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Fatal Accident.

SUTHERLAND FALLS, VT, March 3O.-A
Frenchman IS years of age, employed in the
Vermont Marble Co. was instantly killed by
the slipping of a derrick foundation today
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METEOROLOGICAL

INDICATIONS Fas rsA NEXT TwKNry-Fous
ROuHs.
WAR DEP'T, OFFICE CHEF SIGNAL
ore,cSH, Washington, d. c.,
April I. 2 il. NJ.
For New England,
Snow or rain, northeast to northwest winds,
higher on coast, rising preceded in Maine by
falling barometer, stationary or lower temper
atnrc.
Csutionary signals are ordered from Macon
to Eastport,
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;, SsEFN'
New H. NJ: Corn
Provisions.
- -
Meaae.

tno, y ie.....117s a II
Narces, Il. Fila . Ii rs
Pail. :. 1914 ai3A
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NOTICE. Ladies now using cream tartar and
soda in baking will have better results by using
Congress Yeast Powder. Try it in biscuits, cake
doughnuts, pie crust, etc.
+ SHADES ENGLISH MUSTARD is sold by all gro
GERS.
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The New York street cleaning hill was TO-
ported in the New York Senate Yesterday The
streets clean.
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FOREIGN PORTS.

Ar at Sourabaya Jan 81, ship Josephus, Rogers,
Amsterdam.
Sid FIN Bathurst Feb 8, brig Morancy, Small, for
Boston.
At Pernambuco Feb %, barque Lyman, Pink
ham, from Rio Janeiro; Mich %. Will w Chase, Der
mott, from Buenos Ayres; goth, Nellie May, Austin,
Santos.
At Progresso Mch 81 sch Ruth Robinson, Miller,
for Cuba.
At Nuevitas Mich 26. sch Helen Maria, Look from
Cardenas ldg for New York.
Cid at Halifax 26th, schs Havelock, Dickson and
G + Baird. Mcclellan. Portland.
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Mich Cows-EXtra Cows S5nd $50: ordinary SO
@S45;sprngers SlSGS55 p head. The Cows from
Maine were not so good as those which have been
brought in for several weeks past.
Sheep and Lambs-Western Sheep cost landed at
Brighton from 61ad7Ac; Lambs from 61a@T12c
p I'd live weight all owned by g. w. Hollis and
taken to the slaughter house to be slaughtered.
None offered in the market for sale.
Swine Fat Hogs ga to &c p live weight.
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PORT OF PORTLAND.


WEDNESDAY, March 80.
Arriveds
Steamship Brooklyn. (Br) Lfndef1, liverpool
passengers and mdse to d Torrance & Co.
Hrig Hyperion, Williams, Boston, to load for Car
denas, rs Chase, Leavitt IL Co.
Sch Nellie Bowers, Spear Camden. to load for
Cuba. ,,.,..,
Sch Pearl. verrlll, fremont.
Sch Regulator, Paterson. Castine.
Sch Louisa Frances, Thorndike. Rockland-lime
to C A b Morse & Co.
Sch Brilliant Wheeler, Port Clyde
Sch Mary Jane Nichols Gardiner.
Sch Freighter, Alley, Boothbay.
Sch Polly Il Clarlssa. Ball, Boothbay- superphos-
pbate to Cumberland Bone Co.
Sch Exact. Kimball. North Bocthhay.
hes Arrival, Farnuni. BoothbaS.
Sch Superior, Coffin, Wiscasset.
Sch Rosa & Adra -, Rocklaud for New York.
BELOW-Schs Edw Stanley, Prospect, Julia A
Burke. Areola, Freeport, jed Duren, and others,
for a harbor
Cleared.
Brig Shasta, Nichols, Cardenas-Nutter, Kimball
Brig Ernestine, Norton, Matanzas-Geo Hunt
Brig Ethel, OBJ Heizler. Nuremberg Ms
Sch Benz Reed. Reed. New York-Man Mills.
Sch Vascello, (Br) McCumber, Dorchester, NB,-
Gallagher & Co.
Sch Mystic Tie, Alley. Jonesport-NathI Blake.
ERoM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.
Ar at New York 3oth. steamers City of Washing
ton. Havana Santiago. do.
Sid I'm Cardenas 21st, barque Esther, Benjamin,
Boston.
Ar at Cabarien 18th, barque Hattie G Dixon,
Yates Havana.
AR at Sagua 22d, barque Payson Tucker, Tucker,
veston
Sid sd, brig Helen o'phinney, Sylvester, Caiba-
rien.
Ar at Trinidad goth, sch Vineyard Cook, Mobile.
Sid goth, sch G Pinkham, for New York.
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Norfolk 2 7513 90
Onions; d bb..4 5OM5 60
3" arste.. ..Gl 90
Ctr,,J,n-,;ac IL hhl
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stock Market.

The following quotations of stocks were received
yesterday by Woodbury. Moulton (members of the
Boston Stock Exchange), corner of Middle and Ex-
change streets
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Gen. GRANT on His Wau to Mexico

ST. LOUIS, March 30.-Gen. Grant and
party arrived here this morning en- route to
Mexico. He left by the Iron Mountaini road
The General declined to talk about politics.
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DRY Goods Wholesale Market.
Corrected weekly by SToRER BROS. s. Co.

odcksoils ..............s..- OOaOO
The coove prices are for lots Of Potatoes; small
lots GboNt sc hifher.
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New York stock anamenev ssarae.

=, Wy LYNX dPHI
NEW YORK. March 30-Evening. Money market
tile paper 596. Sterling Exchange steady at 4SO1a
for long and 4.S21a for short. Governments quiet
but firm. State bonds are in light request Rail
road bonds active but irregular. The stock market
closed strong.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange aggregat-
ed 204.732 shares.
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PORTLAND, March 80.
The following quotation of Grain were received
by telegraph from Chicago to-day by A. W. Jordan,
157 Commercial street.
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PORTLAND. March 20.
kof Portland, 20 cars miscellaneous merchandise
for connecting roads, 70 cars miscellaneous miar
chandise.
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DEATHS

In Augusta, March 27, Dora Florence wife of JAS
Parrish aged 80 years.
In Scarboro. March %, Cyrus Libby, aged II
wears months.
In Biddeford, March "a, Dea. Chas. Wedgewood
aged II years.
In North Fairfield, March 21, Harris Noble, aged
So years IL years.
In Clinton, March IL, Mrs. Sarah W. Bragg, aged
rs years.
In Castine, March "a, Mrs. Lucy P. Leighton
aged 65 years.
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Sch Jecob &c William Matthews, from Portland
for New York with load of lumber shipped by
Rumerv, Burne & Co, was abandoned at sea on the
29th full of water and the crew landed at Glouccs
ter Both by schr David Storey. The men had been
clipging to the wreck fourteen hours and wet
and badly chilled. The Il W was old vessel
of IO3 tons, owned partly by the captain and unin-
sured. Cargo insured.
Sch John Wentworth. of Bucksport from Amboy
for Bang, r. with coal, sprung aleak 20 miles from
Nauset Light 29th and soon after sunk. The crew
escaped, but saved nothing
Sch Light of the East, Ober. from Elizabethport
for Boston, which struck on Peaked HILL 26th, came
incetown The captain denies the report that she
is eaky.
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SPOKEN.

Dec 90, lat 80 S, lon &c w, barque Oasis, Lord
from Astoria for Queenstown.
Feb 1, lat IL S. Ion 30 w, ship Hecla, Day. from
Liverpool for San Francisco.
Feb IL, lat 16 OS, Ion 20 W, ship McNear, Taylor,
from San Francisco for Queenstown.
March 2, lat 49, Ion 35. ship Transit, Hagen from
Liverpool for New York.
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REASONS WHY

every man or woman in every walk of life. 1t fur
duced into every house; which may be practiced at
all seasons, in all kinds of weather, by persons of
both sexes all ages or degrees of strength weak.
ness, alone or in company. No one csn say too
muchi in praise of it, and no .fford to do
without it. All who investigate thor dghly, use it,
and consider it invaluable and indispensable. 1t is
tho safest, simplest, cheapest and most efficient
medicine ever discovered. No claim is set up for
it which is unscientifc or impracticable.
General.-Iti is the best of rest. 1t is perfectly
safe. No harm ever came from its use. 1t strains
portion of the SYSTEM 1t directs the vital forces
to the affected parts By its use the health is easily
maintained. The purchase of a Reactonary Litter
is the best kind of economy. The convenience of
having one in the house is very great.
Mind and Brain.-It invigorates and strength
ems the brain, and renders it more active and eff
eient in all its operations.
Sleep.-It is the simplest and safest narcotic.
1t is the most natural and probably the best means
of inducing sound and refreshing sleep.
Nerves.-It is a wonderful tonic to the whole
nervous system. 1t is most eficacious remedy III
paralysis. if taken in time.
Lungs, Throat and Voice.-It gives special
expansion and greater mobility to the chest; en-
larges the lungs increases the volume of respira-
ton, and brings the voice more fully under control
As preventive and cure of lung diseases it has no
equal.
Exercise.-It is the most perfect exercise for
man or woman, furnishing the best form of physi-
cal culture and development in the safest easiest
most thorough and expeditions manner. 1t is bet
ter than the gymnasium and free from its dangers:
and infinitely better than drugs in majority of
chronic diseases. 1t rounds and hardens the mus
cles, and educates them into ever ready, faithful
and efficient servants of the will.
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bt an advance IN prices OF II to Mc p II, over those
obtained one week ag6.
!, Working Oxen-The supply in market was not SO
large as has been for several weeks past and in fair
demand. We Quote sales et .t
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--latest by European steamers.l

Sid FIN Liverpool 18th. Northampton, Murphy,
Bath; Belle O'Brion O'Bron. st John. NIB; Matan-
zas, Simmons, Matanzas Lydia Skolield Miller,
New Orleans; 18th, VIM McGilvery, Dunbar, for
Singapore.
Ar at Cardiff Mch 18th, Belle of Bath, Starkey,
Liverpool; l. j Morse, Haines, Havre; 18th, Frank
Pendleton, Nichols, Liverpool; Alexander, Cotton,
Liverpool.
from Glasgow for Rio Janeiro.
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Grain Market,

SaiIy Domestic Receipts.
ny w&Csr conveyance 1000 bush Cornmaal to q
" II ua Il Go.
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Cod, pst dt,',s'
1frnhn

n kokS
Superfine.. 4 GOA SO
Extra Spring. . 2595 so
XXX Spring. 10 25o 6 so
Patent Spring
Wheats. ....S OO,dS rs
Michigan Win
ter beat. ..6 O@6 %
Low Grade
Michigan. ...5 25@5 so
St. Louis Win g..
ter fair -. 6 00@6 25
Winter good. e 25tU6 so
Winter best. ..6 1907 90
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Portland Daily Press Stock List.

Corrected by WOODBURY. g. MoULToN, Investment
Bankers, Cor. Middle and Exchange Streets.
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SAILING DAYS OF STEAMSHIPS.

MINlaTtH:l ALMANAC. MARCH 81.
Sun rises. ......5.42 High water, (P ny. OLA
Sun sets...t.. ....6.26 Moon sets. S.49
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-11-10
Keeping Cows up in Milk.
frsav,

1t is almost an utter impossibility to
keep your cows up in milk. Those
which come in during March, April or
even May will begin to fall off even
now let the feed be ever so good. 1t
certainly would not hurt the COWS to
give them each a couple of quarts of
meal per day. Such a ration would
give you more butter, even if it did
not increase the flow of milk, but no
doubt the cows would hold OF longer
in milk. Whatever some agricultural
writers may advise it is mistaken
idea to force salt upon your cows that
they may drink more water and hence
yield milk in greater quantities. A
cow will drink a certain amount of
water, which with given amount of
good feed will yield certain quantities
of milk: Salt and water will neither
produce cheese, butter nor sugar,
neither will they produce bone. Milk
contains about eighty-eight per cent of
water. If you increase the amount of
water consumed by the cow through
the feeding of salt, you do not increase
either butter, cheese Or sugar; hence,
unless at the same time you cause
your cows to drink more water you
also induce them to eat in increased
proportion, they cannot give more milk.
The real facts in the case are that
while you increase through giving salt,
desire for water. you also increase the
action of the kidneys with an increased
discharge of urine, and the probability
is that the milk will be decreased in
quantity rather than increased. Our
advice is to provide only the quantity
of salt the COWS naturally crave, max
ing no attempts to increase their appe-
tite for it under the notion that you will
thereby increase the flow of milk.
Another idea quite commonly held in
this connection is equally fallacious,
which is that COW requires a much
larger quantity of water in summer
than in winter. Every thoughtful per-
son must admit that in summer a cow
is generally in the pasture eating grass,
which contains eighty per cent of
water even when there is no surface
water upon it. In the early morning
| oiiN AobO dO ONCl1lllS GtlCIC ID frequently
large amount of dew upon the grass,
and in addition to this we often have
heavy showers, with sometimes whole
days of rain, under which circumstan-
ces the cows require no other water
than that obtained with the grass. In
the summer time in wet seasons cows
will sometimes go two or three days
without tasting water except as found
in their food. In the summer season
the dies are the greatest trouble with
which cattle atpasture have to contend
On this account few bushes in q pas
ture are valuable, into which the COWS
can run and brush off the pests from
such parts of the body as cannot be
reached with the switch of the tail
Great care is needed that dairy animals
do not run down in condition, which
should always be avoided if possible.
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Peculiarities of Great Men.

Aaron Burr always forgot to return
a borrowed umbrella.
Charlemange always pared his corns
in the dark of the moon.
Byron never found a button off his
shirt without raising a row about it.
Homer was extremely fond of boiled
cabbage, which he invariably ate with
fork.
Napoleon could never think to shut a
door after him unless he was mad
about something.
Pliny could never write with lead
pencil without first wetting it on the
tip of his tongue.
Socrates Was exceedingly fond of
peanuts. quantities of which he always
carried in his pocket.
The Duke of Wellington could new
er think to wipe his feet on the door
mat unless his wife reminded him of
it.
George Washington was so fond OF
cats that he would get up in the mid
die of the night to fling boot-jack al
them.
Shakespeare, when carrying cod
fsh home from the village grocery
would invariably try to conceal it un
| der his coat.
When the wife Of Calico gave hin
letter to mail, he always carried il
round in his pocket three weeks before
he ever thought of it again.
Christopher Columbus always pait
for his local paper promptly, and being
an attentive reader, he always fount
out when new worlds were ripe.
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On the Origin of Sand.

The Hour Glass
The majority of the people probably
never thought anything about it, but
it will bear a great deal of thinking.
The origin of sand is one of those ge-
illogical problems which has been set
tied by common consent, without very
great reliance on a practical reason.
This sounds rather cynical, and is very
easily said. Let us examine the weak
points of a-prevalent hypothesis. Sand
consists of minute boulders, of which
gravel is a medium, in process of disin-
tegratiOn-says geologist. But the
sand which has passed under our mi
croscope is not part of boulder or a
gravel stone. Bubble stone, constantly
ground down by the action of the
waves, maintains to the finest texture
both its molecular construction and its
chemical constituency. Arenaceous
shales will be striated as distinctly in
gravelly pebble one-fftieth of an inch
in diameter, as in rock the size of a
cOcoa-Rut. The chemical composition
of minute pebble Of limestone is a
calcic rock in miniature. But sand
a remarkably homogeneous collection
of minute globules of silex, or silicic
acid oxide of silicOn), discolored with
iron.
If it be suggested that the other
constituents of igneous rocks like gran
ite were washed out in solution, leay-
ing the silex pellicles, we observe that
oxide of alumina and oxide of calcium
are quite as insoluble in water as the
silicates of alumina and potash, or the
form in which much of our granite ap
pears. But if it be the case that the
sand is the rock washing of centuries
then the borders of these seas should
be granite, and their bottoms should bt
covered with sedimentary rock of the
same base as that dissolved. These
conditions do not usually present them
selves where the great sand drifts ap.
pear, at least where we have exam
iued them.
Probably the most interesting accu
mutation Of sand on this continent is
at the head of Lake Michigan, where
for distance of over a hundred miles
the shore consists of broken areas oi
pure sand, often elevated into vast
ranges of precipitous hills, of almos
pure, whitish-yellow silicic acid, bar
rem and glistening. Along the shor,
there is still much boulder and grave
debris, and immense quantities of slat,
rubble, worn smooth and fat. ArounC
the sand hills there spreads out Low
or rolling alluvial soil, with immens
lagoons and marshes cut of from tn,
lake so effectually by the sand ledg
that not a solitary rivulet enters tn
lake for a distance of nearly fort,
miles.
1t has seemed to the writer that il
the projection of melted silicates of tn
alkaline bases, like the granitic an,
gneissic complex constituents, int
! water by volcanic agency, sand woul,
result. Silt is often a result O
: volcanic action. Volcanic aQen
! cies are evident in many forms o
} silica In the limestone pavement Of
/ our rtreet are multitudes of flint nod
iules, and the closest scrutiny indicate
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A Female Horse-Thief.


Yesterday morning an unusual scene
was witnessed in the Union Depot din
ing-room. There sat at one of the Ia
bles girl eating breakfast with haLd-
cuffs on, between two deputy sheriffs,
who seemed a great deal more disturb
ed about the matter than she did. FL
nally, after a whispered conversation
between the officers, the cuffs were
taken off the young woman's hands
until she finished her breakfast, when
they were put on Immediately. At the
same time the handcIffs were put on
two men were in charge of another dep
uty on the other side of the same table.
Thomas Gibson, the head waiter at the
restaurant, and Officer Penn learned
from the officers that the prisoners
were cOnvicts whom they were taking
to Jefferson City from southwestern
Missouri, and that the girl had been
convicted of horse-stealing, and was
only 10 years of age. The deputies
said to Gibson that she had made sew
eral attempts to escape, and they were
more afraid of her than any two ordi-
nary criminals, as she had greater
strength and was much more agile and
quickwitted than any ordinary man.
She had hair as black and as coarse as
an Indians, matted over her head and
hanging down her back; her cheek
bones were high, and she had small
piercing gray eyes and very large
mouth, but regular teeth. Around hel
neck she had red shawl pinned tight
ly, which gave her face very savag'
appearance, although she had white
complexion. She wore a homespur
dress and hobnailed shoes, and he
hands looked as coarse as an eagle!
talons. The other two prisoners wer,
ordinary-looking roughs.
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Curiosity in the Smithsonian.


One sees many curious things while
str0lling through the Smithsonian
institution. In one of the cases there
is small, irregular piece of mating,
about six inches long and two or three
wide. 1t is made of the bark of the
southern cane, and although coarse
when compared with the mating made
by the Chinese. it is well and neatly
made. This small piece of mans handi
work might form the basis for trea-
tises and lectures innumerable Itwas
found ON Petit Anse island, near Ver-
million bay, coast of louisiana This
island contains a mine of rock salt,
which was discovered during the late
war, and which seems to be unlimited
in depth and extent. Not far from
the surface Of the salt the piece of
mating was discovered, and it was
propably preserved by salt. Two feet
above the mating were found the
tusks and bones of an elephant, and
these bones were fourteen feet below
the present surface of the soil. The
question irresistibly arises, how many
years has it been since elephants lived
upon the continent, and what race of
men capable of manufacturing such
mating. lived and fourished hundreds
] OF years before them2
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Malaria.

There is so much ignorance upon
the subject of malaria that few words
are in order at times when people are
subject to malarial influences. Malaria,
which means simply bad air, is the
common name of a class of diseases.
which commonly arise from spores of
decaying vegetable matter, either ris-
ing from stagnant pools or piles of veg
citation undergoing decomposition.
These spores when inhaled with the
breath or taken into the system with
water soon enter the blood and germi-
mating there find foothold, whence
the whole system is poisoned by them
and the various functions disordered.
When the germ theory of disease was
first exploited it was supposed that
these spores were of animal nature.
and like the bacteria in diphtheria,
were propagated in the blood, but they
are now conceived to be of vegetable
origin, like the fungi found on decaying
wood or in cellars.
The source of this state of the air is
generally swamps or stagnant pools.
which. partially dried by the hot sun,
send forth vapors loaded with this ma
larial poison. These vapors descend
to the earth in the night cooled by the
loss OF temperature, and breathed by
sleepers are readily inhaled. Hence
persons living, near stagnant pools OF
marshes are liable to be afflicted with
chills and fever, and such localities
are never healthy, though they are
more so when the streams flowing into
them are pure, and also when the wa.
ter is high. Again the drainage OF
houses, slaughter houses, barns, ETC..
are fertile source of malaria. AS q
general rule the drainage of tanneries
In consequence of the lime used and
the tannin in the water is not as OBJ
jectionable as other drainage. Usually
houses OF bluffs or hills are but little
subject to malaria, because they are
above the poisoned vapors when the,
settle in the cooler air of the night.
One will often notice in coming int
the neighborhood of one of these slug
glish streams that pass through almos
every village a most vlllainous smell
caused by the offensive refuse which
communicates its bad odor to the at
mosphere, especially on hot days
This absorbed into the system by tn,
lungs or taken in through water, which
also absorbs it from the air, poison,
the blood and deranges the whole sys
tem.- The poison is also developed il
force in wells and springs when the,
become low, and the result of drinkins;
these is the same as breathing the pois
onous air. In a time of drouth tn,
great quantity of vegetation that drie,
up in the meadows, stubble fields ant
pastures, the corn6elds and forest
leaves produce the same effiuvia- Or
the prairies when large tracts of prairi,
ground are turned over, the decayin,
vegetation is a widespread cause O.
malaria. 1t will be noticed that when
ever there is long continued droutf
in the late summer and fall there i
always an abundance of malaria Thi
is dry malaria, and. is very common a
such times.
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The Frog Swallowed the Snake.


While passing pond near his barn,
recently, Malahide man says he saw
a commotion in the water, and on closer
observation discovered snake and frog
in mortal combat, each one trying to
swallow the other. The frog by an
extra effort seizef the snake "a large
one) by the tail, applied his suction
pump, and gradually drew the snake
into his stomach, the snake making
desperate efforts while being drawn in
to swallow the frog. At'last, in spite
OF wriggling. his snakeship's head dis
appeared forever, the frogs jaws clos
ing over him with a sharp click, and
the conflict was over. The frog pre-
sented somewhat bloated appearance,
but was able to strike in in the chorus
with his companions in the pond, and
positively refused to be taken for dis
section.