Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Number 32, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 October 1889 — Page 3

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A POSI OFFICE m FultOn COttaTJ, fa., bears the brief and unrom antic name of "Sis.

MiSJi Agnes Loxgfeixow, a daughier of the celebrated poet, is a skilled photographer. Two Hebrews own the site of ancient. Babylcn, where their ancestors were captives and slaves

LoR Tegison devotes the pension of $1,C 00 a year, which he receives as poet laareate, to the relief of the literary prcfession who are in pecuniary distress It is now worth $1,000 to capture a highwayman who has "held up" the United States mail. No provision is made for the surviving relative of those who try to earn the reward and do not succeet:L Lnr: je Mamie Parker, of Nashville, died the other day in horrible convulsions. She had been "playing doctor" with Mamie Wood, she being the patient ard the other littie girl being the doctor. "Playing doctor is a dangerous amusement when children know so well how to imitate the doctors.

Monkeys are not the only animals who are capable of showing sorrow and of weeping. Humboldt says the saiiniri or. Peru are extremely sensitive, and that at the least cause of chagrin their eyes fill with tears. Beal tears have been observed among dogs, deer, and gazelles. Here another supposed characteristic of man disappears,

Idaho has framed a State Constitution in which it is provided that in civil cases three-fourths of a jury may giv3 the verdict. That is not among the new States provided for, but the provision is Relieved to be wise and promotive of ef Sciency in litigation. It is in operation in California and Louisiana, and is approved by many of thg ablest attorneys. That German hotel keeper who attempted to blackmail an American by making a false charge of theft against him, will in future probably try his tricks, if at all, upon those of different nationality. The average American will submit ungrumblingly to more inconvenience than will any one else, but wben it comes to an open attempt to swind e him, he defends himself with most dis concerting vigor. News from, the Celestial kingdom makes it known that a governor of one of the Chinese provinces has forbidden the young men in his province to wear gorgeously colored and embroidered garments, a practice which, he says, is foolish and unmanly, and he gives the warning to fathers, elder brothers, and teachers that they will be held responsible for ai y di' play of remarkable clothing on tha part of would-be dudes. When Barnum received a telegram, stating tiat one of his show railway trains wan wrecked, killing thirty horses and two camels, and destroying six cars, he joyously exclaimed Thank Heaven nobody was killed or injured. We shall lose one show day and night in Montreal, but we have plenty of trained horses to fill the places of those killed. The Lord reigns, and it is all right. " And he went to bed and slept nine hours.

A young man asked a lawyer of Montreal to find out the fortune of a young woman of that city. The lawyer went to work and in time reported that the lady was worth at least $100,000. The client seemed satisfied, offered to pay liberally, soon married the young woman, ai d sent the lawyer a check for a rather small amount. The lawyer sent in a bill, and the young man wouldn't pay. Then followed a lawsuit and publicity. The oldest officer in our army in age and by entry into service is Second

Lieutenant Michael Moore, of the retired list. He was born in South Brooklyn in 1796, and enlisted at Governor's Island in April, 1812. He enlisted as a drummer ;ji the Thirteenth Infantry. From 1841 until 1869 he was in charge of the music boys on Governor's Island, where all infantry recruits were sent in those days. He was appointed Second Lieutenprt in the Ninth Infantry in 1869. .Le was retired for age in 1870. He lives vith a married daughter in Brooklyn. News comes of the bravery and presence of mind of an engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad, who, while standing vith his locomotive on a side track in safety, as he supposed, was suddenly confronted by an express dashing toward him at full speed and not a hundred yards away. Like a flash he reversed the lever, pulled the throttle and then jumped for his life. After a wild run of a few miles the runaway engine was side-tracked and totally wrecked, but a frightful accident was avoided and many lives saved by the quick thought of one who would make a modern hro

A.N extinct volcano ha been discov

ered in Connecticut, r.ear Meriden. The ash bed is au overhanging cliff about twenty-five feet high and fiity feet long and of a greenish tinge. On the face of the cliff are occasional pockets of quartz crystals, aoine of which shade to amethyst and some to rose. Another feature of the cliff is the prevalence of roundish stones, varying from one to four feet in diameter. There were the bombs, in geological parlance, and were portions of the trap rock which were ejected from the active volcano. A small portion of the sandstone bed is twisted and contorted by the action of heat and pressure. The French Minister of Ports and Telegraphs has notified every telephone company in France that as soon as the time for which they were given a monopoly expires, the Government will take possession of their lines. Inasmuch as this time expires within a year, it will not be very lorig till France will have control of its own telephone lines and may conduct the business for the benefit of the people. The United States the country which produced the telephone, is still groaning under the extortions of this gigantic monopoly, while France is not only free from the onerous burden but is actually making the invention the source of public convenience and governmental profit.

WOUId) ASK HIM TO COME AGAIN.

Mb. Gladstone says he well remembers the old Duke of Cumberland, who was famous for his habit of garnishing other people's remarks with his own oaths. When the first bill for the abolition of church rates came before the House of Lords the Duke was asked to express to the Archbishop of Canterbury the wish of the majority that he should move its rejection. Off went the Duke with this commission. Presently he returned, and in a loud voice, for he was rather deaf, exclaimed : "The Archbishop says he will be devoted to everlasting fire if he does not work the rejection of the bill." It need scarcely to be said that the language which his Qrace of Cumberland professed to quote from his Grace of Canterbury has been somewhat softened.

In a town in France an odd fact came to light at the registration of the birth of a child. The happy father was asked the maiden name of his wife, to which he answered : "Rose B.M "Well, how do you spell it? Bee, By, Bey, or how?" "Just simply B." "That can not be, B is only an initial, not a name." "It is the only name my wife ever had until she married me. .Neither she nor any of her family have ever had any other name than just B, neither more nor less. They could hardly have had less, and an examination of the record showed that they had really never had more. Beyond doubt the B family bears the shortest name in France, perhaps in the world. Only one other name of equal brevity is known, and that is the name of a place. About fifteen miles from Peronne, on the Ham line, there is a commune known as Y. It has some two hundred inhabitants. The origin of the name Y is unknown, and it would be curious to investigate the origin of the patronymic of the B family. One of the Tricks of Shrewd Beggars. If some of the people who "make a living by begging would turn their wits in other channels they would, perhaps, soon become prosperous. The skilful and successful beggar seems to be a man of not a few ideas, for the warm competition in his business compels him to keep up with the times. He is constantly casting about for some new scheme which he may put in operation in order to work upon the generosity of men. There are something pecularly insolent and reckless about most professional beggars. They seem to think that a man will respond to a call for aid if they show ingenuity in the manner of approaching him. Many of them after taking a man's money do not hesitate to show a certain air of contempt for him, while not infrequently they pour forth a torrent of abuse if they are repulsed. If you stop one of these wretches, after giving him ten cents, and ask him if his story is true, it is likely that he will tell you he lied to you. He seems to take pleasure in letting you know that he is shrewd enough to deceive people. One of the most recent schemes noticed by the writer is that of rather a decent looking fellow who goes up to a man and tells him with apparent frank

ness that he has just been released from prison after having served a sentence for forgery. If he can hold his victim's attention long enough he explains the circumstances of his crime, conviction and pnnishment. These stories vary greatly. No doubt the fellow fashions them to fit the case in hand. There is, he will say, such a prejudice against a forger that he finds it impossible to got anything to do, although he is an experienced accountant or a good bookkeeper. While the man thus approached may be unwilling himself to trust a convicted forger, he feels some responsibility in flatly refusing to assist a man who declares that he is struggling to keep from drifting back into his old habit3 in spite of the strong current of distrustful public opinion. Although by no means convinced of the truth of the man's story, he feels inclined to run the risk of being imposed upon, and often ends by giving him a quarter. The men who play such games as this realize fully the position they hold, and this, perhaps, is why they are so persistent in their efforts to make a man hear their story. That done, more than half the battle is over. New York Tribune.

How Kv. Mr. WulfcoKt Would ICece ve a ISurglut' in UIh House.

i People of ion amuse themselves by i thinking and saying what; they believe they would do if a burglar broke into I the house at night. Of course they j know very little about it, and fortunately very fow persons are called upon to put their professions to the test of actual experience. In discussions on : such subjects, however, it is usual for each speaker to assume aud assert that

he would act with ordinary common sense, if not with some degree of courage. Very seidom, iudeed, can a man be found Avho will admit that he would conduct himself like a miserable weakling in the presence of a thief. Some clergymen, however, appear to entertain different ideas from common people in reference to matters of this sort. Hugh O. Pentecost, a missionary preacher, made a remarkable statement in the course of a sermon at Newark as to what he would do in case a thief got into his dwelling, "If I knew a burglar was in my house at night," he said, "I would go to him with a light, unarmed, and talk to him as I would a friend whom I desired to help. If he then desired to take my goods I would make no protest, nor would I cause his arrest. 1 would follow him to the door and invite him to call again." And the reverend gentleman went on to say that if Mr. Luca, the Brooklyn grocer, had acted in this manner, he would be living to-day and his assailant would not bo in jail. It is very difficult to argue with a man who talks like this, says the San, because there is no common ground of agreement upon which the discussion can begin. But a few questions and illustrations may serve to show the folly of such wishy washy utterances. Suppose Mr. Pentecost was living in India, and he wake up some flno night and found a tiger in his dwelling. Would he take a light, like Lady Macbeth, and go up to the tiger unarmed, and begin then and there to try to tame and domesticate the beast? There are thousands of good people who think it is just as wrong to be cruel to animals as it is to be cruel to men; and doubtless they are right, if the cruel treatment is needlessly indicted. But when u man meets a rattlesnake in his path he does not give the reptile an opportunity to strike, in order to ascertain whether the creature may not be good enough to run away if let alone. If he is a man of sense he takes effective measures at once to avert the possibility of evil, just as Marshal Nagle did in the case of the assault upon Judge Field. The tyne to argue with a burglar or would-be murderer is when we have rendered him powerless to do evil, and the place to reform him is in prison. This missionary clergyman declares that he would let his imaginary burglar take his property without making any protest. Well, suppose a burglar, instead of coming after his property, came after one of his children, like the California bandit Morales, whose abduction of a beautiful young girl from her father's house near San Diego was reported recently? If he would let the burglar go so readily, or rather with an invitation to call again, in the one case, why not in the other? We have no patience with so-called Christian teaching of this kind. There cannot be too much Christianity, but give us the manly sort, such as Charles Kingsley taught, and no more of this eentimeutal nonsense.

Confiding Son Mother, what's the best way to propose to a girl ? Mother When the right girl corner along my son, you won't need any ml vice

thus preserving fhe freshness ot tuo

! aroma. Good wine needs no Dusli: but

in our climate (which, by the way, the exnerfca nf thn Madnn donhirfid to be tliA

i best possible for storing line wines) it is ! 1- J. 1 . n .. i Ti ll H

ueiter ior a Jittle warmth, j tamer man drink red wine in the winter monilifj drawn from a celleriu which the temperature has not been maintained at a desirable pitch, it is better to put the wine where it may feel the fire. A better way still still is to leave it on the mantlepiece of the dining-room for four or six hours before it is to be decanted, when it will have an opportunity of acquiring something like the temperature of the room. It is well worth while warming the decanter before pouring in the wine, so that it may not receive the shook of contact with the cold glass. A Grave-Digger Passes a Had Night. A few nights ago, while a party of young men and women were walking under the shade-trees skirting the Lafayette cemetery, they were startled by a number of wild cries issuing from the center of that buring ground. The hour was about 9, aud, although there were twenty persons about, none of

them at first could muster enousrh cour

age to go in. Then some of them, guided by the sound, made their way between the graves to a vault near the center of the cemetery. The vault top rises onlv a lew inches above the ground, but there area number of holes piercing the sides, and tho investigators threw themselves prone before this. For a time they could see nothing. Then one of tho watchers discovered the outline of a human form, and another piercing cry rent the air. Satislied now that the thing within was a ghost the men sprang to their feet and ran like mad to the streets. The mystery was not explaiued until Officer Smith passed that way. Just as he reached the vault in question ho noticed the white face of a man who was lying on the floor inside. He promptly broke in the door and found Jas. N. Clarke, one of the grave-diggers, in a half unconscious condition, leaning

i against the side of the vault. It was

some minutes before he could talk. Then ho said : "I came into the vault yesterday afternoon to do some work. There are seventeen bodies here. As I entered the door closed with a baug. and I saw that I was caught. The lock is a spring lock, and opens only from the outside. At first I laughed, but as no one came to my relief 1 soon quit that. When night came I was thoroughly frightened. There was no fun in the prospect of passing a whole night in a narrow fault with seventeen corpses. Then I shrieked for help, but no one came. I must have fainted, for when 1 woke the sun was shining. I knew no one until you came. I'm going into some other business now,"

The Routine of Military Life. The United States soldier's first duty begins at 5:3U in the morning, at which hour reville is sounded by the buglers of all the batteries.- At thi signal the men all leave their - quarters and form in single file on parade ground. The roll is then called by the sergeant, who also presents his morning report to the captain. This report shows the number of men on duty, the sick and the absent. Application for leaves of absence are handed in with the report, and after the commander's approval the men are ail dismissed, except those who are to do guard duty. The guard detail is made out the evening before it is read out, and the men who are appointed sprve for twenty-four hours, with a relief every two hours. Tattoo is sounded at 9 o'clock, which is a signal for the men to "turn in," and at 9:15 taps sound, at which time all lights must be extinguished, unless a special order has been issued by the officer of the dav. Besides military duty the soldier is subject to extra service. In connection with the barracks.there is a good-sized fari, ind the soldiers are frequently required to throw aside their guns for

hoes and other agricultural implements. They also do all sorts of outdoor work, frequently imposed as a punishment for some offense, A soldier's wardrobe consists of two suits of undress clothing, one dress uniform and helmet, collars and culls, shoes, stockings, underwear, and all other necessary articles of apparel, furnished by tho Government, to the amount of $220 for five years. How to Get Good Claret.

Whilst vast quantities of wine in the j

JVledoo are bottled at the end of the second year, the fine wines are kept in casks until the third or fourth year. Once in bottle, well corked, the mind ot man may be at rest about his wine, which, up to a certain limit of time, goes on improving. Where occasion for care again presents itself is in getting the wino out of the bottle without shaking. Most wine pantries are furnished with a small basket, in which the wine bottle may rest whilst the wine is drawn into the decanter. Wine merchants, wine tasters and experienced wiue drinkers in the Medoc do not trouble themselves abouj; these contrivances. They carefully lift the bottle from a horizontal to an upright position some three or four hours before it is wanted, for the table. At the same time they carefully mark the side of the bottln that has lain uppermost, and in decwating pour out the wine from that, as it is sure to be free from dust. With steady hand they drav irofli a bottle a maximum quantity of absolutely clear, bright wino. Any one who desires to drink a gooi, v." '1 Me(-uu or Bergundy will xius li&caut Jt till almost the moment it is required,

A Viae of the DeaJ. In the beautiful cemetery at Athens stands an old tomb of a family once prominent, not only in the Classic City, but in other citie3 and throughout the State. In it are laid at rest the bodies of several ancestors who once played prominent parts in the history of Athens and the state. Death slights no family, though for a time he may pass it by. A few years after the war the door of the last cold resting place of the family yawned for awhile and closed again on the iucreased dead who slept within its

dark, cold recesses. For some years there were no deaths, and the silence of the tomb was unbroken, save for the visits of loved one who knelt without and offered prayer for the dead or paid loving tribute to their virtues. At lfcst death came once more. The good old grandmother bowed to the will of time, and dear ones gathered to pay their last respects. The solemn procession wound its slow way to the cemetery. The door of the vault moved heavily on its hinges as it swung back to receive its dead. A fiood of golden sunlight filled the tomb, dispelling the gloom and revealing a strange sight. There, creeping along the walls and over the coffins, was a white vine. Pure and pearly it stood in bold relief against the dark background and glistened in the sunlight. But what most astonished those who saw it was its urn-shaped windings. There was no mistaking the resemblance. It was almost a perfect urn. But the wouder did not stop here. Curling further on it formed a D., the family initial. Astonishment ceased not hore. It was a triple mystery, and the climax was vet to be reached. The Is minister offered up the prayer, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Those who were looking at the white vine saw it tremble, then it shook and fell in fragments, scattering over the coffins of tho dead. Augusta (Ga.) (Jhronicle. Downed by Whisky. "Do you see that fellow? said a saloon-keeper to a temperance lecturer, pointing to a gray haired convict, "Who, that poor old fellow that handles the spade with such difficulty ?n "Yes. Well, a few years ago he was a respected man; never drank anything aud went in good society. But, sir, he began to fool with whisky aud it downed him." "Do you, a saloon-keeper, acknowl

edge that this man, once resectable, was

sent to the pemteutiary through the vile agencies of whiskv?" "Yes, sir." "Tell me the story. I want to use it." "The story is short. The old fellow stole a barrel of whisky and was sent to the pen." The Last linn or the War. When an 1 where was the last gun of the war fired in Georgia? A number of answers given at tho time, but the one that strikes me as most probably the correct one was given me in Savan nah a day or two ago. I was walking up Broughton street with a friend when he stopped and pointed across the street to a plain two-story brick residence. "That," said he, "was the home of Chas A. L. Lamar, as gallant a soldier as ever wore the Confederate uniform. He was killed by the last gun of tho Avar tired in Gergia." "Where was that?" I asked him. "At Columbus, Evan Howell, of the Constitution., wa nr m at t-hs; time. It vt" v - last shot fired on Georgia soil. Atlanta Constitution.

English Sparrfrfrs. Ttie Department c:E Agriculture, at Washington, has recently issued a bulletin of more than four hundred pagjf s entitled, "The English Sparrow m North America, Especially in its Eolation to Agriculture." Dr. Merriam, the ornithologist of the Department, under whose supervision the work has been prepared, says, in a prefatory note : " T he English sparrow question has grown to be a serious problem in economic science, particularly so far as the agricultural interests are concerned, and whoever reads the evidence presented will be ready to concur with this opinion. Our first English sparrows, so far as can be ascertained, were brought to Brooklyn in 1851. Since then they have been imported to many other places. Tho birds are now abundant in the town and villages of the whole country east of the Mississippi River, and there are large or small colonies of them in many of the States and Territories west of the river, even to California. As to the undesirable character of this vast body of immigrants, there is now substantial agreement among all ornithologists, while people in general have already come to the same opinion. In the State of New York it, is mado a misdemeanor to feed or shelter them; Michigan and Ohio offer bounties for thiiir destruction ; in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania they are excepted from the legal protection extended to most of our native small birds. The Agricultural Department has testimony from all quarters, and the result, as published in the bulletin, leaves no doubt that the sparrows are comparatively useless as destroyers of injurious insects, while they no only drive stway native insect-eating birds, but themselves destroy great quantities of grain and fruit. On the last point t'ie following is but a sample of many testimonies: "Since the middle of April, says a Washington observer, "when the peach blossoms began to unfold, the sparrows are to be seen at all hours of the day hopping or creeping about the peach trees, aud leaving little but worthless buds behind. "Occasionally a flock of a dozen or more is to be seen in a single tree, and every one thus far watched with a glass has proved to be destroying blossoms or buds at the rate of five or ten a minute. One bird was seen to tsut into and ruin nineteen blossoms on one spray iu less than two and a half minutes. On several of the trees which I examined carefully with the glass more than half the blossoms were wilted and mu tilated, aud repeatedly sparrows wore seen to alight on twigs which contained few but ruined blossoms, and, after a quick glance, pass on to sprays of untouched flowers." Pear and apple trees suffe;' iu the same manner, and cultivators of grain, grapes, peas, lettuce, and indeed oi fruits and garden vegetables generally have similar stories to relate. In short, the English sparrows have already become what Prof. Alfred Newton, the eminent English ornithologist, writing in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, predicted they would become "an intolerable nuisance." Several years ago the American Ornithologists Union recommended : 1. That sheltering or otherwise fostering the sparrow be discouraged, and that its introduction artificially ink new localities and its sale for such purposes be forbidden by law. 2. That all existing laws protecting the sparrow be repealed, and that bounties be offered for its destruction. The Agricultural department now isays : "The English sparrow is a curse of such'virulencethat it ought to be systematically attacked and destroyed before it becomes necessary to deplete the public treasury for the purpose, as has been done in other countries. " Parrots Kill the Sheep, You have no doubt heard of the great rabbit scourge in the provinces of Australia," and how the Government of New South Wales has offered a reward oi $125,000 to any one who will invent some effectual means of ridding the country of the pestiferous little auimals. Thomos W. Knox, in his last book oi travels, tells us about the parrot scourge there, which is almost as destructive to sheep as the rabbit scourge. The rabbits eat up the pasturage and the parrots attack the sheep themselves. When the sheep fanners first estab

lished their stations among the mount-

HOME OF THE MELON. The First Watermelon Shipped Firom Wilmington Island in. 1353. The question having arisen as to what section of the Sor..th was the pioneer in shipment of watermelons to Northern markets, Dr. A. Oemler, of Savannah, in an interview submits some da? that will be of general interest. Dr. Oemler says that prior to 1852 a few melons may have been sent to New York by Savannah fruiterers to rill an occasional order, but no large ass gnments had ever been made on commission, nor had a crop been .grown in 3eorgia or in the South expressly for the .Northern markets. 1. Oem er ays that in 1851 a ha'f do en of his relatives, who took passage on the steamship, Isaac Meade, for the North, were iurnished by Mr. E. B, Larstow, also a relative, with Jifty melons grown on Wilmington Islcnd, but as the vast-age was short the party was unable to consume the melons, and they presented those remaining to the captain of the vessel, but had be teen willing to have sold them, he coud have commanded enough to have jiaid for the passage of half the party. When this was brought to Mr. Barstow's attention, on the return of the steamer, he conceived the idea of growing melons exclusively for the Northern market, and in 1852 he shipped the first - melon to the North, and while there were everal serious drawbacks the returns vere so satisfactory after two or three years that other cotton planters followed suit, among whom were K. T. Gibson, of Whitmarsh Island, and W. B. Pribchard, of Skidaway Island, and Mr. Pritjhard had sixty acres of melons; in the year the war broke out, which, ot course, was a loss, as he was unable, on account of interrupted communications to market them, D r. Oemler says the stealages of melons on shipboard in the early clays of melon shipments wcire so great that the growers had to place their nitons under tho protection of the captain or purser, taking them into co-partnership and dividing with them the net proceeds, and as the melons often commanded $1 each, the profit was then most satisfactory. Dr. Oemler says that shortly iafter the planters on the islands about Savannah, began to grow melons for tho Northern markets. Charleston followed suit. Burke and Richmond counties were nest to raise melons for the north. In south Georgia, George M, McRee, near Va'dosia, and W. B- Tally, of Ousley station, began to grow melons for the Northern market in 1876, since wlricfc time Brooks and Lowndes counties have been ?avgely devoted to the melon industry. Dr. Oemler has himself been for many years a successful melon grower, and is careful to ship none but the best melons, and in good condition. He eays that up to the time of large crops along tho line of the Savannah, Florida and Western railway he was the largest melon grower in Georgia, having annually from forty to fifty acres planted, and selling the seed to Northern firms, and he says that in one season he Hold twenty-four bushels of seed to one Northern iirm. The varieties that used to bo grown for the Northern market were the " rat

tlesnake," the "mountain sweet," "the-.

"Pearson, the "scaly-bark and the "Cuban queen," but the "Kolbgem is the principal variety that has been shipped the past year or two. The melon industry has now grown to such large proportions that it requires almost as much attention from the railroads and steamers as the Orange crop of Florida. Savannah News. Thfc Harmonigraph.

An invention hails from New Orleans for which very remarkable powers are claimed. This device embodies mechanism by means of which music, as it is played on the piano or similar instrument, may be indicated on paper so that it may be reproduced as desired thus enabling one improvising music to have the music written as it is played in such a manner that it may be read and trans ated into the characters ordinaiiiy emplojeJ in writing music. The invention is said to consist in the combination in the harmonigraph of the mark era and connecting rods arranged for engagement hj the keys of the piono or other similar instrument, and by which the movement on the key may be trails mitted to the marker. In the combination is also embodied a tone marker and a measure marker. Some of the finest idea3 of the impromptu player on the piano appear to be the most evanescent. What composer, while abandoning: him

ams mere were nocics oi greon parrots i self to the flow of happy extempomaImug in the glens and feeding entirely j tion, has not longed for some means of on fruit and leaves. They were beauti- catching the e?:quisite melody or the fretful birds, and no one suspected any perb orchestral efle -t, and recording it harm from them. before its form and beauty have become After a time it was discovered that impaired and lost)? If tho harmooimany of the sheep, and they were inva- i graph can do this, it is truly a wonder-

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had sores on their backs, and alwavs in

the same place, just over the kidneys. Some of the sores were so sHght that the animals recovered, but most of them died or had to be killed to end their sufferings. The cause of these sores was for some time a mystery, but at

length a herdsman on one of the high ranges declare his belief that (the par

ceived with gratitude by the whole mu

sical world. Operations of Lightning.

All those who suffer from fright during thunder storm should regard the lot of an English woman living in a large lown as peculiarly enviable, for, according to Mr, Marriott, the Scie-

rots were the murderers ot the sUeep. i tary of i he Koval Meteorological Society; Investigation showed that in the severe j these are the beings who of all are most winters the parrots hud come at night j exempt from the danger of being struck to the gallows where tho herdsmen j by lightning. Mr. Marriott tells us hung the carcasses of slaughtered sheep ! that on an average less han one person and picked oft the fat 'roni tho mutton, ' in a million is annually killed by light-., showing a partiality for that around the uing in England, while in France nearly kidneys. two, in Prussia nearly four and in How they ever connected the car- I Kussia and Switzer and more than five casses with the living sheep is a subject I out of every milion .perish thus aufor naturalists to puzzle over, and es- i dually. The returns also show that of peciallv how they knew the exact spot ! tuose ho dl0 m this manner in 15ngwhore the choicest fat was to be found i lami 81 Per cenfc; are m:lies and OJly 19 in tliA Uvintf ftnimftl. Tt kav that ffc Y? cent, females, the striking differ-

attacks on tho sheep began within a few months a: ter the parrots had first tasted mutton at tho meat gallows. They are gradually being exterminated, but the sagacious birds that formerly came without fear into the presence of man now venture out enly at night. First Housewife What do yon use to kill the smell of fresh paint? Second Housewife- I slice raw onions. First Housewife Ye, but onions smell so. How do you get rid of their odor? Saoond Housewife -I apply fresh paint. A contemporary advocates f;parrw The sparer the better for health.

ence, no doubt, being attributed to tho greater number of males engaged outdoor occupations. Deaths from lightning are also much rater in towns than in the country. The many lightning rods and higli buildings serve to diffuse the electricity. The Eiffel Tower is sai I of itself to form a perfect electrical conductor, and in the case of one very b;a k thunder cloud which passed over Paris aud was observed to omit constant Hashes, the lightning stopped as soon ns it c;me within the Mitiuenc e of the tower, and recommence! when it had passed be vend, New York Star.