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ANCIENT AIERICA. .to aRay Been £at4 -o b..M Mba ~MAa tea s Wme Ius amI a rte se by a Cesesll in a volae entitled "The Lost At atiS." by thelat Sir Daniel Wilson, ape-est o the Unsiverty of *rToronto, S teresting study is made of the lgwb lch suggest that Americ ' aie maets. In two of at'. dilogees, the Thaae. .end t s, It S related that Solo, the great Athena lawgiver, drin a vhts e aads toslas, n Egypt, s ttyor hadred yer ago was in edby the priess f tihe former iaV wast of the steait of Gibral twr, of as islad continent n the At th es, sayse the Baltimore Sun. This eastineat, Atlantis, the maes of • poew, empir, acordl to the Mary, was eagulfed I the sea by some eavnb stera , with the result, Scorse, of destroying its hundreds of eltes and millions of inhabitants. Al way in Solon's time the destrution of Atlatls was described as a remote 'eant, "white with age." Has this legend a bho of fact? It 'madt be accepted a whole, it ap pears, becae the Atlantie, in the opin et geologits., has been substantial what it is for many millions of years show e s evidences of leal up hesvls, but nome of the submergence of enatemee continental areas. Sir Dan Il aseodiarsy feels compelled to reject the daking of Atlantis as a detail of lhe story invented to account for the enemtios ed itercourse with it The body of satory he is dsposed to a eept Atlantis was America, which con tinent the earlier Egyptians had discov eedrdurlng their period of adventurous maritime enterprise. There are many oevfiaes of Egyptian mi tioa ernnd the Mediterranean ore the Traba war. Their ships sailed the At •Itio, vimtlg Eagland for tin and ex b the cost of Africa toward and the equator In search of gold. Their esaels aight readily have been arrird westward by ocean currents to brail and Central America. In the year bS ci our era Pedro Alvares de COhral, theLPortuguese admiral, while ailing southward along the west coa o AfriA, was arried by the equatorial nurreat so far out of his course that he uaar y discovered Brazil. What bas the Portuguese admiral in 150 night readily, Sir DanIel thinks, have befaena Egyptia admirals thousands ef ears before. Egypt when first re veald to rta history was already far gene in itsdac Its people bad lost the spilirº.iebnpelled them to their frst diLgi ss and to their acquisition Sthe rseserAif not the irst of the Sir Dail aeQms that the mangat maitim eames of the Orient frequently masde ~ a oat ito t the Atlantic. In the relgn of Pharaoh-Necho, l11 as 3. C., oitertbe decline of Egyptian weritime enterprie. a Phoenician fleet w#s employed to ciru nrinavigate Africa. flianot' the Carthagiuian, is msaid to have reacaed tuh I n. la ocean by the routo aruitd the cape, as Vaseco de Gains dldatr, in 1497. Enterprise has its pulaaticri-Its periods of expansion and oontrmtion. 'here are, it is seen, Indications tht the discovery of Ame .ica was wMlal the reach of the Egyp tisan at the period to which the storyef Atlantis refers, When the Egyptians ceased to rove the mse Atlatl was lost to view at Sae " .be ema dim legend. Evldeaces a . a- Inteoursem with tare to be a e. cordng to the author, among . nrtred i"es of Central America . cvi enses may yet be forthcomiag. ',t c wowud not," he ss "in any degree aurprise me to tear of the disoo.ery of a egnuine Phoepician or other irerti . ua ar me board of Aesyrlan gry .;. us wr shekels of the merchant lpa . asof Tyre, 'that had knowledge of ,e ss: teing recovered among the atill nexnpored treaures of thb ubrl S.... Motesumam or the logde. -. -..f Cetrdal America Sak ,..-. ryjwoe ad r ybeomor_ k swo ,priasiag au that of the Paue hoards sad at Core, the motwesterlyisland of the Azuea Yet It wuald farnisheb subtaatlal hs for the legeld of Adb atis Thee is nothing ImprebbIe I the idea that i rests on some historle os!s tn whikd the fall of an Ibera or .th.v *Fgesel power tn the westerns !editerrasesn has mingld with other nd equally vague taditions of nter" -ouie with a vast onatient lyg be tyed the pillar of Heeles." The Sqseulatoa is a attraetive one ad adda tmeras to the stuy of the atl-qa N 00DD POPFESSION. ltw woeses shoppers In their rush ageIganes stop to think of the sam a tU lngs that are lost by tha g of bargain hunters every . ty h g andpullingat eachothe ma egde is their attempts to get ner a g- bargain, the uanothed 'gggg e a headkerchIef, pocket. Saekevk w b am mmonocrreaoe as , g -ja1he Sew Yor1loTrk World. , laa aro a big astore on Sxth 'i L Mege isa seplar eompany gg do nothing else but p. ofe a looleat for art s4 ee that by thopper 4.: .. .. % e t ooemwalh.add. as thejuak a lawdaa oed u mon asding wtthyr met a mir a a gmues Ub AN ENGLISH JUNL Ti uhts oe as lra mammer aem., Mgs Is comsbrgs. In. reseont paper in the Atlantic on the English Cambridge, Albert Gillette Hyde gives this plasnt picture of a June evening there: "Indeed, it is hard to imagine a sight more interesting in its kind than that whio the winding. narrow thorough fares of this ancient academic city pre sent ona fine evening in June, partieu larly on Saturdays, the Cambridge market day. "A continuous stream of townsmen, gownemen and sturdy country folk, with the usual proportion of womnan kind, passes and repeases with quick, echoing tread, many of them walking In the middle of the clean asphalt streets The shops are lighted up bail liantly, as in most provincial towns, though twilight at this season last nearly all night. In either of the main arteries of travel-Trumpington street, with its clear rivalets fowing at either curb, which becomes King's parade, Trinity street and St John's before uniting with the other, Regent street, St Aadrews, 8idney street, ete.-end in the narrow crossway, the Petty Cary, one meets this tide at the full. "The undergraduate is necessarily Seespieuous, walking alone, or two and two, or three or four abreast, the toga virlls lightly depending from his shoulders, sometimes in the last stage of dilapidatlon, and streaming from his person in tags and ribbons. Mostly he is slight, good looking, youthful and beardless, or perhaps with an inciplent mustache; seldom very ruddy, but at the worst of a healthy paleness. "Naturally it is among the lightly clad groups striding in from the boats or the cricket fields that one sees the best specimens of physique. These, n deed, are often admirable, though hard ly so striking in appearance as is com monly supposed; yet if anyone doubts the virility of these young Englishmen a short walk or row with one of them will quickly convince him of his error. 'One very pleasant feature of the streets is the decorum usually prevail ing among the students, In former times (and in some quarters of the world even now) an unruly and turbu lent element of the community. They walk together, conversing almost in sudibly in the dulcet 'Cambridge tone,' which 'men' from all parts of the is land are said to contract soon after coming up, "Singlng, load talking, or shouting among them is rarely heard out of doors, though sounds of a mildly Bea chanalian type sometimes issue from college or lodging-house windows. This creditable street behavlor is doubt less due to 'Cambridge tone' as much as to vigilant proctorizing; yet even in the cricket field and amoqg the boating cr (except the musical 'Well rowed!' at the races) the undergraduate is rare ly vociferous The English still take their sports 'sadly,' and silently." ALMANACS IN RUSSIA. Thu Hsy a Prosssest Tart Io tbm Dsna Las of te People. "What a prominent part the almanse plays in Russian household! And such almanacs! There is a recipe for dinner for every day in the year; there are in fallible cures for burns and toething and convulsions, for toothache, corns and bald heads. You are told all about the imperial family, and there are por traits of its members-vile earicatures surely. 'The eount gravely consulted its vAtcdnatlons in his colloquy with the steward to learn when the weather would best suit for sowing mangel," says a writer in the Christian World. "I saw the countess hunting in it for san lterpretation of a dream she had. Beyond the almanac no one ever reads anything. I exclude, of course, the young count and his tutor. "There are, however, a few books in the house. In the drawing or sitting room, one of the few artieles of furni ture there is an old-fashioned book case, from which the glass has long slnce vanished. I had the curiosity to examine its contents. There wen te bouad volames of an millustted weekly paper, a few old-fauhioned books on ag culture, two volumes of NekrasOs ptoral poems., a siumber of ineomplete works of French belles lettres of Vol taire's time, a Rsian traslation of ott's 'Keallworth,' much bethumbed and greasny. This was all olden-time sat, ad represented the taste ad some bygone sanestor of the cont "I looked for anytthing that might denote the taste of the riing genuer tolam, and omd in a eorner a Rusan version of 'Robinaon CAsoe,' sad a well-hibdden novel of Zola's Do I these latter books signify the beginning of a uissauce in the house of Borlsof To whom did the Zola belong? To the acoumtema, I suspet We had a pleasant mevening in the drawing-room-the only e-omfortable room in the house. There were a few eay hairs, a capaeious sofa, a grand piano and lots of can Sbottomed chars. Over the aofa hung a portrait of the emperor- opposite the emperor a peire of the count when he was a gay dog in the guards. But there was hardly areig of female occupacy me Was Nee a Kestes "I don't mind your dlaughtis pra. t-lngten hours a day in the next fat," said the tenant in the apartment house,. m"even if she does keep the pumiano cover p and the forte pedaldown. But I nwbld like faintly to suggest that three thbaun ds huendred and t hours a year of Chopin's second noau n s, made a slight chae see m desirable. WoRald you mind ask~lg her to play the third or fourth soeturne on Tuadays ad Prldays. so that my wife can have a diferent kind of headache by way of e5sha sse Is O chs. Thseaw tweokins ciesrkdtyehsrs in the liewerykugdosa (he is In tnmsess, u br s the other ir l ee 3mbu am pinmns tst In the ' the p-ldror abm tso e to _ t hesmsL per ee rman emadm THE BOWER BIRD. SOs et the Qeer ssses o AsembraMi Ferests. s The most remarkable instance of a estheticism among the birds is that a exhibited by the Australian bower birds, who build long galleries in t which to play, adorning them with t shells, feathers, leaves, bones or any - colored or glittering object which comes in their way. Capt. Stokes de scribes one of these bower birds as a taking a shell alternately from each side of the bower and carrying it through in its beak. Lumhols describes several of these playhouses of the bower birds. He rays they are always to be found "in Samall brushwood, never in the open Sfield; and in their immediate vicinity the birds collect a mass of different kinds of objects, especially snail shells, a which are laid in two heaps, one at a each entrance-the one being much larger than the other. There are fre r quently hundreds of shells, about three I hundred in one heap and thirty in the i other. There is usually a handful of green berries, partly inside and partly I outside the bower." In his interesting book, "Among Cannibals," Lumholz describes a play. r ground of what would appear to be a I different species of the bird, showing a even a greater esthetic taste. He says: ' "On the top of the mountain I heard a in the dense scrubs the load and n-. Scesasing voice of a bird. I carefully ap a prosched it, sat on the ground and I shot it. It was one of the bower birds, t with a gray and very modest plumage t and of the size of a thrush. As I picked up the bird my attention was y drawn to a fresh covering of green Sleaves on the blaer soil This was the a bird's place of amusement, which, be. neath the dense screbs, formed a Ssquare a yard each way, the ground - having been cleared of leaves and rub. s bish. a "On this neatly-cleared spot the bird a bad laid large. fresh leaves, one by the side of the other, with considerable a regularity, and close by he sat singing, apparently extremely happy over his r work. As soon as the leaves deesy a they are replaced by new ones." THE INDIAN'S SUGAR. nw ItU Wa- aEtrt.a ftrm the Trues t Verna. Ever sinee the Indians in the section r noew known as Fletcher discovered "honey" in the maple trees, that die' trict has been known far and wide as the heart of the Vermont maple sugar eountry. The way the red man ex' I tracted the delicious compound was somewhat slow as compared with the present process. He used to cut a Salanting gash in the bark and insert i the lower end a gauge-shaped piece oi r wood, from which the sap ran and dropped into a poplar or basswood trough. At the end of the season these Stroughs would be set up against the trees and left until the following sea son, by which time the troughs would be thoroughly mildewed. This ma terially added to the flavor of the ahb origiL1 sugar. but can hardly be said s to have improved it. The evaporator of those times consisted of an iron ket r tle swung from a sapling bent over a stump. lty a slow and tedious process the sap was first heated and then iboiled in this kettle. often taking two or three days' boiling before it could be sugared off. This was the way in which the redskins and the early Yers mottors eked out a "sweetnin'" is their tea and johnny cake. In the best Fletcher groves of today r along pipe or trough line runs from some central spot in the grove down to the big storage tanks in the sugar house. Here the perfected evaporator, when under full headway, will convert the first sap into sirup in half an hour, consuming about one cord of wood to produce a hundred pounds of sugar. There are in the town of Fletcher, at a moderate estimate, thirty thousand trees, this being probably within the real number. A Doeeptlve Name. SA Philadelphian and his wife werse dropped one hot summer day at the tiny post village of Mount Pleasant, on the Delaware railroad, and as they gazed over a fiat country, whose differ enoes of level are scarcely perceptible esve by the aid of a surveyor's instru ment, a native asked them what they were looking for. Then the Philadel phian explained that the name of the ·place had called up such visions of an airy eminence that he and his wife had some down to spend their vacation. They learned from the native that summer board was not obtainable there, and he obligingly explained that the place received its deceptive Lname in commemoration of the faet that it was situated on the watershed between Delaware and Chesapeake bays, the backbone of the peninuila, as it is locally called. rem/teom lt .ae Times. SThe Smithson!an institution haa Sprinted a paper by Dr. J. F. Sm~yder de Sscribing an urn oontaining incmerated Shuman bones which was dug out of an Sancient mound in G;eorgia. The urn, Sor vase, is nearly conical, eleven and a half inches high, and was covered by inverted bcll-A~ipd vessel fifteen sad tlare-four:hs inches in height The ashes nearly half filled the vase, and mingled with them were caloined Lying on the surface of these remains were a quantity of wampum and sev eral smal pearls that had been pieced for stringing. Amesuiteefr ereses. Tobseeo was noted by Colnabes - his very rst voyage. It was frst cal tirated by John Bolfe in 161, and as iearly as 161 a lot of 90,00S pounds was shipped to England. In 1I a tobeeso fctry was started on the Rappha meek river, sad about r1W the irst sourth of the James river was built in Meeklsnbrge ooarty. In 1745 the ex ports fo Virgainia amoanted to 9,C41 h-gaheada of abaet 1,000 ponds eseu, sad increasd till1, after whieb thee was a deeise until afLter theo veratin It is now grown n hmoS ed the soeathm etss with (p heLgAr RUNNING 'TO TITLU. of A elmoa Are Getting Too Poad at of Handlme to Their Names. er in linary o.eTls who avem Nevr P. th ieme" Ay 2ild sevte- - en dy the -Abmrdlteo ofe aY ch lee Pmaetse Ile- n no place perhaps is the Inelination as to ax titles to the names of publi :h men more prominent than in Washing ton, where the fields of American life have unrivaled opportunities for deel e opment. Thestock of generals, colonels, 3e majors or judges who never saw service in lnthe field or forum but who are not at e all unfamiliar with practice at the bar ty of one sort or another, is unlimited, and at sometimes leads to confusion, amusing ls, or annoying as the case may be. In t most states, if not in all, it is custom ary for the governor to surround him self with a military staff ranging from " general to captain. This is a custom e handed down from colonial days, when of the governor of a colony had his coun 7 cif, the members of which in thsmilita, ry organizations of the colony were co. y manders of the forces in their respect. y' ive counties, with the title of coloneL " As militaryism declined It was perfectly Snatural for the advisors of the governor to inherit the military title, as a dis d tinction from the mass of men who were s not thus honored with eclose friendship wP ith the executive. Later, under state °d governments, the governor's staff be came quite a feature in the life of poll Stiers. Many a worker for the success of I the ticket has been appeased by appoint. s meat to a place on the governor's staff, en and has gone down to posterity with all he the glamor of a military title surround. ing him. It is not necessary for any staff officer, with perhaps the exception of the adjutant general, to have a par tiele of knowledge of military affairs beyond adeptness in making a saluteor rd acknowledging one. But quite fre quently he has not even that. At the Washington centennial in New York a C few years ago the streets were full of brilliantly attired staff officers, and the S7 Washington I'ost thinks that the men on guard duty who brought their guas to present arms whenever a ranking of ficer hove In sight must havebeen high ` ly amused at the questioning glanee given them by more than one of the a carpet knights as they walked or rode ed past without acknowledging the salute. I As governors are frequently changed, m ay every four years, in forty-four a states, the possibilities in the way of *I the manufacture of colonels and gen es erals are readily appreciated. Giving he each governor twenty staff ofeicers and 5" aids--a modest estimte--in twenty in years there would have been nearly five of thousand of such distinguished individ id pals. and when to these are added those who bear the titles because their fathers. once had them, the number is expanded le much more. The constitution of the `- staff, too, allows of an interchange of id titles. The j:uge advocate general, ranking as colonel, for instance, may be 'b called with prop-iety judge, colonel or id general, and so on through this list.. tr Other causes, however, contribute to . the list of titles. In a neigboring city a gentleman connected with the editorial I staff of a new sp.per had the distinction a- to quit the army at the close of the war o as a private. but under the luxuriating id influence of newt:paper work he ac an quired a portly frarme, developed his . ood comrmesh:p and gathered a col leetion of ane,:dotes and wittidisms which always mrude him a welcome ad s7 dition to any party out for fun. In an m evil hour one of his younger associateq - called him colonel, and colonel he has s been ever since. , Not lon ao, oin a southern city, was I raised a monument to a confederate Sleader. One of the newspapers pub. U lished quite an attractive souvenir, which, by request, was sent to a Massa a chusetts town for presentation to a id grand army post. Along with the son venir went a letter of the shake-hands across-the-bloody-chasm order from the editor. The presentation took place a and the local papers had quite an ac 4 count of the event, including a repro it duction of the "patriotle letter" from sy the southern editor, who was called . "'en." So-and-so. As he had just i turned thirty years the editor enjoyed a the joke on himself. In another city a y popular railroad oficial was never ,l- alled anything but general byone who W wis fre .uently thrown with him. As a the cficial was quits a young man, d whose military record had never bees a made. his fri;! was asked one day why at he gave him a title and replied: "Why, Le don't you know he is a general passea. id ger agent?" These are but few of the e absurdities outcropping from the insamme Et practice against which signs of protei d are becoming apparent. , CRESTb AND THEIR ORIGIN. They Wets Ised 7.r Dash Ia Astlest TLwme-Sime of ti~ Mere NetabSe. . Crests uarseribed to the Carss ad e they are of very ancient origin. They -d are mentioned by Homer and Virgil n ead described as in use among the n, heathen gods and goddesses. Thus the erest to Minerva's helmet was an owL My uars bore a lion or tiger and Jupiter m Ammon a ram's head. Thems symbols L were formerly placed on the helmet , and were great marks of honor, only wd #orn by heroes of great valor or by a those who were advanced to some e. a perior military command. Richard L v. had acrest on his helmet resembling a , plume of feathers; Bichard IL wore a lion n a cap of dignity above the crown on his helmet; Alexander IIL, of ootland, had a plume of feathers, aad James I. wore a lion. In the fifteentb and sixteenth centaries, according Sthe Brooklyn Eagle, the erest was Sscribed as being a figure placed upon a wresth, coronet or esp of maaintename above the helmet or sheld. A erat awa aniently woan a the h aded ammande in the Seld. and them oaly Sin orer to distingLsh them fr their olUowes After the instittiam of the der eo the gster, mdi itatim el nUwad m. all ka igh eeeam had Sti mdr.bhag to wemr mus Tei I 1*%- 1illi--kn1 DOINGS OF A VOODOO~ Awegne enses ls Lea Sw.a. Is.esr s Pameu Saged negrs of great repute as a "voodoo," on witch doetres, among the negroes of this section, Is attracting much attention, not only from thor of her own color, but from the more in telligent portion of the community, sad the way in which she does this is to ap parently swallow a number of small makes of a variety' unknown i this section. They are of the dusky color nearly black, oied with a dull green at the Sat head, and of a. dirty white in the belly, says a Louisiana correspon dent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. These reptiles remain secreted about old Nanee's cabin until she gives a pe uellar whistling esll, when they will come to her, wriggling in great baste over the floor, up her dress, and run into her open mouth, hissing hideously. They disappear and remain hidden sometimes for minutes. 8bhe asserts that they are concealed in her stomahe until she recalls them, when they will come pouring out to writhe about her scraggy neck and coil in her bosom. Where the snakes really go when they vanish in her mouth is a mystery, and has puzzled all the physicians about, many having come from New Orleans to witness the phenomenon. Some really believe that the snakes do go down into the stomach, while others are convinced that the witch is simply playing some sleight-of-hand trick on them; but if the latter is the case it is so cleverly done that there is no detest ing the performance. The witch presents a most extra dinary and hideous appearance sitting with the snakes darting their Sat heads in and out of her toothless mouth, with their little bead-like eyes snapping as it in fury at all about their mistress. As nearly as ean be counted there am six or seven of these reptiles, though old Nance says there are as many more, but they are all so much of a sl sand color that they cannot be identified. They are probably of a harmless aa tare, though old Nance declares they are highly poisonous and no one wishes to experiment with them. ODD WAYS OF OSTRICHES. Tae Mares Dreeo over the Teasf ea Capsre eath Others ammals The ostrish has many strange ways, and I was particularly interested in stadying them, says a writer in Forest and Stream. They go in Socks of three or four females and one male about their nesting time, and oar several weeks before locating their nests the hens drop their eggs all about the pam pas. These are called haseho eggs (pronounced "watcho"), and are much more delicate in Savor than the eggs taken from the nests. They have a thinner shell, and when fresh laid are of a beautiful golden color. We cooked them by routing them before the fre. We would first break a hole in the small end of the egg, large enough to insert a tefspoon. The egg would be set up among some hot ashes. a pinch of salt and pepper put in to it, and the contents kept stirred with a stick so that all would be done alike. The Savor is excellent, and one egg would satisfy a very hungry man. As soon as the ostriches decide uppa a suitable place for a nest, the male bird scratches away the grass and slightly hollows out the ground for a space of about three feet in diameter. All the hens of the lock lay in the same nest until there are from twenty five to thirty-five eggs laid. The male birds then take possession and sit on the eggs until they are hatched. As soon as the flock can leave the nest, the old fellow leads them away to feed on Ries and small insects. and every thing is lovely until he espies another male bird with a brood. As soon as the old birds se each other they make a peculiar booming jsound, and every little ostrich disap. pears in the grass The old ones then approach each other and engage in a most deadly conflict. They fight until Sone or the other is killed or aun awy. Tbhe remaining one will the autter ai ,other pecullar soad, and bothbmerods wI il spring up from their hidir places and follow the victor, who strts of as I proud as peacock. I have seen old Smale ostriches with three broods, eeh of a different sie, two of which they hod eaptuare av r Astusle ser osh. Close observers have motieed that ies will gather upon a bhalf-drune, sleepy ot, while a dosem sobea ma i the same room are not molested by them. The iies will buss arad their ubjeet with great delight, frequentl ua ach the loolic nectar laul from his pore After awhile their fight becomes uamertaln and eccentris ad ometime c theyome In ceollision. Recently a drunken man raised I had and brushed them from his as. r some fel to the foor and ay there pa I alysed. After awhile they got on thei Sfeet and wearily flew of. half daed. I Many salimals yYield to the sedauetic of ram drinking, especially elephat~, rhorses, cows ad swine. Poultry, em I peelally tarkeys, will nabo the temp Sing drink till they tumble over In a leaden sleep. lying around as if dead ad utterly ignoring their accustomed Srosts. On awaking they stager for a few moments ad amnoa recover, but it s I hours before they renew their chearfl Two things may look very similar en the surface, but be entirely anlike atI Sbottom, . nthis cease reported by the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche: SThe landlady of a boeuding bhm I m this city had san elghtyearold -o who I is remarkably preecelous. Net le I -hew at upto towa adhed his hea I wed Amo the boaders is a g r timrna wbhose hair long ago bhde hi arewell This gelemea ese to th I tsle the nest day, ad ed: "why, Charleyb, ym hqee a n Serw th- I hoe." S"Ye sir, esid mo , m m a THE -.:-TENBAS GAZE3ITE A weekly newspaper pub, It u lished at SST. JOSEPH, LA.. THE r OTIAL JOURIAL IS S-OF THE p. L I PlI1RISH - OF rt A I DVSRIS Ithis 1,5e13 I - oard of hool DIe'tors - -AID OF THhnd - oista aI I. the parish, it is an excllen as :th DEsrttIi. AdiiI IIIt