How To Kill Deer

[Froni tïW Hun Antonio ITer:ild. Wo give the rollowing lêfèr from an enthuniantie young Autonian, now visiting tho Western hills for thé benefit of bis health : " ïliis morningl was sanntering along tho banks of your romantic stream, and, in thé absence of a gun, was enjoying i little hunt witli my pistol and a hatchet which I bad slung' in mybelt. Tnming around in the stream I saw a short distfince in advmice two deer standing in the edge of the stream. I quietly crept up, and, tfiking a carefnl aiin, flrod, woundiug tho largest of tho two Kmowhere in tbc. leg. At the crack of my old pistol the deer made a spring for deep water, nnd I, in the flush of exciternent (my flrst case of genuino " buck lever "), made a leap iiito the stream in pursuit of my prize. Strange as it may noem, 1 reached tho plunging animal, grasped hold of the tiiil, and lmng there for dear life. The deer, more frightened than hurt, now commenced a frantic voyage of disoovory, trying to discover what style of rewing and plunging was best calcnlated to free itself from the firm grasp of my muscular hand. It swam into deep water and into shallow water, across the stream, up the stream and down the stream, hut to no purpose. I could sometimos touch bottom, and sometimes couldn't, but I held on all the same. The deer tried to kick me off, but, being in the water, the force of its kicking did not avail niuch. f Af ter towing me all over the stream, and down about a quarter of a mile, the deer seemed to resolve on a new style of tactics. It every littlo while made a frantic effort to turn about and fight me with its front feet and horns, and I had to do some tall swimming around the circle to prevent the accomplishment of its design. After it had tried this repeatedly, I struck an idea - tliat as soon as we struck bottom again, and where I thought I could get a íooting, to oourt this turning-around motion of the deei and kill the animal with my little hatchet. As we went sailing along through a deep channel I succeeded in getting my batch et out of my belt, and we soon struck a bar, where we both found good footing. The deer had no sooner touched bottom than it made a tum on me again, and I, letting up on tho tail, allowed it to lui n and come for me, and, as it did so, I delivered a well-poised blow that laid it out. You can well imagine what a blow it must have been when I had drank about three-fourths of a quart of fresh milk before starting on the expedition. After getting my breuth a little, I dragged my fine prize ashore, and went back to change my clothcs and get a team tö take it home. 1 think that I justly cliiim the champion's belt untü some fellow 'a'ctually catches a deer in his hat." ■ Waiters in the White Mountlins. The corps oO waitors it tho Glen House have this year come from Bates, Bowdoiu, and Colby, Me., and from Harvard, Amherst and Tufts, Mass., and I think no one who had not seen the experiment tried could realizo how mucli dill'erence it makes iu the atmosphere of the dining-room to liave ill-concealed vulgarity and meehanism replaced by gentlemanly benring and iutelligenee. The elïeot must bc soen to be appreciated. A servant can be civil, but itrequires a gentleman to be polite. I think it is Thoreau who says: "The ininnow swallows the fly, the pi(;kerel the minnow, the pike the piokerel, and the fisherman eats the pike - so all the gaps in 'the scaleof nature arefilledup." The saying has como to my mind here. Yoï tb in so suocessful experiment ro perfectly filis up tho gaps in the sealo of nature that it seems to me tlie man into whose brain tite iden first came shonld have ii royalty for at least twenty-eight years, payablc by every hotel and by every student so employed. For here the two wants bo successfully balance téSh othor ! Tho students need the money :md need change of scène and activity. The hotels need the service, and the students get just what they need and the hotels just what they need There is a delicious satisfaction in the perfect adaptation of means to ends. At this house the head waiter is a college gradúate, and, I think, a teacher, and everything goos on smootbly and well under bis supervisión. There is no play about tho work on the part of the young men. They attend to their business and do it well, and all goes on wiih the indefinable but clearly distinguisliablc comiort whicih comes from intelligence, the trained mind, and the manly purjioso. I think no other country iu tho world ever witnessod such i pheuomenon, or ono which implies gomiich. - Springjkld {Mans. ) Republican. 1 A Fhcnonieual Negro. There is now in this city one of the most -remarkable specimens of humanity that has been known to inhabit the estrth since üie days of Adam. He is coltied, and goes by the name of Dr. Goorge Thomas, and seems to have literal control of his entire physical nature, being able, by the simple exercise of his will, as it were, to change at pieasure the location of the machinery of bis body; beside which, he is possessed of muscle almost the consistency of iron, which he is capable of developing to a remnrkable degree. For instance, he takes a solid bar of iron of about threo inches iu circumference and some three or four fcet in length, holding it in one hand, and bends it by striking it repeatedly across his disengaged arm, the blows being sufficiently vigorous to break the limb of any ordinary man, but which do not seem to have the sligbtest efl'eet upon his own, the muscles of which are as hard as the iron itsclf. He tben straightens the bar in the same mannor. He asks you to feel the pulse in his wrist, aud it beats with the same regularity and power of that of an ordinary mortal ; but, by a sudden but almost imperceptible moveinent of the muscle of the arm, the pulsation apparently ceases altogether, but is in reality removed from its original position. By the oxertion of the same power it is tlu-n restored at pieasure Ló its proper place. He can aíso remove his ribs from lns'side to the abdominal región, whero they can be distinetly feit, and return them to their proper place at will ; while by the exercise of tho samo power the heart is changed from the left to the right side of the body. Two of our physicians, weleam, examined this remarkublo specimen of liuniunity, and were astouished at tlie (wtraordinary deveiopmonts which resulted from a practical test of tho wondcvfiil poweis of tho man. Oue of the physieians was asked to place his ear to tlie región of the heart, and its beatings were regular iiiid distinctly noted ; but Huddenly there was an entire (jespan of the throbbing, and on the instant Iris compauion, who had his ear to the right sido of tlie body, exclaimed that l)c conld then detect tho beating of his heart on that sido. - Wümington (N. C) Mar. Iron Sliip-líuildiiiiíiii the United States. Tho l'all Mail Gazette prints somc ini'ormation touchiug tlie progress of iron ship-buiidiug in the United States. Fivo years ago England had il decided advantago over North America with respect to the oost of ship-building, Ihe materials and the labor beiug mncli oheaper. Uut a great chango has takea place in the meanwhile, for the price of American iron has fallen nearly 50 per cent. , and the present rato is not much abovo that of tho principal European markets, while copper is now produced in such quantitics that it has becomo an article of exportation. ïhc price of 'labor, whieh is the most important item in tlie construction of vesscls, being estimatcd at 70 per cent. of the total cost of a steamer, has also been reduced by the usc of machines which are not employed in England. The first iron vessel constructed in the United States was built in 1868, and since then 251 ships of vurious dimensions, with a total tonnage of 197,500 tons, and valued atfrom twelve to fifteen millions sterling, have been launched, this being an average of about thirty every year. These figures are very insignificant when placed beside those concerning the ship -building on the Olyde, but the United States returns for the four last years show some very rcmarkable results. Thus the tonnuge of vessels constructed was 224,000 tons in 1872, 260,000 tons in 1874, 270,000 tons in 1875, and 204,000 tons in 1876. Upon the other hand, there has been a rapid decrease in the number of screwsteamers built on the Clyde since 1873 - from 126 in that year to 113 in 1875, and to 83 last year. There has not been any decrease in the number of wheel steamers, of which 16 were built last year, against 14 in 1872, and 10 in 1874 ; but in the United States, the yard of Mr. Koach - one of the largest shipbuilders in the country - has tnrned out 33 paddle-wheel steamers, with a total ïonnage of 68,150 tons. A JPrlsoner'ü TralneU Jlousc. The New Heven (Oonn.) Register tells the following of the alleged murderer, Andersen, who is waiting a new trial at the county jail in that city. "He some time since caught a rnouse in his cell, caged him, and has carefully trained him. Andersen will hold a string suspended fiom his fingers, and in broken English command tlio mouse to ' up, like a sailor,' whereupon the little animal will lay hold of the string with his feet and climb to the prisoner's hand. The mouse will also sifc at command on his hind legs on a teacup, will crawl up tho prisoner's face through his mustache and over his noso, and finally jurnp from tho man's head to his hand, complcting bis performance with a graceful bow. One of tho most interesting things concerning the hiktory of this little acrobat is the great love it has for the prisoner. When Andersen was moved a few weeks ago to another and a darker cell, tho inouso was lost, and, although carefully sought after by the keeper, could not be found. Andersou was deeply grieved over the disappcarance of his tiny companion, who he feared had been killed, and even the prison officials expressed regret thnt the little ereature should have dropped so completely and mysteriously out of the usually dull routine of prison life. Great was the joy, thereforo, of Andersen, and of all in the jail, when one day tho mouse mado its appearance at the door of Auderseu's new cell, and, running in, resumed its accustomed place by tho prisoner's side. It is statod that the little animal seeniod as grcatly rejoiccd as its master over tho reunión." Ingersoll, Paine and Yoltaire. Col. Eobeit G. Ingersoll reoently ohallenged the religious world to prove that either Thomas Paine or Voltaire recanted his oonvictions on his death-bed, or died exhibiting remorse on account of his teachings. The New York Obscrver acceptod tho challenge, and oflered to prove it in regard to one or both. Col. Ingersoll having roturned to Peoria, 111., and heard of tho aceeptancc, says he will immediately deposit $1,000 in gold in bank, subject to the order of Dr. Prime when indorsed by the tribunal, which shall eonsibt of three men - one to be chosen by Ingersoll, one by Prime, and a third by the agreoment of the two. Col. Ingersoll adds: 'Trom the date of accepting thisoffei you may have niuety days to colloct and present your testimony, giving me notice of time and place of taking depositions. I shall have a like time to take evidence upon my sido, giving you like notice, and you shall then have thirty days to take further testimony in reply to what I may offer. The case shall then be argued bef ore tho persons chosen; and their decisión shall be final as to ns. If Paine and Voltaire died ñlled with childish and silly fear, I want to know it, and I want the world to know it. On the other hand, if tho believers in superstition have made and circulated these cruel slanders concerning the mighty dead, I want tho world to know that." A Bare Escape. Two miners, J. H. Eitchie and V. F. Zambro, while crossing one of the California Water Company's flumes, on the new South Fork ditch, saw an enormous bear in an angle of the flume, walking on the foot-board, and coming toward thora, Zambro had a twobnrreled shotgun loaded with buck-shot, and two dogs wcre beliind them. A tíght was inevitable. Tlie bear came on his hind legs toward Kitehie, and when the man was almost within the brute's hug Zambro fired and knocked tho animal off the flume. Eitchie jumped off and, picking up a piece of scantling, began to pound his bearship on the head. .. A back blow of the scautling brained one of the dogs that had cbnie to Kitchie's aid. Then the bear, ouly sliahtly wounded, gave Ilitchie a rough-and-tumble fight, although '.arassed by the remaining dog. Meanwhile Zambro had managed to climb into a tree, carrying his gun. He fired the remaining barrel, missed the bear, narrowly missed Eitchie, and killed the dog. Seeing his critical situation, Eitchie got out of tho bear's cmbraees, and, by a desperate effort, pushed tho animal ovey a bluff forty reet high. Tl' e f all killed tho animal. When dressed it weighed 784 pounds. Through tbc right ear was a bullet-bole made by some hunter. Eitchie lost coat, vest, pantaloons, shirt, andjmosfr of his hair. Indiana bfis 3,986 miles of railroad and 653 of súle track, the total assessed value of which is over $39,500,000. There aro only six counties in the State that have no railroads passing through fcbem.