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HOW THE TIGFR KILLS
Never Paces Hi Prey but Attacks It
on the Flank
I have taken considerable trouble to
find out how tigers kill large game
Some time ago I was asked to come
and see a full grown bullock that had
been killed by a tiger On examining
it I found the animal had its neck
broken and there were claw marks
on the nose and shoulder but nowhere
else There was no doubt that tbe
tiger had jumped at the bull and land
ed on the shoulder and when the bull
turned his head to gore the tiger he
must have put his claw out and with
a sudden jerk broken the neck
On another occasion I went to see a
young buffalo which had been killed by
a tiger and found the same thing had
happened There were similar marks
on the nose and also on the near shoul
der which clearly indicated that this
animal had been killed in the same
way Malays who have actually seen
a tiger killing a buffalo told me they
saw the same thing happen also that
In dragging off a heavy carcass such
as buffalo or bull he gets most of the
weight across his shoulder
This must be fairly correct as I
have often followed a kill and the
marks left indicate that only a portion
of the animal was trailing along the
ground I have known a full grown
bull which ten men could not move
dragged for two miles by a tiger in a
heavy jungle where roots of trees and
Bwamp had to be gone through In no
case have I seen the pug marks facing
the wrong way except when stopping
to feed which proves he must carry a
portion of the animal over his shoul
der
The old idea of a tiger killing large
game by a blow from his paw is non
sense besides in India a tiger never
faces his prey but attacks him on the
flank unless charged Another curious
fact that may seem very like a fairy
tale is that a tiger does not seem to
mind a small lamp being tied over a
kill about ten feet high but will come
and feed I have known three occa
sions when this has been tried and
each time a tiger has come to feed
upon the carcass London Field
BRITISH BRIEFS
Englands first representative parlia
ment assembled in 12G5
Caesar conquered Britain in the year
55 B C The Roman occupation con
tinued nearly 500 years or until 410
AD
In 1079 was passed the habeas cor
pus act which along with the right of
trial by jury is the great bulwark of
Anglo Saxon liberty
The great plague was introduced Into
London in 1664 by bales of cotton im
ported from Holland 100000 persons
succumbed to the disease in one year
Cromwells long parliament assem
bled in 1640 Charles I was beheaded
Jan 30 1646 and Cromwell became
lord protector in 1653 In 1660 the
Stuarts were restored to the throne
Westminster abbey where the kings
and queens of Great Britain are
crowned was originally a Benedictine
monastery It was founded by Se
bert king of the East Saxons about
616
The Bengali
The Bengali has the best brains of
all the peoples In India and the readi
est tongue His memory is prodigious
and his fertility in talk Inexhaustible
He is something of an Irishman some
thing of an Italian something of a
Jew if one can conceive an Irishman
who would run away from a fight In
stead of running into It an Italian
without a sense of beauty and a Jew
who would not risk 5 on the chance
of making 500 He is very clever but
his cleverness does not lead him far on
the road to achievement for when it
comes to doing rather than talking
he Is easily passed by people of far
inferior ability London Standard
Her Version of It
But didnt you promise when w
were married that I should smoke is
the house whenever I pleased
Yes but yon never plerse by smok
ing In the house Yon displease me
WHEN THE DUNES WALK
A Sand Storm Experience In the
Desert of Salinrn
To flee from a sand storm in the
midst of a drenching rain sectus an ab
surd performance The Arab however
experienced In the ways of Sahara
knows that when the rain stops the
dunes are apt to begin their most ter
rible walking lie seeks shelter
while there is yet time
Our worst experience of the desert In
one of its mad fits says the author of
In the Desert was on a morning
when luckily for us perhaps we were
Hearing the large oasis of Nefta near
the Tunisian frontier The flapping of
the tent and the drumming of rain
drops upon it awoke us and Ahmeda
in some excitement hurried our depar
ture lie explained that so long as the
rain lasted it would keep the sand
quiet and that this was our opportuni
ty Accordingly in a very short time
we had struck tent loaded camels sad
dled ponies and were under way
It seemed to us a somewhat purpose
less proceeding The rain was and had
been heavy The ground was saturat
ed There seemed no prospect of its
drying in a hurry As Nefta was only
half a days march away it seemed
unnecessary to start in frantic haste in
the middle of the night in a pouring
rain Ahmeda however made no an
swer to our protests The other Arabs
seconded his efforts with all their en
ergy
Morning broke wan and sickly As
the light grew the rain slackened The
big warm drops became less frequent
and at last ceased The dull opaque
sky was pasty white and the air hot
and oppressive but the -wind still blew
as hard as or harder than ever
Hardly had the rain stopped when I
tasted between lips and teeth the fa
miliar gritty texture of sand Hardly
had the light increased sufficiently to
disclose to view the drifts when all
their edges and crests could be seen
crawling and flickering In the gale Al
ready there was the droning sound in
the air which meant that the dunes
were walking We saw at last the rea
son for the hurry The rain cannot hold
the sand for more than the instant it
Is falling As soon as it strikes the
earth it sinks in One moment you may
be streaming with water like a drown
ed rat the next you are choking in
clouds of sand
The air grew darker and darker and
the roar of the sand as it rushed along
the desert made speech except by
shouting impossible I could just dis
tinguish our tall camels in the gloom
their ungainly action giving them
something the look of ships pitching
and tossing in a gale
Ahmeda led the way by some mys
terious instinct to us totally incompre
hensible We followed as best we
might breathing sand as we went our
heads bent to protect our faces My
recollection of the next two hours is no
I more definite than would be the recol
lection of being rolled over and over
by a huge breaker A singing and
roaring in the ears almost total blind
ness a sense of suffocation and the
feeling that I was in the hands of
elements more powerful than myself
are the vague impressions that remain
When we at last got to Nefta wo
could not have been more saturated
with sand had we been buried in it
and dug up again Hair ears clothes
were full of it Our cheeks were scar
let and sore with the ceaseless batter
ing and on them had formed hard
crusts of sand cemented by the wa
ter that had streamed from our eyes
The Bloodstone
Almost every jewel has superstition
of some sort attaching to it and the
bloodstone is not wanting in this par
ticular The story is told of it that at
the time of the crucifixion some drops
of blood fell on a piece of dark green
jasper that lay at the foot of the cross
The crimson crept through the struc
ture of the stone and this was tlio
parent of this beautiful jewel The
dark red spots and veins were sup
posed to represent the blood of Christ
and many wonderful properties were
attributed to the stone It was
thought to preserve its wearer from
dangers to bring good fortune and to
heal many diseases
Great Men Have Been Erect
The first object of physical methods
should be to straighten and expand the
body The world may in a broad gen
eral way be divided into two great
classes the erect and the inerect the
strong and the weak The epoch mak
ersthe Cromwells Luthers Napole
ons Wellingtons Washingtons and
Websters have been men marked by
a straight spine and a broad high
deep chest The mastered millions the
defeated ones have been the inerect
Outing
Extenuating Circumstance
A woman was charged with stealing
a dozen cases of silver She appeared
before the second judicial chamber
Said the judge Come tell us the
truth Said the woman The truth
my good judge is that I have not been
able to resist the temptation Consid
er your honor they all bore my ini
tials LIndependance Roumaine Bu
charest
No Wonder
What makes Archie Feathertop
have such a strange preoccupied look
about him lately
Preoccupied is the right word for it
Hes engaged to a girl but he has
found another girl that he likes bet
ter Chicago Tribune
Accomplished a Good Deal
Mrs Hoyle What do you think of
my dressmaker Mrs Doyle Shes
great She has almost given you a
figure New York Press
Let thy speech be better than bI
lence or be silent Dionysius
ANCIENT WATER VILLAGES
Relic of Old CnntoniM Prevailing In
tlie Snrcctvnltl
One of this most Interesting regions
lu the old fatherland Is the so called
Sprcevald the forest of the Spree
situated not fr from the German cap
ital In the province of Brandenburg
Each village is a little Venice every
house a little Island and these Islets
are connected by bridges sutllcicntly
raised to allow boats to pass under
them Most of the houses with their
barns and stables rest on piles and
there is generally a strip of artificial
terra Anna either in front or at the
rear of every building By means of
these land strips and of the bridges
the slender land communication is kept
throughout the district but most of the
business and amusement are carried
on through tlve canals which not only
form the main highways but penetrate
and cross and recross the whole re
gion It is on these lagoons that all
traffic is conducted in boats during
the period from spring when the last
vestiges of frost and ice are disappear
ing until the end of autumn You see
the letter carrier shoot up and down
the canals performing his duties in his
frail craft the police glide leisurely
along the banks watching everything
going on peasants bring the products
of their toil to the nearest towns chil
dren go to and from school young
mothers dressed in their Sunday
clothes are rowed to church carrying
in their arms a small queer looking
bundle from which two large eyes in
a tiny face stare at the stranger in
wonderment baby is going to be
tized an important moment with this
strongly religious people Technical
World Magazine
DREAM MYSTERY
The KventH Thnt May Be Crowded
Into a Few Seconds
The duration of a dream Is so seldom
accurately measured that a story pub
lished in the St Louis Medical Record
is worth repeating
The writer a doctor was seized with
an uncontrollable drowsiness during a
call and was struggling to keep awake
when he was asked by his companion
How long may you stay in B His
answer which came promptly enough
was That depends on the Western
Union and catching himself he ex
plained that he was expecting a tele
gram In fact however his answer re
lated to the facts of a dream which
had been sandwiched between the two
parts of the sentence
After hearing the words i4How long
the doctor had dozed off dreamed that
after long and tedious experiments he
had invented a wonderful apparatus
for holding telegraph poles in a ver
tical position had negotiated with the
postal company for its sale but unsuc
cessfully and had finally gone to the
authorities of the other company
They in the dream told him they were
considering a German invention for
the same purpose and the dreamer
crossed the ocean to examine the rival
device returned explained the differ
ences to the intending purchaser and
was writing a reply when he woke in
time to hear the end of his companions
question
The events of the dream had appar
ently consumed months yet the actual
time that elapsed was merely that re
quired for uttering about four short
words
Precedent For Governess
Albert VII archduke of Austria
married Isabella Clara Eugenie in
fanta of Spain who brought to him as
dowry the sovereignty of the Low Coun
tries etc When Philip IV of Spain
ascended the throne in 1021 he took
from his aunt the sovereignty of the
Low Countries but left her the title of
governess Her husband died soon aft
er whereon she took the veil though
still retaining the reins of government
She died at Brussels in 1C33 aged sixty-six
nere there is precedent for the
use of the word governess when a lady
holds the post London Notes and
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Paid For the Opinion
Shortly after Chief Justice Purley of
the court of appeals of New Hamp
shire had retired from the bench and
resumed the practice of his profession
a man called on him to get his opinion
in a certain matter After stating his
case clearly he said Well judge what
do you think of my case The judge
promptly replied I think you are a
scoundrel How much do I owe you
for that opinion inquired the client
Ten dollars demanded the judge
The fee was promptly paid
Rhodesias Largest Xngrgret
Weighing 21G2 ounces a gold nugget
which measures five and a half inches
In length and three inches in width
was recently found near Bulawayo It
is believed to be the largest yet found
in Rhodesia and is now in the British
South Africa companys museum at 2
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The Woman of It
Mother impatiently You have been
very naughty today Juanita I shall
have to tell your father when he comes
home Juanita aged seven Thats
the woman of it You never can keep
anything to yourself
The Determining Factor
Helen Sometimes I like waltzing
and sometimes I do not Ethel It de
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