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"There is the man who was bonds man for the construction of the Moni tor.” This remark is often made at the rapitol as Representative Sperry of Connecticut is pointed out. it was forty years ago that Mr. Sperry signed his name to the instrument that pledged every dollar he had in the world on the success of an experiment —an absolute experiment—that the United States Navy Department was not willing to back, which a great many people thought was a foolish one, but the success of which marked the turning point in the naval tights of the war of the rebellion. Mr. Sperry's story of the bonding of the constructors of the Monitor, the fiscal act which was antecedent to the great military drama, is very interest ing. "I was a young fellow.” said Mr. Sperry, “but was full of patriotism and ardor for the success of the Union cause, and 1 guess that was why the projectors of the Monitor approached me to back the scheme with a bond for the successful building of the vessel. “John A. Griswold of Troy, at that time a member of Congress; Cornelius S. Bushlell of New Haven and a West ern man named Winslow were the builders. The vessel was designed by Ericsson, as is well known, but these three men were to construct her. "The Navy Department was skeptical of the practicability of Ericsson's idea, and declined to advance the money unless bom^ could be provided to secure the department against loss if the plans should not work out successfully. “There was great commotion about the building of the Confederate ram Merrimac. We knew that she was go ing ahead at the Cosport navy yard and would be the most formidable ves sel afloat. She was iron-clad, and the thought of that invincible ship being turnc '1 loose among the wooden ves sels of the coast was a terrible one. “She could have levied tribute on every city along the coast from the Chesapeake to Maine, and would have had everything her own way. Well, when the Monitor was proposed, peo ple said that was just the thing if it would work out. But many people were doubtful about the 'cheese box.' as they jeeringly called Ericsson’s ves sel. “Mr. Bushnell thought she could be built. So Mr. John Drew of New York and myself west on his bond with the Navy Department, and the work was started at Greenpolnt, N. Y. Every body knows how the Union vessel was finished, went down the coast and was in Hampton Roads when the Merri mac came out. “I will never forget the day of the battle, it was an exciting time in New’ Haven, for we had a kind of local pride in the Monitor, on account of Mr. Bushnell's connection. All day long crowds clustered around the tele graph office, receiving bulletins of the fight. “Mr. Bushnell and I were there, too, you may depend upon it. At last, along about 5 or fi o'clock in the even ing came the news that the Merrimac had been disabled by the Monitor and had put back to port. Bushnell, who was a strapping hig fellow, with a hand in proportion to his size, brought his hand down on my shoul der with a whack that nearly knocked mo clown. “ Sperry,’ says he, ’your bond is safe-.’ 1 tell you. there was great cele brating in New Haven that time. A peculiar thing is that the original bond we signed has never been found. No one knows what, became of it.”— Washington Star. SOARED THE SHARK Adventures of a Diver Wlio Was at Work in the Magdalena River, Colombia. I'ew men lead more adventurous lives in these latter days than divers; and few divers have survived more perils of the deep than one known to his fellows by the name of “Tim mans.” This is how he describes one adventure with a shark—a more excit ing than dangerous one, as it happily proved: "1 once had an experience with a shark,” he said, “while we were trying to save a 3,000-ton steamer of the Hamburg-Ameriean Packet Company, wrecked on a bar in the Magdalena river, Columbia. “I'd been working for days patching her keel, hung on a swinging shelf we’d lowered along her side, and every time I went down I saw swarms of red snappers and butterfish under my shelf, darting after the refuse I'd scrape off her plates; and there were big jewfish, too, and I used to harpoon ’em for the men to cat. In fact, I about kept our crew supplied with fresh fish that way. "Well, on one particular day I no ticed a sudden shadow against the light, and there was a shark sure enough; not such an enormous one, but twelve feet long anyhow—big enough to make me uneasy. He swam slowly around me, and then kept per fectly still, looking straight at me with his little wicked eyes. • "I didn't know what minute he might make a rush, so I caught up a hammer I was working with—it was my only weapon—and struck it against the steamer's side as hard as I could. You know a blow like that sounds louder under water than it does in the air. and it frightened the shark, so he went off like a flash. “I’ll tell you how hungry those sharks were. They’d swallow big chunks of pork, sir, nailed and wir^d to barrel heads, as fast as we could chuck ’em overboard; swallow nails, wire, barrel heads and all; and then we haul ’em in by ropes that did for fish lines, only it took twenty or thirty men to do the hauling. And there were plenty of sharks round about, only they never seemed to tackle a men in the suit.” SAVAGES DEFEND THEIR PRACTICE OF CANNIBALISM The Woelffel expedition which re cently traversed a region of dense for ests back of the ivory coast of West Africa found there a large number of cannibals comprising several tribes. When the white men in the Woelffel party asked these cannibals why they indulged in the practice of eating hu man flesh they replied that men are in the habit of washing their bodies three times a day, and their flesh, therefore, is cleaner and sweeter than that of rattle, which are never washed. When Mr. Stanley sent Captain Co quil'bat to occupy the station he had established among the fierce Bangalla cannibals of the middle Congo he found the natives ever ready to defend the practice of eating human flesh. "This is horrible,” said Coquilhat one day to a chief whom he saw at his meal. "On the contrary, it is delicious with salt,” was the reply. Another time the Belgian soldier expressed his abhorrence to a chief who was about to sit down to a cannibal banquet The latter replied to his protests: “When you kill a goat I do not in terfere. This dead man is my proper ty. I did not steal or capture him, but I bought him with good cloth and I will eat him if I please.” One day Coquilhat pointed out the difference between man and mere ani mals. and tried to convince the natives that to eat a man was to make a very bad use of him. and to degrade their species. A bright fellow in the crowd called out in answer: “All your talk only shows that hu man flesh is the best sort of food, while the flesh of mere animals is a vile sort of nutriment.” The passenger is likely to make bet ter time in the car than in the cab. MAMMOTH PRESERVED IN THE ICE. Scientists Revel Over Recent Discovery Made In Siberia. The scientific part of the world that interests itself in bones and their nat ural coverings will be highly pleased to learn that the complete skeleton, and a good deal besides, of a mam moth has been found imbedded in ice in the eastern part of Siberia. It was the ice that preserved it all these years, and while for commercial pur poses it ruined the ice, it kept the mammoth in really prime condition. This particular monster is estimated to have been in cold storage for some thing like 2.000 years, and it speaks well for the Siberian brand of ice that in all that time it seems to have kept up its admirable reputation for firm ness and endurance. It appears from investigation that the mammoth, while browsing along the ice fields, accidentally slipped, and before he could recover nts balance came in contact with terra Siberia with such force as to break his mam- i moth neck. He lay as he fell, which ! was after all a good thing, because no horse ambulance ever made was big enough for a mammoth, and there the ice closed over him, and for 2,000 years, more or less,- he reposed in his trapped tomb, until some wandering scientist came along and stared at him through the crystal walls. Then they cracked him out from his frost bitten nose to his frozen feet, and set him up and danced the dance of tri umph about nim. Poor old mammoth! The world has changed a good deal since fate dealt him that fatal jolt in the neck. John H. Gough Not Forgotten. A full-length oil painting of the late John B. Gough has been presented to the Worcester County, Massachusetts, Mechanics’ association and will be un veiled at the annual meeting. Idleness is the incubator of a great many small sins. Who is he who dares say all he thinks. PE-RU-NA CURES CATARRH OF KIDNEYS EVERY TIME. ' |-| | Major T. U. 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Brake, of I’etrolea, Ontario, Canada writes: “Four years ago I had a severe attack of Bright's disease, which brought me so low the doctor said nothing more could he done for me. I began to take Peruna and Manaiin, and In three months I w as a well man and have continued so ever since. Brake. At the appearance of the first symptom of kidney trouble, • I’eruna should be taken. This remedy strikes at once the very root of the disease. 11 at once re* Jieves t lie ca tarrhal kid neys of the stagnant blood, p r e - v c n ting the escapeof serum from the blood. i eruna stimulates tne icianeys 10 excrete from the blood the accumu lating poison, and thus prevents the convulsions which are sure to follow if the poisons arc allowed to remain. It gives great vigor to the heart's action and digestive system, both of which are apt to fail rapidly in this disease. l'eruna cures catarrh of the kidneys simply because .t cures catarrh where ever located. 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