The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 25, 1889 Page: 1 of 4
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Campasa
YOL. 1.
LAMPASAS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1889.
J. H. GALBRAITH.
L. W. GALBRAITH.
J. H. & L. W. GALBRAITH,
LAMPASAS,
TEXAS.
J. ’W. FELLBAUM
-PROPRIETOR-
- SARATOGA MARBLE WORKS,-:-
Foreign and Domestic Marble and Granite,
Tomuotones and Iron FencTng7
Nothing but First-Class Work Allowed to Leave the ^hop. Your Orders Solicited.
Texas k Pactikwmtowin
RAILWAY.
J. W. WVBUBS,
-ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER,:-
With all the Latest Methods for the production of
HIGH GRADE PHOTOS.
-:LARGE STOCK OF MOULDINGS.:-
FRAMES'*©!? ANY SIZE MADE PROMPTLY.
J. I. CAI
J.UMI3ER
The Great Popular Route
— BETWEEN THE-
East aid tie West
Short Line to New Orleans
-w-- ___ 11
-AND ALL POINTS IN-
Louisiana, New Mexico
Arizona, Oregon
NEGATIVE
PHOSPHORESCENCE.
THE LIGHT WHICH ILLUMINES WITH-
OUT CREATING HEAT.
ELIXIR.
i dorse,
-AND-
California .
Favorite Line to the North,
East and Southwej
Pullman Palac
\
Oars
The Glowing Inhabitants of the Sea—The
Fatal Gleam of Mackerel—The Fireflies
of South America and the “Lightning
Bug” of the Northern Section.
There is no subject which the re-
searches of scientists have more com-
pletely failed to elucidate than that of
the cause of animal, mineral and vege-
table phosphorescence—the light which,
unlike all other lights, illumines with-
out either consuming or giving out any
perceptible heat. The ocean is the great
storehouse of phosphorescent light. On
its surface myriads of noctilucm (little
creatures just visible to the naked eye)
are often seen lighting the waves for
miles, and presenting wonderful effects
^sWhe water is broken by the bow of
Bie oars of a boat. Persons who
passed^lPigugh a stretch of water
say that^the
AT
and dealer in
Shingles, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Cement, Lime, Cement
Stove Flues, Etc,
Yards at Belton, Lampasas, Lometa, Zephyr, DeLeon, and Planing Mill, Brantley, Texas.
»»Eefrl§e,fmt©r Market
is hf.adquarterc for
Sleeping
DAILY BETWEEN
St. ouis and Dallas,
Fort Worth and El Paso.
Also between
Marshall and New Orleans
without change.
Fast^Time! First Glass Equipments!
Sure Connections!
■MlfiPiiltt, Port feal, Lai
isage,
Bologna, Pure
Lard.
Best Animals Only Killed.
See that your tickets read via Texas and
Pacific railway. For maps, time tables
tickets, rates and all required information
call on or address any of the ticket agents, or
„ H. C.gAROHER,
Passenger Agent, Dallas, Tex.
„ B. W. M’OULLOUGH,
General Passenger Agent, Dallas, Tex.
SANTA FE ROUTE
Time Caid in Effect March 10, 1889.
Please permit us to call your atten-
tion to the merits of our Nc ative
Electro-Magnetic Elixir which is be-
lieved to be the gieatest discovery of
the age. In introducing our remedy
to the public we are well aware with
what we have to contend. We do not
expect to set aside old ideas withou
the proof of everything pertaining tl
Tlfrfejather novel remedy. We
a remedy whie
and for which v
and the utmost simplicity as regaf^-Wbwded with noctuu-o
use, but complete satisfaction as re- light they give dims _
gards results. It suffleeth us to say and makes the sea look as thoughit were
for the present its curative action de- j® vast heaving mass of metal at white
pends mainly on our peculiar method be™' .
of preparation. It is not our purpose u l.ntensitT of th0 light is explained
in the present instance, to discuss the . lie immense quantity of the little
modus operandi of this unique reme- an.lmals- which are computed to number
dy. It is more to our purpose to sub- tairty thousand or so to the cubic foot,
stantiate all that is claimed of it; by Bathers in waters where they abound
asking the public to give it a trial. have often been amazed to find on
Calls will be promptly attended to emerging, that their bodies are rendered
and the medicine supplied, next door luminous by the noctilucee that Hi™
to express office, LampasasL Texas. them. mg to
A ldndof sea slufi met with
the Mediterranean and the Pacific emits
fight from certain spots in the body.
NO. 34.
ithf, prairie- 'Turning his head
.. 6n ^ L6 was ®hghtly ahead) he saw
companion make a suspicious motion
toward his hip pocket. Without hesita-
tion he drew his revolver and shot him.
Die stranger dropped like a log. The
cow oy dismounted and looked at the
body of his victim.
I wonder if he was really going to
shoot me?” he soliloquized. “I’ll see.”
urning the body over, he discovered
pocket °f Whisky Protruding from the
Pool fellow I” he said in a tone of re-
gret. “I’ve made a mistake. I’ve killed
an innocent man, and a gentleman at
that. He wasn’t going to shoot me; he
^as S°^ng to ask me to have a drink.
e L de sighed, drawing his sleeve
across his mouth, “the last wishes of the
deceased shall be respected.”—Washing-
ton Post. 6
Monkey Discipline.
Few persons ever have a chance to
watch the actions of monkeys in a wild
state, and tame ones mimic the life going
on about them to such a degree that we
can never feel sure their actions are not
a. reflection of our own. Mr. Gordon
UNCLAIMED AND LOST.
articles that are deposited and
NEVER CALLED FOR.
#^^es^; j;hem in India:
They wer^f^0^4®
*4im
Hough, SflcfiCnight & Go.
is capable of being kept in an aquarium,
and there are usually some specimens in
the famous one at Naples. When dis-
turbed or swimming the light makes it
look like a flame in the water.
PYROSOMAJ.
The most splendid of the many lumi-
nous inhabitants of the sea are the pyro-
somae. At night they look as though
made of glowing white hot iron; diffus-
„ __ ing so strong a light that other fishes are
Electro-Magnetic Elixir for about teD rendered visible when they happen to
derived a great benefit ' awi'rv> -----* a.;—
READ THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS.
This is to certify that I have been
using Negative Electro-Magnetic Elixir
about 10 days and realize a great im-
provement in appetite and believe it to
be a good medicine. W. E. Brooks.
McDade, Texas, March 6, 1889.
This is to certify that my little girl
has bronchial affection and loss of ap-
petite. She has been using Negative
North Bound. | Stations | South Bound.
T. Singletary C@,
-DEALERS IN-
AND ROAD CARTS,
Weir and Eagle Cultivators, Champion Corn
and Cotton Planters, McCormick
Reapers and Mowers,
With Good Stock of GENUINE Glidden Wire.
Lampasas and Goldthwaite, Tex.
J. M. COLEMAN,
-DEALER IN-
SADDLES - AND - HARNESS,
COLLARS, BRIDLES, ETC.
Ranclimen's Outfits a Specialty.
NORTH SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE,
Lampasas,
Texa*,
Pas’ngr
Mixed
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Express
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(Dallas)
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Express
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Mail &
St. LEx
10:20 pm
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St. LEx
5:15 pm
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2:20 pm
9:00 am
8:25 am
Elegant Pullman Palace Buffet Sleep-
ing cars daily between Galveston and
Kansas City. Magnificent free
dining ekair cars between Temple and
San Angelo.
TAKE NOTICE:—All classes of
European steamship tickets (outward
or prepaid) at lowest rates and all in-
formation furnished on application.
C. L. Moody,
Ticket Agent Lampasa, Texas.
James S. Cark, G. P. and T. A.
Stock Election Notice.
days and has
fr<*m it. G. W. Johnson.
McDade, Texas, March 7, 1889.
I have used the Elixir in my family
and take pleasure in saying that I think
it a great medicine. It relieved my lit-
tle boy of indigestion of several months’
standing and has greatly beuefitted all
of us. I hope the time is not far dis-
tant when it will reach all suffering
humanity. Mrs. L. A Bethea.
Lampasas, Texas, March 12, 1889.
This is to certify that I have had ner-
vous indigestion for several years and
have tried several physicians and got
no benefit, and have tried King’s Royal
Germetuer, all without benefit. But
Negative Elects Magnetic Elixir has
cured me and I feel better than I have
for years. I do believe it is the best
medicine in the world for indigestion
and I can safely recommend it to the
suffering public. in. E. Blocker.
Lampasas, Texas, March 22, 1889.
This is to certify that I have been suf
fering for some time with my back,
hip and inflammation of the bladder. I
could hardly get up when down. I al-
so had sores all over me. 1 have been
using Negative Electro-Magnetic E -
ixir for about 15 days and I can say
that I am entirely cured of all.
T. L. Potts.
Elgin, March 20, 1889.
This is to certify that I have taken
Negative Electro-Magnetic Elixir foi
about 20 days and I am cured of Ner-
vous indigestion and dyspepsia, and I
can safely recommend this medicine to
the public for indigestion. Also my lit
tie boy Ben has had tetter in his hands
for about three years and it has cured
him of this. Other things did him on
good, Mrs Nannie Hill.
Lampasas, Texas, MarctrJl, 1889.
This is to certify that I have been suf-
fering with piles and have not been able
to sleep welt for six months and have
tried six doctors, but to no good, and
have tried Germetuer near 3 months
and have found no relief until I took
Negative Electro-Magnetic Elixir 8
days, and I can say that I am cured
in a manner and can sleep all night sPeaking quite within the bounds of pos-
and can rest well, and can'recoin- s,hlI,tT7 A+ ------- •
swim within the sphere of their radiance.
A distinguishing feature of the pyro-
soma is the variety of tints that it gives
forth—orange, green, azure, blue, white,
and various shades of dark red having
been all noticed by various observers.
A tiny kind of shark that is met with off
the shores of the southern states of
America is a noted light giver. Speci-
mens captured and taken into a dark
apartment present an extraordinary spec
tacke. The entire surface of the head
and body emits a greenish gleam that is
constant, and is not, as in the case of
most of these luminous inhabitants of
the sea, increased by friction and agita-
tion.
The smallness of the fins of this fish
show that it is not an active swimmer,
and the assumption is that its light is
useful in attracting its prey, on the prin-
ciple of the torches used by many sav-
ages in fishing. Several kinds of crabs
are luminous. One named the sapphirina
is noted for the intensely vivid character
of the light that proceeds from it. So
brilliant is it that it does not need dark-
ness to make its presence known, but
corruscates blue, purple, green, gold and
sapphire rays in full daylight. The
presence of a school of mackerel is often
indicated by the phosphorescent gleam
which these fish produce. Fishermen
often descry them at a great distance by
this light, and hasten to surround them
by their nets. It is thought that mack-
erel make a secretion which gives the
light, as after they are captured a gleam-
ing fluid is noticed running off their
bodies, and sometimes covering the hands
of the mea who toss them from the boat.
FIREFLIES.
It has been urged that the poet was
guilty of an exaggeration in describing
the fireflies as giving sufficient light to
t of any service; but the accounts of
travelers in South America, who tell us
that the natives light their path while
journeying by a couple of these insects
tied to their feet, show that he was
In accordance with a petition filed in and
with an order of the county commissioners’
court of Lampasas county. Texas, made on
the 15th day of May, 1889, it is ordered that
an election be held at Wallace’s store and
Mean’s school house in Justice’s Precinct
No. 2, Lampasas county, Texas, on Mondav
the 24th day of June, 1889, for the purpose of
determining whether or not sheep, hogs,
and goats, snail run at large within the
boundaries of said precinct, which '
bounded as follows:
Beginning where the west line of
mend the Elixir as the best medicine
I have ever seen for the trouble I have
and can prove by fifty people my con-
dition. Thos. G. Blocker.
Lampasas, Texas, March 11, 1889.
This is to certify that I have used
Negative Electro Magnetic Elixir and
have been greatly beuefitted by its use.
Before I commenced using it I could
not sleep and was very nervous, now
I sleep well. It has greatly benefit-
sibility. At evening entertainments in
that part of the world it is customary
far ladies to decorate their hair and
dresses with fireflies, confined by deli-
cate silken threads.
The natives of Vera Cruz do quite a
large trade'in fireflies, which they catch
by waving a blazing coal at the end of a
stick. The insects fly toward the light,
and are captured in nets. The fireflies
of Northern America differ from those
mgs. I was one day watching an old fe-
male who had a young one by her side
to whom she was giving small bits of
bread which she had evidently just re-
ceived from my cook room, and with
which she was regding herself at the
same time.
Occasionally the little monkey would
endeavor to snatch a bit of the bread be-
fore the mother w^yfgady cove it to
'yhe'^l lit ifoilld administer ctao-
the shape of a gentle box on tlie
ear.
She was in the act of doing this when
one of my servants happened to come
out. At once her demeanor changed.
She snatched the little one to her bosom
with every appearance of maternal so-
licitude, and did not put him down
again until the man had retreated.—
Youth’s Companion.
Not a Judge.
Albert Hawkins, the executive coach-
man, is a broad minded philosopher.
Like the sun, he shines for ail. As the
White House coach was standing in front
of the portico yesterday morning a gentle-
man came up, looked at the horses with
a critical eye and remarked:
That is not as good a team as Cleve-
land’s, is it?’
Albert’s black face was covered with
an expression of unutterable disgust, and
he remarked; “Now, boss, you ought to
know more than to be saying such things
like that to me. You'll get mein trouble.
The other day I was standing out here
and some ladies came along, and one of
them says: ‘Albert, I am glad that Presi-
dent Harrison kept you in your old place.’
‘Thank you, mum,’says I, ‘for your kind-
Then she says: ‘Albert, Mrs. Har-
Bank Cashier’s Chat About Property
That Is Placed in Charge of Institu-
tions and Never Reclaimed — Unre-
deemed Pledges That Make Sad Stories.
Speaking to an old bank cashier the
other day, I asked him whether there
was not an enormous amount of property
lying unclaimed in bank cellars and in
safe deposit vaults.
“A very large amount,” said he, “but
not nearly as much as some people im-
agine. When property is placed in
charge of a bank or a safe deposit com-
pany it is generally put there by people
ot pretty strict business habits, and a
careful record is kept, not only by the
depositor, but also by the parties into
whose charge it is given. That reduces
the chance of valuables being overlooked,
but still a very large quantity does re-
rain unclaimed. All the custodians of
such property can do is to preserve it in-
tact and hope for its redemption in the
course of time.”
limit to such a time?” I
asked.
“Legafly ther may be, but I am not
prepared to saj what it is, since every
case has to be settled upon its own mer-
its. Sometimes the boxes which have
een regarded for a longtime as contain-
ing valuables turn out to be mere collec-
tions of rubbish, and the wonder is whv
offidaTn”,6''6'' PreS0,Ted- ”Ut a bank
built by a pair 6f robbins. They had
been f “ a. cedar tree- and it had
tW f7UDd "nsuitable for some reason
that they alone knew. Immediately
afterwards they built a second one on
,°P °f Stl11 bemg unsatisfied, they
built a third one. But they wery very
hard to please, for etUl anotS
ff??fR-Wr COnstmcted on top Of
the third one, and a fifth one on top
tentedVT ’ ,bef°re they were con-
tented to begin housekeeping. Not long
after that four little heads were peeping
over the edge of their lofty home. ? S
An old gentleman once told me that
is wife, on a certain wash day, missed
a lace cap that she had hung out on the
line and fastened with^aSJothes pin.
Several days afterward,
m is garden, he noticed something white
fluttering m the branches of a cherlw
palroTrote fa*nin,ation showed that a
pair of robins had taken the cap from the
grass of ?Stened ifc amonS th« twigs and
ubt I TIie birds had un-
doubtedly pulled the cap from between
could1-no? « the.clothes Pins, forthev
couM not otherwise have obtained it
of tLrSi ‘ in u”di8turbed possession
N0"tPviri0f,Sparrows in Antral park,
New York, have regularly for several
■b, built their nest and reared^ffitS*’
young ones m the right hand of Daniel
than*that BUt a stranSer place
than that has been used by a pair in
Charing Cross, London, for six years
past. These brave little fellows have maae
home right in the mouth of a lion-
phiat Times “ °f stone’-philadel-
or expresses surprise, because
he meets so many peculiar people and
my o.Ie iiW> is- occupies L nup
things straight. ”
“But surely a list is kept of the con-
tents of packages left on deposit?”
“When desired, yes; but when a sealed
parcel or box is deposited the bank does
exactly what common carriers do; signs,
Contents unknown,’ and unknown they
remain, whether delivered to the owner
or awaiting reclamation. Of course
every place of deposit has stories to tell
about mysterious boxes, strange parcels
and odd packages which have been lying
in secure corners of their strong rooms
for years, but I am inclined to think that
as far as banks and safe deposit com-
panies are concerned, the vast bulk of
such property is redeemed soon or later.
Lawyers nowadays are very apt to dig
up every possible form of claim to valu-
ables of any description in the hands of
public bodies, and a very faint clew is
sufficient to start them off upon a suc-
cessful hunt. They often come upon rich
possessions while searching for wills,
and the first places, after counsel’s offices,
they start for, are the banks and safe de-
posits.”
The desire to hoard in some form or an-
other is a very widespread one, and every
one could enumerate among friends and
acquaintances a considerable number in
saddle
ness.
rison is not as pretty a lady as Mrs. Cleve- _____
land, is she?’ There were lots of people I whom the hoarding spirit is distinguish-
standing around listening to what she ahlp Tho .....
was saying to me and what I was saying
to her, and I tho't I would fall off the box;
but I just drew myself up and said: ‘Mad-
ame, I ain’t no judge of ladies.’”—Wash-
ington Letter.
Suicide of Scorpions.
. Bately M. Serge Noirkoff, of Constan-
tinople, gave an instance of the sort in
question. He caught half a dozen of
these creatures, he says, and deliberately
put the question to the test. Arranging
on the floor a circle of glowing charcoal,
having no break in it, a scorpion was
placed in the center. Although the
circle was large enough to prevent the
scorpion being injured or even incom-
moded by the heat if it remained in the
middle, the animal, finding itself sur-
rounded by fire, began to look about for
the means of escape. At first its move-
ments were slow, but soon its move-
ments increased, and finally it raced in
a frantic fashion around the inner cir-
cumference of the charcoal. After rac-
ing for some time in this manner, it re-
tired to the center of the ring, and, de-
liberately plunging its sting into its back,
put an end to its life in a few seconds
after a few convulsive movements. The
remaining five were tried successfully in
the same way, and each with a like re-
sult.—La Nature.
able. The difficulty of accumulating is
as often rewarded by loss as by posses-
sion, but the knowledge of that fact does
not diminish the desire to hoard. In the
case of a miser, to whose heir the accu-
mulated property goes, the very opposite
motives are found to exist. The miser
shudders at the idea of his coveted pos-
sessions falling into other hands than his
own, even when those hands are merely
a bundle of dry bones, while the heir is
all eagerness to clutch the property in
order to disperse it.
ltileLof tbe lar°e cities of the world,
strange cos£my se'dom that one sees
is daily the casenid strange people, as
London. It is not Paris and
the street gamins would fdil$? fe&nf
lishman or American, whose dress dif^
fered somewhat from the ordinary, anc
cry at the top of their voices, “Eng^
lander 1” or “Yankee!” Although that
has changed somewhat in the course of^
time, the novelty has not yet worn off.j
A colored man clad in respectable gar-J
ments who appears in Berlin is almostl
lionized. There is no race prejudice.)
On the contrary, he is the equal of all,
and people speak of the handsome
“brunette” and til*
Pegasus in his honor!
I have seen hundred^
stop before the Cafe zur'
for minutes at the colored*
as porter to the establish
presence draws numerous pets
restaurant who would otherwise^
by. The big fellow appreciates hi?
tion now, has become proud, and slm^
his w hite teeth in smiles of recognition
to many fashionable people in the street.
His wages are high, and, be-’« y,. ' only"'
attraction of his kind in Berlin, ne is able
to dictate his terms. In the classical
city of Weimar a negro married the
daughter of the court preacher. The
wedding was honored by the presence of
his royal highness Grand Duke Alexafider
and all the aristocratic people of that
modern Athens.—London Letter.
Spirits of the Sea.
Hauled up on the sandy beach near the
foot of Ocean street are two old whalp-
boats which, although in fair conditicu^
are eloquent in the evidence of long ser-
vice and dumb rehearsal of soul stirring
Miseriy habits, ff they ever prove tobeJ, guided bjf br7vtm^n^wh^lsolate theS
reives from home, friends and comfort in
pursuit of a
si | «»d~i ss I r* d,esf.ibcd in the faot that
of Moses Hughes survey, known as the get well. I can truly recommend it *n I Dieir lmnt m canrimnns flaahoo
Hughes ranch; thence in a direct line to the ” ’ ‘ "
I
W. A. PATTERSON,
Does e Strictly Commis-
sion Business.
LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON WOOL.
Will keep Wool Sacks and Twine in Stock,
Charges one-half a cent per pound Com-
mission, which includes Insurance and storage
for 30 days, after that time will charge for
storage and Insurance extra.
N. E. corner of Chaney Williams survey,
thence diagonally across said Williams sur-
vey towards the S. W. corner thereof, to
where said diagonal line crosses Lampasas
and Burnet county line, thence in a wester-
ly direction with said county line to the
Colorado river, thence up the Colorado riv-
er to the S. W- corner of the William Todd
survey, to S. E. corner of same, thence in an
easterly direction to S. E. corner of A. P.
Lee survey, thence in an easterly direction
crossing the Jacob Carsner, and Abel L.
Eanes surveys to the place of beginning.
And it is further ordered, that J. L, Harvey,
H. A. McCrea and W. R. Jonson be and are
hereby appointed managers of said election
at Wallace’s store; and that 0. C. Henry,
Jofen H. Morris and R. L. Means be and are
hereby appointed managers of said election
at Mean’s school house, who will conduct
said election and make returns thereof ac-
cording to law.
Those desiring to prevent sheep, hogs
and goats from running at large, shall place
upon their ballots the words “For the stock
law and those in favor of allowing such
animals to run at large shall place
the°stock l4w.’’all°tS thG W°rdS “Against
Given under my hand and seal of the
11”s- f comnnssmners’ court, this May 16th,
I'—f~> J 1889.
D.C. Thomas,
County Judge Lampasas Co., Texas.
HOP O’HAIR,
get well. _ ________
the public as a good medicine.
C. C. Mullady.
Lampasas, Texas, March 27, 1889.
This is to certify that I have used
Negative Electro Magnetic Elixir for
about two weeks. Had asthma for
four years aDd nervousness. Tried sev-
eral different remedies to no benefit.
Couldn’t rest at night and had no ap-
petite. It has given me a good appe-
tite, I rest well and nervousness nearly
all gone. It has benefitted my asthma
to a great extent, and I recommend it
to all suffering humanity for the above.
J. M. Holder.
Lampasas, Texas, March 27,1889.
This is to certify I have used Nega-
tive Electro Magnetic Elixir for about
fifteen days for a humor of the blood,
and I bad boils all over my body.
Have used several other medicines but
to no effect, and can say that Negative
Electro Magnetic Elixir has cured me
entirely, and I can recommend it to
the public as the best medicine I ever
saw for the above.
H. A. Bivens.
Lampasas, Texas, March 27, 1889.
Dealer in
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Will repair Boilers, Engines and Ma-
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SEWING MACHINES and GUNS.
Parties wanting machinery for any
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before purchasing.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
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LAMmSAS.
their light in capricious flashes, instead
of with a steady, uniform glow. This
peculiarity has gained for them the name
of “lightning bugs.” Their light is very
similar to that of our glowworm. A
story is told of some French peasants
who were returning home one night and
saw a meteor fall through the sky in
front of them; about half a mile further
on they came to a glowing mass in a
ditch and rushed away terrified, declar-
ing that a star had fallen upon the earth
and was burning it up. On investigation
it was found that this burning star was
nothing more uncanny than a mass of
frogs’ eggs that had developed phosphor-
escence.
Several varieties of the vegetable king-
dom are luminous in a greater or less
degree. One of the fungi, which is not
at all uncommon on the walls of damp,
dark mines, caverns, etc., occasionally
emits sufficient light to admit of the
reading of ordinary print by it. The
emission of light from the common po-
tato when in a state of decomposition is
sometimes very striking. Several of the
Indian plants and grasses are also lumin-
ous, and it is said that in 1845 the moun-
tains near Syree were nightly illuminated
by their means. The root stock of a
plant from the Ooraghum jungle, sup-
posed to be an orchid, possesses the pe-
culiar property of becoming luminous
when wetted, while, when dry, it is
quite lusterless. The hairy red poppy,
the nasturtium and the double marigold
are also luminous to a certain degree.—
London Standard.
A Western Story.
Brander Matthews tells a good story of
the ethical influence of the east on the
wild and woolly west. . A young Bos-
tonian, reared beneath the brow of Bea-
con Hill and educated at Harvard, went
to Texas and turned cowboy. He rapid-
ly caught the spirit of the country and
as rapidly shook off the outward sem-
blance of tenderfooted eastern habit,
bearded, leather clad, sombrero
le as the widest, 42 caliber Colts on
tps, he was wild as the wildest. Yet
fin his bosom still burned the flame
ioston culture and refinement,
jne day he was riding with
A Hot Day.
The hottest day that I ever experienced
was during the summer of 1859, while
aboard a ship at Key West, Fla. The
sun beamed down upon the deck of the
vessel and seemed to be so close that it
would almost raise blisters. The fires
had gone out in the kitchen, and, as I
was hungry, I procured several fresh
eggs and put them on the deck. The
deck was covered with pitch, which was
boiling with the heat from the sun. In
less than five minutes my eggs were
cooked hard. This story may seem in-
credible, but it is true.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
Don’t Mention the Briers.
It is not only a wisp and happy thing
to make the best of life, and always look
on the bright side, for one’s own sake,
but it is a blessing to others. Fancy a
man forever telling his family how much
they cost him! A little sermon on this
subject was unconsciously preached by a
child one day last fall:
A man met a little fellow on the road
carrying a basket of blackberries, and
saidato him: “Sammy, where did you get
such nice berries?”
“Over there, sir, in the briers.”
“Won’t your mother be glad to see you
come home with a basketful of such
nice, ripe fx-uit?”
“Yes, sir,” said Sammy, “she always
seems mighty glad when I hold up the
berries, and I don’t tell her anything
about the briers in my feet.”
The man rode on, resolving that hence-
forth he would hold up the ben-ies and
say nothing about the briers.—Atlanta
Constitution.
Disease Revealed by the Camera.
The photographic camera promises to
be of even greater service in medicine
than was imagined. It seems to have
literally a superhuman faculty of diag-
nosis. Some time ago a photographer
had as a subject a child apparently in
good health, with a clear skin and good
complexion. When the negative was
examined, however, the picture showed
the face to be covered with blotches.
Within a week the child was covered
with the eruption of measles. Another
case is recorded when a child’s portrait
showed spots a fortnight before it was
laid up with smallpox and before any
trace of the disease had appeared. It
would seen^^^yhe sensitive plate of th®
camera photographed the
ption eisible to the naked
eye.—Thc^^H
hereditary, only become fully developed
with age and a certain kind of experi-
ence, although a sort of avariciousness
may always be traced in the progeny of
one who has hoarded. It does not al-
ways take the foi*m of grasping for
wealth, but, as often as not, takes shape
in a desire for superiority of position,
power of dictation or uncommon popu-
larity.
THE MISER’S WAY.
It is your miser who rummages out a
place of hiding, to avoid any of those
things he loved so well on earth being
handled, even by those legally and equi-
tably entitled to what he is compelled to
leave behind him. The hiding of treas-
ure by a mere miser does not long re-
main a mystery, because if his habitation
is carefully searched it will surely be
found. He could not in life bear to be
far away from it, and in his last mo-
ments it is morally certain it was the
thing his fingers with their clammy
touch turned over before he said good-
by to it forever.
The misanthrope who dreads to tnist
his fellow man, and is distrustful of him-
self, is a great factor among the creators
of unclaimed property. Even when
making a will, as a soi't of posthumous
expression of hate toward humanity he
places it in some spot where not even a
lawyer can find it. When his bones have
been whitening a decade or two some
workman stumbles on his crabbed writ-
ings and a nine days’ wonder is the re-
sult. Those to whom his pi*operty should
have descended have suffered poverty
and have joined the great majority, and
his after death revenge on society has
been gratified.
Then there are those who go down to
the sea in ships, who, before the last
voyage, deposit valuables where they
alone could claim them. The dishonest
appropriated of others’ goods must not
be forgotten. He dreads to carry the
possessions he has stolen about his per-
son, and hides them fi*om prying eyes
He takes flight, hoping at a future date
to claim them, but either some new ad-
venture secludes him forever from soci-
ety, or he ends his worthless life, under
a fictitious name, in some distant land.—
New York Star.
She Knew.
“I can give you gas if you are afraid
the pain will be too great to endure,”
said a dentist to an elderly coloi’ed wo-
man who had come to have several teeth
extracted.
“No, sail, no, sail!” she said, shaking
her head emphatically; “you don’t gib
me no gas en hab me git up out’n dat
cheer en walk home dead, no, sah! I
reads de newspapahs!”—Youth’s Com-
panion.
Queer Bird Nests.
Birds have some queer fancies in se-
lecting spots for building their nests.
Some time ago, near Seaville, New Jer-
sey, I noticed in a grove of oaks, that
nearly every tree had an old tin can
nailed up in it. I found on examination
that the cans were all occupied by wrens
and bluebirds. But what attracted my
attention most was an old boot fastened
in one of the trees. As I approached it
a bluebird flew out, and although it was
twenty-five feet from the ground, I
climbed up and saw inside five young
birds comfortably siting in the nest.
Ionce found a veritable tower nest,
noble calling whose once
bright light now burns so dimly; they are
saturated through with the romance of the
deep which surrounds one like a fog, and
mans the battle scarred boats wit£- ghost-
ly phantoms of those whose jf^^erful
breasts, now silent, motionless and un-
known, once heaved under the inspira-
tion of the chase alternated with anxious
thoughts and yearnings ’ for loved ones
from whom they were separated by such
an immensity of time and space. These
boats have recently been brought here
for use in local fishing industries, and
will prove an interesting subject for ex-
amination by summer visitors who se.ek
communion with the spirits of the sea.—
Falmouth (Mass.) Local.
His Politics.
It is very seldom that you find a negro
begging. Of course, he is always ready,
like many a white man, to take whatever
is tendered him, but street beggars among*
the colored race are very scarce. One,
however, came into the secretary’s room
on Change the other day. He wanted
some change, and I agreed with the as-
sistant secretary to give the beggar a
quarter if he would acknowledge he was,
a Democrat, while my friend was to dc "
likewise should the colored itinerant
claim allegiance to the party of purityl
We then asked the negro what his polfEL
ical persuasion was, and he replied, after
being told what arrangement we had
made to provide for him: “Well, boss,
I’se neither. I’se on de fence.” It is
needless to say that he received both
quarters.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Beggars’ Ball.
At a recent beggars’ ball in Vienna,
there were 5,000 persons present, all inj
beggars’ costume. The more beggarly
the costume the greater the applause
that greeted it, and at the close a prize
was awarded to the persdh who was
adjudged to have made the most success
ful hit in costume and manner. A pe?l
son who caricatured a well known act-
ress won it.
The method of stopping the electric
cars on the English road where the series
system is used is not done by the ordi-1
nary brake, but by momentarily short
circuiting the motor and immediately re-1
versing the current through the fieldj
magnets.
LOST.
’Twas a summer ago, when he left me here—j
A summer of smiles with never a tear,
Till I said to him, with a sob, my dear—
Good-by, my lover, good-by I
For I loved him, oh, as the stars love nighlj
And my cheeks for him flashed red and w J
When first he called me his heart’s deiight
Good-by, my lover, good-by 1
The touch of his hand was a thing divine
As he sat with me in the soft moonshine
And drank of my love as men drink wine—
Good-by, my lover, good-by I
And never a night, as I knelt in prayer,
In a gown as white as our own souls were,
But in fancy he came and kissed me there—
Good-by, my lover, good-by I
But, now, O God! what an empty place
My whole heart is! Of the old embrace
And the kiss I loved there lives no trace—
Good-by, my lover, good-by I
He sailed not over the stormy sea;
And he went not down in the waves—nojj
But, oh, he is lost—for he married me
Good-by, my lover, good-by I
—James Whitcoa
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