Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — Page 7

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. dig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, in. Mods, loons and Real bbo. RENSSELAER. IND. Office up-stairs In Leopold block, first stair* west of Van Rensselaer street. U. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Nptary work, Loans. Real Estate and Insurance. Special attention given to collections of all kinds. Office over “Racket Store, 'Phone 839. Rknss&lakr, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin. Arthur H. Hopkins. Austin & Hopkins, Law, Loans and Real Estate. Loans on farms and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire insurance. Attorneys for American Building. Loan and Savings Association. Office over Chicago Department Store, KENSBELAER, IND. I.V.lrvia S.C. Irwfu Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. ' Klr * EKNBSRLAKK, INDIANA. Musi bolts. e. •- tmiis. massy m. svssis Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, ATTORNEYS AF LAW. Law. Heal Estate, Insurance Absracta and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books In the RENSSELAER. IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Bstate, Collections, Insurance andJFtrm Loans. Office uoataira in Durand £. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over lines' Millinery store. Rensselaer. Onm Smmi 171. Rssieaeee Phom, lIS

Doctor A. J. Milter, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. Office np-ataiia In Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office ana residence 'phones, 304 (Jasper Co.); also (Halleck) 43 at residence. Dr. Francis Tnrfler. Dr. Anna Turfler. Drs. Turfler 6: Turfler, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. Graduates American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, Ind. Hours: 9 to 18m; 1 to 4:30 p. m. H. O. Harris. E. T. Harris. J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought ana Sold on principal cities, Notes Discounted at current Fans Loans made »t & per cent. We Solicit Shore of Year Basloess. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RENSSELAER, IND. Addison Parkison, Pres. John M. Wasson. Vice-Pres. E. L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. suoessson to vms ausioaes or tm« commircial STATS BANK. Opened March 3d, 1903, at the old location, NORTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. A general banking business transacted; deposits received, payable on time or on demand. Money loaned on acceptable security. Drafts on all cities at home and abroad bought and sold. Collection of notes and accounts a specialty. 5 psr cent farm loens. Your business solicited.

HCINjnY. Crown, Bar and Bridge T Work. Teeth Without Plates, Without Pain. .. i. W. HORTON .. IS YEARS IN RENSSELAEN Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Gss administered daily. Charges within the .reach of all. orncs oreoeiTC court mousr. H. L. Brown, I DENTIST. Offiou over Larsh’s drug store 1 - - - -

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Chicago to the Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville, and French Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, In Effect June 29,1903. South Bound. No. 6—Louisville Mall, (daily) 10:55 a. m • No.B3—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 2Http.m. •No. 46—Local freight 2:40 p.m. No.Bl—Fast Mail 4:49a.m. North Bound. No. 4—Mall, (daily).... 4:30 a.m. No. 40-Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 81-Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a.m. No. o—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:30 p.m. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Vea. Mail.. 0:33p. m. tNo. 18—Cin. to Chicago..... 2:57p.m. •No. 40—Local freight Id9a.n. •Dally except Sunday. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. , , _ No. n and 13 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fhanx J. Rxxd, G. P. A., , W. H. McDoxu, President and Gen. Mg’r. Chas. H. Rooxwxud, Traffic M g r, oa loseo. W. H. Beam, Agent. Rensselaer.

AMon Fanners. Why remain in the North and s<ay indoors six months w the year consuming what you raise during the other six. months? Go South where you can work ont dcors every month in the year, and where you are producing something the year round. If ffiu are a stock raiser you know your stock are now “eating their heads off’’ and, belided, have to be protected fratal the rigors of winter by expensive shelter," Economical stock feeding reS*s the combination of both -forming and fat-forming food in certain proportions. Alabama and Florida produce in abundance the velvet bean aud cassava, the first a flesh producer, and the latter a fat producer, and they are the cheapest and best fattening materials known to the world. More money can be made and with less labm, in general farming, fruit and berry growing and track gardening along out road in the South than in any other section of the Union. If yon are interested and desire further information on the subject, address. G. A. PARK, Gen’l Immigration and Industrial Agent, Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., Louisville, Ky,

CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H.S. Ellis Marshal Mel Abbott QRrk. Charles Morlan Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief , ..C. B. Steward COCNCILMKN. Ist ward Henry Wood, Fred Phillips 2d ward W.S. Parks, B. F. Ferguson 3d ward J.C. McColly, Emerald Aldrich COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk John F. Major Sheriff .Abram G. Hardy Auditor ... J. N.Leatherman Treasurer S. R. Nichols Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor My rt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COMKISSIOKKBS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District.... Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners' court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. XBUSTXBB. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Gillam Lewis Shrier Walker Elias Arnold Barkley Charles M. Blue .".Marion John Bill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox... f... Newton S. L Luce Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark , Wheatfield Albert J. Bellows. Carpenter William T. Smith Mllroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rensseleer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer George Besse Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfield JUDICIAL Circuit Judge..... Charles W.Hanley Prosecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. HHIP TRUSTEES’ GIRDS. Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on the secoud and fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. John Bill, Trustee. Advertising in The Democrat brings results. Try it. A Very Clooo Call. “I stuck to my engine, although every joint ached and every nerve waa racked with pain” writes C. W. Bellamy, a locomotive fireman of Burlington, lowa. **l was weak and pale, without any appetite and all run down. As I was about to rive up, I got a bottle of Electric Bitten, and after taking ityl felt as well as I ever did in my life.” Weak, sickly, run down people always gain new life, strength and vigor frow their use. Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed by A. F, Long. Price 60 cents. Do not give np because you can not find what yon want in these “mixed stock" establishments. “The Ideal” carries just what yon want and at the right prices. Louis Wildbkrg, Prop. TO CURE A COLO IN ONE OAT Take Laxative Broroo Quinine Tablets. AH druggist* refund the money if M fails to cure. K. wT Grove's signature la on each box. SSc.

LEFT HANDED WICKEDNESS.

Reawlte as u Unaaual U'SfatlgttlM by Professor Lombroao. Professor Cesare Lombroso, the Italian scientist skilled in detecting traces of abnormality, explains in the North American Review the imperfections of the left handed. People who are more agile with the left than with the right-hand are most numerous among “women, children, savages and criminals." The percentage is about 4 per cent among men (operatives and soldiers), 5 to 8 per cent among women and about the same among lunatics. But among criminals Professor Marro found 13 per cent of the men and 22 per cent of the women left handed. Swindlers offered a greater percentage, no less than 33, and murderers and ravlshers only from 1) to 10 per cent. Professor Lombroso also discusses the far more complex subject of “left sideduess.” Certain people aio more sensitive upon the left side than upon the right. This condition has no connection with left handedness and is highest in lunatics, 44 per cent. Parrots are left handed, and so are lions. Rollet found in twenty-seven monkeys the left shoulder heavier than the right. Women, children aud primitive races make gestures and simple movements from right to left This is why women button their garments in a different direction from men and why early languages, like the Arabic, are written from right to left. Very old chronometers were wound from right to left, not from left to right, as at prebent However, Professor Lombroso hedges by saying: “One can without difficulty find among good men real left handedness, as among the greatest evildoers there are some who have not that characteristic. I do not dream at all of saying that all left banded people are wicked, but that left handedness, united to many other traits, may contribute to form one of the worst characters among the human species.”

Net So Very Weak.

The train was on a windy pass in the Rockies. There were in the car a few miners, two cowboys, a woman, who looked ill, and a man clothed in very British tweeds. He was evidently used to roughing it and Bat beside the open window indifferent to the cold air that swirled into the car. Behind him sat the woman, shivering. Across the aisle was a large boned westerner. He did not seem to mind the wind himself, but be gave a kind, solicitous glance toward the woman. After an hour of shivering she leaned forward and asked the man in front of her to close the window. He paid no attention to her request, except that he looked straight ahead and said, addressing himself to the world at large, “Americans seem to be a weak lot.” Then the tall man across the aisle rose slowly. His head came just under the bell cord. He reached across the tweed suit, pushed the owner of it rather rudely into the corner of the seat, laid hold of the window catch with his big thumb and linger and sent the window down with a slam. "I guess we ain’t so very weak, pardner,” he said.

Mrs. Grundy.

The first mention of Mrs. Grundy is found in Morton's clever comedy “Speed the Plow.” Farmer Ashfield, at table with his jug and pipe, is talking to his wife on her return from market. “Well. dame, welcome wlioaui. What news does thee bring vrom market?” “What news, husband? What 1 always told you, that Farmer Grundy’s wheat brought 5 shillings a quarter more than ours did.” “All the better foor he!” “Ah, the sun seems to shine on purpose for him.” “Come, come, missus, as thee has not the grace to thank God for prosperous times, dan't thee grumble when they be unkindly a bit.” “And I assure you Dame Grundy’s butter was quite the crack of the market.” “Be quiet, wool ye? Always ding dinging Dame Grundy into my ears: ‘What will Mrs. Grundy say?’ ‘What will Mrs. Grundy think?* Canst thee be quiet? Let ur alone and behave thyself pratty!”

Green Pineapple Juice.

The juice of the green pineapple is accredited in Java, the Philippines and throughout the far east generally with being a blood poison of a most deadly nature. Health mentions it as the substance with whieh the Malays poison their creeses and daggers and as the “finger-nail” poison formerly in use among aboriginal Javanese women almost universally. These women cultivated a nail on each hand to a long, sharp point, and the least scratch from one of these was certain death.

Indulging a Genius.

Our ancestors were more indulgent and respectful to the eccentricities of men of genius than is tbe present generation. Byron was accepted and patiently tolerated when he chose to sit in moody silence throughout a dinner party given in bis honor, scowling contemptuously at the delicious food before him, while be sipped vinegar and munched a cracker.

Showing Him Up.

Servant—There's a gentleman downstairs, ma'am. Mistress—Show him up to the drawing room. Servant—But be has come to clean tbe chimbly. Mistress—Then show him up the chimney. Provide for the worst; the best will save itself.

A Swinburne Story.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, the poet, tells how when a schoolboy st Eton he found himself once in the same railway carriage with the head, master, Dr. Goodford, who was grimly reading a newspaper. Mr. Swinburne’s father, who did not know the peculMr shrinking of august head masters from strange parents, interfered with the reading by asking Dr. Goodford’s opinion of Algernon Charles. “Now,” continues Mr. Swinburne, “as a matter of fact Dr. Goodford had never set eyes on me and probably did not even know of my existence; but, enraged, I suppose, at my father’s rather unconventional interruption, which he no doubt considered a slight on his dignity, he glanced down at me with a scarlet face and said deliberately, ‘Your boy, sir—your boy is one of the very worst in school!’ and then intrenched himself once more behind his newspaper.” It was no use for Algernon Charles to protest that Dr. Goodfortf did not even know him by sight. “Do you think,” retorted Swinburne senior, “that I am going to take your word before that of your head master?” So there were no Junketings for Swinburne junior in the Christmas holidays.

Parnell’s Eyes.

“Anent your allusion to the color of Parnell’s eyes,” writes a lady correspondent, “many years ago a young girl passed a man on the staircase of the Railway hotel, Westport, Ireland. There was tragedy written all over him. So uncommon were the man’s eyes that they made clear to the girl a phrase in Shakespeare she bad never before understood, ‘Eyes like carbuncles.’ The girl Joined her friends and said, ‘I have seen a man with eyes the color of a solid mounted carbuncle.' The late Captain Boycott, who was one of the party, said, Then you have seen Parnell, for he Is the only man I know with eyes that answer to that, and it is not likely to be he, for if he were in this neighborhood he would be at Newport House.’ The party traveled to Dublin by the evening’s mail train. At Mullingar Parnell got into the same carriage and sat opposite the writer, who wrote on the margin of the paper she was reading, ‘The man I saw in the hotel,’ and passed it to Captain Boycott, who returned it with the added words, ‘lt la Parnell.’”—London M. A. P.

A Welsh Legend.

In Wales there is a legend of Irish smugglers who arrived at Llanddona many years ago in a boat without rudder or oars. They were looked upon, according to the Irish custom of sending malefactors to a sea doom in this plight, as outlaws. However, they had been allowed to land, and a spring of water bursting forth in the sand at the place was taken as a sign of their right to a refuge. But they ill repaid the Welsh. The men lived by smuggling, the women by witchcraft. It was not possible to overcome the smugglers in a fray, for each carried about with him a black fly tied in a knot of his kerchief, and the moment the knot was undone the fly flew at the eyes of the opponents and blinded them. If the Llanddona witches attended a market and hid for anything no one ventured to bid against them.

Provisions From Trees.

There is a tree which grows in Sumatra, Algeria and China which is known as the vegetable tallow tree. From its fruit large quantities of oil and tallow are extracted, and the fruit is gathered in November or December, when all the leaves have fallen. Excellent candles are made from the berries of a tree which grows in some parts of South Africa and the Azores. At Sierra Leone is found the cream fruit tree, the fruit of which is very agreeable in taste. In Ceylon there is the breadfruit tree, from which a food is made in the same way that we make bread. It is said to be equally good and nutritious. In South America we find the milk tree.

The Barebone Family.

The celebrated name of Praise God Barebone was borne by a member of the Cromwell parliament called together after the dissolution of the Long parliament in 1653. The royalists called the assembly “Barahones’ parliament.” At the time when General Monk was in London Barebone headed the mob that presented a petition to parliament against the recall of Charles II:-*Of the Barebone family there were three brothers, each of whom had a sentence for a name—Praise God Barebone, Christ-came-into-the-world-to-save Barebone and If-Christ-had-not-died-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone.

Business View of Health.

“Old fellow, you ought to eat more fruit. It’s- cheaper than paying doctor bills.” “But I don’t have to pay any doctor bills as it is. I am never sick.” “That may be, but if you'd eat more fruit you would be able to draw dividends on your health.”—Chicago Tribune.

Trying Them On.

“My new play is sure to make a bit,*' said tbe eminent actress. “It gives me an opportunity to show twenty superb gowns.” “Gracious, bow many scenes do you appear in?” “Only five, but one of them’s a scene at the dressmaker's.”

Too Much For Him.

“They say that after seven rehearsals Charley Swimmington actually stumbled through tbe wedding ceremony.” “Overtrained, I suppose.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing be was never reasoned into.—Swift " <*'

THE CODE IN ANCIENT TIMES

Vmiou Duel In the Day* of Good Queen Anno. In the reign of good Queen Anne duels were no less frequent than in the rowdy, riotous days of Charles 11. Lord Mohun,.a dissolute, remorseless nobleman, was the terror of honest London citizens at this time, and many were the infamous escapades in which he played chief character. He was guilty of one act which bears no other name than that of murder—the killing of poor Mountford, the actor, in cold blood because he endeavored to protect the honor of Mrs. Bracegirdle, the famous and beautiful actress. It was Lord Mohun who fought and killed the Duke of Hamilton, an affair which all will reuien** r who have read Thackeray’s great novel. "Esmond.” The duel was fought with swords in Hyde park, the challenge having been sent by Mohun to the duke, who had, with perfect accuracy, stated that one of Mohun’s creatures “had neither truth nor Justice in him.” The Duke of Hamilton received a wound in the right side of the leg about seven inches long, another in the right arm, a third in the upper part of the breast, running downward toward the body; a fourth on the outside of the left leg. Lord Mohun himself was mortally wounded, receiving a large wound in the groin, another in the right side through the body, in which the sword plunged right up to the hilt, and a third in his arm. There is no doubt be rightly deserved his death, because, departing from the rules of fence among men of honor, he shortened bis sword, thrust under his opponent’s guard and stabbed the duke in the manner of a common assassin.

PHILIPPINE VOLCANOES.

Kayos Is the Most Famous, and the Teal Coates Next. The most famous Philippine volcano and one of the finest volcano cones in the world is that of May on. Its height is 8,970 feet, and the volcano is visible at a great distance. Since 1766 records have been kept of itß eruptions. In that year many plantations and villages were burled under a stream of lava which flowed down its eastern slope. About 1,200 lives were lost in the eruption of 1814, which buried the country around a part of tbe base of Mayon under tbe outpourings of lava and dust. A similar calamity in 1825 destroyed the lives of about 1,500 persona. In the nineteenth century there were a number of severe eruptions, including one In 1880-87 which continued about nine months. An eruption in 1897 killed 350 persons and destroyed much property. Twenty-two violent eruptions of this volcano are on record. Next to Mayon the Taal volcano is the most remarkable. It is on an island in the lake of Bombon, and,the island, built up by its outpourings, has an area of 220 square miles. The volcano is incessantly ejecting dust and vapor from its crater. Taal. as well as Mayon. has been the center of numerous destructive earthquakes, but no very great eruption has occurred since 1864, when four villages around the mountain were completely destroyed.— Bulletin of American Geographical Society.

The Earliest Surgeons.

Surgery is said to be older than medicine, and probably, in its simplest offices, it is as old as human need for it. Skulls of the neolithic period give evidence that the operation qf trepanning was then practiced. The Hindoo surgeon Susruta. who lived several centuries before Christ, had more than a hundred different sorts of surgical instruments, and there is abundant proof that his countrymen were skilled in amputation, lithotomy and operations for hernia, fistula and even for restoring lost ears and noses. Hippocrates, who lived 400 B. C., was a skillful surgeon, and discoveries by Ebers and others in Egypt prove that the ancient Egyptians practiced surgery, with suitable instruments, nearly G.OOO years ago. Among the six hermetic books of medicine mentioned by Clement of Alexandria was one devoted to surgical instruments. The Greeks are thought to have learned the Hindoo methods, and the Romans were skilled in surgery.

How Hens Roost.

The mechanism of the leg and foot of a chicken or other bird that roosts on a limb is a marvel of design. It often seems strange that a bird will sit on a roost and sleep ail night without falling off. but the explanation is perfectly simple. The tendon of the leg of a bird that roosts is so arranged that when the leg is bent at the knee tbe claws are bound to contract and thus bold with a sort of death grip .the limb round which they are placedj Put a chicken’s feet on your wrist and then make tbe bird sit down and you will have a practical illustration on your skin that you will remember for some time. By this singular arrangement, seen only in such birds as roost, they will rest comfortably and never think of holding on, for it is impossible for them to let go till they stand up.

Home of the Chinchilla.

The chinchilla, the little animal the size of a squirrel, is met with only In the Andes of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile and is never found under a height of 9,000 or 10*000 feet. The Indians are eager trappers and hunters of It for its line fur. The skins are well seasoned with salt and made up into small packages for dispatch to the towns, whence they are shipped abroad. If people talked only when they had something to say the silence would be too dense to stir with a stick.—Gai-

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HINDOO CUSTOMS.

Fhe Sword Plays * Prominent Par* In Oaths and Marriages. The sword plays many different roles * to Hindoo manners and customs. There - are certain warlike tribes among whom » oaths taken over the sword are binding, while taken otherwise they are not. A similar sentiment prevails • among some predatory classes of Europe, where oaths taken ovm their * weapons of offense—a dagger, a pon- - Hard, a rapier—are considered binding The idea with these dame» seems to ■ be that perjury committed after taking oaths over their weapons recoil; that they die by the weapon against which they perjure themselves. In Berar, in India, women who are * about to lead an irregular flfe marry a sword. This marriage is name, as an emblem of conjugal life, serves as a ray of consolation to them in the midst of their evil doings, in certain parts of India when a Hindoo is about to marry a third wife, which marrying is considered an ill omen, he marries a tree, for obviating the ill omen, before lie marries the third lady. In Kathiawar there is still the eus tom for rajput princes who are much married to marry other wives by means of a sword. They send over their sword to the bride's people. The bride is married to it with all the re-* juired pomp and splendor, the only dis ferenee being that the prince’s sword < becomes a substitute for hfm, the bridegroom. Tbe legality of this marriage to a sword is indisputable. The** bride married to it enters the- rajputv zenana as a legally married wife

Where the Hourglass Is Used.

Among things not generally known is the fact that the hourglass is universally used on board ships in ifie* English navy when the log is heaved?at night. Every hour the boatswain or one the boatswain's mates blows on hit * whistle a peculiar shrill note called the * reel. The person in the watch to whom » this duty is assigned then heaves the * log. a small piece of wood with a sink- - er fitted in it. and at that moment the * glass is turned. Though termed an hourglass generally, it is only a four teen second glass really. As the last grain runs out the log line is stopped with a jerk, which also loosens the lead sinker. The Jog floats up to the surface of the sea, the line is hauled in and an entry made in the book, which, from its containing this among other items of the daily and nightly events of the voyage, is called the log book.—lxmdon Country Life.

A Troublesome Ant.

In the state of Colombia there is a large ant (Atta cepbalotes) which causes a great deal of injury to plantations. It attacks and carries off indiscriminately all kinds of foliage, and no sort of vegetation seems to come amiss to it. The quantity of foliagecarried off by these ants is Immense A naturalist recently investigated the * uses to which the ants put this mass * of vegetable matter, and he ascertain ed that they employ it to make hot beds, upon which their eggs are depos ited to be hatched by the heat produced by the fermentation of the leaves. The ants do not eat these portions for food, and the larvse are fed upon a carefully selected diet. Once thfc brood is hatched, the ants clear away the hotbed, carrying out of their nest ail the decom- , posed vegetable matter. This is thrown; out In heaps apart, and i* the large ant hills these heaps will contain bushels? and upward.

Buying a Daughter.

▲ lady in costly mourning attire waa walking in a street in Vienna the other day when she saw a beggar woman with three children, one of them a girt of two, sitting at the foot of a monument She sent a street porter to ask if she would give up the girl. The woman nodded, whereupon the lady in black walked up to her, gare her some bank notes and took the child te a ■tore. Half an hour later she emerged with the same child elegantly hailed a cab and drove away.