NOTES AND COMMENTS. Boston expects its new seven-mille fine of elevated rallway to be built at a cost of $5,000,000, Some enterprising publisher should bring out a new book on “How to Eat a Philippine,” by Admiral Dewey, Porto Rico is a snug, compact little island, justifying its name and having the finest climate in all the West In- dies. To what salvage 1s a bicyclist entl- tiled who discovers a young woman | whose bicycle has broken down and tows her into port. Early morning exercise is denounced nowadays by the majority of hygienic teachers. At that time, they say, vi- | tality is at its lowest ebb and neeils the | stimulation of food. A couple of South American repub- | ics have submitted to the Queen gent of Spain some of their differences for arbitration. Is it possible that they think she hasn't trou! les enough of her own? © : ne 1agnificent comes behind e and their Modern machinery thing, but, after all, the crucial the machines that ¢ invention, ho er results, final mastery of to test, ¥ wonderful in the Mayor Harri: the citizens flags wis WAr City tofore Aldermer to £5 every Eranted Council for The idea of “civic becoming popular has having an oak fying growth Mil- ensign the west waukee SIRO ranting sturdins an emb the mott as “steady progress.” The {ls is white with a red border with nblem and motto in blue in t} he center, of the New York frof which have dug which the I ed. A brother works this far he is section, fairn called sit w hi ips whi » of the Sablx wasn't 8 by i Massa i by two and Con- heroes dug out inday. one oiicer, husetts " 3 Rhode Islan § | — tre F 31] ticut by four. sailor t bye without any titles cannot of the long lists at this time, but later, n gm has «1 a little appear in bright and Vermont had the commander of when the ike clear ing tha ing the countries in Europe of what are five an beyond Hungary, and Servia. All has been ordinary year a L000 hectoll- »1a} available for = CXCPER Own Roumania, Bulgaria in tries Russia, these cot bined, it id make good zerland Hol- countries, export s wl the needs of Beigi and tl eandinavian » far larger wants snsumers of wheat-—the France, Germany, whose combined 152.00 000 hect land leaving uns of the United Austria, Italy demand is placed at litres (400. 500.000 bushels) beyond | their own product. Even in the best | of years Europe, then, is not self-suffi- | cient in wheat. i The great King and om Oo so-called “disappearing car-| riages’’ are among the most wonderful | new inventions for war purposes, | rendering it practicable to conceal a| battery behind an embankment and to! expose | oniyab of are lowered out of sight. The great guns at Sandy Hook and elsewhere along the coast have been provided with these carriages. Some notion of the wonderful perfection of the mech- anism employed may be obtained from the statement of a military expert, who said that the operation of lifting and lowering a sixty-ton gun on one of these carriages involves the solution of a mechanical problem equivalent to stopping a locomotive running at 20 miles an hour within sixteen feet, or half its length; yet so easily as not to occasion the slightest jar, The fact that a few men in the west were able to corner the mule market when the government wanted a few thousand of these animals for army purposes ig evidence that the long- apred draught animal is passing out of vse. Further evidence is furnished by rr ape —— S————————————t a §% says, a mule in front of a truck is now a very unusual sight, in contrast with the conditions a few years ago, when an epizootic among these beasts would have stopped half the freight business of the city. In the country at large the number of mules decreased from 2,278. 40 in 1806 to 2.215.654 In 18DT, and thelr aggregate value from S100 204 457 to £02.204,140, Chief among the causes eited for the change Is the introduction into the country of the big Norman and Percheron 1 These are as good workers as the mules, and, besides they perform their tasks in better temper, horses A Chicago paper says that the cur rent type of Uncle Sam which all the picture-makers use is not characteris- tic of anything American, and wants it replaced new and contempora- neous conception. It complains that the cartoonists represent the figure that should typify American courage, energy and enterprise as “a long, thin. straggle-beard- by a legged, hollow-chested, ed nondescript,” with trousers half up to his knees, and attended by a dis- reputable turkey buzzard. There is ymplaint, confes but the h must persons figur though gome basis for the Harper's Weekly, modernizing Uncie Sam even among thase who like to see it done he © even BE from the i atime try is shut The ore is all kinds mand Much America, but supply, 4} used in the ma de piate of rolled steal. making re comes of armor from demand ex and large steel concern In Pennsylvania has sent in the f tha Of 0 the making one fg main Care of the Eyes. This Is a day when the delusions tn which one has held for years are grad. ually being swept away by those “who know.” One such delusion in which wea all once believed was that to while in a recumbent position was in jurious to the eves. OUeculists now tell us that if the light be good and the type of the printed page clecr we may gafely Indulge in the luxury of lying down and reading at the same But while our oculists tell us this, he also warns us that we may not eyes before breakfast, as the strain on the optic nerve will seriously allect the sight. Bo she who would read before ghe rises in the morning must have her cup of coffee and a roll or slice of toast brought to her bedside. Unless one has unusually strong eyes one must not when one Is tremely weary, Exhaustion and fat affect all the nerves of th ie the optic nerve i read time se our read ex body should Nor s rece would ve parti one ey guilty of the reading fa : of writing or ing a 100, strain the sis Washing the eyes as hot 1 toni on in water ft can a wonder yanis v When The Gallant Afridis Destruction of City Trees, & with pted to the best this sha 16 free As f ¥ ae » of expense always Pant ists have fie 13d of the metal. Geolog contended that the ore sylvania, and about 25 searching party came Across it, places inaccess that the « values of the was The p son ( exiated years ago tra in ad ommercial greatly impaired discovery 13 in a 18H oh although metal Jettor ‘ounty where ¥ O13 not only have pockets and lumps n found, but a vein from three feet thi ore bee k has heen located, ing the ptireat quality Steel making men are final report of the geologists "Hh parts as to the extent of the of ti awai y evidence There fs game of eri every ket is becoming more and lantic. ' Treatment for Pacumonia Clinical experiments in CARON ot State Veterinary College, Cornell, are thought to have possibly some signifi- cance for treating similar diseases in men. Thess experiments showed that large quantities of water containing an antiseptic (Hydrogen peroxide) can be used to flood the lungs, thereby, if poured in rapidly, washing out the lung passages thoroughly. since the fluid is then ejected, or if poured in slowly, healing the diseased tissues, by which very great quantities of fluid will be rapidly absorbed. The experi- menters injected into the lungs of the horse one and a half gallons of water in ten minutes, and by this process re. peated daily, restored to health what seemed an animal fatally diseased The presence of fluid in the lungs is so commonly associated with drowning that 1t will doubtless seem strange that consumptive and pneumonia patients may yet hove thelr lungs washed out repeatedly and their lives saved In that manner, A A Haady Clack Device. Clocks can be accurately leveled by a new shelf, which has a fixed wall plate supporting a pivoted, adjustable shelf with levels in the top, to be set the Chicago Tribune. Ia that city, it by a thumb screws on the under side. high 2 Westinghouse pit in r dynamo of IS kilowatt canaci ing Gin futions a minute and producing a cur- The to be group of batteries that the generating sta- press mak rent of 280 volts, CArg are squipped with a will be charged tion, and the car will be able to make a run of 40 miles before recharging necessary, The cars will have a speed of from 10 to 12 miles an hour in the town, and are expected to run as high as 20 to 30 miles an hour in the rural districts. It will require about two kotirs to recharge the batteries. A complete Westinghouse switechboards, will be placed generating station. A Wholesale Marderer. Though only sixteen murders of children have been traced certainly to the murderer Vacher and eighteen more were probably his work, it seems that in the three years after his release from a madhouse there’ were no less than ninety-eight murders and at. tempts to murder and outrage In France where the police were unable to find any clew to the perpetrators at is in The Phonograph in Ethnology. An exploring expedition under the direction of Dr. A. Hadden and under the patronage of the University of Cambridge recently left England for the Torres straits, between Australia and New Culnea. Subsequently New | Guinea and Borneo will be visited and | investigations of a scientific character will be pursued. To study the lan- guage and music of the natives a phon- ograph will be used, and to produce thelr dances and home life a cinemat- ograph camera will be taken, This Is probably the first instance of this in- trument being used in ethnological research What a Dream Did. Some years ago Joseph Evefest came into the Warsaw Valley from Hume, d bought a farm three miles from this village, One morning he re- inted dre that he had night before, and which he had dreamed for nights in in which had seen a vast treasure on his farm He was 80 moved having selected a earth to the rock, 50) ah a am the three succession, hi in the earth below, vision that rem bythe spot, he ved the and with improvised 1tOOI8 began with a spring pol¢ After go- SO or drilling ing down ing nothing, still 100 feet and find Bpome he gave up the search, bu belief of a hidden his death, many years after, H Everset, Rochest remembered ed in} below which up to nephew, Company, of a househol ing their » most anbetantial con- fund.” loyalty WAT Sixty three-year-old Decree concern voir at part of nis reign ig now about to be excited was kingdom, an empire public, and has passed through two revolutions and a d'etat. Yet the old decree ig honored and held to be in force by the government that has exiled the family of the king who made it. There could scarcely be a more striking example at once of the permangnee and the mutability of the government. made tin is Since at and twice a re- Ty coupe very Poor Stock for an Emperor. Strange tales are told of the mad | escapades of the Archduke Franz | Ferdinand, heir-apparent to the dual | srown of Austria-Hungary, who has | just been invested with high military { dignities by the old Kalser—-by way of | preparing bim for stili higher respon- | sibilities. One day when out riding | the archduke stopped a rustic funeral | party until he and some of his boon companions had leaped their horses over the coffin. On another occasion he made a scandal by smashing up ali the family china and uinging it out of the window. Poor Otto was corfined as a lunatic for freaks not very much more odd than these Criterion. The Rev, Dr. William Sterretx, pastor of the Convent Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, has been a clergyman 5 years. . ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTU®AL TOPICS. Enticing a Hired Man-~How to Grow Goose berries-Spraylng Trees-Stick to Your Breed-—Etc., El ENTICING A HIRED MAN. Where a farmer employs a laborer 10 work on his farm, and a person know ing of such employment entices, hires, or persuades the laborer to leave the service during the term of employment the farmer has a right of action to re- cover damages against such person for all the inconvenienc by suffered by the farmer land {08868 Lhere » and ! New Eng- Homestead EILLMS IN CULTIVATED FIELDS » most beaut ng long, pendant other breeda too often, with the the certain benefit achieve persistently grading up along one line.and probably producing a nondescript mongrel that has only the most undesirable qualities of either breed. Such a process simply throws away all the results of generations of judicious matings. It has been tried with all kinds of live stock, with horses and cattle and sheep and swine, and in the poultry yard, and never has it ac- complished, as a rule the object sought, Possibly there may sometimes resuit a! satisfactory offspring of such cross- mating because of the dominant pre potency of one parent that cancels the blood influences of the other; but the | failures are too many to make further tests reasonable, SCAB AND TICKS ON SHEEP. Scab on sheep is due to an insect that attaches itself to the skin and pro- duces an irritation that soon forms a scab. It is similar to the mange in the horge, and is purely contagious. It is usually spread by sheep shipped from infected districts, or the animals catch it in the cars in which they are trans- ported. The only cure for scab is dip- ping and care should be used to obtain gome of the standard dips, of which there are several in the market. It is also necessary in order to keep the dif- ficulty under subjection to disinfect the surroundings of the animals, fences, barns or other buildings. The disease fortunote! fg dons of A 4 resnit 08ing by — is difficult to cure at best and must be closely watched and treated as sooh as discovered. Ticks can be readily killed by a mix- ture of crude petroleum and lard, using two-thirds petroleum and one-third lard. If crude petroleum cannot be ob- tained, nake a kerosene emulsion by dissolving a half pound of hard soap in a gallon of soft water over the fire, and wnen bollaed add one gallon of ker. osene and churn to a creamy mixture, and ap ie is prop. or the h should be skin of the sheep, will kill ticks and also prove a the anim Then add ten gallons of rain water well, The emulsion should be piled with thoroughly done a spray till the animal wet either on first mixture named, } thoroughly in the ubbed for good peab or any other he Al may have IRB » known under the specific taggers, and divided in- brain staggers roughout prevaient heavl fed Au~ that the affection the ill BOC. slaggerd, simply ymach by OLIATR, briefly, 1 pawing, Cases, Char ition sup- plLase v caused ¢ BETAS, tomach reiife in doses ce a day, to the se- the attack does lies named are neces- EGGS it eEX8 jer hens many ubat- rush ae egE ii € ithe wil apiece mother she he other ill prob- an unpleas- and near at hand, intruder may i and water or re. the a large coop with and plenty of shade, fs fatal to young gos- is set a day or so be- i1 the goslings may be » care for she remove hot sun if a hen goose, goose { r twenty-four few days, every with bread ot boil the a0 the volk is stick by most successfull on use a tester and re from the nes ill be just the hou'ld be kep two weeks 1ay run at large with unless the weather is cold at least their mother or rainy. when they should be kep under shelter. As soon as they begin forage a feed of corn meal cooked wit vegetables should be given mornis and evening for several months; an they should be shut up at night. Afte this feed only whole corn at night it is desired to raise them at little pense. They grow rapidly and are 800 out of danger of chilling and are ve free from disease. 1f desired they may be sold as “gres geese” when from six to eight we old: in this case they should be crowd od from the start. Unless designed fo breeding stock or kept for their feaths ers, they should be sold before a ye Onions vs. Gold, A young man lately went West, a8 80 many do, to seek his fortune in the | gold and silver districts, remarks Lip. pincott's Magazine. Thousands were dreaming of the gold and silver vel and of the wealth of Monte Cristo ¢ of Croesus. Bul this féllow, : looking about him, took a cool su of the food possibilities of this cou try for ome year, dnd he discover that the market would be short of homely vegetable, onions, So he to work and brought up onions
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