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Show ; s kill tha old hirds upon their first approach, for it fares ill with tha daring robber who attempts to secure the HIS REALM AMONG THEMOUNT-- 1 yonng birds w ith none to protect but himself. In this way are many of tha AIMS KA8T TENNESSEE. old birds killed for the taxidermists or fustbers, while the. eaglets are Debits Peculiarities of the for borne away and caged for a good sale. Americas Eagle ee Exhibited An eagle captured at first is an uninto the Hunter How tie teresting prisoner. Frequently they la Captured. utter coarse erics, sullen and savage, breathing heavily aud fiercely all the are many eagles in the while. Their eyes dart firo and their and iow brows and fiat foreheads era conmountains, are many mountaineers torted into hateful expressions. They are ezjiert eatehers of will dart fiercely at the bora of their the yonng eaglets, who reap rich re- iron cages, and, finding themselves wards in return for their perilous unable to reach their hatred captors, risks and adventures. Eagles make draw themselves up and utter terriflo their evries among the olefts and crags plaints and whines. They are always of the highest mountains of the State. rustless while in captivity, due, of The American yacht Defender, which course, to their natures. Rarely an defeated the English yacht Valkyrie eagla is captured iu a huge trap baited 111, in the famous international race with a small lamb. Attempts have last year, carried as its masools two been made, too, in the Teuneseee yonng eaglets captured in the Tenn- mountains to capture them iu nets, essee mountains, lrivate owners of bnt thik is impracticable, or else the yaohta, captains of big ooean liners and mountaineers prefer to eaptnra them the steamboat men of the big rivers of when yonng by visiting their neats. America are very partial to eagleta as Clucinnatti Enquirer. potv, and the eagle catchers find this olasa of men among their best customTala Caused by Little Drops of Water. ers. THE KINO or ud t. ! k- - i I I j THERE Tonng eagles bring from 840 to 880, occasionally 8)00. Eagles that are of aome age and of a great size (auoh are rarely captured, however) bring as high as 8300 to 8500. Eagloa which have to be killed while trying to cap- ture them are valuable to taxidermists, who always finds an easy market for a great stuffed eagle. Their feathers, especially the wing and tail feathers, are sold fur good prices. The eagle builds its nest upon the top of a mighty tree growing far np on the monatain among the myriad of twining vinrs, or in the thiokest and almost inaccessible growth of bnshes and shrubs, or on the summit of a high rook. An eagle's nest is a large one always, and is strongly and com- -' fortably built. Large sticks and branches are laid together, nearly flat, and bound with twining vines. The spacious inside ia covered with hair and mosses so minutely woven together that no wind can enter. The mother bird lays two eggs whioh are curiosities, The long end tapers down to a point The color of the egg is a ground of brewish red, with many dote and spots upon it The egg is proof of the wild and savage it-ae- lf f Vuentaga An eagle lives from eighty to 160 years. The young birds are drivon forth by their ravege parents to scratch for themselves as soon as they are abla to fly. Vo training ia given them by tha old bird. That is left to their wild instincts, which hunger and neoeaslty develop. Thera is no going back to the old home" for the yonng The mother bird tears np eagle. every vestige of the nest where they Jtpvg thriven since birth, end while they emit plaintive shrieks the old bird darts at them and pushes them the crags or ropks, spd jo prevent 'railing they most taka ti their win-s- , and this is how they learn to fly. It 'fakes tores year for n yonng eegle to ' gain ita full and complete plumage and strength. If the male bird be the stronger, i the most of the proy belongs to him, and he allows the fernalo tooat a paltry share between Keren thrusts of his beak at her. If the female is the stronger (aud sho generally is), the male bird cowers and wineea under many fierce blowa from his unfeeling wife, no matter how small the morsel he gets. But when danger threatens, no human pair can battle so fiercely for each other as can two caglos. The breeding season begins about Marob, and each male has bnt one mate during his entire life. If tho female is killed or esptured.the surviving male becomes an eagle hermit aud fiercer than A DEATH FLEET. OK 1UKDS. STflf. Are often seen near their nettf together, and when the ann ia ahining take their majektie flights straight toward that great balj of firo until they disappear from sight Sitting npon the monutain side, their vision is so keen that they can see far down the valley a sheep or young goat, a big turkey or rooster, a small pig, rabbit, or large birJ, and almost in tha twinkling of sn eye they descend suddenly npon their victim. One mighty grasp and a twist of their talons and the victim is dead, long before the eagle lays it down for repast. An eagle can live two and three dare, and even five days, npon a gorging meal. They prey upon all sorts of largo birds, fish, lambs, kids and Little drops of water may become very powerful agents for harm when Resides wearing applied unceasingly. away the hardest stone, acoording to the old adage, they will wear away human cuticle, flesh and bone, if dropped continuously on the spot. This was proved last week at the New York Athletio Club. As a result of a discussion on the subject two members made a wager, one betting that tha other oonld not endure the falling, drop by drop, of a pint of water on bis hand from a distance of only three feot. The man who agreed to plaee his hand under the apparently harmless drops of water ia a well known athlete and has a strong hand, the cuticle beiug thick and hard. Friends of the other gentleman said ho was foolish, and they resolutely said that any man oould allow a barrel of water to be ponred on his hand without snflering any inconvenienoe. The experiment began and the athlete paid no attention to the dripping water. Drop by drop it fell, pattering on the same spot on tha palm. When 200 drops had fallen the athlete apparently awoke to the feot that someDrip, drip, thing waa happening. drip, the water continued to fall, and when 800 drops Lad fallen tha athlete waa rafiering intensely. Ho said not a word, but the flash on his faeo told the story. Each drop added to the pain, and the man gritted his teeth in agony. The water continued to fall, merciIt seemed to lessly aud persistently. tha athlete that each drop woighed a pound, and they followed each other with awfnl freqnenoy, apparently gaining force with each drop. As the four hundred end twentieth drop fell the athlete drew hie hand away and declared that ho oonld endure the pain no longer. Then it wee seen that the palm of Lis hand waa awolleu and inflamed, and in one spot tha skin waa Aa a broken and the flesh exposed. pint of water contains 7680 drops, it will be scon that less than of tho water in the pitoher had been exhausted. One of tho forma of punishment employed daring the Middle Agee was known aa the ordeal of dropping water. One chronicle telle of a man who was tiod to a wall, and a stream of water as large aa a mans finger was qllowed to fall directly on hi head from a distance of twenty feet. Before the twenty gallons of water in the barrel from which the stream trickled were exbauoted, the man was dead, a hole having been pounded through his skull. A larger stream falling from a lossor distuuoo will soon render a man nueonneious and give him a headache that will linger for days. New York World. The Casting of Steel. In essting steel there has always been more or lets difficulty from the tendency of the molted metal to splaslk This produces flaws and cracks on tho surface of the ingots used for forging guns. These ingots weigh live tons and upward. It nat- urally arises that such a large quantity of metal falling from a height into tho molds would spatter and splash. The particles thrown off cool rapidly and are productive of a great deal of trouble. By a now and simple method this ia preveuted. A tube ia prepared ol thin sheet irou, such as is used for roofing. The tube ia tweuty-fou- r inches in iusido diameter, aud ia suspended from an iron ring, to whioh there aro riveted three bars on the surface of the mold. Tho steel is poured from the bottom of the ladle into tho middle of the iron tube. All the splashes are thrown ou the walls of the tube, which gradually molts away during the rise of the surface of the liquid steel in the mold. It ia by such little devices as this that a great deal of time, trouble aud work is saved. New York Ledger. goats. Oftentimes when a larpe calf or goat is to be attaoked and carried off, four or six of them will nnite and carry oil the cures, when they will immedistciy begin to fight it ont to see which of them is entitled to the choicest bits, and it is truly a survival of the Attest ia such combats as these. An eagle is always fully conddent of his strength, and rarely overreaches himself in his rapacious desire for prey. The minuteness of their vision, for they esn take in at a searching glance the presence of desirable prey in a radius of many miles on mounCaught a Want Squid. tain, valley, forest, swamp, or field, cannot With Felice Memoria, an Italian fishercomprehend. humanity this wonderful power of sight is com- man in the employ of the Amerioau bined a swiftness of flight equally as Fish Company, yesterday, while wonderful, lu a single night and in a angling for rock cod iu Moutcrey Bay, day a full grown eagle can fly a thousand hauled in a mammoth squid, the largmiles The flight of an eagle after est rreaturo of its species that has ever prey is like a flash of lightning, and been seen in this oity. Tho hook had La rushes past like a falling inetor, j caught iu its side and held until the descending with a fearful force upon fish was hauled into the boat, when it bis victim, which is staggered at the parted, leaviug tbe fish free to attack blow of bis erne talons. its captor. It wound its huge tentacles Eagles era captured by expert moun-taincr- s about him aud it was several minute who spy upon the parent bii.i be was able to disengage one end wait for tin1 hand sufficiently to grap hi knife. building her This done he cut tho throat of the breeding scshoh. After a due scsle the mountains, and, well squid and treed himself. The fish armed for the inevitable fight witu. weighs thirty pounds aud measured the parent birds, go to thems mountain seven iect from the tail to the end of eyries. Of ten times four men nre re- - its tentacles. Yesterday's capture was qnired to let oue of them down a steep one of the largest ever brought to the precipice or cliff, while two of them, wholesale fish district. S.in Francisco dead shots with Uio rifle, shoot aud Chronicle. J ( e tin-tlie- DlllirriXG HULKS IMPRISONED IN A SEAWEED CONTINENT. The (Jueer Figare Nine, Figures are funny thiugs, says the New York Han. They may be and olten are manipulated in a most mar velous manner, so as to entirely tha nniutiativa. Of course these remarks do not refer to ladies figures, bnt to tha oommon numeral of arithmetio. Strange tricka may be played with them, tricks as amusing ana perplexibg as with those confederates of eon jar ora a In most of pack of playing cards. these tha figure 9 is tha important factor. There era some peculiarities about that little bullet headed gentleman which era really startling. He haa e phoenix-lik- e power of raising himself from his ashes. Smother him np as yon will, multiply him by any group of his fellow figures until his identity is completely lost, and ha will bob np again, if not in shape, at least in spirit and anbatanee, aa tha am of the result obtained by the process of multiplication. Thai Twice 9 is 18. Add one end eight together and yon get 9. So, for example, 17 nines are 153, whioh, added together make nine, or 138 nines make 1242, end thus the same little ehap pops np again in difA seeming exoeptioq is ferent form. when applied to 11, or to a multiple of eleven ; then tha little joker comes in pairs, as 22 nines give 198, or seventy-sev- en Bnt nines make 603. even then the exception ia only apparent, for adding 1 and 9 and 8 gives 18, and 1 and 8 gives 9 ; and 6 and 8 and 0 make 9. The processes of reversing end subtree ting cause our irrepressible 9 to bob np serenely, and thna arises e simple trick. The wily operator asks hie subject to pnt down seoretly three figures, then invert these end subtract this leaser from the greater. If ha will than divulge the first figure of the result the oorrect answer can be stated, for it ia known that the insolent little figure 9 always usurps the plsoe in the middle, end moreover insists that his supporters together shall anm np nine. Thus with a knowledge of tha first figure, the other two ere easily told. Hera are examples : 723 SS4 Ml Ml I'ieMa; Cbickeu to Xiinir, 7ne sailor has fcs musical shanty to which he keeps tine as he trots about GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OP A the capstan until the uuchor is hoisted CHINESE MritDEItKIES END. to the peak, tbe former trills a lay to lighten his labors as he pitches hay Beheaded With louip and Ceremony into the wagon, aad these songs are familiar to many, bnt whoever heard Butchery Made a Public Spectacle and Wltneaaed by or saw e gang of Italian chicken pickers sing and deLnle fowls to the time Many Europeans. DECAPITATED. de-oei- of All Abandoned Vessels Eventually Kind iu End to Tbelr Wanderings lu tlia Baragosaa Ota. Nine-tenth- s time-honor- I1 "AR out in the Atlantio Ooean, away from tha regular tracks of ooean travel and avoided with superstitious dread by q sailors of all Nations, is a veritable ooean graveyard. There, amidst a silence never broken save by the scream of the aea gall or the wild shriek of the storm, rides the Death Fleet, dreary and desolate by day, under the burning glare of the hot, son; grim and spectral in the silvery light of tha moon. Fleets may go and fleets may eomo in the world of men, bnt this Death Fleet moves silently and ghostlike on its ceaseless journey toward the inevitable end. Regularly each month there oomea additions to this silent fleet, but no booming of gnns welcome the newcomer and no colors era dipped ; the only greeting is a waving of tattered sails and broken ahronda and ratlines. Slowly bnt sorely, the newcomer take their place in thA fleet, and the endless cruise continues. Mora weird and ghostly than any eonoeption of aea romanoer ia this ocean graveyard with ita Fleet of n Death, known to geographers and aa tha Saragossa Sea. It ia a sea of death in feet as well aa faney, and it is in this midst of death and silenoo s of tha derelicts whioh that are abandoned in all parts of tha Atlantio eventually find an end to their wanderings, and, joining the Death Fleet, - cruise about tha seaweed aea until,, waterlogged and weakened, they sink to the bottom of the ooean. That peculiar portion of the ooean known aa the Saragasaa Sea lies in the Atlantio west of the Azores Islands, and is in appearauee nnlika anything else on earth or sea. It liea just at that point in the ocean where th eastward currents turn southward and, half circling the Saragasaa Sea, move sharply westward. Tho ocean here ia nothing bnt a olid mass of seaweed, so dense in places as to support the weight of a man for a short time. It ia here that the majority of derelicts, oaught by oeoan currents, whioh seem to centre at its eastern edge, finally drift, and, ones within the confines of the sea, it is rare that a ship ever escapes without tha aid of steam or saiL This masa of seaweed, miles in extent, ia so olid that even the heaviest seas have little effect npon it, or anything that may be within ita confines. Isolated, so far away from the ordinary traok of ships, it ia seldom visited exoept by occasional scion tiflo parties, and some of tha reports which they have brought book read more like fiction than fact. Thera ere ships In ell stage of wreck ; aome lying on their beam ends, othera turned bottom up, while others ere apparently as stanch end seaworthy aa on tho day they were launohed. Some are partially dismantled, while tha rigging of all tha different craft ia Sea gulls in all stages dilapidation. find a resting plaee everywhere about the abandoned craft. They aoamper over the surface of this strange sea, and thera era ungainly crabs and shellfish unlike anything in any other part of the globe. Several attempts have been made by venturesome salvage seekers to capture some of the craft of thia Death Fleet, but owing to the density of the sea weed, end in every ease to combinations of nuforseen circumstanoes, the attempt has ended in failure, In the majority of cases the wreckers considered themselves lueky to get way with their lives and to reach their homes in safety. kThen they told wild tales of hideous monsters, with hundreds of arms that reached out in all direetipns from aboard the abandoned craft, entwining in a grip of deth the mon who had the hardihood to invade their lairs. They t.ol.l of strange, uncanny sounds at night, when through tha darkness the raging of the storm and the flashing of tha lightning oonld be seen and hoard ontside the limits of the mysterious sea, while within its confines all was silent as tha grave. Not even a sail wonld flap against the masts, and the adventurers would stand in speechless fear npon the deck of their own ship and gaze in horror as they saw pale, greenish bine lights flit about the decks of Death Fleet Under snob eirenmstanoes it is hardly to be wondered at that tha average sailor refused to eontinne the work of alvago seeking, and was only too glad to abandon the enterprise. . And yet there is mure than faney In these strange sailor yarns of tha Saragassa Sea and its Fleet of Death. Tin hundred armed monster whioh ct twined men and gradually killed them was only one of the hnge cuttle or devil fish, which abound m that sea, while the weird, greenish blue light, whioh they took to be tbe forma of a ghostly erew moving about, waa only the phosphorescent gieams well known to every schoolboy to be caused by action on decayed wood, and mado visible by the darkness of the night New York Journal. 1 semi-tropio- al sea-mo- nine-tenth- A Good Lookout. all of the tugboat in the Nearly harbor carry various images or emblems ou top of their pilot houses. The favorite emblom is a golden eagle, and it may be seen on many of them. One tug in particular, called Tha Boy, haa the figure of a small boy dressed , in a nautical blue on the pilot house. It is said to be the best lookout the boat haa ever bed. New York Mail ' aud Express, , papers brought to San by the last steamer China contain a graphic of a native execution at Kowloon whioh waa attended by all tha Europeans within a days Tha victim, Lai Mit, had journey. murdered a Chinese detective, and his punishment, with ail its barliario THE was made as conspicuously public aa possible as an example to Extensive arrangements evildoers, were made for the carrying ont of the execution. Flags were flying from tbe battlements of the old fort end from three war junks lying near the pier, end large numbers of Chinese were gathered npon the beech. About 8.15 p. m. a war junk waa sighted around the point and a saints waa fired from the fort Thia waa the signal for tha final arrangements for the reception of the Chinese official. A salute of three guns from the fort waa replied to by the junk, end then the junks alongside the pier Other salutes from the opened fire. fort were followed by loud beating of gongs and aalutea from the junks. The soldiers now oleared a square on tha beach close to a table at which were placed three chain. Tha first to arrive from the jnnk were the Namtau oourt officials, who arranged the table for the reoeption of the Mandarin. The wooden eage containing the prisoner waa taken np out of the hold of the junk and oarried along tho pier by ooolies, and then set down in front of the Mandarin's table. The prisoner woe rather roughly palled ont of the eage end foroed down npon his self-asserti- Na-ute- haunches. ofthemusie? Such a scene can be witnessed any Friday evening at the Clay street market, while the employes of the big ponltry houses tint have their places of bnsiness there are preparing for ale the chicken that the housewife bays for the SuiJsy dinner. The men seat thera selves in e half eirele end each takes a fowl. One stroke of e slurp knife across the throat pats the infurtunate squawking broiler out of it misery, and then the foreman of tbe gang starts his song. As they catch the sir and the time the others chime in, aid in an instant the plnoking begins With rhythmic motion the nimble fingers grasp the feathers and pull them out dnring all the time of the sotg. Feathers fly in al directions, bnt tba song goes on until the lost pin feathers are removed and the eureaiwea are tossed into s pile, ready for the man who pats on the flushing touches and prepares them foi the inspection of prospective puroheera. The rapidity with which s ohicken is stripped of its fathers is astonishing to the uninitiaed who have tried it bnt e few times, and so adept have these men beooug that they finish their fowls almost limultaneonsly, and the process is ripeated in unison. Three doxen birds are not considered s heavy night's woik for one man, and when pressed for tine they manage to compass even raori than that The song they sing is remarkably lively and sweet, aud muoh resembles the song of the fislermen os they row their boats, thougl tho time is muoh faster. San Frandsco Call. He scowled fiercely on all A Bullwbaekers Terrible Weapon. aronnd him, mattering imprecations offioial One of the In hi the story of a fmghting trip across npon guard. took a long bamboo to whioh waa at- the plains, printed in the New York 133 337 433 tached a long envelope bearing Chin119 Sun, oeonrs this p usage : ese eharaoters, down the book of his "Next to the Jiamond B. this 493 793 clothes. freight train was the largest in the All this time the crowd had been eonntry ; it was owied by Holmes A Chine e Labor Unions. jostling and pushing round the pris- Balcli, the former partner being onr It reThere ere many peculiarities in the oner, and the miserable specimens of wagon boss, or trail master. Chinese labor unions; perhaps the ooolie soldiers were ordered to dear quired a man of rare tact and judgmost striking is the minute division the way to the execution ground. Af- ment to handle a lot of tbe bnllwhaek-er- a of that day, for no rougher, wilder of labor. Take for illustration tho ter several nnincceasfnl attempts had solset of men ever lived. Holmes was Silk Weavers union. All those who been made to dear a passage, the weave silk of a oertain design form a diers brandishing rattans eventually such a man. He Aid not fraternise nnion by themselves, and those who deared sufficient space to allow of the with his employes, but was kind and weave silk of e different design form passage of the prisoner and his guard. considerate, low voiced and pleasant The executioner a tall muscular in his speech, and consequently was e different onion. The mahogany have a nnion separate Chinese followed behind carrying his well liked by alL Onr lead the man who drove the lead from tLe nnion of the rosewood cabi- sheathed knife. was exaontion Missouri Joe, said to be the the At tha pristeam, ground netmakers. Men who drew landscapes on tha Chinese fans have a nqion dif- oner wee ordered to kneel down on his most expert man with e whip in the He was shackled with old West. He knew every one of the ferent from that of those who draw knees. his hand irons, being tied 1500 eattle in the train, and oonld tell flowers and birds. In short, there is rusty e nnion for each particular depart- behind his back. His queue was to which team it belonged and its ment of work. Thus a single article wound aronnd his head and hia jacket plsoe in the line. It wss wonderful down from hia neok, which to see him handle his whip, whioh waa may have passed through the hands of was polledbare. The executioner with- was twenty-fiv- e feet long and weighed quite before oomes anions it into the many five twenty-sixta without the about knife drew tho ponnds weapon market, aooording to e writer in The feet from tha sheath and set tbe stock. He oonld hit a fonr-bi- t pieoe long Ohantanquan. signifying to him nine times ont of ten at twenty feet; In China there are several holidays prisoner in position, driving popper on the in tha year which people of ell stations to point his hood forward, and em- withofa wide, his instructions by kicking eud it he con'd crook it as load as phasizing elaaaea These observe. are tha and) New Tear, tha fifth day of the fifth tha prisoner lightly in the chest. The the report of s small oannon ; pointed the with silk it was s terrible weapon. month and the fifteenth day of the executioner then pulled away Baleh once bet $1000 that Joe oonld from tha prisoner's nook. envelope of month. The last the throe eighth exe4.40 the at o'clock whip e steer to death in fifteen minPunctually is for worship or praise of the moon. and in utes. A large steer wss turned into a blade hia down cutioner swung After this day the busy season of the one stroke the head waa severed from oorral, and, carefully pointing his year for all tradesmen begins. From the body, just as Lai Mit was cursing whip w ith silk, and betting 8300 on this time on until the New Year all the delay. The head was thrown face himself on the result, Joe prepared to craftsmen are expected to work later and tha eyes were staring win the money. Standing in front of upward seasons of at night than during other The soldiery immediately the animal at the proper distance, he wide open. the year, and, as rale, their wages are fired off a sent the long tub between its front increased during this period. Besides on the fall of the knife exeoutioner legs, and bock under the belly with a The volley. running these holidays, each union has its own lifted the head and placed it at the top powerful sweep. The slender point of holidays that is, the days of birth of tba lifeless trunk aud then out the the lash cut open the steer, and its inof the and death supposed originator shackles testines dropped to the ground; in To cel- strings which secured the of ita particular occupation. Amc and arms the around ng the thirteen miuutcs it was dead. " legs. ebrate the National holidays the emwitwho of crowd Europeans ployers always prepare a feast for their large was one woman. execution nessed the roiled After All. employes. Bnt when a nnion observes The head of the deceased was hung up ita own holidays ita members eontrib-batPeninsular War a numthe During beach. was on the which lying some money and hpve a banquet in a eage will allowed to ber of English officers had established be The body probably in a restaurant or hotjj. a mess in a Spanish village, with naon the beaoh some time. An interesting peculiarity of these remain tive cooks, wboo efforts were fairly onions should be mentioned here, and A Question About Shorthorns. satisfactory to the keen appetites of that is tha massing of the same indus-tlt- y Are the campaigners. They were joineJ, deterioratEnglish Shorthorns ip the same street. In China however, by a certain peevish, canto was This suggested question there is no very large manufactory, ing? London tankerous Major, who bitterly commoat of them employing about thirty our extremely was flavored a plained that every diih or forty men each, and all tha manu- correspondent by tho paucity of fairs with sugar after tho Spanish fashion at the Shorthorns English factories prodnoing tha same comand quite nueutablo. Finally, ha thia falL This is evident to outsiders, modity are loos ted in the same street. a well as to English breeders. confined himself to a diet of egga This gives rise to the eus tom of callin shell. They esnt sugar Frenoh critics are very severs iu this boiled hethecried ing raeh streets by the name of the connection, and maintain those," French-bretrimnulisntly. Bnt that iiis triumph was short lived. Next commodity manufactured there in' to now are Shorthorns raperior stead of their proper names. A competent morning some mischievons subs were those in England. at before tbe Major, French authority attributes the de- andthe mess table Apple Core far Sale. emptied all tho salt cellars, replaccline to too close inbreeding of tho their contents with powdered Of all the markets that combine to Booth and Bates families. Euglish ing The major soon appeared, and distinct street its sugar. Water South give breeders, however, believe that the gloomy complacency began npon originality undoubtedly 'the most trouble ia partly due to the mingling with he took unique, not to aay unseemly, ia the of Scotch blood with the Booth end an egg, ofwith which,Atas nsnal, "salt." the first month-fone which derives ita life from the Bates families, bnt mainly to the drain plenty his faeo turned purple with rage. oorea and peelinga of apples. Persons of foreign purchases, mostly for the who prido themselves upon their ad- Argentine. We have before allndod "Sugared, by Jove! ho exclaimed, herence to strictest eoonomy, who eat to the great efforts onr South Ameri- and rushed off to his tent. Argonaut. apples and throw the skins away, do can rival is making to improve its not oonaoientiously feel that they stock, and here we have farther eviThe Maple of Itatibir. have committed a deed of extrevag-anoe- . dence of it It is prolwbly true that In tbe town of Ratibar, Prussia, in the United States and Canada we atanda one of tbe most wonderful If the cores, even the merest struc- have living specimens of the best bred trees in the world, scya the St. Loni ture of the enres, and tha akina were animals of not only the Shorthorn, Republic. It is uot of gigantio size or saved, dried and taken lo the dealers bnt other breeds of cattle, and also of tb only representative of a species in in dried fruit in South Water street horses, sheep, swine and poultry. which all the members except itself in dealers sold. Tbe oonld be There is no reason why Amtriorn are extinct. they It is a common maple the street ere never overtaxed for breeders ahonld not get their share of which shows a wonderful combination pees to store tbe cores end peels that thia foreign demand for fine breeding, of nature ami man's patience and incoma from the people, bnt they American Agriculturist. genuity. The tree is only a few years manage to have e supply on hand over a century old aud during its enHe Framed the Guinea. to satisfy the demand, whioh ia genertire life everr limb aud twig has been ally amalL Dried apple cores and when a girl, was pas- patiently trained by its owners. The At Queen, peels sell at 1 of a cent and one oent a sionately fond of climbing walls and present it looks like a living pagoda, lleoord. pound. Chicago One day the brandies beiug so trimmed as to trees, says London at Malvern, she elimed a tall apple make it appear like a round tower Imitation Whalebone. tree and was nnable to get down. A with two atoriut. Each of these comArtificial whalebone ia made from yonng man named Davis, a gardener, partments is lighted by a scries of leather by a- - German inventor. The was attracted by her cries, got a lad- eight windows, and the two "rooms" Tha material la aoakad for three days in der and brought her down in safety. will each bold a dozen persons. she opened her purse floors aa ell a the sides of these won-- j ralphate of potassium, then stretched Deeply grateful, him with a guinea. derful rooms are constructed of on e frame, slowly dried, exposed to and presented ever since ha boughs which ro o skillfully woven and framed Davis afterward it, and a high temperature, put under heavy pressure. Genuine whale- been proud to tell the tale aud show together that the whole 1ms the of bein some gigantic bone is scarce, and good imitatiuns tha piece of gold which the Queen frenk of nature. will find abundant uses. gave him so many year sga jr. bull-whack- h I e well-inform- first-elas- d nl Tit-Bit- iiui-tati- I ve - |
