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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
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Monday. April 20. 1691.
ARRIVED yesterday.
i-eumship Pontiac [Br], Blytb, Boston, in
. '.st -Master
Fi-s Panins [Nor], Olsen. Santander via Bar
in hallast—Master.
■ .A 2imand [Nor). Gram. Liverpool, in bal
.jTrhr G Dahl t Cos.
steamer Progress. White. Brunswick and
' , r ediate landings- C Williams. Agt.
steamer Aipha, Strobhar, BlufTton—C H
Medl'Vk. ACt.
steamer City of Americas, Garnett, Augusta
way landings—W T Gibson. Agt.
DEPARTED yesterday.
gteamer Alpha. Strobhar, BlufTton—C H
Hedieelt A K*-
memoranda.
York, April IT—Arrived, schr Stephen
Hawthorn, Brunswick
Cleared, steamers Viola [Br], Murray,Charles
ton Royal Prince [Br], Alderson. Coosaw. SC.
Cnartered, German ship, l.'AWtons, Pensacola
to Antwerp. Bremen or Hamburg, deals; Brit
steamer 961 tons, Coosaw to United King
and. phosphate, 11s; British steamer, 1,237
los Pensacola to United Kingdom, timber,
,h .jt92s6d; steamer Pawnee [Brj, 1,167 tons,
from Gulf port, chartered abroad.
F rt Elizabeth, April 13—Arrived, bark Louise
jVorl, Jensen, Pensacola.
Rotterdam, April 16—Arrived, bark City of
Tsntore [Br], Vint, Savannah.
Stettin. April 17 —Arrived, steamship Marston-
B oor [BrHause, Port Royal, SC.
Tory Island. April 17—Passed, t>ark Northum
bria [Br], Marvin. Pensacola for Greenock.
Tarifa. April 11—Passed, bark Tjomo [Nor],
Tor lesen, Pensacola for Tarragona.
Nassau, April 2 Arrived, schrs Julia Elizabeth
[Br , Ingraham. Key West; stb, Mabel Darling
Br], Ranger. Jacksonville; Bth, City of Nassau
Br], Kelly. Brunswick; 13th, Hattie Darling
Brj, Kelly, do.
Baltimore. April 17—Cleared, steamship Reso
late [Br], Reaveley, Coosaw, 8 C; brig Jno Wes
lev, Van Gilder. Savannah.
Sailed. Annie Bliss, Savannah.
Brunswick, April 17—Arrived, bark Aetiv
[Nor], Southampton
Beaufort. S C. April 17—Sailed, schrs Nancy
Smith, New York; Nellie W Howlet, Philadel
phia.
Bucksville, S C, April 17—Arrived, schr Ettie
H Lister, Mason, New York via Georgetown, 8
C-
Bridgeport, April 17—Arrived, schr Satilla,
Jayne, Savannah.
Charleston, April 17—Sailed, schr Annie C
Grace, Savannah.
Coosaw. S C, April 17—Arrived, steamer Wy
daie [Br], Gibson, St Vincent.
cleared, schr J H Parker, Hammond, New
York.
Key West, April 14—Arrived, schr Geo Moul
ton, Crocker. New York for Mobile.
15th—Sailed, schr Mary J Hubbard. Hubbard,
Mobile
Mobile, April 17—Arrived, bark Cecil [Nor],
Osmundsen, London.
Sailed, schr Jonathan Bourne, Boston.
Norfolk, April 17—Arrived, steamship Scaw
fell [Br], Stanhope, Pensacola for Greenock and
sailed.
Pensacola, Agril 17—Arrived, bark Gler [Nor],
Amundsen, St Thomas; Orion, .
C eared, schrs Fannie L Child, Hart, Provi
dence; Fred A Small. Thompson, Washington.
Philadelphia. April 17—Arrived, schr Jonathan
Msv. Cook. Darien.
i ieared, schrs Maggie A Andrews, Blatchford,
Tampa.
Margaret A May. Jarvis, Savannah.
MARITIME MISCELLANY.
Wilmington, N C. April 17—The disabled schr
Florence, from Sagua via Key West for New
York, has arrived at Southport in tow of tug E
Heiperhausen. The tug pul iu for coal.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Notices to mariners, pilot charts and all nauti
information will be furnished masters of ves
sels free of oharge at the United States Hydro
fraphio office in the Custom House. Captains
are requested to call at the office.
Lieut F H Sherman,
In charge Hydrographic Station.
A black spar buoy, No 1, has been established
in 12 feet of water, on northern end of Middle
Shoal, to the southward of Echo Bay, New Ro
chelle; Execution Rocks’ lighthouse, SSF.J^K;
north end of David’s Island, SW](jW.
A red spar buoy. No 2, has been established in
13 feet of water, on the west side of Premium
Point, entrance to Echo Bay, New Rochelle:
Duck Point (north side), NW by WtfjW; Bailey’s
Rock Spindle, SSW; Premium Point (south side).
NE by KJ4E.
A red spar buoy, No 2. has been established in
13 feet of water to mark end of sunken dock off
Hunt's Point, East River: Old wharf, Hunt's
Point, Barrett's Point (south end), WNW;
Clauson’s Point wharf (south end). E>jN.
A red and blaek horizontal striped spar buoy
has been established in 22 feet of water to mark
al7 foot rocky patch betweeu Hiker’s Island
and Barretto’s Point, East River: North Brother
Island lighthouse, Hunt’s Point wharf
outh eiM), ELrN; Hiker’s Island (east side)
Sl*W.
A blaxtk spar wreck buoy. No 1, has been
placed near sunken canalboat, west side of Shell
Reef. East River, about 400 feet from Ninth
street pier. New Fork city. Vessels using this
secondary channel should keep to the westward
of the buoy. The cenalboat is at present ex
posed at high water: Long pier, south of New
town creek, Havemeyer’s sugar re
finery. BrooklA’n, BSE. Bearings magnetic.
A bell buoy has been established iu 22 feet of
water, 250 yards south of tripod for light on
Point Judith breakwater, now in process of con
struction: Point Judith lighthouse, EJ4N, dis
tance 14k nautical miles. Bearings magnetic.
By order ot the Lighthouse Board.
Henry F. Picking, Captain USN,
Inspector Third District.
Tompkinsville, N Y, April 16, 1891.
Tompkinsvilie, N Y, April 17—The canalboat
sunk near the north gap iijto Erie basin having
been raised the wreck buoy thereon has been
discontinued.
Henry F Picking, Captain, USN,
Inspector Third District.
CONSIGNEES.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway, April
18—Chestnut & O’N, Ellis. Y & Cos, Cohen & Cos,
Lee Roy Myers & Cos, A Hanley, S P Shotter Cos,
IV McOants, Mrs W C Mazyck. C E Stults & Cos,
Palmer Hardware Cos, I Epstein & Bro. M Barn
well.C H Sipple, Smith Bros, J Rosenheim & Cos,
A Ehrlich & Bro. G W Parish, G Davis <t Sen,
Dryfus Bros, Harms ftJ.QW Tiedeman <6 Bro,
Heidt A S, Peacock. II & Go, J E Grady & Bon,
J D Weed A Cos, Allen Variety Wks
Per Savannah. Florida and Western Railway,
April 18- G W Tiedeman & Bro, McMillan Bros,
L Putzel, A Ehrlich A Bro, H Solomon A Son, B
Addison, S Guckenheimer A Son. W D Simkins,
M Y Henderson, A H Champion’s Son, Savannah
Soap Wks. Kavauaugh A B. A B Hull A Cos, J B
Perry. Haynes A E, J D Weed A Cos, A Sonnen
*>erg. W D Dixon
Per Central Railroad. April 18—Warren A A,
Jno Flannery A Cos, Dwelle. CAD. Butler A S,
Baldwin A Co.M Maclean A Co.J S Wood A Bro.
Stubbs A TANARUS, W W Gordon A Cos, W W Chisholm,
J P Williams A*Go. II M Comer A Cos, H Traub.
M Y A D I Maclntyre. Montague A Cos. Heidt A
S. Chestnut A O'N, Savannah Furniture Cos, A S
Canuet. A Hanley, Lee Roy Myers A Cos, H L B
"iggins, Eckman A V, Barbour A Cos, A Son
nenberg, M Nathan, W B Mell A Cos, T Hender
son. J D Weed A Cos. A Ehrlich A Bro, A Asen
dorf, Jas Douglas, M Y Henderson, D B Lester,
Moore A J, Savannah Grocery Cos. Geo Meyer, J
B Robinson, Telephone Cos, Teeple A Cos, South
eastern P Cos, J S Collins A Cos, Morning News, S
belig, L Putzel, Smith Bros.W S Cherry A Cos, T
M Norwood, G W Parish, Peacock, H A Cos. E L
Dicker, E C Gleason, Mackay A Cos. Savaunah
Con Cos. W I Miller, G Wilkins, Green A Cos, J F
Guilniartin, Savannha Naval Stores Cos, Capt W
D Dixon, Ellis, Y A Cos.
LIST OF VRBBBL3.
Up, Cleared and Sailed for this Port.
STEAMSHIPS.
Vnita [Nor], Danielson, Savannah, sld April 3
via Puerto Cortez, Hon.
BARKS.
Jupiter [Rus], Snellman, Hamburg, sld March 1.
B-lie Flower |Br], Rosey, Cardiff, sid Jan 13,
via Pernambuco.
I sstfold [Nor], Larsen, Havre, sld Feb 23.
Nornianvik [Nor],Mortensen, Hamburgsld April
13.
Don Qixote [Nor], Hillmer, Liverpool, sld Mch
Liburna [Nor], Thomasser. Havre, sld April 7.
r ‘He Both [GerJ, Kreger, Rio Janeiro, sld Feb
and alkyrien [Nor], Berje, Havre, sld March 13.
Rimfaxe [Nor], Hausen, Cape Town, sld March
Maury [Nor], Olsen, at Buenos Ayres March 7.
tb Tboresen [Nor], Salvesen, Port Natal, sld
March 9.
Ercole [ltal], Girgenti, sld March 31.
New Light. Pedrick, Baltimore, up April 17.
Libertas [Gerl, Sbutte, Madeira, sld April 4.
Bdustre [Aus], Udemas, Table Bay. C G H, sld
. March 5.
londre [Nor], , at Sandef.jord, Feb 2).
BRIGS.
iarab A Staples, Lang. Philadelphia, cld April
ohu Wesley,VanGilder, Baltimore, cld April 17
tobert Dillon, Leighton, at New York April 16.
SCHOONERS.
Island City. Voorhees, Baltimore, sld April 16
Jno G Scnmidt, Xorbury, Philadelphia, up April
Aaron Reppard. Steelman. Norfolk, up Apr J 7.
Wm Hayes. Hall, New York. up April 9.
Jennie Hall. Watts. Richmond. Va, sid April *
16 1 F Cobb> Bartiatt - Bockport. sld April
Margaret A May. Jarvis, Philadelphia, cld April
Bessie Whiting, Dayton, at New York April 15.
n m H Sumner, , New York, up April 15
A Shepard, . Norfolk, sld April 15.
15**** '’btey. Gilkey, Philadelphia, sld April
Wm R Drury. Sweetland, at New Y'ork April 16.
Napoleon Boughton, Stiles, New York, up April
Annie Bliss, O’Donnell, Baltimore, sld April 17.
BOOK NOTICES.
How to Magnetize; or. Mesmerism and
Clairvoyance, a Practical Treatise on tbe
Choioe. Management and Capabilities of
Subjects, with Instructions on the Manner
of Procedure. By James Victor Wilson.
Price. 25 cents. Fowler & Wells Cos., 775
Broadway, New York.
William Ewart Gladstone. By J.
L. M. Curry, Ll* D. B. F. Johnson &
Cos., Publishers, Richmond, Va. Cloth.
This Is a very handsome volume of 239
P*g6s. It is a brief, but very interesting,
account of the life and career of the great
English statesman, Gladstone. It is just
such a book as one needs who wishes to get
at the leading features of Gladstone’s ca
reer.
Comprehensive Physical Culture.
By Mabel Jennesg. Charles T. Dillingham,
718 and 720 Broadway, New York, pub
lisher. Cloth. This is a handsomely bound
and clearly printed volume. It contains
quite a large number of illustrations.
Women who feel the need of exercise will
find in it many valuable suggestions. It
tells how to keep well and strong, and how
to secure a fine complexion.
magazines.
The Review of Reviews for April is full
of excellent and valuable matter. There is
no better medium than this to keep posted
about what is appearing in the world of
literature. The Review of Reviews, La
fayette Place, Now York.
Local Record for the Morning News.
Local forecasts for Savaunah and vicinity
for to-day: Fair; stationary temperature.
Special forecast for Georgia:
FAIR Fair, easterly winds, stationary
temperature.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah, Oa., April 19, 1891, and the mean of the
same day for sixteen years:
Mean Temperature, from the Departure
normal >,r ? ce , , J ' n '
for 16 years April 19. '91. -|- or |
COMPARATIVE RATVFALL STATEMENT.
Amount I A “ I ftSStto
for 16 years: Aprim , # i.- normal
H3 j 00 | —l3 j -2,51
Maximum temperature, 78; minimum tem
perature, 59
The hight of the river at Augusta at
7:33 o’clock a. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was J 0.8 feet —a fall of 0.3 feet during the
past twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same moment of
time at all stations for the Morning News.
Savannah, April 19. 7:36 p. m.. city time.
Rainfall
a ] Velocity..
x
| Direction...
Temperature...
Name
or
Stations.
Portland 52!NW;.... ..{Cloudy.
Boston 62; N ] 8 .01 Cloudy.
Block Island 60 NW 16 jP’tly cloudy
New York city.... 66 NWjl4 .. Cloudless.
Philadelphia 74] NW,.. | Cloudless.
Washington city... 74 Cm ..j Cloudless.
Norfolk 74. N E 6, *T Cloudless.
Charlotte 74; W 8 Cloudy.
Kitty Hawk. 72 SWI.B |Cloudless
Wilmington 68] S 1..! Cloudless.
Charleston. j 70;8E;..i jpioudless.
Augusta ; 76.S E; Cloudless.
I Savannah ! 68 8 E 6 ... .Cloudless.
Jacksonville,...... | 70; E 6 Cloudless.
Tampa 1 741 W f.. 1 *T Cloudy.
Point Jupiter, Fla. 74 N 14 Cloudy.
Titusville TOjNEIOL... Cloudless.
Key West | 76|N E 10; .. Cloudless.
Atlanta I 78|S E; 6j.... Cloudy.
Pensacola 1 72 ] S lo{ ; Cloudless.
Mobile J 70. S ; 8] ... Cloudless.
Montgomery , Bi)i S Cloudless.
Vicksburg 1 78 8 K 6 .... P’tly cloudy
New Orleans. 7,3 F. 10 *T P’tly cloudy
Shreveport 74 SE . *T Cloudy.
Fort Smith 68; E ].. .14 Raining.
Galveston 72 8 E 20 *T Pj’ly cloudy
Palestine 62,SW| 8j .14 Cloudy.
Brownsville f.. j
Knoxville 74 N 18... . Cloudless.
Memphis 76 8 1 6 . ;P’tly cloudy
Nashville 7618 W; Cloudy.
Indianapolis. 74 N E P’tly cloudy
Cincinnati 76] N E .. Cloudless.
Pittsburg 68 N .... Cloudless.
Buffalo 48 W . . .... Cloudy.
Detroit 50jNEj 8 .....Cloudless.
Marquette 38; Cm j.. .... Cloudless.
Chicago 42 NE 22 ... P’tly cloudy
Duluth 42 F |., Cloudless.
St. Paul 64' E 1 6 . .. Cloudless.
St. Louis 70S E, .12,Cloudless.
Kansas City. 70 E 8 ; Cloudy.
Omaha 66 E IS Cloudy.
Cheyenne 46 N E 12 Cloudy.
Fort Buford. 52 S E 16 *T Cloudy.
St. Vincent 64 S ]..].... Cloudy.
*T Indicates trace, finches and hundredths.
C. S. Gorges. Observer Signal Corps.
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XATCRE’S ODD FREAKS
QUBER WAYS OF WILD ANIMALS
AND HARMLESS INSECTS.
The Architecture of the Beavers—The
Alaska Raven—Famous Dogs—The
Water Beetle Fig, Rabbit and
Coon.
From Forest and Stream.
So much has been written about the
habits of the beaver that almost every one
knows something about the animal, and
everybody is acquainted with the fact that
it builds dams and houses to dwell iu.
Their dams are exoeedisgly strong and
durable, and they are prompt in repairing
any injury to them. A dam cut during
the day will usually be repaired the same
night, and in the morning will be as good os
new. I remember an instance of this sort
which occurred on San Juan Island. An
old Englishman named John Wooton, who
new to the country, wished to get rid of a
colony of beavers that lived on his plaoe,
and one day cut their dam. The next
morning be found it repaired and cut it
again, and this time to frighten away the
animals when they should come to rebuild
it, he set up a green cottonwood pole on the
dam and hung nis overcoat on it. The fol
lowing day on visiting the place he not only
found the dam in its usual good condition,
but the cottonwood pole and his overcoat
had gone to help stop the gap he had made,
and were now iu the dam.
The houses differ a good deal in size, loca
tion and shape. Some are as large, though
of course less high, than a small haystack,
others are hardly more than six feet through
at the base. They may stand either wholly
on land or partly in the water and partly
on the bank, or wholly in the water.
They are never placed in very deep water,
for a base must be built for tbe house to
stand on, reaching up to the surface, since
the chamber Inhabited by the occupants
must be dry. Tbe shape of those houses
which I have seen on the shore approaches
the conicaL Those in the water are more
irregular, sometimes only rounded, others
long and rather flat on top. Within
each house, and connected with the
water by a concealed passage,
through which the beavers pass to and fro,
is the chamber which is the animals’dwell
ing place. It is large enough to contain
seven or eight of them, and high enough to
permit a beaver to conveniently sit up on
its haunches. It is warm, dry and clean,
for the beaver is extremely neat in all its
habits.
The food of the beaver consists chiefly of
the greeu bark of twigs and young limbs of
various trees. Cottonwood bark is pre
ferred, then comes willow, then alder, but
the bark of almost any tree may bo eaten.
I have known them to eat pine and white
cedar. The beavers often cut down
trees of very considerable size to
get at the smaller limbs, which they
eat. I have seen cottonwoods twenty
inches in diameter so out, and once on Van
couver Island, near Johnston’s straits,
.found a cedar 'l% feet through which they
had gnawed down. This work of cutting
down a large tree is done by a single ani
mal. I have seen the beaver engaged in the
operation, which is performed as follows:
The beaver sits up on its haunches facing
the tree and with its fore
paws resting against it. With his head
turned on one side he cuts a groove above
and then one below and bites out the chip,
taking it off almost the same way an axe
man would. He thus saves himself the
trouble of gnawing all the wood up into
fine cuttings. When the tree is felled the
whole community attack and cut up the
tender limbs, carrying them away to the
cache.
Unlike many of our gnawing animals, the
beaver does not sleep through the winter.
He remains aotive, often venturing abroad
during the whole of the cold weather. He
must therefore havo food, and a large part
of the summer and autumn is devoted to se
curing this food and depositing it in caches.
This food consists of the limbs und twigs of
tho trees most preferred by the bower.
They are cut from to 3
feet long, stripped of their leaves and
smaller tvvlggs, carried to the water and
floated to the cache, where they are sunk
And here comes a very curious point.
These sticks are floated to the cache and
are sunk by the beaver to the bottom of the
water, where they remain without any
apparent anchorage. They are not stuck
in the mud of the bottom, nor held down
by weights. If you lift one to the surface
it will float, but you may move it about on
the bottom without its rising.
State
or
Weather.
THE BABY MONKEY.
There was an exciting time among the
monkeys out at the Zoological Garden yes
terday, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Since the birth of tbe cunning little one
several weeks ago great consternation has
prevailed in the evolutionary family. It
seems to be not only the idol of its fond
parent, but also tbe joy and pride of the
entire group. Different ones share in
fondling and coddling it, and the quarrels
and knock-downs which have occurred in
tho efforts of the other monkeys to get pos
session of it have produced some remark
ably ludicrous scenes.
One ot these funny incidents took place
early yesterday, frightening one of the
night watchmen half out of his wits. Just
before ho was about rounding tho garden
on the last patrol of his beat Watchman
Shuman had his attention directed to the
munkey house by a terrific commotion)
So great and unusual was the uproar
that the man was startled. Nearly every
morning the monkeys welcome the day
with a general clatter, but this time
the noise was appalling. All sorts of
sounds, such as only monkeys with good
lungs can produce, mingled with snrill
piercing yells and loud screams, were issuing
from the quarters, giving the watchman
the impression that soma small animal of
prey had got into their cage and was
slaughtering the monkeys, or else a deadly
battle among themselves, such as has oc
curred several times was in progress.
Hastening in as fast as his feet would
carry him he found the army of monkeys
formed in a circle around one of their num
ber, chattering and shrieking, while they
clambered over one another, rolled about
the floor, and indulged in other and uuao
countable antics. If bedlam had been
turneu loose in the big cage the confusion
and uproar could cot have been greater or
the scene more ludicrous.
For several moments the watchmap stood
an amused spectator, astonished and bewil
dered at the strange performance, when sud
denly one of the larger of the cunning
creatures advanced to the monkey in the
center. Seizing the infant, which up to
this time was not observed by the man, the
large monkey gave a big leap and made off
with it. Up the side of the cage he ran like
a squirrel, holding the baby in one arm and
climbing with the other, while fifty more
monkeys, witn lungs like brass tea-kettles,
followed in hot pursuit with the frenzied
mother, all screaming, chattering, or
shrieking to the full extent of their vocal
capacity.
Around and around the kidnaper, who
seemed to be the most agile and fleetest of
foot of the lot, ran, holding his infant
charge secure and protecting it from harm.
Meanwhile the excitement and confusion
appeared, if possible, to increase. Instead
of turning and heading him off, the foolish
animals continued to chase him from tbe
rear, frequently falling over one another
in tboir precipitate rush to recover the
baby.
In this manner they ran around for
several moments. The watchman, be
wildered as well as amused at their capers,
stood by enjoying the funny scene, at a loss
to know what to do. Finally the big old
monkey which had stolen the precious in
fant suddenly turned into the center of the
cage to where the mother sat when he
grabbed it from her arms.
Stopping abruptly he seemed to bid de
fiance to his pursuers, and, while they, evi
dently seized with a fear to approach, col
lected about him in a circle and chattered
os they had done about tbe mother, he held
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1891.
It tenderly to his bosom m one arm and
stroked its little body affectionately with
the other. Thus careasing it for
a moment he handed it back to
its glad mother, and there was joy
throughout the whole family. Asa result
of this incident Lady Jane and nerbahy.
R Mina, were transferred later in the day
by Hea l Keeper Byrue to a special cage,
where there are only three or four other
monkeva. The baby was christened Roema
by an admirer of Rosina Yokes, tne dra
matic star.
FAMOUS DOGS.
The Greeks raised statues to their dogs,
says the Guuiwuu Gazette, Socrates swore
by bis dog, and Alexander the Great
honored his by building a city with mag
nifleent temples, which he dedicated to iu
memory.
Plutarch mentions a sagacious dog that
King Pyrrhus found beside the murdered
body of his master. Afterward it sprang
fiercely upon two of the king’s soldiers, thus
pointing them out as the murderers.
The memory of "the dog of Marathon”
lives with the memory of the Grecian husoes
who fell with it in that famous battle
against the Persian hosts.
A monument was built over the remains
of the dog owned by Xautippus, the father
of Fenoles, Denied admission upon his
master's ship, he swam alongside of it from
Athens to isalamis. and fell dead from ei
haustion at the feet of Xantippus the mo
ment he stepped upon shore.
Homer erected a beautiful memorial to
Argos, the dog owned by Ulysses— not out
of marble, but in fervent verse that is far
more enduring. Wnen Ulyss s, after his
long wanderings, returned to his homo dis
guised as a beggar, his dog, then 20 years
old, blind nud feeble, was tho first to
recognize him.
There was a dog named Soter, so noted
among the Corinthians for his fidelity and
watchfulness, that he was votod a silver
collar, on which was the inscription,
’’Corinth’s Defender and Deliverer.”
Another dog famous in history is ‘the dog
of Aubry,” that lielonged to Do Montdid
dier, a brave officer under Charles V. of
France. He saved his master from drown
ing, and, finding his body some time
afterward in the forest, watched beside it
for days until reduced almost to a skeleton
from hunger. During a game of tennis
Montdiddier had a dispute witn a brother
officer named Macaire, and the latter w iy
laid and murdered him in the forest One
day the dug met Macaire iu the streets of
Paris, and actuated by some rare instinct,
sprang upon him, and would have killed
him had not the people interfered.
Macaire was sucpected of being tho assas
sin, and Charles the Wise ordered the issue
to be decided by a battle between the dog
and Macaire on the Island ot Notre Datne.
The man was allowed a club and a shield,
and the dog a cask to which ho might re
treat wheu hard beset. Tho dog scorned
the place of refuge, and in the second en
counter fastened his teeth in his antagonist’s
throat. Macaire oonfessad his guilt, and
was afterward executed.
THE WATER BEETLE.
Lately I kept for a few days for inspec
tion that very beautiful insect, the water
beetle, says a writer in Science. The speci
men was largo and splendidly colored, gold
bauded and displaying brilliant iris hues on
its legs. I placed it in a glass jar of water.
On the surface of the water some leaves
were laid. Oil one side of the jar, at tho
bottom, was pasted a square of paper, and
to the shelter of this the beetle often retired.
It seemed to take the greatest delight in
darting, swimming and diving, rising from
the bottom of the jar to the top of tho water
by long, vigorous strokes of its hind legs.
Then joining its second pair of legs before
it, like a swimmer’s hands, and stretching
tne hind pair out nearly together, it would
dive to the bottom. It slept hauging head
downward under tho leaves, with the tip of
the body above the water to secure air.
It showed the pleasure of a child in blow
ing bubbles. Rising to the surface, it
would put the tip of its bodv above the
water, part of tbe elytra, and take in air;
then closing its case, it would diva to the
bottom, stand on its head, emit the air bub
ble by bubble until it was exhausted, and
come up for anew supply. It seemed to
peed tho daily renewal of the water in tho
jar. When it was hungry or the water was
not fresh enough it became dull and sulkv
and hid behind the paper. After tho heetfe
fasted twenty-four hours, I laid on the top
of the water a wasp, a mosquito, a blue
bottle flv and a common tly, ail dead. Tho
beetle, boiue at the b >ttom of tho jar, did
not seem to see or smell these insects.
Rising presently he came ut> against the
mosquito, seized the body in its jaivs and
Bucked it dry with one pull. He then found
the blue buttle, carried it down to the shel
ter of the paper, trussed it neatly, cutting
olf the wings, legs and head, and letting
them float to the surface. He thou held tho
body In his hands, or ah .rt front feet,
pressed it to his jaws, and sucked it dry.
After this he rose to the surface, found the
other fly and served it in tho same fashion.
Next he found the wasp, a largo one. Car
rying this below, as he had the flies, lie
clipped off the wings and lpgs, but took the
precaution to stick tho head a .and thorax be
fore turning them adrift. Ho also graspod
the body in his hands, pressed the part that
had been cut from the thorax to his mouth,
and, holding it exactly ns if drinking out of
a bottle, he drained it dry.
I found that he could eat all the time, ex
cept when he was asleep or playing, and his
activity was in proportion to the quantity
of hn food. Cooked meat he would none
of. Raw beef he did not greatly like, but
raw veal he prized even above wasps and
blue bottles I cut an ou ice of raw veal
into dice and drooped it in the bottom of
the jar in a heap. He did not Beem to see
or smell it, but after awhile happened to
dive into it.
He appeared to be full of joy at the dis
covery. One fragment after another he
took in his hands, held it closely to his jaws
and sucked it dry by strong pulls. At each
puil I could mark the recoding red juice of
the meat. When the veal was reducod to a
pale fiber be let it go and took a fresh bit.
He always retired to the shelter of the
paper to eat, with the sole exception af th •
mouthful he made of the mosquito. Like
the King of Dahomey, he would not eat in
public.
THE COON-EATINO-RABBIT THEORY.
Some winters ago I arose one morning to
find the snow had melted all night, says a
Forest and Stream writer, and the first
thing that popped into my head was to go
coou-hunting, and after an early breakfast,
accompanied by a colored man with a good
ax and two good hounds, wa started. We
had no trouble to ftud plenty of tracks of
different animals, and when about a mile
from home we ran across a large coon
track. We had no trouble to follow this
fellow, for he soon left the woods and made
for a thicket; we followed through tins
thicket, about 200 yards wide, and odine to
a clover field. Just at the edge of the
thicket we came upon a rabbit about half
eaten. The impression in the snow was as
plain as could be, ar.d there was no other
track there except those male by the coon
and rabbit.
The rabbit tracks terminated there.
There was no sign of a chase, the coon was
going south and the rabbit came from the
east aud seemed to have run right in the
coon’s mouth, as the coon did not seem to
vary any in his course, nor did he take it to
any spr.ng and wash it. He simply ate
about half of it, and left the remainder
right there and went on across the clover
field. We followed him to somo opin woods
about a quarter of a mile aud went to a
large elm tree. Falling to find any tracks
leading from this tree we proceeded to cut
it down, and as soon as it fell the dogs told
us that our work was not in vain.
He was one of the largest coons I ever
saw, and I was surprised to find him so fat,
this being in March. That the coon killed
and atetae rabbit I nave never had the
slightest|doubt. I cannot say, thougn, that
they mast) a business of it, this coon had no
doubt been m his den for a mouth on ac
count of bad weather, and was hungry. I
wish now I had mode a post-mortem ex
amination of hi ii, but did not think it
necessary.
TUB ALASKA R^VE.V.
The Alaska raven isa fine looking bird, as
large as a turkey, and upon closer acquaint*
anc*e, a real handsome fellow. Hi* coat it
indeed black, but of a black glossier and
rioher than silk and softer than velvet,
while in a semi shade the feathers are
tinged with that peculiar color so . f ten seen
on well-preserved blue-black bronze. It is
very funny to see these birds bolding, as it
were, a conclave. Ten or a dozen alight on
the ground and wa k to the meeting place
with a stately, erect step, their every
movement cool and assured Then
an old bird steps gravely into the
middle, and the meeting begins
with a series of guttural and harsh
croaks, which gradually swell in volume
until the eutire lot of birds have joined in
the debate. Along comes a dog, and for
him they scatter, resuming their positions
when he passes, wheu the meeting again
terminates, and they fly off to the beach
and hills. These birds are seldom killed,
unless it be by some sailor in pure wanton
nass. If you examine the hills of these
ravens the peculiar construction is remark
able. They are a combination of chisel,
scissois, dagger and gimlet. The bill forms
nn important factor in the raTeu's existeooe,
for he has to dig on the beach for clams,
bore the hard shell by repeated chipping,
and again in pure misetdef he will tear an 1
break anything that his bright and unerring
eye lights upon.
A MAGIC PLANT.
Cne of the Strangeat and Most Useful
of Herbs.
From Chambers' Journal.
It is to be douhtel whether any better in
stance could be found of the wealth of tra
dition. legend and story that centers in a
single litttle plant than that which has ac
cumulated round the mandrake. It has a
literature all to itself, and learning seems
to have exhausted itself over its etymology.
The plant itself is so insignificant that it
would not naturally excite any great in
terest. Its leaves are long, sharp-pointed
and hairy, rising immediately from the
ground, and aro of a vivid dark green. Its
flowers are dingy white, stained with
veins of purple, and its fruit of
a pale orange, about the size of a
nutmeg. The root is spindle-shaped,
often di video into two or three forks, and
rudely resembles the human form, from
which possibly it takes its name. But if wo
turn from the plant itself to the monument
of learning that has been erected around it,
it is impossible not to bo struck with the
universal interest it has ixjssesse 1 for all
people and in all ages. We do not know
how many Shakespearean commentators
have puzzled over tho allusion in Juliet’s
soliloquy:
Aud shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the
eai*th.
That living mortals hearing them run mad;
And contrasted it with the parnllel apos
trophe of Suffolk in “King Henry V 1.,”
who, asked by (Jimen Margaret whether ho
hns not spirit to curse his enemies, replies:
Would curses kill, as doth tho mandrake s
groan,
I would invent as bitter searching terms.
As curst, as harsh, as horrible to hear.
As the legend runs, in order to procure
the magic plant it was necessary to cut
away all the suckers to the main rootjbefore
pulling it up, which would cause death to
any man or creature who heard tho human
screams it made. They hod an Ingenious,
if cowardly, way of getting over the ditH
culty, which wosild certainly not commend
itself nowadays to the Bociety for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals. After
carefully stopping their ears, they took a
dog uiul tied its tail securely to the plant,
arid then walking away to a short distance
called tho dog to follow. In doing this
tho luckless animal would pull up
tho much-coveted root, but would
fall dead upon the spot. This’was, at any
rate, according to Josephus, the old Jewish
practice; but the tradition at least long sur
vived. Whatever may be tho origin for the
theory that the root shrieked or groaned
when separated from the earth, it certainly
rornained a current tradition long afler
Hhnko-jieare immortalized it. Since, how
ever, the root is named from its imaginary
resemblance to the human figure, it is not
unnatural to suppose that it may have bean
credited with poisessing gome of the attri
butes of human feeling. Langhorne, in the
latter part of the eighteenth century, tells
us to
Mark how that rooted mandrake wears
His human feet, his human hands.
Among its names in this connection ara
those of the “Devil’s Food”and the “Devils’
Apple,” the “Ttiphach el Bheitan” of the
Arabs. That this uncanny bolief continued
down to almost modern times is shown by
an anecdote for whioh Madamo du JJoyer is
responsible. According to this, on the
murder of tho Marechal do Fabert in 1503,
which was popularly attributed to his
having broken a compact wit.i the devil,
two mandrakes of extraordinary beauty
were found by his friends in his
rooms, and these were regarded
a3 conclusive proof of thr diabolical
league, of which they failed to find, as they
hoped, any written record. It has always
boen in great vogue in the east, both Jews
and Arabs having from time immemorial
also valued It for the magio values which
were so long commonly attached to a love
philter. This attribute, which dates at least
from the Old Testament times, remained
current in Italy until the middle ugas, for
there are plenty of records showing that
there was a brisk demand for the root
among the Italian ladies. Perhaps
the most extraordinary of the prop
erties attributed to it aral those which it
shared in common with the Rastrivtrava of
Russia, of enabling house-breakers to pick
locks, which is certainly one of the most
amusing developments of the solar theory.
“Love,” it is said, “laughs at locksmiths;”
but the connection between the mandrake
and * ’burgling” seems a little forced. There
is a tradition that the moonwort will un
shoe horsos if they step udod the plant, and
similar powers have been attributed to tho
vervain and the mandrake.
The Lost Found.
fVom the Cloak Review.
I bung on one strap and she hung on the next,
For seats were a scarcity there.
The car rattled on the usual way
With me and this maiden fair,
Tnis maid with the dignified air.
When all on a Hidden there came a dull sound,
And something had dropped—that I know;
I stooped down politely and picked the thing up;
Pray tell me what else could 1 do?
” What else could I possibly do?
I handed it back to the dignified maid.
And great was my longing to fly.
But what could i do? So 1 bowed and I smiled,
“Is this, miss, your g g garter?' said I.
“This must be your garter," said 1.
She took it, but never again in this life,
Although I should linger to b,
A hundred or more, shall I ever forget
The look that this girl fixed on me,
The look that she fastened on me.
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