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Mrs. ]. D. Mouton-a Girl.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Weights of Wild Animals.


What does a lion weigh?" Ask that
question of any acquaintance and see what
he will say. Those who know the look of
the king of beasts best and how small his
1.-THE body really is will probably come
furthest from the truth. About 400 IN 95o
pounds is a usual estimate. But this is
below the mark. A full-grown lion will
TIP the scale at no less than 500 pounds
Five hundred and forty pounds is the rec
ord for an African lion. His bone ia solid
and heavy as ivory.
The tiger runs the lion very close Rap-
gal tiger killed two years ago by an, Tany
nsh officer scaled $50 pounds A tiger Of
TINS size has, however, considerably greater
muscular strength than the biggest Uon
Few people know that a grizzly bear can
give points TO any other carniyorous ami
NAL in point of strength. A grizzly hear
weighing just 400 weight has been watch
ed carrying a heifer of more thar two
thirds its own weight for two miles nm
the most steep and rugged mountafnside
and this without pausing for one instant
for rest The grizzly bear is the largest and
most powerful of all the bear tribe, hut his
cousin, the cinnamon bear, runs him very
close, and the big white polar bear, thoug n
not really so dangerous a customer is
capable of performing the most extraordi-
nary feats of strength. A polar bear ha $
been seen to move with his paws a boulder
six men had with difficulty put in position
to guard a cache of provisions.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Ebb Tide.

Guy Wetmore Carryl, in Harper's.
A sodden reach of wide and wind-swept lea
A sky of shattered steel that pals the sight,
And one long shaft of sun that seems to write
Vast letters slowly on slate of sea;
The dreary wall of gulls that skim the crest
OF sullen breakers sliding in to land
world grown empty, full of vague unrest,
And shadow shapes that stride across the sand,
The gray beach widens. Foot by foot appear
Strange nas.s forms of wreefage creeping from th'
Like ghosts that steal in silence from thei
graves. -srr
To watch beside the ceatsbed Of the year;
Poor shattered shapes of Ships that once stood ou
Full freighted to the far horizons sweep
To music OF the CHEEKY sailor shout
or men who sought the wonders of the deepi
Poor shattered ships! Their gaHant cruising DER,
Their cargoes coral cristed leagues below
They rise. unnamed, unnumifred, from the SLOW
Recession Of the ebb along the shore.
The tickle tide that bore them brayeiy then
Betrays their shame and nakedness to be
Mute witness to the littlapess Of men
Who battle with the sovereignty of sea.
For me, as we'll, alone upon the dune,
There sinks tide that strips the beaches bare
And leaves but grim unhtghtly wreckage where
The bfooding skies make pOckeEy of noon.
All dear. that hopes, like tides should ebb away
Unmasking on the naked shore of love
F!otsam and jetsam of a happier day,
Dreams wrecked, and alp the emptiness thereofI
Evening star., 1899-04-01
America to Her Young Men.

Maurice Thompson in the Independent.
I sing the wisdom of true ehiYaIry- 81,
Not greater than our Strength, A1r duties bei'
Lo! if the season of sfnaff fr,fft is done.
The richer, heavier harvest must be won. ;
Bury the old. dead days with reverence,
Rear them fenotaph and shasten henee
To do what strong men must, strike hard and win
The young days lead. fall irto ranks, fail in!
No facing rearward now no weak regret,
No senile croaking DER sun that's set:
Look mornward. upward, onward thrill and cheer
The young men lead, the young who scoff at fear.
Higher run up the flag and farther bear it,
Freedom, that glorious robe, all men must wear 1t
With never n backward step. right to win
Young courage leads. fall into ranks, fall in
No pale, thin blood bulge the veins of power
No faitering heart throb with the mighty hour;
The old and timid numbers of dark dread
Know not our time, they cronies of the dead.
Brim the day with yaors trumpet sound.
Advance the flag and hold each vantage ground
For Freedoms sake. with higher heights to win
And wider realms, fall into ranks. fail in!
Some timorous knees smite hard together now,
Some coward eyes look backward from the plough
But not the pulling trembler rounds the goal
And never a glory lights the soul.
Face to the front. and forward-meet the shock:
freedom Is strong, old tyrannes reel and rock;
Now, now, or never. 10 the charge and win,
y young and brave. fall into ranks. fall inl
Evening star., 1899-04-01

discovery of the ninth satellite the Saturn
ian system was second only to the solar
system In magnitude The ninth satellite
greatly Increases the proportions of the
Satur1lian system.
1t is possible that some of the satellites
of Saturn and Jupiter are habitable. One
OF Saturn's satellites the sixth in distance,
is nearly as large as the planet Mercury.
Saturn's lighting capacity Is immense. to
say nothing of the light each satellite re-
ceives from the sun.
The new satellite of Saturn is Of the If
teen and one-half magnitude. 1t is so faint
that it might have remained undiscovered
but for the Photographic plate. This dis
covery has fully Justified the confidence of
the late Alvan Clark in the Bruce photo
graphic telescope.
In the discovery of satellites, as in neb-
ulae, American astronomers are leading
their European brethren. Americans have
discovered two satellites of Mars. the fifth
satellite of Jupiter, two satellites of Saturn
and more than 1000 new nebulae. Swift
alone has discovered more than loo, and,
If his life be prolonged, the list may sur
pass that of HerscheI.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
MUMMIES IN ITALY.
Most Interesting Specimens to b.
Found Mt Palermo and Rome.


From the Scientific American
The yicissitudes of the dead would fur
nish material for an interesting and grew
some volume. We are, of course, not sur
prised when we see an Egyptian mummy,
but it is very extraordinary that during the
middle ages and the renaissance species
of naturalization was also adopted in
Italy, and even continues to this day The
two most curious examples of this are the
cemetery of the Capuchins, in Rome, and
the catacombs Of the Capuchins, at Paler-
mo. In the latter place, we believe, bodies
are still added; though probably not in the
Roman Capuchin cemetery, as intramural
interments are forbidden in Rome even to
popes. Our engraving represents the cata-
combs of the Cuppuccini, at Palermo. They
consist of a series of chambers which are
we'll lighted, adding to the ghastliness
Here are to be seen the mummes of the
dead of the better classes, in the convent
vaults. They are fully attired, even down
to the white kid gloves. Some are erect
against the wall, and others again buried
in chests, while some sit in chairs, all tick
eted with their names and dates. Every
year or two the gloves, and less frequently
the clothes, are renewed by the affection
ate survivors. who go on great feast days
OF the church to gladden. their eyes with
the family mummies. A visit on the eve Of
All Souls day Is thing long to be remem-
DtTGu Lights HARE ulIu1y lanterns
of bone, revealing the hideous forms of the
dead. The bodies against the walls ap-
pear like malefactors who had been hung
Many of the bodies appear shabby as re-
CARDS dress, as their friends do not give
them a posthumous toilet from time to
time, which is SO necessary to keep them
in good repair.
The cemetery Of the Capuchins in Rome
is fully as interesting and CHASTITY. 1t is a
series of vaulted chambers above the
ground, so that there is no need of arti-
ficial daylight. Around the walls skulls
and other bones are arranged in patterns.
The ceilings are covered by ornamental
patterns made of smaller bones. and lamps
depending from the ceiling are also made
from bones of the arm.
After monk dies he is buried for term
of years in the ground In the chapel, the
earth being brought originally from Jerusa-
lem. His bones are then taken out and
help to deck the grewsome chambers. A
few monks of particular .sanctity are not
buried at all, but placed against the wall
and dried in stu.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Smoking Before Tobacco.
from the London Evening Standard.


There Is some reason to think that people
smoked before tobacco was introduced. In
several old books of housewifery certain
herbs named are TO be ''smoaked," which
means, perhaps, fnhalng, we should say;
but the other signifcation is by no means
impossible. A vast number of clay pipes
have been found under conditions which
seem to prove that they were deposited long
before Raleigh's birth; and pipe of early
date is so utterly unlike the modern form
that these could not have been dropped by
laborers of the present day. AT an an
tiquarian meeting many years ago an old
gentleman told how his grandfather used
&c give him coppers for wading into the
Pool Dam at NewcaStle-under-Ly to
gather ''buck-bane" which the veteran
smoked to relieve asthma. That reminis-
cence carries US back century and a half
and it is probable that buck-bane had been
used for asthma time out of mind"
If people were already familiar with the
practice of smoking herbs we should have
an explanation of the astonishing rapidfty
with which they took to tobacco 1t NAV
be noted that Cartier found the Indians of
HochelaGa, an the St. Lawrence smoking
an herb which We recognize from his de-
scr1ption as lobelia, as well as tobacco His
sailors did not care for the latter, but the
former met with their approval from the
inst; for 1t was 'as good as drink" to
them. The medicne-men smoked lobelia
before prophesying, and under it's effect
they rayed. Has this property of the weed
been tested by the savants?
Evening star., 1899-04-01
ROQUEFORT CHEESE,
The TOOthsOme DeIicacy Has Been
Known Since PIiny's Time.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Roquefort cheese is of very ancient lin
cage, and Pliny mentions it in his writings
Few epicures who Hnger over the subtle
favor of this solidified mixture of goat and
sheep milk know the number of details
which have to be observed before the
toothsome morsel is ready for the table
The care necessary throughout every stage
is shown even in the milking of the sheen
and goats. This is done in the evening
after their return from pastures. But in
o1der that the animals shall not be in the
least heated or excited, they are allowed To
rest Tor an hour before the milking is be-
gun AFTER being heated almost to boiling
point the evenings milk is set aside I'm
the morning 1t is skinned, heated to as
degrees and mixed with the mornings milk
Tor coaguiaton. The curd is well kneaded
with the hands ard pressed in layers into
molds with perforated bottoms A thin
layer of moldy bread is put between each
layer OF curd. This bread, which hastens
the ripeninS of the cheese by supplying
the germs of the characteristic green mold
is made before the preceding Christmas of
about equal parts of summer aa6 winter
barley, with plenty of sour dough and some
vinegar When moldy enough il is ground
and sifted, moistened with water and kent
from the air until used in making the
cheese. The curd remains IN the shaping
receptacles for three or four days and is
then taken to the market in Rouuefort
where 1t Is sold to the different makers of
Roquefort cheese. 1t is they who under
take the critical ''ripening'' Of the cheese.
which is placed in the very damp caves
aboundng in the precipitous walls of the
limestone mills which surround the village
During the month or more thar the cheese
are left in the caves they are rubbed with
salt and brine, and are pricked frequently
with long needles to allow the salt 10 pen-
citrate into them. and also to accelerate the
process of maturing. When this has
reached a certain stage the cheese is ready
for shipment.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Old Letters.

ederick George Scott in Boston Transcript.
The house was silent and the light
Was fading from the western glow;
read. till tears had dirnmea my sight
Some letters written long ago.
The voices that have passed away,
The faces that have turned to mold
Were round Inc in the room today
And laughed and ehatted as of old.
The thoughts that youth was wont to think
The hopes now dead foreyermore,
Came from the lines of faded ink
As sweet and earnest as of yore
laid the letters by and dreamed
The dear dead past to life again;
The present and its purpose seemed
fading vision full OF pain.
Then, with sudden shout of glee,
The children burst into the room;
Their little faces were to me
As sunrise in the cloud OF gloom.
The world was full of meaning still,
For love will live though loved ones die;
i turned upon lifes darkened hill
And gloried In the morning sky.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
STOWAWAYS.
They Are Believed to Bring Luck to
the Ships.
From Cassell's Magazine.


Il am not given to losing my temper"
said one captain to the writer but 1 con-
fess that when on one voyage we found no
fewer than fourteen men had managed to
stow themselves away below l felt in
ciined to give them all a ducking and said
So This was the captain of an Atlantic
liner, man to whom the stowaway is a
perpetual nuisance. Though the strictest
watch is kept to prevent his getting on
board, 1t is rare for trip to be made with
out one or tive specimens of the dead-head
fraternity being carried, willy nilly free
Of course, this is not done entirely without
ccnniVance on the part of somebody on
board the ship. The stokers are not infre-
quentiy the guilty parties. With their or
others aid the stowaway gets down into
the mold and finds a dark corner in which
to secrete himself until the vessel fs at sea
III then he is discovered and set to work he
does not mind. 1t is not work he is afraid
OF, but the being without work and the
bread that accompanies it. When 1t is con-
sldered what an enormous thing all Allan
tic liner is and how many dark Dlacas there
are In her vast interior it is not surprising
10 near that scores of men during the
course OF year get free passage across the
nef1nS pond IN one ship Or anuther-and
thls though steamer never leaves mort
without search being made to see thai no
unauthorized person is on board MANY are
N.-NO'C4SN III DuiiheTS ana other such
places, and, of course, carefully con-
ducted on shore; but not a few manage to
eiude detection, and. of course, onc, a9ay
from land little is feared from discovery
Ihere Is curious notion prevalent among
some sailors: it is that a stowaway is a
luchy passenger to carry. Asked once why
II was, an Old salt answered that he never
heard OF a ship being lost that had a stow
away on board OF course he had an in
stance In point to relate. 1t was to the ef
itct that a stowaway was discovered in
nidnS on an outgoing vessel at the last
moment and elected. Shaking his fist at
the captain, the would-be voyager cried
m glad you've turned me out of vour
rotten ship neither she nor you viii live
to see Christmas day, while | shall" The
prophecy proved a true one. The vessel
went down within week of Sailing and
only the second officer and a few men were
saved One wonders how such 2 sunarst,
ton arose. If superstition il car he called
Does 1t arise from the notion-oId as the
hllls-that the unfortunate are ever under
the special protection of heaven and thai
II Is particularly displeasine to The nrovi
dence that watches over such waits if any-
thing be done to thwart their wishesP Tha
foolish, the blind, children and dInnkarGs
| are proverbially said to be under s1Icb ne
culiar guardianship and care. PERTAINS
| hence1orth, We must add the stowawav tn
| the list. "
Evening star., 1899-04-01
TROIKA DRIVING.
Russian Sport That is Novel and
Exhiiarating.

ExhiiaratinE.
From the Woman's Home Companion.
We were promised our first Russian ex-
perience in the shape of a troika ride. A
troika is a superb affair. 1t makes the
tiny sledges, which take the place of cabs
and are used for all ordinary purposes. look
even more like toys than usual. But the
sledges are great fun, and so cheap that it
is an extravaganza to walk. A course costs
only twenty kopecks-ten cents. The sledges
are set SO low that you can reach out and
touch the snow with your hand. and they
are SO small that the horse is In your lap
and the coachmau in your pocket He
simply turns in his seat to hook the fur
robe to the back of your seat-Unly il has
no back Ii you fall, you fall clear to the
ground.
The horse is far, far above you in your
humble position, and there is so little room
that two people can with difficulty stow
themselves in the narrow seat. If a brother
and sister or husband and wife drive to-
gether, the man, in sheer self-defense, is
Obliged to put his arm around the woman,
no matter how distasteful IL may be. Not
that she would ever be conscious of whether
he did 1t or not. for the amount of clothes
one Is obliged to wear in Russia destroys
any sense of touch
The horses are sharp-shod, but In a way
quite different from ours. The spikes on
their shoes are an inch long and rig into
VIC nc Win SScOf1ty, DOl II makes
the horses look as If they wore French
heels. Even over ice like sheer glass they
go at gallop and never slip. 1t rs wonder
full, and the exhilaration of it Is like driving
through air charged with champagne. like
the wine caves of Rintz. Driving in the
country We could not tell how fast we were
going But in town, whizzing past other
carriages. hearing the shouts of the idvos-
Jik, Troika,' and seeing the people scatter
and the sledges turn out {for a troika has
the right of way), We realized at what a
pace We were going. Before We reached
home we saw a Russian fire engine We
passed 1t in a run. The engine was on one
sledge. and following it were five other
sledges. carrying hogsheads of water
After that drive / thought l knew Just
now 1t felt TO ride on fire engine.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
THE sATURNIAN SYSTEM.
The Vast Space Swept by That Planet
and It's Satellites.


From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The announcement from Harvard OBJ
servatory of a ninth satellite of Saturn is a
matter of great interest In astronomical
circles. The new satellite was discovered
by means Of photography at Arequipa,
Peru This is the second satellite of Sat-
urn discovered by astronomers of Harvard
observatory. the elder Bond having found
the eighth in number and the seventh in
distance from the planet in September.
1S4S. The seventh In distance is small. and
is visible only in the large telescopes.
Iapetus was the outermost satellite I'D to
the time of the discovery at Arequipa, and
is about as large as the least of Jupiters
satellites. The span of the orbit of Iapetus
Is about 4. 100000 miles, the distance of the
satellite from the planets center being
about 2J0 600 miles. 1t was stated in our
recent dispatch from Cambridge that the
new satellite Is three and a half times the
distance OF Iapetus. or approximately
5.S15.o0 miles. The span of the orbit is
luton about seventeen months. Before the
Evening star., 1899-04-01
Cfgarette-Smoking Bats.
rom the New York Journal.

Henry Adams of this city has just re-
turned from old Mexico, and tells this story
of the favorite amusement of Americans ait
the clubs in the City of Mexico.
Frequently in the evening the vampires,
or blood-sucking bats fly into the open
windows of the club rooms. The Americans
then close the doors and catch the bat by
throwing a shawl over it. One of the men
lights a cigarette, opens the bats mouth
and inserts the cigarette therein. The crea-
ture is then turned loose. Its soft mouth
contracting closely, the cigarette is imme-
diately seized firmly.
Every time the bat breathes 1t draws in
the smoke and then exhales 1t. Thus flying
around the room. smoking the cigarette
wildly and putting out clouds of smoke, it
presents strange appearance. The smoke
generally kills the bat before the cigarette
is all smoked up.
Evening star., 1899-04-01
DEGENERATION OF TEETH.
observations by an English Dentfst
on This Important Subject.

on This Important Subject.
From the London Mail.
Much has been said recently on the sub
ject of what man is coming to- Certainly
in many ways he is undergoing gradual
transformations, and apparently for the
worse. If a pessimistic view be taken 1t
must seem that man is beginning to return
to that shape which Darwinians believe
was his starting point in the process OF
evolution.
For example, there is a growing tendency
for the jaw of a modern man to recede.
One authority attributes this to the habit
of allowing infants, and often young chill
dren, to continually suck what are called
babies comforters,'' or "teats.' This, 1t
appears, has an inclination to draw in the
jaw at an age when the bones are hardly
set.
Primitive man. it has been proved, used
his teeth as weapon, in the same way
that dog now does. When he came to
rely more on weapons OF his own maaufac-
ture, the strength of the teeth was no
longer called into service for protection or
defense. This, also, has tended to make the
human jaw recede.
Then, again, there is at the present time
great increase in the decay of teeth, es-
pecialiy among children. Eminent dental
surgeons who have been consulted on the
matter agree that the decline of the teeth Is
uue " lHt present dTllilCldi Hloue VI iiNIuS
to adulterated provisions and TO the habit
of cooking everything until tender
One eminent specialist says that in Lent
he is twice as busy as at any other time.
The reason for this, he asserts, is that
there are fewer parties then, and people do
not mind so much being a few days mot
at home to their friends, should their front
teeth want repairing. In this respect it is
interesting to learn that men are even more
vain than women.
The dentist in question tells a good story
OF a woman who certainly had an original
reason for having her teeth attended to
during Lent.
Il have put off coming to see you about
my teeth until now she began, as she
sank into a seat, because l have several
to be Stopped As, of course, you'll tell
me to starve myself for twenty-four hours
each time you stop one, 1 may as well do
1t in Lent, when, in any case, should have
to do a h..le fastingi"
Personal adornment in these degenerate
days has gone to the extent of liking dia-
monds in the front teeth. This craze start
ed IN Chicago, but was never very popular
on this side of the Atlantic. There are
however, at least four persons of wealth in
London, known to the writer who carry
daily In their mouths valuables of the ag-
gregate value of $3.50.
As showing the decadence of the teeth OF
the present generation. 1t may be recorded
that a Physician has been studying the con-
dltion of the mouths of centenarians. He
finds that out of forty-two centenarians
only fifteen were without d TOOTH and the
others were in possession of an ample sup
ply. Yet in people about eighty years of
age the average number of teeth is rarely
more than five.