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ously inspect q motionlcss snake.

ously inspect q motionless snake. Then
they get killed for their curiosity"
"Do you not consider snakes Shiny
and dirty arimalss"
'sNo snake is Shiny. All are perfectly
clean and odorless. The reputation of
snakes for sliminess and vicious cunning
is all mistake, no. at all borne out by
facts. Snakes are the most timid ami
mails in creation, and 'tis that very fear
that occasionally makes them attack.
Then they kill their prey quickly. I
have repeatedly seen the rattlesnake and
South American puff-addcr strike ami
mails dead almost instantly--that is, in
three or four seconds"
"How about the belief that snake
may live till sundown with his head
crushed and broken back7"
"Snakes are very tenacious of life, but
as for saying that when snake is killed
in the morning it won't die until night
excuse my Irish phraseology-this is
quite untrue, if the snake is killed prop
erly."
The reporter asked whether Mr..
O'Reilly had ever tried snake-charming.
"Snake-charming9 There is no such
thing. l can do everything with snake
the so-called charmers do. I can make
cobras dance without music, because
cobras never hear the music, having no
ears. Snakes are sensitive 10 sound
when there is vibration in objects in
contact with their skins. They also have
an appreciation of sound through the
delicate nerves of the tongue.
"Here is curious fact: The sense of
sight in snakes is very keen for motion,
but very dull for form and color. For
instance, I have repeatedly seen my
snakes and those in the woods pass with
in few inches of their prey without see
ing it as long as it remained motioaless.
The moment it moved they resumed the
chase. They have the sense of smell,
but it's dull, as are all their senses. They
must be studied from a different stand.
point from all other animals on this ac-
count, and he who tries to explain snakes
actions from what might call NAM
malian standpoint would be constantly
in error"
Mr.. O'Reilly said he didn't believe in
the sEake remedies popular in many
countries. ~ believe in the knife, but
not in cauterization. If person is Bit
ten in a heshy part, and the venom not
directly injected into vein or artery, cut
ting with knife to the same depth as
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His Life Devoted to Spiders.

"One of the curious things Of this life, "
remarked an ex-Congressmau, sis tho
devotion of some men to IN idea
without regard to the opinion of the
rest of the world and without hope Of
reward. I know of man from my
State who has devoted a lifetime to
spiders. He died in the Alps, where he
had been for two years collecting speci-
mems of spiders. He sacrificed his life
to spiders. He has left collection OF
some twenty eight thousand distinct va
rietics. You would hardly think there
were many more spiders in existence.
This maa has them stuck up in sections,
in classes, fully labeled.
.'He began fooling with spiders when
a boy. He had room that he would
allow no one to sweep or clean, and en-
couraged the spiders to such an extent
that they would come to him and feed
on his hand. He discovered that by re-
peatedly destroying q web spider
reached stage where his power of re-
producing web is exhausted. When that
stage was reached the spider attacked
another spider, killed him and took his
ball of web from him. Just like a
human being, don't you see: Before
this man died he embalmed his knowl-
edge of spiders in two volumes. He was
q spider crank. ."-MeU York Herald.
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Urollery in the Silah's Diary.

Extract from the "Diary of His Maj.
csty the Shah," published in 1874
SP ,IRe picture e q a?akcy yE Ea: 54s sss1s and d
the exhibition, a fat, white bearded man,
who gave information about the prices,
told me it was hundred pounds sterling
equivalent to two hundred and fifty
humans of Persia. l remarked, The
value of a live donkey is at the outside
FIVE pounds. How is it, then, that this
which is but picture of an ass, is to be
paid so dearly FORE The director said,
because it is not a source Of expense,
as it eats neither straw or barley'-the
Eastern substitute for hay and oats. ]
replied, 'Trne-it is not source OF out
lay; but neither will it carry load OF
give one a ride We laughed heart
ilvo
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Growing and Packing Tea.

The tea plant is as sensitive and deli
cate rs West Walnut street belle. 1t
Aourishes best on a mountain side, where
it is neither very warm nor cool, where
the soil is dry but the rains and dews are
frequent, where the force of the wind is
broken by adjacent woods or hills, where
there is o maximum of sunlight and, &C.
cording to the Celestials, of moonlight,
and where the surrounding ground is
kept free from weeds or other vegetable
growths. There are farms in Formosa,
Fo-Kien and other tea districts where
these conditions exist unchangingly,
whose tea crop is as famous aud distinct
" known in the eastern world as the va
rious chateaux of France are to the wine
experts of Europe. Just as the million
aires of Europe control certain vine.
yards,so do the millionaires of the Flow
cry Kingdom control tea plantations
whose annual output is worth a kings
ransom.
Another point of the many we have to
learn from the Chinese is the proper
mode of packing the leaf. That which
goes to America is dumped, as soon as it
is "6red," burning hot into lead-lined
box, the lead is soldered and the air.
tight coffin is sent around the globe in
the hot hold of q steamer. The tea
sweats and undergoes many changes
which alter its flavor altogether and Vi
tiste its quality. '''<s*,,.
The Mongolian packs the poorest kind
in strong paper packages, and these in
turn in mortuary lead; the better kind
in soft-tin paper covered boxes; still bet
ter ones in silver foil inside of one-pound
cases made of split sun-driel bamboo,
and the best in porcelain jars and vases.
Chicago Herald.
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cutIon IN ,tne oEscur1ty OF London, ano
you were reared and educated ss the Noel
who had passed away forever.
"Oh, Cuthbert, my son Can you not
guess my object in sending Harriet Loop
hither? 1t was not revenge, it was long
ing mother's- love for YOU, that inspired
the stratagem. Since then she has kept
me secretly apprised of your welfare,
weekly, and often daily. Often, when q
child, you have visited me in her COM
pany, at my shop in London, without sus-
pecting that it was your own mother who
was SO devouring you with kisses, and
vas ever at last 80 .loath to let you 60
again"
Am I ,dreaming7" muttered the young
man, who felt indeed. in a strangely un-
real condition; while Gwendoline was
silently weeping at his side. Yes. !
seem,o nase areaolIect1on of such visits,
and of those kisses and. embraces"
Then his eyes wandered from hiG
mother to the banker, with an inquiring
look.
aShe says truly" srowled Gilbert Mar.
lowe, who, together with Croak, was
stolidly undergoing the operation OF
handcuf6ng at the hands of Mr.. Dal.
housie.
Il have tried to bring you up worthily,
bnt you are not my son Noel-you are
their son Cuthbert. Csn't you run US out
of this scene. curse your" he fercely
added turning upon the detective, with
an oath. Isn't Aere enough misery in
store for mo, that you must heap it on to
me here?'
Cuthbert Mariowe, as We Hust now
call him, lowered his eyes, and, with his
breast laboring With contending emo.
tions, in which sorrow and pity for tho
wretch whom lie hsd so long called
father were perhaps lppermost drew
back shudderingly as the prisoners were
silently led away.
Then, turning and seeing his mothers
hands outstretched imploringly to him.
he threw himself at her feet with great.
joyful cry.
1t was tlen his father who raised him
up, and, after embracing him. linked bis
youthful hand with the weeping Gwendo-
lines.
you deserve to be happy together. and
I know you will be-" cried Jasper.
Hasten now together, hand in hand, to
convey the joyous tidings to Mr.. Alworth.
GLADDEN. his old heart with the news that
he hiss como to his own again, and that
jasmine Lodge is once again to be his
cherished home!"
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Mr.. O'Rellly has lived with snakes
night ard day for sixteen years. He
comes to the United States to wage war
in behalf of his pets. He has brought
with him large collection of snakes.
He consented to impart to readers of the
World some of his scientific discoveries
regarding serpents. These discoveries
are the result of patient and enthusiastic
study.
Two representatives Of the World, a
reporter and an artist, visited Mr..
O'Rcilly at the Central Park Menagerie,
where he has his collection. He had
just taken large and repulsive-looking
boa constructor from its box for an airing.
The monster was squirming about on a
heap of stones, Kissing at intervals and
now and again darting out an ugly
forkcd tongue. Tine hideous flat head
rose with a sudden forward movement
and the jaws opened threateningly.
Mr.. O'Reilly's explanation that the
snake was frightened and merely on a
voyage of discovery was unheeded. One
glance at those distended jaws, and, with
all due respect to science, the World men
decided that the branches of a con-
venient tree were the best position from
which to pursue their scientific investiga-
tions. Mr.. O'Reilly informed the re-
porter that the boa was known as q
macaiuel in Brazil.
He then proceeded to show how he
hunted snakes. Taking il bis hand a
long, thin stick bcEt at an angle OF
forty-fvc degrees about six inches from
the end, he pinned the wriggling rep
tiles head to the ground. To catch it
by the neck, preventing its striking, and
to lift it UP was then an easy matter.
Mr.. O'Reilly was ready to talk about
his pets. lie spoke with just an lndI-
cation of the County Claire brogue.
'sPcoplc here don't know all they might
about snakes" said be, ..'and I've come
here to culighten them. In the first place,
the idea that full-growu men are swal-
lowed by boas l believe to be myth
As for the American boas, l have seen
non, that can swallow more than half-
grown goat. An anaconda over twenty
feet long is rare.
"rhe largest snake Oh record, an Indiar
pvthon reticulatus, now in London, IS
only twerty-siy feet long. 1t weighs
about 224 pounds. Boas do not cover
their prey with saliva before swallowing
it. The saliva merely lubricates the prey
during the process Of dcglutition. Young
snakes do not take refuge in their moth
crs stomach. Snakes sucking COWS anal
hoop snakes rolling along with their tails
in their mouths arc Inventions worthy OF
the author of the arabian Nights
"TEcrc's the fable about whip-snake:
hanging from trees in Brazil and lashinE
the unsuspccting wayfarcr. You'll hnc
it in most natural history books. Here
are some of them"-he pointed to
glass covered box containing two long
and lean gray snakes with curiously
elongated heads-"aud you caa see how
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the snakes fang has penetrated, and af-
forwards sucking the place strongly, will
remove nearly every vestige Of the poi
son. Though never bitten myself, I
have invariably seen that absorption
from fesh.wounds is slox.
"The supposed cures effected by So
called remedies are due to the fact that
persons are often bitten by harmless
snakes. Numberless instances occur
where people die through sheer fright.
A glass of whisky to restore their cour-
age is the best remedy, although the
common belief as TO large amounts of
whisky forming an antidote is ridiculous.
81 consider that snakes play most
useful role in creation, even the most
venomous kinds. Were it not for the
deadly puff adder in South Africa the
country would be overrun by species of
field mouse. the adder destroys them
by the thousand. In every country snakes
prey upon the smaller destructive animals,
and are thus the farmers friends. My
experience in about twenty countries IS
that harmless snakes are called deadly by
the ignorant and unobservant. Thus it
is that we hear of SO many rattlesnakes,
moccasins, etc. The innocent suffer for
the guilty."
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"The Three O'clock Woman.

There is an old woman in Brooklyn
who inherited several thousand dollars
fifteen years ago. On the day that the
money was to be paid her she was told
by the lawyer to wait till he returned
from the bank, and if he was not back
by three o'clock not to wait but come
back tomorrow. The lawyer has not
been seen or heard of since, and every
day the woman walks around the Court
house between eleven A. NJ. and three p.
NJ. She is known as the "Thrcc O'clock
Woman" An inquiry is to be made as
to her sanity.-NeW York Witness.
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They are
their shape started the story. They are
colled scientifically cryiophiR acuminat1,

their shape started the story. They are
called scientifically cryiophia acuminatp,
ore about halt an lncn IN diameter at the
thickest part and five feet long. .,
"Here is their exact opposite IN shape.
Mr.. O'Reilly turned to another cage con-
tanning South African puil-adder' o:
clotho arictans. 1t was three ieet long
and three inches in diameter.
"There is a story atioat,' nc SAID, "rc-
garding the manner in which tins snake make
Strikes. 1t is said to be able to turn ovcr
backward and catch at Its prey, lou
can see what caused the delusion."
Mr.. O'Rcilly aroused the adder with 4
pole. The coils unwound until the rep
tile showed the deadly arsenal 1t carried.
The broad, low head was poised on
rigid neck. The forkcd tongue played
in and out. The parti-colored eyes
cleaned wickedly, and with a swift
lateral thrust of the head the fanss
cleaned an instant in the sunlight. Then
the snake shrank back; suddenly to the
watchful position in which the ARTIST
has taken it. The bite can be inflicted
sideways, but the snake cannot turn sud-
denly around to strike.
"Ive no faith in the fascination OF
snakes eyes," said the professor. cit
the same fear which draws birds around
hawk or owl, or small boys around a
wild bull, that leads little birds to curl
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FOND OF SNAKES.
A MAN WHO HAS MADE THEIR
HABITS HIS LIFE STUDY.
Professor O'Rc:lIy Characte"izas
Some of the Stories About the
Habits of Snakes as Myths,
Pure and Simple.

There is a man at present in New
York who fairly dotes on suakcs. He has
seen thousands of them. He wishes to
see thousands more. His name is G. X.
O'Reily. His home is IN Trinidad.
Mr.. O'Reilly has been the editor of
newspaper and professor in Ireland.
He, too, was professor OF school in
Trinidad. He is corresponding mem
ber of the Royal Geological Society. He
has been to the four corners OF the
world. Natives regarded him as a
"witch-doctr, because of his knowl-
edge of snakes.
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Oneer Rain SnDerStitiOn.

The telegraph wires between Madison
and Greensboro Fla, were disabled
few days ago, and the manager started
out to discover the cause. A few miles
from Greensboro he found two NAM
moth snales hanging across the wires in
such a manner as to connect the current
of each. The snakes had been killed,
tied together and hung out to bring rain,
the work beng done by colored people
in the ncighborhood. od.-Bos!on 7fa''
script.
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A WILLIAMSBURG On. W girl was
detected rob5ing the church contribu-
ton boxes during hor pleasant Sunday
task of counting the "takings." The
Williamsburg church in the future
rhould rely on tho method in vogue in
primitive co!ored churches Of tho South
let tho dominic watch the deacons
closely from his elevated position, tako
the coin, put it in his pocket, and count
Il when he goes home.
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elbow often should I water my pot
plants2' A general answer to this per-
picking question, given by William
Saunders, is: Never apply water to a
plant until # requires it, that is, until it
is dry, and then apply a sufficient guam
tity to saturate the soil, which will bc
indicated by the surplus passing
through the drainage.
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WHAT RIGHT HAVE YET
BY II. VICTOR sTALEY.

What right have ye to murmur
If,a cloud perchance appears
TO dim the blue horizon
OF thy hopes by passing fears2
What right have ye to question
, The wisdom Of thy God
II It's His will that ye should pass
Beneath the chastening roa2-
What right have ye to SORROW
For those hopes unrealzedp
Though lost, why should ye shed tears
For treasures that ye prize?
What, though thy castles built Of air
In hopeless ruins lie,
Think 20 that structures frail ss these
Are even worth the sigh2
O, be mot SO soon o'erwhelmtd
By trifing -griefs like these,
Once more resolve-they vanish, all,
Like clouds before the breeze.
Mount upward on thy blasted hopes.
And be discouraged never;
For failure ye shall never know
II ye will but eHdeavor.
= Let this thy motto be through life,
And eer give it asseytiop:
If q thing is worth the striving 1or
It's worth each new oxertion."
.AwRENcE UNIVERSITY, Appleton. Wis.
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English laundry maids get Sc to ss q
week, working from t A. N. till s P. NJ,
on the following programme: Monday,
put the things in soak, prepare the soap
for the washing or for the tubs, and have
everything at hand; Tuesday, wash all
the body and house linen; "Wednesday,
colored things and flannels; Thursday,
mangle sheets, table linen, etc., starch
shirts, collars, etc., begin ironing; Fri
day. finish the ironing.
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Now THAT they are max ng billiard
balls, knife handles and such things
out of milk, we may safely feel encour-
aged to hope that they will soon be
making cane heads fit and proper for
our nice young men to suck.
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An Old Portrait of Columbus.

An old portrait of Christopher Colum >
bus that was recently discovered at
Como derives its value not only from
scarcity of authentic likenesses OF the
great navigator, but from its art history,
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N q few minutea
thereafter. there
WAS q renewal OF
the proceeding in
the bankers back
Office which had
been SO terribly
interrupted. The
persons assembled
were the same as
before, but with
the o dition al
nracenca of Noel
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TIE BANKERS CRIME
Diamond Gut Diamond.
BY NATHAN D. URNER
OR

CHAPTER Xiv.
TWISTED THREADS CNRAyELED.
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and Gwendoline, both Jasper
and Mr.. Hartwelll having in
sisted on their being present
at the revelations that were
about to be made.
The young man and the
young girl remained standing
near the door, while the rest
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-02-05

County assessors shall make separate
is'e Of all tax shle property m each scho i
d. ricf also shall prepare sis OF ever,
male citizen lisbl' for poll tax. The di.
trirt school clerks shall collect thi po'
tax, recelvnL 10 per cent thereof ; &
saln Y; shal make report to the coun,,
superintendent and shall post list OF poll
tax payers in each district
COMPULSORY EDUCATION NO EXEMPTION,
The act contains compulsory clause,
and if children, because of poverty, are
kept from school, the directors are re-
quired to supply them with books and
compel their attendance.
Provision is made for issuing bonds
and borrowing money fer school improve
ments. All property personal or real,
situated In each school district, shall b.
subject to the general 3.mill levy, and
also to the sinking fund bond levy; and
also to the mills special levy. For the
purpose of this act, and no further, the
exemption laws heretofore and now in
force in this territory are repealed.
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Personal

J. E. Curren, editor Of the Clayton En-.
terprise, is circulating among the legisla-
tors.
Benigno Romero, secretary of the
board OF regents of the insane asylum, is
here from Las Vegas.
Mrs. NJ. S. Otero, accompanied by hei
bright young son, FREDERICK, is in the city
from Bernalillo. They stopat the Palace
At the Exchange: Amado G. de Baca
Albuquerque; f. G. Brodie, Chicago; F
II. Westag, Ocate; J. l.. Perea, Albu
querque; j. r. Rivera, Wallace.
Hon. F. A. Msnzanares, Of Las Vegas
is in the city in the interest of the Las
Vegas insane asylum. Mr.. Manzanaret
is well known and man of influence and
will be able to aid materially in the matter
OF helping that institution In prope,
manner.
| Ed. w. Fox, a prosperous merchant,
good citizen and enterprising business
man OF Clayton, accompanied by DR.. l. s.
North, is in the city; Garcia county out Of
eastern Mora and Colfax is the object Of
the visit of these gentlemen. They expect
to work for the project and carry it
through. Ed. Fox is successful man all
around and he may succeed in his present
enieavor.
At the Palace: Mrs. M. S. Otero, f.
j. Otero, Bernalillo; E. 7. Campbell,
j, w. Nichols, Albuquerque; Ed. W.
Fox, S |. North, j. E. Curren, Clayton
+. A. Manzanares, B. f. Forsythe, Miss
stokes, Mrs. Caroline 2. Stokes, Mrs. A.
D. Munson, New York; &. F. Bogue,
Bismark; VIM. A. Vincent, B. Romero,
Las Cruces; R. N Piper, Alma, Neb.
W. E. Gortner, Las Vegas; j. w. Don
nelly, j. e. Saint, Albuquerque.
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What q Change

Is wrought in people who suffer from rheu
matism when they take Hoods Sarsaparilla
The acidity Of the blood, which causes the
disease, is neutralized, the blood is purified
and vitalized, the aching joints and limbs
rest easily and quietly, and a feeling of Sc
rene health is impaired. Hoods Sarsaparilla
has accomplished wonders for thousands
subject to rheumatism. Try it yourself