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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 Words. - r 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 w - —» - ~ ■■■ 1111 ' M * ’ * 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” —Exchange. . - ▲ 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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