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WOMAN’S WORLD.
SAXT LITERATURE FOB
FEMININE READERS.
Love as m Diet.
Untoa* it has mixture
TV Itb plenty of drew*.
—Pittsburg Commercin'.
Muffed Bird* Won’t Sell,
little while since it became the rage
have bonnets and hats ornamented with
i bird*. The hunter* bad all they
do to kill end prep ire enough to
supply the demand. iTut a fatal day for
the trade arrived. The news reached
this country that the Queen or England
•bad organized i\ plumage society, the ob
ject of which wa<to prev.-nt the slaughter
•of fashST* a caprice
**Of course, anything that is English
takes here,’ r *»aia a milliner recently,
• and the ladies, young and old, began
“Ciying out that it waa a horrid shame. I
«iow of at least a score of plumage so
cieties m this country to-dav, and all or
ganized within a shortJhkcnod. VU sev
lwgo 'cducatloiuif institutions at-
wded by young lidies the*c societies
«*ave been started, and here we are, left
with a big stock on hand, and no pros
pect of selling out except at a great rac-
™ c *-, It’s cruelty to milliners; that’s
nvhat it Is, and tho ladies ought to know
it.’ —JVtw York Mail ahtl Express.
Art and Fashion.
A New York letter to the Chicago
-Herald says: Art and fashion arc in
volved with each other now as they
mover were befuro. Not only do the
' v?*® 0 * r * elaborate toi’ets reason
ably claim -to exercise artistic taste, for
-much originality and beauty is often put
into tho work, but genuine painters arc
«nipl .ycd :to decorate d rcsscs. Usage in
tho most pretentious New York circles
•authorizes the wearing qf exceedingly
fine gowns at diuners and tho apparel
: ®t the best balls hardly shows r.uch unique
garments as arc seen in dining-room * on
•occasions -of fashionable eating and
•drinking. The aim is to wear something
am like anybody «Ws garb, and to effect
this the sdk or satin of a dress is often
painted by hand in water colors or oil.
An aitist acquaintance of mine, whose
"Works on canvas have fic picntly been
good enough to be admitted to the
Academy of Design, was bemoaning the
fact that American buyers prefer foreign
to native pictures, irrespective of merit.
“When a man has to go painting live
women instead of his own creations,’* he
bitterly growled, “I think it is time for
uim to throw down the brush and take
up a shovel.”
. Ho explained that he had taken several
jobs of decorating women's dresses as a
moans of subsistence, and that he was re
tain, d by a leading dress-mnker for that
•ort of work, but he declared that he
|Ould never again do what he had done
one instance, which was to use his
ush on fabric that at the time inclosed
jjhc owuer. The belle had insisted that
T thc figures painted on the waist of her
' -dress, though they looked well in them
selves, were not shaded so as to be ef-
• foctivo when the'had it on, therefore she
wished the artist to come to her house
and touch up his work while it was on
hor person. That he regarded ms hu
miliating. lie could paint a gown in
his studio, but professional pride for
bade him to apply his bn -h to the pert on
of the patron.
(Jprman Cooking.
Replying some words of ndvc sc
•criticism upon German coakiug pub
lished In the Califvrnian, Emilia Custer
•says in Good Housekeeping: “Now I should
like to know in what part of Germany
the writer got all those queer things that
.nro talked about—tlie vegetables floatin'-
•re sold at a trifling sum by the th'Hisand.
Young ladiey w.th no knowledge of -the
manufacture of-artificial flower* it is
•aid, can, with the contents of pns of
th«e boxes, and by the aid of the book
6f instructions, produce the most nrural
domestic flower * with a little practice
“T osue-paper parties” bare al:caly
become popular. The fashionable world
always eagerly welcomes any new enter
tainment which promise* to-.bo both
novel and amusing, and it has taken held
°r the tissue paper mania. At these
little assemblages not only striking
effects in flowers are produced, but
dresses are manufactured. The paper
used at these affairs is imported, and
comes in a m-Jit marvellous variety and
My colcr. Some of the garmeats
made out of this flimsy material are ex
ceedingly beautiful. As can bo easily
imagined, the variety of colors, shades
and tints is almost inexhaustible, and
every kind of combination and effect are
possible. In the matter of trimming
there is scope for all sorts of imitations—
flowers, fringes, ruffs, and a hand red and
one furbelows which women only under
stand the name or the object of. There
must lie a great deal of satisfaction
lady making such a dr. ms and then view
ing it with rapturous feminine dc'ight,
but this satisfaction cannot, of course,
t»e compared to that of the master of a
house, who finds bis relief in the fact
® os * # but a few cents.
But it is the manufacture of flowers
from this Imported paper which has
turned the young feminine mind upside
down. In the wonderful craze for fancy
worfcthesc paj>er flowers ore much used
for ornamentation. Roses and poppies,
roa le much larger than nature, are used
for decorating lace curtains, pillow cases,
backs of plush sofas and chairs, and
easels.. A very popular feature of the
parlor is a basket of these flowers. The
basket itself is made of dark-colored
piper, without a foundation, simply in
a , r ? n ^’ au< ® the material is placed in
folds. The flowers themselves arc then
laid on paper shavings, which fill ont
and keep the basket in shape. The
handle, of wire, is covered with paper,
with sweet peas or other climbing flow
ers twined around it. Such a basket of
flowers can scarcely be distinguished
from wax. A skillful hand, however, is
AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST REDATIVE
;tto farm and garden?
needed in their manufacture.
‘‘The prettiest thing I have seen made
of tissue paper is a mat representing a
water lily,” said a young lady the other
day, while iu conversation with tho
writer upon the subject. “The perfect
form of the beautiful flower was repro
duced. It was made upon a foundation
of a very large leaf, and upon this leaves
in graduated sizes arc placed, the lower j *DIc.
ones beiug of dark green, the centre of
very pale yellow, while the intermediate
ere in graduated tints. You
idea wiiat a happy effect was
1 * Wilt Vital* Ci.m
Diseases of Cattle.
TIic prevalent disease of the season
among calves and young cattle, and
wluMi is commonly known as black quar
ter, blick leg, and bloody murrain; is an
effect of undrained, ill-kept pastures. It
consists of a disorder of the blood pro
duced by malnutrition and thews; of in
digestible and unwholesome food picked
up from swamps, wet fields, and low
woods, where coarse herbage and bad
water abound. As a rtf.e, all the ills
which live stock of all kinds are heir to,
ud vhich inherit such a liberal quantity
of these ills, are dua to causes which may
be avoided. Bad feeling and foul
water are the most prevalent causes, and
the chilling of the quarters by lying upon
wet ground at times produces local ill
effects, which lay a foundation for the
more active remits of the bad food. If
an owner of cattle which are forced to
drink swamp water would examine a
drop of it by a microscope and see the
abundant germs contained in it, he would
realize how th? blood of the animal could
b; inoculated by the poison and made
unfit to support life.—New York Tima.
Mixed Crops for Soiling.
The prevailing idea that mixed crops,
as oats and peas sown together, or beans
or pumpkins with corn, are' economical
.is not *a new one. It has been put in
practico for more than 2,000 years, for
the old Roman farmers were in the habii
of sowing grains and pulse oats or bar
ley with peas or tares together for cut
ting green or ripe as cattle fodder. This
crop was known as “farrago,” a word
which has come clown to us in quite
another sense as a mixture of foolishness,
stupidity and nonsense. The “mixed”
idea, however, has been retained. The
old English term for this crop is maslin,
and the French is meteil, both meaning
mixed, and this mixed crop has been
common in both them countries for
centuries, r no doubt in pursuance of the
ancient practice of their conquerors. A
practice which has been kept up so long
MARCH OF THE REPUBLIC.
CABLE FIGURES SHOWING
either for poultry or for anything else.
In winter anything that ’cornea' the near
est to grass would undoubtedly b? the
best. For the fanner whVkeeps only a
moderate-sized flock the ref as; of cab
bage, potatoes, etc., from the kitchen,
cutup fine and fed t"> the fowls is' in my
opinion, the most economical and the
best green food. To cure the heps of the
desire to sit, shut them up in a small
co?p, giving plenty of wntcand feeding ,
sparingly, though by bo in an* starving
Causes of* the Potato Kot.
Professor J. H. Ponton, of the Ontario
Agricultural College, in an article ob this
subject, writes: The diseasehas received
a great deal of attention from botanists
since the days when it became a scourge
in Ireland and other parts of the British
Isles, and it is now conceded to be the
result of a minute fungus called phytop-
thora infestans. This attacks all parts of
the plant—leaf, stem and tubes. By those
ignorant of the life history of this tfny
parasitic plant little attention is paid to
its appearance on th; tops, and no alarm
is experienced until th; potatoes arc af
fected. B«t, being very contagious, its
presence on the leaves should become a
serious matter, especially when we re
member that it spreads with great rapid
ity. It is usually indicated by the tops
presenting*blotched, brownish, spotted,
dead app.arancn A close examination
of the potatoesshowing this will discover
innumerable slender stems growing up
out of the surface of the leaves and stems
of the affected plant*. These branch and
swell out at the ends into pear-shaped
minute bodies (spores), which Are pro
duced by millions. When ripo they
seperate- from the stem, and being ex
ceedingly light pass into the atmosphere.
wa . f ! ed ma "J[ ot , habi'tMtTtoThrsq^e rafleTi CtaS
tbw» tndlr mAny the ^grojnd or | Britain 200, while tho-United States,, ex-
riusive of Alaska, have less- than, four-
THE COUNTRY'S GREATNES.%
Wonderful Progrm of the fatted
Suites Indicated by Statistics that
Are Not at All Dry.
Andrew Carnegie’* new book, “Tri-
umphaaft Democracy, or Fifty Years’
March of the republic,” is a statistical
work which reads almost like a tale from
the Arabian Nights. Mr.* Carnegie was
bora a British stibjeet, but he has be
come a naturalized American, and has
extensive business interests here. While
still cherishing a warm affection for the
people among whom he was born, he
makes no secret of his detestation of the
monarchical form of government, and one
of the objects in’ view m presenting this
book to the public was the demonstra
tion of what he believes to-be a fact—that
America's wonderful' progress has been
due in large part to* its republican gov
ernment. As its title indicates, the book
is a graphic and most entrancing record
of the nrogress of the republic during
the past fifty years.
Few Americans realize that Texas alone
is larger than Austro-Hungary or Ger
many;- that California) is nearly half ns
large- again as Italy, and that Florida is
larger than England and Wales.
Speaking of the productive capacity of
the country, Mr. Carnegie says that the
whole quantity of cotton, used in the
world could bo grown on 10,000 square
miles, or less than one-fourteenth of the
soil of Texas,, yielding onebaleto* the
acre.
As to America’s capacity to absorb the
population which, is coming hither in
?uch volume as to<alarm many people, It
is pointed out that Belgium has 482 r ~
must necessarily have some value, for
the old Roman farmers were no fool*,
nor have been the old English and Scotch
farmers of the palmy days of their agri
culture. A great many American farm ;rs
grow oats and peas mixed, two and a
half bushels of oats and oue and a half
of peas, for both green and dry fodder,
and consider the crop exceedingly valu-
hovc ..
produced.’’—Netc York'Sun?
wised Rations.
Some animals are naturally limited to
one or a few kinds of food. Cattle do
well enough month after month on grass,
sented.
Flowers are
ency that some of the milliners even
make no use of feathers unless ordered.
The bow of beautifully fabricated ribbon
ha* also a grand reign.
Some of the new hosiery in lisle thread
is woven in vertical stripes of different
lengths over the instep and the front of
the stocking, while the back and lower
part will be of some strongly contrasting
color.
cvitli such thing* in any German family
*wt I have visited. The vegetables arc
Tally prepared with n sauce of drawn I year, and each season
jot. Roast beof is uot a German dish thing to their popularity.
11; until latelv it was very little known
Germany,. When they do prepare a
Vpiece of beef it is generally as a
ry pot-roast or ns Leef n la mode.
^ t dreadful thing that is mentioned as
.herring salad, is nothing more nor less
■than what the English call Salmagundi.
And os to the homed beefsteak, first of
Faill, they do not pretend that it is tho
f genuine thing, they call it cither nam-
| burger or Ereslauer beefsteak, and it is
r very much called for in German restau-
f rant by others as well as Germans. By
( the way, how often I have heard business
| men spc.'k of this or that dish that they
Shave eaten in these restaurants, and ask
I their wives if they could not find out
I how it was cooked and have it at home.
* “I think a gnat many readers of Good
Housekeeping will agree with me that it
would be a good thing if couutry board
ing housekeepers, and some city ones,
too, for that matter, would chop their
tough round steak that they give their
boarders, so that one could get one's teeth
through it and awallow it withont being
in danger of choking. The Californian
goes on to say: ‘The German family
tabic with its mysteries and abominations
is the severest trial which the American
has to undergo who submits him.elf to
the domestic life of the country.’
“Now I know from actual experience
that the German peasant is a mu:h bet
ter fed individual than most of our far
mers. He does not hare fresh meat any
hftencr, but what other dishes he has
►re properly cooked. There is not a day
but what he has some good nourishing
soup cf peas, brans, or lentils, and on
r Sunday a beef soup, with rice or barley,
| or various delirious dumplings. Then
i they arc not afraid to osc their eggs and
1 prepare them in every conceivable way;
[ while our farmers either allow them to
I rot in the barn, or wherever the hen
I chooses to lay them, or they oollect them,
I keep out a few for cake and send the rest
aarket.”
F shion Notes.
French lace is much worn.
The topaz is in favor again.
Jonquil yellow Is in favor.
Parasols in many coses match the bon
nets.
White cashmere is more fashionable
than mere cash.
Rembrandt brims are seen on some of
the new straw bats.
Bows of harmonizing colors are made
acco.ding to taste for dress trimming.
Some homespuns come in diagonals,
but the most of them come in country
wagons.
Overdresses are often lined with color
in harmony with or in contrast to tne
material of the dress.
Thc combination of Nile green and
pink, in high favor years ago, has been
again brought out in soft silks.
. Black straw hats, trimmed with fo
liage, arc worn with cream woollen cos
tumes tlrnt are trimmed with black.
Gold and silver hairpins in a variety
of styles are worn. Some of them are
exceedingly ornate, others quite plain.
Bangles, with their concomitants of
spquins and coins, continue to be worn—
silver ones being as much iu demand as
gold ones.
Embroidered hand-made linen is an
Irish corclty. It is made in white and says The t _
crcam-color and the dedgns are worked ‘ kept healthy by feeding succulent grass
in polished flax thread. ' in pc-n, with a yard for exercise. -
Despite their inexpensiveness, rough \ grass in the most succulent condition
straw hats remain — 1
and a tiger will thrive with nothing but
lean meat. But in the case of the human,
no matter how fond of a particular dish,
he loses relish for it whea allowed
nothing else for a number of meals, and
the craving for variety gives evidence o-f
necessities of the system, which are con
stantly varied with the changing circum
stances of health, employment and other
conditions. The fondness for variety
shown by fowls is equally significant of
real need. Fish, flesh, herbs and grain
are devoured by them with equal relish,
for though they commonly pounce upon
insects with greater avidity than —*-
grain, this is because it affords, a i
and a flock kept for awhile on animal
food will show the same greed for corn.
Judicious variety—vegetable, grain, meat
—is at all seasons necessary to best re
sults for young and old fowls. They will
not starve on com and water, nor will
they pay the best profit so kept. The
benefit derived from eating charcoal is
acknowledged, but pounded it Is not en
ticing to them. Cora burned on the cob,
and the refuse, consisting almost entirely
of the grains, reduced to charcoal and
still retaining their perfect shape, is
greedily taken, with marked improve
ment in health, and is shown by brighter
combs and increased average of eggs.
ivcnient to
• pasture pigs; under such circumstance,
"" e Lite-Stock \Journal, they may be
nexpensiveness, rough , grass in the most succulent condition is “ ."r
fashionable year after I given twenty-five per cent, may be de- , protection against frost
son seems to add some- i ducted from our figures. A pig will get 0 t t acre3 - ^is work
- » «
j. a large part of its living upon nutritious
Some of th; new chamois-colored hose ! R^ss for several months, but if confined
to wear with shoes or slippers of th; I wholly to grass will grow too slowly,
shade have white toes, soles and ' an “ mature as early as desired;
liccls, the same as dark hosiery. : on “ l( thc P'S 13 t0 ,J0 kc P l several
jasBsrf sis-AS I SSSr-sF-wf
, made by pig-feeders^ is in counting the
clearly in the ascend- ; value of growth made upon grass alone
sf ♦*■*• 1 as equal to growth midc upon grain, or
grass and grain together. When pigs
are pastured upon good grass and fed a
small amount of grain at' the same tim;
the growth made is ripened as fast as
made, and if the pigs wers sold directly
from pasture would not shrink, as in the
other care. When pigs have been fed
for some months upon grass alone, and
are taken from pasture to fatten, it is
settling upon plants. Under favor-1
able conditions of moisture and heat *
the contents of a microscopic spore
may push out a long, minute tube,
which, can; penetrate into any part Of the
potato plant ondgive rise to the fungus;
or may separate into several distinct por
tions (swarm spores), which burst
through the spore wall and become the
source of the p&r&sitic plant. The mature
plant which lives ia the tops and tub;rs
is very minute,, and can be seen only by
the aidof tbe microseope. It consists of
many colorless, branching, thread-like
structure. 1 *. These- penetrate the tissues
of the potato and Lei upon the juices,
so that it soon weikens and begins to
waste away. From the thread-like struc
tures tiny stalks aris*, assuming beautiful
plant like forms and bearing upon their
branches thc spores already referred to.
They live but a short time, bat the
thread-like structure is perennial and.
hardy; and from fragments of it new
fungi mar arise; It is said by some thnt
another kind of spore is produced which
can winter, and thus give rise to the or
ganism in another season. These are the
so-called resting spores, apparently for
the purpose of keeping the species over
certain periods, while the spores already
considered are produced rapidly, so as to.
hasten thc spread of the fungus under
favorable conditions. This minute micro
scopic plant is certainly a low form of
vegetable life, incapable of manufactur
ing food from the mineral kingdom, but
fastening upon other plants and feeding
upon their juices. A wet season supplies
conditions well adapted for its develop
ment, and hence we find the “rot” asso
ciated with such weather. There i* no
doubt that many spores are always more
or less present, but they are prevented
from being a source of trouble because
the weather is not suited for their growth.
Fruit Notes.
the blossoms drop from your
fruit tree*, commence spraying- them
with London purple or Paris green water
to destroy the insect pests. Do not fail
to spray the currant bushes, when worms
commence their work, with white pow
dered hellebore, a spoonful to a large
pail of water.
If you have only a small garden bod of
strawberries, cover them over with news
papers when in danger of frost. If large
beds of strawberries, burn brush heaps
tmd saturate boards with gas tar, and
over these throw sod and wet straw to
make a smudge.
Straw or hay scattered thickly over
rows of strawberries will protect from
frost. Two or three persons can prepare
on a number
pays, too, for
after such frost berries will sell high,and
thoso who have the largest crop will reap
the greatest profit*.
It will pay farmers and gardeners all
rer the country to plant peach, plum
and cherry pits and to grow them in nur
sery rows, letting th;m stand out through
the winter. Those that go through un
harmed may be planted out. In this way
hardy sorts may be struck that will stand
in localities where varieties now known
cannot be grown. Blackb rry and rasp
berry seed may be sown this summer,
from which to secure ironclads.
One cause for mildew on gooseberries,
grapes and the like is too much foliage,
or being grown with too thick tops.
Thin out thoroughly, and you will pre
vent the mildew to a gteat extent. Cur
rants and gooseberrie* should be well and
teen.
Should America' continue to double
her population, every thirty years, i :
of every twenty-five; as hitherto; she-will
in seventy years have attained the-pres
ent density of Europe, and her popula
tion will then reach 200,000;000. Should
the density Great Britain ever be at
tained hero there will be upward’ of
1,000.000,000 Americans.
The population!of Dakota has quad
rupled in-five years,, ond'.its wheat crop*
last year was over 30,.000,000 bushels,
which is twice-as great as the-entire crop
of Europe.
The growth:of American cities
A Queer Fish Found Only iu Nevada.
Besides containing the ordinary tput,
salmon trout, silver trout, * chubs and.
suckers, there is found in Pyramid Inke,
Nevada, a fish the like of which has
never been seen in any other part of the
world. This is what is called by tho
Indians the “coo-ee-waa” It is, proba
bly, tho ugliest fish ever seen in fresh
water. It has a head one-third of its
whole length, with a great, drooping,
sucker month, and is covered from end
torend with ugly, shaggy fins which form
s sort of mane, so that the fish must be
thoroughly trimmed—sheared, as it were
—before being sent to market. Also the
heads must bo cut off, as they would dis
gust any one but an Indian. When the
trimming and decapitation are completed,
what remains of the fish tastes like stur
geon. The coo-ee-waa makes its home
at the bottom of the deepest parts of the
lake, and is never seen except in the
season when it runs up the Truckee
River to spawn. The coo-ee-waa go up
the river in schools of tens of thousands.
They then swim upon the surface of the
water, like tho porpoise, with great
spla-hing and plunging. The whites first
saw these fish in the spring of 1860, at
the time of the Piute war. A company
of volunteers was encamped on the
Truckee. In the night their horses,
which were picketed on the bank of the
river, were stampeded. This caused an
alarm, and rushing out, the soldiers
heard great paddling and splashing in
the river. In the darkness they sup
posed that a Large force of Ihdians was
swimming the river to attack them, and
they opened fire into the water. They
fired away for an hour or two; seemingly
without effect, as the splashing and
plunging continued. Thc men were
much mystified, and though they ceased
firing they still believed the noise caused
by some device of the Indians; The next
morning, however, another large school
of the fish passed the camp, wheat the
caure of thc alarm in the night was fully
explained. The noise made by a large
school of the coo-ee-waa can be heard
three or four hundred yards. A specimen
of the coo-ee-waa was sent to the elder
Agassiz shortly after his return from
Brazil, and he pronounced it wholly new
and unique.
The waters of thc lake aontain no cray
fish, clams,, muscles, or any of the water
animals and reptiles usually found in
fresh water lakes and streams^—He to
York Sun.
THE NAKEb TRurat
Truth sat one sultry afternoon
In July, mayhap, or in June,
A limpid pool beside,
And in the rich adieu of day * ?
He put his princely suit away TXrvr .
And plunged into tha tide. • ? *nvri ;
Then from concealment lightly leapt T'
A nimble rascal* Lie yclept, >:$*.*.-
Who seized Truth’s panoply, , -
And said: “It is my style and size,
AtoncMMBMjWlMBarta '
That Lock voochsafeth me.”
And presently, when fresh and oool, <;
Truth issued from the placid pool
Rh»h*ng his radiant hair,
He found in lieu of vestment white
Wherewith his form was erst bedlght.
Deceit’s apparel there.
“Alas!” he cried, “my garb is gona
And this I never shall put on,
Not I, let blush who may!”
And thus it is the Lie, forsooth,
Goes robed right royally, while Truth
Is naked to thisday;
—George K. Camp, in Texas Siftings.
Turned the Tables,
less remarkable than that of the States “I came through Poughkeepsie one
and Territories. While London has re-1 remarked, a New York drummer;
quired thirty-five years to double her j must have been s
imputation, New York, including the
burbsr within a radius of eight miles
from the City Hall,, has doubled hers in
half that time.
Of the fifty priucipal cities of tho
Union,, the lea’st now having a popula
tion of 36,000; fifteen had no existence
in 1830.
Chicago is the most famous example.
“Ffty-five years ago it was a trading
post, where trappers and Indians bar
tered' their pelts for fire water and ammu
nition. In 1840 the population of Chi
cago was 4,500; ten years later* 30*000;
in ten years more. 112,000. It now ex
ceeds 700,000. Thissp'endid city leads
the world in three branches of industry:
She is pre-eminent as a lumber market,
as a provision market, and, strange an
tithesis, as a manufactory of steel rails.”
Mr. Carnegie lets his British readers
know that America is tho only country
in thc world which spends more money
upon education than upon war or prepa
rations for war. Great Britain does not
spend one-fourth as much, France not
one-eleventh, nor Russia one thirty-third
as much on education as on the army;'
While the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland expeltds annually
vacation time, for
about fifty Vassar girls gpt on. They
came into the car where I was, and one
of the prettiest of the whole lot took
part of my seat, while her companions all
stood around her within hearing dis
tance. She seemed to know that I was
a traveling man, for, said she, referring
to tho window: ‘Can’t I open that for
you I’ I thanked her, being so surprised
that I could not quite comprehend the
situation. Her companions, and, in fact,
everybody in the car, became interested,
and they all directed their attention to us.
‘Are you on your way home?’ she asked.
I told her I was out on a business trip.
‘Have you traveled much alone?’ ‘Quite
a good deal/ I replied, not at all pleased
with the unenviable position I was forced
to occupy. Without giving me a chance
to ask any questions, she continued:
'Can’t I buy you some fruit and oranges?’
replied.
pamphlet
( I don’t care about any, 1
‘Wouldn’t you like a book
to read? I have some in my traveling
bag. No? Well, I know you’ll let me
turn the next seat, so as to give yon more
roonp’ I left the seat and told her there
waS absolutely nothing that I wanted.
As I made ray way out to the smoking-
car nearly everybody laughed, including
upon education less than $33,500,090, J the Yr.ssar girls. One of the latter took
the United States expends $93,000,000, I my place. To this day I never see a
or more thnn the whole of Continental! woman coming toward my scat that I
Europe. j don’t think of that experience. I’ve
In contrasting the agricultural and heard men say they would like to have it
Myrtle green and pink,violet and blue, ; °^f n found that they will npt gpin
different shades of* green, black and
brown, are some of the startling combina
tions; the lattet i
ight on- grain-feeding for several
weeks, because the grain is all used to
quite a peculiarity of 1 ri P en sappy growth- upon grass;
this season. The melange of colors makes j therefore pigs should alwnys be fed grain
dressing a thing of danger; unless the
mixture is perfect all is ruined.
Island of Santa Catalina.
The island of Santa Catalina, to which
: with grass.
How to Keep Fowls.
For a general purpose fowl, writes a
! correspondent of the Rural Hew Yorker,
| I would select the light Brahma for
crossing on the common stock, bccJU-:
Tissue Flowers and Parties.
Tissue paper flowers are the ftxninino
craze now. Thc show windows are re
splendent with tulips, roses, daisies, pop-
[ pies and violets made out of tissue paper.
[ and young ladies of society are devoting
L hours to acquiring thb art of their man-
I ufacturc.- It is a pastime particularly
interesting, and it is remarkable what
beautiful floral effects are produced with
colored paper, a little wire, a little glue
and a pair of scissors. An enterprising
manufacturing company has taken ad van-
k tags of the craze, and has put up in boxes
nt of different colored tissue
i a small coil of fine wire and
a of very fine soft ruober pipe,
1 for stems. These boxes, to-
"i a pamphlet of instructions,
Senator Fidr has suggested the transpor- ! c rossmg on the common steex, because
tation of the untamable Apaches, is rep- i-* h ' ° ffs P nn S w a large, well-developed,
resented as being a natural prison, too ! handsome fowl, very hirdy and free
good for the proposed occupants. The i ‘, roni disease. Moreover, it fattens read-
island is eighteen miles lone and from ! * nd a, T ays b ^ n ^ 3 the higtest price
three fc> seven miles b:oul, lying nine- 1 ” * h - a "~ k *
teen miles from San Predo, on the i
laud. In topography the island is rough
and mountainous, one peak rising to the
altitule of 2,110 feet. The shores are
reeky and precipitous, especially on the
southern coast. A growth or thorny
bushes covers the whole island. It, how
ever, possesses an abundance of water,
and its climate is said to excel the soft
the market. Such birds are very do
cile, and the hens are good layers of
large eggs. Fence pohltiy in rather than
let them spoil thc garden; but don't con
fide them in small pens. Make roomy
yards for them and they will do better
than when allowed to roam about nt
will, always seeking an opportunity to do
mischief. I have never noted any’differ-
balminess of the mainland. Formerly it ! 5 nd laad and those fro ™ * tbcrs ; but
™ tho homo of the Indian,. Since the ' 1 Trould not a lTlsc W>°» to bur fowls
advise anyone to buy fowls
. and transfer them from very dry to very
days of civilization, however, it has been ? na tP3 ” ? *er it-icm.from very dry
utilized for sheep and goat ranges. A , ' ind ' the egg, under
- ——- ! fni hnn «« gom cs convenient after they
receive 1 from th; dealer. If
ranges.
few years ago 20,009 sheep and 10,'
goats found sustenance upon it Vege
tation, partly owing to the abundance of
ful hca
have be:
you cannot set thraa immediately, un-
wito,’ krep/ ili tire'yrer rou”od! I PKfc ‘hem cerefully end plnce them '
heavily mulched with any coarse litter.
Bugs may be kept away from squashes,
cucumbers and the like if the latter
plants are covered with frames six to
■ight inches high and a foot square. Do
pastoral products of the United State
with those of foreign countries^ the nu
tho$ is careful to keep in view the fact
that in 1880, when the statistics were
collected, only 15 per cent, of our tot il.
area was improved land. Yet the repub
lie heads the list of agricultural and pas
toral producers with an annual valuation
of $3,020,000,000. Russia comes next
at no great distance with $2,545,000,000.
Then follow the German empire and
France, the former with $2,280,000,000
and the lr.tter with $2,220,000,000.
In the fifth place comes Austro-Hun-
f ary, and in the sixth Great Britain with
1,230,090,000, a prodigous output of
land products for her small area.
On the subject of manufacturing the
author give* some ccgent reasons for
the belief that before the close of the
present century the United States will be
the greatest manufacturing country in
the world. America now makes one-
fifth of the iron and one-fourth of the
steel of the world and is second only to
Great Britain. The cotton industries of
this country are increasing nearly three
times as fast as those of the rest of the
world. Between 18C0 and 1880 the con
sumption of cotton by onr factories was
increased by 140 per cent., whereas the
consumption in Great Britain gained but
25 per cent. So, too, the American
woolen industry has increased since 1860
six times as fast as that of Great Britain.
More yards of carpet are manufactured in
icr an ^ ar °und Philadelphia alone than in
to I the whole of Great Britain.
tried on them, but no man likes to bo
made a fool of, and he certainly appears in
that light when a lot of school girls start
Food Blown Into a Bird.
In an article on “Plebeian and Aristo
cratic Pigeons,” by F. Satterthwaite, in
Harpers, he says: “I remember once wit
nessing the process in operati >n ia Lon
don. Thc feeder was an elderly man,
with flabby, sallow cheeks and protrud-
PITH AND POINT.
Kidnappers—Soothing syrups,
A lay-figure—The price of eggs.
Practising Solicitors—Street beggars^,
One of thc oldest knight caps ia thaa
helmet.
Colored servants make the best confi
dants. They always keep dark.
Washingtonian? are hAppy pen
Every one of them is a capitalist.--.
Press.
Lots of fellows who knew nothing oft
art before the war can draw a pcqsioa
easily now.
Business is dull in New York now,bub
the chiropodist always has something on
foot.—Xew York He ire. '
“I will appear in print to-morr^|«V, <
said thc young lady as she put the l£t
stitch in her calico frock.
A base-bail reporter puts down more
strikes than any military in this great
and glorious country.—Sporting Life.
“Truth is mighty, but doesn’t prevail
here,” is what a Philadelphia man has
tacked above his gas meter. —Philadelphia
Herald.
Of all the labor agitations the most
severe is that obsirved in the tramp whea
some one ask9 him to saw a few sticks of
wood.—Boston Post.
A somewhat weather-beaten tramp,
being asked what was the matter with
his coat, replied: “Insomnia; it hasn’t^
liad a nap in ten years.”
A correspondent asks how to serve a
dinner. If it is a good dinner and you
are hungry, just eat it. That’s thi way
ice would serve a dinner.—Siftings.
What adds to the unpopularity of tho
cyclone is that, while it blows away al
most everything on the farm, it has never
been known to take the mortgage.—Chi
cago Tribune.
The Boston Herald says: “One great:
need of the South is more savings
banks.” The greatest need of the South
is something to put iu thc savings banks.
—Macon Telegraph.
“Give us, O give us a man who sing»
at his work,” says Carlyle. Oh, ye3; giro
him to us; deliver him into our hands.
He occupies the next office, and we can’t,
get at him.—Boston Post.
Book Agent—“Now, then, here is-
Bunyan’a Pilgrim’s Progress.” Aunt.
Susan—•‘No, sar; I’se got two bunions
already jan^lcy’s never been no help to*
dis yer ^M^pProgress
IX HIS OLOKT. ^ **
Where’er he goe* the people bow,
And doff their bats with reverent sign;
And ladies say: Just see him now—
The famou* pitcher of our nine!”
-Tid-Bit*.
No, Selina, this fishery quarrel be
tween the United States and Canada
isn’t a dispute as to whether it was a..
Yankee or a Canuck that caught the big
gest cod. Some playful pelican has been
imposing upon your credulity.—Somer
ville Journal.
Buxom widow (at evening party)—“Doe
you understand the language of .flowers.
Dr. Crusty?” Dr. Crusty (an old Imche—
lor)—“No, ma’am.” “You don’t know if
yellow means jealousy?” Dr.. Crusty-—
luwbuou. u «uta..w. i#w . The inhabitants of England, says Mr.
net take these frames away until the I Carnegie, can have no conception of di3-
vi. es fill them up. If in danger from late I £?» ce ,. a f understood by the American,
frest, cover the frames over with heavy I T,ie distance from New l ork to Chicago
DVe - , .tv, I exceeds that from London to Rome,
We are oftea asked if it will answer to
transplant old strawberry plants to force
bed where one has not" younj
plants. We have often taken up oil
plants, trimmed off the top* and cut off
the roots, and transplanted with good
success. Old plants send out runners,
and more of them, in quicker time than
young plants, hence they form good
matted rows of young plants by fall.
It is a good plan,where strawberry beds
have been mulched all winter, and it is
intended to leave the mulch on to keep
the;fruit clean, to pass over the beds and
loosen up the mulch a little so that the
land will not tour. J
-'' If y$u want, beautiful evergreens cut
between the eggs from birds*on high, fca.k’top and s.de branches, especially
3 — 1 — J •’ ■ • y.fcenVwUng. Gita thick bottom at the
start. ’Never trim up evergreens from the
bottom, leaving an unsightly body with
a little bushy top..
If ycur garden is heavy and soj
“•.vi. awuj e i ecu .11 me 1 w iuUuU. f , , . — . ...
In Mine plrt, there un vit field! of , Te *= 1 . only one layer in depth,
and keep them in a cool (hot cold) room!
Turn them every day, so that the yolk
may not settle to one sidel In this
way they may be kept good "Tor'several
days. I do not find any difference in the
shape, size, quality, or number of eggs,
whether cocks are kept with the
flock or not; but il I were kecningjbmia'
mounUdns" and an'attempt'wire* K Production of egg, oalflWld
wild oats. The waters about the island
abound in fish, thousands of which can be
seen swimming near thc shore. The
island is a portion of the James Lick
estate, and negotiations were once com
menced with a syndicate of English cap
italists for its sale at the price of $2,000,-
000. Lead has been discovered upon the
develop the lead, but subsequently aban
doned. A tunnel 1,000 feet long and a
shaft 400 feet deep remain as relics of
its mining era.—Sim Francises Call.
not keep many, . if any, cocks, as they
would consume considerable food and
give no return whatever for it. In sum
mar nothing equals grass a* a green food,
is a goad plan to draw on clear sand and
mix it in. Coal ashes are also good, as
well a* sawdust, mixed through the soil.
It is said that air-slaked lime thrown
through the plum trees after each rain,
or in the morning when wet with dew,
will stop the work of the curculio.—
Fruit Record.- *
The largest fish-breeding establishment
in the world is at Howletoun, Scotland,
near the battle field of Bannockburn.
There are thirty ponds supplied with
water drawn from springs. Eggs and
breeding fish are sent from this establish
ment to nearly eveiy part of the world.
while Can Francisco is farther from the
Atlantic coast than Quebec is from Lon
don. The journey from Philadelphia to
New Orleans is nearly twice as great as
that from London to St Petersburg,
while Jerusalem, Cairo. Cyprus, Constan
tinople. Astrakan and Teneriffe are all
nearer London than Salt Lake is to Bos
ton, and Salt Lake is only two-thirds of
the way across the continent.
During the civil war the frontier de
fended by General Grant exceeded in
length a line drawn from London across
the channel and continent to Constanti
nople, thence through Asia Minor and
Palestine to the great pyramid at Cairo,
and thence still on up the Nile as far as
the first cat tract.
The American railway system, starting
fifty-five years ago at nothinghas reached,
in 1885,128,000 miles of line. The whole
of Europe has not so many. The whole
of Europe has not built as many miles of
railway as the republic has during some
recent years, and in 1880 the whole world
did not bnild so many.—Chicago Herald.
The greatest number of American
inventions on any cne subject in 1885
are those relating to electricity, the i
ber last year being 1,358, or 5.78 per
cent, of the whole number, which was
23,330. The number of the last patent
issued in 1885 was 333,493 ; of these
about 265,672 are now in force (perhaps
a few more than that number), which is
about the number that was granted up to
the first of last January.
In the whole of North Carolina it seems
there is not a single savings bank.
idg eyes, long matted hair, and his
general appearance was that of a man
who had just emerged from a coat, of tar
and feathers. In his youth he had been
one of the chief performers in tho ‘Pas
sion Play’ at Oberammergau, but in the
sere and yellow leaf he had degenerated
into a ‘squab fattener,’ in which calling
he was eminent.
“In a tub of water was a quantity of
mill'.t and split peas. The feeder crammed
his mouth with them until his cheeks
swelled out to hideous proportions.
Catching up a young bird and inserting
its open beak between his lips tho feeder
injected its crop full, and in a second
you could see. as Mr. Tony Weller would
remark, ‘it a-swellin wisiblv before your
wery eyes.* The astonished bird at once
assumed a complacent look. With the
greatest rapidity bird after bird was
picked up and the food thus blown into
each.
“The feeders got about two cents for
each dozen birds thus fed, and when it
is remembered that they can fill a bird
with the rapidity which excels the me
chanical bottling of soda water, it is
easily seen that the professors are enabled
to earn a tolerably good living at their
novel calling. The birds are fed by this
process twice a day, and in several days
become fat and very tender.”
President Tyler's Son.
One of the most striking figures seen
Washington is the son of ex-President
Tyler. He is now an old man. He ia
bent with weight of years. His long,
white, patriarchal beard sweej-s down
from his venerable face, nearly covering
his bioad breast. He wears a soft’hat
slouched well down over his deeply-set
eyes, and is dressed generally in a care
less suit of badly-cut black. He is
rarely noticed, ana walks the street to
most people unknown. Yet in his day
he was one of the great beaus of Wash
ington. He was considered one of the
handsomest men who ever graced the so
ciety of Washington. When his father
was President he was the leader among
the young men who went in Washington
society. He was tall then, straight a*
an arrow, and with a most magnificent
persence, if one can judge from thc
glowing tales of his contemporaries. He
used to wear a long, shaggy coattr'mmcd
with Astrakhan fur, which w:is in that
day a rarity. When he walked the ave-
swinging his cane, twirling his
i. Yellow means biliousness.’*'
—Chicago Herald.
“Is this fish fresh?” asked Mrs. Brown,
of the dealer. “Yes, marra,” was the re
ply ; “leastwise it oughter be. It hasn’t
been near salt water for a week, to my
knowledge, and Bill Sinker had it a day
or two afore I got it.” Mr.*. Brown didn’t
have' fish for dinner that day.—Boston-
Transcript.
Young Genius (who has had the talk,
to himself, and, as usual, about himself)
—“Well, good-bye, dear Mrs. Meltham.
It always does me good to c^me and seer
you! I had such a headache when I
came, and now I’ve quite lost it” Mrs.
Meltham—“Oh, it’s not lost. I’ve got.
it.”—Punch. .
OCR MEETING, ^
Her eyes me; mine PI
Nor turned away in fear, ) •
As in their depths so clear
I could define
A minute imagtf ©£ my very s?lf.
And yeti know
She had no thought of me, -
For she was wax, you see, -j.
A fo.mtoshow
New styles of bcnnets on a window shelf.
—New Haven News. -
A cate little girl of three h the delight
of a Washington boulevard family for
her prettiness a* well a* for the bright
and odd things she says. The other Uay
a company of militia passed down the
street in front of her home and her min
ute black-and-tan barked furiously
through the window pane at them. The
little girl arose in alarm and said: “Shut .
the door, mamma! Fido will bite the
army .—Chicago News. -
Wife (at dinner, anxiously): “Do you..
, that Mr. Robinson will lend
you the money you wan:;” Husbind
(dubiously): “Idon't know. I saw him.
this morning, but he said he would let
the matter rest for a day or two.” Wife
(struck■with a brilliant Idea): “Why
don’t you bring him home to dinner witlr.
you to-morrqw?” Husband (disparag- ^
brown mustache, with Ids fur coat
thrown back, be wW hilled as the hero
of his time. Women bowed down and
worshiped before him, and the number
of his conquests was legion. To-day he
is a poor, broken old man who walks,in
significant and unknown, about the
streets where he once reigned as a social
king.—New York World.
A Xeir Kind of Fish.
We have seen a new kipd of fish, which:
certainly presents some very odd features.
The largest ones are not more than two’-
inches long, and the smallest so smalt ifc-
v.-ould require a microscope to di tingnish.
it from an atom of green moss. They
Lave large blrek eyes, set prominently in
the head, which is the largest part of the*
fish. The tail* are red ana forked!..
There is no numbering their legs, whiebu
seem to perform thc offics of tins while?
they swim on their back*. Several per
sons hare examined them, among tha--
number being some who have made fisto
culture a study, but none of them caov
tell iis what they reilly arc. —Macon ( "
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