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MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS. THS SVGAS CAMP YEARS AGO AT PRESENT AMD 'Old And New Processes Described Backwoods Fun in Former Time Curious Things About Sap. A New York commission merchant said to a Times reporter: "The art of making maple tsugar has greatly im proved everywhere within the past few years. In the early da tapping a maple tree was simply the cutting in it with an axe, a foot and a half above the ground, a sloping notch three inches deep at the bottom, which was scooped out into a miniature trough. As the notch filled with sap it was ladled out. By this means of procuring the sap much of it was wasted, and then the augur hole and the hollow piece of elder came into use. It is not many years ago since any one walking through a sugar bush in the sap-running season could see the sap dripping through these elder tubes into rude troughs made by hollowing out with an axe a piece of log split in half, and holding three or four gallons. ' In the sap dead flies, bees, leaves, and twigs were always to be seen floating, and in the removal of these more or less sap was wasted. In the days of the elder and the wooden trough, the sap was carried to the old time boiling kettles, which were usually the ones used j ; l TV ill tno peiiuuitjui Buau-maa.iu;. iucsc were nung oyer nres ouut on tne grouna and thus the sap while boiling was cx: posed again to all kinds of foreign sub stances. The manner of hanging these kettles was peculiar, and I know of many old farmers who make sugar simply for their e)wn household use who stick to the old crane and kettle still. In hanging a kettle a tall, slim, tree would be selected and cut four or five five feet from the ground. It was then trimmed of its branches and a hole bored through its butt end large enough to admit a strong wooden pin. This pin was then driven into the top of the stump, and the trunk of the tree could be swung around at will. The kettle was hung on this crane over the fire, and, when it -was necessary, was swung aside to make it convenient for further operations. The sap was carried in from the trees in pails, borne by yokes across the shoulders not. only of rustic swains but maidens as well, for sugar making in the old days was a gala time and always looked forward to with joy by young and old, although it meant weeks of the hardest drudgery. " The sugar camp was the place for love making and all kinds of backwoods fun. Then, more than under the present system, it was frequently necessary, when the sap was -running tree, to boil all night. The grove, lighted up by many fires and peopled with many flitting forms of merry girls and lusty farm lads, pre sented a picturesque scene. On such occasion the country fiddler added the charm of his presence, and every moment that could be snatched from attention to tree and kettle was spent in hilarious devotion to dances whose graceful figures have long since been forgotten. It was very important to keep a close watch on the boiling kettles, for the sap was liable to boil over. Sometimes, even by the most violent and persistent stirring of the seething sweetness, the watcher was not able to stay this" inclination, and in such emergencies a piece of fat pork wa3 always kept handy to throw into the ris ing sap. This would instantly allay the trouble in the kettle by breaking the rapidly forming bubbles'by some action which I never quite understood. "It would not do to leave the sap long without stirring, for there was danger of scorching and certainty of its getting too thick. The work of stirring a large kettle could only be done by a strong person, and he required frequent relief. There was always some one of long ex perience in sugar making, generally a woman, who was the tester of a camp. She went from kettle to kettle, carrying a gourd dipper half full of sap or water. Dipping a spoonful of the boiling syrup from a kettle she threw it in the gourd and judged by its action whether it had reached the graining stage, or that ap proach to it when the fires should be lowered, if not extinquished. "When all was ready the syrup was turned off and the sugar run into well -gi eased pans, cups, bowls and dishes of all shapes and 6izes. "But a sugar camp nowadays, while it is a cheerful and hospitable place to visit, is vastly different from what it -was in our granaiatners' days, mere is no more boxing of trees, the elder stick has disappeared, and tne wooden trousn is never found in a well-resruiatea su bush. A small metal spile driven into a small auger hole now conducts the sap into tightly covered tin buckets. There are no insects or dirt to be taken from the sap when it is carried to the evap orating pans, and none is wasted. The evaporating pan. which has taken the place of the old kettle, is a broad, shal low pan, built in an arched furnace, and sheltered by a close building. The sap flows in at one end of the pan and fol lows devious furrows or passages in the bottom of the pan. By the time it reaches 4be end of these the sugar has been de posited and the sap flows out at the lower end of the pan as maple syrup. When this cools it is placed in the pan again, after straining, and beaten eggs and milk added to it. The heat is gradually increased, and the eggs and milk thicken and collect the impurities, and all rise to the surface, when they arc readily re moved in a body. When this syrup runs off the process of 'sugaring off' is com pleted, and the fugar is simply placed in molds and is ready for market. "There are many curious things about nap. It will not run freely unless there are mingled conditions of. heat, cold and light. Sap runs best with a still, dry, dense atmosphere, and when there is a north or west wind. A frozen soil, thawing through the day and hardening again at night, and plenty of snow in the woods makes the best weather for sap. The more oxygen there is in the air the better sap will run. If there comes a heavy snowstorm during sap weather, with a freeze following it, and then a thaw, the sugar maker may expect the best possible run of sap. Trees do not want to be close together to secure a good flow, and hence the anomaly in sugar making tljat a few trees may be more productive than a good many. Sap that runs at night will make more sugar than the same quantity running by day and also when it is caught near a snowstorm or a freeze. It is held by many sugar- makers that sap is better when treee grow in dry soil, are tapped on the south side, and when the tap is made high. Difference in quality of sugar, therefore, is due in a great measure to soil and lo cation of trees, and to climatic and meteorological conditions. Care and cleanliness in manufacture may make up, however, for deficiencies in other requi sites. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD, difficulty. They contain limcin much better condition Tor making the shells of New Tori's Cider Buslnesr As a rule the city men contract with the. farmers for the delivery of apples at certain times of the fall and winter, al though some who have extensive storage rooms receive the crop as fast as it is gathered, and store the apples for use as the demand requires. About ten gal lons of cider can be pressed from a bar rel of apples, and, as the apples have been large and sound this year, the cider is of excellent quality. "The cider business of New York and Brooklyn is confined to repacking into kegs to suit tne trade, renning and clar ifying for summer use, and making vin egar," a packer explained in the course of a talk about cider in particular as well as in general. "Very little cider comes from Long Island. A little comes in early in the season, but through the winter a regular trade there is supplied from New York. Pressing is begun in September. Some farmers may have enough apples to take to a mill, and get four or five barrels of cider, one ot wnicn he uses and the rest he sells to the store keeper, and that is about the extent of the cider business on the island, although I hear that a mill has been in operation at Glen Cove. The main supply comes from the Hudson river valley and cen tral New York. I have taken the prod uct of one mill in Greene county for twelve years. "By "the way, I maintain that cider nowadays is better than the cider we used to make when boys on the New England farms. Thousands of men in New York to day can recall the old press beside the barn or in one corner of the orchard, as well as I can. We used to think there was nothing purer than the cider we pressed out. The apples were sound and juicy and the straw was as sweet as could be. and I suppose the remembrance of sipping cider through a straw as it came from the press will never pass away. But in those days we used to soak the straw in the brook several days to make' it tough enough to bend without breaking, and it would soak up a good deal of water. It was a good deal easier to press the water out of the straw than to press juice from the pomace, and I don't know that I ever saw cider in the old times that didn't have a good product of water. Cider mills have improved greatly in all these years, and we have better cider. Some mills in this State produce from 20,000 to 30,000 barrels of cider in a year. They would make the eyes of an old New Eng land farmer stick right out of his head.' New York Times. Cost of a Collegiato Education. The annual expenses of a course of study at old Bowdoin is from $300 to $800. It is not fashionable there to be extravagant. An Amherst college student can finish the course at a cost of $350 a year, and at the outside it need not cost him over $1,000. - The expenses at Vassar college run from $500 to $1,000 a year. The girls have not foot ball teams or rowing crews to support. Brown University is ratner expensive. A scholar can spend $1,000 a year if he wants to, but the actual expenses need not exceed $350. Yale. Harvard and Columbia colleges are the most expensive in this country. The minimum expenses are from $400 to S600. while the maximum are put at $3,000. One of the cheapest colleges to attend In this country is at Beloit, Wis. Board is $1.50 a week, and it is almost impos sible lor a student to spend more than $500 a year. The expenses of an education at Cor nell are not large in comparison with other institutions of learning. A student can spend $1,100 for his legitimate ex penses, but $300 will cover them, pro vided he is economical. To illustrate the difference between man s real and his lancied needs it is said that a student at . Yale college can -pay ail ni3 real expenses witn $uu year, and yet $d,uuo can be expended in so-called legitimate expenses. New York Qra.ph.ic . Expensire Table Decorations. It is doubtful if there is a city in the country wnere there is so much luxury of the table as in Philadelphia, or where so much attention is given to dinner table decoration. Of late there has been a race for what may be termed dinner-table bric-a-brac. It is pTobable ' that Mrs. George W. Childs has the finest table decorations in Philadelphia. She has a great many very choice things, such as large platteaux, carved vases, candelabra and gold ornaments for the center of the table that are as fine as can be procured in Europe. She is said to have one of the finest collections of dinner plates in the country Sevres, Worcester, Derby, Dresden, Minton and Copelands and a great variety,no two as a rule are alike and each is a gem. Many of her plates have cost several hundred dollars a dozen. She gives orders to people of experience to be on the lookout for very rare speci mens. It is said that for a dinner of twenty persons Mrs. - Childs can, with out any difficulty, set a table the dec orations of which alone will represent expenditure of $30,000 or $40,000. jrniladelpnia l imes. Red Pepper and Salt for Cholera. A Massachusetts correspondent calls our attention to the publication, about thirty years ago, of a very successful cholera cure, introduced in this way: The captain of an emigrant ship, coming from Europe, had lost many of his pas sengers iy cholera, although, freely dosing al; who were sick with the reme dies then usual. At last he made a pre scription of his own one teaspoonful of red pepper and a tablespoonful of salt to a half pint of boiling water; this to be given as hot as possible, to every patient when first taken. It is said that this simple remedy acted as a charm, curing all the cases on board that ship, and attaining considerable general popu larity during the time of that choler visitation. Scientific American. Handling Ittilk. Col. T. D. Curtis read a paper before the Mississippi Va,'lley Dairy and Cream ery Association dt St. Louis, in which occurs the following passage: "Good milkers land the proper hand ling of milk are essential. It is quite a knack to milk a cow properly. The op eration should be performed regularly and in an orderly manner, without noise, and without exedtement. Grasp the teat so as to have, as it were, a handful of milk in it, closing the forefinger and thumb above, so as to prevent the milk from moving upward into the cavity. Then close the hand gently but firmly, the upper fingers closing each a little ahead of the one next below, the whole operation being performed, as it were, simultaneously. Do not dig the nails or ends of the fingers into the skin, so as to hurt the cow, but aontinue to open and shut the hand as irauicated, with a 6light downward pull, and eachjtime slipping the hand up so as Ha grasp a little of the udder and crowa tne miiK uowninto the teat, as the thumb and finger close pre paratory to the final grip. The operation is much easier to perform by one who knows how than it i3 to describe, but one quite easy to learn by one who wants to learn it. "The operation should be performed in a cleanly manner, in a cleanly place, keeping all dirt out of the pail, and all bad odors out of the air by the removal of the droppings, and the free use of deodorizers. "If set for butter, the milk should be put to rest as soon as possible, as agita tion hinders the separation of the cream from the milk. It should be set as warm as possible from the cow, a3 the more the temperature is lowered before setting, the more imperfect will be the separation of the cream from the milk. If the milk is carried to a factory, or the lowering of the temperature to any great extent is unavoidable, some ap paratus for raising the temperature to 100 should be provided. This will ob viate the loss by lowering of tempera ture. The reason for this is, that cream rises best with a falling temperature, and the farther the temperature has to fall, the better the separation. But in no case would I allow the temperature to go below 40 , for another law here sets in which makes a farther fall of temperature detrimental to the raising of cream that is, the law of expansion, which affects the watery portion that has been contracting down to about forty degrees. Lower tempera ture, I think, injures the keeping quality of the product; but this is disputed by some. "It is essential that milk should be set in a clean atmosphere, especially with open setting, where the milk is cooled down below the temperature of the air in the room, for the moment trsc milk gets colder than the air, the moiat.ure in the air begins to condense on the surface of the milk and the cream to absorb the odors that are in the moisture so con densed. So long as the air is colder than the milk the air absorbs the vapors rising rom the milk, and to that extent the milk is purified by the surrounding air; out wnen tne milK gets colder than the air the process is reversed, and the aii is purified by the milk. These facts should never be lost sight of in butter-making.' egs than it can be got in oyster shells, which are frequently recommended. As proof of the want which bones supply, laying hens will eat them far mor greedily than fowl3 which do not lay. Smearing the shells with linseed oil is reported to be a good way to preserve eggs. Bub the oil over the egg with the tip of the finger and suffer it to become dry on the shell. Eggs rubbed over with flaxseed oil in three months lost four per cent., and in six months four and a half per cent, of their weight, and when opened were found to be fresh, with the smell of fresh eggs. Eggs not so treated lost eleven per cent, of their weight in three months, and in six months thirteen per cent. There is no such disease as hollow horn. When cattle are sick their horns are apt to be cold, but we must look else where than to the horn for the disease. Indigestion is quite apt to be the cause, and this is often accompanied with loss of appetite, indicated by a refusal to chew the cud. It is a popular mistake to suppose that the cud has been lost and must be replaced. We might as well talk of putting an appetite into a dyspeptic man. Exercise and careful feeding will bring cattle around all right, and men also, for that matter The lime process of keeping egs Is to take one pint of salt and one quart of fresh lime, and slake with hot water. When slaked, add sufficient water to make four gallons. When well settled pour off the liquid gently into a stone jar. Then with a dish place the eggs in, tipping the dish after it fills with the liquid, so they wM roll out without cracking the shell, for if the shell is cracked the egg will spoil. Tut the eggs in whenever you have them fresh. Keep them covered in a cool place and they will keep fresh for one year. The plan of keeping cows continuous ly in milk without allowing thcra to have a calf is practicable, but not to be gen erally commended. There is not only a decrease in yield in cows so kept, but the milk is less digestible. It is nearly or quite a3 much labor to milk a farrow cow as one giviog a fresh flow of milk. The cow, if well fed, may be milked until six or eight weeks of th3 time for calving, or even up to it if necessary. but it is better to allow several weeks for the cow to get into condition for producing a large Cow of milk when she calves. A GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE. A 8XSASOB 8T0ST OT TJTSZCT SAT AOZS XV XAS8A8. Grasshoppers Coralnr la Counties millions and Stripping ttte Conn try of Veajetatlon in a Few Days. An old resident of Kansas has given a New York Tribune correspondent a Tivii account of a grasshopper visitation. Ha said : "I was employed on the railroad at that time, and worked with a section gang whose duty it was to keep the track for a certain portion of the road in good condition. Stories ot the near approach of the grasshoppers and the destruction being wrought by them . were becoming more frequent day by day, and we were constantly on the lookout for them. Finally, one bright August afternoon as we were working in a hut in a large piect of woods we heard a roaring sound m the trees coming nearer and nearer. I took it to be a heavy breeze. One of the men who had lived there many years, and who had often entertained me with his recollections, looked up and ex claimed : "Here come the 'hoppers, curse them! and all my summer's Ubor in my garden will bo thrown away. "In a moment a grasshopper lit on the ground beside me, and then another and another, and in less than five minutes the ground was covered with them, and still they came, lighting on our faces, on our hair, in our mouths, if we were unwary enough to open them; on the bushes, anywhere ana everywhere. In an hour it was almost impossible to see a bit of ground, ana the bushes were so loaded that - they were bent to the ground. The road between the rails was one living. jumping mass, and the rails were almost out of sight, so deep were they getting. Still they continued to come, and 1 found mvscii wondering 11 tney would never stop. It was almost impossible to work. If yon looked up suddenly and did not shield your eyes in some manner, they would come with such force, that strik ing you in tho eye, they would almost blind you. We could not step without treading on them and crushing them, so thick were they. The place where we were working was at the summit of a Farm and Garden IVotcs. The amount Df nitrogen supplied in ma nure is very much in excess cf the amount recovered in the increase otf the crop. It is the general opinion amonsr poul try men that very fat fowls do not lay well. Hence excessive feeding is condemned. To make economical pork the pier should be kept in a continuously crow ing condition from the day of his birth until he is delivered into the hands of the butcher. Do not plant trees in the garden. tney win not only snade tne crops to their detriment, but worse, will secure their own growing what is nourish ment at the expense of the garden, rob bing the vegetables and plants of the elements of fertility. When potatoes are fed to cows they ought to be given in connection wtfh other feed. The average ration of po tatoes ought not to be more than one fourth to one-third of the entire feed. Raw potatoes ought to be cut in slices, ind boiled potatoes ought to be crushed. In planting young tree3 an Indian far mer mixes the soil that he intends to fill around the tree with one bushel or more of fine chip-dirt. This is rich and stim ulating, and holds moisture well. In the fall he usually scrapes the tree trunks and washes them off with whale oil soap and water. Coal ashes may be utilized to a good advantage in the hen house bv sif tin them around on the floor. The fine aust mat mes aoout and settles on everv exposed surface will do no harm, and that which falls on the floors and under the roosts will act as a disinfectant and deodorizer. Where hogs cannot be allowed to run at large, as is the case on many farms, F. D.. Curtis, an excellent authority, favors the planting of artichokes and sweet corn, or the sowing of oats, rye alfalfa, the object to secure more green food than is given in the common way of raising hogs. . Horses troubled with heaves should be fed little dry food. Clover hay is es pecially objectionable, not only from the dust with which it is filled from imper fect curing, but also because horses like thi3 hay so much that they gorge them selves with it. Cut straw, well mois tened and sprinkled with meal, will make a feed that will restore a horse not too far gone with heaves to activity and usefulness. A line of any kind or trees along a fence will injure the crop for some dis tance inland. Some trees are worse than ethers, the hickory and butternut being Buch gros3 feeders that they are said to poison the land which they cover. In most cases their bad effects arc seen much further than the droppings of their leaves can reach, and especially with po tatoes or other root crops, which need all the moisture the soil can furnish. A few fresh bones finely crushed are excellent to make hens lay. Partially burning them will enable any one to pound them in small pieces with little Hint on UEotisn Cleaning Oil of lavender will drive away flics. Grained wood should be washed with cold tea. For ordinary woodwork use whiting to rub the dirt oil and ammonia. If paper has been laid under the car-, pet all dust may be easily removed with it. Mortar and paint may be removed from window glas3 with hot, sharp vine gar. Copperas mixed with the whitewash put upon the cellar walls will keen ver min away. Ceiling3 that have been smoked by a kerosene lamp should be washed off with 6oda water. Hellebore sprinkled on the floor at night destroys cockroaches. They eat it and are poisoned. Drain pipes and all places that arc . sour or impure may oe cleansed witn lime water or carbolic acid. Strong brine may be used to advan tage in washing bedsteads. Hot . alum water is also good for this purpose. The warmth of floors is greatly in creased by having carpet lining or layers of paper under the carpet. Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks where ants congregate will drive tbtrn away. The same remedy is also good for mice. If gilt frames, when new, arc covered with a coat of white varnish, all specks can then be washed off with water with out harm. Farmer and Manufacturer. If the wall about the 6tore has been smoked by the stove, cover the black patches with gum shellac, and they will not strike through either paint or kal somine. Carpets should be thoroughly beat on the wrong side first and then on the right side, after which spots may be re moved by the use of ox gall or ammonia and water. Furniture needs cleaning as much as other woodwork. It nay 'be washed with warm soapsuds quickly, wiped dry, and then rubbed with an oily cloth. To polish it rub with rotten stone and sweet oil. Clean off the oil and polish with chamois skin. Where hard-finished walls have been kalsomined, the soiled coats should be washed or scraped off before a new one is put on. This is the most disagreeable part of the process. The furniture should be covered, as lime makes spots that are removed with difficulty, especially upon black walnut. Those who have tried piint upon the walls of rooms speak very stronerlv in its favor. It closes up the pores of the plaster so that it cannot absorb bad odors, it can be easily cleaned with soda and water - (soap and water make it spotty), it can be made of any uesired tint. In washing painted walls it is a good plan to remove from the walls everything that can be inj ired by steam, and then hang sheets wrung from hot water in the room. The vapor condens ing on the walls softens the dirt, and it may be wiped off with woolen cloths wrung from soda. Died of Langhter. Chalcas, the soothsayer, died of laugh ter at the thought of hi3 having out lived the time predicted for his death. A fellow in rag3 had to!d him that he would never drink the wine of the grapes growing in his vineyard; and added; "If my words do not come true, you may claim me as your slave." When the wine was made Chalcas held a feast and sent for the fellow to come and see how his predictions had failed. When he appeared the soothsayer laughed so immoderately at the would-be prophet that it killed him. Crassus, the Roman orator, died 'from laughter at seeing an ass eat thistles. Zeuxb, the Grecian ainter, died at the sight of a hag he lad just depicted. slight grade in the road. Up this grade a passenger train soon camb rushing along. The grasshoppers did not all succeed in getting off the rail and thous ands were crushed, greasing the track and the wheels of the engine. Before the train got half way up the grade it began to slacken its speed, and then we saw the driving wheels of the engine slipping round and round but not taking noid oi tne ran. band was thrown be neath the wheel, but the effect was only temporary, and the train came to a stop. Broom3 were fastened an the engine just in front of the wheels so that they touched the rail, sweeping th3 insect aside, and after much effort and a long delay the train succeeded in slatting again and worked its wsy slowly a'ong". "Wherever the pests had settled on anything grren they began at once to eat, and such appetites as they possessed ! They did not object to anything unless it had a sweet taste that they would not touch. The leaves began to disap pear from the trees and bushes as if bv magic. Ou our way home that tveniog I we had to pass Urge cornfield, the owner of which and his family had spent : tneir wnoie time that season in culti- i vatmg. Such a scene of destruction I had never dreamed of as was presented to my astonished raze. Where onlv twelve hours before stood a forty-acr i field of corn so tall and thick th.t a man's head could not be seen anywhere in it and all just coming out in tas el,nothiag remained but the bare stalks locking like so many reeds. The owner and his family stood looking at the ruin with the tears streaming down their sun burned checks, the very pictures of despair. Turning away we made our way home with fear in our hearts for our own gardens. I went around to the back of tho house to see what was left of the neat beds that had been my pride; only that morning I had been boasting to my wife that we had the finest garden in the village. Nothing remained but the sweet potatoes and the inner red meat oi the watermelons. The outside had been entirely eaten away, leaving about two wagon loads of the sweet red meat lying in the sun; in ten days more they would have been ready to pick. The cabbages were all eaten clean from the stump; the beets, can-ots, beans and the rest were all gnawed close to the ground. I turned away heart sick and sat down by the front door. In front of the house was a high-picket fence, and as the sun went down I noticed the grasshoppers gather ing ou the fence like chickens going to roost: before dark you could not see be tween the pickets. The fence looked like one living mass of grasshoppers; the ? J a it. . v . Eiac oi me nouse was aiso middy cov ered. The rooms in the house were full of them; they were heaped on the chairs, the curtains, the table, the bed. They leaped into the food being prepared for our supper. It was impossible to keep them out, as the weather was very warm and - the doors and windows were all open. For the next few days we could not place a dish of anything on the table without having one or more tumble in it before wc could eat the contents. After going to bed we could not move without dis turbing them, and then they would crawl over one's face, causing a very un pleasant Eensation. They would eat through a piece of cloth or muslin, and soon destroy curtains or clothing if they were not closely watched. The next morning I went to start the fire which I had fixed all readv to light the night be fore. I had left one of the lids 6ff the stove, and as I applied the match to tho paper I heard a great commotion inside. Il'Ooksd in to ascertain . the cause and found the stove full of them, and soon they were roasting in fine stjle. In three or four days there was noth ing gteen to be seen. The country looked as Darren ana forsaken as a desert. The grass wis all eaten away, the weeds also, and the leaves were stripped from the trees and bushes. Looking toward the sun you could see them flying overhead like Makes of snow in countless thousands After they bad eaten up everything thev ouu vjuu oniy Knows me RUl- ienng incir visit caused the poor people Kansas during the following winter. SELECT SIFTLNGS. A bullet travels a mile In three taj two-tenth seconds. The United States uses more soap to each inhabitant than any country la th world. One of tho customs of the Thibet is to pull their cheeks in order to show surprise. Mexicans are said to b of all shales of color, ranging from nearly a pjrs white to a perfect black. AmnnT the obiects of special iatrM at the Fulhara, tho bishop of London's . i l. : t su our Dan paiace, wc uhqw emu. script account oi tne voyage oi tne .May. flower; in the handwriting of Governor Bradford. - The pTramid of Cholula, not far fron the city of Mexico, Is the most xna&sire monument ever raised in America. Itj base covers forty-five acres, it is 150 fen high. In terraces composed ot stone tsi brick ind natural soil heaped up la lay. ers. The seTen Bibles of mankind are; Tfcs Bible, the Vedss of the Brahmins, tis Tripitaka of the Buddhists, the Zeni A vest a of the Parsees or Persians, ths Chinese Sacred Books of Confucius, the Chinese Sacred Book of Laon tsze aal the Mohammedan Koran. Locusts arc an article of food la por tlons of Africa, Arabia and Persia of such importance that the price of provisions is influenced by the quantity of the dried insects on hand. The Tauregs, of Afri ca, are very fond of them, and a single individual will eat GOO of them raw, roasted or stewed at a single meal. Sir Joseph Fajrer considers it most re markable that a poisonous snake cannot poison one of its species, and only slightly aDy venomous snake, although it quick ly kills harmless snakes. A vigorous cobra can kill several dogs or from a dozen to twenty fowls before its bite be- comes impotent, ana ine rspia re accre tion of virus soon makes it as dangerous as ever. Tho theory that 'our Indians are the lost tribes of .Israel was probably Cm promulgated by. James Adair, author of a History of the American Indians' (London, 1775). Dr. Ellis Boudinet, first president of the American Bible Pcclety, published in 1810 a booX cslled 4,Slar ot the West, or. An Attempt to Discover the Long-Lost Tribes of Israel,' ia which he advocated the theory, Mr. E. IL Hoyt, a mechanical engineer at the New Orleans Exposition, severely injured by a huge derrick pnle fallingVn hit foot. He W4 conveyed to his residence, and after only three appli cationmf St. J.ic1h Oil. sll the wcll ing and pain disappeared, and he rc-sunn-d his dutic. The Xc&kal WorVI reports a case cow undet observation in which the patient's hair which had become prematurelf gray is slowly returning to its original color under the internal administration of phosphorued cod liver oil. The WorU had previously noted similar restoration vnder. the same treatment. The United States contain 8.O0O.CAD colonics of bees, which annually yield 120,000,000 pounds of honey. ith- anr Krsrr. Bresfh r Hersls. I'-rr gnarantil cure for worst cafs t out nsp of kntf. Th"tT b no ki i tmsPCA. LVtvI two HtT ttamr for paro- t.l, t nnd rrfrw Wirlls uirtvrv MHk Asaxiaticn, C'JJ Mzia Street, ! K . Y. Iinn collars arid cufTs wi!l be tere gen erally worn thh w.vn thitn lor many years Is It Nst Mmi!r that comumptirvs thouM bo the lro.t appro hnudve of tbfir own CTivlitton. while all ttrir frier Is arc uruln? and bc-whirr thm to te nrore careful ebcut rxpnre al ovrnluin It may wtll be c-oixU-rtl oi' cf thn. alarming ynirtms of tho U.. where the patient is rvcluww and mill nA be Ik-re he in clanger. Reader, if you are in thi cvt!i tion, do not nejrlect thecnlr means of recov ery. Avoid exposure and faticue. I ri'jr in your habits snd uw faithlullv of Pr Pierce's Ooklen Medical Discovery"." It has saved thousands wbo were rteadily failing. Black fans are arrror riate with almost asy costume or for any tim or place. Dont hawk, hawk. Wow, ptt, and di-c erervboity with your offensive breath. Vut ue Dr. Sack's Catarrh IUm-dy and end it. If) i ; mm Ai V 7 GREAT -stnV I. 1 1 1 y TTST- rrt.Hr.tMUMl.rntl.tH.MHTIf, . 1 ""4T. Rwktr llr4ark Vm. AW REM! "'umiUi.iw.mna.hiuw.in.K'- LatlfV YVeaka Mr. T. H. (J afford, of Church Hm, Mi ls so thankful for the restoration of his r-f to complete health, that he is wiL'yi- to cr tify to the fact and the manner of br cars. To Mrs. Lydia E. Finkham. This If to cer tify to the grand effects of yoar Veet.l Compound. My wife was mffftrins frcd terrible disease.' which seemed A baJT.e tl skill of the best medical men. She was ias poor, languid, depressed, nervous condi'. We finally concluded 14 try yoar- Vegetat!4 Compound and to our. great surrriss tb t-1 of one bottle had not bera taken before t seemed to be a thorough cKang i " chole condition, and now to-day she is rood health and entirely relieved frm former depressed feeliurs. T. 1L Gsford and , surtF niinitaxst'Z? of 'V Irtrrvlur RrVr1 aril t Kc I r-t I w 'J k V I rrtrat1 I Ur of th NKW YORK H- ClOAR COM PAST. ijtr! rr!wtncn. cr e'oMvnwio tmM to tho rUctt mn. K tuJ lrtlcuUrs a.l lrm drp, el ock . The ew Yrk V Havana ( lir-. 37 HrawT. 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The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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May 15, 1885, edition 1
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