The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-11

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the small river revealed many fresh beaver
tracks. The beaver, when forced to leave
nus house by the spring freshets, which All
IL with water, seeks his living along the
banks Of the small river, untii.th waters
sanside. He is gregarious and playful
sake. When he finds steep, smooth, mud
bank, he usually amuses himself by crawl
ing up and then sliding off into the water,
repeating the process many times, appa-
re!tly enjoying the fun as much as the
canoe, Kuriila padded patiently up and
down, making as little noise as possible,
and scanning the water near the banks for
the beavers nose. This is the only part
visible, the rest being below the surface.
A crack, followed by shout, told that my
old Scotch rife had done its work, and Kn-
rila soon appeared in triumph, bearing a
small beaver. The flesh of this animal is
to most persons disagreeable. A slight
odor and flavor which accompany it fire.
quently produce nausea with those unac
customed to it. never ate the meat, but
the paws and tail found very good. The
former are covered with black skin, with
only little hair near the junction with the
arm or leg when thoroughly boiled they
resemble pigs feet. The tail is composed
OF muscular fibre containing large amount
OF peculiarly sweet fat in the interstices.
The skin which covers the tail has the ap-
pearance of scales, but there are no real
scales. The skin readily peels off i'll
scorched in the fire, and the tail, when
we'll boiled, is delicious morsel. The
muscles and inner skin are reduced by boil
ing to a kind of jelly, and the whole is SO
rich that one cannot eat much of it. The
castoreum, which is used in medicine, is
contained in two glands which open near
the tail. Their use is not clearly under
stood, but is probably similar to that of
MN olr vlo~,
favorlte amusement among the Kutchin
Indians consists in taking the humerus in
the hands and endeavoring to break it; as
1t Is very short and strong, this requires
considerable strength. After skinning the
beaver, and stretching the skin on hoop
OF green willow, we push off."-Dalps
Alaska.
TIE Vicamdieres.-A travelling cores
pondent of the London DAILY Ielegraph
gives this lively picture of French Uivan-
diere: son the field itself the only woman
whose presence is tolerated are the cdntin-
ieres. These good dames-for the majority
of them are sturdy, gypsy-looking women
OF mature age, and by no means resem-
bling the coquettish Uirandieyes who are
true to the corps in burlesques or mas
querades-are having a fine time of it just
now. Yesterday, as a regiment of the line
was marching through the Fabourg st.
Antoine, the crowd espied the riuandiere
bringing up the rear of the battalion in a
vehicle remarkably like washerwoman's
cart, hailing, let us say, from North End,
Fulham, S. W.-the chubby horse attached
she was driving with her own fair hands,
which were brown as berries. The cart
was as full as a stewards cabin on board
steam packet with good things, from Lyons
sausages to brandy, from sardines to
lists shops in the Faubourg St. Antoine,
but in the twinkling of an eye the crowd
began to pelt the little woman in the cart
with bouquets, and great hulking fellows
in blouses came pressing to the shafts to
pat the horse and shake the Uiuandiere's
| hand. She took oft her little glazed hat
a man-osawxa ssManas hat-wish q broad
brim and low crown, decked with tri-
colored ribbons, and beneath which /
grieve, for the sake of the picturesque, to
say that she wore mob cap, and cried out:
| WE L'Empereur. Vire La France y in a
or to drum major. A kindly-hearted
little woman this, for in the front of the
cart were at least seventy knapsacks,
which she was carrying for the rank and
fle-probably her regimental pets. A
gallant little woman, assuredly, and with
grandmother marched into Grand Cairo,
and when the battle-day was done, adj
ministered comfort from her brandy key to
those who lay fainting in the shadow of the
! pyramids. Her mother marched into Ma
drid, into Rome, into Vienna, into Berlin.
She kindled her short pipe from the smok-
ing embers of the Kremlin, and was
bayoneted by Prussian in the bloody
flight from Waterloo; and the piUandiere
herself has been at the Malakoff, at Ma
genta, at Solferino, at Puebia. / fancy
that / saw her there, with her brown face
and twinkling black eyes, driving her little
vain as cheerily as now. Why not Who
does not remember Beranger's stirring re-
frain, Rataplan, plan, plan! SoIdats ciolG
Catin p And Catin, the cantiniere, is the
only women, I take it, who is not out of
place or a battle field"
Morgan county, Illinois, has the cham
pion farmer, in the person of Mr.. John L.
Alexander. What he knows of farming he
appears to have turned to better account
than Mr.. Greeley's experience has been
turned to. The following statistics of Mr..
Alexander's property are published: "Num-
Der of acres of improved lands on his farms,
"a 900; number of acres of unimproved
lands, 800; total number of acres of land,
81 800. Aggregate value of lands, 81 $685.
600. Value of implements in use upon his
farm, $4,000. Amount paid for wages
during the past year to hands employed on
his farms, $76, 600. Number of livestock
on his farms-9O mules, so COWS, $50 horses,
200 oxen and 1000 other cattle hogs, 700.
Total value Of livestock, $536,900 Product
of his farm in I969-corn, 277 500 bushels !;
wheat, 1000 bushels; oats, 5000 bushels;
rye, 1000 bushels; potatoes 1000 bushels !;