Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 May 1896 — Page 7

WHEAT RECOVERING.

DAMAGE KEl'OKTS IN MI8SOUKI AND KANSAS ADD SXKEXGTH.

The dosed Showed a Snbstantlal Gafn--Coru aud Oats Sot Affected by liearish News—1'ro visions Weak.

Chtfcago, May ".—Wheat was strong- tofiay wn'dairnage reports from Missouri and Kansas in the way of chinch bugs a.n-d dry toot winds.- July cios&d at 64 ^nts, an tadvanc-e oi 1*4 cents oveT.ys.csteixlay's .ciose.

Although the news affecting corn and oa-te was bearish, as a rale, those articles Tuwed vcxy strong, tiie July futures of each Seining: ficiil per bushel for the day, Provisvo'ns ruled tame and rather weak, closing at a slight decline.

There -wam a g-cod trade in wheat and pd'iXXJ had 1 cents range. The start was a. little easier an uhe better weather map, rather '"bearish" summary of the Price CiuTtvrst, amailler flour ou.ipuit tor the wu-k ujkI 'L-mt woniiwest mjvfinien-t. Tnera was CKAnsideraol-e locaJl veiling but the same ivu* quaekly absorbed by pro'it^Aonal and IsVw Y-ork buying, and .jjri-oe soon turned and advanced 1Pwblk: oatoles were quiet tuod steady, wh.i-e private advices quotea Liiv«rioa] opening weak and closing firm arwl a. turn dearer As Mie session advanced there was a noticeaiule a-bo-ence ot •uh« selling pressure so pronounced of late but on tne contrary tnitre -was ,-quRe a genera] dcma'nd a,nd 'the same increased as reports came in about chinch bugs in Okiaihonla and Kansas, with hot winds at the Anst named place. There was talk of too warm wither and lack of rata in the southwest and too muah moisture in the niorthiwest, the signal service predicting showers for the Daitfotas, and Minnesota toaiight and- fair and coder conditions Friday. M-cre rai'n was reported in the Red river valley and seeding said to be greatly delayed.

There wan a moderate speculative trade in com. the market though .ruled fairly

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actdve, "and 'the ra.nge was cent. •Final figures showed again of The stronger 'tcxne was due largely to the action ccf wheat amd the small movement. Theire was considerable covering. by "aborts"' and 'the same supplied by local "longs." Boom traders were the principal sellers.

There was a good market in oats and a stronger fee'ling with an .advance of rtTl cent, and a close at about the top. There was liberal offerings aind good buy-in-g" by aborts, .sev6rajl of thJe la-rgro local •tradfers takiing good lines. Trading, was largeily In July and September. The strength 'in wheat ,the small receipts and advance dn cash prices were the chief causes fir the bulge.

The provision market was rather quiet and thi§ undertone was weak. Every offer ito buy brouigihit lots of sellers and that continued throughout the session. New York sold rifbs, and the Weal packers sold both lard and ribs. Prices were fairly steady at the start, but woakmes soon developed, and ait the close July pork, compared witih its value on the previous afternoon, was 7Vj cents lower, July lard 5 cents and ribs 21/&@5 oents lower.

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MONEY, STOCKS AND BONDS.

rulitlcs Again Rellected in the Wall Street O 'i'rading. New York, May 7.—Politics was reflected to an extent in today's stock market and prices sold off 'bath for foreign and domestic account. Speculation was also dejpuiissed through revived Cuban belligerency agitation and the .prc/bability of conl.v.'iied exports of gold on a fairly large scale. Another weakening influence was a temporary stJtfeniii'g in money. At Intervals ihij selling pressure was pro-ai-^uaced. 1-n the judu-striaila the leaders in .point of activity vv-eu^ Sugar and A-mer-' lean Tobacco aw*l in the railroad li-st St. Paul and Burkcigton and Quincy reached the iai gest total. London .prices for Arm-r-ioans came lower and there was comp-ara-itlvtiy liberal sju-ling of tooth stocks ana bonds c'f foreign a-coauriLs. In the domestic market tHe dialings Were almost entirely (professional and the motive power was furnished 'by the -bears. Special inlluenlces affected ,somie- of the industrial prop&rties, and .tht les soittefaotory couidiitiion of the iron and steel industry was I mainly rospansjble tor declines in Ttiriavassae Coal, Colouaido Fuiel and Illinois steel. There appears to be a conflict of cpiniiqn as to ..'tne ic'i.terot of the shipments of gold to be madet to Paris on Saturday and. esti-maies rangu from J1,000,0K) to $2,600,000. 'Bankers in close touch with the exchange inarket cond:itl-c-ns, express lie I opinion bhaii hi.avy exports of gold will be made to Germany early next week. The dealings covered a wide range of stocks.

Sugar suffered from Washington and local selling for both account -and reacted 1% jer cont. Tlie deoione was partly due to reductions in the pi-Hces of the product. Tobacco moved irregularly but near the close broke lV-i per cemt. Teh newo-tihat th'e grand jury had indict ito President J. iB. Duke and -nj'ne directors of the American Tobacco ebon pan was not known in business .hours. The grangers, Louisville and Nashville, Xlissouri Pacific and Tennessee Coal declined 1@1% per cent. The losses among other less active shares was severe. The pressure against "(he list was continuous and Jinal prices were at tlie lowest of the day.

Railway bonds trended downward. Sales $1,071,000. 'Money on call firmer at 2%(S4 per cent Hast loun 3%: closeil 3% prime mercantile paper 4%(S!5% per cen* sterling exchange steady, with actual business in banker's W-lls at $4.SS%@4.S9 for demand and $4.87% (ii4S for siixty days commercial bills $4.S7 (bair silver 67vw silver certificates 67TstS«S%.

Clearings $90,849,138 balances $5,102,393. AitcMson 14% Adams Exprasis 149 Alton and TerreHaute 55 American Express 112 Baltimore and Ohio 36% Canada Pacific 5! Cawada Southern 49% Central Pacific 14% Chesapeake and Ohiio lf.% Chicago and Alton 157% Chi-cago, Burlington and Qulncy 79% Chicago Gas 6S% •Consolidated Gas 159% Colorado Coal and Iron 1 C., C., C. and St. Louis 34 Cotton Oil Certificates 13% Delaware and Hudson 126 •, 3V1., Lack, and Western 1614

Ijnwr and Rio GranA5. prefd 47% D^tillers and Cattle Fe«eders Co IS (Erie 14 (Erie, first prwfd 37^4 [Erie, second prefd. offd'.' 23 iF'ort W-iyne 160. Great Northern, prefd US C. and E. T., prefd. offd^ 99% llocking Valley 16% JlMnois Central 95% St. Paul and Dulirth :.v..u'.v.. 24' Kaawas arnfd Texas, prefd 23% SLake Erie and Wir«torn,.r.-.4 17% 3vaike Erie and Western, preftl J. l..— w'-i lUake Shore 149% JTvead Trust 25. T/oaii«vHle and Nasnvflle 50 3 ouSo\-flle and New Albany S Nan'hattan Cor^c-'.rrlated lfl© iStTTOiphte ar.nl Charleiston,' orfoj iMlchigan Central JMlF.-aourl Pac'fle s..« !MohHe and Ohio Js-a-shvllle .and Chattanooga ... I National Cordage iNartional Cor Inee. prefd

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THE LIVESTOCK MARKET.

Cattle Steady—Hogs Active and Strong— Sheep Unchanged. Indianiap&fcis, May 7.—Oattile—.Receipts 300 'latead. Sihipmiomts fair. Thecarjt.e market was m'Oderately active today a-nu au kinds so'ld at quotably ste^dy pnce3.

Export and shipping ca-^ie we liuo.e: Fat. well' finished, dry,.-.fed steers, 1,400 lbs. and upward—4 -o@ 4.40' Go'od to choice shipping and e-xport steers Fsul-r Jo medjum shipping steers Good*to chaioe feeding steers.. Common to good siockers

Sheep—R-ecfiipta 200 hcaid. Shipments faiT. The shesp and lamb marfcet was moderately active, with no quotable changle in prio&s. Good to choice yearlings ..53 JOP -o Common .to medium insariings 00^w Good to choice sheep 3 M^3 3^ Export ewes awd wejthers 3 00®3 4o Fair to medium sheep 2 40^2 90 Common sheep 1 Bucks, per bead

Peoria Corn RJarket.

Peoria, May 7.—Corn firm, higher No. 2, 29. No. 3, 28%. Oats "firmer, No. 2 white 19% No. 3 wWi'te 1S%@19. Rye, dull, nominal. Whisky market steady, unchanged.

Minneapolis Wheat Market.

Minneapolis, May 7.—Wheat, No. 1 northern cash 61% May 60% July 61%@61%.

SUPREME COURT RECORD.

Abstract of Decisions Rendered May t, 1896. Longhaud Mauutjcript—Bill of Exceptions. 17.G57. Indiana I. & I. Railroad Company vs. Joiim Lynch et al. Lake C. C. Al'ftnrnad. Howard, J. (1) It is the duty of. the party desiring to use the same to file .the longhand manuscript,of the evidence with the clerk before the expiration of the time given for filing a bill Of exceptions, an dcounsel •should -wot trust such duty to inexperi•etneed officials. (2) A paper incorporated •in a transcript will 'not serve as a bill or exceptions unless i't is preceded or introduced by a proper recital or entry, and accompanied 'by a proper certiificatiei of th'e clerk, wh'lch shows it to have been filed in time. Negligence—Car Couplings—Bill of Exceptions—Constitutional Law. 17,318. iPennsy-lvania Company vs. Phillip K. Eba'ugh. Marion C. C. Reversed, llackney, C. J. (1) if. is not legal negligence for a railroad company to use cars on its road a,nd in its yards, the couiplings or dead'woods of which are of unequal lu'.ght, nor to oammttind its brakemen to couple -them together .to form a train. (2) It is not necessary that the filing of a bill of exceptions oan'ta'infjng the evidence sihould be shown by am order book "entry. It is sufficient if 'the clerk certifies to the filing or the record affirmatively shows that fact." (3) An offer by 'the appellee to prove iin blank, shown by the .bill of exceptions, does not establish that a properly certified bill does not contain all the evidence, but the.court will presume that such offfers were never completed.* (1) It is the practice, and doubtteies t}ie duty of the court to decline to pass upon tlie constitutionality of a law unless necessary to the decision of-the particular case. New Trial—Newly Discovered Evidence—

Cemplaint—Proof.

17,719. Henry-P. Davis vs. William P. Davds et al. Madison C. C. Reversed. Monks, J. (1) Applications for new trials for newly discovered evidence are viewed with disfavor by the courts and will not be granted unless diligence on. the -former .trial is affirrhativetly -Shown, and the facts constituting such diligence are set out. (2) A complaint for a new trial for'-this cause must state every element of,''a tQ^se entitling the plaintiff to relief e^eijrly and strongly and can not be aided by? reference to the pleadings or evidence in the former "base filed with the complaint. (3) The- evidence given on the former trial must be shown by proper proof «(t the hearing of the suit for a new trial, as well as alleged in the complaint.

APPELLATE COURT.

Coanter Claim-Transcript—Practice. 1,61S. Huber Manufacturing Company vs William'H. Bnsey. Miami C. C. Affirmed. Ross, J. (1) A single pleading can not serve both as a counter claim and an answer. But whenea paper which is designated by both names asks affirmative relief, it must be considered a coutater claim, and if it states facts sufficient to constitute a counter claim It will withstand a demurrer. (2) It is not proper to file a .bU lof exceptions in •the appellate oo"jrt as an independent document, neither should it merely be attached to the transcript, but such a bill, in order to become a, part rf record, must be embraced in arid made a part of the transcript.

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Coffee and Sngar Market.

New York, May 7.—Coiffe options opened unchang-ed to 5 points higJicr and ruled firm closed steady April declined 5 points others unchanged to 10 points hiigh'er. Sales 17,250 bags, including May [email protected] September $11.GO spot RiO firm No. 7, 14 mild, market firm cordova 169iffj/lS.

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There's nothing more pure In heaven,^ And nothing on earth more mfld. More full of the light that is all divine,

Than the sxnilo of a little child. The slnleea lips, half parted With breath, as sweet as the air, And the light that seems so glad to shine

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GEIERSON, THE TORY

The old Episcopal churchyard of St. PauI'H, in Augusta, Ga., is. cot entirely unknown to fame, having been (during the days of the American Revolution) notorious Fort Grierson, built by the British ehortly before the colonies threw off their dominion and christened in honor of the Irish-Italian Tory who later'on boat back of Its ramparts the stubborn siego of Elijah Clarke and made it the refuge and stronghold of a band of Hcssinus and renegades that scourged the country thereabout with flru and §word.

Ita site .is dircctly on the bank of the Savannah river, and, standing on what is now the rear wall of the churchyard, oue looks noross tho broad, muddy current into Carolina, directly inta old Edgefield district, the theater of "many a sauguinary enactment in those times, and tho most turbulent spot tod.-jy in all that hotheaded state, where the erstwhile populous city and commercial mart of Hamburg, now decayed and almost deserted, blonds its ruins into a landscape not altogether unlovely, with succession of rising blue hills in the background. Below, tho river sweeps to the south and the bold whito bluffs of Beech islanfl woul3 be ilnely in sight were it not for the view obstructing railroad bridges. From tliu water to the churchyard there fjro two precipitous rises, both faced with ancient brickwork and requiring no great stretch of fancy or.vivUl imagination to conceive as parapetg,vwith here and there,the plain trade of on em-brasure-or casement. The situation commands any approach by water, and ip itself precludes uny attaok from the front, tho Carolina sido.

Otherwiso tho metamorphosis has been complete, yet, though, for all tjiai air of abiding peace, tho leafy elms and shaded sward, blooming rose vinos, quaintly inscribed gravestones and old brick churoh, with its stainod glass windows and white belfry effect, it was the storm center of a running series of acts of blood and cruelty and carnage and the 6cene of murders and brutalities galore. Around it and its crafty, courageous defender there is wovon one of those historical legends still current throughout the Carolinas und Georgia, that deal with men and deeds of that period and out of. which Gilmore Sims,- the Scott of the south, miglit-huvo wrought a novel as interesting and as true as his incomparable "Eutaw" or "Black' Isidore of tho Congaree"—inspired by and'spu'n of' this folklore—with its conclusion an act of bloody but fitting justice well ine keeping with the theme. "oli'r

Grierson, the tradition runs,

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0 little one, 6Uitle and bless me, For somehow—I know not why— 1 feel in my soul when children smile

That angels are passing by. I feel that the gates of heaven 4 Are nearer than I know: That the light and the hope of that sweeter world,

WOB FCH&AON.,

of an Irish nobleman and an Italian woman of gentle blood, who settled in Georgia after his birth. Nature had endowed him with a military genius in a small way, unquavering courage and a wondorfully shrowd and cruel nature, displaying the human tiger in his lissome figure and cat-, like grace.

Educated abroad'ho returned to America skilled in all tho athletic accomplishments of a soldier of tho time and possessed of the easy grace and polished manner of the true gallant, but the diabolical nature underneath was manifested in the wrestling matches with which ho would engage some proud young Creel? or Chootaw and, catching him in a viselike grip, with-the, advantage a scientifio knowledge Jf,tho game gave him, snap a thigh or .shank, blighting the aboriginal's life as though it was glorious fun. To many ofc-a uu*al youngsters of today In that seotion.who has listened open mouthed to these tales by their gray haired graudparonts ho, like Marion,and Sumter, Pickens and Clarke, is almost a living, breathing reality and not a personage passed into the grave and history, and they shudder at his atrocity, marvel at his wiliness—that outwitted even for a time the Swamp Fox and Blue Hen's Chicken—and delight in the suddenness and violence albeit the justice of his death.

At first he had espoused the patriot cause, but later forsook it and joined the British. The infamous Brown, who commanded Augusta, recognized his capaoity and made him hie lieutenant, placing Fort Grierson and its garrison undor his command. And thon bow Elijah Clarke and his mountaineers and riflemen sought to take it, their brave efforts proving impotent against the brick walls and artillery, and how the attacks were resolved into a starving out process which so nearly succeeded, and yet .failed, almost in the very hour of triumph, because his forces were imperatively needed and called elsewhere,, is a matter of history. And so, too, is the faot that with thoir departure the Tory began to wreak revenge for tho inconvenience and confinement ho had been obliged to undergo, though not as fully chronicled as its interest and importance would seem to deserve. He had a bay mare, Wild Goose, an animal that had filled his pockcts with money at the raoes roundabout and won entirely and exclusively his affection, that wad famous as being unmatched in point of. speed, endurance and intelligence by any horse in all that district. Mounted on it, and at tho head of his band, this dashing, tigrish sabreur would cross the river on a wild campaign of murder and arson and plunder and lust. As the act of a coward who fears the time he may be caught and does it in order to have some basis on which to enter a plea for mercy, he refused to shield himself by granting the hollow mockery of a trial and hung his captives without attempting to conjure up a pretext.

On a bright summer's morning a decoy party appeared on the Carolina shore, and Grierson and his men sallied out to meet them, fording the stream and landing on the opposite bank without a shot being fired. The Americans were inferior in force and retreated slowly up the hill, making a stand finally against a stockade near the crest that was built of pine logs set on fcnd and fully ten feet high. The British changed the pursuit Into a charge, and their advance failed to be checked by the weak and poorly directed volley fired at them. In a moment the two forces had mingled, and the fight became a hand to hand melee,-an affair of swirling s'cythb' blades? ntid UHnklln£ broadswords plfed iwittf rid thonflftrof inei-dy or 'quarter!' At' its height a patriot re-enforcement poured ont of the stockades, and the Tories, seeing they had been led into a trap, sought to withdraw and seek safety in their fort, but the retreat degenerated into a rout and the rout into a massacre.

Grierson only reached the water in safety, and plunging ln at a point a quarter of a mile below the ford started across, serene in the consciousness that no horse but his oonld breast the ourrent at that place and twirling his black mustache in well assumed indifference. But when 20 rods from the bank a birch canoe shot out from tinder the fringe of pillows, and from another point came another, and then another, and another, until nearly a dozen appeared, each plied by two pairs of skilled ftnd sinewy arms and racing. toward the

swimming horseman. He recognized then the completeness of the trap in which at last he was fated to bo so miserably caught. As the first of them came up he flung his empty pistols at their heads and was knocked from his seat with a paddle for his pains. In the water be fought like an ottor, diving and struggling, upsetting a couple of boats anil fairly setting the bost of it until a well directed-blow struck him senseless, and then, bound .hand and foot, 'he was paddled ashore and his horse swum back by one of the party,

Baek up to the stockade oh the bill they carried him, where, with returning con--soiousncss, his audacity returned, and he flung grim jests at his oapt-urers, ruiling a fellow ho had nearly drowned, and with racy songs and witty stories-' worked them all into a rollicking humor ere tho sun ^reached its meridian.

And then he cast aside the assumed air of good fellowsihp and stood, forth an unmitigated braggart, boasting of his own prowess and telling of feats his horse had performed. 'I s'pose your mare can jump that palisade?" ono of them, the leader, sarcastically suggested. "Certainly she can," Grierson replied indifferently. "Make her do it, and you are afree man." was the sneeringly given response. The Tory rolled lazily over, exposing the thongs that held him, hnd though the mon understood his meaning there was some hesitation before they were cut,, being one and all surprised at his seriousness in proposing to take advantage of tho merely idle proposition and attempt a feat, made absurd because of its utter impossibility. But the effort promised some sport and recommended itself as a bit of rofiued torture, and he was unloosed amid some joking and coarsely satirical comments. He sat up and for a moment, sat chafing his wrists, continuing unblushingly all the while the flow of braggadocio, and then, whistling to his mare, which came trotting up with a low whinny of delight, he. climbed into the saddle with a stiffness born of his recent rough handling. It was all a grim farce, but Grierson was taking It with an earnestness that was pathetic, seemingly persmuled by his own lies that the animal was really able to do it.

The small diameter of the inolosure made it impossible to' secure a running etart for the attempt, and so, in lieu of that, he began by trotting around tho circle, gradually increasing^ speed until it was a mad run, and thejjL.\Vith«\wild yell and a taunting laugh, h'e.jJuried tho rowels of his spurs in Wild Gooses sides and over she wont, as lightly as With oaths and cries the patriots rushed outside, their weapons cocked and primed, but already he was beyond rifle shot, jiding with an easy grace that showed his ^tiffness in the stockade to have been "cojipterfeited and benovolently smiling back over his shoulder at the thick headed clowns he so easily outwitted. villi

But his period of freedom was not long, for soon August^ itself", was taken, and with it Brown and Grierson. The leader of tho party responsible for the lattor's capture and subsoquent^pape had been a veritable Nemesis 01} thpjtrail of the Tory ever since, spurred on by the doqble motive of chagrin and revenge, and fancied that at last the man's just deserts would be meted out to him, but discovered that, by the terms of capitulation, ho was to be held inviolate from all bodily harm. Grierson had hung his brother and shot down his old faiher without provocation or warning, and the penalty of this and a hundred similar misdeeds he seemed about ,to escape and to return to England, an honored officer in-his majesty's service, perhaps to be lauded for his loyalty and placed in a position to win further honors.

A detachment had been detailed to guard bis place of confinement—a cellar on Broad street, under a building on the site of the present old Eagle and Phenix hotel—to prevent tho_ enraged soldiery from doing violence to him. Ho had for a moment come to the'top to catch a breath of fresh air, and sitting there on tho steps, with his head above ground, was the cynosure of a thousand angry eyes. Op the 6treet and slowly trotting in his direction was a continental mounted on the blooded horse of the captivo, with his rifle across 'the saddle pommel and his sword dangling at his side. Grierson watched with a sort of bitterness what he considered the debasement of the intelligent brute that caught sight of him and whinnied a recognition. The rider, absorbed in himself, failed to notioe it until directly opposite, and then, only with a. darting under glance that swept from the Tory's head to tho rifle and from the rifle back to tho Tory. A breath of flame leaped from tho latter's-muzzle, and ere the sharp report had died away Wild Gocwe^urged relentlessly on with whip and sptir, had carried its ride®*—^who at last had vindicated his ability to act as astutely as- tho Tory had done, and at the same time satiated his revenge—safely away, while Grierson lay dead on tho cellar steps, a jagged hole between his eyes and an ounce bullet in his brain.—Jas Jacques in Brooklyn Eagle.

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You get THE BEST BLOOD when your system is in A1 condition, and that will only be when the Liver is kept active. Try a Liver Remedy once and note the difference. But take only SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR —it is SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR which makes the difference. Take it in powder or in liquid already prepared, or make a tea of tho powderrDuttakeSlMMONS LIVER REGULATOR. You'll findthe RED on every package.* Look Jor

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NATUBAL BUILDERS.

BOASTFUL MAN SHOULD CONSIDER THE WORK OF ANIMALS.

The Gre»t Builder Has Given Extraordinary Instinct and Capacity to Some Apparently Insignificant Creatures—A ,^w ot the Many Wonders Performed.

Man prides himself upon his marvelous Inventions. He holds up to tho admiration of the world the wonderful buildings which ho has oonsfcruoted and thinks himself unriviled as an architect, but, "He who teaches man knowledge has instructed the smallest insects in the art of building and has thus anticipated the worlds of man as an architect."" They who bailded the tower of Babel thought their invention. of turning earth ifito stone a most wonderful discovery, but the white anfc and the busy little bee had practiced this art from the earliest days. The great mathematician instructed tho tiny boe how to build its first cell in tho manner which Sombines the greatest amount of strength with the least material. Instinct, wbtoh may bo called perpetual memory, has preserved the knowledge thus communicated, and the art has been practiced by the countless myriads of their descendants in all climes and countries. The little bee has been engaged in storing away tho honey in theso hexagonal cells, constructing the cells of wax and placiug within them the boe bread, a paste made of pollen and honey, for the food of tho young. In each, of those cells tho queen bee deposits an egg. Some of the bees surround their nests with down collected from the leaves of plants to servo as a nonconductor 01 tspat to guard against changes of temperature.

Nature taught tho inferior orders of animals carpentry, taught them, to divide their houses into various apartments, to construct domes, arches, staircases and colonnades and to excavato tunnels. The scarlet hangings of tho ancient city of Tyre excited tho admiration of the then known world, but thero was a little insect that knew tho art, long before tho celebrated Tyrian dyo was discovered, of hanging tho walls of its cell with tapestry of a scarlet moro brilliant than that of Tyre.

Selecting the scarlet petals of the poppy, the upholsterer beo cuts small, oval pieces as neatly as if dono with a pair of scissors, seizes the pieces between her legs and carries them to her nest. She overlays them three or four in thickness, fitting the pieces very dextrously, and thus hanging her nest all around with this splendid scarlet tapestry. In this beautiful nest her eggs aro hatched. The carpets that cover the floors of our houses are inferior in tissue and texture to the weaves of silken carpet daily woven by insects which lino their habitations with these silken textures. The fabrication of lace has over been a dainty one, but industrious littlo creatures often dofend their helpless ohrysalls by building it a house or a covering of beautiful lacer The manufacture of paper is of comparatively recent date, but this manufactnro was long ago forestalled by the snappish wasp and the irritable hornet. Houses of pasteboard were constructed more than 6,000 years ago by some of our commonest lusOcts.

Men have, been ages in bringing populous cities to their fullest extent, but the white ante raibfee6nly a few months to build a cityf containing a muoh larger number 6f iBhabttants than Babylon in all its glory. These habitations are built with two stories, with long galleries and numerous chambers., The spider weaves his homo as a silken net the locust constructs his of the bark of trees, cut into shape by a sawlike organ which he possesses the kingfisher rears its young in a floating omdle the ant builds winding passages to numerous chambers. In the innermost of these chambers the Infant treasures are laid at night to protect them from cold. In the morning, when the sun is up, the workers convey the larvae to the upper chambers, close under the roof, where they may have warmth. The opossum carries her house, her cradle, her bed, her family', all with her in the wonderful pouch with whioh nature has endowed her.

lThe

hamsters' create vaults

where each young one has a separate apartmont. The beaver hut is round and arched and has a cellar, a flooring, a ceiling and a roof raised by an animal destitute of the builder's art and instructed only by nature. The hare keeps open a chimney to his burrow for circulation of air, from which in cold countries a lifctle column of steam is often seen to arise. The ohimpanzeo builds for himself a hut of branohes and leaves, which is, however, roofless. Many shellfish have been taught by Mother Nature to enlarge their houses without moving out of them. Birds build various kinds of nests in various kinds of places. Thoyhang them from trees, they sew them to a living loaf, they weave a matting above them, they build them in sootions under a common roof in the shape of a purse, they place them In tufts of grass where They found their lowly house of withered bonts -V"' And coarser spear grasa. They line their 'houses with feathers, leaves, grass, hair, string, moss they cement them, they glue them, they plaster them.

The most inslgnifioant of nature's creative bounty have a talent for making houses for their young. The gentry in yollow jackets deposit thoir eggs in brown paper cups or in little clay cells the spider, that sly spinner, ties them up In bags of Quaker ooSored silk. Some do them up in gray bundles and hang them on trees some find a cradle for them in the ripening apple or the reddening cherry, while some shelter them beneath the leathern umbrella of the toadstool. Everywhere these larvss may be found as spring opens. They aro peeping from holes swinging in the air, laid away In silken shrouds, rocked in shells of the ocean, burrowing in the earth, skulking in the woods, set in mother of pearl, put up in ivory, imbedded in sand, laid aiway in the center of fallen logs, pecking from the other side of shells, blue, mottled and white,' each fulfilling its part in the great workshop of nature. The great monuments of man, his cities, edifices, roads, are but pebbles In comparison with the works of those humble croatures who have constructed reefs and islands in the midst of the sea. Deep down in the waives is one of nature's largest workshops, and the work is done according to nature's order by the little ooraL animal whose home is in the ocean.*—Klinlra Telegram.

Niagara.

Niagara is corruption of the Seneca word "neagara," meaning "across the neck," an allusion to the strip Of land between the lakes. The name has been subjected to many changes sinoe the discovery of the oataraet, more than 30 different readings being found in the writings of the various early explorers and ssom^phers.

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