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Vol. VIII. New Series.
Loss and Gain.
X •arrowed that the golden day was dead,
Its light no more the country-side adorn¬
ing;
But whilst I grieved, behold I—-the East grew
red
With morning.
X sighed that merry Spring was forced to go
And doff the wreath that did so well be
como her,
But whilst I murmured at her absence, lo!—
T was summer.
1 mourned because the daffodils were killed
By burning skies that scorched my early
posies;
But while for these I pined my hands were
filled
With roses.
Half broken-hearted I bewailed the end
Of friendships than which none had once
seemed nearer;
But whilst 1 wept I found a newer friond,
And dearer.
And thus I learned old pleasures are es¬
tranged
Only that something better may be given,
Until at last we find this earth exchanged
For Heaven.
—[Good Words.
STORM AND SUNSHINE.
“Shoa 1 slioal drnt the hens! Look
at the wrelchcs r.-diggin’ up my garden
seeds 1* And Miss Penelope Blossom
ran r.s fist as her rheumatic knee would
permit toward the offending fowls, her
blue gingham apron, outsproad from
each corner “like a sail,all set to
favoring gales” flapping up and down
in unison with her shrill “Shool shoo!
shoo!’
The hons and their lordly leader fled
in dismay beforo this indigo-clad ap¬
parition behind them.
“I’d liko to wring your neck!”
ejaculated tho wrathy spinster, as sho
chased them quito a distance up tho
road to securo herself against thoir re¬
turn to her domains.
“Eh—what, madamc?” cried out a
little, stout, rod-haired gentleman
whom Miss Blossom, in her zoal, had
run into. Tho suddon collision camo
near demolishing tho little man, who
ccu’.d only gasp, “You’vo nearly
knocked the breath out of my body!”
“I wus talkin’ to them chickens,”
Miss Blossom said, apologetically.
* Oh, von didn’t mean smile ?imy neck,
then?” burying a broad in tho
depths of a red cotton handkerchief.
“I’d feel enough like it if you was
the owner of-tho peaky creatures 1” she
returned wrathfuUy.
“I wou’d take my chances of boing
hurt much by such fair hands,” bowing
gallantly, but not without a trifle of
sarcasm in tho tone of hi3 words.
A faint suspicion entered Miss Blos¬
som's mind.
“Be you tho owner?” she demanded,
pointing with one long, bony finger to
the still flying fowls ahead of them,
who wero now vaulting lightly into her
next door—new—neighbor’s yard.
“Fortunately—I think I may say—
they are mine, seeing they have been
tho means of making mo acquainted
with my fair neighbor, Miss Blossom.”
“Humphl ’ answered his fair neigh¬
bor, bearing in mind her ruined gardon.
“It mayn’t be so fortiuate if they cum
a-diggin’in my garden .ag'in,” with a
grim smile.
“May I ask what you would do in
that case?” be asked blandly, yet there
was a trifla of “glitter” in his round
bluo eyis.
“Pot-pio is good,” was tho ominous
answer. -
“Such pies are vory dear under some
circumstances, ’ camo tho meaning re¬
ply. “Y-c-s,
so I’ve heard,” coolly. “But
I hain’t a bit stingy; I’ll ask you ia to
dino,” making a stiff little curtsy.
“Thank you; I'll come, and bring
along a little pepper to season it with—
not exactly tho kind that comes in
boxes—something a trifla moro biting,”
significantly.
“While you wur about it you might
fetch some salt to save the moal from
bein’ flat, Mr.—Mr. .”
“My name’s Bilberry, ma’am—Josiah
Jarolehem Bilberry, I’ll have you
understand!” with rising wrath.
“Got most as many names as chick¬
ens,” disdainfully.
“I ve got what the Lord evidently
left out of your composition,” angrily.
“What’s that? ’ advancing with
mutual ire toward the cnomy.
“Ssnse,” he snorted,” forgetting hh
manners entirely in his rage.
“You're an impudent manl”
“You’re a sassy woman 1”
What might have followed and been
my sad place to record, was presented
by the sudden appearance of a fair
young girl, as sweet looking as a Jano
rose, attended by an equally handsome
youig man. Tho bolligorent attitudes
,
of (he tali woman and short little man
caused thcao two lovers, who had been
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secretly walking and talking, as lovers
are wont con^^— to do, to cry out ia simul¬
taneous
“Aunt Penelope! What it tlie mat¬
ter?”
“Uncle Josh! What does tins
mean?”
“Matter enough, I should think!” re
totted Miss Blossom, glaring fiercely at
the young mm. “Who is he?" donating
the subject by one long forefinger
pointed so near the aforesaid “he’s"
handsome eyes, that he involuntarily
retreated a step or twe.
“Mr. Bilberry, auntie,” began the em¬
barrassed young girl, but was cut short
by (her indignant relative.
“I’ve had enough o' Bilberrys for
onoday!’ with a withering glance at
tho little man. “Come, Miss, you
march home with mo! And don’t let
ir.o catch you meandering in the woods
with any more Bilbcrryj, or 1M know
the reason why!”
“You, sir!’ 1 roared tho diminutive
uncle, hopping about like an animated
frog, “much along with ms I And it I
find you chasing any more Blossoms I’ll
disinherit you1”
Tho young man whispered a hurried
word or two to the blushing and om
bnrrassed girl, and turning upon his
heel haughtily, with tho long strides,
ho soon loft his fat httlo unclo’s short
ones waddling on far behind.
‘Til cut him of! without a shilling! ’
he panted, “if ha ever goes near that
Blossom’s niece again! I’ll nip his fun
in tho bud 1’’
He puffed stormiiy as ho watched tho
long young giant disappearing with his
“seven-leaguod boots,” while he, a
“littl; Jack" strove to overtake him.
“Tho deceivin’ little jadel” burst out
tho irate aunt. “Of! a-walkin’ with
a horrid man! If ever I catch her with
that old Bilberry's nephew again, I'll
make a biied puddia’ of him to go with
tho pot r pic! ’
“Please, Aunt Pennio, may I be the
‘sass’ ?” piped a blithe young voice at
her back.
“Sassboxt” Aunt Penelope turned to
ejaculate, but the pretty saucebox was
singing in tho distance:
“Bilberries sweet, bilberries blue,
Dear little huckleberry, 1 love you.”
Miss Penelope kept a sharp eyo upon
her charming nieco after this littlo epi¬
sode. But, alas 1 “Love laughs at law
or locksmiths;” at aunt3 and uncles,
too, there is no doubt; for ono fine day,
in spite of Aunt Pennic’s sharp eye,
Miss Penelopo Blossom was missing
and, not strango to say, ytueg Mr.
Bilberry had also disappeared. ■
A littlo note came from a neighboring
„
town running thus;
Dear Aunt rtnVNiE: Whereas there was
but one Bilberry in N-, at 3 o’clock today,
now there are two—concentrated into one.
Dear auntie, will you forgive your wayward
Blossom that would be a Bilberry, and longs
to sign herself—if you will—still your loving
niece?
Penelope Bilberry, nee Blossom!*
- ‘ Have you heard the shame ul news?”
cried out Miss Penelopo Blosiom, spin¬
ster, ruihing into Mr. Josiah Bilberry’s
kitchon door and causing that aston¬
ished and bewildered gentleman to spill
a basin of potatoes that he was just ia
the act of setting upon the tablo to pare
for lm frugal dinner, ho having beon
driven to this extremity by tho sudden
leaving of his housekeeper, who had
left him in a hull that morning.
“Goodae .33 gracious 1” ho gasped,
“what is it?” nervously beginning to
gathor up the rolling “peratins,” won¬
dering the while if tho chickens had
been making another raid upon the old
maid’s garden.
“Thoso young fools have been getth’
married 1” snapped tho spinster, wrath
fu’ly.
f i What young fools?” tho old bachelor
demanded stupidly.
“Our young fools—you fooll” shr
fairly shrieked at him, boiling over with
rage. “Look at that!” thrusting tho
note that she had received under hii
nose. “Blossomed into a Bilberry 1'
she added, with scathing sarcasm.
He scomo-1 to be dazed by the sud¬
den and dreadful nows, and kept on
hunting a murphy or two that seemed
yet to be missing. Miss Blossom, by a
happy coincidence, bent to asriit in the
good work, when, each rising together
with the rescued vegetables in hand,
come heads together ia sudden col¬
lision.
“Great General Georgo Washing¬
ton 1” cried out Mr. Billberry, rubbing
his badly bumpod cranium ruefully.
“Hevings 1 knock my brains out and
dono with itl” cned Mis3 Blossom,
sinking whito and faint into the nearest
chair.
“My dear—Fvo hurt you—forgivo
mo 1” he said, in great agitation.
* Sir 1” Tiring ia stately indignation to
reseat the tender appellation.
For a moment they stood looking at
-
iher, then both involuntarily
into irrepressible laughter.
’ “It shewes which hoad was the hard
est,” Miss Blossom, finally gained breath
to say, and pointed with grim humor
to a a welling about as largo as a good
sizsd walnut protruding from poor lit¬
tle Bilberry’s forehead.
“Humph!’ ho groaned. “All for
that scamp’s doiug3—wish it had been
his head,” rubbing his bruised forehead
tondcrly. '
“He might have dona
turned Miss Blossom in an- i ;m
of voice. 1
“So might your niece,” hi *■>
“Well, who’s complain
snapped. “Why, I thought was,* *&jL
you
round b uo eyes opening to their flu. «
tent.
“Mel I only brought you tha news,
that's all.’’
“Well, well,” ho repeated, looking
about helplessly. “What can wo do
about it? Thcy’ro married tight as the
rock of Gibraltar now—b it. its -going to
be mighty lonesomo without Nad,” ho
added musingly.
“I shall miss Poanie, too,” half
sobbed tho melting aunt, “Yet I aw
fully hato to have thoso young ’uns so
got tha best of thoir cldors. It ain’t
pleasin’, look at it in any light.”
“See here; Penelopo, ” growing ra¬
diant, and edging up to tho tall form,
“let’s turn tjsa tables on ’em. Now
you have been a Blossom long enough
to change into a Bli berry. Come, dear
Pocnie, what do you say?’’
“I’m all took Lack—I don’t know
what to say,” blushing liko a girl of 10.
“Say you’ll bo a Bilberry 1” ho # cried;
and befora sho was woll awnro of his
intentions, the littlo man had stood on
tiptoe and kissed hor. ,
This unwonted caress had moltod tho
ico about Miss Penelope's heart, and sho
falteringly said “she would.”
“And we will have that pot pie for
our iy- wedding dinner,’’ tie said toasing
The young folks were willing to cry
quits when they had been ordered
home and learned tho facts in tho
case.
“An’ to think, Pennio, I called you
and Ned fools, a«!_ turned-right round
aa’ dono tho same thing myself,” said
Mrs. Bilberry senior, with happy con¬
trition.
“You know tho adage,” slyly sug¬
gested tho juaior bride, as sho af¬
fectionately kissed her aunt’s faded
choek.
“No fool- like an old fool,” tho senior
bride ropeatod merrily. “An’ I leave
it to you if it isn’t as true a3 tho Gos¬
pel! Miss ’
Blossom was completely van¬
quished, but Mrs. Bilberry was p r
fectly happy. And our story comes to
a good ond.
Tlio Music of tho Ancients.
The E :ypiian fiu'.e was only a cow’s
lrorn with three or four hob. s in it, and
their harp or lyre had only three strings;
tho Grecian lyre had only seven strings
and was very small, being held in ono
hand; tho Jewish trumpets that miido
the walls pf Jericho fall down, wero
only rams’ horns; their fluto was tho
samo as the,Epyplian; 'they had no in¬
strumental music but by percussion, ot
which tho greatest boast made was the
psaltery, a small triangular harp or lyre
with wire strings, and struck with an
iron needle or stick; thoir saebut was
something like a bagpipe; tha timbro)
was a tambourine, and tho dulcimer
was a horizontal harp, with wire
strings, and struck with a stick liko the
psaltery. They had no written music;
had scarcely a vowel in their language,
and yet, according to Josephus they
had 200,000 musicians playing at the
dedication of tha T> mple of Solomon.
Mozirt would have died in such a con*
cert in the greatest of agony.
* Mutilated as n Reminder.
A suspicious looking individual en¬
tered a barber's diop in Manchester,
and while being shaved casually re¬
marked :—
“I suppose a good many of your cus¬
tomers forgot to pay?”
“No, sir,” the barber replied, “there
was a time when I used to giro credit,
but I never do now. Ia fact, nobody
asks for it any more.”
“How’s that?”
“Well, you see,” said the barber,
trying the edge of hir razor on hi?
thumbnail, “whenever I shaved a gen¬
tleman who asked me to mark it up ]
put a nick in hit nose with my razor,
and kept tally that way. They verj
soon didn’t wi^it to rui up bilK ’
There was a trotnor i i the customer’s
voice as ho askod from beneath th<
lather.
“Da you object to being paid In ad¬
vance? ’—[London Tit-Bits.
HEEA FIBRE.
Its Epinent Suitability for Tex¬
tile Purposes. -
141
"t conomical Utilization a
eat Industrial Problem.
i 1
Tim great strength, length, and lus
fibre of the rheea plant, quil
ich eminently recommend it for
agetilo manufactures, have ren-
4bfit plant the subject of
attention for many years past,
‘action of the fibre in quantity,
"
I'omical manner and in a suit
ftfcditioa for textile purposes,
ftiffes, in fact, ono of tho most im
at industrial probloms of the
kt day. For moro than thirty
} a st'endeavors havo been made to
th 0m., grands this of fibre pounds commercially; have been many
spent;
thnAid of both mechanical and chemi
Cl ienco has been invoked,but almost
all ih vain, for although . this fibre is
used’to some extent, that extent is ex¬
tremely circumscribed. Twice during
the .* past eighteen years the In¬
dian Government has offered a priz: of
$25,000 for a macliino which should
effectually pro luce ths fibro ia the re¬
quired condition, tho prizo having beon
twice competed for and twice with¬
drawn. Tho French Government has
rcoently takon up tho matter, and has
offered prizes of the value of $1200 for
any process or macliino that will pro¬
duce the fibro in commercial quantities
and of proper quality. Tho great diffi¬
culty in tho way of success is tha satis¬
factory treatment of tin gummy matter
in which the fibre is imbedded. It has
boon found easy to decorticate tho
rheea stems—that is, to removo the
fibre, with its adhering bark and ce¬
mentitious matter, from the wool, but
difficult to produce tho fibros cloan and
free from all extraneous and adheront
matter, ready for the spinner, on n
commercial scale. This holds good
with all tho varieties of this fibre,
whether they be known under tho name
of China grass, rheea or ramie—rheea
taring the Indian and ramie the Malay
name of tho plant. —
One thing is very certain, and that is,
that with a machine constructed for an¬
other purpose, as the one under notice
is, and admittedly imperfect as regards
its treatment of tho rheea plant, tho
fibre of tho latter can be, and is, ob¬
tained undamaged and fairly free from
tho woody stem. Tho machino in ques¬
tion is a flax-scutching machiuo of
novol design, and about 6 feet 6 inchos
high by 4 feet wide, and 5 feet long
over all; its working capacity being
put at lewt of retted flax per hour. It
consists of an upper food tablo on which
ths flax straw is fod to throe pairs of
fluted rollers, which deliver tho flax
downwards between flvo pairs of pin¬
ning tools, alternating with six pairs of
guide rollers. Tho pinning tools resem¬
ble hand-hackles, and may be popu¬
larly described as very coarse wire
brushes. They aro attached to two
vortical frames, to which a horizontal
to-and-fro motion is imparted, and tho
pins interlace as tho two sides approach.
Tho librou3 material b drawn down¬
wards by tho rollers, which havo an in¬
termittent motion, and at each mo¬
mentary pause tho pricking pins enter
the material and are rapidly withdrawn
from it. By degrees this fibrous de¬
scending curtain is delivered off to a
sloping receiving tablo at the bottom of
the machine, over which table the
woody substance has previously passed
to a roceivor ia a crushed and
somi-jpulverizod condition and per¬
fectly free from fibre. But inasmuch
as it doos its work perfectly as re¬
gards flax, tho principle would appear
to be correct. It is, moreover, to bo
born in mind that, as wo havo already
stated, tho machino was not dosigned
to treat rheea, lut flax. Honce in some
of its details it is imperfect ns rogards
rheea. Nevertheless, wo saw 6omo
stems of rheea put through with excel¬
lent results, as far as tho mechanical
separation of the fibra from tho bark
and wood is concerned. Tho stems
were those of rheea grown at Kew; they
were about six feet high and of fair
size. They had bocn retted for four
days and wero not quito dry. Mr.
Wallace holds that they should bo
retted for eight days and completely
dried. However this may be, the
stems we saw put through the machine
were quickly done, and tho fibre pro¬
duced was from -wood. It is intend¬
ed to scad to India a machine specially
made- for dealing with rheea. The first
point settled—that b, the proper stage
at which tha machine shall bo used—
Mr. Wallaco is confident of being able
to produce the fibre from his machine
ready t for ure by ths spinner, just as he
has already dono with fi x. It is to be
hoped that ho will succeed in effecting
his object, which will bo the means of
giving to the textile industry a fibre
which has boon pronounced to be the ,
,
strongest ia nature, and for which tho
trado has beon long and anxiously look¬
ing.—[London Times.
Odd Devices or Photographers. |
There arc various ways for providing
surprising results in photography,
things that in ono ago would h ive been
called magic, but in ours recognized as
scientific tricks. Tho ghost picture, for
instance, in which a shadowy ghost—
through which material objects aro visi¬
ble—is scon between natural nttitulos
and occupations. That is producod by
an almost iustantaaooui exposure of tho
figure that as to do duty as tho ghost,
followod by a full exposure of ths
figures and properties that aro to appear
natural. Another novel trick war
shown recently in a photograph repro¬
duced by a prominent tra to journal,
which presented ths photographer,
seatod at a table, playing chess with
himmlf sitting on the opposite side of
the table, whi’.o he, himself, stood up
ia the background looking at his two
selves playing. The figures wero all on
tho negative, which was producod by
threo successive exposures of tho plate,
parts thereof bring masked each timo
by a black velvet shutter. Still another
trick is that by which a person who
likes that sort of thing may appear to
be photographed riding upon a flying
goose, or a fish, or any other dosirod
stylo of ridiculous locomotion. This is
dono by the subject holding upon his
lap a huge piece of whito or sky-tinted
card with tho fanci ul figuro drawn
upon it. Ilis faco appears above tho
upper edge of tho card and seems, in
the picture, joined to tho funny littlo
body mountod on tho goo3o or li.h.
The statue picturo is made by about
the same device.-*[Photograph:c Re¬
view.
. Howto Avoid Contagions.
How much danger every one runs
each day of catching a malignant dis¬
ease is very littlo known,” said a doctor
recently to a reporter for tho New York
Mail and -Expix-sr. “Many .dUoasci,
like hydrophobia, are only convoyed by
coming in direct contact with an abrad¬
ed surface. In other diseases it is won¬
derful the extont to which tho com¬
municating particles can be carried.
Persons have takon tho smallpox a
mile distant from tho hospital. Scarlet
fever is very contngiou’. A dress folded
up at the bed of a dying patient and
placed in a trunk has conv yod tho
poison to a family of children four miles
distant whoa the dresi was unfoldod in
thoir proaenco after threo months time
has olapsed. Whooping-cough and
diphtheria aro probably never conveyed
except by tho breath of the patient.
Measles is communicntcd a great dis
tanco and it communicated by tho
clothing and carried about by persons
vi-iting tho sick room. It is cortaia
that many diseases have been contract¬
ed by attending tho funeral of some
person who has died of n contagious
disease. Too much caro cinnot be
taken ia disposing of tho clothing, or
disinfecting everything that has been
near a person suffering with a communi¬
cable disensc. After a patient has
shown tha first symptoms of scarlet
fever, it takes forty-nine days before
tho patient is free from infection, small¬
pox fifty-.‘•ix days, measles twenty
seven day >, diphtheria twenty -eight
days, mumps, twenty -ono days and ty¬
phoid fever twonty-oight dayr.
Marbles n Languishing Sport.
Marblos, which onco boastod ns many
games as there are days in the year, are
now fallen upon evil times. Knuckling
down is clean forgotten—if tho art con¬
tinues it is called by another name; the
alley-tor Is confounded with his brother
of the rank and file; thoro aro no longer
sold tho finer varieties in stono and
glass, or in coloroJ and streaky marble,
nor do boys, like sportsmen, yearn for
a full bag; nor <lo they study any
longer tho intricacio’, the possibilities
and the subtleties l>y which their bag
may bo filled. Tho game is now only
played ly little boys—their bag is
small; their gamo is simplo, and when¬
ever they can raise a penny, the mar¬
bles become a vehicle for gambling.—
[Saturday Review.
A Starter.
Mr. Bump has been calling for nearly
two hours. They are talking music, lan¬
guidly.
The young lady (suddenly brighten¬
ing up)—Oh, I like French opera; it
has such a go to It. I like anything
that has a go.
He goes,—[Life.
NO. '19.
Heaven and Earth.
There are no Shadows where there Is no
Sun;
Thera is no beauty where there is »o
Shade; N
And all things in two lines of glory run,
Darkness and light, ebon and gold inlaid
God comes among us through the shrouds of
air;
And his dim track is like the silvery wake
licit by yon pinnace on the mountain lake,
Failing and reappearing here and there.
The lamps an l veils through hsav’n and
earth that move,
Go in and out, as jealous of their light,
Like sailing stars upon a misty night.
Death is the shade of coming life: and Lov*
Yearns for iter dear ones in tho holy tomb.
Because bright things are better soon in
gloom!
—[F. W. Faber, in New York Tribune.
HUMOROUS.
Family worship—First babies
A wind-lass—Tho garrulous girl.
Tho prohibition pier—A dry dock.
P.aid luggage—Checked baggage.
A shining goal—a bootblack’s chair.
One of the bright spots in existence
is spot casla.
A clear skin—Banting a friond out of
borrowed monoy. .
America's homo rule is the grand
army of wifehoo 1.
To young men—It is bettor to be fast
asleep than fast awake.
Most of the English landlords are
conservatives—terra tories as it ware.
Tlie man who rides on a hand-car
evidently believes in manuel training.
Tho owner of a cremation furnace
trys to cam a living by urning the dead.
Tha reason why laundresses 'have the
blues is probably because they uso in¬
digo.
A bright scholar recently stated in a
composition that dough-nuts were first
made iu Greece.
When a couple come to the conclusion
that they will marry it is a tie voto and
tho clergyman must cast it.
The toper has his littlo high and tho
laborer has his hire, but it is tha ele¬
vator boy who get) tho hoist.
It is singular that a tailor has never
been nominated for a Mayor, for a good
ono knows all about mou and moasuros.
Tho proposed diamond “trust” is a
reprehonsiblo euterprhe. It means
simply the formation of a big diamond
ring.
“Let us havo tax on luxuries,” cried
a public speaker, and whon he found
thrdo carpet tack* in his pie that noon
he was satisfied.
“My dear,” toarfuliy said tho mother
in-law to tha bride, “you havo taken
my only sou from me. Ia fact, you
have committed a malo robbery.”
In these days of roform it is strange
that nobody has suggostoi that juries
should furnish their own food. Cer¬
tainly a panel should bo able to supply
its own board.
At a standstill—Miss Victoria Tilbury
(who has harnossed her cob herself)—
It’s very strange, Miriam; lut I think I
must havo tied tho traces to tho wrong
part of the wheel.
The health journals and the doctors
all agroo that tho best and most wholo
somo part of tho ordinary doughnut is
tho hole. Tha largor tho hole, they
say, tho better the doughnut.
Obliging C.crk—Shall I send tho
package? Mr. Hunxley—No, Til take
it if you’ll jest shove it under my arm.
I’m getting so carcloss liko, that moth¬
er she had to gluo my gloves on l’r
fear I’d loavo’m somcwhrre.
Tho remains of a Dakota desperado
who died a few years ago were ex¬
humed last week by relatives from the
Eist, and found to havo turned to
stone. It was then remembered that
for several months beforo his decease
ho had complaiaod of feeling rocky.
“Who is your family physician,
Freddy?’ askel Mrs. Hendricks of tha
Brown twy. “Wo ain’t got none,” said
the boy. “Pa’s a homcepnth, ma’s a
allopath, sister Jano’s a Cnristian Scien¬
tist, grandma and grandpa buy all the
quack medicines going, Unclo James be¬
hoves in massage, and brother Bill is a
horse doctor.
Wonders of Vegetation.
Out in Nevada convicts send many
gigantic specimens of vagotation to ths
agricultural and horticultural exhibi¬
tions. The inmates of tha Stata Pri
son havo this season raise! beets eigh¬
teen inches in circumferoace and cab
bagos large enough to fill an ordinary
wheelbarrow. But in the cultivation
of sunflowers they take the greatest
pride. Bemo of these measure four
test seven inches ia circumference and
) grow on stalks twelve feet high.
