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FISH THAT GROIN and CRK.

Over fifty varieties of fish are known
to produce sounds, each more or less
different. Many fishermen are familiar
with the curious note of the gizzard
sh&d known to science as the "Loroso-
ma, the sound being Migratory and
agreeable. The mullet, so common in
Southern Florida, and which often at
tains large size, makes a sound quite
prolonged, and during its utterancc
bubbles Of water are seen arising from
the water above it. The catfish makes
a humming sound and the sea-horse
utteEs, not a whining or neigh, bat
series of single sharp notes. In many
cases the sound is produced by tle
pneumatic duct and swimming Dla1lar;
while other fishes make an involun..trr
sound by the lips or the pharvrgc;, -.
intermediary bones. In the fishes
trigla or zeus there is diaphragm with
muscles for opening and closing TIE
swimming bladder, and by its action
the sounds are graded and qualified
The voice of the catfish and eel is pro-
duced evidently by forcing air from the
swimming bladder into the @sophagus,
and the sea-horse makes its noise by the
nse of certain vibratory voluntary mus
cles, and to all intents and purposes the
sounds are comparable with those made
by other animals, expressing, perhaps,
the emotions felt. Their air bladders
are homologious to lungs and the pneu-
matte duct is analogous to the trachea
Of the higher vertebrates.
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my mental energies to the story. lsoon
conquered the desire, and worked with
almost nervous rapidity. Looking up
suddenly saw my meerschaum pipe ly-
ing on the mantelpiece. My victory
was not complete. 'Ah,' I thought,
I'll show myself that I am master of
the situation, and, arising, I filed the
pipe and placed it on the desk beside
me. Now I am MASTER I unused.
THE enemy is under my very nose and
still I resist him. The victory will soon
grow commonplace I took up the
pipe. I would go further. I would
light match and hold it over the to-
bacco. I took the stem between my
teeth and smiled again. Talk about
conquering desire. I struck match
and held it over the pipe"
WELL" remarked one of the compa-
ny when the Colonel stopped.
81 smoked" he continued. who's
got match ?"-ArkansGD Traveller.
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A plain marble slab at the head of it
bears the simple inscription: Washing
ton Irving, born April 3, 1773; died
November Is, 1862" Three oaks and a
cedar shade the plat, which is thick
with the graves of the Irvings. The
relic-hunter has left his mark on Irving's
grave. The headstone and footstone
have been Clipped off until they present
a ragged appearance. The plat, which
is surrounded by hedge, looks down
on the place where the old bridge crossed
the river. At Irving's home, Sunnyside,
everything is just as it was when he
died, except the pond, which is no long
er seen. When Irving died he wished
no costly stone raised to honor him.
NeU York Times.
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NOON, WEATHER. AND TIDES.

1t one Of the meetings of the British
Association at Southampton, Sir W.
Thompson delivered an address to q
large audience upon the tides. While
explaining the theory of the moons in
fuence on the tides, he incidentally
touched on the supposed influence of
the moons changes upon weather, and
pointed out that the comparison of most
careful and complete indications of the
barometer, thermometer and anemome-
ter, and the times Of the new and full
moon and half-moon, had failed to
establish any relation whatever between
them, and had proved on the con ttra:'y
that if there was any dependence Of the
weather on the phases of the moon, it
was only to a degree quite imper-
ceptible to ordinary observation. We
might take it confidently not only that
it was not proved that there was q de-
pendence of the weather on the change
of the moon, but that it was proved that
there was no general dependence of
weather on the changes of the moon.
The attraction of the moon upon our
globe, however, was described as not
merely causing the tides, but as pro-
ducing an incessant palpitation and
tremor of the earth.
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WILL FORCE.
Journal.

II tell you," said Col. Holcomb, shat
smoking is the worst habit that man
can contract. You know I lean very
affectionately toward literature, and
that write sketches occasionally. Sew
eral days ago I received an order from
a literary paper for story. I was fat
tered by the compliment and immedi-
ately began work. For years have
been an inveterate smoker, and knew
that the effect of tobacco was injurious
to my brain, and when I began the sto-
ry I resolved to quit. I have strong
will, let me remark, but I was surprised
at the ease with which I crushed the
habit I wrote with vigor which I
had never felt before, and when night
came I went to bed feeling like hero.
I thought of men who struggle with the
habit and smiled when I contemplated
my superior strength. The next day I
began work again. 1 wanted to smoke,
but I frowned at the desire and bent
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ROlLANCE IN CRLME.
The Revelations Suggested by Drop of
Candle Grease.

CUfCNtE UT6ISes
Roman Letter to Cincinnati Gazette.l
But the art of assassination reached
its elimination in the murder by Count
Faella, at Imola, of the priest Costa
Count Faella was a man of about 45
years Of age, of an ancient and noble
family, and highly esteemed officer of
artillery in the italian army. He owed
debt of about $4,000 to the priest,
and, seeing no way of paying it, invited
him one summer day to breakfast.
After coffee and pleasant conversation,
he led his unsuspecting victim into the
garden, passing through the ground
floor of the house. Here, long after,
the poor priest was found in well, the
mouth of which had been carefully
hidden by India mating and green
boughs and little earth. It was a
complete trap, the murdered man being
found on his knees with his hands
raised to defend the head. Heavy
stones thrown down had broken his
limbs, and a wagon load of rice husks
had smothered him. The disappearance
of the priest was so mysterious that the
utmost vigilance of the detectives was
exerted to discover the assassin. But
only proof that amounted to certainty
was believed, fixing the crime upon
Count Faella, thought to be an honor
able man and connected with many of
the wealthiest and most respected
families in the place. The thirst for
wealth was his destruction. He found
himself poorer than his relatives and
friends, and entered into various specu-
lations, which, proving unsuccessful,
left him in debt. He borrowed money,
forged notes, and finally murdered one
of his creditors in the most ferocious
and extraordinary manner. Not only
did lie prepare the well, having an old
one which already existed in the same
ground-foor room filled up in order to
divert suspicion, but he purchased heavy
stones to complete his work when the
priest should have fallen in. The
detective genius Of the italian police
is remarkable. During the researches,
when as yet no positive evidence had
been found, and the police and the men
who had dug the new well, and filed
up the old one, were searching for Don
Costa, drop of candle grease revealed
the position of his tomb. The well
digger remembered to have stuck a
candle On nail over the place where he
was digging, and drop Of grease had
fallen On the wall below. He found
the spot, and, digging there, the terrible
secret of that dark room was discovered.
FaeIla took poison, which was ad-
ministered to him by some of his rela-
dives, in prison, and SO escaped the con-
sequences of his deed,
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AACIILLAN'S TEARFUL START.

There is touching bit Of biography
in Thomas Hughes memoir of Macmil-
Ian, the publisher, which has just ap-
peared in London. At % years old
Macmillan arrived in London in search
of employment. The poor young
Scotchman was utterly .desolate and
friendless. Describing the incidents of
the second day after his arrival, he
wrote: "All the way from Stationers
court to Goswen road was sprinkled
with tears. These were a relief to me
these and prayers-such half-articulate
prayers as I could give utterance to.
At that hour the passers-by could not
notice me; certainly did not notice
them, except when L was stopped and
spoken to by the poor and unfortunate.
These I could have taken and pressed
to my heart. All me! what world we
live in" But he was more fortunate
than he expected. Mr.. johnson, a
bookseller in Cambridge, invited him to
become his shopman at ESQ year and
his board; and this post he accepted,
retaining it for more than three years.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-19
HOW THE WORLD WENT RIGHT
ALONG--A FABLE.

A Bear, who had made himself believe
that he had the worst luck of any ami
NAL in creation, was crawling through
the woods one day when he met a Ser
pent, who inquired:
(Which way now, my friend?"
Il am going to find some spot where
I can retire from the World. The
World has not used me right, and in re-
venge will desert it,"
Il wouldn't do that"
But [ will. I can no longer trust
anybody. I have been cheated, lied to
and misused until I have no faith left.
1 will now retire within myself, and if
any CONFUSION of Nature takes place
the country must not blame me for it.
L have borne all that one Bear can be
expected to put up with"
Bruin went his way until he found
lonely spot, and he then crawled into
hole and began listening for the Crack
of Doom. It made him feel good to
think that the World was turning itself
bottom side up because he had absented
himself from sight and search, and he
was determined not to yield until after
several thousand terror-stricken people
had come to him with tears in their
eyes.
Much to Bruins surprise the night
passed like all other nights. No one
appeared during the forenoon to plead
with him, and the afternoon passed
without an Earthquake or Tornado. He
momentarily expected the advent of a
crowd to plead with him to come back
to the World and have faith and conf
dence, but the crowd didn't show up.
After long and hungry night Bruin be-
gan to weaken. After much argument
with himself, he crawled out of his den
and was sneaking through the woods
when he met Hare.
us the world yet standing?" asked
the Bear.
Certainly, never more solid since I
can remember"
"And is any one searching for me?"
Not that I know Of"
Everything goes on just the same,
eh?'
"Just the same"
"And didn't you hear that I had lost
all faith in human nature, and retired
from the World?"
Never heard word of it. Tra-la,
old man, I'm off,"
The Bear sat down on a thistle and
thought the matter over for few min
utes, and then arose and made bee
line for his usual haunts, telling every
animal he met on the way that he had
been off on fishing excursion.
Moral: The cynic who fatters him
self that he is revenging on the world
by Withdrawing his company forgets
that he will be obliged to associate with
himself. -Detrojt Free Press.
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to a colored militia company, ana much
given to using military phrases, preached
very eloquent sermon, in which he
continually repeated the words:
II tells yer, brederen and sistern, hold
fast to yer colors."
About dozen very dark "sistern"
ieft the sacred building, leading out
their light saddle-colored children. One
of them, who was as black as the ace of
spades, was heard to remark:
Hits pretty late in de day for dat
pasture to be preaching dat ar strange
doctrine to an Austin cullud congregs
ton. "-Teras Sifti1egs.
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CASE OF STAGE FRIGHT.

"Stage fright" is supposed to be
weakness of tyros or amateurs, but as q
matter of fact the best actors and ora
tors are troubled with it, particularly
in new pieces. In Kate Fields Life
of Fechter,' Mr.. Wilkie Collins tells of
an attack from which that actor suffered
previous to his presentation Of NO
Thoroughfare, and when he was not
only letter perfect" in the text, but
had been living" the character Of
%Obenreizer" for several days. The at
tack began at breakfast on the morning
of the play. He could eat nothing.
Pale, silent, subdued, he looked like q
man on his way to the scaffold. He was
not even able to smoke. "Are you going
in front to see your play?" he asked, with
look of despair. Mr.. Collins said
"No." you will be behind the scenes,
then?" "Yes." For Gods sake come
to my room!' Before the performance
began he went to Fechter's room.
Dressed, as to the lower part of him
only, for the character of "Obenreizer, {"
he sat helplessly staring into a white
basin, held before him by his attendant.
Here's Mr.. Fechter sick, sir" said the
man, "and nothing in him to bring up"
Unable to speak, Fechter put out his
tongue. The color of it had turned to
the metallic blackness of the tongue of q
parrot. When the overture began, an
other attack made the basin necessary.
"Obenreizer's upper garments were put
on, and the last touches were added to
his head and face. Then came the
sound of applause for an actor already
on the stage. Fechter gave one express
sive look, and turned to the basin again.
Soon the dreadful voice of the call-boy
summoned Mr. Fechter to be ready.
He took Collins arm to descend the
stairs which led from his room to the
stage. The attendant stood with his
basin ready-and, what is more, wanted
at the moment when "Obenreizer" was
to make his appearance. Some one
near whispered, Good heavens, he will
he taken i'll before the audience!" In
another moment the words were spoken
which gave him the cue. ask Mr..
Obenreizer to step this way" The
door was briskly opened; the glare of
the footlights shone on the favorite of
the public; the round of applause at
the sight of him rang out all over the
crowded theater. In an instant the
moral courage which had deserted him
behind the scenes rallied its forces in
the presence of the audience. Fech-
ter's first words proved him to be in full
possession of all his resources. The
stranger who had predicted such terri
BILE results lifted his eyebrows in mute
amazement. The attendant and the
basin vanished together.
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THE TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Boys, farming is slow way to make
money, and it's all the better for that.
Money made slow is money made sure.
A dollar dug out of the ground is worth
s. made in town, and better than 500
given to young man. Habits are
formed in our youth, and town habits
are to spend all that is made. A young
man that is clerking for $50 a month
will spend it all going to shows and frol-
licking around, which amt so bad, if it
wasn't for the habits. He gets so after
awhile that he is always hankering after
shows and some new excitement. A
young man ought to spend three or four
years in the country, if for nothing else
but his good health-his constitution.
1t will build him up and expand him.
A country boy can't dance as gracefully
AMI skip as cat-like as the town boy, for
lie doesn't walk on pavements all the
time. A country boy walks on dirt
floor. He works all over and dances
all over. A town boy can fight right
good fight for two or three minutes, but
a country boy can fight all day. They
say the town boys made the most spir-
tied soldiers in the war, but the country
boys had the most endurance. Farm
Journal.
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ONE THING 4 FARMER CAN'T STAND

The stealing of melons is something
that will try tbs patience of even a
Quaker. A farmer may lose his wheat
crop by bugs, his corn by smut or cat
tie, and his potatoes by rot or bugs, and
he will go right along whistling Yankee
Doodle" and put another mortgage on
the farm, and be cheerful. His cattle
may die or be stolen, his horses follow
off tramp with halter, and his chick
ems disappear, and he will not get mad,
but if anybody steals a melon he will
load up shotgun and lay in an ada
cent corn-fed five nights in the week
to get chance to shoot somebody. A
Eghtningrod peddler or fellow selling
patent corn cultivator may beat him
out of hundreds Of dollars by getting
him to sign receipt which turns out
to be note, and he will sigh or go to
law, and act as though he hated to hurt
the feelings of persons who bilked him,
but if he has melon patch that is not
worth s., and he hears that green
melon has been plugged by melon
thief, he will poison all his melons to
get chance to murder somebody, or
fire his old blunderbuss at a crowd of
boys with murder in his heart. There
is something queer about this, and we
would like to have somebody explain
why it is that sensible man, deacon
in a church, will get so boiling over
with rage at the loss of few melons,
and stand up and smile at losses a
thousand times greater. Of course it
is wrong to steal melons, and we do not
defend the practice, but, since we have
picked SO many bird-shot and dogs
teeth out of an otherwise immaculate
person, we have felt that there was a
good deal more fuss made about a few
melons than the Importance of that
agricultural product seemed to warrant.
-PecRs Sun.
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FORK IF TOU WOULD Else,

Soon after the great Edmund Burke
had been making one of his powerful
speeches in Parliament, his brother
Richard was found sitting silent in
reverie; and, when asked by a friend
what he was thinking about, he replied:
Il have been wondering how Ned has
contrived to monopolize all the talents
of our family. But L remember that
when We were doing nothing or at
play, he was always at work" And the
force of the anecdote is increased by
the fact that Richard Burke was always
considered, by those who knew him
best, to be superior in natural talent to
his brother; yet the one rose to great
ness, while the other lived and died in
comparative obscurity. The lesson to
oil is, If you would succeed in life, be
diligent; improve your time; work.
"Seest thou man." says Solomon" dill
gent in his business? He shall stand
before Kings; he shall not stand be-
fore"-that is, shall not be ranked
Whitman men,"
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WHAT THEY LOVE,

Men love things-as facts, possessions
and eatables; and women, persons. And
while man regards only abstract scien-
tifc facts, woman looks only at the
person in whom they are embodied.
Even in childhood the little girl loves
an imitation of humanity, her doll, and
works for Is. The boy gets a hobby
horse, or tools, and works with them.
But the noblest quality wherewith IA
ture has endowed woman for the good
of the world is love-that love which
seeks no sympathy and return. The
child is the object of love, and kisses,
and watching, and answers them only
by complaint and anger; and the feeble
creature that requires the most, repays
the least. But mother goes on; her
love only grows the stronger the greater
the need and unthankfulness of its OBJ
ject, and while the father prefers the
strongest of his children, the mother
feels more love for the weak and queru-
Ions
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IT is not given to every one, perhaps
fortunately for the general peace, to be
as ready at retort as the critic to whom
the following question was addressed by
an artist: Don't you think it is about
time I exhibited something's" @Yes; a
little talent, for instance" was the re-
ply. To grocer who had retired from
business q friend said: "My dear fell
low, you are looking thin; idleness does
not agree with you" "Well, no." in
stantly replied the grocer; I don't
weigh so much as I did, Chambers
journal
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THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HoLzoH

Old William Sharpney used to tell
his grandson that the characters of ar
Wings Legend of Sleepy Hollow" were
taken from real life. Ichabod Crane
was Sam Young, a pedagogue and petit
logger, who went no one knew whittier !;
Brom Bones and Ahram Van Tassel,
long since called to his fathers, who
lived three miles from Tarrytown, and
Katrina Van Tassel-well, she was Kat
rina Van Tassel. Irving, who made the
story what it is, occupies the humblest
grave in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
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FELINE DEVELOPMENT.

1t seems to me from the many art
icles [ meet with in scientific journals
as well as in the general press, and from
my own observations, too, that the cat
family are constantly growing in the
general estimation in the high qualities
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CTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF RAM
trict.
Edward Isaac Davis, plaintiff, VS.. Elizabeth Davis,
defendant,
SUMMONS.
The State of Minnesota to the above named de-
fendant:
You, Elizabeth Davis, are hereby summoned
and required to answer the complaint in this action,
which has been filed with the clerk of said
court, and to serve copy of your answer
to the said complaint on the subscriber
at his Office at No. 6 West Third street. in
the city of Saint Paul. in said county within twenty
days after the service of this summons upon you,
exclusive of the day of such servce and if yo1 fail
to the said complaint within the time afore-
said, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the
said court for the relief in said complaint de-
Inanded.
Dated st. Paul, March 10th, A. D. 1888.
E H. WOOD,
Plaintiffs Attorney st. Paul, MINI.
apr 7-Sat 7w
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS-State of Minnesota,
IN county of Ramsey-ss. In Probate Court
In the matter of the estate of Christian FRANKIE
deceased:
Notice is hereby given to all persons having
claims and demands against the estate of Christian
FRANKIE, late of the county of Ramsey, deceased
that the Judge of the Probate Court of said county
will hear examine and adjust claims and demands
against said estate at his office in Saint Paul in
said county, on the first Monday of the month of
June, A. D. 1883, at ten O'Clock a. m, and that sx
months from the 26th day of April, 1883, have beer
limited and allowed by said Probate Court for cred
itOrs to present their claims.
Dated this Goth day of April. A. D. 1888
JOSEPH BUNG,
Administrator of the estate of Christian FRANKIE
deceased: april 2s-Sat5w
NJ Office TO CREDITORS State of Minnesota
~ County OF Ramsey-ss. In Probate Court
In the matter of the estate of Edmund R. Hollins-
head, deceased:
Notice is hereby given to all persons having
claims and demands against the estate of Edmund
H. Holllnshead, late of the county of Ramsey, de-
ceased that the judge of the probate court of said
county Will hear, examine and adjust claims and
demands against said estate, at his Office in Saint
Paul, IN said county, the first Monday OF the
month of June, A D., 1888, at 10 O'Clock m; and
that SIX months from the oath day of April, 1888,
have been limited and allowed by said probate
court for creditors to present their claims.
Dated this Path day of April, A. D. 1883.
ELLEN r. HOLLINSHEAD,
Administrative of the estate of Edmund Il. Hollins-
head, deceased. apr 23-sat-5w
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TIE COLOR LINE.

There is a deplorable split in the
Austin Blue Light Colored Tabernacle.
A visiting clergyman, who is chaplain
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THERE are fifteen Bessemer steel
works in this country, the annual prod
uct Of which is 100000 tons.
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The proper way to check SANDER is
to despise it; attempt to overtake and
refute it, and it viii outrun you.