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The Eternal Masculine.
. . "I At seventeen wo meet seine girl
' We worship COIIII and deep .
And beg from her a tiny curl
'V' ! e'er any aye may lteell
" " 1'Is thin-spun gold . " wo ardent swear ,
A mesh or filigree .
t And fondly kiss and hide It where
No prying eye may see
At twenty-se\'en less enthused
, With uuburn-tlntcll curls ,
'Ve , finding It , gl'OwlllIch confused
'ro recollect which glrl's
Fair head It lent Il halo to-
May Kate . or Prlle , theto l1l'nt's-
" 'Ve1l. pshllw ! the thing thllt'li best to do
Is keep It ten more years ! "
At thlrt ' -sc\'en. then , one day
While \ rummaging , we stare
r In absent WilY at It ullll say :
"The devil'hose ! red hair
, , - Is this ? It nu'el' belonged to me-
'rhe bricky stuff ! " Ah , Fate !
We toss It forth , and smile \ to see
ra It crinkle In the gmte.
- -UI'ool\ \ Life.
The Anvil Bird of Brazil
' At dusk , In the wilds of the gloomy
Brazilian forests , It Is strange to hear
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the clinic of a hammer on an anvil.
f You might imagine that you : were approaching .
preaching some settlement , and the
picture of the rUddy glow of the forge
{ might come up before your eyes
1 But If your guide were a native he
would tell you that the sound was
i.\ macho by a campanero , as It Is called ,
I'
l . : : although to foreigners It Is known as
. ; , the anvil bird.
.1. 'i This bird Is a little larger than a
'
I 'i. : thrush. The plumage Is perfectly
) f i white ; the eyes are of a pale grey
\ .d color , and the naked throat and skin
, , , , round the eyes arc of a fine bright
1..x- ' . green
4 It Is generally In the early part of
the day that the sends
, , . he. _ ! that. _ campane _ sen I.
, forth the wonderful note , which will
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L often travel quite three miles.
- Marvelous , Indeed , must be the
. x mechanism of the vocal organs of so
it small a bird to produce such a far-
l. , . . reaching note ; but there is no doubt
'I at the tact , for many travelers have
been able to testify to the immense
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t , distances over which the anvil note
can be heard
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i , i' Oddities of Zoology.
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' . .off "Zoology has its oddities , " said
1 : : " John Lover , the Zoo keeper , "and
. . " , _ . that Is why I study it at night , after
' 1 , my regular work Is done.
"There arc certain animals whose
circulation reverses its direction at
short Intervals. The blood flows one
way In them for a while , then It turns
and flows the other way.
"There are Insects that have their
ears on their legs. Others have their ;
'h ears on their tails. As for the eyes ,
: well they may be found on the back ,
on the shell , on the limbs , practically
c
= , ) + t everywhere.
"There are animals that lay two
and three different kind of eggs , and
there are eggs that each produce
from two to eight 'oung.
"Thero are Siamese twin animals ,
with two bodies perfectly united.
There are males that live In the gul-
lets of temales. There are animals
that commit suicide rather than bo
slain.
, _ "Altogether zoology Is odd and in-
teresting. I would rather study It at
night than go to the pla-Philadel.
phla Ledger.
t ' Brutes In Company. I .
: ¼ : i Down In MazatIan the other day , on
the western coast ot the dreamy land
at Manana , a bear broke loose from
an Itinerant circus and sought lair In
a native saloon. There his bearshlp
met a crowd of thirst peon loafers ,
who with unknown celerity forsook
! their agllardhmto and fled. All but
one lie was too rllnlt.
c "Pr'lt-hlc-doggy ! , " crooned the
t -paralyzell one and made as to stroke
f the wild heast's fur. "Gr r - r ' - " said
t bruin , and In the midst of the Inti.
l mate festivities that followed a goodly .
f Iy jug ot Mexican whisky was dislodged -
t lOdged and largely ! uncorked.
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When circus folk came upon the < <
steno with ropes In search ot what
was theirs they found a drunken bear
and a drunken peon rubbing noses 01'
the floor III n perfectly friendly test
as to which could lap up the most before -
fore the fluid brimstone should coal }
away.-Los Angeles Times
Mexico's Plague of Ants.
From the State of Campeche , Melee
leo , comes the news that great . arm ,
of black ants Is marching over the
Champoton district of that State , ant'
that the Inhabitants are fleeing befol'
them. The Insects are of the specie'
known as "plrlnolas , " and their POl801
Is extremely Imlnful. They are destroying )
stroylng growing crops , and a nun
her of human beings and scores o
animals are reported to have faIle'
victims to their hltes. Portions 0
the ClIampoton district , which lie
along the Gulf of Camlwche , hay
been entirely deserted , and work 0
all kinds throughout the entire dlstrlc
has been suspended. It Is said tha
the ants appear every ten years
Where they come from and whey
they go when hey t disappear are \11.
solved prohlems.
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Railroad Through the Sea.
One of the greatest pieces of rail
way building ever contemplated I
planned by henry 1\1. \ Flagler. He pot
poses ! to extend his road from It
southern terminal Miami , Fla. , 13
miles to Key West
For at least enc . fcflh of the war I
will ho practically a roadbed throug1
the ocean. Key Largo and Long It
land will permit ) a long stretch 0
dry tracIe , but an enormous amount 0
bridge and trestle work wlll be rr
qulrcd. It Is estimated that the word
will require several years and wll
rank among the most expensive
pieces of railroad engineering In th
world.
From the terminal at Key West I
Is proposed to operate a line of hug
forr-hoats to Havana , elght-fi\
miles further south. Freight trans wit
be carried across the sea there In tlll
same manner that they are transport
cd from New York to Jersey Cllr.
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Lassoed a Deer.
William 'Vorthlng , a former cow
boy . now working a farm near Pine
Grove , Pa. , Is an unerring caster 0
the lasEo. TIm other day . he went fo
hunting. The dog went' up n ravine
and Worthing coiled his lasso ant
awaited events. Soon the dog began
to bark , and Instead of the exporte ;
fox came a deer on the dead run , wit !
the dog at his heels.
Worthing urged his horse forward ,
twirled and threw the lasso , and itf
loop encircled the neck and horns of
, foe big hucl. The buck tried at first
to break away und then to gore till I
horse and 'Vorthlng had a busy time
us he had dropped his gun In till
scrimmage. The dog also lent a hand
but It was not until after half aI'
hour's struggle that the buck sur
rendered and was dispatched.
Strange Case of Lost Memory.
The Italian novelist Salvatore Jo'arl
na recently delivered an address be
fore the Society for Psychic Research
at Milan , In which he minutely de
scribed the case of an author who six
rears ago completely lost his memory
for language and names , while other
wiRe his mind was more active and
wide awake than ever before. At the
expiration of a short period the memory
ory returned. In concluding his Ice
ture the speaker confessed that be
was the author In question.
Irreverent Joker.
In an old Virginia cemetery there Is
a weather - beaten tombstone bearing
this Inscription : "I await my hus
hand , May 26 , 1840' . " "Here I am"
Del' H , 1861. " Some joker has read
the Ins .ripllon and added with a pen
cll , "LaLC , as usual. "
Not In Enumeration.
Peter Johnson , a Chicago police
.11\n , has eight sons whose names are
as follows : Dardell , Alvin , Ira , Quln
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tus , gusedur , Gulzot , Nebo and : Milo
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TOLlhfI IT tlW [
VfIlRANS
Will Adams
[ On A' ' i'il 12. 11:00 : n Dutch IIhlll pilot'tl
Dr one \ \ IIl1l1m Adan1s nil Inglishttutit \ .
reached . lii'rnns ' the pt ice ot' lJel'lnls-
sion to build n fncton' nt Fh'lIlHln they
were compelled ( to hand \ over AlIllll1S tIthe
the 'l' 'coun , for whom hu built the III'H
JlllII\lll'He Ileet Ilu \\'IIS U'elltell with nil
honol' . but never 1I110\\'l'll to rottu ' tt to
1nglancl. Inc wits the founder oC JIIII/\II'
ese shipbuilding fillll utter his death
madl' a god 1J\ them 110 Iii Iml'lell 011 the
hlllsille or Heinllllul'II , above the iutval arsenal -
Iennl of Yoltosulm.1
On the hill of Ilennhnura . looking out
across tilt semi
O'er the Ilocll of Yoltosulm and the Warships -
ships stilling free
Midst the Shinto IJelluonll Rtrellmlu ,
Lies Will AlluIIIS , still tt-th \ ' cuniiug
Of the busy pot t 0' 1.onllun and Ito ( { en-
tishvoud and leu.
Be forgets the fleet he Imlli1ell and the
decks that once ho trod
' 1'hnt his Hm\'e'li IIfal' from gnglul\Il timid
his pull Is alien sod ,
That the hlel'lIl:1e-lIlIcllll : : um burning
Anti the IlIllylllg--wheelll a-tul'IIlJl
1'0 the mine \\'lIl1nm Adtuns , l\ulltlHh :
satlernnal U lid god
So he drowses till the screaming oC the
Hit ell ! ! once again
Calls hllll hack h. where beneath him ,
like 1I1lllied barons IIf the main
HIde the warships : while the rattle
Of Dal NllIIHln'1I seaward battle
flings and /IIlng-les through his dreaming
like It distant ! ! Ollg- ' ! ! refrain
For when us the great ! gray battleships
roll down upon till toe .
Or when 'J'ogo's lens torpedo ( boats charge
shoreward through the snow
When the glllnt shells are crashing
And the leng-uu-IonH SClIl'chllhts Ilush-
lng ,
Then \t Ai1amH \ sees the tl'un1\lh or his
toll \ of long ago.
-J. H. l"lIlgnt-\dltln , In Spcctator.
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Veterans In Glad Reunion.
Two veterans of the civil war , who
rendered most distinguished service
at the battle of Port Hudson bath In
the GOs , met for the first time since
that fight In Boston , recently , when
Co ! . Ormand F' Nlms of Boston and
Cat. Newton II. Chittenden of Santa
Barbara , Cal. , exchanged greetings.
Both belonged to that famous brigade .
gade composed of the Fourth Wiscon
sin , Sixth Michigan , Twenty.fIrst Indiana .
ana , Eighth New lIamrshlre and
Nlms' battery of the Second Massachusetts .
chusetts , and were hrought Into close
touch for the first time at Warren-
toll 1\1 Iss. , Where Chittenden , then
captain of a Wisconsin compan , was
saved from capture h 1 ) ' the timely and
well.dlrected firing of Nlms' hattel'Y.
Capl. Chittenden with only nine .
: men was fighting more than 100 Con-
federates lIe received a severe wound
In the side , and both he and his men
would have been taken had not the
battery turned loose on the enemy
when It did.
About a month later , when Breck'
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en ridge made his desperate attack on
Baton Rouge , La. , Chittenden , who
was In the hospital , left his cot , secured .
cd a horse and went Into the field
with his wound unhealed. He charged
Into the thickest of the mauling
where Nlms and his men were engag-
ed. The fight was a most desperate
for the ' displayed
one , and gallantry )
by Nlms , who was then a captain , the
government gave him a colonel's coin-
mission.
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'rho lIIen met agnln , for thin last
then until the recent occasion , at the
810go or Port 1Itu ' on. hero 1 on Juno
14 , 186I : , was fought ono or the severest -
est battles or the Will' Cnllt. Chllten'
don's company } was reduced to twenty-
four men ( lurlng the lIghting'
CUllt. Chlttonden ) Is grnctuuto or
Columhla college , n. momhor or the
Now Yorle and California bars , 1\
writer nllel lecturer 1 . lie doeR not
lll'l\ctlco low , his time for thirty yours
having bean devoted to historical ox-
plorntlons thl'oughout the PacifIc
coast region lie pays oSl'l'clnl ttlten'
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tlon to studying the Indians , for which
111ll'IOSO ho visited AluHlm twont.two
years ngo.
Important G. A. R. Committees.
In his lust general order the com-
ntander-in , chief of the Gruntl , Army
of the Republic says :
In accordance with the action of (
the thlrty.elghlh nlltlonnl cnmP-
ment the following committees are
con\lnlled \ with momhershlp us herein
named. The duties of these commit- '
tees are onerous 111111 the wOI'le hnpol'-
tnnl. Post : commanders and coml'lules
can bo of mutm'lal assistance to them ,
and they should render such assIst-
ance cheerfully and promptly ) , oltlur
' ' the senators
rOI'sunnlly ) 01' through
nnd I representatives In congress from
their respective districts :
COlllmlttee on penslolls-Charles G.
BIII'ton , chull'lllan , Nevada 1\10. ; A. A.
'l'aylor . Cambridge , Ohio ; John C.
l.1nehan. I'pnacoole , N. 11. ; BernaI'll
I Kelly , 'Topeka Kun. ; 1. . . . B. Haymond ,
Hampton , Iowa ; .Tanles Owens , New
York city ; Charles Clark Adams , Boston '
ton , 1\lass.
On legislation for veterans In the
public Service-hvory G. Kimball
chall'lnl\n , Washington , 1) . C. ; Isaac
F. 1laclSandusltY , Ohio ; Leo Ras-
slem' , S1. Louis , 1\10. ; .1 . P. S. Gohln ,
Lehanon , Pa ; George II. Patrick.
Alabama , addressVnshlington , I ) . C. ;
F' . G. ButterfIeld , Derby Line , Vt. ;
John n. King , Baltimore , 1\111.
On Fredericlcsiurg Battlefield na-
tlonal pal'le-John McElroy 1 , ehulrman ,
Washington D. C. ; IOl'lltlo C. King
Broolcl'n , N. y ; Daniel n. Ballow
Providence , n. I. ; James F' \lorrlson ,
City Hall , Philadellhlll ) , Pa. ; 1) . A.
Grosvonol' , Washington , D. C. ; Alberta
g. Sholes , Flushing , N. Y. ; George H.
Hopltlns , Detroit 1\lIeh.
011 fraternal relations with the
Sons of Veterans , U. S. A.-W1llIam
11 . Armstrong , chairman , Inellanupolls ,
Ind. ; 1\1. D. Wlclwl'sham , Mobile , Ala. :
Thomas J. Anderson , 'Topeka \ , Kan. ;
James O'Donnell Chicago , Ill ; Madison ,
son B. Davis Sioux City , Iowa ; James
is. I Agen , West Superior . \Vls. ; W. n.
Sntedberg , San Francisco , CJ. ! ) .
On erection of a statue In honor of
Benjamin 1" Stephenson , founder of
the Grand Army of the Repuhllc-
Charles A. Partridge , cliairtnan Chi-
cage Ill. ; James 'ranner , Washing
ton D C ; Louis Wagner Philadelphia -
phia , Pa. ; John McElroy . Washington ,
I ) . C. ; Thomas S. 1I0pltlns , Washington .
ton , D. C.
Flag committee of the Grand Army
of the Repuhllc-Henr S. Peck n
chairman New lIavelt , Conn. ; p 11.
Cone , Topeka ) , Kan ; Henry Hay-
mend , Clarksburg , Ya. ; John D
Black , Valley City , N. D. ; N , J. O'Bri
en , Cheyenne , " ) 'o.
y. Ij\
c.