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GREAT FAMILIES FALL.

Degenerate Sons Sootier or Later Ruin Them.

Lithuanian Trine* Who Died Alinoat a Pauper—How Noble Kuropean Houses Have Been Dragged Down—Descendant of a King Becomes a Walter.

In tho little village of Grodno, Lithuania, there died a few weeks ago tho bearer of one of the proudest names in eastern European history, says the Jsew York Tribune, lie was an ordinary ph' slcian, and went his daily rounds among the village Bick, collecting with the greatest difficulty enough money to support his aged wife. It was Prince Ignaz .Tagello, believed by many to be the last scion of the royal Jagello family, which once ruled in Lithuania. Ity tho victory of Tammenberg, in 1410, tho founder of the family broke tho power of tho "German Order." The difference between the simple life of this "Dr. Rezio" and the magnificence of his ancestors led a German writer recently to collect a number of instances of the degradation of tho descendants of onco famous and powerful families. 'In Grosswarddein, Hungary," he writes, "died recently a modest and industrious clerk, Johnann Szabo, who had passed his life in semi-poverty. Few who followed him to tho grave knew that his real namo was one of tho highest and greatest in Frenek history. The aged Szabo was a grandson of Marquis Chabaud Rohan, who immigrated into Hungary after the French revolution. The old gentleman taught languages in the Wenckheiin house, adjusted himself to his changed condition, married and gave the name Szabo to his descendants. When it was learned that a Rohan had died in France leaving an immense fortune, they came forward and proved they were genuine Rohans. But the recognition of their claims was useless, as they had not been remembered by the testator. The old Szabo continued to work as a poor clerk to his death, and no one can say that he ever dishonored tho famous noble family to which he belonged. That was left for another scion of the race, Prince Benjamin Rohan, who was sentenced to prison in Paris two years ago and subjected to a fine of two thousand francs. "The last Borgia came to his end a short time ago at Guigl, near Salzburg, lie was Baron Calisto von Borgia, whose father lost his fortune through tho Austrian government in 1887, and lived later in Salz*burg, as an employe of a tobacco house. The younger baron was employed for a short time in the office of a lawyer and became later a photographer, living for twenty years in Germany. A long sickness impoverished him, and his widow lives from the alms of others. "On board of a steamer going from Bordeaux to the Thames in 1880, just as the vessel came in sight of the English coast, an old man, apparently poverty stricken, ended his days. Ho called himself Charles Edward Stuart, count of Albany, lie was, in fact, the last descendant of the pretender, Charles Edward, and his wife, Princess

Louise Stolberg. "Leon de Luzlgnana, prince of Korlcoss, a descendant of tho Armenian kings, died in I taly in 1876, in the most abject poverty. He had served in the French army until 1859, and was wounded at Solferino. Napoleon III. granted him a pension, which, however, was not paid after the fall of the empire. "The famous family of Mont-Moroncy, related to tlie Lusignans," adds the writer, "has sunk so far that a MontMorency is a farm servant in the neighborhood of Paris. A descendant of the Valois family is a letter-carrier in Saint-Chamas a Marquis de Fallique is an omnibus guard, a SaintMegrin is a cab driver, a Count Charles de Busserolle is a floor cleaner in Ruffec and a De la Bourdarfiere is a washerwoman. "Only a short time ago a minister in the village of West Bromwick, Yorkshire, discovered possibly the last Plantagenet in a small boy-of-all-work. His father was a chimneysweep, and, despite the family tree in his possession, had shortened the name into Plant to escape being teased by his comrades. A Tudor died in Wales in the thirties as a poor coppersmith. "The fall of the great German noble family of Von Sickingen is also interesting. In the churchyard of the little village of Yorch, near Sauerthal, is the grave of the last malo descendant of Franz von Sickingen, who once bade defiance to a German emperor and made France fear. Ho died, after wasting his property, in 1884, in the hut of a peasant who had given him shelter from pity. "As the Paris Figaro recently told its readers, a Princess Galltzin works as a stable girl in a French circus a Prince Krapotchin is a cab driver in Moscow a Prince Soltikoff is a laborer in a St. Petersburg market Prinoess Pignatelll is a music hall singer and Countess Olosy is a circus rider.

Taking to Bid Language.

If in ye olden days milady "swore her prett.v oath by yea and nay," tho modern dame of fashion, with the frankness of her world and period, uses the "big, big D" quite openly. Smoking seems to be an accepted fact among the young married women belonging to the smartest set in New York, and according to the Tribune swearing 1B the latest development. It is no uncommon thing of late to hear pretty women use among their intimates very strong language indeed. Curiously enough, however, and fortunately, too, for the general good, these little indulgences are confined to the "vie intime" of the inner circle, while to society at large the modern woman of the world is a model of cold propiety. There has grown up in London—and of course New York has adopted this latest innovation—a latitude of speech and action among the truly initiated of a certain set that is somewhat appalling to those who hold the old-fashioned standard of what a lady may and may not do.

A MUD VOLCANO.

Th. Natural Curiosity of the Island at Sumatra. There are many mud volcanoes scattered throughout the world, but there are few whose action is so regular and •o characteristic as that of Dempo in the island of Sumatra. This volcano, about ten thousand feet in height, was visited by Henry O. Forbes a few years ago, and is described in his "Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago." After a breathless climb he had gained the rim of the crater, from which he looked down some three hundred feet of precipitous rook to what see] white- oolUhwd mlrjvr «Bt

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basin. From this basin was slowly rising a column of steam. All was quiet and placid, and I sat down a little while to take in the details of a scene so novel a vast circular basin half a mile in diameter, with rocky sides of sheer precipices, displaying at various places horizontal strata at the bottom of this another smaller basin, Bome two hundred feet in diameter, filled to within about thirty or forty feet of its rim with a smoking substance, whose surface, like burnished silver, reflected the blue sky and every passing cloud.

We had sat thus for perhaps ten or twelve minutes, when I noted that the center of tho wbito basin had become intensely black, and was scored with d^rk" streaks. This area gradually increased. By steady scrutiny with my glass, for it was difficult to make out what was slowly and silently taking place, I at last discovered that the blackness marked the sides of a chasm that had formed in—what I now perceived the white burnished mirror to be—a lake of seething mud.

The blackness increased. The lake was being engulfed I A few minutes later a dull, sullen roar was heard, and I had

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myself whence it proceeded when the whole lake heaved, and rose in the air for some hundreds of feet, not as if violently ejected, but with calm, majestic upheaval, and then fell baok on itself with an awesome roar, which reverberated round and round the vast caldron, and echoed from rocky wall to rocky wall like the surge of an angry sea and the immense volume of steam, let loose from its prison house, dissipated itself into the air.

The wave circles died away on the margin of the lake, which resumed its burnished face and again reflected the blue sky and silenue reigned again until the geyser had gathered force for another expiration.

The roar of the coming explosion was so awesome that my porters, who had never been to the top before, looked the picture of terror, and when the lake rose, they took to their heels and fled in a body.

Thus all day long the lake was swallowed up and vomited forth once in every fifteen or twenty minutes. That it was not always so quiet even as now the stones on the Sawali and the scoria on the sides of the cone testified. Once in about every three years, the natives told me, the crops of coffee,bananas and rloe were quite destroyed by "sulphur rain," whioh covered everything for miles round the crater.

SLAVES OF THE COOK.

New York Society People Unable to Dlae at Home on Sundays. Cooks have their rights as well as other people, and that is the one reason why the restaurants of New York are crowded every Sunday night by people who have numerous servants, including capable cooks. It was a custom for many years, nobody knows exactly why, says the New York Sun, to eat a heavy dinner in the middle of tho day on Sunday. During the prevalence of this custom the cooks made it a point to take Sunday night off, and that point has now become a prerogative. Men who dine six days in the week at seven are invariably overloaded and uncomfortable when they dine in the middle of the day on Sunday. The effort to have Sunday night dinner at seven o'clock has resulted in a flat and indubitable failure wherever attempted by householders, and so the knot has been cut by allowing the cook to have her regular Sunday night off, while the master of the house and his wife go to a restaurant and the ohlldren scurry about for themseles. If a stranger in Now York Is anxious to see the heavy weight financial, commercial,legal and other professional men of New York city at dinner with their wives he should visit Delmonico's, the Brunswick, tho Savoy, Waldorf or New Netherlands hotel any.Sunday night at about seven o'clock. It is a curiouB phase of New York life. Famous men of every conceivable walk of life dine out at these places. The general public is familiar with their faces, but not with those of their wives. There is often a very strong contrast, as, for instance, a small, famous lawyer and his ponderous, domineering wifo, who tips the beam at two hundred and fifty pounds and bullies the waiter a famous statesman, whoso wife is palpably jealous- at his slightest glance at his neighbors an eminent judge of sixty and his flirtatious wife of twenty, and so on interminably.

An Karly Account.

The following extract from the World Encompassed more especially bears upon the points covered In the inscription, giving an account of the service held and making record of the words of the very early American missionary prayer: "Our generall, with his companie, in the presence of those strangers, fell to prayers and by signcs, in lifting up our eyes and hands to Heaven, signified unto them that that God, whom we did serve, and whom they ought to worship, was above beseeching God, if it were Ilia good pleasure, to open by some mcanes their blinded eyes, that they might in duo time be called to the knowledge of Him, the true and ever-living God, and of Jesus Christ, whom He hath sent, the salvation of the Gentiles. In the time of which prayers, singing of Psalmcs, and reading of certaine chapters of thn Bible, they sate very attentively."

A Lawyer's Belf-Possession. It is told of nenry W. Paine, the Boston lawyer, who recently died in that city and who more than once refused a seat on the Massachusetts supremo court bench, that while lie was arguing a case one day before Chief Justice Gray the latter interrupted the course of tho argument with the impatient remark: "Mr. Paine, you know that is not law." The nature and manner of the interruption were of a kind to throw even the most self-possessed advocate off his balance. Mr. I'aine, however, without any outward imini testation of annoyance or embarrassment, replied with simple dignity: "It was law until your honor spoke," and proceeded with his argument.

Summer Complaint.

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THE SOLDIER NUN.

A Rt. mark able Instance of Feminine Courage.

Disguised In Doublet and llosc the Young Spanish Maiden Meets aud Vanqulshes a Man In

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A famous heroine in her way was Catalina de Erauso, still remembered vaguely as the "Spanish soldier nun." She left memoirs which have been translated or summarized or "romancificd" In m9St European tongues. The truth of them has been disputed, but tho writer points out that, upon the other hand, popes and kings, nobles and servants accepted every word while evidence remained to support or question the statements, says the Philadelphia Telegraph.

Catalina ran away from a nunnery in San Sebastian at the age of fifteen, transformed her conventual habiliments into doublets and hose, and found employment as a page in the household of a noble at Valladolid. Driven from this refuge by the appearanco of her father—who had no suspicion, nevertheless—she joined an expedition sailing for Peru under charge of Ferdinand do Cordova. Iler ship was wrecked off Pita and she alono refused to desert the captain, who stood by his vessel. Catalina then built a little raft, broke open the treasure chest, took as much gold as sho could carry and set off for the shore, but tho captain was drowned embarking. Sho reached tho town and accepted an engagement as manager to the tailor who made her new clothes. Complications of business and passion—for a great lady fell In love at sight—led to a first duel, in which sho killed her man promptly. The great lady smuggled her out of prison, but Catalina found it necessary to repay this service by pushing tho dame downstairs, probably breaking her neck. Then she jumped into a boat, put to sea, and was picked up by a Spanish vessel bound for Conception.

At this place her brother was secretary to the governor, and he, all unconscious of the relationship, got her a commission in the army. Very soon afterward she distinguished herself In an engagement, and for twelve years ranked as one of the most brilliant officers of tho Spanish service—living mostly with her brother, but keeping the secret. This happy time came to an end in a midnight duel, when she killed a man unknown, who proved to bo this same brother. Flying for life onco more. Catalina crossed the Andes. All her companions perished, but she reached Tucuinan after terrible adventures. Another love affair, nil on one Bide, and another fatal duel brought her literally to the gallows, but with the rope around her neck she escaped. Traveling on to Cuzco, she joined an Alcalde with a pretty wife and a gentleman, his friends. In a very few days Catalina perceived that these two had an understanding. The Alcalde perceived it also and took an opportunity to murder his faithless friend. Ue would have murdered his wife, but Catalina snatched her to the saddle aud rodo furiously for Cuzco. The

Alcalde pursuing-, she ran him through, but received a desperate wound, The fugitives got safely to the bishop's palaeo. Catalina knew, however, that her secret must be discovered now. She had just strength enough to reveal it to the bishop before fainting. Tho worthy man reported the whole story to the king, who sent orders that Catalina should be dispatched by the next ship. All Spain declared for the heroine. At her arrival Count Olivarezhimself, tho prime minister, met her the king kissed her the pope sent for and forgave her and Velasquez painted her portrait.

HAD THE VINEGAR HABIT.

Woman's Vanity Ultimately Cost IJer Life by Slow Poison. "I once had a patient," said a Rochester (N. Y.) pliysican to a St. Louis reporter, "who poisoned herself with vinegar. "I was never a burning and shining light in the medical profession, and hence it 1B not surprising that tho case baffled my investigation for a year, though I have the consolation of knowing that four eminent physicians who were called In for consultation attributed the lady's evident breaking up to four different causes, none of them remotely connected with tho real one. The'chief symptom was lassitude and deathly whiteness, and the lady, who had no other companion but an Ignorant, though faithful, colored attendant, finally died before reaching nor thirtieth year. "Subsequent investigation proved that she was a vinegar fiend, and that, while refusing food of overy description, she was drinking la-fe'c quantities oi vinegar. As the habit grow upon her she scoured stronger grades, until finally she was drinking acetic acid but very slightly diluted. There are oases on rooord of persons who have beon poisoned by overdoses of vinegar, taken to improvo the complexion, but this Is the only case I ever heard of anyo&e acquiring a vinegar habit and lursuing it steadily until it caused eath."

Orowtng Land.

Enterprising men have a way of growing land along tho marshy shores of Delaware bay. The plan is to cut tho dikes and let the tide rise and fall for a course of years over a considerable area Including some upland. It is found after awhile that the dlkos may bo removed considerably out toward tho low tide lino, and that many acres of arable land have been gained at small cost. Marsh companies usually exist for the purposo of cooperation in such work, and there arc many quarrels over the land of men that refuse to join the company in making a temparary sacrifice of upland for the purpose of reclaiming submerged marsh. Tho land thus reclaimed is extremely fertile, but it usually yields a crop of malarial fevers when first brought unler cultivation.

BATS AND FLYING FOXES.

Souse Curious Physiological Facts About These Creatures. Tho bat's weakness as well as its strength lies in its wings. If the delicate finger bones, which stretch tho membranelike umbrella ribs, or tho membrane Itself, be damaged, the animal is disabled. Indeed, says Chambers' Journal, a method of capturing bats practiced by the inhabitants of some of the( South Sea islands shows

that the wily savage has appreciated this. Armed with a thorny bush on the end of a long bamboo, he stealttaUjr approaches a flying Jfox, which ha*

settled lo Teed on a fruil tree, wlicn a dexterous blow will tear the bat's skinny wing and bring it to the ground, an acceptable addition to the hunter's commissariat.

The flying foxes are relished as food by the Inhabitants of tho countries where they are found and certainly a creatuiu which lives on fruit ought to be good eating. Their heads are wonderfully like that of a miniature fox, and their large eyes suggest that they 11 nd their way by sight, of which sense the small insectivorous bats would seem to be almost independent, as blinded specimens, in the experiments of Spallanzanl, proved to bo able to avoid obstacles to their flight as easily as those which could 6ee.

This power bats owe to their highlydeveloped sense of touch, the large sensitive surface offered to the atmosphere by the broad naked wings enabling them to perccive an object before they touch it, probably by the difference in the resistance of tho air. And the huge ears and complicated nose appendages found in so many insectivorous species also subserve the purpose of guidance, though they certainly do not add to the animal's appearance, tho facial aspect of some bats being past description hideous, while they arc just as offensive to the nose as to the eye.

A TIGRESS SPARES A DOG.

She Refrains from Katlng film as She Had His Fellows. During Capt. White's travels In Cochin China the then viceroy gave him a magnificent tigress five feet long and three feet high, says the Washington Post.

On reaching Saigon, where he found dogs dirt cheap, lie used to give his pet one of these animals every day. The dog was thrown alive into her cage. Kho would play with it awhile as a cat plays with a mouse, then her eyes would begin to glisten and her tail to quiver she seized her prey by the neck, aud in a minute or two it was all up with poor "bow-wow."

One day, however, a puppy, seemingly in no way different from the common herd of puppies, instead of tamely submitting to his fate, showed fight. It snapped at the tigress' nose, and bit it till the blood came. The tigress, far from resenting the attack, seemed to treat it as a joke, and when the spirited little dog grew tired of the fun the tigress patted it as if it had been a cub of her own. Then tho two lay down sldo by side and had a comfortable nap.

Thenceforth they were the bast of friends, aud to humor this queer friendship Capt. White had a small hole cut in the tigress' cage, that the puppy might go and come as It pleased. It often took a trot abroad, but It always returned to its dog-devouring friend.

To test the extent of the tigress' affection, a strange dog was offered to it one day at dinner time, and was then hastily snatched from its hungry jaws and the puppy friend thrown Into the cage. But friendship triumphed over the pangs of hunger—and not on this occasion only, but whenever the captain's crew thought fit to repeat the experiment.

DIVIDED UP HER GARTER.

A Curious Cnremonlal Long Obeerved at Iloyal Weddings In Prussia. On the occasion of tho marriago of Princess Margaret to Prince Charles Frederick of Hesse the picturesque and historic garter dance, famous for generations, took place. Tho details of this ceremonial, as recounted In tho St. Louis Republic, are very curious. A field marshal, with his baton of commander In hand, advances, followed by all the ministers. Then oomes tho bridal party. After some preliminaries a double lino of dancers is formed, somewhat as in the Virginia reel, and the bride opens tho ball by dancing first with her husband and then with other members of tho royal family. Torches and Venetian lanternB borne by pages and soldiers illume this brilliant scene, while gay uniforms and the toilets of pretty women give tho final touch to the picture. When the bride lias finished dancing two noble ladies lead her into a corner and take off one of her garters, which is cut into small pieces and distributed among tho dancers. At the marriage of Princess Margaret the duchess of Cannaught and her grace tho landgrave of Hesse were charged with this delicate duty.

Samaritan Gulls.

"One bitterly cold day," said an old traveler, "we—a shipload of us—were lying at the wharf at Astoria. The river was frozen, and wo were waiting for the ice to break. Wo were perishing with ennui. That is how we got to watching tho crows. These poor things were dying of starvation and they could not resist the temptation to hover about the ship. They could not

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the food out of the water, but stood on the blocks of Ice and looked enviously down into the waves at the drifting bits of refuse. The poor black wretches could not stand still on the ice, or their feet would have frozen fast so they shifted from one leg to another in a manner which gave them the appearance of dancing. All about, with screams and flapping of wings, flew a flock of gulls, snatching the food from the water, and fighting in flerco goodfellowship. Soon we noticed a sort of understanding between tho black birds and tho white ones for while the sable birds pranced aud danced, tho sea-gulls surrounding them picked up bits of food and deposited them within reach of their starving neighbors."

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The Armenians are one of the most ancient races in tho world. Their country is mentioned by Xenaphon and E/.eltiel and in tho cuneiform inscriptions of Babylon and Assyria. All tho nations that surrounded them have passed away, but they remain, though their country has been harried with fire and sword for centuries. The permanence of the Armenian race has been ascribed to the virtue of their women and the exceptional purity and stability of their family life. Even in their heathen days polygamy was unknown to them. They have been a Christian nation for more than fifteen hundred years and have undergone perpetual persecution for their faith from 'lie surrounding oriental peoples.

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LICORICE HARVEST IN SYRIA.

Gathered In Backs and Carried on Camels to tho Seaboard for Kxport. In a series of articles describing the planting, cultivation, preparation for market and transplantation of licorice root, appearing in the Pharmaceutical Era, there Is tho following interesting descriptive bit: In digging licorice root in Syria the usual way is to start a trench the length of the place to be dug over, about two feet in length, and work from that, each man placing in a pile the root lie has dug. and at the end of tho day or longer time it is taken to the scales, weighed and paid for at a specified rate per pound. An allowance is always made for the dirt that clings to the roots. The root Is then spread out for few days to slightly drj- and piled In stacks about three feet wide and four or five feet high, rounded off at the top in order to shed rain, and the piles are narrow enough to prevent heating. At the end of the rainy season the root is spread out to dry for about two months, being turned over from time to time, during which process all the adhering earth dries and falls off, leaving it clean and reaily for transport to the point of shipment. It is then put into canvas sacks, each containing from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds, two sacks being a load f(ir a camel or a inulc.

For the transportation of 'lie root from the place where dug to the port of shipment, varying from two to five days' journey, a contract is usually made with some Arab or ltedouin sheik for a certain amount of can tars (of about five hundred pounds each) at a certain prico, he to furnish camels and men and the owner to furnish and fill th« sacks. About fifty eainels go in one caravan or drove, for which five men are sufficient. Sometimes, if one hundred camels are used, the caravan goes in sections one mini riding a donkey leads the first camel and the rest follow the leader, while the other men walk, keeping any camel from straying or lagging too far behind. They usually start early in the morning. and go ten or fifteen miles, when a halt is made, tho loads arc taken off and tho camels are allowed to browse on the thorn or other bushes for three or four hours, then loaded again and about the same distance traveled, when they arc again unloaded and the night Is spent in the open air and an early start made tho next morning. And so on until the seaboard is reached, where they aro unloaded, the root is weighed, tho sacks emptied and returned to bo again refilled in the fields for another trip. On the Euphrates and Tigris tho loot Is obtained near the banks of the rivers and, after being properly dried, is loaded in bulk on native boats called bugalows, carrying from fifty to one hundred tons, which float down the river or sail if the wind is favorable, or at times are towed by men as far down as Bassorah, where tho root is unloaded and pressed in bales ready for shipment.

AN INEXORABLE LAW.

Habit Is the Strongest iufluence of Our Lives. The warden of one of our state penitentiaries said to a visitor that almost tho first expression of dissatisfaction on the part of a new prisoner was called forth by the routine and monotony of prison life, says Youth's Companion.

Some men show intense feeling against it for the first few weeks of their confinement but after two or three years, it seems, in some cases, as if they could not do without it. The warden had known discharged prisoners to return and ask for work inside, just "to get back to the regularity of prison life."

Captains of seagoing vessels and officers of the army observe the same trait of human nature. The discipline, the inflexible routine, which are irksome to the raw recruit and to the sailor in his earlier voyages, obtain so firm a hold on their minds and habits that they prefer not to live outside of them. Jack goes back to his ship and tho soldier reenlists until each grows gray, or death takes them.

Some of Bonaparte's marshals, men of low birth, had learned in their youth vulgar tricks of the eye, the hand, grimaces and foolish laughter. Even the emperor, and his brothers aud sisters, were not guiltless of such habits. He could not rid them of these signs of childish vulgarity. They could not rid themselves of them. He could make them kings and queens, and they could handle their scepters right royally but old habits ruled them still.

A century ago John Vaux, a young man muking "the grand tour," wrote: "I was impatient to plunge Into the dissipation of Paris. I had not, however, counted on the hold which old habits had on me. They had been cleanly. Every act, word or familiar custom of my pure English life at home hold me now like an iron cord, could not plunge Into the foul depths. I wished to do it, but could not."

There aro few young men who do not wish to make their lives solid and enduring. Let them remember that this inexorable natural law is equally strong In good as in bad habits.

Every high, pure aim in his father or mother every honest, modest custom of a young man's home the cleanly life of his boyhood the prayers he learned the habits of reverence, of kind, unselfish action—these ure as so many stones in the rampart which shall defend him In middle age from storm and ruin.

Wild Fowls' Eggs on the Atlantic Coast Gathering wild fowls' eggs has long been a sport for boys living along the Atlantic coast of Maryland. The narrow reef that guards the eastern-shore counties is a famous breeding place for many kinds of aquatic fowl, and their nests are frequently invaded and wantonly destroyed. There is a sentiment

against the destruction of game birds' eggs the hundred and one varieties of inedible birds are protected by no 4»cl» sentiment.

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TWO IMPORTANT ANIMALS. TIJO Influence of tho Tlnrro nml the Shocp on Now Mexico 1,1 fe.

In "Tho Land of Poco Tlempo," by Charles Lummis, the author refers to the burro as a "devoluted donkey," and the "genius of the adobe." Tho burro works as New Spain works— faithfully but without friction. lie dreams, meanwhile, as New Spain dreams—ruminating on dignity and wisdom by the wall to the sun in winter, by the wall to tho shade in summer. "Here ho is net an ass," says Mr. Lummis, "hut a sage. Tho tatters of a myriad cockle-burs fray nothlsea.se—ho can afford rags. He is slow, but more sure 'than the end. "He humps his load up dizzy heights where a chamois might have vertigo. He rolls down a precipice a few hundred feet, alights upon his pack, and returns upon his way rejoicing, grateful for exercise without exertion. 'He likes life, and life likes him. I never saw a dead burro, save from undue. confidence in railways—which have been tho death of many worse citizens. He rouses now and then in tho dead watches of the night to sing about it. "The philosopher who has a few lifetimes to spare might well devote one to the study of the burro. He is au honorable member of the body social and politic. Indeed, he is the corner stone of New Mexico, Without him civilization would havo died out. He amides cheerfully in such burdens that one doubts if chemical analysis may not be necessary|to determine the presence of burro in the mass mid in such solution or at ease he is perfectly content. "As the burro is the spiritual type of the southwest, so is the slice]) the material symbol. Ho rendered the territory possible for three centuries, in the face of the most savage and Interminable Indian wars that any part of our country ever knew. He fed and clothed New Spain, und made its customs, If not Its laws. Ho reorganized society, led the fashions, caused the only machinery that was in New Mexico In three hundred years, made of a race of nomad savages tho foremost of blanket weavers. "Sheej) made commerce, too. There were no railroads, and hence no markets. Tho wool was of necessity consumed at home. In the cumbrous Mexican looms It grew into invincible carpets and perennial garments. It «as practically the only material to wear, save the Indian buckskin. Every Mexican woman wore a head-shawl, and every man a home-blanket, both woven."

THEY TUMBLE UPWARD.

Deep Sea Fish Faoo a Danger I'nKnown to Other Llvluff Thln^H. It is only reasonable to suppose that the ability to sustain an enormous pressure can only be acquired by animals after generations of gradual migrations from shallow waters, says a writer in Popular Science Monthly. Tlioso forms that aro brought up by the dredgo from the depths of tho ocean aro usually killed and distorted by tho enormous and rapid diminution of pressure in their journey to tho surface, and it is extremely probable that shallow water forms would bo similarly killed and crushed out of shape were they suddenly plunged into very deep water. The. fish that live at these enormous depths are, inconsequence of the enormous prossure, liable to a curious form of accident. If, in chasing their prey or for any other reason, they rise to a considerable distance above the. floor of the ocean, the gases of their swimming bladder become considerably expanded and their specific gravity very greatly reduced. Up to a ccrlain limit the muscles of their bodies can counteract the tendency to float upward and enable the fish to regain its proper sphere of life at the bottom but beyond that limit the muscles are not strong, enough to drive the body downward, and the fish, becoming more and more distended as it goes, is gradually killed on its long and involuntary journey to the surface of tho sea. Tho deep sea fish, then, are exposed to a danger that no other animals in tho world aro subject to—namely, that of tumbling upward. That such accidents do occasionally occur is evidenced by the fact that some fish, which aro now known to be true deep sea forms, were discovered dead and floating on the surface of the ocean long before our modern Investigations were commenced.

A Hlxtcenth-Century Samson. Louis de Boufllcrs, who lived in tho sixteenth century, could break a bar of iron with his hands. The strongest man could not take from him a ball which ho held between his thumb and first finger. While standing up, with no support whatever, four strong soldiers could notmove him. He remained as firm as a rock. Sometimes he amused himself by taking on his shoulders his own horse, fully harnessed, and with that heavy load ho promenaded the public square, to the great delight of tho inhabitants. At about the same time there lived a Spaniard named Piedro who could break tho strongest handcuffs that could be put around his wrists. He folded his arms on his chest aud ton men pulling in different directions with ropes could not unfold them. Augustus II., elector of Saxony, was a man of great strength.

He could carry a man in his open hand. One night he quietly threw out of a window a monk who paraded his palace, pretending to be a ghost.

Fada of Naval Officers.

Naval officers have little fads of their own to help while away time on board ship. Some are experts in photography. Others make a specialty of somotliing immediately in the line of their profession. Many collect bric-a-brac and curios. These amusements are, for the most part, inexpensive, and sometimes they are profitable. One officer usually picks up enough foreign postage" stamps and strange coins on a long' cruise to bring in a neat little sum when he gets to some port where

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