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THE NEWS AND FARM A Twenty-Eight Column Fam "., ily Weekly, Fbr One Dollai- a Year, IN ADVANCE. . i AND FARM. J . Advertising Rates will be Quoted en Application. "JOB PRINTING. OP ALL DESCIHTTIOXS Executed aithis VJ7,-t kUA i,eat69 and at very rocnalUruUg. KSTTovr fMtcr ,VA-iW. N. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SEWS, POLITICS, AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION A2?J iSOUllIERX PROGRESS. A Cr-vlon4irl Aftafirtisinor Medium. VOL VII. KERNERSVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1887. NO. 29. J. II. LINDSAY, Kditor and Owner. . THENES mm 'THE GOOD FIGHT." Who flsht God-armed, h fights with power S pre me; Thouii a 1 Iks lost, yet all may be redeem; Xkroct hough the oombat, victory waits, at , " lt-npth, ' 1 ' . , . For hiiii v.1k to his weakness adds God' strength. Emma C. Dowd iu Youth's Companion. my position by my solicitor. I couM eive my wife a position "which would seem desirable in English eyes; I enter tained some extravagant notions - about the new life at the hall and the new Lady Favisham. whom I would introduce to my people. The most dazzling I beauty . on the walls of the old picture e&llery would, I felt, pale beside the charms of the last Lady Till; SNAKE CHARMER. I don't intend to account for it, you know, or to offer' any excuses such as in herent madness, or taint in the blood, but I simply. Kayas 1 would that I have a lock ' f tray hair in a bad place on my head and a mole on my neck: that I am irresistibly drawn toward tropical snakes and have a leaning in the direction of fakirs and jugglers. " My friend Ilarcourt is an mm h drawn-the other way, but I ewear I lutd no notion of the probable effect on him the day I drew him into a little cross street or court, where a num ler of very fat, well preserved boas were lolling. in the fjleasant obscurity of a dark glass cae oh a pile of seuii-wiiite blankets. Ilarcourt, something of a dreamer generally, followed me- in my searchings after wonders, as amiably as a collie, with only an understanding in a tacit sort of way that I was hot to introduce him to women who would fancy it an in cumlent benevolence to pull hiin out and make him talk. I hardly think he knew where we were until 1 forcibly plucked him in out of the unrestricted glare of a , July day to the gaudily papered, passageway to the mu teuui. "Ilarcourt, I havb some lovely speci mens'to show you mottled boas and co br.iH, and an awfully swell , kind, of snake charmer done up in the true Oriental flimsies red coif, bracelets of- , set u ins, bare ankles, and all that. The Rajah is a snake you should know. Upon my life, I think he begins to know uve." Willi the best intentions in the world, I gave llaourt a little push and he stumbled agtuust the, cage with a dull thuniu on the fix which roused Rajah, .and, rearing h' bead very sensibly, he gazed ettttiglti into oar eyes. As pale and limp as a live man could ever be come, my friend shrank back and seemed suddenly bereft of ki legs. I steadied him up, and really thought on the mo ment that ths ministerial Ilarcourt had Imbibed an extra glaas of tome spirited Anioricau drink, lie asked me to take him Ja the air. lie was pitiably weak, . end as ghastly aa if h had seen his grand mother's ghost in a camera obscura. Tho strong, rollicking breeze brought him round, an 'I almost, quite himself he led the wy to one of the little wayside J arks so refreshingly frequent in the large cities of tliis country. He laid his hat on th( rk seat and nervously wiped his forehead, while I tried to entice a pigeon from tin gravel with plum cake, seeming mot to notice his strange agitation. He reverted to the affair uppermost in my mind himself in his painfully straight . forward way Don't lauglij Strahan, when I tell you that I am a slave to an all pervading dorr, in ant horror. I cannot look at snakes, although once I really believed that nature intended to inspire admira tion in making a brown and green boa. And women of the tropics were once my adoration, with their brown", velvety skinst. 14ack eyes -amd graceful movements'- ,'lle Uuller4. Now I-can never sea the one without be ins; reminded 'of the other. In faet. I think there has been a sort of sympathy between women and- snakes' since the conquest of Eve by the 6erient. Both are fascinating. The serpent fastens yon with its gaze like a "woman; the women stings you to death like the snako. Let me tell you my ; story. Perliaps then you may find some excuse for mo, and tolerance of some thing which is pot superstition, heaven knows!'? I could not think of anything to say, so I said nothing. Ilarcourt, as I have explained, was painfully direct. I do not like verbiage, but I shun a man generally who dives headlong into a thing and drags you with him. Yet I liked Ilarcourt, as we some times do a chap who we fancy has suf fered his fUjl measure. There are "pages in my life,' Strahan, ou do not know; but you do know irrat I was one of her majesty's foot guards hi India, and tliat I sold my commission on' account of fever to De - Landpof the Hawkliurst Blues, and left . before my time, I was a wild fellow in those days. A few hours before my de parture, while returning from a tiger hunt in- which I and tuy followers were uuamefully outwitted, I ran across the tent of a snake charmer a villainously dirty -old Ilindoo, who with horrible yells and imprecations made the twilight hid eous by cudgeling his daughter, as he . swore she was, while she asseverated, with lifted arm to Allah,' that she was simply his slave. I interfered of course. "We had a free light, leaving the old fakir hors de combat, and I bore off the child Xobeido one of the loveliest creatures 1 even then that I had ever seen,, and as wild as a hawk. ' It was lucky tliat I had been fully v prepared to quit the country. As it was the boys of my mess begged me to have notluag to do with Parsee, Hindoo or Arab women to leave this dark eyed ; houri bahind. Seeing me obdurate Capt. Bellamy said: " 'Do as you wilL Ilarcourt; but you may regret the day you did so foolish a thing. Kindly remember that I warned Jon.' "And how often I have I 'But then it was with a gloom of ex ultation I admitted to myself the entire ownership of anything so untainted and bo beautiful as Zobeide. She was as de licious to my senses as a pomegranate blos . seox, and .was gratitude itself. Poor, ; starved,; unloved little thing! She twined about mo Eke a vine." . Again tftt con vulsive shudder. . V, You, recognize the old routine the ., manner of disposing of such cases? My tnaiden aunt detlared it, scandalous, but consented to chape rone my protege. Into her hands I gave Zobeide for a year, stip ulating that she be taught all Christian Knees. And so I left her to tapestries, Stench verbs and the Yiiann. t- ; Ilarcourt, countess of Favisham i'Tet, how shall I describe my first meeting with her? I heard her light foot in the corridor, and the rustle of her silken gown. The morning sunshine flooded the room, the odor of roses from their tall green rases for a moment turned me faint. Was it a fancy that the old musty incense of the jungle where the boa lies coiled entered the room with her, emitted by her white garments? "She glided toward me, scarcely mak ing, a sound, and my senses seemed bound by a spell. There were no forbidding .airs of hauteur. She coiled her arms about me, and slid her dusky cheek along until it lay against mine; yet it was cool! I was very nearly overcome when my aunt entered the room, bringing a cur rent of fresh air with her. Is she not lovely, your little Indian savage?' point ing to Zobeide, who seemed to drift not walk over the floor to the piano, from which she evoked such quaint minor chords that I begged her to come and talk, to me instead of playing. "From that hour my soul passed out of my body to the keeping of this girl. She spoke to me caressingly, soothingly, as a child. "When wearied of my cravings for her kisses and caresses, she would shut herself up for hours in her own apartments, or would gallop awayover the downs on her black horse Selim, an Arabian I had given her. "We had married in London one day. and began Life in an irregular un-English way, as my aunt had said. But we were always together. If we gave no balls, that was a mere matter of taste. I had once had a passion for such diversions, but it had died in me, as had most pas sions except for my child wife. Zobeide seemed to revel in the county bell at first. and to gloat on the homage and admira tion she received. But very soon she tired of that sort of thing, and even of her rides with Selim, the great splendid rooms, the library and the picture gallery, the lakes, the swans, and the elm shaded avenues, with snowy statues gleaming ghostly in the moonlight. "She had wearied of the 4iomage of men, and the envious amazement of women awe struck by her beauty, long ago. She locked herself up more often in her own wing, and always laughingly refused to admit me. I cannot see why I did not marvel at this, but this was .no more strange than that I gave up hunt ing, which had been a passionate fancy of mine before. My aunt had laid her hand on my brow, saying " How changed you are, Henry 1' Nonsense!' I had replied. 'Itisyou who are altered. Where is Zobeide?' " 'Always that question!' she mur mured, in a tone of distress. "Unce she pulled me into her own chamber, saying, in a way calculated to startle me but it did not ." -'My dear boy, I want to speak to you. I must speak now with you. Why uo you allow. Lady ravishani to amuse herself daily with a brood of detestable snakes?' "Does she?' I asked, listlessly. My good soul, why should I interfero if the child really does amuse herself? Don't worry about Zobeide, dear; I don't I' No, poor boy! I wish you did.' "Strange! I passed this conversation off as if it had related to the flannels o the rheumatic tenants. Yet ordinarily '. I should never lift my head again to find her great black eyes glowing from behind : he tea urn. I had not been unhappy with " iobeidc, but I question that I was in a' late to know the quality of the happi- -ess she gave me. I had grown to think kj thoughts shje gave me: that was all. . I simply -told Celeste, my lady's uaid, that I wAuld go to her apartments; nit Celeste, with the desire probably to .aye me a detested sight, ran up the pol shed stairs, her little slippers making a ioud noise in the silent house. "With a shriek Celeste staggered half vay down the 6tairs. her face like chalk, ; icr eyes wildly staring. . I h, monsieur! don't go in, if you alue your life!' t I pushed her aside, and entered Lady ' ilarcourt's boudcir, hung with the pale ;preen silk curtains t.he had chosen be- j cause it would remind her of the jungle where we first met. Five old overpower- insr. indefinable odor met me at tne MAGNIFICENT GERMAN TROOPS. XUod of thm Cowmtrr im - BMkBlBlc Botm Cavalry. - The uniforms enhance the appearance, cf the German troops. There is not aa ill fitting uniform or one of .unattractivu color in the whole army. But aside from this advantage they are a tnagnifioent body of men. In the ranks there is, in one sense, the best blood of the country strong, healthy, clean and young men. Whether the sons cf prinoes or the sons of peasants," they areyoumj rnen. Host of them are between the ages of 21 and 25.. The' one distinction k that the eon of a prince serves but one fear In the pW. He is able to furnish his outfit complete, is no expense to the government and has only to serve this compulsory term. The same rule applies to any young man who is able to furnish himself.- The peasant, .or working man is not able to bear this" expense, and therefore serves three years. threshold, but I stepped across her tiger f the government supplying everything, ' - la r. 1. : - . 1 I ' Tttif neithav MfiV fuw waalfk Mn nitm ? - . .ill. . ft At .tn in VVI Iff I 4 1 YT MK ft. O t- J - AVI. W V J Hill . I . 'J Coi.ealing with horror. , j "My wife's little gray silk bonnet and scarf lay on the floor near the sofa where j rhc reclined, her hair, unbound, stream-. ing in disorder over the mossy green car- i can inter pose if the young man, be be who be may, is physically capable of serving. Two sons of Prince Bismarck have served in the ranks. Tne two regiments of culr&aBlers were pet. She was quite dead, but had per-! ny.au oaos . tne moss elegant soioier on I rips 1 rrathed her last only a moment be-) the field. The uniform is of white cloth, fore I found lier. with silver cuirass, and silver helmets On the boroin which had pillowed my i having on the top the silver eagle, with head so often lay the head of a monster ! wings extended, u They were mounted on -ijoa. His loathsome body wrapped tightly ; black horses, making the effect .the more about the luckless girl liad squeezed her splendid. 1 Fancy two such regiments to death. In a fervor of gladness over J marching 100 abreast, men and .horses her return or madness from hunger, he moving as by one impulse, and throwing iiau kiat a i lie woman wno xonaieu mm : vvxa wlmb mwt um uu, uun when cot with me. "I managed to retain my senses some-i 11.. .A . darrimg in the bright sunshine. On the other hand, the dash of how, aud left the room, so permeated i Uhlans, with their silver spears and .vith iioison. Down str.irs once more, I breathed freer than for many days. I leaned out of the window and looked at the o.u stars which bad twinkled through every hour of my miserable misspent life. I realised till tX once Low base and inac tive' I had become, a dreamer; but was I to blame? The old butler kindly led me to my room, begging me to drink of the glass he forced to my lips, saying that all bhould be done well. I drank, and, throwing myself on the bed. I lost my mind in a dreary and tlreadful maze which melted into a long sleep. I knew in that tleep that the ythou liad been strangled and the rumor ivtn forth that Ltuly Ilarcourt had fallen lead from heart iii.it-sbe. "Tl;e end of it all came, of course, and went through it properly, 1 heard after wards; but I think wirKut eouI for one I went to Switzerland a place hnp- bilv free from snakes, where I recovered mv old mental poise ar.d got back to a point where I could reflect upon all that fearful time which had seemed a sort of heaven to me while it lasted my strange irresponsible life with Zobeide, a channel of serpents, a ruler cf men! . Now you know, Strahan, why I doi not care to look on such sights. It un nerves me to look on a boa more than to meet a wild beast face to face. Don't lauKh." Laugh! I was never further from it at any moment of my life! Harcourt s experience only strength ened me in my theory about the sym pathy between snakes and some people. It is always a woman who charms snakes, you know ; never ,a man." I won der why? Annio Robertson Noxon in Lippincott'B Magazine. waving banners, rendered them quite fas cinating. There were several regiments of Uhlans, the First regiment mounted on black horses, the others on bay. The little black and white banners, fluttering out from the glistening spears, distin guished them from all ether cavalry, and one could only liken them to the old crusaders. The uniform of Prince WTHlam's regi ment, First Hussars, is jaunty and much trimmed. The red -jacket is braided with yellow cord. The short coat is fastened at the collar, and hangs loose over the left shoulder, with the arms free from the sleeves. It is of dark blue cloth, braided across the front, and bordered with astra kan. Regiments cf riflemen were in uni forms of gendarme blue, trimmed with bright scarlet This was a decidedly hand some combination. There were other jay body had acted regiments in dark green, others is dark luui uuumeu wiw ungn orangv, ana in fantry in blue coats and white trousers. The parade step of the German infantry belongs to the Germany army. It is a -my high step, with a quick, forward movement, or jerk of the knee. When this "goose step," as they call it, is by a whole regiment, the effect Is a trifle peculiar. The pangs of hunger will even then bring the German officer down from the pomp and circumstance of the review to the plane of other people with ranch baskets. So the wives, sisters, cousins and aunts carry loads of luncheon and bottles of wine. The officers watch their opportunities, and the carriages get a great deal of attention, many being surrounded by the gay uniforms much of the time. Of course there were sweethearts in the carriages, but the sight of the gay officers on horseback cramming down sandwiches did not present a spectacle of sentiment or devotion. The German officer may be a man of poetry when he is not hungry, but all the bright eyes and sweet smiles in Berlin cannot turn him from his sand wich or smoked sausage. Berlin Cor. New York Sua. llr tm Collect m Smnctew'e Wlicn I was the loctors ttt!ent tie n :-r,-ca t tTro board cf rci'oc. 1 r.i ..i i wci icq wired to take can? of ,. -i4:.v i .ulna , when thev were under :. L'e v.us required to treat all . t-.:v: and all prisoners witlout v. Lul was entitled to fees from who wc::t to the station, house for OiAf i-iht he was cut and I was in rljce alone. wLen an cfucvr -ntexvl i kuI: "W here" the Uctor? There is Jrr.iian'suilor !dwn at No., who vlly tut u- He walked in just now . n -jtrled that he had Uvn attacked .i s-.Ux n. lis m in a bad shape and v.': in.nio'aatj attention." I grabbed ,- Luh!ut.3. scum iUcr and, a case ..-ry.iti.iit a r.ni sttJied to tlM fetation . I found Uk ftlhrvr in bod shape. im I out were Lrcken ar.d no vital ... injured. I roun liad him all esc.-pt oc wi;und in the side, u h lud bv-wu nude hy a stiletto. Jtu 1 1. Ifru I becan to dress that one of i4ulciu.cn M.lii$pered that he liad -nty of uMMtoy.nxd that if I made him iy !;v rcuU liave. less witli wluch to get t ar.ot l.cr ro v. O. nrequcutly I uiiMly itUil that tlw lill wculd le ClO. The . liT swore that !" would not j-ay, but .id It wouM. le well to co!k;f, frcm the nn who led dn.e tlie cutting. The rtor entered as the men tlc!ir.t?d to ukkite.- He raid crth:r:r.!TUtcinev. fafked me if I had Mxeil hira up in od shape. I informed him that l e was 1 right except tliat the stab wound - -cded dressing. With that ho asked to k at it, and taking a curved probo lie st rted it in the wound and remarked; Don't you think you had better pay the e?" "Me no paya centa," replied the an; "fella what cutts, ho paya." But e doctor liad not the time to find tliat How. Instead he twisted the probe a lie and again put the question. He re ived the same answer as before, but it as delivered in a much higher key. vtain the probe was turned, this time ilh a slight wrenching motion. Great cott! You ought to have hard that talian yell. The expletives wluch he - oured out could not W reproduced. But ie last portion of lti remarks were en ..rely satisfactory. "Take it outa." he oiled; "take it outa. Are Maria! I paya . -:y thing." He paid. Baltimore Aruer- ' "an. THE INDIAN ARROW POISON. ii WHOM EVERYBODY KNOWS. JL Meet. XatorMtlmc amd Cartova Zi-c ZOeeta Vpn Sttala-y AmU4f. Curare or curara, or sxrow poison, b most interesting and curious drug, be longing to the class neurotica. Iris a juice or extract from the bark of a creeping vine mdigenous to Guiana and Central America, and is largely, used by the Indians a an arrow poison for kfij Ing game and in war. The Tndtsni prepare the uason.with great secrecy , and mystery, ml Ting the extract of " the vine with other herbs, red and black ants, and the powdered fangs of a venomous serpent.' it is then boiled over a slow fire until the liquid is brown and of a very bitter taste, when it is poured into a small vessel and kept in a cooL dry place. When ready for us? the extract is very soluble in water, and is therefore very diffnmihle when introduced Into a wound, being quickly dissolved by the blood and rapidly carried frV the circulation, producing stupor aujBia. The Indians prepare a number of ar rows at a time previous to a battle or a hunting expedition. They are prepared by dipping the point of the arrow into the glutinous, semi-eolid poison and twist ing it about until a sufficient quantity of the extract has adhered to the tip, when they are laid aside to dry. Mr. Biff, in The London Medical Ga zette, states that he found tha axtrmrl tn retain its poisonous properties for a ' tornmanaer-in-Chief Fairchikl, of the period of twenty-seven years, but must ' rn Army of the Republic, has stopped be kept in a dry place. Bernard, a i noinf'. after having been addicted to traveler in British Guiana, writes that he lb? hbit ying manhood. lit found some which had been loosely on 1 auanao,ea vu fragrant weed just trrra nt ta 'wpp,r- Say mf Itmm VT4 Art Mr Ltm -uaoa. The crazy King Otto, of Bavaria, .-hiefly amoses himself by looking at illus trated inpera, peeling potatoes and mak--ng cigarettes. The mother of W. C. QuantrelL the noted iruTTiHa, still Lvts at Canal Dover, . O., and firmly believes her son i still hv ing and will one day return borne. Mrs. Sheridan was regarded as one of the handsomest women seen at the Phil adelphia celebration. Her eyes are large, brown and beautiful, and she haa a special fancy for brown costumea, which are an admirable- match for those attract ive eyes. Before leaving Klssingcn Prince Bismarck- al w ays ascertains his weight, sod he was this year rratifWd to find tht it and pa- - had remained the aame as lart summer. 207 pounds. Before Bismarck Intrusted luinaclf to Dr. Schwningcr Le weighed forty iiounda more. ! J. T. Trowbridge, Uie author, has" grown rich in an easy and pleasant way. He is one of tlie principal stockholders in the company which owns all tho availa ble land or cottages at Kennefocport, Me. Tlie rapid rise in the price of land at that resort lias made lh stockholders wealthy. the tip of an arrow for fifteen years and which .still retained sufficient virulence to kill an animal in a few minutes. Tho poison begins its effect upon an wounded with an arrow prepared as de scribed, in from one to three minutes with convulsions, the "'"'M apparently weeks ago. after he had been informed by eeveral physicians tliat its continued use accounted for badlr inflamed tonsils, w hich seriously troubled hira. He has noted a great improvement in the condi tion of his throat, and says, in a voice in which there is a alight tines of rcrrt suffering no pain, death ensuing in four lhat ka undoubtedly smoked Lis laS or nve minutes. The poison does net should have been paralyzed with horror at the idea of my wife juggling with snakes. It sets my teeth on edge now only to think of it, and it would have made my hair stand on end had I been in my right mind. "I was insane all that horrible summer .when a snake charmer ruled at Favisham Hall, the seat of a loyal and hot blooded race, of which I was the last and least worthy. "Yet any one who knew Lady Har court at that time would not have won deredVat her autocracy, I am sure. Even the servants 1 were tinctured with tho poisonous atmosphere, and only my aunt, who constantly went abroad, was able to shake off tho leaden pall which had settled down upon us at the Hall. "Suddenly, .in obedience to the wishes of my physician, Imado ready to run over to my shooting box in Scotland. I was stubbornly firm about taking my wife with me, although she demurred and even, wept when I presented the tour to her. I carried, my point, and wo were away just ten Idays. - "Lady Ilarcourt stipulated that her wing of the Hall was to remain ursjis- turbed during her absence. But she ex pected fully to be back within a week. My aunt had gone to Rugby. ' "I will try! to-descrfbo our coming home as intelligently as possible. - "I had notjded with wonderful elation that my head was dear and my whole mind more coherent during our absence, as if some terrible influence had been wanting to sway and blacken my life. On the contrary, my wife, although so young and jlovely, with all the world to fall at her feet, seemed strangely ill at ease during our trip, and grew eo nervous nearing home! that she actually leaped from tho carriage as it drew up before the halL She !had coiled herself up in it without a word, although I talked inces santly of the rains and the hops. "Perkins, tljie butler, gravely met us, savin?: 'Dinner waifs, mv" lordV' like a theatrical call boy. But my wife sprang-! out and rushed, Off to her apartments with her wraps on her arms, humming a little strain of a Hindoo song which she knew made me particularly unhappy. 'I threw myself in a deep chair and broke the seal of two or three letters. running over their contents in the great banquet room, where the tall: wax lights flared in their sconces, trying to be patient until Lady Harcourt came. ' The flowers wilted in their blue and gold vases, tlie clock ticked on ominously; still Ladv Harcourt did not appear. An K-CAfrdratea Mar?. "A soldier's life is hard,' but he has his joys aa well." said au ex-Confedsrate sol dier, "and 1 can recall many amusing in cidents in the midst of privations and anxieties. After I' was taken prisoner by the Federals in Tennessee I was ser.t with a large number of others similarly unfortunate on. the train to Nashville. They put about sixtv of us in one coach and locked the doors, on the outside. There was no danger or our attempting to escape, us we could not open the doors, and if we .could we would have had to jump from a train running at the rate of thirty miles an hour, but . they placed two guards in there with us. They sat by tho door with their backs to it. "In a few minutes one of the guards said to the other; 'Give me a chew of tobacco.' The man "handed it to him, and the ono who received it passed back five cents, with the remark: "That ' maket five I have gotten from you; here Is ydui money. He was paying for his chews at the rato of a cent a piece. ' It aroused our indignation to sec men paying each. other for chews of tohaeco, and we began to ridicule them. They, w ere afraid to say anything, for they knew we could take their guns away from them and beat them to death, . and there were boys among us who would have done it if given provocation. lhe xanxees nad two bis; knap&cks cf food, and, as we were hungry, we determined to .have their provisions. The k nap5ecks hung on the wall near tliem. Darkness came on before we reached Na&hville, and . as the coach was but slightly iUuniinated we managed to steal the knapsacks without detection and divide the food among us We then hung . the knapsacks back. Shortly afterward the fellows began to get ..hungry and turned to their knap sacks, l ou should have heard them when they found that they were The English mind, Zebehr said, could hardly conceive the condition of the Nyam Nyam people. They had no God, no prophet, and no law. One man wor sliiped a tree, another his chickens, some fire, some water, some the buffalo, some the serpent. They had no occupation but hunting and fighting one with another, and they were cannibals. Cannibalism prevailed among them to such an extent that when he first went down they ate none but human flesh. Men, women and children were killed in tho market, cut up and sold as Europeans sell beef and mutton. All prisoners of war were eaten, and ill behaved persons; also men who 'grew too fat to be good for anything else and persons who died a natural death. A young Nyam Nyam, who was in at tendance upon tlie pasha, explained, apro pos of this, that it is not the custom to eat your relations. If your tu other, for instance, is supposed to be dying you ne gotiate with some one of a neighboring village to give a certain sum for her body. If she recovers, the bar vain falls through ; if she dies, the fact is notified immedi ately to the man wlio has bought her and she is taken away to be decently eaten at a distance. Contemporary Review. Deaaty and r nfranclty. The sticklebacks are all great fighters; nd it may be broadly laid down once :ore as a general principle clcximal life, :A at tlie same time a contribution to the .'.leory of tittlebats, that all very har.d- .p.ie and decorated creatures arc natur .Ily pugnacious of disposition. Thus, stags ;ght one another with their branching intlers for the possession of the does, "almon constantly join battle and tear no another to pieces savagely on the icognized spawning bed. The polyga mous ruff, distinguished from his sober tuited mate, the reeve, by his curiou crest,, and by .the greet collar of plumes from which lus name is taken, is as full of the Homeric joy of battle as a game cock, and quite as gamy." The wild Sumatran ancestor of our own barndoor fowl "docs battle in defense cf his seraglio till one of the combatant drops down dead." Black cock ar.d capcrcailzio assemble annually, at regular tournaments, to fight one another, and display their beauty before their expectant and undecided dames; and on such occa sions Kovalevsky has seen the snow of their arenas in Russia all red with blood and covered with the torn out feathers of the champions. Most of the handsomest birds and animals, .indeed, are provided with special weapons for these fierce en counters, such as the spurs of game birds, the horns of antelopes, the antlers of stag, the tusks of the musk deer, the wing darts of the palamedia, and the fierce, spiny fins of the most decorative Even the dainty little hamming Lirds themselves are prodigious fighters, and I have seen them engaging one another id their aerial battles with the utmost pluck, vigor and endurance. Furthermore, beauty in animals is almost always accompanied, as Dr. Gunther has observed, by a very hasty and irritable temper. Popular Science Monthly. poison hasten stupefaction in the tissues of the animal, as is the case with snake poison, and its flesh is used ss food by the Indiana without any bad effects. A traveler in Central America de scribes an experiment in which threi ar rows were introduced beneath the skin cf an ox. For four minutes there was no effect, then it set itself firmly on its four legs as if to resist falling and remained quite still for fourteen minutes; it then attempted to walk, but stumbled and fell, the eyes became fixed, dim and apparent ly insensible to light; there were convul sions in the limbs, labored breathing and frothing at the mouth. After convulsions in the limbs had ceased there was still some motion of the heart at intervals. In twenty -five minutes from the introduc tion of the poisoned arrows the anirnl was dead. The flesh was eaten, but it liad acquired no peculiar flavor or odor from the poison and gave rise to no un pleasant symptoms. A curious fact about curara thus pre pared is that it is inert when swallowed into the stomach and must be introduced directly into the blood or circulation (hy podermically, as it were) in order to kilL The reason for this is doubtlers that the fluids of digestion, particularly the add gastno juice, change the clicruical com position of the poison by reaction upon it, rendering it inert before it can become digested and reach the circulation of the blood. The poison appears to have no action on the heart, as it continues its pulations for a time after respiration has ceased. From one grain and a half to two grains suffices to kill rabbits, and a much smaller quantity operates fatally by hypodermic injection. There isbo known antidote to tho President Carter, of Williams college, tlie other day gave tlie suembers of the sophomore class the views of the trustevs on cane ruvhirg and haxiag. ne in formed them that tne of the conditions ujon which they would be allowed to re main in the ttucball league was that all cane rushing and interference ' with the freshmen must be given up. He told the class frankly that.if a man were caught in this UiKims he would suffer seven ly, and ho hopod that the canebrakes and buIlrusLes on the banks of theUootao' river were cleared away." The presi dent also gavo the fmhmen d a talk on smoking and drinking. When Gen. John C. Fremont walked into the. rooms of the Pacific railroad cmnmiMJon the commishioners stood up and greeted him htartily, and tlie law yers, one after another, were -introduced to him and grasped 1dm kindly by the hand. People and the newrpa)ers have talked lately about the general being old and feeble. Old, he is; but feeble not at all. He carries his 74 years whh a step as springy and a form as straight aa they were when he carved a jathwsy over the Rocky mountains to the new O Dorado forty years ago. His snowy white hair and whiskers aro as neatly kept as were Ids blonde locks in tliedays hen be stole the heart of pretty Jessie Benton, in spite of her father's protests. He is pass ing his autumn days quietly down at Point Pleasant, on the New Jersey coast, and , has gathered, about him there' the materials for a history of his life that, written by himself and his charming wifs, will doubtless be a vivid pen pict ture of some of the most mUmting events of the last half century of t4 country's history. Bignor Tancredi de Bavoiroux. the curse empty. . Wo openly avowed the stealing. and said we. had -done it because they were mean enough to sell chews of to bacco. They growled, but they were afraid to do anything. ' ' Courier-Journal. KaflraU and XawtpapevOtftplngs. -' The influence of tlie newspapers of tlie day in shaping and controlling -public opinion is shown in no more direct man ner than in the riles of clippings from them which are to be found in railroad offices in this city. Most cf he offices assign to come clerk the duty of reading the daily papers " and making newspaper clippings en, alf subjects of special inter est to thcpany, posting these duly dated ana v tnenficated, in a scrap book and stowii them away for reference. In this manner tlte newspaper becomes to many railroad officials, the .chronicle of 1 1 events, the repository of information. Claarlaf Away- the Clda Many overworked Americans, mer chants aa well aa doctors, will appreciate the following anecdote of Dr. Matthew Baillie, a celebrated Scotch physician. PTor many years he was accustomed to devote sixteen hours a day to business,' a burden of labor which necessarily told upon his health, and was the cause of a painful irritability of. disposition. Con scious of this tendency, be tried to con trol it. .Frequently, when sitting down to tails after a day of fatigue; he would hold up his hands to his family, who were pre paring to welcome him, exclaiming: "Don't speak to me I" and then pres ently, after taUar a sip effects of curara. Tlie on It linn cf lw Jf00 I ing lif s is to Ugate strongly the wound-! I member f the Italian cxxruiiercial cxpe . limb between the wound and the heart I dition whose liberation from the clutches and making free and rapid excirkms cf I 01 the Abyssinian leader, Ras Alula, has the part, or, more radically, the amputa tion of the entire limb as far above tle wvund and ligature ss postible. An alkaloid called curarina has been isolated from curara; it operates in tho same way ss the latter, but more power fully; paralyzes the voluntary muscles by its effect on the anterior roots c-f tho spinal nerves, destroying motor j-owtr. It answers to the same clicuiical torts as strychnia, but differs from it somewhat in action. Philadelphia Times. If ApUt Yf r yvrra!. A raven perched on Un bough of a tree croaks its harsh welcome. It does not tell me what. Foe's raven tell him, but I daresay the diiTert-nce Is ru In the birds. Poe had bad stomach. I hare one that . I need never insure. If Poe had beesi healthier he-would have been happier. An old ihr-ictan eaid in me once: witty remarked in my bearirg on a certain oc casion: ''Health is heaven." lie was suffering from tootiAch4 at the time. I 'Hell is an eternal gout." A and Tenerable doctor of tiitLnity Tb Latest Vegetable Fat. The latest vegetable fat to attract com' mcrcial attention u an extract of the myristica scbitera, a so called Lean, but really a species of nutmeg, which grows wild in uuatem.UA. wi.ero tlc natives gather it and obtain the oil from it for eap and candles. The "beans" aro in abundant supply, growing in bunches on the bushes, and they can be had at the small expense of aj in's Indians to gather them. A consular repr e sentativc of Gua- Umsla is of opinion that there is a great future In store for the fut of this vegeta ble, which, he thinks, would be a "good substitute" for lard or butter. Machinery for crushing sesame seed, which is ex tensively cultivated in Guatemala, is now being sent into that country. Chicago Times. Average Height mt laad. Dr. Murray, of the Royal Society oi Edinburgli. estimates the mean height of the land cf tlie globe to be between 1.C00 and. X ICO feet, .the latter limit being probably the more nearly correct. Hum boldt's estimate of tho mean height of the continents wa3 1,000 feet. Axkan saw Traveler. from his glass mrA 1rfn t Via rlntul ?Ww Vta la,. 1 would look round with a loving smile X f1 W?,J ?' worn7 and say: "You may speak to me now." 1 mf? "V"?1? w" ,MllL.T-.. . a a . laieiy oeen lorcea. aia not nave a par-, ticuhuiy comfortable time daring his im prisonment. For seven months of the ten during which he was a. captive his feet were so chained together that.be could not take a tingle step. He was also chained by the arm to the arm of an Abyssinian soldier, .the latter befag clianged every week. He had to sleep en the bare rarthr-to sleep, let It be under stood, only when It pleased his compan ion to repose. In like "Tinff be hd to sit or stand or move when it suited the sweet win of the Abyssinian soldier.. The few who saw him in the midst of his suf ferings testify to his uncomplaining se renity. Only once did he lose -his pa tienceend it is Salem beni who wrote it to Savoiroux's mother and 1 that was when, writes Salimbeni: Msj. llano and myself, wearied out with our suffer ings, discussed the commission of soi cido. Then 8avoiroux-grew angry, and so strongly dissuaded ta from that rCe thing, as he called it, that ws nerer spoke of ft again. He was usually very courteous and id- dulgent to his patients, but his irritability sometimes got the better of him. Youth's Companion. think a sort of paralysis must have seized i which may prove valuable at any mo rn e; yet I remember that I felt satisfied ' saent and which must - be kept for con that the end hid come. I knew by some renient rrf erence.-New York Tribune, strange foresight that tlie curtain had;-" " fallen on the tragic little comedy I had ; Sir John Lubbock says that among a played at the old hall, with the woman certain hfll tribe of India it is a mark of confess I thou rr hi verv little about her. The only life between me and my es- ! who society had declared would one day '. respect and gratitude to put the thumb ts wo niswYerea uy tne ueatn,wnue mint- shock or starUo every one. I know that the nose. ugi au vuuun, mo young aari ot ffcrjsbjun, and I was brought to realize The SapwrflneBs Tettr A little pamphlet advocating a new system of condensed printing states that it costs the London Tunes $2,500 a year to use the superfluous n" in the "clh spelling of such words as favour, colour, endeavour, etc counting material, labor. and space at advertising rates. The . lrd a Si Distrlbwtarft, ' It is almost incredible the number of times a robin redbreast will come and go after berries, always with a great rustling of leaves, and his alighting and departing fruit on the ground, which be never to think of picking up wasteful marauder not only taking all be wants, but actually spoiling as much as he takes away. 4Birds are probably responsible for tlie existence of many of the teed hearing shrubs and herbs. They are seed distrib utors, conveying seeds further thaa the wind can, that is, of the kinds that form their favorite food. They- sow garget where it is cot welcome; barberries they have scattered broadcast about their neighborhood (that to be set down in their favor), and I suspect them of the lovely service cf increasing the number of bushes of wild brier rose the sweet brier of eglantine. Wide Awake. Safety t Cava. It is said that one's turn to be killed on the English railway s dees not come till 7.S67.7S0 journeys havo been made. That is to say, that that r rejection of journeys has been made during the past year to each person who Itas been killed pose the sick should. all become well, the weak strong, the crirplcs be cured, tloe dying from pains be Uelivrrt-d tbcTifnca, they without appetites Income good eat ers, the people with taurLM lafU-a bo come normal m their cravinrs I won der what would happen? W. IL II. Murray's Letter. rrl Vy Oaallaau Howard county farmers residing in the vicinity of the great Ehrader gas well, near Kokomo, InL. go on record as har vesting the first wheat by natural gas light. A dozen self binders and men shocking wheat was truly a nov4 fcene, which was witnessed ly hundreds of peo ple, who surrtKxnded tlw fields of grain in carriages. The constant roar of the Ehrader well can be distinctly beard eight miles away, while the light can be plainly seen at Burlington, fifteen miles west of here. The estimated flow of gas from this well is 15.000,000 cubic feet every twenty-four hours. Indianapolis Journal. Wale Vavar riaraaas.' An mteZlIgent and practical ' builder states it ss the resuh ef Lis sxprsience and observation that snorter fca the m terior of wails, esreelaQy if rtbe what if called "rich" snortar. k liable never to harden, bet to retain Ks soft ecssdsteaey even for .cental kaj but skis caa cejy be the case where the fateric of the wall 4s hermetically sealed against the external air, which method both arrests evapora tion and shuts off the chemical operation of the stmosphere. The fact has been stated that m England, not long age, so architect dug into a stone wall 900 years old snd of considerable thVnfa, and took from between the stones a quantity of mortar as soft as it must savebeeatbe day the wall was built, and dieceverieaof the same character have been made ha other places. It is also stated that the possibflity of such an occurrence may be tested in a very easy way, namely, by putting some rich mortar into a glass pot tle and beTmrticaDy sealing it-the fact being that it will never .become . any. harder than when it was put into IL New York Bun. lrValy aa Exan-'atlaa. , Uotor Umoziess is twice as cornmoo! among Quakers as it b among the rest cf the community, owing to their having I dressed in drab for generations and thus j disused the color sense. It is said flying that hawks are frequently southward on the approach A recent bulletin of the United. States fish ccrnrniyaon reports the capture of a codfish at Gloucester. Mass., in Septem ber, IBS, which contained a pocketknife of curious workmanship imhedled in its flesh. The knife has a brass handle carved, and' tapering, with a slit in -the hollow tide for the blade, which is of lance shape. Epoch, m.58t.SW journeys wtre made Ll4 year of winter, but are never seen on the re- iLl.toSXIvirttrtr J00 and only ninety-five rmmaxsea wen trrm ;t mi. f,rwt i va & is thought the owner must have been Berth when the wider it post. knife was discover! by odrsX ia hand Cnj the cod, Cifoc3 s Fazr2y lULz