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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1903-1-15, Page 3„ef • INDIAN TRADING. r. elexa. to Bent the Red Alan [Iowa In Ills PRIeei, `TM Vitae men keen' 114W tO trade w*han Initiate” rentarlted a Penver lane who bas made a study of Indiana for ten years'paet. "I once met an, In- dlan with A Pettglii.leent meartWiti lion *kW. ale was waling to nett with the ornament. bat leis price was too high, Offered lam $12-50, but be enclignaatie refused. Later, oe the game day, after I had learned to trede wale an ladies, I botsght the skin for S1.50. "The secret or traellog with the Di- dion is to appeer indifferent, Tee roost inteeessful trader is the one who goes with a supply « tho same article he la moot desirous of buaing. Thealudieo cathait the sirauger bas bael expert - mice, and negotiations are caeried ou upon otrIckly aueiness nests, An In. dare refused ale for ik bow and arrow. It was nought for al by A men who carried several bovve and errors In lila hand. Tbis wily intlividual leased tbe supply from a store In order to im- press Ids pper celored friends, and he succeeded, "The Indian." Feld the speaaer, ten. 4 lag of trolts of diameter be bout ola eerved in 1215 re4 friende. "Is one of tbe Meet faithful followera In the werla If he has condeence h eel. if he lakee 21 liking W you. there ItOthing you con mit he will not o. if he dieillma you, the lefe you levee to do with taut Indlati the better."--- Reek,' Slounteln News. A Knorkoot, A: young lawser was engaged in case not log22 whitest; was put In the box to testify to the mute - Von of the place lu questiou. Vele witutos. a siege driver. In au ewer to n query as to the reputatiou at the pinee. repted. "A pair shop." The laueyer Required. "You say it hal the reputretion of being a ^L),,,r ultopr oVes. Elv." "'Whom dia you he uoy It VHS a tillOpT"• The willaces did got recolleet any one be had Wahl. esay Se. "W11:11,1" EAU* the er. "Yon hove envOilt thite Wee has the reputution or telug, a peer elhop uiel yet comet tell of any one sett have everehearal say We" The witness was staggered for meld at the wostle of the lawyer. The lawyer awls feeling triumphant wheal the witneee gathered blinself togetber end quietly remarited, ialdressIng the lawyer: "Well. you have the reputetiou of beingn eer !ewer. but I have never heard tatty OWeey so." Ilia, lam/cent elle WS story is told or a eeMrnteU North Carolina inwyer who was prac- ticing la a inichweado nametale Ws - Wet: - While he was waiting for ble teem to ba reached the tlial of a notorious bighway robber. who had been caught red Minded. was called, The prisoner luta no counseland the presidiug judge reipiested the distinguished law- Yar to defend blue Tito trial lasted two dnys and, to the court's astonish- • meld. the jury returaed n verdict. ot oequittat As the prisoner eves about fo be diseharged, the lawyer stepped up to tbe judge and requested a few wOrds In tolerate. "What la itsi" mama the court. woulatnek Tame bonor," replied the lawyer, "to have the prisoner dettanea in jell tonight I have to -crossn lone. .0eld on my way home and the ras- cal inmpens to know taat I bee* money about inc." Coin Feet. Cold reet are n sign of disordereCi dr- culetion. CoUtInelal warming with ar- Metal heat is but temporizing with tbo evil, and .the difficulty should be overcome by proper dressing when that la In fault and by foot and ankle exer eises. The latter com be taken at fre- quent intervals during the day, and they will assist in stimulating the cir- etantion of the blood. Point the toes down to the extreme limit till you feel the Jou:toles stiecin over the nukles and work the feet up and down eight or toe times; then devitalize them and , rainite tbetu from the enkle, as one does the hand with a loose wrist. Suf- ., forma from cold feet in bed can quickly , 'warm them by title exercise, and it • will bring reed' and comfort during a letzg ride. J0E:lu1e's Sugzeisflon. &Mind% a bright boy of six, while being4 dressed for sehool, observing his little coat much the worse for Ivor -and, • • having more 'mended places -than he ' admired, turned to' his mother and asked her: - "Mother, is father rich?" "Yes; very rich, Johnnie. IIe's worth $2,500,000." ' "Flow, mother?" "Oh. be ,values kau at $1,000,000, .me at $1,060,000 and the baby at 2o00,00o." joannie, .rifter . thinking a moment, nid 'Mettler, hadn't you better tell fa- ther to sell the baby tincl buy us some efothes?;' Natural. Airs. Eta tters.on—The ladies of the parish got up a baby show for the, lienefit,of the hospital. • Mrs,. Chatterson—Neras it a success? . a howling succesel" Wity 'Ile Grie'vem. ,he may hat,e a 'temper, but she is interesting. Did she ever get over• the death .of lier first II -Listened?". - "yee; but her second husband is in- con'SOlable." 'Wor/h VVI,He., S. 11.0,4. should like to knenewhat good ooter eellege education did, you? Ifee-Well, it ettleght me to owe a lot of moneY without being cennoyed Life. • AN ALASKAN leANOSLIDE. 1 A PLATE OF SOUP. Rather i.elisureiy, bet mete up Orcrtreok onfil twigs meter way. All the morning as we cleepped spongy cottonwoon, hiew out our Wage over t?,e are awl flipped Water from the blankets a dull roar which We thoUght tine river swellea by the in was growieg loutlet louder. I saiti, "I gWs a' moraine clioked on on the giatier Jas brolten through," and just then Jack stepped out frOm under; the snaketarpaelin. "Loolt et taat, Robbie, look at tliati" I bead bIn sitouting. Outeide be was pointing across the street -a. A land- slide was roaring downa gtillY frenn the very top of the Rainbow bi1. it was a stupendous slahte We loolize4 dt It silently and then said. both at *nee. "I thought an avalanche Was sadden," Tihis. thing wiggled 1Ue a huge sealte down a sbeer 2.000 feet a reek. The we ?Realest forever to inereaee, lettst r emoke trailed from this tlange ;wad enormous bewhiera slapped solemnly from eado to side of its path like peb- ble& Water mingled with 14 mad wnen reached the terrace it was 4 bled; straw*. ViSOUS mid beavy. Jack bet it wetildn't croee the bAlf tulle or flat to the river, but in a too- meut we saw hownlers ehooting out over the terrace% and fispen graves foil aa if WI with a Wyllie. A. cencerous ' tau ate eitt to tate hank and gravely t3loppe4 over like lumpy paint, cabbie (leap ebannels dewa to the •elvere—Out. lag, • A Vlore rot, Me Roy, Sol Smith ituseell, who, saw humor In tuany commonplace Imppeninge, Used frequeutly to tell of meeting an id farmer at A railway etation In A email New' York town Aimee plilloeie , phy was particularly pat even though lite deductions were haraly compile turatia7 to the Woe, nye the Mimeo Tribune. Russell and hie diminution i wero awaiting the treat witen the old gentlemuu waltzed up. eyed lite star a MIMI* Or two find asked: 'Ile aim the feller tliet eut op tame at raker's ball hist nighar "My umpsny a 4 1 "lave a e f , awe there last eventog, yee," replied inuesell politely. 1 "I theugbt an. I Wee' WV', And I had it laugh aametiniee. I wanted to tell you about my boy. lie's just your way , —ain't no goo4 tor 'Work Won't *idea :to anything, but wants to play down laud crack Pales all the time. fleas ;got a job at the hub factory, but all lie does is to keep the men telataddiS when they orter be worhilin You orter take him 'long with emir troupe, fOr beeo tbo &tautest Reel I ever gout" Stewed APIdee. To StCW nriplee se melt quarter is ow breken and so clear one eau aliireSt see i tienie, i It Is an Mt, mid yet it hi n 4 ma i ple tale; to do if one only ;know* hOW. : Peel tart tipples very thin, cut them la y 'paters and remove the ewe and 1 weeds, As foet as on can peel ana i quarter them drop the maples in a I:emcee:en In wideli you have already lanced cold \voter to the depth of two ' inthes, When the apples are ail in, put the reurerau over a *low fire, OM It :al the water re:whom the boiling point, then remove the cover lind let the op 1a isiaimer almost Itlipert.etrdbly VII you can pierce -theta easily' with A ereom plint; then eprinitie the sugar over them and let time jUSt simmer twill it is an melted. Remove the Satleoptatt front the lire and let It stand where the minks will get told before ternitne Vim. Into a dish for the Miele. SPOILING A SCENE. Et* .Eneet VP0il Gellel141$00t,r4 Pre*. 1401410 441.41•41140114, Selling' dinners in courses 1 dew perativelyn Modern fashion., trat in- troeluced in aiplomatic circles In Wash- ingeon Ana imitated from Frauete Up to the date of President Pollaa admin- istration the course dinner axiom; Americans lied made nO further prog- ress than *bat of serving deh and sot* separately. Soup WAS regariled as 01,101 foreign frippery that a note" written by General yl000ki Scott, lo stbieu explained that be wee "just Sittln C -Own to a heety plate or soma" eve - creel him wIth $11ell ralicule as to Ina- teriallee contribute to las defeat as a candidate of the presidency - Soup In the e4ri,e doles et the repute lie was eopeiderea as feed for invalids ar poor people only. Later, when the oda' splendors of tile court a tue Lueltrees Eugenie attractea rich Amer- icanein eleelts to Paris. French table raannerS and euetouts tenet:ea tae QW Roglish dinner fuehions to tbe wall. It doebtfixl.bowever. it soup ever foond a place on tUe dinner table of the wealtby tdaryland er Virginia Water. 111114."Sa green turtle, wbich want re4lly stew. might be an called. The objeet of an old time dinuer par- ty was to eat witereos that or the eOlsrS0 (limier Is to delight the eye' retie. r that: the palate. ond yet who, will y that the sight of a well filled die - able where on array of eliver erne dishes olvee forth, a bouquet of eelors fulls to make au eable-hatreeelou on all tne pewee? LOSt 114 Mr Own rteore. -"Whim about being WO says tbe girl Who ba$ been visiting ber grand - permits. in the ala family homestead— al breve been loet in the city anti lest 1 In tho (Ware', but never was there 'omitting en horrible es being lost la my Own room. It MIS a very queer on I had at grantimanewa'a Amy - 1 wae—one of those MOMS from whieb a fiend:A, or Wks leads down: MOMS mid: leo ore only to Le Seett In old Immo. It blew uo cold the laret night 1 was In ;the hew, awl 1 got up to close the luindew. 'i'he room, of course, was .piteit dark, In getting Wait from the window to tiee bed 1 lost myself. , had tot the slightest idea In wbat . direction to turn. and I taiew that it I was not careful I should go down , those nwful stairs. 'Store was noth- ing to do but sit down on the deur and IICAtil 1%1" Game one to come and and ow, and tbat WWI Ala what I did. If grandpa and grandinanlina bad not bcen unueualle normal individuals. I !should have frightened them to deittla As it was, they only thought I had, rt ,aightinare, brought candles and locat- ed me Rad sbowed me my way to bed again." The lInd or the World, D. Me W. MtTer. a German scientist in an Interesting volume muter the above Me expiable a "new theory" as to bow tbis event will probably come about. Indeed he carries his argument aiifl further mid finally extinguishes all the energy of the univers.e. All or the present tatellites—moons, eventually be drawn In by the force of aravitatlou and, become 11 part of their planets. These In turn will be ab- taorbea by the sun A series of colli - v2088 will then co:nu-tom between the various suns which will filially result In one enormous sun and solar system. "Awl so vowing in grandeur, but di- ulnishing in number, the Mud catas- trophe will crime wbon there are no more suns to produce collisions (and heat and one huge body cooled to the An Incident That Hotted lter, 4,11. inero of spnee, void of available energy, tlersoles Stralning Atter Itettliotn. will mark the final outcome of comic - Did you ever hear afary andeasenia , 11 motion." pet story of how she was cured of her lovo or realism? I In a big drama in which this great ' actrese once took part the heroine in a scene of intense emotion is made to es: - claim, "Herta I hear the wheels of ear riagesi" 1.40W. it was easy enough to obtain the eiTeet oe wheels an gravel, but no resouren of the etrige mechanism was adequate to imitate the stamping of the teet Of horses as they were drawn up at the door. levery device was ex- hausted aivhen a bright idea occurred to the actress herself. It was that a donkey should be hirelt to trot up and down behind the scenes on gravel laid for the occasion. This was clone, aod at rehearsal all went well. Tbe illusicin eves perfect. The first niglat came. The heroine gave the cue. The wheels were heard, but they stopped, and the LTA Was 51: lenee. A pause, and again the actress spoke her words. A. terrible scuffling began and then "I -lee -haw; hee-haw," in stentorian* t GOES from the back °of the stage as the indignant donkey protested vigorously ngainst his ill treatment', by energetic carpenters and Repots tt was mac „of the most scrim% situations og the play, yet audience and fl C COI'S joined. in paroxysms ot mirth until the 'teat% were streaming dowu their cheeks. lianduespo -Brought Teara. elotber—Oh, you cruel boy l You are melting, your brother eine , Algernon—No, 'pommy; I'm net. I'm only sharing my cod liver oil with him, wetyou said was so nice. Some of the people who think they wereeborn to command do not discover tbelr mistake until they get married.— Peek. Dermeratton• Customer (wildly)—I want some sooth- ing sirup, quiditi leruggleteeWhat size bottle? (Metomer---Bettlel wart!. eelof.l twiese, , Cotton snit Max. Cotttpi WAS used for malting gar- Ments in India at n date So remote that it cannot even be guessed at The fact is. mentioned by Aristotle. The first seeds were brought to this country- in 1021. In 14300 the culture is mentioted in the records of South Carolina. In 1730 the culture was general along the eastern cella of Maryland, and in 1776 We heard or it as far north as Cape May. The use of flax for making cloth- ing' is nearly as ancient as that of cot- ton'and perhaps more so, plants of soft end flexible fiber having been without doubt among the first vegetable pro- ductions,of the ancient world and their value discovered soon after the invention of weaving, • Wind Shots. Two Striking instances of tbe effects of "wind shots," or the currents of air caused by the enemy's eannon balls, are given in the "Aueobiography of Sir Henry Smith." On one occasion his home fell as if stone dead, but he wee ;lot hurt at all. On another occasion an officer Wa s "kiiocked down by the wind of a ehot and his fttee as black as 1( 120 had been two hours in a pugilistic ,rrees of Florida. It is difficult even to guess at the age ef the riiicient live oaks, but some of them must nunther centuries, and the oldest and greatest of them all is a monarch of the forest, ''weth its outer branches sweeping tbe ground in a cir- cle 120 feet across, with limbs as great as ordinary trunks of trees and bearing a garden of aerial ferns and air plants upon their bark. This venerable tree is supposed to be the largest live oak in Florida. Enormous grapevine trunks _ . -rise sinuously from the ground and lose themselves amid the quarter acre of foliage that erowns this tree. The sap - limes thet once gave them support have disappeared long -years age, their only record being the tingles and curves of grapevine stem to which they lent their transient aid to climbing sky - a Ward. light is deffereot from any Other; 111, tleed. it is without a rivet. It seems as 4 1r there the sun were leata to set, easts Mg its rays over the Emeerild Isle tuatly • Were after It heti disaelleared elr•es where. In that delicious inetnent juet , before it gals its anol re:7ting place for the Itig.ht. it te most eatehanting,' (leer eeely lea isan unspeakable even of petteentitl quiet, and a warn; glow raga °luto SltailaW unsightly objeeto dad Sur realltds ;leen With mystle, halo of golden light. It radiates into the hearts of Ire:ours liumhltat inhabitants, and they mily forth rieli anti poor alike ogling Ill a throve' Zar living, moving Telly, TWILIGHT IN Ifil-AP,11.). ts Different Prom That Seca In Any Other Country. The interior et a typteal Irish caain is a sorry eight., The door is of **tope, uncovered except. for 8 few rag mats. Tbe euroltere is of the poorest, and eeneeeimes et Is hemenuttle; tables lee- provised from boxes. baira froM bar- rels, and the beds more Wee strills ray evjtb their straw mattresses wed bundle of rap, for elotbing. A slow, (12*11 Are of peat glee4a Cheerless warmth to the room. What few diehes there are belonging to the fondly nre arranged CM the mantelpiece. Strips of becea, dried cod and herbs hang from the 0001511. After a frugal meal rat will take bla entitle; promeeade. 1*18 betsfeen sup- per time and going to bed tliat the Irian most eaeoy tnereseivea An Irkth tad - t .g 4a, 8(102* ' ruin eays that of the eighteeeth eeile 1 lIte Lomion theaters opened at d o'cloale and as It was therefore difIls cult for petygoers to arrive punctually and obtain seats many or them sent footmen or hired men from the streets .td'areore places for them. Ttaese.eat in the esette until thole woo bee mat them came. awl the custom prevallea ulna 1,160, when the sestein UOW foece • Watt adopted. "A footman used to be seat eerie, to take places and atep them by the eirapie but effectual phut or antitig oti them till las masters And mistreeeee errirea. Such 8 praetlee would neve he considezed an intolerable nuisance. telt people In those daya were Muelt let -s pertieular, and appear to wive thotaeld notlatig of sitting for an act or toe, alwea by jowi with n now ay o8. worse, with A vagabond picked up in tito. street." An allusion 10 114* ens-. tom cours Pieldingo's "Miss Lucy in Town." vet 1, scene and Pepya in bia "Diary" occaeionally mentions hav- ing Wed a boy la, tne streets to occupy 4 veto. ror 12188. amino One* &Wood to Clitisa. ani, an Cell:113M of a group of "festoon !stmts." tomtits a long curve, with Its C011e:IVItY toward the mainland, and many a their pecullarith•s are due to C. their upheaval by eublerroneari forces, ; or which they are still one of M most active seats. Tito- were undoubtedly connected with China and with the ; land to the north of file at no very re- mote perkel, gealeejwIly rivalling, anti therefore, Otte Greet Britaln and Ire- land, are scientlacally classifeed na "re- cent continental islands." The proofs of this are twofold—that they are con- nected with .lsin by a submarlue blue: lees dem a 'hundred hallows beneatlx the surface, and this is believed to be, as in all euch tO2eS, n slimier:0d land • tract; second, the animals of Jupan are elosely similar to those of China, the only plausible explanation of this being , that formerly there was a land connec- tion. THE POLITE NZW YORKER. W. Action Proved That Gallantry Do hot it 1.M/it Art. To"rplieeriest atreell nmote volinnyte,ninocrielixtrhapptedNtetwe young man wlm "takes a powerful sight of notice*" to the old Man who reads RS he rides as the pair lett An elevated train. "Saw sentething A lit- tle While ago tbat eouvinces me them are °titers besides bieneet foutao,,, an the Uallhattan. reservation." "What was it" queried the Mau who read* and sees notbieg unletes• Per- chaace it be a vacant seat Spate(' Oar of over tbe top of his newspaper, OU didn't aotiee ita Of tonme you Yom were too bosy forgetting tbe Oct that there wee women in the Aisle of the ear. It bappenea beeweele eerlicety-thirel and Eighty-tiret etreete, led It almost anede me feet that the yo chivalre had.returuerl. An old -omen WaS holding on a strap and stendizn. in front or 4 dePneie Chap Witli a blase face. "Step up farther in the ecoter ef tire earl! shouted the guerd, and the old, lede was about to oleey wheel the dap- per bead opened aod Its owner gellaot- a -de " UratillIn. I get ott Fifty-third street and Nighth nue IC krall wait you MU have uty • "Suet) gallantry elevated train. In New York almeet brenglit inoletere to my eyes, and if I batl had a bueetiall bat I am quitesure that I could net have restraitied m,ySelf trent bringing moisture to that part of the blaue face widen On the gridiron is usually pro- tected by a rubber gnarl." Shoat Ureaka claw, Every one knows that whitlows will rettle wben a loud noise Is meek In a mem, but very few pereinis know that a ;dome eau be brolrea by elioutlue into it. Any °military gleee erbielt has a clear tone will do for Ma Meta Anil the eXe 4et nature of Its tone can nattily be eseertalixed, by passing a moistened linger around Its rho. This whit W- hig mined the performer ebould hold the glass In trout of las mouth and shout Into It itta tone About an octavo bigher than that of the glees, tram re- sult will be that the glass will break immetliately. mid for the mann that It will not have strength euotigh to re- eist the force exerted against it by the waves of air. The thinner the glaes is tbe more easily it will be broken. The tient og lawn. The lava streams from tbe eruption of Vesuvius in MSS were so hot twelve years inter that steam Issued from their creeks and crevieca, Those that flon•eil from Mot lix 1781' were found to he steaming bot just below the crust as Into as 1840, The volcano Jamaica In Mexico, poured forth In 179 lava , that eighty -some years later gave off columns of steaming vapor. In 1780 it was found that stick thrust Into the crevices instantly Ignited, although no tliseonifort was experienced In wait:lug on the burdened erust. Queer Japanese Custom. In some villages in japan robbers are tried and convicted by ballot. When- ever a robbery is committed the ruler ° or the bannet summons the entire male population and requests them to write n slip of paper tbe name of the per- son they suspect as having committed the eteme. The one receiving the lar- , gest number of ballots is declared duly "elected" and is accerdingly hanged. • This system, like ail others, has Its pe- culiar advantages. It lusures the pun- isInnent of somebody for every robbery connnittecl, whereas under the system In vogue in most civilized countries in nine cases mit of ten no punishment is inflicted on any -belay for the crime. Of Nurse they luny not "elect" the guilty person, but dispose of some other char- acter. equally bad. ma violins. The old time viol was tbe first instru- ment of its tied rind furnished the plan for the modern violin, which, however, Is 700 years oId. It is said that Charles IIintroduced it into England. One of the dust makers of violins was ,Stradivarius of Cremonn, who (3,A -fated in the early' part of the eighteenth on- , fairy. Violins made by him are worth thousands. of dollars now and are high- ly esteemed by collectors and perform- ers. ' "I d.espise a hypocrite," says Boggs. "So. do I," says Cloggs. "Now, take Knog,gs, for example.' He's thebiggest hypocrite, 013 earth, I cleSpiSe that man," But yon appear to be his best friend." "Oh, yes; I try to fIpper,trfriendly to- ward him"' It pays better in the end." SWiggs--Somehow I have failed to meet with any snedess in my unitertalt- , legs. Briggs—That's easily accounted for. Swiggs—W ell, what's the answer? Briggs—Too many bars in your way. Assurance Pars. , Sitplleti—Dr. Skillings gets $3 for ev- ery consultation. 'fhafs what Comes to O loan who tlioroughry learns his pro- fesSion. - • ,„ i I fer—A pd Dr. ' Kw a eker gets .10. Thfit's what comes of,erittivotinfr,.. 8080- , . , 11010 cheek. Alsatian 1:x:r Women. A favorite trick of Alsatian merket• women is to place slx or eight :adoles- cent eggs In a small basket and to (1e - chile that those are all the absolutely fresh ones tbey have. The victim buys them, thinking' that if ibe woman were dishonest she would have offered more "tresla " Afterward the Mitred 'woman takes six or more out or a lar- ger besket whieb is carefully covered over. Two Doable Roles. Xoey—Uncle Joe, what is an optliniet and a pessimist? 'Mete Joe—An optiratst, Joey, is a man who on net happy when he feels miserable, end a pessimist is a man who cati act miserable when he feels haPPY. Thorough Worlr. Youngwife—A friend has sent me a basket ot quinces, and I don't know how to 'use them. Mrs. Oldwife—Nethiug Is simpler. Pare and core them. mate preserves of the best pieces, marmalade of the oth- ers, and jelly of the cores and peelings. Mrs. Youngwife —1Vell, 1 • declare! And what shall I make of the basket they came in? The Giraffe. .The children had written composi- tions on the giraffe. They were reading them eland to the class. At last the time came for little Willie to read his. It was its follows: "Tile giraffe is a dumb animal and cannot express itself by any sound because its -neck is so long its voice gets tired on its way tO its mouth." Littie Latitude. "I suppose a mail has to be pretty careful in order to hold his job," said the talkative passenger. 'lees," assented the conduetor sadly, "If I knock a faro down; the company kicks, '18(1 1*' I knock a passenger down he reports me." Artistic Improvement. Hicks—That picture of• D'Anber's that you bought at the exhibition looks better in your stedy then ite did there somehow. Wicks—Yes. I Lave hung it the .other side up. The higher a man's character the less he need concern himself about his ree)iitati on. A seioeesttion: "Yee," Eeeid the wise guy; "I 8111 tbbr- peghly convinced that honesty is, the hest ,po I ley." "I SuPpeSc you have reached that ' cOnelu.sien after having tried both," murmured the' simple , . . THE, ,FEPE-1,ANCE. alle Terrible inte ottert ca WM. "Death In Vow Memento, The tereible fer-de-lance will strike again and again awl, Is the cause of greet mortality where be existe, caps. Ing deeth often in a few moments. Over the whole earth there is none to man pare with bim eecept tie* notoriaus co, lora of India Altleotielx ;to a welter snake, he is too(' of tbe river and flat 2 lauds in its vielnity, seldom beteg met with in the tails, 'Ibis denizen et the Teet)Y swamp awl sedgy river bauka foena over the whole north of Alte South 1 Americen continent 48 well es in the lelandsoe Trinided. St. Lucia and Mar, rie is truly the evil genius of the two iatter, where deaths from hle bite form a high percentage every year, In- alartialque especielly it le neeeesw ry eftentimes 52 seine districts to Imre the vorntielels So as to destroy these snakes before tile nearees dare enter te cut the Canes Ole one eetete tbirtyliev- en fendenancea were tilled Mt ef ground containing eleven norm Of a. dull yellowish or vlay tinted' grouad color. be Is ringed with irregte, ear, outclass) hands, narrou'Ing t0 .111 the back ante broaaleatimt dowowartb. Tbie arrangement or volcriog orageg lain extremely illitieolt to discern 2n tbe Oat allavlal lamb where the Bun baked clay, Mixed with the let:teamed Woe or atielta raten null water soaliten tualges a carpet of a color with las coat, Ile 13 from Ave to seven feet in length, as Miele as a UMW* Wriet, with a fat trieugular head. n 044 Paromote*. .& cauiwnn leveli mattes a goo bre. ronicter. F II a tumbler half full ltle water. put the heat Into It SW [lo piece of musliu over the top te Seep the leech from getting, out. An Tau have to do to and out what sort or weather we are gulag to have m WWII the little animal,. For ceeeeple„ whea tbe day la to be Ono the leech will remain at the het - 'tom of the glass, eollkil up lu spinal shape eud. quite metionlees. If rain way he expected. It will creep to tit* top or the glees and stayAlare mutat It deers off, If Ilse leech twists Melt and Is very Teatime, there le goiog to he a whale storm. It It keeps out of the water for several days, lo4ir, out for a thantler- storm. Tbe Indleations for frosty wefether It* same OS Air 'fine Rail for snow. 880 58 for rain. In fact, a teeth le good a Inrecaster *lie Qt8888 A. Comedy of trreril. " When Baron Intusetuann writ to Constantinople on a visit to AbdtiTAzies Nebo was then sultan. he had an inters View witb the menet vizier, wbo did not kuow a word of Isreneb. At the begIn- ning of the Interview tbe old long Turk - pipes were brought In, and then Dann Ilaussmann begun making a very long speech in Fre:tell. The glemil vizier could not understand a word, but , listened most attentively till be notleea 'that his pipe had gone out and clapped hes baud for a servant to come rind re - 1 light It Ilaussmann, thinking he was 'applaudlug, • .1io(1 toward bhu outeiretebed band, Intending to shako hands aud thank liltn. The grand vizier, seeing his band put forth, shook it warmly tind said "Goodby," limier the 1 imPression It was naussmannes intew lion to leave, and quitted the room. • The t‘Ear or Dimaysius.to A. cunningly coastructed prisoa car- ; ern, consisting of a huge chamber con- nected with one of smeller dimensions, situated near Syracuse, Italy, has gone into legendary history with the title of the "Ear of Dionysluse' The smaller • chamber was nal:1)mm to the prisoner's kept In this underground dungeon and the tyrant by whose name it is known had a habit of secreting himself tiler° to listen to the conversation of the cone viets, who were moStly political offend - es. An ingenious device conStrileted at the smaller end of the larger chamber transmitted the sounds through the partition, thus enabling the suspicious ruler to her even the whispered eon- versatious of his "suspeetse' sot:acad.:1g to shoot. The other day a solitary sportsman, his gun under his arm, was wandering down a country lane 'In Invereess-shire when be meta small boy maklag for the school. "I say, ray boY," he remarked, "Is there anything to shoot down here?" The boy 1001 ed around for a moment andthen answered with eagerness: "Aye, there's 8 skulemaister eenthe oNvre the bill!"—London Answ-ers. • A Bold Scotelunau. The late czar of Rtissia was onc night playing a game of -whist at IIorobarg,, and the Prince or Wales and several of his friends were of the party. Among those friends was Sir James Macintosh, a well known bon vivant of the eight. los and nineties. Sir James was one ot those blunt, downright, rough spoken Scotehmen who didn't- kuow fear of God or man. In the midst of the gamo Sir Jamei called out to the czar, "You've re. 301 ed:' Everybody's blood ran cold. The Prince of Wales kicked the Scotch. man under tile table, and the czar, blushing and confused, exclaimed in bewilderment: "Revoked! Why, I nev. er such a thing in my life!" Bill Sir James persisted, and the monarch was prove(1 to be in the ivrong, where. Upon Sir James replied to the observa. tIon of the czar, "I dare say you've of ten revoked, your majesty, but this if the first time you were ever told so." , C pensations. When nonan inlys as he goes, he al - limes gets it welcome beek.—Philadee- phia Record. •