St. Landry democrat., 1894-01-13

A BrDDEFoRD (Me.) attorney had il
his possession lease the like of whicl
local lawyers do not believe can be found
in existence. The names of the partie
to the lease, according to the Kenncbe'
journal, are given, but its provisions
are none the less strange. The lease is
of lot Of land at an annual rental o.
$40 for tw enty five years, with the pro
vision that the lessee should within ont
year build and maintain substantial
shree- story building of brick, iron anG
tone. When the lease expired the
lessee was to have his choice between
buying the building he had himself
erected or Of taking a perpetual lease OF
the lot at $3.50 a year, ust double the
original rent. The lease expired veal
or SO ago, and the lessee, to whom it was
case Of IIobsOn's choice,n elected to
take the perpetual lease Of the lot. What
puzzles the attorneys who have seen the
lease is why a man of the property which
the lessee must have been possessed
| should bind himself to such one-sided
condition. The gentleman who has the
lease intends to present it to the Bar
Library ASSOCIATION.
IT is common mistake of Americans
to think that the predicate ivan" before
Dutch name signifies nobility. In the
low countries that is, in the kingd oms
Of the Netherlands and of Belgium
''van' has no particular meaning. Names
with evan" are to be read on shops, as
well as on the doors of the most aristo
cratic mansions The humblest persons
have it as well as the most refined On
the other hand, great number of the
very oldest families are without it. In
Germany "von'' means noble, and all
persons belonging to the nobility have
won" before their family names without
any exception. Persons who do not be-
long to the nobility cannot put "von"
before their names, as they have no light
to do so, and it would be found out di-
rectly if they assumed it, and make
themselves ridiculous But in case of
man being knighted for some reason Or
other he has the right to put "von' be.
fore his family name For instance.
when Alexander Humboldt was knighted
he became Alexander Won Humboldt, and
all his descendants, male and female,
take the prefix.
TIE ChuEchman is responsible for this
marvellously strange story: In the west
crn part Of Massachusetts a man had
fine stock farm. But few weeks ago
a fire broke out in the barn, and burned
not onl y the building and the hay, but
most of the animals also. After the fire
the owner walked over the ruins. 1t was
a sad sight to see the charred bodies of
his fine Jersey COWS and his high-spirited
horses, to say nothing of the money lost
with them. But at the end of the barn
he saw sight which touched him more
than all the rest. There sat an Old black
hen. He wondered that she did not
move her head to look at him as he came
near her, but he thought she must be
asleep. He poked her with his cane,
and to his susprise the wing which he
touched fell into ashes. Then he knew
that she had been burned to death But
out from under her wing came faint
little peep, and pushing her aside with
his cane, the man found - what do
you think?-ten little live yellow chick
ms. The poor hen had sacrificed her
own life to save them, and had held her
place in the fire as Casabianca held his
IN the burning deck That sight
5ouched the man more than everything
else.
SEVEN miles northeast of Nachog-
loches, Texas, there is most wonderful
fellow jackets nest-wonderful in size,
lge and locality. These little singing !
lies, or whatever they should be called, |
Usually nest in the ground, aud have |
me door for entrance and exit. Their
est is built of material like wasps' nests, !
bout the size of half bushel with sew
raj rooms or apartments, and many
ellis in which the young one are raised.
hey usually occupy nest but one year.
he nest is question is located upon a
inc tree, or rather around the trunk of
pine tree, that is about foot in diam
ter, and is about eighteen feet above
le ground. The tree appears to pass
trough the very center of the nest,
hlch Is conical in shape, or, as farmer
expressed it, "shaped like an old fash
med hoop skirt" but much larger, be-
g about five feet high and same in
lameter at the base, which is as flat as
it had been sawed off. 1t appe ars to
3 as many years old, and is built of the
'ual wasp nest material. The yellow
ckets may be seen standing at the
ahF holes in the base of the nest, or on
e under side They are not tightly,
,cause they are out Of reach of dis
rbance. The ordinary ground hester
always ready to raise cain, and woe be
the animal that stands and stamps
oon it.
TIE record for the rapid travel of
edle through human flesh was broken ,
a case which recently came under the !
tice of the surgeons at Hahnemann :
ospital, Philadelphia. A large needle ,
lich became imbedded in the back of {
e left limb of Mary A Walsh, domes- !
; in the employ of Mrs. Mary X. ,
rdsley, had worked itself through five !
ches of fleshy tissue in few days. g
re woman was sewing one morning, :
d it was on that day that the needle \
some strange way must have pene- q
tied the back of the limb. She felt .
ne slight pain, but was not seriously i
by it. Day after day 4
e pain sesmed to shift trife, but she -
l not pay particular attention to it !,
til it became so severe that she went
the Hahnemana Hospital, where she
implanted of sharp pain in the fore
IT of the thigh. DR.. Waaser made an
animation and found the point of the
sdle above the surface. He made a "
all incision, and LAID bare enough Of e,
, needle to permit "a its being seized r,
III pair of tweezers snd pulled it out. O
J 5sc1Ic Wse rIscrf as ink. having Il
n oxidized by the &C 8 on :; % TIE oioou. b
was bent. as the -,