The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, July 07, 1900, Page 10, Image 10
10 THE COURIER. X The Dewey Arch. The public value of the naval arch temporarily erected in Fifth Avenue last year, ia pointed out in th'e July Century by its designer, Charles R. Lamb. On one aspect of the subject he writes: "The Dewey Arch in New York, which, as it neared completion, attracted almost us much public interest as the stately procession which followed, mark ed, as never before, the value of the artist in the designing of public festi vals; and the measure of ib? success whb bo great that it Eeems impossible to be lieve thai that value will ever be doubt ed again. It was not the first instance of the kind, but it was the first in which artistic cooperation was carried out on a large scale, and for which there was provided a fairly liberal amount of public money. REMAINS OP A LOST RACE. Instinct In a Bird. A traveler relates that while passing through a small forest in Brazil he was attracted by the rapidly-uttered cries of alarm of a bird, and, wishing to learn the cause, ho made his way to the tree whence he thought the sounds proceeded, and, looking up, saw that a serpent was slowly winding itself up toward a nest of unfledged little ones. While- watching its movements the male parent bird arrived, who, cir cling twice or thrice over the top of the tree, swiftly darted further away Into the forest, and in a few seconds returned with a large leaf in its little mouth, which it instantly placed over the nest, and then flew up higher. Meantime the serpent wound itself lowly up the tree and reached the nest, but, on putting its head over the side, quickly started back, descended the tree, and was lost in the under wood. The traveler, being deeply in terested In the singular incident, aft erwards learned from some of the na tives that the leaf of a certain tree is a deadly poison to the serpent. Hor had the bird acquired a knowledge of this? What mortal can say? What philosopher can .explain?' Tommy (whispering) Say, Chi m my, why don't yer show de teacher yer mumps, so she will let yer go home? Chimmy (hoarsely) Sb, yer idyur, I want ter have de whole school ketch de disease so'st I kin have some of de fellers to play wid. Judge. Superior People Driven to tbe Bwtnp ol What IfNow Louisiana. Prof. George E. Beyer, of Tulane univemity, New Orleans, has Just re turned from his explorations of the so called Indian mountm along the Red river, and between that stream and th Mississippi, In Franklin, Natchitoches, and other neighboring parishes, which he Investigated tor Tulane university and the Louisiana Historical society. He was able to distinguish the several layers of earth, shell and clay deposited at different times, and to demonstrate a greater antiquity for the mounds than had been 'supposed an antiquity of at least 1,000 years. The skeletons and implements discovered proved fur ther that the inhabitants of these mounds were not of the race of the ordinary red Indians who were found there by the French and Spanish ex plorers, but a race akin to the Aztecs or Toletlcs, of a more peaceful disposi tion than the neighboring Indians, and originally more civilized. They had apparently been forced Into the great swamps by the surrounding Indian tribes, and their civilization had de teriorated under the unfavorable con- ditions in which they lived. Prof. Beyer's later explorations con firmed his former ones, or rather show ed that there were two varieties of mounds :n the country he explored, one variety on the higher land, ap parently erected by Indians, and used mainly for burial purposes; the other built by a more ancient race, and con taining Bkulls of the same kind as those found in Catahoula. The Indian mounds contained a large number of skeletons with heads distinctively In dian, arrows, tomahawks, etc. The other mounds were in the swamps or lakes, like those of Mexico. Such lakes were once abundant along the Red ri7 r, but nearly all have been drained firy to-day by the removal of the Rod river raft The number of these mounds fairly staggered Prof. Beyor. he found no fewer than fifty clustered together and extending a distance of two miles from Brown's bayou to Lit tle Deer creek. They were so close to getheronly fifty feet apart as to make what must have been In old days a settlement or town. After Supper, at a Ball. 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