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Marce Polo's Account of the Natives and the Animals,

‘The eastern coast of Africa was an un- known region in Mareo Polo's day, and when he had traveled so far to the scuth- ern end of Asia that he began to got glimpses of Africa he could not believe that he heard reperte from the eastern side of that continent—of which he already knew something, as it formed the south- ern border of the Mediterranean sea. So he spenks of Madagascar, which he calls Maceigascar, and Zanzibar, which he calls Zanghibar, as though they were parts of India. If weremmember that Marco was the first writer, European or Asiatic, to mention Madagascar by that name, and almost the first to give the world any in- formation concerning that unknown land, we may exouse the fact that his geography is sometimes mixed. But his descriptions of the people and the animals of eastern Africa are pretty accurate, as may be seen:

‘They are all black, their hair is as black as pepper and so frizzly that even with water you can scarcely straighten it. And their mouths are so large, their noses so turned up, their lips so thick, their eyes so big and bloodshot, that they look like very cevils. They are, in fact, so hideously ugly that the world has nothing to show more horrible.

‘There are also lions that are black and quite different from ours. And their sheep are all exactly alike in color—the body a)l white and the head black. No other kind of shecp is found there, you may rest as- sured. They have also many giraffes. This fis a beautiful creature, and I must give you a deseription of it. Its body is short and somewhat sloped to the rear, for its hind legs are short while the fore legs and the neck are both very long, and thus its head stands about three paces from the ground. The head is small, and the ani- mal is not at all mischievous. Its color is all red and white in round spots, and it is really a beautiful object.

‘The women of this island are the ugliest in the world, with their great mouths and big eyes and thick noses. ‘The people live on rice and flesh and milk and dates, and they make wine of dates and of rice and of good spices and sugar. There is a great deal cf trade, and many mecchants and vessels go thither.—‘‘The ‘rue Story of Marco Polo,’’ by Noah Brooks, in St. Nicholas,

GRANT TO BUCKNER.

He Wrote a Message While He Was Dy- ing to His Former Adversary.

Mr. John R. Proctor contributes to The Century ‘‘A Blue and Gray Friendship,’ describing the relations between Grant and Euckner. The latter visited Grant at Mount MoGregor, and as General Grant could not then speak, he wrote a message to his friend and former adversary. This is reproduced in facsimile for the first time. The message was as follows:

“IT have witneesed since my sickness just what 1 have wished to see ever since the war—barmony and good feeling between the sections, 1 have always contended that if there had been nobody left but the sol- diers we would have had peace in a year. Jubal Early and Hil are the only two that I know of who do not seem to be satisfied on the southern side. We have some on ours who failed to accomplish as much as they wished, or who did not get warmed “up te the fight uptil it wae all over, who have not had quite full satisfaction. The great inajority, toa, of those who did not go into the war have long since grown tired of the long controversy. We may now well look forward to a perpetual peace at home and a national strength that will secure us againet any foreign complication. lI believe myself that the war was worth all it cost us, fearful as that was. Since it was over I have visited every state in Eu rope and a number in the east. I know, as I did not before, the value of our inher- itarre ’’

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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, JUNE 4, 1897

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ft ts only a tiny shoe pe That she touches with tender cara, -3 A cunning little bit of a thing “se That s baby used to wear. TAS And ghe gently raises it to her lips And lovingty holds it there,

It is worn and faded and old, y pest. ‘

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In fancy she sees a little child As it gambols npon the feer.

Au elfiike creature with golden bair Is cooing a baby song onee more,

And a tear drops down on the tiny shoe That the beautiful dream child wore.

“Ah, well,"’ she sighs to herself, ‘* "Tis, alas, the will of the fatest I used to be able to wear this shoe, But now I take number eights."’ ~Pearson's Weekly.

ANIMALS AND MUSIC.

A Strange Experiment Made In a Zoolog- ical Garden.

A violinist was playing various airs before the cnges of the animals) The bow, which had been passing backward and forward half drowsily, took up a gait that would have distanced one of the deer in the pen by the buffaloes’ yard. Then there was a trfnsformation scene in the home of the lioness as rap- id and as complete as that of the tune. The cubs went intoecstacies. They roll- ed about, jumped, fell over one another, raced over their mother’s recumbent body, and danced unrebuked on her head. They ceased their tantrums only with the ceasing of the music.

Then they gathered at the front bars of the cage again and silently and pa- thetically pleaded for more. Their plea was successful, and in response to the delicate flattery conveyed by their man- ner the player gave the lullaby once more. They simply sat and listened to it as silently as they had at the first. The transition to the jig music was once more made speedily. The first note of the lively air had barely left the vio- lin before its riotous contagion had once more caught the cubs. They rol- licked and rolled about and stopped on- ly when the professor, fearing to tire their little limbs, took his bow from his fiddle and told them they had danced. enough for debutantes.

The hyena is an uncanny brute. His very appearance goes a great way to- ward bearing out charges of graveyard robbery brought against him. He has no music in his soul nor room for any. Sweet sounds are to him so antipodal te everything in his nature that they in- spire him with nothing but fear, and the most abject fear at that. When Pro- fessor Baker tried to interest the two skulking hyenas in his performance on the violin, they began trembling visibly at the first note’s utterance, and then as the music swelled they sought the far- thermoat side of their prison and tried their best to squeeze their ungainly bod- ies through the bers to escape the mel- ody. —Philadelphia Times.

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Heroic Treatment of Paticnte.

The hospital physician should be a man of the most thorough methods and the most extreme conservatism. He should be chosen as much for his prao- tical good sense as for his skill in diag- nosing disease. He should be a man with intuitions and ought to be able to decide almost at a glance whether a pa- tient is suffering from brain trouble or alcoholism.

There have been of late a great many instances where this mistake has been made, and it is by no means creditable to the hospital authorities when such blunders are made.

One of the latest exploits of a hospi- tal doctor was to order a cold bath for a consumptive patient who showed some symptoms of hysteria Shortly after the bath the woman died. Just why a doc- tor should order such treatment oom- mon sense as well as the medical pro- fession would like very much to know.

Hospitals are in the main supported by the people, and the people have a right to good treatment and courtesy at the hands of those who are put in charge of such institutions. Failing to receive this, the public has also te right to demand an investigation of the situation and to demand the punish- ment of those who are guilty of such unprofessional and inhuman conduct and that their places be filled by those who are more intelligent and better fit- ted for the duties and responsibilities of such a place.—New York Ledger.

Chances For Saccess In Large Cities.

In solving ‘‘Problems of Yo Men" Edward W. Bok, in The Ladies’ Home Journal, replying to an inquirer, con- tenés that opportunities for promotion (in business) are more numerous in large cities than in smaller communi- ties, but they are not better. ‘There are more chances in the larger cities, but likewise there are more applicants for the chances. Salaries may be high- er in the centers, but so, too, is the cost of living. Things always equalize them- selves. To my way of thinking, a mod- erate business success in a small com- munity means more toa man in point of living and absolute satisfaction than @ greater success in a larger city.’’

Catch Fish With Wheels.

A curious plan for catching fish is used on the Columbia river. A number of wheels are set upin the mid@le of the stream, which, as they turn round, catch up the fish and cast them into troughs by the river banks. The salmon are then tinned and sex all over the world. As much as five ions’ weight of fish a day hag thus been taken.—Kansas City Sitar.

DIAZ THE MAN,

A Pee Picture of the Idol of the Mexican People.

A man of 5 feet 8, crect as the Indian he is disproporiionately confounded with, quick as the Iberian he far more nearly is, & fine agreement of unusual physical strength and still more unusual grace, with the true Indian trunk and the mus- cular Kuropean limbs, Diaz is physically one manin 20,000. The single infusion of aboriginal blood (and that at the begin- ning of this century) is an inheritance much more visible in his figure than jn his face.

There are young old men everywhere, but this is the freshest yeteran in my knowl- edge. By the lithe step, the fine ruddy skin whose capillaries have not yet learned to clog or knot, by the keen, full cye, or the round, flexible veice, it seems a palpa- ble absurdity to pretend that this man has counted not only 67 years, but years of su- preme stress. If in 40 of them he ever knew a comforting certainty, it must have been by faith and not by sight, for from boyhood to middle life his face was always against overwhelining odds.

It might ke rash to Ing into any com- parison the Lron Chancellor, but of actual rulers, republican or dynastic, there cer- tainly is not another—if there may have been onc—so *‘posted’’ as the man of Mex- ico. Offhand, without hositation and with accuracy, es I have often been at pains to verify, he gives whatsoever detail is desired of whatsoever branch of government. He is more ready than the contractors them- selyes as to the mep and money using in some great work. The commanders of the military vones can tell you in twice the words us much each of his own scope as Diaz can tell you of the entire field. The superintendent of education in a district may be as informative, if you give him time, about the schools in his charge as the creator of the Mexican public school sys- tem is about the districts en masse. It is an open secret in the capital that the president frequently worsts his ministers in their own fields. And-—-a genuine test of breadth—he is not afraid to say, ‘‘I do not know.’’ He ventures no opinion in things he has not measured.—Charles F. Lummis in Harper's Magazine.

YUKON INDIANS,

The Barbaric Manner In Which They Used to Treat Female Infants,

There were formerly many curious traits of character and qucer customs that pre- vailed among the tribes inhabiting the up- per Yukon country. Perhaps the most barbaric of all was in the treatment of the female infants. Just after the child is born she is intrusted to some of the oppo- site sex of advanced age, who has selected her for his future wife. During the time before arriving at that age when she be- comes a wife her male guardian, for such he now is, has to contribute a certain por- tion of his spoils of the chase to her sup- port. If before she arrives at that age she displeases her lord, or he tires of support- ing her, she is given no more food and is starved to death. Should a female be born and no man wants to provide for her and claim her as his future wife, then she is not allowed to live. All the male infants are, however, brought up, as they will mak: good hunters. Consequently it is estiznated that for every female there are 100 males.

Curious as it may seem, the two sexes live separate a greater portion of the time. Both men and women dress alike, and one unaccustomed to them is unable to distin- guish one from the other unless very close. During the winter these people travel to- gether with dogs and sleds and in the summer by birch bark canoes. They also convert their dogs, and even their squaws, into pack animals, and it isacurious sight to see a long pack train.of dogs loaded with 20 or 80 pounds each; afd the line broken here and there with a human being labor- ing under her pack of 100 pounds. Their canoes are very diminutive in size and of inferior construction, and it is an impossi- bility for one not accustomed to their use to sit in them without upsetting. They are built to hold but one person, and then sitting flat on the bottom with knees curled under so as *o occupy the least space possi- ble.

These Indians are very moral in their habits and strictly honest. If one is hun- gry and finds a cache of provisions, he sel- dom imolests it, but when he does he al- ways leaves full value in skins for what food he appropriates to his own use.—- Alaska News.

An American Luxury.

‘The thing 1 especially enjoyed after a somewhat lengthy sojourn on the other

‘side was a real, genuine American grate

fire,’’ commented the traveler. ‘‘In Lon- don I felt as if I was burning something very precious with the landlady charging sixpence a scuttle for coal. I remember sitting around a stove in an English hotel. The weather was cold, and the coal in the stove bunched together. I took a poker and stirred it up.

‘**That makes it burn faster,’ comment- ed the landlord gravely.

‘**That’s just what I want,’ I replied.

‘‘A red faced, hearty Englishman broke in, ‘You Americans are deucedly thin blooded, don’t you know?’

“Tren in Italy you shiver about all winter, and in Germany those big, high crockery stoves never seem to thaw you out, So when I arrived in America in midwinter I hed a jolly big fire in the room at my hotel and I piled on the coal, knowing that it would not break my bank, in spite of the prices of the big, abominable coal trust. But after one has paid sixpence a scuttle for a mighty little scuttle of coal he does not feel disposed to critisise the trust. I felt like a lerd, ‘thin blooded American’ though I might be, and was just in the mood to read and appreci- ate that agreeable little volume, ‘The Revy- eries of a Bachelor.’ Those reveries would not seem half so pleasing when read before the smudge of a peat fire in Germany or before the little skimpy grate fire of a few pine cones in Italy—not the Italy of sun- shine, but the Italy of the ocld, disagree- able, wet days.'’"—New York Herald.

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What His Good Intentins Cost,

There was just one racant seat in the Wabash avenue cable car when a woman carrying a large basket and leading a small boy by the hand camein and took the seat. She placed the basket carefully in her lap and let her boy stand leaning against her—an arrangement that suited every body except the buy.

“IT ‘ant to sit there,’’ he bawled, trying to push his mother aside.

‘‘Look out, Johnny; you'll break them eggs,’’ remonstrated the woman,

‘Don't care if I do!’’ sobbed Master Jobnny.

‘‘I’ll make you care!’’ answered his mother sharply. ‘‘Five dozen eggs an ev- ery last one of 'em fresh!’’

His answer was a kick aimed at the basket. A man sitting opposite here inter- posed,

‘‘Come, my little man and sit on my knee.’’

‘‘Ain’t a-goin tositon your knee.’’ And the youngster kicked the eggs again.

“‘I just wish I had you home. Wouldn't I lay it on!’’ said his mother. ‘I'd trounce you right here if I knew what to do with this ’ere basket.’’

“‘T’ll hold the basket, ma’am,’’ said the man opposite.

lie reached over and took it. Everybody hoped to see Johnny get his deserts, and a hush of expectancy feM on thatcar. But what that scheming woman did was to pick up the boy, cuddle him in her arms aod give him a comfortable seat in her lap. And the little wretch smiled at the general discomfiture, while the man op- posite let the basket of eggs jounce as they would and glared with murderous ferocity at Johnny and his mother.—Chicago Trib gpne.

{fouse Plumbing.

“There is nothing about a residence plumbing system,’’ says an authority, “that a child may not understand and there is every reason why a housewife should be able to make her own periodical inspection of all the fixtures of her home.”’ ‘he kitchen sink should be frequently in- spested. It is often connected directly with washtubs, its pipes receiving double waste. Traps under sinks and closets should have a thumbscrew at their lowest turn, so that they can be readily examined and cleaned out. A test for the presence of sewer gas is sugar of lead sprinkled on blotting pa- per. If thisis held near pipes of closets and washrooms it will quickly discolor if sewer gas is present.

Strack by Lightning.

A German statistician says that of every 10,000 chimneys three are struck by light- ning, while of the same number of towers and windmills 60 and 80 respectively are struck.

Ninetcen years after the patent office was established in Washington the first patent was issued to a woman, Mery Kiles, waho secured it for a method of weaving siik or thread with straw. This was in 1809.

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