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TALK WITH A TAMER.
How Wild Animals are
Brought Under Subjugation.
An Occupation of Extrema Danger and
Requiring Groat Nerve.
“Do you meau to say, Mr. Atherton,”
asked a London Pall MM Ornette repor¬
ters of the lion tamer, “that if I were
to bring you to-morrow a man-eating
tiger just fresh brought over from an
Indiau jungle, that you would undertake
to train it to leap through hoops and over
whips, and to ki-s you, and all the rest
of it, in two months ?”
“In two months from the timo that
the animal was delivered to me I would
be able to put him through the perform¬
ance which you say. There is nothing
which you cannot do with animals if
they have got intellect and you have got
patience.”
“But is it not frightfully dangerous?’-
“Dangerous? Yes, if you have not
nerve, and do not know how to handle
an animal; but if you have nerve and
keep your eye on his, and go the right
way about it, you never need fear any¬
thing. I would not hesitate to enter the
room in which the wildest animal ever
brought to this country was at large. I
have again and again entered a cage in
which a lion or tiger has been unchained
which had never been broken in before.
A wild animal that has not been broken
for the show business never flies at you.
When vou enter the cage it will show its
teeth and growl, and, perhaps, strike at
you with its claws; but if you keep your
eye upon it and take care that it docs
not attack you from behind you are safe.
Nodoubt it will claw you, as these chee-
tahs clawed me many times; but here is
a wrinkle if ever you happen to be tete-
a-tetc with a cheetah or any animal of
the cat tribe: When you are clawed, and
vou feel the animal’s hooked talons enter
your flesh, don’t jump back, but go for-
ward. If you jump back the claw tears
away the flesh; whereas if you go for-
ward thc animal’s claws only make a
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“How do you explain the fact that
these ferocious carnivora do not spring
at you in a room as they would spring at
you in a jungle?”
“Well, in the first case, most wild ani-
mals arc bred in caytivity, and as much
accustomed to the sight of a man as a
dog or a cat. But take the case of a wild
tiger trapped in a jungle. Well, the tiger
is ferocious chiefly whon the tiger is
hungry. If a man lias got a full-grown
tiger and sends it home from India, he
is not such a fool as to allow the tiger to
go fasting all the way. The tiger is a
marketable commodity, which will fetch
£150 in the market. If you have got
£150 in an animal, you take care it docs
not want its dinner. On tho contrary,
you will give it as much as it will
eat, in order to improve its
condition so that it will fetch a bettor
price. The consequence is by the time
the tiger has arrived in London from
Calcutta he has g it fat and lazy. He
gets his meals regular, and has no dispo-
sition to make a meal off you; henoe you
can approach him, and if you are patient
and study him and humor him and bo
firm with him and never take your eye off
his or let your back be turned, you can
do what you like with him. Animals
are all alike; there is no animals so fero-
cious but can be overcome by kindness
and patience.”
“How is it that every now and then
you hear of a lion tamer being killed?”
“Drink, sir,” said Mr. Atherton,
drink. The performer gets a glass too
much some day; enters thc cage; fails
to.see that the floor is wet and slippery;
he makes a false step and is down on his
back before he knows where he is.
The lion or tiger, as the case may be, is
on his chest; and then good-by. As
long as you are erect, have your senses
about you and keep your nerve, you may
do anything xvith the beast; but if once
your nerve is shaken, your eye unsteady,
and you slip, the game is up.”
The Throe-toed Horse.
Prof. Marsh has illustrated the gradual
changes of the horse family from thc
three or four-toed eoliippus of the eocene
basin of Green river to oguus of the
quaternary and recent. Between these
the fossil rema’ns of about forty species
have been discovered, ranging from the
size of a fox to a much larger animal than
now exists. If classic history can be
trusted, specimens of the ho se xvith
three or five toes have been known in
comparatively modern times. In the life
of Julius Caesar, by Sutanius, occurs the
following paragraph concerning his fa¬
mous horse: “He rode a very remarkable
horse—with feet almost like those of a
man, the hoofs being divided in such a
manner as to have some resemblance to
toes. This horse he had bred himself,
and the soothsayers having interpreted
these circumstances into an omen that
its owner would be master of the world,
he brought him up xvith particular care
and broke him in himself, as the horse
would suffer no one else to mount him.
A statue of this horse xvas afterward
erected by Cmsur’s order before the tem¬
ple of Venus Genitrix .”—Pacific Science
Monthly.
Knew the Fen lie Wanted.
A serious looking young man went
Into a book store and called for some
pens. After he had spent much time in
examin.ng them the store keeper said:
“Is there any particular pen you
wish?”
“Yes, but I don’t know that I’d know
it if I were to sec it.”
“Do you know the name?
“Yes, I think so,” taking a newspaper
clipping out of his pi cket aid scanning
it. “Tliis says that Col. Baxter always
writes w.th a trenchant pen, so let me
see some trenchant pens, please.”-i~Ar-
kansaw Traveler.
FOR THE FARM AND IIOWE.
llrmeily for Scour* In a Calf.
Scours, or diarrhea is always caused by
indigestion. This disorder in yonng
calves is almost always produced by over¬
feeding. The milk given to a calf should
always be sweet ; sour milk is injurious,
ns may be known by the horrible smell of
the excrements of the buttermllk-fed
calves. One does not realize how much
the future health and thrift of animals
depend upon the manner in which they
are fed when young. But this is true
and should ba considered. Calves
should have no more than three quarts
of milk at a meal until they are two
months old, when four or five quarts may
be given. Warmed skimmed milk is cx-
ccllent and wholesome food for calves.
When from oversight or neglect a calf
becomes scoured the best remedy is one
quart of new milk warmed, with an egg
beatca up in it, and given every three
hours. When meal is given to calves
it should not be mixed with the milk,
but given dry so that it is eaten, and not
given at all until the calf is a month old
and will lick a little from the hand first.
New York Times.
slop* for tue l
During the spring and early summer,
:nan y farmers tiud 5t <lifficult to secure
the “eeessary slops for their growing
P 1 * 9 ’ On account of the demand, mill
feed is usuall y hi * h a,,d 9carce - and the
bran is cut 80 cloie that U wil1 sc:,rcel >'
color wntcr whon 80aked over ni 8 ht ’
Nevertheless, bran contains the desired
P ro P ertios for the pigs, but it lacks body,
Mix oil mea ' ( ohl P rocess > w,th thc hran '
one P ound t0 four or ,ive - antl when fced -
in « P ut t0 8oak tlle re, P ,irefl 1 uantit y to
make a fecd ’ In other words ’ fced out
each timc what y ou have P re P ared ’ alld
P ut to soak enough for next feed. Add
to this the skim milk and kitchon S,0 P 8 ’
and nothin S outsidc of milk wil1 bfiat
Fecd this durin S tho 8ummer and fal1 ’
and y ou have a frn,ne and constitution
to **imilate corn. If fed corn all su.n-
mcr > when thn new cr0 P comc * the y are
P artial .'y ,mrned out ’ and if disoasc is in
the neighborhood they too easily fall a
P r ”y‘ oit - Thrift is what we want, and
P orfect health to resist the P revalcnt <1h '
ease ’ Push the P«» and scl1 y 0 ’ 1 "*
thereb y rcduc ing the chances of loss.
When there are three crops of pigs on
tbe farm - and tbo P ,a S" e catches
tbc raort ^c thc farm is not lifted.-
^ ur Country Horn,..
Amount of Seed Per Acre.
When a single grain plant has plenty
of room ami rich soil, it will often tiller
so surprisingly as to astonish any one
who sees it. We have seen occasional
oat plants in corn or barley, where twen¬
ty or raorc stalks, each bearing its pani¬
cle of grain, came evidently fiom a single
seed. Farmers who make a practice of
sowing a bushel and a half of oafs, or
one bushel of wheat per acre, get as good
crops as those who sow twice as mueu.
Yet other farmers who have sown a larger
quantity find their crops diminishe l when
they suddenly reduce it. This suggests
the idea that the tendency to tiller in
grain is partly hercidtarv, and seed from
grain in which the habit was w 41 os-
tablished should bo much more prolific
than that continusouslv grown from thick
seeding. It may be indeed that we shall
yet grow seed grain in hills, giving each
plant abundance of room, and then sow-
ing the seed thus grown in the usual man-
ner, only a les3 heavily per acre. Sup¬
pose, for example, that Indian corn had
always been grown by broaden-1 seeding,
and that we depended for seed on chance
nubbins of ears grown by this method.
Would not the plan of growing see l corn
in hill be regarded as au immense im¬
provement. Who cun say that an equal
gain is not to be mule in wheat seed by
a like change iu method of growing ?—
Cultivator.
Celery Culture.
Of late years the culture of celery has
peeome greatly simplified, so that now
every farmer may have at least a suf¬
ficient crop for home consumption with
no more trouble than is experienced in
many other vegetables. The plants
started fi'om seed sown in April and May
in the open ground, are transplanted in
June and July. Small gr iwcrs do well
to buy their plants, taking care to secur:
stocky one and refuse tall, spindling
specimens.
Celery is often groxvn as a second crop
after an early crop of onions, cabbages,
and the like; this is a good plan, for
then the land is already rich enough for
the celery. In this section the plants are
transplanted in June or July. Plough
and harrow thc groan 1, xvork off in rows
threefeet apart, and set the plant six
inches apart in the row. Ba sure and
press the soil firmly about the plants.
This compacting of the soil is always
necessary; and especially so if the
weather be dry at the time of transplant¬
ing,
The celery ones planted, there is little
to do from six to eight weeks except
running between the rows with the culti¬
vator or keep'ng the plants free from
weeds with a hoe.
In August the earthing-up process
necessary for bleaching the stocks begins.
The first operations is termed by gar¬
deners “nandling,” which moans, after
the soil has been drawn up to tho plants
with a hoe, the operator then takes his
hands and presses it still closer about
the plants, so as to keep the 1 uves in an
upright position. When autumn frosts
are imminent the soil min be banked up
with a spade .—New York I V rid.
Farm and Ciarcien IVote*.
The use of Paris green on potatoes and
other things kills many b es and insects
that are useful, and also destroys many
small birds.
A Pennsylvania fruit grower prevents
the ravages of the borer by hilling the
earth about the tree ten inches iu May,
as the Lor .r appears in June.
It is said that pyretbrum, mixed with
fire tinus its bulk of plaster, and dusted
into the centre of the leaves with a pair
of bellows, will deuroy cabbage worms.
It requires more timo to spread ma¬
nure over two acres than over one, and
hence the aim should bo to concentrate
tho labor on the smallest space that can
be made profitable.
For the best egg production in heavy
fowls oats are as good feed ns any. They
give bulk, while the nutriment they con-
tain is of the kind which goes to make
eggs rit her than fat.
Regarding the dehorning of cattle a
Western paper says that experience
teahes that tho growth of the horn can
bo Stopped by applying a red-hot iron
to the horn germ in calves.
Into a pound of soft soap dissolve one
ounce of carbolic acid crystals, and it
becomes an excellent remedy for lice on
animals when they are washed in warm
water with tho aid of the soap.
Permanent pasture lands are thc main
anchor of agriculture, and tho farmers of
this country will find this out after a
while, as thoy already have in England,
and will commence seeding their land
with permanent grasses.
The cherry is about the only fruit tree
which can be recommended for shade in
pasture along roadsides, as the hardy va-
rieties of cherries are not affected by the
tramping of stock or passing of vehicles,
which won! 1 prove injurious to most
other fruit trees.
An experienced horticulturist thus de¬
scribes his mode of planting fruit trees:
He makes holes eighteen inches deep and
threo feet in diameter fills in four inches
of strong, short horse manure, then two
or three inches of street dirt, sets the
trees and fills in with earth.
A spring of water is better than a well
for farm use, because it is always accessi¬
ble, and water from it may be conveyed
readily to other points. Then, if drain¬
age suitably regulated will support con -
slant flow, it establishes provision better
than a well for watering farm animals.
For erect growing trees the head
should be formed at about three feet
from thc ground; but spreading trees
should have the head five feet high. A
tree with a low head is less likely to be
broken down with the xvind, and the
branchcs will then be able to keep off tho
scorching rays of the sun from tho
trunks.
It is a mistake to place the roosting
poles nt different heights rising from the
front, beeause all will strive to get on
the highest one, and the weaker ones are
crowded off and frequently fall to tho
ground, only to repeat the process, or, if
injured, to remain on tho ground all
night. Place all the poles at the same
elevation
Potatoes do well on corn land that has
been manured for the corn crop. Good
sod , land , ; can also i , be used. ,i A * deep .i. „ mel- mp i
low seed bed should bo secured by deep
ploughing and thorough pulverizing.
Manure ami moisture are essentials. Old
manure can bo ploughed 1 f. in. Some of
ie cs . cl0 P i ale ra . sc V1 ...______. e re ,
i -
fertilizers. .
Professor Cook says the following mix-
ture will not only vanquish the apple tree
louse, but keep off the borers as well. It
is to heat to the boiling point one quart
of softsoap in two gallons of water, and
j while still hot thoroughly stir into the
mixture one pint of crude carbolic acid.
He thinks the best way to apply it is to
rub it on thoroughly with a heavy cloth,
using the hands also during the opera-
tion.
Household Hints*
If the oven is too hot when baking
place a small dish of cold water in it.
When sponge cake become dry it is
nice to cut in thin slices and toast.
Whitewashed walls can be papered
by first washing with vinegar to “kill”
the lime.
Iron rust cau be removed from clothes
by rubbing xvith lemou juice and laying
in the sun.
Sunshine on mirrors will injure their
lustre, therefore do not hang opposite a
door or window.
Hot alum is the best insect dcstoyer
known. Put it in hot water and let it
boil until all the alum is dissolved. Ap-
; p i y hot, with a brush, and all creeping
things are instantly destroyed.
Reecipes.
Boiled Salt Mackerel. —Soak, boil,
lay on a platter, and pour over a cream
g rav y-
To Prepare Crumbs for Fish.— Dry
tiie bread iu the oven, roll, and sift;
| will keep nice for a month,
Roast Land). —Sometimes the
quarter of lamb or yo ing mutton will be
found to be of strong flavor. This fault
will not be discovered until the loin chops
have been broiled. To overcome the
defect, before baking the log parboil it.
When nearly cooked remove it from the
water, dredge it with flour and bake it
until done.
A Nice Tea Disk .—Make a short,
sweetened pie crust, roll thin, and partly
bake in sheets; before it is quite done
take from the oven, cut in squares of four
inches or so, take up two diagonal cor-
ners and pinch together, which makes
them basket-shaped, now fill with
whipped cream or white of egg, or both,
well sweetened and flavored, and
to the oven for a few minutes.
Chrrot Soup .—Bod some carrots in
salted water; when thoroughly done,
drain them and pass them through a hair
sieve; mix the pulp thus obtained with
as muc h stock as will make it of the de-
j | g j re d consistency; add pepper and salt,
an d a pinch of sugar. Having melted
about an ounce of h itter, mix it with a
taidospoonful of flour, then gradually
add thc carr t puree; let it come to the
boil, skim off superfluous fat, and serve
; with dice of bread fried in butter.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE LTJUOUS.
Barkless dogs exist in Australia.
Frederick the Great fled in terror from
his first battle.
In order to count a billion, supposing
you count two hundrod a minute, it
j would take you 0513 years,
According to gastronomic authority no
' lobster is tit for food which is not at
least ten and a half inches in length,
j The national dish in Russia is mush¬
rooms. Peasants arc never without them
and they are hungup to dry in cottages
to form a greatly esteemed relish to all
sorts of dishes,
Attention is called to two races of men
w hich must soon become extinct—the
Maoris of New Zealand, now reduced to
less than 45,000, and the Laplanders,
who number 30,000.
If tho 9,000,000 soldiers of the Euro¬
pean powers were drawn up in line, the
distance from right to left would be 0000
miles, and thc reviewing officer would
require an express train for several days
to go from one end of the line to the
I other.
The skilled operator who runs the
vacuum kettles in which milk is con-
densed is governed entirely by sound,
and although to inexperienced ears the
j pan and its contents are noiseless, tho
operator can tell the exact state of tho
milk at any moment.
Angle worms, fish, etc., are often
caught up into the clouds by revolving
i storms, and then dropped again many
miles from the place where they were
they were taken up. Small fish have
often been found in puddles of water in
5 village streets, to the astonishment of
people who were unacquainted with the
phenomenon.
A common mode of manumission in
the Middle Ages was for the master to
lead the slave with a torch around tho
altar, and the earnest words of liberation
were spoken. One form uttered these
words: “For fear of Almighty God, and
for the care of my soul, I liberate thee,
and may the angel of our Lord Jesus
Christ deem me worthy of a place among
His saints.”
Rough Sport.
Every nation has its own peculiar
games, which, to a certain extent, indi-
, catc thc ruling character or disposition
of the people. A recent traveller in
Russian Central Asia thus describes a
j game i which ho witnessed near the
frontiers of China:
As approached . . _ Yany-Kurgan, r T _
we we
j saw what looke<1 id the distance like a
i company of Cossacks exercising, but on
nearer approach, proved to be a hundred
, of natlves !a thplr fav0,itc
° r more P y 1D S
, | Kok-Ban, wolf. It
game of or gray was
market day, and on such occasions,
when horsemen congregate, a gout or a
g00 * d-naturedly seized upon, 1 ’. be-
, longing . to one who , has had , . some piece
of d fortuno and the anim£ d is
kjl(ef ,_
The president of the game then takes
bls P 0Slt ... ; 0 "’ lf P 083lbIe , ’ some «*°P ,
1 or elevated place, and hands the goat to
j a horseman, who dashes down the slope
j at the risk of breaking his neck, and is
}mmediately pursuc(1 by th , (ield) each
of whom tries to snatch away the
goat before the man can bring it back to
the president.
Men of various ages ^ were on the
ground, and some had mounted their
boys before them to sec the fun, which
i was in some respects not unlike a game
of football. The race goes ou till the
j | carcass is torn in pieces, whereupon it
I j , ‘goes to pot, ” and is boiled for a feast,
i Then the company is ready to seize
another goat and commence ag «in.
! ---- ~ —“—=
How Horses are Trained.
In an interview with a trainer of hor-
ses, he said to the reporter:
“As for Rarey, thc most of his busi-
ness xvas trickery done by locusting and
loading. Horses aie awfully fond of
locusts and carrots, and they will do
almost anything for them; but loading
is the great trick.”
“What is loading?”
“Loading is slipping about an ounce
weight of lead down the ear of the hors -.
You slip a load, to xvliich a small piece
of string xvas attached, down the horse’s
ears, and no matter hoxv vicious the
beast may be it becomes dazed and
stupid when the load plugs its ears. The
horse does not understand xvhat has hap¬
pened to the world xvlien he cannot hear
well, and he becomes as docile as you
could wish. When a horse is loaded you
l can yoke him or do anything with him
- and he will not object. It is a thousand
times more merciful and far more effec-
I tive than thc horrible plan of putting a
twitch upon the ear or upon the nostril,
a practice still indulged in by tome horse
coupers. Leaden weights are made for
the purpose. Any small xveight will do,
I but it is better to have one made to fit.”
; Chicago Herald.
I
) The Difference.
“Well, I wonder xvhat you are think
I ing about noxv,” snapped Mrs. Fangio, at
j her husband bad been maintaining a
I rigid silence during a long curtain lec¬
ture.
j “I was just thinking of the difference
| betweeu a woman and an umbrella,” re-
j plied Fangle.
“And what is it?” asked his wife, very
! unwisely.
“You can shut an umbrella up.”—
Tid-Bits.
Sounds Better.
“Well, John,” said the judge to apig-
! tailed Celestial. “What can I do for
you?”
“Want to getee name changed.”
“What’s your name now?”
“Sing Sing. No goodee. Two !
muchee Aldelmnn. Gctce otan S .<l <• -
Walble Twicee.” i
“To Warble Twice?” 1
“Yep. Alice samee Sing Sir.g .”—New
York Times.
DOWN THE STREAM .
A maiden stood upon a shore,
And heard a lightly-dipping oar.
The morning light was flushing clear,
A thrash was loudly warbling near.
A boat came gliding down the stream,
With ripple soft and splash and gleam.
She ne’er had seen the youth before,
He ne’er had touched upon that shore;
But when she saw him np the stream,
Fresh from the mountain’s early gleam,
The old, old wonder-working spell
Around them both like magic foil,
And ere his boat had driftod by
A change came over wood and sky;
Tho old, familiar stream and shore
Took on a hue unknown before.
He lightly drew his boat to land,
Ho lightly reached to her his hand.
And, leaving all that they had known,
Tho two went down the slream alono.
Tho boatman's arm was good and strong,
The boatman’s oar was tough and long.
Tho maiden’s face was sweet and fair;
8ho felt no faintest fear or care.
She smiled upon her boatman true,
And said, “I trust my lifo to you."
The thruHli sang on tho bank alone;
The maiden down the stream had gone.
—EUm IP. Carey
FIREMAN STICKNEV’S NEW ARM
_
Patiently Huill np by Skin-drafting During
Aian.v Aiomhs.
Springfield, Mass.—The night of
October 17, 1884, was a remarkably dis¬
astrous one to several local railroad men.
That night the Boston and Albany train
due here at 12.30, struck a pile of rails
and ties placed on the track near Kin-
derhook, N. Y., and the forward part
of the train became a total wreck. The
engine turned on its side and plunged
into tho bank, tbe light express car
leaped over the tender on to it, and the
tender was rolled over and smashed into
it by the express car. The whole formed
a cage in which were penned Engineer
Isaac L. Davee of this city, and Fireman
Henry F. Stickney of West Springfield, their
with broken steam pipes hissing
scalding contents and hot over them. scoured
The steam water away
the sand at one edge of the .cab, and
through this opening Stickney made his
way out, and blinded, scalded, but
heedless of his own suffering, hastened
for help for Davee. When they took
hold of Davee’s hand to help him out
the flesh and skin came off in the grasp.
The poor fellow was taken out only to
die in a few minutes. Then Stickney
fcll, exhausted, and it was found how
»«. w w„„„d. in, n,b.
hand and arm were burned down to the
muscles, except a little diamond-shaped
piece of skin in the ilexture of the elbow,
and the finger nails and skin of tho
hand came on when the yarn jacket was
reU ] 0ve d. The left hand and wrist, the
face, neck and head, except the hair
j covered by his cap and his right side
j d ™ ^
j , him that night thought the arm would
j have to be amputated to second save his life,
but it was feared that the shock
; might be fatal, and his case was looked
| the a P on system 88 ratber from ^Pclcss. healing up The so drain large on a
! burned surface was dangerous, and the
cicatnces would naturally make the arm
j a deformed and useless member should
; ho recover.
Stickney rallied and wished to save
I 1 is arm if possible. Knowing that his
i family physician, Dr. U. 11. Flagg, ot in
West Springfield, had had experience him. The
i skin grafting, decided he sent for
doctor to begin as soon as pos-
sible, and believed he could save the
i arm. Some valuable time was lost
, while Stickney remained at Kinderhook,
I but when he Sprin-rfield was removed to his home
1 in W ® 8t the grafting was
carried on regularly, and replacing the
| j 03t cu ticlc was thc patient and faithful
work of six months. In that lime 248
little wedge-shaped pieces of skin were
taken from his thigh a few each morn-
befng heldln*pS by plastw until they
took root. The grafting was begun at
the hand and continued up the arm.
The back was similarly treated, and
only one graft out of the whole number
failed to grow. During oil this time about
three pints of sweet and were used daily
to keep the skin flesh in proper
condition. The arm iav (luring the pro¬
cess in a padded box suffered without ends. The
patient, of couise, a good deal,
and part of the time he was blind from
the scalding. He lost ail his hair, and
the sand driven into his face and
neck by the steam had to be slowly dug
out. Had be not protected his face and
mouth with his arm he must have
breathed tho hot steam and died, as did
’
Davee.
In ten months new veins and tissues
were formed an i a new thin skin had ;
grown over all the wounds. The arm
was much wasted, but as the new skin
grew the i atient gained strength. Just
a year and a day from the date of the
accident light task Stickney where he was did able to have take up a j
not to use
his arm much. He could write and
hold things firmly with that hand. The
arm has since gained in size and strength,
and rotation of the hand and forearm
is clench nearly naturally. perfect, The while the fingers
sk n i? nearly
normal, and only has to be oiled anil |
kept Stickney warm.
now feels able to resume a
place iu the cab, and will do so within
a week, not, however, as fireman, but as
and engineer. Albany It is the policy of the Boston
Company to promote its
firemen and Stickney’s recent experience
has as travelling been engine inspector, which he
for several months past, gives
him special fitness for the post.
His case has excited considerable in¬
terest and he has been asked bv promi¬
nent surgeons to appear befo-e their
classes as a lecture subject. Stickney
is 37 years old.
While a emeus was parading in
Kingston, Canada, recently, a xvagon
containing the a den ot lions was overturn;: 1 j
and top of the den knocked off. A
fire xx as built around the cage to keep ;
the lions in until repairs were made,
and then the wagon xvas raised by the
aid of two elephants
When we Demoralize the Stomach
By excesses or imprudence in eating, we can¬
not hope to escape the consequences for any
foolish enough to enfeebfe the stomach Vthe
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Paroxysms ot’ Sense.
“Those who use our goods are very
much attached to them, ” is what a porous-
plaster company advertises.
An Illinois man recently sneezed so
hard that he fractured one of his ribs,
lie was evidently not quite up to snuff.
Canada would be wiser to establish a
three-mile limit for American defaulters
rather than for American fishermen.
Can’t something be done to civil-eyes
the tribe of young savagss who stare at
all our pretty young ladies on our streets!
A stoky entitled “The Penniless
Maiden” has just been issued. It will
have very little interest for the modern
youth.
We see a lengthy article going the
rounds of the papers headed “How to
Manage a Wife.” We didn’t read it; no
use.
No man appreciates more tho irrosisti-
ble power of the press than the unlucky
wretch who has just got his fingers
caught in the machinery.
A yotjkg man has a scrap book con¬
taining the marriage notices of all tho
women that lie has loved, and he sits out
in the moonlight and reads it and cries.
Salicylic suet is used in the German
I army as a remedy for footsores, etc., in¬
stead of the salicylic, powder formerly
employe. It is composed acid and of ninety-eight two parts
of pure salicylic suet.
parts of the best mutton
A newly-maruied man complains of
.
(he hi f:l price of “ducks ” He says his
j wife recently paid for three of them—a
j duck of a bonnet, a duck of a dress, and
| a duck of a parasol. He says such “deal¬
| ings in poultry” will ruin him.
Standard Facts.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
j Envelopes were first used in 1839.
j Telescopes were invented in 1590.
j A square mile contains 640 acres.
i Light moves, 173,000 miles per hour.
j A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds.
A barrel of flour weighs 190 pounds.
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A firkin of butter weighs 56 pounds.
The first steel pen xvas made in 1830.
Slow rivers flow four miles per hour.
A span is ten and seven -eights inches.
A hand (horse measure) is four inches.
A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per hour.
Watches were first constructed in 1476.
Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour.
The editor of Ore Oorsdcarra, Tex, Observer,
Mr. G. P. Millar, hut.il a .never; atta-fc of rheu-
‘vatism in Mi kaef, which bo.’-xm.s -a
,, OM of sl _ Jac0& » oil, tka raiaearircWdisar-
peart Land the knee assmmjd its normal pra-
portions,
The Baltimore Herald says: The vicinity of
Niagara Falls would be a very suitable spot
for the establishment and maintenance of an
internat ional lunatic asylum just now. 'there
are enough institution barrel cranks fine in the neighborhood
to give the a start.
Summer coughs and colds generally ctme to
stay, but the use of Red Star Cough cure in
•variably drives them away. Safe, prompt,
sure.
The Rural New Yorker condemns thc prac¬
tice of Fcraping the trunks of fruit trees, as
some people do. We never heard of anj r thing
so small as that. We have known farmers so
mean that they sold off nil the fruit, leaving
none at all for tho family to eat at home.
The farmers, in tlie : r ssvamps, sro’re sure.
Could And tho roots ana plants that cure;
If by their knowledge they only know
For just the disease each oao grow.
Take courage now and ’’Swamp-Root" try—
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A. M. Vaughan, editor of (he “Greenwich Review,”
Greenwich, O., writes: “Last January I met with a
very severe accident, caused by a runaway wounds," hor.se.
I used almo t every kind of salve to heal the
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Mack (*r»y or lluck aanrty Ingham’* beards dye are for colored the whisker* brown nr
uy Ayer's Lj.
One bottle of Ague Cure will ei *"
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very few ever get out of it alive.
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Place* partioUof tho
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