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Show A SNAKE HUNT INDEED. out of the coil. He was very large man, broad at the hip, hut from the waist We pulled Captain Kleffer m UP THfc AMAZON AFTER MEN. down hi body wff crushed and no AGBRIE SPECIMENS. thicker than a hand-spikand the broken bones came through the skin. Aa Attempt to Capture a ""' dug grave with our bush Anaconda in a South Amariaau Poraat knives and buried him, piling all the Laada to tho Vesta of tha Caplaia of lugs we could find on top, and after tha Expedition. skinning the snake, which was thirty-nigfeet long, started home. 1 don't James Komayne, a bright young believe we should ever have brought colored man who has followed the sea it in alive. The skin and head for the last eighteen years, has Just weighed over 200 pounds. "The second day we made the returned from a voyage to the port of Spain. Ills previous one eras so boat, pretty well used up. A native in the same day with a curious in its incidents as to be trader barrel oi sugar cane rum. Gordon worthy of telling. went on a spree at once, got the river In April, 1H9& he N. B., and just off Montevideo she and this started us down the river, as run into by a Norwegian barque and two days after we met the other up. at midnight and much damaged. boatI coming had had enough of snake huntAfter making necessary repairs the Romeo sailed north,and off the mouth ing, and left, getting a job with an "ho had of the Amazon was struck by fxPor,n pm- pero and completely wrecked, only v-e. Full-Gro- ! ht . the boat, and they found themselves at i ara without money or clothes. James at once wept to work for a German named Kleffer, who was col. lecting wild animals and bound up to the head waters of the Amaxon, and this, according to tho Thiladel-- 1 phla Times, is his own narrative of the adventure. The boat was about eighty feet s long with a deck-hous- e her length, only one mast, a big square sail and sweep ruddor. The river is so big that one hundred miles from the sea the shores are '? INVITED j Bt ! of Corrsmo TO LEA Irmut.J lit ItoBMuar The state of South Carolina has been from its earliest history a lib-erl l'atron of the arts, and contains any valuable works of the old rnas-- i tors, and jiortralts from the hands of the most famous artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, write Kola Willis, in Godeya Settled by Huguenots and English Cavaliers, many valuable pictures and pioces of statuary came into its possession in the palmy days of old, when the of the small present generation wore dottles' and powdered wigs, and their s danced stately minuets In brocade gowns that would stand alone;when frequent trips were made to the mother country, and foreign courts were visited by the more favored, who brought back with them many beautiful and now priceless treasures of art to lend something of an dignity aud 10 thla new country. Then many worthy additions were made from time to time by the sea island cotton planters and the rice planters of the fresh water rivers in their travels abroad. Une of tbe most interesting as well as valuable pictures in Charleston is The Dying Magdalen, by Correggio. The story goes that while Mr. Joseph Smith was a guest at the court L of of tho Emperor Alexander Russia,' on'o f the ladies of the royal household became very much enamored of tho distinguished vls- tor This contretemps rendered it nece try that tho object of the ladys admiration should be removed, and in order that Mr. Smith's departure should bo robbed of any two-third- out SMITH I sight The crew beside myself consisted great-grandfathe- of two Englishmen, a Danish boy and five natives two of these were guide and Interpreter. We were five weeks getting to the mouth of the Madeira river, about H')) miles For three days we kept up the great-grandam- main river to a village they called Itacco, and here met the real wild natives, armed with bows and arrows, They sold us two jaugars, a lot of poison snakes, some bright scarlet in color, and five armadillos that got so tame that we handled them, and they slept in our bunka Here we learned that a native had n found a anaconda, and he I measured the length on the sand with his bow, forty feet Kleffer was j anxious to get this for some German prince that fancied such pets, and next morning our whole force started off through a wot meadow, piloted by the native huntor. There were thirty in the party, f each man carrying his own provisions. The march was horrible, and after walloping through the mud all day dry ground was reached at nightfalL Here we slept, nearly eaten up by bugs, and the heat was like an oven. About 10 oclock next day the guide unpleasantness, the Correggio was came back. He had found the snake, preserved to him as a douceur. it was torpid after a feed and could he taken easily. The way was through a swamp with bushes six foet high, and these had to be cut away. Finally we cqme to a place where the grass was beslcn down as if a hogshead had been rolled along. The guide went ahead and then stopped, holding up his bow. Creeping forward we saw an opening with a number of palm ' kisw trees around and In a low place lay on vi !!? something a bright yellow in color. This was the snake: coiled up. the head, big as a barrel and covered with scales, lving on the edge of the coils and 1 could see the dead eyes plainly. Good Lord ! Id have given all I'm worth to have been locked up in some jail in Pennsylvania about then. The captain sent Gordon, one of the Englishmen, a powerful sailor, and a native hunter around through the high grass to fetch a clump of trees back of the snake, and then get a hitih on the brutes head. The native went up a tree like a cat, and after several passes got tbe hitch under the snake's jaw and back on the neck, and both men took a turn of tho line around tho tree and 'pulled. The snako seemed dead, but finally moved and gavo a hiss, like a steam-whistland as tho line tightened the coil began to unfold like a cable, the sun flashing on tho golden scales. It was an awful sight! In tho middle the snake was as thick as a man's body. The reptiie began to lash the reedsa down with its tail It lay quiet for minute. and a hitch was taken about ten feet from tho end, and twenty men j threw themselves on tho body to from his baboon, had made 315 keep it from coiling. If we had been ascents in perfect aufet;. much a ; done have frogs It would The reptile gavo one twist) A new kiml of beer, made of the good. a peculiar and sent all hands flying. I was extract of rice, has a very ween elapses Sometimes effect on flat fell and font my ten chucked after drinking it before it causes any back in mud a foot dorp Our exhilaration; then its fuddling quality --The line was hauled taut is unmistakably shown, and is said to eject was to make it fast to a tree ' be quite staggering. the and head tail, near. Hitched are the Now talking that For a yachtsmen out snake would worry itself The about royal spankers it is apropos to moment It ceased to struggle. ' illiam hone. snake The ap- - remark that Emperor fast made was line his oldest bo y a He a with gives frequently when, out poaroc to lengthen by spanking and line thoroughly mdden twist it imrtod the was way of keeping down the youngster The clrcla captain half in a lay is a war lord, in the bight shouting to us to get impression that he, too, of man Buffalo, who, A the flash, a like professional another line, whon, been snake threw his tail around the tree for the past few months, has two rooms, for month in. a him drew and him paying and caught and in a second had three coiis j which lie bad to furnish himself, He cently discovered that his landlady Good-bye- ! his body. i man. dead a was and paid only 0 a mouth for the entire one gasp gave You tail. tho house. The landlady is now looking uncoil to We tried another tenant. might as soon have tried to straighton forThree an Englishman. tailor- an iron bar. It waa a horrid sight Irishman were brsg-coloTha mans face was like Mood in Welshman and bays the and his eyes started out of his ging of tl.eir attainment, Whv.if a man happened Englishman: heart Gordon yelled. in two? to be walking on the other aide of the fut the bloody snake The flesh was j street I could take his measure at a and we went at it Taffv: Tats noth ng. hard ns wood and tough like gutU glaocm!" Says see the wo could I If minute tip of bis shoulder jierchu. but in two the corner I could reauhod the backbone, the long end coming around look I'at Och. reared twenty feet in tho air and measure him, show you! owner he us the the virgin! almost buryby came down with a lush, him. fit Oid and round wint ing itself in the ground. half-grow- n old-wor- ld - i full-grow- i J No-B,l- 7 r' e, line-of-batt- le j i , ! ! . ! ) 8-- i I r. . ! PREHISTORIC GRAVES. portion of tha fetlock, to disTHE FARM AND HOME. terior cover whether there has been any THE WHIRLIGIG The OP TIME. aad Discarded Lawyaa Terrible Havens. Takas a of the THE "LITTLE PEOPLE" OP TENFkle with suppressed emotion, the suspensory ligament, which, in comNESSEE WERE BIG MEN. mon (rlunce is called struggling young village attorney breaking If in existence the following down. stood before the haughty helres Baas of tha vs Lagaudeip Figasla. Fro will be presented: appearance Thsai t Hava Bssu af at Lssat Kor-aa- hat IIn hand, and ready t o go. Tklaga That Knif Hotaa Owaar Ought Swollen hard and could have borne your refusal Indurated, with a ffca to Kauw Maklug tag there Malar Tha? Buried Thalr laid of the fetlock and a bundVerdigris McSorrell, he said brokenAll Doallied 1 Quality af Cura Fodder Farm Kutus lowering ly, although I had hoped for a more ing or apparent giving way each aad Homo Illat. time the animal moves In this imfavorable answer. But you have d an Thera's old grave-yarmediate vicinity we may look for right chosen to accompany it with worde Sanadnem aad Uaaeaadnaaa. over t'other side o' that of aeorn. You have accused me of yonder, windgalla. which we pass over Jfaere is not a horse owner in the lightly. Inasmuch aa seldom ridge, my companion said, indicating fortune hunting. You have twitted they country who will fall to recognize cause injury; still, in some instances the direction with a nod 01 his head. mo with my poverty, my insignifiAn old graveyard'" I exclaimed. the desirability of having some light they should not be ignored, as we cance and my lack of worldly knowlthrown upon the important question have seen them cause lameness, in I did not think there were enough edge. I have not deserved this. I designated in the above heading. which case there is a knotty feeling people here to make a grave-yar- d been presumptuous, but I have may The records of the proceedings in our and a am not the sordid, cracking sound while the horse thrive." soulless Ye were courts will fully attest the necessity is moving on for the first few on horseback wretch you have mercenary,me to be. steps. one of the traversing pictured clear for existing sjiarsely settled rough And, mark my words, proud beauty, Our attention is UHXt directed to obtaining tolerably ideas of the leading nice points which side of Western Tennessee the bones, ringbones scratches, hill districts day will come when your haughty end were, 1 thought, several miles this discussion involves, two or three thrush, canker, seedy toe, spirit shall be brought low! quittor, times the price of rnuny a valuable false quarter, quarter crack, navicu- from any human habitation. What 'What will you do, Mr. Bramble?" animal having been in innumerable lar disease and chronic iaminltis. purpose would a grave-yar- d serve, scornfully asked the young woman. exinstances frittered away in law We also have peggy or sore toed especially an old one? Will you sue me for damages? 'Tan t that, my eompanlon Will you publish some dismal verses penses. which a little timely study horses from overwork. We now turn of the principles governing this the horse sharply around, describing aid, compassionately; "tan't no about me? Or will you crush me by branch of knowledge might have ob- a figure eight, but turn- common human graveyard, its the silent contempt? eventually viated. We propose, therefore, says ing him with hi buttock to the Leetle People. Been there since the I shall bide time! Heartless the American Cultivator, to draw the light; by so doing we shall discover Lord kuows when they was all dead being, farewell!" my attention of our readers to this stringhalt, if it exists, and if there an burled long afore white folks a a a a coma branch of jurisprudence, believing be weakness of the back, or In a Long yeara partial passed away. The Little People! Who has not crowded court room in n that a careful perusal of our remarks fractnre of the lumbar vertebra;, large will have the effect of placing them the Tennessee mountaineers' the famouM case of Kersmith city usually known as ricked back, he heard vs of the pigmy race which Johones was on on their guard, and save, perhaps, will either tradition stagger or fall according once tha trial, involving in many an instance, an unwelcome to the extent of the defect We now inhabited their Melds and woods? 'of millions. Enos A. And here we wore within a few steps possession now bill of law and costs, the amount stand one of the most noted Bramble, square behind him. but at a of one of thoir burial grounds! It and successful represented thereby being available respectable distance and casually lawyers in his native in glance from his hips over his ribs to wc.uld never do to go past in this state, leaned forward for maintaining their horses in his chair to health, or for employing competent bis shoulder. We shall then dis- way. says a writer in the New York e n wituess. veterinary skill, should accident or cover any defects that may be pres- Herald. Your name, madam. he said, if disease unfortunately render this ent, such as facing hipped. Wait," I said, "I want to stop," 1 understood you rightly, is Mrs. we and course necessary, a much more our turuid horses' heads 151 nun f Having satisfied that In legitimate channel in our opinion for these respect tho animal presents a sway from the rough road and Yes. sir, replied the witness. the judicious employment of surplus normal appearance, we pass to one struck across the ridge of low hills Your familiarity with this case or available cash. side, gently run the hand along the behind which lay the graves of that grows out of the fact that you have In explaining the various cases lumbar vertebra-- , down over the almost forgotten people resided all life in the neighborTwo small streams, one flowing hood of the your which have occupied the attention of stifle and to tho hock, whore a critiin dispute ? Ie proierty the courts, both English and Amer- cal examination must be made, so north and the other northwest, mot that correct? ican, the following seems to be the many diseases locating themselves here among tho hills, and right at Yes, sir. of there. Among the most prominent the confluence, in the angle, lay the definition generally-accepte-d It will be necessary, then, to ask A horse is sound when may be mentioned spavins of three cemetery. soundness: you but, first, how long have you Thera wero, indeed, two rows of boen married? be is free from hereditary disease, is distinct kinds, iccult and bog or in the possession of bis natural and blood spavin, capped hock, of which hallow graves, one along either of I 1 was married several constitutional health, and has as we have two kinds. With the excep- tha long wails of the inclosum. A- ago. I am a widow. much bodily perfection as is consis- tion of navicular disease, which is ltogether there must have been nearly ilow long have you been a tent with his natural formation. a widow? extremely rare in the hind feet, the a hundred of thorn, although only A horse is free from vice when examination of the lower hind limbs few were unoovi-rod- . O several yeara The process of interment had evihe has no bad habits which make will be similar to the course pursued What was your maiden name? him dangerous, or that are injurious with reference to the lower fora lega dently been very simple. A hole had McKorrelL to his health, or that in any way We must not omit to notice the been dug and the colli n of stone slabs Full name, please?" diminish his usefulness. caudal extremity (tail), to discover built within it and the body letdown, Verdigris McSorrell Thank you. Jn order to ascertain Though the above definition is if there are any tumors in that with or without grave wrappings, perhaps the best that can be given, region, which sometimes occur. We and covered with a stone lid, the all the facts pertaining to this conthen covered with earth. troversy it will bo necessary to ask actual experience shows that its ac- trust this article will be of iuterest whole ceptance is not effectual in doing en- to the readers of thie valuable These wore apparently tbe graves of you one more qunstion. Now, then, tirely away with disputes, which paper, and gfve thorn a practical les- the common folk, for almost without Mr. Verdigris McSorrell Himm! an exception the narrow stone cotjins ?red lawyer Enos A. Bramble, eventually find their way into the son in the art of examination. contained nothing but the crumbling courts and drag their slow length to his feet, please tell the Making i(s t hanes. skeletons, with an occasional stone along, the purchaser soon b ooming Mr. Henry Stewart gives in his of alive to the fact that if ho got a book directions for implement or weapon or 'a What Will Iba Cook IMT making it as fol- rude pottery. It was easy to piece see how slow horse and a slow trial his money lows: m cheese kind the another Sage on throat diseases are Specialists celidea canto about, fur the is leaving him with lightning that may be made in a small dairy. tombspigmy" to take unusual intorest beginning were of diminutive at last and size, the seller truly having erity, This is also known as green cheese. the bodies, with knees doubled up tu in culinary methods. They advise a some dim perception that all is not For a cheese of two the pounds eight somechin, and only requiring a space of kitchen quarantine on wash days being gold that glitters, handfuls of green sage and half four feet or and boiled dinner days, giving as a so in longtli. what mystifled as to tho perplexing large as much parsley and marigold reason that the steam from boiling was when It tho uncoverwork himof he after whether, all, question leaves are bruised and infused over low mound was begun that (lothes and pickled meats that rethe ing self. as well as tbe horse, is really much heat produces many night in a portion of new milk. The interest was really awakened, for and colored sold, the only d of milk is added to 1 illnesses of the respiratory organs happy figures in the group being the the milk to be curdled, and this and hera was plsiniy getting into tho ajggravatos slight or chronio diseases legal advisers, who have presented the rest of the milk are curdled company of the magnates of the cf tee nose, throat and Rings. Ilore were regusociety. to them a glorious field for making pigmy The curds are drained, lar separately. some made of Patients are advised to vacate apartcases, confusion worse confounded. mummy in broken and scalded the skins and some of woven ments having dark or ill ventilated From what we have already said, hempen manner of the Cheddar sysand in seme cases so well pre kitchens and to keep nil babies and fabric, our readers will at once see with usual tem. and the colored curd is then served as to what caution any one should pro- mixed, either suggest that that ailing children out of the kitchen evenly or in various strange people must have boon pos- when cooking is going on. ceed when warranting a horse and devices, with the other sessed of the secrets of the sound and free from vice," and that shapes as it is placed in the hoopL .CURSORY AND CURIOUS. art. on such an occasion he should have Much ingenuity is sometimes exunof The Tbe clear ideas had boen mound students of Vassar have offe red the subject built up from pretty ercised in forming these devices by the anone of 820 for the best story with a with a der disenssion, always looking at the means tier after ground prise of appropriate cutters and possible contingency of legal pro- molds and incorporating them with other of these, graves until they Vassar girl as a hero in a ceeding. Some owners will not under the white curd. Camphor is cultivated at Hioga, The cheese is were four stories high. The beginh of the pio-duany circumstances give the warranty pressed and cared in the usual man- ning had been made by the construc- Japan. Aliont which many purchasers insist upon ner. Small comes to the United Stales. cheeses made by tion of wbat seemed to be a small green having. It is quite true that these braising young sage leaves and spin- stone altar resting upon the natural in ail countries suicide is more compeople effectually provide against ach leaves in equal parts in s mortar surface of tho ground, and around mon among men than among women, the unpleasant results which we and squeezing out the juice. The this were built half a dozen of the and among unmarried than among coflln-shaHhave mentioned as possible, but it receptacles for the married persona is added to the milk before the all lying with the feet must not he forgotten that a too juice Two women appeared before a Haris mixed, and the curd being desd. these rennet rigid observance of such a ru le may formed, it is carefully broken very resting against the altar that no lem police justice, each carrying a often do away with the chances of a space might be lost. Then when bag containing hair which she averred evenly and put to press with gentle really desirable sale, and. entail a pressure five or six hours. It la this first tier of tombs was filled a the other palled from her head. of earth was spread over It and loss, which caution, tempered with salted twice a Stephen Langton, archbishop of day for five days and layer judicious enterprise and confidence, turned daily for forty days, when it a second tier was constructed in the Canterbury, firnt divided the bible These wero evl into same fashion. might have prevented. is ready for use. This is a delicious chapters and verses, this about the resting places of the cloae Many of those under whose eyes cheese whon made of rich milk and duntly of the twelfth century. this article may full may not bo handled. It is made of tho more important (icrsonagu of bus been suggested that the tnanr It skillfully be as how could aware judged both slight aro tho defects small siso, weighing less than a the race, volumes in the congressional from the mode of burial and from the duplicatebe mode the nucleus which, in the eye of the law, constiof Agriculture. of a free Journal .ibrary pound. of materials wealth the For example: tute unsoundnesa greater library for Washington. Farm Nolen. which had been interred with tho circulating An abrasion, though hardly ercep-tiblM. I- - Henry and Miss bailie Jesse Fewer eggs will be gathered if the bodiea 1'crhaps the distinction was and requiring hut little care, were married at Louisville last week, one of social position or perhaps it is an unsoundness until perfectly hens are crowded. the culmination of an engagement healed. Fractically speaking, when Bad butter tends to drag the price was only one of wealth, possibly it made thirty years ago. Both are well was both. At any rate, these coffins examining a horse as to soundness, of good butter down. on in years. the mound contained an almost the following rules should be obIt takes money to tile drain, but it in A large bear recently walked into a infinite variety of lmplonients anil served: Have the horse to be ex- pays in tho long run. blacksmith shop at Locust Valley, earthenin utensils stone, amined, if possible, left in a box copper, The flavor of very ware. and woven materials, and even Long Island, where three men were stall three hours: then have the at- much on tho foodeggs depends hens. tho given st work. Brain wa soon killed for tendant lead him out, wheu the exthrough the earth of which the his Inlilum Horses are in Icsh danger of dis- mound r wa :uinMiod throe relics must carefully aminer or It is stated that the Russian govsi-- . were frequently to be discovered, if there is any stiffness; this is ease if the stables are kept clean. has conceded a French comernment to roots is Too attention little puiii luoso. the time and place the animal will lying the of cows and pany in right to establish telephonic tho shcejx feeding exhibit it most, if presont It was ghastly work to unwrap Corn cribs should bo high enough these stiffened Iwdins and work over communication between all the large Then place the horse in the stable with ' the head facing the door, so above ground for rat terriers to get tbe crumbling fragments with the Russian towns. Immediately after warning Michael that the examiner can observe I under. tapo lino and pencil but it resulted handle his gun carefully, whether the pupils contract naturThe bull should not be made fat in finding that the bones wore cer- Nelson to Nelson of Bath, Pa., tripped George alike. and Then of men. the hand him to race tail of is needs a All he pass ally keep enough tainly there and his rifle discharging and over the poll to discover the ex- in good order. Other explorers have found isolated killingfell,him instantly. of istence poll evil if present, from has been demonstrated that de- groups of graves containing tho It Charles Carter, who died in Captain thence to the parotid and submax-il- l af-ewas shdwn as children of bodies only, not cows does materially Norfolk, Va., lately, at the age of 93 a 17 regions to find whether there horning the flow of milk. by the condition of tbe teeth and of or induration the is parotitis bones. It was apparently their years, was married eight times and other lloiu Hints children, every one thoir children apart, left thirty-eigh- t custom to glands. C'losulv examine The odor of onions, left on tbe and it maybury tho throat and find whether goitre bo that the Tennesson of whom is said to have survived him. One of the shortest wills on record, exists. Place the thumb trans- hands after peeling, may bo removed mountaineers have come upon these or of small bones and mis- a document containing but forty-tw- o versely on the jugular vein in order by rubbing the hands with celury segregations to ascortain whether obliteration lias mustard. taken them for the bones of a pygmy words, was filed for probate in San Francisco recently. The maker of taken place, tho rein filling up rap- ' If oilcloth is laid down where race. much of it the will. Mine. Lcrdu devised o large idly whero it is natural Examine ' the sun will shine on it floor unicss estate to her husband. One Kind f i.nld Buga carefully under the mono for fistula will stick last to tho The greatest speed attained bv sailpaper is laid under it or othor disease. The gold bugs which wore so few a Mix line sawdust with glue to ornaments as Yn next proceed to examine the ' years ing ships, according to Mullial war- by popular for filling nail holes or ago were muslof them manufactured. the James Baines, 420 miles in twenty-fou- r point of elbow for shoe boils, and stiff paste hours, sad Flying Cloud 413. Thf tho muscles of tlio shoulder to soc if crack, and the patch will hurdiy lie There is a genuine gold bug. or sawdust the if a Bed but colored mn 2,28(1 milts in seven bronze, Jacket it discernible, pure beetle, specially baud to the the exists: puss atrophy 1m days averaging 325 miles a day. knee, aud if tbe animal bo for saddle is of the sauio wood that is mended. is found only in the tropics, and The gold A mountain about fifteen miles fron, A flaxseed lemonade is excellent not plentiful even there. to discover use, bo particular whether any traces exist of having for a cold. Try a small quantity at bug of commerce is simply the com- Tunscasori, near the boundary line oi stumbled and fallen at any previous first To do this take a pint of water mon June bug dipped in shellac or Arizonaaud Mexico, is said to have a for splints, and add two) small tablcspoonfuls ol some other' gum and rolled in very great resemblance to the tower of time. We then especially in tho neighborhood of tho the seed, t! ie juico of two loraons. tine gold dust. AfterI the dust has ilubel. it is of a soft sandstone and knee, because, in close proximity not ising the rind, and sweeten tc ilriei in the shellac. ho bug, except pumice formation and has many roads The mountain is thereto, a splint will interfere with taste, WLei too pasty the mixture in weight, would pas for a piece of cut on its side. about (5,000 feet high. tbe action of the joint Alwayt genuine gold jewelry. may be dilute with water. We then examine closely the pos ' ice for driiiking. rupture, partial or complete, UNCONSTITUTES SOUNDNESS IN A HORSE. WHAT cross-examin- s tire one-thir- rs ct one-fourt- pun-have- ! I ct ry j i ! - ; I |