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ow to Coltlratc Strawberries.
Morristown (N. J.) letter to the
York World says : “Whoa I began
' rawbcrries I tried the lazy’s man
the matted row, weed and grass
and never got reach orer sixty
of berries to the acre. With
experience I learned better, and
n not contented nnles I grow
i bushels of fine berries to the
Jly plan is to prepare my ground
1 by p’owing, subsoiling and ma-
until it is well pulverized to a
if one foot. Then Iwoikoffthe
each way in rows, three feet
gives me in an acre 4,840
two plantain each hill, or
. to an acre. Then I cultivate
with a cultivator, keeping out
and grass .and keeping all run
ners cutoff until about the middle of
August. By this plan I get double re
turns over the old system awkwith little
if any increased labor. If you bare naver
tried this plan, reader, I advise you to
experiment now.”
the result, the windpipe being, at
partly chwrd and the inner part of the
neck galled.
The problem of farming consists in
making the soil increisingly fertile. Ma
nure is the firmer*’ saving* bank, and if
more of them would have large heips of
it every spring to spread upon their lands
instead or money at interest, they would
prosper in the end.
The best varieties of lettuce for Hummer
use are the yellow butter and tho white
summer cabbage. In a deep, well en
riched soil they stand the beat w.?ll and
remain for a long time in a condition for
Potato Planting.
„ J- L Kraber, of Guilford County, N.
C. t says in a letter to the New York
Tribune: I find this a good way to raise
Irish potatoes: Manure the plot heavily
In the fall and thoroughly plow; the frost
will mellow the toil. Just before plant
ing, which in this settlement is fixed for
£t. Patrick's Day, plow and harrow until
the, ground is loose and fine. Then make
‘*TUrttrwi r
, with a two-horse plow, about
three feet apart. I prefer to go over the
furrows a second time and make them
wide and deep. Fill the furrows with
loaves or straw mixed with bog-manure
and ashes. Then eover with six inches
•of surface soil in which you hoe a drill
three inches deep, taking care not to
xakeout the straw or leaves. Fill this
•drill with manure from the bog-pen, and
plant the potatoes; a slight sprinkling of
ashes and phosphate is added. Cover
the potatoes with abont two inches of
surface soil. Plow often to keep clean
-and. mellow. I cut the potatoes length
wise; halving some and quartering others,
to get as many “eyes” in a piece as pos
sibly. If the potatoes are sproutea in
advance in a warm room all the better.
Sheep In Orchards.
Sheep are better scavengers in a bear-
ohwu ucutr scavengers iu a near-
ing orenard than hogs, notwithstanding
they will bark small tfecs. Even if
_ ringed, hogs will, exterminate most*
grasses in a small lot, bat orchard grass
will flourish under the trees and under
the hardest gnawing of the sheep. Be
sides that, sheep will eat up all the wind-
. falls, no matter how small, bitter, as
tringent or rotten, with a more unques
tioning appetite than swine; hence they
Protect the trees more effectually against
insect enemies. It is principally old
> Ruckling ewes that damage the trees, and
that in the spring when herbage is scanty.
They may be prevented from gnawing
the bark by an application of coal tar,
; kerosene, or a wash prepared by mixing
«>no quart of soft soap, ono quart of lime,
one quart of pine tar, with throe gallons
>1 sheep, cow or hen manure, adding
into about the same consistency as
nary whitewash. Apply to the body of
the tree with a whitewash brush, splint
broom, or with the hand well protected
|with a heavy cloth mitten. This wash
"will protect tho trees against injury
from sheep, except the rams’ horns, and
fa Abo beneficial to the growth and
liealth Of the trees. It is valuable in
preventing the damages so frequently
done by insects, worms, etc.; for this
jlurposo apply as near the roots as possi
ble, and as often as it is washed off by
the rain from the body of the tree.
Bat most fanners in the busy season
will forget to renew the application, and
at tho best it will not prevent damage by
•tlie nuns’ horns. Henco we have found
the best practical protection to be stakes.
Good locust stakes will last from six to
ten years. —Amcriean Agriculturist.
Some improvement should be made in
the'Ox yoke commonly wed. It should j
ADVERTISING.
fit the neck, or else wb
x Is draw-
ass. These varieties form large heads,
and.on this account are objectionable to
some persons.
No pruning at all is safer practice than
the putting a pruning knife into the
hands of an ignoramus. It requires skill
and knowledge of varieties and their pe
culiarities, which few possess, to prune
apple and pear trees properly. What
would be good treatment for one variety
would be ruinous to others.
After calves get so they will eat hay,
give them what they will eat clean ol
this and abont one quart of ostn daily.
Without the grain the hay will only keep
them in store condition and worth little
more at a year old than now. All the
profit will come from the grain, and the
fanner who sees this point will increase
the grain feed all the animals will bear.'
Much time on every farm is spent in
doing small jobs, and if proper conve
niences for these are not famished the
time wasted is so much clear loss. A
good farmer will try to have stock,
grain, hay and roots, with water, all
under one roof. This enables him to do
the work with the least needless, labor,
and gives more time for neccsary im
provements.
Prof. E. W. Stewart says thst sun
flower-seed is a valuable food for stock
if fed properly. The best way to feed to
calves is to remove the hulls in a hailing-
machine and then boil the meats to a
skimmed milk,
seed contains 28.0 per cent of oil, while
flaxseed contains 87 per cent. The oil is
a mild laxative, and will keep the coat
glossy. Fifty bushels of seed could be
raised from twenty-five thousand plants
on an acre.
Most farmers have learned that cut hay
or even straw wet and sprinkled with
meal is a batter feed for working horses
than whole grain and hay. In this
HAS MADE 31AXV FORTUNES.
Noah she First Advertiser—Adver
tising Among (be Ancient* and
In the 3Iitldle Ages—Ortg
of Modern Ads ertlsing
•The way to fortune lies through
printer's ink,” said that Prince of adver
tisers. P. T. Bamum, and there is a deal
of truth in the old showman's saying.
Who ever beard of a man ruining himself
by advertising? No one ever did, but
we have all heard of the man who tried
to rain himself by advertising, and in
the end only succeeded in doubling his
fortune. It is very generally supposed
that adrertisingis of modern origin. Not
a bit of it. Advertising was common in
the days of Noah, and almost the first
recorded instance is thst of Noah send
ing the dove from the ark, that brought
back an olive bianch “as a sign.” It waa
not until the days of the Greeks and
Romans, however, that written adver
tisements became, common. The Jews,
and other nations, bad a custom, which
is common to this day, of giving notice
of sales, meetings, elections, by word of
mouth, something like the more modem
“bellman” notices. The Greeks also gave
notice of stolen property in this way. The
Romans were proficient in the art of ad-
walls of Pompeii may
day notices and rough sketches of bull
fights and gladiatorial contests. On the
walls, too, may be seen written direc
tions as to the roads to take in order to
reach cercains baths, and the excellence
of the baths are also extolled at length..
WORDS OF WISDOM.
The working of the goed and brave,
r unseen, endures literally forever,
and can not die.
Nothing more indicates the true gen
tleman than a desire evinced to oblige
or accommodate.
If you have' built castles in the'
air, your work need not bs lost; that is
where they should be; now put founda
tions under them.—Thoreau.
Get into the habit of looking for the
silver lining of the cloud, and when you
have found it, continue to look at it,
rather than at the leaden grey in the
middle. It will help you over many
hard places.
When you make a mistake don’t look
back at it kng. Take the reason of the
thing into your own mind, and then
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look~forward, Mistakes are lessons of
wisdom. The past can not be changed.
The future is yet in your power.
Always say a kind word if you can,
if only that it may come in, perhaps,
with singular opportunities, entering
some mournful man’s darkened room
like a beautiful firefly, whose happy con
volutions he cannot but watch, forget
ting his many troubles.
The good we can each accomplish in
this world is small. The good that all
men in ages could accomplish if they
would is vast~ But in order that this
may be done"ach working being must
serve his own generation and do his part
to render the next generation more effi
cient.
Doing nothing for others is the undo
ing of one’s self. We must be purposely
kind and generous, or we miss the best
part of existence. The heart that goes
shape the nutriment in the feed is easily
eaten and easily digested. Horses do not
need water when eating, except os it is
.put on the chopped hay to make the
meal stick to it. The meal being fine
digests perfectly, while much of the nu»
triment in whole grain i9 lost. Again,
the wasted effort made in digesting the
latter is so much detracted from the
strength which should go to the work.
Fresh wood ashes are often of little
benefit. The caustic potash probably in
jures the roots of tender plant* in some
cases, as any one can test by putting an
overdose of ashes in the corn hill with
the seed. But the ashes soon lose their
caustic properties. In the soil vegetable
decomposition is constantly throwing off
carbonic acid, and this neutralizes the
alkali of the potash. Old ashes long ex
posed to the air absorb considerable
amounts of ammonia, and to this leached
ashes owe much of their value. What
potash they contain is in the form of a
nitrate and ready for immediate use.
During the middle ages advertising, in
writing at any rate, became a lost art.
When men had to be summoned for a
crusade, or notice of a new tax levy was
to be given, it had all to be done by word
of mouth or by some symbolical way. If
it were by word of mouth men were sent
to scour the country and give notice to
the head men of the various villages, or
else beacons were lighted on tho lulls, or,
as in Scotland, the “fiery cross” was sent
round. As newspapers were unknown
the people had to depend on the wander
ing minstrel or the itinerant priest for
their supply of news. Another individual
whose presence was alike welcome in
courtly hall and humble cottage was the
traveling merchant, who was received
with much greater delight than in these
degenerate days, both for the sake of his
news and his goods. This lowly indi
vidual, who carried his pack on his back,
was the originator of our modern fash
ionable drummer. In large towns, such
as London, of course it was different, and
these merchants made known the excel
lence of their wares by means of criers,
who either perambulated the streets
shouting the merits of Jones’ “soap” or
Smith’s “burnt sack,” or else had men to
stand in front of the booths, with which
the streets were then lined, and with
their never-ceasing cry of “What d'ye
lack? Whatjd'ye lack?” sought to attract
the attention of customers.
At the close of the last centuiy news
papers became an institution, and adver
tising may be said to have been bora
again, and, phanix-like, sprung from the
ashes of the old world, where Ft had lain
buried during thfe middle ages. It now
became an “art,” and gradually, as it in
creased in proportion, it became not only
an “art,” but a “science.” There is not
ouly scientific advertising, but very “art-
Recipes.
Beep Tea.—Cut one pound of beef
steak into dice, put them into a jar, keep
Nip In the Bad.
Not until the buds on the fruit trees
are fully opened will it be too late to go
through tho trees with shears in hand
and shorten in the surplus growth. If a
long* slender twig or branch extends far
out from the centre of the tree where its
fruit, if grown, cannot be reached from a
ladder, clip it off to a reasonable length.
If your tree is overloaded with fruit*
buds, which, if let alone will bring you
* great' crop of small, inferior fruit, 1
shorten in or thin out the excess of bear-
wood, and it will increase the size of
the fruit in proportion to the decrease in
number, it is much easier to remove a
bushel or two of prospective fruit in the
bud now with shears than to thin out the
crop by pulling off tho surplus when the
specimens are half grown. We spent a
good deal of time last summer in thin
ning fruit, and the labor paid, for it was
only the fruit from those trees which
produced moderate crops that would sell
at all last year. We .were surprised a few
days since to find how quickly the same
amount of work in thinning could be
done by taking the fruit in the bud.
This is no new idea; the successful
fruit-growers have practised upon it for
.years. Some orchardiats are almcst as
severe in the treatment of their tree* as
they are in pruning their grape vines.
Of course, other things must be att
w . attended
to. The soil tnust be enriched, especially
by the use of fertilizers favorable to fruit
production. It is claimed bymany that
in oven twelve hours. When all the
juice of meat has been extracted by heat
add boiling water till it is of the re quired
strength. Season to taste.
Stirred Bread.—One quart flour,
two large teaspoonfuls baking powder,
two teaspoonfuls salt, two eggs and
sweet milk to make a stiff batter; bake
iri\ loaf in a biscuit tin. To be broken,
not cut, and eaten hot - Water may be
used instead of milk by adding a spoon
ful of butter.
Tapioca for Dessert.—This dessert
of tapioca is delicate and easily made.
Take one-quarter of a pound of small
grain tapioca, pick it over carefully and
wash it • Add to it a quart of boiling
milk and two saltspoonfuls of salt; boil
slowly an hour ana a half, stirring fre
quently. When done, allow it to cool
a little. Thoroughly beat five eggs,
adding to them three ounce* of sugar,
an ounce of butter and a little nutmeg.
Gradually add the tapioca; let the whole
come to a boiling point; pour into cups
or a mold and servo hot or ice cold, as
may .be preferred.
Daxdeliox Salad.—Dandelion is a
wholesome vegetable used as salad or
boiled like spinach. For salad use only
the delicate young leaves just after they
appear among the grass. In cooking
them the young or full grown leaves
may be used. Clean and wash the leaves
well, as there is usually fine sand or
earth between them, and let them stand
in cold water for two hours. Drain
them and throw them into boiling salted
water; boil for twenty minutes if young
and for half an hour if full grown. Put
them in a colander and press them to
extract all the water, and then chop
them fine. Put two ounces of butter in
a stew-pan for two quarts of leaves and
set it on a brisk fire. As soon as melted
sprinkle in a teaspoonful of flour and
some salt and pepper. Add the dande-
* .ammoniated manures should be used
sparingly in the mature orchard, as they
incline to prodace much wood growth,
at the expense of the fruit Bone and
lien, stir for ten minutes and then
moisten with broth. Stir for fifteen
minutes and serve.
expense
potash are elements chiefly recommended
now. If you have trees thst were grafted
last Acar, thin out the spronts and origi
nal 4bod,butdo not stnn the trees naked
all at once; the sun will burn the bark,
he limbs of trees were made to be
' Atmt.
Household Hints.
Lard may be made perfectly sweet by
boiling a pared potato in it.
; England J
; forget i
ndeil
and Garden Notes.
that changing seed is
with excellent resalts.
, time for plowing under
is when they are flowering,
of the strawberry often reach
from the main stem, and
should not be set out
Window plants in Germany are often’
watered with cold tea or coffee. The
effects are said to be beneficial.
To remove candle grease from furni
ture without injuring the varnish, rub
it off with a little warm water and a rag.
Frozen cream will not mike good but
ter. Care should be taken to ke p the
milk room or spring house at an even
temperature in winter as well as in sum-
plants i
folio*]
H5 b ,l
dening lengthens the grow-
I and permits, at times, of two
p same land, as turnips may
[ *nd time is thereby gained
i crops.
1 roses should be well
or weak shoots
; entirely. The strong
; be left longer than
i or joints from the
9 of tlie sheep is shorter
her domestic animal.
of their
valuable
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or two
Never put a particle of soap about youi
silver if you would have it retain its orig
inal luster. When it wants polishing,
take a piece of soft leather ana whiting
out of itself gets large and full of joy.
This is the great secret of inner life.
We do ourselves the most good doing
something for others.
SUtcs of the Seminoles.
A correspondent of the Globe-Democrat,
writing from Tampa, Fla., says: Iu cer
tain or the more southern parts of Florida
negroes are held in as strict bondage as
ever they were before the great war in
any part of the country. Slavcry#sur-
vives, however, only among the few rem
nants of the Seminole tribe who still have
their homes in the woods and everglades
south and east of the Caloosahatchie
River. There there are many families of
the red men, who, thongh perfectly inof
fensive, so far as the whites are con
cerned, maintain a dignified independ
ence of the general laws and administer
their own affaipgfn a way strongly remi
niscent of patriarchal traditions. They
live principally by the chase and upon
the fish of which all Florida waters,
lakes, streams and seas, are extremely
prolific; and for vegetable food they de
pend upon small patches of ground
cleared here and there, as fancy may dic
tate, from year to year. The cultivation
of these patches among the poorer mem-
A WONDERFUL CASE.
Every Joint Fast Bound and Hia
Body and Iiimba Wasted to
the Bone—Unable to
Move or See.
On a pillow in a little back parlor of
a house on Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn,
rests the intellectual head of Dr. Charles
F. Reed, fifty-six years old, who has not
been able to move hand or foot or turn
in his bed since he was thirty-four. He
lives only in his head, f jt every joint is
fast bound and his body and limbs are
wasted to the bone.
His eyes are sightless, his neck stiff,
his jaws set so close as to .prevent him
from taking any food unless it be in very
POPULAR SCIENCE.
soft or liquid form, snd shoulder joints.
and toes aro immovable. The
drawn up, the left knee joint is almost
thrown from its socket, the right foot is
turned so far outward as almost to turn
backward. A white mustache and beard
that Rip Van Winkle would have envied
covered the lower part of a face strong
in outline and full of character. Around
this sufferer’s bed. where so heavy across
has been laid, gather almost daily people
who come to get consolation in trouble.
Dr. Reed is a philosopher, and his cheer
ful disposition in spite .of the extreme
hardness of his lot has made him the
■wonder of everybody who knows him.
Those who have lost friends call there to
learn a lesson in fortitude, and all who
meet the doctor say they go away with
new ideas efftife and its purposes. Ho
is well-read in every branch of litera
ture.
Dr. Reed was bom in Woburn, Mass.,
and worked -on a farm until he was of
when he began the study of modi-
ful” advertising as well. In the early
days of newspapers they were almost ex
clusively government sheets, and their
advertising space was monopolized bj“
§ overament announcements. Bat os tn
emand for newspapers increased thei
size was enlarged, and then private par
ties saw what an admirable channel this
was for making known their wants,either
to sell or purchase, to the general public.
It was a long time, however, before the
public really caught on to this, and for
many years one or two newspapers, such
os the London Times and Lloyd's Ncict,
had the almost exclusive patronage of
the advertising public.
It was not until advertising through
the newspapers had been thoroughly es
tablished that advertising by means of
“posters” and signs and symbols painted
on bill-boards and dead walls came into
vogue. This ghastly system originated
in this country, and lovers of the beauti
ful in nature may well rue the day when
the inventive faculty of tho advertising
agent first hit upon the idea. Now
nothing is sacred from bis vandalism.
One good thing, however, has be in done
lately—prohibiting advertisements of
this description at Niagara. There it
was not only an offence against good
taste, but a positive sin.
^ With regard to advertising as
beta of tho tribe is carried on "by their
women; but the more prosperous of the
Indians have their negro slaves, upon
whom they devolve all the hard labor of
cultivation, as well as the few items of
menial drudgery incident to their simple
methods of living.
It is curious to observe the degree of
pride these Seminoles take in the fact
that they are slave-holders. They are
perfectly aware th&t the white people of
the country are forbidden to hold slaves;
that every negro throughout the South
who once had to pay obedience to a
bondmaster has been freed; but they
don’t seem to understand that either
emancipation proclamations and enact
ments or constitutional amendments apply
“ them- Hence they regard themselves
r l*race of beings more highly privileged
Ian the whites—aristocrats who alone
recognized as having rights of prop
erty in an inferior race. Nor is there
apparent among them the faintest sus
picion that their absurd rights can be
questioned by the law. Slave owning
and slave trading among themselves is
conducted as openly and with as much
confidence as ever it was in South Caro
lina or Alabama thirty or forty years ago,
and even when they visit the towns to
exchange their peltries for powder, •cloth
ing, crockery and other necessaries, they
occasionally take with them their black
bondsmen, partly to perform any labori
ous duty that may happen to become
necessary, but partly, also, to enhance
their appearance o}' dignity and im-
’art.” Is it really an art? How often
is the exclamation heard from seme news
paper reader, ‘*That’s a good ad.,” his at
tention having, perhaps, been unwit
tingly drawn to some announcement “art
fully” worded. A word, a catch-phrase,
a something that is out of the common
will do it, but the same “ad.” might be
written in half a dozen different ways,
and'yet fail to draw any one's attention
to it. The advertiser who knows his
business will have his advertisement as
carefully written and expend as much
thought on it as the manufacturer ex
pends who makes the article he wishes to
advertise. Not only will he do this, but
he will see that the advertisement is put
in the paper in a position where it will
attract the most attention, and he will
pay extra for that position and continue
dinning the merits of that article into the
public’s, at first unwilling, ear, until he
has forced it to their notice.
One of the best “ads.” ever sprung on
a long suffering populace was that of
ozokerite candles, which, as they are not
used in America, may be here given a
free "ad ” For vppI-i hi>fnn> tlioir w»n>
free “ad.” For weeks before tbev were
put on tho market “sandwich” men
S romenaded the streets of London bear-
ig boards on which was written the
letter “O.” This was succeeded a week
or two later-by the letter “Z,” then came
another letter, and so on, finally ending
with “The word is ozokerite. What is
it?” About two r«on*h* were occupied
an this way, and every man you met in
London would put the question: “What
is ozokerite”’ The public curiosity wa*
so well aroused that large wagers ’were
actually madfe as to the nature of “ozo
kerite,” and when finally it came out
that “ozokerite candles were the best”
portance.
cine, which he continued in New York
and Cleveland.' In 1864 he was in chqrge
of a sanitarium at Kenosha, Wis., and his
sickness, which has led him a life in the
midst of death, first came upon him at
Kenosha. He had inherited rheumatism,
and contracted malaria in the West.
These diseases seized him about nine
o’clock at night on September 6, 1884,
and he has not moved since. When the
burning fever he suffered began to pass
away and the sensitiveness of the joints
grew gradually less, he felt the joints
stiffening, and in the fingers and toes he
now has complete anchylosis. In other
words, the joints have grown into solid
bone. He weighed 200 pounds and was
tall and vigorous when he was taken
sick. In a few years he was reduced to
a skeleton.
Dr. Reed now suffers from toothache,
and nothing can be done for him because
his jaws are set and the teeth cannot be
pulled, and even the relief of toothache
drops w denied him. When his sight left
him, thirteen years ago, a sensation of
always looking at the full blaze of tho
noonday sun took possession of the left
eye, and the doctor suffers the most in
tense pain.
Dr. Reed was married in 1858, and
during all his suffering his wife has re
mained faithfully day and night at her
helpless husband’s bedside. At first two
men were required to lift him. The
money saved from a lucrative practice
A French mieroscopist has studied the
action qf.the various condiments on the
tissues 61 the oyster, and recommends
lemon juice as the most valuable, as it
destroys the animalcule infesting the
stomach of the mollusk. *
Exact measurements of the oscillations
of chimneys have been made. One near
Marseilles, France—115 feet high and
four feet in external diameter at the top
—reached a maximum oscilation of
twenty inches daring a high wind.
The brick clay deposits ol Hainstadt,
Germany, have been found by Dr. Stro-
heckcr to be singularly rich in several
metals hitherto very scarce, particularly
cerium, glucinium lanthanum, didymium
and yttrium. The first two of these
metals seem to be in sufficient abundance
to materially increase the world’s supply.
The skull resists the ravages of tune
tetter than any other bone, ana the reason
for it is a question which puzzles natur
alists. The fact has been noted on open
ing the graves of mound builders, where
the skulls of buffalo, elk, and other ani
mals on the Western plains are in a fair
state of preservation long after the other
bones have entirely decayed.
The glaciers of the North Pacific coast
are small but magnificent. The Muir is
three miles long, with a perpendicular
face of 400 feet, stretching like a frozen
waterfall or gigantic dam entirely across
the head of the glacier bay. Its breast is
as blue as a torquoise. At a distance it
looks like a fillet rent from the azure sky
and laid across the brow of the cliff.
Wonderful stories haring been told of
the feats of savage archers in piercing
armor, and trees several inches in diame
ter, Prof. O. T. Mason, of the Smithso
nian Institution, requests archery clubs
to make careful experiments upon the
distance ot - range, greatest distance of
accurate projection, momentum at leav
ing the bow, and penetrating power into
animals of arrows.
A French geologist, Mons. de* Lap-
parent, lately called the attention of the
Paris Geological Society to the effect
SELECT SIFTINGS.
The word measles originally meant
leprosy, although in modem times used*
for a different disorder.
In packing bottles in cases for trans
portation, India rubber bands slipped'
over them will prevent breakage.
The Saltan of Turkey is said to pay to- '
two German apothecaries $5,000 a year
each, with board and rooms in the palace^
and the services of several attendants.
According to an erroneous fancy of
other day, the destruction occasioned by-
lightning was effected by some solid
body known as the thunder stone or
thunder bolt. •
The planets in days gone by were not
thought to be confined to any fixed orbit
dwindled, and with exigencies of the
cose the doctor invented a kind of der
rick, with two arms and hoistiDg cranks,
by means of which his [wife cm easily
move him from the bed while it is beinj
ihade. Bands and straps
Doing
placed
under him, and he is raised above the
bed. He was brought to New York by
his wife in 1868. Before the bones
solidified his spine was affected, and as
the trouble slowly worked upward the
muscles of the body contracted and com
pressed his ribs so that at one time he
nearly died by having the breath
squeezed out of him. He was troubled
with nervousness, and when he was
asleep his jaw would suddenly snap
open and close again so quickly and
violently that he several times bit
through his tongue. If any one crossed
the floor the jarring made him wild
with pain through his spine. The
feather k bed had to be made up with a
“ Rule of the Road.”
' This phrase has more than ordinary
significance in its referee c 3 to the rules
governing the right* ofj> arsons riding or
driving on public highways. In Ireland
it is not only the custom to keep to the
left in riding or driving upon the high
way. but it is"established by act of Par
liament. In 14 and 15 Victoria, cap. 92,
sec. 13, it is provided that “Any person
driving any carriage whatsoever, or rid
ing any horse or other animal, shall not
keep his carriage, horse, or other animal
on the left or near side of the road or
street, * * * shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding ten shillings.” This is ex
actly the reverse of the practice in this
country. The same act provides that' in
passing any other carriage or horse going
*i the same direction, .the rule shall be:
'Wherever it is practicable to go or pass
to the right or off side of such other car
riage or horse or other animal,” a viola
tion of which causes the same penalty.
This is the reverse of the usual practice
here, but follows from the first. In Great
Britain the carriage in advance, when it
turns to meet a vehicle apprpaching,
turns to the left, and if the one follow
ing were to pass on the left it .would be
liable to constant collisions, as the first
carriage might run into it very inno
cently. Here the carriage in meeting
turns to the right, and the following car
riage Is* only safe in pas-dog when it goes
by on the left. The rule in England and
Ireland is, therefore, in meeting turn to
the left, in following pass to the right.
In this country in meeting turn to the
right: in following, pass the carriage in
front of you to the left.—Globe-Demo-
the oldest silver wt .blishment. in the “ d ‘ d ° f the
city of Philadelphia says that “house-j * act * Chicago Herald.
keeper* rain their sil.e’r by washing inj ■■
soap suds, as it makes it look like pew- J It U found that where the Chinese can
The Drum.
The came of this well-known military
instrument is from the Icelandic thruma,
meaning thunder. The drum itself is
commonly made of thin cylinders of
wood, hollow within, and covered at
the ends with sheets of vellum, which
may be stretched or slackened at pleasure
by means of small cords and sliding
knots; it is beat upon by a pair of
do so they will ingeniously load raw silk
■*> •. v, ,« , XT _ 1 with foreign sub stances, rice, sugar, etc.,
David Bell, of Pelleters Mills, N. C., to make it weigh heavier, even when they
found a very small pearl in an oystei know the deception must inevitably be
seven years ago. He wrapped it m pa pel detected and will lose them good and
and laid it in a trunk, and the New Bern* steady customers.
Journal says that it has grown from tb<
size of a BB shot to the size o a sm.il .
marble. During the ■ seven yea a it hai
not been wet.
Forty millions of people, or one-fifth
of the subjects ef the “Empress of
i state of chronic starva-
latest remedy foi tion * succeeds famine at the
rate of one in every five or six years.
short sticks, one in each hand of the per
former. Kettle-drums are hollow hem
ispheres made of brass, and are used in
pairs, one of them being turned to the
key-note and the other to the fifth oC
the key. Small drums, hanging from
the drummers belt at the side, and
beaten with the chamade or roulade, a
styled side-drums. The instrument
of eastern origin, and is believed to
have been introduerd into Europe by
the Saracens. The drum-major of a reg-
hollow center, that his spine might not
touch anything. It required four mer
to hold him that he might go to sleep,
as the twitching of his limbs was beyond
his own control.
The doctor has never suffered from
headache. A curious phase of the dis
ease is that he lies awake from about
11 o’clock at night until 2 in the morn
ing, and on the following day succumbs
, to irresistible sleepiness at precisely the
' corresponding hours—11 a. m. till 2 f. j*.
Even if he goes to sleep early in the
evening he wakes about 11 at night, and
the curious sleep follows next day at
11 A. M.
“I attribute-my disease to an an acci
dental prick from a surgical instrument
while I was dissecting in Cleveland,”
said the doctor yesterday. “Malaria
and rheumatism combined to thoroughly
gravitation nos in heaping up sea-waters
about the land. The continents are thus
all situated at the tops of hills of water;
and in crossing the Atlantic the ship has
first to go down hill, then to cross aval-
ley, and finally to climb another hill. The
calculation has been made that in mid-
ocean the surface may be more than half
a mile (1,000 metres) below the level it
would have if the continents exerted no
attraction.
The following are the requirements fox
a truly good, pure, portable water, at
prescribed by a scientific commission in
Belgium a short time ago: 1. It must
be clear aud transparent. 2. It must be
of agreeable taste, and not wanner than
fifteen degrees C. 3. It must contain
some air and some carbonic acid. 4. It
should not' contain more than twenty
milligrams of organic matter per litre.
5. It should not contain more than 0.5
milligram of amtaonia per litre. 6. It
should not contain algae, infusoria ox
bacteria; 7. Upon addition of some
cane sugar no bacteria must be de
veloped. 8. The water should not con
tain nitrites nor sulphuretted nitrogen,
and not give a precipitate with sulphide
of ammonium. 9. It should not contain
more per litre than 0.5 grain mineral
salts.
Another New Death Dealer.
“Military and naval officers of all
countries,” said General Berdan, “have
long teen endeavoring to devise some
scheme by which a torpedo can surmount
the difficulty presented by an arrange
ment of • network. If the ordinary tor
pedo meets this obstruction it either gets
fouled in the net or its direction is
averted. In the one case it fails to ad
vance to the ship; in the other it speeds
away at an angle past the ship. In either
its explosion, if it explode at all,
equally abortive. Now, in my system,
the net actually aids the torpedo to do
its destructive work. I discharge two
torpedoes; one attached to the other by a
line of some thirty or forty feet. The
first one explodes on touching the net
and tfiakes a hole through which the
second enteis and strikes the ship. But
to do this successfully the vessel must be
at anchor. When it is in ’motion I have
a better scheme. The first torpedo is
non-explosive. It strikes the net, and
then by an ingenious contrivance the tor
pedo following it is made to dive under
of their own, but to wander ceaselessly
about. A popular name for the planet*
was the “wandering stars.”
The bed of the ocean, says-a foreign,
writer, is to an enormous extent covered
with lava and pumice atone. Still more
remarkable is it to find the floor of the
ocean covered in many parts with tho
dust of the meteorites. ~ q
Of the long-forgotten cities of tn©
present century which have been discov
ered by their walls, little else remains
but extensive cemeteries, which, as re
peatedly happens among the rained place©
of the earth, have outlasted by more
than 2,000 years the dwellings of the
living. * .. .
Among the many other iteasof folk
lore associated with thunder is a curious
one referred to in “Pericles;” “Thunder
shall not so awake the bed of eels.” 'Hi©
notion formerly was that thunder had tho
effect of raising cels from their mud, and
so rendered them more easy to bo taken
in stormy weather.
Certain portions of New Mexico-
abound in petrifications of various kinds.
It is no uncommon sight to see trees
three feet in diameter and fifty feet long,
petrified and oftan crystallized. Tho
crystals—red, yellow, black or white— ’
are often very beautiful, and would make
handsome ornaments for eastern parlors.
The Panama Railway was the first rail
way extending from the Atlantic to the
Pacific side ox the great isthmus that con
nects North and South America, and
was completed at the beginning of 1855.
It extends from Aspinwall city on the
Caribbean 8eq to Panama on tho Pacific
Ocean. The first train passed overoa
January 28, 1855.
The hooks used by the Haidah Indian©
for catching black cod are made of the
knots of limbs of the hemlock cut out
from old decayed logs. These knots are
split into splints of the proper size, then
roughly shaped with a knife and then
steamed and tent into shape, which
shape they retain when cold. It is usual
to tie from seventy-fi^e to 100 hooks on
aline, at a distance of about two feet
apart, and the fishessare so plentiful that
not infrequently every hook will have &
fish.
“Cleopatra’s” Meeting With “Adonis.**
Mr. H. S. Fuller describes in the Neir
York Tribune the arrival at the Central
Park Menagerie of a young tigress cap
tured last winter in India. The animal
was sent from Calcutta with a view to
providing a companion for “Adonis.”
the tiger of the Central Park collection,
who had been pining for a mate. . De
scribing the meeting of the two animals,
Mr. Fuller says ;
“Adonis, the bridegroom, is a native
American Bengal tiger. He was bora
and raised in captivity, and has attained
a size not usually obtained in the for-
poison my system and bring me to 'this
state. I had a very offensive post-mortem
about the same time and breathed so
much foul air that I was sick for two
weeks. I contracted malaria while in
Illinois. I read a great deal when first
stricken down, and when I lost my sight
my wife took this new burden upon her.
In 18761 had nervous prostration. I have
been looking for death these many years,
but when ope wants him to come’he is a
very slow coach.”
1 ‘For seven years, ” said Airs. Reed, : *he
laid here without even knowing bow the
street in front of the house looked. He
used to say that Jhe misery he suffered
gathered in the very walls and was re
flected back upon him. Then a com
mittee of ladies made it possible for me-
to take, him into Vermont, and he sat all
day in the sunshine, and oh, it did him
so much good. He came back in so much
better health.-but the long winter indoors
wears him out.”
Dr. Reed was educated at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Tie is of New EngL.nd stock, and his
grandfathers on the paternal and maternal
side fought at Lexington and Bunker
Hill. He has a brother whp is a farmer
in Iowa, and who aids him to the extent
of his small means.—New York World.
the net. As it rises it strikes the ship
at the bottom, where it is the least pro
tected by its plates.”
“And what is your torpedo like, Gen
eral?”
“Well, it is thirty-one feet in length
and twenty-one inches wide at mid-sec
tion; its depth is thirty-one inches, and
its displacement 2,8Q0 pounds. The ex
plosive substance is gun cotton to the
amount of 100 kilograms. This explo
sive is fired by a new apparatus, by a
small copper pin being cut off when the
impact takes place against the ship,
very slight shock is enough to effect this,
far slighter than that required in the
hitherto invented machines. Upon this
pin being cut it liberates a bolt which
shoots against the cap of an ordinary rifle
cartridge, and the explosion follows.”
—New York Herald.
Pig-Skins in Book-Binding.
A correspondent to the Scottish Leather
Couldn’t Hake Room for Him.
“I was traveling in Spain,” said the
Duke de Braganza, the prospective hus
band of the Princess Amelia, of Orleans,
“and had reached a miserable little vil
lage. It was 1 a. si. Knocking at the
only hostelry in the place, a gruff voice
called out:
41 ‘Who’s there?’
“ ‘Dom Alphonse-Ramire-Juan-Pedro-
Carlos-Francisque-Dominique de Roxas
de BraranzA *
de Braganza.’
“ ‘Drive on,* was the reply; ‘I can’t
accommodate so many people.’’”—Galig-
iment of soldiers is the chief drummer,
or the person who usually marches in
front of the band giving the time by the
motion of the baton be carries.
m '
The sun shines for everybody, the
flowers smell sweet for all noses and the
nightingale warbles for all ears.
Trader writes about a Pekin firm which
found a new field for pig-skins, as fol
lows: “These pelts have, until recent
ly, J>een principally utilized in the manu
facture of saddlery goods. This firm had
their attention directed some time ago to
the importance of opening up a trade in
importing the pig-skins to supplement the
native supply of the raw material. This
and widowed.
His first companion was captive-born,
like himself. She died after giving birth
to a litter of whelps; the second pined
in confinement and died a few weeks
after her arrival. Cleopatra is the finest
specimen of the three and the youngest.
When the case containing her had been
placed in the Carnivora building, Adonis,
who hai teen pacing with a mournful
step to and fro in his cage, eyed it ex
pectantly and began to lick bis coat. Tho
animals in adjoining cpges looked on
with curiosity, the hyenas sending forth
discordant yells at intervals. Cleopatra
moved uneasily in her case. The pine
coating was stripped off and the cose
was lifted by a dozen men and
§ laced on a level with the cage
oor of the tiger. Adonis retreated
to the further end. The irpn gates were
lifted and Cleopatra bounded lightly into
the more spacious apartment and looked
around. Her first glance fell upon Adonis
and *8he opened her mouth and' spit at
him like a cat. Adonis opened his mouth
and both tigers yelled in unison like a
hundred cats on a back fenee. The Afri
can lion opposite began to snort and bel
low. The other lions and lionesses roared
and rushed about their cages, trying to
peep through the gratings. The hyenas
and leopards swelled the chorus, and the
fifteen elephants ouside increased the din
until it was ear-splitting.
When the spectators looked to see the
I ts rush upon each other in fury;
©is suddenly ceased his cries and
ched himself at full length at the
of his mistress. She spit at him
a and walked to the o;her side of .the
cage. Adonis repeated *his action, but
Cleopatra did not appear to tee 1
climbed on the tree .stump in the centre
of the cage, stretched her full length and
tore off the lark in long strips, all the
time pnrring in a deep bass. After the f
keepers had given the animals a supper '
of horseflesh Cleopatra became less
coquettish and looked at Adonis occa
sionally.
A Lesson In Courage.
At the siege of Saragossa there reived
under the Duke of Montebello a General
of brigade named Hubert, a man of gi-
. gantic build and herculean strength.
has proved a great success, and the result During a sortie of the enemy he took up
is that the quantity of pig-skins which . a position behind an escarpment, where
are now available for tanning purposes be crouched down so a*not tc/attractthe
may be said to. be illimitable. Conse-1 notice of the Spaniards by his tall figure,
quently it has been found necessary to I A young conscript, observing this, re
look about for other purposes to which to marked to his comrades: “I say, it ap-
put the tanned and prepared skin. Ex- pears that these Generals arc as fright-
periments in dyeing were then resorted ened at the rest of us!”
to, also in printing the hides with several Unluckily for th-; comcript, Hubert
designs, which from their nature they are overheard the remark, and, turning with,
peculiarly suitable for, and lor sometime rage to the soldier, he said: “Ah! you
these skins have been largely in use think I am frightened, do you! Til let
among upholsterers and bookbinders for you see whether I am or not, you jaek*-
the leather portions of their respective napes!” Whereupon the General drew
trades. The style and appearance of the himself up to his full height, and seiz-
skin have caused it to be well received on ing the con cript by the small of his back,
all hands. With a view'still further to he held him high up in the air as far ar
extend its usefulness, the firm have had far as he could reach. The poor fellow
some p epared in a levanted state for the trembled like ah aspen leaf, for the Span-
book trade, and in this department they iards now directed a murderous tire upon:
* v “- -*'•* ' . The soldier whined pite-
uuuiv uaut, auu iu mu utjMuuituv uicj uuv
have been so successful that the old- the two n
fashioned levant sealskin has now a for- ously and begged to be let go. but the
midable competitor to contend with. It General paid' no heed. He marcheT
was a perfect treat to look over some ol steadily alon;
the finished hides and handle them.
What Makes Him Mad.
Pity and virtue are not only delightful
for-the present, but they leave peace and
—
contentment behind them.