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2lc Cljnlljnm Rnori,. 0TI)f Cljatljam Hftoro. II. A. LONDON, EDITOIt AND rilOPKItTOK. HATES ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR Strlofly fn Mvanet. One square, one insertion One square, two insertion , One square, one month - 1.5 2.0 For larger adwtiscuaenU liberal con racta will be"male. VOL. XII. PITTSBOKO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, APRIL 10, 1800. JST0. .'2. witom Chatter, chatter, unit No Matter. Peep within the woolen border Of vale I strayed, one day, Drown on by the sweetest rausio Wafted through its jhaiiy way; "Chatter, chatter, And nn matter," Was the sour it seemed to say. A I wandeted, grew the music Yet mure clear and sweet to me, Till 1 found a bubblini! brooklet (iliding onward to the sea; "t'bntter, chatter, And no matter," (Hiding onward, fresh and free. In a mioI IIh witters tarried. Silent, by a mossy bank. Where the weeping w illows drooping, Finging rose and dipping sank; "Chatter, chatter, And no matter,'' Fe c kissed branches rose and sank. Rnurilre, on its brim I (Hindered, Drruiuing on ils perfect glass, Till 1 seemed to fee beside me, tiaiingilin n. n jnyous lass; "( hatter, rluittc-, Ami tio matter," With the pool her looking gla?s. Thru the years M-emcd swiftly fleeting. Once again, but aged, stood The woman now. a-looking ha-kward, Thinking of her maidenhooil, "( halter, chatter, And no matter," In her long passed maidenhood. Fat out from the wooded valley. Then I journeyed to the sea, Where I heard the tides a beating Crooning now a song to me; "iteating. Keating, Time a Meeting, r'rnin tho brooklet to the sea. II'. M. Il-utllmt, i Ynnkrt W'ldi. An Extraordinary Discovery "Wl.cn I was a youngster and asked my father for money ho used to toll inc that mon.'y didn't grow on buib.es, aud until the summer of 1SS1 1 believed him," said a well-known resident of Belleville, whose ptctty coltngo over looks the placid Passaic. "I changed niy mind iu that yoar, however, upon discovering, to my extreme, satisfaction, that at leant on ono occasion money CDuld bo picked from bushoi with as much case a I couM pick ripe rasp lerrics. It was on the Fourth of July, and on that day the woodcock season opened. I was out early with my setter Belle, and we crosBod the river to p'ck up some bird that I had locatod in the little strip of alders a short dis'.ano above the Jersey City water works. It was a dry season, and tho bird were thick along tho river, hav.ng b'eri Uiiven thero by lack of moisluro along the mountain brooks and in the wools. "I bi'.d killed fcur b.rJs, when Hello como toward mo with a $10 bill in her mouth. You may imagine my surprise. 1 took tho liil fruit the intelligent biute, iximincd it, ami found it moist with (low but perfectly good and wholo. " 'You know a good thing when you see it, Hull'?, I sai I. ') and see if thero it any iumo liko it there,' and she started i fit at a Inik tr it. 1 watched her an I saw her spring up ami pluck something from a I ush in tho thicket A moment later she was at my feet with a $20 note in lirr miulli, holding it ns tenderly as she would a bird. 1 was utterly acton ithed, and plunged wildly into the tucket, regardless of the cat briers and other thorns which cl ung to me like tho hands of a drowning man. I bad not gone 25 feet before I saw a fit) bill iinpalcd on a thorn of a wild app'e tree and just ahead was another sprout decoratod liko a Christmas tree, with bills on every thorn. 'I went right to work gathering in the fruit. There were tens, twenties, fifties snd hundreds twisted around the twigs, stuck on thorns, or crowded in to tho crotches of limbs. Several bills were scattered over tho grouud near by, and while I was gathering them Bsllo brought in a ten and a tweu y from somo distance ahead. 1 hoard a gun shot some distance behind mo, and it purred mo on to extraordinary indu -try while tho money market was easy. I pluugod ahead, picking bills from the lushes as 1 wont along and shoving them into the pecket of my shooting coat. I came across two more little trees trimmed with greenback, and then located a regular savings bank lost in the waods. It was a big blatk locust, with a trunk ten inches in ili amsUr, completely covered with bunch es of cruel thorns dow n to with n a foot of t' e gro in 1. Tho thorns were plastorcd all ovjr with bills, many of which were stained with blon I from the finger t of tho person who placed them thero. I bj'rcvj I p el od up $18 W from this tree, and nit a bill was less than a fiv. "Down nrar tho foot of tho treo was a fluttering strip of bluo silk, evidently tho ham of a womai's dress. Up to this moment I bad been too busy to think, but this rag set nri to won ler ing. How on car.h could a woman get into that thicket, I thought, and pet ting down on my knees I found the l prints of narrow, sharp-heeled shoes in tho moss-covered turf. It washwoman uio, and after ecurioa the last note In sight I followod the trail, picking fiora the hushes on either side of the way an occasional bill. A hundred yards from tho h cust tree, the track led to tho edge of tho riv.T between two water willows, ami in the soft mud for several foot from tho slioro I could seo foo". prints leading out toward the channel. I went back through tho willows and assured myself that the tracks were not doubled, and then I walked up an 1 down the river's e Igo for a qiarter of a milo hunting for further trie:! of tho feminine boots. Thero woie uone.and, concluding that tho wearer must have committed suicide, I returned to tho willows and began a snatch there. I walked out in tho tracks as far m my hip boots would permit me to go, and much further than I coul I seo hot torn in tho dirty water. Then 1 was satisfied that whoever sho was sho l.at drowned heiself after disposing of her wealth. I returne I to the locust then, mi l tak. ing up the strip of silk rolled it up carefully, a'ul put it in my vet pocket, 1 I was in no mind for shooting, an I was about to start for horn: when 1 thought of Telle, r.nd whistled for her. fShedid not como, an I I moved on thiough tho thicket. As I passed an opening I might si 'it of her stanchly pointing, and walk ng up dished and missed a woodock. Tho bird t ire e 1 ut ovir the r vcr and plunged bick to the thicket somewhere in tho neighbor hrol of tho willows. ! was vexcil at missing tho bin), and determined to get it if thero win n chance. So, send ing Bel'e ahead, 1 pulled on toward the wi'.low", an 1 was soon gratified to see 111 o point ngnin. This time! killed tho bird and sent Hello after it. Sho rctiicved the deal bird beautifully, and, dropping it at my feet, made another dash into thu brush, and n m -ment later cum i hack with um alligator skin hand-bag, which she held in her mouth until I tio it. I op mid it ami found it one- quarter full of money in bit s of a largo denomination. He ides tho money there was a small morocco caso containing a hypo lormic syringe, a small bottle labeled inirphiii) and con. taming a few grain of the dm, a pair of kid gloves, a button hook, an I a dream book. That win a I. N it a scrap of writing or anything to betra,' the identity of tho owner of the bag and money. It returning toward the road I plucked a pieco of a gray os trich tip from the brnnohoi of a treo and fouid a Indies' watc'.i neatly bed le I in a boll of moss with tho chnn care fully coile I around it. 1 kept my eyes open thcu and lookc I at every inch of the way, following tho fooistcpt care fully and comiug out on tho road with out finding anything miro. 'I wont stra'glit h m i. carry ing tho bag in my hand, and when I g it in my bril-oom I locked the door an 1 began to empty my poikilson tho bed. When tho last bill was in sight 1 arranged tho bi'ls nccording to their denomination and begnn counting. There wero thir teen one-hundred-dollar notes, ono five bund re 1, seventy-four fifties, eighty twenties, fifty-three te is, an I ninolccn lives, or $7725 in al 'Now 1 don't be.ieve nnjbidy will be surprised when 1 say tint I kept that money. 1 commence I spending it (he afternoon of tho day I got it. I put $10 J iu my pocket and went to New ark, and as a natural con-eqnenco got on a Fourth of duly spree and did not show up at homo until my mouey was gone and I had borrowed 10 cents from a friend. That wus on tho morning of the 7th, and I felt like a fool. I init io up my mind then to tako care of every remaining dollar. It win tho basis of what 1 havo got now, and 1 think I have doubled it twico since. I have told this story to two or three persons and I am not afiail to tell it to tho world, provided in name is not used and I don't get a horde of beggar after me. If anyludy can establish owner ship of the money 1 stand ready to pay it ovor. My theory is tint somo drug- crazed creature from New York got ell tho train at Ailing on and wandered up the r.vor to tho woodcock tlnckct au I then took nno her dose of morphine. Then I think sho wandered through the brush in a staio of exhilaration, and liualiy Lrought up in tho r:v:r. She left mo a fino legacy, and it is all owing to old Hello thero tint I etumhlod ou it. Khe shall have the best f every thing as long at s'.io draws breath. Tho only thing that ever worried mo about tho mouey was a superstitious fear that it would briug me no lurk. 1 haven't had an unlnckly day sinco 1 f'lUid it, and it enable 1 mo to leave tho bench and go into buiincss for my self, besides buying a mortgago on the house I am bvin in, wliich I after ward bought oilrigbt Uuying the mortgage looks 1 ko going nt it tho wrong way, but I can assutc you that I onjoyel shaking it at my landlord and thratavnir to forccloio it. Am 1-rk Tl e tobacco business jq Italy is run h; the tiovern nent, Higher than Railroad Orders. ''No, voiln'l bounce tho tiatnps who ride cn the bi.inpers of our freight troin," said a freight conduclir who has a run to tho West. '1 prtcumc that wo carry an average of u ibz-jii each trip, lut if they remain bctwion the cars we pretend not to see them." "Hut it is tigainst oidtrs," wai vrgcl. ' Oh, yes, but there is a higher pow er than gen ernl crler, even for rail road men. Fivo or six yenn ago I used to lo hard on the railroad tramp. I d have tho tiain looked over nt ceiy stop, and if we caught a chap he got handled pretty lively. Nowadays I throw out a h nt to tho brakemen to shut both eyes, an t, if the tramp don't presume too much on my good nature, no one will disturb him." "What happened to chango your mind?' ' "Oh, a little incident of no intcicst to tho public, but a gie.it deal to mc. I win married in December, three years ago. On the third night I got anordcr to run out with an Min. There was a cold rain, which fr-izo as it fell, nnd one of my crew got hurt at our very first stop. This left us sl.ort-handed, and as wc c old not biippl his ilteo I had to act for him. Wc wcio back in the mountains, running strong to mako time, when the engineer whistled brnkci for a grade. I ebmbed cut. of tho cnbooso wilh tho brake men, till had set two brakes and wiim nftcr the third, when a . tilt h of the cais threw mo down, aud I fell between two of them. I ha I just one glimpse of the lel-checked briilo nt home, just one sw.ft thought of hi r in widow's weeds and lier heart brenk n g, when a hand grabbed in '. 1 was going down head lir.t, but tho siroug clucth turned me over nnd my feet struck the bumpers. I'd have gone then, on'y some ono put my bunds on the ladder, flung his arms around mo from behind to hold mo thero and said : "'You are all light, old man. Your nerve will ciiin back pretty soon.' " "And it was a damp, chl" "It was, and he In Id mo there until tho train remind its slop, nnd then helped me down, for the sudden fright li m 1 taken nil my strcnghth and ncrvo away. Hut for him I she u'd havo been groind H i under tho wheels. This is the reiaon I keep a soft spot in my heart for iho genus tramp, and why. when I soinct iii'S walk tho length of every irain and (ind every 1 uiu;icr occu pied, I look sky ward and pretend not to soo as much as an o'd fur cap. A Busy Preacher. If there be any busier man in New York than It 'V. Morgan I'ix of Trinity Corporation ho would, foys a corre spondent of tho It cbmond (Va. ) li- p-itch, do wrll to step up and be identi- fed. I'es des attending to the vast routine business of the Trinity Corpora tion, with its $'J0, (HlO.tllO invested, preaching icguliulv, marrying people, visiting tho sick and clliciating over the dead, he is cilleil upon by men and women of every walk in life for ndvico on all sorts of questions. No matter how early you go to his oflico in tho morning you will find adc7.cn ortwouty people ahead of you. They all want to seo the distinguished lector of old Trinity in person and explain to him their various schemes and trou bles. The writer of this waited two hours in his ellicj the other day for an opportunity to get n word with him on a mailer of private buMneis. Iu per sonal appearance, I'r. I)i is ono of tho most srriking men in New York, anil always attracts a great deal of attention. 1 In is a strong preacher, a deep thinker, and his voice has lost none of tho charm that madn him famous as a preacher. While not exactly tho fashionablo preacher, he is called upon by society to officiate at weddingi tl at are un usually profitable. llis personal in como is enorinom, and ho has a com fortahlo fortune. Ho gives away a great deal of money, and has hclpod more young men to get on in the world than any preacher of the day. Salt and r'resh Water. When freih wiit'r it introduced into a salt-water aquarium it will remain on tho surface, unlesi tho wholo is thor oughly stirred or mixed. Tho fresh water of rivers is not thoroughly mixed with tho salt water of bays, but flows off on tho surface, and only at considerable distanco or after long tiina is tho salt water predominant. Hen co it is quito credible that tho salt water of tho South Atlsutic oil tho mouth of the great Amazon Hivcr is fresh an I fit for drinking above a hundre 1 lcagtui from bind. Tho Burglar's Mistake. "You aro here for safe burglary, I believe," remarked tho prison visitor to si inmate. "Nsw," replied the latter. ih'iught it was sfe, but it w isn't." C HILDREN'S 01. 1 MX. RA r. A little tear and a little sniife Set out I'j run a race- We watc'ieri Ihein ebisely all thi while, Their Course was Baby's face. The little tear be got the start; We really feared he'd win. He ran so Inst, and made a lrt Straight for her dimpled chin. Hut somehow it was very infer. We watched them all the while The little shining, frett' il tear (lot beaten by the smile. 1'tlHIt'HlWII. TIIK HMIKN.' II1NNI M lll;l.I Not far from Berlin h Ciailolten burg, whcio there is a great aluco with splendid gnrdern. Thu (S-rman futlicrj an I mothers tusMthcipiitilc ones to seo a woudcrl u' sijht these gnnlrms, through which winds tho Hivir Hprec. N w, in thisr sniuo riv.-r. is a quantity of carp, aud it is to seo them fed and to fee 1 tlum tint the little lle'liriclis nnd (ir;(clicns lova to goto t'liarlottcn buig. Thc-c carp aro very age I, some of thoni, and nt cm ning as pomiblo, for when a certain bell lings they n'l como rushing in shoals, knowing perfectly well thai it is their own dinner-bed ; and they nro revir disappointed, for the public de light in feeding them. C ueninti It ijuirir. A IMlll's A ST KM ION KOIl A 11 A II Y. Across tho strcit, from my s n ly window, lives a d.ig. His nimu i3 Hover. llo it a spaniel, with c irly nub nil hair and with cars long nnd sbn'gy. His eyes nro large and hii. I. lb: often sits up on his haunches wlum looking down the street, holding uphit fi rj feet liko bands binding nt tho wrist. This is owing to nrt inj irel shoulder, for he gets tire I when s add ing us dogs usually do, nnd sits up liko n man foi a change, now a id then. Hut It vcr has attracted my attention in another way more particularly. O ico or twice a week he sets up a cry or howl which is in i '.U piteous to hear. He lifts up his head in his cries, and they tell me the tears fall from his eyes on somo of these occasions. What is the causi? Beforo long li ver sirs something com'ng cn the sidewalk in the clUtunco. II'! pricks up his ears and walks oft toward it. He is more anil moro excited. Tho wag of his tnil and the chango of his vuica show this; tho wail has become n bark of joy. It is the baby c.iriingo h-J fees, insido of which is baby Clara, n year old. And now they m cl tiio precious littlo pnsscngi r and Hover, who greet) her with many a kiss. II, nccompin ies her to the hnuso with many dumnn strnlioiis of joy. Tncro is no in iro wailing that day. T.ie cup of happi ness frr the dog is fu'l, and this re innrknblo i ITcctlon is reciprocate I, for tho baby iu her own way, gruits aud talks lo tho dog. Hho looks for him anil dclihts in hit riming. It is cr tiiinly very interesting to seo this at tachment and it might well bo a lesson to sonii of us of tho bip-j I raoi. -Yd York Jo'irtixt. A MAI.NiNKII Illlilv Often in the evening, an hour or so after sunset, the outdoor naturalist may hear from the shade of a tliic'v hem lin k, or from n grovo in soiii- niviun, a pro longed, quavering note. Though tinged with melancholy, it ii soft and musical, aud It is, in lee 1, us Lowell fays, one of tho sweetest sounds in nature. And yet, this i i th ; character istic noto of tho bird which Ins gained, for reasons unknown to in), tho un pleasant nnmo of "ic:cccli owl." This pretty littlo owl, perhaps tho prettiest of tho fnmiiy, is but slightly longer than a robin, but looks much larger on account of tin flutlf feathert a id largo head. It is found in temper ate North America, a id is quito om ni'iri in most of the Kaitern S.ntes. (enerally it live in the woo Is, but it is fond also of fr.'q ienting bnrni, old orchards, and groves near tho water. It is very courageous, and can kill othor birds as largo at itself; but u ui'. ly it preys on mies arid grasshopper'. Its mousing abilities aro so wonderful tl nt it has been apt 1 name ! "lha leathered cat; " aud ils gie it yellow eyes, car-liko tufts aud nigh'-pro wling l abits all unito to nviko th) nunj suit ab'o. The soft csll already described is really tho love-noto of this owl. It is ts song j ist as much as tho prolonged chantings of any of our common birds aro their songs; and it will be heard oftencst in the early spring, although it is not unuuial for this owl to sing near ly tho whole year round. Here, then, wo have in this littlo owl an example of bravery, industry and cheerfulness; and theso qualities are shown by the very bird of all others that is least credited with them; for, If names and reputations aro to count for sny thing, surely tho very last bird to which we would look for an examp'o of couraga and merriment would be an owl, and above d a tcreich -ow!. ft. THE NAJA-KALLU. A Curious Stone Used by Cobras lo Attract Fire-Flies. The Green Light Which It Emits Acts as a Decoy. The cobras are perhaps tho ouly ser pents which will cat insects. They feed on ants, grasdioppors, n variety of beetles, etc., but seem to luivo a special preference for fire- flics, perhapi bacamo tho lutkr can bo taught at night much moro easily than any other kind of in sect. I havo often for hours watched cobras in the grass catching tho fire flics, darting about hero ami there, a proco s which require considerable ex ertion on the put of the serpent. Now, every entomologist knows that tho fly ing lampyridii' consist entirely of miles. Tho females, which nro not very numer ous, mo much larger and cninol fi, as they have only rudimentary wings. They fit quietly in tho grass, enitting a greenish light, which is much s'r.m;. cr than that of tho ina'ct, and fades nnd becomes brilliant nt regular inter vals. If a glow-worm be wutrhel for a time, a steady curr.'nt of male insects will bo observed flying toward it, and Blighting in close proximity. Now it so happens that tho naji- kal Iu, n littlo prbblo of chlorophune or fluor-spar, emits in the dark n greenish light, which is so much liko that n f tho ft male lampyris that is nn easy matter to deceive tho male tire-ll with it, by setting it upas n decoy. The cobras have gradually como to take ndvantago of nn experience m ado by I hem, acci dentally, I daro say, thousands of years ago. it may frequently happen, for in stunco, that n cobra tin Is ono of these shining stones in the gravel of the dry river beds (h ?rc they lire by no means uncommon), being attracted to it by its glow nt night, and diking it fi r a glow worm. It would tl.cn, at m.y rite, notice that tho fire-flies cnu d Le c night much more easily nn 1 quickly iu the neighborhood of that shnin; ob ject than any w hero clso and would habitually leturn to it. Several r iliras might th is come together, nnd tlioro would be c.imp'ili tion, and from this inotiint to thu find ing out that sine '.si in capturing fire flies depends o:i tho possession of this phosphorescent pebble, mid to tho soiz ing of it in order to prevent another smko from monopolizing it, is, in my opinion, no great step, and i nvolves no exceptional powers of reason in . Tiio cobra carries it about, mid soon learns to t reus urn it, for it nfToids it nt c.ny means of getting its living. All it has to do is to deposit the stono in the grass nl night, nnd the obliging insects literally fly down its tlirnl, There tiro even reasons for believing that no individuil experience) is now neccsary to cam..' any cobra to net in this manner, but that even a young robin, on finding such a stone, will in stinctively tako it up, nn 1 use it in the manner I havo described. For it must be borne in mind that there is an in herited race memory nmo i g the lower animals which is often far stronger thin the memory gathered during the short lifetime of tho indivilual What causes a blind kitten to spit and put up ils back if a do is bruig'il near it? It never saw a dog, never saw anything, yet it knows then) is somo danger ahead. Thus the ni cumulated ex peri, enco of tho cobra's anccstora dur.ng countless gcn"r:it ions now causes it lo act in a manner which we refer to in stinct. Hucli are the irmnrkublo fads con nected with the nnja kallu, the cobra's shining stone. Who tan tell whether the old ti.'i'lit ions of niaket earying precious stones, of which wo still find tinccs in our fairy Inlet, nviy not have their source in somo such fact as thi-? lliirijr't AiUjHi'in. The On I Craze. Tho owl cm?.! has struck Washington with full fore-.;. thin t orrespondent there writes about it: Owls here, owls there, owls everywhere! Vciil one would think that owls had sav.d tho American capital as the geese did lionu Fivo small, but nionstrout, imitation owls, mado of real feathers, but not owl feathers, with gilt hnlos around their staring eyes, swing upm a perch in tho drawing-room of my boniding house. Iu Iho room of a friend the fplishtr for the washstand is embroid ered with owls. In tho ship- windows on the streets I see owls of all imagina ble varieties, from thi genuino bird, stuffed in life-liko hi leousness, to a pair of plush owls in a jowcller's win dow with diamond eyes and amber beak set in gold, and with golden or gilt claws, I cannot tell which. Ornament ing tho window of a private ridenoo I saw a transparent owl, and at a hoim where I called tho inevitable owl sat perched on a cap dies b k on the mouthpiece, A New Kind of Cnro. A traveller recently returncl from Peking says that he saw thero a peculiar method of cure. Iu a telilplo outdebj ono of tho city gates is to be found a brass inulo of life sir. supposed to have woudeiful healing properties Patients suffering from every imaginablo disease seek this temple to obtain a euro. Toe method pursued is as follows: S ip posing you suffer from sciatic I, you go with all speed to this famous temple, and having discovered iho particular part of the brass mulo correspo nling to the painful region of your own body, you must rub the animal a certain num ber of times and then with tho ennn hand shampoo your own disable I mem ber, and thou well, thin the. pain goes. The special feature of this melliol of cure is its delightful simplicity. Is your tooth aching) ,lmt sc ub thi mule's teeth and afterward your own, mid the cure it complete. Huvo you ai uberof tho cornenf Pass tho lips of your fingers lo aud fr over the particu lar eyeball of the mull', and then with well regulated pressure rub repeatedly the iifflictcd eye. The mule has unhappily lost hissight during the many years he has been en gaged in his benevolent work, the eye balls, wo arc toll, having been gradu ally wrrnnwny, as tho result of con stant friction, until now you havi only the empty orbits to opiratc upon. Tin' animal is palclio I in all direc tions with fresh pieces of blast put on to cover holes produced by the constant friction of eai.'r patient!, nn 1 a new, perfectly whole mu'e stands ready nt hand, awaiting tho day when his old colleague, h iving fallen to piecs in tho temple, shall give him an op nirtuiii'y of likewsn benefiting prosperity. .ort!i f'.'ii'i-e Aid ( i! Jjui ii i'. How lioolh lirhnkril Two Girls. I'uring his stny nt Hallim ire, recent ly, Booth was beset by young gi Is who were de-irons of meeting tho nclor. This is not the first time he ha. been thus importuned, nnd he uwailed ai opportunity to deliver a wholesome lecture. The other day, while sea' ed in his ioi iu, a car I was brought lo him bearing the mines of two misses. llo told the waiter he would meet them in the parlor. With stately step mid wearing his grav.'st look, the tiagrdian descended the stairs and entered Iho presence of his visitors. In fiering tones ho bade Ihcm good day, and iibkcd of them their business. "Uii," said the younger of the two, who was not more than 17, "wo saw you play lat night, and ennn to form your ac quaintance.'' Here win the gie it trage dian's opportunity. Oruwing hisslight form to its fullest leiith, ho delivered bii lecture, mil it is pre'.ty certain tho girls will not soon foigct his words. After reminding them of their indescrc lion and the danger a'tonding the pur suit of actors, he sai l, looking at the cards, that he knew th-5 names who na -sumed. "If 1 k new your nht ininis,'' he said, "1 should certainly inform your parents." The g rls wire emu plctcly taken aback, and, inultciing an npol 'gy, they h.i3ti nel out of the hotel. An I ml inn's Fight with a Bun. One day in Indian made an excursion to a mi tint .tin near Clicv.uU. eurm, Mexico, to look after s 'ine find for hit hut. While cutting up n dry oak ho suddenly fell a Into on Ins leg, given in the I rat tioii of a second. A moment Inter he felt roiling mount hit body the tcirib o fold of a boa constrictor. Instinctively he leaned hit bend over t oward tho wound 1 1 leg and win al io st fascinated by the g'aro of two bright basilisk eyes, tltat glen mod liko tiei v coals iu tho hea l of the a-rp'iit. (j in ker than a tli-h the Indian ducked his head and caught the neck of the reptile between his jiws, sinking, his teeth in tho qn ivering flesh and. clinging to it with tho desperation CT the dying. Tile huge ser,rnt lashed bis tail un 1 tried to twist its bend . in order to bury its fangs in tho 1 1 linn, but tho latter clung on and began ' to hew away al the neck of tho . boa, which is the thinnest an I most delicate part of tho snake's anatomy. -.After chewing for a long time, the bid inn tuecceded in beheading hit antagonist, the folds dropped from around his body, anl tho Indian was free. AVio Hi lira Xnrt. The Bird On tho Silver Dollar. "As to tno buzzard on tho dollar piece," faid Director Licch, "I would certainly liko to seo that changed for a moro heroic bird, with bis head higher in the air. We have, at the mint in Philadelphia, the stuffml figuro of au eagle that used to fly around tho build ing, which would servo as a good model. I)' you know we had to tako a feather out of tho tail of the bird on tho ibillai ? Aftor wo hud struck off a couple of midion piecet wo fouud tlioru were eight fcat'icrs iu bis tail, when thero should have becu but seven," Off for Sltiiiiberlnnd. ' Turple waves of erem'ng play I'pon the western shurta of day, While babies sail, so safe .foil frert. liver the mystic Slumber Sea. Their little boats are cradles light; The suils are curtains pure and white; The riidd rs are sweet lullabies; The anchors, soft and sleepy i;hs. They're outward bound for Hlumberland,' Where sbiniiiK dreams lie un the mind, lake whisp'ring shells that murmur biw Tin' pretty fancies babies kimw. And there, mining the dream-shells brii'lit, flu' liltle ones will play all ni-lil, I ntii thenlivpy lule turns, then Tney'll all ifme .-ailinn bunii' again ..-I .,,-,,,,,. ',,, hi .v. ,V.7(u. Hl'MOKOl S. A baik enihier is likj n revolver. He's nil right as lung ns ho doesn't ge off. Wi ni' ii do not miury for money, but they say it is easier t" love a r'ch man than a poor one. It in; hi s all the ililb rcneo in tho woil I whether it is tho ban I that is .hikivi ..r tin; IM. The ri j rtel lover who had deter mined to hung himself finally com promised by hanging bis bend. 1 O) you keep any sm rets from your liusbin I?" 'Only one." "What il it." "The fact that I rule him." There is hope in the future for every nun. F.ven for the youth with a pair of tight shoes on tin: ro is the blissful pio-pi et of bedtime. "He not ovcr-Z 'iilous i i urgiii your friend to disclose a secret," says a phil osnplcr, and h ; is right. I. t her alono in I she'll let il out herself before long. Iiwycr (driwing wit i- -Your estato is much smnlli r, sir tliiin is gonoiall suppiscd. (S.ck Man Ye', but keep that quiet until after the funeral. 1 want a good show of gi ief-stricken mourner. b'c' yer, the ntronom"r, attributes win in Winter to n th rrcao of solur energy and not sutlit ii-nt heating tho equatorial regions to attract polar rur icnts. That mu-t be it. 'J he wentliCf has loafed along for three months with" , out energy i noiigh to catch col I. j A Monster Tree. A t i respondent from Minnesota ; wiilet that a tainaiaik tr.'n (larix Amor lean ai has lately bun found which mcini.tiil seven feet eight inches in cir ! ciinifi ruiiec four feet above the ground, i and was estimate I to bu l'.'o feet hih. the largest mlir iihuji i ci i lenrilis) j observed by tho sumo correspondent, 1 measured ten feel four inches in clr- cuinfcrcneo nt four feet above tho ground, and was ubuiit seventy feet . high. Both tlxse tires grow near a biook of constant spring w ater, nn I in alluvial Mill, rather stony. ' A monster elm tree stands on tho , Avny Durfer farm m Wayiio County, N. Y. Two feet above the ground It measures thiriy three feet ten inches in j circumference, nnd live feet above tho ground twenty feet and ten inches. It is sixty feet to the first limb and tha total urn 'tint of 1 1 1 in I ii r in tbn body of the tn'o is Hi, '.'.Ml feet, i ght.v years ago when the laim was tlcircd, I hi- tree vns left as a hiul lunrk. It was then a giant among tho surrounding foic-t trees. A correspondent in (ileiiollen, Tenn., sends us the following nn iu 'raudura with regard to a large tulip treo reronU ly cut down near that p'ur The small est diameter across the stump, lluee fret from the ground, win seventy-right inches inside the bink, which bhowavt f'til layers of annual growth, with only lluriy -eight layers of sap wood occupy ing a width of au inch and a half. Tha : diameter incrrav 1 three ii clics in tho ' thirty years, beginning with Iho Mlllh, i year of the tree's age, and six inches i:i ! twenty live years, beginning at a period i when the tree was eighteen initios la - diameter. Hie Time He Hem cm hp red. Thero is a certain greatly honored author in out midst whoso absenro of min. I is notorious. N d long ago this gentleman had occasion to unko a lec turing v sit to Portland, nnd ' tayrd whilo in that city at tho house of a friend. After In had returned he took a sort of inventory of his things, and, to his own surprise, misptl nothing. Having oc cas.on to write, on his arrival home, to tho friend at Portland, ho added this postscript; 'f'ironcc in my lifo, I belie"- J came away, when I left your house,' without leaving anything whatsoever behind. Tho experience is so unusual that it seems to mo well worthy of re, mark!" Tho same afternoon, returning from a trip down town, he found at his honso a letter from I'ottland which hd crossed his own, and also an ex pros s package; and tho letter read: "I send this mor.iing by expresi you umbrella, rubbers and tuothbiu b, which you left at our house, when you weal Hwor. Untm 1'rann-r pt. J