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THE GAL VESTOX TRIBUNE.
LED THEM A CHASE.
ANIMAL REHEARSALS
CLOSE CALL FOR JACK TAR.
KEEP AN EVE ON KANSAS.
TAKEN7 FOR A ROGUE.
DROPPED FROM THE SKY.
A COYOTE PARTNERSHIP.
Will
RANSOM OF INCA.
ELEPHANTS WITH MEMORIES.
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hrRICK DOGS AND CATS AND THEIR
WAYS OF LEARNING.
Plumes Were Barred.
“Nonie, ” said the captain of the ark to
Mrs. Noah, “you maybe the wife of the
boss of this boat, but that doesn’t give you
poop deck privileges. Understand once for
all that these two ostriches are now the
only specimens on the waters over the
earth, and I will not have you spoil them
by plucking their tail feathers to rig on
any old bonnet. ’’—Pittsburg News.
fence)—-Gracie, how did your mamma hap-
pen to lose her kitchen girl?
Gracie—I tink I hear mamma say she
lose her under de employment bureau.
DR. G. H, KOPPERL, DENTIST,
Preston’s corner, Market and 22d sts.
The lotus in India is emblematic of life;
in ancient Egypt it was a death flower.
A NEW USE FOR IT.
lies —v.
falls,
wonderfi
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hood _
U. 1 o any earnest man we
Entirely Free, in plain sea
ERIE MEDICAL CO.i buffalo.
Almost as Bad.
When the tempest broke, the roof of the
barn struck the tenderfoot on the chest, a
haystack fell on his head and a cord of
wood pinned his feet to the ground.
Tears sprang to his eyes.
, “ It reminds me, ” he sighed, “of sitting
ti a crowded trolley car when it goes
♦bound a curve. ’ ’—Detroit Journal.
AN UMBRELLA NOT A PARASOL.
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The Russian peasantry are extraordina-
rily superstitious.. One of the ideas which
is received by them almost as an article of
belief is that every house is inhabited by a
damovoy or spirit, who expresses his ap-
proval or otherwise of the inmates soon
after they come into occupation.
Even Exchange.
“Thank you," said the lady to the man
who gave her his seat in the street car.
“You surprise me,” replied the man.
“How do you mean?"
“By that ‘thank you.’ ”
She smiled.
“I couldn’t have surprised you more
than you surprised me by offering me your
seat. ”
The stand off was thus completed.—De-
troit Free Press.
Prima Facie Evidence.
“Young man, what right have you to
kiss my daughter on short acquaintance?”
‘ ‘ What proof, sir, have you that I have
done any such thing?”
“No positive proof, young man; but that
hairpin in your mustache is strong cir-
cumstantial evidence. ’ ’ — London Tele-
graph.
Many writers, both speculative and of
military art and science, have called in
question the value of permanent fortifica-
tions, but every great soldier has regarded
them of the highest utility and necessary
to the defense of a country.
The highest waterfall in the world is
Cholock cascade, at Yosemite, Cal., which
is 2,634 feet high, or just half a mile.
Green water grapes are blood purifying
(but of little food value); reject pips and
stems.
Juicy fruits give more or less the higher
nerve or brain, and some few muscle food
and waste; no heat.
HER RECOLLECTION.
Chicago Tribune. .
Next Door Neighbor (over the back yard
Teaching by Phonograph.
A professor of languages in this city has
brought the phonograph into use as an as-
sistant. He uses it to teach his pupils the
proper pronunciation. His method is to
send with his textbook a phonograph and
20 loaded and 20 blank clylinders. Each
lesson in the book is arranged in questions
and answers, and the pupil puts the proper
cylinder in the phonograph before begin-
ning a lesson. With the book before him
and the tubes of the phonograph in his
ears, he reads the lesson and also hears the
phrases repeated with the proper accent.
This he can repeat until he has acquired
the proper pronunciation and thoroughly
understands the lesson. Then he uses one
of the blank olyindersand repeats what he
has learned for the purpose of sending it
back to the professor and having it cor-
rected. The professor places the tube into
his phonograph, listens to his pupil and
writes out such criticisms as are necessary
and sends them to him. By this means
many are enabled to study at their homes
and the professor to have pupils in any
part of the country. The professor has
over 500 machines out.—New York Times.
Reporters Exhausted Themselves Pursuing
a Rival In a Cab.
When Cyrus W. Field was dying at his
home in Gramercy park, all of the news-
papers had reporters stationed at the house.
The young man who had been “on watch”
for The Mail and Express failed to report
for duty one morning, and I was assigned
to his task. When I reached the Field
home, I found 10 or 12 newspaper men on
the opposite side of the street.
The boys were dancing about in an effort
to keep the blood in circulation, for the
weather was keen. I joined the group. No
bulletin had been given out by the doctors
in attendance, but so many people had
hurried into the house that it seemed cer-
tain that a crisis had been reached. The
reporters were on the alert.
I had been in the group only a few min-
utes when the front door of the house open-
ed and the late Dr. Matthew Field came
out.
“You know Dr. Field?” queried one of
the reporters.
“Yes.”
“Well, suppose you try and find out the
situation of affairs?”
I crossed the street and spoke to the doc-
tor just as he was entering his cab.
“Jump in,” he said, “and I will talk to
you. I am in a great hurry this morning. ”
I took a seat beside the doctor, the dri-
ver cracked his whip, the cab wheeled in-
to the avenue and away we went up town.
Above the rattle of the wheels I could
hear a peculiar pattering sound. Glancing
through the window in the back of the
cab, I saw the whole crowd of reporters in
full flight after us. A lean chap, from an
afternoon paper, had the middle of the
road, and the way he was eating up dis-
tance was a caution. At his heels strug-
gled the others. Two fat fellows brought
up the rear.
I called the doctor’s attention to the
chase. Between his chuckles he encouraged
the driver to get a little more speed out oi
his horse. At Twenty-third street the
sprinter of the pursuing party was the on-
ly one left. The others had held up lamp-
posts or had taken seats on the curb. The
sprinter was game. He held out for sever-
al blocks more and then tottered to the
sidewalk.
Dr. Field had very little to say about
the condition of his distinguished relative.
There had been no pronounced change. In
fact, the news was scarcely worth telephon-
ing. At Thirty-fourth street I left the cab
and went down to Gramercy park in a
horse car.
On hearing my report they were the
most disgusted lot of reporters imagina-
ble. The sprinter had wrenched his ankle,
and one of the fat men had upset his
stomach. But in their stories that after-
noon every one of them claimed to have
ridden up town with Dr. Field. There
were portents of the new journalism even
in those days.—New York Mail and Ex-
press.
Chicago Tribune.
“Buy a tandem? What on earth do we
want of a tandem, Maria?’’
“Why, I am sure, John, we could do a
part of our moving with it next Saturday
and save moneif."
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found at some of the shops which will
pack in an ordinaryTT-inch satchel.
Brainy Horses.
A Londoner tells of a most intelligent
bus horse running on the Bayswater route.
When this fine animal sees any one wav-
ing an umbrella or stick as a signal to at-
tract the driver’s attention, it instantly
stops and actually turns its head to watch
the passenger taken up before it will start
again.
Equally remarkable is the intelligence
displayed by an old horse belonging to Sir
Blundell Maple’s firm. This old horse is
worked with a young one, which it takes
under its control in a most amusing man-
ner. For instance, when the team is halt-
ed, the old horse will take the young one’s
rein in its mouth and hold it there until
the signal to move on is given.—Pearson’s
Weekly.
A Canon’s Mistake.
Any one who knows that charming man
Canon Ainger, master of the temple, will
comprehend to the full the humor of this
story. Canon Ainger is a great favorite
with children, and upon one occasion was
asked to assist at a juvenile party. Arriv-
ing at what he thought was his destina-
tion, a house in a row of others exactly
’ alike, the canon made his way up to the
drawing room. “Don’t announce me,”
said he to the domestic, and thereupon the
reverend gentleman went down upon all
fours, ruffled up his white hair and crawl-
ed into the room, uttering the growls of
an angry polar bear. What was his horror
and amazement to find when he got into
the room two old ladies petrified with as-
tonishment. He had found his way into
the next door house instead of into the one
to which he was bidden.—London Tit-Bits.
A machine used by matchmaking firms
cuts 10,000,000 sticks a day and then ar-
ranges them over a vat, where the heads
are put on at a surprising rate of speed.
Fabulous Wealth Securely Hidden In the
Peruvian Mountains.
Adventurers who seek mere gold with-
out reference to art should turn to Peru.
To begin with, the remainder of the incas’
ransom is buried somewhere in the moun-
tains between Caxamarca and Cuzco, says
The Pall Mall Gazette. We may confident-
ly assume that it has not been discovered,
for if put into circulation at home the
money market would have been convulsed,
whereas the finders would have no reason
for keeping the secret had they got safely
away to Europe.
As for the evidence of deposit, there is
Pizarro’s official report that his comrades
would not wait until the celebrated room
was full. They were too impatient to mur-
der their captive, though they knew that
the bullion levied upon the temple at Cuz-
co was on its way, transported by 100,000
llamas, each carrying 100 pounds of purest
gold. The figure is not incredible, seeing
how much remained when the conquista-
dores sacked Cuzco. News of the murder
reached that precious caravan in the moun-
Forthwith the priests buried their
gold and returned. Every one concerned
with the expedition who could be identi-
fied was tortured to death* but none would
speak. Such is the contemporary account.
But we observe that Sir Clements Mark-
ham, president of the Royal Geographical
society, obtained some information during
his memorable expedition to Peru. He
states, as if it were well known in the
neighborhood, that the caravan left the
highway at a spot now called Azanjaro—
a name which people derive from the Indi-
an “asuan caran,” meaning “more dis-
tant.” “Away from the road!” cried the
priests. “Farther away I” One always feels
the strongest reluctance to accept deriva-
tions of a place name from a spoken word.
But it is not impossible nor improbable
that in the course of centuries some hint
of a secret which must be known to many
Indians should have leaked out. This clew
does not carry one far, however, among the
peaks and caverns of the Andes, even if it
be trustworthy.
this dish of beans for the—to many unde-
sirable—pork.
Just as the P-hark Was About to Grab Him
a Swordfish Got the Shark.
“Speaking of wonderful adventures,’’
said the retired sea captain, “I doubt if
anything' ever was more wonderful than
the one I’m going to tell you. It happened
a good many years ago, but that doesn’t
alter its excellence or interfere with its
truth. I was first mate on the Lovely Lou
of Bangor, and we had been on our way
to South America for about four weeks.
The wind had left the ship during the last
day of this period, and we were dipping
our peak to a lolling swell that seemed to
come from nowhere and return to the
same place without making a ripple on the
blue surface of the ocean. The sails were
all set, and their shadows fell clear upon
the glassy surface, but where the sun fell
the water was as clear as crystal. We were
well within the tropics then, and several
big sharks had been seen playing about the
vessel. Suddenly there came a splash, and
the cook ran to where I was standing on
the poop deck, crying that one of the sail-
ors had tumbled overboard. The Lou had
no way, and I laughed at the idea of him
drowning, telling the cook to throw him
a rope, walking to the rail as I did so.
“The sailor was swimming about the
quarter enjoying his bath when I sudden-
ly saw an ominous black fin make its ap-
pearance 100 yards or so from the ship. I
yelled for the rope, and as I yelled I saw
the fin move toward the sailor, cutting the
water like a knife. I knew that unless the
man was taken out quickly he would be
devoured , and I rushed to the cabin grating
to get a line. Seizing a piece of rope, I
hastened to the rail just in time to see the
form of an immense shark turn on its side
to seize the sailor. As he did so there was!
an instant’s glimpse of a long brown body,
and then the water was slashed into a sea
of yeasty foam, the shark seemingly being
in trouble.
“I threw the line, and in a moment the
sailor was aboard, scared out of his wits,
but safe and sound. The thrashing in the
water still continuing, we proceeded to in-
vestigate, and directly we were able to see
that the shark had been pinned by a large
swordfish, the sword running through the
jaws of the shark in such a manner as to
prevent the fish from opening them. Wheth-
er1 the shark’s antagonist had deliberately
attacked the shark we know not, but its
timely and unexpected appearance saved
the sailor’s life beyond a doubt, as another
instant would have sent the teeth of tha
shark into the body of the man. We man-
aged to release the sword from the shark
and killed the latter, letting the other go
free. It was a narrow squeak, I tell you.”
—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Attention to the Feet.
It is utterly impossible to get well or
keep well unless the feet are kept dry and
warm all the time. If they are for the
most part cold, there is cough, or sore
throat, or* hoarseness, or sick headache, or
some other annoyance.
If cold and dry, the feet should be soaked
in hot water for ten minutes every night,
and when wiped and dried rub into them
well 10 or 15 drops of sweet oil. Do this
patiently with the hands, rubbing the oil
into the soles of the feet particularly. On
getting up in the morning dip both feet at
once into water as cold as the air in the
room, half ankle deep, for a minute in
summer, half a minute or less in winter*,
rubbing one foot with the other, then wipe
dry, and if convenient hold them to the
fire, rubbing them with the hands until
perfectly dry and warm in every part. If
the feet are damp and cold, attend only to
the morning washings, but always at night
remove the stockings and hold the feet to
the fire, rubbing them with the hands for
15 minutes, and get immediately into bed.
Under any circumstances, as often as
the feet are cold enough to attract atten-
tion, draw off the stockings and hold them
to the fire. If the feet are much inclined to
dampness, put on a pair of dry stockings.
Some persons’ feet are more comfortable
even in winter in cotton, others in woolen
stockings. Each must be guided by his
own feelings. Sometimes two pairs of thin
stockings keep the feet warmer than one
pair which is thicker than both. The thin
pair may be of the same or of different
materials, and that which is best next the
feet should be determined by the feelings
of the person.
Persons who walk a great deal during
the day should on coming home for the
night remove their shoes and stockings, /
hold the feet to the fire until perfectly dry,;
put on a dry pair of stockings and wear
different shoes for the remainder of the
evening. To change to slippers is danger-
ous, as one is likely to catch cold.—New
York Ledger.
Shrewd Lassie.
Lightlove—At last, dear Sophia, we are
alone, and I can tell you that I lo—
Sophia—Oh, please no, Mr. Lightlove.
Don’t tell sue here.
Lightlovj—Why not? There are no wit-
nesses.
Sophia—That’s just it.—Chips.
A Scientific Experiment.
“They say people who live together get
to look alike. ”
“Is that so? Well, just in the interest
of science, let’s try it.”—Chicago Record.
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It Means Deaiih to the Antelope and a
Meal For the Wolves.
The prong horned antelope is the swift-
est animal on the plains, and yet the coy-
otes catch a good many of them just by
running them down. This sounds like a
paradox, yet ft is quite true and is ex-
plained by the cunning of the wolves and,
the habits of the antelope.
A single coyote that undertook to run
down a single antelope would get tired and
hungry before he accomplished much, but
when two or three coyotes are together it
is quite a different thing. The coyotes do
not all run after the antelope together;
they take turns, and while one runs tho
others rest, and so at last they tire the an-
telope out.
If when it was started the antelope ran
straight away, it would of course leave all
the wolves behind, those that were resting
even more than the one that was chasing
it, but the antelope does not run straight, -
away. Instead it runs in large circles, and
this enables the wolves to take turns when
chasing it.
When three or four prairie wolves de-
cide that they want antelope meat for
breakfast, one of them creeps as close as
possible to the one they have selected and
then makes a rush for it, running as fast
as he possibly can so as to push the ante-
lope to his best speed and to tire it out.
Meantime his companions spread out on
either side of the Funner and get upon lit-
tle hills or knolls so as to keep the chase
in sight. They trot from point to point,
and pretty soon, -when the antelope turns
and begins to work back toward one of
them, this one tries to get as nearly as pos-
sible in its path, and as it flies by the wolf
dashes out at it and runs after it at the
top of its speed, while the one that had
been chasing the antelope stops running
and trots off to some nearby hill, where,
while the water drips off his lolling tongue,
he watches the race and gets his breath
again. After a little the antelope passes
near another coyote, which in turn takes
up the pursuit. And so the chase is kept
up until the poor antelope is exhausted,
when it is overtaken and pulled down by
one or more of the hungry brutes. Of
course the coyotes do not catch every ante-
lope they start, Sometimes the game runs
such a course that it does not pass near
any of the waiting wolves, and only the
one that starts it has any running to do.
In such a case the pursuit is at once aban-
doned. Sometimes the antelope is so stout
and strong that it tires out all its pursu-
ers.
It is a common thing for a coyote to
chase an old doe, with her kids, just after
the little ones have begun to run about.
At that time they are very swift for short
distances, but have not the strength to
stand a long chase. In such a case a moth-
er will often stay behind her young and
will try to fight off the coyote, butting
him with her head and striking him with
her fore feet. He pays little attention to
her, except to snap at her, and keeps on
after the kids. Several times I have seen a
mother antelope lead her little ones into
the midst of a bed of cactus, where the
wolf could not go without getting his feet
full of thorns. If the bed is small, the
wolf will make ferocious dashes up to its
border, trying to frighten the little ones so
that they will run out on the other side
and he can start after them again, but
usually the mother has no trouble in hold-
ing them.—George Bird Grinnell in Forest
and Stream.
What the Geographical Center Has Done,
Can Do and Will Do.
If you want to make the blood of a true
Kansan boil, just say to him thatthe Sun-
flower STate has dropped back a peg in the
march of civilization. Tom McNeal, an
ex-state senator and humorist of more than
state fame, is particularly jealous of the
state’s fair name. “You can just say to
the jays who are poking fun at Kansas,”
he said to a reporter, “that whatever they
may think of her political conduct, wheth-
er they wear the sackcloth of the defeated
or snort with the exultant voice of the
victor, the unalterable fact remains that
Kansas is still the geographical center of
the world, the linchpin of the universe.
Even the fact that half the people of the
world are at this time engaged in abusing
or defending her shows that she is built to
attract attention and invite contention.
The ordinary commonplace things of the
world do not attract attention; only the
little things of value invite contention.
“Kansas will in the future, as she has
in the past, overcome more difficulties,
create more surprises and make more ma-
terial advancement in a given time than
any other state in the Union.
“Kansas is the only state that ever grew
enough wheat in one season to furnish
bread for more than a week for every man,
woman and child on the face of the globe,
from orient to Occident and from Green-
land’s icy mountains to India’s coral
strand. She is the only state that within
24 hours can furnish a climate suited to
the tastes of the ice man from Iceland, the
Pole from Poland, the Hol from Holland
or the tropical savage from Borneo in his
untrammeling suit of sunshine.
“Kansas is the only state that can mix
In the commerce of every clime and where
a hot wind will affect the markets of
Christendom. Within the last ten years
the state has raised sufficient corn to fatten
enough cattle to drink up the waters of
Lake Superior and enough hogs to furnish
ham gravy sufficient to float the United
States navy. She has enough natural gas
to supply the furnaces of civilization and
enough salt to make pickling brine out of
all the fresh waters of the globe.
“Keep your eye on Kansas and don’t be
discouraged. She will profit by the agricul-
tural mistakes of the past and develop
along the lines that nature intended.”—
Washington Star.
A Famous Document.
The missal sent by Leo X to Henry VIII,
together with the-parchment conferring
upon him the ti'file;“ Defender of the Faith, ”
was bought a nufiibcr of years ago for $50, -
000 by the German government. The mis-
sal and parchment, had been given by
Charles II to > the ancestor of the famous
Duke of Hamilton, find the library of this
nobleman was sold-at auction in London,
where the government of Germany bid up
the book beyond the ’ reach of all other
Would be purchasers!
Bank of England notes are made from
new white linemeuttings, never from any-
thing that has been Worn. So carefully is
the paper prepared that even the number
®f dips into the pulp made by each work-
man is registered on a dial by machinery.
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Chivalry.
In the cycle of circumstances is it not
possible that real chivalry may pass from
the province of the bachelor to that of the
bachelor maid? A recent event suggests
it. Two gentlemen, Hopkinson Smith
and Professor William Sloane, prominent
in art and letters, were overheard in a
street car conversation. “Why do you not
stop eating and laughing, ” queried one,
“and take exercise and get back your fig-
ure?” The stout gentleman replied indul-
gently: “You are ten years too late. I
have lost all shame. Now I am going to
enjoy myself.” As they left the car,
laughing, a lame elderly gentleman en-
tered, and seeing no empty seat supported
himself in the swaying car by crutch and
strap. A dozen men behind their news-
papers made no movement, but a poorly
dressed child carrying a large bundle
jumped up and insisted on his taking her
seat. “You came a few years too late,”
the manner of the younger men seemed to
say to the cripple. “We have lost all
shame. Now we are going to enjoy our-
selves. Place aux dames 1 ’’—Youth’s Com-
panion.
Wages In 1800.
What we call the “workingmen,” “the
mechanic,” had no existence as classes.
Labor was performed almost exclusively
in the south by slaves, and in the north
very largely by men and women who for
the time being were no better than slaves.
All over the free states were thousands of
Irishmen, Scotchmen, Englishmen, Ger-
mans, who, in return for transportation
from the old world to the new, had bound
themselves by indenture to serve the cap-
tain of the ship that brought them over.
Soldiers in the army received $3 a month.
Farm hands in New England were given
|4 a month and found their own clothes.
Unskilled laborers toiled 12 hours per day
for 50 cents. Workmen on the turnpikes
then branching out in every direction were
housed in rude sheds, fed coarse food and
given $4 per month from November to
May and $6 from May to November.
When the road from the Genesee river to
Buffalo was under construction in 1812,
though the region through which it went
was the frontier, men were hired in plenty
for $12 per month in cash and their
board, lodgings avd a daily allowance of
whisky.—John B. McMaster in Atlantic.
/•
Detectives detailed to look after shop-
lifters, pickpockets and “professionals” of
that class always look to see if their sus-
pects are wearing gloves. A “profession-
al, ” it is declared, never works with his
gloves on.
Unconditional surrender is the only
terms those famous little pills known as
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers will make
with constipation, sick headache and
stomach troubles. J. J. SCHOTT.
A—Magician’s Hands.
Herrmann was a born magician. He not
only mystified and entertained by the as-
tonishing dexterity with which he exe-
cuted his remarkable feats, but charmed
his audiences by his graceful manner and
the singular magnetism of his personality.
Not only was he a magician, but a co-
median of a high order. His success lay
largely in the perfection of his skill as a
manipulator. His hands were trained to
a marvelous state of responsiveness, and
he was primarily a juggler, deceiving the
eye by diverting attention 'from the move-
ments that might reveal _the mystery
while he performed almost impossible
feats with the hands and fingers. It was
in the mastery of this simple work that
his strength as a performer lay, although
he elaborated them with paraphernalia
and stage effects. He was continually elab-
orating old tricks with new adaptations.
Herrmann’s ability to handle cards was
wonderful. Not only was he master of the
ordinary tricks of causing cards to disap-
pear and reappear, to find packs concealed
beneath vests, .under hatbands, but he
could distribute an entire deck of 52 cards
all over a theater. This'he did with such
marvelous accuracy in Boston in 1886 or
1887 that a spiritualistic society made the
feat a subject of discussion, and Herrmann
was made an honorary member without
his knowledge or consent. What he did
was to throw from between thumb and
forefinger a card and cause it to land on
the rail of the top gallery. The second
card would fall within a few feet of it,
and the third within a few feet of that,
and so on throughout the house until the
entire pack had been distributed. It was
claimed by the Spiritualists that this could
not possibly have been accomplished with-
out supernatural aid. By long practice
Herrmann was able to tear a deck of 52
cards longitudinally in half, as straight as
though cut with a knife. He would take
these rectangular halves and divide them
again into strips, using only his thumbs
and forefingers to do the work.—Spring-
field Republican.
Gail Borden
Eagle Brand
Condensed Milk.
infant food.
Size of a Spool.
The average sized spool for sewing thread
. Is 2 inches high and 1 % inches in diameter
at the ends. A spool of thread means
about 200 yards.
PORK AND LIMA BEANS.
New York Sun.
Have you ever used dried lima beans for
that well known and desirable dish, pork
and beans? They are excellent. These
beans'are also very nice baked and served
in place of potatoes. They should be al-
lowed to bake very slowly and a table-
♦spoonful of butter should be substituted in
Thousands of Swallows Came Down From
the Upper Air.
Many birds, large and small, take their
longer migratory flights at a great eleva-
tion. A very striking incident of such a
journey through the upper air is narrated
by a correspondent of the London Times.
Flocks of swallows equally innumerable
are to be seen in late summer and early
autumn along the Atlantic coast of the
United States, but it is a fortunate ob-
server who catches them in the act of drop-
ping from the sky.
It was a dark, dripping evening, and
the thick osier bed on Chiswick eyot was
covered with wet leaf. Between 5 and 6
o’clock immense flights of swallows and
martins suddenly appeared above the is-
land, arriving, not in hundreds, but in
thousands and tens of thousands.
The air w^s thick with them, and their
numbers increased from minute to min-
ute. Part drifted above in clouds, twist-
ing round like soot in a smoke wreath.
Thousands kept sweeping just qver the
tops of the willows', skimming so thickly
that the sky line was almost blotted out
for the height of from three to four feet.
The quarter from which these armies of
swallows came was at first undisooverable.
They might have been hatched, like gnats,
from the river.
In time I discovered whence they came.
They were literally “dropping from the
sky.” The flocks were traveling at a
height at which they were quite invisible
in the cloudy air, and from minute to
minute they kept dropping down into sight,
and so perpendicularly to the very surface
of the river or of the eyot.
One of the flocks dropped to the lawn
on the river bank on which I stood. With-
out exaggeration I may say that I saw
them fall from the sky, for I was looking
upward and saw them when first visible
as descending specks. The plunge was per-
pendicular till withip ten yards of the
ground.
Soon the high flying crowds of birds
drew down and swept for a few minutes
low over the willows, from end to end of
the eyot, with a sound like the rush of
water in a hydraulic pipe. Then by a com-
mon impulse the whole mass settled down
from end to end of the island upon the
osiers. The bushes in the center of the eyot
were black with swallows, like the black
blight on beans.
Next morning, at half past 6 o’clock,
every swallow was gone. In half an hour’s
watching not a bird was seen. Whether
they went on during the night or started
at dawn I know not. Probably the latter,
for Gilbert White once found a heath cov-
ered with such a flock of migrating swal-
lows, which did not leave till the sun dis-
pelled the mists.
5?lieir Trainer Explains the Need of Flat-
tery and Courtesy In Dealing With
Cats — Differences Between Dogs and
Cats—Tricks Explained.
The Tschernkoff dogs were the original
interpreters of realistic canine drama.
They were talked of in several countries,
but their performance seems quite ama-
teurish in comparison with that of the new
canine stars whose trainer is Leonidas.
Leonidas is a Greek wanderer upon the
face of the earth. He does not speak any
English except “up” and “bravo” and
“thank you,” but that does not matter,
for all his cats and dogs understand his
French perfectly. The company was re-
hearsing the other morning when a report-
er obtained entrance into the theater to
ask Leonidas how he trained his animals.
They were doing circus tricks with evident
zest, when he told them to sit down in
their chairs and remain there until he
called them. Their prompt and cheerful
obedience would have gladdened any heart.
‘ “I train my dogs and cats,” explained
the master in response to a question, “by
kindness and patience—oh, so much pa-
tience! The main thing is to get them to
understand what you want them to do,
and then they do it quickly enough. I am
sure dogs and cats reason up to a certain
point. They can reason sufficiently to un-
derstand what I want them to do. It isn’t
Imitations, because I never show them
What I want done, but explain what I
■Wish and tell them to do it. Dogs have
more reason than cats and are far easier to
(train. Cats are, like women, capricious.
Ono must coax them all the time. If you
let a cat know that you are trying to make
it do a thing, it won’t do it. One must be
always kind to them. ”
“Humph!” grunted the interpreter. “I
wish you could see him and his sister-in-
law. ’ ’
Leonidas smiled blandly and, all uncon-
scious of the comment added to the text,
..went on:
“I’d rather train 50 dogs than one cat.
If I didn’t have that black spaniel Cerbe-
rus, I would never undertake to train a
cat, Cerberus was the first dog I ever
'trained, and he saved one of these cats
from drowning, and she follows him, and
all the other cats follow her. But about
the training. An old dog or cat can be
taught to do all sorts of things, but it is
much easier to teach young ones. You
have seen imbecile people. Well, we have
imbecile cats and dogs, too; so it is well to
select cats for training with a view to
their intelligence. The wolf dogs learn
more easily than any other. Different
kinds of dogs excel in different kinds of
stage work. Any dog that looks like a
fox is excitable and does quick work that
other dogs, say a poodle, couldn’t do at
all, Some dogs do their work with a per-
fect understanding, while others do theirs
mechanically. This is usually the fault of
the trainer and results from beating the
animals.
“One must love animals and under-
stand them in order to train them. I’ve
been in this business all my life. I trained
horses to do all kinds of tricks and had
never thought about training dogs and
cats until I ran across that black water
spaniel one day when I was exhibiting my
trained horses. I was standing on West-
minster bridge and saw a child fall into
the water. That spaniel, Cerberus, jumped
in and rescued the little one, and I said I
would own that dog. I soon taught it to tains,
dive for my purse when I dropped it into
-15 feet of water. Not long after that Cer-
berus saved the cat from drowning. I
thought it would be a good idea to teach
the cat some tricks too. It takes two years
to train a cat well, but much less time is
required to educate a smart dog. I worked
with Cerberus and the cat he saved three
years, and then I began to enlarge my
company.
“ To teach them new tricks I tell them
what I want done and flatter them into
doing it. For instance, when I wanted to
teach Mimisse, the cat, to climb up a rope
the full height of the stage, open and enter
a basket attached to a parachute, which I
let loose, I held her on the rope and said,
‘Up, up, up!’ and petted her all the while.
Soon she knew that it would please me if
she would go up and up she started. When
she got to the top, I told her to open the
basket and get in. She understood that,
because she opens and enters a basket
Which my Great Dane holds in his mouth.
I let the parachute down very gently at
first, but after she had done the trick sev-
eral times J could bring it down as sud-
denly as I pleased. The time required for
learning a new trick depends on the trick
and upon the individual intelligence of
each one of the pupils.
“Some men train animals by hunger.
I don’t believe in that method, for you
can’t rely on them, particularly not on
cats, A cat will prowl around and get
something to eat somehow, and then when
the timo comes for it to act it won’t act
so as to be fed afterward, for it is already
satisfied. I feed my dogs and cats at 4
o'clock every afternoon, for I’m convinced
that they do better work when not hungry.
“It is not necessary to rehearse trained
animals every day. They are so familiar
with what they do, they learn their lessons
60 well, that they do not forget. In fact,
they often perform better if they don’t
practice much after they’ve learned a
thing, for they don’t get so tired of it.”
‘‘Do you ever punish your dogs and
cats?” asked the reporter.
“He’ll say ‘No,’ ’’ said the interpreter
in an “aside” before putting the question
to the Greek, “but he does all the same.
He beats the dogs like fury occasionally,
but not often. ”
“Oh, it’s very seldom I have to whip
one of the dogs,” answered Leonidas, “and
• I wouldn’t dare punish the cats at all.
They are too contrary. Why, I believe if I
struck one of thosscats she would never
act again.
“It takes a long time to get an idea into
a cat's head. When I was teaching my
company the circus act, I almost gave up
in despair. The dogs act as horses and the
cats as riders. A dog trots around the
passing under a chair on which sits
a cat. As the dog comes out frcin under
the chair the cat springs on his back and
jumps on the chair again when the circus
is completed. It is very hard for the cats
to get a good grip, especially on the short
paired dogs, and they used their claws at
tarst to keep them from falling off. This
iiurb the dogs, and they would shake the
®ats off. It took me months to teach the
cats that they must hold on by the pressure
of their legs and not use their claws at all.
Those things take flattery and patience;
that’s all.”—New York Sun.
Done In Chicago.
“I’ve done the United States from bor-
der to border and from coast to coast, ’ ’ de-
clared the fat drummer to his fellows in
just the tone that Spartacus must have
used when he told the other captives of
Rome that they did well to call him chief.
“I know the country from soda to hock,
and want to declare myself right here.
Chicago has the worst thieves and the
most of them of any city in the Union.”
“What’s the matter, fatty?”
“Well, I’m no jay, am I? Nobody chases
me up with gold bricks or bogus freight
bills, do they? I guess not. Yet I was
glad enough to get out of Chicago with
enough to wear. I dropped into a combi-
nation restaurant on Clark street. Some-
body there got my money and watch.
When it came to settling, I had to put up
my ring or be thrown out on the walk a
wreck. ‘I’ve got these left,’ I snarled as I
started out with my silk umbrella and
this walking stick, for I had kept them be-
tween my legs while I ate. It was blow-
ing and snowing to beat the band, so I
hoisted the umbrella and held it with my
cane in one hand, while I kept my coat
collar tight with the other. I ducked my
head and plowed along, only stopping once
when the walk was blockaded by three
men holding up a policeman.
“What do you think I discovered when
I reached the hotel? You may take my
head for a football if some one hadn’t sto-
len that umbrella. Yes, sir, while I was
carrying it, and it had a big crook on the
end at that. ”
“A bigger crook must have got on the
other end,” piped the little drummer, and
the dazed listeners groped their way to the
restorative department. — Detroit Free
Press.
His Friend.
A certain youthful curate was taken to
task by the new archbishop of Canterbury
for reading the lessons of the service in an
inaudible tone. Whereupon the young
man replied, “I am surprised that you
should find fault with my reading, as a
friend of mine in the congregation told
me that I was beautifully heard.” “Did
she?” snapped the bishop, ’and the fair
young curate collapsed. His lordship had
once been a young clergyman himself and
knew a thing or two about the “friend.”
—San Francisco Argonaut.
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Business Is Business.
“I have called,” said the young man to
the busy contractor buried among his pa-
pers, “to propose for the hand of your
daughter. ’ ’
The answer was in stereotyped form and
given without any idea of what the young
man had said: “Send in a sealed proposal,
sir. The lowest bidder gets it.”—Datroit
Free Press.
You may double your money by buying
town lots at Algoa on the 11th. Train
leaves at 10 a. m.
Nice Spring Veal and Lamb at the Gal-
veston Meat Company’s.
Comedian Francis Wilson’s Experience In
a London Jeweler’s Store.
Francis Wilson, the actor, despite the
roguish roles he assumes on the stage, en-
joys the reputation of being an accom-
plished gentleman of refined tastes and ex-
emplary habits, as well as an industrious
student and the possessor of one of the
finest libraries in the country. Whenever
he is able to escape from the exacting de-
mands of his profession, he is usually to
be found with his wife and children at his
luxurious home in New Rochelle. Occa-
sionally, however, he makes a brief visit
to the old world, from which..he is accus-
tomed to return with a collection of curios
and presents for his friends.
In the course of one of his visits to Lon-
don he had an experience which has afford-
ed his friends considerable amusement.
While walking along Regent street one day
with an old acquaintance he saw some dia-
monds displayed in the window of a jew-
eler’s shop. He looked at them critically
for several moments, then turning to his
companion he said:
“I have just received an unexpected
check for $500 and I don’t think I can em-
ploy it to better advantage than by getting
some diamonds for my wife. Let us go
in.”
Wilson and his friend then entered tha
shop. The proprietor presented himself
and asked what they desired.
“You have a tray of diamonds in the
window,” said the little comedian. “Will
you let me see them?”
The stolid faced shopkeeper surveyed his
prospective customer from head to foot.
He saw a sharp featured little man with
long nose and beadlike eyes. Despite the
fact that his face was clean shaven, myriads
of indomitable beard roots gave to his vis-
age that peculiar bluish tint that Thespian
folks are wont to effect in their make up.
“Do you want to. buy or only to look at
them?” asked the suspicious Briton surlily.
“That depends altogether upon how
they please me,’’retorted the comedian.
‘ ‘ I certainly will not purchase unless I am
first permitted to examine them.”
The shopman left his place behind the
counter and walking to the door quietly
opened it.
“I’ve had that same trick played on me
once before,” he said as he again surveyed
his visitor critically. “I’m a bit wiser
now.”
“And at least £100 poorer to boot,” ob-
served the comedian as he left the shop.
Wilson’s demands were supplied a few
minutes later, however, by a jeweler on
the opposite side of the street.—Atlanta
Constitution.
A WOMAN’S NO.
To That 'Was Dae the Attempted Assas-
sinatioil of Alexander II.
People were qnuch surprised when the
name of Berczowski,. the Pole who at-
tempted the assassination of Czar Alexan-
der II during his visit to Paris at the time
of the exhibitioii'of T8&7, was found figur-
ing on a list of ^persons for whom an am-
nesty was asked at a recent sitting of the
chamber, for thb man’s existence had been
practically, forgotten by the public, and
the great majji^lty'wpuld probably have
replied if questioned , on the subject that
he was dead. As a matter of fact Bere-
zowski has been languishing all these
years in New Calbdoiiia. He has become
insane, so tha1z>lii& release would now be
of no earthly benefit to him. This is a very
interesting casbj and some information
given by the official^ at the ministry of the
colonies is worth repeating. It is the old,
old story of “Cherchez la femme.” Bere-
zowski, then barely 19 years of age, was a
workman in a factory, when he fell des-
perately in love with the foreman’s daugh-
ter. His suit was refused at the very mo-
ment When the Emperor Alexander was
here, and, beside himself with passion and
disappointment, he resolved on suicide.
Then he bethought him that he might as
well sell his life dearly, and he seized the
opportunity of the czar’s presence in Paris
to attempt to kill him.
So if Berezowski had not been crossed
in love the shot would never have been
fired, and the political events which fol-
lowed might have taken a very different
turn. The Pole has never given any trou-
ble to his custodians in the remote colony.
He made himself useful, and his lot be-
came easier. Besides money presents, his
fellow countrymen forwarded to him from
time to time letters and newspapers, but
he took little notice of them. Berezowski’s
insanity is of a harmless kind. He imag-
ines that he has discovered the secret of
perpetual motion. > Now, with his long,
white locks and emaciated features, he
looks quite an old man, though he is no
more than 48 years of age.—London Letter.
A Botanical Freak.
One of the curiosities of nature is known
as a plant atol. There are but two or three
of these known to scientists. This atol is
made up of a circle of growing plants.
They are found floating on the top of ponds
or lakes. They form a hoop shaped figure
and are closely matted together at the
roots, which make a sort of cup or basin,
to which more or less vegetable matter
falls or floats. There is a sufficient amount
of nutriment in this to keep the plant
growing. As it increases, the roots become
longer and larger, and in time the plant
may anchor itself in the soil at the bottom
of the pond. These rings, after many years
of accumulation and growth, make what
appear to be small islands. It is the opin-
ion of certain scientists that islands may
have been formed in this manner. The
roots catch all floating vegetable or ani-
mal matter. Leaves collect and form mold,
and after awhile birds may drop plant or
-tree seeds on the little pod that floats on
the top of the water. These take root and
further assist in the growth of the little
island. It may take centuries for the plant
to come to any size, but with nature a
thousand years are;but as yesterday.—New
One Avenged an Injury and Another Bee-
ognized a Benefactor.
Elephants have a way of remembering
injuries and kindnesses which surprises
men not accustomed to the beasts. E. L.
Layard and his wife were in Ceylon, in
the Ambigamoa district. They were jour-
neying along gathering insects, shells and
birds by easy stages when they came to
the station of a roadmaking party which
was in charge of Woodford Birch. Mrs.
Layard was interested in elephants, not
having seen any close at hand, so Mr.
Birch took her out to see a large, fine fe-
male. Mrs. Layard petted the beast, gave
it a bunch of plantains, which were eaten
with relish, and after making comments
on the beast’s gentleness returned to the
bungalow. There Mr. Birch incidentally
remarked, that it was a violent beast, hav-
ing killed two keepers during the past
month. When Mr. Layard heard that, he
reproached Mr, Birch, while Mrs. Layard
grew pale. Then Mr. Birch said:
“Do you think I would have allowed
Mrs. Layard to go near her if there had
been danger? That elephant is the quiet-
est and best tempered beast in the stud.
She was quite right to kill the keepers.
They had robbed her of her food. I had
observed that she was growing thin, and
seeing only a little grain or feed in the box
one day I rated the keeper soundly in the'
presence of the beast. Next day he took
her out to work. She went along quietly
till she came to a flat rock. Then she
wrapped her trunk about the mahout, put
him against the rock and with her fore-
head squeezed his life out. The next man
she killed for the same offense.”
Dan Quinton and Mr. Layard were in
Colombo when Quinton heard elephants
trumpeting and wanted to go to see them.
One of the beasts was tied up with more
chains than the others, and Quinton went
toward this one, in spite of the warnings
of keepers that it was a particularly vicious
beast. Quinton put his arm around the
elephant’s trunk and petted it, the ele-
phant seeming most pleased. Quinton
had recognized it as an elephant he had
seen injured by a huge thorn, or jungle
nail. The keeper, in trying to pull the
thorn out, had broken it off. In a few
days inflammation had set in. Quinton
went to work with a knife and pair of pinch-
ers, and the elephant, in spite of the pain,
allowed the man to take the thorn but.
He had recognized the beast by the scar,
and the elephant remembered him after
several years.—New York Sun.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
An umbrella dealer cautions against
the double use for sun and rain of a rain
umbrella. Silk wears, he says, as long as
its oil lasts, then it splits and cracks and
is gone. The sun dries out 'the oil—hence
its harm. A folding umbrella is to be
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