El Reno Daily Eagle. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 200, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1895 Page: 3 of 4
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KEY TO THE MEDITERRANEAN.
ON THE ANGLE
OF THE JAW.
The Fortress of Gibraltar ami Its Value
to Kurland.
Gibraltar proper virtually occupies a
peninsula which guards the passage be-
tween the Atlantic ocean and the
Mediterranean, says London Temple
Bar. It is a favorite military and naval
station, wherein officers of both services
can resign for the season their profes-
sional cares for lighter joys. Its works
of defenses its bomb-proof batteries
and lilliput fortresses heavily armed,
more resemble the bulwarks of nature
than those by the hand of man. They
are well grouped together, even in a
small area, because Gibraltar in no case
exceeds three-quarters of a mile in
breadth.
The rock rises abruptly from the low,
sandy, peninsula-like isthmus to about
fourteen hundred feet above the level
of the sea. From its summit a view is
obtained of uniquo sublimity. It can
only bo appreciated when seen. The
mighty Mediterranean sea stretches
away in the background, alike shadowy
and grand in scenic beauty, steamers
and shipping ever traversing its waters.
In another direction the Atlantic ocean
and expanded waters of the bay of
Biscay, washing the shores of Spain,
are prominent features.
Gibraltar was known to the Greeks
and Romans as Calpe of Abyla. The
strip of land near Ceuta was named
Abyla. For many centuries they
formed the renowned Pillars of Hercu-
les, the then limit of ocean enterprise
and commerce. Its strategical value to
England is of paramount importance,
being really the key of the position
along which the merchants of the
world pass upon the seas on their law-
ful vocations. If, unfortunately, this
country were engaged in war, with
France and Russia combined against
her, we might find ourselves in “Queer
street” without Gibraltar. Of course,
the peninsula is much exposed to the
destructive energies of the ocean
waves. Sometimes the sea is calm and
almost motionless, a picture of a vast
plain of azure-like glass. At other
times dark clouds chase each other over
its surface, peals of thunder and forked
lightning are heard and seen, and then
the waves become lurid-like in their
aspect and break with a roar on the
peninsula. The ocean’s surf}', slow
deep, mellow voice, full of awe and
mystery, breaks night and day against
the rocks, moaning, as it were, over the
dead that it holds in its bosom, for the
sea is the largest of all cemeteries, and
its slumberers sleep without monu-
ments. In other graveyards distinc-
tion is shown between the grave of
the peer and that of the peasant, but
in the sea and ocean, closely encircling
our precious possession, Gibraltar, the
same waves roll over all, and the same
requiem is sung by the minstrelsy of
the ocean in their honor. The same
storm beats, and the same sun shines
over their remains, but the graves
are unmarked.
It is the general and popular belief
that Gibraltar is an impregnable for-
tress, but grave doubts have arisen dur-
ing the last twenty-five years as to
whether ‘ the rock” is really the impen-
etrable quadrilateral it is generally sup-
posed to be. All political parties of the
state appear to be agreed that if there
are any defects they should be rectified,
hence the action of the government in
sending out the duke of Cambridge to
inspect and report upon the necessary
requirements, the absolute necessary
strength of the garrison aud other ma-
terial and detail matter.
RELIEF DOGS.
Canine Uni Cross Service in the German
Army.
For several years experiments have
been made in the German army in the
training of dogs for service in the hos-
pital department. Not long ago, says
the Detroit Free Press, the well-known
animal painter, Jean Bungartz, was
commissioned to take up the matter, and
liis recent report occasioned high praise
from the emperor and the army. The
lirst important step was the selection
of a breed of dogs possessing all the
qualities necessary for the purpose,
viz.: Obedience, watchfulness, intelli-
gence, fidelity and perseverance. These
qualities were found in the Scotch col-
lie in the highest degree, and this breed
was, therefore, selected by Bungartz.
The equipment of the dog consists of
a strong collar with a small leather
pockctbook for letters, a small water-
proof blanket for his rest at night and
two pockets containing a small sur-
geon's outlit, linen, medicines and a
small amount of dog biscuit. The en-
tire load is less than ten pounds and
can be easily carried by the dog for
days.
His services are most important in
the search for the wounded or dead; he
often brings lirst help to a soldier
fallen in brush or underbrush and com-
pletely hidden from sight; he makes an
excellent courier, and runs from hos-
pital to command or vice versa, faith-
fully delivering messages intrusted to
liis care as fast as a cavalryman, with
much less danger to both courier and
message. A large red cross marks each
side pocket, and designates his connec-
tion with the sanitary and relief corps,
lie also carries a small lantern on his
back, to enable the litter bearer to fol-
low him in his search for the wounded
•or dead at night.
A Wise Tailor.
The leading paper in a provincial
town recently published the following
matrimonial advertisement: “A young
lady of enormous wealth, who is pre-
pared to pay off all the debts of her in-
tended husband, desires to form the ac-
quaintance of a respectable young gen-
tleman, with a view to matrimony.
Each reply to be accompanied by a
photo of the sender and addressed to J.
I'., at the office of this paper.” The
delicate hand which drew up the above
lines and thereby secured a very large
number of offers belonged to no less a
personage than Herr Itzig Schlauohclcs,
who had lately opened a clothing es-
tablishment in the town. By means of
the photos sent in he was enabled to
ascertain which of his would-be cus-
tomers were in the habit of leaving
their debts unpaid.
Why an Ordinary lllow DellvrrcU There
U Likely to Provo l atal.
“Why is a blow upon the angle of a
man’s jaw—the knoek-out blow of
i pugilists—so effective, and what is the
immediate result of such a blow?”
In view of the recent death of Con
Riordan after a boxing bout with
j Champion Fitzsimmons, this question
* was put by a Baltimore Sun reporter to
I)r. B. Merrill Uopkinson, himself an
athlete and the president of the Bnlti-
i more Athletic club. Dr. Uopkinson has
given study to anatomy and physiology
in their relation to athletic exercises,
lie said:
“It is somewhat difficult without en-
tering into technicalities to describe
properly the knock-out blow. The
skull rests upon the ‘atlas,’ the first of
the bones or vertebra) of the neck.
The articulation or joint is simply by
! means of a contact of the condyles or
protuberances at the base of the skull
with two facets on the atlas. The ar-
rangement is most favorable for move-
ments of the head, but is susceptible to
dislocation. Immediately at the base
of the skull is the foramen magnum—a
great hole—which forms the passage-
way between the skull cavity and the
spinal canal. Through this pass the
spinal portion of the central nervous
system and vertebral arteries.
“A blow delivered upon the angle of
| the jaw is, of course, given directly at
; right angles to the passage-way be-
tween the body and brain, through
which passage run the wonderfully
delicate structures. Now, owing to
the slender joint of the skull with the
spinal column, resistance must neces-
sarily be very weak, and a blow, even
though a light one, is capable of pro-
ducing so great a shock that a man can
readily be rendered unconscious by its
effect. An experiment is very simple.
Let anyone strike himself a quick blow
just at the angle of the jaw, and he
will find that he is dazed just in pro-
portion to the amount of the force ap-
plied. That it is possible to kill a man
by such a blow has been demonstrated
more than once, and more is the pity
that such a thing can be recorded in
the recital of the so-called amusements.
“I do not believe that a man in good
physical training, with healthy heart
and arteries and well-nourished nerv-
ous system, could be destroyed by such
a blow from another man who is liis
physical equal, but it would not take a
sledge-hammer blow delivered upon
the angle of the jaw to produce a
thrombus or blood clot at the base of
the brain of a man whose heart, arte-
ries and nervous system had been weak-
ened by alcoholic or other excesses.
Temporary knock-outs occur daily and
fatal eases are of rare occurrence; in-
! deed, the proportion of deaths as com-
| pared with horses racing or football is
ridiculously small. Any man entering
the pugilistic ring is liable to receive a
blow which will ‘put him to sleep,’ and
the duration of unconsciousness is alto-
gether proportioned to the science of
the delivered blow, the position of the
man struck aud the amount of force
used.”
HISTORY OF ALMANACS.
They Ha«l Their Origin I'cforc* the Coming
of ( hrlst.
The history of written almanacs dates
back to the second century of the Chris-
tian era. The Alexandrian Greeks in
the time of Ptolemy, A. D. 100-100, used
almanacs. Prior to the written alma-
nacs of the Greeks there were calendars
of primitive almanacs. The Roman
fasti sacri were similar to modern al-
manacs. Knowledge of the calendar
was at first confined to the priests,
whom the people had to consult, not
only about the dates of festivals, hut
j also concerning the proper time for in-
stituting various legal proceedings.
About BOO B. C. one Cenius Flavius,
! the secretary of Appius Claudius,
i learned the secret, either by the
| stealthy use of the documents in his
master’s possession, or, according to
Pliny, by repeatedly consulting the au-
thorities and by collating the informa-
tion he obtained. It was really pub-
! lishing an almanac when, as Livy re-
I lates, he exhibited the fasti on white
tablets round the forum. From this
time tablets containing the calendar,
the festivals, astronomical phenomena,
and sometimes historical notices seem
to have been common. Research has
brought to light numerous calendars
cut on stone. One was found at Pom-
peii, cut upon a square block of marble,
upon each side of which three months
, were registered in perpendicular col-
| umns, each headed by the proper sign
of the zodiac.
“Whether the word ‘almanac’ be from
al and manah, to count, or al and men,
months, is not agreed; some authori-
ties give it a Teutonic etymology, from
the words al and mono, the moon. Each
of these conjectures is plausible. Ta-
bles representing almanacs were used
by the Arabs at an early date, mainly
as astronomical guides, and it is highly
probable that both the thing and the
name originated with them.”
Ilumor at t!i« Altar.
Some funny stories are told about the
marriage service. One of them relates
how an old man brought rather un-
willingly to the altar could not be in-
duced to repeat the responses. “My
good man,” at length exclaimed the
clergyman, “I really cannot marry you
unless you do as you are told.” Rut
the mnn still remuined silent. At this
unexpected hitch the bride lost all pa-
tience with her future spouse and burst
out with: “Go on, you old tootl Say
it after him, just the same as if you was
mockin’ him.” The same difficulty oc-
curred In another ease. The clergy-
man, after explaining what was neces-
sary and going over the responses sev-
eral times without the smallest effect,
stopped in dismay, whereupon the
bridegroom encouraged him with: “Go
ahead, pass’ll, go ahead! thou’rt doin’
bravely.” Fpon another occasion it
was, strangely enough, the woman
who could not bo prevailed upon to
speak. When the clergyman remon-
strated with her she indignantly re-
plied: “Your father married me twice
before and ho wasn’t axin’ me any of
them lmpereut questions ut all.”
SECRETS OF HER SUCCESS. ! AMAZING SKILL.
A Hoarding House Keeper I.ltl Light CD' A Clever Freneh Juggler's Wonderful
an Interesting Subject. ‘I cut with Coins.
A very successful hoarding house |
keeper was telling a writer for the New
York Recorder some secrets of her good
fortune.
“Above all,” said she, “I try to keep
every part of my two houses just as
clean as 1 possibly can, but I am not
the only one in this business who does
that, though it’s a great point. Then I
have always hired large houses. You
cannot possibly make money in a small
one. I have clung to a neighborhood
and made my house distinctive by hav-
ing at some expense vines trained from
basement to roof. Those vines are my
trademark. When folks forget the
number they say ‘the house with the
vines.' Moreover, they give the place
such a shady, cool look in summer that
people are not so anxious to get off to
the country. The green effect takes
away the hot, stuffy look, and some- ;
thing of the feeling. Then I make n
point of being very liberal with towel?
and napkins. This item costs me per
haps twenty-five dollars more in a yeai
than it would the usual boarding house-
keeper in my place hut it brings me ir
the outlay multiplied many times. Oi
course I set as good a table as I can
and my rooms are well furnished, bid
as good as can be had elsewhere. My
luck in letting rooms I have always be-
lieved to be due to the fact that I have
a piano in nearly every lurge apart-
ment. It is really odd to see how a
piano will attract a person. Why, I
can get five or six dollars more a week
for a suite with a piano, which doesn't
cost that much a month. If people
don’t want the instrument, it can be
moved out. One other point: I use the
same kind of carpet in every room in
the house as far as I can,*so when it
wears shabby, all the good may be
brought together and made use of. I
find there’s great economy in this.
Lastly, 1 have no helpless, lazy relatives
such as usually cripple a woman in my
line, eating her out of house and homo
and disgruntling the boarders. If I
had, 1 think I should provide for them
elsewhere, for in a boarding house their
room is generally worth more than
their company, or their half-hearted at-
tempts athclping.”
AN ARAPAHOE’S MEAL.
Tho Indian’s Appetite Held Out an Long
Hfl tho Meat Lasted.
For feats of downright big eating I’ll
back the North American Indian
against the world, said a Colorado
man. I recall in particular an Arapa-
hoe Indian who visited our camp by
the Fontaine qui Bouille river one
night. We had killed a buffalo calf
that day — a good-sized, fat calf,
four or live months old—and having
skinned and dressed the carcass, had
hung it up on a wagon pole. We had
carved enough off one shoulder to go
along with mountain trout, bacon,
bread and coffee for our party of four
at supper; the rest of the meat was all
there. The Indian came riding up after
we had eaten and lie looked pretty
tired and empty. lie had evidently
traveled a long way with little to eat,
for he was dusty, haggard and thin as
a shoestring, and there was no* doubt
when he asked by signs for food that
he wanted it badly. We pointed to the
buffalo calf, and with his knife he cut
off some slices of meat, laid them on
the embers, and ns soon as they were a
little scorched ate them ravenously
ami began again with the calf.
lie was still cutting and cooking
meat and eating when we went off to
sleep, and so far as we could tell he
spent the entire night in that occupa-
tion, for whenever one or another of us
woke up enough to look around the In-
dian was either cutting at the calf or
eating by the fire. When we turned
out in the morning we found that all
that was left of that buffalo calf was
its skeleton hanging from the pole.
The Indian had not carved away its
joints and ribs as a white man would
have done, hut had hacked the meut off
in small pieces till all was gone.
The Indian looked like another per-
son. His all-night feed had fattened
him up so that he looked well filled
out, and he moved about with a differ-
ent air. He greeted our rising with a
“How,” and sat stolidly by the fire un-
til one of us gave him a tin cup of cof-
fee, which he took with another
“IIow.” While we were at breakfast
he mounted his horse and slipped away
so silently that we scarcely noticed his
going.
Ilniult of a Meat Diet.
Mrs. Hart, who has covered the globe !
with her notebook, declares the Eng- j
lish people to be the most garrulous
and quarrelsome of any she has en- |
countered. She says there is more I
bickering and distemper in the English-
man’s family and more homes are made !
unhappy by domestic squabbles than |
in any of the other nations she has vis-
ited. This condition she attributes i
chiefly to the Anglo-Saxon’s fondness
for a meat diet. She says the great |
flesh-eating people are notably ill- |
tempered. We are only animals, and
the sequence of meat and fits, as demon-
strated in the animal kingdom, has a
significance in relation to the human j
animal. Mrs. Hart has gone further ,
than this, and has studied the gentle j
Japanese, the mild Mongolian and j
other light-living races, which research
confirms her ideas touching flesh-eating
and family jars.
The Dublin Drogue.
Frances Power Gibbe, in her “Life,”
gives amusing illustrations of the Dub-
lin brogue in which Irish Protestant
clergymen, educated at Trinity college,
used to preach fifty years ago. One,
concluding a sermon on the “Fear of
Death,” exclaimed: “Me brethren, the
doying Christian lepps into the arrums
of death, and makes his hollow jaws
ring with eternal hallelujahs!” There
was a chapter in the Acts which Miss
Cobbo dreaded to hear read by u cer-
tain clergyman, bo difficult was it to
help laughing when told of “Perthean*
and Mades, and the dwellers in Meso-
poteinia and the part of Libya about Cy-
clic, streengers of Roum, Jews, Pros-
elytes, Crates and Arabians.”
A writer on the streets of old Paris
gives in Blackwood’s Magazine the de-
scription of a wonderful juggler, who,
must, however, have performed the
following trick by skill rather than by
deception.
lie asked the crowd for pennies, that
is, pieces worth two sous; he put five of
them into his right hand, played with
them, tossed them a few times in the
air, and then suddenly flung them
straight up to a height which seemed
above the housetops.
He watched them intently, as they
rose, and as they turned and began to
fall, he opened, with his left hand, the
left pocket of his waistcoat, aud held it
open, perhaps two inches.
Down came the pennies, not loosely
or separated from each other, hut in
wluit looked like a compact mass, lie
gazed at them fixedly, shifting liis body
slightly, so as to keep under them—he
scarcely had to move his feet at all—
ami crush! came the pile into his waist-
coat pocket.
He repeated the operation with ten
pennies, and finally he did it with
twenty. Yes, positively with twenty!
It almost took one’s breath away to
hear the thud. Never did he miss, and
never did the pennies break apart or
scatter. They stuck to each other by
some strange attraction, as if they had
become soldered in air. There was evi-
dently something in the manner of
flinging that made them hold together.
After wondering each time at the
astonishing skill of the operation, I al-
ways went on to wonder what that
waistcoat pocket could be made of, to
support such blows. The force, the
dexterity and the precision of the
throwing—some sixty feet high, as well
as 1 could guess—and the unfailing ex-
actness of the catch were quite amaz-
ing. The pennies went up and down in
an absolutely vertical line.
THEY NEVER DRINK.
Animals of tho Desert That Have No I nn
lor Water.
Fersons who have given natural his-
tory and the allied sciences but little
study have expressed much surprise :
upon reading of the number of animals, 1
serpents and insects found by the Dr.
Merriam expedition, in the Death vul- i
ley, the rainless and waterless district j
in southern California. I cannot say, j
says a writer in the St. Louis Republic, I
as to whether any of the creatures cap- j
tured or killed by the expedition men-
tioned above can exist wholly without 1
water, but can cite several instances ;
mentioned by authorities of high re- :
pute of animals which seldom or never
drink.
Rlanchard, in his book on Abyssinia, j
says that neither the Dorcas nor the i
Bennett gazelles were ever known to !
resort to the springs, creeks or rivers 1
for the purpose of drinking. Through- ;
out Africa the expression: “As dry as 1
Sahara or an old gazelle” is very com-
mon. Darwin, in his “Voyage of a 1
Naturalist,” says that unless the wild i
llamas of Patagonia drink salt water
“they must not drink at all.” All j
writers on natural history subjects are 1
agreed on the point that the largest 1
and most interesting branch of the
sloth family never drink. Haynie says:
“They are one branch of the peculiar
animals which never drink water.” (,.
B. Tartan, on page 58, volume IX.,
“American Notes and Queries,” men-
tions a parrot which lived in the Lon-
d< n zoological gardens fifty-two years |
without drinking so much as a drop of
water. Somers, Williams, Christian and
others doubt whether wild rabbits ever
drink, but Rev. J. G. Wood questions
the correctness of their suppositions. I
Creatures which never drink arc
thought to absorb moisture from thei#
own tissues or from the surrounding
aAnosphere.
LITERARY FINDS.
Sometime* Even Now an Apjmrently
Worthies* Hook Proves to He Knre.
Probably the days are gone by when
a man could even hope to discover in a
six-penny box an early quarto of a
Sliakspeare’s play or a rare tract on
America, but for all that literary
“finds” of more or less interest continue
to be made by keen book hunters. Dr.
Garnett of the British museum tells:
how a tradesman at Oswestry had in |
his possession books to which he at-
tached no importance, hut which a lady j
informed him must be very rare. They |
were submitted to the authorities at
the British museum, who gave a high
price for them. One was Sir Anthony j
Shorley’s “Wits New Dyall,” published i
in 1004, of which only one other copy is
known to be in existence.
As a rule, offers of rare books come j
from booksellers, who do not always i
say how they become possessed of them.
Among the private people who offer ■
books to the museum for sale are a
large proportion who think that a j
book must necessarily be rare because
it is one hundred years old or more. I
Before the great catalogue was made 1
finds were occasionally made in the
museum itself, and even now a volume
will occasionally be found which has
special interest and value on account of
its binding. In other eases a book will J
be found to be in a binding made up of
leaves of some rare work far more valu-
able than the book itself.
The Sentient Typewriter.
Typewriter girls are said to grow
attached to their machines, and to re-
gard them almost as much in the light
of living creatures to be potted and
managed and judiciously disciplined as
the traditional railroad engineers of
fiction do their locomotives to which
they invariably refer with the person-
al feminine pronoun. The typewriting
young women declare that their ma-
chines are as sensitive and subject to
caprice, and that they know who is
operating them as well as u dog knows
its master, that they will sulk, or per-
haps flare up and refuse to work at all,
under unskilled manipulation, and that
they can be soothed into u complacent
and obliging frame of mind again
simply by the return of their usual
manipulator.
LOCKED OUT OF JAIL.
A Prisoner’s Queer ( liarjp Against Ills |
Jailer.
There was a certain old man who i
kept the county jail in a country vil-
lage, says Kate Field’s Washington,
and he fed and housed the convicts so
well that they became greatly attached
to him. He eould actually allow them
to go about at will. lie used to hire
them out to tho farmers in the neigh- 1
borhood during the harvest season, and
in that way turn an honest penny for
the taxpayers. Early one morning one
of the prisoners appeared at the office
of a lawyer in the place.
“Young man,” said he, “are you the
lawyer?”
“I am,” was the answer.
“I want you to get me out of jail on a
writ of habeas corpus, and I want it
right away.”
“Well, hold on, my friend,” said the
lawyer. “Wo must have a reason to
show the court, before we can ask for a
writ.”
“I’ve reason enough,” exclaimed the
man. “The cruelty of the keeper
makes life there unbearable.”
“Oh, pshaw! don’t tell me such non-
sense. There never was a kinder keep-
er iu charge of a jail.”
“Judge for yourself,” tho prisoner in-
sisted. “Yesterday 1 was working out
at Mr. Walkinshaw's, and we had a big
lot of hay to get in, for tin* sky was full
of rainclouds. So when the jail horn j
blew for bedtime, 1 stayed and helped
get the hay under cover.
“It was after dark when I got back,
and would you believe it? that hard-
hearted keeper had locked mo out! 1 (
had to sleep in the street, and caught i
rheumatism in my bones. It settled
things in my mind. ‘I’ll not stay an-
other night under the roof of a man !
who’ll treat me like that,’ says I to I
myself. So, Mr. Lawyer, I want you
to get me out before sundown, do you
hear?” _
TAURUS IN AN UNWONTED ROLE
t’ntoward Results of Substituting a Hull |
for a llorse In " Mazeppa.”
Jim Larkin was a noted character of
Cheyenne in the ’70s, says the Ana-
conda Standard. Larkin was one of
those harmless, officious fellows and
had his nose into everything. Then*
was never a dog fight but in some way
he got bitten; never a fire but he got i
burned, and never an accident but lu* !
was there in time to get hurt, Larkin !
was something of a showman. During
his residence in Cheyenne a colored
tragedian filled an engagement in that
city, playing “Hamlet” and “Othello."
Larkin saw in the colored man a great j
opportunity to make money and in-
duced him to play “Mazeppa,” using a \
willd burl instead of a wild horse. The I
tragedian fell into the idea and re- j
hearsals for the great event were had.
The performance was given in a large
hall, which was crowded to the doors.
The play went off lovely until it was
time for the wild bull of Tartary to be
brought on and then there was a slight
hitch. The bull had suddenly become
reluctant about going on the stage.
Manager Larkin got behind him and
gave the animal’s tail a twist. It had
the desired effect. The bull rushed up-
on the stage and tore out every foot of
scenery and then jumped off into the
orchestra, landing on top of tho slide
trombone player. The audience
stampeded and jumped through the
windows and doors, and in a very few
minutes the bull had everything to
himself. The “Mazeppa” engagement
closed that night.
GHOSTS HAVE BAD HABITS.
Those of ( lilnanirn Hurled In n Foreign !
Land Will Not Kent.
The movement recently put on foot
in this city to have the bones of China-
men buried in the New York Bay cem-
etery and Evergreens cemetery ex-
humed and sent to China will bring
relief to hundreds of families in the
Celestial kingdom.
The average Chinaman is nothing if
not superstitious, says the New York
Herald. When one dies down in China-
town all tin* other Celestials hurriedly •
move out of the house. The deceased
may have been companionable enough j
when living, but, being dead, his ghost I
becomes a thing of terror.
The ghost of a Chinaman buried in a
foreign land never rests. Listless,
opium-fuddled Wong Bong may never
have stepped beyond the precincts of
Mott or Pell streets, but his ghost is
always cursed with Bohemian instincts,
and is possessed with an insane desire j
to travel. I
Every little while it takes a flying (
trip to China, and the first thing they i
know, the relatives of that Chinaman
begin to run against it in the dark and
have their wits frightened out of them.
The poor ghost isn’t to blame, either.
Old Charon positively refuses to recog-
nize him; lie gets low spirited, down on
liis luck, and finally, in sheer despair,
becomes a chronic hunter of former
relatives, and is, in short, an out and out
nuisance.
To rinie Him.
A great many stories are told of tin*
jealousy and ill-feeling among the mu-
sicians, but not always are the tales so
full of a good-humored appreciation of
the state of things as is the following,
told by the Argonaut: Rossini, walk-
ing one day on the boulevard with
the musician Braga, was greeted by
Meyerbeer, who anxiously Inquired
after the health of his dear Rossini.
“Bad, very bad,” answered the latter;
“a headache, a sideaehc and a leg 1
can scarcely move.” After a few mo-
ments' conversation, Meyerbeer passed
on, and Braga asked the great com-
poser how it was he had suddenly be-
come so unwell. Smilingly Rossini rc-
UMSurcd liis friend. “Oh, I couldn’t be
better; 1 only wanted to please Meyer-
beer. He would bo so glad to see me
smash up!”_
And the Light Went Out.
"John,” naid Mrs. liossmnn, “It Is
time you were in hod. If you don't
turn tho light down, tho first thing you
know tho buhy will bo awake."
‘Tshaw," said Mr. Ilossman, “the light
won't wake him." "No, hut I'll wuko
him myself." Tile prospect was too up-
pulling. IIo meekly did us ho was hid. I
THIS MAY BE SPORT.
Mountulncurlng on the ‘'Golden Throne"
of tho Himalaya*.
Mr. William Martin Conway, the
vice president of the Alpine club, de-
scribed before an Edinburgh audience
the other evening how he and twe
friends, with a Swiss guide and some
Sepoys, ascended the “Golden Throne*
peak in the Himalayas. They did not
quite conquer the throne, but ascended
to the respectable height of twenty-
three thousand feet. The difficulties
in their way he illustrated by mention-
ing that they spent nine and a hall
hours in cutting steps in hard blue ice
on the edge of a ridge exposed to tho
full blaze of the sun, and in an atmos-
phere so rarefied that they were ren-
dered sick and dizzy. The party were
rewarded, however, for their toil by
some magnificent views of the sur-
rounding peaks in the light of the set-
ting sun.
When they set off on the return
journey darkness had set in, and tho
perils of the journey were thereby
greatly increased. They finally
reached a slope of ice, on which then!
was nothing left for it hut to sit down
and fiv forward into the darkness at
headlong speed. Right in front of
them they knew there yawned a
crevasse more than a thousand feet
deep, and the only way to cross this
was to slide down the slope with
enough impetus to carry them over tho
edge on to the other side. Their sensa-
tion, Mr. Conway said, as they sudden-
ly left the solid ice and found they had
nothing to sit upon but space was ex-
hilarating in the extreme.
Fortunately they landed safely on
the other side, and continued their de-
scent, literally keeping up the mo-
mentum they had gained until they
were carried within three or four yards
■ ># \ heir tent.
LONG SKATES FOR SPEED.
Tin* Philosophy and Ilj-glenlcii of the Fa-
vorite Winter Sport.
Considerable time and ingenuity have
been expended recently in the efforts
to produce a form of skate which will
combine lightness ami convenience of
arrangement with great speed. The
scientific principle involved in this
work is far more complex than is gen-
erally supposed, and, as outlined by tho
Scientific American, makes a very in-
teresting study. Speed in skating is,
of course, attained by the proper appli-
cation of every particle of motive pow-
er. When the skater strikes out with
his foot he does not, however, as is
generally supposed, obtain momentum
from tin* broad sido pressure of the
skate on the ioo. The momentum is
gained by a gradual and tapering pres-
sure which commences ut the head of
the skate, since it is hero that tho
freshest and strongest force is applied.
It will be seen that the momentum is
increased, therefore, l>y tho pressure
exerted steadily ami firmly outward
from the heel of the skate to the ex-
treme toe. The proper way to attain
great speed is to strike out each foot as
close to tho other as possible, to con-
tinue the stroke up to the toe, and
when once the extreme motive power
is passed to get the other foot in posi-
tion as quickly as possible. The prime
factors in producing speed, it will lie
seen, are the full pressure on the ice
and the rapid movement of the legs.
Working upon this theory, a long,
heavy skate has been manufactured,
with a blade which extends several
Inches beyond the foothold.
SEA GULLS FAR INLAND.
They Don’t Seem to Mlml Flylnfj Far
Away from Their Salt Water Home.
There seems to be no limit to the in-
land flights of the gull, said an obser-
vant sportsman just back from the
Rocky mountains. I have seen these
broad-winged sailers of the air darting
about the forest-environed lakes of
northern Maine, and winging their way
up the canyons of mountain streams in
desert Arizona five hundred miles from
the Gulf of California, the nearest salt
water. Sometimes several gulls may
be seen far inland journeying in com-
pany, but often only a single one is
found traveling apparently on his own
hook. Walking about the ram he of a
friend near Las Vegas, N. M., last
autumn, I was astonished to see a
gull, one of whose wings had been
clipped so that it could not fly, hopping
about on the ground among hia poultry,
with which the sea bird seemed to bo
on the most amicable terms. My host
had wounded the gull in the wing
while duck-shooting on a prairie lake
in northern New Mexico. What desire
for change or travel carried this winged
creature of the sea level one thousand
miles inland and up six thousand feet of
altitude to the land-locked, weed-grown,
fresh-water pond where it was cap-
tured is probably beyond the ken of
the naturalist to explain.
THE SCOTS GREYS.
A Ileflmout of Dragoon* I nmouH Slnco
th* Tim© of Charles II.
“Second to None,” is the proud motto
of the gallant and famous regiment—
the Second Dragoon guards, or “Royal
Scots Greys.” It is a happily chosen
motto, says tl e Scottish American, for
the fame of tli • regiment is worldwide.
Its brilliant achievements on the field
of battle during two centuries; its strik-
ing and historic name; its grand and
imposing uniforms—have made tho
Royal Scots Greys,us an individual corps,
there is no gainsaying, the most widely
known and familiar of all the regi-
ments of the British army.
Since the regiment was raised in the
reign of the second Charles the dra-
goons have borne themselves well in
many a famous field, but want of space
forbids us to note the exploits until
“earth-shaking” Waterloo eaine on tho
glory roll of the gallant greys. Here,
with the English “Royals” and Irish
“Innisklllings,” they formed the famous
“Union brigade,” which formed the
never-to-be-forgotten picture of tho
“Fight for the Standard.” That widely-
known picture shows a man of tho
greys, Scrgt. Ewart, capturing tho
eagle of a very famous French corps,
the “forty-fifth of the line.” Sergt.
Ewart himself has told the story lu 9
letter to his father
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