Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 August 1897 — Page 2

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Old Li Hung Chang evidently absorbed some progressive ideas during his trip around the world and has profited from his observations. He had discernment enough to see that the United States led all other countries in scientific and successful farming if in no other branch of industry and has sent to this country for a man who can manage a model farm which he will at once establish on one of his great estates. The great viceroy recognizes the fact that his people must at last learn wisdom from other nations in many ways or sink into still lower depths of ignorance and degradation. "A little leaven leavencth the whole lump." Great results may be expected in a few years from this little spurt of enterprise by the wily old Chinaman.

The Duke of Wellington fought Napoleon for many years prior to the final struggle at Waterloo but never met him personally or even saw him. This notable fact is but recently made public by the Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. The Duke himself is said to have told the Prince of W:!K when the latter was a small boy. The Prince was exhibiting a boyish drawing of the Emperor and Duke meeting on the field of Waterloo, when the old warrior exclaimed: "My boy, I am going to tell you something that people do not seem to realize. I spent many years abroad in keeping Napoleon in check, and have fought many battles with him, but never in my life did I set eyes on him. Once at Waterloo some one cried, 'Look, there is Napoleon,' but before I could get the glass to my eye the smoke of a field gun had enveloped him."

Alaska may be paved with gold like the streets of the New Jerusalem but from all accounts it is totally lacking in all other attractions. Already the most distressing details are coming back from the maddened seekers for treasure. The suffering will undoubtedly increase. Expeditions are being sent forward almost every day in spite of the warnings of reliable authorities who have experienced the hardships of an arctic winter. Already winter has set in and tremendous.§no\v storms have made the mountain trails impassable. There is no possible chance for any of the parties who have left the Pacific ports since the arrival of the Excelsior to reach the Klondike gold fields before next spring. The majority of the men who have been so foolhardy as to go in spite of advice to the contrary are believed to be rushing to their own destruction.

The London correspondent of the New York Sun cables that the recent insurrection in India has brought the British government to a full realization of the fact that India can only be held by the sword and that all attempts to govern the Orientals by European methods have been and will continue to be-failures. It will be the policy of the government in the future to suppress every exhibition of disloyalty with a firm hand. All competent observers have wondered that this decision has been so long delayed. The situation in India has been grave for years, and a repetition of the great mutiny of 1857 has long been imminent. Some "wise" London editors have tried to show that the Sultan or the Czar, or both, have been responsible for the spread of sedition in India, but that theory has been entirely abandoned. The arrest and prosecution of the editors of the seditious local press in India is expected to precipitate a crisis and the news from that far-off dependency of the British crown is will be worth watching in the near future.

Emperor William has recently given a fresh exhibition of his "wheels." Cranky, he certainly is on many subjects. Temperance reformers in the United States will probably think that this last ebullition of ill temper is a move in the right direction but to the German people it doubtless appears to be little short of madness. Time out of mind it has been the custom for cafes, hotels, restaurants, saloons and beer gardens to bear the name of some royal personage over the entrance as a sign. Fifty per cent, of the eating and drinking establishments in Prussia bear the

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of Old Emperor William or

.cderick the Great. No disrespect has ever been intended or thought of by any one in this connection. On the contrary it might be said to be an honor to the personage and an exhibition of loyalty and good will on the part of the proprietor and his patrons. Emperor "Bill," however, has suddenly discovered that the custom is all wrong and has issued a decree (which will be enforced) forbidding the use of names of sovereigns or royal personages, living or dead, as signs for such places and commanding all those who have .... such signs above their door to remove them at once. It is alleged that the decree was issued by the Kaiser because \of his aversion to the memory of his ather and a desire to annoy his mother.

Such littleness might "go" in Hogan's Alley but is sadly out of place on a throne.

TARIFF LAW OF 1897. The new tariff law has been issued from the Government printing office in a pamphlet 01* 70 pages. Obviously we

have not space to reproduce it in these columns in full and our readers would probably find it very dull reading if we should print it as a serial. We will therefore present a few of the most important fe-aiures. Of the articles upon which duties are levied Schedule A leads off with acids, acetic, three-fourths of one»cent a pound salicyclic, ten cents a pound tannic, fifty cents a pound. Alcoholic perfumery, sixty cfnts a pouud and forty-five per cent, ad valorem. Oils—castor, thirty-five cents per gallon cod liver, fifteen cents per gallon flaxseed, linseed, poppy seed, twenty cents per gallon croton, twenty cents per pound olive, forty cents per gallon peppermint, fifty cents per pound. Medicinal preparations containing alcohol, or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, fifty-five cents per pound, but in 110 case shall the same pay less than twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Roman, Portland and all other hydraulic cement, eight cents per one hundred pounds. Nails, six-tenths of one cent per pound. Cross cut saws, six cents per lineal foot. Lead bearing ore of all kinds, one and one-half cents per pound 011 the lead contained therein. Sawed boards, planks, deals and other lumber of white wood, sycamore and basswood. one dollar per thousand feet board measure. Sawed lumber not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars per thousand feet board measure. Planed lumber, fifty cents additional for each side planed. Shingles, thirty cents a thousand. Sugars not above number sixteen Dutch standard in color, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above seventy-five degrees, ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound, and for every additional degree shown by the polariscopic test, thirty-five one-thousandths of one cent per pound additional, and fractions of a degree in proportion and on sugar above number sixteen Dutch standard in color, and on all sugar which has gone through a process of refining, one cent and ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound molasses testing above forty degrees and not above fifty-six degrees, three cents per gallon: testing fifty-six degrees and above, six cents per gallon sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to abrogate or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of the treaty of commercial reciprocity concluded between tbe United States and the King of the Hawaiian Islands on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, or the provisions of any Act of Congress heretofore passed for the execution of the same. Maple sugar and maple sirup, four cents per pound glucose or grape sugar, one and one-half cents per pound sugar came in its natural state, or unmanufactured, twenty per centum ad valorem. Wrapper tobacco, and filler tobacco when mixed or packed with more than fifteen per centum of wrapper tobacco, and all leaf tobacco the product of two or more countries or dependencies when mixed or packed together, if unstemmed, one dollar and eighty-five cents per pound if stemmed, two dollars and fifty cents per pound filler tobacco not specially provided for in this

Act, if unstemmed, thirty-five cents per pound if stemmed, fifty cents per pound. Cattle, if less than one year old. two dollars per head: all other cattle ii valued at not more than fourteen dollars per head, three dollars and seventyfive cents per head if valued at more than fourteen dollars per head, twentyseven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Swine, one dollar and fifty cents per head. Horses and mules, valued at one hundred and fifty dollars or less per head, thirty dollars per head if valued at over one hundred and fifty dollars, twenty-five per centum ad valorem! Sheep, one year old or over, one dollar and fifty cents per head less than one year old, seventy-five cents per head. All other live animals, not specially provided for :n this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem. Brandy and other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, and not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars and twenty-five cents per proof gallon. Cordials, liqueurs, arrack, absinthe, kirschwasser, ratafia, and other spirituous beverages or bitters of all kinds, containing spirits, and not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars and twentyfive cents per proof gallon. Wools are divided into three classes. The duty upon all wools and hair of the first-class shall be eleven cents per pound, and upon all wools or hair of the second-class twelve cents per pound. On wools of the third class and on camel's hair of the third class the value whereof shall be twelve cents or less per pound, the duty shall be four cents per pound! On wools of the third class, and on camel's hair of the third clas, the value whereof shall exceed twelve cents per pound, the duty shall be seven cents per pound. The duty on wools on the skin shall be one cent less per pound than is imposed in this schedule on other wools of the same class and condition, the quantity and value to be ascertained under such rules as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Silk, manufactured, forty cents per pound. The most importact items on the free list are animals imported for breeding purposes, binding twine, camphor, hides, philosophical and scientific apparatus. The importation of neat oittle and the hides of neat cattle into the United States is prohibited. ...

ONE LUCKY HOQSIER.

A KOKOMO MKCHAXICAII KNGI\EER'8 GREAT SUCCKSS IN THE FLOWERY KINGDOM.

Another Saloon at IlurlinKton—Wayne County Klectrlo Line—Montgomery County Zinc Ore—Notes.

A Lucky lloosler.

Walter Kennedy, a mechanical engineer of Kokomo, accompanied nn American syndicate to China, last winter, to build a railroad. A letter has been received from him which shows that he is fast being: advanced in tlie £tod graces' of the Chinese emperor. He has no end of servants. Part of the letter reads: "1 have had such a variety of curious experiences and witnessed so many strange sights that I seem to have been in some manner mysteriously transferred to fairy land. On arriving at the Chinese capital, a few months ago. I was asked by the government to examine and report oil some mines. I went on a few trip and had a wonderful experience. I had an imperial guard of 25 soldiers as an ollicial escort, three mandarines and ISO chair carriers, besides innumerable cooks, coolies, etc. When I returned and reported I was appointed chief mining engineer for the Chinese empire, and all the other engineers were put under my charge. I was next asked for an estimate on a short line of railway, about 15 miles long, and I was appointed secretary of the Chinese imperial railway. Later 1 was asked*to look over the government iron works and make a report on them. When had been there only a few days the director was recalled by wire and I was appointed mechanical director of the government iron and steel works at Hong Kong. There are 3,000 Chinese operatives.'

Another Saloon lit llurliiigton. There is more saloon trouble brewing In Burlington, where six saloons have been ,dynamited out of existence in the past

The next day after opening the saloon Barnard was arrested for selling liquor without license at an old settlers' picnic at Cutler. Affidavits were sworn out against Stockton also for i..egal selling, but he fled to avoid arrest last Saturday, and he has not been seen or heard of since. Learning that the license was in Stockton's name, and that Barnard had no right to continue the business, the latter was compelled by the residents to close up the shop, and it is still closed. Barnard went to Kokomo to take out new license, but up to this time lie has not done so. and may be d!s::uarted from the purpose. Figuratively speaking, the Burlington people# are resting on their arms awaiting developments, and If the place is reopened or attempted to be reopened there will be trouble.

Wayne County Kleotric 1,1 ne. The farmers and business men of Wayne county, who are Interested in the project of building an electric line from Richmond to LosantsvlHe, Randolph county, to connect with the Big Four, are well pleased with the prospoots for the suooess of the venture. A committee appointed for the purpose has been in correspondence with several concerns w-ich contract for eloctrlc road work, and the cost of such construction, while high, is considerably lower than it was a few years ago. The proposed road is to be conducted on the co-operative basis, and It is not the purpose to purchase a right-of-way. The county commissioners are to be asked to allow the use of the turnpikes from Richmond north to the Randolph county line, and they havo signified their Intention to grant the request if the farmers along the line have no serious objection. It has been ascertained that the majifclty«of farmers favor the building of the line a.one the roads. A meeting of all persons interested is to be held within the next two weeks, and the full plans are to bo mode known, '"/v.-

Death of Attorney Walla.

"William B. Walls, formerly a prominent attorney of Lebanon, later of Indianapolis, died in Chicago, Wednesday. He was at one time a member of the Democratic state central committee. He waa

prosecutor of the Boone county olrcuit court when the trial of Nancy Clem tor the Young murders was taken to that court upon a change of venue from the Marion county circuit court. it was charged that Walls was in collusion with the defense of Mrs. Clem and lie *=*. the county and came to Indianapolis. He formed a partnership with William F. A. Rernhamer and they practiced law in the county courts. After Bernhamer was sent to prison for complicity in the talley sheet forgeries In the county election of 1886 a number of civil suits were filled against Walls and he was disbarred. Ho then went to Chicago. A widow and two children survive him.

Jlonisompry County Zinc Ore. 1 Zinc ore has been discovered paying quantities on Walnut Fork, Montgomery county. The discovery was made accidentally by Julian Bulfinglon. He and Q. Irwin have leased the farm and will !,begin taking out the ore. The ore so far I tested is said to be 20 per cent, richer than the Joplin deposits. Old settlers recall a story in this connection. A tribe of Indians used to be quartered about

Thorntown. They would start down a trail in the direction of Walnut Fork and return in two days with rich zinc ore. which they swapped for supplies at the trading post. It is believed that the

1 dians used to work this deposit.

Y. M. C. A. BUILDING AT INDIANAPOLIS.

few year*?. After a tight of many years the temperance element drove out the last saloon In July, 1896, under the Nicholson law, and the riddance was the occasion of a big celebration, in which the residents for many miles around joined. From that day until last week Burlington has been without a saloon. On Wednesday last the hated doggery again reared its head in the town, two young men, Charles Barnard and John Stockton, opening a quart-shop under Government permit. The ancient spirit of antagonism was at once aroused, and the old-fash-ioned saloon war is again in progress.

The Gentry dog show men are preparing to build a hotel in Bedford. A boy fourteen years old, son of John Hamer, of Marshfleld, took a header on his bicycle, breaking his neck.

The Great Western Pottery Company of Kokomo has made a large consignment of sanitary pottery to Edlnourg, Scotland.

Cyrus M. Mason, eighty-six years old, of Crown Point, is dead. He made the first brick ever manufactured in Lake county.

Everett Peppel, Elwood, who carried a lantern into an ice plant and caused an explosion of gas three weeks ago, is dead from burns.1

Lee Simpson. Frank Chase, Elmer and Isaac Newhouse and Sherman Lancaster, of Kokomo, were fined $5 each, Monday, for seining fish.

William Jamison, of Bloomfleld, evaded the law two years, but was captured, last week. In jail he was married to his victim, Eflie Simms.

The McCambridge flambeau case, transferred from Alexandria to Pendleton on change of venue, and tried -y jury, resulted in a disagreement.

Odon is soon to have an electric light plant. Arc lights of 2,000 candle power will cost $50 per year each and incandescent lights. 15 cents a week.

William Berner, over whose allege! crime the riot occurred in Oincinnati in 18S4, is now running a mill at Friendswood, this State, for his father.

A darning needle and piece of thread were cut from the ankle of Mrs. John Routh, at Jeffersonvnie, Monday. She uid not know what had caused her pain.

Decatur is to have a now opera house by the holidays, A contract has just been let by the council for an eleotirc light plant to be owned and operated by the town.

The state has filed suit In the Jackson circuit court against the Evansville Richmond railroad for $5,000 back taxes. The road owes the state about $25,000 in taxi's.

Wm. Caption, Evansville, young and unmarried, was found dead in his buggy in the woods. An empty gun stood near. The supposition is that he shot himself by accident.

Congressman Henry, of Anderson, will give his daughter, Edna, recently graduated from Indiana University, the private secretaryship under him the next session of Congress.

CaJvin Wicks, 40, while oleanlng a well, Monday, south of Wabash, suddenly cried for help. He was raised part' way up, but fell back and died before he could be taken out. Gas. 'W illiam Leonard, of Vanderburg county. near Evansville. involved in a dispute with H.

Alien, was dangerously

stabbed. Allen has been arrested for attempted murder.

GIANT EXPLOSIVES.

NITRO-GTJYCERINK TIIE MOST POWERFUL INVENTED BY MAN.

Dynamite is as Danjrernus as a Ruzzsaw, But it Needs Strons Provocation to Explode—

Gun Cotton.

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The Deadly Hike.

Harlow Harvey, of Bloomington, Is dead of a peculiar disease growing out of a bicycle injury. Eighteen monthfe ago he fell from his bicycle and bruised his leg. A cancerous growth set In. ine growth was removed in Inmanapolis, but. not long afterward, his leg had to be cut off. 1 .,en he grew well until June, when lung trouble set in, and of this he died. A postmortem showed that his lungs had ossified so that the surgeon's knife would not cut them. The case will be reported fu. to the medical journals.

'INDIANA ITIC.MS.

James Williams, a pioneer of Johnson county, died last week. Connersville had a heavy rain and electrical storm, Sunday evening.

dynamite is about

as dangerous as a buzzsaw to fool with, it will not explode on the slight

est provocation, otherwise railroads would not put a carload of it in the middle of a train and switch it as carelessly as they do a carload of potatoes.

Before dynamite can be made the manufacturer must make nitro-glycer-ine, which is the father of dynamite, gun-cotton and a dozen other forms of explosive^. Nitro-glycerine in its pure form is the most powerful explosive that man lias inveuted, and yet men oarry it around in buckets, ladle it in aud out of tanks and handle it apparently without any particular ciution, though they know that if a pound of it explodes within speaking distance of them their relatives will not need to order coffins for the remains, for there will be none worth Bpeakingof.

Glycerine made by Boapmakers is the base of nitro-glycerine. It is brought to the faotory in tank cars and forced by compressed air to storage tanks, from which it is drawn when needed. The factory is usually at some distance from any center of population, and the buildings are of Wood, with no stones or bricks, "so that," as one of the workmen put it, "if she goes she goes quick." Each part of the process has a building to itself, and the buildings are separated from one another by a considerable distance.

The mixture of the glycerine, nitric and sulphuric acids, which make ni-tro-glycerine, takes place in a lead vat. The acids are first mixed and theD the glycerine in the form of a fine spray is introduced. The chemical reaction heats the mixture and the temperature is carefully watched and not allowed to go above a certain point. When the mixture has cooled to the proper degree it is drawn off. The nitio-glycerine is an oily, sweettasting mixture, and so poisonous that severe headaches are caused by simply handling it. As pure, 100 per cent, nitro-glycerine the explosive has no commercial value, for the reason that it cannot be safely shipped. But it is seldom used in its pure form except for shooting oil-wells, and then it is mixed on the spot, placed in tin cartridges and dropped down the well. Before it can be shipped or handled with safety the nitro-glycerine must be mixed with ether substances and for this purpose it is dipped out of the storage tank into a small tank on a push car aud taken to a building, where it is mixed with the "dope." "Dope" is a combination of nitrate of soda, wood' pulp aud magnesia. This is mixed with the nitro-glycerine in a trough until the explosive is thoroughly incorporated with it, and it is then made into cartridges, and is called dynamite. If seventy-five pounds of nitro-glycerine aud twentytive pounds of "dope" aro mixed together the dynamite is called seventyfive per cent, dynamite but if twenty pounds of the explosive and eighty pounds of "dope" are mixed together the product is twenty per cent, dynamite. For rock blasting forty per cent, dynamite is generally used. The seventy-five per cent, dynamite is used for breaking up the salamanders whioh form in blast furnaces and heating furnaces used in making iron. Sometimes the molten iron chills before it can be drawn oft, and a solid mass of the metal is left which cannot be broken up except with high explosives. This chunk of iron is called a salamander, and when one forms all work in that furnace stops and sometimes the furnace must bo torn down.

Dynamite is exploded by the fulminate cap, which is placed in the cartridge just before it is lowered into the hole. Safety fuses aud electricity are used for exploding the fulminate cap and the cap explodes the dynamite. The safety fuse is so constructed that, it burns (or three, five or ten minutes, as desired, before the cap explodes, and the cap is fired by electricity by sendiug the current through the platinum wire which is in the cap and which grows white hot when the ourrent is switched on. The gas liberated by dynamite is the cause of the headaohes which make life miserable for the men who work around the explosive, and for thin reason dynamite is seldom used in tunnel work. For sach work gun-cotton is used. It is a mixture of nitro-glycerine and cotton or wood cellulose and is somewhat like soft gelatine in its looks. It gives out less fumes than dynamite aud the fumes do not cause headaches. Blasting powder is not used for rock work to any great extent, but is used in coal mines, and even there the various offsprings of nitro-glycerine are driving it away.

Last winter on the-sanitary oanal several men were blown to pieces by the dynamite whioh they were thawing out around a fire. They were warming it, because at forty degrees dynamite freezes and loses to a great degree its explosive power. Men who habitually handle the explosive carry the cartridges in the bosoms of their shirts to warm them, and when this will not suffice thoy take their lives in their hands by laying the cartridges near a blazing fire. At ordinary temperatures forty per cent, dynamite can be handled with safety. It will not explode by being struck with a hammer, nor will it shoot if thrown violently to the ground, but when heated up to 300 degrees tlio dynamite be-

rE extremely sensitive to I slightest blow, and that fact gotten or disregarded by the men I?' 1 were blown to bits last winter

When ordinary gunpowder exnUi

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but releases 1000 tin volume in gas An explosion i8'an tense combustion which forms rapidly that an immense prcssnrl obtained, and as the combustion tiT release of gas and the pressure 2 simultaneous tremendous power suddenly let loose, which 'n™ every direction, breaking thrunA restraint.

Nitro-glycerine is less than fiftv years old, for it was discovered 1847 in Pans by Pelouse. Before that gunpowder made of niter, sulphur and carbon, a mechanical mixture, which remains inert until heat is appli0] was the principal explosive used. For several years after its discovery "nitroglycerine remained simply as a" fearful explosive, made only in small quantities by chemists, for its extreme sensitiveness to jars and slight blows ami its terrific power prevented it from being used as a practical explosive until it was. discovered that it could be handled safoly by mixing it with an absorbent clay to form dynamite. Earth or clay is seldom used now in making dynamite, as other absorbent materials have been found to be hotter in every way.—Chicago Record.

Irish Moss.

A little town, known as Jericho, in Massachusetts, seems to be the centre of the Irish moss industry.

Boys, men and women all engage in the work, which consists spreading it upon the beach prepared by raking all the dirt, stones and driftwood away, and leaving a fine bed of white sand when the weed is first brought in by the boats, each of which gets about a barrel and a half, it is taken upon creels, a sort of barrow, and spread out upon the beach it is turned over daily as in hay making, lor the space of two weeks each morning it is washed in clean sea water (fresh water ruins it) it is then gradually bleached, as when first gathered it iB of a light green color, and in the course of a few weeks becomes successively red, pink, and finally nearly white.

Stormy weather is 1 great drawback to the mosser's work. Some of the moss that the stDrms tear loose aud scatter upon the rocks is gathered and classed as hand picked, bringing generally a quarter or one-half cent per pouud more than that gathered in tko usual way for commerce.

Should a spell of rainy weather come on during the season of gathering, heavy unbleached muslin covers are used to protect the mo3s, which is packed up in heaps.

Two crops are obtained each year, the first one being the better tha late crop is liable to be injured by a little black vegetable growth called glut, caused, it is said, by the warmer water of August days.—Boston Herald.

Greatest Spendthrift ol the Age." Jack Mytton, the famous Shropshire fox-hunting squire, was perhaps the most renowned spendthrift the world has seen duriug the present century. At Harrow School he spent 84000 a year. At nineteen, when a cornet in the Seventh Hussars, he spent §15,000 in one day. When told that he could afford to spend H),00'.) a year ho replied that he preferred death to such a miserly income. Upon one occasion he paid §75011 to a London poulterer for supplying his table with 2}heasants. He always traveled with piles of loose bank notes 011 the seat beside him, which in windy weather used to blow out through tini window all over the country. Upon another occasion, when going on journey, lie took a roll of bank notes, squeezed into a hard ball, and aimed tb.em through the window at some one who had displeased him, hittiui him in the face. He realized $100, the sale of timber on his estate, whioii he sold immediately. Ha ran thrown. his inheritance, the Halston estate,, with a rent roll of $300,000 a year,, and §2,500,000 of mouey accumulated, dying bankrupt and a pauper at lie early ago of thirty-eight. —LJUJtOU Answers.

I)iamou 11.5 to jte, 1..

It i^ gradually becoming known among pretentious people tint diamonds, like houses and horses an I carriages, can be rented for the seison. This will enable those who hive a high social ambition but limited means to make a greater display than they have been able to do tormerly. You can go to certain diamond dealers in Maiden Lane in New York, aud obtain rings for the lingers and ears, necklaces, brooches, pendant.-, hair pins and all the other kiuds of dmmond jewelry by depositing or giviug bond for the full value oE tlie article and paying five per cent, a month tor their use, and this,. I am told, is gelting to be a very large aul proliuolo business. It seems to have originated in the hard times and in suoa persons as wanted to wear diamonds, but were not able to buy them.—Chicago U-c- sortl.

Habits oi in.! i'ciiiriim.

The habits of the penguin are exceedingly intereHtiug. To see them swimming uuder the surface at the Zoological Gardens of London or Amsterdam is a rar6 sight. In nature they swim like a porpoise, in a prolonged dive, broken at intervals of about thirty yards, as they rise to take breath, when they leap entirely out of water, immediately disappearing with scarcely a riDple, after clearing a spuco of from two to two and a half feet. One was found to survive being held uuder water six minutes. Their foci oonsista of a large shrimp, aud tneir ....... stomaohs generally contain a number j.™ of angular pebbles,—Now York Inuopendent.