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NEW COCCIDS FROM CALIFORNIA, AND ONE OF THEIK CHALEID PARASITES.

In the WEst AMERICAN SCIENTIST for October, 1889, I re- corded three species of Dactylopius as occurring in this State, and gave descriptions of two of the species which were new to science; since the publication of that paper I have detected two other species of Dactylopius: D. longifilis, and a new species which I found in this (Los Angeles) county. I append herewith a detailed descrip- tion of this new species.

Dactylopius ephedrae. n. sp. Adult female elongate-ellipsoidal, from two and a half to three times as long as broad, dark olive, almost black, thinly covered with a snow-white mealy powder not entirely concealing the ground color; cottony appendages confined to posterior end of body, the longest less than half the length of the body; legs and antenne yellowish-brown; antenne eight-jointed, joint 8 the longest and of nearly an equal width, the apex bluntly rounded; joints 2 and 3 are sub-equal in length, and each is but slightly shorter than 8; joint 5 is but slightly shorter than 3. but is nearly twice as long as 7, and is tour times as long as broad; joint 6 is next in length, and is but slightly longer than joint 3, which is nearly as broad as long; joints 4 and 7 are sub-equal in length, shorter than any of the others, each about half as long as joint 8; when laid back- ward the antennz reach the posterior side of the front coxae; tarsi scarcely one-third the tibiz in length, claw destitute of a tooth below, digitules not knobbed; length of body 4 m. m.

In the table of species given in the paper above referred to, this species will fall in with crawii, from which it is easily distinguished by the length of the fifth antennal joint, which is four times as long as broad, instead of being only twice as long. :

Lives on the stems of Ephedra californica, as kindly determined

for me by the Editor. _ The adult female secretes a layer of white cottony matter from the lower part of her body, and this is gradually extended upward until finally the entire insect is enclosed in a cottony sac. The young are brought forth alive, and in one of the sacs I counted fifty-three young ones.

The recently hatched larva is pale yellow in color, elongate- ellipsoidal in outline, being three times as long as broad, the posterior end truncated and bearing three small tubercles, and from each of the outer ones issues a short brush of a white cot- tony matter; a bright red spot on underside of abdomen near the front end; antenne six-jointed, joint 6 the longest, being three times as long as 5; joints 3, 4 and 5 sub-equel in length, each somewhat shorter than 2; upper and lower tarsal digitules very prominent, but not knobbed. '

At the same time and place mentioned above I also found on the leaves of Yucca whipplei a coccid so closely resembling a Dactylopius as to be easily mistaken for one; the antenne of the

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adult female, however, have nine joints, ‘acteal of only eight, and the species therefore belongs to the allied genus Pseudococcus. ] append herewith a description of this species.

Pscudococcus yuccee n. sp. Adult female pale greenish; thinly covered with a white mealy powder not concealing the g round color; body elongate-ellipsoidal, the posterior end deeply emargiiiate} margins bearing a row of flattened white cottony ‘tufts, the two anal ones not exceeding one-third length of body; legs: blackish: brown, the articulations whitish; antennze dark brown, apex of each joint except the last one whitish: antennz slenderest in tne middle, nine-jointed; joint 3 is the longest, and is nearly twice as long aS 2; joint gis next in ‘length, and is one-fifth longer than 8; joints 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 becoming successively slightly shorter, but the difference in length between 4 and 8 is scarcely perceptible; joints 1 and 2 sub-equel in length and shorter than either of thé others; joint I is more robust than the others, and is as broad as long, being considerably broadest at its base; joint 2 is twice as long as broad; when laid backward, the last two antennal joints project beyond the posterior side of the front coxze; tarsi one-third as long as the tibie, the claw bearing a distinct tooth on the under: side beyond the middle: digitules not knobbed; on the underside of the second abdominal segment is a dark colored transverse ridge about equaling the tarsi in length; length of body 6 m. m.

Lives on the leaves of Yucca whipplei. At the time of my visit, July 5th, none of the females had secreted a cottony egg-sac, nor did I succeed in obtaining either the eggs or the young larvee of this species. From one ot the adult females I bred an inter- esting Chalcid-fly, and as it clearly represents a new species and is sO characteristically marked as to be readily recognized, I ap- pend a description of it herewith.

Blastothrix yuccee n. sp. Female. Antenne evenly clothed with short depressed hairs; scape compressed, and greatly dilated below, its greatest width about equaling three-fourths its length, six or seven times as wide as the pedicel; the latter is twice as

long as broad, and is slightly shorter than the first funicle joint; funicle joints decreasing considerably in length and increasing slightly in thickness towards the apex, the sixth funicle joint but slightly longer than thick, about two-thirds as long as the first funicle joint; club three times as long as last funicle joint and much more robust, the apex bluntly rounded; thorax luster- less, coarsely punctured and clothed with depressed coarse white bristles; apex of mesoscutellum, bearing eight long black ~ bristles; abdomen quite coarsely punctured and clothed with stout depressed white bristles; curved front tibial spine bifid at the tip; wings hyaline, marginal vein two-thirds as long as the stigmal, but slightly longer than the postmarginal; end of stigmal vein bilobed, but destitute-of the usual tooth pro- jecting toward the costa; near the base of the stigmal vein is a large oblique hairless space; submarginal vein bearing a row of stout bristles; color black, each end of Seng apex of. pedicel,

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funicle joints 2 to 6, and the antennal club pure white, dorsum of thorax dark brown, the sides yellowish, front and middle fem- ora and tibiz whitish, hind femora and base ot hind tibiae dark brown, all tarsi whitish, infuscated toward the tips. Length one and three- fourths m. m.

‘Issued July 7th from an adult Pseudococcus yuccee female.

Since writing the above I have received word from Dr. Riley, our uational Entomologist. to whom I sent specimens of each of the above described Coccids: he writes me that they are probably new species belonging to the genera to which I have referred them. Both species are evidently natives of this coast.

Los ANGELES, ee I, 1890. D. W. Coquillelt.

THE CANCHALAG UA.

(Pacific Rural Press, Aug. 23, 1890.)

If you visit this winter some of the Spanish sections in South- em California, where the large, spacious adobe house still re- mains in fashion, you may from curiosity desire to cross the. threshold of some humble Mexican family or even toglance within the squalid hut of the Indian. Should you do any of these things, it is more than likely that you will find carefully hung in some safe place bunches of a little plant that has been dried tor use in case of emergency.

The plant to which I refer is the Conchalagua or Canchalagua of the Mexicans and Indians, the California pink or centaury of the English race, Erythraea venusta of botanists. Medicinally this plant possesses valuable antiseptic and febrifuge properties and is in high repute as a bitter tonic and stomachic. With the old Mexican families and the few surviving Indians it is an ever- present and valued household remedy, and is seldom missing from their rafters, together with red-peppers and ‘‘ jerky,’’ when they have not become too civilized for these luxuries. :

‘Some have asserted that this plant forms the basis of the widely advertised medicine known as August flower, but of this I have no satisfactory proof. However, it is used’ by the,medical pro- fession toa considerable extent, and I have an order from a —— homeopathic firm for a quantity of the drug.

But it is not to the real or fancied medicinal qualities of this herb that I would call attention, but rather to its surpassing love- liness as a flower, ranking among the foremost of the many hand- some flowers which California has given to the horticulturist. |

It seldom exceeds a foot in height, the plant being a low-branch- ing annual, bearing a multitude of showy flowers on pale-green- ish stems with light apple-green foliage. The corolla is rotate, with a slender tube and five (rarely four or six) divisions. The corolla exceeds an inch across, the five divisions of a brilliant shade belonging somewhere between solferino and magenta—too dark and brilliant for rose-purple, with a narrow white circle where the five divisions unite. The center and tube ot the corolla

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is of a greenish sulphur-yellow, while the prominent exserted,

erect, spirally twisted anthers sare of a brilliant lemon-yellow. | The slender style and filaments are white, the stigma of a delicate’

sulphur-yellow.

The blossoms close their eyes upon the going down of the sun,

turning their fresh faces to him again as he rises in the east. Not

until after the last rains of the season, and May Day is safely -

past, does the canchalagua put out its stars ot color; but from then on to the middle of July it replaces the earlier spring flow- ers and gives the eager school children pretext for wandering over hill and mesa in search of flowers.

And such bouquets as they do gather! Nothing but apple- green and solferino which match well with the children’s happy faces ; and these flowers seem to mind their rough handling the least bitin the world. _ Whether left by the roadside, or in the hall to wither, or in a parlor vase without a drop of water, they still persist for days and weeks in turning a bright, independent tace to the sunlight as if they were contented, as no doubt they are. :

While the flower is usually nearest akin to solferino in color,

yet sometimes, though rarely, it is of a delicate pale lavender or

else pure white. In 1884 I gathered numerous examples of this with pure white corollas, and on sending specimens to an emi- nent botanist, he was at first inclined to consider it a new species, until I explained that they were innocent albinos, with no intent to deceive.

The plant is widely distributed on the Pacific Coast, through- out Southern California, southward, I believe, to Chili, in South America, where it first gained notoriety as a medicinal herb. In Southern California it is quite variable, sometimes with quite small, inconspicuous flowers, but more commonly with the large brilliant lowers, as above described.

The genus contains numerous European species also, and be- longs to the well-known Gentian family, so many members of which belong in good society that I do not hesitate to introduce this new beauty to horticultural circles. Dr. Veit Brecher Witt-: rock, of the Royal Academy of Science ot Stockholm, Sweden, has madea special study of the genus. At his request I sent. him the Californian forms accessible to me, and among them he found one (from Washington, collected by a correspondent) that was new to science. He made carefully prepared figures and de- scriptions of our canchalagua and its relatives, but his introduc- tion only brought it to the attention of botanists—not to horti-. cultural notice. :

Doubtless it would do well in cultivation if given a little en-— -couragement and not too much water. Try it when you can get the seed. C. R. Orcutt. —

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An Outline cf the Geology of Vancouver /sland. i?

AN OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF VANCOUVER ISLAND.

If we study the past history—not political, but geological—ot the great island of Vancouver, and in fact of all the territory surrounding the Straits of Georgia, San Juan de Fuca, and ot Puget Sound, we will find, that in geological aspect, the country mentioned is no less interesting than the famous volcanic regions of the more southern part of this continent. If a student dis- satisfied with the Neptunic world of British Columbia turns his

‘mind toward that of Pluto, he will have his curiosity well satis- fied ; or if, tired with investigation of prehistoric glaciers, pre-

ters to fathom the mystery of the coal-bearing regions, he will also find himself before an interesting problem. The geology of the country mentioned above is interesting like its fauna and flora ; it contains many epochs and many formations. There was a time when Vancouver Island was a low country, probably — a prairie land, and at the end of the Tertiary period there was no Fraser River, no Straits of Georgia and Fuca, no Puget Sound. At that time volcanic forces began to work, here with terrible fury, there slowly rents and fissures were made, and now instead of a prairie we have a mountainous country, trav- ersed by rapid streams, and cut by ravines and canyons’ The. formation of the country shows plainly this mighty working of the mysterious forces of nature.

Again there was a time when there were stupendous glaciers between the island of Vancouver and the mainland. According to Dr. George M. Dawson, the whole Queen Charlotte Sound was at one time occupied by a great glacier. A second glacier of equal magnitude occupied the whole Strait of Georgia, hav- ing, in some places, a width of fifty miles, a minimum thickness. of 300 feet in the northern part and of about 700 feet in its south- eastern extremity. And this extremity was near the doors of the now beautiful city of Victoria. Dr. Dawson further states that evidence was found in the vicinity of Victoria and Nanaimo, to prove that when the Strait of Georgia glacier decreased, and shrank back, the land was at a lower level than now, and the deposits found in these localities containing marine shells, were formed at or near the wasting edge of the glacier. The curious reader will find the evidence advanced by the bold savant in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vols. XXXIV and XXXVII.

_ The climate of Vancouver and the neighboring country, as it is now, prevents the formation of glaciers as they existed in the ages gone by. Still it is not improbable that the country may again beome a sheet of ice. Many scientists, especially Professor Agassiz, demonstrated that at the end of the Tertiary period the northern hemisphere north of forty degrees was covered with ice as Greenland is in our day. The climate is mild and genial, but should the average temperature of the Straits of Georgia

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and Fuca be lowered some 15 or 20.-degrees, then: the, sun of summer would be unable to melt the ice and snow accumulated ‘in winter. The consequence would be that in a few centuries Vancouver Island would become a vast: field of ice. Fortunately this probability is far remote. a | There was also a time when the island had a warmer climate; perhaps 15 degrees more than the present average of Georgia: Strait. The climate. although warmer, was also more moist than it is now, and the rainfalls were very heavy. In such a. climate the aa deposits were formed. It could not have. been. warmer or colder. If warmer, then the vegetable matter would have decayed and become soil before it had time to become. lignite ; if colder, then the island could not have produred rich, enough vegetation. » : The coal deposits of Vancouver Island.belong not to the cae boniferous but to the Cretaceous period. The Cretaceous rocks: rest upon the beds of older formation, and consist of sandstones, conglomerates and shales and contain many fossil plants and marine shells. Among the plants we find usually angiosperm-. ous and gymnospermous genera, and among the fossils the most. characteristic are specimens of Ancella Piochii. T hese, shells. are often washed out from the rocks and carried down, by the waves even so far as the vicinity of Victoria. One magnilicent, specimen of Ancella was found by the writer on the beach of Ross Bay, and must have been carried down by the waves from. the vicinity of Satellite Channel, or from some other part where there are Cretaceous rocks. The range of mountains which traverse Ve Island from north to saree shows also a curious formation, Le consists. chiefly of crystalline schists, here varying in texture, there in color, in part Carboniferous: sometimes interbedded with slate. rocks of more recent volcanic origin, and often subjected’ to metamorphism. The argillites and limestones of these rocks contain. in numerous localities Triassic fossils, “The beds under-. lying the Cretaceous rocks are also in great part altered—vol-. canic materials interbedded with argiilites and limestones, This. entire mass of rocks is known under the term of the Vancouver Series, the name originally appreg by Dr. Selwyn. and adopted by Dr. Dawson. ; The city of Victoria rests upon a series of rocks. different from any other on the island, and chiefly built of felspathic., and di- oritic masses, here and there becoming gneisses and mica-schists and in places interbedded with limestone. The neighbors of Vic- toria, the inhabitants of Sooke, have built their houses also on. beds which do not occur anywhere else on the island. These beds are Tertiary and consist of sandstones, conglomerates and shales, sometimes carbonaceous. Many of the readers who have. been to Port Townsend undoubtedly rernember the high bluffs on; the coast of Washington. These bluffs belong to the same for- mation as the beds of Sooke and in fact the Tertiary rocks sur-.

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round the State of Washington with the exception of north and south of Seattle. On the mainland of British Columbia they be- gin south of Burrard Inlet, cross the delta of the Fraser, and the international ge and’end near Snohomish R River, Wash- ington. M,. Lopatecki,

4 , TUK TLES OF CALIFORNIA.

BAB: the ftiwer forms of vertebrate life, the order Chelonia includes members less variable in form than any other order: of reptilia. he body is invariably short and stout, and is in all the known forms protected from above and below by a more or less bony investment, forming a shield-like covering. .

CHELOPUS MARMORATUS. This is the common ter rapin or turtle that is found in the fresh waiter streams and lagoons of California. It is abundant in South California, and may often be surprised on the banks of any of our permanent streams, or in our numerous fresh water lakes. This is the Emys nigra, Nob., described in the Pacific:R. R. Report, Vol. X., Part 1V., pp. 2-3, which is ac- companied by alifelike illustration (Plate I). In color it is black- ish above, the upper part of head and neck presenting numerous very small, yellow spots upon a black ground ; anterior extremi- ties with a tinge of yellow; under jaw and throat yellow, with dark colored markings; plastron yellow in the middle, with large blotches of black or dark brown at the sides, and anteriorly and

' posteriorly ; under surface of tail and extremities blackish. The

carapax is about six inches in length on the average. I have found this species only on the western slope of the mountains, and not in the Colorado Desert region. It extends southward into Lower California. -Actinemys marmorata is another syno- nym of this-species.

TEsTUDO AGassizul. This turtle, or land tortoise, has a very convex shell, and feet developed for a terrestrial Lfe—which it needs to have, since it inhabits the dry, arid region of the Colo- rado Desert where water is very scarce. The toes are distinct, the. feet club-shaped, and the caudal plates united. The species is also found on the Mojave Desert, in let and Sonora, and evidently not rare.

SPHARGIS CORIACEA. Of the sea turtles en in the waters of the Californian coast, the leather-back turtle is of the widest dis- tribution in the temperate portions of the Atlantic, Pacific and In- dian oceans and in the Mediterranean sea. Its habits are little known. An example of this was captured a few years ago near

San Diego, and is preserved in the Coronado Museum.

ERETMOCHELYS SQUAMATA. This sea turtle belongs to the Pacific coast fauna, and probably may be found near San Diego. “CHELONIA MYDAS. The most valuable of the turtles for food is this, the green turtle. A form of this belongs also to the

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fauna of the Pacific coast, and the flesh of our form is said to ri- val that of the Atlantic in flavor, though at certain seasons of the year it is reputed unhealthy.

Formerly considerable numbers of turtles were to be found in San Diego bay, but their numbers have greatly decreased in the last decade. They are still comparatively abundant in the bays and lagoons on the Pacific coast of Baja California, and they are often found in the San Diegoand San Francisco markets from the lower coast.

But little is practically known concerning the habits of our tur- tles, except of such as have been studied at some foreign locality. Possibly more than the five above-mentioned species belong in our fauna, and if so, it would be of interest to learn of them.

C. R. Orcutt.

PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCVETIES.

SANTA BARBARA SOCIETY OF NATURAL History, June 28, 18go. The corresponding secretary read a letter from Dr. Earl Flint of Nicaragua, one of the newly elected Sieur | members of the society.

The librarian reported the additions to the iihiaey and museum, among the latter, a large number of specimen trays donated by — Mr. W. H. Woodbridge.

_ The secretary read communications from R. E, Peasy, Cody of the United States Navy in relation to Arctic research; and , from C. Hart Merriam, United States ornithologist, in answer to a notice sent to him by the secretary, of the occurrence of the Sonoran hooded oriole (Icterus cucullatus Nelsoni).in Santa Barbara gardens; its northern recorded limit. The secretary read the tollowing, ‘Notes on new, or interesting Mollusca of Santa Barbara county.’

While engaged in preparing a ‘list of the known Mollusca of Santa Barbara county, for publication my attention has been particularly attracted to some new and rare forms, among them the new genus of Nudibranchiates discovered and named by Dr. Fewkes, a notice of which was published in my ‘List of the Mol- lusca of the Channel Islands’ in the report of our State Mineral- ogist, an illustration of which was exhibited.

“Dr. Fewkes named the genus, Cabrilla, from Cabrillo the famous Portuguese navigator who discovered our islands, and was buried upon one of them. The species was discovered at- tached to the anchor of a buoy in Prisoner’s Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, and is named Cabrilla occidentalis; it is a soft slug-like - animal somewhat resembling the Sea Hares (Aplysia).

A species of Vermiculus, probably new, this genus was not heretofore noted from California, found with a Cerithium also new to California, by AlberiE. Yates, in this county.

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A species of Venus, in the channel, probably new, also some interestiig species erccer? years gee By Messrs. Ht 2 roe and J. W. Calkins. © ey

Our newly elected ‘member, Mr. I. B. Hardy, an | enthusiastic collector, has discovered a colony of ECT ESTING minute bivalves, (Lasea rubra> at Castle Rock.

Dr. L: G. Yates’ manuscript list shows a large number of species whose northern or southern limit is restricted to this. county.

The members of this society should take special pains to col- lect and place upon record everything in the shape of shells and other invertebrate marine animals found within the limit of . this county, not alone for the reason that our society should possess specimens in its collection, but also that the already large and interesting series may be increased and their value to science en-

hanced.

Many of the species accredited to our county are not repre- sented in Santa Barbara collections.

The society was favored by a visit from Miss Yda Addis, pie gave an interesting account of some of the incidents of her travels and researches in Mexico, in connection with photographs of in- teresting ruins, etc., which she had visited.

Lorenzo CG. Yates, Secretary.

EDITORIAL.

Mr. D. W. Coquillett sends us a specimen of Bigelovia belch: lepis Gray, from a valley eighteen miles north of Los Angeles: city, where it grows in clumps about five feet in height. Two species of scale insects—one probably new—were found inhabit- iting this much branched shrub. |

- Dr. A. Davidson sends us Cheilanthes Cooperae from Ven- tura. Among other plants he sends us a new species. of Bloom-. erja which will be published later.

The editor has had the pleasure of visiting Aete of his several places of business during the past thirty days. Our San Fran- cisco ‘office was found as: lively as’ usual ; the San Diego’College _ of Letters busily preparing for the return of studentsand new lite :

our San Diego office is migrating, while at Orcutt the quantity of ink, paper and postage stamps Consumed is enormous. :

A pleasant day was spent in August with. Mr. Geo F. Kunz, who, fortunately for us, was persistent enough to find the editor. We hope he may find time’ to visit us again ‘soon, vies iach a os at our back epliinihye ett j

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We hee to soon fave ithe mesure of publics some: of the papers read before the Gray memorial botanical chapter of the “Agassiz ‘Association. G. H. Hicks, Owésso, Mich., is the

able president of this: chapter, ‘who should be addressed by’ ee

wishing to join.

-Thé editor is always glad to identify plants or shells from the west for anyone. Frequent absence: prevents promptness in cor+ responding at times.

Among the various uses of celluloid, it would appear to be a suitable sheathing for ships, in place of copper.” In experiments by M. Butaine, piates of celluloid applied to various vessels ‘in January last were removed five or six months after. and tound intact and free from marine vegetation, which was abundant on parts uncovered. |

That the eastern half of our continent is slowly foundering . in the Atlantic is a fact well known to science. The rate is slow—a few inches in a hundred years—but, like Mercutio’s wound it is ‘enough.’ Its effects do not come insensibly—like a thief in the ‘night—each generation is amply able to take care of itself by means of which it is unconscious; they are felt at long intervals

in storms whose devastations af greater’ ‘and eatend further.

inland than any previously experienced.

In France when a patient is under chloroform, on the slightest symptom appearing of failure of the heart they turn him nearly upside down, that is, with his head’ downward and his heels in the air. This, they say, always restores him, and such is ee faith in the efficiency of this method that the operating: tables: ;

the. Paris hospitals are made so that in an instant they can be Lm

vated with one end in the air, so as to bring the patient into a position resembling that of standing on his head.

Dr. Edward Palmer and Mr. T.'S. Brandegee were to leave San Francisco on the 25th of August to continue’ their botanical explorations in Lower California and the Gulf regions. -

M. Crepin, of the Jardin Botanic, Bruxelles, Belgium, desires —

specimens of all forms of North American roses. This eminent botanist has made a special study of the roses ot the world for

over thirty years. Botanists are invited torespond to his request

for specim ens.

“The new building of the ‘ © Cal. Academy | of Sciences ’’ is near- ing completion. ‘The marble stairways will cost more than all its past contributions to science ! |

. The. California State, Museum. is Shia to gait the finest. col- (eotn. of minerals in the world. All the collections i in the. ‘State

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Museum. are well displayed—better than any other collection on the ¢éast. “ The entire collections are valued at over a quarter ofa. million of dollars. The State Mining Bureau is ae a good work:in building up such a museum.

CA TAL OGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE WEST AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURE AND ART.

PART is

We herewith commence the publication of a list of the current additions to the editor’s library, either by purchase or exchange. We hope to give Part I of this catalogue as a supplement as soon.as we find time to prepare the list for the printer.

4051. Catalogue of minerals for sale by Geo. L. English & Co., Philadelphia and New York. June 1890. 15th edition, 8, 100 pages. Price 25 cents (paper edition free). From Geo. L.

Eneya & Co.

4002. Cucurbitacearum novum genus et species. Auctore A. Cogniaux. - Advance proot from the Pr oceedings of the Califor- nia Academy ot Sciences, n. s., vol. III, 1890. From T.S. Brandegee. A new genus, Brandegea, is founded on Flaterium bigeloy. 7 Watson.

4003... Catalogue of the library of the California Academy of Sciences to January 1, 1889. ' Ext trom, Proc. Gal. Acad. Ser:)2, vol. I. ‘From Mrs. T. S. Brandegee.

4004. Materiaux pour servir a l'histoire des roses par Fran- cols Crepin. Ext. Bull. Soc. Roy. de Bot. de Belgique, vol. XV, pp. 371-462. 1876. From the author.

‘4005. “Note sur les recentes decouvertes de roses en amerique, pat ‘Francois Crepin. Ext. 1. 'c., OCT) 146-149; 1882. From the author. |

4006. Nouvelles remarques sur les roses ameticaines, par Francois Crepin. Ext. l.c., XXVI. 1-10. 1887. From the author!, oe

4007. Examen de quelques idees em ses par MM. Burnat et Gremli ‘sur’ le genre rosa par Francois Crepin. Ext. 1. ‘c., XXVH. ‘1-25. 1888. From the author. |

4008. Nouvelles remarques sur les roses americaines (suite),

par Francois Crepin, Ext. Lc, XXVIII. 11-26. 1889. From the author.

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- 4009. Sketch of ‘anew Bi ORME & roses. By Francois ! Crepin. Reprinted from. the Jour. of the Royal Hort. Soc., pt. y 3, vol. XI., October, 1889, 12 pp. From: the author.:

4010. ouine ace of socialism. -By A. Schaffle. Trans. lated from the 8th German edition by Bernard Bosanquet, M. A., New York. Humboldt library, No. 124. 1890. Price I 5 cents. From the publishers, 28 Lafayette place. | Aes

4011. Darwinism and politics. . By David G. Ritchie, M. A., and Administrative Nihilism. By Thomas H. Huxley, F. R. S., New York. Humboldt library, No. 125. 1890. Price I 3e cents: From the publishers. pe

4012. . Physiognomy of expression. Bs, Panlb Manecen tenn Part 1, 2, New York, Humboldt Pray, No. 126 rogeks num- ber). Price 30 cents. |

‘4013. Same. Part 2. Price 30 cents. From the publishers.

4014. Cactaceous plants; their history and culture. By Lewis Castle. With numerous illustrations. London, 1384. 8vo. 93 pp- Price one shilling. From Dr. P. Radenhausen. _

4015. Organogenie de la classe des Cactoides (Cactees, Fi- coides et Tetragoniees), et de celle des Berberinees (Berberidees, Menispermees), par M. Payer. Ext. des Ann. des Sci. Nat., XVIII, 1-24. With 6 plates. From Dr. P. Radenhausen.

4016. Enumeratio diagnostica Cactearum Hucusque Cogni- ttarum. Auctore Ludovico Pfeiffer. Berolini. 1837. 8vo. 192 pp. From Dr. P. Radenhausen

4917. Revue de la Famille des Cactees avec des observations sur leur vegetation et leur culture, ainsi que sur celles des autres plantes grasses, par M. A. P. DeCandolle. Paris, 1829, 4. 120, pp. 21 plates. From Dr. P. Radenhausen. _

4018. Monographia Generis. Melocacti. Pancione Es A. Guil, Miguel. 1840. From Dr. P. Radenhausen. - 4. 120 pp., II plates, cS

401g. Cactearum aliquot novarum ac insuetarum in Horto Monvilliano cultarum accurata descriptio. _Faciculus primus. Curante C. Lemaire. 1838.4. 40 pp. and plate. From - 8. ‘@ Radenhausen. — “4020. Cacteaé in Horto Dyckensi cultae anno 1849. ‘Jos. De Salm Dyck. 1850. From Dr. P. Radenhausen,

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LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT, No. 2.

nah E aes by the Students and Facu a Te the San sg te College ( vf Letters. ey

Poets’ Corner. fed d °; ~ CARMEN. "|For dear Robbie and his_ kicking il , | - COW. 3 Cano carmen sixpence, a corbis plena| But oh the heartaches! Oh the back- rye, aches! Multas aves atras percoctas ina pie;| Shooting pains in every pore!

Ubi pie apertus turn canit avium grex; | Oh the blisters that the sun makes, Nonne suavis cibus hoc locari ante | As it rakes me o’er and o’er!

eae , a" ‘Out upon those old bucolics! Fuissat rex in parlor, multo de num- — Qyt upon the classic vine! Ee ak tumens; _Naught I swear, but alcholics Regina in culina, bread and mel con- | ee inspired the muses nine! sumens;

Oh to end this fraud of living!

| I can! I will! Oh wretched sinner! _ her clothes, Pll drown myself andend all grieving

(uum venit parva carnix demorsa [py the windmill tank ,—after dinner.

est her nose. pee uae aan Mater Anser’s Melodies. PATE LE Ms

Ancilla was in horto, dependens out |

ee At the beach during the wild years GRAPE PICKING. | long gone, , Syee | Mu Nere Crew mo. tree: of, mesa. OF Could you see me now, Professor, | lawn 3 Bending as before a shrine, Till they founded and built the S. D. Gouging with a frantic bluster | College, At this tangled mass of vine, _ And planted the umbrageous tree All the time ‘‘a makin’ mashes’’ of knowledge.

Of my only suit of clothes, In my fingers cutting gashes,

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'Though some men dazzle like the

Burning blisters on my nose. ~ moon, You, perhaps, would scarce re-_ It is not Best to make a ite of member, | them, How once you taught that Lae 'For, like the moon you may wad joys — soon, ; Alone were found in classic labor, You’ ve only seen one side of them. Plucking grapes like Virgil’s boys. Tid- Bits. For, truly, Virgil owned a grapevine, | ie Biapdaabosats:.a rusty plow, | Every good Mussulman must Mec-:

And warm with love our fond hearts | ca peerage:

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At Home.

LOCALS AND PERSONALS.

‘‘Hans vishes to eaten vatervellion | py you behind 7 o'clock,’’ was the characteristic invitation that each one of we students received one of these warm, summer evenings. The watermelon eating took place in Mr. Grolis’ empty cottage where the boys had waxed the floors for dancing. After a little dance we ate a “ ’mil- lion’’ or so apiece and enjoyed a lively gamme Sot .. blindiman Ss spudt, Thank you, Mr. Hans.

The picturesque beauty of our bay is complete with the white wings of the college boat.

During Miss Helen Givens’ visit at Mrs. Cogswell’s, Miss Mary Cogs- well, one of the resident students, gave a delightful ice cream party in honor of her visitor. Pleasant games in the Dr’s. beautiful home made the evening pass almost too quickly.

Miss. Mary also took a large party of Chula Vistans to our delightful suburb, La Jolla. ° No doubt she will succeed in convincing them that this north end of the bay has at least as many attractions as the south.

Miss Laura Gearn, who has been visiting Miss Pearl Wagner, has been enjoying a week or two of ‘‘glorious’’ fun, boating, swimming and driving. In spite of the fact that she did get her nose freckled, Laura ecuiloe wait for school to begin but had to come out to see what we did during vacation,

Vacation is almost gone!

Miss Belle Jacoby, who has lately returned from her summer rusti- eating, and our old friend Miss Rosella Fishburn were welcome vis-

itors at the college but a short time}

ago. Belle is so improved in health that she will be able to attend school this year.

“Brother’’ Jim was given a very pleasant celebration of his fifteenth

_|an-ice time,” Charles Williams, a former fellow |

birthday the evening of August 13th,

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at the Wagner cottage. ‘‘We had so Mr. Wagner said.

student paid the college a short visit a few days ago.

To Mrs. Davidson's kind thought- fulness must be attributed the unique idea of a combination birthd iy party, and not only the idea but the carry-

ing out of the idea, in a most agree- -

able manner So many of the birth- days ot the folks, httle and big, of the college, came in the month of August that something had to be done. Music by Mrs. Jewel, whose birthday came in the lucky month, and music by her wee, blue-eyed girl

Frankie, games and dances in the

assembly room in Stough Hall and delicious refreshments and then more games and fun and music was the ‘‘something’’ done.

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THE AUGUST ST. NICHOLAS, 1890

St. Micholas has a charming front- ispiece for August. It is an illustra- tlon by Birch to the serial story ‘Lady Jane,’’ and shows the former

dancing-master, who has become a_

ereengrocer, recalling his triumphs in teaching the pretty heroine the elaborate steps in vogue during his

youth. The story itself is delightful. .

Some of the summery features are “The White Mountain Coaching Parade’ of decorated tally-hos in competition for prizes, described in a sketchy way by Helen Marshall Norch;.* Ar Lessons of the Sea, by W. J. Henderson, a simple bit of strong descriptive writing; ‘‘A Re- markable Boat Race,’’ wherein Wal- ter Camp describes the Atalanta-Yale race and its sensational feature—the leaping from the boat of Yale’s stroke after he had broken his oar; “The Sea Princess,’’ a pretty picture de- scribed in musical verse by the artist Miss Katharine Pyle; ‘* Cupid and Crab,’’ an odd little fancy of the sea shore, daintily illustrated by Alber- tine Wheelan Randall; *‘ The Auda- cious Kitten,’? one of Oliver Her- ford’s jests with pen and pencil.

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School and Callene.

SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.

The Chicago ews notes that eld- erly college men (especially as pres- idents) are disappearing, and are being succeeded by younger men.

The University of California has a library of 38,000 volumes.

In an interesting article in the Academy, by Professor V. M. Spald- ing, on Asa Gray the botanist, patience and aptitude in teaching after he became eminent, and his life, laborious in the cause of science, are especially dwelt upon. Evidently Dr. Gray regarded the function of a teacher as important as the labors of scientific research. His life work, the “Flora of North America,’’—how vast the subject!—nears completion in other hands than of those of the honored botanist of Cambridge.

‘‘The happiest of all callings, iN the most imperishable of all arts,” i what Mr. John Morley said of eee. ture at the recent Royal Academy banquet in London.

‘‘Professor,’’ said a graduate, try- ing to be pathetic at parting. “Tam indebted to you for all I know.”

“Pray do not mention such a trifle,’’ was the unflattering reply.

The Pail Mall Gazette recalls the snub that Carlyle i is said to have given an American university that proftered him the honor of LL.D. ‘‘That you shall ask me,’’ he wrote, ‘‘to join in leading your long lines of D.D.’s and LL.D.’s, a line of pompous little fellows, hobbling down to posterity on the crutches of two or three letters _ of the alphabet, passing on into the _ oblivion of all universities and small _ potatoes, is more than I can bear.’’ Carlyle was a great self-made man, no doubt; and still he was always in such an ill humor that nobody could _ feel that he was entirely pleased with the job.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and re- flection must finish him.—£-x. ,

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The Qiienton Fes Tay} vreprhinentile Professor Frost, of Oberlin, for his diligence in inventing mental stimu- lants of his class. He has asked the members of the senior class to write out their respective creeds. It is to. be hoped none of these ‘‘creeds”’ will ever get outside of the college walls to swell the number of those already abroad.

Work to-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered to- morrow.—P/iny.

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NOTES AND NEWS.

Sir Morrell McKenzie, than whom there is no better medical authority living, declares that smoking is de- cidedly injurious to the throat. He sayerentore!’ "Te deciarés’’ that” the’ « smoke of tobacco inhaled by those who do not use the weed is more in- jurious than to use tobacco. This is a terrible indictment. It is suggest- ed to the smoker how great a wrong he may commit upon his friend by forcing him to breathe the poisonous fumes of his pipe or cigar.—Fx.

Oh, how heavily passes the time, — while an adventurous youth is yearn- ing to do his part in life, and to gath- er in the harvest of his own renown. How hard a lesson it is to wait. Our life is brief, and how much of it is spent in teaching us only this.— Flawthorne.

Edgar L. Wakeman, in ‘‘Afoot in Ireland’’says of County ‘‘Connaught | and its “two roads’: When you have known these two roads as on> one foot may know them, and have followed your fancy for exploration among the quaint pleasant homes in the wilds between, you have wit- nessed the most interesting in scenery and people that can be found in any portion of Europe. ,

The greatest shipping company on | earth (or sea rather) is the North German Lloyd, with sixty-four steam- ~ ships. Their service of two ships a_ week out of New York requires twelve great steamers. Bremen ‘is ~ the eastern terminus of the line. —

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THE | LOVE OF > FLOWERS.

“As the twig is bent the tree’s in- clined,’’ is a trite saying, the truth

concluding installment, in September. In the new chapter of Mrs. Barr’s striking novel ‘‘ Friend Olivia’ the heroine sets sail for America with her

of which we sometimes forget. Near- | father, who goes in search of relig-

ly three thousand years ago the wis- est of men declared, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” - Most persons are born with a natural love for flowers. I never yet saw a toddler whose eyes did not light up with pleasure at the sight of bright blossoms, and whose fingers did not itch to hold in their grasp ‘‘the pitty flowers,’’ and’small boys show fully as,much liking therefor as their sis- ters. It is considered the proper

thing for our girls to wear flowers,

to love them and care for them, and so encouraged and trained, the ma- jority ot our girls grow up into flow- er-loving women. On the contrary, in many homes, the boys are made to feel that the love of flowers is

‘‘girlish,’’ and trust our modern boy for wanting at all times to be ‘‘man- nish!’ So our boys smother their natural liking with a forced indiffer- ence, which later,alas! becomes a sec- ond nature. Ninety-nine one-hun- dredths of the men and women who manifest this indifference never had their tastes cultivated in this direc- tion while young. It is freely ad- mitted that there is a refining, ele-

vating’ influence about flowers; why, |

. then, should not parents feel ita duty to encourage the love of the beauti- ful in bud and bloom.— lick’s Mag- agine for August.

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THE AUGUST CENTURY.

It is because “The Anglomani- acs” presents a novel aspect of New

York life with uncommon pith and}

wit that the third part, in the August number of 7he Century, will be prob- ably that portion of the magazine to which most readers will first turn. They will find a crisis approaching in the devotion to Miss Lily Floyd- Curtis of Lord Melrose, and look rather keenly for a solution in the

The ‘<The

ious freedom and converts. short story of the number,

Emancipation of Joseph Peloubet,”’ by John Elliott Curran, introduces a’

Frenchman who turns his back in disgust on the Second Empire, starts a newspaper in New York which ad- vocates emancipation of the slaves, and collapses, and who then returns to his trade of baking until the break- ing out of the war, “when he enlists,

and, his ideals are realized and his life .

is sacriticed. Few readers will reach the end of

the second paper by Dr. T. H. Mann

on his experiences as ‘‘ A Yankee in Andersonville’? without being pro- foundly touched by the pathos of his

helpless journey to his home in Bos- |

ton. The realistic pictures, made from photographs, add to the interest ot the narrative of life in the prison- pens at Andersonville and Florence.

Another article bearing briefly on

the history of the war, is Miss S. E. Blackwell’s statement in ‘‘ Open Let- ters’’ of ‘‘ The Case of Miss Carroll,” whose claims for services to the

Union are still unconsidered by Con: —

gress.

MORAL RECOVERY.

He who destroys an evil in his. ©

own nature gives a good influence to all time. He who reverses adverse heredity is a benefactor of genera- tions. Over all the terrible facts

| that science reveals in regard to crime is the antidote of faith and spiritual ~

renewal. And he js indeed a celes- tial knight who changes the current of evil heredity into streams of good,

and it is such moral heroism that

the new era will recognize and crown. —FHezekiah Butterworth in the Chau tauguan for September.

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— Our Story Teller.

A STORY OF THE EBB TIDE.

‘“Why,child,and thou didst never hear of the mermaids ? Mer, thee knowest, means the sea, and they are sea maidens with long silken hair; white arms and green scaly fish-tails instead of feet. All the day long they live beneath the ocean, in beau- tiful palaces where lustrous jewels with their glitter light the lofty halls. Sometimes after a fearful human body will sink down to the mermaids’ home and they grieve be- cause it is always their wish to keep with them a living mortal, they can- not understand the dying.”’ ‘‘ Gran- nie, Z could live in the water, don’t you know that you said they took me out of the ocean?” ‘‘ Tut tut, little girl, thou’rt to quick with thy ton- gue. Ifthey did take thee from out wert lost from some good vessel first and not from sea palaces. I'll not tell thee more of the mermaids, I’m thinking.’’

‘“No, no, Grannie, please go on, lll be good,’’ and with a pat of wee,

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the cool darkness deep in the night, the maidens rest on the top of the water combing their long, tangled hair with golden combs and sing such sad, sweet, wondrous songs that mor- tals hearing are lured away and follow them only to die far under the water.’ Grannie’s low voice ceased but the ocean’s monotonous roar took up the story and carried it on and : on until the ‘‘ strange, sweet songs’ of the mermaids seemed to rise from — the waves and trembling in the air | to float across the sandy beach and thrill the listening soul of little gray- eyed jJeanette. Sitting in the twi- light on the door-step she had lis- tened to grannie’s story. Couldall © the wondrous things that grannie told © her of the sea be true?. There was one she loved best to hear, ’twas the story of the time when grannie’s son, the brave Leon had rescued the baby Jeanette from the cruel waters and — brought her home, a little sea-waif. * With her chin leaned on her hand and her clear gray eyes wide open she sat and watched the gray waters, the glistening sands, and the sea-

birds about the door and wondered—

soft fingers the gran’dame’s story

eoes drowsily on ‘‘ And when the long day hath passed away and the

glorious night is come they may rise’

to the top of the sea and shaking their loose hair to the winds they

‘lifted breast as she nodded,

swim eagerly to the lines ot rolling

breakers, and lo! the breakers are their horses and restless are waiting for their coming. Then the mer- maids mount the great, green fellows and tangle their hands in their long frothy manes and away,away. They gallop up, up on _ the then swiftly back again. Merry peals of silvery laughter and stran- ge sweet songs echo over the sea and sands, and so the mermaids and their wave horses sport away the glorious night.

the night

She sat so quiet with her thoughts that the fearless birds pulled at her gown as if to bid her come with | them. She glanced in at grannie in her old rocker by the open window— the soft, sea wind stole in and stirred the snowy hair on her temples, and tie? white: kerchief on her nodded, for eraumcroslept. .i Ves, I will. wo,” spoke Jeanette, as if answering the birds. ‘‘Tllgo and watch for the mermaids and hark for their songs.” Out into the luminous night she walked along the gloomy. quiet sands. A faint phosphorescent radiance made strange and unearthly.

There was no moon, the stars glim-

sand and.

mered dimly through a thin mist; ocean, sky and land seemed melted hazily together. The air was heavy

and damp, and the hollow murmur

But at the ebb of the tide, in,

of the. waves sounded far away. Weird, ghostly forms of misty light

danced in the air and on the water. ° Jeanette, awed and timid, crept close .—

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to the water's edge and watched the gray ocean break in lines of pale, quivering light, and then reach its long white fingers of foam nearly to her feet. The child shuddered, the night seemed unholy, and yet amid the roar of the waves and the com- mplaining of the winds, she seemed to hear a faint, sweet melody, that like the harmony of the chimes of far away bells and fairy voices, drowsily and low, soothed her and stilled her restless wondering until the tired child sank to rest on the cool, damp sand, and lying awake seemed to. sleep and dream.” (ihe strains of heavenly music wavered in the air and grew stronger as the tide came in Asleep and dreaming she seemed to be awake and to see the gleaming arms and waving hair of the sport- ing mermaids, as they rode in to the shore on their cold gray horses. Again and again they reached the sands with sweet, wild songs upon their lips, again and again the _ great horses galloped back amid the peals ot ghostly laughter. Oh, the treacherous, cruel Ocean? His waters crept nearer and nearer to little Jeanette while she slept and dreamed of the merry sea maids,

Wilder and more fierce grew the singing, in their mad sport the wave- horses tore along the beach, nearer and nearer came the riders to Jean- ette. Then the sport begins to grow less wild, and sad, sad, strains of music waver in the misty light; ’tis the turning of the tide, a mermaid floating on the retreating billows, singing, sees her, with a tender look in her soft, dark eyes, she has caught the little Jeanette in her cool, clinging arms, and singing borne her away. Fainter and fainter grew the sad, low strains of melodious music, fainter and fainter the sounds of silvery, silvery laughter, for the little Jean- ette was floating down, down to the sea-cool halls in the silent ocean. Oh the sea, the greedy sea! with its soft foam finges caressing her tiny form, her long, fair hair. and lifting her helpless hands from the sands, he draws her to him, the little Jean-

ette, draws her to his mighty bosom. Her long, soft hair, rises and falls on the billows, with a halo of misty radiance around her pale, still face, she sinks slowly, slowly—she has listened to the mermaids’ songs.

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In the early morning, when young Paul stops at the gran’dame’s door to call cheerily ‘‘ A pleasant morning to the little Jeanette,’ he sees the old lady sitting by the open window. The rising sea-breeze stealing in stirs the snowy hair on her forehead and li'ts the white kerchief on her breast. She does not move, for grannie is dead .The wondering neighbors with reverent voices say ‘She was old, | hersoul went out with the ebbing of the tide,’’ and they search every- where for the little Jeanette and find naught but tiny foot-prints in the sand at the edge of the water that with guilty foam fingers strives to hide them. and they say ‘‘ She was a strange chud, the ocean has claimed

his own.”’ -tulalie Powers Woods.

EDITORIAL.

Learn to commit your thoughts and observations to writing. Things that you have thought out and writ- ten down are not likely to be forgot- ten; and then M. Renan has said. ‘To write well is to think well.’’ Certainly what is well written must be weil thought or composed. It is not everyone ‘‘ whose tongue is like the pen of a ready writer.” Learn to write. ‘‘ The good writer is a com- plete iind, gifted with judgment, passion, imagination, and at the same - time well trained. Good training of the mind is the only school of good style. Wanting that you have merely rhetoric and bad taste.”

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There are 108 cotton mills in India

| whose 22,000 looms employ an army

of over 90,000 operatives.

Princess Beatrice is writing a book on lace, to be illustrated by herself.

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IN LIGHTER VEIN.

The ‘‘summer girl’ of southern California is perennial “an all the year round girl.”’

Whether there is an open polar sea or not, is an open question,

Love making is a sigh-ence. (Not taught in this institution. )

She—I’ve been told that you are grave and sedate, but I’m sure I find you jolly. He—Yes, I lose my spec- ific gravity when you are the center of attraction.— Chicago Post.

“‘Papa,’’ said a talkative little girl, am I made of dust?” ‘“*‘No

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my

child. If you were you would dry up once in a while.’’—£x. Some wag says: There is more

talk about culture than there is cult- ure about talk in this country,’’ rather pun-gent, isn’t he?

The one flag and one tongue con- dition of the world does not seem to be immediately desirabie. The fight- ing that must decide which tongue and which flag should prevail would lead to more divisions and worse language.—ew Ov/leans Picayune.

This is a V. Y. 7riéune weather joke: Gladys-Maud, aged ten— ‘“Grammar, how y’ spell beas’ly?”’

Grandma—“BE AS TL Y, dar- ling, but it’s not a nice word for my pet to use.’’ |

Gladys-Maud--Well, I don’t care, I’ve got to write to mammer and pepper, ’n I want to tell ’em about the weather.”’

Grandma—“ Oh, very well, pet.’’

Among the Wits.

The Liver

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“For the cure of headache, Ayers Cathar- tic Pills are the most effective medicine [ ever used.’—h. K. James, Dorchester, Mass

“When I feel the need of a cathartic. I take Ayers Pills, and find them to be more cftec- tive than any other pill I ever took.’— Mrs. B.C. Grubb, Burwellville, Va.

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“Whenever I am troubled with constipa- tion, or suffer from loss of appetite, Ayer’s Pills set me right again.”— A. J. Kiser, Jr. Kock House, Va.

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