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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-16
PROFESSIONAL.

YOUNG LADY who has had European
"A training wishes position as soprano IN ehaf,G Sho'
Address H. D. NJ, L. v. BOX 2,2lt, Cay.
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MOUNTAIN SANS HUNTING DOGS
Their Exploits In Rounding Up and
Capturing the Big Horns.

Their Exploits In Rounding Up and
Capturing the Big Horns.
An old trapper and hunter known as
Mountain Sam" is doing a land office
business killing huge mountain sheep for
their heads and horns. These he ships
tc New York to fill the orders he is con-
stAntly receiving, and there they are
mounted. Sans best customers are
wealthy Englshmen, and many an Eng
fish hall bears witness in mammoth
heads and antlers of the mountain sheep,
magnifcently mounted, to Sans PROV
sss as n hunter.
For many years Mountain Sam" has
buried himself in the most remote re-
cesses of the Big Horn mountains. Here
he is in the very haunts, hidden and
deep, of the big horn or Rocky noun
tain sheep. Sans way of capturing his
willy quarry is peculiarly adapted to his
needs and deserts. He rounds up the
wild sheep of the mountain crag, peak,
and precipice with dogs.
His pack numbers twenty-five head,
and they are a pure cross of the blood
| hound and bulldog Mountain-born and
bred, these noble animals add to the
natural strength and sagacity of their
| blood strains a marvellous endurance and
cat-like activity. No snow depth, no
roughness of trail, no steepness of preci-
pice, no holiness of peak, no remoteness
Of locality can stop the mountain dog
when on the track of mountain sheep.
The pack works in an organized way
when the trail of band of sheep is
struck. The dogs break into little
aI,ac al
are made, The closely pressed sheep are
hurried to common center, and they
fwill soon be punched with twenty-five
dogs erect and tails wagging, moving
about them in an endless and eager
circle.
The pack has been known to bunch
$50 head of sheep, and to hold their
watch and guard for over six hours
waiting the coming of their master,
wl.o has been kept back by tho diff
cul!ies lying In his path. 1t sometimes
occurs that the dogs bring the game to-
gether on a spot that is utterly inaccessi-
ole to human feet. Then the hunter
gives his dogs nctice of the fact by
peculiarly shrill and piercing shout. The
pack at once dash into the midst Of the
'heep, seize and slay the largest, and by
lint of rolling, tumbling, and falling
from crag to crag, from declivity to de-
,livity, bring the carcasses within reach
Of their master,
These dogs trace their pedigree to
pair brought into this region many years
ago by rich Englishman. who made
Did Fort Stambaugh his hunting head
quarters. When the Englishman left
these mountains he gave his dogs, whose
worth he had proved in many a hard
lays chase, to Pap" Conant, who was
wel-known then as froatiersman.
Pap" gave couple of pups from the
first litter 10 his old comrade, Mountain
sam" who thus came into possession of
the nucleus Of this present magnificent
pack.-Wyoming Cor. Denver Tribune
Republican.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-30
THE ISLAND OF FORMoSA.

Manners and Customs of the People
Diseases Pursuits-Climate.
The cities and towns, manners, Gus
toms, farming and farmsteads, buildings
and architecture are much the same in
Formosa as in other parts of the empire.
There are no highways worthy of the
name, the streets are crooked and dirty,
and the houses are low, dark, and squalid,
but they are generally built of red fire
burned bricks, as is the case in the delta
country of the mainland. Another feat
Ure peculiar to Formosa is that the
houses are not matched, but covered
with tiles, and instead of having plain
fronts, are in many cases furnished with
an arcade supported by square columns
Of brick, inside of which passers walk
and do their bargaining. This peculiar
ity is doubtless due to the frequency and
heaviness of the rains, the downfall of
which is said to be as much as 100 inches
and even more per year,
The people have all the characteristics
of the Chinese of the mainland, but on
the whole they do not seen to be either
SO well fed or vigorous The climate in
the lowlands is malarious, intermittent
fevers are common, and the complexion
Of the inhabitants strikes one as being
somewhat more sallow than in northern
or even middle China. Smallpox is an
everyday affair, and is lightly regarded.
Consumption is not common, but blood
splitting or bleeding from the lungs is
said to occur frequently and to be due to
the development of a sort of fiuke or
worm in the lungs, the germ of which is
taken in with drinking water and devel-
oped in some way not clearly under
stood. Curiously enough, this parasite,
according to my informant, is rarely
fatal to the person in whose lungs it has
formed its indus.
: The largest domestic animal is the
water buffalo, which may be seen on
every uncultivated hillside and river OF
canal bank, and always watched by boys
or old men, generally one to each buff
falo. The most common animal Is the
Chinese hog, the flesh Of which in all
forms, from roast pig to smoked sau-
sages, constitutes the principal animal
food of the average Chinaman. buck
raising is a great industry on the rivers
and bonds. Chickens are abundant and
their eggs can always be had OF modeT7
ate cost, Turkeys and geese are also
met with occasionally, but are less com
mon. Pheasants, plover, snipe, and
wild ducks, also several kinds of deer,
and the brown bear are found in their
appropriate haunts on the plains or in
the forests and jungles of the mountain
region. There are but few ponies and
beef cattle. and no sheep except such Is
are brought over from the main land.
Mosquitoes, house flies, feas, and many
other kinds of insects are plentiful ard
pestifepoua, and yet, it this island was
within 100 miles of the American coast,
and belonged to us, it would justly be
looked upon as an earthly paradise. The
climate. on the whole, is salubrious and
sareeable for although the island lies
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II want to show you new and wonder
living thing that arrived at the garden
lately" said Head Keeper Byrne, as he
led the way to the snake-house the other
day. The new arrival is about as horri-
bic and yet as danditied looking fellow
as can be found on the banks of the
Schuyll1ilL He is in a glass case. II is
the iguana, a species of the lizard family,
and was forwarded TO the garden by tho
commissioners of fisheries of Massachu-
sets, with the request that when he dies
his body shall be sent to the Smithsonian
institution at Washington. The iguana
does not look much like dying, although
the only one of its kind that was ever
previously brought TO this country died
the day he was brought to the geological
garden, some years ago. His body is a
drab color, mixed with black streals.
His neck and head are erect; he has
long tail like an alligator, and four paws
which spread out fiat upon the sand in
his warm cage just like a lizards feet.
Sticking out from the center of his back,
from the head all the way down towards
the tail, IS a row of black bristles, which
stand erect and do not look as il they
would make a person comfortable whd
would have the temerity to sit down
upon them.
"Ihe most wonderful thing about tho
igqana is his appetite" said Mr.. Byrne.
ale eats the most delicate and choicest
flowers, and a white rose is the sweetest
morsel that we have yet found for him.
He eats it with avidity." Mr.. Byrne
disappeared for q moment and returned
with Jacqueminot rose, which he in
serted in the cage. The curious looking
reptile lowered his head, and with a
quick motion seized the pretty flower
nd swallowed it. Its eyes are intensely
black and snappy, and from around the
mouth there hang curious pieces Of skin
looking like plated armor.
The iguana is found in Brazil, and tho
epicures of that country are said 10 highly
prize its flesh for food. It is the tooth
some terrapin Of South America. When
the iguana il stretched out he will prob
ably measure five feet in length. There
is pool of water in the cage, and he oc-
takes bath.-Philadelph
Times.
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ANNUAL INCOME OF ARTISTS.
What the Painters of Pictures Receive

What the Painters of Pictures Receive
From the Statistics.
Some of our local artists, 1 hear, are
disposed to make fun of the recent en-
deavor of Col. Wright, chief of the
bureau of statistics, to discover whether
art as an industry is profitable to those
who follow it. Col. Wright some time
ago addressed a communication to a
number of Boston artists, asking them
how much money they received year
from the sale of their pictures; how
much they received from other sources,
in the way of teaching, ETC.; what it
cost them to live, and a lot of other
questions calculated to throw light on
the problem TO be solved.
A good many of the artists thought
the questions were rather impudent, and
declined to answer them at ALL "Why
should we tell all we know about our
private business?" they asked; "would a
lawyer, or a doctor, or an architect, or
other professional man publish just how
much he received every year, and just
how much his expenses amounted tor"
They trow not. Nevertheless, a score or
two of the artists answered some of Col.
W1ight's conundrums, and of these the
five most successful give $1,000 as their
annual income, but the greater part of
this sum, they say, they receive from
teaching private pupils or in the art
schools, whichis hardly what was sought
to be ascertained. There are a good
many artists in Boston whose income
from the sale of their own pictures, or
from commissions for portraits, con-
siderably exceed each year the highest
figures sent to Col. Wright, although
Just now their income may be rather be
low the mark, as all the artists have been
complaining of an unusually bad season.
People seem to be feeling too poor to buy
pictures, or, at least, they said they We're.
Quoting further from Col Wright'g
l find that three of the artists
all the way from $500 to
s., 900, chiefly from illustrating. The
annual incomes of thirty-one others |
range all the way from $500 to 81, 500, |
ten falling below $1,000, thirteen rang
ing from $1,000 to $1,000, six from |
81, 800 to 50, 900, and two above 50, 900. |
The figures as to the annual living ex-
penses of the artists are rather funny, |
and, if any reliance is to be placed on !
them; they seem to show that artists are
less extravagant in their |
habits than they are generally credited
with being. Thus two of these artists
say they live on $500 a year; two get |
along with $3.50 each; one spends 1914;
another $703; another $780, and another
$3.50. Thirteen spend $1,000 and up to
So, 600; eight spend over 1900, and only
one spends as much as So, 800 year
Boston Herald.
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partly within. the torr1d zone, lUs tenn
perature is never cold, and, on the other
hand, it rarely ever rises above 80 de-
grees Fahrenheit. Fresh breezes blow
every day, and high winds and even
tornados or typhoons from the surround
ing seas are not infrequent; and how
ever annoying the latter may be, they
cool and purify the air and render it
healthy and invigorating. But little
clothing, and that of the most inexpen-
sive kind, is needed, and vegetable food
can be produced in great abundance and
at as low a cost perhaps as in any other
country.-Cor. New York Sun.
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A little intentional waywardness grows
into habitual carelessness. We come TO
possess loose, incorrect, inaccurate
style of expressing ourselves. This in
jures our manner Of thinking and per
verts our taste. Do not give false names
to ideas, else it may finally happen that
you will find it difficult TO tell the truth
about them when you would. To keep
our language pure, to keep it exact, to
keep it forcible, 10 make it mean some
thing, we must put it 10 no improper
use. And we put it to improper use, for
example, when we take n word that
should weigh a ton TO express an idea
lighter than chaff, when we take a word
that should be as sublime as the stars TO
stand for an idea as commonplace as an
old fence, when from the horror of very
TOphet we borrow metaphor 10 apply
TO the annoyance of an insect.
The slang expression il tho outlaw Of
language, ISi8 Fuflan. Fortunately
If we but leave it alone il will not modest
us, but go into exile and oblivion. But
there's the rub.-R. G. Craven in Chi
cagO Journal
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Ess;sss EXPECTATION.

Between the sunset and the sun
Night slumbers on the sleeping bars,
And through it's curtain, one by one,
CLEAN tender glances Of the stars
Between the sunset and the sun.
And so between my loves lips lies
An untold message meant for me;
Whether It will bring me sweet surprise
Or dole or doubt or Paradise,
Is known alone to destiny.
Yet, as l wait, dream of tears
Between her eYelids and her eyes,
A mystery Of mist appears,
That hints of hope and fiatters fears;
And on her lips burst of signs,
And on her lids red that dies
To slumberous shadows that fall and
rise,
Till, as l seek some sign to see,
Between her eyelids and her eyes
Love lights his lamp and laughs at me.
Francis Howard Williams
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-30
PhI1osophy Aboul lightning.

A case of serious illness from fright in
thunderstorm has been reported
There's a little philosophy about light
ming which, if everybody could have
perfect faith in, would save considerable
mental pain. 1t is the certain fact that
person who is struck by lightning
never feels any pain. He hasn't time to
think what killed him. If he is consci-
GUS at all it is after he has found him
self awake In another world. There is
no use in any ono getting scared when
he hears the crash or sees the flash. He
is safe for that time at least, because if
the bolt is aimed az him he has no Oc-
casion for the use OF either his ears or
his eyes.-North American.
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A Now Mineral Found.

A new mineral, which is called ptilo-
lite, has been found in the conglomerate
beds of Green and Table mountains, JEFF
ferson county, Colorado, The formation
is of the tertiary age. The mineral is
found in cavities in which thereis thin
coating Of pale-bluish chalcedony, upon
which the mineral is deposited in deli
cate tufts and spongy masses composed
of short, hair-like needles, loosely
grouped together. These needles, when
examined under the microscope, are
found to be colorless, transparent prisms.
Heated before the blowpipe, a tuft of
the mineral shrinks considerably and
fuses to clear glass. The substance be-
longs among the alumino-silicates, of
which no previously described hydrate
contains SO high percentage of silica.
The name of Ptilolite is given TO the new
mineral in reference to the light, downy
character of its aggregates.-NewY York
Mail and Express.
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,troat Antinuitr OF the REFRAIN.

The various refrains of folk-songs and
ballads would make a most interesting
subject for philologists and antiquarians
to Investigate, for these refrains seem to
come down from very ancient days and
are found even among some barbaric
races. The Maoris of New Zealand, for
example, have long refrains in words
which they themselves do not under
stand, but which they assert have come
down to them from their remote ances-
tors. The Indians of Canada, when first
met by the early Jesuits, sang a refrain
which sounded very much like "alleluia"
and which Immediately led the pious
fathers TO imagine that they had discov-
cred the lost tribes of Israel. The Eng
lish refrain of derry down. or "hey,
derry down." is said to have been orig
inally druidical charm. Naturally.
some of these refrains bear immediate
evidence that they are only a meaning
less jingle, meant to piece out the words
and melody. "Fackelorum, dideldo-
rum, or adudel, dfdel, dunl,7 probably
had no more meaning in the old German
songs than "tra, la, la" in the ancient
and modern English ones, Boston Mus
ical Journal.
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Col. Doulanger and the Prusslans.

In 1871, Immediately after the surren-
Ter of Paris and when the German army
was in the city, Gen. Boulanger, then a
colonel, was in command of the One
Hundred and Thirty-seventh of the line.
The regiment was en- echelon in the Rue
Saint Honore guarding the limit beyond
which the Prussians were not to pass.
At the intersection of the Rue Saint
aonore and another street, the name
Of which the writer does not recall, but
ne remembers that it was near the Roths-
child house, suddenly appeared the gen
sraI in command of the Prussian army
followed by his brilliant staff.
They We're about to pass the line of de-
.narcation, when Col. -B0ulanger rode up
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Foreign and American CemeterIes.


do not think that either Pere Ia
Chaise or Kensal Green are as naturally
beautiful as Greenwood in brooklyn,
Laurel Hill at Philadelphia, Bellefonr
tame at st. Louis, or Mount Auburn in
Boston, but they are superior in artifi-
cial embellishments. In the United States
where splendid fruit trees and shrub
berry of all descriptions are so abundant,
it is the easiest thing in nature to CON
vert the churchyard of the smallest town
into an attractive object without great
expense. In England and in France the
the hand Of affection plants cypress and
willow over the grave and riches build
the proudest marble that art carr erect.
l do not know why wealth should place
over our tombs a mark Of any sort. A
tomb is one of the shallowest ideas of
our finite conceptions,-LOndon Cor,
Boston Herald
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Russian Music in Minor Keys.


The Russian popular airs are noticeable
as are those of Norway, Finland, and
of Hungary-for being mostly in minor
keys; other European nations having
favored the major mode-the Germans
so much so, indeed, that there are only
Q per cent. of minor tunes among their
volkslieder. That the minor keys lend
themselves readily to the expression of
either the abandonment of grief or of
JOY, according to the rate of movement
with which they are associated, is a COM
Iaonplace of musical aesthetics. Karam-
sin attributed this melancholy in Russian
music to the sufferings of Russia under
the Monaghan yoke; writers Of the
school of NJ. Taine would point to tho
landscape and climate of the country,
to the monotony of the forest lands, and
TO the vide, dreary plains, now frozen
and now sun baked. The FACT is, how
ever, that the Russian Is one of the most
cheerful of mortals, easily moved to
mirth, and unwilling to depart from it;
nor is there any reason TO believe his
cheerfulness to be modern develop
ment. The general character of nation
and the character of its national music,
have really but little relations the causes
which lead to the formation of national
style being both numerous and complex
in their working.-St. James Gazette.
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N front of them. General, SAID he IN
loud voice, you can not pass. The
latter pretended not to understand, and
appeared to be about to come on, when
Boulanger, purple with rage and hatred,
dashed forward, saber in hand, and
shouted out in u savage voice: "Gen-
eral, you must not pass. If you advance
another step Then, seeing that the
brilliant troop had come to a halt, he
added, with an imposing gesture, the
words, Respect n In consigned" ut
needed but little" says the writer. '.to
put the match to the powder at that
moment. There and then Germany
might have lost some precious heads.
Inspired by the conduct of our brave
colonel, we grasped our Chessepots. The
quality of the game was most tempting"
Paris Matin.
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Anatomx of the Neck.

DR.. Wendell Holmes was in the habit
of telling his students, when delivering
a lecture on the anatomy Of the neck,
that the reason why 50 many attempted
suicides from cut throat were unsuccess-
full was because the person with self-de-
ideas tipped his head too far
back before making the cut, thus bring
ing the point of the instrument up under
the chin, so that the chances would be
that the large vessels would not be in
jured. He always finished by saying,
with a smile: Don't give them this lit
tie point. The Argonaut.
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Krupp's Big Businesa.

Alfred Krupp owns probably the larg-
ess business in the world dependent on
one individual The works within the
town OF Essen, Germany, occupy moro
than 500 acres, half of which arc under
cover. According TO a census taken in
September, 1881, the number of hands
employed by Mr.. Krupp was 1905 and
the members of their families 40, 40
making G5,3SI persons supported by his
works. Chicago Tribune.
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- s.:.2Es' MoRs-WTA. :

Life, love-and land of sun,
Soft-slow was the South wind sweep
ing,
Whispered sweet thro' the leaves song,
Sing, o heart, for thy life is long,
Night-night will be time for weepingI
Long-dark do the shadows lie,'
Hush heart, its the south wind signing!
Rest-rest-and requiem moan,
Sleep, heart, for the day is done,
Thine was the morn, and light is dyingl
Elizabeth Burneston Lane in The Cur
rent
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-30

Social clubs flourish in Cuba more
freely perhaps than anywhere else. They
are, n'fact, the centers around which
society in the larger cities revolves. Gu
bans of prominent positions seldom dine
at hetae: Ehey take their dinners at the
clubs. 1t would not be extravaganza to
say that home life is unknown in Cuba.
-HarDer'S Bazaar
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The Paper Tree in Tonkin.

The principal material used in the man
1facture of paper used in Tonkin is the
paper tree, which grows in abundance
On the mountains in the environs of Son
tay. The dried bark is macerated and
then rubbed up in mortars, so as to re-
duce it to fine pulp, the latter being
mixed with certain Quantity of water,
in order to form a clear paste, which is
sized with an infusion made from the
shavings of the gomao tree. The paper
is manufactured sheet by sheet, by
means of delicate bamboo screens, which
the operators alternately dip into the
paste and take out Herewith a thin sheet
Of paper, which is deposited upon a
board. At the end of the day these
sheets are put into press in order to ex-
tract the moisture from them, and are
then dried by placing them, one by one,
upon hot masonry wall, after which
they are put up in packages and trimmed.
Each operative makes t,00N sheets day.
The thickness of the paper depends upon
the consistency of the paste, and at one
establishment as many as $4,000 sheets
are capable Of being produced daily
Chicago Times.
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areat BrItaIn,s Machinery.

The statement is made that all the
varied machinery of Great Britain, now
operated by steam power, is capable of
performing more work, and hence pro
ducing more products, than could be
produced by the labor of 400, 0OO,O 600 able
bodied men, a greater number than all
the able-bodied men on earth.-Elartford
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10 Keep His Memory Alive

you are going to erect a monument
to your fathers memory, suppose?"
"Oh, mol Monuments crumble and de-
cay and are forgotten. We aIe going 10
do something that will keep his memory
alive much longer" whats that?"
1--WE are going to fight in the courts for
bis property. c-Exchange.