The National tribune., 1894-05-24

! tempted only by one who can see the offending
material The tissue which covers the cal
| canal grows outward, much like fish scales and
as these scales loosen from natural causes the
force of gravity, together with the various atti
! tudes of the head, accom- ishes their escape
along with the old, discolored wax, unaided."
I GREAT ALASKA RIVERS.
We are changing geography very fast nova.
days but it is very difficult for US to believe. as
we must that as much territory lies to the
great northwest, the width OF the continent con-
sidered as lies to the east and that San Fran
cisco and not the Mississippi basin is the GEN.
ter of the continent. Frederic Funston, an ex-
plorer of the Alaskan country, says: 1t is
impossible for one not acquainted with the vast
extent of this northwestern country to realise
the great distances between the outposts of civi-
cation and the enormous volume of these Alas
kan rivers. 1t will surprise the average citizen
who reads in his old, dog cared geography that
the Mississippi is the largest river on the North
American continent, to learn that it is actually
babblng brook beside the mighty Yukon, which
next to the Amazon and the Nile, is the largest
river in the world. The Tanana, q river which
verv few people i'll the civilized world ever heard
of is solid mile from bank to bank, with . cur
rent like the St. Lawrence at the rapids. The
Koyukuk, another unknown tributary of
the Yukon, is larger than the Ohio, and the
PorcupiHe is larger than the Hudson. / vent
ure the assertion that the Mississippi below st.
Louis, If turned into the Yukon below tho
mouth of the Koyukuk, would not raise tho
stream six inches aud / have been up and
down the Mississippi good deal myself"
INDIAN BOYS PLAY WHITE MAN.
DR.. Eastman, the Indian physician, who was
educated at the Government schools. and is a
graduate of an Eastern medical college, and is
now practicng among his own people, gives
some interesting "reminiscences Of the boyhood
days of n child of the plains.
"Our knowledge Of the paleface was limited"
he says but we had learned that he
brought goods whenever he came, and that our
people exchanged furs for his merchandise.
We also knew somehow, that his complexion
was white, that be wore short hair on his head
and long hair Oh his face aud that he had coat,
trousers, and hat, and did not patronize
blankets in the day time. This was the picture
we had formed of the white man.
9" So we painted two or three of our number
with white clay and put on them birchen hats,
which we sewed up for the OCCASION fastened a
piece of fur to their chins for beard and al
tered their costume as much as lay within our
power. The white of the birch bark was made
to answer for their white shirts. Their mer-
chandisc consisted of sand for sugar, wild beans
for coffee dried leaves for tea, pulveriZed earth
for gunpowder. pebbles for bullets, and clear
water for dangerous fire water We traded
for these goods with skins of squirrels rabbits,
and small birds"
PRONOUNCE IT TURNER.
Someone has been looking up queer names
with queer speilings and queerer pronuncia-
tions, and in tie mountains of West Virginia he
found man writing his name thus: Lleweiyn
Phtholognyrrh. His given name is not hard
to read, but the other is puzzler until you
take it to pieces and determine. according to
the Welsh, the sounds of the letters and combi-
nations by the following words: Phth in
phthisic; olo in Colonel; gn in cologne; yrrh
in myrrh. Hence, Turnyef.
LOST LONG AGO.
Edith NJ. Hanes, st. Louis. Mo, says her
father lost about August, 1867 in or near the
Nashville & Chattanooga Depot. in Nashville.
Tenn. silver seven pointed STAR hung by
few links 10 a scroll bar made with a pin at.
taehed TO the back. 1t Was engraved &C A.
II" or &C. A. Haines, Co. b, 4th u. s. V. ",
LIST A. c." If by chance anyone knows of it,
be will please address as above.