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gopeastitions and Legends of the Natives
at Greenland—Beliefs Regarding Crea-
tion—Manners and Ways That Were
Hold Objectionable by the Creator.
'• Besides Ewafki, of South Greenland,
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of the lost art :t /larclenPlg wing.*
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turn any ball. The atMOSS
the discovely, though involling results
of the greatest economic importance,eases at-
tracted, as often happens insuch
little or no local notice, but outside of
the natives of that section have another his own cenntry Allard's invention pro -
evil spirit whom they designate Tivig- mises to be eagerly seized upon.. It was
tak. This Tivigtuk appears to corre- brought to the attention of Major -Gen -
'pond closely with the devils spoken of , eral Herbert, the - commander of the
in the Scriptures who entered the herd Canadian militia, and the cutting tools
of swine and sent them ploughing into made by Allard were submitted to his
the sea. Every now and then a native, inspection and to that of engineers
when he has a more than -usually serious named by him. All of the examiners
altercation with family or friends, in- expressed their surprise at the wonder -
stead of fighting runs away to the 1 ful edge and hardness that had been at.
mountains, where he lives a hermit life tained. It was the general's -suggestion,
mourn and declare that the man has
and sulks. Then made with an eye to the possibility:of
those at the settlement
the discovery's being utilized for the
armoring of Witish war vessels, that
Tieigtuk in him. Then they hunt him
up, and if they find the recluse, force
Um home, where he is watched over
until the bad humor passes away, on
which his friends rejoice, and say that
the Tivigtuk has become Senepa or dead
in him.
In some of their superstitions the
South Greenland natives are quite poeti-
cal in thought; as, for example, in re-
gard to the aurora borealis, in which
they claim that the waving shafts of
light are the spirits of the dead Eskimos
engaged in kicking phantom walrus
skulls across the heavens in a spiritual
football
It is curious that these far northern
=pie, both in South and North Green
cl-
, have the same idea of a future
state as the American Indians, founded,m
doubtless, on thesae character of their
struggle for animal existence. Like the
Indian, the Eskimos believe the spirits
of their deceased friends and relatives
go to a great place of hunting; but in-
stead of to a vast prairie over which
buffalo and deer range in vast herds, as
held by the former, the "huskie" spirit
hies him to a broad sea in which are
countless seals, walrus and Polar bears,
and in the shores of 'which are tuctn, or
reindeer, in quality beyond /extermina-
tion.
Besides these legends, the Peary party
came across one in the north regarding
creation, which should afford special
food for thought for the anthropolo-
gists. According to this legend the first
man fashioned was white,,and while not
exactly peblocta, or crazy, his mental
balance) was of such a-- low order and
his manners and ways so objectionable_
that his creator was disgusted with his
first attempt, and made another, which
gave satisfaction in - every way. This
other and perfect specimen of manhood
was an Eskimo. If the belief of some
anthropologists that the Eskimos are
the remains of the cave dweller's of the
stone age, this legend is remarkable as
_perhaps being the possible origin of
Similar legends of other nations. If,
on the other hand, as seems more rea-
-sonable, from their color, facial out -
Thies, and peculiar shape and set of
their eyes, that this strange people are
of mongolian origin, the story is still
remarkable as having been retained
through all their wanderings from Asia
through America to their present ice-
bound home, the tale losing only the
'intermediate race creations.—Wm. E.
Neehan, in Independent.
the inventor prepare a sheet of his
hardened copper, of a line "in, -
thickness, to be tested under the
direction of the lords of the ad-
miralty: Private reports from Eng-
land state that the experiments in the
royal dockyards have proved eminently
successful, though nothing official upon
the subject has yet been communicated
to Allard. At a preliminary trial of sim-
ilar sheets at the -rifle ranges, the bullet,
fired from a distance of forty yards, was
shattered into a thousand fragments by
its first impact with the hardened cop-
per. On the second trial the missel,
striking the plate more fairly, was com-
pletely flattened, but remained embed-
ded in the plate; which it merely dented
slightly, without cracking it in any
way. Allard's friends declare that all
the tests so far made have proved most
satisfactory, and that the inventor,
among other things, has made by'bis
process a copper razor eqUal in edge and
temper to the best article of the famous
Rodgers manufacture.
The story of how • Allard (lame to re-
discover the ;art which was knOWn to
the ancients, and especially to the old
pyramid -builders of Egypt, reads like a
romance. Thirty-three years ago, when
working at his trade in the United
States, he heard,a Comrade in the Berne
shop say that the man who could redis
cover the lost, secret of temperingcopper
would make &fortune. Ever afterward
this saying haunted his mind; and for
over thirty years he sought the -secret in.
vain He made- thousands of experi-
ment -a -which endedonly in failure and
dieappointment. A .hundred. times he
vowed that If the ilext trial failed. he
would abandon the search, which was
wasting hislinaited means and proving
seemingly a veritable
for him. At last he: fully decided to
make one more trial, and if that failed
to give the whole thing up forever. A
new combination had -occurred, to his
mind and success crowned his efforts.
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One -Piece Barrells.
A German has patented a process for
making barrels without staves. The
trunk of a tree is sawed into lengths, to
the size of the barrel required, -and the
chunks are placed in a boiler and boiled_
for a few hours. It is believed that if a
current of electricity be passed through -
the boiler a chemical action is generated
that softens the wood for -1vorking.
After the boiling the bark is stripped
from the chunks. In front of a cutting
tool the .chunks are held by forks in a
manner similar to that in will& a piece
of wood is held in a lathe. The chunk
revolves rapidly against the edge of a
fixed broad blade that cuts a cent -inn:
ous shoot of soft wood of any desired
thickness. The strip passes to a flat_
table, where it is cut -transversely into
lengths of the required size. One ma-
chine cuts grooves for the headend the
bottom, and another cuts V-shaped 'slots
out of the edges. Thenthe pieces- are
bent into cylinders and hooped, Mois-
ture is extracted by a drying apparatus.
Wonder Workers. •
An English mint possesses an electri-
cally operated machine for counting
coins.
• There is a tree in Jamaica known as
the life tree on account of its leaves
growing even after being severed from
the plant; only by fire can it be entirely
destroyed.
T.he Russian -physician, who proposes
to cure neuralgic pains by throWing
beam of electric light from an arc lain.p
on the part affected is entitled to a re-
spectful hearing. It -Will be:a long time
before we exhaust the uses of this myk-
tic agent. =
A French manufacturer makes Minute
electric lamps about the size of &pea for
the use of photographers in the dark
room. Theyare intended -to be mount-
- ed in the middle of a pair_ of Spectacles
or Ani the frame without the &meg, -the
lamp being Shielded by a reflector The
„battery is Made tip of accumulator cells.
Monday Mere Unlucky Than Friday.
Many years ago, when sailing ships
-were the only means of communication
between the different countries, super-
stition was more rife among sailors than
at the present time. These absurd fan-
cies were not confined to Jaek alone.
Harper's Young People says they, were
shared in to a greater or less extent by
shipmasters and owners. Friday was
considered a day of evil, and the most
malignant results were supposed to at-
tend a voyage commenced on this day
of the week. In those times he would
have indeed been a reckless skipper who
would have attempted to sail on this ill-
omened day, for the crew would have
broken ont in open rebellion rather than
lift the anchor from the bottom or cast
off shore Moorings. Since the advent
of steam many of these prejudices have
become as derelict as the ships on which
they were once entertained.
A true story is told of a skeptical
Massachusetts captain' who, away back,
in the early - years of the republic,
determined to exhibit the fal-
• lacy of this particular supersti-
tion. He contracted on a certain Fri-
day for the building of a ship, and it
was arranged that the keel of this vessel
was laid on Friday, that she was
launched on a Friday, named Friday,
commenced loading on a Friday, ,and
hauled into the stream on the same day
of the week- To add to the possibilities
of disaster, a negro cook named Friday_
was engaged; and thus fully freighted
with the sinister name, the Fridaysailed
ou a Friday, bound to a port in the
West Indies. From that day to this no
tidings of the ill -conditioned craft have
been received. But those of us ivlio
like Friday for various reasonsbot -
chiefly because it leads up to Saturday,
upon which days schools areclosed,
will be pleased to hear that it is: not
half so unlucky a day as .Monday,, the
day schools open. again. A _ German -
statistician, feeling that, Friday had
been a much -maligned day, determined
• to make a scientific investigation of the
- matter, and has found that it is not Fri-.
. day, but Monday, that is the intatit_
fortunate of the week -days: .According
to hiSinvestigatioriala.74- per cent. of
all accidents ()emir on Monday, I:Piper
cent. on 'Tuesday; - 16.31 - per 'cent on
Wednefiday, 11.47_ per cent. on Thurs-
day, 1&8& p_er:rent'OnFriday, 16Afper
cent. On Satuiy, -and. only .84:13.er
cent, on Sunday. . -
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Female Sanitary Engineer.
A woman sanitary engineer has been
chosen to represent women
at the congress of, hygiene. She is a
woman of versatile genius, a possessor
of certificates for art, music, hYgiene,.
divinity, physiology and ' sau'itary
-aczence. She , visits pro 'wall
workshomand dairies,
and understands all aboutthe laying of
• dining, water mains, connections and
so forth.
An Engineering Feat.
A. Scotch engineer is said to have
*solved the problem of making the mill
run with the water that has passed. It
is reported by it Glasgow paper that a
resident engineer has devised an Sr-
- ralipment by which all the steam used
an engine is=retlittied-,1641:4(
As a t is saidary -can be gotten outthat(')ap4Zeicli:i
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• A Substitute for Asbestos.
A new material, not . tinlike asbestos
in its properties, . has been _
immense depOsits- in the United .States:
• Coluinbia: It is stated to be the -
• color of anther, perfectly, transparent,:
and incombustible. Experim mats; made
at Bogota indicate that it will be of_
great value for the mandactureof bank
notepaper, fcr. ftreprootandwaterproof
roofing tiles, and for Oita for:firemen::
manitee liquatstsaiih;c_ine833hdeb7h..: eeis4Teil:peelem:ied,thWQ11:4:,
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prove of greater importance :than es"--
bestos.
The r arth's Population., -
The. latest estimates miike Seta:
population ofthe ,
'Tis also set down tliat'- languages
Spoken now number 3,0007 Theintbert
an Kirchenzattting statesthat the jl,I� .
is now accessible to filly:, tiAmtkirdS Tef
the human race. It -fiktrito that the
Scriptures have been translated-intO not
more than 187 languages; but those are -
the dominating tongues of the world,
and through them Chrislianity reaches
the bulk of niankind-=-- Or may do „so.•..
England and AMerienareizameasurably
tns. _
ahead in the production -of
and
ranslatio_ tranalatori:
Cloth from Wood. - _ -
A German chemistViten_ ted
method for the isolation of the BlieM of 1
Wood so that they can be spun -and-
made into yarns capable of being woven..
The wood. is_ first cut...into thin, Stripa,
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Which. are repeatedly passed.
' roughened rollers, so that they are bent -
and cracked in many places. After; -
thorough treatment in. tbis manner the
mass is finally -changed- into- fibrons
elabetallea, the fibres being N
,erY:
aria tat: and yet strong.; It is said that
the material nett- -be Win like:.---44te
-takes colors very
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A Happy New Years ta all.
N. McLAU01334N,
Druggist, Gordo.
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Has Removed
To the Sharpin Buliding, opposite
Albion Hotel, Gorrie, where he wale
pleased to meet his friends- aseXcusto.
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For the Kitchen.
Fel the Dining Room.•
For the Hall,
Foi-the Parlor.
• - the Sick Room.
-For the Rich.
For the Poor
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&Furnace.
Lamp Goods,
Cutlery,
oware, _etc .,
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Don't burn your fingers making
toast. Get e. Toaster, for
only 16o. A t Sorsa s...
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Gat an adjustible cover for boil-
ing kettles. It fits any size
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Lively things in Fa ncyLam pc
and Shades AT Surnsarwies.
Dutaent of all styles. Some-
ihanig_nobby m this line,
INISILANDO
Does that mouse in the pantry
bother you? You can get
anystykt of mouse or rat
traps,_ Av Surzatawles.
You'll be surprised at the num-
ber and variety of bewail.
ftd and useful articles, inst
suitable for 1 -mac presents,
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