NOTES AND COMMENTS. |
Among our first improvements in |
Porto Rico we shall have to include
eyele @ cel ors,
Europe does not think much of this !
country's political machinery, but |
takes very kindly to ifs ag! icultural |
machinery.
water applied to the soil seems to
the salts to the surface when it
rises, and in some instunces the lower
portions of streams have been tren-
dered alkaline by the return of these
salts from the irrigated fields. Ex-
the least quantity of water that can
be used under these conditions, and
for given crops in given localities,
such demonstra
hat when uni.
when
Russia has decided t
versity students get
talking against the government they
will be drafted into the army for five
years,
toO gay
The New York Tribune paragrapher
hastens to the rest ol his
tribe in
trust has come to stay.
anticipate
remark that the cot set
fae
" 1
I'he cotton crop of the south,
reach
C00, O00,
as it
242
2300), -
the ginneries, 18 Wq rth
finaly reaches the
t 81, H130,000,
1
and 4s it
consumer is worth almos
O00,
8 $10 yndary
Her fruit
with
(told is fast becoming a
consideration to California.
togetuer
ily taking
and vegetal ee)
her
fis api
:
metal pri
h industry, 18
prec dence of her ucts,
When we remember that in OC
Dritain pagan rites,
beliefs are still extant, we 3
doubt Asin and Alriea
be ‘Christianized’ 1n
sense of the word
ceremoli ss,
many
whethe!
witiiin
ceivable tn
the only
man
Paris ia
where a
for
crite, can Jock
house, make mouths at
the law and haraugne
balcony. It 18 “Gay
enough,
A Ne¢ Ww York
on the fact that
considered ‘the
ant t
Hanis
new Spape r On
Dewey
Admiral was
dude” of army and
Washington several
We have
that his
NAVY
Years §
©
the
daud
The annual
flan its us nency, has
been aword
HOH
'
dé nunue
through t
of the annual
ecaping trausf
i S0COr:
pidity ol
ian
Andre w
ood progres
tributing Lis wea
his declaration «
mainder of hi
gO d he Can wi
away on
ne
8 6} IH
ing a iH
the pop
s (52, BND, THOS,
popuialion
intervening ti
expense ol
us great
sejdom
Matanzas,
peacefni v in lots or In
isl
{
odder and
t 3 wy $
thelr own =ia-
eq surrounded home comiorts of
in Arkan-
jef that w
a straw bed
it is the comn
dot
KA on bel lien
FAYE st thie a PT
1aVe 3¢ tne APPOILS
up and blow away.
to
vO
An Towa farmer is now frying
he difference
touching safety, as between his bed
and the bank, He ft 8200 in gold
isetween the mattresses one morning,
and on bis return found it gone. He
is rather inclined to give preference
to the bank, Had it disappeared
from there would be a possi
bility of finding ont who took it,
golive the question as tot
3
le
there
Japan has made what seems to be
a serious mistake. A censor of re-
sigions has been aj pointed, who ia to
be in absolute coutrol of all matters
pertaining to religious worship. As
there are large numbers of American
and Europesn residents in Japanese
cities, this new regulation will likely
nations, unless the censor be a man
of exceptional toleration and good
judgment,
ers in the weat were compe ied to burn
corn for fuel. Hailroad freight rates
were so high that there was no profi
in sending the crop to market and
corn was used as a substitute for wood
and coa!, This season the farmers of
the history of that state, and, ip spite
of the low price of corn, as compared
with twenty years ago, every bushel
of the crop will be marketed that the
growers see fit to spare. Reduced
freight rates have made this possible
and as has been experienced before,
the railroad companies as well as the
farmers will profit as the result,
Over-irrigation, says the United
States Department of Agriculture, re-
sults in excessive alkali in certain
soils in California and Uta. The
from a given source with
economy in the use of water.
greater
The fact that several English girls
of good family have become enamored
of the Matabele at the show in Lon
don, and that one has mary jed a black
prince, well for the
common or the good taste of
these young women, The Matabele
are among the most brutal of Afriean
» situation of a white
:
does not speak
Bese
i
savages, and th
an among them wonld be som
than that of the white
of a Chinese or other Oriental,
wl
thing wor
i“
ish wool
have made, hut experience
eh
the ghastly mistake they
18 costly,
and in such cases the mistake i8 Irre-
parable.
Australia
populating in advance
ment. I'he Gove
lund has
fon,
r
3
type of a
f 11
t
country
is deve lop
rnment of
SOUraging unmiira
nee i
been eo:
and pow there ave in he colony
Alu enormons n inher of nnemy
r, Queer sland 12 a mag
loved
the energies of (0
pra £.0e, WIL
5 elop th
intry, it 18 a desert
Other pax
oH
off,
Yin Figg! 3
+ but Littie belted
; vere in a 1
ts their governments i
nee the worker
“hump the | nev,’
x
Americanized, means
banner” in Australia,
nis was
out-of-d
spread in
RIOL
aband«
Cias
now
golf counts can be
nothing
clothing
its links,
thusiasts fo
introduce
assur
else,
York
kefelier,
of the other
¢ look like thirty
receive SIO, DIN
mo th,
Year, bpd $4]
time of has
Othe
highest
s the i united States,
f the New York
ceived the
Central, 8d
only 875.1 MeDonal
i sd is now the
d
nn of the
ealth of the Standard could
Ons
highest paid, only a trust
3 '
COIORBR ©
80 reward any empio
A Siory About Prince Arthur
tory told in Maluly
A bout regarding the Duke of
Copnpaught's son, AT
thur, who was overjoyed at the fact
that he had out of the Saxe-Co-
succession. He was sent
A good is
i Coli
young Prince
rivt
got
over
to
fellows
Eton he confided to his
that what finally de-
cided him to “chock it” was his being
asked to play tennis with three other
German princes, and finding they had
balls fielded for them by a squad of
turning
school
time they banded the ball, This was
too much for the healthy, independ.
ent Kiuglish schoolboy, he explained,
so he promptly decided to remain Eng
lish,
Hae of Drinking Fountains.
i One of Boston's municipal officials,
i who is especially interested in the es
| tublishment of free ice-water fountains
{ in that city, hired a man to watch one
of the drinking places the other day
Lerom 6 a. om. to 10 p, m. for the pur
| pose of ascertaining whether or not it
was well patronized Between the
| hours named exactly $0335 persons
drank at the city's expense, The foun
tain has four faucets, .
Yain Regrets.
Mra, Gadabout—"Our new servant ls
a jewel, Bhe cooks beautifully, Is
very economical, never goes out and
never talks back.”
flor Husband—"1 wish I had met her
before 1 wus married. New York Jour.
CULTURAL TOPICS.
Fattening Young
Fowl--Dust Baths
Take Off the Harness
(icese - The Guinea
for Hens, eic., eld
Take Off the Harness.
The habit of permitting the finrness
the w during
as lazy ax it is cruel. |
remnin on ork horse
fo
the noon hour is
The harness should be stripped off as
the horse ls
lien he turned looose
ike it. After that he should
in, and
to roll
ROOD Ax brought
snld
he shi i 3
if he feels |
be rubbed, pains being taken to get his
where the
tly clean
be re
shoulders and every place
harness w or rubs perfes
At
peated,
grooming should
This the
is a bath to
fiat
igi
horse is A8 Ie
to i
a tired man.
froshiug as
Fat‘ening Young Ucese,
To fatten youlg place tiem
in a ot tot
geese,
10000,
for Hens.
er they peed
£3 ¥ 3
heise] ve
unless
Conl
and
id be
Iw
shot
may
below
Hens ar
and one of the
earth
weather
heat reasons why
prefer to take dust baths
in dig
moist, cool
becntse down
will
Ther
shou
find
efore
Id
inches of dry =oil on top.
fn summer
Per hwlow
noise
Animal Odors ia Milk.
To find out how goofy
joto milk, 1 teok fruit
jars, washed them perfectly clean, ad
juste the rubber rings, screwed the
covers down and took them to 8 stable
at milking time. The air in the stable
seemed {fo be moderately pure, proba
bly not better than the average in such
buildings. As soon a8 A COW Was
milked, the cans were filled two-thirds
full of the warm milk and the cover of
one screwed on tightly and the can at
once submerged in very cold running
water until thoroughly chilled, then
placed upon a shelf until morning. The
other can was allowed to remain open
on a shelf back of the cows until after
supper, when it was closed up for the
night.
animal odor
{swe one pint
en up, opened and tested for odor, No
open need have been wade, in fact a
man was called who detected the stable
odor in this one, without previously
knowing of lig presence. The sample
which was chilled also had an odor,
but not an objectionable one, Each
sample was then poured into a glnas
flask and slowly heated. As Whey
warmed up, the opened one gave off a
noticeably disagrevable ador which en-
tirely disappeared a little later. The
other, or the chilled can, showed
nothing offensive during the heating.
In fact, it gave off a rather clean,
pleasing odor such as emanates from
pure milk while heating.
The indications from this siogle west
are that the odor lmparted by the cow
to the milk while yet in toe udder was
not in this Instance, at least, of such
a nature or of sufficient quantity to de.
mand aeration. The exposure of the
milk in the stable atmosphere for an
short period only. eansed an amount
of odor to be absorbed which made it
highly desirable to remove i by some
sich means aerating heating.
The fact that the odor passed away
on heating the milk indicates that pas
teurizing of the efficient
not
fet
Hs or
ix one fost
to
mention its power of de
froying
mentation,
Aol
alr
ation. which depends solely upon
4 ig either forced into the milk
milk
field |
re
wii
with
contact
Lins
ful
fgerating
whieh in
a finely divided state
usefulness
or comes
ite
in
of
in
and
Such
i8 SUHCCEeSK
much
valued by cheese make and others,
if the
milk
perature
§
in contact
air brought
in aeration, Is of a
and
thio
and free from
method cannot fail to be of
co but as these requisites
supply
airine
guring
certain with most '
gHnmel mont
still hold
the
inlly
d. we
Crop Retal
i 1 rotation
ion.
of vee
woil
onl
con prod
A.B
nee
doomsdn farrett
greg d
fie
Poultry Notes.
Keep the moniting hens out of
rain and do not let them roost in irees
Nice plump-bodied chickens
find a ready Trs
that Kind.
Gather a few of road
for the hen's bath this winter
Repair all leaks and cracks in
poultry house now, and arrange
seratehing shed for winter,
Don't expect your hens to lay when
vou neglect them, and then complain
thint there is no profit in poultry
Don’t let your fowls roost in a damp
house, and then wonder why they
wheeze and have swollen heads,
One hundred hens will consume one
hundred pounds of grit during the
| year, and still some people foolishishly
geglect to supply it
Don’t neglect to give fresh,
water to the fowls twice daily. Many
af the so-called diseases have their
| origin in a failure to get pure water,
3
market,
barrels dunsi
thi
tho
ool
N————
(Hass-Making by Electricity.
Electricity has been applied to the
manufacture of glass, Formerly dif.
{culties were expegienced in melting
| ingredients owing to particles of coal
and cinders entering the crucibles, to
| the injory of the product. These are
now eliminated by employing an elec:
tric are within a carbon crucible to
fuse the ingredients, Great economy
results, as but 40 per cent. of the coal
formerly used is required. A pot of
glass can be melted in fifteen minutos
that by the old process would require
thirty hours.
In the first six months of this year
{he aggregate value of all tie fish
lapded in England was over $15,000
00%,
FOLLOWING PRECEDENTS
flow the indians of Equador
Business.
i
Indian |
them
There are probably GO0.000
in Ecuador, Not of
1 estate and most |
state of
peons one
of them are more or less in
slavery under the planters
upon
i
or hacen
whose estates their fami
They
with skit
thu
are
of copper color resembling that of
American Indies, long, straigid
shiny ha and beard or
all, They
Tie
Pueblo In
AZ1e0N
sean
resemble the
old
chnaracteristi
Mexico i
wre reticent
look
picion,
The
The Consumption of Quinine.
TO5 (N ML IKK
Gnsime on
word
fx in pills and in bulk, and
ture of hair tonics, The ofl
Bureau of
there
he Treasury
Hires in
fics show that were it
{ast year, into the United States
06,700 grains of quinine
thizx means that the consumption
of quinine was shout twenty grains
Peruvian bark, and
are the products of the cinchona
which native
Americas, more particulary
and equador. Now,
calisayn
of waesiern
of
however,
is a
that region. At present wo
thirds of the quinine consumed ix pro
For many years the Dutch government
was urged to undertake the cultivation
of this plant from Peru. Finally this
was accomplished and a large number
of specimens of the different varieties
were obtained by botanists, who {ook
to Java in 1852. The English
government also started cinchona plan
tations in India, which now produce
targe quantities of quinine, ~Rejentific
American.
Novel Steam Engine.
Much interest has lately been maken
in a simple form of steam engine, de
steam consumptiongappears to have a
wider range of application. The en
gine, which has been independently
developed by Prof. Elihu Thomson in
American, and M. Serpoliet in France,
somewhat resembles a gas engine in
design and operation, except that every
outward movement of the piston is a
working stroke.
has an open end, is fitted with a trunk
piston, and the admission of steam is
affected by
exhaust is made through a ring of holes
in the cylinder near the end of the
stroke. The steam is admitted in the
form of a puff by the poppet valve,
drives the piston forward mstil it un.
¥
The momentum of the engine
bck to the rear end
of the cylinder, r the air Lw
Bind It, when a new puff of
a new impetus |
and
ethciency
i
simplified ¢1
far
than
When Feet Made History.
Blisinare Ccaangs
f 1
Automatic Air Compression.
$54 4 | sv
8 i 13 (3
ents
if such
amstock
el
1+ would be a pressure of
h
conld be increased in second and third
A000 pounds and made
to yield liquitied alr. With liquid mir,
hie adds Comstock could again be
brought to the front
producer in the world
Chronicle.
a plant were
where
1.65600
mines
down in pipes
the
fect,
fifty nine ponds at the bottom, whi
compressers 1o -
the
ax the
greatest
Kan Fraoeiwo
How the Fremch President Lives.
The rule of life at the Elysee is as
simple as circumstances will permit,
for, except when obliged to give offi
cial entertainments, M. and Mune,
foubet take their luncheon at IZ and
their dinner at 7 in a small dining.
room, the furniture of which is as plain
as the menu on the table, though now
and then they have an intimate friend
to join them at the formal meal, M.
| Loubet, however, simple as Ate his
| tastes and fragal as is his fare, is fully
{alive to the importance of maintain.
| ing the dignity of hix office, and It may
| be taken for granted that he will, when
and Montelimar, between which places
earn summer holiday, put himself
{nto training for the severe wocial
duties whitch the president of the ree
public will have to discharge durmg
the exhibition year.
In a pocket of a ragged old overcoat
In the room where Mathins Bloscng
died were found bends, cash and jewel.
ry worth S18.000. Blessing wan seven.
ty-nine years of age, unmarried
lived in Chicago, :