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THE IRISH QUESTION.

81 have noticed that, instead of firing OF H.
oo,inos have always hailed any mention OF Ire
innd With eagerness, doubtless because the peo'
nle are conscious that other WORK VIII oe ue.
iave6 until this is dealt with Our opponents
10y .ho+ tho Government deserve we'll of the coun-
Say ' for they are going to introduce Local Gov
Dr,ont mS m bill for Ireland and their policy in Ire
land has been .sosss. H. am b Hod that bat, 'Ae i
promiSo had repentance For this sixth
Is par,iament and the Government have
Sea1 S,adosd Themselves not to adopt coercion ri,
PLEDGE not 70 use British credit TO purchase Irish
ss " nEsaae in 'Sa spens tns Of s a1ss
nave epsnS now IN arnculo morts, they seek to
plensus ,s tbs remaining pledge. But such is. the
reuse eo'amov Of the Liberal party, am sure their
resoIotion will be welcomed with open arms, arms.
must admit however that the reason 20 oh
..at local government must assist Ireland I" o'-
tain national right. ,,oo., hodies
II Il certain that popularly elected locai D0''e'
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military training, and all his photo
graphs were taken in uniform. That
from which the accompanying cut was
made was taken two years ago, when the
future Gear of all the Russians was more
boyish in appearance than at present.
On the day of his birth he was gazetted
Colonel of the Imperial Guard, and 1t is
said that he shows evidence of military
capacity. If this should turn out to be
true, it will be reversal of the family
traditions. The Romanoffs have always
shown bravery in the field, but Peter the
Great was the last of the family who
gave proof of ability to command an
army in face of the enemy. The present
Gar in the lifetime of his father held q
high command in the last Russo Turkish
war and showed no disposition to shirk
either danger or privation, but as a
general he was complete failure.
The Czarowitz is a nephew of the
Princess of Wales and of King George
of Greece. His mother, the Czarina, is
a daughter of King Christian TX of Den
mark and was married in 1866, four
wears after the Prince of Wales had
welded her sister. Her name up to her
marriage was Mary Sophia Frederica
Dagmar, but she was always spoken of
in public as the Princess Dagmar. Now
she is called Mary Dagmar Feodorovna.
The young heir to the Russian throne
has seen some stormy times in his short
life. As child he was almost a wit
ness of the terrible dynamite explosion
which ended the life of his grandfather
and placed his father on the throne, and
more than once he was near when at
tempts were made on the life of the pres
ent Car, which, if successful, would
have made himself the autocrat, for a
time at least, of sO,O0O,OO0 of subjects.
CHICAGO Post.
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In New Zealand the gobies of several

In New Zealand the gobies of several
species have this habit of leaving the
water and scrambling along shore, and
are called ''running fishes" by the ma
tives on account of this singular feature.
At Whampoa fish called the sunghong
is often seen out of water, while the Chi
nese have what they call the pakkop. or
white frog, that can live for some time
out Of its native clement. These people
also speak of the hower-fish, or hawaya,
as leaving the water.
On our own shores we have goby
that has q somewhat similar habit. It's
known as the Gobius soporator. Re-
Gently ON expedition of naturalists in
Mexico and Texas found some Of the lit.
tie fishes and confined them in a pail.
They remained in it for short time;
then, to the astonishment of the observ-
ers, several were seen clambering over
the side of the pail and quietly dropping
down upon the ground, when they pro-
ceeded to wiggle their way to the water,
not far distant. They used their pectoral
and anal fins as legs in this case and sue
ceeded in making very good progress.
When replaced in the bucket they soon
tumbled out again, and could only be
kept in it by placing a plank over the
top of their prison.
In countries where there is decided
wet and dry season, fishes are often OBJ
liged to migrate or hibernate. In tho
latter case, when they find they are un-
able to reach the water they burrow into
the soil, remaining in this condition foE
months, or until the rain comes. This
habit has been made the occasion Of
some remarkable surprises. Thus,
party of hunters were camping upon the
edge of little depression that was ab
solutely barren. A rainstorm came uE
suddenly and soon the depression became
lake. In an hour the croak of frog!
was .deafening and an examination O
the surface showed that the place wa
we'll stocked with fish. The momcn
the moisture reached below the surface
the FISH had revived and made their wa.
up through the mud. One of the cura
tors of the British Museum some year
ago received dry and we'll packed OBJ
ject that appeared to be ball of mud
The instructions were to place this in
dish of slightly warm water, which wa
done. Slowly the ball dissolved, and a
it finally fell apart long eel-like fsl
rolled out, gave several gasps and begal
to splash about. The ball of mud ha'
been the alternating nest of the fish, ant
had been sent this long distance safely Il
tightly packed box.
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HThat's the WayI Shoot y

An officer in attendance at a shooting
competition noticed two men firing with
anything but precision. Approaching
them he exclaimed angrily: "You fel
lows don't know how to shoot; lend me
the rife and let me show you" Bang!
and the target was missed. A broad grin
oversprcad the features of the two pri
Yates, but the officer was equal to the
occasion. Turning to the first, with q
frown upon his countenance, he re-
marked: "That's the way YOU shoot,
sir" A second attempt, aud similar
result. Turning to the other he con-
tinued: "And that's the way you shoot,
SIR" A third shot, and all inner was
aukcd. With pardonable pride the
worthy officer returned the rifle, trium.
phantly adding. "And that's the way
shoot" The men ever slice have enter.
tanned very high opinion of him as
marksman.
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Travellers in South America are some
times regaled with wonderful stories
about the overland trips of certain fishes,
and in many instances the accounts have
been substantiated, especially in the cases
Of the Doras and Callichthys-catfshes
common in the tropical South American
streams. These fishes exist in vast num-
bers in the streams and pools, and like
their East Indian allies they start in a
body overland, presenting most singu-
lar appearance, especially to those who
have never seen q fish out of water by
its own volition.
Another catfish, known as the Tangsa,
In South American waters, is often seen
on partly submerged logs, apparently
having the habits of frog or lizard. In
England the familiar little fish known as
the blcAny has a curious habit of bask-
ing in the open air at times. This was
noticed by naturalist named Ross, who
kept several of the fishes in an aquarium.
He had great difficulty in making them
stay in the water. At certain times dur
ing the day they would make desperate
and often successful attempts to get out.
Finally, upon the advice of a friend, he
placed stone in the tank so that part OF
it was exposed, and out upon it climbed
the blennies. They seemed to require air,
and from choice spent part of the time
out of the water. Singularly enough, this
was during the ebb tide, the period when
they would naturally be left high and
dry in the pools along shore.
My readers will wonder how all
the fnny wanderers can breathe out of
water. All fishes breathe by taking in
water, which is supplied with air, and
expelling it at the gills, their blood-red
organs taking up the oxygen during the
contact; but when q fish is out of the
water it would seem necessary to have
some other means of breathing, and this
is the case. They do not carry water or
store it, as some have supposed, but the
cavities which are found in the head of
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CHAPTER XVI.

Jack was correct in his prophecy. Be-
fore the sun rose the impromptu smiths
under old Jack had turned out the requi-
site number of cutlasses. The forges,
which all night long had been kept at q
white heat, we're allowed to cool off, and
the village became quiet and the sun rose
over the fort, which appeared to have
taken sound nights sleep.
Now away with you to bed. said Mr..
Burnett 20 the blacksmiths. You have
worked faithfully all night long, and you
need rest. You will be called upon to do
some more hard work before the mor-o*'s
sun rises. Those who have slept soundly
all night will work to-day"
The work of the carpenters in handling
the instruments was not finished until
uear noon. and then they retired to sleep.
The grinders were changed and all day
long every grindstone in the town was
rolling, polishing off the bright blades
and sharpening the formidable instru-
ments.
They will be dimmed before many
hours, the deserter Of the Xenophon re-
marked. There was melancholy ca
dence in the tone of his voice, as he said
this, which touched Capt. Alton. Grit
fifth, although he was accustomed to war
scenes, shuddered with unaccountable
feeling as he heard the remark, and real
izing in whit way tho polished blades
would be d,mmed
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superstitions of the natives, but finally
one night party of surveyors, who were
out, heard a singular sound and killed
an animal which was moving through
the grass, and which was found to be
this native fish, that was wiggling its way
overland for some purpose. The noise
was caused by the expulsion CT air from
the air bladder of the fish.
A party of English officers were upon
one occasion encamped in certain por
tion of India, when their attention was
attracted by rustling sound in the
grass and leaves. Investigation showed
it to be caused by myriads of little
fishes that were headed in one direction
and moving slowly on. There were
hundreds of them moving by using their
side and small fins as feet; now upright,
now falling down, squirming, bending,
rolling over, regaining their fnny feet
and again pressing on.
These fishes were the famous climbing
perch, abJut which so much has been
said and written, and they were passing
over the country to avoid a drought.
When the stream in which they have
been spending the season dries up they
scale the banks, and, directed by some
marvellous instinct, crawl to another.
The climbing perch was first noticed
by naturalist over q century ago, one
having been caught high up a palm tree,
where it had gone, it is said, to obtain
the moisture that might be found in the
crevices of the leaves. This story was
doubted by many, but perch was found
in the tree by NJ. Daldori, so the circum-
stance may be placed among the strange
facts of natural history.
The most remarkable dry-land fish is
the one known as the Periophthalmus.
The little creature is about four or five
inches long, with big head, prominent
eyes, and side or pectoral fins that are
more like legs than anything else. This
goby, for this is the family to which it
belongs, is marine fish, and actually
goes ash ore to obtain some of its foud.
If we were on the watch at low tide, say
in N1auritius, where it is common, VIC
should see as the rocks become bare,
various broad heads popping up here and
there, then a big tadpole-likc creature
jumping from one to another or edging
its way up the side. Their object is to
catch smell crustaceans. Some years ago
friend of the writer, IN ardent natural
ist, was very much interested in these
little fishes, and combined sport and col
lecting in novel manner. he caught
his Periophthalmi with shotgun, pick
ing them off as they hoped along the
muddy fiat as though they were snipe.
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Rnssia's Future Car.

The eldest son of the Emperor OF
Russia is called during the lifetime OF
his father the Czarowitz, which means
simply "son of the Gar" The young
man who at present holds the title, the
Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandeovitch-
the latter name meaning "son of Alex
ander," is now in his twenty-third year.
He has the tall figure and powerful
physique which have characterized all
the Romanoffs since that family mounted
the throne of Russia, but, as yet, little
is known of his personal qualities. Like
all European Princes, he has received a
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Some years ago I spent the summer at
the little fishing village of Ogunquit,
Me. Near the ocean was lake into
which, at high water, the clear water Of
the ocean flowed, while at the ebb it ran
into the ocean again; so at high tide the
lake was large body of water and at low
tide a very insignificant sheet from which
punches of rushes protruded.
The lake 1 soon discovered was fa-
NOUS for its eels, the muddy bottom be-
ing fairly alive with them. One evening
it happened l was on the beach as the
water was leaving the lake and waded
out into the little inlet to cross it, when
1 found that it was black with eels of all
sizes. The moment they saw me scores
left the water and dashed away over the
stones in every direction, making for the
ocean, presenting very extraordinary
spectacle. They seemed as much at
home on the dry land as in the water, and
understandable progress over the stones.
That eels leave the water and roam
about on the flats is well-known. Near
any eel pond their tails can be seen, wind
ing in and out and away to the ocean,
perhaps near at hand, all of which shows
how different individual fishes are.
Thus shad or perch would soon die,
and could not make single move for its
protection, being utterly helpless on land.
So, too, robin or sparrow would soon
drown IN the water, while the duck is
apparently in its native element, which
shows us that various animals are adapted
for different surroundings.
When Americans first visited Aus
tralia they found that the natives had
many and very singular stories regard
ing the animals of the great continent.
One was that a certain large fish, the
ceratodus, came to the surface at night
and wandered about on the shore, utter
ing noise like that of a bull; IN fact, a
believing sound. Naturally such fish
story was discredited and laid to the
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some are for the reception of air, and re,
semble lungs, so that the fishes breathe
directly at this time. Thus the Pcriph-
thalums in the water breathes by its gllls,
out of the water by what represents
lungs, so that it is more truly amphibious
than frog.
Fishes are often carried long distance
with. t water, and in China the heartless
fish venders carry through the streets a
fish which they call living fish, and cut
pieces from it, the fish living until it is
we'll carved up.-San Francisco Chronicle
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.


The fifth district Of Illinois has eleven new
". c. T. Unions the harvesting of paid
organizer.
Now North Carolina comes to tie fore
with one of the best scientific temperance
laws yet passed.
w. c.. T. Union has been formed in
Egypt at Cairo, with membership OF seven
American missionaries.
The Scottish Union of British Women's
Temperance Association has forty-four
societies and membership of about 1000.
The beer crop of Illinois thrives under the
high license reign. Internal revenue re-
ports showing an annual increase Of lSoO0O
barrels.
The Loyal Temperance Legion of North
Attleboro Mass, has membership OF 4u3.
Thirty-eight Of thisnumber have been pres
ent at every meeting during the past year.
1t isa significant fact the Y. w. G. T.
Unions everywhere are occupied with physi-
cal culture. The girls are not getting up
muscle for nothing. Let all whom may con-
Germ take notice.
Ohio W. C. T. U. this year has six hun
dred local unions, including ono hundred
new ones, aud ten thousand paying members.
TIE convention which met recently was one
of the best ever beld.
Even the parrots have caught the tenn
perance fever. A polly in Atlanta, Ga, heard
the crowds OF children drille in singing for
the Atlanta national convention, and since
then it sits aloft and sings: SALOONS, sa-
looms saloons must go"
The Sanitary Board Of Visnnl Austria,
has declared against the establishment Of
asylums for ipebriatss and in favor Of all
drunkards being, as public dangers, SEN
fenced to periods o. hard labor.
The order of Rechabites large tem-
perance society of England, rejoices in the
returns given at its late annual conference,
showing an increase Of 0,6l0 members dur
ing the year 1890. This is all the more en-
couraging as it is benefit club, as well as
total abstinence society.
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AT Straubing, In Bavaria, some Gel
tic tombs have been opened and found
To contain most interesting bronze orna'
ments and iron weapons belonging to
the people OF Rhntia before the Roman
conquest. The long sought-for Roman
cemetery has also been discovered
through the unearthing Of Roman
tomb containing cinerary urns-hank-
ing the old military road from Serviodu'
rum (Straubing) to Abusina, both situ-
sted on the Danube.
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THE CURE OF pRUNKARDs,

nent pathologist and microscopic OF Baarn,
Holland, has been awarded the prize for the
best essay on the care Of drunkards and the
cure of drunkenness, offered by the Inebriates
Home at Fort Hamilton, New York. The
competitors have had yearin which to pre-
pare their papers. The Dutch professor made
many delicate microscopic e1p periments With
rabbits as subjects. The result will overjoy
pathologists who have held that drunkenness
Is a disease. Professor Spank finds that
alcoholism Is disease that has its origin In
the habitual use Of alcohol or other strong
drink. It is disease.peculiar to itself and
calling for peculiar treatment
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MORE cabin passengers arrived at
New York in 1890 on the ocean steam
ers than ever before in the history Of
that port. The steamers made total
of ola trips, bringing SO, l83 cabin and
371, ,593 steerage passengers. British
steamers made 364 of the trips and
landed 81, ,97l cabin and 119,679 steer.
ngo passengers. During the total 914
trips there were 49 births, 63 deaths
and II suicides.
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NJ. Marcy has succeeded in photo
graphing the movements of an animal
under water, taking proofs at the rate of
fifty in a second, with exposures from
10000 to 10000 of a second. A set Of
twelve photographs gives all the phases
of the undulations which the medusa
lmpresses upon its umbrella of locomo.
tor apparatus. Another series exhibits
squid leaping out of the water. A ray
has been taken in profile while waving
the edges of its fiat body; and the
curious mode of progression of a coma
tula has been taken.
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WALKING FISH.
CURIOUS STORIES TOLD ABOUT
THEM.
What They Have Done on Dry Land
Members of. the Finny Tribe
Abandon Their Natu-
raj Home.

Whether it is any more remarkable for
a fish to leave its native element and
wander around on dry land than for o
bird like the ouzel to enter the water,
fly through it and walk along the bottom
in search of food 1 leave my read
ers to determine; but it is true that GER
tain fishes do leave the water in search of
food on the land and many others GO
ashore for various reasons.
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TOTAL ABSTINENCE ANr LONG LIE.

The report Of the Register-General Of Eng
land. for 1885, contains the results OF an Of
fetal inquiry concerning the death rate OF
ali males between: twenty five and sixty-fve,
years of age. The report places the average
death rate of all males ati900. The invesn-i
CATION was made by occupations, and while
ths general average death rate was 1000
clergymen were but 55G; farmers, 631 but
brewers were 1861; saloon keepers, beer DEAL
ers, etc, 1921: hotel servants, bartenderH,
ETC., were 1905. The report says with much
directly concerned in the liquor trade is ap-
palling.n Abstinence from alcoholic bever5
ages means increased chances for prolonged
life. -~- 3 -
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fro BE coETnsUED.1

STATISTICS given in st. Petersburg
papers show that the Jews are increas
ing with great rapidity in Russia.
While the birth rate among Russians is
21 per cent. that among the Jews is
so per cent. An Italian statistician
says the Hebrew population of Europ.
doubles itself in thirty years, the Rus
sian in about ninety years, and that Of
Europe generally in $50 years.
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THE true French plum-large, jet
black, soft and iuicy-comes from the
shores of the Garonne and its afiuent
the Lot, and is The fruit of the tree
known as the prunier d'ente, or grated
plum. The center Of the district is Clair.
iac, a quaint little old-fashioned town
built on a steep hillside overlooking
Lhn T Of
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A GREAT SINGERS TESTIMONY.

Madame Patti, in making up a recipe for
'sHow to become great singer" throws In
this wholesome ingredient: Alcoholic
stimulants Of any kind tend to irritate the
throat, and ehould be entirely abstained
from. Even light wines are no exception to
this rule. Most people are familiar with
the hoarse voice Of the hard drinker, and 1T
is often said Of such an individual that he
has burned his throat with drink. Even Q
moderate use of alcohol may, therefore, tend
to make the voice husky"
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Among the odd occupations that Lon
don (EnglanD women are engaged in
are inspection of refugees, visiting board
schools, spying for private corporations,
piano tuning, choir training, typesetting
and serving on school boards.
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The physicians of Vienna, Austria,
are greatly interested in the announce
melt of cure for cancer made recently
by Professor Mosetig, of that city. The
cure is applied in the same way as Koch
inc, and is said to render the formation
of cancer cells impossible. -
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A compilation of statistics on the
growth of the Southern States from 1880
to 1890, shows an increase of population
of 1919 per cent; of actual wealth, 62.5
per cent, and of capital invested in
manufacturing, 20.7 per cent.
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TEMPERANCE.

THE TEMPERANCE SOLDIER. 4
Lift up your banner, boys, !,
Gird ON your sword,
'Tis good to be soldier
In the fray.
To be foe to wrong,
And battle for the right
With all our strength and might,
Day by day.
FIVE 60 into camp, boys
GSoldiers often do), =
Or turning in the city
For time,
We'll never drink drop ,,s
OF brandy, wine or gin,
Because it leads to sin
And to crime.
March, march ahead, boys,
Never be afraid;
Show your temperance colors
In the strife.
And when you first set cut
Determine on this pan,
To be temperance man
All your life.
Mrs N. 4. Kiddsr,i in Temperance Banner.
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DISCRIMINATE carefully betw cen tho
man who is willing to take an Office
when the people want him to take 1t,
aud the man who is after it whether
the people want his services or not.
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The city of Havana has over two
hundred cigar manufactures. Ever,
factory pays tax OF - Vsss fs s'nt
person il amploya