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fc
irai-cli is keeping
|.Jowly, slowly fadefl t)io lj Ut,
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Boflly
tlio UlgOt
..•• •Moonbeams tondor round ui gloniiiui?,''
Mspor that 'tis time for dreaming.
... Huelx, mj dear, ibe world JR BLEEPING
i-.leep, baby, sleep.
Rock»ig--rocUing to iiml fro,
Off to blumbcrluna -wo go.
Vbore the fanefimvstic sojij*
Kchoes swoetlv nil lTigbt long
Koekuig—rocking to uud fro.
Oft to fclumberltuid TPO GO
bleep, baby, sieej).
•,7/^ Sleep, bftbv, sleep
Preamland vespers mo rin^iug:
f.»: Oeutly. Kont iy Hows tlie stimiin I
fewoetly bright sturaipleam
t-ilverdows ure softly falling.
Dreamland spiritos are cuUiug. calling
lbions &\veet to theo they ro bringing
fcloop. babv. Bleep.
locking—rockmc to and fro.
On to btuuiburlanti TVO go
Down tho Rtronm worofioittng now,
Mothers kissi'B oil thy brow.
l»o^king-voclung to and fro.
Little 0110. to Droumlani go:
bl'.ep, bain*, bleep.
Sloop, bnbv, Bleep.
Sweet, fiimnv eyes now closing.
bmiling, smiling lu \011rMeep,
At the fuineti Kocrots deep
tioldtmcinls in wavy splendor
Nzia ht shall harm thy sweet roposinj
bleep, baby, Lleep.
a.Vw
S)ncp. labv, sloop. i-,
liocking—-rooking to and fro,
Off, to blumUerlaml ive go,
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enmg io the fairies'so!ig
!looting round ns all njqht lou'4
Hoek.ng—ro king to ar.d fro.
Oil to »lumberhmd \vot o.
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Sleep, babv, sleep.
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it ,*
Dennis was a pig, but not I)v any
(ucans an ord nary, common porker.
Ask any of the sailors who were ac
quainted with hi in on the I". S.
underbill, and tliev would indig
nantly repel that idea. When you
lave finished the story of his life,
perhaps you will agree with them in
-hi"king him a rather remarkable
pur-
Dennis was a vcrv little fellow
when he was first taken aboard his
doating home, with a number of his
companions, to serve as fresh meat
for the officers and crew. One by
-one the members of the porcine, tribe
were slain and eatcu but Dennis,
because of his diminutive size, was
.•esei ved until the last, and then rniss
i"U his mates and not being con lined
to a sty, he began to hang about the
men and to seek their acquaintance
in dumb fashion.
Thn sailors, having had their fill
Df fresh meats were gratified by these
marks of friendly feeline in an ani
mal usually considered to be some
what obtuse in such ways, and con
cluded that they would rather have
the pig as a pet than as pork. So a
petition was sent to the captain to
that ellect, and was-readily granted.
How Dennis became a priveleged
character on board ship. lie took
his meals with the crew, trotting
from one man to another to get his
portion of the viands, and you may
be Sure he was always generously
served. What games of romps the
tars used to have with him on the
gun-deck in loafing hours!
The pig would find a hiding-place
behind one of the guns and ensconce
himself there, his little eyes fairly
twi ikling with tne fun of the pro
ceeding, while the men pretended to
hunt for him, carefully avoiding his
place of concealment until at last, as
thev passed that particular gun. Den
nis would rush out on them with a
squeal of delisrht, and away they
would all go in a race for the other
end of the deck, the pig Generally
contriving to trip up one or two of
his playmates on the way.
Another of his tricks was to secure
a piece of rope and go about with it in
his mouth, grunting, until some one
was obliging enough to take hold of
the othfcr end, when he would tnjoy
a pulling match with bis opponent
quite as much as*a dog ever does.
As the ship drew near the tropics
Dennis, having grown decidedly fat
with his eood living, felt the heat
vcrv much, and his one solace was to
climb into the water trough and lie
down under the spout of the pump,
making knowu his whereabouts with
loud grunts, until oneot the old cap
tains of the forecastle, hearing him,
would call out to the younger sailors:
'•The e! two of you lazy lubbers,
why don't Von go and pump on Den
nis? Don't you hear him calling
you/"
Dennis was accordingly pumped on
until he signified he had had enough
of it by rising and waddling oif.
The ship touched at Valparaiso, a
few sheep were taken on board, des
tined to the same end that Dennis
had er-caped. The pig had rare fun
them all about the deck, and delight
ing in ,-ecing them lly before him.
He persisted in these tactics until
hut one lamb was left, and the sailors
predicted that Dennis would save the
buicher lhe trouble of killing that
one by worrying it to death, since he
was now ir to concentrate all his
energies upon it- Therefore, what
was there surprise on turning out one
morning to find the lamb and Dennis
sleeping close together, the lamb's
head pillowed on the pig's fat side.
lio ean say that Dennis did not re
member own former loneliness,
and therefore took compassion on the
forlorn little creature who was left
in the sa:ne condition?
His actions afterward certainly
seemed to point 10 that conclusion,
for losing cr..ir«ictor of persecutor,
he came hilly's protector and
friend, and "evei* rfiiere that Dennis
weni the iamb was sure to go.-'
'J his devotion was irksome to the
pig Miiiurtimes, and particularly so
oil those occasions when, com orta
oispo-ed in the water-trough, he
was uikiiig his noonday bath, his
1 wo willing slaves at work at the
pump-handles anil the cooling steam
o'waler lrieklio.r down his sides.
.I'.isi then, in tie.' iic'ght of his enjoy
me i. a moiirnt ii bleat, would rise in
Hie suil ,nr and denote that
ban uus-ed Ins companion ami
LC'iJuauhi/ his abicn e.
mw
rm\
At first 'ennis wouia pay no a
teniion. lie was so comfortalblo that
he really could not afford to disturb
himself: but as the bleatiug became
louder and more importunate he
would become manifestly troubled,
eiviug vent to his dissatisfaction with
low noises until finally, no lenger
able to bear the lamb's pleading, he
would with a mighty effort hoist
himself to his legs, stick his head
over the edge of the trough and erunt
loudly at rSilly, saying as plainly as
possible in pig-laneuape:
"There, you silly little thing! Now
you see where I am. and can't you be
good enough to leave me in peace and
uiet for a while?"
The bleating would thereupon
cease, and Dennis would lie down and
resume his bath with a serene sense
of duty performed.
It did seem as if Dennis had every
prospect of l.ving to a green old age,
surrounded as he was with such de
voted love and care but sad to say,
his end was an untimely one, and
this was the manner of it: The man
who did the butcher's work on the
"Vanderbilt was a sour, surly fellow,
with an inooru taste Tor his trade.
His disposition was just ugly enough
to afford his messmates pleasure in
making hiin the butt of their jokes,
and sore from one or two re:ent
specimens of fun, he cast about in
his mind for some suitable piece of
revenge.
Having matured his plans, he went
one day to Lieut. who was
then caterer of the ward-room mess,
and informing him that all the fresh
meat bad given out,inquired whether
he should kill the pig. The officer
nodded a careless assent, probably
thinking, if he gave the matter any
thought at all, that the animal re
ferred to was the last one of several
porkers that had been taken aboard
not long before. The idea that such
a question could apply to Dennis, the
spoiled darling of the crew, never en
tered his head.
Words saunot describe the grief
and commotion forward when Jack
son, the butcher, was discovered
dragging Dencis along the deck, and
his intentions in regard to the pig
were ascertained. He was quick to
say that he had his orders from an
officer, justly apprehending that some
violence would be done him other
wise.
At first the sailors were so con
fused by this unexpected turn of
a Hairs that they could only exclaim
and wonder over it: but as Jackson
calmly continued his preparations
they took hasty council together, and
finally a detachment of them went to
the mast to ask Lieut. if it
were really true that he had given
such a command. The Lieutenant
was greatly surprised when informed
of the true state of the case, and told
one of the men to run forward imme
diately and countermand the order.
The message, alas! arrived too late,
Poor Dennis had already received his
death blow, and the sorrow of the
crew knew no bounds. The men
resolutely declined to have any of
the meat served out to them, and
one grizzled quarter-gunner expressed
the general sentiment when he said,
in a voice suspiciously husky, "D'ye
s'pose, lads, I'd touch a bit of that
pig? Eat Dennis! I guess I'd just
as soon eat one of my friends.
Where'd be the difference? Might as
well turn cannibal at once and be
done with it!"
So bitter was the feeline against
Jackson, the butcher, that when his
death occurred later in the cruise
the current opinion among the men
was that a rightful retribution had.
overtaken him and one thing is cer
tain, that his mourners were by no
means as numerous or as sincerly
afllicted as those of Dennis, his vic
tim.—Youth's Companion.
"v
The Colossus of Rhodes.
The famous Colossus of Rhodes,
•which was made ot bronze and was 70
cubits (or about 105 feet) in height,
was twelve years in making, and was
said to have cost only 300 talents, or
aoout £75,000, if we reckon the Attic
talent, or £302,000, if we reckon the
other talent, and probably the latter
is to be reckoned in this case. At
all events the so-called Colossus of
the Sun, in the Capitol, which was a
bronzeof Apollo,only thirty cubits—oi
forty-live feet English—high, brought
by Marcus Lucullus from Apollonia,
in Pontus, cost 500 talents, which, if
reckoned even as Attic talents, would
be over £125,000, and it would hardly
be probable that the Colossus ot
Rhodes, which was twice its height,
could have been executed for so much
with these timid creatures, chasing ]eSS. But this is a trifle compared to
the price aid for a colossal statue of
Mercury, made for the city of Averni,
in Gaul, bv Zenodorous. On this
work he was engaged for twelve
years, and the cost of it was £ij35,
000. What the Lrold and ivory Athena
of Phidias in the Parthenon or his
Zeus at Clvmpia cost is not stated by
any ancient author. For the famous
statue of Diadumenos, which was a
bronze figure of .ifesize, representing
a youth tying a fillet around his head
Polyclcitus received 100 talents, or
about £25,000.
Cou
1U Make Use or It.
A farmer, whose practical mind
was altogether superior to any regaril
•for things beautiful, had the good or
bad fortune to marry a wife whe
brought with her a wooden substi
tute for one of her nether limbs.
He was at once remonstrated with
on such an exercise of his choice, but
he answered the objector in a man
ner that undoubtedly showed he had
the shrewd utilitarian character of a
Scotsman.
••Heeh. sir," said he, "it's maybe
no" a verra bonuie thing to marry a
woman wi' a wooden les but, mon,
she'll be.awful useful at settin' time
when I'm puttin' doon my cabbages,
turnips, and tatties. She can gaug
Hilly I on in front an' make a hole wi' her
.3 slump, while I come behind and put
in the seo.l
A-Aifr* 5 -WC
THE GOSPEL OP GRACE
EXPOUNDED BY OUR RELIGIOUS
EDITOR.
the Truth—Persistent Misconception
Characteristic of Some l'uople—Teach
Your Child the Value of Time—Notes
and Comments
0
Economy of Tliue. V'
|NE of the first
things that should
be taught a child
is the economy of
jtime. There is
-j
probably nothing
that we waste so
much of during
our whole life, and
which is really a
part of our life, as
time. Although it
is not necessary to
become purely au
tomatic, we should
regulate our lives
so as to do things in a systematic
manner. It will really seem strange
to one to see how quickly one will do
everything, and do just what one
wants to do, by laying out. one's work
and duty. We often hear people say
that they have no time to do any.
thing, anl on investigation we find
that they have spent more time on
frivolous things than upon actual
duties. By the word duties we do
not mean to lay out a regular coarse
to be followed day by day for every
hour and minute of the day, but to
have certain time for doing things,
and certain places. Where one di
vides up the time in this way, he will
find that he leads a much pleasanter
life, and will accomplish more in the
long run. Many men who have been
hard workers all their lives, being
occupied in business all day, when re
tired from active labor find their
time hanging heavily upon their
hands. They have been used all their
lives to the regular routine of busi
ness, and are not accustomed to the
polite way of living, doing nothing.
People who are fortunate enough in
not having anything to do in this
sense will find fashionabfe crazw or
hobbies very pleasant if pursued in a
systematic manner. The collecting
of engravings, the hunt after first
editions, the accumulation of a cab
inet of coins, the adventures in
searching for insects, and similar oc
cupations, will be found to make life
more enjoyable and to
economize time
which might be spent in yawning
over that awfully hard thing, trying
to kill time.
"Wroiiffheaded lVople. •'.
Among the most unpleasant peo
ple one is compelled to rub shoulders
with on life's highway are the class
whose minds take hold of everything
as it were, the wrong end foremost.
They are usualiy as obstinate as per
verse, and the false inferences they
draw from misapprehended premises
they adhere to with as much tenacity
as if they were gospel truths. One
knows not how to deal with such in
corrigibles. Good-humored rallying
they are as likelv as not to mistake
for studied insult, Kind words for
humbug, endeavors to instruct and
convince for airs of superiority and
whatever one may do or say with a
view of benefiting them, they mis
take for insidious attempts to get on
their blind side. Their field of moral
vision is tilled with a mist of sus
picion which distorts everything
and it is in vain to reason with them:
for you can no more do away with
their absurd impressions than you
can wipe out graven letters with a
sponge. Error, we suppose, is to
them what truth is to right-headed
men and women, and they cling to it
because they believe in it They are
objects of commiseration yet, being
unatfatable nuisances, it is prudent
to eive them a wide berth.
It is really a sad thing to be predis
posed by nature to misconceive and
misconstrue: but it is equally un
pleasant to be misunderstood and
misconstrued. We, therefore, make
it a rule to have as little as possible
.to do with invcterately wrongheaded
people-HJ®!
Sii J""1*
Christian Truth.
Emerson says: "The greatest
homage we can pay to truth is to use
it" yes, but we can never use the
truth as it ought to be used until it.
is grafted in us by a divine hand, be
coming a living, expansive principle.
Too many use the truth at arm's end,
as something quite outside of them
selves. There may be homage in
this, but it is not the highest kind
of trmage. And then, too, not all
truth is of equal character and
quality. All truth is to be loved,
reverenced, and obeyed, yet not.
equally as strongly and tenaciously a$
that which is due to specifically Bible
truth or Christian truth. The great
est homage that we can pay to the
truth of Christ is to use it, not
merely as a doctrine, but as th-j life
of the soul. Christ is the truth, but
mere homage to Him as such gives
comparatively little advantage to any
man. He must be used by us and
we must be used by Him if we would
be heaven's freemen and friends.
The Value of the Sabbath
There is in India a society called
the Lord's Day Union. Its object ia
to further in every possible wav the
observance of Sunday as a day of rest
To this end it seeks to prevent all
unnecessary labor on at day. It i9
a singular fact iat non-Christian
natives arc applying for membership
in such large numbers that the so
ciety is at a loss what tc da It- is
desirous of aiding men of any and
every faith in the prevention of un
necessary toil on the Sabbath. Yet
cannot afford to forfeit its distinctive
Christian chajacter in basing t:.e ob
servance of the day upon divine au
thority. But it is a significant fact,
that, even aside from the teligious
& ~v
part of it, Hindoos and Maliomet'iiis
aad Parsees recognize the value ot the
Christian Sabbath.
At Home and Abroad*
THE Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions reports the collections' for
the month of November §57,570 as
against $49,458 for the same month
in 18U2, and for seven months S23i,
089 as against $200,424 for the cor
responding period of the preceding
year.
THE Bev. Dr. J. ,T. Moore, senioi
Bishop of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church, and probably
the oldest Bishop of any denomina
tion in'the world, died December!',
at Greensboro, N. C., aged 99 years.
He received the degree of S. T. I).
from English colleges.
THE New York Presbyters has
adopted a resolution requesting stu
dents for the Presbyterian ministry
pot to pursue their theological course
in any seminary disapproved by the
General Assembly. This is aimed at
the Union Theological Seminary and
Prof, Briggs.
A VICAH in North Wales is said to
be also a hotel proprietor, cab pro
prietor, furniture remover, proprietor
of saw mills, joiner, blacksmith,
wheelwright, painter, paper-hanger,
miller, grocer, baker, miner, and
toll-keeper. He also runs brakes and
is manager of some mineral springs.
THE Brotherhood of St. Andrew
was organized in the vestry of St.
James' Church, Chicago, in 1883, and
has just completed its first decade of
existence. There are now about
1,000 chapters and 11,000 members in
the United States. The movement
has spread to Canada, Australia and
Scotland.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S habit of attend
ing the communion at Crathic Pres
byterian Church has met with disap
proval from successive Archbishops
and from other dignitaries. The late
Archbishop Longly went so far as to
remonstrate, but her Majesty met
him with such Elizabethan plainness
that none have ventured to resume
the topic.
TnE Endeavorers of -the Central
Christian Church of Cleveland, Ohio,
collected twenty-one barrels of pro
visions, which they distributed to
the unemployed of the city, i'or
several months they have been con
ducting a very successful mission
Sunday-school, which has now been
enlarged by the addition of a reading
room to be in charge of the Endeav
orers.
AN Odessa correspondent says thai
the Bussian orthodox missionaries
have so failed in their proselyting
efforts among the Khirgese that, the
mission will probably be shortly with
drawn. Nearly the whole of the
steppe tribe, described as "heath
ens," are now adopting, almost .en
masse, the Mohammedan faith, which
is spread among them chieliy by Tar
tar teachers.
THESE figures of gifts of women
for missions last year are interesting
reports: Presbyterians (North $S0l),
SiS Methodists (North), $205,342:
Congregationalists, $229,701 Bap
tists (North), $155,552 Union Mis
sionary Society, S51,223 Episcopal,
$35,484 lieformed Church,
Total, $1,070,754. There are otbei
denominations not included in the
above, which would increase the total
considerably.
ENDEAVORERS ot Dr. Goidon's
Baptist Church, in Boston, are mak
ing good use of the reoort of the
Montreal couvention. It has passed
to each committee in turn, and the
committee is to prepare for the
church paper, the. Clarendon ght, a
synopsis of the plans and suggestions
in the report that are most helpful
along the line of its special work.
This plan could be adopted by any
society with or without a church
paper.
"Why He Was an Exception.
-"It makes me tired to see the man
ner in which these newspapers arc
run," said the man in the smoking car
as he took off his glasses and let his
paper drop across his knees.,
The man who sat next to him had
one lock of hair—an oasis in a desert
of scalp—which he spent most of his
time in smoothing refie-.tiv, ly.
"I s'pose," besaidslowly, "chat-you
could give 'em all points?" he said
deliberately.
"I'm sure of it Couldn't you?"
"No, I don't think I could.'
"Do you mean to say that you
couldn't tell the editor how to run
his paper?" exclaimed the kicker in a
tone that had absolute disma in it.
"I no indeed," replied the man
with the oasis, earnestly.
"Well—I must say, there are not
many like you."
"I know it I used to be like you
are. But now I'm trying to run a
newspaper myself, and I tell you, my
friend, I'm notsavin' a word. Not a
word."—Washington Star.
-,.-T
Avenging Intellect. j|
Mental culture ciuellv avenges it
self on woman for neglect of its
claims. While the freshness ot' beau
tiful youth remains ail is well, for
the sensuous charms are so fascinat
ing that the intellectual development
can be ignored, but when youth be
gins to grow treacherous and the
freshness fades, then it is that the
features commence to show a lack of
soul. Intellectual apathy masks the
face and gives it an expression of vac
uity indolence combined with indul
trance in fattening foods destroys the
lovely lines of the figure, and the
fairy-like gait gives way to hi'ing
or pondrous steps.
.Realism.
Dobbins, Jr.—What yer readin'?
Domino, Jr.—Dare Devil Dau or, De
Dangerous Dago. Dobbins, Jr.—Is
he any use? Domino, Ir.—Weli,
s-a-y! It takes ninety-eight chapters
ter kill 'im an' he comes near gittin'
soaked fer keeps i'lo.^t evtiy chapter!
^7 ST-W 'V-%
ONLY YEARLY PAPER.
TTitlii:
i.v '.hp Ilplitc-ni:,) IVores»
the Arctir Cii*'li'*
As there is practically out one
mail to and from Cape 1 rmee ot
Wales during the year, one issue oi
the paper during the year is quit
sufficient.
This curious little paper contains a
variety of news, arranged under dit
ferent heads. In mirthful imitation
of the daily papers in other localities,
it triumphantly carries at the beau
of its columns the legend, "Largest
circulation in the Arctic,' and also
the additional boast of "Only yearly
paper in the world."
The headings are
1-Local
items
"Rural Notes," "Society," "Fash
ion, Marriage Notices. "Whisice.v
in the Arctic" is the heading over
an editorial. Every scrap of news is
like a breath from tho far North.
As space is scanty, condensation :s a
tine art with the editor. He dis
plays quite a fund of humor, too, and
there is a strain of gentle playfulness
in nearly everything he writes.
A few lines tell of a feat that must
have been both dangerous and diffi
cult A midwinter mail was carried
from Point Hope to St. Michael's, a
distance of 700 miles, on dog and
deer sled. The name of the hardy
mail-carrier is not even mentioned.
Think of traveling 700 miles over the
ice and snow of an Arctic winter
merely to carry the mail! Those peo
ple must hunger for news.
In his solitary editorial the editor
makes a spirited protect against the
sale of liquor to Indians. Directly
underneath this vigorous passage are
the following significant items of
news:
"Eluk-suh sliot and killed
zins-vabok last fail. Hoth
drunk."
CUNNING OF CROCODILES.
Jlurrowii'K "CP
Tugi
weie
The Bulletin has two illustrations,
one of the school-house and the other
of a scene on Behring Strait The
heading is also decoi a
ted with a draw
ing of an Eskimo's head.
Mr. Thornton, the missionary
teacher at Capo I'rin -e of Wales, has
made a profound study of the Eskimo
language, and is engaged in compil
ing a dictionary of the Aleut tongue.
During the progress ot his studies he
has made a singular discovery The
Greek and Sanscrit were the only
languages heretofore known to have
three numbers—singular, plural and
dual. Mr. Thornton has discovered
that the Aleut language also has
three numbers. This lie regards a
discovery of which philosophers may
well take note, as the origin of lhe
Eskimo has been the subject of much
discussion and speculation.—Boston
Journal.
The NuBSiir Tank.
One of the innumerable curious
sights of India is the Nuggar tank of
JCurachi. Informer times the croc
odiles which inhabit it roamed the
neighborhood at their will, seeking
whom they might devour, but so great
were their depredations that the au
thorities were forced to build a wall
around their haunt. This is a swamp,
caused by hot springs, the medicinal
virtues of which have been known
from early times, and are attributed
to ihe sanctity of a Mohammedan
whose tomb is close by, and to whom
the crocodiles are sacred.
The tank, as it is called, is about
150 feet long by about half that dis
tance in breadth. In this space,one
observer counted over 200 reptiles,
from eight to fifteen feet long, and
smaller ones innumerable. Th.-y are
so tame, in a sense, that it is neces
sary to poke them with a stick before
they w.ll move Bulfaloes are always
standing in the water, and are not
attacked, but any other animal is in
stantly seized.
One writer savs: The whole ap
pearance of the place, with its green,
slimy, stagnant, water, and so many
of these huge uncou monsters mov
ing sluggshly about, is disgusting in
the extreme, and it will long be re
membered by mc as the most loath
some spot I ever beheld.
AVhich?
A young and newly-married couple
were ente taiuing their friends, ajjcl
amongst "the guests was one whose
continued rudeness atle him ex
tremely objectionable to the rest, of
the company. Jlis onduct, although
almost unbearable, was put up with
for some time, until at supper he
held up on his fork a piece of meat
which had been served to him, and
in a vein of intended humor, he
looked round and remarked—"Is this
pig?" which immediately drew forth
the- remark from a quiet-looking in
dividual sitting at the other end of
the table—
'•Which end of the fork do you
refer to?"
Saw Every thins 'Worth Seeing.
Some one has said that the world
lias progressed as much etween 1 SJO
a the present day as itdid between
1-20 and the days of Abraham If
this notion is to be accepted James
Morri-, who has just died at Lyons.
N. Y., at the age of 121, has had an
opportunity of wit essing as many
changes as if he were born just after
the flood and lived until the discovery
nf America.—Boston Ciiobe.
WHAT has become of the old-fash
ioned woman who knit wristlets for
Christmas prose.its?
1,1 tho Blnd 1,1
°rdT t„
nsonpe a Dragnet.
The following is a fair sample of how
cunningly crocodiles, in common with
all other wild animals, can conceal
themselves in momeiits of danger,
says a writer in the Westminster Ga
zette. After a happy week spent in
the jungle with a friend of mine we
halted for breakfast, before making
the last stage for headquarters ana
home, at' a place called Poonarhyn
Anglice, garden of flowers—and while
at breakfast were amused by watch
ing a number of crocodiles, about
eight or ten. sunning themselves on
the surface of a small lake, or tank,
as it is there called, of about an acre
in extent. A sudden thought struck
me.
"I say. Murray, what fun it would
be to try to catch some of these bog
gars in a net"
"Bravo!" said he. "Let us try it
presently. Appu, send the horse
keeper to the village and tell him to
bring up all the men he can find ana
some long fishing nets. We will give
a good santosum (present^.
and
The Eskimo Bulletin is the
unique newspaper in the
jn
is tho only journal pub ished
the Arctic circle. It P"nted at
Cape Princc of Wales. Alaska,
itude 54 degrees 40 minutes,
issued only once a year.
The Bulletin is a small sheet, i-xo
inches, printed on one side on i
stiff, white paper. It is printed
the hektograph process, «h ch.
simply a method ot multiplying 1
ies of writing. The writing is first,
made on paper with preparei(1
and is then impressed upon t'cUtuie.
The village scented some fun, and
without further stimulus of a san
tosum very soon turned up to the
number of thirty. It was now
o'clock and scorching hot, the air
quivering over the bare, sandy plain
in which the pond was situated, it
was breast deep, as we knew, includ
ing about one foot or eighteen inches
of heavy mud. We tied two nets to
gether so as to make one long enough
to reach acioss the tanlc, about thirty
yards, and this was'heavily weighted
along the bottom and arranged to be
drawn with long ropes from each
shore. Immediately behind the net
came a line, and men about a yarj
apart, with long, pointed poles with
which to prod the mud along tln
bottoin of the net. and so drive the
malingering gentlemen- into the
proper position in front of the net
My friend and his servant (for a!! en
tered into the sport) followed cte
up to tho second line. At it we ail
now went, splashing,shouting,stamp
ing. and hauling, but—-a big but
not a sign did jve find of a single one
of the brutes that we had seen before
us when we came to the edge of the
water. Wo dragged that watci
backward and forward more than
once, but our only reward was a
deadly thirst that lasted us till late
that night. They had burrowed
deeper into the mud than we could
reach them: for nothing—I doubt i!
even a rat--couid have escaped un
seen out of the water.
Saturn auil His Rings
Kveryone who has given even the
least attention possible to astronom
ical curios, says the St. Louis lie
public, knows that Saturn presents a
phenomena to which there is nothing
analogous in the whole of the sola:
system—two broad, fiat, and ver
thin rings being his constant[attcnd
ants in his trips around the sun.
Gallilco first noticed a peculiarity it
the appearance of this ringed planet
which he said "appeared like a large
body placed between two smaller
ones." lluygons first described the
rings, and figured them for the ben
efit- of those not fortunate enousrhte
own a telescope. The breadth ci
these rings from the outer diaiveter
of the larger to the inner edge ot the
smaller has been computed at 20,w
miles toial diameter of the outer
ring, llii.OOO miles, and a space o!
10,c,00 miles is supposed to intervene
between the inner edge of tte
stua 1 ring and the surface of ti»
planet itself. The composition of
these rings, or rather this system o!
rings (some authors mention three
and eve.i four, although two seem
to be the number accorded by the
majority of writers) is simply a mat
ter of conjecture. Some astronomer
claim that they are composed of
terial similar "to that of the plant'
itself, while others are sure this
"they are composed of nuinero®
satellites (moons) mingled witliw
porous matter traveling in planes
Maxwell says: "The rings must
formed of separate particles movi'f
around the planet as independent
satellites." According to
Struve, observations on the ring®'
a period of over 200 years prove !).••
yond a doubt that they are widci'iBi
ai that the lower edge of the inn
one is slowly but certainly appro:®
ing the body of the planet.
The Alaskan Climate-
Prof. J. J. Stevenson, in the
tish Geographical Magazine, .says
climate of Southern Alaska
source of constant surprise to visit"^
from the Atlantic slope. Alth"uC®
on ibe same parallel with bloak at
dismal Labrador and Cape York
Hudson Hay. where the summer I'"
penet ate- onl a few feet beK)«
surface, tre grow 3,000 feet
the sea at Wrangel, and up to
mountain tops at Juneau. Tli,-',al
fall is great, and the variation
tempera! ure is not the mere".,
rarely falls below 10 degrees
zero at ,-itka, and as seldom
above 75 degrees. Of course the.
treines are much greater on the nisi'
land beyond the mountains- ff'1
the ummer heat and winter colu
much more intense than on the cca
—Railroad lieview.
.M
A Hint to Uadies.
A woman, who has given t-lm
ject .consideration, says:
choose a dressmaker in y"ur ,f
style. If you are thin, choos"
who is spare and maregre if
stout ch ose her who is well CUT I
It is she alone who can enter
your feelings, realize your di.W
and needs and clothe you not- 'I
tashionably, but with that symP 'T
which should always ey-st bet*ul
woman and er clothes."
Tim real bu incss of cvei.1
1J
to keep tne pot Lohint