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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-07-25
Bird.Eating Frog.

The following curious narrative is
taken from the Cape Times, (South
Africa.) A lady living in the George
district supplies the following particu
lars of the habits of this creature:
81 have much pleasure in furnishing
all the information we have regarding
the large frogs which have proved 50
destructive to our young chickens. y
water slut runs round our terrace,
and passes through the ground where
the poultry range, and in this tie frogs
harbor. The first time our attention
was drawn to their bird eating propen-
sity was by the cries of small bird in
a fuchsia near the stream. Thinking 1t
had been seized by snake, several
hastened to the spot, and saw beautl-
full red and green sugar bird in the
mouth of a large greenish frog; only
the birds head was visible; and its
cries becoming fainter, the frog was
killed and the bird released. Its feath-
ers were all wet and Shiny, and for
some days we could distinguish it in
the garden by its ruhled plumage.
Since then the same species of frog
have on several occasions been killed
with young chickens half swallowed,
and once duckling was rescued from
the same fate. Whether the noise is
natural to these frogs, or assumed to
decoy the chickens within their reach,
we know not; but they constantly
make chuckling sound so exactly like
hen calling her chickens for food
that we have seen whole broods de-
ceived, and rushing toward the slut
where they supposed the hen to be.
The frogs are very wary, and it is diff
cult to find them except by the screams
of their victims. We have lost large
numbers of small chickens in an unac-
countable manner, and now feel sure
that these frogs must be answerable
for very many of them, as there are
no rats here, and the chickens are care
fully housed at night"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-07-25
WHOLE NO. 2l29.
About Blackblrds.

The red-wing usually builds its neS
in some swamp or marsh aboundin9
with alders. In these and sOmetime'
in a detached bush in a tussOck q
rank grass in the meadow, the nest IL
curiously wrought with the long dry
leaves Of meadow grasses, and the
slender leaves of the flags carried
around the boughs of the bush for
support and carefully interviewer,
The interstices of this basket are filled
with rotten wood, roots Of grass, peat
or mud, making when dry substan-
tial shell, which is lined with fine dry
stalks and rushes. The eggs are
white, Hinged with blue, and marked
near the large end with streaks OF
light purple and dark brown. The
color of the bird is glossy black, the
shoulders of the wing being bright
scarlet. Its length is from eight'and'
one-half to ten inches.
The COW blackbird enters the north
ern states about the first of April, but
it only makes sojourn there, for it
disappears about the middle of June
They feed in spring upon grubs, fol
lowing the plow, and are often busy
around cattle picking up the insects
which they happen to disturb.
But the most striking peculiarities
of these birds are that they never pair,
and build no nest. The egg is laid il
| the nest of some smaller / !, as The
red-eyed fly catcher, the bluebird, the
chirping sparrow or I'll" common
pewit. If the owner of the nest has
any eggs of her own they are al
Matched together, and the young birds
in the same family. If, however, the
strange egg is alone, and the bird is
not strong enough to throw it out, The
nest is abandoned. The most uSua
nurse of this bird seems to be the red
eyed ticro. The egg of the cowbird
which is larger than that of the red
eye, is better warmed, and Matched
day sooner. The great size of th'
young intruder soon stiles the right
full heirs, and the parent bird carrie
away its own dead young to maxi
room for the founding. AS soon a
they are hedged the graceful little fel
lows desert their foster parents, AM
skulk about the woods till after tim
they instinctively join those of tn
same feather, confirming the adage.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-07-25
A HAPPY COMMUNITY.
How the People OF an Ohio Village Lead
Lives of Contentment.


Lives OF Contentment.
About eighty miles from Cleveland
and six miles south Of Mineral Point,
the terminus of the Valley road at the
Wheeling terminus of the Wheeling
and Lake Erie railroad, there is
quaint little old village known as Ioar,
inhabited by Il strange, frugal and IN
dustrious people, the happiest, perhaps,
in the world. A large number OF
them never saw the outside of their
beautiful home, veritable paradise,
and trouble themselves little, if any
about the turmoil and strifes Of the
wicked world. They know no care;
nothing worries and troubles them.
The colony was first founded in 1917
by Huber and Ackermann, two Ger
mans, the former native of Wurtem-
burg and the latter hailing from Ba-
yaria Shortly afterward, in the same
year, they and few followers from
the same country formed community
and named it Zoar, because they looked
upon their home as refuge from the
world, which they termed Sodom and
Gomorrah. The first two houses that
Huber and Ackermann built in 1911
quaint, antique structures are still
inhabited by the descendants Of the
two pioneers They are built OF logs
and mortar and contain but one large
room, sparsely furnished. The windows
are snlall, eacn containing nine paIles
of glass about six inches square. The
roofs are covered with tiles, as are
those of all the houses erected up to
1850, when the art of tile-making died
out in Zoar.
The inhabitants, who have TO desire
to amaSs wealth, work for one common
end-that is, the good of the cOmmu-
nifty, which owns and controls the en-
tire village including thousands of
acres of the richest land in the Buck
eye state. The money goes into one
common treasury; the necessities of
life, including food, provisions and
garments, are furnished by the village
officials, consisting of three trustees
and a committee of five, who are an
nually elected by ballot. The village
contains about 800 inhabitants, which
number has been the same since lSlI
and never increases or decreases to any
noticeable extent. There are no preach
ers, but all the people are deyout, wor-
Shipping after the manner OF the
Friends. The marriage VOW is held
sacred and the laws are rarely broken.
-Cleceiand, Ohio, HeyUld.
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AMERICAN GIRLS AND TITLES.

Unfortunate Alliances which are Made
with Alleged NobIcmen of Foreign
Lands.
Writing from London to the De-
troit Post, W. A. Croirut says II |
felt free to mention names | could
tell tales to wiring the heart, about
American girls who have married
English nOblemen. In almost every
instance it proves fatal to the brides
happiness. 1t isn't long since Lord
Flyfnger married the heiress of an
American CrGsus. There was tre-
mendous time about it. She was
envied by all her marriageable cronies
and cid Crpsus was congratulated on
the fine alliance. lie grinned with
self-complacency and handed over
$1,500,000 to His Lordship Flyfinger
on the spot: Flytinger took the wife
and the money and brought them to
England, where he introduced her to
few acquaintance and then left her
to shift for herself, while he travels
with relays of fast horses, races and
hunts, CANDLES and lives a wild life on
the million and half of money for
which he SOLD the shelter of his title to
a bright, hopeful, ambitious American
girl.
Five or six years ago an American
girl whose name was on all lips
married rich Englishman, who had
the entree of high society in England.
She was feasted, toasted, envied. But
she has slept in a social cocoon ever
since, heartily wishing herself home,
not seeing for months sometimes the
husband, who loves to follow the
hounds.
An American gentleman living here,
whose name would be recognized by
the reader if | were at liberty to men
ton it, told me yesterday: 81 have
been approached within month by an
English lord, who may be duke some
day, but whose fortune has become
greatly impaired by his dissipation.
lie has fixed his eye on an American
girl whom he has never seen. She is
comparatively uneducated and not very
bright and fearfully plain. Her nose
is snub. Her mouth is large. Her
eyes are small and watery. Her
father is an Irishman. But he is
worth at least $20000,000. This lord
wants me to bring about match
between himself and this girl. I'd see
him hanged first. for know what .
sacrifice of her it would be-
One other case: There is young
lady now in high society in America,
her native land, whose husband is an
English lord and whose father-in-law is
a duke. Sheis beautiful, accomplished,
interesting, and she might have made
good match in New York. But she
wanted lord, and she got him. He
inherited gambling from his mother,
the duchess, and he CANDLES away all
he can get. He is dissolute and un-
scrupulous; she is neglected and
wretched. So she pays long visits to
her relatives in America, where she
can plunge into society and forget her
pitiful European experiment.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-07-25
The Nose.

Character Is SHOWN III the nose.
Great warriors have been diStiL guished
Oy the size Of their noses. Both Neno-
ohon and Plutarch agree that Cyrus
he Great was distinguished by a great
md hooked nose. AntiochuS of Syria
vas surnamed the Hawk on account of
his nasal peculiarity; and Cicero, the
great Roman orator, was named from
| wart upon his nose One old writer
describes the Apostle Paul, of neat and
igile person, small headed, high brow
I'd, thick bearded; and of a fair, hooked
lose. The three great monarchs OF
history were grinns or big nosed men.
Mohammed, Charles V, Emperor OF
Spain, Germany and the Low Countries,
md Francis |. of France wore noses
hat rested on their upper lips. Napo-
con had a preference for men with
zig noses: so did the Duke Of Yelling
on, the hero of Waterloo. An old
luthor declared the biggest nose, the
Dest nose, and instanced the Roman
,mperors. Numa's was foot long
md they surnamed him Pompilius.
Lycurgus and Solon, the wise men of
freeze, ran to nose, and all seven Ro-
nan kings except Tarquinius and he
vas dethrOned. IIomer's nose was
even inches long. Small noses are
leld to indicate feebleness of purpose
md lack of energy, yet the patient
historian. GibbOn, had one scarcely
7isible among his puffy cheeks. Carat,
/ Frenchman, says the root of his
lose lay buried in his skull deeper
han those of a Kalmuck's;" yet Gibbon
lid not have the nerve for years to
propose to the woman he loved. His
lose was like that described in the
Chronicles of Clovernook." "The
| lermt had no nOse--none ladies, none.
There was little knob of flesh like i
small mushroom dipped in wine, which
made its obtrusive way between the
rood mans cheeks, and through which
ne had been known to snee2e; but I'M
,udence itself could not call that piece
If flesh nose" SOuthey had large
,ouilne nose. So did Marie Antoinette.
According to llazlitt, the nose of SAM
lel Taylor Coleridge was small, feeble,
nothing like what he did; but Word
vorth's nose was "a little arched and
arge."
Charles Dickens characters are
always doing something with their
loseS-blowing them, snoring through
hem, or pressing them against window
panes. In Nicholas Nickleby' little
Miss Creery, the portrait painter, di-
.ates to Mrs. Nickleby on the conven-
ience of living in the Strand. When
she wants nose or an eye for any
particular sitter, she has only to look
out of the window till she gets one.
Does it take long to get nose now"
asks Nicholas. "Why, that depends in
great measure upon the pattern.
Snubs and Romans are plenty enough
and there are flats of all sorts and sizes
when there's meeting at Exeter Hall
but perfect aquilines, | am sorry to say
are scarce, and we generally use 'en,
for uniforms or public characters"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-07-25
A Baby's Feet.

A babys feet, like sea-shells pink,
Might tempt, should heaven sec meet,
An angels lips to kiss, we think,
A baby's feet.
Like rose.hued ea.howers toward the heat,
They stretch and spread and wink
Their ten soft buds that part and meet.
No flower.bells that expand and shrink,
Clean half so heavenly sweet
As shine on life's untrodlen brink,
A baby's feet.
A baby 8 hands, like rosebud5 iurled,
Whence yet no leaf expands,
ope if you touch, though close upcurled,
A baby's hands.
Then fast as warriors grip their brands
When battles bolt is hurled,
They close ,clenched hard like tightening band:
No rosebud yet by dawn mpearled,
Match, even in lovcicst lands,
The sweetest flowers in all the world
A baby's hands.
ILL.,
A baby's eyes, ere speech begin,
Ere lips learn word or signs,
Bless all things bright enough to win
A baby's eyes.
Love, while the sweet thing laughs and lies,
And sleep flows out and in,
Sees perfect in them Paradise,
A baby eyes.
Their glance might cast out pain and sin,
Their speech make dumb and wise,
By mute, glad godhead felt within
A baby's eyes SWinburne.
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1888

her feet that she upset the pail, half
full of currants. Miss Malvina dropped
her hoe; and Desire, who had just
brought out a little saucer of late,
luscious, red Strawberries stood amazed
at this revelation.
"You!" she cried, tour Cousin Rolf
And nearly hit you with the stick,
chasing the COW, and half startled you
out of your senses, and"
"And taught me-" said the old
bachelor, with strangely-sweet smile,
"that there is yet left spice of un-
selfishness in the conglomerate called
human nature. Cousin Desire, | thank
You for the lesson. Believe me, shall
not soon forget it,
And before the day was over, he had
helped Miss Malvina finish her patch
of sweet-corn, and mended the defec-
tive fence-Iails where the offending
COW had broken through, besides stalk
ing up the sweet williams, and mailing
the big rose-tree to the frame from
whence its over-blossoming weight had
dragged it.
81 declare" said Miss Malvina, "he's
a real comfort about the place"
"And he has Travelled so much!
cried Desire; "and he talks so beauti-
fully! only hope he'll be contented
here"
There was no sort of doubt about
that. Rolf Welland Carey was very
well contented. lie had always hun
gered and thirsted for the details of a
home life-here it was to perfection.
But Mr.. and Mrs. Philo were not so
well suited. All their spasmodic eff
forts toward friendliness were checked
with Arctic frigidity,
"It's too badr' said Mrs. Philo, al
most crying. Hell be certain sure to
90 and make fool of himself by
marrying Desire, and we shall never
get a cent of his money. Desire ought
to be ashamed to think of such thing
at her age!
But Desire was only forty, and there
are late roses as well as early ones. At
least, so Mr.. Welland thought. At all
events, he married Desire, and the
Philo Wellands were disconsolate.
ats all our bad luck" said they.
For they had forgotten all about the
passage in the Bible that speaks of
"entertaining angels unawares ~
Helen Forrest GlaceS.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-07-25

A Bloomington, ILL.,, lady has in
troduced the culture of silk worms in
that city. She bought 1000 eggs in
June, 1882, from which she obtained
about 500 worms. From the resulting
crop of worms she raised about 10o,-
900 worms which were Matched out
1.-The middle of last May. They are fed
on green Usage, orange, or hedge
leaves, and are just beginning to spin
their coons. Several other Blooming
ton ladies have since become interested
in silk-worm culture; and the industry
promises to develop into a lucrative
business. '"' - -! - -;
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The FortniyhHy Reciew asserts that
France at the present day has II better
equipped and more completcly-or-
ganized army than any other country
in the world. With the 100000 vo-
lunteers upon which she can rely, the
number of troops at her disposal is l.
100000 men, so that she NOW can
look on the future without fear"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-07-25

Little men are beneath boasting;
great men are above it.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-08-29
DEATH.
1t StreWs with Victims the Path Of the
Minnesota Cyclone.

CHICAGO, August pa gentleman just
in from Rochester, Minnesota, says that
the entire north part Of the place from
the Chicago & Northwestern tracks is a
confused mass of debris. Scarcely a
house is Left standing and the few that
are, are moved from their foundations as
if shaken by an earthquake. The
affrighted survivors were at work all
night rescuing the injured and recover
ing the bodies of the dead.
Before midnight twenty-thrce corpses
were recovered. Most of them had been
horribly mutilated. 1t was thought that
at least twenty bodies still remain in the
ruins. The portion of the city swept by
the Cyclone comprised about one-third
of its extent. Thes appears to have
formed about eighteen miles northwest
of Rochester and gathering violence as it
progressed, destroying several farm
houses in its course. A lowering, dun.
colored, filnnel-shaped cloud was seen
approaching the fated town, and in few
minutes the slaughter and been accom-
plished. No time was given for any
preparation had it been possible. The
scene among the devastated districts and
the place where the dead lay was indie
scribably sad.
Mothers were wildly searching for
their children while little homeless waits
were found whom the tempest had or
phaned. One child was the only sur
vivor of family of seven persons.
Passengers on the train were not aware
that a frightful cyclone had passed near
them until their attention was directed
to feather beds and articles Of wearing
apparel lodged against the barbed wire
fence. Wheat and other straw which
was blown from the stack was TWISTED
around the rails in large quantities pre-
senting singular appearance, where the
death dealing funnel crossed the track.
Shortly before the train arrived at
Rochester freight train was wrecked at
the trestel at the western approach to the
place. The wind twisted the switch bar
from its place throwing open the switch.
The engineer saw the peril when close
at hand and jumped, thus saving his life.
The fireman was carried over the en-
bankment and his body has not been
recovered. The path of the storm
through south Rochester is strewn with
wrecks; but mostly in the poorer portions
of the suburbs. On the north side the
large elevator near the depot was broken
in two pieces and the upper half carried
across the railroad over two trains that
were standing on the track. The fatal
cloud swept toward St. Charles, five miles
to the southeast, eating a wide swath
through the timber and farms, touching
the little hamlet with fatal effect and
leaving two corpse and three fatally
MANNED.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-08-29
Bozeman!
GALLATIN COUNTY, MONTANA.

The town is pictuequey located at the head Of the fertile
Galatn valley 1860 miles west of St Paul. the n p r.
The famous Galatin valley is Immediately tributary to
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-08-29
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, I
August 26th, 1888, (

- You see by this that 1 am "bobbing
serenely" around the country, having
reached here from Townsend to-day,
changing my programme somewhat. My
last left me at Willow Creek, Gallatin
county, Except my communication in
regard to the junction of east and west
ends of the road.) I made but short
stay at Bridgeville, or Three Forks,
where Messrs. Paul & Hanley keep. a
first-class hotel, but as intended at a
later day to devote some attention to
that part of the country, hurried on to
Gallatin and took the cars for Townsend.
Townsend is beautifully situated in the
Missouri valley, near where the Mp.
crosses the Missouri, and next to Boze-
man is surrounded by finest agricultural
country l have seen, which when fully.
settled up, will make it not only a beauti-
full city but one Of solid permanence.
Farming will be the chief industry in
this part Of the country, consequently q
city built with the resources of farming
community will thrive and prosper as
long as grass grows and water runs.
four months old it reckons many
and solid business houses, for
The most part carrying very complete
stocks in their lines. Like all Montana
towns it needs good hotel, but unlike
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-08-29
osBoRN's DRUG STORE.
4 REVIEW.

REVIEW.
Twelve years ago when came to Boze-
man l brought all my worldly wealth
Qess than two thousand collars with me
and cast my lot with the pioneers Of civ
ilation hereabouts, with an expectation
to make home and live among the adj
vance guard. Since that time my bust
ness has increased from five thousand
dollars the first year to twenty thousand
dollars the last year, and am proud
of the record l have made, and feel
just pride in my customers, who have
enabled me to achieve such a success. A
year ago, the march of improvement
caused me to vacate the log house corner
of Main and Bozeaan streets, at which
time l commenced the building of
more spacious and comfortable building
to accommodate my increasing trade. At
ter two removals and one fire, am at
last settled in my new quarters,
OSBORN'S NEW BRICK BLOCK,
where hope to see all my old friends
and customers, and the public generally,
whether they wish to purchase or not.
hope they will come in aud take look
around and compare the old with the
new.
You will find a larger and better select
ed stock of goods in the drug line than
was ever before brought to Bozeman
in part of
Drugs proper. patent medicines. toilet
and fancy goods, perftlmeries, Sponges,
fine pocket cutlery, gold and steel pens,
pencils, stationery, brushes-all kinds,
toilet soaps, paints and oils, window
glass, lamps and chandeliers, lamp trim
lnings, trusses, supporters, braces, can
dies, pure liquors for medical use, and
the best goods generally that can be
bought for money.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-08-29

Ifthere are any people in Montana
who have no faith in the future of their
cities and towns and are continually
croaking and predicting the speedy
downfall Of their interests, the people Of
Helena are not of that class. With o
firm and abiding faith in the solidity,
permanency and onward progress of
their city, they have not hesitated or
held back in every important enterprise
to bring about such q result. Blocks (
buildings three and four stories high are
to be seen in every direction. The old
one story stone and brick structures are
receiving additional stories and vieing
with the newer ones in the onward
march fProsress. 70 conceive an en-
tesprise y with them only ! precursor Of
speedy attainment. They believe in the
theory that God helps those who help
themselves, and their spirit Of enterprise
and liberalifx- ahas.ll-l---.---.-.~ ny
UINHE and no les important places.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-08-29
BOHEMIAN

The Galatn valley is the largest most productive and
old settled valley of Montana Mines of fine Btuminous coal
are opened and worked Immediately east Of
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-08-29
WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
WEDNESDAY,, AUGUST. q. 1888.

Tx y 1s T.
J. Conf Fslle indaiEy bas BEN 9ade =
Helena among men Who have now and
win have soon, horses At the Territorial
1hir to compete for the different purses;
= to whether the Bozeman course will
b opened and purses offered. We have
been told while in Helena that havingso
good course, and 90 many horses are
now in the Territory that If given q
chance would 90 there, that the people
Of Boseman should move in the matter
and have these horses appear there after
the fair. We trust some move may be
inside in that direction and If it is desira-
be to open the course, that liberal purses
should be provided. From all we an
leasn the present year seems more favor
able than any proceeding one and the
easy access BY nail, both east and west
would mite many people to Bozeman.
WY scttAe directqrs Of the sscc track
nd fri ttPnf nexe son1 pove ~
the matteR