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The Vlcloainete of Wild Boar
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Hunting oa llortebaek,
Special New Zealand Letter.
It wm ft party of four sturdy young
fellows who found themselves after a
weary and dangerous journey of six
daya from Weatport oa the top of
Moaat William, of the southern Alps
of New Zealand, la November, 1S87.
They had pitched their tent In a gully
that seemed to hate been the refuge of
mosquitoes for centuries, but by lying
close to the Are and smoking heavy to
bacco they managed to get a little rest
They had brought four dogs with them
for the purpose of hunting the nlcr. but
whether it was advisable to take then
OUB PARTY BTABTk.
'after the goats was a matter of much
discussion. Finally it was agreed upon
to leave them tied up at the tent
Early in the following morning they
etout and soon found that a herd of
goats had lately been near their last
amp. They hastened on in pursuit
through a wild, weird country. Some
times they struggled through a dens
forest with thick underwood that great
ly impeded their advance and tore their
tout buckskin clothing Into shreds.
Low-growing, beautiful ferns, rough,
f Igantla brakes hud millions of para
sitical plunta with whltq and red dow
ers surrounded thecal on every side,
while a hundred singing birds warbled
and flitted merrily from treo to tree.
Then again they would be forced to
creep on hands and knees over and un
der Immense bowlders, or, with tho
greatest difficulty, to round a craggy
precipice, whero tho slightest giddiness
meant a horrible death In tho chasm
that waited sileatly below to destroy
the men who had dared to tempt its cru
elty. Hut suddenly dangers were forgotten,
for beyond, a sharp turn, and about
half a mile t away, a herd of goats was
ecn lazily picking up a little food or
chewing their cuds; several little kids
igamboled about In the heyday of youth
.and carelessness, while a noble specl
men of a buck stood contemplating his
"kingdom. Approaching warily under
shelter of trees or rocks, and against
tho wind, we could see that he was a
magnificent creature, standing over
four feet high, with colossal ringed
horns of about twenty Inches in length;
lis beard was only a few inches from
"tho ground, and a straggly black aad
white coat of long hair gave him a
formidable appearance and made him
look much larger than be really was.
Our eyes watered with delight as wo
took tock of him, and each mentally
4etei mined to secure the prize. As we
came slowly nearer and nearer the
"billy'0 became more and more sus
picious of some unseen enemy who was
threatening the safety of himself or
aome of his subjects. He sulffed the
wind, looked up and down and all
around, walked majestically hither and
thither, while his family rose and fol
lowed. Something had frightened him;
what could it be? Lookl,they are scared
and are scampering off.
An expletive escapes each man's lips
a we find all our hopes so rudely shat
tered. But what was the cause? Bee.
there It is. "Well, I'm blest"
claimed Jack Pettit "Look, Nero's
SHooTrao soats.
Cot loose and has followed us." Sura
enough, there was the dog. Every gun
waa leveled at the poor panting boast
to punish him for his faithfulness, but
better Impulse saved him. No more
work for that day. We slept on the
pot In tho morning we secured Nero
more firmly and started out again.
After two hours' perilous walking we
gain sighted the same herd. We came
upon them unexpectedly in a patch of
mall scrub three hundred feet away on
the side of a precipice that ran down
to a 6parkltng cascade. The scrub pre
vented us from using our old-fashioned
nuzzle loaders, so wo quietly and care
fully cut piece's of the tl-U tree, and
.forming them into kind of bower that
ld oa from sight slowly and cautiously
advanced. Each of us wished to get
the buck for the sake of hia horns, so
we cast lots for the first shot George
Williams won. Inch by Inch, and foot
"by foot nearer we drew while the
stones disturbed by the goats above
rattled not over, pleasantly dowp upoa
w and threatened an avalanche. The
wiad was blowing strongly against us.
Everything was in our favor, Now we
are only one hundred yards away.
A little nearer end we are all right
Keep eool, boys, and don't get excited.
,Mow to the chanoal There are mtw
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flats' just ahead of us, and la their
midst stands the lordly male. Now
every gun is throws) to the shoulder.
No aliasing them thta'time, Oeorge has
the first shot H seems a little nerv
one. lie tiros, and clown drops the she
goat on tho right of the buck. Ere our
astonishment Is over Kerrigan has
fired and brought dorm tho buck. Two
more reports and two more gnats fall,
cleanly shot The others have disap
peared. After three days' hunting we left
this field of danger and sport to ecck
another.
Accompanied by emr dogs we started
across the 'ranges .fortototucka valley,
between which and us many wild pigs
scour the forest and Bold, On our
journey, whloh lasted a week, wn dined
dally on royal fare. A young kid would
serve us better than the most dainty
dish of vealson, while pigeons, kakos
and tuis formed, a meal flt for a Lucul-lus.
now for tne pigs. A few years ago
the descendants of Capt Cook's gift to
the Maoris became so numerous in this
fertile land that they caused a serious
annual loss to tho farmers. For in their
search for roots they,, den troy od fhe
grass and hence the food of sheep and
cattle. A bonus was offered of half
crown a little more than half a dollar
for every pig. This reward aroused the
slumbering energies of natives nnd
hunters and hundreds of pig killers
made a handsome living. Their method
was to hunt the pigs with dogs trained
to fly at the grunters and hold them by
the ear until the hunters could givo the
struggling beasts tho coup do grace by
sticking them to death with a long pole
belted at the end with a short heavy
piece of iron or ateeL
Now, however, the pigs are not so
numerous, although there are plenty for
sport We had provided ourselves
with hunting spears and determined to
hnvo as much fun as possible. On the
eighth day, "as we wero meandering
through tho brush with our dogs at our
neeis, we were startled by a porkine
grunt in our vicinity. The dogs broke 1
away atonce to a largo clump of thorny I
bush and out rushed a big sow with
litter of squealing young. She dashed
straight at tho first dog, but not bring
tho kind of game we sought we called I
off tho dogs. The mother, by the love '
of offspring infuriated, bit, squealed j
and trampled maliciously around. Uor
cries brought help lu the shape of two
huge brown and black boars. What
savage-looking brutes they are! How
quickly they cover the intervening dis
tance! Large flakes of foam fall from
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thetr jawa and bespatter legs, face and
breast, and their eyes gleam with a
wicked flash. Ha, that is the kind of
game we want The dogs recognize a
higher and mightier foo and go for the
boars. Each of the dogs springs at an
ear, but both are thrown off as lf they
were rats.
Men and hounds feel that there Is to
be warm struggle. Wo have east
our guns and other impediments from us
and abido our time, spear in hand. The
boars strive to slash the doga with their
long curled tusks, but the hounds nim
bly evade them, at the same time biting
at the flank and car of the pigs. The
latter see us and make desperate ef
forta to shake off the dogs and attack
the men. The excitement increases,
for the sow has come upoa the scene,
and in self-defense we are obliged to
dispatch her. One of the boars, with a
dog hanging -to its legs, makea rush
towards George Williams. He stand
coolly awaiting the onslaught with his
feet firmly planted on the earth and
holding the spear poised la both handa
lie is a strong man, and we are all sure
that he will be lucky this time in down
ing the first game. Ztsh goes the
spear into the side of the boar, but in
stead of falling it rushes on, forcing
poor George to the ground. Before we
can come to his aid the maddened
brant hns gnshed him twlco in the
thigh. With a cry of horror we see the
ground wet with his blood. But be
fore the brute has time to do further
Injury the three- of us have sent home
our spears. Even' then the boar tries
to rise and do us battle, but Kerrigan
falls across him and sends his Bheath
knlfo dcop into tho heart One of
us attends to George, while the other
two dofend themselves against tho sec
ond boar, which Is killed only after a
fierce struggle.
Georgo Williams received two very
severe flesh wounds, seven and nine
inches long and about one and one-half
inches deep respectively. Thoy were
aewed together, and George was carried
to the camp, where we were obliged to
remain a fortnight before tho sufferer
could proceed.
Sometimes wild boars are hunted on
horsoback with spears, and this fashion
is doubly dangerous. 1 was once pres
ent at a hunt of this kind in which a
wealthy young Nolsonlan was literally
gashed to death, after he had been
thrown from his horse by a big black
boar, who eut open his stomach with a
stroke as clean and straight as that a
knlfo could make.
Gave lllmitir Away.
The young man had been telling
th
uiu imiy qmwj a 101 auout Himself.
"You remind me," she said, "of a
stry I once read."
"What was it may I ask?"
"Oh, I don't remember the story at
all," she exclaimed, artlessly, "but I re
member It didn't have any moral to It
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FLIGHT OF THE BIRDS.
From Whloh Dr. Talmage Draws
Bomo Instructive Lessons.
Bird Iterognlan the Appointed Time For
Moving- and Men Should Be Thus
Win In Mnklnir Their HUM
For Ooil and Heaven,
In a late sermon nt Brooklyn Rev. T.
Do Witt Talmage contrasted tho sagaci
ty of tho birds in moving south at tho
approach of winter with tho lack of
wisdom in men in starting for thoir
heavenly home. Ho took his text from
Jeremiah vlll. 7; "Tho stork in the
heaven knoweth her appointed times;
and the turtle and tho crane nnd tho
swallow obscrvo tho time of thoir com
ing; but my peoplo know not tho Judg
ment of tho Lord." Dr. Tnlmagc said:
When God would set fast a beautiful
thought He plants it In n tree. When
Ho would put it afloat Ho fashions it
into a fish. When Ho would have it
glldo tho air He molds it into n bird.
My text speaks of four birds of beauti
ful instinct tho stork, of suoh strong
aircetion that it Is allowed familiarly
to como In nollnnd and Ocrmany nnd
build it nest over tho doorway; tho
sweet dlsposltloned turtle-dove, min
gling In color whlto and black nnd
brown and ashen and chestnut; tho
crane, with voice like tho clang of n
trumpet; tho swallow, swift as n dart
shot out of tho bow of heaven, falling,
mounting, skimming, sailing four
birds started by tho prophet twenty
flvo centuries ago, yet flying on through
the ages, with rousing truth under
glossy wing and tho clutch of stout
claw. I suppose it may havo been this
very season of tho year autumn and
tho prophet out of doors, thinking of
tho impenitence of tho peoplo of his
day, bear's a great cry overhead.
Now you know It is no easy thing for
one with ordinary delicacy of sight to
look Into tho deep blue of tho noonday
heaven; but the prophet looks up, and
thero are flocks of storks, nnd turtlo
doves, nnd cranes, nnd swallows, drawn
out In long Hues for flight southward.
As 1b their habit, tho cranes had ar
ranged themselves Into two Hues mak
ing an angle, a wedge splitting the air
with wild voloclty, tho old crane with
commanding call bidding them onward;
while tho towns and tho cities and tho
continents slid under them. The
prophet, almost blinded from looking
Into tho dazzling heavens, stoops down
and begins to think how much superior
the birds nro in sagacity about their
safety than men about theirs; and he
puts his hand upon the puu and begins
to write: "Tho stork In tho heaven
knoweth her appointed times; and the
'turtle and the crane and tho swallow
observe tho tlrao of thoir coming; but
my peoplo know not tho judgment of
the Lord."
If you are In tho Hold to-day, In the
clump of trees at tho corner of tho Hold,
you would see a convention of birds,
noisy as tho American congress the lost
night before adjournment, or as tho
English parliament when sorao unfor-'
tunate member proposes more economy
In the queen's household u convention
of birds all talking at once, moving and
passing resolutions on the' subject of
migrations; soma proposing to go to
morrow, some moving that thoy go to
day, some moving that they go to Bra
zil, some to Florida, some to the table
lands of Mexico, but all unanimous iu
tho fact that they must go soon, for
they havo marching orders from tho
Lord, written on tho first whlto sheet
of frost, and in tho pictorial of tho
changing leaves. Thero Is not a belted
kingfisher, or a chaffinch, or a flro
crested wren, or a plover, or a red
legged partridge but expects to spend
tho winter at the south, for tho apart
ments have already been ordered for
them in South America, or lu Africa;
and after thousands of miles of flight
they will stop in tho very tree where
they spent last January. Farewell,
bright plumage. Until spring weather,
way I Fly on, great band of heavenly
musicians! Strew the continents with
music, and whether from northern
fields, or Carolina swamps, or Brazilian
groves, men sec your wings, or hear
your voice, may they bethink them
selves of the solemn words of the text:
"The stork In tho heaven knoweth her
appointed times; nnd tho turtlo and tho
crane and the bwuIIow observe tho tlmo
of their coming; but my peoplo know
not the judgment of the Lord."
-propose, so far as God may help mo,
this morning, carrying out the idea of
the text to show that tho birds of the
air havo more sntraclty than men. And
I begin by particularizing and saying
that they mingle muslo with thoir
work. Tho moat serious undertaking
of a bird's Ufa Is tho annual travel from
the Hudson to tho Amazon, from the
Thames to tho Nile. Naturalists toll
us that thoy arrive- thero thin and
weary, nnd plumage ruffled, nnd yet
they go singing all tho way; tho ground,
the lowor lino of tho music, tho sky,
the upper line of the music, themselves
the notcB scattered up and dowu be
tween. I suppose their song gives elas
ticity to their wing and helps on with
the journey, dwindling 1,000 miles into
00. Would God that wo wero as wlso
as they in mingling Christian song with
our every day world I believe there is
such a thing as taking tho pitch of
Christian devotion in the morning and
keeping it all tho clay. I think we
might take some of the dullest heavi
est mostdisagreeablo work of onr life
and set it to the tuno of "Antloch" or
"MouutPisgah."
It is a good sign when you hear a
workman whistle. It is a better sign
whon you hear him hum a roundelay.
It is still a better sign when you hear
him sing the words of Isaac Watts or
Charles Wesley. A violin chorded and
strung, if something accidentally strikes
It, makes muslo, and I suppose thoro Is
suoh a thing as havlug our hearts so at
tuned by divine grace that even tho
rough collisions of llfo will make a
heavenly vibration. ;I do iiqt bellovo
that tho power of ' Christian song has
yet been fully tried. I bolluvo that if
you could roll tho "Old Hundred" dox
ology through Wall street, It would put
an and to any financial dUturbuncol I
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believe that tho discords, and the Bor
rows, and tho sins of the world nro to
bo swept out by heaven-born halle
lujahs. Some oue asked Haydn, tho
celebrated musician, why ho always
composed such cheerful music "Why,"
ho said, "I can't do otherwise. Whon I
think of God my soul is so full
of Joy that tho notes leap and
dance from my pen." I wish wo might
all exult melodiously beforo tho
Lord. With God for our Father and
Christ for our Saviour nnd Heaven for
our home, and angels for futuro com
panions, and ntnrnlt.v fm- n llfl.nn .-
should strike nil tho notes of Joy. Go
log through the wilderness of this
world lot us remember that wo nro on
tho way to tho summery clime of
Heaven, nnd from thorolgrotory popu
lations flying through this autumnal
air learn always to keep singing:
Children of the heavenly Kin,
As jro Journor, sweetly slag;
Sing your Saviour's worthy praise,
Glorious In Tils works and ways.
Yo are traveling homo to God,
In tho wuy your fathors troJ:
Thoy nro happy now, and wo
Soon thoir happlnass ehaU see.
Tho church of God never will bo a
triumphant church until It becomes a
slnirlnir church.
I go further and remark that the
birds of tho nlr nro wiser than wo, in
tho fact that In their migration thoy
fly very high. During tho summer,
whon thoy are In tho fields, thoy often
come within reach of the gun, but when
they start for thu anmml ni.-Vif ., to
ward they take their places and go
straight as an arrow to the mark. Tho
longest rlflo that was ever brought to
shoulder cannot reach them. Would to
God that wo wore as wlso as tho stork
and crano In our flight heavenward!
Wo fly so low that wo are In easy rango
of tho world, tho flesh and devil. Wo
are brought down by temptations that
ought not to como within a tulle of
reaching us. O, for some of tho faith
of Georgo Muller, of England, and
Alfred Cookraan, once of tho church
militant, now of tho church tri
umphant! So poor Is tho typo of piety
in tho church of God now that men
actually caricature tho Idea that there
is any such thing as a higher life. Moles
novor did believe in cugloa. But, my
brethren, lccauso wo havo not reached
those heights ourselves, Bhall wo deride
tho fact that thero are any such heights?
A mau won nuco talking to Brunei, tho
famous engineer, about tho length of
tho railroad from London to Bristol.
Tho englneor said: "It lsnot very great
We shall havo, after awhile, a steamer
running from England to Now York."
Thoy laughed him to scorn; but we
havo gone so fur now that wo havo
ceased to laugh at anything as Impos
sible for human achievement Then, I
ask, la anything impossible for the
Lord? I do not bellovo that God ex
hausted all his grace in Paul, nnd Lati
mer, and Edward Payson. I bellove
there are higher points of Christian at
tainment to bo reached In the future
ages of tho Christian world.
You toll mo that Paul went up to tho
tip top of tho Alps of Christian attain
ment Then I tell you tho stork and
crano havo found nbovo the Alps plenty
of room for frco flying. We go out and
wo conquer our temptations by tho
gracoof God, und Ho down. On the
morrow those temptations rally them
selves and attack us, and by tho graco
of God wo defeat them again; but stay
ing all tho time iu the old encampment,
wo have tho sama old battles to fight
over. Why not whip out our tempta
tions, and then forward march, making
ono raid through tho enemy's country,
stopping not until wo break ranks after
tho last victory? Do, my brethren, let
us havo some uovclty of combat, at any
rutc, by chunging, by going on, by
making advancement trading off our
stale prayers about Bins wo ought to
have quit long ago, going on toward
a higher state of Christian character,
and routing out sins that we havo
never thought of yet Tho fact Is, if
tho church of God lf we, as individuals,
made mold advancement in thu Dirts.
tian life these stereotyped prayers wo
have been making for ten or fifteen
years would bo as Inappropriate to us
as the shoes and the hats and tho coats
wo wore ten or ilftcon years ago. O
for a higcr flight In the Christian life,
tho stork and tho crane in their migra
tion teaching us the lcssonl
Dear Lord, and shall wo ever live,
At this poor dying rate
Our loro no faint, to cold to Thee,
And Thlno to us no great?
Again I remark that the birds of the
air nro wlsor than we, becauso they
know whon to start If von Hhnnlri trn
out now and shout: "Stop, storks and
cranes, don't bo in a hurry," they would
say: "No, we cannot stop, Lucit night
we heard tho roaring in tho woods bid
ding us away, and tho shrill fluto of tho
north wind has sounded the retreat
Wo must go, W" must go." So thoy
gatucr ti.cinsolvcs Into companies and,
tumlntMlot nsldn fnmtnrm nrmniinfnln
top or shock of musketry, over landaud
Eoa.Btralght as an arrow to tho mark thoy
go. And If you como out this morning
with a sack of corn nnd throw It in the
fields and try to got them to stop, thoy
are so far up thoy would hardly seo It
Thov aro on thoir wnv smith. Vnii
could not Btop them. O, that wo were
as wlso about tho best tlmo to
start for God nnd Heavont 'Wo
say: "Walt until It Is u little later
In the season of mercy. Walt until
some of these green leaves of hope aro
all dried up and have been Blattered.
Walt until noxt year." After a while
we start nud It is too late, and wo per
ish In the way when God'B wrath is
kindled but little. Thoro are, you
know, exceptional caseB where birds
have started too late, and in tho morn
ing you have found them dead on the
snow. And thero are thoso .who havo
perished half way between tho worhl
and Christ They waited until tho last
sickness, when tho mind was gone, or
thoy wore on tho express train going at
forty miles an hour, nnd they camo to
tho brldgo and tho "draw was up" und
they wont dowu. How long to repent
and pray? Two seconds! Two sec
ondsl To do tho work of a lifetime and
taTproparo tor-tho vast eternity intwo
seconds!
I wus reading of uu ontortalumont
given in a king's court and thero were
musician thero with elaborate plooaa
ftj-i
of music. After awhile Morart earae
and begun to piny nnd ho had a blank
pleco of paper beforo him and the king
familiarly looked over his shoulder and
na!d: "What aro you playing? I seo no
music beforo you." And Mozart put
his hand on his brow, as much as to
say, "Inra improvising." It was very
well for him, but O my friends, wo can
not extemporize Heaven. If we do not
get prepared In this world we will never
tnhqpartin tho orchestral harmonies
of tho saved. O that wo were as wise
as tho crano nnd tho stork, flying away,
flying away from tho tempest
Some of you havo felt the pinching
frost of sin. You feel It to-day. You
are not happy. I look into your faces,
and I know you nro not happy. Thero
aro voices within your soul that will not
bo silenced, telling you that you aro
Blnncrs, nnd that without tho pardon of
God you are undono forever. What are
you to do, my friends, with tho accu
mulated transgressions of this life
time? Will you stand otlll nnd let tho
avalanche tumble over you? O that
you would go u way Into tho warm heart
of God's mercy. Tho southern grove,
redolent with magnolia and cactus,
nover .wailed for northern flocks ns
God has waited for you, Baying: "I
havo loved thee with an everlasting
love. Como unto mo, till yo who nro
weary and heavy laden, and I will o-lvn
you rest"
Another frofit is btddlncr vmi nwnv It
Is thu frost of sorrow. Whero do you
llvo now? "O," you Bay, "I havo
moved." Why did you move? You say,
uon t warn as largo u House now as
formerly." Why do you not want as
largo a house? You Bay, "my family is
notao large." Whero havo thoy gono
to? "Eternity." Your ml nd goes baolc
through that last sickness and through
tho almost supernatural effort to save
life, nnd through thoso prayers that
'seemed unavailing nnd through that
kiss which received no response becauso
tho lips wero lifeless, nnd I hear tho
bells tolling and I hear tho hearts
breaking while I speak I hear them
brcok. A heart! Another heart!
Alone! alone! alone! This world,
which In your girlhood and boyhood
was sunshine, is cold now, and 01
weary dove, you fly around this world
as though you would like to stay, whon
tho wind and tho frost and tho black
ening clouds would bid you away Into
tho heart of un all comforting God O,
I havo noticed again and again what a
botch this' world makes of it when It
tries to comfort a bouI in troublo! It
soys: "Don't cryl" How can wo help
cryintr when the hoart'n trmnrfu nm
scattered, and father Is gone, and
mother Is gone, nnd companions are
gone, and tho child Is gone, and every
thing seems gone. It is no comfort to
tell a man not to cry. The world comes
up and says: "O, it is only tho body of
your loved one that you havo put
In the ground!" But thero is no comfort
in that That body is precious. Shall
wo never put our hand in that hand
again, and Bhall wo never seo that
Bweet faco again? Away, with your
hcartlcssucss, O worldl But come,
Jesus! nnd tell us that whon tho tears
fall thoy fall Into God's bottle; that tho
dear bodies of our loved ones shall niso
radiant in tho resurrection; and all tho
breakings down hero shall bo lifted up
there, and "thoy shall hunger no more,
neither thirst no more, nelthor shall
tho Bun light on them nor any heat, for
tho Lamb which is In tho midst of tho
throne shall lead them to living fount
ains of water, and God shall wipe all
tears from their oyc3."
You may havo noticed that when tho
chaflluch or tho Btork or the crane
starts on Hb migration, It calls all those
of Its kind to como too. Tho treo tops
nro full of chirp nnd whistle and carol
nnd tho long roll call. Tho bird docs
not start off alone. It gathers all of Its
kind. O, that you might be ns wlso in
this migration to Heaven, and that you
might gather all your families and your
friends with you! I would that Han
nah might take Samuel by tho hand,
and Abraham might take Isaac, and
..agar might take islimacl. j
Start for Heaven yourself nnd take
your children with you. Como thou
and all thy houso into tho ark. Tell
your littlo ones that there are realms
of balm and sweetness for all those who I
fly in the right direction. Swifter than
eagle's stroko put out for Heaven. Like J
the crano or thn fitorlr. titnn nnf nltrht
or day uutll you find tho right place for
stopping.
To-day tho Saviour calls,
Yo wnnderors come.
O, vo benighted souls,
Why longer roam?
The Spirit calls to-day,
Yield to Ills power,
O, grieve Illm not away,
'Tls meroy'B hour.
THEIR, WEAK POINTS
Vollle of Homo of the ilrentrit Meu In the
World' lllitory.
All great peoplo havo had their
follies, which is another way of saying
that all havo had their weak points.
Tyw?io Brahc, tho great astronomer,
had a terrible fear of hares and foxes.
Tho great Dr, Johnson, with all his
philosophy, was not without n super
stition. Ho was very careful not to
enter a room with his left foot fore
most; if by any chance he did so, he
would Immediately stop back and re
enter with his right foot foremost Ho
was terribly afraid of death, too, and
would not suffer it to bo mentioned in
his presence.
Julius Ctusar, to whom tho shouts of
thousands of the enomy were but sweet
muslo, wns mortally afraid of tho
Round of thundor, and always wanted
to get underground tooscapo the dread
ful noiso.
Marshal Saxo, who loved to look
upou the ranks of opposing armies, fled
and screamed in terror at tho sight of a
cat
Peter tho Great could scarcely be per
suaded to cross a brldgo, nnd whenever
ha planted his foot on ono he would
scream in terror. Like the great man
that ho was, ho tried to overcome his
weakness, but ho wus never able to da
bo.
And Byron would nevor help anyone
to salt at table, nor would ho bo licliw)
himself; and It any salt were spilled he
would immediately get up and lcava -
Yankee Blade.
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j MISCELLANEOUS.
' Tho more houso a man builds on tho
mnd tho more he will havo to lose
when tho storm comes. Ham's Horn.
A man who formerly autcd as lire
man to a locomotlvo refers t his recol
lections of that tlmo as "tender remin
iscences." j "Flno weather for corn," remarked
tho p;sscngcr clinging to tho strap.
i The car lurched and "Thero goes my
enure crop!" groaned tho passcngor who ,
Was sitting down.
Mr. Bullion "You arc far tooyoung
to marry my daughter. You aro only
eighteen." Tom "Ycb, sir, but Miss
Julia Is thirty-four, bo tho two of us
would averngo about right" Jester.
Not Good for Shaving. Ilastus (In '
need of a shave) "Kin you lend mo a
ruzzor, I'm goln' to a party to-night"
Gnwgc "Cert; bore's ono wld teof on
It, It kin cut jess bully." Brooklyn
Englc.
Physics Class. Professor--"Speak-ing
of transparent objects, glass and
water nro transparent, becauso wo can
nedthrough them. Now, Mr. Do Kid,
can you give mo another oxamplo?" De
Kld-"Ycs, sir; a hole."
"Likely Ho Had. "Papa," asked
little Ethel, after a season of deep
thought, "did you havo any Idea that I
would go right along living with you
1 and being your daughter tho first tlmo
wo wero Introduced?" Indianapolis
Journal.
I Tho announcement of a forthcom
ing English wedding contains tho re
quest that tho old custom of throwing
rlco und flowers should bo dispensed
with. Throwing n slipper .after tho
bride Is on old Snxon custom, but
throwing rlco Is orlcutal, nnd in En
gland dates only from the time of the
Indian nabobs.
Tho government tract of land at
West Point contains about 2,100 acres;
most of which wns purchased in 1700,
from tho son of one of tho original
patentees; tho rest was purchased In
1824. Jurisdiction was ceded by New
York to the United States, over a part
of the tract in 1820 and over tho re
mainder in lb75.
It isn't what you see but what you
fcol that will make your work Interest
ing. You can look at a thing nnd see It,
but that's nothing. You can look at
something which may give you an emo
tion. That's feeling. Facts don't amount
to anything. Cyclopiu Has nro full of
them. It's nn Individual's expression of
them that Is Interesting.
In 1022, James I., then king of En
gland, made strenuous efforts to intro
duce silk culturo to supersede tobacco
growing Into tho colony of Virginia,
but with uo great success, though con
siderable Bilk was produced. In 1049
there were 15,000 whlto Inhabitant nnd
800 negro slaves, and tho colonists had
a largo umount of llvo stock. Tobacco
at that tlmo was tho colonial curreucy.
A Europenn correspondent informs
us that a Uussian expedition is now in
northeast Siberia for the purpose of
bringing back a muramoth which has
been discovered thoro frozen in a per
fect condition. Tho writer adds that j
ho has Btrong hopes tho naturalist ln.afc'-m
charge of tho expedition may discover "V
tho
'KK""4 ivi'Ki- Jvosy utlll (.U'lOUOStO-
thla rosea), us yet unknown to zoolog
ists. Science.
Queen Victoria's Hlndoostnnoo
dociu't como to her with' it hard dig
ging. Sho actually has a Hincoo secre
tary, a fact unknown to her American
admirers. His nnmo is Munshl Hnflr
Abdul Karim. and if his pupil wero not
a queen ho would bo called a tutor.
Mr. Kurlin is a fat-,faced, dark- kinncd
gentleman, who wears eastern raiment
and has a soft fringo of black beard all
round his checks and chin.
John Johnson, a newly rich man,
wlshlng.to bo considered of a Htornry
turn, bought books right nnd left to
found a library. Among his purchases
was on old dletloimry. This ho sent to
bo rebound. When it was returned it
hnd printed on its back tho words,
"Johnson's Dictionary." This famili
arity ho could not endure, and ho in
dignantly asked the binder why he did
not put on his full name, "John John
son's Dictionary."
Ono hundrod and nine thousand lo
comotives nro at present running on tho
earth. Europe has 63,000, America 40,
000, Asia il.noo, Australia 2,000 and Af
rica 700, In Europo, Groat Britain and
Ireland take premier position, with 17,
000 engines, Germany has 15,000, Franco
11,000, Austrla-Huntrary, the second
largest Continental country, has 5,000,
Italy 4,000, Uussla 3,500, Belgium 2,000,
Holland and Spain 1,000 each, Switzer
land 000 nnd tho rcmalmng European
states 2,000.
At a lato fair In Brittany, France, a
monk from tho Friestlno monastery ex
hibited a plain-looking tablo with an
inlaid chess board on its surface. Tho
Inventor, or nnyone so disposed, sot'
tho pieces for a game and then sits
along nt ono side of the table. How
ever cautiously ho plays he is frequent
ly checkmated by tho pieces from tho
opposite side, which movo automati
cally across the board. No matter how
scientifically tho player plays the
ghost-moved pieces frequently como out
uhoud. No mechanism is apparent; to
all intent tho table Is a solid board.
Ill Dog Itetrleved the Bomb.
A rather reckless Blddef rd (Me.)
man, with no respect for law or gospel,
is said to havo devised a scheme for
catching trout by tho wholesalo, which
did not work ns woll as ho thought. Ho
thought that a bomb exploded in tho
brook would bring all tho fish in it to
tho surface, so that ho would only havo
to pick them up. Ho provided himself
with a bomb powerful enough to blast
a schooner out of water and went to a
local brook In which thoro wero said to
ho lots of trout ,l!o fixed tho fnso, ig
nlted It, und threw tho bomb Into tho
brook. As ho did bo his dog jumped In
after it, seized it in his mouth, got back
to Bhore, nnd started after his master,
who wus legging it across tho field an
fust as ho could In tho realization of his
danger. Tho man had tho good luck to
get over a fonco, which bothered tho
dog, nnd a moment lutcr, hearing an
explosion, ho looked around to seo his
doggolngskyward. Lewlatou Journal.
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