The Comrade., 1894-12-13

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wherever he went,
1 There was a strange fragrance IN
The air, the light odors liberated from
q thousand nameless herbs, the faint,
melancholy spicing Of dead leaves
There was, moreover, that sense OF nov Z
city which nature always brings with I
the dawn in deep forests; q fancy that L
during the,night the earth had been
created anew, and was fresh from the L
Makers hand, as yet united by burden y |
81 tribulation and guiltless OF past
Bret Harte.
1mpudence seems to be the leading
with the weasel N his
with man. Perhaps the crea-
ture has confidence that his long, slen-
der body can always be snatched away
into safety before the rdinary human!
being can do him harm. At any rate,
the weasel will coolly sitin| the schink |
of a stone wall and watch the doings OF
men within a stones throw.of his asy7
Jun, and after nightfall the beast will
crawl about fearlessly y within q yard or
ktwro Of any human being that may mp.
1 proach lbs ;haMnts. 4
seashore gunners hold that the Wild
lspoose can count two, but not three:
gAccord dinghy tits customary insprepar-
ling to shoot wild geese from q blind q or N
some detached ribbon of marsh for Or
three men to row over to the station
4 together and for two Of them to return
4 Is the mainland. The geese, being un-
liable to count above two, believe when
SIthey see the two men returning that
mo enemy has been left upon the
\ marsh, and approach the spot without
ffear. It is asserted that i only two.
d men 90 out and only one returns the
|geese will carefully avoid the region OF
the blind.
{ The state Of Illinois received last
year a tax Of $3.50, ,s31 from o single
railway company, the Illinois Central,
that being 7 per cent. Of the gross re- re
:, ceipts Of its original line OF 705 miles IL IL
!, the state, required by it's charter to be
paid in lieu Of other taxes. The amount
was considerably larger than in prevl' prev
!. GUS years, as result Of the heavy pas
senger business in connection with the
worlds fair, so that the state was 9
: direct beneficiary from the fair in q this
I respect.
The captain of a steamer that plies
along the New England coast, and that "a
. was passing one Of the rugged, lonely
|islands off the Maine shore, pointed tc
an enormous flock Of gulls that whit
ened the rocks, the surface OF the sea-
end the branches Of the cedars that
n clinp , to the hard soil. "There,' said
he M s'what do you. think Of that? And An
: : rat if YOU turn to a book on natura;
y y history they'll tell you that gulls won'1
= : neroh , on trees. Some fool sailors be
y s IIieye that the petrels, or Mother Carey''
s :. nhickens, never alight, even on thf
= = water, but are always on the wing
as Mhey don't use their eyes. And $50 SOM ~
sell of these scientific fellows are as bad ss1E 9 9
ess sEslae sailors
81 An account Of the striking change
which the great lava lake in Kilane
~ has undergone this year appears in tn
n Hawaiian Gazette. The lava steadil..
in rose after the last great breakdown
Or the floor Of the crater in March, 1891
when ~ an area Of $500 feet long by 200
~ Ifant wide fell more than 500 feet in on
= a;nht. Toward the end Of last yea
he e the rising and overfowing OF the lax
81. filed the pit thus produced. Since tina
H. fine the activity Of the lake has bee
he intense. as many as twenty-three owe
.ro aows Of liquid lava having taken plat
al. i ! single day, and the walls surroun' q
en- ino the lake have been rapidly raise
,tv Nv continued overt1ows.