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Fitzgerald Leader.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
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The governing body of New Y'ork
city is authorized to expend a million
dollars every year in establishing
small parks in the crowded districts.
A railroad superintendent in Penn¬
sylvania has issued an order prohibit¬
ing the throwing of rice on railway
premises. His act is regarded as a
coveit attack on matrimony.
A writer in an English paper sug¬
gests, as an explanation of the pres¬
ent commercial depression of contem¬
porary native art, that cheap black
anil white reproductions cause the
public to acquire a disgust of the
originals.
It is gratifying to the American
Cultivator to note a decided increase
in the popularity of wooden sailing
vessels in our ocean traffic for bulky
cargoes which suffer no deterioration
from slow passages. Such vessels
can be employed in that traffic with
safety and economy. We have forests
of oak and maple,locust and tamarack,
hard pine and cypress for ship build¬
ing purposes.
In n recent address on athletics be-
fore the students of Harvard, Presi¬
dent Elliott said his preference was
for sports that required no remarkable
muscular power or weight, and that it
was his belief that competitions re¬
quiring them would ultimately be suc¬
ceeded by recreations in which agility
and alertness of mind and body are
essential. President Elliott paid his
respects to cycling as an almost ideal
form of recreation.
Dewey County, South Dakota, which
is larger than the state of Delaware,is
offiieally declared to have no inhabi¬
tants, and no votes were cast in it at
the last election. In Delano County,
which is as large as Long Island, five
votes were cast last November. Scobey
County has twelve voters. Twelve
votes "were cast in Platt County, six
for McKinley and six for. The Bryan
largest county in the state is Butte
County, with an area of 2335 miles,
and the smallest is Todd County, with
an area of> forty-five Square miles.
Louisville’ is the biggest tobacco
market in the world with seventeen
vast warehouses that will hold at one
time 40,000 hogsheads of tobacco of
2000 pounds each. She is the great¬
est whisky market in the Union. She
is the largest market of cement in the
United States. She is the foremost
vinegar market in America. She has
the biggest plow factory and vehicle
factory in the Union. And she is the
nearest to the centre of population in
the United States, and almost a fourth
of the population of the whole Re¬
public is in a radius of 300 miles of
Louisville.
The rejoicings over Professor Koch’s
alleged discovery of a remedy and
antitoxin for the rinderpest have turned
out to be premature, His invention
is now proved to be of no practical use
whatsoever, and so disheartened are
the British authorities in South Africa
over the dismal failure of every effort
to arrest the progress of the plague,
that they have now abandoned all fur¬
ther precautions against its spread as
being of no avail. North of Cape
Colony not even one per cent, of the
cattle have survived, and is pretty cer¬
tain that the Cape Colony, so rich in
farming industry, will be subjected to
similar devastation.
The birth of a second daughter to
the Czar of Russia suggests the possi¬
bility of a female successor to the pres¬
ent ruler, and calls attention to a state
of affairs that is enough to make old
John Knox—if he is still cognizant of
affairs on this mundane sphere—turn
in his grave. He, it may be remem¬
bered, complained bitterly in his day
about what he was pleased to term “this
monstrous regiment (meaning govern¬
ment) of women,” in allusion to the
fact that Elizabeth and Mary were
reigning in England and Scotlaud,anil
Catherine de Medici was all powerful
in France—in direct contravention, in
the opinion of the great Presbyterian,
of the divine ordinations. But what
was that, asks the New Y’ork Tribune,
compared with the present situation,
when a woman is about to celebrate the
completion of a sixty years’ reign over
the greatest empire in the world, when
another is Regent of Holland, during
the minority of a female sovereign, and
a third holds the reins of government
in Spain, while a little girl,the Grand-
Duchess Elizabeth, is talked of as the
possible heir to the throne of Austria,
and the baby Grand-Duchess Olga of
Russia may possibly live to be Em»
press of that country ?
THE GREEN LANES OF THE PAST.
I earo not to Razo at the years comlnR on,
Thick-mantled in mist and with doubts
overcast,
But would rather stray back to the days that
are Rone, tho
AlonR the Rreen lanes of past—
Across the cool meadows of memory, where
The birds ever sinR, and tho wild waters
fall. children
And the laughter of *is borne on
the air.
And love sbinoth over It all.
The painter may picture the future In dyes
That rival the rose and tho rainbow, and
still
It may leave him at last but a guerdon of
sighs, failed to fulfill;
And a hope that it
The poet may sing of the splendors su¬
preme, ages', far-coming
Of the opulent and
vast—
I question him not, yet I ask but to dream
On the old quiet hills of the past.
The past is my own—there is nothing un¬
certain
In all its wide range, and my title is
clear—
While the future, at best, is a face on the
That curtain,
fades as my feet draweth near;
Then give me the blossoms, the birds and
the bowers,
And every loved scene where my soul
Like ciingeth fast,
an evergreen Ivy that mantles the
towers
And feeds on the dews of the past.
—James NewtonMatthews, In Ladies’Home
Journal.
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NORA’S BLONDER.
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F Miss Matty Rice
m had yawned once
since breakfast she
had yawned a score
of times; and even
pretty Eveleen was
growing drowsy
T-- BJ over her embroid-
~ ~n. 8 Jj yl try For by it the window. hope-
was a
a ruj JJfiffll 0; lessly rainy day in
H mid-October, with
fc f ,TW 'n'v AiJ ®ky veiled in
dark gray mist, the
tinted leaves float¬
ing down into matted layers of dim
color around the columns of the piazza,
and the tall dahlias nearly prostrated
by the steady downpour. No walks,
no gathering of ferns, mosses, berries,
in the still, delicious woods; no
dreamy rambles to the mountain tops
—and, worst and saddest of all, noth¬
ing to read.
“And I won’t be deluded into work¬
ing worsteds,” said Matty, “nor yet
into crewels and Kensington stitch.
Eveleen, what is that delightful book
that papa was reading aloud out of last
night?”
“Do you mean the ‘Recreations of a
Country Parson’?” said Eveleen, com¬
paring two shades of rose-colored
wool.
“If that’s the name of it—yes.”
“He took it to the city with him,”
said Eveleen. “I saw it sticking out
of his coat pocket when he was run¬
ning lor the train.”
“How provoking!” sighed Matty,
clasping her dimpled hands above her
head; “when it’s the book of all books
that I should like to read on a day like
this.”
‘ ‘Mr. Winton has a copy of it,” said
Eveleen, threading a worsted-needle
with the darkest shade of
“But what goodwill that do me?”
said Matty, disconsolately.
“Borrow it,” suggested Eveleen.
Everybody borrows everything in a
place like this; anil I’m sure Mr. Win-
ton would be glad to oblige you.”
“But how?” urged Matty. “The
hotel is at least half a mile away.”
“Send Nora.”
“Nora, indeed! I don’t suppose
Nora ever did an errand in her life,”
said Matty.
“Then it’s high time she began,”
laughingly suggested Eveleen. “Write
a note!”
“I’d rather send a verbal message, ”
said Matty; “and I wouldu’t send at
all if I wasn’t dying to read the end of
that essay that papa began last night. ”
Nora, deep in the energetic occupa¬
tion of blacking the kitchen stove, was
summoned upstairs.
“Nora,” said Matty, impressively,
“I want you to go to the hotel. You
know where the hotel is?”
“Sure an’I do, miss,” said Nora,
with wide-open mouth, and eyes of in¬
tense attention.
“And ask for Mr. Winton, and tell
him that Miss Matty Bice sends her
compliments, and would like to borrow
the ‘Recreations of a Country Par¬
son. ■> >>
“Yis’m,” said Nora.
“You’re sure you understand?”
“Yis’m, an’ why wouldn’t I?”
promptly retorted Nora, rather nettled
by this implied aspersion on her pow¬
ers of comprehension.
“And come back as quick as you
can.”
“Sure an’ it’s me that will,” said
Nora.
And presently the two sisters caught
a glimpse of her beneath the folds of
a rusty water-proof cloak, with a mam¬
moth umbrella held over her head,
disappearing behind the huge leaves
of the rhododendron hedge.
“I hope she won’t be long,” said
Matty. she?” said
“Why should serene
Eveleen.
And she went on composedly with
the pomegranate blossom that she was
embroidering, while Matty sat down
to the piano, and tried to pick out the
notes of some dreamy refrain, which
had haunted her ever since she heard
it at the opera last winter, with Patti
smiling on the stage, and the full or¬
chestra thundering out its strains.
And Nora, plunging down the ravine,
like anything but a wood-nymph,
plashed her way to the hotel, going a
quarter of a mile out of her road on
account of a spotted snake, with and stop¬
ping for a good chat a fellow -
Hibernian who was on his way to the
postoffice.
"There,” said Nora, as she turned
away from Teddy O’Hara, “an’ sure
I’ve forgotten the name as clane as if
I niver hail heard it.”
“Whosename -wasit,nlnnna?”consol¬
ingly demanded Colonel Ross’s coach¬
man, whose soft nothings had put the
message completely out of Nora’shead.
“There was somethin’ in it about the
‘Rectory of a Country Parson,’” said
Nora, twisting herself into the letter
H, with the violent attempt at recol¬
lection to which she forced herself.
“There ain’t no rectory hereabouts,”
said Teddy. “Sure it ain’t built yet!
But the parson he’s up on the hotel
steps, I seen him there as I came
beyant. A tall young gentleman, with
a high vest—for all the wurreld like
Father Rockwell—an’ spectacles as
"gintale as ye plaze. Is it a message
you’ve got for him, Nora, inavour-
neen?”
“I’m to borrow him!” said Nora,
fixing her dull, glassy glare on Teduy
O’Hara’s astonished face.
“To—borrow liim?”repeated Teddy
“Yis, sure!” Nora answered, dog¬
gedly.
Teddy uttered a whistle.
“It’s the quarest loan as - iver I
heard of,” said he. “An’ if it’s a fair
question, who is it wants him?”
“Miss Matty Rice’s compliments,”
repeated Nora, with parrot-like
promptitude, “and she wants to bor¬
row the parson.”
Teddy exploded into a laugh.
“Sure, an’ if it was leap year,” said
he, “I should think it meant some¬
thing. I niver heard such a message
in all me born days before. But I
must make haste, or the mail will be
off.”
Away trudged Tecldy, while Nora
kept on to the hotel, all unconscious
of the curious transformation that had
befallen her luckless message.
“Is the parson here?” demanded
she, shaking her umbrella, and stamp¬
ing the mud off her feet on the steps
of the mountain hotel, which was still
well-filled with guests who had
lingered to see the splendors of the
October frosts among the woods.
The hotel clerk, who had just come
out to glance at the barometer, stared
at her; the young ladies on the wide
veranda giggled; the stout old gentle¬
men, who were walking up and down
the boards to gain their daily two
miles of exercise, stopped short; and
a spectacled, grave-looking young
man, who was talking with a lady
just beyond, glanced around, as if he
fancied that he were personally inter¬
ested.
“Do you want the—clergyman?”
said the hotel clerk, doubtful, yet
polite.
“Is it a stone-mason or a chimney-
swape I’d be manin’, d’ye think?” re¬
torted Nora, beginning to imagine that
she was being made game of.
“I am the clergyman,” said the
spectacled gentleman, stepping cour¬
teously forward at this juncture. “Is
there anything I can do for you?”
“Miss Mattie Rice’s compliments,”
said Nora, without in the least abat¬
ing the shrilliness of her voice, “an’
she wants to borrow you. ”
“I beg ,? your pardon,” said Mr.
Fontaine, but—-I’m not quite sure
that I understand you, my good
woman. ”
“I’m speakin’the English language,
sure,’ said Nora, somewhat affronted.
“She wants to borrow you.”
“Bjit what for?” said he, ignoring
the titters of the group which was
now fast gathering on the veranda.
“To amuse herself will this rainy
day,” said Nora. “You’re to come
back wid me, p’lase. I was to bring
you. Miss Matty Rice’s compliments,
and--”
“Really,” said Mr. Fontaine, “this
is very strange.”
“The Rices live in the little Swiss
cottage by the Haldino Falls,” sug¬
gested the hotel clerk. “Gentleman
goes up and down to the city every
day. Keeps a little pony carriage,
with---”
“You’re to come back wid me,
please,” interrupted Nora. “ ‘The
Rectory,’ or ‘the County Parson.’
Miss Matty Rice’s compliments, and
Mr. Fontaine, hurriedly surveying
the sttuation in his mind’s eye, decid¬
ed that it was better to obey this
strange behest.
And putting .on his water-proof
wrap, and arming himself with a light
silk umbrella, he accompanied Nora
McShane, to the great buzzing and
whispering of the group on the ver¬
anda.
Miss Bice was listlessly watching
Eveleen’s embroidery, as the door
bounced open and Nora rushed in, ex¬
claiming:
“Here lie is! I’ve brought him!”
“Brought whom?” said Matty, in
surprise.
“Tho country parson,” said Nora.
“There wasn’t no rectory. I inquired
for it, but it wasn’t built.”
“What on earth is the girl talking
about?” said Matty, in amazement.
And then Mr. Fontaine walked in,
holding his hat in his hand.
“I am the clergyman,” said he.
"Can I be of any use?”
Matty colored a deep cherrv-pink.
“Oh, dear, I am so sorry!” she fal¬
tered; “but there is some dreadful
mistake here. I sent Nora to the
hotel to borrow a book, and she has
brought me back—a man!”
“A book?” said Mr. Fontaine.
“Yes,” said Matty, trying harder
and harder to keep back her laughter
as the comic side of the circumstance
forced itself upon her. “ ‘The Recre¬
ations of a Country Parson.’ Mr.
Paul Winton has it.”
Mr. Fontaine began to laugh. So
did Matty and Eveleen; and in five
minutes they were the best friends in
the world. Mr. Fontaine stayed to
lunch, and they never knew how that
long, rainy morning whiled itself
away, until at last the blue rifts of sky
spread banners above the pine trees
on old Sky-Top, and every shining
drop was transformed into a tiny rain¬
bow.
Mr. Fontaine came often after that.
So did Mr. Paul Winton, the owner of
the genuine “Country Parson.” And
when the family dosed their cottage,
and returned to the city, the two
young men discovered that the journey
to Philadelphia was not such a very
long one. And there is every prob¬
ability that the lacking rectory will be
built in the spring, and that the conn-
try parson will bring a pretty young
wife there; at least so says popular
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Rice, “it was 1 her doing. And she
shall have a home with me always.”
“But blunders don’t always term-
innte so successfully,” Eveleeu gravely
remarks.
Matty shakes her head. She will
not concede this to be a blunder at all.
Only—a coincidence.—Saturday Night,
Living on a Dollar a Week.
Four of the students of the local
Young Men’s Christian Association
training school are experimenting in
cheap methods of cooking, says the
Republican, of Springfield, Mass.
About two months ago Dr. McCurdy,
in one of his talks to the physiology
class, spoke of the work done by Ed-
ward Atkinson in experimenting with
different kinds of food in order to find
out which is the cheapest and at the
same time the most nourishing. One
of the class became interested and
read extensively on the subject, Not
being satisfied with what others said
he bought an Aladdin oven and with
three other fellows begin to experi¬
ment on himself. The Aladdin oven
is an invention of Edward Atkinson,
the well-known economist, whose idea
was to cover an oven with asbestos in
order to keep in the heat and in this
way to save fuel, space and fame. With
his oven the our young men began
the experiment which they now de-
clare to be the “greatest thing out,”
They put whatever they want for
breakfast into the oven the night be¬
fore, regulate the heat according to
directions, and when they get up in
the morning breakfast is ready.
After breakfast the dinner is put
into the oven, while the same is done
after dinner for the supper. This long
and slow method of cooking renders
the cheaper cuts of meat tender and
palatable, so that although they have
lived well and have eaten even more
than usual their expenses have only
been $1 each a week, which not only
includes the food, but the fuel and the
hire for the oven. One of the mem¬
bers of the faculty and his wife were
entertained a few days ago with fine
success. The guests politely pro¬
nounced the dinner to be the best
cooked one they had ever eaten.
Weight of the Earth.
The weight of the earth has been
fixed by the calculations of astrono¬
over as
6,069,000,000,000,000,000,000, or six
thousand and sixty-nine trillion tons.
Our planet weights as much as seventy-
eight moons. If the kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland be considered to
extend downward to the centre of the
earth—3963 miles—its weight would
be 3,733,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The earth weights 1625 tinths as much
as the Enited Kingdom. Further, its
weight is fifty-two and a half times as
much as Europe, eleven and a half
times as much as Asia, seventeen and
a half times as much as Africa, and
thirteen and a third times as much as
the Americas. J. Holt Schooling, en¬
deavoring to make these figures clearer,
imagines the Coliseum at Borne,
peopled with ghosts of 87,000 persons,
who have been counting since A. D.
79, at the rate of 100 tons per minute.
They would not have made a perceptible
impression on the total. If the in¬
habitants of a hundred million stars,
each with a population of one thousand
five hundred millions, were to begin
to count, they would finish the task in
seven hours.
A Great Catalogue.
It is said the great catalogue of
books which the British Musium has
in process of compilation will be com¬
pleted within a year or two. This
work will contain a list of nearly all
the books'that have ever been pub¬
lished. One hundred anil ten years
ago the museum completed its first
catalogue. It consisted of two volumes
folio in manuscript. In 1819 this cat¬
alogue had grown to eight volumes. A
new edition was commenced in the
thirties. Only the first letter was
printed. The rest were written. It
was completed in 1851 and consisted
of 150 folio volumes. In 1875 the list
had grown to 2000 and five years
later to 3000 volumes. The new edi¬
tion commenced in 1881 will be printed
and is to consist of 600 volumes, con¬
taining a list of 3,000,000 titles.
A Curious Invention.
The Government of the United
States has an interesting machine used
for counting and tying postal cards in¬
to small bundles. There arc two of
the automata, capable of counting 500-
000 cards iii ten hours and wrapping
and tying the same in packages of
twenty-five each. In this operation
the paper is pulled off the drum of two
long “fingers” which come from below
and another finger dips in a vap of
mucilage and applies itself to the
wrapping paper in exactly the right
place. Other parts of the machine
twine the paper around the pack of
cards and then a “thumb” presses the
spot where the mucilage is and the
package is then thrown upon the carry-
belt ready for delivery.
The Shah of Persia.
The Shah is brusque of speech. He
is also a magnificent shot, and can hit
a copper coin tossed in the air. Ho
goes off on rough hunting trips and
bags big game. He is the beet gun
shot in Persia. He is neither a iool
nor an imbecile, and is a man of swift
action.
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IIills on nn Acre.
As there are 4860 hills on an aore
when crops x are planted x three feet apart x
each way, it is easy to see that the
maximum crops of corn or potatoes are
very much nbove the average. One
bushel of potatoes to thirty hills would
give 167 bushels per acre. One bushel
of corn to 481 hills would give 101 4-5
bushels of corn. It should seem as if
these yields might be attained by any
but they are nob.—Boston Cul¬
tivator.
Shading and Fastening a Coop.
The device shown in the accompany¬
ing illustration can be applied to al¬
most any form of chicken coop, whether
already , , built , ... or , , be constructed. , , , A
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projection, two three-fourths-inch
holes are bored, and a pin fitted to en¬
ter them. The board front is then
hin d at t £ where it can ^ faste ned
as an aw ing for prot ection against
the gun and showerSf and fastened
down at night to preTent the entrance
of animals.—American Agriculturist.
The Bean XVee»il.
There is no way to prevent the bean
weevil from, depositing its eggs in the
young green beans. What can be done
to lessen the evil is to destroy the lar¬
vae in the beans after harvesting, says
Vick’s Magazine, and thus prevent any
great increase of the insects. Those
making a business of raising beans are
careful to destroy the larvae or grubs,
and this is done by placing the beans
in tight casks or compartments and
there evaporating, or volatilizing, car¬
bon bisulphide; another method is to
subject the beans for an hour to a tem¬
perature of 145 degrees—this can be
done without injuring the vitality of
the seeds.
Geese on tile Farm.
Geese in the market will sell for
from fifty to sixty cents, but the kind
of geese sold are really worth no more.
There has been but little
of geese on farms, and it is seldom
that they exceed eight or ten pounds
in weight. The Toulouse and Emb-
den geese are fully twice as large as
the common geese (one being once ex¬
hibited weighing fifty-two pounds
alive), and a pair would flock lay the foun¬
dation of a paying in a few years.
The fat goose is a luxury enjoyed only
by those who know something of them,
and it brings a good price. Turkeys
sell higher, but the profits are no
larger than from geese. There is a
great loss of young turkeys each year,
while geese seem to thrive on a grass
plot or a pond that cannot be used for
any other purpose. As geese will
breed until over twenty years old, a
flock of the large varieties once ob¬
tained will return an income every
year, which would be satisfactory com¬
pared with the capital invested—The
Silver Knight.
Good Water.
The idea that a flock of sheep will
get along almost any way, so far as
water enters into the consideration,
has cost breeders more money than
many of them are aware of. That
numbers have passed through the en¬
tire summer without water is true, and
that those accustomed to daily access
to water can be deprived of it for sev¬
eral days without apparent serious in¬
convenience is a fact that may have
been demonstrated; but aside from
these facts every man of experience
knows tliat sheep not only relish
water, but that a full and regular sup¬
ply is necessary to their . comfort and
thrift, from which alone is to be ex¬
pected the maximum profit. The best
source is a good running stream. The
less this is affected by drouths and
freshets the better. A stream is bet¬
ter than wells, from the fact that it is
always accessible, of better tempera¬
ture in hot weather, and seems in
every respect more inviting. With
this is associated the added care and
labor to keep within ready reach of
the flock a constant and liberal supply
of water. The troughs about it should
be kept full, so as to avoid the extreme
variation ip the temperature of the
water where the pumping is done only
at such times as the animals are al¬
lowed access to it. Wind pumps, with
trough so arranged that the surplus
water is returned to the well, seem
about to reach the limit of conveni¬
ence and desirability in this direction.
Ponds, both natural and artificial,
though loss desirable than the above-
mentioned sources, are a frequent de¬
pendence. Though a great conveni¬
ence, and furnishing water in many
instances better than none, these
should be the last resort of the flock
master, aa the stagnant water, under
the heated temperature of the summer
solstice, becomes not only unfit to
drink, but at the same time a breeding
place for myriads of animalcules,
causing or aggravating disorders and
diseases when taken into the stomach
of animals.—Wool Growers’ Quarterly.
The Horse’s Feet.
From the birth to the death of the
horse, says a fellow of the Royal Col¬
lege of Veterinary Surgeons, the hoof
requires attention, if it is to he kept in
a healthy condition. It is before tha
hoof is shod that the feet are generally
neglected, and the animals suffer ac¬
cordingly, because they are young and
immature, and the bones and other
tissues are soft and could be easily dis¬
torted to suit the conditions under
which they are kept. The feet of foals
and growing horses should therefore
have attention given to them, since
neglect at that period often sows the
seed of continuous trouble. The hoofs
should be kept clean by being “picked
out” as often as possible, to prevent
any dirt or hard substance being buried
in the fissures of the feet. They should
be examined from time to time (say
every six or eight weeks), to detect any
defects of shape that might be taking
place. If the feet are not growing level
and symmetrical, they should be ren¬
dered so by rasping away the horn
which is not naturally worn down.
If that is neglected, t-lie animal will
soon have the fetlock joint bending
over towards the outside. On no pre¬
tence whatever should the front of the
walls be interfered with, for the
glazed coating of its surface protects
the horn beneath; it should therefore
be left untouched. It would be as
well to disabuse people’s minds of a
very popular fallacy, viz., that wet
soft ground; and even manured yards,
are the best places to keep your
horses—and some would even have
the frogs and soles pared thin to al¬
low the moisture to penetrate more
easily. No greater mistake is made
than that, for the preservation of the
hoof depends to a great extent, on the
soil the animal was reared on. The
best-footed horses are brecl on dry
soils, and that is undoubtedly the
kind of ground best adapted to the
healthy growth of horn. Young
horses require plenty of exercise, and
unless they are allowed it, the growth
of the horn, etc., is sure to be defec¬
tive. Then the question arises. When
ought a horse to be shod? The an¬
swer is, when the work required of the
animal wears the horn away faster
than it is formed or grown, or in other
words, so long as the horn of the foot
can stand the wear required, it will
not need protecting, (shoeing). More¬
over if the horses are not shod so
early, they will not be worked so hard,
and fewer would be ruined in their
youth, as is often the case at the pres¬
ent time.
A Watering Pail or Sprayer.
Where one .has a tub or barrel of
water or liquid dressing at hand to put
upon the rows of growing crops the
most expeditious method of applica¬
tion is with an old tin pail having its
bottom perforated. One can thus dip
up a pailful anil walk quickly or
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slowly, as needed, along the rows, let¬
ting gravity do the most of the work
of watering. Such a plan, however,
frequently results in wetting the
clothes or feet.
Where much of such watering or
spraying is to be done, have a pail
made with one side extended down¬
ward as shown, to protect the carrier.
Hanging from the side of the pail a
curved piece of tin or sheetiron will
answer the same purpose.—New York
Tribune.
Electricity For Plant Life.
Agricultural experts at the Massa¬
chusetts Agricultural College, Amhur.st,
Mass., who have been carrying on sys¬
tematic experiments with the applica¬
tion of electricity to plant growth, re¬
cently announced that they had proved
that plant life is appreciably affected
by electric currents. The tests have
been made on series of seeds sown on
damp filter paper, excluded from the
light, one series being so placed as to
encounter a brief and mild electric
current once an hour, the other not to
have that aid. The electrified seeds
germinated rapidly. Nearly all tho
agricultural colleges are now taking up
the experiments. It was only a few
weeks ago that news was received of
favorable results in this direction by
European scientists.
About English Prisons.
Absolute uniformity touching diet,
discipline and clothes prevails in Eng¬
lish prisons. In the last twenty years
the British have out down the number
of these restraining institutions from
113 to fifty-eight. This does not nec¬
essarily denote, however, a higher tone
of morality.