A JACKKNIFE GENIUS.j
QUEER THINGS CARVED OIJT OP
SOLID BLOCKS OF WOOD.
Wonderful Ships, Puzzles in Bottles
and Other Wonders.
A Biddeford, Me., Correspondent of
the Boston Globe says :—Almost twelve ;
years ago Alfred Armstrong, of this
city—then a resident of Lake Village, j
N. H., gave up all oridinary pursuits
and began to devote his entire time and
energies to the carvings from solid blocks
of wood with no other tool than an ord.n
aiy jackknife. Armstrong always pos- j
sensed the ingenuity commonly supposed
to belong to the genuine Down-east
Yankee, and his knife and pine stick
had been his inseparable companions
during leisure hours from his youth up.
Having raised a good sized family of
children until they were big enough to
turn to and help support the family, he
concluded to forsake ordinary labors al
together, and spend the remainder of
his days in the gratification of his whit
tling genius. Prom the fashioning of
small toys he turned his attention to
carving likenesses of every thing that
presented itself for a model, from big, 1
solid blocks of wood, carefully preserv- |
ing every specimen of his handiwork,
whether good, bad or indifferent. With-!
in the past five years his oldest son, who
inherits his father's peculiar inolinaiion, |
developed such ingenuity and patience •
that he, too, graduated from common
labor, and united with his father with
equally patient devotion in his original
craft.
"To-day they have a big lent full of
curiosities and travel about the country
at the beaches and fairs exhibiting their
museum of wooden wonders, with finan
cial returns which are not nearly pro
portionate to the patience and toil
which their curiosities represent. Their
art seems to have been particularly de
voted to the production in wood of all
kinds of animal life. Every species of
bird, quadruped or replile upon which
their eyes over fell has been cut out of j
solid wood with their jaokknives, sand
paper being the only other thing used 1
in their work. A few of their figures are
jointed, instead of being entirely carved,
but those joints are fashioned with the
jackknife in all cases, and never is nail,
screw or glue used. Some of the oh ects
are as truo to nature us any ever produc
ed by the ordinary methods of the sculp
tor, and others are executed with an ap
parent carelessness which any school
boy could imitate. Some are handsomely
ornamental, and all would find ready
sa'e as toys, but to the owner they are
treasures beyond price, and ho cannot
be induced to part with even the most
insignificant, and, as he continually
keeps up his whittling, his stock of curi
osities is constantly increasing. No
painter or sculptor was ever move wrap
ped up in his art or more enthusiastic
over his productions than this old fellow,
now about 65 years of age. who has been
in poverty all his life, and who doesn't
appear ambitious to better his condit
ion.
Among his curiosities are all sorts of
puzzles cut out or put together in small
necked bottles. In one is a man sawing
wbod, with saw and saw horse, which
closely till the space of tho bottle. 111
another is a yoke of cattle neatly carved,
with a mail standing beside them. In
another is a ship, and in another a
house. How tlie.se things got inside
the bottles is an inexplicable puzzle to
those who have looked over the old
man's collection, and he does not give
any light upon the matter.
Besides these puzzles and his wooden
menagerie are houses which are almost,
big enough for dog kennels, and which
might almost serve as models of modern
architecture, all of one piece and carved
from a solid block. There are also
boxes and cases composed of hun
dreds of different kinds of woods, firm y
inlaid and finely finished. The most
remarl able piece of tin's kind of work is
a violin case made of 2,030 pieces of
wood ot 10G di Here lit kinds.
Of his puzzles, perhaps tho most
mysterious is a big snake inside a g'ass
jar, cut out. in a coil which almost com
pletely tills the inside. The neck of this
jar is perhaps one inch in diameter, and
a b r g wooden stopple is put down
through and locked underneath with i
wooden pin.
One ot the best carvings is a yoke of
oxen hitched to a hay-rack, in which
rides a man. The whole thing is about
three feet in length and half as high,
and, like all his other works, was cutout
of a solid block, even to the rack and
cart- wheels.
Several times he has attempted to re
produce pictures in his carvings, ami
the handsomest thing among hisob'ects
was made in this manner. His sub oct
was a picture of three Russians in a
double-seated a'edge drawn by a pair of
horses and pursued by half a do/en
wolves. I pon this, as well as some
others of Ids best pieces, he has used
paint after the work was finished, much
to the improvement of its e' oet The
pair of horses on the dead run are | er
fectly modelled, and even the ex uVs
sions upon the faces of the riders lias
been reproduced by his knife. The
wolves, also, true to life, are jumping at
the back of the sledge, and tho man
upon tho rear seat has half arisen and
is in the act of firing upon them from a
revolver. One of the men upon the
front seat ho'ds the reins and tho other
is urging tho horses on with a whip.
Reins, whip, team, men and wolves are
all one piece of wood, the whole thing
being about two feet long and eight
inches high.
Mr. Armstrong h'mself admits that
this is his mastcrpie o. His exhibit is
certainly novel and wonderlul, and tho
patience and ingenuity of the man who
fashioned the objects is indisputably j
displayed, yet one can not help thinking 1
how much more profitable the same
amount of labor might have been had it
been expended in another direction.
Pearl Fishing in the Pacific,
Writing from New Zealand, a corres
pondent of the Now York Times soya:
Perhaps the most lucrative of a 1 the en
terprises of thoSouthldi ific is that of t" e 1
pearl and pearl-shell fisheries, in which
large fortunes have alrea ly been ma
chiefly through the icceiit great demand
for the mother of pearl in Europe,
where, w.thin a few years, its utility
has been demons'rated in a thousand
directions before unsuspected. Pro
digious profits were made on the shores
of North Australia until the Govern
ment, pandering to the demands of the
"labor element, prevented tho men
engaged in tho enterprise from em
ploying the only labor that could be
got for such a purpose. Even be" or
opportunities exist in tho South Sea Isl
ands, for tho shell is equally good, la
bor is obtainable on the spot, and food
is produced spontaneously at the scene
of operations.
In favorable situations —as in the
branches of clean-growing coral and
where thore ic. little or no sand to diH
turb the oysters -they often attain pro
digious size, not infrequently measuring
a yard in the diameter of their open
valves. Sometimes a dozen of those
| are linke'l together, and, if they con
i tain pearls, are sure to have the largest
in size, shapeliest in form and purest in
lustre. The oysters which produce the
greatest number of pearls, however, are
I thick, stunted and deformed, which
I seems to indicate that the formation of j
pearls is due to some disease in the ani-;
mal. Strangely enough, however, the !
finest pearls are often found in the 1
healthiest oysters. In former times, j
| when tradition began first to be prac ;
ticed with the natives, many very large j
j pearls were secured which the savages
had found and placed in their temple s
not from any notion of their value,
but because it WAS the'r habit to pla e |
: the largest of everything, whether co- j
I coanut, erab, oyster, or what not before j
1 their gods. The seductions of beads, j
rum and red calico led to these things j
being withdrawn from the place where j
thev had lain for generations and given |
to the traders—foolish people, who re- |
gar od them as having value. As for ,
pearl shell, the natives were more than !
delighted to give half a ton of it for a|
single tomahawk, and some groups, like ;
Paumotus, have exported as much as a |
thousand tons a year the hist quarter of j
a century, representing a value in Eu
rope of over $3,000,000. Although this
particular group does not now export ;
'over two hundred tons of shell a year.
; there are plenty of others possessing
■ vast deposits that have never been
i touched, and should yield equally large
returns. If, also, any means could be
l devised for excavating and sifting the |
, sand of old beds, great value of pearls
: could doubtless be found, since the
number wlfch fall to the bottom from
dying and decaying oysters largely ex ;
ceeds that which has been brought to
the surface by the pearl fishers.
The Polynesians are most expert pearl
fishers and do not use any stone to s nk
themselves, or an}' apparatus to c ose j
their nostrils, as do the Cingalese. They
can remain under water over three min- ;
utes, and bring up shell from a dep'li
of 120 feet- although not liking the ;
undertaking, and needing to be paid j
extra for it, The cost of raising shell
by this means is about $25 a ton.
THE POTLACH.
A Feast Celebratsd by Indians in
British Columbia.
The Canadian Government have been
advised that great preparations are being
made among the Indian tribes of British
Columbia for the largest "Potlach" or
"Give Away Feast-" i hat has ever been
hold 011 the Pacific Coast, which is to
come off on the northern extremity of
Vancouver Island, near Fort Rupert, on
Christmas Day. The Potlach will be
given by Capt. Jim, an aged Indian
chief, known from 011 c end ot' the pro
vince to tho other. Tho articies to be
lent comprise 6,G00 blankets, 800 pairs
01 silver bracelets (Indian make), forty
largo canoes, and muck amuck galore,
in all valued at §IO,OOO. .For this $lO,-
000 Capt. Jim, according to native cus
tom. will receive within two years §20,-
000. The potlach will embrace nineteen
tribes residing between fjuulicum and
Fort Rupert.
This will make the one hundredth
potlach Capt. Jim has given, and he
now intends to eclipse nil former efforts
in that line. The centurion hero of the
potlach is about 05 years of age, of line
physique, and speaks English with re
markable fluency. In his last annual
report the Superintendent General uf
Indian Affairs ca Is attention to the
wretched heathen feus , as he oal's the
po.lach, which is entailing great loss of
proper.y and time among the Indians of
the Pacific coast, and which, he believes,
is at the root of all the vices anu ng
them, tho older members of the tribes
taking the opportunity at these gather
ings to intimidate the younger ones who
show any desire for reformation. In
commenting upon tliese gatherings the
Superintendent-General says :
" The older members of the various
bands are strongly wedded to tho cele
bration of tho heathen least known as
the 'Potlach,' and to indulging in a
' medicine dance,'which is designated
'Tamanawas.' As these feasts and
dances are prohibited by the law and
tho celebration of them is dec ared to
be a 111 sdomennor, .t is hoped that the
visiting superintendent for the Province
and the local agent will adopt early and
vigorous measures to cause tho law in
this respect to be enforced in the case
of violators of tho same in this agency,
and that similar steps will be taken 111
other places where the law is vioVed
by the celebration of tliese prohibited
heathenish ceremonies.
"lii regard to the pot'ach, there are
tokens thai it must soon undergo a
marked change or gradually die out.
The reason for this is that of late years
blankets have so depredated in value
that few if anv new b uiikets are bought,
as the purchase en'.uils a loss. Kew
blankets cannot bo purchased for less
than lift2.ro a pair, and they are only
wor.h Jirl.ro among themselves : conse
quently they are becoming very scarce,
and money is gradually taking tin ir
plae. While visiting the Mur-nia-iil
li-kulia tribe recently it was fore b!v
impressed upon inc. as small pieces of
stick were often given in lieu of blan
kets, to be redeemed as soon as the man
was able. 1 also saw a good deal of
silver given away, perhaps as much as
JSH()O or #4OO, at n potacli that took phi c
while I win there.
The advices received from British
Columbia would not appear to indicate
that the Mi erintondent t eneral's hopes
arc to bo realized f Cr.pt. .Jim succeeds
in evading Government interference in
carrying out tie great potlaoh he has
arranged for Christmas.
Appalling Heresy.
The following anecdote, about a fa
motis old characier in Whitley County,
Ky., is going the rounds. .Joshua i ar
ne t was a wag and a re igious or .tor,
ami possessed a prodigious memory.
"(no e .Josh, a; he was generailv
ca-led, had an appointment to piea -h
one Sunday at an out oi the way log
school-house in his neighbourhood, and
two noted lights of a rival denomina
tion attended the me ting for the pur
pose of criticising the sermon. Cne was
named Jones, the other Wurman. Uncle
.Josh, who, it appears, was aware of
their intentions, concluded to checkmate
them, and instead of preaching a ser
mon lie began repeating from memory,
and without any comment whatever, one
of the Epistles of St. Paul ; for nearly
nil hour chapter after chapter fell l'roni
his lips, accompanied by grave and de
corous gesture and intona ion. Brother
Jones, at the end of some thirty min
utes, arose with grave disapproval writ
ten all over his face, retired from the
house, and took a seat in the yard upon
a barkless and prostrate tree which was
used as a horse-block. Brother War
man stood it some ten minutes longer,
j when he, too, arose and joined Brother
Jones. 4 Well, Brother Warman, what
|do you think of such a sermon If' said
' Brother Jones. 1 Think If' said Brother
Warman, • why, I think that if the good
Lord will forgive me thin time for listen
ing to such rotten doctrine, I will never
be guilty again.' "
Changes in Nature.
That it is necessary to make changes
in nature nobody will dispute. That
Manhattan Island should have remain
ed a wilderness was clearly impossible.
Changes being required, it behooves us
to find how to make them without dis
turbing the beauty of the landscape,
and how to improve the materials
nature lias so bountifully provided.
This is what the breeder of fine horses,
dogs and cows, the landscape gardener,
the fiorist, the seedsman and the archi
tect are ail trying t > do.
In this way dogs have developed frcra
wolves and jackals, and the cat shows
considerable of the qualities of her
ancient ancest >r. The wild horse of
the p'aius lias been refined into the
more gentle road horse of the j resent
day.
The landsca o gardener's duty is to
study the curs and slopes of the hills
in nature, that ho may reproduce tlieni
in the laying out of the lawns and
grounds; it is essentially a work of re
production, for it is not possible for him
to improve upon nature; at best, ho can
only copy her.
N'ot so with the florist. It is his mis
sion to improve, or at least at einpt to,
on nature. Nature's Dowers are usually
small or single. The fiorist tries to
make them larger, and often to make
them double. By selection of seeds from
plauts exhibiting peculiar phenomena,
either on account of size, odor, color or
shape, he lius transformed the white
rose into a cabbage, having but few of
the natural charact eristics. This is a
doubtful improvement, but the culti
vated violet is sweeter than a wild one,
the best strains of pansy are more bril
liant than the johnny-.ump-up, and the
double balsam is pret- er than its single
progenitor. There is hardly a single
slower cultivated in our gar lens but has
a prototype, often quite distinct, in the
fields and meadow s.
So it is also with the seedsman. Un
der liis cure tlie p tato has beco i e a !
staple vegetable, the cauliflower has
risen from the cabbage, which in turn
had oome from a wholly different parent,
and the tomato has been introduced and
wonderfully changed within the memory
of many now living.
This is what has been done in the past,
and in the near future, doubtless, much
more will be done. At pr sent we have
many trees, notably the oaks, which re
tain their leaves in a driet and brown
condition almost till spring.
Even in the same species some indi
vidual tree* keep their foliage much bet
ter t an others. If, then, we plant the
seeds of those which keep their, leaves
the longest, and ol the new generation
select the trees which exhibit this
phenomenon the most strongly,and plant
their seeds, who can doubt l>u L that oaks
and o'her trees could be grown that
would not lose their foliage until the
new leaves began to come. How beauti- :
ful would a giove of evergreens look set |
off by the dark brown leaves, one can
readily imagine.
The architect has a similar duty. Iu
the country, he must build houses that
will not injure the beauty of tho land- 1
scape. In the city he must erect build- j
ings which will remind one of the rest ;
and pcaeofulness of the green fields, the
grandeur of tho cliffs and over auging
ledges, the harmony of color in the gray
and eafless woods, and the beaut/ of j
the flowers that blossom in tho meadows. |
Manners of the Moors,
The manners of tho Moors are, with
slight differences, those of the more civ
ilized Arabs everywhere Their houses
are in tho same style of architecture,
the gardens are the same, the ensine
similar, with its staple difli of koussa,
and its'cakes, fruit and confectionery.
The dro-s is that which is seen, with
trivi '1 differences of fashion, through- |
out Northern Africa and in Arabia. The
Hebrew quarter is a conspicuous feature
of all cities n Morocco. It is surround
ed by a wall, whose gates are closed at
8 o'clock every evening. A eerta 11 cos
tume is obligatory to distinguish tl em
from the Mussulmans. They are al
ways li ble to insult when seen in other
quarters. If a Mohamniolan boy sp ts
in the faco of an aged Hebrew or pulls
his hoary beard nothing is thought of
it. Formerly they were obliged to go
barefoot in tii • streets, but no v they are
permitted to wear slippers, which, how
ever, they are forced to remove w hen
they ara before a mosque. They must
never be in sight when the Sultan pas
ses. The use iff' arms is not permitted
them. Tliev are only allowed to ride
on mules, and only then in tho country,
while as to public positions it is hardly
necessary to say that they are never
thought of in that connection. Not
withstanding all this they are commer
cially active, very rich and engaged in
tlie most important enterprises. Their
complete emancipation will only bo pos
sib'o, however, when Moro co falls en
tirely under the domin'on of one or sev
eral European powers.—[Sun Francisco
Chronicle.
Greenbacks Reduced to Pulp.
All the money that is made in the Bu
renu of Engraving and Printing at
Washington, except tho national bank
notes. generally finds its way back to bo
ground into pulp. In the basement
there is a great; cylinder into which tlie
redeemed notes are put in tho presence
of a committee; there are three locks to
tliis cylinder, the keys held by different
men. and there is 110 danger of a single
dollar coming out whole after tho keys
have been turned and the macerating
process begins. When the pulp is taken
out of the cylinder it is a dirty mass
and is subjeo ed to a cleansing to get the
ink out of it. Then it is pressed into
thick sheets, dried, and sold to tho
paper-mills, which use it in making a
coarse grade of 1 aper. A small quantity
of it is used in making souvenirs of l
Washington. In the basement is also
the laundry where the cloths that the 1
plate-printers use in wiping tho plates
are washed. This washing is all done
bv machinery, because the acids in tno
inks eat the hands.
Domestic Service.
In 1831 there wore in the United King
dom 1,000,' 00 eenan s; in 1881 'their
number was c nlv a few over a mi.lion
and a quarter. More sign ficant sti'l is
the circumstance that while during tlie
dec ide 1871-81 the genera l popu'ation
increased by more than M per cent., the
ranks of the domestic servants were re
inforced by less than 1 per cent. This
is not because the great households call
for fewer servants than they did in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
but is duo solely to the propagation of
democratic and socialistic ideas '1 he
majority of the domestics spring from
respectable mechanic and artisan homes,
which are tlie very centre of democratic
government. It is interesting to noticp
that like causes are producing like effects
in both Great Britain and the United
States.—[Good Housekeeping.
A Peculiar Pig.
In t-lio year 1821, Czar Alexander vis- I
itod the fortifications in the ( r moa. He i
went personally to tlie qnar ersof each j
company at dinner time to see how they
fared. Wherever he went he found an j
excellent dinner on the table, the prin- |
ciple feature of the meal bring a small
roast pig.
Prince Wolohonsky, who occompnn- |
iel the Czar was of a suapici us nature, J
and itoceurre 1 to him that it was ratlier i
peculiar that each mess should have a
roasf pig, so he slyly cut oft* the pig's
tail and put it in his pocket.
In tin; liex* quar'ers they visited I
there was a roost pig on the table, but lo I
and behold! it didn't have any tail. 1
Prince Wolohonsky remarked to the j
Czar that ho thought the pig was an old
acquaintance, and when the Czar asked j
him what he meant, he produced the
missing tail and fi ted it to the ampu
tated stump of the porker. As soon as
the roast pig had been inspected in one 1
house, before the Czar could reach the
next, it was whisked out the back door
and made to figure on the next table 1
that was inspected.
Prince Wolohonsky had good cause j
to repent of his curiosity as lie acquired j
the eternal enmity of the General in j
command of the Crimea, and even the
Czar himself trea ed him with coldness
and neglect e\ov afterwards. —[Siftings.
The Great Paris Pawn Shops.
The annual report of the Board which j
administers the monts-de pietr, or estab
lishments at which money is lent upon j
objects placed in pawn, is to the efi'ect ;
that during the past year (1888) 1,510, ;
950 articles were pledged for a sum of
.1'1,425,357, and 780,384 objects pledged ;
anew for a sum of 1845.445. The num. !
ber of objects sold was 177,415, and they
produced a total of about £IBO,OOO.
The greater part of tlie articles pledged
were for sums of from six to ten francs, j
and then came the article* pledged for |
from throe to four francs. Only 1.77 !
per cent, of the wlio'e amount lent was
in sums between £2O and £4O, while the
proportion on podges over £4O was but j
1.23 per cent. The Hoard of Directors |
calculates that tlie total reduction tn |
persons who have pledged goods with n
tlie last two years, brought about, by the I
gradual dim nutlon of the rate of inter- |
est, is at least £( 8,()()(>, and they propose
to obtain the sanction of the next French j
Chamber to two other measures, one for i
loans upon negotiable securities, which j
will be of benefit to small invest >rs. and
the other for the reorganization of the j
system of appraising the articles offered j
in pledge. —[London Times.
Queen Victoria's Crown.
Queen Victoria's crown, kept with i
other royal regalia under strong guard j
at the old Tower, and worn only on |
State occasions, is one of the most costly i
insignias now in existence. To begin !
with, there are twenty diamonds around 1
tlie circlet or head-band, each worth
87,500, or 8150,000 for the set. Besides
these twenty there are two extra large
centre diamonds, each valued at .810,
000, making $20,000 more; fifty-four
smaller diamonds, placed at the angles
of the others, each valued at 8500; four
crosses, each worth #<>o,ooo, and com
posed of twenty-five diamonds; four
large diamonds on top of crosses, each
having a money value of 8",000; twelve
diamonds in tlie fleur-da-lis, #50,000;
eighteen smaller diamonds contained in
the same, #10,000; pearls' diamonds and
rubies upon arches and circlets, not
mentioned before, 850,000; also forty
one small diamonds, formed in roses
and monograms, 825,000; twenty-six
diamonds in upper cross, #15,500; two j
circles of | earls about the rim of the j
head piece, 815,0 K) each. The total
money value of this relic in any jeweler's ,
market in the world would be at least ■
8000,000, metal and all included.
A Limbless Politician.
H. Kavnnogh, who is lying seriously
ill in London, and who sa for many
years in Parliament for the County of
Curlow, Ireland, was, says The Dundee
Advertiser, physically speaking, the
most extraordinary man that ever sat in
the House of Commons. We have had,
and still have, blind men in Parliament,
and deaf men are more common than
the constituents expect. Mr. Kavanngh
had all his senses, but he was without
arms and legs. He had to be carried
into his soat in Parliament. He ad
dressed tho house always sitting, and
was allowed to vote without going into
the lobby. He was by no means a
silent member. He spoke frequently
011 I rish questions, and sat on quite a
number of select committees—a special
lift having been constructed to raise
him to the level of tho corridor in which
the committee rooms are placed. He
was a man of some mental - vigor, but
his parliamen'ary efforts were concen
trated in the defense of Tory and land
lord ascendancy in Ireland.
A Wonderful Dog,
A gentleman employed at a colliery a
few miles from Glasgow Scotland, had
a dog called Jimmy, which ho parted
with to a fr end at a colliery some miles
distant The two oflices are conno ted
by telephone, and tho other morning
the gentleman rang up his friend and
asked how Jimmy was doing. "Oh,
he's tine," was the answer: "he's at my
feet just now; I'll hold him up and see
if he knows your voice." This was
done, and the former owner shouted
over tho wire, "Hillo, Jimmy!" Jimmy
made no sign of recognition, but on
being set down again he at once made
for tho door, and when his old master
went home to dinner the dog was there
to welcome him.
If SufTVrcr* from Consumption,
Scrofula,, Hron Litis nn<l General Debility will
try Scott'h K.MUl.bfon of Cod .ver Oil With
Hypoplio-jphites, they will find immediate re
li f and permanent 1> noflt. The Medical I'r<-
ft-ssion universa ly declare it a remedy of ih
irreatest value and very palatable. Ileal: "J
have u*d Scott's Kmulshm in several case . of
{Scrofula and Debility in Children. Results
men gratifying. My little patients take it
with ploamro."—\Y. A. Hulheut, M.D.. fraiis
bury 111.
There is n family living iu Ohio whose ogee
are 104, 10b, 111, and 115 years.
Wo rocommend "Tansiirs Punch" Cigar.
The great est snuff-taking country in the
world in France, though it shows a decline in
tho habit.
A Great Kiirprlso
Is In store for all who use Kemp's Ralsam foi
the Threat and Lung, the great guaranteed
remedy. Would you believe that it is sold on
its merits and that any druggist is authorize. 1
by tho proprietor of this wonderful remedy to
give you a sample bottle fre. ? It never fails
to cure acute or chronic coughs. All druggisb
sell Kemp's balsam. Largo bottles 60c. and
liipe tomatoes will remove ink und other
stains from white clothes; also from the
hands.
OJJ, I
For Sciatica* 1
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