Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Romance of an Orchid Hunter. [ARTICLE]

Romance of an Orchid Hunter.

Orchid-hunting leads to strahge adventures. M. Hamelin, the collector who has sent home all the specimens of the Eulophiella Elizabeth® that have hither--to reached these shores, narrates in a letter how he won a dusky bride and moreover secured his preserves of the famous plant from all poaching on the part of brother depredators —or, more euphemistically, plant-collectors. While searching the woods of Madagascar he had for guide and hunter the brother of the chief, Mayombosa. This unhappy guide had the misfortune to be so severely mauled by a Madagascar lion that he died and M. Hamelin returned alone to tell the tale. After the recital the irate chief gave the survivor the option of marrviug the widow or being greased and burned. He chose the lesser ■if two evils, but coupled with the marriage contract an undertaking on the part of his brother-in-law to close those lands to all other orchid-seekers.—[Lon-don Telegraph. The idea that this earth is slowly drying up has quite a set-back by a recent announcement of the hydrographio engineers that the Gulf of Mexico is one foot higher now than it was in 1850.