
hardly a better protection than a inns- WW B " SLICK Kit," a name familiar to every
Quit" netting, imt only feels chagrined **"" H Cow-boy all over the land. With them
I at being so badly taken in, hut ulso B I BP* BI tlie only perfect Wind and Waterproof
Vols Li lie does not look exactly liko Hmmi llfl Coat Is "Tower's Fish Itrand Slicker."
Ask tor thu '* FISII ItliAN l>" Si.ukku B BkMI cl and take no other. If your storekeeper
<1 ics not have the iisn imvsn, semi tor descriptive catalogue. A. J. Tow Kit,'JO Simmon* St., Huston. Mass.
JOSEPH H.
The Best Testimonial
* Yet published for any blood medicine la tho
I printed guarantee ot the manufactures of Dr.
i. 1 ie, ce'a Golden Medical Discovery, which
uarrantu that wonder(ul medicine to benefit
•s or cure in all eases of those diseases for which
II [t is recommended, or money paid for it will
be returned. It cures all diseases arising
* from torpid liver and impure blood and their
1 names ore byiMN. All Skin, Scalp and iScrof
j ulous aireetions. Eruption•, iSores and Swell
ings Salt-r.:cuni, Teit r. Erysipelas and kin
dred diseases, are among those in which th?
"Discovery" effected marveio'.'S cures.
When everytb in : <1 ruiD, Dr. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy onrea. 60 cents, b. druggists.
PEERLESS DYES E OLD BY DOUOOIM*
SSS HOUR TIIE
MKDIC'AL CO., Klchmend, Vs.
aiftAAE 8TI'1)Y. Book-keeping,Business Form*.
gIUME Penmanship. Arbhnu-tic.short-hand.etc..
1 Ik thoroughly taught by MAIL Circulars free,
Bryant's relieve. 457 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Agents wanted, $1 an hour.BO new varleties.Cat'l'gao
and Humple free. O. E. MARSHALL. Lock port, N.Y
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lo buy the new book. PullJ-er;* Amrrlcn Arclw
inn lire, or every man ft complete builder, prepara®
l.y PiilWr. Palllser ft Co.. the well known aichiteota.
There is not a Builder or any ono Intending td
build or otherwise interested tluit can afford t6 be
without It. It is a practical work and overybodybuye
It. The best, cheapest and roost popular work eve*
Issued on Building. Nearly four hundred drawing*
A *5 hook in size and style, but Wc have determined t
make It rneut the puiuilur demand, to suit tho time*
so that it can bo aslly reached by all. , ,
This hook coiitnlna U4 pages 11x14 inches in size,
and consists of largo oxl3 plate pages, glvlug plan*
elevations, perspoctivo views. doscriptlonH, ownerr
iauics, actual cost of oonHtruction.no guewt worn.
knl Instructions Ibm to Build 70 Cottagea, VllW
I'ouhlo lloiiHi s. Brick Block IIOURGR, suitable fol
cit> suburbs, town olid country, houses for the fan
and workiiirmen's homes for nit sections of the
country, and costing from ftlX) to FO.BOO: also Borne.
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I etficr public buildingn, togotliur with BPcclftcotione,
I Luin ol contract, anil a lurce amount of information
on tho erection vf buildings, selection of site, oia
' ployment of Architects. It Is worth to any on*
j but we will send It In paper cover bv mail, postpaid
' on receipt of $1.00; bound in cloth jfcv.oo.
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i Twenty years' contimtous prnctJco In tho treat
ment and cure of the uh (ul rfleds of early
vice, destroying both mlml and lo<iy. Medicine
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