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The GramDus.

The grampus (Delphia,us gramp4s)
Is the most voracious of the inhabitants
OF the ocean. It does not devour one
third cf the animals it kills. It is the
greatest enemy of the whale, and dead
bodies of whales have frequently been
found having large pieces of flesh torn
from the bod y, and the lips mutilated
or destroyed. AS soon as the whale
opens its mouth to defend itself the
grampus darts at it's large soft tongue.
tears it of, and causes the death of the
animal.
1t is said that the grampuses are fond
OF amusing themselves by mobbing the
Greenland whale, and that they per-
secute it by leaping out of the water and
striking it sharply with their tails as
they descend. In consequence of this it
has been called the thrasher or killer.
The swordfsh is reported to ioin the
thrasher In this amusement, and to
attack the whale from below to prevent
it from diving.
Inc grampus is from twenty to thirty
feet in length and from ten to twelve
feet In girth. It has forty four conical,
strongly made, and slightly curved teeth,
Its color is black on the upper part of
the body, suddenly changing to white
on the abdomen and part of the sides,
and there is generally <. white patch of
considerable size behind the eyelid.
Although it sometimes wanders to
more southern regions, its favored home
is in the northern seas that wash the
coast OF Greenland and Spitzbergen,
where it congregates in small herds.
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COlOrs of Thoroughbred Horses.

The modern thoroughbred horse is
most commonly bay, frequently chest
nut, less frequently brown, rarely black,
and still more rarely roam, and scarcely
ever gray. Cecil, an authority, writing
In 1906, calculated in the previous thirty
years the Derby had been won by six
teen bays, seven chestnuts and seven
browns; the st. Leger by seventeen
bays, eight browns and five chestnuts.
Since 1856 the proportionate number
OF bays has been maintained, the num-
Der of chestnuts has increased, the
number of browns diminished, and no
gray or roam has won either of these
great stakes. Gustavus, a gray, won
the Derby in 1921, and Frederick, an
Other gray, won the same race in 1929
of that color since. There
has been no gray horse of repute since
Chantlcleer; who, at 4 or years old, in
l947 and 1913, won many royal plates,
the Goodwood stakes and the Doncas-
ter cup. There were only two grew
stations named in the Racing Calendar
OF l872-Master Bagot, an iron gray,
and Strathconan, light gray, descend
ed from Chandelier, through his dam.
Book Of the Horse.
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Storms Are FOundlings.

When we are asked to give an &C
count of the birth of a storm, we are
reluctantly compelled to admit that ou1
storms are, almost without exception,
foundlings, and that, as the precise
conditions to which they owe their or
igin are, for the most part, shrouded in
uncertainty, warm discussions at times
arise as to the parish whence they have
set out Oh their wanderings. Dove
said long ago that storms were due to
the interference of the polar current or
the east wind with the equatorial cur
rent or west wind. He gave the winds
these names, because on his view the
east winds really consisted of air flow
ing from the North or South pole tow
ard the equator, which was modified in
the direction of it's motion by it's change
of latitude; while west winds were really
due to air endeavoring to make its way
back to the pole from the equator,
whose course was in it's turn modified
by its own moving from lower to higher
ATTITUDES. To the conflict of these two
grand currents, east and west winds.
Dove attributed all our storms; but he
did not attempt to explain how the
currents came into collision. These
views, however correct on their cosmical
principles, have been superseded, of
late years at least, as regards the ex-
PLANTATION of our winds, by the modern
views of the relation between the wind
and the distribution of barometrical
pressure; but, unfortunately, we still
remain in comparative ignorance of the
ultimate causes to which the distribu-
ton of pressure, or the rise and fall of
the barometer, are due.-Popa.lar Sci
e7ace Monthly.
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old man to try his skill; and the trial
was attended with success, to the aston
ishment and delight of the noble, who
ordered the old man to be suitably re.
warded, and to ba brought on visit to
his palace.
The bad old man, hearing of this, de-
termined, with the remainder of the
ashes, to try his skill on the occasion
of another great lord passing; but the
ashes flew in the faces of the noble and
retainers, who, in their rage, beat the
foolish old man severely tied him, and
put him in the lookup.
The good old mans story becoming
public, the wicked man was turned out
of the village, and afterward died on the
wayside. The good old man lived
happily many years after.
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Ancient Expresses.

A wel-known means of sending news
rapidly, in country with such bad
roads as Greece, was by trained run
ners; thus we are told that Phidippides,
a professional courier, ran from Athens
to Sparta to beg for aid, just before
Marathon, arriving at the latter city at
the end of the second day; and this was
distance of $50 miles. The constant
gymnastic training in which Greek, and
especially Spartan, soldiers kept them
selves, enabled whole armies to make
very rapid forced marches. In the
present instance the Spartan army,
though slow to start, yet when it did
march performed the distance in three
days. So the old Chasseurs de Vim
cennes and picked light troops of the
French army were trained to make swift
marches by running one on either side
of cavalry soldier whose stirrup leath-
ers they caught hold of. This, we be-
ieve, or something like it, is still kept
up among the zouaves. The episode
of the @Fiery Cross" in the "Lady Of
the Lake" shows how quickly a district
may be aroused by well-organized
system of running messengers. Indeed,
the swiftness of rumor is as proverbial
as it's exaggeration. Lady Duff Gordon,
in her voyage up the Nile, found that
the news of her approach invariably
outstripped her movements, rapid as
they were.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-09

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, a lawyer of
Frederick, Nd, was the author of the
"Star Spangled Banner" which he
composed while prisoner in the Brit
ish feet during the bombardment of
Fort ncHenry. The facts in relation
to the composition of this song are
worth reproducing: "The British, hay
ing captured Washington, returned 10
to their vessels, carrying with them DE-.
Beanes, a prominent citizen and physi-
clan of Upper Marchase. Mr.. Key, with
the permission of the President, pro-
ceeded to board the English feet and
solicit his release. The British Admi-
raj, Cochrane, upon whose flagship the
Doctor was imprisoned, being about to
make an attack upon Baltimore, detained
them both until the attack should have
taken place. On the evening of the
commandment they were sent, together
with Gen. j. S. Skinner, on board the
American cartel, tie Minden. which
was anchored in sight of Fort McHenry
with guard of marines, to prevent their
landing and carrying information to
their unsuspecting countrymen. From
thu deck the three friends saw the bonn
bardment of Fort McHenry, which
soon ended. While the bombardment
lasted, the "bombs bursting in the air"
was evidence that the fort had not sur
rendered. The firing ceased soon after
midnight. All was once more still Hav-
ing no communication with the shore.
the Americans were in grave doubt as
to the result of the fight and the fate of
their many friends in the city. They
awaited the dawn with the greatest So
icitude. Then on that shore. dimly
seen through the mist of the Deep"
they discerned the flag they had watched
ct the twiight's last cleaning still way
ing above the fort, and the broad stripes
and bright stars, defantly unfurled to
the breeze shone brightly as beacon
of hope to the beating hearts in the
bright rays of the rising sun. It was
upon the deck of the Minden, between
midnight and dawn, that the song was
written whose stanzas expressed the
feelings of thousands of eye-witneAses
on shore. To their great joy they soon
learned that the attack upon Baltimore
had failed, that Ross was killed, and that
the British were re-embarking the for
ces which had fought at North point
When the feet was ready to sail, Mr..
Key and his friends were released, and
proceeded to Baltimore, where, from the
rude substratum jotted down on the
back of letter, the song was reduced
to its present form, and read 20 Judge
Nicholson, one of the gallant defenders
OF the fort. So pleased was he with it
that he had it printed by Samuel Sands,
the apprentice of Capt. Berry Edes, who
was then off on defense duty, and cop
les of it we're distributed among the
citizens.
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Domestic Thunder Storms

Not many lovers, I suppose, have
found that their welded life answered
quite to the dreams of their courtship-
not quite, mine didn't. Yet who wonld
enter q complaint against heaven be.
cause May does not quite match with
October? If my experience can be of
any use, think thunder storm. 40 Il
was not to do mischief, may sometimes
clear the atmosphere under the roof
about as well as it does outside. And
SO sure I am of its blessing that when I
hear people say they have lived together
dve-and-twenty years and never had the
least difference, 1 wonder if they have
not Lad great deal of indifference.
It is the lesson we have to learn. too.
through our saddest and most painful
Recommendations Collyer.
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OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
Edna's Mish1p.

Kate, Harry and Edna had gone out to play,
In tho great roomy barn, mong the sweet-scented
hay;
While, now and then pausing the baby to tend.
Mamma was hard trying their wee clothes to mend.
With . little patch here and . little patch there,
And sigh and . smile for each hole and each tear
And with almost wish, as she saw the old hen
Struthng proudly about with her speckled chicks
ten,
That her little chickens in feathers were clad,
When she heard o wild scream, as of some one gone
mad;
And Harry and Kitty exclaimed in one breath,
"A tramp has shot Edna and killed her to deathl"
Mamma to the barn In wild agony few,
But what do you think met her wondering view?
In the manger sat Edna-and Edna alone
While the fast rickling tears on her rosy cheeks
shone,
By egg shells surrounded on every side
A comical object, it can't be denied!
You see, in her fall from the attic o'erhead,
She came with crash $50 quickly she sped)
On the nest that old Speckle had left in tho night
When all the wee Speckles had first 81 en- the light
And the noise was SO much like the sound Of gun,
TO tho house the two children in terror had run.
Mammals kind assurance allayed Edna's fears,
And her dear loving kisses scattered the tears
Then she led to the bathroom, where water and
soap
And clean clothing throughout gave her reason to
hope
That she'd soon have her sweet little Edna again,
In spite of the wiles of that saucy old hen.
GRACE T. SPEAR.
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A Fracture Of the Skull.

Some years ago a miner was sent to
the Ayrshire District Asylum who, four
years before, had been struck to the
ground insensible by mass of falling
coal, which fractured his skull He Law
unconscious for four days after the &C.
cident, then came gradually to himself,
and was able, in four weeks, to resume
his work in the pit. But his wife no.
ticed steadily-inoreasing change for
the worse in his character and habits :
whereas he had formerly been cheerful,
sociable and good-natured, always kind
and afectionate to her and his children ;
he now became irritable, moody, surly,
suspicious, stunning the company of
his fellow-workmen, and impatient with
her and the children. This bad state
increased; he was often excited, used
threats of violence to his wife and
others, finally became quite maniacal
attempted to kill them, had success
sion of epileptic fits, and was sent to the
asylum as dangerous lunatic. There
he showed himself extremely suspicious
and surly, entertained a fixed delusion
that he was the victim of a conspiracy
on the part of his wife and others, and
displayed bitter and resentful feelings.
At the place where the skull had been
fractured there was well-marked de-
preston of bone, and the depressed
portion was eventually removed by the
trephine. From that time an improve
ment took place in his disposition, his
old self coming gradually back; he be-
came cheerful again, active and oblig.
ing, regained and displayed all his for
mer affection for his wife and children.
and was at last discharged recovered.
No palmer example could be wished tc
show the direct connection of cause
and efect-the great deterioration of
moral character produced by the physi-
cal injury of the supreme nerve-centers
of the brain; when the cause was taken
away the effect went also.-Dr. Ma4ds-
ley, I'M Fortnjghtly Revie1v.
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voluntary pas seus, by way Of keeping
your balance, and then grind your teeth
to see the two pretty young ladies' be-
yond laughing at your antics? If so, you
will know how to pity me during the
hour and half between B. and SIAM
Hatfield went to sleep and snored /;
the old lady in the gigantic bonnet ate
sandwiches and drank from a wicker
flask of Notwithstanding sherry; the
young lady sat as noiseless as black
yelled statue; fretful babies whimpered :
old gentlemen uttered strange sounds
in their sleep; the lights fared like
sickly moons overhead, and the shrek
of the train as it flew through sleeping
villages sounded Like the yell of fiery
throated demon.
Stamford!" bawled the conductor.
At last I succeeded in dropping my
weary and stiffened limbs into seat,
where slumber' overlook me in just q
minute and a quarter; for had been
asleep on my legs once or twice, even
in my former disadvantageous attitude,
and I could scarcely believe the evil
dence Of my own senses when we
finally Numbered into the echoing vast
ness of the Grand Central Depot in
New York. .-.
Hatfield, alive to the necessity OF
catching Car before all the world OF
travellers should crowd into it, stumbled
over the old lady's ankles with small
ceremony.
~Oh, take care! You've knocked
the squirrel-cage over" cried she.
"Ccnfound the squirrel-oage!'' shout
ed Hatfield, crashing his teeth, as the
ancient dame placed herself directly in
the aisle to set the furry pet up again,
thereby completely blocking up his
egress.
"Serves you right, Hatfeld!" said +,
as I stopped to assist.
just then the young companion of
our lady advanced, finging back her
veil.
Grandma" said she, "the carriage is
waiting. I'll send Thomas for the par
GELS. Mr.. Clifton, I am very much
obliged to you for your poiteness to
my grandmother, who is unused to
travelling. As to Mr.. Hatfeld-the less
said about his courtesy the better:
And Beatrice Hale's black eyes flashed
disdainfully on Clarence's cowed Wis
age.
"Miss Hail." he stammered, eff I'd
had the least idea who you were"
you would have regulated your
conduct accordingly" impatiently in
terrupted Miss Hale. '~Thanks-I pre-
er to see people in their true Lis ht.
MIR. Clifton" turning graciously to me,
you'll call and seehow grandma stands
her journey, tomorrow, won't you?
O, thank you-the carriage is close BY"
And to this day believe that is the
way I won my wife; for Clarence Hat
field was brilliant, snowy sort of fell
low, who far outshone me in general
society, and I think Bee had been dis
posed rather to fancy him until that
night. But she was disenchanted now
for good and all. And Grandma Hale
comes to see us every Christmas with
a hamper of good things from Hale
Farm.
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Rats.

A pair of rats produce, as a rule,
thirteen itters of eight young ones
each in three years, and the young ones
do the same after becoming 6 months
old: The grand total from single pair
at the end of three years is 656,808.
Rats have migrated to all parts of the
world. They are found eating turtle
on the Island of Ascension. They
have reached India, China, and abound
in Japan.
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The Walingford manufactures who
threatened to discharge all his workmen
if they did not tell who whistled de-
risively at him, whenever he entered
the works, was appeased by the dis
covery that a squeaking shaft was the
offender,
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The Study Of Natural History.

Beasts, birds, reptiles and fishes, con-
sidered as forming one group, constitute
but q comparatively small section of
the world of animals. Creatures allied
to the snail and oyster, but all of differ
emit kinds, exist in multitudes which are
known to us, but doubtless also in null
titudes as yet unknown. Worms form
q division SO varied in nature, and so
prodigious in number that the correct
appreciation of one to another and to
other animals - their classification
forms one of the most difficult of 70
illogical problems. Coral-forming AMI
mails and cognate forms, together with
star fishes and their allies, come before
us as two other hosts, and yet there are
other hosts of other kinds to which it is
needless here to refer. Yet the whole
mass of animals to which reference has
yet been made is exceeded Gas to the
number of distinct kinds) by the single
group of insects. Every land-plant has
more than one species Of insects which
lives upon it, and the same may proba-
bly, be said of at least every higher ami
mal-and this in addition to other para
sites which are not insects. The lowest
animals have not yet been referred to,
but the number of their undiscovered
kinds which may exist in the ocean, and
in the tropical lakes and rivers, may be
suspected from the variety we may OBJ
tain here, in single drop of stagnant
water. Recent researches, moreover,
have shown US that the depths of the
ocean, instead of being Gas we supposedly
ifeless as we'll as still and dark abysses,
really TEEN with animal life. From
those profound recesses also creatures
have been dragged to light, forms which
were supposed to have long passed
away and become extinct. And this
leads to yet another consideration. It
is impossible to have complete knowl
edge of existing animals without being
acquainted with so much of the nature
of their now extinct predecessors as can
be gathered from the relics they have
left behind. Such relics may be bones
or shells imbedded in muddy deposits
of ages bygone, and which deposits
have now turned to rock, or may con-
sist of but the impress of their bodies,
or only few footprints. Rich lis the
animal population of the world to-day,
It represents only remnant of the life
that has been; and small as our knowl-
edge may ever be of that ancient life
(from imperfections in the rocky record,
yet every year that knowledge is in
creased. What increase may we not
also expect hereafter, when all remote
and tropical regions have been explored
with the care and patience already be-
slowed on the deposits which lie in the
vicinity Of civilized populations.
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Chinese Proverbs.

Many of the Chinese proverbs have
their counterparts in English; the diff
ference of expression, however, being
In many cases characteristic. Thus:
Throw a sprat to catch a whale" is
rendered, Throw brick to allure
gem" Not to cry sinking fish," is
rendered in. Chinese, "The melon
seller declares his melons sweet"
Take care of the pence, and the
pounds will take care of themselves"
becomes, Count cash as though they
were gold leash being q coin of the
smallest denomination. Again, "a
rolling stone gathers no moss, is trans
lated. The swallow plastering it's nest
is labor lost this being very happy
alluslon to the migratory habits of the
bird. preparing is preventing" an
old English expression, has its.counter-
part in, "Get the coffin ready and the
man won't die, while Too many cooks
will spoil the broth" is rendered by
the curious expression, "Seven hands
and eight feet" There is black
sheep in every flock" becomes, Grows
are black all the world over" And the
oft-quoted saying of Robbing Peter
to pay Paul assumes the form, ~To
pull down the western wall to repair
the eastern" Speaking of the scarcity
of good men, the Chinese say "There
are two good men; one of them is
dead, the other unborn Chambers
journal
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-17
''Casabianca" in Prose.

A lad named Casabianca stood on the
burning deck of the Orient after every
body else had played the great act and
deserted her, while the flames that lit the
battles wreck shone round him DER the
dead. It was an uncomfortable position
for the young fellow to be placed in, yet
beautiful and bright he stood, as born to
rule the storm or burst fue. You will
doubtless be surprised to hear it, but
though the flames rolled on, some of
them scooting up the mainmast as re-
pairer would scoot up a telegraph-pole,
some performing monkeyshines on the
yardarm, others licking the name off the
sides of the vessel, etc. Notwithstand.
ing all this business, the boy would not
go without his fathers word, for the very
good reason that his back was still ringed,
streaked and striped from the last
lambasting he received for disobeying the
old man.
He called aloud: "say, father, say if
yet my task be done, for if I don't get
out of this pretty quick I'll be done my
self, and done brown, too; and don't you
forget it."
You see he was ignorant of the fact
that the chieftain lay unconscious of his
son.
"Speak, fatherl" once again Re yelled,
eff l may yet be gone |" and just then the
enemy's vessel sent broadside into the
burning wreck, and fast the flames rolled
on. ae felt their breath on his brow and
thought to himself that it was getting al
most as hot as ward caucus. The boy
continued to look from that lone port OF
death, while he ratified the marbles,
spools, tops, brass buttons. dog knives
and few other things in his pocket,
with more or less despair depicted on his
countenance.
He shouted but once more aloud: STA
Their, what's the use Of me standln' here9''
While DER him fast, through sail and
shroud, the wreathing flames made way,
with not pump in working order, and
nobody to work it. In order to max Q
this thing very graphic, it is necessary to
state that the fre-fend wrapped the ship
in splender wild, painting it in grande1
colors than the band-wagon of circus
he also caught the flag on high, swallow.
ed it and blew more ribbons of fire out
of his mouth than street peadler. After
this he stood on top of the jarkstaff and
made an incendiary Fourth July
speech to the sea.gull. But in the MIDST
of life we are in death. There came &
burst of thunder; the boy, OIL where
To tell the great North American truth
there was no boy in the case. Captain
: Casabianca had no son, and, even if III
had, it is not likely he. would have taken
him along when he was expecting THU
battle on the Nile, to say nothing OF the
} absurdity cf supposing a father woult
expose his little SON on the deck of a yes
sci during an engagement.