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Published by Roanoke Publishing Co. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY W) FOR TRUTH." ' 1 Z Z"lA,i.
VOL. III. PLYMOUTH, NIC, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1892 NO. 40.
President D wight,' of Tale College,
while - not favoring the admission of
women to study in the classes with men,
does wish Yale had a woman' annex,
ftnd the only objection he finds to its
establishment js that the university hasn't
the money to put into it.
George W. Smalley, London corre
spondent qJT the New York Tribune, says
that a very high naval authority in Eng
land recently declared that the Baltimore
and Charleston of the Uiited States
Navy, could knock the wholo Chilian
navy into a cocked hat in half an hour.
' It is in contemplation by the Lord
Mayor to form a committee and raise a
fund for sen&ng out a selected number of
representative wording men irom juon-
don England, to the Chicago Exhibition
rh 1893, with a view to their making
reports on the industrial exhibits there,
as was done on the, occasion of the last
two exhibitions in Paris." '
The great -damage done to two of the
picturpsquo! old Tfqiosioos in Southern
California by -a recent windstorm will
cause general regret to the thousands of
Eastern travelers who have admired their
mottled walls,quaint belfries and crum
bling cloisters. It is to be hoped that
the restorer's hand may be: busy with
these missions be tors it is too late.
It is hard to believe in these days of
careless financiering that in transactions
covering a period of seven years and an
aimount exceeding $13,000,000 there
should have been but one error of $10,
and that one found to have been made
up. Nevertheless that is the record of
the East River Bridge as reported by ex
perts who have gone over the accounts.
A novel verdict, was reudered by a
Northampton County jury at Easton a
day or two ago. After finding; the de
fendant not guilty of the charge, the
costs were divided in four equal parts.
The prosecutrix was directed to pay one
fourth, the defendant one-fourth, the
constable who made the arrest one-fourth,
and the justice of the peace who made
the return one-fourth. "Verdicts of
this kind," says the Allentown (Penn.)
Item, "may have a salutary effect on
those who are fond of going to law and
ou justices who send case3 of a trivial
nature to court; but will it hold law?"
"Statistics show," alleges the New
York Tribune, "that more inmates of
insane asylums comes from farms than
from any other source proportionately
and a very large per cent, of these are
women. The cause is evident. The
farmer's wife, contrary to nature, spends
most of her timoip. comparative isolation,
and her wakeful hours are all passed in
humdrum, wea$njg,''K nerye-exhaustihg
labor. There are few... to , converse with
to lead her thoughts outward, away - from'
herself and her environment,. Her inihd
is ever turned "Award,- upon; herself
This, long continued, becomes a' strain
nni the mind eventually gives, away. . In
foreign countries,' 5 where farmers live
mostly in village'aV uSafl'e woman is a .
rarity, because her. condition is natural.
Thoughtful care7?j. 'mother' on the part
of her husband advthe other members
of the family -"Would oft' deprive the
asylum of a new-jjv?tim." ., "... .. . .
Among the starving people' of 'Russia,
jthe most pitable;,are.HTchoovashes, a
Finnish tribe, numbering about 500,000,
and dispersed inforesV districts' of the
iQovernments of ,Kuzan, Simbrisk, Oren
burg and Oof a. -' They bea their misfor-
'tunes with perfect stoicism; they do not
clamor for food on the roadside, as their
Slavish neighbors do, nor do they sur
round every new comer, begging and re
lating their miseries. A special corre
spondent of the St. Petersburg Nevosti,
traveling about to observe the famine
Btricken people and to study their con
dition, draws a most impressive pen pic
tore of the poor Tchoovashe3. He found
some of them literally "swollen with
hunger," others too feeble to leave their
huts, patiently waiting for death to re
lieve them, but he heard not a sigh nor a
groan nor the least complaint of any of
them. They spoke to him in monosylla
bles and answered his questions briefly,
as though they were afraid to utter a
word too much or to betray their miser
ies. "And it is no wonder," the 'writer
adds, "that they behave in this man
ner. They are Ihe most oppressed of the
Czar's subjects. The' police authorities
'always suspect the Tchoovaih to conceal
'something, on account of his scarcity of
words, and treat him accordingly. May
J?d judge them'
A GARLANtt
Let me a garland twine
For poets nin,
Whose verse
1 love best to rehearse.
For each a laurel leaf.
One stanza brief,
I make
For memory's sweet sake
First, theD, Theocritus,
Whose song for ui
Still yields
The fragrance of the fields.
Next, Horace, singing yet
Of love, regret,
And flowers:
This Roman rose is ours.
Omar-Fitzgerald next,
Within whose text
There lies
A chsnn to win the wise.
Then Shakespere by whose light
All poets write: ;
The star
"Whose satellites they are! -
Eerrick then let me name, - '
Whose lyrics came ;.
Like birds
To sing his happy word's.
Then Seats, whose jewel rhyme
Bhines for all time, .
To tell
Of him the gois loved well.
Longfellow next I choose: . :
For him the muse 1
Held up i
Bong's over-brimming cup.
Next Tennyson, whose song,
Still clear and strong,
Soars high,
Ncaring each day the sky.
Then Aldrich like a thrush '' '
In the dawn's flush.
Who sings "
With dew upon his wings.
These are the nine, above
Whose leaves I love
To lean,
My happiness to glean.
Theirs are the books that hold
Joy's clearest gold
For me.
Wrought into melody;
Theirs are the words to star t
Within my heart
The fire
Of song and song's desire !
-Frank D. Sherman, in the Century,:
"IDE UNDRESSED KID..
BY B. L. KETCHUM.
fpANKBARR, vet
ft i I . T I .
ciuu cowpunpacr j
on the range,ga$e
the youth hs(i4&
ignation.'.ffie
Kid, who was' also
referred to as'.t1ij?
Brat, the Infant,1
and "that Young
Cub," bad been
playing' some
prank onthegrijx
zled and : testy
Mr. Barr. and
Hank, by way of
delicate reference
to the palpable
lact teat the parental bcdslat or trunk
strap had", been allowed to get ' dusty
between1 ''whalings," whel the Infant
"had been of yet more tender years, be
stowed upon his tormentor the sobri
quet by which he was ever after known.
It was not that the Kid's years were
so few he was twenty-two but he was,
oh! such a "kid." He had evidently
mingled with men for several years, but
the association did not seem to have
rubbed off any of the marks of extreme
youth, at least in his behavior, and no
cne ever thought o f smiling, even when
Shorty Fleming, the boss's yopDgest
brother, aged eighteen, addressed the
Kid by any one of his numerous diminu
tives. v " , .
One could not help liking the Kid, in
spite .of his pranks, for he was always so
gpod-natured and obliging. - If he' was
ready to cut up a hair-brush and scatter
the bristles in some tired fellow's bunk
about bed-time, he was just as ready .to,
do double duty in case his victim hap
pened to be ill.
There were a few chickens at the
ranch, and one of the Undressed's cbief
cst joys was to feed them corn with a
strmg and stick attachment, and laugh
himself almost to death at their frantic
efforts to kick themselves loose. But if
one of those same chickens happened to
be hurt or ill, he would nurse it just, as
a woman might.
On the oqcasion when he stuck shoe
maker's wax on Hank Barr's saddle, ald
Hank came in to supper and made sar
castic remarks, the Kid felt himself a
born humorist, and one would have
thought that capers of this sort were his
highest aim in life; but it was he who,
after a; cold, hard day's work, iode
twenty miles on a stormy night to get a
surgeon to set the leg Plank had broken
in the evening. But pranks are pranks,
and the prankee seldom takes the samu
view of tbeiu as does the prankist ; jvncL
and thus it enme to pass that the La k
hght-mindedoess, together with his evei
lasting jokishness, brought upon him the
scorn ot his fellow-laborers at the "HX.M
They nil liked hiiu well enough, but
that was all. They never cousiderei
him pr included him is their idans.
except whsn there was some uncomfort
able duty to perform. In faot, they
paid very little attention to him. Briefly,
he acted like a fifteen-year-old, and was
so treated. ,'.
The next "spring, Miss "Mary Brooke
appeared on the scene, as a visitor, to
Colonel Han ford's, six mites south Ot us
She came, she saw and the rest bf it:
Womfcn' are Vary scarce in our vicinity,
especially young and pretty ones, and,
to our, unaccustomed eyes, Venus, and
the three Greeks, and all the lest, weren't
in it with..,Mary Brooke, and we bowed
down and worshiped like a lot of half
fledged idiots.
We were all serious, too. .It was re
markable how many business transactions
Boss Fleming had to talk over with the
Colonel all of a sudden, and how 1 the
Scribe, took sucn a fancy to reading' and
discussing Browning With' Mrs,' Hanford;
who was slightly deaf afldj therefore,
I not easy to converse with.' 'It was.' not
.long, however,- before boss Fleming and.
I had the running all to ourselvess Fleec
ing as a near neighbor, . A big .ranch
owner and a wealthy man had a strong
hold on the Colonel, and I, thd Scribe,
hating stuck to my desk in (iariy. PUth,
and being therefore, able to talk ..lit
tle on such subjects as interested- Mrs.
Hanf ord, had quite, captivated her, and
the boys, perceiving-this state of affairs,
discreetly withdrew and spent ' -their
evening's as of yore. ' "
All but the.Undressed Kid. He,'be
ing from Boston Miss Brooke's, home
also came in for a share of har smiles and
conversation ; but, as he showed no signs
of change in his youthful ways, we didn't
pay much attention to him, except- to
consider him much in the" same light as
one might a nuisance in kilts.' - He-was
in the way, of course, but'hedidn't'eause
us any worry. . ,' '
To be sure, we wondered ho wit was
that Miss Brooke, could tolerate his non
sense and chatter, for she was somewhat
staid in her ways, and a person whom
one would hardly suspect of a liking for,
levity. The boss and I were both sure
that the Kid's constant presence would
begin to pall very soon briefly, he
would make Miss Brooke tired, and we
two could fight it out solely between our
selves. ' -4 :. )'-.
. But, somehow, thjs state of, things
did not " come to pass The' Kid man
aged to get in as many calls, as did the
bots and I, and, what was worse, usually
had Miss Brooke pretty much ; to : him
self, worse luck to the old folks; And it
made Fleming and myself very weary to
hear her laughing at his.t-irae-worn jokes
until ibe tears rolled down her cheeks.
-That the Infant had serious intentions
never entered our heads. Of eourse, it
was; undeniable that. Miss . Brooke liked
jnra'j.but that, we assured -ourselves,
was in a spirit of mere good natyred tol
erance. Besides, -who ever knew -.of the
Kid ever having a - sweetly solemn
thought? ."
i,..' Providence came to our aid about the
middle of July in the shape of a, tele
'cram,' fetation that the Kid's wealthy
'father, with .whn he had nl$ Jeen on
very good terms that is,, no .terms at
all had, gone ttie'way. "of .all huttfcnity,
and that the Kid must comet home at
once to' look-after affairs.
... We n ere at jjhe. Hapfords'j Fleming
and I, that evening, "when the Kid, who
had preceded us by an hour or .so, took
leave of Miss Brooke.-, He. was not go
ing back to the ranch; having had his
things sent to town, in order to ; start
early in the, morning, and he left Shortly
after we arrived. '
Even if we had expected otherwise,
' there was nothing -touching in .the Kid's
leave-taking. While not quite so light :
in his speech' as , usual, he could t hardly
have been accused of seriousness, and he
shook' bands with 'Miss Brooke in the
same hearty way as with the rest of .lis.
Well,- ;the Kid was off if not. for
good, fdr'several weeks, at least, aiid.
the boss add I were alone in the -field,
and both resolved to make hay while ;
there were no elouds obscuring Sol. We
spent a delightful evening;, barring each
other's presence, and the departed Kid
was only mentioned once, and then by
Miss Brooke, who laughingly related one
of his remarks, adding:' "What, a jollvj
whole souled boy it is, to be sure I"
As we rode home, not much was said;
but when we came in sight of the lights
at the "HX.," Fleming reined up his
horse, cleared his throat, and said, husk
ily: "Scribe, my boy, I reckon' we're in
the same boat, and we might as well be
frank about it. I've" (he 'cleared his
throat again)r ' 'made up .my mind to
have Mary Miss Brooke for my"wife
if she'll have me. I think you're in the
same fix." '
I nodded,-not being able,, to answer,
nnd Fleming-went on in the . same queer
voice: "Tbey say all's fair in love and.
war. I don't believe it. Nothing is fair
but justice We are even, now, 1 think.
Let us be fair with each other, and may
the better man wic." v ,
And thu it came .about that, without
any more w'ords, we got to calling at
Hanford's on alternate nights and f '
oh, these women! each fondly believed "
himself, the favored onet if favor there
was. Mary so I thought of her alwajs.
now talked football with Fleming, who
was an ex-member of the Princeton
team, and talked books and so: forth to
cf.e, and we were both as- happy as "un-
fortunate man ever can be under like
circumstances. "'
September first earned and. with it a
telegram to Fleming, from tlKt- Kid. I
was in towD, andwceivijiit. opening it
as I always did the boss's telegiams and
business letters, to see if it was anvthiug
requiring immediate attention. vTha, ,
message was, . dated . from t Omaha, and
read:
"J. H. Ftmasa, JaX ftknish, . Neb:
"Will arrive ott third to stay a few days.
. (Signeaj A H. WHEKLBa."
I leased against a telegraph pole and
pondered. 'Coming; eh V No more un
trammeled Calls., lot Fleming and me.
No well, it wahigh timd to be dp ftnd
doing.- But there . was. the boss, and
this was his night 1 - - .
' I felt like a 'martyr as I rode out to
the ranch and silently handed Jack the
telegram.- 'He read' it, and" looked at
me. " ' : ' "' '"
; .iiTes, .your ''tni'ght it is,' said I; -'but
IYetgottO' see Jthe Colonel1 about that
.-jjatnt shipment we're going to, make so
1 11 go, too. I'll let you alone, though."
As we rode'fcver -to he-Han fords',, we
tried td'keep up a Semblance of conver
sation, but it was not much of success.
We weW'bfeHhinMn'-very hard.
I had finished my business with the
dofohed,, "ttnd;'we sat down'itt his den to
smokej the Colonel holding Upn the-oon-:
versatrohV' " The lantp ' butted low, : and
thd' dtd'jgcfqtteman took it "away tq be re
filled.. leviifig'Hie in darkness! He had
hardly goe'T.whed; Mary ''sad. Plemina
,cam9 up .on. the porch and jsea.ted .them-
selves just qu wiae ine wiaaow.. at woicu
I sat.' s ' .-.'..j v. , .-.
'"Lfelt ' like a traitor, bat. dare not
move; ' knowing that they--would, hear
me, and Jack might never be able to get
his little speech .saldr, ..So -I had to, listen
to Jack's great, strong bass tones as he
toldvMary .the old story, which 'there are
so ferwways'.bf telling. When he finished,
there was -a' i brief silencfe,-- then Mary's
voice feaid", ' sorrowfully '
! '"dh;Hr Fleming, I anl ad sorry so
sprrjbu$';r never dreamed' of such ft
thini! Vxiii and Mr. Jla,ber' have both
-heenao-ind and nicei. to .me, and-1
tnougnt-ypv such good, .friends, put now
this hurts, me-sol I -.wish you had
left it all'tfnsaid.and I hadnever known
that ydu-ij-o'u cared for me because
if there' were ho ' -othetv reftSon-'-I have
already promised to marry" (here
her voice took on a tinge of laughter)
"the the 'Undressed Kid. "The Ar
gonaut. , . . .. - .
now Bears Kill Snakes.
"One fall," said ajn old . Pennsylvania
trapper. "I was nuntfirg on the barrens
between the BuckhilUCfeek. and the
middle .Branch of t Brodshead Creek.
Thirty or forty rod's' away, "I siiw a bear
dancing around something on the ground,
aqd I laid my rifle across a stump and
got behind I -watched 'the -bear just
as Mr. Sweet did the one on the water
tank, knowing that I. could reach him
with a bulled the minute he undertook to
make himself' scarce.' From his actions
I judged that, the bear was angry about
something, but I couldn't see what he
was dancing around, and I kept my
rifle aimed at him; so as to, fire the in
stant I saw he was going to . leave th
open for the' "brush.' Thff bear kepi
bopping in a - circle, quickly,-jumped tc
one side every little while and appeared
to be gettiRg madder and madder. AH
of a sudden the bear waddled away a few
yards, J had to bend on him, and I wai
almost, joauy ip ,pui. tuu . inirer, wuen
the beaj; dtq')pedi. ;I. wanted to. see what
he,waig0ii?gt6 do next,5 and id I didp'l;
shoot.' ' He pawed in the dirt a spell and
then he picked up a round stone, bigge;
than his head. He took the stone in nil
paws, hugged ittc his brisket and walked
on his hind feet toward the spot where
I'd first -seen biro. When he got to the
spot he walked -around it a couple' of
timoJj 'and then he raised the stone as
high "as be eeuld and - threw - it-on the
.ground. The bear then danced around
the slone'tor'two or three rnlnutes, when
be f ndenly' turned, tail . and' took, a bee
ljne fqr the i bVuahi. .'Seeing that ' he was
going to leavja4?rg'ood, I .banged away
at liim-iand brought Mm to a stop, finish
ing with another ;bUet. ..was anxious
to- find-out why the bear had thrown the
stone on the ground, and so I got a stick
and rolled it over. Under the stone lay
a dead rattlesnake, .coiled up and as flat
as a flounder. New York Tribune.
Vs " A Jan and Jis Cat
r No;kinder soul than the late Mr;- Ben
jamin1 P Shillaber. (Mrs. Partington)
could be found, search where you might.
To the utmost 4of his ability he made
lovej "the greatest thing in the world,"
rescuing those in disgrace and despair,
and giving tireless cheer to the lonely.
The stranger who met Mr. Shillaber had
something pleasant to remember him by
always, and long acquaintance only
ripened, jone's friendship for the man.
ThrAugn years ' of ill health and much
suffering the same sunny disposition
flowed on ; the nearest he ever came to
complaining was ' to perpetrate some
laughable satire on his own condition.
Mr; " Shillaber was most devoted to
his family, and each living creature in
and about home shared his affection.
His pet for years was a large cat named
Beauty, .which the artist Whistler would
'style ""a" symphony in yellow.' Sul
phur, I believe, is the normal color of
a .cat's eyes ; this cat suggests to one who
has seen geysers the boiling over and
intrusting process by. .which they are
ringed around with differing shades
the yellow-'of 'its eyes- being! distribweS
to thtipfjl VU.: Only a few min
feelon vita master a deathBehjity
came and was received into his arms,
ncstitn'g-thtire 'lovitigly. The affectipq
ai ninnlhss outlived him, but not the'
niemorj 'ot him ; it still seeks and mourns
the krnd 'man ia the TftQant place,
ARCTIC WEATHER.
LIFE IN THE PAR NOflTH IN TSX
DEPTH OP WINTBEt.
Traveling With the Thermometer at
beventy-one Decrees Below Zero
, Curiosities ot the Cold.
It was in the Arctic regions, not far
from Burk's Great Fish River, when
Conducting a homeward sledge journey
to Hudson's Bay, in the depth ot an
Arctic winter, that an intense cold set in
just before Christmas, the thermometer
. sinking down to sixty-live and sixty
eight degrees below zero, and never get
ting above sixty below, writes Frederick
Schwatka in the New York Sun. We
were having avery hard time with our
sledging along the river, our camps at
night almost in sight of those - we had
left in the morning, so close were tbey
.together and. so slowly did we labor
along. Reindeer on which we were re
lying for our daily supply of food were
not found near the river, but some being
seen Some tea or fifteen miles back from
it I determined to leave the river and
strike straight across the country for
Hudson's Bay.
We had been gone only three or four
flays, as we ascended the higher levels
the thermometer commenced lowering,
and on the 3d of January reached seventy
one degrees below zero, the coldest we
experienced in our sledge journey ot
nearly a year in length, and the coldest,
I believe, ever encountered by white
men traveling out of doors ; for that day
we moved our camp fully twelve miles.
The day was not at all unpleasant either,
I must say, until along toward night,
when a slight breeze sprang up. It was
the merest kind of a zephyr, and1 would
hardly have stirred the leaves on a tree
at home, but, slight as it was,' it cut to.
the bone every part of .the body ex
posed to it. This, fortunately, was only
the face from the eye-brows to the chin.
We . turned our backs to it as much as
possible, and especially after we had
reached camp and were at work making
our' snow houses and digging through
the thick ice for water.
After all, it is not so much the intensity
of the cold as expressed in degrees on
the thermometer that determines the un
pleasantness of an Arctic winter as is the
force and direction of wind, for I have
found it fax pleasanter with the thermo
meter at even seventy dejfrees blow zero,
with little or no wind blowing, than to
face a rather stiff breeze when the little
indicator showed even fifty degrees
warmer temperature. Even a white man
acclimated to Arctic weather and facing
a strong wind at twenty or thirty degrees
below zero, is almost sure to freeze . the
nose and cheeks, and the-thermometer
.does not have to go many degrees lower
to induce the Eskimos themselves to keep
within their snug snow houses under the
same eircumstances unless absolute need
of food forces them outside. It is. one
of the consoling things about Arctic
weather that the intenely low temper
atures aie almost always accompanied by
calms, or if there is a breeze it is a very
light one.
With the exception of a very few quiet
days during the warmest summer weather
of the polar summer these clear, quiet,
cold ones of the Arctic winter are about
the only times when -the wind is not
blowing with great vigor from some
point of the compass. Of course there
were a few exceptions to this general
rule of quiet weather with extreme cold,
and when they had to be endured they
were simply terrible. Early one morning
the thermometer showed us it was sixty
eight below zero, but, as it was calm
we paid no attention to. it but harnessed
our dogs and loaded our sledges for the
day's journey, which was to be an ex
ceedingly short one to a place where the
Eskimos thought they could get food for
ourselves and dogs. We were just ready
for the start when a sharp wind sprang
up, and it felt like a score of razors cut
ting the face. Had the wind arisen a
little sooner we would not have thought,
of starting, but as we were all ready and
the distance short we concluded to go
ahead rather than unload and . go back '
into the old camp. We kept the dogs
at a good round trot and ran alongside
of the sledges the whole distance; and
when we reached the snowhouse of some
Rimrepetro Eskimo it was as welcome a
refuge as if it had been a first-class
hotel.
When we reached the end of our jour
ney I again looked at the thermometer
and found that it indicated fifty-five de
grees below zero that is, it had grown
thirteen degrees warmer during the time
we were out, although it seemed to us it
must be at least thirty degrees colder. I
told the Eskimos who had been with us .
that it was much colder, as shown by the
instrument, before we started . than .it
was when the wind was at its .highest,
but from their incredulous glances 'at
each other they wondered hose jee. could
be duped by such ideas directly against
our common sense and personal ob
servation. They might believe pur, state
ments -that the world was-, round and
turned-, every ' day,, without the polar
bears sliding off the slippery icebergs,
when it was upside down, simply because
the white man had told them so, hut
nothing would persuade them that when
they felt perfectly comfortabie and warm
loading, the sledge it was ..colder than
when their arms and . legs were .frozen,
and their noses "nipped", by .the frost.
I.. tried to explain to them the effect -.of
the wind, but they 6aid they had known
the wind to blow them off their feet in
summer and cot freeze them. a particle.
Tfcey eaid thai they knew it eeecjed
colder when the wind blew, but that was
because it actually war colder, and here
tbey stood firm in the belief that we wero
wrong. .
When the thermometer was aeTeuty
one degrees below, the cloudless sky ia '
the vicinity of the sun hanging low ia .
the southern horizon assumed a dull
leaden hue, tinged with a brownish red,
looking something like the skies of cheap
chromo lithographs. At night the star
glitter like diamonds, and fairly seem on
fire wth their unusual brilliancy. Should
you pour water on the surface of the ice
it greets you with an astonishing crack
ling noise, and the ice that was so clear
you felt timid about putting your foot on'
it turns instantly as white as marble.
Sometimes when breathing this ex
tremelv cold air my tongne would feel as
if it were freezing in my mouth, but I
could readily cure this by breathing
through my nose for a few minutes,'
You will ask, "Why not breathe through
the nostrils all the time!" as you have so
often heard advocated. The air, how
ever, is so bitter cold that it becomes
absolutely necessary to breathe through
the mouth. Also the nose is more likely:
to freeze: when breathing through it.
These freezings -of the nose and cheeks
are very 'common in yery low temperav
tures, especially when the wind blows.'
The Eskimo cure these frost bites by
simply taking the warm hand from the
reindeer mitten and rubbing the affected
spot. They kuow nothing of rubbing
frost bites with snow, and that article
ould not be used in an Arctic tempera
ture, where the snow, if it is loose, is
like sand, or, if in mass, like granite
rock. Another thing the Eskimo always
used was snow to quench the thirst,'
which most Arctic writers have con
demned as hurtful. My Eskimos used it
at all temperatures, and I bave never
seen any bad results from its use.
SELECT SI FUNGS. .
The City of Mexico has ten chim
neys. One of the smallest coins in size is the
new quatro-real gold piece of Guatemala.
There is a Missouri family whose name
is Mothershead, and who pronounce it
Modisett.
In Ecuador and several other South
American nations primary Education is
compulsory.
It would take 41,000 cars of 400 bush
els each to haul the wheat grown in Kan
sas last year.
A Kentucky paper tells of seven ears
of corn, each weighing a pound, that
grew on one stalk.
Three families living side by side at
Easton Rapids, Mich., have among them
forty-five children.
. The skin of a black deer is worth
about $500. One of these animals was
recently seen in Maine.
A bear weighing 1100 pounds wag
killed the other day in Southern Oregon
by Hugh Clawson, the veteran California
hunter.
Earthquakes to the number of 553
have occurred in China in the last nine
and one-half years, an average of about
one a week.
A school teacher of New York City
has had a habit of punishing his pupils
by making them eat castor oil spread on
their bread.
William Jackson, of Ellsworth, Me.,
has lost six wives within the past fifty
five years, the last having died a few
weeks since. . .
. Tiger bones are among the curious
things in the commerce of China. They
are used as a medicine and 'supposed to
possess tonic qualities.
A Kansas farmer who was fishiug for
minnows in a creek near his place one
day recently pulled out an old metal cof
fee pot in which wai 1670 in gold. -
A medical student in Detroit, 1 Mich.,
cleverly smuggled a skeleton into Canada
by dressing it in a woman's clothes and
driving across the line with it seated
beside him in a buggy.
Bloodhounds derive their "names from
the possession of a peculiar power of
scenting the blood of a wounded animal,
sp that if once put on the trail they will
hunt the quarry through thick and thin
and seldom, if ever,, deviate from their
course.
There-te-a epeeies of seaweed, a kir.d
of kelp which the Indians of Alaska are
very fond of ohewing. It is as togh as
leather and ope piece will last a man who
has good teeth lor a whole day. These
Indians-have; an interenting fashion of
collecting, herring eggs. They weave
mattresses of cedar twigs and sink . them
with-stones- in the water. The fish
deposit their spawn upon the twigs and
It is' subsequently, oollected and. dried. ,
Match Heads for Percussion Caps.
A countryman in Tennessee, where
forests' and game are plenty, found that
his boys; who all hve a gun apiece, be
came short of percussion caps a few days
'ago, and the first thing he knew 'they
were .shooting1 with match heads, as a
substitute'.', -How many boxes of matches
he naa lost in tnac way ne aia not say,
but he.found.tbej fired' as clear as the
cap itself It is.said that necessity is the
.mother' of invention. .Here ia a chance
for sometna'n.o make fortune by get
ting out a jew"''- All that is
necessary is toaadpi the gunlock to the
vmatch. bead. me patent would be
readily .adopted by the rifle clubs that
get up-shooting., matches. Yw Qrleant
ficaiune.