The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1902, Page 8

THE Atkractive Little Oddities | Deme 1n i Quricls Shapes and Dainty Qoleors | = - not strictly new nor terribly smart they have & complete style all their very o they are sweet. The admirers of the Gibson type ar clover. There are the ment of his girls ey ecorously frocked in col that is preferred tained by merely ordering ple time to have them made, for you know each and every one of these lovely little swellest but black they are Of co be m, ob- in ty of the labc Jutch-maids are in’ such dainty colors. nd othe the head 1 circular figure or re name. Some of the ging Kkittens, others are knitting some of them are making no pre- se at anything but gazing t windmills or Dutch scenery » and girl are there in ful sible right next to them twirls and pir tte ballet dancer. The near nman is in the speech and is looking in vain for the next word. The tiny tot is there with her doll baby, holding it up for admiration; she is dragging it about by the hair or s entirely forgotten it and has taken a trip to Nodland. One of the most nifty sets are the Chinese people. These are particularly pepular with lovers of the Orlental col- ors and perfumes. The gaudy cards make it possible for just the smartest kind of or of the hand and water little od- Some in midst of a For instance, the light should right lanterns, the table low and the flowe: v, and the room highiy scented. Whken this plan has been faith- ful effect i charming carried out the and novel poinsettia is there in all its awfully pretty. Unl millar with the flower : interested in them, for no two grow just alike. The great sprawly leaves are twisted this and that way and look e great spiders on the smooth, glossy linen. With carnations for the &enter plece and red satin ribbons from the gas fixtures that divide the table Into as many parts as there are people, a more fit plcture cannot well be imagined. Of course, the table cannot be divided with the streamers if it is not & round one, or, at least, not into as many parts; but when it 1 oblong the ribbon may coms to the four corners and end in great, fluffy bows. New when everybody who is anybody is getting all ready to leave town for the summer, dinner parties are thicker than Dbees about a flower, and the hostess who would be known as Miss Origlnality is selecting her cards fi 1 it is ts are and then form- SUNDAY CALL. ing her plans accordingly, fo: they are a splendid mine of fit Pr_.miums for Snakes. © N the year 1857 the poison- H ous snakes of India and the 4 beasts of prey in her jun- gles killed 25,23 human beings and 84,147 cattle. For many vears India has paid premiums for the destruction of snakes and other creatures that destroy human life. In the year men- tioned premfums amounting te 119,493 rupees were paid for the destructfon of 13,045 beasts and 105,227 snakes. In spite of the large destruction of these animals the number of persons killed by them does not decrease. The victims of snakes and wild beasts in 1850 were 21,990., The number of victims in 1897 exceeded the number in 1880 by over 3000. The Indian Government prints the statistics every year of the number of men and cattle killed and the number of snakes and other animals for whose de- struction premiums are pald. Dr. Fayrer sald In 1870 that .ue average «, number of victims was a little over 20,000 a year. It is most diffi- cult to keep down the poisonous snakes, which are probably 'more de- structive in India than in any other country. The bite of the cobra and some other varieties is almost inevie tably fatafty. The cobra di capello, so named by the Portuguese from the hood formed by the outstretched skin of its neck, is the most dangerous and one of the most numerous of these reptiles. Dr. Nicholson in his writings on the fauna of India says there are at least 200 cobra to the square mile in the Bangalcre dis- trict This deadly snakse is very suscepti- Dble whi to music, h accounts for the fact that it is so much in favor with serpent A . of b Killed number ts of prey are e of strychnine. Thelr Eumar » not aumber more than many as those killed by vears after 1570 the f men killed by tigers was 4218 pumber Killed by wolves was 4 The roval tiger is found in every part of the peninsula. Hi fa ood js grass- eating animals, such as the gazelle, the antelope and all the 1 forest beasts. 18 this game abounds he seldom s cattle or men, but when the jun- ns to be depopulated or the tiger grows old and weak and he is no-longer able hunt the deer and gazelle he prevs on the herds of the peasantry, and even on the villagers themselves. Reclus says that a single tigress in the Shanda country of Central India destroyed 132 persons during the years 1867 and 1863; another man-eater is said to have annu- ally devoured as many as elghty human beings. When these marauders begin to attack men public roads through the jun- gies are often completely abandoned. A single tiger a number of years ago In- spired such terror that thirteen villages Wwere abandoned and a space of about 260 square miles was left uncultivated. Hunters of big game in Indla regard the leopard, or panther, as he is more com- monly called, as even more formidable than the tiger himself. He has | mu cular strength, but he is superior to the tiger in daring, cunning and nimbleness, After he has once tasted human flesh he becomes a scourge. constantly requiring fregh vietims. He coes not always con- to sume blood. The Indian lion, which s destitute of mane, the body, but invariably sucks the has almost ceased to exist on the mainland. and has not been hunted for many years. The hyena 1s dangerous to cattle. and even to the ‘children of the peasantry when other food is scarce. On the whole, Indfa is affiicted to a greater extent than any other country with beasts of prey and reptfles that ate dan- gerous to human life.—News York Supp Asleep Nineteen Years. Great Interest Is again being displayed in the case of Mile. Bouyenval, who for nearly nineteen years has been in a state of catalepsy, taking nefther meat nor drink, and to all appearances dead, save for the regular but almost Imperceptibls beatings of the heart. Marguerits Bou- yenval, who lies in a little bed on the ground floor of her mother's cottage, In the village of Thenelles, near St Quen- Hn. is now nearly 23 years old. She has been visited by hosts of people, ineluding & number of medical celebrities, and all sorts of theorles have been put forward by way of accounting for her condition The local physicians are of optnfon thit the trouble was caused by some violent emotion, and this view was set forth by an expert in uis report to the St. Quentin Court, which years ago went Into this very peculiar case. Now, however, idea is started that Marguerite Bouven- val may have been magnetized, and not having afterward been properly aroused. may thus have remained in a state of My notic catalepsy.—London Telegraph. - | | |