nim rtp is 4% BREEDING MONGOLIAN PHEASANTS, AND HOW IT 1S DONE, III HE The pheasant of the Mongolian kind ‘will in a few short years succeed the quail as the popular American game bird. The toothsome qualities to recommend it, but its besuty, in waving plomage of ravishing hues, and therefore will prove s prize that every sportsman will endeavor to secre when the ses son is onee open for its slanghter. It has unduly attracted the attention of our sporting gentlemen for many years in consequence of its successful in troduction on the Pacific Slope, and now many Eastern States are introduc. ing the Mongolian bird into their domaine. In Ohio alome over 200 birds were liberated this year, and in several Southern and Eastern States the bird has been introduced for breeding purposes. The rope bird has the cheeks naked and the bightest scarlet, minutely specked with black; the crown of the head bronze green; on each side of the cociput a taft of dark golden green feathers capable of being erected at easant has not only its forsaking sill others cleaves nuto her Hence, to breed these birds success fally it is eysential that a cock be pro vided for ench hen “The Mongohan pheasant is = prairie bird and is seldom fonnd in or shont the timber He likes the tall bushes, snoh us the wild rose and the buekbrash, After the young birds reach fall growth they do aot congra gate in large flocks, as do the prairie chickens, bnt are found alone, 1 pairs, or infsmall Rocks of five or ix They feed on grain, insects and green vegetables, snech as red clover, cab bage, ‘ete. These birds are grea! favorites with sportsmen. The mag: nificent plumage of the eock almost rivals that of the peafowl in beanty. bronze, with touches of black, Ha also has a slear white ring about the neck. The head and apper ball of the neck have a hinish green of change: able shade, similar to that of the iad lard dock. a A ABI 40 A, PA RL ig CHEASANT, ih a a, nh — pain A Ny ching PHrACANTIA pleasure, and very conspicuons in the | pairing season; upper part of the neck dark green, glossed with purple and violet blue; lower part of the neck. breast and flanks cleep reddish TRE, showing in some positions besntifa] reflections of light purple; each feath er bordered and terminated with pansy purple; center of the belly and thighs blackish brown; center of the back aud scapular feathers black or brownish black, sarrounded with a yellowish white band and bordered with deep reddish orange; lower part of the back and npper tail covert green, inter inged with brownish orange and purplish red; tuil feathers brown crossed by bands of black and fringed | with reddish brown; bill pale yellow! legs and toes grayish black. The female has cheeks covered with small closely sel feathers, and the whole of | the plamage yellowish brown, mingled with different shades of gray, brown sad black. In a recent article in Recreation, a sporting magazine, G. M. Miller, of | Eugene, Oregon, tells of the Mongolian | pheasant which vas introduced into that State abont twenty years ago from China and which has attracted the attention of hunters throughout the United States. Mr, Miller says of this interesting bird: “Jt was introduced into Oregon by Judge O. NX. Deming and has maiti- blied until, in the prairie sections of Western Oregon, it outnumbers any other game bird. The reason of the great increase probably lies in the fact that it hatches two broods, of sixteen to twenty, each season. When the chicks are about three weeks old the hen turns the family over to the care of the cock, she laying again. eock is not a Mormon, in any sense of the word. He selects one hen, and {The pheasant gives oul 8 stronger tweent than the bins grouse or the prairie chicken, and Lies better to tie idog. Dunag the Seyi GpEn ReRBan {tember let to Decomber 180, an hoarse | drive is smy direction from Engeno will | : bring one into the shooting grounds The law limits a shooter to twenty birds | 4 - 3 siten fesch day, but this nawmiber ia ¢ Killedd 15 a few hans Eo ooWith saitable inclosare apd a ron: sonable nmonut of patience these hives ican be snceessfally propagated any where if the climate be Got loo severe. | They cannot be tamed or domestica i tad, Pare as wild as when first taken, They are ‘game Brat, ast and all the fine “The flesh of the Mongolian phen ant is alinost as white as that ‘gamey Bavor. much appreciated by all lovers of wild weat Following are instructions, given by ia writer in the Ni propagsiing pheasants A box should first be constructed The runway, which is covered with | wire netiing. 1s detachable from the i box at the end, wherein the hen is set, Lavine § i 3 # i ¢ {and whore the hen and young buds {are protected from storm and ecid Both the rauway and the box ! placed on the ground. 3 £ | piece of sod abont the size of the box | ‘and in the centre cut oat a round’ | space about the size of a common ben's | | nest. | Very little dry leaves or chaff should : be placed in the bottom of the nest, | Disinfect the hen with insect pow- : der before placing ber upon the nest. | i The hen should be placed upon the (least two days before placing the i pheasant eggs under her. grass, ferns, wheat stnbbles and low! Afjer months of caplivity they of the domestic chicken and has a pronounged | Star, for | are To comstract a nest take a square This is done to test her staying qusiities, The agg should then be placed nnder { the hen at night time, after removing i the hens’ eggx. i Food and water should be placed in the rapway so the van subsist Cdnring inenbation | The egee shonld be exannned every | day, and for this purpose the lid or sonf of the box should be lifted while the Jen i« ont in the raopway, so that | pone hacome broken or soiled Should jany of the eggs become gonled from | broken eggs or otherwise, they should hen “be cleansed by taking a rag wet with tepid water and wiping them, bat do { not piace the eggs in water Ii takes from twenty-two to twenty Ean days for the aggs to hateh After the egpe have been ander the | tuey shonid be hen twenty days, J water twice sprinkled with lukewarm ia day. aid the young hizds to jeave the shell i birds from leaving, as they will surely | tugve the hen as soon as they are out {af thie shell nnless this precaution is headed Tha hen and vonng bLirds twenty four bonrs after hive mither food or drink At the end | young birds may be lot cat into the runway. Give he hen all the corp she will sat 14 will keep her from prating the fie f her young. § The food the young birds for tha frat wi should ba of custard, circa val nA SO coLIAN Proade of nul and eguz, and shionid be | given [resh at least five times a day. | Care should be taken pot to feed too fmeh at a lime. 80 as to lieep the coop clean, for if the place hecomes foul it will tend to breed disease, and the young birds may die from diarrhea. The food for the young birds {or secon! week should conaist of enstard and galk card. The custard tahould be given threa times a day ard, which asbonld be mized | with equal parts of greand hemp sod canary wend, should be given twice a» aay. A common coffee mall will an tiie purpose for grinding the tie and milke Wer 1 Some young lettuce and yonug onion tops, chopped fine, should be added to both the custard and railk curd The young birds should be given plenty of green food by placing lettuce ar young clover iu the ecops, An’ Ascient Toll Aboslished. Windsor bridge across the Thames | lias just been freed from its two-penny {toll throngh the greed of the corpora ties. This bad an andoubted right to collect tolls from preseription as they had been taken sinee the reign of { Henry VI. It asked Parhament in 1734, and again wn 1818, for power to charge additional tolls, and obtained | it for a lunited number of years. The privilege expired about ten years sage, lect the money till » litigious Briton refused to pay, thus bringing the mat. ter to the attestion of the courts, In Mexico City ‘first-class Ameri. | can butter, made by an expert,’ 1s ad- The | nest ‘with some common eggs for at vertised at fifty aud ffty six ceuts as pound, at wholesale aud retatl, re. spectively. ! i Mt sraer oo This is necessary in ord plain The runway and box should fit close | | ta the gronnd to prevent the young. should be kept closely in the box for they are’ hatehed, and should pot be allowed to His prevailing colors are gold and of twenty-four hours both ben and Cleletion that = made Cyarers look for but the corporation continned to col- | : ! Pel een He I ale, however now i * EHMIA DRva Night Fabes to Sleep In. To insure restfal slumber all night dresses should he softly trimmed, and, The | most reastfol and sensible gown ie a simply | | bonnets imparted by silk--and | above all things, nevar starched China or Inds silk, trimmed. For those who do not hke the sensation there are many such thers are com. binations of glk sad liaen and silk and i gi § Weg, Prevalonee of Plalds. found in plaids this year. A woman may oe pinid from head to foot if she will. taste, for a little plaid goes a long WAY be pretty or ugly according to the xe: Then there may with be a plard sik blouse » plaid ontside blonse A plard belt plaid link enff buttons, and the fant alay be meased in plad which are farther adorned with plad days past hut they might suit some people The girl with a family tree rooted in Seotiand is not as happy as she might he supposed to be with all this variety af plaid fow gentine tartans, beanly rather than Neoteh ancestors wu their goods, and while many of the Seoteh plaids are bheantifal thers are more which have public taste. New York Times, To Dress Well Ta dress aconrding to the seasons ix A simple matter and grasped by the averuge woman to dress correctly, secording wo the rilon of stress etigiintie, is in itaelif a fine arf and demands tact, observa. tn, good taste Jand ndgment, says Form : tisorat to the bonrgeain ie Cele mitntress of of, and hiss wan the enviabde reputation | if being the best dressed woman in Lhe waorid \ costly and charmang gown becomes offen desmmtds decakion taal simplioaty lewels, i themselves thiags of bean ty, often border on the valgar NEA Wan Gr straets are sometimes of shnles aid materials rach enangh | WERT Extravagant and iptansiad for the house, to plesss cur friends and ogee oanlor 10 oar bomen, leaving the gnieter abades in wool fon the street. Our grandmotbers ware sis atrict in thas regard that the saving | was an accepted fact that women whe gandily dressed on the itreet did so becansa they had ne wher ni afothen Pitasharg Divpateh a ippearsd piace fo show {her Champion For Arbitration in vien of the forward strides principle of iaternational arbitration 13 taking, a brief sketeh of cue of ts: Hangah J is of\special shief promoters, Mrs Bailey af Winthrop, Me interest at this time Mrs Batley was bora ia Cornwall on-Hudson, Joly 5, 1339, and came by inheritance to the arhutration idea, for David Jobnson, her father, was a minister in the Friends chore. was edncated in the public and a Quaker boarding house, 1 3 BIHAN and smbsegnently rosdened her mind by! Amer | ion, she tanght school for many yours, | European travel. Returning to apd in 186X married Mores Batley of Winthrop : in 1=%3 Xa business of which eonttive ability, Badey remarkable ox Upon her son afifain she displayed sires oly i. ng his MALY &e baft cha hnainess ; - yo Bia hands and dedicated herself 10} works of phuanthropy Pog ISMN gig was elected the department of peace and i ArANCe Ran, and uBder er dirsction | this department has Deen organized iu the anion, She of “Reminiscences of a [Life anid her pen CRU ReA ix states of iy aver the VAXIOUN b in hee beautiful home of ‘Sunoysiops and wer cottage sland vearby, Mra wavy tired Chnstian workers and iaierest er sum does all she can to sweeten their lives, | She {9 in every respect ane of Amer wa's remarkable women. — Chicago Record. Hats Preferred to Honueis. The seat, ladyhike. and always ap propriate French togne, bordered and t with fur, has appearsd on very many of the hand some chareh and street costumes worn this winter. This model searcel va bat and still less a bonnet bas besn tive choose {or seasous past of many fastuos able women, bn ‘ favorite with the Bonbets and other ob dechining which recent rimmed site with which Ta Liou & tha sul fasii wdiaste posmifaon aaatrned to them, and are w +3 A 5 Wort of all fpgat ths 1s the RI, on allots to thean, bat wm these days ul indepunden 8 even dsr antoeratio deorasa {endless own | eoming. 'ponnced French models that wonld She will not if she has good | A bonnet But she may have as hat trimmed | with plaid sik or velvet, and this may | Pealeahe nist a plead | sitirt. of thers 1s net & whole suit with | There are many pleads, but | The mannfune- | readily But | The Parisienne, fram the aris | if worn on an! Lainie i the morning | wYeniae coNtiy gowns are | -, £ ‘3 i tia She | After her husband's death | contianed has oxteloth mananfactarer an | worbl superintendent of | arbitra. | ¥ ‘ $ Ww 3 4 opt § rion of the Woman's Christan Temp. | sie has lage | f Coabhossseconties, on an | Bailey receives i Aas i ide shapes iy pe (Er paRyY £38 Oh. vale fash. are put aside, and as hats are so convenient, comforiable, and in many cases far more becoming than bonnets, it will not be surprising if, notwithetanding the pressnt trend toward “dress” toqnes, capotes and the coming season should find the picture hat and all the other models still holding their 1 ronnd hats are appalling in their general effect, but Many of the winter ns : the majority of the bonnets are grace: Phere are few things that canool be inl, comfortable, and, ax a rale, be- There are also some pro- not suit the general taste for example, of golden brown velvet, heavy of pile ike a silken fur, affects nathines of an old-fashioned in front. It comes well over the waves of hair, which are to he worn ala Merode with this particu. lar bonnet. At the sides the shape is i fhe i . ; #121 round and very short above the ears, ribbon with an snsmeled plod buckle, | oq, | golden hrown color, stockings, | shanageable flame and This bonnet is trimmed with a billowy mass of red, of a . ! brown, olive and golden-colored foath- echoes, hgh front and haek, something | of the style of the Juliette shoe of} The shoes are unlovely, | ers, effectively grouped, Women's Business Manners. Although all the pert young busi. ness women are not yet subdued, at . ins heen remarked in a duconsmion on | the place of women in commercial work that the average of feminine manners | in offices and various industrial call. fiugs bas of late years distinetly ime proved. One remson of this is probs. {iy that a better class of women now | think it po degradation to make their | aot mach to recommend them to the own living. In telephone work they | ave ‘bean a notable snecesa. Ther { superiority to men for telephone ex. | change operstion, particularly in the matters of patietiea and behavior, has been cordially attested by a teleplone subscriber in a letter to a New York | paper. The writer says that if he can help it hie never uses the lephone on Sunday. It takes too much out of i him, " While on weak days, when Farin are employed at the exchange, the tie wervies 1a sacoicd to none an sonntry for promptoess and courtesy, ‘on Sundays when young men are the aparators, the aibseriber jas Io awa! their pleasure even in the P hones, and besides often wanting meh connecting, algolost in geting a gubmt rasqne and sot seldom rude amploye withont wh $: $53 iis tha The teie manners of ! phone aff eials “iy bawavar, wrreing general conviction that the : lack of male il comparative in the vososs of the we apperatars has possibly as mineh to do {with the dissatisfaction of the public with the Nuanday service as the an- sonthness of their address They ad wit that the female voice lends self muneh more duickly to the intlaenes of coleans” and re * 3 4 aided the 5 | the telephone, which fines it When to this = | fac? that young wollen, as a clas< are : appish’’ as young men, the | preferance of the customers af the #X- {change for the former ad telephone Caperators is By way of showing that the pert gul does not always score, an hoglish paper tells of a vonpe man from London, who, i visting a northern city, wished to ist his friends know of his safe arrival He went ato a postofice and inguired if he conld send a telegram direct to London, and how long it wonld take. The vonage woman in attendance, who was rmelined tix he snobbish, ent short his inquiries with. “1 am not paid to answer silly questions.” Her face took ou a modified expression when she found herself compelisd 10 wire ‘Arrived safe I aot so ny deratond the following wessage CUairls bers aely and bad tempered, st Lome Globe Dremaserat, ictutes of Fashion, White-corded silk neckties Tie-ooilars of soft Liberty sui. Ombre shaded chinffon for waists, Leather articles of elephant » bide, } £3 L ta #hys wy % 3 Silk petticoats bined with tun wool. stringed glace taffeta for shart waists, Ma¥ers in ad, prt 8 green ana bine «of LRR LL pure shades to matel sts, Pearl umbrella handies se use i Artistic hat pans Lous stones Cushion covers aud fancy cotiouns Narrow plated ribbon by the vard for trimming Large, open medallions coutainiag four leaved clover. Ring ornaments for the Lao with two wings wu rout Black satin ribbon sashes edged with a pufling of black chiffon trirls’ velveteen coats in cviors with gaipare lace and fur Fancy coitfure Bows of satin ribbon, argreties and tiny ostrich fps & ’ ¥ 1 Fixe x11} yyw Varese, soft mutfs of cinnchilin far with harass oof Fluted pba a # 351 5X i Pow vey 32 ¢Y $3 wititer ohidiun adel WIlak Gade, white satin ribbon, shell plaitiags in biack and Brown veivet blouses triamoed with appliques of Rassian Ince and sable or gunk Mr. Evening capes of satin covered with narrow rites of black yver oihers of white lace, i action on the nervons § tient anal do not thrive 1 sonssiione eg os A —— POPULAR SCIENCE. A mechanical devica recentiy pat. ented pastes paper iabels on 100,000 tiny in ten hours, The city of Santa Fe, Now Mexico, i without rats. mics and oats, as the air is too rarafied for those animals, it ix astimated that greater quant: ties of gold and silver have heen sank ip the sea than are now in circulation in the whole world Ir. B. Rossmann, of Charlotten herg, Germany. hes secured a patent from: the Imperial Government covering a rast preventing paint composed of the peroxides of earths of the corinw gronyp The tauners, of Newark, N J. are said to get more money out of s hide thun anywhere else Three, and some times four, splits are made and fin hed, It ix estimeted thet $16 realized per hide and the yearly bum rieux done amonnts to $10,006 000 It has been calculated that the hab of the beard grows at the rate of oue and a half lines a week. This will give # length of 8: inches in the course cof a year. For a man eighty years of Age no less than twenty seven feet of bewrd must have fallen before the adge of the ragor Throngh the gift of Mre Charles Pratt, the Pratt Institute, of Brook lyn, N. Y., has come into posssssior of 100 examples of textiles, ranging over saveral canturies of European anc Oriental manufacture. The collection wa. purchased from Signor Salvador of Florence Italy, by whom it wae wollanted, amd, it 18 sad cannot be duplicated At Lynn, Mass, there is practical operation a new ootton gin which ix attracting much attention his 1% a roll gin, no revolving saw being used which ent the fibre, the cond being foreed ont by a scraping bide close to the roller. In a recent tris a long staple lint raw through this machine was declared to be worth 154 conta a ponnd against six cents pound when run throagh the old style gin. HOW in S—— oS ———— A a AAA, senweed and Amber, The man source of the amber sup- ply is the seacoast of the Baltic Ocean. It is a fossil gum, originally the ex ndution of a species of conifer now ex: tiset. This grew in laxariant profu sion linadrads of thousands of years aga on the marshy coasts of Northern Furope, when the climate was much wirmer than it is to-day. The natural history of amber is thas explained The immense forests of amber pine arderwent their nataral downfall and The resin of the woods ac spmuiated in large gnantities in bogs tiie for slowly deny and ponds, and no the sail of const and sinber wine had lantng, was at last But regions the pias contin amber wonld he washed down fo vik Where 41he wae anking, tlie sea by by soversd the land and the fanny graduaily hung iepponited at the ocean hotiom in the Ligh or aed} ta Ronni, and sa wai dhe shore and deposited in formed green sand, and the still Inter hHrown sanlapize to the later i $c tirriy of farmed airstam lignite or ad The Fm inte burial ander gronnd More than Ji) specimens of sstinot iife, animal snd vegetablas been found ine ed ded 1 amber specimens, eluding (EINE FRpLLIeN, plants, jen eB shells, whieh bad been caught in cain sud entombed there Lar all time Raine of these speciiiens ars so curiously beautiful as to be al: ane English col leotor has a cabinet of them which Ww» RHEE (HHL (ne place am balms a lizard about eight inches long, a little jeweled monster, perfect wits forms and ccloring, which bas do existing now. Ia- Many srienee 1 solely through medinig to steidy details of animal life which pe: shed from the maby hundred thonsamds of vears ag There are His i» empty en Leena foam 1gead by ite HAYS frag, ele, most nriesleis, and valued at anything ipnstanoees irk: 0" ie IN feed, inn Risa tis earth far fight, How sepricher doating ¥ 4 4 RICGWIHE IR RE Drioinii as i 8 f WET 4itve in Ide satanine ——— Fruit Cares, “Fruit . gow a fad in Coptinentas Earope with people hav nary disesses 8 hy 3 SI Ves iy real or mad wo means a new thog lu the tenth retary an investigator has discovered, nace on. writings over the ITRPES, while a certain Van Swisten ol 4 more gal eT many i edical antharitivs thusiastie in ther romarkable curative cuties of aondern date is sand to have recom. apended in special cases the eating of rwenty ponds of strawberries a day. he sawe gentleman also reporis A cane of phtinsis healed by struwber aan, and cites cases MADLY have regained their reason by the ex These the mrss. fons, lonbt that the sooalled grape cure for judigestion aud other evils, 18 carted on 10 many places on the Contineust, and that peo plo betake thewselves to Meran, Ve vay, Bingen, or to Italy and the Soath af Franes with the intention of de esting Mix weeks to the omre, during which tama they are expected to hare gradusily acoomplidied the fest of sonsuming from three to aght poun:ls f grapes daily, ax the case may be Lirapes are saul to exercise a salutary svatern, aml to formation of fat: that is to saw, when frat of good quality is em- alowed; if the grapes are not suffielens lv rips and are watery and sour the pa may rather than gma’ in weight, Thelvalnable results obtained wy a fruat diet in hillousness are due to the fact that DoXions germs aahitually preseat in the alimentary in fru nies y whe! Sierries as food SRV OT af drinive ase of iantaness rather s 4 mil there 8 DO favar the mane oxses of freberg's Age. Ioehergs sometimes fast 200 vears i before they entirely melt away. VOR A aa
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