The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-06-27
NUMBER 2.

I1ckWlck -CluD TO meet" tIne Walls OF s
| the room are now adorned with Cruk-
shank's Quaint sketches of Dickens
characters, with newspaper prints and
articles of the time, and with many
portraits Of Dickens and his family.
Strangely enough the only two pict-
ures in the room not relating to Dick
ems are portraits of the American act
ress, Mary Anderson s'5
| Before we leave the inn we write our.
names in the visitors book. 1t is grow.
ing late, and we hurry back. 1t is still
a beautiful walk and after five miles
| we are again in Gravesend.S Entering
the town by the Pelham road, we come
to the White Post Tavern. and must
pause to contemplate. another spot Of
interest. Beside the tavern is a little,
rectangular yard, we'll covered With
grass, and surrounded with a flower
border In the middle is a circular
fower-bed filled with white tulips, with
a solitary rose-bush in the center.
| Nothing further marks this spot, and
few know that it has special interest;
yet under that sod is the tomb of PO-
| cahOntas. stt
lin the parish register of old st.
Marle's church, which once stood there,
is entered: .
|
Wyffe of Thomas Wrolfe, Gent, a Vir-
| ginia Ladye borne, was buried in ye
chancell''
There is a mistake in the name
Thomas, for it should be John. Mary
is old style for May.
Strange was the fate of PocahOn-
tas! A savage maiden from the pri-
meval forests of America, who died
among the civilized white people she
| loved. far from the land of her BIRTH
| "a Stroll i'll the Garden of England,'
! by Lieut.. John NJ. Ellicott, U. S. NJ, in
! st. Nicholas.
Bird That Has Decided Preference
for Human Prey.
In the canton of Ural a woman was
living in 1854 who had been carried
off by a lammergeier, or Alpine vul-
ture, when a baby. At Hundwel in
the canton of Appenzell, a child was
carried off in sight of her parents. On
the Silberalp a vulture attacked lit
tie boy who was watching sheep, seat
| ed on a rock, and had time to knock
him over the edge Of the cliff before
4 the shepherds could drive the bird
ava At hurren, above the valley of
] Lauterbrunnen, a vulture carried an
infant to an inaccessible rock opposite
| the village and devoured it. But the
most striking instance Of the chilG-de-
gouring tendency of these birds uc-
Cured in the Bernese Oberland. A
child three years old, called Anne Eur
buchen, was taken up to the high Alp
at y-making time and left asleep
while the father fetched a load Of hay.
He returned to find the child gone. At
the same time another peasant, called
Henri Michel, was coming up the
mountain by rough path when he
heard a child cry. At the same time
he saw lammergeier rise and sail
away. Running up to the place he;
found the little girl, unhurt except for
wounds in the arm and left hand,.
where the bird had clutched her. She
had lost her socks, shoes and cap
while being transported by the bird,
the distance traversed being about 800
yards. The facts were all entered IN
the parish archives of the village Of
Hakeren, and the girl who lived to be
an old woman, was always known as;
E"Geier-A Ami" "-London Spectator. .
A Head for Figures. i
Secretary Morton believes that he
has among the assistant statisticians
of his force one man who is little less
than wonder as a "fggerer." The
mans name is Henry Farquhar, and
rumors of his ability in mental arith-
metic having been In circulation for
some time, the secretary the other day
I put the matter to a. test. "Mr. Ear
quhar,' said the secretary, 81 have
/ heard you can multiply ten figures in
your head. Is that sop "Well, re-
| piled the assistant statistician modest
! ly, "I am willing to try ''Then null
tiply 2,6S9,101 by 473," said Secretary
Morton. MI. Farquhar had the figures
repeated to him, and then he concen-
! trated his mind upon them. % For a half
minute or so he looked like a man in
trance. Then he seized pencil and
a piece of paper and hurriedly wrote
down the figures, Il ,271 ,944, ,773.'
t.Now, let us see if that is right said
Secretary Morton, and one Of the
4 bright young men Of the Secretary's
office carefully and la aboriously worked
out the. sum. Mr.. Farquhar's figures
are wrong he announced 81 think
not" replied the modern Zerah Col.
1 DuIl, duu #fOu udu4 D6IteEa 90 over
your work again. The young man
did so, and in a few minutes admitted
he had made an error and that Mr..
Farquhar was right. Washingto Let.
| ter.
Maine's Cold Water Pussy.
a cat owned by Fred Wesson Of
! Auburn, Me-, is such a lover Of water
that she takes a bath regularly every
day. She will use only the water that
lis drawn from a faucet in her pres
ence, and she will battle only in cold
water, no matter whether it be winter
/ or summer. When she gets ready for
her morning bath she jumps into the
kitchen sink and stands under the fau-
Get until some one turns on the water.
| If they donot hurry in letting out the
/ flow of water pussy begins to new in
la way that is pathetic. After her
bath she craWls into some sunny spot
until her fur is thoroughly dried, and