Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — Page 6

FARM AND GARDEN.

It pays to look after bees. Prohibit evU weeds and insects. Crude petroleum preserves wood. A little shade is good for currants. Use good seed, then cultivate well. Don’t let the weeds get a day ahead. Give good culture to get good crops. Keep dirt, etc.. out of the woolsacks. Are you regular in salting live stock? Cleanliness is profitable in buttermaking. ; See that the water flows freely in all your drain pipes. . y-. }■? • - No good thing grows well unless it has a good seed bed. Different kinds of beans planted together hybridize themselves. If you want to develcg>e the odor of the violet, grow it in the shade. What animal is there on the farm that returns more profit than the pig ? Frequent stirring of the soil is good for cabbage and most other plants. Keep the surface of the soil mellow and loose, and it will act as a mulch. Butter has recently been shipped back into the country from New York city.

The better the feed, the better the manure; the better the manure, the better the crop. It is easier to begin early and keep down the weeds than to begin late to exterminate them.

Do not let your work get ahead of you. Plan so as to have every piece of work done in season. Profit depends more on cost than on the market price. See that your products do not cost too much. Weed seeds are sown over the farm through raw manure and not through that which is well rotted. About 7.000,000 roses are sold annually in New York city, most of them raised on rose farms near the city. Push your work or your work will push you. The first is much the pleasanter. besides being more profitable. In spraying with London purple and= Paris green, use only two pounds of poison to 150 or 200 gallons of water. Fine products from the farm] and garden always find a ready sale. Only the inferior ones remain to glut the market.

Vermont’s maple Sugar crop for the season just passed, is estimated at nine million pounds, or three-quarters of a crop. Sheep-washing is not so popular as it once was. In days of yore it used to take a good deal of whisky to wash a flock of sheep. —lt is better to use Paris green in solutions on potatoes than to try to apply dry. There is then no danger of inhaling the poison. The pig is an important adjunct of the dairy, but it does not follow that he should be kept in close proximity to the dairy-house. ■■ ■ . No better or cheaper insect destroyer can be found for gardens than the toad. English gardeners often pay a shilling each for them.

Spray your plants freely. It keeps the leaves free from dust and the pores qpen, and it also prevents the ravages oT insect enemies. ; •• Prof. Wiley declares sorghum seed second in value only to wheat. Flour made from it is declared superior to buckwheat for pancakes. It pays to use good tools and to keep them in order. But do not be in a hurry to throw away a serviceable old tool simply because it is old. Wash your seed corn and oats in a solution of four ounces of blue vitriol ty> a gallon of water. It is claimed that this will kill all smut poresr

Get a water-barrel hung on wheels, or make one. if yon have not got it already, and see that all kitchen-slops are wheeled to the manure heap or receptacle. Never give up that you cant:o' farm It as well as your neighbor, but buckle on your armor, post yourself thoroughly on the later developments, and turn in and beat nim. The fariher of to-day requires more 1 tools than the farmer of a generation ago, because he employs less muscle. They are a big item of expense. Take good care of them. The kangaroo is being successfully propagated in England, and there is some likelihood of this curious animal taking its place among the most familiar lomestic animals of that country.

If your fruit tree is overburdened, do sot prop up the limbs and make a draft un the tree to ripen it all, but thin out the fruit by removing that which is inferior. Over-production injures the tree.

The experience of others may often be of great value to us. but our own experience ought to be still more instructive. Many things about the farm must be, learned in a practical way, since they can be learned in no olhrer.

A spirited horse may soon be made slow and spiritless by constant, twitching the lines, peevish urging and many other wearing processes that fretful drivers invent and practice. Sheep are also used as dairy animals in some countries. The celebrated Rochefort cheese is made from the milk of sheep, and' in many portions of Cat *da sheep are regularly milked, and profitably, r Those who are unaccustomed to the growing of cauliflowers will not fail to have a few plants every season if once they are given a trial. They are as easily grown as cabbage, 'and are tender and crisp. They grow rapidly, and thrive best with frequent hoeing. By keeping the surface of the soil loose the loss of moisture by capillary attraction and evaporation will Impartially avoided. A loose soil, if only an

inch In depth, serves aa a mulch, or oovering, over the surface of the ground, thus proteoting the roots and assisting to retain the moisture below.

THE POULTRY YARD.

The medium-sized breeds are best, Geese are easily and cheaply raised. Nests made on the ground are the •best. Bantams are small eaters and fair layers. Clean earth is the best absorbent for poultry-houses and runs. Woman should find in poultry culture a remunerative occupation. Broilers bring more money than anything else in the poultry line.

Cabbage is excellent green food at any time of year for all kinds of poultry. Thousands of dollars go abroad every month for eggs that ought to b« produced at home. All that is needed for the novice, in constructing his fowl-house is a practical building, with good shelter, proper ventilation and a few internal arrangements for roosting, dusting and nesting. ARTIFICIAL INCUBATORS. It has been proven beyond question that artificial incubators are of i nvaluable assistance to poultrymen who pursue the business on a large scale, hatching thousands of chicks at one setting and rearing them for early broilers. The management of artificial incubators and brooders, however, is a business to bo learned, and the man who succeeds must start with a good stock of perseverance, patience, grit and capital. PROFIT IN THICKS. There is always a good market ?or ducks, not only in the larger cities, but in every town. Now that the old idea that ducks require a brook or pond has been proven erroneous, there appears no reason why these birds should not be added to every poultry yard. The improved kinds, such as Pekins and Kouens, can be easily and profitably reared on dry ground. Ducks begin laying early, and the ducklings can with generous feeding be got ready for the table in comparatively quick time.

A WORD ABOUT BREEDS.

Such breeds as the white and the brown Leghorns and birds breed from them, either pure bred or cross-bred or grade as a basis, are first-class egg producers, while a game cock is also valuable to breed to good, common hens, producing as a rule, vigorous, active pullets, which are invariably good layors. Those who desire to raise poultry principally for the flesh may select light Brahmas. Plymouth Rock, dark Brahmas or some of the Cochin breeds, the first two named, however, being general favorites in this respect, and also confining with it good laying qualities under favorable circumstances.

KITCHEN HINTS.

The most convenient brush case 19 made out of the palm-leaf fan, with triple pocket of silk or velvet. The average washerwoman does not know that every time she rubs her woolens on the washboard she is destroying their soft pliability, which is their chief charm- Lose no time in teaching her to squeeze and not rub them as she would cotton. ' Pounding them is also very effective. The suds should be strong and the rinse-water wdkrm.

An excellent thing for the bottom of dress skirts, in place of the long-used alpaca braid, which is ruinous to the tops of French kid boots, as well as

others- is to face the skirt with velveteen, or old velvet will answer the purpose very well. It will wear as long as the dress itself, and is easily brushed and kept clean, and gives a very nice finish to the bottom of a dress.

If you have a pet nubia cloud or hood that has been carried over from last season, rub it thoroughly with wheateh flour, then shake it vigorously until all traces of the flour have bqen removed, and you will find that the creation, no matter how fragile, presents the clear, airy beauty of its best days. It is almost impossible to wash worsted work in the crochet stitch without giving it a drawn and stretched appearance that is sure to destroy its prettiness.

The best thing to do in putting away clothes is to put them in strong paper bags and paste the top closely together with flour paste or mucilage. Care must be taken that moths have not already gotten into the garments. If there is a suspicion that suoh is the case a liberal sprinkling of benzine, will effectually destroy the moths or eggs, and not injure the fabric. It is always well to beat and hang in the open air all garments to be put away for the summer. I make my own screens for windows, and find, if they are not quite as well finished as the boughten ones, they, keep out flies as successfully. But lath, or planed strips, the length you wish the screen; then tack on the wire, cloth (or plain mosquito netting) to the two side pieces; next lay the top and bottom strips in place, and nail at the corners; now you are ready to tack, the wire netting at the top and bottom, and the screen is finished."

There have been some quite serious results from wearing the cheaper grades of colored stockings, and to avoid suoh danger, if tockings, cotton or woolen, were scalded well in a solution of strong salt and water it would not only prevent their poisoning the feet and ■limbs, but insure them against cracking the flesh and prevent their fading. It is but a trifle of labor and will save a great amount of pain. If the feet do not perspire there is not so much danger of poisoning, but it i* better to be m the safe side.

A LADY FROM GREENLAND.

She Tells of the Domestic Life of Her People. V. Y. Sun Miss Olof Krarer, a native of Greenland, is visiting at Saratoga. She is a pure blood Esquimaux lady of very quaint and curious appearance, especially from an American standpoint She is 31 years old, 3 feet 4 inches in height, and as she weighs 120 pounds it can well be imagined that she is pretty stout. In an Esquimaux's eyes she is probably handsome, but not so in an American sense. Her face is peculiar, and almost impossible to portray. Her hair, which she says when she left Greenland was black, is now almost golden. Her eyes are large and full of animation. Her usual attitude is with her chubby hands folded in front of her, her short curved arms resting close against her person. She says that in her country children are never allowed to play out of doors, and her arms, she explained, were bowed because in her country children are compelled to fold them always. Her piump and robust figure was richly clad in qed silk, close fitting, with train, the whole trimmed with lace. The ornaments consist of a heavy gold ring and watch guard ornamented with pendants. Her movements are easy and quite graceful, and her voice low, but clear and distinct. She was educated in lceland, and speaks Eng-, lish very pleasingly.

Miss Krarer says that in Greenland people seldom live above sixty years. They have but one sickness, and that is such.as in, this country isoalled consumption. They are sick about four years, ,and during that time “our people, 11 she says, * -never pay any attention to them.” They say spirits have them and they hate them. As soon as they are taken ill they are placed in a house by themselves, and all that is done for them is to throw them a piece of blubber as they would to a dog. If sick people get well they are smart; if they die they are no good and they are thrown into a hole in the snow, together with their furs and spears. When people are dead in my country wc don’t want anything more to do with them.

“Fires in my country,” says Miss Krarer, “are lighted with a flint, and a man who owns a flint is wealthy, and he guards it as carefully as a man in this country would a lump of gold.” The domestic life of her people is very simple, and yet subject to very rigid regulations. She says; “When a wife is wanted from among the maidens the enamored young man watches his opportunity and while the parents are away or not observing he steals her arid takes her to another house. If caught in the act he is killed by the parents of the girl. If they are dead his own parents do the deed, as they consider that a man who is not smart enough to steal a girl for his wife is not smart enough to kill a bear, and therefore should not be allowed to live. A man must live with his wife for life. If he deserts her he is put to death. If a child disobeys its parents it is punished by being burned with a heated bone.

“In our land,” she said, “we have neither doctors, luwyers, preachers, nor rulers of any kind, jfor we never tell lies or steal; consequently it is not necessary to have any rulers. In all Greenland there are no trees; the bare ground is never seen, is no water but that of the ocean. I think Iceland would be a good place for many American ladies to go, for in that country the ladies never wash themselves from the - timethey are born until they die. The only thing they do is to anoint themselves daily with oil. In our country the ladies amuse themselves by sitting on the floor of their houses and looking at each other, while engaged in an animated discussion as to the beauty of each other, and the one having the greatest amount of oil on her face is considered to be the greatest beauty.” Miss Krarer has been eight years in this country, and has no desire to return to Greenland. She says she never will go there again to remain permanently.

Foxes In England.

London Spectator." _ i EarlV in the spring the dog-foxes travel great distances to find their mates, und on still evenings their cry may be heard plainly, three short, husky barks, like the cough of a dog with a bone in his throat. The vixen occasionally utters a plaintive howl, a weird uncomfortuble noise. The first cubs are dropped early in the middle of March, sometimes in some large earth that has been used for yours, but frequently in a hole which the vixen has made for herself. Unlike the otters, foxes do not resent the presence of others of their species in their hunting grounds. A pair of otters will thOßopolize miles of river, but if there is plenty of game and the covers are quiet half a dozen vixens may take up their quarters in one square mile. The quantity of food' which the cubs require is extraordinary, and if the fox were not the most cunning as well as one of the most active and enduring cf animals, the old ones would; find it hard to satisfy them. Fortunately for the mothers of Marge families—for they sometimes have as many as seven itt a litter—the cubs are omnivorous feeders, and, except snakes or storts, will eat almost anything. Fish, frogs, rats, small birds, field mice, rabbits and nil kinds of game are their usual fare. The vixens prowl round every fowl-house in the parish at least once a week. They will climb an ivy-cov-ered tree and catch a wood-pigeon on her'nest, or hide in a patch of rushes and catoh the moor-hen as she swims from her island home to the bank Meantime the father of (he famil

leads a comfortable bachelor life, spending the warm days curled up in a snug nest in the long dry grass, with a good thick tuft between Rim and the wind, or if the day be very calm, he slips into the crown of a pollard and sleeps there.

VALUE OF STANLEY’S DISCOVERIES.

Stanley is on the home stretch, and on April 10th arrived safely in Brindisi, where he was officially welcomed by the Italians and the British viceconsul. From Brindisi he went on to Cannes, and thnee to Brussels. Stanley positively declares that had he not rescued him Emlm would now have been a common slave in Khartoum, and that the Equatorial Province has been fully conquered and taken possession of by Mahdists. Stanley also says that the object of Germany in employing Emin is to annex territory, that the Soudan can be .conquered and annexed by any nation which will spend the money and send the men required,

He continued: “I told Sir Rutherford Alcock, in 1878, that inside of twenty years there would not be a square mile of Africa unexplored. I said that in the same period of time the Continent would be pierced in all directions by railways, if there was money furnished. England has taken millions of square miles out of Africa; France has taken a million also, and so has Germany. Good. Who would have dreamed, in 1878, when I was fighting my way, mile by mile, down the Upper Congo, that to-day there would be thirteen steamers on its waters? If the Germans build their railways from Bagamoyo they will, control the lake region, and if they get the lake region they will destroy the whole value of British possessions on the cost. After a while they would want the coast as well. If the Germans get Albert and Victoria lakes they will be masters of the Nile so far as Africa is concerned. As I, said before, when England is ready to do her work as she ought to the North African question will be solved, but no stingy or wavering method will succeed. There must be a distinct object in view and a definite intention to accomplish it.”

Stanley became enthusiastic when asked what there would be to gain by such an expenditure of money and men in Africa. “What is there to gain? There is land to gain—land that will grow anything under the sun. Why, this soil you see here in Southern Italy”—and Stanley pointed to the green slopes rising from the harbor—- ■ would not be looked at. In Africa we should call it sterile. Then there are millions of strong men to gainmen who can be converted into wealth by proper management. Every laborer who enters the United States is valued at SI,OO0 —as an addition to the national wealth. Africa teems, with black men, and they can easily be controlled. As this population becomes civilized it must be clothed and housed. Think of what a great market it will be for a nation!”

It is said that King Leopold wants Stanley to go back to the Congo State, and that England wants him to goi back to East Africa. Certain it is»that the struggle for possession will come in Africa between England and Germany. Stanley says that be has analyzed the whole situation in his new book, and has not sacrificed truth to politeness.

The Practical Extinction of Small Pox.

Dr. Cyrus £dson, in June Forum. About 80,000 children ate vaccinated annually by the physicians of the Board of Health in New York City.! Adults who request it are also vaccinated. The operation is performed up-' on from 80,000 to 90,000 persons every year. The vaccinating corps of the. Health Department was organized in 1874. The result of its work was not. apparent until 1876. The deaths from small-pox previous to 1876 averaged 69.57 per 100,000 per year; since 1876 they have averag-d 8.38 per 100,000 per year, and this average is being yearly reduced. During the past sixteen months we have had Only two cases of the disease in New York city. One of these cases occurred in the* most thickly populated part of the city, where the number of inhabitants per acre is greater than on any other spot in the world; yet sowell was the neighborhood protected that not a single case occurred amoug the many that were exposed.

The Making of Wills.

Philadelphia Times; Many people have strong prejudices, against making a will. They can't separate the]act of a will.' from the beginning of preparation son death. All such prejudices are utterly senseless. .Every man and woman who has property should make a will at once, if one has not already been executed, and they should not hesitate to change it just as often as changed cit»cumstances seem to call for. It should be changed as freely as a lease would be changed, and it should be regarded just as much matter of plain, practical business. The best way is to consult a competent lawyer, and to consult no. others, and the next important thing, is to keep your own counsels to yourself. It is quite time enough when a testator dies for the discussion of his or her will to begin. In|short, leave all yj charities you can while living, and always leave a sensible will executed to declare your wishes after death.

The lameness of the queen of England has now become sp pronounced that she has given up her habit of standing after dinner in the gallery at Windsor, and as soon as she gets into the drawing-room a chair is brought md she sits down.

LIFE IN THE BIG SWAMP.

Weird Okefenokee Scene—Savage Saurians-Shooting Fish With Arrows: f> : . f Atlanta Journal. The prairie land, which covers a considerable portion of the Okefenokee swamp, is a very remarkable formation, and is, I am told, peculiar to this swamp. It is open land, entirely free from timber, and stretching away as far as the eye can reach in every direction. It has most of the characteristics of a huge inland sea, except the waves. Interspersed here and jthere in this huge prairie are small patches of high dry ground, of variable size and heavily timbered called cowhouses. lam unable to ascertain the propriety of this name, unless, it be that the cattle, 'deer, and other animals iseek these places for shelter and to get out of the water. The surtaee of prairies is covered with a deposit of decayed vegetation that has been accumulating for centuries, and is called jmuck. This varies in thickness from four to ten feet with water beneath, and below the water is sand. This singular formation gives to the swamp lits name of Trembling Eai th. It will [support the weight of the average man if he keeps moving onward; but if he pauses an instant he commences to sink, and may go through to his waist 6r over his hpad. At every step the .water oozes up around the feet, while the muck will tremble and quiver for yards around. There is something grand and even sublime to the visitor in the silent vastness of this prairie formation. It stretches away before the eye in every direction until only limited by the horizon, its perfect stillness only broken by the occasional bellow of some huge alligator, or the far distant scream of some unknown bird. Here and there can be seen the track left behind by some hunter, where possibly years ago he had laboriously poled his canoe along in pursuit of game, the path as distinct and fresh now as if made only yesterday. All around fish of endless species and sizes can be seen swimming and darting about, while not Infrequently the eye may fall upon some immense alligator or snake sunning himself upon the surface of the muck and water or slowly sinking out of sight as soon as he is discovered. This description conveys a slight but at best a very imperfect idea of the prairie land of this swamp. -Upon the island where we are at present encamped are living two families, with the aged father, named Cheshire. The old gentleman is nearly 80 years of age, and has spent thirty odd years of his life here in tins spot. At the time of the expedition sent through the swamp by the Constitution he acted as guide, and is full of reminiscence of that trip. He is a wonderful fisherman, and calls himself the King of the Swamp, to which position he says he was duly appointed and commissioned by Dr. Little, the State Geologist. The two sons of Mr. Cheshire have their families here. The men attempt to cultivate small crops, but spend most of their time in hunting. Their revenue is almost entirely derived from the sale of the hides of alligators, deer and bears. The quantity of these that they destroy and many of their stories of hunting adventures are almost incredible. Think of a hunter shooting down four deer with a rifle, one after another, and without moving from one spot. In several of the lakes that are thickly interspersed throughout this prairie the alligators are so numerous and fierce that they will attack a man in a boat as soon as he appears among them, and shooting them by night’ which is the way they are commonly killed, is sometimes attended with no little danger. The entire armament of the Cheshire family consists of one ten gauge, ten pound double-barrelled Remington shotgun and two Winchester rifles, one thirty-eight calibre and_one thirty-two. Also a small yellow pine bow and a few cane arrows. These latter are used in shooting fish, and I feel safe in asserting that the dexterity with which these men vise their rude bow and arrows will put to shame the average Atlanta marksman with his rifle. In passing over the prairie, one of the Cheshires will suddenly stop, poise his little bow and send his little arrow flying into the water, ordinarily into a spot where you or. I would see nothing, but the way in which that arrow will dance about for the next minute or two will convince you not only that there i 9 an object on the other end of , it, but that it is an object of some size, too. When your hunter pulls up his arrow, behold a four or six pound trout or black ba9s, centrally trans fixed, a shot that very few of our marksmen could make with a gun.

One Kind of Human Nature.

Philadelphia Pres*. An Ohio man, the father of seven marriageable daughters, some of whom were jp danger of getting somewhat toojfar along to be marriageable, has been practicing recently with a little ordinary everyday human nature, suen as may be found in the make-up of all .of us. This Ohio man had put qp patiently with all the young men of the country around for years. They came to see the girls every night, sometimes three or four a night, and on Sunday nights there was always as much as one young man for each of the seven girls. They just had their steady company, as they say in Ohio. All this was very pleasant to the girls and boys, but it was expensive for the old gentlemen, and it ultimately became very tiresome. As none of the boys showed a disposition to take .any of the girls off his hands by marrying them, he ordered them off. He felt that things were altogether too .convenient, and that the girls were rated too Cheaply. Some of the young men showed’their utter worthlessness giving heed to these orders and treat*

Ing them In good faith. Others continued their visits, but did their best 1 to avoid Hie old gentleman, and al ways! enjoyed themselves the more when they knew he wasn’t around.' He was not to be deceived, however, and seeing that he • had not muchnimproved the chances of getting his girls married he created more obstacles. He bought a number of ferocious dogs, and borrowed a shotgun of a neighbor, and gave notice that the first young man that came fooling around the house could have his choice of being shot or eaten up by the aogs. This scheme worked admirably, and it had almost immediate effect. Within three days two of the girls had run away and got married. This so enconraged the old gentleman that he bought an extra dog and an increased supply of amunition for the shotgun. ’ The greater the difficulties, however, the more determined the young men were to have those girls, and the undeniable truthful statement is made that within a month not one of the young ladies remained unmarried. They had all got away in spite of the dog and the shot gun, ju9t as the old gentleman had doubtless forseen would be the case—when they were made hard to get they were in demand. That is merely a kind of human nature that most people understand, but it isn’t so effectively practiced by everybody. *

STANLEY’S LOVE STORY.

Miss Tennant Rejected the Explorer Once Because He Dyed His Hair. Cable Special. There has been a great deal of romancing about Stanley’s engagement to Dorothy Tennant. The news was sprung as a great surprise on Saturday morning. Newspaper men had to scramble about in a lively manner to ascertain the facts about the engagement. Tne few people who claimed to possess the secret clothed the affair, with all the romance possible. To-day I learned the exact facts. Stanley met Miss Tennant with a party on the ' Duke of Westminister’s yacht a tew weeks before he started for Africa to rescue Emin. He was introduced to her by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Stanley was much impressed with Miss Tennant and sought occasions to jontinue the friendship. A few days before he started for Africa he proposed marriage. Much, to his surprise he was rejected. To the Baroness and one or two other intimate friends Stanley did not hesitate to denounce Miss Tennant’s conduct in encouraging him to the point of proposal and then jilting him. To one or two friends who ventured to talk to her on the subject Miss Tennant said she could not stand a man who- dyed his hair. ‘lt is a well-known fact that while in America, and while here, before he started for Africa the last time, Stanley always dyed his hair. Photographs taken of him just before starting show his hair to be jet black. During his last African visit he discarded dyes altogether, and is now content to let his hair remain as white as snow.

The stories about Stanley sending impassioned love letters from the heart of Africa to his anxious fiance through the Emin relief committee in London is all bosh. Stanley went away a rejected suitor. When homeward bound, he arrived at Brindisi, Miss Tennant was not there to meet him, as surely she would have been if she had been betrothed to him. Nor did she meet him in Paris or Brussels. From Brussels, Stanley wired to two intimate friends in London to meet him at Ostend and lunch on the boat with him while crossing to Dover- These friends were Mrs. French Sheldon, of New York, and Harry Welcome, who is getting up the American dinner to Stanley in London. Miss Tennant was not there. Among the party to meet Stanley at Dover was the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. During the journey up she contrived to let Stanley know that if be still loved Dorothy Tennant, and would ask her again to marry him, this time he would not be refused. The result was that Stanley drove at once from the Victoria Station to the home of the Baroness, where Miss Tennant was waiting to meet him. Whether Stanley asked her again there and then to lie his wife I cannot iearn. But he did so"' very soon afterwards. This is the true story of the engagement, which is still the subject of the greatest gossip. No date has been fixed for the wedding, but it will probably be early in July.

Bit by a Vampire.

The wife of Senor Gonzales, a prominent citizen of Mouterey, Mexico, was found dead in her bed this morningj with a large bat of the vampire variety fastened' in her hair. She had been sleeping by an open window, and the creature had flown in and evidently killed her by sucking her blood, fpr two tiny wounds 011 her neck close to the jugular vein indicate the places it had punctured. Its escape had been prevented though . by the hair of its victim, which was very long and abundant, and had so entangled the vampire in its meshes as to hold it until it could be killed. The death of Senora Gonzales is much regretted in the community, as she was a lady of a miable and benevolent character, as well as noted for her beauty. The death inflicted by these bats is a very peaceful one, for while draining the blood they keep up a continuous gentle faqning of their wings, whice soothes and lulls the sleeper until his slumbers glide imperceptibly into eternal rest. Senor Gonzales, who was asleep by his wife's side, says he was first awakened by the bat's frantic endeavors to free itself from its wet ol hair, and that he killed the gorged and ipiprisOned creature without difficulty, and could scarcely believe that his wife was dead, so placidly and n&iur ally did she seem to sleep.