WHERE CRUSOE LIVED. The Rook-Bound, Sea-Girt Isle oi Juan Fernandez. The Lonely Spot on Which That Hardy Scotch Buccaneer, Alexander Sel kirk. Made file Home for Four I l ong. Lonely Years. Upon Juan Fernandez, or Mas-a- | tierra, a rock-bound, sea-girt Islet in the Pacific ocean, may the name of Robinson Crusoe's island be fairly be stowed. For here, Bays London Black and White, did that hardy buccaneer, Alexander Selkirk, of Largo, in Scot land, spend more than four dreary and lonely years, thereby suggesting to Defoe his immortal narrative. It must be remembered, however, that other spots upon the earth's surface lay claim to Robinson Crusoe, too. Thus Tobago, in the West Indies, is held to bo tho true Crusoe's isle, and during the last Colonial and Indian exhibition held in London there was sent as an exhibit from little Tobago a skull actually purporting" to ho that of Robinson Crusoe's historic goat! But the Scotch pirate certainly suggested his romance to Defoe, wherever that author may have chosen to lay his plot, and for this reason Juan Fernondez must be interesting to English readers, from the crowns of its volcanic peaks to the silver surf which breaks eternally upon its shores. Amidst the island's forests of tree-ferns did Selkirk live, build him a habitation, and cultivate the soil; from its mountain caps must his weary eyes have sought a sail through the long years of lonely waiting. Our illustration, while showing a point of Juan Fernandez especially associated ; with Selkirk, affords at the same time i at characteristic aspect of the island j itself. "Selkerk's Lookout" is a ragged j mountain draped in foliage, thinning towards the last rounded peak; and, in 1808 a tablet was placed in position SELKIRK'S CAVE, JUAN FERNANDEZ. upon the mountain's side at a point Judged to be sacred to many a weary 1 month of the forlorn exile's solitude. Scratched and cut about it are to bo read tho names of innumerable nonen tities who have since visited the spot. Nothing is sanctified, no tract of ground too celebrated or too sacred for Smith, Jones and Robinson. Given a stump of lead pencil and they would gleefully Inscribe their historical names in the Holy of Holies, together with the date, and their addresses in Peclcham Rye, Brixton, or elsewhere. But while denying Buch as these the satisfaction of their names in print, we may copy the actual memorial. Thus it runs: In memory of Alexander Selkirk. Mariner. A native of Largo, In the county of Flfo, Scot land, who lived on this Island In complete solitude for four years.and four months, lie was landed from the Cinque Ports galley, IXI tons, 16guns, A. D., 1704, And was taken off In the "Duke," prlvatoer, February 12, 1700. He died lieutenant of E M. S. "Weymouth," A. D. 172a Aged 47 years. ' This tablet Is erooted Near Selkirk's Lookout by Commodore Powell, And-the officers of 1L M. S. "Topaze," A. D., IMB. Selkirk's cave is also a point of inter- ' est, though it may be doubted whether there is much more than an imaginary connection between this cavern and the solitary sailor. Tho history of Juan Fernandez presents no feature of particular interest. Tho island was discovered in 1508 by the Spaniard whose name it bears, and between that date, until its occupation by Spain in 1750, appears to have been little more than a sort of headquarters for tho bold buccaneers who roamed all the Pacific over. Juan Fernandez passed to Chili when Spain lost her South American possessions, and from 1819 until 1835 her new owner used the islet as a penal settlement. To-day Chilian sportsmen —amateur and professional —wander upon Juan Fernandez seek ing and slaying seal or sea-lion when opportunity offers; but efforts in more civilized directions have also to bo re corded, for in 1877, the Chilian govern ment leased the land to a Swiss, who established a considerable colony upon its fertile shores. The result of the experiment, with a full description of It, was published about five years ago in an interesting article in Chamber's Journal. But to Englishmen the name of Alexander Selkirk will ever be coppled with Juan Fernandez; and from Selkirk it is but a step to Defoe and Robinson Crusoe. The island, there fore, mav reasonably claim the title wo havo bestowed upon it. It is inter- j esting to note in passing how many a j lonely sea-bound rock has been from time to time utilized by man as con venient for purposes of imprisonment or exile for his fellow-man. St. Helena instantly occurs to the raind in this connection; and the Bass Rock still can show ruins of mouldering prison walls. The latter, indeed, will com mand a fresh interest, at any rate for literary minds, by reason of the graph ic scenes described as happening there on in Mr. R. L. Stevenson's last ro mance. ' Alexander Hamilton's Watch. A watch that was worn by Alexan der Hamilton when the declaration of Independence was signed and also dur ing the duel with Aaron Burr is in tho possession of Louis M. Uabbins, of j Madieou, Win, LIVING LANTERNS. Queer Fishes That Carry Bright and Striking Sea Torches. Away down in the dark depths of the ocean thero are living lanterns that are borne about to light up the darkness. A queer fish called tho "Midshipmite" carries the brightest and most striking of all these sea torches. Along its back, under it and at tho base of its fins there are small disks that glow with a clear phosphorescent light like rows of shining buttons on the young middy's uniform—in this way it gets its name "midshipmrte," TITE " MIDSHIPMITE." by which young sailors in the navy arc often called. These disks aro exactly like small bull's-eye lanterns with regular lenses and reflectors. The lenses, says the Boston Herald, gather the rays and the reflectors throw them out again. There is a lay er of phosphorescent cells between the two, and the entire effect is as perfect as if made by some skillful optician. Many other fish have "reflectors," I many have "lenses," but the "mid shipmite" is the only kind that has ' such splendid specimens of both. The fish is so constructed that when it is frightened by some devouring sea monster it can close its lenses and hide itself In the darkness. It can turn its lantern off and on at will, and then it is always "filled" and ready when wanted. Another marine animal has a lumin ous bulb that hangs from its chin, and thus throws tho light before it to warn It of the approach of enemies. Still another upholds a big light from the extremity of the dorsal fin. Others again have constant supplies of lumin ous oil that runs down their sides from the fins, making a bright and constant light all around it. Most of the jelly fish are phosphores cent. These live far down, on the very floor of the ocean, where it is always dark and gloomy. The dwellers In [ these watery depths are provided with lights of their own shining bodies and fins, which illumine their home with a strange, though no doubt cheerful, glare. SIR EVELYN WOOD. Th© New Quartermaster General of th© British Army. Sir Ilenry Evelyn Wood, who has just received the appointment of quar termaster general in tho English army, has been in turn a sailor, a dragoon, a leader of irregular cavalry, an infantry leader, a diplomate and an adminis trator. lie has fought in the Crimea, the mutiny, Ashantee, South Africa I and Egypt, and as a result of those hcrolo enterprises he wears a dazzling display of decorations, the Victoria cross among them. He is in addition a barrister, learned in the law, and a brilliant and facile writer. It wassaid of SLIT HENRY EVELYN WOOD. another most distinguished officer that when he was made a general the world ♦lost the finest possible special corre spondent. And of Sir Evelyn Wood it may be said with pride by newspaper men that ho would have been bound to ; tako the very foremost place in their ! ranks had ho devoted himself to the pursuit of the "gray goose quill," and he clearly recognizes the utility of a profession, conducted in good faith, which nature almost seems to have in tended him to adorn. He was born in* 1838, tho same year that gave Archibald Forbes to tho world. Endurance of the Camel. A camel has twioo tho carrying power of an ox. With an ordinary load of 400 pounds ho can travel twelve or fourteen daj-s without water, going tojrty miles a day. They are fit to work at 5 years old, but their strength begins to decline at 25, although they usually live to 40. The Tartars have herds of these animals, often 1,000 belong ing to one family. They were numer- DUS In antiquity, for the patriarch Job had 8,000. The Timbuctoo or Moharri breed is remarkablo for speed and used only for couriers, going 800 miles In eight days, with a meal of dates or grain at nightfall. Same Old 'Coon. A 'coon with a leather strap around its neck, which was lost by a young woman at Chester, W. Va., about fif teen years ago, was found the other day by a hunter in the woods near Chester. The animal still had the leather collar around its neck. ]n Hard Luck. When an Armenian maiden attains her seventeenth year and is not en gaged to bo married she must undergo 1 a strange punishment. She is forced j to fast three days; then for twenty- I four hours her food is salt flsh and she is not permitted to queueb ber thirst. HAMILTON IN BRONZE. Tho Statue Recently Unveiled ID Brooklyn, N. Y. On© of th© Rest Works of William Ord way Partridge, th© Sculptor—ln scriptions That Have Been Placed on the Pedestal. The bronze statue of Alexander Hamilton, the work of William Ordway Partridge, was unveiled with public ceremonies in front of the Hamilton clubhouse at Clinton and llcmsen streets, Brooklyn, October 4. George M. Olcott, ex-president of the club, made the speech of presentation, and the statue was received by President James McKeen. Johua M. Van Cott made an address oh Hamilton as a statesman, and Gen. Stewart L. Wood ford spoke of Hamilton as a soldier. The statue stands in front of the clubhouse in Remsen street, halfway between tho entrance and the street corner, just within the iron railing surrounding the club property. A solid foundation has been laid to sup port the pedestal of marble, eight feet in height, on which the statue, ten feet in height, stands. The following inscriptions have been placed upon tho pedestal: "There Is not In the constitution of the United States an element of ordor, of force or of du ration which he has not powerfully contrib uted to introduoe and caused to predominate." —GuizoL "He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth."—Webs ter. "The model of eloquenco and the most fasci nating of orators."—Story. "His rare powers entitled him to the fame of being the first intellectual product of America." —Stovons. "The name of Hamilton would have honored Greece in the ago of Aristidos."—Ames. Mr. Partridge, the sculptor, began thinking of a statuo of Hamilton, at the suggestion of Dr. Arthur Matthew son, ten years ago, and has endeavored to set forth in the figure the genius of the man of whom Talleyrand said: "He divined America." It represents Hamilton ID colonial costume, with a roll of manuscript in his left hand, in I the attidude of an orator, earnestly setting forth great truths. The pose of the figure is firm and oxpressivo of STATUE A HAMILTON. resolution and earnestness, and the de meanor is dignified'and impressive. The statue may be regarded as rep resentative of the colonial time and spirit. The pedestal is designed to harmonize with the figure, the lonic columns of the front recalling the period when classic architecture had full sway in this country. Mr. Part ridge is the sculptor of the Shakespeare in Chicago, and he is at work on the equestrian statuo of Gen. Grant to be placed in front of the Brooklyn Union League clubhouse. The suggestion that the Hamilton club erect the statuo was made by the late Edward A. Secomb, and he ar ranged the preliminary stops in the matter. Since his death the matter has been taken charge of by Willis L. Ogden. The funds to pay for the work have been subscribed by the members of the club. The statue is a great addition to the few to bo found in public places in Brooklyn. The Lincoln at the park entrance, the Beecher in front of the city hall, soon to be removed to Ins pect park, and the Stranahan in that pleasure ground are the only ones to be found, save a few busts in the park and in Greenwood cemetery. ITuntlngton'a Economy. It is told of C. P. Huntington, the railroad magnate, that recently upon his receiving a small package a rela tive discarded tho paper and twine, throwing them into the waste paper basket. Mr. Huntington arose and, continuing his talk with some gentle men present, apparently unconsciously took the paper out of the basket, neat i ly folded it, and taking care of tho string, placed them both in a drawer for further uso. One of the party re marking that that was close economy, Mr. Huntington remarked that between that and extravagance there was a wide gap. But Mr. Huntington in '4O ran a hardware store In.California and paper and twine were not readily ob tained, and he probably acquired the habit of closely saving those two arti cles. A Lasso of Human Hair. The most grew some relic in tho United States, if not in the whole wide world, is in the possession of "Old Lo Pier," a Spanish Indian living on the Wenachee river at the point of its junction with the Upper Columbia. Old Le Pier's odd souvenir is nothing more or less than a lasso, or lariat, ! composed wholly of human hair. It is over fifty feet in length and as vario gated in color as was tho coat of "Joseph of old." The priests (none but the mission clergy aro ever al lowed to oven get sight of it) say that not less than fifty women and girls must havo been scalped to furnish ma terial for this horrid rope, tho black, brown, yellow, red and gray hair being curiously and intricately woven into a rope that is strong enough to hold an ox, horse pr buffalo- OPTICAL PHENOMENON. Bulnbotre and Photographs Produced la a Fog Bank. A correspondent of Nature, at Chris tiana, gives an account of a very cu rious phenomenon witnessed from the toj> of Gausta mountain (height 6,000 Norwegian feet) in Telemarken, south of Norway. We were a party, he Bays, of two ladies and three gentlemen on the summit of this mountain on Au gust 4. On the morning of that day the sky was passibly clear; at noon there was a thick fog. Between six and seven o'clock inthe afternoon (the wind being south to southwest) the fog suddenly cleared in places so that we could see the surrounding country in WE ALL APPEARED IN SILHOUETTE sunshine through the rifts. We mounted to the flagstaff in order to ob tain a better view of the scenery, and there we at once observed in the fog, in an easterly direction, a double rain bow forming a complete circle, and seeming to bo twenty to thirty feet distant from us. In the middle of this we all appeared as black, erect and nearly life-size silhouettes. The out lines of the silhouettes were so sharp that wo could easily recognize the fig ures of each other, and every move ment was reproduced. The head of each individual appeared to occupy the center of the circle, and each of us seemed to be standing on the inner periphery of tho rainbow. Wo esti mated the inner radius of the circle to bo six feet. This phenomenon lasted several minutes, disappearing with the fog-bank, to bo reproduced in new fog three or four times, but each time more indistinctly. The sunshine dur ing the phenomenon seemed to us to be unusually bright. Mr. Kielland- Torkildsen, president of the Tele marken Tourist club, writes to me that the builder of the hut on the top of Gausta has twice seen spectacles of this kind, but in each case it was only tho outline of tho mountain that was reflected on the fog. He had never seen his own imago, and he does not mention circular or other rainbows. HOW MICE MAKE WAR. They Face Each Other, Standing on Their Hind Lege. Before we had much observed mice, the use of their long tails was a ques tion that had puzzled us. We do not know of what service they are to the females, but to the bucks they are, we see, of use in their combats, for, when they fight, they very often face one an other standing on their hind legs, the tails then making, as with kangaroos, the third feature of a tripod. ! Their appearance, when they thus ; stand facing one another with their heads thrown back and their paws in 1 front of their faces, is, on account per haps of the resemblanco it bears to the posture of prize-fighters, extremely comic, says a writer in the Northwest. Small mice, also, when attacked by their bigger congeners, raise their MICE PREPARING TO FIGHT, paws before their faces, the attitude in that case strangely suggesting one of deprecation. What occurs when belligerent bucks actually engage only instantaneous photography could record, so rapid are their movements. Presumably, they try to bite, but must consider defense the better part of valor, for they never appear to get hurt much, and between the rounds will nibble away at tho crust which brought them Into the vicinage, only showing their excite ment by rattling their tails against the ground. * Occasionally a tail seized by tho teeth leads to one mouse having to drag his enemy over the floor till the latter lets go. The Cause of Biliousness. The cause of biliousness is a dilated stomach. Food decomposes in the stomach, and that gives rise to the con dition known as biliousness. It is a state of poisoning in the stomach, pro duced by the action of germs upon the food remaining there. When those germs grow up through the cesophagus they produce the bad coating on the tongue. Biliousness always means bad diet. If a man is bilious he ought to be ashamed of himself, for it means that ho has abused his stomach. A dilated stomach is very common among chronic dyspeptics. It is a stretching of the stomach in consequence of over loading it; it is sometimes duo to a breaking down of the stomach. Sutclflen In European Armies. In view of the epidemic of suicides which seems to have set in of late it Is interesting to see how different coun tries stand in this respect. The follow ing figures give in the number of sui cides in tho various armies of Europe per 100,000 men: Austria, 481; Ger many, 07; Italy, 40; France, 29; Bel gium, 24; England, 28; Russia. 20, and Spain, u. UGLY BEDFELLOWS. Leaves from the Note Book of an Old Traveler. The Habits of Centipedes. Scorpions and Tarautulas Twenty-Four Babies and a Mother Scorpion * in a ShawL During my life in tropical countries, writes Eugene Murray Aaron in the St. Louis Republic, I found that there were three sorts of occasional bedfel lows that one could never be too care ful to see were not between the sheets or otherwise hidden in bed or hammock before retiring. These dangerous bedfellows were cen tipedes, scorpions and tarantulas, or trap-door spiders. Of the three I al ways had the greatest dread of the scorpions, partly, perhaps, on account of their greater bulk, but more, I think, because of their villainous temper. So far as I have observed, the taran tula will only visit a house or even a camp in search of flies or other food, and he will usually quickly retreat if his W&y is clear. So, too, the centipedes as a rule pre fer to hide under washboards or in damp cellars and decaying timbers, only coming out after food., such as roaches and croton bugs. "It is always the unexpected that is happening," sure enough, with scor pions. Ilowever carefully alert one may be thej' are sure to turn up at the most unlooked-for times—to be found in a coat-tail pocket, on the inside of a horse's collar just as it is about to be put on the unsuspecting beast, or in the bathtub, which only a few mo ments before was carefully inspected. Looking over a pile of letters on my study table in Jamaica one afternoon, a pile which I had carefiUly sorted out just before lunch, I heard a scratching in one of the larger envelopes, and be i. SCORPION, 2. TARANTULA. 8. CENTIPEDE. fore I had time to drop it I received a painful wound from the fang of a largo scorpion. Another time, desiring to take an afternoon siesta in my hammock, I shook out the shawl spread over it, and from the folds fell a good sized female scorpion. Having respread my shawl I turned over the pillow to beat it up, when from under it there dropped over 24 baby scorpions. The j'oung scor pions usually travel from point to point on the mother's back, but while she is foraging around for food they are generally to be found in hiding near by, as was this little colony. Over 70 young ones have been found with one female. The poison from these creatures is applied in three different ways, though the poison itself is much the same and similar in action. The fang of the scorpion is at the very tip of its long, flexible tail, as the abdomen appears to be, and with it the creature can deal itself quite as deadly a blow as it can to any enemy. This it will do, just as described in one of By ron'B poems, if it be surrounded with a circle of fire and assured of its inability to escape. This I have tested quite a score of times, thus disproving claims of certain naturalists, who probably never saw a live scorpion, that Byron Invented the story to suit his rhyme. The amount of-poison in the scorpion will not, in my opinion, kill a healthy adult, although it will cause an amount of pain for some hours that is most diflicult to bear with fortitude, as I can testify from personal experience. But a large female scorpion certainly 'an cause death to a half-grown child or to a timid woman, or a man whose blood is in a bad or impure condition. The tarantula carries its poison at the base of the most savage-looking fangs, that hang down from the lower side of its head. Owing to their po sition, the term "bite" may be more correctly applied to the tarantula than to either of the others; it is, neverthe less, not a bite, but a sudden down ward stroke of the fangs into the ob ject attacked. I have never found anyone who knew of a case where a centipede wounded a man without first having been stepped on, rolled on or in some like manner hurt. Its poison is a much more di lute fluid than that of the others and is exuded from the hollow feet. A centipede that I rolled on with my naked back In my sleep on the little steamer that plies on the San Juan river in Nicaragua loft a thick red ridge as wide as my thumb quito across my back, hut there wero no holes in my skin that a friend with a pocket lens could discover. 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