FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
THE SENTINEL.
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aou‘rn sunwuar. scan. s
.
Micmseo an are said to have been in-
vented by .anscn in Holland about. 1590.
; Bearing coats—of—arms was introduced
and became hereditary in England and
France about 1192.
The town of Denbigh. England. will
cclebtute the Queen‘s jubilee by opening
a new graveyard. .
An experiment has developed the fact
that a snail can lift la-rimndicularly. nine
times its own Weight. .
Cock—fighting is the national pastime
in Mexico. but ass rulcit is onl in~
tiulged in on Sundays and feasts of obli-
gation. '
The term “blue stocking.“ applied to
t'terary ladies. was originally conferred
wt a sol-icty comprising both sexes in
1760. Benjamin Stillingficct, the natural-
i~‘.. \\ ho was a prominent mcmber of this
s tii~2y.'worc blue stockings; hcncc the
t; lute. ’
The name “Cradle of Liberty.“ as
applied to Fancnil Hall. was used byl
James Utis in his tiuiicatory spccoh. l
376 l. after the building had been rccon- .
structed. and subsequent. associations
Lilm‘tl this term to the dignity of a :
t-x‘vlllllt‘t‘y. i ‘
Harrison tliiiu-rt.of t‘liicago.-Ill.. hasa ;
\tut-rziltlc borsc. Horse and Inuit \vcnt-
ail HirouglLtho \var without receiving a
.. ratch. The animal is now in ltis tit‘tieth
war. and is lt‘mlt‘l‘l)‘ tart-d for. living on .
\ orn broad and bran tnasli. "t‘ has not
In loolli in his lll‘iltl.
A (‘omtnittcc was appointcd by For»
grcss to rcport a dcvicc for a national seal
in lfiti. Several _\\‘t‘l‘t‘ rcportgtl. but all
\urc unsatisfactory. ttntil liS'.’ a device
was stiggv-stcd through John Adams. our
\linislcrto England. by Sir John Prest-
\\ick. an English antiquary. upon which 7
the present seal was based. '
The word assassin. as applied ‘to a
murderer. comes frotn the .-\ssassininns. a
branch of fanatical Maliomctuns that set- ‘
tied in Persia in mam. They trained up
young people to murder such people as
tbcirchief had marked for destruction.
'l‘hcy were extirptucd in Persia about
11358. and in Syria about 1“”
‘1‘.
*—
Motley and Bismarck. .
Motley. tltc Amt-tit an historian. while
at the university of Gottingcu. made the
acquaintance of a student who is now
knowtias “the man of blood and iron.“
Bismarck and he became fricnds. and the
friendship lthlt‘tl until Motlcy‘s tit-nth.
The two studt-nts wcrc Ulll‘t‘ arrosted and
lodged in the guani—hon‘c. for singing
too loudly in the strccts of llcrliu one
night. as they \vcrc returning from a stu~
dent‘s festival. In Mr. \Vhipple‘scssay
on Motley. the following anecdote is
told:
While. )Iotlcy was American Minister
at the Austrian t‘ourt, Bismarck visited
Vienna to settle terms of peace with the
Emperor who had been l‘russia‘s ally in
the war against Dcnmark. Arriving too
late to go to the otlicc of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, he drove to 'Motley‘s
house. and found the «\mcrican Minister
just rising from a family dinner. The
old fricntla Vtoiucd bands; frcsli viandi
wcrc brought in from the kitchcn. and
the old collegiana chatted tncrrily over
tltelr atndcntqlifc. i
It washing after midnight when Ilia-
xnnrck. departed. unconscious of or in-
tliil'crcnt totho fact that the. btnin of
«very foreign ambassador at Vienna had
been wondering at this incident for hours.
What mcant this .tnystcrions visit to the
American .‘llinistcrt Was there to beam
alliance between Prussia and the United
States? Telegnuus flew to London. Paris, .
Turiii’and St. Pctcrsburg. ' Diplomatiau »
taxcd their ingenuity to discovef‘whnt
the long visit meant. ,
(‘harlcs Stunncr, as (‘hairtnan of the,
Senate (‘ommittco on Foreign Relations. 3 -
received privntc letters from cmincnt pcr~ ;
sons abroad. nervously asking what the
interview signified. Has the United
States, they asked, dotcrtnitmi to depart
front nonintcrfcrence in European af~
fairs. as recommended by the immortal
Washington?
Mr. Sumncr. knowing thc intimacy be~
tween Motley and Bismarck. smiled, and
vcnrs after. the two gentlemen laughed
heartily at the one humorous incident in
American diplomacy which disturbed th.
peace of Europe fortwo days.
__. .Owwwfl
The Coughing Habit.
Coughing is often under control of the
will and the result. of habit. There are
- many people who consume a small portion
of a life-time .in ttnnmcssary coughing.
' At first. a little’irrititiou is felt. a cough
is set up. and habit keeps it. going until
the irritation “provoked pmduccs a real
and serious disease. Tim-ugh force of
sympathy coughing often becomes con-
tagious. This can be well illustrated in
a Ichoolroom on restless boys and girls,
on'a cold winter‘s day. Let one child
let tltc ball rolling. when the teacher ud- ‘
teases the school wanother child takes up
the musical note.thcn another. and still an-
other.until the maoher‘s voice isaspower-
less as if he wcro in adin of artillerye The ‘
teacher brings the ruler to the desk, and
commands this noise to stop. Then for
an instant an eloquent silence prevails.
In church we may somethncs observe the ‘
same thingmwhen sortie old lady. who
has had a pot cough for years," sets up a
con hing strain. which is soon followed,
asi in thorns, by many other members.
The poor preacher then wages an unequal $
contest and may as Well stop preaching.
These facts should be am le-evidcnce.
that coughing is an act on er control of -
the will .in very many cases. In such
cases a little application of “mind cure"
can be made effective. The family
physician can often cure chronic coughs
not by a prescription but a sim le com~
mand to stop them—Hark]: an Hm -_
The Lightning and the Coils.
During the terrible volcanic eruptions
which’took place in New Zealand in 1886
many strange things happened. In a
small way what. occurred to a half sov-
ereign and four half—crowns was as cu-
rious as any of the greater results. These
five cmns lay peacefully in a cash box,
the liuif-sovctcign being placed on the
topof the half—crowns. Next came the
storm. in the midst of which the house
with the cash box was Struck by light—
ning and destroyed. After the ruins had
been dug up. the box was found turd
opened. It was then seen that the come
Ind been fused together, and. though
the face of the half-sovereign was not
W.-the gold seemed to have been
driven through the middle of eachof the
halfa-rowns, for the center of each coin
“lathe size of a shilling was colored as if
by gold. . _ c
w.“
A tretnendous trap of pencber blocked
for this roar. ’ .
. that morning.
. posing Bony to the law.
A gPRING SONG.
O uranium. have you made the world all
golden
With wondmm.~ magic art.
01' can it be this light, so new yet olden,
Thatfloods my happy heart!
I cannot tell: I only know to—day
mo ufiimsm C58 SIIIISEIIIB fill [lid way.
0 apple blomoms, all the branches pluniiug
With feathery sprays of white,
A. precious flower for me alone is blooming:
It opens to the lights. »
And is it you, with petals falling fleet,
Or is it this, that makes the world so sweet?
0 joyous birds; I think I hear yott singing
A glad. exultant la)‘:
And yet: the song that. in my heart is ringing
Outsings your voice to-dny.
You cannot learn that song. dear little binis:
“He lovns tn a: loves me. loves me.“ are the
words. 0 '
—Bcs\vfe Chanda-r, in Lippinrott.
My Resurrection Prank.
BY GEO. II. TAYLOR.
I was sitting in my otiice at the close ,
of a warm summer day in a depressed
state of mind. ot‘t'asiottcd partly by the;
oppressive weather and partly by my pro- 3
,fessiottal prospects. or rather. want. of:
. prospects.
Having sown my wild oats
and obtaittcd a medical diploma. I had
' Iettlcd down in the little country town of
It wasl
very hard to leave the activities of the:
city and the prankbh lifcof a studcnt for
the quiet of a rural community and the.
\V~—-~— to work up a practicc.
scda‘vmss I‘l‘lulsllt' fut illllll‘t'sslllg thc
rural mind with the bv if“: that all tncdb
cal skill was locked up in thc parti. ular
knowlcilgc box tallied on my shoulders,
But the little Town of: \‘.' A“. or that
particular section of it in which I had
E opened an otlicc. sccntcd to my friends.
and. thcrcfnrc, to inc, thc only spot on
earth not alrcady liTt‘rt‘lllltlt‘tl by a turn»
her of thc medical profession, So tborc I
was. awaiting a vcrilicalion of the adage _
that "all things come to Illusc who
wait.“
Iliad come very near having a
A slrangc young woman
had come to the h-admg hotcl of the
. town the tiny before. had lwcn taken sick
. during the night. and. astlicrc sccmcd to .
be nobody to guarantee the ll.‘l)lllt'|ll of
her bill in case she div-d. my lll‘tlft‘o‘olfllml .
compelitorsappcarcd willing that. [should .
hale ilic jolt.
lint the fates were against me. for as l
ascended tbc stairsl was told that the
ouug woman was dead and her body;
.ad been turned over to the tcndcr
metrics of the town coroner and under
dct‘lakt‘r. l“.\t‘u Illt‘ti llic t‘utci‘ic of
”good and true“ citircm ticked
around illt‘ llal‘ rmlllr (lllllI‘ Infill “\'ic\\‘u
thc lmly“ and tctitjcil to ntcct at sumo
Illtlt‘llllllt‘ pt-riml and dct‘larc that “thc
said llt‘l\"il. lo llic j‘ll‘)‘ unknown. conic
to be: death by some means lu' thujury *
unknown." the paupct cotlin was in the
rootn and the pauper lit-arse stood at
the door. l had bccn a little dilatory
in responding to the unexpected and
very nrly morning call. and I- had
lost the case. So I turned on the stair
way and lcisurcly tnadc my way back to
my otlirc.
'l‘hc busiucss of “working up a prac~ .
lice“ in medicine will at times \lcprt'ss
the must sanguine tctnlwramcnt. and I
was. as I have said, having one of those .
depressed moods \vhcn Bonaparte Lagucc.
the town undertaker‘s tnanof all—work.
dropped in wearing a very gruesome face
and hclpcd himself to a chair contiden~
tlally near me.
“Sick. llonyi“ I asked; for the young
' man. thot‘i’gli looking the vcry picture of ,
physical vigor, scented at a loss how to , ‘ ‘
2 Wood shavings that was part. of the tur-
opcn the conversation.
“Saw I“ he ttttswcrt‘ll in a tone. of
Itrong disgust; “only sick o‘ this buryin‘
business, and 0‘ that mcasly small boss o‘
mine. Do you know what he‘s gone un‘
doncl“ ,
“N0.“
"Well. you know the old woman My-
or: that‘s beeit a dyin‘ so long of a disease
that none. o‘ you medicine follows could
make out r“
-"‘ch. died last night. I lwllcv‘cf“
“Yes. an‘ I lct that worthless son of
hats have a collin on tick an‘ the boss
mysrhc‘ll take the per it out of my ,
wages. Now. it wasn‘t nothing better
than a cltca t pauper collin. but I ain‘t go»
ing to stand the loss if my richbosscan‘t.
an‘ he‘s going to have that. collin back if
I have to dig for it. I‘m going over to
the cemetery to-nigltt for it. an‘ I didn‘t
know but you wanted” a good ‘disscct‘
and vvonld give me a hand. She‘d make
I stunnin‘ dissect. ‘cause nobody knows .
- what shc died of. Int a little nervous
about goin‘ m or thercalonc. an‘l thought
" if you‘d help me get. the collin I’d help
you get the body.“
llctc was a chancc to chase away ntcl-i
nucltoly. and I hadn't. had a lark since I ;
left college. If I was found out it would
destroy all hopcs of a traction in W .
to ‘ be surc. but that t idn‘t mean much.
considering how slight. a “fabric. tltosc
hopes were. built. nu anyway. and it would
furnish tne with a reasonable excuse to
‘my friends for quitting the apparently
barren field they had selected for me.
Besides, was there not hope of unearthing.
a great medical secret: that might hand
oue‘s name down to postcrit 2’
Added to this there \vonlv begrcat sat-
.j isfnction in helping Bony to thrust that
2 cheap cotlin tmderthc nose of thc cravcn-
spirited \Yortns. the undertakerknnd dar-
; ing him to risk his own reputation by ex~
‘ Bony‘s revenge
’ might be at the ex icnsc of his situation.
but it would be ric ; and it might have
the contrary effect of compelling.r “'ortns
; to keep the man and treat him decently
; in order to keep his own meanness out. of
3 the public. car.
Such arguments as these only needed
. the natural rcatztion they created in a de~
~ pressed volatile temperament. to make.
i and me digging away like human ghouls
; at the newest grave in the potl'ets‘ field of
f the town cemctcry. That is. midnight
might have seen us if she had carried her
lantern with her. but Mrs. Myers had
died in “the dark 0’ the moon,“ and we,
for greater privacy, h.d,gone without a
li"llt. ‘
5We raised the coffin and its contents
. and by devious paths and bywhys bore it
' to the back room of my office and there
turned on a little light.
“The wrong coflin. by jingo,“ was the.
ejaculation of Bony; and he dropped
with a half paralyzed limpness into the
nearest chair.
Then, recovering from his mortifica-
tion, he went on: “That‘s the coflin what
we used for the gal at. the hotel.“ ,
Here was a pretty go. Thecoflin was
of no use to Bony; and the unknown
friends of the irl would in all pmba-
bility be on him ‘ in a few days to claim
the body and take it elsewhere for interb
merit. 6
“But she’ll make a bootifuldisoect,”
added Bony by way of comfort, .when he
row the misgiving expressed on my coun-
tenance. “I noticed as how she was a
bootifnl gal when we was a nailing ’9 her
. np,’.‘ he went on. “You couldn‘t do bet~
('35? '
llt‘
,Thcro was a
’ them convincing, and midnight saw Bony 1
ter ’1: k - her, Doctor, secin’ we‘ve had
the troube o‘ gettin‘ her It ‘ I won’t
charge you nnthin’ fur my 0‘ the
work." he continued, betraying an eager
desire to get out offurthcr interest in the
busincm. “You can use the coflin for
kindlin‘. It‘s only stained pine."
W 93 his
trifling mistake in the matter ,of coflins
had destroyed every bit. of his vengeful
spirit.
“Stop. Bony." I said, “you must help
me lift the body out. if we are going to
work?" and I lifted the lid I had been
bolt for the door.
“I can‘t do it. Doctor.“ Bony said, in
so timorous a voice as to surprise me. “I
can‘t look 'o’n that gal‘s face again. no-
how. Isaw it this morning. an‘ I felt
queer all day, till the boss riled me about
that glyets cofiin. I can‘t touch her
again, nohow; I can‘t. I tell you. no-
how!“ And Betty‘s piteous wail of
“can‘t—nobow,“ died away in the dire
tance as he closed the door behind him
and was gone.
There
was a scnse of sorrowful itn-
i away from some attractive
might prove fatal if he stnyt . Iliad
pilcous “noltow!” was succeeded by
silence so deep as seemed to break my
’ rev t'I'IC.
I turned away. but an irresistible
impulse drew tnc to the face again. There
was not a vcstigc of tliscascor ctnaciation.
grim pallor of death. but a tttat'vcloasly
§bcau|iful cmintcnanco. that Wore only i)
iplcading cvprcssion. as if to say: “Why
’ ltnve‘you tlisturlwd my sit-cpl“ ,
It might be only llony‘s titnorous voice
still ringing in my cars that made the
Turn from it with
dctcrtninaiion I would.
not brt‘ak its spcll.
what
etch front my window where I had gone
to catch the first. faint glitntucvinga of
the dawn; as if thcir coming would
rclcasc tnc from my strange situation.
lnvolnntarily I had moved the coffin
lid and lookcd upon thc dclicatcly chiseled
hands and the small and shapely fcct. Ilcr
had been worn surely for disguise and
not of necessity.
l tutdcrstand now. and every time my cycs.
gpcrforcc. sought her face. It was the
. power of beauty to touch human
’= sympathies.
‘ As I looked again tltcrc was a shade of
color in the face. The discovery startlcd
Inc; the gaze again fascinated me. My
band instinctively sought that of the
dcad. It was not dead. There
tllultllll) and warmth in it. Or was it a
lam y with mc. growing out. of the warm
atmosphere of my consultation room?
“as it my own fcvctcd inmginationt
lint the color was still rising in the
‘chccks. I was down upon nty‘knccs
‘chuling tltc hands. In half dalcd con.
sciousncm I rudely torc away the cover-
ing frotn the throat. tciuovcd the tightly
: laced shoes and rubbed the soft. delicate ;
feet.
When I looked again there was a
pcrccptiblc trcnior of the eyelids, and the
large. lustrous eyes lost something of
their fixed stare. they turned a little; my
subjcvt was niivc!
With the knowledge that. sbc lived
came a more intclligcnt control of my
own scnscs. I set to work and pt‘cluircd
. a stimulating draught, and then, raising
hcr in her cotlin. I applied it to bcr lips.
gleam of returning con-
sciousness. a glance at her surroundings.
at the collin in which she sat. and then
sht‘ swoolit‘d again.
I laid her back upon the pillow of
nishing of a pauper coflin and deliberated
as to what I should do next.
inglight was now strcaming in through
the window and soon all the world might
know what the night had hidden. The
ucvvshoy on his early mood at that tno~
tncnt dropped the. morning paper front
the not. distant city on the doorstep. and
instinctively I went to rct that wondcr~
fnl cpitomc of the last I ay‘s doings and
. learn if it had got any cluc to the history
of tbcstrango Woman who had died at
the hotel.
Yes. there it was. The case that the
perfunctory (‘oroncr and his ‘qucstors
had passed over so indifl‘crcntly, the ncws
5 papt'r corps had traced in till the warp and
. woof of this («implicated human existence.
'It was at ease of strong, iassionato love
without reciprocation; a despairing. dcs~
: pcratc love that thinks it can only go out
a through death.
Filled now with both interest and pity;
. pity for the fond and gricf~strickcn par-
ents, and intcrcst in the unhappy danglh
gtrr, [returned to the work of restoring
the unconscious girl, and soon accom~
. plishcd it.
How judiciously I managed to make
3 known to clnld and pan‘nts the part icu~
‘lars which had lcd up to the peculiar
vsituaticn in which we all found ourselves.
g In what a kindly light they viewed my
midnight prank with Bony; how they
' forgave their darling child ‘and guarded
my n~put=itiou may all be imagined when
[say that I am now onc‘of the fatnily.
and that although I have. never worked
up much of a practice in \V~—-— or any
where else. the fact. has never given me
another moment‘s depression of spirits.—
Ile'en-it Free Press.
Beer Among the Ancients.
A German pmfesspr has succeeded in
tracing the origin of beer to the land‘of
the. pyramids. An ancient pa tyros has
revealed the wrath of an Egyptian father
who had convicted his son of the deplor‘
able habit of lounging about the Nile
taverns and guzzling beer. From Egypt
the art of manufacturing “liquid bread.‘
as the professor aficctionatcly describes
his favorite becmge,‘ was introduced into
Ethiopia and the heart of Africa, where
perpetual Slimmer made it scasonable all
the year round. The Roman Empire de-
clined because among other things, it
despised beer and was beguilcd by
stronger but less wholesome fluids. The
Northern races overrun Italy. accordin
to the same authority. because they be
learncd to live on bread and beer. En~
thusiasrn certainly carried the learned
professor a long way; and perhaps he has
not reached the end of his archaic re»
searches. Is he certain that the Israelites
did not have beer with their manna; or
that there was not a fresh brew served
betimes h: Eden I—Ntw York Tribune.
Misapplied Ingenuity.
Late in the evening one day last week
a colored woman by the more of Nancy
Animate-d came to the store of C. J. Hig-
gins, in New Kent. County. and bought
goods from him to the amount of $3.35
and handed him a five dollar note. He.
not noticing the note particularly, put it
into his pulse and g‘ve her the change.
Some time after she had left, however,
he took out his purse again, and on lack-
‘ at the note disco that it was
m
Confederate. The woman had dyed it a
deep gm color. Nancy warranted
and jailed—W (7a.) Inks—Ap-
destroy the evidences of our night‘s.
. . i
busy u’nfastcntng when Bony made his 2
pciuosity left as the echo of his receding T
voice. as if drawing hintsclf unwillingly :
s tell that .
lifted the lid and stood looking at thei
dead face until that faint sense of Ilony‘s ‘
flit-re was not the Sunken cyc. nor tliel
dead face look so I'l'St‘t‘t‘lllllg, but [could
some .
inctl‘ablc fascination drcw mc back again. .
clothing was of the commonest sort, and :
Bony‘s ”queer“ feeling .
w as .
The morn~ i
l MENAGE‘RIE MEALS.
3 now THE ashram 11v :1 me our,
3 cos ARE FED.
l
l
Big Chunks of Meat, Tons of Ray and
rrc. s 0 at er Slowed
'Away ~—'rhe Elephant“-
Dainty Method.
The basso profundo of the menagcric
roared. Thc roar was resonant, reverber-
ant, fearful. It runde that captivity
had not injured his vocal organs. J udg—
; mgfrom the effect, he' certainly know
5 how to locate his tones. Then he yawncd
i and showed a very open countenance and
. some very suggestive teeth, and also per-
; muted a Very brief glance into the red
5 cavern from whence came the roar. 110
l sat upon his lumive haunchcs. dignified
l and kingly, and looked out of his glorious
; eyes at the people who had paid fifty
cents to see him without. winking. Sud<
. denly his nostrils dilated. There was
something in the wind. That something
was the scent of blood which lurked in
the fibres of a fit‘teeu—wnrnd chunk of raw
. bet-f. A man in a check jumper came
toward the cage, carrying a pail contain»
ing four of these chunks. The ‘proud
bean forgot his dignity and moved un-
eiciily about the front of his tug". lashing:
‘ his tawny sides with the paintbrush tuft
at the end of his tail. The fiftt-ctppound
i
i
i
t
l
chunk of beef was lifted on the tines of
a big fork and thrust between the bars of g
the cagc. Ilis royal higltncss grabbedl
it betwccn his mighty forcpaws; bttt 1
he couldn‘t
t
i
i
l
i
pull the went into
the cage because ’ there was a big :
bone in it. Then he laid down. Ilold»
iug “11 to the mm". with one paw. hc
thrust the other paw out through the bars
and tried to push the tin-at inside. “'hcu
; he found that his efforts were in vain he
lay still and uttered a sulrccllar growl,
which indicated that he meant. busincss.
The man in the check jllllllll‘rl nine to his
relief with the big fork. Aftcragmnl
deal of prying and thrusting. the meat
was u‘lcascd and the regal gourmand
licked it with his great rctl tongue. Then
. he bit about a pound of limit and lmllr
olfonc corner and crunched it between
his iron jaws. Ilt- partly closed his eyes
in evident delight as llic generous juices }
but over his palatc. After ceiling all the .
. “will hc lickcd the bonc as l‘ll‘llll as a bran-
: new milk pan; thcn he licked his chops,
: and lastly. his pans After this general
clear-up he luokul . ' his ku-pcr u if to
my:
“Old follow. that tritlc only whet: my
nppctitcl“ .
“Come over in this corner and sec the
sea lions take dinner.“ and 'l‘otly llamiL ;
full.
The two black. glisteninganimals wcrc .
tumbling owr each uthvr in thcir tank.
and uttering «‘urious, iinpnlicnt barks at
the delay « f the man “bu“ duty it “as
to throw thirty pounds of stnclts, lit-rring. '
g or other frcsli fish to them each day.
. W'hcn the caterer arrived he dcxtcrotuly
threw whole fish into lhc L‘lllk. which
were caught in thc air by thv sca lions. .
and shallowed whole at a gulp.
The big grizzly llmtl'. a most tnagnili- ,
: cent specimen of the Amcricunm gignn~
lions, was mugged in scratching the back
of his neck wilhoneot l; shind fcct when
- the little Poonah lwar. who is his cage
T mate, told him tlw diam-r hour bad conic .
by his significant ~ :l‘. The grizzly could
not have been \t curry. for he clitspcd
: tho I‘oonuh in a . Juli) cmbracc. \\lli\ h
i must have started 1hr little bcar‘s ribs. it .
was so very cordial. »
3. “That‘s nothing.“ said Mr. Hamilton;
f “if you will notice the lllKlt‘I’ side of the
little fellow you will scc that his fur has
' been removed t'llllf‘t‘ly by thusc little at
; tcntions of the grimly. It‘s fun for the .
1 big fellow. ’I'Iic lnulllc is that. he don't
f mallard his slrrngtli.“
_ The two blurs disposed of their shares
Tof beef in a JIII}. 0n tivc days in the
week all the carnivora an‘ fed on bccf.
l Each Saturday their diet is varied by an
. equalamonnt of livcr. The liver is said V
t; to havca bcncticial cll‘cct in regulating the ;
' health of tltc animals. The liycnas were ,
fed Willi rations t-llI ttf ltttlltl it); lllt' kiwlgf‘
l and they acted wry n-spx-ctably consider ,
l ingtbcir tiltsav'nt‘y nkputations. (If all the;
t
l
l
uninmls, tltnsc of the cal syus‘ics ltcbavcS
the worst \\Illlt‘ fasting. The nativ c is
ferocity of the royal licngal tigcr andl
} she is a beauty. with tawny hide marked f.
with black stripes . came to the allrIm‘tr;
. as site dallicd with her bloody piece of;
l beef. llcr glistening cyc, sincwy movo~ :
Etncnts. and thc suakclikc suggcstivencss
' of her slowlytnoving tail were infallible
-. indi ‘titions that captivity might blunt but
could ncvcr eradicate her destrc for blood.
She has gained llic distinction of having
killed her man. but her appetite is kccii
every morning and renewed cverv t‘ch~
ing. The puitln-rs. iaguars, and wild
. cats all share alike in the amount of
food, and all exhibit an equally ferocious
appetite. The monkeys are fed on milk.
bread, and vegetables. They are not at
all averse to a succulent onion now and
then. even if it is eaten without salt.
Of the hcrbivcrons animals. the hippo-
potamus comes first in the. amount cou—
sumed. This blomI—sweatin r monster cats
about. half a bale of buy car daynvith an
occasional dessert in the shape of bran
mash, carrots. cabbage, etc.. and he
drinks half a liogshcnd of water, and
still he’s thitsty. But of all the animals
none ‘an compare with the elephant for
the dignified case and grace with which
he environs his grub. “is wonderful tens
silo trunk twists a wisp of buy out of a
bale. curls it up as daintily as. a lady
would twist her cambric‘hnndkcn‘hief,
and thrusts it upward and inward 'into
his mouth with a daintincss which is in-
comparable. They drink in pairs. Thes:
mountains of flesh march along to the big
tank with a stately dignity and decorum
which court-3‘s the idea that they realize
they are the biggest things in the flesh.
They are in no hurry about drinking.
either. Everything in the neighborhood
of the tank must be touched: even the
dydrnnt is carefully examined by the sen-
sitive trunk. The ordinary everyaday cle-
phant takes a sniffer of two gallons at
first, andkceps om repeating the dose un-
til he is outside of from eight to ten buck-
ctfnls. Then he goes back to his place
muong his twenty-nine companions, and
resumes his hay. if it iga hay day; is not,
he eats an occasional cebbage, or carrot,
or a half bushel of potatoes, as the case
may be. One .old veteran never drinks
from the tank, He wants his drink‘fresh—
ly tapped. and so he turns on the water
cock, and drirlm from the spigot.
On Sunday all the animals fast, no
from choke. but from necessity. This
fast is regardzd as a physiological ne.
casity by the keepers, and is religious-
ly observed.
“And they know when Sunday comes
just as well as you do," said one of
the keepers. “You‘d natcherelly think
they’d be ravenous on Monday morn~
. ing; but that‘s just where ye‘re off.
3 They bain’t nothing of the kind. And
gtbatgowtoshowufellers know: our
l businws."
Another-curious feature of the manag- ‘
5 erieistbecamels. They chew their hay
with a curious sichong motion of the
:jaw.t’l‘lieirsplit upperlip and pro-
, house“ for all (‘Ulln‘h‘ to rcst'in.
‘ gcr of proving delightful to those who
‘ sound man.
trading teeth give them a peculiarly!
Sinister appearance.
The two-headed cow breathe- and;
smells with both heads, but her feed- -
ing is confined to one. The
Burmese cattle eat. common everyday:
hay like their American contemporary, .
and court a gentle scratching between
the eyes. Straw. hay, bran. cabbagr.
carrots. all go down the red lane of
the $7,200 rhinoceros with seemingly
equal satisfaction to his nibs from the
Silo—.39» York Sun.
——.——————-—
Market Value of Confederate Postage
Stamps. 3
All postage stamps issued by the Con-
federacy have a market value. whether
used or unused. The following table
gives the prices chargcd‘by dealers. They
usually pay from onc~tbird to one—half of
the prices quoted for the same stamps: '
New. L'sed' 3
lSlil—lflc. blue........... ....... $1.00 35
ISIBI— 5c. teen ...... .. ...... ..- 40 15
INN—be. rkgreen............ 40 .5.
NIB—— 2c. gn‘eu................. 9.50 $2.50;
I‘lizl— 5c. blue ................ . . 30 25
”‘63— 5c. dark blue .......... . .. 80 ‘35
lNi"-l0c.rose.. ............. 1.00 1.00"
INE— 5c.blne ....... :3 5
:P‘I‘L:‘ 5c. tale blue.... ...... ' .... 3 1?)?
Stir— 5c. lne litbt 'rnphed . . . . . — .
15$}.- 50. blue ymrf‘drated . . . . . . 2.00 — :
lwi—gk.roso ............. ...... 25 Uh)
lfii'dllk‘. 3 5 ’
I‘VE)" Alth‘. ”the ltlut‘ .............. 5 1'
l‘t'iL-lllc. llllt‘ router Iincl ..... . . —- ‘3
lStilA 10c. blue perforated ....... 2 00 —
hail—10c. blue ................... 2.00 2 00
“iii—200. gnu-u ............... 5 --
INFA- 1c. orange ................ 5 ~—
ibtilrhllkr. rose. ............... 5.00 —
The provisional stumps issued by the
towns in tlic t‘oufcdt-mte States have a
market value, used or unused. from 90
(‘cttts to $150. "l‘he S-cent and Ill-cent.
black of Goliad. Texas. issue of lsttl, are ‘
worth $90. "the 241‘“! black. i\<uc 03‘
lStil. of Mobile, Alanis worth. new. $33;
uscd. $30. The Scent"! luc of Mobile.
Alaf, issue of null. is worth $7.50. usrd.
The 5 cent blue of Charleston. S. l‘., i<.
sue of lN‘til. used or unused. is worth
7.50. The 5~ccnt red issue of lSh‘l of’
Knoxville. 'l‘cnn.. is worth $2.50. The .
invent bluc. issue of 1561. of Lynchbttrg.
\'a.. is Worth, new. $10. The Scent f‘l‘d
‘3 cent blue. issue of 1861. of Mutiphis, ‘
Icon” are worth $1 each. if new. The ‘
‘3 cent blue and :3 cent red of New Ur-
lt‘ulls. Lu. Lxstlc of Ifilil. are “twill. new.
$1.50 curb. and the 5 ccnt rcd. ‘issue of _
13th. of l‘ctcrsburg. Va, is worth. new, i
Sliw-Nrw York ll'orM.
W
Some old Sunday Customs.
hr. fig-rlcston contribues a paper on:
“t‘li‘ltrrli and Meeting house Bcltu‘c the ;
Revolution“ to thc l‘v'nturgz. From it we _
quotc as follows: “In l‘onnm-ticut. pcr~
Imps more titan any where clsc. Sunday ?
was a sort of lmpular idol. nor did the §
rigor ofrita obsrrvance abate pcrccptibly
until long aftcr tho licvolution. This ex-
lr- .no-wrupuhmity about Sal-bath kccpittg
“as \l Itlllllt‘\s the mining cause of the
' building of the “Stbbath day bonscsz“
thmc were little shantics standing onthc
meeting-house green. each intended loaf“
rottutimlatc a family during the intcrval
bctwccn the two services. Some Sablutth- .
day bouscs were built with a stall at one
cud lo .shcltcr the horse. while the family
took rcfngc at the other. where there was
a chimney and a utcngre furniture of rude
seats and a table. Ilcrc on arrival before
the first service' the owners lighted a tire
and deposited their luncheon. and to this
tatnp~like plate they came back to eat
their doughnuts and thaw, themselves out
after their first long sitting in the arctic
climate of Illt‘lltt‘t‘lulir‘liullss‘. Soon-titties
two Inuiillcs had a Sabbathday house to~
5 gclhcr; stunctitncs tlicrc were two rooms
in a Sabbath-day llulht‘, that. the sexes
might sit apart, for nothing so agreeable
as \ilet‘lN' between boys and girls was .
permitted during the consecrated time.
lint some pnrislits in Massai-hthts. and
pcthaps clscwhcrc. bad a common ‘ ~noon-
Fireside
insetnblagca on Sunday. whether in the
patsonago or the notinhonse, were in JAIL
wcrc pmnc to enjoy the society of other
human lu-ings. and hence the pastors
“were put upon thcir best ,contrivances“
to have most of the interval between the
l‘“l‘\,i'\‘l‘:i filled up with the reading aloud
of cdifying books and olhe. exch‘iscscnl-
t‘ttlalt‘tl I0 kt‘cp Illi‘ mind in II becoming ~
ly irksonie frame.“
The llencral‘s Bad Wound.
The General stumped briskly on the
tilod tloor with his left foot.
doubt it.“ he said. "It's 7 really rctnnrk~
able how anything will heal up on a
In ‘63 I got. u , lmyonct
wound through the fleshy part of that.
leg. above the knee. That was a small
matter in itself. but I set out for the hos-
pital by a schooner instead of waiting for
a steam vcsscl. \Ye should have been
two days on the voyage. but the wind
give out. and it took its thirteen. Theta
wasn‘t a doctor on board. and when we
got to port that leg was about ready to
crawl away. The surgvon looked at it
and said: ‘You‘ll have to take chlom~
form while I cleanse tltis.‘ ‘No. I won‘t.‘
said I; ‘just have them make me six
cocktails.‘ When they were made 1- had
them set in a row beside me. He took a
silk lmndkcrchicf and drew it thmugh
the wound, bringing out ncrvchcndons.
muscles. maggots and all. I had the 0p-
cration timed, and at regular intervals
while it. was going on I'took the six cock-
tails. I‘ll admit that I came pretty neat
fainting. After that two young sawboncs
came and said they were going to
take my log off. I had an Irish Scr-
at‘ant on whom I thought I could de.
pend, and I said: -. rTim, if these gentle-
men don‘t get out within five minutes.
put. them out.‘ ‘Bedsd, I wull, air,’ he
said, and he said it in such a way that
they left. The wound healed all right,“
you see." the General conc‘hidcd, :‘but I’d
have a brighter financial future if it.
hadn‘t. I‘m going to get $36,900 pension
arrears next month for my other wounds,
and if I‘d lost the leg. of course there
would be. a few thousand more coming to
me."—Philmldp’lia he“. E
Bill Nye.
Bill Nye, the “'estern humorist, was in
the city the other day. He is a tall.
lank, smooth~faced, bald«headed sinner
who wears glasses and is as mild and
pleasant as a shepherd dog. He began
his career as a writer in \liyoming, where
he was first heard of as the editor, pro-
prietor and manager of a paper milled
the Rummy. He had first tried his
hand at mining. and in the course of his
experience became possessed of. amnle
which he called Boomerang. When he
dro inbo journalism be honored his
fai ul, long-cared partner by conferring
his name on the paper. At least that‘s
_wlmt Bill says. By the way. his name is
not. Bill, but Edgar W. Eye, and he is
one of the most domestic then in the
coon Re is particularly fond of his
babies, and, like all humorits, is as full
of pathos as a woman. But he can tell
adialectstorynswell asanymanonthis
revolving footstooL—Nen York World.
sacred..
‘ ‘I don't ‘
? boasted, a
PEARL FISHING.
NATURE'S JEWEL GASKETS IN
CAVERNS OF THE SEA.
Sick Oyster-o Produce the Beat Pear-ls
—-Where the Fisheries are
Located and How They
ore Opented.
A recently issued bulletin of the United
States Fish Conimi§ion contains a trans-
lation of an interesting report by En-
? ginccr M. Weber. of Norway, on pearls
and pearl fisheries “Many mussels,"
says this re rt. “cover the inside of
their shell With a layer consisting of am-
and membranes and carbonated lime.
Thereby a peculiar luster is produced on
the inside of the shell, which is called
mother-of-pcarl. A smaller portion of
‘this secretion often forms excresceuces
shaped like drops or kidneys. which
. either are embedded more or less firmly
in the inside of the shell. or lie loose in
the soft parts of the animal. especially in
its Stlrt‘llllcd beard. These are what are
generally known as pearls. The forma-
~tion of mother~of~pcarl is doubtless a
natural process taking place in certain
mussels. The formation of pearls. on the
other hand. is ascribed to accidents. and
; probably is cauSt-d by a sickness of thc
mussel. or by some Wound inflicted on it.
This view has been reached by noticing
the circumstance that. when the shells
are large and the inside smoorh, clean
and without any holes, so that the mol-
lusks can fully develop, pearls are but
rarely found; while the formation of
pearls is very frequent when the shells
are irregular. Sotnctitm-s huudn-ds of
pearls an: found in the lastincntioncd
wshells; but frequently svarccly one of
them possesses any cmnmcrrial value.
; Real pearls are found only in bivalves;
.but a useful product is found in Some
univalvcs. Fourtccn varietics are
enumerated. the products of which are
known to commerce.
The sea pearl tishrrivs are principally .
the Persian gulf. coasts of ‘
(‘ontincd to
Ceylon. the eastern archipelago, Ans
tralin. the lagoons of many islands in the
Pacific andto(‘ctttral America. Fresh-
water pearls have. as a rule. l-uflittlc
luster, and are conscqucutly of no great. Z
the ,
\aluc. During tlicaununcr months
Arabs carry on a sort of pearl fishery on
tltc coast of the Red Sch. They catch
the mollusks and lay them in the sun su .
that they may open quickly. The pearl
fisheries in the ’crsian gulf. especially
on the coasts of the island of Bahrcin. are
3 also in the hands ofrhe Arabs. The Cey-
lon pearl fisheries are carried on on the
west. coast of t‘cylon.
Murmur. south of the island of the same
. name and also on the west coast of India. 2
Experience has shown .
, that few pearls. and these of iittic value.
near Tuticorin.
come from muSscls which an. n... 0m” r’no desire to ridicule it; for this worship
than five years. During the fifth and ; Hider the open sky. disregarding social
sixth y..." u... “mm mm“... and in gconVcntionalitics. indifferent to whatever
the sev'cnth year it becomes fourfold. in“! be Sfli‘l- 113‘ N‘m"ti”¥ grand and 51“,
The pearls are not fully matured if tln-v Ev
are taken out too soon: and. on the othc} .
. hand, the animal dics if the pearls re-
‘ main too long in the shells.
reasons. at the Ceylon fisheries. pearl tisle
ing is prohibited at certain periods. In
sorting the pearls they are first passed
through a row of baskets, ten or twelve in
nutnbcr. The eighth basket in the row
has twenty holes. and tlie,pcarls which
do not pass through these are said to have
the “twentieth measure.“ The other
‘ lumkcts in ordcr have 20, 50. 80. 100. 200.
400. 600. 1.000 ltoics. Clix. and etch lmekt t
has its special namc. After the pearls
have been sorted in this measure they are
weighed and their value is nous]. China
has pearl tishcrics near l‘akhoi. The I’bil‘
litppinc Islands produce large quantities
o utothcr-otlpcarl. The entire region
{tom the island of Tuwi-Tawi and Lulu to
Baselan is one continuous bed of pcsrl
oysters. Here the Malays and Chinese
. fish in common. The Lulu fisheries. near
Tawi-Tawi. are, according to the state-
ment of an Englishman. Mr. Moore. the
largest and most productive of all the
pearl fisheries in ,the East Asisstic seas.
The most important pearl fisheries in
Queensland arc in the hands of Sydnev
capitalists. The fisheries are carried oh'
. by Malays, who dive to a depth of six
. fathoms. The pearl fisheries on the nort h~
west coast of Australia employ a large
number of Malays and natives as din-ts.
Recently the English papers have rcportnl
the discovery of pearls and mother-of-
pcarl near New anland.
Diving for pearls is one of the princc
pal cmploymcnts for the IlaIIYLS of the
acilic Ocean. IIcrc. likcwisc. mother-of~
pearl is the principal object of the fisher-
ies. The oysters live in large colonies. ~
close together. and arc tirtnly attached to
each other; they are attached to the bot~
will by a Il$lflll0llt or band. startigg from
their body and rnnningthrougb tltesbt-ll.
In the live animal this band is of a‘ dark
green. and sometimes gold-bronze color,
and the tishctmnn can tell from the color
whctltcr tbc sltcils contain pearls or not.
The shells rcach thcir fuil size when they
arc scvcu _vt ms old. “'hcn the animal
has reached maturity. it tears itself loose
from the stones. opens its shell and dies.
The sliclls arc then covered with corals
and lumsitcs. They become worthless
and the pearls are lost. lh‘casionally
pearls are ound loose in the soon. These
are always ofa very fine quality. perfectly
round and often very large. lint then:
is hardly onc in a thousand oysters which
contain such puirls. The natives of ten
lose them, owing to the careless war in
which they open the slit-Its. Fine 'and
calm weather is the most farm-able for
pearl fishing. The divers wear no s :-cial
suit. but simply rub their body wit oil.
so the sun . may not blister their grin.
They remain under the water one to two
minutes. and bring up oysters from a
dcpthlof twenty fathoms. They rarely
go to such a depth, but the finest. ovstcrs
are found there. Thus in manv fishing-
grounds. which were supposed'to lie ex;
t man ' arl~ovst are
foundin deegliefrnter. 3 pe ~ ers
Besides the pearl oyster. there is often
found in the lagoons of the Pacific Ocean
a kind of Venus shell, which often con-
tain pcarls of great value. In the Pacific
there is found another pearl—producing
mollusk, whose shells greatly resemble
those of the common oyster. Tbev are
always found attached to rocks, int-aria-
bly one by itself; and they are quite ram.
Their pends are alwa perfectly round.
Wlth a. fine lustre an a gold color, of
about. the size of a pen.
The Central American pearl fisheries
are can-ind on on both sides of the Isth-
mus of Panama. In the lower part of the
Bay of Mulcge, in the Gulf of Chlifornia.
and near L08 Coyntes, ark of great
value have been found. ‘I: is generally
sup that drew of beds ex-
ten 3 from the Gulf of Dorian to Califor-
nia. The fisheries are curried on from
July till October; during the rest of the
you: storms 33nd cold weather prevent
fislung. Diving suits are generally used.
The mother-of- rl from the Gulf of
California is white, with bluish black 01’
yellow band; he fisheries we aimed, . '
°" ‘? “mm.“ u” “i” “all.“
pnei‘s (let. ya: to your; . -
mg is therefore no: ‘
in the gulf of.
For these i
pen-Mod: cm.
fourth year. The entire California fish-
erielareuidto producefrou600.000 on
700,000. pounds of mother-of-pearl per
annum. In the Bahrnilsthe mu fish-
eries form an important industry. The
found in them are mainland, yel-
ow or black; the first mentioned alone
MY value. /../
In Ohio pearl fisheries are corned on
in Little Miami river. The season last:
from June till October. Men and boys
wade in the river and bring up the god
oysters with their feet. The shellém
opened with a We, and seldom are
more than two pmfll found in 300 03'3-
ters. Pearl fisheriesare also carried on
in the rivers of Norway, Bavaria and
Bohemimmll'aahingtmi Stir..-
The lobanuedan‘s Hours of Prayer.
The Koran has fixed the hours that
must be consecrated to prayers. These
prayers. mamas. are five in number. The
most solemn is the morning prayer. It in
the subah nanmzi. It is utteml after the
dawn. just beforc diewrising' of the sun.
The second is the middaypmycr. wile
uumef. The third, jh'ndyuawm’. must
be Offered just before the setting of the
sun. The evening prayer. written puma}
is uttered just. before the shrulowscouceal
the horizon; Finally, the last and fifth
‘ prayer. yatry nomad. is uttered in the in-
§ terval after sundown and just before
' dawn.
‘ The hour of prayer is regularly pro«
{claimed to the faithful by the imumit.
; (‘allt‘d mnczzins, who walk around the basis
Fcony of the. tninarcts. singing. inn melan-
; choly voice. this unvurying: litany: “God.
7. the most high! I ‘bcrc pnx‘laim that tht‘l'i
‘ is no God but fluid. 1 proclaim that Mo~
Ehnmmcd is the prophet of God. Come
i to the temple of salvation, Great. God!
gtlod the most high! Thcrr i.» no God
% but God!" Blind men are usually eclect-
““1 for margins. of at lcnst trauma that.
l sullcr from Continnul myopia. so that
tin-y cannot throw inquisitive glances to«
ward the women that may be promenad-
ing on the tcrmces of the boost-s.
Christians surround their (DIM'SW‘SIII‘O
of prayer witha kind of mystery or of
rcserve that the Mussulmana know abso~
* lately nothing of. In whatever place a
devout Osmanli may find himself. wheth~
er in his house. in his shop. in the
streets. in a public, squarc. doing busi~
tics“, or on a \‘Ieil, as soon as the hour of
the rumor: is announce-d. he makes his
religious preparations. places under his
knees a small mg. or in dcfault of which
n handkerchief. turns his face toward
Mecca. places his arms in the shape of 8
nos upon his breast, or putting them to
his forcltcnd. [wish-ates himself. then
rises—all this slowly and w ith strict ob.
’; scrvancc of rules. If lu- is in a street. he
docs not permit himself to be distracted
Hind disclaim-rust by anything. not even
by the in-liscrcet curiosity of the Elm»
pram. who looks at him astonished by
gthis novel sight. buwao generally has
cred about it that ballistics all railicry
and inspires respectp— (army-Jinn.
l
Sham Hysteria.
l One .. physician who is cnisidcn-d
.authority on nervous discusra. doubts
; very much the ability of any woman to
gdclibcratcly deceive even an unbulsnm
l surgeon by feigning hysteria. He knew
of no such cam-s in medical literature.
“It is extremely dittivult.“ said another
. physician. "to tt-ll sometimes uhrro
hysteria is simulatai and «hem it is not.
g There is always more or it: s sitnizlutitm.“
5 Flint says that there is a tendency to
' exaggerate symptoms of dist-aw. It pro~
, coeds sotuctiiucs from an rigggrt‘almi arose
' of existing symptoms and stunt-times from
. a morbid tit-sire to rxcitc interest or
sympithy. It is an imp irtant partGof the
knowledge and tact of the practitioner to
mak due allowance for this tendency.
, In s§ne cases a morbid perversion of the
; min leads patients to undertake to
3 practice gross frauds as re:atd.~ their
‘ ailments. They pn-tcnd to have ex-
1 traordiuary distuxlcts. and resort to
i ingenious efforts at deception. Hysterical
maiingcring is not unfrequeutly mixed
1 with hysterical SClI-‘dt‘l‘t‘iltiull
There have been sevcral wellnutbcntk
catcd cases in which it was found iha: the
i patients could. at their will. throw thcms
zsclvcs into fits of liystcrm This could
. be done in ditIen‘nt ways. Unc girl
would always go into hysteria when she
thought of a certain subject. another by
rating certain food. soother 5411““ to
have the ability to humerus: hem-If. to
; throw herself. into a tuner, and keep
l lit-nclf in it.
Not long ago a woman in ltystcrics was
Elli-ought into a Brooklyn hospital. She
;was laid on a cut. and she inuncdistely
ltloppcd out on to the floor. The doctors
l set hemp itra chair. and shc tumbled on;
; again and again. bumping her head and
whacking her arms on the flour as if notlr
ing couh hurt her. One of the doctors
stepped up to her and began slapping her
face on either side with his hands as hard
as he could. After two or three slaps the
i girl jumped up and thrtatvned to report
the dcctor for his cruelty. picked up but
“ hat, and walked out with no more
3 hysteria than there is int: clam. II} steria
; is oftcna strike for sympathy. This girl
' got the reverse. To some extent she must
_ have been simulating. yet it w::s a genuine
cast: of hysteria.~—.\'ne )"orl: N-m.
The Puzzled Horse Dealer.
I havc lm‘n very much bothcrcd lately,
mid a bone dealer to a St. Louis (Hobo
Ikmrrmt reporter. with a question urin-
ing out ofa deal which has been to me a
source of greater annoyance than the 15
puzzle. I soldn horse to B. for $50. In t
f cw days he came back with the horse. and
I report-based theattitnal for $7“. I then
immediately resold him for $65.: The
question is: “How much did I gain or
lose on the transaction l" When I bought.
the horse back for $70 I certiinly made
310. and when I sold again for $65 I as-
sundly lost $5. Now, if I gain $10 and
lose 35 my net gain is, it seems to me,
$5. But. on the other hand. after my
first sale I had no horse and $89. while
after my second sale I had no horse and
only $75. consequently I must have lost.
$5. At one time, when I think over
the matter, I congratulate myself on
having pocketed a “V” through
dealing, while at another I fer-I like
going around behind the burn and kick-
iug 'myself for having been such I
blank fool.
Long Tunnels.
The total length of the Severn tunnel
in four miles 6:34 yards. The St. Gotbard
tunnel is 9 1-° miles. Hoot Gerri; tunnel
7 1-8 miles, Ariberg tunnel (Am),
6 1-3 mitts. There is a mud in In...
cbuoefll; 4 3-4 miles; the Sundege m-
001. 911 the London “‘1 Northwestern. 3
three ““163 long and the Box tunnel ra-
therleas. But thespciu future oftha
89'0"! tunnel Iiesin the fact that. 2 1—4
unte- of it lave been constructed from
toga-acumen” below thebedof a
ll . I i m, oflmng' engi-
neering multir- vfich make It the
moot remarkable tunnel in the world...
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Norwalk Chronicler