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 "j*-*- •t t^.'^I^A^^' X'^ff HIMICS AMOSe AJiDULSU 3^, FlaHei. and iBMeta that arc AM* to Cbaag« GaA|g^; ;. .•Ixjok out " aaidja iiatii^iit^^ the;i^ was about to sit down in an olire- ,r.«\=-nri«!â€" Ml ' ••r-**4r^».««*«'«««lS-i-*«***fi*i â- â- MiMM^*«'WtS^ ^n plnsti chair An invertigation of the ^at brought to li«ht a green -Unake d£ the exact bne of the plash, coiled up and fast Pall up another 9hav,^,aaid the ^er with a laujzh.' ' » ^3 r) The reporter picked his way acroM the .ocm, stepping on a homed tOSd that was jnddled close to some Turkish figures on a rag, only *» ^^^ ^^^ **^ ^^ another chair (,, npied by a bright green liz rd Jrom ionth Carolina. A third ' trial; â-  iiowev« ias successful. "'So," said the naturalist, who was bAsy ffitb a microscope, "they have not moved ihe Zao ogical ^Garden up here, ^t I ijave quite as good a display, though on a gmaller scale. The diffisulty you had in jeeiug the snake and anolis, and the fact of yoar stepping on the toad, are iUnstra^ons of the success of my experiments!* "If jou have ever thsngfaf particularly 3E the matter," be continued, ppurinij a, ^ttle carmine into a sea of radiolarians, â- you must have noticed that in all nature tiifre is a ptrong tendency to adaptation to jcality. This is especiaJly so in rega»d to jlor, and often true as to fotin. 'Jhe littje' aake that you came near iitt^pf on ia a perfect mimic of the lich grten grass in ihifh it ia found, and you would never sus- pect its presence if you did not S€e it move, i am coutident that it can adapt itself to ^ker or lighter shades.- This mort^ng,. X sad it on a light-grten ousihion, and in'a tew minutes it adapted itself to it to that it was almost in\isibib. and now you see it has as- â- ;;n!ed an entirely different hue." " h the change a physiological secret ' '• Not at all. We have weil-defiaed ideas '(â- ccerning it. In the first place, we know xany animals change their color at a rno- sieni's not ce, especially fishes and reptiles. AmoBg the former the stickleback, perch, srrranus, and dolphin are the most remark- ible. In many this change is evidently made at the option of the fish. This is also ;rue ot the reptlea, and now for the ex- [iiDition. Here is a microscopical section of i frog's skin. You see it consists of two distinct portions, the epidermis and the cut- li. The lormer is made up of cells, while :r,c latter contains nerves, fibres, and cavi- ties for ce 1 elements. These cells are filled itith pigment or coloring matter, and are S30WU as chrcmatophoses, and to their con- traction and expansion is due the coloring of various animals, for all, from man down, have •.r.em, r.ifferiDg in color in different individu- als and in various parts of the body. Dif- icrent cclois or degrees of intensity seem to ':sa a contractirn or expansion ot the cells. Tr.us, in the Gobins, the pigment ctUs, that :!â- ; yellow when distended, assume an :raBge-colored hue when contracted, and tiie orarge or red cells when shrunk be- lome brovvu or black, as the case may be. .Kow, when a fish that habitually lives on a white bottom j,as6e8 on to a black one the hange is conveyed by the eye to the brain, :2d telegraphed, so to speak, to the pigment rells by way of what aie called the sympa- thetic nervt-'S, aud the change is produced. " How do we know this By watching a ind fiih pass from one colored ground to anothtr. In such a case there is no change it all. The eye is the medium, yet there .; probably no intelligent appreciation on ice part of the animal that the chanee has ;^in maJe. The experiments with the sym- jathetic nerves are very remarkable. By atting one a fish has been shown spotted ,i; oae side and stripped on the other, and, n fact, the ccloring is at the will of the •killed anatomist. The anolis, our common "oathern lizard, that seems to take the place of the chameleonj is the most wonder- d in its power of chang ng color, adapt- " itself to a variety of Lues. "Butp.-cbably the most striking mimics iX those that imitate other objects and ani- Tiahinlorm. Here,' he continued, taking â- ut a large stf tl engraving, " is a fish allied "0 our hopliius that was captured by the aalluDger en her famous trip. You see, it liall covered with baibele of flesh that ex- i-tly resemble seaweed, lioth in shape and oolor, and when clinging to the bottom it is jsrfectiy invisible £0 to speak. A number of our fishes are equally protected. Here is a eahcrsethat has recently been discovered â- â- â-  Au.stralian waters. It has a prehensile jil, and clings like a ring-tailed monkey to •.ne seaweed, and from its back aud tail at I'.ervals these long, pinkish sljreamers float, eiact in their imitation of the surrounding feed. Other sea horses have more dblicste Ornaments that look like fine lace or stream- ers, and 30 escape detection, "Among insects there are even more striking examples. Here is a caterpillar â- !iat I received from China. The finder in- orms me that when aroused it imitates a 'Diall skrew, so that birds that are following suddenly draw ofl^, when the jnofiFensive creature stops and raises its head, which ap- '^^ to lengthen out and widen, assuming ferocious aspect. Many insects resemble ^ves and sticks, and one so resembles a j'Ok orchid that it is with great dif5cultj fstinguished from the flower. This isa.de- ^M from large enemies, bnt small fry tak-. 8 It for a flower come near and are caught. 'tliatits mimicry serves two ends â€" as a ^°7 and a protection, 'Among moths the cases of mimicry ftre f^Q perfect, and I have seen them alight Tectly in front of me and been unable to woeive them for a few moments. The tie moths of the genns alneitd are re" *rkable for their imitation of the dewn ef •istles and various plants. Their -wiagr l^eautifuliy frayed and sUvered, aad th^, Jie tumbling and rolfing toward yo4, ^ionally gently alighting on the bushes, [a you would almost always take them lAr innocent down of some plant. A still *« wonderful insect mimic is th^orange- fP^d butterfly. When outsprt ad and dur- flight it is very conspicuoos, hrft" when ' 1 tho 1 1 -^ ' __-iV ;x_ :__- ;inoi*fwnMkaW»lnio»n. It is one of the wees npon which the animal feeda. seetfa' T Ig^andfiniM^fgWaftfiut .^ Hw^iiWrtherf/AlllCfSJiSiSfl. edGedta. it. taU resembling a leaf « exi •mmal when observed creeps upon the nn- dw surface of the limb and Volfi np its tail. mSL ^.^J "-enables a leaf gmwiig on th* ' «^ °\"' "«*»â-  »0'«n*i of any kind, it" ^ives a jerV to its tail and throws it off to a distance of several inches and there it leaps tod tosses about, attracting the attention of **?.£â- ??*? '^til the 1|2^ has esosped." Bat this would only serve for one at- **^k. ' â- 'Jggested the repor^r» 'That is the strangest part of It," was the reply. •• The tail grows again, and ;nbt only that, but twi tik often appear, giving the creature a most strange appearance. Another Gecko is luminous at night, a pro- .4«ctjoa that frighten cff its foes and attracts -«a Uod--i.iBsects. Birds are also protected their eggs invariably match the around, ana are spotted with different colors to make tnem in general inconspicnoua. Many of the northern animals are white, as the young and defeoceldss seals, the bear, and arctic fox and a great many birds and ani- ra^s change to dark in stt«im«v to matoh we vegetation, sad w|ie«' the ground is covered with snow asinnlo a pure white hue. The ermine and ptarmigan are familiar examples. In fact, this mimicry is nature's endowment to her defenceless dependents." A irtlh* WilUlmg im JmrK. wSSSf'!:!^" •f^jviM,^^B««gh ^mAe pMsad was en M!-fUuada of iBaiMaisl iow«M famg -IttfoM Ifco '^wd, wh^. a hnmimtmink-litamg tiff to' the nght was » mass of whitened evthjr potr, set upright m smaller pcrts. We were 'wlitsked4Mni^thiir«vebaB,ai6i t^tM pur. |Se^v«» in mt'hnamaa fotL t f mrd hM'ai na- A More Dangerons Positioa th»n Base- ball Umpire. "BilJ, what was the orfu lest situation J er ever was in in yer life " "Well, yer see it is too harrerin' to a man's feelin's to think en." "That bad?" "Yes. I was down to Economy Flats, in Kansas, nigh onto ten year ago. There was a Haughty cultural show gotten up â€" a kind of a butter, cheese, and fruit circus, with flowers and temperance orators. But what took the bakery of the whole programme was a pr Z3 for little kids under one year of age." ' "Goats?" •' No, babies " ' ' Must a been a pretty sight " " You're riaht. Tuere was seventy-six fend parrints as brought their chernbiDs and terrapins into the course, and each mother thort she was sure to gee the bulge on the rest." "They couldn't all win." " Stands ter reason, no. Wtll, would yer believe it? Ef they didn't go an' pint me one of the jedges." " Qaite an honor." " 8o I suppose. Well, we sampled out a chirpy little fellow an' put the ticket on hiin. Then the trouble began. Ef yer could could jest mix up a earthquake, storm at sea, a lynchin' bee in Colorado, a dog fight an' a Fourth ward caucus yor'd only get a mild form of the shakin' np us cammittte- men got into. One man's cheeks was so scratched up tbey had to put a wax mask onto his face. There ^a*n't more hair on the heads of them baby jedges than udmake whiskers for a six weeks' old mouse. Say, mister, let's take drink an' drown the recei- lections of such an orfal incidence." They arowned them. Woman's Work in Germany. \\'ith all their excellence in many depart- ments, Germans have litt'e to boas: of in the actual comforts of life or the treatment of women. To American ideas the relations of the sexes seem to be utterly inccngruous, and the German woman ssems to occupy the position of an Indian squaw. While the men may be seen in the beer-shops you may drive past fields where you will see women dig- ging up the fields, not here and there, but in gangs. Again you will see a line of wo- men mowing a crop or field-planting pota- toes. When the marken-cart goes t) town to dispose of the fruits of her labor, the wo- man goes as the ft^m br n 1 to assist tbs hus- bandi^^ The petty trades, the itinerant vendors en the streets, are, in multituds of cases, wo- men where 'we should oxpiect to sec men. You will meet in the streets of the tow ns women earrying infants in their arms, yet bearing en their backs a totter-ng structure of woeKlenware which they^are endeavoring to sell. The basket- weaver peddles throug.i the streets the work of her hands. Undoubtedly those who wish to see wo- men enter more into the employments usu- ally followed by me n will scarcely care to recommend such vocations as these to our poorest women. We bushes it frequents, with its wings 2^, It finds perfect proteotwn in its re- Jablance to the flowers. In fact, persons '° nave been pursuing it have been as- ^ed at its disappearance right nnder ^^ fingers. In India there are butterflies are exact in their imitation of flowers t 'saves. Not only is the color imit a ted ' "le spots of mildew that are common On „^ at certain times, tiere is a lizard," the nataralist con- taking down a spedmoi that was ^ed in alcohol, "and is one of the Settiiig a Dislocated Neck. John Ibetson and his son Bobwt, of Troy, fell frtm'the roof of a house on which they were working in East Syracuse. The dis- tance was fity-feet. Ibetson is porUy, and weighs more than 200 pounds. His -son fell on top of him. When Mr. Ibetsou was taken up he was completely paraljzeei. The physicians who w«re c^leii found that Mr. Ib^tsoo's neck was dislocated in precise- ly the way which commonly resnita in^cases of hanging. His arms and legs were power- less, his h( id immovable, aad his iKidy so devoUl of sensation that he did not feel a pin thnn inte itim ajT^here. He coald speak. The doctors decidSd to try to repair the dis- looatton^ ;^^ wo strong men seiz^ his feet, two more took hold of his hedi, and they aoUad in opposite directions with all their nighty while the dtHstors -maoipulatod the bones of the seek. It Was 4:30 p m. before the man's neck was set. When the pressure caused by the displapement of the bones of the »«ok was .removed from the spinal colamn the man raised his arms and said he feltbetW. .^eathetics were next ap- T^e4, and the iatient said that he felt no p^ t^ durftig tiie Qpeiatien, The doctors say that be wiD recover; m • u rn t ' • m Th6 proudest boast of man is tliat he ia a reasontng^^fireature. The possession of rea- son is the^ne characteristic by which he is most readily separated from the brutes around him. But there are m* ny times pre- sented to view pha»es of action and opinioa, which may well lead the thoughtful person to question whether the mass ef his fellow- beiiMScan be called reaso ning creatures. Certain it is that in very many instances ttwy are 'th9 mart OBrewoaable ones. •ndfittg' and'heleling out hfa iiii^' Our sal ntatto^a. exchanged, he vhedkjBBed ws ' to go be s***^ -- se,^ for he'VSrn- r^ »'ut ttf he,|^e j^ydooo or ohtef man of the village. On this d^ wece^ sefi* shairs and tabid; and,' after we had been placed in the eeat of honir, we^ere pies«Dted with wine/ tea, brmidy, and ttie ' mevMable gin and bittern; while «ar aiaaUe' host and 8on?e half-dozen nftfive chieft» .^\kf4 away m Malay, of which we knew not a word. The court was g^raduslly filling with nativee, while the gammeloag, the national musical instrument, was kept going in a deafening manner. " At last, after a;i eternity of waiting, a procession filed in, contistiog of many mounted wydbncs and about a dozsn men naked to the waist, painted over with yel- low paste â€" a most hideous sightâ€" and car- rying immense red and yellow banners. Then followed people carrying ofFeriDM of fruit and flowers, and finally two cloned car- riages, followed by. two menhideonsly paint- ed with ochre and prancing on enormous pasteboard horses. They looked too comical with the long sticks between their legs. Tuey were accompanied by an old haggard woman decked out with flowers, paper tai- sels, etc. Naked to the waist, with her gray hair loose, the contortions of this old lady and the pride with which she threw her head about were most amusing. "The wydono cime sailing forward and eseorted ps to his house, where in a back room was an estrade covered with beautiful white ccKsoanut matting, and here sat in state two of the most extraordinary figures possible, a woman whose face was one mass of ochre, with fantastically painted eye- brows, her head, neck, arms, and tunic cov- ered with enormous diamonds lier com- panie)n, a man painted in like manner, and wearing a tall hat encircled with diamonds, and his ears covered with large pointed ass's ears of gold, also heavily enriched with diamonds. Behind this singular p*ir were two women, haU-naked and piiuted yellnw, holding peacocks' tails in their hands; while behind them a^ain were two dummy figures similarly painted. The room was crammed with natives, and y^n may imagine our feelings when our host directed us to a«cend the dais, himself remaining behind. After many sigoa and much hesitation we had to get up, and with our travel-stained boots to advance to those peraonagss, who then rose and held out their hands to us. The wy- dono, evidently pitying our uncertainty, then motioned to us to conie away, and sewn we found ourselves in a room were a com- fortable luncheon was prepared, "After the repast, to our great relief, we were allowed to depart, our host giving me his arm most politely to the carriage, ' The ceremony we had witnessed was the mar- riage of a regent's or a prince's daughter with some Javanese functionary, and we happen- ed on all the show by mere chance, the Resi- dent of Dyocka having desired the wydono of that village to entertain us at tiffin," Peter Cooper's Sympathy With Women. Mrs, Susan N. Carter, the head of the Woman's Art School of the Cooper Insti- tute, contributes an anecdotal paper to the Decenber Century, ia which she says of Mr, Cooper's aims " ' All I want,' he said, ' is, that these poor women shall earn dec3nt and respectful livings, and especially that they shall be kept from marrying bad hus- bands.' " This subject of r.ahappy marriages seem- ed to be a very prominent one in Mr. Coop- er's mind. That women were often impos- ed upon, were ill-used and broken down, he had a lively conviction and all his chivalry and sense of fatherly protection were enlist- ed to save them, so far as he could, from these ordinary misfortunes. While the world is now occupied with the question of what womea caa be taught, their 'hipher education,' and many kindred subjects, Mr. Cooper's acute genius discovered, as by intuition, many years ago, the relation of women of the middle class to soeaety, to in- dustries, and the family. He eaw that many of them oonW :not Imlrry, aiad he realized what must be the* forlorn position of a number of elderly daughters of a poor man. He had noted the daugereus liSeli- hood of giddy ignorant young gith" marry- ing anybody for a home, even if the men th^ married were elissipated or inefficient and he had|thetendere8t pity for poor widows or deserted wives. He talked many times, 1 and at great length, on these subjects, and all circumstances and any sorfe of Incident brought up thi* desire of Uis heart, to help women to be happy, independent, and vir- .tuous. "Oae of the last times he was et the schoal, and while a c?lebiated New York clergyman was giving a csurse of Lenten lectures to women, Mr. Cooper with his face all aniioated with his feeling about it, he said • Dr. isof the wealthy class and he has been accustomed to deal with wealthy women. The world does not look like the same place to him that it does to me. 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RUTH BRANDON THE AGENT'S DAUGHTER Or, Science Against Savage Force HIGHLY ILLUSTRATCD ' THIS WONDERFULLY ENTERTAINING TALE OF LIFE ON THE FRONTIER Among the Wild Indians of the Plains; delineates ANEW PHASE OF WILD LIFE In vivid portraits. In which SltSl'tlatttlg with ' Terrible V and •:• Pathetic •:• Incidents' Of Border Existence, are the most ^SIDE-SPLITTING SCENES^ â€"ANDâ€" ASTOUNDING SURPRISES The Heroine, Ruth Brandon, is a beautifuHy drawn oharaotar, having all the soft femmine graces with some of the self-reliance engendered by " â- â- â- 'â-  :•' .jit"« '~i ' ihe vasidoMce on the Border. The first chapters of this story will appsar in THE WEEKLY MAIL of D«cembsr 6ih, and bs continusd In largo instalmsnts until coneludod. BE SURE TO SITBSCRIBE BEFOEE THAT DATE 80 AS TO 8ECTJEE THE OPENING CHAPTERS. THE WEEKLY MAIL WILL BE SENT TO ANY ADDRESS IN CANADA. THE UNITED STATES OR GREAT BRfTAIN FOR ^d,dLxess- FROM NOW TO THE END OF 1884. wos%oiTa?o