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AMERICA'S FIRST ENDOWED PLAYHOUSE.
S. W. Ramsey,, of Girard, Ohio, is
the inventor of a process for making
use of flue dust from a blast furnace
in the manufacture of fuel which is
said to be very promising.
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IVeserriKS Eg?s "With Lard.
Cover a fresh egg with a thin coat
f2Lg of lard, and It will keep perfectly
; sood for an Indefinite period, accord-
to a report of a new method of
preserving egg3 made to the State
Department by Consul Murphy at
Uordeaux. The discovery is of Ital
ian origin, and is regarded as impor
tant, as it is claimed that 100 eggs
caa tbns be preserved with four cents'
-worth of lard and an hour of time.
Weekly Witness.
HcaTy IVrding of Dairy Coirs.
jku Er.steni dairyman w'.th a herd
of Guernseys feeds considerably more
than the average fed over the country
nearly all the cows will clean up
troth winter and summer. He says:
'3Iy preference of grain feed for win
ter, prices admitting. Is four parts of
cottonseed meal, two of linseed meal
suehZ six of hominy meal, twelve
pounds of the mixture with thirty
poands of silage and sit pounds of
mixed h3y for the average cow. The
larjger milkers receiving more grain,
it narrows their ration to some ex
teat." Weekly Witness.
Anti-Spill Milk Stool.
"jy is made of lumber 1x10 In
utile and 16 Inches long, with a
llec2 of 2x4 for legs to go through
nailed cn the under side, the back
piece going crossways and the front
oaa lengthways. Bore holes for legs
"A" Swings the Bucket,
a they will stand well apart at the
Ijottom. -'A" is a ball for holding
milk pail ana Is made from tooth of
us. old xake. It Is bolted on just far
30gi away from stool so the pail
to ill not strike wheu swinging either
"wajr.. When cow goes to step, says
tie Missouri Valley Farmer, Just
swing pail out of the way and save
-tlis milk and your temper.
Feeding Turkeys.
A. turkey eats no more and. prob
aMy costs les3 to keep for a. year
tha.x the chicken hen. Watch the
Cock at feeding time, as the grain is
scattered, .-and if turkeys and chick
en cat together it will be seen that
the turkeys pick up no more, and
probably much less, erain than their
smaller and quicker neighbors. They
arc invariably better foragers. Even
Jm winter they find something here,
tcsro and everywhere, while the
chickens stay in their snug quarters
and wait for food to be brought to
them. farmers' Home Journal.
"r. Ttation For Sheep.
w"As to the most desirable kinds of
" Teed to be used for a sretn ration va
jriey is the best. We know this from
our xrwn experience, as we soon tire
f a sameness of -diet; it is also true
of our farm animals. When a va
riety la supplied, ' more food is con
samed and the better the digestion.
L-l ta.ro .found, cays a farmer in writ
'inz to Farmers' Review, that an equal
- amount 'Of crashed corn, oats, wheat,
bran and oil cake best suits the taste
.and xequirements of the lambs and
Sfves good results as to the growth
;adl sain In flesh and fat; the latter
XonHty Is especially demanded in the
arly market lamb. I would then in
crease the crushed corn to the limit
that it would be relished, for a fat
Xarob is far preferable to a lean one
of much larger size. But where the
Iambs are to be carried through the
smramer, for feeding the following
-wiMer, then good size, growth and
astamina ara required. In that event
I would cut out the corn from their
rcli&n for best results. But they
saboald be fed this grain ration, as
there is no time in an animal's life
-wrrea as great returns will be given
'tor food consumed as when suckling
its dam.
Talne of Bye as a Green Crop.
While nitrogen i3 the fertilising
ile'nient most easily lost from man
ures and soils, it is the most expen
sive, costing almost threa tines as
math per pound as potash and phos
Tihoric acid. The readiness with
-t?hich nitrates are washed out of the
ecil during heavy rains when the
jrronnd is thawed, suggests that dur
ing the period of such rain3 it should
kt& covered with some catch crop,
-wkJeh will feed upon the nitrates
Tormed and store nitrogen In its tis
sttes. For this purpose rye is an ex
cellent crop and is much used. Wrhile
It adds no nitrogen to tho Eoil which
is not already found therein, as crim
m&M clover does. It is a much surer
-catch than the former and is thor
eghly hardy. It forms quite a root
gjstom during the fall, starts off
.nearly la tho spring and by ordinary
pbiBting time forms a heavy coat of
manure to be plowed under. One
ml&CQ which ryo performs is to absorb
rgreat quantities, while the ground la
.recking; with moisture ia tho early
spring, so that when it is turned
down in the furrow it carries under
with it tons of water per acre and
holds it in such shape that it will not
be readily evaporated. Farni2r3'
Home Journal.
Making Butter on the Farm.
There arc two prima essentials in
making butt : on the farm a profit
able business. In the first place, one
must have plenty of pure, cold water,
and then a good. enough grade must
be turned out to make and hold cus
tomers. The trouble with nlna out
c every ten farm homes is they are
not equipped to take care of milk and
cream. When one goes into this
work to make money, better put up a
milk room, where pure water may be
had from pumping or from a spring.
Concrete floor and walls may now be
built as cheaply as with lumber, and
it is a great deal better than lumber.
Don't stop here. A barrel churn and
a butter maker will be necessary in
turning out a uniform product. H
looks easy simply separating th
cream, churning till the butter comes
and salting and the trick is done.
That is where so many fall. The
cream raust be churned at the right
temperature; it must be neither too
sweet nor too sour. Workiue and
salting butter to secure uniform eclor
and flavor is a very nice art. Don't
try to learn to do it infallibly In two
or three weeks, but by all means
don't practice on your customers.
That mean3 loss. It is better to wait
two or three months until you are
sure of your quality before you seek
customers. And before you ship, find
out how your commission man or pri
vate customers prefer to have their
butter put un. Sometimes the pack
age means r. difference of two or
three cents a" pound. Indiana
Farmer.
Clover Disease.
The bulletin of the Tennessee sta
tion, just published, in reference to
the disease by which clover crops fails
is as applicable here as there, and we
give its summary as follows:
1. Tho red clover crop of this
; State has been very uncertain for a
uumber of years.
i 2. The failure of the crop is due
in the great majority of instances to
a new fungous disease caused by Col
letotrichum trlfolii.
3. Tho disease belongs to a class
I known as anthracnose, whose gen
eral character i well known to plant
patnoiogists.
4. So far as known no cultural
methods of handling the clover will
prevent or even appreciably diminish
the ravages of this disease, and it ap
pears to exist on every kind of soil
in Tennessee.
5. The same disease also attacks
alfalfa, but to what extent in this
State is not yet known.
6. Alsike clover is almost abso
lutely immune to this disease.
7. Occasionally healthy planta oi
red clover in badly stricken fields in
different parts of Tennessee have pro
duced in the second generation plants
which were strikingly resistant to
the disease. Whether this resistance
will be maintained to future . genera
tions can not be foretold with cer
tainty. 8. While the effort is being made
to secure a supply of seed from such
plants it must ba distinctly under
stood that no such seed are as yet
ready for distribution, either by the
Tennessee Experiment Station or thfi
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
A Barn Cabinet.
There is little excuse for any farm-
er not having a sufficiency of home
made devices which are handy to
. store various things and save labor.
especially is this so when they can
be constructed out of dry goods oi
grocery boxes, and thatis what may be
said of the cabinet shown in the cut.
It can be made any size desired, and
if put together right will be practi
cally mouse and rat proof. The draw
ers are convenient in which to put
robes, blankets and the like, and the
shelves or compartments in the up-
Good Barn Cabinet.
per arrangement for holding brushes,
nails, hammers, wrenches and othei
small tools. It is a handy place to
store email seeds, condition pow
ders, liniments and medicines foi
farm animals. Indeed, there ar
many services that such an affair can
J be mada use of, all of which will
readily suggest themselves when 11
I ha3 been built and set in place.
' Fred O. Sibley, ia Farm and Homo.
t ispi
THE "NEW THEATRE" (COST, APPROXIMATELY $1,250,000), IN
PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION AT CENTRAL PARK WEST
AND SIXTY-THIRD STREET. NEW YORK, AS IT WILL
APPEAR WHEN COMPLETED Leslie's.
A Poor Corner.
When a girl puts a man. off by say
ing she will keep a little place in a
corner of her heart for him, he may
be sure that it Is a corner for which
she doesn't expect to have much use.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
CHARLES N. HASKELL,
The First Governor of the New State
of Oklahoma.
Rabies.
The "mad dog" season begins ynlh
the warm weather, to continue as
long as heat, dust, noise and neglect
strain the nerves of dogs and men.
A homeless cur, kicked by a cruel or
thoughtless boy, runs' barking
through the street. A child is bitten,
and the panic-stricken bystanders
assure it that hydrophobia will de
velop. If their victim Is sufficiently
Impressionable its death follows, and
another "mad dog scare" is well un
der way.
Just at present Staten Island is In
dulging In one of these unreasonable
and dangerous frights, with the aid
and assistance of certain health au
thorities. The alarm of the people is
not to be wondered at, but the fact
remains that physicians disagree as
to the existence of the disease rabies,
while men acquainted with dogs are
almost unanimous in declaring that
no such thing as the "mad dog" of
popular imagination ever existed.
Mr. Freer, of the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals, asserts
that in fourteen years the agenls of
the society have been bitten not less
than 15,000 times, and that not once
have the symptoms of rabies 'fol
lowed. Wounds caused by animals are not
more dangerous than wounds result
ing from falls or blows. They should
be cleaned promptly and thoroughly,
cauterized or rendered aseptic in
some other way, and kept clean while
healing. If these precautions were
always taken, and people would stop
talking about rabies, the "mad dog
season" would soon coase to occupy
an important space in the calendar.
New York Sun.
The United States has 9560 public
and private high schools, with 40,
631 teachers and 824,447 students.
In 1890 there were only 4158 high
schools, with 16,329 teachers and
297,894 students.
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KHYDER PASS, HISTORIC PATHWAY OF MANY NATIONS.
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A Curious Musical Box.
In the South Kensington Museum
In London is a curious musical box.
It was originally the property of Tlpu
(or TIppoo) Sahib, the "Tiger of My
sore," who died in 1799, being killed
during the British assault and capture
of Seringapatam, the capital of My
sore. He always hated the British,
andto show his enmity be had this
instrument constructed. The box is
a life-sized statuary group showing
the symbolic tiger of India at the
throat of England, represented by a
British officer. When Tlpu wished to
amuse his court, one of his attendants
turned a handle, when the tiger
emitted horrible growls and the man
raised and lowered his arms and ut
tered terrifying shrieks. Inside the
tiger are four rows of pipes and a set
of Ivory keys, which are either of
French or British manufacture. Chi
cago News.
Scrubbing Device.
In the ordinary process of washing
teitile goods by hand it is customary
to rub the goods over corrugated
washboards or like surfaces, by which
with the aid of water and somo deter
gent substances the scrubbing serves
to remove the dirt. The object of the
device shown In the accompanying Il
lustration is to reverse this method.
It consists of an arrangement of a se
ries of flexible pockets capable of
compression, so as to produce a vac
uum and suction through the goods
while being moved over them with
pressure. The scrubbing is effectual
ly performed without wear on the
hands. The compression and suction
continually forces the water and soap
through the goods with the effect of
a rapid and perfect cleansing
Washington Star.
Snakes Vermin Destroyers.
Following an agreement made
early last spring, melon growers in
the Southern Illinois watermelon belt
stopped killing non-poisonous snakes,
and this year the wisdom of the
agreement is i.hown. Heretofore
melon growers have had their fields
devastated in a single night by mice,
which burrowed into the hills, eating
the planted seed. It was decided to
keep the mice in check by not killing
snakes. This year few mice are seen.
Carmi Correspondence Indianapolis
News.
Illinois has 28,083 school teachers,
to whom $14,499,121 was paid in sal
aries last year. Women teachers got
$11,200,000 of the total salary dis
bursement. -wi
In Mayflelds Cave, in Indiana, A
M. Banta has captured thirty-three
species of flies (two of them new to
science), thirty species of other in
sects and twenty-one species of tho
spider class.
Turpentine Is obtained by cutting a
hole In one side of the tree, called
"boxing," which in a few years kills
the tree. The forest service has
found a method of extracting turpen
tine by which the trees are far less
injured, and the yield is increased
thirty per cent.
According to recently published
statistics in Mining Science, Charles
N. Gould professor of geology at the
State University, estimates the
amount of gypsum In the three re
gions of Oklahoma examined as fol
lows: Main line of gypsum hills, sec
ond line of gypsum hills and the
Greer County region, at 125,800,000,
000 tons. .
Experiments have recently been
made with an inflammable paste on
bullets. When the bullet leaves the
muzzle, the paste Ignites, leaving a
stream of smoke behind it, and enab
ling the marksman to watch its
eonrsg ar.tf, if necessary, correct his
aim for the next shot.
An Egyptian mining centre prob
ably worked as early as 2500 B. C.
was in the Eastern desert, between
the Red Sea and the Nile. The lately
discovered remains described by C. J.
Alford include small, irregular, stone
huts, arranged in , groups of two or
three to towns large enough for 1000
men. The ancient workings are bur
ied in sand. The only vestiges oi
mining appliances are elliptical rub
bing stones for coarse crushing and
quartz mills for reducing the rock to
fine powder, ready for washing out
the gold.
Giving evidence before the Coast
Erosion Commission, Dr. Otto Stapf
described the reclamation work per
formed by Spartina grasses, which,
he said, spread by underground
shoots and seed which was dispersed
by tides and currents, and presuma
bly by water birds. Certain forms
established themselves easily, and the
roots and bases of the dense clumps
effectively fixed the mud, and where
they occurred in dense patches they
formed a protecting belt for the shore
or bank behind them.
Washington Monument's Cap
The first practical use ever made
of aluminium was in fitting a cap on
the peak of Washington Monument in
1884. Although aluminium was dis
covered in 1827 by Professor Wohier,
of Gottingen University, Germany, at
that time it was practically an un
known metal, the cost and difficulty
of its production having prevented its
development until the general use oi
electricltyjnade it easy and econom
ical. The cap on the top of the mon
ument is a square pyramid In shape,
weighing 100 ounces, and is 8.9
inches In height and 5.6 inches in
width at the base. General George
W. Davis was in immediate charge oi
the completion of the monument un.
der General Casey and has the dis
tinction of being the first man ta
handle aluminium in a practical way,
Until that time it had been used fo
toys, for "freak" purposes, and small
samples had been utilized in making
models for the Patent Office. Boston
Globe.
A Snake-Bite Knife.
The British government has been
actively fighting snakes in India foi
a dozen years and more, and still
these reptiles kill many thousand na
tives annually. Sir Lander Brumton
a little while ago devised a neal
pocket instrument for handy use ir
case of a snake bite, and the Indian
government has decid:d to distribui
the apparatus widely among the na
tives. It consists of a small knif
in the handle of which is a cavity.
This is kept filled with pernianga
nate of potash, a powerful antiseptic
and caustic. When a person is hittan
he immediately cuts the Avound o;)&:i
widely and rubs the permanganate
upon the raw surfaces. If the bite
is in the extremities in'l this opera
tion is performed without delay, the
treatment is said to ba very effective
Chicago Journal.
Concerning Columbus.
Several of the ancient cities of
Italy lay claim to the honor of being
the birthplace of Columbus, and each
has been able to advance plausible
reasons in support of its claim. Ge
noa, however, seems to be ahead of
all competitors. There has recently
been discovered a decree of the dean
of Genoa, dated 14 61, appointing Do
minic Colombo, the father of Christo
pher, custodian of the Ogivella tower.
It was hi October of this year that tho
discoverer of America was born.
Kins Kdward an Athlete.
A contemporary announces that the
King has taken "his golf clubs to
Biarritz" and that he will spend fine
mornings on the links. It so happens
that the King is not a golfer. The
only outdoor game played by His
Majesty ia croquet, which he likes
very much. London Truth.
GENERAL HUMIDITY.
Little drops of 1120
On a person's brow
lay be noticed, as you know,
Frequently just now.
THROWN TOGETHER.
"Do you ever meet Dr Rybold?
"Often. He and I er are
thrown together a good deal. ' We
iravel on the same suburban line."
Chicago Tribune.
AIRSHIPS NEXT'.
"He has" a remarkable aptitude for
modern languages."
"Indeed!"
"Yes; vhe learned to talk automo
bile and golf both An one season."
Nashville American.
THE PROOF.
, "What'd Jimmy give yer fer yer
oirthday?"
"This here brass ring."
"How'd yer know it ain't nothin1
out brass?"
"He give it ter me." Cleveland
Leader.
THE GRAVE PROFESOR.
First Co-Ed "Ever notice how
erave Professor McGoozle always
Is?" : ' .
Second Co-Ed "Yes, but there's
aothing strange about that. He does
all his thinking in the dead Ian
zuages." Chicago Tribune.
SURE TESTIMONY.
First Magazine Editor "I believe
my youngster is cut put for an edi-
lor.-
Second Editor "Why so?"
First Editor "Everything he gets
ais hands on he runs and throws into
the waste basket." Lippincott's.
JUST IN TIME.
Policeman "I just called to say,
:hat your dog license had expired."
Mrs. Sniff "So has 'the dog. He
lied this morning." New York MaiL
EXPECTED.
"I hear that this corporation in
tends to increase its rates to the
public."
"It was to be expected, now that
its president has to pay dividends on
two titled European sons-in-law."
ludge.
THE POLITICIANS' WAY ;
"Remembor," said the prudent
nan, "that the words once spoken
ean never be recalled."
"No," answered Senator Sorghum;
"but you can always make a fuss
and say you were misquoted."
Washington Star.
MUST HAVE WED NOBLEMEN.
"I hear that Jones' four daughters
ire married."
"Is that so? I suppose he's glad
he's got them off his hands."
"Not exactly. He now has to keep
the four husbands on their feet." t
Brooklyn Life.
FARMING SUCCESS
"Does anybody around he-e mak
A success of farming?"
"Yes," answered Farmer Corntas
sel, "OI" Joe Struthers does. He
sold his farm and is putting the
moi;py ouc :u interest among us fel
lers." Washington Star.
ECONOMY.
Lord I . e w s o n " V! h -
tner?
csed to L'3 two windmills there."
Pat "Thru 2 for .-ou, si.-."
Lord Lewson "Why Is there but
one now?-'
Pat "BecTai?, they look one down
to lave mora wind for t'other."
London Tit-Bits.
STAT E 3 MA X 8 FT IP.
Statesmen were discussing
Constitution.
the
"You don't even knoiv who wrote
it," sneered one.
"And J don't care," responded the
ether. "Aly mission is to inform peo
pie what the author, whoever he was,
meant by it." Philadelphia Lodger.
spoiled the cam::.
Mrs. Pap'.p.j "LK::.: V.v-rrzi won'l
fake milk ;-; r.:i r.r..:. .z uJ tc
like it, but '
Mr. Poplt-y (crrs-Iy) "Xn, and
thai: is a'.l c.i cccoau: cl your impu
dene?." Mrs. Popley "My i r.r md ones?"
Mr. Popley "Yer-, ; c.i allowed
him to hear you f ay thai IL was good
io.r him." PhUadel; U.; Tress.
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