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lighted; then called upon the rest. "Do
none Of you smell flowers7" he asked. "O,"
said his brother-in-law, "we are used to that
here"
The next morning these two men went
walking and the widower confessed that his
dead wife came about the house continually,
and that he had even seen her. She was
shaped and dressed and crowned with
flowers as in her lifetime; only she moved
few inches above the earth with q yery easy
progress, and fitted dry shod above the
surface OF the river. And now comes my
point: 1t was always in a back view that
she appeared, and these brothers-in-law,
debating the affair, agreed that this was to
conceal the inroads Of corruption
Again on Inconsistency.
The vigil on the Paumotuan grave does
not extend beyond two weeks and they told
me this period was thought to coincide with
that of the resolution of the body. The
ghost always marked with decay, the dam
ger seemingly ending with the process of
dissolution; here is tempting matter for the
theorist. But it will not do. The ladv of
the flowers had been long dead, and her
spirit was still supposed to bear the brand
of perishability. The resident had been
more than fortnight buried, and his yam-
plre was still supposed to go the rounds.
The truth is the tales are not necessarily
consistent in themselves; and they are fur
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
ELEPHANTS TAKING A BATH.
Rare Sports for the Giant Brutes In Central
Parks Menagerie.

Rare Sports for the Giant Brutes In Central
Parks Menagerie.
New York Post.]
Three Of the elephants had fine bath In
the menagerie in Central Park this morn
ing. Early this week the hippopotamus
tank was filled with water, as it was in
tended to give Miss Murphy and her daugh-
ter Fatima breath of fresh air. But the
change of weather persuaded Superintend-
ent Conklin to change his mind. This morn
ing, therefore, it was decided to give the
elephants the benefit of the water in the
tank Snyder, their keeper, led out Lizzie,
Tom and Jimmy, and they were all
soon spoutihg the water with satisfaction all
over themselves and anybody who was
around They trumpeted loudly and tum-
bled about the tank. This was their first
bath since last fall The neighboring alli-
gators were astonished at the shower of
water that kept pouring on them, and
moved uneasily about their enclosure OF
took refuge in their own tank. The cranes,
just across the road, trumpeted as only
cranes can, and reused the ire of the lion,
who added to the turmoil by roaring. The
African buffaloes and the bisons looked on
with an air of astonishment for some time,
and soon turned away with composure.
1t was no easy matter to get the elephants
out of the tank, and it was not till the water
was drawn off that they reluctantly followed
their keeper to their house. Tip, the
"rogue' elephant, who was not taken out,
was not improved in temper by being kept
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ther darkened for the stranger by an am
biguity of language. Ghosts, vampires,
spirits and gods are all confounded. And
yet seem to perceive that with excep-
tions) those whom we would count gods
were not maleficent. Permanent spirits
but those legitimate gods of Upolu and
Savar, where wars and cricketings of late
convulsed society, did not gather to be
dreaded, or not with a like fear.
One God That Was Good.
Mahinui-for whom one convict-catecnist
had been narned-the spirit of the sea, like
Proteus, endowed with endless avatars
came to the assistance of the shipwrecked,
and carried them ashore in the guise of a
ray fish. The same divinity bore priests
from isle to isle about the archipelago, and
by his aid, within the century, persons have
been seen to fly. The tutelar deity of each
isle is likewise helpful and by a particular
form of wedge-shaped cloud on the horizon,
announces the coming of ship.
To one who conceives of these atolls so
narrow, so barren, so beset in the sea, here
would seem a superfuity ofghostly denizens.
And yet there are more. In the various
brackish pools and ponds, beautiful women
with long red hair are seen to rise and bathe,
only (tiinid as mice) on the first sound of
They are known to be healthy and harmless
living people, dwellers of an underworld;
and the same fancy is current in Tahiti,
where also they have the hair red. Tea is
the Tahitian name; the Paumotuan, Moku-
rea.
r Even white sailors who ply in the archi-
pelago become infected with superstitions,
or what seem to be so. 1t is possible enough
that an atoll may be visible to great dis
tances, by the green radiance of the lagoon
projected on the atmosphere. That cloud
always indicates the position of navigable
passage think we may deny.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
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TRANsPLANTING YOUNG FISH.
How the Fry Perform When Introduced to
Their New Homo.

HOW the Ery Perform When Introduced to
Their New Homo.
"Did you ever see lot of fish fry placed
in al stream or lake? No? Well, I'll tell
you how it is DONE" and Colonel Rich
mond laid his cane on the desk. that he
might the more accurately describe the
operation to writer in the Meadyille Re-
publican.
Colonel "Dan" took as his subject the six
pals of Susquehanna salmon recently
planted in Conneaut lake by himself, John
E. Reynolds and other members of the
Iroquois Club. The fry arrived from the
Cory hatchery in the forenoon. The noon
train bore them to the lake, where Commo-
dore Whelpley, one of the best sailors and
most enthusiastic fishermen of the day, was
in waiting with the steam launch ''Marga-
ret" with full head. Still water was
sought and can OF the fry was placed in
basin above the ice houses, one in front of
Conneaut Park, one above the Willowby,
one at. the head of the lake and one in
Horse. Shoe basin and one in Miller's basin.
When the place intended for planting q
can had been reached, the boat would be
brought to stop, can would be opened,
let carefully under the surface and then
upset, letting the fish out as easily as posi-
BILE. There was half pint or more Of the
fry in each can. They looked like young
tadpoles, and were about a quarter of an
inch long, and as soon as they were placed
in the water the whole lot spread out over
the surface, covering a space perhaps five
feet across. They lay perfectly quiet for
about ten seconds, and then, as though on a
given signal, nearly every little fish turned
his tail toward the sky and made straight
for the bottom of the lake, and 15 seconds
after they were placed in the water not
minnow was to be seen.
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in Rotoava, because he had watched alone
by his own father. Not the ties OF the dead,
nor yet their proved character, affect the
issue. A late resident, who died IN Faka-
raya OF sunstroke, was beloved In LIE ana ID
still remembered with affections; none the
less his spirit went about the island clothed
with terrors, and the neighborhood OF coy
ernment House was still avoided after dark.
We may sum up the cheerful doctrine
thus: ALI men become vampires, and tne
vampire spares none. And here we come
lace to face with tempting inconsistency.
For the whistling spirits are notorlously
clannish; understood them to wait upon
and to enlighten kinsfolk only, and that
the medium was always of the race OF the
communicating spirit. Here, thens we have
the bonds of the family, on the one hand,
severed at the hour of death; on the other,
ih.elpfully persisting possibly for genera
tions.
The child's soul in the Tahitian tale was
wrapped in leaves. 1t is the spirits OF the
newly dead that are the dainty; when they
are slain the house is stained with blood.
and horribly-was his arboreal demon. The
spirit, then, is thing material; and it is by
the material ensigns of corruption that he
is distinguished from the living man. This
opinion is widespread, adds a gross terror
to the more ugly Polynesian tales, and
sometimes defaces the more engaging with
painful and incongruous touch. will give
two examples sufficiently wide apart, one
from Tahiti, one from Samoa:
A Strange Tahitian Tale.
And first from Tahiti. A man went to
visit the husband of his sister, then some
time dead. In her life the sister had been
dainty in the island fashion and went al
ways adorned with coronet of flowers In
the midst of the night the brother awoke
and was aware of heavenly fragrance go
ing to and fro in the dark house. The
lamp I must suppose to have burned out; no
Tahitian would have slept without one
lighted Awhile he lay wondering and de-
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full. And this severely classic opinion
doubtless represents the views of the en-
hghtened. But the flight of my Lafaele
marks the grosser terrors of the ignorant.
Respect for Bones and Mummies.
This belief in the exercising efficacy of
funeral rites perhaps explains fact, other
wise amazing, that no Polynesian seems at
all to share our European dread of human
bones and mummies. Of the first they made
their cherished ornaments; they preserved
them in houses or in mortuary caves and
the watchers of royal sepulchres dwelt with
their children among the bones of genera
hons. The mummy, even in the making,
was as little feared. In the Marquesas, on
the extreme east, it was made by the house.
hold with continual unction and exposure
to the sun; in the Carolines, upon the fur
thest west, it is still cured in the smoke of
the family hearth.
Head hunting, besides, still lives around
my doorstep in Samoa, and not ten years
ago, in the Gilberts, the widow must disin-
ter, cleanse, polish, and thenceforth carry
about with her, by day and night, the head
of her dead husband. In all these cases we
may suppose the process, whether of cleans
ing or drying, to have fully exercised the
city.
Escape in Spite of Watching.
But the Paumotuan belief is more OBJ
scure. Here the man is duly buried, and
he has to be watched. He is duly watched,
and the. spirit goes abroad in spite of
watches: Indeed, it is not the purpose of
the vigils to prevent these wanderings only
to mollify by polite attention the inveterate
malignity of the dead Neglect (it is sup
posed) may irritate and thus invite his
visits, and the aged and weakly sometimes
Ln1o ~ IL
home.
And observe, it is the dead mans kindred
and next friends who thus deprecate his
fury with nocturnal watchings. Even the
placatory vigil j held perifous except in
company, and Ae- -.i hnintAd nnf, "a ma
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
NEW STYLE OF CHAIN.
1t Is Cut From q Bar of Steel So tho
Links Have No Yields.
POSTAGE STAMPS ON THE STREET.
Snow and Wire Webbing for Protecting
Forts and Gunners.
EFFECT OF LIQUOR ON EQUILIBRIUM
rpREPARED FOR THE DIsPATcH.l

cPREPARED FOR THE DIsPATCH.1
The manufacture of chains has been very
much facilitated by the introduction of cleo
tricity for Welding purposes, but London
firm has gone step further and produced Q
chain which required absolutely no welding.
This is done in most ingenious way A
cross-shaped bar of steel is drilled at proper
intervals with holes the size of which are de-
pendent on the size of link required. The
bar is then notched roughly to the shape Of
the links by suitable machinery, after which
it is fattened to prepare it for the following
out of the links and their rounding up by
stamping. In the next stage the links are
punched through and parted, and the con-
cluding operation is the cleaning and truing
up of the links to their final form.
The makers claim that the chains are con-
siderably stronger than those made in the
usual way. Apart from the possibility Of de-
fective Yields, the fact that the new chain 10
of steel gives it a great advantage over or.
binary chains, which, on account Of diff
culties of welding, are usually made Of iron.
1t is stated that the new steel chain can be
uJnde equal in strength to the ordinary chain
atA third less weight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
Protection of Forts and Gunners.

The Russians have found that snow para
pets offer ample security against rifle fire,
and have been making experiments with q
view of determining the exact degree of
protection that can be obtained. A thick
ness of six feet of loosely shoveled snow, or
five feet of beaten snow, or four feet Of
frozen snow was sufficient to keep out bull
lets fired at any ranges over 100 yards. No
experiments were made to test the effect Of
field guns, but a. parapet of 26 feet is re-
garded as sufficient to resist their fire. Our
own Government has been occupying itself
with the question of protecting gunners in
exposed places on men-of-war during action.
For this purpose a peculiar description of
wire webbing, made of interIocl1ing steel
spirals of remarkable hexibility and
has been made. 1t bears some re-
sembIance to old-fashioned chain armor, and
it is proposed to use it as a curtain behind
which gunners will be protected from ex-
ploding shells. The strength of the netting
may be estimated from the fact that it is
said to be equal to that of a solid plate Of
steel an inch thick.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
Increase of Coal consumutaon.

A peculiar case of increase in ooxteonp
sumption is reported from France. An o.
fetal engineer, having been called to ms
vestigate the cause of considerable sug,,
mentation of the consumption Of fuel by &
large battery of boilers, discovered that the
phenomenon was due to the presence OF
water in the smoke shaft. The measured.
which were taken to exclude the water hav1
resulted in saving of 16 per cent in the an
nual coal bill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
OIL Deposits In Boilers,

Prof Vivian B. Lewis, in the course efa.
paper on "Boiler Deposits" illustrated tho
danger Of the presence of oil in boilers by
describing the case of large vessel In thsl
Eastern trade, in the boilers OF which an OIL
scum had formed. The ship, having to stop
some days at Gibraltar, the engineer took
the opportunity of blowing out his boilers
and ref1lling with fresh water, with the re-
suit that before he had been ten hours under
steam the whole of the furnaces had comstn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17

DR.. Shorthouse has been diagnosing the
effect of various intoxicating liquors on diff
ferent parts of the cerebellum when i'm
bibed mot wisely but too well" and the
tendency of the result of his investigations
is to indicate that inebriety can be reduced
to an exact science, so far as its subsequent
demonstrations are concerned. DR.. Short
house finds that good wine and beer indis-
creetly imbibed, have the effect Of making
q manfall on his side; whisky and especially
Irish whisky, on his face, and cider and perry
on his back, these disturbances of eQuiH-'
brium corresponding exactly with those
caused by injury to the lateral lobes and 70
the anterior and posterior parts Of the mid
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
Tactical Operations of tho. Future.

Captain Benson, in discussing ths proSd
bilities regarding the effect Of anokslssA
powder on the tactical operations Of the
future, says that infantry will gain By inS
creased facilities for fire discipline and CON-
troll, improved shooting, non-betrsya Of tho
presence of skirmishers in broken ground
of sentries on outpost duties, and Of thu
firing line of defense, as well as by the faotlts
ties for combined action, while, on the othexi
hand, there will be greater exposure. pss
ployment will take place further from thA
enemy, and the defense will gain IN frenta6
attack over open ground. J
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
The Rise of q New Industry.

An instance of the rapid effect ofimprovsd
mechanical appliances on the developmsntof Of
industries is afforded in the increased demand
for the now weI-known agitated and jasper
lied wood of Arizona, since the problem Of
cutting and polishing the large sections used
for table tops and other ornamental
purposes was solved, fully $4,000 of the
rough material has been gathered, and over
100000 worth of it has been cut and polished.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
Something He Forgot.

IlIe.J
Waiter (handing gentleman hat and cane)
Haven't you forgotten something, sir?
Gentleman Cooking around)-No, be-
ieve not.
Waiter-Are you sure, sir?
Gentleman-Yes. Why, what did you
think had forgotten?
Waiter-Why-er-the napkin ring, sir
that's all, sir-that,s al.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
Protecting Corn Against squfrrelH

Among the methods for the protsctiouoe
corn from the striped squirrel are smokae
with meat in an ordinary smokehOuss until
the kernels are black; smoking in basrek
with tobacco dust; smoking over night in
strong decoctions Of tobacco and quaesix
chips, ETC., but the best remedy Is found TO-
be the narrowing of the ground Immediately
after planting, to cover the planters traakS
and then to scatter corn about the border %
the fields and in the neighborhood Of M
come up.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
A Cruel Taunt.
Washington Post. ]

Washington Post.I
'Tt'scurious," remarked Miss Pepperton
to Willie Washington, ''but your converse
tion reminds me so often of my early studies
in arithmetic"
"Ahi I was nevah notable fob my mathe-
matical gifts. But what was it you we
ferred to?"
'That old lesson about nothing plus moth
ing makes nothing"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
A New Alarm TIL.

A new till has been put on the market
which gives an alarm when an attempt 10
made to open it by any unauthorized per-
son. The till has five stops on the center Of
its left-hand edge, anyone Of which can be
of the correct setting anyone attempting TO
draw out the till will cause a bell to Be rung.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
Pneumatic Line-Throwins Gum.

The pneumatic line-throwing gun which
is now on view at the royal naval exhi-
bition in England, is as applicable to the
exigencies Of fire on land as of wreck at sea,
and rope can be thrown to drowning man
from a vessel, q river bank, or any other
conceivable position. 1t also furnishes the
quickest method of sending an asbestos rope
into the windows Of the highest story door
ofs burning house.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
A Practical Interpretation.

"Did you ever read that new production
Lines on the Hudson River Scenery in
quired the literary young woman.
"Ah," replied the youth, ST know what
you mean. Them's railroad tracks.''
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17

II was Etata, then Itata, and is-may yet
hA Tartap
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
SOUTH
Remarkable
cies Of
BONESANIi
White Sailor
SPECIMEN
\CT'C
SPECIMEN
ND FOLKLORE

Ev lie DIsPATcH.]
No. 10.
We hav pc stories of similar
complexio weird ones that hover
about the As of the South Seas The
Polynesi ino or aitu lerao is
clearly I kinsman of the Transyl-
vanian V, Here is tale in which
the kin ppears broadly marked.
On the Penrhynn, then still partly
savage, a chief was long the salutary
terror .atives He died, he was bur-
led, and lte neighbors had scarce tasted
delights license, ere his ghost appeared
about tn illage Fear seized upon all;
council held Of the chief men and sor-
cerers, 6 with the approval Of the Raro-
tongan 1 ssionary, who was as frightened as
the restyand in the presence Of several
whites-my friend Mr.. Ben Herd being one
the grave was opened, deepened until
water came, and the body reinterred face
down. The still recent stalking of suicides
in England and the decapitation Of vampires
in the east of Europe form close parallels.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17

professional sculling both in America and
in England reveals this fact, that as soon as
the sport has become thoroughly popular,
has been well patronized, the scullers COM
menced to try and hoodwink and rob the
public of its money. This is absolutely
true, and it may be that the same fate
awaits the sport in Australia. Efforts of a
kind are being made to have arrangeda few
races in this country this summer The
latest is to the effect that Teemer wants to
row Gaudaur a series ofthree races-the same
old three races, and the winner of two of them
to win the stakes and portion of the s'gate
money" There is nothing like plenty of
nerve, and 1 really do think that it requires
lots of it to prompt John to spring the
three-race notion again. We had the pair
here some time ago, mean the pair of row.
ers, and after their memorable affair Gau-
daur emphatically declared that he would
not, under any circumstances, row against
Teemer again. But they are both on deck
once more and figuring on their three-race
notion. I suppose the three-card, 1 mean
the three-race scheme, is unacceptable, be-
cause it will cover three cities; that is,
three victims. Well, Mr.. Gaudaur is quite
willing to row against Teemer again, and
why shouldn't he? 1t is in his line of busi-
ness to do SO, and in doing so to abuse
Teemer, publicly of course, in the strongest
terms possible; and it is in line for Teemer
to abuse Gaudaur In the same way. All
that is one of the chief essentials of profess
sional boat rowing for ''gate receipts"
Ned O'Baldwin's Abilities.
Ny remarks two weeks ago about Sulli-
vans class as prize fighter brought me in
contact with one of the best informed men
on pugilistic matters in the State few days
ago. While my friend held the opinion
that Sullivan did not rank frst-class among
the prize ring heroes, he had much to say
about Ned O'Baldwin. He said some very
things, and as he was one Of
O'Baldwin's hackers, now give part of my
friends statement. BE said: 'sNed O'Bald-
win was the best prize fighter that has ever
lived, and he would have defeated Sullivan
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full And this severely classic opinion
doubtless represents the views of the en-
ightened. But the flight of my Lafaele
marks the grosser terrors of the ignorant.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-03-24
Children Crv for
Pitchers CastoFia.
EXPLOSION AT SWEENEY.
John Mills, a Citizen of BOOnville
Suffers the Loss of a Foot.

An accident occurred at Swee-
ney, a small station on the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas railway, be-
tween Seda!ia and Pilot Grove at $50
o'clock yesterday afternoon, by which
John Mills of BJonville, was severely,
if not fatally injured. Mills was EN-
ployei as engineer at the rock-crusher
sd N &agghf l6tG ftift The BG Blacksmith H shop
where some explosives were stored.
Shortly afterwards there was a loud
report and when the smoke cleared
away the shop was gone, it having
been blown into atoms and Mills was
lying some distance away upon the
side of the hill. One of his feet was
badly maDgled and his body fearfuIly
bruised in many places. Mills was
picked up, his wounds promptly .at-
tended to and he was sent to Boon
vile, where he has family. He is
quite poor man and has, within the
past few years, been singularly unfOr-
tunate in the matter of accidents.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-03-24
ROBBED OF $40.
A Bold Theft on an N. X. e. T
Passenger Train.

Mrs Margaret Baker, who resides
at Walker, Mo-, and who was a pas
senger on the belated NJ, X. Il T.
passenger train from the south this
afternoon, was robbed of $40 as
The train was coming into the city.
Mrs. Baker went back to the water
cooler to get a glass of water for her
little child, leaving her small travelling
valise in her seat. When she got off
at the Union depot, she forgot and
left her valise in the car. Ia a
few minutes she thought of it and
went back to the car and found the
pocket book. 1t was open aud had
been rifiei of its contents. There were
one $40 bill and two SO bills, besides
a lot of small change.
A tough looking fellow, who
was sitting in front of Mrs. Baker, is
suspected of getting the money, and
search was made for him at the depot,
but he could not be found.
Mrs. Baker is on her way to visit
friends in MOberly.