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The Chronicle.1 wtxjtesboro. n; a At Wonderful Exhibition of Doll.! A Doll Show for charitable purpose, held la the JuJgs Building ia New York by Tranh Ltd if $ JUtu: rated 2exerpaper has proven a gTcat success. We quote frota our philanthropic contemporary account of the Show, and giro picture of several of the bind-somcst dolls, with the names 6f the UdicJ by whom they were dressed: - . .... - - t..U- 1, V aL'vv;f j Si M' ! "XJL J I ATVTflY VIRGINIA'S HAND, Hisr,ca the left "said the Colonel; the battls Lai shudlered and faded away Wr 1th of a Eery enchantment that kit only ; a&he and blood-prinkled clay TJI to the lft and examins that rldzn. At this juncture" man reined ia two spirited black steeds ia front of "The Maples," as Widow Sherwood' cozy rdaca was armrmuatilv -raTIiv!- There ufMr. Lester now, mammal cried Lucy, who- was alyly peeping at tha where the enemy", sharpshooter. stooL Vr"; 77ir- , rt LcrjJ, how they picked off our men, from the . treacherous vantage-ground of the j wood! i J Do for their ballots, ni bet, my batteries sent them something as good Go and explore, and report to me then, and tell mehow many we killod. , fte rer a wink shall I aleep till I know our j" venjeanoa was'doly fulfilled." FI reelj the onlarly rode the slope of the : corn-field scarred and forlorn, Raped by violent j wheels, and scathed by the envy of eTery girl at the What lovely horses I Their tail sweep the ground, and just look at the sUrerpUtcd harness I .Dear me! if Bob Lester did'nt have such fiery-red hair and was a blfmore polished, aad Yes, yes, nuuuma, I am ready, and will not keep my cavalier waiting." There croc Jane I never meant" him any harm. I will never coquette again with any man.' She covered her face with her hands and wept bitterly. H - . ; "Miss Sherwood Lucy I" At the sound of a familiar voice she raised her tear-wet face. This time Boss Wilde stood before her, and in hi hand picnic! j she saw the ruby pocket. She began to nearly I hate it. . - . f . ' He extended it toward her. 4 i Your property, I believe? I found it probably where you' lost it." - She took . it, and drawing forth the diary, said : . . ' . . J A ri " -ort tflflM Ponl Pur ATistilnrVl " SOUTH AMERICA'S LLAMA. 'S&Z - ' ' . ; -who are acquainted with the, peculiarities A STRANGE HTJT UTDISPEITS ABLE pftie beast are" very careful, to keep on . ' 1 X t m ' tnr nan am1 IiITTIE CEEATUBE. the riffntsiaeOLxaa temper .ana a re spectful distance from hi nose. with tho big frosted cake and the basket about you to make yourself master of the of sandwiches. " Ob. I anticipate' solen- Iccntenta of this iournalf -:" - - - did time!" And, patting on her wide gipsy,, the TC5CA, ST KKi D115T TtVTLkT Two grand and spacious apartmeats. one oa the ground floor and the other oa the ecoad floor la the Judg Bofldjns', were specially aad elaborately decorated and arranged for the exhibition of nearly three thousand beautifully dressed dolls. The attendance waa large, and both old tad jouag were delighted by tho ur . YY 'rars vtjutt. rr uxi.)Uc.i pa&aing beauty of the scene. Botfrtidcs of tho rooms, and tables extending from end to end of the apartments, were crowded with beautifully dreaded dolls, some of theci in most magniflcent j cos tume, aad all of them attired with ex. cecdlag taste and care, the shot that bad plowed It la scorn; 4 the girl tripped merrily down the step, was assisted Into the earn ago by Mr. Lester and away they sped in tho direc tion of the pine wood, some two or three miles away. ' ; Bob Lester, a man of twenty-eight, compactly built, with flaming red hair and beard, did hi best to make himself agreeable. Lucy laugh at hi rough sal lies, and flashed back witty repartees; but all tho while she was wondering what girl had been brought there by Boss Wilde a strikingly intelligent but rather impecunious young lawyer, whose offer to escort her to the picnic, out of caprice or a desire, perhaps, to try her power over him, she had coolly rejected. The pine woods were alive with happy people when Bob and Lucy arrived; much merriment was going on, and a string band was discoursing a jubilant air. . . ; . i - ; ; Lucy closely scanned the motley crowd. There, underneath Fiercely,! andf burning' with wrath for -the sight of (, his comrade crushed at a blow, j - ' , Flfcnz in broken shapes on the croon 1 like I ruined memorials of woe; . rites were the men whom at darbreak he knew, but never again could know. Tllen to the ridge, where roots outthnut,and I j twisted branches of tree Clutched the hill like clawing lions, firm their prey to seize. That's your reportfaod the crlm Colonel smiled when the orderly came back at last J SSrancely the soldier paused: "WelL they were punished. And strangely bis face looked aghast. fpCea, oar fire told on themj knocked over flay laid oot in line of parade. Erare fellow ColoneL to star as thev did! But one I 'most with hadn't staid. i Mortally wounded, he'd torn off his knap- He regarded her haughtily. ,'You are unjust, Miss 8herwood I am an honorable man. But," lowering bis Voice, 'let me congratulate you. I met Mr. Lester, who informed me that you had just consented to be" his wife. I wish you all possible happiness. I trust he will be as kind to you as I should rhave been had you given me the right. Oh, Lucy, you know my secret. Think of me as kindly as you can." , , ; He started to leave, but Lucy called him back. ' . .' "Mr. Lester spoke falsely, Ross. If you had read .the diary, as he was mean enough to do, you would have learned that I love you only you." j It matters not what followed; suffice it to say that Lucy was blissfully happy, and vowed that she would never again wear that pocket, keep a diary or flirt with any man. New York Weekly WISE WORDS. Ana V w n a w iImam sack; and then, at the ead.be prayed- fwJLi ,vft uti v asy to see, by bis hands that were clasped: i7 J CZTX w.7 ejaweuuaeaaungersyetheld : Urtml tirmftlv Trinr Vita rlovAiM 4s a costume of :she might have Squire Rogers's gajena. brunette in J sack. ApItythowoodswereahalledP rimson ind gol(J . YcjJ SCcnt the orderly, watching with tears In his knowa he would bring . ! Success anywhere requires singleness of purpose, j !; ! Tho man who loves hi duty nevei slight it. j. " j ; Common sense is a hard thing to have too much of. I ' eyes as his officer scanned Four pages of writing. "What's this, about f 'Manny Virginia's hand? " wift from j his j honeymoon he, the dead j soldier, bad gone from bis bride to the ! ' "strife j STever they met again, but she bad written him, telling him of that new Hf. - Born la the 'daughter, that bound her stttl closar and closer to him as his wife. " Laying her baby's hand down on the letter, I around It she traced a rude line: XX you would k La the baby,' she wrote, you roust" kiss this outline of mine." daughter. He would be sure to be en- M The man who eras out to meet trmihlA tangled in the meshes of tho web he was always does it. f i weaving to insnare him, and propose, for her father was a moneyed man,' and Well, Madame Bumor did assert that he cared a very great deal for money The girl was unquestionably lovely, and Ko matter; she would show Ross Wilde that his attentions were disagreeable to her. So she forgot her mother's warning and flirted outrageously with Bob Lester, and unmercifully snubbed the poor law yer when he addressed her, and felt wretched all tho while. . It was late in the afternoon, when, longing to be alone, she broke away from the groups scattered here and there under the funereal tpine-plumes, and iuuuu a Bcciuucu epot oa me Danic oi a 1a4 V A : Jl ;i. i I ii a . . teTevera wlnkalopt the Colonel UuUmhLfor ! . twouau 7 noisny mac win qo rx ore lor nim man money. i .--. iiimuirii n. cnjism or to crrrpn oho rx i : -t . - . I tliA f nMnr m Ii r f n fli I r J"eb H- . o man -wiii ever DO . lllceiT to navo a xootnea rocxs, ana sat down oa a moss- good character who does not try to have there was the shaps of the hand on the Paffe.jwithj the small, chubby fingers j outspreadj 3Xarthy VginIas hand, for ber pa,n-so wj woroi pa iae itiue pain sala. I Sympathy is something that can not be learned at college. t Love can see beauty where the world sees oaly deformity. i- If you want to be a thinker ask your self a good many questions. , ., ?. If you want' happiness don't try to find it in somebody else's garden. j' You can always be happy if you are willing to rejoice with others. : , a . ; '. If you want to be able to speak kind words, cultivate kind feelings. ) People ; who are " not, to be trusted trifles are not be trusted anywhere. i A man is very toor if he has nothing It Has a, Deer's Body. Camera Head. .' Sheep's Wool,' Mule's Hoofs ' ana Horse's Neiffa Its Great Value. V One. who has never, seen a llama., can hardly f of m aiTidea of . how the strange little creature looks, with the head of a camel, the body of a deer, the wool of a sheep, the hoofs of a mule and the neigh of a horse. . It is found "nowhere but in the- Andes, ?' and, says: Fannie B. Ward in the Washington Star, is the more in-; teresting because it is the only native domesticated animal in South' America,' the ox, horse, sheep, hogand alliothers useful to" v man' having r been - brought originally from some other country.1 It is the only beast of burden : used in the higher altitudes, where mules and horses cannot eudure the thin air, as it alone is exempt from sirroche, its natural home being 9000 feet and upward. Though domesticated in' Peru', Bolivia and Chili and not able to live below a certain ele vation unless the weather is very cold,' great numbers of -' them run wild on the foot-hill and sandy plains of PatogoniaJ even near the level of the sea so far from the equator, r ' ? ' .7 " 1 A f ull grown llama is about the size of a year-old colt, standing, from four to six feet high, and is covered with, a long and surprisingly thick coat of wool, which however, is seldom sheafed, as the ani mal ,1s used only for ; purposes of . trans portation. Its j usual color is muddy brown, while a few are light yellow or nearly white. ' The , Indians paint the' latter with liquid dyes and very odd it looks to see a troop of them in all the colors of the rainbow red, blue, purple, pink and greenj with gay tassels dangling from their ears. j. Many of the most valu able mines of Peru and Bolivia could hardly be carried on without theseliardy and sure-footedj little r animals; though not one of them an be made to bear more than a hundred! pounds weight, while the average load of a mule is 300 pounds. On all the mountain roads leading from the mine hundreds of llamas may be seen with bags of barilla, as the pow dered ore is called," fastened to pack saddles on their backs by ropes made " from their own wool,! which the Indians pull, spin and weave as they walk along. Where tjie trails are dangerously narrow each troop is led by vne having a bell, attached to his j neck, so that ; travelers coming from the other'direction mav be SELECT SIFTINjGS. in I warned by the ringing-to , wait in' some the vengeance so blindly f ulfillod. pevcr; again wcue the old battle-glow when ILotiff aro ended the atru??Ie. in uninn at I . t I ; Dxxsiro bt rrtuis-' arsszu.; 1- t , Aa?B brotherhood happily stilled; Ret from that field of Antletam, in warning and token of love's command. Wee! there Is lifted the band of a babv aiartby Virginia's hand I Georgt Lalhrop, in the Century. 1 LUCY'S POCKET. I BT JXJnX A. rKTEItS. 'Xow, Lucy " admonished a sweet- faced woman, sitting idly by tho window and watvhini: ber daughter as she rut the finishing touches to a most bewitch ing toilet,' MI rust you will give heed to my counsel, and not excite iealousv in the heart of your companions to-dav. Be circumspect;, and doa't, I pray, give ay encouragement to Bob Lester, unless you mean to raarry him. Your flirting proclivities, I 'nm orry to ay, are alarm ingly developed.- I wish " Ye. yea, I mamma." broke in the girl, impatiently, adjusting the roso col ored knot or ribbon xnoro satisfactorily ther throat; j"I know what you wish, so don't draw kuch a despairing breath, lor I promise I'll attend to your advice j xne piay 01 tno cool water, the sigh ing of the wind i among the jungles of tall brakes, soothed her. , She partially closed her eyes, when She started to her feet, a itartled ex clamation dropping from her lips; . She had just discovered that the ruby velvet pocket that had swayed from her belt a short timo before was missing. Where had she lost it? And, 6h't what if it had fallen into some one's hands, especially Bob Lester' or Ross Wilde's? She remembered that her little blue- and-gold diary reposed in its depths, and pie. uo uau ueea ioousn enougn to jot down some thought concerning the rivals, never believing it would fall into the possession of either. , f What if Bob or Ross had ' picked It ' Murder is always committed in the heart before it it ia committed with a I Success that is not planned for, and worked for, and deserved, is never en joyed, 'j ' ' . ": ' ' j A man who can pay hi debt and won't do it, would steal if he was sure he wouldn't be caught at it", j People who are not quite' right them selves always feel ! better when they can find something wronar with other peo- place where there is room enough to pass None but. Indians, shy -as themselvi and unhampered by the, ways of civiliza-' tion, can manage llamas, and white men never attempt it. . If announce more than 100 pounds be added to his burden the e age of 100 yekrs. beast .will, lie down and refuse to stir until the surplus is removed, "and when!-: .ever he is tired, burden or? no burden, Jie ia bound to stretch out until well rested. Meanwhile the patient "driver will halt' all the rest of the flock and lie down too,? waiting by the' roadside until the ,refrac-' ; ; The latest fad in Parisian society is the decorated skirt front. - - Claude Lorraine, the Italian painter, was bred a pastry cook. ,- -Executions are public' in Ecuador, and the musket ' the-instrument of death.. An orange, measuring a foot in cir cumf erance has been found in Starke, Fla. ; . ' ' Within a distance of five or six squares in Philadelphia near Chestnut- and Wal nut streets, "200 physicians have been counted. A. fox loosed for a chase at Pottstown, Penn-', got the -better of sixteen horse men an,d. several . packs of ; hounds and escaped. :;"-' ' V '" . . A service of carrier pigeons is to be established between . Zanzibar and Lake Njassa. in' Africa. " 'The stations will be thirty miles, apart, v . - Australian cannibals how a great pre ference for Chinamen, whose rice diet is supposed to make their "flesh especially sweet and tender; . St. Louis, Mp, has a Dress Suit Club, the members ,! --which pay. $5 a month and decide by lot who shall purchase a dress suit out of the funds. : ' In Ireland', before St. Patrick intro duced Christianity, there was a temple at Tara, where fire burned ever, .and was on no account suffered to go out. Of the original thirteen States, Dela ware was the first to ratify the Constitu tion, - doing so ' on December ; 7, 1787. Rhode Island was the last, on May 29, 1790. - - Two fig trees in California are thirty feet high and bear 1000 pounds of fruit each year. -The man who owns them very naturally think 'there is money In the fig business.: " . - Take in your hand a crystal of quartz, a stick of deal, a daisy and an acorn and you will J not find ; in them a - single ele ment tof matter that is not also.f ound in your physical frame. A line of railway through Alaska to Cape Prince of Wales to connectwith the Russian railway? system through Siberia is said to be perfectly feasible, and the future is sure to see it accomplished. The alligator is one of those animals which, like the parrot and tortoise, live for an indefinite? term. It is never full--" grown at less than twenty years, and may grew after that. - It. is not known how long it may livebut it commonly attains "Boston cockles," which are famous over a very large area pf England, are gathered from life " sands, parboiled, shelled, and in this half -cooked condition are sent by railway in bags, chiefly to Bristol and the west of England at large, where they are sold and consumed aa del- up, and No, no; both of tho gentlemen were honorable, and would not try to pry; into another' affairs. Still, reason as she - would, she did not foel quite easy about Mr. Lester. He might not, but . ' A heavy footstep crunching the pine cones that littered tho ground fell upon her car, and raising her eyes she en countered the angry glance of Bob Les ter. What had brought that angry irown 10 nis xaceT Had he found the It will help you to be charitable toward other people if you will remember that every other man has just as much mule ia him as you ha.Ye.-IndianapolU (Ind.) Ham's Horn. ! ' - tory animal is ready to move on. An Indian never strikes his llamas; the iit inbst coercion he uses under any circum stances ; being j a gentle push. Indeed,: he takes better care of them than he does f his own children ; perhaps with good; reason, su.es ui xour-xoo eo, uunuBtra, built mMdaif, feo as to cat off the gods f more value commercially. -The. latter. U f : , Y-; : . s .I..., : .'- ' ' , 7. r 11 men. xx. was usea as a satire on uuut . seven aouars. icacies bythe masses. uNepheibe'6ccuquia'? is VGreek word ' and . means translated into English, 1 cloud-cuckoo-town,?, buHt by the birds. - and found in 2 Aristotihanes on "The Birds. This; ' town was alive. sell for inorcTwheri dead,' in and bchare as circumspectly as ever Rose nocket. ,extrxetad , from it. t,. not . . L"-tw.i JLarhn. tho Ufrheit mil in TfnctdlA I a: ium. i. .1 a I Tr!jji: - :n i 'n - h" v-w w v. v 1 uiai 1. 1 tw 111 it ij, huh riHfi Tint. iippn xc 1 ra 1 1 iw 1 irii 1.. t 1 ,uni hi ri r 11 1 f 1 1 h. wp k nnwn are- worth apiece, but the shape- of -hides, meat and tallow. The I natives prefer, llama ' flesh, after it has- been Irozen to any other' kind' of meat,' ana maxe great account of the tallow,' which is called sabp,, using itior Jmany- purpo3es. j ,;;-'v ;.. ; 1, ? . i Male llamas only carry freight, the females being kept in corral-for 'breeding- feet. was the height from trough to crest ready to stand he is trained. to beaibur-' of the largest waves measured by him in dens, and a$ two . years bid is put into an tho North Atlantic and ia a cyclonic j aIquila,Hheusual fdrove cf twehtv ani- storm, when bouad for Australia ia Royal Charter.' This has long been The Height of Waves. It is not uncommon in prose works to read of ; mountainous waves.-; 'Exact measurements seldom ' confirm., first im pressions. Scoresb'yUiound- that forty used aa a satire on Athens,! or, perhaps, on the visions of conquest in Sicily, Italy. -1 ' ' A Strike by the Executioner. Seno'yaIentin, the public'executioner of HavanftJ Cuba, has had his claims for services rend ered , the city settled by the Treasury, , and recently .be acted in his Ofiicial (capacity in.the city of "Jovenlupes, .-, assisting five muro!erer3 out of the world; in-the"mo8t appro yed style. T lhe .fave condemned the J-mals-r To -drive this number easily tiwo' J ac-f persons are ; required. An Indian iviil Some of the dolls were ; disposed of at good prices oa the first evening. The! remainder of the choice specimens were sold at auction, and the net proceeds. together with the dolls expressly dressed lor that purpose, will be distributed among the unfortunate children; in thd various hospitals, infirmaries, nurseries nod other deserviog institutions. Mrs. 'Kendall, the English- emotional actress, has . invented a wonderful fan which carries a' irumber of littl toilet requisites in small aperture in geniousiy contrived for the purpose, A the handle there is a' silver box of th tiniest dimensions, which contains Biiauie powaerpuH, and a small adjacerit --P 13 lntenued to hold the handkei great success. chief. The fan is 1 T 1 ,U I. A a nnln- icto the 1. ...1-. r.n (rujihin- re? ','. rr-i r t r i . 1 . 1 -ftrcct, and ev err bod .louse?. to tha .11 X.:, 1. out! A T a Cri- I). window' ugliest gm ia could doJ: YOU needn't annrehend mt thing unpleasant. I dislke Bob Lester intcaicly, an4 I only consented to ac company him jto the picaic because ho is the son of the richest man ia the town- or county, to, for that matter. Beside, I have a liking afor She paused'abruptly, with tho name of ome ona watm upon her lips, and a blash mantled her piquant blonde face. She. was a lovely girl, slender,, petite,' and graceful a one of the sweet-brier branches, 'that clambered over the garden-wall; She had mischievous gray eyes, a superabundance, of red-gold hair, allowed to fall in two massive strand to-day, a rose-bud of a mouth, and the eunningest hands and feet imaginable. A her mother regarded her intently, he bit her lip. and turned aside, as if in quest of something. . , . -, . 'What are you searching - for' now, Lucy?" inquired Mrs. Sherwood.' "Tour toilet seem complete." . !. 'Not quite, mamma; you forget my charming pocket. All of the girl will wear one to-day. We are-to bring home our trophic in it, you know. j'Nonsensb, Lucy I I would not wear it I if I: werb you. It Is absurd for a young lady to have one of those -useless appendage dangling at her side." . But Lucy 'persistently shook her head. ( 'Sorry, but I really can't relinquish the "charming f accessory to my toilet, mamma- Why, it is out of the question altogether, j Each of the girl is to wear cne, I tell you." , , Mrs. Sherwood said no more, and Lucy began- to fasten her pocket by its tasseled cord to the rose-colored belt at her waist, f ' 4 . ; Just now the girls of Rosedale had a mania for wearing pockets of tho most fanciful description, not to deposit any thing therein, but merely as a matter cf show. , Lucy' was heart shaped, of wine hucd (r velvet, and artistically adorned with gold tord. Lying aunst the soft background of her dress, it had a verv i pretty c an J Lucy 'rc-rded it ad- : t 1 enough to remote, and gleaned the truth of her feelings for him? "V lie had, mdetil. Some perverse fate the spot " where it lay: brown bed like some bird of paradise. Ho once,' and, stooping it uo, with the intea. had led him ' to gleaming in its brilliantly tinted recognized it a down,! he picked and experienced navierator. has. how ever, encountered waves at sea which were seventy-feet ' high. Tho late Ad miral Fitzroy had previously observed wave as high; and 'some observations made at Ascension in '1836 support these authorities. In 184 her Majesty's ship Inconstant was scudding with her stern tion of restoring ,it to it owner, when I upon the crest and her bow in : the de- tiny blue-and-gold I pression between two successive waves, and the wave ahead was observed exact ly level with her foretopsail yard, just seventy-seven feet abbve-the water line. J On the 27th 1 of July, 1888, , the Cu narder TJmbria was struck by a wave -not less than fifty feet high, which did much damage.2 Two days before, the Wilson liner Martello had a similar experience; an enormous solitary wave struck her. cloud; fnnoua feelings raged aad seethed I completely submerging her decks. The from its mouth tho book slipped but. Lucy' diary, by Jovel" he ejacula ted. , jrii see what she has jotted there- in."-! , .J. . : . . :- With no compunction whatever .'ha opened it, admired the Italian, spidery like caligraphy,' aad thea read the items it contained. 1 , -v t " His brow drew dark as a thunder- inirinlv as away :u the withia him. He knew that she despised him, aad loved hi rival. He felt like rending the tell-tale pages la pieces, he controlled himself, and thrustiasr the diary back in it receptable the pockei ne nau recently ; thought hurled it into 1 the : nest from which he had taken it. Let the accursed thing lie there," he hissed; '"I'll confront my lady aad ac cuse her of her treachery." ; ,i ..... . , ; J. Lucy' face blanched white as death as Bob Lester, 'like some raging demon, halted ia her p'tth., 1 j' . , , v .,,r Grow white, faiat if you caa4- you treacherous creature," he hissed with all the yeaom of a serpent "I have found, you 3out. - You flirted with me, led me oa, And confided , to your diary that if ;I were , the last man on" the face of the earth, you would not marry me. More, you?: vowed you loved Rose, Wilde. Shameless creature, I scorn you I I hate you I Fve half a mind to toss you down among those sharp-toothed rocks I " Tou descrvo such: a fate. No. You need not; shrink from me; I'll not lay hands on you, but I shall try to turn the heart of my rival against you." Uo was gone, and Lucy sank shivering to the earth. " V.rktr A'xA T n.:.t U. "''it ' vl Marteuo was much smaller and more deeply laden than the queenly TJmbria. No connection could be traced between these waves, which were referred .to in j a square meal at both, ends of the jour the dailies as tidal "waves, although of so pretty- he altogether different- origin . In October, of underbrush 1 1881, the , Italian . bark Rosiaa had all hands, except one, man who was' ill in his bunk, swept tail her decks by a wave, which broke . on board as they were shortening sail during a, heavy squall in mid-Atlantic The British, bark Undine had one watch' washed overboard and: her Captain .killed under similar .circum stances; .It is said . that the massive belt of the Bishop" Rock was wrenched from' its fastenings by the 'mcrmentum of driv- ing seas in a gale of iwind, ; and tho gal lery containing it thiefdy strewn with sand, although '3J00 feet ' above ' high water mark. Scoresby .gave 600 feet as the maximum length ofTsea waves, 4but there are many longer , Mr. Douglas, when building lighthouses"- on 4 tbe'eoast of Cornwall, noticed ' -weaves 1300 feet long from . crest to crcbt. Chatriberih Journal. : -.'' - " men were all executed between the hour3 -of 6 and 8 o'clock There were-some 20,000. per sons present at" - the execution and great take his; alquila.'with 100 nouuda nilftd r mterest-was shown in the case, wins to on the back of eachand, assisted by ,8 tue facf-that the executioner recently re wife and child, will drive them a distance fr1.s.d :f do anf more rk unless he was' of 150 i miles in eighteen or twenty davs.: Paid for previous services. Tor this service he charges at the rate of I lhe pen were, accused of committing eignty cents per aiem to each beast, T i UC18 lor; purposed Bolivian cents, worth about half as much roDDer out as there was some doubt as ours. At this price he feeds . himself M to the actual guilt of at least two of and the animals and furnishes the netes- tem an ppealfj f or commutation of sary ropes, sacks and other eouinments. sentence was made. The day. before' the reckoning forty cents adayforthe'llamas, eution Valeniin had the scaffold and twenty cents ffor the wear and teat' of Ht? removeu irom Havana to Joven- sacks and ropes and twenty cents forjthe r "P63" I food of himself and ' companero. - iphii lnn tne scaEoId ani xt3 grim f urnish sack in which! he carries grain, oreV etc; J Arere ''"way " between the two . cost in the currency of the country "f 1 .25, "es the executioner announced the fact but-will last for a long time7 tinder'this 5hat nnlesa he was paid in advance for nip wv..uiere;.,wouia oe no executioa the following day, and the scaffold misht remain in the middle of the road betweea rHayana and Jovenlupes until the country peoplej stole it sb far as the executioner's personal efforts were concerned. Thei executioner was obstinate, and a hasty" jmessage to the Treasury Depart ment.of Havana resulted in.the navment f $85 to Valenn. The money was handed to .him j by a messenger. The progress of the - scaffold and the garrote was then resumed, and the following day contract he will sometimes make aT jour ney of two or; three months' 4urationj'and and save money out of -it. " ,. The llama' subsists upon a mountain shrub or a species of tough, coarse grass mixed with the sand in which it grdws. He drinks almost no - water and jean travel without f ood f or a week; if g ven . I i - ! ney.. it too well xed, he 3 subject !to a j: I v:.l r V i t k.iu unease. fatal. Some) Keve, an effort wa made;tointro llamas into could not be wmcn lnvaraoiy proves years' ago, in 1857, 1 be- luce A largo fish dealcrfin one of the city markets tsays that during the - seasln'it is a common thin? for? the fish defers to the United States, bjit it cariied out, principallv be- cause the food was too good for them. Seventy-two llamas .were , taken from I of that number survived the and those were' f wintered oa a Long : Island farm- which certainly must have been cold enough for the most fastidious animal ,of tie Andes In ' the "spring scarcely a dozen of these were left alive: these were sqld; to ..museums and inena geries and died at the first approach of warm weather. ! .' I " " Llamas h4ve a, queer but. effective way of defending themselves when teased': or made angry- Stamping the forefeet and turning suddenly upon the object of rage, they will eject between the teeth a pint or more of saliva, throwing' it with there. were five funerals in Jovenlupss. ' San Jfrancisco Chronicle. A -Pirate Bird. - eight j Ex-Governor William G. Sterett. of sea voyage Dallas'. Texas, savs- Whil n finhinsr - ana hunting expedition on the Atlantic great force a -distance of several; feet. rr c'nf!tinn The salaya produces a stingim on the skini and if it gets into the mouth Lave s many as fourteen dijlOvTeat kiads J pr eyes or cn any place where the skin is coast since shrill As! bling in JNorth , Carolina a few days my attention was attracted by a and frantic 'cries of the sea gullT ooked upward I saw a bird resem- a hawk strike the gull under its claws, when'down came the fish and the pirate 'bird after it. The fish had not gbneiten feet before the pirate bird had it in jits stomach.' Then he soared up ward; with" lightning rapidrH?y a1 scending .equally - as quick; srtruck the screaming gull on its back wifh . such force! that the contents of its stomach werei forced "out of its mouth, and tho pirate caught it in the air as it fell. " At this moment I took aim at the pirate with my shut 71:71 tnd 'broarrht vm.- .ti'--""" : -"i
The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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