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According to Mojor-General Tul
loch, oi Victoria, New South Wales,de
pends for its defense on ten obsoleto
torpedo boats.
Tho San Fraucisco Chronicle re
marks: "Tho Actors' Protective
Union, of 80-ton, has under consider
ation a plan for securing lor tho
D 0,033 actors of tho country an
amendment to tho National election
laws v hereby they will bo allowed to
voto iu the place where their profes
sion may call them on Election Day.
At present they aro unable to vote ox
copt at their own homes. Tho qucs
tioti is a plain and simple ouo. It in
volves only ar> amendment or two to
tho Constitution of the United States,
two or three aci3 of Congress, tho
joint action of tho Legislature of more
than forty Stales, and a completo re
versal of tho doctrine of suffrago
which has obtained since tho republic
began. With these trifling obstacles
removed thero could bo nothing in
the way of the desire of the Actors'
Protective Union, of Boston."
Tho sjiaee given iu the annual mes
sages of tho Governors of various
States to tile question of good roads is
indicative to tho New York Tribuno
of tho growing popular interest in a
question of largo importance in all
parts of tho country. It cannot bo
eaid that legislation his kept paco
with tho demand for improved roads,
and even whero laws have been en
acted they have nob always accom
plished the end in view. In this State,
for example, through tho infinenco of
Governor Flower a law was passed two
cz three years ago which it was be
lieved would stimulato a number of
counties to engngo in road construc
tion cn approved principles. But this
result has not followed. Not a single
county, wo believe, has taken advan
tage of the provisions of that law. It
is plain, therefore,that additional leg
islation is demanded if Now York is to
do its duty in providing good reads.
Says tho New York News: "There'
is a good deal of activity, particularly
in tho New England States, among
those who desire tho further restric
tions of immigration, and it is not at
all unlikely that Congress will bo
asked to amend tho present law. Tho
facts eet forth in a circular just sent
out from Boston in justification of
tho movement are that last year, uu
der the present law, fourteen per
cent, of tho immigrants who came to
this country could not read their own
language, while nineteen per cent,
of them could not write,
and that while tho foreign
born population is not quite fifteen
per cent, of tho total it furnishes one
third of all the insane and nearly one
half tho paupers. It is also urged
that the immigrants now coming aro
from countries whoso people are not
good material for tho making of
American citizens, nearly one-third
of tho males over twenty-one years
old already hero not having been
naturalized, and about the same pro
portion not speaking our language.
These are grave facts and well worth
considering. Thero is no doubt that
many of those who land on those
shores ought to be kept out, but it is
extremely difficult to draw tho lino
between thoso that arc desirable and
those that are not. It will not do to
require that an immigrant shall havo
so much money before he is per
mitted to come, for tho poor but in
dustrious aro far more valuable
acquisitions than tho indolent who
may havo a few dollars. A racial dis
tinction might bo made botweon im
migrants from Europe, es wo havo al
ready provided in the case of tha
Chinese, but it would be difficult, if
not quite impossible, to mete out
absolute justice in that way. While
the vast majority of tho arrivals from
a certain Gountry may bo extremely
bad material, there is sure to bo a
minority who should be made wel
come,"
TLL!S POLICE OF THE NAVY.
DUTIES OF THE MARINES ON WAR
SHIPS.
They Aro ITcarllly D!.s!ikc:l by Jack
Tar—A Lazy, Listless Life—The
I'ay and the Togs.
"V" \ 7*HEN anyone speaks of a
\/\ I marine in these times tho
\ Y hearer, if ho is a landlub
ber, immediately thinks
that a marine and a sailor aro pretty
much the same thing. But if tho laud
lubber does not want to got into seri
ous trouble ho had better not address
one of tho llat-cappcd, blue-jacketed
sailors that he sees ashore as a marine.
For if there is anything in tho world
that the true sailor hates more tbau
work it is a marine.
There aro several reasons for this
dislike, and not least among them is
the fact that tho marine wears soldier
clothes, and on shipboard ho is noth
iug more nor less than a policoman,
who will report Jack's every infringe
ment of the rules. Jack does not like
rules much better than he likos tho
marine, aud so tho good sailor breaks
tho rules and fights the marine when
ever ho gets a good chauco.
Another thing that adds to tho sail
or's hatred of the mariuo is that,
though tho sea-going soldier will re
port a sailor nfc every opportunity, he
will not report a brother marine whon
there is any possible way to avoid it.
For anyone looking for a life almost
devoid of work tho marine corps is
tho place for him, but a mariuo has
many troubles that are even worse
than tho sailor's work.
It is a very easy matter to got in
the mariuo corps, as there aro recruit
ing stations all over tho country, aud
any man over twenty-one and un
der thirty years of age, who is in good
physical condition and of fairly good
character may bo enlisted.
After tho ceremony known as sign
ing the articles has been gone through
tho marine is taken to tho barracks
and receives an outfit from tho slop
chest. This outfit consists of a fatigue
aud a dress parade suit—four flannel
shirts, two suits of underwear and a
pair of shoes, if needed. Aud then
the new mariuo must got iuto his
"Government togs" and go out among
his comrades to show them that lie
has for §l3 o month and §l2O worth
of clothes annually agreed to servo
bis country for threo years.
The marine during his term of cn
listraeut has two years at sea aud one
year in barracks, aud ou bis enlist
ment ho begins with six mouths of
his barrack life aud does tho other six
mouths after he has been two years at
Eca.
In barracks the sea soldier is placed
in the awkward squad, aud there he
spends soiuo timo learning tho myster
ies of "faclug," "dressing," and start
ing off with tho left foot. Next comes
a period of single rifle drill, aud then
tho mariuo is assigned to his company
and regiment.
His life then is simply a round of
meals, drills and guard mounts, and
just as ho is beginning to think ho
knows pretty near all about soldier
ing, ho receives orders to prepare to
go on board somo man-of-war, and his
seafaring hfo begins.
Ono day to prepare his bag for in
spection, and then with his enlistment
record in his hand, his knapsack on
bis back, and in company with some
eight or twenty men, as now in tho
service as himself, lio marches to his
lloatiug homo and lakes up his quar
ters.
At night tho marine guard is called
aft by tho officer in charge, and the
men rcceivo their instructions. They
are told to report all breaches of dis
cipline aud regulations and also how
often they aro to go on sentry duty
(about six hours oat of every twenty
four) aud then they march back to
their quarters aud think of what an
easy time they aro going to have ou
shipboard.
Tho hammock is something of a
puzzler to the new marine, aud it will
be quite au hour after taps boforo ho
learns to stay iu it without holding on
to tho beams. When this lesson is
learned, however, ha turns over and
goes to sleep as quickly as ho can.
But tho marine's first sloop ou ship
board does uot last very loug, for the
approutico boys single out one or two
of their number for a court martial,
and when tho eoldier gels well asleep
his hammock is cut down, and as he
strikes the deck with a bump a blan
ket is wrapped around his head.
Almost smothered and wondering
"where ho is at," tho marine is led to
somo quiet place under the forecastle,
tho blanket is removed aud tho court
convenes.
He is asked his name, and if he has
any sense at all he answers civilly, for
if ho does not eomo strong, young ap
proutico will strike him on tho head
with a stuffed club and some oue else
will wrap the blanket around his
mouth to prevent his making an oat
cry.
Any well constituted court will order
that the marine "walk the plank," and
the marine, blindfolded, is made to
perform this clangorous feat—only the
plauk is turned inshore. Then ho will
bo pounded with stuffed clubs until the
boys get tired or the officer of the dock
interferes.
A marine on shipboard rises at 5.30
or 7 o'clock in the morning, accord
ing to the watch that ho had tho night
before. If bis was au evening watch,
he rises with tho early mou, but a man
standing morning or mid-watch is al
lowed to sleep on until 7 o'clock.
Ou most of the ships it is tho duty
•of tho marines to scrub tho dock and
' clean brass work ou tho poop deck,
1 aud this is u good two hours' job, but
j after it is completed tho marine has
| the pleasure of stauding against a rail
■ in idleness while tho sailors work.
I Thero is a separate meal for the
i marines, and they breakfast at tho re
gnlar ship hours, except tho men who
aro going on watch, and their meals
aro always ready half an hour before
tho regular time.
After breakfast comes the polishing
of arms and equipment, and tho cloth
ing must bo brushed boforo quarters.
Tho marine has a harder timo at quar
ters than does the sailor, for tho for
mer has so much brass about his uni
form, and all of that must shine.
Extra sentry duty is the punishment
for untidiness at quarters, though in
extreme cases the delinquent is de
prived of shore leave.
Tho marine has two hours' drill n
day, and with his guard duty that is
all of his work. Tho life would bo
very easy were it not for tho pranks
that the sailors aro always playing on
the marines.
No sea soldier need hope to win tho
respect of the sailors, for if ho does
his duty they will dislike him, and if
ho neglects it they will call him a slob
and despise him just as much. —Now
York Sun.
Good Manners of the Elephant.
While visiting the "Zoo" somo timo
ago I took my children to sco the |
elephant and to give them a ride. Af
ter tho ride I wanted to give the ele
phant a bun, and, to make him say
"Please," said "3ulaam kuro"—that
is, make a salaam. The animal looked
at me hard for somo timo with a bun
in my hand ; at last mornory came to
his help, and up went his trunk aud
ho made a most correct "salaam."
Tho keeper seemed very much sur
prised and asked mo what it meant. I
told him it was a point of good man
ners for an elephant to raise his trunk
up to his forehead if any one was go
ing to food him, and that frequently
elephants will ask in this polite man
ner for something when they seo any
ouo pass by who is likely to food
them.
The koepcr assured mo he had never
seen tho elephant do this before, aud,
if I remember rightly, ho had beon in
charge of the animal since it arrived
from India, and that it was one oj
those which took part iu the grand
procession at Agra when His Royal
Highness, tho Prince of Wales, visited
India, and where I doubtless saw it.
For sovcutceu years this animal had
never hoard these words and hud al
ways taken his food without this mark
of good manners, but now I dare say
tho koepor makes him remember his
youthful good manners, and tho little
children will see on their visits to tho
"Zoo" this instance of "always say
please."—London Times.
Snails For the Market.
Tho edible snails, which appear on
the cards of certain New York restau
rants, are chiefly imported from
France, whore they aro propagated
lor the market at a prico of about
eight cents a pound. Extensive parks
are prepared for them, and during the
late summer months they aro fattened
upon cabbage and clovor. A wagon
load of cabbages, coating less than $2,
will put 100,000 Hnaila in condition.
Along the Cote d'or and in the lowei
Alps, snail picking is as recognized an
industry as berry picking, and i 3 car
ried on in something the samo way.
Iu tho early morning of March and
April when the dew is on tho grass
and the slimy trail of the edible little
morsels glistcus on theleavos with the
first sun rays, tho pickers set forth
with baskets and pails. They find the
snails in swampy places resting on the
limbs of bushes aud vinos and slug
gish with tuo chill of tho spring upon
them. They pluck them from leaf
and twig very much as tho farmer's
boy gathers the dewberries iu August, i
These snails are of natural growth.
Tho most desirable species of snail !
is known as the esc argot. It is pro- !
pared for the table by separate baths
of vinegar, and of salt and fresh j
water. Tho snail is ready for tho
market when it is larded in a paste of ;
butter, garlic and othor favored Gallic
condiments. When the housekeeper
doos her shopping in tho markets of
Paris she pays from ouo to two cents
for caoh snail.—New York Mail an J
Express.
Extracting Teeth by Electricity.
Trials have been made at London
with a now apparatus for tho extrac
tion of teeth by electricity. It con
sists of an induction coil of extremely
fine wire, having an interrupter that
can vibrato at tho rate of 430 times a
second. The patient sits in the tra
ditional armchair and takes the nega
tive eloctrode iu his left hand and the
positive in the right. At this moment
the operator turns on a current whose
intensity is gradually increased till it
has attained the utmost limit tho pa
tient can support. Tho extractor is
then put in circuit aud fastened on
the tooth, which, under tho action of
the vibration, is loosened at once.
The operation is performed very
quickly, and the patient feels no
other sensation than tho pricking
produced in the hands and forearm?
by the passage of tho current. It
would bo interesting to huvo a de
tailed description of tho apparatus to
completo this somewhat brief deeerip
tion.—Nature.
Xlomnrkabio Second Sight.
A romarkable incident of "second
sight" occurred iu the Scotland min
ing district of Benhar ou Now Year's
Day. A minor named Donald MeFar
lauo disappeared Sunday, leaving no
trace of his whereabouts. After two
days' search Robert Halbert, an old
rnau who had the reputation of possess
ing second sight aud was a brother-in
law of McFarlane, fell asleep and
dreamed he saw the missing man iu a
particular part of Almond Water.
Mentioning this to neighbors, they
went to tho place and saw tho foot
prints of the missing man in tho snow.
Eventually they found tho man him
self standing upright iu the water
with tho ico frozen around him. He
was dead.—Trenton (N. J.) American.
j SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
i Arterial blood is red because it has
I just been purified in tho lungs.
Tho eye is not sensitive to cold be
cause it is so well supplied with blood
vessels.
Tho sca-nottle stings its prey to
death by means of a poison secreted
i in its tentaolos.
! A recent industrial innovation in
, Switzerland is tho manufaetura of
' floor mosaics from wood pulp.
| The Board of Health of Tekonsha,
Mich., has ordered tho dogs and oats
killed belonging to families afflicted
j with diphtheria.
I Action of sea water lias so loosened
tho joints of the aluminium torpedo
boat recently built for the Froneh
Navy that it is in danger of falling to
pieco3.
Tho Secretary of tho North Caro
lina Health Board cites many instances
of towns which had been almost
uninhabitable from malaria becoming
all right when pure water wa3 intro
duced.
Professor Williams, of Edinburgh,
after a period of investigation reports
that the danger of tuberculosis spread
ing among human beings is vory much
greater from the milk than from the
flesh of cows.
Ono of tho balloons recently sontup
by French scientists with automatical
ly registered thermometers and ba
rometers reached a height of ton miles,
when tho thermometer registered 110
degrees below zero.
A German scientist says: "Tho eye
should never be rubbed save with tho
elbow," meaning that it should never
be rubbed at all, for tho reason that
this most delicato organ should al
ways bo handled with tho utuio3t gen
tleness.
Tho eyelids eloso involuntarily when
tho eyo is ihroatened in order that
this organ may bo protected. If a man
had to think to shut his oyes when
something was thrown at them he
would bo too slow to savo tho eyo
from injury.
To prevent tho spreading of conta
gious diseases through tho tolephono
the Paris Faculty of Medioiuo recom
mouds tho use of a specially proparod
antiseptic paper. Diphtheria is said
to bo ono of the complaints most oasi
ly propagated by telephone.
Iron, through its uso for electrical
purposes, sebms to have developed a
new quality, magnetio fatigue. In
tests made of transformers lately in
London to ascertain tho open circuit
loss, it has been found that tho loss
inoroaso.l steadily for tho first 2JO
days until it reached a fairly constant
value of forty per cent, moro than at
starting.
Tho rapidity with which certain
species of insects inovo is something
truly astonishing. Tho common house
lly is known to luako 001 strokes per
second with his wings, and tho dragon
fiv 1500. In tho caao of tho fly tho
600 stroks causes an advance move
ment of twenty-seven feet. Those are
fignres on ordinary flight, and it is
believed that tho fly is capable of in
creasing both tho strokes and advanoa
movement seven-fold.
It is now woll established, U3 a ro
suit of tho studios of Lo Couto, Hunt,
Sponcer, A. Agassiz and others, that
tho winds and ocean currents very
largely determine tho position and
ehapo of circular coral islands, or
atolls. Iu tho case of plauts, besides
tho action of gravity and of light,
their shapo is doubtless influenced by
currents of air. And tbeso physical
causes havo also a potent influence in
determining the plantlike shapo of
fixed animals, like spouges, polyps
and all animals when symmetry is ra
diate.
Russia Has Largo Cavalry Forces.
A German paper states that tho cre
ation of the new Russian army corps
in Poland will lead to tho concentra
tion of Huch masses of cavalry an aro
found in no other army in tho world.
In tho Government of Warsaw there
will bo throe divisions of cavalry,
three rcgimonts of Cossackß, and cor
responding batteriesof horse artillery.
This great mass of cavalry will face
the German frontier and havo its
ccntro at Warsaw, its right resting on
Plotz and its left on Lublin. It is re
ported that some time ago secret
maneuvers wero hold in tho Govern
ment of Wilna to test tho possibility
of handling such masses of cavalry,
with tho rosult that tho commander
in-chief expressed an opinion that no
troops conld stand boforo them. This
may be true, says the German critic,
but how can snch numbers be marched
about nuy country and fed altogether?
Handling tliom would bo an easy mat
ter compared with tho commissariat
officers' work to provido food. —Chi-
cago Herald.
Care of the Ears.
A prominent, physician sny3 that
moro than half of tho ear troubles
from which people suffer during tho
cold weather can l#j traced to the
liahit of picking at tho ears with the
fingernails or hairpins or somo other
hard substance, whioh irritatos tho
dolieate insido of the ear. Instead of
this injurious "picking," tho cars
should ho washed out with warm
water and a littlo good soap, and thor
oughly dried after tho operation. If
tho ears aro sensitivo a littlo cotton
may bo put in before going into the
open air, though this is apt to mako
them evon moro sensitive. In ex
tremely cold weather before venturing
out a good way to clean tho oars is to
wrap tho corner of a towol around
tho finger, and with a littlo cold cream
oarofully wipe out tho auricle. It
will remove every partiole of dust and
will really protect the ears from the
cold, but it can scarcely bo recom
mended for regular use. —New York
World.
ADVANTAGE OP WARM FEED.
Giving warm feeds to young animals
not disposed to be thrifty will very
otteu have a happy effect. Thcso an
imals may suffer from weak digestion,
whioh in turn produces a poor appo
tite. The animal docs not eat heartily,
and what it docs cat is not well di
gested. A hot mess somo cold morn
ing sharpens tho appetite and tones
up tho digestion.—American Agricul
turist.
A I:OSE PIT.
Ilnva any of you ever triad growing
roso cuttings in a pit? asks a corre
spondent of tho Detroit Free Press. I
am making my first trial with one.
Some lady recommended this plan last
year, hut I lost the paper containing
her directions and am working by
guess mostly. I had u pit dug two feet
deep and just wide enough to ho
covered with a Inrgo sash. I had
about six inches of rich dirt spread in
tho pit and packed down. The cut
tings were stuck in this soil in rows
four inches apart, and woll watered.
Then the sash was put over them,
resting on tho surface of the ground
and banked around with earth to keop
the water from running in. Wo have
had hard weather for Middle Alabama,
but up to date the young roses are
looking groen audi hope have takon
root. They aero planted in Novem
ber. I don't know how it will turn
out, hut so far am well pleased with
this new method of planting cuttings.
I presume it will bo equally good for
other plants.
THE MAIiKET FOB FHTJITB.
Will tho markets for fruits bo over
stocked? There is no probability of
it. Hardly a possibility. This an
cient habit of eating fruits, which has
grown with our race from tho first,
when it is alleged that our first
parents threw away their homo and
happiness for an apple, increases with
civilization. Flesh eating is a relic
of barbarism and savage life. Fruit
consumption is quite the reverse, and
is tho outward sign of a high state of
cultivation, which—no ouo can deny,
notwithstanding tho scandals and
general wickedness that arc un
covered by the nntiring and omni
present reporter—is far ahead of any
other period in the history of the
world, and, as improvements once be
gun go on forever, so this adjunct of
it, fruit eating, will increase rather
than go baok.
The farm orchards oven aro neglect
ed for the business plantations which
aro managed by tho most skillful ex
perts. Every device of good nature
is made a mere matter of business,
and thus it is that tho farmer will bay
his fruit moro oheaply than ho can
grow it, while ho may produce moro
milk and butter, or potitoes, and soil
these to tho fruit grower, who sup
plies him, iu exohange for his needed
farm prodnots. It is tho samo in
every industry. There are no more
the jacks of all trades.
Special industries and products aro tho
rule, and with these the quality and
tho cheapnoss increase together, for
with constant experience and practice
come skill and excellence, and these
necessarily mean a greater cheapness
of production.—New York Times.
THE AItT OF FEEDING.
Feeding is an art that doserves
much thought and experiment, write 3
N. Sumner Perkins. It is not much
to throw downa little grain andhay to
whatever stock may be kept, using
any kind of grain and fodder that
comes most handy; but it is something
entiroly different to have sufficient
Unowledgo of tho character and com
position as the various feodstufla, to
bo able to compound rations that
closely meet the neods of the classes of
farm animals, and at tho samo time
are most economical for tho feeder.
It is very obvious that each feeder
must first consider what articles of
feed aro cheapest for him, what ho
can produoe or buy at least expense.
There are many mostexcellont feed
stuffs tho liighpricesof which, insomo
sections of the country, forbid their
being used profitably by farmers in
those localities. It is very plain that
tho best possible ration for a givou
animal may bo so expensivo as to en
tirely preclude its use. Iu such oases
a really inferior ration must bo fed
in order to givo the feeder any profit.
Therefore tho problem that confronts
each and every individual farmer is to
determine what articles of stook feed
he can obtain most readily and cheap
ly, and to strike a oombimition of tho
samo that is well balanood, having duo
proportions of nitrogoneou3 and car
bonaceous elements.
It must be always borno in mind
what tho ago of the animal is, and for
what purpose it is being fed. A young
animal requires a great deal of such
foods as form lean meat (tmucle) and
bono moHt rapidly. These ore termed
nitrogenoous, from the fact that they
contain considerable nitrogen. Among
tho grainß we find bran, oats, linseed,
cottonseed and glutton moals to bo
highly nitrogeneoas in their composi
tion. Cloverß of all species are also
exceedingly rioh in protein or nitro
gencous matter. For a corbonoocous
food, corn is found tho cheapest and
bost over tho larger portions of the
area of our eutiro country. Hence it
1b that there is nothing like corn to
finish off (fatten) cattle, shoep and
swine.
There aro a few things for the feeder
to keep in mind. Other things being
equal, the stock receiving the largest
variety of foods will grow the best
and fatten the quickest. Anothor
item is to give reasonable bulk to each
meal of tho stock. Substances taken
into tho stomach must bo light, so
that tho digestive fluids may act upon
them with thoroughness, ease and fa
cility. Otherwise, indigestion and
derangement of the alimentary canal,
together with failure to assimilate the
food, will occur. Regularity is an
other important essential. How it
frets a hungry man to wait for a meal.
Therefore, how it must worry an ani
mal also. This worry will always re
sult in a loss to tho feeder. —Ohio
Farmer.
ccp.E FOB noa CHOLERA.
Chief Salmon, of the Bureau of Ani
mal Industry, in an offioially published
nrticle on hog cholera and swine
pleague, does not uphold tho theory
that these diseases are caused solely
by germs in the food or drink. He
says swine will contract hog cholera
in this way, but also by inhaling tho
virus with tho uir, and less frequently
by iis gaining entrance through tho
surface of a fresh wound. On the
other hand, "the virus of swine plague
is generally if not always taken into
tho lungs with the inhalod air." Tho
first effect of cholera is believed to bo
upon tho intestines, with secondary
invasion of the lungs, but the firat
effect of plague is believed to be upon
the lungs, and tho invasion of tho in
testines a subsequent process.
Ono or both of these diseases gener
ally aro at work among hogs, espec
ially tho young ones. They are esti
mated to oanso tho loss of $10,090,000
to $25,000,000 worth of hogs per year
in the United States. It is understood
that this fall tho troublo is moro prev
alent than ordinary, and this fact is
cited by some to explain tho pheno
menal aotivity with which hogs have
been marketed in the last two mouths,
with tho accompanying decrease of
not far from teu per cent, in tho avor
ago weight of the animal sent to
market. The hogs have not been kept
to fatten so long as usual, but it is
only fair to say that this may bo in
considerable part duo to scarcity of
feed on account of tho paucity of the
corn crop in nearly all the Northern
States except Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. Nevertheless, tho suspoeted
prevalence of one or both these mala
dies renders it of interest that tho fol
lowing remedy should be known by
overy farmer who is a hog grower,
sinco it is recommended by the depart
ment as tho most efficacious formula
which has been tried: Wood charcoal,
sulphur, sodium sulphate aud auti
mony sulphide, one pound of each,
and sodium chloride, sodium bioar
bonato aud sodium hyposulphate, two
pounds of each. These ore to bo com
pletely pulverized aud well mixed.
The dose is o large tnblespoonful for
each 200 pounds weight of hog treated
an:l given only oneo per day, boing
stirred into a soft feed made by mix
ing bran aud middlings, or middlings
and commeal, or ground oats and
corn, or crushed wheat with hot
water.
A great recommendation for this re
medy is tho fact that hogs aro fond of
it, and whon oneo they taste of food
with whioh it has been mixed they
will eat it, though nothing else would
tempt them. They should bo dreuuiied
with it iu hot water if too eiok to eat,
aud most of those so troateil will bogin
to eat soon after. The report recom
mends tho medicine for use as a pre
ventive of thoso diseases, for which
purpose it ought to be pat into tho
feed of tho whole herd, presumably in
much nmaller quantity than above
stated for Biol: animals. It is said to
be an excellent nppotizor aud stimu
lant for tho processes of digestion and
assimilation so that it causes the uni
mals to take ilosh rapidly and "assume
a thrifty appearance." Of course
isolation should bo attended to in cases
where infoetion from other animals is
feared.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
When you buy a horse, tako off his
harness and let him walk by himself.
If ho runs into auything you will
know he is blind.
If a horse is bad tempered, be is apt
to keep his ears thrown back. If ho is
a kicker, his legs will be 6carred. If
his skin is rough, his digestion is not
good.
Tho bicyclo has out down tho busi
ness of oity iivery stables fully half.
This must bo remembered in tho
brecdiug of common little scrub
horses.
All animal fnts aro a mixtnro of
three substanoos — oloiD, stcarine and
palmatine. Tho fat of men and dogs
contains most palmatine; that of
horses and cows most stcarine; fish,
most oleiu.
A pig is a pig till it is a yoar old.
Then it becomes a hog. In classifica
tion for fairs, however, when a pre
mium is offered for a sow and pigs, it
is understood that tho pigs ore to be
under six months old.
When a cow dies suddenly from un
known caures open her stomach, and
you will sometimes find therein not
less than u pound of nails, taoks and
bits of wire. BUe lias swallowed them
along with the ground feed, bran,
grain, middlings, etc., tiiat you have
been giving her for several years, A'
loot the mess has killed her.
THE MERRT SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOED BY THE
FTJNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
There iff No New Woman—Etiquette
vs. Cynicism—C. O. D, —Tho Dis
tinction, Etc., Etc.
Now woman? Oh, bloss you, sho isn't new,
Though she's callotl so. at uny rate,
Sho shops just the same us the old onus do,
And uska if her hat's on straight.,
She's as curious ns other women are,
And a big hat wears ut a piny,
And she always steps o.T a trolley car
With her iuoo turned the other wuv.
—Now York l'ress.
SUPERSTITION.
Poet (with MS.) —"What floor is
the editorial department,?"
Elevator Boy—"Thirteenth."
Poet—"Good day."—Puck.
ETIQUETTE VS. CYNICISM.
Novice—"When a man and a woman
become engaged, which one is it
propor to congratulate?"
Cynic—"Neither."—Chioago Rec
ord.
HIS ATTENTION DIVIDED.
Mrs. Jones—"John, yon didn'tkeop
your eyes on tho preacher all the
time."
Mr. Jones—"How could I? I had
my umbrolla with me."—Life.
TIIE DISTINCTION.
Teacher—"What is the difference
between victuals and viands?"
Soholor—"We have victuals on
wash days and viands when wo have
company."—Detroit Free Press.
A TAMILIAN EXPERIENCE.
Plugwineh—"Toll you what, old
mnu, if I'd my life to live over again
I'd marry money, wouldn't you?"
Enpeck (decisively) "No, sir!
Money talks I"—Philadelphia Life.
on, YES I CERTAINLY 1
"Now, you will have to ask papa for
his consent," said Miss Willing to her
accepted suitor.
"Oh, yes! Certainly!" rcpliod Jack
Coy. "Of course ! Er—has he a tel
ephone: at his office?"— Puck.
O. O. D.
Willie—"Marjorie, yon have re
turned my written pruposal marked
0. O. D. Tell me, what does it
mean?"
Marjorie (blnshiug) —"Why why,
C. O. D. means, Call on Dal."—
Truth.
VANITY.
Maude (at tho piano)—"l do hato
these linger exercises. I think they'ro
just horrid.
Editu -"Why, I think they'ro love
ly. They do show off one's rings to
such advantage, you know."—Boston
Transcript.
END IT ALL.
Cholly Chumpleigh—"Miss Coldeal,
onr friendship has lasted a long time.
If I should ask yon to marr.v me will
you promiso to think it over?"
Miss Coldeal (rising) "ITos, Mr.
Chumpleigh, I- should thiuk it was
over, at onoe."
A WAY THEY HAVE.
Mrs. Hieks—"Dick was sick all
night, and, as a consequence, Mr.
Hicks is ill in bod from worry and loss
of sleep."
Mrs. Dix—"Whcro is Dick?"
Mrs. Hieks—"l sent him after tho
doctor." —l'uok.
A SUPERIOR ATTRACTION.
First Small Boy—"Come over and
play in this mnd-puddle."
Second Small Boy—Nope; youoomo
over and play in this one."
First Small Buy—"l won't. Tho
water's dirtier in this puddle than it
is in yours."—Judge.
IIF.n IGNORANCE.
A five-year-old, who went to school
for the first time, came homo at noon,
and said to his mother, "Mamma, I
don't think that teacher knows lnuoh?"
"Why not, my dour?"
"Why, she kept asking quostions
all tho time. She asked where the
Mississippi was."—Philadelphia Life.
VERY UNFORTUNATE.
Whimsiens—"l always know that
thirteen was an unlucky number I Jol
lious gave au awfully swell dinner at
Del's the othor nigbt, aud there wore
just thirteen nt table."
Flimaious—"Woll, what happenod?"
Whirnsicus "What liappoaoili
Why, I wasn't invited!"— Life.
TIIE MYSTERY.
First Depositor—"l supposo thoro's
no telling how tho bank's money
went ?"
Second Dopositor—"Oh, yes! That
has all been cloarod up. There's only
one thing that isn't clear, now."
First Dopositor—"What is that?"
Second Depositor—"How they caina
to leave any assets."—Puok.
A PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION.
"What do yon Western poople mean
by 'rouudiug up' cattle?" asked the
Boston girl.
And the Chicago girl, who would
not admit that she didn't know it all,
replied: "Ob, that is a sort of slang
term for tho fattening of them—of
course, that makes them round in out
line, yon know."—Cinoinnati Tribuno.
White olothing is cool, because it
reflects tho heat of tho sun; black
clothing is warm, beoauso it absorbs
both heat and light.
Iron bedsteads are safe during a
thunder storm, because, being good
conductors, they keep tho electricity
from the body.