Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Number 40, Bloomington, Monroe County, 22 November 1889 — Page 3

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER ft BTCADFTJTE, - - POTUfflm

The Emperor of China mna 126 servants. Recent statistics show that 9,000,000 Germans live outside of the Fatherland, of whom 7,000,000 are to be iound in the United States.

On the Colorado Kiver are mountains of salt extending miles. The salt is so pure that a newspaper can be read through blocks of six and eight inches. The debating society of Fredericksburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, has come to the conclusion that a cross and clean woman does not make a better wife than a dirty and good-natured one.

Edward W, Bok, who receives $10,000 a year as editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, is only 25 years of age, but he lias already won a wide reputation as an author. He drifted into literature at 19, and later established the well-known Bok syndicate, which furnishes articles to the press of America and Europe. Pkeisdext Harrison is not a Mason. Two members of his Cabinet are Masons, but neither of them is a Knight Templar. The only secret organization of which the President is a member is a college fraternity of the Greek letter order," the Phi Delta Theta, which he joined in 1852 while a student at Miami University, Ohio. It is reported that the proprietors of a planing mill at Grand Rapids, Mich., at whose establishment a man was recently killed by the board flying from a plainer, have decided to supply their men with a liverpad such as are used by the catcher in a base ball game. This will be an innovation, however x&uch it may incommode the workmen. A New York religious journal warns the public against tramps in the ministry. It instances a case where a wife obtained a divorce from a husband, because he perambulated about the country preaching, and denied her and her children support. The best thing the public can do, it says, is to frown upon all strolling preachers not known to be worthy. Speaking of the late Gen. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, a correspondent says: "The General was a Mason. At Antietam, just after he had dropped down on the bridge and taken it, and while the fighting was almost hand to hand, a Confederate officer gave him the Masonic sija. He recognized it instantly and sent the officer unharmed to the rear as a prisoner.

One of the literary syndicates has induced a number of famous women to tell what tbey would do if they were men. Kate Field writes: "Were I a man I'd do unco women as I'd be done by. I would not advise a woman to try real estate, and then sell it to her at three times its value. This is what happened to me recently at Atcbinson, Kan. We are afraid that winsome Kate does no: view this question in a purely philosophical light. Electricians are puzzled over the discovery that sounds traveling from east to west are clear and distinct, while those from west to east are blurred. Electricians have many things to learn. The phenomenon is doubtless a part of that law that makes the "star of empire" westward take its way, and young men all over the world obey the injunction of Horace Greeley to ''go west." Electricity, like other natural forces, once having reached the western haven, returns with reluctance. When a man's wife sends him to get the clothes ready for washing he should not pour beuziue into a tub full of hot water by way of preparation. A Baltimore man who did this produced an explosion which wrecked the kitchen and startled the neigh borhood. The explosion resulted from the fact that the vapor given off by the benzine was much lighter than the vapor of the hot water, and the quick expansion of the benzine vapor caused the explosion. The man was badly injured. Says a Bostonian: Any one who watches the movements of the big iron jaws of Gen. B. F. Butler as lie sits in court and manages an important ease, would infer that he was an inveterate tobacco chewer, so diligently does he masticate. Still the fat old General does not smoke or chew. His jaws for the past four years or more have been exercised on the mild and exclusive bark of the slippery elm, of which he always carries a si v ply in his .ocke'd. This is due to the fact tht his physicians told him he must give up smoking. Feeling the neeu of something to take off the 'hanker' for tobacco, he resorted to the elm bark and chews it constantly. Soars men cannot forget their enemies even when death stares them in the face. Eugene Robinson, who died in New York the other day, left a fortune to his widow, and one penny to a divorced wife. Of this unfortunate wo man the will said: "I leave her one pnny as a token of the esteem which I ntertai i for her, and desire to add that

this sum is greatly in excess of the consideration which she deserves from me. M It appears that Robinson had been forced to marry the lady, and had immediately repudiated and abandoned her. It is asserted that farming land, with fair buildings, with timber on it and all fenced in, can be purchased in many parts of Vermont and New Hampshire for $5 an acre, and that even at this price the seller feels lucky in being able to pack up and move out. Is it any wonder that the fertile government lands of the West, that only need scratching to bring forth, are being snapped up by the shrewd New England Yankees? There is some pleasure in agricultural pursuits carried on without the aid of a drilling bar and a nitroglycerine can. The appeal made by Carl Schurz for the preservation of American forests at the late forestry Congress should not fall upon unheeding ears. It is a subject of which Mr. Schurz has had official observation, and it is one which intelligent Americans are constantly pondering. Mr. Schurz does not object to a legitimate appropriation of the timber of the land, but he arraigns severely "the lumberman who wastes as much as he takes, tie settler or miner who devastates whole mountain sides for a few Bticks, the timber thieves, the hunter and the mining prospector, who, building the camp fire, sets in flames thousands of acres, aye, square miles of forests, public opinion looking on with stolid indifference while this cruel, disgraceful, barbarous spendthriftiness is going on." Mr. Schurz says in conclusion : "It is a government reckless of the future of the country which will permit it.M A scientific Frenchman places the life of the earth in three periods, which he terms the igneous or nebular stellar, stadium, the stadium of solar illumination or of organic life, and the stadium of darkness, cold and death. The first he calculates from physical laws to have been 500,000 years in duration. The second comprising the present epoch, and to close with the extinction of the sun, embracing the entire cycle of geological formations is found by geological and physical evidence as likely to have a total length of 25,000,000 years, of which more than cne-half has passed. The tliird stadium starting from the end of solar illumination, and closing in the terrible and inevitable catastrophe of the fall of the earth to the sun, and momentarily brightened by the fall of the earth as the moon crashes into it will have a length that cannot be calculated until the precise rate of acceleration of the motion of the earth around the center of attraction is known, but will probably be, at the lowest estimate, 100,000,000 years or more. Upon the whole, the present age of the earth appears to be about 16, -000,000 years. This is but a smoll part of its existence, and everything leads to the belief that its u,tal evolution through the immensity of space will exceed a million centuries.

A Sad Accident. Western Judge You are charged, sir, with being the leader of a party which hunted down and lynched a horse thief. The days have gone by when citizens of this great commonwealth can thus take the law into their own hands, hence your arrest, "What have you to say ? Prominent Citizen I ain't guilty, jedge, I'll tell you how it was. We caught the feller, and tied his hands and feet Nothin' wrong about that, was there, jedge? "No, that was no doubt neeessarv." "Wall, jedge, there was a storm comin up and we couldn't spare him an umbrella very well so wo stood him under a tree. That was all right wasn't it?" "Certainly." Wall, the clouds kept gatherin' an' the wind was purty high, and we didn't want him blown away, so we tied a rope around his neck and fastened the other end to the limb above not tight, jedge, jest so as to hold him and we left him staudin' solid on his feet. Nothin wrong about that, was there?" "Nothing at all." "Then 1 kin be excused, can't I?" "But the man was found suspended from that tree, and stone dead the next morning." "None of us had anything to do with that, jedge. You see we left him standin1 there in good health and spirits, fer we give him ail he could drink when we said 'good-by'; but you see, during the night the rain come up an' I spose the rope got purty wet and shrunk a couple o feet. That's how the sad accident happened, jedge." New York Weekly. Had Formed an Opinion. Lawyer ( for the defense, in a murder case) Have you read anything about this ease in the newspapers? Possible Juror No, sir. "Have you not publicly or privately expressed any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of my poor persecuted client?" "No, sir. I never heard of the case until brought here as a juror." "Have you formed any opinion in the matter whatever?" "Yes, sir, I have." "Eh? If you never heard of the case until vou entered this court-room, how could you form an opinion? Answer that, sir anwser hat, and I hope the court will give particular attention to the reply. Out with it?" "I have concluded that your client must be awfully guilt r, or you would not find it so difficult to get a jury to suit you." New York Weekly.

AN INDIAN PART. i Brave unci uw lauoe JHwrrlly to tlio j Sound 1 Wwiril Music.

It was io be held a fhort distance from the fort (tho caiitoiiment on the North Fork of the Canadian Kiver, whore we were stationed with other officers and their companies of the Infantry), and after a delightful walk we soon reached the tepee wbieh had been erected for the occasion. Perhaps you do not know how a tepee !oka or is constructed. Long, strong poles are piaced in a conical shape, about twenty feet in diameter on the ground, meeting at the top, a few inches from the upper ends, which spread apart like a bouquet to form an opening for the escape of smoke. This frame is covered with tanned skins, often decorated Mfith pictures and figures of grotesque shapes and colors, and so arranged as to leave unobstructed the opening at the top. Near the ground, on the weather-protected side, is another opening, through which the occupants crawl on hands and knees. It is provided with a heavy skin, which serves as a door, and at night can be securely fastened on the inside. This door was wanting this night, and through the opening poured the bright light, casting a wierd enchantmant over the scene, as the dark outline of the structure "was clearly defined against the sky, the swarthy forms of the Indians darted back and forth, and away off in the distance, as far as the eye could see, stretched the broad, level prairie, bathed in moonlight and looking so tranquil, so at rest, that the distant howl of the coyote seemed to die away for want of strength to bear it on. Entering the tepee, we found many there before us, aud as we took our places on the robes were awed by the hard, savage faces of the Indians, which they turned toward us in friendly glances as they continued their incessant chattering. Sitting back of the light were three young bucks, holding on their laps queer instruments made of twigs wound in the form of a drum, the tops covered with thick skins stretched tightly over them. The dancers were seated in front of t!ae visitors, aud when the music began the squaws each went to the Indian with whom she wished to dance, took him bv the hand and led him into the center of the circle. The partners each held their hands on their hips, their right arms interlocked, the buck facing one way, the squaw the other, and made a sort of stamping motiou with their feet as they turned around and around; and when they had made two or three turns, both, like a flash, changed positions, interlocked the left arms and turned the other way. Sometimes two squaws would choose the same partner, and in this case one would dance on either side. How they could feel the enjoyment evinced by their faces one could hardly realize, for the sound of the instruments resembled that of a muffled drum, and, accompanied bv the deep, monotonous voices Oi the the Indians, sounded like s funeral dirge. "When the music stopped there was great laughing aati talking, which we did not understand, but easily divined tht as the dancers returned to their places the old squaws took great delight in teasiug the younger ones, while the men poked fun at one another, and all enjoyed themselves like children. Detroit Free Press.

Farming for Olive Oil. Olive culture has attained enormous proportions in Italy. It is computed that the amount of oil produced annually in the entire kingdom is 33,000,000 gallons. France's production, although much less, is still considerable, being 7,000,000 annually, The olive tree thrives best on a dry soil on slopes toward the sun, sufficientlv sheltered. It attains a height of twenty feet usually (to even fifty feet in some localities), and frequently readies an age which appears almost fabulous, one specimen near Nice, recently carelessly destroyed, having had a. positive record of live centuries, and measuring thirtysix feet in circumference when it fell. The foliage is evergreen, having lanceolate leaves, which are gray underneath, and its flowers, which appear in June, are white, and resemble those of the wider. The fruit is oval in shape, xii a ligneous kernel inclosing an almond shaped seed. The flesh of the fruit, which when ripe u of an intense violet-black color, yields about 70 per cent, of its weight in oil. The gathering of the crop begins in November and continues until May. The harvest is divided into three periods of two months each, the first viehling a high colored oil rail "fine' and the second a straw-colored oil called "superfine." The fruit is gathered from small trees by hand, and from large ones it is knocked off with pole. "Women and boys are e:.n ployed for this purpose, for which as wages they receive 77 cents fur evury twenty quarts gathered. W hen the frnit is collected, it is taken to the mills, where it is reduced to a paste. It is then placed in bags of Spanish rush, and squeezed under a press, the oil escaping under a receptacle underneath. This first pressure produces what is known as "virgin oil." The bags are then removed, soaked in Ik tiling water, and placed a second time under the press, thus yielding the ordinary oil of commerce. A third pressing follows, yielding an inlerior oil used for illuminating purposes. Turks nt lierintr Manna. Mr. Cole, of liitlis, a missionary of the American Jioard in Eastern Tin key, in describing a journey irom Harpoot to JUtlis savs. We traveled for lour davs through a region where had newly fallen a remarkable deposit of heavenly bread, as the natives sometimes call it manna. There were extensive forests of scrubby oak, and most of the deposit was on the lerves. Thousands of poor peasants, men, women, and children, were out upon the plains gathering the sweet substance. Some of them plunge into kettle of boiling water the newly cut branches of oaks, which washes off the deposit, until the water becomes so sweet as to remind the Yankee of a veritable sugaring-offiu the old tiranite State as tie take- sips of it. Other compauies of nativo-: may be

seen vigorously beating with sticks th4 Children mid the M'orM' Fair. branches, which, from having been Among the most iutorowtiuK exhibits ftpreadnpou the ground, have so dried at the World's .Fair held in "Philadolthat the glistening crystals fall readily j jn J876 were those made by chilupon the carpet spread to receive them. ! jren- were usuflHy placed in The crystals are separated from the some little out-of-the-wav corner, but pieces of leaves by a sieve, and then tho wHm found tliev sometimes gave a manna is pressed into cakes for use. r,iore significant idea of the actual life of The manna is in great demand among ' tlfl r0untrv from which thev came than

these Oriental Christians. As we were , aid the great national or commercial ! traveling through a rather dry region, ! displavs which occupied more conspicu- !

the article came in play for our plain repast. Chicago Journal.

T.EM HILL'S FUNERAL.

Columbus and Isabella. Between Genoa and Nice, in that in

comparably lovely curve of olive aud

displavs which occupied more conspicu

oils places.

There were, for example, certain ' huge volumes rilled with bits of lace, j embroidery and worsted work done by j the children in a school in the Higher j

Alps. On one leaf was an exquisite

palm-crowned land known as the ! pair of tiny socks, a shirt and a pair of ltiveira, that bends with infinite beauty mittens, ' knitted by Olga for her baby

into the blue of the sea, there stands in

a dingy, somewhat bedraggled street a stone and stuccoed house, now a shop frequented by the simple peasant folk.

The town is Cogoleto, aud this house is

brother."

From a school in Russia came sheets of parchment, each containing an ob

ject lesson, the work of the little schol- j

ars. One held a pressed wax-flower, a

its one show place of treasure, for on the bunch of ilax fibers, some linen thread

mildewed, sati'ron wall an inscription ; and a bit of woven linen lace. Another

states that Christopher Columbus was born there. It is not of much moment whether he

contained samples of wheat in flower and in seed, a tinny sack of Hour, a morsel of unleavened bread, and a minia-

He Had a ProcoHsfuu and All the Arrange inputs MVre Perfect. Another of the queer characters in White Horse Camp was a man known as Lorn Hill. He was as mild as but termilk and as dull as a hoe, and no one ever thought of asking his advice or interesting themselves in his affairs. One day he took sick, and after a period lasting about three weeks it was seen that he must die. It was deemed best that some one should break the news to him, and so "Judge" Kelso dropped in and said: "Lem, you are going to taint up your toe4 before another sunrise.9' The Judge didn't mean to toe sudden or unfeeling, but that was his way. I guess I am," quietly replied Lem. "Well, that pint being settled and no exceptions taken, what last requests hev ye got to make? We want to do the fair thing, you know, although it's fit busy time " "Kin I hev a funeral?" queried Lem.. "You kin."

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Two uutcn laas sent trom Jaoiiana a

miniature copy of the defense of that j

was born in this small town or in the . ture flask of whisky.

grana city oi palaces, men not so grana, however, fifteen miles away. The in

terest and beauty of Columbus' life are country against the sea: little withes,

fadeless. Fired with scientific zeal and single and twisted together, and the tho adventuresome spirit of the real same curiously woven and mortared navigator, one sees him as he was, with clay so as to resist the strongest ' across the centuries, crowding into the attacks of sea or storm, court of a king, waiting with His charts j These things took us home to the in anterooms for audiences, repelled, domestic life of the people who sent cheated, put aside, penniless but patieut, them; to Olga and her brother in their rich in the hero stuff, pushing on and chalet among the snows; to the little ! certain under his uncertainty that some Russian children searching for their S day the sun would shine for him and specimens in the steppes : to the '

his plans. j "handy" Dutch boys tinkering with When we understand a philosophy, ' their tools. They gave a human truth thrill to an epic, it is because the same to the whole great exhibition.

fane qualities that wrought them are in It is almost a matter of certainty that some shape in ourselves. It takes a there will be another World's Fair held diamond to cut a diamond. Being cut in this country in 1892. Why should (

you not take part in it by sending something which will illustrate to foreigners

the especial corner of the world in w hich you live ? A case of the butterflies, moths, or

and exquisitely fashioned, the commonest mind may admire. A poor, feeble nature cannot have much influence for good. A little nature never inspires us, Many a man and many a

woman die dumb and inglorious because 1 snakes peculiar to their own neighbor-

mere was no cuamonu-iiKe mnuence to hood, arranged in scientific order, a

illuminate his or her own nature, no chiseling force to sculpture out all the possible facts, free the imbedded crys-

volume of pressed leaves from all the

trees in the nearest forest, with their

common and scientific names, either of ;

tal and give it the divesting power that j these would be of interest to visitors

should show it off in all ics many-sided beauty. Christopher Columbus woul I not be the puestaled great man, imperishably great, that he is to-day had it not been lor the large-brained comprehension, the sympathy, the intuition and the faith in him of a woman. It took a woman to discover the man who was to discover a new world. There are some who may say that what a woman does not discover is not worth knowing, and woman like that fine, enterprising, brave-natured Isabella of Spain, who was behind tho door of the great fame of Columbus prove this true in so noble a sense that at her name every fez and tuvbau, every xrvepipe hat should b removed in honor of her. Great men have almost always been backed up in their most notable and adventuresome enterprises by some great wmian. Every Columbus has had his Isabella. Men might jeer and deride, might suspect and ridicule, but she was rocklike in her belief; her intuition marked out unerringly the path his genius would take her, heart and hct hope bhot ahead of him like a star light ing the night of his sky. New Orleans Picayune. Teddy O'Toole's Six "Bulls," A merry evening party in an English country town were bantering poor Teddy O'Toole, the Irishman, about his couutrvmeti being so famous for "bulls." uBv mv faith," said Teddv, "vou needn't talk about that same in this place; you're as fond of bulls as any people in all the world, so you are." "Nonsense," some of the party replied. "How do you make that out?" Why, sure, it's very aisy, it is; for in this paltry bit of a town you've got more public houses nor I ever seen wid the sign of the bull over the doors, so you have," sid Teddy. "Nay, Teddy, very few of those; but there's some of 'em, you know, in every town."

from another part of the world. . Remember that the things most familiar to one's self is often rare and interesting to others. The basket which the little mountaineer in North Carolina makes of flakes of mica and fills with red corundum would delight and amaze a child from the Maine coast;

while a glass tank of sea-water, in which j

pink anemones grow, and crabs and water-spiders chase each other would be a marvel to an inland child. What can American children do worthily to show some phase of the country which Columbus discovered? England's Queer Juries. Two examples of the mode in which juries sometimes decide may be added. In one case, at the Assizes in a Midland town, a girl was charged with the murder of her illegitimate child. The evidence clearly pointed to her guilt; but the circumstances were painful, and to the general relief of everybody in court the jury declared her not guilty. Asked privately how they came to deliver such a verdict, the foreman said that he had seen the black cap lying on the Judge's bench nd i;he sight was too much for him ; he hadn't the heart to bring in a verdict of guilty. "And the others?" "Oh, well," said the foreman, "ten of them were neighbors and customers of

mine, and I easily persuaded them." j

" What about the eleventh man ? "Well, he was a farmer that I didn't know; and I said to him, 'Well, Mr. Chumps, what do vou think about this case?' 'Oh!' he replied, 4I ain't thought nowt about it at all, sir!' " Yet the trial had lasted for the whole of a day. The other case is a Welsh one a trial for murder. The prosecution had broken down on a point of law, and the Judge "directed" the jury to rind the man not eruiltv. But all the same thev

delivered a verdict of guilty. His ; lordship, in a voice that thundered ,

with wrath, explaiued that he, and not

"Iteg'lar procession 5

"Yes." I don't expect any cofiin, of coue but I'd like to hev the affair pulled off reasonably decent. You kin plant me on the hill beside the Frenchman. I uess we won't quarrel. n "Yes, we'll do that, though it3 putty hard digging up thar." "Needn't mind going over a couple of feet," said Lem, "and the fellers with the body had better take the left-hand path as they go up; it's easier to climb. "Got any wealth?" asked the Judge after u moment's silence. "A couple of ounces, mebbe." "Mighty slim show for a big spread on that, but we can't help it Well, Lem, it's my busy day you know, and I must cut this short. Hope you won'l take offense." "Oh, certainly not. Don't neglect your work on my account Suuthin1 said at the grave?" "Just a few words, Lem, and Til say 'em myself. I'll practice up this aftn poon and get some whisky to clear my throat. I want to make a decent job of it." '"What'll you say?" "Why, that you died happy hev left tin aching void we shall all miss you cut down in your prime. I'll put it on purty thick." "Well, I'm sure I couldn't ask fo more, and perhaps it's better than could expect. So long. Judge. G back to your work and I'll go on with my dying." And the Judge left the shanty whist ling as was lm wont, and Lem had been dead over an hour before word came to us down in the gluch. The funeral pame off next morning, audit has always been a pleasant remembrance with me that the Judge did considerably better than he agreed to. He gave two eulogies in place of one, and after the burial he licked one of the men who wouldn't knock off work to attend.

"Yes," said Teddy, obstinately stick

ing to his text, for he had laid a imp for I the jury, was the judge of the law, and :

Jus friends; "but you ve more nor your ; asked them what thev meant by defvmo

, indeed, my lord,

share, barrin' that you're so fond oi

I'm sure

I can count

bulls, as L saw

halt a uoen oi em.

Pooh, nonsense P cried the party, "that'll newr do. What'll you bet on that, Toddy ? You're out there, my boy, depend upon it; we know the town as well as vou, and what will vou bet V

his direction. "Oh

said the foreman, with a bland Celtic smile, "but the man at the turnpike :

told us he knew Peter Jones did it." &L James9 Gazette.

The Electric Plant. In the forests of India a strange plant has been discovered. It possesses to a

"Indeed, my bravo boy, I'll not bet at ; high degree magnetic power, and conall. I'm no bctthor, 1 assure ye. I; ceals within its leaf and flower many should be wor-e if I wur." This sally : mysteries and botanical problems. iYa-

tickled his companions, and ho pro- lur? thus describes it

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ceeded, VlutTl be bound to count and name the six." "Well, do, do," said several voices. ''Now, Jet me gee there's the Black Bull." "Yes, that's one."

"Then there's the Bed Bull.

"That's two." " And tho White Bull." "(Jome, that's three' "And the Bied Bull." " So there is ; you'll not

further." uAnd then there's there'sthere's the i olden Bull in what's-ifc-street?" "Well done, Teddy; there's live, sure enough. But you're short yet."

go much

The hand which breaks a loaf from it receives immediately a shock equal to that which is produced by the conductor of an induction coil. At a distance of six meters a magnetic needle is afleeted by it, and it will be quite deranged if brought near. The energy of this singular influence varies with the hour of the day. Allpowerful about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, it is annulled during the lr.ght. At times of storm its intensity augments to striking proportions. During rain the plant seems to succumb, and bends its head during a thunder shower; it remains there without force or virtue even if one should shelter vifc with an umbrella. Xo shock is felt at that time

sat smirking in the ci rnor, "and he will jn breaking the leaves, and the needle

be short; for there isn t one more, know." "And thin, romimbor." continued Tedd carefully pursuing his enumer

ation, "there's the Dun Cow.

is unatlocteil beside it. One nev r by ay char e fves a bird insect alight on the elee.iie plant, iiu instinct seems to warn them tl.afc thev would rind sudden death. It is also im-

The Pigmies. The pigmies were a nation of dwarfs, believed by the ancients to inhabit the interior of Africa. They were said to be about thirty inches in height, and to be engaged in constant warfare with their inveterate enemies, the cranes, Herodotus speaks seriously of them ej3 an existing race, and it haubeen gee. et illy supposed that those whose ac counts he reported had reference to a small species of apes. Late explorations in Africa, however, by Krapf, lu Chaillu and Schweinfurth have thrown, light on the pigmy myth by revealing the existence of a race of very small human beings in southeast Africa. Doctor Schweinfurth ra the first td Actually see these peculiar people Thev inhabit the countrv between lati tude two degrees and one degree north. They call themselves the Akka nation Schweinfurth measured a number o i ull -grown men, none of whom ex ceeded four feet ten inches in height. The explorer describes them as hav ing disproportionately large heads, peculiar shaped shoulders, and crooked tthoulder blades, with joints angular and projecting, and abdomens of enormous Hize. Their only symmetrical part is their bauds, which are shapely and well formed. The upper part of the skull is round and the jaws are square and pro jecting. The feet turn inward, and they walk with a peculiar waddling motion, Schweinfurth wanted to bring one oi this curious race to Europe, but he died before reaching the seacoast. Mexican Fireflies. A gentleman traveling from Califor iiia to Vera Cruz came across millions of fireflies near Jalapa, one of the mos beautiful cities in Mexico. He says that the road from this point was lined with a dense chaparral, which was brilliantly illuminated with myriatla of fireflies. These are a bug about the size of an ordinary roach, and emit a light almost equal to that of a small wax laper. It is not the occasional sparkle of the little firefly of our country, but a continual blaze, proceeding from the eyes, as well as from two points beneath i;he wings. Several of these insects, placed in a olass jar, will give suiheient light by M-hich to read the smallest print, and when one rises in the air to any consid arable height, it resembles a beautiful meteor slowly crossing the heavens. A number of them flying through the :tir in different directions on a dark night present a very pretty appearance, well calculated to excite the wonder, if not tin? superstitious fears, of a person r nacuainted with the cause of so t.trange a phenomenon.

At this a burst of laugqte fairly j pnrtant io :omark that where it grows

none of the magnetic metals are found, neither iron, nor eobah, nor nickel; an undeniable proof that tho electric force belongs exclusively to the plant.

shook the room, and busv hands kepi

tlu tables and glasses rattling, amidst boisterous cries of, "A bull! a bull!" Looking seriously at ull around, Teddy dehberatolv asked : 4 Do you'cail tliitt a bull " ' To bo sure it's a bull!" exclaimed several voices at oitee. Then," said Teddv, "that's the sixth."

'Wife fat midnight Lt

is

a shame

for you to keep up this way. llnbby Pshaw, mv dear! Vou didn't mind it before we were nnuriel.

A Year or Two Hence. j (.Ml ice r on ocean greyhound (touching his cap) Captain, the wave that i-wopt our decks a lew moments ago, carried oirthirty-sovtm passengers. Captain (feverishly watching speck i on horizon through his glass Throw J thoir trunks and other baggage over- t board! That rascal is gaining oa us. j Chicago Tribune,

A Sure Cure. Lady Visitor (at oilice of eminent phy uiciau) I have called, doctor, to usk if khere is any cure for sleep-Talking. I have had the habit for years, and lately it has become worse. lr. Mighpriee It can be cured, iraadam. Take this prescription, and Uve it tilled at Colde, Steele & Co'. "Colde. Steele & Co's? Why, that w not a drug store. K is a hardware trm." les, madam. The proscription caiU f )r a pjprr of tacks. l)uo two table eipoonfuis scattered about the floor be tore letiriutf." New iork Wenklu

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