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VOL. IV.
PITTSBOUO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, OCTOBER 13, 1881.
NO. 5.
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Nature's Revelation.
One moruing, ere Hie sparkling dew,
From hoaveu's clouds distilled,
Bad lost the pure, resplendent bus,
With which each drop was tilled.
Ere sluggish sun his licanis poured out,
From placid sky ahove,
While nature seemed at peace througliotit
And tilled with tranquil love. ;
I rambled through a flowery dale,
Itapturously beholding,
Through woodlands' gloesy, verdant veil,
Olorio bright unfolding.
Bright budding blooms, with glory crowned
And brilliant tints snfTiiHed,
Wero njiouing an the zephyrs 'round
Their friigranco sweet diffused.
Triumphant lmrsts of rhapsody.
From ft-atlu red auupdera showed
The love that in their melodies
In sweetest cadence ilowed.
The leafy lwughs outspreading high,
In lavish verdure dn.ri-ul,
Were softly toning nature's sigh,
Ily balmy zephyrs pressed.
The rippling brook in winding way,
O'er mossy, rock -strewn bed,
Was babbling soft a plaintive lay,
By nature's fancy led.
Now brightly 'thwart the eastern Bky
A golden, pencilled ray
Bent halo grand to God ou high,
From sun ou azure way.
Iu dreamy cadence filiating by,
The coo of gentle dove,
Seemed inspiration from on high,
To teach that God wits love.
While sweet in love's humility,
Was perched the cooing dove,
My aoul in glad tranquility,
Kdow nature's God is love t
Il'nwlj Magazinv.
THREE VISITS.
Ou my first visit to tbe little town of
, in central Kentucky, I pot up at
tbe only hotel in the plaeo, and before
I left I became cognizent of the follow
ing facts : that tbe landlady of the
house had an only daughter, and that
a certain 'young lawyer who boarded
with them was in love with her.
That was not to be wondered at, tor
Nellie Easton was not only an intelli
gent, sreet-tempered girl, but was
bewilderingly beautiful. She came
nearer being what one would call a
" child-woman " than any one I ever
saw. There was something almost in
fantine in the arch innocence of expres
sion that lighted a countenance cast in
the most delicate mould ; and one felt
instinctively, while looking'at her, that
he would not endure many of the
storms of life.
The young lawyer, Edgar Mitchell,
Lad just graduated, and had been in the
town but a few weeks. Of all the awkward-looking
men that ever I saw he
was the worst. What amount of talent
he possessed one could not tell ; for his
gilt-edged sign, swinging to and fro in
front of his office, had as yet brought
him no clients. He was snubbed by
the majority of the girls, and Nellie, for
sweet pity's sake, had been kiud to him.
She did not love him, but the young
man repaid her kindness with a devo
tion that was plain to every one.
I left the place after a few days, and
did not return for a year. When I saw
Nellie I noticed a change in her that I
could scarcely explain at first sight. It
was not that she was more gracefully
beautiful than before, but that there was
a proud, happy look in her sunny blue
eyes, and an exuberance of spirits that
she had not previously possessed.
I understood why this was un hour or
so later when tho "lawyer" came in.
Her child-face revealed the secret. She
had learned to love him. And now I
did not wonder at it. The year bad
wrought wonderful changes in him. He
had grown a fine-looking, self-possessed
man. I learned also that he had aston
ished the whole country with not only
his knowledge of law, but his great elo
quence. He had been offered a partnership
with an eminent lawyer in a neighbor
ing city, had accepted it, and within a
week or so was to leave.
I learned from Nellie that they were
engaged, and that the wedding would
take place in.a year from that time, and
I was given an invitation to attend. Be
fore I left on this, my second visit, I
conoluded that the couple were certain
ly very devoted to eaoh other, but that
the man was'too innately selfish to be
trusted with the care of so fragile a
flower as was sweet Nellie Easton.
Another year passed ; I took the cars
to the little town of E in time to
spend a few days there before the nup
tials took place.
" Am I in ttme for the' wedding?" I
asked of one of Nellie's friends whom I
met in the hall on my arrival at Mrs.
E as ton's. .
" Wedding f in a puzzled tone.
" Oh, I had forgotten ; this was the time
set for it Bat it will never take place.
Have you not heard ? He broke off the
engagement six months ago, and Nellie,"
in a lower tone, " never got over it ;
he has been ill a long time, and is not
expected to live another day."
Why did Mr. Mitchell break his
word?" I asked.
"Oh, be got up in the world so fast
tUt it spoiled him. He knew that be
bn4 tMqihfi ft position to win the band
of somo girl with a fortune, and hod the
heartlessness to tell Nellie so, ami ask
her to release him. He told her that he
loved her bettor than hetver could love
another woman, but he was willing to
sacrifice his happiness to his ambition.
Ho thought, probably, that he would
not marry for years ; when ho did, it
would be to enhance his porilion iu
life. She released him, and he has never
been bock since.
" Tho wretch I " I muttered, as I went
on up to my room. ' Truly, man is a
noble creature, but woo to tho luckless
woman who chances to bo nt his mercy !
lie will plant a foot upon her neck, and
with a sword's point again.it her break
ing heart, cooly exult iu her helpless
ness ; and all the more exult if the poor
victim is nnublo to huto him."
I went down to Nellie's room after
awhile ; I know as soon as I saw her
that her days wero numbered. . I tried
to speak words of encouragement to
her, but felt that in the presence of
such woe as hers they were a mockery.
Her mother was sitting by the side of
tho bed, weepiug.
" I was tolling mamma," she said to
me, in a voice so low and weak that I
had to stoop to catch the words, " that
I should not live much longer, and that
I want to see Edgar boforo I die. She
does not think it will do, but it eon
harm no one, and oh ! " with a pitiful
clop of the little hands, " I cannot die
without seeina, him once more. He will
come if I send for him, for he loves me
yet. Talk with mamma, and urge her
for me."
I thought with Nollie, that there was
nothing wrong in sending for him, and
finally talked Mrs. Easton into it. Nellie
preferred to send her cousin, a young
man, for him, so thoro could bo 110
chance of tho mespope failing to reach
its destination. So ho started for the
city on the next train. It would bo
impossible for them to reach E be
fore sun-down tho next day.
Nellie soenied to rally after tho mes
senger had gone, and as tho shadows
deepened into darkness she fell asleep,
and slept peacefully till after mid
night. She bad asked me to sit np with her,
so I was present when she awakened.
" I have been dreaming of him," the
said to me, smiling. "Iloisnot here,
is he? " looking about tho room. " It
seemed so real ! "
After a few uiinntes sho asked,
"Is it after twelve yet?"
" Yes," I answered.
" Oh," her face becoming radient, and
both bands coming joyously together,
" then ho will le here lo-day ! "
Tho to-day " provod a long one to
tho poor sufferer. As tho night drew
on, every minute seemed to tho waiting
girl like an eternity.
We had, at hor request arranged her
hair prettily, and raised her to a half
sitting position. A light shawl of somo
bright color had been thrown around
her shoulders. " For I do not want to
look ghost-like," she said.
I watched her closely, fearing that
the unnatural tension of her nerves
would give way beforo her lover's com
ing, and that she would bo too prostra
ted to recognize hiui. The cold moon
beams began to lie whitelyupon tho floor
of the room, and 1 knew that they would
soon arrive. Even thon the cars wore
coming. I looked toward the bed, and
saw that Nellie, too, had been listening
for the sound and heard it. The roses
were Btealing into her cheeks, ond she
ptitono little baud up to her head, and
thon tried to arrange, her shawl about
her. I recognized tho woman in tho
act, and went to her, saying,
"You are all right, Nellie; don't ex
ert yourself. Ho will think you are
beautiful."
" Ah ! do yon think so? He will find
me so changed ! "
Tho ,hall door opens, and tbe foot
steps of a man canio slowly through tho
hall and up the stairs. Her quick ear
caught the sound, and she sank back
with a moan and cried out,
" God help me he hasn't come ! "
I reached her just as the man who
was sent for her lover came in. Her face
had grown livid. Her eyes scanned his
face.eagerly ; her lips were quivering.
" lie was net there? " she asked.
Her cousin knelt besido the bed, took
one little hand in his, and answered
hesitatingly,
" Yes, Nellie, he 'was there ; I saw
him."
" Then he was ill ? Oh, don't tell me
that lie. was not, and did not come to
me when I am dying for his sake ! "
"Oh, Nellie, Edgar could not come.
He would have almost given his life to
have done so."
" Then he is ill ? "
No answer.
" For God's sake, tolljme I Don't you
see that your cruel words are killing
me?"
"Oh, Nellie, try'to bear what you
compel me to tell you. ne could not
come because it was his wedding
day." There came a look r f untold agony
in her eyes, and the white lips moaned
out,
" His wedding-day ? Married while I
am dying?"
She lay very quiet for a little time,
and her cousin slipped away. Her still
ness frightened me, and I sent fer her
mother. Sho leaned over her daughter,
calling,
" Nellie, darling ! "
Mamma, is it you ? I cannot see."
We knew that she was dying, and tho
mother wept convulsively.
"Oh, mamma," opening her eyes
again, " don't mourn so. You will come
to me after a little while."
The mother tried to stille her sobs.
Colder and colder grew tho hands in
our clasp ; whiter and whiter the
dear face grew. She moved her lips.
I put my head down' and caught the
broken woids,
" Tall Edgar that I loved, him
to tho last."
Another minute, and tho poor, ach
ing heart was ut rest.
The next day I left E , and have
never been back. But on a visit to
T , lately, the city where Edgar
Mitchell is practicing law, I inquired
particularly after him. I learned that
the old saying, " as you sow, so
shall you reap," was apt to prove a true
one iu his case, nis wife had dishon
ored him ; he had grown reckless, and
lost the greater part of his fortune ;
and his domestic and financial troubles
hud so affected his mind that he was no
longer capable of pleading tho most
ordinary cases. In the prime of life he
was a wreck. WareIt Mnifuinfi.
Not ou Speaking Terms.
In tho San Fraucisco custom house
there was employed as night watchman
a character called Barney McGlone.
McGlone was known as a good humored,
ready witted fellow, but having had the
misfortune to incur the enmity of his
superior officer, tho flatter sought
eagerly with persistent malice to find
grounds'suffieient upon which to reo
ommend Barney's removal. Night after
night ho watched, pouncing down at
unexpected hours, only to find Barney
vigilant at his post. Not a word would
pass between them, the officer always
retiring bullied and mortified. At length
his persistency was rewarded. Barney
had been putting in his time at "poker,"
instead of strengthening himself by
sleep for his weary vigil from midnight
until morn, and tho night being very
chilly, ho wrapped himself in his ovcr
cont and tried to steal fitful snatches of
sleep, ho) ing the night would be too
cold for his relentless pursuer to con
tinue his hunt. lie reasoned directly
opposite from tho oflieer, who, guided
by tho music of Barney's snoring, with
malignant joy stood watching the
sleeper in triumph a moment, and then
culled : "MeGlono !" No answer. "Me
CUm ho' shouted. Barney awoke
with a cold chill running down his back
at the sound of his enemy's voice, but
kept silent, and simply stored at his in
terlocutor. "McGlone !" ho again
shouted, "I've caught you asleep." Bar
ney, now thoroughly alive to his danger,
exclaimed : "You did not, sorr." "Then
why didn't you answer me when I called
to you ?" "Because, be jabers, I warn't
on shpakin' turms wid you, sorr." Bar
ney was reported, but his explanation
us given was accepted for truth, and his
miraculous presence of mind saved him
his position.
Pearls iu Tennessee.
A new industry h:is sprung up
in Rutherford county, Tenu. A cor
respondent says :
At first only a few persons could bo
found wading iu tho river and assi
duously hunting mussels which yielded
lino pearls, which wero readily sold.
Now not less thsn 500 people oro en
gaged daily in raking tho bottom of the
stream, delving down in the mud for
mussels, which are piled along the
bunks, opened and critically examined
for tho treasures contained in many of
them. It will not be long before a
mussel may not bo found in the river in
tho locality mentioned. Thenfn'Mu's
informant says that one pearl was se
cured that brought H0 in New York.
The general range of value, howover,
was from 50 cents to 823.
A lteiiiitifnl Science.
Astronomy is a beautiful science We
are told that if a railway was run from
the earth to tho nearest fixed star, and
the fare was one penny for every hun
dred miles, and if you were to take a
mass of gold to the ticket ofliee equal
to the national debt or 8:1,800,000,
000 it would not bo snlticient to pay
for a ticket to the nearest fixed star
aforesaid. If this be the case, it matters
very little to us whether such a railroad
is ever constructed. It would be mighty
discouraging to go to the ticket office
with a mass of gold equal to $1,800,000,
000 and be informed that the fare was
85,C7a,0:V2,00O. If the ticket agent
wouldn't trust till we got back we'd be
compelled to forego the trip. Norris-
Herald,
The Edison Electric Light Company
is filling an order for civht hundred
electric lamps for lighting the great hall
of the opera bouse is Farif .
THE HOME IXHTOK.
Milk Diet lor I lie Kirk.
Let me feed a sick patient, and who
will may give the medicine. In all ill
ness fur more depends upon the proper
feeding of the sick person than is gen
erally believed. If the strength is sns
taiued from the beginning by nourish
ment, given judiciously, there is a better
prosp.et of its being equal to the de
mand that must bo made upon it later.
Begin, then, from the first to give
liquid nourishment in small quantities
frequently. It is more easily swallowed
and digested than anything so'.id, how
ever delicately prepared, and a-i there
is generally thirst, it is, as u rub1, readily
taken. Tho chief reliance must be
placed on milk. One pint, is equal to a
full-sized mutton chop, and it is incom
parably more Donn'shing than animal
broth, not excepting beef tea, that has
too long held u nitik to which its merits
are far from entitling it.
Boiling meat coagulates t he albumen,
tho principal nutritive element, con
verting it into a solid which is carefully
eliminated when the broth is strained,
leaving behind a mass of shreds float
ing in water. Milk, on the contrary,
contains fourteen per cent, of solid
matter, and is rich in tho constituents
necessary to supply the wants of the
system. One-eighth part lime-water
added to the milk will prevent it from
disagreeing with the most fastidious
stomach. Where there is no nausea a
small tumblerful may be given every two
hoars. If there is the slightest te n
dency to sickness it must be omitted
for an hour or two, and then resumed
in very small quantities, a tablespoon
ful or less being given, iced, or as cold
as possible, every half hour until the
disagreeable feeling has passed away.
If the sick person is fond of milk, he
will tako it for some timo without grow
ing weary of it ; when it begins to pall
the nurse must tax her ingenuity to
make a change. If stimulant is ordered,
it may bo put iu the milk. A teaspoon
fnl of sugar, with a few drops of essence
of vanilla, alternated with essence of
lemon or rose water, makes a pleasant
variety. If tea and coffee are permitted
by tho physician, enough of either to
flavor the m'lk may be added without
producing any injurious effect.
When tho yolk of an egg cannot be
borne, tho white may be given with per
fect impunity. Alhunior.i.od milk is
prepared by shaking in a wide mouthed
bottle or jar one piut of milk with tho
whites of two eggs. These are so thor
oughly incorporated bv this process
that few would suspect their presence,
and tho mixture is much more nourish
ing than tho milk alone?. A delicious
egg-nog is mado by beating tho yolk of
an egg separately and adding to it three
teaspoonfuls of sugar, with the juice of
half a leuim squeezed on it ; when well
mixed tho milk is poured in ; tho white
beaten to a stiff froth with a small tea
spoonful of sugar and a few drops of
lemon juice is heaped ou the top or
beaten through tho milk, according to
tho fancy of the maker. Orange juice
may bo substituted for'tho lemon, or
sherry used to give it flavor when stim
ulaut is allowed. Albnnienizcd water
is a refreshing and at tho same time a
nourishing drink. It is prepared like
tho milk, by shaking together the whites
ol two eggs aud a pint of cold water,
and flavored with lemon juice, a Rlice of
lemou being left floating in the glass.
Cold toast-water can be used to make it.
Sometimes when an invalid is tired of
milk iu every other form he will take it
in tho shape of ice-cream ; not tho de
leterious compound consisting princi
pally of corn-starch, and in which the
cream is conspicuous by its absence,
bnt wholesome home-made ice-cream,
with nothing in it but good, rioli cream,
pure sweet milk, white of eggs the
yolks should be omitted except forcon
valoseents a little sugar and flavoring.
A thin boiled custard, made with two
eggs to a pint of milk and given'eold, is
a pleasant change. Oatmeal, Indian
meal and barley gruel, mado with
plenty of milk, aro desirable articles of
diet. If chocolate or cocoa can be
borne, a little) added to the milk will
disguise the taste of which the palate
has grown weary. In short, milk being
the staple, there is practically no limit
to tho various ways in which a clever
nurse can disguise it, to the great com
fort and benefit of her pstient, who
would be more surprised than any one
if he were told ho was living principally
on milk and eggs. Mr. Sroril in Chris
tian I'tiion,
An eye to business : Ous Do Mnith
went into a cigar store on Anstin
avenue and purchased a cigar for a
nickel. On lighting it ho took occa
sion to put about half a box of. matches
in his vest pocket. "Look here,"
said tho tobacconist, "next time you
just bring your matehbs along and I'll
give you a cigar.
Tho financial problem : An exchange
prints "rules to discover spurious bank
notes." But wo don't want to discover
bank notes of that description. It is
the genuine kind we are looking for,
and rules of diseovering,everal thous
and of thoit Would b very acceptable,
FACTS FOR THE ITKOl'S.
Frogs continue to grow for live years.
It is said that the Emperor Zeno was
buried alive.
The earliest known nails wero made of
copper.
In the curly days of printing books
the paper was only printed on one sido
and the blank sides pasted together.
London was first governed by port
reeves, changod into bailiffs by Bichard
I., nnd into mayors by John.
The Druids used to teach that the
fertility of tho fields depended upon
the riches they themselves possessed.
Stanzas wero) first introduced from
the Italian into French poetry about
l.'sti thence transferred into the Eng
lish. In 151 "cages and stocks," fur the
punishment of offenders, were ordered
to be set upiu very ward of the city of
London.
Hippocrates, bom at Cos, -lOO !. C.,
was the first person to apply himself to
the study if physic as the solo business
of his life.
It was Etnperor Charles V. who in
vented tho titlo of "your majesty,"
soveteigns having been previously ad
dressed as "your grace."
Edward the Confessor was the first
monarch of England who used a seal
in his charters. This is tho origin of
the broad seal of England.
The lake that has the highest eleva
tion of any in the world is Green Lake
in Colorado. Its snrface is 10,232 feet
above tho level of tho sea. The water
is as clear as crystal, and largo rock
masses and a petrified forest are dis
tiuctly visible at tho bottom. The
branches of tho trees are of dazzling
whiteness, as though cut in marble.
Salmon-trout swim among them. The
ako is two hundred feet deep.
Many a smoker wonders what the
letters "T. D.," on a clay pipe mean,
and somo one has found that they stand
for Timothy Dexter. "My Lord Tim
othy," tho eccentric Newburyport man
who endowed a clay-pipe factory, wrote
a book with a few pages of punctuation
marks in tho back, and insited on view
ing a mock burial of lr'mself, at which
he whipped his wife because she did
not weep enough.
The Tower of thel'ress.
One of the old-time editors of
Michigan was boasting the other day
that he had never been sued for libel,
or attacked in his sanctum, but he could
call many narrow escapes. Twenty-five
years ago he was running a red hot
paper on tho line of tho Michigan Cen
tral railroad. A man named Carsou,
who was running for somo county office,
was given a bad racket, and the editor
received a note that if he had anything
more to say ho might expect to receive
a good ponnding. He had a still more
bitter attack tho next week, aud tho
paper was hardly mailed beforo in
walked Carson, tho candidate, accom
panied by a brother aud two cousins.
The four wero strapping big fellows,
ami each was armed with a horsewhip.
The two compositors and the "devil"
got out with all speed. Ho realized
the situation at. once, and began :
"Wulk in, gentlemen ; I presume you
have come to horsewhip me ?"
"We have," they answered.
"Very well. Havo you thoroughly
considered the mutter ?"
"It doesn't need any consideration,"
replied Carsou. "You have lied about
m and I'm going to lick you within an
inch of your life !"
"Just so, my friend, bnt first hear
what I have to Ray. Did you ever hear
of tho press being stopped because the
editor was cowhided ?"
"1 tlunno.'te
"Well, you never did. Lick mo all
yon choose aud my paper comes out
week nfter week just the same. The
power of tho press is next to tho lever
which moves tho universe. It makes
cr brakes parties, builds up or tears
down, plants or destroys. Aggravate
tho editor and the press becomes a
sword to wound and kill. Wallop me
if you will, but next week I'll come out
more bitter than ever."
There is an embarrassing silence right
here, and the face of each horse-whip-per
had an anxious look.
"It will go out to tho world to
America, Canada, England, France
aye ! clear to Jerusalem, that the Carson
family of this country live on roots and
johnny-cake ; that they stole a dog from
a blind man ; that they murdered a ped
dler for a puirof two-shilling suspen
ders ; tlmt thewomrn are club-footed
and tho men work their ears when they
sing ; that the ."
"Whit is tho regular subscription
price to the HernUlT' interrupted
Curson.
"Only twelve shillings a year.
'Tut us four down."
"Very well six dollars that's cor
rect. Bun in and sec me all of you,
and if any of you want to see any of my
Detroit exchanges I shall be only too
glad to serve you. Frm Preg.
Lieutenant Flipper is anxious to joiu
tbe Howgate expedition but doesn't
know where to addi it.
Anecdote of Calhoun. 1
Few statesmen have wielded such a
powerful personal influence as John C.
Calhoun. His hold upon the young
men of the South was wonderful in its
tenacity. He so fascinated them that
they became his enthusiastic disciples,
aud were proud to call hira master.
His sway over tho conservative edu
cated c'us clergymen, doctors, judges,
lawyers, jj u i uulists, was as powerful us
over the young men. Ho was not a
man of tht jicnil. From them his habit
of abstruse thought and the severe logic
of his utterances seemed to divorce
him. Yet ever, the uneducated clus-es
loved him. They did not understand
the man, but they trusted the states
man, uud obeyed the h ader.
An anecdote shows ;he characteristic
power of the j.M''ut South Carolinian,
and pcrhups indicates one of the quali
ties of his character that gave him in
fluence over the common people.
When Mr. Calhoun began his politi
cal career, a fierce struggle raged in
South Carolina. One party sought to
overthrow an aristocratic feature of the
State Constitution. The prop'-ud
change was earnestly resisted by the
Conservatives, and tho contest excited
the whole community.
Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Yaney were the
leaders of tho hostile parties, Euh
was the idol of his bund. They met in
public debate, and then followed one
of the strangest scenes in American p. 1
itis. Mr. Yaucy publicly confessed
himself a conveit to his rival's views,
aud joined his party.
Yancy's frit lids were almost struck
dii'ub with surprie. One of them, an
eccentric man kuowu its " Uncle Jacob
Muniu," was a violent partisan, who
could see nothing light in tin enemy
aud nothing wrong in a friend, lie
loved Yaney, and hated Calhouu. When
he heard that his friend aud leader had
gone over to his personal foe and polit
ical enemy, he swore, with much blas
phemy, that he would thrash Calhoun.
Straightway he started lo execute his
threat. Finding Calhoun, who. hud boon
informed of Marvin's vow, walking on
the piazza of his hotel, the angry parti
san took a stand where his enemy would
pass him.
Mr. Calhoun approached, bowed
spoke a kiud word of salutation, held
out his hand, which was not taken and
then with u bland smile passed on.
"Uncle Jacob" was spell-bound.
Several times Calhoua passed and re
passed, each timo with the same gen le-
manly falutation. At last, the unman
ned " Jacob " c juld no longer withstand
the genial advances of his great adver
sary. Impulsively ho grasped Calhoun's
hand, and telling him his errand, beg
ged his pardon.
Arm-in-arm the two walked the piazza
while Mr. Calhoun, iu language adapted
to "Uncle Jacob's" understanding,
cautiously pie-sod his political view.
The lierco pii'lisun became un other
of Calhoun's converts, and after that
one of the fiercest of Us followers.
Youth' x C diiiji (;'...
lit iil Worshipers.
An interesting ucentitit ("ays St.
.'Mies' Uut'-Hr) of tho Yezidis or devil
worshipers is given by M-ijor Trotter,
consul for Kardistan, in a memorandum
on the different races inhabiting his
consular district, just printed iu the
further correspondence respecting the
condition of the populations of Asia
Minor Syria. The devil worshipers are,
says Major Trotter, a wry curious race
of people, who nre scattered in groups
about the consular district to the num
ber of about 'JO, 1 1 Ml. They universally
speak the Kurdish language. They are
believed by some to be' the icmnants of
tho lost tribes. A Syriae manuscript
of date A. D. 12":), contains the state
ment that tho Yezidis, or Izidis, are of
Hebrew descent. The great peculiarity
about them is their religion, which is
based on the idea that there are two
spirits of nearly but not quite equal
power, tho good nnd the evil. At
present the good is in tho ascendant,
but tho turn of the other may some day
come ; and as the good spirit cannot
from his nature possibly do them h irm,
it is in their opinion of great impor
tance to be on good terms with tho evil
spirit. Their religion is, however,
mixed up with several forms of Christi
anity, and they use, it is said, the rite
of baptism and make tho sign of the
cross. Their religious center is at
Sheikh Adi, a village in tho moiipt-uns
east of Mosul. The Yezidis hate been
accused by the Sunnito Moslems, who
detest and despise them, of the perpe
tration of the most horrible orgies dur
ing their nocturnal ceremonies ; but
Major Trotter believes the accusations
to bo false. These who know them
best peak rather favorubly of them
than otherwise. They are, however,
famous freebooters. Tho Turkish offi
cials, in ordor to bring them under con
scription, insist that they are Moslems,
and enroll them us soldiers in the dis
tricts where they are mostly found.
Their habits are generally agricultural
and pastorial, and tho devil worshipers,
whatever may be their merits, are not a
well-eJuoaUd race.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A new song is entitled : "My Dar
ling's Tresses Shine Like Gold.
There's music in the hair.
Even with tho extra gas supplied by
five journalists, Frofessor King's bal
loon failed to float in the ambient air.
The reigning monarch of Abyssinia
cuts off the noses of those who tako
snuff and the lips of those who smoke.
Dr. Maudhley, the emiuent English
neurologist, says that "the true -ite,
seat, or organ c f tho mind is the whole
body."
Detroit should be ii healthy city. One
of its newspapers sa; s : "We have only
ubniit MO doctors to the H hi patients
now."
An Indiana woman is the proud owuer
of a wushbourd over one hundred years
old. W'oshVjurda never wear out in
Indiana.
It is Sir John Lubbock's opinion that
bees are, in a rough kiud of way, sensi
tive to color, uud that their favorite
color is blue.
Forty-nine, firms of Philadelphia will
txhibit. specimens of machinery and
Manufactured goods at the Atlanta Cot
ion Exposition.
It isanneiiiiced officially by the health
authorities at New Orleans that thuro
has not been a single case of yellow
lever in that city this year.
(t): t ii Victoria converses on books
and painting in the Italian language,
on general subjects in French, criticises
music iu English, aud reads in German.
The stage settings of Hooley's Thea
ter, in Chicago, are so arranged on Sun
days r.s to represent a pulpit, and the
congregation that gathers is very large.
The Philadelphia Korth Am-ricmi says
that the number of commercial travelers
in the employ of the merchants of that
city is at the present timo not less than
s,(liiO.
Charles Deter walked five miles for
the purpose of killing his wife, at York
town, Iud. Finding her with some
visitors, whom he was loo polite to dis
turb, he committed suicide instead.
Supervisor Coat es, a wealthy and in
fluential citizen of t'runstou, N. J.,
dropped dead ou reading the headlines
of a morning paper announcing tho
death of President Garfield.
There are twenty thousand acres of
land to tah man, woman and child of
the Crow Indians. The herds ure large,
the grazing is good, tho Indians are
friendly and are becoming rich.
The largest boat on the gve.it lakes is
being built at Cleveland, Ohio. It is to
be of irou, :i2 feet in length, .'!!) feet
breadth of beam, and 25 feet depth of
hold, and to have a copacity of :i,200
tons.
Dean Stanley used to say that until
his marriage he had never really lived.
Lidy Augusta, his wife, was a very plain
old maid when he married her ; but she
was good, cultivated aud pleasant a
woman of the world in tho very best
sense.
The Chameleon.
In u lecture nt the London. Zoologi
cal Garden by St. George Mivart, somo,
curious thincs wero told of the chame
leon, nis eyes move with completo
independence of each other ; one may
be directed upward and forward, while
the other may gaze downward and back
ward. Its tongue is a wonderful organ,
six or seven inches long, with a cup
like depression at tho tip. Its limb
movements aro very slow and deUberat.o ;
tbos5 of its eyes and tongue, on tho
contrary, are remarkably rapid.
Tho chameleon lives largely upon
flicR, and at first sight it would seem
impossible that so apparently torpid and
sluggish an animal should be able to
reach and seize creatures active and
possessing the power of flight. At the
warm season, when the chameleon's ap
petite is keen, it may often be observed
when -i fly has been introduced into its
cage to move abont with comparative
celerity, attentively watching tho fly's
movements, now with one nd now with
the other eye. Sooner or later the fly
settles for a few seconds somewhere
within bulf a foot's distance of tho cha
meleon's head. Then the chameleon's
month may bo observed to open and the
apex of the tongue to protrude. In an
instant it has shut again and tho fly has
disappeared. In fact the chameleon
has spit, out, as it were, its enormously
extensible tongno upon tho insect,
secured it, bv tho viscid secretion with
which the tongue is coated, and again
withdrawn that organ together with the
prey, bnt the whole has been effected
with such amazing rapidity that the
observer's eye cannot follow the move
ments of the reptile's tongue. It is
projected and withdrawn without the
slightest noise, but in tho twinkling of
an eye. It is this tongue which is, as
it wero, the center cf tho chameleon's
organization, and this tongue-movement
is tho very essence of its existence.
Without it the animal's life would be im
possible, while the very slowness and
deliberation of its other movemonts are
a gain, since they enable tbe chameleon
to advance upon its prey within shooting
distance without alarming it.
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