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Show AN CLEPHANT HUNT IN' SiAM.' A Country Where Nearly 300 of the tllf Animula Am Captured at a Time Chio scorching morning ii) April, 1870, a unjiiU party of Europeans left tho city pf Bangkok, the present capital of the kingdom of Siam, for Ayutiiia, the old Beat of government, sixty miles northward north-ward up the River Mciiaiu. A limit had been appointed by tiie king, an I the clo-i clo-i pliant were to lie brought in through the country bordering the ancient, ruins. On tho second day we arrived lit Ayutbi.i, and net up our screens and liimg our mosquito burs in a sala, or rest house, by tho river side. The following morning ten elephants arrived. Just out.-ide the city, and overlooking over-looking a plain extending to the horizon, was a high platform, mounted by stone steps and covered with a, tiled roof supported sup-ported by pillars. On this, scn-ened from the sun, and with a broad outlook ovor tho rice fields that had lately been shorn of their crop, sat a high official, his aids, ik few native, nobles and the foreign guests. The other spectators perched in trees or found standing loom wherever tho view was most attractive. Immediately before the platform was the stockade, Hindu by netting deep into the ground teak logs two yards iu girth and twenty feet in length. These logs were so arranged ar-ranged as to leave interspaces of about one foot in width. They inclosed a half acre of level ground, and extonded out, at the side opposite thu platform, into a funnel shaped entrance only wide enough, where it joined the stockade, for the passing of a single elephant. G.tzin.g far across the stubbly plain wnwuvtho troop of elephants, encompassed encom-passed by the many hunters who hud been H'lit months before into the wilderness wilder-ness to entice the wild animals toward a rendezvous. Tho families, scattered in tin-: jungles, foraging among tho luxuriant luxuri-ant herbage, had been separately entered by tame decoy elephants, under tho direction di-rection of wily hunters, and one had fol-li fol-li iwed nuother into cupt ivity. Two hundred hun-dred and eighty elephants had thus been brought together. The sound of their roaring svaa like that of distaut thunder, and an they approached the earth seemed to shake under their tread. I!y u skillful combination of leading nud driving they were slowly urged along toward tho stockade. Foremost were the docoyers, trained to their work, which they do with complacent discretion. discre-tion. They wero ridden by experts) in elephant training, and followed by tho wild herds iu which, were elephants of all ages. Hemming in the assemblage on the sides and in tiio rear, many other tamed elephants directed by their riders urged on the laggards with their long; tusks und shouldered the stragglers into place. Occasionally a lingo fellow, becoming conscious of being directed by a will not his own, would rear, trumpet a protest, bolt through the cordon of sentinels and gallop toward tho distant woods. Hut these fugitives were quickly chased by three or four trained beasts, and were soon brought back to the ranks. Only one, a majestic creature with enormous snowy tusks, distanced his pursuers nnd regained freedom in the bush. St. Nicholas. ftf-rmoiiK Tliat Are Kemembcrefl. I have listened to many eloquent, many -striking, many admirable sermons. ser-mons. I have forgotten, I suppose, some five or six thousand sermons forgotten all about them so completely that they have not left a trace in the memory, though at the time they may have had their infinitesimal influence for pood on the life of every day. But of the remainder re-mainder there were some which left deeper and indeed lifelong impressions. Of one of them, heard when I was a boy of 14,1 remember nothing but the manner man-ner in which for ull time it impressed the text itself upon my recollection. The text was, "As the nusa growing upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be plucked up, whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither he that bindeth np tho sheaves his bosom." Perhaps a sermon can produce no better effect than to burn into tho brain the force or the imagery of a particular text. I remember how much I longed, after hearing that sermon, that my life might never be represented by such nn imago of utter uselessness the rank, coarse grass upon the thatch, which the mower and reaper alike despise. Canon Farrar in Forum. Composition nf an Average Miin. Huxley's table of the weights of tho different parts of tho average human body, often referred to as a most interesting inter-esting compilat ion, lias now been largely superseded by a table prepared by a French chemist, which gives the pounds, ounces and grains of tho different elements ele-ments in the human body of the average of 15-i pounds. It is us follows: Lbs. Oz. Ora. Oxy;- lit 8 0 I .llydi-otft'U 14 8 0 i Carbon SI 0 0 j Mirix'ii S 10 0 l'h.wjihurus 13 SS i (.''ili-iunt SO 0 I Sulphur 0 0 819 rhloiiue..., , 0 9 47 Ku.!lura Omit) 0 !i lie, i Iron 0 0 llJ l'uULSsium 0 0 i,) , M;c,'!i''sium 0 0 14 biiica 0 o 2 ; T"t.il 1M 0 0 V, hi-n tho total fnils to balance In pounds It la e.irrRvt out in onac',-, and grains. tit. Lotiia Republic. ' I ; A IVralliir Word. j Tho word "habit" is tno of tho most peculiar in our language. If you take i j oil the fir;-t letter you still have "a bit." ; I If you remove (he second tho word "bit" j is still on hand. Decapitate that by re- i moviiif' the "b" and it in still n a-or.l ' Take off tho "i" and you find the old : "habit" not "t" totally destroyed. St. . Louis Republic. ' j It is easy to correct vocal defects in a ' child, and if the training be persisted in for several years by those competent to ; give instruction in tho art a habit of musical and ready speech may be acquired ac-quired which will serve one upon any ; occasion, ebb- r vrivnto or public. A lerillile Tusk. ! Dolly Have yonspofcea to papa about our our engagement? 1 C'nolly Ycth, and he t wealed me wit a ' puwsitive bwutality. 1 Dully-Poor, dear boy! "What did he ! I say? i I CiioHy Said he'd have nothing to do i : with a fellah that couldn't fhwink for ; : himself. The ideal Tuwiukiug is such I j l'sity, coiumou, Wd vork. Pitts- i burg )iulh'tiu. ! I : Water which contains impurities will S j turn milky white when nitrate of silver i i t.i dissolved in it. If "chemically pure" j ! there will be but a triflin dia.iolivatua. ! |