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eyes, indeed" was the reply; "I've
seen darling"
"oh, pshlwl" was the response to
this.
The young man is now down at the
hotel every day, for the girl who came
near killing him is the belle of the neigh
borhood; ard they are holding prolonged
dialogues about deer hunting-or some
thing else.
Among these guides, whose services
cost three and half to four dollars
day, there are several of the finest exam
Piles of physical manhood that have ever
seen. l do not exaggerate when I say
that one young man in particular, whose
headquarters are at Haul Smiths is quite
the handsomest fellow that could be
made. By association with refined peo-
pie he has acquired the manners OF a
gentleman, and his. picturesque garb
and his abilities as a hunter and guide
make of him a very romantic and
theatrical figure. He wears a large,
cartwheei hat, with bright silk
handkerchief tied about it, a
loose flannel shirt and tight fitting top
boots. He is about the same figure as
John L. Sullivan, but his head is remark
ably beautiful. He has dark, curly hair,
his complexion is deep red, and his eyes
are gray and gentle. He is known as the
best oarsman and fighter in the woods.
A club man from New York took this
handsome fellow down to New York a
few seasons ago, and wherever he went
the crowd stopped to gaze at him. He
was photographed in his rough costume,
and more than one woman in New York
still treasures that picture. The best
thing about this Adirondack Adonis is
that he dislikes being an object of admir-
alton, and some time ago he declared that
henceforth he would guide only men and
cid ladies, as the young girls made him
feel like fool and he couldn't do his
work with any effect. While this young
man is reckoned the best fighter in this
section and weighs considerably more
than 200 pounds it is interesting to know
that "Billy" Edwards, of New York, a
professional lightweight boxer, was once
brought up here, and without knowing
who he was our handsome friend Fred
willingly accepted his invitation to
put on gloves with him. The
simple, good-natured guides ranged
themselves about the boat-house
at Paul Smiths expecting to see the little
fellow from the city knocked into atoms
A more astonished set of men could moi
be found than they were when Billy
landed on the big fellows neck and sent
him in heap down among the boats.
Fred took off his gloves and said he was
satisfied. When Billy Edwards was in
troduced as the former lightweight cham
pion of America he was looked on witt
more respect than if ne had been Presi
dent. Fred tells the story to every ont
and always laughs over it, his great voic
sounding like contented lions.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

French engineers have undertaken the
sowing of railway embankments with
poppies.
Paint made with turpentine is better
protector for iron work than it IS when
mixed with faxseed oil.
The cuckoo is an insectivorous bird;
the hairy caterpillar which terrifes many
birds is readily devoured by him.
Forestry has long been made study in
Japan; no people are more skilled in
grating and dwarfng trees than the
japanese.
The Australian beetle is colonized in
California that it may exterminate the
scale bug, an insect that preys upon the
fruit trees.
Experiments made on the dog and
rabbit show generally that the quantity
of water is less in the venous than in the
arterial blood.
Among the curiosities of electricity is
Frenchman's claim that he will soon be
able to produce thunder storms at any
desired time and place.
Some forty miles from Barcelona,
Spain, there is an actual mountain of
very pure salt, which is hewn out in the
open air, like stone from quarry.
It is said that u Paris firm has pro
duced porous glass for window panes.
The pores are too fine to admit of a
draught, but they assist in ventilation.
Next to sunlight the ineandescent light
gives the best illumination for reading.
All notions of the injurious effects of the
electric light on the eyes are erroneous.
Partridge wood is procured from a
large tree that grows in the West Indies.
The wood is close grained and hard, and
takes good polish; it is used chiefly for
umbrella-handles.
To prevent the loss of power in belts,
cover the surface of the pulley with
papier-mache. Apply by chemically pre-
pared cement. 1t will firmly adhere in a
few hours, and thus become part of thu
pulley.
A Russian doctor speaks enthusiast.
cally of what he calls ''utrication"
is, pricking with bunch of fresh nettles
as cure for neuralgia and many other
diseases. 1t has long been in use among
the Russian peasantry.
Sawdust is being used by some build,
ers instead of sand. 1t is said to answer
well, as it is one-half lighter than sand,
and can be very advantageously used on
ceilings. Mortar made of quicklime and
sawdust, mixed with cement, does weV
| for brick or stone work.
The tornado is funnel-shaped column
of disturbed air, generally about forty OF
fifty yards in diameter, rotating about a
nearly perpendicular axis. It forms in
the upper air a few miles overhead and
works down to the earth. Its track is
generally not more than twenty five
miles until it disappears into the upper
air whence it came.
Sometimes great difficulty is expert
enced in making holes in steel that is toe
hard to cut or file easily. This is eff
fected by the following mixture: Ont
ounce of sulphate of copper, quarter O
an ounce of alum, half teaspoonful O
powdered salt, gill of vinegar, ant
twenty drops of nitric acid. If it il
washed off quickly 1t will give beauti
full frosted appearance to the metal.
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York. Tt occupies an island on St. Regis
Lake, and to show how important it is,
let it be said that Mr.. Stokes has fifteen
Adirondack guides in his employ,
besides his kitchen servants and at
tendants, to care for the camp and
the people in it. Other camps in this
neighborhood and elsewhere are of nearly
equal pretensions. As you float by one
of these fair spots it is hard to believe
that the brown-throated girl with the
skin peeling from her nose who stands in
the boat house rolling up her sleeves fol
a row on the lake, is the same fairy that
whizzed in the dance at the Patriarch's
ball last winter, arrayed in gau2e and
looking as white and as frail as lily.
Occasionally we discover how our girls
store up that energy which is the wonder
of the skeptic and the physician in Janu-
ary. It is just as hard to comprehend
that the white-whiskered old man,
mounted on a donkey, is the venerable
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and looking up In the air he falls over
croquet set and Injuries himself. His wife
says: Henry. you ought to put on that
mosquto-bar arrangement made for you
the other day. They are real cross this
morning, and they will certainly sting you
cit out with your pesky nonsense" he
straiehtway doth reply. Il never put
nawthing on me before and won't do it
now"
But. Henry. they are SO feverish to-day,
and you have got your other clothes on, so
they won't know you. Do try it this time. !"
So he wraps up his head in green NOS
quito net and puts on pair of cowhide
Mittens. The bees alight on a tall elm tree,
and he gets Il ladder up there against it.
Then he slowly ascends the tree with a bee
hive under his arm. Just before he put on
the mosquito net he took II large chew OF
tobacco. He now wishes that he had not.
People begin to go by on their way to meet
ing, and see him up in the tree with large
green head on him and hot leather mittens.
They speak to bin. but he cannot reply be-
cause his mouth is full of tobacco. 1t is
very hot indeed. The sun pours down
through the hot leaves and the breeze is
taking much-needed rest. He gets up in
the top of the tree and looks like new
style of lizard. Sabbath school boys,
wearing chip hats faced with gingham,
pause on their way to the house Of worship
and watch him. He reaches out to scoop
in handful of the brown fuzzy insects, but
the leather mittsismen strangely to them.
They do not recognize the proprietor by his
paws and his odor. Three or four bees fall
down inside those mittens, and. feeling that
they must defend themselves. made hot
highway across the back of his hand. Then
Henry yells and drops the hive on the
Bible class. Some bees get under his
green veil and his hair. and, finding that
they cannot get out, they sink on him with
their little heated hypodermics. and he
says things which bring the blush to the
features OF his sad wife.
For days afterward they sit opposite each
other at the table and do not say anything
He looks at her savagely with one eye. the
other being closed by its creditors. 1t is
three days before he will even ask her to
pass the butter, he is so mad.
Bees are very Industrious, but fool them
selves by accommodating more than they
need. forgetting that they will soon die and
leave their substance for those who did moi
earn it. We should learn a lesson from the
bee and not run the matter Of industry intc
the ground. We should not strive to accu-
mulate so much that it will prevent our en-.
joyment during our lifetime and only en-.
ich the idle after our death. Bees should
| remember that their shrouds will not holC
honey. The bee could learn much from
man. think, in this way.
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kings of Babylon and Persia. The Ro-
mans adopted it together with other
devices, but Marius made it the ensign
of the legion, and used the other de-
vices for the cohorts. France, under
the empire, had the eagle for its ma
tional device. The two-headed eagle,
as device, was first used by Constan-
tine the Great, and signifies double
empire. There is superstition, very
ancient, that every ten years the eagle
scars into "fiery region" and plunges
thence into the sea, where, molting
it's feathers, it acquires new life.
The eagle is the supporter of the
lectern in churches, because that bird
is the natural enemy of the serpent,
and it is also emblematic of st. John
the Evangelist, because, like the
eagle, he looked on "the sun of glory.
The idea has always been held that
the eagle alone of all the animal world
has eyes which can Withstand the full
blaze of the sun at midday. The terms
golden eagle and spread eagle are COM
memorative of the crusades; they
vere the devices Of the emperors Of
the East. In the mythology of Scan.
| dinavia there is fable of a wonderful
ash tree which drops honey. In the
branches sit an eagle, squirrel and
four stags. At the root lies the ser
pent Nihthoggr, gnawing it, while the
/ squirrel runs up and down the tree
trying to SOW strife between the eagle
and the serpent.
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into many genera love TO study the pee,
and at one time kept bees myself. kept
several of them longer than l should have
done. But honey bees are 1ul OF interest
to me. l often think Of the language OF
late writer who goes on to state that With
in so small body should be contained an
apparatus for converting the various sweets
which it collects into one kind OF noUrish-
ment for itself. another for the common
brood. glue for its carpentry, wax for its
cells, poison for its enemies. honey for its
master, with a proboscis as long as the
body itself. microscopic in several parts,
telescope in its modo Of action, with a
sting so exceedingly sharp that were 1t
magnifed by the same glass which makes
needles point seem a quarter OF an inch
across it would yet itself be invisible, and
this, too, hollow tube-that all these
varied operations and contrivances should
be included within half an inch of length
and two grains of matter Is surely enough
to crush all thoughts of atheism and ma
terialism."
1 also compare sometimes the new colony
just starting out to hustle for themselves
with the Pilgrim Fathers-where ars they?
who came to these wild. inhospitable
shores, taking their long. tedious, unevent-
full voyage across the unknown ocean with
no relaxation whatever except prayer.
Professor Jaeger. referring to the pro-
! nounced habits Of industry born in the bee
and frequently alluded to in sehool-books,
says: 1T is impossible for any refecting
| person to look at a beehive in full opera
| ton without being astonished at the activ-
| ity and surprising industry of its inhab-
| itants. We see crowds constantly arriving
| from the woods, meadows, fields and gar
dens, laden with provisions and materials
| for future use, while others are continually
| flying off on similar collecting expeditions.
| Some are carrying out the dead, others are
removing dirt and offal, while others are
| giving battle to any strangers who may
dare TO intrude. Suddenly cloud appears
and the bees hurry home, thronging the
entrance by thousands until all are gradu-
ally received within the inclosure. In the
interior of the hive we Jee with what skill
they work their combs and deposit the
| honey, and when their labor is over for the
| day they rest in chains suspended from the
ceiling of their habitation. one bee cling
ing by its fore feet to the hind feet of the
one above it until it seems impossible that
the upper one can be strong enough to sup
| port the weight Of so many hundreds"
The queen, during the propagating sea-
son, lays as high as two thousand eggs in a
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dark, gaunt and ragged. But in the
North Woods, as in most mountainous
sections, one must penetrate far and
diligently, and then of sudden, when
all seems dense and Improbable, a
marvellous view, natural gem Of the
earth, is flashed before ones eyes like a
change in a stereoscope. AS the stage
coach careens round sharp turn of the
road the glitter of roofs, the fair wave of
lawns, the futter Of leafy trees, and, be-
yond, the shining surface of lake, with
the blue hills frowning their shadows
down Hpon it, are spread under the tired
gaze, and Immediately the delight of the
Adirondacks is realized. Then if you
come suddenly upon fellow lazing back
with a cigar in his mouth, and girl with
wild flowers in her hands, while the scent
of the smoke and the perfume of posies
miugle with the incense of their love-
making, you feel that you have surely got
at some truly rural solace.
One might as well try to comprehend
England at glance of London as to set
down a picture of spot out of these.
mountains and let it stand for the whole.
When we think of the hundreds of miles
that a man and his guide may travel,
carrying their boat from lake to lake,
dining at one place, sleeping at another,
and reaching miles beyond any habita-.
tion the next day, we understand what an;
unusual and immense wilderness this re-.
gion is. The different phases of life and,
character of people that find place here
would also be difficult to describe. In
the summer time the invalid is scarcely
discernible, not because of his physical
attenuation, but becuse it is his custom
to repair to secluded spot, where with
guides, cooks, nurses, and the best Of
food from the city, he endeavors to i'm
pede the advancement of his disease.
The hotels are filed with healthy, jolly
and fine looking people. Around the
larger lakes, such as Upper and Lower
Saranac, Long Lake and St Regis, there
are camps that cost their owners thou
sands of dollars, where the advantages of
isolation, of absolute freedom from social
restraints and the romantic sensation of
existing in nonladic state slightly imi'
tative of the original Americans are COM
bined with a luxury which could only
find example in the drawingrooms of
these same people when they are at
home. Probably the most extensive
camp in the mountains at this time Is
that of Anson Phelps Stokes, OF New
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Professor Deacons, of Cornell University,
on summer journey of recreation. he
coneeives the sure-footed donkey to be a
safer beast to ride than horse, and
what is beauty compared with safetyl
But the rough old camp, with its dried
venison hanging alongside the fire with
the bean-pot baking in the ground, the
trout you have caught an hour ago
suffering in the frying pan and the
partridge you have just shot roasting
with savory perfume-that is the Utopia
of these woods, in spite of its discomforts
and inconvenience. Out on the woody
point in lake that is about mile across,
knowing that you, your guides and your
dogs are the only tame animals within
sound; that fresh buck hangs by its
hind feet at the back of the camp; that
the brook, whose song you can hear, is
flashing with trout, and that your dog
barking down by yonder stump is calling
you to come and observe the beautiful
partridges that he has sitting up
before him-amid surroundings of
this sort your appreciation for
the first freshness of life
is bound to be invigorated, if you are in
anything near normal condition of
mind and body. And it is exciting on a
moonless night to be padded up one of
these narrow rivers, skirted with impene-
trable bushes and weird with strange
noises, watching for the deer as he comes
down to escape the flies and nibble the
yellow lilies.
But there is the highest sort of civiliza-
tion to be had at the hotels, at the high
est prices, too. witnessed only yester-
day the despair of a young man who had
come to the Adirondacks for cheap va
cation, but had been charmed into ask
ing 4 divine girl to dine with him. She
WIS rolling up bill of abovt $40. II
reminded me of this bit of dialogue,
which l heard last week al very high.
priced Brighton Beach race-course res
taurant.
/ Miss Highly (reading liable on bottle)
-"Oh, my favoritel Order another
bottle"
| Mr. HardlucK Qn financial hole)-
"Oh, it's an awful day for favorites.
You'd better take ale."
But was writing of deer shooting
not of dear eating and drinking. That
the sport is agitating to the nerves of the
citizen I can relate for proof an incident
which came under my notice few day:
since, A Young man in camp on a small
secluded lake was hunting the river that
ran close by. As motionless as {
statue in the front of the boat, with tht
bull's-eye lantern throwing its light oveI
his head, and his guide in the stern pad
ding without the slightest noise-as is
wholly nece;sary-the young hunter haG
his eyes fixed on the shores for the un-
wary but sensitive deer. Suddenly ht
saw ball of fire directly ahead of him
He raised his rifle, and was about to shoot
when his common sense reminded him
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Good Consumed on an Ocean Steamship.

The food consumed on one of the large
steamships from New York to Liverpool
was as follows: Nine thousand five hun
dred pounds of beef, 1000 pounds of
mutton, 900 pounds of lamb, 256 pounds
of veal, $50 of pork, lao pounds of
picked legs of pork, 600 pounds of
corned tongues, 700 pounds Of corned
beef, 1000 pounds of fresh fish, twenty
pounds of calves feet, eighteen pounds
of calves heads, 450 fowls, 240 spring
chickens, 100 ducks, fifty turkeys, fifty
geese, 900 squads, 800 tins of sardines,
300 plovers, 175 pounds of sausages,
1900 pounds of ham, 500 pounds of
bacon, 10,000 eggs, 1000 quarts Of milk,
700 pounds of butter, 410 pounds of cof-
fee, eighty-seven pounds of tea, 900
pounds of sugar, 100 pounds Of rice, 200
pounds Of barley, 100 jars Of jam and jel-.
ly, fifty bottles Of pickles, fifty bottles Of
sauces, twenty barrels Of apples, fourteen
boxes of lemons, eighteen boxes of
oranges, six tons Of potatoes, twenty.
four barrels of flour.
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that no animal could have such an eye as
that. Hardly had he lowered his rife
when sharp crack pierced the air, the
lantern over his head came down upon
him and he was left in darkness. His
guide called out, in language more ele-
giant than poetic, to whoever had fired
that shot not to fire another. The next
instant boat ran up alongside the
young mans, and in the bow of it he
discovered fine-looking young girl with
jacket buttoned up about her ears, a
peak cap pulled down over her forehead
and rifle balanced across her knees.
He laughed at the idea of her shooting
the lantern off his boat, but she was a.
most in Mysteries.
''I'm so sorry and ashamed" she said.
'I never shot deer and suppose i had
the buck fever and didn't know a lantern
from the moon. Can you ever forgive
me, sirW
Of course, she was gracefully for
given.
elbow did you find your way herea"
asked the young man.
"Oh, I'm living at the little hotel
down on the Big Tupper Lake, and my
guide brought me up tonight. Ny
brother is going down the river and will
meet me at the carry after we have fin
ished hunting"
"I think TIL be down to the hotel to-
morrow" said the young man, who was
plunger.
"But you won't tell on me, will yous"
cried the girl.
"That depends" " replied the youth.
The guides padded the boats ahead in
opposite directions.
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THE ADIRONDACKS.
PLEASURES OF A NoAIADIC LIFE
IN TIE MOUNTAINS.
Tar From the Din of Civilization the
Summer Resorter Finds New
Life Among the Rugged
Granite Peaks.

In this lake-spanglee land, with Q
girdle of mountains claiming US in from
the din and heat of crowded civilization,
cheerily writes "Kamera" from the
Adirondacks 10 the Chicago Herald, the
lazy heart expands like rose in June,
for the air is as clear as the breeze off the
open sea and as inspiring as sparkling
wine. Coming up from Plattsburg
through those ramsnackle villages,
smirched with the SCOT and changing with
the noise of iron mills, dread is likely
to attack the doubling and strange
traveller, for his imagination of clear,
alluvial expanses is not fel to any great
extent. The first Dab d hills of gray
granite are not lovely, and the woods are
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capacity ana vote. They have no stinger,
but in it's place they have good appetite
by the workers soon after the honey sea-
son and the widows have it all their own
way The drone leads quiet and rather
sunny life, lasting about sixteen weeks.
after which he is put to death by the fe-
males OF the hive by the Maybrick method.
About nine-.e .enths of the hive are work
ers or females, say twelve. to fifteen thou
sand. They are the busy bee referred to in
the books. They get up early in the NOM
ing. eat hasty meal and go out looking
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IL IS not generally known that news.
paper in classical Latin is publi-hed fort.
nightly in Italy. Its editor is Carlo Ar
riggo Ulrichs, young scAolar of Italian
parentage on one side and of German
parentage on the other, and he has the
assistance of several learned contributors
in both nations. It is full of anecdotes,
jokes and verses in classical dress. The
only thing as yet wanting to its present
consistency is the translation of the adj
vertisements into the tongue of Cicero.
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Onr National Bird.

S the lion is
the kin G of
b e a $ t s, t h e
e eagle is the
king of birds.
The ancien II t
Romans used
to let an eagle
fly from the fu-
neral pyre of a
deceased EN-
peror.
In heraldry
the eagle sig
nifes til
tude, andit has
for several cen
turies been a
favorite device
ION royal ban
,ners. It was
the ensign Of
the ancient
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EES should not be
hived until { b Q y
swarm. writes Bill
Nyer in the Chicago
Herald. Bees begin
10 swarm as soon as
the new queen takes
the oath of office.
The queen is q long
wasted b e e. W h o
does the toll The
honey bee proper be-
longs TO the order
Hymenoptera- All
bees, according t o
'Linn@us, who kept
several stands Of bees
himsel!, are included
in the genus Apis, but
they are now divided