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THE DUBLIN GAZETTE.
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DUBLIN, ERATII COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1882.
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At the crowded counter the ledy site,
Awaiting the shop'matd's haughty stare,
While the Utter backward and forward flits,
And warbles a popular comic air.
She laiiL'Iin at the onssomor's lack of “style,*'
While «lM>wlng the goods with a noUe and
clutter.
And says to herself, with a scornful nintle.
"It’s only a woman—It doesn’t mutter I'1
Ills dyed mustaches are neatly waied;
l ike slnnln* ebony gleam* bin hut;
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Before lie produced a suit Ilk
He asks for gloves. <) li*n*t he
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willing,
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WHIPPOORWILL AND
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Plans and si eulflrstlons furnUUed on inlllt
and gin*. Prices low and terms reasonable.
PorrespoD ili’ncc solicited. »}»,
The poetical Interest attached to the
whippoorwill is due In some degree to
the mystery associated with Its seclusion
and with the darkness of the night.
Many persons who have never seen the
bird, on hearing Its peculiar song in the
twilight, and not unfl•equenUy,,*‘■ mid-
night on the rising of the moon, feel a
sensation of awe ns if the musioian were
tho bearer of ill-tidings to the neighi-or-
hood. Hence the superstitious do ef,
once almost universal, that the wi Ip-
poorwill is the prophet of evil, and Uiat
As appearance on a well-sweep or on
the roof of a shed is an omen of death to
one of the inmates of the house. This
notion is nearly eradicated from the
minds of our puople, who now listen
with delight to the whippoorwill, as the
Philomel of our wilderness.
The whippoorwill confines Itself to
♦he woods and solitary fells exclusively
In the daytime, but in tho night is more
excursive, and often pays a visit to the
enclosures of our dwellings, attracted
by the multitudes of moths and beetles
that gather around the lighted windows
of the house. ‘At such times it seldom
leaves until it has poured forth Its omi-
nous ditty into the ears of wakeful sleep-
ers. This is very truly a song; and it is
one of the few bird songs that may be
accurately represented on the musioal
gamut. It consists of the repetion of a
single triplet: •
/ Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, etc.
The bird delivers its notes in quick
waltz-time; and when it is pot too near
they are extremely musical and rather
plaintive, though the plaintiveness is
owing less to their expression than to
the solemnity of the twilight and soli-
tude. The whippoorwill sings’’in the
dusk of evening soon after the veery has
become silent and the last glow of sunset
has faded. The song is renewed at early
dawn, though the bird is less musical at
this hour than in the evening twilight,
whioh is morning, as it wero, to this
noctnrnal bird. It does not often sing
at midnight, exoept on tho rising of the
moon.
When in pursuit of its prey the whip-
poorwill flies low, sailing noiselessly just
above tho tree tops and taking the larger
nocturnal insects in its flight.’ In tho
daytime it qonceals itself In the deep
woods, resting on tho ground, in some
high and dry situation, or In the branch
of a tree, placing itself lengthwise upon
It, not crosswise and clasping it like oth-
er birds. But though the day Is tho
time of sloep and rest for tho whippoor-
will, it is “never caught napping.'" The
bird U so wary and so keenly sensitive
to the least motion and sound, that, ac-
cording to Mr. Gentry, it is difficult to
approach near onough to ohservo it
while at rest. When we are within a
■fhw yards of it, the bird, takes a sudden
flight to another spot. In this respect
it differs from the common owl, which
is dull and stupid by day and not easily
aroused; hence it is often annoyed by
other birds.
Dr. Elliott Coues, who is -always elo-
quent when ho aims to bo so, writes of
an allied species in the West called the
“Poor Will," because the bird omits the
first syllable of our bird’s name. He
says: “This cry is very lugubrious; and
In places where the birds are numerous,
the walling chorus is enough to excite
vague apprehensions on the part of the
lonely traveler, os he lies down to rest
by his camp lire, or to break his sleep
with fitful dreams, in which lost spirits
appear to bemoan their fate and to im-
plore his intercession. It is not strange
that a heated fancy should riot in the
circumstances of desolation and immi-
nent peril, under which the emigrant or
the explorer must often be placed in the
Western wilderness. Experience comes
vividly to mind, at the present moment,
of night after night, when I have grad-
ually lost consciousness, with a mind
peopled with all manner of weird im -
ages. Closing my eyes to' the stars in
the broad expanse above—my only cov-
erlet-rand to the ruddy gleam from the
embers of tho camp firo, with a thought
of home, and perhaps a silent aspira-
tion, it might be long before the sense
of hearing would desert its post. The
monotonous tread of the sentinel would
fall heavily on tho ear; Jhe horses would
seem to champ as never before; the
bands of vagrant coyotes would hunt
with redoubled eneriry, and all the
while the Poor Wills shouted their
alarm." ,
Like the whippoorwill, there is also
some mystery associated with the night-
hawk, an allied species which is still
idea' ” ed with it by many of our coun-
try people. I am not disposed, how-
ever, to argne with the ornithologists
.who have separated them Into two dif-
ferent genera. The two birds have a
great superficial resemblance; but they
differ in their flight and in some of their
habits. That of the iflght-hawk is more
varied, he flies higher and with the ease
of a swallow. This bird has a sharp and
peculiar cry, which is heard when it ap-
pears at early twilight, and is readily
known and recognized by all who have
onoe heard It; it is likened by Samuels
to the squeak of the common snipe. Its
motions in the air have been compared
to those of the Moon, and Its name to
probably derived from this resemblance,
for the bird is not a hawk In any sense)
seldom appear*
unless it has been disturbed
In broad daylight*
Wo may
bright Spot under eaol
then observe
of its wings.
The night-hawk is notable on accoust
of Its mysterious “booming" whioji is
heard chiefly in the early morning, just
before dawn. No writer or observer
has yet explained the origin of this pe-
culiar sound. In the early part of the
season, while numbers of the birds art
sailing about In the air, we hear tlx
boom as often as once in two err throf _____________________s. _
minutes. The bird makes a rapid, per- the water whioh thus enters the "Carib-
nendioular descont through a considera-
ble space, then suddenly turns npward,
making a sort of aooop, at the same in-
Btant producing a sound like the twang
of a viol string. Sorao think it Is caused
by the forcible pressure of the air
through tho open mouth of the bird,
making a sort of vibrating whistle.
Audubon attributed the sound to the
ipeci
liar i
> v/s IUJ 1UU TV 4110bs a.nil, UUVCI pwofl
y memoir; and whonever at
period of my life I listen again
iund, it awakens the same sen-
whizzing of the bird’s wings. An allied
in Europe is said to make a aim-
se while sitting on its perch, and
from this fact it would seem to be a v>
cal sound.
Early In life I made a journey on font
with several of my comrades over a sor-
tary road in a half-wooded and pict-
uresque region. We started on our walk
at midnight In the last week of May. It
is a common observation that (luring
the stillness of the night we are keenly
sensitive to all unusual sights and
sounds. About three o’clock is tho
morning we were startled by a sound,
often repeated, like the sudden sweep oi
a bow across - tho strings of it vnlin.
Such a sound high up in the air and
over our heads seemed to us like witch-
ery, and awakened in us a sensatior oi
awo nearly allied to sublimity. We
continued to marvel about the cause ol
it until, while watching the birds os they
circled around in the air, we saw one of
them perform this musical circumgyra-
tion. This was one of tha simple ad-
ventures of my life which can never piss
from my memory; and whonever
this late ;
to the sound _
sations of mystery and awe whjeh I felt
when to my young imagination it seem-
ed like the voice of a spirit. I consider
this booming of tho night-hawk as one
of the most peculiar sounds in nature.
Tho night-hawk and whippoorwill are
not entirely dissimilar. They resemble
one another, and both place their eggs
on an elevated ground, their nests be-
ing nothing more than a slight depres-
sion of the surface. * The eggs of the
two species are very similar, being
whitish, with blotches of palo brown,
equal at bath ends, and always two in
number. The night-hawk, however,
does not, like the whippoorwill, confine
its nesting to the woods. Its eggs hare
been frequently found on the flat roof,
of high warehouses in our Northern
cities. Probably the height of these
liuililings creates an artificial solitude,
whioh the birds may easily mistake for
th.-ft of nature.
Noth.—The following lines were*
printed last autumn in a little volume
entitled “The City and the Sea,” pub-
lished in aid of the “Hospital Fair” in
Cambridge. The measure of the poem
is dactyllic, and was used to barmonize
with the word “whippoorwill.” I have
mixed no other motor with the piece,
and have repeated no rhymes. I believe
this is the only purely dactyllic compo-
sition in our language. This meter has
probably been neglected on account of
the difficulty of writing it. Bishop
Heber’s “Epiphany Hymn," whioh in
strength and beauty of versification is
unequaled in the works of any author,
is dactyllio except in the terminations of
the lines.
TIIB WHIPFORWILL.
Hidden In twilight, far off In the woody felt,
Waking the echoes from high rock and clta
del.
When the clear waters In moonlight are shim-
mering.
When the soft banners of even are glimmer-
Hound the horizon empnrplod and vapory.
From ill- high arbor of evergreen drapery,
Wbon the oool night winds aro fluttering
fbe Preseat Idea of the Gulf Stream.
The following is the general concep-
tion of the Gull Stream as at present
understood, subject, of oourse, to modi-
fication in minor detail hereafter: The
north equatorial current of the Atlantio
striking against South America is de-
flected northward, and as tnuoh of it as
can passed between Grenada and the
north shoro of South Amerioa along the
Spanish main. Much more of it, how-
ever, U deflected by the islands in a
more northerly direction between Bar-
badoes and the Grenadines. A part of
on tho oo<
wearil;
Hinging lit* hyti
Hear the loud
hi* hymn to the solitude olio
whtppoor
whippoorwill,
Itud
ill,
Iteerlly—
whippoorwill,
WIIIPI^K'* Will,
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
0 whippoorwill,
sylvian, lyrical, mttaicAl whippoorwill!
whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
whippoorwill.
Lone aerenader, awaking tho stilly night,
From his green bowery hailing tho lunai
r-boetle is wandering airily,
tall owlet is foraging charily,
y creatures in all the wldelstl-
green bowi
Whefttiradoi
When tho snn
Hosts nf gey
tude.
Quietly sleeping In silent beatitude.
Perehed on Ids muss-covered battlement all
Cslllni
tone-
alone,
eg aloud in Ills musical monolot
Heat the lone whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
whippoorwill.
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
whippoorwill,
Eremite, Isolate, wandering whippoorwill,
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
whippoorwill.
oft have I loitered at eve In tho solitude.
Tracing Ids haunts In the maples and holly-
wood.
When the loud din of the village was quieted,
Merry birds sleeping where lately flio.v rioted;
Ominous darkness pervading the wilderness,
Loitered
On the weird ■
Charmed with the whippoorwill, whippoor-
will, whippoorwill,
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
whippoorwill,
Slbyllne, mythical, ominous whippoorwill.
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
whippoorwill.
Bird of the wilderness I dearer than Philomel I
Echoes are telling thy notes from ths hill and
dell.
I.overs and mourners delighted are listening,
When the first star In the daw drop 1s glisten-
Inrknes* pervading
i sweet solitude silent a
1 alone In the melh
- wll
and acheless;
nderln,
done In the mellow evn pondering
Ird shadows that greeted my won-
hen t
Waiting the call of the eylvlan ehorts'er—
lamely, nocturnal and eremite forester;
Prophet of gladness, but never foreboding 111,
Carolling ohenrllv from Ills green dons'* ’.le,
Uttering whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whip-
poorwill,
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
whippoorwill,
Prescient, vigilant, auguring whippoorwill,
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill,
whippoorwill.
— Wilton Hoff, in notion Trantcrift.
bean emerges again between Guada-
toupe and tlaytl, with a higher temper-
ature than it had before. A large por-
tion of equatorial water proceeds west-
ward between tho Bahama banks and
Haytl, and enters the western Caribbean
through the Wiudward Passage. An-
other portion continues on along the
northern shore, of Cuba to tho Straits
of Florida. The temporature at the
Windward Passage is several degrees
higher than it is when the equatorial
water reaches the Windward Islands,
from Trinidad and B&rbadoes toGuada-
loupe. This is because it has been
passing over a serijs of shoals and
hanks, and ha, been thoroughly warmed
by the sun. It is to be borne in mind
that the bottom water (at 2,000 fathoms)
in the enclosed basins of the Caribbean
and Gulf Is no coldor than the water of
the outside Atlantic at a level with the
rjm (700 fathoms) of these basins (».
39.6 deg. Fah,), while at 2,000 fathoms
outride, the Atlantic waters are two and
a half degrees colder. This suggests a
speoulation as to whethor if the enclosed
water had onoe beern any colder ltoould
have become warmed to its present tem-
perature, which seem, Improbable, and
leads to tho inference that the rim of
those basins has perhaps existed ever
since the general temporature of the
colder Atlantic water was much higher
than now. As has been pointed out by
Superintendent Ililgard, tho current
entering the Gulf of Mexico from tlie
Caribbean does not make the circuit of
the Gulf as formerly supposed, and has
no necessary connection with othor cur-
rents around the <JuIf. On the contrary,
it passes to the northward and eastward
in the same general trend as the Yucatan
plateau, and issues from the Straits of
Florida with such ro-inforeement, as it
may reoeive from between Cuba and the
Bahama. Ranks, as above mentioned.—
The temperature of the Gulf Stream,
now individualized and defined, in the
oaily part of its course, according to
most careful observations by BarUett,
rjreTy exceeds 83 degrees in June and
.Inly, except under a hot sun in very
calm weather. The temperatures of
the stream at corresponding depths are
the same as those found between the *
Windward Passage and the Gulf of
Mexieo. Tho width of tho Straits of
Florida between Jupiter Inlet and Mem-
ory Kook bn Little Bahama Bank is
forty-eight miles, tjic greatest depth 139
fathoms; the area of the cross-section
about 430,000,000 sqnaro feet, and at
three knot, (the average volocity) the
dsllvery here would be about 43<i,000,-
400,000,000 tons per diem. This i, evi-
dently much loss than the amount
Oalled for by the volume of warm water
which spreads over tho greater part of
tho Atlantio Oocan, from Cuba to Nor-
way, and which by certain philosophers
is aseribed to the outpour from the Gulf.
The width of the stream varies from
fifty to nearly one hundred miles, the
velocity and temperature of the axis be-
ing greater than that of the lateral
part. Its average rate may be two and
a half miles an hour, in many places D.
Inis, and in sbrno reaches live miles an
hour. "A delineation of the stream in
Until corresponding to its varying sur-
face-velocities shows that broad-off
Trbue Light and Okacroke the velocity
of tho whole stream over a considerable
area is diminished, and in each ca-e a
little later (off Charleston and Hatteras)
is suddenly increased. The inference
from this would be that in these locali-
ties tlie current receives a temporary
check of some kind, overcoming which
it starts with renewed vigor. At Hat-
teras this check is due to the Labrador
current, wblch is met and overrun, but
the observations do not show any water
of Labrador temperature off Charleston.
Instead of running over a trough, the
stream passes over a tolerably even pla-
teau, or area of very gentle slope east-
ward, which extends off the coast from
tho Bahamas to. Hattera,, narrowing
northward. The “trough” was due to
the rapid current running away with the
slack of the sounding line when in its
grasp, and consequently registered too
great a depth—an error common to all
soundings with ropes in a current, not
oxcopting those of the Challenger.
Instead of having a oushion of other
water to glide over, Bartlett found the
bottom of-baed coral rock in the path of
the stream, at 400 fathoms, swept as
clean of slime, ooze, or living things as
the bed-of a mountain torrent. Instead
of bounding “cold walls” and interca-
lated “cold bands,” the water inshore
appears to be a mere overflow of Uulf
Stream Water, and the temperature from
the stream landward or seaward is but
little cooler than the stream itself, which
is known chiefly by its motion. Indeed,
a two mile per hour southwesterly cur-
rent of nearly equal warmth was ob-
served east of the Gulf Stream off
Charleston on several occasions. The
“cold bands” appear to have been .due
to rain-squalls or other causes producing
accidental inequalities of temperature,
whiuh disappear a few feet below the
surface.
The Gulf Stream, in passing over the
oontlnental plateau, has its Inner edge
near but not rigorously oontinous with
the line of 100 fathoms in depth, and
extends to about the curve of 500 fath-
om,. The edge of the continental plateau
drops suddenly to about 9,000 fathoms,
and makes its nearest approach to the
ooast at Cape Hatteras. The oold Lab-
rador current runs outside of and along
Ibis bank, anil, when the Gulf 8treair.
pours over It, causes a tumult in the
waters. Whether the entire Labrador
current underruns the Gulf Stream, and
follows the 2,000' fathom curve to the
equator,or whether a portion of it posies
over the oontlnental plateau inside, ris-
ing in temperature, but retaining ita
motion and oausing the tumult off
Charleston and the southwest ourront
outside the Gulf Stream (after pas-lng
under it), are questions whioh thorough
serial temperature observations will be
required to determine. It is at least not
improbable that some of the cooler
water may creep southward as the Gulf
Stream itself Is swayed off and on the
ooast by more or less opposing galos.
But Commander Bartlett appears to
have disproved, among many other, old
notions, the idea that the arctic current,
as such, underruns the Gulf Stream to
the Gulf itself, or even to the Straits of
Florida.—N. Y. Evening Poet.
-»o «- -
He Hat Down.
We wore running through South Car-
olina, when a great big giant of a fellow
with a terrible eye and a voicoliko a fog-
horn boarded the train at a small sta-
tion. I think most of the passengers
sized him up as a chap whom it would
bo dangerous to argue with, but the
erlant wasn’t satisfied with that. He
blustered,at tho conductor, growled at
the brakeman and looked around as if
seeking some one to pick a fuss with.
Everybody answered him civilly, anil
he had two or three seats to himself, but
the man who wants a row can generally
find some pretext. About the center of
the ear a pale-looking chap about twen-
ty-five years old occupied a seat and was
reading a newspaper. After a time-tlie
giant rubbed along tc where the young
man sat and growled out :
“ Stranger,'what may be the. first cost
of such a hat as yours P"
The young man looked up with a
flash in his big blue eyes, and then
turned to his paper without replying.
“■Hey! Did you hear meP” roared
the other, as he leaned over the scat
and lifted the hat off the young man’s
head. t
Quicker than one could count six a
shining revolver came from you couldn't
lell whore, lifted itself on aJevel -with
the big man's eye, and the white fin-
gers clutching the butt never trembled
a hair’s brCadth a,s a quiet voice uttered
the words:
“ Drop that hatf”
The hat fell from the giant's grasp,
and the quiet voice continued :
“ Now you sit down or I’ll kill you!'’
The muzzle of the weapon was not six
inches from the man’s eye, and I saw
him turn from red to while in ten sec-
onds . He backed away at the command,
sat down in a seat opposite, and never
stood up or spoke another word during
his ride of twenty miles. lie had a
“navy” under his coat, hut something in
that quiet voice and bluo eye warned
him that the move of a finger on his part
would crash a bullet into his head.—
Detroit Free Preet.
The Aquarium.
In answer to several inquiries wo con-
dense directions for making an aqua-
rium. A tank of ten by eighteen inches
will support about twenty fish. These
should be nearly of a size, and not more
than three or four inches long. Lizards,
eels, tadpoles, several species of beauti-
ful snails, anil some kinds of bivalves,
which are valuable as scavengers, should
not be omitted. Tho tank should be
filled with clean pebbles and sand to the
depth of about three inches. A few larger
stones arranged so as to form eaves
and grottoes produce a pleasing effect,
and most fishos love such hiding-places.
Nearly all plants found growing under
water are suitable -for a tank; yet they
should be sought In iflow-flowing
streams and ponds -rather than in rapid-
>ks. None but soft si
running hi
or rain vn
nrmg
'ater should be used for filling.
It Is a mistake to suppose that it is nec-
essary to change the water frequently.
The contrary is true, as fishes can not
thrive when subjected to frequent
changes of water. In an aquarium, as
well as in lakes and ponds, the water is
kept pure by the action of the plants
growing beneath the surface. The tank
should stand near a window or skylight,
and not in direct sunlight for any length
of time. If the glass becomes coated
with oonfervie or slime, it can easily bo
cloaned with a spongo fastened to a
stick. Tho plants and animals should
be so selected and disposed that they
become* mutually self-supporting anil
flourish as well as in their native^ locali-
ty, forming a little world of their own.
— If. Y. Tribune.
upper
Fla)
) Timet.
PITH AND POINT.
—Eloquence is the best speech of ths
bost soul,
— It is difficult for a woman to keep a
secret, and I know more than one man
who Is a woman.—Iji Fontaine.
—Tho average man is supi*o*«d to lose
•lx cuff buttons per year, and be is just
moan enough not to throw away the old
ones so that the finder can make a pair.
o—Detroit Free Prctt.
—“The astronomors at Harvard Uni-
versity have figured out that the oomet
went around tne sun at toe rate of 400
miles a second*. Probably tlie sun had
a bill against the comet.”—Chicago
TriOunt.
—An English woman says: “English
women can’t hold a candle to French
women In the matter of flirtiiig.” Per-
haps if they could it would throw some
light on the subject.—Norristown
llerabi.
—There is a cow in l’etlnsylvania that
goes limping through li!e with a
wooden leg. What a bonanza the owner
would have if he could turn that leg
into a pump and make the animal stand
In a stream of water while he was milk-
ing.—N. Y, Advertiser.
—Orchestral players aro getting to be
Intolerably conceited. The piccolos are
dreadfully high-toned. thB trumpeters
are always blowing their own horn, the
fiddlers oomplain that they are sub-
jected to such violint exercise, and the
drummers are all on a strike.—N. T.
Post.
—A great many things are accepted
by us as a matter of course In this coun-
try An Austin notary was called to
tare the acknowledgment of a witness
to a doed. He wrote out: "To me, well
known, pefsonally appeared-by the
way, what is your name, anyhowP”—
Texas ftiftings.
—Which arm—the. right or left-
should bo given a lady when walking in
a crowded street?—George. In Phila-t
delphia and other orderly cities give her
the right arm, so that she may not lie
jostled by the passing crowd. In -Chi-
cago and St. Louis give her the left
arm and oarry your right hand1 In your
pistol-pooket.—Philadelphia News.
—“What makes you ask such a high
price for this little room?" asked Ko-
siusco Murphy of an Austin landlord.
“Well, there is a young man next door
who plays on the accord eon. You don’t
oxpect to have your innermost iionl
stirred up from the bottom every even-
ing and not pay anything for it, do you P
He sings, toot”—Texas Siftings.
—A great many of the soandalous
stories current aro built on this formula:
—“I say, mother, John told mo that ho
heard Mr. Johnson say that Mr. Handy’s
aunt was present when the Widow
Burnham told Captain Ball’s cousin
that old Mrs. Oxby understood that
Ham Trifle’s wife said, in so many
words, that hor mother heard on the
bost of authority that you weren’t any
better than you should be. If I wore
you I should look the matter up, for the
thing comes pretty straight, you soe.”—
N. Y. Herald.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
A Florida Alligator Story.
Jim Russell, a son of Maj. Russell,
famous during the Florida war, now
makes a precarious living in South Flor-
ida as a guide to visiting sportsmen.
For a bonus of f2 Jim will dive into the
current of the muddy St. John and bring
up an alligator. He actually brings
them out of their holes. Strange as this
may seem it Is the safest way to ap-
proach an alligator. They dig holes In
the river-banks just below the surface of
the water, and orawl into them. Jim
dives down, crawls.’1 In rapidly, and
seizes the saurian i>y the tail, who,
startled, immediately hacks out. Jim
holds on, keeping his legs stiff till clear
of the bank, when he darts away, and
the 'gator, rising to the surface for an
instant to see what is the matter, is
slain by waiting gunners In the boat.
This has become common sport on the
Upper 8t. John River—Jacksonville
—The applo sirup works at Albany,
N. Y., started by men from Holland, have
commenced to ship applo jelly in casks
to Holland.
—A machine for oounling sheep has
been invented and put itz- operation in
California. It is placed in an opening
of a fence and registers every sheep that
passes it.—San Francisco Chronicle.
—Experiments with a submarine tele- '
phone were made the other day at
Havre, in France. A'ship was sent out
a considerable distanoe on the ocean
with a wire, and the result proved that
the voice can be transmitted under wa-
tor more distinctly and loudly even than
on land.
—Charles Jennoy, a Detroit boy, nine-
teen years of age, has invented an elec-
trio lamp and generator that has been
pronounced a success. Some Indiana
capitalists have taken the young man up
anil built for him a factory 30x90 feet in
dimensions, given him a 100-horse pow-
er engine, and hired thirty men to work
under his guidance.—Detroit Free Press.
—Water mixed with loe gives the best
tomper to steel. Ono may insert some
small tools to advantage fn a lump nf
ioe, as jowelers and watchmakers do
when they tomper them in sealing-wax.
Often oil is used, and is preferable to
water, because it is not so easily evap-
orated. Damascened blades aro tem-
pered in a strong current of oold air,
passing through a narrow chink, a tern-
por more uniform than with water be-
ing thus obtained.—S(. Louis Olobe.
—A chemist in Philadelphia claims to
have discovered that the blue fire, long
used in pyrotechnio displays, is an ex-
plosive of terriflo force. It is, he says,
even more powerful than nitro-glyoerine
and half again of the power of dyna-
mite. Tho substanoe has been in con-
stant uso for many years, and has never
been known to cause any trouble, unless
it were the fire at Chester last year. To
produce an explosion it must be subject-
ed to extreme neat, followed by oonous-
sion. It is safer than nitro-glyoerine,
because if it falls to the ground there
will be no explesion. One oan strike a
mass of it with a hammer and only that
portion direotly struck will detonate,
and then only slightly.—Philadelphia
Record.
—"He did a dishonorable thing to
me, and that’s why I shot him," said
Patterson, after firing on Burke, in In-
dianapolis. Burke's displeasing act was
to advise a greenhorn, whom Patterson
intended to rob, to leave most of his
money in a hotel safe before going out
•n a spree,—Jndianapoiit Journal,
thafi ^lTIficSoctoi^ s Htuiriirtte'wprW.
This is now very widely known, and
people who have a natural or acquired
Wste for tomatoes find this food inedi-
Huinu slate 24 per cent., while from
time to time we have noted dividoudH
of from 80 to 50 per cent-, the lafter
having been earned by ft Pulaski,
Teiin., pUil last
|so. You
Hire a coward when you insult tlie
weak. Yon are a coward if afraid
to do right; if yon shrink from main-
taining that which- you know to be
d you aro especially
oertain
are afraid J
lenoeT The tuau
rectly, concisely
who caii write cor-
rapidly and graphic-
ally, does not multiply himself to any
great evtont. The first then of these
ities are indispensable in daily,
indeed periodical work; the latter
is .very desirable. But when
paper, and she wanted Uie 'fiffy-oenls
reward offered.’’
—The Habino & East Texas railway
is now built from Beaumont to tlie
town of .Sabine Pass am
beyond, but it will not
Tim wnruirw wrnram:
reached Dillon on
, An took tlie stage
There we out-fitted,
National Park, and
ourny.o In it lew
selves in the park
ay to tho Big, Horn
cu Timiupsou -aaid -
located. In three
hed the Big Horn
up it to the south,
ith of June.
•pto this time acted
V of us (in addition
d myself we liad
of tne asylum at-
asoii said that we
reach the gold de
', and we* were all
nt. We camjied on
lli in a wild place a
river. Aside from
■< all very tired anil
. n we arose in the
ii was gone. The
,'ideiitly brought on
lity, and he had got
ht and wandered oft
is. We hunted for
id finally found him
ll^ tilt; foot of
feet high. ln'ttUe-
red over it to a cer*
bly the night that
camp. We buried
ml him, uml us a
sure would be hope-
ssistance wc turned
and liis nun 1 left
nee they v> ill proba
for myself, I will
learcli hr the Lost
xjjpf Corn.
iast few years little
felt in any part oi
the supply of corn,
leral impression it.
with considerable
•ery.state and terri-
tbe states enough
>ly tile local demand.
*• us a leading crop,
t that its profitable:
be greatly extended
lie attention of fann-
o, and the small
•B scarcely any de-
xportation, and its
inking glucose anil
jwn. It was used
extent uh food for
1 was very'generiil-
futteiiing hogs in
t was extensively
. ari ly fed to other
engaged in work on
i still more rarely*
lere was no fresh
it abroad, and there
demand for highly
ome. As a conse-
itcers were general-
s' with the niil of a
st of the western
rug in the markets.
4 for transportation,
.4,of it was sent to
lorn was often So
ity that it was
Farmers preferred
is for tlie market,
their prices was
’onld stand trails-
u parts of the conn -
a very productive it.
ght that the busi-
i was greatly over-
i been sufficient to
tiges in relation to
.vc multiplied and
now employed to
•lucose, as well as
whisky, highwines
sidcmhle quantities
into malt. In all
istriets it is exten-
fcoding milch cows,
id growing demand
ef and mutton for
consumption. To
heep as the market
•ary to feed coni in
Vast quantities of
almost every conn-
Side of Russia for
American corn is
beef and daily cat-
(t is also used to
id ilmy horses in
id France. Now,
torn have increased
* most remarkable
ition has not ex-
idcrable extent in-
ti le country, ami
Creased in foreign
ttire country from
e Gulf of California
cttlement, hut no
pt in a few favored
anil Montana are
’ with farmers, yet
is or can lie pro-
( of what are called
toiritories produce
y are deficient- in
fro, or both. Com
Me crop to raise in
*, and as the soil be •
. of its fertility its
s still more dtfieulL
,' liecome con vine'd
mini try adapted to,
Motion of ooru»i|t
l is embraced iu a
/-Bout two hundred
terminating about
keep time with his pen to passengers for some weeks to
..............Tffere ’ mired WiTfa, — ------------
was no difficulty in getting him out two hundred miles wost of the
of tlie asylum. The doctor certified j souri river.—ftnea ffmufkkt
that lie was cured, and a discharge j -
soon followed. We immediately I The young lady who q
started for Montana, whence we in-1 employed in a bank or'
tended to proceed to the Big Horn ; vorce when she dii*
of hnntii
us for the purpose of I
ing a sand hank.
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