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f THE NEW DAY. ! , Out from the broken calyx of the night tlie new day merges with a slow surprise, And like some new-winged thing with startled 'eyes,. - . , . . ;; Rests on the riven sheath ere taking flight. But as her pulses quicken and grow strong He purple mists are smitten from her face, And slowly knowing all its new-born grace The red pomegranate flushes o'er it throng, Then up the cloudy way in stately wise, thrusting the shadows back with mystic hand, - ' " fine rideth slowly through the waiting land. No thought of yesterday doth dim her eyes, For !i the new-born day that rules the earth la not ewirrectfcra but a birth ! V Lucy E' .2VflSy, inHarpe?s Weekly. THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. -- , ... "We were on our-way from Hong Kong to Foochow on the coasting steamer Na moa, -when Captain N., my "fidus 'Achates" of the voyage, looked at the gathering clouds to the westward and remarked: 'I hope it won't rain before we get into Amoy; we are just thirty miles away. " -1 "How do vou know the distance so er- actly, Captain? ,?' 1 4 'Look at that rock, and it, you can see through over beyond a rift in the ciouas a little speck, like a- pin point on the top of that black mountain Thenin point is a tall pacroda on that hi?h cliff. and the pagoda is as good a signboard for this town as if thai whole black cliff -were painted in white letters a mile high and half a mile wide A-M-O-Y. I never see cither the pagoda or the city that a cold chill docs not run all over me," "Will you tell me why, Captain?" "Certainly, but it's a long story well, here goes : Amoy was one of the first treaty ports in China open to foreign commerce, and for a long time the noted hatred of the Chinese for foreigners was more intense there than at any other port. I was then Captain of a steamer on the first line ply ing between Amoy and the English colony of Hong Kong, some two hundred miles cloudy evening in November I went ashore in A.moy to make a few final preparations for my ship's departure the next day. While on shore I noticed that my footsteps were dogged by a disrepu table looking coolie,' who approached me with great earnestness in his manner as soon as he had reached a comparatively open spot, where the growing darkness ehut. out the teeming hordes of a Chinese city. ; I saw that it would be impossible to avoid an encounter if this strange fol-. lower should prove to be a highwayman. So carrying my hand to my hip pocket, ,where I felt the friendly "grip" of my re volver, I waited for the man to come closer! 1 then saw that the coolie wa$ in great dis jTejs..and.,rnCve yh earnesteS?, ' 1 oy "his earnestne'ss lTT stopped to listen to his tale. The man ex j)lainedin Chinese and "pidgin" English that he haxi a brother in jail who was to ibe beheaded in two days more for capsiz ing in a sail boat and drowning his pas eenger, a mandarin's son. The mandarin, jbent on revenge, had thrown the boat man into prison where the , farce of a !trial had been gone through with and the innocent man had been doomed to his family die. The coolie said that iwere all wretchedly poor, but that they Jiad managed, by the sale of most of their ibelongings, to raise , money enough to jbribe the jailer to allow the prisoner to 'escape, and all that was necessary to Bave his life was to get him away on some jvesscl to the nearest foreign colony The oor creature fell on his knees and im jplored me to save his brother's life. He ,would give me anything everything he 'had only to give the hunted creature a hiding place, to save a fellow -being from the headman's ax! All this was uttered bet ween broken sobs, and the poor man fwept as if it were he himself who was only to see two more suns rise before the iarth would drink up his life blood. I felt my sympathies intensely excited, and yet I knew the treacherous-nature of .the Chinese and the danger in interfering with their ideas of justice, and, wishing either to test the truth of his story or to pre vail upon the coolie to choose some other means for his brother's escape,I said : 4 'I'll stow him away and carry him down toHong Kong for 500 taels" (about$550),thinking that such a price would be utterly beyond "jthe coolie's means. The poor man seems taggered at the enormity of the sum, a jUrge fortune to one of his class, but he ffallied in a moment and said he supposed Bie would have to pay it;- that it was a learful sum, that 'he was very poor, and jto raise so much money his family would have to sell all they owned;, but he must Bave his brother's life ; if the Captain in sisted he would have to pay it. j& 3Iy sympathies were now still more (keenly aroused, and seeing that the jwelcome passenger would be sent, and ijaot caring either to break my word or to un- tpront Dy inc poor wretch's misfortunes, I said: "Well, m do it for the remlar regular lare" (aoout 5iu), "bring him down to the wharf at 11:30 ; am going off to imy ship then. I The coolie seemed iloy and was still overpowered with 'kow-towing-" his thanks as I moved away and he dis appeared m tne darkuess. i I had no sooner reached the wharf about 11 45 r. M., than I Was to.ir-V.ori ,tj the same coolie, who now offered his services as "sampan man. I followed him to the boat and there saw another man whom the dim lamp light showed to be as poorly clad as his brother. When we shoved off I noticed that both were vuul9J:n wuo,.ub as my r a1. i i uijjswas close to tne wnan we were soon Here I handed my overcoat to the I boatman aud he picked up a bundle tied Chinese fashion in a large handker chief, and we -went on board, leaving mv new acquaintance in the boat. I scat my steward, forward on an errand that ould detain' him for a few moments and then had thr coolie deposit his bundle in a small cleSet in the cabin, and told him that that miist be his brother's hiding place until we put to sea, and that he must be quick to get into it. At a .motion over the side the con demned man sprung out of tl.n l--it.. which he liad made fast at the gannwav and slid noiselessly aft through thecabin and into the closet. I turned the lock and put the key in my pocket. But as he passed the cabin lamp cu rjo&ity had led me to take a searching glance at my strange passenger, and, in - fepite of his unkept hair arid, soiled and jtattered, clothes, his light complexion find refined features revealed in the 3o- - lie's brother a Chinaman of rthe higher , classes, - . Vt I then tried to scrutinize the boatman, tmt the mau'8 back was to the light, and the steward returning just then I paid my sampan fare, and my strange acquaint ance departed. . " T turned in, wondering who my mys terious passenger , might be, and my thoughts were not without vague misgiv ings of the noted treachery of the Chi nese. - - " . ' I woke early, and had hardly begun dressing before a herald came to inform me that the Viceroy of the province de sired to see. me at his "yamen" at 10 that morning. This strange summons I at once connected with my harboring an es caped prisoner, and,- full: of vague dis trust, I had ggdecided either to put to sea two hours eFore the aTvertisecl time, noon, and so temporarily avoioTany explanations, or to plead press of busi ness and refuse to obey an almost royal command. Disturbed "by such doubts, I hardly felt relieved when another herald came to say that the-Viceroy had con cluded, as he desired to see the ship, to visit the Captain, and that my presence at the "vamen" would 1 u would be excused Such a miner A as a Vicerov visiting in "Kiiuaui vessel was almost unpre cedented, and I began to fear that I was implicated in the escape of apolitical prisoner of high rank. Now the customary official messengers began to pour in: First, two clad in robes of state announced that his excel lency would arrive in half an hour; then four more that he was coming in ten minutes; then four horsemen gaudily'ca parisoned, rode down to the wharf where I was now waiting to say that their mas ter would arrive in five minutes; then a procession of liveried servants bearing aloft on high poles red sign boards, on which all the virtues under the sun were ascribed in Chinese characters to their lord; soldiers with flags and swords and spears; men with. -whips and gongs to clear the way; mandarins on horseback;1 lictors with long pheasants' tails in, their caps, and a large rabble on foot all pro claimed that his excellency had arrived. aaA n m mot. . J. i . Aiignting irom a gorgeous green sedan , uuair, Dome oy sixteen men in livery, he greeted me most politely and accepted Ay invitation to take passage in my gig Iff to the ship. A large portion' of hisescd t followed, occupying a small ffltjjj sfa pans. ' S The Viceroy was ushea into the cabin and, strange to gay, selected a chair immediately in front ofthe door of the closet in which the refUgee was concealed. f After a few courtesitfg bad been ex changed I was informla through an in terpreter that Prince chang, the leader of an insurrection, ,ho had 'been cap tured and condemn a to be beheaded, had made his escae. Suspicion, they said, seemed to pnt to nis j,eiQg seCreted on board my ship. a sampflI1 haa been seen to go alongSe of her the night before about midjg. it reached theship with wo jbatmeu and one foreigner and re turned Q the snore with only one man, e ma(ie iQ great haste as soon as ne naa. landed, leaving tne sampan aanit "Of course the Captain knesv nothing about the escaped . prisoner, and so he could have no objections to allowing the ship to be searched. " This was subtly put;.' To refuse to allow it would be equivalent to acknowl edging that the man was on board, and would cost me my place in a company whose interest it. was to placate the un friendly Chinese. To allow the ship to be searched involved the possible dis covery of the man, and in that case his recapture and certain death, as well as my own dismissal from the company. Either course might endanger the lives of the foreign community in Amoy, against whom the hatred of the Chinese needed only a pretext to begin a general '"massa cre. I felt the color come and go in my cheeks and for a moment I thought of delivering the refugee up to certain death, saying that when I took him on board I was not aware of the nature of the offence, and then revulsion of feel ing came over me. I thought "this man has trusted his life in . my hands and, hunted criminal that he is, I will not be tray him." All this flashed through my mind in an instant, and when I turned to the Vice roy I felt the same spirit of helpless, yet indomitable defiance that every true sail or feels in the fury of the storm. I said quietly, "Certainly, your excellency, my steward will turn over the keys to your servants, .but they will find no such man on board my ship." The search party went all over the ship, directed by the crew, and after probing into corners and peering in amongst the bales of silk and boxes of tea, no stran ger was found. This was .reported to the Viceroy, who said: "You have not searched this cabin"; do so." I was wild with excitement and alarm, but my re lief was intense when my furtive glances showed me that the search party did not dare to ask their master to move from in front of the door. This relief was of short duration, for he again asked if they had searched everywhere. "Everywhere except in that apartment behind your excellency's chair. We will look there too; where is the key!" I now " became thoroughly fright ened, and, fumbling for some loophole to escape, I told the Viceroy that that was a locker where I kept my wines, and I was ashamed to confess, it" to so high a ruler under the 'son of heaven' that I sometimes hid opium and other contraband articles there. Would his excellency forgive me if I begged that that place be" kept unopened, as my pec rarlillnpss" if discovered.1 would cost me my post as Captain. "In that case," said j the Viceroy, "I '.will save you from trou ! ble by inspecting myself the key?" i Doubtful whether to confess mv com j plicity or to brave it through, I thought ot the mysterious nature of the whole af fair, and hoped that the strange passen ger might, in some mvsterious ; manner, have escaped.' This straw of hope that' drowning desperation clung to saved the 'y- I reached in mv pocket and with trembling fingers, pulled out' the' key. The Viceroy unlocked the door,opened 11 closed it hastily behiud him. . Serves were then so wrought upon that I could almost have heard "the dew tall and I fancied I heard a word within spoken very low. again, there wa Then the door opened rustle of silk robes, nv Z Tx ' and the Viceroy said in Chinese: -Xo0ae ere!" k Bf.n?.vrttbrob one great bound and thmgs Seemed -und me. ru i recovered mv . enough to look up with pieced my composure Landsrrate- recogmzed and in au mstaQt T knewyhat my ownunstrung nerves and the regal rpbes had before conceuled h able coolie of the mght before wase other than the Viceroy 0f the Province of Fuh-kied, the absolute ruier t five millions of people. 1 hat Q " a doubt that my mysterious,. onger the royal fugitive were tb:e same, a tJ the Viceroy himself was ctoniving at hit escape. '-"':'.': "?: . :'-;-';-:;'-The ship sailed on time and Prince Ichang was landed safely "in Hong Kong, wher he lived under English protection until a severe illness let him him have that privilege most mortals enjoy of dying with nis head on. : ' " Subsequent developments pointed to the fact that the Viceroy was influenced not only by personal friendship but by an enormous bribe with which the rich prince bought his own head, and that, fearing the treachery of any of Ms'subpr dinates, he had planned and executed the escape entirely alone. Of my betraying him he had no fear, as the word of a "foreign devil" would then weigh noth ing in a Chinese court. - Two years afterward I received from the Viceroy of Kwang Tung a gorgeous pair of vases and some magnificent em broideries, "in gratitude for past hospi talities ;" and 1 found that my coolie friend had, been promoted to the govern ment of one of the largest provinces of the Empire. Wash in qton Star. ' Force Expended in Climbing a Hill. The phvsical energy or force sometimes exerted by the human body under certain conditions is known to be astounding, but no one has ever taken the trouble to put before us that force in figures. Dr. ,J. Buchheister has now made a most in teresting calculat ion on the ' ' work done" by mountaineers in ascending heights, which will serve as an illustration. Sup posing a mountaineer weighing 168 pounds is making the ascent of a summit 7000 "feet high from the point of starting, he has to expend ah amount of physical force oy multiplying nis weigut uy iuc ucigm ..u be ascended. In the case assumed a weight of 16S pounds multiplied by a height of 7006'. feet equals 1,176,000 foot-poradsroiyni other words', 1,176, 000 bounds have to be lifted 1 foot. y This is work perjformecV merely by the muscles of the; legs; but, besides this, the contractions of -the muscle of the heart have to be taken into account. Its : function consists, as is well known, in propelling the blood collecting in the heart, on the one hand, into the arteries, and, on the other, into the lungs. This is effected at an initial velocity of 1 feet per second, which represents in the case of an adult a work of 4 foot-pounds for each contraction of the heart. Uhe pul sations of an adult are on the average 72 per minute, but in ascending heights, owing to the additional- exertion, their number is increased to an extraordinary extent. . Assuming, for the sake of simplicity in calculation, only 100 beats of the pulse per minute, this would give 400 foot pounds per. iainute, 24,000 loot-pounds r)erhour and 120,000 foot-pounds for the five hours supposed to be required in ascending a height of 7000 feet: The work performed by the muscles ' in breathing, by the expansion and contrac: tion of the chest, may also be ect imated at four foot-pounds. Assuming, further, that the number of breathings per min ute is on the, average only twenty-five, although, as a matter of fact, it will be found to be higher in a mountain ascent lasting five hours, we have to add. fur ther work of 30,000 foot-pounds. The total work performed during five hours by a mountaineer, consequently amounts to J, 326, 000 foot-pounds. In this estimate are not included the physi cal force spent in overcoming the fric tion on the ground, the exertions to be made in keeping the body erect at dizzy heights and in dragging heavy boots and foot-irons, nor the loss of muscle power infeutting stepfe in the ice, not to reckon the work . performed in carrying an ice axe, or the , physical force exerted in crossing fresh, loose snow. Taking all these conditions into account, Dr. Buch heister arrives at the conclusion that the work done in an ascent of 7000 feet, lasting five hours, cannot be placed at less than 1,380,000 foot-pounds. Iron. Antipodean Cannibals. The savages of North Queensland, Aus tralia, are still cannibals. The normal condition of these savages is inter-tribal war, and,- this;, no doubt, was the state ofthe earliest society. Every tribe, and often sub-division of the same tribe, are at feud with one another and all the rest ; the stranger is universally regarded as fair game, and especially as being provi dentially offered for the pot. A certain path to distinction among them is skill in furnishing human meat, which is not to be considered a staple, but as a highly prized luxury. When the black fellows feel the need of a Delmonico dinner, so to speak, they send out their crafty man hunters, and prepare to dish up the stranger within their gates. Sometimes the harmless necessary stranger is sadly wanting. Then, if they are very sharp set, they perhaps make an excuse for killing one of their own women, or a plump baby or so. Babies, as an ele ment of the cuisine, are highly appre ciated, their tenderness being recalled with watering of -the mouth and gentle sighs of satisfaction. Carl Lumjiokz. "Nine Tailors Make a Man." The meaning ofthe expression "Is me tailors make man,"" 4s traced to the sing ular custom of tolling the church bella given number of times, at a burial, to denote the sex of the deceased. In some 1 places the custom is still extant, and is generally three for a child, six for a woman, and nine for a man. These strokes, of course were counted and had an arithmetical idea connected with them and thus the knell, at its conclusion, was said to be tolled or counted. By decrees this idea became confused or lost, anil the participle "told" was referred to. a sup posed 'infinite "to toll," instead of its natural infinite "to tell." By carrying the history of this error a little further we may arrive at an elucidation of an. otherwise obscure proverb. The strokes told or counted at the end of the knell were called from their office "tellers." 'This term was again chanored intr "tailers," from their sounding at the end of "tail of the knell; and nine of these being given to announce the death hi an adult male, gave rise to the savin?, "Nine tailors make a man." The Phenomena of Echoes. Every one is familiar with the pheno mena of echoes. . In a cave in the Pan theon, the guide, by striking the flap of hw coat, makes a noise equal to a twelve pound camion's report. The singularity is noticed, in a lesser degree, in the&iin moth Cave, in Kentucky. In the cave ol Sraellin, near Viborg, in Finland, a cat or dog thrown in will make a screamino echo, lasting some minutes. Pliny tell of a cave in Dalmatia where a stone tossed in would raise a perfect storm. Finai's Cave, on the Isle of Staffa, has an ab- Bormally developed echo. BUDGET OF FUN . HUMOROUS SKETCHES r FROM f VARIOUS SOURCES. The Cold Day "When He Was iLeftJE. A Control! nJT K"etre Fall of Ea thasim A Popular Resting place Pedestrlanism,Etc. "Bless me, tailor f Hoffy cried; voa ye made these trousers all too wide ! Ane wuk1 blows way up the inside.9 Then replied the tailor bold: or me this day, too, seemeth cold; x ou know, your bill is growing old !" : V . Puck. YCLL OF ENTHUSIASM.' Brown "You show a good deal of bdyisn enthusiasm over your coming trip to Europe. Why, you've crossed several times before, haven't you?" Hobinson "Yes, but this is my first trip without my wife." Epoch. CONTKOLrXG FEATURE. Brown "The facial features plainly indicate character and disposition. In selecting your wife were you governed by her chin?!'. Jones "No. but I have been ever since we married." Omaha World. PEDESTKIAKISM. Jones (to fat friend) "Do you walk much" Fat Friend "WellT should say so. I expect to lose twenty-five pounds." Jones "Good idea. The more you lose the more you'll gain, as far as per sonal appearance is concerned. y Texas BUT THE YOUNG MAN DIDm't GO." Old Man (at the head of the stairs at 2:30 a. m.) "Susie, what time is it?" Susie (with a second look at Reginald, who loosens his grip) "A few minutes past 10, papa." - Old Man "Don't forget to start the clock again when you go to bed." Yankee Blade. , A POPULAR RESTING PLACE. She 4 'Don't you admire Gothic archi tecture in churches, John? There is something about- it that suggests re pose." lie "I dunno. Pretty much any style of a church suggests repose to me provided the pews, are comfortable." Boston Transcript. COMPETENT IN HIS LTNE. . Seedy Visitor "Have you any vacan cies on your editorial staff?" Mauaging Editor "Who are you?" H. V. "I am a doctor by profession." Managing Editor "What could you d on the paper?" S. V. "I could edit the general news of the weak." Voice. WHERE FRIENDSHIP CEASES. Emeline "Mamma wiil give her con sent only too quick when you ask her, but I'm afraid papa will hold off." Jack "What makes you think that? He has always been verv friendly with me." ' Emeline "Yes, Jack; but this is a matter of business.'.' Time. .TOUCHED A TENDER CHORD, Tramp "Kind lady, will you give me something to eat?" Lady-; "We have some chops left over from breaTtfast. You can have those." Tramp with a scornful look) ' 'Excuse me ; they are a little too suggestive of the woodpile. I couldn't take any comfort eating 'em." Kearney Enterprise. HE would PROVE HIS LOVE. Amelia (in an insane interval). "Oh, Arthur, I fear you do not truly love me?" Arthur (struck to the heart) ' 'Not love you, my darling ! What can I do to prove my devotion?" j Amelia (frantically) I know not!" Arthurafter a pause)WWjll you will you play something on the piano?" Pack. A TERRIBLE RISK. Young Wife "A tramp came to the door this morning, to get something to eat. I gave him a pie, and he asked me if it was of my manufacture. I said, 'yes,' and then he said he wasn't of much account anyway, and he'd risk eating it. The wretch." Young Husband "I guess, my dear, that that tramp must be a married man .1' Yankee Blade. THE DRAWBACK. Customer "There's one drawback to a business like yours." Barber "What is that?" "It is impossible for men of your call ing to get rid of unpleasant acquaint ances." "I would like to know why?" "You can't afford "to cut anybody." Boston Courier. GLOOMY PROSPECTS. Wholesale Merchant "We will give yourboy a chance, sir, to learn the busi ness, but the first year he will not receive any salary." " Father of the Boy (dubiously) : "What will he get the second year?" "Merchant "Well, if he is faithful and apt, the second year we will double what he gets the first." Epoch. - A TRIFLE DISCOURAGED. imimd. to passenarer) -"Are vou feeling any better to-day, Mrs Passenger (discouraged) "No. worse if anvthing." Captain " Oh, youll be all right in a day or two, so don't give up the ship! Passenger No, I'll hold on to the ship if I can, but by George, TVe SWff "P about everything else V'-Epk!1- GOT THEM . MIXED. . ' 4 'What kind of a bird do you call that?" asked the heavy-voiced guest of a waiter in the hotel dining-room. - "That's a canvas-back duck, sir." "Canvasback?" "ies. sir' "I-'sruess nnf You've been keeping ilif mth-oi. i j i-o . onl the sole- leather-back ducks in the same refrigera tor and got them mixed." Merchant Traceler. A PHILANTHROPIST. Tnmn "i rr -mnCll fOr inanK vou the lunch, mum; butcould you spare me twentv-fi j . Woman -Mercy! What do you want J with twenty-five cents?" : i Tramp j Well, J don't want it for myself, mum. I'm just collecting a little' money here, and "there, the same as the rest-of the profession, and when, we get enough we're, going to found a home for destitute tramps." -Judge. PKOFESSIONAI. CONCESTBATIOX. ' "That was a terrible thing," said Jenks to the family physician. " "What was that?" asked the doctor. 'That uprising among; the iron foun dries." V-.v' "-::' --r': 'No, I haven't heard of it." : "It was a general breaking out; an ex tremely rash affair." "But, my dear sir," said the doctor in a far-away pre-occupied tone, there is nothing, remarkable in that. A breaking out is in the natural course of things a rash affair." Merchant Traveler. . WHO WAS BOSS. A dastardly tramp, knowing that she was entirely unprotected, entered the home of a frail, meek-eyed little woman in Montana and said savagely : - "Now, madam, you want to jist fly 'round and git me up a square meal, an' J a mighty good one, too! Don't let no grass grow under your feet while you're 'bout it, neither, or I'll " Half an hour later the frail, meek-eyed little woman hailed a passer-by and said calmly: "I've got .a feller layin' on my kitchen floor tied up with a clothes-line and gagged with a towel, that I'd like you to help me dump him into my wagon so.'s I kin take him to town. I've an idee a couple of his ribs is broke, an' his head needs sewin' up in three or four places, an' bis shoulders 'pears to be out o' j'int. He got "kinder sassy an' I had ter let "im know; who was boss, yer know." Drake's Mazagine. The Richest of All Plants. What is ramie? It was formerly placed by the botanists in the class of Urtica, but it is now called Bpehmeria, 'or spearless nettle. I will call it by no scientific name ; I will simply call it the richest of plants, for it possesses wealth of growth, wealth of development and wealth of fiber. In ordinary light ground, with a little water-. ing now and then by rain or irrigation, no plant will grow so rapidly, no root will TnnltinW TTinrft nnifklv nnfl nrnrhipp r.j j i more stalks ; no vegetable fiber is hand ! somer, richer or silky than ramie.1 It is a perennial plant, and when once put in the ground it grows for over twenty years without replanting, giv ing, according to the climate, two and three crop3 a year. It is easy of cultivation, requiring only a soil clean and loose. It is : planted in straight rows, three feet apart, in a small uphill form. The plants must be kept very close, in order to shoot forth straight stalks without any branches. It grows about like willow, an average of fifteen to twenty switches, f rom six to eight and tea feet high, covered on the upper part with large green leaves, white underneath. Through its leaves ramie takes its nourishment from the ozone of the air. This ' developed part of noarishment of the plant, added to the large, extensive propensity of the mother-root from which run horizontally and down a lot of j rhizomes and small" roots, explain the ex traordinary vitality ot the plant and us three or four trops;a year in some coun tries. . i.; " ' ' The Chinese alone have, for a thousand vears past, extensively cultivated the I ramie plant ; before them the Egyptians j were shrouding the dead in magnificent winding sheets of ramie, which to this day are found in the bandages of their mummies. Jules Jtxenet. A Lapp Wolf Hunt. The Swedish Lapps live entirely with, by, and upon their reindeer. A Lapp who owns a thousand deer is a very rich man ; but as taxes are assessed upon the number of deer, he is inclined to under estimate his herd. The most dangerous enemy to the herd is the wolf, who, if disposed, can kill thirty deer in a night. A.bandof wolves can make a rich Lapp poor. v When the snow is deep and soft, and it is announced that wolf -tracks have been seen in the ' neighborhood of the deer, the swiftest runners on snow-shoes prepare for an exciting chase. The wolf may have a start of a mile or two, but the track it leaves in the deep, soft snow is so prominent that the hunters can follow it at their best speed. The wolf," though he may run fast, has but a slight chance of .escaping the short men who, on snow-shoes, rush through the wood, dart down steep hills, and jump from ledges several yards in height. Each hunter does his best to outrun tha others, for the wolf belongs to the Lapp who st rikes the first blow. As soon as 4he leading hunter is close enough to the wolf , he gives it a heavy l)low across the loins with his strong, spiked snow shoe staff. If there are other wolves to be pursued, he kills it outright; if not, he disables it and waits till all the hunters have arrived before giving the death stroke. It Worked Both Ways. Colonel Mosby relates the following amusing incident, which occurred in a cavalry fight in the Shenandoah Vallev in 1S64 : " In the midst of a sharp cavalry en gagement with Sheridan's men in a charge near Berry ville, there came riding into our lines like a whirlwind a Yankee soldier on a black horse. A score of meu tried to stop horse and rider, but the old black's blood was up and he went on, clean through our lines before he was under control. The rider was sent to Libby Prison and we mustered the black charger into the Confederate service. A few days later we charged some of Custer's men, and that .old horse was-ridden into the engagement by one of our soldiers. The old black evened up things, too, for he carried his rider into the Federal line3 and never came back." " Measures, and Content. A barrel requires a measure 24 inches inches . ion: bv 16 inches wide and ' 2S ! deep. . , One peck requires a measure S inches by S-2-5 inches square and 8 inches deep. One gallon requires a measure 8 inches by S inches square and 4 1-5 inches deep. Half a bushel requires1 a measure 16 inches by S 2-5 incles wide and 8 inches deep. - v--'.-vy ' ' .' . Half a gallon requires a measure 8 in ches by 4 inches square and 4 4-5 inches deep, v ;-:S-i,:' ' , '.'' '-r f ' ; Half a barrel requires a measure 24 in rhes lonsr bv 16 inches wide and 15 in- ches deep.' ' ; -' ' L One ton of coal requires a measure- 4 j feet long, 3 feet 5 inches wide, and 2 feet 8 inches deep. ; " CURIOUS FACTS. Four big sausages, made for S. B. Hill, of " Letterkenny, Penn. , filled a bushel measure. ' An accomplished young man of Lon don is employed by a fashionable sta tioner to write speeches for wedding breakfasts. The year 2118, according to the Presi dent of the Manchester Geological So ciety, will see the exhaustion of the English coal. . Farmer Harms, of Kings County Oregon, cut down ,a cottonwood tree recently, from which he took 700 pounds of fine honey. An Allegan (Mich.) minister recently astonished some of the world's people down there by lifting a 300-pound box of- chickens and depositing it in a wagon. Mrs. Hiram Peters, colored, of Ritchie County, W. Va., has just found her son, who was stolen when an infant. He Is now a clerk of courts in Iowa, and is worth $20,000 . Goyernofj Joseph C. Yates, of New York, was buried in 1S37, at Schenec tady. The other day the body, when taken up for reburial in New York city, was found to be petrified: A Northampton Countv (Penn.) far- jner while butchering the other day struck, a bullock with a sledge-hammer, and left the animal for dead. - When he returned from his breakfast the bullock was finish insr a chest of meal. . A citizen of Hawkinsville, Ga.,'who was suffering from asthma, was advised to try 'a remedy sometimes used by the colored people. He got a hornet's ucst, boiled it, made a tea, drank the liquid and was completely cured. - A girl at Reading, Penn., postponed her wedding because she was .unable to secure the white horses owned by -a cer tain liveryman for the date she had fixed. The animals are in great demand for wed dings and are said to bring luck to the bride. A newspaper ii California relates that after a rain storm, which occurred there last November, many people of Angles Camp, Calaveras County, got money enough for their Thanksgiving dinners by picking up gold in the streets and in the shallow streams. Many families on the shores of the Straits of Mackinaw, Mich., will buy no flour this winter. The -recent" wrecks there enabled them to get hundreds of barrels of it and no questions asked. Some wreckers have flour to sell at twenty five cents per barrel. In some of the Indian .villages of British Guiana, South America, a traveler no ticed many tamed animals such as par rots, macaws, trumpeters, monkeys, tou cans, etc. which were used as currency to adjust balances in the bartering be tween the different villages. The feat of playing twenty games of checkers simultaneously and winning all but one, which was a draw, was recently accomplished by Clarence A. Freeman, in Providence, R. I. His contestants were experts from all over Rhode Island. The play lasted one hour and forty minutes. Recently a party of hunters in the neigh borhood of Fairfield, Iowa, brought to town in a wagon 847 rabbitw4ik;iriney naa snot in a joays-mmt. Anotner party brought in 150, and it is acomnjon thing for a "single hunter to capture twenty or thirty in a day. The country is overrun with the pests, and much damage to iruit trees and vines is the result. Thomas Edwards, of Erie, Penn,, was walking along the street the other day when his dog came up, pulled his coat and tried to make him retrace his steps. He turned around and followed the dog a short distance and picked up a fine re volver. The dog seemed to know that the weapon was valuable, although it was too heavy for him to carry in his mouth. The Gigantic Drago t Tree. The most gigantic specimen of the CD O J. - famous dragon tree of theCanarv Islands stood, until within the year, and still stands, for that matter, but dead as a mummy, near Oratava, on the island of Teneriffe, the largest of the group above mentioned. This monster warty dragon has been fully described by dozens, yes, hundreds, of globe-tourists who have "done" the sights of the world during the -past fifty years. Some o! these writers have set it down as. rivaling' in age the pyramids of Egypt and the burial mounds of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. Measurements of this botanical monster, taken at the beginning of the fifteenth century, 400 years before Humbolt's visit, show that the tree did not perceptibly in crease in size during the intervening cen turies. How long must have been the time re quired, if four centuries of vigorous growth did not add one foot to the giant's circumference, for it to have grown from a slender withe to a titan 45 feet in cir cumference? No wonder that the great Humbolt did not even make . provisions for a doubt when he calmly savs: 4iI would con-; sider it at least "10,000 years old." To' the native Canary Islander the dragon tree is as sacred as the bo tree is to Ceylonese, and the rites performed in its immense hollow, which Humbolt says would comfortable provide shelter for twenty men, was as mystic if not as horrible as those j?rformed around the cannibal tree. by. the Australian savages. Wild Horses of the Sierras. There is said to be a large band of wild horses, led b;,- a thoroughbred known to the stockmen as the "Outlaw Stud,"ran ing between Truekee, Nevada County, anJ Peavine, Nev. Years ago the .stud, a fine racer," escaped to the mountains and has since defied capture. By desperate riding stockmen manage to get into the band every year and drive out the colts. The horsesrnne on the highest peaks be yond where cattle or sheep 'often o They only go to water once a day, and then in single file down the mountain trail as fast as they can run. They go back at their leisure, feeding by the wa v. Grata Valley Tidingf. " . , " To Avoid Accidents in Factories. A very useful invention, tending' to lessen tue possibility, of accidents in fac tones, is now being extensively adopted m England.; The breaking of a 4ass which is adjusted against the wJ every room m the mill, will at once stop the engine an electric current bein es tablished between the room and" the hrotle valve of the engine, shuUin -off the steam m an instant. By this means " leased uniniured. P ' wa re' i roruLAR SCIENCE. The three hundrSn anniversary of The urc , tve microscope is to be the invention of the micro g celebrated in Antwerp in lbyu. . tr John Lubbock has just discovered . Sir Joan London is sixteen that the death ra e w cities ' 1 In a Moscow foundry castings are made; . frommS fused in an electric .rnacM The operators work two Jxours per day, the glare being greater than that of the sun,and unendurable for a long time showing the interior oi German der steam 7 to be of inventor. The device j practical, as well as of scientific, valu, . The flirt '''?SrmnSl. said to have been erected on the tempie of Belus. at Babylon ; butane on the tomb of Osymandyas, m Egypt, vjth a. golden circle 200 feet in J'Tt one at Benares, also date from a ,y early period. V . Of the first turkey in America,the only records we have are in, the recently dis covered fossils of the post-tertiary period. These prove that the turkey not only antedated Columbus, and even the Norse - ..4. t Jn all probability he whs the original "oldest inhabitant of Ainer- ica An electric balance has been exhibited in Paris. The placing m tne pan ui uje abject to be weighed closes an electric "ircuit, wheu the current operates a mo tor on the weighted carries, the weighs, out on the beam until an equipoise is es-, tablished, breaking the circuit. With the emptying of the pan, the weight re turns. The attempt to acclimatize the Swedish reindeer in the Hara Mountains of Ger many has not been quite so successful as 1, antlcinated. The heat of the sum mer having caused the death of many of the animais. a. ucw anv"!"' S made next spring in the Algau, whu .. .:it" rS,tr lipftpp sind 1." i o n v ncr i .j. mil i vj iv..... " - r ing results. r It has been shown very satisfactorily that the banana plant. contains a greater quantity of pure fibre than any otner oi thft numerous vesretable products used in the manufacture of paper. The adapta tion of the plant to commercial purposes will, it is anticipated, revolutionize the paper material market aud largely affect the industry. , It is not a fact generally. known that the real inventor of the powder used for the "Leber' rifles js not the CoToavl of that name, but M. Vieille. a young French engineer'. M. Vieille will be the fortu nate recipient ere long of a prize of 10, 000 awarded every three years, under the auspices of the Academy of Science,' to the author of the most important discov ery made within that period. The French Professor of Chemistry, De Millefleurs, recently exhibited before a. meeting of Parisian" scientists several bricks of petroleum, which he has dis covered how to solidify by an original pro cess. The petroleum bricks were bard enough to be handled without inconveni ence, vet soft' enough to be cut with a stout knife. ThAtf Auirned slowlv when. toi with a iiffhted mflBft Hi' tleurs says they are non-explosive and in expensive. A Honolulu paper thu describes a curious substance thrown off by the mol ten lava and found close to the lakes of fire at the volcano: "It clings to the ad joining rocksym fiber-like threads of a flaxen color sad has the appearance of human hair;but mixed with it are sharp particles of bfack lava. Considering that this substance is a mineral production, it is wonderfui.nexiDieana tougli bending easily, but not ductile, in its present state or capable of being lengthened.. It is peculiar to this volcano, and is certainly a singular production." - - According to Dr, S. S. Kilvington, the Mississippi River received during the year 152,675 tons of garbage and of allr 108,250 tons of night-soil, and 3765 dead animals, from only eight cities; the Ohio, 46,700 tons of garbage, 21,157. tons of uight-soii, and 5100 dead ani-' m:ds, from five cities; and the Missouri r .36,000 tons of garbage, 22,400 tons of night-soil, and 31,600 dead animals, from four cities. Dr. Kilvington urges the; -cremation of most of the refuge, aud twenty-three out of thirty-five health officials consulted by him favored Ui plan. ; ' j Uncle Sam's Timepieces. It costs Uncle Sam thousands of dollar a year to have his clocks wound. Every Monday morning yon see men in Wash ington going about the-departments car rying little ladders, like those used, by the lamplighters. - Their business is to wind and keep in order the clocks in .thw departments. Eadi man has his own department or a section of the depart ment to look after the clocks, and this is his sole basinet. In some places nun are employed by the" month for this 'pur pose, while in other cases the contract is let by the month or year to some enttr prising clock repairer, who sends a "jour neyman" around to wind the elocksjd see whether-they are Jn crder, and then goes himself to make such repairs .as' arc necessiry. The cost of wiudmg and caring forin clocks in the departments runs at titrate of 75 to 100 a month in each 'depart ment. There are in the Treasury Depart ment nearly four hundred clocks. of these are expensive ones, and cost a way up in the hundreds of .dollars though the average value of departiUl clocks is not more than perhans W "f ru apiece. A good many of the d m the halls of the nnhli K,.;ii;, i: 1 1 I w 1IUU3C m iae rooms oecupied bv tn heads of departments ara very'va! 'f costing away up in the hundred 0-i ' World-Herald. '' A Seeond Edition of ParN ' Society in Buenos '.Ayres. Aratme Hepublic, is gradually becomin- :-G and more European. One walkiu.?..tfce streets just now observes that Wt&ve h''' come almost a second edition f p"n' says a corresnnudpnt ,t Vrund aml - ....w.t.cr. tne iasnionsof that h m rft m ' -fro m . . . i . ,;f "avcity a.e tjpicu by women and men ke, sv.d me met tiiat we; hae 200,00 men in the T?fnnMt" ,,..,1 Frencu- uinberf," hp made a decided impressif social customs bf the people ;1 on tliCj .4. lilatt landing here from Paris fin. perfectly at nrtY on1 u'fi' himself ;d Inruiy dream thaf u t. ram his- " - 11 d ' m 1 nni.'. 1 1 a. -iIIV uutic iana. - The same appes i '; to a Frenchwoman. She haAlly misses the gay life of the gayest caMtal of " the world. - The EnclishmanJ too, cod himself, in a certain "measure, among his awn !rinrlro4 V. A merman & 'v uue, vui w certain lonely foifnn i over mesent. j ..vuUft T iiy iter "I of
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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