AGRICULTURAL
aroncs of interest relative
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
for
Food for Fowls,
buckwheat fattens.
So does corn.
, "Wheat is the best egg producer.
Cats come next to wheat.
Bye gives life to the stock.
Ground bones and oyster-shells
cg2C-snells.
Sand and gravel help the gizzard chew
the food.
Charcoal is a comb-brightener.
Beef scraps and cornmeal mush for
g2S.
Sunflower seeds arc a good tealth
dish. The .poultryman who' keeps his fowls
on a one-food diet will wait in vain for
good results.
escept to gossip with equally overworked
neighbors over the fence or seated on the
toprail. 3Ieanwhile the wife, weiried
for want of rest, goes through the day's
dreary round in the house and out of it
for three-fourths of the twenty-four
hours. There is no absolute necessity
for a farmer to rise until G o'clock at this
season and " in the summer.' " lie can
get his stock fed very quickly if every
thing is prepared the day before in the
ufternoon or evenin"-. and if he will be
industrious during the day he can get
through all his work in ten hours. Well
managed farm work is the easiest of ail
kinds of work. Xe.c YurxTims.
Farm anil Garden Notes.
Every farmer vtho can handle tools
should have a workshop.
Money spent in pa'nt for farm build
ings' and implements is no loss.
Let the horse have some exercise daily
if you would keep him in health.
A piece of liver rubbed over a tree
or shrub will protect it from rabbits.
Each farmer knows some things ; all
farmer know more. ''Teach one an
other." Manure finely diffused through the soil
lessons dryness in a dry time; if left in
lumps when ploughed under it increases
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES. -
What He Gave-IIim Curved Around
the Obstruction More Than
We Expected His Health
AVas Delicate, Etc
"I have just given my father-in-law
very nice present, said a
man to another.
"What was it;"
traveling man
A pointer.
'Ah ! I sec. A hint not to interfere
in family matters."
"Not at all. It wa3
a
chant- Traveler.
dog."-
-Jler-
my yard this morning, where some I
burglar had probably left it. Just smell
the chloroform, will you 1" ,
: A messenger was-sent to- orertake the
rst man and he returned and identified
the coat, which had blown over the
fence.
"Yes, sir, it's mino;. said he, as he
started o&V "and' r hope the police will
be more vigilart in-futnre-."
"And it was in my yard, sir," said
number two, as- ho-went out. "and ii
any more burglars- come around you
poiee will hear from aoc"" Detroit Fret
Press.
Grubbing Out Trees.
Wherever time ;s an object in clearing
land no stump should hz allowed. A
stump hi unmanageable, -and if green, is
quite a4 apt as not, if cut in winter, to
send up suckers, which will keep the
roots alive and prolong the nuisance in
definitely. But a tree may be dug around i it
with "com pa atively little labor, and its! Finely pulverized and well intermixed
top used as a lever to turn its roots up through soil, manure is worth more than
out of the ground. As the tree bends, i double if left in lumps, even in a wet
the roots that adhere in the soil may be ' season.
cut with an old axe that need not be very j Galvanized barb-wire will last many
snnrp ior mat purpose. nen it lie3 on j years without rust or harm: if only
to its top I minted it renuires freouent renaintino-.
body around so ! or it will rust.
Curved Around the Obstruction.
"Stevie," a bright four year-old, had
been told that he must not ask for any
thing to eat when visiting the neighbor.
Soon after.at the house of a distant rela
tive, where he invariably found some
thing to eat, he hung around with a
wistf.il sort of look, until finally he broke
out :
"Aunt Jane, I'm awful thirsty."
"Are you?"
"Yes. J am so thirsty l could eat a
douhnuj" Bodo.i Globe.
the ground hitch a team
branches, and twist the
as to loosen more roots. In this way a
tree of moderate size may be cheaply
grubbed out. When the hole made by
excavating "the root i3 filled, the whole
may be plowed and seeded.
Value of Skim-Milk.
Some dairymen whose specialty is but
ter make a pract'ee of selling skimmed
milk. It is not diliieult to realize nearly
as much from the sale of skimmed milk
as is got from the butter, and with much
less labor than is required in caring far
the cream, churning the butter and work
ing it over, the profit may be greatly in
creased. Curdled milk worked into
balls of cottage cheese sell well almost
everywhere, and at proportionably bet
ter prices than cheese made in factories.
It is surprising that more farmers do not
f;o into this business when milk is plenti
ul. But, except for making into cot
tage cheese, skimmed milk is woFth more
to feed to stock than to sell. It might
often be bought with profit at the price
of new milk as sin addition to the ration
of young pigs fed exclusively on corn.
The skim-milk contains the elements of
'f cod that go to make growth, and in
which corn .is deficient. It is not neces
sary nor best to make an exclusive feed of
skim-milk. The farmer who can do this
had better buy. or raise more pigs as
quickly as possible. By giving besides
corn some other grain as oats or add
ing tine middlings, a little skim-milk may
be made to go a great way in
porkers. Culticuttr.
Scientific Rut ler-Making.
Mary C. Connell,in the Agricultural Ga
se'te, thus describes butter-making at the
Cheshire-l)a:ry Institute in England:
"As soon as the milk drawn from
the cows it is brought gently to the
dairy, and strained into a large milk
cooler or vat, alter which it is at once
put through the Laval separator, which
is-worked by steam power. The cream
is received in large tin vessels, which,
on being full, are immediately plunged
in a cistern of cold water, and brought to
& temperature of sixty degrees, at which
it is desirable that it should be kept to
ripu ; it is. generally ready to churn in
two. or three days. The churn used is
"Bradford's piaphragm,''which is driven
by steam, churning about forty pounds
of butter at a time. It is worked at a
peed of forty-five revolutions per minute,
me temperature ot the cream being fifty-
seven degrees. Churning is generally
completed in thirty-five to forty minutes.
A- smaller churn is a'so used for pupils
who wish to learn to churn bv hand.
"When the butter appears in very small
particles, about the size of f pin-heads, a
quantity of cold water (about four gal
lons), at a temperature of about fifty de-
K'i uuueu, ana cnurning is
continued until the butter appears in
grains about the size of large shot, when
the churn is stopped ; the buttermilk is
drawn off through the strainer. When
the grains are firm the butter is never
' washed. The butter is then carefully
lifted out-of th j churn with a wooden
scoop into a small tub while in grain's.
Alter being weighed in bulk upon the
machine, the buttermilk is well pressed
out upon the butter-worker, and a quar
ter of an ounce of s .It added to every
pound of butter, when the butter-worker
is passed over the butter five or six times.
It is then put away for three hours rafter
which it is again put on the butter
worker and worked until it is seen to be
quite free from moisture. This is facil
itated considerably by the butter-worker
being wiped dry with a muslin cloth
each time the butter is passed over it.
The butter is then neatly made un into
one-nound rolls wrnnnofl in (TroicnnrrvAf
j, : ",: i":"1 1 ; ' , I""" , whether it is well to
llJlilr Dnil 1llr. intA rnrn hn.iri hvf.n
1,L i :... , -. ' the time of calving
im!i.tuSlu patiweu into large woouen ndvu-ijle to take
B1nt f vr;n ,SfJ3 nM, ,' 7 Sins to change on
" v w v. -j vuoLtiui i a lit. i j 1 1 i iii
made on this system is waxy
in texture, clear in color and
pure in flavor, and keeps well
price."
mandsa high
and close
distinctly
and coin-
To keep fruit without decaying, let
the fruit room in winter be steadily near
the freezing point, regulated with two
cheap thermometers.
The most successful dehorning of
cattle is when they are three weeks
calves, and when only a little button,
easily removed, is the horn.
Fruit rooms or fruit houses, to be kept
cool, should be entered from above, to
prevent the cold air from flowing out if
the entrance is on the same level.
Every farmer should have a workshop,
with a distinct place for every tool, and
boxes with compartments for nails,
screws, bolts, etc., of different size?.
The kitchen in every country house
should be on a level with ihe principal
floor, and, should have ample windows for
light andventilation on opposite sides.
Two crops may be profitably taken in
a year - from farm lands the first, corn
fodder for ensilage, followed by thick
rye to be ploughed in late next spring.
To find the contents of a crib, multiply
the length, breadth and height for the
cubic feet; multiply the same by four
and strike off the right hand figure, and
the result will be the shelled bushels.
Professor Arnold says the running'ex
pense in labor and fuel for evaporating
apples is ten and twelve cents a bushel;
for raspberries, half a cent a quart; for
peaches, twenty-five to thirty-five cents
a bushel.
Paris green is the most efficient in
secticide, and succeeds with, potato
beetles, canker worms, codling moths,
and all other insects which devour
leaves, but fails with plant lice, which
live by sucking juir es.
There is not much advantage in feed
ing potatoes to cows, if butter, rather
than milk, is the object. Potatoes in
crease the flow of milk, but they make
a poor, salvy kind of butter unless other
and richer feed is given with them.
There is starch in the potato, but1 it
lacks the fat found in corn-meal which
makes it so valuable a feed for the
butter-maker. -
If the Rural Hew Yorker's poultry in
vestigations have determined, one thing
more valuable than others it is the use of
kerosene and spraying bellows for ex
terminating lice in the easiest and cheap
est way. A poultry house ten feet square
can be thoroughly kerosened in a minute,
the i!ne spray penetrating every crack
and crevice. There is no need whatever
of whitewash or the use of any other
material for this purpose. The kerosene
vapor is effectual.
An experienced horticulturist, says
Popular Gardening, uses many hundred
yards of muslin for winter protection to
lenaer plants. Around tender trees and
shrubs he drives stakes to which he tacks
muslin, which completely protects the
plants from wind. In the case of rathe i.
tender sorts, he throws a few armfuls o
dry oak leaves inside the muslin inclosure,
then tacks another piece of muslin over
the top to keep all snug and dry. '
The Guernsey Breeder says soft-wood
charcoal, especially willow, ought always
to be kept in the cow stable. If a cow
does not look bright give a teacupful in
her bran or other feed and wet up. If
her breath is bad, her horns hot and her
nose dry, she is dyspeptic and feverish.
Give her charcoal. If she has hollow
horn, give charcoal, half a tea?poonful
at each meal, for three or four days,
'ireat wolf-in-the-tail in the same way.
The wolf caut stand charcoal. It is an
excellent thing to gi e charcoal all
around once a week.
Ti 3 -1 ll 1 -m m " "
ii ueper.us upon me Kum or cow
milk her close up to
or not. Generally it
the milk until it be-
the approach of the
new lactation. men ther is a larn-e
increase in the secretion of the salts in
: the milk, and a change in the character
! of the fats. This occurs about thirty or
j forty diys before calving, and at this time
fit is usual for the milking to bo gradu
; ally stopped. The largest proportion
j of cows naturally stop" milking before
j this time. With the rest it is advisable
j to dry the cows.
More Than he Expected.
Young? 'Man (to editor) "What do
you think I ought to get for the poem;"
Editor "You ought to get ten dol
lars "
Young man (overjoyed) "Oh, that is
fully as much as I expected."
Editor "Yes; ten dollars or thirty
days."
That was more than he expected. -Ejoc
V. '
His Health was Delicate.
Lady of the House "Now that the
servant has given you a lunch in the
kitchen you will shovel the snow off the
iidewalk, will you not?"
Tramp " I would like to oblige you,
aiadam, but really, I cannot."
" Why not? "
"My physician has forbidden
landle anything cold, except cbl?
lals. Sitings.
Realistic Effects.
Admiring Visitor ' ' The
;hose oxen drawing the
action of
load of hay is
limply immense, old man; but I don't
piite catch your idea in painting that
sxplosion behind the hill.
Artist (with freezing hauteur) "Par-
Ion me that is not an explosion, but a
representation of sunset in the Hockies,
ind that's not a load of hay and oien,
but the overland coach a: d a pair 01
dorses. Bostm Beacon.
A Modest Request.
"Grandpa." said Bertie, "you like to
. - xl I A
Bee young dovs enjoy iiiemseives, t
No Man's land.
"Although I am; a nativeof these good
United States.. bave never deserted the
Stars and Stripes-ia any emergency, have
fought in two wars- to- uphold her en
signs, and have re ired a half dozen pa
triotic sons, Lf aiss without a home and
without a country reoaarked an elderly
gentleman toan h'u a miner representative.
And this, to-, whit 1 have never
crossed her- b-ders and have alwava
been credited! with being a pretty fair
sort of a citizen." -
"What is-tjhe riddle to all this, then?"
"I hail frtwn No Man's Laud. No
Man's Land, when I was a boy, meant.
some place- away off in the ocean ; but.
this, as you know, if you have been:
watching the doings of Congress lately.
means a aarrow strip, 170 miles long and!
2i wide, between Colorado and Icxas
and forming the tail-end of the Indiais
Territory, so called. Asa matter of fact,,
it was never part of that Territory, u&r
any other, and w are cow asking Con-
grass to set U3 oil as an independent
Territory, so that we may make lawsiia-d
govern ourselves. As it i5, we have- no
aws, that is, none that may be csued
such, although we manage to do busi
ness and keep things straight in an aver
age way. There are about threo thou
sand of us in No Man's Land. It is a
country well watered, by the north fork
of the Canadian River and its tributaries.
A good many of the Oklahoma boomers,
when they didn't make things stick in
Oklahoma, came over to our country.
We are a thriving lot, and who knows
but we may build up an Empire. Our
principal villages are Camp Nicholas and
Camp Supply. It is a level and very
productive country mostly. In round
figures we have about 8,673,000 acres.
Quite enough, isn't it, to mike a little
principality of itself? It would make a
bigger State than Connecticut. We want
it called Cimarron and want a delegate
to Congress the same as all the Terri
tories. The last Congress passed a bill
allowing the settlement of the disputed
strip under the General Land laws, but
President Cleveland has not yet signed
it, and we now have men in Washing
ton who are trying to get it put
through."
The speaker was Henry Bent, for five
years a trader on the Canadian river. He
is bound home from Monrovia and leaves
by way of the Central Pacific to-day.
San, Francisco Examiner,
you
. . Lonff Island Whalers. ;t
. Amagaiwett. Long Island, wheenu
merous -whaling crews live, is a neat lit--!
tie seasiaerviilage, and it is the lasrset-tlemenfcote-passes
on going to -Mootauk
Point- It; ia-but three miles east-offthe
well kmwn-summer resort ofEast.fSamp
ton, w.rthvbose history are associated
the namcs-of. John Howard PayEC anl
Henry Ward Beecher. Amagansett has
a population! of about two hundred peo
pie, mostly thrifty farmers, weU-tondo
fishermen: and rich whalemen.
Tha.whaling crews are regularlgorgan-
izediin- the village. Boats supplied;
wit hi All; the requisites for the chase are
kept housed on the beach, and the warnr
mg thafeat whale has been sighted is
givee;by araan running down the-beach.
swingiaghss coat and shouting, by the
blowing; of horns, the ringing of church,
bells,. ana by various noisy demonstra-r
tions-uuinrelligible to the stranger, . but?
coavevma a dehnite meaning to..the rr
tivos.
Alt business practically steps.ittlia-
plac while the chase lasts, and its sie-
cessful termination is the: signal for- a
rrrirr 1 1 -iiil-tilan
banous accidents have no lBfrequenffiT
marred these jubilees. Captain Kogers,
of Southampton, in one oj,these chases a
Sew years ago was killed? by at whale.
The monster went under the boat, and
Trben he came up asternf j it -brought his
tierrible tail up with . crashing stoake
which hit the stern of the boat exactly
lander the Captain's feet.. He wa$ stand
ing, hi3 weight on one foott T.be blow
shattered the bone eft" his. leg; aal drove
it up into his thigh The bo si wasof
course overturned, and? the injured! Cap
tain and crew were saved with difficulty.
The Captain died iaia.few. days.rosa the
injuries.
On another occasion, three whales were
sighted, and tvy were fastened. The
three whale3 rryade a general rush at the
boats, and out of the flees of six or more
boats only or emerged Ir.om the conflict
uninjured. Fortunately v aside-from a few
bruise., no ne wa3 seriously hurt, but
the whales, escaped. Similar occurrences
have frequently bewi chronicled, evi
dencing that the business is not prose
cuted without great peril, and is cer
tainly full enough of hardy adventure to
make it most alluring to adventurous
spirita. The business is fairly prosper-
The Poor Irish Crofters. .
Besides fishing up harriBand hakctlfe'
How Colds AfttCaugkt;.
f
tr1A !a 4t. i r . . - - .-" ' '
roor people at the head of Bantrp .Bay duction of catarrh "T
!X J-1La .-.iaino. a it 1 aacnon catarrh. There is acollaterat i
. " - i cause, and a most important nn. in r.
L1! "KfiS? ; tain depressed conditio of the Tnerroua
sometimes as "coral sand," is: used If or
farm manure and costs from eight to-nine
shillings a ooac loau a. your pace cou- precautions are taken against cold, tharev
sidering the toilsomecharacter pi, the is enougb, vitality in the organism ie-
system, which la too . Vj known and ,
appreciated. In healthy condition of.
the nervous system, provided reasonable
-arork and cc st of the- boats required &
rarry it on. A sand cxat:costs .3J wnen
;new and $2 a year in repair. The utmost
4s boat owner or partner -jcan ?ao mAoay
Bto bring to shore two boat loadd. The
proceeds have to ba.livided among s
.number of workers, while the woilong
season lasts for a portion of the- year
only. In spite of all their lifelong laoor
j'from morning to night, in winter-rand
summer, and in calm and in storaw theso
crof ter fishermen ar3 in a state of chionic
poverty. They dajiot live-by their
scrappy patches of holdings. Tbejearn-
with dimculty Iroaa tne sea ixireiy
sst its injurious mflneaee. The nervous.
system is, in fact, thoiguaidian, control- .
ler, and prime regulater.of animal heat ?
or body tcmperaturc-and its slif,fest i
failure to fulfill its rasponsible duties .
the least relaxation of . its, constant vigi
lancerenders us liable; to tall a jseylo' .
cold.
The following supposititious cases will
afford an illustration: An individual
who habitually drives, about in aaw opea
conveyance with perfect freedoaxi.from.
catarrh, happens oaone occasionsto fall
asleep when he isontind the very next:
day has cold. . le. explanation, ot, tho
enough to buy sleeping room and a ootr phenomenon is t.be iound in ihe fact.
T 11 . 1 1 J I , i 1 1
hold on the land.
They even do more than ih&t:. they
partly create, witirthe help . of : the seay
the very soil for which they gay. rent.
The calcareous deposit which . they call
"coral sand ' theyhave used ta. reciaiua
these shores of iroclc and : beg. Thy
have used the soaweed for the-? same pur
pose, cutting iw up irom tne,.aeep waer
that during sisp . .nervous epergy is.
lowered and th system therefore, lesa
able to withstand the injurious effects of
cold. If we assume that the individual
was also in a state of intoxication at the
time, the damage done by coli would be
more serious, aathedepressioaby, alcohol,
is superadded ato. that of sleep. It is.
therefore not surprising to find that in-
with a primitive. -machine whichi may be flamjnation cthe lungs is frequently con
described as as i marine scyihe; and: the
seaweed has tp be, paid fori, if not as a
separate item, then as. inaluded ia the
holding. Cecals sand, seaweed, the refuse
of house antj pigsty, andbasket-loads of
soil found jnong the bcsrlders,. these are
the ingredients out of yiich, after ycara
of work, tit crofter fishermen have pro
duced tho-green, pafcea whichi dot in
numerabljrthe rocky slipresand the gray
brown sidts of the sterile but incompara
bly picturesque mountains that surround
G lengraiff the beautiful. And the dwell
ings of the hard working- people ! They
are mare fit for the-pigs, that go grunting
and snouting, in and out of them than
they are for beijags, creates in the image
tracted under?uch : .circumstances. Wc,v
instinctively c acknowledgGethe nervous
depression during sleep by, taking -thc
precaution Jthrow a rugover the knees.
before ovlti forty, winks aft the dining:.
toom sofa, -
A timidijwoman comeaJiome one xight,
pale and ghastly with fright, having en
countered? a spectre clatf in white, whwh
she callsa., 'ghost." Isaa day or tpsa
develoT,-a.pold, for.,Thich she caanpt in
any way account, taracts as a depres
sant tcnthe ner, - ystem, crlplfpg its
powers of ,resis w the action of cold;,
henctbe'phraze, '-'shivering "djh..feaj.n
Simiiarly, innumojrabje events, of daily
lifer tend ta,i tate, depress, or, excite
of God. A dry stone box with earthen tbnexves, and reader them, unfit for
ous, and those who
comfortable liviugs
engage
m
it make r
and irequentiv be-.
come ricj. The older men in the business
we:e whalemen when ships engaging in
the pursuit were fitted out from Sag
I Harbor and have made repeated voyages
to the Arctic regions in search of the
monsters of the deep. Captain Henry E.
Hunting, who is serving his constituents
in the Assembly, belongs to this latter
class, and has made a number of success
ful whaling voyages as. master of the
ship.
They are a hardy, good natured and
prosperous class of people, and persist in
their perilous a vocation because they like
it. JSeio low World.
flo&p and withsiife windows, two or three
recosses-stuffedi with straw for beds, and
the whole filled with peat reek, such
is the ordinary typo of house where a
k fisherman and, his wife live with half a
"Whv. VC3," replied grandpa.
"And you like to do all you can to help
cm have a good time, don't yom
"Whv. certainly."
'T . micrhi- an Wpll me and the
Tompkins boys and the Clarks are go
ing to play 'Life on the Plains' in the
Clarks' barn for the next two afternoons,
and I thought Yd ask you to let us take
vour.wig to use for a scalp." Til-Bxis.
One Experience Enough.
"Maria," said Mr. Wipedunks, as he
came in and threw a folded document on
the table, "I have just insured my life for
$5,000 in your favor. There is the doc
ument."! ''Thank you, Bilkerson," said Mrs.'
Wipedunks, "I hope it may be many
years before it will be of any use to me."
"It will be of much u?e to you if you
wish to marry again," he growled. "With
$5,000 in cash you can pick out almost
any fool you like."
"No, Bilkerson," she replied, affec
tionately, "I think I should want a
Ghicago Iribune.
change next time.'
Farmers Who Worry.
It is said that the average duration of
life ! among farmers is less than that
among any other of the industrial classes,
and that1 insanity nrevails to the laro-pat
extent in farm houses. It was well ald ! When a horse is lame after traveling
bylthe late Henry Ward Beecher (never an( is constantly shifting the foot and
to be forgotten for his many wise words) i re8ts 5t on tlie toe' it indicates sprain of
that "it" is not w.rk but worry that ;; tne back tendons or disease of the navic
kills." And it is a sad truth that the I ular bone- The latter is distinguished
more worry I "7 striking the frog with a small hammer,
The artisan and if the horse winces the navicular
oone is anecieu; ii mere is no tender-
farm house is the seat of
than. the average dwelling.
the C erk and the niprrhnnt nf the r.tw
leave ineir uusme.-s behind when they go
to their homes, apd the evening's recrea
tion or conversation frees the mind from
corroding cares. But the farmer carries
his cans with him, and he may be
known, and his wife, too, by the prevail
ing sadness indicated by. the lines and
furrows of their faces. It is not easy to
take thing easy. But when one can in
ure himself to a condition of content
ment, get h:s work down to a system
atic method, ar.d cIops not try to squeeze
12 hours into s, he will find" the world
far more joyous and pleasant than he has
thought it, and his troubles will vanish
as a nightmare when one awakes.
There are farmers who have the habit
-of rising at : or 4 in in the morning.
Early rising maybe included in the vices
eometinics. A farmer who le.ivcs his un
restful bed at such an early hour is a
tyrant to hn family. We have known
such men to arouse the household at this
unseasonable hour and then sit bv the
ncss found there the disease is in the
tendon which plays, over the cartilage
of the pastern joint The remedy for
the former is to blister behind the heels
and to wear a bar shoe or a thick leather
sole under the shoe, and to stuff the
space under the so'e with tow. For the
inflamed tendon apply bandages soaked
with cold water with a little saltpetre
dissolved in it, and after the lameness
has subsided apply a blister to the side3
and front of the pastern. The horse
must rest.
He Fixed It.
St. Louis man (in his room at Chicago
hotel preparing to retire) "What's this
sign? 'Don't blow out the gas.' AH
right. If the laa'lord wants 'er to burn
all night it's nutbin' to me. What's this
tacked onto the door? 'Rules of the
house.' Jesso.
'All ga3 burned after
12 o'clock p. m. will be charged for.'
So. That's the game, is it? Daresn't
;fire until daylight mourning over their blow it out, and yet got to pay fur it if
1 1 T i ... l.Jl. . 1 ! "1 at l i 2k K,. f " 1 f . , -r "v - .
;jiaru ioi, uiuu coiupciieu mem io oe
about when other people were enjoying
their rest. Then they would go out and
feed the stock, and, spending the dav in
this fashion, would do very little work j
it burns after midnight, have I? Not by
a gosh-oiamed sight .' I'd like to see any
Chicago bulldozer get ahead of me that
way?" Empties water pitcher on gas jet
and crawls into bed.1 Chicago Tribune.
An Accommodating Texan.
When Col. Sumpter was in New York,
Btrolling about and seeing what was to
be seen, he noticed by . the side of the
door of a large mansion on Fourth avenue,
right under the bell,' the words :
"Please ring the belt for janitor."
After reflecting a few minutes, Col.
Sumpter walked up and gave the bell
3uch a pull that one might have supposed
ne was trying to extricate it by the roots.
In a few minutes an angry-faced man tore
the door open.
"Are you the janitor?" asked Col.
Sumpter.
"Yes; what do you want?"
"I stw that notice, 'Please ring the
bell for the janitor,' s-o I rang the bell
for you, and now I want to know why
can't you ring the bell yourself V Texas
Siftings.
' His Sister Was Sharper.
Bobby (to Mr. DeKuyter, who is wait
ing far Miss Jenny to come down)
"Will you p'casc stand up a minute?"
Mr. Delxiivter (who knows tint Jenny
dote; on Bcbby) "Certainly, Bobby."
B. "No, not there ; over here by the
wnlow."
Dei?, (standing before the window)
"There will that do?"
B. "Yes." (Takes a good look at
Del?., and appears disappointed.
Del?. "What are you trying to do,
Bobby?" . . .
B. "Well, Jenny snid last night that
she could see through you easily, and I
wanted to try. you." Tid-Bits.
The Truth of Weather-Lore.
The persistent survival of weather-lore
in these days of intellectual emancipa
tion is not at all rema kable when we
consider the extent to which the vulgat
sayings embody real truths. A few years
ago Messrs. Abercromby and Marriott
embarked on aa extremely interesting
inquiry and with the view to determine,
by actual comparison, how far the
popular proverbs express relations, or
sequence? which the results of meteoro
logical scienee'show to be real. The in
vestigation proved that something like
a hundred of the more popular sayings
are, under ordinary conditions, trust
worthy. Such being the case, we need
not be" surprised that simple country folk
prefer famil'ar couplets to all the "iso
bars," ."cyclones," and "synchronous
charts" in the world. If hills clear, rain
near," means the same as "the presence
of a wedgeshaped area of high pressure,
accompanied by great atmospheric visi
bility, is likelv to be followed by the ad
vance oi a disturbance witn ram ana
southerly winds," which for all practical
purposes it doe, the preference is justi
fied on the mere ground of breath
economy. The thirty one words de
manded by science stand no chance
against four.
But it is nnfortunate that along with
the limited number of folk-sayings
founded on truth, there has survived a
very large number founded on the
grossest error. These latter have bor
rowed credence and respect from e
proved credibility of the others, and ap
parently they are all destined to sink oi
swim together. Hammer as we will at
certain favorite proverbs which we know
to be based upon error, it is all in vain.
The reverence for tradition is too much
for, us. And of all tha superstitions,
pure and simple, which defy our attempts
at destruction, the most invaluable are
those ascribing certain effects to the in
fluence of the moon. Popular Science
Monthly.
dozen or more children. In one sucht
house which I visited there were sever
children London' News.
Taking the Depth of the Sea
WTien we read about repairing breaks
in the ocean cable we naturally are curi
ous to know something about the manner
in which operations on severed wires
are carried on a mile or two below the
surface.
In the course of an article on the sub
ject the New Y'ork Sun says that the
hist work done is to get a scries of
soundings over a patch of the sea aggre
gating twenty-five or thirty square miles.
The sounding apparatus consists of an ob
long shot of iron, weighing about thirty
two pounds, attached to a pianoforte
wire in such a way that, when lowered
to .the bottom, the shot will jab a smail
steel tube into the mud, and will then
release itself from the wire and allow
the sailors to draw up the tube with the
mud in it. The moment the weight is
released the men on deck stop paying
out the wire, and thus, knowing how
much wire has been run out, they are
able to tell the depth. It is an interest
ing fact that it recently took twenty
four minutes and ten seconds for the
weight of the sounding apparatus to
reach bottom in 2,097 fathoms of water,
Win 1888 be a Year of War?
The present year is the fifth yar of
modern times in which the aggregate of
the figures is twenty-five, and titerc will
be but five more years in which such a
combination is possible prior to the year
3399. Probably but few have ever
heard of the old prophecyx which runs as
follows:
In every f uture year ot our Lord, -
When the sum of the figures is twenty-five.
Some warlike kingdom will draw the sword,
But peaceful nations in peace shall thrive.
Students of modern history will reaii
ly recall how faithfully this prophecy
has been fulfilled ; in the four previous
years to which it applied.
In 1G99 Russia. Denmark, and Poland
formed the coalition against Sweden
which inaugurated the great war that
ended in the diastrous defeat of Charles
XII., at Pultowa.
The year 1789 will ever he memorable
ou account of the breaking out of the
French 1'evolution. ' -
The year 1798 witnessed the campaign
of Bonaparte in Egypt and the forma
tion of the second European coalition
against France. , . -
In 1879 war broke out between Eng
land and Afghanistan, followed by the
invasion of the latter country by British
troops.
In what manner the prediction is to be
verified in 1888 remains yet to be seen,
but the present condition of Europe
seems to promisean abundant fulfillment
of the prophecy.- Philadelphia Inquirer.
maintaining thobody temperature against
tae fluqtuations.ol.weatne.5- ana. cnmaie.
During thest? unguarded moments a
ViJling'expOdUre, to.colcor damp is suffi
cientr to uduce,. catwrh. It ii knowa
that stout boots, umbreljas. and wraps,
though preservative in, their way, are
not by any means tike only precautionary
measures to, be adapted; that wer musfc
endeavor to. strengthea the nervous sysr
temfc H it be- defective, and that when
we are; compelled to expose ourselves to
sold or wet when the nerves mre de
pressed from temporary causes, such as
fatigue, anxiety, grief, dyspepsia, or ill
humor, wo should be specially careful to
guard against cold, Vhamlw' Journal,
ication Amoi
From a 8 nail Boy's Standpoint.
"Josef Hofmin, the infant pianist is a
wonderful y gifted child," said a travel
ing man to his wife.
"Y'es, he was wonderfully favored by
nature.'"
"Well, I should say so," said their
eight-year-old son, who had been to the
concert. "lle"& mighty lucky."
"What makes you think so, Willie?"
said his father, delighted to perceive
such evidence of precocious musical ap
preciation. " 'Cause whenever he feels like it he
can turn in and make just as much noise
as he feels like without anybody's saying:
4Xow, Josef, you come away from that
piano this instant or I shall put you to
Led." Merchant I'race'er.
Three Kinds of Arrests in Russia. -
There are three kinds of arrests in
Russia. The first was intended to in
spire terror and obtain clues to secret
; revolutionary action; tho second was in
tended by the use of torture to compel
confession, or induce the prisoner to be
j tray his friends; the third are the polit
ical suspects, wno are Kept m solitary
confinement for months or years while
the police scour the empire in search of
criminating evidence against them.
Justice is proverbially slow in Russia.
The Government' ha4 so much police
work in hand, there is so much under
ground service, that cases have to wait
their turn, and again and again prison
ers become insane from solitary confine
ment, or die in their dungeons before it
is known whether they are guilty or not.
The subject m Russia has no law on hi3
side. Innocent or guilty, he is at the
mercy of the police officers, who are
responsible to the Czar, and who know
that the Car will never inquire intc
their conduct. Boston Herald.
It is Human Nature.
"I'd like to know," he began as he en
tered police headquarters jesterday, "if
we have a police1 force?"
"We have," replied the Sergeant.
"Then I want it to protect me! I am
a taxpayer."
'Y'ou shall be protected, sir. What
is the case?"
"Why, I got some paint on my over
coat last night, and my wife sponged it
off with benzine and left it out doors to
air. It's gone! Yes, sir, gone!"
"Well, we'll try and find it for you."
The wrathy man had scarcely departed
whe n a second stranger entered and de
manded to know: .
"Have we police or have we not?"
--We have," replied tne Sergeant.
"Well, here's aa overcoat I found in
In the Conservatory.
Mis3 Browning (of Boston) "Mr. Ber
rill, do you believe that a ro3e by any
other name would smell as sweet? "
Mr. Berrill (of Chicago) "It would
to me."
3Iiss B. (innocently) "Why?"
Mr. B. (miserably) "Because I have
hay fever. Tid-Bi's.
His amc Led All the Rest.
Abou Ben Jenkins Cmay his tribe increase)
Awoke one niht from a deep dream of peace.
And saw within 1 he c-oafinesof his room,
Making a light and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold;
Exceeding nerve had made Ben Jenkins bold.
" What writest thou V he said. The angel
then
Replied: " The names of those who love their
fellow-men."
"And is mine one f ased Jenkim
4i2ay, not so," replied the angeL Jenkins
" felt quite sore.
' Write me," he said. 41 as one who always
shuts the door."
The angel wrote, and vanished, and tho next
night
He came again with a great awakening light
He showed the names of those the Lord hac
blessed.
And lo! Ben Jenkins's name led all the rest
Xeu: York Graphic.
Education Among the Chinese
As a people the Chinese males are bet
ter educated than any other race of peo5
pie in the world. Education to a certain
extent is compulsory for all Chinese
males, although the mass cannot do much
more than read and write ; still to that
extent they are well educated. It has
been the policy of the Chinese govern
ment foi- limidreds of years to select a
certain number of boys from each dis
trict and educate them for historians and
writers. Their work is never completed,
for as long as they live and are able to
do anything they continue to write and
study. Every five years they pass an ex
amination, and, according to their pro
ficiency they are promoted to office or
rank. As a rule no Chinese can hope to
attain prominence in any civil ormilitary
office pertaining to tjhe CoTcrmejit yjji
less he has succeeded a3 a sebxuar, ior the
Chinese believe po man eah succeed as a
scholar unless he has ability, ailclif he
possesses ability, why then, as a matter
of course, he is a suitable person to hold
office; but no matter how high the office
may be, he must continue his studies,
the duties of his office being generally
performed by a deputy. Chicago Herald,
Smarter than the Pawnbroker.
A firm of gun dealers down-town got a
consignment of beautiful cast iron shott
guns from England. They were of tha
3ingular pattern which you can sell at
about $4 and make a profit, the govern
ment test mark thrown in. They look
well, but it is better not to fire them.
The barrel may fall off or the charge
jome out the wrong way. But they look
beautiful and solid. A seedy looking in
dividual came in one day and bought
ane. He came back next day and bought
another. He kept coming and buying
them one at a time, and still he did not
seem to look any less seedy or have much
more capital. The gun dealer bean to
wonderwhat he was doing with all those
guns. He might be preparing a revolu
tion or a riot or something. lie followed
him one day. The fellow took the gun
to a pawnbioker and got $9 on it. It cost
$4 and he kept on buying those guns un
til he had loaded up ail ths pawnbrokers
in town with them and almost drank
himself to death with the profits. San
Franeicy Chronicle.
A Corn Supper.
A novelty is acorn supper, where this
standard cereal enters iito the name or
Ingredients of every dish. ,j The following
menu was served recently at a Grange
banquet:
Corn-some-way Maizma cerealism.
Fishes a la maized. Roast corn a la patron.
Corned bee?. Corn Bread. Bread corned.
Hulled corn. Succotash a la grange.
rCDDIXGS.
Indian pudding baked. Indian pudd;g boiled.
Patron's corn pudding- Hasty padding.
Corn starch.
CAKE. '
Corn colored cake. Cake corned. Corn cake.
Corn starch cake. Starch corn cake.
Milk from corn-colored cqw.
Butter from corn-fed cow.
- DESERT.
Corn ice cream. Corn candy. Balls a la corn
Corn de la corn popper. Com coffee.
Pure juice of corn. Corn juice.
A NoYel Eleyator,
A curious elevator ha3 been proposed
for use in the Eiffel tower, whicH it is
proposea to ereclTn Paris for the next
exhibition, The tower is to be about 984
feet high, and none of the ordinary
forms of elevators coma useu yyjm
safety. The plan proposed is to construct
in the interior of a cylindrical tower a
spiral railway track, on which shall run
a truck occupying the .whole interior
space. This circular truck carries a
double ducked car which is raised by the
latter's revolution. Motion is commun
icated to the truck by an endless cable
driven by a stationary engine. This
cable passes through the Car and runs
over a series of friction pulleys, which
communicate their motion to the trucks
through a worm-gear and spur-wheel.
The weight of the elevator-car is sup
ported by the wheels of the truck, and
these are' only to be revolved by the
worm-gear. Consequently, if anything
?h0UJ3 UaPPeu to th cable the car would
. not desejjd, but. would re'mamsfatlon
I Tii I il . ... . -.
ary uniu me persons in tne car started
the gear, and would then Only descend as
long as motion continued l be given to
it. The cable runs at ahigli speed, which
the gear reduces, and thus it is possible
to use quite a small cable to give motion
to a car coutaining 200 people. Iron.
The Fisher Cat.
A very rare animal is known to hun
ters as the black cat or fisher, but the
names are misleading, as it does not at
all resemble a cat, and it docs not feed
on fish. The skin of the animal is highly
pri7ed by furriers, a single raw pelt
bringing as high as $10. The fur about
the head, neck, and shoulders is dark
gray. The back, hips, legs, and tail are
jet black. The body from the nose to
the butt of the tail is two feet long and
the tail is sixtclenr inches inches long and
very full and bushy, not unlike that of
an angry cat. It is a far more attractive
creature than any other member of the
weasel family, and is less known than
any other of our mammalia. It is said
by the hunters to prey upon the Canadian
porcupine; to cat it, bristles and alky
and digest them without inconvenience,
Its other food consists of pine martins,
squirrels, rabbits and other gmall animals,
and it is remarkably expert in catching
them. Occasionally it feeds on fhh. The
range of this great weasel is from the
Great Silver Lake and Labrador to the
Pacific and Southwest, occasionally on
the mountains cf Virginia.
Fence Kails of Walnut
'I was once riding up in the Cumber
land Mountains," said the Chicago man,
"when I saw a bearded mountaineer
splitting a big tree he had felled. It was
a huge b ack walnut. I said to him,
43Iy friend, what are you doing?' 'I'm a
makin' fence-ra'ls,' was hi reply. 'Well,
Ifaid, 'you don't mean to tell me you are
making fence-rails out of that piece of
timber.'' 'Why, sartin. That's a good
log, ain't it 5 It was a? fine a black wal
nut log as I ever saw, and if my friend
had known enough to get somebody with
a few oxen or mulc3 to drag the log to
the railroad he could have 6o!d it for
$200, for it was worth more than that."
Chicago Tribune.
Work for Congo Natives.
When Stanley began his work on the
Congo it was with the greatest difficulty
that he procured the services of fifty
natives to help him open the road --
around the Cataracts to trtanley Pool.
The growth of the Congo enterprise and
the changes for the better in the habits
and disposition of the natives arc shown
by the fact that during the three months
beginning last June 5,897 porters left
Matadi, at the head of navigation on the
lower river, with loads destined for
Stanley Pool. The larger part of their
freight was two new steamboats, one be
longing to the Congo State and the other
to the company that is now surveying a
route for the railroad. All these porters
were hired at Lukungn and Manyanga,
the two largest places on the road to
Stanley Pool. Recruiting officers are
kept there to engage porters, ana men
come in from all the country around to
enlist in the work and get some of the
white men's merchandise. The tvork
for porters to do has outgrown the pro- ;
visions thus far made for supplying car
riers, and that Is the reason that Bishop
Taylor's steamboat was at lst accounts x
lying on tWbanks of the lowfcr CngcV
for lack of transportation facilities.
Vii ..'-...'J I' . it . '
x ne porters are paia ior tneir services?-,
largely in cotton goods and hardwarer
for which there is a constantly growings
demand. Among the natives who are
in the service of the Congo State as
soldier? or workmen, around the stations
are quite a number or Uaflresirom aoutii
Africa, and thus far they excel any of
the Congo natives in industry and
obedience. The Congoese are, however,
improving, and it is thought probable
that the great work of building the rail-
road will be done . largely by them and
Caffres brought from Cape Colony.
Chicago Heraul.
The Last of the Buffaloes. -
" It was but four years ago," said VT.
B. Barrows, of Mandan, Dak., " that I
bought 10,000 buffalo horns, and to-day
it is about impossible to obtain one pair
for love or money. According to the
jtories of hunters and trrj whohave
been engaged in their occupations for
years, one small herd of buffalo exists at
this time as a reptesentative of the count
less thousands that swarmed on the
Western prairies and they have soughf
protection in the Yellowstone Park.
There are about thirty in the herd and
many of the tourists through the park
last summer encountered them f during
their travels. Even these are likely to
become exterminated, unless the Govern
ment takes vigorous measures for their
security, as their whereabouts are knowa
to a few daring spirits, whojwill take des
perate chances to kill them, if they caa
be decoyed near the boundary line of
the park where detection would be diffi
cult. The experiments of Taxidermist
W. T. Ilornaday, of ' the , National
Museum, in quest of specimens of buffalo
for that institution, have already been
given at length, and he had orders be
sides from European museums for some
of these animals. After working ia
dustriously for two seasons, and tra
versing all the country north and west of
Minnesota to the Canada line, he suc
ceeded in finding two or three animal,
which hate been stuffed and mounted
for the museum at Washington, and un
less the United States Government de
cide? to pick out a few of its only herd
n a present to some European museum,
the foreign orders never will be filled.
-St Paul Globe.
A Magnet's Enormons Power.
An interesting magnetic experiment
on a large scale has lately been mi de at
Willets Point, N". Y., by Major W. H.
King, of tho Engineer Corps, U. 8. A.,
consisting in the conversion of a pair of
great cannons, each weighing over
twenty tons icto an electro-magnc?.
The power of the magnet wa3 enormous. .
The lines of force were very appreciated
when a piece of iron was held in ti e
hind, five or fix feet distant from tlu -
po!e3, nod mine very interesting points
were noticed, among which was a. nci
tral point about 7$ inch- s from' the fj; e .
of the muzzle of each gnn. Small pie
of wire were projected outward wi:li -considerable
velocity, and then tlr.nvn
back after rca hiug a point some two fwt
from the muzzle.. Watches wen-, if -course
stopped when accidentally brocgUt
near the gun. Scientific American.
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