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Arizona silver belt., 1895-05-11
HE noa,a BARK.
It Is an Evoluion of the Uncultared Yelp-
 ing or Old.

At kh hh tfoiulOu or hhe buCNitAEeu hSip-
 ing or old.
 The most curious imitation which we find in dogs is as to the measure of ex- precision to which they have attained Among the savage forefsthers of the modern dog the characteristic of all their uttcrance was, to great extent involuntary, and, once begun, the out cry was continued in mechanical manner, says Scribners Magazine,
 The effect of advancing culture on the dog, however, has been gradually to decrease this ancient indifferent atod mode of expression by bowling and yelping, and 10 replace it by the much more speech-lile bark. There is some doubt whether dogs possessed by savagcs have the power of uttering the the sharp, specialized note which is so characteristic of the civilized form of their species
 It is clear, however, that if they have the power of thus expressing them selves, they used it but rarely. On the other hand, our high-bred dogs have, to a great extent, lost the power to eS- press themselves in the ancient way Many of our breeds appear to have be. come incapable of ululating. There is no doubt bnt the change in the mode of expression greatly increases the capac- ity of our dogs to set forth their states of mind,
 If we watch high-bred dog Lone with wide range of sensibilities, which we may find in breeds which have long been closely associated with man--we may readily note five or siS varieties of sound in the bark, each Of which is clearly related to a certain state of mind That of welcome. of fear of rage, of doubt, and Of pure fun, are almost always perfectly dis tjuct to the educated ear, and this, al though the observer may not be ae. quainted with She creature. r he knows him well he may be able to dis. tiuFuish yslious other intonations those which express impatience, and even an element of sorrow. This last note vcrges toward howl
Arizona silver belt., 1895-05-11
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Speaking in Q recent speech of car- tain Washington experiences in Tin- eolan .me Mr Dcpew said: While 1 was lhrl AIr John Gan5ou, of Buffalo, was member of congress-. His face end his head were hairless and polished lil,o billiard bau. He was 9 demo- erat, bat supported the president. The conditions oG tho army were very blue iu ii2 cast and iu the vest Gansou came in one day and said Mir presi- dent am ria'z'ng uy reelection in sup- porting yoa war Eeagurc5 The cam p1igD seems very unsatiSfaclory, Of coarae I will not give out anything you ten mo What ia the situation at the fgout9 MT. Lincoln, in his searching and sad way looked at him for mo- nent as # he were about to reveal Che secret cf Inc whole army, and then trmLi2d Ganson out of the reception room by saving: 'Ganson, how clean vou shave.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-05-11
Tho rlrst e7etal.

Cold because it was found pure and fairly iractablo, was probably the first metal used by man. Copper, it is true, i7 found az nstal, but only in one comparatively restricted locality Oe- c1songliy cold fish hooks have been dis3vca in graTos in New Granada. r. mining a tunnel in Cauea @ gold hook was found in l3s9 fifty feet under tho surface of tho ground and beneath what muat havo the bed of a river Copper fish hooks have been found jn many of th2 ancient burial mounds of Pera
Arizona silver belt., 1895-05-11
Tho Longevity of T1aaa nud rroga Said
 70 ua snr1rissu-.

Tho Longevity uI I1a91 nod iroEg Said
 % aa nrprru-.
 The persistence life in frogs is very long. SFalL8uzaui preserved some frogs ia mas e. 4oW for tvo years They became 5fF, EiG and al4o5t friable, but gradual heat hrough them back to lie Nuipian observed a return of lilo ia Gcaa and aalauaudors that had boon poisoned with curute and nico- tine, Tn both cnscs the animals in question had been fer several days in tha condition oi cadayers. loads have been shut up in blocks of plas- ter and then, having been deprived of all air except what may penetrate through the material and of all sources of food, rcsuscitated several years af,crward Tho question pre- saula one of the most curious problems Chat biological science has been called on to explain The long ayity and vital resistance Cf toa05 are surprising De- sides tho experiments we have cited, nature sometimes prcserts some already made, and vastly more astonishing, Toads arc said to have been found in rocks, Such cases arc rare, but It would be as unreasonable to doubt them as to believe in some of the mirac. uIous explanations that have been made of the matter. Tho phenomenon is marvellous d is true, but it is sup ported by evidence that wo are not able to contest and dakeptitism which is incompatible with science, will have to disappear # rigorous observation shall confirm it
Arizona silver belt., 1895-05-11
Kept Both Places.

When the ear was made colonel of the Royal Scots Grays an officer of the regiment said to his orderly Donald, have you heard that the new emperor of Russia has been appointed colonel of the regiment?' Indeed, sir" replied Donald, it is vera brood thing. :" Then, after a pause. Beg pardon, sir, but wull he be able 10 keep both placcs9s
Arizona silver belt., 1895-05-11
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 Enormous business has been done lately at French fairs bya mon who proiessed to sell rat powder Chat was perfectly harmless and that struck rats dead on Che spot In order to convince the skeptical, the man, first of all, pow dercd Q slice of bread with the stuG, and ate piece of it himself Then he put the remainder undor glass case, iu which 9 rat was kept iu captivity The rat went 10 eat tho bread and instant y fall dead. At five pence a box the powder went on like hot roEg, and the lucky proprietor of tho specific was in 9 fair way Co make a fortune. But tAc police, who ip France arc very active in protecting the people from fraud looked into tho matter and found that the powder was nothing but ordinary sugar They also discOYered that the ease was connected with 8 powerful! electric battery and the moment the rat touched lho bread tbe current was tarned on, and t was thus his death was brought about The man was ar- rested at the fair of Albi. and he has becn sentenced to fifteen days impris onment.
 Trgsting Man.
 One of the uses of thorns is to pro- teet the plant from animals which feed on herbage, Says La Nature. Nearly all plants that have thorps in their wild state lose them e,tcr gcueratiors of cultivation. It asH plants brought under the proa6tion of man gradually laE q 8wn their arms aud trust them SlScs entirely Q hi pyotcetion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09
Fight With a Marine Monster,

The Italian settlement at the foot
OF Franklin street, Oakland, CAL, was
agitated the other morning by the
capture of monster of the deep. An
Italian fisherman gave battle to the
queer fish, and he says he will long
remember the encounter. The cap
ture was made near Goat Island in
the morning. 1t took several hours
to land the fish, and during the con-
test two boats were nearly wrecked.
The Italians call the monster "rat
fish," because it has somewhat the ap-
pearance of rat. The fish weighs
245 pounds and measures eleven feet
from the tip of the nose to the end of
the tail. The tail itself, which was
used by the fish as means of defense,
measured six feet in length. The
fishermen claim that this is the first
"rat fish" ever captured in the bay of
San Francisco.
The story of the battle was told by
James Iagoria. He employs the fish
ermen to go out every morning and
fish for him. "There is one old man
in my employ" said Lagoria, "who
seems to have particularly bad luck in
catching freaks. Several days ago he
caught man eater while fishing near
Goat Island and had an exciting en-
counter. This morning the same old
fisherman had his lines out near Goat
Island when he captured the rat fish
He was alone at the time, and was
somewhat excited when the monster
came to the surface of the water and
made straight for his little boat, LASH
ing his tail in all directions. The
fisherman had to devote his efforts to
getting away from his catch. He
shouted for assistance, and three COM
panions, who were fishing in the vicin.
ity, came to his rescue. After long
struggle they succeeded in drowning
the monster and towed him shore. A
fish that weighs 245 pounds and is
even eleven feet long, with tail al
most like rod of iron can do some
fighting when it gets mad. That is
what my fishermen found out when
they tried to land the monster, The
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09

man who made the capture has given
up the sea for few days. He is lit
tie superstitious about his captures
and does not want to do any more
fishing for awhile.
''The Italians call it q rat fish, bui
that is not the proper name. We have
been in the fish business for great
many years, but we have never had
anything like this before. 1t is not
q shark. The tail is very peculiar and
has great strength when the monster
is alive. That is its weapon of defense.
The men who caught the fish tell me
that the monster can work terrible
havoc with its tail. They were thor
oughly alarmed during the battle with
the creature. After we have had it on
exhibition a few days we shall send
the head to the Oakland High School.
We gave this school the head of the
eating shark
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09
Whipple's "Littlc White.v

In David Whipple's barn at Centre
Groton, Conn, is a brisk little white
horse, weighing not over $50 pounds,
which David Whipple would not sell.
That little white horse, worth, per-
haps, not more than $125 or $50,
lately took David Whipple, his wife
and two daughters all tho way from
Selfville, Ala, to Centre Groton, in
Connecticut. The journey occupied a
little more than two months time,
counting in visit IN Virginia
town.
The little white horse bravely en-
dured the journey, which lay through
Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania and
New York State, the party crossing
the Hudson into Tarrytown. The lit
tie horse arrived at Centre Groton as
sleek and glossy as when it trotted
out of the Alabama town two months
before. The horse covered, on an av-
erage, thirty miles day.
"The little white" said David
Whipple, sis as kind as kitten, the
pet of the whole family. No, sir, ]
would not sell him. New York Her
aid.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09
EVER A SONG SOMEWHERE.

Phere is ever song somewhere, my dear,
There is ever something sings alway;
There's the song of the lark when the skies
are clear,
And the song of the thrush when tho skies
are gray
Ihe sunshine showers across the grain,
And tho bluebird thrills in the orchard tree,
And in and out, when the caves drip rain,
The swallows are twittering ceaselessly,
There is ever song somewhere my dear,
Be the skies above or dark or fair;
1here Is ever song that our hearts may
hear
1here Is ever song somewhere my dear
There is ever Il song somewhere!
There is ever song somewhere, my dear,
In the midnight black or the midday blue;
The robin pipes when the sun is here,
And the cricket chirrups the whole night
through.
The buds may blow and the fruit may grow,
And the autumn leaves drop crisp and sere; I;
But whetherth sun, or the rain, or the snow.
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear.
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear,
Be the skies above or dark or fair;
There is ever u song that our hearts may
hear
There is ever song somewhere, my dear.
There is ever a song somewhere!
james Whitcomb Riley,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09

The London Standard says that the
funds used in the efforts to suppress
the instruction in Cuba have hitherto
been drawn from the Bank of Spain,
but that the Government has now
made arrangements with Russian bank.
ers to open credit of $40, 900, 900 for
SIX months at five per cent. interest.
In return for this credit the bankers
are to get prominent part in Span
lsh-Cuban loan when the island shall
have been pacitied.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09
just an Inch From Death.

We were sitting on the veranda OF
our bungalow one evening in far-ofi
Burmah, r. A., and /, enjoying our
after dinner cheroot. The waters OF
the bay Tapped laziiy at the sand at
our feet, for our house was "builded
on the sands" of the shore. All the
world seemed ut peace, only the
"plunk ! PUNK p'. of the monotonous
night bird in the jungle, and the oc-
casional note of the jackal signalling
in the distance to his comrades, was
heard. The moon had come up from
behind a rocky island just over in tho
bay, and spread flood of golden yell
low light over the silver topped break
ers, rolling in over q neighboring
coral reef. 1t was SO calm and beautiful
that it seemed that all that was wicked
and bad had gone out of the world,
and yet death lurked just at my
friends elbow, as he pulled uncon-
sciously at his cheroot.
We had been discussing in leisure
ly man ner something that had hap
pened in America. TO prove some
point my friond arose, and, stretch
ing himself lazily, sautered into his
bedroom to get paper bearing on the
matter we had been discussing. Usu-
ally lights were placed in all the bed
rooms, but this evening, for some un-
accountable reason-probably the
moonlight-the servant had not per-
formed his duties. I could hear my
friend fumbling about on his dressing
table and then suddenly he gave a
quick cry of horror and rushed out to
the light.
81 have been struck by a'snake," he
gasped, and his face was deadly pale.
"Where isit? Quick Show me !"
I exclaimed, as I whipped out knife.
He held out his right arm. There
was no mark on the hand, which l ex-
amined critically, but on the cuff OF
the shirt were two tiny scratch-like
punctures, and two little globules of
poison sinking into the starched linen
and leaving sicklY, greenish- yellow
mark.
"You've had close call, old man, "
I exclaimed, with great sigh of re.
lief, sand think you need peg to
brace up your nerves, but first let us
settle the snake"
We found him coiled up on small
mirror, which lay on the table, and an
ugly looking devil he was, too, ready
to strike again.
He was very poisonous snake,
known as the Deboae RUSSELL, but
after my friend had finished with him
it would have been difficult for any
naturalist to have placed him in his
proper genus. Detroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09
Advice About the Chase.

DR.. S. G. Alexander, of Owingsyille,
KY, an experienced follower of the
hounds, gives the following advice
about the chase: "My advice is do
not run young foxes. They will soon
learn that they can evaie the hounds
by going to earth and will not run a
long chase. II not run until they
have grown strong and learned to de-
pend upon their heels for safety they
will not be SO apt to take hole.
When young their instinct teaches
them to hide in hole when fright
ened, but after they have learned to
live out of doors and that their heels
are sufficient they will depend upon
them rather than go to earth, for they
have not learned by experience that
by taking to hole they are safe.
Never run young foxes if you want
them to be long runners. If you go
into a locality in which foxes have
never been chased you will find that
the majority of foxes will suffer them
selves to be caught on the ground
rather than take hole, for the rea-
son they have not learned that they
could elude the dog by holing up"
louisville Courier-J ournal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09
A Whale Far Above Tidewater.

Captain J. H. d. Gray, of Astoria,
has the petrihed vertebrae of whale,
which was found thirty feet under
ground on one of the hills back of As
toria, at an elevation of 1876 feet above
the sea level. There was also largo
deposit of clam shells around the
whales bone, but the rest OF the bones
of the whale were not visible. Tho
fact that whale was stranded 1856
feet above the present water level in
Astoria shows conclusively that there
has been flood at Astoria in davs
gone by, to which the flood in Port.
land year ago last June was not Il
marker. Portland went through that
flood, and is still here, hut it is plain
that the Astoria which existed when
that whale was stranded was annihi-
lated. Portland Oregonian.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09

Eadweard Muybridge, whose elec.
tro'photographic Investigations, made
under the auspices of the University
OF Pennsylvania, have attracted world
wide attention, is now lecturing in
Europe on the results of his labors.
Hls instantaneous photographs, illus.
trating the motions of animals and
human beings, have commanded the
interest of artists and scientists, and
the opportunities he has made posi-
BILE for the study and analysis of these
motions have been recognized as OF
the highest importance and value.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09

Tho United States Board on Geo.
graphic Names, body charged with
the duty of prescribing the proper
method of spelling the names of pla ces
throughout the globe, has Just com
pleted it second report. This COM
prlses list of 600 names, making the
number of names passed upon by the
Board since its creation in 1891 aggre-
gate 1854. The photography adopted
In these lists is binding upon every
department OF the United States Gov
ernment. By far the largest number
of names in this second list are those
of places in the United States, but
there is a small number of foreign
names included. Probably because
of lack of time the Board has, unfor.
tunately, not gone deeply into Chinese
names, which are, perhaps, more
tangled and subject to greater eccen-
tricities of spelling than any other,
but from the few names given it is
noticeable that China's greatest river
is to hereafter be spelled Yangtze and
not Yangtse. Corea is to be spelled
with X, namely, Korea, and its capi-
tai is Chemulpho instead of Chemul-
po, as of old. Russia's great penal
station is Sakhalin, instead of Sakhal-
len. The old name of Blewfieldg,
which still figures on many charts, IS
is officially modernized into Bluefelds,
but perhaps the change which will
most interest Americans is the adop.
tion of the Spanish spelling of Cuba's
capital, which will hereafter be Ha-
bana. The only official dicta touch
ing the District of Columbia is the
final abandonment of the name Ten
nalytown in favor of Tenley and the
fixing of the name of Twining.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09
A Thwarted Crime.

An Indian paper tells curious tale.
A rich lady, with her two children,
both infants, was going, it is said, in
her own "ekka" from Ramnagar to o
place In the centre of the Bar tract.
The driver was trustworthy servant
of the family, and it was for this rea-
son that the lady had not divested
herself of the ornaments she usually
wore. Bnt the sight of the jewels was
too much for him, and at an excep-
tionally lonely spot in that lonely
country he suddenly asked his mis-
tress to hand him her valuables On
her suspecting his real designs and
hesitating, the miscreant showed him
self in his real colors, and made her
and her little ones, who could hardly
toddle about, get down. The horrible
thought that was working in his brain,
that of hiding his crime by means of
murder, had given his face sardonic
look, which made the poor woman
tremble.
Then the fend bound her, hand and
foot, and informed her that he would
first kill her children and then do her
to death. By her earnest entreaties
she prevailed over him to begin with
her first. He had an axe i'll his hand,
with which he aimed blow at her,
but the head being loose, it flew away
and fell u few PAGES off, the handle
only remaining in his grasp. He
stepped into the grass to look for it
and disappeared behind mound. Sho
waited her certain doom with all her
nerves on the strain. She gradually
fell into swoon, and when she came
round the first thing she saw was her
husband bending over her and her ba-
bies crying and tugging at her
clothes.
After she had left, nameless uneas-
mess seized her husband. He could
not reason away his vague fears, try
as he would, and at last he mounted
his horse and followed the "ekka" He
had proceeded but a few miles when
the dreadful sight of his wife and chill
dren lying bound up with cords on
the ground met his eyes. And the
story that his wife told him CONCEALED
his blood with horror. They both
then, drawn by an irrepressible Curl
osity, went toward the direction that
the miscreant went to pick up his AK,
and think of their surprise when they
saw his corpse already lying blue,
putrid and bloated, the flies buzzing
over it in clouds. Retribution had
come in the shape of "karundia, "iof
the deadly variety known as "khaki, "
rare even in those snake infested
parts, whose bite lnstantaneously par
alizes the victim and decomposes the
body in an hour.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09

Miss Celina Gray is a young woman
OF Oklahoma who will probably soon
have some unique experiences. She
has recently been appointed United
States Commissioner for the Third Ju-
dicial District of Oklahoma. This is
the first appointment of the kind of a
woman in the Union. The duties of
the place call for close application to
work and unrelenting activity. Miss
Gray is a petite young woman of
twenty-four years, who went to Okla
homa in ''the early days" Up to this
time she has been "iust like other
girls" In her new position Commits
sioner Gray will be compelled to come
In contact with oil manner of men.
from the common Indian whisky seller
to the frontier killer, but since she is
bright, accomplished young woman
of nerve and determination she will
probably succeed.