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Kangaroos and Rabbits.

A rabbit is an object of great interest
to children, while the kangaroo is justly
regarded as one of the most curious of
all the lower species. But in Australia
both of these animals are looked upon as
unmitigated curses. Their fecundity is
80 great that they fairly overrun the
country, and annually put all the crops
in peril. There are no lions, tigers,
leopards or panthers in Australia, in
short, no carnivorous animals to feed
upon the kangaroo in case they should
get too numerous. In former times there
was species of wild dog who was the
enemy of the kangaroo, but he had an
unfortunate taste for mutton, and
Australia is the greatest grazing country
In the world. So the people waged war
against the dog, and now they have their
reward In such enormous numbers of
kangaroos and rabbits that every crop is
put in danger by them. They are
slaughtered in vast quantities. Kangaroo
hunts are constantly under way, but the
animal multiplies more rapidly than it
can be killed off. Killing kangaroo is
poor sport. They cannot fight nor be
followed by dogs and horses they must
be headed off and shot in passing. A
gang of kangaroos unobstructed would
ruin large farm in a few hours.
Frederick the Great once said that he
never could understand why the Al
mighty put so much sand in Prussia,
and the Australian farmers are quite as
much puzzled to account for the
kangaroos and rabbits in their country.
Democrats MOnt1slv.
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but could not satisfy his curiosity. There
was not loose rock on the wall, end
everything perfect. He was lowered
down to a depth of forty feet, and there
found another cavern branching off behind
the main chamber. Exploring it with his
light he found it to be a solitary chamber
about sixteen feet square, with perpendi-
cular walls. That being the extent of his
rope, he was hauled to the top. He report
ed seing frequent signs of mineral, while
below, but could not determine the extent.
It was decided to lower Mr.. Nelson, with
his pocket loaded with stones, which he
was directed TO drop when he reached the
end of the rope, and listen, in order to
determine the depth of the cavern by the
sound. He dropped several of the
stones successfully, and heard them
roll downward until he, could hear no
longer. They certainly had not struck
would have heard them. He next tried to
fling stone against the opposite wall, and
was in degree successful, and thinks so
far as he could regulate the distance by
sound, that it was not less than sixty feet
away. Col. Gordon says that a party are
preparing to thoroughly explore the cave
on the lie tn of this month. The shaft fc~
the first fifteen feet where it is narrow will
he opened out so as to admit bucket. a
windlass will be erected, and a Coupie Of
men lowered. Calcium lights will also be
occurred in order TO throw lurid light on
the extensive subterranean chambers. The
discovery caused much excitement in Bis
bee, and it is more than probable that an
extensive crowd will be on hand on the
18th.
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j. G.. Benefits Home.

James Gordon Bennett has no Other
home than Newport. His house is q
massive stone structure, not built in the
present somewhat snowy style, but
elegantly appointed and in perfect taste.
Here no money is spared for real ele-
gance and comfort. The house is worth
about 800, 600. In it he keeps a ia.
nous chef, and his friends offend him il
they do not use house, chef and servants
as freely as if it were . hotel. He keeps
fourteen horses, and every style d
vehicle, from q coach to village cart
BE usually rides himself in the little I'm.
painted village cart, and puts his stable.
at the disposal of his friends. Mr.. Ben
nett is much liked here. He is more be
loved than liked by large number d
people who are his benefciaries. He
does more good in quiet way than an,
man know Letter from Nesupori
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.FOt{et.'s Folly.
Boston Cor. Hartford Courant.

Boston Cor Hartford Courant.
Alonzo Follett, the failed New York
broker, furnishes an example of the signal
success that attends some of our New Eng
land men in New York, in business way,
which only portion o. them are able to
sustain. He was quiet boy in school and
a modest young man. His first start in
business resulted in bad failure in one of
our country towns. Then he went to New
York to live altogether, and lost sight of
him for years. In my annual excursions
to the town in which he band were boys
together, have been shown of late evil
dence of his wealth in the form of a castle
like edifce which he had constructed in
the midst of the quietest conceivable rural
neighborhood. It grew year by year.
When saw it three years ago this fall,
the place was feast for the eye, not SO
much in the edifce itself-which was in
bad taste-as in the beauty of the grounds,
to add to which acre after acre of pasture
land had been reclaimed and swamps had
been drained in all directions. And the
buying of the land still went on. The vii
layers said Mr.. Follett had spent over
$4,000, and the impression prevailed that
he was not to stop until he possessed q
domain a mile square. Bnt the money
making machine is strained too tensely.
Only few days pass and the telegraph
flashes ever the news of the brokers' fail
ure. This is the end of an ambition for a
great estate and of other schemes of per-
haps greater magnitude.
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What Perils might come Out Of
Tunnel.

Tho scheme to tunnel the Channel has
mldabie remenstrances In England.
The objection most prominently urged
against the proposed work is that it
would expose the country to constant
menace of invasion or treachery. The
French might fill the tunnel OF any time
with soldiers in the guise of innocent
passengers, and seize the English APP
proaches SO firmly that it would be i'm
possible to shake them off, before the
people had begun to imagine that dam
ger was near; and the Irish republicans
might form league with the French,
and, seeing that the telegraph wires
were cut, destroy communication within
the kingdom, thus increasing the danger,
which. as it was previously presented,
seemed as great as. it possibly could be.
The single defense of the English would
be the power of blowing up the tunnel
suddenly and Unexpectedly, and what
would that power be worth? The pre-
mier might think himself justified in
destroying twenty millions of property
and impairing twenty two millions more
but also he might not. He might
be an undecided man, or a man expect
ing defeat by the opposition, or a man
paralyzed by the knowledge that the
tunnel was full of innocent people whom
his order would condemn to instant
death in a form which is at once most
painful and most appalling to the ina
gination. \ \ y The responsibility would
be overwhelming for an individual, and
a cabinet, if dispersed, takes hours to
bring together. The danger OF panic,
to which the people and market would
be constantly exposed, in the view of
such apprehensions as these, is one the
effects of which would be real. Such
objections to the tunnel have found for
NAL expression in remonstrance which
has been signed by men whose names
carry weight everywhere, and have at
last brought about suspension of
the project. A very curious objection,
which Americans can hardly appreciate,
is suggested in 1.-The Spectator" It is
that the tunnel would turn England
into an outlying peninsula of the Euro
pean Continent, and would be almost
purely mischievous, as slowly destroy
ing the insularity and separateness of the
national character"
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Life in ;Japan.

In Toxic there is large Government
paper-making and money printing
establishment, where hundreds Of labor
ers and operatives are engaged. In con-
nection with the works there is an eat
ing house, where food is supplied to all
who desire to obtain their meals on the
premises. The scale of prices for q
meal is from one and one-haH cents to
six cents. The lowest wages paid is ten.
cents day. It will be seen that the
laborer working for the smallest stipend
can get all the food required for small
proportion of his earnings. All the
operatives in this establishment are good
specimens Of what Japanese food will do
In the way of sustaining strength and
robust health. No more healthy set of
men and women or youths can be seen
in any part of the world none more
capable of enduring the strain and drain
upon the system that continuous labor
entails. Your correspondent has taken
the trouble to ascertain the measure
ment of the lower limbs of number Of
the draught coolies in Yokohama, and he
is able to assure you that, by actual meas
urement, very many OF these chaps have
calf to their leg measuring seventeen
inches and even larger. the height of the
men being not over five feet and four or
five inches. It takes good strong food
to put such muscle into the frame of the
human being, and that of the Japanese
does it. :.
Doubtless had not the long centuries
of seclusion from the outside world COM
PEELED the Japanese to marry and inter
marry among themselves as they have,
they would show much taller race than
they now do. Every species Of animal
life is dwarfed from the same cause of
interbreeding. The cattle are small,
and the horses are much smaller than
the California mustang; in fact, they
can only be called ponies. There may,
perhaps, be yet another cause for the
short stature of the race. Their inter
necine wars have destroyed the lives of
myriads of the fighting population. 1t
is known that the wars of Napoleon
served to shorten the stature Of the
French people very materially, and
doubtless the destruction of life caused
by war has effected the same result
here. The Japanese are war-ike race,
and when they fight they fight to kill,
using the most effective edged tools
made for the trade of war.-S0ss Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-17
A Tree That Has to Work Its Passage

It would be difficult to enumerate the
many and various uses of the cocoanut
palm. From the juice of the blossom
and of the fruit the Singalese makes his
toddy; the milk of the nut is his bever-
age, and the kernel, beside the valuable
oil it yields, is prominent as an article
of diet. Even the refuse from the oil.
presses serves as food for his poultry and
cattle, and where partly decomposed as
manure for the very trees from which
it came. The husks are his fuel, the
shells his vessels, and in the coir he finds
suitable fiber for his ropes and nets.
The leaves provide him with dishes, q
roof above his head and shelter from
the sun, while slip of the bark acts as
q simple bolt. After all this array there
is still the trunk, which furnishes mate
rial for his house, his furniture, domestic
utensils, fences, boats, and lastly, his
coffin.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-17
CopiMred or a Raftlesnake.

It is SO seldom that rattlesrakes perform
public service that an exception to their
general line of conduct is worth record
ing. For years a moonshiner named
Charles Folias has operated an Illicit still
in secluded cavern among the mountains
of North Carolina. The officers have
wasted great deal of valuable time in
searches after his retreat, but seemed no
nearer discovery. A week ago Folias
ascertained that they were in his neighbor-
hood, and accordingly withdrew to his
cavern. As he entered its mouth he came
upon a nest of rattlesnakes in the full en-
joyment of squatter sovereignty. After a
hurried attempt to kill them with dipper
of boiling corr juice, he accepted the only
alternative, backed, out of the cave, and
surrendered with the remark: Gentle
men, want it understood that was
forced to surrender ON account of the in
fernal snakes inside, and you deserve no
credit for it,"
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AN ARIZONA CAVE.
Fast Depths as Yet Unerptored-Iron,ise
of Mineral Wealth.

Fast Depths as Yet UnerptOred- Promise
of Mineral Wealth.
Tombstone Epitaph.J
Col. Gordon, an old time prospector and
very intelligent man, arrived in town
few days ago from the Mule mountains,
where he had been prospecting for several
months past. The colonel is keen OBJ
server, and can determine the nature of a
na.ural curiosity or ledge of mineral
with equal facility. Yesterday he gave an
Ep,; -ph representative particulars of the
discovery of an extensive cavern near the
foot hills of the Mule mountains, about a
mile and half from Sheldon's ranch. It
is ABOUT six hundred yards southwest of
the main trail between here and Bisbee,
and not more than twelve miles from
he latter place, and sixteen from
ere. The cave was accidental
~ discovered by two young men
named joni Hilton and Bob Nelson, who
were prospecting. The mouth of the cav
ern is about three feet and half wide by
foot and half long, and continues down
fifteen feet about that size. It is not the
handwork Of man, as there is not the
slightest indication that pick, bar or drill
was ever used in opening it. It has every
indication of being water formation,
and is unquestionably work of nature.
On one side OF the aperture a-vein Of high
ly mineralized rock several inches wide is
plainly visible. The vein is crystalized
and copper stained, and gives indications
of amounting to something handsome as
it goes down. The cavern was discovered
last Saturday, and the ledge ipmediatel,
located. The men secured the pick
ct ropes attached to their sad
dies and attempted to explore
the cave by descending by means of a
rope, Tut having no candles it was deter
mined to abandon the idea until the day
after. Sunday Messrs. Hilton and Nelson.
accompanied by William Banning and
Col. Gordon, visited the cave, and Hilton
was lowered by means OF a rope. The
cave runs down at an incline OF forty 1--WE
degrees, and is uniform in size for fifteen
feet. It then opens out several feet and
continues uniform to depth of twenty
five feet, when it opens into an immense
cavern, the dimensions of which are al
present unknown. The foot wall con
tinues uniform all the way down, ap.
parently, but the opposite side of the cav.
ern could not be penetrated. A long
carejo pole was let down to Mr.. Hilton and
he tied lighted candle on the end of it
and by that means tried t.
gaze on the other side
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,,Buchuraiba."
Quick, complete cure. all annoying Kidney,
Bladder I'D Urinary Diseases. 81. Druggists.
,,Buchuraiba."
A Railroad Story.
H,O1On SOciet,v

A Railroad Story.
Lodon Society,"
A few years ago an enormously wealthy
banker was travelling from Munich to
Vienna by rail. In the same carriage with
himself was gentleman accompanied by
friend. The stranger was of pleasing
manners, and the purse proud banker at
length condescended to enter into COZ
versation with him, and gradually even Gas
he himself expressed it) took liking to
''the man." He even went so far to say at
last, s'You seem to be good sort of fell
low and gentleman. Look here, I am
going to Vienna to see my daughter, who
is married there, is awfully rich and keeps
tiptop house. I will introduce you to
her." The stranger thanked him, and
mentioned that, by curious coincidence,
he, too, was travelling to Vienna to see
has daughter. "Your daughter, indeedr'
said the banker with consi derable AFRO
gance, s'and pray who may she be ?""The EN-
press of Austria" was the calm reply. The
stranger was the Duke Macmillan of Ba
varia, father of the present empress of
Austria and the ex-queen Of Naples. the
companion was his aid-de-camp. It is
needless to add that the millionaire ut
terly collapsed.
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AWonderful Salt Vein.

A very curious thing Is salt quarry,
discovered in Wyoming county, south
Of Rochester, N. Y, near Gainesville.
They were boring for Oil, and struck a
ledge twelve feet thick Of pure crysta.
salt 1t lies in the ground like gigan.
tic cake of ice, and can be taken out &C
clear and transparent that you can see
through the cakes as if they were pure
glass; It viii be much cheaper to quarry
out this salt and grind it up than it is
to boil down the Syracuse, Saginaw OF
Turks Island salt. The mine Is s source
Of infinite wealth to Wyoming county,
and one of the geological curiosities oi
the world.
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The Pension List.

AIC ISpOIt VI W. W. OuOlSy.
commissioner of pensions, shows that at
the close of the fiscal year ended June 80,
1882, 2S5,695 pensioners had been classified
as follows:
Army invalids. 173, 1873
Army widows, minor children, and
dependent relatives. ......... 76,44S
Navy invaIids. 1851
Navy widows, minor children, and
dependent relatives. .... 1858
Survivors of the war of 1872. 7,134
Widows of those who served in the
war OF 1872. N,661
The names of 2z,e64 new pensioners
were added ito the rolls during the year,
and the names of 649 whose pensions had
previously been dropped were restored,
making an aggregate increase to the rolls
of 2S.313. The names of IL ,446 pension
ers were dropped from the rolls for various
causes, leaving net increase for the year
of 1857 pensioners. at the close of the
year the pension paid to each pensioner
averaged $1O2.70, and the aggregate an
| nual value of the whole roll SIS, 342, 1O1. so.
The report says: 1.-The annual payment of
pensions exceeds the annual value by sew
eral millions of doiiars-that is to say, the
| total amount paid for pensions during the
year, exclusive of the arrears due in such
pensions as were allowed prior to Jan. %,
| 1879. was $53,924, 5000; the difference
! between this sum and the annual value
being the arrears due in new pensions COM
puted from the date of discharge in the
case of an invalid soldier, and from the
death of the soldier where pension was al
lowed to the widow OF others.
The amount paid during the year upon
first payments to new pensioners was
S26, 500. This amount was paid to
| 1908 pensioners.
The report gives in detail the operations
of the bureau covering the period since
1861, the tables being arranged by years
for the purpose of ready comparison. A
table has also been prepared which shows
i the number of pension claims filed and
allowed since 1861, and the disbursements
! on account of pensions since 1862. This
table shows that the total number of claims
fled during the period mentioned was
837 ,361; the total number allowed, 472, IT'S,
and the aggregate disbursements made
$3.50, GAL .324.75. Included in this amount
is the sum of $25, 234, 232.85 paid to pen
sioners for and on account of services rem.
dered during the war of 1912.
Another table shows that there are 29O,-
996 Claims for pensions now pending, and
1925 Oh the rejected files OF the Office
This exhibit also shows that there were
75,087 claims filed during the last fiscal
year. The special examination system
substituted by congress at the suggestion
of the commissioner for the special ser
vice." is said to be giving great satisfac-
ton. On this subject the commissioner says:
''The new system does away with the es
parte evidence formerly in use, so that the
claimant is now Afforded the opportunity
20 face the witnesses, aud to appear in per-
! son or by counsel III tie examination of
! has case" The expenses incurred in this
service during the year amounted to $685.
2?5.23. while The gross saving 10 the gov
! eminent resulting from the adoption of
this system was about S645,18
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If Nearly Dead.

after taking some highly pulled up stuff, with
long temonials, turn to Hop Bitters, and have no
fear of any Kidney OF Urinary Troubles, Bright's
Disease, Diabetes or Liver Complaint. These
diseases cannot resist the curative power of Hop
Btters; besides it is the best family medicine on
earth.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-17

Nm In responsible situations cannot
Ike those in private life, be governed
solely by the dictates Of their own incli-
nations, or by such motives as can only
affect themselves. - Washington.
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AN obituary n00ce m . Mormon papel
in Salt Lake City closes touchingly
He leaves nine widows and thirty
eight children to mourn his irreparabls
loss"
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THE COURTS.
Supreme Court.

BE- ne the Full Bench.
Julia Gibraitson, respondent, vs.. John
A. Hunter and VIM. E. Hunter, appellants,
Motion of counsel for respondent to affirm
Judgment OF court below, and Of counsel
for appellant for leave to file further re-
tarn, denied, and thereupon the same was
submitted and taken under advisement.
Anna NJ. Opsabel, administrative, etc..
of the estate of Ole W. Opsabel, appellant
VS.. Samuel Judd, ct al. Argued and sub
mitted.
Albert Shelter. ct al, respondent, VS.
The National Life Insurance company OF
the United States of America. appellants
Ordered that the bonds in $1,000 OF the
defendant company as security for the ap.
peal heretofore made to the United States
district court, be returned to the attorneys
Of the said company.
Adjourned to $50 this a. m.
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SMITH discovered after marriage that
his wife wrote poetry, but he couldn't
do anything about it then-he had takee
her for better or verse.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-17

A LONDON clergyman of the West End
makes charge of IS . year to women
who want spiritual advice,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-17

HNo woman really practices economy unless
she ses the Diamond Dyes. Many dollars can
be saved every:year. Ask the druggist.
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An Iowa Quaker knew full well tb

An Iowa Quaker knew full we'll that
he would be made the recipient of a
vigorous charivari when he embarked on
the perilous sea of matrimony, SO he
arranged dozen hiyes of able-bodied
bees along the portco, near which he
knew the serenaders would come. The
serenade came, as he expected. Lean
ing out of the bedroom window, he upset
the beehives and hastily withdrew.
s.There wasn't one of them bees" re-
marked the Quaker next day, s'that
would let up on man under three
miles,"
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ssBoy," said stranger to q lad who
was backing his boots In front of a
hotel yesterday. eff should give you
a dollar would your first impulse be to
go to the circus?" mo SIR" was the
prompt reply, "My first impulse would
be that it was counterfit biilp
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Discovery Of the Temple of Ephesus.

At London meeting to raise money
to complete the excavations at Ephesus.
Mr.. Wood, the explorer, told how he dis
covered the famous temple. No writings
existed to afford him the slightest clew
to its whereabouts. But he hit upon an
inscription from the wall of that theater
to which st. Paul would have entered.
but "the disciples suffered him not. -
This described procession in which
certain images were carried from the
temple through the city gates. After
much search he found the gates. and
then at length hit upon the paved way,
worn into groves by the wheels of char
lots. Little by little he made progress to
the city of Ephesus, until he reached
the temple OF the great goddess Diana.
The fragments of friezes and column
drums gave glimmering idea of what
the whole must have been. They are
now In the British Museum.