Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-02-19


husky voice besought his wife to ex
plain. In q few words, she told him
And then with a groan the Duke
dropped into seat.
81 see it ALL said he; s'the rascals
| have robbed you OF the second brace
| let. There was no messenger sent for
the bracelet. The man to whom you
gave it was no officer but holder thief
! than he who robbed you first,
And so it proved. The bracelets
were never returned, and the Russian
Ambassador recalls the last fete day of
the fallen Emperor with a sigh, for it
male nim poorer man by many MILL
ION Of francs than he was when he
| handed his charming wife into his car
rage aud babe his coachman drive to
the opera
AETEMus WARp's LAsr.-The fol
lowing is said to have been the last
thing written by Artemus Ward:
Until recent, quiet recent, I've been
healthy indjyidoal I'm nearly sixty.
and yet I've got a muscle into my arms
which don't make my fists resemble
the tail OF canary bird when thew fly
ont and hit man Only few weeks
ago j was exhibitlu in East Shelby
| gan, IN bulldin' which had formerly
occupied a pegylist one If the fellers
what hits from the shoulder, and tea
ches the manly art Of sell defense.
And ne cum and sed he was g0n in
Tree in conscience OF previsl ockepv
ING Sod bnildin with large yeller
doc.
He sed, ooh, yes, [ sed, ooh, no. ,"
He std, Do ven want to be ground to
powder?' 8ed, Yes, ! do, if there is
powder grndest handy" when he
struck me a Disgusting blow in my left
eye, which caused the concern to close
4 once for repairs int he did not hurt
m any more went f T. him eneryeti,
cally. His parents lived near by, and
l VIII simply state that fifteen minutes
after had gone for bin, bis mother
seem the PROSTATE form of her son ap
nroachln' the house onto shutter, car
red ~ four men, run out of doris, kcer
tuliy looked him over, and se,i; s'My
son, You have round u thrashin' ma
s,een. \ gu Went in at the end where
-neY put the grain in. and came out
with the straw, and then got up in the
thingumagig. and let the horses trod on
you, didn't You, my son ?"
You can imagine by this w at dis
agreeable person | am when I'm an
cry.
How BIRDS LEARN TO SING AND BruD.
- W hat is instinct ID is he faculty
OF performing complex acts absolutely
without instruction, or previously ae-
quired knowledge Instinct, then would
enable animals to perform spontaneous
Y acts, which, in the case of man, pre-
suppose ratiocination, logical train OF
thought but when we test the observ
ed facts which are usually put forward
10 prove power of instinct, it is found
that they are seldom conclusive. II was
OIL such grounds that tle song Of birds
WIS {. ken to be innate albeit a very
IT ady experiment would have shown
that ii comes from the education ihey
receive. During the last century, Bar
llng' on brought up some linnets, taken
i om tie nest IN company with larks of
| @undry varieties, and found that every
one OF the linnots adopted completely
, he sou@ of tue luaSjer set over them.
SO that now these larks by naturalIsa
tion-form company apart, when
p iced ;inong birds Of their own spe-
cies. Even the nightingale, whose ma
tive sound is so sweet, exhibits, under
dumestic,,iion, considerable readiness
to initiate other singing birds. The
song Of the bird is, therefore determin
ed by education, and the same must be
true of the nest building. A bird
brought up in cage does not construct
the nest peculiar to its species. In vain
will you supply all the necessary mate
rials; the birds will employ them with
out skill, and will ottentimes, even re
nounce all purpose of building anything
like nest. Does not this we'll known
fact prove that, instead of being guided
by instinct, the bird learns how to build
his nest, just as man leans how to
build a house
NAMING A CHILD-One evening at
the house of Dr. Arnott (853), Mr..
Rowland Hill gave some curious traits
OF the wretcbed ignorance of popula>
toon of nailers in some central district
of England with which he was ac
qasinted. A clergyman excited him
: if TO affect an Improvement, took
particular care to get their child. u