Freeland Tribtji^e. niBIJIUIKD KYIBT '• MONDAY AND THTJBSDAT. tHOS. A. EDITOR AITD PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STBJCR ABOVK CKNTRB, SUBSCRIPTION EAT7S. One Yoar fl 50 Six Months 75 Foar Months... 60 Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name on tho labels of their paper*. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books In this otftoa. For Instance: Grover Cleveland 28Junc95 Beans that (Jrover Is paid up to Juno 2ft, 1H8&, Keep the figures In advance of tho present date. Ileport promptly to this office when your paper to not received. All arrearages must be pakl when paper Is discontinued, or collection will tor made In the manner provided by law. Every able-bodied male in Norway has te serve in tho array. Austria now proposes to tax cats in order to avoid a deficit in her treas ury. The United States Navy Department has been obliged to put old ships out of commission to find crews for now ones. "Scrub stock and scrub farming are always found in connection with a scrub education," avers tho Now York World. A certain plant destroying grub has migrated across the Mexican border into Texas and seriously threatens all of our future cotton crops. New South Wales is making strenu ous efforts to expand her export trade. The latest experiment is a consignment of frozen rabbits for tho English mar ket. The New York Advertiser observes that England's prejudices do not inter fere with enormous purchases of our apples and the well beloved Yankee oyster. It is predicted by scientists that in 300 years the earth will flop and cause the north and south poles to change places, and that in 30,000,000 years from now the sun will become ex tinct. Tho tumulus on tho top of Parlia ment Hill fields, London, is to be opened. It is popularly supposed to be tho burial place of Boadicea, tho British warrior queen. A group of statuary to her memory is to bo erect ed on the spot. Horses are now being shipped from this country to Europe, and our ex ports of horses exceed in value those imported. Formerly wo bought a great many horses from Europe for purpose of improvement, but Europe is now drawing on us for horßes for the same nnmose. In a law court at Halle, Germany, the other day a man named Wetzatein was arraigned on separate indictments for tho murder of two women, and in each case a sentence of death was passed upon him. But this was not all. Tho man was further charged with the attempted murder of two more women. For these two offenses ho was, notwithstanding the doath lentences, gravely condemned to fifteen jrears' imprisonment. Probably one of the most interest ing sects in Russia is tho Dukhobor tsi, inhabiting large districts in West ern Transcaucasia, remarks the New Vork Independent. Their name, "Wrestlers with the Spirit," indicates that the society at its beginning had views analogous to those of the Ger man Pietists. They were men of itrong character and faith. Rut as time wont on and active persecution of them ceased, they began to show signs of worldliness, to amass money and land, and forget their pristine simplicity of life. News from the Caucasus now states that a strangely interesting revival movement is stir ring these people. Their leader, Vorigin, has called upon them to di vide their property equally among all tho brethren, and in response to his jail some of tho richest Dukhobortsi have relinquished everything they possess, one man, probably the rich est among them, having cheerfully withdrawn his whole property of |SOOO from the bank and distributed it among his less opulent brethren. Verigin has ordered in nil the women of tho sect who are in service in neighboring towns; thoy arc not to leave their homes in tho fnture. And in view of the possibility of a future relapse from the faith their ener getic leader is stirring them up to leave the fftt lands of the Caucasus for the remote and desolate steppes of the province of Archangel on tho shores of the White Sea. The Dukhobortsi number about one hundred thousand. THIS OLD COUNTRY. 500(1 times or bad times, we're with this country still— tVilh her on the mountain top, or slidin' down the hill! Don't enro how corn's a sellin'—if cotton's high or low. This okl country, brethren, is the best one that wo know! Good times or bad times, we're with this country still— Every time wo feel hor shako, wo have a friendly chill 1 Don't onro how things is goin'—nor how tho tempests blow. This here old country, brethren, is tho best one that wo know ! Good times or bad tiinos, we're with this country still— With her when we sow tho grain, an' when we go to mill! Don't caro what's in tho future—we'll whis tle as wo go, For this old couutry, brethren, is tho host one that wo know ! —Atlanta Constitution. MARY VERNER'S ROMANCE. s—n I -AVY curtains I-j i'y ■ tod °f darkness Hi jW" 3 ; H were swiftly jg enveloping the £|k Hi canyon. Mary down tho little BH 3 window of the ji u '"I,' I ,l^° wn^ |M a narrow counter locked, then, pinning a broad-leaved hat above tho brown curls that clustered about her brow, she passed out of her log cabin into tho fresh, sweet, evening air. As she reached the low fence which ran before her house a hurried foot step sounded through the gathering gloom, and a man's voice 6aid : "Is that you, Mary, my girl? You look little more than a ghost under the shadow of those bushes." Tho girl—young and slender and graceful as a fawn—ran out into the lonely road. "You've kept your promise, dear est, and come to see rae," she cried, as she threw herself into tho arms of her lover. Keuben liaise kissed the red lips so frankly offered him before he spoke. 4 ' ifes, Mary, I've kept my promise, but I've come to say 4 good-by !' " 4 4 'Gooil-by—good-by ?'You'ro going away? You're going to leave mo— your sweetheart—your wife that is to be?" She clasped her arms closely about him aud trembled like a leaf. 4 'My dear little girl, don't cry— don't grieve. You've been ray sweet heart, faithful aud true, but we can cover marry." The strong man's voico broke and died into silence. "Goon; tell me the worst," sobbed the girl in his arms. "Listen,dear. You know that lately things have gone wrong with me. The bit of money I'd saved for our wedding in the fall was stolen, and then tho cabin I'd built for you dowu by tho Blue Pools was burnt. Still there was the furm stock and your little purse of savings left, but tho drought has killed the stock and—oh, Mary, how can I tell you?" Mary drew apart from her lover and steadied her trembling form against the garden fence. "Some one has robbed you of tho money I gavo you. Oh! my poor boy—" She stretched forth her pity ing hands toward tho man before her, who only bowed his head aud shuffled his feet in tho thick white dust. "Tell me, Reuben, tell mo how it happened. Ah, surely you are not thinking I shall blamo you for such a misfortune," and once more she crept to his side. But Reuben thrust her from him. " 'Twas no misfortune; 'twas a crime. Your little savings, thoso few coins you've starved uud scraped to keep, lie there." He pointed with his loan, browu hand down tho canyon to where, amidst a dense mass of foliage, u few lights twinkled. Mary staggered. "Down there? At Ffolliott's!" "Aye, lass—at Ffolliott's! I lost it all at faro lust night." For n moment no souud but the evening breeze whispering among tho creepers and bushes and the harsh note of a night bird broke the silence. Then a woman's voice, tender and low and full of tears, murmured ; "Rube, dear Rube, I forgive you." Reuben Halso flung his arms above his head and gave a little ciy. "Don't, Mary, don't. 1 rather you would strike me!" Tho stars twinkled thoir diamond eyes ou the man and girl as thoy said farewell. For Reuben had settled to leave the canyon that night. "Rill Red fern, One-Eyed Sammy and Joo the Portugco are going, too. We'ro all broke, and may as well starvo out there," and he waved his hand toward the wide forest laud of Arizona, "as in this canyon lioro. Don't sob so, my girl, you'll broak my heart. I'm not worth a tear from your pretty eyes or a choke in your white throat. Rut, Mary, you might pray for mo sometimes, and when you're married to a good chap r.s don't go to Ffolliott's and neglect his farm for the tables and tho bar, think of rae, who loved you, but was not worthy to have you." One kiss on her brow, then ft clatter of galloping hoofs, and Mary Verner was free to go back into her log cabin ami sob out her heart till the dawn. Keuben liaise and his companion hud left the Great White canyon for a week. Mary's cheeks, never very fnll of color, had grown pale and heavy, and blue lineß beneath her large eyes told of sleepless nights and many tears. Yet, Paul Harding—"Beauty" Paul, as he was called in the canyon—thought ho had never seen Mary so lovoly, aa ho clattered up to the door of the postolhco one morning, and asked tho young postmistress if there was any thing for him. Ho watched, with his liandsomo dark eyes, her small white iingors go through the letters lying on tho counter before her. But she finally shook her head, "Nothing for you to-day." Yet Paul seemed loath to go. Ho pulled his long, tawny mustache, jingled his spurred boots upon tho iloor, anil continuod to stare through tho pigeon-hole window at tho girl, as she flitted about hor usual business. "Anything I can do for you?" she asked him prosontly. 44 No," Paul said slowly, taking in every detail of tho girl's pretty figure, clad in a cotton frock of gentian blue. "But might I speak to you one minute —privately ?"/ 4 'You can say what you've got to say where you are." He stared silently, first at his boots, and as his eyes wandered up they lit ou the snowy shelves of bright and simple utensils and shining saucopnns which lined the walls. ''How different you keep your place from what a man's shanty is—" lint she stayed his compliments. "You livo down by tho Blue Pools, don't you?" "Yes, next to Reuben Halso till his placo was burnt out anil ho came into my shanty. I saw Rube throo days back." 4 'You saw Rubo?" Mary clasped her hands abovo her heart. "Yes. Ho and his chums passed through Long Tom's ranch. I've been out there this two months past helping him brand and count tho cattle. Rube told mo that you aud he had parted aud the reason why. Ho asked mo to look after you a bit. You see, we'd been good pals, and I'd like to do him a turn whon ho's gone under. You will let mo look after you now and again, won't you, for Rube's sake?" The handsome cowboy, straight as a dart, tall and strong as a giant, clad in tho picturesquely rough clothes of his calling, bent like a reed before tho tiny blue-clad figure of tho post-mis tress, who laid a slender white band in his great palm and lifted her violet eyes to his dark ones. "Surely, Paul Harding, for Rube's sake, you may look after mo when I can't look after myself." With that soft glance burning in his brain aud those gentle words puls ing in his ears, "Beauty" Paul swung himself into his peaked saddle and sent his horse full speed down the hill to Ffolliott's saloon. It was for Rube's sake that tho fol lowing Sunday Paul dressed himself in his best, brought a littlo two wheeled cart, gay with bells and bright colors, to Mary's door and asked her to drive out with him. The day was fair, anil "Beauty" Paul amused her with stories of Rube, anil when they came to an end ho told her of his own home, in tho heart of a green county in England. Ho made her laugh with his tales of collogo life, anil shudder with his description of the campaign in Egypt, which he had gone through. Only ho did not tell hor how he, an English gentle man aud a gallaut officer, came to be loafing aud drinking anil gambling away his days aud his health in tho Great White canyon. Paul Harding —degraded as ho was, and lacking in reverence for women—at least had too much respect for the littlo post-mis tress to tell her that black page in his life. Tho day was an entire success, hut it left m bitter after-tasto in Mary's mouth when she hoard the next morn ing that Paul hail spent tho night at Ffolliott's, drinking aud brawling till dawn. The next Sunday Mary shut herself within her log cabin, and neither the blue sky nor the gay cart and smartly caparisoned horse nor "Beauty" Paul himself could wheedle her out. She would not bo seen, she said sternly, with one of Ffolliott's lot. She, how ever, relented and forgave him on his promise to amend for her sake. As weeks and mouths went by, and tlio green of the canyon changed to red and gold, Paul found that, if ho was to "look after" Mary, he had to givo up the saloon. And, indeed, for a space, Ffolliott's knew him not; till one October morn ing his allowanco—the money which bought his family freedom from his disgraceful presence—arrived from England. For the next week Ffol liott's was a pandemonium, with tho "Beauty" as presiding demon. Mary heard of it and refused to speak to or look at liim. Then it was that he flung himself before her one day, and prayed hor to save him from that from which ho was powerless to save himself—from drink and dice and bad companions. And she did what other good women have done before her and will do again. She vdacod her hand in his and, with her heart full of Rube Halse, sho promisod to marry Paul—for his soul's sake. All through that long, bitter winter she held to her promiso. At Christ mas he broke from her control, and hbo did not speak to him for days, but she ended by forgiving. When ho was with Mary he vowed not to set foot in Ffolliott's again, never to taste another drop of whisky, nor look at a card. But once beyond the sound of her low voice, tho touch of her small hand, and his resolutions melted like tho winter snows. Tho eve of their marriage day ar rived and with it Paul's allowance from England. The occasion and the opportunity suggested a carouse and Paul informed the "boys" he would be standing treat at Ffolliotot's that night for the last time. Theibar was soon crowded, for the "Beauty" wns just tho song-singing, yarn-telling, whisky-drinking scamp who would be popular among tho wild creiw, especial ly as ho stood treat so longjas tho bar tender would stand him. Paul was full of liquor—ho had drunk Mary's health with every man in tho place—and ho was also full.of luck for onco in away. A pilo of gold lay before him on the table and he was just proposing another round in Mary's honor, when big Bill Red fern strode in and was greeted; with a shout of "Halloo, 4 Bill, you back 1 What luck, pard?" "Luck, my lads! I leave luck {to fools and deadbeats. I've been work ing and, thank God, I've worked/for something. I've put.my sweat and muscle into the ground and I've struck oro ! None [of your dust or poclcets, but a vein as broad as<an ox's back and as long as a river, and so\ I'vo come back with Rube—" Paul looked up with a . start. . Hie eyes flashed and ho seemed to' grow sober in a moment as the situation presented itself. Hero was he drunk in a gambling hell on the evo oLTiis marriage with Mary andißubo ftiad come back. "What did you say?" he muttered. "1 said Rube and I had come Tjaok. But don't let me disturb the game." "The game is up!" cried Fteul with an oath as ho struck tho tublo.and made tho money jingle. "Had bad luck, cli?" saCd Bill. "Sorry for you." "Keep your sorrow to yourself and your partner, Reuben HalseJP' "Come, come," said hu moredly, havo a drink ; I'm standing treat, and as to Rube, here's.his health and Mary's!" "I'm standing treat!" shoutecLPaul, springing up. "Havo a drink with mo I" And with this he flung his liquor in Bill's face and made a rush at him. A pistol flashed, a palo blue puff of smoke died in the hot air, ami "Beauty" Paul lay stone dead on FfolliotDs floor. Some of them went up to tho post office to break the news to Mary. There was a light in the window, and by it tkoy saw Rube and sbo sitting talking. Quietly, and with bowed heads, they loft the cottage and re turned to Ffolliott's withoutifulfilling their mission. Next day a rough-and-ready jury, having reconsidered all tho circum stances of the case and with'due ap preciation of Bill Redfern's well known prowess as a dead shot, decided thut Paul had courted on purpose a certain death, and they returned a verdict of "suicide while of unsound miud." —Chicago Times. WISE WORDS. A rogno is a roundabout fool.— Coleridge. Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.—Ruffiui. Of all virtues, justice is tho best; valor without it is a pest.—Waller. In the meanest hut is a romance, if you but knew the hearts there.—Van Ensc. Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are.— Landor. What is birth to a man if it bo a stain to his dead ancestors to havo left such an offspring.—Sir P. Sidney. Thero is as much responsibility in imparting your own secrets as in keep ing those of yonr neighbor.—Darley. Enough ; here is a world of love ; no more wo ask to know; tho hand will guide thy ways above that shaped thy task below.—O. W. Holmes. Gloom and sadness aro poison to us, tho origin of hysterics, which is a disease of the imagination causod by vexation und supported by fear. — Sevigne. Men perished in winter winds till one smoto lire from flintstones coldly hiding what they held, tho rod spark treasured from tho kindling sun.— Edwin Arnold. Perhaps some habitant of far-off star, born to tho heritage of loftier powers, although wo cannot scan his glowing world, yet surveys ours.—M. E. W. Sherwood. Not by appointment do wo meet do light or joy; they hood not our ex pectancy ; but 'round somo corner of the street of life, they on a sudden greet us with a smile. —Gerald Massey. Should one tell you that a moun tain had changed its place, you aro at liberty to doubt it; but if any ono tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believo it.—Mo hamet. I join behavior with learning, be cause it is almost as nocessary; and they should always go together for their mutual advantage. Mere learn ing without good breeding is pedan try, and good breeding without learn ing is but frivolous; whereas, learn ing adds solidity to good breeding, and good breeding gives charms and graces to loaruing. —Chesterfield. Difficult Railway building. Tho Siberian railway has now been opened to Omsk, 2200 miles from St. Petersburg, and it is possible to go from ono place to the other in four and a half days. In building part of tho lino tho men had often to carry their food with them, and sometimes had to bo lowered in baskets in order to prepare tho track. In draining a hog sixty miles wide, both engineers and men had for somo time to livo in huts built on piles, which could be approached only in boats. Mosquitoes were so plentiful that the men had to wear masks, of which 4000 were bought for tho purpose.—Litorary i Digest. TO FATTEN FOWLS. To fatten fowls quickly confine in a small, warm coop, which must be kept clean, and particular care taken that the birds to be fattened are absolutely free from lice. Feed on cornmeal mixed with boiling water in the morn ing, at noon and night with whole corn. Give all they can eat up clean, but allow none to be wasted. It is useless to try and fatten a weak, sickly fowl. It is a waste of time, labor and food. The hatchet is the best remedy in such cases.—New York World. FEEDING RATIONS. A rather conservative dairyman in discussing tho ration problem says, "the most skillful chemist in the world cannot, in his laboratory, lay down rules or compound rations that shall give the very best returns possible from each one of twenty-five good dairy cows." This is very true, but it is equally true that the agricultural chemist can lay down certain general rules which will enable any intelligent dairyman to vastly improve on tho un scientific methods which so generally prevail. —American Agriculturist. BEETS OROWN FROM BUDS. Every grower of beets has noticed the small buds that appear near tho top of the root. These aro indeed 1 miniature plants, and if cut out and planted, just as potato eyes aro each will next season produce a perfect beet plant with as largo a root down ward as one grown from seed. It may seem that thero can be no practical ' object in growing beets thus, for it is always easy to grow beet seed. But it is found that whon a high grade of I sugar beet has been secured by sowing I strains of the sweetest beets there is a tendency to retrograde in quality. Hence somo beet sugar growers in Europe are experimenting in growing from tho bud. Having on JO obtained n root with high per cent, of sugar the quality can bo maintained by growing stock from buds. It is pos sible thut this process if continued long will tend to establish a growth of beet roots with many prongs and shoots. This form of growth would be objectionable as making the beet less compact.—Boston Cultivator. I CONSTRUCTION OF A STABLE. The first requisite of a stable for horses or cows is convenience for the ' handling and the safety of the ani mals. Tho loose stall, not so small that motion is difficult, and large 1 enough that the animal can turn 1 around without discomfit, is tho best, but it requires more room than tho or dinary stall. Nine by seven feet is large enough for a horse or a cow. Tho common stall should not bo larger than live feet for a horse or four feet for a cow, which gives ample space for comfortable movement, and is safer : than if wider. Tho tie should not be 1 so long that the animal may get a foot ; over it and be thrown— a serious po sition for a horse or cow to bo in. The stanchion is not a comfortable fasten- \ ing for a cow; tho sliding ring, with a short chain fitted to a stout strap around the neck, and sliding on an up right bar on one side of the stall, or a horizontal ono in front of tho feeding trough is the safest and most comfort able. The cows aro fastened by a snap hook to a ring in the neck strap and to a ring on the bar. During many years' use of this method of fas tening in large dairies no accident has happened by cows getting loose. Of course, it is necessary to exercise cau tion to see that the fastenings are sufe before leaving tho stuble at night.— New York Times. WHERE TO LOCATE THE POULTRY HOUSE. The one consideration of greater im portance than all others in deciding tho location of the poultry house is the character of tho soil. Of two lo cations—one the best grass run Jin the world, but a still' clay soil, the other a sandbank whero a grasshopper would starve —1 would select the lat ter. The want of a grass run can be overcome, the cold, sticky clay, mud pudding in a wet time, and hard-baked as a brick in dry times, cannot. The main item in tho expense account of the poultryman is labor ; every step saved in doing tho work is ~o much gained. Yet between two locations, ono wet and the other dry, the dry 1 ono should bo selected, oven if it en- i tails many more steps; the losses 1 which would occur from having the house in the wet location would a great f deal more than pay for tho extra 1 labor. These losses would come from J several sources, chiefly in impaired health and consequent unproductive- J ness of tho flock. Many would bo ' sick, necessitating constant care, eggs 1 would bo fow, chicks liatchod would i lack vigor, die or make slow growth and under-sized fowls, in fact there would have to bo a constaut struggle to offset the effect of tho wet soil. The sandy soil dries quickly after a rain, snow melts more quickly, it warms quickly in tho sun, every shower purities it by washing all im purities through it. Better havo no fowls than to try to keep thorn on wet or heavy clay land. —New England Homestead. nORBES' VALUES. Few horses havo great natural value; many of them aro worth less as individual animals than their equiv j alent weight in beef. The natural disposition and the docility of some horses are elements of gooil worth, however. As the sculptor must huve quality in the rough marblo to de velop his design of beauty, so musl the horseman havo in the colt, consti tution, kindliness and good sense if it is to bo trained successfully. Had habits need to be corrected. The earlier they are checked the bet ter the chance for full succoss. Thou sands of mature horses in age, but un trained during their growth, are too much addicted to bad habits to ever be safe. Such animals are now con spicuous in the markets at low prices. Buyers desire a driver that ie reason ably safe to hitch to a wagon fot work, and for a family horse they de mand this disposition. It is only by constant little atten tions, care and thought that tho ideal driving horse is evolved. First, the younster is shy and afraid of every thing it sees. It is at times clumsy and one or more of its feet carelessly and contracting im proper carriage, mien and gait. With regular daily training before it is three years old, but for live minutes oftcD, in the hands of a skilled man, the faults are eliminated and a vast lot of good practices are inculcated, so that, as a horse, the growing creature is rounded into a willing, obedient and ever ready servant, a beast almost human in knowledge and fully so in kindly actious and intentions. In many a humble stable may bo found such prizes, and they are oftou treasured as being above a price. The I owner at times would not part with tho family horse as ho would not let go one of his children. Tho vicious und dull horse is forced on the market so much that the really desirable horse must sutler from suspicion that he is not all that is to bo desired. It is an outrage that a woll-brod, highly-trained, sensitive, loving ani mal should bo sacrificed by his owner at tho price offered for indifferent horse flesh. It is criminal when one sells an ill-dispositioned or weak ani mal for a great price. When there is an awakening of conscious among both sellers and buyers better things will result. Farmers will not for many years grow good horses at a financial loss. Those who work and drive them will not long continue to be deceived. There is a range of values from $5 to SSOO for a work horse. The higher prices will be realized in a few years by the few who breed, feed and traiu aright. These three factors are es sential always.—Farm, Field and Firo side. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Spring lambs aud mutton sheep will make sheep breeding a permanent in dustry. Have a purpose in feeding, aud feed for that purpose. Do not feed merely to keep the hens alivo and satisfy thcii hunger. Do not expect many eggs unless tho hens are in a bright, healthy condi tion. Neglect neither food, exercise, cleanliness nor 'protection. All the small grains are good fox fowls, especially wheat. Wheat is bet ter than corn even, except when forcing the fattening process for market. A month previous to weaning, the more grain tho calves, pigs, luinbs and colts have the better. They will not lose so much flesh and worry less. If you want to know what your abili ties as a poultry keeper are, just look at tho egg basket and then count your hens. That tells ilio story every time. Better buy thoroughbred eggs ox fowls than try to grade up tho com mon stock, because it saves time, and going up hill is not always successful work. Get tho best. It is a great loss to feed dry cows through the winter on hay and grain merely to carry them through the sou son for the sake of making $23 or S3O a head during the summer. When the porker is fat enough, soli him. After ho has passed 250 pounds, it is doubtful if tho average farmer can put anothor ounce on him with profit. It is tho profit wo are after. It is u noticeable fact that tho man who spends the greater part of his time at the store discussing politics, is not the man who takes the greatest amount of premiums at the county fair. 1 |lf you have any spare time during tho winter evenings take up some good agricultural paper and clip out the suggestions that will tend to help you with your work next spring and sum mer. We can more intelligently see tho reason for the course we take to de stroy insects if we encourage a study of them and learn why apples aro scabby and wormy and potatoes are rough. As old gocse are bettor layers and mothers than young ones, and young geese are always in domaud in tho market, a poultry man finds it pays to keep the old ones, as they are prolific for twenty years. Fifty pounds from tho refuso of tho cabbage field twico a day will show great results in the increase of milk when fed to tho cows. Fed after milk ing, there will be no uuplcasant odor or taste in the milk. Iff As soon as the rDads are frozen over bo careful as to how you drive the horse. Nothing will do more to in jure a horse than driving him reck lessly on a road that is frozen hard after it has been muddy. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. No bird of prev has tho gift of song. It is estimated that the crow will de stroy 700,000 insects every year. Astronomers claim that there are over 7,500,000 comets in tho solar sys tem alone. South American agriculturists aro experimenting with an electric drying machine for wheat. Mosquitoes inject a poison into tho wounds they inflict in order to make tho blood thin enough to flow through their throats. It is said that tho flesh on tho fore quarters of the beaver resembles that of land animals, whilo that on the hindquarterß has a fishy taste. A new garbage crematory has just been successfully tested in Chicago in tho prosence of somo New York ex perts and tho Mayor of Chicago. Cast iron blocks aro being tried in Romo of tho most frequented streets of Paris, instead of tho granite blocks usually placed alongside tramway rails. Voluntary muscles aro almost al ways rod; involuntary muscles are generally white, tho most notable ex ception in tho latter caso being tho heart. Professor Weinek, of tho Imperial Observatory at Prague, devoted 225 hours to his drawing of tho lunar crater Copernicus. It is from a nega tive made at tho Lick Observatory, California. Ilirain Maxim, tho flying machine man, Hays bo will not consider his in vention comploto until bo can bavo it under perfect control at a point so high that it can neither bo seen nor beard by gunners underneath. Cellar moulds on applos—often un noticeable—consists of more or less poisonous fungi. Physicians say they have traced cases of diphthoria to tho eating of it. All fruits and vegetables should bo carefully cleaned, or peeled, at least, if to be eaten raw. Flammarion, tho French astrono mer, remarks that our planet, if it were as near to tho sun as it is to the moon, would melt like wax under the heat from tho solar surface, which is composed of "a stratum of luminous dust that floats upon an ocean of very dense gas." A butterfly, which was found in a dormant state under a rock in tho mountains of California, and which is believed to have lived thousands of years, or siuco the closo of one of the lator geographical periods, is now in the Smithsoniau Institution. When found it was believed to be tho only living representative of its species in existence. It has been decided to use petro leum us locomotive fuel on tho Baltic Uuilroad, which is significant, be cause this line is almost the most dis tant of any in Russia from tho oil wells. Great reservoirs are to bo built in St. Petersburg and Keval and throe other stations, which will hold in tho aggregate about 5,000,000 gallons. Dr. Foehner, of Berlin, has exam ined some 70,000 sick domestic ani mals in tho past seven years, and of this number only 281 suffered from tuberculosis. Tho parrots wero re latively tho most frequently aflected, twenty-five per cent, of thoso coming under his care being tuberculous. Of tho cats, only ono per cent, showed symptoms of the disease. A Horse's Sense ol Locality. About tho year 1850, Hays tho Lewis tou Journal, a little colt was born on u farm in Aroostook County, iu the Stato of Maine, a colt that was soon sold away from tho place, to come shortly after into the possession of a physician in the town of Houlton, who at tho opening of tho Civil ( War went ••to tho front," taking with him for cavalry service tho colt, that had now reached maturity. Through all the vicissitudes of a live years' campaign this horso followed the fortunos of hiH master, being wrecked on tho Red River expedition and suffering various other disasters, to return at the close of tho war to tho Stato of Maine, across which ho carried his master horsoback until tho town of Houlton wus again reached. On tho journey through Aroostook County the road traversed lay past the farm where somo ten years before this horso was born. Neither his life between tho shufts of a doctor's gig nor livo years of war campaigning had caused him to lose his bearings, and when ho reached tho lano that led up to tho old farm house ho turned up to tho house as confidently as though he had been driven away from it but a half hour before. Disinfecting a Room. A writer in tho Medical Magazine who has witnessed tho Berlin method of disinfecting a room describes tho cleansing of an apartment in which a child had died of diphtheria: "Four men were engaged. After everything that could be subjected to steam with out detriment had been removed to the disinfecting station, all the things were removed from tho walls, and tho men began rubbing these with bread. Ordinary German loaves are used, forty-eight hours old. Tho loaves are out into substantial chunks about six inches square, tho back of each pieco consisting of the crust, thus allowing of a good purchase. The walls are systematically attacked with strokes from above downward, and there can bo do question as to its efficacy in cleaning them, nor does the operation take as long as one would imagine. Tho crumps are swept up and burned. After this the walls arc thoroughly sprinkled with a live per cent, carbolic acid solution. The ilcor is washed with a two per cent, carbolic acid solution, and all tho polished wood work and ornaments us well."
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