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Bealmotion of Timber.
•r iii kia c.vuUuioo Ixtfure 41m .Agricultu
ral Commission of Canada, Bays tbo
Toronto GICbc, Mr. Browu, of Port 1S1-
Aptodsw nfio opiniotf that the
**otnttj ahouM l>o! reel other r Vith foroht
, Ini*. Ho rqpOi$i®oiul«xl the planting of
hu ge murscffieB \>y the Government, from
which the people could obtain trees at a
low price, ami, also, that tlio Govern-
*3acnt hIiouW • replant the crown-Aandv
id? t# done itf Australia and other conn*
tries. Mr. Brown lias been engaged in
the study of forestry all liis life, and
what he said boforo the commission is
•rtli.v of serious attention. The pro-
supply,
more yteticnlarly of its
on at a reckless rate for many years both
in Canuda aud the United States, and
unless it is checked the time must soon
come when even the demands of the.
home market cannot be supplied. It is
not with a forest as with grain or live
stock; it eau not bo reproduced in a
year or in a generation. Our great pino
woods are the growth of lmudrods of
wars, and once they are cut down or
burned over the snpply is ended.
The pine forests of ‘Maine fifty years
ago were thought to be inexhaustible.
Thousands of men were employed dur
ing the winter moutlis felling and cut
ting trees, and in the summer rafting
tla> logs down tlio streams or cutting
them into lumber in the mills, Bangor,
oil the Penobscot, was once the busiest
town in the United States. The river
v as lined with saw mills for miles, and
12,000 vessels were engaged in the car
rying trade. The forests for 200 miles
up the rivor, and for many miles on
either side, have boon laid waste, and the
‘ * Old Pine Tree State ” is no more than
a figure of speech. Spruce, whieli rap
idly reproduces itself, is the lumber
most gouc rally inuuufactured—the pro
duct on the Penobscot this year being
ten times that of pine.
In Michigan and Wisconsin the same
reckless haste and waste ore going on.
The Saginaw valley, which formerly con-
t.fined the largest and finest forests iu
Michigan, is being rapidly depleted.
T» nulls have a capacity of 000,000,000
lit of lumber per year, and mill-owners
ore obliged to bring logs from other
rivers, often as far as 150 miles distant,
to supplement the stock of the Saginaw.
Tlic output has reached its climax, and
no new mills are built or old ones re
placed. On the Muskegon river the
. mount of logs rafted this year is 400,-
000,000 feet, aud one large operator
alano will put in about 250,000,000 feet
this winter, hauling to the river by rail
uu average distance of eight miles. The
Alpena district will, at the present
rate of cutting, bo stripped in fifteen
The Wisconsin pineries hove been
. n ked much lot-s extensively than those
v: Michigan, but an estimate made by
the President of one of the largest log
ging companies on the Mississippi fixes
the utmost limit of the snpply at forty
vi nrs. In Minnesota the forests are
much smaller in extent, and will prob
ably not survive the others. Unless,
then, a new departure is made, the last
tree will be cut from Maine to the Rocky
mountains by the end of forty years,
:.! 1 the United States must depend for
its supply of pine lumber on foreign
Is there no way of limiting produc
ts::, ot husbanding our resources, of
gutting an end to reckless waste, of pro-
t' cl ion against foiesfc fil es, or of replon-
.' • i: i:; ;r woods by systematic forestry?
The.',, wo questions m which the whole
country has an interest, and which must
be discussed and answered.
Ships That Have Never Been Heard
From. •
The following European steamers have
never'been hoard of after leaving port:
The President ’which sailed from this
•port on March 11, -1841, had among her
passengers Tyrone Power, the famous
Irish comedian, and a son of the Duke
of Richmond. The Great Britain was
lost iu u storm on the coast of Ireland;
left Sept. 22, 1810. The City of Glas
gow was never heard of at tor leaving
3 lost. The]
from after Jan. 23, 1856, when she left
Liverpool; 200 lives lost. The Tempest
was never heard from after she left New
York on Feb. 20, 1857. The Connaught
burned off the coast of Massachusetts
Oct. 7. 1860. The United Kingdom left
New York April 17, 1809; w
heard from ; eighty lives lost. The City
of Boston loft Now York Jan. 25, 1870,
and was never afterward heard from;
about 160 lives lost. Tlio Hibernia
foundered off tlio Irish coast Nov. 29,
1868, but was heard from. The Caroli
na was wrecked on the Irish coast Nov.
29, 18(iS, and fifty lives lost. The 1s-
niulia left New York Sept. 29, 1878, and
is yet unheard of. The St. George was
destroyed by fire ut sea Dec. 24,1852.—
destroyed
Mew Yor
•k Dispatch,
A Now Commandment.
In the seventeenth century the niiuia-
tor of a certain parish iu Scotland was
the famous Samuel Rutherford, the re
ligions oracle of the Covenanters and
their adliermita. Ria .among the tradi
tions that oii a Saturday evening, at ono
of the family gatherings, when Ruther
ford was catechising his children and
servants, a stranger knocked ut tlio-door
and begged shelter for the night. The
minister kjiuUy received him, and asked
him to take his place with tlio family
aud assist at tip i* religious exercises.
It so happened that the question in
the catechism which came to the stran
ger was that which asks : " How many
coipwaipimepts are there ?” He an
swered, “Eleven.” “ Eleven 1” ex
claimed Rutherford. “lain surprised
that u man of your age and appearance
should not know better ; what do you
mean?”. And he answered: “‘A now
commandment I give unto you, that yo
love one another ; ns I have loved you,
that yo also love ono another.’” Ruth
erford was much impressed by the an
swer, and they retired to rost. The next
morning, as lio threaded his way to
eliurdh through the thicket, lie heard
among the tret s the voice of the stranger
at his devotions. The olovution of the
sentiments convinced him that it was no
common man, and, on accosting him,
the traveler confessed that he was no
other than tlio grout divino, Archbishop
Usher, the Primate of the Church of
Ireland, who well fulfilled that new com
mandment which ho liore to others. He
it was who had come in disguise to see
Rutherford iu the privacy of his own
home. Bide by side they pursued their
wav to the littlo church, and from tlio
rustic pulpit the Archbishop preached
to the people from the words which had
so startled his host the evening before :
“ A new commandment I give unto you,
that ye love one another.”—Library
A bright little boy, who had beenen-
gaged in combat with another hoy was
reproved by his aunt, who told him ho
ought always to wait until tlio other hoy
pitched upon him. “ Well,” exclaimed
the little hero, “ but if I wait for the
other boy to begin, I’m afraid there
won’t be any light.”
FARM NOTES.
A vmvmv.u of experience in wool-grow-
iug has well said there is moro lAobey in
pawing at twenty ccnta a pound than to
loan your money at ten i>or cent. interest
Thk grease which lina become hard
ened by dust on tlio nxlos of machinery
can all l>o cleonod off l>jr tho use of
kerosene. *
Brxcinss of grapes were kept throe
months by an Austrian grower who
dipped the ends of tlio stems in wax and
packed tlio fruit iu kiln-driod ground
bark.
PnoFKssoa Kilby says that kerosene
or oil of nuy kind is sure death to inaeota
iu all stages and tlio only substauoo with
which wo may hope to destroy tlio ogga.
Oils will not mix directly with water,
but will mix with milk, fresh or sour;
and then may be diluted to any dosired
extent
Weak Eyes is Houses.—A good
authority gives the following as a remedy
for horses’ eyes that are weak, winking
ami inflamed: Take an egg and brook
the large end onongh to admit tholinndlo
of a teaspoon; pour out the Albumen or
white; mix in all tho salt you eau until
it is quite stiff, thou set it‘iu the center
of a heap of red coals and let it burn un
til dono baking; then when cool grind
and blow a piece of it into the oyes once
a day.
PrniFYiNO Rancid BrrTF.n.—Ono of
our foreign contemporaries gives the fol
lowing modo of clarifying rancid and
tainted butter: * ‘Let the butter l»o molted
and skimmed ns for clarifying; then put
into it a piece of bread well toasted all
over, but not burnt. In a few minutes
the butter will loso its offensive taste and
smell, but tho brood will become per
fectly fetid.” We have serious doubts
with regard to the above process pro
ducing tho result claimed. Still it is so
simple that any ono eau try it
odors from tlio air quicker than a
any other liquid, therefore great
should bo taken that it is not exposed to
any condition whore it will bo likely to
be damaged in that way. Iu manufact
uring cream into butter, great care is
necessary as to tho quality of salt used,
as great loss may be entailed by this
alone. The salt is a very small item iu
itself, nevertheless it has cost many dol
lars in tho course of a year through tho
damage done by tho uso of an inferior
article. Always uso the best known
brands and keep a closo watch upon them
at that. The uso of firkins, pails or tubs
made of any kind of wood that imparts
an unpleasant flavor must ho avoided, as,
after packing, butter is very susceptible
in coming iu contact with any flavors of
this kind.
PRERERvixa Pasturm. — Among many
propositions to renovate the posturo, one
has been overlooked—management. It
is the cheapest and most practical manure
on the farm. The common plan is to
have but ono pasture, upon which the
cattle must graze at all times. If it
comes to tho bare sod during tho seasons
of extreme drought tho stock must con
tinue to grub at the sod for want of bet
tor. This exjioses tho roots of the grass
to the sun or injures or destroys tho
plant. Suppose we use our trees and
shrubs in that way, tho detriment to
growth would bo at once apparent. A
good top on grass for growth is os nec-
essnry as upon trees.
That one hundred acres of land in two
pastures will keep one-third moro stock
than tho same number of acres in one
pasture has long been known to the prac
tical farmer. Tho reason is that the
stock can l»o removed lu?fore it has
gtftzed the posture too closely, before the
roots of the grass are uncovered. A
plan that wiH renovate hundreds of pas
tures in Iowa is tiiis: Let the grass
have a good start in the spring, Bay four
iqches, ljefbro turning on the stock, and
change patuni as often as the pasture
appears to he closely grazed.— Prof.
Knapp, in Homestead.
Feeding Bees in Winter.—After an
apiarists, aware of this lack, feed weak
colonies during the fall sufficiently to
supply the need. It is never desirable
to feed liquid stores, either honey or
syrup, in winter, and not well to feed at
all unless positively demanded. The
best way to feed, if wo must, is to put
candy mode from granulated sugar on
the frames, just above the cluster. This
will he kept warm, and can bo taken,
and will disturb the bees so littlo that
if it must bo done, it will generally suc^
cecd. If the bees can pass the winter
until March—and the stores needed dur
ing the cold winter are very light com
pared w'ith those consumed later after
brood-rearing commences—then wo may
feed either honey or syrup. Then tho hoes
can fly occasionally and will receive no
hium from liquid food. This food, too, will
stimulate brood-rearing, and thus work a
double benefit. Tho feeder w 11 noed to
he so constructed as to keep tho food
near tho cluster or the bees will not ap
propriate it, because of the cold. No one
should fail to use a division-board in win
ter and spring. Keep tho bees crowded
on to so few frames that all will bo.cov
ered, and spring dwindling will do little
harm.—A. J. Cook, Agricultural Col
lege, Lansing, Mich.
One Hundred Bushels op Shelled
Corn to the Acre.—Mr. Nathan G.
Pierce tells the American Cultivator
how lie raises one hundred bushels ot
shelled corn to tlio aero. He used for
seed an eight-rowed corn which lie has
improved by careful selection, and bo-
liuves it to bo a good variety to i$ise,
anywhere between Virginia and tho
Canada line. Tho ground selected for
planting was a good pieco of gravelly
loam. It was well plowed about the
first of May, harrowed, treated to a
broadcast application of nine hundred
pounds fertilizer to tho acre; again har
rowed faithfully, rendering the laud fine
and mellow; rows marked three foot
apart, a small amount of fertilizer scat
tered to each row. May 10th, three
kernels of corn planted in each hill, two
feet apart in the rows; cultivated and
hoed four times, allowing no weeds to
grow; passed through tlio entire piece,
cutting each hill down to two stalks;
every sucker in each hill cut throughout
the field. During tho entire period of
growth through tho season the field was
closely watched, every weed pulled and
every ear of smut cut out. At tho proper
time, after the corn had become hard, it
was cut, hound in bundles, and stocked.
When dry it was drawn into tho barn,
where, with tho assistance of a hired
man, tho corn was husked, woigliod as
liusked, aud found to yield one hundred
and ten bushels of shelled corn to the
acre, allowing seventy-five pounds of ears
to equal ono bushel of shelled corn.
HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.
Vanity Cakes.—Yolk of eight eggs
and ono cup of sugar. Knead with
flour, and fry in hot fat. Roll them and
cut in fancy shapes boforo frying.
Cracker Pie.—To a common
tin, allow uno cup of cracky crumbs, quo-
half pint of water, one tcaspooful ot
tartaric acid, one cup of sugar, and epioe
to tho taste. Bake with two crusts.
Frosted Arms Pie.—line a pie with
puff paste. Slice in apples, sugar thorn
and add a littlo buttfcr, no water, and a
littlo lemon essoneo or juice. Bake, aud
when done spread a thick frosting of
beaten egg and sugar over it. return to
the oven till tho frosting is warmed
through.
Atplr Short-Cake. — Slieo enough
tart apples to fill two rouud pie tins.
Make a crust out of one toocupful of sour
m
cream, a teaspoonful of soda, a littlo salt,
all out. Roll out uppt
crusts, fit over tlio apples and boko. Th
and t
fruit should ho juicy and uo water
added. When done turn bottom up
wards, sprinkle over sugar and a few
bits of butter, turn back again, idle oca
on the other, and serve warm with cream
or as you please.
Favorite Puddtno.—Ono-lialf cup of
butter, one cup of sweot milk, three
eggs, white and yolks beaten separately,
two tenspoonfuls of cream-of-tartar, flour
to make a stiff batter; steam until dono.
Servo immediately, with sauce made as
follows: One pint of boiling water, ono
cup of sugar, butter tho size of uu egg,
and one glass of wino. Thicken with
coru-starcli. A pudding made like the
abovo and baked with fruits, canned
peaches, jam, marmalade, or whatever
is preferred, spread over it, is very nice
A Mold op Cold Meat.—A pound or
a littlo moro of cold meat—hoof, mutton,
anything except pork—two ounces of
maccaroui, ono toaoupful of fine bread
crumbs, a tablespoonful of butter,
egg, popper and salt Cut the meat
very fine. Wash tlio maccaroui iu
water then boil for half an hour, drain
aud cut into inch-lengths. Mix with tho
meat crumbs, butter, pepper and salt,
mix thoroughly, bind together with tho
beaten egg and pack into a well-
creased basin or bowl aud steam for on
hour. This is very nice for breakfast oi
tea, sliced aud oaten cold.
To Dry Sweet Potatoes.—A good
way to preserve sweet jTotatoes for future
uso when they show signs of decay, is to
dry them in tlio same manner as you
would any fruit. Boil, peel, and slice
quite thin, and dry on plates around tho
fire. When wanted for tho table, put
the quantity dosired into a closely
covered tin ‘or porcelain stew-pan—iron
darkens them—with but little water, not
enough to cover them, and let sim
mer two or threo hours. ‘When done
tho water should hava evaporated, or
what little there is left should be of tho
consistency of syrup. Mash aud serve
as you would Irish potatoes, omitting
tho milk.
Boiling Milk.—The source of the
scarlet fever epidemic near London was
traced by Dr. Stevenson, a medical offi
cer of health, to tho milk sont there
from two farms in Oxfordshire. Scarlet
fever hod previously prevailed iu Oxford
shire, and the milk sent out from thero
found to contain tho infectious
germs. The doctor advises all who have
?oro of invalids or infants to boil
their milk before usiug it. Wo arc not
' favor of sounding useless alarms, but
iu tlio case of infants or delicate persons
we think it as well to boil tho milk bo
foro giving it, especially when it may
come from several cows.—lineal New
Yorker,
A Mitigating Circumstance.
The prosecuting witness in a case be
fore tho Galveston Recorder had a lump
er his oyo as big as an egg plant, which
is caused by a negro throwing a lump
of coal at him without tho slightest prov
ocation.
I don’t seo that there is a single miti
gating circumstance,” said the Recorder.
“Why, jedge, you has oberlookcdone
ob the mitigatinest circumstances in do
world. I only hit him wid a lump of
soft coal. Don’t yer call that mitigatin’,
whon I could hob fetched him jest as
easy wid a lump of hard coal?”—Galves
ton News. .
[Cairo, (111.) Radical Republican.]
What We Know About It.
“What do you know about St. Jacobs
Oil?” said one of our oldest subscriber!.
This was n fair <i ucstfori, and we answer,
that we are reliably informed, that a gen
tleman of this city who baa suffered un
told agony, and spent a mint of money
to get relief from Rheumatism, in des
peration bought some and trial it, and
declares that it is the best remedy for
Rheumatism he ever heard of.
The Roman Forum has now been
completely excavated, with tho excep
tion of a small portion at tho entrance
, near tho Capitol. Tlio shape proves ir
regular, being broad on tho Capitol side
and narrow toward tho paluco of tho
Ctesars.
[Keokuk Constitution.],
Every Time.
A man, or even n piece of machinery
that docs its work right every time, it
we think, very correctly iiulged “valua
ble.” And certainly none the less val
uable is any article designed to relieve
the ills of mankind, and which docs s<
every time. Mess. Jones, Cook & Co.,
Ray State Brewery, Boston, Mass,, write:
We have Used-St. Jacobs Oil among
men and find that it helps them "every
time.”. We therefore- heartily recom
mend It all a pain-healing liniineni.
Except^ living”man thero is nothing
moro wonderful than a book ; a message
to us from* the' dead—from human souls
wo never saw, who lived, perhaps, thou
sands of miles away* And yet these, in
those little shoets of paper, spenk to us,
rouse us, terrify us, teach us, open their
hearts to us as brothers.
Guilty of Wrong.
►Some people have a fashion of confusing
excellent remedies with the large inn
“ patent medicines,” and in this they are
guilty of a wrong. There are some adver
tised remedies fully worth all that is
asked for them, aud oue at least we know
of—Hop Bitters. The writer has had
’ >n to use the Bitters in just such a
climate as we have most of the year
Ray City, and lias always found them
to be first-class and reliable, doing uil
that is claimed for them.—'Tribune.
A nosrrr^L clergyman asked the offi
cial how ono of tho insane patients
getting along. “ O, he’s certainly
getting hotter,” was the reply, “for ho
told mo yesterday that ho had ontirely
abandoned the idea of beaming a minis
ter.”
Mora People Ole
from disoasod Kidnoys than of consumption,
but not ono fatal caso in a thousand would oc
cur if Warner’s Safe Kidney aud Liver Cure w as
token in time. By all means try it.
The young girl of the period is gener
ally port with the other sex until she
is married, and then she becomes ox-pert.
—Boston Commercial Bulletin.
A correspondent says that ho has
tried mixing sulphur with salt and giving
to his hogs and sheep for lice aud ticks,
and finds it effective.
ecullarltles.
on Indian tribe assnros
the wlifte man an immunity from dangor
lie oould not btherwfao secure. Though
he is not considered ono of the band, he
in, in a measure, attached to it. His re
lationship is that of a mortgage to n
house, whoso owner cau’t discharge it
In tho event of a difficulty between
liia peoplo and his tribo, ho re
mains perfectly neutral, taking care
to keep out fjrtora between them. As a
renegade, tho’ Indian would not tolerate
him. As an on enemy, ho would lie
hunted into tho ground. Whon trouble
looms up he packs liis traps and movos
until it is ovor, and then roturns with a
Rip-Van-Winkle-like yawn, wondering
what has happened in liis absence. It
is tiiis position thnt has made him an ob
ject o! some suspicion among whites aud
Indians where neutrality is an unknown
force, no is on neither side in a fracas,
a situation more uufortuuate than to bo
ilo who
may bo
bravo, but ho is circumscribed, bound
down by his domestic relations, but
powerless for action.
According to prairie law* it is dis
reputable iu a white wau to Abandon his
dusky wife until she 1ms grown too old
to work for him. Then he may send
her back to her tril»e if ho so elect. Tho
obligation upon tho wife is different.
She may not desert tho husband for an
other whito man. but she may leave him
for an Indian who wants to marry her
provided silo have no children. If a
squaw desires to abandon her husband,
tlio Indinn of her choico must put back
tho price originally paid to her mother.
Ho may abato no iofc or tittle, and it is
in such payment that the divorce is per
fected. She then becomes a single
woman, free to marry, but she can not
live in tho viciuity inhabited by lior
former husband. She must movo away
with nor new venture. Such divorces
are not infrequont. It is n difficult thing
for tho squaw to perfectly adapt herself
to her whito husband. He may bo of
the kindliest disposition, but lus ways
arc not as her ways, and though alio
strugglo with all her strongth to draw
closer to her existence a part of liis, she
can not mako him one of her kind, and
she drifts away from him. Tho birth of
children directs her thoughts into a now
channel, and lessens the chasm betwoen
them, but without them ho lias but
little hope of keeping her to himself.
Sooner or later she will find hex affinity.
No More Hard Times.
healthy food, cheaper and better clothing,
get nioic real ana substantial things of
life every way, and especially stop the
foolish habit of employing expensive
quack doctors or using so much of the
vile Humbug medicine that does you only
harm, but put your trust in that simple,
pure remedy, Itop Bitters, that cures al
ways at a trilling cost, and you will see
good times aud have good health—Chrun-
Tho Chair of Choctaw.
If it were possible to imagine that
2,000 years to come there should be
established in an American scat of learn
ing a Choir of Pawnee or Chippewa it
might happen that somo relics of our
aboriginal people, tho last who might bo
living then on tlio cultured plains of the
West, might como to this school to pick
up wliat was left of tlioir long-lost lan
guage. Something not so dissimilar ap-
f jars to bo now taking place in England.
rof. Max Muller states that for tlio last
two years he lioa been teaching Sanskrit
to two Japanese, who are desirous of
studying tho pure text, so that they may
bcoome familiar with the original Budd
hist doctrines. The sacred books appear
to have been carried from India to Japan
in the second qontury of our era, and to
have been transported later to Japan.
Hard as tho work is for these students,
Max Muller writes: “ I have seldom
had more devoted, moro painstaking and
persevering students at Oxford.” It is,
indeed, a triumph of puro modern intel
ligence whon men in tl;o ueigborhood of
where a language had been spoken aud
partially lost have ooffio thousands of
miles to another country, different in
race, religion and culture, to rooeivo tlioir
instruction. Tho religion of Japan boing
that of Shintoism and Buddhism, tho
latter in the greater majority, one can
understand the yoamingsof devout’Jap
anese to master tlio secrets of that lan
guage in which one of the very greatest
of reformers wrote liis wouderful text,—
New York Times.
TO persons in vigorous health, old ng*
steals on so gontly that it costs no shadow
Indore, but if rheumatic pains give their
solemn Warning, a ' bottle of Coussens’
Lightning Liniment will dispel them, as
well Rs cure lame back, spraius, bruises,
eto., and is also a remedy for galls, spav
in, ringbone on animals. Price 50c, sam-
plo bottle 25o. For sale by all druggists.
Oriental Women.
As time progresses, the condition of
tlio women of tho Orient rapidly im
proves. Japan lias takon tho lead in
this respect, and to-day Japaueso women
occupy a position and exert an influence
that few of them would have dared
dream _ of a quarter of a century ago.
China is being taught tlio lesson, though
more slowly than Japan, nt}d women aro
entering to a limited extent into tho
world of business and politics. Mer
chants of Canton, who would have se
cluded their wives with tlio utmost care
ft decade or two ago, now permit them to
bo seen, and, what is moro, they allow
them to converse with other men. Thoy
travel with them on tho steamers that
navigate tho Cliinese rivers and watero
along the comt, and it is said that some
of them have gone so far os to allow
their wives to sit with them at tho pub
lic tables. Similar progress is observ
able among the Siamese and other East
ern nations. The world still moves.
A clear head and quick action must bo pos
sessed for Btoady and successful effort; but who
have such whilo suffering from cold? Usa
VEoxnsaln FowdorForm is sold brail drug
gists and general storos. If you can not bur it
of them, incloao fifty cents in postage stomps
for one package, or ona dollar for two packages,
and I will send it by raturn mail. H. R. Sts-
Tens, Boston. Mass.
SYRUP
Tho Rlcjcle.
A bioycle Is mttch onsior to master than
ono would think. Tho first thought ill
getting on ono is quick calculation. Tho
calculation is to solve tho problom of
whioh way one will fall. Tlio solution is
a tumble, being a combination of every
conceivable way of gotting down with a
vim and bruisoa. Olio soon master* the
thing. Tho captain of the capital bicy
cle club of this city says that in half an
hour he can teach any one to ride. At
tho ond of that time novices con get
along on the ntroete, and keep a going,
Thoy will not. bo finished whoelmon
though. It takes time and patienoe to
bocorae a “fly” ridor. The enjoyment of
tho oxcrciso is keen and not woarisome.
Your truo wheelman would not exchange
for a good snddlo horso. It is not tire-
somo. Tlio weight of the body is on the
snddlo instead of on the knee as in walk
ing. Forty miles a day can be made
without fatigue except a slight stiring in
the kuoe tho first two nights of tho trip.
Tiiis oxplains tho long trips by wheel*
meu over the country. A man with a
good pair of lungs gets windod if he
runs a hundred yards nt the top of his
speed. Tlio bicyclo stridor will make a
quarter of a mile nt his best bout bofore
his wind begins to fail. Tlio English
papers spenk of a characteristic *A>io,
back"—a hump-shouldered, oliost-<
trncted sort of npjiearance—resulting
from tlio wheel. There is nothing of the
kind in tho United States. Tho stylo of
riding is different in tlio two countries.
In Euglaiul the gay flyer grasps the
handles or tiller, ns if tlio thing were a
boat, ovcrhniulcd; the back of his hands
are uppermost, and his arms making the
liypotouuse of n right angled triangle
causes him to stoop. In tho American
stylo tho handles aro grasped with the
palms uppermost; tho elbows aro by tho
side. Tho fore nrra making tho baso of
tho right angled trianglo conduces to an
expansion of tho cliost instead of a con
traction. Tho summer is tho most
favorable sonson for tho sport, but in
Washington it holds oil during tlio win
ter owing to the mild climate.—Ex.
change.
Coffee.
Wo Americans drink a good deal ol
coffee. Somo of it is atrociously bad
coffee, and a great deal of it is not coffee
at all. A certain noted man, who was
very fond of a cup of genuine coffee, is
said to have stopped at a country inn
ond said to tho proprietor, “Havo you
any chicory?” “Yes, sir.” “Bring it
to me. ” A can was brought to him. “Is
tiiis all you have in tho house?” “I
have ono moro can only. ” ‘ ‘ Well, bring
brought. “Now,” said
tlmfc.” It was
tho noted man, placing tho cans of
chicory in his pocket, “go and moke
me a cup of coffoo.” If tho American
people could placo in its pocket all base
imitations of tho fragrant berry, a
of good coffee would not bo a rarity,
good doal of our coffee comes from Bra
zil. Last year wo imported from that
country about 422,000,000 pounds of
cofl’oo. Tho annual c
Mocha, Java and Bio is
$100,000,000. Put that in your cup and
stir it. The best Mocha comes from the
province of Remon, in Arabia. All oth
ers, as parngrapliers would say, aro hol
low Moeliaries. Java coffeo comos from
Java, Sumatra and Borneo. Tho roast
ing of coffee is a business by itself, and
tho modern coffee-rooster browns a ton
and a half of coffeo in forty-five minutes.
Men who work at tho coffoo-roasting
trade never drink coffee. Thoy have
enough of the aroma at their regular
business. ^-Detroit Free Press.
The father of a family saw liis plum
trees despoiled of their fruit. Snsi>cct-
ing his children, ho called them ull to
gether, and said: “One. of you lms stolen
my plums, and I know which is the
guilty one, for lio has a leaf on the end
of his nose.” And tho guilty ono had
the naivete, foreseen by [tho father, to
denounco himsolf by rubbing tho end of
Dr. Wm. SnAnswoon, ot Piiiladelphia.
is giving his time and efforts toward
K at museum of practical
soiouco in oounoctiun
with thd University of tho South at So-
waneo, Tenn., owned aud controlled by
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