STfy Chatham Record.
H. A. LONDON, Jr.,
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PITTSIM)1U CHATHAM CO., N. C., DKCKMIJKU C, 1883.
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Better than Gold.
Better than grandeur, better thin poM,
Hum rank and title a thousand loid,
la a healthy hxly and a mind at ease
And simple pleasure that always pleas;
A heart that can fct-1 fur another's ',
Wilh sympathies large enoneh to enfold
All men a liroihers, is heller than K-dd.
Better thun gold is a con-eie:iio clear,
Thon-li toiling for bread in tin humble Fphcre,
Donley lIe-e I with content am! health,
Cut i-l ly Ihn lusts and car. -j 1 wenMi,
Ixiwly living and lolly diongl.t
Adorn nnd enn ililc n poor man's cet.
Fur m'n I and morula in nature's ' m
Are lliu ncmi'iie tests 1 1 n c,entlcii.. e..
Ulster tliKH cold is the sweet rep mn
Of the animijl lui! I.mi line lab r 1 1 e.
Letter than Bold the poor man'n tJvep,
And tile biltn that diopson I n shnu'ecrs deep
B:in , letp'ti;j dian;;lit on the downy bed,
Where luxury pillows its aelnn head,
The toiler fciu plu oplalo d em
A shutter routw to the. Ian 1 ol dreams.
lietter tlmi -;oll is a thinking nen I,
That in the realm f Look call fi.i 1
A 'r. asm inirpa-iilin; Ati-tialian ere,
And live with the great a id yoml of yore.
Tilt! ::(' li'Ie llll.l tile p .el's lay,
1 he uloru s of I'lnplr-H ns-cl uwny ;
'Pie world' treat die. m will thin nnf I I
And yield a pie.. sine lh tier than fcM.
lietter tliD Kol'l i 11 e '' f ii lemio
Where all the fiuid" ciao- .fi'i come,
'lhe (.lirinc of love, tuc l e ivi n i l ii'e.
Hiillowed hy ninther, or oter, m- wiln.
IIowc. r-r linmlitc the home iMiy lie.
tn tried i'li u row hy In avn's ilnvoe,
'J he hi. .. 'lu.-' thai never weie I o-aplit or so'A
And venter there uro liet'er th in (J'lld.
A Lesson in Obedience;.
S'iii was all alone!
It was quite a new imperii mo to
i otty, tli.s hoii.-ekoi -j i i 5 business.
Kl.i' had thinlie.l it ;uial "ViT
"llumly IIoiimUi ihts," "I'on.j.p li.-n-sivc
rHil;-i;imu" ami "lloiiif-tiiiiiii-s"
lttit sho lia 1 iifM-r ha I a:iv jua lii al
ept'ii. ii"e lnfoic. Atnl now, t.p in
thfP W.ll Vie lis the litllllcf tli'lltf-itit:
;il':'aii was uticsi" i ti.-lly I'larfil in Jut
li ui Is. ami liurs aloni'.
Hieliktil flu.- ivU a:vl Die river;
l:o iiie.iiii '.vs all M.irr.'tl witli ilaisit s:
an. I tho 1. 'tir. l.nv lai inhoii-o, witii its
nvl 1 rii-k rIiini:ii- ta'-'i; its tiolHses
ail la'ivlint; w it t!;e wciu'ltt of vines;
t:.e olil stone-wailcil .anli'ii, wIhto
nt'cnin;' iiar.tnts h:i!i niliv
r.n.riTs. ami the prei'ii fj. oi l" iries
M'l iin il to alisoih the MTV "Weelin ss i 1
tin- Minsliino iut'i t!;i ir tran.-l'p tut
h' arts.
Tn Iht iiiiiul it was ai!".i! ni . crthan
t!;i' it v-i'at, with t!ie hi!. Ktiian ycliinir.
t!i' haiiil-or.uan ilronin. tin; cvi r!a-i-iiiiC
ilotuls tf tlust. Aii'l ttfilay, when
Aunt Tin mis wautel to onto hear her
favorite filler holil forth at eainp-iiH'ct-iiiji,
liotty volim'' er"l tn stay ;t:il iT'-t
the ilimtf-r I t I!t '.il ii atnl liankin. 1m r
I wo tall full ins.
'J.a, cliil I." saM Aunt Thdiiis, "ijr.n
don't know noihin' a' out ronkin'."
"Jiut iiulioil I do," a cvi ratnl
Dotty. "I fan make a fhickon
f ft. asco as w. II as y.tt. Aunt Thi'tiiy.
I watcht'd thf way yon did it last
Saturday; an I I knuir 1 can turn out
it lii. t-t l.i-s chi-riT tart."
Wfll." said Aunt Tin-mis it little
d 'lil tfttlly, "iinyhnw, there':; plenty if
p i d ryedin-ad and . new milk, and
nohody needn't to tt;tfc on t tint .
And he .sine. Dotty, yon keep the doors
l-nlted, mid don't let, tramps in, and
don't f r'i'l that lirood of yoiini;
turkeys in the larn eliatnlier, and Mow
th - dinner horn tit twelve precisely;
a. id don't on no aceoimt leave the
i.tilk-rooin door open, for that new cat
is the thcivinest i-reeter you ever did
"(h, I'll take cure!" said Dotty, with
the reckless audacity of ignorance.
"Everything shall lm ipiili--- it:te
ripht! You'll see. Aunt Themis."
And after the old lady had departed,
with many misgivings, Dotty drew a
long breath of rapture, and executed
an impromptu dance, in the miildU' of
the kitchen lloor.
"(inly think!" she said, addressing
the cat in the corner "the whole
house all to myself! Won't I pet a
f-imerh dinner for Iteuln-n and liankin?
I'll make a inirhi'jitc tart, and ice
ci e tin, and vanilla puffs, and thoeolato
t ake, and I'll try my hand at nioi-k-turtlo
Fottp, and cream candy, and
black toffee! And liow 1 will sur
prise, them! And as for 1n!tinr the
doors, how utterly ridiculous it would
be to bhtit out the beaut il'.d sunshine,
itnd the Imtterllies, and the sweet
Bi-ented air! This house always smells,
like blue mould when Aunt Themis is
liere; and of course nobody could get
in while 1 tun here!"
(So Dotty skimmed the pans for
cream to make the ice cream, and
stirred up the vanilla puffs, and prated
chocolate, for tho cake, and put the
two lat, little white thickens into tho
pot for the fricassee; and then, feeling
herself every inch a hoti i-keeper, she
frisked away up stairs to make tho
beds.
Hut there was no question of beds,
when once she was up stairs, where a
1ipe old rhest of some i'a;'k-st.lined
,-- i ttood Ten, near the landing.
"The old oak chest!" cried Dotty,
who was full of romance as a white
clover blossom is of Mvcetncss. "And
to think that Aunt Themis never let
me look into it befire!"
There was nothing very particular,
after all, in it. (inly stuffy-smelling
blankets, a moth-eaten gown or two,
the bras buttoned military coat in
which I'ncle Amaniah dead these ten
years had been wont to "rally" on
training days.
"Pshaw!" said Potty. "Thero
ought to have been a forg tten will
tln-re, or a skeleton, at the very least.
It's a humbug, that old chest."
Jut -is this reflection passed through
her mind, a whining, nasal Voice
sounded at the bottom of the little
wooden stairway, which wound up
like a corkscrew from below.
"Any old clothes to exchange for
beautiful china vases, ladyv Any
cold victuals for a poor man?"
lie was a stalwart, Mack-browed
fellow, with villainous, slitdike eyes,
iind a I altered velveteen suit; and
Potty's heart stool still with terror
for a second.
Ch, if she ha I only obeyed her Aunt
Themis and locked up those doors!
"Xo!" she sa il, shortly, "(in away."
"Don't be hard on a poor fellow,
mis!" whined the man.
And Dotty was quite certain that
she saw tin-spout of Aunt Themis'
Id solid silver cream jug protruding
from the flaps of his ragged Vt lveteett
pocket. At the satin', moment, he
begin asec tiding the stairs wilh
insolent deliberation.
In an instant all the doubts, the
dreads, the possibilities, the heri'ors of
the situation, glanced across i tolly's
mind.
Ileub.-ii and liankin were in the dis
tant meadow cutting grass; the tin
horn, by im-ans of which she usually
siimmoiie 1 the, it, was hanging up
down stairs at the back of tin; kitchen
d tor.
Not a neighbor lived within sight or
ca'1 S id hero she was at this
stea.ihy faced brute's mercy. Would
hegitn.i? Would ie- murder her?
What was to become of Aunt Themis'
gold bead- and IJi-nben's new breast
pin, brides ail tho nice old silver
which had d- se -n.b ,1 to them from
(Iratidiiiotiier i biii'i t
Xo," sad Dotty to herself; "for
tnyseli 1 do not care Hut the silver
sh.ill be protected!"
With a quick glimpse of inspiration,
sh ulvam-el lo-.vard the shambling
fellow with the sinister face.
"There are some old garments in
that big che-t," said -die. "Von may
look iit them: perhaps they will be
what yo:t want!"
The eyes of the minister man, who
had by this time reached the top of
the stairs, glUt'-ncl. lie promptly ad
vanced, an-!' bending over the side of
the monster chest, pet red into its
liepths.
" 'Most attylhiitg'll work in in my
trifle," said he. "I ain't no ways
pa'tickler, because "
Now was D dty's time. As he bent
over, with at least two-thirds of his
body in the old client, she sprang
alertly f.rward, and bundled the other
third iut'i tin- st.lll'y recesses.
The Ir.ti.ip dropped like a hugeover
giown kitti n into the flannel blankets.
In a sec !i 1, Dotty had the lid shut
down, and had turned the key.
"Now I've got you!" said Dotty, all
triumphant, though dishevelled. "Oh,
yesl kick and pound all that you like,
but you'll not get out until Keubcn
and liankin are here!"
And Hying down stairs, she seized
the old tin horn and blew a blast
whii-h echoed like the "Horn of
Honccsvalles" over hill and dale.
licuben, swinging his scythe on the
side hill, stopped to listen, liankin
drojiped his whetstone, itnd Miles
Piitpgl- s, the hire 1 man, cried out:
"Je ru siitem! it ain't twelve o'clock
yet!-'
"'I hire's .something up, anyhow!"
cried Keubcn, making a grasp at the
linen coat which hung on the nearest
tilberry bush.
"Mother ain't home, an.l Dotty is all
alone!" exclaimed nankin.
"Wal, ef there's anything extraordi
nary on the carpet," declared Miles, "I
ain't ii-goin' to bo left out in the cold."
I'p hill and down dale, over log
bridged streams and across humuiocky
swamp hastened the three brave re
cruits, without loss of time, and
rushed, all abreast, into the kitchen
door.
Dotty stood there, with the broom in
one hand, and a saucepan of boiling
water in the other, pale but resolute.
Dorothy!" cried licuben, "what on
earth is the matter?"
"He's up stairs!" gasped Potty.
"Who is up stairs?" demanded lian
kin as he reached down a loaded re
volver from the very top shelf in an
odd little tiireeconn re 1 cttph iard.
"And I think he's kicking through
the side of the client." fa'.tt-tcd Pofv.
ciincing to liankin's arm.
"Je-im-uVin!" again remarked Miles
liuggles, under his breath,
"Who?" per.-isted liettben. "What
chest ?"
"The burglar!" said Dotty. "He's
in the old chest up stairs. 1 tipp-l
him into it. And, oh, 1 was so afiall
afterward that ho would suffocate t-i
death, because ho was so still for u
minute or two!"
"Astonished, maybe," suggested
Miles liuggles, under his breath. ")
should a-bcen, 1 know."
"Put when ho begun t kick." said
Potty, with si little gaqiitig breath,
"itnd swear, 1 knew he was all right."
"I should think so!" said lieuben.
with a lowering brow. "How did the
villain got in. Dotty?"
"I left all the doors open," ronfessed
Dotty, with a conscience-stricken air.
"Aunt Themis told me rmt to; but I
thought there was no harm, And I
had hardly got up stairs, when he came
shuffling up, and I saw the old silver
milk jug in his pocket. He wanted
old clothes; and I told linn we had
Sinn; in the chest; and when he .-looped
out to look, I just pushed him in."
'liruve little her ine!" said liankin.
"And locked it tight," nodded Dotty.
"The best thing you could lnv
done," declared lieuben, admiringly.
"Je-rusaleiir' commented Mile-5
liuggles, smiting tha kitchen taM
with one horny palm.
So up they proceeded, in solid
phalanx, itnd released the velveteen
captive, who was very sullen and com
pled ly bathed with perspiration, in con
sequence of the vain clTurU ha bad
made to get free.
"Conic!" roared Reuben, w ho was
young giant of six feet odd inches, and
br i;td proportionately. ai the mis.-r.ibla
prisoner scrambled out and stood
cowering before them, "what ara you
doing here?"
"Old clothes in exchange for chin
vases!" he faintly stammered.
"Then what are you doing with oui
silver milk pitcher and ten forks in
your coat pockets?" detiutnded lieuben
"And w hat the Je-rtisalein btisinesr
hev you ii-prowlin' round and scariu'
the w. men folks?" Paid Miles liuggles,
coming valiantly to the front. "Here,
llallkin, I'll get Up the old nlli'-!n
wagon your in;i'. got tie- shay- in'
cart the feller oil to Justi-e (.'illilua i's.
He'll settle him in quick time, I tell
ye what. Jest tie the fellow's hands,
iind make him all tdiip-shapo. That'r
all I it-k of you!"
So the sinister scoundrel, in 1 b-f k
velveteen, was borne unceremoniously
oil' by stout Miles liuggles, as the first
stage toward a two years' captivity in
the nearest states prison; and Dotty
was relieved at la-t from tha ineubus
of his presence.
First she laughed at Rankin's idea
that she was a heroine, and then aha
cried ami shuddered at her vivid per
ception of llie terror she had endured.
"Hut. lieuben and liankin," she
said, "you must promise .solemnly
now -never to tell Aunt Themis that
I disobeyed her and left the door open.'
And the two young men bound
themselves solemnly ever to keep the
vow of eternal nilence upon thi? sub
ject. "Since there is n-n!ly no harm done,"
said lieuben, laughing.
"Except Potty's fright," said lian
kin, quite seriously.
So tho chicken friea-sce was made,
itnd the vanilla pulls; but the ice
cream was postponed indefinitely, and
the chocolate cake remained forever a
disembodied ideal. And it took tha
two young men all the afternoon to
console Potty.
And when Aunt Themis came home,
full of lhe preacher, and tho brethren,
and the camp meeting, they all listen
ed in dutiful silence, and she never
once niistru.-ted that anything had
happened.
"Put Fin sure," whispered potty to
liankin, when they went out together
to get a pail of spring water, "it will
always be a leson in obedience to me.'
i Fvi rmt Ofuois.
A Mongol t'linriit-terlslle,.
With many good qualities, and with
almost ii superabundance of religion,
the Mongols have no love of truth, iind
are wont to despise a man w ho cannot
meet tin? stress of daily events by an
apt lie. On one occasion, traveling
with a guide over the de-ert. Mr. (lil
iii.iitr was frc quently asked whether he
carried a revolver. lie constantly
made the truthful reply that he did not.
This so aroused the fear and excited
the indignation of the guide that his
employer's sad state became it matter
of deep thought, resulting in this solu
tion. He suggested that to all future
queries Mr. (iilmour should reply,
Supposing 1 have, what then? Sup
posing I have not, what then?" The
canny scotch wit of the missionary led
him to learn a lesson even from a Mon
gol. "I saw no harm in this f irm of
ite.sivir, agreed to use it, and have
ofl"u since staved off i-i the same.
-"liner impertinent questions."
THE OSTRiril.
Qitrrr Habit of n I'rrull r llli il-flow the
tUtrlt Ii Ii llti.iifil.
A letter to the Xew Voilt 7'imfi de
scribes the ostrich farm at Anaheim,
Cal. Dr. Sketehley, owner of the
farm, on which Uier tiro twenty-one
birds, said to the wrier:
"They lay eggs every other day.
Age does not affect them. I have s t-n
npair of birds which were years old
and they were just :n valuable- for
breeding and feather raising its ever.
Were they decrepit? You could not
tell the difference in my way between
them and very much y.etnger birds. I
have known birds UU years old, it pair,
valued iit iluOO. V it can see the
chances here. If the birds are in
proper conditio,! I expect that we
shall lnve litiil chickens in a year.
The diilii-ulty in ostrich farming is in
raising the chickens. They catch cdd.
Put when they art) over n in Tith old
they aro all night. Ostriches ha-.e no
disease that I know of, and I have had
eight years' experience with them.
When a chicken is C months old tho
value of its feathers is about ?1";
when it is 11 months old the alue is
between $20 and $:l-, and when the
bird is between i.!.1, and 1 years old the
value is about M' annually, sixteen
years ago the business of ostrich farm
ing was begun; now $10,UIM,U'J'. are
invested in it."
An ostrich is apparently about the
most ill-telilpercd bird in exist elf-e.
They never a -quire a fondness for any
one. They have no particular prefer
ence ordinarily as to mating. They
are always on the lookout to kick some
one, and if the kick has the intended
effect it is p-e!ty sure to be fatal. Th"
blow is aimed forward, an 1 is accu
rate. For this i ca-ou the per.-oii win
puils the st liking over the ostrich's
head at tin- time when the feathers are
to bo cut must be wary and experi
enced. As Dr. sketehley walked along
by the corrals, of which there are
about ii bilker's doen, the ostriches,
with n few exceptions foliowv! jil'-ng
with an evident desire to get a kick ;;t
him. A Chinaman carrying ft scyth
along by one of tin- cjrtills Wilsiit olf e
an object of provocation to tnc o.siri li
es in that irra! and of bar to Dr.
sketehley. The latler tried to make
the Chiua-.i-iin understand . that there
Wiis danger to the precious birds fro n
the si- the should they kirk through.
The birds, w ben they found that the
Chinaiuan was out of the;r reach, lay
down in the dust of the corral and.
rocking violently from si 1" to side,
b -at their bodies with their heads with
ail tln-ir available force, which from
the sound seemed to be considerable.
It was such a sound as might come
from a muffled drum. Having in
dulged in this outb irst for nwhiic.they
stalked about with that pe Miliar gait,
which seemed to bo their property in
common only with the camel or drom
edary; then they again lay in the tlust
and repeated the drumming opera
tion. Dr. Sketehley sueeee led in catch
ing one by the neck, but did not hold
it. He also put his hand into the
mouth of one to show- tha1 il had no
strength in its jaws. Their diet is
mainly alfalfa and barley, with cab
bago, turnips, iind potatoes thrown-in
as a sort of ostrich dessert. The diet
would alone indicate the lack of
strength in the jaws. lie fore they
reach that culmination of anger which
results in tho prostration itnd drum
ming, they emit n loud hiss like a
goose, opening the mouth to such an
extent as to look like ii letter V lying
on one side and stretched very wide
apart. The danger is all from the one
toed feet, with the obviously prodigious
muscle of leg ami thigh to propel
them.
A striking difference exists between
the corraled iind farmed ostriches ami
those running over the African deserts,
inasmuch as the hitter never light.
Dr. Sketehley bunted for nine months
in the desert. The birds have to 1 e
hunted scicnt iiieally. Certain facts
are known, one being that the birds
will always run in a semicircle. First
they will run w ith the wind, that they
may use their wings to help them.
After they get what the sailors call "a
head wind," they go around the other
way. They must be run down. One
horse canni t "wind" them. The great
trouble is to keep them in sight. They
will run tn miles on n stretch. If they
ever get a breathing spell they will
get away. The hunter starts out with
a fresh horse. A Itushman boy rides
another iind leads one. As soon as it
is seen which way the bird w ill run,
the boy takes bis cue iind drives to
where he think ; the hunter will need
the fresh horse. In the meantime the
ostrich singled out for tho chase and
the hunter are speeding along like the
wind, the la tcr stra.ning every nerve
to keep in sight of the bird and the
bird m iking its most prodigious strides
for freedom. A great deal now de
pends on the Bushman boy's judgment,
in having the fresh horse at the right
place, that no t'lue may be wasted. It
in seldom that the boy makes a mis
take. Tha hunter leaps on tho fresh
horse and pains on the bird, which,
growing tin-d, goes more and morn
awkwardly. The hunter has only,
when ho catches it, to rap it on the
head with his hunting whip and tho
ehaso is over. Tln-re are really only
two kinds of ostriches, the North Afri
can an I South African birds. The
ma!-- aro black and tic females drab.
All are of en-' color, drab, until alter
tin y are two years old.
One of tie- luo-t singular features is
the location of lhe o -inch's stoma--',!.
He carries it on his back between his
shoulders, and the food can be seen
w inding around inside of his neck to
get iit this out-of-the-way receptacle.
Although there is it great deal of
dialing against the corrals in ca-e of
fright, the plumag", for which iilotio
the birds are of value, do -s not seem
to suffer much: All of the flock a;
pcar to be in lino feather. The pliuu
age is soft, ilk y, clean, an I glossy as
it grows, and is all ready for market,
speaking of the relative value of the
birds, Dr. sk. tehley said that, while
otf ini'iit yield ni irc feathers o;- prova
a better breeder, he averaged them.
The value is determined mainly by
bl'. cling qualities. The ostrich is con
sidered a chicUeu until it is 12 months
old, a feather bird only until about oj
years oi l, and id 4 years it should
breed. The most valuable hreeding
MmIs are called "guarantee birds,"
from the discovery that their eggs will
batch. The average life is supposed
to be about leu years among long-lived
birds. These birds are now between S
and '.'years old. should they live nnd
the experiment prove sue-es-ful.
Southern California may yet contain
thousands of o triches.
j How (hie Xovil was Written.
! Wilkie Collins writ -s ino.-t of bis
novels with his own hand, but now
and tle-n rheumatic gout gives him
such a pain that he cannot hold a pen,
and then he employs an amanuensi:-..
The great r part i f "The Moonstone"
was ill--tat-d. and Mr. Collins says it.
is the only one ol his works w hich lie
. has lies it read. The re-olleetion of
the iig-iiiy he su.Vered while dictating
it. d -tern him. "l-Vr a long ti'i.e,
i while thai boo'v was writing," he says,
; I had tie-Utli'o-t dithciilly in getting
an amanuensis who would go on with
hi.s .iiirk without interrupting himself
to sympathize with inc. lam much
i like a beast in many ways- if I am in
pain, I mut howl ; and, as I lay in the
bed in tin-coiner yonder, l would of
; ten break forth in a yell of anguish,
i Then my amanuensis would urge me
; to compose myself and not to write
any more. J let ween the paragraphs
i I would go along nicely enough, hav
1 ing in my mind just what I wanted to
. say, itnd these interruptionti would
diie mad. Finally a young girl, not
'more than seventeen, ottered to help
j me, and 1 consented that she should,
' in cas . she was sure she could let me
, howl itnd cry out in my pain w hile she
kept her pla-e at the table. She did
! it. too, and "The Moonstone" finally
j ciiine to an end. Put 1 never raad it
j never."
A Man Superior to his Fate.
I A man who had by dint of sheer
courage and energy overcome almost
insuperable dilliculties, and showed
that life, even when it seems almost a
curse, may be well worth living, died
last week at Arare. in tho canton of
(ieneva. dean Trottet, the man in
question, Wits born in lSiJl, without
hands and without feet. His short
arms were pointed, iind his legs such
as they were, not being available for
progression, he was able to move only
by twisting his body from side to side.
His case great .'y interested the sur
geons of the neighborhood, and local
Hummus made the parents, well to-do
peasants, many tempting offers to turn
their chil l's misfortune to account by
exhibiting him about the country. Put
these offers wPrt invariably declined,
iind when .lean was old enough he
was sent to sciiool.
In writing ho held his pen nt the
bend in the cibow, and as he grew old
er he took great interest in husband
ry, became an activ" haymaker, used
the reins with dexterity, iind was so
good a shot that heoften carried off
lirst prize iit the village .'. lie en
joyed, too. s mil- reputation for sagaci
ty, w as i-onuil.ed by his neighbors on
matters of importance, and hits left
behind him ii w idow and four child
ren amply pro, ided for.
She .Never Did.
"I can't carry this bundle," said a
wife to her husband.
"I can't," the husband replied, "for
I have to carry the two children."
"Hut you ought to have some con
sideration for me," the wife continued.
Vt u must think I'm a wag. n."
"Oh, no. my dear, I don't think you
nre a wagon. A wagon holds its
tongue, but you never do." Arktiisii
T ru t It r.
SCIENTIHL M JUTS.
Anew vegetable parage, hnpp!
COCCUS retieilliltUS, lift been ihs.-o, end
in pork by Dr. Z pf. II was found in
from thirty to forty per cent, of tic
entire number of animals examined.
Para-ites of oseiliat ing form have
been di. -co ven d in the r. d corpuscles
of the Moo i of p -r-o;i. -uii -ritig from
miliaria. They i xi.-t in number- sutli
cicntly large t i ob-'riictthe lapillary
tubes. Their gr iwth in a gclutine
ba-is stops when quinine is added.
Cattle, a writer says, ;tre maie-iou-dy
destroyed in Iniia by w.mii ling tle-m
with a spike moid I trotn the M---d- of
the Arbus preealon os. Death riixiu-s
on the second day.hut the seeds havi
little or no l ;i l effect, wh ti taken
internally.
Jt is reported tha1 Dt. T. W. X
Greene states tha' h- practise 1 fir
four years in a province nf Monte, ide ..
where the population, practical y - peak
ing, su' sisb-d entirely upon una', itlli!
yet scurvy was not known n-ii. ti
them notwithstanding.
Dr. II. Mailer observes th.d bin"-,
reds and certain violets are ne r ' at
tractive to bees than oth -r .-h.i i-s of
color. Scarlets, orang -i an I .-cue It
er loud colors, which th - i'...w -rs o
not a few plants having a'so an una'
tractive o lor ap.pc.tr to pos.-e-s, rep1-!
the honey-gathering in- i b.
The .lournal of Si i. nee is the an
thority for the ass-iCm that sen
persons who ar a t:cu!ai ly -eu-itii
to the bite-, of gnat- an 1 midges expe
rience ;i return of tie- original irrita
tion at regular intervals of t welve and
twenty-four h- urs. Tnis fact, if fa--'
't be. Would ;.i-'--i! to lend strength to
the opinion that gnat- an 1 mosquitoes
an-the bearers of the germs of mala
rial fever.
Dynamite mu-t go to the rc.-n as
the great expio-uve and make way tot
jiincla-tite, it free trait -l.it ion of which
term is "smash all." Jt is a liquid and
is said to be composed of bisulphide
of carbon and htpotiiuie a- ld. It re
quires a greater shock than dwinmito
to i xpl-ide it, and cache!' its compon
ents is iion-expl isive l y it.s.-lf. When
combined tic result is t -rriiic.
InlS'a r.-ni trkabie d.s -overy of
bones of the lo-sil monsters known as
igtiiitiodons was made in a coal-mine
of llelgium. Three .years were occu
pied in removing the remains, which
. are supposed to belong to twenty-three
skeletons. One of the skeletons Is
- now mounted in the animal's semi-
1 erect position, and stands four feet
high and extends over a horizontal
floor spaea over twiaty-three fact in
( length.
j A Bat Can See With lis Wlnm.
There is a singular property with
: which the bat is endowed.too reniarka
: ble and curious to be pa-sed altogether
unnoticed. The wings of these crea
tures consist of a delicate and nearly
naked membrane of great size consid
ering the size of the body; but besides
this, the nose is, in some varieties, fur
; nishcd with a im mbraneous foliation,
' and in others the external membrane
; cms ears are greatly developed. These
1 membraneous tissues have their sensi
i bility so high that something like a
new sense is thereby developed, as if in
: aid of the sense of sight. The niodi
, lied impressions which the air in qui
; escence or in motion, however slight,
communicates th" tremulous jar of its
currents, its temperature, the indi--BiTibable
Conditions of such portions of
air as are in contact with different
, bodies, iire all apparently appreciated
i by the bat. It the eyes of the bat be
' covered up, or if he be cruelly deprived
1 of sight, it will pursue its course about
a room with a thousand ob-taoles in .
, its way. avoiding them all, neither
dashing iiganist a wall n-r touch, ng 1
the smalle-t thing, but threading its
way with the utmost precision and
quickness, and pass. ng adroitly through ;
apertures or intetspaocs of threads
' placed purposely across the apartim-nt. !
1 This endowment, w hich almost exceed ;
' belief, has been abundantly demon- j
titrated. Fvnst unit simun.
Lamp Chi tuners. i
The most noted oculists recommend
(due, bluish-gray or snioke-coiored j
glasses as a protection for weak eyes
against the unpleasant elici ts of red, j
orange and yellow light. On the same j
principle, remarks a scientific paper, i
the trying reddish yellow light of can- J
dies ;md gas may be pleasantly mod
ified by the use of chimneys or globes
Shiid -s colored in light marine blue,
may aiso be used for the same
purpose A remarkably near approach
to a light agreeable as daylight is
said to be produced by a petroleum
lamp with round wick and a light blue
chimney of twice the usual length, the
bitter causing so great a Jiouth that
the petroleum burns with nearly a
white llama.
The Huste or Ilia Chin.
I'm quite a mii-io-loving man,
And would go far to hear
8om German, or an African,
Whose loot are sweat and clar.
But i-ave me fioni tho person who
Will evei mm e hegin,
Determined lie will put on thionh
The mii-io ol hi chin.
I rannnt sing the old song,
Tlimigh I can net them cheap;
Their memory to the past belont(,
So let the m idly Bleep.
Mill wni-e -h in old sonys ti tha friend
Who seeks yonrliine to win.
And wl.o, when started, will not end
'ilii-iiinfic ol liiscl-in.
I've hcird steam whistle., brazen onfi.
Anil Iic'.Ih of eeiy tone;
Ir heiod tiie k iouis maddened llirong,
And I. earl :ij iikiis groan.
I've heard a leinaUi leeeuiur sneor
On wicked men and sin;
Tile-ear.! an imii.dit, for now I hear
The inu.ic el h:ehin.
Eugtnt Field, tn Chtcuga JVtw,
IIIMOKOIS.
The dentists lake tho stump during
a political campaign.
Our babies Wilh nil their faults
we love them still; not noisy.
Has it ever occurred that u milk
pitcher is generally a good flycatcher
A little book just published is en
titled "How to Talk." A copy hbould
be placed in the hands of every barber
in the land.
The rain falls alike upon tho just
and the unjii. t; but it is the unjust
who Meal the umbrellas and let the
just feel the rain.
Speaking of visiting, does it ever
occur to you "that the telephone girl
answers more ". alls" in one day than
other ladies do in a month?
Jt is the sagacious remark of a keen
observer of tourists, and he offers it to
the travelling public, that you can
generally tell a newly-married couple
at the dinner-table by the indignation
of the husband when a fly alights on
he wife's butter.
If you are particularly anxious te
abuse a man; don't call him a fool, ha
might be annoyed: don't call him a
rascal, he might knock you down;
quietly remark, with a heavenly smile,
"Sir. y.ui present a line large niargia
for improvement."
It is passing strange,'' mused tha
philosopher, "that so many people
have died during the last decade, anil
yet mi few of them have come back."
Then his w ife hit him over the ear
with a hassock, and told him to go
down to the pr.wery and pet some rcA
herrings for breakfast.
M. Wiggleswortli's inndame: "It is
something I can't understand," said
Mrs. Wigglesworth, hiving down th
paper, "why every Frenchman's first
name begins with an M. Here's M.
Ferry itnd M. Wilson and M. Grevy
iind a dozen more. Must bother tha
Postma-tcr terribly. "-Rockland Cmr-itr-OtiZrtt,.
Clothing anil Bodily Heat.
The thinnest veil is a vestment in
the sense that it moderates the loss of
of heat which radiation causes tha
miked body to experience. In the
same way a clouded sky protects tha
earth against too great cooling in
spring nights. In covering ourselves
with multiple envelopes of which wa
augment the protecting thickness ac
cording to the rigor of the seasons, wa
retard tho radiation from the body by
causing il to pass through a series of
stages, or by providing relays. The
linen, the i rdinary dress and the cloak
constitute for us so many artificial epi
dermises. The heat that leaves tho
skin goes to warm these superposed
envelopes; it passes through them the
more slowly in proportion as they are
poorer conductors; reaching the sur
face, it i s. apes, but without making
us feel the chills which direct contact
with the atmosphere occasions, for our
clothes catch the cold for us. The
hairs and the feathers of animals per
form the same function as toward their
skin, serving to remove the seat of
calorific exchange away from the body.
The protection we owe to our clothes
is made more effectual by their always
being wadded with a stratum' of warm
air. Each one of us thus lias his own
atmosphere, which goes with him
even w here, and is renewed w ithout
being cooled. The animal also linda
under its fur an additional protection
in the bed of air that (ills the spaces
between the hairs; and it is on account
of the air they enclose that porous sub
stances, furs and feathers keep warm.
Experiments to determine the degree
of facility with which different sub
stances used for clothing allow heat to
escape were made by Count liumford,
Senejiier, I'.oeekmann, James Stu-ck
and M. Cotilier. The results were not
in all cases consistent with each other,
but they indicated that the property is
dependent on the texture of the sub
stance rather than on the kind of mate
rial, or as concerns non-luminous heat
its color. I'ojmlar Svkw Monthly,