Show DEATH OF THE KING OF stam bette letters rs from singapore dated on the if 0 f january announce the death of the second king of slam whose name in full was pira PIr aBart bart pira pawa jamesr pira klau kiau chau yu hua he had been in ill health five years and in june last his disease began to assume a dangerous forni form his remains were deposited in a golden goiden urn decorated with diamonds and placed on a particular throne and and after the usual period of lying in state according to the siamese custom were buried with great ceremony ceremony the king ascended the tho th throne tyrone in 1851 his brother becoming first king ring both were remarkable men noted preeminently above all the monarchs of the east by their attainments and their love iove of progress the enlightened spirit which prevailed in their councils encouraged cou raged the introduction of the foreign element the development of internal resources and the use of the modern inventions and the arts and letters of thorest the tho west the second king especially showed the liveliest interest in the great greal movements of the world cherishing a hope 0 oo 00 of european uro are ean and american literature opening his palace freely to foreign visitors vis tors cultivating diplomatic relations wl with t the e nations of the west contributing papers on scientific and political subjects tp to a little journal called the siam siam slam times printed at bangkok half in english and half in siamese and subscribing sub Bub scribing for american newspapers mid arid periodicals his death is a severo severe loss to his kingdom mY LAMP CHIMNEYS chamne YS BREAK 0 rolie ohie orie of the most fruitful sources of an boyance to housekeepers in these days of petroleum when lamps havo entirely 1 1 superseded tallow tallon mould and dips ll 11 is the breaking of lamp chim these accidents if accidents heyart th he eyare yare yaro occur so frequently that the acost co st of beeping keeping a supply sup ae ay on hand foots up a very con considerable considers sidera sidena ae item in house hold expenses few persons know the reason of this breakage and while some attribute it to carelessness on the part of domestico domestics or members of the family not a i few blame the manufacturers an article published in one of the english magazines on the fracture of polished gla gia glass surface gives some information on the subject which maybe may be of advantage 1 to our readers p the writer says it is a fact well known to the philosophical instrument makers that if a metal wire be drawn through a glass tube a few hours after yards bards wards the tube will burst into frag frac ments the annealed glass tubes used for the water grages of steam boilers are sometimes destroyed in this way after the act of forcing a piece of cotton waste through h them with a wire for the purpose of cleaning the bore this will not happen if a piece of soft wood Js 18 employed the late andrew ross noss informed me that on one occasion late in the even k jug yng ing he lightly pushed a piece of cotton wool through a number of barometer tubes with a piece of cane for the pur pose ose of cleaning out any particles of dust t the next morning he found mose most me A of bf the tubes broken up into small frag hentsi ments tho the hard si cilious coating of the cane brov proving ing as destructive as he had previously known a wire to be Person persons ij who have been in the habit pf af using wires table forks and a lot of oame me thi gallic lic ilc articles in the washing of these chimneys will in the above stated fact j f nind find the reason of their chimneys so of ten tep napping to pieces on the lamp A RELIABLE INFANT the adrian fulch amich fM mich ich expositor relates relate the following I 1 incident ne ident r A little girl about two years old and a diminutive little thin thing at t that while white play playing ing with her hek bietler brother 1 by ome unaccountable accident fell into a well about thirty y feet fiet to the water the boy gaye gave the alarm and the mother running out discovered her littler urie darling floating on the water eket chet was down it probably went with the child and instead bof adf wasting her energies in fruitless screams caught the rope abd swung s wu ng aback the bucket partially tinder under the child the little hands grasped the p pail pall ail all and etwas it was vas drawn to the top and rescued by the terrified but courageous mother during its perilous jounney out it looked up and several times called out mam mamma ma mamma A molo moio more mone thrilling peril and ad rescue sel dom occurs and indeed the whole thing is next to mi miraculous bilt bit the facts are beyond cavil EDUCATION OF SEALS captain musgrave thus describes the the methods of physical and mental education tl 10 I 1 pil pursued arsue by the maternal seals toward their young in the latter part fart of december and during the whole of january they are on shore a great deal and go wandering separately through the bush buish or woods and into the long grass on the sides of the mountains a above bova the bush constantly bellowing out in a most dismal manner they are undoubtedly looking for a place suitable for calving in I 1 have known them to go to a distance more than a mile from the water for this purpose their voice is exceedingly powerful and in calm weather may be heard to the almost incredible distance dispane beof of four and ahall or nive five miles why they bellow so much before calving I 1 am scarcely able to judge but after that event which does not nottage take place until after the first of eeb Feb february ruai rual it is undoubtedly to call their young which they generally get into the water a few days after they are born and assemble them in great numbers at some lar lar place selecting such places as a small smail island or a neck of land with a narrow rodj row junction unction this no doubt prevents them from getting straggled about and lost as they do sometimes in the bush while whilo in these places they cannot very well get got away without going golu ginto into the water to which when very young they have a great antipathy the means employed by the cow for etting getting her young into the water for the first arst time cime and taking it to a place of safety is when witnessed highly amusing it might be supposed that these an animals I 1 n lais even when young would readily go into the water that being one of their natural instincts but strange to say such is not the case it is only with the greatest difficulty and a wonderful display of patience that the mother succeeds in getting her young in for the first time I 1 have known a cow to be three days getting her calf down half hal fa a mile and into the water and what is most surprising of all it cannot swim when it is in the water this is the most amusing fact the mother gets it on to her back baek and swims along ver very gently on the top of the water but t the e poor little thing is bleating all the time i and continually falling from its slippery position when it will splutter about in the water precisely like a little boy who gets beyond his depth and cannot swim then the mother gets underneath iland it and it again gets on her back thus hey they go on the mother frequently giving an angry bellow the young one constantly bleating and crying frequently falling 0 off f sp spluttering splutter lutt ering ing and getting on again often ofee a getting a slap from the flipper of the mother and sometimes some tome times she gives it a very cruel bite the poor little animals are ver very veny 0 often on seen with their skins pierced and an lacerated in the most frightful mann manner r in this manner they go on until they have made their thou passage to whatever place she wishes to take the young one to sometimes they are very numerous at these places their numbers being daily augmented until the latter end of of march here the young remain without going into the water again for perhaps haps a month when they will begin to go in of their own accord but at first they will only play about the edge venturing farther by degrees and until they are three months old if surprised in the water they will immediately run on shore and hide themselves but the they y always keep their heads out and their eyes fixed on the party who has surprised them imploring mercy in the most eloquent language that can be communicated munica ted by these organs BY nv octia nite mile mlle the pitts ritta dispatch says A large amount lumber of is now real reaching ching til the city it i is stated that in the poop poor at bethlehem I 1 i clarion county there are now n ow lying no less a number than five hundred lumber rafts destined for pittsburg and that so completely is red bed bank creek in jefferson and clarion counties filled blied with rafts that one can walk from bethlehem to brookville Broo kville a distance of about fifteen miles without having occasion to step tle rafts at any point LEMON leuon JUICE IN diphtheria ria doctor in a paper presented last summer ta the french academy of inie INTe medicine dicine asserts that lemon juice is one of most efficacious medicines which can be applied in diphtheria and he relates that when he was a dresser in the hospital his own life was saved by its timely application he got three dozen lemons and gargled his throat with the juice swallowing a little at the same time in order to act on the more deep seated parts dr B R has noted eleven cases of complete success obtained by this method of treatment i conquering al AN ele EtE ELEPHANT after th the e regular performance at for baughs circus ana and and aud menai menag menagerie arie irie tenth and callowhill streets on saturday a night a novel and exciting scene was presented to a number of persons who were allowed to remain in the building the nit lit of madness which has rendered the great elephant romeo borneo how on exhibition hibi hibl tion with the show totally unmanageable for a week past has already been noticed in these columns and also the attempts of his master mr nir craven to pacify the huge beast without resorting to extreme violence this elephant is the largest one in this country weighing over five tuns auns and standing nearly ten feet high the inclosure now occupied by romeo borneo measures about twenty eight feet square when signs of ill humor first become apparent the beast was secured by chains so that he was kept about midway in the space in that position there was no possibility of the elephant doing further farther damage than to occasionally raise with his head a girder that sustained several tuns auns weight the influence usually exercised over romeo borneo by mr craven is certainly wonderful and the ready obedience and sagacity of the beast has perhaps never been surpassed by any other performing elephant in the united states the first bad treatment to which the furious romeo borneo was subjected was stoppage of his daily food a measure which tage kage however however unpleasant it might be to the offending beast was undoubtedly favorable to the purse of his keeper for seven days nothing whatever was given the elephant to eat cat or drink and ile he remained upon lis bis feet the whole time casting his trunk restlessly about while his keen eye flashed the fiery spirit that governed him hirn no person dared venture within his reach without increasing his disposition to be violent anything whatever within the reach of his trunk was made a weapon of offense and several bricks lying in his way were taken up and thrown with great force to the extremity of the building mr craven closely watched his prisoner during the entire time and when escape wa was threatened a rifle was brought into use and its con contents t ants fired into his head during the few days of trouble no less than a dozen loads were discharged at romeo borneo one of them destroying his right eye an accident which greatly distresses mr craven but its result is acceptable accept ible as by no other means could the life of 0 athe the favorite little elephant juliet have been saved after every means which had been tried to enforce obedience had failed mr craven determined to subdue him by throwing him from his feet and about ten on saturday evening the effort was commenced tackle sufficient lelent to rig a small smail sized ship was brought into use and made fast to the chains bound round the feet of romeo borneo and then attached to heavy stakes driven in the ground about thirty yards distant it required much trouble to get the animal into the desired position and to intimidate romeo borneo two rifle shots were fired one entering his trunk and the contents of the other flashed onn off his side as if it had struck upon a rock about fifty men took hold of the ropes attached to the elephant and in a short time timo his feet were so drawn together that a few pulls upon a line at the side laid romeo borneo fairly upon the grou ground bid fid the yells of the infuriated beast as he was being conquered was terrific and for a few moments momen tsan an unearthly clorus chorus was kept up by the numerous other animals after being compelled to remain upon his side during the night romeo borneo was released and subsequently went through his usual performance in the ring with readiness and submission the elephant is now as docile as ever he was the only evidence of his late bad humor being the loss of ali afi an eye and scars with which he is marked philadelphia press tre THE BRITISH BitiTis ir BUDGET some of the london papers are dissatisfied with the estimates for the military service because the reduction is only in all but the patriot comforts itself by saying that 4 the army is gradually disbanding itself recruits are not to be got on existing terms and that will be bem bel increasingly crea singly the case as the intelligence and prosperity of the laboring classes increase Pretty soon emigration will be found to tell in the same direction two young you ng russian women are at p present resent studying medicine at the T university of zurich and showy show it is stated much aptitude for that profession AN ai association has been formed in berlin to promote tile the industrial employment of women especially of those belonging clon cloD ging to the middle eid eie classes ses photograph POISONING two little children a boy and girl belonging to heivry hen ry bishop who lives on Pa paulina tilina street chicago while playing with photographs were we r e seen to have them in their mouths by sucking poison from the cards they were so injured that the boy died and the girls life is despaired of NATURAL S SNOWBALLS ann aff interesting in phenomenon occurred in england march ath a fall of water in a seni sew solid state far denser than snow yet not hail hall nor ice in short natural snowballs A correspondent of the london times writes that about two and a half inches of these balls gave one inch of water therefore their density was about half that that of hail hall and five times that of ordinary snow their s shape h ap e was usually pyramidal the bas base e be being 1 ng uneven somewhat like the flower of a cauliflower the size varied from one inch in diameter down to a tenth about two tenths was most usual THE tue LIONS PAW A delicate soft harmless looking foot is this with a beautiful fringe of fur round the edge but what do we see under this fur fue snugly concealed like riflemen in ambush are those dread claws which when v lien llen extended and intent on blood will tear furrows an inch or more deep in the thick skin of a buffalo or giraffe or hold the tho powerful eland with a and deadly grasp then again remark the soft velvet like pads aich which fill up the hollow of the foot the largest argest pad being four inches broad has numan human ingenuity ever contrived or ever will it contrive any such elastic firm yet set noiseless noi nol material 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