v..
General Greoly doe not believe it
possible to reach the North pole in a
balloon.
A Russian lover is expected
to send his flnncce a present every
day, evou though he can afford noth
ing more than a fow flower. Long
engagements lire not popular with the
young men.
The finest private museum in the
world is the property of tho Hon.
Walter Rothschild, tho eldest son of
Lord Rothschild. It is at Tring, in
Hertfordshire, England. The owner
lias given up half his life to it.
Tbe inability of the wealthy man
agers of the Florida Athlctio Club to
find a lawful battle ground for the
Corbett-Fitzsiranions prize .fight is
roof positive to the Now York Herald
that professional pugilism has re
ceived its deathblow in this country.
Lord Gardner who is about to tal;e
Lis seat in the British House of Lords,
is the son of a Hindoo woman. There
are queer fish in the British aristoc
racy, adds the Atlanta Constitution.
The Countess of Stamford, widow of
the late Earl, is a coal black woman
from Africa.
The little economies that have mado
Japan so rich may be uoticod every
where. Tho dust of charcoal is gath
ered np and mixed with elm IT of wheat
barley and with other grains ami with
chopped straw. It is then moistened
into paste, rolled into balls about as
'big as a billard ball and makes excel
lent fuel.
Mrs. Laura B. Wood is in the Cam
don, N. J., Jail. She is charged, re
lates the New York Advertiser, with
stealing $2,000 from the company by
which she was employed. She changed
the figures on checks and collected
the money herself. Sho obtained her
position two years ago by alighting
at the door of Ruben Frccmnn, presi
dent of the Optimus Printing Com
pany, from a bicycle and walking into
his office. She said, "I have no refer
ences, but I am an expert bookkeeper
aud want a job." She wore bloomers
and wus attractive looking. Tho former
bookkeeper had had excellent refer
ences and was dishonest, so Mr. Freo
man was not optimistically partial to
references. Mrs. Wood got tho posi
tion, aud now Mr. Frecnvin does
not believe in anyone.
The crudity of human justice is
' being more and more dearly recog
nized, muses the "Obsorver" of the
New York World. In Germany and
France the view gains grouud that all
judges, boforo entering on their func
tions should be compelled to visit and
examine juils, prisons a id peuitouti
aries, so as to fully understand the
nature of tho puuishracut which they
thereafter inflict It is also hold that
fudges should be more competent to
distinguish between mental soundness
and unsoundness. Competent Gorman
physicians assort that a large percent
age of the persons sent from penal in
stitutions to lunatio asylums must
.have been insane at the time when
:they committed the deed, for which
' they were sent to prison, and should
therefore at once have been treated as
lunatics instead of as criminals.
It is well known now ingenious
maohinery has well-nigh revolution
ized the ouoo intrioate work of the
carpenter, leaving only the simplest
part of the trade for munual labor.
Never was this innovation of patented
doviccs more marked than between
1880 and 1890, yet we read in the Do
troit Free Press that there were 53,-
617 carpenters in the United Stutos in
the former year, while tuere were
140,621 in 1890, and the average
wages of the latter were $675 against
$100 for those who had fur less ma
chiuery to contend with. ' Botweon
the same years great strides were
made in the molding aud haudliug of
brick by maohinery. yet the
number of workmen doubled,
while tbe number or yards was
but alightly iuoreased, and the
wages advanced from an annual aver-
ago of $228 to $300. In few indus
trios has the saving of luhor by ui
chinery been more marked than in the
manufacture of furniture, and the
cheapening of the product has been
imply amazing. Yet the nunibar
men employed in it increased from
65.804 iu 1880, to 02.301 in 1890
' wage advanoiug from an average
of
$153 to $528. This line of evidenoe
jniaht be pursued throughout the
list of industries where, for any con
-sidorable time maohinery has been
the work of brains and bauds. The
conclusion forced is that the iutro
duotiou of labor saving machinery is
not to reduoo permanently the number
of employes, but simply to readjust
the working force aud iuure higher
wages, -
Whore Love Builds,
When lov builds a shelter,
Claim thou a psrtt
Whore his lire flameth
8tay and warm thy heart.
Fame will fad, ftnd Klory
Is a phantom gust
The eagle to his eerie
The dove unto his nest
Frank L. BtnntotU-
HETTY'S GLOVES
Gus Varley was going away, like
the boy in the fairy talc, to sock his
fortune. Before he wont he had
something to say to Hetty Romcr.
All the summer he had idled away in
her company hers and Rose Narro
way's; and ho was conscious that
noithor of the girls could guess which
ho liked tho best ; or, iudocd, whether
there was any more than simple,
friendly liking in the matter ; at least,
Gus hoped so. He hoped that he had
not made love to both. But then Gug
was conscious enough of his powers
f fascination, and both wore so
pretty, ao sweet, so lovable. Only at
last ho know for certain that he loved
Hetty. This was what he had to say ;
this was what ho could not say, be
cause ho oould never find Hetty
lone.
Now he had come for tbe last time,
and had bent over Hetty, and softly
whispered :
"Come out upon the porch with
me, Miss Romer, won't yon ?''
Aud Hetty had said :
"Come, Rose," and he had mentally
ejaculated, "Confound Rose,"and had
sauntered out as amiably and gallantly
as though the arrangoment delighted
him.
No chance all the evening, not one.
At last, as the clock struck ten, Gus
grew desperate. Ho sauntered to the
mantel, and with his pencil scribbled
few linos on a leaf of his pocket
book, ana looking about uim, saw
Hetty's gloves lying on a table. He
know thom to be Hotty's.for her color
was lavender; Rose's always lemon,
By and by, uo ono looking that way.
he slipped his bit of paper into tho
palm of tho right-hand glove, and
rolled the left over it. At least, she
must find that whon she put on tho
gloves.
'Good-by," he said, a few minutes
after. "Good-by," said every ono.
Then Gus was gone. Poor Gus I
"I hope he'll bo successful," said
old Captain Romer.
'And steady," said Aunt Abigail.
Tin going homo," said Rose, after
a while. Where are ray things? No,
don't light a lamp. I've got them
hat shawl and gloves. Good-by all.
But Hetty walked to the gulden
gate with her, and watcbod her trip
down the lano in tho moonlight She
staid there listening to the cricket's
chirp, aud looking at the moon.
"He's so uioe," she sighed, "and
perhaps we may never see him again,
I wonder "
But sho did not say what sho won
dered, At last she went in. A lump
was lit. The big Bible was open.
"We are waiting prayers for you,"
said old Captain Romer, a little atom
ly.
lhe mother tossed nor a pair of
gloves.
"Either Kose has worn yonrs or
mine, sue said. "Those are hers.
"She has mine," said Hotty. "It
don't matter."
Then they had prayers and wont to
ted, but the missing gloves were the
last thing on Hetty's mind.
But Rose thought of nothing else.
She had taken the gloves unwittingly
aud had not put them on at all, but in
her own room she had discovered her
mistake.
'Hetty's not mine," sho thought,
and stooped to pick the piece of paper
thut fluttered from between them
from tho grouud. She saw Gus Var
ley's name. Then her faue flushed,
and she read this eagerly and an
grily :
Xlear iietty xes, dourer to me
than all the world beside, and I can
find no ohunoe to tell you so. You
are never alone. I am going away
and Heaven knows whon I shall re'
turn or how. I do not seek to bind
yon by any promise to share such
doubtful future, but if I prosper if
I succoed.you will share life with me
Dear Hotty, can you give me that
hope will you. if you can like me
well enough, send me one little line-
just your name n notmng more, or
'Yes' anything but 'No.' Forgive
this scrawling. It does- not express
half that I would say.
"Yours while I live,
Augustus Varley."
"And I thought he was in love with
me," said Rose, and in rage tore tho
paper iu atoms, "She shall never
hear of it, deoeitful little wretch I"
The next morning Hetty brought
over ber gloves. "And nave you
miue?" she asked.
Boat gave ber back the gloves, not
looking at her, and half expected to
hear the love-lottor asked for oext
but Hetty was ignorant of tho lottor,
ahd there the matter ended.
Gus, having no answer, took his re-
fusul bitterly and turnod his back on
the villago forovcr, grew cynical on
the subject of women, rofusod their
socioty and became addicted to cigars
and solitude.
Hose, jealous for a while, soon
found a now admirer and married
him. Hotty
alone remained un-
changed.
Five years passed b!x, nearly
seven. Uns became rich, lie uvea
iu luxury. The fact that he hated
women was his only drawback.
And so, going with her husband to
New York, Rose now Mrs. Muller
saw and heard of him. Sho was very
happy and sho knew that Hetty was
less blest than she. She wus not
really bad and her heart smote her.
Had she parted two true lovers I Then
he assured herself that Gus would
have followed up the thing hud he
really loved Hetty, and that Hetty
never oared for Gus. Aud so went
homo.
Her first guest was Hetty Romer.
Rose never meutionod Gus; but her
husband, blandly ignorant of all, burst
out with a full account of him forth'
with :
A fellow who left here without a
penny rolling iu gold living Iiko
what's hitnamein the Arabian Night',
you kuow aud as splendid a man as I
ever saw. Hates women, though.
Has a house full of men servants aud
a cook from Paris
And so rattled on, never heeding
Hetty's palo faco, though Rose saw it.
Soon Hetty, who had come for a visit,
escaped to her own room ; but Rose
followed. She found Hetty iu tears,
and took her iu her arms.
"Tell me all, ray dear," she said.
And Hotty mado confession.
"It is so foolish. I was only 17
then ; but but I loved him, and I
ucver havo forgotten him. That is
why I never could think of anyone
else, Rose. No ono knows it, not evou
mamma. But that talk about him
was too much for mo. I I thought
he liked me, Rose."
"So ho did," said Rose.
"No, else he would have told mo
so.
Just for ono moment Roso thought
of telling the truth. But caution over
came impulse.
"Strange things happen in this
world," sho said. "Who knows? You
are both young stilL Good-night,
lover
Then she went away not to sleep,
but to write.
Sir," sho wrote: "Years ago,
you made a proposition of murringo to
Iietty Romcr. Perhaps you would
like to know she never road tho note.
It wos destroyed by ono who blushes
to own tho act Shi) would havo
answered yes, had it ever reached her.
'A word to the wise is sufficient,' She
lives here still, and is uot euguged
She copied the noto in back-hand,
addressed it to Augustus Vurloy, and
the next morning she posted it Throe
days after, Gus camo down to tho vil
lage and went to sea Hotty. Whut
they said, we can ouly guess by tho
fact thut, at parting, ho kissed her,
He had spoken just once of the past
"You remember the night of my de
porture?"
"Yes." she said.
Did anyone huve your gloves that
night ?"
What an odd question I" she said.
"My gloves I Yes, Rosa Nurroway
wore thorn home by mistake,
Why ?"
No mutter why," he said. "Per
haps I'll tell you some time, and then
he kissed her aguiu ; his next call
was on Rose.
She wus alouo all but tho baby,
and that counted for nothing. Ho
came straight to the point
"You wrote to me," he said.
"II" she cried. "Dear, no.'
"You wore Hetty's gloves that
night."
Rose blushed.
"Have you told her?" she said.
"No, not yet"
She put her band on his arm.
"I've done you a good turn," sho
said, "uud don't do me a bad one.
I'm fond of Hetty, I don t want to
ouarrol with her, and it was so
mean."
"Tell me why you did it," he asked.
Just a moment she looked into his
eyes, then burst into a laugh.
"I needn't mind now, with my good,
handsome husband, and these chil
dren. I was jealous, Gus, and thought
the letter ought to have been addressed
to me. Come, you'll not mako mis -
chief between Hetty and me."
"Never."
And he kept bis promise, and, until
this day, Mrs. Augustus Vurley does
not guess why ber husband was so
serious about her old gloves. New
York News.
Capture of a Freak Fish.
The queer freak of the sea captured
by Italian fishermen near Goat Island
Oakland, Cat., which has been on ex-
hibitiou, has been purchased by the
Academy of Sciences aud shipped to
San Francisco,
J. II. W, Riloy, a stenographer in
the Superior Court, who is an ichthy-
ological expert, made an inspection of
the flih recently, then ho con
suited his books and antiouncod that
it was a fox-shark a creature vory
rare on the coast.
"I have mads a closo examination,"
said Mr. Riley, "aud I am certain
that tho deli is of that class known as
fox shark or thresher. I will give you
tho correct designation of it from my
authority: Fox Bhark, or thresher,
also called swingle-tail, sea fox, sea
ape. It ranges from Cape Cod to
Florida. Mitchell describes it as a
long-tailed shark, his specimen being
tairteon feel iu length. De Kay de
scribes it as the thrcshor shark, and
says: 'The specios has been noticed
on our coast from Nova Scotia to
New York. Storcr records it as the
same and puts the length at from 12
to 15 feet Wo have heard of one
being caught at Nuhaut which meas
ured 20 feet. It is frequently caught
in seines in Massachusetts Bay. The
tail of this species is fully oni-balf of
the total length.'
"I have no doubt," continued Mr.
Riley, "that it is a fox shark. It is
certainly a curiosity on this const,
and I have never hoard of another
being enplured. I am glad that tho
Academy of Sciences has secured it,
for tho reason that it wil be a valu
able curiosity. This one is not quito
as largo as those described, for it
measures only eleven foot. But then
Ibat is a pretty catch for a fisherman
iu tho Kay of Hiix Francisco. These
fox sharks are good fighters with their
tails, w hich is their only means of de
fence. They go into a school of small
fish aud switch their tails with great
rapidity aud force, killing and stun
ning many of their victims, and in
this manner they secure their food."
Portland Oregouiun.
Crowning Moment or a Ships Career.
A successful luiiueu of a largo ves
sel has been called the crowniug mo
ment of a ship builder's career. Somo
one has said also that a launch is the
most delicate part of tho shipbuilder's
work. It is very difficult to say what
is the most delicate part of ship build
ing, for tho simple reason that there
doesn't soem to bo any part of it that
isn't delicate. No more complex ma
chinery is mado than tho wonderful
marine cngino ; no more carefully da-
signed structuro oxibts than the sail of
of a modern steamship. A launch is
us much a mutter of mathomatics as
any part of the work of building a
ship, aud perhaps it is bcoause launches
are always inspiring that thoy havo
boon called tho crowning occasions of
ship building.
It is ouly siuco the United Statos
began to build u new navy that wo
have had launches of large vessels in
this country. W e havo built so many
fire warships that it was not unusually
difficult for us to build mcrchunt ves
sels of tho first grade, and we havo
just finished two ships next iu size to
the two largest ships that are afloat
in the world.
Building these ships was a great
achievement, however, and bonce the
coromony of putting them into the
water from dry land attraoted great
attention throughout the oountry,and
was attended in each case by thou-
sands of spectators.
They saw the picturesque side of
each of these events. They saw the
foum as the christening bottlo of wine
was broken upon tho bow. They
heard the cheers and shouts and helped
to mako them. They waved their hats
and handkerchiefs as tho ship began
to glide down into the wutor, and
each man almost hold his breath until
he saw her safe in the stream ac
knowledging the plaudits of the mul
titude by making a graceful bow.
Bicycle Put to Novel Use.
Bicycles have been put to a novel
use by Mr. F.A. Sirrene, the entomol
ogist of the Jamuioa, Long Island
Agricultural Station. Mr. Sirrene
rides a bicycle with a square reservoir
of concentrated insecticide strapped
to his handle bar and a knapsack
spraying machine on his shoulders.
He visits all parts of the island, giv
ing object lessous to the agriculturists
and horticulturists and imparting per-
sonal instruction to them in the prep
1 oration and use of the remedies whioh
he finds to
be eiUoieut Soieutiflo
American,
Skunk raising for the fur is a novel
business carried on or projeoted in
Milford, Wis. t Ithaoa, N. Y., and
Harrisonville, Ohio,
rOU FARM AXD GARDEX.
HONEY moM ALSIUB CLOVER,
Farmers should keep more bees
than they do, If thoy did Alsike
clover would be more sown. It has
the advantage of the common red
clover, that its honey is withiu roach
of tho common bee. It makes a light
honey quito as good as from the white
clover, and there is never any failure
to blossom, as there often is with
while clover in time of drought. By
cutting somo of tho nlsike before it
comes into blossom the timo when it
blooms may be protracted and thus
make the houey-produciug season
longer. Boston Cultivator.
Timxirs as a rooD.
vVhilo not very nutritious, the tur
nip is a very pleanaut chauga of food
for man and animal. It is also a hardy
root, and easily kept during tho win
ter. Scarcely any crop in tho South
is produced so quickly aud at so small
a cost.
It is very large in proportion to the
space occupied. Iudeod we know no
winter crop that yields moro satisfac
torily than this. Iu tho early spring
tho leaves furnish a very ploneaut va
riety of salad for tho tublo whon
nothing clso of tho kind can bo had.
We thoicforo suggest that if tho rains
come in season, our farmer friends
make a luto sowing of the vegetable
for early greens in the spring. But
wo would especially recommend that
the turnip roots now woll grown
should bo harvested aud banked like
potatoes for winter nso. This should
bo ouo after tho first heavy frost be
fore tho grouud has been hard frozen.
Atlauta Jonrual.
LAND FOB ONIONS
Tho black vegetable soil commonly
known as muck is tho best for this
vecotablo. It must, howovcr, be
thoroughly drained and well manured,
or which is hotter fertilized, which
has tho advantage of preventing woeds,
that nro tho worst nest of tho onion
grower, and very cosily to get rid of,
Absolutely clean ground is iudispcii'
sable to sucoess with onions. The
safest method is to plant tho sots or
small ouions of the provious year,
which are sold by the seedsmen. Or
they may bo growu by any ono by
sowing soods thickly, at tho ruto of
sixty to Boveuty pounds of sood per
aero in tho spring. By July tho tops
will dry, whon tho small onions are
gathered and dried, and kept dry tin
til tho full, when they may be planted,
whoro tho winter is mild, and will
mako largo onions by tho middlo of
tho next summer. Ton bushels of sols
will plant an acre, set in rows a foot
apart, and two inches apart in tho
rows. Or seed may be bowu in tho
spring aud the ouions gathered in the
full. Seven pounds of seed are re
quired to sow uu aero in rows a foot
apart. It is nooossary to koep tho
rows wholly froo from woods by ro
poated hand wooding. Now York
Times.
WINTER DAIRVtN'0).
There is but little doubt that tbe
eoming wintor will soe a good many
farmers abandoning dairying as a win
ter business on acoount of the high
price of many of tho eow feeds and
scarcity, but iu most of those in
stances we think a mistake will be
mado. A disadvantage is that cow
aro soiling cheap, evou for tho best,
and next spring thoy will be unusually
high, and tho dry oows wintered will
out and produce nothing to compen
sate for their food. When it comes
to a problem of exchungo, it is
doubtful if foed even nt proseut prices
can bo turnod iuto auvthing moro
profitable than 20-ooiit buttor, pro
vided ono has a warm baru and the
uoocssary arrangements to well care
for hiscows.so thero is not an unduo dc
uiuud upon tho food to protect tho cow
from the rigors of winter ; end this
waste makes the food bill high, wheu
tar paper and hemlock boards would
have accomplished the sumo purpose
and left the food extra to have
gone either to a more coouomieul
keeping of the cow or a greatur yield
of milk.
One of the reasons why the winter
dairy woll managed is profitable is
thut there is a daily compensation for
ouo's labor and outluy iu feed, as
there is a constant call for milk aud
butter iu the winter, and one is not
obliged to anticipate or run up bills
for tho future, as buttor and milk are
spot cash goods, and it is a quick ro
tation if the term may be used of
feed luto produce, aud as quickly
turned iuto money. Not the least of
the eoouomlua of tho wiuter dairy is
the fuot that, as now demonstrated,
the miloh oow will aotually do better
and produoe better on the more rough
toodi, like corn foddor, roota and tbe
like, with corn and eob meal com
blnod with somo oil meal and the like
than npon Quo and more costly market
hay, and this gives the farmer a
chunoe to turn these bulky, unsalable
feeds iuto the finest of foods for hu
manity, and more, glvos him employ
ment in tho wintor,' and in his inter
esting and profitable work he tin 3s
little timo to yearn for a seat in the
Legislature. The winter dairy has a
place in the farmer's farm work, and
thero should be little abandonment of
the Industry, for the man who so does
will soon regret his decision. Bettor
koep at it (Practical Farmer,
prevention or rust in wheat.
E- B. Mayo of V. Viosca, Coahuilo,
Mexico, in n recent lottor . compli
menting tho Sclcntiflo American,
wishes to know if there is any remedy
or preventive for rust in wheat The
prevention of rust aud smut of oats
aud has beeu made the basis of a
series of special investigations and ex
periments by a number of investiga
tors, whilo the Division of Vegetable
Pathology ia the Dopartinont of Agri
culture has particularly taken up the
subject of smuts in oats and wheat
In Farmer's Bulletin Number S of
that division, tho experiments of the
division, as woll as thoso mado at the
different state cxpcrlmont stations,
aro summarizod, tho different methods
having for object tho treatment of the
scud grain, siuco it has boon fouud
that infection takes placo when tho
'(!( 1 is corminutiiiR, from spores
which adhere to tho sood when this is '
planted.
The soaking of the need iu hot water
has had many advocates, but succoss
depends upon excoptioual caro and
the process is some whut complicated.
Potassium Biilphidu has also beeu nsed
with more or less suoooss, tho seed
being soaked for twouty-four hours
in a ono-half per cent solution of this
material ; but tho provontive which is
rooorauioudcd as superior to this is .'
tho troatmoat with copper sulphate.
This consists iu immersing the soed in
a solution made by dissolving a pound
of commercial copper sulphate in
twenty-four gallons of water for twelve
hours, aud then putting the seed for
live or tou minutes into lime water by
slaking a pouud of good lime in ten
gallons of wator.
Tho bullotin abovo roforred to con- .
eludes with the following statement:
"These treatments have all boon tried
aud havo proved uffootuuL In some
parts of tho country soed wheat is
treated in strong solutions of copper
sulpliato aud no limo is used. This
pructioo is much iuferior, siuco it in- .
jures tho seed, while those here pre
prevent tho smut coinplutoly and at
tho samo time do not iujuro the soed
if cirefully followed. Iu all forms of
seed treatment euro should bo taken
to spread tho grain out to dry at
uuce,aud by frequeut stirring provont
ils spoiling. The treatod soed should
bo handled ouly with clouu tools, and
should bo put iu sacks disinfuctod by
boiling fifteen minutes. If these pre
cautious are not taken, the soed may
bo infected again after treatment, es
pecially in caso of stinking smut iof
wheat. If tho seed is to be sown ,
broadcast, it will not have to be so
dry as if it is to be drillod Scientific
American.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Batten up the oracks.
Plug up tho knot holes.
Givo your fowls plenty of fresh
wutor. ,
Is tho roof of your hou house
leaky ?
Don't lot sick fowls run with your
woll ones.
Moro roosters aro hutched than pul-'
lots as a rule. I
A foot of roosting space for each
hen is about tho proper rule.
What's tho use of kooping all these
mongrel cockerels? Fatten them.
A warm mash at bed time is a nioo
thiug for your fowls those oold nights.
Bettor begin to look after the tur
key crop. You 11 soon have to oran
com iuto them.
Corn in somo form, as eusilago,
cured fodder, or stovor, is shown in
all the reported trials to be the cheap
est rough feed that can be grown tor
stock iu almost any seotion of tho
country.
When a hen is overfed she beoomea J
luzy aud sluggish, is subject to lndi- I
goution.booomcs too fat, and will lay I
bul fow eggs. Soft-shell eggs or '
double-yoke eggs iudicato that hens
aro overfed.
Keep the tools not in use under
shelter, out of the sunshine. Tbe hot '
sunshine is as damaging to the wood
work of farm implements and maohin
ery as rain. Keep the harrow and
eultivator teeth aa well as the plow
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