Newspaper Page Text
10 prmciplos, and i orfi important (o
'SuctteiT >linoiplo£ chickens and eggs
than the method of inclosing and shel
tering them during spring, summer and
autumn. They need fresh range, and
yet the welfare of the garden demands
their being fenced in, to prevent dam
age from their scratching and picking
where scratching and picking are not,
like a motion to adjourn, “always in
order.” Three sixteen-foot panels of
movable fence for a triangular yard can
be made as follows: Six wooden strips
an inch and a half thick and three inches
wide form the main frame. Two hun
dred lath added to this constitute the
chief material required. A panel is
made by taking two of the strips and
nailing lath across them about three
inches apait. The nailing should bo
done so that the edge of one of the strips
will rest on the ground. The other, or
upper strip, may be placed so that the
upper ends of the lath will project a
foot above it. Three stakes, each live
feet long, should be driven in the
f;round at the corners, ami the panels
astenod to them either by stout screw
hooks and eyes or by short bits of rope.
A tent, for roosting, shelter and nests
mav be made by putt ing good stout
rooting paper on two light frames each
five feet wide and seven feet long, and
painting it with mineral or with due
paint. The ends of the tent can ho
closed by triangular frames also covered
with painted roofing paper. The edges
of the tent resting on the ground can ho
secured in place by little stakes driven
at the corners. After the tent is up the
peak may be made weather-proof by a
long, narrow Viangofar cap of rooting
paper Inverted over it and lightly tacked
down with carpet tacks.
Here is a tent and an inelosure for a
dozen fowls, which can be moved once
a month or oftenor, to fresh, clean
ground, in a half hour before breakfast.
A little system in moving will insure
thorough and even fertilization of
ground occupied. The movability also
makes it possible to have the fowls far
enough away from the house to prevent
unpleasant odors in warm weather.
Sir Chanticleer and the ladies of his
Court seem to consider it something
really quite '* high toned ” for them to
luxuriate in a summer establishment.
For salad they take kindly to a half
bushel of weeds fresh pulled. They
don't like wilted vegetables any better
than other people. For recreation they
eem to enjoy gymnastics under, over
and among thebranches and twigs of
an oak brush-heap, if on*' is pro
vided for them in one corner of the tri
angular "park-ette.” The ground un
der the bushes is tfioir favorite place in
which to scratch and fill their foalhors
with dust.
rtulqilj- ipaite a square yard
at a time. They like the loose ground
best for scratching and picking, and
spading it helps to expose the hugs and
worms they want for food, and which
their owner wants destroyed. Scatter
ing and very lightly raking a few hand
fuls of small grain over the spaded
ground seems to add to their interest in
scratching and picking.
Unhooking au end of a panol pro
vides a gateway or door of entrance to
the “ Chicken-Triangle.” —Christian
Union. _
What a rin*. of Manure Did.
A Wisconsin (armor semis this expe
rience to the American Agriculturist:
"Last year, in hauling yard manure
across a field afterwards planted to
corn, some of it scattered off in driblets
from a handful to a pint or so in a
place. When planting the corn 1 found
portions of these droppings, and where
noticed drew them into the hills, and
with the hoe mixed them a little with
the soil ns the mini was dropped. 11l
throe instances, where a large handful
or about a pint of the manure was thus
put in, a stick was driven down to mark
the hills. When hoeing, we noticed
that in those hills the corn plants had
started off more vigorously, were
greener, and at the third hoeing they
were six to twelve inches higher than
the other hills adjoining. Our curiosity
being awakened we followed up the ob
servations, and when gathering the
crop each of the three stalks in the threo
hills had two large plump ears, while
the surrounding corn did not average
one good ear to the stalk. This set us
to thinking and figuring. Thai bit of
manure had given the young corn roots
a vigorous start, just as good feed starts
off a young cnlf, or pig. or lamb,
and the roots penetrated further in
every direction and gather more food
and moisture. These stalks being better
nourished from helots, ran far away
front the poorly fed neighbors. As to
the figures, the rows were throe and a
half feel apart, and the hills three feet
distant in'the rows, say 4,000 hills on an
aero, and 4,000 pints of manure is about
sixty-t wo and a half bushels or two largo
wagon loads. Anybody can reckon the
difference between six large, well-tilled
ears of corn on each hill, and less than
three per hill, and the cost of tho
manure as compared with the total
value of the tinal crop. The plowing,
and the seed, and the hoeing, amount
to the same in each case. Alt 1 have to
say is, that every corn-hill planted on
my farm this year will have at least a
nint of manure in it." • • •
Crime and Superstition.
Catherine De Medicis, one of the
French queens noted for vice and cruelty,
was n victim to superstitious fears. Her
public policy aaa bold, and site w as gen
erally thought to be a woman of great
courage and unfailing resources.
Her reign, and hex subsequent ad
ministration as Queen Mother to the
young king, wm a brilliant period in the
Listory of the French Court She
fascinated strangers by her elegant man
ners, and corrupted gres. statesmen by
the wiles of court beauties.
But the great Queen was a genuine
coward. An astrologer attended her in
the palace and in all her journeys. She
never engaged in any enterprise without
consulting the stars, and after her death
a great variety of amulets and charms
were found on her person.
In the last year of her life a great
comet blazed in the heavens. It fright
ened her terribly as an omen of coming
death. It ahone in the windows of the
palace at a great feast, and she could not
ait, m quiet till all ihe shutters were
dosed, and the gloomy portent wm
that oat
Make the Grass Available.
It is well now to realize the fact that
the grass season is half gone, and that
ivory much of the success in carrying
Block through the coming winter in
’good condition, and economically, will
depend upon what is gained by them
[during the next twelve weeks. This
(lias an especial application to animals
hat are thin in flesh. Such as are thin
the first of August, having had good
- store since the opening of spring,
1 hardly go into winter in good lix
the .’i OU t extra attention. The term ex
\Ha attention, of course, in this ease,
, ..ns extra food added to the rations
n 11 * rasa.
omit the grass docs not promise to meet
..nf: requirement and every stock man
of experience can make a fairly correct
estimate in this regard recourse should
be had to regular rations of extrafoods,
given witli regularity at evening, or in
tiie morning and evening, the latter be
ing the best, where convenient. 'I here
canle no gain made that will equal
that made upon grass and grain com
bined. All the conditions arc favorable
to this: (1.) The bodily condition is fa
vorable, the secretion • are acting freely,
being under conditions that preclude
any material liability to a congested or
torpid state of any secretory organ;
and (2), as a natural consequence, the
excretory functions —the out flowings
front the bowels, kidneys and skin—are
in a like healthy and favorable state.
On farms so arranged that the stock
can be divided, allotments being made
to different pastures, it is wise to hold
a pasture lot in reserve, giving it a few
weeks rest during the middle of the
season; then, as if is made apparent
which animals are likely to lag behind
in the matter of taking on lie-.li, they
should be separated from the others and
placed in the reserved pasture lot. This
division will answer the double purpose
of giving the thin animals access to the
best grass, at the same time placing
them more easily under control, and
separated as they are from the others,
it is more convenient to deal out special
rations of food. The pasture lot for
such a purpose should be upon rolling
land, if there is such, for the well
known reason that the gra-s on such
land is more nutritious, and has a flavor
more acceptable to slock than the
coarse and rank-growing grass of low
lands. It is also easy, when stock is so
divided, to give them other attentions
not possible to he dealt out if they ro
main in one lot. In this connection
may be named, an occasional, or even
daily ration of newly cut up corn; or,
if the grass is abundant, half a dozen
or so ears of new com in the ear, at
noon time, no! omitting the usual ra
tion of ground feed at the customary
hour for giving this. So also a little
extra observance in the matter of salt
ing may lie indulged in with advantage.
Furthermore, in taking visitors to see
stock outside of the stables, theunpleas
ant duty of showing animals it is desir
able not to have seen, will be avoided.
Perhaps there is nothing that so detracts
from the appearance of a herd as to
have a portion of the animals compris
ing it in thin condition. Uniformity is
one of the most attractive features in
any herd. In fact, if the herd is a good
one, no other quality lakes rank with
this. On the same principle that the
retail merchant assorts itis goods,
placing the most attractive pieces in the
show window and upon the more promi
nent shelves, the breeder is warranted
V* ..rwliirgsM V-oiudivViioeL cwfnpY<n\ , *<li
when lie receives company at home, he
is expected to replace his threadbare,
failed coat, with one in every way pre
sentable. So the tl in and faded stock
may lie also excused from receiving
visitors till, through the plans of man
agement referred to, the bare or lumy
places are covered, and the colors fresh
ened. National Live Stock. Journal.
A Natural Copper-Plating Bath.
Two years ago, at a mine operated by
William Utter, at fainpo Soco, near
Milton, water caino in and work
stopped. To keep the largo iron-bound
ami iron-bailed bucket used to hoist
rock from drying up and falling to
pieces it was let down Into the water.
Next season when it was drawn up, 10,
a miracle! It was contior-bound and
copper-bailed. From this hna sprung
quite ail industry, and the mine has
been sustaining itself from ore water
ever since. The water contains an acid
which has tho property of taking into
solution the particles of iron t Insist into :t
and it lias also copper in solution which
is let go. particle by particle, as the iron
is picked up. It is a simple chemical
exchange, and this mine may make an
other prolit still if it will get another
chemical into the water w hich w ill make
the ncid lay down tho iron which, as a
black flood, the water carries down into
the Stanislaus River. The copper in
dustry' consists in taking bundles of
scrap iron und old tin to the mine,
where It is thrust into vats of water
eauglit up, in which the metalsmv soon
changed to copper, the residue of tho
iron taking the form of a black stream
and flowing away. To make sure of
making the water swap all its eoppor
for iron, which it is glad to do w ithout
I loot, one vat is placed below another
down the bank to the river, and when
the water escapes it lias eaten its till of
iron and left pay for its meal in genuine
copper. N oixlvo i (Cal.) Mail.
Spelling Iteform.
The speling reform asosheoshun hav
takn the Knglish langwij in hand again
for tho purpos of simplifying it. They
botiev that our lung as writn is not made
osy enuf, and that it nta be impruvd
by omiting the superffuus Inters. It is
argud that the nu systiu will mak mat
ers mor simpl, and remov all dout both
in riting and reding. The bouty of the
new soool will remov the difficulty
hitherto attached to sueli wurds as tuf,
ruf, each, pich, latter, thru, sutl, and
many others of lik caraetor. We are
of the opinvun that no gtid xvil ensu
from this chang if it is carid out. On
tho contrary, sum harm wil folia; es
peshaly in Macing the orignl sorces and
the ruto forms of the latigw'ig, and in
nurishing a flckl method of speling,
leving all to gess work. It wud be
beter to gard the present system from
jepardy. The chanj wil trubj formers
mor than the prevaling wun. Stil mor,
it wud mak such exists of the lexions in
vogo that ail wud stand agast! This
jurnl vews medltng with our tung, as
writen, in th life of a tnelancolv mistak,
and is avers to a singl chanj that wud
put a spel on it in mior senses than won.
—Boston Saturday Svtnmg Omellt.
—A plain pincushion of silk, satin or
■ilesia can be kept fresh by having two
extra covers to piu over it; for from
twelve to twenty-five cents very pretty
lace mats can be bought, and they may
be put on diagonally, so that the covers
of th© cushion will show (if of siik or
satin), or be put on the usual way.
The holes made bv the pins in a hand
some cushion, and which, after a littlo
while, spoil its good looks, are hidden
by these lace coven. When one cover
if toiled put the other ob.-A’. Y. rteh
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—A transparent leather, said to pos
sess great strength, is now made in Ger
many, by anew process.
—The London papers describe a
small steam engine in which two verti
cal aerial screws of twelve feet diameter
are driven at sixty-seven revolutions a
minute, and effecting an upward thrust
equal to 120 pounds, the engine being
equal to three-horse power, and weigh
ing eighty pounds, one-haif of which was
for framing and screws.
—A new hot water generator consists
in a closely wound water coil enclosed
in a double cylindrical casing, arranged
so that the heated air passes lengthwise
of the coil in both directions, and
through the outer casing to the escape
flue; the heat is thus utilized to tne
greatest extent, and the water in the
coil is rapidly heated.- -N. Y. Sun.
—A foreign exchange states that a
wealthy land-owner in the Tyrol has
made an application of the microphone
to the detection of subterranean springs.
Ho fixed the microphones at the spots
where ho supposed water might exist,
each being connected with its telephone
ami battery. Then at night he put his
car to each of the instruments and lis
tened for the murmuring of the waters,
and in several cases heard it.
—A New Yorker has invented an
atomizer and air moistener for cloth
factories, which throws out moisture in
a mist so fine that it is at once absorbed
by the air, and not even the smallest
drop of water falls upon machinery or
fabrics. The use of such a contrivance
is valuable in creating a healthful at
mosphere and making it as easy to han
dle threads in our dry air as in the
moister air of England. Christian
Union.
—Buckingham County, Va., has a
somewhat curious industry. Within an
area of ten or fifteen miles there are
some forty distilleries engaged in manu
facturing oil from sassafras root. Each
mill gives employment to throe hands,
use about 2,000 pounds of root a day for
each mill, and produce from one to one
and a half gallons of oil weighing ten
pounds to the gallon. Thus the forty
distilleries consume daily 80,000 pounds
of sassafras foot, make about fifty gal
lons of oil, worth about $4.50 a gallon,
and thus earn $225 per day. — N. Y.
Cost.
—Stem-winding watches are now
made on a different plan from what has
been customary, the improved system
possessing, it is thought, some speeial
advantages. Thus, when it is desired
to set tho hands, the stem is first drawn
out, which causes a collar on tho end of
it to bear upon a stud in the shorter arm
of a two-armed curved lever. This de
presses the long arm of the latter, which
turns a yoke and discharges the gearing
from tin; main-spring arbor, connecting
an independent whoel with the hand
sotting train, to which motion is im
parted by turning the stem. As soon as
pulling on the stem ceases, the yoke is
thrown back to its plaeo by a spring.
Normally, another wheel, carried by the
yoke, meshes with the arbor wheel of
tho main-spring, and is thus always
ready for winding by pressing down up
on and winding the stem. The arrango
ment is simple.— Chicaao Times.
Her Eyes Unsealed.
Tfiysii who have read Wilkie Collins]
Lueilla’s misfortune, blindness from
birth, caused by cataracts. Dr. Grosso’s
fallacies regarding the struggles of sight
to assert itself in persons who have been
blind for life, the illusions of the patient
regarding distance, color, form, etc.,
will he remembered. Lueilla could not,
from restored sight, tell whether an ob
ject held before her was a cube or a
globe, whether a handkerchief was
white or colored. She had a great hor
ror of anything dark; that is, when she
was blind, in her imagination Lueilla’9
answers to questions were put to tho
theories of “Surgeon Optic Crosse,”
and he was pleased at the result of his
skill.
There is in Rochester, at the City
Hospital, at the present time the coun
terpart of Lueilla in all the realities,
but not in the “surgeon optic,” his
fallacies and theories. The subject is
Emma Waterstrant, twelve years of
age. She was born in Loots, Pomera
nia, Germany.
She came to New York City two years
ago. On llie Bth of April, this year, she
came to Rochester ami resided with her
aunt on Hoelzer street, her father atid
mother being dead. Two or three
months of this time she passed in the
Rind Asylum at Batavia, where she
learned to read raised letters by the
touch. Her trouble was congenital cat
aract, ami from birth she could only see
so as to distinguish betjveen day and
night. When taken to the ('ity Hospital
the eminent oculist of the institution,
after an examination, said her sight
could lie restored, and three weeks ago
he operated on the left eye, producing
a “rift in the cloud” which had shut
out her sight for so many years. The
writer, interested in seeing her when
the first test was made, visited the hos
pital, and when tho bandage v;as re
moved by the surgeon she told him she
could see his lingers. A vase of (lowers
was held before her and she said tlioy
were flowers and one of them was red.
She told what other objects wore, and
their form. “ Dr. Grosso’s ” confirmed
theories, “ Boor Miss Finch’s” versifi
cation of tho “surgeon optics” fallacies
were disproved—dispelled by this prac
tical illustration, in tact. Emma’s sight
continues to improve as tho “rift in tho
cloud” widens from absorption. No
further operation may lit* necssaT, and
there is no question but that in good
time slio may see “as others see.” i’lie
patient sees and learns so gradually, the
same as a child learning to read, that
the mind is educated to forms and dis
tances easily. Cataract patients never
see immediately after the operation
Rochester IX. l\ I Tost.
Parliamentary.
He was a member of the Mains Leg
islature and had leen sweet towards an
Augusta girl all winter, and had taken
her to attend the sessions until she was
| well posted in the rules.
J Gn the lust day of the session, as they
oatne near the peanut stand near the
( door, he said to her:
! “May 1 offer you my handful of pea
nuts?’’/ ■
She responded promptly:
"1 move to amend by omitting all
after the word ‘hand.’”
lie blushingly accepted the amend
: ment and they adopted it unanimously.
: t ts a hand-some wedding that fol
j lowed. —Detroit Free Tress.
Queen Victoria is loath to surrender
property which has once conic into her
possession. Claremont, bought bv her
from the nation, and now the residence
’of the young Duke of Albany, has only
been Int to him. The Queen retains
In-own suite of rooms there, which are
kept locked up. The housekeeper and
fernalu servant* are also in her employ,
and aiv paid hr her.
Erasmus Darwin’s First Love.
About the year 1760 there came to the
town of Derby, in England, a young
physician, who rented an oflice and be
gan the practice of his profession.
Young and careless physicians were no
rarity in the town at that time, hut Dr.
Erasmus Darwin was a rare man. At
Elton, in Nottinghamshire, lie hail been
born in 1731, a poor man's son, and
without gentle blood in his veins. After
studying at St. John’s College, Cam
bridge, for a time, his means failed him,
and he went to the less aristocratic uni
versity at Edinburgh, there to pursue
medical studies, and there to graduate.
From college be had gone to the little
town of Litchfield, where for several
years he had a large practice. After
a time Litchfield became too con
tracted a field, and he went to
Derby, where there was a better
opportunity for development. Enter
prising and ambitious, he soon had many
friends in town, and among them a
lucrative professional business. It was
not unnatural that in course of time he
should come to love. Among the lady
friends whose society he frequented was
the daughter of a farmer, an artless and
modest country maiden, as fair and
fresh as the dairies in her father’s
fields. Young Mr. Darwin loved the
girl, and his affection was reciprocated.
Sina Chaffee put her whole soul into
that love, but like m“,uy another maid
en loved too strongly. There were de
lays in the advent of the promised wed
ding day', unavoidable delays, no doubt,
but Darwin’s love grew cold. Another
and wealthier lady had gained his half
given affections, and the farmer girl
awoke from her fond dream to find her
knight was faithless. The blow was
too severe, and she was glad to remove
from the scene of her disappointment to
America.
The Chaffees settled in a, Massachu
setts town, and became well-to-do farm
ers. Other young men sought the pret
ty Sina’s hand, but to each offer she
turned a deaf car. The years went by,
and when the lady’s youth had passed,
Amasa Converse, Jr., asked her to he
his wife. He was a prosperous Windsor
farmer, not such a gay beau as had been
Dr. Darwin, but still a very popular
man. Miss Chaffee’s acceptance of his
offer came reluctantly, but at length
Amasa brought her to his father’s home
as his wife. Mrs. Converse never had
cause to repent her choice. She did
not, however, forget her Jir-t love, and
with a far-away respect, for him she
gave her son his name. Erasmus Dar
win Converse is living to-day in Cum
niington. an old, gray-haired man. In
the Windsor Cemetery the June roses
arc budding above the grave of Sina
Converse, who died many years ago,
hearing in her old age of her early lov
er’s fame as a bolanist and scholar, of
his earnest advocacy of temperance,
perhaps of the birth of his son, who in
later years was to he the father of
Charles Darwin, the great naturalist.
Long ago her romance faded, and she
who would have been the wife of a great
man lies in a Berkshire meal cemetery
in the well-earned repose of a farmer’s
wife. —Berkshire County (Mass.) Eagle.
“Pocket Burroughs” in the British
Parliament.
“Pocket burroughs” derive their
quaint appellation from the fact that the
individual commanding their votes car
ries them, as it were, in his pocket.
ttie purse
of Plutus holdiii^jnffiienceover agoodly
number of them.'”"lt is a well-known
fact that there are scores of them pur
chasable as any other commodity of tha
market can be bought up, lock, stock
andibarrel, and are so bought. The
lato commission of inquiry into con
tested elections gave ample evidence of
this, having brought to light, the as
tounding revelation that the voters of
several such burroughs—not small ones
either—were bribed, almost, to a man!
Many of them even boasted of the large
sums they had received, after stipulat
ing for, and chaffering over them, with
out thought of shame or qualm of con
science.
One would naturally expect that a
candidate for Parliamentary honors
would be required to give some proof of
his fitness for Parliamentary duties. Rut
in boroughs like these no such qualifica
tion is needed. With them, political
capacity and knowledge of statesman
ship—or, indeed, other knowledge of
any useful kind—are the least and last
things thought of. Money’ will make
them take the wall; and well the man
of money knows it —feels as certain of
entering Parliament, if lie only pays tho
price, as he would of an opera box by
purchasing a tiekot. It is simply a
question of how much he is disposed to
pay; and that he arranges with tho
electioneering agent, who in turn makes
it square with the electors. There are
always constituencies open to represen
tatives of this kind, ami who care for no
other, and would not havo any other.
Nor does the candidate need to be resi
dent among them or even have previous
acquaintance with them. He may be a
total strangor of unknown antecedents,
brought from some distant part of tho
country—London or elsewhere his first
introduction to his constituency that it
to bo, given him by the local lawyer
who acts as his electioneering agent,
often only a few’ days before the elec
tion. Rut the lawyer himself has been
previously made acquainted with his
legislative capabilities by having heard
the jingle of his gold. This communi
cated to tlic covetous constituency has a
marvelous, almost magical, effect, and
presto! the unknown Pluto, who may be
the veriest adventurer, becomes one of
the Senatorial grandees m the great
British Empire, on which the sun never
sets! —Captain Mag tic Ileal, in X. Y.
Tribune.
a Grassnopper vioufl-tsarsr.
A gentlemen just returned from a
hunting and prospecting trip down
Reese River relates the following phe-
which came very disagreea
bly under his personal observation.
He was down below the canyon, some
forty miles from here, riding quietly
along, when an immense crowd of grass
hoppers darkened tho air. Directly he
saw a similar cloud in the shape of a
whirlwind ooming from the opposite
direction, and the two bodies came into
collision of a peculiar violence, and with
a roaring sound resembling that of a
hail ana thunder storm mixed. The
dead hoppers poured dcfwn like the fur
ious drops and streams of a genuine
cloud-burst, filling the atmosphere al
most to suffocation. In less than fif
teen minutes they covered the ground
for over one hundred acres to the depth
of from six inohes to three feet. Ilia
horse fell twice before he got beyond
the oonfines of the storm. Passengers
on the narrow-gauge railway describe
that thousands of crows and buzzards
are gathered at the locality described,
and the scent of the pntrefving hopper*
is terrific.— Austin (Tex.) Jlcoev'U.
—Think of telegraphing in the staid
old Holy Land ! Oflioe* at Betbelcot
tod N’MtwUh _ .-
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Madam Ristori, the famous trage
dienne, is nearly sixty years old.
A gentleman living near Buffalo, N.
Y., has two daughters, one of whom
was born in Montana and the other in
Idaho. In remembrance of his sojourn
in the Western wilds lie lias named them
after the two Territories.
—The female correspondents who
make Washington their fruitful field of
operations have organized a Press Cluk
and will endeavor to have galleries in
the Senate and House set apart for
their special use. —Chicago Herald.
—Preston Powers, the son of Hiram
Powers, the great sculptor, has com
pleted the cast for a marble bust of Gar
field. It has been pronounced perfect
by the wife and mother of the dead
President. The bust will be sculptered
in Rome.
—Rufus Hatch says: “I was one of a
corps of engineers that did the first
day’s work that was ever clone on a
railroad in Wisconsin. I held onto the
Jiind end of the chain and stopped it at
the 100-foot stake. That is the way I
commenced engineering.”
—Tiie story of Mrs. Lincoln writing,
when a young girl, a letter in which she
expressed the determination to become
the wife of a President, is confirmed by
the production of the document, now
in the possession of General Preston, of
Izjxington, Ky. It was addressed to a
daughter of Governor Wicklittc, and
oentained a playful description of the
gawky young Lincoln, to whom she
wasbetrothem She said: “But I mean
to make him President of the United
States all the same. You will see that,
as I always told you, I will be the Pres
ident’s wife.”— N. Y. Sun.
—The late Bishop Scott was strongly
attached to outdoor sports. In early
youth lie was forced by poverty to fish
for a living, and to the' latest years of
his long life lie retained a fondness
which he frequently indulged for the
hook and line and net. He was expert
at the tiller and at the oars, and wat
also a crack shot with a fowling-piece
or ritle. After he had risen to the high
est honors of the church, he often took
delight in roaming through the fiekb
and woods, and sailing on the stream*
or the bay, accompanied by his grand
sons and other boys of the neighbor
hood, who found him.a genial comrade
and an apt instructor in the sportsman’s
arts. —Chicago Times.
—Senator Vance, of North Carolina,
fre lucntly illustrates his speeches with
anecdotes, or, rather, parables, which
he relates in a manner that seldom fails
to bring down the house, no matter how
much the majority may disagree with
him politically. Speaking not long ago
against a bill which he considered
“penny wise and pound foolish,” ha
said it reminded him of a kind old man
who lived at the top of a hill in North
Carolina. One day a wagoner came
by, and, unluckily, got his team
“stalled” at the foot of the hill. To the
old man’s house he went, asking the
loan of a pair of mules and a “fifth
chain” to help him up the hill. Said
the kind old man: “My friend, I have
not a pair of mules or a fifth chain to
save your life. But lam always anx
ious to help a man in distress; I can
lend you the best fiddle you ever drew
a bow across. —Chicago Times.
X'lr Poisrm*
Whatever the annoyance of flies in the
house, do not use fly poison. This is
sold under the deceptive name of
“Cobalt,” to be mixed with sweetened
water and set about the rooms to attract
the flies. It kills tho flies—but it kills
children also. Wo have known of two
distressing deaths from this cause, and
it should be generally known that the
powder sold under that name is not
cobalt at all, but is really metallic ar
senic, and a most deadly poison. There
should be a severe penalty for selling
this most destructive agent under the
false name of “cobalt.” Do not use it,
either as “cobalt” or in the shape of
“fly paper.” A dark paper is sold
called “fly paper," with directions to
put a piece in a plate and keep it moist.
This paper is impregnated with the
same deadly arsenic. In Europe a still
more dangerous fly-paper is sold, which
has been soaked in the deadly cyanide
of potassium. Avoid them all. The
sticky fly paper, which the makers call
“Catch ’em Alive, Oh!” is any common
paper upon which is spread a thick var
nish made by melting together rosin
and linseed oil; it is not dangerous, and
acts only mechanically, by cruelly hold
ing the insects fast until they die.
Quassia is stated to be poisonous to
flies; we have not had occasion to try
it, but have no doubt of its efßeacv. A
strong tea made of this, sweetened with
molasses, may be exposed in plates
without fear or danger. It is said that
strong green tea, well sweetened, acts as
a poison to flies. With regard to the
destruction of the mosquitoes that may
enter the house, we should feel disposed
to make a trial of the Persian insect
powder, pyrethrum. A small quantity
ot this burned in the closed bedroom
has been found to destroy every mosqui
to. In France pastile3 made of this
powder are used for this purpose. The
same end may be accomplished by
sprinkling some of the powder upon a
few live coals on a shovel or in any safe
vessel. The powder is perfoctly harm
less to all but insect life.— Aariculturist.
The Ethics of Baggage Smashing.
From the report of a recent interview
with a handler of personal baggage at
a railway station we learn that the only
wonderful thing about damaged trunks
is that the number is uot greater. The
tendency of the traveling public to car
ry large trunks, which are bought as
cheaply as possible, is not viewed with
favor by the stout fellows who are ex
pected'to handle baggage. The rule
is for a single man to handle a trunk,
no matter now large the latter may
be; as a natural consequence the great
boxes in which some people stow their
efiects are hard to lift and are dropped
with alacrity that is not in the least
modified by regard for contents. There
are two remedies exclusive of com
plaint to the company —which never
does any good; one is to distribute
weighty articles more carefully among
the various pieces of luggage,' and the
other is to use smaller trunks. There
is not the slightest possible excuse for
making a trunk of a large model of
Noah's ark, unless, indeed, the owner,
like Noah, proposes to transport live an
imals and to smuggle them through as
personal baggage.—Ak Y. Herald.
—The common a'Tliction experienced
in the birth of the two-headed girl has
been counter-balanced by the birth at
Brownsville, Neb., of a one-headed girl
with four perfect legs and four perfect
arms. Thus does the whirligig of time
make all tilings even. Chicago herald.
Certain physicians say that crying
should not be repressed in children, a*
the result may be Saiut Vitus’ dance or
epiieptie JtU. .. _ „ _ ,
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
—The average number of graduates
this year from our Colleges is said to be
the largest ever known.
—A “ People’sChnrch,” to cost $150,-
000, to be erected in Boston, will be the
largest religious edifice in New England.
—The bell at the Eirst Congregational
Church in Exeter, N. H , gave out re
cently, after it had been rung morning,
noon and night for eighty-two years.
—The Methodist Episcopal Church, on
an average, organizes ten new Sunday
schools, dedicates fourteen new
churches, ami adds two new parson
ages, each week during the year.
—Prof. Samuel Ives Curtis, of the
Chicago Baptist Theological Seminary
has been elected to the chair of Hebrew
in Andover Seminary, to succeed Prof.
C. M. Mead, who retires.
—At the commencement exercises at
Harvard College, the other day, Presi
dent Eliot announced that tiie bequests
for the year were nearly $400,000.
Among those pro .cnt was the oldest
living graduate, William Thomas, of
Plymouth, Mass., of the class of 1807.
—The late Joseph Armour, the pork
packer, was not a Baptist, but lie left
the direction of his SIOO,OOO institution
for the training of Chicago boys and
girls to Dr. Lorimer. His brothers
will increase the endowment and make
it one of the leading charities of Chi
cago. — N. Y. Express.
—The women of India are beginning
to disregard caste restrictions and seek
an education. At the matriculation ex
amination of Calcutta University eight
women passed, six of them being na
tives of India, and at Bombay seven
women passed. At the first arts ex
amination at Calcutta, a woman ob
tained a scholarship of the first grade.
—The catalogue of the Indian Uni
versity at Talequah, Ind. Ter., shows
an attendance of sixty-eight students,
of whom four are preparing for the
ministry. Of the whole number fifty
three are Cherokees, and fil'd Dela
wares, while seven are whites; thirty
six are young women, Norma Rasmus,
taking the highest standing of the year,
ninety six per cent., and twenty stand
ninety' or over. Yet “ the Indian can
not be civilized!”— N. Y. Examiner.
-The Rev. Dr. Joseph Alden, who,
at the age of seventy-live, has retired
from the Presidency of the New York
State Normal School at Albany, has had
a long and honored career as an educa
tor of youth. He was after being
graduated at Union 1 College, for two
years tutor in geometry and Latin at
lTinceton; seventeen years Professor of
Rhetoric and Political Economy at Wil
liams College; five years Professor of
Mental and Moral Philosophy at Lafay
ette College; six years President of
Jefferson College. Pennsylvania; and
fifteen years President of the Normal
School at Albanv.— N. Y. Herald.
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine.
The familiar adage “a stitch in time
saves nine,” if taken or not taken, repre
sents about the difference between suc
cess and failure. In other words,procras
tination is the thief which steals not
only the time but the stitch which should
save the nine. How many, or what
proportion of the farmers of our fertile
prairies of the West prove comparative
failures for want of promptness* in the
ordinary operations upon the farm?
How many machines are left where last
USO.fi for tho VOOOAn tket if will l>o “bo
much more convenient to store them
away at some future time 1” It is only
necessary to travel extensively through
the newer portion of the West to be
convinced that the surplus incomes of
many farms are wholly exhausted in
the wasteful use of farm machinery,
and little less can be said of many of
the older portions. How many or what
proportion of our farms and their sur
roundings are being improved and be
coming more attractive from year to
year? How many farmers have we
among us who are merely drifting, or
are like the dead fish which is only ca
pable of swimming down stream and
with the current? Is our rural popu
lation advancing in intelligence, culture
and enterprise in such a ratio that re
fmcmant is becoming more and more
apparent in the homes and in the in
creased productiveness of the soil, the
improvement of the live stock and in
the more attractive surroundings of
those who toil, which must in the future
as in the past continue to be the bul
warks of our civilization?
The farmer who is unable to see the
small things to be done on a farm, and
fails to do them promptly, will never ac
complish the great things or the results
within the reach of all who are capable
of exercising a reasonable amount of
skill and judgment.
The “one-Eoss shay” was an excep
tion among perishable implements in
going to pieces all at once. A single
board usually parts from a building at a
time or a rail from the fence; and with
but little extra effort, while occupied
with tho ordinary duties of each day,
they might be replaced and thus kept in
repair, and with a little additional effort
from time to time some needed improve
ment might be made.
In traveling through the country we
constantly see the results of lost oppor
tunities and failures of crops for lack of
promptness on the part of some slack
farmer. Often, too, when the work is
done at the proper time it is so imper
fectly done that ultimate failure is tne
result. The corn field may receive
labor enough to insure a crop if proper
ly applied, bnt the plows may be run so
far from the plant that the grass and
weeds spring up and choke it out; and
in the preparation of the soil and in the
planting of the crops the same unskilled
process is often seen, and no prophet is
needed to predict the result. It may be
asked, “Where is the remedy to be
i found P” There is no remedy except in
the use of reason and common sense.
More brains must be put into the work
of the farm, if the producers of this
country make it possible to keep pace
with the rising tide of progress repre
sented by other interests. Brains, in
the future as in the past, guided by
whatever motive, are destined to be the
ruling element, and monopolies in this
age of development, as never before,
will tend to override and reduce to the
conditions of serfdom the class which
forms not only the very foundation
stone of society, but of our wealth—the
producers upon our prairies.— Western
Rural.
—The public have become more fa
miliar year after year with the fact that
a few miles from the coast, and not far
below St. Augustine, there exists a fresh
water spring in the Atlantic, that is,
that there is there a natural circle of
water, from a quarter to a half mile in
diameter, fresh in taste and different in
color from the sea water. Of late years
it has been fully identified and officially
reported on by the United States coast
survey.— Chicago TrUrune.
—The Imperial Gazette, a Chinese
newspaper, has the reputation of hav.
jng beca primed In consecutive sene*
lor fifteen eeaturta
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
—Queen Victoria has granted a char
ter to Newcastle-on-Tyne making that
town a city. 6 41
—A London clergyman of the W e
End makes a charge of $5 a year to
women who want spiritual advice.
—A Dublin medical student sought to
bribe a London doctor to go to Dublin
and, under a disguise, pass the examinal
tiou’ which he himself felt incompetent
to undergo.
—During eleven years of peace the
ordinary debt of British India has in
creased from £97,000,000 to £157,000!
000. In the meanwhile £ 142,000,000
has been expended on canals ami
(ration work, and 8,000,000 people have I
died of starvation, although a famine
fund of £15,000,000 has been expended
—The system of banking in Scotland
whereby shareholders were liable to
their last cent for the debts of the bank
is now at an end. All the banka have
concurred in forming themselves into
joint stock companies, and at the worst
all that they can hereafter loose ia the
value of the shares which they have ac
quired in their bank.
—The Mansion-house (London) Com
ruittee of th ' Rowland Hill Memorial
fund has completed its work by erect
ing a statute at the Royal Exchange and
a memorial in Westminster Abbey, and
has handed over the remainder of the
fund, amounting to more than $70,000,
to Trustees, as a nucleus for a fund for
the relief of aged and distressed postal
employees, and their widows and or
phans, throughout the kingdom.
—The Duke of Hamilton has declined
Ix>rd Rosebery’s offer of $5,000,000 lor
the Island of Arran, on which Hamilton
Palace is situated. The island is near
the mouth of the Clyde. It is about
twenty miles long by eight to eleven
broad, and contains a superficial area
of 165 square miles, or 105,814 acres,
of which about 15,000 are cultivated.
It is a rugged, mountainous island, and
not of much account to anybody but a
lord or some rich person who wishes to
be known as a landlord.
—The price obtained at a London
show for the prize bull-dog I/>rd Nel
son, who had won every cup for which
he ever competed, was $50,000. His
aspect is described as that of the “most
unprincipled ruffian that ever ran on
four legs to help his master in the at
tack on a helpless traveler on a star
light night.” His coat is milk white,
his eyes red and bloodshot, his chaps
fall down each side of his jaw, and
when he raii-s his lips and shows his
teeth the spectators draw back in ter
ror.
—Recently a remarkable mirage was
witnessed between four and seven
o’clock one afternoon at the Lake of
Orsa, Sweden, (latitude 61 deg),in a
region by the way, notable for phe
nomena of this kind. First large and
small steamers were observed as if ply
ing on the lake, and their outlines were
very distinct. The funnels of the ves
sels’ seemed to emit smoke. Then a
transformation occurred. In place of
the ships there were verdure-clad is
lands. Lastly a haze came on and the
wonderful spectacle ended.
Milk in Cookery.
The value of milk in cookery is too
frequently overlooked, a variety of
cooked dishes which are based upon its
beinsr both economical and almost uni
versally agreeable to the taste. For
instance, milk porridge has been a
favorite article of food with some of the
nations distinguished for advancement
in civilization, and with whom this has
served as one of the standard dishes
of the dinner-table, even that of the
formal dinner. In the South a soup is
made from green corn and milk which
is very delicious and nourishing, being
well adapted to replace the oyster-soup
which is usually more relished in the
colder seasons. A dish of somewhat
similar preparation is called by certain
German people “rice pop,” being rice
boiled in milk and forming a kind of
porridge. In alimentary science great
value continues to be placed on such
vegetable soups as are made from dried
beans, peas and lentils; ancient exam
ples of the use of such dishes show that
their nutritive qualities had been well
learned. A staple article with tbo
Greeks corresponded with the Roman
puls. The dish may have been of the
same general variety as that of the pulse
which the Prophet Daniel and his
brothers grew so much fairer and fatter
on in ten days than other children, who
were served with wine and the portion nf
the king’s meat. On seeing the loaded
tables of the Persians after the battle
of Platsea, the exclamation of Pausani
us was, “What gluttons the Persians
were, to come after our porridge when
they had such plenty!” The chief dish
and greatest delicacy of the phiditia, or
public meals kept up under the 1 iws of
Lycurgus, was a kind of porridge which
they called their black broth, and to this
luxury only the most honorable, par
ticularly the old men, were entitled. Th u
dish was made with small pieces of
meat and some blood. Yet these people
lived very differently afterward, thero
having been then, as there is now, no
doubt that varied and good living is
for the well-being of people generally.
Awful Warning.
At one of the Thomas concerts at
Chicago the other evening the electrio
lights suddenly went out, leaving the
audience in perfect darkness for a few
minutes. This was thought glorious by
some of the young couples present, and
over in the southwest corner of section
B someone was heard to say in an un
dertone; “Je—whillikens, Susie, what
the deuce have you got in your mouth?”
Just then the light blazed up again and
a young man was noticed holding his
hand over his mouth. A stream of
blood was trickling through his fingers,
and the expression on his face touched
the observer’s heart. His girl took some
thing out of her mouth and put it in
her pocket, looking pained and guilty.
She led him quietly to the door and
they passed out. Young ladies should
not' wear their hairpins in their mouth.
It is not the place for them, aqd a
wound in the side of the jaw made by
coming suddenly and painfully in con
tact with a cruel two-pointed hairpin
at a time when his heart is set on a
moment of ecstatic bliss might result in
a coolness on the part of the young man
which would be heart-breaking Mil
waukee Sun. •
—Crab Apple Jelly: Cover the apples
with water and let them boil till per
fectly soft. Pour off the water and
strain through a flannel or towel. Put
the juice on the fire and boil ten or fif
teen minutes. Measure a pint of sugar
to a pint of juice, put the sugar in pans
in the oven and when perfectly hot add
to the juice and boil five or ten minutes
longer. For marmalade: Rub the ap
ples through the sieve, and put about
one-balf pound of sugar to a pound of
fruit, oock owly some time. Three
or few lowa* iaprerw ifa
