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The indicator., 1897-05-15
French Army and NAVY.

The French navy ranks next TO that
of England in numbers, while in eff
cheney and fighting qualities the
French ships are fully equal to their
English rivals. In fact. in naval ar
chitecture the French early took the
lead. and many of the English types
of ships were modelled after the French
designs, says the Chautauquan. One
of the chief differences between the
English and the French armored sbins
today is the disposition of the armor
and the consequent design of the hull.
English designers have striven to pro
tect the men working the guns. and IN
do this they have reduced the length
of the ships armor. French and naval
architects, on the other hand have
given little attention to the protection
of men and great deal to the protec-
tion of the water line. Therefore they
have reduced the breadth. of the ships
armor.
II is worthy of note that France is
the only great power which leyies a
tax on such of her citizens as either
do not enlist in the standing army or
who enlist for a shorter term than
three years. Only those who are Of
tcially declared .'impecunious" are OK
empt from such tax. 1t is navobIa
annually as long as the liability to SER
vice lasts, and the revenue from This
source amounts to about 10000 OOO
francs, or S600O,00 annually.
The officers of the French army re-
ceive a very thorough education Mt
the different military schools. AT the
head of these (although not eyclusivelv
military stands the Polytechnic school
in Paris. which admits $50 pupils an
nually after competitive examinatio,
The course occupies nine months in
the year for two years.
AS it is impossible to keep under
arms for three years the entire annual
contingent of recruits, the law nr,-
vdes for the discharge of Thoroughly
trained men at the end of the first mr.
second year of active service. in such
proportions as to bring down the peace
strength of the army to the number
annually determined upon by the gen
eral assembly. Preferences in this
connection are decided by lot. For this
purpose every recruit at his enroll
ment draws a number, and only those
having the highest numbers are enti-
tied to consideration.
The indicator., 1897-05-15
snmc Ma,rimnnlnI I.lrnr...

Official records prove that. in spite
of all modern attacks upon the ancient
custom of marrying and giving in mar
riage. the people of England and Wales
are marrying at the rate Of one thou
sand two hundred and fifty a day. Al
lowing twelve hours day for their
performance. the result Is. not omittIug
Sundays. nearly one marriage minute.
Comparing marriages with population.
the rate for last year was fifteen per
sons married per thousand Looking
back over the records for the last twen-
ty-fve years, it is seen that the year
1873 showed the highest marriage rate
tl7G), the same year being also re-
markable for the highest degree OF
commercial activity. the total exports
and imports for 1873 being worth Eel Is
I'd per head of population. The least
matrimonial year of the twenty five
was 1856 when only l42 persons mar
ried per thousand. and then the value
of the total exports and Imports was
only I'll 0s 10d per head of popula-
tion. The highest marriage rate is in
London. where 17.3 per thousand marry,
and the lowest Hertfurdshire. with IL
By far the most popular quarter OF the
year in which to marry is that ending
December.
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ahead for game, and only saved himself
by the merest chance. The hunters
came back the next day with ropes and
lowered man into the pit. He report
ed that 1t was nearly sixty feet deep,
and halfway down was narrowed in
like an hour glass, so that any living
thing falling into the pit could never
get out without assistance. As proof,
the floor of the pit was strewn with
the carcasses of bear, deer and lesser
game. The luckless animals at differ
ent times had evidently fallen into the
pit, perhaps while being chased, and
OF course. were unable to climb the
walls. which inclined toward the mar
row opening. Nobody OF any sense ev-
er hunts for a grizzly, but when one
comes in sight hardly any one can re-
frain from firing at him. This was the
case with two men in Montana, who
were going over the mountains on a
narrow trail, when they saw grizzly
on the rocks above Both men prompt
ly took to shelter and consulted. The
grizzly was evidently coming to a
spring nearby to drink, and was mind
ing its own business, but one of the
men thought he saw chance. and
nred. The bullet hit the bear in the
neck. This merely irritated him enough
to make him look around for his tor
mentors, and presently he was in full
chase. They ran at lively pace, but
would have been caught had they not
scrambled up the rocks. The grizzly
scrambled up, too. but presently all
sounds of pursuit ceased. Looking
back. they saw the bear jammed be-
tween two rocks. Before he could back
GU. one of the men ran back and put
ball in the grizzly's ear, and the chase
was over. 1t was such narrow es-
cape, however. that the hunters re-
solved to avoid grizzlies in future.
In Los Angeles, resident exhibits
the skin Of mountain lion. got in n
| peculiar way. He was riding leisurely
among the foothills when a mountain
| l:on cfossed his path, and was stink
ing away, as 1t generally does. when he
rashly Tired at 1t with a light shot
| gun he carried. The lion, slightly
wounded, came back in rage anl
\ made dash at him. The horse shief
and the man was thrown. striking hi
head against rock. and causing in.
sensibility. When he came TO hi;
senses his horse was standing owe,
him, and a dead lion lay n little dis.
| tance away. He examined the beast
and found its skull crushed like an
eEsshell. The horse had got fat,
crack at him with his heels, and made
an end of him.
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Cnhhnccs nt cGnn Ench.

Six hundred pounds seems a good
deal of money to pay for common
or garden cabbage, and not a fine speci-
men of the vegetable either Yet this
is the cost per head at which the
French government has for seventeen
years past been raising a limited crop
of the familiar esculent in the very
heart of Paris. In the year 1880. with
view of charging the National Lii
brary, even at that time unable to find
room for its ever-increasing store oil
books and manuscripts, the legislature
sanctioned the expenditure of 1850, ,OOC
on the purchase of bit of waste ground
at the corner of the Rue Colbert. From
that day to this not an attempt has been
made to utilize this space except for
the growth of the cabbages in ques-
tion, to the average number of twenty
three yearly. As the annual interest
on the money amounts TO some E14,OOO.
each of these horticultural products
costs the nation something like the
sum mentioned.
The indicator., 1897-05-15
Morality in Monkeys.

A recent number of the Revue Scien-
tifique contains an article on systems
of morality in monkeys, by NJ Eugene
Mouton from which it appears that
eighty-six years ago his grandfather in
Guadeloupe. had n monkey of surpris-
ing intelligence. She showed much af-
lection for the other animals of the
house. especially goat, which used to
come home from the pasture of an
evening so full of thorns that she was
unable to lie down. The goat went to
seek the monkey, who patiently
pluclled out the thorns. to the number
of two or three thousand as a rule,
without drawing a hair or prickiug
her own fingers. According to NJ.
Mouton, this was an act of charity In
spired at once by sentiment and rea-
soning, and repeated daily: in short,
a moral act" But as if to prove
that the old Jacko was not dead in
her. the monkey, after performing this
good deed, used to tease the goat un-
mercifully. plucking her beard. pulling
out her hairs, polting her in the eyes
etc, the goat evidently taking this an
noyance in good part, as the price Of
her deliverance from the prickles. or
else regarding it as part of the gen
eral performance. NJ Mouton remarks
that traces of conscience. and sense of
responsibility, repentance or remorse
have been observed hundreds of times
in animals but this particular case
seems TO show that certain individuals
if not the generality. have either a
doubling of consciousness or an oppo-
sition of good and evil, which osctl-
lates. as in the human soul by law OF
compensation or reaction, which IS
found in all living creatures liz short
he seems to think that some animals
like men, have their good and evil
angel in them their DR.. Jekyl and
Mr.. Hyde. Another case: At Saintes
near Guadelouipe, there was small
garrison of soldiers. who kept mon
key, and their cook found that some of
the mems eggs had been pricked and
sucked empty. and then put carefully
back in the nest. A negro was blamed
for the theft but he declared his inno-
cence, and promised to catch the thief
in the act This he did successfully,
the monkey being the culprit. The
point is. why did the monkey return
the empty shells into the nest?
The indicator., 1897-05-15
Tl,rnr TO ono.

In discussing luc railway problem
those opposed ru Tine companies should
bear in mind lhut moro than seventy
dollars out OF every hundred Invested
In railway property paid nothing on the
investment last year To Put the prop
9sition in It's simplest form nearly
three dollars hriUgs no returns for
every dollar that clrus o dividend
II is cpnteudoG uy some that the
present capitalization Is an unfair
measure Of the investment because
stock-watorlng and similar transactions
have Inflated the capital Perhaps in
some eases this is true. but ON the other
hand vast aggregataa Of stocks and
bonds have been wholly swept ont Of
existence by foreclosures or reorgaulza-
tions. The one about balances the
other
This being the case We get down 10
the present proposition, namely that
the railways have a right to reasonable
returns on the money actually invested.
This is all the shareholders ask Of the
public And they have n right to this,
The public has no right to demand that
they shall ask less. More especially is
this true when upon the future of these
properties rests the comfort and hap
piness OF a million wage earners. And
on the welfare Of these. with their four
million of dependents. depends the
prosperity of hundreds of thousands of
Jther breadwinners.
The indicator., 1897-05-15
sclcncc of Ihr MnsnuIIn

There are four truths respecting the
mosquito which modern science has cs-
tnblishcd.
First-A mosquito cannot live in air
free from malarinl poison. tntaintcd
air has the same effect on him as "A
healthy community on II doctor 1t de
prives him of patients. and he must go
to less favored localities to practice his
profession.
Sccond-rhe lymph, which flows
through an automatic valve when it in
scrts its probocis. contains II modified
germ of the malarlal fever: and. ac-
cording 10 the well-scttlcd law of in
ocnlation, the Introduction of the weak
germ renders harmless II subsequent
attack of the strong germ.
Third-The mosquito never swallows
human blood. 1t cannot The fact
that its body becomes diScolorcd and
swclls, while probing, is caused by the
discoloration of the lymph in contact
! with the blood and the muscular effort
of inserting the probe.
Fourth-A mosquito will never in
scrt its lancet in Il person not susccp
tiblc to an attack of malaria. In this
respect its sense is more accurate than
the most skilled and experienced path
ologist. This also proves not only its
uncrring instinct, but that it never
wounds unnecessarily. Its trusts are
those of u skilled and human surgeon.
The indicator., 1897-05-15
C,cIinr for >hortnc,, Of nrcath.

There is a general idea that tho~,
persons who suffer from shorlucss Of
breath should not take long rides or
indulge in anything which ~avurs of
speed. "rhis.' declares Il we'll -uDwu
physician 'is altogether erroneous. A.
matter Of fact, long distance riding
at II moderate pacc forms our of Tho
very finest cures for Shortur~> of
breath. This malndy is usually caused
10y some congestion which prevents
til" lungs from being expanded to their
full capacity Constant steady and
easy exercise strengthens and tones
up the air cells su that the number OF
those available becomes gradually in
creased, and thus. llrln hv little. thc
Inconvenience disappears. The only
care to be exercised is To- NOT make lie
cNcrtion of a violent nature. New
Your Journal
The indicator., 1897-05-15
Direction. for rarisl,n Mendlcant..

Directions for rarisl an MendIcants.
Lady Herschell has translated, and
Edward Arnold published under the
title of The Beggars Of Paris" NJ.
Louis Paulan's Paris Qui Mendie,
This close study of Partisan menil-
cancy has Its lesson for philanthropi5ts
and charitable organizations every
where. NJ. Paulian gives, for example
the following extracts from book Of
addresses. etc. published especially for
professional beggars:
Mr. A.-Rich proprietor, readily give
fiye-franc piece. pays the rent If 2nr
is elected.
Mr.. B.-Never gives money, asl, fer
clothes.
Mrs. C.-Widow. only concerns her
ette for the baby and some linen for
the mother. One can also obtain Il
ticket for sealed milk for the baby uy
saying it is i'll.
Mr.. D.-Religious house. is interes.
ed in legalizing irregular marriage,
favors baptisms and first communiou=
| Get yourselves recluthed from head to
! foot.
Mr.. E.-Protestant; dresses children
to send them 10 school gives tickets
/ for shoes and clothes. demands the
\ beggar's address, and sends for par
/ ticulars, Arrange with a friend ~
give tie address Of an honest house
Mr.. F.-Old Radical Republican vcry
rich. one may describe ones self ms q
| victim of the reaCtlOnaries and clergy
| etc. etc.
The indicator., 1897-05-15
\ Ring OF Diamond.

\ ring reeently exhibited at Ant
werp was the admiration of diamond
cutters and merchants, because it was
the first successful attempt to cut a
ring out of single stone. There are
a great many difficulties in this meth
cd of cutting diamonds. as the stones
have certain cleavage and particular
veins. all of which have to be carefully
studied in order to prevent splitting
just as success seems within reach. Al
ter several unsuccessful attempts and
three years labor, the feat has been
accomplished by the patience and skill
OF NJ. Antoine, one of the best known
lapidaries of Antwerp. The ring IS
about six-eighths of an inch in diane
to
The indicator., 1897-05-15
jacks boomerang.

aunt Flora was making some wal
nut creams that last afternoon in
March. She had to crack the nuts very
carefully 10 get them out whole, and
some halves of shelves were not brok-
en- at all. Jacks sharp eyea discovered
them in the coal-hod.
oh. goody." cried he, they'll be
just the thing to fool Teddy with to-
morrow, Aunt Flo. I'll stick them to-
gether and he'll think they're regular
wanuts."
Il wouldn't" said Aunt Flo. He
is such little boy. and he will be
disappointed. | wouldn't, Jack"
But Jack would. He picked ont shells
enough to make three walnuts, then he
got the glEe-bottle and stuck them to-
gether so carefully you wouldn't have
known they were ever cracked.
Don't they look just good enough
to eat?" laughed he. Now. when they
get dry III put them in a paper bag
and give them to Teddy in the morn
ing"
Then he ran out to his play whist
ling; and he played so long and hard
that he didn't think of the walnuts
again until he came home from school
next day, at noon. Aunt Flora had
put them away for him, however She
told him where to find them.
On the second shelf of the dining
room closet, in paper bag" said she.
Jacks face had a sober look lie
thought perhaps Aunt Flo didn't like
his joke.
Maybe | hadn't best fool Teddy"
said he. Guess I'll take them out and
fool Johnny Wilson. l haven't been
fooled today. Aunt Flo"
But Aunt Flo did not answer, and
when Jack got to the dining room ne
found Teddy there. 1t did seem too
good chance to be lost Jack took
the bag of walnuts from the closet
shelf.
Hello, Teddy" said he; "have some
nuts?'
"Oh. yes!" cried Teddy running to
get the tack hammer. He liked wal
nuts almost better than anything else.
You're the bestest boy, Jack" he
said.
At which Jack looked sober again. |
think he felt little bit ashamed.
After ALL 1T wasn't the best of fun to
fool little five-year-old boy, and his
own brother, too. But he gave Teddy
the bag.
In less than two seconds down came
the hammer on the first walnut. 1t
cracked very easily, indeed, and it had
the funniest kernel you ever saw in
a nut-a bright new dime. 1t didn't
take long to crack the other two. you
may be sure; and there were thirty
cents-enough to buy two whole
pounds of walnuts.
oh. oh"' cried Teddy, astonished
beyond measure. Are they mine?
Where did EN- come from"
Jacks face was red as Il rose. He
WAS almost ready to feel cross about
It; but looking up. he saw Aunt Flo
smiling in the doorway, and laughed
instead, little sheepishly.
Il guess I'm like the story You told
about the man that threw the boom
erang, Aunt Flo. and it came back and
hit him." said he. But I'm glad of
it just the same. Youths Companion.
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A Municipal Daily.

Dresden, the capital of the German
kingdom of Saxony, owns a singular
piece of property-a morning news
paper-the "Dresdener Anzeiger." This
daily, upon the death of its last pro-
prietor. was bequeathed to the city up
on the condition that all profits aris-
ing therefrom should be spent upon the
public parks. This year a large play
ground of nearly eight acres was pur-
chased from Prince George, the king S
brother and heir apparent, and it will
be ready for use this summer. The pa
per continues to tc;d the respect of all
citizens, for the trust has been carried
out in its bro idest spirit. and the power
has never been employed to foster any
school of opinion social, political or
religious.
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thou'rt sold. my Arab steed'
Fret not with that inpatient hoof-
snuff not the breezy wind:
The furthest that thou iliest now. so
far am / behind:
The stranger hath thy bride rein-thy
master hath his gold
Fleet limbed and beautiful, farewell
thou'rt sold. my steed-thourt
sold.
FAREWELL those free untired limbs full
many mile must roam,
To reach the chill and wintry sky when
clouds the strangers home;
Some other hand. less fond, must now
thy corn and bread prepare;
The silky name | braided once must be
another's carei
The morning sun shall dawn again, but
never more with thee
Shall | gailop through the desert paths
where we were wont to be;
Evening shall darken on the earth; and
Ger the sandy plain
Some other steed. with slower step.
shall bear me home again.
Yes. thou must go. the wild free breeze.
the brilliant sun and sky,
Thy masters home-from all OF these
my eHil"d one must fly;
Thy proud dark eye will grow less
proud thy step become less feet,
And vainly shalt thou arch thy neck
thy masters hand TO meet
Only in sleep shall / behold that dark
eye Elancing bright
Only in sleep shall hear again that step
so firm and light;
And when / raise my dreaming arm to
check or cheer thy speed,
Then must | starting wake to feel
thou'rt sold. my Arab steed.
All! rudely then. unseen by me. some
cruel hand may chide,
Till foam -wreathes lie, like crested
waves, along thy painting side;
And the rich blood within thee swclls
in thy indignant pain,
TIL careless eyes which rest on thee
may count each started vein.
VIII they ill-use thee? If | thought
but no, it cannot be;
Thou art so swift. yet easy curbed: so
gentle. yet so free;
And yet. if Eaply, when thourt gone.
my lonely heart shall yearn,
Can the hand which casts thee from 1t
now command thee to return?
Return, alas. my Arab steed! what
shall thy master do.
When thou who vert his all of joy hast
vanished from his view?
When the dim distance cheats mine eye
and through the gathering tears
Thy bright form for moment like the
false mirage appears2
Slow and unmounted will l roam. with
weary feet, alone,
Where with fleet step and joyous bound
thou oft has borne me on;
And sitting down by the green well, I'll
pause and sadly think,
1T was here he bowed his glossy neck
when last l saw him drink"
When last saw thee drinl<!-away. the
fevered dream is DER:
| could not live day and know that we
should meet no more.
They tempted me, my beautiful! For
the power of gold is strong.
They tempted me, my beautiful, but
have loved too long.
Who said that l had given thee up?
Who said that thou vert sold?
'Tis false!-'tis false, my Arab steed! I
fling them back their gold.
Thus. thus, leap upon thy back. and
scour the distant plains;
Away! who overtakes us now shall
claim thee for his pains!
Hon. Mrs. Norton.
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a Eaniorical Marvel.

A marvel of geology that has re.
mained strangely unknown is pos
sessed by Greece at Argostoli, in the
island of Cephalonia. At this point
four currents of water set in from the
sea and sink into the limestone of the
cliffs. giving an anomalous water pow
er that in the middle of the century
was used for driving two grist mills.
The fall from sea level to the surface
of the discharge pits is three feet to
five feet. Allowing flow of 1000 Gu
bic feet per minute to be necessary to
drive the mills, Profs. +. w and w. o.
Crosby find that the annual consump-
tion of water must have been 1000 ,000,-
600 cubic feet, which would fill a
chamber about five miles long. 1000
feet wide and 75 feet deep. AS the
flow seems to have been uninterrupted
and fairly uniform for n century, per-
haps for many centuries, 1t can not be
assumed that the water is simply fill
ing fssure. Other theories-such as
evaporation in the porous rock or on
encountering volcanic fires-are also
unsatisfactory. and Profs Crosby have
reached the new conclusion that the
water returns to the surface after be-
lag heated. the difference in density be-
The indicator., 1897-05-15
Ceremonial Laws of Sayarc.

In recent lecture on primitive Re
ligious Expression" in New Haven
Conn, Professor d. G. Brinton said that
ceremonial law is found to exist in ey-
cry tribe, and is obeyed with surprising
punctuality. 1t is often absurd and ri
diculous, but is obeyed just the same.
Among certain tribes it is against this
law to roast pig. only boiling of that
animal being allowed; with other
tribes no fuel from two different
species of trees may be used for the
same fire; and in Kamtchatka a GER
tain tribe has ceremonial law which
prohibits the scraping of snow from the
boots with metal knife, and another
law which threatens with boils anyone
who kills very young duck. 1t is be-
lieved that punishment for the infrac-
tion of any of these laws falls not upon
the individual, but upon his tribe. Dar-
win found very little religion among
the Patagonians but the severest cere-
monial laws in vogue.
The indicator., 1897-05-15
He's u Brick.

When boy does something that is
particularly good or noble his COM
rades say Hes brick" for to call a
fellow "a brick" is as high compli-
ment as one boy can pay to another
If we stop to think about it, though
it seems rather strange that brick
should be chosen as a standard for
measuring the worth of Il boy. There
is surely nothing very wonderful or
fine about n brick But, like n great
many other sayings that do not appear
to have mucA sense we shall find, by
looking up the origin of the expression
that 1t started out with very sensible
meaning. In order to get at its be-
ginning, we have to go back into an
cient history for distance of nine
hundred years before Christ-all the
way back to the time of Lycurgus, the
great Spartan ruler. Plutarch tells us
that Lycurgus had n great many wise
and curious notions as to how people
should live and how the affairs of 'he
country should be managed. One of his
ideas was that there was no necessity
for building wall about town if the
soldiers were properly trained to pro-
tect the place, On one occasion an am
bassador from neighboring country
came to see Lycurgus, and he asked
how it was that he had no walls
around the town. But we have walls" :"
replied Lycurgus. "and II you will come
with me / will show them to you"
Thereupon he took his guest out upon
the plains where the army was drawn
up in battle a.:sy. and. pointing to
the ranks OF the soldiers, he said:
These are the walls of Sparta. and
every man is a brick So you see
when the expression was first used 1t
had a great deal more sense than 1t has
now.