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CURIGSITIIS IN BIRDS EYES.
Variations In Color und Size and Exrrnor.
dinary Markings.

Variations In Color nnd Size and Exrrnor.
dinary Markings.
Hardwicke's Science Gossip.
1t may be taken as general rule that the
eggs of most birds vary more or less as re-
CARDS size, shape and coloring. Guillemots'
eggs vary in ground color from grayish
white to grass green. The eggs of the red
grouse, the rock and the plover also vary to
great extent, both in color and marking.
1t sometimes happens that birds, whose eggs
are usually bright and artlstically colored,
will lay pure white ones, and instances of
this in the case of the yellow hammer have
come under the notice of the writer House
sparrows' eggs have likewise been taken
quite destitute of coloring; while black
birds eggs have been found of blackish
hue.
The white eggs are probably due to
maternal weakness, anxiety, fright, or other
causes; while those of unusual color may re-
suit from food-variety and climatic in
fuences. When, however, only one aber-
rant egg is found in nest with several
others of the normal hue it is not SO easy to
account for the irregularity.
Coupled with this variety in color and
marking there is frequently an abnor-
means unusual to find thrushes' eggs
quite destitute of spots. globular in
form, and no larger than marble; while
others are taken with all the marks and
spots agglomerated into blotch at the
larger end. But by far the most extraor-
dinary markings to be observed in bros
eggs are due, without doubt, to mimet-
ism. The writer has guillemot's egg, upon
which are depicted most faithfully, in black
and sepia, the numbers 10 and Z and the
word Joe. These are by no means hiero-
glyphics, but are as well executed as many
a schoolboy's figures and writing. Upon
sketches of heads of several grotesque
fipures
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in the west, while all the rest oft blue was
sparkling with its twinkling stars. Officers
and members of the expedition were quietly
resting, reading or writing.
Suddenly the watchman reports danger
signal on shore: "a red rocket was fired. "
Immediately on the ship all was commotion.
The order was given to man all boats with
armed crews. Four such boats full were
sent ashore. We could see a light at the
natives camp-at times flashing up bright,
then almost entirely obscured, as though sig
nails were being made to negroes in the In
terror. Evidently some trouble was brew
ing. Rockets on shore were being sent up
thick and fast and answering lights dis
played on the ship. The boats are now
near the shore; the men are landing.
SOON A SHOT IS HEARD,
then another and another. The firing
ceases. Everything seems quiet. Present
ly the boats return and an officer reports:
"All safe; lights brightly burning; every
thing quiet in camp"
The excitement was over. The firing was
not at natives. The red signal was only a
large meteor that had burst and fallen some
distance back of the camp and had been
mistaken Tor rocket by the watchman.
Was not this thrilling experience with the
cannlbals?
But let uspass on to the day of the eclipse,
December %, 1889. 1 quote from my journal
written on the evening of that day: 81
arose at A. NJ. At $50 the eastern sky be-
came of a ruddy tinge showing prospect of a
beautiful day; at 500 little obscured. and
remained so until 11:45, then it began to
clear; the sun came out very bright; raising
the temperature Of the air, but freeing it of
its oppressiveness. Our hearts began also to
grow lighter at the prospect of the usually
clear afternoon for marked characteristic
of the weather at this part OF the coast, and
at this season of the year, seems to be dark
morning. clear afternoon followed by
clouds from seaward at sunset and lasting
all night accompanied by rain. Looking,
however, through ruby glass, 1 noticed quite
a bad sky and feared the result. At dinner
everybody appeared happy; but weary
The officers detailed from the ship as also the
working men arrived; and while we were
still at dinner the Pensacola steamed out to
sea. We felt that the critical moment was
coming"
After this narrative there is very little
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NEW LIFE-SAVING DEVICE.
lines, Projectiles and Protector Weigh
J.... Tb,p Seven Pounds

Lines, Projectiles and Protector Weigh
Less Than Seven Pounds.
A valuable addition to the modern
devices for the saving of life consists of d
pistol, two lines, each $50 feet in length,
5 shots or arrows, and 25 cartridges, which
are all packed in q box II inches long,
inches wide and weighing complete only 6T
pounds, The pistol is of great strength
and is said to throw its projectile as tar as
rifle. ( The line is of the best selected
material, warranted not to klnk or part in
firing the shot, while by special system of
wifding, it can be rewound instantly and
made to fire again, in case OF failure to
reach the desired place. 1t can readily be
operated by one man, the left hand holding
the line and the right hand holding the
pistol.
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tionary at the rate of 225 words per minute.
He speaks without manuscript and thinks
on his feet. 1t seems to rest him to talk and
that big, brown, grizzly gray head of his is
packed full of fact and figure which he
hurls at the opposite sides of the chamber in
a sort OF sledge-hammer way. General Joe
Hawley is a fast speaker. His voice is full
and clear and he not infrequently utters
sentence that sticks to the gray matter of
your brain and is worth repetition. George,
OF Mississippi, is the slowest speaker in the
Senate. His tongue goes by clockwork and
no pendulum ever moved slower. He pays
no attention to the graces of oratory, and
when he came to Congress he promised his
constituents that he would not wear dress
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New Things In Note PAPER.

There are several striking things In new
note paper. and one of the most striking il
paper that exactly initiates thin sheet Of
cork. The Delft note paper has a large de-
sign initiated from Delft china, and the
back of the envelope is also covered with
designs representing Delft ware. The
"hlagree" is of a delicate shade of gray. fla
greed with thin lines Then there is the
leather note paper, which exactly matches
Russian leather shoes.
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DEMAND FOR WALNUT LOGS.
Thousands of Stray Trunks Shipped From
America 10 Europe.


1t is stated that a practicing attorney of
Sella. Ia, has made a large amount of
money not only for himself, but for the
Iowans, by buying up the stray walnut logs
of the State and shipping them direct to
Germany and England. Last year between
1000 and 1,500 carloads were shipped,
nearly all picked up In Iowa.
Few among the early settlers of the State
ever dreamed of the value that walnut trees
would possess, and that within quarter or
half of century after settlement. Thou
sands of fine trees were cut down, burned or
allowed to rot on the ground, or split up for
old fashioned rail fences. Now buyers
rummage every mile of territory in the State
to find the logs, and put them on board the
cars to be carried thousands of miles across
the ocean to be worked up into fine furni-
ture for the adornment of European palaces.
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SSSA 0SAANCICO III lIl6
Senate this session
and the MilIionaires'
Club runs more to gos-
sip and story than to
, statesmanlike elo-
quence. There are
two men in the body
who can make a good
after dinner speech to
every one who can &C.
quit himself with
honor upon the floor,
and the Clays, Web
sters and Calhouns of
the present are num-
Dered.
The fastest speaker
in the Senate is Beck.
He willis his shirt COL
lar as he talks and
!, - II
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A COUNTRY PARSON.

Another intellectual giant whe is not here
this session is Joe Brown, of Georgia.
Brown looks like a country parson who has
been retired after long service in the church
and has turned book agent. He has a long
patriarchal beard, a yellowish bald head
from the sides of which long iron gray curls
fall down and wrap themselves around his
ears His black broadcloth clothes, made
of double thickness Tor warmth, hang on his
big thin angular frame as though they came
from secondhand clothier and his red un-
dershirt forms a bracelet around his thin
wrist as he solemnly gestures in straight up
and-down lines. His forehead is high and
full. His big sunken eyes are hidden by
gold spectacles and the upper lip above his
large mouth is closely shayen. AS he
speaks the long beard on his chin moves up
and down like that OF billy goat when
chewing his cud and you think of patent
straw cutter with a heavy tail of hair
fastened to the lower end.
The words come cut by machinery and
they are carved into vocal blocks with the
slowness and the articulation of funeral
oration or a judges sentence. There are
ideas behind the words, however, and Brown
is one OF the great speakers of Congress. He
is the richest man in the South and starting
with capital of bull and bell he has
made himself millionaire and statesman.
ANOTHER GOOD FIGHTER.
George Vest is a great speaker. He is a
fighter from the word 90 and be, lunches
up his shoulders and pokes out his head as
ne walks around the chamber ready to en-
gage in discussion with anyone who knocks
the chip off his shoulders. He makes one
think of the bad man of Bitter Greek and
he is bad man to tackle. He is an elo-
quent talker and his fierce mustache of
sandy white fairly quivers with emotion
when he raises his shoulders and shakes his
pudgy little forehnger at his antagonist.
He has a shrill voice and he talks 1uently.
He is well-read man, and in the running
fire of debate he is the ingalls, OF the Demo-
cratic side of the chamber think he is
the best speaker among the Democrats, and
he is by ali odds the best speaker from the
South.
Senator Morgan is fully as learned, but
he is terribly prosy and the galleries are
usually cleared when he takes the floor.
Morgan is tall, red-faced man with a
silverv mustache. He writes out his
speeches and the manuscript which makes
one of them will weigh as much as 81
Bible. He does not gesture much as he
talks, and he never sits down under less
than four columns. The Republican who
comes nearest him is Blair, of New Hamp-
shire, who Is now crying out that the news
papers won't print what he utters.
EDUCATIONAL BLAIR
Senator Blair is a character. He is
ssndy-haired grandmother OF man with an
ere as blue as the skies which float over the
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Natures Compensatious.


At all events the law of compensation
sIumbereth not this winter, for, while the
manufacturers of sleighs are nearly dead
broke, the umbrella men say it has rained
dollars on their devoted heads. Perhaps
this is the reason silver knobs and handles
are being called in, and the spring umbrella
is to appear au naturel.
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less table-land, thickly overgown with stiff
half dead grass from four to six feet high.
Along the shore, strange to say, were the
only elevations that could properly be called
hills. There were four OF them, one bold
headIaud. rising abruptly from the water
Cape Ledo itseli; next Eclipse Knoll on
the northern declivity OF which our camp
was pitched. Between these two is the
River Suto, while we were there only dry
river bed, but showing every sign OF being
a rushing roaring torrent of water during
the wet OF rainy season. Then farther north
the remaining two hills, at the southern
base of one of which was MIR. Taylor's
camp,
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GAME IN ABUNDANCE.

Quails-just such as are on our Western
prairies-guinea fowls and rabbits are very
abundant here. Antelopes are often seen
outlined on the distant horizon; parrots and
cockatoos keep up continual noise in the
trees around the camp. Wildcats, hyenas
and leopards prowl about fearlessly at night,
The bay abounds with fish. The officers OF
the ship have made good use of these ad-
yantages by going hunting nearly every
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ludttcTSs Al
rather than in whole,
and, as one Senator
describes it, he locks
at the heavens through
a goose quill, and
never sees more than
that which comes with
in his range. w hat
he does see he sees
wonderfully well, and
the old story of the
Senator who said Ed
munds could see a
blue-bottle fly on a
barn door four miles
away, without seeing
either the door or the
barn, struck the Ver-
mont statesman to a I.
Edmunds speaks
we'll on stimulants.
A little rare old bour-
bon makes his tongue
more regular and his
clear blue eye more
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Bay OF Naples ana
with hair which WIS
once of that bright
red color which Ii
tian loved to paint.
Age has turned his
locks to a dirty brown
and his sandy brush
heap is now mixed
gray. He tears the
air as he talks and
h e W or ks h ard
enough to make him.
self a great reputa-
tion. He is con-
nected with all the
cranks aud Isms of
the time and there
is no moral scheme
SO wild that he is
not a part of it. He
eats, sic ps a n d
drinks his educa-
tional bill and he
talks it upon every
possible occasion.
He has wonderful
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eron never speaks
and he confines his
remarks to the cloak
rooms, putting his
work in upon the
committees. George
Hearst has made no
speeches, and we
have yet to hear any
thing clog uent from
Matt Quay and Matt
Ransom, though both
have been long in
the Senate. Reagan
used to speak a great
deal in the House.
He talks but little in
the Senate. Spooner
is an eloquent talker,
and he does we'll,
Notwithstanding his
size. Vance makes
a very good speech.
He is a politician
from the word go,
and his orations suit
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speech he would mutter out loud enough
| for Sherman to hear: Another dead cock
i4 the pit. Hang himp'
AT last" said Sherman, sit came my
turn. and 1 spoke. AS sat down 1 said to
the old member: We'll. sir, here is another
dead cock in the pit
"'Oh.' said he, kindly, I hope it won't be
so bad as that with you
SOME OTHER sPEECH-MAKERs.
Senator voorhees, writes out most of his
important speeches. He uses large sheets
of printing paper all of the same size and
neatly cut, and he jots down his thoughts
with pencil. Senator Gail also uses print
ing paper, and he writes out the speeches he
makes when he is not angry. Calls hand
is a terrible scrawl, and the Government
printers tell me they are wearing their eyes
out on his hen tracks. He is rather violent
talker, and his face grows red and his blue
eyes flash when he imagines himself or his
State to be assaulted. He is directly the
opposite of Chandler, who is his bette noir
in the Senate, Chandler is slender, narrow
shouldered and nervous. His tight little
form is like that of professor, snd his gray
eyes look out of gold glasses. He has long,
white hands, wears a Prince Albert coat and
is fairly good talker, though not an elo-
quent one.
The long sentences of Senator Evarts are
noted, and it is remarkable that the galleries
will sit for hours and practice the intellect
ual feat of keeping track of him. 1 talked
with Senator Evarts once about this matter,
and he referred me to the Greek and Latin
classics for the sentences OF the great orators
OF the past, and told me that Cicero used
long sentences.
HOW HE EXCUSES HIMSELF.
shall not forget one remark that he made.
He referred to his long public career, and
said he thought that the man who could
remain before the people for more than
generation and have nothing more
charged against him than that he put an ex-
ira word or two into his sentences need not
lie awake troubling himself about such
criticisms. Eyarts might be called an intel
lectual speaker. He does not saw the air
nor tear his hair, and he rolls out 400 words
without period with as much ease as
though he was boy on the street and was
singing Down Went McGinty."
He has the biggest head in the Senate. It
will, I think, measure foot from fore
head to crown and his homely, kindly old face
is wrinkled and scared with the thoughts of
20 odd years. He knows as much as any
man in the Senate and his heart is, am told,
as big as his head. He has a good nose Tor
specs and his features all resemble those of
the eagle. He is taller than you would
think, but his frame is spare and he would
not weigh more than 120 pounds. He dresses
in plain black, wears an old-Iashioned limp
collar and when he rises to speak you are
impressed with his power.
SOME WHO NEVER SPEAK.
A number of Senators never make
speeches. Senator Payne, though he is
said to be an able lawyer, has not made an
oratorical effort since he came into the
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BrotCn, Georgia. cold and cruel. he
has good voice, and his range of knowl-
edge is wonderful. He is of all the Sem
ators the nearest approximation to pure in
tellect, and his experience added to his
brains has made him the autocrat of the
Senate. Both the Republicans and the
Democrats are afraid of hi.h, and he knows
it and likes il.
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THE SENATE ORATORS.
Few of Our Great Men Speak
Without Preparation.
HOAR'S BEDROOM EXERCISE
ingalls, Shaves Twice and Takes a
Turkish Bath before Talking.
MEN OF FLOWERS AND OF THOUGHT

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPArcB.l
WASHINGTON, March S.-Oratory is
diving out in Congress. You can count on
your fingers the great speeches which have
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CABINET photos 81 per dozen, prompt de-
livery. Crayons, etc., at low prices.
LIES GALLERY,
TTsu 10 and u Sixth st,
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TAKING THE ECLIPSE.
Letter From an Astronomer of the
Pensacola's Expedition.
EXPERIENCE WITH THE NATIVES.
The Morning Inspired Hope, But the Aft
ernoon Brought Despair.
A WALK ON THE WEST AFRICAN COAST

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPArcH.I
ST. PAUL DE LoANDA, WEST AFRICA,
January, %.
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getting his notes In
shape and then dictat-
ing them to his stenog-
rapker. He has good
scrapbooks, and the
volumes OF scraps In
his library cover more
than a generation OF
public lie. His first
speech in Congress was
delivered more than 30
years ago, and he told
me he was frightened
when he arose to make
it. He was in the
Lower House and there
was an old fellow sit
ting beside him writing
at the session at which
he spoke. There were
a number of new Con-
gressmen who made
their first speeches on
this day. This old MEM
ber was a kind of mis-
anthrope, and as every
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BLAIR's PTLLs-dreat English gout and
i've. At drugEisH. 1Tsu
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his constituents. Wolcott is said to be an ora
tor. but he is too young in the Senate %
venture great effort. The same is true
with all the new Senators. When Turpie,
of Indiana, was elected it was said be would
set the Potomac on fire. He has been in
the Senate for several years and the waters
remain unignited. We expected the same
from Daniel, of Virginia, but he served his
time in the House and came to the Senate,
and the country still waits. Daniel is a
pleasant talker, but not great orator. His
words are fowery, but his ideas are few.
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LOOKS LIKE BEN BUTLER.

Cushman K. Davis makes fair speech.
He looks like Ben Butler and brings the
experience of life at the bar to the Senate
Dawes, of Massachusetts,. tears the air rs he
talks, and Plumb, of Kansas, needs about
ten square feet of space to talk in. Butler,
of South Carolina, stands as erect and as
graceful on his one human leg as other men
do upon two, and he uses good language.
Wade Hampton talks little.
Frank Hiscock weighs a ton when he
takes the floor, and you would think he
owned his party and the President. Jones,
of Nevada, goes wild upon silver, and Stew
art follows suit. Stanford reads his speeches
with his hundred -million-jollar tongue, and
Manderson now and then rises into elo-
quence. Eugene Hall and George Gray are
both good speakers. Frye is a good all
round talker, and Randall Lee Gibson can
make as fine a classical effort as any man in
the Senate. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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day just as the sun had begun to paint the
bronze cheeks of the Goddess of Liberty on
the dome of the Capitol, they heard a stamp
ing and roaring in the next room. The
half-sick clerk turned over and asked:
What is it?" His companion woke up and
said it sounded like cross between saving
wood and stump speaking, and the two lay
and listened. At the end OF an hour they got
desperate for the hubbub still went on, and
the half-sick clerk crawled from his bed,
got on chair and looked over the transom.
THE ORATOR IN HIS NIGHTIE.
There, before long pier glass in the light
attire of spectacles, nightgown and slippers,
the great Massachusetts Senator pranced up
and down, and pounded the air as he talked
to himself of the beauties of education. His
''nightie" tapped about his fat, round
calves as he thundered out "Mr. President,
and his blue eyes beamed magnanimously
into his own as he looked into the glass and
stretched out his hand. saying: "My col
leagues will agree" etc., etc. 1t was Sena-
tor Hoar in the throes of his great impromptu
speech.
Such preparation, however, is not uncom-
mon among our statemen, and Ben: Perley
Poore once told me that when Martin Van
Buren's effects were sold at auction the
carpet in front of the glass in his bedroom
was found worn threadbare by his walking
hearsing his speeches.
Senator Sherman prepares his speeches by
reading we'll up on the subject beforehand,
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the Lords prayer, he objected, ium ped
down and offered an amendment to it.
HIS INTELLECTUAL PECULIARITIEs.
The trouble with Edmunds' intellect is
that it is too big for this world. He grasps
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Vest, Mo.


perseverance and you might as well try to
chop down tree with an az handle as to
change him.
Joe Blackburn is great speaker. Beau
tiful flowers sprout spontaneously from the
end OF his tongue and he is one of the most
popular men with the galleries. He is one
of the readiest men in the Senate and though
his speeches are sometimes light, he is always
listened to. One of his strongest points is
the State of Kentucky, which he says has
the prettiest girls, the brayest men, the best
whisky and the fastest horses under heaven
and about which he can reel off poetic
illusions of soulful
ELOQUENCE BY THE YARD.
To see Senator Hoar's child-like, bland blue
eyes shining cut through a pair of gold
specs, while with one hand in his pantaloons
pocket and a bunch of keys in the other. he
easily talks out his ideas in the best of
AngIo-Saxon, you would suppose that
speeches flowed from him with the greatest
of ease, and that the wise words that he
utters were the sparks struck BY the occasion
from the New England flint of his brain.
You would not suppose he had set on these
ideas for weeks, and had one by one Matched
them into words. You would not imagine
that he had trained the chickens of his in
tellect into perfect shape by continuous re-
hearsing and the brushing OF the feathers
this way and that, nor would you imagine
that a man of his years would rise be fore
day to go over his orations to the Senate.
Not long ago Mr.. Hoar delivered great
speech which was reported as
He was living at the time in rooms on New