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FORTUNES IN THIMBLES* HOW THE USEFUL LITTLE IMPLE MENT CAME TO BE INVENTED. The Chinese Used It Centuries Be fore Any Other Nation—Queer Kinds Now in Use. “The is a rich family of the name of Lofting in England,” said a dealer in fancy articles, ‘ ‘the fortune of whose house was founded by such an apparently in significant tiling as the thimble. Two hundred years ago thimbles were un known in England. The thimble is claimed by the Dutch as an invention of their country, but it is knowu that it was in use among the silk embroiderers of China hundreds of years before it was used elsewhere. The first ever seen in England was made in London less than two hundred years ago by a metal worker named John Lofting, the founder of the family named. The usefulness of the article commended it at once to all who used the needle, and Lofting acquired a large fortune and great fame in the manu facture of the new accessary to the needle-worker’s art. The implement was then called the thumb-bell, it being worn on the thumb when in use, and its shape suggesting the rest of the name. This clumsy mode of utilizing it was soon changed, however, but when and why the name ‘Thimble’ was given the article does not appear. “Lofting’s thimbles, and, In fact, all early thimbles, were made either of iron or brass, and specimens of them extant, many of which are preserved as heirlooms, are crude and clumsy-looking things com pared with the commonest thimble of to day, although their cost was many times as much. “To-day gold, silvan, iron,ivory, steel, pearl, shell, celluloid, rubber and even glass are utilized in making thimbles. When art needlework was in its first burst as a popular craze, four or five years ago, thimbles of great value and of most elaborate workmanship, to accom pany the rich and costly implements and materials wealthy needlework ers affected, found a large sale. Solid gold thimbles, plegantly carved, and frequently set with diamonds, were found none too good for many fashionable home decorators. Thimbles made to order, with the mono gram or initials of the person for whom they were intended set in precious stones, were by no means unknown objects d’art, in the fashioning of which the skill of our artistic metal workers were taxed. I know a rich young lady in this city whose enthusiasm for art needlework was so intense three years ago that nothing but a diamond set gold thimble that cost SIOO, with other em broidering implements to match, would enable her to reproduce those well-re membered, fearful and wonderful butter cups, daisies and blue bells that one saw blooming in such prodigal profusion on foot stools, banners, screens, tidies and bureau covers in all homes of culture and refinement in those crazy days of ama teur home art. “In China the ladies of high rank arc very dainty with their thimbles. Some are carved from enormous pearls, with bands of fine gold, on which are engi'aved all sorts of fantastic things, the etchings «of which serve for catching the needle,as the ordinary holes in the thimbles of the outside barbarians do. The high-rank ■Chinese thimble always has a mother-of pearl case. With the thimble the Chinese lady always has a delicate pair of scissors of the finest steel, in a sheath of pearl, ami a pearl needle case. The articles are all inclosed in an exquisitely inlaid case of the purest mother-of-pearl. A New York lady, whose husband was in the China trade, has one of these Chinese needlework kits, which she values at S2OOO. i “The way thimbles are made in Eng land and in this country is simple enough. Dies of different sizes are used, into which the metal, whether gold, sil ver or steel, is pressed. The hole punch ing, finishing, polishing and tempering xire done afterward. Celluloid and rub ber are molded. The best thimbles are made in France, where the process is more thorough. Strange as it may seem, the French consider durability in their thimbles as the first requisite. The first step in the making of a Paris gold thim ble is the cutting into a disk of the de sired size a thin piece of sheet iron. This is brought to a red heat, over a graduated hole in an iron bench and ham mered down into it with a punch. This hole is the form of the thimble. The Iron takes its shape and is removed from the hole. The little indentations to keep the needle from slipping are made in it and all the other finishing strokes of the perfect thimble put on it. The iron is then made into steel by a process pecu liar to the French thimble maker, and is tempered, polished and brought to a deep blue color. A thin sheet of gold is then pressed into the interior of the thimble and fastened there by a mandril. Gold leaf is attached to the outside by great presu'we, the edges of the leaf being fitted hi and held by small grooves at the base of the thimble. The article is then ready for use. The gold will last for years. The steel never wears out, and the gold can be readily replaced at any time.. Nowhere else in the world are gold thimbles made in that way. “I have heard of many curious thimbles. The Queen of Siam has one which was a present from her royal hus band. The thimble had never been in use in Siam until a few years ago, when the King, noticing that English and American ladies who visited his court used thimbles, had one made for his Queen. It was made of gold', in the form of a loftus bud, the loftus being the Siamese royal floral emblem, and was thickly studded with diamonds, so ar ranged as to form the Queen’s name and the date of her marriage. The presenta tion was equal to an order that the ladies of Siam should use thimbles, and they have used them ever since. A lady in Boston has a thimble made from a piece of the old Washington elm at Cam bridge, the tree under which Washing ton stood when he took the oath as pommander-m-Chief in 1775. The wife of a prominent Brooklyn clergyman has a thimble that was carved from a pe culiar stone she found on the shore of the Dead Sea. A well-known New York society lady has one made from asphal tum, the substance with which the sacred fires of Persia were built.” —Mail and Express. System of Slaking Crop Reports. Now that the system of gathering crop reports and making estimates, as used by the Government, is being adopted by the several States, giving uniformity through out the country, it may be interesting to those who read these reports from time to time, to know on what basis they are made. The instructions to local reporters, as given by the Statistician of the United States Department of Agriculture, are as follows: One hundred is made the unit of measure or basis on which estimates are made, and any increase or decrease from that is represented by percentage. An increase of one-tenth means a ten per per cent, increase and is represented by 110. A decrease of one-twentieth means a five per cent, decrease and is repre sented by ninety-five. In comparisons of area with that of the previous crop, 100 represents the acreage of the previous year. As to products, the question may be in reference to the present yield as compared with that of the previous year, or it may refer to the average yield, 100 being the basis in each case. In reports of “condition” of grow ing crops, 100 is the standard of full condition, representing perfect healthful ness, exemption from injury, from insects or drouth, or other cause, with average growth or development. Condition of crop can never go above 100, except from one cause, unusual or extraordinary de velopment and vigor of plant which more than counter-balances any deficiency in stand or other loss. Any injury, from whatever cause, is estimated as such a per cent, or part of 100 and is subtracted from 100. To illustrate: If a corre spondent estimates that the wheat crop in the section for which he is reporting has been injured by chinch bugs, so that the condition is not so good by one fourth as it would otherwise have been, he will, if there is no other injury, report the condition as being seventy-five per cent., twenty-five per cent., or one-fourth below what the condition would have been had there been no injury. If other causes, such as bad conditions at seeding time, winter killing, drouth, etc., have affected the condition so that as a result of all the injuries it is only one-half as good as it would otherwise have been, it is represented by fifty.— Farm , Field and Stockman. Making Plaster Statues. A section of the famous Venus dc Milo stood on the floor as a A ews reporter en tered a plaster-of-Paris statuary establish ment on Grand street, New York city. On the second floor was the gallery,which exhibited the statues produced by the concern, and the low basement served as a workshop. Two Italians were busy on the figure, which was to be ten feet high and to grace a niche in the wall of a South American’s house. The men were cementing the four sec tions composing the statue together. Figures as large as this are invariably cast in parts or sections. To cast the whole figure together involves too much labor and too much exposure to damage in handling. To make the first mold of a figure requires considerable time and costs a deal of money. For this purpose a skillful sculptor has to be secured and he makes the prototype from clay. The clay statue is first covered with oil. It is then placed face upward in- the lower half of a flask, divided in sections and filled w'ith plaster of Paris. After the plaster adhering to the back half of the body has become hard, the other half of the flask is fitted on and filled with plaster. The oil prevents any plaster from sticking to the clay model. After the mold is made,no difficulty is encountered in turning out any number of statues. Italians alone serve in establishments of this kind; men of other nationalities, be ing unable to perform the work without too much breakage, cannot obtain em ployment in them. The proprietor stated that casts of live faces were' never taken because the risk of destroying the casts was too great, but it was a common thing to cast dead faces. “It is somewhat of a fad among so ciety people to have casts of their hands and feet,” explained the proprietor. “We charge $5 and upward for the cast of a hand or foot and for that of a dead face $lO, sls and S2O. All the plaster of Paris that we use comes from Newark, N. J. It is made by pulverizing a soft, white stone and afterward steaming it. We mix nothing but water with tho plaster.” llow Notable Writers Work. The Phonographic World describes the manner in which notable writers do their work, and aptly precedes its articles with an extract from the Indianapolis Journal showing that 500 letters come to the White House every day, outside of the President’s family mail. To answer them a force of men work until nearly mid night. The more important letters Mr. Halford replies to by dictating to Miss Sanger, who typewrites what he says. But as to how great people write. John Habberton often has his manuscript copied by typewriter; so does Thomas Went worth Higginson. J. T. Trowbridge writes with a pen. Luke Sharp writes that a noted English author once told him he could not dictate love scenes to a typewriter, because “he felt he was making a fool of himself.” Sharp fi*4s the same way, he says. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth regards the pen as an old, tried friend, and stuck to it until three years ago, when she got a typewriter. Edmund C. Stedman is thinking of em ploying a stenographer; Noah Brooks uses a typewriter; Itossiter Johnson writes with a pen; Sarah Orne Jewett relies on quill pens, and so do Sidney Luska and the author of “Cape Cod Folks.” Arlo Bates has been forced to use a typewriter, and Thomas Nelson Page does his law w<«rk with a typewriter and his literary work with a pen. THE FARM AND GARDEN. FEA-VINE SILAGE. A Long Island truck farmer asks whether pea-vines from which the pods have been picked for market are suitable for silage. They make excellent silage, and, fed in connection with that from corn, it is a better-balanced ration than either kind alone. But a ton of silage is contained in about fifty cubic feet, and it takes a quite large area of pea-vines to fill even a moderate-sized silo. However, some truck farms have, fifty acres or more of peas,and in such instances there would be no difficulty. The pea-vines may be packed into the silo without running through the cutter. —American Agricul turist. DANDRUFF ON A HORSE’S SKIN. The gathering of cast-off scales of the skin at this season of the year should be removed by the use of a card or curry comb and a stiff brush. It is prevented by regular currying of the skin through the winter. A horse kept in a pasture and exposed to much rain will be covered with a matted coating of these scales and shed hair, and these mats are exceedingly injurious to the skin, causing raw spots and sores. These matted patches should be removed carefully by soaking with warm water and carbolic soap before they are torn off by the currycomb. Constant brushing of the coat will prevent this trouble, for which medicine is entirely useless. —New Torlc Times. TRAINING TOMATOES. A simple and cheap way of training tomatoes, and especially adapted to limited space, is thus described: Set the plants in even rows about three feet apart. As soon as large enough, hill well, and close to each plant drive a forked stick, leaving about three feet above ground. On the forks place long poles firmly. To these train the vines, tying with strings, and nip off the shoots that grow too far above them. By this means every fruit will be fine, free from mud, even when heavy rains fall, and the vines keep in bearing till late in autumn. The plants are more prolific, and but little fruit is lost, as is so often the case when the vines rest on the ground. In case of early frosts, double sheets of newspapers hung over the trellises will protect the tomatoes un til gathered. —New York Witness. TREATMENT OF LAMBS. Sprinkle a little salt on the lamb so the mother will be induced to lick it. . To make a ewe take another lamb after she has lost her own, tie the skin of the latter on the “adopted” youngster. If at any time the lamb is weak and sickly give it half a spoonful of hog’s lard. Re peat the dose in half an hour if no better, as this cuts all phlegm, makes breathing more easy, and gives strength and tone to the system. But of all things there is nothing like sunshine for young lambs, as this gives them more strength and growth than anthing else. Should they get chilled at any time give them some rum with a little afeedita dissolved in it. Manure should not be allowed to ac cumulate in the barn, as the gases arising from it are very unhealthful. It is one of the most prolific causes of bad outcome with pregnant ewes, failure of milk, dis owning of lambs, shedding of wool, and perhaps death. We should say, in con clusion, that there are but three short periods each year that sheep require any extra attention—that is, breeding season, lambing time and weaning time. —Mark Lane Express. PRESERVING MILK IN NORWAY. A new method of preserving milk for a lengthened period, without altering its composition, and without adding any for eign ingredient, says the Farmers' Gazette , has lately been devised and brought into use in Norway. The milk, we read, is taken direct from the cow, and in the first place is cooled down to ordinary temperature, about 50 to 60 degrees Falir., and then hermetically sealed up in tins. In this state it is exposed to a temperature of about 160 degrees, and kept at this for one hour and three quarters, or thereabout, after which it is allowed to cool down to 100 degrees, at which it remains for some time. It is then quickly heated up again to the for mer temperature of 160 degrees. This alternate heating and cooling is repeated in the same manner several times, and then finally the temperature is raised to the boiling point of water, or about 212 degrees, after which it is cooled again to ordinary temperature, when it is found to be completely sterilised, not a trace of any organism or germ being left, and is, therefore, in a state in which it can be kept for an indefinite length of time without undergoing any change. RAISING MUSK AND WATER-MELONS. Musk-melons require a warm, dry, sandy loam. Plow the ground thoroughly; strike out furrows six feet apart each way; put in each crossing a good, large shovelful of manure (stable manure is best); tread it well down, and cover with two or three inches of soil. Drop ten or twelve seeds, scattering them in about one foot of space and cover half an inch deep, packing the ground down with the hoe. When the second pair of leaves appear, thin out to four or five of the strongest plants. Watch closely for the striped bugs, as they will destroy the plant while it is young. As soon as they appear dust the plants with Paris green early in the morning, while the dew is on, and repeat for several days until the danger is over. Keep down all weeds and the ground loose by the frequent use of the cultivator and hoe, at the same time hilling up slightly around the plants. When the fruit forms, cut off all imperfect or smooth-skinned melons, as they arc worthless and take the strength from the perfect ones. Do not plant near squashes or pumpkins, as they will mix and spoil the flavor of the melons. For near-by or home use, they should be left on the vines until the stem shows signs of cracking from the fruit, or it will part readily. If the melons are to be kept several days pick earlier. Use care not to press nor bruise the blossom er.d, us it will soften and spoil the melon. A barrel is best to pack in. Lay in all around the barrel, stem end out and side down, to prevent bruising. A barrel will hold from thirty to thirty-six prime melons. Cover with coarse bagging drawn tightly under the top hoop and nailed. Watermelons require a warm, rather sandy loam, thoroughly plowed and har rowed. llun furrows twelve feet apart each way; dig the soil out with a hoe at the crossings about six inches deep, and two feet or more in diameter, and fill with good, strong stable manure or guano. Tread well down and cover with about two inches of soil. Drop eight or ten seeds, scattering them, and cover about one inch deep, pressing the soil down on the seed with the back of the hoe. Dust with Paris green, the same as musk melons, being sure to get it well under the leaves. When they have made the second pair of leaves, thin out, leaving four or five of the strongest plants. When they begin to make run ners give the ground a good dressing of fine, well-rotted manure or fertilizer, over the hill, and extending about two inches all around it, and work it well in with hoe or cultivator. Pinch or cut off all weak or imperfect ones, and thin down to from one to three on each vine, to have large ones. The large ones are the most desirable, and the only ones that are worth sending to market. It will pay best to use plenty of good, strong manure to attain that purpose. If shipped in barrels, place them stem end down and tightly together, to prevent shifting, and cover with coarse bagging. —American Agriculturist. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Be ready to fight the curculio promptly. Nothing is gained by cutting potatoes until planting time. Rag weed, motherwort and golden rod are spoken of as good honey plants. There are few foliage plants easier of propagation and cultivation than cannas. A grape grower recommends lime mixed with muck as very good for vines on poor soil. Small chickens kept and fed with those much larger than themselves are very liable to injury. Prevent slugs on rose bushes by spray ing the foliage with white hellebore— half an ounce to a gallon of water. Sow two or three small boxes with let tuce seed and set in the kitchen window, to have green food for the early broods. Some beekeepers consider raspberry bloom not only rich and good for bee pasturage but the surest that can be had. Manuring in the hill is like heaping manure about the stem of a fruit tree. Better spread it out as far as the roots extend. Keep the pigs growing rapidly. The cheaper the animal the less the cost of each pound of flesh made, generally speaking. The foliage of the plum is so sensitive that spraying with Paris green should be trusted to skilful hnn<Cj|bnly, or injury will follow. The cucumber requires considerable moisture. Dry soil and drought de creases the crop and is also thought to give a bitter flavor. £ A chick hatched in March and April, is worth two hatched in June, in July. Do you know why some farm ers make poultry a success? Feed the meat you give to your dogs, and kill your worthless curs, and buy a market basket to gather your eggs in, and keep the profits for a rainy day. Pounded crockery, shells, or old mor tar, are good to be fed to hens at anj time, as the mortar not only contains the mill for grinding, but the bag to hold the feed. Don’t feed too much corn, at least not more than three times weekly and that at night. Corn produces fat, a fat hen is a poor layer; eggs from fat hens will sel dqm hatch. Combinations of Indian com and skim milk afford a most economical ration foi young pigs, shotes and breeding stock where good bone and muscle are essential to the highest results. If turnips will not grow without being wormy, if cabbages have the club foot, if the onion bed is infected with mag gots, put the land in dandelion one year and the trouble will disappear. ... The smaller the field the more fence required and the more land taken from cultivation. The more oblong the field the more fence required to enclose a given area; conversely, the nearer a square is the field the less fence is re quired. In mixing whitewash, use two table spoonfuls of crude carbolic acid to a buck etful of whitewash, mix thoroughly and ' use at once. Do not wait until your i chickens arc moopy and dead, and won der how, and write your editor for a re ceipe to kill lice. There are few things that yrill improve the appearance of a home more than tree planting. Every rural and suburban home should be marked by a nice grove of forest or ornamental trees, hedge rows for wind breaks and an orchard of stand ard and small fruits. It is always the active, energetic fowls that are most prolific of eggs and the surest of breeders. The eggs of very fat fowls will not hatch. If not infertile at the outset they have less vitality, and besides are apt to be somewhat oiled by brushing against the feathers of a fat hen in the nest. Most of the active breeds of fowls have high combs, which are very sensitive to cold. An American Grace Darling. Ida Lewis, who helps her father keep the lighthouse on a little island near Newport, R. 1., is the Grace Darling of America. She has saved the lives of sixteen persons, men, women and chil dren. At the first cry of distress she plunges into the water, swims out to the struggling victims and bears her human burden in safety to the shore. She has been decorated by Queen Victoria and has medals from life-saving stations all *ver the world.—AW York Press. The Next Census. In taking the next census, there will bo one supervisor for each district, who will be nominated by the President and whose nomination will be acted upon by the Senate in next December. The enu merators will be named to the superin tendent of the census by the supervisors. The enumerators will work only during the month of June, 1890, when the ac tual counting is to be done. They will be paid according to the number of names they turn in upon their lists, with the limitation that no enumerator can make more than $5 a day. Their general average will be about SOO for the month during which they work. The supervis ors will commence preliminary work in January next. Their work, which will continue to the first of the following July, Mill not, except for a very short time, be in any degreo arduous. Their pay will be according to the population of their respective districts. Bernhardt’s Grievances. Madame Snrah Bernhardt says: It is not because I am extravagant that I am nlways in want of money, but because I am always being robbed by my directors. Shamefully robbed! I have been cheated out of millions upon millions. One trusts the rogues, does not read over the en gagement as carefully as one ought to do, and signs. Then there is always a line about a forfeit or something else which one has overlooked, and it is there that the director is in ambush. Between the thieves on one side and the small prices paid in Paris on the other, I often wonder how I get a piece of bread to put between my teeth. Of all countries, France is perhaps the one where an ac tress earns the least. Look at what El len Terry, Bernard-Beere and Mary An derson earn. Why they make as much, I am sure, in a week, as I do in a seuson. — Mrs. Livermore humorously tells this about herself: She went to a town in Maine to deliver a lecture. A young min ister, who felt greatly his importance in having to introduce so large a light, an nounced her in these words: “Ladies and gentlemen, you have all heard of the il lustrious man across the water, so belov ed by his people, and who is known by the sobriquet of the ‘grand old man.’ I have now the honor of introducing to you a lady beloved in Boston, and known there as the ‘grand old woman 1” Women are taught that their highest duty is to marry and bear children, yet laws are framed to punish its fulfilment as a crime. The minister ol railways in Belgium has just issued an edict that all married women who are mothers, even if their children are grown up, shall resigu their posts in the telegraph service. Brown’s Iron Bitters furnishes aid to the stomach to accomplish its work. 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