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Show IN Tim ODD CORNER. QUBBR AND CURIOUS THINOB AND BVBNTS. ladlaa Who re. ., a MoJ. i, ,, York Baetlon Hot. . Kataky Cr.k Urawi Anluata Uol.k; Oal of eilif. t"M Lot Wnl lly. When Love w.nt by I scarcely bent My eyea to aee which way he went. Life had ao many Joy to how, What time bad I to watch him r' Or bid him In, whom folly aen)' Hut when the day was cll-nlgh pent, From out the casement Vg 1 leant. Ab, would 1 bad been patching so When I,ove went by I Gray day with dismal night are blent, Ixmely and sad and discontent; I would hlffeet had been moro alow Oh, heart of mine, how could wo know Or realise what paaslng meant When Ujvd went by? Theodosla Pickering In Woman' Horn Companion. riarlila U.t.r Talkeys. Comparatively few acquatlo bird, except thoso which aro migratory, are remarkablo for power of flight. Indeed, In-deed, tbey aro apt to bt deficient In that reaped. On the other band, blrda that are strong of wing, such aa the lark or hawk, seldom go near tho water, except to drink. There are, bowtvtr, a few winged creature tbat possess both trait to reruarkable da grtt. A group of them, secured by Frank M. Chapman, the ornithologist, ornitholo-gist, with great dlfllculty, In Florida, on tba Indian river, conatltutea one of tbt new acquisitions of tbt New York American Museum of Natural History. The group Includes two full grown specimens and four or five nestlings. Tbcse are shown with a seat In a glasa case. The ornlthologl pi novelty la variously known aa the irate, r turkey, the anake bird, the dart It, and Plotua Anblnga. In alxe, gen rral coloring, and the possession of a fcroad tall It strikingly reaemblea th farmyard turkey, though possibly It It a trlflo smaller. Its neck Is much rbnger, and more slender, too, Tbla part of the creature It curved very much after the faablon of a awan'a neck, and la strongly suggestive of a make when It body 1 Immersed In tht watar. Tho wtb foot, compact inder plumage, and fondness for diving div-ing ally It cloaely to the loon. The water turkty will often iwlm for distances dis-tances with every part of Its body submerged sub-merged oxcept a small portion of It bill. Tbu It possesses all the marked "cb&racttrlitlc of typical acquatte bird. Yet It will perch on the branch of a tree, Just aa a hawk doc, and, what I even more singular. It will polst Itself In tha upper air, Ilko an eaglt, maintaining Its position apparently ap-parently without a flutter of Ita pow erful pinions. The awlftneat with which It attack It prey account for tho name darter, and for tha retention of what It once captures It la peculiarly peculiar-ly qualified by flne serrations near th end of Its elender bill. The latter I also employed, It Is believed, to peck out the eye of feathered assailants. assail-ants. Herons have been known to serve an eagle In thla way when the bird of freedom was too aggressive. Still, It la only during the brooding aeaaon that the heron and water turkey tur-key develop auch eavage dispositions. Another Illustration of the doublo character of thla queen bird Is Its nest, which show a comparatively high order of architectural skill, whereas aquatic bird usually haro only the mott rudlmtntary of neat. ICntuars IlHtu Crk, A deep holo of water In Nollyn creek, 10 miles south of thla place, haa for aome time been attracting attention at-tention by reason of the fact that It has a very strong auction, ray a Hodgenvlllo (Ky.) dispatch In the Cincinnati Cnqulrer. For yeara It baa been known aa tho "suck holo." It Is about ten feet deep nnd Is fifty yards long. This place has been watched by people In that eectlon for several yeara, and haa been much avoided. It now derelopa that It la riot n "suck holt." but In tbo bottom of tho creek It a bed of very powerful loadttone. Tbla place waa discovered over forty year ago by I'noch Attoborry, who camo near losing his llfo In the water, having been rescued by two men who handed him a long pole. Lum Wess and Luther Tniloik nluio.1 W tbtlr live In the holo a short tlmo ago whllo seining, They wero rescued half drowned by other member of the party after very hard work. Tho attraction waa so powerful that It held tho 'ron loaded selno fast The water I very clear and the bottom It easily seen, The hole Is not In the main stream, but Is a bayou or outlet. A dog thrown Into the water never come out, but I quickly drawn to the bottom. When a troutllne la stretched stretch-ed across tho place tho unseen energy attracts tha hook to the black atreak quickly, and there holds them aecurely aecure-ly until tbey are drawn out. At time there I a very strong undercurrent to tho bayou, which Is unaccounted , . whl.ti nltn aw, tha hnt. lUi. I"U "M.fcM .,. -,-W .HV .... torn clean, relieving the loadttont of Ita collection. It 1 stated tbat many people have lost their llvoa here, and It It a much dreaded place, especially by the auperttltlout. It la known to all negroes a "tho death holt," and farmers In tbat vicinity cannot employ em-ploy negro help at any price. Hundreds Hun-dreds of hogs and cuttle have been I now being constructed to prevent BHiHHHH lost In tht . i"?" ,tr0flK ' further loaVln t)- ". ni Placardi will be pit up" warn ttranger of the treahero Pt. tyypt's IIMnt Man. The nlltlaQ gallery at the British Brit-ish mil, of hat Just come Into pot-tetslonof pot-tetslonof the mummy of a man which may ell be the oldest known body 0I Jf human being. The facta con-cc.tlng con-cc.tlng It are briefly summed up In Uin following Inscription reproduced om tho case containing the mummy: "Ilody at a man who waa burled In a shallow oval grave hollowed out of aandttone on the west bank of tho Nile, In Upper Kgypt. Ilefore burial tho body waa treated with a preparation prepara-tion of bitumen and waa arranged In tho posture In which It now lie, on IU left aide, with tha hands before the face and the knees drawn up nearly near-ly on a level with tht chin. Tha gravo (which haa been roughly Imitated Imi-tated by the model here exhibited) waa covered with alaba of unworked atone, and In It beilde the body wero dlaposed flint knives and a number of vases pattly filled with the remains and dust of funeral offerings. The man probably belonged to a fair-skinned. fair-skinned. light-hatred race, which may be regarded as one of the aboriginal abori-ginal stocks of Ugypt, whose settlement! settle-ment! are usually found on the west bank of the Nile. The tyls of tho flint Implement found In the grave Indicate Indi-cate that the man lived In the later neolithic period of Kgyptj that la. In rcmoto age long before the rule of Mcncs, the first historical king of Egypt" The grave wa flrat seen by a wandering Arab; he reported his discovery to a British ofBclal, who Immediately aent a couple of Egypt-Ian Egypt-Ian soldier to guard It day and nlgbt until It could be safely removed. Tbo body la not a mummy of tho ordinary historic Egyptian period auch aa that of Ramctcs II., tht father of tbo Pba-roah Pba-roah of tha Exodus. It wat ntvtr bound up In linen or caaed In -any painted coffin, but waa merely coated with a preparation of bitumen, tht Arabic word for which It mumla; hence, our word mummy. 10 reacn tna period when thlt man hunted along tho banka of the Nile It la necessary to travel backward In tlmo through the modern period alnct Rllzabeth, through medieval Europe, through the whole blatory of Roma and Oreece, past the time of tht earliest ear-liest mummied king the museum pot-teases, pot-teases, past even Mencs, the earliest king to which Egyptian records make reference, who according to Martltte, ruled about 60OI II. C. Then wo are among the prehistoric races, ont the conquerors and tha other the conquered, conquer-ed, out of which aprang the Egyptian raco of the earliest dynasties. It la with these remote atocka that thla man la connected. Considering the conditions In which he was found It la vldut tbat be waa asaoclated with a lata period of the now ttont ago of Egypt Ho I burled In a characteristically char-acteristically neolithic gravo (tho grave of thl period are covered with ruda tlabt of atone), and haa neolithic pota and flint Implement besldo htm. it I curloua to note tbat certain ancient an-cient Egyptian documents mention traditions of a raco called the Trs-hennu, Trs-hennu, who had red hair and blue eyes. Thl man ba distinctly auburn hair. Ho was burled on the western shore. In later timet ovcry Egyptian waa burled on that aide of tho river. and Egyptian models of the doath boat on which the bodlc wero ferried fer-ried ovor the stream may bo een In the Egyptian gallery. New York's lodlan Jlod.L It there were auch a thing aa a beauty ahow for men, few whlto men would stand any chance for tho prize ngalnst a full-blooded American In dlan now living In Now York city, Tbl man I Tnhamont, a bravo of the Abenaki tribe of Indian, who I regarded by artists as almost a ported por-ted tpeclmon of manly beauty, both In faco and flguro, aaya the St Louis Olobe-Democrat From tba point of view nf the athlete, the Indian lacks flesh and musclo, a he I 0 feet two Inches tall and weigh but ICO pounds. Hut bis physique Is all bone and sin ew and he has the power of endurance, endur-ance, for which his raco Is famous. Tabamont Is greatly In demand as aa artist's model, and rccchos, It Is said, tho highest prlco for posing paid to any male model, Ilia face and figure nro familiar to tboutands who tee tho Illustrations In the prominent weekly week-ly papers. E. W. Darning, Vo Conta Smith and Frederick Remington aro among the well known artists who draw from him, Tahamont Is an expert ex-pert on Indian drets and ornamentation. ornamenta-tion. Ills wife, who It, like himself, a full-blood of tbo Abenakls, alia poses. Tho Abenakls, formerly residents resi-dents of Maine, have moved to St. Francis, Canada, where they ara pros, parous and good citizens. lu the Abenaki tonguo Tahamont tlgnlfles "Tht time of corn grinding." Kirt "ampler oC Tab, Even the best Jud'ea of tobacco can't alvvaya be depended on. Sometimes their taato goea back on them, ao to apeak, nnd remains blunted for a week at a stretch. Professional sampler of tobacco tako a week oft every few month nnd never look at the weed until un-til they return to duty, In that way they keep In condition. |
