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: . - f i in II li ii i ii . w & v. i ii it ii s - ii i si hi it I it i ii - - v,' i! i i ,r. i , , i i . t- i . t t i ii ii i j - , . mm i L ' ' ' '" " ' " I . .. . . .- i i a , , ' n t ' j VOL. I. NO.: 12. A SHE VILLE, N . C SATURDAY,' SEPT. 20, 1890. R. L COOOMAM. T f T OcJy oce couutj pT utio") la erd j hoi ta'iacreiifl fa popaUtioa ortr tb cesses tea ycari ao.. j rrew Ttmc ttswji nates mat tns eatire Tetiiv fcu.ea"7'KiaIly disss troui fcrjfrolt tad tlt 1S9J J1 eticd A3 oce cl tii "wcrtt fralt year oa record.' Ii is wid titt tLcre i room for just icas hundred " core great mea ia Weit niaster Abbey. And it is interestiag to epecalite whit England will do witb dd wcrtbiej wbea the c!d abbey Lorert cf casaed talaioa tbouli con- ratulate tbtmaelrea, tbfaks the Xe' York Aft ii end Erjirttt. Ia pite of the o!d He thit two good eeuocs for sal jnoa are ceter cotsecatire, the raa ia British poluabb this jttr is equal to that cf fest jesr, wba it wa the best erer known. ! rula kr r.aot upon a Toe . t Tbat ipread it fttH to tke dawsj Cut at tb renlna trouble cIom i I cars, and lo! tip rct tbi goca. ! carr(J her name cptn a trtt, j Tfct tte?y fort-rt pri4 and Esi "Lire tbr.cwtara! Long ltatttothtrl' That Bi'cbt the temptat t!r th pia. eat fcer nama deep in a rock' ' That eroced the ttlinf nountain aid, A!aa! tbre ram an earthquake shock, j And p?3nffJ the bowlder in the t?4e. I i i - Then I perceiyed that outward frara lonTd no anrettead to lore iapat, Ab4 J.itcf a3 ! nrvf fcr oae l " "i. Warm on the taUeta of ray if art. . .. -lJama Baclham. in Frank Leahe'e. THE LOST LIOOHFLOWER. fv.-m nar beetle. The The ralea of the New York Colee EtehaaTiare bcea aneadej to aj to laike coilce froui the Eut ,and Tfeet Io d:e3, Xorth, Ceutrl and South Americ ti ,goqUlclircrr,, that fron Brazil only lu'ia b?jol d!ircry herctofure. Tbs ntniaat of co.Trc foot tL;v couu- trk-?, rauoiiu-s th? Far. Field nd "ill be 12,000,000 baga ia lieu of 1,033,000 as tho rule ato-jd be fore. roacraiaa Ilearv neaoerman. ff Xoaiaviil.took a nap oa hi front perch. Vhile he was thus enjijing hianelf a thief cajitt ia at the froat gate aai stole the officer's hat. Such an outrage filled iToIkfuiaa Henaermaa with wrath. . He f prorfd?l himself with a pistol and aaia ast down upon the porc!i. placing anoth er hat upon a chair near him. Muttering vengsncc, he pretended to bs asleep. Sure enoah. hi did fall asleep after a while, aad the thief returae I aai carrieJ of the-?co:id hat and the pistol. 3Ir. Hennrmnn is u Heal jolicmaj, is the .TerJict of the farcfio'i Chkaro HeralL Jt is "ripe meal thit yo j raist ask C JOU Tlsa w stamp youriell aa V .Li. Viot cplcareinisni, aya the , "''' ritf-'A 'TtirW meat" is moat that has been killed and f kep! f roa thrre to. four rnoatha in aa even trmptrature jut abore freeing. This nieas the nberi aai mtkes tlirs oarao - i rt luscious becaosc of the ahsonce of ; -full bfood 3Icat subiected !n mirh m. prircsa bso tenJcr that it melts la your mouth s easily as charlotte russe; so tt.vrr.. ia fact, that th? fastidious epicure -nil! ca( no other kind. I The JNew York Herald aajt: A "rail road ia the Holy Liad" has rather a jar 'rinj sound. Fire minutes for refresh meats at the Brook of Kedron," "Dinner ta the Valley of Jehosaphat,"- "Break rait at "anreth,M.'Ticketa goovl for ith?r Moait Zioa or Mouat Mo:ish.n We prt3uai3 these' will aooa be added to the cfka no-r familiar to pilgriaas oTer th; rs. Hiwerer, we shall in time 63 iccuitOJirJ to it, aad tho railroad will 00 rnpr detract from the f eclins of tnrereace witj whic'a : Holy Laad thaa from the belong to the potTy aad E?jp Rjaae aai the Isles of Greecs. turrouad the meairies that tralitions of The err York v aara that at Bala Pesth, Huarary, occurred the most ex tra ordinary popular demoaatratioa in all th or, which Mr. Wnngtmaa, the rcpreaentatire of Inreator Edisoa, mad while exhibiting the phoaograph t the people of Europe. A three days' stop .was made-there, aad everybody waated to see th paoaogrspj. As the best raeaas to gratify the demtad as far as posaible, Hi. Wangemaa thought it "ould hi good plan to iaeue one iarita tica to each of the 120O telephone tub "scriber ia tha dtr. The President of the telephone company undertook to at tend to that matter. lie issued the cards cf inTitatioa and thea he was orer wbelsiedbyapplicatioa for mors ticket. .The first recipients- wantei to take their families aad friend. The President yielded -? to their solicitations, and, scratching out the "admit one oa their tickets, promiscuously endorsed them "admit eight," or "admit ten.w Mr. Waagemaa had secured one of the largest dinning halls in, the biggest hotel ia the city for the cxhibitioa. The house was as lirga aa the Fifth Areoue Hotel ia rsew-York, aad it was arranged that the -visitors should be admitted at cae en trance aad should pass oat at another, keeping up a constant raoYiag throng. Bat when the day arrived the hotel was literally besieged. - Instead of 120), ia themselves too large a crowd, 15.000 sought to ga'ia admission. .It was some thing unprecedented and appalling. The house usida ws packed and the streets outside were filled with a. deass mass of people. Nothing could be done. No body could gat ia or oat, aad the aitua tioa remained unchanged for hours. It b-,aam serio'as finally, aad the aathori tie4eat a company of soldiers to clear theireet scd the ryblic tills of the 1 looked up oignt was waim. ; : A little bbtk girl trotced the dustv main street tf the village just in front of my hut, carrjinp; in ber hand what ttiDcJ t roe in the gloaming the largest blcssoni I had ever observed Incc iny nrriral in Africa. That was. a blusseni." It looked like an orchidPalo crearo-cvlor in hue. and j very fanfatic 3Dd bizarre in ehapc; bur what-specially attractel my nt:t-n;i m at first sight was its p-rctiliar fchiuinirand jriistenioff effect. 11 i'juuuo'.ls jaini, x men maae it glow in the gray dusk with a sort ef phos phorus, cat light such as one observes ia tropical sras 00 c-alni stimmer evenings. -To a tialuralUt, of course, such a WMoa'ns that vrttn implv irresistible. Hu'io. there-, little .irl r"l cried out in Fantec. which I had lirnH by that time to speak iirctlr flMentlr. "let ht look at your flower, iil you Where' on earth did vcu get itf. But instead of answering me civilly, the scared little savage, alarmed at mv white f.-.cV,ifet up a wild howl J terror aud amaeraent and , lo!ted vfl down the street as fast as her small bandy legs would carry -her. . Well, seieuce is science. I.wa.sn"t to bt balked of a unique sm-eimcn for 0iv srtat collection by a nick like that. So, fling ing away roy cigarette and darting out ol my hut f rave chase int ontineDtTr. and ruhed full iIt down the rosin street ol Tul.irnlia. h(lter-kelter in pir?uitof my ten-year-old. ; But Ircckoircd without ny hot. Chll dien on the tiabora beat. the rccoiJ foi the 'luaiti rroilc. ; I was iui:e puraped out ami panting for breath Wore I ran that giil tomrth at lat. ly her rajther's doot at the far end of the vilhge. A dozen r more of the natives loitering about on their barks in the dust of Hicstrcet, had joined the buy aud crv with great frnsto by that lime. They didn't know, to be sure, what the fufs was about, but given a white mm -rbtttower of money rushing in mad pun4iif, and a poor little fright ened black irl saDjenor away for dear life nt the too of hcrsDeed. in abiect bodi- h terror, you maveoundentlv reckon oa the chifttlry of the Gaboon to rango it.lf automatically on the side of the ftr.Misrvr, and to: drive the unhappy small .ujiu oojK Ksiy into a very Daa corner. hon at j last I got up with the object of mv ijuei $nc was so aiartnea ana blown nith her headlong career that I feltther- oughly ahflmed of mvtlf. Evea the pur suit of science, I will frank! v adroit, hard- lv jutiod me in to chivying that fright encd little mortal, the strong, through the . - r t tt 1 9 - siiccii 1 jiitmiia. aaowever,-a DriguT, Lnglisn sit pence, a red eilk pocket haod- kcrvhiet anu the promise of a box of tu ropean -.vcs from the eld, half-caste rortugutsc traders shop jn the Tillage, swa rcstoretljhtr confidence. Unhappily it did not mtore that broken and flrag g!ed orchid. Id her headlong flight Jhe em'd had ciumpled it heyieiessly up in her hand and distoited it alinoet beyond the 1 1 " r j a, iMJSAioiniy 01 scicnxincrecogniuon. Am j could make out w ith certainty Nvas that the orchid belonged to a new and hitherto undescnued ?pccies; that it was large and luminous and extremely beautiful, and inat 11 omv 1 couia succeea in eecunna plant of it my name was made as a scienti fic explorer. ! "j The natives crowded around with dis interested advice and eyed the torn and dn" rrled bloi-om curiouslv. "It's a moonflower, thev said in their own di alect. 1 "Very rare. Hard toet. Ccrnes trom toe deep snaaes 01 inc great tur ' How- did jou come by it, my chi!dP I a:ked coaxangly cf my fQbbtng httje ten-vcar-old. , . j I phosphorescent. .Of this I had not the shadow cf a doubt. Its petals gare out by night, a faint and dreamy lumicous ckj, which must hare thiaed like amooa laieedin the dense dark ehide of a tropi cal African forest. The more I inquired of the natives about the new plant the ne was, my cariosity piqued to possess one. I longed to" bring a root cf the tatrvellous bloom to E-jTcpe. For the natives all epoke of it -with a certain hushed awe or eupersti tious respect.- - . " It ' is the - Ngina flower," they said;, "it grows in the dark places the gardens of Ngina. If aiy maa breaks one off that is very bad luck; the Sgina will surely overtake and destroy, him." . v 1 !V - This juperstitious awe Voir infianed my desire to possess a rooti'- The natives etories showed the mtfOn flowerto be a most unique species: I gathered, from what they told me that the blossom- had arery long apuror sae, containing honej at its base in gieat quantities; that it wa; fettiliied and rifled by a : huge evening moth,8 whose proboscis wa exactly adap ted in length to the spur and it& nectary; thatit was cream t white in order to'at tract the insects eves in the srray.ishadee of duk; ami. that, for the self same rea' ou its petal were endowed with the strange quality of phosphorescence, till now unknown in the vegetable kingdom; while it exhaled by night a delicious lerfame, trong enough to be perceived at some twenty vards distance.' 80 greai a prize to a roan 01 my tastes was simply irresistible. I mide up my mind that,- come - what might,;-1 must, could and would Kssess a tuber of thy moon flower. ' ' One fortnight sufficed for me to make my final plans. Heavy bribes overcame the scruples of the negroes. The prom ise of a good rifle induced the tinder of the first specimen to take service with' me as a guide. Fully equipped for a week's march, and well attended with followers all armed to the teeth, I made my-start at last for the home of the moon flower. ! To cut along story hhorf. we went for three davs into the primeval shade of the great equatorial African forest. Dense roofs of foliage shut out the light of day: underfoot the ground was encumbered with thick, tropical brohwood." Wc crept along cautiously, hacking our way at times amoug the brake with our cut lasses and cra.vling at others through the deep tangle of the underbrush ou all fours like monkeys. During all tho?c three, days wc never caught fcight of m single myon flower. They were growing very rare nowadays, my guide explained in roost voluble Fantee. When he w a mere, ly bis father found dozens of them, but now, why you must go mi!esTlnd tnile through the depths of the forest and never so much'as licht on a sneci men."' " " " - " , .. . -. ... ... 1 avarffX half hoped, fling down the noisy guatad J make headlong for the remotest depths I ei ins lorest. un ks conyiry, ne fiooo ad looked, at it for a it-- seconds ia blank dismay. . He frewtd with ;iis scowling eyebrows ; he gctJiei his great teeth in rage; he roared lik$,a waterialL Then he seized the rifle deliber tlyia his freat hairy hands, ben! the barrel almost oublo as readily as a mvi "mild bsc a bit of common lead gaspip,. and fl.ufig'it away anrruy amcce tne ' moss tlad bowlders. After that he looked up' and. grinnea once more aiaDoucjiiy, snowing his great canine teeth in the most grew some fashion.- ; -T' . - Well, I don't deny, as. I tay, that lira in a state,of blue, flunk at the creature 8 g'ganticr and almost supraviral poivers. but Etui, toe moon fioTwrtf as at stake and I wouldn't desert it. -1 was so horri bly frightened that I don't believe wife or child or fatherland or freedom-would have induced me to atay "one; moment alone In such dire extremities. 1 r But when it comes to orchidsT .Well, I say no more than that I am above all things a scientific explorer: each of us has his weakness, ana mine is a flower. - ; That touches my heart, 'for that alone can I be wrought up to the utmost pitch of darinc conceivable or possible for me. f?o f looked at the-huge brute, and I looked at the moonflower. Slowly and cautiously, gazing down all the time as I went to watch the creature s face, I crept along the branch, took my knife from my pocket, and began to loosen the bark all arouiid the spot where the glorious paraireVwa3 all a-growing and n-blow-ing. TlV gorilla, from below, stood watching) -me and Kodring. . His roar seemed likVan invitation to come down and fight. Tjievcr in my life heard any thing fco awfiSly human iaits deep bass roll. It remincV.d. roe of the lowest notes of the stage vilhaa in the Italian operas, mignificd, so to epeak, two hundred diameters. t : :' ' ' IVescntly, as I went 6j",ciitting away the bark, as if for dear life,snd loosen ing the precious tuber, ror arorilla. who T . v. f f PI BER ! CBYSTitV PEARLS. ! 1 thai gets the wer&f of it" vtrrtlT. first-thing that the diyer trie; to do still remained motionlcts bv his mossclad boulder, left off! his roaring ancVppeared to grow interested in the process of,'-(he r ration. A change came o'er the s'mrit his dream. He looked and wbn dered, with vague brute cunousity, -not unmixed with a certain srtange air of bfw ; 1 i ,,. . ciinuiug auu intelligence, The longer I went on the closer At la-L, abo'jt noon on the fourth day out. wc came upon a torrent rusbinsr with great velocity among husre bowlders and "-ending up the spray of its boiling rapid? into the trees of the neighborhood. I sat down to rest, meaning to mix he water from the cool, fresh stream with a spnouful or two of cognac from the flak in my pocket. As I drank it I tossed back iny head and looked uj. Some thing on one of the trees hara by attract ed my eye strangely. A paraite stood out lold!y from a fork of the branches bearing a long,. lithe spiay of huge; luminous flowers, as big as dessert plates. My heart gave a bound. ; The prie was within sight. I pointed my finger, in silence to the tree. All the negroes with one voice rahed a loud shout of triumph. Their words rent Ihc air: '.'The moon flower! The moon flowerF' I felt myself for a moment a perfect Stanley or DuChaillu. I had discovered the roost marvellous and beautiful orchid knowrfto science. , T laid floTV n m V riflo nnd monnlmirnn th"back of one of mv iorters wasswinr? i eDa to mJ infinite horror, he seized not . ' 1 - . .! 1. . 1 T x 1 .x lowest branch ot me i raigntuave pui priceless mooa- tho more nttentivelv did the irorillu taste stock of all my acts and movements.- Jf At last I had finished and held y sjccimen in my hands entire. , The nest jutiiiuu nuir ias wim 10 tio wun it i waiKeu slowly ami cautiously "long the branch of the tree. The son Ha .with hia ryes now fixr d curiously on the iooon 'US2F put forth 0113 haitlv Itir in tXpnt cautioulv beneath tne. - JF. I came to the end of Tnd reacnea tne oint wiaj f. iacing branches enabled me t gfv to an other tree. I did so sonviwhat rnimsily, for I was - handicapnefl bv i-hexmoon- 1 Jower, Then I . lost . my balafee, and I clinging still to my moonflowCT "in my f last chance for- life, lowered V mvscif slow ly hand over hand to the ground in front of him. .'" ... ...Jt With a frightful roar tb creature sprang upon me, and made dgvtid grab at my, precious inojhflower.t That was more than scientific huroanoature could stand. I turned and fied, carrying my specimen with me. Bun my pursuer was too quick. He caught' me up in a mo ment. His scowling black facc, wa ghastly to behold: his huge white teeth gleamed fierce and hideous, his brawny! thick hands could have crushed me to a jelly. I panted and paused. My heart fluttered fast, then stood still within me. J cere was a second s suspense. At its JLb( suid-EnjoymenrinlXsuatnff .fhs ' SOME HfTOtESXIITO PACTS ABOUT ' K- y: . ' Iattls rnr-beirera." - A 'I t'-ffHfiEB;. QVmSQUB:. SUSSTASXCESZU ;:My father had at one time thirty minks ' r- 'rfi, ..; . r. ".p.r k mostly ef his o wn raisiBg," and they were, insects Encased in . . ' Amber A ; Ite as terse and ' easily handied as eo mfbjr -. markabl JIacoTery; oZ Crystal kittens : but the decline in iufs, and con- i How Chlnameor Produce Pearls, Smnt tM-mir entrmiam in fh. en- ! a . - " mwir sr a t ?rr nn 1 . The ' ! f "ref frx rT vi r f r f.ir KrsftfV m fair, then he gets under egiia.ftnd mancsu-, vree until he gets the ih if oul. PeI . diveri in the Tcrres traits !' net ea- ' ' twentieth pert-io-much afraid cf th 1 tiger sharks which irer awarming thera ' as of the gianf melldsk at the bottcm, : six feet or more across Its shell. which lies; with extended t as if Waiting for .the unfortuaatftj fisherman to drop-into , them- The rictim,: dropping 'out of hi .m boat into the dftpthj with a heavy itoni f ". " -attached to his feetv brngs - his leg into contact wjth th .mantle or the huge unoo'-tha limb . . . . . . days; This bwsiiybt on-kiiid of dysen as to attraetlightubsttncef.od -our r:TVaon tfememious. cite. uaiy ena y terprise and our. subsequent reraoral to" lennessee put ajuepd to the experiment wTites a Forest and Stream contributor We lost a number, I remember; toward the last, by feeding ftiera too mnch beef's liver. The little annimals were exceed ingly fond of I lirer, and vr? threw dnto f Amr5er is a carious ttuffleaid" a col- -i lector cf curios th? ' ether day. 4 It U tinly comparatively jreeentlyT that its na iure,has been known, aad eved at - this lay very few people seem to hare any action as'to' what it is jn reality; , The ancients regarded it as altogether! myste - - - - - j 1 w v 1 ri 1 s r fl. b 1 r wm ' iv mm 1 n the rard one daT1 a whole beefs liver, n rious and eren magical. They '.found that? --f - , which'thaTCOT5?ed themselrei for seWal it was rendered electricaF by friction so o.tusk,; which closes tery, also loet a number from no cause that we could ascertain,-but which I now believe was from keeping too many confined in too small a space.' The mink is a solitary animal by nature, and when too many are by force congregated it brings on contag--ious diseases among them. Our enclosure was at first about four or hve rods square, and surroundcxl a lump of small spruce trees, and had a eiream or water coDsiantiy running through it in a box about a foot wide and about the same depth. : Later we found that the animals bad to be separated moat Of the year, 'for they are vicious fighters: especially the old ones, and thus the en closure was divided into tmall compart jaents. j The outside was an lipnaht. tfamefor amber, which 'was- elctroo., t Oimxpimpur h hi a--ro ; ! A favorite puxzle with? them was Uwbth Z knife; tb feJl pic wocpru mjriucr wuu icuavlj lull tight board fence, six feet high, rcstiug found to-day. It is discovered) p! on a stone wall one foot below the surface, . fully by dicrffinir in certain parts of with flat stooe3 at the bottom. proiectiu omt rilain o! z i :il i r . . m - . in, also wun a ooaru a iooi wme, prujeci- ing inward from the top, and the corners lined with tin. Then, to insure their not climbing out, we used to -clip the, two front nails of the fore paws, if this done when the animal lis vounsr, an insects so frequently found ' in" amber came to be so situated. I havef myself teen a chunk of very transparent amber in which a small lissard with five legs was encased, looking as if it might have been alive yesterday, f ,t hough, doubtless, j it had been dead for thousands J of years. (The jmyst ery regarding; this sort of phenomenon is easily" enough Explained when It is ' nn derstood that amber is actually the fos sil srum of an extinct kind of cone-bear ing tree. In the process of hardening it j imprisoned the flies and other ! creatures preservectin thej, chunks of it Jthat are. lenti- parts of the North Germany, where ' the strange tree1 once flourished; It is L consiaeraoie . quantifies wou&J take several horse power fo loosen and It is anchored to the. bottom with i fable of Its own ihrea'tlmes as strong as s the best inh rope(' Winjatan .Star .- select sirrrxGs.-" Tjxe tongue of the giraflt'iinearijai footjand a half long. . : , - J A jaguar will rather attackbladij man than a white one. . Vt. L. Osborne, ;of Phcenix,ArJjtoni, has collected ten tons or noney.xnu; tea son from 171 hires.' also found Consul Meyers, of Honolulu, declare! that of the 1159 lepers at Melohalxrvmlyf twenty-eight ire Chinese j . A man in - Jefferson Count r. Penn.s im along the shores of the Baltic, in the id to hare-lost hi light from drinldag rellow sand stone. At Palmicken. in ice-water when heated. ' , i'Vf East Prussia, it is dug ia regular mines; A Los Angeles (Cal.); pickle, facto ryi etbewuere.it j piciteu iroui cum, anu a oougat. eigmj ions oi cucummn it mfi codfisher carries a" set of! effectiully spo climber or digger, f - As a bovt it was mv part ol the farm chores to look after the "rainkery.'Haud ' an agreeable duty it was to me in many respects. The feed consisted almost en tirely of woodchucks, in which our sec tion of Western Xew York abounded. E TL mm . . m M m ,Tcup maae ; ot tnat material - now Brighton Museum, England. founa at Jtjove some years y ago lencth. and hariaci at the f,. nmainor1 nnmhe.r of -4680' hookaJ a r. and many an afternoon the excuse of be ing out of "mink bait" was ; sufficient to. et me oft about milking time, aud many: poor woodchuck fell a Victim to mv i ittle smooth-Dore at short ' range. The young ones were fed mostly on milk, la p- f f j?i - ; ping ltupgreeauy hkc young puppies A younjr mink is easily taroed and . they are the most cute and playful little uimiurcs id me worui. inev win piay It was every one of which must be baited;;vf V! together , T.;-,nj- ta k, - hOnii mniwf.Vt wun weapons ana nrenni. oi stone ana lenf croquet ?Uyer. De playi by in-! bronxe sot is evidently rery anc ent, fonnation to direW by meajur-j indeed! Ia the fourteenth century, and j - - -,,; i t.J' - l- ' mtlV lAIC UlDia Ul. If TV mm m mm. m km mj- hU 1,1111 MJ U s. 1 r : .1 r . ue-iore-auiuer-was uiaue into a.iiire8j anu tgj ball fork vrifh nn nmno' - wliinh ItrerAiKerl '5- by princes and church . dignitaries, it 1 ji A ' terloo veteran who reside ineaw was more Valuable than gold then. Now , Vwestry, angiano, nas just awaiMOiiia it is .wortrj from $3 to $50 a pound, ac-1 OeUeth year. ; He has been;taarrIJ cording to its quality. , The most im- our ti, and is the fathe of twenty-, portant use made of it is for meerschaum I -our children. ;., J. i ( and other; pipes. r Meerschaum, by the , Pemberton, 2v. J., has a curious traals way, is a material dug out of jthe earth .of nature. At the farm of Alfred John Jin Turkey ; it comes in boxes holding . ion are twin calTes, under izedf yel together for hours at a time, rollinT aud l nfty pounds and Talued at from Z0 to I neattny, cornea wun long wnue, neecy tumbling over eacU. other! in the watei i- 5oW. ine aust an.U chip f obtametl . wool anu wun laais mow ;i -out in the Mt aniusiar manner. -; fromi in. the process of manufacture are ! Wbbit. t J . i . --- .-.-?n.-,T anJ , vfprSed ias this material, beina l It is said to be uoi at all nnlikelr thai. otiir'Afc"feulea wiii fame into the c?iueu -uruiauon tuyn TJj--ouid crawl all cmst is melted, and the 'What "a rerv beautiful sphere of and rr-v - My father brought it in,', the child answered w ith a burst. "He eave it roe a e:k gc. He was cut in the country of the dwarf dping trade. IJe weet fot ivory and he brought this back to me. . Boys,' I cried to the natives who had crowded round looking on "do you know where it lives? 1 want to set one. good English rifle to any man in Tu- laxnba who guides me to the spjt where I can picK a wild moonnowerl ,J Tiie men shook - their head and tltrucrutd their shoulders dubiously. Oh. no," they all answered, like su pers at toe l beat re, with one -accord. "Too far ! Too dangerous . ''Why da o per oi is? ' I cried, laughing. "Tiie moouflowers won't bite you. Who says danger in picking a flower r My head guide andsliunter stood out from tho crowd, and looked. across at m awestruck. "Oh, exceIlencT1", he said, in a hushed and f Tightened voice, "the moon flower is rery scarce;! it grows only in the nark forest ol the inner land where the Xgina dwells. Jfd man dare pick it for fear of the Kgina." "Oho r said I. 'Is that so, nay friend I Then I ra not astonished." FOr r2ica: as no doubt you're already aware, is the native Vet African name for the cor- illa. '.' . .'J Well, I took home the poor draggled blossom to my hut, dissected it carefully and made what scientific study was pos sible of its unhappy remains in their much tx tered condition.,; But f or. the. next.teo day as yoa caa readily believe, I could think and talk and dream of nothing but moon flowers. You cant tMak "waat a fascination it exerts on a. nataralist ex- f)lorer mind a neworchd like that, as iig round cs a dessert iJate and marked bv o t-UraordiriaTv and. hithcrtc uaktows aupcculla wcreicercr. Fcr M cioca ingi myself up to the the tree, where my new treasure shone respondent in its own dim phosphor escence. I couldn't have trusted any hand but my own to pick or egg out that rlorious tuber. I meant to cut it bodily from the bark as it stood and bear it back in triumph in my own arm3 to Tu lamba. , I had climocd the tree cautiously and was standing almost within grasp of the prize, when a sudden shout among. mv followers below startled and discom poved me. I looked down and hesitated. My brain reeled and sickened. A strange CItVi fr nict m r Ai ni Xt vwrlr nop and all, had taken to their ftet down the bed of the stream at the very top of their speed, and were making' a most -unani. mous and inexplicable "stampede toward the direction of Tulamba. For a moment I couldn't imagine what had happened to disconcert them; then. casting 'iny glance casually toward the spot where I had flung down my rifle, J became aware at once or tne cause ot this commotion. Their retreat whs well timed. By the moss-clad boulders which filled the bed of the torrent somebody, with a big, black face aud huge grinning teeth, was standing erect, looking up at me and laughing, had never seen the' somebody's awful features before, butJ had po need, for all that, to ask myself his name. I paused face to face with a a live male gorilla. Jror a moment or two the creature gaxed up at ic and grinned. Then he raised roy rifle in his arms; held it clum sily before him, and to my intense sur prise, taking a very b-'l aim, or rathet pointing it aimlessly . i the air, palled both triggers with out: hand ' and dis charged "the two barrels at me with one pull simultaneously. The bullets whizzed past me some: ten yards off. They knocked off the twigs beyond ray precious moon flower. ' I don't deny that I was astonished. I won't deny tnat I was frightened. To tell the truth I was never in such a hidc otis funk before in all my life. I trem bled like, a jelly my protoplasm curd'ed. I don't suppose the creature intended to fire or baa the slightest idea In bis dim mind what firing meant. No doubt he was only plajing with the un known object -out of p3re monkey curi osity. He must have been almost as much terrified at the result as. I wa. But no matter for that, it wasi awkward to findojia' self face to face with a gorilla, alone and without one's rifle so Awk ward that for a minute or two I just crave tnytelf up for lost entirely. The corilLi. however. aXtet Lis ilrht flujJi of inrprisi waa ever, did-not; as th up with that but flower. I was helpless to defend myself help- I less to secure or safeguard my treasure. He took it from me with a grin.- I could see through those sunken eyes what was passing in the creature's dim and brutal brain. He was saying. to himself, like men of his own low grade of cunning: " If that tuber was worth so much pains to mm to get it must be worm lust as ; much to me to keep. :Bo by your leave. my friend, if you'll xcuse roe, I'll take . . '-1.1'. : . . I stood appalled and gazecUat him. yata to see them. T?Jj--ouid crawl all over me and up my coat- sleeve ad pan taloon egs, and let inc feel of their sharp, needle-like te,ith without I offering to bite. ; I have seeri them rolling and tumbling in the water, when one wou!d streteh out and apiear to be dvadjand the other "seize .him by the nape of the neck and drag him out of the w:itcr and several feet out,on the ground, wht-ii the "dead" mink would suddenly jump and they would both scramble into the water and reverse the performance. . vj Like all meat eating animals, the raiuk would gorge themselves with enough at ode time to last them two or three days, and during such periods they are. stupid and quiet spending' most of the tiroe-asleep and when handled will lazily open thea eyes and stretch out and go to sleep again. But let tbem once get . fairly hungry and they are about as lively a varmint as I ever saw. At such limes it is best to be careful 'about, feeding them bits of meat from your hand, for they arc liable to grab hold of your finger, iustcad. and thm,ja mink will beat any bull terV rier that lever lived " in the matter of hanging on, "and a d3zcn tomeats cannot do as lively snarling and scratch ing. You may swing them around rap them against the fence or duck them under the water, they still hold their grip, and nothing but good strong chokipsr until : the breath is fairly gone will induce them to let go. product is what a Western syndicate hating made an bile Tery beautiful sphere of , tor if. I ne intention is to put onex' crystal this is 1 7 said the newspaper inan, I hibition during the World Fair. jugs and drinking ph, and a learned The Shot Tower Invented Dream. ; in A mechanic at Bristol England." had The .brute snatched that unique specimen queer dreami i Watts was his name,' and oi a uy mg or aimosi cxtmcx genus m nis l he was by trade a shotmaker. The mak swarm, nairy nanas tnose clumsy great hands of bis ralsetl it bodily "to his mouth, crushing and Tearing the beauti ful petals in his coarse grab as he went ate it slowly through tuber, stem, spray, blossom and swallowed '. it conscien tiously, with a hideous grimace," to the very, last morsel. - l bad but one grain of consolation or revenge, j It wa3 dearth taste was exceedingly nasty, i Then io looked in. roy face and burst into a loud, discordant laugh. That laugh was. hideous. . " " Aha!" it said, in effect. " So that's all you've got, my fine; fellow, after all, for all your pains, and care, and trouble I I shut my .eyes and waited. My turn would come next. He would rend trie in his rasre for the nastiness of the taste. I stood still and shuddered. . But; alasr he meant only to eat the moonflower. When I opened" - mv : eves strain ' the brute had turned his back without one word of apology, and was walking off at a leisurely pace in contemptuous triumph; inntn-Tinn1 hl t,hrtt Irior nut - .iwl 1 1. V. X A . t chuckling low to himself in his- vulgar ing, when Watts arose, he dog in the manger joy and maBgoancy. r the dream.- He thought ab it was i our aavs peiore 1 straggled aione, nan aeaa, into luiamba. I never came across another of those orchids. And that is why at Kew they have etill no moonflower. few York Herald. taking in his hand a cool globe that looked like a huge dewdrop, which the collector handed hini forjexanxjnatioa. "Yes, that, is a pretty specimen. I suppose you are aware of the theory en tertained by the ancients regarding such rock crystal They thought it was ac tually ice frozen to great density by dura tion of time, congealed bey one - liquida tion. -'Krystallos' in Greek means ice.' The famous writer on natural philosophy, Pliny, who wrote more facts that were not true than ever any man cojlected to gether before or sincer says the- crystal is .undoubtedly water frozen by cold so inT tense that, nothing can melt jit again. Roman ladies of that time were accus tomed to carry such spheres as this lone in; their hands diirin? hot weather for coolness. It was the thing, also, fohave the material worked into wine other vessels. Xero had two cups of crystal worth 3X'0 ea crystal ladle also: but when he that he had lost his kingdom he broke them, lest they fall into the hands ef any one else. A crystal lens was J employed in Rome to kindielhesacied yestal tire. Great care was taken not to put the crys- j tal ware in a warm place for fear that it ' would melt; - The most remarkable "s- co very of crystal on record was made, in j 1967 above the Tiefen glacier by a party J of tonrists. a Einirle cave In the cranft : a . , ws- . j; AAA t e ifu. I a yieiumg uw crysiais uiuuin ,miy ; io 100 pounds weight, , "And what is thisP ; "That,"-replied the coilec diminutive Chinese god, covered with-a coat of pearl by a real pearl oyster. On such parts of the coast of the Flowery ; Kingdom as produce pearl oysters a reg ular business is often made of j manufac turing pearls articficially by introducing into the shells of the Jive oysters forefga object of various kinds. . You doubtless know that the pearl is a morbid symptom in the bivalve. A grain! of sand or some such substance eettf nir into the oyster tor, is . a In the morh- remember4d about it all day. and wondered what shape molten lead wauld take in falling a distance through the air. At Jast, when he could rest no longer, he carried a ladlefnl of the hot metal up into the steeple of the church of St. Mary, of Redcliffe, and dropped it into tne moat below. Descending, fie took from the bottom of the shallow pool several handfnlsaof perfect shot, far sup erior to any he had ever seen. Watts The ape is in great request among Sia-1 fortune was made," forne had conceived rnee merchants, as a cashier In their I the idea of a shot tower, which has ever ing of the little leaden pellets was then a slow,-laborious and; consequently cost ly process.; . 'Watts had to take Igreat bars of lead and . pound them out- into sheets of a thickness about equal to the diameter of the shot he desired to make; Then he cut the sheets into little cubes.1 which he placed into a revolving barrel! or box and rolled until the edges Wore off from the constant friction and the little cubes became spheroids. Watts had often racked his brain trying to de- ally, after an evening spent with some I Hf8 1"".tat,0B' .aad "T1 VIT jolly companions at the alehouse he went K te2 bJ rro. . objectionable home and turned into bed; He soon feii particle with coating after coating of its into a deen slumber, but the Honor rvi- own pearly secretion. The interruption dently did not agree with him, for he ' of fyfi by the succeasiye coats of which A had a bad dream. He thought he was 100 peart is iormeu in mis way gives u out again with the "boys.' They were ft beautiful lustre. Taking 'advantage all trying te- find tlcir way home when of this habit of the pearl oyster the ia it began to rain shot. Beautiful globules' geaious Chinaman pries it gently open of Iead,polished and shining, fell in a and puts in whatever he likes, miybe a torrent and compelled him and his bib-11, little figure of a god like this. ! The oys-: mous companions to airaw their heavy ter goes to work and corers tit with a - a A. - mT . ml i v a One of the largest forests in the world stands on ice. It is situated between Ural and the Okhotsk Sea, ijf Russian' Biberia. A well was receatly dug in this region., when it was found that at a depth' (of 116 metres the ground was stUr5 frozen. '' ' j : j . - , ' . - i j The French - order, : the Legion , o Honor, was established by Napoleon" in 1802. There are fire grades, that of . chevalier, officer, 1 commander, grand officer and grand croix. Recipient re ceive 650, $100, 1200, $400, 1500 V year respectively! . j ' . '! ; Richard Terlthick; of Eaglaid, built the first locomotive in 1804, but' the first locomotive after the modern idearu built by George Stephenson in 1829; tha idea ot the construction of a locomotive was given to the-world by Jamea Watt in Unhand patented by him in 1784. The St Joseph (SW Nevi relate that : the Mayor of Keytesville, that Statewa arrested the other day for a Tiohttioa of a city ordinance,! which, prohibit tha throwing of paper, ia the streets. ' The' City Marshal caught him in the act, and! the Mayor . fined I himself ft . for the offence. jr , X ' j j' , The barrad or barraia was the nanus of a conicacap worn by the Irish as lata' as the seventeenth century, and apparent It of rery ancient origin. O'More, i turbulent Iriah chieftain, is represented wearing one in a delineation of the If k ing of the Earl of prraond iW 1600. It was of the most primitive form, resem bling the cappan of the ancient Britons. - Likes the StUf of the Dee. Some obstinate men ! will ay "Xo; thank you," to the- most disinterested' proposition for I their welfare, r DrJ O'KeUl, of Lincoln, as he'UliaNis ia tfcj"- Ape Cashier. counting-houses;. V a st - qtrantites. of base coin obtain circulation in Sjamacd the faculty cf ,d"scrimini!Koriie3reen good money and bad would appear to be possessed by these gifted monkeys in such, an extraordinary degree of derelop ment that nobnrmtfleiogj however care fully trained, can fccznpete with him. coii i since been the only means employed in the manufacture ofthe death dealing lit tla missiles so much used , in war and sport Xew York Dispatch. . ' It is reported that there are 3,000 Jap-' aaese in this country, ef whom 2,00V bare been baptized br missionaries iif 1 1 mediately spitting it cut if bad. ' 1 TJrired State. - . &c shadow, waiting to take ( t j, vkuoiwa x j1 feItft TkU ii upVaut bu pearl, until after a,few months the idol is a pearl idol. It Is worth mentioning in-: cide'ntally that -sharks are by r9 means such a terror to pearl divers as, is "com monly supposed. It is true that now and then a diver does get gobbled, but; for every such human victim hundreds of sharks are killed by the idiyersY ' -In r' great majority of instances j the diver proves much more than a match Vor the sharks, at home as he is in the water, and armed with a long, keen knife for strik ing the fish behind the pectoral fin in the .fatal spot. The diver i perfectly "safe while en the bottom gathering oysters, because the man-eating sharks are not ground feeders and they wflli not touch him there. ? It is when he is rising to the snrfacV with his. catch,. out of breath after two minutes spent below, that he is apt to find a fish perhaps thirty -five feet m length looming overhead like agigan- hua in at a buV ft ii the week's Lancet, has a friend who endure the eting of the honey bee without flinch-. ing: In fact, he j rather likes it. . IU' keeps bees for pleasure, and the bees, for 1 their pleasure or otherwise, often sting him. lie ,ndw, however, believe hEm-, self sting-proof. i The tiny wound that used to produce serer pain In formar: days causes how 1 'only a little pleasurable sensation.1' He ft still unfortiicd against the wasp, j Stung , by one of tho for midable insects a short time ago, Dr.' O'Xeiir friend bad sufferings acute aad! prolonged. , Bat it j might be, says DK OTfefll, that after a few repetition thv sting of thi wun might cease ia huato produce it tloging ' effect. - 60 h has suggested to hir. friend that "for the 'sake of science jhe should taka tha matter up and thoroughly iavestigate It, in order that he might discover whether he could not also fortify liimself agaiart , the pain caused by tb f tlhg of the wasp." TnU, say the doctor, with whose d'sp-.; point meat the public will no doubt sym- pathize, the friend J"decUoed to do, hi t thirst for science uot being ufllcieatly ' , greaft to induce himl to have any further intercourse with . the wasp if L could help it,' -London. v- .:'' : . ' Iigham Court. Jstreatham, near Loai. doa, comprising sixty -six acres, has jqit ' been Hld for ; $J50,000. It wa for ; many years tlie residence of the late M. . J. Tredwdl, a. railway contractor, who began life as a naryy. His widow still preserves the picli iuad shovel with wticU. lie wcjfced ii 1 lA'ncrer, 1 I - a r 4 AT mW
