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Aii;'o Pomace.
The :v of r.pj.-lc pomace is
ing to i;e a '..predated by m::nv
ov.".'i'i-. i'i t!i-; vic'iiitv of c.uer
beglo-
cattle
mills,
r keot
So::, e of thy mills "v-: const antl
clc :ir of p 'ir. i c by men who curt it away
f ret? oi c fensi. I.i olier s.'ctioas.the
d.-mand is so gr.'at that millets 'arc get
ting a Muall price for" it, in some cases
.selling their entire make to a single
dairyman who pros- rs'cs tin pomace .in
silos. A man in Pennsylvania reports to
a dairy convi ntion that he began feed
ing a J e 'k of 'pomace per " day each to
cows niuht ami morning, with m irked
incica-e in the quantity of milk. The
increase continued as the oniacc ration
-was increased tilt a bushel ami a lialf
was fed to each cow p' r day. Another
found the pomace a complete substitute
for the grain lie had been feeding, to
supplement a short p.r-turc. Pomace,
like apples cr other rich food, must be
fed with caution or ill results, may
follow New rJn-j'nrnl Farmer.
" r.r Produciitjr Food.
We mcst not forget that a hen pro--ducing
eggs eijual in weight to herself
in a few weeks must ro-.juirc not only
ample food, but that the food should be
of a nature consistent with the character
and composition of the eggs. An egg
contains a considerable quantity of
lime, a large proportion of nitrogen,
phosphoric acid, fat and sulphur. It
necessarily contains every element which
goes to make up a perfectly-finished
bhd, including the feathers. All this
varied material must be contributed in
the foi.-d, ar.d yet for the greater part
corn is the sin pic provision afforded to
the fowls. Corn -make fat. It has been
shown in these columns of late, most
cleaily. that this grain cannot alone sus
tain any animal in h'-alth, and that ex
cessi. e carbonaceous food, such as corn,
produce-; susceptibility to certain febrile
diseases of which the common chicken
cholera is one. Consequently feeding
with corn alone is not productive of
cfjgs, and is productive oi' the prevail
ing dicac among fowl at this season.
Healthful feeding, and for the produc
tion of eggs, should consist of corn,
wheat, broken fresh bones and rape seed,
all ot which t gether contain every ele
ment needed to sustain the hens and to
furnish materials required for the eggs.
And when the hens are so fed, and are
kept comfortably warm, eggs may be
expected. Ntw York Times.
Hitter Cream.
A correspondent writes to know what
tnaKes Ins en
m turn, bitter.- It is sweet
when skimme-,1,
where ther i.
?.--.iCcpt in a nice cellar,
no vegetables, the cellar
h"7 I.: h ie wall-.
and is declared well-
ventilate I; but in 21 hours after skim
ming, the cream turns bitter. Without
actual inspection of all the surroundings
and' conditions, it is diliicult to give the
cause lor a certainty. In 11m case, it is
probably. "a fung-.n growth in the milk,
the seeds of the fungus plant falling in
the cream while the milk is set, or possibly
entering. the systems of the cows through
the v a; er they di ink, the food they cat -or
the air they; breathe. Possibly heating
the milk in a hot-water bath from
I'M to l.0 degree before setting, might
remove the diiiiculty. If the tempera
ture of the cream, before or after skim
ming,' is subject to sudden and extreme
changes, this may cause the development
of a bitter principle. Or, if the souring
of the cream is carried too far that is,
to the point of alcoholic fermentation
this. will rive it a bitter ta.-te. If the
bitterness comes from eating bitter food,
or from some of the cows giving bitter
milk as they sometimes do it ought
to show in the milk when first drawn.
Perhaps our correspondent can find in
these suggestions a hint that will
lead to the discovery of the cause of the
bitterness. With all our knowledge and
;the manifest progress in the art of dairy
ing during the last two decades, there is
stid a wide unexplored region for inves
tigationj and it is to be hoped that some
of our recently-established Agricultural
Experiment Stations will soon take up
the sublet of milk in an intelligent man
ner and give us some additional light on
it. Prairie Farmer.
About Harrowing.
It is laid down by a writer in the
American Cultivator as good husbandry
that grain and corn should be often
harrowed, and the argument is used that
it disturbs the soil and takes out the
grass and weeds; again, that this can be
done with perfect safety and without in
jury to the luture crop.
Kow let us take corn, for instance.
.Tt is said that this should be often har
xo'fred, and that it may be done without
injury until the corn is at least six
inches high. To stir the soil often is so
important a matter as to admit of no
. doubt. Equally important is it to re
move' ihe grass and weeds; but is a
harrow the implement with which to
perform this work i
If it be said that to harrow a field of
young corn or grain will injure it some
and benefit it more, atid upon the whole
the beneiit would outweigh the injury,
this would be a proposition which, while
open to eovtroversy, would still be en
tirely -different from the one laid down
as good husbandry. It would seem as
though grass or weeds with their numer
ous roots must adhere to the soil as firmly
ss young corn with its one root,
or at most its very few roots.
If so, whence comes all that nice dis
crimination on the part of the harrow
tooth to destroy the one and do no in
jury to the other? Will not a blow
from a harrow tooth do as much vio'ence
to the,tender blade as would a blow from
a hod or a club or a falling hail-stone?
To b sure, it is said the teeth of the har
row must be slanting. On the other
hand, if the teeth nie sufficiently slant
ing to. disturb nothing, then the work is
useless. Again, if the teeth are suffi
ciently uptight to affect the grass and
weeds in any manner, how can they run
over the f'tld without affecting the corn
in like manner? When in tke parable
the servants of the household instinc
tively astfed permission to go forth and
gather up the tares the answer was:
'2say, lest while ye gather up the tares ye
root up also the wheat with them." It
may ' e said that the Testament is not au
authority upon agriculture, yet it is a
bo 'k which we reverence and belive.aad
I submit that the direction therein given
is much more sensible than that of the
late uninspired writers on this subject.
Guarding Against the Swine Flajrne.
The State Veterinarian and Live-stock
Commissioners of Neb: ask a have issued
the following clr ul :r on preventing the
introduction and spr.oad of the swine
plague: Whether the ravages of hog
cholera can be prevented by inoculatr'on.
is still very questionable. It has never
been satisfactorily demonstrated that any
benefits can be derived from this method,
nor does it seem probable that inocula
tion can be made practicable. If, there
ore, farmers and swine-breeders apply
such rules r.s are herein sugge tei, they
would hi able to reduce their los-e. to a
minimum and cope successfully with th;
disease. If an o .thrcak exists separate
sill h.ei.hhr fio :i til'; d:f cased Legs a;
so h iH . po-s lle. Tii3 healthy hog
should 'be r mo cd to a new and unin
fected -pasture or pen and carefully
wat'. bed by an attendant. Should a ;y
tiiat i:ave b en thought to bo well !
com" w ;:ilc p. appear to be sick, . a'l-n'g,
or oil their fe tale them out and
the;:i. All diseased hogshouU be killed
and crc:uatel.ns s "oa. as possible. Sec
tion 1, banter 0, laws of lSo: "An
act to prevent the spread of hog cholera
make. it the duty of owners of sv, he
uyia r from hog cholera to ci her ijury
or burn them within twenty-four hours
alter death on h:s own piemiscs." If
neighbor would see to th'j enforcement
of this 3i w the' would in all probability
save themselves frequently from serious
losses, and "would be doing the public a
great service. If your hogs are healthy
it is advisable never to allow new hogs
to intermingle with them in the herd un
tii after having them subjected to a strict
quarantine of not less thaa seven weeks.
i either is it advisable to allow anyone to
go into hogpens alter returning from an
infected place "without first changing
the'r boots. There should be but one
attendant to look after sack animals,
who, during snch service, shOu!d not be
allowed to leave the place. Hogs should
never be watered at a stream if it comes
running from where the disease is known
to exist. Dogs or other animals belong
ing to infected farms should not be al
lowed to roam about at will where hogs
are kept, as they may carry the infection
to 'them. If these rules are carefully ob
served there need be little fear -of hog
cholera causing any serious los3 or
spreading to any alarming extent.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Remove the seeds before feeding pump
kins to cattle.
The , safe way to get good milch cows
is to rai.e them.
Dampness is a great producer of dis
ease among poultry.
AVater cattle frequently or let them
have free access to it.
Currycomb and brush are good for the
cow, as well as the horse.
Put all farm machinery and tools into
first-rate order during leisure hours this
winter. :
Keccnt tests appear to confirm the
theory that planting whole potatoes is
followed by the largest crops. ' "
According to Professor E. W. Stewart,
apple-poma e may be considered very
similar to corn ensilage as food.
Professor Shelton linds that cattle,
when accustomed to kohl rabi, eat them
greedily and thrive amazingly on the
diet.
Hang up cabbages in the hen-house,
hang up hazletts now and then, and hen3
will not eat each other's feathers, affirms
lluntl Ac r Yorker.
When breaking in young colts put
them beside fa-t walking horses. The
first few lessons will make a lasting im
pression on them.
It may be accepted as a truism that if
a man keeps h's little garden and its sur
roundings neat, trim and fruitful, he is a
steady, industrious and useful member of
the community to which he belongs .
Winter pears frequently shrivel aud
become woody and do not ripen nicely.
They should be kept in a cool and moist
atmosphere until they begin to soften, and
then ripened up in a dryer and warmer
place.
Do not keep different breeds of sheep
together. The condition? best suited to
some are not the -best for others, and
when mixed the result will be that all
will come short of their highest possible
results.
Turkeys fatten best when fed three
times a day, allowing them all the corn
they can eat. If penned in coops thej
become discontented and will vcot thrivt
or fatten, no matter how much food thej
may receive.
When the farmer begins to estimate th
value of sheep from the standpoints ol
.meat, fertility and general advantage tc
the farm, he will not allow the market
price of wool to determine whether oi
not he will raise them.
- The grand requisite of success, with
out which the celebrated breeders would
be little distinguished above their neigh
boring farmers, is feeding. It is food
and management that makes a beautifuf
specimen of any strain of, blood.
Ducks usually begin to lay in February
and until that time they may be kept at
but little expense. Cooked turnips,
with a small amount of corn meal, make
good feed for them. After they begin
to lay they should have a proportion ol
animal food. ,
N. F. Murray, of Missouri, is an ad
vocate of thorough and continuous culti
vation in apple orchards. He does not
fear any harm from breaking the roots
with the plough, but finds on the con
trary that the fruitfulness of the trees is
increased thereby. -
The weighing of the milk, testing of
the cows, and knowing to a dollar what
one is doing, is a great help to the dairy
farmer. It enables him to get rid of
poor milkers and replace them with
good ones, and the latter cost no more
to keep or handle than the former.
Wrhen a cow is choked with anapple the
best thing to do is to hold a block ,of
wood on one side of the gullet and
strike with a mallet on the other a
smart blow to crush the apple. This is
better than trying to force it down or to
lose the cow. The throat is not seriously
hurt.
The fact that hyacinths and bulbs of
a similar class reach such high perfection
in Holland, a land constantly swept by
moist sea breezes, and well watered,
should teach us that free moisture in the
atmosphere, and in the soil (with drain
age), are prime factors to the best culti
vation of these favorites.
The various begonias of the flowering
class, not embracing the tuberous rooted
section, are among the most satisfactory
house plants that can be employed for
winter cultivation. Indeed, it i3 but
justice to say that they often succeed
under conditions so unfavorable that few
other plants amount to much alongside
of them. -
There . is no benefit in keeping too
much stock. Runts, stunted animals, or
tho-e that seem to eat all they can get
without gaining in size, should be got
i i! of. Many losses occur f :o:n keeping
; unprofitable fctock on hand too long.
A n animal that does not show the effects
I of good treatment in a few weeks will
i be no better in as many months,
j It is said that the following prepara-
tion applied on the s-urface will prevent
. any rusting on plows or any other metal
surfaces : Melt one ounce of resin in a gill
of linseed oil and when hot mix with twe
quarts of kerosene oil. This can be
kept on haLd and applied in a momenl
nth a brush or rag to the metal surface
of any tool that is not going to be used
for a few days, preventing any rust, anc.
saving much vexation when the time
comes to use it again.
BUDGET OF FUN.
IIU3IOROUS SKETClirvS Fr.OM
VAUIOUS SOURCES.
A
Great Evfiit He Had Correct
Habits A Mcdern Proverb
Joliy Fun He Didu't
Loot at It, Etc.
A boy living on Pearl street, while
studlcg his lesson in history the other
alght, 'learned the date of Washington's
3eath. Addressing his 82-year-old grand
father, he cried: "Grandfather, what
great event occurred in 1709?"
"Why, I was born in that year,' an
swered the oil man. The boy troubles
him with no more questions in history.
Bujja.o Courier.
K? Had Correct Habits.
"For ten years past," said the new
boarder, "my habits have been regular as
clock-work. I rose on the stroke of
hal aa hour later I sat down to break-'
fast ; at 7 I was at work, dined at 12, ate
supper at G, and was in bed at 9::i0, ate
only Ir arty food, and hadn't a sick day
In all that time."
"Dear- me," said the deacon, in sym
pathetic tones, "and what were you in
for?''
I And in the awful silence that followed
you could hear the hash grate its teeth.
A Modern Proverb.
At the Kindergarten: Teacher
"Johnny, do you remember the proverb
I gave you yesterday?"
Johnny "Xo'm."
"Speech is silver and what is it?"
"I dunno mom."
"I know," spoke up a little boy at the
foot of the class."
"Very well, you may recite it."
"Speech is silver, but money talks."
New Torlc Sun.
Jolly Fun.
Miss Lillie Gushington "Oh, Mrs.
Matron, we are going to have such fun
to-nightl" '
Mrs. Matron "Indeed?"
Miss L. G "Yes. We are going to
have a party, and the young gentlemen
are to do knitting and sewinjj, and the
young ladies are to saw and split kindling
wood. Won't it be just jolly !''
Mrs. M. (gloomily) "Jolly to saw and
split kindling wood? W'eli, you won't
think it very jolly after you are married
and have to do it all the time."- -Union
Courier.
He Didn't Look at It.
( "Jchnnie, when will your sister be
down? I'm getting awfully tired of
waiting "
"She'll be
down in ten minute -
gue-s."
"Well, I'm going to timelier. I'll go
and look at the clock and see how long
it will take her."
. "You'd better not." .
"Why."
"Dad would be mad if it wasn't run
ning."
'"What elo vou mean, Johnnie?"
"Why, sis says you'd stop a clock by
looking at it." Lincoln Journal.
Remarkable Presence of Mind.
Pat Iloolihan, while slating the loof of
one of our highest buildings, lost his
footing and fell.
Over and over he went until within
twenty-live feet of the pavement, when
he struck a telegraph wire and managed
to grasp it, first with one hand, then with
both.
"Hang on for your life, Pat!" shouted
his fellow-workmen, and the bystanders
rushed to the nearest dwelling for a mat
tress. '
Pat held on for a few seconds, when
suddenly, with a cry of "Shtand from
under!" he dropped and lay senseless in
the street.
Whisky was used, and Pat finally came
to.
When asked why he did not hold out
longer he teebly replied :
"Oi wuz afraid the woire 'ud break."
He recovered. Life.
Rather Hard to Miss.
The fact that this is a very big coun
try never strikes one so forcibly as when
he has traveled a couple of thousand
miles due west and still finds the prairie
stretching out oeiore him. A young
sprig ot .British nobility was over here
last summer, accompanied by the inevit
able " Jcems." They saw the seaboard
cities, tarried for a time in Chicago, in
St. -Louis and in Kansas Citv, and then
3tfuck out into the great West. Some
where near the edge of Colorado the
train was delayed at a small station,
md the passengers got out to stretch
their legs, among them his lordship and
" Jeems," who seemed in a brown study.
"What is it?" asked his master. "I
was just thinkin', me hid," said Jecnis,
" that Columbus didn't do such a mighty
big thing when he discovered this 'ere
country, hafter hall's said and done.
Ow could 'e 'elp it ?" Boston Herald.
The Parson Disturbed.
A good story of old days in
Massachusetts has recently been pub
lished. In one of the churches in the
eastern part of the State a bass viol was
procured to help the choir. One sum
mer Sunday, while the parson was in the
middle of the sermon, a big bu'l got out
of his pasture and came swaggering down
the road, growling as he came. TLe
minister heard the low bellow, and look
ing up toward the singers' treats with a
grave face, he said : "i would thank the
musicians not to tune during service
time; it annoys me very much." The
choir was surprised, but nothing was said.
Pretty soon the bull gave another grum
ale, and then the parson was mad. He
itoppec skort, and looking directly at the
bass-viol player said: "I now particu
larly request Mr. L. that he will not tune
h:s instrument while I am preaching.'
This was more than the fiddler could
stand. Popping up in his scat, he snap
ped out : "
"It isn't me, parson, it isn't me. It's
;hat old town bull." Boston I'raceHer.
The Man AJ'ith a Tatent.
"Want to make $30,003 this winter?"
queried a hawk-eyed man with a lop
bhoulder to a shoe-dealer yesterday.
"Of course."
"Then buy my patent?''
He unrolled a package and brought to
light a shoe, a tin funnel and a quart of
wood ashes.
"What on earth is it?'' asked the
dealer.
"It is Bronson's Patent Safety Shoe.
Here's the idea : In winter our sidewalks
ire dangerous from ice. By" sprinkling
ishe3 o ice you produce decomposition
nd render travel safe. Do you follow?
"But ??
"Of course you don't, but I'll explain.
This is a doubie-soled shoe. There is a
space between the two soles, and the toe
and heel ends are open. You fill this
space with ashes, and as you walk it
6rp3 0utin advance of you."
"The idea!" '
, "Yes, I worked twenty-two years on
the idea. This funnel fits into the heel
of the shoe, and is used to load up with.
"But the ashes?"
,;0h, you hire a boy to follow you with
a pail of "them. When the shoe i3 empty
yau whistle and he loads it up again.
There's nothing like it. I can wa'k
twenty miles a day over a perfect glare
ol ice. Will you give me an order t"1
"Xo, sir. It's the most ridiculous
thing I ever heard of."
"It is, ch? You'll see whether it is-oi
not before the winter is over! I'll sell
enough to buy you out and throw your
stock into the river 1"
An hour later he was arrested for being
drunk and hilarious, and as he went
down in the wagon he was explaining to
the officer:
"You puz on'er shoe, you know, an'
you puz in 'er ashe3, you know, an' you
walk on 'er ice an' 'er patrol wagon
comes "long an gives you sleigh ride."
Detroit t ree Press.
He Went Off Directly.
The clock on the mantel tolled 1 A. M.,
and a little past, and still the knight
lingered, trying to think of something
to say, although it was painfully evident
that the baron's daughter was just too
sleepy for anything.
"l am afraid, he said at last, "that I
am like an auger.".
"Wherefore, sir knight?" she asked.
yawning with that high-bred courtesy
appertaining to the upper classes.
"Because 1 bore vou, ' he said, smil
ing proudly at his right good wit.
"Ah, no,' she said ; "vou remind me
of an old flint-lock musket."
"Spoken like a soldier's daughter,"
quoth he, "and why?"
"Takes vou so long to go off." she
said, kindly, i
At 1:13 a. ir. the portcullis fell with
a clang, the draw-bridge was raised, and
the castle slept. Away in the star-lit
distance the good knight tramped
wearily in the wake of the last car,
which had sailed two hours' ago, and
bitterly reproached himself for not think
ing to tell the haughty baron's daughter
that her joke was too awfully premature,
because muskets weren't going to be in
vented for nearly one hundred years
Burdttte.
The Barber of Prinkipo.
A majority of the inhabitants of Prin
kipo, an island southeast of Constanti
nople, are Greeks, but many sojourners
there belong to other nationalities. Hon.
S. S. Cox, late minister to Turkey, thus
gives his experience with a barber of
Prinkipo, who was determined to dis
cover h's nationality. The barber him
self might have been either a Greek, a
Maltese, a Slav, Bulgarian or Mon
tenegrin, ' and hael an extraordinary
knowledge of tongues:
"You have been here long?" he asks.
I reply in Bohemian : "Ne."
"You are here for your health!"
I reply in D-jnish, ailirmatively and
negativefy: "Ja, nei, min herre." This
puzzles him.
"An army gentleman, perhaps?"
I reply in Hungarian: "Igen" (yes).
"Your vessel is at Constantinople?"
I answer in Italian: "Si, signore."
"You will bring vour vessel to Prinki
po?" It is the modern Greek in which
reply: "INae veyayos." He is thunder
struck; it is evidently his mother tongue.
When he asks me in French : "Will youi
vessel touch at Athens?"
I respond in Polish: "Tak." (no).
"Y'ou will visit Egypt?"
I respond in Swedish: "Ja," adding
in Roumanian the affirmative: "Gie."
lie believes he has fixed my nationality
and that I come from some Balkan
province, and he asks :
"Have you been in Iioumania, Bul
garia, Servia, Montenegro and Herzego
vina?" I give him, in Roumanian, an
emphatic negative.
"You have been quite a traveler?''
This suggests Chinese a3 a fitting langu
age and I say: "She."
"Yon like the Chinese, monsieur!"
I answer promptly in the negative;
"Puh!"
He then asks if I have visited Jeru
salem. I respond in Arabic: "Xa'am."
"i ou like Constantinople?"
I answer in a sweet Japanese accent
"Samasan!"
"Perhaps you have been in America?"
" n aa!, yaas, I guess."
Then began afusilade of questions and
replies.
"Y'ou have lived in Paris?"
"Jamais."
"Been to Genoa?"
"Si, signore."
"Ah, you are English?"
"Yok!" an intense Turkish negative.
"French?"
"Non."
"German ?'
"Xein."
wen," said lie, taking breath, "will
you tell me, monsieur, where you do
come from?"
"Don't you remember the only nation
in the world where the barber is as good
as a king?' I said proudly.
. "Oh, Switzerland!"
"Xo, I am not Swiss."
And so the matter ended, but next
day the Minister found that his identity
had been discovered.
Heated by Chemical Foot Warmers.
Luke Sharp says in the Detroit Free
Press: I once brought a good deal of
ridicule upon myself by asserting in
these columns that I traveled on an Eng
lish train heated by chemical foot warm
ers. When these things got cold you
shcok 'em up and they gave out heat
again. I never got anyone to believe
this story, and yet it was true. I have
found out since that the chemical used
was some sort of soda affair, and I un
derstand that the fact that this compound
of soda will give out heat has caused it
to be used as an engine for running street
car3. I believe that they are going to
use the soda motor on a Chicago street
car line. I don't know whether any of
the soda foot warmers are used in Eng
land or not. I couldn't find any on the
little island when I was there last win
ter, though urged by my unbelieving
friends to do so Ifor the sake of my own
reputation for veracity.
Died With Horns Locked-
E. J. Shi pman came across two large
deer in the Avoods north of Thorp, wuth
their horns locked together, in which con
dition they had evidently been for several
days. One of the animals wa3 dead and
frozen stiff when found, but the other
was alive and evidently in a starving
condition, having dragged the dead deer
a distance of about forty rods and lipped
the bru-h and ground up generally in his
effort? to get loose. Mr. Shipman de
spatched the live deer and to gVt their
heads apart had to break the horns of
each. Waitsau (JJ7.) Ctra1.
The Apothecary's Scheme.
B?iore apothecary store he stood,
Or. rf.t'r.er. he did try to stand;
Ha coul In t keep his balance, a3 he should,
So, oil the icy pavement he did land.
"Why are no ashes oa this placer said he.
To spnead them not, is wickedness and
sin;
He looked up at the store, and this did see,
"Arnica and Liniment Sold Within!"
Goadairs Sun.
PARADOXES.
SOME ODD AND ENTERTAINING
CATCH QUESTIONS.
The Movins Coach "Wheel Zeno's
Paradox Achilles and the
Tortoise Paying a Shilling
Passing: Trains, Etc.
There exist, floating about the wor'd,
a crrcat number of catch questions and
edd propositions. Here is one of them:
Wrhich, at any given moment, is mov
ing forward faster, the top .of a coach
wheel or the bottom? To this apparent
ly very simple question nine person out
of ten, asked at random, will give an in
correct reply, for at first sight it appears
evident that both the top and bottom of
the wheel must of necessity be moving
forward at the same rate, namely, the
speeYl at which the carriage is traveling.
A little thought will show that this isfai
from being the case. A point on the
bottom of the wheel is, in fact, by the
direction of its motion round the axis,
moving backwards, in an opposite direc
tion to that in which the carriage is
progressing, and is consequently station
ary in space; while a point on the top ol
the wheel is moving forwards, wih the
double velocity of its own motion round
the axis and the speed at which the car
riage moves.
The foresroinj; mvstery of motion
brings to mind the famous paradox of
Zeno, by which he sought to prove that
all motion was impossible. Either a
body must move in the place where
it is or in the place where it is not. Now
body in the place where it is is sta
tionary and cannot be in motion, nor,
obviously, can it be in motion in the
place where it is not. Therefore it can
not move at all. It was of this paradox
it was said: Solvitur Ambulando "It
is solved by walking." A more practical
solution could hardly be required.
Well known also is the Greek paradox
of Achilles and the tortoise. Achilles
(the swift-footed) allows the tortoise a
hundred yards start, and runs ten yards
while the tortoise runs one. Now when
Achillea has run a hundred yards the
tortoise has run ten yards, and is there
fore still that distance "ahead. When
Achilles has run these ten yards, the
tortoise has run one yard. When Achilles
has run the one yard, the tortoise has
run the one-tenth of a yard. And when
Achilles has run the one-tenth of a yard,
the tortoise has run one-hundredth. It
is only necessary to continue the same
process of reasoning to prove that
Achilles can never over lake the tortoise.
You will find people in real life try
ing to solve the following: "A man, who
owes a shilling, proceeds to pay it at the
rate of six-pence the first day, three
pence the next drsy, three half.-pence the
next, three farthings the next. and so on
paying each day half of the amount
he paid the day before. Supposing him
to be furnished 'with--counters of small
value, so as to be able readily to pay
fractions of a penuy, how long would it
take him to pay the shilling?" The an
swer is that he would never pay it. It
is trne that he will pay eleven pence
farthing in four days. But the remain
ing three farthings he can never pay.
Excellent a3 are the preceding, the
following is even a better paradox: "A
train starts daily from San Francisco to
New York and one daily from New York
to San Francisco, the journey lasting
seven days. How many trains will a
traveler meet in journeying from San
Francisco to New York?" It appears
obvious at the lirst glance, that the trav
eler must meet seven trains, and this is
the answer which will be given by nine
people out of ten to whom the question
is near. , The important fact is over
looked that every day during the journey
a fresh train i3 starting from the other
end, while there are seven on the way to
begin with. The trawler will, there
fore, meet not seven trains, but four
teen. The following proposition is both
curious in itself and admits of some in
teresting variations in the application of
the principle on which it depends. "If
there are more people iq the world than
any'person has hairs upon his head, then
there must exist at least two persons who
Eosscss identically the same number of
airs, to a hair."
Readers who fail to perceive at first
the necessity of this conclusion, should
consider, as a simpler case, instead of the
hairs on a man's head, the number of
teeth in his jaw. Let Kim suppose thirty-"
seven persons to be assembled in one
room; then, the full number of teeth in
man's jaw being thirty-two, it is easily
icenthat even supposing one member
of the party to be so unfortunate as to
have no teeth at all there must be at
least two persons present possessed of
identically the same number of teeth.
The application or this example to the
proposition in question is quite evident.
It is, in fact, merely a matter of larger
numbers. Philadelphia Time's.
Russian Bankers Count Chinese Way.
I have been in four or five of the larg
est banks in Russia and many of the most
extensive commercial - and railroad
houses, and nowhere where I seen figuring
done by pen or pencil like they do in
America and England. The Chinese
counting machine, seen occasionally in
the hands of John ai.d Jap in the United
States, is everywhere. If you buy a pair
of socks for fifty kopecks and a handker
chief for seventy-five kopecks the shop
keeper, even the brightest and oldest and
most experienced, has to go to his ma
chine to learn the result one rouble
twenty-five kopecks. I venture that there
are not a doen bankers in Russia who
would attempt to discount any draft, or
issue a letter of ciedit, or change a ten
rouble note into kopecks, without push
ing backward and forward for some time
the strings of colored buttons in his ma
chine, indicating numerate. But it ia
wonderful how adept some of them are
in the use of the counting machine. You
may buy a bill of goods ever so large.
The salesman keeps the machine beside
him, pu-hing out the numerals as the
purchases are made, and the instant you
call for your bill he repeats the total.
The Russians were taught most of their
business knowledge by the Chinese and
Tur'.is. and these counting machines are
yet indispensable in all Oriental places of
business. Kai.su City Journal.
Chicago's "Diamond Joes.'
There are two "Diamond Joes" ia
Chicago, one of whom gets his name from
his habit of carrying diamonds around
in hi3 pockets a? a boy would marbles.
The other 13 Joe Reynolds, who owns
nearly all the steamboats on the Upper
Mississippi. All of his boats, wharves,
warehouses and stationery are marked
with a red diamond containing the word
"Jo" in black. He is very wealthy and
very charitable, though he ha3 the repa
ration of being remarkably shrewd at
driving a bsra:n.
P0PULAE SCIiiNCii
Dr. TJenry Schlieman, suys a letter
from Athens, has just made a discovery
of the highest interest and importance
the oldest temple in existence. - .r.
It has been discovered that wool pre
viously saturated with a ten per cent,
solution of glycerine can bear, a pro
longed heat of some 273 degrees without
injury.
Recent experiments have demonstrated
that an incandescent e-ectric light of
lOU-candle power, sunk twenty feet in
the ocean, will illuminate the surface
sufficiently to distinguish objects within
radius of 2-0 feet.
Astronomy is likely to have a "boom"
in the United States. Among the insti
tutions that have projected or just com
pleted new observatories of importance
ire Iowa College, Carleton College, Smith
Co"ege, Lake Forest University, and
Bates College.
Partially successful experiments in
signaling "by meads of electric lights
on clouds have been made by British of
ficers at Singapore. A message of four
words was read from an out-going vessel
at a distance of sixty knots, but the re
ply escaped notice.
The French Government has again
taken up the building of great armor
clad ships. Eight are now being pressed
forward to completion. Admiral Pallu
de la Barriere has caused a vessel to be
built encased with cocoanut fibre instead
of armor plates. It is said to have
greater power of resistance than steel..
In Brcslau, Germany, a chimney fifty
four feet in height has been constructed
entirely of solid blocks of paper firmly
compressed together, the blocks being
placed carefullv one on the ton of the
other and joined together with a special
cement. The chimney is noh-iuflamable
and, by the nature of the material, quite
secure from lightning.
" It still seerns to be an unsettled ques
tion whether Wood can be ignited by the
heat of a steam pipe in contact with it.
It is admitted theoreticallv. that it is
impossible for wood to take fire at a
temperature of 212 degrees, or somewhat
higher ; but it is well known that there
have been a larjje number of cases of fire
reported as oecuriog from this cause,
and the evidence is very conflicting.
: Some trials have recently taken place
at Shoeburvncss. England, with steel
armor-piercing projectiles of ' English
manufacture which were attended with
eood results. The first trial was around
with a six-inch shot weighing one hun
dred oounds acrainst a Cammell com
pound armor plate nine inches thick and
four feet square, backed by twelve feet
of oak, the face of the plate to the depth
of three inches being of hard steel. The
projectile successfully penetrated' the
plate arid passed about five feet into the
wood backing.
An ingenious and convenient bit of
mechanism is called by its inventor,
Samuel Rosenblast, a telephone support.
It has two arms, each of which is con
trolled by a ball joint,' so that they caE
be moved in any direction. Fastened to
the "wall near a telephone, it takes up
very little space and is rather orna
meutal. It enables one to receive an
swers through the telephone, without
calling the hands into play, as the "sup
port" will hold the "ear receiver." The
instrument is simple in construction and
cannot well go out of order.
A solitary female vulture had dwelt for
twenty-five years on the Blotschorn, in
the upper Yalais, Switzerland, and
escaped countless attempts at capture.
Recently during severe weather, a pois
oned fox left below the cliff proved a
successful bait, and the bird was found
dead. The body was stuffed and placed
in the museum at Lausanne It measured
across the wings eighty-eight and a half
inches. It is possible that one or two
solitary specimens still remain, but it is
quite certain there is no nest, aud the
species is believed to have disappeared
from Swiss territory.
"Home Sweet Home."
" George Melville, is known to fame
Principally as one of the survivors of the
ill-fated Jeanette Polar expedition. His
return to America from that terrible
voyage was one of the inspiring causes
that led the rich Washington banker.
iV. W. Corcoran, to have brought back
to America the remains of the sweet
soDg writer, John Howard Payne. It
happened this way :
(-... When Lieutenant Melville and his
Companions reached Washington after
.their rescue, thej were given a reception
by the principal citizens of the Capital.
An escort met them at the depot on their
arrival, and, headed by the famous Ma
rine Band that furnishes the music' at
the White House, the proceision started
up Pennsylvania avenue. It was a bright,
sunny day and the wide street was
crowded. When the band moved along
the avenue It played the heart-touching
tune of "Home, Sweet Home," and it
filled the air with the old-timed music
that has found an echo in every heart for
so many years.
In the first carriage rode Lieutenant
Melville, and with him the rich banker.
Mr. Corcoran had known and befriended
John Howard Payne in the struggling
days of the song maker, and the tune
awoke old memories in the rich man's
heart and suffused his eyes with tears.
He thought of the man whose tender
lines and sweet music had brought joy
to so many breasts, and remembered that
his bones lay mouldering in a foreign
land, homeless even in death.
Then and there he resolved that all
that was mortal of John Howard Payne
should find and an abiding place here at
home. That night he wrote to Secretary
Frelinghuysen about the matter, and the
Government lent its aid through the
United States Consul at Tunis, near
which place the almost forgotten grave
wa3 located. The details were soon per
fected, and one bright June day in 1883,
the remains of the dead poet arrived in
Xhi3 country and were given a resting
place in the land he loved so well.
Mr. Corcoran bore all the expense at
tached to the transfer, and it was the
old familiar tune ringing out along the
avenue on that pleasant day when Mel
ville came home that first awaked iu his
heart the resolve to give a lasting burial
place to the poet's remains. A'e o York
Graphic.
Crazy King? Ludwig's Properly.
The sale of every scrap of property left
by the late poor King of Bavaria is pro
ceeding apace at 3Iunich and other places.
Even a royal stag a favorite animal of
His Majesty was to be brought under
the hammer; but the noble animal has
had the good sense to elude his pursuers
by bolting into the forest wilderness
Hohenschwangau. Among things lately
sold were the splendid dresses in which
Louis loved to dress himself, when per
sonifying Lohengrin and Tannhauser in
his nocturnral journeys in the Bavarian
mountains. ' They fetched good -prices,
but their destination wuld no doubt
make th? sensitive art Prince turn in his
grave were he cognizant of it, their pur
chaser being a Viennese actor.who hope3
to gain notoriety by appearing in them.
Vanity Fair.
HO USEHOLD M ATTEHS--
Nutriment in Rice.
Touching the nutritious value of va
rious foods variously cooked, it may be
well just now to Tpoint out that one
pound of rice, prepared for - the table,
gives eighty-eight per cent, of nutriment,
and, consequently, a relatively propor
tional ability to labor compared with
other articles of food. A pound of beef
contains only twenty-five per cent of
nutriment ; yet countless numbers strain
a point daily to purchase beef, when .
they could get a pound of rice lot
one-third of the amount; tho rice?,
moreover, ha viug three times as much
nutriment as the pound of beef, making
a practical difference of 800 per cent.
There is, also, the additional fact to be
considered that boiled rice is digested
ia about an hour, roast beef, on the con
trary, requiring three hours and a half.
There is meaning,. after all, in the fact
that two-fifths of the hnman family live
on rjec. Mutton is five percent, more nu
tritious than beef, plums four per cent,
and grapes two per cent. Codfish yields
only twenty-one per cent, of nutriment.
Contrary to popular ideas, apples yield
three per cent, more nutriment than,
milk. Kew Tori lie raid.
Too Much Meat. ;
Most people eat too much meat. Nature
has so bountifully supplied this country "
with animal food, that our people appear
to have come to the conclusion that it is .. .
an essential duty on their part to make
daily consumption of largo quantities of
it. W7hile some animal food is needful,
it is a great mistake to suppose that it is
required three times a day, or i-eallj
oftener than once every twenty-foul
hours. European laborers rarely gHjneat
more than once or twice a week, nnlVj-rt
thpv r us n. rrpneral thinr robust arf
j o o
strong, and capable of enduring hapw
Bhips under which our great meat e
would surely sink. 85
A writer says: "The heavy qj pjj
the world is not done by men ''i-oo
meat. Ihe ltussian soldiers, wjg
such wonderful roads and 4 48 "
weight of armor and luggage ? 10 40-"
crush the average farm-hajjY
coarse brown bread and sot L.
wTere temperate in diet ad I.
exercise. - The Spanish peiPM
day and dances half the lAM
taTre r1vr a Vvl n rlr rcf f
watermelon. The Smyrn?
only a little fruit and s
yet" he walks off with f
pounds. The coolie fed .
active and can endure m
negro fed on
meat." PhUade
Window Plants in Winter.
WindowAilants, says a Detroit Fret
.Oonraffiondent. should not be kept
very wtf.ui at this season. They should
have all the sun and air and as little of
the artificial heat of the room as possible.
These remarks apply- especially to
mignonette, which is very impatient of
indoor confinement, succulents, sucn
as cacti, are excellent window plants in
th:s respect, as the dry air does not af
fect them. To keep the air about the
plants moist is one of the secrets of win
ter culture, come who have very une
windows well stocked with fine plants
make glazed caes with folding doors to
them, by which, when the room is highly
heated and very dry, they can be inclosed
in an atmosphere of their own. In such
cases ferns and mosse3 can be grown to
perfection. Hanging baskets, on the
other hand, are generally too dry. Be
side the daily waterings, about once a
week they should be immersed in a
bucket of water. Plants stored away
for the winter in cold pits require more
care for the first month or so than at any
other time through the winter season.
Many of them have un ripened shoots, or
shed many of their leaves, and unless
they be cut off and removed, gangrene
and decay - commit distressing havoc
Air should be given at every oppor?
tunity, and nothing yomitted that will,
in any way, tend to harden tho
plants, and send vegetation to rest.
No more water should bo given than
just sufficient to prevent withering, and
the temperature should be kept as neat
forty degrees as possible, aud every
chance taken to render the air about th
plants dry. When frost actually does
come, no further care than protection
from its embraces will then be required.
Plants so hardened may stay covered up
for weeks, without any light or air, ana -secure
from the sljgate injury. .
. Recipes. ' ' j
Apple Pudik. Prepare a paste ai
directed for pork puddincf, using a table
spoonful Of butter instead of the drip
ping. Slice the apples, but do not peel
them; lay them in the paste and sift
over them one cupful of sugar and half a
teaspoonful of cinnamon, draw the paste
together over - the -torr-ssd- .alcaiatwo
uuuia auu a nan, or uon in a noure
2loth an hour and thrpp-nnnrrj This
paste is much more delicate steamed thar
the remains 01 a roast or boiled chicket
or turkey. Add two well beaten eggs
and flavor to taste with pepper, salt and
very little grated lemon peel. Then .
jtir in one ounc e of finely crumbed bread,
and form into the shape of pears, not too
large ; roll in beaten egg, then in bread
crumbs, and fry in boiling lard to alight
brown ; dish in a warm napkin or entres
dish, after having stusk a stalk of parslej
in each for a stem.. Try them ; they ar
nice.
Ax Exgltsh Disir. "Toad io .thi
hole" is an old fashioned English disk
and very appetising for supper on a cold
night, in spite of its disagreeable name.
Cut a pound of ; meat steak, mutton or
lamb into small pieces and put into a
well buttered baking dish. Season it
nicely and then pour upon it a batter. .
made with ,one egg, one cup of flour, on
pint of milk. "Beat the egg light, add
the milk, season with salt; pour this
upon the flour and beat up a light,
smooth baiter,. Cake one hour and serve
very hot.
Molasses Cake. Put in a pan two
or three cups of flour, half a cup brown
sugar, one and a half teaspoonfuls ol
ginger, a scant teaspoonful of cinnamon.
Have' two teaspoonfuls of soda dissolved
in a little water. Put together one cup
and a half of molasse3, one cup of nice
beef shortening, or butter, and set over
the fiie; a? soon as it boils up stir
quickly, and pour over the flour, 6tirriag
or beating all together very thoroughly.
Then add two cups of sour milk, and -the
dissolved soda. Stir again quickly,
and, if ne.ded to make a3 thin as tup
cake, add more flour. Bcattlastly very
thoroughly, put into a well-buttered
pan, and bake quickly.
Two celebrated bandits who flourished
in the "early days of Kentucky once lived
in a stone house on the banks of the Cum
berland, near Dycusbury, and there has
since ! cen a tradition that they buried a
a great store of gold and silver near the
h'-ue. In late years many people have
searched in vain for the hidden treasure,
but a numler of men in Crittenton ( oucty
have nuw organized themselves for a
.systematic search for the buried ttolo.
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