Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 December 1895 — Page 2

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THE INDEPENDENT.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. ENGLAND AS A NAVAL POWER. Strength of the limpire on the Seas Dates from an I-arly Period. It is a little startling at first to saj that Fnglatid's great naval strength grew out of the reformation, lint a Ierusal of Mr. Fronde's last book on 'Fnglish Sailors ia the Sixteenth Century, ' published by the Seribners, will fclmw that this is no absurd paradox. Had there been religio'- unity throughout Futvpe during tJ eign of Cjueen Elizabeth then? wo : have been no occasion for the c: its of Sir John Hawkins and Sir F;.neis Drake. "While Wh would be reg; '.-d ia those times :s pirates there can he m question that they availed themselves of the sui'i'i rIngs in' Knglis'.imcn at tin Lands of th Spanish inquisition to wage their peculiar w.-.r upon Spain. It was their way of retaliating upon Sp;;in. The piratical enterprises of these two great Kogli.-h sailors seem a queer way of carrying on a war in behalf of religious liberty. Fader the condition of the time n other method appears to have hen possible, (jueen Klizabcih laeked either th eonraire or the hoi;csty to declare open Inutilities against I'hilip II. If Fronde's portraiture of her is correct, her motive vr. probably to make her peace with the Catholic church. She wa quite destitute of re ligious conviction. Site 1 i 1 not scruple r.t conduct that deserves the severest condemnation. For example, she was a partner in one of the slave expeditions of Sir John Hawkins, and shared generously in the profits of Sir Francis Drake's lirst voyage a on ml the world, a voyage that was nothing more nor l"ss than the greatest piratical expedition that history reeords. Hut she was .wiliin? that her sailors carry on an Irresponsible war with Spain, hoping that they would thus compel Philip to show more deference to her and aid her In her ambitious sdieine. Rut her notion tl-.at Fngiand could everagainbooomoa papal power was an absurd one. The Protectants of Kurland were too numerous and powerful to make that project possible. Moreover, the outrageous treatment that Spain showed to Englishmen stood in the way of her ambition. The conditions, therefore, favored the continuance of the piratical warfare between the two groat powers. The natural outcome was, of course, the Spanish armada, which was designed by Philip to put an end to English piracy and to reduce England to FUbordination to the papal power. Hut that expedition was doomed to ignominious failure. The navy that Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake had built In their peculiar way saved England from the fate that threatened heV. It was this navy that formed the basis of England'; naval power to-day. Testing the Doctors. The emperor of China has lately had po much trouble with his functionaries of every kind that he has grown distrustful of them all. He had noticed that while Iiis statesmen seemed to be widely at variance, the court physicians agreed beautifully, whenever they were called in together. Hut a test that he might make of their skill and sincerity occurred to him. Feeling somewhat indisposed, the emieror sent for one of Iiis court doctors. These physicians are paid functionaries, and are all learned professors. One of them came, listened to his majesty's account of Iiis trouble, diagnosed it, prescribed, and took his leave. Then the emperor sent for another court doctor, and pave him exactly the same account of Iiis difficulty. This doctor then m::.le his own diagnosis, which was quite different from his brother physician's, prescribed a different remedy, and went his way. A third and fourth physician were called, and each found a different disease, and prescribed a different medicine. Then the emperor became, angry and also sarcastic, and bepped to know how he could have so many things the matter with him and live, and whether he should continue to live if ho took all the diverse sorts of medvine that bad that day been prescribed f :r him. The doctors could give him no satisfactory answer to these questions, but rach insisted tliat he was ripht and all the others wrong. But the emperor declared that this could not be true, and condemned every one of the physicians to lose a mouth's salary. Of course the moral to this story has no Occidental application. Though the doctors of our Western countries reserve the right to disagree, such n case of radical Indulgence probably could not occur under the practice of our perfected science. Mixe! Metaphor. A year or two ago Sir John Lublx)ck pave a public lecture on his "personal und political reminiscent es." In tills discourse the famous lecturer upon scientific and historical subjects showed Lis versatility and his sense of humor by telling some amusing stories. He dwelt in particular upon the funny things which he had heard In the House of Commons. One honorable baronet from the south of Scotland was speakinp on the pnoidtion to vote two million pounds toward the expense of the Afghan war. Wishing to show how inadequate this sum would be, he described It as only a "flea-bite in the ocean." On the same occasion the same gentleman was advocating an increase in the number of European troop to be mployed In India. In the couro of hU argument he said, "You may depend uyoa It, 3Ir. Speaker, that the pale

faeo of the RrltiJv Soldier Is the backbun of the Indian army." Sir John doe, not regard the Irish members f the present generation as very amusing. The examples piven above of what we should call Hiberr.iclsnis If we did not know their origin, It will be remembered are instances of Scotch blundering. The Irish drollery may be conscious or unconscious. I:i either case it is inimitable. On a. certain occasion a member from Ireland was arguing against the imposition of a gun tax. The ground upon which he based his argument was thK tliat every man had the "divine right to carry a gun."

The liost Chahiii. The Egyptians, both Mussulmans and Christians are a temperate people, but as a warning to those who are inclined to be otherwise, they often tell the story of the lost 'hahim. It is certainly a picturesque illustration ,f the d grading and pitiably h'-iph uess into whi. li even a little alcoh; 1 can lead one. Chrihim was an houe.M citizen i Ca in, who had. nevertheless, a weakness for wi:i: one eveulng when lie had partaken of the cup he returned home r;:t In r late. He was aware from previous expei lerne that, v.h'-.i h" should wake In the n.ortiitig. his head would be in a pitabb- rendition. So lie took his writing tablet and !al-rious!y noted down upon it the whereabouts of all the article whii-h he wu:;kl need in iho lnorniiii'. "The slippers." he v. t .ie. "are on the outer thro.-ho'd. The jacket is on tit" table in the cast chamber. The trousers are on the tabouret." Tlc-ii he sat.l: down on the bed. and with the writing tahlet s-T i i I bi his le-iul. he wrote, '"And Citahim is on the bed." lie fell into Fee stupid slumber of Intoxication. Late in the morning h" woke. His head aeh d cruelly, ami all his ideas were In confusion. Then his eyes fell on his writing tablet on the bed beside him. He was overjoyed to find this record of the whereabout of ids wearing apparel. Dragging himself out of bed. he dressed himself by its aid. When his clothes were on. he read on tic? tablet: "And Ciiahim is on the bed." He looked on the bed. Ckahim was not there! lie was filled with consternation. CI nth im must have been mislaid. He began to hunt through the house; no Chahlm was to be found. He became weak and db.zy from his vain search, anil threw himself down on the bed. After a few moments hisjicad steadied a little, and he became aware where he was. Chahim was on the bed! He had found himself. Ftterinp a cry of joy at this rediscovery, he arose sober. He realized then what a fool he had been, and resolved never again to drink of the liquor whieli turns a man into a sillier thing than a sheep or a hen. J! is Own lousiness. The Detroit Free Press says that President Hayes has for one of his Ohio neighbors a te-;y old fellow who kept a .small truck farm. He was an honest man and a good citizen, and Mr. Hayes held hitn in .high esteem notwithstanding his want of what are called the social ameuities. During Mr. Hayes four years at the White House, on one of his visits home he passed this old man's farm, and found him planting potatoes in a patch near the road. The President, being somewhat of a farmer himself, noticed some eccentricity in his neighbor's style of planting, and after a little chat called attention to it. The old man defended his method, and finally Mr. Hayes said, as he started along: "Well. I don't, think you will pet the best kind of a crop if you plant in that mann er." The farmer rested his elbow on the fence. "They ain't neither one of us above ha vi u fault found with us," he said; "but If you jest go on president! the United States your way, an" I po on plantin' pertat ers my way, I guess we won't be no wuss oft" in the end." The President, we are told, accepted the suggestion in good part, and passed on. The Nile of the North. Dr. Bell, who undertook an expedition last June into the fastnesses of British America by a route directly north from Ottawa to Ruppert's house on James bay, has discovered a river, which he describes as the "Nile of the North," and the sixth largest river In the world. Its average width Is a mile and it is 500 miles long. It has three tributaries, one rising north of Three Rivers and in the Lake St. John region, and the third near Lake Mistassini. A primeval forest skirts the river's brink the whole distance, which is navigable to the rapids near the north. A Jtovreil Wnjf. The Kev. Caleb Stetson, a famous transcendentallst minister of a generation ago, Jn New England, was almost as well known for his pun-making proclivities as for his eloquence in the pulpit. Upon one occasion, at a public dinner, feeling the breeze which came from n window behind him a little keenly, he beckoned the waiter to him. "Boy," said he, confidentially, "I wish you'd shut that window; I feel that 'ere air) in this 'ere (ear)" pointing first to the window and then to his car. Furniture oft be Htar Chamber. Some of the original oak furniture ami paneling of the famous star chamber, which was abolished In 1041, came under the hammer In Eondon recently. It Included the whole of the old oakpaneling of the notorious chamler, together with several very fine oak cabinets and antique chairs, 11 of which aro in an excellent tate of j-reserva-tlon. v

NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Sun Js the only New York paper that does not use typesetting machines. Nearly I0.W0 tons of tea were landed In Tacoma from China iu one day not long ago. The Berlin Academy of Sciences is preparing to issue a complete edition of the works of Kant. A fisherman near Seattle says that he hauled in 1,1X0 salmon with one cast of his seine the other day. It is estimated that some 4.000 doicn eggs were smashed In a railroad wreck that occurred at Canterbury, N. II. The season's apple crop Is set at 0V,J.".XHJ barrels, which Is pretty close to a barrel for every man, woman and child !n the country. The demand for coon cats iu Belfast. Me., has become so brisk that ea; stealing has become decidedly annoying lo the residents there. Eondon has imported from America during the last fovn'.ght -iO.WO tubs of butter. It fetched from - I lo "Jb cents a pound over there. A Malay opera troupe is on Its way from Polynesia to Eondon, where it will perform "liishi Sha Himu," described as a national opera. Pros: eciors are very much elated over a Und of unfading green and purph slate just north of Casileton, Vt., -which they say is very valuable. On account of local opposition the monument to John Brown, which It was proposed to erect at Harper's Ferry, "Will not bo built at present. Pension Agent Milli-sen of Maine has received 2,0:!0 applications for State pensions, an inereastj of about 0C0 over the number received last year. Thirty years ago, it is said, England had 20,XU miles of toll roads and 1,0-17 turnpike roads. There are now no tolls and the roads are belter than they were then. Eeerbohm's estimate of the world's wheat crop Indicates a total of 2.305,000,000 bushels for 1S0Ö. compared with 2,5öS,000,000 in 1S04 and 2, löS,0O0,00O In ISM. One of the meanest "white men on recent record is a fellow in New York, who. after playing poker some half dozen times with four friends, had them arrested for gambliug. Hears are becoming quite numerous In the region of Gardner's Eake, Vermont. One fanner met one on the road recently, and another resident has had several sheep killed by them. A Vermont trapper has just received an order from a Montreal party for 1,000 live skunks. Just what the party wants them alive for the trapper cannot understand, but he ays that he shall till the order. Indiana will celebrate in P.HJO the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the government of the ter ritory of Indiana. A commission was appointed under a concurrent resolution of the last legislature- ;o fix plaus for a Sate exposition. They are telling a queer tale of a man iu Orono, Me., wbc " many months has been hoarding gold in the hope that a series of flurries in the bond and currency markets or a change in administrative methods would give it a premium, from which be could realize a fortune. The granite pedestals for the equestrian statues of General Winlield Scott Hancock and General George G. Meade, to be erected on the Gettysburg battle field, have been shipped from the quarries at Westerly, K. I. The pedestal for the Meade statue consists of three large stones weighing in the neighborhood of seventy nine tons. One of the residents in Greenfield, Conn., has an antique wooden clock which is peculiar iu having a very erratic method of keeping time which is all its own. The house is near a railroad and whenever a train passes the clock starts and runs for a while. Then it stops and waits for the next train to pass before taking up its work again. Jack Grisby, of Eawrenceburg, X. Y., was engaged in storing pumpkins in the loft of his barn and his 5-year-old girl was standing near by watching him. A large pumpkin, weighing about thirty potinds, rolled from the loft, and. falling, struck the girl In her upturned face, bending her head suddenly backward, breaking her neck and causing lnstaut death. There are -t"l Federal licenses permitting the sale of liquor iu Vermont, or about one for every 781 inhabitants. Burlington has sixty-three, Brattleloro ten, or one for every (VSG people. Barre has one for every 22." t and Montpelier one for every 241. Rutland has one for every 405. All this in a State where the prohibitory law is supposed to be impartially en f o recti . There Is complaint In the shut II towns and In the rural districts of England that it Is difficult and frequently Impossible to get a glass of cider at the public houses. The reason Is that many of these public bouses have fallen into the hands of the big brewers through mortgages, and the new owners allow their tenants to sell no drinks that will decrease the sale of beer. The city of Manchester, England, already owns the tracks of the street railways within Its boundaries, and is about to petition parliament for authority to operate the railways themselves, on the expiration of the lease to the companies now operating them, which will be within r few months. Glasgow ami Birmingham already operate municipal street railways with success. Several towns and cities in Oregon and Washington have lately obtained nn excellent and adequate water supply In an Inexpensive manner by the use of woodeu pipes. The pipes are made from common pine logs, ten inches In diameter, hollowed out with A six-Inch bore. It Is claimed that the

wooden pipes last as long as iron pipes. One town has a line of pipes seven miles long that, with all connections, cost but $2.000. Mongolian pheasants have been successfully introduced for game purposes in various parts of Oregon and Washington in the las: few years, and now an attempt is bcit.g made to propagate them for the same purpose in California. A number have been imported Into Santa Clara County from Oregon, and lettuce seed is to be planted by the mountain springs to provide food for them. They are protected by statute for three years.

One of the Crazy. Times of intense general excitement lead to an unsettling of weak minds. Mr. A. G. Kiddle, In h'.s "Recollections of War Times," remarks upon the number of visionaries and fanatics who came to Washington In 1SGI and 1S'2, sonn of them of the propheth; order, others wltli a commission, as they felt, to take ihe!r places at the bead of the government, one such unbalanced man, perhaps years old, Mr. Kiddle saw again and again hanging around about the hall of the House of Kepresentatlves, of which Mr. KlddL was a member. One or twice he managed lo remain In the hall till after prayer, and w:v; then hustled out. Ho Feemed to know no one a harmless, moon-struck young man, country grown, neatly clad in a. home-made Ktiit of light brown. One morning when I bad reached the hall early, this specially commissioned young man came In, an unus-ial look of resolve on his meaningless face. Seeing me alone, he approached, ami casting' quick glances about, hesitated a moment, and then said: "You aro one of the Congress feller, ain't you?" "What makes you think so";" was my response. "Wal, you are sittln' In one o' the seats, 'n I've seen you 'round talkiu' and actin' like one on 'em." "Well, if you won't tell on me " was my hesitating answer. "No, no! I won't tell. I shouldn't think you'd want to have to git out. I won't tell on ye." "Well, then I am one o' the Congress fellers." "Wal," brightening, " you're one o' Ute very ones to help me." "What is it?" I asked. "Wal, you see," stopping near inc. and In a confidential tone, "you see, lm sent here to take things in hand, and put 'em right you understand V "Well," asked I, "why don't you take right hold? It needs somebody, the Lord knows!" "Yes, but somehow I can't seem to git hold. Can't git a-goin'. An' you fellers must help me, you see." "Who sent you":" "God." solemnly. "lie did? Are you sureV "Oh, sure as I live." "As lie used to send the prophets?' "Exactly. That's it in the Old Testament times." "But don't you know that when He sent a man He always opened the way, provided the means? Iiis man always knew how to get hold. If I were you, I would go right back for instructions." This was a new idea. lie stood dazed and confused. I saw him about for some time after that, waiting, perhaps, for instructions. He was not a solitary instance. 'Tricks in Every Trade.' A merchant and a dairyman were recently swapping business secrets, when the merchant found he was not "in it" wish the milk dispenser, when he remarked: "Why is it, you ask. that I have the reputation of never being out of milk? I'll tell you. 1 make it." "Make it!" echoed the merchant. "Yes, sir! And I will give you a formula for making as nice milk as ever flowed from a ow, ami, what's more, It will stand the test of any inspector's instrument. "When I find myself running short of the genuine article, I take a couple of cans of good condensed milk, costing mo about twenty cents, pour them Into a forty-quart canful of water, adding a little common baking soda, and then thoroughly stir the mixture up. The soda takes the sweet taste from the condensed milk and gives the mixture a regular Jersey froth. I add a little salt, which with the soda sends a test Instrument right up to the notch required by law. "Why, during the blizzard last winter I sold fifty cans of my home-made milk every day, at a clean profit of $2 on every can. Talk about a milk scarcity you never find one where I do business." Michigan Tradesman. Cat Did Not Come Back. When a parrot In a large cage arrived in a passenger's baggage at the Great Northern depot yesterday morning, Bapgagemaster Miller set him on the floor of the baggae room. There he stood for two mortal hours in dead silence, and no coaxing of the passengers could arouse his loquacity. When the crowd had left the depot a large, sleek cat appeared on the scene, and spying the bird arched majestically up to the cage and sat down. He poked his nose between the bars and sat contemplating Poll, thinking what a dainty morsel he would make if those pesky bars were only out of tho way. He had sat thus for an hour, and the silence had gradually grown denser, when Mr. Miller was aroused by an unearthly scream from Poll's direction: "Ha. ha! Come on, boys." The cat did not care to continue the conversation; he just went, his tall uplifted and swollen with fear till it looked like a feather duster. The parrot smiled a gleeful smile and the cat did not come back to trouble him.--Seattle Fost-IntellJceueer.

AUSTRALIA CONVICT SHIP.

Borne Attractions Even in Such Float in' Heils. All is grk-t that comes to the mill of the .showman, and even a convict ship is serviceable if it can onlv be mado attractive. There lias lately arrived in the East India dock, at Black wall. tne Australian convict saip success, which is to be put on exhibition forthwith. The vessel belongs to the old bad system of treating criminals with barbarous cruelty, bordering on inhumanity. Built in 17'.j in British In dir, of solid teak, the Success was lirst an East India trader and then an emigrant ship. It was iu the year 1N"2, jus: at the time of the gold discoveries ' iu Australia, that she was turned into '. a convict hulk, and moored at William.--town, Victoria. The new gold fields at- ' traded many bad characters from all pans, even convicts breaking loesi from the penal es tablishriei: and in ' order to afford safe (juarters for ;h. ; worst os: utc evii-uoers Live snips were

turned into hulks. The So-cess form- ' tendant rubs ;,:n:;.v:oa imcd otic of the group, and was known as j v ith one h;.nd and keep the "'dark cell drill"' ship, being fitted j from squinnir-g with the up with solitary cells that admit n-- : profess. r eails that listle light. Une can well uiulersiand the j Mvt the l;;:rohvb-s m:;c:n:

Honors oi me rigorous system 01 pr:o:i treatment practiced on board these hulks by an inspection of this ship. Eying in the East India d o-.k. she is a weather-beaten old wooden vessel, dingy and free from aey suspicion of new paint. The iir: wonder, ir.dofJ, Is inat she ever accomplished the voy- j age from Australia to Lomhm, which took no less than live mouths and a Laif, but her stout timbers of leak of great thickness make h-r almost impregnable as a fortress. The quarters ence occupied by tiie warders are ! hown on tiie quarter deck, where th?re are exhibited various rusty muskets, pistols, leg irons and manacles, as well as an original copy of a "ticket of leave," signed by the governor of tho colony. The 'tween dvk is titled with cells on each side, every cell having been for the accommodation of three

men, and on the lower deck, where no is which." This one. howev r. r:;ty l light and but little air could penetrate, told by the fact that four of "use- s am are the dark, solitary eel's, which must located in a squad in front, with -he realmost have been living tombs to tho , maining four grouped in pairs on e ich occupants. At the end of ea h cell is a ! side of its head and a little '.he rear space shut oft by iron rails eallod the ' of the others. The eyes are b'fziog "tigers' den," which was used for those j and glassy and cf a deep grc n;-'. hue. regarded as irreclaimable. Here she j Its mandibles are not very hirv bur, most outrageous offenders were herded i as many a victim can attest, .-:- -Mpa-togcther in semi-darkness, and often j hie of doing great damage. Its i :ioa murder was committed among them-j Is quick and alert. selves as the result of an old grudge or j Prof. Behr laughs at ths :d m :ii:it dispute. j f10 hifc 0f ti.o kiirodeetes ni is jThe barbarity of tho hulk system is j fatal, bur he admits that the itient further illustrated by iron necklep; by suffers the most racking brtur for which unfortunate malefactors were j several days, after which. :f 'a li.is fastened by a line as if by halters, and ; been proper v treated, roeowrv i or-

!n some torture chambers prisoners were so chained that they could neither lie. sit or kneel. Hardened miliaris though the convicts were, vet such treatment could only have the most

liendish results, and the prisoners on I.ehr, net at all dangerous Though its the Success in 1S17 found an opporiu- bite causes considerable pai:i a.i: i -ove!'-nity of revenging themselves by assas- t ing ab.--.ut the wound, he s-iys it is not sinatmg the otto-nil head of the convict j fatal. Its bite N not nearly so d ingercstablishment. Inspector (Jeneral Price, j ous as that f.f th? "katipof bur. be The public sentiment revolted against that as It may be. it Is more f,.r:nvinhle v i ..11 ,.. .. ...l.: i l . j ' .i . t . . . .

mc oniK svssein. w r.i. ii u as Mipcrseoeu in The old hulks were broken up, with the exception of the Success, which after being maIiciou-lv scuttled In Sydney harbor, was raised and ex- j h'bitcd as a show vessel at various! pons in Australia. I his old hulk, reeking with the memories of many cruelties committed in the name ol the law. Is not allowed lo tell her own rale, but somewhat questionably it is sought to heighten the effect by the aid of wax figures in cells, and tableaux of scenes with notorious bushrangers, all of which appeal rather to morbid tastes. London Chronicle. Why He Itesigned. A romantic tale is going the rounds among Chicago business men of a man who voluntarily res'gned a S'-'ÖMH) salary. Ä business had gotten into bad shape through the owner being in Kurorte most of the time. The t?2."i.io0-a-year man was employed to put the business on its feet. For a year or two he worked like a steam engine, putting in eighteen hours a day. When the manufactory was once more on a paying basis the manager told the proprietor that, as there was nothing further for him to do. he proposed to retire, and handed in his resignation, to take effect at once. "F.ut we don't want you to go. You made the business what it is," eaid the proprietor. "Yes, but you can take care of It yourself now, and there is no use in its being taxed $r00 a week to support a person who isn't needed." "Well, at any rate let us run till the first of the mouth; that's only three weeks longer." "No. I won't take what I don't earn. I'm going to quit Saturday. I've been working hard and need a rest." The man has had his test, and want a job where he can get big pay and a chance to earn it. Chicago Tribune. Truly Religious. The minister had been In the little Kentucky town but a short time, and wlien he was called to preach a funeral sermon he thought it best to pick up a few facts about the deceased. "I trust our brother gone before was a truly religious man?" he said to the surviving brother. "You bet he was," was the earnest answer. "Why. brother, he never tuk out his gun to lay fer one of the Simmonses without first pray in three hours." Soap us a Microbe Killer. The hygienic value of soap is hardly realized by the general public. Recent experiments have shown that a solution of soap will kill typhoid or cholera microbes. A 1 per cent solution wi'l do so In twelve hours, while a 7 or 10 per cent solution will do It In a few minutes.

ITS BITE IS DEADLY.

People Should lit ware of a Pretty Yel low-Spotted Sp-dcr. Next time anybody is bitte: r t. :tifer w'.l! n -Ii o be : . ; o i , - who "poisonous Hack spider" he will a favor on Prof. H. II. Behr if h refrain from crushing it long e. to give the professor a chance bitten, too. lie would like to d ! strato to that part of the pub: j feei finicky about such things tl. t: The bite of the same "poisonous bi-ick hier" is really absolutely harmless i; 1 n---more painful than the sting of or a mosquito. r even a Ilea of ' ifornian gemts. Mr. Behr is pv of enfomology nt'd araneo!. ,- few other sciences at the big .v in Market street, and what 'r.. know about ms.-r ts cf all ki'.; ..- !y worth talking about. But if any one sh-.uld hao;bitten by a smrM "black sp.-i.-four or live scarlet spot4 on :;s had be: tor prepaie to gv.y..!c b:;. i-p '.ilrd - i - he a (-av- lV(.( n j,: a nay or two wht.e a str";:j; .11 id : a: j jj js ni; V,.T, j not even excev; '. . ! about o n ton.. ::io;is ot the tar;i - as big. than a :-.li- ! 'l I'l'V i nnrilv not bi cr than a 1 i'eti i' il'C i but boasts of considerably :t ; than is .-.nuüi-.iiiy found a: j er. ' 1 - - - Its ho.lv 1d and coI beautiful vclvetv fuzzy hair, wish the sen riet mentioned n iis Pick. p t '. . Ye e' gilt body J rather long rg for such a :::ui, and eight eyes, though the. taken as distin-ui-iiiug r oi s of OT I an ; this particular s:ye. as tin says all spiders 'nave eight equal numbo-r of eyes. IP:r :r ; location of the ryes in the? n:;.; the insect that the classifies ; made, and as there are so:m .- :.- :r of ; areio or 0,h0 species known to armco' N's. it is no small tak to distinguish " a ii'ch tainty. He says that many p- :so:s may have died of fright, but ssc-t from the poisonous effect of tie biio. Tho tarantula, which is s nur-- -rsallv ! dreaded, is after all. according i Prof. . ana ugiv KioKing. ana one m;.:t as well be poisoned as be scared to !. arh. San Francisco F.saininer. Her Argument. The teacher of a larsu Sajlvitl MoOi shirlr i.olf (i j class of poor children v?.s riart; j anxious that every one of them be present at the last session before the summer vso-atio. He cspoct-ilb upon them to let nothing b v i " urged : 1 1 nej cessity keep them at home The day after the closing service he met one of Iiis scholars on the .treet, and said sternly, "Why were y vi no; m Sunday school yesterday, .lemi: Vf After twisting in her hands for nao moments a dubiously rl.i'A !'.! gy for an apron. Jennie ans,v;v.:. with a downcast look: "Recaue my hat was s dirtv. sir." "What of that:" said the 'eacher. still more seriously. "Don't you know that God does not eare for outward ippe;;rances? lie looks to that which us of infinitely more importance. .Jennie that which is within." "Yes, sir," replied the iitfle maid, submissively: "but," she added, feeling that she had the right or The matter, after all, "the linlug wastu't ciin!" The Norman's Dream. The Normans are called the Y.s-ikees of France, which is a compliment to them, no doubt, though it sometimes has reference to their extremely thrifty habits, and to the craft which they employ in evading a service that m ty cost them something. It is related fii.u one pood Norman farmer went ariv one morning to another's house, and found him still in bed. "Art thou asleep, neighbor?" he asked, somewhat falteringly. Iu the tone of a man who is going to ask .i favor. "If I were not asleep." murmured the other from his bed, "what probably wouldst thou want of me?" "To borrow thy donkey to g; to the fair at Iisors." "Well, then, neighbor, I am omni asleep." "13a h! Thou canst not be asleep when thou talkest to me." "Nonsense! It Is only a dream 1 am having, neighbor!" And tho other had to go away without the donkey. Hyuienic Item. Teacher-So you -an't remember the names of the great lakes? Can't yon keep them in your head? .lohnnie -No. ma'am. If I was to keep them lakes in my head I might have water on the brain. Texas Sifting. Don't Forcet. When you want a waiter at a fashionable hotel to serve you properly don't forget how you get molasses out of a Jug. You have to tip the jug. Somerville Journal