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ANFORD’S GINGER, tried
and true, is so rich in health
preserving properties in the
midst of summer dangers that it
is almost criminal to be without
it. No other ginger 18 so pure,
so speedy, and safe. For the
stomach, bowels, and nerves, for
colds, chills, and touches of
rheumatism, it is a panacea
without an equal.
Containing among its ingredients the purest
of medicinal French brandy and the best of
, imported ginger, it is vastly superior to the
cheap, worthless, and often dangerous gingers
urged as substitutes. Ask for SANFORD’S
GINGER and look for owl trade mark on the
wrapper. Sold everywhere. POTTER DRUG AND
CHEM. CORP. , Sole Proprietors, Boston.
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Will make a slaughter in his prices
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ABOUT ELEPHANTS.
zLiEE THAT THE)/ ARE EN-DOWED
VITH SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE.
Have Mental Qualities 'Not Possessed
)ther Animals—Interesting Stories
5 Them—The First One Brought to
cum try.
nts never go to sleep without
'0 or" the herd awake to keep
give warning in case of in-
into the big menagerie tent
' any night after the ele-
>1-. gone to sleep, or go into
in _.cphllnt cars on a. night min,
and you will find that, no matter how
quietly ant. stealthily you have entered,
1he eye of one member of the herd is
upon you.
' (‘lonklin believes, as do most all ele-
phant keepers, that thé animal can m.-
derstand what is said to it. Indeed,
trainers assert that it has more intelli-
gence than any other animal, and that
it is the only one that can be taught to
mind by word of month, without other
cues. That it is endowed to a limited
extent with reasoning powers is ceftain.
One German philosopher thinks he has
discovered that this mental development
is due to the fact that in the trunk the
elephant possesses a prchensile organ
similar to the hand of man. The hand,
he asserts, has played a more important
part in the development of the human
intellect than any other agency, since it
brings its possessor into more intimate
relations with the external world than
any other organ. Some menagerie man,
with more practical observation than
the German professor and a smaller
lump of theorizing, has pointed out that
he only flaw in this reasoning is that
5 it is correct the gorillas and chimpan—
ces ought to have a higher mental de—
elopment than man, because they have
our good hands instead of two, and any
'ne of the four is stronger than the
ight hands of four men.
Well authenticated stories of the
agacity of elephants are so numerous
hat it is never necessary to resort to ex-
aggeration to say something. interesting
about them. In their wild state the
coder of a herd has been seen when ap-
n'oaching swampy ground to extend one
Tool: to try its solidity before trusting
llS weight to it. When satisfied of its
irmness, he would go confidently on,
:nd the whole herd would follow in
tingle file, cautiously stepping in the
footprints of the leader, so that when
;he entire herd had thus passed the
ground would look as if a single animal
lad gone that way.
:aution is preserved in the domesticated
inimal. The action is not the result; of
mining, but a brute instinct always dis-
played and bearing a. striking resem-
Jlance to reason.
When Jumbo tried to butt 3. fast
freight off from the Grand Trunk tracks
11 an effort to save the baby of the Bar—
ium herd, Tom Thumb, and lost his
life in the attempt, it was said that his
action gave unmistakable evidence of
reason, though it was poor testimony to
his judgment that he so greatly under-
estimated the force of the locomotive.
In the matter of the food value of dif-
ferent materials the "reasoning power of
the elephant is very faulty, however.
He will out almost anything that comes
his way. If a canvasman leaves a coat
Or vest hanging on a quarter pole with-
in reach of an elephant, the big brute
will edge over toward it and watch an
opportunity when unobserved to tou h
it with his trunk. Then he will begin
to haul it toward him, putting in rolls
of hay and chewing them between times.
As soon as the garment is athis feet the
elephant will put one of his ponderous
five hoofed pedals on it and begin to
tear it up, rolling the pieces in his
trunk and stuffing them into his mouth.
The sole of a shoe is just as good for
him to chew on as a’ wisp of hay, and
his natural instinct of mischief, inclines
him to prefer that which he knows is
forbidden him.
The first elephant brought to America
for exhibition purposes was Old Bet,
and it has often been remarked that the
American circus was built on her shoul-
ders. Difl’erentaccounts fail to agree in
regard to the date of her importation,
which is placed all the way from 1776
to 1833 by different writers of old time
reminiscences. Old Bet was brought
”40’
over in the ship America, of which Cap-.
tain Crownin'gshield was master, and
she landed, according to the harbor rec-
ords, in Philadelphia in April, 1798.
She was but 5 feet high, and the sum
of $10,000 was paid for her, the largest
price that had been paid up to that time
for any animal, either here or in Eu-
rope. She was first exhibited in Phila-
delphia and astonished the public daily
by drawing the corks from 30 bottles
of beer and :’.,:‘-:‘;;.’:: g the contents. On
the, 20th t 1 .i ...:e, 1799, she passed
through Ne 1: York on the way to Bos-
ton. .
Old Bet had been bought on the com-
munity plan by a number of farmers of
Putnam county, N. Y., at the instance
of one Ludwig Bistadler, each mortgag-
ing his farm and putting $500into the
venture. They exhibited her under wag-4
on sheds at hotels by putting a piece of
side canvas up in front of the shed. The
admission was 25 cents for adults and
12 g cents, or a York shilling, for chil-
dren. This gigantic zoolOgical institute,
as the caravan was called, traveled east
as far as Pawtucket, R. I., where the
elephant, in spite of its docile disposi~
tion, was shot and killed. As the “-in-
stitute” contained no other attractions
the show closed. The same proprietors
then imported a second elephant, which
they also called Old Bet, and they on-
larged‘their exhibition by adding to the
collection a lion and a two horse cage
and one monkey in a box strapped on to
the hind end bf the lion’s cage. The
second Old Bet landed in 1833. Follow-
ing her to these shores the next pachy-
derm to arrive seems to have been Mo-
gul, a very big fellow with ong tusks,
who was burned on the ste , er Royal
Tar between St. John’s and Portland,
Elle—Chicago Inter Ocean.
l Advertise in the GAZETTE.
The same trait of _
LAST CENTURY HIGHWAYM EN.
When They Went- to the Scaffold, Titled
Ladies ‘cht For Them.
The gentleman of the road was long
the terror of the highway between Ken-
sington and Knightsbridge. As late as
the year 1799 a detachment of light
horse was employed to patrol nightly
from Hyde park corner to the former
place. Foot passengers waited until a
party could be made up sufficiently
strong for mutual protection, a bell be-
ing rung when a start was deemed
prudent. An extract from Lady Cow-
per’s diary in 1715 speaks volumes:
“I was at Kensington, where I in-
tended to stay as long as the camp was
in Hyde park, the roads being so secure
by it that one might come from London
at any time in the night without dan-
ger, which I did very ofmn. ”
The romance which such writers as
Ainsworth have given to the highway-
men is not so highly colored as may be
Supposed. During his brief term of of-
fice he was a man of note, the darling
of the fair sex, the hero of play and
ditty. Ho danced at Ranelagh and dined
at the clubs with impunity, and when
at last he became notorious enough to be
worth apprehension he passed in trium-
phal procession from Newgate to Ty-
burn, dressed in the newest fashion,
bowing gracefully to the windows,
where ladies of position shed real tears
of grief, and gayly quafling a farewell
cup with admiring friends of his own
sex.
The courtly McLean—grocer and gal-
lant—.mzide Hyde park his chief scene
of action. Here on a November night in
1749 he nearly put an end to Horace
Walpole himself. That gentleman’s
coach was stopped by McLean and his
accomplice, Plunket, as he was return—
ing from Holland House. A pistol, ac—
cidentally going off, grazed the skinun-
der his eye, and stunned him. “The
ball went through the top of the chariot,
and if I had sat an inch nearer to the
left side must have gone through my
head. ” But he freely forgave the fasci-
nating scoundrel, when the law at last
intervened.
He writes: “My friend McLean is
still the fashion. Have not I reason to
call him my friend? _Ho says if the pis-
tol had shot me he had another for him-
self. Can I do less than say I will be
hanged if he is?” He gives an,amusing
description of the rush that was made
to see the condemned man in N ewgatc.
Three thousand people visited him in
his . cell on the first Sunday after the
sentence, so that he fainted twice from
the heat. The noble members of White’s
came in a body. Lady Caroline Peter-
sham and other ladies of title wept over
him and uttered broken words of com-
fort. “Some of the brightest eyes were
at this time in tears. ”—Atalanta.
SUBDUlNG A TERROR.
The, Intoxicated \Voodsman Runs Up
Against a. Man From Bradford.
“I’m the best man on this train!”
shouted an intoxicated woodsman as he
swaggered into the smoking car at a lit-
tle way station on the Buffalo. Roches-
ter and Pittsburg.
“I’m the best man on this train l” he
repeated, and smacked his fists fiercely.
As he repeated the assertion with ad-
ditional emphasis a. dude who was smok-
ing acigarette sneaked into another car
and the other passengers wore a_ troubled
look. But a. man on a ‘back seat, who
lives in Bradford, walked up to the
would be terror and said calmly:
“Stranger, you say you are the best
man on the train. If that is the case,
what’s the use in making such a. fuss
about it? I think you are the worst man
on the train—certainly the worst be-
haved. When I see a fellow acting like
you are doing I set him down as a cow-
ardly bully and a miserable, sneaking
our. Now sit down.”
The terror had evidently received a
serious setback, but ho didn’t like to
appear to be too easily subdued. So he
said: ‘
“Think you are a. better man than I
am, do you?”
“I should hope so, ” said the other.
“You’re a. liar!” exclaimed the ter-
m}, and made a pass at him.
That is where he made the mistake.
The gentleman from Bradford let go
with his right and sent the fellow
sprawling against the iron portion of a
seat, cutting his head so that it required
five stitches to sew up. the gash. After
he had recovered somewhat and began
to realize what had happened he said:
“I didn’t think the dashed thing was
loaded. ”—Punxsutawney Spirit.
Huxley Chairs Tyndall.
Tyndall was, I think, one of the ear-
liest members of the Alpine club, but
he seceded after an unfortunate dispute,
which arose in connection with his own
successful attempts on the Matterhorn
and Mr. Whymper’s ascent of that peak,
and it was not till three or four years
before his death that be again attended
one of the annual dinners of the club,
where he and Professor Huxley were
among the guests of the evening.
Both orated, but in the particular art
of after dinner speaking Tyndall was
not the equal of his brilliant rival, and
his labored and rather egotistical utter-
ances contrasted unfavorably with the,
delicate persifiuge of HuIEQGY, who, by
the way, chuffed him unmércifully on
that occasion as being one of the goats
and not one of the sheep—the goats who
climbed the arid rocks, while the sheep,
among whom Huxley reckoned himself,
browsed contentedly on the rich as-
tures below. ——Blackwood ’s Magazine.
Got It Mixed.
“When isa ship like awoman? When
she is in stays. ” - '
“By George,” exclaimed Fenderson
when he heard this old timer, “I’ll
spring that on ’tho boarders tonight i”
and he did. When they had all given it
up, he exclaimed with pride and pleas-
ure in his eyes, ‘When it has its corset
on—no;- that doesn’t sound just right
either. But I’m sure it was something _
about corsets, and it struck me as pretty
cute when I heard it. ”—Boston Tran-
script. '
—-Advertise in the Guerra.
THE \{ElLED WARBLER.
—__.._l_.
A Street Singer That Puzzled the bench
Capital For Three Months.
Once, and once only, was it given to
Paris to be puzzled by a street singer.
The apparition only lasted three months,
but while it lasted it was most perplex-
ing to us. One evening all the loungers
on the boulevards, who were sipping
their beer, or “strangling a parrot,” as
the French phrase hat-h it to describe
the process of imbibing a dose of that
subtle poison, absinth, were mildly
bored by observing the approach of three
street musicians. One man trundled a.
piano, 3. second carried a violin and a
third, :1 tall, slight woman in deep
mourning, he]: crape veil sweeping over
her face, took up her station between
them. They paused and prepared for
action, whereupon many people, know-
ing the vileness and discord of street
music, made ready to leave, when, to
the utter amazement of all, to the ac-
companiment of two fairly good instru-
ments, arose in the night air an exqui-
itely modulated and very powerful fe-
male voice, singing, with a heartbreak
in every note, the wild wail of Traviata
over her approaching death, “Gran Dio,
morir si giovane. ”
Perhaps the voice gained by the sur-
prise of the public, perhaps it was aided
by the stillness of the sultry air, but
certainly it sounded most divine. Thun-
ders of applause and a rain of coin, both
gold and silver, rewarded the trio’s ef-
forts, but they never gave but two songs
per evening and then disappeared. The
adventurous men who followed the sup-
ple grace of the woman’s tall figure re-
turned discomfited, scared away by the
truculent aspect of her two companions.
During that whole summer the
strange band would reappear every
night, and every night would reap a
harvest, but when the summer departed
they, too, vanished and never again ro-
appeared. The Veiled Songstress, as she
was called, came from the darkness and
vanished into the night, and who she
was or where she vanished is a mys-
tery. Of course the police know, but the
archives of the prefecture are sacred
from-the gaze of the profane, and as
that is the case, and as Paris forgets as
speedily as she adores wildly, we had
the arithmetical puzzle, Inaudi, the
lightning calculator, to distract our at-
tention that autumn in front of the cafe,
so the Veiled Songstress sank out of
sight, and the waves of oblivion have
closed over her now and forever. —Paxis
Letter. '
GREEN LAN D’S SUMMER.
Professor Heilprin Corrects Some Popular
Misconceptions About 11:.
As with many of the foreign countries,
there is a wrong impression existing in
the minds even of well bred persons
with reference to the nature of the pen-
insula of Greenland. It is supposed to be
a cheerless waste of ice and snow, and
indeed a land of desolation. On first ac-
quaintance the country do‘es not seem
calculated to inspire enthusiasm, but
this feeling soon wears away and the
returned traveler from Greenland is
smitten with “the arctic fever,” the
principal symptom of which is a. long-
ing to return to these northern shores.
Professor Angelo Heilprin, in his inter-
esting account of the Peary relief expo—
dition conducted by him, thus speaks of
Greenland:
“Once the foot has been set upon the
mirrored rocks the charms of this garden
spot one by one unfold themselves. The
little patches of green are aglow with
bright flowers, rich in the colors which
a bountcous nature has provided. The
botanical eye readily distinguished
among these mountain pink, the dwarf
rhododendron, several pieces of heath,
the orowfoot, chickweod and poppy,
with their varying tints of red, white
and yellow. Gay butterflies flit through
the warm sunshine, casting their shad-
ows over ‘forests’ of diminutive birch
and willow.
“Hero and there a. stray bee burns in
search of sweets among the pollen
grains, while, from afar, woven through
the music of gurgling rills and brooks,
come the melodious strains of thousands
of mosquitoes, who ever cheerfully lend
their aid to give voice to the landscape.
Above this peaceful scene tower the dark
red cliffs of basalt, which from a height
of 2,000 feet look down on a. sea. of
Mediterranean loveliness, blue as the
waters of Villafranca and calm as the
surface of an interior lake. Over its
bosom float hundreds of icebergs, the
output of the great J acobshavn glacier,
50 miles to the eastward, scattered like
flocks of white sheep in pasture.
“Such was the summer picture of the
region about Disco as it was found by
thewriter in two successive seasons.
There was little of that Greenland look
about it which we habitually associate
with the region, nothing of those terrors
which to the average mind reflect the
qualities of the arctic world. ”
I Love's Prodigallty.
A Michigan avenue youth was dilat-
ing to a friend upon the charms of, his
adored one. His friend was disposed to
distrust somewhat the accuracy of the
young man’s vision.
“She is beautiful, you say?”
“As a steal”
“And rich?”
“Bah l ‘I know not nor care. ”
“True, that is a secondary considera-
tion. But is she very wise?”
“Wiser than Solomon!”
“Excellent. I suppose she is also of
fine family?”
“Family, my boy? Family? Why,
that girl has a family treethat would
shade Lincoln park!"-—Ghicago Times-
Herald.
True Courage.
True common is cool and calm. The
bravest cf 1: Dave the least of a brutal,
bullying immense, and in the very time
of danger are found the most serene,
pleasant and free. Rage, we know, can
make a coward forgethimself and fight.
But what is done in fury and anger can
never be placed to the account of cour-
' age. —-Lorrl Shaftesbury.
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