A XS ortiapVa Curiosity.
I
Whea the British army held posses
sion of Philadelphia, Gen. Howards
headquarters were on Second stiet the
Fourth door below Spruce, ia a house
which was before occupied by Gen.
I'n Iwnlliiiler. Directly opposite resided
Williaru nd I.ydia Darrah. members of
the society of Friends. A supe rior of
ficer of the British army, believed to be
the Adjutant-General, flxed upon oos
ot their chambers, a back ronai.f r
private conference, and two of them
frequently met there with fire and can
dles, in clone consultation. About the
third of December they told I.ydia that
they would Le in the room about 7
o'clock, and remain late-, and that they
wished the family to retire earlv to bed,
adding that whea they were oingaway
they would call her to let them out, and
extinguish their fire and candles. She
accordingly sent all the family to bed ;
but the officer tad ben so particular,
her cnriosity was excited. She took off
her shoes, and put her ear to the key
hole of trie conclave. She overheard an
order read for all the British troops to
march out late in the evening of the 4'h
and attack Gen. Washington's army,
theu encamped at White Mar?h. On
hearing this, she returned to her cham
ler, and laid herself down. Soon after
the rflicers knocked at her door, but file
aro3e only at the third summons, having
feizned sleep.
Her mind was so much igitated that
from thin moment she could neither eat
nor sleep, supposing It to be in her pow
er to save the lives cf her countrymen,
but not knowing how she was to convey
the necessary intelligence to (Jen.
Washington, nor daring to confide in
her husband. The time left was, how
ever, short. She quickly determined to
make her way as soon as possible to the
American outposts. She informed htr
family that, as they were in want of
flour, fahe would go to Frar.kford for
some. Ilt,r husband insisted that she
shou'd take with her a m rvitit maid,
but to his surprise she positively re
fused. Sho got across to Gen. Howe
and silicittd what he readily granted
a pass through the British troops on the
Iir.es. Leaving her bag at the mill, she
hastened towards the American Hues
and encountered on her war an Ameri
can Lieutenant-Colonel (Craig) of the
I.'Hjht Horse, who, with some of his
men, was on the lookout for informa
tion, lie knew her and inquired whith
er she was going. She answered in
quest of her son an officer in the Amer
ican army, and prayed the Colonel to
alight and walk witk her. lie did so,
ordering his troops to keep in sijjht.
To him she disclosed her momentous
secret, after having obtained from him
the most solemn promise never to betray
her individually, since her life might Le
at stake with the British, He conduct
ed her to a house near at hand, direct
ed a female to give her something to
eat, and speeded for headquarters,
where he acquainted Genera! Washing
ton with the important information.
Washington made, of course, all pre
parations for bailling the intended sur
prise. Lydia returned with her flour ;
sat up alone to watch the movement of
the Ilritish troops ; heard their foot
steps, but when they returned, in a few
days after, did not dare ask a ques'.ion,
though solicitous to learn the event.
The next eening the AdjutantGeneral
came in, and requested her walk up to
her room, as ne.wisnedto put some
questions. She followed him ic terror,
and when he locked the door, and begg
ed her, with tin air of mystery, to be
seated, she was sure she wae eitbtr sus
pected, or had been betrayed. lie in
quired earnestly whether any of her
family were np the last night he and
the other officers met. She told him
that they all retired at eight o'clock,
lie observed :
"I know yon were alseep, for I knock
ed at yonr chamber door three times be
fore you beaid me. I am entirely at a
loss to imagine who gave Gen. Wash
ington Information of our intended at
tack, unless the walls of the house cou'd
speak. When we arrived near White
Marsh w found all their cannon rnout.t
ed and the troopa prepared to receive us,
an 1 we have marched buck like a parcel
of foo's.
Why (iermans Lse (.J lapses.
"It comes from readicg," observed
the oculist.
"Yes, but why should Germans te
more near sighted than Americans ?
I Ki they read more ?"
"I don't thir.k they do, bus it is the
Kind cl bocks they read that causes
their vision to be defective."
"How so ?"
"The German horks are prirted in
the dazzling old English type, which
tries the eyes more than any other tyie
in use in civilized countries. It re
quires such closb scrutiny that the ey. s
;u 3 iuvaribly strained. So well kr.on
is this fact that recently the Anatrian
minister of public instruction issued a
very sensible decree forbidding the use.
of books printed in small type in the
public schools. Now. with American
."choo! books this would pot be si neces
sary, but German books to be harmles.)
must be priuted in large, bold faced
characters. There is a large party of
reformers in Cer;nary who are striving
to have the typt s of that ration official
ly changed toll-man, and the use of
1-nglisa script has I ir?Hy taken the
placw of the German script in corres
pondence. Educated Germans rea l one
sty as readily a th other, and the
former is growing rapidly in populari:;.
It wi'dnoi bo lodg If Torn ail bt ka wilt
appear n the Kane characters, if not h:
the same language, arid when that tlni-.;
comes tht ejes of succeeding genera
tions will bo rotik-T than tl.ore of tk
present, tut I cm't apprehend ihat this
will happen eariy enough to irjuie niy
business. U1.forr.19 couie slowly aid
physicians will ti id their bauds full un
til the dawn of ti "milUiiUium.
Yui'N onlotia ure tt&xuy destroyed by
wetda or graia, ui d to hae a full crop
ifce vatc should Le examined often,
tspecally after a riu. us rains itvlt ca
growth ot gr.s. II.u.d-pi kir. ii u'ltr
iniuireri and '.he cullivttiou shoulil tvt
ceabe uutd the crop is nearly ttiattred. ;
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1 frnlilT run ilown when 1 branlnl Karkloe.
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liilth in a) tears.
( nher lrtern of a similar character from prom
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CapilUrily f Sol?,
Dr. E. Lewis SturteTant. ia nsioic
and expU'.ning the term 'capillarity of
th soil," has formulated Into doctrine
what has been observed aod desultorily
taught through generations. Tbe old
writers Inaist on fine tillage, a rendering
of the soil into fine tilth evenly gran
ulated all through and tbe famous ex
ploits of Tull, and of Smith, of Lois
Weedon in producing heavy crops con
tinually without manure on heavy clay
soils, were results of this intimately
fine working of them. A soil may be
called capillary when so finely divided
(yet without being grounJ into powder
impalpable) as to resemble the finest
sand, the particles of which, as one
may see in a heap of broken redstone,
lie in close contact, yet everywhere
leaves spaces communicating so as to
allow water or air free passage. When
we take up a handful of damp loam and
press it it falls apart again almost as
readily as the fine Send, yet not wholly,
because tbe particles hold to each other,
when once quite near by tbe attraction
of cohesion. This same attraction also
allures the water, as is distinctly seen
when one end of a glass tube of any cal
iber (as a piece of a broken thermome
ter tube) is dipped vertically in colored
water ; tbe water will be seen rising
quite far np the narrow interior and
even drawn up against tbe onter face of
the glass as far as a one-sided pull can
take it. A lump of white sugar with
its base just barely touching the same
water will Immediately draw it to tbe
top, ascended through the interstices.
A dry clot of capillary soil loam will
take up the liquid similarly. If tbe su
gar is compacted into candy, or tbe soil
into a dense clayey lump, this beautiful
effect car not occur. Too finely pow
dered loam, as road dust for example,
wetted into a dough and theu dried,
will be too compaet to admit of it.
And if we crush this dried cake or tbe
cake of clay into coarse fragments, the
interstices will be too wide for the pow
er of attraction to reach arcross and
the water will fail to climb np. It is
like a chimney-sweep of tbe olden time
who could mount np a flue with back
against one side, and hands and knees
against tbe other, but would fall in
chimney" too wide for such a means of
ascent.
This principle underlies all soil-working,
and should guide continually in tbe
management of heavy soils. It accounts
for tbe better success with wheat or
rye sown on corn stubbles without re
plowing. Tbe sod that was turned
down in the spring for corn renders
the soil, by the end of September, in
the best condition of capillarity, but if
we plow it again, teaiing out tbe tbick
corn roots, we can not restoie that
same equably fine condition but leave
( penings, especially among tbe corn
roots which both cat off tbe capillary
ascent of moisture and by becoming
filled with stagnant, damp air, form
chambers for tbe growth of molds that
are poisonons to the plaat roots. The
supply of moisture to feeding roots of
planes from below is superior to sur
face irrigation supply in at least three
repects : First, it is comparatively in
expensive. Next, it feeds the roots as
well as supplies water to convey the
fond ; for the salts that dissolve into the
soil water at whatever depth, rise with
it to the surface, and it is only there that
they separate, as only the pure vapor of
water can take wing and rise among
tbe particles of air like as the solution
did through tbe particles of eartb. In
dry autumnal weather we often see the
surface visibly coated with deposited
salts left behind in this way. Water
or irrigation may bring with it some
nntrimect in solution, but it is very
often tbe case that its excessive flow
carries this means of fertility beyond
tbe reach of the plants, if it does not
even carrv some ot the soil away too.
Much of tbe good effect of irrigation
on dry Western soils results from its
dissolving salts left at the surface and
conveying them down again within the
reach of tbe absorbing root-points.
This brings up a third great merit of
this capillary supply of the constantly
needed water that its supply is con
stant as long as there is water below
and within reach of the capillary struc
ture of the soil, and also that Its supply
is never in injurious excess.
Hortiu? tke Poil.
Every close observer must assent to
the fact that proper caltnre at the
proper time will go far toward carry
ing a crop of anything over a dry
sp-ll. and I think thai Ibe advantages
derived ar chiefly due to breaking tbe
capillaries, and also to tbe fine surface
acting as a mulch. To suppose that
th moist soil two inches below the
surface of a Qn!y-pulverized soil is
due to absorption to any great extent,
i can not conceive. L.at season, dur
ing our almost unprecedented drought,
when there was not moisture euough
many nights in tbe atmosphere even
to be visible in the form of dew upon
cool blades of crass or foliage (the
'Mt favored surface for condensation),
a careful observer would bave noticed
in the evening, and again in tbe morn
ing, that ibe moisture from beneath a
Cue pulverized surface was fully one inch
nearer the surface in the morning than
in the previous evening, which could
not be attributed to any other cause
than attraction from beneath.
Ag4in. if we lay a board or flat stone
up. mi a well pulverized spot of ground
in which there is no visible moisture
for ay two inches, in a tew days you
will find tho ino:sture from beneath
rise to ttio surface, not from absorp
tion from the air, but from leneatu.
Another cans, in favor of proper cul
tivation, may Im ascribed to the fact
that a fine pulverized surface, loose
and porous, having all tbe little inter
stices filled with air, not a circulating,
tut to a degree dead air, acting as a
non-conductor of heat, greatly pre
vents evaporation by the hot rays of
the sun, thus making tbe soil much
more retentive of moisture held by
capillary ibe principle. Let us Lever
allow a crust to form upoc the surface,
and we shall complain less of dry
weather.
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Kkislnir Calres on kiin Milk. !
You a?k me in relation to raisitig
calves on skim milk aud if this ij a
practice among farmers wbere I reside ?
I would reply that it is, and one that
has been followed for a long time by
many farmers. This State is largely
devoted to tbe dairy industry and in
Franklin county especially, every far
mer keeps cows ;the herds will average
from ten to fifty, so you see there is a
large amount of Fkim milk to dispose
of, as but very little cheese is now made;
this is fed to calves pigs and poultry.
To keep np these herds it is necessary to
raise quite a cumber of calves every
year ; besides this many are fed either
as veal or to be otherwise disposed of.
ontside of tbe State. Sometimes they
bave been sent west azxi south.
These calves are raised princially od
skim milk, as the farmers could hardly
make it pay to feed new milk. After
the first few days the milk is skimmed,
at Grst while it is yet sweet, then cot
until all the cream has risen.
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cess, where the milk is sweet after all
the cream is obtained. The milk should
ba warmed to an equal temperature
with that drawn from the cow before it
is fed. This should be so managed
thac it will not become thick or cheesy,
if it is sour, as it usually will be.
The calves should be fed rejruarly
and not too much at a time. This !s
very important, as by over feeding
scouring is likely to result, the animal
will not do well and sometimes die.
Wilh our common stock two quarts
at a feed twice a day is enough, until
eeveral weeks old. To succeed with
this method of feeding it should be fol
lowed up during as large a part of the
season as there is milk for the purpose.
AVhea- the weather gets warm there
will not be as much trouble in prepar
ing the milk. I find it profitable to
boil a small quantity of wheat mid
dlings in water and put in the milk a
tablespoon ful or two of the middliugs
for the calf. They will do much bet
ter with this than with milk alone.
1 think Shat oil meal would be excel
ent for the purpose, and where flax seed
is cheap, that can be made to answer
an excellent purpose, boiling in water
and putting a little of the jelly in tbe
milk. This will take the place In a
measure, of the fat removed in the
cream.
Perhaps, after a time, if the calves
will eat ground oats dry, these mieht be
substituted for the porridge or jelly.
When a few -weeks o& they will e;.t hey,
and then should have is as regularly a
cows. It is better to have them seper
ate so that they will not suck each
other, and thus contract bad habits.
It Is also very important that they be
kept clean, dry and warm. Some wi'l
keep in barns during a considerable
part of tbe summer and feed hay, con
fcidering that better than turning: to
grass while they are having milk. All
of these details require care, but if sac
cess is expected it will pay to teste w
it.
Many farmers are now gra3in up
their herd with Jersey blood. We find
it somewhat more difficult to rai9i
calves from this breed than used to be
tbe case with the old native stock, but
properly managed, they make fine
animals, and are ready to commence
giving milk at an early age. Where
calves are to be fed for veal or to be
sent out of th State, when size is an
important requsite, some of the larger
breeds are more desirable. The calves
that are to remain on the farm should
be kept thrifty and growing frcm the
time they were born until they com
mence giving milk. This here, is Cf.u
a'ly at two years, so it will be seen how
important it is that they bav proper
ctre all tbe time, in order that they
make profitable cows.
Generally it is found that the way of
disposing of tbe skim milk pure describ
ed is fully as profitable as feeding to
pigs sometimes more 00 and helps to
rut to a good use product of which we
have an abundance, and that otherwise
might go to waste.
Western Sod Chanties.
To begin with, there is something for
bidding and repulsive about the very
name of shanty. We associate it with
a condition of dirt and dilapidation, al
though there is no reason why a shauty
should not be neat and cleau both in
side and out.
The word is said to be derived from
two Irish words meaning an old house ;
therefore, a shanty need not be small,
dirty or out of repair. In this country,
shauties are chiefly found in the West,
and although they present no feature to
gratify the artistic sense, they are bet
ter than they look.
The sod shanty marks the crest of the
advancing wave of civilization, and it
is never buiit with a view to more than
temporary occupation, giving way in
time to commodious and stylish dwell
ings or substantial farm bouses and spa
cious barns and outbuildings.
But, while it lasts, the sod shanty pos
sesses qualities of more practical impor
tance than mere beauty of form and col
or. It is warm in winter and cool in
summer, and no other dwelling affords
more secure protection against the
storms which sweep across the country
fioai the extreme North to tbe Gulf of
Mexico.
Most of these Bbantiesare finished in
side in a style that renders them more
thia comfortable. Narrow boards are
set against tbe inside of the walls, and
nailed to the floor, as well as to horizon
tal strips built into tbe wall foi that
purpose. Thin, cheap cotton cloth or
building paper is tacked on these strips
all around the room, and wall paper is
then pasted on in tbe usual way. Ths
roof is of boards or earth sodded over.
Thus, with .ingenuity, taste and a
few buudred feet of pine boards, the
enterprising settler and his wife will
soon build a comfortable, if not elegant,
dwelling, to Bhelter then: until the in
creasing wealth of the settler warrant"
a better change.
But. at its worst, the sod shanty of
the West is far superior to the IrUh-
niH.n'8 hnvnl th Murinan uilnlui Im' nr
J the ''auld clay biggiu" which sheltered
j Sot land 's plowman Laid.
P
a
vbicr) i(
klNZErS
Qenuinefas a
Pked -j tin tag on
every plua.
Old Honesty is acKncwi-
edged to be thte purest
and rriost lasting "piece
of Standard Craving Tobacco
on themarKet. Trying it is
a better test than any talK
about it. Give its fair trial.
Your dealer has it.
the new and elegant
HIGH A rem
J ENN I
jj
tf 3 I 1
IS TIIE BEST. EUY KO OTITSIt
The LADIES' TAVOnTTS, lcnr.ps
ito.becaustiitisaqtiickandeasyaellcT.
rrvTc rriVTrmv rvnrri'Oiru TrrriTiiPV
AUL.UJ IIA.llLUl.l l.WlltllLU li.bUUUUl.
IBTTD roil CIUCUTjAII.
JUNE MANUFACTURING CO-
Ecr. LaSs!l2A7sKS a:l 0:!ino Sireet,
CHICAGO. ILL.
TtSolicii Qrders tar c?.rC2ie flans
' 1 ,-
Sa1?rynd Epefce. or Conmisn;n. if lrt i -r.-r 4.
. pr-.w fuil l'.io fruit fcd l.arjr tini n- rtln ' ,:.l. ,11
M:i.iinff ttM new and rtnwrw. L. n U.,i.r bir'.ci'.r f, ri-r. ...
Satitisction Guarantesd lo Cuttomur snd Affn!.
Tli .nsinii is elr -vi qcltlT IumI. S'jt,. i.-i.' Nu.
tlus rr. AJdrM. It. i. ( UAK A. ( .,
Suutti I'etia Sqtuu-e, l'UiUiUli!uu. I'sw
DR. HOBENSACK'S
KLEVCL'S JjBlLil Y FILLS.
A sure nnd fcalc ?:,rc:l"ic for wciic- 1
fci,iS icm, and (j-Trral cx"'..,ustion amir j
lni.rY i from youlhltj imp: : Jruce, ex: nci i
"iV;. l anil overwork f.I roiiv and brain. !
causing j.hrical and nierila! wrnk-
B's, ot m-morv and fcrytial m- I
mpacrtv. CURES OLD and YOUNG.
' Price .-T tjjl. rrtn.-.-rd and I r
"AaW t lr Hr.i5ack's l.bomtnrv-
Ko. 'aoti M . Street. Fhila. bend fur crcult
THE
BSf way
To cot a IJryt-ClaKaWtitcla
ie in our to-1'DeritiveC'Inbs.
fine ikies mm
AT TT5 &y''
LOWEST CASH FR1CZS Vrr
Only 100 a Week.
Thousand of tbe lu st JjJ.SS.OO
loll atth ever jnmlc an; .scll
in;r in ur Co-operative Clubs.
T':'i til" T'Mt, f' rinrgt, .Vnil flillrriiiriif,
:itl nuin ' r-, i r- vstfin f nrllinz w:i;Tefi.
j n- n -.:: dir i.re Aui, n. a.:i Uit Mi ni W in.li rs.
":!im:ir!7 ( vrn nn? ;,i I t,- m-mrrcy dur:i
!: :.. nun lnf ui uitiiitifii. isiiim-Miis ; c !
i:..r rovo!!!. !. iniud 1:1 no i.tin-r w cl.Ja. 1 !u - are I
r. , .iircly the uiily cf i-:i'l Dm.ti-pronf .w,rr- I
' finite n the VtIi', ! nro j, -r'td
vjh.vil v.-i.b (,i.VI i.t;i:l fi.,. T!f
est rar.d.1.. Tl:rt err !' .:ct: jar rrT--ftnrr-,
armmrit, rfwrit.'i'y a itl xrrricr,
:f.iJ, rv,frl. t ilr fwi'T-a; ii-p i yfti'in
hi".: tlu'in r-it:. iti t'lf ru :i h .i wit u:u
V'i.i"frrti(,':.m., fiuf
I1..1W...1 t- in ri.-y. I y ., :
3wi r.7x tiav..- - -t.
rf'TTO IN f
r r v vv
I. P.Thomas & Son's,
rontaln all th Taliinlile cW-mprits of stal l rntiuro
In a conrxntrairci form. r-,Tia'lv j r M i.rt I i.t i.ll
cr. pn. 1 lii-y ari- irwimi farm nd i.'.r r"i, '.: . i riiia
nci't jvnlt-v. '1 Iipt rnncut l l.!i-n in ui ("oi l.
OU14 IVOIIKS jMM-n evcrr l:i-iiiiT. iVu pWm
trii-in our prrMrtiiil atifntii n. f'nr tin- s.ime im ui'v
puaraul our r"li not to In- ur.ss.t..l. Tln,-o
wh iihb tli-iu ni.l.irxs thiuj. Vi..u uo lle-ji jiiid.
Jou euclune Hum.
.Jur(Tmri) bt
I. P. THQIAS c SOK,
Philadelphia, Pcnn'a.
"W. J. ANSTKA1). Jotinstown,
JtSCni A. NOF.la, Ebrnbr.r7..
March 3J, 2iu.
Honesty
, MiJ I
FERTILIZERS
PATENTS !
EUITEY WISE GARKETT. Atterncy-at-Ltv,
WASHINGTON, P. C.
lr"r to Id Nation I Hank. WaUiin'-tAn, P. C,
-SEN FOK INVENICR'S GUIDE.-
All !oi l ol rarj-rajihs.
Its a nod thins to rr-c a war 8s; .
church. ' 'l
Tbe old cure wet e!?iv;3 .la.
good afijiiicii'k'ii for a U-m sUn.
A r.iiIroal mai Is More t!
any other roaa to have a c-r!;i;acle
Skirts are growing wider, bat tL
difference ia rnv!e entire'v fu .,, ,'
! widths.
j The boss roo-Vr of ti n
j fcrs to hens 43 tl:n 1 iY lis;,4
1 ot L
c jiigreg.'i'.'-jn.
leprosy exi-s'? in this r-itrv ii t
nosota. in the Ci!casi;:ti tnn,
Lcuifaiina and in Nova Scjlia
After a Lard G?ht a fr-w (r
near I)t;Ii3, J'a., a rath pr,.-,. t'
crow from eating tor li'.L'e .:-.
NoIaTsvig. a servant :r: ff pur
land. Ore., hay fallen heiress t 4
tune of fJOO.O'JO in England.
The lesson of lifs make '!?;. r jj.
presjions thaa thi It s-or.s of
I cause they tou;::i t!;-; hf;irt U-uHr
i reach tha Lead.
V ben a niiu 11 is oiiCtj for.'.
rcvutalioa or bis irjtejrrity, r.o'.! ;.- T. ...
tlieu serve his turn, neitrif r tru'.h 3 'I
..... 1 ,
la.a'.iiuuu.
A rattlcsnak w;:a rect r. t : v tt
Mrs. L. A. West, of (Jro r.'
The reptile wasenaed in i!:;y:P2 vj-
a pet cat near the Lo;i.e.
A 3;ug;jet of ruby rue v-i V;it r 1 ,
piund and estimated to wort h i'rijt-j
was taken from r mine pear i".k . (
a few days ago.
"llood'.um" ccmes from ti.e (;..TT5aa
hudd'er, raeanin the lo.tfc-r, or :i;.-r
eo "bummer" from tlie Gerru-.L i-.x.
mler, a word of 6imi!ar iirpyrt.
Frank ili'.ld, a AaraarJ s'.u ! :,t.
recently from the tCVcts of oiinm
j suiokiug. which :udultd in to f-Acesj
in a Chinese joint at (Jair tripe.
Recently a disgusted, .v-!"i:...'-h, -r.m
juryman o'crcd to pt-.y the bum in jj.
pute if the claitnun; would ui'.tn; tfc
case. Tbe off jr was refused.
Walter Cooler, a .romir:ent h'rs';-ij
Rypsv, died rt-cently, uud Y.'u body
drawa to tte churshyurd T.y a favo-;.
mare. The ruare was then s.ierific-u
j A colored minisitr ia Nevada ; r-.' '
i !!!;::,"!;r:!!:;?:n.'i,;
1 v- w.vMb-, l.iu iUH lrr iUw" v C i -
! perate and tLa industrious djitrioLs.
i A little Turlington girl persisied l
j singing wLila her grandfather w n,
; taking a nap. She explained that s:.t
was trjir.g to t'.v-z granpn's no.-e to
! sleep. "
I The fastest run on an American ra:.
; road was mad a on the Phtliidelphia .:
Iteadiug road, when a train ran i'2 mi :
in li;; minutes. Oua ziii'.it vras niidf;
41 secoiid?.
The population cf Canada is le!3 sr
i that of the State cf New Ycrk ;
jet white New York hus a d.-tl of .. ;
about J7,0k0,(:0!.i, Canada, has a dtf.
! nearly 5Jlu,('!:;.'.'M(;.
! It has just been discovered :r, Ais'.r';.
; that or.- cf the four Srate executi
is a woman. She is large ar.d iMiFrr. :
; has a heavy voic, ar.d has adjusivt i!
nooses fc r twenty-ait yic.im".
I'li-ctric rifes are ths latest. 1 ':?'!
o the ordinary jit-rc'.iRsion firiii i-vi ,
a dry cludoride of silver battt-rr 1 a
', before thfl Arc.-riCHii institute, i.re fits
s ruiu ,-""-' i-uev, wi.naui r.u.:.!,
In the coffin of the dead I'm;.; u.r .r.
Etapics Victoria placed a sc.;.! 'd
chain, to which three lockets w:ie ai-
I tached contain ir 2 min tit urea wtwc.i ts
bad taken d'irinjr their c?urt.--U:;', ur.i
which he had always worn until l..s joj:
il'Less.
r d Fr Ihcuzhl
Temperalo ai.gsr well
bc-c-.'n-cs
tie
ise.
' Lfght circa Fj-eak, great clc? i;re
! d unit).
! As base as stander is, it is in vn I.-st
j for the wiiEt cf listeners.
A nr'irt cever can l) Iiappy rules? his
first oljects are ciutside of h;L;."!f.
Sometimes a T.f ie taiiure m-iv. -, ;!.?
world s f;ithflMv :t a Jist i-.'.;-i!
j success.
i Rj is often net hi: but the extract cf a
! p,i-t life.
I e ciu rurnisn noinir.g m u,:s
but we may make ! tw!iinninjr, and
queiith a r.ote ex;itn;;!.
If a rar.a is doinjj a tood bu?i:nf.s ! e
rhould not ti un hia surplus or t.ii.e a
venture on the Ftreet.
Noah was the first man s;:;t'.!y
observed Lent. He lived on w;:'.t !c-r
forty days and rights.
Conte;.trcf r.t is i pood thir.jj u:;l.i it
reaches the point where it fits in lac
shade ar.d Jets U:e wefds yiov.
AVL;.t delights, what emancii)
what prrares and pai'is us is if h: J
j good in SjH ech and ia ti.e art.
There W'.re never toi nar.y ii nv ;a
I this worJd, and m t o:: kind wrl U
I many ba3 ever t been pp ?k on.
Saicess d-'esa't impose itJf '''
one. Tho who win r.:iu-t m
ihinp:?, and at the sarae tiu:'j en
their prip.
lilevate your bnsmesss. lisr
that the mere elevated your l:
t.T
'ate
liT
f 51
character the mors easy it will ' t
pet money.
Socit-ty is composed cf tv.", rrFit
e;.s.sr-s. thoss who have more :::-p'i'!e
,.,. ,1 .,.! il,..,. '..i,., ,,,..r' h.IVS
dinner than arptit".
t
Tests of U:e ( orii I i
In corn planting 1'iue tht? ':r;;'"riJ
worried by many p,?'s. Ctw
blackbirds pull up the sprouti:' Z
and if this is truly done I- j-.:rnvt of
nefarious cutworms and r-''-'f'; sr,!-S
the d'tmage is ia no w-'Y u'. ,! ' '
Je.-:-et:ed. Sjuirrcls ".nd i!.:ti-;u': ''
up the sced ar. 1 ciitw.rn
tender sprouts. It j u:
reasonable to romlain w f-:1
effective prec. r.t tons :t i""1,
neglected. Serd Vvirt-d in ji-f S!:-'
hot water iu which a tl''e--;:
i tar has been nixed by n.c'tuM r t.
f each "rain with a Cltn vf t'"1 '
r the
p a
1 :.nl
; :-t
Ulof
t ('
;t
1!
j not be attacked by f ro-.vs or ru.- '
or squirrels. We i !' " '
I in a solution cf Ja!iptre tti !.'t v,'
with the result of baf. ' '
ation "V i wo u::-,
dan-rer of rr.isf 1 ' f '. ' '"
ar.d by ad.linp a frr ':-r"
acid to the otiart of sr!:i.-n :Ve
-'S,
f'f
1
the seed kco::.;,.: tor . :ve
j the comr-ion pe-t' ccn:V'::ed-