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smooth. skinned creature. thirty feet long or
more. II levied upon tho leaves OF trees. and
walked upon its hind ieet, his despite the
fact That its body was far larger than the body
Of the largest elephant.
Another OF this same general family was the
scelidosaurns. noted for tho immense "
Of Its hind legs; In size IL. was. in nil proba-
had srines and plates OF armor upon it's back.
which kept of the foe Il the hind legs wero
not available. A swish from it's tail was like a
cut from ~ lash Of nettios. The polacanthus.
a near relation nrohahly, o., the scelidosaprps.
and haunches guarded 10y n continuous shield
If hone which rose at regular intervals into
sharp spiEeH.
hui the most curiously nrnored creature
that has over been discovered was tho sleao-
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rGuANADoN.

fivs e MarsS it e Wns more or II less sse am nTahiSh Us
and fed upon aquatic plants. He notes that
its remains are generally found where it had
tracks are preserved. some Of these footprints
being a square yard in extent; For It's defence
tail could be swung with force. and it is Prob
able that those mighty thigh bones. which
often were six feet long and more, had muscles
which a terrific kick or blow could be deliv-
cred. While sixty feet was its average length.
there have been found skeletons OF this kim
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THE MASToDoN.

temperate and Arctic regions. He seems to
have been drawn gradually northward. and to
have become extinct on the northern shores
the elephant was the. mastodon. which was al
most "a mighty Us the ma moth. The mas
and in all probability lasted long after the last
had persisted. The North American
that resemLled the mastodon. and as there
ees,ns TO be no other way Of ex EXPLAINING it. the
scientists are inclined to believe that the mas
toGons were roaming the American continent
at least far into the age Of man.
The woody rhinoceros was Il contemporary
OF the mammoth. and. like the mammoth. was
so protected that it could 20 into the outer
regions. Its remains have been found in the
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TIE PTES1OSACRCs.
trunk and tail were similar to and OF the bulk
OF some enormous Guadru ped. But instead OF
legs 1t had paddles the paddles OF n whale.
i his reptile probably swan upon or near the
surface. nrchinc, back lis long neck like a
swan. occasionally dartinG 1T down at a fish
NAV perhaps have lurkeG in shoal water along
the coast, concealad among the seaweed. and
raising it's nostrils to q level with the surface
from u considerable. depth. may have found a
secure retreat from the. assaults of enemies.
These creatures. in the full glory Of their race.
were seldom less than twenty feet long and
often thirty or forty feet long.
Next We come 10 the groups Of sea serpents.
some Of them closely related to the sea lizards,
others Quite distinct. In the order OF time it
ts thought thnt all these belong to a much
hut this is still an open question. Further.
more. in the opinion OF some biologists it is
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lakes. and dotted the plains with forms:
rewards for the biologists investigating the
life OF this period. Mr.. Hutchinson presents
two great American monsters.
American biologists tell u.s." says Mr..
Hutchinson. that u long time ago there was
agreat tropical lake in the Wyoming Territory.
ant vegetation a large umbe OF strange and
primitive qu%sdrupeds. The most wonderful
group OF animals that haunted the shores Of
this lake was the dinocerata- The name i'm
rlies that they were terrible horned monsters"
The most formidable Of these was the Tino-
caras ingens. 1t was about twelve feet long.
without the tail. and WEIGHED between two and
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GROUP OF SEA sERPFNTs.
barely possible that one OF these groups may
have survived to tho present day and that tho
sea serpent SO often seen amt as often dis
puted is a solitary descendant or one OF n soil
tnry family descended froiu these monsters
Of the seas in the far cretaceous period.
or these ancient sea serpents some families
were only about twenty-five feet long. others
had ATTY feet as their greatest length. while
stiil others stretched their great todies. rs
length of seyenty.rve feet and more. Like
tho snake bird OF Florida. this rcrtiie probably
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OF his antiers. Then there were the MOI birds.
ten and twelve feet high. that ran in Austrni-
asia. especially in New Zealand. almost to the
time OF living men: the great sea COW. nine
teen feet long and more. which has vanished
within the century. and many other great crea-
lures OF the same general appearance as types
that now exist
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HORNED DINosAUF.
structed for pouncing upon other animals and
tearing them to pieces. These dinosaurs
walked on their hind legs most OF the time.
holding their shorr forelegs in the air. some
what after the fashion ~ the kangaroo. Their
homes were hollow and the f~orefoOt Of the body
was trivial compared to the launches. Their
and the distance, between their tracks. which
would mean the length OF their step. WAS about
four or five feet. Each track was about twenty
The, third group. ~ dinosaurs. tina bird
footed. is the most Interesting. and Is the last
discovered l.y science. OF these tho first to
come to light was tho iguana lon. . mighty
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comparatively slender. hut the h~indauarters
enormous strength and weight com.
GIANT ~ABNADILLo.

bined. Tho tail also Is very powerful and
massive. Prof Owen las proved that this
cumbrous creature; instead Of climbing. .un
down the trce bodily or broke it short on above
the ground. sitting upon it's huge haunches
and tail rs upnn a tripod. whilo it grasped
the trunk in its long. powerful arms
The glyptodon. or giant armadillo. divided
dominion with tho giant sloth in South
arrnored creature. which reached a length Of
eight feet md even moro. had not only n great
shield upon its back, but another unon its
the present. day. as does the slotf.. in repre-
sentatives of much smaller size and Of pitiiul
comparative strength.
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and scni., found In In. nosIuon Of ia stomnch.

and scales found in the position Of its stomach.
Among the fossils Of this mesozoic or rep
lillian era haze been found. tho remains Of
cies and genus Of lying lizards or ntsrodactyls.
These flying lizards had wings, not true
wings. but such excellent substitutes as those
possessed. by the bat. some had teeth and
others had not. Some. could. fly or walk or
swim. as they chose. while others could only
fly and hop. Some ate fish. others insects and
fruits. Some were no larger than sparrows.
while others had wings that expanded to an
extreme width OF twenty-five feet or more.
Some had very respectable looking heads.
Others, wore hideonsly ugly, as rovolting as q
slightly bill OF great length and bulge. 1t
must be noted also tina: the most OF these
creatures had tho power of walking on all
fours with the wings folded alongside. Ger
tainly nothing couid have been more uncanny
than the sight Of a lot OF creatures. each about
the size Of a hugo dog. walking nlong the
earth and NIL at once rising on their hind legs.
spreading n great expanse. ot. sail on either
side. and making of through tho air.
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Of dinosaur that must have been over eighty
feet long. From the peculiar structure OF the
head and foreGuarters. it is assumed that they
In such n position n dinosnur eighty feet long
would lave i,een thirty feet high. or as high as
a modern three-story house.
The second group OF dinosaurs. the beast
footed. were not, SO large az. the first ,cronp.
They were the lions and tigers OF their age.
fierce. ravenous beasts Of prey. Their skele-
tons show most plainly that they were con-
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directing the movements OF the great hind
quarters and. when necessary. the swinging
OF that mighty tail with It's four pairs Of
strong. sharr spines. This kind OF creature
was. it is believed. thirty feet long and un-
ward. Its weight must have been very great.
and it's height was certainly that Of an ordi-
nary elephant.
At the close OF his last chapter on dinosaurs
Mr.. Hutchinson introduces a sketch OF a great
bird that lived ir this age OF reptiles. and that
was. in all probability. related to the dino
its length being about six feet. 1t is most in
terestinR to us. because while 1t was assuredly
a bird It also had teeth. not n rare thing
among birds OF this strange mesozoic age.
Not one toothed bird has survived. There
were many points Of resemblance between
birds and reptiles as they we're known in this
mesozoic period. however little there may be
nowadays.
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w.

In this last group OF monsters We como still
exist to-day. All these are on n much larger
scale than our types OF the sam . families. but
cial sense monstrous OF. unnatural. except
that OF bulk. Indeed. all these last monsters
either lived close UP to the age OF man or were
known and hunted by primitive man.
The first Of these. the mammoth. is the best
known OF all extinct monsters. because Of its
The beast was from twelve to twenty-five feet
in height with tusks from nine to twelve feet
coRrse hair. everything a soft. thick. brown
wool. He lived in almost every part OF tho
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wOOLfY RH1NOCEROS.
far northern Siberian soil. and even parts Of its
body. fairly we'll preserved by the ice. 1t was
about hall. as large again as even the huge
two-horned rhinoceros OF the present day.
The great Irish deer. SO. called because the
first specimen wa. found in Ireland. was a fine
%antlers. measuring eight feet from tip to tip.
Just twice the average distance between. the
tips OF the RntlArs OF the moose. He stood ten
I0et or therea bouts from the ground to the top
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A southera Euphemisn.

There were some twenty-five men in the
mob and they were determined on putting an
end to the criminal. and there is no doubt but
they lost him" on theig return home
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TANNING WILD ELEPHANTS.
EoTEJ METHOD OF CAPTURING THE
ANIMALS IN INDo- CHINA.
Took rart-EntnnRiing the Feet OF the
Game In LOOP. Dragged Along the Ground
-ueducine the Game to Doeiuty-Thc
Explorers Adventure In the jungle.

DR.. c. w. Rosset. the traveller and explorer.
wi:o is we'll known for his contribution to
ethnography. is now in this city. He was long
In the service OF Gen. Gordon in the Egyptian
Soudan. and o. late years he has leen explor-
ing in the virgin field between AMMAN and the
great Mckong River. where he has brought to
light four tribes whose existence was barely
known before he made them n study. Dir.
Rosset contributes to TIL Sun this account OF
wild elephant catching rs practissd by one OF
these tribes In lndo.China:
THE Benongs live about midway between
the Mekong River and the Annamitc coast in
mountainous. wooded regions. They hunt the
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PTEl;ODACTrIs
often swan many feet below the surface. rails
Ing the head 10 the distant air for breath. then
withdrawing Il. nrd exploring the dcnths forty
body. From tn" localities in which the homes
have beep founi il kansas it aust fay" wan
terei far from lana. aud that many kinds IT
hslos loriaed It'd food Is shown W. the teeth
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a CRACK GALLERY MARRSMAN,
=. c. Ross. Who Beat ChampIon Dorrie,
and Other Kine Experts,

F.. c. Ross. who created such a sensation by
scoring 243 points out Of a possible 25O, and
defeating champion NJ. Dorrler at the recent
Zettler gallery shoot. has been a prominent
membcr OF rife circles for the past three
years. During most Of this time he has en-.
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III.

FROM the monsters OF the age OF reptiles to
the monsters that made terrible the land
In the age OF IS a long step.
OF the Geologist. For geology has no exrlana.
ton OF the transition. 1t knows that In all
parts of the world thus far eN r!ored the record
Of the doinGs OF nature between the two ages
are destroyed. but. how they were DESTROYED it
cannot tell. In the rocks OF the mammalian
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saurrs, which waa n native OF the western
Projecting from tho back wero bony plntes
from two to three feet In diameter, and is
found. were sometimes over two feet long.
This creature had two brains. one IN its small
head and the other in the launches. The
second brain no doubt had the business OF
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But the most amazing tyres OF this remote
period called the meso5oic age and the age OF
reptiles were the dinosaurs. The vigorous
fancy OF primitive man conIured some fright
full shapes Of dragon and beast But nature
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MONSTERS OF LONG AGO,
WHO SWAMI CRAWIED, AND FLEW
WHEN EARTH WAS T0UvG.

n. Their nG.ny-Ccnturied Epoch They Hunted
Prey and Fought T~hroughout the Warn,
Moist Land and wsters, or Rrcwsed on
Glsnt Psims-To-aay the Solid Rock.
Once Clay. Reveals Their Giant Bones 20
The wocderirr Case OF Modern Naa.
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ODDS AND ENDS.

The average height of the elephant Is
0 feet.
A single tobacco plant will produce
800, 900 seeds.
The revolving pistol was the invention
of Colt in 1886
The speed of the falcon often exceeds
100 miles an hour.
AT the equator the limit Of perpetual
snow is l4,700 feet,
The father of Cardinal Wolsey is said
TO have been butcher.
Say memorandum" in the singular
and memoranda" in the plural.
Good teeth and sweet breath are
within the reach of most every one.
To be poor and seem to be poor is u
certain way never to rise.-Goldsmith,
The highest falls in the world are the
Ribbon falls of the Yosemite-3,8 300 feet,
An average Of five feet of water is es.
timated to fall annually over the whole
earth.
The horse has smaller stomach in
proportion to its size than any other
quadruped,
The kangaroo readily leaps from 60 to
70 feet. The highest recorded leap Of T.
horse is 81 feet.
The highest church steeple in the
world is that of the cathedral of Ant.
werp-476 feet.
The great difficulty about making
verses is to know when you have made
good ones. johnson.
Thirty thousand tons of 'staff' ma
terial We're used in the walls of Tic
Worlds fair buildings.
The father of John Hunter, the great
anatomist, was carpenter and appren.
ticed his son to that trade.
The gigantic statues of Rameses in
Egypt were placed in position by rolling
them along CREASED planks.
The average weight of the Chinese
brain is greater than the average weight
of the brain in any other people.
Ahorse owned by farmer living near
Owensboro, KY, goes without master
and drives up the cows every evening.
The United States has had nine cap
ital cities since the revolutionary wal
broke out. Three We're in Pennsylvania.
In oppressively hot weather it is re-
lief to touch the rim Of the ear with
water. The consequent feeling of cool
ness is surprising.
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No Foreigners In America.

For over a century no foreign organ
lied forces for war have marched in New
York streets until the uniformed crews
Of all nations paraded on the 2Sth of
April through the streets of the metrop
oils, cheered at every step on their way
by admiring thousands. 1t was spec
tacle to bring tears to the eyes, and
makes one confident of the coming of the
golden age of fraternity. But the most
striking thing about this parade, as also
il was in the mustered crews on ship
board the preceding day, was that the
crews to us did not look like foreigners.
The simple reason of this was that there
was no nationality ON display of which
we have not abundant types in this coun-
try with which we are perfectly famil-
lar. The tars who marched, whatever
their features or complexion, whatever
flag they carried, could find their own
kind among the admiring throng that
cheered them.
1t could not have seemed to them like
march in foreign country-rather as
if they were coming home. They salut-
ed, to be sure, the American flag, they
were cheered by the American people,
yet under that flag are all the nations Of
the earth in the great republic. No new
people were created for our experiment.
Only new spirit, we hope, came into
the world, which is strong enough to
transform sll who come under its infu-
ence. Yes, it was splendid parade,
and it was peculiarly American, because
it included the world. To us, we may
say, nothing is foreign.-Charles Dudley
Warner in Harper's.
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What German Rows Drink.

German boys who work in the open air
all day long every day in the year except
school days get very thirsty, of course,
and must drink great deal. The Ger
man mothers, to keep their boys well and
hardy, are very expert in making nour-
ishing drinks for them. Honeyade is the
favorite outdoor drink for German boys.
II is made in this way: An ounce of
ginger is boiled for an hour in quarts
of water. Then quarts Of cold water,
pound of sugar, an ounce of lime juice
and ? ounces of clear sweet honey are
added. When all is cold, the white of an
egg iswhipped in and lemon is squeezed
over the honeyade jar. The sturdy lit
tie Germans are allowed TO drink their
weight, as the saying is, of this.-Se-
lected,
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selling Clothes to Sailors,

Ships arriving in home ports after
lengthy voyages are always besieged by
the runners or agents of the various sea-
mems outftters of the place.
The competition is so keen among
these people that they often undertake
to supply on credit certain amount of
clothing to the seamen, to be paid for on
the discharge of the crew, which event
in some cases does not take place till a
few days after arrival. Should an out,
filter succeed in effecting good sale on
these conditions, he arranges for we eli
to be kept upon the parties to whom he
has given credit, but notwithstandipy
this precaution he sometimes finds bt
fore pay day that his vigilance has been
outwitted by the vanishing propensitics
of his slippery customers.
Without attempting to justify sucb
acts Of dishonesty on the part of the sea.
man, 1t must in fairness to him be stated
that mean advantage is often taken OF
his circumstances (such, for instance, as
arriving in port without present;bl.
clothing in which to go ashore to charge
extortionate prices for the articles sup
piled under the foregoing conditions, anG
that it is often alone the knowledge OF
this fact which suggests the attempt to
evade payment.-London Tit-Bits.
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OLD FAMILIES STILL LEAD.
Newport Society Wants to Knew Who tho
swells Are Now.

swelis Are Now.
There has been much discussion in
Newport Of late concerning the leader
ship Of society--as to who are entitled to
take prominent positions in it and carry
1t ON. The multimillionaires are unques-
tionably doing most of the entertaining
now, and one constantly hears the ques-l
tons; who are the swellsy" "Have the
nobs all died ont and disappeared, or are
they yet exerS ing controlling influ-
ence in societyy The principal old
Knickerbocker immortal families are rep
resented in society at the present time
by the Livingstons, the Van Rensseiaers,
the GARDENERS of GARDENERS island, the
Morrises of Morrisania, the Van Cort-
landts, the Floyd-Joneses, the Thomp-
sons Of Sagtikos, the Beekmans, the De
Lanceys, the Pells and the De Peysters.
The heads of the I.ivingstons are Harry
Walter Livingston aud Johnston Living
ston, men of fashion. The head of the Van
Rensselaers is Bayard Van Rensselaer,,
the PATRON by right, who married de-
scendant of the GARDENERS of GARDENERS
island The head of the Morrises is A.
Newbold Merits The head of the Gar
diners of GARDENERS island is Colonel j.
Lyon Gardiner, twelfth lord of that
manor. The head of the Van Cortlandts
is Pierre Van Cortlandt in one branch and
Augustus Van Cortlandt in another
Colonel De Lancey Floyd-Jones repre-
sents the family of that name, and Fred
erick Diodati Thompson represents his
family. The Beekmans are represented
by Gerald Beekman, the De Lanceys by
Edward T. De Lancey. The Pells are
headed by George Washington Pell and
Rowland Pell, and the De Peysters by
General j. Watts De Peyster, the Stuy-
vesants by Rutherford Stuyvesant, the
Duers by James G. K. Duer, the Jays by
John Jay, the Hamiltons by Schuyler
Hamilton, the Winthrops in New YORK.
by Edgarton l.. Winthrop, and in Bos-
ton by Robert c. Winthrop; the Schuy-
lers by Philip Schuyler and John Schuy-
Ter, secretary Of the Society of the Gin
cinnati; the Lawrences by J. G. X. Law
renee, the Roosevelts by James B. Roose-
welt and j. Roosevelt Roosevelt, and the
Kings by A. Oracle King.
All of these people hold high positions
in the fashionable world of today, and
notwithstanding the assumption of the
multimillionaires that family is of no
importance in New York they are still
regarded in an entirely different way
from the new people. This family pride
has had new impetus given to it lately
by the formation of the societies of the
Sons of the Revolution, the Sons of the
Colonial Wars, the Colonial Danes, etc.
Even in our republican country Stu'
vesant, a Livingston or Van Rene
commands social position if be
fitted for it, while other msr,.
work for and make one themselves
Many mothers are better satisGya
their daughters marry representative
of the old Knickerbockers with moderatt
fortunes than if they marry into veal
families which have recently sec
places in fashionable society. This
been illustrated by several notable
stances of late years. The old c.
stock was never SO much appre
at present. Cor New York WoIl
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Not FIattery.

The candidate for congress had been
making a speech in one Of the towns OF
his district where he was not well known
personally, and in the evening while
waiting for train he strayed into a
butcher shop, and without saying who
he was began to pump the butcher to
find out how he stood.
"Did you hear that speech this after
noon?" he inquired after some general
talk,
"Yes,' replied the butcher, II was
there
"What did you think of it?'
"Pshaw," said the honest butcher,
GIVE made better speech than that u
hundred times trying to sell 10 cents
worth of soup bone.'
The candidate concealed his identity
Detroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-09-01

COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMPTION
kemp's Balsam stops the cough
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-09-01

Ainica Oil l.inlment is equally gooc
for man and beast. % and 80 cents pei
bottle
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An Extensive Guest,

His dukeship of Veragua was rather
an expensive guest, the bills incurred for
his entertainment by the nation amount
ing to about $4,000. A good story is
told in Washington that when his nibs
was in Chicago, living in the grandest
sort of grand style in the Auditorium, he
wrote to the president expressing regret
that he would be delayed in reaching
Washington for the purpose of paying
his respects to the chief executive. An
immediate reply was sent excusing him
from that perfunctory courtesy and ad-
vising him that arrangements had been
made for his return to Spain. Where
upon he took the hint and went.-How-
ard in New York Recorder.