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ERMOMETERS.
IHli PROCESSES OP SUKINO
WEATHER INDICATORS.
x3xtr»mo Delicacy Required to Make
a First-Class Instrument—
How the Thermometers
Are Gauged.
¥ A.KING a thermometer may
be either a delicate scientific
operation, or one of the sim
plest tasks of the skilled me
chanic, according to the sort of ther
mometer you want. With the extremely
sensitive and minutely accurate instru
ments designed for scientific uses, great
care is taken, and they are kept in stock
for months, sometimes for years, to be
compared and recompared with instru
ments that are known to be trust
worthy.
But so much time cannot be spent
over the comparatively cheap thermome
ters in common use. These are made
rapidly, though always carefully. The
method of manufacture has been so sys
tematized within recent years that the
very cheapest thermometer should not
vary more than the fraction ot a degree
from the correct point.
Whether the thermometer is to be
charged with mercury or alcohol;
whether it is to be mounted in a frame
of wood, pressed tin or brass, the process
is substantially the same. Mercury is
generally used for scientific instruments,
but most makers prefer alcohol because
it is cheaper. The alcohol is colored red
with aniline dye which does not fade.
The thermometer maker buys his glass
tubes in long strips from the glass facto
ries. The glass blower cuts these tubes
to the proper lengths, and with his gas
jet and blow pipe makes the bulb on the
lower end. The bulbs are then filled
with colored alcohol and the tubes stand
for twenty-four houra. On tho follow
ing day another workman holds each
bulb in turn over a gas jet, until the
colored fluid, by its expansion, tills the
' "tube. It is thon taken back to the glass
blower. He closes the upper end and
turns the top backward to make the little
glass which will help keep the tube in
place in the frame.
The tube* now rest until a great num
ber of them are ready. Then the pro
cess of gauging begins. There are no
marks whatever on the tube, and the
first guide mark to be made is the freez
ing mark.
This is formed by plunging the bulb3
in melting snow. No other thermometer
is needed for a guide, for melting snow
gives invariably the exact freezing point.
This is an unfailing test for any ther
mometer whose accuracy may be doubted.
Melting snow is not always to be had,
and a little machine resembling a saus
age grinder is brought into use. This
machine shivts a block of ice into par
ticles, which answers the purpose as
well as snow.
When the bulbs have been long enough
in the melting snow, a workman takes
them one by one from their icy bath,
seizing each one so that his thumb-nail
marks the exact spot to which the fluid
has fallen. Here he makes a scarcely
perceptible mark upon the glass with a
fine file, aud goes on to the next.
The tubes with the freezing point
marked on each now go into the bauds of
another workman, who plunges them,
bulb down, into a vessel filled with
water kept constanly at sixty-four de
grees. A standard thermometer at
tached to the inside of this vessel shows
that the temperature of the water is
correct. Another tiny file scratch is
made at sixty-four.
A third time the bulb is shoved into
water, kept ..constantly at ninety-six,
-which, like the others, is marked. A
tab is affixed to each tv.be. It is given
over to the maker, who fits the bulb
and hook into a frame, makes slight
scratches, corresponding to the thirty-
two, sixty-four and ninety-six marks. It
is next given over to a workman, who
cuts the degree marks.
Altogether, it takes nineteen work
people to make a thermometer. Nine
are females. Any time you have time
you could not spend a half day more
pleasantly than looking at the making
of a thermometer.—New York News,
Conducting War on Snow Shoes.
A novel idea of military operations in
the great lake region in winter is out
lined by Captain Thomas Sharp, United
States Army. After citing the commer
cial importance of the waterway between
the lakos and the seas and the incalcul
able benefits of a canal system that will
let au ocean steamer loaded at Chicago
discharge its freight at Liverpool, he
proceeds to the serious question of who
shall control the great gateway to this
country, the St. Lawrence River.
The vital thing in Captain Sharp's
little pamphlet is the explanation of the
ease which Canada could get possession
of and control this source aud its traffic
in the event or war with this country.
The whole secret of the advantage as set
forth is the faculty with which tho Can
adian forces could operate in winter by
reason of their being habituated to the
use of snow shoes. Were hostilities de
clared when the snow lay deep on the
ground the Canadians could move into
formidable offensiveness with such
promptness as to be strongly intrenched
in strategic positions before the Ameri
can forces could be advauced to the bor
ders.
Comparatively few Americans along
the northern border are accustomed to
snow shoes, and in the military service
such a thing as snowshoe practice is un
known. Captain Sharp proposes that
this practice be adopted as a means to
our protection on the north against a
possible foe that has learned to mass its
forces at a given point despite the depth
of the intervening snow.
The idea is not to be scoffed at. It
suggests a mode of warfare that we may
be called upoa to eucounter, and the
eat thing in a Natron’s defense is
eternal preparedness in every direction
from which assault is to be feared.
Moreover, tho manufacture of snow
shoes for army use would establish a new
industry that might employ a goodly
number of workmen.—Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
The World's Shipbuilding.
The statistics of the world's ship
building in 1892 show a large tonnage,
notwithstanding the depression that pre
vailed in the industry during the year.
Tne Loudon Iron states that 1259 ves
sels were constructed last year in the
ship yards of the world, aggregating
1,431,919 tons, or a diminution of only
37,936 tons pompared with 1891. The
two greatest centers of the shipbuilding
industry point to fairly important in
creases, the Clyde total for 1892 bsiDg
336,414 tons, against 326,475 tons in
1891, and that of the Tyne 297,210
tons, against 185,283 tons in the previ
ous twelve months. Outsids of the
British yards the slackness of the trade
seems to have been most acutely felt,for
the tonnage built by the United States
and Canada is given as 22.213 tons only,
compared with 63,813 tons in 1S91,
while the continent of Europe con
tributes but 149.675 ton=, in oompsri-
£>n with 157,63.2 ions m the preceding
ear, '
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Salt and Civiliaatiom.
Though playing an unobtrusive part
in human economy, salt has been a pow
erful factor in the politics, commerce,
and wealth of Nations, and its use has
marked the advancement of civilization
itself. Liebig once said that the state ol
civilization and the prosperity of a Nation
might be measured by the quantity of
soap it uses; but a more shrewd observer,
Schleiden, claims that a better estimate
of a people’s advancement can be formed
trom the amount of salt they consumed
The first trade routes were established
for the traffic ia salt and incense; bar
baric people waged war over the posses
sion of salt sprinss; Venice owed much
of her magnificence to the revenues from
her salt lagoons; while the French Revo
lution is indirectly attributed tc the in
exorable gab&lle, the cruel and exorbi
tant salt laws which oppressed the French
people through four centuries. In
Europe, even to-day, the salt works are
either owned or controlled by Govern
ment; while the Chinese jealously pro
hibit the export and import of salt,
Thus, the policy of kings, the prosperity
of Nations, the progress of civilization
have hinged upon this unconsidered trifle
but aside from them, common salt has
had, in all times, among all people, and
in all creeds, a deep religious signifi
cance. The Greeks and Romans made
salt a part of their sacrifices, and it was
offered in direct propitiation to placate
the gods of the infernal regions. Among
the Hebrews, all flesh sacrifices offered
in the temple were seasoned with salt;
and the most binding and sacred com
pact was the so-called "Covenant of
Salt,” all such treaties being made ovet
a sacrificial meal, of which salt formed a
necessary part. The early German tribes
thought the ground holy where salt was
found, and their prayers more readily
heard in such places; while to this day
the priest places salt in the mouth of a
person receiving the Catholic sacrament
of baptism.
The reason of this deep and far-reach
ing significance is not far to seek. Salt,
because of its preservative qualities, has
ever been the symbol of eternity, iacor
ruption, fidelity, wisdom, justice, and
peace. Christ called His disciples the
"salt of the earth,” meaning that in them
lay the perpetuity of the Christian spirit.
It had also, particularly in the Bible, a
terrible and sinister meaning, betokening
sterility ana irrevocable ruin, as shown
in the account of sowing with salt the
site of a city destroyed by siege.
Moreover, salt is the inviolable symbol
of hospitality, every meal including salt
—among the ancients, and in the Orient
at the present day—having a sacred
character, and creating among the par
takers thereol a lasting bond of friend
ship.
"Attic salt” is the commonest synonym
for wit; and it is recorded that the
Romans who made salt the symbol of the
immortal spirit, termed a man’s soul his
saliUum, i. e., salt-cellar.—Demorest’s
Magazine.
Lived on Samples.
He was well-bred, and when he com
raenced to chat of sights in foreign
lands one did not feel like doubting his
word. He talked of the execution of
pirates ia China, described the diamond
mines of Kimberiy, and when he dwell
for a few minutes on the great Expos!
tion in Paris it was an easy step to Chi
cago and the World's Fair.
He said meditatively: “Exposition;
are a snap for fellows who are ‘broke,’
and I’m awfully near it.”
"Sot” queried an interested listener.
"Yes,” he continued. "For sii
months, when the Parisian show was on
I lived like a lord, and it didn't cost me
a sou, cither. Had a course dinner
every day, too, from soup to cigarettes.
I guess that the ‘graft’ ought to be just
as good in Chicago, and so I yearn for
the opening of the gates.”
"How did you do it?” eagerly ques
tioued his companions, whose outward
appearance did not betoken unbounded
wealth.
“Samples, samples,” responded the
man of the world. "You see, the man
ufacturers of all kinds of prepared food
always have samples of their stuff on ex
hibition. The soup man, the maker o;
beef tea, the preservers of game, the can
ners of beef and other meats, tho people
wbo put up all kinds ot fruit are each
and every one represented. So are the
men whose brands of coffee are known
all over the world. In Paris they all
had miniature kitchsns where they pre
pared their goods, and alt you had to do
was to walk up to the exhibitor’s booth,
look interested, aDd you would be po
litely requested to test the goods. Ol
course it was impossible to refuse the in
vitation, and if you made a few eulogis
tic remarks it was nearly a sure thing that
you would get a second helping.”
"I should have thought they would
have got onto you in a week or so.”
“Well, I had to be somewhat diplo
matic, but by skipping the soup booth
every other day, only calling on the beef
tea man twice a week, and otherwise ju
diciously distributing my patronage, I
managed to avoid any unpleasantness.
Before I’d been at it for a week I had a
system, or route, call it whic.i you will,
which worked like a charm.”
"Say,” queried his interested friend,
you said you were broke. Where did
you sleep?”
"Sleep? Wny, in a sample bed, tc
be sure.”—Chicago Tribune.
Trepan?.
Nowhere have such rare taste3 in food
been developed as among the Romans in
ancient times and the Chinese. Tucre
may be found in the bills of fare of the
latter people addled eggs, fat gruh3,
caterpillars, sharks' (ins, rats, dogs, In
dian birds’ nests, and—the finest of all
their delicacies—trepang. Wuat is tre-
pang ?
Trepang or tripang is a collective
name by which a consiiarable number
of species of most curious sea animals
are designated; they are also known as
sea idlers, sea cucumbers, in French a3
coruichons de mer, and scientifically as
hoiothurias. Tuey are among the most
sluggish of animals. Only the fixed oi
stationary animals are slower than the
hoiothurias. They lie litre gray, brown,
or black le jtber pipes or cylinders on the
bottom of the sea. One might .watch
them half a day long, if he had nothing
better to do, and hardly sue them change
their position; and they rarely move
more than a foot or two in several hours.
Their class relatives, the other spiny-
skinned animals or echinoderms, are
much more active. A sea urchin or a
starfish is able to get away from a spot
quite nimbly, and the serpent-stars, the
most active members of the whole order,
are capable of using their long, slender,
many-jointed arms as legs, and are as
quick and alert as crabs.—Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
CURIOUS FACTS.
TO CLEAR HARNESS.
Harness is often made of inferior
leather, and by exposure to the air and
use such leather decomposes on the sur
face more so if it is not keep well oiled.
Tbe best oil for harness is tanners' oil,
and this should be applied after every
wetting, and once a week anyhow, but
in a small quantity, just to keep the
leather soft. If it gets bard and dry
wash the leather well with warm water
and castile soap, then wipe it, and apply
the oil belore it dries.—New York
Times.
DRESSING POULTRY.
Nearly all the markets require poultry
to be picked dry and to be drawn. Tbe
former requirements secure better keep
ing, scalded poultry becoming discolored
much more quickly than that which is
picked dry. The latter requirement
does not add to the keeping qualities,
but secures the removal of the offal.
Poultry that is to be killed for market
should be kept without feeding for
twelve to twenty-four hours to secure
perfect emptiness of the crop. When
the crop is entirely empty, it becomes
unnecessary to open the fowl in front,
and leaving the skin unbroken at the
front of the breast causes the poultry to
look better. But if there be any grain
in the crop, the crop should be removed,
as the grain will soon become sour and
effect the flavor of the meat. In picking
dry, tbe fowl should be killed by either
decapitation, sticking a knife through
the throat and severing the large veins
and windpipe, or by cutting a slit across
the roof of the mouth. As soon as the
fowl is dead—and many pickers do not
wait for this—the large feathers of the
tail and wings should be pulled, and
then the softer feathers plucked. The
dressed fowl should be hung to cool off,
and if then the head be not severed it
can be, and the skin of the neck drawn
over tbe end and tied. Neatness in the
dressing adds much to the salability of
poultry. When one kills for his own
use be will find tbe labor much less to
scald the fowls, but when he kills for
market he must consult the requirements
of his market.—American Agriculturist.
MAKING BEEP IN CANADA.
Experiments were conducted for three
years at the Ontario (Canada) Station to
ascertain the relative value of the fol
lowing rations for makingbee f , viz: En
silage and meal, ensilage, hay and meal,
roots, hay and meal, and also the cost of
making beef when the values of food and
meat are both considered. Leaving out
of view the details of the experiment,
the following appear as some of the re
sults from five animals with the three
different rations used:
The daily average cost of each ration
was as follows: Ensilage, hay and mea',
16.7S cents; ensilage and mea', 16.9(J
cents; roots, hay and meal, 19.10 cents.
The average daily increase of live
weight from each ration per animal wa c ,
from ensilage and meal, 188 pounds;
ensilage, hay and meal, 1.63 pounds;
roots, hay and meal, 1.74 pounds.
The average selling price of each ani
mal fed on the different rations, with
the cost of food added, exceeded the
buying price as below: Ensilage and
meal, $12.65; ensilage, hay and mea 1 ,
$10.95; roots, hay and meal, $8.22.
It is considered that these experiments,
of which a full account is given in Sta
tion Bulletin No. 82, have demonstrated
that beef can still be made at a cash
profit where suitable grade animals are
carefully purchased and judiciously fed.
Two important statements, however,
are made in this connection which should
not be overlooked. First, it has been
made pretty clear that ensilage and
meal only do not furnish a ration that is
altogether safe in finishing beef cattle;
and second, the experiments have proved
in a comparative sense the great safety
in feeding a ration in which roots con
stitute an important factor. In the
meantime farmers who are growing roots
for this purpose are advised to continue
to grow them and to grow corn m addi
tion, where this is practicable.—New
York World.
The !>i\»meilary Parcel Post.
The dromedary parcel post service in
the German territories of southwestern
Airies has given results better than were
expected. The dromedaries are adapted
to the climate, are not affected by the
prevalent cattle diseases, and are not
male foot sore in stony regions and do
; not suffer extreme toirsc waea deprived
| of water for a week. They travel, each
j carrying a eight oi 253 pounds, as fast
jas au ox team,—Ne.v io.-i Witness.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
If you wish to keep seed keep away
mice.
Beets can bear some frost but not
severe ones.
The rubber plauts are natives of tropi
cal America.
Winter Cheer is the name given to a
new scarlet carnation.
The white pippin resembles the New
town pippin, and is much esteemed in
Ohio and other Western States,
W. F. Massey, of the North Carolina
Station, names Henderson's dwarf linn
bean as the bc9t for his latitude.
Too much heat is more injurious to
plaDts than too little. This is especially
true of hardy and half-hardy sorts.
The Florists’ Exchange names the Per-
civalliana as one of the best free-grow-
and flowering cattlcyas for florists’
use.
Under tbe name of nicotiaua colossea
this gigantic tobieto had figured as a
eedsman’s novelty for the past two
years.
Potatoes and parsnips may be store 1
in heaps in the cellar without coveria<»,
but beets, without earth or sand, will
shrivel.
Do not put off spraying the trees until
the fruit is so large that it will do no
good. Spray first as soon as the fruit is
well set.
Partridge cochins necl plenty of exer
cise to keep down internal fat; much
coarse food should be given in their
daily rations.
Among yotmg trees, and in half
shade, you can plant c i-rants, goose
berries, strawberries, raspberries, black
berries, etc.
There is no better bedding plant than
the verbena. By starting plants from
seeds early in pots or boxes one may have
a brighi bowering bed of these in June
or July.
Four important factors enter into suc
cessful fruit production—namely, man
ure, pruning, and spraying the trees with
insecticides and thinning the fruit where
necessary.
Where a hop arber is desired, Ameri
can Gardening says to plant rone cat-
tings, which can be obraiael from any
hop grower or from mauy nurserymen at
small cost.
An authority on such matters believes
that tbe gulls on an oak, by attrasrin ;
ants, lead to tbe slaughter of quantities
of caterpillars and other insects, whic.i
are its natural enemies.
If you have not yet cleaned the o'.d
canes out from the raspberries, do si
the first time the weather will permit.
Do not put this off until the season is so
far advanced that the spring work is
pressing.
J
Cortez took kfteap to Mexico in 1530.
A San Francisco woman Is the proud
possessor of 200 cats.
A combined knife and fork for one-
armed men is being manufactured.
The most unique citizen of New York
City is Ah Goo Wah, a Chinese tramp.
Tobacco has been successfully raised
on the banks of the Androscoggin River
in Maine.
The Desert of Sahara has almost exact
ly the number of square miles that the
United States has.
Shirts embroidered by hand and cost
ing fifty dollars each ca ne in fashion in
the reign of Elizabeth.
Herrick, the poet, was fond of pigs as
pets, and taught one to follow him about
and to drink beer out of a mug.
Rose Brooks, a ten-vear-old girl, of
Memphis, Tenn., was choked to death
by a glass marble the other day.
Out of one hundred and thirty-four
men in the freshman class at Amherst
College, only sixteen use tobacco.
Paper teeth are now manufactured by
a Lubeck dentist. One set has been iu
use thirteen years and is as good as ever.
A goose with three wings is the choic
est fowl in the flock of Mrs. Samuel
Lutz,-.of Worcester, Montgomery County,
Penn.
The staple of food for the 500,000 na
tives of Natal and the Zulus alone is
white corn. It is ground into a coarse
meal and boiled with water, making or
dinary porridge.
The chips from a gallows upoa which
several persons had been hanged was one
of the items of mediaeval materia medica;
these were thought to be especially
valuable in treating cases of obstinate
ague.
C. W. Zinn, of Ivorydale, near Cin
cinnati, Ohio, was afraid that people
wouldn’t believe him tbe owner of twin
puppies without any forelegs, so he had
an affidavit made out and five neighbors
swore to it.
It is customary throughout Spain for the
waiters ot cafes to fill a glass of wine or
liquor so that it overflows upoa the
saucer. This custom, in which it is de
sired to show an appearance of liberality,
is called the "footbath."
The title of Prince is almost as com -
mon in Russia as that of Colonel iu this
country. A Prince Krapotkin is a cab
man, a Prince Soloykoff is a rairket-
house porter in Moscow and a Princess
Galitzkin is an equestrienne in a cheap
circus.
Miss Ella Hale, of Upper Sandusky,
Ohio, lost her voice while coughing live
years ago. The other day she experi
enced a similar coughing sdell, and after
it bad subsided found that her voice
had returned. Doctors are unable to
explain.
Some of the costly things in the Sul
tan’s treasure house at Constantinople
are children’s cradles of pure gold, in
laid with precious stones; divanscoverec
with cloth of gold, embroidered with
pearls; suit3 of mail, thickly incrustel
with big emeralds and diamonds, and
other relics of former Ottoman splendor.
"Crowd Poison.”
The newest name for bad air is "crowd
poison.” Two medical mea have beeE
endeavoring to determine what it i3 that
makes the air of crowded places poison
ous to those who breathe it. Their ob
ject was to find out whether the effect
was owing to the diminution of oxygen,
as generally believed, or to the presence
of deleterious organic matter in the car
bonic acid expelled from tbe lungs, as
the majority of physiologists maintain,
or to the excess of carbonic-acid gas
pure and simple. The conclusion ar
rived at is that the cxce s of carbonic-
acld gas is alone responsible for the
headache, feeling of suffication. etc.,
frequently experienced through the
breathing of a contaminated atmosphere.
Some persons yield much more readily
than others to this combined exhalation
from many systems, and persons are
overcome by it who can withstand the
air of a room vitiated from other causes.
During the receot Lord Mayor’s show iu
London the foul air of the crowded
streets was noticeable. To such as sat
alightly above the level of the pavement
the impurity of tbe air was distinctly
perceptible. The baneful effect of im
pure air was recently felt in a remarkable
way in a London court room. When
the judge entered his court in the morn
ing he feund the jurors and c mnsel al
ready exhausted and soon began to
experience a similar feeling. Ou order
ing on investigation he was informed
that “the engine was out of order, and
could only pump into the court the stale
air that had been U3ed two days ago.”
The windows were so constructed as to
prevent any proper ventilation of the
premises, so that no assistance could be
obtained to expel the two-days’-old
atmosphere which the pumps persisted
in sending into the ciurt. The resuit
was that when the jury list was dis
posed of the judge, instead of sending
for more cases, sent the jurors home and
quickly followed their example.—Chi
cago News Record.
Big Cotton Slalks.
"Yes, I have seen the big cotton
stalk3 grown in India and the cotton
plantations of the Brazos bottom in
Texas,” said Alonzo T. Yerger, of Way-
cross, Ga., at the Southern, “but down
in Washington County, Mississippi, they
grow cotton stalks—not stalks either,
because they are trees—that beat any
and all things in the cotton line that I
have ever seen or heard of. Why, on a
plantation belonging to one of the Wil-
zlnky’s, which firm failed the other day,
1 saw a field of cotton that looked like a
forest of sycamore trees. The cotton
plant had grown to an enormous size,
almost as large as trees. Colored children
had to climb them in order to pick the
fleecy staple. When the crop is gathered
along in February the tenants cut down
the stalks and chop them up for fire
wood. The wook makes a bright and
hot fire, burning as quickly as fat pine.
I saw one of the stalks exhibited at
Greenville a few day3 ago that hal borne
1151 bolls, and the cotton in the seed
weighed 120 pounds. According to that
rate it would require only twenty stalks
to make a bale. But, of course, there are
but few specimeus of such phenomenal
growth recorded in the world’s history.”
—St. Louis Republic.
Cultivate the Sunil nver.
Among the crops that may be grown,
and that may be said to be such as give
returns, may be mentioned the sunflower.
It is a rapid and vigorous grower and
every part may be utilized; the leaves
for fodder, the slalks for fuel and the
seed for the manufacture of oil, the resi
due being valuable for food, or the seed
may be used as a feed without extract
ing the oil.
Tne oil makes an espec'ally fine lubri
cating fluid, and the residue of the sesi
is said to be a better feed than cotton
seed meal, because it does cot posses;
that highly stimulating quality possessed
by cotton-seed-oil cake. The whole seed
may be used as a feed for sheep, swine,
poultry, cittie, and even horses, and i;
devoid of the objectionable qualities at-
tiseaed to cotton seed as afeed. — S^ruisc
loan (Penn.) Telegraph.
Farm Philosophy.
In sowing grass and clover on poor
land do not be stingy with the seed.
The poorer the land the more seed will
fail to germinate.
A farmer ten miles from town on a
poor country road is further from market
than if he were two hundred miles away
by rail.
A system of cropping on shares is not
usually a good one for the land. Tbe
tenant’s only interest is to get as much
from the soil as he can.
One reason for the low average of
many crops is that we do Dot fight in
sect enemies promptly enough. There
should be no delay in dealing with tbem.
If you propose to practice level culti
vation of potatoes this season, drain your
land properly first. Otherwise the ex
periment may prove very unsatisfactory.
Irrigation keeps plant food in solution,
and uses it up more rapidly than would
otherwise be the case. When you irri
gate, supply fertilizers most abundantly.
The low average of many crops, as
shown by statisticians, suggests the vast
opportunity that exists for better and
more profitable farming. Why not take
advantage of it?
Growing for the home market first is
allright, but tbe American farmer should
remember that his market is the whole
world. Local demands should not be
our entire guide when planting.—Green’s
Fruit Grower.
Economical Household Purchases.
Carrying Wax Insects to Market.
The valley of Sheoo-Shan produces the
wax insects, but the wax is produced
elsewhere. At the proper season the
scales are detached from the ligustrum
and made up into p iper packets of about
sixteen ounces each. A porter’s load is
about sixty of these packages, and the
duty of the porters is to convey them
with the utmost speed over the moun
tains, a distance of 200 miles, to the
town of Chia-ting, which is the the cen
tra of the wax producing country.
The greatest care has to be taken in
the carriage of the brittle scales, snd tbe
porteis must only travel during tbe
night, as the high temperature during the
day will devilop the insects too rapidly,
and they may escape from their natural
cages. Wherever they stop for rest the
porters must open up their paper packets
and spread them in cool places, but with
all precautions there is a large percentage
of loss upon tbe journey—tho packets
usually weighing at Chia-ting each about
one ounce lighter than when they left
Sheoo-Shan.
The usual price at Chia-tiDg for a
pound of sc lies is about half a crown,
but in years of scarcity this price has
been doubled. A pound of scales ought
to produce from four to five pounds of
wax, but in bad years only pound for
pound is yielded, so that the profits of
the industry are very fluctuating.—
Chambers’ Journal.
It is well understood, or it should be,
that discretion in buying and skill in
cooking are both vital to tiue economy.
The woman who should go to a dry
goods store, and without specifying what
particular kind of cloth she wanted, di
rect the salesman to give her enough of
the best woolen goods for a dress, and
who ahoald then hand the material over
to her dressmaker with instructions
mere!) to make it well and trim it be
comingly, might or might not bo well
dressed. It is fairly certain that she
would not be economically dressed. Yet
thousands of women give orders after
precisely this fashion to their butchers
and cooks, and are then despondent be
cause their bills are so large.
It is a primary duty of tbe housekeep
er to understand the relative values, of
the good’, and to know how they should
be cooked to preserve those values. If
the most exper sive viands are desired, all
right. Let them be so prepared that
they shall justify their cost. They do
not necessarily traverse the principles of
true economy. But the most expensive
viands, while they are likly to be the best
for their particular purposes, are entirely
out of place in the prepsration of other
equally valuable and equally toothsome
dishes. Their use then becomes gross
extravagance. If the housekeeper knows
the character of each article of food that
is bought, and devotes each to its proper
use, she has mastered the great principle
of dietetic economy.—American Analyst.
Too Lively.
An Odd Find.
Rather a queer find was unearthed a
few days ago from a small aperture in
the jam of a fire place in an old brick
building now used as a boarding house,
in Coshocton, Ohio.
A woman, while sweeping about tbe
hearth, discovered a slip of paper tucked
away under the narrow opening at the
foot of the mantel, which proved to be a
slip torn from a Steubenville paper, bear
ing the date of April 21, 1855. In the
slip were three finely engraved copper
dies for counterfeiting gold dollars. Two
of the dies were dated 1820 and the other
1825. The dies are an inch and a half in
diameter and about one fourth r.f an inch
thick. The engraving in them is ex
ceedingly fine, indicating the hand of a
skilled engraver. According to the date
as shown on the paper, the outfit his been
concealed about thirty-eight years. Tbe
building where they were found about
that time was used as a geueral store.
Mamma—"Did you and Ethel play
church with your doll?”
Little Dora—"We tried to, but we
could i’t, causa we hadn’t any boy doll
for a preacher. Ws dressed up Johnny’s
jumpin’-jack an’ tried him, but he was a
little too lively for a reg’lar church,so wc
turned it into a revival.”—Street &
Smith’s Good News.
JJyfjpWEiss
A Beginning.
Resident—“Think of opening an office
in this neighborhood, eh? Stems to me
you are rather young for a family physi
cian.”
Young Doctor— “Y-e-s,but—er—I f-hall
only doctor children at first.”
Among: the Wide Range of Benefits
Conferred upon the invard public by Hostet-
t p r’s Stomach Bitters, its eood effects in ca e •
where the kidneys and bladde** are inactive
are conspicuous and amp y proven. An im
perfect discharge of the duties of these organ-
is the preliminary, if disregarded, of their
dangerous disease. The Bitters will forestall
this and avert difaster. Experience ha* de
monstrated this in numberless c ses. Mala
rial, liver, stomach and towel disorder also
should be treated with the Bitters.
For Throat Diseases and Coughs use
Brown’s Bronchial Troches Like all really
good things, they are imitated. The genuine a, s
•old only in boxes.
Our old reliable eye-water cures weak or in
flamed eyes or granulated lids without pain.
Price25c. John R. Dickey Drug Co., Bristol, Va.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water.Drugg?st> fell at 25 per bottle.
o:ve> ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
f ently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Fig3 is for sale in 50c
and $1 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK. N.Y.
“August
Flower”
I had been troubled five months
with Dyspepsia. I had a fullness
after eating, and a heavy load in the
pit of my stomach. Sometimes a
deathly sickness would overtake
me. I was working for Thomas
McHenry,Druggist, Allegheny City,
Pa., in whose employ I had been for
seven years. I used August Flower
for two weeks. I was relieved of all
trouble. I can now eat things I
dared not touch before. I have
gained twenty pounds since my re
covery. J. D. Cox,Allegheny, Pa. ®
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Mr. Geo. W. Cook
Ot St. Jobnsb-.iry, Vt.
Like a Waterfall
Great Suffering
After the Crip
Tremendous Roaring in the Head-
Rain in the Stomach.
“ To C. L Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.:
“ Two years ago I had a severe attack of the
Grip, which left me in a terribly weak and de
bilitated condition. Last win f er I had another
attack and was again very badly off, my health
neariy wrecked. My appetite was all gone, I
had no strength, felt tired nil the time,
had disagreeable roaring noises in my head,
like a waterfall. 1 had also severe headaches
and
Severe Sinking Pains
in my stomach. I took medicines without ben
efit, until, having heard so much about Hood’s
Sarsaparilla. I concluded to trv it, and the re
sult is very gratifying. Ail the disagreeable
Hood’s SS& Cures
effects of the Grip are gone. I am free from
pa ns and aches, and believe Hood's Sarsapa
rilla s surely curing mv catarrh. I recommend
it to all.” Geo. W. Cook, St. Johnsbury, > t.
Hood’s Pi Is cure Nausea. Sick Headache, Indi
gestion, Biliousness. Sold by all druggist*.
ROOT, BARK * BLOSSOM
The Jlc«t Stomach, Llrcr, Kldsel and Blood Itemed?.
I'-ins ia Lack and Limbs, Tired, Dragged Out. Nervous
Feeling, Debility aud Low Vitality Quickly Cured as
wcil as Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sleeplessness, Dizzi
ness. Rfacmuai ism or Catarrh. Sample Free for stamps.
AGENTS PAID WEEKLY SALARY.
et hox two months’supply I ( Beat by mail oral moit Drug.
60c. •* one month’s supply f \ gist*. Try It and Bo Wefl.
ROOT, BAR* & BLOSSOM, Newark, N. J,
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Do Not Be Deceived
with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the I
hands, injure the iron and burn red.
The Rising Sun Store Polish Is Brilliant, Odor
less, Durable, and the consumer pays t
or glass package with every purchase.
The Bew Co,,ghBy«r g
rastes Good, l.’se in time. ♦
sold by Druggists. f=
W cof
fer you
“Mothers
Friend”
MIMES CHILD BIRTH EftSY,
Colvin, Lsl, Dec. 2,1883.—wife used
EOTHES’S FBIEND before her third
confinement, and says sbo would net t ?
without it for hundreds of dolhir3-
DOCX MILLS.
Sent by eraess on receipt of price, £1.50 P^ r ket
tle. Book “ To Mothers ” mailed free.
BSADFIBLO ItSQllLATOR CO.,
roe wus »r *u HmuTii . ATIMBTA, QR-
'a ready
made medicine for Coughs,
Bronchitis and other dis
eases of the Throat and
Lungs. Like other so-
called Patent Medicines, it
is well advertised, am
having merit it has attain
ed a wide sale under tin
name of Piso’s Cure fo:
Consumption.
It Is new a “Nostrum,” though at first it wa-
'’ompounded after a prescription by a regui .*•
physician, with no idea that it would ever g
rn tbe market as a proprieta ry medicine. Hu
after compounding that prescription over
thousand times in one year,we named it ”Pfcc*
Cure for Consumption .*’and b?gan advertialn
it in a email way. A medicine known a!-
over the world is tbe resuit.
Why is it not just as good as though costi.
fifty cents to a dollar for a prescription -jr.-i
«flual sum to b^ve it out up at a drug store* ^
Random Notes.
Two confederate stamps recently car
ried a package from Granby, Mass., to
Boston. They were not detected in the
postoffice.
A Dcnding bill in the New York legis
lature provides that a man who has serv
ed seven years in that body shall be ad
mitted to the bar without undergoing an
examination. But these legislators not
only learn no law, but speedily forget
the little they carry with them to the
statehouse.
Daniel Morgan, of Missouri, has made
a claim on the government, who says
he is the only descendant of a famous
revolutionary general that gave a note to
aid tbe colonies. The note was to raise
monev to clothe and sustain troops.
With' interest tbe claim would now
amount to $30,000,000. It has not been
allowed.—Atlanta Constitution.
_
Always spread a large clean cloth in
your clothes basket before putting in ths
clothes. Pass a clean, damp cloth along
the clothes line to free it frotn dust. A
galvanized wire clothes line is best, as it
need not be taken down, besides freeing
ODe’s mind of the fear of breakage or
slipping of knots with the direful atten
dants of such contingencies. A clothes
pin apron, which is made by facing a
large, piece of cloth on the outside for a
pocket, is much more convenient than a
basket, as it allows the free use of the
hands.
A Precious Jewel.
Aun'y—“Has your mamma a "good
girl now?”
Little Miss De Flat!—“I dcsso. Mam
ma won’t let her clean zee front win
dows, for fiar she’ll fall out.”
“Each Spoonful has
done its Perfect Work;’
Is the verdict of every woman who has used Royal
Baking Powder. Other baking powders soon
deteriorate and lose their strength, owing to the
use of inferior ingredients, but Royal Baking
Powder is so carefully and accurately com
pounded from the purest materials that it retains
its strength for any length of time, and the last
spoonful in the can is as good as the first, which
is not true of any other baking powder.
A Testimonial Worth Reading.
Mt. Sterling, Ky., Feb. 13, 1889.
I desire to make a brief statement for
the benefit of the suffering. I had been
afflicted with catarrh of the head, throat
and nose, and perhaps the bladder for
fully twenty-five years. Having tried
erther remedies without success, I was
led by an advertisement in the Sentinel-
Democrat to try Hall’s Catarrh Cure. I
have just finished my fourth bottle, and
I believe I am right when I say I am
thoroughly restored, I don’t believe
there is a trace of the disease left.
Respectfully.
WM. BRIDGES. Merchant Tailor.
L*. 1 flockla” 11 name W. L.D9UGLA
$3 SHOE
FOR
GENTLEMEKi
A sewed shoe that will not rip; Calf,’
seamless, smooth inside, more comfortable,
I stylish and dnrable than any other shoe ever
sold at the price. Every style. Equals custom.
' : shoes costing from $4 to $3.
The following are of the same high standard oft
lent:
>4.00 and $5.00 Fine Calf, Hand-Sewed.
$3.50 Police, Farmers and Letter-Carrier#.'
$2.50, 92.35 and $2.00 for Working Meoi
‘J and $1.75 for Youths and Boys.
.00 Hand-Sewed, I FOR
Dongola, j LADIES.
Will (ire exclusive .ale to .hoe dealers and general merchants where I have '4.
:b. Write for catalogue. Ifnot for sale i ‘
, size and width wanted. Pestaco Free.
Unlike tiie Dutch Process
No Alkalies
— or—
Other Chemicals
are nsed in the
preparation of
W. BAKER & CO.’S
reakfastCocoa
which is absolutely
pure and soluble,
i It has more than three times
1 the strength of Cocoa mixed
i with Starch, Arrowroot or
_ 'Sugar,and is far more eco
nomical, costing less than one cent a cup.
It is delicious, nourishing, and easily
DIGESTED.
Sold by Grorem everywhere.
W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.
MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS
il THOMSON’S
ft J SLOTTED
CLINCH RIVETSn
No tools required. Only a hammer needed to drive
«n c inch :h- m easily and quickly, leaving the clinch
abso utply smooth. R.-quiring no hoe to be made in
h“ tea:her nor i '.rr tor ti.e Rivets. Thev are strong,
'oujrh and durable. Millions now in us<* Ai'
envthv uniform «»r ss« >rted. put up i.i r»oxe*.
Ask your dealer for tbem, or send 40c. in
-itampa for a box ji iOG, a»sorte4 sues ilan'fd by
JUDSON L THOMSON MFG. CO..
W1LTBAX, 71 ASH.
AN ASTONISHING
TONIC FOR WOMEN.
McELREE’S
It Strengthens the Weak, Quiets the
Nerves, Relieves Monthly
Suffering and Cures
FEMALE D1SEA8E8.
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST ABOUT IT.
*1.00 PER BOTTLE.
CHATTANOOGA PE0. CO., Chidtanwg., T*nn.
If anyone doubt!
that we can core
tbe most obstinate
case in 30 to 60 days
I let him write for
I particulars and ia-
| vestlgate our reli
ability. Our financial backing is 8590,000* Whj?i
mercury,iodide potassium.sarsaparillaor Hot E *
THE ONLY THING THAT 1 _
NENTL Y. TVSlT1VK PROOF SEA LED, V REE.
COOK REMEDY ( OHPA\Y.Chlcny, Ilf.
I For Indigestion. Biliousness.
= Headache, Constipation, Bad
| Complexion. Offensive Breath,
land all disorders of tbe Stomach,
I Liver and Enw.'ls
1 act gently yef promptfy.^Ferfeet
| digestion follows their use. Sold
■hw /twn<rcri«t« nent byuudl. Box
B1PA5S CHEMICAL CO., New To
BICYCLES
Cures Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Sore
Throat* Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantee.
Pl3o’s Remedy for Catarrh is the
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.
CATAR R H
sold by druggists or sent by mail,
50c. E. T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa.
i cheap grade Bicycl
dries of all kinds,
fmmrnke Rnmains
ou<l flaixl Bicycles,
i*Lion Tired. Write for
_ 4 only excluwely bicycle hoi
Adfrc^u, BICYCLE DKP’T* ”
\ CO., K. P.Cha!lanr,Mn«r.,
Ns. C8 I vauhtree Street, At
for agents. Outfit
3. f. Johnson A Co.. No 3So. 11th St.. Rich
A- N. U.
FRUIT TREES.
! Largest and BEST Stock In United States,
ami Lealers should get OCR PRICES befd
Seven. 9J. i orders, e. moody & »ons, lockpq