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LOST THEIR EARS. Malevolent Mutilation of Medi aevai Malefactors. Removing Auricular Append. - ages on the High Pillory Any mutilation of the ear which in-. ,olved the loss of a portion or all of it s has always been a mark of disgrace. In one of the statutes of Edward VL the d penalty affixed for its violation is the loss of an ear and perpetual infamy. t In those days the celluloid ear had sot been invented and the loss of one of these members was a public ba goe of c shame for life. Following the retributive law of e Moses, probably the punishment origi. 1 nated in the ecclesiastical courts. It is i irst mentioned in the trials of ofences against the Church and some of the ear less clericals were noted men. The sentence to the pillory frequent. ly had the additional punishment of the loss of one or both ears added. Daniel Fooe or Foe, later in life known as Daniel Defoe, wrote a ramphlet called "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters" and lost his ears. Pope, in his "Dunciad," speaks of the author of "Robinson Crusoe:" "Earless on high stood un abashed Defoe." He was placed in the pillory three times. That instrument benlag on a raised platform, explains the line. In Defoe's case, however, as in many others, has punishment was rather a martyrdom and litted him in the as teem of those who believed as he did. Dr. Bastwick, who published more pamphlets than pills, concluded one of his essays with: "From plague, pesti lence sad famine, from bishops, priests and deacons, good Lord deliver us." This was so serious an afront that the doctor was sentenced to the pillory anu to lose both his ears. The execution of his sentence was a sort of public fete. His friends gathered before the pillory and shouted words of encouragement His wife climbed upon the pillory and kissed him. When his ears were cut of "ihe put them in a clean handkerchief" and carried them home. The celebrated Prynne suffered a similar punishment. The names of lesser criminals have es caped the permanent records, but Black stone mentions a number of early Eng lish Parliamentary enactments making the loss of an ear a penalty in law. Fighting in a church or churchyard by acts passed during the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Edward VL meant the loss of both ears. If the pris aner had no ears-which implies that there were habitual criminals 530 years ago-he was to be branded with the let ter F in the cheek. In the second and third years of the same monarch, combinations among the victualers and artificers to raise the price of provisions or the rate of labor for the third offence were punished by the pilory and the loss of an ear. The statute not only cxtended to the com binations to raise wages, but to regu late the quantity of work or to lessen the hours of labor. In this degenerate age the coal barons' Lssodiation, the gas trusts and other combines, if these laws were en forced wuld give the put.lic execu tioner &.ctivo employment. In later years the loss of an ear or a part of one has aso ie-n rcgarded as imp;ying disera.ce The ear is not easily lost. Any necileat that destroys the ear usually destroys the person wearing it. One of the favorite ways of mutilat ing an cemy ia a rough-and-tumble fight is to bite (fIT his ear. In dcisreu table b::lw:s a-d in low resorts Lrutoe ilstinct mikes ear mutilation a fit re venge for almost any wrong. Jack S!ad', the notoriou; dqsp-rato, in a fit of rage is siil to hsae cu: oil the ears of a in.n he had murdered. IIt kept them in hiis poc.ot and boastfui.y exhiLiteJ th. n when in a druaken and dan-crous .tate. t WV-. cie ,t:: r the p >;er table r. 5take.i ha w..c'td 1:'Iuclarly ;.'ca plr.y-d the carr. F'.:r:.inr them on the table they beat four aces or a strail;ht hushl for .J,cck had a pistol in cch hand the next i:,star:1 lie always took the pot on the lp.y. Never IHeard 01. "Babylon mu4t L:,v2 hel a very sua)lo ciirmatc,' sail 3Ir. Ik,wn to his wife. *'l!ow do y. u meant I' he inquire,1. "Why, yc.u"aw.ys hlar of tl, i:al, of Ba y:on nal rrv.:ra wordl anL;t is spri.: , .r 'iater or u:nmIer." 'l",nh Ih? lve iat :i.: pa-er aifc aC ns -.:k Screws that Appear Like ust. The smallest screws in the world are made in a watch factory. There can be no doubting that assertion on any score. They are cut from steel wlre ly ma chin", but as the chips fall down from the knife it looks as if the operation was simp;y cutting up the wire for fun. One thing is certain, no screws can be seen, and yet a screw is made every third operation. The fourth jewel wheel screw is the next thing to being invisi ble, and to the naked eye it looks like du,t. With a glass, however, it is seen to be a small screw, with 260 threads to the inch, and with a very fine glass the threads may be seen very clearly. These little screws are four one thousandths of an inch in diameter, and the heads are double in size. It is estimated that an ordinary lady's thim ble would hold 100,000 of these tiny lit tle screws. About 1,000,000 of them are made a month, but no attempt Im ever made to count them. In deter mining the number 100 of them are placed on a very delicate balance, and the number of the whole amount is de termined by the weight of this. All the small parts of the watch are counted in this way, probably 50 out of the 120. After being cut, the screws are hard ened and put in frames, about 100 to the frame, heads up. This is done very rapidly, but entirely by sense of touch instead of sight, so that a blind man could do just as well as the owner of the sharpest eyes. The heads are then polished in an automatic mechine, 10, 000 at a time. The plate on which they are polished is covered with oil and a grinding compound, and on this the machine moves them rapidly by reversn ing motion until they are fairly pol ished.-[Analyst. Food of the Eskiemos. The walrus forms the principal food of the Eskimo race wherever it is found, and it is so generally distributed over the Arctic part of the North Ameneas continent that i4udoubtedly makestlup the bulk of sustenance for the whole race, with the various seals following closely behind, and both these kinds of meats amply supplemented by salmon, cod, whale, muskoxen, reindeer and polar bear, with an occasional tribe here and there preponderating in some of these latter foods over the walrus and seat. The walrus will not live wh re it is so cold that all the water channels are frozen over in the wint:r, as he can not cut a breathing hole through the thick lee like the smaller hair seal, which is found in about every part of the Arctic that man has penetrated, and at about all seasons of the year. The greater amount of fatty tissue in the animals of the sea makes them more ac Soceptable as food to the Northerner whose system craves such diet during the rigorous winter of that zone. Modern and Ancient Inks. The great merit of our common writ ing ink is the freedom with which it 11 ,ws from the pen, allowing of rapid writing anl the manner in which it I ites into the paper so as not to be re m .ved by sponging. The great defect is in the want of durabi:ity. Such inks partake of the nature of dyes. The writing ink of the ancients on the con trary, as charncteriz.d by great per manency, its basis was tinely divided charcoal mixed with some mucilaginous or adhesive fluil. India ink is o: this character; it is formed of lampb~ack ancd anima' g:ue, with th addlition of prcruume,, not necessary, however, to its use as aa ink and is made up into Sc:kes. It is used in Chin, with at bruah, I oth for wnriting and ipaintiaa upon c nienoso paper, and it is used in this Scountry for making drawings in b:ack and white, the depths of shtle being produced by dilution with water.- k.1aii and Express. I lethlod of Fumigating ..alL SA fair percctna-e of the r:alls coming I to the po.t ofiD,., remiuarks the New York Sun, have bcrne c'sni.lerab:!c evi th .. a -' :-hii. or anaW ·i::, lt with a fork two inch-es bro.d .anl ti.ck. t iy et with tines hadl ercci.:udl j, beJ d each letter svcral times, the Iro;ags i.iercCng clear thr 'ulh tile letter each time. This mnxanrling is a sign that the letters have been through a ycilow :ever quarantine, ths manling becing a part of the 1,rocess -f tu n.ation, its object seing to cc''ale th, ,s:nes of the burn. IP' tulil'u r . t. r msateri:l u -.l to re::ch every part .f t:v le:t:r. Ine d :Italy, ,ya , i o ,t as we:' row. THE SAILOi GIHL. When the wild geer were fying To Flanders away. I clang to my Desmood as leseeching him to stay: But the stern trumpet sounded 1 The sunmmons to sea. ti And atar the ship bore him, Mabouchal Machree! And first he sent letters, And then he sent none, o And three Mmes into prison I dreamt he was thrown; So I shore my long tresses, And stained my face brown, And west for a sailor a From Limerick town. L Oh! the ropes cut my fingers; But steadfast I strove. Till I reached the Low Country In search of my love. t There I beard how at Nameu His heart was so high e That they carried him captive, Refusing to fly. a With that to King William Himselt I was brought, And his mercy for Desmonad With tears I beought. He considered my story, Then smiling. sys he, "The young Irish rebel For your sake is free." " Bring the scarlet before a. Now, Desmond O'Hes, Myself he decided Your sentence to-day. You must marry your sailor With bell, book and ring, And here is her dowry," Cried William. the King. -Alfred lPrieral Grates A MODERN ATALA LTA. he Ram for a Car and Outdid fer Tired Escort. They were coming down a street in the west end of town, one of the taea. ties, intending to take a Pennsylvania avenue street car, says the Washington He was an ordinary looking young men, and he was dressed in the popa larly summerly athletic style so oomman now, with white flannel shirt and white trousers, held up by a wide red sash. Hanging demurely to his ar was a girl that would claim the attention of a trainer or athlete, or any one whose eye is caught by physical development. She was perhaps 20 years old, and her short blonde hair clustered about her regally posed head in a profusion of yellow curls. In the line in the upper part eof the back and her neek was scarcely a curve, the index of suppleness and strength equally valued in a prize fighter or in a sprinter. The shoulders that gleamed through her transparent white dress were poems of muscular flexibility, and the skin of her arms that showed in lit tle diamonds through the open embroid ery of her sleeves was the pale pink, smooth and satiny in texture, that showed a physical condition that an ath lete would call "fine as silk." She walked with a swinging stride, and the e yellow shoes that dodged in and out' from under her white skirts, had broad, low heels. While they were still half a square or so from the avenue a oar came in sight and the young man hailed it. Of cour neither the driver nor conductor boerd him, and the good-natured but misguad ed people who go about the streets stop ping cars for other people, welcomed the opportunity to stop the ear for the pret. ty girl's sake. not, however, until it got some distance beyond the corner. The I c&nduotor, as conductors always do, reached up and took hold of the bell strap with one hand and beckoned the two fares with the (other with a hurry-up or-I'll-start-the-car sort of manner. "Shall we run Y" asked the young man, and the girl answeredi "All right." Dropping her cs-srt's arm, she broke into a swinging run of eastonishing swift ness, and in a hall daee'u steps was ahead of her escort, sailing riong with her el bows pressd close t," her loosely stavayed sides, her urists be:at, with the pink palms of her hall shut hands trnued for ward, as easily am!l i :as gool form as ever a sprinter star.te I to in 100 yards for a purse. a : :shi. e e:taae, the muscular.t motions of h'r lithe li'nbs swinging her skirt~ from: side to side. lher lips tlkseOly shut alnd her eyes sparkling with the pIleasluro of exl.rw- andi piridat in the ease with w.,ieh she ,,ttstripped her weak. lun'iei triei.-. The latc i n..aiIrs holel out. anal even the cond t'.tor fo;a,, t,, ;a', hlar to hulrry up in la, a,iani:'tiot ,r ler musmular grace. Sh:e aot L tie c·.ar way a!head of her esmnort, anu.l St'O.i bv :t'. top as lhe came up, com.,leteiv win'lel, and gasped out: "fkv Juve: W'lhatt a runner you are, Miss E:ithl." Thel girl ti!,lel up tile steps and sat daw: ini the ear, hlr ldress risiug and falling ragularly as slte mareathed, not ex il'laisteala v, i.'l t ,h. yaaaa mlann, but li;e a p. :', u a .. t- vI i ,l ::t exereis,. men out of tae:;.v, h-;t tis magnil.ei.:t 5pt'cimenl of Ih:sealih perfect girlh, ..I reeled ,ft the :hstauco "without turning a hair." as the driver, who was some , thin of a horseman, said. Sx;xp.,,akefr of te ..apmably erf the 'lnat of" Nrw YVrk. t'TATE r Naw 'iit' |.. A. t:EitLY('H.1iti'Ii . I 2 3 .uta frt t.e La tweit, a. trs hatv'l),; n i o l-... 7.1 . 1 ta l' vm!v' , Iwk. . I t a: ar- ,n I w! - tk'; .n frnm a .., -. ".+% ' " • '. " :"· , ":r,', "I..+ 7 5 - I ;*t. 'I l-i + . . " . .. t , : :. ' t y ,' ;.'. T i..? NlrroeyIoolo. "Say. Petkin o, ld boy. wLy don't we see you at. the club any more? Has )our mother-la law shut down on youl?" No, Brown: the tact of the matter is, my home ies. happy now that there is no inducement for me to leave it. You look incredulous, but it's a positive fact. You see,. my wife used to suffer to much from funtc tional derangements common to her sea, that her spiritao nd her temper were great ya fee te. ITwsa net her fault., of tourue, but it made home untieasait all the same. But now, since she has beun to take Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescriptota. she bas been so weltaadso happy that we are having cur honey-moon all over again." Ma.iy an aetrem wb, thinks herself a star objects to hearing it spelt backwards. , A P~cre" Of good health is tfoun in the regular move ment of the bowels and perfect action of the Liver. These organs were Intended ynature I to remove from the system all impurities. af you armu constipated. ou offer a "tandInl in vitationk" to a whole family of diseases and Ir-2 regularities which will surely be "accepted," and you will have guests unwelcome sad de termined. All these unhappy condltlons may be averted by the timely use of Dr. Pier e's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Powerful for the ellffectual regu ation of the bowels and Liver, establishlng a healthy action of the eutire wonderful organism with which we are c ated. It Is not considered proper for canoea of the church to uet loaded.--Jercurg. 'se the autest remedy for catarrh - Dr. tage's. Why call a man a cranl, when no one can turn himt The Mpeelal (frr Of I rw T rtH's ('OMPANtoe.Of H _on. M s. whch'b we published last week, shoud be no ticed by our readers. t heopp ,rt nity coma but once a year. Any new subscriber t oTz COMPAIloN who will send 1.75 at one can have the paper free to .lJanuary , 1 l. anti for a full year from that date. This offer includ. four holiday nun1 r5e. for Tl ankn.l vlnv. I Christmas. New Year s and Easter all the II lustratald Weekly $tepplementDs.an the An nual l'remium Li.t with illustrations. Really a 1a2 5 pi per for only $1.7i a year. Ieep hem It the )LerO eyl . 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