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mhtmm warn . ... , ., . . - - inn - ... . n . . -m i m mi i .-. .'ri..--"-'l';v-' ":."- . SBB cnaouKCLE. THLKESBOftO. N. O. - Soma of. the .fiprmnn an scientists are :m of epilepsy. uuQvmg,ioi me germ h tltiej will give it fits if they ever catch it. ' : A movement has been started among ft number of the progressive farmers of Georgia to have an exhibition of its agricultural products and next fall. resources . There has been an alarming in crime during the years increase between 1850 and 1890, as shown by the United States Census, rising from one criminal in 3142 to one i n 757; Enormous purchases for the pulp mills will make this year's lumber cut in Maine larger tnan evert The Kennebec Journal says that two mills will buy 15,000,000 feet of struce to grind up. I Altogether f he most remarkable de velopment in the theatrical World in '.recent years, declares the New York Sun, has been the' astonishing growth of that form of entertainment known nowadays as the , vaudeville, but in olden times passing under the name of variety. V Wolfe Barry, President of the Insti tute of Civil Engineers, warns British manufacturers that they must wake up to ine laou inac American castings are being usecf in the new underground tunnels in J-iondou. Mr. Barry says: "A decade ago the idea tf Americans exporting castings to England would have been Jaughed at. Now fact" . ' it is a ' In the Berlin Produce Exchange a commission', composed of, five . repre sentatives of agricultural inte; rests and two from the milling trade, supervise all trading. Dealing in ft tures is strictly prohibited. All tradi ng must be done on the exchange and between certain hours. Prices are fixed by members of the committee end daily quotations are officially listed , While the German grain gamblers are in clined to rebel, observes Far n, Field and Fireside, they are powerless against the -great public sentiment in favor of a system which insures a fair return to the farmer? for his tiil. The New, York Herald remarks : The production; and distribution of sugar constitute one of the larges ; factors in the great aggregate of the world's business. The business of refining sugar, ox rendering the rat' sugars pure and, fit for consumption, measured by the . value of its product s, ranks ninth among the so-called manufactur ing industries of the United States. Now this gigantic industry which directly affects every citizei. in the United States, which ismort or less direotly affiliated with a score of other industries, is practically in the hands of one man. That man is I enry O. Havemeyer, the head of that consoli dation of firms which calls itself the American Sugar Refineries" Company. The railroads, next to- our farms, represent . the greatest properties owned by our people. In no other country in the world have bo many and . such valuable lines been built. The sum of all the mileage in the United States exceeds 1180,000 miles, and their value with their equipments is about twelve thousand mi lions of dollars. The great, imlk df these roads are now the property of pur own citizens, : tnongn tney were largely built with foreign capital a stance which, in the opinion o P. Porter; "is responsible, for the prejudice a gain t them. : be vastly to the advantage much of It would of the whole country if these were profitable, but us fact they aro'not." investments a matter of Malcom Townsend has pointed out coincidences , of events 'in the) lives of Lincoln and Jeff Davis. Both! were - born in Kentucky Lincoln Jn 1809 . Davis in 1808. Both removed from their native State in childhood, Davis going td the Southwest, Lincoln .to " : the Northwest. In the Blaqk Hawk War Davis was a Second Liiutenant - of regulars; Lincoln a Captain of volunteers.' Both began their political careers at .the same period--1844 Davis being a Presidential Elector for ifalk, 1 Lincoln, a Presidential Elector rtf or Henry Clay; Both were e eoted to Congress at about the same time, Davis in 1 8 5 , Lincoln in' 18i&: Lastly, in the same year and almost he same ' . .. p ....... Governments, Davis as '.President" of e Confederate States, Febjruary; 8, and Lincoln as President of the vd States, March 4, 186lj THE GOOD TIMES. Let's sing about tha good times the happy ' times to be ' As sing the rivers rippling on in music to the sea! . ; ' As sing the birds they know not why when springtime days begin; J So let us sing the sad times out, and sing the glad times in! ' ' . Let's sin? about the good times, when every cot and clod , - Shall send a benediction to the living skies of God! ; ' Jf. ' When the world a brighter beautyvand a l" rarer grace shall win, And life shall. sing the sad times out and ring the glad times in! , Let's- sing about the good times! They'll greet us on the way. A rose upon the morning's breast -a sun throughout the dar; When life springs like a blossom from the color of the clod. And the world rolls on in music to the shin ing gat es of God! Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY. BY EUGENIA D. BIGHAM. WOULD rather hear that old man talk abouthis early life than listen to a play at a first class theatre, said an intelligent-looking gentleman, ad dressing the hotel clerk. I glanced in the " direction indicated by a nod of his head, and I saw a silvery-haired old man with a stout walking cane pass slowly by on the sidewalk. - j 1 was an utter stranger in the vil lage, but a month of enforced idleness ' was ahead of me. and T determined to become friendly ! with the old man. This did not prove hard to do, for he was genial, and I have always had a liking for elderly people. Short and stout, ruddy of face, with perfectly white hair and whiskers, and blue eyes quick to light up with- laughter, he was very good to look at. , In talk ing, he had a trick of occasionally re peating the last words of a sentence, a habit amusing to strangers, but rather pleasing than otherwise on closer ac quaintance. When I had put myself on a fairly good footing with him, some two weeks after our introduction, I found him one afternoon in an easy-chair on his front piazza. Sitting down on the steps, J leaned against a post and scon led him to talk about his young days. "Well," he said, "I will, tell you the story straight, for I see you have had several second-hand nibbles at it al- "YVhen I was a young, blood, like yourself, I lived on a large plantation in Georgia, iny father being one of the "richest planters in his State. On the same road that our house faced, with about two miles of field and woodland between, was another exten sive farm. This was owned by the Grantlands, a family who were our bitter enemies, though we had once been on the friendliest terms yes, friend liest terms. The oldest son of that house had killed the oldest son of my father's house; that caused the en mity, bitter to. the core. The young men had been bosom friends; one wouldn't go 'possum hunting unless the other went. I remember the morning When my brother's body was brought home. I was about sixteen then, and he twenty-three. My father stood by the corpse and swore eternal hatred of the whole Grantland family, and the rest of us partook of his spirit. " 'Why, you married a Grantland, didn't you, Mr. Dearing,' I asked, "Not so fast, young man,' not so fast ! Tou are like one of these elec tric machines; didn't have suoh in my day. . 'To go back to my story. Of course none of the Grantlands came to the funeral, and the young fellow who had done the killing had skipped the coun try. It was a fine, thing for him that he got away, and his family took good care that he did not come back good care, I tell you. They held" their heads, as high as we did,' for none of them believed the killing had been inten tional. We took our membership away from their church, going fiye miles further to another. They would not get their mail from the . same office where we got ours, but sent fourteen miles to another office, and neither family would attend an entertainment in the- neighborhood where the other family might be met. "All this went on, and at last I found myself twenty-two years old. Then something happened that was like gall to my taste like gall. "Mr. Grantland had a daughter who was about eighteen years of age at that time, a girl named Henr'etta. Living so near together, of course there were times when members of the two fami lies were obliged to see each other, and it seemed to me that I was forever 3eeing Henr'etta Grantland. I would pass her, face to. face, both of us on horseback; run across her at a picnic where I did not dream she'd be, , and meet her in town at the home of some mutual friend. Pretty soon I found myself-watching but -for her, looking at her on; the sly, wondering what it was in the set of her head that was so taking, why it was that her hair seemed to catch and hold the glint -of the sUn-; shine and all the like of that you know. ' 'J,- - x- :' Mt made me 'angry ' every time I found myself watching her; for I hated her, you see hated the whole Grant land generation. Despite all,' however,, there was ; somethiner about" the girl lhat compelled me to look her. way and to inmK aoout her.-; 1 just fairly des iibou uxyaou lor it, teic worse tnan a j traitor worse . than a "traitor. And 1 father, he began' to notice me ; said he could see I was troubled.- f "It was ' one' night when he and I were together. on the front piazza, he smoking, that he asked me about it. We always were companionable, and I just made a clean breast of it; told him I wanted to go away, that it seemed to me I could not turn around but that Henr'etta Grantland was coming face to face with me, wielding a power over me a little short of torture. "father pitched his freshly-lighted cigar into the flower yard and sprang from his chair. " 'Does she try to attract jou does she try?' he asked excitedly. "I told him no, that she treated me like the sand under her feet never noticed me at all. Father walked up and down the porch as if driven by the wind, but halting auidenly in front of me he said L " 3:ou would better go away. How would vou like a trio to the gold mines among the Kockies? The mountains might put you straight. Suppose now you go. I am sure our mother could eet vour things together by ThursT day. "The idea pleased me, pleased me no little, andk when Thursday came was on my way, to the Rocky Moan tains. I pretty soon fell m with a, party of young bloods like myself, and for a while I did not bother much about mv attractive enemv not much. All the time, though, I was traveling just as direotly as I could toward an event that would bring her vividly be4i fore mv mind, and would show me in a white light a truth I was then look ing at through a very foggy atmosphere very foggy. "Perhaps it was two months after left home I became separated from my partv during a hunt and was lost. It was an unhappy experience, young man. I hallooed until I was hoarse, climbed a tree and tied a handkerchief to its highest limb, and did all the other things that lost people do, you know. At last, striking aimlessly down a ravine, I found myself at sunset emerging into an almost circular de pression among mountain peaks. And right at me was a wigwam. It startled me so that I jumped behind a tree. The next moment some one called to me, told me to come on ; that I would meet frjends. An Indian boy advanced toward me, and in the wigwam I found a sick. Indian. Both spoke English, and I was glad of the good supper the lad gave me. None of us cared to talk much, and I was soon fast asleep, worn out. "I suppose it was long toward mid night when I awoke, feeling some thing punch me in the ribs. It was the sick Indian's bony hand. Euough light from the fire without came through the crevicea to make the in terior ot the wigwam dimly discerni ble. " 'What is it?" I asked. 'Shall I call the boy?' " " 'No, I beg,' he answered. 'Give me water. . I believe I am dying.' A "I gave him the water . promptly enough, meaning to call the boy just as promptly just as promptly. But while I was putting down the tin cup he uttered words that were paralyzing in their effect on me. I sank down on my blanket and clasped my hands around my knees, and gazed as best I could at the poor fellow. 'I am not an Indian; lam white,' he said. 'xMy name is Garland Grant land, and because I killed by acci dent the man I loved best in all the world, I was forced from home to live an outlaw's life. Under my head is a tin box; I trust its contents to you.' "He began gasping painfully then, and I tried to raise him, though I was trembling violently. " 'Promise to help the Indian bury mo, and to bury me deep, ' he said, " I promised him that he should be buried as nearly as possible like the people back at home were buried, and that the box should be my care. There were a few struggles, poor fel low, and he died while trying to thank me. Then I sat there and thought about him until my heart throbbed itself tender.. It seemed to me I had traveled all ithose miles from home just for this. Life is a strange mix ture, voung man, a strange mixture. I don't know what - your faith is, but mine is an over-iulmg Providence. My meditations during that night de stroyed my enmity toward the Grant lands. "I buried Garland two days later, at sundown. And I buried him in a coffin. Yes, it was a Tude affair ; the boy and I made it from the seasoned trunks of trees long since fallen. The wood was not difficult to split with the tools they had concealed among the locks. The lad was greatly impressed by my care of the body of a half breed, as he thought his one-time friend was, and it won his devotion won his devotion. . -5 ' , . "He finally guided me to a camp, of miners, and he would have - followed me home had I allowed it. I was so . fortunate at the camp as to hear of my party who were searching for me, and to communicate with them, letting them know." my intention to. return home.' First, thoughr I had a secret commission to fulfil,- . ; "In the, dead man's .tin box I had found a letter addressed to his mother, fcnd a note addressed, 'To the friend who receives this box.' Both had evi dently been written during hit illness, and the contents of my note made my youug.- hot blood tingle in my veins. It contained minute directions as to how to reach a certain place, and to findl a certain crevice-, between ' two gigantic rocks, a crevice not extending straight down, but almost at once curv ing westward. With" a stout, sharp hook attached f tor apliable rod, I was to drag this crevice and- fish put five skid: bags containing gold dust and nuggets. I was to have-my choice of the treasure bags, and the others were to'be forwarded to Mr. Grantland. "Of course I knew that -, no matter how the hate had -vanished out of my : own heart, it burned just as fiercely as ever in the hearts of all at home. -mAAnt to do all that Garland had re auested. but I meant to do it secretly do it secretly, vou know. Then meant to go home and , live as usual. T wo a n rt. art wi HA then s now. It is true thatl foundfthe treasure crevice, flaliat' nni f Tia fivA hftcrf?. kept OUO for juLurAwwk wuv v Cm - A - mvself and sent the others to Mr. -iron f.Tnnrt. ' Mrs. Grantland 's letter pinned to one of them. I had pen ciled the date of Garland's deat tx on the letter, thinking they would like to know it 7 I say, it is true I did U those things, and 4 did them I secretly ; but I did not go home to live as'vt had in the old days. "After being there a few weeks, after hearing from neighbors about the mysterious coming of the lettei and the gold, after seeing Henr'etta dressed in deep black, the self same poise to her head, the self same sweet uess of fact, I learned a lesson yes, learned a lesson. I learned that miners' camps, nor mysterious nor hunting parties. crevices of treasure. nor the Bookies themselves, can crush out of a life the emotion called love ; not even if it spring to existence where hate is rife. "I became more unhappy than ever, and was continually brooum jar over schemes to heal the breach between the two families heal the breach. Else, how was I to make ilenr etta so much as seem conscious of my exist ence? All this time my father watched me so closely that iimade me nervous. Guess that hurried things guess it did. Anyway, I was not very good humored one morning, and when my father said something about it I wheeled round and told him all about Garlandfs death and the things I had done afterward, ending .with the bold statement that I loved Henr'etta and could not help it. 'fTo this day I wonder that my fiery old father did not fell me to the floor with a chair, for he was a quick man a quick man. He stood and looked at me pretty much as he would have looked at a cur that had dared ,to bite him. Then he turned on his heel and went away, took his hat and left the house went straight to the woods. Needn't ask me how I felt; mean enough, that's certain, mean enough mean enough. , He didn't come home to dinner, and I did not eat any. Toward night I saw him coming down the spring hill from the direction of the familv burying, ground, and I knew where he had been last, if not all day. My eider brother had been his idol. . You can tajik about bravery, but I tell vou it took bravery to make me face my father at the supper table a few minutes later. He said next to nothing during the meal, and his hands trembled when he passed the plates. I do hope I'll never again feel lite I did during that meal. After it was over the big horn was sounded, a very un usual thing, at such an hour, and the hands from all over4he plantation came pouring up to the house. They gathered close about the back porch, and the house servants and the family were on the porch. "I felt like running felt like run- 1 . t - 1. at mng; awn t Know wnat on earcn was coming ; felt like I was to be cursed and sent from home. Father stood close to the old water shelf, and here's what he said, the words fairly burning into hie : ' I have called you together to put you on notice that the trouble between Mr. Grantland s family and mine is at an end. Hereafter there will bepeace. His family will dine here next Thurs day ; and the day following his hands and mine will have a barbecue in the spring grove. You may go to your places.' . 7 7 "I can't tell you how we all dis persed; but amid the pleased ejacula tions of some of the servants J found myself wiping the tears off my face before the whole 'crowd. Perhaps I was shedding tears because mother was sobbing; never could bear to see her cry. , "Well, this about ends my 6tory. The bag of gold dust and nuggets that fell to me helped to buy this house,, young man. And you needn't think ' we're lonesome when you pass by here late in the day and see two old folks sitting; close together, for they're Henr'etta and me. v We haven't been enemies now for many years many years.' Waver ley Magazine. Balloon Lifeboats. The big ocean greyhounds will aoon, it is, thought, be equipped with life boats harnessed -to balloons, so as to be practically unsinkable. Cylinders filled with compressed gas will be placed in compartments of the life- - V 1 at mm Doacs, ana irom inese tne balloons, which will be harnessed with cords to hollow mast connected with the cylinders, is inflated. The mast, which ia iron tubing, is adjustable, and. When turned forward, the big balloon acts as a sail, oars- proving quite unneces sary, xne combination boat will doubtless prove of the greatest ser vice in saving people far out ateea. In a recent test it was shown that, even with the boat filled with water to the gunwales," the lifting power of the balloon prevented f the craft irom either sinking or upsetting. Man at His Best. , Said George Du Maurier once in a private chat :.- !'I think that the best years in a man's life are after he is brty. ". A man at . forty has' ceased to hunt the moon. I should add that in order to enjoy life after forty it is perhaps necessary, to have ' achieved, before reaching that age, at least some success.1 -k Great Place for Shipping. Over 1000" ships of all kinds and sizes pass up ana aown ; tne , English Channel every twenty-four hours, and there are scarcely ever less than 200 near Land's End, leaving or - bearing up for the Channel.-'' - - ' AUiilCULTUIlAL TOPICSU . " ' THE IDKAIi PABM. - ". According to my own idea, the, ideal farm is one of small or moderate size, all paid for, with good buildings, neat surroundings; ornamental shrubbery about the buildings; fruit trees in the background or near by, a good sized garden well cared for acid the fields managed on the intensive system. . It is also the surest and safest to pursue what, is 'termed diversified farming, " so as to have a, variety of products to sell at different seasons of, the yearr and thus , be able , to keep square with grocer and, blacksmith. A little to sell often' is more convenient than a large quantity at one time, so far as the use of it is concerned. J - Whenever the farmer goes to town he ought to be able to take along some thing to sell ; and if he has a few pri vate families as customers, it will be better than if he is obliged to dispose of his load at the store. Farm, Field and Fireside. MOLASSES FOB .PATTBSNXNO. Molasse3 is now much used in Ger many for fattening, cattle ' and sheep, the consumption during the season of, 1894-95 having been not less than 100,000 tons. The British consul at Stettin mentions that some difficulties have had to be overcome. Muoh of the raw molasses sold has less than the fifty per cent. 4 of sugar contained on leaving the original factory, while a more serious matter has been to find, a suitable substance to mix with the molasses to counteract the purging ef fect.' Many experimenters now be lieve that the, difficulty arising from injurious salts ie met by the addition of a dust or 'mull" from moss turf. The advocates of the "molasses-mull-fodder" claim th'at'it tends to keep the animal in health, gives the . skin a glossy appearance, increases the pro- : duction and improves the quality ot milk, improves the flavor of meat, and is much cheaper and more economical than any other fat-producing fodder. Trenton (N. J.) American. AN INGENIOUS TABLE. An ingenious statistician has drawn up a table to show how many eggs the various Kinds ot domestic iowis lay per annum, and how many of the eggs, go to. the pound; .. ' , Geese, 4 to the lb. ; 30 per annum. Polish, 9 to the lb. ; 150 per annum. Bantams, 16 to, the lb. ; 100 per an num, i Hamburghs, 9 to the lb.; 200 per, annum. Turkeys, 5 to the lb. ; ,30 to 60 per annum. Game Fowl, 9 to the lb.; 160 per annum. Leghorns, 9 to the lb. ; 200 per an- num. Plymouth Bocks, 8 to the , lb. 150 per annum. Lrangsnans, 8 to the lb. ; 150 per an num. Brahmas, 7 to the lb. ; num. Ducks, 5 to the lb. ; 130 per an 30 to 60 per annum. SHEHPSKIN BOBBS. A writer in a farm paper tells how she makes robes of sheepskins. She says : I take three sheepskins (black ones), wash them thoroughly with soap, navmg soaked them over night' to get the blood out of them, spread' them out and sprinkle one-half to three-fourths of a pound of alum, well pulverized, on each one (a large buck with heavy pelt would require one pound ol alum). . Then sprinkle two thirds of a tin ful of salt, uniform ily on the alum, double skin over along the back, putting flesh to flesh and fitting one side to the other, and roll up. Let them lie twenty-four hours. It is well to turn them upside down so that the - alum and 'salt ,may ' all dissolve. Hang them up to dry. As" they dry; stretch the pelt often, so as to keep them soft. When dry the flesh may be rubbed smooth and' soft with tmmice stone. To dress the wool hang the skin over a rail and beat with a stick. A horse card may be used lightly also. straignten tne oroaaest one across the butt then the right and left sides of the other two. and sew them to gether ; then I straighten them all across the butts and sew onto the" broadest' one. - White skins may be colored any shade with analine dyes, the quantity: depending on the color desired. The skins should be clean and clear of grease in order , to tan, also to take color. Dissolve the dye with boiling water and let it co61 to 1 00 or 110 "degrees, or until you can beat your hand in it the hotter the better it will take, so that it does not burn the skin. ' This is a practical method, though I suppose a fine piece of work would require an expert, j More than three skins make too clumsy a rob for buggy or sleigh, and for a handv robe the wool should not be too long. Such a robe, if lined and ""bordPTw with "red flannel, pinked or scalloped, . Tarnished Kickel. - ; - An excellent solution for removing tarnish from nickel is made "as follows Ammonia; eight ounces; : cyanide of potash, two ounces ; soft water, eight ounces. 'Dissolve the potash in the water and then mix in tha ammonia r Sponge the parts with the solution and tutuicuiBiiuj wasa in warm then rinse mwater and 7nhl a soft dry cloth; If spond Zuu" oiBuuui aa wiped 1 affcpv k cleaning the nickel wil&ot tn?sh fo? a long time. ; ' Keep the solution earthen or glass jars, as tl used many times over. , -u uousea . v The authorities in PittsfiflM nr have recently added' tn iJ?J rUaa-V mcnt'a apparatus ao?r of ?Xt on wheels,'; or 'nLht Wi" nraufc ehicle stocked w?th uh "cart a R. N. HACKETT ! Attorn ey-at-Law, j- WILKESBOKO, N. c. Will practice in the State and Fede Courts.- - ra ISAAC C. IVElLBOf Attorn ey-a-i-aw, oro, axr. Will iJxtiKivo nuo fnnu the Dealer in real estate. . Prompt atten ioii paid to collection of claims. -rf- m T Tfi-nlafr H T. rt FiriLEY & GREENE Attorn eyo - at Law, r. i WILKESBORO, N. C. Will practice in all the courts. Col. lections a specialty, ileal estate Boi'i on commissiQn. . ANIMAL EXTINCTION. How Sport and Fashion are Devastating , How extensive and rapid are the changes occurring in the fauna of the world may . not, perhaps, be generally realized. .Race after race of animals has the disappeared f rem the globe through operation of natural causes, but the chief responsibility for. the destruc- tion T'he must be placed at the door of man. extinction of the great auk, or penguin, and' the rytina, or arctio' sea- cowi is of comparatively recent date; the bison is nearly on .his last legs except those the curators of the mus eums will supply him with and the walrus has become very scarce Tea yearjs ago peccaries were abundant in Texas, but hogskin goods came into voarue. fiftv cents apiece were offered for peccary hides and in five years' time the 'peccary had practically be come extinct The famous halibut is be coming more difficult to find with each recurring season, and no longer is Chesapeake Bay the " inexhaustible source of supply of the-succulent oys ter., ' t ' , : Fc r years the danger of the; elephant beco"tninff extinct has been pointed out by scientists on account of the im mense ' annual 'slaughter of these ex ceedingly iUseful if ponderous animals, and ItheiBritish' covemfnent' in India has been repeatedly warned to exercise authority in the matter This beast, playu such an important- part in the military,- as well .as in the . domestic, economy of the Britisii tgoyernment in Indii that the, authorities have at last taken alarm at the decreasing numbers of the i animal, and have at length de cided oh instituting repressive regula tions regarding their slaughter These are to be very stringent and to be rigidly enforced. Elephant hunting will no longer be permitted as a merer pastime, and due supervision will be exercised oyer the trade in ivory. To supp y tne world witn ivory necessi tates the death, every year, of 100,000 elephants; and if these were placed in sligle file they would make a pro cession 180 miles long. So rapidly, of late years, has the elephant tyeen done to death that, the next generation of museum visitors will be gazing at his remajins with the . same interest that we dt, 'now; at the remains of the mas todon. I ; . ( Fashion that inexorable dame whose; dictates must be executed if the heavens fall is responsible for .much of the destruction of both beasts and birds! tit was the demand for Its feath ers that brought about the extinction of th great auk the. only, bird in. the northern hemisphere that enjoyed the proud distinction of being incapable of flight) (being ruthlessly killed by thou sands, both in Europe and in the north of Anfielrloa, until, about 1840, it was no longer to be found. Seals, despite the restrictions placed around their kill ing; fur-bearing animals of all kinds; I birds j of gay plumage; - alligators, croc uuuea ana reptues , of every variety,, are being decimated to satisfy the in satiabie demands of fashion. Among the items at one single sale in London, Eng., recently, were the - following: 6,000 birds of paradise. 5.000 Imbevan pheasants, '400,000 humming birds, 360, 000 skins of furrbearlng animals, and 250,0d0 t. 'possum and 30000 monkey skins j The fashionable sealskin sacque demands the lives oif 200,000 fur seals every year, and fully 1,000,000 hair seals are annually slaughtered. - At the door of the sportsman also lies some j of the responsibility for the ex tinctipn of animals. In South Africa the zebra is no longer to be seen In his accustomed haunts, and t,h. fi Tn ft a la met' with but siiirwT 6. . - Dr. Ogle, Of thA "Titvrrl (cl. "r uenerars , - rw r . IT tor " that gives figures fwY mat out of every, l,000,OOQr and ' 82 m a 1 v; o r-a 4. persons 225 females alive at Ua L. W it . nas hport rirr.tx . male centenarian there are two fe- 4 A A i , males this phenomennn in -wv, 1 1 r " : trailer, sex Dy assert inn- tht the Propensity of women to talk.and gossip conducive to th le the remains r f" : a endamaged. Other statisticians say that wmn' io, iri genera a more calm and. unlmpassion ed existence than man, and a life less burdened1 with' toll and trouble. Yet some ot these centenarian women are rromf the poorer classes, where the women are. home makers, bread win ners and mothers of larce. families. Class Water Pipes. ' bome of the towns of Germany have their vuter pipes made Of Plasa nm. tectediwith.au asphalt coverins to pre- vent iracture. , s
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