China has to-day twenty-6ix ports
open to foreign commerce.
Taking the whole land surface of the
globe into consideration, there are
twenty-two and a half acres for each
inhabitant on this planet.
The silverware belonging to Quean
Victoria's table would keep her from
starvation for the rest'of her life, if the
worst came to the worst. It is valued
at $12,500,000.
The Chicago railroads have decided
to elevate their tracks, and will go
right at it. "They are tired of paying
for the people they kill," explains the
New Orleans Picayune.
If Turkey should be wipod out, it
would mean the loss to Russia of au
annual sum of $7,500,000, which Tur
key pays her byway of indemnity,
and will have to pay till 1977.
Rudolph Cronau declares that he has
indisputable evidence that the re
mains of Columbus still rest in the
cathedral at Santo Domingo, Havti.
Ho asserts that the remains transferred
to Spain in 1795 were those of tho
great discoverer's son, Diego.
Tho Louisville Courier-Journal
states that tho question of keeping
down the cotton acreage for 1895 is
attracting a great deal of attention in
the South. The cotton exchanges are
urgiug planters to diversify their
crops and plant no more than they
did in 1895.
The Statemeu's Yearbook for 183>,
an acknowledged authority oa statist
iios, gives tho area of British Guiana
as 7<5,000 square miles, while iu the
issue of 1833 the same oonntry is
creditod with au area of 109,030, No
treaty is oited to aooouut for this in
crease ef 31,030 square miles. This
seems to the Pathfinder a matter for
soientifio investigation. Of the in
crease of speoies thero is definite
knowledge, but the matter oE terri
torial multiplioation is anomalous, in
fact without explanation, unless it be
duo to alliuvial deposits along the
coast.
The New York Herald says that
"the cable despatch of congratulation
addressed by the Emperor William to
President Ivrueger, of the Transvaal
Republic, whioh is worded in the cus
tomary phraseo'ogy of messages from
oue Chief of State to auother, is au
liistorio document of far greater im
portance than it appears at the first
glance. It is the recognition of the
absolute independence of the Trans
vaal Republic and a repudiation of the
rights of suzerainty which England
claims to exercise over the South
African Republic by virtue of the con
vention of 188 i, which provides that
tho South African Republic shall con
clude no treaty or engagement with
any State or Nation other than tho
Oraugo Free State, nor with aoy na
tive tribe to the eastsvord or westward
of the Republic, unless the same has
been approved by Her Majesty tho
Queen. This passage is the sole foun
dation for England's claim to suzer
ain rights over the Boers, which is
now denied in the German Emperor's
message, issued alter calm delibera
tion in council with his Imperial
Chaneelor and with his Ministers ol
Foreign Affairs and of the Navy."
The Atlanta Journal says that
•'Georgia is to have another immense
colony of Northern and Western set
tlers, if the plans of four gentlemen
who are now in this State materialize.
The names of the members of the party
are: Messrs. W. W. Taggart, of Breck
inridge, Minn., who was in the last
Legislature; C. H. F.iirall, of West
Broucb, lowa, and a brother of
Julge Fair ill. of that State; John J.
Gamble, of West Branch, lowa, and
A. E. Sausburn, of Breckinridge,
Minn. These gentlemen, who are all
well known in their localities as busi
ness and professional men of high
rank, huvo been in nearly all of the
States of the South prospecting for
Miitable lands on which to establish
the colony which they have in mind.
They have about concluded to negoti
ate for a tract of 80,000 acres in the
southern part of this State, having
been more impressed with Georgia
than with any other State in this sec
tion. It is their purposo to secure
this land and divide it into lots of
farms, which will bo sold or rented, at
the choice of the settler. The move*
ment which started some time ago and
culminated in the great Fitzgerald
colony in Irwin County, has caused a
deep current of interest in the South
to bo awakened throughout the North
west, and in Minnesota especially there
is a strong desire on the part of people
to come to this section. The winters
arc so severe in the Northwest that
the people are growing tired of the
•outttry,"
I THE FIELD OF ADVENTURE.
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DAR
ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
A ISaboon <Jlvcs a Life for a Life—
Marvelous Kscapc of a Traveler—
An Huniblo llero.
WE had outspanncd in a
lonely place, and were
resting under the shade
of a wagon, for it was
midday. The oxen were grazing near
by, aud we should not want them un
til the sun had begun to deceud toward
the mountain tops. Suddenly my two
fox-terriers, which always accom
panied 1110 when transport riding, be
gan to bark wildly about a hundred
yards away from us. On looking in
their direction wo behold a lingo black
baboon standing erect, holding on to
a bowlder. Then it was, in my excite
ment that I rose and, taking my gun
from the wagon, inserted a bullet
anil hurried toward tho spot.
I called my boy to nccompny me,
saying, "Let us kill him, Pahla."
But when he saw tho animal ho flatly
refused. "Whawl Nkosi," he said,
"I cannot. I have made a vow." I
was astonished at Pahla, for, as a rule,
he was as eager as myself iu the pur
suit of wild animals and game. But I
proceeded alone. When near the
baboon 1 shouldered mv gun aud shot
him through tho chest. Ho rolled
over, aud the dogs began to worry
him. But he set up such a wailing,
like a man in pain, that it went to my
heart and I felt sorry that 1 had shot
him. AH ho was expiring, Pahla came
to my side. Putting his hand to his
mouth ho exclaimed : "VYhaw ! Nkosi,
that was not well done," anl walked
away, I called off the dogs, anil we
returned to the shade of the wagon.
Being curious as to Pallia's vow, I
asked him to tell 1110 all about it.
"When I was a young man, Nkosi,"
ho said, M I was one day hunting for
jackals on tho hillside, In time we
oame aorosn several baboons, and I sot
tho dogs after thorn, I had four dogs
with me, On oatohing up with tbom
they bemmod one of them round, cut
ting it off from the rest, whioh con
tinued their flight, Whawl Nkosi,
how it did fight 1 It caught hold of
one dog with its teeth and hands, and
with one wrench tore it to death. As
I came up the other dogs were worry
ing it from behind, and one of them
tore a piooe from its shoulder. Then
it rolled onto tho ground, and I was
about to kill it by hitting it on the
head with a heavy kerrio I hold in my
hand, when it lookod at mo so plead
ingly, and oriod so piteously—just like
a man who might bo dying in great
pain—that I could not strike. J called
off the dogs and let it go. It limped
away slowly at Hrst, but in a few mo
ments turned around, gave one stare
at us, and thou hurried off to its com
panions.
"A few days later I was again hunt
ing with my dogs in that neighbor
hood. As we crossed the hill we came
right into tho midst of a troop of ba
boons. Tho dogs immediately set up
on them and I ran after them. All at
once a huge brute turned upon me. I
struck him with my stick, but not
heavily enough to knock him down.
He caught hold of my blanket with his
teeth aud hands and tore it in two ,
pieces. Then I felt like a dead man !
with fright. Again he got hold of me
with his hands, and 1 knew that my
end was come, lor ho was more nimble
than I, and his teeth were horrible to
see, ns ho fixed them again to .tho
blanket on ray shoulder. But at that
moment another baboon came up,
aud, taking hold ot the first one,
pulled him off with a big pull, anil
they left me, running in the direction
of tho others. As they ran away I :
looked and Haw that tho one that had |
saved me was wounded in the loft
shoulder, aud I know it to bo tho same
baboon whoso life I had saved a few
days before.
"It is a straugo thing, but it is true,
Nkosi, aud I made a vow that day that
I would never kill auother baboon.
And from that day to this I have not
done so."—New York Recorder.
Saved by a Gold Belt.
"Gold has a variety of uses." said
Mr. Thornton Decker, au English
engineer, to au American, who met
him in Tlacalula, Mexico, "but I fancy
my experience when I first went over
this route between Oaxaca and Te
hauhtcpec was rather novel. A lot of
$2O pieces served very well as a coat
of mail—so well that they saved ray
life.
"As I said, I was bound down to
Tehauntepec for a look at the railroad
across the isthmus. I had heard that
the women there uso your American
double eagles for jewelry aud paid
a very high premium for them, HO I
got forty of fifty aud sewed them into
tho form of what you might call a
porous plaster. When I hail them
stitched into place 011 a bit of cotton,
there were two rows across my back
and a third row overlapping the other
two. By putting straps over my
shoulders they carried very comforta
bly.
"I got the gold up at El Paso,
Texas, but iu some way one of the
beggarly crew at Oaxaca saw that I
was carrying something in tho small
of my back, and tho result of that was
I was followed when I set out for Te
hauntepec. They allowed me to go
on unmolested until I was within a
day of Han Carlos, and then one of
them seems to have taken a short cut
through tho mouutaius and concealed
himself in the brush until I passed.
Then he gave it to me with a shotgun
loaded with slugs of lend, aud I caught
it in tho small of the back.
"The force of the blow knocked mo
down over the pommel of the saddle.
When there I had presence of mind
enough to keep on slowly, as if en
tirely done for. Meanwhile I got one
of your American navy revolvers in my
hand vyskfd itt
•'The beggar that had shot me, see
ing me fall, came running from the
brush, machete in one hand and gun
in the other, while his partner ap
peared around the mountain with his
horse on the gallop. They yelled at
my horse to stop and my guide to go
on, and both obeyed promptly. I was
still clinging to my horse's neck and
could see them through its mane very
well.
"I let thorn get within ten feet of
me, and then dropped to my feet on
the ground and took my turn at shoot
ing. They were BO close I couldn't
miss, but luckily, as I think, one
caught his bullet iu the knee and tho
other in tho fleshy part of tho arm,
while their horse was killed outright
by a bullet in the head.
"Seeing them both down and beg
ging for their lives, I had a mind to
kill tuem for their cowardice, but I
lot thorn off with a good kicking
apiece, and then called back the guide
and had him carry water and wash
and dress their wounds as well as pos
sible. Then I gave tho man with the
hurt arm a stiff horn of brandy and
sent him back for help, while I con
tinued my journey. The slugs had
hit tho gold pieces—three of them.
I had a lame back for a week or so,
but I was otherwise unhurt.
"What became of them? I after
ward met the oue that caught it in tho
knee. He was going about the mar
ket in Oaxrca on a peg leg, peddling,
and telling people ho had lost his leg
in a fierce encounter with highway
men. He said his partner was on a
journey, but I fancy lie meant ho had
been detected in some rascality and
sent to prison."
A Hero of To-Day.
Tho other night in the cellar of tho
New York Tribune J building the big
engines were throbbing away with a
potential energy that tilled the great
structure with light and power.
Suddenly, says tho Tribune, ft pipe
was torn from its connections, and a
rush of escaping steam swept through
tho furnaces like a tornado. There was
a panic, Nobody know just what had
happened, and it was feared that tho
boilers would explode at any moment.
It was a soeno of terror and oonfu
eion, and a brave man might have been
forgiven for giving way to his fear.
But Bill Fitzpatriok, tho assistant en
gineer, never thought of his own safe
ty. Ho hail but one idea: "It's the
Tribune or myself I" 80 ho dashed
into tho stifling steam, and rushed to
what threatened to be instant death.
Fitzpatriok found the spot, averted
the danger and came out safe and
sound. Half an hour later everything
was moving along as usual, and few in
tho building knew of their narrow es
cape. The engineer went right on with
his work, and never thought of claim
ing any credit for his timely heroism.
The Tribune makes tho iucideut tho
subject of an editorial in which it says
that tho human nature of to-day is as
chivalric, as generous and heroic as it
ever was in tho time of Roland aud
Lancelot. It may not wear purple vel
vet and glittering armor, but tho
knightly metal rings just as true.
Many of the heros whoso deeds have
been immortalized iu song and story
never showed more courage, loyalty
ami devotion than this huuiblo toiler,
Bill Fitzpatriok, who has spent his life
in the cellar of a printing office. As tho
Tribune says, "the world is better be
cause of every such man, and every
such deed, and tho knowledge of their
existence comes us an inspiration to
every true heart."—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Fight With Wildcat.
Peter Sokultz, Jr., was out in tho
woods near Bascom, Ohio, and, while
roaming about, was attacked by a large
wildcat. The vicious animal jumped
at his face, cutting and scratching it
in a most terrible manner, and tearing
his clothing nearly off* his bick. By
hard struggling and a well-directed
blow from Mr. Sohultz's list, ho freed
himself l'roin tho animal, alter which
ho shot and killed it.
About oue year ago Mr. Sclinltz was
iu this same woods aud was attacked in
a similar way by a wildcat and he shot
the animal, which ho saw limp away.
Tho cat ho killed seems to liavo been
lame, and is supposed to be tho sauio
animal.
Saved by a Passing Train Crcsv.
A family living in an isolated farm
house near Mareellus, Mich., were
saved from being burned up with their
home oho night not long ago, by tho
crew of a freight train, passing 011 a
railroad running near the house. The
engineer of the train noticed tho
house wrapped iu dames, and stopped
his train and sent the brukeman on
tho run to awaken the inmates. The
brakeman kicked in u door and found
that tho whole family were sound
asleep 011 tho upper floor. Tho flames
had gained such headway that in a
few minutes more it would have been
impossible for tho inmates of the
house tc escape.
A Ntne-Yenr-Old Heroine.
Little Grace Golvin, nine years old,
of Bristol, Conn., was playiug under
a sand bank with a companion, when
the sand caved in aud buried the other
girl. Instead of running away, Grace
attacked tho sand with her hands aud
dug it away from her unlucky com
panion's face so that she could breathe,
thus saving her life.
Chinese Artillery and Dinner.
It is the custom of tho best Chinoso
artillerymen to go to dinner punctu
ally as the hour strikes, even in tho
middle of au engagement. The bet
ter-disciplined sailors do not leave
their guns, but they growl horribly if
their meal hour finds them unavoida
bly engaged. The men are cool
enough to eat leisurely with shell Hy
ing round them. —Blackwood's Maga-
SOFTENING BONES WITH LIME.
It is not the lime that softens the
bones when they are mixed with fresh
wood ashes aud lime, and the whole
kept moistened with water, but tho
potaib. The potash in the water is in
a mild condition, iu the foim of a car
bonate of potash, but tho lime takes
the carbonic acid from tho ashes and
makes the potash caustic. The caus
tio potash is very acrid, and eats the
lime in the bones and so softens them
that they may be crumbled with ease
after a month's exposure to the mixed
ashes uud lime in a pit; so that with
out the ashes it is not possible to
soften the bones; the wood ashes are
indispensible. When bones are burnt d
the gelatine—which has fifteen per
cent, of; nitrogenj iu it—is destroyed,
and thus the greuter part of the ferti
lizing value of the bones is lost.—New
York Times.
TREATMENT OF FROZEN FLANTS.
''When the days begin to lengthen,
the cold begins to strengthen," is an
old weatherwiso saying which is so
true that often the window plants
which have come through December
unscathed will bo frozeu in January,
writes "S. C." When one rises in tho
morning to find them in such plight
making up the fire and warming tho
room as soon as possible will bo fatal
to all but tho most hardy. On tho
other hand, if they are removed to a
closet or the cellar and allowed to
thaw gradually in the dark, many of
them will be injured very little. I
have frequently had geraniums come
through the ordeal none tho worso for
it. Many persons cut tho plants down
at once, when they have been frosted,
but this is not necessary with geran
iums or shrubby plants, as thoy will
usually put forth now leaves in a short
time.
Begonias thrive better than most
plants in the warm air of the sitting
room, and hence are favorite plants
for tho window garden, but they are
very susceptible to frost. A few va
rieties, the Vernon and NVeltoniensjs
among them, will sprout up from the
roots after being frozen (lOWD, but my
experience with other kinds has been
that it is useless to try to save them in
such a case.
Last winter I had hyacinths in full
bloom frozeu one cold night.
The hyacinth before it flowers will
boar considerable freezing, but it
seemed scarcely possible to save tho
waxen bells of tho llower spike. How
ever, they went into the woodbox as
soon us its contents had been emptied
into the stove. A covering thick
enough to exclude tho light, and also
the air for some time, was thrown over
it. After some hours I peeped in.
They had thawed, but the spikes were
drooping sadly. They were allowed
to remuin in tho dark all day, and by
the next morning scarcely showed the
effects of the cold. As a precaution
against freezing it is well to water
sparingly iu very cold weather. Tho
few "green things growing" kept in
the windows brighten tho homo so
much in winter that it is always a pity
to lose them. —New York Tribune.
CARE OF THE COWS.
Ilavo you ever watched your cows
on a bitter cold day sneak slowly up
to the water trough where you have
broken tho ice and stick her tongue in
the cold water several times until she
got used to it, then take a little sip
and a little moro until she could stand
110 more of it. Theu sho will walk
slowly over the frozen ground uutil
the gets iu the shelter of an old
wagon, aud there with her back
bumped up sho will stand for two or
three hours shivering until what feed
she lias eaten has had time to warm
that water up to a living temperature?
How long ought it to take a sensible
man to find out where all of his feed is
goiug, no matter whether it is a milk
cow or a dry one. Nearly overy pound
she eats is needed to warm that water,
and little is left to repair the body,
much less to make milk or fat of. Tho
simplest kind of a heating apparatus
will cost not over ten cents a day to
heat the water for a small herd twice
a day. It will pay for itself twice over
during the winter iu food it will save
and tho milk it will allow the cows to
make, and it will do the same in add
ing flesh to the other cattle, especially
the young onee.
Then go a step further aud buy some
boards to build a shed with that the
poor things may havo a dry placo to
stand and lie down under with a wind
break against the cold piercing storms.
These are not,only acts of humanity,
but they appeal directly to the pocket
book. They make the stacks of buy,
the corn fodder and the meal bin go
nearly twice as far, to eay nothing of
increasing the profits of the milch
cows.
If a liberal allowance of straw, leaves
or other trash is scattered under the
shed tho amount of manure saved will
far more than repay tho cost and
trouble of collecting it, while it great
ly adds to the comfort of the animals.
If you are not too tired by this time,
then get you a sharp butcher's saw aud
take the horns off first from the boss
cows and steers, and then tho younger
ones. This is the best time of year to
do it, when there are no flies to bother.
.—Home and Farm.
IRRIGATION OF GARDENS.
Tho importance of irrigation of gar
dens and farm lands is a matter of
rapidly iatcrost to those
concerned. Irrigation has been some
what of a bugbear to farmers always,
the idea being that it required costly
works and much labor to accomplish
it, and it has always been associated
with the utmost aridity of climate and
toilsome cultivation of the soil. But
if there are in existence any districts
where more than in others the profits
of the farm are greater, and the ease
of cultivation greater, too, with the
certainty of maximum crops also
greater, they ore the irrigated dis
tricts of the far East. Indeed, some
of the causes of the depression in East
ern farming is due to the less cost of
growing crops under irrigation, and
the ability of the farmers to sell the
products of their farms at a low price,
such as other farmers cannot afford to
take. In fact, the time has come when
irrigation must be made a practice
wherever tho water is available for it.
For it is one of the laws of vegetable
growth that this is in proportion to
tho quantity of water in the soil.
But it is in tho growth of grass that
the application of water to the land
may bo made tho more profitable with
the least trouble. Tho myriads of
rivers and streams that flow through
this broad land down to the ocean
may all be impounded and made to
work for the farmer without cost, ex
cept for tho permanent works re
quired ; and some of these need only
be of the simplest kind. Here low
banks thrown up by the plow, or
otherwise by the horse scraper, will re
tain tho water of a stream when it is
high, while it deposits its load of dis
solved or suspended matters to add to
the bulk of tho low lauds along its
banks, aud to increase the stock of
plant food in it, The water thus flows
in at the higher end of the embank
ment and, slowly moving down to the
lower part of the stream, gives up its
load to the greedy soil, and hastens 011
to the next farm, where it takes with
it its newly gathered spoils, leaving
thein bohind as it goes on and on
toward its final goal, tho great ooean.
Lands thus embanked are quite
common all over Europe, and are so
productive of grass and the related
crops—all used lor feeding.—as to pay
the interest on a value of $lOOO or
$2OOO on acre. If the irrigated lands
of the great West have lowered the
value of the Eastern farms, why should
not these take the same method of
cheapening their products, while the
quantity is increased, and KO restore
the old values to them? Irrigation,
wherover it is possible, is one way to
effect this improvement. —New York
Times.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Dairymen should always remember
it is dangerous to use tho milk from a
sick cow.
Get a good churn. They are'plenty
and cheap. Time is too precious to
waste over a poor churn.
If milk is properly pasteurized
there is no cooked flavor present such
as is noted in sterilized milk.
In manipulating butter, never allow
the hanils to come in contact with it
as their warmth molts and injures the
grain.
As the conclusion of various ox?>er
imonts, tho cost of keeping a dairy
cow, without roots or silage, is put at
$35 a year.
Young trees should be cultivated for
some years alter planting, as this is an
essential condition of their making a
vigorous growth.
Now is a good time to cut out all
useless, weak, or spindling wood in
tho orchard. A twig that can bo cut
with a knife now may require a saw
next year.
It is importaut that tho cow should
be given a smooth surface for lyiug
down. Dry bedding should bo pro
vided and cold drafts of air exoludod
from the table.
When packing apples for market
preserve uniformity iu size as much
as possible. Select the largest and
finest to form an extra lino quality to
sell at a fancy price.
Trees which are heeled in during the
winter siiould not be eo\ered with hay
or straw, us such material draws mice
and other rodents, which gnaw tho
young trees and destroy them.
The colder apples are kept without
freezing tho better. They will eudure
a much lower temperature than will
potatoes, but when stored in a cellar,
good ventilation is necessary and as
even a temperature us possible.
All young hogs in the orchard should
be left unringed and free to root the
soil as much as they like. Ringing
older hogs is sometimes necessary, as
in a dry time old sows will get in the
habit, if unringed, of gnawing the bark
of tho trees and thus causing irrepar
able injury.
The appearanco of moss on apple
trees shows that there is an excess of
water in tho soil. The land should bo
drained for orchards as lor other crops.
Stagnant water is of no benelit. A
system of underdraining shouid bo
employed, so that the subsoil will hold
more moisture for tho uso of the roots.
Every farmer should teach his boys
tho art of budding and grafting.
Variety and quality of fruits in a small
orchard may bo greatly improved by
judicious budding, and such work may
bo made a pastime which will add in
terest to farm life and also increaso
the satisfaction from the family
orchard*
An Ice Bicycle.
The bicysle docs not go into com
plete retirement oven upon the arrival
of winter ice and snow. In fact, the
bicycle will be one of the big things
on ice during the coining season.
From the suggestion thrown out by a
boy who lashed an ordinary skate to
the front wheel of his safety, and was
enabled to make good time over the
surface of a frozen lake, two enter
prising young men in Chicago have
invented and patented an ice bioycle,
and formed a company for its manu
facture.
With the first perfeoted model one
of the inventors made a mile in one
minute and twenty seconds, and this
can be improved upon, the skill of the
rider being the only limit to the pos
sibilities in the line of rocords. The
change from the normal bioycle to the
ico machine can be made in five min
utes. The rear tiro is deflated and the
toothed band of steel slipped over it.
The tire is then inflatod until the ten
sion is suifioiont to hold the band
firmly in place.
The blade is hollow ground, render
ing lateral slipping impossible. The
weight of the machine remains un
altered. The device is quite cheap,
costing less than $2O, and for that
reason oycling on ice is sure to be
come popular, if not the reigning fad
of tho winter.—St. Louis Post-Dis
patch,
Most Unhealthy City in Europe.
At St. Petersburg the average yearly
deaths are from 2500 to 8000 in excess
of the births in a population of nearly
a million. In tho years from 18G8 to
1882 tho death rate varied from 29.7
per thousand to 38.6, while the births
were only 31.1 per thousand. In 1883,
25,171 children were born alive, while
there were 30,150 deaths, an excess in
this year of about 5000. But these
figures are apt to bo mieleading. The
workmen who como up to tho capita)
almost invariably leave their wives and
children in the provinces. Thus, many
births take plaoe in tho provinces
whioh are not reokoned to the aocount
of the oapital. Tho faot that about
78 per cent, of the population are
over sixteen years of age testifies to the
universality of tho practioe of leaving
the children in tho country, The same
fact is demonstrated by the presence
of twelve men to every ten women in
St. Petersburg, whereas in most towns
this proportion is exactly reversed.
It will thus be seen that though the
deaths are in excess of the birihs, there
is not likely to be any diminution in
the actual population of the town, In
faot, its population increased twenty
nine per cent, between 1809 and 1881.
—London Tit-Bits.
Indinn Tents at Night,
Pleasing as the tents are by day,
with the waving shadows of the grass
or the broad flecks of sunlight from
between the branches of tho trees
upon their white Bides, whioh shade
into a dull brown at the tops, where
tho skin-covering is discolored by the
smoke ascending in lazy,blue]columns,
the true time to enjoy the beauty oi
an Indian camp is at night. Then the
tents are illuminated by a central tire,
and are all aglow under the stars, the
silhouettes of the inmates creating an
animated shadow world. Here one
catches the picture of a group of chil
dren watohing an elder twisting his
fingers to form a fox ohasing a rabbit
on the tent wall (perhaps some ono is
telling a myth about tho little fellow,
for suddenly.the shadow rabbit sits up
waving his ears as though ho had out
witted his pursuer) J yonder a woman
is lifting the pestle, pounding corn in
tho great wooden mortar ; nenr by art
some young girls with their heads to
gether, whispering secrets; old men
reolino on one el'oow, smoking; and
over there a young man isbiddiug the
baby boy danco; whilo tho sound oi
song and friendly chatter fills the air.
The picture is of a life simple and con
tented within itself.—Century.
Mortality ol Physicians.
Dr. Cortright, in the Brooklyn
Medical Journal, has written a papei
on the "Mortality and Causes of Death
in Medical Men." This pnper is based
on the records of 459 physicians who
died in New York and Brooklyn
during tho past eight years. The
average age ol death was 54.6 years,
and the mortality was about 25.23 ae
compared with a mortality of 15.93 iu
clergymen nud 20.23 in lawyers.
There is a considerable mortality from
the self-administration of drugs; that
from consumption is about half the
general rate, while that from typhoid
lover is very high. There is a high
death rate duo to arterial sclerosis and
other degenerative changes.
The practical conclusion deducted
from Dr. Cortright's statistics, says
the Medical Journal, is that doctors
should take at least three weeks' com
ploto rest aud change yearly, should
be extremely moderate in the use of
stimulants, should be regular in their
meals, never worry and never hurry.
This is the kind of advice that doctors
give, but do not take. The further
suggestion, however, that they all join
some medical sickness and life nssur
auce society, is a wise one.—Medical
Record.
An Elcclric Car Regulation.
Electrio street car companies in Ta
coma, Wash., are to be required tore
pnir all damages to water pipes causod
by electrolysis. In repaying ono of
the principal avenues of the city,
along which runs an electric car line,
it was found that rnoro than one-half
of the surface and connection pipes,
running from the water main to build
ings, had been so eaten away by the
electric current grounded through
the rails as to be useless. The (pipes
were replaced by the oity at a cost of
more than $lOOO. All franchises
hereafter granted will oontain a olause
that tho company shall repair damage
thus eaused, —New Yvrk suu>
AFTER A SLEEP.
Night—and the strong will stiflod,
Night—and tho fancy waned,
Night—and tho memory beggared,
Night—and the spirit drained
Liko a stream with driftwood encumbered,
O'er a dumb and frozen land;
Liko a flower that pales in the shadow,
A bird that swoons in the hand!
Ilorn—and the faint will strengthened *™ ,
Morn—and tho fancy glows,
Morn—and tho memory rich-laden,
Morn—and the spirit flows
Liko a bird with a carol upmounting,
_ Like a luud in the showers of spring,
Like a flower in the sunlight smiling,
Like a slream when the floodgates swing!
—Edith M. Thomas, in Ladies' Home Journal
JIUMOR OK THE DAY.
Girls and billiard balls kiss each
other with just about the same amount,
of real feeling.—Truth.
With all his experience the barber
had to employ another muu to shinglo
his roof.—Boston Transcript.
"Dootor, I work like an ox, eat liko
a bear, and am as tired as a dog."
"Consult a veterinary surgeou.New
York Times.
If it is true that women marry
through motives of curiosity, as the
men allege, why do so many oi them,
marry tho second time?—Atchison
Globe.
"What! nothing but veal with green
peas on the bill of fare." "Pardon;
by looking again you will find also
veal without greeu peas."—Journal
Amusant.
"There is nothing like our Houso of
Lords," boasted the Englishman.
"Still you can'! say that it iB without
a peer." replied the American.—Pitta
burg Ohroniole-Telegraph.
"Is this a fast train?" asked the
traveling man of the porter. "Of
course it 13," was the reply. "I
thought so. Would you mind my
getting out to see what it is fast to?"
—Tit-Bits.
"How did you get Boroiy out o(
your whist olub—did you nslt him to
resign?" "No; we didn't like to do
that; but we all resigned except Bore
ly, and then we all got togotber and
formed a new olab,"—Harper's Ba
zar.
"Taking one thing with another,"
mused the burglar, adding the sleep
er's watoh and jewelry with the stock
of miscellaneous plunder already in
his oapaoious pocket, "business ill my
line is pretty good to-night."—Chioa
go Tribune.
Mr. Crusher—"You don't think tho
young man you are engaged to will bo
jealous of me, because 1 am paying
you attention, do you?" Miss Daisy
(after looking him over deliberately)
"No. I don't think there is any
danger that ho will."—Somcrvilla
Journal.
Willing to Wake Up: "Wake up,
little girl," said a Bellotield mamma to
her small daughter. Tho latter opened
her eyes slowly, and then replied:
"Well, I supposa I might as well.
There's nothing very interesting going
on in dreamland."—Pittsburg Chron
icle-Telegraph.
Wile—"l mentioned to dear Kittie,
in my letter, about the dear Duchess
calling upon us, and how sweet she
was!" Husband—"l suppose you did
not say that her Grace called for a
chority subscription?" Wife —"Well,
no. I did not think that hounded in
teresting. " —Fun.
Not a hundred miles from St. Paul's
there is suspended over a pile of dusty
volumes iu a second-hand booksoller's
shop a chart showing the human skele
ton, and underneath the following:
"This is all that remains of the trades
man whose customers only looked."—
Household Words.
"X don't tUink it's fair, Jo3iah,"
said Mrs. Clingwater, us the attendants
bathe.l her sprained ankle with sooth
ing lotions and wrapped bandages
about it. "you're the one that always
carries the accident insurance policies
and I'm the ono that's always getting
hurt!"— Chicago Tribune.
She—"No, Ned, it wouldn't bo ju
dicious for us to marry until after you
have had your Balary increased." Ho
(pleadingly)—" But two can livo
cheaper than one, you know, Nellie."
She—"Yes, I know ; that's what peo
ple say. As a matter of fact, they
have to."—Somerville Journal.
Arliona Oranges.
Yesterday the first Arizona oranges
of the new crop went on to Chicago.
The shipment was from a grove of the
Arizona Improvement Oompnuy, and
comprised several boxes of Washing
ton navels, sweet, juicy, well ripened
and nearly fully colored, large in
size, plump and without a sign of rust
or scale. It was a shipment to bo
proud of, and back East will without
doubt crente a sensation among those
who heretofore have waited till Febru
ary to get the first oranges of the new
California crop.
Yesterday seemed to bo general
orange day along the street, and ripe
navels were to be seen in a number of
offices. It was evident that Sunday
had been made the time for an inspec
tion of many orange groves and the
result showed that the crop this year
is over a week earlier than heretofore
known in this valley.
The crop will bo a heavy one. Of
the 1200 acres or moro planted in the
Salt River Valley several hundred are
now in good bearing and the crop, for
the first time, will be a matter of com
mercial importance.—Arizona Repub
lican.
A Great Detective,
Vidocq, the great French detective,
had so excellent a memory for names
and faces thnt after having seen a
criminal once and learned his name,
lie never forgot him, but would often
identify him under tho most subtly
Uisguisys, —iig Figure,