MR®fH|WL Disponing of Wood A«l»e*. If there is no receptacle for wood ashes the best thing to do with them is to broadcast them around the trees. Ashes contain both lime and potash with a small proportion of phosphor ic acid, and they benefit all kinds of trees, showing excellent effects for several years. To Tell (lie Aire of According to good authority a new laid egg placed in brine made in the proportion of two ounces of salt to one pint of water, will at once sink to the bottom. An egg one day old will sink below the surface, but not to the bot rom, while one three days old will swim just immersed. If more than three days old the egg will float or the surface, the amourt of shell exposed increasing with age, and if two weeks only, only a little of the shell will dip in the liquid. A Plow .nil. When shallow plowing, at the same lepth is continued for a series of years, if it is a clay soil, a solid plowsoil will be made that is to a greater or less degree, impenetrable to roots. Plowing should always be as deep as the soil will permit, and there is a signal advantage in loosen ing up the subsoil of clay lands with a subsoilei. It is not wholly uncom mon to find a farmer raising good rrops on heavy clay soil, while his neighbor, with the same kind of soil, and with similar cultivation, raises poor crops. The difference is often the result of the different depth of plow ing. The successful crop grower plows as deeply as the soil will allow; the other man has been plowing shal low until he has made a packed sub soil of a portion of his fertile soil. The latter is a method that wastes 'ertility. Turn up all the good soil, unless it is several feet in depth as you find in some of the far western states and even in some portions of Minnesota.—J. W. Scott, in the Epito mist Growins Apples Successfully. Good apple trees can be grown on almost any rich soil, but one rich in potash is best suited for fruit grow !ing. If time were no object I would prefer to grow my trees from the seed. Get pomace from the cider mill, wash out the seeds and dry them. About one peck of seed can be secured from 100 bushels of pomace. Prepare a plot thoroughly and sow about 25 seeds to the running foot, having previously soaked them in warm water. When the trees are two or three years old, graft or bud with the varieties de sired. Grafting seems to be most pop- Vl]e on the plowed ground, turning the rye under early in the spring. Gas lime if. also sometimes used, but being sul phide and sulphite of lime, and being very different trom air slaked lime it does not give the same results, and may prove injurious if used in very large quantities.. Gas lime does not assist nitrification, and is not there fore as valable as may be supposed, though it is a powerful insecticide. It Is not necessary to apply lime every year. Some soils require only an oc casional application. If applied every year the quantity should be small, not exceeding 10 bushels per acre, and even then it should not be used every year on the same land except when a green crop is plowed under, the lime then assisting to neutralize the acids in the soil. Lime is not a substitute for manures or fertilizers; in fact, if lime is used there Is all the more need for manure or fertilizer, as the advan tage held by lime over the fertilizer salts is its chemical and mechanical effect on the soil. It gives good re sults wherever used, is cheap compared with its real value, and should be used by a larger number of farmers. —Phil- adelphia Record. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ' The British war office has devised , a new use for bullets expended upon 1 target practice at riflo ranges. The present market price for spent cupro* nickel bullets is about S9O per ton, and contracts have been made for the recovery and removal of these used bullets from the various ranges. According to English correspond ence, an automobile battery has been evolved abroad which threatens a rev olution in horseless travel. Ingoing down hill the motor is reversed and the battery recharges itself, so that ' it is much stronger at the bottom I than at the top. A trip of over 94 • miles was made on au Ameriean ' built wagon equipped with this motor | and battery, with no stop for recharg ing. As a consequence of the increasing demand for superior grades of sugar ! in Japan, attention is being turned i toward inproving the very primitive ! methods of crushing now employed I at Tainan, and turning out a cleaner i and higher grade sugar, says The j Engineer. As a first step in this di | rection four iron mills —crushers — were introduced during the year to replace old stone crushers, but as the same motive power—bullocks —is used as before, this improvement is limited only to the extraction of a larger percentage of juice, and the quality of the sugar produced re mains much the same. Commercial agent Johnson, of Stan bridge, Quebec, has sent to the state department a report on the discovery of a new wood preservative. He says:"The sap is removed from tim ber and at the same time it is impreg nated with chemicals to render the wood either fireproof or impervious to attacks of insects or to decay in salt or other waters. Beechwood can be made suitable for railway sleepers or for boot and shoe lasts. If neces sary the impregnating plant can be used at the felling ground. The cost of impregnating is about two cents per cubic foot. The cost of the plant is about $1000." The product called "electroverre,'' according to the Moniteur Scienti fique, is made as follows: The mate rials in fine powder are fed into an electric furnace in several compart ments; in about 20 minutes a clear liquid glass is obtained, which can be run into moulds or worked as usual, for finer kinds of glass the compart ments are placed over one another, as the refining takes place more quietly. Fifty volts is sufficient with the Becker furnace, and the current can be either alternating or continu ous. It is claimed as an advantage that the furnace can be easily start ed or stopped within a short time, and that the expense of pots will be saved. The trials are being made by a company at Cologne. The geodesists are still measuring the earth, with a view to determin ing its exact size and shape. People that do not follow closely the work that scientists are doing are under the impression, perhaps, that these points were determined long ago, and sc they were approximately. But an ap ' proximate conclusion is not satisfac- I tory to science, and so the task of j measurement goes on, and will go on until an accurate result is ob i tained. One of the most important j steps recently taken in this direction I is the remeasurement of the meridian I arc in Peru, which is being done by ! French geodesists. the original meas j urement having been made by theii I countrymen in the early part of the 18th century. The new arc is near ly twice as long as the old one. and covers about six degrees of latitude, crossing the equator near Quito The great peak of Chimborazo rises I not far from the middle point of the new arc. Guttn- Perclia Is Not K libber. Many persons think that gutta-per cha and India rubber are substantial ly the same product, but. while they resemble each other in some respects, they are distinctly different in others, j A writer who was formerly a forester in the Dutch East Indies has recently called attention to these differences So far as the qualities of the products are concerned the most noticeable difference is that rubber is elastic while gutta-percha is not. Gutta percha is obtained from one plant on ly; rubber from upward of GO differ ent plants. The gutta-percha tree Is cultivated with great difficulty, and the natives of the countries where it grows cut it down to get its sap. Three-fourths of this product comes from Sumatra and Borneo. The totai annual production is only about one twentieth that of rubber, which is es timated at about 99,000,000 pounds two-thirds of it coming from the Ama zon valley, one-third from Central Africa and one-twentieth from Asia j Rare ItutlerfliOK Bring Hlg Price*. About 20 butterflies and nearly 60C moths are supplied by Wicken Seg< Fen in Cambridgeshire, England, but only a few of the rare and more val liable specimens are sought after bj the entomologists. Their value, frotr a monetary point of view, is some what difficult to gauge; for instance a scarce and inconspicuous browr moth, called Hydrilla palustris, whicl is only taken at long intervals, sever al years intervening, is worth $lO tc sls, while a swallow tail butterfly, al though found nowhere else in Eng land, is worth but 10 cents. A gooc specimen of the large copper butter fly is worth from S3O to S4O, but thil butterfly Is now extinct. —Pearson's Magazine. Developing; Odor In Flowers. Accounts from St. Louis inform ns that an enthusiastic lover of flowers has succeeded In breeding an odorifer ous race of tulips, and that he is now engaged in experiments with the chry santhemum, to which he expects even tually to impart the fragrance of the rose. We can only say, in reply to an inqufry, that nothing has come to hand throwing any light on those related successes and experiments. From a theoretical, point of view it seems im possible. Odor comes from the excre tion of minute particles of oil. To change the odor the character of the oil would have to be altered. When this can be done by the cultivator we may expect turpentine from the sugar cane and get the fragrance of the vio let. from ailantus flowers. An odoriferous race of tulips is not astonishing, for tulips have them selves developed scent. Tulipa sylves tris, common in the south of France, and thought by many botanists to be only a wild variety of Gesneriaua, from which our many cultivated tu lips have sprung, is very pleasantly ! fragrant. The truth Is that man can only take advantage of some tendency that nature has first originated. He cannot develop new organs of secre tion, and in the matter of color he can only ring the changes of those colors which the flower lie experi ments with has passed through in the scale from primitive yellow to aesthet ic blue.—Boston Transcript. Lost Art*. "We hear a good deal these days about the lost arts," siad the man, who, though old in years is still young at heart. "I wonder if the world real izes that some of the most precious arts of childhood are in danger of be coming extinct? How many boys to day can make a kite, properly hung and with a tail sufficient to balance it? How many boys can make a bow with the ends nicely bent and worked down with a bit of broken glass? "I interviewed my young nephew tne other day and was thunderstruck to discover that he knew nothing about it. Could he make a water wheel? a •windmill? an alder pop gun? a jack lantern? a buzz wheel? an air gun from a goose quill with a sliced potato for ammunition? a willow whistle? a squirt gun? No, he knew nothing about them. , " 'But surely,' said I, almost pathet ically, "you can make a corn stalk fid dle?' "'Do you mean a violin, unk?' said he, yawning. "Then I gave it up. I don't believe the youths of to-day know enough to stick a feather in a corn col) and throw it into the air. I'm going to write a book some day upon tlie arts of childhood to save them from utter annihilation!"— Detroit Free l'ress. Itcßpnnaihilitle* of Kriitorft. "Upon publishers and upon edlton rests a responsibility," says Mr. Allen, in Harper's. "They will fail both of their duty and of their high privilege in so far as they yield to the impor tunities of a capricious popular taste. If they surrender their business to wholly mercantile purposes, regard less of the best interests of literature, and compete with each other in this facile and fatal descent, then a gen eral publishing syndicate, upon a purely mercantile basis, will be as natural and inevitable in its applica tion to literature as it has become in the control of railroads and the pro duction of steel. Fortunately, the great publishers of books and periodi cals in this country have maintained a united front against perilous tenden cies, and their competition has been in the line of ascent." Khipiiiiig A Itle Tree. An effort is to be made to remove a large red oak tree from the wildest section of Arkansas to Forest Park, St. Louis, for the Louisiana Purchase Ex position, says the Scientific American. The tree is 100 feet high and twelve feet in diameter at the base. A double tramway will be built from the tree to the river, where it will be floated and towed to St. Louis. It is estimated that this will occupy six months. The tree will be dug up by the roots in stead of being cut, and none of its branches will be trimmed, so that it will appear on exhibition just as it now stands in the woods. A Pruiwiuii ltoyal Custom. A curious custom exists in the Prus sian royal family of selecting every July a hair dozen deserving young couples too poor to marry, and to have them wedded in the garrison church at Potsdam on the anniversary of the death of Queen Louise of Prussia. Af ter the ceremony each bride receives a gift of a sum equivalent to about slls and a handsome family Bible. The function took place, as usual, a short time ago, in the presence of Princess Margarethe, the eldest un married daughter of the Prussian royal family. Consolation and Comfort. Who is it that docs not wish to bo out in the jpen uir or ativa in BOIUO field of sport, whether it bo with the bat, rod or gun ; whether we go roasting over the hills and vales on the wheel or sailing over rough waves or into serene coves, it is all sport, and the springing muscles tom to need it. It is bound to happen that some mishap will occur. it is that we have sprain i in abundance. Light sprains, sprains that cripple, sprains that give great pain, sprains that rob us of eleep, but sportsmen of all kinds have come to know that there is nothing better tha-i the old reliable St. Jacobs Oil. Have it with you for use ; you may rely on its cure of the worst sprain and restoration to the comforts of life. If a girl dislikes a young man she steels ner heart, but if she admires him she lets liini ateal it. Great Britain supplies "Brussels" carpet-* and small foot rugs to Turkey. Fa«r Coine, T'a«y <•». The man who creeps along bent over, wit his spinal column feeling in a condition to snap like a pipestem at any minute, would readily give a great deal to get out of hi H dilemma, and yet thiH is only the commonest form by which lumbago seizes on and twists out of shape the mmcles of the back. This is commonly known as backache, a crick in the back, but by whatever name it may bo known, and however bad it may be, 10 min utes' vigorous rubbing with St. Jacobs Oil on the afflicted part will drive out the trouble and completely restore. It is a thing so easily caught, it may be wondered at why there is not more of it, but because it is so easily cured by St. Jacobs Oil may be the very rea son that we hear so little of it. Potatoes form the world's greatest sin gle crop, 4000 million bushels being pro duced annually, equal in bull; to the en tire wheat and corn crop. Europe and Australia together are al most exactly equal in area to South Amer ica. North America and Australia com bined would almost cover Africa. PUTNAM'S F DKLESS DYE produces the fast est and brightest colors of any known dye Btuff. Sold by all druggists. The State which produced the largest corn crop last year was Illinois, with 247,- 000,000 bushels. A vessel going from Montreal to Port Arthur has to ascend 600 feet. llratnrM Cnnnoi JCitrei! hy local applications ns they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is bv constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflame 1 you havo a rumbling sound orimnerfecthear ing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. 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