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The Summer Girl.
i bor hair be tt’ack. or her hair be red,
> s .-»rey«i be basal, or brown,
8be • fain r by far than the lily or row,
The girl with the muslin gjwa.
ytiezs&sss&jsz
la not ho lair in the mon.h of June
A* the u.rl with the muslin gown.
• On nothing fainr upon the earth
The 'ini i r the mom looks down;
‘8h** i sweet and fmJi a* the morning breeze,
The girl in the madia gown.
J|fp —Boston Courier.
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A Banket of Pansies.
Among arrangements of flowers for the
ing room table, none have truer
imis than may be gained from a hand
fu! of some simple little flower placed
loosely and easily in a receptacle of quiet
form and color, Pansies should be largely
grown for cutting; they last longer in
water than most summer flowers, and
their varied markings, rich coloring and
▼tlvet-1 ke texture make them worthy of
the closest examination. They have an
.almost human Interest from the varying
expression of their innocent fa e-like
flowers, while not the least of their
•charms is a delicate and delightful scent.
They should be cut long, with a liberal
supply of stem and leaf, when they will
readily fall into natural, easy bandies;
cut with the flower-stalk alone, thoy are
less easy to manage apd never look 6r|
last so Tvpll.— " '
Woman
“If you want proof that a woman i*
4norc cautious than a man," said a drum-
traveling. A woman never I __ I
start for a train so early that she will I
have forty minutes to wait. She never
forgets to ask her husband or male escort
if her trunks are checks d. She never
forgets to pause with one foot on the car
step'and one hind on the hind rail to
. inqu’rc if she is on the right train. She
never tor git i to nsk the conductor if she
has to change cars before reaching her
-destination, and if she is sure to make a
connection, and if the train stop* at the I
place she wants to get off. She never
loses a ticket or train check, never drop*
her hat out of the window, never permits
k herself to go to sleep within 100 miles of
! her destinat’on f<ft fear that she may ride
* by, never fails to get a whole scat for
jk herself nnd another for her luggage,never
ft walks fr jm one car to another unless the
train Is standing still, and never gets up
from her seat to leave a train without
turning to look and see if she has forgot
ten anything. I ll bet on a woman for
traveling, every time.**— Chicago Herald.
An Indian Wedding.
A tourist ip Dakota recently! attended
an Indian wedding, and describes it in a
letter to the Boston Traveller. He says
that there was a large tent, with the front
• opened, and a row of stakes covered
with canvas, nuking a fence upon each!
side leading to it. Outside was quite a
small tent trimmed with all kinds of
pretty feathers, and over the door a wild -
• cat’s skin trimmed with beads and por
cupine quills. In the large tent, bnclc ini
tho centre, against a very gay curtain, sat
^ a young girl, a half breed, not more than
.fifteen years old, dressed in a skirt aud
jacket with bright buttons nnd boar’s
toctb, her hair long and black and falling
in front, while a wreath of feathers on
her head completed her wedding outfit.
All around were ornaments, and yards of
pink, r^4 and yellow calico as draperv,
and on a lit t’c green trunk near the bride
sat the old chief wrapped in a buffalo
robe, looking like a great bear.
Along on one side of the tent sat the
women and girls, and upon the other side
the men, young and old. They were all
painted frightfully and wore dretdful
ornaments, bright blankets and feathers,
nnd most of the men had on but little!
clothing. Near the middle of this group
■ were piled the provisions of the feast, (
meat, bread and boiled corn.
Tho ceremonies began with the old
chief drumming upin a drum and making
a shout and noire like an nnitnal. lie then
rose and walked around the girl several
times, got on his knees, nnd again walked
around hor, knocked bor from side to
side, then smoothed her hair, gave her
sonu thing that he called medicine, then I
took a dun nnd placed it licforehcr, knelt
down nnd took a sip of what was in it, ns
sho did also. Ho then stood up, went
through with so ne mumbling over her
head, and then began to pass the feast,
first to tho women anu then to the
. men.
The girl took off her cay outside robe,
nnd it was given to her mother. Under
neath she hid a short blue dress, which
was taken off, nnd when the eating was
concluded tho poor little girl slipped out
of the tent in a little plain pink calico
dress, and, with bare feet and legs, look
ing frightened and cold, weni to her
own tent all alone. Then they were
ready for the dance.
What a Bouquet Did.
These Paris bnulcvard flower dealers,
writes a correspondent, hive wonderful
taste for arrang ng flowers. There is o:
of them, 3Ime. Lion, whose reputation ...
Euroncnn ever since an incident with
which she happened to be connected got
into the papers.
Ono of the Secretaries of the French
Embassy at St. Petersburg fell in love
with ono of the ladies of honor to the
Empress. Unluckily for the young di
plomatist, she was already eng ;ged to be
married to. a very wealthy and titled
Muscovite, but she could not help show
ing her preference for the noble Frcnch-
roublcs. At the sight of it the young
lady nearly fainted. Surely it .was im
possible tor her dear little diplomatist
to ever excel such magnificence. The
other Isdiea of honor and all tho e pres
ent show.d t •> appreciation cf the r
countryman’s love token.
With a mocking smile on his lips tin
Count stepped forward, holding in his
hand two gilded boxes. In political
language he sail that ons of the boxes
contained a bouquet for the lady be
loved; the other bdd a few flowers which
he humbly begged that the Empress
would deign to ac ept. Then he handed
the two ladies each her bouquet, and im-
dlately all th:se present saw thst hs haJ
woo; tor never before was there rach a
lovely combination of color and perfume
as in those which he himself had brought
from Paris. For, the instant that the
gage had been thrown ddwn, he applied
for leave of absence; it took nearly two
daya to get it, and then he started for
Paris. Arriving there he rode straight
to a famous flower shop and told the pro
prietress what he wanted. That night
at eight o’clock he was on his way back
to Russia, and in the large bosket, which
he looked carefully after day and night,
were niftos, souvenirs de JIailmai-on,
and gjrdcnia, and these three most lovely
roses were set about with white lilacs.
Such a bouquet was never seen in the
Russian capital and the Empress withont
delay awarded the Count the young lady's
hand. They were married and are now
living in Vienna, to which embassy he
was promoted only a few months ago.
Fashion Notes.
India and China silks arc trimmed
with lace.
Vests are outlined by passementerie or
embroidery.
Black and white printed hosiery are
among the novelties.
White and ecru cotton grenadines arc
are among the summer novelties.
Camcl’s-hair cloth, in light colors, i
combined with bright tinted surah.
White dresses for home wear arc in
general use by persons in mourning.
The dust wraps are so pretty, there is
AGRICULTURAL.
doubt that they will be very popular.
The cost of making a plain dress of in
expensive material is three times that of
the fabric.
Full skirts, richly embroidered, are
worn with double-breasted jacket bodices
with revere.
Very many of the new bodices are
edged with silk ball trimmings or with
lace quillings
Pearls in Russia are considered as gems
of bad luck and are never worn by super
stitious brides.
Lustrous silk-warp white materials are
nployed for mourning dresses for in
formal occasions.
Bows are again in constant use. Em
broidered and beaded trimmings are usu
ally in panel style.
Materials for tennis costumes, with fig
ures of the accessories of the game, have
ribbons to correspond.
Cheap ornamentation of any kind is
out of style, and it is no longer good form
to wear trash in jewels.
White wool ulsters lined with satin
and trimmed with deepred or brown vel
vet are tho latest novelties.
The mode of showing a balaycusof the
same color or a shade harmonizing or
contrasting is still popular.
Large buttons are used to trim dress
panols. The rosary beads, now some
what passe, are utilized as buttons.
Many of the imported costumes have
full plastrons of cream-colored crepe,
which may bo removed at pleasure.
Polonaises a la princcsse, with apron
drapery in front, have long, full vests,
plaited or gathered, of the same material
or of contrasting color.
Short mantles reaching to the waist
line have sling sleeves and the fronts have
scarf drapery crossing the breast and
fastened at the left side of the waist,long
ends depending below the knees.
Some summer dressesof cotton goods
and foulard are in Pompadour and Indian
designs. A number of these have round
skirts in plain colors, such as reddish
brown, gray and blue for wear under the
light fancy cotton fabrics. A variety of
white dresses are made for misses and
children. There are also linen suits in
red or blue.
Solidified Skim Milk.
Ii connection with the late spring
show of the Royal Dublin Society the
Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland
held a dary conference, at which a num
ber of good papers were read and dis
cussed, several novel suggestions making
their app.arance on tue occasion. Mr.
Gilbert Murray, treating the subject of
skim milk and the difficulty of )ts dis
posal, exhibited specimens of dried.f-kim
milk, which can be manufactured at a
trifling cost. This article will keep for
an indefinite time, Ls perfectly soluble
in hot water, and Mr. Murray believes
that the manufacture will become popu
lar that the dried skim milk will be
largely used both for culinary purposes
and for stock-rearing, and that it cannot
fail to relieve the now congested milk
market and revive the trade. Professor
McConnell urged that Ire'and,which
produce butter second to none in
world, should meet the foreign producers
by employing steam-driven butter-work
ing machinery on a large scale, as is now
done in the north of France and other
parts of Europe, purchase fairly good
butter, mix it, wash it, and pack It in
neat, tidy firkins or packages, In ten,
twenty, or one hundred ton lots, of one
uniform quality, apd so command a regu
lar market.
Feeding Growing Figs.
The hog has usually been fed as . ne
were capable of digesting all that could
be crammed into his stomach, and he has
been treated as if he were as hardy as a
wild boar, and could endure extremes of
heat, cold, filth and neglect. Now, the
hog can only digest a certain amount of
food within a given time, and when he
has eaten too much he suffers in conse
quence, and especially if the food is of n
kind not adapted to his requirement His
digestive organs can bo disarranged as
easily as can those of tho horse, and filth
taken into the system will cause him to
become diseased the same as is peculiar
to humans. The accepted theory re
garding cholera now is that it is a form
of typhoid fever, and if this is true there
is but one conclusion to arrive at, which
is that filth is at the bottom of the diffi
culty. The eating of filth is bad enough,
but the drinking of filthy water is worse,
as the animal is then thirsty, and the
filth, being in a soluble condition, is at
once carried to every portion of the body.
The supposition that tho kidneys cause
the impurities to be eliminated is true
only when the animal is in a healthy con
dition. If the surroundings are filthy,
the pores of the body will be closed.
If, in feeding hogs, the fanner will
abandon the practice of attempting to
keep them in an excessively fat condi
tion while they are growing he will find
that they will entail less labor of man
agement and be more thrifty, while the
excellent health in which he will find
them when ready for being fattened will
enable them to take on more fat and at
less cost than to keep them fat the whole
year. All that is required with growing
Sham Mushrooms.
“You notice on the bill of fare that
your turtle soup is but ten cents more per
plate than mock turtle soup,” said a
stranger in a great gilded eating house.
'Calipash nnd Calipee—green fat—an
histone delicacy, famed in the history of
the world's metropolis as the a?me of
epicurean delight, for ten cents more
than a fried meat ball. But the ago likes
to th'nk it is eating turtle soup. It
sounds rich, therefore the veally counter
feit. I am going to cat a Spanish ome
let,’* continued the stranger, changing
the subject. The stranger gave his order
pigs is to afford them a variety of food
ana to keep their quarters clean. Above
all give them as much fresh water as they
can drink. If slop is fed, place it in tr
trough, where it will be eaten up clean,
instead of being scattered about to fer
ment. Slop is not really filthy food. It
is only when it is in a state of decom
position and filled with disease germs
that it becomes injurious; but to compel
pigs to cat where they have deposited
manure, or to drink water that has been
impregnated with the same, will cause
disease to break out in any herd.
Apple Pomace for Feed.
Dr. Goessman, in his third annual re
port of the Massachusetts Experiment
Station, says:
The valne of apple pomace for feeding
purposes depends largely, if otherwise in
good condition, on the amount of dry
matter it contains. In our case, the lat
ter varied, when fresh from the mill,
from 15 to 20 per cent., making 17.5 per
cent, the average result.
The same circumstance applies to the
relative fodder value of the wliole apple.
The amount of dry matter found in the
whole apples did not, in our case, differ
essentially from that found in the various
pomac's.
The omaee is richer in nitrogenous
matter u an the apple from which it has
been produced.. The money value of its
fodder constituents is usually assumed
to be, pound for pound, one-third higher
than that of the whole apple which
served for its production.
A well matured apple yields in a good
mill from fifty-five to sixty per cent,
of pomace. European authorities (E.
Wolff) consider the money value of the
fodder constituents contained in good
varieties of apples and pears somewhat
higher than that contained in an equal
weight of turnips, and those of the apple
Unwed oil. one pint: melt in a kettle
otct m alow fire. Then pour into a tub
of cold watir, and with handf we t
creased work the wholr together initJ
well mixed. I hare found it conrcmcnt
to work it into about Laif-pojad La la.
These, if wrapped in good rnajila imp r,
will keep good, read/ fo- use, for Tear .
It is also a good salve lor wound i or
bruises. , . ,
To cut limbs off, I u e a twelve-mch-
b!ade mitre saw, twelve teeth to the inch,
each filed sharp to cut eith r way. Th s
is used left or right-handed, and has a
pin in the handle which is often con
venient to hang it by.
For carrying wax, a piece of tallow to
gree -c the hands while handling it facili
tates the bu ines*. The ingrafter needs
a nnall hammer and grafting chisel, a
blade something like a razor, of best
steel, the handle a wedge turned on one
side. Up the tree I use an oval pail, size
about eight quarts, with a small partition
for the grafts and hook on tho handle to
hang it by. I usually cut each graft with
four buds; the lower one about the mid
dle of the wedge, when inserted is below
the top of the stock, and often grows to
a gooa strong limb even after a graft is
broken off.
If a scion is crooked I cut so it will
curve upward or downward. For a small
tree or limb not over one inch in diame
ter one graft is sufficient. All natural or
seedling trees have two to three times as
many hmb i as they sh >uU have to bear
fruit, and most orchard trees are too
thick, hence only the best limbi are
grafted, selecting these on the upper and
northwest sides, less on the lower sides,
to make better balarced tops when neces
sary.
If a limb is over three inches in diam
eter where cut off, it wilFbc apt to decay
before the grafts unite solid over the
top. Two inches or less is’ about the
right size. If the limb leans, a place is
se ect .d that is smooth on both sides so
it will split straight, and grafts inserted
on the sides, not top and bottom, so the
outside wood of each is as near even as
possible, and top and sides of stalk, where
cut or split, perfectly waxed over.
If the work is rightly done, with knife
blade for whittling grafts kept with a
keen razor edge, and grafts used in a few
moments after being whittled, when the
weather is dry, every apple or pear
Taft set from April 1 to Juno 15 in
jealthy trees in my locality will grow.
So also with every cherry and plumgraft
set before the buds open. A tree whose
body is eight to fifteen inches in diameter
requires eight to sixteen drafts, placed
far enough apart to climb among them
for the fruit, grafting such limbs bo that
those left can be removed in a few years
without injury to the tree. Top enough
should be left at all times to keep the
roots healthy.
I have climbed trees this spring where
too many grafts were inserted some years
ago, say sixty to seventy in a tree, where
twenty to twenty-five would have been
much better. These have grown to
long, slender limbs, too thick to cut
around among them. Such can never be
pruned into good shape. The best trees
are those where no large limbs were ever
cut, with strong branching tops, so a
man can readily climb to all parts with
out a ladder and pick nearly every apple,
or cut any outside scion wanted.
BUILDING A SHIP.
The Mlnintnra Model—An Immense
Blackboard with a Life-Size
Drawing—An Army of Riv-
ctera-The Canlkcr
Captain Smith, Superintendent of the
Globe Ship Building Company’s yards,
is a graduate from the great shipyards
in England. Among the vast crowd of
guests who gathered to witness the
launch of the steel steamer Spokane was
a lady, who asked: "Captain Smith,
please tell me how you build a ship.” It
was a brief question but the captain, po
litely answered that it would take a day
to.answer it. A Plain Dea'er represent-*
ative heard the question and reiterated
it. The Captain and the stuff at tho
Globe yards,having been relieved of some
of the pressure of business incident to
launching the vessel, consented to an
swer some of the reporter’s questions.
The first step in constructing a vessel
like the Spokane, is to make the draw
ings. It is a matter of vastly greater im
portance than drawing the plans of a
house, for while—like the house archi
tect—the ship designer desires to attain
symmetry, he must achieve the more im
portant end of strength and so construct
the vessel that she will with the greatest
case and speed plow tho water with her
immense load. Hence there is a more ;
important reason than beauty for the
trend of every line.
Having determined on the plan of the
boat, an exact miniature model of her is
made. The model would be the delight
of the small boy as a toy but for the fact
that it is, as it were, cut in two in the
middle and half of it glued to a board
and suspended in the shipbuilder's office.
Perpendicular and horizontal lines on
this mcdel divide the little ship's surface
into small rectangles. The perpendicu
lar lines mark the frames that are to form
the vessel, and are numbered from ono
upward. There were over 130 of these
frames in the Spokane. Thus every
frame has a number and an individuality
of its own. The lines running length-
5 of the boat arc the “strokes,” indi
cating the strips of metal with which she
is to bo covered. These strokes are let
tered A, B, C, etc. The lines vary to
suit the form of the ship. Thus the
model of one-half of the shin is divided
into small sections, each differing from
the other in size and shape, and each
having a designating number and letter.
The sections of iron for the sides arc
cut in accordance with tho patterns thus
laid out.
AH the work of designing is not yet
done, however. Connected with the
Globe company's office is a large shed,
over which is a flat roof. This extensive
roof forms an immense blackboard on
which the ship is laid out life size with
exact measurement, Just think of a
blackboard large enough for the full-size
drawings of a ship 265 feet long!
It is not the purpose of this article to
take the reader through the details of
building n ship, many of which would
be uninteresting, but rather to point out
such of the work as is attractive to a
novice. Whon the steel plates are ready
to bo riveted to the vessel’s side. An
army of riveters arrive. The Globe ship
building company employs in a busy
time over 250 men nnd disburses $3,000
a week in wages. Tho riveters are to a
great extent a nomadic class of workmen,
going from one iron shipyard to another
in various citios. They are paid a certain
price per rivet. They travel and work
gangs of four, three men and a boy
The Japanese Capital.
Tokio covers an area ot 100 square
miles, but not until 1604 did it begin to
be a city. From that time to this, how
ever, it has grown constantly. It is a
charming place,and there are many beau
ties to be found within its boundaries—
parks and temples, the one rich in colors
of flowers, the wonderful chrysanthe
mums (the Mikado's crest) and camellias
fair and faultless as those brought to us
over the sea, the dwarf and grotesque
cypress growths and the ponds of bril
liant goldfish (some two feet long) swim
ming in summer time beneath the broad,
blue-green leaves and pink flowers of the
lotos. The temples are as rich in color
as tho gardens, and sparkling in gold and
jewels, with carvinge as intricate and
ever different as the very foliage of the
parks. Here azfi statues to Buddha of
colossal proportions, and here the Shintu
temples almost devoid of ornament. In
a garden near the great temple of the
Asaksa, where the countless white doves
live, are several cocks with tail feathers
twelve feet in length.
I ascend the steep, long flight of steps
to the summit of tne Atago Yam a, and
seating myself before one of the open
booths and receiving from the pretty at
tendant a cup of cherry-blossom tea, I
look below me and far away. The city,
with its tile roofs, interspersed with
green trees, lies at my feet. Here and
there a foreign flag before the buildings
of the legations for a moment carries
away my thoughts to other lands. The
mountains of Hakone, blue and hazy, and
in the distance above all Fuji-no-Yamn.
To the west are gray stone castles with
their towers, the roofs of which look airy
and inappropriate as covering for such
solid, time-defying structures. Perhaps,
however, even a castle doe* not want to
wear the same hat forever. There are the
trees of the Ueno Park full of noisy
crows, which perch upon the head of Dai
Butsu and caw at all who pass. I have a
luncheon or tiffin, as it is called in the
East. Sitting shoeless upon the floor { a
pickled salad is brought to me, which
does not suit my palate, then rice eaten
with chopsticks and washed down with
warm sake. Most deliciously boiled eels,
fresh from the water, cut up with tho
chopsticks and put into my mouth by
the pretty waitress, who is teaching me
how to eat a la Japonaise. More vege
tables and the sweet scented cigarettes,
a little mote sake and a most delicious
cup of tea, and tiffin is over.—New York
Graphic.
Locomotive Headlights.
“There are 25,000 locomotives in tho
United States,” said a railway official,
“and everyone of them is furnished with
a headlight. A locomotive without a
headlight would look like a dog without
a nose, aud most people would say that it
is next to impossible to run a locomotive
without a big lamp in front. Yet I am
of the opinion that these lamps are almost
useless, and that they couid be taken off
most locomotives without detriment to
anybody. Headlights are not iu use in
England, and
Dairy Notes.
Kindness in the care of cows ana clean
liness in the care of milk are fundamen
tal axioms in dairying.
The Dairyman says it is an open ques
tion whether yellow skin in cows indi
cates yellow milk. It says white butter
is not usual, however, from yellow milk.
Milk rich in fat (butter) is not necessa-
sily the most nutritious as food. It is
milk rich iu the nitrogenous compounds , _ _
that gives it feeding value, a point of i who heats the rivets. One man is known
importance, ^whether it be infants or ■ as a holdcr-on. He is stationed on the
young animals fed. inside of the vessel and holds a big
In advocating tho necessity for feed* , tiedge hammer on the rivet head while
ing a cow surplus food beyond the other i two men on tho outside clinch the hot
nesdsofthe system, a correspondent of \ rivet with sharp-blows of their hammers,
the Farmers' Review says: “It is ealeu- ! The riveters make $50 and often $75 4
latci that nearly two-thirds of all a cow . Vfe ^ for the gang ot four,
eats is needed to sustain her existence, ! "assengers crossing tho viaduct on
and all the profit comes from the feed ®J[ ecfc car ? saw tlie Spokane launched.
l i t tv:. ! Then as thev ptoksw! thn vlmlnrt drni*
to a colored waiter, who yawned and { pomace equal to those of sugar beets,
twisted his mustache, nnd the omelet was Apples and apple pomace ought to be
brought. Tho stranger investigated the ! fed in moderate quantities, similar to
majesty to accord your hand to whichever
of us two shall produce the most beautiful
, bouquet,” said the secretary to her, and
h she promised she would do to. The Em-
r press loved her very much indeed, and
readily yielded to an arrangement
which promised to be pleasant in any
event. She sent for tho young lady's
father, who laughingly consented to all
that was going on. Then the Russian
gentleman was communicated with, and
when he was informed that mademoi
selle's hand was for him who gave her
the most magnificent bouquet that day
fortnight, the Empress herself to be the
ingredients of the savory mesa with his
fork, and on the end of the utensil pro
duced a mushroom. “Look at this,” he
said. Then he picked at the appetizing
vegetable with his knife, scraped on the
covering of ranee, and began paring the
stem. It crump'ed under the operation
fn a decidedly unvegetable way. T
reporter's eyes popped out on his cheel
“What U it!’ v as asked.
“Dough,” replied the stranger,
an old trick. Mushrooms are scarce aud
high. Still the patrons like to have tho
sensation of ordering mushrooms in that
composition. If paces were put up to
the mushroom market they would
abandon the restaurant. So they use
dough. It is harmless. I would advise
the proprietor to stick to dough, and not
indulge in toadstools, which might work
injury.*’—Philadelphia Press.
Full Beards.
People who can remember back of the
Civil War must know that shaving was
almost universal ia those days, ana that
when the contrary practice began it so
agitated the country that the news pacers
wexe filled with leading articles on “’The
Beard Movement” and “The Mmtache
Movement.’* Probable most of our older
readers can remember when the first saw
a preacher in the pulpit wearing a mus
tache and the (hock it gave them.
.usband and none other. But,confidcnt
in his great fortune and his own good
ta<te. this Russian let the days pass, sup
posing all tlic time that his money coaid
buy *hat he wanted at the last moment.
The day arrived when the love gauge
was to be decided. That part of the
palace in which the Czarina tires was the
scene of great excitement. Even the
autocratic Czar himself deigned to lie in
terested, while the Grand Duke Alexis
was as eager as a child about it. The
Russian nobleman advanced and pre-
ited an enormous bouquet. It was in-
beautiful; it was made up of the
was, if possible, worse than that other
eacrilcgious act of bringing fiddles into
the choir. The event which started the
beard movement was the Tisit of the
wonderful Hungaria orator, Lord Kos
suth, who was extremely handsome and
picturesque in a full beard nnd mustache
and soft felt hat with curling feather. He
introduced the soft hat as well as the
mustache, and as he traveled all over the
country'in 1853 and 1855, and spoke
everywhere to great crowds, whom he
powerfully impressed with the masterly
English which he had learned from the ■ * •»»» cu«.gi«wi(uus muuuiuoc
Bible, Shakespeare and Webster’s die- tree and set in another near by. five out
tin nary while he lay in an Austrian of six growing well. The following is
„ that could be found in all prison, he advertised both his hat and tbebest grating wax: Resin, four pounds:
had coat something like 8,000 ] Lis hair very widely.—Parole Repress. beeswax, one and a quarter pounds; raw
those adopted in case of root crops, to se
cure their full benefit as an efficient in
gredient of the daily diet for various
kinds of farm live stock. Being defi
cient, comparatively speaking, in nitro
genous and certain saline constituents,
they ought to be liberally supplemented
for dairy stock with wheat shorts, bran,
oil cakes, clover, good hay, &c.
It has been recommended to sprinkle,
in the early part cf the season, over the
crushed, half matured apple mass some
pulverized chalk to counteract the ac tion
of an excess of free organic acids on the
digestive organs.
The director has not oply been exper
imenting with fresh pomace, but has
been putting it in the silos, and watch
ing its behavior as an ensilage.
It should be remembered by our read
ers that apple pomace varies greatly as
taken from different mills. In the old
fashioned cider mills a considerable
amount of s*.raw was mixed in with the
crushed apple* when patting it into
press, while in the newer mills the juice
is pressed out through cloth bags, with
out the addition of straw to hold the
cheese together. The pomacd made
without straw is very much better ior
storing in silos. Indeed, it is said *hat
K mace in which straw is mixed cannot
kept sound in silo.
not required for this purpose.
How milking is done in the Island of
Jersey is thus described: “Tall buckets
narrowed near the top with widened
mouths, are used. A linen cloth is tied
over the top; then a smooth sea-shell is
(lushed down in the depression to receive
the milk. The shell prevents the wear-
g of the cloth by the streams of milk,
hen the milking is done the straining
also completed.”
The causes of tho snperior milk-pro
ducing or beef producing qualifications
of certain pastures are at present but im
perfectly known, though they consist
principally in favorable conditions as to
soil, situation, or herbage, or a combina
tion of these. In order to throw light
upon the subject, the British Fairy
Fanners’ Association invite farmers to
send to its consulting botanist. Professor
Fream, specimens of the herbage of any
meadow or pa-ture which may have at-
tracte 1 their attention on account of some
special feature connected with it, and at
the same time to send information on
certain points in answer to a list of ques
tions pnnted on a circular now being dis
tributed.
As a cow has to be milked twice a day
! Then as they crossed the viaduct draw
j they saw men caulking tho newly laid
planks with oakum, just as wooden ves
sels are caulked.
Ti c business of caulking u metal ship i
a peculiar line of work, a business in
itself, and it is a somewhat remarkable
fa t that all the caulking on the large
steamer Spokane was done by one rap.d
workman. He is paid a stated price per
foot and make* about $25 a week. The
caulking consists iu pounding the metal
with peculiarly shaped irons at the seams
between the sheets of steel in such a man
ner ns to make the .‘hell absolutely water
tight. With a great vessel carrying over
a thousand tons cargo bearing on the
water it naturally follows that the mighty
pressure on the water makes it very anx
ious to resent the intrusion by getting in-
s : de a vessel where it isn’t wanted, but
Captain Smith of the Globe company
always agrees when building a new boat
to drink all the water that leaks into her.
He ha* faithfully lived up to the agree
ment, and very easily, too, for he hasn’t
been obliged to drink any syater out of
the ships.
Strange to say, the Globs company has
a fash'on of building ships in such a
manner that wafer can be let into them
for more than 300 days m o year, it doe. nnd p Ump ,a out at will Tho Spokane,
not need much extra troublo in milking ha. . wa ti-r bottom, or, in other words,
to largely reduce her value. Many cows • bottom. Thi. ia divided longi-
will not keep still and the loss of time, ( tudirally and and again crosswise into
to say nothing of loss of milk, will make | water tight sections. Connecting with
pip® Iredmg to a power-
would u
years as 1 „ 11 .„ uw , u » U m U o. w . 5
cow, it would give »30 as the difference ! in the steamer's bottom the water *mld
in value between two mpially good cows, ra ,h into but one of the section! of tho
one an eaay milker and one not. This water bottom, and she would not, of
wipes oat most of the value of average . course, sink
native cows, or, in other words, a diffl- I The ancients had a ceremony of dedi
cult milker is worth absolutely nothing | catory sacrifice at which a bollock was
as a cow, in tho comparison, and can offered up. The launching of a ship in-
Unly be made proatabfe by turning her i solves such a sacrifice,not as a cereniony,
off for bsef as quickly as possible. ; lut to give the vessel a smooth ride down
. the timbers into the water. The blood
Photographs of Congressmen. I of the beeves is not used in this cere-
TOas*. Ii-r- ire mon 7* l»t the tallow, 700 pounds of
t which we required to grease thesvays for
ington which are of particular intercat, ],i mc iung a vessel like the 8pokane.—
^
ury Department. The other is a private 4
concern where pictures of members of
Congress are exhibited for sale. The I
w f have used them
America simply because somebody used
them before us. We have become so ac
customed to them that most people think
that a locomotivo without a lamp could
not be run with safety,but I am convinced
that there is more danger in their use
than in their absence. I speak, of course,
of road engines, and not of tho:-e used in
yards. On a road engine the headlight
is of no earthly use to the engineer; it
obstructs his vision so that he cannot see
his switch-light, and I think that every
thinking engineer will come to the con
clusion that he would rather run in the
night without a lamp than with it, as he
can see better in the dark. Red cannot
be seen distinctly under such a powerful
light when the engine is running rapidly.
A green light under the brilliant illumi
nation of a headlight appears yellow, and
a bine light appears pa'e. I know of ac
cidents which have occurred from this
cause, and the eyesight of every engineer
having a night run is put under a terrible
strain by continually gazing ahead into
such a light surrounded by such dense
darkness.
“If there is any goed argument in
favor of the retention of headlights on
road locomotives it is that travelers by
public highways who have to cross rail
roads at grade can see the tram coming
at a greater distance by means of the
headlights. But it would be cheaper fox
the roads to rig up automatic warning
bells at every grade crossing than to con
tinue the use of so many unneeded lamps.
The new electric headlights put on the
market a few years ago was a success as
a light-giver,bnt it has not been generally
introduced, simply because railroad man
agers know that headlights on road loco
motives are practically useless, and that
a more powerful light would be posi
tively dangerously.”—Chicago Herald.
Fifty-fire Years of Official Life.
Probably James H. Marr, the Chiet
Clerk of First Assistant Postmaster-Gen
eral Stevenson, has been longer engaged
than any other living employe in the de
partmental service of the government.
Mr. Marr is eighty-five years of age, and
entered the service in 1831 under the fa
mous William T. Barry, of Kentucky,
President Jackson’s first Postmaster-
General. In that year Mr. Marr came to
Washington from Maryland, his native
State, and accepted a humble clerkship
in the department. He has in the mean
time been repeatedly promoted, and baa
for years held the position of Chief Clerk
for the first Assistant Postmaster-General.
The 1st instant, says a recent Washing
ton letter, his office was the scene of nu
merous hearty congratulations on the ar
rival of the fifty-fifth anniversary of his
entrance upon departmental duties.
Postmaster-General Vilas, First Assist
ant General Stevenson and their subordi
nates gave the venerate man cordial hand
shakes and warm verbal expressions of
esteem. The old man ia justly proud of
the faithful record he has made, running
through more than half a century. He
has served, in that period, under twenty-
seven Postmasters-G eneral and eleven
Presidential administrations, the begin
ning of his official career antedating by
six years the birth of the present Presi
dent of tho United States. His record is
a stainless one, and reflects honor upon
Coke, and How It Is Made.
Coke Is the solid product left when alt
the moisture and gaseous matters have
been expelled from bituminous coaL
There are two kinds: gas coke, which i* -
obtained from the retorts of gas-work^
after the gasses have beenseperated; and
oven coke, which is made by burning tb»
coal in a kiln, with little exposure to tha
air. Gas coke produces but a feeble
heat, and though it is used to a considl
crable extent as fuel in cities^ being a
cheap sort, it is regarded by manufact
urers as mere cinders. Oven coke, oa
the other hand, is capable of producing
intense heat, and is valued for use Ia
furnaces or smelting metals, and also ia
locomotives of underground railways^
where the smoke of bituminous coal is
very unde Arabic. At mines of bitu
minous coal, coke is made iu largo
quantities, as in its manufacture
all the fine refuse coal, screenings
and coal dust, that would otherwise bo
thrown away, can be utilized. Two
methods of cooking are in use. One is,
by burning the coal in ovens of fire brick
made for the purpose, these being usu
ally about twolvo feet square and ten feet
in height. A door is made near the top
through which the coal is put in, spaco,
being left for it to swell, while holes ia
the coverings of the oven allow tho cs-
capc of the gases. The coal is then ig
nited from below, and a trench under
the oven admits tho air necessary for
combustion. About forty-eight hours
are necessary to complete the cooking
process. The other method of making
coke is by burning it in the open heap.
It is piled in long ranges, often contain
ing many hundred tons over a shallow
trench or air passage extending their en
tire length. Tho heap is then fired, and
when it is once thoroughly afire coke
dust or ashes is heaped upon it, and when
thoroughly covered in this way the fire is
left for several days to smother and cooL
This is a wasteful process, as much of
the heap becomes ashes before the rest
has been thoroughly coked. In some
parts of Virginia and other southern
states beds of natural coko is found.—
Chicago Inter-Ocean. ,
Social Free Lunching.^
• A Washington correspondent of the
New Orleans Picayune says: I know of
a woman in Washington who occupied a
small, dark, inside room on the fifth floor
of a tolerably fashionable hotel. She, to
use a theatrical expression, faked out
her meals. That is, she arose at 10 or 13,
bought a second-hand newspaper for a
cent, and wended her way to a small sa
loon on Pennsylvania-avc., whose pro-'
prietor has grown rich by making a spe
cialty of delicious coffee and Vienna rolls
and fine butter. Ho charges ten cents
for this little lunch. This Madame Iten
erant would breakfast on her cup of
coffee and roll. Then she went up to
Congress, invariably riding in the three-
ccnt car. There is a bob-tail car run
ning up to the Capitol, tho fare in which
is only three cents, and some folks are so
aristocratic they are ashamed to be caught
riding in it.
Madame would visit a few of the mem-
bcrs^oll for awhile in the gallery of the
House, and sit just long enough in the
Senate gallery to secure recognition by a
smile or bow from such of her Senatorial
friends as happened to be on the floor,
and after picking up a few choice itenuf*
of gossipy news, tho conversational coin,
with which she paves and pays her social ‘
way, my Madame Itinerant gets back by
2 o’clock to her dingy inside room. At
3 she comes out resplendent in a nottpa*
reil velvet dress, and, card case in hand,
starts on the round of calls. Sho goes
from house to house, and daintily and
deliberately cats her lunch at each place.
In the course of ten visits madamc has -
more than satisfied the cravings of her,
stomach, and has dined and supped for
the day. Do you wonder that I call this
“faking out one’s meals?”
Graft ins Fruit Trees.
It is important, writes an Indiana Ag
riculturist, to cut scions of last years
growth, having well-developed healthy
bods, from healthy trees of the best strain
of each variety desired, before the buds
swell. I have found it best to tie them
in bundles not over two inches in diame
ter, plainly labeled and packed in fresh
sawdust just cut from green hard wood
timber. Kept in a cold cellar they are
good to use until the middle of June.
Last year I set grafts June 23d that did
well. I also cut grafts June 2d from one
Senatorial Peculiarities.
Many of the Senators, says a Wash-
first tiling when a new member of Con- ! ington letter to the Cleveland leader,
cress or other celebrity arrives, at the ; hare peculiar habits ot amusing them-
Capital h« is caught before a camera, and ' selves while they sit in the chamber.
r 1,: .in .. . * tt x-.t : : ' 1 u
an “image of himself* is stamped on a
bit of cardboard. All these shadows of
great men are labeled and hung up in
big frames in public places for sale—
seme in groups, some singly. This is
the only way many of the membsra.of
the lowsr House become known to the
public. The pictures sell according to
the popularity or notoriety of the sub
ject. Borne are in great demand.
Senator Hoar is always swinging a bunch
of keys, and he seems to be uneasy when
he does not have them in his baud. In
galls has two pairs of glasses for his
eyes. One ia a spectacle, which I judge
is for near-sightedness, and the other
is a pair of gold eyeglasses which he uses
to read by. Ingalls is very fond of play
ing with these eyeglasses. He holds
them up by the black string with which
others, half a dozen will drug the ! they are fastened, and twirls them
around between his thumb and finger,
market.
Members of Congress do not get roy- { holding his elbow on the arm of the
alty on their pictures, as do famous act- 1 teat while he looks about the Senate,
resses. One new member demanded this, i 8cnator Mitchell is a great letter writer,
but he was advised that in his case it; av.dhis desk is always covered with
would net be remunerative, and he i papers. He scribbles away all day, and
HZ’— .1 * —a.. O ■ 1 ...» a. U... AM • fl I.
yielded the point.—Washington Star.
seems never to have an idle moment.
his character and name,
now. as ever before, the univi
of his associates.
Le possesses
ersal respect
Bill Arp Sees a Pretty Sight
‘Over in North Carolina, at Durham,**
ssid Bill Arp to a reporter of the Atlanta
Constitution the other day, “I saw the
prettiest sight in the world.' I went into
Duke’s great factory and beheld spread
out before me like a panorama an im
mense hall occupied by seven hundred
pretty girls. They were making cigar
ettes. As they deftly rolled them be
tween their fingers they sang one of the
hymn* so often used by .Moody and
Sankey in their religions services. I
don’t think I ever heard vocal mode half
so sweet. It almost reconciled me to
the fact that the tobacco in the cigarettes
is steeped in New England ram. The
cheeks of those girls were like roses,
indicating health and high spirits. I tell
you, my friend, it waa a sight to be re
membered.
Tobacco aud the Eyes*
The New York Mail and Express says;
Dr. Cyrus Edson’s opinion that the recent
poisoning of the crew of the bark Sy-
ringa, and the accompany! ny ophthalmia*
were due to the excessive use of tobacco,
has renewed the fervor of the anti-tobac
conists. For years it has been known to
surgeons that abuse of tobacco may lead
to failure of sight, and this fact has been
made use of by the anti-tobacconists.
The British Medical Journal a few yearn
ago published a widely quoted article oa
this point, in which it said:
“In the report of forty cases of tobac
co amplyopia by Mr. Shears, of Liver
pool, it appears that athrophy of the op
tic nerves is very rarely met with as tha
result of excessive smoking, although to
bacco is the essential agent in producing-
failure of sight. Great moderation ia
smoking and especially the -employment
of forms of tobacco, is all that is neces
sary to insure recovery. Workmen ia
tobacco factories do not appear to bo
subject to deterioration of eyesight. Ia
one large manufactory where 12,000 mca
and women are employed, Mr. Sears has
found that not a single person on tho
premises suffered from failure of eyesight^
although many of the hands had been
-working there for ten years.”
The Bights or Bsbyliood.
Babies have a right to be. It is a com
mon saying that we owe our parents-a
debt of gratitude for bringing us into
the world. Too frequently children ar&
born to such an inheritance of suffering and
woe that it is a.doubtful question whether
they owe any gratitulofor th? uncertain
boon of existence; hut, in any case, axa
infant has a right to a kindly reception,
to lcving thoughts, to dainty stitches, to
its own-tittle niche in the family struc
ture. If the portion - pf worldly goods
for she infant’s inheritance is small, yet
there are these precious jewels that every
father and mother should strive to giva
the little one— a strong fame, a good head*