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TESTNG FIRE CLAY.
The Moat Praotioal Method te to Lit*
orally Eat It.
Fire clay haB been In use for cen
turies, and yet 1 believe the industry
la one which lacks definite laws more
than any other, including those which
are either modern or ancient and of
less prominence. You can go to a
manufacturer of steel and specify
what you want by uctual figures or
statements and you can check the prod
uct by chemical analysis or tnechunlcal
tests and thus make sure yop get what
you need. The producer knows how to
combine certain elements and what
quantities of various kinds to combine
In order to get a result at least very
closely approaching what you call for,
but not so In the fire cluy business. In
the past the most skilled and highest
salaried chemists have been employed
to make tests, to promote and carry
through Investigations on the natural
product and to study the workings of
certain manufactured and elaborated
articles derived therefrom. The result
has been, generally speaking, confusion
worse confounded. Two professor?,
working at similar times on brick or
clay obtained from the same source
and manufactured under exactly equal
conditions, have recorded diametrically
opposed conclusions! The same scien
tists at different periods have reached
vastly varying conclusions when test
ing Identical qualities and shapes of
bricks, bo can you wonder If a promi
nent fire clay manufacturer should ex-
claim, as 1 heard one on an occasion
after having the above experience.
m a11 tests of fire clay ure empirical, and
I would sooner trust our superintend
ent to pick and select Ills clays In the
old fashioned way than pay a high fee
for a highbrow's recommendations?"
The chief method of testing fire clay
by a practical man is literally to eat
It. He can detect grit and sand best
by that method, and a good fire clay
(free from silica, quartzite or flint
clay) Is free from grit. His only other
personal test Is by experiment.—En
gineering Magazine.
HUNTING
THE WALRUS.
The Eskimo Takas Advantage of tha
Animal’s Curiosity.
In his frail sklnboat it Is a difficult
and dangerous task for the Eskimo to
go out to sea forty to ylxty miles and
Intercept the walrus as he passes on
hlB migration Into the Arctic.
One carcass will fill his boat, for it
weighs from 1,000 to 3,000 pounds.
He hunts the walrus when they are
lying asleep on the Ice floes In herds
from ten to several hundred. Death
must bo Instantaneous, else with a few
rolls or the peculiar lumbering, hump
ing movement (seen of the seal when
ashore), he makes the few feet to the
water and then Is lost, ns he has not
sufficient blubber and air to float He
has much natural curiosity, aud If not
scared by shpts will come up close to
your boat or the Ice floe on which you
are slttlug, spurting, snorting and roll
ing his eyes; with his gleaming tusks
and bristled snout he hus_an uncanny,
goblin, monster-like appearance. A
herd of fifty or sixty of them will come
up en masse, rulse high out of the
water to stare at you, then snort,
spurt and disappear again, only to
come up on the snme spot and repent
the maneuver Indefinitely. Taking
advantage of this the Eskimos hide be
hind Ice hummocks and throw a har
poon Into one, then snub the tough
rawhide line around an Ice cake. He
must perforce come up to blow, and he
Is then killed with the rifle. The thick
skin and the mass of blubber and meat
beneath render him almost invulner
able.—Pacific Monthly.
W. T.
Cairo,
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A CHINESE BANQUET.
Culinary Mysteries That Bewildered
an Englishwoman.
One moment we were eating ducks*
eggs whose blackened, lime ■ flavored
whites Indicated that their age was
unimpeachable; the next we were grap
pling with sea weeds, mucaronl and
the slippery sharks* fins that eluded
our clumsily manipulated sticks. Now
wo tackled—not without fear—un
known meats aud vegetables cooked In
sugar, fresh shrimps, mushrooms from
Mongolia, young bumboo sprouts, pi
geons' eggs and a hundred different
foreign tasting messes. - Then clean
plates were given to us, and bowls of
sickly pink sirup, sweet potato and
Indian corn cakes of dusky hue were
set before each one. These were only
crevice fillers and concluded the first
and lighter portion of the repast. Now
came the real substantial meal, where
in every dish had an accompaulment
of smaller ones, containing gravies,
etc.; In , which to dip the morsel taken
from the central bowl.
There was stewed duck cooked with
out salt, roast sucking pig, forcemeat
balls and chicken; there were soups of
birds' nest, of mushroom, of vegetables
and of sea slugs. There was'grilled
fresh water fish? which, according to
custom, was helped from the top side
only, for the Chinese remembers his
servant. And, finally, at the conclu
sion the Inevitable small bowl of rice
and rice water was set before each
person.
After some three hours, with a feel
,g of thankfulness that all was over,
pes, cigarettes and ten were served,
nd it seemed to me that the delicious
aroma which rose from the latter
soothed our senses and almost dis
pelled the antipathy that had been
growing on us for all things Chinese.—
Mary Moore In London Express.
Tho K'md Needed.
••Dear me,” snld the first young wo
man, taking her initial lesson In golf,
“what shall 1 do now? This ball is In
a holef’
“Well, let me see,” said her compan
Ion, rapidly turning the leaves of
book of Instructions. “I presume you
will have to take a stick of the right
shape to. get it out.”
“Oh, yes; of course,” was the some
what cynical reply. “Well, see If you
can find one shaped like a dustpan and
brush.”—New York Tribune.
Kissing In Iceland.
Among old time laws against kissing
those of Iceland appear to have been
thd-most severe. Banishment was the
penalty laid down for kissing another
man’s wife, either with or without het
consent The Bnme punishment was
enforced for kissing an unmarried wo
man against her will; If It could be
proved that she had consented to be
kissed the offender was still liable to
a fine of a great quantity a* clotb for
each offense.
My Breeding Stock is the Best.
have for sale now some
choice cockerels and pul
lets about 5 months old.
Eggs in Season.
MAKE THEM LAUGH.
A Bachelor’s Idea of the Way Chltdran
Should Be Trained.
•The people who don't have to do
things can always do them better than
the people who are obliged to do
them,” said the cynical bachelor. "If
you want to know how to Invest
money, ask a fellow who has never
had any to Invest. 1 suppose It’s the
Bame with raising children. Neverthe
less, I am fond of children, and never
having had an opportunity of raising
any of my own, I am critical about the
way other people, more fortunate than
raise theirs.
“My brother has a youngster, a boy
about six years old, and everything
that kid wants he cries for. The min
ute he begins to cry he gets It, which
according to my reasoning, Is all
wrong.
’Why not moke him laugh for It?
It’s just ns easy for a child to laugh as
to cry, and It’s far more healthful, be
sides being much more cheerful for
ihfi;9urrpundlDg .populace. . ,
“I've tried the experiment with film.
CRAWFORD,
- - - - Georgia.
Breeder of
Mammoth Light Brahmas
and White Wyandottes.
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styles and highest grade papers have just heen in
stalled in our Job Department.
and It works like a charm. If 1 hap
ppn to hnve anything he wants, and he
cries for It, I 'make fun of him. 'That
Isn’t the way to get it,’ I say. 'Don'
cry for It. Laugh for It.’
“It took only about two lessons for
him to understand this, and you. have
no Idea what a wonderful difference It
has made in the disposition of that kid.
Still, I’m only an old bachelor, and I’m
not supposed to know anything about,
uitrh thtnirs.”—Phllndolnhln IjMtgpr.
Took an .Unfair Advantage.
Mrs. Dorkins — Yesterday I called]
Mrs. Grundage’s attention to the feci
that she had left the gate between oui
back yards open and that her chickem
bad come through and scratched up
our flower beds, and she looked as If
she would have liked to bite my head 1
off. How foolish it Is for people to'
get angry when you remind them that
they have heen careless about some
thing they had no business to over
look!
Mr. Dorkins—I am glad to bear you
say that. Maria. You won’t mind if I
mention that when 1 came home iuSt
night I found that you’d left both the
back doors Unlocked.
Mrs. Dorkins — Yes; you’re always
watching to see If you can’t catch me
In some little fault, aud it makes you
perfectly happy when you do!—New
York Tribune.
inting costs but little more than
irk, and is much more satisfactory
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The Start of an Author.
Soon after “Treasure Island” hag-ap-
pearod and attracted public attention
to Robert Louis Stevenson, two gen
tlemen were traveling up to London
from Norfolk. One of them was read
ing “Treasure Island." Presently, pav
ing finished the book, he dropped It
Into his traveling bag, remarking:
“Well, I f think I could myself write
a better child's story than that." The
other, who, by the way, was his broth
er. urged him to try. Six weeks aft
erward the former handed to the lat
ter a complete tale in manuscript. It
was “King Solomon’s Mines.” the first
novel that made a reputation for Mr.
Rider Haggard.
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Wife—WUtafa^earTttint hand
some men or® proverbially disagree*
able? Husband-Well. 1 don’t know.
1 always try to be plwwhul.
The Phrenological Test.
A distinguished phrenologist while
dining at a hotel stated at the table
that he had formed an opinion of the
character of each one present. An
Irishman sold that he would propound
a question and that If It was truthful
ly answered he would forever believe
In phrenology. The phrenologist said
he was satisfied and told him to pro
ceed. "Thin," said the Irishman, “will
ye* be nftber tellln’ me am I married
or single?"-London Tolncronl*
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