SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OK
EVEItV-DAY LIFE.
(Jueer Episodes and Thrilling Adven
tures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.
THE boldest robbery of grain ever
known in Kansas is reported from King
man county. John Myrick, a farmer
from the southwestern part of the county,
had rented a piece of wheat laud close to
Norwich. After cutting and stacking
his crop safely he went home. The
routed land is a long way from his own
place and Mvrick is therefore unknown
to the neighborhood of Norwich, so that
when a stranger presented himself under
the name of Myrick there was no one to
question his title to the wheat. After
being in Norwich a couple of days the
supposed Myrick had his plans perfected.
A threshing outfit was engaged and
teamsters to cart the grain to Norwich,
the work to be done at night because of
a tendency to sunstroke which prevented
his working in the sun alleged by the
supposed Myrick. The plans worked to
perfection. Before morning the greater
part of the wheat had been threshed and
delivered to a buyer in Norwich and the
money for the grain was safely in the
robber's pocket. By tolling the threshers
to be there the next night to finish up
the stranger avoided paying for the work
already done, but when evening came no
Myrick appeared, and it was afterward
ascertained that the man had left Nor
wich by an early morning east-bound ,
train, taking with him the proceeds, !
about |11,(J00.
A YOUNG medical student in New York
' i had a remarkable experience recently.
He belongs to that sort of young men
who are compelled to depend almost en
tirely upon their own resources to obtain
their education, and he spends his even
ings in a down-town office. For a long
time he was accosted by a professional
beggar, a strapping big follow, with a
stiff' neck, while passing through City
Hall Park. The beggar accosted him
night after night in an insolent manner.
Frequently it was difficult for the medi
cal student to get rid of the beggar, and
they rarely parted without an exchange
of epithets. This thing went 011 for some
time, and then the beggar suddenly dis
appeared. One morning shortly after
this the medical student wont into the
dissecting room to dissect a body. He
was surprised to find that the body
assigned to him was that of the trouble
some beggar. The student had often !
wondered what was the matter with the j
fellow's neck, and now lie had an oppor- 1
tunity to find out. He dissected the i
body, and found that a layer of bone had i
grown down tho nock preventing the j
head from being moved backward or for- ;
ward. Ono of the attendants mounted j
the skeleton for tho student, and it now
stands complete in his room at the foot
of tho bed.
IN tho Island of Corsica, near the head
waters of the Tavignavo Kiver and
about twenty-two miles from the city of '
Corte, there is a ten-acre field which is |
simply a subterranean lake covered with I
soil to a depth of about eighteen inches. !
011 the soil this year there wascultivated j
a piece of wheat which produced thirty
five bushels to the acre. A curious per
son who desires to investigate for him- ;
self, and who will take the trouble to dig !
a hole tho depth of a spade handle, will
find that ho has dug entirely through the
thin covering of soil to the surface of a
lake which is from 35 to 80 fee.t in depth.
, Through the opening thus made fish may
4 bo caught which have neither eyes nor
scales. Tho ground is a black marl,
and, in all probability, covers what was
once an open body of water, but which
centuries of accumulating vegetable j
matter lias increased to a thickness suf
ficient to produce an excellent crop.
All work 011 the soil which covers this
subterranean lako must of necessity be
done by hand, the soil not being of suffi
cient strength to bear a horse and
machinery. It is called "(Jorto's won
der."
"THE 'logger' in an English canal tun
nel lias a hard time of it," says a travel- |
er. "I went through two cunul tunnels
this summer. Tho canals are just the
width of 0110 of the small barges used,
and but very little higher than the board
which runs from the alleged cabin to the
tow-lino pole. As it is impossible for a
horse to tow the bargo the animal is led
around or over the bill, and a logger lies
011 his back 011 tho board referred to,
und, raising bis legs from his hips,
Sushes tho boat along by pressing 011 the
ilapidated roof of tho tunnel. As I sat
and watched the man in this unnatural
position 1 felt the depth of human misery
had been discovered at last. The work
is arduous, tho light very bad, the ut-
I mosphere almost fetid, the labor degrad- j
ing, and the crt'oot almost equivalent to
making a man a cripple. Yet tho most
the 'logger' can ninko is seventy-five
cents a day, and when traffic is light or
there is 'fee on the canal he makes little
or nothing. The old jail treadmill was
bad enough, in all conscience, but this is
a thousand times worse."
AN extraordinary case has been dovol- !
oped at White Hall, Mich., near Muske
gon. George Beard, a young man aged
twenty-one, has been confined to his bed
for the past threo months, during seven
weeks of which time he has been in an
unconscious condition. He seems to
have lost every sense save that of feeling.
When he is touched on the arm with a
slight downward pressure he will raise
his arm. When an attempt is made to
move his head to the right he will turn
it to the loft. In order to feed the pa
tient four teeth had to be knocked out, as
it was impossible to open his mouth
either to insert food or to extract the
teeth. Through this opening he receives
his liquid nourishment. Tho attending
physician pronounces it a case of cams.
8. C.REEB, a Western mining man, has
a scheme by which he proposes to revo
-4 lutionize mining and acquire consider
able wealth. Instead of delvingdown in
the earth for precious metuls, he is go
.ing mining in a balloon. Along the
precipitous sides of the deep canyons in
the Rockies are many ledges which are
known to be exceedingly rich in ore, but
which are inaccessible on account of the
immense height and sheer sides of the
cliff's. Mr. Bees intends to reach these
ledges in a balloon. He will anchor his
large balloon to the bottom of the canyon
with long ropes, and ascend to the point
of the wall or tho canyon where the ledge
is. Then a foothold will bo worked into
tho ledge from the balloon, and the min
ing begun from that point.
A CLERGYMAN'S wife now in the Trans
vaal writes this: "It seems strange to
think of what is going on in this bustling
city of 40,000 people (Johannesburg),
where five years ago were only a few
scattered furm-houses. To-night there
are fourtoen prayer-meetings in various
churches, five or six missionary meet
ings, a Congregational bazaar, a grand
temperance rally, Lenten services in the
High Church and Catholic Cathedral,
a skating-rink entertainment, ut which
one of the novelties will be a race be
tween native boys who never put on
skates before, a rendering of Passim
music in Music Hall, the Jubilee Singer?
concert and many theatrical perform
ances."
WHILE on his way home from Wash
ington a few days ago. Pension Exam
iner Samuel B. Brackott lost his lower
set of false teeth in a peculiar manner,
says a Biddeford (Me.) newspaper. Mr.
Brackott has an individual tendency to
push his teeth out with his tongue when
he is asleep. He fell asleep as tho train
; was ncaring Bridgewater, and, as usual,
j dropped his tooth. A knavish fellow
I came along and was seen by the passen
gers to pick up something, which later
on proved to be the missing teeth. Ho
soon got off', and when Mr. Brackott
awoke the sad news was broken to him
us gently us possible.
A REMARKABLE instance of a dog's
sagacity has just been reported from In
diana. A large English setter was
"making a point" at a fish that was
chasing minnows in the shallow water of
a lake near a small boat pier. A by
stander told the dog to "hie in," and in
he jumped; his head went down in tho
water und 110 threw a large fish high in
the air. It fell into tho water, when he
caught it again and brought it to shore.
It was a bass and tipped the beam at two
and a half pounds.
A NEW YORK jeweler has hit upon a
good plan for preventing robberies in bis
store. It is an electric arrangement for
closing and locking tho street
door, which is operated by a push
button behind the counter. It will also
unlock the door. Now, if well-dressed
people who pose as customers seize
trays full of valuables and attempt to
dush out of the store, they can be de
tained. Or if a suspicious person enters
tho door can be closed until danger is
passed.
THERE is on exhibition in a show win
dow in Butte, Montana, a very large
moose horn grafted into the base of a
tree. It has been in that position for
years, as the treo lias grown around it so
us to get such a grip 011 it that cutting
the wood away is the only means of sep
arating the two. It is evident that at
some remote period tho monarch of the
woods was caught in a tree, and in try
ing to extricate himself the horn was
broken off'.
THE Yuma (Cnl.) Sentinel says that at
the mouth of the Colorado Kiver und the
upper end of the Gulf of California are
to be found sea bass that weigh from 250
to 750 pounds each, clams as large as an
ordinary dinner plate, millions of sar
dines and smelt, oysters small but de
licious, millions of soft-shell crabs and
other shellfish, myriads of wild geese,
brant, ducks', crunes and other sea fowl
and birds.
A HUMBLE member of tho Franciscan
Order, who had attained tho age of 118
years, died the other day at the monas
tery, in Italy, where he had passed his
life as cook to the inmates. The Pope,
who had a great affection fur Frere Og
-11011, as 110 called him, never failed to
make enquiries after him, nor to send
kindly messages during bis illness.
J. S. PARKER, of Lincoln Creek,
Wash., killed fourteen bears—eleven
full grown and three cubs—in one week's
hunting near his homo two weeks ago.
He bagged Ave tho first day that he was
out. Bears are exceedingly plentiful in
that section of the State, and another j
hunter killed twelve bears there a month |
or so ago. Mr. Parker holds the record.
THE marvellous records of this year
of phenomenal crops may yet have to he
revised for surprising additions. Mr.
John B. Leahy, of New London, Conn.,
has an apple tree in his garden which is
blossoming for tho second time this
year. It has borne a large crop, and is
now covered with buds, and has some
blossoms in full bloom.
JOE WARREN, an employee of the
ccrealino mills in Columbus, Ohio, had
one of his hands caught in the machinery
and cut off, some weeks ago. One day
recently a Quakcrtowu (Pa.) farmer
found a man's hand in a newly-purchased
bag of feed that proved to be part of a
consignment just at hand from Mich
igan.
A QUEER sight to be seen almost any
da}- upon the streets of Danville, Ind., is
that of Johnny Craig, the largest man in
the world, wheeling along his six months'
old baby in an ordinary baby carriage.
Craig now weighs 823 pounds, while
young Master Craig, Jr., is not above the
average six months' old child.
THE Denver News says that Jonas
Carpenter, of that city, is nearly 150
years old. He was born in Virginia, and
the family Bible gives tho date of his
birth as 1752. He is said to bo in good
health.
Incipient Melancholy*
Melancholia is a grave disease, especi
ally because of its strange and terrible
tendency to induce suicide and homicide.
As the patient's reasoning processes
seem to he perfectly clear, friends are
seldom sufficiently on their guard. The
danger is always present, however, nor
is the highest degree of intelligence or
of moral worth any safeguard against it.
The New York Medical Journal has a
report of a lecture on the importance of
recognizing melancholia in its earlier
stage by Dr. Burnett, lecturer in the Kan
sas City Medical College, of which re
port we make free use.
"There is a marked difference between
sadness and melancholia," says Dr. Bur
nett. "In ordinary sadness there is a
cuuso comprehensible to the individual,
and he will seek to remove it. In mel
ancholia there is no apparent cause;
there is some implication of the higher
faculties, and tho patient is usually in
different to his condition, surroundings
and future progress."
There arc several forms of tho affec
tion: Simple melancholia, melancholia
agitata, melancholia attonita, and mel
ancholia with stupor. Tho first two are
the most difficult of recognition, and it
is these that especially endanger tho lives
of the patient and his friends.
The first important system of simple
melancholia is sleeplessness. Another
symptom, of the greatest importance, is
a dull pain in the back of the neck, ex
tending to the back of tho head. It is
only within a few years that this symp
tom lias been recognized.
The third symptom is depression of
spirits, accompanied by slower mental
movements and retarded speech and ac
tions. When tho first and the lust symp
toms are connected with pain in the neck
the diagnosis may he considered as con
elusive.—{Philadelphia Record.
THERE is an odd use of the word
"slave" in western l'cnnyslyvania, and
perhaps in other parts of the United
States, that should reach the great Dr.
Murray of Oxford in time for insertion
1 in his ponderous new English dictionary.
. A fierce and dangerous dog is called a
! slave, apparently because lie must bo
: restrained of his liberty. The word bus
j evidently passed beyond the stage wliero
if is questioned, for it is used in popular
; speech without hesitation.
PIG BREEDING IX SICILY.
! Curious Statistics of an Extensive
Industry.
The last British consular report from
Palermo contains some curious details ro
specting the breeding of pigs in Sicily,
; which in certain districts, and especially
1 in mountainous parts, are reared in groat
numbers. Nearly all the small towns are
overrun with them, and they uro not only
useful for food, but act us scavengers to
the dirty streets. They are enticed in
towns to devour tho filthiest food by
sprinkling bran over it. In the moun
tainous districts, where there are oak
forests, they are driven up to tho high
regions to feed 011 acorns. A good acorn
year is a godsend to those who possess
oak forests. For each full-grown pig us
much as 10s. is paid for tho acoru season
to the owner of the forest; two medium
sized pigs and three small ones are ad
mitted at the same rate.
The pigs, which are thus driven about
under the superintendence of boy swine
herds, are all ear-nmrkod, and speedily
become accustomed to their now con
ditions of life. They form umong them
selves a sort of republican government,
and are docile to the calls and windings
of the horn of their young guardiuns,
who are clothed in very plain and primi
tive fashion, and live simply on bread
and water, taking out with them every
day loaves baked in the ovens of tho
farm, and in shape precisely tho same as
those that have been found in the bakers'
shops at Pompeii. The pigs are driven
back homo at night and housed to avoid
disease, and strange to say, their sheds are
scrupulously clean.
It is said that they establish internally
a kind of sanitary jurisdiction, and that
a pig which is found a delinquent against
the sanitary rules is attacked with fury
by tho rest and killed.
The consul litis seen covered pig sties
made of stone and capable or holding
300 or 400 pigs, and found them dry and
clean and very dusty. The only value
of the pigs consists in their being sold as
fresh pork and for the making of saus
ages. They fattern well upon acorns,
and their flesh is very white and tasteful,
whereas the color of the pork in the
towns is quite dark. The sausages which
are made are also very tolerable, but the
curing of pork for ham or bacon is un
known in Sicily. Pigs in Sicily enjoy as
much social distinction as iu Ireland;
they, with the poultry and other animals,
share their master's tenement, and will
trot after him daily to and fro on his
way to his work in the fields. Perhaps
pork is more commonly oaten than any
other kind of meat in tho island. The
boy swineherds and goatherds who toud
the flocks iu tho mountains receive a
daily provision of bread cooked in tho
farm buildings, and get nothing else in
winter and summer, not even in tho
severest weather, and never us a rule,
even taste "pasta" or macaroni. Besides
the daily provision of bread they receive
a dole of 75f a year, paid iu throo parts,
out of which they find their clothes. A
great part of the year tho lads sleep iu
the open air or in temporary straw huts,
often iu rainy or snowy weather, and
with such a hard life and nothing but
coarse broad and wator from yoar's end
to year's end their cheorfulnoss and good
humor appear quite marvelous, and many
of them are bright, intelligent, livoly
lads, and graceful and courteous in their
demeanor.—[London Times.
Jocko's Recreation.
A few pedestrians who were out for a
morning stroll witnessed a brief but
bloody battle through the windows of tho
Market street bird store Sunday morn
ing.
Among the denizens of tho place is a
monkey called Jocko, whose proclivity
for mischief has led him into disgrace be
fore. On tho morning in question Jocko
determined to go on a lark. lie suc
ceeded in picking tho lock of his cago,
and once free turned his attention to his
feathered companions. It took him but
a few minutes to unlock a dozen of tho
various cages in tho room, and soon a
funny procession of monkeys and parrots
were strutting about.
In a few minutes trouble began to
brew. One of the parrots, in a spirit of
mischief, probably, hit Jocko, and a
livoly battle ensued. Polly soon found
that she was getting tho worst of it and
made a run for her cage, minus her tail
leathers and part of a wing.
Jocko, who was then thoroughly
aroused, sailed in for a genoral massacre,
and in a short time had the floor to him
self, save for Minnie, a nightingalo, who
was too dazed to escape. With one blow
tho bird wus stretched lifeless on tho
floor. The monkey then offered battle
to a bigstuffod owl which had been gazing
solemnly upon the scene, and receiving
no answer to his challenge throw the bird
oft' its pedestal.
Jocko's Waterloo was awaiting him,
however. A hugo vampire bat, which
had been watching tho battle, jumped
down from his perch, and Jocko started
for him. The contest was brief. The
sharp beak and talons of the bird buried
themselves like a flash in tho monkey's
flesh, and Jocko was glad to make his es
cape with the blood flowing from a dozen
wounds. At this juncture the proprietor
appeared and hostilities ceased.—[San
Francisco Chronicle.
Heads of Two Noted Men.
When the wise and witty Sir Thomas
Moore was beheaded his head was stuck
on a pole on London bridge, whore it was
exposed for fourteen days, much to the
grief of hs daughter, Murguret Roper,
who resolved to secure it. "One day,"
says Aubrey, "as she was passing under
the bridge, looking at her tathor's head,
she exclaimed: 'That head has lain
many a time in my lap; woxld to God it
would fall into my lap as I pass under!'
She had her wish, and it did fall into her
lap!" Probably she had bribed one of
the keepers of tho bridge to throw it
over just as the boat approached, and
the exclamation was intended to avert tho
suspicion of the boatmen. At all events,
she got possession of it, and preserved it
with care in a leaden casket until her
death, and it is now inclosed in a niche
in the wall of her tomb in St. Dunstan's
Church. Canterbury.
Sir Walter Raleigh's head in a rod bag
was carried to his wife, who caused it to
be embalmed, and kept it with her all
her life, permitting favored friends, like
Bishop Goodman, to see and even to kiss
it. His son, Carcw Raloigh, afterwnrd
preserved it with similar piety. It is
supposed now to rest in the church of
West Horsley, Surrey.—[Gentlemen's
Magazine.
Toronto, Canada, propones to have a reg
iment uniformed in Scotch kilts.
RISE OF THE " HARVESTER."
A Great Advance in the Methods of
Gathering Grain.
The original cave dweller —clear child
of the Working Scientist —harvested his
wheat crop by going out to his field and
gnawing off the heads of the grain with
his active jaws. The plan had its ad
vantages and disadvantages—on the
whole our able progenitor longed for
something better. Then there arose a
thoughtful paleozoic inventor who point
ed out that the grain could be pulled up
by the roots and the headsthrashed out in
the palm of the hand. This satisfied
our esteemed ancestor, and matters ran
along thus for a few hundred thousand
years. Indeed. I claim the Working
Scientist's privilego to be vague as to
years. Lot us throw overboard the cave
dweller, for that matter, and come along
down to modern times. Let us begin
with the sickle, for instance.
You may still find old men who will
tell you that they can remember when
farmers in this country had nothing but
the sickle with which to harvest their
wheat and rye. A dozen men worked in
single file, and cut the grain with one
hand and gathered it on tin; other urm,
stopping every "round" t< drink earn
estly out of a big jug of New England
rum or Pennsylvania whiskey. Then
came the cradle —a scythe with "fingers"
on it —which made the grain lie straight.
Many farmers have a cradle yet for
corners and odd nooks. With it one
man cut down the grain and another
bound it into sheaves. Then arose a
direct descendant of the paleozoic genius,
and invented a reaper drawn by horses.
This was in the '3o's, say. A man drove
and a small boy sat on a low seat and
raked off the grain in gavels. He was
practically the same small boy who used
to pull the strings that worked the cut
off valve in the first steam engine. He
soon lost his occupation in both instances
—in the case of the reaper they invented
a mechanical rake. It took five men to
follow on foot and bind up what the
reaper cut down. Still the farmer
wasn't satisfied. So they made him the
harvester. Two men besides the driver
rode on this, and bound the grain as it
was brought up 011 an endless apron to
where they stood. They had an awning
over them and wore very comfortubly
situated. This was in the '7o's. Still
the agriculturist fretted. Then ho got
the self-binder, which he has yet—though
he is beginning to find fault with it und
tulk about electricity.
At first they tried to tie up the grain
with wire, but it did not work very well,
and the machines were abandoned, and
others using inanila or homp twine were
tried with better results. The binder
invented by a man named Appleby has
perhaps been the most successful. The
twine or cord is very strong, and is a
little larger than a round shoe-string. It
seldom breaks, and the sheaves are tied
up firmer and better than by hand. The
self-binder is somewhat complicated, but
it seems simple when we consider what
it does. It is tho most intelligent ma
chine used on the farm, if 1 may so ex
press it. It would make the paleozoic
man dizzy to watch it. All it asks is
that tho hired man shall keep his fingers
out of it and furnish it plenty of grain to
bind up. It does not tie a square or
"hard" knot, nor yet a bow-knot, iking
tho two ends of a string together for two
or three inches from their ends; then
considering the two strings as one, tio
one single plain school-boy knot in it,
and you have the knot made by a self
binder. It is the hardest knot in the
world to untie, and it never "gives" a
particle. In tho machine it is made by a
funny, crafty little thingumbob which
turns around half way, opens its mouth
and seizes the cord, turns on around, and
lets go sullenly, as if it hud half a mind
not to. A knife cuts the cord, another
thingumbob holds the ends, two arms
sweep the sheaf off 011 to the ground, and
the binder waits for enough grain to
accumulate for another sheaf, when it
starts itself and repeats the operation.
It works with the precision of a fine
steam-engine, if tho hired man will only
let it alone.—[Harper's Weekly.
Errors In Geographies*
"The publishers of school maps," says
a teacher in the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat, "are responsible for more errors
than any other class of people 011 the
planet. They use sometimes half a dozen
different scales of sizes in a single book,
and it is impossible for children to get a
correct idea of the relative sizes of differ
ent countries because of their lack of
uniformity in the scale. In an atlas for
school use all the maps should be 011 the
same scale, otherwise most incorrect ideas
will be formed. I recently asked a bright
boy who had just finished the study of
geography and laid it by because he
knew all about it. how large lie supposed
Arabia was. He* reflected a moment, and
then, with some confidence, replied that
Arabia was about tho size of Massachu
setts. 1 suggested the possibility of his
being mistaken, when he got his atlas and
showed me that Arabia and Massachu
setts were the same size, that is, on tho
map. He opened his eyes when 1 ex
plained to hiinthc mysteries of the scale,
and that instead of being a mere speck
Arabia was as long as from St.Paul to New
Orleans, as wide as from St. Louis to
New York, and contained more than
one-third as many square miles as the
United States. He had been misled by
the maps, as his teacher probably had
also, and thousands <f other people be
sides. A uniform scale would prevent
many false ideas, and if a national
series of textbooks is ever adopted the
atlases should have that feature prom
inent."
Spurgeon as a Detective.
On one occasion Mr. Spurgeon. the
great London evangelist, in the midst of
his sermon turned to the deacons, who
occupied seats immediately behind, and
without appreciably interrupting the
course of his sermon, said in a low voice:
"Pickpocket, Mrs. So and So'spew," and
resumed the thread of his discourse. Two
deacons left their seats, and passing out
by the stairs behind, re-entered the Tab
ernacle on the area floor from opposite,
one of them bringing with him tin- po
liceman stationed at the doors. They
met in the aisle by the pew indicated,
and the pickpocket was taken out, most
people supposing it was merely a case of
fainting.—[Mail and Express.
"Witness My Hand."
In the early days only a few scholars,
priests and clerks knew how to write. It
was then customary to sign a document
by smearing the hand with ink and im
pressing it upon the paper, accompanied
by the words: "Witness my hand."
Afterwards the seal was introduced as a
substitute for the hand mark, and was
used with the words above quoted, the
two forming the signature. This is tho
origin of the expression as used in modern
documents. —[St. Louis Republic.
Vanderbilt's
Check I* no Htronir*r in Wall street, than the wortl '
of Mr. H. (i. Maunder*, a pramlneut carpenter an J
builder of Auturu. V. V., is his follow eiti
seus. He says under date of Auj. 4, 1891:
"I Pin My Faith
to Hood's Sarsapari.lx Whenever I see any one
•broken up." or 'run down, sa/ 'Von just take a j
bottle of Hood's sars ipurtlla an I It will tiring you j
out all riKiit.' In heavy work I sometimes net tired
out and stiffened, but a day <-r tw > of Hood's Sarsn- |
j-orllla make-nie feel well. 1 havo been subject to |
severe attacks of Rheumatism iu my urtns and
cbest. A very few doses of
Hold's Sarsaoarilla
cured ine of the last one, when suffer lug lu tensely."
E VERY M° THEB
Should Have It In T!ao Ilottse.
Uropp< d on Sugar, Children Love
to take JOHNSON'-! ANODYNE LINIMENT for Croup, Colds,
Sore Throat. Tonsllitfs, Colic, Cramps and Pains. Re
lieves all Summer Complaints, Cms and Bruises like
magic. Sold everywhere. Price Ssc. by mall; 6 bottles
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It Is Calculated to Produce Dyspepsia In
Any Other Human Being.
T had read about Eskimo eating
habits—how once upon a time, for
instance, an Arctic explorer offered
some Eskimo girls some sweetmeats
which were rejected, while tallow
candles were eagerly accepted and
eaten. Now I wish to see an Eskimo
cat. With many smiles, I'eter en
tered the cabin and sat down at the
table. I should have apoplogized to
him on account ot the scantiness of
our fare, for we had no candles and
there wasn't a bit of tallow on deck
even, let alone in the cabin, but 1
noticed that the butter plate was
heaping full, the sight of which made
me wish fof some of my friends so
that we could make a pool on the
number of bites he would take in
swallowing the roll. Then Peter sat
down and without ceremony helped
himself to a lot of baked beans, a
piece of dry bread and a largo piece
of very lean, salt beef all of which he
bit into and swallowed as a hungry
'longshoreman might have done.
Then he took more beans and more
bread and more lean beef, and witli
them several cups of coffee with a
great deal of sugar to each cup. He
was a long time getting to it, but lie
finally began on the butter. He had
poured his last cup of coffee and was
looking about for something to eat
with it, when his eyes fell on a plate
of cake. Taking a small piece he put
a small lump of butler on it and
slowly ate the combination witli the
coffee. To the reader of a geographi
cal magazine it may seem strange,
but the fact is, until I saw this man
at the table, I had really expected to
lind the Erkimos of South Greenland
showing the habitsand tastes of those
living a thousand miles further up the
coast. I had not quite expected to
lind them living in snow houses, but
I had a misty idea that an Eskimo
was a little black Indian whose chief
delight among the things brought
from a civilized country was the tal
low candle. The staple food is seal
meat and blubber. Next to that is
the little tisli taken in the fiord and
dried for winter use, known to them
as the augmatfat and to the learned
as salmo villosux. A favorite way of
eating the dried augmatfat is to take
it by the tale, poke it into the oily
blubber for a while, and then chew it
down. Awful, isn't it? It is almost
as bad as eating sardines. There is a
deal in a name. Blubber is disgust
ing; oil, if for use on a salad is de
licious and indispensable. 1 have
eaten seal oil and found it (very un
expectedly) good. I had supposed it
would have a ilavor of ilsh oil. There
is no such flavor about it. It is equal
to the best extract of cotton seed—
that quality sold as olive oil in all
American groceries. Augmatfat and
blubber, under a French label, would
ho esteemed a luxury in New York as
in Arsuk. For the rest, the Eskimos
trade seal oil and skins to their Gov
ernor for three kinds of hard tack,
for coffee, sugar and tea. They catch
Arctic codfish (misarkornak in Eskimo
and gadus navayu in the books) and
salmon in the seasons; they shoot no
end of gulls, ducks, ptarmigans, and
the Arctic hare; they have eggs in
endless quantity in the season, and
very many foxes are trapped. The
fox is to the Eskimo what the 'pos
sum is to the plantation darkey. Ho
likes to smoke and, under favoring
circumstances, will swap anything
he's got, including his wife, for rum.
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Salah. Stanley's attendant, said it
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officers when introduced to ckiquangu,
a kind of pudding made of boiled
manioc, root. Neither the taste nor
odor of this food is at all inviting at
first, but necessity brings all whites
as well as blacks to regard it as the
bread of life before many months of
residence in Central Africa.
Sometimes when deprived of it for
many days I have often hailed a piece
of toasted chiquanya as real luxury,
and I have been rather disgusted with
newly arrived whites whose upturned
noses condemned my barbaric taste.
When Stanley's white officers had
finished their small stock of tinned
provisions and rice, they were abso
lutely compelled to fall back 011 the
manioc dishes; but the sourness of
taste of this African pudding is a
serious berrier to the enjoyment of it,
and some stubborn persistence is re
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chiquanya at delicacy; but like other
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to like it, and when they passed be
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were forced to adhere to a roast plan
tain diet, they regretted bitterly that
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town is practically without drainage
and year by year the necessity for j
remedying the evil becomes more
urgent. Some time ago the Govern- j
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ployed a number of distinguished
sanitary engineers and prepared a
scheme for a system of sewerage
which is generally admitted to he
the best and cheapest that could be
devised. It was proposed to pay ba
the improvement by half the octroi
receipts of the city, but France will
not consent and demands the appoint
mentofan international commission of
three experts to study the question,
to invite plans and to decide which is
to be adopted, no plan to be adopted
unless accepted by all three experts
unanimously. The (Meet of this
proposition if clear, am unless it is
modified the drainage plan must be
abandoned, at least for the present.—
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