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MAPLE .SUGAR.
Widespread Ignor--.nce on the Part of
Consumer*.
Speaking of maple sugar brings to
mind the fact that there is no product
of the farm concerning ■which there is
greater ignorance on the part of con
sumers than maple sugar and sirup. It
seems to be almost the universal opinion
that maple sirup to be genuine must be
dark in color and of a thick, heavy
body. I have carefully studied this mat
ter, and I am convinced that dealers in
large towns and cities are largely re
sponsible for this. Maple sirup is one of
'the easiest things to “doctor. ” For in
stance, a gallon of strictly pure, light
colored maple sirup is received, and for
eign substances, as cane sugar or glu
cose, are added and three gallons made,
and all are branded “pure maple sirup. ”
Some years ago I stepped into a gro
cery store in the city of Denver and in
quired if they had any genuine maple
sirup. “Oh, yes”—and I was shown
cans branded “pure . Vermont maple
sirup.” I asked the grocer if he would
kindly let me taste a sample. He did
so, and as I looked up I suspect he be
gan to “smell mice” and asked if I was
a manufacturer of the article. I said,
“Yes, and I ship it every spring to
your city.” Seeing he was fairly
caught, he said: “The fact is I cannot
fool you, I see. This sirup of ours was
probably made in Chicago.”
Last spring I sent a gallon by re
quest to a pastor of a church in Brook
lyn who in his boyhood days used to
live on a farm in Chenango county and
knew what real maple sirup was. We
sent him a gallon of early make, of a
light amber shade, and at once received
word that the sirup was entirely ahead
of any he bad ever seen, and that it
was an utter impossibility to procure
such in the city.
Why is it impossible? I know fine
sirup is made and shipped. The fact
is, as I said before, the consumer is not
allowed to taste that fine, light colored,
genuinely pure article, for once he gets
.a taste of it the trade for the bogus ar
ticle is gone. A few days ago a friend
told me he sent a pound of fine sugar,
■made by one of our farmers, to his
mother in Baltimore. The cake weighed
18 ounces, and as it went by mail it
cost him 18 cents postage. The letter
carrier who delivered it said it must be
something valuable to pay so much
postage. The lady said she could guess
what it was. It was a cake of maple
sugar her boy bad sent her from New
York.
As the carrier lived close by the lady
told-tiim to come in during the evening
and she would show him something
good. He did so, but the moment he
« saw it he said: “You can’t fool me.
That isn’t maple sugar. Maple sugar is
.always black. ” She chopped off a cor
ner and told him to sample it. He de
clared he had never seen maple sugar
before and wanted the lady to write
and order him 100 pounds. The sugar
was shipped, cash received, and one
man learned that maple sugar, in order
to be genuine, need not be black as a
stovepipe.—Country Gentleman.
MEDITERRANEAN RENTS.
Highest at Gibraltar and Lowest on the
Island of Malta.
In no place on the surface of the globe
is rent so high as at Gibraltar, the rea
son being that the geographical posi-.
tion of the town precludes the possibil
ity of its extended in any direc
tion. A long, narrow strip of what was
once seabeach is alone available for
building purposes. All the rest is pre
cipitous rock.
Upon this narrow parapet, in some
cases less than 100 yards in width, are
crowded the homes of 25,000 people.
As much as $lO a week is asked and
obtained for the use of ono small room,
and this, too, in a place" wh<sre the nor
mal rate of wages is quite 10 per cent
less than in America. Naturally the
overcrowding is fearful, and, the water
supply being scarce and intermittent,
cleanliness of living as wo understand
it is almost impossible.
No wonder that in the old days the
plague and the cholera ravaged the
“rock” with a virulence unknown in
the filthy and pestilential cities of the
far east.
In Malta, on the other hand, house
rent is ridiculously cheap. Anywhere
■ outside of Valetta an excellent seven
room house can be had for sls a year,
while rates and taxes are unknown.
The houses are built entirely of the
■cream colored stone of which the island
is composed, and which is so soft that
it can be cut with a saw into blocks or
slabs of any desired size or shape. So
' while the Maltese builder is digging up
his foundation he is at the same time
getting out the material for his walls,
his flooring and’ his roof.—Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Auburndale.
“Until'a few years ago a little Wis
consin hamlet was known simply as
Hog Back, from the peculiar shape of a
hill near there,” said a Milwaukee
drummer. “Finally the citizens held
an indignation meeting to wipe out the
plebeian name and choose a better one.
It was decided to honor the place by
giving it the name of the oldest settler,
a man named King. Somebody suggest
ed‘King’s Mills’and another‘Kings
ville, ’ and so on, but the old man him
self objected. Then it was agreed to
name the town for one of Mr. King’s
daughters, but he had seven of them,
and jealousies promptly cropped out
At last some genius noticed that all the
girls were redheaded and suggested
‘Auburndale. ’ And Auburndale it is to
this day.”—Troy Times.
The Boaster Taken Down.
A silly youth was bragging of his
great friends in a mixed company, in
which Douglas Jerrold was present, and
said that he had dined three times at
Devonshire Housp and never saw any
fish at table. “I can’t account for it,”
he added. “I can, ” said Jerrold. “They
ate it all up stairs. ”
OLD TIME FLYCATCHING.
Primitive Method of Getting Rid of the
Troublesome Pct*.
Newton M. Wilson, living one mile
east of town, says a Scottsburg (Ind.)
oommunication, has hanging in his bam
an interesting keepsake in the shape of
a flycatcher. It is not so curious in it
d ,ls as it is in showing the primitive
methods resorted to by the farmers in
early days to rid themselves of flies. It
is simply two smooth walnut boards,
perhaps 30 by 12 inches, beveled at one
end and fastened together by two whang
cords strung through matched holes.
In the antebellum days people never
thought of keeping flies out of the
house; the problem was to dispose of
them as they swarmed through the
rooms, making life miserable generally.
In fact, the use of' netting to prevent
their ingress is of comparatively recent
origin, the invention of this.much need
ed article dating back only 15 or 20
years.
As everybody knows, flies are excep
tionally thick in farmhouses, even
where screens are used, and when they
are not they are almost intolerable. In
the olden days the method most com
monly employed in the country to de
stroy the troublesome fly was the use of
such instruments as the one described
above. The boards were beveled and
hung in such manner that by their
weight they separated at‘the bottom,
and thus hung in an inverted V shape.
To attract the flics they were smeared
with molasses on the inner surface.
Thus prepared, they were suspended
in convenient places about the house—
in kitchen, hallway, porch, which gen
erally served as the summer dining
place, and especially in passageways.
It was a common duty of every member
of the household when passing one of
those catchers to clap the boards togeth
er, thus mashing the flies which had
collected thereon. The cook clapped
them in the kitchen, the hands as they
passed to and from the house at meal
times did likewise, the whole household
clapped them together hundreds of times
a day, and thousands of pestiferous flies
met their doom.—St; Louis Republic.
TIP MARKS ON TRUNKS.
The Luggage Signals Used by Hotel Em
ployees Abroad.
Travelers whom every day brings
back from the continent say that this
season, more than ever, gives plentiful
example of the Freemasonry which ex
ists among continental hotel employees.
Usually on board tho boats from Calais,
Boulogne and Ostend notes are compared
by tourists who have covered the same
ground and followed the same itinerary.
The results are significant of “eye open
ing. ” Some such colloquy as the fol
lowing is often overheard:
“My box and two portmanteaus were
smashed fearfully by that villain of a
porter at the Hotel des Bains, Villavilla,
and my wife and I could get no attend
ance. ’ ’
“That is curious, for we were treated
by all the servants most beautifully.
May I ask you a question? Did you tip
the servants properly at the previous
place, Hotel de Luxe, Lucerne?”
“No; I confess it was an oversight,
but what has that to do with the Villa
villa hotel?”
‘ ‘ Everything. Look at the hotel labels
on your luggage. All on lower right
hand corner. That implies that you are
mean and illiberal. Now look at mine.
All tho labels in the upper left hand
corner. Thai signifies liberality—treat
this person well —encourage him—your
politeness will be rewarded. My friend’s
bag here has a label stuck right in the
middle, and that means, ‘A good fellow
—will tip, but very exacting—not easi
ly pleased. ’ ” —London Mail.
Tired Locomotives.
' Locomotives, like human beings, have
their ailments, many of which defy the
skill of those deputed to look after
them, says the Toronto Mail. We hear
of tired razors, a simple complaint
which vanishes after a brief period of
repose, but locomotives are apt to be
tray indisposition even after a day’s
rest and much oiling of the various
parts.
Two good engines may bo made on
the most approved principle. They may
each cost—as those of the London and
Northwestern railway do —£2,200, and
yet one will exhibit from the first a
hardihood of constitution altogether
wanting in its companion. A first class
locomotive of 300 horsepower, costing
£2,000, is expected to travel during its
life 200,000 miles, or, say, 13,000 miles
per annum for 15 years, yet now and
then an engine is found so impervious
to the assaults of time as to be able in
its old age to do its daily work with all
the zest and vigor of a youngster.
An Ancient Prayer.
Old John Ward, who was pilloried
by Pope in the “Dunciad,” and who
actually stood in the pillory in the year
1727, when he was said to have been
worth £200,000, was, nevertheless, a
pious man. He had large estates in
London and Essex and did not omit to
pray for their welfare in the following
manner: “O Lord, I beseech thee to
preserve the two counties of Middlesex
and Essex from fire and earthquake,
and as I have a mortgage in Hertford
shire I beg of thee likewise to have an
eye of compassion on that county, and
for the rest of the counties deal with
them as thou pleasest!”—Household
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Unworthy.
“That man Davis is clearly not fit to
be a father. ”
. “Why?”
“His child is a week and a half old,
and he hasn’t expressed the belief that
it recognizes him. ’’—Chicago News.
Glass bricks are made extensively in
Germany. They are blown with a hol
low center, containing rarefied air. and
they are sai<J to be as strong and dura
ble as clay bricks. They freely admit
light
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GEM SCULPTURE.
Something About the Making of Comooc
and Intaglio*.
Gem sculpture, or lithoglyptics, is
an art of great antiquity, having been
practiced by the Babylonians, the Egyp
tians, the Hebrews and the Greeks.
'Afterward it sank into decadence, but
in the fifteenth century was revived in
Italy. It is an art that calls for great
elegance of taste and much skill, for on
a small stone, generally precious, de
signs are represented either in raised
work, as cameos, or by being cut Lelow
the surface, as intaglios
To cameos the term “minute sculp
ture” is indeed applicable, for since
the days cf Greek art celebrated statues
have been copied in .this way. The first
intaglios were the scarabs, or beetle
shaped signets, worn in rings by the
Egyptians from a very remote period.
One side of the stone was shaped like a
beetle, the other side was flat, and the
name of the king or wearer was cut in
to it. A hole was then drilled in the
stone from end to end, and through it a
strong wire was passed to hold it in
position in a ring. The flat or seal side
was always worn next to the finger, but
when used as a seal it was turned.
In the art cf gem sculpture the
-Greeks excelled all predecessors The
Etruscans, contemporary with the
Greeks, also attained excellence in gem
cutting, and it is said that “on these
early gems of Etruscan or Greek origin
may be read as in a book the forms of
their religion and the subjects of popu
lar interest in politics', tc-g and fable
tor centuries "
Under Augustus gem sculpture flour
ished among the Romans, many of them
possessing cameos and intaglios of great
value, ana cabinets of costly gems be
came numerous It Is said that Caesar
sent sis cabinets of rare gems to the' 4
temple of Venus
There are many fine cameos and in
taglios in the British museum Among
the finest ot them accessible to the pub
lic are the "Cupid and Geese” intaglio,
the "Dying Amazon,” the "Laughing
Fawn,” "Bacchus” on red jasper, and
the "Julius Caesar” of Dioscurides. In
modern times gem sculpture has reached
a high state of perfection and beauty.
—Philadelphia Times. »
THE FUNCTION OF ETHER.
Without It There Would Be No Light,
Radiant Heat or Magnetism.
“Whatever difficulties we may have
in forming a consistent idea of the con
stitution of the ether, there can be no
doubt that the interplanetary and inter
stellar spaces are not empty, but are oc
cupied by a material substance or body
which is certainly the largest and prob
ably tho most uniform body of which
we have any knowledge. ”
Such was the verdict pronounced
some 20 years ago by James Clerk
Maxwell, ono of the very greatest of
nineteenth century physicists, regard
ing the existence of an all pervading
plenum in the universe in.which every
particle of tangible matter is immersed.
And this verdict may be said to express
the attitude of the entire philosophical
world of cur day. Without exception
the authoritative physicists of our time
accept this plenum as a verity and rea
son about itwith something of the same
confidence they manifest in speaking of
“ponderable” matter or of energy. It is
true there are those among them who
are disposed to deny that this all per
vading plenum merits the name of mat
ter, but that it is a something, and a
vastly important something at that, all
are agreed. Without it, they allege, we
should know nothing of light, of radiant
heat, cf electricity or magnetism. With
out it there would probably be no such
thing as gravitation—nay, they even
hint that without this strange some
thing, ether, there would be no such
thing as matter in the universe. If these
contentions of the modern physicist are
justified, then this intangible ether is
incomparably the most important as
well as the “largest and most unifofm
substance or body” in the universe. Its
discovery may well be looked upon as
the most important feat of our century.
—Henry Smith Williams, M. D., in
Harper’s Magazine.
A Good Story of Sheridan.
Sheridan once had occasion to call at
a hairdresser’s to order a wig. On be
ing measured, the barber, who was a
liberal soul, invited the crater to take
some refreshment in an inner room.
Here he regaled him with a bottle of
port and showed so much hospitality
that Sheridan’s heart was touched.
When they rose from the table and
were about separating, the latter, look
ing the barber full in the face, said,
“On reflecting, I don’t intend that you
shall make my wig. ”
Astonished and with a blank visage,
the other exclaimed: “Good heavens,
Mr. Sheridan! How can I have dis
pensed you?”
“Why, look you,’’ said Sheridan,
“you are an honest fellow, and, I re
peat it, you shan’t make my wig, for I
never intended to pay for it. go to
another less worthy sen of the craft.”
—Liverpool Mercury.
’ Spoiled Pleasure.
Mrs. Meyer—What’s the trouble, Mrs.
Schulz? You are in bad humor this
morning.
Mrs. Schulz—You see, my husband
staid at the club every night last week
until after midnight. Last night I sat
up, determined to give him a curtain
lecture, when he gofein late. And what
do you think? Tho fool came home at
9 o’clock.—Fliegende Blatter.
Apoplexy has in England
in a very remarkable degree since 1850.
In the 16 years ending with 1866 there
were 457 deaths from apoplexy per
1,000,000 inhabitants. Last year the
ratio was 577 per 1,000,000.
The eruption of Etna has entirely de
stroyed the chestnut woods on the
mountain slopes, the trees being devas
tated by the lava.
A WINTER’S TALE.
An Individual Who la Kot a Klondike?
Tolls a Story.
L- “I’ve been hearing a great deal about
tho oold weather that will drop down on
Klondike mighty soon now,” remarked a
western editor tri Washington on business
of his own, “and I am sure they are going
to have a dreadful time of it, some of
them, before the spring freshets, but I am
*lll*o not n man among them will have a
sadder experience with the cold than I did
in tho winter of 1870. I was a printer in
St. Louis in the spring of that year, with
a little experience in editing a paper, and
there was a chance for me to go to a new
mining town that started up about B 0
miles from Denver and start a paper, or,
rather, keep the one going that had boon
started there by tho chap who wanted mo
to come out and join him.
“There was adventure in it, and I was
younger then than lam how. So it was
that in May I was tho editor in chief of
The Blue Gulch Gazette, n weekly journal
of civilization, as we proudly announced
In our motto lin& We did nicely all that
summer, and I enjoyed it, though I was
told it wasn’t so pleasant climatically in
winter. One of tho attractions of tho
office was a ‘devil’ that we bad got from
the newsboy gang in St. Louis, and ho
was the sharpest and brightest little cuss
in the state of Colorado. Ho was about 14
years old, and he wouldn’t weigh over 50
pounds, but he was all nerve and muscle.
“Well, the first snowfall wn/in October
early, and the weather whacked around to
all points of the compass for the next six
weeks. Then it settled steady, and the
week before Christmas it looked as if we
were going to have a nice holiday week,
but wo were doomed to disappointment, for
three nights before the day the snow be
gan falling and a terrific blizzard swept
up through tho high walled valley in
which our town was located. Thirty-six
hours later, when we got up in the morn
ing, the town was snowed under, apd
there whs no getting around at all. I sent
r Snips out to see if he could bore through,
and he came back in half an hour with
something hot for us to eat, Snips and I
occupying a back room in the office and
boarding around. Ho told mo he had seen
two or three ppople at the restaurant who
had burrowed through a block or two, as
the snow was light, but how deep it was
none of them knew, as it was above the
roofs of the two story houses, tho highest
we had.
“Then a brilliant idea came to Snips.
“ ‘There’s our smokestack, major,’ he
said. ‘lt’s 47 feet by the measure and just
about the size for me to pull myself up
through by them wires inside of it, just
like I did when we fixed that guy. Let
me swarm up to the top of it and see
where the snow comes to. I can do it
easy.’
“Well, gents,” concluded the western
editor, “I lot him go, and he never came
back. I guess he must have fallen oft of
the top some way and got smothered in
the snow or frozen to death or something.
Anyway, when tho snow thawed down in
a rain that followed in a couple of weeks,
we found the poor little fellow in the pure
white snow and as black as the aoo of
spades from the soot that he had got on
himself climbing up iu that smokestack.’’
—Washington Star.
Tu.-klsh Artillery.
Artillery, which was very numerous,
was excellently horded and gunned, but
poorly trained. Six cannon, 80 men and
60 horses were the complement of a bat
tery. The guns were 1% centimeters (3
inch) Krupp-Manteli, all in first class con
dition, cased and clean, the limbers and
gun carriages ot the ordinary pattern.
Tho shell weighed 12 and the shrapnel 14
pounds, fired by time or percussion fuses.
The horses were for the most part from
Russia or Hungary and ran bigger than
those of the cavalry. The men, recruited
from all parts of the empire, did the man
ual part of their work well, but there was
very little technical skill, and a battery
had rarely more than one trained artillery
officer. Three batteries of horse artillery
armed with nine pounders were attached
to the cavalry division. These, however,
were short of spare horses, so the gunners
sat on the limbers and carriages. Accord
ingly the speed was not very greht. There
were also three batteries of mountain guns
on mules, first class weapons, but the gun
ners very slow. Eighteen howitzers cams
up to Serflje, butwero never .brought any
farther, as there whs no need for them.
Taking it all round, the artillery, un
like the cavalry, was a very strong arm,
but like the cavalry it was never made
sufficient use of—the best work being done
by tho corps artillery, which acted under
the orders of Riza Pasha, who frequently
used to borrow divisional batteries when
he had need of them.—“ With the Turkish
Army In Thessaly,” by Clive Bigham.
Charles A. Dana.
Charles A. Dana, the editor of the New
York Sun, is on the high road to complete
recovery from his recent severe illness,
which was the result of overwork on his
return from Russia. He is now 78, and
his father lived to the age of 87. All his
life Mr. Dana has taken intelligent care of
his health, exercising and living well, but,
on plain and wholesome food. When he 1
lived in New York, over 20 years ago, he
used to visit an up town riding academy at
very early hours, even before daylight In
winter time, when he could have the arena
altogether to himself, and ride furiously
until he had tired three or four horses in
succession. He would jump oft a horse
going at full speed, run alongside and leap
into the saddle again like a circus per
former, and could even stand upon the
saddle while going at a gallop, and at that
time he must have been at least 60 years
old.—San Francisco Argonaut. .
Hia Answer.
A New Orleans man who wanted to be
a policeman and made preparation for the
civil service examination found that he
had studied along the wrong lines. He
determined to make use of his newly ac
quired knowledge, however, when he
came to a question that struck him as
absurd. The question was, “If a bullet is
dropped in a well and it takes five seconds
for it so strike the water, how far is it
from the top of the well to the surface of
the water?” The candidate answered:
“Heathen mythology says that when Jupi
ter kicked Vulcan out of heaven it took
him 47 days and 9 nights to fall. If so,
how far is heaven from Kosciusko, Miss. f”
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▲ Sensible Policeman. * ?
A St. Louis policeman, who had a war
rant of arrest against a woman for alleged
assault and battery, refused to imprison
her when he found it was directed against
a lady in the eighty-sixth year of her age.
He took her to a friend’s bouse and secured
b.iil for her, and the prosecuting attorney,
when told that she was too old and feeble
to assault an} body, Mid he would revoke
the warrant--Exchange.
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