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LEANER
VOJL. XII.
GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1886.
NO. 21.'
. IN TIE1UU.DEL FUEGO.
Modern idea of unexplored lands are
. United almost entirely to Uw north and
south poles,, whither costly expeditions
, : are constantly being despatched: while
I In South America alone there ore the in-
teriors of Guiana, Brazil, Patagonia, and
' n - Tierra del Fuego, besides smaller patches
" of only half explored land, all colling for
. more attention than they have hitherto
received.:. ': ' .' '
The whole of Brazil ' has indeed been
explored In ft 'superficial sort of. way;
that is tojay, there are pertain narrow
lines of jekplored; lasd.J tiiefly aleqgj
rivers Which Intersect the country; but
only two people from all the civilized
World have ever penetrated beyond the
ooas of TSorradel. Fuego, though the
coast itself has- been well surveyed, and
whalers' boats frequently land there for
Water. ' - '--.' .-.-a... :,'..! ... :'.
' One of these two pioneers is a Chilian
lady who wasship-wrecked on the coast;
and saved alive by the chief of a Fuegatt
tribe which murdered all her oompan
ions.' She was seen tdive and happy, by
the other .pioneer) a seaman, by name
Thomas Thorold, who spent nearly six
montlia in thu Interior of ' this Kt ran ire
country; and came safe home to tlngland
again. It is his story that X propose 10
Less than six years ago an English sail
ing ship, homeward 'hound from Valpa
raiso, founded off the. west coast of Tierra.
del Fuego during the cruel, wintry month
of July. The crew got into tliree Jwats
and pulled to the shore, which was "not
far distant. After rounding a headland,
they found themselves in comparatively
smooth water, surrounded by bare,
bleak hills, beneath which there was a
broad, sandy beach, which would afford
tlit&ti easy landing. .' : 1 '
" ' But on this beach and about the foot of
the lull they saw what above all things
they dreaded the ' signs of the doom
they felt hmst sooner or later be iheir
the , stunted forms . of Fuegon natives,
standing and lying about their rude huts
und canoes; ' ' ' ' '''-. ''
As soon as the Fuegans espied them,
they crowded into their canoes and rowed
' out toward them,' while their shouts
brought a multitude of natives to the
beach where they clustered like a flock
of vultures hovering over their prey .
The Fuegans are a small race, with a
dark copper-colored skin, t The men are.
moat 1? clad in old vests and trousers that
they have, acquired from some ship
wrecked -crew, or , from the steamers
passing through the straits of Magellan;
others wear deer or guanaco skins. . The
women' are' dressed more simply in a
single garment resembling a poncho,
made of some skin: a simple square, with
a hole in the middle for the head. . ; .
Their bonis have none of the' graceful
gliding of the North American canoes,
.." but are simply made. of pieces of bark or ;
wood clumsily til together with fibres,
and are awkwardly rowed with oars
formed of poles with flat pieces of wood
tied on to the end. The' only manufac
ture in which these men the lowest type'
of humanity --at all excel, is that of
barbed spear-heads, which they make
with considerable skill of an almost
transparent sort of flint, very similar to
soma ox , the Arrow-beads used by. the
wild Bugres of Brazil. These, dipped in
poison -and fixed on to long wooden
shafts, become dangerous weapons for
poor, weaty, sailors to face who have
nothing to defend themselves with but
, oars and stretchers. T ;' ., : 1
Before : - the- three doomed.- boats
were within half a mile of the
Shore, they were iWrSURdaJ by seven or
eight canoes crammed with these gibber
ing aborigines, before whom the sailors
were perfectly helpless, for from a con
siderable distance the unerring spears
came, hurling toward therm The mis'
erable men triad in nam to, parry tiiem
One by one they dropped into t lie. bottom
- - of the boat and died in agony, as the
fiery venomy from th.peav heads-
........ -v. v.....,.. ...... " YV. M
, Suddenly, when there were only two
or three left untouched in each of the
. boats, one of the Fuegans, who seemed
to be a chief among them, gave a shout
that made all the others stand motion
less, with spears poised in their hands;
and he "spokd to them in their loud,
cracked language for ft minute or more;
it seemed years to the helpless men wait
ing to lie killed.
At the helm of one of the boats sat
mate, Thomas Thorold, a toll, strong
man of about 80, toward whom the chief
pointed several times as he was speaking.
Soon lie stopped shouting and gesticu
lating, and again the spears came whizz
ing from the strong, savage arras.
But a change had taken place; the
weapons were aimed at all the sailors ex
cept Thomas Thorold. He sat there un
touched,, expecting every ' moment - to
receive his death wound, and re
ceiving it not. Only he saw his
companions dropping one by one, meet
ing their deatlis bravely, as Englishmen
are wont to do, but with features tor
tured into that rigid glare Which indi
cates the height of suppressed terror and
extreme suspense.
When at last the mate was the only
- living one left, to his horror they sur--rounded
him, bound his hands and feet
, and lifted him into on of their canoes.
Then they turned towards shore, towing
the three boats behind them.
Thorold, naturally supposing that they
weer keeping him for torture, and pre
ffOing immediate death to r deferred
but more , horrible, i&le, attempted to
jump into the sea, or dash oat his brain
. against the sides of the canoe; but they
carefully prevented him from doing him
self any harm.. Arrived at the shore,
they retired to their huts, leaving him
till bound hand and foot upon the
beach-, "- '.;
. This was late in the "afternoon, and all
that night he lsf-there helpless, expect
ing every moment to be carried to the
fire or soma other torture. But they
went about their hniinias, gathering
clams and muscles and eating them raw,
collecting fuel and heaping up the firvs,
and never touched their prisoner at all;
only Ury kept looking towards him, and
crowds of the bitlf-naked, hideous chil
li -j stood a few jardi off and gased si
him In awe, and lean dogs came and
snarled and sniffed at him suspiciously.
.The tribe- appeared to consist of be
tween 100 and 200 , and there were sev
eral rude huts formed of trees cut down
and stuck close- together in the ground,
while their branches and foliage wers
tied togothcr and formed an inefficient
rOOf. :;i -j,r,.-;1-. . : .
Fuegans appear . to be insensible to'
cold, for though the, climate U as cold or
even colder than the extreme north of
Scotland, they do not attempt to make
comfortable huts ; for themselves ' and
'. thetr wea nothing but the light clothing
wli)cb I hw described. .At right; how
eveK most of ; them .slept by the fires,
liko dogs-on a winter's .night, . j
!' ,A11 that night long. Thomas Thorold
lay bound upon the beach, trembling
with cold and terror, and praying, "Lord,
now let me die!" '"
In the early morning ho felt that his
hour had come, for two or three of the
FUqgans came towards himC and one of
them hsd a knife in his hand. But when
"the: tliey cut the fiber ropes that bound
him they left him alone again, standing
om the beach, free to do what he liked.
"It was useless to think of flight, for
their eyes were always upon hiin, and
besides, one man could have done
'Bptiiiug-Kiika ..boat Juuihanea outaide
the bay. So after a while he obeyed the
cravings of nature, and collected muscles
and clajni on the shore, as he had seen
the natives do; and on this cold food he
Wo a wretched breakfast. " '
Thus he spent all that day and all the
nfeit. thirty-seven days, for he kept a
careful count of the time. . Ho ate. only
the miserable shell-fish that he found on
the beach,': drank water from a, torrent
that flowed down the mountain side, aad
slept by one of the flies, which he boldly
'approached the first night after thi had
Unbound him, for he had experienced
the cold of one wintry night and that
was enough. ' -- .t--
They were neither kind nor nnkind to
him, but took no notice of him what
ever; they never attempted to - speak to
him, even by signs, except on one oc-'
casiou when, bo wandered, too far from
them, and one ot them ran after him
and made signs to him to go bock.
' During the leaden-footed days he
necessarily observed how the natives
passed their time, and ho did so without
thp slightest' ihte'rest, and was unable
to Relate many details about them. Host
of the work, such as hewing wood' and
drawing water, was done by the women;
the men did Tory little,' but spent their
time mostly in. lying about (heir huts.
Sometimes a few of them went off in
their canoes seal hunting, nud always re
turned with one or two seals; sometimes
they went hunting inland, and always
returned with a guanaco a species of
llama: then they all immediately fell
upon it, tore it to pieces, and ate it raw.
If a dead seal was washed ashore, they
ate it in the same way, gorging them
selves on the putrid blubber and flesh
and living on guanacos, which they oo
casslonally shot.
Thorold took llttlo interest in observ
ing the nature of the country, but he re
ported it to be very similar to that seen on
the coast bleak mountains, with occa
sional copses of ,suntetT trees, and , all
else absolutely barren And uncultivated,
There is little doubt, however, that it is
a treasure house of mineral wealtli, " for
various ores, including gold, are picked
np in plenty on the coast, and there is
every indication of coal. If a coal mine
was once got into working order here,
it would be of inestimable- valuo for the
coaling of ships alone, as well as for use
in South America itself, for coal is at
present brought from England at great
expense all the way to Monte Video, and
to Sandy Point, in the straits of Magel
lan, frolii the north of Chili.
On the fourth day of tlio march they
met another tribe, also oh tho march, and
the two bodies of men fell to fighting at
once, as is their invariable custom.
After an hour's fighting there were only
about fifty men left of the first tribe;
tlieso surrendered, and became prisoners
of war to their conquerors, who had also
sustained heavy losses. Tho prisoners,
however, did not appear to be regarded
as slaves at all, but simply mingled with
the victorious tribe. After the battlo the
prisoners spoke to their captors about
Thorold; whom they brought forward,
apparently explaining their object-in
keeping him; and he lived with the new
tribe on exactly tho sumo footing- as he
had done with the old one.
Nearly six montlts Thorold spent in
this way, tho tribe "in whjch he lived
sometime marching for five or six days,
and then settling down for sovcral weeks;'
sometimes they were on the sea shore,
and then he lived as they did, chiefly on
raw mussehi and other shell fish; when
they were inland he lived on pieces of
raw guanaco, which he grabbed along
with the others. . : ,
There is a story current In Chili that
the Fuegans, when driven to neceesity,
first eat their dogs, the only domestic
annual which they keep, and, when
these are all gone, proceed to devour the
old women of the tribe. Thorold saw no
signs of cannibalism, but this-wos per
haps because no necessity for it arose,
lie states thnt the old women were
treated ' with especial care; and it is
doubtful whether this affection arose
from tho hearts or the stomaclis of their
grandchildren.
Five times he saw a fight with another
tribe; in three out of tho five his tribe
was conquered, and he changed hands,
the prisoners always appearing to ex
plain to their captors their object iu
keeping him.
Among the third tribe with
which he lived he saw a white
woman; she was the Chilian lady whom
I have already mentioned, and Thorold
took the first, opportunity of going ivjj to
her. The Fuegans held him back at hint,
for they regarded her as a goddess; but
Tobacco, however, they greatly appre
ciate. " .-
On this occasion the passengers of ths
"Aconcagua" wvre not disappointed in
their desire to see the natives. Several
canoes were shooting out to meet them,
and in one of them they saw to their- in
tense surprise a white man standing up,
and heard him shouting to them in Eng
lish to:"stop for Ood s sake V Of course
they stopped. The canoes came along
side, and the white roan was hauled up
on deck without the slightest opposition
from the Fuegans, and indeed by their
evident desire. .
On reaching thodeck Thorold fainted.
He was carried away aiid attended to by
the doctor; and tho natives, we may bo
sure, got a good toll that day. Several
barrels were dropped over the ship's side,
laden with all things that the savages
could desire. ' ' . -:
The rescued man soon recovered suffi
ciently to tell his wonderful story, lie
was taken to Valparaiso, and thence
back again to England in the steamship
"Ualicia," as a distressed British seaman.
' During the first part of the voyage his
mental faculties appeared to bo a good
deal weakened. lie would frequently
hang over tho bulwarks in a sort of
stupor, and the doctor ordered any one
who saw him iu this state at once to ap
proach him and touch him," and oMklilnT
what ho was thinking of, until he an
swered them.
And tho answer that came at lost was
always the same:
"I was thinkin' of how tho faces of my
mates looked when them savages was
murduriu' ' of - them;" Cornhill Magazine.
After these disgusting feeds they lay ! at her command they let hhn approach
... . . t nil l ! . . .
on the ground hi a torjmr, and Thorold
could easily have stabbed them an they lay
asleep, but that some of the weaker ones,
having been unable to secure much of !
tlu) food, were awake and ready to cast '
tlioir spears at him. Moreover, if he had I
killed them all he would have been no
better off, .
AH these weeks ho was in a horrible ;
state of suspense as to why he was being
keit alive and what torture was prepar
ing for him, so much so that he was un
able to sleep for terror, until forced into
unconsciousness by fatigue.
But on tlie tliirtjeighth. day an event
occurred which, altliough in itself
gruesome , and terrifying, . put into hi
heart a hope that he might some day re
turn to the outer world again, and gave
him a clue as to what was his captors'
only conceivable object in preserving him
alive. s ' ;
1 was about noon,'on a fine "cold day,
when Thorold, standing on the beach
and looking out to sea, saw two whalers'
boats pull cound the- headland to a dis
tant part of; the. shore, where tliey pro
ceeded to land and get fresh water. The
hntn of the Fuegans were between Thor
old and the new-comers, who apparently
uiu not perceive tne natives, and were
quietly filling their, water casks at a
stream. ' '
As Thorold Ka following his natural
impulse to run to them, get into one of
th-jir boats, and make them row away,
he was piniobed by three or four strong
natives. Then a few canoes put out to
cut off the boats, should they attempt to
escape, and all the rest of the fighting
men, and many of the women, caught
up their long spears and ran towards
their victims. ...
To Thorold's surprise, he was made to
run along with , them. The whalers'
mon were intercepted before they got off,
and then it was the old ghastly tale re
peated: they were shot down to a man
with the poisoned spcara. All the while
the Fuegans who were holding Thorold
made him nnderstaad that they wialied
him to watch what was going on, by
gesticulating and pointing . towards the
slaughter. After it was over they pill
aged the dead bodies and the boats of
everything they had, and then threw the
corpees into the sea. .
While Thorold was lying awake tliat
night, and brooding over tho -horrible
event, a sudden inspiration came to him
that the object of the Fuegans in keep
ing bur. alive was to send him back to
his people that he might tell them how
they would be treated if they came to
the land of tlie Fuegans to declare un
ending war between themselves and the
white world; and though, of course, he
never knew for a certainty, yet the way
in which they made him watch the
laughter of the whalers' men, and every
thing that happened before and after,
pointed to this explanation of their con'
dust. From that night bis great fear
and suspense were mingled with this
grain of nope. -.
The next morning the Fnenns col
lected their belongings, which consisted
of nothing but spears and knives, a few
skins, and some ntemfls for holding
water, and marched inland, taking their
prisoner with them. Tbry spent about
six hours a ds.7 on the march, over diffi
cult myintam passes and down into deea
va2rri mxkjr g Ires to sleep bat night
her. They were unable to converse, for
she spoke only Spanish, and he only Eng
lish; but from that time Thorold was
treated by the natives with more defer
ence than before. '
He was never nllowed again to ap
proach the Chilian woman, who appeared
to be rather ashamed of her situation be
fore him, but he saw her manner of life.
She was the wife of the chief, and had
apparently a large number of children.
The natives treated her with tho greatest
respect, and cooked meat for hor, and
made her a more elaborate hut than
they made1 for themselves. Iter dress
was a mixture of civilization and bar
barism. On the whole site appeared sat
isfied with jier strange life. . -
About four weeks after Thorold joined
tins tribe"; another tribe came upon them;
there was a fight, and ho changed hands.
Just before the fight began tho Chilian
woman went away with a few compan
ions, and he saw her no more. -
Toward the end of the sixth month the-
tribe which possessed Thorold reached a
place on the sea shore which consisted ot
a liy almost shut m by hind. He had
often reached a similar place, for there
are many bays on tliat coast with an is
land facing them.
Ou the morning of the third day after
they had reached this spot he was on the
beach gathering his usual breakfast of
shell-fish, when he heard a sound tliat
sent the blood rushing toward his heart.
It wns the familiar sound of a steamer,
and looking up he saw the black smoke
floating away in tho wind.
Then he knew that he was on the shore
of the straits of Magellan, and before he
had tijne to consider how to secure his
safety he had dropped on the beach in a
dead faint, for six months' living in hor
rible suspense, without shelter, and with
the poorest apology for food, liod left him
very little of his old strength.
On that day the steamer "Aconcagua,"
of the Pacific Steam Navigation com
pany, bound from Liveqwul to Valpar
aiso, left Sandy Point and was proceed
ing westward through the straits. The
bulwarks were crowded with passengers
and officers and crew looking out for na
tive canoes, for it is the custom of steam
ers passing through these straits to slow
down, unless tliey are in a great hurry,
and interview the natives in their ca
noes, ending by dropping over the ship's
side a barrel filled with old clothe and
tobacco and other things calcuhitod to
please the savage mind. Once or twice
a couple of natives have been boixted on
board and shown roond the steamer.
"With awe they gazed at the long saloon,
and in horror they fled when they were
taken down to the fire-room and furn
ace door was suddenly opened at them,
reminding them of a crater of one of the
volcanoes that gave their land its name
of Fire.
Before the awful adventure of Thor
old, all that was known about these
strange people was learnt in this wsy,
and thus the curious fact was discovered
that although their near neighbors the
Pataf-ooians wilt drink all the rum and
other fire-water thejiean lay their hands
oa, the Fuegans will take no alcohol of
any kind, but, when offered it, turn away
with the same appearance of disgust that
a dog shews under similar circumstances,
in this wsy, among others, showing how
they stand is the scale of humanity.
8kln ofs Iluge Ali-iran Linn.
The tanned skin of a huge African lion,
said to lie tho largest animal of its kind
ever killed by a white man, has just been
made into a rug for a gentleman in New
York city. The owner was one of a
hunting party that captured the animal
last August on ft mountain precipico near
the Sand river, east Africa, about 180
miles back from the coast lino at Dela
goa bay. The lion killed a native Zum
ala, wiio was trying to beat him out of
the biLih so that the hunter, could get a
shot, at him,' and the owner of skin
brought home the skull of the poor fol
low as another souvenir of the exciting
chase. From the nostrils to tho tip of
the tail the skin raoosured ten feet three
inches. It is beautifully colored, and all
the claws and teeth are preserved jier
fectly. Two of the teeth are four inches
long. The head measured two feet eight
inches across the forehead, with all the
muscles strongly brought out.
There is a big hole in . tho skin tliat
pierced the animal's heart. The owner
of the skiu left Africa with it lefore tho
hot season came on. It was packed in
imo to preserve it until the traveler
reached London, and was covered with
arsenic soap" for further transportation
to this city. The lion skin has ln-en sur
rounded with twenty-one bear skins, the
whole forming a rug tweuty-one feet
long and thirteen feet wide, enough to
carpet a large room. The skin has been
tho object of a good deal of interest and
curiosity to men in the trade. New Or
leans Times-Democrat. .
CHARACTER IN THE HAND3.
Suggestive Ideas from Leading 'Enxllth
Masnils A Brief Usf TZ11
Our oriental friends, who are of a more
low and dignified character, disapprove
of tho western custom of taking hold of
the precious person of an acquaintance
and shaking him for welcome. It : may
be more dignified to bow, but if f rank
nesi and activity be our characteristics,
wo like the trustful mystery of a hand
clasp. It is an index in itself. The
formal and cold character offers straight
fingers for an instant; - the dull and
apathetic let us toko hold of a hand like
a dead fish; the energetic business man
meets an old friend with a grip tliat
brings ths water into his oyesr the warm
hearted takes our hand arid holds it.
The nervous hand, with an -affectionate
swiftness, comes out most readily and
longingly. And is there anything more
natural to a reverent lore than the kiss
ing of the hand that has been bountiful
in love to us? Bee how far we have gone
among mysteries 1
Character, habits, and age are the
three things that aro told by the hands.
When we draw tho diameter of Heep, J jjasnot
the hypocrite and, as schoolboys would
say, the "sneak" Dickens tlid not neg-
THEIR LAST RESTING-PLACE.
A Vlult to Hollywood Cemtterr,
. ftlchmond Confederate Vend, ,
Among T the many beautiful places
about the capital of the old dominion
none is so lovely in the spring time as
Hollywood Cemetery. . Some of - tlie
greatest men Virginia or America ever
produced are buried here, and the wind
as its sighs through tho beautiful treei
sings ceaselessly their requiem.
, The grounds cover about ninety acre
and there aro nearly 50,000 graves.. The
sexton Is a- character in his wny;' and
many a little tale of romance did he tell
me during my walk, many a tale of A
broken heart or of forgetfuhiess. But
we need not dwell upon these. Human
nature is the same under very sky, and
the same stories can be heard in every
grave yard in tho land. There is a story
worth telling connected with every little
mound in the wide world.
One of .the' first spots the stranger
wants to see is President's hill, where lie
buried within twenty feet of each other
two-.presidents of the United States,
Monroe and Tyler. Over the former is a
large cast-iron monument, but the other
: even a board to mark his last
resting-place, not as much as ft pauper
in a potter s field, only a magnolia grows
lect-tlii-iiil
nanu lie was: as gnosuy w me wutu am
to the sight; I rubbed mine afterward to
warm it, and to rub his off It was such
an uncomfortable hand that when I went
to my room it was still cold and wet
upou my memory." Even if it be not
that of Heep, the hypocritically humble
hand is apt to writlio and. squeeze its
bending linger together.
The hand that little Jack Horner
made sticky with his own pie in his own
corner undoubtedly became with big
Jack Horner, t ' thick-fingered, puffy
index of his partiality for pies and
plums. Little does tlie swaggerer who
chinks his small chnngtj and cocks - his
thumbs out of his pockets imagine that
thumbs and hands atr m much his con
demnation as tho bragging sealsand tlie
chain thnt would anchor a ship."
Tho stingy man has a tight hand; his
fingers kcop fast hold of a sixpence, and
his palm makes a careful hollow out of
which it Cannot roll, until he is qiu'to
4 sure ho. is obliged to part with it. The
rough and tho refined hand ore different
with a difference like tliat of education
in tho man. The lowest extremity of
roughness is the hand of bruto violence
a colossal paw, of iron strength, huge
with muscle, vein, and sinew, but lack
ing all sensitiveness and flexibility de
fiant in its attitudes a human tool that
has been turned into a weapon.
There are refined hands tliat aro crim
inal also, but their character is tho more
hateful because no trace is made upon
outward perfection, and their beauty is
a lie. One reads in the weil-carca ror,
well.
Near these two graves, Oen. A. P. HilT,
of the Confederate army, is buried. It
is a strange coincidence tliat his name
was iu both th&lips of Leo and Jackson
when they died. Scattered about in va
rious sections of tlie place arc the grave!
of Jolin. Randolph, of Hoanoke; J. E. B.
Stuart, tho dashing cavalry leader of the
Army of Northern Virginia; Conimo
doro M, F. Maury, "the Pathfinder of the
Seas;". James A. Seddon, Con federate
minister of war; Governor Henry A.
Wise; John li. Thomson, the poet;
Gens. Ashby, Steven, Picket, Moore, and
many another of Virginia's- sririH.t'h&S
names arp written high on tho scroll of
fume. ... . .
In another part of the cemetery, the
"Now Part," is tho Confederate section,
where under tlie sod sleep 12, 000 soldiers,
waiting the sound of the last reveille. Iu
the center of the army of the unknown
and unrecorded dead rises a splendid
monument, a pyramid pf rough Virginia
granite, erected to tho -'memory, of the
southern soldier by the ladies of the
south. Ah, those ladies of the south, fit
mothers and : sisters of brave sons and
brothers. . How many of their best be
loved lio to-day under the soil of the Old
Dominion. And how many brave north
ern soldiers lie by their sides. Truly
Virginia, is the burial place of the nation,
and our hearts should soften when we
think of her. Shaking of the monu
ment Joaquin Miller, who visited il says:
"This grand tribute of cold gray r.tonu U
1'agaalni' !sparlled feat, ;
Paganini happened to play before the
Princess Pauline Borgbese, sister of Na
poleon I, whe-n his chanterelle (the E
string) snapped. Whether accident or
his own design, the A broke after this,
and lie played so wonderfully on the two
remaining strings a duet between two
lovers that the princess said to him
"You do such incredible things M. Pa
ganini, .with two strings, that I am al
most sorry that the D string didn't give
wny too, so as to leave y6o only one
string. I should like to see whut it is
possible even for a sorcerer liko you to
do on the O alone. "Qu'u cela ne tienne,"
said Paganini with the greatest equanim
ity, and he coolly took tho D off and be
gan his famous variations on the Prayer
of Mow on tho O alone. It is useless to
try and give a description of the amaze
ment, not to say stupefaction, of his
hearers at this nupanillelnd feat, and of
the admiration which followed tlie first
surprise, when they saw what a man's
baud could do with one string. True, it
was tliat man's hand. Temple Bar.
Brutality ot Xapoleon Uoaaparta.
In tho "souvenirs" of Victor do Broglie
some striking stories aro told of the First
Napoloon. (Jen. Bert rand was ordered
to examine the defensive means of a
small town. lb called tho emperor's at
tention to tlie fact tliat in order to place
it in a proper state of defense it would be
necessary to destroy a number of small
dwellings, which he considered a useless
sacrifice, as the point was of slight strat
egic importance. The emperor listened
without interrupting and then calmly re
marked "An engineer ought to be only
an engineer;" then, pacing up and down,
"it is useless to be an engineer without
fulfilling the duties of an engineer."
Then, going to tlie door, added. "An
engineer must ignoro merry or pity," and
thereon slammed tlie door violently.
After tlie Kwwian campaign Napoleon,
conversing with M. de Narbonne, stated: j
"After all. what have 1 lost? Not more I
titan 800,000 pien, and even at that there
were a lot of Germans among them!"
This last seafnee is truly Najoleonic
Detroit Free Press.
A Pra-Edtaoa rbaaogrmpli Record.
A writer in China rhums to have dis
covered a record of the exhttonce of
sneaking phonograph in that country as
far back as the seven teen tli century. The
instrument is mentioned as "the thous
and -li speaker," and the description is as
follows: "It was a bamboo tulw cov
ered with a disk of glass and opened by
a key. After speaking into it several
thousand words, it was closed and car
ried to a distance not exceeding a thous-and-U.
On opening it end applying the
ear, ft voice was distinctly heard. If
carried a greater distance the "roicer be
cam fadistiiict." Dr. Macgowan sug
gested tliat indistinctness might result
f root hi jury sustained by the apparatus
in a long trip over the rough roads.
Arkansaw Traveler. -
Two million dollars a year is spent by
Chicsgoaas for collars and cuff.
takinor to itaelf the aoftnintr mi, I unlitln-
; or, as wo might say, the educated hand, t mantle of verdure. Up the four
not only its own refinement, but that of j 8tecp ,iJ(?, ot Htonc ,he ivy f c.!i,t,ig,
ouier generations tue ancestor. nu , fa nearing the summit. It will niret
lived at leisure from bodily toil, whose i t,ere on the topmost pinnacle some day
muscios were . noi sircwueu vj i.-mr,
whose fingers, iittlo used, went slender
i to the tips, whose very finger-nails re
vealed easy times, by their oval shape,
not pressed and worn into hard-worked
diminutive half-circles.
Yet-one likes the strong hand morally
srWug even if it has never been tasked
with physical laW; tlie-man's hand that
is not effeminate, tho girl's hand that If
not a pretty waxwork, but a part of a
helpful someone, who would be s-voutly
willing to do something for somebody
else. Unless it ' bo the weak hand of
sickness, which is a most piteous sight,
tlie hand of the weak charactor.U not
wliat anyone enres to clasp. More and
more in this world we want the ImfidS
tliat can do something. As Carl) le says,
the first doing would be for many a
revelation. Caasoll's Family Magazine.
Frr for Xosdy Preacher,
A distinguished Boston divine preached
a few Sunduys ago for a cousin who is
pastor of a church forty miles out in tlie
country. His relative was somewhat
flurried by the presonco of the city min
ister and In the opening prayer with
which lie prefaced the other's sermon he
prayed:
"Help thy servant who is to speak to
vs to-day. Without Thee help linn
for ." He stoppea, tried to collect him
self, and finished, "for, O Lord, he can't
do much, anyway!" Boston Hecord.
The Pottery Kilos at America.
There are now about 273 pottery kilns
in operation in this country, not includ
ing the large numlxrr employed by doco-
rated pottery makers.' The total capital
; - VEILCHEN.
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Pld ever the sound of a snatch of song, - . i
, Whistled in careless tune, - ; !t
Float in your mind the whole day long.
Taking you back to Janef
Did ever the scent of a good cigar, JT .
Blown on the breath ot the evening air.
Bring to you memories different by bir
Not of tobacco at all, ma chere r - '
What do you think a vollet said .
'" Iu this same magical way? ...'
Nothing at all of the garden bed ;..'..",
Where It bloomed until to-day. .
A walk in the moonlight, with none to
mark,. - - ., :'.- - ;. :
The clasp of the hand that U dear to me;
A passionate thrill, a kiss la the dark,' '
The violet's scent brought1 near -to mo. -j
, . , providence Journal. :.
NATIVES OF COUNTY CORK.
soon, anil joining hands, :ml down in
perpetual pity over the 18,000 dead."
Kicluno'nd (Va.) Cor. Detroit Fruo Press.
To Awaken the Chinese People.
There are only three influences which
can - be successfully exerted upon the
Chinese people to awaken them to their
real condition as compared with the peo
ple of other countries; first, war and
diplomacy, which work slowly and spas
modically, but very effectively at times;
secondly, corariierce, .which "has dona
and is doing much along the sea coast;
and thirdly, the missionaries, who push
out into tho interior armed with dog
matic religion, and good works aro
slowly making their wayr though riutt
nearly so much - by the formor ns the
hitter. They aro truly the advanced
guard of civilization; and while thny
carry its highest and most abstract prin
ciples to those who are but little fitted by
lftibit or education to reccivo or under
stand them, they are surely and steadily
gaining the confidence and regard of those
among whom they aro laboring. The
more practical their w ork becomes, tho
more rapidly will good results flow from
It. Peking Cor. New York Sun.
The rropritttonhlp of fove-letter.
The proprietorship of love letters has
been forever set at rest in England, three
of the lords-justice deciding tliat tliu let
ters belong to tho writer, who in case of
estrangement may demand and receive
them bark, provided they have not beeg j
destroyed. Ladies may write in them j
the full arsurance that they can not bo
published without their consent, hor can
employed in the industry is about ',000,- j they be sold or disposod of contrary to
000, two-thirds of which is absorbed in
plant The amount of wages paid to the
thousands of pottery hands is placed at
from $1,000,000 to 5,000,000 per annum.
Finally, tlie annual value of tlie Amer
ican pottery product is over f-1,000,000.
Chicago Herald.
Kallroad Train Cheeked t Wind.
It is an interesting fact that the seed
of a railway train is more retarded by
wind which blows against it from tlie
side than if it comes "dead aliead." The
rcMn is in the increased friction of the
flanges of the whe:ls upon the rails
caused by the side blow. Pioneer Press.
fr. Cladtoae's Italhar Qaalnt Dree.
Mr. Gladstone dresses in a quaint and
rathrr peculiar manner. He wears a
black frock-coat, vet optned low and !
displaying a broad shirt front, a hih
standing collar, with a black cravat
carelessly knotted, and dark, baggy
trousers. Q i icago Herald.
the author's whiles. Clu'cngo Journal.
Large! Xlamoud la the Vfurld.
Tho king's treasury is within the ark
or citadrl, and the ctown jewels are kept
there. The most famous of the diamonds
is that called Dareae Nur, or Sea of
Light. It was obtained in India, and Is
said to be the largest fift.t-cI.-iHs diamond
in tho world. It is thought, liOH-over,
to be somewhat inferior in quality to ;
that of the Kune Nur, or Mountain of
Light, now In posiib,ian of the British
crown. Land of the Imams,
Bet oa Mr by Jl-Iir.
The captain of an Au-strulian schooner,
Mr. F. H. Griffith, reports tho setting
fire of his vowel by a meteorite. No
shot-k jv-feU,.but two or more hot me
tallic pi'-cn as birge as a man's hand
were picked up. Exchange.
- Ia Tro-Thlr. flalUd Bilk.
A writer, speaking of the Chinese,
ays that while tlie nu n appear to hare
t lax htraw for l ael.
In some sections, of Dakota where furl
is exp?iuivo farmers this year will grow
an ai re or two of flax fut fucL It is
claimed that a ton of flax straw is worth
; more for fuel than tun of soft cuoL
. . .... . , ,. I uuauciijua uiu.
. - . . . . t : 1 . . '
pigtails reveal tnai nrany iwo-muus 01
that appendage is plaited silk thread.
Exchange.
al
falling rapidly into decay.
It would take a man 8,000 years to
read all the standard works. New
Haven News.
The French nave taken the Americaa
verb "to interview" into their larguag
Tho Average tenght of Life.
The Popular Science News asserts that
the average b-ngth of life is constantly
increasing, and tlie time may yet come
The palmy days of. 4he famous- carni. ? wIw p., m Jnn olJ m ili exciU) n0
d at Borne are past, and tlie custom is mon cunolltT than one of 6X) year at the
present tfme.
Crcloa Cellar" for a Hot!.
A Pukwana (D.T.) hotel advertises as
among its attraction a "cv-rliwe cellar,"
ith an eaxy sliie into il in cae of din
gvr. Inter Oc-eoa.
Potatoes Twentjr-Ono Time a Week la 1
Typical Attire An Interview. . -
The diet of the Irishman in this part
of the country is, of course, potatoes and '
milk. As he himself puts it, lie has po- '
tatoos twenty-one times a week. In tlie
event of a blight, such as the historic
one, tlie result in certain parts of Ireland .
could scarcely be less disastrous than at -any
former period. If one may judge
from the physique of, his consumers, the
diet requires no recommendation of the - -medical
faculty,- for a more stalwart race
it would be difficult to find. In this cor
ner of the country so . long "preserved," '
wo - should expect to find the natural "
Irishman, and we certainly found him,
The native Irish is almost universally ;
spoken; but at the same time tlie major-,
ity of the younger generation speak Eng
lish with a brogue of the most exquisite "r
flavor.-' - n ;.! '.
Here, also, we. have the Irishman in ,
tho typical attire to which caricaturists
have accustomed us. To the visitor from
tlio other island, it is a ludicrous picture. .
to see him 'in tail hot, blue tailed coat,
and knee-breeches at work in his
wretched pfot,likbl''pbnbsophef out for
a little recreation. It is not so much the -style
of. his garments, however, tliat
makes 'their picturesquoness; it is their
positively miraculous raggedhess. : We '
feel that this rnggedness lias quite passed
the stago of dUreputability, and has -actually
become ornamentation. But it
is above all the hat tliat fixes the nttcn-
tion. We have often closely inspected '
it, and our wonder never ceased how, in ,
the course of a single life, any hat, how
ever weather-beaten ' and ' however
brutally used, could attain tliat pre :
Adamite look.
It is the great charm of travel in Ire
land tliat one can become acquainted
with its people in so slmrt a time and on
such cosy terms, Tlie Irishman is tho
most approachnblo of human beings, and .
as tho very Irishman the stranger wishes -to
know is iu most coses his own lord
and master, intercourse is thus mode
doubly easy. If in the course of a soli
tary walk you should desire the solace of
a little conversation you have but to take
your scat on one of the turf walls that
form tho fences in. ,t!iej parts of the
country. If you are a smoker and pro
duce your pipe, you will present aq, ad
dilionol inducement. Before you are -well
seated you will be saluted with: "A .
fine day sir, God be praised!" and a care
less figure will be seen approaching with
a spado or pickax over his shoulder..,, :: t
Sharing your tobacco with him it will ,
remain with yourself to conclude the in- '
tervicw. Ik-fore ten minutes have passed
you will have had tlie outlines of liis fam'
ily history, and his views on things in
general, not even excepting his priest.
At the end of as many hours' conversa
tion as you please he will speed you on
your way with a fervent "God preserve
rou long!" ond part with you OS if you ,
had been his life-long friend. Cham
bers' Journal.
A Valuable Visit for Trade.,'
Not a particle of the porpoise is wasted '
in preparing it for- the market. First, '
the skin hi taken offt which is superior
even to alligator hide for carriage leather
and for shovs. The skin is nearly an inch
thick, but it is planed down until it be
comes nearly translucent The blubber
is tried out, yielding an oil equal to tlie
best sperm oil for lubricating, and two
other grades are made from the head and
-jaw, both lieing superior to tliat from the -
blubber. Tho jaw oil is used by jewelers
and watch-makers, who pay at the rste
of f 15 a gallon for it. There is a tradi
tion thnt anciently it was so highly
teemed that it was in demand for tlie
table of royalty. In the tunes of Queen
Elizabeth it was served to the nobles of
England with bread crumbs and vinegar. .
It is a chief dainty of the Greenlanders.
It is dark-colored and bloody. The car
cass of tho porpoise is thrown in with,
menhaden, and a little more oil is tried
out of it, after which it becomes a fertil-.
ia-r. An average porpoise is worth in
all about t-10. Chicago Times.
The KnglUb Fond of 1'oaUcrlpta.
Tlie English people aro very fond oi
postscripts. Tlie young man who wants'
liu father or mother to send him
5-pound note, this being the real object
of his letter, always covers the four sides
of his note-paper with generalities about
mutual friends and his intense zeal at hit
desk, and then slips tho request in ss a
postscript. So' if ho wants to borrow -money
from a friend. So if it isn't con
venient to repay borrowed money bor
rowed money or reclaim an I. O. U. So
with the young lady who writes a con
fidential k-tter to a friend. The pith of
tlie whole communication is sure to be in
the iwstscript. Loudon Cor. Baltimore
Herald. ' ' '
Australia' Nataral Bird Trap.
The ornamental Pisunia .grandis of
Australia has seeds like an elongated
bark-y corn, which are covered with a ,
sticky gum. This adheres to the legs
and feathers of winged creatures comisaj
in contact with it, and makes the plant a
natural bird catcher, no less ' than 104
birds having been known to be captured
bv one tree in Victoria. Arkansaw Trav
eler. .
: A Tor Steamer for tho Empress.
The Viceroy Li has had a complete toy -steamer
made for the empress of CI tins,
so that she may work it herself and ke.
the importance ot "steam locomotion.-
Philadelphia Cull. -