Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1893, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR: WHITE HOUSE ANNEX. President Cleveland on the Lookout for a Temporary Residence. MANSION. OLD PORTER &: May Shelter the Presidential Family for a Time— Other Presidents Who Have Re- sided Elxewhere Than in the White House ~The O1d Octagon House—The Butler Mansion. HE ACCOMPANYING picture, reproduced, convera an aogurate idea of what may possi- biy be known hereafter ss the “Annex White bi which Mr. land bas his eye for the temporary co of his fam'ly Washington, at least infection from seariet fever shall have been removed from the Executive Mansion. Phy- ans and health authorities declare there is » danger now. all traces of the contagion from which littie Marthena Harrison recently suffered having been annihilated by the thorough fumi- gation to which tho family apartments of the White House were subjected. But nevertheless Mr. Cleveland, following the advice of some of Bis most solicitous friends, bas decided to incur no risks whatsoever to his httle family. To thie end he has opened negotintione for the tem- porary lease of another house. ‘The house Mr. Cleveland is said to favor and | is the old Porter sion at 1710 H st: northwest, in the heart the old a: c residence quarter of the | past genera: ned and occupied by the | Admiral T his ¢ dmarks™ of | twas the | the i ne by vity. lin years ¢ of much brilliant f tanked by pro- | jecting bay w ed by a sinall | balcony. Or ceals the spac: Tight and on fice, paint case. Adjoining this occupied by the | Metro 1 i distant from the White Hous Mr. Cleveland con- | enmmates til not have far to | walk or ri going frow his family residence tohis executive offices. The house his been noceapied fora couple of years and shows some exterior et « of that fact, Cleveland de overhauted f Sit condi tak it it will at be rand placed in its distinguished tenante, furnished From the tu few day ore the move into the e of the bed rooms for Mra, €l with her wurse Deiste their exclusive very chef and two stationed i Will guar intrusion these es a by the farce. reas Dol Ma ited gues were abc IF quest in the ata’ rion when a re parture « establiel. the nor New York avenue, only one by ent State, Warand Na known and then by term. The of the most fashionable dwellings of modern Washington, aibeit built so long ago—early in the century. It took its name “Octagon” from the peculiar shape given to it by two bulges in front and on one side, .s proximately eiz! led. It is of three stories, Withe basement. Of late years it has faile- Somewhat ints reglect wud decay. ‘Ihe brick til all possibility of | | will hich made it look ap- | walls are sadly weatherbeaten, and many of the mindows lack their requisite quote of glans. ‘There is big yard back of the building, in- | closed bya tall brick wall. Inside there are | several magnificent forest oaks, Despite its | ace, the mansion would make a highly credit- able appearance if it were fixed up a little. The rental paid by the government for the use of this house as the “President's venement,” quot- ing the phraseology of the old laws, amounted to only $5,279 for the five years of its official ocenpation. President Buchanan, during a renovation of the White House, occupie! a suite of rooms the corner suite on the second for, f ing 6th strest and Pennaylvania avenue—at the National Hotel, aud was there when the tragic but acci- dental poisoning of the gues ; PRESIDENT ARTHUR ON CAPITOL Rr A more recent occupation of an outside house by the President occarred in 1831, when Gen. Arthur became chief magistrate on the death of Garfield. When the Vico President took the oath of office to become President on that memorable 20th day of September, the day after | Garfield's death at Elberon, N.J., the White | House was in » somewhat disordered state, ow- | ing to Gea. Garfield's long confinement there | and the consequent trampling and wear and } tear by anxious ingnirers and friends, and ac- | cordingly a complete cleaning and refitting of the mansion was deemed advisable. During the | progress of that work President Arthur occu- | bied the “Butler building,” at the corner of B | THE BUTLER HOUSE. street and New Jersey avenue—now the head- quarters of the United States marine hospital service—as the guest of Senator Jones of Nevada, who had leased the building as bis Washington residence. ‘The newspapers of that day referred frequently to the President's tem- orary domicile as the presidential “Gray House,” im contradistinction to the White House. Many of the Presidents, including Lincoln, and Arthur, spent n considerable part of the heated term each summer during their ad- ministrations at the presidential cottage at- tached to the administrative colony of build- ings at the Soltiers’ Home, north of Wasb- ington, on the beighta. —— WHEN A WOMAN LOVES. What One Man Thinks He Knows About the Infinite and Unknowable. From the London World. When a woman loves severely she begins to be unlovabie. For she begins to be unreasona- ble, and, for her great love's sake, to do her best to make miserable the all too fortunate | winner of her affections. She insiste upon ac- cusing him of virt: | included in his character, and taxing him with failings of which he is just as completely inno- and with that intolerable iteration which | is supposed by women to be some sort of argu- ment. The result is that the man begins in time to believe that he is good where he is. not and to turn bad simply because she says he is so ai- He may be as faithful ae a mallet (“for ‘haste love the muliet hath no peer"), but she rry him by the assiduity of her eus- piciong and her consequent lamentations out of the seture highway of connubial affection into the hazardous bypaths that lead past other men’s orchards to the Tom Tiddler’s ground of the divoree court. Simply because she loves irs so—and she pleads no other excuse when on occasion he attempts a reasonable disenssion | of their misunderstaudings—she will make his | bad seem good to himand makehis good become | bad, till the seven devils take possession of hii and, like one of the bedeviled swine of Gadara, | he rushes violently down a steep place into the | sea. She has no wicked intentions whatever. On the contrary, her intentions are all detest ably good. And when the man rakes his mind for some reason for his own misdemesnors he can remember nothing better than that she | “drove him to it.” Which isa poor excuse, yet trueenough. So garde by frequent little pinchings abort the upright growth of trees into lateral obliquities, There ave very many men so deplorably human that to keep on accusing them of an offense ix sutticient to make them commit it. ‘a | They will in time live down to any moral stand- ard that may be fixed for them by women, the | women who lore them, and, like the ovsters, jalternately tickled and irritated by the grains of sand which the Chinese drop into them, will grow to forget their natures altogether. 0 Wo miserable | who love she loves hi § unable to absorb all herown she persists in offering him half of 1 we she is so insanely jeal- l his society she will’ ‘for the ot hit,” waste the one and other nntil she torments him e and from artitice ace into wrt nd coin the sad end of it she can T was right all the time.” Does iscovery break her heart? Not a bit of it. Women who love at this high pressure do not | break their hearts. They etart—after a panse to repair damazes to make a collectio: sympat Such wome him, will throw ium with it is not good neither good for sible man, wien h j shut: } re, n the } meet the em skid the wheels, throw hing, in fact, that will slacken speed or reduce | the temperature. Unless be be # salamander. h. by the way, the ancients were divides the | Asto wt n. some averring that he ate 1 . the rest that he was so cold that he Either of which precedures meet the circumstances. is, that if you think a pve You too mich, break it off at once and exchange into » Weat India ‘at. If you wish to love and be loved. in happixess, never question each other's - Se mutual honor will become a sacra- ment in your heart of hearts, soe | regime: Heavy Cars the Most Safe. From the New York Herald. | Every commercial traveler bas an opinion of his own as to that position which makes a car | the eafest one ina train. Some of them hold that it is the one next the baggage car, the ra- jority maintain that the center is the least dan- gerous, while there are still individuals, in the | minority, to be sure, who favor the rear car. These opinions have been gained in many in- stances from practical experience in railroad ks, which are, of course, by no means in- in certain sections of the country. Ae ¥ are entitled to consideration, but th dissimilar views really go to show that the poai- tion of a car in a train, as regards its greater or | less safety, is a matter of speculation alo: Upon one matter, however, all the traveling meu agree, and that is that no matter what the | position of the car is, the safest ones of all are the heavy sleeping. parlor, buffet cars and the luke. ‘they are commonly referred to by the | drummers “as better than an accident policy There is every reason for the holding of this | favorable opinion of these cars. ‘Their heavier | frames and trucks render their telescoping it matter, and they are less likely to leav the rails in a time of collision than other cars | im consequence of their greater weight, roo Interfering With Business. From Life. | | Tenderfoot—““Don't you see that man killing all those 2. Why don't you stop him?” Alkah Jim—“Stop him! Weil, I guess not, Why, d—an it, men, I’m the eoroner!” which he knows are not | ! (THE AMERICAN GIRL. Why is It the Fashion to Abuse Her? A PLEA IN HER DEFENSE. She is Not the Sharp-Voiced, Bold, Disre- spectful, Unconventional, Uneducated, Ill- Formed and Decidedly Reprehensible Crea- ture so Frequently Pictured Even by Her Own Countrymen. eee C= SOMEBODY EX- plain just why it ia the fashion at present to ery down the American girl? One can rarely pick up @ paper or a magazine without com- ing upon something of the kind, and it is be- ginning to be decidedly wearisome. If half the accusations leveled at her were true she would be a creature dreadful enough to be exterminated by force as they ex- terminate wolves or bears,by putting a price on their heads, and one can only wonder that she doesn't rebel at such treatment or else in sheer desperation justify it by becoming all that she 1s accused of being. “A prophet is not without honor save in his own country,” though not true iu some casos, certainly thisxone. Abroad the A mrl iva universal favorite ard nothing is too good for her. Of course, thare are individuals, like the worthy German Who bas revently bees suring his views on the waut of stocking daru- ing among our women, and. like Mme. Adam, who can’t say enough: that is il!-natured and un- true about them, but they are only fndividuala, and, perhaps, not the sweetest tempered ones at that. A dangbter of Uncle Sam, whatever be her station or her fortune, is lionized whene | she goes among foreigners; the men flock about her and the women do their best to get in her | good graces. “All very well, but the men don't marry her, | and that’s the test,” you say. Yor, but they do | marry her. It is only the weddings in the no- | bility that attract the notice of the press, and | they are by far the smaller portion. Of the iutervational marriages among the middle classes ong never heara. Not that they are to be desired; no worse fate would one wish the poor little Yankee than to fall a prey to forcign admirers. If ahe were the dreadful creature that tho alarmist of today would make Ler appear she would be well pun- | fshed for her sins by coming into the power of & man of one of the Latin or Teutonic races. That she is pretty no oue attempts to deny nowadays, & while it was “the to assert the contrary and to set the h woman, who is beyond question plain, | her in the matter of looks. | ‘The Prench woman's small feet and bands aro | a fable of the paat now that it has been proved | beyond a doubt that one must ransack Paris to | obtain a 215 shee ora 5 glove; and as for her big eyes, tbat myth has been disproved by a | French writer who spoke of the “great-eyed” Americans. ‘MISS AMERICA’S SHARP VOICE. Now it is Miss America’s suarp votce, her dis- respect of her elders, her rudeness to her mother, her boldness, ber disregard of conven- tionalities and har bad manners, her worthless- ness in practical affairs, her ignorance, her want of knowledge of houkewifeiy duties, &c., that are the theme of those writers who have nothing better todo than to turn traitor to their own land. Moreover, it is not of the girl that we ali know that they'spenk, but of she of acertain class that is, fortunately. not typical. When a gentlewoman writes of her sisters of the United States she ia guilty of no such shameless slander, but tells the “truth and nothing but the truth,” as witness Mrs. Burton Harrison, to whore eternal honor be it said that she has refused to join ghe ranks of the ma- ligners of the American girl aud has told of her only that which is #0. ‘Ths “sharp voice” theory is only about as much of a fact 8 ail the rest of these tales, ‘There i, or has been rather, just the faintest foundation for it. Once upon a time there was something of the acock in the tones of Columbia's daughter, Bat now there is nothing in them to distinguish her from the rest of feminine humanity, and ths day is past when one could pick out an American across the Champs Elysees by her “scream.” There is nothing in it of the En- glish voice, which goes in graduated time from the sole of the foot to the top of the bead, and suggests the diagrams of rhythm in rhetoric, which go up up rs 7s Sy / be / j down down down | but itis even and modulated like that of the | Spaniard. DISUESPECT TOWARD HER ELDERS. As for disresps | are relative, and if she can surpass the British | damsel in that respect she does well. | sure, she does not go to the lengths of cringing j subservience to age to which the French damsel | attains, nor. on the others band, does she resort to the abominable deceits and subterfuges of ) the latter. V erelse her faults. the Ameri- girl is the same to oll men a scorns du- d pushing gro1 only one thing to be snid—that it is the mother's own fault if she permits herself to be lid upon the shelf. However, like the rest of | these accusations, it has no foundation in f: Yo the average United Statesian it is painful to see the want of attentio: > the small courtesies | toward mothers on the part of foreign girl j It never oceurs to thom to get into carr Ke 01 | axtreet car last, nor to be the first to step out iu order to give the elder woman the support of their hand, “Thev will mount the stuirs ur pass gh a door first if it happens to be more convenient. They never rise as the mother en- ters or leaves the drawing room, nor offer to hold a wrap or put on a pair of overshocs. Of course, they will do all this with rapid obedi- ence if tiey are told to, but otherwise it seems simply uot to occur to them. DISREGARD OF CONVENTIONALITIEG. Boldness and disregard of conventionalities are merely matters of opinion, and what one person may define assuch may seem quite | natural to another. Of course there are some such oing outat night without a about which thers can be no question. some one please say what kind of girla Certainly not those with whom we would care to be intimate. Even in Paris there are young women who do that sort of thing, | | } but they are hardly of the “haute soci ‘That our girls can go in the street alone in the daytime is rather to their honor than other- wise. They can bo trasted and society has recognized it a proper that they should. A French woman merely bewails the fact that she dare not let her daughter cross public high- unaccompanied. In the matter of manners, those also are con- | ventionalities, and different standards prevail in different countries. In the east it is bad form | for a woman to appear without a veil. In the | Bois de Boulogne one drives in the afternoon, | im Central Park in the morning. One thing, however, about which there can be no question is that in table etiquette no people are equal to the Anglo-Saxon races. It takes one some time to accustom one’s self to the manner of eating prevalent on the conti- nent. Wortblessness in practical affairs in business, and so forth, is one of the faults of the daughter of the stars and stripes which is moat dwelt upon, and the French woman who keeps her husband's shop (who ‘wears the trousers,” as they say) is always held up as an example of ‘opposite. Mme. Bocicault, the owner of the Bon Marche, is @ favorite model, and those who elevate her fame completely forget our Mrs. Frank Leslie, who, by the bye, is not only a business machine, but a woman as well, and ‘one who does not disdain the small duties and vanities of her sex, but with all her vast ao- cumulation of affairs yet finds time to keep up her reputation for beauty end good taste, whereas Mme. Bocicault is the dowdiest and most unlovely woman ly that one can imagine. Mme. Adam. too, is the delight of these unpatriotic cecrye:s of ir own le; as a matter of fact it is to be doubted Teste, or one like her, would prove an scquisi- tion to our nation, or to any other for that Es Anecien gil occppessd to teoks Wea American » but it certainly bas not been conducive to «| lovable nature or qualities. fe would rather that our Bhar mn devoid of solid mental jacquirements, as Henrietta Dans rather ugnaciously accuses her of being, than that hey should tura out ike Mme, Adem or, as ct toward her elders all things | mats, that lady strives to like Mme. de Stacl. Not ear admit Papin that the Ameri- can dameelis not well educated “Foreign education” cranks to the contrary notwith- standing, she is well versed and deeply versed 4m all that a woman should know and sometimes in more than she has any need of to properly fil: her sphere. WOMAN'S RIGHTS. Woman's rights is one of the unfortunate manias of the age, which must have its course before its advocates come to realize the fact that privileges are sweeter than “rights,” and that when one has the latter the former cannot lexist. To be perfectly fair, it certainly does speak in favor of the Latin races that they ask for no female suffrage, To be self-supporting, if needs be, and to know how to be “the queen of a home” is sufficient for # woman, and that our girl certainly does. The “funny papers” delight in indulging in so-called jokes about her ine of culinary matters and her horror of children, but it ia all very much like their talk of Chicago di- yorces—sonseless exaggeration. Not to say, of course, that there are not in- “ansophisticated- ‘iness, for dividual cases of absurd ness,” bad breeding, rudeness and there are, unfortunately, great mass of American maidens compare more than favorably with those of the rest of th world, and therefore it is not only tiresor but proroking to hear them maligned and made the butts at which are aimed all the stale jokes and inseneate rantings of thore who have noth- ing better to do than to decry those who are intinitely above them and of whose very scorn they are not worthy. Gwexpoien Oventox, FIBERS AND THEIR USES. Carious Ways in Which Plants Are Made to ¥ield Fabrics. “There is a fair prospect for the development ofanew industry in this country by making use of the fibers of pineapple leaves for weav- ing.” said Special Agent Charles Richards Dodge of the Department of Agriculture to a representative of Tum Star. “Pineapples, vou know, are largely grown in Florida, If tho thousands of tons of leaves which now are thrown away could be utilized commercially the profits of the planters would be very much in- creased. Fabrics made from __pineap- ple fiber are the most delicate in the world. They look like gossamer and will almost float in the air. ‘The fiber {s one of the finest known in the vegetable kingdom. It is employed to a considerable extont in India, but is too costly to servo for ordinary purpost In that country the pinea| pple fibers are labor. jously separated by hand, the ends of them being glued together to make continuous threads, ‘THE BONES OF THE LEAVES. “Leaf fibers may be called the bones of th leavos, Thev supportand keep in shape the fleshy vogetal structure. To separate the fibers the leaves are usually crushed, beaten and washed in water, thus separating the pulpy partsand leaving the skeletal system. The skeletal portions of the leaves of many plants serve for weaving into fabrics and these are called leaf fibers. Of course, other commercial fibers are obtained from plant stalks, as in the case of hemp and ramie. ‘The fiber known as cotton is an envelope which nature provides for the protection of the cotton seed. By cultiva- | tion the quantity of this fiber contained in each seed boll is greatly increased. SPANISH Moss. “Manila hemp is variety of the banana. The Spanish moss, which hangs in festoons from trees in the south, belong to the same order as the pineapple. ‘This moss is also utilized asa commiercial fiber. It is treated in masses with chemicals, which rot off its outer covering or bark. After being dried it looks like borse- hair and fs called ‘vegetable hair.’ The Spanish moss is commonly described as a parasitic plant, being supposed to thrive at the expense of the trees on which it grows; but that i mistake. It is really an epiphyte—in other words, an air plant, deriving its sustenance from the air and not from the tree. It is apt to injure the tree, more or less, by smothering the buds, and it is most luxuriant on dying or Aead trees, because its own growth is not inter- fered with by foltage. PAYAL LACE. “Some of the most beautiful Iace in the world, known as ‘Fayal lace,’ is made in the Azores from the fibers of bitter alve leaves, This plant is allied to the century plant. The Jace is mannfactured by women and such a high order of skill s Fequired to produce it that only about twenty-five women on the island are able to make it, having practiced the art from childhood. ‘The greater part of the product is sold in Paris, where it brings an enormous price. The ordinary century plant yields # fiver that is used in Mexico largely tor cordage paper and other purposes. Yet cher kind of agave, called the ‘ixtle,’ af- a fiber which is imported in considerable quantities into this country for use instead of bristles for making brushes. The finest qnal- ity fetches as much as $500.8 ton. This plant ip not cultivated, but grows wild on the arid table lands, where no other living thing can find moisture enough to sustain existence. EXPERIMENTS IN THIS COUNTRY. “We import $7,000,000 worth of leaf fibers annually, a large part of which ought to be grown in the United States. At present experi- ments are being made with the cultnre of rami ard sisal hemp in this country. Both are very valuable fiber plants. Sts! is a growth of huge green bayonet-shaped leaves, When it is ma- ture it sends up with great rapidity a cent: stalk 25 feet high. From the upper half of this stalk small branches grow out bearing talij sbaped blossoms. Presently wither, the petale drop off, leaves appear. Within a few di flower has been a complete little sisal plant has developed, attached toa branch of the parent stem. When it is matured it drops upon the ground and takes root if it can. This isa method of reproduction found in no other plant eave the sisal and a few of its near relatives. Large tracts of sisal hemp are found in south Florida, descending from plant- ings made at various times within the past fifty years. There is an allied species, known as the ‘false sisal,’ which grows wild in many places along the Florida coast, sometimes forming, together with the Spanish bayonet and prickly pear, impenetrable thickets. AT THE WORLD's Parn. “The office of fiber investigation in this de- partment will exhibit at the worid’s fair a large assemblage of fabrics, &o., made from ramie fiber. At present the commercial soppy of ramie is obtained mostly from China, but ef- forta are being made to grow it in France, California and other parts of the world. There is no difficulty in cultivating it, inasmuch as tt is one of the most prolific of plants, but the difficulty thus far bas been to find a way of separating the fiber cheaply enough to be rofitable. Ramie belongs to the nettle family, ‘ing sometimes called the ‘ less nettle.’ Itis also known as China gi wing been cultivated in that country from time immemo- rial, The fiber is formed in the bark of the stalk. Among the articles made from ramie are lace curtains, dress goods, table and bed linen, upholstery goods and carpets. As you will ob- serve, the fabrics manufactured from it are very beautiful.” Sees Her Innocent-Looking Parcel. From the Boston Globe. Apretty girl, who is the daughter of a re- spected citizen of Charlestown and hervelf a brilliant student in a medical school in the city, went into one of the big dry other day to make some purchases and came away leaving « neat parcel behind her upon the counter. hadn't gone far from the storo es she missed the parcel and burried back for it. “What was in your bundle?” asked the attend- ‘ant at the desk to which Mise —— had been re- ferred by the girl who served it. Poe —— hesitated a and eaid: “A what?” said the startled attendant. a o masdicsl ofecant,” she said by te fone ame ag ox 8 bee planation. “Iam es ‘Do you see the ‘Yes, there it is. “Would you mind into the office and fee Tah grarisrs the attendant with e “Not in the least,” eaid Miss ——. ‘She took up ber “‘arm" with left the store and continued her way D. O. SATURDAY, ABOUT CROCODILES. Queer Ways of Reptiles With an Ap- petite for Human Flesh, * LIKE ANCIENT SAURIANS. uel Baker’s Experiences With Them on the Nile—Terrific Jaws and Sanguinary Habits—A Cow That ought « Crocodile— One Reptile That Swallowed a Girl. eg O NE REASON WHY crocodiles are interest- be survivals of an ‘epoch. They nearly re- semble some of the sau- rians which walked on the earth and swam in the ocean during that age of reptiles which, according to the geolo- gists, came to an end many millions of years go. It is probable that these creatures live longer than any other existing animals, pos- sibly excepting the tortoise, which in some eastern countries is the emblem of longevity. There is a tortoise in @ garden at Mutwal, in though its age when first captured could not be ascertained. To provide for ite long life nature has given the crocodile a special and peculiar means for renewing its teeth. It has thirty-four tecth {n the upper jaw and an equal number in the lower jaw. These are hollow and are replaced by others which are contained within them. By degrees the latter develop, finally pushing out the old teoth and taking their places, to be themselves displaced on the vame principle in Inter years. The teeth of the crocodile of the . which is the same epecies as is found in Ceylon and India, are arranged for seizing #0 as to interlock, the two longest teeth in the lower Jaw penetrating through holes in the upper jaw to that the points appear through the top of the snout, LIKE BUMAN HANDS. ‘The fore feet of the crocodile somewhat re- semble human hands in form. They are armed with five long, horny claws, which scmetimes are four inches in length, and these are used for holding the prey while the animal is tear- ing the latter with ite teeth. It is commonly supposed that the reptile inimediately ewallo its victims on seizing them, but th’ take. It may do so with email creatu as ducks or dogs, but large beasts nre usuall: dragged beneath the water and held below the ce until drowned. ‘Then they are carried away to some favorite hiding place and de- voured at leisure, Very commonly the croco- dile buries its proy and leaves it to beoome | putrid, in which condition it is more read: . | digested. ‘his greatest of all lizards ie found in the| rivers of tropical latitudes all over the world. | in America it is generally known as the “alli- gator,” but many naturalists assert that there is no material difference between the alligator | and the crocodile. Sir Samuel W. Baker, in bis work on “Wild Beasts and Their Way of m peculiar species in the Ganges and other rivers of India which is different from all other | crocodiles, betug distinguished by beak-sbaped jaws and a lump on the end of {ts nose. It is mown as the ‘‘gavial” and attaine « length of more than twenty feet. However, it ts defi- cient in bulk and not #0 formidabio as certain other crocodiles, It liveson fish and seldom attacks men or beasts, ‘The crocodile of the Nile is harpooned by the Arabs in the sante manner as the bippopota- mus, except that the hunters go in swimming after the reptile. faving discovered one of the gigantic lizards asleep onasaud bank, they swim up as near to itas possible and throw their harpoons. Asthe saurian immediately plunges into the river the hunters with equal agility jump out. In many parta of the Soudan the hunters are armed with rifles, but the har- poon in dexterous hands is more effective, the quarry seldom escaping. Great numbers of crocodiles nay be short, but only a small per- centage of those hit are actually secured, as the bodies sink at once in deep water. Having sunk the carcasses do not rise to the surface again for several days, until decomposition has set in, DEMAND FOR THE SKINS, The great demand which has sprung up recently for crocodile hides asa material for traveling bagsand innumerable other articles of leather fs having the very desirable effect of reducing the number of the reptiles, which are a terrible scourge to most countries ‘which they infest. ‘The male hes four musk glands, which are highly prized by the Arabs of the Soudan, where crocodile hunting is pursued asa pro- fession. The four glands of au average-sized specimen are worth €7.50. The native women string them on necklaces with beads, When dried they are about the size of nutmegs, | Their scent ia remarkably strong, 6o that the | living animal can sometimes be ‘smelled at a | considerable distance. The Arabs take great | riska in atticking the crocodile, relving for protection upon some charm obtained from a priest. but they frequently pay for their daring with their lives, ‘There is no escape from the jaws of a croco- dile when once they have closed upon a vie-~ tim. The sixty-eight teeth, long aud sharp- pointed, fit exactly into the interstices between them, making @ most effective trap. ‘The throat of acrocodile is large and capable of great ex- Unquestionably theanimal des some- wallow human beings whole, Mr. Ben- tt, in his work on Ceylon, tells about a native who’ was swallowed while buthing by a croco- dile, except the head and one hand, which wore found on the river bank. It was inferred that the unfortunate man had scen the reptile ap- roaching and had tried to save himself, bat fed been overtaken Just as he had grasped an overhanging tree branch. the monster was ordered,” enya the writer, ‘which on the recond day proved successful, Just as our picnic party was about to sit down to dinner two carts Inshed together and con- taining the dead reptile, which was seventeen feet in length, were driven to the door. We had it opened, whereupon the body of the native was taken out and acoroner’s inquest was beld on the spot.” TERRIFIO POWER OF THR Jaws, Bays Bir Bamuel Baker: “Ihave seen croco- diles’ teeth big enough to form bores for car- tying percussion caps, The powor of the Jaws is terrific, and I have had the metal of » large hook bent 40 ws to be rendered useless by the snap of the jaws of one of these reptiles when seizing a live duck which I had used as a bait, the hook being fastened beneath one wing. A very acourate rifle is necessary for shooting the crocodile, as there are only two points that are immediately fatal—just behind the eye and exactly through the center of the shoulder. The latter shot will break both joints of the fo: leg and pass directly through the Tange, Th hard of crocodiles axe anid to be proof against a rifie bullet. This may have been the case years ago when rifles were loaded with only one drachm of powder. It was at that date that the Iv was considered almost bullet roof. Bute hardened, solid bullet, propelled yy six drachme of powder, will drive through a crocodile like a sheet of paper.” Although the crocodile does not Iunge of extraordinary size, like the hippopo- tamus, {tcan remain beneath the water for almost any length of time. It has the power of hibernating. In many parts of India these creatures are buried through the hot season beneath the dried-up mud at the bottoms of lakes. The mud dries and hardens above them, end they stay thus buried ina torpid state until releaaad by the refilling of the lakes | or pouds. The female crocodile faye her eggs in a eand bank near the river to the number of fifty or sixty, and, when they are hatched by the heat of the sun, the young ones at once tuke to the water. Few persons have an op- jortunity to witness the rapid dash of » croco- Bie when it rushes upon its prey, bat, when it {s considered that constitutes ite ordinary food, it may readily be imagined that the maximum speed of the reptile must be suffi- cient to overtake the swiftest swimmer. wo oF nexwsxss size. Bir Samuel Baker speaks of an ex traordinary sight which he once witnessed on the Victoria Nile. He says: “We were paddling with mx rowers along this desolate river, bordered on either side by lofty papyrus rushes and somber observed a small island. The rock ri when Hint if ing is that they seem to | ancient and vanished | Ceylon, which is known to be 150 years old, | speake | “A general search | glided long the cently sloping granite, and when half beneath the water they exyosed a breadth of back which was the most extraordinary sight I haveever bebe'd in my long experience of crocodiles. The deep anc broad river, flowing silently throngh one of the oldest of the earth, suggested by the exhibition of these mighty shapes that no change in the inhabitants of the stream had taken place since the orig- inal creation. | “When I was in command of the khedive's | expedition,” continues the writer, “crocodiles | occasioned many disasters, all of which were terrible examples of the ferocity and cunning which characterize these reptiles. On one oc- | casion the vessels were sailing mp the White | Nile with a strong north wind, making at least seven knots an hour. One of the men was sitti.g on deck with bis legs dangling ever the ‘sides of a deeply laden craft. bis feet being balf | a yard above the water. | made by a very large crocodile and the man was seized and carried off. This showa that a | vessel traveling through the water does not ter- rify these horrible creatures. I lost so many men by the reptiles that I made point of shooting every crocodile which showed ite | head above the surface or basked on the shore. Islaugbtered vast numberof them in re- venge for their misdeeds. 1 killed one which, though not longer than twelve feet, was very thick in the body. This was proved to be a malefactor by the testimony of two bracelets and a necklace, belonging to a missing girl, which we found within ite stomach. Upon opening its stomach and examining its contents wo discovered upward of five pounds weight of gravel mixed with a woolly substance and aquatic weeds, The wool was the hair of th girl and her ornamente more discovered amoug the gravel. The crocodile swallows gravel an: Pebbles for the purpose of assisting digestion. “A cow which I left in the care of a native chief caught a crocodile on one occasion. She had gone to the river to drink and a large ‘aurian seized her by the nose, nemere poryt to drag her into his own element. Inst of this the heavy and powerful cow succeeded in drag- Bing the attacking party out. The monster Tefused to let go; therefore by degrees, while struggling, both cow and crocodile retreated many miies from the river's margin. The natives, attracted by the bellomrg of the cow, rushed to the rescue and killed the croco- | dile with their spears. They considered the cow with veneration after that, hanging fresh | Rowers upon her horns every morning, because he had accomplished a feat which had never been performed by any other animal.” tes QUEER BIRDS FOR THE FAIR. Interesting Ornithological Groups Prepared by the Nation Museum. One of the most picturesque features of the exbibit of the National Museum at the world’s fair in Chicago will be a series of groups of odd sorts of birds. These have been prepared by Dr. Robert Ridgway. The crocodile vird, for example, {s Mustrated by an actual crocodile about eight feet long, stuffed ina life-like manner, with its mouth wide open, while along its back are walking two or three birds of this curious species. One of the latter is standing inside the mouth of th saurian, pocking parasites from the reptil tongue. This is the kindly office which the bird performs for the crocodtic. at the same time procuring food for iteelf and relieving ite | Feptilian friend of annoyance, So far as nat- Urelists are aware, the latter never returns this kindneas with the ingratitude of gobbling ite benefactors. Another group showsa pair of bower birds disporting themselves about their play house. Purely for the sake of amusement these quaint | feathered creatures are accustomed to build covered structures of twigeand other materials, |inand about which they scatter every bright and pretty object they can find, such as ehells. | Furthermore, they hang garlands of flowers in front of their play houses, and, when these are faded, they procure fresh ones. It is even | said that ther plant seeds, which sprout and add | to the decorative effect. Not less remarkable than the bower birds are | the butcher birde—a emall shrike that is widely | distributed in this country. These birds cap- | ture small animais of various sorte and delib- erately impale them upon thorns, presumably for subsequent use as food. In parte of the west where there are barbed-wire fences they use the wire points instead of thorns for im- paling their vietims upon. This group shows \ pair of buteher birds ine bush; with grass | hoppers. mice anda httle bird stuck on thorns here and there. One of the most interesting groups exhibits a pair of woodpeckers of an interesting species. ‘They are engaged in inserting acorns into holes in @ tree trunk. In summer, when food is plentiful, these birds devote their time to making a great number of holes in the bark of trees. When the acorne fall in the autumn they gather them and put one into ench of the holes which they have made. Thus they pro- vide themselves with a supply of provender for the winter. Otherwiee, when snow covers the ground, they would be likely to starve, Other groupe show a number of prairie chickens engaged in their love-making dance, flamingoes with their curious nests of mud, hoilow stump with perroquets hanging in- side by their bills, which is their manner of roosting, and wild ‘pigeons, which are interest- ing because they are threatened with extinction. One group that was prepared for Chicago will it not be sent there because it is too horrible. | represents the sheep-eating parrot of New land attacking = sheep. originally carnivorous, but | acquired a taste for muttor | winter, when, for lack of oti the carcasses of killed sheep. Subsequently it took to preying upon the live animals, olinginy to their wool and actually eating ite way through the flesh to the kidneys, of the fat surrounding which it is expeciaily fond. The poor sheep, unable to defend itself against ite winged foe or to escape, eventually succumbs, Fortunately, this parrot has been nearly exterminated in New Zealand by the sheep farmers, Stadion 1 Press Oppression in the Bahamas, From the Londen Trath, Some time ago Mr. Yelverton, chief justice of the Bahamas, wrote a letter which appeared in is bird was not Truth, supporting certain questions which I bad asked in regard tothe administration of the colony. I trust that Mr. Yelverton was better | informod in regard to tho facts when he wrote to me this letter than he was with regard to the law when he committed the editor of the Nassau Guardian for contempt of court, It seems that his lordship wrote a letter toe local paper—much as idle men do in this coun- try—to ventilate his personal opinions on things in general. Somebody else wrote a bantering letter in reply, and, not liking theritioiam, the chief justice arraigned the editor before his bench and demanded the name of the writer. ‘This being refused he cast the editor into It has now been decided by the jadiolat mittee of the privy council that the sent was illegal, and us this {s tho opinion of the lord chancellor, the lord chief justice, the mas- ter of the rolla, Lords Hobhouse, Ashbou: Macnaghten, Hannen end Shand, Sir Richar Conch and Lord Justice Bowen’ I hope that once inaway we really have got a judicial decision which is entitled toa certain amount of oapss Had the result been otherwise I should have been compelled to meditate remov- ing my offices to Russia, feoling that an editor's life and liberty would be safer in that country than under the British flag. A Curious Marriage Ceremony. From the London Week!y Sun. * Bome interesting notes have been contributed tos North Borneo newspaper by Mr. Creagh, the governor of British North ing a recent visit made by him to the of Banguey. There be found a tribe of Dusuns differing widely in language, religion and cus- toms from other tribes that *name, Marriages are performed in the forest in the presence of two families. There is no public athering or feast. The rite consists ta Ween ring a drop of blood from a small incisien made with a wooden knife in the calf of the leg toa similar cut in the woman's leg. After the marriage the man takes the bride to her home, where he resides in future as a mem- ber of the family. ———_+o-__ Air-Shatt Echoes. From Puck. Mre. Boyle (by tenement telephone)—“Mrs. Doyle, an’ hase yez notisht » shtrange smell Sy ere ae Mrs. Doyle—“An’ sure I have. ~ An’ it ain't biled nayther. ‘Mrs. Boyle—‘‘"Tis with a feelin’ of shame I say that it’s saurkraut. 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