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THE BOYS PROUD FATHER.

From the Nashville American.
 It is probable that Probate Judge Hob- son, as he walks down the main street of Greensboro, Ala, this morning will be the proudest man in America, and he has a right to be. But if that boy Of his had risked his life twenty years ago as he did Friday at Santiago, the judge would have admin 'stered a spanking, with a positive assurance that worse would come if he did anything like that again.
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propose to keep step in the patriotic pro- cession. If Governor Johnston calls for another white regiment. South Alabama will not be permitted to furnish more than freely responded under the first call.
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A BLACK BELT BOY.
m the Mobile News.

From the Mobile News.
 And Hobson is an Alabamian He is a native of Greensboro, a town In the Black Belt that has and has always had much as chivalry to the square foot thau as any other place in the universe Greens boro was settled by Carolinans and Vir- ginians. It has always been a centre of wealth and culture. The name of it's men and women have been sounded wherever great and good deeds have been performd.
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A SIirtwd Diagnosis

From Judge.
 Guard-Co'onel, one of our Kentucky pickets is shot, and one of the colored pick cts has captured a prisoner
 Colonel (rapidly)-Let the Kentuckan be put in the guard-house to sober up, and have the chicken brought to my tent im- med .ately. Right about! Huh-h-h!
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The Ideal Place

From the Chicago News.
 Booth Kean-They say eggs are worth about 20 cents apiece in Havana now.
 Irvington Barrett-Ah, what a glorious place that would be for the first production of our new play.
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Acquiescent
From Punch.

From Punch.
 Hostess Qo friend, who has been brought in to take pot-luck)-Im afraid, MT. Simp- son, we've only got very poor dinner to offer you.
 MT. Simpson-My dear Mrs. Jones, beg you not to apologize! I assure you I think it quite desirable to underfeed occasionally.
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Thoughtful to the Last

From the Chicago Record.
 Didn't your absconding cashier leave you any message?"
 "Yes; he left a line in the cash box trans ferring to me his paid-up membership in Don't Worry club"
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The Sleeping Faun

From Brooklyn Life.
 'Wot's dis scandal hear about me old pardner? Dey says he's worl<ln'." "Dat's right, but den his job don't count. He's workin' for an artist posin' as model fer a sleepin faun, an dey brings him his meals tree times a day."
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Boston Wisdom
From Life.

From Life.
 'Dorothy, where can I find the dicti n- ary?"
 Aunt Marathaley, we never use a d:c- tionary in Boston. We know all the words"
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THE SADDEST LITTLE
 COON IN ALL ALABAM'

oBILE June 7.- "Please, sah, femme go, Mister;;' ;'' and 1t came out with a great big sob, as a little, dirty-faeed me- gro boy gazed plead ingly into the face of
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are Cervera and Linares. The Spanish admiral and general have larger prison. but it is a prison nevertheless, and the head keepers are Sampson on the sea side, and Garcia on the land side.
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A Paraphrase
kf2E:'|l2

From the Philadelphia Item.
 Give me my own way in Pennsylvania and I do not care what becomes of the rest of the country.-M. s. Quay.
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Governor Leedy. of Kansas, is in trouble. because he-dld not look after the comfort of Kansas soldiers. He let a regiment start for the Philippines in rags and without shoes.
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Took the Wrong Route

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 It strikes us that Cervera could have spent a. pleasanter summer by sailing for Alaska.
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Times and customs are changed. Once the American soldier plunged into the first creek he came to, but now he employs a porcelain bath tub.
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THE UNwRITTEN LAW.
From the Gadsden Times-News.

From the Gadsden Times-News.
 The law does not prohibit man living in one district from running for congress in another, yet there is an unwritten law. and it s held inviolate in Alabama, that if a man is to represent a district in congress he must be a citizen thereof.
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Mir. Andrew Carnegie, born in Scotland. and now residing in Paris, is opposed to sessions. MT. Carnegie should visit Amer ica often enough to become an American.
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Georgia did a good work Monday when its people chose Allen D. Cander for gover- nor. Candler is a man of the people, and a man of brains and judgment.
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HOSTILITY TO FRANCE.

From the Louisville Courler-Journal
 France is invited to glance at this brief dispatch from Birmingham, Ala:
 "A club of thirty started here with tho
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Of the 5000 soldiers furnished by Ten nessee under the first call. about 700 were drawn from the city of Nashville.
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The soldiers who are doing their own cooking and washing and mending will have higher estimate of the value of do- nestle duties when they return home.
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An Argument
From Puck.

From Puck.
 q think we ought to keep the Philip pines.'
 "Why?"
 ''They. would furnish consolation prizes for some of the disappointed office seek ers."
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The Duke of York, England's heir appar- ent in tpe long run. Is coming this way, It is said He will be warmly welcomed He is captain of a British cruiser.
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Even the bulletin boards of Madrid must concede that the blockades of Havana, San- tlago and Manila are pretty effective.
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necessary there as it Is here. The plat forms will not be missed. The conven- tions have nearly run their course. a
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The summer girl has a heap of sense. She prefers safety at a summer resort near a nat onal camp Live heroes are better than hostile feets to be sure.
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Lieutenant Hobson placed Sampson in a position to meet that alleged Cadiz fleet at Porto Rico, or at any other old place.
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The Merrimac shows that ships have their uses even when they rest in the mud of the bottom. Cevera sees the point even if others do not.
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Proverb wite an Addition

From the Indianapolis Journal.
 Watts-One-haf of the world does not know how the other half lives.
 Potts-Nor why.
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Weyler is trying to decide between be- coming the Spanish government and in- vading the United States.
The age-herald., 1898-06-08

In discussing an income tax even the Springfield Republican acknowledges that the Chicago platform contained not lit tie truth"
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Andrew Carnegie endorses General Miles, the bath tub and creased trousers being of course included.
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Admiral Sampson's guns will see that Hobson's cork remains in place.
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The process of corking the bottle, hero ically done, was transformed in Madrid in- to Spanish victory. Such victories are eXpenSiYe.
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The combined fleets of Sampson and SchTey seem to have gotten down to busl- ness. Santiago is no longer a protected city.
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Even a collier, guided by Hobson may become historic.
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The guns by day and the searchlights by night are preserving the cork that Lieu tenant Hobson so defiantly placed in the bOttle.
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Conveys are needed between Dawson and San Francisco. There are uses for larger navy war or no war
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The Dewey gait was not feasible at San. tiago, but the Hobson cork Is.
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A censor is much needed against war news from Paris.
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The bottle is now complete. Hobson fin ished the job by placing the cork in it.
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The country is safe so long as General Miles porcelain bath tub does not spring a-leak.
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One thing at least is well established the Merrimac was destroyed by an inter al explosion.
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GOOD FOR ALABAMA.

From tn Mobile News
 Hurrah for Alabamal She's still ahead.
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Sampson seems to have done his work well.
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 is captain of British cruiser. 
 The Merrimac shows that ships have their uses even when they rest in the mud of the bottom Cevera sees the point even if others do not.
 Times and customs are changed. Once the American soldier plunged into the first creek he came to, but now he employs a porcelain bath tub. -.. The process of corking the bottle, hero ically done, was transformed in Madrid in- to Spanish victory. Such victories are expensive.
 In discussing an income tax even the Springfield Republican acknowledges that the Chicago platform contained not lit tie truth"
 The guns by day and the searchlights by night are preserving the cork that Lieu tenant Hobson so defiantly placed in the bottle.
 The combined fleets of Sampson and SchTey seem to have gotten down to busi- ness. Santiago is no longer a protected city.
 Lieutenant Hobson placed Sampson in a Porto Rico, or at any other old place. 
 Even the bulletin boards of Madrid must that the blockades of Havana, San- tago and Manila are pretty effective. Of the 5000 soldiers furnished by Ten nessee under the first call, about 700 were drawn from the city of Nashville.
 Weyler is trying to decide between be- the Spanish government and in- vadng the United States.
 
 Andrew Carnegie endorses General Miles, the bath tub and creased trousers being of course included
 Ccnvoys are needed between Dawson and San Francisco. There are uses for a larger navy, war or no war
 
 One thing at least is well established the Merrimac was destroyed by an inter al explosion.
 The country is safe so long as General Miles porcelain bath tub does not spring a-leak.
 The bottle is now complete. Hobson fin- ished the job by placing the cork in it. The Dewey gait was not feasible at San tiago, but the Hobson cork Is.
 Admiral Sampson's guns will see that cork remains in place.
 Even a collier. guided by a Hobson, may become historic.
 A censor is much needed against war news from Paris.
 Sampson seems to have done his work we'll.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12

made bold to say to Dr. Manson that
thousands upon thousands of men who
were not specially interested in arctic
work had read his book with delight,
and that to me the marvel was not that
he could do what he did in the field,
but that he could write such book
about his experiences.
1.-The best thing in it, to my notion, "
l said, sis your description Of your
dramatic meeting with jackson on
Franz-J Josef Land, and the best part of
that was your reference to tho manner
in which the wild mans sharpcned
senses discovered the fragment of the
soap which the civilized European has
used in his morning additions. "
at is really true, replied DR.. Nan
sen, "that l could smell that soap as
plainly as if it had been a strong per
fume. Johansen noted the same thing
when be came up. In fact, for several
days our sense of smell was ondt 1ful-
ly acute. AS l approached Jackson S
hut | thought could smell everything
it contained and give sort Of inventory
of it's stores without entering In day
or two this acuteness wore off, and we
became quite normal in that as well as
in other respects. But wonder ii a
man were to live wild for a few years
if his sense of smell would not become
quite as keen as that Of an animal?' -
Chicago Times Herald.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12
Wells In Sahara.

Artcsiall wells sunk in tho Sahara
desert appear to find an abundant sup
ply of water withol : going very dt p
for it, and this fact hay in time put
new face on de sert conditions, involving
important political, climatic and eco
nomical consequences. The English have
begun sinking them along the Berber-
Suakin road, finding water there as
abundant as it was in the regions near
the Nile when their first experimental
wells wcre put down. Flowing under
the Saharan sands there may be water
enough to fertilize cases all over its
sterile eXpanse and rescue 1t i'll meas
ure from it's historic barronncss and
desolation. Some years ago French
engineer proposed to cut canal from
the Mediterranean to the lower desert
levels, thus creating new inland sea,
Or rather, restoring an cid enc, but for
some reason the project was abandoned.
Local irrigation by means of artesian
borings is a more judicious expedient,
and, tho English having pointed the
way in this direction, the French are
quite likely to follow it. Only narrow
desert belt separates their possessions in
north and middle Africa, reaching from
the Mediterranean to the Niger and it
is quite worth their while to fertilize it
and plant it with palm groves and date
orchards if possible, at any rate to pro-
vide water enough to supply their pres
ent caravans ard perhaps their future
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12
Animal COlOnists.

During the last few years the demand
for pedigree English cattle for Argen-
tina has been enormous. Shorthorns,
Herofords and Devons have been inn
ported weekly, and crossbred English
stock now fills the "corrals' Of the
great beef and bovril companies of the
Rio de la Plata. In North America this
Anglicizing process has spread to all the
states of the Union. Half bred Herefords
and Shorthorns are taking the place of
the common cattle of the States on near
ly all the ranches of the beef producing
districts, and the colonizin2 capacity Of
different English breeds is recommend
ing them for special districts. Thus the
Devon bulls are purchased for ranches
whore the search for pasture and water
needs special activity and endurance,
and red "polled' or hornless Sutfolks
are used where cattle arc being bred for
transit by rail or ship because the abb
sence of horns is then convenient. Even
tropical Brazil follows the fashion, and
English Jersey cows are seen demurely
walking through the forest paths by the
coffee plantations and English terriers
and pug dogs sit on the laps of Brazilian
ladies'
Whether the Jersey cattle will multi
ply Oh the planters estates time will
show, but the spread of our colonizing
animals, which are now invading stimuli
taneously the plains Of Patagonia and
the north Canadian territory, does not
limit it's progress to the direction of the
poles. In India the English horse be-
comes colonist by second intention, i'll
the form of the "waler," sounder and
stronger animal than the majority Of
British hackneys. His value, as COM
pared with the native breeds Of ASIA is
still undetermined, but we must accept
his presence and survival as a fact
London Spectator.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12

l once spent an afternoon i'll a pleasant
little villa Gu tie banks Ct the river
Marine with the former chief of police
in the time Of Napoleon III up to the
proclamation Ct TIE republic. No ono
would have thought, to look at the
peaceful figure Of the proprietor, little
man in sabots, with gray beard la
Nillet, absorbed in cultivating the mag
nihcent hortensias that covered his ter
races. reaching to the waters eGge, thar
his head had been "a storehouse for all
the Vaccinations and turpitudes OF that
period of docadence which ended in a
disastrous war and revolution. 1t w;
on that afternoon that | learned no
the fatal Olivier ministry was decided
upon by Nj. Theirs and his political
friends one evening in the conservato
of beautiful Frenchwoman living
not far from the opera. Two brothers,
we'll known in the best Paris society,
meanwhile distracted the attention of
tie guests in the salon by sleight of
hand tricks and gymnastic feats on a
Persian rug, and when l asked the old
man how he knew all this with such
precision, From femme de.chambre, y
he answered TRANQUILITY. IAN person
ages of Importance at that time, at their
own request, took their servants only
from my hand. Harper S Weekly.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12
The Newspaper Eogy.

T. l.. Godkin in The Atlantic claims
that the advertiser rather than the sub
scriher is now the newspaper boGy.
He is the person before whom the pub
Usher covers and tries to please, and
the advertiser is very Indifferent about
the opinions of newspaper. What in
terests him is the amount or quality OF
its circulation. What he wants to know
is how many people see it, not how
many people agree with it. The conse-
quence is that the newspapers OF largest
circulation, published in the great CEN
tiers Of population where most votes are
cast, are less and less organs OF opinion,
especially in America. In fact, in some
cases the advertisers use their influence
which is great and which the increas-
ing con letition between newspapers
makes all the greater, to prevent the eX-
preston in newspapers of what is prob
ably the prevailing local view of men or
events There are not many newspapers
which can afford to defy large adver-
-lSar
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12
How 1t Felt.

A worthy old gentleman who had
never wandered far from his native
township before went to Boston one
day in response to an invitation to visit
q relative.
The Bostonian, in showing his friend
about town. took him to the top OF a
tall office building. They took look
at the mary elous landscape spread out
before them and prepared to descend.
They entered the elevator. 1t began its
swift journey downward.
Don't be frightened, Uncle Silas, y
said the younger man, as his visitor
grasped his arm, shut his eyes and held
on for life. "There is no danger -
II wasn't afraid, George gasped
Uncle Silas, after they had stepped out
Of the elevator, "but IL left my stom-
ach up there. '-Youth's Companion.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12
Soap.

The first distinct mention CT SOAP
now extant is by Pliny, who speaks Of
it as an invention of the Gauls but be
that as it may, the use of soap for wash
ing purposes is Of great antiquity, Ia the
ruins Of Pompeii a complete soap man
ufactory was found and the utensils
and some soap were in tolerable state
of preservation. The Gallo soap of
eighteen centuries ago was prepared
from fat and wood ashes, particularly
the ashes from beech wood which wood
was very common in France as well as
in England Soap is spoken Of by writ
ers from the second century, but tho
Saracens were the first people to bring
it into general use as all external cleans
ing medium. The use of soap Is thus
described "When examined chemical
ly, the skin is found to be composed OF
a substance analogous to dried white OF
egg; in a word, albumen. Now, albu-
men is soluble in the plEalios and
when soap is used for washing the skin
the excess of allsali combines with tho
oily fluid with which the skin is natu-
rally believed, removes it i'll the form CT
an emulsion, and with a portion OF the
dirt Another portion of the alkali soft
ems and dissolves the superficial stratum
of the skin, and when this is rubbed off
the rest of the dirt disappears. so that
every washing Of the skin with soap re-
moves the old face of the skin and leaves
q new bne, and We're the process repeat
ed to excess the latter would become
attenuated. ''-Philadelphia Ledger.
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specuIation Stoned.

Governor Stephens CT Missouri the
other day committed the sentence of a
negro who had been condemned to
death for murder to imprisonment for
80 years When she heard Of it, the me-
gro's mother was so happy that she be-
gan to smoke a corncob pipe. Some one
having suggested to her that after all
80 years imprisonment was a pretty
heavy punishment, she exclaimed;
"Wot's 80 years! Fshaw, wot's dc
penitentiary to Willie? Ain hoa young
man? Wot's so years to him: Anyways
he amt goin to hang. | doan have to
stay up nights an 60 c'yln about an
speculatin myself to death. done stop
speculatin. l done stop hit. New
York Tribune.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12
The Bulldog n Good Dog.

No member of the canine family has
been moro persistently maligned than
the bulldog Writers who have no in
innate knowledge Of the dog and his at
tributes have described him as stupidity
ferocious, and illustrators have pictured
him as a sort of semiwild beast, till the
general public has come to look upon
him as dangerous.
"Give a dog IL bad name, " is an old
saw, and perhaps IL true one, but when
il is applied to tho bulldog it is mani,
testify unjust. Writers, too, have fallen
into grave error III claiming that tho
bulldog is deficient not only i'll a1fec-
ton, but in intelligence
Stonehenge, who is considered one of
the greatest Of canine scientists, claims
that the bulldogs brain is relatively
larger than that of the sraIicl, which
dog is generally considered to be the
most intelligent Of the canine race
while the bulldogs affection is mover to
ina doubted Outing.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12
Moro Than He Could Stand.
Hold ND yer hands!"

"Hold up yer hands!'
The citizen thus addressed suddenly
shot out his right fist. 1t caught the
murderous footpad squarely on the nose
and stretched him motionless on the
frozen ground.
"That was a nervy thing to do, y" said
the policeman who happened by some
mysterious dispensation to be i'll the
neighborhood and had come running to
the scene.
at was a pretty nervy thing for the
scoundrel to do" replied the citizen,
scowling at his damaged hand. HE
didn't know he was tackling u desperate
man. l had just paid gas bill. Chi
cago Tribune.
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Ignorance.

Two country men went into hatter's
to buy hat They were delighted with
the sample, inside the crown Of which
was inserted looking glass
"What is the glass for!" said one of
tho men.
The other, impatient at such dis
play CT rural Ignorance, said: what
for? Why, for the man who buys the
hat to see how it fits. Pick Me Up.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12

Messages From the Sea.

A bottle dispatched from the steam.
ship Guildhall on May 81, 1894, when
in 40 degrees north, 81 degrees west,
almost midway between Brest and New.
foundland, was picked up on Feb. 10,
1895, at Antigua, after drift Of about
A., 800 miles. 1t had evidently passed
close to the Azores, the Canary islands
and the Cape Verdes on the way. An
other, thrown overheard from the sloop
eapolio on July 90. 1892, travelled east
ward toward the Azores, and thence, as
IN the previous instance, until it was re-
covered near Turks island, north Of
Haiti, on Feb. s, 1896, after drift of
nearly 6, 900 miles.
A bottle message from the sailing
ship st. Enoch is probably the most in
torestihg of the SO drifts shown on the
United States chart. 1t was sent off
when sCme 700 miles west of Sierra
Leone, under the influence OF the well
known Guinea current, setting eastward
ON to the African land. The master of
this vessel noted on the message that
she had experienced an easterly current
Cf &c miles during the previous day.
Hence there is reason to suppose that
this messenger was swept eastward un-
I'll some incident occurred to transfer it
to A current setting in westerly direc
ton. once on tho latter route, however,
it passed leisurely along through the
passages Of the Windward isles, escap-
iuu contact with any land, followed the
N trend Of tie Atlantic coast of North
III America till clear of Newfoundland,
n and thence onward to TotabrouSh Walls,
Shetland islands, where it was found
on March 20, 1896, after having accom-
rli,hed record drift Of nearly 5000
miles in less than 1000 days.-Cham-
/ bers Journal.