Man-Eating Snnkes. "Theexistence of man-eating snakes has been doubted by naturalists, but I cs 11 prove the facts from my own ex perience," says Charles E. Michaelis, who lias just returned from the Philip pine Islands. "In 1880 I was living t hen at Ti-rando. One of our servants was a short, broad-shouldered Japan ese named Picttl. He was a cattle herder and frequently in the woods. Several times he told 11s of tho exist ence of a, monster python fifty feet long, not 11 mile from the plantation. 1 gave him a gun and buckshot to kill it, but it never materialized, and we became incredulous. "One day Picul was missing. His gun and hat were found in the woods and brought in. One of the native hunters examined the ground and gave his opinion. Picul must have been caught by ft snake, ns 110 blood had been shed, but there had evidently been a struggle. The next Sunday, in company with an Englishman named Mason and their native trackers,l took to tlie woods to look for our lost serv ant. The natives lead us to the edge of it track of submerged land, covered with long grass. The water was about three inches deep. Here in the mud was the track of a big snake. The tle pression made by tho body in the mud was quite eighteen inches wide. Sud denly one of the men called out: "'Look! look!' Three hundred yards away the water was agitated in to waves, and gliding toward us was a yellow snake that looked 100 feet long. The head was 11s large as a bucket. It was 11 bright yellow, striped with black. To watch it gliding toward us was trying on the nerves, but we waited and at forty yards gave it two loads of buckshot in tho head. It reared ten feet out of the wafer and lashed about, but finally sank and the natives hauled it on the bank with 11 rope. It was just thirty f-ight feet long--our fears had added the other sixty. To keep it from the white ants it was at once cut open and skinned. Inside was tin lower jaw of a human being and i> leg and thigh bone, while a loin cloth was rolled into a perfect knot, no bigger than 11 mail's fist, and this Picul's sisters identified, so tho poor fellow had fallen a victim to this horrid reptile."—New York Telegram. Moki Naitil Painting. Who cv« heard of painting in sand? The Moki Indians understand that species of art. Two paintings of this kind, copied accurately from the orig inals, have been newly placed on exhi bition at the National Museum. Per haps they might better be called mo saics, being done in sand of six differ ent colors on aflat, horizontal surface. The colors are yellow, green, white, black and 11 mixture. Such pictures are made by Moki priests and piiostesses on the floors of their subterranean chambers. The six colors stand for the cardinal points. Yellow is the north, green is the west, red is the south, white is tho east, black is the region above and all colors signify the region below. One of the two sand paintings is a copv of the kind of picture made for the annual ceremonial of the Moki women's festival to the germ god, which take.- place in Septcuibi r. The work of art is < \eeuted during the progress of the secret rites. It repre sents two figures in an elaborate frame oi' different colors. On the left is a likeness of Lakoiic-ma-na, the patron ess of tho affair. She is clad in a white blanket. 011 the right is a por trait of »>ne ol the twin gods of war, who carries a zigzag of lightning iu l.is hands. The other picture is a fac simile of the one made by the chief of the fra t. rnity of antelopes at the festival of the siuil.c dance. It is highly conven tional 111 its character. Rain clouds tire represented by semi-circles. 1 'ar id Iu- • eni - 1.1 druiciftai ■ Ke I haiu -. I'IIIH i4.rrei 1 LUT.L elte. LI of over .attin Hve< ham'* 1111 utbrr.. *.£lcent»a bt.ii WHILE IN THE WAR I w»* taki ( (pO If ItMl Hi'vi.i- II IW»IUU4M9" HoodVr> Cures II »»..!* HHU «r. • i.i- KO Mttllßf OtfRII AN F.OG-I.AYINA TEST. Tn an egg-laying test at the Louisi ana Station, involving bens of ten com mon breeds and continued 240 days, brown leghorns made the best record, Hie hens of this breed laying au aver age of seventy-two eggs. Light brahmas came next with an average of fifty eight, then langshons with forty-nine, buff cochins and Plymouth rocks with forty-six each, and tninorcas with forty five. The American breeds averaged thirty-three eggs a hen, Assatic forty five, and European forty-four.—New York World. now GOOD COWS AKK RUINED. Many good cows are practically ruined by being kept apart from the herd. Their isolation is due usually to a whim to make a pet of an individ ual cow. Women aud children arc mainly responsible for this form of foolishness which should never be in dulged by the careful dairyman. Cat tle are in their way exceedingly social creatures, and absence from their as sociates affect them unfavorably. They are nervous and uneasy when separ ated from them, and in the case of cows lose flesh and fall off in milk. Sometimes it causes them to abort, but this rarely happens, enough mis chief being accomplished without. Foolish men sometimes tie a cow up to punish her, with the result that tho fool is punished iu the lessened yield caused by the separation from the herd.—American Dairyman. EXHAUSTED LAND. We are suffering here in New Eng land from land cxhoustion. That is one of the questions that confronts New Eugland, confronts Massachu setts. If these lands were highly pro ductive, they would bo occupied and used. One of tho primo reasons for the abandonment of these lands is be cause they no longer have *plant food. Now, how have tliey becomo ex hausted? I think largely by raising the grains. That is what the New Eng land farmer primarily did. He raised corn and oats, wheat and barley, and sold them, and thus impoverished these lands. The farms of New England have been impoverished because we have sold more from tho land than we have restored to it. The question then for the farmer is, How shall I restore, how shall I build up my farm? How shall I wisely do it? I believe the wise way to do it is to buy grain. I think it is tho cheapest way to do it, because when you raise a crop of grain on your land you diminish the fertility of that land. When you raise a crop of anything except the leguminous plants, except the pea and tho clover and the bean, ami crops of that nature, and draw it off the land, you have taken something out of mother earth. When you buy grain you buy something which liis a large mantirial value. When a man buys a ton of bran for S2O I say it is a good investment. Why? Because he buys in that £2O worth of nutrition 812 worth of manurial value. The man who buys a ton of cottonseed meal for 82.S buys s2l worth of manur ial value.—Now England Farmer. PICKING OEESE. In answer to the query, "How often in one season ought geese to bo picked?" a farmer with fourteen years' experience answers, iu the l'hiladcl phia Farm Journal, that ii depends en tirely on tho feed and ruu and ex plains the whole situation as follows: "They feather out more quickly when they are permitted to run on green pasture aud have abundance of good water to drink. Every ten weeks should Hud them, under such treat ment, with a good coat of feathers. Do not pick until laying is over. Geese cannot be artificially moulting aud producing eggs at the same time. Never pick them in cold weather. When ready to pick, which the experi enced gccse-miser can tell by the color of the plumage (if ready there will be no yellowish tinge on tho white feathers, but to be sure pick a few from the breast of the goose), the feathers come easily and arc dry at the ipiill end. If not ripe, they are soft and bloody. And this is one of the reasons why store bought feathers sometimes have such a disagreeable odor. The best guide, experience, tells us to take only a small pinch of feather* iu the titiger* at II time, and with a quick downward jerk, froiu tail to neck, displace the tlrat coat of feathers with tuily a very little of the seeoud coat, the down. Do not pick the bolsters. thoau large feathers under the Wllign. If you do, the poor creatures wring* will droop foiitinii ally. Wheli the goose dies. We call atrip these off for tilling pillow* for home iiu Itiit never tnkc them from tilt neese while living." U1L.1.1 NO COMM. Hilling com la not as common at it oll'-e Waa, til lull 111 some hectlou* It 1* atlll followcd to iiiutc an extent K\ ci pi 111 v. ry ui t lun 11l |» worse than uael.sa l.ibor 111 ulI Hi lda ll aM»Wcra tie purpo. kupm pari >f I lei foots ol the plant >.llt •>( water. Una li H .1. -.liable thill t uecoiiipliih, but lo att.ii.pl It bv hull It' Up hills for the coru la 1., a I .p| a tciiipora' . MI. I a vi n 11. .p. i'• l 'tibal. talc for draining. Holm 111... h< wnvcr, Ihla mtial Ih II .li. o( Ih. planting .it the 11l l.| be ll 112 rrc.l liti > I 111. Nit | 4ii I. ol ft. - . I- |„ t'anl In -I | Hi. loot* uf the corn Hitler Hutu I raltur itian above it» • 1 Iu tin* villi.. I tun Ihi two mam , po*. 11 lilt ro„K to a. mire fund an.i lo k. plb pi ..I in au upllghi pi tioti, .ot I 11. I prone i. 4. It Ih. which can obtain but \little food and which can do but little* to hold up the plants. A moderate nvimber of long roots will do a great ddal more to keep the corn from blowing Mown than will a much larger number of short ones, which have neither time to gaiu strength nor room in wliichlto becomo fully developed. The plants will grow far mope rapidly if they are allowed to depend' upon the natural development of their rootsjthan they will if by the formation of / hills the growth of a large number of' short and weak roots is stimulated. The writer does not recall an instance in which he ever injured a field of corn by level cultivation. Ho does remem ber several instances in which ho be lieves that by hilling corn he wasted a good deal of work and materially re duced the yield of the crop.—New England Homestead. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Lettuce may be sown at any time., The soil cannot bo made too rich/for tomatoes. Peas and corn ground together are good food for swine. Coal ashes make good material/to mulch the quince trees. Horticulture and entomology, will go hand in hand in tho future. Clover is an excellent feed for hogs, as it supplies the needed nitrogen. Tomotoes do best when kept oft' the ground, and are not so likely to rot. Timber for posts should be seasoned, charred and immersed in hot coal tar. Get in late cabbage or celery whero you have taken off peas or other crops. Keeping the surface of the soil lino and mellow will aid to retain moisture. It is well to stir a bitof oatmoalinto the drinking water, especially if you use ice. An old sow who has proved a good breeder should always be given the preference. The boxing and freight on poor fruit is as much as on good. Tho selling price is less. Coal ashes that are reasonably full of coarse cinder mako a good mulch for strawberries. A twig that can be cut with a knife now may require » pruning saw if al- I lowed to grow another year. When you "rest a bit" in the field remember the team will enjoy it too if allowed to stand in the shade. If you will not spray your trees your self, why not hire somebody to do it who knows how? It will pay you. Oil meal or linseed cake is made by English stock breeders the basis for | thoroughly good prepared stock food. Mulch trees and bushes that were j set this spring. The dry, hot weather | we may expect now is trying to new ! set fruit. A good way to kill out briers at this ! time is to spread over them a thin j layer of dry straw and then burn, j Wheat straw is best. On account of the risk of keeping it j will be found best to market onions as soon as they are thoroughly ripe if a good price can be obtained. In nearly all cases pears will have a better tlavor if they are picked as soon I as matured and are then ripened in | shallow drawers or on shelves. In packing fruit uniformity in size ! should be observed as well as possible, putting in only good, fair-sized mer ; chantable fruit os number one. It should be remembered that dead I wood may be cut out of a tree at any time. Now is a good time to do work of this kind, as the dead or diseased limbs can be readily seen. While shade anil ornamental trees beautify the premises, cure should be taken that those growing close around the house arc kept pruned so as to ad | mit of a free circulation of air. A tree is strong and hardy when it : becomes old and its roots are thor oughly established. While it is young it needs and must have attention or it will die. The better the start to grow when young the better the tree. A good method of destroying cockle burs where fields are thoroughly iu fested with them is to seed to grass or clover and use it for meadow for a few years. When it is plowed again and crops such as corn, potatoes, etc., are planted go over it with a hoe in late summer aud autumn and cut them out. V foothold once gained, heroic treat ment is required. Look out now for the warts on the plum trees and cut them oil' with a k111f• mid paint the wound with kero M ile oil mixed with ultv kind of paint that may be at hand. If left they be come the black kuot. and often destroy the trees unless prevented ill seasou as above described. Follow it up every fortnight through the summer, and uriib up all the wild cherries in the neighborhood 'l'lie lllrlh ol l.uke In geographical times, not long ago, as sp« aks the sciential, but »rv long a«o, as speaks th< chronicler of Unman f'.llii », tin r. w» • -. .1 | y Tllttjf oil tie eastern slope of the Hicrr.t Nevada* at the headwaters of tho I'lUckee lliwr About this valley tow* fed granite mountain*. Km urtlepc lo » came, 112 lits were opened lit tin locks, aud from the fissures I ..nr. d tiioiolr.ii* sireaius of lava. i H.C u| ill. . It MM rI" MNMMNI TIC LOWER • lei of the valley, and through It p. ure.l Itoo.l. of motion rocks. Hlr-aui titer >lr. am I. lied, M.I ill to|l.| sheila SM>I blocks, HUtii a >.*ll »** built across the vallt y illlM o» lis si M IM hi lull', Si.d4l.ove ll »su a d.cp • aslll 'iai or 1 o 1 n lull, t 111 at* a t he fcioriiu. thai 112. ll .114 the graml. mid VolcallU Uciii'itHlU* folic I 111 I Ivcfa to till Ih. l,on. and Uk> t'akoa u » att u«.!» h»v. I ,u«. fluid) p lie lat a HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. FOR AN INVALID. A delicate invalid custard is tnado as follows: Beat up two eggs, mix in half pint of milk, sugar to taste, and soino vanilla, lemon or nutmeg flavor* ing; when well stirred pour the mix ture into a buttered bowl, cover with buttered paper and steam in a sauce pan of boiling water, which should come about half way up the sides of the bowl, for half an hour. A savory custard is made in the same way, sub stituting cold beef tea, free from all fat, for the milk, and of course leav ing out the sugar.—St. Louis Re public. VEAT. PATE. Chop fine three pounds of lean veal and half a pound of fat fresh pork. Mix with the chopped meat one coffee cupful of bread crumbs and three well beaten eggs; add two even teaspoon fuls of salt and one salt-spoonful of pepper. Stir all thoroughly together and moisten with a little soup stock. Pack in a buttered mold which has been rinsed in cold water after greas ing. Cover tightly and steam over five hours. Turn out of tho mold and putin a warm oven for holf an hour, leaving tho oven door open. Put un der a heavy press and allow the meat to becomo very cold. Slice in thin slices and garnish with parsley.—New York Recorder. ROAST BEEF H HEART. This is a dinner dish that alwoys catches the appetite of all English men, and here is the true English style of aooking it: Get from your butcher a nice, plump, Arm heart; let it stand in a pan of cold water in which a handful of salt has been dis solved for half an hour. Prepare a stuffing of grated bread crumbs one good-sized onion, a sprig of parsley, a tcaspoonful of dried sago (or better yet is green sage when you can get it), a piece of butter the size of an egg, and pepper and salt. Mix these to gether with one well-beaten egg, fill all the holes in the heart with stuffing and boil for one hour in a small sauccpau in which the heart can stand upright, so that the stuffing cannot boil out. After it has boiled slowly for an hour take out of the water, cover the top of the heart with a large slice of larding pork and roast for two hours, basting frequently. Servo with currant jelly on very hot plates, ami see that the slices are cut thin and lengthwise of the heart—it will be more tender. Serve some of the stuffing on each plate.—New York Tribune. on FEN URArE TRESERVE. The trouble necessary to the prepara tion of the old fashioned preserve which I have to recommend ought not to count, writes a correspondent. We can't get something for nothing in this world, and for certain toothsome morsels we must have the patience of our grandmothers as well as their cook book. It will be easy to those living in the country or those having their own grape vines to procure green grapes. But the most delicious grape preserve I have ever tasted was mude of fox grapes that grew wild in stony meadows. It is quite possible even for those living in cities to get wild grapes by bargaining with some huckster or market man at the right time. The grapes should be bought when they are still hard, before they have softened in the least, but when they have attained nearly or quite their full size. Having got your grapes, provide yourself with a small, sharp penknife, and cut each grape in half exactly as you would an orange. Then remove the seeds and throw the fruit into cold water, it will take you all da yto do fourteen pounds, but the preserves are worth the trouble. Once seeded, the process is the same as for other fruit. Use granulated sugar, allowing pound for pound. Cook until the sirup jellies when cool, and seal in the ordinary manner. This preserve is very rieli and of an cut in Iv different tlavor from that made of ripe grapes, and is sufficiently acid not to cloy, and is the best '•sweet'' I know of to serve with meats. • —Chicago Record. HOVSEHOLD HINTS. Mend the torn pages of books with white tissue paper. Clean brass kettles, before using, with salt aud water. Clean plaster of paris ornament* with wet starch brushed off when dry. A shovel of hot coals held over spot ted varnished furniture will take out the spots. After knives have been cleaned they may be brilliantly polished with char coal powder. It saves time aud labor to have u broom, brush an.l dustpan for every floor iu the house Flatirons should be kept as far re moved from tho steam of cooking a possilde, as this is what causes theui t< rust Two parts ot ammonia with one o! turpentine ma ken a mixture which will soften old puint and varnish ho thai they can be candy scraped off. A towel rack made with M'veral arm* fastened to a half circular centre, which in turn* fastens to the wall, is a con veiiielit place (or drying dish towels. Co clean liar I woo ls and oil cloth w ish Hr«t with a soil spong* dipped frequently hi fresh water When th< Moor has dried, w.»sh it again with a rag dippi d in.l uilitiiri of hoi water aud skim milk l.eiuoii will do (or the yellow white sailor what shoe polish does (or tin worn black one. It. mm. lie ribbon Laud, aud, willi a 'lie. of lemon, clean the straw thoroughly I'ut ou a (resh band, and lie hal is white and fresh To clean white ostrich plumes ills solve lour ouu.e* of whit, soap !u foul pulls of hot water Make a latin • aud pi tuge tin l. ilhi r» into it, rubbing them w>ll With the hands for live ol kU minutes. Wash OUI IU clear hoi wat r aud shake until drv Turkish toui iliu- iu pure while it b<>* cou> th t-d 11>. moot H iu* • nit i nit tin: i ~u>» An it -how . din llltt! > >t*t lilMl i»4 *4 Hi I*' til* It % New gold is a brilliant shade for brunettes. Ermine is to be the fur of the im mediate future. Black relieved by white is again a favorite fashion. Mrs. "Jennie June" Croly'e fad is collecting pitchers. "White silk serge is much med for dresses and neglige waists. Leather bindings will supersede vel vet on the bottom of dress skirts. A soft, unerushable silk called regence is very popular in Paris. Especial attention is just now being given to the making-up of challies. Mony society women ore adopting the gentle Italian dove as a household pet. The wreath effect prevails rather than the bunch for trimming women's small hats. Corduroy silk chiffon iB a French material with more body than tho plain chiffon. Long Empire scarfs of chiffon or lace thrown over tho shoulders give a quaint touch to the costume. Unconventionality lias marked the wedding journeys of several prominent brides and bridegrooms recently. A pretty idea for decorating finger bowls is to have a bowl of larger size, so that spaco for flowers is left be tween. It gnaws at the hearts of English women that at their . garden parties American girls carry off the social honors. Those who ore good social prophets tell us that maids of honor will be quite out of fashion for weddings next season. A story is told of a New York mil lionaire's wife who has been for the last three years -"traveling all over Europe trying to match a pearl." Some of the women of China are be ginning to comprohend the follow of compressing the feet. A missionary has been enlightening them on the sub ject. Mary Hartwell Catherwood, the brilliant author of "Old Kaskaskia," began her literary career when a mere child as contributor to a Boston juvenile magazine. In Dutch Guinea the women carry upon their persons all the family sav ings in the shape of heavy bracelets, anklets, necklaces and even crowns of gold and silver. Miss Dod, the lady tennis cham pion of England, only reoently celebra ted her twenty-first birthday. She is also an excellent bicyclist and golf player, as well as a singer ond pianist. One of the particular occupations of the average woman just now is the ar rangement of some simple, inexpen sive, rather durable and as nearly as possible unsoilable dresses for World's Fair wearing. It seems that among the attractions at tho World's Fuir is a straw hot braided by the busy fingers of her Majesty, Queen Victoria. It isn't much as a hat, but as an example of royal industry it is valuable. Bombay seems a very progressive sort of place. It has a Sorosis and a cooking class. Recently at a competi tive examination over one hundred Parsee girls cooked a long list of In dian delicacies to show their profi ciency. Probably the youngest telegraph operator in the country is little Miss Msttie Quin, of Rouseville, Penn. She is seven years old, and for a year she has been able to handle a key uuder standingly, within the limits of her vocabulary. The favorite amusement of the Queen of Italy is mountaineering, aud she has just started on a long holiday iu the All >s. Her Majesty has a ten dency toward stoutness and possibly that accounts for her devotion to so active a pursuit. At a dinner given iu honor of a young girl just entering society in Paris the servants wore white liveries; the guests were twelve youug girls, all iu white, with powdered hair ; the ta ble furnishing and decorations and as many of the different sorts of food as possible were entirely in white. Among the peculiarities of Quaker ism, a correspondent points out, Quak cresses are not allowed to wear gold ornaments or to have their ears pierced for earrings. If a mother per mitted her daughter to undergo this operation both mother and daughter would be "read out" of meeting. When the Queen of F.uglnnd dies her uiotal remains will rest in tie- gray granite sarcophagus with the late la mented Prince Albert'* ashes, Under neath the arms of the Qitceu and I'riuce Albert on the monument is in scrilied ' ' Farewell, well beloved, here at last I will rest with thee. With thee iu Christ I will rise again." Princess Hans Henry, of I'less, is the reigning beauty iu Loudou ju-t now, aud the society journals are go tug into raptures over her at a great rate. She is only nineteen years old. and one Jenkins declare* that "she is, like her name, 'Daisy, being infantile ly fall, with woudering blue eyes, aud she looks even younger than she is. " Our American girls do not take kiudly to tin- brown Holland dresses trimmed with black satin, which have bueu received with mi lunch favor iu Kuglsud. They are too severely siui pie aud resemble liothlli/ so much as furniture eoveriug. Tin v cost a good bit, too, (or plain gowns, (or tie Sleety ol tin ir making has much to do Willi their success. Is LivkllllMir I 4 Use J lit M4lu I It la |Ni|iularly supposed lhat tin sudden downpour whu'h usually (ol lows a bright Hash uf litkulli la in solu*' way caused by the il tsh M' twi rologlsls have !•»..». ii lhat this is not Ihe and thai, u»a«tl) I" th e lit traiy, II Is not ouly po .slide hut hlgll I* | i i...id* thai th .ill i pi«vlpitattoll Is tie leal cau ol th Masli HI l.uUts iteputdn A diaiuou I lot .111*11.► #i«-» I l •hut*! litfvt months Teach the Children to Swim, The constant repetition of the re ports of accidents by drowning enforces ihe thought that much of this loss of .ife in the water could be avoided if ihildren were to swim as promptly as they are taught to read *nd write and to properly care for themselves in respect to healthful pre cautions. Every child should be taught to swim before the ago of twelve or four teen years. In all the large cities swimming schools with capable in structors afford ready and inexpensive opportunities for teaching children to swim. Nothing can be move easily learned. Many children acquire the accomplishment in a single lesson of an hour, and very few boys or girls re quire more than a half dozen lessons in the hands of a competent instructor to learn how to swim. Singularly enough, girls learn more easily than boys, and when once acquired the ac complishment is never forgotten, as it is largely a matter of confidence in one's ability to keep afloat. Aside from the precautions of Bafcty involved, we should consider the de lightful recreation and the healthful exercise that persons, young and old, of both sexes, find in the pastime of swimming. In moderation it is one of the most healthful if not the best of all summer exercises, and can be en joyed in the still waters of the lakes in the country and the mountains or in the rolling billows of the surf at the seashore. It is the roost inexpensive of all amusements, the cheapest, the lust, open to all, and the marvel is that so few young persons learn to swim. It is often ebserved that the chil dren of the street who wander sbout the wharves and the beach become ex pert swimmers, apparently without in struction, while the pampered sons and daughters of wealth, who are given all the beuefits of an elaborate education and who are favored with all the ac complishments of the day are seldom taught to swim, and these at the sum mer resorts are often putin peril of their lives in emergencies. Thisisnot as it should be.—New York Mail and Express. Sheep-Shearing Machines. So many trials of sheep-shearing ma chines have resulted in failure that the belief has become fixed that shearing by machinery is entirely impracticable. This idea seems to be a mistaken one, as machines operated by horse power are in successful operation in England and in Australia. It is said that a flock of 200 sheep will warrant the purchase of one of these machines. New York World. 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Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts 011 the Kid neys, IJver and Bowels without weak, ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it iB man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every pnekage, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. Baby's Dimensions. From measurements of 100 infanta born in the Royal Maternity Hospital of Edinburgh, averages have been ob tained. They are practically the samo for American children, and are as fol lows : Average weight of male infant at birth, 7.55 pounds. Average weight of female infant at birth, 7.23 pounds. Average height of male infant at birth, 19.84 inches. Average height of female infant at birth, 18.98 inches. Each inch of the male infant eor responds to 2.56 pounds. Each inch of the female infant corresponds to 2.urvhaM'. | MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS 112 W.T.I THOMSON'S 3j|Ef SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETS. Srt tools On!? » > 4&MT ne*i>il ».« .Irft* ,111.1 C IRI'I llHtn R.I»I / LIKL i|Ul(|;), IH* . »n«h «r»a»« ui«ljr muMh. K iutrl»»« no h.»t v » h* if.*- trailer i»or t>urr '»r t c Hints. !"•>•% »pv «iron«. kmuli «n l dnrnblr. M '«»• n. * .»i use AJ cn.tht, uniform »r put up lu t»- \e«, %«k ,T«iur ilmln l«r ihrm. r »rul «*cw .!» »ump* for A I>UJI »T K*, ATTURUM IWN MAN HI T»Y JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO., WAITH\*. «!**. 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