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A Terriblk Battle.— When I first 

 noticed the fray it could only have juat com- 

 menced, for round Mound Colony, though in 

 a fearfully excited state, the principal portion 

 of the black ants were still congregated. Far 

 away at the base of the yellow ant hill I 

 noticed a few black ants phenomenally still, 

 for an ant not incessantly moving may be gen- 

 erally looked upon, so far as this life goes, as 

 having been disfranchised. Between the ci- 

 tadel of the yellow ants were apparently en- 

 joying a friendly wrestling match. Any one 

 watching the athletes, however, would have 

 noticed that whenever one was thrown he, 

 like the black ants at the bottom of the yellow 

 ants' hill, made no attempt to move again and 

 manifested that wonderful indifference t-: 

 subsequent proceedings which doctors call 

 death. As I watched, the angry movements 

 ■round the Mound continued. From the 

 Mound and out of the hill in which the yel- 

 low ants lived the wrestlers in the plain be- 

 tween the two were, I noticed, constantly re- 

 ceiving fresh accessions of strength. De- 

 tachments of black ants were then formed at 

 intervals and met by opposing detachments 

 of yellow ants ordered out of their ant-hill. 

 Had a General commanded the forces the 

 fighting could not have been more scientific. 

 The skirmish extended into an engagement, 

 the engagement into a heavy battle and at 

 last the battle into an assault on the yellow 

 ants' hill itself. As I watched the supporters 

 of the black ants were thrown forward more 

 rapidly and in greater numbers. Out of the 

 yellow ants' hill deployed heavier columns. 

 The charge and shock of the opposing masses 

 became more fierce, and the litter of the dead 

 more numerous. The tide of battle, surging 

 now to Mound Colony and now to the yellow 

 ants' hill, took narrow Sowings to the for- 

 mer, and more repeatedly neared the latter ; 

 for the yellow ants were slowly giving way, 

 and their black assailants were" forcing them- 

 selves nearer and nearer the ant-hill. Had it 

 been possible to have separated the combat- 

 ants now I would have done it. Small as 

 they were there was a sanguinary ferocity 

 about the black ants which alienated sym- 

 pathy, while the bravery of the yellow ants, 

 coupled with the fact that they were nearly 

 a third smaller tnan their foes, compelled 

 something like admiration. To add to the 

 horror of the scene the butchery was executed 

 in deadest silence. The visible rush and ex- 

 citement of the storming parties could be 

 plainly seen. The heat and action of attack 

 and defence were as apparent as if the hill I 

 sat watching had been one of the heights of 

 the Schipka, and the combatants Turks and 

 Russians. It was plainer, for no smoke of 

 battle hid slayers and slain. All was done in 

 clear, broad genial sunshine, and was as viv- 

 idly observable as the tortures which are be- 

 ing inflicted on the Elamite prisoners in some 

 • of the Assyrian tablets at the British Museum. 

 But as those hapless wretches, pegged down 

 to the ground and slowly skinned alive by the 

 implacable figures standing knife in hand over 

 them, have been voicelessly suffering the 

 most excrutiatlng agony any time these 

 thousand years, so the unfortunate yellow 

 ants were dismembered without the faintest 

 sound reaching me. There may have been 

 cries and screams and the sobbings of unut- 

 terable physical anguish. If there were my 

 senses were too gross to perceive them. I 

 could see limb torn from limb. I could watch 

 the body of some miserable prisoner length- 

 ening under the awful strain, as two bands of 

 its captors tugged it in two. Then it snapped 

 asunder, and its bloodthirsty assailants cap- 

 tured another foe.— Belgravia. 



dead at his feet. Instantly the whole church 

 was rilled with blazing pistols. In less than 

 five seconds the only person left alive was 

 the bride, who had ducked behind the pulpit 

 early in the action. The half married female 

 gazed musingly around and remarked as she 

 started for home: " These self-cocking re- 

 volvers is playing the mischief round here, 

 and that's a fact ?" — San Francisco Post. 



The Self-Cockxng Revolver. — At a wed- 

 ding in South Carolina last month, an inci- 

 dent occured aptly illustrating social life in 

 the United States. The bridegroom, who 

 belonged to the "first southern families," 

 took exception to the phraseology of the 

 officiating clergyman and remarked, " You 

 shouldn't say those uns whom the Lord had 

 lined together, but them uns." The 

 preacher who prided himself on the "high- 

 toned" quality of his language quietly drop, 

 ped his hand into his pocket of his surplice 

 and interpolated: "You jist paddle your 

 own canoe, youad feller, or your trouble'll 

 begin sune enuff. I'm runnin' this tea 

 party, I am— as I said afore — my beloved 



hearers — those uns as the Lord" Just then 



the bridegroom made a motion toward his 

 hip but before he could draw the minister 

 fired from his pocket and the young man fell 



Keeping a Hotel. — An estimate has been 

 made, by a competent authority, of the 

 amount of food consumed in the fifteen 

 largest hotels of New York City for the year 

 1878. On an average G'J.GOO lbs. of meat 

 were used every week to supply these fifteen 

 hotels; and of this quantity 48,000 lbs were 

 beef. Of fish 700,000 lbs. were consumed in 

 che year; 19,000,000 oysters, 5,500,000 eggs, 

 1,800,000 chickens and poultry, 11,000 barrels 

 of flour, 20,000 barrels of potatoes, 100,000 

 lbs. of coffee, 82,000 cans of milk, 170,000 

 quarts of cream, 480,000 lbs, of butter, and 

 20,000 lbs. of grapes. In addition to these 

 items it was ascertained that about 20,000,000 

 of pieces had been laundried in those fifteen 

 liotels during the year ; that their gas bills 

 had exceeded $165,000 ; that they had con- 

 sumed 25,000 tons of coal and 12,000 tons of 

 ice ; while the wastage and garbage exceeded 

 10,000,000 lbs. 



Photography m Banking.— The London 

 News reports that the Bank of France has for 

 seme time past employed a photographic de- 

 tective to examine suspicious documents ; 

 and more recently has placed an invisible 

 studio in a gallery behind the cashiers. Hid- 

 den behind some heavy curtain the camera 

 stands ready for work ; and at a signal from 

 any of the cashiers the photographers secured 

 the likeness of any suspected "customer. It is 

 also reported that in the principle banking 

 establishment in Paris several frauds have 

 lately been detected by the camera, which 

 under some circumstances exercises a sharper 

 vision than the human eye. Where an 

 erasure has been made, for instance, the 

 camera detects it at once, let the spot be ever 

 so smoothly rubbed over, while a word or 

 figure, that to the eye has been perfectly 

 scratched out, is clearly reproduced in a 

 photograph of the document. 



A Lacustrine Discovery. — The Geneva 

 correspondent of the Times writes under date 

 March 14:— "M. A. Borel, of Chaux-de- 

 Fonds, has just had the good fortune to find, 

 in the lake Neuchatel, between Bazuge and 

 Chatelard, a pre-historic canoe, probably the 

 finest specimen of the sort that has yet come 

 to light in Switzerland. Hollowed out of a 

 single piece of oak, the vessel is eight metres 

 long, ninety centimetres wide, and sixty five 

 centimetres high. It is well finished, and in 

 a perfect state of preservation. The sturn 

 carries a spur, and the prow is curved in the 

 form of a hook, probably for the purpose of 

 attaching it by a rope to a landing-place. 

 The canoe is sufficiently large to carry twelve 

 persons. There is no appearance of row- 

 locks, but the supports on which the thwarts 

 formerly rested are still plainly to be seen. 

 M. Borel proposes to present this interesting 

 find' to the Museum of Chaux-de Fonds." 



— An army officer from the Yellowstone 

 Valley tells how a herd of Buffalo were en- 

 gulfed as they were migrating southward. 

 The numbered 2,5000, and when they reached 

 the river ventured upon it with their custom- 

 ary confidence, coming upon it with a solid 

 front and beginning the crossing with closed 

 ranks. When the front file, which was 

 stretched out a quarter of a mile in length, 

 had nearly gained the opposite shore, the ice 

 suddenly gave way under them, and four or 

 five hundred animals tumbled into the open- 

 ing all in a heap and sunk out of sight in a 

 twinkling. By this lime the rotten ice was 

 breaking under the still advancing herd, and 

 in less than a miuute all were submerged. 

 They were wedged in so thickly that they 

 could do nothing but struggle for a second 

 and then disappear beneath the cakes of i<u 

 of the swift current. Not a beast in all that 

 mighty herd escaped. 



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