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x&xzsvi 5 t I I; i ! ft' ft g: m FARM AND FIRESIDE. Bananas and Cream: Heap upon a -glass dish eight or ten ice cold bananas, sliced thin; epriuklo with powdored sugar; pour over them a cupful of whipped cream, also iee cold, and serve with light plain cake. Good House keeping. Honey or sugar should always be given to the bees on the inside of the hive, to prevent robbing. A good feeder is made by taking a shallow dish and placing within it plenty of little floats of wood to prevent the bees from being drowned in the liquid. 1'rairic Farmer. To el can a carpet that has been taken up. first shake, then putting it on a line, beat with a branch of a tree with many twigs, trimmed smoothly that it may not catch in the threads, then, most important of all. swoop thoroughly on both sides, while it is spread on the grass. Shade trees that send out roots to jrrcat distances, only to throw out shoots and suckers, should lie dug up. j I he aspen as great a nuisance as the Cumulu thistle, and yet it is planted along the roads every season. If permitted it will completely overrun adjoining iields, and is not easily exterminated. A cool cellar does not mean a damp vellar. The collarshould bo well aired vory day, and also given a good white washing whenever it is necessary to do .so. Before storing any crops in the cellar, every portion of the collar should be thoroughly cleanod. and if it havo a cement floor it should even be well .scrubbed. No kind of grain is so well adapted OPENING AN ACCOUNT. Tha Trouble m Saving Bank Fellow Had with a Depositee The officials require not only nimbie fingers and active brains to deal with all these dollars, and all these anxious, nervous people, but they require a great deal of patience as well; for, in their busiest moments, thev are often pestered with patrons like the irritable and suspicious woman, who. after fidgeting for half an hour in the line, at length reaches the teller's window and seems inclined to stay there. "I've got ten dollars," says she, "and I want to open an account." "With pleasure, madam. What is your name?" "Simpkins." "Cliristian name, please?" "Sophronisba." "Any middle name?" "Katherine." "What is your age. please?" "That's none of your business." "Pardon me, madam, it is the rule of the bank to make these inquiries. though a beautiful tree, is j I can not go on without this informa tion. It is as necessary for your ovru protection as it is for ours." "Thirty-five, then." "Are you married or single?" "Sow, look here, mister, you are impertinent. Do I look married? I'd like to see the man who'd marry me, if he dared." "Shall I write married or single? Bo quick as you can, please." And as I said, if you i..i3ELLANEOUS. Minister (dining with the family) This is a very nice dinner, isn't it. Bobby?" Bobby (enjoying it) "lc ought to be. Pa figured it out that it was going to cost him over eight dol lars." The Epoch. Passengers forgot more than 10.000 different articles in the cars of the New York elevated roads last year. They included gold watches, umbrellas, un derwear, etc., and have been sold at auction. Old Mrs. Bentley "Jane, where did you hang that new thermometer?" Jane "Jist outside the winder, mum." Oid Mrs. Bentlcv "Well, gracious. Jane! Bring it into the sittin-room at once, an' close the blinds. D'ye want to mast us to death?" Time. For quickness in raising money tor business enterprises Hutchinson, K::n seems to outrank some of the 1: cities. They called a meeting out there for such a purpose, and, after the hall was filled, locked the door. A local paper tells that work then began, and in just one hour and fifteen minutes ! the sum of $224,000 was subscribed. j It was at Dublin, in 1741, that the ! first performance of the "Messiah" THE QRAPHOPHONE. VALUE OF DIAMONDS. . .- . . . . .. ir i PtIm at Fur Stnaea Is Mate a .sarreous jaacmne xnai xaias aau per petuates Talk. ine time lias arrived when vou can billrnnH xraniinu'Tinti-nnanvin nxhpot RgO. Said M of paper, put a 2-centstampon it. send diamond cutter, "I was allowed as spc it to vour friend, and h. in iinrnn it cial favor to see the great diamond that and he:ir nwrv wnrrt rnn onifl in ovnntlv Was found last year ill South Africa. f..m.l l.v a MnBnmllr. I When I was in London a short time n;A TVT.. r l)n S. Mendes. tho tHU , rm - w - the same tone of voice you used in dictat ing it. This is all possible, provided you both own phonographs, the new machine that has made its advent in Boston. It looks like a sewing machine. I think they are going to call it tho Jubilee diamond, but I bclievo it is not; yet named. It is tho whitest stone in the world, and one of tho largest, and is owned by eight persons on shares. SCIENCE AND INDUof,. It is said that some clothespin box packers can pack 72.00'J a day. Ti y are paid one cent for packing a llox of four gross. At this rate tlioy ia:. ce five dollars a day. ' Iron is a constituent of most so'ids and is found iu food c-ops. Oats. ,.r ley and rice contain much nr.i ;on than wheat, corn or b--a:is. X, 4y four por centofthj aU of tlu ,t grain is iron. Prof. Poel. of St. Peters ir..-. V It runs noiselessly, bv foot power, and the value being greater than any ono fonm fifty percent, of petroleum in all you have to do is to talk to it through a mouthpiece on the end of a flexible rubber tube. Yon can talk as fast as you like and as loud; you can whistle, sing or furnish any kind of music, and the graphophone will take it all down, and reproduce it every two minutes for the next one thousand even of the enormously rich diamond dealers could afford. cod liver oil sold by one drug.j s. t.4 5 adulterated article having th ?.i- "When found it was of an irregular ' Smcll and appearance of th.- g",4 ... shape, being somewhat like an e with Mineral oil is also frequently fo.t i . k the small end somewhat elongated. ( 0jjVo oil. The owners, in order to reduce it to a very donso graphitic carbon ' -regular shape, split oil this end. and Incandescent electric lighting is n nr after cutting the fragment found they produced bv passing the electric .- w::ii., years if yOU wisju ej.yjj t jme accurately j '-! !l forty-karat brilliant, which they ( charges from an induction coil betw i irge jn everysvllable and tone, even to the 11 to the King of Portugal for 40.000. j two electrodes inclosed in a vvl . ,-i- little peculiarities of your diction. The value of tho remainder was not ini- taining illuminating gas; the g-:iih' The wav it's done is thi.-,: Yoi:i- voiee paired by tho subtraction of tnis trilie, , forms at the negative elect:-.! j travels through the tube and agitate , but rather enhanced, since the split was , an isinglass diaphragm at the end of it. successful, and the shaie of the stone is and the diaphragm gives motion to improved, it is valued by the owners at 1.500.000. and any gentleman who I a needle, which records the sound . waves on a little black cylinder or a flat .i 1 l.. in...t: ...i .i .v. i ' " ...... ;iiiui- M ""?. ,. c.,tir, mnnor o, um , fine Thi;n wiiu&irei aim the "Assay on iruth. records an interesting anecdote told him by the Karl of Kinuoul. Calling i tubes to on Manuel a lew Uavs after the first "Single, then, think " "Residence?" "Right here in the city." "Quite so, but the street and number. to feeding young stock of any kind as ; please." oats, fheir largo proportion of husks "That's nothing to do with it. I keeps them from cloying the Htomach don't want you to call, and if you dare even of stock that has too poor diges- to send a policeman to see " tion for thriving on corn. Pigs will "What is tho street and number?" prefer the latter grain, if both are "Thirteen place. But 1 never I'.ven together, but the pig is not the saw any thing like this in all my iet judge or what Is adapted to his born " "Where wore you bom?" needs.- The Oats should, however, be At least full woi-fht to give the bent ro wilt. Rice cream is particularly, good. IJjil a tablespoonful of rice in rather more thau a half pint of milk until quite soft, turn it into a mortar and pound it so that no whole .grains are Same place, if you want to know." "Havo you any occupation?" 'Now, see here! I suppose you want t to know where I got this money. But I didn t steal it, if that's any satisfac tion to you. Of course, I " "What did you say your occupation is?" visible: put it ia a basin, whip half a pint of cream, sweeton and flavor with i didn't sav; you didn't give me a vanilla, add one-quarter of an ounce of chance, I keep tho best boarding Isinglass dissolved in a teacup of milk. I house in tho town; meals three times a Ijeat up with tho rice and pour into a , day. and " mold. Some whipitcd cream slightly colored with cochineal and placed in tiny heaps round it when turned out ol Jthe mold, makes pretty dish. Dairy farming furnishes a constant source of income. It enriches the land more rapidly than other branch of uni- mal husbandry. It may be carried on with small capital without danger of being smothered by larger establish ments. It is profitable on hurh-nricod ! "Please sign your name on this line.' "Sign my name? Don't you believe me? I never sign any thing, only " "Very well, if you can't write make your cross." "Make mo cross? That's just it; you make me so cross I can't write. So phonisba Katherine Simpkins. There!" "That will do. Kindly make way for the next person "O. but mister, say. look here! What. lands, where other cattle would not t have you got it?" more than mako a good rent. In short, "Got what?" m mm i ne age. dairy farming, like ovcry other branch of agriculture, has ad vantages peculiar to itself which makes it in many pianos . and under many circumstances a de sirable and remunerative employment. m HINTS ON DISINFECTION. Kins Articles rorthnHttrcfWul Prevtiatlon ! f Diaeaaa Grrma. j First. Corrosivo sublimate (mer- curie chloride), sulphate of copper, j and chloride of limo are among our ' best disinfectants, tho first two being j poisonous. At wholosnle drug houses J single pounds can be obtained, mer- I !!!!! ehlnririn nnat.inor iuivnlv.fiii I - 'Cents, the others ton cents a pound. Second. A quarter of a pound of -corrosive sublimato and a pound of sul phate of copper in one gallon of water makes a concentrated solution to keep in stock. We will refer to it as "solu tion A." Third. For the ordinary disinfect ing solution add half a pint of "solution A" to a gallon of Water. This, while costing less than a cent and a half per gallon, is a good strength for general use. Use in about equal quantity in disinfecting eholcric or typhoid fovor excreta. fourth. A four per cent solution of good chloride of limo or a quarter pint of -'solution A" to a gallon of wator is used to wash wood-work floors, and wooden furniture, after fumigation and .ventilation. "Thirty-five. "Does it mako any difference if it ain't right?" "It might make a serious difference.' "O, dear! O. dear! I've gone and perjured mysolf. But it's all your fault, you horrid man, you flustered me so. Did I say thirty-five? I didn't mean it It's forty-five, so there!" And way she goes in a state of great indignation and perplexity. Boston Herald. HOT WEATHER TALK. Dr. Cjras Edaoa Telia What to Wear and Urlnk la Sunnier. It is best to wear dark clothing in the summer. The bhick absorbs heat when it is in tho sun's rays. On the other hand, the heat will pass out through the black textures rapidly, so that the radiation of the heat from the body would be much freer in a person clothed in black thun white. This statement is forcibly illustrated by tho white coats of animals who live in the arctic regions. They are clothed that way for the rejison that tho color holds the bodily heat, and does not allow it to radiate as rapidly as black. Thin flannel shirts are good for summer wear, and it is best to wear them next to the skin. Lemonade is a good drink for hot weather, but taken in excess it has a scorbutic effect The best and the most wholesome summer drink is cold water. performance, he naturally paid him some compliments on the success of the noble entertainment which he had given the public. "My lord." said Handel. "I should Ihj sorry if I only cntertained them; I wish to make them better." It is said that the oldest man liv ing anywhere is James James, a negro of Santa Rosa, Mex., who was born near Dorchester, S. C, in 1752. Ho was with his master in the revolution ary war, was forty years old whoa Washington was elected President went to Texas when one hundred and one years old. moved into Mexico five years later, and now, at the ripe age of one hundred and thirtv-six, lives in a little hut. to which he is confined by rheumatism, and is supported by con tributions from the citizens of Santa Rosa. Salutations in Japan are something remarkable, and are thus described by a correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle: "The men of Japan are always excessively polite to one an other. They bend their backs and bow their heads, and put their two hands back to back between their knees and have a great time. But the most amtising thing is to see two old ladies in Japan meeting one another on the street They catch sight of ono another three or four bloeks apart. Thev im mediately begin to make obeisance at one another, and they keep bending and bowing at short intervals until they come together, when they make a peculiar hiss by drawing in the breath and keep on saying 'Ohavo' for about two minutes." A fish of the sturgeon variety, about eighteen inches in length was re cently given to the superintendent of an ice factory in Parkersburg. W. Va. It was placed in one of the ice molds and frozen in the center of a huge cube of ice. This block of ice was put in a public place, where the citizens could view the fish, frozen hard and fast in the center of the cake. The ice began to melt and it dwindled until the body of tho fish was exposed to the air while the head was still firmly imbedded in the ice. The tail of the fish was seen to move slightly, sis the hot sun poured its rays upon it. Attention being called to the fact, the head was carefully released from its icy prison and the sturgeon placed in a tank of water. It recovered completely in a few minutes, and was apparently as sound as ever. you hear it again bv the reverse process, the little recorded wave traveling back again alon? the your ears, both of which it enters by means of the forked ends to the tube, which divides near the face of the hearer and sends the sound iu lioth sides through little transmitters which barely rest on the fleshy part of the ear. Two men can carry on a dia logue with the same graphophone. Thus a lawyer could tike a deposition, or a newspaper reporter could perpe trate an interview and then send the block cylinder up to the type-setter, who could put it on his graphophone and put it in type word by word, or two words at a time, or a whole sen tence, just as he wished, for there is a regulator to it: or the type-writer man could reduce it to paper. Two of the cylinders can be talked to on the same machine, and thus you have one to send away and one to pre serve. Here are some of the things it will do: wishe to inveot in a rather cost!- tritlo can not do bettor than examine it. "The owners intend keeping it until the Prince of Wales shall succeed to the throne of England, and then trying to sell it to him. Failing this sale, it is hard to tell what they can do with it" "Who are the owners now?" was asked of Mr. Mendes. I do not think I'd better mention names," he replied, with the caution which a dealer in diamonds must need have. "There is considerable mystery maintained about it. and it would not perhaps be safe to tell all the facts, even if I knew them, about when the stone was found, who bought it and what they paid. I know that there is such a stone, however, for I have seen it. and I know it is owned in eight shares, for tho gentleman who showed it to mo owns one-eighth. "It is difficult for.people outside the business to realize the enormous wealth of the diamond dealers in London." ho continued. "As an indication. I may sav that the same gentleman showed It will preserve your wife's curtain t me one package of stones aggregating lecture when you have been to the club, 5.000 carats, which he valued at livo and you can sit down to the machine guineas a carat. This was by no means and listen to it when you return about his stock in trade. It was one of a two p. m.. without causing your better , number of packages." half the annoyance of sitting up to de- "He is one of the shareholders in the 'iver it in person. two great companies which practically It will enable you to hear the death- : control the diamond market of the bed remarks of a friend in his own ' world. They are the Central Diamond voice fifty years after he is in his grave. 'Mining Company, and the Kimberley and your grandchildren, down to the Diamond Mining Company. Between thirtieth generation, can hear your , tho two. they own or control parting words in the same way. ovcry important claim in the It will take a man's will in his own j world in which diamonds are voice and words, and when it is pre- , found. These are in Africa, for. sented to probate, it will be its own as is well known, the supply from the witness. old mines has entirely ceased. Tho It will give you Patti's singing or two companies control hundreds of Edwin Booth's oratory or the dulcet J millions of capital, and were formed melody of the bewitching hand-organ J by a consolidation of all the small corn that plays up by the Common, and you panies owning claims, for the purpose can hear it all in your own house, and , of controlling the output, and so keep- when you feel lonely you can send out . ing up the value of diamonds." Kiftli. Vnv funiirriiliniT with culnhiin three to four pounds hhould bo used to j Xt 8ho,utld V frely 3d-and shoud be thonind ethic f. nir kt,,.o I c0011'1 u KcepniK " uh me i:e,.uiu nut every space. Burn in an old tin basin floating in a tub of water: keep room closed twelve hours, to allow tho fumos to penetrate all cracks. Then open a window from the outside and allow fumes to escape into air. Sixth. Soak sheets, etc., in chloride of lime solution, wring out and boil. Seventh. Cesspools, etc.. should bo well covered on top with a mixture of chloride of lime with ten parts of dry .sand. Eighth. Isolate the patient in an upper room from which curtains, car pots, and stuffed furniture have been removed. Ninth. The solution of mercuric chloride must not bo placed in metal vessels, since tho mercury would plate them. Lucius Pitkin, in Century. mum A novel instrument was filcii tho other day at Springfield, Mo., by CJcorge Schmidt, in the shape of a deed adopting Maggie Brown, the three-year-old daughterof Julia Brown. In consideration of one dollar the mother ag-'ees to relinquish all legal rights and privileges over her child, and the foster fathor agree to properly support and maintain her, to treat her humanely, and properly feed, clothe, .shelter and educate her. I by putting the ice in it A few bottles ' placed in the refrigerator every morn ing would be sufficient to supply the family during the day. An excellent practice for those in cities, where soda water fountains are numerous, is to occasionally make use of that bovomge. Soda taken when thirst calls for it is healthful and refreshing. The flavored sirups sold at these fountains should never be taken in hot weather, as they are veify heating. Dr. Cyrus Edson, in Epoch, v m Money Not a Criterion. Frugal young man (to object of his affections) Darling, your father being a minister, perhaps we'd better ask him to perform the ceremony for us. He would do it as rcas in fact, I presume he would think it an insult if I should offer him anything er Object of fcis affections I don't know. I have often heard papa say that he could always tell by the size of the fee what kind of an estimate tho bride groom put upon the bride. Frugal young man (uneasily) H'm! Money couldn't express it my case, darling. All the wealth of tho world couldn't do it! But Tve got a second cousin, a justice of the peace, that will marry, us for two dollars. Chicago tribune CONCERNING FAULTS. Whatever May te Their Cause There I 'o Zllerlt iu Thrni. It is difficult to define exactly what we mean by a fault. There is a popu lar impression, which is nearly cor rect, that it is something irregular, but that it lacks iu magnitude or intent something of that which goes to con stitute a positive sin. In many in stances faults are simply irregularities in execution, or more inattentions. negations, and almost always have the quality of being incidental; not inten tional, not purposed, nor tho result of passion. There are a great many who suppose that there is a merit in faults. We think they do not discriminate very wisely. It is true that perfect people are the most disagreeable and intoler able people in the world those so called perfect men that, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and, in order not to do wrong, do noth ing; those cold, precise, inelastic, hard, smooth, polished people, that are re garded as perfect by themselves. It is true that when you are in contact with such people you hunger and thirst for some roughness, and wish they would break out somehow and seem to be human. There is an impression derived from excess iu that direction that faults are signs of a fertile nature; like the bark on wholesome trees; like gnarls and knots on the oak; and people say that they would not want a man to have fewer faults, because they give a kind of robustness to character. Now, there may be certain kinds of faults of which this is true faults of manner, faults of irregularity but this ought not to blind us to the moral character and to the effects of faults that involve principle, that touch the question of benevolence and selfish ness, that run their roots even deeper, and touch the very seat of honor and character. X. Y. Ledger, to the nearest graphophone store and buy a couple of dozen good stories on cylinders and hear your graphophone relate them. And this is only a part Reader, use your own imagination. If you've a girl that is somewhere else. jut think of her voice coming to you over the rail, saying, "Don't flirt. Hannibal." And think what terrific dunning letters you could write! What scoldings you could transmit by mail in all the grandeur of vour own voice! Well, this machine has come to Boston. It is the result of the agile ingenuity of Prof. Charles Sumner Tainter. A company has been organ ized, and the machine is lieing put on the market, and is already in use in many places. Then again a newspaper man can connect his graphophone with the tele phone and send in a long special, which can be taken on another graphophone at the other ed of the line. Beoides this it will record a number of voices speaking at tiie same time. A reporter talked into a graphophone and the graphophone talked back in his own voice and tho voice of other people, and sang to him and whistled and gave a hand-organ sonata at the oflice of the Boston agent. There is an invention being perfected to go with the graphophone. It is a jet of water receiver, which will tike all the voices iu a circle of thirty-one feet, thus doing away with the speak ing tube. The pasteboard cylinders of the graphophones hold about a third of a column of language, and cost about throe cents. They come in smaller pieces. So one can write a letter on the graphophone and it will cost him less than stationery. Boston Advertiser. A Belfast Me., woman has found a way to dispo se of money with holes punched in it. She recently offered one to a merchant there, not with the shame-faced or hurried manner in which such coins are often otTered. but reluctlantly. asserting that it was a keepsake, and she would not part with it for any money, but would leave it provided the merchant would promise to keep it until she could call for it, which she promised to do within a week. The merchant took the keep sake, delivered her goods, and gave back ihc necessary change for five dol lars, and the customer departed and has not been seen since. The mer chant fr about fifty cents out Women are frequently debarred from acting on school boards, or church boards, but they can have a complete monopoly on the wash-boards. 1 onkurs Statesman. "Is the value then fluctuating?' "It has fluctuated considerably with in a few years. The seare or flurry in the trade that was talked about after the African mines were discov ered, and which was pooh-poohed by the bulls, was a very active reality, and was very nearly approaching a panic when the consolidation was ef fected. The large dealers saw plainly that unless something was done to limit the supply the market would be broken, and they banded together and bought a control of ail the diamond mines. Since that time no new dia monds have been put on the market, excepting those which they havo al lowed, and the price, which had gona down, has been restored to about what it had been for many years." "Then the price or value of dia monds no longer depends upon their natural supply, but upon an artificial restriction of it." "Precisely so." "And it is within the power of these two companies to break tho market whenever they choose." "Undoubtedly, but they will never do it, for they would be throwing away millions of pounds of their own proper ty." -V. Y. Cor. St. Louis (Jlobc-ticmo- i . I . gradually elongates lowaru i..o j. . live pole. A new process for preparing i. .; for food has been devised. The ! j, are reduced to flour, which is boi'i-d until it attains a certain con.-istem-v. and the name of "curd" is given to i Tho article is simple, cheap and '..- nutritious, and is much relished by t. Chinese. It has alarge percntag. of caseine. and is a good substitute for milk. Many experiments in burning brick with oil in place of wood are being made by manufacturers of brick along tho Hudson river. If the new method proves to be practical it is estimated that there will be a saving of forty per cent effected. The main difficulty is ia the "drying off" process. One re sult of using oil instead of wood will h the preservation of thousands of acres ef forests in the counties affected. Both in China and Japan soapstouo has long been largely used for protect ing structures built of soft stone and other materials specially liable to at mosphere influences. It has been found that powdered soapstone in the form of paint has preserved obelisks formed of stono for hundreds of years, which would, unprotected, have long ago crumbled away. For the inside paint ing of steel and iron ships it is found to be excellent It has no ant:-fouliag quality, but is anti-corrosive. At a recent meeting of tho Acad emy of Sciences, in Paris. M. Ciivreu communicated, in the name of M. Arnaud, Curator at the Museum of Natural History, a very interesting note on the toxic substance which the Comalis employ to poison their arrows. .This substance is tho "Ounbajo'vood. and from this wood M. Arupid has ex tracted a crystalline mfttaf endowed with terrible venomous propertied" l' subcutaneous and intravenous inject tions three one-hundredths of a grain of the poison suffices to kill a dog. Death rapidly occurs by an arrest of the heart's action. M. Perrotin. a French astronomer. has discovered that the p!an.t I:u--. .besides being inhabited. h:is a number of gigantic canals connecting her seas and, what is more remarkable, that some of the canals are still in cour-t of construction. The theory of im mense canals in Mars from eighteen hundred to two thousand miles in length and from twenty to fifty milt in width has already been put for ward, but positive knowledge on th subject has been lacking. If the-. canals be the work of artidco on th part of the inhabitants of the plan-t. as M. Perrotin states, then it will be reasonable to believe that it is peopled with, enormous giants. crat. Russian Book Collectors. It will bo news to half the world that the Russian nobles are sedulous collec tors of books and manuscripts. Prince Woronzoff, for instance, has a library of 12,000 volumes at St. Petersburg, and possesses another equally large at Alupka. The Princess Lunog's library contains nearly 13.000 books, most o! which were collected by her father, Bibikoff. In Slavonic literature it is especially rich, and it contains about 600 work3 in various languages on nu mismatics. The late Minister of Jus tice, Count Panin had a library of 11.000 volumes which was remarkable for an encyclopaedic series of works relating to the legislation of the different European otaies. He had also considerable libra ries in the Crimea and at Mars! no. near Moscow. The library of Count Schero metjeff. the foundations of which were laid by the conqueror of Livonia, con tains 25,000 volumes, many incuna bula, and a perfect treasury of ecclesi astical music. The present owner has himself increased his great literary heritage by the addition of 12,000 vol umes. He has been a diligent collector of books oearing upon Russian and Sla vonic history and topography. Pail Mall Gazette. It has been shown byexperieaco that a pig digests a larger percentage of grain, converting it into animal in rease than a steer, cow or ahee.pi ODD HEAD-DRESSES. Slagular Coiffure Worn by Native or .Vila and Africa. The Ethiopians have no hair, proper ly speaking, but what answers them for hair is really different from the hair of the white races. If a hair from til head of a Caucasian be examined through a microscope, it is found to Ins hollow, composed of sections or joints somewhat resembling those of a can". or in some cases like a ladder with its rounds. The hair of an African : en tirely dffforent in this respect, being solid and round, this constituting the difference between wool and hair: b::t nevertheless the fact that his wool i solid appears only to endear it to the African, who gives it all the more at tention, perhaps because he ha so little of it, and divides his scalp into patches, gathering up the hair from each hit a circular knot and tying it with a string ascarefully as though it werea treasure. In the interior of the dark continent tho wool of the negroes is frequently long, though never straight, but so difficult is the task of disentangling their locks that not much attempt at ornateness is made iu the African head dresses. Livingston says th?t when an African chief makes his toilet, the mo-: he ever attempts in the way of arrang ing a head-dress is to comb his wool up into a pyramidal shape, stick a few feathers in it. and hang one or more strings of beans along the facad so to speak, of this unique edifice , w The Asiatics have awaysj-i famous for decorating their headsaPfcne Mo hammediSs of old shaved their heads, except a single knot of hair at the ex act top of the head, which was left for a practical purpose; the Mohammedan doctrine being that at the resurrection of the dead, the angel Gabriel was specially detailed to attend to the Mo hammedans, and he raised them by the topknot; accordingly the topknot w:i3 left full and strong, in order that the hold might not break, a hole being left in the top of the coffin in order to facili tate the angel's work. St. Lonh 0'W Democrat, r