Ninety-one per cent, "1 the larmers |
in Utah own their farms.
Encouraging reports continue to
come from the cotton manufacturers
of the Suuth.
The average time spent hy the
British House of Lords in tin* Nation s
work, according to a contemporary, is
fifteen minutes per day.
Australia is a country without or- ;
phans or an orphanage. Each waif |
is taken to a receiving house, where it I
is kepi until a country home is found ;
for it.
The new programme of public in- !
etruction adopted in France devotes
more time to the study of English and j
less to the study of German.
lu thirty-six State prisons in this i
country solitary confinement is used
as a punishment, and in twenty tin
prisoner is handcuffed to the wall. j
r
An English widower returns thanks
to a choir for their sweet singing at
his wife s funeral, "thereby enliven
ing and brightening up the dullness
and monotony which not unfrequeutly
characterizes a funeral service."
Russia has decided to spend a quar
ter of a billion in the improvement of
her navy. This is a pretty expensive
outlay in pursuance of a plan to keep
the peace: but the leading powers of
Europe are not stopping at expense.
England will have to meet these fig
ures, and France can be relied upon
to slide several big war ships into the
water. It looks to the Detroit Free
Press as though the test of modern
naval improvements was not far oft; i
and it may be followed by very mate- '
rial changes in the map of the eastern
continent.
Says the New York Observer: "The |
poor we have always with us—and the
lazy. To discriminate between them
is somewhat of a task. In some cases i
the wood-pile marks the division.
They go to the right or left according
to their disposition. Some of the
hungry go right to work, while by !
others the opportunity to labor, and
so earn a breakfast, is left severely
alone. If the newspapers are to be be
lieved, and we see no reason for doubt
ing their statements, then while in
Chicago the unemployed number tens
of thousands it is hard to get men to
labor at fifteen cents an hour on canal
work. When men were recently asked
for from Milwaukee by a Chicago busi- |
uess firm, the answer came that while !
there was plenty of steady work in the
Wisconsin woods for willing men at
fair wages, the men were not to be
had. There was work, and there were
workers enough, hut the men were shy
and refused to he introduced."
The New Vork Journal of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin, which keeps
a daily record of the fires in this
country, and is deservedly high an- 1
thorirv on all questions of insurance,
reports the total losses by fire in the
I liited States and Canada in the veai
1893 at slsfi,44s,B'ft>, against sl*l2,
704,70b in 1802. in but one month ol
1893 did the total of tin losses sink
below $10,000,000, and that was in
February, when the returns of the
Journal of Commerce place the figures
at $9,919,900. The same paper reports
233 fires in December of a greater de
struct!vines* than SIO,OOO each. It
says that the underwriters uttribub
much of the loss to careless installs
tion ol electric light and power I
plants. Under these circumstances it
ought to be the occasion of more than
insurance interest to learn that th
electric risk is being investigated by
experts who are gathering particulars
of all the fires traceable to electricity, j
Electricity is a good servant who will '
bear a lot of watching.
'IV Baltimore Sun's tribute to tin
South is worthy of reproduction
"Less complaint has been heard from
the South during the last eight or ten
months than from any other part oi
the country, but this is not because
the people of this section have not felt
the financial stringency, but because
they have learned to suffer and be
strong and silent, too. They are not j
given to making an outcry every time
they come to rough places in the road
of life. For a people who, prior to
1860, enjoyed an exceptionally lux- I
urious existence, the manner in which ;
they bore the poverty and privations j
that followed the war was ninn/iu"- in |
its calm strength and quiet endurance, !
and was fully as heroic as their hcariu"
during that conflict. The oraverv and
patience with which they hav< smcc
struggled to redeem their fortuner
have been no less admirable, and tli n
progress toward prosperity in, i„ ( ii
noted with heartfelt iutercG l\ th, ~ i
j fiends iu other sections."
ON THE ROAD TO DREAMTOWN,
Come here, my sleepy darling, and climb
upon my knee,
And lo ' nil in a moment, a trusted steed
'twill be
To bear you to that eouutry whore troubles
are forgot.
And we'll sot off for Dreamtowu,
Trot,
Trot.
Trot \
3 liften! Bells of Dreamland are ringing
soft and low!
SVhat a pleasant, pleasant country It is
through which we go ;
And little, nodding travelers uro seen in
every spot,
All riding off to Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
The lights begin to twinkle above us in tbe
sky.
The star-lamps that the angels are hanging
out on high.
To guide the drowsy travelers where danger
lurketh not,
As they rido off to Dreamtown
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
Snug in n wild-rose cradle the warm win*.
I rocks the bee;
The little birds are sleeping in every busi
and tree.
[ wonder what they dream of? They dream
1 As we ride by to Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot 1
• )ur journey's almost over. The sleep]
town's in sight
Wherein my drowsy darling mu9t tarry over
I night.
j How still it is, how peaceful, in this delight
ful spot.
As we ride into Dreamtown,
Trot.
Trot,
Trot !
—Eben E. Ilex ford, in Independent.
RESCUED AT EAST.
J)L' HELEN FO JUT EST GRAVES.
OR WARD, lace
IB ' counter!" shouted
gyyjH the floor-walker.
"Miss Gar rick,
what are you think
iug of ? Show these
ladies heliotrope
chiffon and be
quick about it!"
I sol a Garrick
hurried to her post,
with one hand
pressed to her fore
head. All day long
she had suffered
from a racking headache, but in this
promising dry goods firm headaches
were not "business," and no allow
ances were made for them.
"Why, mamma," whispered a tall,
red-cheeked young woman, in a seal
coat and a velvet toque, nodding with
jets, "it's Cousin Isola!"
"llusli—sh!" said the other lady,
who was stout and short, with a gold
eyeglass and big diamonds iu her ears.
"Wo are not supposed to recognize
her now. No"—to the young girl be
hind the counter— "this is not the
right shade. This is violet, and I in
quired for heliotrope. Some people
seem to be absolutely color blind!"
Jsohi looked wistfully at her aunt.
Surely- surely she could not intend
entirely to ignore her!
But Mrs. Pierson Garrick's gaze
was wholly mi recognizing.
" We have heliotrope also, '" stud she,
taking down another box.
But the tall youug lady tossed her
head impatiently.
"It isn't the right color at all!"
said she. "Come awav, mamma."
The floor-walker administered a sharp
rebuke to Miss Garrick, when the cus
tomers were gone.
"Really," he said, "it would seem
as if a sale might have been made."
Inula'* eyes brimmed over with tears
which it would have been "unbusi
nesslike' to shed. Six months ago
she had come, a timid, inexperienced
orphan to New York, and naturally
her first idea was to go to her father's
brother, Mr. Pierson Garrick.
That gentleman, however, was not
at home he generally contrived to be
out of the way when any embarrassing
circumstance occurred—and his wife
gave Isola to understand that it was
quite impossible to do anything for
her.
In the old Connecticut farmhouse a
generous hospitality had always pre- i
vailed, and the girl could hardly be- I
lieve that she was unwelcome to these
relatives.
"J dare say," said Mrs. Garrick, ab
sently, "you can get something to do,
'for satan finds some mischief still'—
Oh, no, that isn't the right quotation !
'Where there's a will, there's a way,'
was what 1 meant to say. But your
uncle isn't at home, and Cornelia is
just going out, and the house is full
of company."
I conbi wait n little while," haz
arde I Isola, glancing at an inviting
easv-chair.
"It would be of no use,'' sharply ut
ter'-.lt h iady. "We really can't un
deriarie to open a hotel for all our
country cousins.
Isola rose, with burning cheeks and
indignantly-sparkling eyes, and bade
her aunt good morning. Where to he- '
take herself she did not know, hut of
one tiling she was quite certain—she
would be no burden on these super
cilious people.
A kiudly country neighbor had a
daughter married and settled in a
c< nlect.ioner's shop on Third avenue,
ain I here she took refuge.
".Surely," she argued within her
self. "my good education must, stand
me in stead here!"
Put she WHS destined to be speedily
disenchanted, and alter various inter
•.ids ol sickening suspense, was finally
overjoyed to vttuure a situation in the
dry goods house where slio received
the smallest possible Halary for the
largest possible amount of work.
As it happened, Mr. Benjamin Gar- j
rick, of Rio Janeiro, was staying at
tko house on Lexington avenue, the I
one sole guest who represented the
"household of company," mentioned i
by Mrs. Garrick.
In his younger days Cousin Ben had i
been the black sheep of the family.
But the Pierson Garricks, who had <
been the loudest in his ceusuro while
lie was under a financial cloud, were
his most ilevoted adherents, now that. <
lie had come home the lucky possessor
of ruby mines, railway shares anil
thriving coffee plantations.
"You must do your very best, Cor
nelia, to make yourself agreeable to
him," said Mrs. Garrick to her tall
daughter. "Who knows how he may
decide to leave his money?"
"Oh, by-the-way I" said Cousin Ben,
the first day that he came home to
dinner. "1 met Barley in the Ex
change, and he was teiliug me that
Alfred was dead."
"Yes,"smiled Mrs. Garrick. "Some |
soup, Benjamin? It's lobster bisque,
and very nice. Oh, yes—we are all
mortal!"
1 "Well," quoth Ben, smiting the
table with his fist, "there isn't a soul
J that I've calculated more on seeing
when I came back than Alfred! No
• body but myself ever knew how good
Alfred was to me in the days when all
—yes, Louisa, you and Pierson, too—
turned their hack upon me. Ah, you
never know it, hut I went up into the
old garret ouo day, with a clothes line,
' to hang myself. There didn't, seem to
he anything else to do. And Alfred
" came after me—it was when that little
baby of theirs was so ill of croup, and
- he was looking for herbs to make herb
tea —and I tell you he talked to me as
no one else had ever done. And he
took his last five hundred dollars out
of the bank and packed me off to South
America with it. Oh, I sent hack the
money long ago! But what could pay
for the kind words and the helping j
hand—eh? Poor Alfred! So he's
dead? And that pretty little wife of
his—and the child? She grew up,
didn't she? What has become of her?
I mean to go out to Elmville to-mor
row and see after the child. They
culled her some strange Spanish name
—lsidora or Isola. Alfred's wife was
always fanciful."
Mr. Pierson Garrick swallowed his
i soup silently. Mrs. Garrick and her
daughter exchanged glances behind the
• tea urn.
How lucky it was that, they had sent
1 their eouutry cousin away ! For the
■ Garricks were money worshipers, and j
; the idea of diverting one cent of Ben's
I fortune from their own coffers was j
i terrible to them.
s Benjamin Garrick went to Elmville
the next. day. but to no purpose.
The old house was closed, padlocked,
and drifted knee high with frozen
1 January snows, and 110 one could tell
i him what had become of the solitary
child with the strange Spanish name.
And no one sympathized more deep
[ ly with him in his disappointment.
than Cornelia Garrick!
s Isola had heard her father speak of j
the wayward cousin who had drifted |
i off into the auriferous South, but that
I was all. Of his return she knewnoth- j
| ing, or she might have felt more hope-
I ful that evening when the floor-walker |
I notified her in an incidental way that, I
as it was necessary to cut down their
I expenses after the holidays, they had
j decided to dispense with her services
| thereafter.
j Poor Isola! Did the floor-walker
■ know that she ha l but twenty-live
| cents in her pocket ? that she was in
I debt to the confectioner's wife? that
; in all the great, dreary city she knew
not whither to turn?
The man made some little careless
jest as he counted out their week's sal
ary, minus sundry fines, to her and
the five other victims who were on the
discharge list.
They looked blankly at each other,
but went quietly away. What else was
there to do?
"1 must go to Mrs. Pierson Garrick ;
now," said Isola, "even though she
stared me full in the face and never
(dioseto recognize me to-day. She is
at least a woman, and she has a daugh
ter of my own age."
The next day she paid her small
stock of money to the confectioner's
wife for the board bill—it was little
enough, and the poor woman had sore
need of it —and walked through the |
deep snow to the handsome house on j
Lexington avenue.
As she stood hesitating at the foot
of the steps, a stout, elderly gentle- i
| man, dressed in a tall silk hat and a ,
IUT -trimmed overcoat, came down I
! them.
He glanced casually at her, but slio !
i had turned away her face. It seemed |
, as it everybody must know that she !
I was a beggar, and the shame of it— I
ob, the shame of it
| "Pretty girl," said Cousin Ben to I
himself "Hangs down her head too
much, though."
"He has a kind face, thought Tsola. 1 ,
"I wish Uncle Pierson was like him." 1
I And then she timidly ascended tlir-
J slippery steps and rang the hell.
J Mrs. Pierson Garrick was adding up
j her housekeeping accounts in a pretty i
little room opening from her husband's j
library. Between the two apartments
hung a portiere of richly-colored Ital j
ian silk.
She looked up indignantly as the !
| parlor maid ushered in the unwelcome I
| visitant. Fair Cornelia raised her
j eyes from the novel she was reading.
1 "Well. I declare 1" cried she. "And
| what is it that brings you here, Isola?
Did not mamma tell you that you musl
depend on yourself?"
"I never saw such assurance in my ,
life ! said Mrs. Pierson Garrick, grow- j
ing very red.
■ Isola looked pileously from one to '
1 the other. J
"I Imve tried lo depend uu myself." I
said she, "and I have failed. Please
don't look so cruelly at me. All I ask
is a little money to take me back to
Elmville. I can get housework to do
there, or X can work in the factory.
But oh, this cruel city is killing me 1"
She burst into tears; but Mrs. Pier
son Garrick did not relent one whit.
"This is all nonsense, Isola," said
she. "I have already told you that
we can do nothing for you. Why
don't you go to the intelligence bu
reaus or the employment agencies?
Mr. Pierson and myself have all we
can do without providing for all our
penniless relations. And 1 beg you
will go away at once. This is dear
Cornelia's at home day, and I can't
have her nervous system upset. I—"
"Hello! what's all this?" spoke a
deep voice, and Cousin Ben appeared
from between the rich Roman por
tieres. "Who is this girl? Notlsola,
I Alfred Pierson's daughter? By Jove!
j I believe she has her father's very
eyes ! And what are you bullying her
! for, Louisa ? Turning her out of your
house? Then, as sure as the world,
j I'll go, too. Come here and kiss me,
Isola. I've held you on my knee many
I a time when you were a baby. I'm
I your Cousin Ben, and your father was
the best friend I ever had in the world.
| And I've looked for you—l've hunted
i high and low, and these people have
allowed me to believe you were dead.
Yes, Louisa," in answer to Mrs. Gar
| rick's pleading glance, "I did go out,
but I returned after a paper I had left
behind me in Pierson's study, and so
' I heard it all. I couldn't believe that
a woman could have been so false ami
I cruel. Little Isola, will you come to
jme and be my adopted daughter? I
I owe more than that to your father's
child."
I And Isola ran, sobbing, into his
arms.
| That was the last of all the dark
I days she had endured. Nothing was
, too good thenceforward for Cousin
| Ben's adopted child.
| But Mr. Pierson Garrick shrugged
j his shoulders. Ho was one who al
-1 ways laid the hlume of things on other
shoulders.
"You have out managed yourself,
Louisa," said he.—Saturday Night.
Poisoned Arrows,
Poisoned arrows have been in uso
since time out of memory. We have
it on tho authority of both tttrabo ami
Aristotle that the ancient Gauls poi
soned both their arrows and the shafts
of their spears with a preparation ol
vegetable poison extracted from what
iH now believed to have been a species
of helleboro. The Scythians went n
i step further and used tho venom of
, serpents intermixed with the virus of
I putrid blood, the latter being one of
the most active and incurable of the
poisons known even to-day.
I The natives of Japan, the Ainos,
' prepare their arrow poisons from a se
cretion of the bamboo, and the same
may be said of the Aborigines of Bor
! neo, Java and New Guinea,
j In Central and South America tho
"Woorara" poison was the terror of
the early explorers, as well as of the
modern scientific expeditions. Analyses
of several specimens of arrows rubbed
with this poison prove it to be a mix
ture of rattlesnake venom, putrid
| blood and juice from the plant or tree j
which produces the strychnine of
I commerce.
Among the North American Indians
| the Sioux, the Apaches, Co ma no lies,
the Bannocks, the Shoahonca and the
Blackfeet were the chief tribes which
used poisoned war implements. The
Sioux obtained their supply of venom
and virus by forcing large rattlesnakes
to strike their fangs repeatedly into
the liver or kidney of a deer or buf
falo, and then allowing the meat to
putrefy. When a war party went out,
one of their number was made bearer
of this putrid, venom-soaked mass,
and whenever a battle was imminent
each brave would take turns at jab
bing his arrows into the poison.
Among the other tribes mentioned, al
though the process of obtaining the
poison supply was not always imlen
tical with the above, the general mo
dus operandi ami results were very
similar.—St. Louis Republic.
Much Like a Man.
The Kulu Kamba is more like a hu
man being, according to Professor
Carner, than any other animal. The
! principal difference between the phys
ical organization of a human being
and a gorilla, according to the same
authority, is that the spine of the
gorilla is not so regularly jointed as
that of a man, some of the joints hav
ing seemingly gone into partnership.
The difference, or to put it more finely
the distinction, between the chimpan
zee and the Kulu Kamba is still a mat
ter of conjecture, Professor Garner
savs, RS he does not possess a skeleton
of the Kulu Kamba. Skeletons of
gorillas and chimpanzees are tlie same
to him as a varied collection of pipes
are to some men, and he expects to be
just, as well supplied with the inani
mate remains of Kulu Kambas some
day. Having been in Africa on scien
tific exploration bent, he naturally in
teudsto go again. The African fever
seldom leaves a man upon whom it has
once taken a grip.—Pall Mall Budget.
Remarkable Little Magnets.
A maguet which the great Sir Isaac
Newton wore as a set in his tinger ring
is said to have been capable of raising
7RJ grains, or about 250 times its own
weight of three grains, and to have
been much admired in consequence of
its phenomenal power. One which
formerly belonged to Sir John Leslie,
and which is now in the Royal So
ciety s collection at Edinburgh, has
still great powers. 't weighs but lit
tle more 1 ban New ion's curiosity—
even grains- yet it is capable o3
supporting ir,r,o grains, and r. there]
fore, the strongest, magnet ofits size
in the world. St. Louis Republic),
CARROT GlilTß.
An English gardener reports that, he
effectually destroyed the carrot grub,
after it had become so abundant as to
cause the tops of carrots to wilt, by
watering them with a liquid made by
putting a bushel of lime and a bushel
of soot into 100 gallons of water. This i
was well stirred up and allowed to
stand over night, then the next morn
ing the clear water was used freely in
the common rose-nozzled water-pot.
—New York World.
WASTE OF GOOD FODDER.
An enormous quantity of corn fodder
is grown each year, but not one-third
of its feeding value is procured.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of
stalks arc allowed to stand iu the
fields until December or January until
the grain is husked, and then the
cattle are turned in the field to get
what they can. Usually they find
only blades whipped off by the wind
and blown away, aud the stalks bent
and the upper part—the best portion
—ruined, and even the husks weather
beaten so as to be of little value.
Such feed as remains is of poor quality.
The greater part of it is rotting on
the ground. There is hardly a better
or cheaper stock feed than corn fodder,
yet most farmers treat it as though it
had little or no vulue.- Farmer's Guide.
NOTES ON WHEAT.
From field experiments carried on
at the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, Purdue University, Indiana, re
ported in Bulletin 15, extending over
ten 3*ears, it appears that none of the
varieties of wheat tried have any ten
dency to deteriorate or "run out," pro
vided proper care is exercised. No
wheat proved to be "rust-proof," but
early wheats were generally less in
jured by rust than later kinds. Eight
pecks of seed per acre guvo the best
returns at the station, the average
yield for nine years being 30.35 bushels
per acre. The best results came from
sowings made not later than Septem
ber 20. The value of crop rotation in
maintaining yields of graiu lias been
strongly emphasized, for a compari
son of rotating crops with constant
grain cropping for seven years showed
au average gain of 5.7 bushels per
acre in favor of the former. Another
important result obtained was that
wheat may bo harvested at any time
from the dough stage to the deud-ripe
condition, without appreciably affect
ing the weight or yield of the grain.
A comparison of the forms of nitrogen
as fertilizers for wheat indicated that
sulphate of ammonia is better than
nitrate of soda or dried blood.
SOME ADVICE TO DRIVERS.
A driver gave his horse six quarts of
oats about two hours earlier than lie
was usually fed. Tho harness was
being put on while the horse was feed- I
ing. The driver managed to get his '
breakfast in the meantime. Shortly
everything was in readiness and the I
horse was started on a long drive. The
driver urged the animal with the whip. I
At the end of thirty miles the horse '
began to ignore that instrument. He
went slower and slower; finally befell j
dead. Post-mortem examination '
revealed the fact that the oats had not |
been digested. The lining of the
stomach gave evidence of having been
in a high state of irritation. It was i
plain that tho horse's previous ac- 1
cumulation of nerve power had been I
largely exhausted in defending the
terrible irritation set up by the sharp
points of tho undigested oats. Had the |
horse been permitted to stand, or lie
down for an hour after feeding he
would have prepared not only a re
serve of material to sustain himself, j
but tho iraount of nourishing material
accumulated would have helped him to I
endure his exhaustive journey. Time
is required for the digestion'of food
before beginning a long muscular |
strain. It must also seem clear that ;
when the effort at hard labor ends,
time should be given for rest before
taking food. —Rider and Driver.
REQUISITES FOR A HORSE STABLE.
A horse stable should have thorough
drainage first, then a solid, non-ab
sorbent floor; next, the stalls should
be roomy, and the feeding troughs
should be made so that food cannot be
wasted. The best floor is one made of
cement concrete, of one part of cement,
two of saud, and live of coarse gravel,
laid three inches thick, and when well
dried and hard, saturated with hot gas
tar. This makes the floor water and
vermin proof, and very durable, with
sufficient elasticity to prevent injury
to the feet of the animals. The stalls !
should be six feet wide, the floor slop- !
iug one inch to a shallow gutter in the
rear, from which the liquid mass may
flow away iuto a drain. The feeding ;
trough should have a deep grain box
if grain is fed, or if cut feed is used,
the whole trough may be the full '
length of the width of the stall. A few '
bars fastened across the top of the I
feed box will be useful to prevent the '
horse from throwing out the feed, as j
some will do. If long lmy is fed, this '
should bo given iu a rack above the I
feed trough, but mi account of the
great waste in feeding Jong hay and '
whole grain, Ili > hay should be cut j
and the grain, finely ground, be mixed !
with it. Ibis avoids the loss by waste j
which is often one-half of the food' '
It is desirable to have a drain from
the stable to a manure pit at a dis- '
Uuee. where the liquid may be ub '
sorbed by the coarse litter. The
width of a horse stable should be not
less than twelve feet, to afford space to
move about in easily.. The loose
boxes, made nine feet sqnare, are the
most desirable for safety and con
venience, and these may open into a
passage five feet wide. A feeding pas
sage should be made in front of the
stalls.
FARM FENCES.
The growing scarcity of timber in
some parts of the country, and its en
tire absence in others, make the fence
question a more serious one year by
year. Only in the newly settled
heavy-timbered land do we now see
rails split for fences. Wire in some
form is almost universally used for
this purpose. The woven wire fenc
ing which is made in various widths
answers every purpose of a fence, but
it is too expensive for general use.
Wire and picket fencing does very
well, but it is liable to be broken by
unruly animals, and once a rent is
started it is soon of little use to turn
stock. Barbed wire, which composed
the original wire fences of the West,
is cruel, and many a horse has been
ruined by being caught on the sharp,
knife-like points.
There is away of making a wire
fence, however, that is free from the
objections that have been brought
against, the others. Plain, smooth
galvanized wire, No. 10 or No. 12, may
| be stretched tightly, and fastened to
wooden posts, with a single six-inch
board at the top. Instead of the board
a common "two by four" spiked to the
posts maybe used. From five to seven
wires are needed, according to what it
is desired to fence against. The lat
ter number put four inches apart near
the ground, and farther apart toward
1 the top of the post will keep hogs,
cattle, sheep or horses within the in
closure. The railing or board at the
I top is often used on barbed wire fences,
as the animals can see it more plainly
I than they can the wire alone, and
there is less danger of their running
against it. Wire fences of any kind
should be thoroughly braced and very
tightly stretched, or they will soon
! sag and get out of shape.—New York
Tribune.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Strain the milk before the cream be-
I gins to rise.
Medium sized hogs now bring the
| largest prices.
I The milk is largely affected by the
I physical condition of the cow.
It requires about twenty-live pounds
of milk to make a pound of butter.
There is a scarcity of boet sugar
seed in Europe owing to the drought.
The number of sheep killed by dogs
every year is said to exceed 700,000.
To make dairying a success, a dairy
man must be a worker and a business
man.
Experienced butter makers say that
too much washing Hpoils the flavor of
butter.
The great food crops of the world
are wheat, corn, oats, rye, rice and
potatoes.
There is a good mnrket for trotters
now, but oidy at prices consistent with
the facts in the case.
Colts in training, if well cared for,
grow better and keep in better health
than when running at large.
It is established that a horse whose
individuality is strong enough to
create a family type will also fix the
color with great uniformity.
First-class fancy animals, suitable
for driving and carriage horses, sound
and well broken, are reported as
scarce and bring good prices.
Prices running well into the thou
sands are no longer given for road
horses unless the speed and other quali
ties are of an exceptional character.
Many trotting horses, owing either
to natural defects of temperament, to
bad training or to imperfect prepara
tion, are exceedidgly difficult to con
trol.
The winter in the time to build the
| intended silo, as it can be done with
1 less interference in other work. Have
the silo ready and complete for a orop
lof corn next season. A silo soon pays
for itself.
Sloppy food is not advisable as a
continued diet for pigs. Uive a change
J occasionally. The hogs are very par
, tial to whole corn, fed dry, and will
eat it from the trough, either shelled
or on the cob.
Currant and gooseberry cuttings
should be about five or six inches long,
and planted two-thirds their length in
open ground. They will root more
quickly if cut a week or two before
using and packed in damp moss. It
;s well to keep them partially shaded.
The Sharpleßß strawberry has been
tested over a large part of the coun
| try and does well in almost every lo
j cality, but in spite of its excellent
, record it sometimes fails. The Jessie
is a fine berry when it succeeds, but it
should be tested well before planting
extensively.
! Turnips are easily kept by pitting,
lif not put in too thick. Make the pits
j long and about three and a half feet
j high. Cover with straw and about
' six inches of earth. Ventilators should
Ibe placed about every ten feet. The
pit is best made in a sheltered place,
where the snow will not be blown off.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,
TheEnglieh language contains forty
one distinct sounds.
When oxygen is in a liquid state it
is strongly attracted by a powerful
electro magnet.
The beef extract factories in South
America make one pound of extract
from thirty-four pounds of meat.
A cubic foot of new fallen snow
weighs five and one-half pounds on the
average, and has twelve times the bulk
of an equal weight of water.
It is strange, though true, that in
Asia and Africa, where grass will not
grow, the most beautiful flowers and
shrubs flourish to perfection. j
Tn filing band saws, tie A string
where you begin to file, and then you
can toll when you get around, and
therefore all the teeth will be sharp,
and you will not file any of them twice.
Dr. O. Y. Thayer, of San Francisco,
has successfully used the solar cautery
—-burning glass—-in removing facial
discolorations of the skin of large area,
also in removing tattoo or India ink
marks.
At the two large abattoirs of Lyons,
France, the guards protect the ani
mals to be slaughtered from seeing
anything eonuected with the slaught
ering of other animals; a terror is
found to have an injurious effect upon
the secretions and flesh of dumb
creatures.
Refined crystalized sugar, whether
made from the beet or the sugar cane,
is almost chemically pure and sac
charose, and is the same substance in
both cases. Few Articles of food are
so generally free from adulteration as
granulated—not powdered or coffee
crushed—sugar.
The rate of mortality of London is
shown by a recent report to have
steadily decreased with the introduc
tion and perfection of adequate means
of disposing of the sewage of the city.
At the end of the eighteenth century
the annual average mortality was esti
mated at fifty per 1000, and in 1892 it
had dropped to 10.1 per 1000.
In South America among the moun
tains the evergreen oak begins to ap
pear at about 5500 feet, and is found
up to the limit of the continuous
forest, which is about 10,000 feet. The
valuable ciuchona tree, from which
Peruvian bark is obtained, haH a range
of elevation on the mountain slopes
running from 4900 to 9500 feet.
In the process of extracting gold
from its ores molten lead is used in
stead of mercury. The lead is melted
on a shallow hearth and the powdered
ore is fed at one end and carried for
ward as a film over the surface of the
' lead by means of an agitator moving
j over it. It is thus brought to the
| other end, where it escapes through a
; hopper. In order to prevent oxida
| tion of the lead the chamber ia kept
filled with carbonic oxide from a gas
! producer.
A Man With Three Legs.
Of late years \ have lost all trace of
; my old and oddly malformed friend,
I George Leppert, whom I tirst met at
Tiffin, Ohio, in 1881. George was a
: Bavarian by birth, and came to this
i country twelve years ago, settling at
I Baltimore, where he followed the trade
of a wood-carver. Should you happen
|to meet him on the street you would
j notice nothing peculiar either in his
gait or general makeup, unless it was
that the right leg of his trousers was
something near twice the size of the
left, and too full to wrinkle besides.
This lopsided appearauce was caused
by a remarkable malformation, Mr.
Leppert being the not over proud pos
sessor of two right legs and one left;
or, iu other words, of three perfectly
formed lower limbs. I often remarked
that should nature, through some of
her odd freaks, choose to increase my
normal supply of legs by tifty per
cent. I would do my best to play the
slop-a-week fiddle iu a dime museum
before the setting of the sun on the
day following the addition of the ex
tra member to my anatomy.
He often told me that when he was
a small boy in his Bavarian home he
had perfect use of all three of his legs,
but when I saw him last- in 1887—the
extra member was slightly paralyzed,
probably the result of being bound to
its companion, an operation that was
necessary in order to get both into
one trousers leg. When I last heard
from him, in 1891, he was at the Belle
vue (N. Y.) Hospital, undergoing
treatment for rheumatism.—St. Louis
Republic.
The First Iron Bridge.
The first iron bridge ever erected
in the world, and which is in constant
use at the present time, spans a little
river to the County of Salop, on the
railroad leading from Shrewsbury to
Worcester, England. It was built in
the year 1778, is exactly ninety-six
feet in length ; total amount of iron*
used in construction, 378 tons.
Stephenson, the great engineer, in
writing concerning it, said: "When
we consider the fact that the casting
of iron was at that time in its infancy,
we are convinced that unblushing
audacity alone could conceive and
carry into execution such an under
taking. "—St. Louis Republic.
Effects of Electricity on Lunatics.
It is said that when the electric cur
rent was turned on the circuits at
Long View Insane Asylum, at Cincin
nati, Ohio, for the first time, the in
sane patients were much affected.
They tossed their hands about, tell
into each other's embrace, danced with
glee and displayed an exaltation such
as irrational animals sometimes do
when stirred by emotional music. Im-*
provemeut in many of the patients
lias been noted, due, it is believed, to)
the buoyant effect, on the system of ting
surprise. —New York Telegram,