NOTES AND COMMENTS.
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——
The latest report of the chamber of
of Middle Franconia, the
most important hop district Ger
many, that American
gradually driving the German product
from the British market,
commerce
Of
shows hops are
the
In mitigating the Indian famine
British Government has expended on
its own account
charitable
and
than $10,000,000
or as a disburser ot
contributions
What a
of misery |i
loans
vast
n
more
diffe in
India this sum must have made!
rence the amount
The London Clobe says that a clever
doctored”
al
and
a snap-
1p
photographer ha
shot of an informal roy family gro
Darmstadt
sil
taken produced a
new
ese
t
1
ly official picture
and i
nting {aiser and the Czai
their affectionately entwined
buy it by the
Peters
la fought
offi
COMmMmes
annually
Italy
cipants
French army next to
ce, with some . duels
the past
d 2,708
ten
duels
. Bpain and Great Drital
in
the code has become almost as obsolete
gs in the United States Moat
duels fought on the European
ent are fought with the
pistols knives
in the order named
hi
the
contin-
gword, though
¢
O13
and are used occasion-
ally
Some young men of Irving, a suburb
of Chicago, have formed an anti-mar-
riage association. The
marries must pay $20 and give a ban.
aquet to the members. To visit a girl
home by the shortest route. The mem-
joy many banquets in the near future
The Stone Family Association has
grown so rapidly in the last three
years, according to the New York Trib-
in numbers than any similar organiza-
tion in the country. At ae recent
meeting in n, ‘ately discovered
information as to the English birth-
[ place and ancestry of Simon and Greg-
lory Stone was presented, and William
IB of Cambridge, Mass.,, was
authorized to have it published for the
benefit of the descendants, It seems
that Simon ‘Stone spilled from London
for New England In the ship Increase,
April 15, 1635, and that
reached Cambridge soon
Stone,
on Gregory
alter.
Stone
ward,
inspector
leves
Breckinridge
there gre; eed in the
rewards for
be-
army
conduct
propose to present good-con
Re-
ecommendations, which
reed by General Miles
Alger, Gen Breckin
some adopted a
1d badges
there
ion into
adges to deserving soldiers
ferring to the r
indo
ral
armies
pay
d marked benefit
conduct
our
beneficial
the
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The French Peasant
social econ
unity Every inhabi
¢
ommune is a proprietor of
and all are bent on savin
all thei: vidualiam,
for common and mutual
This illustrated by
ganization of the syndicate for In
at wholesale prices, They unite for the
cultivation of the lending each
other horses and making tp teams
Every commune has a field, which is
common property, and where, on pay-
yet, ind
combine
is the
terest or
gail,
After thes harvest all the fields become
and the gros betall
other betail are allowed to
and the
Lueck in Venice,
There is a curious superstitition in
Venice that if a stranger dies in a
hotel the number of his room will be
lucky at the next lottery.
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
INTEREST ON ACRICUL.
TURAL TOPICS,
ITEMS OF
Salt for Apple Orchards - Exper ence with
Turkeys--Large Trees Near Buildings---
Whitewashing Apple Trees-.-Etc,, Etc.
SALT FOR APPLE ORCHARDS
While it is well understood that
80 good a solvent
where they
may always be
We often
to apply both potash and
apple But if
every
hese
conditic
et full
alt
is not a manure, it is
that
of other minerals ex
ist in the soil it used
with advantage
vised farmers
phosphate to
this is
that
insoluble
have ad
orchards
done vear .t is probabls
f t
some oO { revert
minerals
Wheneve
beat
an in
apple trees
{ while givin he usual
ind pho
GUGAR BEET
jugtion
recently
the residue «
contains
than
While it
itriment
ha
nas
nai
standard
bean extrad
1
jerably less the
CORT doers, it serves
very useful pt se as a food, says the
Burlington
pounds of beets conta something
je-ma
One hundred
over a pound of digestible mus K
ing food, rod
about six and
timothy hay nearly three pounds
value of heels howeve
largely lies in
cotitains
and
The
while clover
one-half pounds
as a food,
their influence on the
digestive organs at a time of year w hen
stock is usually fed on dry food. They
are diaretic in their action and the al-
most universal from practical
feeders and experimenters is that roots
are valuable as winter food for stock,
and that sugar beets lead in this
respect
The Purdue agricultural station has
demonstrated that sugar beets contain
more nutriment than do mangels, car
rots. rutabagas and common turnips
Their sugary nature makes them es
pecially palatable. For sheep or milk
cows no better roots can be fed.
keep the bowels open and tend to pre-
vent impaction with cattle and sheep
and give a gloss to the coat and con-
dition to the skin not secured by dry
teed.
report
] At the Grand Island (Neb) sugur
| factory a flock of HOON0 sheop and a
of cattle are now being fed
exclusively upon the sliced
the juices asd sugar are
City delivery wagons
owners of Cows «of
the city the feed
consumed
number
| almost
beets, after
extracted dao
other live
of thi
liver to
stock in all
kind
nominal
first
tho
At
that can be for
A Week
Of
WREON
price 25 cents
only one supplied the
I
three eng
the
exact
DUt now Loers
To
Inland
food
mand, ari
encourage
factory
Stock
i}
quant
ervice
the Grand
the
try
fecders
“ Hberty Auli
in unlimited
yards
Ringed by a Bicycle Nut
Bunk. of Bro
atid
Edward
old
the
the and
of rings
8X Ang in he
tener
are
olin
on giihioct
proper to his age and
probably held anil day or two ago
That is because hi
Edward is a
was polishing a
aighly tempered
worn
by and
of
maci trade
oe big bicycle nut
steel when suddenly
flew ft itz moorings, slipped over
and, still revolving
cutting a thread as
stopped by the
ji
his index finger
rolled up the finger
it went until it was
knuckle
The finger bogan to swell it
impossible to screw off the nul except
process similar to the one by
it was put on The surgeons
finger with antiseptic
vaseline and unscrewed the nut, follow
was
which
of three grains. This is about fifty
per cent, stronger than a steal thread
of the sswe ‘hickness,
NEW YORK'S STEADY CROWTH.
The City Has Never Halted Since it Was
First Fairly Started.
Krnest Ingersoll writes a paper on
the Greater New York, entitied
soning Out a Metropolis,” for Bt
Olas Mr. Ingersoll say
The people of New
Btaten
| northern (OWHE resolved
Island and
ther nto
“nd ing
AH
degides
lon dwell
the Huds
widely separated quarters of
New York Independent
A Rat Catcher's Story.
trades, and
of the
any
all
that
as
in
in
fessional rat-catcher
According
has made a barrel of
business. but who has
into other pursuits, it
easier to make
There
aroha hilly
prooaaiy
are
#8 many 0.
i
other
line the story
who
that
ed
of a man
money in
gince drift
Was
a living e¢atching rats
than by running a shell game at
country fair. "1 used to use ferrets
for the extermination of the rodents’
he sald, “and when 1 received an order
to clear a warehouse of the pests 1 al-
ways insisted that the pay should be
ance
a
at so much per head. 1 carried the fer
rets in a big wooden box, with a false
bottom. In a secret drawer, under
peath. 1 would place four or five dozen
jive rats before starting out, let them
run loose upon reaching the place to
be rid of rodents, and then free the fer-
rots. Of course, with fifty or sixty rats
running around loose, there was al.
| ways 2 wveat slaughter, and sometimes
the would kill nearly all the
rate | free in way | was
of receiving handsome re-
un evening's work, up
feryety
turned
sure
i Lis
lalwave
muneration for
0 ‘
entiation od
rd 1c
who employs
Record
invited Crant to Co to Her Cellar if He Cot
Fr
ahtanod
Storage
miiiions
ter eX~
with
boxes,
the
y make artificial
through the rooms
by means of pipes, which keep the tem-
perature severa! degrees below zero.
The fish, meat or game {0 be presarved
is packed in the ice boxes, which have
double wails and the ice is packed
around them With the atmosphere
around them below zero, the articles
10 be preserved are Kept at a tempera-
{ture that would make an Arctic explor-
er shiver, until they are wanted, when
| they are taken out and sold, some-
times in a few days, and as often in a
{few months. The refrigerator cars
have helped to develop the cold-stor-
| age business,
traordinary hickness, sheathed
“8 $f
and filied
huge
ff i
of the modern warehouses,
wood with ice
In some
same chemicals used t
circulated
ice are