The Brussels Post, 1891-6-19, Page 3,TitiNE 19, 1891.
TEE 13RUSSELS POST.
YOUNG FOLKS,
•I got 'econraged waiting for him to finish
and went at the papering myself.
I took a roll of paper and colt it 11; pieces
TOOT EELFS CLEAN HOUSE. and stuck a oil the wall high tis 1 could
0,71, )01,, (uug, mid Bright Ideas rant Haye Made minnow; l'or
reaeb, He had some ele I 1 Their Originators.
1 put all of that on, 'cent what I saved to
make paper doll's dresses, In repl,y to the question " in a
Some people, don't Lhe to elea11 Wgreo he eame back, 'stead of being &pate. Patant the Yankee Inventor once said :
amnia 'spiecs it, and so does Minnie, ful, ho flew round like hen with tier heal "It 11, the right; to Soo somebody," min the
just+ 'joy it , and Freddy thinks its ergant, ent off, and culled mamma. When ;Me saW answer really embodies the inotit compre.
bemire &Mutton of the word that, could be
found. '1'110 Patent Office annually isb1.13.38
about twenty•four thousand patents, end it
if4 safe to say that out of them not lees
than hiLlf that number of laments aro
evolvetl,
Tim groat building at Washington could
paper it. in an hour.
In the mornirg papa 'vited me to ride supply a fund of humor, of pathos, of ro-
over to Ana Mary% With MM. And When mance and of tragedy whieh might well
I was ont in the harn Seeing the little rod furnish the novelists (if the world with 'dote
for a lifetime.
coif, he went home 'theta me.
As a rnle the little inventione—that fe,
I s'posed he'd come for me at night, but
he did% come for inore'n fifty days, Last • 111080 which teemed reallY
he came, and grandma and I went; home bare brought, forth tho great fortunes.
The 1111101Y110 invented the tin rattle for
with him. And just as I 'spouted, the house
was all cleaned, and Airs. Ryan had gone babies retired with $1,000,000.
limo. But that sign 'bout some one's ay- The rel lien -ball, which consisted of an
thg if you break a lookingliass is true ordinary rubber or wooden bail to which
02,0 2,110 ein,y after it.et hc,„10 praddy attached 31 long elastic cord, Nyas invented
brotee his black boy doll I. gave him Christ. by a shoemaker in New York. It niet with
11MS. universal fai or, and the man who originat-
, ed the idea fennel that it, profited him to
thO extent of S50,000 per annum. It is
A Land of QUOIN' Custonee. paid by those who are suppos, 1 to know,
All things are reversed in Holland. Tho I that he never secured a patent on the de•
main entrance to the finest public build- 1 vwet but instead bought up all the rubber
ing in the country, the Palace, or . 104 halle in the Market, attached to them the
town hall, of Amsterdam, is its back ; elastic cords, and reamed Ills fortnee while
door. II 3013(111 maidens hire beaux to es- others were hustling around to find 01103101
curt them to the Kermis, or fair, 022 f -e011.1 ru.bber with which to compete for the
val days. Timid citizens are sc.,red in , Plus+ .
the 1101331 of night by their own watch.' The Imo bottla•stopper is a very simple
contrivance, and yet it has earned an on.
;nee, who at every quarter of the liour,
make such a inase with their wooden manse fortune. AIMS invented and patented
by a Men maned Charles teitilfelt, Who Sab-
Clappers (me would suppose the town to
be on fire. You will see sleds used in Sentiently sold it for $1,000 to one Carl Hu -
LITTLE INVENTIONS PAY.
Next to 1st of duly, and hrtaitent, and alio; I adorn; site sikt doWn In a ohm' 1f
Thankshiving, end New and blab. she The Dinh saill he'd 1111Vo to
days, I like it be:tern ally other time, mend Le the city for more boed'eing, and he
W11011 Inflifilea edol guesed she'd Venue couldn't get the room done in a week.
loremeeletieiag, Itext week, tinele ;lack said said : " Mamma, what makes you let the
he was going to Toronto to stay two weeks, old slowpoke do it+ 3 Jamie and 3. could
and papa allid he wished he could go,
klinnie said she was going, and teased till
mamma, asked Unele Jack to take her. I
told Unele Jack to give my love and a kiss
to Allot if rave, and tell her I \yes 'tatted at
home helping clean house else I'd have come
to.
The day 'fore we 'tnenced cleaning a tic'.
dent happeued to purse. She Was going
down the back stem and she walked 011 11
piece of soap I left there when 1 made some
suds to blow soap bubbles, and fell down and
hurt ha ant. :she made more fuss them I
did when I cut. my finger and it bled more'n
three quarts, and went right off home. Mam-
ma 'pletely seouraged. She said it would
take her all her time to take tare of the
twins, and she didn't see hoW Jon» ie 0011131(10
all the work and 410301 house too.
I told 1101.1 el help Jennie and soon's it was
done 1'11 t.+Ite cal e of Pete and she and
Freddy 00111,1 'teed to Bose, and then we
wouldn't have to lote that cross old 11111300
'round stLyieg " hush, 1111011," all the time.
So mamma wayed in the nursery with the
twins, and Jennie and 1 'inenced cleaning
the next day. Course I WaS sorry the
ae'dent happened, butmo one WaS to blame
for it. 'Sides that, it spoiled my pieee of
wimp.. But 1 pea, it Wa9 a blessing in
'sgutse, like grandma tells 'bout, for we've slimmer there. 'They go bumping over , cs•
In the meantime a, man named Putnam
got rid of that old moss patch nurse any. the bare cobble -stones, while the driver
bow, 13nt granthert den t think bouse-oleans holds a dripping oil rag in advance of the had invented another design of the same
thing, which was the detachable wire over
ing is a bles,sing in ',guise, 'eause she went I v111111810 tO lessen the frietion. You will
right, off, too, and stayed at Annt Alary:$ see streets of water aml the country reeds the top of Ilia emir. In some. way one inf ring -
till it was ell done.• paved as ;lively as Droaclway. You will ed upon the other and a, lawsuit was begun.
1„ theft, But the patios got together, consolidated
The first room we cleaned was the one see vessels bitched, like horses,
0„3-3. „o1,10 2.0" of their interests, and coined money.
up entire where 00111p'net always sleeps, owners' door posts,
Ole I One of the remarkebly "simple" Moen -
Jennie took the lacks out of the carpet and square 0011kod 1100800 :leaning tions is the cotton -tie, Foemerly all uotton
I helcl the die!) to pet '0311 itt. She hod to street de if they were getting ready
bales were tied with rope, but there Were
g0 doWn stairs for something, and I thought tumble. instead of solemn striking
many objections to that process which lion -
I'd finish. The taks stuck awful and I clocks you will hear elnotelt chimes play -
dyads of mon sought 1.0 overcome, and at last
jemmied, 'eui with the thing you poke 'um ing snatches of operatic Ries every quer.
out with, but that made so many holes in ter ef bour way of 'narking the ono, bY 010 20010 Of C001118, invented what
the eat -pet / bad to step, time. You will see looking -glasses hang- levan known as the " arow-hetal" tie for an
I was voke.1 at the old thing I 1 brew ing outside of the dwelling, and pinsou- !iron Strap, 'The contrivance wa.s Ho simple
it out of the window and it fell right in the shums displayed on the street doors. The that cotton -men, far and near, quietly tool;
well, first. am called spiomten (or spionnetjen) their old pants front the closet hooka and
Molted them around theirs rooms because
Then I went end told nis nuns, noldent and are so arranged outetdo of the windows
they had no t, thought of th e d evieethemeel
had happeeed e 133_1.01,1 melt puller. " Deter, that persone sitting inside can, wit hottt
door et the, woe tee nifly ,,,,,, being seen, enjoy a reflection of all that is , The tie wont into immediate use, thousands
we had, and me, we hare to sena 0h.e„. t„ going on in the street. Th?y 10,„„, " improvements" were pace tod, and
the ejfhtge gei, "whet.," o, foo, what visitor may be coining and Watell Millions of the strape were solcl until millions
of dollars Were realized. The man who at
I said, o can .1.11•edd.v and go with the hired him rubbing his shoes to a polish before
present controls the patent and the limner.
Man When he goof; ler i" She sahl ' no entering. The pincushion means that a
ous assignments eenneeted therewith, made
teal 311 0.1, and we 1+;11 .3 'menced my and 110W baby has 0ppeared in the household,
to him by the various inventors of improve.
holler, then she .3a131 we ou131. If white or bine, the new comer is a ; if
11.?eates, ha.23.? purchased the famous Navarro
We had r. 11.+31+11 ride, I drove clown and red, it is a little Dutchman. Some of these
ore„,12.0 2 „„no Ithtts 10 tfty-seventli Street, and is the pos-
Freddy drove back. We got two ta -k signals are very showy
things len when I asked 1110111100 10 1E,1 1101, cushions at all, but merely ehhigies scissor of a, loge foetal= besides.
Everybody remembers the " 'Fifteen -Paz -
take one, she weill-bOi, I Lever knew 1300 to trimmed with lace ; and among tho poorest
be so selfish befere. class it is not unusual to see merely a zle." Fifteen little blocks were placed in a
ennare liox, which wits made to hold sixteen.
When Jennie got the *he carpet up t're white string Lied to the 3.100r lateh—fit
hired man pat 11, 3311 the defiles line and token of the meager life the poor little Tim sixteenth place was left vacant, and
whipped it +++,1111 a Mg stick. stranger is destined to load. block " fifteen" was placed between blocks
" thirteen" and " fourteen." l'he problem
I got a stieh and helm. I him. II 1. mine Sometimes, instead of either pincushion
was to avenge them in order withont re -
was 31 piece of lath and lied a nail in it, and or shingle, you will See a large placard
moving a block from the box. The idea
it made holee wersoln that 01,1 tack puller. hung outside of the front door. Then you
Then I ne'dently hit him with it, and he may know that somebody in the liouse is 7as mIginated by a cripple, and from it he
is said to have amassed a large fortune. The
said 1.5,10.., avthil .weat• words, and mut his or her present condition is de.
1 wen., 133,1 Iola she mad 10 kse, seribed on the placard for the benefit of puzzle went everywhere -1n the house of
the rich and poor ,
'wilY Irmo him, rind g, hop ,f,..nnt, 11,04, inquiring friends, and sometimes when such
" Pharaoh's Serpent" was the invention of
windows. We walled ',en in a tub in the u P10,81011 llsts beell tak'en clown, You 11111Y
wood-lion4e. I held the 3 oap disband cloth tneet 0 grimlooking man on the area, a Brooklyn man. 10 eousisted uf littl pill
to which a light oti mattell was touched, when
and handed 'cm to h i•r; when the wanted dreesed in black tights, a short cloak, and a
&smite crawled forth and writhed and twists
'em. Then we put '33311 on the bad; stoop. high hat from which a long, black streamer
ping ed after a most serpentine and fascinating
Freddy had a. la of stones ill his watiren, is flying. This is the Aauspreker,
fashion. The
and was playing drew a load of coal. delude from house to house, to tell certain persons pills sold like wildfire—which,
said she was afraid I'd work too hard, and that their friend is dead. He attends to indeed, they were—und brought the invent-
or between 310,000 and 3100,000. But it
I'd better go and rlay with him nevbile. So funerals, and bears invitations to all friends
I went, and the first thing I knew a big \chasm presensi rimy be desired. A strange, also cost, him his life. In working upoo
" mprov omen tr, " his laboratory he inhaled
black fly got rat 01.,0 of the windows, sud weird -looking figure he is, and he wears a
walked on the clean glass with his dirty
feet. I :eel; a stone and threw at him,
When he saw it coining he dodged it-, and
it hit the window and made the gless all
full of little cracks. The Evils of &fowling.
1 went and told mamma another att'lent I have a special message for women—one
had happened. "Oh 0,241' 1" sbe said " what don't—small as werd, but mighty in blue -
have y011 done 110W, Toot " Nothing, Once. IL 18 this : Doe% scowl. Scowling
mamma," 1 said. " It was 33 Ey." spoils faces. Belem you know it my sister,
The next day papa WEIS ping to the ril. yonr forehead will resemble a small railroad
'ago, and he asked Proddy Mid 1110 if we map. 'Eliere is a grand trunk line from your
wanted. to go Ind I said I'd like to, if main. cowlick to the bridg.e of your nose, inter-
mit eou13.1 Spare 1130, She said she could and seated by perallel lines running east and
we went. west, with ourves arching your eyebrows
I didn't know papa %elided to stay all and, oh, how Inueli 011er you look for it
any, but he tli.1, and then Aunt done want- Scowling ie a habit that steals epee us un•
ed us to stay all night, and papa seid he imams. We frown 1711031 the light is too
was 'frail she'd feel bad if we didn't 00 we strong,Raid whon it is too weak. \Ve tie our
stayed. I told 111111 te tell mamma, 1'cl be brow. into a knot when We aro thinking,
beck in the morning and not to clean tany and knit them OV011 1110r0 Ugh 113' when we
till I got there. eannot think.
Btit Uncle Tom didn't get time tO take There, is no denying there are plenty of
us home till the next day night, and then things to suowl about. 1.'he baby in the
Mrs.Ryan was there, mid they'd get the orad lc frowns when something fails to suit.
'upstairs all cleaned. " Constitutional scowl," we say. The little
I was So 'spointecl I 'meneed to cry, but toddler who likes sugar on his bread and
Airs. Ryan said she'd left all the hardest butter tells lus trouble in the same way
part down stairs tillI got back. when you leave the sugar off. "Cross," we
The next day W0 cleaned the parlor, but say about the children, and " worried to
We had terble bad look. Alre, lityan had (loath " eboet the grown folks, and as for
on a Wilful sun bonnet when She worked, so ourselves, we can't help it. Bot W.1 1111101.
I put Rose's lace cap On. Boo it, wasn't big Its reflex infleeeee makes others unhappy ;
'none), and it fell in a pail of water and got for faoo answereth unto face in life as well
wet, and 1110,1110114 slapped, mo for wearing as in eveter, It belies our religiou, \Ye
it. should poseess oar sculls in stash peace that
We put all the furniture in the hall and it will reflect itself in plaotd countenances.
on the v'randa. I took all the chairs and If your forehead is rigid with wrinkles before
made it train of oars, and had Freddy and forty, what will it be at seventy?
the eat for pas'gers. We had a big red There is one aonsoling thought about these
ohair for 1110 engine, and I rode in that and marke of time and trouble —the death angel
jumped up and down in and said " hoo 1 almostalwaysoraseethem,'EVell theextrome-
boo I" and puffed just liko a real engine, ly aged in death often wear a smooth and
But my shoes were muddy, and they got peacefel brow thus leaving our last memo',
tho cusliton n, little dirty. So I took my les of them eal'm and tranquil. 13nt our bust-
hand'ohief and wet ib in a pail of water :qrs. ness is with life, Scowling is a kind of silent
Ryan had been mopping in, and vvashed it, scolding. Itshows that otir souls need sweets
and Freddy took hie hand!chief and washed ening. For pity's sake, let us take 14 sad -iron,
the Other ohaire, but the sun shone on them or a glacl.iron., or smoothing tool of some
and they dried in streaks like clothes do sort, and straighten these creases mit of oue
sometimes, and they didn't look good. faces before they become indelibly engraved
Then / told Freddy we'd better wash the npon our visage.—(Latlies' Homo journal.
looking+glass, So he took hold of ono end
of it, and I took the other ancl we carried
it, &Wit the steps and int,o the front yard
and laid it on the grass. Then we went and
got the pail of wale': we walled the chairs
in. I told Freddy we'd throw the water on
the glass seene's Jennie did et the windows.
So we both took hold of the pail and
swung it so's the Water'd spatter good,
And it flew out of our hands, and :Moved
right on the glass and brnIte it all to pieces.
It ;node 011 awful creek when 10 broke,
and mamma and Mrs, Ryan and Jennie
=Ito ininnieg out
" Ouch 1" iffrs. Ryan said, " you've broke
tho glass, and it't; tt bad sign, and 110W ye'll
• ve death in the family sore 1"
Mamma mese cried 'bout the glass, so I
gave lier two five 00311 pieces out of my bank
to buy mother one, and she felt bettor.
Then email enano to paper tho clining•roorn,
3 tried to help. him, but he called me a,
.troub'sonio some" 'ea1188 tippo 1 over
the dish of pancako better ho stuok tins
paper on the wail with, and 'stead of tienis
mg to his work ho kept going out in the
kitchen, and whispering to Jennie, .1 geese
ho's a beau by the tlielous way he acts, and
the francs of the chemicals he Wart usieg,
peculiar, professional east of countenance
that is anything but comforting.—[St. Nich- and died from the poisonous effects produc-
e's&
To0 SMooth.
"No, " she said to her dearest chum, .3
don't think can marry Algae"
"Bat why, dear ? Isn't he all you weld.
desire in a husband 1"
" Yes, "
"And your brother is pleased. with the
match?"
33 ym.1,
" T11011 what, the world io the reason
you refuse hiro when all your friends are
willing?"
"That's:just it. There isn't the slightese
bit, of opposition or romance about it. It
juSt 80011101310e something that had been laid
out and planned for us. Unless Edger melees
np his nund to elope with mo fear I Shall
never marry him. "
"01-h I"
Sttnality th0 Wed.
Stranger—Just look at the (vowels going
along. 1 shouldn't think you could build
churches enough 1,o hold them all, Blinded as they aro to their own eharaoter
Native—We can't—they'ro going to the by self love, every num is his own first and
ball game. chiefest flatterer,
Mr. Munn, of tho Selent>fic Americo 4,
tells tunny interesting stories about patents
and inventors, for all the world—i. a., the
Atnerierui world—goes to him or tO his paper
with ideas upon which he is expected to
venture the fortune whiel publicetion
Ins brought him. He says the ginilet-point-
ed screw has heought more wealth to dif-
ferent men than many silver and gold mines
of the West. A man named Waiter Aiken
Well the first to think of it and he realked
handsome fortune, Aiken's fatheli, by the
way, invented a saweet whieli brought Mtn
3100,000 or more.
Sometimes many year* elapse before ihe
good qualitioo ot an invention aro appreciat-
ed. The patent upon roller skates had near-
ly expired before it realized any peolit.
Then somebody started a rink, Mu! SO outdo
the inventor worth a million dollars.
Who has not seen the "Batwing Jim
Crow V Who would believe that it waS
worth 375,000 year to its inventor ? Yet
it is true.
One of the largest fortunes over yealizod
from ft patent was made by the man who
conceived the idea of putt ing ornery powdet
on cloth, ancl the inverted glass boll to hang
over gas btumers proved Lo be a veritable
lamp of Aladdin.
The rubber tip for lead -pencils mado
$100,000. The pen ior shadmg with dlr.
ferent uoioref brings en annual stipend. of
S200,000, and in the year 1887 alone, as
proved by testimony in a reeentlegal action,
the inventor of the metal plates for the pro-
tection of the soles and heels of shoos realiz-
ed a profit ef 31,150,000.
William Chandler Raymond !ma written
a book ontitled " Curiosities of the Patent
Oiliefe," and ho devotes several pages to the
whimsical and oomieel things that have
been Invented.
There is a mechanical shooleiron oat, with
steel olaws, othieh rune by elockeivoelt and
is warranted to " lick " any oat in Christen-
dom. The eat 1.9 wound up and afineed on
the roof. Old rounders spy IL new oomer and
tackle him. Whew 1 When they light on
his beak a spring is touched and tho mechan-
ism works, There is a, small cyclone on the
roof, itioessant yells and—tho old mender
retires to meditate over the uncertainty of
life.
One man patented a peooess eurbig
worms by fishing for them in the htnnan
stomach with rod, hook and line, History
does not state whether he used. area or not,
and fails to describe the landing not or the
gaff employed for large ones. Another
made a trap for (stabil% tapo-worma tte ono
would fox. Tho patient was starved and
the trap set in his mouth. The W01111 WAN
08,1101 by the head and pulled out.
1.1p011 0110 00casion a Man 0011 the OM-
bahned body of a baby to the Pateet Mies
with his application to secure ts patent for a
now process of embalming disoovored
him The baby 10 not T1OW on exhibition aft
a model,
U611.1141.11.
HISTORIC BUG STAINS, BULL FIGHTING IN INDIA, 1 BAILING IN BOILING WATBR,
.„ _
Haparetli ions 43 tatthec to '000'3311f Vie le -111.
and MI:Mow fly the Reigthih I
(,01111eVied With Melee the Ellgth:11 old
coma+ y -seats are 1.111110111108103.00 01 !Orange
blood stales et ill visible—the snout, iralelible
wit:MAHON of t ragie weeps eon( Mi 1 ted i 11 the
distant pant, At C0811113;113 hall, Slir33pdre,
there is said 10 loe 61.00,1 8111i11 ‘1111. 11 ban
boon there knee the time of Heory IL,
nod eon not be ellaced, Atteording to a
lewd tratlitioe, which has long been current
in the neighborhood, it is tho olood of Lord
the owner of the hall antl estate
at this perltel, who was trenalierously slain
by his son. lint this story, whiell is utterly
vaeinnee with faute bearing on the Ithitory
of Contlover and its ownersin years gone by,
must be (dossed among the legendary tales
of the country.
At Cothele, IL mansion ou the banks of the
Tema, the marks tire still to be seen of the
bltiod spilt, by the lord of the 1801101', when,
for some S11 plumed nut of perfidy, he slew the
warder of the drawbridge, -Nathaniel Haws
theme, on on one occasion, enjoyed the
hospi tali ty of S1111 thins hall, Lancashire, and
Was so i m pressed with tles well.known legend
of the " Bloody Footstep" that, itt three
separate instances he foutoled fictions upon
it.
A curious story is told by Miss jaekson in
her Shropshire Polle-lore " of blood raid tot
at Plaish Hell, near Cardington. This le-
gend runs thnt a party of clergy ivere assent -
bled one night, at Plaish pitying cards.
All the doors were locked, when suddenly
they. burstopen witliont any apparent CailSe.
Again they were leaked, " but presently
they burst open a second time, and a third.
Then the old geotlernan appeared in the
midst of tho company, and they all rose and
fled excepting the Itoet, whom the others
left face tu face with the enemy. None
ever saw that weetched man again, either
alive or dead. Only a great stain of blood,
shaped like a human form, was found on the
floor of the room, and despite all ell'orts, the
mark uould never be waehei cmt." Ever
mine this occurrence the house hes been
haunted, and et midnight a ghostly troop
of horses me heard, with such a noise that
none cat] sleep,
The Cornishman knows from the red filmy
growth on the brook -pebbles that blood has
been shed there -34 belief still firmly credit-
ed. Thus, some years ago, writes:\ fr. Hunt
in his " Popular Romantics of the West of
England," " a Cornish gen tleman was cruelly
murdered end his body thrown into a brook.
have been shown stones taken from this
broelt svith bright red spots 00 some vege.
table growth upon them. It is said 1.133.1
ever since the murder the stones in thie
brook are spotted with gore, whereas they
never were so previously to this dreadful
deed. Aceording to another strange Cot-
nish belief told of St. Denis' blood, it is
related that at the vety thne when bis
cleeenttation took place in Parts blood fell
on the stones of the churchyard of St. Denis. 1
Ever since these blood stains are reported to
be specially visible when a calamity of any
kind is near at hand.
The red poppies which followed the plolvs
ing of the holds of Waterloo after the duke
of -Wellington's vietoey Wile Said to have
sprung from the blood of the troops who fell
during the engagement ; and the trait of the
mulberry, eibieh was originally white,
tradition informs us became empurpled
thi.ough human blood, a notion which in
cortaiii parts of Germany accounts for the
color of the heather. Defoe speaks of a cer-
tain camp called Darrow Hill and writes :
" They Amy this was a Danialt camp, and the
roads hereabouts being overgrown With
Danewood, they fancy it sprung from tho
blood of Danes slain in battle, and that if
cut upon a certain day in the year bleeds."
In Wales the dwarf elder is niok-named
Plan t ef the Blood of Man," and the wall-
flower is known 131 P.tlestine as the Bloods
drops of Christ." Among other plants
which are said to owe their dark.stained
blossoms to the blood-dropi which trickled
from the cross may be mentioned the wood -
sorrel, the spotted peisiearia, the arum, the
potpie orals, and the red anemone ; while
a French legend accounts in the same way
for the crimsou-spotted leaves of the rood-
selken.
The Battle in klashonslancl.
The hod: of 1010graphie communications
in .Africa thoonvenient. '.17he tight in .11a-
shonaland recently would hardly have 013 -
cured could 11011.0 lowe reit +Med the bellig-
erente that Portugal and England Were near-
ing a satisfactory settlement of that. die,
pita ; but almost simultaneously with the
uews that England hacl appeased the public
feeling of Portugal by tioneeding to her 50,-
000 square miles of territory north of the
Zambesi, 0E11110 tidings of a battle between
the British and Portuguese in Mashonaland.
The Portuguese actnally attempted to drive
the British out of Fort Salisbury, the strong•
hold of the British South Africa Company,
and entirely outside of the territory in dis
mite, The Portuguese were defeated and
driven back toward the 800.
It is not probable that. this event, deplor-
able as i t is, will interrupt the new arrange-
ment between the counteies W111011, accords
ing to the despatches from Lisbon, is certain
to be 'edified. England has conceded to
Portugal far more than is pleasing to British
rani titlists who er nvesting money in Africa,
She has yielded a large region between the
Loangwa and Shiro rivers, north of the
kkunhosi, which the 13ritish South Africe,
Company had fondly hoped to appropriate.
Ronghly described, this region is IL triangle
with its base, about 400 mflea long, on the
Zambesi, extending west to Zumbo, and its
apex nearly 200 miles further north, touch-
ing the middle comee of the Loangwa River,
Not very much is known of this district, but
it is ono of the few places where ivory ono
ho obtained in. itnpoetant quantities ; and
now that it hes been turned over to Portugal,
the British South Africa Company is out off
from the territorial connection it hoped to
make between its possessions in Mashona•
land and British Nyasseland.
The agreement concedes to the British
en -lutist -611y ail the tervitory they claim in
Mashonaland, ancl they remain in possession
of most of the gold-bearieg region. It leaves,
hoWevor, in the hands of tho Portuguese the
entire ammo of the Pungwe River, which is
navigable from the 111clian Ocean for along
distance toward Mashonaland, and no pro.
vision has been made for the use of this ims
portant stream by the British as an outlet to
the sea. It was on this river that battle
oecurred some thno ago between the British
under Sir John Willoughby and the Portu-
guese, who had establielied a fortified pea
op the river for the express purpose of pre.
venting the British from using the Pungwo
RS a highway. The settlement has, on the
whole, been more favorable 10 the Porttiguese
than to the British. The 'Portuguese laid
claim to only a very small area in tho r vont
of tho gold finds, and for the surrender of
this district they have gained a, very largo
territory, which adds 11111011 to the import -
twee and the future pre,11 ,ot, of their pos.
sessions in East Africe,
; it etas None ot' cite ler Utiti eltiiraererisfic, or
ort111113;11,1'y''11r111715'fligi(it"tu 01:31:11..;1.1 iorrns the
chief ammotnent of 1114 '41,1,01,t1 I
and ,Nlexitatis, has le•ett dee;•riiir.1; se 011,11
I hat. it.ere is not i,111' novelby !eft. but
18,1 41;1.1' 111 1011111, 1.1:.!1:1 4.1.4,
11,10l0d 111 111,110 hi ;,./14.. .v131 its tray.
'111.3 1 lev. ifollart Msit,
1111,1,401,0y in 1 hat eotiniry ior amity yews,
Nr11, 1/1'01/1/111y L1111+3,10 deh '1 1i).
meth a tioetleit, sites, wiee1 • .3,,e it Ilan 1,e3e,
mmasionelly tefvtts..1 tr. ttavellm,r,
'these 11aVk. a nee t,r plea+
sitreto the riij.thli ,111,1 iteir 1.111 em s many
Yvars, and .11 e .11 1.10.0)•
triets of little,. The tholeugl iy r.rame3113.111•
111414 .1 sr++ m•Gally the p,...perty of
Wandering Jugglers. ‘3..3,313 11ti'l In them a
rromee in...110:"S'ini.1,11t 1 or L'.11 111011' W01118.
No 11, 1., 1 8.4 +1 +; sp+,estors,
but, at the eoisilii,sn +.;:e they are
reseal -tied (volt .3 ellta31 f pee melt.
"Ehe .0d131els, 17,130., ere vecv hetet., are
ahem the size of an or.lim.1.2,. A1.3.,11,ty
end ,ere fr,l+t +3+ er,1•;•istre eomlitioo.
l'hey ate of a special breed. ,,aring ;it i
any, resen.",1,30.e. to t he 11 ft y sii:-ie I Mill
01 having no Mu.,33 1:333
shouldels, notmeable 1.c .'.11:111'...y 18 Hie
f 1.3o1 Intl great
111,1,, the upper Par 1 1 ,,,1,0111,1er
tr., the ex treadt V a tl.e 1301 ng ex.
trelooly rtarroWiehie, this t.ver•de,-.4,3pment
of the forequarters glves te the 1011,110gs
the appeatauve of being a great deal too
lting. That tliey are very tar.verful is io-
(Heated by thmi; 111:. k necks,
Nviii le in strong ..ontrsst are tlicir delicately
small heeds.
1Yhen there le to he ..+;,,;11i. the +++,vners of
the bulls le,el :lion hoe ,.: .13 erevieed ling,
%ellen tiwy 01.
their pognaelous oat er, 1,111111y
.
Being S,11r0,1 by ropes jr, ; sosind their
heeds and liners, 1111.'y k,111
apart fee Houle time, red,: te 111,1,1
10 11'011 1.11e111S01.1'1,3 100 a .,.:111.214,:it 1111'y
10 111S1lre 31 iper010 ot
They are. led toward 01.1',1, 1111111 but
.
4 In el Clle 1 1011
W1111 a tind,1011 jerk ot the repe are
Istekward with suell for,o `.!.4110,,,it 1.1,1.01V
thelll 011 their haunches. A w ropeitens
of thie advancing ;tut' rat rte,ting 15111i10101it
',tr./ work them in to a state (33. L 433 vernati rag?.
I he ropes are 110W i4Ipped f:r.;:1 their helots
arid the combat 1,3.11118.
hn' D. rr11110!0 01' 1..We they survey eaeli
other wita dilated. nostrile and flaslong
ty Ls. ley 1 ..ti m1 3. .,r .Jun11(1 in a
cirele before (.013.illg 11, ..•011.1.a*, cautiously
watching for any Xilvt.ntaii:e that may be
presented. Sudienly they ceeve Lae to face,
pause for an 1118111111 3111.1 111011 WW1 betide
lowered, rush madly together. It oeeasion-
ally happens that, one or the other fails tu
withstand the shock, and is forced upon his
haunches, but, generally tpeaking, their
horns beconee locked, and then begins a
fierce struggle for supremacy. caref Ily
are they trained that seldom, if ever,
is either gored during the right, each
dexterously avoldime the ei iious thrnsts
made by his OpflOnent, C.1111 frying,
with all his strength, to throw him
broadside ou the ground. The head-
lock is at last loosened, and each retreats
rapidly backward a few steps and then
rushes impetuously forward as before but
this time with even greater force. is
usnally repeated several times and as a
matter of course ono or the other grows
weaker and begins to retreat. This is
quickly 1'0c:ovals:ea by his abtsgonist who
appears to gather additional strength, and
with a tremenduus rush generally seeeeeds
in forcing the vamplishrid gladiator upon
his haunches. At tlite the keep.ers quickly
step forward, and strikiog the victor on the
nose with St heavy bamboo stick compel him
to desist, and passing the rope over his horns,
lead him away.
Thus ends this very po-mliar combat,
which is devoid of all the extremely brutal
and bloody incidents which ,tharacterize an
ordinary bull fight.
Oombinations Among Anima's,
Indian wolves have been seen to leave
soma of tlicirnumber in ambush at points on
the edge of the jungle while others drove in
antelopes feeding in the Open gi'01111d beyond,
says the London SKebteir. llut wolves. as
a rule, hunt alone or in familiee,except *when
presead by hanger. dogS,„. however,
habitually uombine to lona, and i;aldwinan
his " fame of Bengal," mentions a oese of
frier 00 five martens limiting a fawn of the
" muntjae," or barking deer.
But in real military oreanization mid
strategy monkeys arc far filAftl of all other
animals, and notably (lie dial:rent kinds of
baboon, Mansfield Perkins gives at excel-
lent amount of the tecties of the dogefaced
hamar] rytids that live in large colonies in the
cracks in the cliffs of the Abyssinian (noun -
tents, These creatures used occasionally to
plan a foraging expedition into the plain he.
low, and the order nf attaelt was most care.
fullyorganized,the old mitlesmarehing ahead
and on the flanks, with a few to close up the
rear and keep the rest Mercier. They had a
code of signals, halting or advancing accord-
ing to the barks of the scoots. When they
reached the cornfields, the main body plun-
dered while the old males watched on all
sides, but took nothing for themselves. The
others stowed the earn in their cheelt.pouches
and under their armpits. They aro ale°
said to dig wells with their hands and work
in relays.
The Cleltela baboons sometimes have bat -
ties with the hamadryads, especially 'when
the two species have a mind to rob the same
field, and if fighting on the hille lent roll
stones onto their 011011110. N01 long ago a
oniony of Gelatin baboons, which had been
fired at by some black soldiers attending a
(lake of Coburg -Gotha cm a hooting expedi-
tion on the bottlers of Abyssinia, blocked
a pass for some days by rolling rooks on all
comers. This seems to give some support to
enrious objection raised by n, Chinese local
governor in a report to his superior on the
difficulties in the way of opening to steam.
boats the waters of the upper Yang-tse. The
report, aftent noting that the inhabitants of
the upper waters where ignorant men who
*might quarrel with strangers, wont on to
allege that, monkey's inhabited the banks,
which would roll down stones on the steam.
boats, " The last MO foots," the report
added, " would lead to complaint from the
English, and embroil the Celestials with
them, especial' , if the men or the monkeys
kill any Englis
A LOSSon in Orthography,
Business Man (looking over his little
son's letter to grandma) r "See here. In
referring to the cold you caught from ex-
posure to draughts in a theatre you spell
draeglits d -r- f ta. That isn't HAL"
Little Non ; " Why, pa, I asked yell if
d- raf to spoiled the kind of ; &efts that
made odd chill. run down your back, and
you Said ' Vos.'"
lInsiness Man ; Unit -3 was thinking of
sight, draf ts."
ELDerleuees Or Navigators MI Sub.
marine Eartliquanes,
It 83,02110 1301/10W1103 of an anomaly to eau-
, +meat(' earthquakes among the perils of tho
, sea, nevertheless, submarine eartlitteu,kee
111'0 ijilii0 often n sotiree of coesiderable
danger to navigate) R. f1114111,00011 like the
cathetrophe 111 1110 S11.111111 Straits and the
; seas surrounding the island of davit are not
i 00111111011, 1,111 111 1,11n,,,, pitrts tile 000a1.1
0111.00 M113°0 1114 111 0111111111i11 liihate111410,11e06 aro
Of 1 11 1,111111011 oeeurrence, although not
, (duel the cause of disaster. The Atlantis,
frtn; St. Paul rocks t o the Windward islands,
and the W0t0I'S around these islands, aro
1 c,p0,ially subject to these tlisturbatiees.
Tee Swedish hark, Eleanore had an ex-
' perience with an earthquake 'in that viola-
ity on a recent voyage, Copt. Peterson
men that one evening between 7 and
o'clock, while the ‘,08801. 1711,8 eailing along
. a thvee, knot rate, with a light wind arid
0111111 Neil. it 110100 W11,8 110+11'd 011 1110 port
side 11 heavy purl, and alreoet
titely the Water Iwgien 'to Lod and bubbler
like water in it huge kettle, breaking vio-
1 lently and reaching as high AS the poop -
deck. No distinet shock watt felt, but the
I ehip wild:mod to tremble as loug as the
dist urbeem: lasted. It continued for about
an 11011r, and utter the eame interval the
Ibubblime 3333,1 foanileg of the Water 1.,Pg0,11
again. it w.3.13 then dark, and 3110 sound
eet11,1 he plainly hoard, lint it WaS not port-
, eible to observe whether the Water waS
Intultip Next day the see was calm tin
the weather tine.
Last fall a number of violent shocks were
I reported from this region. One was felt at
1 Barbados and in Various places throughoub
the regiOn between Demerara, on the main-
land tu South Am erieti and tlte island of
.Martinique. American bark P..J. Carle-
; ton, Copt. Crosbie, reported reeling asevere;
' shock. 1 he men became like pot,
greatly confused. and tumbling about in a.
tan:thing wear, and a grating sensation was,
experieneed, though the vessel were going
ever a, reef. Other vessels reported similar
experieliCee al about the same time. A par-
tienleatly violent submarine volcanic distnrbe
once would have such disastrous &recta that
no reports would. ever reach 303y portst
from VeK3e18 unfortunate enough to
be in the loeolity. And how far such dis-
turbances /nay be. responsible for the melan-
choly Het of ships " missing" is matter for
conjeeture.;
A Prairie Grave.
A Dakota farm,
A lmaving emerald sea that merges, at its
edge, into a blue neean of sky. A renge of
low hills fringes the plain at the northwest
anti at no other point of the compass is there
an ooject to relieve the eye.
A traveler seeS the same dreary stretch of
grass through which he haspassed far ;
he feels the same hot wind upon his tired
cheek ; ho hears the wild geese cry shrilly
overhead and the daeles splash in the Wild
1 lee of some marsh or stougli—everything is
it repetition of sights and sounds that have
made themselvea distasteful by familiarity.
Monotony and Solitude nee the twin deities
that reign supreme.
The eentral object of a scene like thie—an
object that broke upon 111,), ee- es after a long.
day journey and filled the Wi Lb a sudden
solemn awe—was a grave, a prairie grave.
A rale fence was built around it and mile
wild roses broke into blossom and peeped
front the rank rrrass that covered the mound.
There was no headboard—no ;,vortl had been
left to identify tho dcad—the dead that 110W
lay in solitary waste where the silence was
so terrible as almost to speak of itself—the
dead that had once been the living and had
moved in spheres of life.
Perhaps the dweller of that lonely tomb
VMS 1nan who had loved and been loved.
Death had parted him from hi, idol and
110W, when his loyal heart waS low, be hod
been interred in an insolated wild where
never a loved ono ecitild br OVel. his mound
and drop the montmer's tear. Perhaps some
one was grieving, in au eastern home, for
one who had left it, never to retinal. Per-
haps fair faces were aging 3%11E0 fond hearts
hoped against hope that a lover, a son or a
brother would return. Anil this forsaken
grave, if they could but see it mid know its
occupant, would toll them all
I shuddered and tanned away.
13111 then, I mused in after timeght, what,
cares tho deed how lie his wasting bones?
Ainl those he I eaVer1-1101 y they not hope
and hope and only awake to 110 '.rut.h. when
they meet, the lost one feet+ to lave in that
country from whose Lemma no traveller
•
A human heart is nothing, if not. hopeful,
and what cau be more eatisfying and sWeet,
than a dirille of hopes We cher-
ish hero?
HOUSES MADE OF FAFBR,
A Nen+ Ituttding Material that Closet!,
counterfeits Wood.
A neW use hm been found for paper in
the production of building material which
is said to pOSSeSs all the better qualities of
hard, fine grained wood without being af-
fected in form and dimensions by the tem-
perature and humidity of the atinospliere.
In the preparation of this material any
quality of paper may bo ttsed, although
manilla, is preferred.
During the process of inanufaeture there
is added to the paper pulp a solution con-
sisting one part of starch, one part of gum -
arable, ono part of biebrOmate of potash, and
three parts of benzine, to forty.four parts of
pnlp. The paper made from this combine. -
tion is mato I Wi 111 11; Gement male of linseed
ea and clue, and is then kept under heat
and presser() for about one week, so that,
thelmards ra ty become thoroughly cured and
seasoned.
lt is stated that these paper boards are
capable of being worked up the Same aS
Ordinary weeds of cotumeree for all put,
poses of whiell the letter aro used. Dtiring
the pi mess of manufacture the pulp may be
colored to resemble any &Wired kind of
wood, and may readily be grained in iinita.
tion of oak and walnut.
Would Try Both,
Dashaway—Hello, UnaleInsper, 1 haven't
seen yet for it long time.
Dude Jasper—No, sah. De fee is I'm sa
shabby clat I kinder hate t"pear 'fern 'speot,-
elite folks,
Dashaway—Well, 110W, Miele, if I 51101.1131
offer you the 01010o between a good glase of
whiskey and a good pair of trousers I've got
upstairs, which would you take ?
'Uncle ;Iaspor—(seratching his head).—
Well, boss, dat's 0,pow`ful hard nut to
crack. BM, I spec if I had dm glass
o'whiskey firs' 1' be dat, good I eould eloeute
yo' inter givin' me thd, pair pants, salt.
A ho Ise built on sand is, in hur weather,
just, as good as if builder' 011 a rock, .A cob -
'Web le rte good as tho mightiest olutin cable
wlun there is no strain on ft. It 18 trial
.etitt proves one thing weak and another
strong.