The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, January 30, 1895, Image 3

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    1011 FARM AND tiARDEX.
to Keep itAnNEHg is oood condition.
Hurucss ncods (rcqituut grousing or
oiling, lint bcforo this is doue it should
be blacked. Ciiiumua shoe blacking
will ilo fur tbii purpose. Without it
tbo leather will got runty. After the
blocking mill pulishing tbo oil is np
plieit, nutl tlicro is nothing better thnn
vasclino for this nio. Tho Limes
should bo nil taken npnrt, aud if it ia
dry nnd cracked it will bo improved
by wishing with warm wator and soop
beforo the blacking nnd grcaso ore
npplied. Tho leather should bo satu
rated with tho oil, nnd then rubbed
w.tli n clot'i to remove tho excess thnt
w.ll not soak into the leather, Har
ness should bu k pt from dust, nnd in
n not too dry plucj. Mold it destruc
tive?, ai it fi'od on tho lcnthor, nnd
tu ju won'.uus it. Xcw York Times.
OAPEI IN CHIC KENS.
Vrint is c.illod "gpu" iu chickens,
ri'i'l even grown fowls, iu duo to tho
prepuce of n minute worm in tho
windpipe or trncliea of tho fowls ob
structing tho air passage, causing tho
p3ctilinr gaping or gasping of the
chickens for breath, beuco tho name.
It c:ia scarcely bo called a discaso iu
tho geuernl acceptance of tho word,
although it is uow pretty well kuowu
that nil diseases of both nnitnnls and
I l ints nre the results of nn attack of
either vcgctnblo or animal parasites.
The gpo worm or parasite, lives and
luvods in water nnd moist places gen
erally, nnd is picked up by tho chick
en!! nnd becomes lodged in the trachea.
If n large number get into this organ
they prevent breathing and ennso tho
d'.fUh of tho chick, otherwise they
only proilnco a temporary injury.
Tho gapo worm has been very destruc
tive to tho peasants in largo game pre
serves in France, consequently wo
may cnncludo that wild bins are not
exempt from this malady. Iu Europe
feeding onions, garlic, nnd similar
istrong-HCPUted vegetables nre const
dared good preventives, nnd ia addi
tion medicines are use in the drinking
water. Tho French poultrymen re
commend putting fifteen grains of
cViicylato of soda into every quart of
water given the chickens for drink.
t t . 1 . 1 A .! 1
vuu ui uiu uesi jireveuwvea nuuru
only a few fowls are kept is to change
tho yard to new grounds annually, re
turning to tho old one after two or
threo years. Xew York Sun.
TJEWAKE OP FAT COW
Bswnro of fat cowsl This nlarm is
sounded strictly for tho benefit of eood
progressive dairymen. Any ono can
succeed in keeping cows poor in flush
fiiwply by starving them whilo only a
generous feeder can make them too fat.
Whilo gonorous feeding iu a necessity
with good nnd profitable dairying, yet
the condition precedent for profit is
that the cow should apply her excess
of feed to milk and not to fat making.
The first thing, of course, in getting
up a good herd is to have large milk
ers, and they should be persistent long
milkers, and also rich milkers, but
such cows will not bo profitable milk
ers it they get too fat Such cows
waste lots of thoir food in making fat
and should be turned over to tbo
butcher where they belong. As a rule
fat cows will not give rich milk, be
cause tho fat of the food goes to tho
body instead of the pail. The proof
of this.howevcr.must not be taken from
the looks of things aloue,but some kind
of test like tho Bibcock must bo used.
For instanoe there is no more common
mistake than to suppose that cows giv
ing very yellow milk are extra good
butter makers. There is no more
common delusion than to think that a
yellow color goes with richness in
milk. Now, the fact is that yellow
milk contains no more,' if as much,
butter fat ns white milk. Appear
ances aro often deceptive in this liua.
Cows with yellow skins nre no better
for butter making than those with
white skins: common belief to the
contrary notwithstanding, I was once
principal performer ia some inter
esting experiments in this line. . We
classified tho Jerseys in a herd, picked
out tho yellow skinned milkers. The
whites made mora cream. Yellow
ckin, and yellow milk generally go to
gether. Oaernssys hive more yellow
kins thnn Jerseys, but do not give
more oream or make to nvioh batter,
Biehness is rare or individual char
acteristic Home and Farm,
FOR FAHUSHS WITH BOSS. -
Wbotber or nut a boy can be con
tented to remain with his father on the
farm, dopeud greatly upon the char
acter of the bo, write Ella Back
wood ia the American Agriculturist
Many boys nre fund of excitement, and
the amusement which a city life af
fords are more attractive to tkex than
what they aro pleased to term the
humdrum nnd drudgery of the farm.
It is this mistaken idea of what con
stitutes a "humdrum" life thnt take
so many boys to the city. To some
minds it would seem a far more frco
and attractive occupation to plow and
sow, ride the binder nnd even do tho
"chores" thnn to work behind a
counter day after dny. It is nearly
always to tho farmer's advantage to
keep bis boys on tho fnrm. They
naturally tnko more interest and will
do better work thnu hired help. Hut
very few boys aro content to work at
homo without a visiblo compensation
of some kind. While, ns snid before,
much depend.) upon tho kind of boy,
much nlao d ponds upon tho kind of
father. Iioys will bo boys, and the
father who renlizcs this is tho one
whoso sons nro content to stay on the
fnrm. Many fathers expect too much
of their son-, both as to their work
nnd their judgment Their failures
too often cnll down quick nud sharp
reproof. No bright, high-spirited boy
will bear being constantly found fault
with. If fathers would tuoro often
mnko compnuious of their boys it
would bo better. If is neither wise
nor expedient for tho father who
would keep his boys at homo to keep
himself npart from them. I know of
one instance iu particular where
fathers nud sous nre almost insepara
ble. In rides to town or on business,
sido by side in the field, or with guns
and dogs, off for a day's bunt, they
nro always together. Tho fathers
whom I have known to bo most suc
cessful iu keeping their sous on tho
firm have early given them something
t j particularly ititcrcst them in the
farm, a sliaro of the income in somo
w.iy, cither of stock, or of mouey,
was their own to do with ns they
chose. They wero trusted wi'.h tho
best team, and learned to take prido
in their work, to tho mutual advantage
of both. Our most successful farmers
financially today nre the ones whoso
sons work at homo. It is not to bo
much wondered at thnt somo boys do
part as soon ns possiblo from their
father's roof. Boys will have recrea
tions and amusements, and if these
nro not provided at home thoy will
seek them elsewhere. Somo boys are
not to bo kept at homo by any menus,
and it is better that these should go.
They may be more successful in somo
other vocation and should bo given a
chance to try. Tho majority, how
ever, may become contented and well-to-do
farmers with proper encourage
ment and financial aid.
FARM AND OARDES NOTE.
Many trees arc injured by injudi
cious priming.
There is no fear of over-production
of eggs at the rato this country is now
importing them.
Ojod wool and profltiblo wool cm
not readily bo grown on anything but
a healthy flock of sheep.
In nearly all cases breeding stock in
tho full prime of life ami health al
ways gives the best and most satisfac
tory returns.
When the bens are laying regularly
more food should be supplied and
with more food comes the necossity of
more exercise.
No matter how good an animal may
bast the start it will need good food
and constant care in order to enable it
to reach its inherited possibilities.
It will lesson the expense in the
grain ration if you plant and cultivate
the ensilage oorn so that it will
make ears. Cut it about the time the
ear is glazing.
It is claimed that corn stalks, but in
lengths of about one to ono aud a half
inches, will serve as a sufliaieut mulch
for strawberry plants. A single layer
will bo sufficient to protect the plants
if the weather is not too severe.
If there are poor spots on the farm
improve thorn. Do not let them lay
idle. Sow to grass and plow under.
The farm on which tho writer was
born had ten acres of poor soil Noth
ing was done with it until a few year
sinco, when it was improved by sow
ing orchard grass and turning it un
der. It was then sown to wheat and
another crop of orchard grass turned
under. In this way and by a free ap
plication of barnyard manure it was
made a good field. The soil was
aandy.
After potato tops have died down
no time should be lost in getting the
crop pat of the ground. There it no
more growth then, and if the vine
are at all diseased, the longer they
are left over the potatoes the greater
will be the dangtr that the tubers will
also be affected. ' Betides, the cost it
lest to get out the potatoes early
while the toil it dry, than after the
fall rain have made it muddy and
greatly Increased the difficulties of se
curing the potatoei in good condition,
M.1EXTIFIC HCIIAPS.
Tho onk furnishes food tor 309
species of insects.
With the present optical instrument
in use 50,000,000 stars aro rendered
visible.
Labrador ha 000 specie of flower
ing plants, fifty-nine ferns, and over
250 species of mosses and lichens.
Proscssor Milne, tho earthquake ex
pert, says that earthquakes have no
connection with magnetic influences.
Public nquariums are not generally
kept open nt night, strong artificial
light being injurious to the fishes'
eye.
Flnmmariou, the French nstronomer,
says that the earth is cooling very
rapidly. Europe bus lost five degrees
this century.
Plants nro affected by various sub
stances, just ns animals nro: electric
ity will stimulnto them, narcotics will
stupefy nud kill them.
Oil extracted from the mnizo is one
of tho best known illtimitiauts but is
not generally manufactured on aojottut
of tho oxpeuso of making it
The amount of fatty matter or oil
in maize is fur greater than iu wheat.
Iu tho latter oil camposus about 1 per
out in the former from 0 to 8.
A bread aud butter tree from the
French settlement ou tho Gaboon was
receutly sent to a professor at Nancy
to analyze The tree yields a fatty
substuueo cay-cay, resembling butter,
a id a grain containing 80 per cent of
futty matter from which very nourish
ing bread is made. The tree is an Ir
viugia. A test has been recently mado of a
now locomotive constructed to uso
crudo petroleum ns a fuel. Tho report
says that tho engine stenmed very rap
idly, aud emitted little or no smoke.
The locomotive was built nt tho Bald
win Works, in Philadelphia, under the
direction of Superintendent Vaucluin,
who has had charge of tho construc
tion of tho many "livers" thnt havo
been turned out there. Tho test run
was made between Baltimore and Phil
ndelphia.
It is proposed to construct a pipe
line 330 miles long from one of tho
bituminous coal fields to the seaboard,
through which is to be pumped a mix
ture consisting of seventy-five per cent
of finely pulverized coal and twouty
five per ceut water. Tho coal dust wil
be dried and purified on arrival here,
and can then bo used for fuel. Tho
steaming properties of conl dust, if it
is properly burned, nro known to bo
great, and it is claimed that this meth
od of transportation will bo not only
possible but economical.
Japanese Politeness .Not Genuine,
In the dnily social intercourse of tho
pooplo and especially, of necessity,
among the better classes the effects
of tho characteristic sentimental tem
perament are constantly apparent.
Of these effects, some are such as to
give an appearance of great delicacy
and beauty to tho details of life; but
others impross tho moro robust and
practical Westorner with a sense of in
sincerity and weaknoss. The polite
ness of the Japanese is marked by all
travellers , it has passed into a prov
erb. To those who are willing to take
the purely sentimental point of view,
many of tho national habits are most
delightful But nono are more severe
in the feeling of repulsion which ia
produced by much that is character
istics of polito Japan, than some of
tho natives themselves, on return from
lifo of several years in foreign lands.
"A rough mnuner with a kind heart"
wrote one of these nntivos "is far
better than a petty artificial polite
nets with no hcart-menning Scribuor.
Eighth Wonder of the World.
Ono of the most remarkable cases
of extraordinary musical talent iu a
child is that of Betty Jones, the baby
accordionist at Assateague Island.
Betty is not yet four years old and ex
ecutes on the accordeon all of her fa
vorite songs with skill and 'delicacy.
She discovered her marvelous aptitude
for musio herself when but two and
one-fourth year old. Fondling her
father' aooordion one day she recog
nized the different notes of "Jesus,
lover of my soul," and iu a very short
time learned to play it with ease and
accuracy. She hat delighted numer
ous visitor to her home by her won
derful skill, and it never to happy a
when given her instrument and asked
to play. According to the writer of
the above, if he it any judge, the
young lady in question must bo the
eight wonder of the world. Peninsu
tula, Md., Pre?.
England is said to have warned the
Porte that it investigation of the out
rages in Armonia must be thorough
aud satisfactory to the Powers. :
1IAIRDRESS1NG.
THE NEWEST ARRANOEMENT9
IN WOMAN'S If AIR.
CotJurc Are Parted anil Full Coils
Aro Worn liosr On the Keck
-Certain Styles Butt
Certain Face.
TIIE hats have revolutionized
bnirdressing. It is a bit
comforting to think, bower
(t r, that there will not be a
total revolution in style, for French
lints rarely suit English face, and
English bounets are seldom chosen by
American. The poke bonnet which
has such uglifying or beautifying pos
sibilitie originated in France and it
is but natural to infer it will appear
in New York. Indeed, it has made its
advent already, say the New York
Telegram.
The thing that most concern the
woman of to-day in tho fashionable
line ia the new arrangement of the
hair. The bewitchment in jetty lock
and golden cnrls is really not merely
nn ngreeable romance of poets. Every
woman can practically prove the trans
figuring charm of a becoming coiffure
aud discover for herself the magical
effect of increasing or decreasing her
apparent age by different way of
dressing her hair.
No. 1, in the double column illus
tration, shows the coiffure much be
praised by man. It seems to be
ideally feminine to wear one' tresses
arranged with a parting. It is much
in vogue now, but the only woman
who can afford to dress her hair in
this Madonna-like mode is one who
has the face of a St. Cecelia or one
with regularly modelled features,
NO i
VAEIOU3 STYLE3
whose lino have all the exquisite
toftnesa and tenderness characteristic
of happy youthfalness. Unhappily,
this ttyle of hair dressing it the most
trying of all way. It apparently
add year to the actual age. If the
face i long, it makes its lengh more
conspicuous. It the brow is low, it
gives heaviness and teems to detract
from the spirituality and intellectual
ity of the countenance.
No. 2 gives a profile view of a pretty
modification of the parted coiffure.
The hair is waved from the front, and
a few light cnrla grace the forehead
The full, low coil is especially adapted
for day wear and the present style of
millinery. It should be avoided, if
not absolutely shunned, by the woman
whose nose is inclined to be small and
"tip-tilted, like a flower," a some
aweetly humane poet pnta it.
No. 8 is among the latest styles for
evening wear. It is neither high nor
low, and gracefully fulfils the require
ment of fashion. This arrangement
of the hair is especially felicitous for
an angular face, which needs the waves
and curls and coilt to give it softness
and snbdue baid lines.
Although the prevailing tendency
for hair dressing ia herewith set forth,
it behoove every woman to consider
her individual needs in arranging her
"crown of glory" and to inuividualize
the fashion to suit the shape of her
bead and the modelling of her faoe.
No. is a modification of No. 3. It
gives a greater height, retaining a
suggestion of the ttyle of last season,
and yet not losing the indefinable air
of being quite up to date.
The tendency of the hour it to wear
false hair and flamboyant arrange
ment! in the ihape of puffs and skele
ton coilt to give the impression of
luxuriant tresses. Of course, to be in
harmony with the flaring, flaunting
sleeves, skirts tnd frill that are the
vogue, it ws an artistio necessity to
add width, breadth, depth and all di
mensions to th head or it would look
exceedingly small and out of propor
tion. WTD BELTS.
Wide belt are among the noveltie
to allure feminine who delight in
decorative fallals. Some of these
girdle are almost at wide and deep
at a bodioe. The "Butterfly" belt it
among the prettiett of these adorn
ments. It ii made in a variety of
material. The most elegant com
bination ia in aatin ribbon of any
color. The "Butterfly," 'which doet
duty at a buckle, ia entirely oompoted
of pearl and errata! or jet butterfly.
NO 2
a it preferred. The enrr of the
wintr is especially adaptable and be
coming to the blouse front in chiffon.
The belt is finished with rosette in
wV I
DtTTElTFLT BELT OF rHVSTAW AND IT ARIA
the back. Everything in nature has
been plagiarised not even the cab
bage has escaped, for the little orna
mental "choux" bow nre modeled
after this hnmble vegetable. Fashion
seek inspiration everywhere, and the
wonder is what next in nature will be
counterfeited in the modes of tho
Lour.
EMBROIDERED CHIFF0S TOR TBlMMIKd.
The popularity of diaphanous trim
ming fabrics continues and embroid
ered chiffon is one of the fancies of
the moment. Black chiffon embroid
ered in gold, blue, pink, pale-green,
indeed all shade .of color, iavi much
liked for trimming black dresses. A
MO y
HO j
IN HAir.DBE3.SINa.
black satin waist is almost covered
with chiffon about a quarter of a yard
wide. The ground of this is black,
the edge is embroidered in pink, and
tiny rosebuds in pink with green leaves
are scattered over it Some of these
trimmings are close fitting, others are
ruffled and set on with just enough
fullness to make them graceful.
Crimped and plaited chiffon comes by
the yard and is very easy to nse, be
sides furnishing ingenious women with
the opportunity to adjust and arrange
in novel and becoming fashion these
exquisite garnitures.
FRENCH TAILOR-MADE JACKET.
The illustration shows a close-fitting
jacket bodice in fawn-colored faced
cloth, trimmed with pointed lapelt
and wrictlets in chestnut brown moire
silk. Binding and gauntleta are in
plain bengaline. Wavy brown braid
tipped with trefoils accentuate! the
gorea and the teamt at the back, which
A TAJIOB-MADI tACXIT.
extend a dating below the waist, the
remaining part of th waist 'being
moulded to the figure. Large tor
toisethell button are used. Cravat
tie and upstanding collar tn brown
ilk. Black velvet toque and quill.
ftxk-uxed txha
Simplicity in veils is decidedly passe.
Most of the 'new 'one art) trimmed
with either lace, ribbon' or-jet torn
in plain net have a ruffle of taee about
an inch and a halt wide, beaded with
row of narrow ribbon, not unlike
those used in oar mothers' flirtation
d7
Again,' coarse net .veil are .Iin4
with pink chiffon, thereby lending the
linta of youth to an otherwise- ordin
ary complexion.
AT KENESAW MOUNTAIN.
FOUR COMBATS
General Howard' Aeoount of th Great
Engagement.
The KPDfsaw mountains sometimes called
the Kenesaws, as I suppose oa account of ao
apparent cross-break In tbe moRS (firing ap
pnroutljr two mountains U the highest eleva
tion In Georgia west of the Chattnhoothee.
From Its top Hbnrmaa at a Inter dnte com
muntrnted with Geo. Corse, 10 tnl'.m north
ward nt a crossing of the Etowah. The tnme
mountain, rbnimljr nnd attra)tlve, Is pointed
out to vlittora from high bulldliitp In Atlanta.
It Is (be natural wntnrsheil, ami win id lsr.4
upon Pa sl'lrs mostly covered with tres.
1 com Its crest Johntton nod lilaofTlevM could
tf-euur movement, whleh wo bnliornd to be
biddi-n, and bare recorded nccoutits coneera
lni( tbt-m in wonderful detail. Hid hand
some vlllnire of Marietta, koon n to Hheriimn
in bis youth,, lyma; eastward li'twi.a tbo
mnuittnlu and the river could be pluluiy seen.
If not too extensive to deiend.Juhu-t "i c mid
not emlly have found a stroma u-llitary
poaltloo lor his great army.
bffore enterlnu serlousiy up in the bnttle,
or rather the actual (lirhtlng of Kenetaw, let
us endenror to net before our render tbe
relntlve positions of the two reat op olni;
hosts, I'nlon and Confederate, prior to the
tattle of C'tilp s (or Kolo si Karm, which was
fotiKht by Hooker and rV'bofleld at;nlo4t Geo.
Hood, the entire Confederate nra.y lind
taken substantially Its now Huns thut Is to
say, the Confederate rlnlit. which abutted
against Drusb Mountain on the north, took
In Keneeaw, and passing doirn the southern
slope, continued on to the neighborhood of
Olley a Creek. It wn virtually a north and
south alignment, probably not continuous.
xue uem line was convei toirari us. in
rlcht was protected somwhnt by tho rough
brush Mountain nnd Noonday Creek, Its
center had Noses' Creek In front of It, but
the strength of this almost Impregnable part
was In the natural fortreaa which thut porilou
of the Keneanw gave.
The lutrenebment. barrlca lea er breast
works everywhere, whatever you call tboae
Confederate protecting contrivances, were
excellent. They had along, the fronting
alopes abundant "slasbinitas" that it, trees
felled toward ua with limha embracing each
other, trimmed or untrimmed, according to
whichever condition would be worso for tbe
Yankee approach, llatterles were ao placed
as to give againat us both direct and cross
fires. To my eve Kenesaw there at the middle
bend ol Jounjton'a long line was more diffi
cult than any portion of Gettyaburv's Ceme
tery ltldge, or Little Bound Top, and quite es
Im possible to take; especially where the works
were thorouebly manned and strongly held,
as were the Marye Uighta of Fredericksburg.
From extreme to extreme point, that la.from
the Conledurate infantry right to tho ac'.ual
left In a atralgbt Hue, mtut have been six
miles.
The reports show that Johnson had Just be
fore tbe battle of Kenessw received reinforce
ments from tbe Georgia militia under O. W.
Smith. Hla numbers at thl territle battle
nre not now easily dlsoovered or es'lmated
but standing ao much at Johnston did on the
defenalve behind tbe prepared work hla
losses were hardly ever as great as ours; ao
that I think at Keocaaw be had, after O. W.
Hmlth't arrival, aa many men as at Beaaca.
My judgment la confirmed by tbe earprlsing
ly long defenalve line which he occupied.
Uood at first bad the right, covering all the
wagon approaches and trails from Ackwortb
nnd the north and the wagon and raliroada
that ran between brush Mountains and the
Kenesaws.
Lorlng, the Confederate commander who
now repluced Polk, for hlj custody and de
fense had all the Kenesaw front, including
the southern sloping crest and the ground
beyond the Marietta . and Canton wigoa
road. Hardee's Corps bean there, crossed the
next highway (tbe Mariettannd Lost Moun
tain road ). aud uradually drew back till bis
left was aomewbere between Kolb's Farm and
Zlon's church, that part of hla force looking
Into the valley of Oiley's Creek. I presume
aa I have already Intimated, that the Cm
federates did not have contlnuoua Intrench
menu all along the front. There was no ne
ceaalty for auch abundance; but they did
have "more than tbe luual number of lunets
and advanced works on apura and command
ing hllla"; so writes Gen. Cox.
a oood axoorsT,
crowned with a few cannon on a convenient
knoll, associated with another on a neighbor
ing bight of like deacrlptioo, will uaua;iy en
able a general to defend much territory
against attack.
both Hberman and Johnston nnierstood
tbla. and were never willing to thrust
column between be knolla Into the jaws of
such a trap. Confederate Jsriuon, dis
tinvulahed cavalry Colonel, using artillery
and cavalry, watcned and extended the left
of tbe Kenenaw line down by drey's Creek,
while the swift-moving Wheler in a aitbllar
manner took care of the right and the open
country eastward, embracing all that threat
ened region north of Marietta.
Without, Just bow. In actual detail, bring
ing forward our armies into position before,
tbe Confederate's Kenesaw line, I will aay,
Kt-nerally: Ulair, with bis 8evenlten:b Corp
had come up from tbe west. He brought
enough men to compensate for bherrtan'
previous loaie; ao that, like JobnUon oner
man had about tbe tame number as at lte
saca. The army of the Tennessee, with our
blmr on the left, faced Hooi. A short die
tiince beyond, eastward, u Garrard s cav
alry, trying to keep bclt the Confederate
cavalry of Wheeler.
Thomas, with bit three Colon corf s. tone b
ed tbe middle bend opposite Lorlng and part
of Hardee. Hooker's Corra made Thomas'
right: then came, on tbe extreme rlgiH tbe
Iwenty-tblrd Corps and Htonemsn's cavalry,
under bcboneld. The l uion rlirht, already
by the vu'.b of June, reached at fnr south at
Oiley's creek. Tho whole Infantry stretch
of Sherman's front was at that time fully
eight mile.
There are four distinct combats which
ought to come Into this battle of Kenesaw;
for both host were there, vu-a-vi. for the
struggle:
1st, the o imbat with Wheeler's cavalry near
Crush Mountain:
ii, the cavalry combat against Jackson;
Sd, the battle of Kolb t larra the Hi ol
June;
4th. the determined attack and repulse
at different point all along the Kenesaw Uoo
during th i7th of Juo.
A Queer Plant,
Tbe only known variety, species, or
genus of plants known to botanical in
vestigator in which the flower grow
from tbe leaf has Just been described
In the Pari Journal de Botanlque. Thl
queer plant 1 a native of tropical Af
rica, and in it the flower aro born
along the midrib- of tbe back of the lenf.
The description referred to above Is by
Prof. Hua, and la a real treat to all lov
ers of the odd and curious In nature.
Prison.
A suggestion for Improvement la
prison construction provide tor ceiij
built of iron or steel pipes which inter
communicate, so thut water may be.
kept under pressure in thm. If any
attempt be made. to break into or out
of such a cell, the smallest puncture
In a pipe will cause a leak ard give in
itaAt notice through , tbe reduction of
pressures which actuate 'a system ol
electric atanr a. .'.
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