FARM ANB GARDEN NOTES.
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CULTURAL TOPICS.
Peep to Plant Potatoes—A
Grazing Plant—Alsike Clover, ete.
Carbolie Soap for Green Fly.
The ordinary rose aphis and other
species can be destroyed by the appli
cation of a solution made as follows:
Dissolve 1 pound of carbolic soap in
2 gallons of boiling water; add 1 pint
of this mixture to 4 quarts of soft
water and apply morning and evening
to the infested platits.
How Deep to Plant Yotnroes,
Except for the very earliest plant.
ing it is better on rich, dry soil to
cover potato seed at least four inches
deep. Then there will be no te mpta-
tion to throw the earth around the po-
tato as it grows, making a bul through
which the tubers will grow outside
the soll, and be made worthless for
cooking by exposure to the sun. A
potato that has been “gi reened” prop-
erly makes the best seed, but in some
of the potatoes that are gre ned in
fall the eves appear to be uestroyed,
so that the potato is not even good for
seed.
A Good Grazing Plant,
Rape is a grazing plant, not a nay
plant, and belongs to the same order
as cabbage, kale, mustard, ete. It is es-
pecially suited to the taste of sheep,
cattle and pigs, and for grazing sheep
and swine has no superior, but it is
not suited to the taste of horses, and
may not be classed among the valua-
ble grazing plants for horses. On
good, friable, fertile soils it will pro-
duce twenty to thirty and even forty
tons of green feed per acre, accord-
ing to soil and season. There are six-
ty pounds of rape seed to the bushel,
dry measure, though it is rarely bous shit
and sold by measure, but almost en
tirely by weight. Four pounds to the
acre, if sown brogdeast, quite
enough, or two and one-half pounds
to the acre if sown in drills twenty-six
or thirty Inches apart. For early sum-
mer grazing sow in oat seeding time,
and for late summer and fall grazing
sow in June and July. Fit your
ground the same as for oats or corn.
American Sheep Breeder.
is
Alsike Clover.
It seemed a few
clover growing
because of insect
years ago as if red
he abandoned
midges that de
stroyed the seed in the blossom, and
the worm that ate both and
leaf. Both these have In most clover-
growing districts found parasitic ene-
mies that keep the destroyer in check.
If there is any place where red clover
is still hard to grow alslke or Swed
ish clover Is a good substitute. It is
a true clover. and intermediate in size
between white and red clover, and
making in its first crop a fine, sweet
hay. Unfortunately, w
is cut the plant dies
true biennial,
geed the second
often sown with tin
go overshadow that
timothy can be seen
The alsike to 3
that what timothy there is has npt got
to the heading-out Hence it
sprouts readily. and makes an aston.
ishing growth, feeding ou the alsike
roots that have perished a few weeks
before. A good crop of timothy hay
can be eut in Auzust on land that has
borne alsike hay two months before,
und that then only showed a very little
straggling timothy among the clover,
must
blossom
this
out, it is a
after bearing its
Alsike clover is
} oth, which It will
scarcely a spear of
hen Crop
ns
dying
among the als's
2
3
needs be cut so early
stage.
Grass-Fed Pigs.
A few years ago many
agriculture were enthusiastic
what they supposed were the advan.
tages of keeping hogs and pigs on
grass and clover, as being much
less expensive than grain, besides mak.
ing a better quality of pork. We do
not hear much about this cheapneds
of grass for pigs now. Considering
their nutrition,
far dearer foods than grain, especially
for the pig. which has a smaller stom-
ach in proportion to its size than any
other domestic animal. In this fact
of its small stomach lies the principal
value of the hog as a cheap producer
of meat, for it has more meat with less
waste matter than in any ruminant an.
fmal.
eat enongh grass to maintain good con-
writera on
over
“or
yet the animal would be but
nourished. What feeding
wild hogs of the South, which are
gaunt and so fleet that no negro thief
in search of juley pig can eateh them.
the fall.
eentrated nutriment that ean be found.
The pig needs mainly
food. What else he requires is best
in its season.
other grains will eat greedily. Mangel
wurtzel or some coarsegrowing beets
are usually recommended, but we
should advise growing sugar beets for
this use, and then not give the pigs
all they eat of beets, lest they lessen
thelr grain ration too much, Hogs
are so fond of beets that If allowed
all they will eat they will surfeit them.
selves with a food that Is not as nutri
tious as it shoull be for the owners’
profit.—~American Cultivator,
fnceess With Aquatios,
The best success with aquatics Is
Haswes thir way be readily
a al tts
ix suited
shine, but sheltered from winds, Is re
quired for the best results, besides a
tub properly prepared. The best tubs
for the purpose when a number of
plants are to be grown are half-barrels
If but two or three plants are
to be grown, an oak tub such as is
used for butter and lard will answer.
tub should be filled two-thirds
with the soll at.
xed with
half-rotten stable manure free from
straw, IPPack this down firmly and
cover It with two Inches of sand. Place
the plants so that their crowns will
be just under the surface of the soil,
I'ill the tubs with water and Keep
them full to within an inch of the top
all the time,
While many of the tender aquatics
hia* 3 varieties here named are recom-
mended to the beginner, i'robably not
once in a hundred times would failure
result if the tubs were prepared as
directed by planting the well-known
pond lily or the Cape Cod water lly.
N. Chromatella is a good variety for
the novice to grow, and is in striking
contrast the others in foliage and
blossoms. The young leaves are mot-
tled with brown, and the large yellow
flowers of delicious fragrance are pro-
duced in great abundance from early
spring until frost. If taller plants are
degired, the lotus is easily
grown in tubs by itself. The foliage
and the frag
rant blossom in bud is of a beautiful
shade of pink when fully open.
Even on small grounds space may be
for a few small fruit plants
that will supply the home table with
fruit For home
je selection of varieties, next to hard-
wess and vigor, id be guided by
quality, ‘he varieties among
small fruits are usually those that will
not stand lopg-distance shipping.
Among strawberries should be
tized to varieties with perfect
blossoms unless two or more varieties
go that any of the imper-
foot flower sorts (those containing pis-
tils only) will be fertilized by pollen
from the blossoms of the others, For
tue best success with strawberries in
the garden the sof! should be well en-
riched to a considerable depth and well
spaded. Set the plants about a foot
or fifteen inches apart. with a path
every third row. The ground must be
kept free from weeds. —Chieago
Record,
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sacred
found
the desired. use
shou
best
care
select
fre chosen,
Pear nnd Apple Blight.
ght is due ton very
m1 which finds access to the
teider cells and inside the pro
jecting bark of There it
muitiplies into untold billions, turning
the healthy sap into a poisonous fluid,
and cavsing serious injury or death to
a part of the tree and in extreme cases
to the entire tree. What will stop it?
When the blight is rampant in the
orchard very little, if anything, can
Le done to top it. The dead and dy-
and branches are but the
natural result of the disease that has
ring the vital parts
within, It is the sickly portion of a
blighted leaf or branch that contains
the ele t2 of danger.
Fighting fire blight can only be done
effec tively by preventive measures.
Nothing will cure it, far as is
kaown of fire. Nor will spray-
ing even cheek it. The disease is 100
deeply seated to be reached by outside
treatment It will go from apple to
pear or quince trees, or from them to
the apple. The wid red haw and
some other pomaceous trees are slight-
Iy affected by it. The germs will not
multiply when the temperature is cool
They lie dormant during the winter
time, and under the warming inflo-
ences. of spring they begin to grow.
A liquid oozes out of the diseased
branches, which contains millions of
these deadly germs, This is carried
on the feets of Insects and in other
wars to neighboring trees, where the
germs find lodgment. They are often
introduced through the delicate floral
organs, where they find easy access
to the circulating sap. From there the
disease spreads Info the twigs
aml then Into the larger branches.
They also enter through the tender
growth of the new wood. It is there
that the disease most commonly ap-
This species og bli
minaie gor
Juices
the tree,
ing leaves
long been ravag
iT
1s
wo
short
#Oon
trees, during the warm, sultry weather
in June and July, when the shoots are
very tender. Where thunder showers
are very frequent in mid-summer, the
conditions are just right for the intro-
duction and propagation of the dis.
ease, which has caused some to think
that electricity did the damage.
As has already been sald, preventive
measures are the only kind to use, The
sources of infection must be destroyed.
If the sickly, balf-matured twigs are
The great difficulty Is, to
know when we are below the disease.
No one can tell absolutely how far
scientist, and with a come
it is usually safe,
however, to cut a foot or a little more
below where there Is the least out.
ward sign of any affection. If the cut
is not made below the diseased part
there is great danger, if not certainty,
of carrying the germs on the Knife or
saw to healthy wood in cutting off
other branches, The trees should be
eavefully gone over in late fall or
early winter, but any time before the
trees bloom will do—H. E, Van De
man in New Fugland Homestead.
Naultry Notes,
Burn all old nests as soon as bood
is taken from It.
Do not keep pigeons In or near the
Mites seem to thrive
on them.
Dry food ia best for litte chicks
first johnny cake, then onts,
then cracked corn and ig
skillful
KIDNAPPINGS BY THOUSANDS.
Many Notable Cases fn the List of
the Last Thirviy Years.
There have been more than one
thousand kidnapping cases within the
last thirty years sufliciently notewor-
thy to attract widespread attention,
and these must be but a small propor-
tion of the total number, In the great
majority of instances the children
were speedily recovered, but the fate
of many bas remained a mystery
to the present day.
While playing with another lad one
summer day, near his father's resi
dence, in Germantown, Pa, Charlie
Ross, four years old, was induced to
take a drive In a
parently friendly men.
1, 1874. Since that
never been seen by his friends. The
father, Christian Ross, instituted a
search with the ald of the police, which
failed to reveal the whereabouts of
the child,
An advertisement offering
elicited a reply from the abductors,
who demanded a ransom of $20,000,
Mr. Ross did not possess this sum and
the negotiations proved fruitless, The
city of Philadelphia offered a reward
of $20,000 for the apprehension of the
ahductors.
This every
United States on
This was July
day tne lad has
detective In the
the alert. Every
clew wag followed. Many times the
boy was reported found, but the re
ports proved false, The trail was lost
until the following when
Fp burgh irs were fatally shot in Bay
tdge yn. They admitted hav-
wo abe ucted Charlie toss, but died
without dise hili’'s wherea
bouts, This was the information
ever received about « To
this day mystery.
Mary Tinsdale, fourteen old,
left her home at No. 238 Thompson
street, New York City, on April 12
1867, to to school. Near Univer
sity place and Eleventh street a well
dressed woman led her The
child has never been recevered.
A notable kidnapping case was in
1871, when James Murphy, five years
was taken by a woman acquaint
ance of his family on board the steam.
er Magnolia, at Savannah, Ga, just
before the boat was to sail for New
York. The woman brought child
to New York, where the utmost efforts
of the father and the police failed to
find a trace of him. Neither child nor
abductor was ever discovered,
Hannah White in 1853 carried away
the two children, a boy and a girl, of
ber brother, whose home was in Sand
Canada, Seven years later the
boy. Joseph, was found at Bad Axe,
Wis, where Hannah White had mar
ried and settled. The woman refused
fo tell what she had done with the
girl, However, pearly ten years later
the girl, grown to womanhood, was
found at Liberty Pole, Wis,
Connecticut residents have
fresh in thelr minds the Kiduappin
Ward Ferris Waterbury
old, a son of Charles PP. Waterbury,
Long Ridge, Conn. This took place
February 2, 1802. The lad w
while on his way home from school
The greatest mystery surrounded the
outrage, but three inter the
ductors were captured angl brought to
justice and the boy retarmed to
friends, To obtain a ransom was the
object of the crime.
Other notable cases are the Kidaap-
ping of Corinne Lewis, at Boston, De-
cember 20, 1808: Teresa Small, in New
York, April 20, 1874: Nellie Cresham,
on March 20, 1888, From time to time
plots for wholesale abduction have
been discovered. In 1883 John Ogle
got
December
Brook}
losing the ¢
inst
harlie Ross,
his fate remains a
years
go
away
old,
the
ws ts
we IE,
still
= of
ght years
58 8 4
of
as se iged
daye ab
fils
gain in
the abduction of little
James Conway, nt Albany, brought to
light the operations of a gang of kid
pappers,
One remarkable kidnapping case was
that of Gerald Lapiner, two years old,
who wis taken away from in front of
the howe of his parents in Chicage by
an old woman, who took a sudden
fancy to the child. The parents spent
thousands of dollars in search for the
babe, but could find na trace whatever
of it. A year after the kidnapping a
young woman in a small Pennsylvania
duction of boys in Georgia. A
August, 1807,
believed the Lapiner child was in the
possession of an old couple who lived
near her home,
the place, and recognized and recover
ed her child,
Muscular Powers of a Reetle.
The following anecdote of a three
ita vast strength of body.
clapped under a quart bottle of milk,
which happened to be upon the table,
the hollow at the bottom of the bottle
allowing the Insect to stand upright.
Presently the bottle began to move
showly, and glide along the smooth ta-
ble, propelled by the muscular power
of the imprisoned beetle, and contin.
ped ite travels for some time to the
astonishment of all who witnessed it.
The weight of the bottle and its con
tents could not have been less than
three pounds and a half, while that of
the beetle was about balf an ounce;
so that it readily moved a weight 112
times greater than its own,
A better notion than figures can con.
vey will be obtained of this feat by
supposing a lad of fifteen to be Impris.
ened under a great bell weighing 12.
000 pounds, and to move it to and fro
upon a smooth pavement by pushing it
from within.-—~New York Sun.
A Mistaken tdea,
four pelcolens Jowe! of a out han
us, and my wife says that I am
: mid Joues, with a sorry
slept and delayed the early breakfast
that I am obliged to have,
{ “To remedy this 1 bought an alarm
| clock and after ¢ kplalning to the cook
how it worked I told her that hereafter
| 1 expected her to arise fmmediately
after the alarm sounded,
| “The next morning I was awakened
| by a heavy crash from the cook's
! room, and while 1 was wondering
| what the trouble was there was a
crash against my bedroom door and
the volee of Mary said:
“ #Phere's your blessed old alar-rum
clock, an’ it's meself that'l no longer
stay In a place where a poor hard
working gurl’s life is in danger!
“I arose ut once and Investigated.
It seems that the bed In the cook's
| room was an old one and not very
stout, and when the alarm sounded the
cook awoke with a jump that shook the
bed to pleces and threw her out on the
floor,
“I tried my best to convince her
i that it was an accident and not a part
of the clock's duties to throw her out
of bed every morning, but she
wouldn't be convinced that the clock
didn’t have a hand in it, and left.”
Detroit Free Press,
PUZZLING ELECTRIC TERMS,
Thely Meaning Is Easily Known by
Way of Comparison,
A consulting electrical engineer, who
was asked to put one of the less com
mon electrical terms in plain language,
said, according to the BL
Democrat: “1 am frequently
for just such gxplanstions,
nothing surprises me than
haziness which still exists in the minds
of even intelli folks in regard
the shinple rical terme. To most
people the elix all mere
Greek, anid comparatively few 10
the trouble to ke hold of the m
common of them, such
pere] ‘resistance,’
force,’ amd fix their meaning once
all in the mind. A wan who Knows
only by reputation, wrote tf
day that he had
great satisfaction to himself,
Louis Giobe
resorted
and
thie
iO
more
ent to
wt elect
trical units are
20
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fis
electro-motiy
ete,
for
ie
the
with
_
this
n=
other done
he has now a far more intelligent idea
of electrical doings than
fore,
“Put xt
y Ras :
He Lada oe
il. to time
some electrical words would creep
hie sald, from time
into
the dally press which conveyed noth-
ing to him. He mentioned as one of
them the term Now, thi
is quite simple. The watt is the unit
electric power, It means the power
develo] 14.25
per
‘watt hour.’
of
wx] when foot-pounds of
ye
OF Lidis
minute
A foot
required
work are done
foot-pounds per second
is amount work
raise ole
distance
figured down so
which
pound
the of to
vertically through
foot When this
ne Iw
pond
of one
to
is understomd by
every one, it can offer difficulty:
and If any one to whom the word
watt j= puzzlinf will rempember that a
watt is 1.740 of a horse power he will
have no more uncertainty about it
Having got so far, grada
tion to the ‘watt hour the
term employed to indicate the expen
diture of an electrical power of
watt for one hour. In other words,
the energy represented by a watt hour
is equal to that expended in raising a
pound to a height of 2654 feet. An
even easier way of fixing It is 10 re
member that two watt hours
spond nlmost exactly to raising a
pound to a height of one mile
“The understanding of
opens out some very curious facts to
the uninitiated. For instance, a
tain dry battery weighing 6.34 pounds
was known to yield 130 watt hours,
If this force were applied fo raising
the battery itself it would lift it fo a
height of over ten miles. Again, in one
hour the energy transiated in an or
dinary sixteen-candle power lamp
weighing about an ounce wonkd raise
that lamp fo a height of 400 miles, at
a velocity of nearly seven miler a min
ute. Yeh it pays a man to expend a
little pains on mastering the ordinary
electrical terms.”
ss
‘horse power.’
Ho
it I= an easy
which is
ole
Corre.
gnich forms
oor
The Devotion of Women.
The following Incident will show
what the women of our circle were,
says Prince Kropotkin in the Atlantic.
says Prince Krapotkin in the Atlantic
Varvara B-——, to whom we had to
make an urgent communication. It
was past midnight, but seeing a light
| in her window, we went upstairs. She
gat in her tiny room, at a table, copy-
| ing a programme of our circle. We
| knew how resolute she was, and the
| idea came to us to make one of those
stupid jokes which men sometimes
think fonny. “B—" [I said, “we
came to fetch you: we ‘are going to try
a rather mad attempt to liberate our
| friends from the fortress” She asked
not one question. She quietly laid
down her pen, rose from the chair,
and. reaching her hand to her hat, said
only, “Let us go.” And she said it in
so simple, so unaffected a voice that
1 felt at once how foolishly I had
acted. and told her the truth, She
dropped back into her chair, with
tears in her eyes, and in a despairing
voice said: “It was only a joke? Why
do you make such jokes?” I fully real
jzed then the cruelty of what I had
done. 1 implored her to pardon me,
put 1 have never got rid of the spirit
of shame that I felt at that moment.”
The Name Was Unfamiline,
f1e had put on the best clothes and
had gone to call on a girl of his ae
quaintance, She lived at the home of
friends, Who ineY_per by je, fray
naturally enough.
The young man encountered at the
door the daughter of tie house, a
maiden of about five, and to her be ad-
INSANE ASYLUM FOR INDIANS.
fo Mental Maladies Among Them Une
til Intermarvinge With the
White Haee,
United States Indian Commissioner
William A. Jones, of BSloux City,
flown, has returned from Canton, 8,
[2., where Le has been inspecting z the
site recently purchased by the Govern.
ment upon which is to be erected ap |
asylum for insane Indians. Commis :
sloner Jones said;
“The ocedpants of the hospital, soon
to be opened, will all be half-breeds,
and even then the number of patients
ix small in proportion to the Indian
population of 256,000. The exact]
number I do not know. Probably |
there was never a case of Insanity in |
any tribe until the malady was intro
the Canton asylum
have been provided, an ideal spot for
a hospital, with just enongh slope to
the south to insure excellent drainage.
The erection of the building will begin
as soon ns the plans and specifications
are finished, and the $45,000 appropri
ation is available, As soon Com-
pleted all the insane Indians in the
United States will be sent there. The
struetire will probably be three stories
hig hh, and the intention is to have it
a for occupancy early in the
fall.
“Diseases
the
cared
who
selves
is
of all kinds are
havoc among
Jor and richest tribes,
have to work to support them-
are gradually increasing in
pumber. Among the Osages in Okla
homa, for examples, the death rate is
something startling. The nation com
prises sixteen and Indians, and
has $0.000,000 to its credit, drawing in-
terest United Btates Treasury.
live in nothing short of
luxury. but early in life the braves
fat and flabby, then contract
mption and die. The Bloux, num-
bering twenty thousand, are increas-
ing: they have no such nest egg as the
Osages, and have to work harder for
thelr living. It agrees with them.
“The Silovx are z=iso making rapid
progress along educational lines. The
old Tfullbloods, who never cared for ed
peation and stolidly refused ro accept
advancement, are dying off. There was
fio hope for them, and the only thing
to do is to let them Most of the
aborigines with we pow have
to deal have more or less white
The current idea
education makes more vi
when return te their reservation
is erroneous. Our statistics show that
seventy-six per cent. of the number
lead fairly correct fives. It is troe,
however, that an Indian inclined to
be a distaurber I& worse when endowed
with edgeation”
creating
the best.
Those
greatest
thous
1 «4
in Lae
The redmen
grow
consu
=
20,
whom
blood
thint
dous
in their veins,
them
they
Rivers in Siberia.
Many mighty rivers flow
the entire breadth of Sibe
Northern sea. Chief among them are
the Obi, Yenisel and Lena, with main
stems extending 1.000 or 1,200 miles to
the and by their radiating trib-
fan-like through an
immense area, water fall they
convey to the ocean. Ti Volga
navigable for 2000 miles, and splen-
did it. A canal
connects Lake Ladoga with the head
of navigation of Volga at Ry-
pinsk. so that vessels can go from the
alti Volga to th ‘aspin
wea, cutting right through the middle
European Russia and bisecting it with
a waterway of over 2.0500 miles.
The railroad crosses the Volga at
Batraki a bridge which is one
of the engineering marvels of the age.
The river at this point is a mile wide
at low water, At times of high water
it is from four to eight miles wide,
The channel below ‘he bridge at low
water has a depth of twenty feet and
a high water mark of 100 feet. The
velocity of the current at the flood is
thirty feet per second, and at low wa-
ter fifteen feet. The bridge is a mile
long. built in four sections of 360 feet
each, and ig 135 feet above the river
at low water. A Russian engineer de-
signed and executed it.-—Detroit Free
Press.
through
ria into the
south,
utaries spreading
whose
et
is
glegmers
ply fipon
the
down the eo 1
over
.
The Japanese and Their Hair.
The most striking difference be
tween the appearance of the male and
female Japanese lies in the hair. The
men shave nearly the whole of the
head, while the women allow it to
required. It is then twisted and coiled
into elaborate and fantastic patterns,
which few Eastern hairdressers could
imitate or equal
The bairping used are not so much
for confining the hair as for actual
adornment, and are very fashionable.
They are of enormous size, seven or
eight inches in lengts, and half an inch
wide, and are made of various sub-
stances-—tortoiseshell, carved wood and
fvory—many of them bemg composed
of carved figures asdroitly pivoted so as
appear to dance at every breath
drawn by the wearer.
Others are made of glass and are
hollow. and nearly filled with some
bright colored liquid, so that at every
movement of the head an air bubble
runs from one end of the pin to the
other. producing a most curious ef-
fect in a strong light,
Sometimes an extra fashionable wo.
man will wear a dogen or more of these
pins in her hair, so that at a little
distance her head looks as If a bundle
of firewood had been closely stuck in
to it.
morning for a certain glacidr ten miles
away (describing it) and march up it
for one mile, whore you will find a big
rock. Cross around it at this point
and go down to the jce, There you
will meet a boat, Proceed to the wal
rus grounds and kil fifteen”
The next morning the man started
out for the glacier, and tolled up its
sides for two wiles to the rock, but he,
found no path there leading to the
Bo disregarding his instroe-
He was
to kill more than
be regarded as a big
however,
five, which may
“bag.”
When he returned to camp the ex-
highly indiguant and no
sxplanations were of any avail
“1 gave you my orders,” he sald,
“1 know it, sir, and I did the best 1
It came out later that Peary's knowl
edge of the path around the glacier
gained solely through field
glasses. —~ Philadelphia Saturday Even-
ing Post,
A Unique Sofa Pillow.
A girl who has recently become en-
raged has made a sofa pillow for her
finnce’'s couch that is a triumph for
him. She is a very popular girl and
her collection of letters from men was
astonishingly large. From ber school
days she kept every note and letter
that cage to her from her men friends
whether the communications were of
much or little lmportance, of
them had merely accompanied flowers
declarations of
At length
real man and fell in love
the letters lost thelr
first determined
then thought she
i, but torn into
ne conld never
would always
Some
or a book, others were
love and
met the
him,
even proposals,
she
with
significance, A
fo burn them,
would i
such smail pieces that
read them, while he
have them. They would be to him the
spoils of war, and a sacrifice from her
to show her surrender and fealty.
She made for them a big cover of
good serviceable denim, strong enough
and big enough to bold the love letters
of a life time, and filled it with burn-
ing words scattered that they
may work no harm. On the cover she
embroidered red roses entwining a pair
scarlet hearts from which issued
twin scarlet flames, The young man
very proud of i gays it
is the “hottest” sofa pillow in town.
jut the only slang, of
course, Star.
and
gle
she
in
te
give them 1
5
well
of
is and
adjective is
Kansas City
When A Monkey Is a Dog.
A good story of an amusing alterca-
tion which place between
Mr. Frank Buckland and a booking
clerk is revived by the Windsor Maga-
zine, The naturalist had been in
France, and was returning via Souih-
ampton with an overcoat stuffed with
specimens of all sorts, dead and alive.
Among them was a monkey, which
was domiciled in a large breast pock-
Ag Buckland was taking the ticket,
Jocko thrust his head and attract
ed the attention of the booking clerk,
who immedi and very properiy—
sald. “You must have a ticket for that
dog, if it s going with you.”
“Dog? sald Buckland, indignantly;
“it's no dog, it's a monkey.”
“It's a dog.” replied the clerk
“It's a monkey,” retorted Buckland,
and proceeded to show the whole ani
mal. but without convincing the clerk,
who insisted on the money for the dog
ticket to London.
Naturally nettled at this, Buckland
plunged his band into another pocket
and produced a tortoise, and, laying
it on the sill of the ticket window,
said, “Perhaps you'll call that a dog,
ton?”
The
“No,”
them
once took
up
ately
eloerk inspected the tortoise.
said he, we make no charge for
they're insects!”
Righting An Ola Wrens.
A decided curiosity in legislation has
been enacted in Massachusetts which
confirms the old adage that iv is never
ton late to right a wrong. More than
260 years ago, or, to be precise, on
October 9, 1635, Roger Williams, then
was ordered by the
Subsequently permission was
the following spring, on conditions he
was unable to keep.
When about to be arrested for perse.
" he was
lodging-place, What he subsequently
accomplished for religion, education
and humanity is known of all men.
Now, in the month of April and the
year of 1800, the decree of banishment
court, Is brought from its pigeonhole,
and, by an ordinary motion seconded
and adopted, is annulled, repenied,
and made of no effect whatever—Phil
adelphia Saturday Evening Post,
Admiral Dewey's Emoluments,
We are going to give Admiral Dewey
about as much of an income as a fairly
good lawyer or doctor in a city makes
and nothing to be compared with the
revenues of the men who in other
fessions hold a place in pl
corresponding to hia, It Is supposed
now to be £14,500 per annum, but the
naval officers are quite in the dark as
to what their pay Is under the Person-
pel Bill, and at present they are in a
state, as one expressed it, of “don't
know, but hope.” At all events De
dose not get as much as a British
corresponding foreign