FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICUL: | TURAL TOPICS. Fowls With Feathered Legs---A Tomato Plant Pointer --- Tanning Skins With the Hair On---Protecting Trees From Sorers---Ete., Etc. Fowls With Feathered Legs. Most when of the anthern vain fowls first had Jog such hit to thiz country hroung feathers on the hack of thet long reaching down their feel fowls are a here wind and prevail, amd are all the worse «lush when th veo alternated with weath we near to zero, Instead of Keeping the | frozen feathers | the feet Yovue fowl warm the cape ol inakes an ice packing around «i hen roosts with its the m. and the fowl will A clean-limix bent so that breast feathers keep them war a hetter layer than om whose bodily warmth only t dirty and keeps its Io wel A Tomato Plant Pointer. Felon t i i t worli remem ring wil tomato i ine of iment stations nn the field why not coal ashes into the ing the plant or put ound them afterwa 1.1 1} results wonld Tanning Skins With the Hair On Nome weeks 2 t subs=erd here iploy es which Iw Thess such pon that the ave once The off Mav before ti Many application of t borors ut the mn trunks revs six tire skimmilk has varying siranlic cement and of paint valuable against the peach tree Apply all preventives of this ter to tries just before the eonsistend y been found borer charac beetles is sue, which in some the latter days of the danger is other applications should be taken off the tree, as their presence to interfere with growih, Wrapping the trunks with paper or very fine sen wire or the like has been nsed snecess fully. A measure of utmost value, ac cording to United States Entomologist Howard in entomological bulletin js in keeping the trees free from fangi, moss. abnormal growth of any Kind, laose bark, ete., in other words keeping the trunk perfectly smooth. In some cases the use of a fertilizer may nasist the trees in withstanding the attacks of borers. cases is as early May. As wmoved, the cement and an KOON AN i= liable “=n Costly Contrariness. 1 know a man, and he is but one of a jarge company of the same sort, who never had a good vegetable or fruit warden, mainly because he thinks it would look as thongh he were wing dictated to by his wife in so doing. Tet ue look at the sort of table his con- trariness provides. An abundance of coffee, liberal in strength and sweet ness: salt pork, potatoes, bread, rich other indigestible food, The woman material provided,’ What might wl ‘have placed before her family bad she had access to a vegetable and fruit garden? Hardly a meal need be devoid of some vegetable or fruit, which would not only cheapen living, but ime prove health, The man in question is noted for his economy, but evidently he Ix not using correct means to the de- sired end. fle complains of a whirling head, weak stomach, and numerous other ail sents, The loeal physician is fro. quently called upon. He has probably Jaid out, at a very low estimate, for medicines $20 a year. Adding to this £927 more, which might in the cost of living, vear lost for lack what he might very easily have had, In the thirty years that they have kept house this would amount 21.500 He and b hard, but in the « have been saved we have of to without interest is wife have worked liscomfort that always Hl Nature holds ont to us with a liberal hand foods that not and comfort, but indigestible that too often loads our tables York Tribune crds poor health only give variety to our fare health and thus preserve are uel wn the stuf! \ cheaper “UW Ginseng Culture, Hy submit some information about the cul request of a number of readers, 1 tivation of ginseng Iirst, moist cool, preferably ix natural loam or where and rich, Well is good for bring Dn wnible, select a of where plece ground, is loose rotted stable manure ing up garden soil to a proper condition leat Sandy soil, if «] ix better than clay. often and mold is better ich an I am in northern Moist, ul if ginseng will grow which 1 reply the forest, it in never tudes, to that In of Canadian w hat | tands have not le he tov tan] span 13 [HORS H an Whilk apprec in ‘ 5 sarge do tg pe irs to our pou ¥ he fowls at ls nuelves to picking up 1th choose to take roth horse mangers and fatten on the corn 3 men compiain wilh wat their heads yards of We have medium = fiud it better 0 se and we have about made un our minds that hens at large are not much improvement on hogs at large, ind what won th hogs ae k yarded they must be fad, and en can pid up wi yard? { in the tut if hens are there is a garden for the We One can f food from there farm (on WW hat ett room on tik chickens, «hiall we plant? have fee, of Ore inst cut Mint © a few square giant Southern mustard \ of that food greatly relished, for a numerous flock, a surprising aon feet of lettuce; then is the few and you have 2a and in quantity Winter Perhaps rows green onions are ogg producers wa Can find a corner for hemp and sunflowers, Then for winter. come first artichokes them. must have some vegetables Cabbage and artichokes Watch the biddies eat raw if you do not believe they Then may ralse some and mix with bran fo fast to make het We can cook them and mix with to fatten the poultey for Probably no vegeta is we wie monl quickly ble we raise gives less trouble or more cortain to yield well than sugni Then the beets Keep well, which than we cnn say for carrots in this locality. We put the beets through relish the raw The mustard will stay green long afte | frosts, and when it is gone begin on the beets. The mustard will not ap | pear the second year por in any way | resemble the old fashioned sort. A | great many places where the vege | tables have been taken off may be | sown to the mustard for fall feeding. ~ Florida Agriculturist. Bat For Handball. A Californian has patented a smal | bat to be used in playing handball which has a curved wicker work bas ket against which the ball strikes with a glove at the back which Is drawn over the hand and fastened to | nota the basket in position, INDIA'S MOST PECULIAR PEOPLE. The Bicycle Has Nearly Emancipated the Parsi Women. of India meaning The most peculiar people are the Parsis (or “Persians”, who feed their dead to the vultuses upon the Towers of sil ence, They fled to Indian from Persia when that land fell into the hands of the Arabs twelve centuries ago. Their men are the first very singular persons the traveller board the ship which takes him to India, thelr singu- larity consisting in their long sallow faces and large eyes, their shiny, pat ent-leather, tubular and their long and ugly coats, They are numerous in Bombay, but meets them in other cities on “Bombay side.” and in Madras and Calcutta on the other shore richest natives of India, made and still make thelr trade, They are the only Indians who, as a body, admire and cultivate progressive ideas, who treat’ their wo men fairly well ideas), and who permit to marry agnin. Their life is to practice people do this are Parsees,” #008 on looking. hats most one They and money are the have in western (according to our their first rule liberally, the only people in the world and this Is beem wil with fire, which read | cir belief Th and they will not in any way nate more do not smoke, not trifle in ti the earth or water and flowers frees destroy their dead wi bodies, 1 hes have no beggars a 1 Fir monogamists; dy, | acknow led y art idden for tl CARie-d inr rote a sf fing w hie same exient in Nao i i crawl An Eng and Iady ads ars the ro ®ivo he rieh 3 les on k of any afterno § 0 how r PIAK RO Ty vid womanhood men whe LS fis What w t important while steed 8 t bars of i preji ii vi Question of Kinship. flickeni ‘ vit make © oven 1 ¥ ral ooper and his fae nae pe dinner a { phiyxieal nutri which exercise the general in % 3 $ 3 the wsdl usually puzzling and dif other the tables upon him ficult youngsters £118 problems 1 evening the ed following legal ition A French In child, a son, aml a consideral ODO i gear died and left one ile esiaie The son, in order to inherit the « atnte was required to prove a K nship to the ene on add What The general promptly kinship did he prove? replied the Kin ship of father and son The children the parent was a woman. wiiidl the auswer wins wrong tickled the general, and he decided to it along. the while taking luncheon with a friend, he pro- pounded the following A French beggar left a and won in order to inherit the property, was re quired to prove kinship ceased, What was the tween them? The friend promptly replied: “Mother and son.” “Well,” said the general, “youn guess better than 1 did, for | answered fath- er instead of mother.” Cincinnati En- muirer. pass #0» next day. woman died aon an estate and the the de io kinship be Clean Linen, It is pleasant fearn, if Napoleon I. on the hero list, had very dainty habits in personal matters, that he was fastidiously clean in his person, according to an ar ticle in a French contemporary, and poured eau de cologne into the water he washed in, then gponged his head with the perfume and finally poured the remainder of the contents of the flask over neck and shoulders, He was also extravagantly fond of clean linen, and during his campaign - had relays of it sent to different places, In those days it did not cost a farm to have “starched things” laundered, for, in account with a famous laundress in Paris, the Emperor's linen for one wash amonnted to 386 pleces, and cost only a trifle over £20! This strikes an American as very reasonable, But His Majesty never wore any article but once, and ag be always undressed him: self without ald from his valet, his gar. ments were literally “cast” to the four Napoleon's one hing that he to narnia of the room. Navoleon's bill for the washerwoman's by a jarge ina jor ity. Well, anvhow, 'm learn that the Little Corporal was this a dude, of sors in the Tuilleries were not blessed with ix to be relied upon enn de eologue, however, ex relieved to much Nome his predeces quch excellent habits, history touton Herald, An Ensign's Narrow Escepe. When Decatur, in 1815, dictated to the dey of Algiers the terns of a with the United I.ieut, John Rubrick was dispatched to for the ap The brig Epervier was detailed for Lis trauspor. by Neill Commodore treaty mstates, Washington with a proval of our Government copy tation, and wis aecompanied and Lieutenant who had married sisters before sailing with Decatur for the Mediterranean and by Lieutenant Drury and Lienten ant Yarnell, who had fought with Perry in the battie of Lake Erie, before the brig wailed Tattuell, who Ww watch the Epervier, officer on on he Captain Lewis of i the navy, few days Com modore Just Ensign Josiah as a officer on succeeded in inducing an of the other ships to ex change places he pre ferrdd to remain with the hie A diye the 1 ! of braltar 11 well on board.” few later, as vasecd out Straits £1 she sig then the it i» an Tattnell Ties Fansign of hi oinmand the ram fnct that 1 excaped the fate aiden Goldlinch Caught by an Acorn. cident woodwork power of SOME Speci hlow is =o ¢ ri breaking however, would they i tw fore that w penetrate hia nal fink concussion nn Ruch kill the njared the bill or not bill is of tl Ben whetaer 11 dri sired 3 of the fiw ven straight wkull TE and pro head. «- thie from Washington Siar trades hack An Interchange of Coumrtesies The express train is so heavy that railroads find it to charge above regular fare for ding on them, A few when the “flyers” were in troduced on the Lake Rhore Road, the president of the company gave ordera that passes and halfrate tickets should not be honored on the new trains, it was not Intended, of course, that the complimentary tickets issued to high officials of connecting roads should be void on the fast trains, but through an oversight a yearly pass was sont to the president of the Nickel Mate line which bore on its face the words: “Not good on Lake Shore limited trains” A few ways after thizx pass had been issued, the president of the Lake Shore received an annual pass on the Nickel Plate with the following en- dorsement: “Not good on passenger rains” expense of the modern limited commonly DOCPNRATY sotpething the the privilege of 1 Years ago, ki. Long Lived Whales. Some light was thrown, a few years ago, upon the subject of the vitality of whales by finding one of these animals in Behring Sea, in 1800, with a "tog: gle! harpoon head in its body bearing the mark of the American whaler Montezuma, That vessel was engaged in whaling fu Behring Sea about ten years, but not later that 1854, She was afterward sold to the government, and was sunk tn Charleston harbor during the Civil War to serve as an obstruction, Henee, it is estimated the whale must have carried the harpoon pot less than thirty-six years.—Popu- lar Science Monthly. | FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. The Toy Tiger's Wail, Hittle 1 er for iv Cente; have lost wns id wy tig iin ple witl dent And ny rible soul overt thoug! I've Iwrirti hier Wi I coming eli EEE And my ip of And I i nd 1 spurned alnek! Wh n ppeference a0 buys § apples working wking =o by pot see hil set thy hasket do or four i asked seen nothing of it dave after the basket he said necding the ma ¢ for it: but he hisiress “Rover,” w hete bask gave you the other day w in it? Cant you go and did not Rover n is the your the apples | tr" We | get 3 i but | ith t even point to the field { out immediately, and | soon returned, bringing basket of | apples. He never tou hed anything | that did not belong to him. It seemed | to us he knew evervining we said Advance started the Pets of Royal Children The Queen's grandchildren, or rather those amoung them who actually form | part, for a longer or shorter period, of the Queen's household, are not allowed to have indoor pets. As all the world knows, the sovereign herself is pas slonately fond of animals, bul she early observed that even the kindest children are incapable of bestowing long sustained attention and care on living animals, Accordingly, although Princess Ena of Battenberg and her brothers are encouraged to pay fre quent visits to the kennels where they are allowed to keep all sorts of animals presented to them by friemis and rela. tives—the royal nurseries at Windsor, Osborne and Balinoral only receive visite from those dogs that belong either to the Queen herself or to these members of the household who are al: lowed to keep pets of thelr own, The Prince and Princess of Wales wore not nearly so strict with their childmen. In old days, indeed, the Sandringham nurseries used at times to resemble nothing so mwuch as a miniature zoo, But the Princess, who had far more leisure as 4 young mar ried woman, of course, than the Queen could claim under the' same circum: stances, always made a point of see ing that her children attended, se far pie, 10 sir pets, wis the Pripeess neil {hie i i sa File 1 i fie f and apn w of th it Fok of [ret y i vlio revived the filer of bells painted with # ¢ favorit One o be first presenis ard of York resi AoE bry i i terri received rit up is HPpOrary nar red at White by the late Life Story of a Great Artist. One day a lithe Quaker boy was sit by the crud ginter's br hild wa sand oppor + 0 LY en, atid so there was uity to give the little Bo the ae i £2 desire at never drawn d rE a » VY had much to ni for the of ¢ eighteenth Ponnss and ivania sained, aking But Benjamin paper apd Ls made a ssrafitl proflivss vilede » - The Monkey and the Monkey Dolls Ai is Angel tiled i his res monkey’ to the door monkey she to fie belted black which odd I wae COWn a little i he ttle had half-dozen rolling sprang or y 1 ETARK ovel ball Lhe ‘ taf he sery low bow 10 Angeline mamma id ont his cap When Angeline had drop ap he took it black fingers, ket in the gkirt of his gown climbed on Angeline’s lap and looked in her face with round, black, solemn eyes “$fow much ooks ma'am!” Therese “Too much” answered Angeline's mamma, but neither Therese nor An geline quite knew what she meant vMamma"” cried Angeline, suddenly, «1 wonder if he would Whe to see my monkey doll’ Would you show i ie a and be a penny r 4 * nne in 3 1 ' the penn; nin LHe « out gui kly with his little into a Ung Then he and stuffed it Pox he to know, said Therese ran to fetch the doll. It was almost as large as the live money, and looked as like him as one pea to an other. And when the monkey saw it, what do you suppose he did? First, he caught it In his queer little arms, stared into its black face, telt its bead eyes and its small, wrinkled chedks, and hugged it with all hiz might to the breast of his scarlet gOWh. Then be held it at arm's length, Jooked it quite over again, and kissed it twice on its odd, puckered mouth! When his master called the monkey, he tried to carry the doll with him, tripping over his gown as he dragged it along. “Lay it down!” «ald the organ-man, sharply. The poor little fellow dropped the doll, but as he rode away on the top of the organ he looked back so wist fully that Angeline was ready to ory. wrherese,” said she, “do you suppose the monkey thought the doll was his prother?” “How should I know, Miss Ange line?" sald Therese, laughing. And for that matter, how should any body know 2-Youth's Companion,
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