SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. “*;si.rrJ3a ALilNTT^rdTroTYr^ g r! ii:s* ••* *'3o c, r >iM •: *0 aiark 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 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. Tybee is a delightful place to spend a pleasant afternoon. Make up a party, go down and get an oyster roast. — Ad. Every Lady Wants One Of those “ ” Pins, and Sternberg’s sup ply ot them is being rapidly depleted.— Ad. Just Received At Apple & Schaul’s handsome new store, 159 Broughton street, the following novel ties; White and Black Crepe de Chine, Four in Hand, Teck and Windsor Ties. The new shades in Blended) Lawn Puff Ties. The celebrated White P. K. Four in Hand, washable and guaranteed to keep its shape. The latest in Plain and Fancy Band Bows. Plain and Fanoy Puff Bosom Shirts. 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The reason is simple, as it is a powerful combination of the roots and herbs of tbe home wooJs. —Ad Artists’ Materials, all kinds, atlL T. Tay. lo’r 135 York street.—Ad. 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. ■ . ""'i I, CHIMNEYS. Tough and brittle glass are not so far apart as black and white; but they are far enough apart to make it worth while to distinguish between them. We have not succeeded yet in making glass griddles or tea-kettles tough enough to put on the stove; but we have succeeded in making glass lamp-chimneys tough enough to bear a melting flame without breaking. 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