Tlio latent project of Hie Danish
government In to introduce no income
tax of 1 1-4 per font, it year, thoso
having less tlmn 7011 clowns of in1
come being free.
Onln form one of tliu principal Bel
gian crops, with it n average iiiitntiil
value of about 000,000. Yet
quantities nre imported from the,
United Htulcs, Canada, llussi.1 nud
southeastern V. n rope.
Train robbing appears to lmve be
come n permanent anil pronpprous in
dustry in the Transvaal, the lust ven
ture in that directum having nctteil
tho perpertrutors upward of t0, 000.
Thus, even in fnr-nwny Month Africn,
the w ilit western method of tnonev
getting u making steady progress.
The price of rice lint risen ho high
in various parts of China tlnit the
natives me growing to like corn meal.
There is n ehnnce for American corn
in the Orient on the score of cheap
ness which the Middle West emi profit
ly when the Nicaragua vaunt is Imilt.
It will then bo possible to ship corn
from there to China through u (inlf
port at a price, which w ill compete
w ith rice at average market rates ami
afford onr farmers a steady und fairly
uniform revenue.
Bays the Hartford Post: Now York
has expended 85,01)0,000 for a speed
way for fast horses, and now it is
prepared to spend $80,000 for a speed
way for bicycles. Plans have been
drawn for such a speedway along the
road connecting the Bronx and Pel
bam parks. 'Wheelmen number fiOO,.
000 in New Y'ork, or one-fifth of the
the entire population. Carriage riders
number about ouo per cent, of the
population. . The w heelmen should
have their speedway.
There seems to be no question
about prosperity in Chicago. Accord
ing to the Inter-Ocean, tho number
of people in tho poorhouso is less by
300 than it was a yo.ir a so. Tho num
ber of applications for outdoor relief
in November w ns the lowest on record
for many years. The estimates of
the conuty agent for tho poor fund
are 810,001) less for 1S0H ttiau in 1807.
Xo public, appeal is likely to be made
by tho A-soeiated Charities. These
facts go to show, as tho Titter-Ocean
nays, that theve has been a general re
vival of work.
Money is tho truo king, exclaims
the Philadelphia Kceord. The smart
scheme of the German Kaiser to sell
the Sultan of Turkey guns and build
him w ar ships to be paid for out of
the Greek indemnity thus enabling
the porta to build up its independ
ence of European control on the basis
of late victories in war and diplomacy
has l)cen nipped in the bud by Bus
sin and .Austria. lluHsiit has de
manded payment of tho war debt of
1878, and Austria has put in a claim
for indemnification for later indebted
ness which tho Bultnu has beeu
forced to comply with. Thus Ger
many loses fat contracts and diplo
matic prestige, and the Tilt hs flndhuir
legs tied by debt.
The reported extension for. fifty
years of the concession to the Casino
company at Monto Carlo is a matter
of considerable interest to the world
at large. "It means," explains the
New York Mail and Express, "the
farther enrichment of stockholders al
ready inordinately wealthy through
the profit of the gaming table. But
it also means which is of more im
portance the impoverishment of men
and women born to luxury, the
squandering of millions not the prop
erty of the men who squander them,
broken hearts galore, and incidentally
the self-murder of a goodly number of
fools made desperate by ill luck. It's
great place, this Monte Carlo. Tho
devil is extremely fond of it." ,
Apropos of a stateuieut touching the
' manner in which this country has per
formed its duty towards Spain in the
matter of preventing filibustering, we
have made iuquiry for the exact de
tails from the navy department, states
Harper's Weekly. The government
baa maintained patrol fleet on the
coast of Florida for the lust two years,
consisting of the following vessels:
Raleigh, Ciucinnati,Atupbitrite,Maiuel
Montgomery, Newark, Dolphiu, Mar
blehead, Vesuvius, Wilmington,
Helena, Nashville, Annapolis, and De
troit. Most of the time three vessels,
have been on duty, and the cost of the
service has laaged from $10,000 to
100,000 a mouth. The best witnesses
to the effectiveness of this patrol ser.
vioe are the filibusters themselves.
If Spanish troops and warships had
been as efficient against the insurgouU
M onr navy has been againg filibus
ters, the insurrection would have been
ooaquerad long ago.
WHAT SKINS AKEWOUTII
ACTIVE DEMAND FOR THE PELTS OF
FUR-BEARING ANIMALS.
A Shin !' Through Man Manila -lllllll-a
r the "f-nllrrlnr" Tim llliM-k
Kin's IV It Vetches hh Mttrli as SVIIMI -Tin
ViiIiip nf Various Other Miln.
A phase of the fur business that
dealers say promises w ell for the trade
is the nctive market for skins. There's
a lot of dill'eronce between fur mid
skins. To the uninitiated it seems
moro of a difference of terms. Gen
erally speaking, one could describe
the skin side of tho fur business as
the wholesale end and the fur side ns
tho retail end. Btrietly speaking,
that would not be true, of course.
Most of the houses in New York
that sell furs do buy skins, as a rule,
from the trappers or from tho "ship
pers," who deal with the trappers.
Several of the liest known houses in
tlm trade go to London for most nil of
their skins even for American skins.
Their reason for this, one of their
representatives told a Press reporter
the other day, is that, as London is
the clearing house of the world for
furs, the pick of skins caught every
where go to London for fancy prices.
With tho world's supply at their
command the London skin merchants
eon supply a thonsnnd skins, or per
haps ten thousand skins, of any grade
or any shade, of any animal whose fin
is brought to market.
Prom the time thnt the animal is
caught or shot until its skill appears
on the person of a grand dumn it
passes through many hands. The
trapper and hunter do not ns a rule
ship their products. Most of them
prefer to sell to the "collector," an
individual who pnys cash and makes a
business of traveling through the sec
tions where wild animals abound,
picking up all sorts of quantities, from
a half dozen skins to a thousand or
even more. He ships direct to the
commission merchant, who is his
ngeut nud w ho may be doing business
either iu New York, Boston or Lou
don. '
When the skins reach New Y'ork
they are sorted for color nud size and
sold to the manufacturer iu lots ns
wanted. Most skins come hero dried,
but some, such as racoons and beaver,
come with tho fat on. These either
have to bo disposed of soon or dried.
The treatment of the skins to make
them rendy for the manufacturer is a
business by itself. '
Tho most valuable skin that comes
into the market "raw'' is the black
fox. The quotation on this skill this
fall ranges from $200 down to 1.
Y'et some black fox skins have been
known to bring as much as $100.
There is a big drop in prices in other
kinds of fox skins. Those next to tho
black ones fetch from 80 nil the way
down to 20 cents. The 88 and 81 kind
are found in Canada and Labrador.
The New Y'ork state and New England
fox skins bring from 81.30 to 81.85.
Marten, mink, inuskrat and skunk
are the best sellers. Marten from
Quebec and Labrador fetch 810, 88,
84 down to 82.50. New York ami
Canada skins run all the way from
83.50 to 81.40. Iu the latter class
size determines the price more than
color.
Mink is variously quoted irom 82.20
for Halifax, Labrador and Nova
Heotia skins to 25o. and 30c. for the
inferior qualities caught in New York.
For prime mink in Now York and
New England of ehdiee colors the
prices are 81.85 and $1.75.
There seems to be a big demand for
skunks. The black ones fetch the
best prices ;theu come the half-striped.
The quotations are $1 and 90c. for the
black oues, and 05c. and 60c. to 12c.
The 12c, ones are the common white
fellows that most of ns fear on a dark
night in the country.
Racoons, many of which are caught
in this section, fetch from 75c. down
to 25o. and 30c. A trapper must catch
a good many muskrat to earn a living,
for the best of these skins, although
there always is a deiuaud for them,
fetch only COc. and 21c. For the
smaller ones only from Co. to Co., and
even less, is paid.
When you recall that for the smallest
good fur scarf one has to pay from $5
to 815 it makes you think that there
must be an enormous profit some
where, or else the process of niuking
the skins ready for wear muBt be ter
ribly expensive.
. Bear, beaver and otter come chiefly
from Canada and the Provinces. A
fine, large, dark otter skin is easily
worth 89 to 810. Even the seooud
and third best fetch from $7.50 and
83-50. Beaver, while not much iu de
mand of late years, sells readily at
from $3.50 to 85 for the best and from
$3 to $1 for the other grades.
Bear skins have been more active
than usual this year, and one manu
facturer accounts for it by the num
ber of men who are fitting out for the
Klondike. Fine black bear skins
fetch $20 and $22; medium are quoted
at 812 to $14.-
Fisher are pretty good things to
trap, for prime skins fetch $9 and $10,
while other grades sell for them 86.C0
down to $4.
flarmoa Army's Colored Bandmaster.
Babao el Cher is the only colored
bandmaster in the German army. He
is at the head of the musio corps of
the Royal Prussian regiment of gren
adiers, King Frederick III (No. 1 EaBt
Prussiau), which garrisons Koenigs
berg, Prussia. Baboo el Cher is aaid
to be remarkably handsome. His
father was born in lower Egypt.
Priuoe Albrecht cf Prussia found him
at the court of the kedive and brought
him to Berlin. Ha married German
woman. Babao el Cher played the
violin when he was eight years old
and received an excellent musical edu
cation. The band is in great de
mand, Chicago Chronicle,
BREAD TH WORLD OVER.
Tal linn forms nflhn HtnlTiif Mr In Ml
feri'iit Counlrlrs ofthn f-lnrth.
"It Is a enrious nml ftiterestfnp
study," says the superintendent of the
baking department in a certain in
dustrial school, "to compare the vari
ous materials w Inch serve the different
nations of the world ns the basis ol
tlutr bread, in this country,' where
good bread, made from spring and all
wheat Hour, is w ithin the reach of nil.
Barely a thought is given to the fact
that, after all, the inhabitants of only
a small portion of tho earth's surface
enjoy such a food,
"In the remoter parts of Bwedcn
the poor people make nud bake theii
rye bread twice a year, nud store the
loaves away so thnt eventually they
nre as hard as bricks. Further north
still bread is made from barley and
oats. In Lapland, oats, with the in
ner bark of the pine, are used. The
tw'o, together, w-ell ground and mixed,
are made into large flat rakes, cooked
in a pan over the fire. In drenry
Kamchatka, piuo or birch bark by it
self, well macerated, pounded and
baked,- frequently constitutes the
whole oi the native bread food. lite
Icelander scrapes the Iceland moss'
off the rocks and grinds it into fine
flour, which serves both for bread anil
puddings. In some parts of (Siberia,
China, and other rnstorn countries n
fairly palatablo bread is made from
buckw heat. In parts of Italy chest
nuts are cooked, ground into meal and
used for making bread. Durre,
variety of the millet, is much used in
the countries of India, Egypt, Arabia,
nud Asia Minor for making bread.
Itiee bread is the staple food of the
Chinese, Japanese, and a Inrge portiou
of the inhabitants of India. In Persia
the bread is made from rice flour and
milk; it is called 'Law-ash.'
"The Persian oven is built iu the
ground, about the size of a barrel.
The sides are smooth mason work.
The tire is built nt the bottom and
kept burning until the wall or sides of
tho oven nro thoroughly boated.
Enough dough to form a sheet about
a foot wide nud about two feet long is
thrown on the bench nud rolled until
about ns thin ns sole leather, then it
is taken up and tossed and rolled from
one arm to the other and flung on a
board and slapped oil the sido of tho
oven. It takes only a few moments
to bake, nud when baked it is spreud
out to cool. This bread is cheap (one
cent a sheet); it is sweet and nourish
ing. A specimen of the 'hungry bread'
from Armenia is made of clover seed
flux or linseed meal, mixed v, ith edible
grass. In the Molucca islands tho
starchy pith of the sago palm furnishes
ii white floury meul. This is made up'
into flat, oblong loaves, which are
baked iu curious little ovens, each
oven being divided into oblong cells to
receive the loaves. Bread is also
made of roots iu some parts of Africa
nud Bouth America. It is mndo from
manioc tubers. These roots nro a
deadly poison if eaten in the raw state,
but make a good food if properly pre
pared. To prepare it for bread, the
roots are soaked for several days in
water, thus washing out the poison;
the fibers are picked out, dried and
ground into flour. This is mixed with
milk if obtainable, if not, water is
used, Tho dough is formed into little
round loaves, and bnkod iu hot ashes
or dried iu tho sun." Good House
keeping. - A Motinluln (Tlmhlnu; 'ut.
The Dent du Midi in the Vnlnis
possesses a strange specimen of the
feline. This is a cat which bus lately
joined the Alpiue club, and whose
mountaiueering exploits are a theme
for the sparse columns of Bwiss news
papers. The cut of the mountains
came upon the scene suddenly, and
no one knows from where. It had
already reached mouths of discretion
when it took up its habitation and
profession in the mountain hospice,
and it is now to be seen most duys ut
the foot of tho Pent du Midi, not fat
from Balnnfe. Here this remarkable
tabby comes to meet the mountain
eers on their start, and follows them
iu their ascent like a dog only dogs
do not as a rule show any fancy for
the high Alps. It accompanies them
to the very summit, and shares the
climbers' frugal fare. Indeed, it is
supposed to be for the sakes of the
broken fragments that the Alpiue cat
makes its ascent.
Times have been bad for man and
boast in the ponring rains which have
very much dampened the autumn joy
of the Bwiss tourist in the Valais.
Perhaps even the cats find it hard to
make an honest living, but surely to
make a daily ascent of 3185 metres for
the sake of a scanty lunch is to take
life too seriously. Or Ih it that in lordly
contempt of the runiue race the ani
mal means one day to emulate the
faithful hound of Bt. Bernard' The
cat it has been said, has never been
able to forget that onoe it was wor
shipped in ancient Egypt. Here is a
feline which means to equal the no
blest traditions of a glorious past.
Something Now In Barbara,
The traveling barber is something
new iu the way of mnkiug a living.
Equipped with full set of tools and
all the necessary material, he goes
from door to door soliciting "shaves"
and hair-cuts. Not only does he at
tend to the wants of men, but ladies
also receive careful attention at the
hands of this wandering tonsorial art
ist. He has the custom of some bf
the best families, aud sometimes
apeuds an entire day at one house, be
ginning by cutting the hair of the
smallest tot and ending his day's work
by dressing my ludy'H hair.
One of these professional "lock
changers" ia also an expert linguist,
having mastered French, German,
Italian, Bpanisb, and, of course, Eng
lish, He has his own ideas about
style and always wears a white suit
and cap,
AI5M
('Hi-enrtlm (Ini-ilen.
If the garden is thoroughly nndor
ilrnined, ns it always ought to be, it
should bo full plowed iu ridges nud
tho surface left rough, so ns to expose
the soil ns much as possible to
freezing. This is the more necessary
because the garden is always a shel
tered spot, w here snow lies much of
tho winter.sn thnt there are few times
when the soil freezes very deeply,
Tho garden is always the richest spot
on tho farm. It often is what the
Beotch furmers cnll "much midden"
or heavy with manure. It needs the
winter's freezing to lighten the soil
and make its fertility available.
I.nto drown Turnlis
There is no crop grown so easily
and with so little cost as lnte-growii
turnips iu n field of well-cultivated
corn. The shndo of the corn will keep
the turnips from growing much until
tho corn is rut. Possibly also their
growth will be cheeked by the demand
of the corn roots for plant food. But
in the Indian summer thnt follows the
first frost the turnips will make
rapid growth, ns they will then have
all the land for their own use. The
turnip will endure n pretty heavy
frost, nud grow again if warm weather
follows it. Hut in our climate turnips
cannot bo left iu tho ground all win
ter as they are in England. American
Cultivator.
I'lierry Trrea Htiuitllng III flriins.
Our experience with cherry trees is
that they do not require cultivation.
Those w e had in the garden wero al
ways more liable to rot nml to be nf
fected by insects than the trees that
stood in dry places nml surrounded by
grass. It may be that it is tho extra
moisture in thn cultivated soil that
predisposes cherries to rot, or it may
lie tho manure annually applied to tho
garden and to which the cherry tree
roots helped themselves freely. The
cherry tree does not do well with wet
feet. Ou high, dry land its roots will
run deeply enough to find all the
moisture it needs, and ou such land iu
grass is the best to plan cherries for
profitable fruiting.
YnluooMfng Manure.
Hog manure is popularly supposed
so be very rich, partly because hogs
are always fed on grain or other very
concentrated food, nud also because
they ure so neat that they always de
posit thoir excrement by itself un
mixed with bedding, as .will nnimals
thnt nro genernlly supposed to be
much more cleanly thnu the hog. Y'et
hog mauuro is generally slow to beat,
though after fermeutatiou has once
beguu it progresses very rapidly.
One reason why mauuro from the hog
is richer thnu from other animals is
beeuuso the hog uses more of the car
bon iu his food to turn into fat, and
less of tho phosphate and nitrogen to
change into bono and lean meat. No
domestio auiuinl when fattened has so
large a proportion of bone as compared
with its total weight as has the hog.
Apple I'ntllneo Feed.
There is considerable nutriment in
poniuco ns it comes from the mill.
Btock will eat it quite rendily if fed
before it begins to ferment. This,
however, it doos very soon if exposed
to the air. Consequently it is best to
place the pomace in air-tight burrels
or hogsheads, so ns to keep air from
it, and cover the pomnce with some
thing thnt will hold dow n the carbonic
acid gns aud prevent its escape as it
forms. This is really ensilaging it.
The pomace itself has not nutritive
value to mnke this worth while. Its
chief value is its succuleuey, and it
should bo fed with grain, hay or meal,
so as to give the proper proportion of
nutrition. When put up iu air-tight
barrels und kept slightly below freez
ing temperutnro there will be no more
fermentation in the pomace than thero
is iu tho silo, aud it can bo used till
lute in tho winter.
Ityo Aftur Turnips.
Turnips are the latest crop to be
harvested, and as they continue to
grow alter light frosts, there is uot
much chance to put iu a later crop
after them. Of course nothing can
be grown and mature the same season
after turnips are oft'. But winter rye
will boar to be sown very Into if the
laud is ouly rich enough. We have
knowu rye to be sown lute in Novem
ber and barely peep above the surface
the same year. But it grew a little
more during the January thaw,' aud
the next year made as good a crop, and
us early also, as rye sown two mouths
earlier, which made a growth that
covered the ground in the full. Iu
each cuse all the spring growth had to
be made from the root. Where thnt
is established the richness of the soil
has more to do iu making full-sown
grain ripen early thnu does its growth
tho preceding full.
I.lnsvoil v. t'utlon-RWod Meal,
While fully grown nnimals with
strong digestive orguns ran eat cotton-seed
meal properly diluted with
tiaw or hay without serious injury,
v
it is doubtful whether it is advisable
to mako this part of their ration. Liu
seed meal can bo purchased nt about
the same price ns cotton-seed meal,
and has equal nutritivn value. The
new process meal is the kind geuor
ally used. It is not so fattening ns
tho old process meal, because more of
its oil has been expressed. Flaxseed
whole is a very rich feed, and if boilod
so ns to swelUt out nil that hot water
ran do it may be given to cnttle.shoep
or horses with safety. Only a very
little should be given at a time, ns the
oil in it makes it very laxative, nud n
small amount dally is better than
more. There is nothing better for an
animal's hair than a little flaxseed
daily. It will insure the shiny coat
which iu either cow or horse is always
a sign of thrift. American Cultivator.
llnnkltiK Knrlh Arnnml Trees.
As it is often done, the banking of
soil around trees in fall to prevent
mice from barking them does more
harm than good. If any sod, w eeds
or other rubbish nro included in bank
ing up the tree, the object is not only
defeated, but the liability to injury is
increased. The purpose should be to
oblige the mice to climb up above the
snow line and expose themsolves to
their enemies while gnawing the tree.
This they will rnrely do, for much of
this work is done at night wheu their
natural enemy, the owl is most watch
ful. But if the mice find vncaut spaces
around the tree, as they surely can if
sod or rubbish are used, thoy ran
work tinder this protection with
grenter safety than if the tree were
not banked at nil. Btill it is better to
bank young apple trees, at least as
high ns the snow line usually conies.
The warmth from the tree makes a
vacant space in the snow all around
it, nud it is under this protection thnt
most of the destructive work is done.
Warning to Dnlrymen.
The Country Gentleman, under the
bending, "Boware of Auiliuo Butter
Color," publishes a column of affida
vits to prove that n little child about
two years old got hold of a bottle of
one of the fashionables makes of but
ter color, got some of it in its mouth,
nud iu a few hours died from plain
symptoms of poisoning. Later ft
healthy grown cat was made to swal
low ii spoonful of the coloring matter,
and was a dead cat in twenty-four
hours, w ith all the signs of poisoning.
The Country Gentleman says this
brand of coloring matter was con
demned by the Pennsylvania experi
ment station, but does not name it.
I suppose the best one can do under
the circumstances, says a writer iu
Home and Farm, is to require a writ
ten statement from the maker that
there is uo uniline iu the article of
fered for sale. There are some brands
free from this objectionable article,
aud the makers should make haste to
lot the but termakers know who they
are. Would it really make much dif
ference to the makers of 11 uo butter if
coloring matter was forbidden by law?
I think it would be a good thing. It
ia a horrid stuff at best.
Ilrhornril C.'nttlo Nell llrttcr.
A circular issued by a cnttlo com
mission company that is in no way
supposed to be prejudiced on the sub
ject beyond making more money for
both buyer and seller says: "Dehorned
cnttle sell better than horned cuttle
for all purposes. They are preferred
by shippers, feeders and packers.
They look better, feed better, sell
hotter, kill out hotter. The man who
feeds horned cattle is handicapped
from 10 to 25 cents per hundred
weight in most cases."
This is all iu relation to beef cattle,
and wheu we come to consider the
dairy the man who cultivates horns is
still further on the wrong side of the
fence. Why a herd of cows should be
ever and eternally ou the move, each
cow trying to get behind the other
oow to get awuy from those ever pres
ent spikes on a cow's head, surpasses
human comprehension, wheu an hour's
work would take them off and give
each cow in the herd a lifetime of rest.
That is oue objection to handling
thoroughbred Jerseys; the fashion
requires horns ou their heads, but I
have seen quite a number of dehorned
Jersey cows of late, to say nothing of
lots of bulls. Home aud Farm.
Tho Church Bell.
The church bell is another one of the
relics of barbarism with which civili
zation could readily dispense. Biuce
the general introduction of olocks aud
watches) tho bell has really lost its
significance. Certainly it can be
classed among the "needless noises."
In the days of Paulus of Nola, in the
A. 1. 400, when the custom first had
its origin, the ringing of bells may
have been necessary to call people to
places of worship and this was the
sole purpose of the first church bell
but iu this present year, so near the
beginning of the tweutieth century,
there is surely no noed of such an
alarm as is sometimes sounded from
the iron throat of the average church
bell to summon people well supplied
with timepieces to their chosen place
of worship. American Medical Month-
A Dublin lawyer, writing of an es
tate he has just bought, said : "There
is a chapel upou it, iu which my wife
and I wish to be buried if God spares
our lives."
THE "NEGATIVE" EAR.
Strange Inslillllr of Some Proilo to I'n
tlorntiiml Human Lnngnngft.
Mrs. Lounsbnry of Chicago, who
for ten years has been training pupils
of a deaf-mute asvluin, has decided to
devote herself to the education of the
"negative" ear. While nt the asylum
she discovered thnt one of her pupils,
could hear, but could not appreciate
the different shn les of tone. Hhe
studied and experimented, with tho
result that she found children classed
is deaf-mutes who wero afflicted only
with n sort of "color blindness of the
ear," that prevented them from dis
tinguishing the different tones of the
sounds they heard. Bhe called tide
affliction "the negative car." Says
the Chicago Tribune:
In n California institution for deaf
mutes Mrs. Lounsbnry discovered nine
children possessed of the "negative"
ear. They could hear as well as any
5iie, hear even a whisper, but they
acre utterly unable to discern shades
.if tone, and so could not understand
language.
in an eastern school she once fun ml
l young woman who had spent almost
her whole life in the institution, ahnd
learned the sign language and lip
rending, and yet could hear perfectly.
Had this fact been discovered early
in life, six months' or a year's twin
ing would have fitted her to enter tlm
public schools nud obtain an education
with other children ;but she had never
made a sound, and her parents thitnght
her deaf and mute.
Among the pupils afflicted in this
way now receiving instruction in
ipeeeli there nre two particularly in
teresting cases. One is that of a
nnsll boy of twelve years, whose psr
?nts thought him an idiot, and whose
language is so twisted and filled with
lubstitutioiis of incorrect sounds that
so one who has not made a study of
ais attempts can understand what he
lays.
Yet he is bright, nctive and talka
tive, and thinks he can talk a com
mon delusion among persons so
troubled. He has been studying now
nly tw o weeks, but already his speech
Is becoming better, and one or two
words spoken in every sentence are
.-ICItl lJf tqiOKCU.
Tho other caso is that of a young
man, who had grown to manhood
q enking a language wholly unintelli
gible to others, but without finding
ut what was tho matter with him. Iu
i month he has learned to tulk fairly
(veil, and in a few months more will
bo in n position to enter upon activo
business life.
Tho method of curing the "nega
livo" ear is no less stia-ige than the
'rouble itself. It is, of course, im
possible to tench the child through
words spoken by others, or it would
lave learned in the natural manner.
Instead, the process is reversed. The
;hild is taught to speak correctly by
instructing it in the positions of the
uouth and tongue, and the words
ipokett nre mnde to teach the ear.
Tho child s own tongue cultivates its
:ar. No other tongue can do it.
DISLIKE RESTRAINT.
Mrlnl-Cnttlng llrf-tles und How The.v
Work -A YnrAtnn rroflitrllon,
F. W. Devoe presented nn interest
ing subject for the considorat tn of
the Now York Microscopical society.
As a result of long study of bet-tie
linbits ho brought before the society
qmciinens of the metal-cutting beetles
nid of their wonderful work.
The first metal-cutting beetle which
Mr. Devoe became possessed of was
one sent to him from Yucatan. He
inclosed the specimen in a cardboard
box. The next morning thn be, Hie
was found enjoying his ease about the
room, und a hole in tho side of the
box showed the manner of his exit.
He was then placed iu a glass jar with
s black walnut cover. That he cut
through tho next night. He was re
placed iu thejur,andn metaleover, per
forated with a few oirboles.was placed
over it. The bottle did not begin
work on this cover for abont a week,
but at the end of that time, witltin tho
space of forty-eight hours, be had cut
an opening between two of the holes
large enough to get part of his body
through. With more time he would
have enlarged the opening sufficiently
to admit of his escape.
Mr. Devoe has had several speci
mens of the metal-cutting beetle
since. They measure in length from
four and a half to five centimeters, ntul
iu breadth from one and a half to two
centimeters. Their backs are covered
with little knobs, in lines, and their
sides with yellowish scales. Their
aut-snnie have from nine to eleven
joints. They nre very slow, deliber
ate walkers, aud are chiefly active i
the darkness.
Mr. Devoe had several specimen
ou exhibition, with samples of their
cutting powers. He also exhibited
plutes representing in magnified form
the beetle's dissected head - and jaws
and the jar covers which had been
cut. New York Tribune.
' A Mortgaged Cat.
There are very few articles that can
not be mortgaged, but wheu the clerks
iu the county clerk's office recently
took a chattel mortgage to file, and,
looking over the list of articles, they
found a cat, they were perfeotly duni
fouuded. They say they have seen
many a strange thing ntortgagod, but
uever before saw a cat. The mort
gage was given by Charles Arnold to
J. Claus, aud it ia hard to aay what
would be done if the cat ran away.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
liittuvneo of li's oo Our Volros.
Bays Dr. H. L. Hastings, iu The
Journal of Medicine and Bcieuce:
"Women go with their necks bare, aud
men keep theirs swathed and baud
aged; aud ten womeu have sweet
voices to oue man. A man's voice
should be as pure as a woman's. Why
is it not? He is choked aud shaved."