FARM AND GARDEN NOTES
ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE
FARMERS.
room of the amateur's garden it Is de
sirable to keep the fruiting branches
as low to the ground as possible, and
effort should be to make
strong. In the summer pruning,
rather, “pinching out,” of
every made
them
thes
Bees and Horticulture-Thinning Fruit.
Crapes in Summer-~Eradicating Moles
from Gardens.
shoots are the strongest and the lower
the If it to
the low the
is desirable
town rd
weaker,
branches
ones
have
TO GROW CELERY,
Cole requires very rich and yet
moist It should be made rich by
previous manuring, as a large amount
of manure put on the year the
crop is to be grown makes the soll too
dry. and though the celery will grow
rank for a time, it will become dry and
If the soll in which celery is to
not rich enough,
ry
soil
fresh
pithy.
be
gome quick acting nitrogenous commer.
cial fertilizer will be found more profit
able as well as cheaper than the quan
grown is found
tity of stable manure needed to secure
an equal amount of growth. The com
eercinl fertilizer
land as stable manure will,
will not dry out the
ES AND HORTICULTURE.
i
fruit fits in more hap
ith the production of honey than
ition. When bees
chard
growing of
pliy Ww
i
1 . 1 . Ty
loes any other occu
Head He Host 1ttentic
weds least, The
Wf any benetit
next
Dire |
They es
TIA
HZB LION,
i
srtainly are
and
he blossom
an opportunity
* sejection of varieties, ti
in gather
the
* beekeeper «
until
honey
BUTTERMILK FOR POUL
a little careful 1
hinning out the fruit
excess. By this
rop of the best quality
ANnge
when
mesgns ao
of
be secured yearly and or
doubly remunerative
4 the let-alone
anagement in fruiting
fri
made
wl w system
great
trees
1 he
on
had the
inves
im to thinning
ose who have
this
a profitable O
but ti
extra labor
meet
Iw
itlay. It is
SCOTo ¢ labor, but
that an that it is wisdom to
withhold labor when it ean be employ-
ed profitably, and those who have had
in
when the trees were overloaded main.
wl 1101 Te
experience thinning out peaches
tain that it is an outlay which pays bet
ter than any other expenditure on the
farm.
RAPES IN SUMMER.
cal cultivation of grapes are intended
for large vineyards, where the grape is
cultivated for market purposes alone,
The amateur gardener who has but a
ay that the best time for pruning his
grapes will be the spring and summer
months. He should have a clear idea
as to the number
fruiting the following season, and, soon
after growth has commenced, the
weaker shoots that he does not need
for fruiting the following season should
be taken out. All the vital power of
the plants will then go into the
branches that are left. They will be
strong aad healthy and bear fine grapes
the following season. Another point to
be attended to is that in the Hmited
throw the strength of the plant
into the weaker branches and make
them as strong as if they pushed out
from the upper portions of the plant,
It is impossible to teach this in the few
words of a paragraph. Much can be
learned from actual trials, and If the
amateur grower with little experience
in grape-growing, and with this para-
graph before him, will experiment with
a single vioe for one year, he will learn
book on
whole
week,
studying a
for a
bry
grape culture
could
MOLES
GARDENS
FROM
nole,
thu
reountry
That small,
a pest to all sections of tl
1
rodent,
sly
¥
to hbw gardeners shall be entirely r
of them, is as yet an unsolved quest
The
fon
most effectis
all sections of
has
1
8 were being laid in
tation red spid
ry fastor y have ove
i 14 also ab
I believe it
1% hw!
Hy Pos FH
sented itself, therefore de
castor beans as all the animal
world seems to do.”
tests the
Bicycles as Calamities.
will presently
Wl
Business men be look.
ing for a new tseorge to demolish
the latter das
cycle
enemy of trade, the bi
ery gide, “The bicyele has ruined our
business.”
While this state of the case is doubt
ons exaggerated there iz still a mond
cum of truth in this oft-repeated wail
The bicyele fever seems to have
spared po one, and ax a natural conse.
quence money that was once spent in
and the concomitants thereof,
It i= well known that no branch of
trade has been more visibly as well ns
radically affected by the bieytle craze
than the manufacture of watches, A
large number of well known firms
which once found it profitable to make
watches have abandoned their manu
facture for that of bicycles,
This is said to be the case with, well
known firms in Boston, Canton, O., and
Rockford, 11. These concerns are still
turning out wheels, but the wheels are
no longer put in gold cases,
The falling off in the demand for
watches is justly attributed to the in-
creasing number of twenty-first birth
days which are now glorified with bi.
eyeles,
In the good old days his proud father
always presented his hopeful son with
a gold watch when the latter celebrated
his accession $0 manhaod's estate,
Now the boy must have a bicyele,
In the brave days of old, when a girl
was pretty enough to every
thing she wanted she asked for jewelry
or clothes or diamonds,
Now she insists on a bleyele
All of which is refreshing and amus
ing when considered from the point of
view of poesy or athleties, but to the
Inst degree traglionl looked at
through the spectacles of the honest
tradesman
For the retail jeweler no longer sells
papa or the dry
goods dealer no longer measures out
silks and laces, the cigar man fails to
sell Mary Jane's young
man, and is forced to lay in slabs of
chewing instead, Even the tall
ors feel Men roll about
much in bi suits nowadays
never ur out their
Theatrical # complain
terly that the hurting
sod
* when they
desery “©
or a poodle dog.
when
watches dinmonds,
perfectos to
gum
the strain, ®O
yele ne
to Wi other clothes
hit
thelr
manager
bicvele
business thenrts u to go 10
the th felt the
need of ip in
Now
fuent 1
the ardent
of spooning
together i
i4eyY BO
Hinnger
that the loss nires on
account
+ declares that pe
’ “w po, H .
i were Known 1o
s they went to the
Qur Court Costume.
in Minister
Brook
stein den
obzrens.”
worn bs
never at
time authorized bs
the Journal, of New
The only
could wear under the
was that
Congress, asserts
York, with em
uniform a Minister
Nel
Me
worn by Admiral
or by General Anson G
the coronation of the
that of an officer in the American Navy
Army.
fridge,
Cook, at
Oo!
inridge Is peither, are authorized by
Congress to wear at Court receptions
the uniform of their mnk, But any
omer uniform or costume js explicitly
forbidden by law, except the ordinary
evening dress of an American citizen,
This dress has been good enough for all
our Ministers since the law was passed
in 1807.
The fact that an American diplo-
matic representative is prohibited by
law from wearing Court costumes has
since become notorious throughout the
Thus the assembled diplomats
the
with a broad grin, asx he strutted up
and down the Court in his borrowed
plumes,
No other American Minister of Am-
bassador has during recent years worn
knee breeches at a Court reception.
There are on record ‘in the State De-
partisnt many protests by our diplo-
mats against donning such a dress,
It is reported that the Hessian fly has
appeared in large numbers in Michi
gan.
—-— a
The longest Egyptian railroad now
extends wo Girgeh, 326 miles from Cal-
re.
CARSON CITY MINT THEFTS
jones Pocketed Bars of Bullion and Sub- |
stituted Others That Contained Less
Cold and More Silver,
One morning, about a year and a half
ago, J. W. Adams Superintendent of
the Mint of Carson Clty, received na
wommunieation from Hirseh Harris,
the melter and refiner of the Mint, con
taining the startling statement
that a clean-up of the refinery had re
apparent shortage in gold
bullion of, approximately, 3000 stand
urd Superintendent Adams
apprised BR. E Director of the
Mint at Washington, requesting that
BOC competent be tn Cnr
y to
Preston selected
rather
vealed an
OUNCES
Preston,
person went
son City Investigate,
Mi
Mason
Andrew
'pited
Mr
Superintendent
iy Office
Mason reached Cars
15. IN
1nd
robbed
Mr. Mason «
hear
was as dumb as an
Suppe
“Mr
tendent of the
“Yes, «ft
“Would it
have
Jones | #¥ie
refining d
a wuint
partment
be possible for this melt to
been assayed and stamped, and
vault Mr.
about itv
unto the wt hout Jones
for a
slowly
thong ht moment,
No, sir.
in
The
amd then replied very
{i don't think
‘act I'm sure it could not.”
“All right. my friend”
Mason, “vou will say nothing about
and we shall see what
Then a number of other
melts were reassayedd, and the loss of
Aska Yer
it could be possible,
replied Mr.
this discovery
we shall see”
75.000 in gold was accounted for, Oth.
Tedd the belief that
gomeone had stolen from the Mint, be
tween June 1, 184, and June 15, 1865,
nearly $100,000 in gold. After Mr. Ma-
gon had the results of the reaseays offi-
cially submitted to him, he walked into
the office of the assistant superintend-
ent of the refining department, and
asked for his book of records of the as.
says and refinings
“Certainly, sir, I'll got it from the
safe and send it to you,” said Jones.
“I'll not trouble you to do that, If
you'll get it now, please, I'll take it
with me.” Mr. Mason responded,
Jones turned white, then his face
flushed, and then turned pale again,
Hie seemed to have difficulty In moving
in his clair. Finally he pulled himself
or discoveries to
book.
to be a curious circumstance, The door
of the vault containing all the “melts”
in the Mint was just at the right of
Jones's desk and not a foot away from
book
Hi,
found the
it Ww
Jones
nud
time
wnnted,
for some
that
Mason,
When Mr. Mason was able to make a
careful examination of the book the
first thing that attracted attention
wis that nearly a dozen pages had been
Next he discovered in Jones's
Wis gave
his
torn out
the
was discoy-
“melt” in which, by reassaying
first evidence of the thefts
ersd, It ns having
received into the vault and charged off,
Then, to cover the shortage in gold and
the
was entered been
nme melt was
to the re.
the surplus in silver
having
again, and again entered as hav.
ing been received at the In other
Jones had made two entites up»
of did not
entered been sent
HE
fluery
vault
words,
1 1 »
on his book something he
LV
been rumored Arson
there were 801
Aint
the and ons
reason : 5
cateh these w
That th
line tribe,
enough and =
a wands
proper territory f
plain When
tien
operation they cau h a
were first
few
ats. but a great many hore pork
hen it dawned upon the owners
would Ix
iw rii their
better to pen up their
than to existence,
roam at will over
and =o they no longer
the Vanderbilt demense”
Paste That Will Keep a Year,
I¥ssolve a teaspoonful of alum In a
quart of warm water. When cold, stir
in flour enough to give the consistence
of thick cream, being careful to beat up
all the lumps. Throw in half a dozen
cloves and stir in a= much powdered
resin as will stand on a penny. Pour
the flour mixture into a teacupful of
boiling water, stirring well all the time,
Let it remain on the stove a few min-
utes, and it will be of the consistency
of mush. Pour it inte an earthen or
china vessel: Jot it cool, cover it, and
put in a cool place. When needed for
fixe, soften a portion with warm water.
It will last a year, and is better than
gum, as it does not gloss the paper and
can be written upon.
Siberia’s Creat Railway,
There are to be about 200 railway
siations distributed over the new Bi
berian railway. The rolling stock will
comprise 2,000 locomotives, 3,000 pas.
senger cars and 36.000 goods wagons,
The passenger traffic will be almost ex.
clusively confined to third and fourth
cinsses, and the tariff will be very low.
The works in connection with this
| great undertaking are being pushed on
| with much energy, and the work is ex.
| pected to be completed in about six
| years, The opening of this line will
| shorten the journey around the world
| by about twenty days.—Raillway Age.
RICHEST HEIRESS ON EARTH,
She Is Only Fourteen Years Old and Lives
Nery Humbly.
HT and ti nition dol-
bundred
the colossal fortune
Hirsch
Baron
Premed
of the late Maurice
Gereuth, will eventu:
her the
do
will make a tent
be world
The
ross ctive
gre
nos ou
that the
loubtful, The
AR I ROYEeriies
v, nnd he
’ 4
gagogue {i
of his end
O11
ques
he
the
it was To
fief and training came 1
but naturml that
up.
fore, he should read
iy acewde to the request of her mother,
an ardent Cath
daughter to continue in that fai
deed, matter of fact, 1
child could have entered the
Church, she must necessarily have abe
jured all other relig And so it
that in to her late brother
inlaw’s wishes, Mme. Levy, though a
upholder of Judaism, allows
her ward to become a follower of an-
other faith
According to the provisions of Baron
de Hirselh's will $200,000 has been set
apart for the maintenance of Lucienne
until she reaches her majority. Half
of the income of this will go to her
guardian or “gounvernante.” who will
aot be called upon to render any ac
count of the same,
and allow
¥
inn
#1
1.43
In-
wri Ory the
HEB]
Jewish
ols in
deference
stanch
Curious Example of Thrift.
Judge Fair, of Atlanta, Ga., who died
recently, was a curious example of
thrift carried to the verge of mono
mania. In his desk after his death
were found all the ink bottles he had
ever used hundreds of them-—amd sev.
eral thousand worn-out pens, and large
bundles of envelopes which had been
sent through the mails and were wholly
useless,
The average man consumes 20
pounds of sugar every year.
The pearl fishery discovered off the
south coast of India is very rich.