Mohave County miner., 1897-09-04
Gdds and Ends.
mining.

l rangement that in case of her clothing catching fire, she can pull string and all her clothing will fall off This may be a good thing, but we would advise her to keep the string out of the reach of the small boy.
 A widow recently put a costly monu ment to her late husband, and inserted upon it, ''My grief is so great that can. not bear it." A year or so later, how ever, she married again, and feeling a little awkwardness about the inscription, she solved ihe problem by adding one word to it, "alone."
 Maj. Moses P. Handy, who was ap. pointed by President Mckinley as commissioner to the Paris exposition of 1900, will leave New York for France on the steamer La Gascogne tomorrow fo. the purpose of arranging for space for the exhibition of the United States
 You cannot go through life, no matter how humble your sphere. without being called upon many times to decide Wheth CT you will be true or false to honor and duty. Duty and homo. must go hand in hand-there can be no divorce between these words. You can make your lives useful, beautiful and noble. You can make them worthless and contemptible.
 Ingrattude never fails to slay the victim of this malady for sooner or later those who are innoculated with the worst of all human evils, find themselves standing alone in the community which learns to know them but to avoid them. Ingratitude, while it is the greatest of all sins, including all others in greater or less degree. No human being can long command the confidence, much less the respect of his neighhors, who comes to be known as an ingrate.
 Mrs. George Ruthman of Beaver Falls, Pa., heard a peculiar noise on the back porch ot her residence, few days ago. She found her two sons, one aged seven and the other one year old, in corner. The babe was on his back The elder brother had inserted the tube of bicycle pump in the baby's mouth, and was flliug him full of wind as fast as he could work the pump handle. The in- fant was unconscious, and it's little stom ach was inflated like a balloon. The mother pulled the tube from the child's mouth, and the air followed with sharp sound like the exhaust of an air break on railway train. The baby recovered consciousness.
 An important discovery to astrono- mers was made by pr. J. J. See, who is in charge of Lowell observatory at Flag staff. For centuries the cause of the twnkling of the stars has been sought for, but none of the theories advanced have stood the test of thorough investi gation. Dr. See has found the cause to be the presence in the atmosphere of in numerable little air currents or waves, some no larger than a mans hand, which dart through the ar and cause a break in the light thrown off by the star, so that to beholder on the earth it has the familiar appearance of twinkling. These little air entrants and "chop" waves can be seen through the 24-inch telescope very plainly on some nights when this twinkIing is observed most, by removing the eyepiece of the instru ment. The discovery has been brought to the attention of the Royal Astronom- ical Society of London.-Gazette.
 The Moqui snake dance is in progress in the northern part of Arizona, says the | Sentinel, and is being witnessed by sen sational-seeking people from all parts of the globe. The ceremony IS of sev- eral days duration and consists of the | most hideous and revoting scenes prac- ticed in the religious rites of any people, uncivilized or otherwise, on the face of the earth today. The dance antecedes history and embodies the traditions and | superstitious of untold ages of savagery. | Scientific men are making study of the celebration, comparing it's mystic ogeries with the ancient sun- worshipplng seances and trying to discover the origin and | purpose of the strange performance; but with what result remains to be told. In | all probability the history and secrets of the Moqui religion will be buried with the last of their tribe which is rapidly | fading before advancing civilization.