/ » “- - ih sips - "THE GROWTH OF GALLS. wi . Thelr Use In Ink-Making "Devil Beans” Importance in Trade, {Philadelphia Times. | The ink we use to-day, or much ol the best of it," said a well-known chemist of this city, “is an animal production, or, tole “wore sortect, the result of the work of an animal. luseets as the cyn- ipide, hymenoptara, cocidomyudie and ters puncture certain plants with their ovipositors for the purpose of de positing eggs, and in some wuy they cause an abnormal crowth of (the wood, 50 that the larvie ate in time surrounded by a round ball of wood, out of which the perfect inseet finally makes its way These galls, or those of certain insects, constitute the principal ingredient ol certain inks. In one common black mk Chinese galls and tincture of iron the principal parts. Sometimes lo is used, but each deal eret and | best ink “Galls are generally mon names and thei suspected hy thei swood has Is owas of course s fom knewn by nature : finder Known and cura and in some countries they that they ar used in ornamar Kinds, The nothing mot - om is litth as ORK appli sO Deputy Cynps insano in California we Berson that ser aoou them wooden box ps vent them, he ) i Ces, i they ost astonisinnge m re Wi are callie ¢ minute and when placed commenced to the an Ul One seeds ro i } 0D€ skeptic tae a fat, 1 that, ipsa dehaisiana of Hight color when a In this grub that mad { “The most TE the tree known as Brineador nin ots were those of They are of the mustard, and when they fall from the tree they ipon the suredly le sand-hoppers But the Is contains the larva I Cynips salatorius myself, and the leaping seeds like the pattering of rain upon the leaves, and they can stance of inches. nt as iarge as kes P ground, so that ) that nnnm iu umping abost think were that of a small d I have seeret each little see observ noise of the sounds hopa d | “The subject of galls is an important one aside from the fact that ink is ob tained from them, as they are used as medicine in various ways. In India the Somali tattoo themselves with gall juice, and the blaster, dyer, ete, if they only knew it, are generally in debted to the maternal labors of the most insignificant insects. The import ance of the gall business can be seen from this hist, and these all go to the ink trade, and it only gives those that are imported into England yearly: Ger many sends 100 tons, valued at $75,000 Turkey about 320 tons, valued at $200, 000; Egypt, 80 tons. China, 70; Bom bay, 100. In China thousands of per sons get a living out of the gall business women They are known as woopei-tsze and ar | produced by an aphis on an anacardia ceous tree. The galls are generally col lected before winter, first frost, and to steam, to kill dried and then shi hundred weight.’ are generally submitled t} , and by the pound or ¢ inclosed insect pped Skin-Grafting for Huros iiadelphia Post urns are a great source of trouble to goon in many Ways For In stance, if a burn is very extensive, there may be great difficulty in getting a cica trice to form over the whole of it. Cicatrization only begins in the imme diate neighborhood of living epidermis and therefore a burn or ul from the circumference to [his di ity has often been : : called sk ng the sur the center met by n n fting a is piachew side of the arm-—ar snipped off with a pair SOS, Lhe scissors Ji to cut slightly into the se the skin and draw a | A Special k vonicd f the purpose 1st going des ttle blood ayer i nd of sc hins ior t! take up just the right amount of 0 that the operation simpler still; and if skillfully performed it causes only trifling pain The little fragment of skin t} rated is then placed gently, with it surface downwards, on the surface of the burn. The sam« repeated again and again, till there are many fits. if the burn is a large one Isinglass plaster, or some other simi Ar mater grafts a Kin is thus made even 18 Sepa A raw : ne ning in from injury should have covering can be 1) position and preserve them In about four days they taken root, and then the moved. The Empire of Brazil Mexion Two Republics The empire of Brazil represents one fifteenth of the surface of the globe, one ifth of the new world, and over three seveuths of South America. Its aren is 8.337.218 square kilometers, with a sea board of 7,920 ki'ometers. The country is divided into twenty-one provinces and in distribution of soil, timber and water will compare favorably with the United States. The country bordering the northeastern coast for many miles ts almost impenetrable mangrove, but is easily cultivated when cleared, and will raise anything imaginable—sugar, coffee, rice, tapioca, maize, plantains, friits, v ables me 100 or 200 miles inland from this belt you strike the plagnus, gener all ati of well-covered Bratries for foreign settlers a mos prefera ble country to reside in, albeiPRAER bth from which boon, coff which furnishes sever ust previous tothe | er must heal | 15) s. is employed to keep the | | since Webb I their-best work, | though scarcely older than Dana, edited A newspaper hore in { nnd then served the London | book, “The Glory and Shame of | did much to | and Lackadaiseal Willis form | { hive just 0) whic f too, have been mist | ate, bit vou soon hecgme {| red paste, put the nd , | degrees, while just across the lake and ir iNnneaiea | Edgar A. Poe. [W. A. Croffut.) Who is New York's veteran editor and Thurlow Weed and Hugh Hastings died last year! Every editor of a New York daily but two has attained his position since the war, | suppose Mr. Dana will have to officiate as the veteran now, though- he was a youth when Webb and Weed were doing Or shall the honorary mantle fall on Edwards lester, who, Webster's prime Times as His first Eng circulated 150,000 copies, and stir up an anti-English feeling at a time when Fenimore Cooper were its American correspondent land, "er LY KeOrn American and worshipping ing British « on Mi everything ;sieryt | calle Lester yesterday 1 reading an English he said, | about Bdgar aA, oe, the ined through. He | » impression on the mind hen 1 knew him best he Broadway Journal tween Fulton and ) ul Hut Pear mm It 1s wide of knew him through rv litt! with small | metrics Like hot inrge OlUs care under h pur 3 hd had iM n 1 vould never yritten ot ai lis bad habits, erstoud. It wa cked him cs and pre When Ie he d sap earth an have Mexico's Curious Swectmeals san } The Mex HLINeRLs drollest They sweelimeals Among ht here lied apples, pears cherries, mangoes, sapodilias, guavas, ba | other fruits names of know not, the ans 1 in the cal Al othe candi 4 Ma these Vt rs pal accustomed drinking pulque and then vou like them At first theh cunva dulee was very disagreeable te but now | like it, It does not emble the guava jelly, which comes t« nited States in the form of : up in little round wooder Mex guava is a litth the size of a Neckel pear, ane prepardd, for desert is of a faint | f } SMALL MOOS, of at first, Ameri to not sweels palatable ara to an to then fs {io ne re in the | MIX Ps an fruit a when full o tliANy its own. | know “how to deseribe it, but ii t first seem weet inti] yom rn ’ it ned to it } VELOW eRinr and has a flavor pax lo not “wicks! palate becomes gecust Hetorm in Fating. finter Oven.) aristocratic Fuglishman prides n spending about one-third of at the table An Americar man takes smnequal pride i erity with which he disposes of Taking notice thes FA old number « people have Dr. Tanner ; of eating once An himself « ] full n { tremes demanded a reform to introduce the habit forty davs omes a man from Malne, a Mr f Ashburn, who \ ago 1 began eating one mea per day. | spend an hour eating, and eat non than if 1 had three med | am twenty-five pounds heavier, and ean endare more labor than when |) ate three meals per day He says: “It aounted for on i food, when { ox ’ tre 3) SAYS Five year re taken 8 ad the perf tion of two-thirds wasted His wife ment, and takes a mes We 1 Om the econon y of 1 | but when Mr m 1 AL On Lh 1 INCA luring hard times Silver avers that he eats threw Mr meal as he w» 0 al dtl nie and Curiosities of Temperature Academy News Grand Haven has a mean winter of 26 Milwaukee has a mean and while New he same latitude nffalo, Chicago, the latter's of 22 degrees latit i atl n nearly Lhe same ide as of IN de greed mean is 244 degrees. Traverse City, nearly surrounded as it is by al though about 300 miles north of Chicago, has a temperature of 1 degree lower than the latter city, and has much greater immunity from extremes | It is stated that the most cold at Mackinac, for a period of twenty eight years, is not on an average greater than at Fort Riley, 450 miles fur ther south; and Mackinac has averaged warmer by at least 1 degree, for eleven oars than Chicago, The extremes of ackinac are not so great as at St Louis, while the lowest temperature al the former place is only 10 degrees be low that of the latter, AS A Nea water mean OL008sIve | Antiguity Trade Marks [Holentific American.) A foreign contemporary has discov. ered that trade marks are nearly as old as the industry of the human race. An- sient Babylon had y symbols, and the Chinese olaim to have had trade marks 1,000 yours before Christ. Guten. berg, the inventor of printing, had a lawsuit about a trade mark, and won it. as 1800 the mark | | Stuart, manager ol oneol 0 | In many cases the | tailing.’ | know | would not trust | ways did, THIEVES OF BOOKS, Kleptomanises with Literary Inolinstions Who Need Caroful Watching. (Philadetphia Times. | “That book will cost you $3, sir,” sald a clerk in a Market street book store, politely, but with an Micisive tone that showed he was not to be trifled with, to a young man whom he surprised in a remote corner, where he had been linger ing long over a case of handsomely- bound volumes. The young men was woll dressed and of gontlemanly HOUT ance, and was evidently near shihted. He glanced up hurriedly, his fev col- ored, and his eyes, in spite of the friendly mask of a pair of gold- rimmed glasses, botrayed confusion and chagrin, Then he drew from the pocket of his satinfaced overcoat a handsome copy of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. With a face that would have afforded Burton an excellent study, he thumbed the volume a moment mumbled that the ! didn't exactly suit him and tore with more speed than ndin ‘I had been watehing him for twenty “xtoeal it? ()f You have books that are sald the clerk course he intended to steal it the number of respectable pu ople minutes,’ no idea of by from the shelves of “stolen apparently : stores and libraries hundreds of books are ar, said Mr, stores never are de ‘1 suppos tolen from us every ye ir book thileve unre ght Frequently + ted they when they nr fu “ll ood of hd FY every © he eas sald clerk. ) lmpo sible He the man a watch up his move wwever, and detected him the 1 ime he came into the settled the matter with His high we did pon store He onsideration of and in reputation in the community him We ight How two umulating He mgton Irving's works by carrying out me at oa Lime in the that it would not be missed. He had secured ‘The Sketch Book’ and the ‘Alhambra, but we dropped on him just as he was not prosec 1 a month or gradually ad Wash Ago sot of hope | getting away with ‘Knickerbocker's His tory He was common taking them out by the process known ‘sub-coat Many people who would not take a penny to another will steal books with apparent impunity. | men whom | would trust with my watch and my pocket book, but | them five f this store me As belonging minutes be hind the she Ives o “Exp tells w hose : Are imited will a book store equent visitor experien ee 1% rienes that tastes TEAS j § and glwavs Vit ose HIGTAry tne oO wing erary sneak thief has t or series of s not replaced. Ir SL ently had costly sels that some aken one of a SONG Fare CARLY fron requentiy Some of the y & penchant je steel engravings an wn adorn a frontispiece fror | book from between the shell, insert front leaves, uietly replace minutes the s paste that the entire without tearing it NOL Mra. Harriet Beecher Stowe She oval aii that Dranch of Me Very Her ov onier and str DORYS are Ia pore larg and ® knew her, parted in the Lord designed ald part, and terminatin prett Kray out gracefully on face. Her manner most deferencial ) . and the customary attitude of her hands is that deseribed | y solomon. or the queen of Sheba, or writer, when he sail sleep, a little more slumber and a little more folding of the hands to rest Quiet dignity, a calm sense of superi ority and gentle, unobtrusive womanly ROTM | tenderness would seem to be the habit of this woman, whose name is known wherever the human tongue can speak | and the mortal eye can read A Strange Problem. [“Rigolo" In New York Sun The agricultural returns which have just been published in England present a remarkably strange problem. The cultivated area of Great Britain has in- creased 81,000 acres during the current year, and 1,863,000 acres sinoe 1874, yet the since 1878 has been the most disastrous of the century, and the food im has increased in value from $308, 290,000 in 1864 to §787,600,000 last year. During this period of increasing eultivation of the soil there has been a decrease of 1,011,000 acres in arable land, and, although there has been an increase of 2,875,000 in grazing land, there has been scarcely any increase in flocks and herds. The number of sheep has even decreased 8,859,000 in spite of the fact that the price of meat has been Ric A Ri, iroaly Improved mode of living of the Naked Milk, [Nebraska Parmer | Invalids ato now fed on baked milk. Jar, covered ten hours | Crowa | ton him well in later years oldtime | A little | nore | TRADITIONS OF WASHINGTON, | How Me Looked, Talked and Lived-—-His Work and Recreation. [Washington Cor. Cleveland Revtia.) I have spent much time recently in the grass-grown streets of Alexandria, \a., chatting with the old citizens about George Washington, and gathering to- gether such traditions (o him as have come down to them from their fathers. Mr. William Carne, the youngest man I talked with, was perhaps 50 years old, He is a newspaper eorrespondest and literatteur, and he has for years been in terested in gathering taaditions of Wash- ington, Mr. Carne said: “The last of the old men who knew Washington personally passed away about twensy years agp, and it is very late to atterapt to get ax thentic information about him. 1 wae born in Alexandria, and I have been ens gaged all my life in studying Washing ton's ehat acter, and have talked with all the old citizens of Alexandria for the past thirty years and more inv regard to him. knew George Washington Cus tis, and | remember him as coming here every 22d of February and on the Fourth of July. He would take his stand on the the City hotel and begin to address the the greatness of W ashing sell t and | reing him made | +! ly of Ar ny i I he Alex sent | proper Lately il ol anal #eps of would on and te them ancedotes KOsSip conc I have an espec Washiugton f young tracitions ol Hn a8 A rs a great dems very trend than a ball ngton « fi i ithoul room ould eas is move anythin } HAVE Appear ng y respectable. 1 Urans A giass ol wine or whisky and the cust think he es gossiped at the grogge lations with women, In aii my with those who have known him | never foun i reason to did anything improper ‘As to his circumstances as a young man, they were rather peor, and he l'arned habits of business which stood He did gin to make money until he became a surveyor, and then he made iV very fast, earning $25 a day. He had plenty of chances for speculation, and among other things he bought two lots in Alex andria of these he built an office and came every day to do his busi n lived at Alexan- from Mount Vernon, gentleman whom | met above ddock he told me he had for ard orge Washingten Custis adopted father. Said he ip to Washington as a siraigt then, as wa " er frequente believe that not bx im ons to this he : tel (ae OT heed AR i As as free In h the stories | teen about y Limes hands “1 : ey ALG as i were so his whole 5 and large t Bb t nt afull © w and he was a cough lower jaw termined g kept his He had and inst rider ‘ s 4 11 O tu was a good esard the story of | of arm ar distand } and coars je his hair every mort rd Mr. Custis say that he Mount Vern fteq daybreak, and as carly as 4 a le would, at sunrise, go to his stabi and look at his blooded horses Wher he came back he had a light breakias of corn cakes, honey, and tea, or som« thing of that sort, and then he ate not! ing more until dinner. 1 am speaking of his lafer years, After breakfast he rode over his estate, and at 8 had re turned and was dressed for dinner. Dh ner wns a big meal at Mount Vernon and Washington ate nothing after it He usually | drank five glasses of Madeira wine at | desert, but 1 have never heard of his be ing drunk He was not opposed to the | moderate use of liquor, and when he | was first elected to the house of bur. | gosses of Virginia, among the items of his election expenses were a hogshead | and a barrel of whisky, thirty-five gal lons of wine, and forty-three gallons of beer cul a great figure, CAriy af Wi, ¢ He was not much of | a speaker, but he was popular, or he pl not have held his place for fifteen years as he did. 1 have understood that he treated his slaves very well, but that he made them work and would al low no foolishness among them, Wash ington liked the theatre, and ho was fond of dancing in early life.” For a Cold. When a cold is caught the best thing to do is 0 give the Sith on rest fat | least one day, eating a light supper ab hour before going to bed. 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