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PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
gd nd % >
© SHE'IS A RAILWAY PRESIDENT.
~~ Mrs. Hattie M. Kimball is, probably,
the only female railway President in the
world, She was elected to the Presi-
4)
“dency of the Pennsboro & Harrisonville
[Railway Corapany, which has its termini
_ in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, the
i Sih: mouk and will assume the duties of
e office next year, Mrs. Kimball is
the widow of Moses P. Kimball, and]
gz the life of her husband she
3d him in the management of many
rises. She is about fifty
and thoroughly conversant
: : : |
7° WHAT THE FASHIONS PROPHESY.
-. In the old days the stately sleeve puffs
“were filled with paper or feathers, to pre-
serve. if peculiar stand-out effect.
Wait a bit and you will see history repeat
Ztself in this as well as in the crinoline.
“The crinoline is not in yet, but it is com-
ing, as all signs prophesy.
. ds done now to give sweeping, spread-
Everything
1g crinoline effects, and all is ready for
dé advent. Fashion is a wily goddess
and cautiously moves in the accomplish-
mt of her purposes, shocking us not
insurrection by the abruptness of
innovations. Lace of every kind is
© #he trimming of the evening gown for
old and young alike.—New York Sun.
A BUNCH OF ‘‘DONTP's.”
irls, don’t believe implicitly every-’
thing he tells you when he is wooing
Don’t let: him win your love too
y; men do nct like that; they would
_wather have a little trouble to gain you.
t worry the life olf of him by
him, ‘‘why do. you\love me?”
does not always have an wuswer for
Don’t bother him too much about
‘your Hats and gowns; a man likes to
hink you dress to please him, but he has
other things to talk about. ee
don’t ‘accept him with reserves for
one else; love him, be good to him,
your best to make him happy.—
lusic and, Drama.
THE SPINSTERS.
“Mrs. Mary A. Livermore lately spoke
, Boston on “The Women Who Do Not
.” Bhe said:
+This world would not be what it is
“to-day were it not for the work of un-
ed women who have gone into
{hospitals and prisons and among disease
AN rrow and suffering, laboring for
dove with the spirit of Christ.
¢*‘Byery woman’s heart thrills when she
galls the voli: Harriet Martineau, the
ioneer of the higher education of
men, leaving behind her a literature
nor, i high ethics; Sarah
Martin, who came before Elizabeth Fry
a son work; Florence Nightingale,
the pioneer of sanitary work in war; the
Cary sisters, Abby May, Frances Power
“Cobbe and Harriet Hosmer.
+. ¢¢Tha world is glorified by its un-
married women and filled with their
good deeds.”’— Womankind.
A SERVICHABLE LONG CLOAK.
“A serviceable long cloak in Conne-
_“amara style, costing but little if ond has
‘seven a moderate knack of the dressmak-
Zing art, can be made of any of the very
wide German broadcloths shown in such
_ a variety of handsome colors this season.
| Dark wine red is an excellent choice, as’
dt is sure to prove becoming, and its very
ucolor imparts a look of warmth and com-
dort. Line with wine-colored cotton
~~ plush and face the long, loose fronts with
wine surah. Get one yard and three-
© quarters of the surah, and cut itin two
strips for the facing, Shirr the cloth
only about the neck in yoke form, and
ido not shirr the cotton plush. Have
hat fitted fir:t, and made to lie very
close over the shoulders. White Thibet
ior shaggy black fur are either of them
sed to trim these wraps, simply forming
“=m soug collar around the throat only, or
' used also as bands to go down each side
<of the straight fronts. Many women
‘who wear the chamois jacket outside the
dress waist, dispense with any lining to
“these wraps,ias many of the cloths this
season’ have a close shaggy nap inside,
i sthus rendering a lining. unnecessary.
Tour yards of very wide cloth will make
+ 3 long cloak with very deep hem.—New
1 Fork Post.
. LADYLIKE
The Germans are justly prond of the
“richness of their language, their well-
“conjoined « and artfully compounded
| wyords, and the beauty of their nouns
. formed of adjectives.
They take a pecu-
liar delight in the long, many-syllabled
. mingle substantive in which is fused such
"wealth of meanings that ther boastfully
. declare that it would require a long sen-
tence of the Enghsh: language to convey
“it properly. Yet it was with a =
) sig ch
dittle sigh thata German lady confgse
{gaat her mother-tongue held no’ such
crutiful and expressive compound as
J@ylike-. ‘It means so much,” said she,
«enviously, and is so musical and sug-
gestive,” :
It was a new point of view, and, like
all criticism from without, busied the
. thoughts with the light thrown upon the
~old familiar word. . Memories ‘of early
«days were stirred and quickened, for al-
most the first instruction to a little girl
“in matters of conduct is conveyed in the
It is a qual-
5 ity, too, which has not its accompanying
= delect.
One can ‘scarcely be too lady-
like, unless one happens to belong to the
stern sex, which occasionally produces a
.Naney.?” "a0
y has been strangely abused, and
and torn by rough usage and
wion; but ladylike is still sweet.
te, and no true woman can ob-
[oem gentle speech, which are embodied
in the word.— er’s Bazar.
COUGHS CAUSED BY DRESS MATERIALS.
. *T wonder why I cough so much late-
ly?’ said a delicate woman, as she came
in from an outing, « “Of late every time
Igo out I have the most wretched and
uncomfortable coughing spells. I feel as
though my lungs were full of dust, and
it smothers me so that sometimes I can
scarcely breathe. If seems to make no
difference whether the weather is wet or
dry, I cough about the same; and the
strange part of it is, I begin to cough as
goon as Iam dressed to goout.. I am
going to study up the matter thorough-
ly, tosee if I can find any reason tor it,
for there is never an effect without a
cause.” : #
“That will require but little study,”
remarked her friend. “I see that you
indulge in two articles of dress, either
one of which would furnish reasons for
the cough you complain of. You wes:
a quantity of ‘fine chenille trimming
around the neck of one of your streef
dresses. Have you ever observed
whether you ¢ough more when you wea:
that dress than any other? I also notice
that on cool days you wear a shoulder-
cape lined with squirrel. The fur of the
squirrel is very fine and breaks easily.
The particles are so light as to be blown
about by the slightest breath. = You in.
hale the tiny particles in quantities, and
they cause serious irritation of the throat
and lungs. I have been obliged to
abandon the use of such articles entirely.
At one time my physician feared serious
pulmonary difficulty, and T was ordered
away to a warmer climate for the
winter. . It was very inconvenient for
me to leave at that time, and I set about
studying my symptoms, wondering if I
could find any remedy or palliation
which would tide me over the season.
I took the most careful note of every-
thing I did and wore, aud, indeed, of
my entire habits of life. I soon dis-
covered that my cough was muck worse
when I wore certain garments. Among
other things, I noticed that a very fine,
rt pile plush wrap seemed to effect
e most unfavorably. I held the gar-
ment up to the light and beat it with
my hands, when I discovered that a per-
fect cloud of fine particles filled the air.
The pile was very brittle and broke off
in myriads of little specks. This I had
been inhaling in quantity, asI after-
ward found, and this was one of the
causes of the trouble. : :
‘If you want to cure your cough, my
dear, take care that your garments do
not throw off quantities of dusty specks.
These particles, partly because of their
irritating nature, and partly because of
the poisonous dyes with which they are
charged, are injurious to the throat and
lungs, and quite sufficient to bring about
the conditions you complain of," Te
Ledger . ! ;
v
FASHION NOTES.
Beautifully embroidered silk pin-cush.
ions in the shape of a star are the new:
est. i }
Hana embroidered gloves are a current
affectation of the ‘ultra: fashionable wo-
men. :
Satin-hand painted fans are seen this
season with real jewels inlaid in the
sticks. :
Children’s fashions occur to the on
looker as somewhat grotesque, not to say
fantastic.
Among the new cloaks ror young girls
are those of chinchilla "cloth trimmed
with astrachan. - They are coat-shaped,
belted at the waist and have a deep
cape. 3 i
A soft felt hat with a crease on top,
that goes by the name of ¢‘Alpine,” is
worn by the girl who apes English
fashion and cares not a rap how she
looks.
Dress fabrics are very rich and thick
and raised trimmings are in the lead. Ag
the plain flat skirt continues to obtain,
naturally the quality of the material must
make up for the lack of quantity pre-
viously used. :
Nobody seems to be quite sure now-
adays when a woman 18 a woman and
when she is a lady. She who was once
a ‘‘lady” is now a woman, and she who
never thought to be other than a woman
is now a lady.
A simple and stylish gown is made
with a belted yoke waist, to which is
firmly sewed a bell skirt. = With gowns
fashioned in this style is worn for the
street a bouffant-skirted coat of change-
able velvet trimmed with fur.
Sorosis is debating whether to raise
the initiation fee to $50 or to make the
annual dues $10. The membership has
grown So large that the club ean afford
to be more exclusive. = The subject of a
club-house is one oi constant agitation.
‘A striking and quaint novelty is the
Mother Hubbard hat, which has a brim
waged in six. deep curves. The only
trimming of this hat is an enormous bow
ied through slits'in the crown high on
the left ‘side and through which are
thrust two quills,
A short time ago the Prince of Wales
saw fit to use brass trappings for his
horses’ harness. Then, of course,all the
London world. followed their leader and
put their horses into brass, but His
Royal Highness decided that he didn't
like the gaudy trimmings, and now
everybody is going back to mickel
again. r i
Bodices are made quite long at the
present time, Has any one noticed how
funny one of them looks hanging below
‘a short street jacket which is really out
of fashion, but has been temporarily
| pressed into service? Its -pazaliel is only
to be found in the long-tailed clawham-
mers which in Edgland a man will not
hesitate to wear under a box cart.
A lady who owns a country house
somewhere within 200 miles of New
York was deserted the other day by her
entire staff of servants, who took a train
for town without a day’s warning,leaving
£ | sixteen people’in tho family. Additional
guests were expe
d and time was not
t ithdra wal’
.tion of La Libertad, Nicaraagua.
Photographing on metals by electricity
is announced. :
Leading French writers are using green
paper for manuscript, as if is less fatigu-
ing to the eyes than white.
Of the 4600 species of mushrooms
known to science only 134 varieties may
be safely regarded as edible.
Brown bread is said tb furnish more
bone, muscle; and blood to the human
system than any other variety, ;
Paper is being made, by the ordinary
process, from. corn husks which have
been boiled in caustic soda and pressed.
A meteorite, found a few weeks ago in
the rotten stump of a willow tree at Lysa-
bild, Denmark, was seen by the finder te
to fall into the tree in August, 1843.
Scientists find evidence of primitive
Bavagery in a custom in almost universal
| use among the criminal classes of tattoo-
‘ing emblems on different parts of the
An important discovery, by: means of
which ordifiary soft steel can be readily
used for all kinds of tools, has been made
by a man in Pennsylvania. The process
Is still a secret. uw
An egg. not long ago laid by a blue
Andalusian hen at Bradford, England,
contained the usual yolk and white and
a fleshy substance resembling a heart.
The weight of gil was 44 ounces.
A block of pure asphaltum, weighing 2}
fons, was recently taken from the as-
ghaltm mine near Santa Barbara, Cal
t is believed to be the largest piece of
asphaltum ever mined in one block.
From recent investigations made in the
Pennsylvania © University = Veterinary
Bchool it was shown that the chief cause
of consumption came from the use of the
milk and flesh of tuberculous cattle.
An English astronomer has arrived at
the conlusion that the age of stars can
be determined by their color. Red stars
wre the latest formation, white next,
id those of a bluish ting the most
wcient. )
The manufacture of artificial bitter
tlmonds is continually intreasing, and
they. can hardly be detected from the
genuine. They consist chiefly of grape
ugar flavored with a small amount of
gitrobenzole.
, In a, photograph of the heavens now
in course .of preparation at the Paris
Observatory, it is calculated that 60,000-
DOO stars will be represented. In the
uebulse of the Lyre, Mr. Bailland took a
photograph 4x54 which reveals 4800
stars to the naked eye!
The street sounds of the principal
Buropean cities are to be photographed
simultaneously with the photographing
of the occupants of the street. This
may enable lecturers to reproduce both
sights and sound by means of lantern
and the phonograph used together.
Japanese lacquer trees, planted in Ger
many sixteen years ago, have thrived
wonderfully. The juice from one of
them was recently sent to Japan to be
tested, and a similar test is being made |
in Germany. Should the result be what
is hoped, a new industry will soon be
inaugurated in Germany.
A simple and practical method of
applying eletricity to railroading has
been invented by a French electrician,
The steam engine used supplies thi
electric. power to moters in each car of
the train, and. not -to the locomotivi
proper. This relieves the tremendow
strain on the driving wheels of the loco
motive.
All sounds, whether high or low, loud
or soft, travel at precisely the same rate,
i. e., about 1100 feet a second. Were
this not so the different notes of’ music
would reach the ear at different times,
and the result would be confusion instead
of melody. « If the sun gave forth sounds
loud enough to reach ‘the earth suck
sounds instead of reaching us in the spac
of about eight minutes, as light does, woul{
only arrive after & period of nearly foun
teen years. ‘ !
re Ey
Fine Art of Tea Making.
Tea making in Japan is a fine art.
The teapot is small and dainty, like those
sold for brie-a-brac at Japanese shops,
and the teacups, often of fine cloissonnes
with plain enamelled linings, are. each
no larger than a giant’s thimble. ‘With
them is a pear-shaped pitcher for boiling
water, and a lacquer containing choice
tea. Among the rich these appurten.
ances accompany a brand of tea so rare
that none of itis ever exported. The
Japanese host scoops out enough of the
precious herb (with an ivory impl@nent
shaped like a large tea leaf) to loosely
fill the little teapot. He then pours
over it hot, not boiling, water, and in
less than a moment the tea maker begins
to pour off a steam of pale yellow tea
into cups shich are never filled more
than half way np, and they are at once
served to visitors and the family. It is
needless to say that the tea, losing no
part of its delicious aroma, is as fragrant
and delicate as any concoction can pos.
8ibly be.— Boston Transcript.
ee —— ee
The Aboriginal Americans,
The Amerrique Indians, who were
visited not ldng ago by J. Crawford,
State Geologist of Nicaragua, occupy a
hilly region of the rich gold mining sec-
These
Indians are six feet six inches tall, active,
and apparently strong and healthy.
They are dying out rapidly, however,
and are now estimated to aumber not more
than 275 or 300 individuals. They live
in pathless forests, and their chief occu-
pation is to tap certain trees for rubber,
which they carry on their backs to traders
100 miles away. They have cleared some
ground for corn, planting this in holes
made with pointed sticks. A few lumps
of melted gold are found among’ them,
and it is inferred that the Indians of this.
locality mined and melted this metal be-
fore the discovery of Nicaragua by
Columbus. © They believe: in a mighty
prophet, who appeared in their territory
cient: times, and whose form has
.more decay in celery than can be
the winter, and are not wanted for
plants, such as lupines, are of most value
‘the air, and in their decomposition in the
‘of its. compounds to the succeeding
seizing upon the nitrogen of the atmos-
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN,
7 CARE OF YOUNG CHICKENS. 1
‘When chicks Have leg weakness, and
the floaz of the breoder is very warm,
the cause is too much bottom heat.
Bottom heat is excellent for chicks until
they are a week old, but after that time
there should only be warmth 'h on
the floor not to have the floor cold. All
warmth should come over the chicks.
They feel the warmth on the back with
miore satisfaction than on any other por-:
tion of the body.— Farm and Fireside
FINAL EARTHING OF CELERY.
The final earthing of celery is the most
important, especially in the case of that
portion which constitutes the main win-
ter and late supplies. At the latter stage
the work is often carelessly performed,
the outer édges being altogether too
loose, und the soil also used too sparingly,
with the result that the celery keeps badly,
and which is often atiributed to frost.
Use plenty of soil, bringing the sides up
sharply to the ridge, the side being well
packed. If the celery be well-earthed
up, covering to keep away frost is sel-
dom needed. Wet is often the cause of
attibuted to frost; therefore, this being
the case, during a wet season the tops of
the ridges could be protected with two
boards ‘nailed together thus, A, the wet
with this contrivance being prevented
from penetrating.—New York World.
A NEW STYLE OF GRAPE TRELLIS.
Ever since the grape rot first affected
the fruit it bas been deemed necessary to
remove all foliage and fruit from the two
lower wires of the trellis, go that there
could be a free circulation of air benea
the growing vines, A
The otherday, writes a coprespondent,
I was introduced to a new method of
making the trellis, and, as this can be
done at odd times between this and
spring, I give it here: Have a cross-
piece to every post on which your present
trellis is fixed = Remove all the wires
below four feet and six inches as useless.
Stretch three or even two wires over
these cross-pieces about a foot or so
apart. Next trim your canes so as to
reach up to this height and then fruit
your vines on the overhead trellis. Look
at a telegraph-pole full of wires and you
will catch the idea. This will give free
circulation of 'air and make the summer
pruning less arduous and facilitate the
cutting of the grapes.—8¢. Louis Re
THAT ‘NUTTY! FLAVOR.
The demand in the market is for but-
ter with nutty flavor, and as it isnot in
the original flavor of the milk, but de-
veloped by a certain care and handling
of the milk and cream, there must be
pretty nearly uniform care of the milk,
and, back of this, uniform feeding and
attention to not only the cows but their
surroundings. When the whole matter
is ‘sifted, and the actual methods ex-
plained how this flavor is obtained, it
will be noticed that it is only taking the
best care of the milk, by making every
utensil bright and clean and doing more
than straining dirt and its compatriots
out of the milk, but rather in not allow-
ing them to get into the milk. Then, if
the milk is cared for in a uniform way,
cooled down to a certain point, the tem-
perature controlled, cream ripened so
much and no more, and the cream
churned then and not some time in the
future, ‘and the buttermilk washed
out, and the butter salted so much and
worked down so dry, the nutty flavor
needed will be developed promptly on
time and in needed amount. It is a uni-
form care, treatment and handling that
insures quality, texture and flavor in but-
ter.—New Orleans New Delia.
2 PITTING POTATOES.
Where potatoes are to be kept through
market or use till spring, a well-con-
structed pit out of doors is the best way
to keep them. Cellars are always too
warm, and even a temperature of fitfy
degrees starts the eyes whether the cellar
be light or dark. In a dark cellar the
potatoes in a bin will be found grown
together if not examined frequently. In
out of door pits, unless the winter is ex-
tremely warm, scarcely an eye will have
started up to the time the pit is ready to
be opened. Such potatoés for seed are
worth double what the same potatoes
would be kept so warm that each eye has
sprouted and must have its original
growth broken off. It stands to reason
that this first growth has greater vigor
than will any one that starts afterward.
The pit should only be lightly covered
and good ventilation be given up to the
time of severe freezing. Just before
that put on another coat of straw over
the whole heap and cover with four or
five inches deep of soil. « If weather be-
low zero is threatened in winter draw a
few loads of manure from the horse
stables and give the pit another covering.
When thus trebly covered there is little
danger that even zero weather will reach
down to ‘freeze the potatoes. — Boston
Cultivator.
Hd ry
GREEN MANURING.
In these days of green manuring it is
important to get facts as to the rational
basis for the practice and also learn
what kinds of substances are best asa
green fertilizer. It has been determined
by Professor Muntz that leguminous
as green manure, and this is because
such crops gather much nitrogen from |
8oil furnish. this element in one or more
crop that may have only feeble power in
Be-experimenter concludes also
ean manure cro
Tigh pat Bolas
this rate. 5 a large extent is deterinined
4 by the plants themselves it is found
the soil exerts a marked effect. In light
soil, for example, the nitrification of
green lupine plants and dried blood is
about equal, while upon a heavy clay
goil that ‘of the lupines is twenty-five
‘times as fast as that of the dried blood.
‘This great difference in favor of the In-
‘pines is considered due to the loo
of the soil by the decomposing plants by
which areation is facilitated, which, in
turn, supplies the conditions favoring
the formation of the compounds of nitro-
gen. . Therefore, to build up a soil by
green manuring it is well to consider the
quality of the crop and the character of
the soil.— New York Tribune.
: ELECTRO-HORTICULTURE.
Beginning in the winter of 1889 Cor-
nell University Experiment Station, New
York, undertook experiments to de-
termine what influence the ordinary
street electric light exerts upon plants in
greenhouses. An entire bulletin is de-
voted to a description of the exper-
iments on the growth of vegetables and
flowers, with their results as to benefit
or injury. © The many conflicting and in-
definite results indicate that the problems
vary greatly under different conditions
and with different plants. Yet there ars
a few points that are said to be clear.
The electric light promotes assimilation;
it often hastens growth and maturity; it
is capable of cing natural flavors
rand colors in fruits; it often intensifies
colors of flowers and sometimes increases
their production. :
The experiments show that the periods
of darkness are not necessary to the
growth and development of plants.
There is therefore every reason to sup-
pose that the electric light can be profit
ably used in their growth. It is ad-
mitted that more has been learned of its
injurious effects than of its beneficial
ones, but this only means that definite
facts have been acquired concerning the
whole influence of electric light upon
vegetation. During the day plants as-
similate their food and during the night,
when assimilation must cease, they use the
food.in growth.
Itis said that there is no inherent
reason why plan{s cannot grow in full
light, and in fact it is well known that
they do grow there although the greater
part of the growth is usuaily performed
at night. If therefore, the electric light
enables plants to assimilate during the
night and does not interfere with
growth it may produce plants of great
size and marked precocity. - Buk there
are other conditions not yet understood
which must be studied. On the whole,
Professor Bailey inclines to the view
that there 1s a future for electrg-horti-
culture.—New York Warld.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Carniolans make worker cells of larger
size than those made by black bees.
While geese should be allowed to
run out every day that the weather will
permit, they should be well sheltered at
night.
1t ehould not require more than one
year to know which of the animals are
the most profitable under different con-
ditions. :
Honey-dew honey should not be sold
as good honey, if sold at all, Can’t you
feed it next spring, and get it all used in
brood-rearing? >
Buttermilk is said to be a true milk
peptone, and, with the exception of
koumiss, is the most digestible milk pro-
duct at our command. -
Extracting sections that are partly
filled 18 a fussy sort of job. Isit not
better to feed to the bees, and then ex-
tract. if necessary, from the brood
combs. :
‘*The Douglass spruce is the great
timber tree of the Rockies and the Sier-
rag. In the Hast it will thrive any-
where,” says a member of the Associa-
tion of American Nurserymen.
‘Whole oats, wheat, bran and corn
meal form an excellent ration for young
stock. The health and complete and
systematic growth of the body are best
secured by feeding a variety of grain.
From experiments made with blue grass
by the Iowa Experiment Station it ap-
pears that this grass is richer in albumin-
oids and crude protein than timothy, red
top, orchard grass or low meadow hay.
What may be a. perfect animal in the
eyes of one breeder will fall short in
some of the essential particulars with an-
other, mainly because some breeders will
consider some things more essential than
others. ; 4 Bis
Breeding to chunkiness and lard is
ruining the swine of the gountry. It
seems to be the hog ideal of some men
to get as much grease as possible inside
a certain amount of skin, Muscle, sinew
and bone should be developed.
It has been discovered recently by
medical men that ‘‘lump-jaw,” as itis
called, or lumps found on the jaws of
cattle, are sometimes caused by decayed
teeth. 1Itis not known how much the
poor brutes suffering with the tooth-
ache. ;
No difference if a hog will eat almost
everything placed before him, he should
not have everything that his corrupted
appetite craves. Clean food will make
clean pork, and only.clean food is
healthy and will make perfectly healthy
meat. * 2h
A cow that jumps fences needs atten.
tion, but; not’ s6 much in the way of
pokes, blinders, knee bands, etc., as
plenty of food. Cows don’t jump fences
just to show their skill, as boys do when
they stand on their heads the day after a
circus leaves town. |
Do not let the hens in damp locations,
‘as it is a mistake to suppose that moist
nests are necessary for sitting hens. Such
nests may answer for midsummer, but at
this season of the year. the best results
will be obtained in hatching when the
hens have dry, warm, comfortable nests,
When the chicks are out do not feed
me d which
rs, as they will |
CURIOUS FACTS.
China takes most of our cotton.
The Chinese reckon this to be yeaf
7,910,341. . ;
A doctor says that one person in nine
is left-handed.
The Thames (London) police force
consists of 200 men. :
The Island of Malta 1s the most densely
populated spot on earth. ;
On the average a boy costs a parent
about $200 a year until twenty years of
age. :
Apple trees set out eighty years ago in
New Haven, Conn., bore excellent fruit
last fall.
A colt with horns a foot long is owned
by a farmer named Kavanaugh,ia Scriven
County, Ga. Si
In the city of Berlin, with a popula.
tion of 1,315,600 there are but 26,800
dwelling houses. #4
. From the American aloe tree is made’
thread, ropes, cables, paper, clothing,
soap, sugar and brandy. i as
In Fiji, the Friendly Islands, Samoa
and New Britain, 100,000 natives wor-
ship in Methodist churches. ;
Trains loaded with geese arrive daily
at Berlin from Russia. Ten thousand
came recently on a single train. :
A spoon for measuring medicine, by
which a dose ean be administered with-
out spilling, has been invented. Nl
' A gannet, a bird rare in New England,
was shot the other day at Middleton, BR.
I. It measured six feet from tip to tip
of wings. 5 ches
Nota drop of rain fell in the United
Bates #Oon one Sunday in last October.
This is the first time this has occurred in
eighteen years. :
Three women, now over eighty years
of age, are living within a stone's fro :
of each other near Norwich, Conn., who
have each been struck by. lightning a
various times.
Among the delicacies to be obtained
at a Japanese railroad station are slice
lotus roots, roots of large burdock, lily
bulbs, shoots of ginger, pickled gree
plums and the like. TRA ee
In Austraha, where deadly snakes
abound, it has been discovered that
strychnia is almost an infallible cure
their bites. The antidote acts quickly,
snake poison slowly. All physicians use
it. Se
It is estimated that the treasure lying
idle in India in the shape of hoards o
ornaments amounts to $1,250,000,000
A competent authority calculates that in
Amrista city alone there are jewels to
the value of $10,000,000.
A soso (N. H.) mule, finding its
neck so syollen by some affection that it
couldn’t feach the ground to feed stand-
ing, laid down, and after eating all the
grass within reach on one side rolled
over and finished its meal on the other.
A floating island in Sadanga Pond,
which is about a mile in length, near
Jacksonville, Vi., covers about one-third
of the surface and is about two feet in’
thickness. It bears cranberries, and if
drifts from one part of the pond to an-
other, according to the direction of the =
wind. : .
A monument of granite is in course of
erection at Mile Hollow, on the outskirts =
of Bordentown, N. J., to mark the spot
from which the locomotive John Bull
No. 1 started on its first trip on the
Camden and Amboy Railroad in the fall
of 1831. This is said to have been the
first’ locomotive to run a mile in this
country.
Food Before Sleep.
Dr. W. T. Cathell has entered a
strong protest against’ the old fashioned
idea that people should go to bed coms
paratively hungry. He is of opinion
that fasting during the long interval be-
tween supper and breakfast, and ‘espe-
cially the complete emptiness of the:
.stomach during sleep, adds greatly te
the amount of emaciation, sleeplessness
and general weakness so often met with.
It is well known that in the body there
is a perpetual disintegration of tissue,"
sleeping or waking; it 1s therefore natural
to believe that the supply of nourish-
ment should be somewhat continuous,
especially in those in ‘whom the vitality
is lowered. As bodily exercise is sus-
pended during sleep, with wear and tear
correspondingly diminised, while diges-
tion; assimilation and nutritive activity
continues as usual,the food furnished
during this period adds more than is de-
-stroyed, and increased weight ‘and im-
proved general vigor is the result, = All
animals except man eat before sleep, and
there is no reason why man should forme
an exception to the rule. Dr. Cathellis
satisfied that were the weakly. the ema-
ciated ‘and the sleepless to nightly take
-a light meal of simple, nutritious food
before going: to ‘bed, for a prolonged:
period, nine in ten of them would be
thereby raised to a better standard of
health. He has found that after direct-
ing a bowl of bread and milk or a sancer .
of oatmeal and cream before going to
bed, for afew months, a surprising in~
crease in weight, strength and general © |
tone has resulted. Persons who are too
stout and plethoric arc recommended to
follow an ' opposite ecourse.—QCourier~
Journal. al
An Effect of Smokeless Powder.
Judging by the observations of an
English officer who attended the late =
French military maneuvers, the use of
smokeless powder is likely to have a pe~
culiar effect on the morale of soldiers in
battle. He says that again and again he
found himself in a position where he
could. hear volley after volley, field guns,
too, sometimes being fired, so far as
sound covld indicate, within 800 yards,
and yet after gazing intently for minutes
he tried in vaih to discovpr the where
abouts of the firérs. = One moment *
sound would seem tobe quite close, b
a puff of wind would cause it to a
“to come from miles off. If th 3
dden, and a