The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1892, Page 4

+ RPM SND TMT Pe nee MEMORY OF ANIMALS, Showing the Intelligence and Development of the Brute Creation. The proof that experience is the guide of life among the lower animals may be found very low in the scale of animal organisms. The razor shell, or mollusk, as soon ‘as the tide retreats buries itself in the ‘The fishermen who hunt them use a long, thin rod, hooked at the end, or they sprinkle a little salt in the hole to drive out its occupant. This generally succeeds ; there is a movement in the ‘sand, and half the creature appears on ithe surface. With a quick movement the fisherman tries to seize him. If this fails the mollusk vanishes into his hole, and all the blandishments of the fisher'’s art would fail to tempt him out ‘@ second time—the mollusk has profited by experience. Similar conduct of animals, which ‘can not be regarded as other than the result of experience, may be noted ‘among the most diverse species. A fox that has once been caught in 9 ‘trap and fortunately regained his free- ‘dom will profit by the experience and beware of traps in the future. The same is true of many other animals, and of birds also. Quail which have once been netted by the allurements of the “call,” if they regain their freedom, wiil never be ‘caught by it again. Every hunter is familiar with the fact that it is much easier to outwit a young animal than ‘an experienced one. Bortase tells a very interesting story of how a lobster got the better of an oyster. The lobster several times in- serted his claws in the half-opened shell, but the oyster always closed in time to save himself. The lobster then seized a stone and inserted it quickly into the cautiously opened shell and devoured the oyster. Monkeys secure ‘oysters by the same trick, but there is nothing remarkable in that, as their in- telligence is well known. Kirby tells of the bees that after re- peated raids of the “death’s head” upon their store, build a sort of bulwark about the hole or entrance to keep them out. Duges, says the Vienna Stein der Weiser, observed a spider which had seized a bee from behind, and thus hindered it from flying. The stronger bee, however, had its legs free, and walked off with the spider, which tried to drag her into his den The struggle lasted some time, when ‘the spider lowered itself with its prey by athread. The bee’s legs were use- less in mid-air, and the spider clung te her until he had accomplished his fel? purpose. It is impossible to argue that these are exceptions which afford no proof of a general intellectual capacity of ani- mals. Every such experience is indi- vidual, and from the circumstances of its origin can not extend to the species. We must concede, too, that even among animals there are individuals much more highly gifted than the general rup of the species. - Innumerable instances areseen among horses, dogs elephants and monkeys. To deny the fact would be to deny the capacity of animals for further develop- ment. The possibilities of such ad- vance are of course limited, but so also is the possibility of human advance, although the boundary line is not yet in sight. The higher animals are much more ready to meet exceptional exigen- cies than the lower, both because their capacities are greater, and because they have been more highly developed by a wide range of experiences. New York in 1665, In one of the older manuals of the Common Council of New York there appears an interesting directory of that city for the year 1665. Then there were exactly twenty streets and a population of 251. Broadway at that time was De Heere straat (the principal street). The Battery was Aen de Strandt van de N. Revier. Wall street was De Waal, Pearl street was De Perel street, Whitehall street wasDe Winckel straat, William street was in De Smit’s Valey (in the Smith’s Valley), and Broadway, above Wall street, was Buyten de Lant Poort —~ the land gate). All the resi- nts were of Dutch extraction, except one, whose name appears in the hist as Jacob, the Frenchman. There were Roosevelts, Beckmans, De Peysters, De Puys, Van Cortlandts and Ver- plancks in those days. Clams, oysters and fish formed the principal food of the settlers at that period. Occa- sionally in the spring New York was visited by “such amazing flights of wild pigeons that the sun was hid by their flocks from shining on the earth for a considerable time; then it was that the natives laid in a great store of them against a day of need.”—New York Times. Communication by S'gns. A young woman has been taught a lesson against all communication by signs. There were unexpected guests at dinner the other night, and her younger sister sat on one side of the table beside one of them. The sister was extremely communicative, and the older became very nervous as revelation after revelation concerning family affairs was made. She finally took to nudging the offender beneath the table, bat foot pressures, however fdrcible and frequent, failed to stop the chat- terer. After dinner the much-annoyed young woman demanded, fiercely : “What did you mean by not paying any attention to my signals? How dared you goonso when I kept kick- me Sm to make yom stop?” eupon the younger sister looked mystified. “Signals? Kicks?" said she; “but, my dear, you didn't kick me. And the family disciplinarian sank back limply as she gasped : “Oh, Sara, don’t, don’t tell me I was kicking that man !” \While a man is learning mathematics # woman is learning manners, x ‘sand, often to the depth of several feet. | | FRUIT STONE JEWELRY. Rapid and Clever Work Done by Chinese i Artisans. . Nothing is wasted in China. The stones of various fruits and the shells of outs are cleaned, dried and carved into ornaments of the most graceful kind. | Among the stones used are the olive, | plum, peach, Iai-chés and cherry ; and of the shells, the walnut and cocoanut. i The stones are selected with care; each must exceed a certain standard of size, proportion, hardness and weight. They are dried slowly and at such a heat as not tocrack or sprout, and are then ready forthe carver, says the Jeweller's Weekly. The designer makes a rough outline of the future group or pictures, and hands it over to his boys or apprentices. ‘These work with great rapidity and soon block out the design, cutting through the hard ligneous tissue and then extract the kernel. A second treatment now takes place to dry the interior of the stone, as well as to prevent the fine lining of the in- terior from undergoing decomposition. This completed, the designer ‘sketches a second outline and also indicates by his pencil or brush where the surface is to be lowered, fretted, made into leaf work or arabesquery, or to be cut away altogether. ‘The work is performed by the subordinates as at first. The de- signer then does the finishing touches, after which’the assistants clean, polish and oil or wax the perfected carving. The stones are sold in this shape to quite a large extent, but more largely in other forms. Among these may be mentioned buttons, watch charms, sleevelinks, earrings and brooches and, when strung together, bracelets, ank- lets, necklaces, watch-chains, rosaries and official ornaments. The price of a stone varies greatly with the work- manship and the fame of the carver. Some may be bought as low as 10 cents apiece. Mr. Edison on Baldheads. Edison maintains that bald-pated people die young, while people whoare well roofed with hair live long ; and he believes that, as he himself has a fertile scalp, he will live to a ripe old age. : We can name numerous persons of em- inence whose locks began to fall long before they reached middle age, yet who lived to be as old as Mr. Edison himself will be when he is an octogenarian. What does Mr. Edison know about the baldness of the three Adamses or about the locks of Jefferson, Hamilton, and | several of their compeers? Can he iell ‘us whether the Father of his Country wore artificial hair? Did he ever see a man adorned with a toupee, to say nothing of a peruke? We forwarn Mr. Edison that, in ransacking history for facts bearing upon baldhcadedness, it is necessary to proceed with caution. He will find, by the allusions of ancient and modern authors to the habit of wig- wearing, that very many notable men have had very much less hair atop than they were credited with. Let Mr. Edison go to the city of Washington and look down upon the heads of the members of the United States Senate. He will see Senators there are as lively as crickets, though they have been more or less bald for a greater part ofahalf-century. Let him then go abroad and find out for how many years Gladstone’s hair has been growing ever sparser, or Bismarck’s, or a hundred other great men’s.—New | York Sun. The City Girl’s Ways. A young farmer in Vermont enjoyed himself hugely a few days ago, says the Modesto Herald, in watching a couple of city girls attempt to water their | horses at the trough at his place. The | horses were checked up, and, of course could not get their noses down to the water. This seemed to surprise the young ladies at first, but finally, realiz- ing the trouble, they both got out of the buggy, and going behind, lifted up on the hind axle, and after raising tho hind wheels clear of the ground, peeped around the sides of the vehicle to see the horses drink, Finding that the horses didn’t seem to know enough to stick their heads down at the same time they raised the hind wheels, one girl remained behind to hold the buggy up and the other went to the horses’ heads and tried to pull their noses down to the water. After laughing till he shock severa! boards off the side of the blacksmith shop, where he watched the girls lift on the buggy and pull on the horses’ heads till they were red in the face and almost ready to cry, Will went to their assistance, and unchecked the horses. The young ladies gazed at first in he- wilderment, and then, with a kind of a don’t-you-ever-tell look at each other, calmly tucked the robe around them. leaned back in their seats, and, after waiting for their horses to drink, drove off, leaving Will to sit down on the cor. ner of the trough and ruminate ove) the city girl and her way of doing chings. Kept the Compact. It would seem to establish that the shrewdness of this world was not un- known in the higher sphere, if a West- ern paper is correct in its facts as giver below. Shortly after marriage a Texan couple made a compact that whichever died first should appear to the other. The wife only lived about a year, and shortly after her demise, while the widower was sitting reading one even ing, she walked up to him and laid her hand on his shoulder. She talked with him few minutes as freely as though in the flesh, then picking up a pair of shears that laid on the table, said: «After I am gone you may doubt that I sppeared unto you. You may think it a dream ora hallucination. Keep this 4s @ souvenir, and doubt not.” Shecut & piece from her dress, laid it on the table, and vanished. The goods re- sembled white silk, but the textile ex- perts confess that they do not know what it is—that if any such goods were woven in an earthly loom they do not know it. eo ee 3 RIDING OVER A TIDAL WAVE. Strange Experience of an Old Cunard Liner on the Atiantic. “I had a strange experience at sea in the summer of 1885,” said Capt. R. C. Macauley, according to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, for some years past commander of a Cunard steamer. “I was at that time in command of the Comet, plying between Liverpool and Hayana.. We were then three days out from Liverpool and were ploughing’ through a sea that wasas smooth as a billiard table, There was not a breeze stirring and the weather was terribly hot. Just at sundown the second offi- cer called my attention to a curious ridge. on the western horizon, into which the sun appeared to be dipping. I turned my glass on it and it resem- bled a mighty bank of gold, extending north and south as far as the eye could reach. ‘It’s a cloud,’ said I. ‘Til be—— if it is,’ replied the officer em- phatically ; ‘it’s water.’ “T looked at him and saw that he was pale asasheet. I again brought my glass to bear on the curious phenome- non. The bank appeared nearer and nearer, the upper edge of the sun being just-visible above it. The top of the bank was of a reddish yellow, while the base had changed toa dark green. ‘By the Lord !’ I exclaimed, ‘it is water! It is a tidal wave!’ and soit was. Itcame rolling towards us at a terrific rate of speed. I put the prow of the ship squarely to it and had the hatches bat- tened down. I did not think it possi- ble that we could ride over it. My only hope was to plough through it. I was about to signal the engineer to put on all steam when the second officer begged me to back ship. I yielded. The en- gines were reversed, and by the time the.wave reached us ‘we were moving slowly backward. The wave was not 30 perpendicular as I at first supposed. The ship wasin ballast and rode over it like a feather. It looked to me at least fifty feet high, and went rolling away to the northeast with adull, rushing sound similar to Niagara.” An Example of Russian Justice, General Van Wahl, when governor at Kieff, received a visit one day from a poor woman, the widow of a police agent. For a Jong time she had so- licited the pension which was her due. The head of the police, to whom she had addressed her demand, always sent her brutally away. She went to the governor and told him all her story. “Sit down there and write,” replied the general, pointing to a writing-table. Lhe trembling woman took her seat and wrote, from the general’s dictation, a long supplication. “Now address it, and wait for me in the next room.” Two or three minutes afterward the woman was recalled, and the general gave into her hands a sealed letier, say- ing toher: “Take this letter to the head-constable ; take care not to open it, and come back to me as soon as you have the reply.” A week passed, at the end of which the woman went to the palace again, but this time joyfully ; her pension had been granted to her, and she thanked the governor with joy. “It is usejess to thank me; Iam nothing in the af- tair,” and he immediately gave the fol- lowing order : « ‘he head of the police at Kieff is dismissed from his post and sent into exile. The reason ; because he granted a demand after having re- ceived a sum of money for so doing.” Tn the letter which the widow had writ- ten to the head of the police, General Wahl had, unknown to her, slipped a bank-note for twenty-five roubles, which accounted for her supplication being granted. Some Clever Catches. A young lady was once talking with a very youug and very smart man, who was inclined to air his knowledge of the languages a little beyond what she felt that modesty required, says a writer in Harper's Young People. She therefore said to him, with an air of deference to his superior attainments: “You are a Latin scholar. I wish you would tell me how to pronounce the word ‘so-met-i-mes.’” The youth, with an air of kindly patronage, replied, “I have not met the word in my Latin reading; but I have no hesitation in saying that it should be pronounced ‘so-met-i-mes’” (giving it in four syllables, the accent on the second), «Thank you for telling me,” replied the girl, demurely. “I have always heard it pronounced ‘sometimes; but, if you say the other way, that must be tight.” ‘This is similar to the perhaps familiar catch of the pronunciation of “bac-kae he,” which will often surprise the unitiated by proving to be only “backache.” It also reminds one of a question printed some years since as to the way of spelling “need”—to need bread. The average person will reply, “K-n-e-a-d,” of course. But the answer will be, “That is the way to spell ‘knead’ dough, but not to ‘need’ bread. : A Telephone Fifty Years Ago. The first telephone in any section of the country is thus described by a citi- zen of Northampton: “A little more than fifty years ago the employees of the Arms shoe manufactory at South Deerfield beguiled their leisure hours by kite-flying. Kites large and small went up daily, and the strife was to see who coald get the largest. The twine which held them was the shve thread, spun and twisted by the ladies of the village. One day to the tail of the largest kite was attached a kitten, sewed in a can- vas bag, with a netting over the mouth to give it air. When the kite was at its greatest height, some two hundred feet or more, the mewing of the kitten could be distinctly heard by those hold- ing the string. ‘To the clearness ef the atmosphere was attributed the kitten's yoice, and no telephone patent was ap- plied for.” 2 This courtry has 16,000,000 cows, * AN ALLEGED PLOT. A TERRIBLE CONSPIRACY TO KILL = NON-UNION MEN. Six Dead and~ Two Score Sick—Soldiers Also Got the Drug—The Confession of = Cook—Arrests- Being Made. A startling couspir.cy to poison non- union workmen is said to have been | discovered at Homestead, Pa, ‘The chief conspirator is alleged to be Robert J. Beatty, who was traced to Louisville and arrested there on Sunday last. A large number of other arrests have followed. There was much sickness among the State troops while at Homestead, and the State Board of Health made an investi- gation, attributing the trouble to the water. E. L. Breck, counsel for the Carnegie Company, now announces that evidence has been secured to show that a desperate plot was in existence to poison the State troops and non-union workmen. The terrible plot, it is stated, was learned from a man who was in the plot, and is substantially as follows: The in- formant said that one of the chief cooks at the Homestead works, with whom he was intimately acquainted, asked him if he did not want a job at Homestead. He told him he was not only employed by the Carnegie company, but by the la- bor associations, and he wanted two as- sistants. He told him of a plan to poison the food of the men employed in the mill, so as to make them sick and render them unable to work, He asserted that nearly if not all the sickness among the men was caused by the poisons he had placed in the food. He was‘to get $5,000 if he succeeded in closing the mill. This man says he and a friend told Chairman Frick of the plot, and they were advised by Mr. Frick’s attorney to accept the cook’s offer aud go into the mill. The day after their arrival a number of the men were reported sick and the cook told them how he had placed the poison —a colored powder—in the food, and told them to watch for an opportunity to use it in the food, Fearing that the men would not be trusted, two Pinkertons were engaged to keep a close surveillance upon the in- formants as well as the cook. The lat- ter became suspicious and at once dis- ued the use of the powders. Sometime later the men reported that the cook was becoming very uneasy. ‘They said that the death of some of the men had uonerved him, and they be- lieved he would make'a clean breast of the whole plot if he was summoned to the office and placed under arrest. ‘This was done, and wh€n confronted + ith the facts as stated above the cook broke down and made a full confession, in which he gave the names of those who had employed him, the amount of money he had received, and the manner in which he had carried out his part of the terrible crime. —He said also that_he frequently visited the camps of the militia and dosed the food prepared in the cook-house. His visits were always followed by increased sickness among the members of the Na- tional Gaurd. This confession was taken by a stenographer in the presence of several witnesses, Workmen at Homestead discredit the story as sensational, but admit that a few desperate men might have become involved in such a plot. It is denied, however, that the Advisory Conimittee were involved in evil criminal practice. Methods of Pension Reform. Two projects of pension reform are to be considered at the present session of Congress. One, proposed by Mr. Mutchler, of Pennsylvania, proposes to turn the Pension Bureuu over to the War Department. The other, introduced by Mr. Williams, of Massachusetts, which proposes an impartial investigation of the peusioa rolls with a view to the elimination of fraudulent and improper cases, or possibly other legislation with the same end in view, A Girl Saves a Train. A young girl saved a Southern Pacific express from wreck at Cow Creek, Ore. Wreckers had torn up the rails on a long trestle and thrown them into a canon, Two girls anda young man walked past on their way from a party and discoy- ered the devilish act. The express was heard approaching and one girl snatched .4 lantern from the young man and ran up the track, swinging it arouud her bead. The engineer saw her just in time to stop his engine on the briuk of the canon. France's Great Scandal. The result of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies sustaining the new French Ministry was made up wholly of Repub- licans. The Monarchists, Boulengerists, and other elements were all appointed. The result will open the Panama scandal, and it is believed many prominent pub. lic men will be ruined. .M. Ribot, the uew prime minister, has promised to act in concert with it and to assist in throw- ing full light upon the whole Panama affair. Beats the Fasting Record. James Hill, the colored inmate of the New Jersey Reform School, at James- burg, N. J., has finished the sixty-third day of his fast, and continues to show a remarkable vitality. He began his fast October 8, owing to an inal ility to retain food, and the school physician declares that he has taken no food and very little neal since. He is daily rubbed with OW i Gould Stocks Advance, = Wall street seems to value Jay Goula dead’ more than Jay Gould living. The principal Gould stocks, Western Union. Manhattan, and Missouri Pacific ad. vanced in value last week nearly $20,000,- 000. The fact is generally commented on in fiaancial circles, and indicates a Te- an pom the fear and suspicion with pa : ‘all street always regarded Jay Thos. H. Clarke: REALESTATE AND LOANS 908 F Street, N. W., Wasarxeton, D. + RELAPSE Subscribe to and advertise the Brg, ———— THE INDUSTRIAL BUIL ING AND SAVING CO Loans money to buy or bail homes. Shares $1 each, payabi monthly. Dividends declared «+ ery January. Secretary’s offic 609 Fst, n.w. Open9a. m. 5 p. m..Monthly meetings at Lin colo Memorial Church, cor 111 and Rets., n- w.,sfirst Monda, vight in every month. Heyry E Baker, decreter Advertise in the Beg. ee Rooms with Board: In. ‘ firs cass bouse and ir a popular pert of the city, Cars pasa the doo 922—11 et n- Special Overcoat public For the aeason, that the Styles and Qualities of these Over- coats cannot be purchased at the manofacturing price for what we ave selling them at. Don’t miss this slaughtering sale, as there is ouly a small lot left. JULIUS COHEN'S CHEAP CORNER, Seventh aed-b Strsots,-o, Ww. ‘ rstabilsbed Fifty-five Years. RAVEN & BACON, CAPITAL SAviNes bak UF WASHINGTON, D. 6. —Now— RAVEN PIANOS, 13 East 16th Street, New York City. BUY FROM THE MANTFACTURER AND SAVS 50 PER CENT. 03 are made from the beat he best_manner, - ited for the last ty piano guaranteed for six years, at the prices and send for jeacriptive ialogue before buying elsewhere. . 1, Upright or Square, $230, worth $400 2 “ 260, « ALL 7* 2 0CTs «eg, thi boa, hands PLANTS = Buins: i=" SEEDS « ns 3 ne pS) Sbouaands of Mustrations and weasly 1s ay what to buy, and where to get it, and | ives for honest Price of GUIDE only icents, Pecinaing a Ceri cate good for 10 cents of Seeda, JAMES VICK; SEEDCHAR, = ocheater, K. ¥, bt tr ame ifty 30c. Per . Wee, Will, bay you 30 CTS. PER Wurx The first opportunity offered lored people to secure Homes a Weekly payments oi week or Two Dollars per monty aryland. Only 20 minutes 5; om Washington. Double me .2 trains stop daily. ‘om Wasbington, only six cents +y commutation ticket, ton of the - Baltimore and P ‘ac and Pope Creek Railroad elegraph . be best depot on the Balt; ad Pot _- ra road. Sean :arches anu he most healthful spot in the state of Maryiard. Title to prop. ety perfect.. No Taxes, ung ~ asers uf lota will recive their evds, with certificate of « Free” TERMS OF -’URCHASE: five dole ‘ars cash and two. dollars ‘Muntb, with 00 interest, Halt zasb, 10 per cent disev un: gi) 20 per cent discvunt. Money will be advanced ties desiring to build. It abusband purchaser dig vetore his purchase is ¢. mpleted, deed iu fee will be given to he widow, if the Property nae been improved, or if not. the “mount slready paid will be returned her ‘The above presents an Opportu. nity never vefore offered the Col. ored people of the city of Wash- SALE, either as an investment or fora home on monthly payments, ang We have ben entting right and left | at the same time, entitled them into our OVERCOAT SALE evor/ to a vote and a voice in the Gov. since we have put them before the| ernmest of the country. Those who apply first, will have the first choice of lots. Already many have made theip homes in the “Gity ot Bowie, and lots purchased on the above terms should double in value with. in ibe ext eix months For farther information apply to W. Canvin Cuasz, Agent, ington to secure a valuable lot, or CAMPBELL CAKRINGI(N ts Per Wee; $5 CASH ~~ AND~ @ hom CITY OF Bowlz, ” “* os centa W000 LOTS FOR Sale. the city of Bowie, State on Fare to ang The june. oto. aud Express offices, Storey hools already bail hile PAIGE OF LOTS ONLY Sigg ° r cash to par 11091 Si... # Owner, 505 D 8:., v. w, 4 Washington, D, ¢ Receives deposits, ivans money trausacts @ genesal banking bus venient. F street cars and herdie run iu front of our deor—Sh st cars Tun #- few rods cast of our buildivg, 7th street and Libs “ “ sag, = asa eee Parvis, cars unly two block away. L. . Bailey, F Orricexs: President, Jno. KR. Lyneb Vice-Pres,, Joseph W. Cole Cashier, Douglass B. MeCary f Treasurer, L.C. Bailey Seeretary, HE, Baker DIRECTORS. Jno. R. Lynch, L. C. Bailey Joseph W.Qule, W. 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