Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1891, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES that they are firm friends handy artificers in iron and fashion a knife | that ly or an edze ous of « y old piece of metal picked | always keep faith with those who ‘Up from wrecks coast or the | withthem. The half dees colonies. kindly, good-tem SHARES OF MANY KINDS DUMAS AND “CAMILLE” How This Comedy Was Written and Read to the Elder Dumas. Paris Correspondence Boston Herald. M. Dumas once told me several in! incidents about “Camille.” It was written in the suburb of Neuilly, in the summer of 1849, in barely eight days, on scraps of paper which the author found lying on his table. The sec- ond act was written entirely between 12 and 5 o'clock of one afterncon. The piece was to have been, according to the idea of Anthony Berand, who saw a good thing in it,» melo- drama for the Ambigu. M. Dumas preferred to extract only vaudeville, so, when the piece ‘was written, it was impossible to get it played. The Gymnase and the Vaudeville theaters refused it and Mlle. to whom Dumas took it, would not even receive the author. Dejaze found the piece touching, but she said that she THE SLEEPY PARTNER. THE DIGNITY OF SEX. One of the Unfortunate Situations of a Boe-| He Drew the Line at Being Doctored by @ tom Dancing Party. ‘Woman. ‘From the Boston Transcript. From the Chicago Herald Probably no situation has appeared more} One of the hod carriers at work ona brick often in fiction and on the stage than the court- | building out in the euburbs climbed up to the ing of an heiress. In fiction and on the stage | first story Thursday. Then be fell, and the it goes almost without saying thatan heiress | bod, the bricks and the ladder fell on bim. has an advantage over other women in win- | When the debris had been pulled away the hod ning the admiration of men. But it is not so at | carrier was lying face downward on the pave- = Boston party. Ata Boston party wealth and | mont, stone senseless There wasn't a drug social position fade before the danger of being | store or a doctor within half a mile. A brick- ‘obliged to talk to ayoung woman for more than | layer put on his coat and tore for the nearest fifteen minutes ata time. Society and fortune | patrol box. Meantime the hod carrier was are not to be weighed in the same balance with | lring there in a rather nasty mess of blood, ap- such an ordeal. parently thinking about nothing in particular, Many funny stories are told of how young | The boss was fuming about, kicking blocks men have conspired to “relieve” one another | of wood into the street and swearing at the from too long a conversation. And whatan | laziness of the police. The big plasterers, who Monsters of the Deep Which Have an Ap- Petite for Human Flesh. MONSTER SHARKS OF LONG AGO THAT GREW TO Be 100 FEET IN LENOTH—THE GREAT WHITE SHARK AND ITS SEVEN ROWS OF TEETH—BLUE SHARKS OF COLDER WATERS. AX EXQuisrve corriva Toon, aP- parently a weapon of primitive manu- facture. Shaped somewhat like the head of an arrow, but much bigger. Six inches long by five inches broad, with a sharp point and both ‘edgos 20 keen that one could cut beefsteak with them readily. Weighing about two pounds, beautifully polished and black of h ue. Such was the object shown to @ Sra writer at the Smithsonian Institution yesterda: pathos oe NY saan ORCHID COLLECTING IN NEW GUINEA. The Arduous Search for Orchids in a Terri- ble Country. % ye ptr notomyg gee . Pay ii jeasul a lated Sp sania, Deters the datoiueicn of | sXtautt aired, kare Yortrday Gil my ms was the most ly missile in the hands of the Tehuelches. It is | Plants in the fincst order,and you will get made by covering # sharp pointed stone with | striking novelties at last from this terrible Bide; all but the point, which protrudes,and at-| country and you will have every reason to be feching p thong about e yard long. with a knot satisfied. It was the best time to collect the = Elephant Moth Dendrobe. They had just in the end to prevent it slipping through David's historic sling was harmless SOME HAPPY SAVAGES Cultivating Still Closer Acquaintance INDIAN | ongin BELLE. not in immediate use were piled the outer edgesus a barricade against of that persisted in akur- g in beneath the flapping walls, Cupboards, of course, there were none, the dishes being piled on the ground in promiscu- ous heaps, washed clean by prowling dogs— lean, uncanny creatures that outnumbered aroun: fi e the hand. beside this weapon when whirled round and round to give it force before shying it at an enemy's Some of them also carry long, heavy lances tipped with flint and adorned with tufts of feathers—very different from the light lances used by the Araucanians. Nowada} guns, revolvers, swords and re nre alto- gether too common among them, bought from traders. Pigafetia tells us how -Magella: party found cestors of those Indians ca: rying bows and arrows, but it is probable that be was romancing in this particular, asm many At any rate, though ancient flint ar- row heads abound north of the Rio Negio, none have ever been discovered in central or south- ern Patagonia, yet ancient bolas are frequently found differing from those in present use only by being much larger and heavier and having grooves cut around them. BOTH MEN AND WOMEN PAINT. Both the men and the women daub their faces and sometimes their bodies with paint, finished growing and some were in full bloom, and ob, what a glorious thing it is! I forgot all my troubles when I saw the firet on some rocks near the huts where I was staying, whero they grew on the baro limestone among a great num- bor of human skulls and bones. The natives do not bury their dead, but put them in a kind of coffin, and then place them on these solitary rocks,which stand scattered about the shore or beach, and which can be reached onlyat ebbtide. Heroin these rocks the plants grow most luxuriantly, exposed to the full sun, and when the weather is rough they often got the spray of the sea water. At first the natives did not like the idea of collecting the plants off those rocks; they were afraid the so1 of the departed, whose bones were lying there bleach- ing in the sun, would resent it, but when they saw the gorgeoushandkerchiefs, beads, looking glasses and my brass wire I offered them for the plants, they did not trouble themselves any ‘Never having beheld a savage weapon of quite that shape, so beautifully made, or so heavy for its bulk, he was puzzled when asked to guess what it was. Imagine his surprieo when he was told that it was the tooth of a shark. Not the tooth of any living specios of shark, but a fossil incisor left behind by some mon- ster fish of the past who died hundreds of thou- sands of years ago perhaps. What a whopper he must have been. When it is considered that the teeth of a forty-foot white shark.the biggest spe- cios now known, only measure about two inches in length, it is positively astonishing tofigure out the size of the owner of the specimen described.” It is impossible that he could have been less than eighty fect and he may have been 100 feot t etrange and distant sea did this rim? As to that there is no could only play it in the ‘costumes of the time of Louis XV. Rachel, who made an eppoint- ment with Dumas to’ hear him read his work, left word for him that she was not at home, bui had gone to a friend's house to play loto. Then, with a sort of retrospective sidzess, Dumas told me how, on New Year day of 1850, he paid a solitary visit’to the tomb of Mario Duplessis as though to relate to her hia iets. and on returning from the cemetery of Mont- martre he took up his manuscript, reread it all, and in the fifth act all that relates to the ironic Joys of the 1st of January dates from that day. amas fils had written his play without having said anything about it tohis father. He certainly would never have dared to show thi manuscript to the author of “Anthony” and of “Mademoiselie do Belle Isle,” but chance willed it that, having taken his work toa copyist, who shiould come in but Dumas pere, was caught,” said Dumas fils, “‘and I con- And if by chance he has been presented toa stranger to our city, he all hope of subsequent liberty. At every party there is a might as well give up varying percentage of young men who wonder, when taey seck a partner for a dance, whether they are maki ‘&® mistake, and lose all sense of expected frien liness in the wearing uncertainty. Often cer a and stop with her new corner of the room. develops into probability, and prob- hard itedly with his partner Iike fred comer fn some His very kindness will deceive the reserve supply of young men standing in the doorway. i ‘our bs attitude of gallantry is suggested by this word | could drive a spike “reliet !" pend ceateoraen er volun-| imgaround as helpiess as children. At thie teers, asif be were shipwrecked mariner in| time ® young woman ina blue oleak came distress, or is left to his fate without “relief. ith their fists, were stand- ht blue eyes. She big fellows aside, end the trouble be: open,” said the boss politely “Let me ree,” said the pretty girl, dropping ‘on her knees beside the bod carrier. She took ‘© bones fractured here,” she said, looking up at the group. Then ehe noticed the pool of blood 1 bee side the man’s night arm and, whipping « pair of pocket scissors out of her reticule, she ripped up the coat sleeve aud the sleeve of the brown flannel shirt. “Good Th. - fessed laughingly tofather that I had rewritten ith the tag nian Indians. their masters several to one. ere were huge = With Patago Ih trenchers hollowed out of blocks of wood, bark platters and excellent spoons made by sticking aclam shell on a conveniently shaped branch, and armadillo shell bowls. By way of a soup dish one might go a good deal farther and fare worse than to use the round, deep shell of the Patagonian armadilio or ant eater. Then there were bucket-shaped baskets made of the coarse mpa grass, so tightly braided that water can Po"carrled in them without leaking a dr usadors or spits of bone and wood, and even two or three iron kettles. Squatted upon a horsehide in one of these d partner will succumb to his fate. last gasp will be, “Don’t you like to sit and He then will sit and ido—the embodiment of unob- trusive patience. oe : more about the souls of their ancestors, but made by mixing guanaco and ostrich fat with boldly went and rooted out every plant to be 01 red ochre or black earth. On state occasions— | f% as for adance or a funeral—the men further auld to thelr beauty by rubbing white paint on their hands and then making five white finger- marks on their chests, arms and legs. If in mourning they put on black paint, and when going forth to fight dab a little white paint un- each eye to impart « ferocious expression. Not e small pact of the manifold duties of tho women is to attend to the toilets of the men in the way of paint and hair dressing, and, not being blessed with mirrors, they must also “An artery has been cut. twine quick.” The boss pulled a bit of coarse string from his coat pocket and handed it to the gir She, drew it quickly around the man's arm, And his partner, left between tho Scylla and | ™&d° ® loop knot, thrust » pencil into the Gharybids of uscepting his sacrifice and sitting Ter ,and twisted Wil the cord sank deep inte socees Borie Tame of mind? Usually che | ~-¥outield this,” should to tho boss, ond the chooses Scyila. It is better to have a partner, | ig man unelt down aed grabbed the ligature. even if his eyes are half-closed and bis head is | Then che hed sone wate toed the ligature. on one side, and he has long ago ceased Sits, ‘Then Washed the scalp wound in « jifty. to speak, than to be quite ulone in the gay | Twrneroe . y . ng the loose flesh with ‘the scissors and World. She knows that the drowsy man will | ¥it), plaster and a strip of linen from this same frequented the vicinity of Washing- and very likely pursued his prey in aters directly over what is now the capital city of the United States. At all events it is certain that he died in this neigh- borhood, because the tooth in ion was found only tho other day not a miles from town over in Virginia, Perhaps you imagine that such monsters as he «ere rare. On the contrary, they were very common indeed, as is proved by the numbers of such tecth which are ploughed up on nearly every farm in the Potomac valley. These creatures must have fairly swarmed hereabout ‘Well, lot us sce what Read us the first act.” “We went into his study and I began read- ing, @ prey to the most powerful emotions I have had in my life, for I was in the presence, to me, of a supreme judge. After the first act he said in a friendly and grave manner: ‘It is Very good. Continue,’ Emboldened by this debut, I read the second got,and Trend it aswellasI could. “My listener had tears in his eyes; the eceno between Ar- mand and Marguerite had touched him. “Go on,’ he said to me. I read the third act. The majority of the plants, however, come from places where no bones are found.’ The Plants grow chiefly on these solitary, much honeycombed, liciestone rocks, always ex- posed to the sun, or getting only a very little shade during a part of the day. They also grow on the trees in the Ficus groves more inland, although very sparingly. I found the big specimens on the highest trees in the dense jungle, where it is very rare, and I onl saw a fow on the vory highest trees. I shoul HOUSES OF PRICELESS FURS. ry How Their Houses Aro Bullt—Primitive Arts Iezen and Utensils—Thelr Weapons of War—Some- thing About Their Marriage Customs—Cos- tumes of the Men and Dress Making by the Women. ‘From the Star's Traveling Commissioner. Pazow Istax, Patagoxta. TIME HAD COME TO BID A NOT reluctant adios to this wild abode, the erazy little yacht which good mission padres of Terra del Fuego had sent to convey us to their station lay tumbling aboutin the harbor, our luggage, reduced by long globe-trotting to a surprisingly small compass, waited at the landing, and farewells were actually being spoken—when Roman rushed in with the information that a large company of Indians had collected on the other side of the fjord and wanted to come over for purposes of barter. This circumstance,though Bot unusual here, materially altered our view quoer homes, surrounded by an admiring throng of grinning women and children—whose g graces had previously been won by gifts of beads and red calico—we partook of hospitality in the shape of » custards Ia Patagonienne, the receipt for which please accept as a Christmas present: Break a small hole in the point of an ostrich egg, and after removing part of the in- digestible white (it is the fashion here to suck it out), beat the yolk thoroughly with a stick, a hair pin, or whatever comes handy, addin, little sugar if you have it, or whisky if you it, or plain sait and pepper as we did. ‘Then set the egg on ond in the hot ashes, just far enoug from the blaze not to crack shell, oso | the batter now and then and turning it aroun so that the mixture will not adhereto the sides. If a novice you will probably burn your fingers pretty badly and may be upset the whole thing in the fire; but even in the latter case you may be consoled with the thought that you haven't lost much, and that the duty of friendly polite- ness, as demanded by local etiquette, has been religiously fulfilled in the cleanest possible manner without touching @ dog-licked utensil A CANDIDATE POR MATRIMONY. ¢f the case, and we were easily persuaded to Femain another day in order to cultivate closer them as desired to trade and adozen or more of the young braves came over, bringing a few bunches of gray ostrich feathers and a heap of fursand skins, to exchange at the “store” for rumaend tobacco. As negotiations promised belonging to the toldo. THE HARD-WORKING WOMEN. However charming the life of » “noble savage” may be, its delights do not appear to be shared to any great extent by the weaker sex, even in Patagonia. I never saw women work harder than these—even society leaders in the center of the “swim”—and I am told that their untiring industry is the same year in and out. Notwithstanding the clumsiness of their tools they sew neatly and with remarkable rapidity—their only thread being sinews from the backs of old guanacos and their needle a sliver of bone, ned at one end and a hole punched ‘in the other. The labor on a single fur capa or mantle, which both men and Women wear, is immense, and, besides those required for their own use, they are constantly making others for sale. ‘The skins are taken from guanacos less than s month old—because after that age the fur begins to grow coarse and wooly—and are first pegged to the ground with long thorns of the algurrobs tree and left to dry in the sun. When thoroughly “sea- arude handle. Then they are smeared all over with a mixture of tallow and liver, kneaded into after which they must be rubbed in hours, until they become soft and pliable. they are spread on the ground and cut with a sharp knife into suite- le pieces, dove-tailed to fit one another in r- form those delicate services for one another. ‘The men are very particular about their hair, and so the wives, sweethearts, mothers and sis- have to brush their bushy locks at least twice every day and tiethem back neatly with the fillet. “The greatest care is taken to burn any stray hairs that may brush out, for it is belioved that witches work evil spells with such things. The women are also the tatooers, both sexes ornamenting their arms with triangles, crosses and parallel lines by the simple process of puneturing the flesh with bone needles and rubbing in blue earth Even in bleak Patagonia the “old, old story” seems to be as attractive as when told in the sun-kissed tropics, and, unlike heave there is “marrying and A giving in marriage Here marriages are usually those of inclina- ion, and though man may have as many wives as he can persuade women to fall in lo with him, itis said that family jars and sepa- rations are extremely rare—probably because the husband is complete master of the situa- tion. An enamored swain must first secure consent of the object of i he sends » friend to her parents, offering horses or silver ornaments in exchange for the girl. If the parents have no serious objections, the impatient lover dresses up in his smartest capa and potro boots, his mother, or an earlier sbarer of his conjugal affections, carefully brushes his hair, paints his face and buckles on his silver-studded belt and garters; he mounts his fleetest horse, bedecked with all the trap- pings of furand feather and jingling silver ‘owns or can borrow, and gallops gaily to the toldo of his intended, followed by » troop of friends bringing the stipulated gifts. The bride's parents return presents of equal value, and then, without more ado, the new Adam grape his blushing Ee, lifts her on the same ith himself und proceeds to his own toldo, amid the cheers of his friends and the nging of the women. Mares are slaughtered and eaten for the wedding feast, extraordinary pains being taken to prevent ‘the dogs from touching a morsel off the meat or offal, as that would be the most unlucky of omens. The head, tail, heart, liver and backbone are taken posed to be matrimonial, REJOICING AT A CHILD's BIRTH. When a child is born to well-to-do parents— that is, if they own plenty of horses and silver especially interested in ‘matters think in cultivation “it will require plenty of moisture whilo growing and in culture like that suitable for D. nobile. In size and coloring it varies as much from the ordinary D. Phalswnopsis as Dendrobium Wardianum from D. crassinode; the largest flowers measure 43¢ inches across, none meas- uring less than 3} inches. I saw a few plants with branched spikes, but this seems only ex- eas of strength; the spikes aro genorally from 20to 85 inches long; on some { counted up to twenty-five flowers. ‘The color ig very varin- ble, varying from pure white to dark’ purple red, and sone ‘are’ differently colored. aad fa. Hiegated, but brignt and clear. The flowers last a long ‘time, individually eight weeks, and during my stay of three months I saw many plants flower in April, May and June. I only ope and wish Imay get safely back again and that the plants will arrive in good condition. ing by myself there would mean endan- gering my head very mach, so I think it is better to wait next year, when I can go with a trading expedition. “On my arrival here Thad to pay $201 asa shipwrecked man for my passage, for which I told you they at first demanded "$280. Now, on my telling them it was very mean to demand anything of » ship- wrecked man, they gave me 30 por cent de- duction. Weli, there is no doubt these people (the European’ traders) are the meanest people On earth and I do not like them and shall be glad when I can travel somewhere else. ‘The na- tives are not bad, only somewhat troublesom2. They think no more of Jalling anybody than your cook does of killing a fowl; but they would not easily attack a Dutch trading party, knowing how well armed they are, especially when ono takes a little care not to quarrel with them. ‘They go almost entirely naked, and are the finest rze of savages I have seon up to now. ‘One of their idols, the god with the golden eyes, I had to place in a case to accompany the llants and take care of them on the journey. Phe savages wanted this, and I did it to satisfy their superstition. They always carry these gods into their battles. I put all the plants in baskots T bad made, by the natives here, and ———+2-_____ THEIR FIRST SPAT. Unexpected Horrors Break Two Happy Hearts During the Hone;moon. They had been married three weeks and had in nges past. The soil is filled with their dental remains So much barder is the enamel of teeth than anything else of organic origin in nature that they outlast all things else appar- ently, even the rocks, and are preserved for the Sharks are among the most ancient of fishes. Long before the first reptiles appeared in the world, to be followed in their turn by the mam- mals, they ruled creation at atime when nearly all the earth was covered by seas, ‘Thus great quantities of fossil sharks’ teeth are found scat over the bottom of the oceans. Such great ones es that mentioned have been largely Utilized for battle axes and other purposes by savages, who are quick to take advantage ‘of tools offered thom by nature without labor. In similar fashion they employ the many-barbed ivory “sting” of the sting ray for spear tips, the instrument having the great advantage that it breaks off short in the wound and cannot be withdrawn from the flesh. Likewise the islandere of the South Pacific use heavy conch shells as heads for their war clubs, the sharpened pointe serv- ing admirably for the purpose of pecking out the brains of an ew Thi ‘ocious shark now in existence is the great white shark of tropi- cal waters. It is the man eater par excellence. Specimens have been captured which measured forty-two feet in length. Whether it has -done 80 oF not, this frightful creat tainly have no difticult; aman whole. When a big board ship the skull is usually werved, thy flesh being removed from the bones, and it is favorite pastime with sailors to crawl one after another through the distended jaws. It would be far from safe to do this, however, when the head has been but freshly cut off, under such conditions the jaws wili si gether tlercely for some time afterward if, thing be placed between them. ‘The skull of a big shark is always salable, ow- ing to the demand by museums and curiosity hunters. Backbones of small ones are made into walking sticks. In Ceylon there is a con- siderable trade in the oil of the white shark. p to~ ‘any- nd are used largely by the Chinese for making soup, of which Aly declare that the turtle soup so much prized by epicures in this country is but a distant and feeble imitation. Among the natives of the Pacific islands sharks’ livers are ‘There he could not contain his emotion and the — of this act made him weep lik child. “Go on, read me the rest,’ and when he said that he looked at me as he had never looked at me before. There was in that long, open look still the tenderness to which I was accustomed, but there was astonishment min- fled with it, a delicate joy that was still kept ack by the fear that tie end of my reading would not be equal to its beginning. “It was 3 o'clock; I had a rendezvous which it was impossible fur me to miss. ‘I must go to my rendezvous,’ I said to father. ‘Inan hour Iwill be back and will read you the rest of it.’ ‘Go and come back quickly. Tem enxious toknow the end,’ he replied. “The affair that called me away was quickly dispatched and I returned to the Avenue Fro- chot on the run. When I opened the door of of his study-father got up, clasped me in his arms and ‘I was notable to wait; I wanted to know if you had done well to the end. I hav. read the last two acts: it is original; it is touch- ing; it is audacious; itis new! It will be an immense success if the censor will allow it to be played, but he wil! never allow it—it is too true to life. In the meanwhile you must read it in the Theater Historique. I'am curious to seo the effect of the reading on the actors.’ “We again bugged each other, both weeping, and the great success of the piece certainly never caused me one-fourth of the happiness that I experienced on that day. — LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS. Specific Gravity Plays Many Pranks With the People of Other Worlds. From the Omaha Wor jerald. ‘The first thing which most attracts our atten- tion about other planets is their very great dif- ference in size, and this circumstance is the cause of some of their most striking physical peculiarities. Take, for instance, the little planet Ceres. Our earth is small enough, only ear and out at the other without leaving any impression behind or, if they cause us to think, we will wonder how easy it must be to get from one country to another, how delightful to be able to sail round the world, pay a visit to never dare speak to her im. She has on his ooalag: and jostatriwaa She ho; that he has lost she all ambition for self-enjoyment, that he is thinking of his business, that he is no longer unbapp, but isalmost as comfortable as if he were at home and abed. Her other fricnds stroll or dance by her. Some of them have been in the habit of calling her ame; many havo visited at her to address her partner, foresceing the awful sleepiness which his eyes would disclose | » should he raise the lids. She thinks of asking ta him to get her a glass of water, in the expect tion that he will disappear with the glass. But she feels thi he 1s the soul of jonor, and that he will sit with her in his comatose ‘con- ai to the last trump. Under such circumstances your heroic young woman will go to the di down there in her beautiful dress, which she has unpackod from the dressmaker's box with athrill of expectation. languages, she bas made a be; osophy and polical economy, chemistry and philology. A great deal She is pretty, dance well, she is amiable, she is rich, her tam inning in phil- come panting into the room to have their torn dresses repaired. That awful, sleepy partner and the heedless gayety of the others is all the ty that she knows, ‘he trouble is that popularity and neglect are intensitied at our Boston parties by their muliar conditiona. In Europe every girl has er chaperon to whom she goes after her dance, and it is not a burning disgrace to be seen with her mother. And any man may dare to toher, knowing that be may have her after the dance which be asks for. Here, too, in years gone by, when the german was more in vogue, there was not the same difficulty, for every lad; could eall then had her own, and every man, both seat and partner’ she being bound to bis ble plight. She must beg for pity somewhere, if only for a seat by some lab aay, And to many @ young woman the prospect of a party is a matter of great nervousness and anxicty; and many a man finds his better nature warped by selfish motives of a petty but most exasper- reposterous bag she made « nent n she arose and viewoda protty job of emor- ney surge ¢ patrol ry with easonable complacenc: id the bed ecctiog anep ne. As the wagon backed up tho hod-carrier opened his eyes and saw the girl in the blue cloak. you He Won, But Not From the Result of Goog Luck, room and sit | From the New York Herald. hurt much, Mike?” the boss yin's ‘round me.” The girl doctor in blue looked at him quiz- ingly and la: from her hands in the bucket of water. ughed as she washed his gore A fae young fellow he was, but = gambler. that be 2460. No. 4, ‘So sung the croupier w: ti ,"” said “Why on No. L “Because there are just four letters in ‘1 and four in “Heil,” an me. A fool's whim. Good-bye, old man. That night he gaml bled. “Now, thon, gents, make your bets, Are you all ready Sometiues when he awoke about noon—ab, the misery of those awakenings !—he would con- of the best. She can play the piano indif. | trast what be might have been with what he ferently well, she knaws somethin, g of three | Was; would remember his broken promisesand the home he bad saddened. and physics and | were bitter; then he eufferedgtortures which . did not preven: his returning that night to the been done for her sociall 5 and she is bitter at heart when ber friends | Teen siren that caused them. At last @ day camo when the gambler had lost everything, owed every ove and thought of killing bimsel said, “if the luck runs against me,” and with wned some cherished heirloom for ‘Then bis thoughts “T'll do it tonight,” he y the lot at roulette, and all om to the only friend be had left, 4?” asked the friend. its one or the other our bets; make How much in ‘that roll? Four hundred and sixty? Right you i iles in di ras free to have other women . % ith | #© the top of the nearest hill and left there as | when all was packed they gave war dance in : : ing | 7912 miles in diameter, but Ceres is only 160 | °¥™ ri cg are, sir; $4600n the No.4. And they all sit " omen taken up and scraped with P i — y The fins of the animal are very rich in gelatine when he chose. and they all stand and they're all _ tas the Pai Boat . & propitiatory offering to Gualichu, the Pata- | front of them. jilea, The ds rt in at ; ‘ - y ani 're all ready. aa = Joe | pieces of int or bite of broken glass fixed into | hy Paap dere = ieee prs miles. These words may easily pass in atone | But now a girl who is “stuck” is ina misera- monotonous drawl and then came silence broken by the br-r-r-r of the roulette wheel as it spun around hold- ing « young man’s life in its whirl Then the crouy r sang out again: “No. 4 wins, even and black. luck, sir,” he added, “ema i e . 's friends at the antipodes and bo settled | ating by 83. Gratulate s ornaments—notice of the happy event is imme- | just gone into housekeeping, observes the Lon. one's frien ipodes ply $460 by 33. * “Grat Bini eae, en, ia | mbes a Gotten ch Fe |e Ba Hutt ore ity oe | gael ai whee pet we |" hae" agin’ kas “toeg| ee | epg had tented! the desired luxuries would lose half | these pieces, each with her bone needle, sinew, | Medicine man or wizard of the tribe. The lat-| morning and she followed him to the door. space of two successive play days. But if we their savor, we took our hostess’ advice and some field glasses and repaired to the house- top to view proceedings on shore. A PATAGONIAN TOLDO. ‘The Indians had selected » level spot a few Yards inland, where shrubs and boulders formed thread and a bodkin made of a sharpened nail. A whole mantle is never sewn at once, but when half is finished it is pegged out on the ground, its surface slightly moistened, and each woman’ chunk of red ochre and stains it with greatest care. When the ground work ter worthy bleeds himself by sticking a bodkin into his arm or leg, and then orders a small tent of the finest furs and lechus to be con- structed, within which he may retire to work some special charms for the child's future; and je mares are killed and cooked for the ‘They had their arms wrapped round each other and she was saying: ‘Oh, Clarence, do you think it possible that the day will ever come when we will part in anger?” be understood, however, that the shark only uses one rowat a time. The other rows lie down inside the mouth behind the edge of the Jaw, erecting themselves when it is time for them to take successively the place of the first row. When one observes how keen-edged look at the subject» little more closely shall find that it involves far more extraordi- nary consequences than these. We know that while the earth spins around men, dogs and horses, balls and stones, hold on, or fall to the earth. This force which attracts matter to ‘The Lucky Man With a System Whe Broke the Monte Carlo Bank. Correspondence of the St. Louis Post- ‘Dispatch. Players are trying hard to find out the sys- tem by which Mr. Hill Wells, the lucky Lon- bled tastrange thing that N won—a single chance in thirty-six, andeo much at fake!" = “its - these incisors are it seems no wonder that they . 8 Ob uttungn, aites oll. tay Gear it i ghee inevitable dance and feast. The baby is | "S; i r Ap matter is called gravity or weight. It is| q, es nge, m; low, ® partial wind-break, nea the mouth of a nar- | ince of bisck, bite ot coaey pote and | cmcared all over With ents ate gyperm, | cae nos litle pass he said, Gof Saree can bite off @ big rope as readily as if it were ® | Stronger in proportion to the amount of mat, serra opregpa tiapseryd rca ae hen you reflect that we bad it all arranged 1 Yow canon, where their horses found plenty of | varied by tri ‘and small crosses, the latter | B¢Ver to be clean thereafter in all his eurthly | D0! val ee ned day richer grass and water; and while the men and boys rested from the fatigues of their journey, stretched at ease on the ground, the women PATAGONIANS ON HORSEBACK. | device Probably borrowed from the mission- aries. When the painting is concluded it is left day or two to dry, and when the other Dustled about like so many big brown ants set- ting up the toldos, bringing water from the t spring and skinning game for the cook- ing spit. The Patagonian toldo, or kan—wig- wam, tent, tepes or whatever you choose to call it—differs somewhat from the homes of any | | half has been similarly treated the twain are wedded info one unbroken surface of softest, finest fur. Then th i heads wn, from career; and if need be, the mother is able to travel on horseback’ the same day, carrying long the latest addition to the family in a icker cradle. These cradles aro ingenious | *2 affairs strips of wicker work interlaced with thongs and fitted with a cover like that of a hamper to keep off sun and Mind. They are so constructed as to rest easily on the mother’s saddle gear, and ure decorated to the utmost extent of the parents’ means with little bells, beads, shells, plates of brass and silver—anything that will shine and rattle. The women are equally fond of ornamenting themselves, and old and young wear enormous earrings. each a silver dollar beaten to double ite natural size, suspended to small rings thrust through the lobe of the ear, besides necklaces and armlets of glass beads’and bits of silve capa pins with flat heads large as tea plates, & ‘The men also wear necklaces, and though they do not care at all for gold. adorn their pipes, knives, sheaths and horse-gear with silver they can lay hands on. The Patagonian saddle is odd enough to de- serve 8 paragraph. Sideboards are made by splitting a piece of timber in two and reducing it to the requisite size and thickness, skillfully adapting it to the shape of a horse's back. Holes are punched in both ends of these boards and saddle trees, chosen from limbs of treos like “knees” for ‘boat building, are lashed on with thongs. Fresh guanaco skin, shorn of its woolly coat, is then stretched over the whole and securely sewn with sinews, serving as it dries to bind the [pieces securely together. Underneath the saddle a thick blanket is laid and over its corconilla of black sheepskin or fur. The girths are many ties of twisted hide, fitted with a ring at each end, to be connected bya leather thong. The stirrups are suspended by strips of hide from the holes bored in the saddie trees, and are generally made of a piece of hard wood fastened into a rawhide thong. The bridles aro of twisted hide. The bits ai ‘the | head, eh?” nothing, dearest. I was only thinking fectly dreadful it would be if one of us peak harshly to the othe: ell. don't think of such wicked, utterly impossible things any more,” he said. “We can never, never quarrel. knew it, darling. Good-by, you dear old i by, and—oh! wait » second, written a note to mamma. Can't you run down to the house and leave it for her vome time today? ‘Why, yes, dearie, if T have time.” Oh, Clarence! birdie’s “What is it, little girli “Ob, to say if you ‘have time’ to do almost the first errand Your little wife asks you to qe" 0. “Well, woll, sissy, I'm awfully busy just now.” me? Ob,Clarence—you Why, child, I— “I'm not a child, Clarence—I'ms married woman, and I" “Nos ng, Clarenes, if P—p—pet “No, no, Clarence, ‘was your you'd t—t—try ” ‘But, Mabel, do be reasonable. ‘Oh, Clarence, don’t speak to me #0.” label, be sensible, and——" jo on, Clarence, go on; break my heart.” tuff and nonsense.” ‘Oh, o—o—oh !” Vhat have I said or done?" “As if you need to ask you will, Clarence, I—' “This is rank nonsense ‘Oh, yes, sneer at me, ridicule me, break my poor heart. Perhaps'you bad bettes strike = In colder water the blue shark is king. It is not nearly so big as its white cousin, seldom measuring more than fifteen feet in length, but in point of wickedness it is hard to beat. ‘The ferocity of sharks is not necessarily in propor- tion to their size. For example, there is the reat basking shark, #0 called because of its fnbit of lying motionless at the surface of the water. It often attait length of nearly forty feet, but its teeth are small comparatively and it probably never at- tacks man, depending upon small fishes and crustacea for its di¢ Another name for this species ‘sail fish,” because of its great back fin, which shows out of the water like a sail when it is basking. Although sluggish ordinarily and easily barpooned, it exhibits great activity and enormous strength when struck, diving immediately to the bottom and requiring a great length ot rope to hold it. These basking sharks are caught for their livers off the coast of Iceland, and the oil obtained is used to adulterate cod-liver oil. The Greenland shark is well known as a foo to whalers. It will follow a dead whale to the ship and show no fear of the mon while they aro engaged in cutting up the prey, biting out lumps from it as big as a man's ‘Somo- times it happens that a man will fall off the slippery Gide of the whalo close by the shark, but the latter never attacks him, being intent upon gorging itself with the flesh of the ceta- ccan. most severe wounds from thrusts of the whalers’ knives will not persuade it to desist. ‘This species of shark is often partly or wholly blinded bya parasitic worm three inches long, which fastens itself at the of eye and lives on its Ono of the querest sharks is the thrasher, which has the upper lobe of its tailso much Ueveloped as to oqual in length the body of the fish itself, ‘This tail is controlled by powerful muscles and is used asa weapon. Sword tah ter. and weaker in proportion to the square of the distance of an object from the center of gravity. Now, the diameter of the earth be- ing fifty times greater than that of Ceres, it follows that a boy here is fifty times heavier than he would be on the little planet. If he weighs 100 pounds here he would weigh only two pounds there. Boys could play at ring- taw with huge round boulders instead of mar- bles, and play foot ball with balloons. Girls could carry dolls as heavy as their mothers, and @ strong bull would be load be: But still would happe: ifa body be once set in motion it will continue moving forever, if not stopped by some external force. Thus, when a boy leaps into the air, he would go to the moon and further, were it ‘not for the attraction of the earth, which very soon pulls him down again. But on the littie planet veres this force isso small that a boy might leap to an enormous height before the attrac. tion would check his ascent. Jumping over housetop would be as easy as playing leapfrog: while a good jumper would think nothing of clearing, with a short run, the tower of the new city hall. Staircases might be abolished, for even a stout old lady could easily jump in at a ird-story window. The range of projectiles £28,000. Attempts have been made to get his reasons for winning £32,000 last July and £10,000 last Friday, when he broke the bank five times during the evening. What he says is interesting if not convincing. Even on Friday, hen he had before him on the green tables a pile of thousend-franc notes s foot anda half high, he never lost his yy [head at play, and afterward slept soundly with them under his pillow ine room at the Hotel de Paris, overlooking the Place du Casino. “a LITTLE SYSTEM OF MY OWK.” rorking out fi after patiently watching the table. He was now pu for years, and behavior of the it into actual practice. He thought ‘its value had been fully tested during its trials of the past week and of July last. Asked, “If this system be infal- ble why not go on ‘and clear out the bank?” ‘Because,” replied Mr. Wells, “‘the physical train is ‘beyond my strength. would be increased in proportion. Baby could hur! his rattle into Couneil Bluffs, and, in. the evont of a war Chile, an ensign’ at Fort Omaha, with a Krupp gun, could defend San Francisco against the invader. Nor have we yet exhausted the wonders of Ceres. We can imagine how uncomfortable it must be for # fat man of 300 pounds’ weight to walk, run or exert himself. But transport him to our queer little friend Ceres and he is at once atease. In a moment he becomes fifty times lighter than he was—-as light, in fact, as a kit- ten; and he may proceed, if ‘he tonish the acrobatic natives of the planet by gymnastic exploits far surpassing even their own. Muscular exertion there goes fifty times I have iting daily from 12 noon till 11 at laying without a break, and I am wi it I have decided to come again havo implicit faith in my system feotly sure Lean win again” Mr. Wells declined to give to general and players in tages system. watched him and tried to plontes, to as for desk brought blotted advance with the croupier. who very cleverly, I must admit, made Your father paid the amount of your and e handsome sum besides.” ‘ceenssimonepilibe 4 Bad Man From the Border Line. From the Chicago Tribune. y it his fist @ ball drop into No. & my room when Iheard three shots in man who was standing by the down on the and “Boys, let's have somethin’. I feclas though Thad more to say ‘especially in the bar ‘round this place now, room.” “Of course, I asked who Bill Smith was and § 8 gE FF E i } f E Hi £ i i the unraveled threads of cloth obtained at the set- tlements or from the Araucanians. In the | same way they weave belts or the lat- ter not for their own stockin, legs, but to hold up the horse-hide boots of their lords and and thrasher sharks have beon seen on many occasions to attack whales i and kill them, the sharks lashing the victims with their tails while the sword fish speared them from below. On the other hand, sharks themselves aro often killed by | porpoises, which will sur~| bo round a shark and lash the enemy to death with their flakes. ‘There are other fishes which will attack man besides sharks, not the worst of which aro more ferocious than ® small South American fish found in the waters of the Orinoco river. It a little creat iy length, but in age tii He bangs the door, goes down the steps onthe jump and races off, mutt some- thing about women being the ‘‘queerest creat- ures.” Of course they'll make it up when he comes home, and they'll have many such a little tiff {n the years tocome and when they are old as far aa it does here; and the exploits men are capable of achieving there must surpass the wildest flights of fancy and the most oxagger- other Indians and therefore merits description. A row of the tallest forked poste. that can bo obtained in this comparatively treeless coun. fry—say eight oF nine feet long—are driven into ground and « ridge pole is laid across! mastera The: it also sew skins togethe: them. About cix feet back of these another | for beds, the coverings of the toldos mel for row of forked poles is set, each a foot or two | sale, seray d di orse hides fc shorter than those of the first row. and across | dies and partition walle, and doe teetent these another ridge pole is laid. The same dis- | other things wh: ‘them constantly em- tance back of these a third row is driven of | ployed, wae thee ay ‘Gnen-folk” smoke, poles not more than three feet long, topped by | gamb! horses, ball and hunt only & third ridge pole. This completes the trame-| Shen s exigencios cf the tarder ee work, and an excellent and over it is spread a lot of skins of ‘aie umaanay Geer, | EXPERT WORKERS IP SILVER. Some of the men are surprisingly expert workors in silver, considering their rude im- | plements. They take thesilver dollars ob- tained in barter and tempor them until they simple bar of wood, covered at both ends with stout hide flaps, from which thongs extend under the horse's jaw, forming an effectual curb, and reins are also secured to the flaps. Even spurs aro used—two pieces of hard wood with nails filed to a sharp point fixed in the ends, the whole cruel concern tied to the foot by thongs. THE HORSE UXEXOWN THREE CENTURIES AGO. By the way, less than three centuries and a half ago the horse was entircly unknown in South America, Reid asserts that within thirty years after Magellan discovered them the Patu- Gonians appeared bestriding steeds, for the jorse extended his range over the American continent a good deal faster than did his Euro- mn owners. Says he: “When tho Spaniards, i ‘ll say: We've lived together peed nbt | oy and never, no never, to each other in all that ——_——_<soo—. i ge E ; i in schools it will attack human beings and cat them up aliveif it gets a chance. When you go fishing in that river those tlerce pigmics will take bites out of the fish you catch as you are hauling them in, and you will do well not to fall ous of the boat if ‘escape being mutilated. —_—— An Ancient El Dorado. From s Wilmington Letter. On the identical spot where King Solomon procured “‘golddust, peacocks and monkeys,” syndicate with $5,000,000 capital stock issued and a ten-stamp mill crected, has just pounded hom Be said ho would give her an imitation of out $55,000. Mount Ophir, of secipveral = ” \ |iselose by. ‘The old rocks, which were too low-grade for King Solomon's reduction pro- ceases, are being ground up and thoy average half and ounce to the ton. This gold ficld of Solomon's, which has been idle all of the cen- # ikl From the 8t. Paul Dispatch. ‘They had been sitting in silence for some time; the clock was slowly dragging its hands to the points that would mark 11. She had yawned, fidgeted, and so forth several times, but he did not seem to catch on, as the sem- inary girls have it. At length she auld: ?" 0 vou know an: Phrase, George?” Well, yen, I beliove sa" he’ sald, “eather at the question. is meant by ‘getting = move on George looked at ber fixedly for s moment. f fF ih F = & iid 3 iF feel our element itants of Ceres would feel E t FFF i f A surprised social standing of the inmates. is fur house—and such fur, too—the tawtiy, Juicalean palo yellow ctreshed tain uk wit white of gusnacos. One family—that is ons In, Think of it, a i i ty 4 i [ i i q iE i il ! ii i t 4 i Those From Life. f : f i i I : E i t t Rg : F : i 8 i i i ‘ | an g i HH 3 i t FF, | | | if HT f F I if H s g i é i HH i i t I become studs tor i i if tL : f i Ae Et iH es E 3 i ! i : i | iid | : i i t I Hy g £ : E i gi & mf felt il £ ‘f ie i H | 4 | i i i F F