Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. [ARTICLE]

FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

a iHMiiWlii auta spherical aaotaagU, each of which h marked wtlh a number corresponding to a gale. A brass rib®£“ne' r’dian running front pole to pole at the EwW v* “iguiCvii uoicfi ana ETSXI& Each flag corresponds to one of tin pnfi cfpnl states of the world, from China the most populous to Holland the least populous. To play tbs game the globe Is set rewol ving, and a placer, commencing at the sooth pole, plants a flag into sack hole one after another at each revolution of the globe, and advances northward. The ■core of the player, which may be either a gain or a lose, is determined by the nature of the facts indicated on the rectangular space above which a flag may stand when the globe stops revolving: and this ia,of course, the interesting and humorous part S&.sss iajjsarassaGS to population. A coal mine, a Manehester cotton factory, a grain mart, all are reckoned rains; but an encounter with a Zulu or a lion in Africa, a storm in the Atlantic, a polar iceberg, a crocodile on the Nile, naturally go for serious losses. Twortcnntns krom lot. ' Once upon a time I was in the dining room of a great hotel, when I saw a little girl enter with her father and mother, and presently they were shown up the room and sat down at the same table where I was. The child might have been ten or twelve, and was very beautifully dressed. Nature had made her very pretty, but no beauty of feature or complexion could overcome the mixture of fretfrilness and pertness which appeared in her look and manner. * * There was ontjle bill of fare every luxury that any one could wish, but such a piece of work aa that little girl made about her dinner! She wouldn't have this. She oouldn’t bear that and she whined and snarled, with no other object than to makr trouble. (t did not seem as if she were a spoiled child either for her parents tried to check her in a quiet fashion, for naturally they did hot want to have a family contest in a public place. The whole comfort of their own dinner was spoiled, but they went on managing the matter as well as they could until the dessert came. How it happened Ido not know,but there were no ratal nh, and the moment the little girl found that none were to be had she would be content with nothing else. Neither pie, nor frait, nor dainty of any sort would she touch, and finally when her father bade her be quiet and eat what was set before her she burst out into a .loud, passionate crying, exclaiming in a ..voice audible all over fa great room: , .“I wish I was dead. I never can have anything I want?” —That same afternoon I went up to Fairmount Park, and there I saw another family party. There was the father, a Mttle girl about the age of the child at the hotel, and two little bits of boyar * Each of the children and the father had a slice of bread and butter for their dinner. That was all, and it looked like very stale, coarse bread and butter, too; but they seemed as contentedas if their provisions had been quite delicieusr It was such A pretty picture that X could not help watching it, and contrasting the Httle elder sister with the child at the hotel. She was not quite so pretty as the fretful girl, but though she was very poorly dressed there was such an air of innocence and joyfulness about her that she was like a little sunbeam in the shade of the trees.

When the bread and butter was all gone the little elder sister rose, and, with an air of great satisfaction, put up an old, Trayed, green parasol, with a long slit in it. “Come, boys,” she said, “now I will letyou walk under my parasol.” Then as she danced a way with the children by her father’s side, she looked up In his face with such a delightful smile as she said: “Isn’t it nice to he me, and be alive, and have a parasol ?,' HOW AHUf SUB FLAYSmall birds chase each other about in play; but perhaps the conduct of the crane and trumpeter is most extraordinary. The latter stands on one leg, hops around in the most eccentric manner, and throws somersaults. The Americans call it the mad bird, on account of these singularities. Water birds, such as ducks •nd geese, dive after each other, and clear the surface of the water with outstretched neck and flapping wings, throwing abundant spray around. Deer Often engage in sham battle, or trial of strength, by twisting their horns together and pushing for the mastery. All animals pietending violence in their play stop short of exercising it; the dog takes the greatest precaution not to injure by his bite; and the ourang-outang, in wrestling with his keeper, pretends to throw him, and makOs feints Of biting him. Some animals in their play carry ont the semblance of catching their prey. Young i-cats, for instance, leap after every small and moving object, even to the leaves strewed by the autumn wind. They crouch and steal forward ready for the spring, the body quivering and the tail .vibrating with emotion; they bound on moving leaf, and again spring forward to another. Birds of the magpie kind are the analogues of monkeys, full of mischief, play and mimicry. There is a tale of a tame magpl- that was busily engaged in a garden gathering pebbles with much solemnity and a studied ai., burying them in a hole made to receive a post Alter dropping each stone it cried “Cur-ack 1” triumphantly, and set off for another. On examining the spot, a poor toad was found in the hole, which the magpie was stoning •r his amusement.