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i THE 318.3333 8 ENDLESS l‘OIL. to lanklud of Ills Dis- , eoverles. “'hen 3dr. Stanley was last in this coun- try be ex ressed the opinion that many people di not suffislently distinguish be- tween mere travellers and competent ex- plorers. Books of travel, he said, are often wanting in the qualities of minute and ac- curate description needed to make them specially important. The well equipped explorer on the other hand collects, at the cost of an immense amount of drudgery, material that is most useful in various branches of science. Mr Stanley mentions ed Burton aean example of a born traveller, and Spoke as a great explorer. The scientific results of Dr. Junker’a re- cent exploratione in Central Africa, just published, are a conspicuous example of the rare enthusiasm and perseverance which the best explorers bring to their work. All hieroute maps are based on observations taken every five minutes during his jour- neys. At the end of each five minutes be entered in his note book THE DIBBCIION I!!! HAD MABCHED ; and at the end of each day be computed his average direction and the distance travelled. At nearly every camp he was able to take the bearings of dis':ant hills to aid in cor- recting any error in his route survsys. The notes he had taken on the way were then copied in pen and ink into hisjournal. They include a great variety of information, such as the geology and vegetation of the country, the character and density of the population, the political boundaries crossed, and all the explorer could learn of the streams and rivers. “’hen it is remembered that day by day for four years, during which Junker travelled some thousands of miles on foot, he kept up this laborious routine, it is easy to believe that wonderful patience and per- severance were not the least of the qualities he brought into play. The great geographer Supan, criticising an inaccurate book on Germany’s colonies, recently wrote that “ he serves his father- land best who tells the plain truzh.” Ger man explorers certainly excel in the faculty of minute observation and accurate report- ing. 15 is said by those who have visited the route which Wissmsnn and Pogge fol- lowed half way across Afric i that every im- portant feature of topography for. about three miles on either side of their path is clearly and accurately shown, on their route may. The other explorer, Nachtlgal, whose extensive travels in the Sahara and the Sou~ dan made him famous, was marvellously painstaking both in the collection of data and in preparing them for publication. He was seven years writing out his greatwork ; and i: is a monument of sc?enrifi3 obser- vation, and a worthy model for the study of all geographical writers. A while ago Mr. O'Neill took over eighty observations to determine the longitude of Blantyre, and Lin further labours. carried out in thesame toilsomo and conscientious manner, have led to considerable changes in the position of places on Like Nyassa which had been accepted by geographers : s accurate. “'0 often read the results or competent exploration with little thought of the immense labour involvedin the earnest endeavour to attain the ex lot truth. Major Powell testified four years ago that With the machinery then employed in making the great topographic mop r" ,this cmntry, it would azill n quire about twenty-four years to compete in. Na (*xp‘orcr has surpassed Livingstone in conscientious devotion to his business, though, with better appliances, some explor- ers have achieved in some respects more ex set results. The world has not yet seen in print, and probably never will, more than a third of the material he collected, and which he did not have time to prepare for publication. W Ancient Letters. Mr. Petrie's excavations have brought other long-buried wonders to light. Half a mile from the pyramid of Illahun he came upon a Christian cemetery of the fifth and sixth centuries. The rich garments of the pious Copts buried there are described as being, from the extreme dryness of the spot, “still quite sound and even wearable." Below the cemetery were found the founda- tion deposits of Userteeen IL, about B. 0., 2960. Close to the temple are the remains of a town of the same period, evidently built at one time, and originally, it is supposed, in- tended for the architects and workmen em- ployed upon the pyramid. It was bore that the pottery with the alphabetic signs was found. papyri wore revealed. Of some of these Mr. Patric writes : “They are apparently a counts,all in ruled columns and linee,exqui- eitcly neat and in a beautifully clear hand, many of the entries being in red. 1 have ll sited and laid under prms seven square feet of sheets and fragments, all of the Twelfth Dynasty." But the most remarkable of the relics of the ancient civil‘zition, or at least those which come heme to us with most of the freshness and pathos of a living and or nasal interest, were those turned up at oil Gurob, five oreix miles from lllahun. Here the head cases of mummies were found to be made of many layers of papyri plastered together. Separated by soaking," says the account before us, "these papyri have been made to tell their story, sometimes irlvial, sometimes pathetic, after the lapse of count less ages. One is a letter from a youth at college, telling his father of his progress, and saying that he now undmtands menacrarlon and can draw a plan of a house; another from a royal eoee herd, who states that he cannot supp twelve for King Ptolemy ’s f val." How those revelations of common feelings and wants of humanity bridge the charms of scores of centuries and bring back to us the real life of these actors on the stage of a world so long past that it is hard, without such adstanoe, tooenooive ofitaspeopled withbeinge of like wsamsnd feelings with ourselves. The Great ls Familiar Talksâ€" Tako notice of this, young men: “ While working by the month never think of ow sing a horse and top . Inovm' knows young man to rise in a world who used his first money in this we .” So says D.A. Baker in the New: York ’ e, and new I think of it I can mil several young men of miaoqualutsnee who put their first money into one flesh and pleasure oarriagea, but can not recall any who have made a marked suoees in life who begun that way. The young man who makes himself indieponlable to his employer dooen't have much time for riding over the country outside of service hours. The young man who complains that 1 Here also dozens of invaluablo‘ . ' his work is monotonous or confining during i the entire years of service is not the one to find himself in specially easy circumstances later in life.â€"{A. W. Cheever. In the Tree-l'op. BY LOUIS! ESTELLE HOOK. A strange place for baby's cradle! The wind's lullaby is not always gentle, and “when the bongh breaks” what will become of poor baby ! How many mothers have in- trusted their little ones to the oak tree's airy nursery, do you think? The oak stands just at the turn of the road, over-lookin the field, and if it only kept a record 0 the guests it sheltered beneath its strong, outstretched boughs every summer, it would have a bi bly inter- esting visitor's book. In spite of a l dangers, there are many cradles rocked in that tree top, and the cod old oak gives the little one shelter an often food as well. First we see the robins' nest, which they have built with such care from sticks and straws, plastered with clay and lined with horse-hair; but they were foolish robins to set up house-kee ing there, for squirrels like oak trees too. i: is a melancholy fact that squirrels and robins cannot live peacefully in the same tree; and the old oak could probably tell us of many a terrible battle between them if it had only taken notes at the time. But these robins may think that the highwny running close by will be a protection to them, or their furry enemies are shy, and prefer to live in the woods, out of the rose of pastors-by. At any rate, the birds have seen their pretty blue eggs hatch into ravrnous little monsters with great yellow beaks, and are very happy and very busy feeding and keeping them warm, and as yet no squirrel has disturbed their peace. But this cradle that we may see so easily, is not the only one in the oak tree. Close by the robins’ nest grows a little brown ball, round and hard. 13 does not look as if it could be the home of any liv- ing creature, but in it are hal? a dozen or more tiny infants. They like their dinners oi sawdust as wellas the robins enjoy the fat worms their busy mamma brings them. No- body brings any delicacies to these closely sea-ad balls; nobody rocks the cradle but the Wind Nevertheless, it was prepared for these little white inmates by a careful, gauzy wir god mother, that looked like a wasp, and who, stinging the oak twig caused this little brown nursery to grow upon it, Then she laid some tiny eggs within, and, strange to say, they straightway began to gt aw larger, which is more than the robln's .gg could do. The ball grow, too, till it was urarly as large as a cherry, and then the eggs within ihatchcd into tiny, worms, which found the world a very crowd- ed little place indeed, though well filled with nice sawdust to eat all day long. How astonished they will be when they eat their way out at last, and, arriving at the surface of their little globe, look around them at the great world of light and air that they never saw before! Then they will fly about in the sunshine, grown up gall-wasps, to make more oak balls for their little ones; but now they are snugly housed, and know nothing of the hum of life going on all about them. Small as they are, these queer nurseries are not the tiniest to be found in the tree- tnp. Another winged creature goes flying about with a long plercer that looks like a sting, n urmuriug to herself, “ I must find a leaf ; I must make a place for my eggs.’ And then she thrusts the sharp piercer between the upper and lower surfaces of a leafâ€"fijust think how little space she has lâ€" and ads ita capital place for her little ones. So the eggs hatch in the smallest possible room, as flat as a sheet of paper; yet the tiny creatures got more exercise than the baby-wasps. This we can see by looking at the leaf they live in;fer it is covered with wavy lines that show where they are making tunnels inside as they crawl along, eating the green part of the leaf, but never touchihg the outer portion, else they come through into the air before they were ready to live there. That time will come by and by, and meanwhile the leaf is their world. Another leaf is rolled up in a curious way, and secured with a little sheet of pure white silk. This is a daintier cradle than the others, and it contains something very curiousâ€"a pale pink ball, the size of a pea, formed of many llitle e fastened to- gether. And, is l in time these grains put out eight little it s apiece, and there we have a whole fsm y of baby spiders. still clinging together. as they will continue to do tell they grow a little larger and feel more at home in the world. But what is this loud rapping? The oak tree has a new visitor, and this time it is one who will make and havoc in the nurseries that are the meet carefully hidden. Bold. strong, and hungry, his red ca showing like a single of danger among the eaves, the wookpecker alights on the trunk, on which he can run as fast as you can on the ground, and tape to find out who is at home. Woe to the occur that answors the tapping l Even if they hide in the crevices of the bark, or in the wood itself. Wood her, with his sharp eyes and sharper boa , will find them out and eat them. And, more than all, he will even take pains to prepare an attractive place for various insects to pass their infancy, that he may be sure of finding them as home. And this is how he does it: He first drills a good-sized hole in the tree: then use in eerch of an acorn, and, finding one, pope it into this hole. Some- times pie have fancied that he was storing it away for his own nee; but he does not mean to eat the acorn itself. He knows that there are those who will, and when he comes again, he will find many little grube and worms, and baby files of all kinds, enjoying the feast he has provided for them. Then, you may be sure, the woodpecker midyl a feast in his turn. 'ot, in spite of dangers, there are happy lives in the tree-top, and all the year round thegood oldoak stands by the road with outstretched beughs, ready to welcome every new guest and protect as well as it can the little ones oemmiited to its care. The wind blows, but the branches are strong ; the sun shines with fierce host, but the leaves give shade ; and when the rain fails it cannot harm the sheltered homes in the oak tree. A Good Reason. Geode Catehoâ€"By Jove l what a stunning creature May Blossom in. Miss Cheviousâ€"l'ndeed ! Geode Catcheâ€"fiwe ; you know she’s so well poised, so sure of herself. Miss Cheyious-JVell, she ought to be ; she has known herself long enough-[Trust ' Paradise. 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The London tailors are still out, and the bakers of the Metropolis meet to-morrow to air their grievances in Hyde Park, and as Burns is to address them a resort to a strike is not improbable. The fear among the capitalists, however, is that success on this occasion will cause the strike leaders to organize a universal railway strike in Eng- land. It would be by far the greatest labor trouble that England has ever seen. The cab drivers of London are also talking of striking, and Burns has informed them that his services are at their disposal whenever they set about improving their lot. The Young Men’s Christian Association will be glad to know that the Due Neuvieme Siecle of Paris publishes the statement that the British Government has taken the op- portunity of the death of the Prince of Men- aco to reopen the question of suppressing too big gambling establishment there. 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