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t l Lk SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INC ID E N T S OP EV E R A -D A Y D IPE . N ew sy Sf orie.s, Novel P a c t s a n d Q u e er H a p p enings H ere and. Tliex*e’. AMES GEESEY, of Bonnaneau- ville, Pa,, -was re- turniDg liorae from Gettysburg one day recently. Jdo met a number of boy.s on the road, who told him that they had set a trap near there to catch a large chicken hawk that had been preying on the icinity. Th< 'hen the boys approached him lie had so that he had snapped the trap from its fastenings and had flown chickens in that vicinity. \ The hawk, r said, had got into” the trap, but n the be struggled so trap from its fastenings away with it, chain and all. This had occurred only a few minutes bef re Far mer Gef soy came along. The farmer ing Mr. Phelps profusely, always repre senting him Avith a beard, which at one sime he were, Mr. Phelps wrote a polite note to the editor, saying that he did not object in the slightest to being caricatured, but he hated to see inac curate journalism. For some time he had been wearing only a mustache, and trusted that for any future caricature they would use as copy a recent photo- praph, one of Avhich he inclosed. This illustrated the amiability and good- Imrnor with which some public men endure caricatures. T he abnormal severity of the season id the extraordinarily heavy snowfalls Issuing from the Podolian had gone nearly ttvo r a big hawk hoA’er- Gef soy e on. He , Aviien he saAV 1 rail fence at one 'f came oppo- 1 to sec that it had a steo^ trap f:ist to one of its legs. A chain three or four feet long Avas at tached to the trap and on the end of the chain was a large ring. This ring Avas id the sharp point of one of tlie ble ng. This ring ound the sharp point of one of tlie nee stakes, and the hawk i unable to get away. Geesey got out of his ndd afterlter a lively lij igon, an a a wk succeeded in ly light with the lOAveringoAvering itt and Q overfi i capturing it alive. That it Avas thehaAvk that had escaped from tiie boys, carrying their trap Avith it, he soon proved, for he drove back and overtook them and they identified tlio trap. The hawk had been flying low, probably owing to the weight of tiie trap on its leg, and in passing over the rail fence the ring at the end of the chain had caught on the stake and held the hawk fast until Geesey came np . ju::jjie>ii»nuxi who reuuce i>ne uuruuez’ ojt and captured it. It measured 4 feet I refineries, which fell from 483 in 1884, ip to tip of its wings. to 449 in 1885, to 413 in 1886, and to 391 and the extraordinarily heavy sni have made the Avolves exceedingly ag gressive in the southern provinces of liussia. Issuing from the Podolian and Volhyniau and Lithuanian forests, they have assembled in formidable numbers, compelling the inhabitants in the smaller towns andl the steppe hamlets to observe a constant Avatchfulness, Only 40 miles from Odessa, on th.'^ Nicolaieffpost road a pack of some 200 wolves appeared some days ago. They were partially dispersed by an organized raid, but such travelers as have the temerity to proceed by tliat route in sledges are officially Avarued to see to their weapons. “BuFFATiO BiTyc’&” ranch is located cn the Nortli Platte, in Nebraska, and con tains nearly five thousand acres of fine land. Mr. Cody has about two hundred head of thoroughbred horses, and tAvo to three thousand head of cattle. The place is Avell improved, and is a most attractive spot. His residence is a big frame hon.se near the railroad, on the roof of which is painted in large letters, “Colonel W. F. Cody’s (“.Buflalo Bill”) Scouts’ Banch,” and o\’er it every day there floats a big American flag. About the on y game left there now is the prairie chieken, Cody is very fond of the ranch, thougli my friend said it is not a i?aying inA'Cstnient. T he official report as to the tion of sugar in France during three years, .since, the new legislation relating to refineries Avent two or three lies step up to or on the plat form and beg of me a light.” A BEETLE as large as a sparrow has been received by of Newew York.ork. Itt 3 State entomologist i I came from Central America, He has another curiosity that resembles tAvo green leaves attached to a twig.tvig. It is called a camel cricket, and was produced I n Cocamonga, Cal., a pretty servant girl lias captured a millionaire aged and named Daniel Ham- i.s four child j-en, thirteen in Tex; iaptured Daniel girl lias captu .seventy-nine, j ilton. He ha.S kxxxx uc-x;xx grandchildren and one great-grandchild, and all objected to the marriage but could not stop it. T he French have invented a subma rine boat which can dive beneath the keel of an iron-clad, and by means of a special apparatus fasten explosive cart ridges to the side of the vessel. afterward explode the cartridges by electricity. A CHUBCH in Texas, Arizona, bears the placard. “ C a r d -playing d u r in g ser vices absolutely prohibited. Members cheAving tobacco Avill please notice the saw-dust boxes near each pew.” the produc- iring the last V _ legisl )f^this lation was to reduce the number of tion, shows that the first effect of* this legisl GAMBLING ON THE RAIL. Large Sums of Money Lost and Won in Pullm an Coaches. Passengers on the Pullman cars re- j)ort that unusnally big gambling games have beenin goinggoing on recently in the west- . on rains. It i from tip to tip of its wings. F or eighteen months pa.st, crows to the number estimated all the Avay from 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 have swarmed in the eastern part of Douglass county, , feeding in ' ‘ ' to 449 in 1885, tvx -xxo m j.oou, xiuu tu < last year, Avhile the quantity of sugar fined Avas 272,962 tons in 1885, 265,( in myriads, ac their shrill “ CaAvIcaw!” res. A b o u t d u s k th e s e birds 1 from the surrounding country , and the nqise they make by “ C is deafening. Frequently they aliglit im such vast numbers on the trees that limbs are bro- irds was crossing I the these Aveigh le bird; black cloud of the railroad track near here Avhen smoke of ihe'engine blinded them. They flew against the side of the sAviftly mov ing cars, and parties who watched the S trang si^ht jcpunjiedjiearly two Jiun-_ dred that l-.ad met their\death in the above manner, A partj' of hmitGr.^ from Hume, Jirmed themselves Avith shotguns, and visited the roost with- the avowed intention of ridding it of the shiny black pests. Six of them shot and killed 135 in less than two hours, but at the end of that time the diminution of the bird.s was uun o ticeable, and the birds AAOuld ris,o in such clouds that they would al most obscure the sun. It is \stated that this wholesale invasion of crows is caused by short crops in the southern oart of •’ ■ for r 886, and to 391 15^071 1887 and 444,000 tons last year. Dn- r the former method of refining the beet root did not yield more than 51- per cent, of sugar, but tliis proportion has now been increased to nearly 9 per cent. A STJCOESSFUL experiment has been m a d e in thie m a n n e r of sh ip p in g oran ges from Florida iiortlnvard, and now they are coming in bulk instead of in boxes. Tike cars are lined Avith paper a One day a more than three feet high, the ID floor is covered Avitli fine marsh grass, thin board partitions are run through the car it more than one variety is shipped in the same car, and the oran ges are piled in, some three feet deep. A fair load is 42,()0() oranges, on which to BaHimore tlicr freigJit is $1G5. vasion of crows is caused in the southerr the State for the past two se.asons, where they have made their home in Avinter. They make sad Juivoc in the fields of corn and it seems impossible to driv(3 them out. T he 50-yoar-old Court W a s h in g ton , T e u n ., i s to be xv/ixx v . v ./, txx on account of tire removal of the county j seat. For 30 years the old temple of j ju s tice has b e e n haun ted, and it is al most impossible to get mer -----’• u p o n it. T h e “ fx is curious,” said a railroad man, “how firm is the attachment between a locomotive enginer anti liis locomotive. I knoAV an engineer on the Central Road Avho calls his engine ‘Hank,’ and talks to it as he drives through the rain and storm just as ho Avottld to a horse, some times in SAveet and mxld tones, and then with the strongest imprecations known. I knoAV another engineer Avho insists on sleeiung in the round-house ----- comotive, and thinks as muc most as he does of his child.’ of it al- O ne remarkable result of a tidal wave in the province of Baunam, Java, has been a great increase in tigers. The land ourt House at lajtl Avaste soon relapsed into a jungle, to be tor n d o w n aff'jvdmg welcome cover to the tigers, r.,1 wluch bccaime so daring and nnmerous testim o n y is unquestioned agrees that during all those years, in a vacant room up stairs, footsteps have been heard at night, and hundreds of visits to the room have failed to detect anything out of the common. The m^'-stcrious tenant has been knoAvn to speak and ask an in ent question. The only occuijau i has been a skeleton called. ed aorees that reivard for killing tige] so daring and nu that Avholo vil]ag<-s have had to be aban doned, Last year tigers killed no 1< ss XI ------ .--.X ------------------- 3re. To rem int of Java has . . ............ ....... ......... .. ............ ng tigers from 100 to 200 guilders a head. “T he M exicvns . ,” says a traveler, “have a very queer Avay of burying the dead. The corpse is tightly wrapped in century plant matting, and placed in a coffin rented for about twenty-five cents. One or tAA'Oi natives, as the case may be, place the coffin on their heads and go in a trot to the grave, where the body is interred.and the coffin is then returned. The Avealthy class use the street cars as hearses, and the friends follow beside the car oh foot. A COMPANY has just been formed in London to rim small one-horse omni buses ou short routes at lialfpenuy fares. Every second or third omnibus Avill be a smoking car, and these latter will be fit ted with automatic delivery boxes for the supply of cigars and cigarettes. These smoking omnibuses will also be fitted with racks of newspapers. V ictoria ’ s will Avas made in 1876, en grossed on A’ellum and is noAv a great bound volume fastened Avith a lock with several blank pages left for subsequent codicils, ’The last was made recently and distributed the jubilee gifts. Some are left to the State and the others are distributed among the members of the royal family. playinj Avith a the face telligent question. The only occuijaut of the room has been a skeleton called, locally, “ Jimmy Lonesome,” left there by a young doctor, and local tradition is divided as to whether its former owner stays with it or Avhether the ghost is the wraith of a man murdered in the vicin ity. Every man in the little hamlet and the country side around devoutly be lieves that the Court House is haunted and that the ghost can only be laid by demolition of the old pioneer landmark. -Y BATHER singular coincidence occur red in the New York Pension Office the other day, AAhich made many persons who were present open their eyes in as tonishment. It was the usual quarterly pay-day for the veterans, and over a liuu- dred were dniAA'n up in hue awaiting their turn at the AvindoAv. In the row Avere three men whose appearance denoted that their soldier-life during the Avar had been anything but pleasant. The three were in succession, and Avhen the first rjsached the paying-teller’s Avindow, he answered to the name of Wilkes. TJijs did not occasion much surprise to tin st who stood ntw, but A\'heu the second man ansAvered to the name of Booth there Avas a great deal of anxious staring at the two mea. Hut the cliniax aatis reached Avhen the third man stepped to the windoAv, and in ansAver ti> the clerk said his name Avas Lincoln. As the three veterans walked out of the office, they were the cynosure of every eye in the room. , ’ »»iuuuivixj. A t a recent talk on “ Wit and Humor othei dl. in the Press,” given before the Con tern- porary Ch\b ol Oninoe, N. J., at the | delighted to fiud that he could hear just home of Henry B. Auchmcloss. in L'e- i ^3 ^3 j^is life, wellyn Park, H. 0. Buuiier, editor of i T>vfk, Tfilnted n-n i'nec inh'o*' Avlvic-M j liam Walter Phelps was the subject. ' __ ____________________ __ _________ _ 3 3^^ ^^3 Some years ago Fuiok had been caricatur- as the mea. A newspaper correspond- j ;hopp< S. Whit< W hile sawing a log that had been •ed down a couple of years ago, V. Beatrice, Neb., struck a stone ns large ns his two fists that had grown solid in the lienrt of the tree. '1 he tree Avas sufficiently large to indicate a growth of perhaps twenty years or more aiomid the stone. F or two years Capt. Prink, of South Windham, Me., was totally deaf. But the other dlay, after a terrific sneezing spell, during Avhich, as he said, he thought he’d sneeze his head ofr, he Avas moral NeAV Yorkers and Bostonians ap- proaoli the Wild West their ideas of what is right and proper take .a back seat, and the freedom of the Bookies and the Sierras gets into their hearts and re laxes their hold on their Sunday School habits. But on the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe this spread of gambling on Ihe rail is noticeable, and has been commented on quite severely by the pas- sengeis—those, of course, who do not gamble. “I was more than surprised by what I saw in the way of gambling on these cars,” said a gdhtleman recently. “ You may say that gambling goes on without stint in the Pullman coaches, and are lost and won large sums of money t daily.” “ Rnt don’t the Pill ‘But don’t the Pullman people en force their rules ?” was asked. t»UV 4 JUOV V/UAV^XV/WV«| OW far ns the Pullman Car Company has any official kuoAvlecIge. I don’t blame the company any, although it might look a little closer to its employees. As presented to each Pullman conductor and porter is very exact on this subject. When a porter sees any gambling going oa he is supposed to j>ut a stop to it, re ferring to the rules of the company just the sam^ as he Avould if a man were to pull out a pipe in the middle of a sleep ing car and l^gin blowing big clouds of tobacco smoke. But he doesn’t always do it, and a few dollars in the way of a fee to let the gamblers alone in the en joyment of their little fun acts with a magic effect sometimes, as you may be aAvaro.” “Is there any professional gambling going on { ’’ ‘ ‘Yes, I am satisfied there is. A young blood from N cav York, of the Berry Wall stripe, told me last Hundny that on the trip out from the East he had lost $8,000, and he Avas satisfied that he had smooth lace, ( •are cash he had, and it was lucky for I’t get hold of anyny a 1 ho reached‘San him that he couldn’t gel more ready money until F r a n c is c o . H e to ld me o f tw o oth e r s 'ho had lost $13,500 between thei whe Avhile playing witli am told that a big the same man. •ig fellow has been w< ing the Northern Pacific. He. is u] dnds ol cards so ns to take all train if he can get it on the table. ing the Northern Pacific. He. is up to all kinds of tricks, and can put up the to take a the cash on the “ Why, do they play Avith money on the table ?” AA'as asked. “That was only a figure of speech. I should have told you that most of the ng was done -with chi] ps. Still, od deal of Avitn a good-sized limit a good deal of money can pass from pocket to pocket d u r in g th e n ig h t . ” is all true. I will venture to say there is more gambling going on in the Pull man coaches to-day than there ever was before. Why, some of the passengers g e t in t o th e 1 ’ ' gamble nil t get col< fingers get blue, and they get black in from the smoke they have in haled. , Som<( of these rich old epdgers 1 a long trip al- Avays carry poker chips, and they play big game.**—nothing small about their limits. Pnllman can’t help it. There can be no objection to playing cards and keeping count Avith poker chips, and that is sill that it passes for in the con science of the we 11-feed.porter.”— Omaha lieiniblican. A reiiiiiiinc Peculiarity. A friend asks me if I liave ever noticed that Avomen newr reckon, time by the calendar years. For instance, a man says, “ My house Asais burned in the Summer of ’67.” His wife says, “Our house Avas burned eleven years ago last Summer.” Yes, 1 have noticed this feminine peculiarity, and I doubt very much if one married woman out of twenty here in Jacksonville can off-hand i tell the exact year of her ------- ye: I She may have the month and the d; I n southern Russia and the Caucasus j on^lm^^on*^'ue’s end^^l the Avomen smoke almost as universally I 3 3 3 3 3 ,3 iox.—Jadcsonsville wedding, and the day but the ’68s and LI HUNG-CHANG. The Viceroy o f China and Greatest Man in the Empire. i one of his entertaining let- The emperor of China, WTites Frank ■r in r ----- *— ’-*■ il least of Iiis officials. The is the Empress—his aunt Carpentei ters, is ii and iff lieie Avere not,ot, 1 aud probably‘obably knowsnows lessc\\ about try than the least of liis official! is invisible to any barbarian eye, ■ l Avere n he is still but a boy ' 1 k I ---- --------------- his couu- The real Emp: —and her iiroud and determined.pei ality is known to the outside yvorld chiefly through Li Hung-chang. Be tween the Empress and the great Viceroy there is a close political partnership and an offensive and defensive alliance. Therefore tlie presence of the Viceroy is the nearest possible approach for the foi’eigner to the throne of China, And all the world knoAvs that he is one of the most interesting and poAverfui men in it. Viceroy of the province of Chihli, hence ■ nardiaa of the gate of I the gui ^ China, senior of the lour grand secreta ries of state, formerly grand guardian of the heir aiiparent,* president of the board of war, superintendent of the North sea trade, Cou first rank, special ph without number, jiractical owner of army of 75,000 men and a fleet Avhich, so far as wood and iron go, is second to none in the East, imm ensely Avealthy, preternaturally astute, utterly unscrupu lous, having at last OA'ercome all his enemies and ever able to laugh calmly at the dreaded censors themselves, Li Hung-chang may be fairly looked upon as a ru ler of these 350,000,000 of shaven heads aud plaited tails, at least so far as the outside world is concerned. If I had a chief object in my journey around the world, it was to interview Li Hung- chang. We followed the chamberlain, or whatever he was, for a couple of min utes, across a yard, through several door-ways, around the open cour room and viceroy,” veranda of <0^ muitiiLt Lur? v«:;x^ixun nu irt, and turned abruptly into a i around a large screen. “The viceroy, ’ said Ml\. Lo, with perfect European manners, as he stepped back and left me face to face with a tall and strongly-built Chinaman, who put -out his hand and smiled pleasantly, and gruntedrunted a solitaryolitary syllable.yllable, “ Theh vice- Lo, 'ery - ' g a s s “ i e v roy says he is very glad to see you,” plaiued Mr. Lo, v much as a proud mother elaborately interprets the in articulate CAclde of her lirst-born. The great man acknoAA'ledged my bow in the Chinese manner—by bowing with his clasp e d h a n d s at the h e ig h t uf h is ch in -^and motioned us to be seatecl, myself , opposite; him, Mr. Lo on a foreign cir cu lar lo n h g e b e tw e e n n s . Li Chung-chang is a pure Chinaman, not Manchu, like the dynasty he serves. He is very tall for a Chinese, 5 feet 11, T should guess, and must liave been a powerful man in his youth. His face is the most strongly moulded I haA'e seen in China—not flat, as they usually are, but with all the features distinctly mark ed, and the lines broad and^gep—a face that would hold' its own in ^mpaflidtt Avith any foreign face. A thin gray moustache and “chin beard” did hot conceal his mouth and chin At all, but what the’geuoral expre^ion of his face may be 1 have no idea, as he wore an enormous pair of round tortiise-shell goggles. This may be his custom, as it certainly gives him a great-advantage in diplomatic conversation, or it may be by a temporary order of the doctor, as he is just recovering from a rather alarming attack of facial paralysis which rendered him unable to speak for several days, and of which I can see traces in the twitching and drawn lines of the side of his face. But at any rate he looked me straight in the eye during the whole of our interview, while I have so slight a notion of what he really looks like, that I doubt if 1 should recognize him in the street Avithoat his glasses. The viceroy was dressed simply, not to say shabbily, in the ordinary Chinese Stiff round hat, a thickly padded upper garment of sOme kind of yellow silk and au undergarment of gray silk. His hands were tucked into his wide sleeves and only came out twice during our con versation, once when he wisheii to blow bis nose, which he did upon the carpet in a familiar but indescribable manner, aud once when he was startled by a lit tle piece of news. Yet he smoked a pipe 5 feet long. An attendant stood with pipe, smoking n>at<^riais and fire, at the back of the reception-room, and every five minutes he walked solemnly in s e r ted th e stem and ap p lied th e lig h t to the bowl, the great man absorbed the smoke and opened his month again, when the pipe-bearer withdrew as he had come. This occurred a score of times at least, an d n e v e r a m u s c le did the viceroy move, except just to open the cor ner of his mouth wide enough to admit the pipe-stem. TWENTY-TWO SEARS ASLEEP. , The strange case of Mra. Emma Ali-^ bouse, whose very recent awakening from a sleep of 20 days, has caused con siderable newspaper comment, had a more than equally strange counterpart in Tennessee, the difference being that, while Mrs. Althous'e slept days, the Tennessee woman slumbered years, and grew from a child of 10 to a woman of 32 years while she slept. The father of the girl still resides near ,, sounty. ' ah ' for means, though of great intellijgence aud almost Puritan uprightness. His namer . is Henry Godsey., His family Avas large. Among-, the; younger children was iSusie, who, up to ^ Au Old Dynasty. - Just one huudred years before Colum bus discovered America, generations be fore Shakespeare was born, more than two hundred years before Luther stirred up (Sermany Avith his preaching, a hun dred years before the first Bible was printed, Avhen all England was sleeping on straw, and AA’lien pins had yet to be known, the present dynasty of Corea sat upon its imperial throne and governed its cream-faced, almond-eyed subjects. The blood that flows in the veins of Li Hi, the present King of Corea, is the same continuous royal stream Avhich has fioAved over the Coreau throne since 1392. During that time twenty-nine igs have reigned and the power of each i been more tiespotic than that of the Czar of Russia. The royal blood has not weakened in its flowing, and his Mujesfcy of to-duy has the best qualities of his ancestors and is one of the most Progressive of Asiatic rulers .—Portland . Oregonim. ; her tenth year, was the brightest and prettiest of the Avhole lot. Just at this age she Avas taken ill and a physician was called in. He visited her a number of times, and finally gave her a dose of some medicine which gave her a severe chill. From this she passed into a deep sleep and continued so for some days. The family thought her dead, but close investigation saA’ed her from, being^ buried alive. After - a- few, days, aAvoke at sunrise and reuiaiiied awake , probably half an hour^ She Was per fectly rational, ate, and. complained of no pain, but dropped asleep again. After that, for months, She aAvdke about the same hour daily, when she was given food. _Her physical condition diu’ing this time was apparently exceilsnt, but, after a time the regular waking oeaS^ and it occurred at voryiug'intelvals. The periods of wakefulness also vari^ * in length. Generally they wereof bht^; few minutes’ duration. Again, they ex^ tended to an hour and an hour and Vft half, but this was seldoha^ and bu tlie whole her hours of 'AvAkbfhlhbss- giew fewer. Her return to a' wakpfijl con^- . tion was marked by a hiccough, a spas- . modio jerking of thelieadaudsho^erk,'. followed by a Sneezd. These premoni tory symptoms lasted- long> ^enbugh tor r her. to reach her oouch.^ f All efforts to keep her awake failed, although nothing su ggested was leit un done. Electricity was applied in mahj ways. In the course of time she awak- ~ ened every fiv’-e or ten minutes day aud ‘ night, but remained awake never, to ex ceed two minutes. Fiuaily a purseJwas raised when she was about fifteen,’ 'and her father took her to Sti Louis,, vih^e some of the best physiciaus expeiritksnt- ed on her. They. fairly blistered .her with electricity, uikde her\: flesh i^w ‘ puncturing i t Avith;ueedles,aud Sent her ‘ hdme worse than before. ‘ ; ■ She continued in this conditiou until her age was thirty-two, when, she died , while asleep. Immediately after death her flesh turned black;aud began to djB- compose within an hoUr. Barnum h e ! ^ ^ of the case and the showman offwed M. Godsey .$10,000 for Susie for one year and to take the whole family along^ and pay all its expepses. Though so poor, Mr; Godsey icf used the offiar, and all other efforts made by Barnum to get the famous sleeping girl proved equally\ abortive. \During her life she was visit^- by thousands, and her funeral attuacted au immense, multitude, who, came; frotoL ■{ eve^ direction to , catch a p a r t ^ glimpse of one who had grown from girb hood to womanhood .while fast J^lee|>* ■ The Ethics 01 Cannibalism. No doubt, iopg before man was quite ■ determined as a species or a genn^ ‘ there existed among his progenitors 4ba. same vaguely defined . “ tribal ” idck \which is so markecl in the liaboons, and which, to a certain extent, influences the condition of most species oif apee. and monkeys. The advantages and, duties of combination must have'bi^n' even more evident and understood by him—by his v e ^ raison they are by the intelligent African ba-' boons, who, in tlieir little tribal communities, protect and' assist one ■ another, though t’— ----- n - .i- ^^3 kill strangers from or tribes. ties, protect , and' ^ i s t one Early man, Compelled for pnrposes of self-defence and effectual attack to sute or of hostile fellowmen, of carry Ofit a successful raid on a coveted feeding- ground, or to pursue and do to d ^ th some elephant or wild bull, would sdon acquire the conviction that it Was ihei* provocation—such as the attempt on the- part of an hnole to share a hoard of oysters, or the too marked attentions o l a cousin to one’s courted bride, Consequently a social condition would' be reached similar to that of most exisi^ ing savage races, wherein there is nor.-’ mally peace and security among th» members of the tribe, but where no obligations to humanity in general,, to extra tribal mankind, was recognised. It, therefore, folloAvs that in this s i i ^ of morality it is not wrong to kill a fellow human if he does not bAoug to your community.. Nay, more, it, is meritorious; for pristine man and the existing savagd was and is iieneteated by a Tague nndei'stauding. of this terri ble struggle for existence in which we are involved, and so far from .framing such a proverb as “the more tlie mer^ rier,” he would find satisfaction in kill ing a stranger by the feeling that ii' meant one more rival out of the w a y ^ one more competitor for fbod nnd'Space and the right to reproduce got rid ofl Once you have killed your man, rejtisQiis. the modern savage, aud no doubt re flected primeval humanity, once the initial crime, if crime, is committed, Avby neglect such good food ? why not eat your slain enemy ? These human , types would be as little influenced by ' sentimental considerations at first as a hungry lion or a half starved hyena« ---Fortniglilly Jtmew,
