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Daily globe., 1879-06-22
A Portuguese Heroine.

A correspondent at Lisbon vouches for
the truth of the following narrative, which
lie translates from the Diaria de Noticias:
At the distance of one kilometre from the
village of Fratel, near Mia Ii. e. on the
frontier of Spain and Portugal, near the
town of Portalegre), Theresa Maria, who
was carrying her husband S dinner to him
in the fields, was told by little shepherd
boy that a wolf was prowling about the
place. Wishing to see one for the first
time in her life, she put down hel basket
and climbed up to high place to which
the boy directed her. There she saw the
animal in the act Of devouring lamb.
The shepherd boy began shouting and
! throwing stones, to see whether it would
=, let go its prey; and the wolf in it's fury
then attacked the poor little fellow, Jump
ing up at his face, tearing the flesh from
his jaws, and throwing him upon the
ground. The woman seeing the boys
imminent danger, in an impulse of heroic
self devotion, ran on the wolf wholly un-
armed, seized tight hold of him, and then,
after a struggle, contrived to blind him
with stone, and eventually killed him.
Meanwhile the boy whom she had rescued
ran, wounded as he was, to seek help in
the village. While several villagers were
coming up, armed with guns, stones and
sticks, to kill the beast and save the wo-
man from its fangs, she was returning
to the village covered with blood, and
with her arms, hands and face terribly
wounded. She said that at times she
was on the point Of being overcome, but
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the close hold of her left arm, while hit
ting him hard on the head with stone
which she was able to pick up. She was
taken to the Mia hospital. It is with re-
gret that all will read what have now un-
fortunately to add, that exactly month
afterwards the poor creature died there OF
her wounds. She has left eight children
SIX OF whom are very young, and dis.
tracted husband to mourn her loss; but
she found comfort in her last suferings
and under the pain of such parting from,
the recollections that she had given he1
life for another. The English and Portu.
guese have sent some e22 as small con.
ISOLATION to poor and industrious family
who have to mourn noble heart taker
from them.
In postscript written two days latel
the correspondent says: II am sorry in
deed to have to add the narrative tha
the little shepherd-boy, for whom the
brave woman sacrificed her life, is deai
also. She was allowed to console her dy
ing hours with the belief that she hai
perished in saving life. But it was no
to be so. The poor child died in the ter
ripple sufferings of hydrophobia. Beside
the subscription raised on behalf of th'
bereaved husband and the orphans, anoth
er has been very properly started to erec
monument at Mia, SO that such deco
may not be forgotten.'
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
Jokes Upon Names.

A great many good jokes and bright
puns have been made on queer names.
Sometimes they have been really cruel,
though generality are made good natured-
ly. Perhaps a witty little eplgram
on DR.. Leetsom, famous physician OF
the last century, was written without a
design to wound him, but it could hardly
be read without doing him some injury.
He used to sign his prescriptions l. Leet-
som, and the following was written:
When any patient calls in haste,
physics, bleeds and sweats 'em;
If after that they choose to die,
Why, what care !: l. Leets'em!
It is related that Sir Thomas Moore said
to Mr.. Silver, who was brought before
him for some misdemeanor, "Silver, You
m ust be tried by fire." eyes" replied the
prisoner; .'but you know quicksilver can
not abide the fire." The promptness of the
retort so pleased Sir Thomas that he let,
the man go.
Mr.. Isaac Came, rich shoemaker Of
Liyerpool, who left immense property to
public charities, opened his first shop OPP
posite the building where he had been a
servant and put up assign, which read: ".
Came, from over the way" Somewhat like
this was the sign Of tavern keeper,
named Danger near Cambridge, England,
who, having been driven out Of his house,
built another opposite, and inscribed it:
danger from over the way" His success
sor then retorted by putting up new in
scription: "There is no Danger here now" !"
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
Two Seals Try to Save Their
Keeper.

A singular and deplorable event has
just taken place, which shows once more
what one may expect from the intelli-
gence of certain animals.
Everybody knows the pond in the Gar
den of Acclimation, in Paris, where the
seals frolic, and the little rock, from the
top of which the keeper Alexander comes
at meal-time to give the animals their
food.
The seals which the sight Of Alexander
made happy, climb sometimes the rock,
and were in the habit of coming to get
their food out of the hands of the keep
er himself. While Alexander was feed
ing these amphibians, a wedding party
arrived. Alexander wished to be gal
liant toward the bride, and made the two
seals climb the rock. There he took
live fish and held it in such way that
the seals in order to catch it were obliged
to stand up and make jump for it.
This sight made all the visitors burst in
to a hearty laugh, and the whole we'd
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
A Strange Story.

That truth is stranger than fiction the
Dubuque Qa.) Times demonstrates in its
local columns. A wealthy couple had
lived together in perfect peace for forty
one years. While sitting in the parlor
one evening not long ago, the husband
surprised his wife by saying, II am going
to tell you secret you have never heard
BEFORE There was brief pause as the
lady and near relative who CHANGED to
be present awaited the disclosure, and
the husband continued eyes, you will
be surprised to hear that had another
before I married you" Startled and
aghast the wife clasped her hands in sus-
pense, and asked. cam not theu your
lawful wife?" "You are my loved and
lawful wife, was the prompt reply; "my
to Dubuque and met YOU" Then he re-
lated how he had married his first wife
and been summoned to his home to find
her dead in childbirth. Then he went
West and settled in Dubuque, where the
second romance of his life came about.
Six years ago he received letter from
the woman who mad nursed his first
wife. She wrote that she was upon her
deathbed, and could not rest until she
had confessed her share in a base crime.
The wife had died but the son had sur
vived, and Though large bribe offered
by the dead woman's father, the nurses
lips had been sealed and the husband
told that the child had died with its
mother This man, the father-in- law, was
wealthy, but his daughters death left
him without an heir, and he took this
means Of supplying what fate had denied.
With her last breath the nurse informed
her employer that she had divulged the
truth to the gentleman in Dubuque, and
Immediately upon her death the father
in-law went West and offered large
bribe. This was refused, but the secret
was kept. The son was millionaire in
the city of p, and his father was anxious
to see him. The second wife was thus
told the secret for the first time, and
asked to 60 East to pay the first wife's
son visit When the story was told tie
wife announced in low tones: "Slnce you
kept it from me SO long I would rather
| you had never repeated it." The excite
ment caused by the recital proved fatal
In two DAYS the lady was dead.
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
Time Enough to Beller.

One day Billy, that's my brother, he
and Sammy Doppy was playin' by mud
hole, and Billy he said:
"Now, Sammy, les play we was barn
yard; you be the pig, and lie down and
woller, and I'll be bull, and beller like
every thing"
So they got down on their hands and
knees, and Sammy he went in the dirt
and wollered, while Billy bellered like
distant thunder. Bimeby Sammy he
cum out muddy-you never see such a
muddy little fellow-and he said:
"Now you'll be the pig, and let me
beller.'
But Billy he said:
II amt very good pig except for din
ner, and title be time 'nutf for you to bel
ler when yer mother sees yer close
Daily globe., 1879-06-22

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them except when he was without fire.
arms. He spent many months in the
woods without any weapon except long
knife. The terrific explosions heard in
the solitude of the great forests each year
just before the rainy season sets in were
spoken Of, out he was as yet unable to
account for them. It was believed by
the natives that these explosions were
caused by "gold-bursting." On going
through the forest after these explosions
had been heard, immense trees would be
found shivered from roots, and burrows
would be seen in the ground as if there
had been an earthquake. He believed
that the explosions was caused by the
force Of capillary attraction, as the sap
suddenly assembled and filled all the pores
of the trunks Of the trees.
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
ding party were delighted. All of a sud-

ding party were delighted. All of a sud
den, one of the animals, tired, no doubt,
stood up and then fell heavily on the
keeper. The latter tripped, lost his bal
ance and fell SO unluckily that he split
his skull on the edge of the pond and
disappeared Immediately under water.
Then nothing was more curious to see
the bewilderment and maneuvers of the
seals. These animals began to dive sew
al times, and then together they put the
body Of Alexander on their backs,
brought him to the surface and pushed
him on the shore, making plaintive cries,
as if calling for help. Unfortunately
help was not needed. The poor keeper
of seals was killed on the spot.
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
On the Amazon.

ERNEST MORRIS, the young American
naturalist, lectured on the above subject
before the Long Island Historical Society.
He espoke particularly about the tribe of
Mandruca Indians who inhabit village
on the Tapajos river, the stream which
Mr.. Morris explored more than year ago,
remaining among its solitudes for four
teen months. .On his last. visit he arrived
at the village of the Mandrucas late in the
evening, just when they were all assem-
bled in great, palm -thatched shed to Gel
ebrate an important festival. He was well
coined by the chief, given good deal of
monkey stew, and later was provided with
hammock to sleep in. The festival was
kept up nearly the whole night, but by
eleven o'clock nearly all the Indians had
become intoxicated On caxaca, kind of
rum. The music for the dancers was fur
nished by an orchestra of four, one play
ing a rude sort of drum, one fiddling on
stick cut full Of notches and the other
two twanging away on old guitars.
All the interesting specimens which
Mr.. Morris brought home he was obliged
to steal. BE could have bought boy or
a girl for a knife or coat, but such a
thing as an old skull, an old piece of
pottery, an arrow or little poison such
as they use to tip the ends of their
| weapons with, could not be bought for
love or money. The manners and Gus.
toms of the natives he would not attempt
to describe, except to say, in the Ian
guage of missionary to the South Sea
Islands: ''They had no manners and
their customs were simply disgusting -
The women performed all the drudgery,
while the lazy lords s'laid off, and
smoked bad tobacco. The greater part
Of the work done by women was the
making of rubber out of the juice of trees.
Crops of corn and fruits grew of them
selves, and the only work to supply the
table was to catch few fish now and
then when the 'slords" scraved little
change of diet. Mr.. Morris discovered
one peculiar tribe of Indians who could
never indulge in little caxaca without
its making them begin right away
to cry, and they always cried
and sobbed while the effect o.
the spirits remained. The popular ides
that the forests ofBrazil abounded in wild
animals, richly plumaged birds and enor
nous reptiles was great mistake. Du
| ring his four years of roaming about tn,
forests he had come across not more thar
| half dozen snakes. They were big one
it was true. Sometimes he heard the ii
gers at midnight, but he never feared
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
DOMESTIC GREETING.

AS homeward comes the married man,
Hos met by wife at door,
With fond embrace and loving kiss
And-"Baby's throat is sore!
uAnd did you think to stop at Browns
And get that marabOut
ordered yesterday?-and, dear,
Frcd's boots are all worn out!
''rm glad you are so early, John,
So much miss you, dear
I've had a letter from mammal:
Snes coming to live here.
"How very glad you look, dear John,
knew that you would be
The tlour's out, John, the butter, and
You must send home some tea.
''That plumber has been here again;
Ifyou don't pay he'll sue;
And Mr.. Pendergast called in
To say your rent was due.
"Frcd's trousers are half cotton, John,
You thought they were all wool
Oh, that reminds that your son
Was whipped to-day at school,
"Thc roof has leaked and spoiled the rugs
Upon the upper hall;
And Jane must 60, the careless thing!
She let the mirror fall
"To-day, as the was movingit
(The largest one, dear john;
Of course it broke; it also broke
The lamp it fell upon.
what makes you look so grave, my love?
Take off your things and wipe
Your fcet-and and only think, to-day
Jane broke your meerschaum pipe.
,sOh, John! that horrid, horrid word!
You do not love me, dear;
l wish that I-boo- -hoo-were dead
you're cross as any bear"
-RnSt0n TannSclin
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
Hair in the Tongue.

Joseph Lepp, Swiss confectioner liv-
ing in New York, is troubled. with a
strange malady. His disease is techni-
cally termed dermoid cyst of the tongue
Lepp is a tall young man, with dark
complexion, slight build, of good ad-
dress and appearance. He speaks
French, his native language, fuently
some German and little English. He
says Of himself: Cup to last December
I had no idea that there was anything
wrong with my tongue. My use. of it
was perfect in every way, and nv sens G
of taste as good as others There
was no apparent difference between nv
tongue and that Of another person. But
in December last, without any cause, so
far as I know, my tongue began to swell
and became very painful. AT the Ger
man dispensary IN Eighth street, where
went for treatment, the doctors cut it,
and it discharged freely. At first the
doctors did not notice anything unusual
After a little time there was a
quantity OF hair discharged every day
from the opening in the tongue. Sew
eral hundred hairs have been discharged
They are of all colors-white, black, red,
brown. They are of various lengths
from half an inch to two or three inches
some straight, some curled. Sometimes
mass or small lock Of nair would be
taken out. 1t seemed as if the tongue
was filled with hair inside. AS soon az
it heals up it commences to swell anc
pain me very much. Then it has to be
cut again; after discharge of hair, etc.
it will heal quickly, but has to be GU
again. 1t has been opened eleven times
now. It has been troubling me again
and l shall have to submit to another
operation in a day or two.'' Lepp per
mitted the reporter to see his tongue. L
was considerably larger than the norma
size of that organ. twas not discolored
but 'resembled ball of flesh, the shapI
of it causing him to speak and articulat.
in that maner peculiar to persons wht
have no palate.
A doctor told a reporter that during
the time Lepp was under treatment il
the hospital he saw him frequently
There was question in his mind as t.
the time of this growth of hair found il
Lepp's tongue. There was no mistake
about the hair being genuine, for one o
the doctors subjected it to MICROSCOPIC
test. It was growth of real hair. A
to the date of growth he was not willing
to say that the hair might not hav
grown recently. There might have beer
hair follicies, or roots, in dormant stat
within the mans tongue which nov
from some exciting cause produced
growth Of hair. At any rate, it seem
hardly possible that the hair remained
inclosed within the tongue SO many year
without growing. The case was unique
He had never heard or read in the book
of a case precisely identical with thi
one.
Daily globe., 1879-06-22

Blind people have their eccentricities.
The other day lady friend of ours, who
is very proper and,discourages the ballet,
had call from woman whose husband
was blind. Our friend was about to
give her rsomething,.whena an idea occurred
to her. She asked: s'How did your hus-
band meet with this misfortune, my poor
woman?''
30, don't speak of it, beg of you; but
we were at play, and suddenly the bal
let-dancers came on. Ny husband, who
| is very modest man, at once threw his
eyes up to the ceiling and ruined them. y
Our friend emptied her purse into the
woman's hand.
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
A SPRING POEM SPRUNG.

The COW gambols over the green,
And the turnips sprout in the soil;
While out steps the buckwheat cake,
And in steps the red rosy boil.
The awnings are yawning above us,
The whitewasher laugheth in glee;
And the ladies are bobbing around
To see what new styles they can see.
April bills are just ready to blossom,
The corn-doctor hovers around;
While the merchant stirs up his trade,
And the farmer likewise the ground.
The bees are beginning to humble,
The haw-tree gives out haw-haw;
The beer trade commences to brighten,
And the free-luncher getteth his slaw.
Then soon will the hard-organ grind
"Gentle Annie" and "Grandfather's Clock,'
And the festive cat will yell on the fence
Also auctioneers selling old stock.
But with all these joys there are sorrows,
And the worst, we desire you to know it,
Is the budding OF that incomprehensible thin
That is known as the gentle spring-poet.
Daily globe., 1879-06-22
An Engineers Need of Nerve.

PROFESSIONALLY the bravest men in
America, says the Indianapolis Journal,
are those who can stand upon the foot
boards of the locomotives which draw
the fast express trains. But few persons
are aware of it, but on the leading rail-
ways, where connections must he made if
possible, only engineers known to be
brave and daring are given engines on ex-
press trains, and as soon as an engineer
shows the least timidity about running
fast, he is taken from his engine and
given one on freight train to run. Two
such cases have occurred recently on In
dianapolis roads. Railroad officers state
that the first sign that an engineer is be-
coming timid is, that he will be five to
ten minutes late, possibly half-hour, fol
some days or nights in succession. He is
then called to an account, and unless his
reasons are convincing, another engineer
is given his engine to run for few times
and should he bring tho train in promptly
on time, the frst-named engineer gets 8
freight-train engine to run until he braces
up. It is stated, however, that after an
engineer allows his timidity to get a fail
hold, he seldom so far owe rcomes it as tt
have the bravery to step onto an express
train engine and run it at the speed neces-
sary to make the time. Quite recently
an engineer of one of the roads running
west from here got an impression tha
some accident was to happen to him, and
one night, when running fast express
he constantly lost time. At the first sta
ton where the train stopped the conduc
tor berated HIM for running slow
The engineer actually shed tear
| and owned that fears had overcome
him, and that he dare not run fast
and, at his own request, an engineer of :
freight train which stood at this meeting
point was given the train to run through
that night, the conductor telcgraphing tn
train-master, asking that the request b.
granted. The timid engineer has sine
| run freight on the road.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-03-05
Qafck Lime as a Substitute for
Blasting Powder.

UnsIaked lime compressed into
cartridges, or used loosely and well
tamped down in the hole, using water
or other liquid to saturate and expand
it, is now proposed Tor use in fiery
coal mines. It is claimed that the
advantages to be derived from its
use are economy in the production of
coal making less slack than by using
ordinary blasting powder; lives of
golfers are in less danger; the break
ing or SCATTERING OF coal back of the
charge-which is specially characis-
tic Of the use Of gunpowder-is
avoided and the quality of the at
mOsphere is rather improved by its
use than othefwise.-Scien inner
icdn.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-03-05

from San Francisco, from which 400
trees were raised, one of which pro-
duces the fruit in question.
The tree is growing on mesa land,
ten miles east of San Diego. 1t is
now Is feet high, with trunk about
six inches in diameter. In blossom,
foliage, and habit of growth, it is
not distinguishable from the common
lemon trees of the owners orchard,
except, perhaps, in the almost total
absence of thorns. The crop this
season, the first the tree has produced,
consists of As lemons of a regular,
oblong oval form, remarkable for the
absence of the usual mamelon pro-
lection at the apex and the thinness
of the smooth, glossy skin. Average
specimens have longitudinal diane
ter Of three and quarter inches and
transverse diameter of two and a
quarter inches, and weigh four and a
half to five ounces. The thickness
of the skin by actual measurement,
average one,sixteenth of an inch in
specimens fresh from the tree, while
in those gathered two months ago,
it is not more than half that thick
ness. Indeed, the skin is so thin that,
like the mandarin orange, the CORFU
cations formed by the sections Of the
pulp, are plainly visible, running
from base to apex. Its extraordina-
ry thinness will be better appreciated
when it is stated that the average
thickness of that OF freshly imported
Sicily lemons, is three-sixteenths of
an inch. In color it is a little paler
yellow than that of the common lem
on, and the glands which contain the
essential oil, are larger and much
more distinct: in this respect the sur
face resembles that Of the lime. 1t
may very properly be called, seed
less lemon, as only one seed has been
found in the two dozen specimens thus
far tested. In acidity and flavor, it is
equal to any in the market, and is
pronounced by leading pomologists,
a most important acquisition. The
owner states, that no buds are for
sale.-SG1e francisco Weekly BulSe
tin.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-03-05
THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.

worth much attention. The grain i
very inferior, and fetches low
price in the bazaars of India, while it
is a very slow grower, and occupies
the land long time. Still it is ex-
tensively cultivated in most parts of
India. In the Deccan it is sown in
June or July by hand, is sometimes
transplanted; requires wedding in
August and September, and is
reaped in November or December.
Its grain is considered digestible and
nutritious, and in some parts is most
ly consumed unground.
1t is grown in Sicily, where it is
called milium, or little millet, and
there are two varieties, white and
red.
SHAMAY.-In Bengal Panicuna
naiLi0re, LAM, is the species usually
known as little millet. 1t would
seem to be a native of India. and
China, and is by no means extensively
cultivated. In the Punjaub it is
known as kutkj
Paaoicwns coIoaatme, Lin: OpIisme-
nus cOlonuS, Beauv-This small
grain millet, which grows wild in
parts OF India in sufficient plenty, is
collected in times of scarcity to be
employed as TODD.
Concluded next week.