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A Little (iirl' Story.
To take her nap, I put my doll
In grandpa's garden chair.
The robins fouuc her rignt away,
And tried to steal her huir.
They pulled so hard she sat right up,
opened wide her eyes.
Those foolish tilings supposed 'twas me,
And bopped off in surprise.
And then it was I found their nest:
Tlloy were so droll, you see,
As up they flew, and down they flew,
Glancing sideways at mo.
But now they know nie very well,
And eat the food I bring.
"Cheer up! Cheer up! Cheer up! Chee,
cbee!"
Is what they say and sing.
—Christian Register.
The Woodchuck.
H. D. Reed and Verne Morton, in
country Life in America, tell an inter
esting and pictorial story of the wood
ehuek, or ground hog.
"Perhaps no wild mammal," says
Mr. Reed, "is more familiar to coun
try people that the woodchuck. Every
nillside and meadow is dotted with
the small piles of earth which mark
the doorway to his home. The wood
chuck prefers a hillside or a knoll iu
which to dig his hole, for here he can
easily make the end of his den higher
than the beginning, thus avoiding the
danger of being drowned out.
"What could be more unlike in gen
eral appearance than a woodchuck and
a squirrel? Yet they are cousins, both
beiong to the same family of milmmals.
The trim body, sharp claws and agility
of the squirrels make it possible for
them to lead an arboreal life, jumping
recklessly from branch to branch,
while the flabby form and short legs
of the woodchuck better adapt him for
digging than for running or climbing.
"The nature of the food of the wood
chuck is such that he cannot lay up
stores as the chipmunks do, nor is it
of such a kind that it can be obtained
during the winter. The case of this
creature during the winter seems to
he, therefore, one of sleep long and
soundly or starve. During the win
ter's sleep or hibernation, life pro
cesses go on very slowly. Breathing s
reduced, and the heart beats become so
slow and feeble that they cannot be
felt. They come from their winter's
sleep about the first of March, in New
York.
"flow Klrphnnt Souls I.ivo.
Those curious animals the elephant
seals, also known as sea elephants,
have been recently studied by Profes
sor C. Chun, a German scientist, as
well as by Robert Hall, a well known
naturalist, and as a result many new
lacts have been gathered in regard to
their life and habits.
These seals are only to be found in
the southern seas, and mainly in the
vicinity of the Kergueles islands,
where they go in August for the pur
pose of pairing. They remain there
until February or March. During the
winter they arc very dull and apathet
ic, but as spring approaches they be
come more lively. Mr. Hall says that
he went several times through a herd
of 40 or 50 animals while they were
dozing, and only a few were disturbed
by him.
These seals live In communities, and
In a single bay may often be seen from
sto 10 colonies. Hitherto it has been
supposed that there is never more than
one male in a single herd, but there
now seems to be abundant proof that
each herd contains scais of only on.e
sex. Thus, in one bay there will re
Ave or six herds of males, and In an
other Ave or six herds of females.
Professor Chun, who has studied the
seals thoroughly in their native haunts,
says that for a long time after the
animals return to the Kergueles in
the autumn they do not take any food
but remain torpid in beds which they
form until they have shod their old
hair and put on a new coat. During
the winter he saw several seals killed,
and not a particle of food was found
in their stomachs.
Mr. Hall, on the other hand, says
that the seals during tills period feed
once a day, going down to the water
to obtain a supply of fish. In any case,
It is certain that these animals ran live
without food tor a long time, since they
have under their skin a layer of fat
which Is 15 centimetres in thickness.
(low the leaver lie* In Winter.
"The beaver is really a sort of port
able pulp mill, grinding up most any
kind of wood that comes his way. I
J once measured a white birch tree, 22
* inches through, cut down by a beav
er. A single beaver, generally, if not
always, amputates the tree, and when
It comes down the whole family fall
to and have a regular frolic with tho
hark and branches. A big beaver will
bring down a fair sized sapling—say
three inches through—in about two
minutes, and a large tree in about an
hour.
"One of the queerest facts about the
beaver is the rapidity with which his
long, chisel shaped teeth recover from
an Injury. I have known beavers to
break their teeth in biting a trap,
and when I caught them again 10 days
afterward you couldn't see a sign of
the break —the teeth had grown out to
their former perfection in that short
period.
"As compared with the otter or mlnlt
the beaver is a very slow swimmer. His
front legs hang by his sides, and he
uses omy his webbed hind feet for
J purposes of swimming. It Is easy
* to capture one in a canoe if you can
And him In shoal water. He Is a most
determined fighter, but clumsy and
*
easy to handle. If he could get hold
of you with his teeth he would almost
take a leg off, so you want to watch
him sharply. The place to grab him
is by the tail.
"The ability of a beaver to remain
under water for a long time is really
not so tough a problem as it looks.
When the lake or pond is frozen over
a beaver will come to the under sur
face of the ice and expel his breath,
so that it will form a wide, flat bub
ble. The air, coming in contact with
the ice and water, is purified, and the
beaver breathes it again. This opera
tion he can repeat several times The
otter and muskrat do the same thing.
"It almost takes a burglar proof safe
to hold a newly captured beaver. I
once caught an old one and two kit
tens up the north branch of the Sou-
West, put them in a barrel and brought
them down to Miramichi lake. That
night she knawed a hole through the
barrel and cleared out, leaving her kit
tens. They were so young that 1 had
no way of feeding them, so I released
them. Soon after that I caught a big
male beaver. I made a large log pen
for hiin of dry spruce, but the second
night he cut a log and disappeared.
"Beavers, when alarmed, generally
make up stream, so I went to the brook
where a little branch came in, and 1
thought I would go up that a little
way, and I hadn't gone more than 10
rods before I came across my lad sit
ting up in the bed of the brook hav
ing a lunch on a stick he had cut. He
actually looked as if he knew he was
playing truant when he caught sight
of roe out of the side of his eye.
"I picked him up by the tail, brought
u.m back, put him in the pen, supplied
him with plenty of fresh poplar, and
he seemed as tame as possible and
never gave me any more trouble. I
brought him out to Stanley, where he
lived a long time. Turnbull had a
mongrel dog, which was jealous of
the beaver, and one day attacked him.
He did that only once, for the beaver
nipped the dog's tail off auicker'n a
cat would catch a mouse."—Rod and
Gun.
The Discontented Geese.
Once upon a time a flock of wild
geese started outtoseethesiglits. They
were led by an old goose who, no doubt
thought she was very wise.. As if any
body ever did see a wise goo3e.
"I'm going out," she said, "to see
more of the world. We really know
nothing of what is going on outside
of this pond. Don't you find it very
dull? Only lust week a swallow
pausing in his flight to have a bit of
conversation with me, told of the won
derful things to be seen. If you care
to come along," she added, "I shall
take you with me."
Now, to tell the truth, this youug
geese, one and all, were perfectly de
lighted at the proposition (because that
dangerous little Beed of discontent had
already taken root).
Such a cackle as they set up Cackle!
cackle! cackle! cackle!. So they flew
away over brown marshes and green
meadows, over rivulets and streams,
until they came to such a lovely place
where there were beautiful flowers
and trees. There were rustic bridges
spanning limpid streams, and last, but
not least, a beautiful pond.
"How lovely!" ihey exclaimed in one
breath. "I wonder where we are," said
one little goose.
"This." said their leader with an air
of importance, '"is Central Park. My
friend, the swallow, told me all about
it."
Anu sure enough, it was Central
Park, down by the duck pond, where,
no doubt, you have walked many and
many a time.
"The ducks and geese you see swim
ming about," said the old goose, "are
tame. How beautifully they behave.
It all depends," quoth she, "on one's
bringing up. Hush, my dears," as the
young geese, one and all, began to
cackle. "Don't be rude! Let me. I beg
of you. speak to our friends."
The tame geese, however, were not
in the least inclined to be sociable.
They glided about majestically, quite
Ignoring the presence of the intruders.
"See that pretty little house over
there?" said the little goose. "Can it
he possible that it has been built for
our accommodation?"
How absurd this was. Of course
your mamma has a room set apart as
a guest chamber, and theso ridiculous
little geese thought the duck house had
been especially built for them, just
like invited guests, you know.
"To be sure," said the old goose,
shaking the water from her back, "my
friend, Mr. Swallow, must have told
them we were coming." She waddled
over, followed by the entire flock.
Hardly had they entered the duck
house when they heard a click. The
spring door closed with a snap and
lo! they were prisoners Just then the
keeper came out. "Heigh-ho!" ex
claimed he; "what's this? A flock of
wild geese, on my life. Come here,
Bill (to a great, sturdy fellow near by).
Here is work for you to do. Clip the
wings of these geese as once." The
man went to work and did as he was
told, clipping all their wings, while a
big park policeman looked on and
laughed.
The geese were then let out on the
pond to swim about majestically like
their neighbors. Oh! how they longed
to fly home. Never before did freedom
seem so dear to them.
"Why didn't you tell us," said the
little goose in tone of reproach to one
of her new found iriends, "that we
were going to have our wings clipped?'
"Because," replied her companion,
"you wouldn't have believed us; and
alter all, my dear, experience is the
very best teacher."—New Idea Maga
zine.
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LICHTNING RODS.
A Recent Discussion of Tlislr Value by
English lOngineei s.
At the annual meeting of the Brit
ish Association for the Advancement
of Science in Glasgow last month, the
engineering section listened to a paper
on lightning rods contributed by Kil
lingworth Hedges. He described the
rods in use on St. Paul's ei.thedral in
Ixmdon, which, though erected less
than 30 years ago, had been found to
be defective. He had himself planned
the rearrangement and also one for
Westminster abbey. The conditions
prevailing in big cities are somewhat
different from those in rural districts,
perhaps, but the fact that experts still
consider lightning rods are necessary
in the one justifies faith in their utili
ty in the other, especially if rightly
constructed.
Mr. Hedges said that on St. Paul' 3
cathedral the number of ordinary con
ductors from air to earth had been
greatly increased; and, besides these,
horizontal cables were run on the
ridges of the roofs and in other prom
inent positions so as to encircle the
building, being interconnected to the
vertical conductors wherever they
cross one another. The horizontal ca
bles were furnished at intervals with
aigrettes, or spikes, which were invisi
ble from the ground level, and de
signed to give many points of dis
charge. At the same time they, in
conjunction with the cables, should re
ceive any side flash which might oc
cur should any portion of the building
receive a direct stroke of lightning.
The unreliability of soldered points for
conductors, whether of cable or tape,
led the author to design a special joint
box. Owing to the difficulty of sinking
an earth plate of sufficient area, on ac
count of old foundations at St. Paul's,
a tubular earth had been designed.
He had recommended keeping the
conductor away from the building,be
cause that was the plan followed on
the continent, where lightning storms
were much more frequent than in Eng
land. It was very difficult, iu follow
ing the shape of the building, to avoid
corners and sharp turns, which would
prevent the current from following the
conductor, in a case in which a chim
ney had been struck at Wallsend, the
lightning went to the chimney first,
then to the conductor, and after that
back again to the chimney, knocking
part of it down. Ho had preferred
round rods to flat strips on the author
ity of Dr. Oliver Lodge; and agreed
that architects might get puzzled if
first one thing were recommended and
then another. He would, however,
prefer not to lay down any rules as
absolutely dpfinite until more results
were brought in from various persons
who were making observations all over
the country, it was in order to get
these data that the lightning commit
tee had been constituted.
Harbor's Fashion I'luto*.
Barbers, like tailors, have fashion
plates, and in various suburban shops
the latest plates upon the ways to
wear the hair are now pasted up. The
October plate devotes itself to six
styles, the legal, the medical, the
French, the professor, the student and
the business man. The pictures are
Interesting. The legal style shows a
smooth shaven young man with his
hair cut very short and parted and
brushed n in a smooth, lustrous wing
over either temple. The medical pic
ture is of a foolish looking person with
an immense nose and with light hair
parted on the side and brushed far
back off the brow. The French shows
I a youth with his hair a mass of small
corkscrew curls. The student has long
I hair, parted in the middle and
I smoothed down almost to his eye
j brows. The professor has what is
i called a round cut, his locks, that is
to say, end at a certain point on his
neck in a rounded mass, and beneath
this mass the shaved neclc of the pro
fessor looks very white and clean.
The business man, according to the
fashion plate, wears his hair short at
the back and sides and long on the
top of his head, and his parting is
in the middle, this arrangement mak
ing a kind of scallop or double semi
circle of hair upon his forehead. "What
kind of a cut will you have, sir?" the
suburban barbers now say. "Shall it
be medical, legal, student, French or
what?" And they point with their
' combs at the fashion plate and wait
' blandly for the customer's reply.—
I Philadelphia Record.
Old for Gun A.
As the use of artillery became more
common and the advantages of porta
bility and a greater rapidity of fire
were recognized, guns, except among
the Orientals, became smaller, but of
better workmanship and construction.
Inventors began to try their hands
at all sorts of improvements or at
tempts at improvement, and in the
course of a hundred years or so the
number of different pieces of cannon,
large and small, muzzle or breech load
ing, was simply legion. There were
cannon, cannon royal, and deini can
non, three or four classes of culverins,
bombards, mortars, perriers, serpen
tines, earthouns, curtails, passevo
lants or zebratanas, basilisks, orgues,
sakers, minions, mojanes, falcons and
falconets, robinets, fowlers, bases,
slings, port-pieces, murderers, drakes,
aspics, double dogs and lagtors, to say
nothing of ribad / tins, flying dragons
and partridge mortars.—Gentleman's
Magazine.
A Grpt MUtnkfl,
The late Lord Morris did not gain a
very favorable impression of the house
of lords xnui he made his first speech
rhcre. When asked how he had got on,
he replied: "Well, I made wan mis
take. I should have practised spakin'
to a lot of gravestones before I ad
dressed tlielr lordh'ps."
Civilization of the Crowa.
The Crow Indians, once the terror
of the plains, are now scheduled as
among the most Industrious and pros
perous Indians in the country. There
are about two thousand of them on
the Crow reservation in Montana, and
they have been reported at Washing
ton as "self-sustaining." There are
gradations of worthlessness even
among the savages, and the Crows
were more energetic in their wild life
than were many of the other tribes,
and especially those of the Const.
It is not surprising, therefore, that
they are more energetic in semi-civil
ized life than the others and are ready
sooner to dispense with government
rations.
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(From the Cardiff Times.)
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