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FEEDING THE ANIMALS.
The F0Od Provided mt the PhIladei-
phia Geological Garden.


Philadelphia Timss.l
1t costs about one thousand dol.
lars a month to feed the animals,
birds and reptiles at the Geological
Garden. The caterer has a most
difficult task in properly providing
for his charges, with their varied
appetites. For instance, there is
the giraffe. His long neck is a very
delicate part of his anatomical con-
struction. The morsel that he
starts toward his stomach first fire.
quently does not get to the lower
end of the throat before three or
four instalments similar to it are
travelling down the same channel.
The animal, under such circum-
stances, being naturally a greedy
feeder, is very likely to choke to
death. His cook has, therefore.
not only to see that his food is
placed before him, but that it safely
arrives past the line that divides the
end Of mastieation from the begin
ming Of digestion.
Most dainty of all the residents
are Jack and Gill Livingstone, the
chimpansee from Africa, who hav-
ing been domiciled three weeks in
very pleasant quarters are appa-
rently satisfied with their new
home ard hold large receptions
daily. Their bill Of fare is as fol-.
lows: Breakfast, weak tea, with
abundance of sugar and plenty Of
milk and bread thickly spread with
honey. The honey these strange
people, whom the head keeper per-
siSts in regarding as only little less
than man and much more than
beast, carefully remove, and when
there is no more honey they dis.
patch the bread. At 1890 in the
forenOon they lunch. This refec-
ton consists of fruit exclusively
chiefly hansnes and oranges. About
8 o'clock they want their dinner,
which consists of rice, tapioca oP
some such farinaceous food, served
with sugar and sherry wine. For
supper they have the samo bill of
fare as for dinner, with the addition
of tea, prepared as for breakfast.
Their method of feeding indicates
not only the possession of a won
derful degree Of adaptabllity to civ
ilized customs, but of q desire to
make progress in the way Of table
obseryances. They feed themselves
with a spoon, and drink their tea
from cup with degree Of deco
rum that it would be u pleasure to
witness in many children, Their
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under severe pressure from the
British foreign Office, the Madrid
cabinet was obliged to order his
arrest in Havana. He was sent to
Spain; like Buriel, never brought
to trial; and very shortly there
after allowed to return to Cuba,
where he went on with his bust
ness.
Of course the trade was brutal
and dishonorable to his mother
country, which he professed to love
SO ardently; but it was very lucra-
tive. He not only restocked the
estates he had bought from Count
Peualver, but he built up success
fully and stocked with his African
victims the colossal sugar estates
" Espana" and "Alava," in the
jurisdiction Of Oardenas, and lately
an enormous one, the Zaza," in
the jurisdiction of San Juan de los
Remedies. Before he set up the
Espana" and the "Alava" his
enormous ventures in the slave
trade had got him into financial diff
ticulties, from which, however, in
consideration Of o share in his en-
terprises, he was extricated by Don
Salvador Baro and the house of
Regales, Pardo & Co. Zulueta
made money for all the successive
captains general he had to declare
dividend. Three ounces (S51) for
each slave landed was the average
eapitation tax charged by the
breach of the treaty with England,
but some Of them, often agreeing
to take a blind Of $50, would exact
500 per head under penalty of
seizure, confscation, and proseeu-
ton. Of course, when Zulueta
could run cargo in without this
payment, he did so.
lie was created after the COM
mencement of the war for inde-
pendence Marquis of Alava, nomi-
nally for the prominent part which
he took in organizing the volunteer
regiments of this city, of one of
which he was colonel; really be-
cause he wanted to be Marquis,
and because the government did not
dare to refuse him anything he
asked for.
He was twice married, and
leaves widow and a large family,
besides a fortune variously esti-
mated at from 100000 to $780,
100000.
AS l said, the funeral of this
man who in any moderately civil
lied society would have been tabooed
as a pariah, was attended by all
the leading men in the place-civil,
military and naval officers of the
government, and by the creme de
la creme of the commercial society.
But what shocked me most was a
glance that | happened to cast at
the shipping in the barbor, where,
to their eternal disgrace, saw yes
sells of civilized nations, many of
them mail steamers, with their ma
tional flags at half mast in honor
of one of the greatest scoundrels OF
the age.
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board approximates in cost 10 TWEEN.
ty cents each per diem.
In point of expense the seals
rank first. 1t takes about eighty
pounds Of fresh fish daily to feed
five of them, and then, like Oliver
Twist, they want more. In certain
seasons they are a tremendous drain
upon the treasury and will eat up a
days receipts with the unblushing
appetite Of the human boarder who
comes late to breakfast and declines
to pay for the dinner to which he
has invited a friend.
Formerly the carnivora we're the
most expensive of the Zoo family,
but it was ascertained that horse
meat was quite pelatable to their
rapacious palate and ever clamor-
ing stomachs as fresh beef, and now
street-car companies, by way Of en-
couraging their motive power to
greater endurance and longer SER
vice, hold out to breaking-up nagS
the certainty Of being devoured by
the lions and tigers if they fall by
the way. The use of horse meat
has reduced the expenses of the
commissary department three
thousand dollars year. The cost
of sustaining the herbivorous ami
mails depends upon the price of hay.
The rhinocerosis the most greedy
OF all his fellow boarders. He will
eat anything almost, and desires no
limit in quantity. OF hay or grass
he insists upon $50 pounds a day,
and a half bushel Of potatoes to
him is as the meager dish of straw
berries that appears on the human
boarders' Sunday table early in
May. His keeper estimates ten tons
of peanuts as being the most mod
crate quantity of his last four years
experience. The rhinoceroS costs
to board $1O.50 a week, year in and
year out.
The large elephants eat up about
S1.25 worth of food per day. The
leopard and jaguar cost about ten
cents per day to feed, and the gi.
raffe calls for a daily expenditure Of
sixty cents. The monkeys demand
and obtain a varied diet. All il
fish that comes TO their net; but
mashed potatoes, apples, nuts and
onions give rise to the loudest chat.
terings Of joy. They have a hun.
cry tooth for a bird, too, and woe
to the feathered songster who come,
into their trap.
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it came to him Tin lproof headed
=" Richard the Third !" Yet any,
body familiar with his chirography,
If his inkv jerks can be so desig-
mated, will readily see, not only
how such a mistake could be made,
but how it probably would be.
Again he wrote about three men
IN buckram," and the prosaic type
setter got it +" three men in a back
room"
And this, notwithstanding the
TACT that two compositors OF sa-
gacity and experience we're hired at
an extra salary because they could
read his copy. But George Ripley
has been the victim of the grossest
outrages in this line. In one of
his book notices he took the liberty
OF quoting from Shakespeare. "'Tis
true, tits pity; and pity is It's true"
And the wretched bungler got it,
IT'S two, 'ti8 fifty; tits ffty-'tis
fifty-two |" That is some worse
than James F. Babcock's martyr
dem, when he wrote sis there no
balm in Gilead ?" and read the next
morning to his CONSERVATION, +" Is
there no barn in Guilford ?" Mr..
Crawford, a member of parliament,
once sent to India the message "the
news from America fayors the hold
ers, and it arrived there with the
information that "the news from
America savors of soldiers"
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Among the common pests of the
good housewife are clothes moths
which are now, during May ant
June, laying their eggs, after per,
forming which duty the old motht
will die. The eggs hatch in about
fifteen days after they are laid, and
the moth-worms Immediately begin
to consume furs, woolen garments,
reps, ETC., covering themselves with
the fragments, shaped into little
hollow rolls, in which, if not dis.
turbed, they pass the summer, con.
tinuing their work OF destruction
In autumn they leave off eating, en-
close themselves in a sort of cocoon
like the silk.worm and the tent
caterpillar, and thus remain in a
torpid state through the winter.
In the following May and June
they are transformed into winged
moths, fly about, pair, and when
ready to lay their eggs, slip through
cracks or creyices into dark closets,
chests, drawers, under the edges Of
carpets, in the folds of curtains, in
garments hanging exposed, in
chairs, sofas and wherever else they
can lay their eggs for a colony to
begin anew the work of destruction.
Early in June the diligent, tidy
and prudent housekeepers will take
care to beat up the moth quarters
and put them to fight, or SO to
disturb them as to defeat their
propagation. Wardrobes, closets,
trunks, chests, drawers, etc., are
emptied, and all woolens, bedding,
furs, feathers, carpets, curtains,
ETC., are beaten thoroughly brushed
and shaken, in order to dislodge
moths and their eggs, if any have
been laid. In old houses, the old
furniture infested by moths, the
cracks of the floor, the wainscoting,
around the walls and shelves Of
closets, and all furniture used for
clothing should be brushed over
with spirits Of turpentine. Pow
dered cayenne pepper strewed un-
der the edge Of carpets is said to
repel egg-laying moths. Sheets of
paper sprinkled with spirits of tur-
pentine, powdered camphor, leaves
or stems of tobacco, shaVings of
Russian leather, are prudently put
among articles Of clothing folded
away for the summer. Furs,
plumes, and other articles, If put
away early, before moths begin to
lay, in paper bags or boxes, and
pasted up so as 10 be moth.procl,
are quite secure. Put away these
things before moths begin to lay
their eggs, and paper box or a
pine trunk that shuts out moths is
Just IS good as a cedar or camphor-
wood chest.
Moths may be killed by fumigat.
ing articles infested by them or
their worms with tobacco smoke or
sulphur, or by enclosing the article
in a tight vessel and then plunging
it into boiling water or exposing it
to steam for fifteen minutes, or by
putting it into Oh oven heated TO
about 100 degrees of Fahrenheies
Thermometer
These hints and suggestions may
serve to prompt hoqsekeepers to
preserve fuFs, woolens, etc, from
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-05

the destruction of moth-worms, the
eggs for which may have been al
ready laid, and thus save them re.
gret few months hence. Let both
the mode of prevention and the
method of removing these pests
when they have entered upon their
work Of destruction be needed, al
ways bearing in mind that preven-
ton is better than cure. The neat.
tidy, prudent housekeeper rarely
suffers loss or disappointment from
the rayages of moth-worms.
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Edison, tho Magician.
BO.tOn Advertiser ]

bofton Advertiser
While Mr.. Edison is preparing a
sheet of tin-foil to place upon the
cylinder; we will take a look at him.
He is a hard man to describe. and
no description yet given of him
seems exactly correct. He looks
young and yet old-worn and vet
fresh. His face is boyish, and has
still predominence of manly char
acteristics. A finely-shaped head is
thatched with somewhat unruly
shock of hair, well sprinkled with
gray, which projects over, but does
not overhang, a fnely-shaped fore
head, that bears several well-defned
though not deep lines. His ooun-
tenance is open, mis- gray eyes are
bright, his nose and mouth are well
shaped, and he is in face very far
from being homely man. Clean
shayen, his flesh is pale and un-
nealtny In appearance.
When he is experimenting. he
wears a thoroughly earnest look.
and as he speaks his countenance
tells quickly whether the thought
in his mind is one of weight or of
pleasantly. In hight be is about
five feet seven inches, and, except
very slight stoop Of the shoulders.
he is Of good figure and is firmly
built. He is not so deaf as has
been described, and it is not a fact
that he has never heard the voice
of his own invention. He ia very
hard of hearing, but by placing his
ear close to the sounder Of the tele-
phone, he hears readily, and is very
quick to detect false time or false
tones. His voice is soft and pleas
ant, and he is something of a
singer.
With very retentive memory
and a vide range OF reading, he is
able to repeat many poems from
memory, and in doing so delivers
the lines with good taste and ex.
preston. He has been described
as being careless and slouchy in his
dress, but the Boston party found
this description scarcely justified.
There was little Of carelessness in
his get-up, but there was no evil
dence Of slouchiness. With Mr..
Edison's previous history the public
is already familiar. He was born at
Milan, Ohio, February IL, 1S47, his
ancestors having come to this coun
try in 1870. The Edisons are a
long-lived race, his great grand
father having lived to be 1O2 years
old, and his grandfather to be lO3.
Mr.. Edison's father is still living.
at the age Of seventy,four, hale and
hearty, and visiting his son the
other day, outran him a short foot
race. Edison's mother was a Massa-
chnsetts lady, cultivated and edu-
Gated, and was SO faithful mother
that, although her son never went
to school more than two months in
his life, he is we'll educated, being
master of several languages, and
well read in history, general litera-
ture and science. His early years
were full Of change, and as train
boy proprietor of newspaper
stand, engine hand, newspaper pub
Usher, telegraph operator and elec.
trician, saw many phases of life be-
fore he reached his majority.
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A fine piece of feminine strategy
comes to us-well, no matter where.
it is authentic and that is sufficient.
A husband desired to attend a ball
without taking his wife. She pro.
tested against his going, but 20 he
would. Before he dressed, how
ever, she slyly took his Sunday-go-
to-meetin' pantaloons and put some
cayenne pepper along the inside
seams Of them. He donned them
and went forth where "youth and
beauty met" He had secured a
partner and had cut about three
pigeon-wings in a quadrille when
he began to look wild and serious,
and at the conclusion of the set he
set out for home at a gait that was
half trot and half can-can. It
seems to have beaten old st. Vitus'
dance all hollow. He never knew
just what allied him, but probably
that woman will hear a few re-
remarks when he reads these few
lines Madison Qnd. J Courier.
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WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN.

Have you forgotten. little wife,
Our far-of childhood's golden life?
nnr splendid castles on the sands,
The boat made with my own hands,
The rain that caught us in the wood,
Tho cakes we had when we were good,
The doll broke and made you cry.
When We were children, ysu and /?
Have you forgotten, little wife.
The dawning Of that later life?
The strange new light the whole world wore
When life loves perfect blossom bore?
The dreams we had. the songs we made.
The sunshine and the woven shade,
The tears OF many a sad RSod-bv.
When We were parted, you and /?
All, nayl your loving heart, / know,
Remembers still the long-agoi
u is the light Of childhOod's days
That shines through all your winning ways.
God grant We ns'er forget our youth,
LIS innocence. and faith, and truth;
The smiles, the tears, the hopes gone BY.
When we we're children, you and /.
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A Strange Tradition

Among the Seminole Indians
there is a singular tradition regard
ing the white mans origin and su.
periority. They say that when the
Great Spirit made the earth he also
made three men, all of whom were
fair-complelioned; and that, after
making them he led them to the
margin of a small lake, and bade
them leap and wash. One obeyed,
and came out purer and fairer than
before; the second hesitated mo-
mept, during which time the water,
agitated by the first, had become
muddied, and, when he bathed, he
came up copper-colored the third
did not leap until the water became
black with mud, and he came out
with that color. Then the Great
Spirit laid before them three pack
ages, and out Of pity for his mis-
fortunein color, gave the black man
first choice. He took hold of each
Of the packages, and having tested
the weight, chose the heaviest; the
copper-colored man chose the next
heaviest, leaving the white man the
lightest. When the packages were
opened the first was found to contain
spaids, hoes, and all the implements
of labor; the second enwrapt hunt
ing, fishing and warlike apparatus;
the third gave the white man pens,
lnka aud paper, the engine of the
mind-thb means Of mutual i'm.
provement, the social link Of hu-
manity, the foundation of thewhito
man's superiority,
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Ten Cents Per Week
NO SO

audience was generally enthusiastic.
Otto Burbank, veteran, says that
the now we'll known Lolita was one
of the favOrites, and that she there
learned the dancing and banjo play
ing with which she still pleases her
audiences. Another was Maggie
Moore, now Mrs. Williamson, the
mainstay of successful Struck Oil.
Sophie and Jennie Worrell, the
burlesque actresses, were also of the
company.
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Keep Home matters private.

scrap BO0k.I
Preserve the privacies of your
house, marriage state, heart, from
father, mother, sister, brother,aunt
and all the world. You two, with
Gods help, build your own quiet
world; every third or fourth one
you draw in will form a party, and
stand between you two. That
should never be. Promise this to
each other. Renew the vow at each
temptation; you will find your ac-
count in it. Your souls will grow,
as it were, together and at last
they will become as one. All, il
many young pair had on their
wedding day known this secret,how
many marriages We're happier than
-alas they areg
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Typograpnieni Horrors.

A New York letter writer thus
sketches Q few typographical er,
rOrs:
One day Mr.. Greeley wrote an
editorial entitled " William II.
Seward" Imagine his rage when
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-05

About fifteen years ago the New
Idea variety show was a resort of
miners in San Francisco. A fea.
ture OF the nightly performance
was a reel in which girls of fourteen
to sixteen danced. There was
much rivalry among them, and the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-05
ADVERTISING.
TO THE
CITIZENS OF SHELBY COUNTY.
TO THE

OFFIoE OF THE EXECUTIVE Board,
.DRMoCR TIC AND CONSERVATIVE Parry.
MEMPHIS. May II, 1878.
VAHE Executive Board Of the Executive
4 Committee Of the Democratic and Couser-
vatiye party of Shelby county, hereby call a
convention. 70 meet in the city of Memphis,
at the Exposition Building, on
THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1878,
atll o'clock. for the purpose of nominating
candidates for the following ofices:n Ha-z
Judge of the Chancery Court.
Judge OF the Circuit Court.
Judge Of the Criminal Court.
Judge Of the Probate and Circuit Court
(Bartlett).
Attorney General of Criminal Court.
AttOrney-General Of Bartlett Court
Sheriff Of Shelby county.
Trustee Of Shelby county.
Register of Shelby county,
Clerk Of County Court.
Clerk Of Criminal Court.
Clerk of Circuit Court.
CLERK of Circuit Court (Bartlett).
As preliminary to the assembling of said
convention the Executive Board, conforming
to the usage of the party in that respect. rec.
ommend and request that primary election
be held in the eighteen Civil Districts of the
county and the Ten Wards of the CITY. ON
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$40. $40. $50. S1OO.

Invested judiciously In Stocks (Options or
Prlyilegesl. Is a sure road TO rapid fortune.
ports free. Address I. POTTER WIdHT 4
CO., Bankers IS Wall street. New Work
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"A REWARD

pIAN0Beautiful Concert GrandnDn An
lAiNyPianos, cost $1,000, nlyUnuHN
4So. Superb Grand Square Pianos, cost
Sl1OO only 1855. Elegant Upright Pianos,
cost Ss0e, only el55. New Style Upright
stops. s72 80. Church Orsars, ii stops.
cost $500, only eII5 Elegant 1915 MirrOr
Top Organs only 8IO5. Tremendous
sacrifice 90 eI~se out pFeEt ms stock.
New Steam Factory soon TO be erected.
Newspaper with much information about cost
Please address DANIEL y. REATFIE.
Washington, N. J.
91 A day to agents canvassing for tho Fire.
pe side Visitor. Terms and outfit free. Ad-
dress p. D. VIOKERY, Augusta. Mafne
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The Greatest Slave Trader aud Big
gest Rascal of ATS ARe-HOw ne
Became Marquis aud Made q
Fortune of $50, 100000,
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JAMES R MILLER, SJoAMpI
JOHN NJ RuURKE, GEO Il BAsSETT.
T. SRHETT, THOMAS FLEMING.
II NJ NEELY, j ID STEWART,
w LCLAPP, IE E0TTGIASS
J0hN Johnson, WILLIAM MILLER,
J I PETIT, JOHN No BROoKS'
J NJ CREWS, oMALsUP, VIII NELSON,
Executive Board of Shelby county.
S ] CAMP, Secretary, ''-''-'
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-25
All That Glitters is Not Lead.

Mr.. Weaver is entitled to sympathy.
He owns farm in Deerfeld, near
Utica. The other day his laborers dis
covered what appeared to be an exten-
sive lead deposit in a field where they
were trying to dig well. Weaver, feel
ing sure that he had discovered bo-
nanza, sent a specimen of the :" find" to
an Albany chemist for analysis. The
analysis confirmed his most sanguine
hopes, and he was assured that he pos
sessed one of the richest "gush veins %
of lead ore in the world. Arrangements
were at once made to build ore hearths
and begin the process of smelling, and
the Utica people were felicitating them
selves upon an important addition to
their industries. Through some mis-.
chance, however, an official marker OF
the old Mohawk Valley Range Associa-
ton was allowed to examine the ore bed
and he is now cruel enough to disclose
the fact that Mr.. Weaver's farm is in
range of the rifle butt, and that the lead
was deposited by marksmen, whose
bullets passed the butt and buried them
selves in the soil. The order for smelt
ing apparatus has been countermanded
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-25
franklin.

Almost all the distinguishing features
of Franklin's character in life may be
traced to his childhood. He was in his
earliest days shrewd and artful, indus.
trious and persevering, and of habits
most economical. The stories of his
recommending his father to say grace
over a whole barrel of beef at once, and
of his disgust with a favorite whistle the
moment he found he had paid too dear
for it, are well known. When at school,
(Which was only between the ages of
eight and ten years., he soon dis
tinguished himself among his playfel-
lows by his strength and address, and he
was generally the leader in all their
schemes. Their great delight was fish
ing for minnows; and as their constant
tramping had made the edge of the
pond quagmire, Franklin's active
mird suggested the idea of building a
little wharf for them to stand upon.
Unluckily heap Of stones was collected
at. no great distance for building new
house; and one evening Franklin pro-
posed to his companions to make free
with them after the workmen had gone
home. The project was approved and
executed with great industry. But the
next morning the stones were missed, al
inquiry was made, and the consequence
was, a complaint against the boys
Franklin pleaded, in excuse, the utility
of the work; but his father wisely tool
the opportunity of intoxicating thu
maxim that what is not honest cannot bt
useful,