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ghc people's grcss. cristTkTeln, JOB PKENTINQ U sap41 w1 all uriiMfj kUrW, Is IWly rr U 4 wra vita MSATHCM, D ISP ATOM, and ir6prletoWh rutnucr8 A AT' r Terms Cash in Advance. On.Copy. on.yr . 'n .. it oii months ... VERY LOWEST PRICES three months. ..... 43 ma to ftr a Ml 1 VOL. XL. SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1892. NO. 25. - - ' ' - . . '' ' ! ; ; .,.; . - : ; " j : ' , -A. Family 'Newspapbr Devoted to Literature, -A.gx'icu.ltuLro and General Information. - i r: . : " " 1 : a Tt is estimated that there HH) Irish in Australia.' are 1,300,- THE DEAD DAY. California, Florida and Texas threaten t ni i'-e it unnecessary soon to purchase Mediterranean fruit's and nuts. It i3 claimed that the boundary lino between Idaho arid Washington is thirty ...iwo.it of -the way, and a resurvey would probably place Spokane in Idaho, . :,,.r the nonulatioa of that State 75,0'O. - Anton Seidl, the famous New York conductor, is of opinion that the first tnioruaa opera is due to appear pretty onn now, this country having several ble. in his opinion, of pro lucitl it: ew Yorkers travel more than ever, avers the Sun. In 1830 they took on an average 175 journeys a year each on the street ears and elevated railways, but now each inhabitant averages 213 journeys. The total joiftneys made last year within minieinaltv reached the enormous, number of nearly 431,000,000. The argent and Imperial day For all his wealth was made to yield. He passed his gates of palms and lay Far out upon his battered shield ; Lay calm and king-like, with red garments rolled j; In blood, and aleaminz burnishments of ' gold. . - . "J- Then queenly night came down and swathed The king in somber vestments new. She bowed her face above and bathed Her eyes in darkness and in dew, And closed and kissed them softly as slid Aside the dead king's silvered coffin lid. Some star-tipt candles foot and head; Sweet perfumes of the perfumed sea, And then above her coffin 3d dead She drew great curtains lovingly; And as she hooked them oq the bent moon's horn, - , f Unloosed her hair; and mourned and mourned till morn. j . Joaquin Miller, j she had once suggested that "there's a slip," but Arthur merely shied a shoe at him, and whistled serenely. , Tt : 1.1-5- . . ..... xu w iu mis irame oi mina that, one LOVE OR MONEY? ' LwdeT'Cars will soon be transported .cross LikeXMichigao. A large pro-. nellcr is being constructed at Toledo, Ohio, with a capacity of twenty-one cars. : It is expected tbit a great saving of expense will be made! by thi The boat will ply between Frankfort on Mifhi 'an side and Keewaunee on the Wisconsin shore. i BT.B. It. KKTCHUM. Tim ,nv of successful sneering at ..... j . v fhaolv-far.nia'" is past, exclaims the American Farmer. The farmer wio suc ceeds now-a-ilays must read read a good jeal digest what he reads, and intelli cpritlv ahnlv it. In rib sciencs is there 3 j t I j more progress to-day than in agriculture, I"ne. farmer who makes money is the oao who keeps up with the times. There lately came to the London post office from Egypt four baby crocodiles. The Boston Transcript suspects that they had probably becu seut by some oue who dad heara that a medical periodical had recommended the importation of a shoal of the reptiles, which have a special Hkin"g?for . iifipurities, a? means wherewith to cleanse -the Tlhme3 and the se vera. At latest ' a1vice3 the creatures were waiting order for their disposition. The Thames, it wn thought, was too cold for experi ments with the Saurian scavengers. The eyeglasses which pinch the nose arc certainly dangerous, maintains the Atlanta Constitution.- A case recently occurred in St. Louis of a man who died of cancer of the no3e by the pressure of his eyeglasses. He noticed that on each side of his nose, where, the spring of the passes brought the clamps against the flesh, a persistent red spot appeared, but thought nothing of it A year or so ago the right side of his nose became sore, a small spot turned brown, and in three months he had a well-developed cancer, which in course of time ate away his aosc, the whole of one eye, and finally, penetrated the brain and caused death. Spectacles, says an expert, are not so handsome, nor stylish, but are far safer to persons compelled to the habitual use ..of artificial aid to the sight. There is not much toleration for the anti-vaccinatioa craze in France, where medical science has reached a very high point of development. The recent out break of smallpox at '-Rheum has called out a proclamation from the Oomite Con sultatif d'Hygicne Publiquo de France declaring that "revaccination is a duty imposed upon every good citizen." It scouts f!hc idea that any danger can arise from tfie operation when properly per formed, and concludes by saying: "Vac cination is the most salutary of practices. It is also mo3t harmless when surrounded by the precautions which, in the present Jay, have been clearly defined. It is, in realty, the only efficacious means for stamping out the smallpox epidemic. W e arc unable to understand why people hesitate to submit to it,in order to avoid disease which is often fatal, which de stroys eyesight, which deforms the features, and may result in active com plications which are often incurable." in the United age worked Eighty years ago boy3 5tate3 under eight years of n factories; in some "mstancej fourteen lours a day fifty cents a week was a not incommon rate of wages for women; i very capable woman could earn fifty Jtnts aday at a trade which she must ?'e six . months of unpaid, service to 'earn ; with calico at fitly cents a yard, a woman's earnings for fen weeks would "ly suffice to buy the material for a frcs which she can now purchase with half day'a wages .If we g0 back 8tiU ' bother generation," muses the New lor Sun, "we find that a little more than HJO yearj a the WQrk of a maQ it common or unskilled labor was worth but half a dollar a day; and on this he "'I'ported his family in wnat was no loubt regarded as entire respectability. assuredly it was not, if tried by any 'tandard new or old, a condition jot lulry. Small as were his earnings, he Pu'd two dollars' a bushel for wheat, teventy.fivc cents for corn and twenty :e"ts a pound for salt pork, lie paid a ''i'-fh irir fr ;.!,.i : lie had no carpet or stove, and ate RTHUR FERRIS was tall, blonde, handsome, and twenty-eight. ' He was also the pbs lessor -of a long head, inhe r i t e d from the maternal side of the house. He was likewise Sa dutiful son. It was the two latter c i r c u in stances ' that hfcd, on more than one occasion, saved him from making a tri umphant nss of himself. If it had not been for his long head, it is more than likely that he would have fallen desper ately in love with that bewitching governess of the Hastings, with whom ho had spent several weeks in the mountains one summer five years ago. But he had given himself time to think, and had fled between two days, much to his later satisfaction. . ( Then there was that dear little Miss Dixon, whom be had met at the seaside. It had been a glorious evening that last. They were sitting on the veranda, where they might see and yet be- unseen. The soft, . dreamy strains of a Strauss waltz floated out from the ball-rodm. Thero was the pale, silver light of the moon, the murmuring ripple of the waves on the beach -and all that sort of thing, which you have read about so many times that you have learned to skip it in the novels. Well! Elsie. was going away too, too soon. They had talked In sighs and murmurs for half an hour ; , Arthur's left hand clisped Elsie's dimpled right one, his right arm was about her waist; both heats beat vigorously, as hearts will on such occasions, and Arthur had just opened his mouth to tell Elsie what she had been waiting forsior two weeks, when there was a step close at hand, a rustle of skirts, and the cooing voice of the maternal Ferris said : 'I beg your pardon, but will you please excuse Arthur a few moments? There are those miserable business affairs that must be attended to in time for the late mail." ' ' i And thus was he saved a second time, for Elsie had not a cent, and neither had he at least, not many of them. There were several other occasions when his own long head, or his mamma's, had helped him out lor Arthur was some what susceptible. But it is not of these I have to tell. His time had come. The in-everyway-desirable young person had pre sented herself.' Tiue, she was not sq young as she had been; but, then, that was a mere trifle. She was just his cwn age, of as good a family as his own, and an heiress of considerable degree. She was not well not exactly handsome, and was rather inclined to what is politely called plumpness; but Arthur's mamma arid Arthur's lor g head 'gave their ap proval and Arthur did not care who she might be, so long as the possessed the above qualifications, particularly the one involving a very neat fortune in her own right. , : :. Besides, Arthur was getting a bit des perate. In fact, he had so'far exceeded his'own salary and the majterpal allow ance (which, by the way, was as lavge as Mrs. Ferris 'could afford), that nothing short of a miracle, or a matrimonial alli ance such as he had been so long seek ing, could save him from getting into very deep water. j And thus it came to pass that' this winter found him engaged to Miss Ber nice Field, much to the satisfaction of his mother, who was visiting in New York, and to whom he had, like the dutiful son he was, sent the gratifying news at once. . j , He was disappointed, however, on one point. He had pleaded artfully for an early wedding, but Miss Field had set her foot down with much firmness and said he must go through a long proba tionary period all of which Arthur failed to understand. He had always been noted for his persuasive powers,, and had flattered himself that Bernice, with her gentle, clinging, bud-like ways. would succumb at once. i Now, be it known that Miss Bernice Field had not arrived at years of discre tion for nothing. Neither had shej a not unprepossessing young person, with nearly a half-million in her own right, passed through the experiences of ten seasons without gathering unto herself much knowledge of the ways and wiles of wicked man. She had had, as might have been expected, offers to a high number; but, thus far, tne gentlemen concerned had failed by reason of their unanimous desire to touch her purse to touch, in the first place, the1 i all-impprt-:nt key to it, which was hidden away in her bosom. And Miss, Bernice Field was worldly-wise in her day and genera tion. . ; ! She was certainly in love with Ferris there could be no doubt of that, j It Is quite as certain that she was very seri ously in love with him ; but with the wisdom born of experience, she did hot let him know one-half of what she felt for him. ' ! If any one had told Ferns that.he was just now in. a very snasy posiuuu, would have scoffed. His chum,; n . V.r. raa anp.ndinfiT the Winter at Vivob, ' -r a . , if Fn.Rio aheani the house aunng au. evening in February, he ran lisrhtlv uo ii . ... . . . r me steps oi tne if'ieia mansion to call on her whom Cross unfeelingly referred to" as his "little lady-love." It was warm, and the front door stood ajar. The little footman was not in his accustomed place, so Ferris, with the air of one who knew just where he was going, stepped inside. From the open door of Papa Field's study came the sound of voices in earnest discussion, and one of them spoke his own name. He halted, irresolute, as would any one else under like circumstances. Papa Field was speaking : "Of course,' my dear, you are your own mistress, and lean only advise you. It seems to me, however, that you have don , n very . , foolish thing to engage yourself to this young Ferris. True,, he seems an exemplary young fellow, and he comes of an excellent family ; but it is well known that he has only a small allowance from the estate in addition to a beggarly two thousand dollars', salary. How do you know it is you, and not your money that he wants? It is a brutal question, I know, but it is one you have probably asked of yourself a half-dozen times, concerning other young men." Arthur, out in the hall, standing in mucjh the same attitude a child assumes when speaking its first "piece" in school, winced, out waited for the answer. It came, in serious, thoughtful tones, which indicated plainly that Miss Bernice,also, had considered this very1 matter. "N-no", I am sure you misjudge him, papa.' Of course I understand how he is situated financially, and and all that. But I am sure he is honest and honor able, and that he he cares for me very much. There is a thousand ways by which I can learn, much that you cannot, and" i : i - . . .. ;; ' "Yes, yes; I understand. But sup pose you should put him to the test; do you think he would come through ah er unscathed, as it weret Suppose you should tell him that I had lost all your money and mine in untortunate specula tion that we were beggars, and had not a dollar we could call our own? Are you afraid to try himl" Thero was a brief silence. Then : "I don't like to tell a falsehood, papa; but it would be only a 'white lie,' and perhaps for the best. Yes, I'll try him to-morrow night." "That's my dutiful girl. Now run along and let me work." . There was the sound Of a kiss, and the perspiring young , man in the - hall hastened to get out of the house. He wanted time to think, but the first thing that entered his head, as he reached the sidewalk, was a fanciful picture of the reflecting on the vagaries of chance and his own good luck. If Peter had been at the door if h had been ten minutes later if he had sneezed in the hall if "It was an awfully close shave," hi reflected, and ho stopped and shook hands with himself, much to the amaze ment of the policeman on the corner. The Argonaut. - MODERN ATIILETES. i JUVaLS OP ANCIENT ! OliYMPlf? champions: The Trotting Rancheros ot Blcxlco Dr. Oswald Gives Some Cnrioua . Facts About Feats ot Strength " in the Various Coantrles. Miller and the Canadian Cyr have proved their ability to toy with one hundred pound dumbbells, and a mulatto who traveled with several American circus I companies could lift a four by six oaken table with all the men that could sit on top or hang on to the legs, but Barnum came too late to utilize the abilities of petite Miss Field, with her one hundred his he 'Ed Ferris's absence, and sixty pounds of avoirdupois "running along," and he smiled broadly. Then he walked rapidly over to the next street to catch a cab to his club, there to hold a pow-wow with Cross. On th steps he hesitated a moment. "Had "; I better go back now?" he thought. "No; she won't have her lit tle tale ot woe ready, and might be. put out if I call to-night. I might give my self away too. Better have time to get my speech propared." And this astute young man went m and proceeded to make himself comfortable. ' The next evening, with his usual light heart and good spirits, he rang the door bell of the Field mansion. Yes, Miss Field was in, Peter said. Ferns went into the drawing-room and sat downj running rapidly over in his mind the various tender speeches he had prepared for the emergency. Bernice was a long time coming, :be thought, for one "who expected him. Presently she entered -slowly neavi ly. Her head bent low over her jbosoDa, and her breath came short and. fast. Ferris went forward to meet her, his arms outstretched. He was something of an actor himself, and he knew it. "Bernice! Darling! What is the trouble with my little girl?" (Another good stroke. Miss - Field liked to be called "little.") "Oh, Arthur, Arthur 1 I don't know how to tell you. It is too dreadful! Papa" "What! Has your father been " "Oh, no, not that; but but -worse! Arthur, we are beggars l" And Miss Field, delivering these last words with wonderfuUrimPre8Siveness hung her head and sobbed bitterly be hind her lace handkerchief. -r Then it was that Ferris, like the young man of action that he was, put his arm as far round his tearful fiancee as possi- ble, and, with some difficulty led her to a seat and pulled her head down on his glossy shirt frent. He was very, very sorry, as she must know. But it was nothing. Her father would recoup himself he had many in fluential friends. As for her, had she not him her Arthur? He would not, he once interrupted her to say, permit hcTy through a' sense of false pride, to cast him off now, when she most needed him. No, never! He had three thousand a year. It was not much, he knew, but they could live on it. And did she suppose, for one instance, that he had expected to live on Lis wife's money? No! A thousand times, no! "We will have a real quiet, little wed ding, dearest, and, after it is over, we will go quietly to our own little cottage in the suburbs, which you and I will get ready in the meantime, and there we will be the happiest coupie in the world. What I Bernice, ami to understand that you laugh at my cherished plans?" For Bernice had leaped to her feet and was laughing heartily. "Why, you foolish boy, ' I was only teasing you a bit. Don't you think I'd make a good actress? Papa and I haven't lost a" Here was Mr. Ferris's opportunity. Sle had doubted him; oh, 4 cruel blow. If she could not trust him now, how could, she have any faith in him when they were married? Perhaps, after all, it were best And he strode haughtily to the door. But this was not part of Miss Field's programme, and she did what any very-much-in-love female would do under like circumstances, so that, in a very few seconds, two people were sitting on a divan in a very lover like attitude, in In an Indian School. Some of tho Indian parents are verj "proud of their children's progress, and on beef-issue days visit the schools, and listen with great satisfaction to their children speaking in the unknown tongue. There were several : in one of the school-rooms while I was there, and the teachers turned them out of theii chairs to make room for us, remarking pleasantly that the Indians were accus tomed to sitting around on the ground. She afterwards added to this by telling us that there was no sentiment in her, aud that she taught Indians for the fifty dollars there was in it. The mother of one of the little boys was already crouch ing on the floor as we came in, or squat ting on her heels, as they seem to be able to do without fatigue for any length of time. During the half hour we were there she never changed her position or turned her head to look at us, but kept her eyes fixed only on her son sitting on the bench above her. He was a very plump, clean, and excited little Indian, with his hail cut short, and dressed in a very fine pair of trousers and jacket, and with shoes and stockings. He was very keen . to show the white visitors how well he knew tneir taiK, and read his Doofc with, a masterful shaking of the head, as though it had no terrors for him. His mother Kneeling at nis side on the noor wore a single garment, and over that a dirty blanket strapped around her waist with a beaded belt. Her feet were bare, and her coarse hair hung down over her face and down her back almost to her waist in ad unkempt mass. She supported hei chin on one hand, and with the other hand, black and wrinkled, and with nails broken by cutting wood, and bar nessing horses, and plowing in the fields, brushed her hair back from before her eyes, and then touched her son's arm wistfully, as a dog tries to draw his mas ter's eyes, and as though he were some thing fragile and fine. But he paid no attention to her whatsoever; he was very much interested in the lesson. She was the only thing I saw in the school-room. I wondered if she was thinking of the days when she carried his weight on her back as she went about her- cooking or foraging for wood, or swung him from a limb of a tree, and of the first leather leggings she made for him when he was able to walk, and of the necklace of elk teeth, and the arrows which he used to fire bravely at the prairie-dogs. He was a very different child now, and so very far away from the doglike figure crouch ing by his side and gazing up patiently into his face, as if looking for something she had lost. Harper s Weekly. fatsos TJR modern gymna siums, says Dr. Felix L. Oswald, in the San Francisco Chronicle, are often models of comforti and their teachers, and pupils enjoy the liberty and equality', of sports manship, but the amount j of physical prowess developed in . that iway cannot begin to compare with the results oi the times when the safety of a commonwealth depended upon the bodily vigor of its citizens. j Gunpowder, "the villainous saltpeter" that knocked out Chevalier Bayard in the first round, made the I practice of tournaments an anachronism, and the in vention of steam engines confirmed the tendency to rely on mechanical sub' stitutes for muscular strength. In physical agility (less dependent upon a basis of inherited qualities) mod ern specialists are equal, if not superior, to their ancient prototypes. Judging from the accounts of Aulus Gellius the tight-rope y erfomiers of antiquity seem to have been limited to a slow and can tious sort of rope-walking, and after the time of Troian Italian cities wishing to enjoy a spectacle of that sort were, more over, required to lessen the ; risk oi ac cidents by providing a 6tout net, stretched .below and along the entire length of the rope. Chariot driving long remained the superlative of equestrian ism, and our Hermans and Boscos would have been promptly indicted for. witch- craft. But in feats of strength few of our modern champions could have hoped to carry off a third-class prize at Olympia A "running jump" of thirty feet woul. champions could be changed from city to city, after the plan of our political conventions, and proprietor of a fair- sized park could achieve wealth as well as boundless popularity by offering prizes for supremacy in walking, leaping, swim ming, running and weight-throwing,and bye and bye also for archery and lance practice (spear-throwing at a mark),with or without th supplemnentary induce ments of the mediaval tournament. A gate-money charge of twenty cents would cover all expenses, and with the steady Increase of patronage the corre sponding enlargement of the prizes, in coin and glory, would be sure to attract competitors from all parts of the country and turn thousands. of boy topers into young athletes. WORDS OP WISDOM. fewest ( go HOW A. PEOX TBATELS. Thomas Topham, a Surrey Hercules of the eighteenth . century, who once shouldered a sentry-box containing a stove, a bench and a sleeping watchman and earned his burden to a surburban cemetery. The Grecian heraerodromes, or foot- couriers, could make ouu stadia (about seventy-five English miles) a day, at a salary that would not hire a San Fran cisco messenger boy. In sr stress of cir cumstances first class runners could manage to double that speed, but had the advantage of excellent roads, bor dered by forests or rows of shade trees. while the zagal, or postboy, of a Spanish mail-coach has to keep up with a team of fast horses whirling the crazy old clat terbox through a series of suffocating dust clouds. Our sprinters generally confine themselves to short distance races, but I have often wondered why the managers of our go-as-you-please matches of three or four days have never tried-to "spring a cinch," as turfmen call it by importing a trotting peon from Why It ia Called "Key West." Unlike too many of our American cities, Key West has a history and its name a meaning. The first I will not re hearse, for some version of it, false or true, may be found in any encyclopedia, but the latter I will give in order to cor rect a common error. Many people im agine that the name has something to do with the geographical position of the is land. On the contrary it is a corruption of the words Cayo Hueso (Bone Islands) and was so called because the Indians ol the coast islands and those of the main land were of different tribes and con stantly fighting, and the Island men hav ing . been driven from one Key to an other, finally made a desperate stand here, but it was of no avail, and their bones were left to whiten on the sands and give a name to the Key. - Ever since Jrlorida came into the pos session of the United States Key West has been looked upon as a point of some strategic importance, and there have been desultory attempts to fortify and occupy it as a military post. Troops were first stationed here in 1824, -and in 1845 work on Fort Taylor was begun, but never completed. The fort, how ever, was occupied, in its incomplete condition, from 1861 to 1865. At pres ent .the lonely echoes ot the immense structure respond only to the footsteps ot its solitary keeper, or to the inquiring voice of somi. wandering touris St Louis Star-Sayings. . Queer Birds ot Alaska. During the cruise of tha Corwin tn Alaska, several downy young were col lected by Mr. J. E. Lota on Otter Island. They are of special interest, sines tha newly hatched chicks of the two species collected have never been received at any museum, so far as knovn, nor have they ever before been described or figured. The bill of the parrot auk exhibits all the curious peculiarities which character Ize the genus Cyclorrhynchus, the 're curved" commissure, ' me laicaia snape oi the lower mandible, and the sidewise com pression of the whole beak. In fact, the bill is very similar to that of the adult bird, of which Mr. Cassin said that "it seems to attain a maximum of parrot AC oddity amongst the queer bills of this family of birds, the whole affair looking as if it might be a nose of wax badly pinched upwards, especially to the disadvantage of the under mandible." The chief differ ence is that in the chick the upper mandible is bent more abruptly towards the point, which,on account of the knob for breaking the egg shell still remain ing, presents a truncate profile. The characteristic notch behind the tip is present. The nostrils are pervious. The color of the bill is a horny browish gray, more duskv towards the tin; corner of mouth in the fresh bird probably whitish. The color of the downy plumage above is of a dark smoky gray; darker, nearly blackish on the head and sides of neck; chin, throat and foreneck of the same general color, scarcely paler; rest of the under surface light ashy gray.with verv siurbt il anv iuitginous unge. in A country's best defense is' its goevl name. Great truths are often said words. Narrow waists and narrow minds together. Woman is a miracle of divine contra dictions. A fashionable woman is always in love with herself. In wishing to extend her empire woman destroys it. To a gentleman every worn in is a lady in right of her sex. A handsome woman is a jewel; a gol woman is a treasure. Flattery is like cologne water, to be melt of, not swallowed. Men's muscles move better when their souls are making merry mutic. Live each day ss pure as you would did you know it to be your last. There is no grief without some bcneS- cent provision to soften its intenseness. Msnners are what vex or soothe, cor rupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us. One means very effectual for the pre servation of health is a quie. and cheer ful mind, not afflicted with vio'nt pas sions or distracted, with immoderate cares. Roughness is a needless cause of dis- tontent; severity breedeth fear; but roughness breedeth hate; even reproofs from authority ought to be not taunting. and X SraSISH POSTBOT. break the record of our athletic clubs, East and West, while the; very circum stantial accounts of the Isthmian games leave no doubt that a leap of forty feet was once considered a very ordinary per formance, since a Spartan youth once cleared fifty-two feet, and a native ol Crotona (a Grecian colony in Southern Italy) even fifty-five. Teutolot, tue leader of a predatory horde from North ern Germany, is said to have. leaped in full armor over ten horse3 standing side by side, though a private soldier of Van- rUmme's cuirassiers once lumped over the tutelar deity of a brass fountain on the Frankfurt Market square. Leonardo da Vinci occasionally astonished his visit The Snake an All-round Athlete. It has been suggested that man's in stinctive dread of the snake is a remin iscence of his original tropical residence, where he no doubt had good causa to fear them. This feeling of aversion is general, but is by no means universal. Shelley, for instance, regarded the snake as the emblem of innocence, as will be seen in the "Revolt of Islam." The ori gm of this feeling was probably his ac quaintance with the little snake which lived in the tall grass of the Sussex house in which Shelley passed his child hood.. There is an impression on the part of many that the snake has a defec tive organization, which is certainly not true. As Owen said, the snake can out climb the monkey, outswim the fish, outwrestle the athlete, can crush the tiger, and, jumping into the air, can seize the bird on the wing: Snakes really walk with their ribs, which are attached to platelike scales, a very good method of progression. They are often represented in pictures as advancing by vertical bendings of the body, which they never do.- The mistake is probably due to the fact that the scake is a rather unfamiliar object and that artists have attempted to represent its motion with out having seen it. New York Times A. MALAY 8 AGILITY. An hour or so later, a ycung man, walki ng briskly down the street, was Water Care for Rats. A Country Gentleman correspondent has had great success with the following plan : Fill a barrel one-third full of bran and water, mixed stiff enough to hold a rat on it; let them feed a couple of nights, then make them another mess in the same larrel of nearly all water? When one goes in down Tgoes Mr. Rat, and the next, not knowing his brother's bad luck, follows suit. In the morning the barrel will be full if the rat supply holds out. A set of false teeth made of ivory by a New York dentist for George Washing ton and used bv him is on exhibition at the Patent Office in Washington, Southern Mexico. Near Puebla, Oaxaca and Acapulco gangs of hucksters can be seen coming along the sand roads at a steady trot, carrying bushel bags of vege tables, often grown at a distance or ten or twelve miles from market. Minus that handicap of farm produce those hardy half-breeds could easily keep up their trot all day and under the inspira tion of big gate money probably for a succession of days. Strange to say the two-legged pack mules are generally strict vegetarians. like the longshoremen of Constantinaple, who shoulder boxes which a New York drayman would declino to unload with out assistance. Archery has experienced a fad revival, but God has failed to save the mark of what tho British longbowmen of the fourteenth century would have called good marksmanship. In quick shooting improved fireanrs would, ot course, carry :,all prizes, but it might be questioned if our best sharpshooters could have broken the record of a first-class mediaval archer at a distance of two hundred yards. At that range and up to three hundred yards the author of "Ancient Sports and Pas times" informs us a good bowman deemed it a shame to miss a willow wand as thick as a man's finger. Swordsmanship has less rapidly de clined, and only fifty years ago Japan could boast of gladiators that could have held their own in the 1 toman arena. The Emperor Commodus is said to have forced a swordsman to use a foil of lead against his own broadsword, but the astonishment of the audience at that in novation would perhaps have been ex ceeded if a pugulist had ventured to enter the Circus Maximus with a pair, of boxin g gloves. So far from dr earning of such modifications ot the manly art the ancient thought a bare knuckle, fight rather too tame for the purpose of a public spectacle, and made the disciples of Pollux use the cestui, a heavy half- ring of iron fastened to the fiat by means of a leather strap. Tne result of a ten- round encounter with such implements can be only partly inferred from the de- ecription ol a urecian saunas wno corua strong contrast to the dark line of the upper parts and the neck, the darker line being very tharply defined. The collector's label indicates the color of the feet as "bluish, very light between the toes, under side black." The iris is "dark gray." Two other specimens agree very closely ' with the one described, except that in one the sides of the neck are con siderably darker in the middle. The bills are scarcely shorter,' but the tip even more abruptly truncate. The bill of the crested auk agrees in general shape with that of the adults in winter before the curious nuptial out growths have changed it so radically and is scarcely distin-. guishable from that of Simorhyn ehui pygmaus of tho corresponding age. Color, dark horny brown, lighter on terminal half of lower mand i b 1 e. The color of the ' downy plumage is a uniform dark,btnoky and somewhat brownish grey, scarcely lighter on the under parts. Ac cording to the col lector's label, "the slate color in front, black underneath." Iris, according to the same authority, "gray." Two other specimens are on the whole similar to that just described, but the under parts are slightly lighter and grayer. St. Louis Republic. How It reels to be Hit la Battle. When the lieutenant had disappeared from view, I turned my face to the front, bolstering my trembling hopes with the thought that this last victim was a shin ing mark, as I certainly was not. Be tides, I believed that the sharpshooters could not get the range on our end of the line. Then followed a "thu" close to me, and my next sens-lion was that I was prostrate on the ground, pierced through my left arm, heart, and spine with a rod, and pinned to the earth. This was the physical sensation, but, of course, was not tne lact. men inrougn my brain there flitted quickly a vision such as the thought of a battle most commonly brings to mind masses of warring men atruggling individaally for , the mastery. I seemed to be in the midst of the melee, and with all the indigna tion I could express was shouting to the men In gray. There, you have hit me ! - -Next I was being lifted, and supported by some one, and a voice said, "Ho isn t hit, but something is the matter." " Yes,", said another voire sternly, "he is bit, and as good as dead. Take him to the rear." I had so far recovered as to com prehend these remarks, and instantly con cluded that I was the subject of a prac tical joke. In a another moment I fras seized with the keenest pain I have ever experienced in my life, in the region where it bad seemed in my swoon that I was run through with a rod. ' Now, what had happened was this; I had been in a sitting posture, resting partly on the ground, partly upon my legs doubled beneath me, the left hand holding my weapon, the ar.n well braced across my chest so that the middle of the upper bone pressed against the heart. On my arm were two shirt sleeves, a jacket sleeve, and overcoat sleeve, and the over coat cape; and a rausket-bsll moving in the direction of my heart and spine that is, obliquely to the front of my per son had ticked the limb of a bush a few feet away, keeled over and struck flatwise on the arm, imbedding itself in the flannel and the flesh. Popular Science Monthly. CRSSTXD A CX. legs and feet are ora bv lumping to the ceiling and knocking his feet againBt the bells of a criu. oKandelier. but the best modern jumpers are th? ape-like natives of North- the further ad cm uuiuvommi - w a . . K;n harofrwnt nd unincum- I the woes oi a voung man irjmx w u hered with anvthine heavier than a short I the heritance of his brother, but baffled - A Strange Pet, It may be safely stated that Astoria ia the only city in the world that can boast of a tame sea lion.. During the fishing season of Jast year a, fisherman named Peter Andrews, employed by Devlin's cannery, in making his haul brought to the surface a baby sea lion in the net. The little creature was so helpless and bleated so plaintively that th? fisherman taking pity brought it ashore with bim. During the winter it was fed and became greatly attached to its master. This season the young sea lion is allowed to accompany the boat and follows, swim ming along astern, even as a dog will follow bis master. When the net ia hauled in the animal will come along side and bark until tt receives the allow ance of fish which the fisherman makes a practice of giving it at every haul. It is certainly a unique pet. Oregon As torian. Jumping Ejr. Place two V-shaped wineglasses of the I same size near the edge of a table. Ia the right-hand one put an egg, jost fit ting the rim of the glass. Holding the bases of the glasses firmly down, tne top rims touching each, other. Fastest Railroad Time oa Record. r The Empire State express on the New York Central recently made the fastest time ever recorded by an engine pulling a train. The speed was measured by Angus Sinclair, editor of Locomotive Engineering, who rode in a metallic box bolted to the engine with guages and testing appliances attached. The train, leaving New York, ran a little slower than its schedule time until Etaatsburg was reached. Then it put on a tremendous burst of speed. At the trees and fences rushed by In a continu ous blur the passengers who knew about the man in the little iron box wondered how he was standing it. When Albany was reached the passengers and the peo ple in the station crowded around the lo comotive and asked Mr. Sinclair how he felt. He said he lelt as if he sad been , flying. For four consecutive miles the speed was at the rate of seventy-eight miles an hour, the fastect recorded time ever made by a locomotive drawing a train on a r level track. The diagrams made from" the gauge showed the locomotive to be almost perfect as regards distribution of power. It developed 1600-hone power and consumed two and one-eight pounds of coal per horse power per hour. Mr. Sinclair is confident that with one car it could run one hundred miles an hour. The locomotive. No. 870, is the record breaker which, on the famous run to Buffalo on September 14, 4891," made the 143 miles to Albany in 140 minutes. With iu tender it weighs 100 tons. Its drivers are six and a halt feet in diame ter. Chicago Herald. tnnie and a Dair of linen trousers North America can claim the cham nlnmhin nf the wrestlini? ring, with Yorkshire and Switzerland second, but our most tolerant American cities would Ha Ant tn enforce the brutal sport limits asainst such wrestlers as the Athlete Milo. who had a trick of dislocating the spine of stubborn antagonists, in which way he killed so many of his rivals that at last nobodv ventured to accept his challenges. That formidable bruiser (another citizen of Bport-lovingf2rotona) is said to have played at tug-of-war with able-bodied horses and to have crushed pebbles' in his clinched fists, but his steer-carrying exploit is rendered less ia credible bv the feats of Dr. Winship. a Boston phvsician of slender physique. who by dint of constaut pr.ictice at least managed to lift 2900 pound. Professor by being unable to hod anybody xo identify his person, "i naa leeia once and could speak, but can only mumble now; my ears hang in s areas, my eyes are swollen out of sight; there was a time when I had a nose, but that time is past," , Pitching weights is a favorite pastime of the Albanian highlanders and there are villages, which pride themselves so much on the possession of a champion of that sort that they combine to rturchase his dispensation from the service of the Turkish Army. The hammer thrower of the Scottish High lands onco wero almost equally popular, nd there is no saving if the mere stimulant of prize competitions could not be msde to revive all the fun of the Olympic fes tivals. The yearly meetings (say in ths form of a May Festival) of our National Now, with a quick sharp breath, blow upon tha line where the egg and tfc irUss meet. The egg will jump to the other glass. With a little practice this can be done every time. . Be care ful to blow in a line with 'the left-hand glass, or the egg will jump In the wrong direction, and land on the table with disastrous results. Youth's Companion. The cities of Italy, the communes and the provinces sre thresteoed with political extinction as rUl as with flpuciaL rain. Lcxlartoa, Ky., and Lexlartoa, Xasa. It is curious that "Lexington," ths title of a British Lord, should have be come the slogan of the American Revolu tion, but not raore curious thsn the fsct that the first spot of ground on this con tinent named to commemorate the open ing battle of that struggle shoal I have been located beyond the confines of civ ilization, and in the heart of the far dis tant wilderness of Kentucky. Lexing ton, the metropolis of the blue-grass region, ii to-dsy the oldest public mon ument in existence to the first dead of the war of independence, and abe was toasted as the first namesake of Lexing ton. " Massachusetts, -at the centennial celebration of that battle. The beautiful Incident ot the naming of Lexington, Kentucky, which occurred early In June, 1775, waa witnessed by Simon Kenton and other noted pioneers. Longfellow was urged to make it the subject of a poem, and corresponded with the writer La regard to it,but he died.unfortunately, too soon for the story to be embalmed by him in immortal verse. Harper's alagaaine. 1 Wtat from pewter dishes." r;
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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June 16, 1892, edition 1
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