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The Weekly Expositor. ...... . J. A. MtNzi&t Editor ao4 Proprietor. VALE. : i MICH -. Tub present pope novor leaves his owa rooms until they hava been wept and dusted, which la dona as soon as ho rlsos. lie then closes all the doors and windows and takes the keys away with him. An English scientific person has dis covered that sitting down Is an ac quired hablL The majority of man kind do not sit. but simply squat or, as is sometimes said, sit on their heels. This position, the scientific person think . is the natural one. while slttluff on a chair is an artificial one. In speaking of "pulque," the nation al drink of Mexico, Bayard Taylor aid: "It is a kind ol nectar in its way, a sort of , liquid Limburger cheese." Ye gods! If oeotar and liquid LI ra burger cheese have any points in com mon, what robust constitutions Jove and his accomplices must have had! It is estimated that when the son eon at Saratoga Is at its height 1,250 gallons of water are drank every day, The cause of this extraordinary con sumption is that water-drlnklng is a ere t novelty for most of the visitors and that at summer resorts every one goes in strong for all the novelties. The Spanish government keeps a fierce eye upon all Cubans suspected of favoring autonomy for that island or its annexation to the United States. No open movement for a change would be tolerated. Soldiers would slam the propagandists Into prison. Neverthe less, there is much quiet talk la Cuba about annexation. WniLE one cannot assert positively that consumption may be caused by the uso of the milk and flesh of tuber culous cattle, there is enough evidence at hand to warrant an energetio and searching investigation of tho matter, and enough to warrant interference until tho mattsr is definitely ecttled In one way or. another. Ma. Gladstone, in a recent speech in the house of commons, delivered one sentence of 214 words, which in type made twenty-four lines. It has been remarked of it that, notwith standing ''its extraordinary longlh and the more or less extemporaneous na ture of its utterances, the sentence was perfectly clear and not in the least In volved." It is folly to expect anything like unanimity on every question involved in the great problem of social recon struction But there is no need to emphasize and be continually harping upon theso differences, and still less for npplylng harsh and bitter language to those whose views though in many respects similar to our own, yet differ ir '.mpoiUnt particular. The establishment of the Christian code of morals and manners was not instantaueous. It is not yet complete or universal. It probably never will be. Hut it is a perfect cole, and they who abide by it are never immodest, because the heart la for mod by its pre cepts infallibly controls thoughts and thoughts in rational humans character ize expression. Is we compare English literature of our tlmo with that of any earlier period It Is manifest that our own ago has vastly improved upon its prede cessors. Few who real the carefully emendated Eeglish poets are aware how deep and how frequent the sur gery has been which makes the least and the greatest, from Chaucer to Ilerrlck, from Greeno to Shakespeare and Shakodpcara himself, fit to be road now. Extreme uellness is laid down by the medical department as one of tho disqualifications' for French conscripts. 'Excessive ugliness." according to the chief of tho department, "makes a man ridiculous, prevents him from having authority over his camr.idos, and leaves him morbid and seadllve." To c.irry out such a rule a committee of judges of manly beauty," or some thing of the sort, would seem neces sary. Ir there be any justlfleatlon on arth for public flogging it is the smoking of cigarette T.ia law pro ltibitiug the selling of cigarettes to rnlnurs might b3 up pi led to overy one. A person who smokes cigarettes can scarcely bestid to hava arrival at ths ago of discrete. Cigarotte smokois the concentration an 1 eivjncj of all tho bad smoll know.i to man. The cigarette is the prototype of the glue factory. . Tub great tropical lonitocy of Brazil has unlimited capacity for sugar making. At present only a small ptrt of its sugar cane territory is under cul tivation. But if, by reciprocity, Bra zilian sugar were admitted here iree of duty, the cour.Wjr within three yHt could supply ns janolt mgar as Cuhi and at u cheaper rale. Brazil has now twelve inilljon people an J iu popula tion is fajt iftcruasln . Think what a markot such a trv.i! country as thin would make, not mnre'y for our own manufacturers but fr wV'.t n.l flo'ir thatcxa only be groxik touparute tdluios. ' ' LIFE IN THE BIG SWAMP. WlrA Okfnok Smiin Srr Sa risn Shooting F1U With Arrows. Tfle prajrle la)d, whitb cove a cfcn klelablo portion of the OkefeuoKeo swamp, is a very remarkable forma tion, and is, I am told, peculiar to this swamp.' It is open land. entirely free from timber, and stretching away hs far as the eye can reach in every di rection. It has most of the character istics of a hugh inland sea, except the waves. Intersersed here and there in this huge prairie nro small patches of high dry ground, of variable size and heavily timbered, called cow houses. I am unable to ascertain the propriety of this name, unless it be that the cattle, deer, and other animals seek these places for shelter and to get out of the water. Tho surface of these prairies is covered with a deposit of de cayed vegetation that has been ac cumulating for centuries, and is called muck. This varies in thickness from four to ten feet, with water beneath, and below the water sand. This singular formation gives to tho swamp its name of Trembling Earth. It will support the weight of the average man if he keeps moviug onward; but if he pauses au instant ho commences to sink, and may go through to his waist or over his head. At every step tho water oozes up around the feet, while tho muck will tremble and quiver for yards around. There is something grand and even sublime to the visitor in the silent vast ness of this prairie formation. It stretches away before the eye in every direction until only limited by the horizon, its perfect stillness only broken by the occasional bellow of some huge alligator, or the far distant scream of some unknown bird. Hero and there can be seen the track left be hind by some hunter, where possibly years ago he had laboriously poled his canoo along in pursuit of game, the path as distinct and fresh now as If made only yesterday. All around fish of endless species and sizes can be seen swimming and darting about, whilo not infrequently the eye may fall upon 6ome immense alligator or snake sun ning himself. upou the surface of the muck and water or slowly sinking out of sight as soon as ho is discovered. This description conveys a slight but at best a very imperfect idea of the prairie land of this swamp. Upon tho island where we are at present encamped nre living two families, with the aged father named Cheshire. The old gentleman is nesrly 80 vears of age, and has spent thirty odd years of his life in this spot. At the time of the expedition sent through tho swamp by the Constitution he acted as guide, and is full of reminiscences of that trio. He is a wonderful fisher man. and indeed calls himself the King of the swamp, to which position he was dulv appointed ami commissioned by Dr. Little, the State geologist. Tha two sous of Mr. Cheshire have their families here. Tho men attempt to cultivate small crop, but spend most of Jheir time hunting. Their revenue is almost entirely derived from tho salo of hides of alligators, deer and bears. The quantity of these that they destroy and many of their stories of huntiug adventures, are almost incredible. Think of a hunter shooting down four deer with a rifle, one after unother, and without moving from one spot. In several of tho lakes that are thickly interspersed throughout this prairio the alligators are so numerous and fierce that they will attack a man in a boat as soou as he appears among them, and shooting then) by night, which is tho way they are commonly killed, is sometimes attended with no little danger. Tho entire armament of the Cheshire family consists of one ten gauge, ten pound double-barrelled liemiugton shotguu and two Wiuchester rides, one thirty-eight calibre and ouo thirty-two. Also a small yellow pine bow, and a few cane arrows. Theso latter are used in shooting tish, and I feel safe in nllirming that the dexterity with which theso men use their rude bow and arrows will nut to shame tho averago Atlanta marksman with his rifle. In passing over the prairie, one of the Chcshires will suddenly stop, poise his little bow, and send his little arrow flying into tho water, ordinarily into a spot where you or I would see nothing, but the way in which that arrow will dance about for the next 'minute or two will convince you not only that there Is au object on the other end of it, but that it is au object of some size, too. When your hunter pulls up his arrow behold a four or six pound trout or black bass, centrally transfixed, a shot that very few of our marksmen could make with u gun. Atlanta Journal. Tho Texan Cow-no y. Cow-boy life has in the last fewyr.s.n lost much of its roughness. Tho cat tle barons have discharged most of the men who drank, and havo frowned so persistently upon gambling that little of it is done. Curds and whisky being put away, thero is small temptation to disorderly conduct; so it is only when they reach some large uit and are not on duty, that they indulge in t pmuino spree. On tho ranches kept under fence they have little to do when not in the drive or in branding-time, the cattle being all. safely enclosed. But they mint toko their turns at line riding, which means a dote inspection of the fences, and the repair of ill breaks and damages. hero night overtakes them., there they sleep, stak ing their horse, and rolling thorn selves in their blankets. These rides of inspection take day to accomplish, for there are ranches in Texas which extend In a straight line over seventy five miles. Those ranches which are not kept under fence necessitate more work. The boy must then keep their cattle in sight, and while allowing them to grsr.ti in every direction, must see that none In the many thousands stray lyoml the limits of thrir own particu lar pastures. They go then In uartie. seatiering over the territory, for they must cuter hundreds of thousands of acres in a da v. ' II Is not a lif of hardship. nd pays well enough. Everything Is furnished to them free and of the very best, mid thry are paid Inside thirty dollars per month. Each pny stays out from two to three weeks at a' lime; biit titer take with them the finest of camp wagon, with beds and bedding, cooking uten lils. tho best of groceries of all kinds, and as excellent a cook as money can I esriloy. Th'i prairifi are full of game, : ndhelr relies are ever handy, Tho life is free, lascluatiug. and peculiarly healthy. These men nre exceedingly chival rous to all women; this seems to be a trait born in them, as much a part of their moral naturo as it is of their physical to have small feet, for it is seldom that a genuine Texas cow-boy can be found who has not the distin- cms utshlng mark of a handsome foot, and . His boots are to him all that the som brero is to a Mexican. Ho will deny I himself many pleasures, he will go I without a coat, and be seen iu most dilapidated attire, but his boots must bo of tho best and most beautiful make that the country can afford; high of heel and curved of instep, a tine up per and thin sole, fitting like a glove, and showing the handsome foot to per fection. Take the cow-boys a a class, they are bold, fearless, aud generous, a warm-hearted and manly set, with nothing small, vicious, nor mean about them, and Texas need not be ashamed of the brave and skillful riders who traverse tho length and breadth of her expansive prairies. Let C. Uarby, in Harper's Magazine. A Naturalist and Ills Snake. 'Speaking of snakes." said an am ateur naturalist to a New York Sun writer, "but for man' insaue prejudice against them they would be found to be not only intelligent, but extremly sociable. When I was a boy I lived at Sheppard's Park, Rockland county, and near by was a good stream well stocked with fish. Whenever I caught a mess which was very often my father used to insist that I clean and scale them at a distance from the house.and my habit was to thus prepare the day's catch on the banks of tho stream before returning home. One day while thus engaged a largo black snake appeared from under a huge rock near 03 and, approaching me, made a deliberate meal on tho discard ed portions of the fish. Ho then re tired. Tho next day he camo again, and after that he fcil into the habit of waitlner for me. The snot where I moored the dingy from which I angled j was tho one selected by mo for clean ing the tish. and after a few day of familiar friendship Mr. Blncksnake ventured into the dingy and weut a lishiug with me. After that ho became my regular companion, but many gen erations of oppression had made nim suspicious of my race, and if I made a violent motion he was over the side in a second and swimming ashore for dear life like an nuimated corkscrew. On such occasions I invariably found him waiting for me with an appetito sharpened by his bath. "I do not know how intimate we might havo become but for the sad sequel which cut short his earthly ca reer. One day I was called away, and during my absence two neighbors re paired to tho bank of tho stream with the intcution of doing a little fishing from the diugy. As thev approached it a largo blaeksuake Wrfgglcd up to them iu a coutideutial manuvr. Whilo one of them was nearly paralyzed with fear tho other raise'd a heavy stone and letting it fall, my harmless com panion was no more. I am an old man now, but I never prized a frieud ship more than that, uud to this dav I have not forgiven the man who killed my friend." Carnum'i Lecture ou the Yosemite. You have abandoned tho locluro platform. Mr. Barnum?' Tho showman hushed. There Is nothing mechanical in this Barnum laugh. It pomes like the sunlinght which breaks over a cloud. 'I must tell you of my Yosemite lecture. I don't think it ever has been (rinted. I was ono of a party of Iridgeport folks that went out to that picturesque section: Like every ono who has seen it we nil coma back full of wonder, and our neighbors listened to our tales with astonishment and doubt A church In my town wanted some moucy, and I was asked to give a lecture before Its Sunday-school on the wonders of tho Yosemite, tho pro ceeds to go to the church. I consent ed, and on the evening of tho lecture tho church was cioweded. I had not written a line. I reliod upon tho in spiration of the theme. "1 began by giving an account of the organization of the party that made tho excursion. I talked and talked of the trip and tho incidents uutil I discovered I had con sumed two hours of the audience's time and had gotten ouly as far as Om aha. Not a word about the Yosemite. I apologized and told the people if llinv xvmil.l k,iin I i.n. t- In linn viiLr 1 from that night I would tell them something about tho valley. They did so and 1 began where I had left off. at Omaha, and at tho ex piration of ouo and one-half hours' lime. I had readied tho gates of the Yosemite. 'When we arrived there.' I said 'wo all threw up our hands and tiaid. Great God, how wonderful!' .. ..a ..... )....,... tliu Vn,a. Aunt 11 iia vi, jk vo'- 111 it u Vultev. No. I do not lecture now. tV ten yn 'I ri' u n c. Caricatures ol Southern Jc;jroc9. It is hot often that thero is any dis pute as to tho habits of the southern negroes. We see them on the minstrel lingo in stiiuigo and uncouth garbs, and we hear Ux-ni plsyingon tho banjo and hone.4. All this is the purest fancy, mid it would - be tho w ildest imagina tion if it had not been sanctltied bv tho drunken craziness of circus perform ers of the old Bob Ridley stripe. Think, for instance, of a southern negro go ing around and proclaiming himself to bo old Bob Kidlcy or Jim Crow. Did anybody ever see a southern negro, slave or free, going around the coun try with a calico coat and buttons us big as a wnh-tuh. with a banjo on his back and singing songs written by u whilo man? Had Itctter Save Their Money. A lawver who was sent to England by thrt Mohrr heirs, who think they own $10p,rxU.O0a worth of ; property over thrrr. refuses to tell what he has discovered unless ho is paid (15,000 la J Vance. IN IRELAND. Digging Turf for Fuol and Carrying It to th Market. ' In the county of Kerry in Ireland a rran pays 25 cents to the landlord for the privilege of cutting a strip of turf nine feet long, three feet wide aud from six to uiue feet iu depth, says a letter from tho Green isle. He cuts tho turf in tho summer months, so that it will dry during the hot weather. It is cut with a narrow spade, called In Gaelic a slan." When cut the turf ia piled in little heaps so that the moist ure will evaporate. These heaps of turf have to bo turned usually three times before the fuel is dry enough to be carted away and piled into ricks. As a rule, after drying, tho turf must bo carted from four to six miles to tho homo of the peasant. This is done with the aid of donkeys and horses. If tho peasant happens to Ik3 a speculator, ho carts the turf iqto Tralee orsomo other market town and sells it. Turf is measured by what are technically called "rails." This word indicates a donkey or horse load. Tho load is held in place on the cart by means of wooden frames 6Ct into mortises on tho sides and ends of tho cart. The turf is piled to a cono on top of tho cart, and held In placo bv "sugganns." A suggann is a rope made of straw. Theso ropes are also used in some parts of Ireland to hold tho thatch in place. It is interesting to watch tho process of straw-rope making. Ono man sits on the floor of a cottago with several bundles of straw by his side. He picks up a good-sized wisp of straw aud makes a loop by bending it in the middle. This loop ho hitches over the end of a piece of hawthorn shaped like a fish-hook and with a shank six feet long. A piece of string is tied across from tho barb of the hook to the shank, and in tho corner thus made near the barb tho loop of straw is hitched. Another man holds the end of tho hawthorn stick. Mean while tho man who is seated keeps twisting in more straw. In the course of five minutes a suggann thirty feet long is thus made. As tho market is always from four to ten miles distant the cart is loaded tho evening previous to the journey. Tho start is made very early in the morning. This is particularly needful in the caso of the donkey, as his ut most speed is tlireo miles an hour. There is no pressing need to bo at tho market before 12 o'clock, ns in the mailer Irish towns very little business is transacted before that hour. Occa sionally tho peasant indulges in tricks when loadiug his cart. Ho corncobs his load in tne middle, so that whilo on the outside it looks to lo a good. 6olid load, on tho inside there are u good many vacant spaces. Sometimes the cart is driven by tho wifo of the peasant or his daughter. If it hap pens to be the daughter she almost invariably ties up her slices and stock ings in a 'piece of paper, and hides tho bundle uutil within a mile of t i to mar ket town, when she stops the donkey, lits ou a stone by tho roadside, and puts on her shoes" and stockings. On the homeward journey, after having disposed of the load aud walked arouud the town with the proud consciousness af being the owner aud wearer of a pair of shoes, she takes off her shoes ind stockings again and walks home barefooted, ns she came. A story is told in Traleo to tho effect ihat after a colleen had removed her shoes on tho way homeward she stubbed Jer toe. As she sat by the roadside cry .ng from pain and trying to stanch the low of blood, she exclaimed: "Ain't it lucky I didn't have on mo shoes. Shurotney'd to bruk intlrcly ia mat weitr Die Timber la the Northwest. Capt. E. Farnham. the pioneer lum berman, speaking of big timber, said: I think the biggest slick of timber ever cut on Puget Sound was gotten sut at the Port Gamble mill ten years tgo. It was 140 feet in length and S(j k30 inches square. It was shipped to Jhina. where it was cut up into spans or bridges. I was on board the vessel jo which it was shipped. Tho timber protruded over both tho bow and item." What was tho idea in shipping such 4 stick?" "Just simply to have tho name of jutting the largest stick ever got out 3a Puget Sound." "What is the largest tick of timber ihat von have ever seen?" "I'iiat one was. At I ho World's Fair in London I had dinner in a houso maile from tho bark of a redwood tree, which wns cut in California. The houso was two stories in height, and was eighteen feet in diameter in the up per story." 'Ilnw largo a 6tick do von think could bo cut on Puget Sound?" "I think that it might bo possiblo to get out one perh ips lbO foot long and 30x30 inches square at the small end. Such a stick could not bo found near tho coast, however. Ono. would have to go into tho interior for it. A great .leal of care would have to be exercised in cutting it, to prevent its breaking when it fell. If such a stick were cut I havo uo doubt it would bo the largest stick of timber ever cut in the world." The largest treo in tho world is in Mariposa. California. It Is called the Father of tho Forest, and is 40 feet in height. It is a fallen monarch, how ever, and it would be impoHsiblo to cut a stick of timber 160 feet in length from it. ns it is partially decayed. Seattle I'rcss. IN THE WILDERNESS. Grant and Lee havo had their first struggle in tho Wilderness, as the former seeks a new ro.nl to Uichmotitl. Amidst dense thickets, in lonely fields, along narrow highwavs, in tho somber forests, a hundred thousand men have fought backwards and forwards, from sun to sun, and now tho night has come to shift the scene. There arn 8,000 men lvlnsr dead on this battle ground. Thero are thousand more lying wounded, parching with thirst, crying out In their agony. Lee still blocks tho road, but no sooner has the sua irone down than Grant begins a move mtnt by the left flank to pass him. II vou can not cross a swnn.v von must pass aronnd It. My division is one left between the two nrniies to hide tbia movement. When morning comes wo shall be far In tho rear. The ground t whero we rest- is broken. Thero is I forest and thicket a narrow highway a creek two or three small farms, with their buildings filled with wouud ed men, . Fifty rods in front of ? log house is our picket line. It skirts the cleared land and runs awav into tho darker woods on a straight line. Tho neutral ground between us and the enemy is in a strip not over forty rods wide. At 10 o'clock ou this night, when the confusion and. turmoil havo grown quiet, but while lanterns flash here and there through tho woods. as men search for the wounded, I am left on "post No. 7" for tho coming two hours. My place is under a pine tree which stands in the cleared ground, nnd all along the front is the dark forest 60 dark that awhile horso might stand within a hundred feet of me and escape observation. It is a starlight night, but clouds nre drifting across tho sky and tho wind conies in that gusty way which warns you that a storm is brewing at a dis tance. For an hour thero is no alarm. Grant is moving by the flank. Lee is moving to check-mato him. Grant has left a line to mask bis movement. Lee has left a linn to mask his. It has been a long terrible day. Darkness brings a respite gratef ul'for all. . We hare vir tua ly said to each other over the neutral ground: - . ' 'Let us alone and we won't disturb you?" At 11 o'clock a noise iu tho dark woods in front sends my blood leaping. It was the noise of footsteps breaking dry twigs. There aro wounded norses wandering ahout, but this was not tho footstep of a horse. Wounded men may be seeking our lints, but I listen vain to catch a groau or a low call of distress. "Step! Step! Step!" The sound is on my left front. Somo ono is moving to get tho shelter of the dark spot directly opposite. He is mov ing carefully! but I can follow every foot of progress. "Step! Step! (Halt!) Step! Step!" (Silence!) Is it a ghoul seeking out tho dead and wounded to rob them? Is it a picket from the other lino seeking to locate our posts uud rejKirt how far away wo arc? Is it somo human devil seeking to dabble his hands in blood after the horrors of tho dav? Men who had brothers or frieud killed iu battle by daylight sometimes swore fearful vengeance and went out uuon the blood v field at night to secure It. "Bustle! Step! (Halt!) Step! Step!" (Coming closer.) If 1 raise an alarm hero it wjll go up and down the lino and arouse a thousand men in a moment. If I let this unkuown approach me I may bo assassinated. He can not sco me iu this gloom, but he is slowly approach ing in a direct line. -Halt! Who goes there?" Deep silence. If ho was a ktragglor from our lines or a wounded man ho would make answer. "Step! Step!" And now I hear him sink down to the earth. ,4 "Who goes there?" Silence. "Who goes there?" Silence. I am waiting with mcsket taised.and linger on tho trigger. I have given fair warning. Friend could ask nc more, and au er e uy must realize his danger. As I wait something makes a blot on tho darkness. It is only a few leet away.and I fire point-blank. There is one long, shrill scream of agony, and I hear a body fall to tbo earth, and then thero is deep silence for $ moment. "What is it?" asks the corporal ol the guard as ho hurries up from there servo stationed scarcely a hundred feel in the rear. "Thero I've shot somo one!" The alarm runs up and down the lines to die away after five minutes.ant then we advance to the object. Th corporal is there first, lie reaches out to touch it, draws back in alarm, and gasps: "Great heavcus, but you have shot a womau!" It was true. Some poor soul, crazed by the terrible sounds of battle lrivcu from her humble homo hiding in somo thicket until darkness came. Then, dumb as tho trees arouud her. but guided by instiuct, tdio sought to make her way back to tho houso nc doubt tho very hut filled with out wounded and suffering muii. And she was dead at my feet dead of, my own bullet. M. Quad, 0 Detroit Free Press. Hurrah." "What was tho origin of tho ex clamation "hurrah?" There are few words still in U"o which can boast such a remote anil widely extended preva lence as thi. It Is ono of those inter jections iu which sound so echoes sense that men seem to have adopted it al most instinctively. In India and Cey lon the mahout and attendants of bag gage elephants clwcr them along by a pcriM-tual rendition of "Ilur-re-rel 1 1 ur-re-re!', Tho Arabs and camel drivers in Turkey. Palestine, and Egpvt encourage theiranimals to speed bv shouting "Ar-re. nr-ie!" Tho Moors in Spain drive their mules and horses with cries of "Arret ' In Franco the sjiortsman excites his hounds by Ids shouts of "llnr-re, har-re!' Tho herdsmen of Ireland nnd Scotland shout ' Hurrish! Hurrish!" to tho stock they are driving. It Is evident an ex clamntion common to many notions, and is prohablvu corruption of "Tur nieP (Thor rid) a battle cry of the ancient Norseman, who called upon Thor, the god of thunder, to aid thorn in their strifes. An Antl-CMnee Decision. Judirc Willis Sweei. In tho District court at Mount Idaho. Idaho, has de cided that Chlneso havo uo right what ever on mining lands In the United States, and that a lau of mining ground to them is Invalid, and amounts to an abandonment of a claim. Meas ures will now be taken. If an appeal Is not allowed, to oust all Chinese miners in the territory. Th decision is far reat hing.nud will lead to tho abandon ment of much ground by tho Chi- Ono hundred and fifty-two million cork-scrows are uiado yearly in Now Jersey. ALTERNATING MOSQUITO-PAR. Tho Admlrablo Invention of a French ScUutlflo aintltmtn. "A man with a houso in the country writes thus to the New York Evening Sun: "Can yon tell mo of any really good kind ot mosquito-bar? Thoso used in my house last summer wero new and whole, and yet mosquitoes would man age to get inside, t should like to go uubittcu this year, if I could. Jersey man." . Wo never aw a mosquito-bar yet that wouldn't leak, says the editor in response. Tho costliest sort of nets often lets in just as many mosquitoes as tho cheapest. In fact, 'the most per fect protection ever gained in our per sonal recollection wns from a dingy old net with a hole in the side. Prob ably tho mosquitoes thought that no pano person would ever sleep under it, nnd that the figure in bed was a dummy put there with intent to. de ceive 'them, aud to make them waste their time. But however inadequate all ordinary mosquito-bars may b, word comes from Paris of tho invention of what may bo called the alternating mosquito bar. This consists of a mosquito-net made of extremely fine copper wire, woven into a cloth which is strong and at the same time almost as pliable as a netting made of vegetable fiber. This net is made iu tho usual form of can. opy, and falls in shining folds about tho , bed. In tho dome of tho canopy hangs a small electric lamp. Wires conuect the netting with a weak pile battery placed under tho bedstead, nnd by means of a converter are car ried into the lamp.' This mosquito-bar is said to work like a charm. The lighted lamp at tracts the attention of every mosquito in tho neighborhood, ami ho comes sailing over and lights upon tho wire canopy. The battery presses the but ton and the mosquito docs tho rest. M. Schcrcr, tho Inventor, says that on the first morning after his net had been fut in use his servant took up 3 22 it res, or nearly three quarts of dead mosquitoes. Their limbs were not con tracted, nor was any trace of burning upon their bodies, so that nil the prob abilities were in favor of their instan taneous nnd painloss death. M. Scherer took special uote of the body of a par ticularly largo mosquito, of that savage ppecies "which infests Trouvillo a litlle later in the seasou, and observed that his features were composed and reg ular. and that traces of a simile could be seen on the face. Other advantages nro claimed for tho alternating mosquito-bar. The electrical envelope is said to conduce greatly to invigorating sleep, and the cat will never make tho second attempt to sleep on a bed protected by one of theso nets. A cat in the household of M. Scherer's brother was heard to howl loudly one dav and was discovered by tho servauts clinging to tho wire curtain with a starting eyeballs aud every hair erect. When released the cat bounded swiftly from tho room, and, though coaxed witli lobst' r salad, steadfastly refused thereafter to enter the electrical chamber. It is alse stilted that three days afterward M. Scherer's brother was reading from an American newspaper an account of tho Kcmraler case, when the cat hnmped his back, hissed savagely and lied , howling from the bouse. This is in- . teresting as showing the intelligence' of some cats, though without bearing on the advantages of tho alternating mosquito-bar. Arrangements are now making for tho manufacture and sale of this ad mirable inveution in America. W should advke "Jerseynian" by n:l means to wait and test M. Scherer's contrivance before buying any other. Feathered 11 rates. A pair of robins, as has been their custom for several years past, recently commenced building their summer home in an elm treo on the sidewalk in front of my house, say a contributor to Forest and Stream, and tho work went bravely on. with song and rapid flutter of wings. Suddenly the songs ceased and work on tho nest stopped. Uut it was not lelt alone, xor a Dana 01 miserable sparrows attacked, and, if nosttible. were more active in it de struction than tho robin had been in its construction. A few davs later tho robins began another nest in a tall maple treo near by, and the work was pushed rapidly. 11 ..... r .1 . iut a low unys bmiuu it w. cnu"" that something was wrong again. Thero was a great outcry on the part of the robins, and an unmusical chatter by pugnacious sparrows. Tho latter wero again victorious, nnd at onco began to demolish tho nearly finished nest, which work iney soou completed strings, grass, feathers, etc., being scattered promiscuously about. This wiii rot all. nor tho worst, for the ma'o robin was seen hanging by a cord fastened to its neck and ono wing dead, and not more than ten feet from the placo where tho nest had beeu." Tho sight attracted tho attention of passers by. but It was so high that uono cared to ascend the tree to get tbo bird. Being anxious to know tho facts as to the reason of the bird's death. I spliced niv stiff trolling- rod. with a knife attached to the tip. to a long pike pole, and with tho help of a nelgh W I succeeded iu cutting tho string above the bird. Au examination showed that a 6tring, common wrapping twine, was passed through tho wing quills, around tho neck, and knotted so tightly that con siderable patience was required to re move it, so that death must have beeu goon affected. Thi male bein? dead and the nest destroyed, tho femalo has departed, so that we are no longer favored with their sweet morning and evening songs. The question now is: "Who killed cock roidn?" Was It suicide from re peatcd defeats, or was ho accidentally caught in tho siring? Or was it pre meditated murder on the part of piratical sparrows? Home's Water Supply. Modern Romo is said to bo the citi best supplied with water in the world but ancient Koine had a supply ol near ly evea times the tuntity.