FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED IVEHT MONDAY AND THURSDAY. 'NIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: Main Stukjct above Centra SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year fi so Six Months 75 Four Months ...... 50 Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe the data following the name on the labels of their papers. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books In this office. For Instance: Grover Cleveland 28June03 means that Grover Is paid up to Juno 28, 180&. Keep the figures In advance of the present data. Report promptly to this office when your paper Is not received. All arrearages must bo paid When paper Is discontinued, or collection will be made In the manner provided by law. Tho Now England Kitchen, of Bos ton, serves a five-cent lunch, consist ing of hot Boup, broad and butter, sandwiches, buns or cookies, to tho pupils of tho Boston high schools, Tho San Francisco Argonaut ex claims: A toy has wrought a revolution in this country. The agitation in favor of good roads, begun by tho bioyclo manufacturers somo years ago, aud taken up and given forco by tho riders, has ut length reached tho masses of tho people. Tho improvement of the channel at tho mouth of tho Mississippi River has been a great benefit to the Cres cent City. Among tho vessels which have recently visited Now Orleans aro many of tho largest froight carriers afloat, nnd many of tho cargoes car ried out would have been considered impossible somo years ago. This season's crazes in Eurogo havo been collected by an Italian editor. In England it is clay modeling, tho chief victims being Mr. Gladstone and Sir William Harcourt; in I'aris it is riddles, in Italy and Southern Franco it is jumping beans, painted to repre sent prominent persons; they jump best on hot plates. In Belgium they havo slow-smoking races; tho pipes are filled with half an ounce of to bacco each and the winner is he who can hold out longest without relight ing. The record so far is sixty-seven minntes. Secretary Morton declares that the plow used by the American farmer is a humbug and an enemy to fertility. Said the Secretary: "Wo have im proved our plows loss than any other implement man uses. The plow used in Nebraska and other stoneless soils impacks every furrow it passes over and renders it as impervious to rain fall as possible. The draft of a plow is downward to such an extent that the full force of the team's strength is exhausted in pressing the bottom of the furrow into a polished trough for the conduction of rain down the side liills. Wo must have some method of tillage which shall stir up the soil and subsoil to the depth of eighteen inches and more. If it were possible to loosen the soil and subsoil down for threo feet all over the State of Ne braska, we could then, with an annual rainfall of twenty inches, make abun dant and profitable crops. Until deep plowing—through subsoil tillage —be comes universal in that commonwealth there will be, year in and year out, no certainty of remunerative crops. Pro fessor Shaler, of Harvard, estimates that the present inefficient and ill-re sulting methods of plowing, especially upon undulating lands, cost the far mers of the United States 250 square miles of soil each year by erosion. Everywhere in Nebraska where torren tial rainfalls are so frequent the side hills mutely verify Professor Shaler's theory as to the annual waste of washed lands. This is a matter of such vast importance that I havo asked Chan cellor Canficld, of the University of Nebraska, to bring it before the 1600 students in that institution and ask them to try and think out a new im plement of agriculture which shall supersede the plow. It is a subject upon which the inveutivo minds of educated farmers should bo concen trated. A proper solution of the diffi culty will facilitate subsoil tillage ami at tho same time save both the crops and tho soil. In my judgment the coming iin|dement should spade tho lund and turn it over, as a man who pushes the spade with his foot into tho ground and drawing the spado out turns the soil upside down by tho twist of his wrists. Possibly n rotary spader could be invented. Possibly an implement consisting of a largo number of revolving knives could bo made so that in passing over tho sur faco of tho Held it shall chop up the soil and subsoil for two feet in such a mnnnor as to render tho percolation of tho rainfull down to tho depth at which tho ground has been stirred very easy and perfeot." REMF.DY FOIt BATS AND MICE. These small but groatly destructive vermin of the farm may be kept in subjection without much trouble if tho right methods aro taken. First, the buildings should bo constructed with special roferenco to them ; this, however, is rarely thought of by build ers. No hiding places should be per mitted under the floors or behind the fittiugs; tho floors should either be on the ground and made of concrete, through which rats cannot burrow, or raised so high above it that cats and dogs can go everywhere in pur suit of their natural game. Three or four good cats, preferably emasculated ones, and one good terrier—a fox terrier is tho host—or all of these, will, if well fed, spend tho greater part of their time in hunting, aud so very soon exterminate tho vermin. Otherwise poison should bo used in such away as to avoid danger to oth er animals. This may bo done by mixing a very little powdered strych nine with some fat in which cornmeal is mixed; and putting small quan tities o. tliis in holes bored in blocks of wood, so that tho vermin can get at it and other animals cannot. Theso traps are scattered about where tho vermin will be likely to got at the bait. New York Times. now CUE AM is RIPENED. Tho cream is host skimmed when rather thick, that is, when it may be almost rolled lip on the pan and lifted til a sort of cnlio. It will then con tain about twenty per cent, of milk, and some milk must then bo poured into the cream jar with tho cream, nnd tho wholo stirred to mix the two in timately. This stirring is dono every time the cream is added, and tho third milking should bo the lust beforo tho cream is churned. Tho cream will ripen of itself if it is kept in n warm place nil this time, nut less than sixtv degrees of temperature. At tho cud of this time tho surface will glisten like satin when it is stirred, aud this is a good indication of'its full ripening for tho churning. Otherwise, the cream may bo set on tho addition of the last cream, by mixing half a pint of the buttermilk from the last can, churn ing to live gallons of tho cream and stirring it well ; then, at a tempera ture of sixty or sixty-tivo degrees, the cream will be ready for churning in twelvo hours. This will yield the finest flavored butter, that is tit for the tablo in a few hours after it is made, or for somo tastes it is churned for every meal, and entou as it is churned. Cream thus ripened will make a very delicately flavored but ter.—American Farmer. now TO RAISE YOUNG CHICKS. When tho chicks aro all hatched leavo them under tho hen undisturbed for ono day. They are tender and delicate nnd need tho vitalizing heat of tho mother. Let thein remain with out food until the second day. When the hen is taken from the nest dust her thoroughly with fresh insect pow der. Grease her legs lightly with melted lard and apply two or threo drops to the back of her neck. Do not put any under her wings, as the chicks are apt to get it into their eyes, caus ing blindness. Lice pass from the hen to the chicks, so if thero is one lonse on tho hen it is ono too many. Tho first four or five days feed stale bread or cracker crumbs moistened with sweet milk. Do not make it too sloppy. Tho principal food should bo bread mado of equal parts fine oat meal, bran, shorts aud corn meal. Add enough soda anil salt to sonson, and three teaspoonfuls of ground bone. Mix with sweet milk and balto in tho oven. Cramblo tho inside of the bread and feed it dry. Take the crust and moisten with a raw egg until tho whole is a stiff dough. Young chicks will lcoep healthy and grow fast on this food. Egg is the natural food for young fowls and should bo given once or twice a day. Raw ogg will prevent bowel trouble, while too much hard boiled egg will produce it. Feed regularly every two hours un til the chicks aro a week old, then four times a day will do. Give them all they will eat up clean hut do not leave any in tho trough to sour. As soon us chicks require food they re quire water. Milk may bo givcu, but it should bo sivcet. If tho weather is cold have tho water tepid. Construct tho drinking dishes so that tho chicken can drink without getting wet. Never feed raw corn meal to chicks. Bran is better than corn meal, us it contains more mineral matter and is one of the best bune-foriniug foods that can lie given to growing fowls; but it should always he scalded. As they grow older feed grain, either whole or cracked. Table scraps and garden greens may also bo given. Keep pul verized charcoal and line gravel within their reach all the time. The young chicks must lie kept warm and dry un til they nre Bix weeks old; a single night's exposure may bring on bowel disease. When this appears it is gen orally attributed to tho food, but the real cause is eold. Do not keep the hen confined in a coop unless it is a large one, and then only in had, wet weather. It is almost impossible to koep a confined hen free from lico. If sho has her liberty she will dust da ly and rid herself of tho pests, and tho little chicks will learn ut an early age to wallow in tho dust. Let them roam over tho garden and lields and thev will gather a larae Dart of their food, and benefit the farm and garden by ridding them of in sects. —American Agriculturist. CARE OP ORCHARDS. Extracts from a very interesting paper read by J. H. Fishell before the Indiana Horticultural Society: Tho care of orchards for best results is a subject which concerns all of us. There is too much lack of horticul tural knowledge among farmers. They are not as well posted on fruit-grow ing as they should be. It certainly would bo to tho advantage of every wide-awake farmer and fruit-grower to join and attend regularly tho in teresting meetings of such societies as this. Those who mako a success in fruit growing do so by intelligent in dustry. It lias been said, "if a man would know anything ho must think ; if ho would have anything ho must work." Now if ho will do either, all things are so arranged that ho may re ceive rich rewards. From tho earliest times men havo turned to tho soil for their support. Tho products wero few bccuuso their wants were few. In process of timo agriculture was divided into depart ments. Tho mau who cultivated field crops on a largo scale was called a husbandman or agriculturist. Others that cultivated fruits, roots and vege tables were callod horticulturists, and ono brauch of tho latter is my subject. Fruit is tho poor man's friend, tho rich man's luxury, tho laborer's physician, and tho foo to quack doctors. Thero is no moro royal road to health than that lined by trees of ripened fruit. The growth of trees, whether in tho forest, or in tho orchard, takes from tho soil the necessary nutriment both for the for mation of wood and tho development of fruit. To secure tho most satisfac tory development of fruit requires health and vigor of wood, liut the growth of trees in a soil continually cropped in soil cxhuustiou, and if con tinued for a term of years with no re storation of fertilizing material, tho conditions become unfavorable to any healthy growth of wood fibre. It is under such conditions as those that fruit rapidly deteriorates or fails of production. Tho orchard set in young trees should bo cultivated annually and some fertilizing material applied for the benefit of tho trees as well as tho vegetables or small fruit raised, until the trees come into bearing; then tho cultivation should ceaso for a time. Fruit trees require care and nutri ment, and without these the results are not satisfactory. Healthfulness is indicated by a vigorous growth and a foliage of dark green, and when theso conditions exist the fruit will bo found smooth and of good size. Orchards may bo fertilized by spreading ma nure over the surface of tho ground, especially that portion of it through which tho roots of the trees extend. Potash is a valuable fertilizer for all kinds of fruit and can be applied in tho form of uuleached wood ashes,and being largely soluble aro easily con veyed to the roots and immediately appropriated to profitable use. Wo would lay down these rules in commencing: Select a situation best adapted for tho purpose, taking every thing into consideration. If not well drained seo that it is. Scatter well composted manuro over tho ground, plow deep, and then if you can get them scatter wood ashes over the ground and work them well into tho soil with a harrow. And depend upon it there is no atnouut of pains which you can take in this respect that will not amply repay you in the end. Wo look upon it as of the utmost import ance to tho future welfaro of tho treo that it should have a good start in the beginning and make an early and rapid growth; this will enable it to resist tho attacks of disease and in sects the better. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Charcoal is a good corrective of bowel disorders in poultry. Savo tho poultry droppings. Store them where they will bo kept dry. Wheat and oats mixed in tho pro portion of two to one, and then ground, is reported to bo au excellent food for milch cows. Diversify, diversify. That is not the only secret of success, but is essen tial when no special crops will pay, as is the caso at present. The first thing to do in the spring is to apply a liberal allowauco of solu ble fertilizer on tho asparagus bod, as asparagus comes early in tho spring. It is said that watermelons will keep nicely until Christmas if they are cut from tho vino with tho stems on and buried in sand out of the way of frost. Duy farm machinery as cheap as possible, but do not buy cheap ma chinery. The poorly constructed mu chino bought at a low price is often tho most costly one in the long ruu. Farmers who figuro on their pro fits should endeavor to estimato the expense incurred in loss of fertility sold in tho produce. This fertility must be returned to tho soil or tho succeeding crops will bo lessoned cor lespondingly. l'otash is essential to land boaring fruits, and, therefore, ashes is a valu able fertilizer for such ground. In using ashes uso it alone, for it has wonderful power of liberating some of tho most valuable elements in nitro genous fertilizers. OUR NAVAL GUN FACTORY. WHERE UNCLE SAM TURNS OUT ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION. Various Processes of Making a Big <un Described-—Shrinking on tho Jacket of a Cannon. THE main building of tho naval gun factory at Annapolis, which is about 650 feet long, with a width varying from eighty to 130 feet, is a wonderful place, says tho Chicago Record. It is a high, bright room, and so full of machinery that it seems impossible at first sight for workmen to make their way around. Overhead moves a trav eling crano of majestic proportions that will easily lift and carry steel guns weighing more than 100 tons. At tho north end the largo cannon aro made, end tho south end is devoted to the "barkers," or little guns. Between tho two is the "shrinking-pit," from which arises a gust of air hot enough to persuade the uninitiated visitor that it openod directly into tho infer nal regions. In tho first place tho gun is born in the head of tho factory draughtsman, who sits in a clean little office whero the hum of the shop is but barely au dible. He makes bis drawings on paper and figures out cvory dimension to tho thousandth part of an iuch—for tho least error may involvo tho ruin of a gun aud tho loss of thousands of dol lars. From tho draughtsman tho specifi cations go to tho shop, whero tho forgings of steel from tho Bethlehem works aro already in waiting. Then tho process of "building up" tho gun begins. It has been discovered that when a guu is made up of a central "tube" covered by a "jacket" and "rings" on tho outside the metal is more homogeueous and will with stand much greater explosivo pres sure. Tho process of putting thoso pieces together is known as "assembling" and the work is done in tho "shrink ing-pit." But before tho gun is ready for assembling it must havo been graduated from a long courso of lathes and boring machines. All ono end of tho big building is filled with them, and tho mechanism is 6o perfect that after they are started they will run with almost no attention until their work is completed. Ono of those lathes is 130 foot long and has a swing of eight feet. It is capable of boring or smoothing a gun fifty feet long and weighing more than 120 tons. So complete is tho arrangement that tho gun may bo turned on tho outside anil bored on the inside at tho samo time. Smaller lathes of every imagin able variety aro used in making smaller guns of various kinds. Ou leaving the lathes the traveling crauo overhead carries tho gun aloug to tho rifling machine. This plows tho interior surface of tho gun with a spiral groove by which a rotary mo tion is imparted to tho shell whon it is fired. It is an operation requiring tho greatest care, for if tho cutting machine varies the thousandth part of an inch or if a particlo of metal crum bles off tho efficiency of tho gun is seriously injured. Such delicacy of adjustment iu such a ponderous ma chine is one of the marvels of tho shop. The operation of "assembling" tho gun is tho climax of tho whole pro cess, and it is critical enough to mako tho superintendent's faco very serious for several days. The principle of tho whole process lies in keeping tho "tube" or main part of the cannon cool and expanding the jacket by means of heat so that it will slip easily over the tube. Upon cooling tho jacket contracts and grasps tho tube almost as closely as if they were both one piece of metal. Formerly the jacket was heated in tho "shrinking" by menus of burning charcoal or wood, but this was found to produce unequal expansion and warping. At present the heating is done entirely by hot air. In the pit there is ono furnace filled with coils of pipe through which air is forced by a compressing pump. Underneath is a gas firo which heats the air to a high temperature. In this condition it is forced into tho cylindrical apartment in which stands the gun-jacket, and, after passing through, it is carried off by a cbimnev. After having been heated for a day or two tho master workman has tho lid of tho jacket apartment lifted a little and the top of tho great cylinder of iron is measured to see if the expansion has made it large enough to fit over tho tube. When its inside diameter is ono-tenth of an inch greater than tho exterior diameter of the tubo tho moment for shrinking has arrived. In the moan time tho tubo of the canuou has been placed upright in tho pit, with tho upper fifteen feet turned perfectly smooth and shiny for tho reception of tho jacket. lusido of it cold water is kept flowing so that tho steel will bo as much contracted as possible. Tho crowd of spectators had gath ered ; tho workmen from all over tho shop pause ia expectancy; tho master workman from hie perch on a little platform blows his whistle. Instantly the lid of the jacket apartment is thrown open and the iron claws from tho ponderous traveling crano reach down, like tho arms of a devil fish, aud grapplo tho jacket. Although it is seventeen feet long aud weighs about twenty-lour tons, the crane draws it up aud Hwiugs it in tbo air as if it wero a paper box. Instantly tho work men rush up and with long brush tippod poles wipe out tho inside, for even a particle of foreign matter may ruin tho guu. Then while tho specta tors hold their breath tho jacket is swung above the tubo and accurately plumbed so that it will slip down ovor tho tube without touching. It is a critical moment. Tho jacket is fast losiug heat and with it the diameter is decreasing. If there is too much do- Jay tho master knows that the minute fraction of an inch of space—less than ono-twenty-flfth of aa inch'—between the tube and tho jacket will grow still smaller and increase the likelihood of "sticking"—thus ruining the whole shrinking process. When the word comes tho jacket moves slowly down ward until it fits full fifteen feet over tho tube, and then the spectators draw sighs of relief. The operation is com plete, having taken about fifteen min utes in all. Tho gun remains in the pit for forty-eight hours to cool and then goes to the latfios again and is prepared for tho "hoops" or cylindri cal pieces of steel, nino of which are shrunk on whilo tho gun is in a hori zontal position. Tho largest gun made at the factory has a thirteon-iuch throat, is forty feet long, four foot in diameter and woighs about sixty tons. It takes 530 pounds of powder to tho load, and tho projcctilo woighs more than 1000 pounds. Its energy is sufficient to send tho ball through twenty-six iuches of steel at a rauge of 100 yards. At an auglo of forty degrees tho gun will throw shot to a distance of fifteen milos. It requires six and one-half months to build a guu, and tho cost is from 813,000 to $20,000. These guns aro used in tho turrots of tho new war vessels. Tho power of ono of tho shells fired from such a gun was impreßivoly illustrated at the bat tle between tho Chineso and Japaneso fleets off the Yalu River in September last. A shell weighing nearly 1000 pounds struck tho Chinese battleship Ping Yuen, crushing through tho af terpart of the armored deck and leav ing u great hole through which a tor rent of water poured into tho hold. A few minutes later tho ship went down, carrying her officers and crew with her. The cost of tho shell was about SSOO and tho cost of tho ship $3,000,000. A Croat Jllrl Colony. Within the arctic circlo aro tho great bird colonies. Tho lurgest and most romarkablo is that of Svaerholt Klubben. Every inch of this wonderful cliff, which risos about 1000 feet from the water's edge, and is of considerably greater breadth, may bo said to be used by tho birds. The discharge of a small cannon in tho immediate neighborhood will darken tho air with millions of birdp, but even then a fiehlglass will rcvoai the innumerable ledges white with other undisturbed millions. These consist almost en tirely of tho small gull, and they are a sourco of considerable incomo to the owner of the colony, who lives at the little fishing station close by. About the middle of May -every year, by means of a long ladder placed against tho foot of tho cliff, he proceeds to collect tho eggs. Of those there aro at most three to each nest, aud the number taken averages from 5000 to 10,000 annually, or the produce of, say, 3000 pairs of birds. Ropes aro not used for this purpose at Svaerholt, as they aro in tho Faroe Islands; so that the highest of tho above figures represent only a very small percent age of the yearly production of the colony, as far the greater portion of tho cliff faco, where the nests are packed as closely as they can be, re mains absolutely untouched. The food of those multitudes of birds during tho summer months con sists for the most pait of fish spawn (more particularly that of the codfish, which is abundant in these northern waters,) and of tho small crustacea, which aro driven to and fro by the currents along tho coast in immense masses. To the latter belong the tiny organisms Calanus, Finmarchicus aud Euphausia inermis, the favorite food respectively of tho whales, Balaenop tera borealis and R. Sibbaldii, when these giants approach tho mouths of the great fjords in July and August. In winter the famous cliff is complete ly deserted. By tho end of August the young gulls are able to take care of themselves, and all tako their de parture, to return no more until the following year in the month of March. —Fortnightly ltoviow. A One-Wheel Sulky. A Hartford (Conn.) man has in vented a one-wheel sulky for trotting horsos. It is certaiuly original enough to receive attention. Tho seat of tho sulky will be directly over tho back of the hor30 —ocoupyirg tho same relative position over the horse that tho ordinary riding saddle does. This would necessarily bring the sulky wheels on the sides of tho horse; in case tho animal was a sixtoeu hauder the oceupaut of tho sulky seat would bo about as prominent as a pilot on a steamer. Tho harness would be also of a different pattern than is now in use. The swaying mo tion of the horse is to be regulated by a steel brace from the shaft tips. Tho traces will be sot ou an auglo from the wheels to tho seat that will aid the propulsion of tho sulky. Tho horse actually trots within the sulky in this new idea, whilo tho rider sits astride and is braced just as in tho ordinary racing vehicle, only directly ovor the horse instead of behind him.—Wash ington Htar. • Wowlcrliilly Prolific. A sow in Scotlaud recently droppod a litter of twenty-three pigs, twenty ono of which were alive. Hix of these wero killed in order not to tax tho sow too much, but tho other fifteen are all alive. Tho sow has now had five litters, and tho total of tho pige she lias brought forth comes to eighty five, or an average of seventeen per litter. The sow is of no particular breed. New York World. Groat Britain raises $95,000,001 from the liquor taxes and $10,000,001 from the tax on tobacco. P 'IMIMEN Women smugglers uro the pest of the Mexican borders. The wedding of Princess Beatrice cost more than 8250,000. Miss Anna Gould, now tho Countess Castellane, had her wedding trousseau made in this country. Mrs. Clara Brett Martin, the lead ing women lawyer in Canada, has been nominated for School Trustee of Toronto. Miss Alberta Scott, of Cambridge, Mans., is tho first colored girl to enter tho Harvard "Annex," or rather Bad cliffe College. The fashionablo new Lady Comp bell violet is said to bo a shoot of the old Neapolitan violet. It is hardy and of delicious perfume. Bagdad cushions, with a fringe of their own raveled tliroade, aro making inroads on tho insecure reigu of lace and chiffon sofa cushions. Picture frames, especially for prints and photographs, can bo mailo by covering plain pine frames with soft folds of cream, white or amber India silk. French women havo taken to catch ing their very full sleeves on tho out side of tho arm with a rosctto of vel vet matching tho girdlo and btock collar. Mrs. Burton Harrison is said, on good authority, to bo tho best paid woman writer in tho country. Tho Century pays her 13} conts a word for all her stories. It is agreed that kissing is not only unhygienic, but, when pructicod in publio, is unpleasant ovidenco of in vidious social discrimination and henco improper. There is now a crapo paper craze, and flowers, photograph framos, lamp shades and hats attest tho possibilities of tho flimsy fabrio in the designing fingers of woman. A Michigon newspaper, in recording a marriago tho other day, added that "tho brido is a member of eight Becrct societies, several clubs and ono or two missionary bands." Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and her family can easily walk a mile any day by taking a tour of all tho rooms in their house in New York City, which falls not fur short of being a palace. Tho propriety of women holding office was recognized by Mayor Perry, of Medford, Mass., whon ho appointed Miss Charlotte Benn and Miss Agnes Hollen as weighers of coal, grain, hay and straw. Barnard Collogo for Women, New York City, has just received from a woman anonymously a second gift of SIOO,OOO toward erecting tho collego building in the neighborhood of the new site of Columbia Collego. Miss Minnie Gilmore, tho writer, and daughter of tho late Bandmaster Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, is a tall, prepossessing young brunette. She has written two novels and a number of short stories and poems. Ear piercing has so much gono out of fashion now that speoial devices to enable women to wear earrings with out submitting to the drill have some vogue. They bear the trade name of car vises and cost $5 or 80 a pair. Ladies who kiss their lap-dogs will bo glnd to know the authority for the insertion that dogs are one of tho great agencies in spreading diseases, especially consumption. It is Dr. Mcgniu, of tho Paris Academy of Science. Signorina Labriola is tho first wo njan to receivo tho degrco of doctor of laws from tho University of Home, Italy. She is a mere girl as yet, only eighteen years of age, and tho honor conferred upon her is as flattering as it is exceptional. Miss Bilgrami, the first Moham medan girl to try a university ex amination, has just passed a first ex amination in the arts at the Madras (India) University with honors. She was not allowed to attend lectures, and had to pursue her studies at home. Mrs. Cleveland is very fond of fipwers, and blossoms grow in every apartment in the White House. There is also a conservatory which tho Cleve lands havo greatly enlarged and im proved, and here the ludy of the execu tive mansion spends much of her time. New York dentists sny thoy havo al most ceased to put gold in tho mouths of fashionable women. Unless the filling is quite out of sight most of them prefer to have the best white filling used and to then visit the den tist often to have it renewed as it wears away. A woman, Mrs. Henry D. Cram, of Boston, will furnish tho Paris Exposi tion of 1900 with seventy-five der ricks, to be used in tho construction of all the buildings thut are to be of durable stone. Mrs. Cram will per sonally superintend the placing of these derricks. A well-dressod Hindoo woman's cos tume consists of one pieoe of cloth, six or eight yards in length and a yard and a quarter in width, which she tucks in folds about her waist, shoul ders and body in a neat and graceful manner without tho use of pin, but ton, hook or string. Women dentists flourish in Paris. The on'y drawback to their sucoess is the fact that very fow of them ever took a course in dentistry. Until re oently such a courßo has not been necessary for those wishing to prac tice the art, and after a few weeks' private study in an office women havo blossomed forth as dentists, to the pain and distraction of their patients, SELECT SITTINGS. Lawyers wero known in Babylon 2300 B. C. Tho inhabitants of Eap Island, in the Pacific, have pink hnir. Before tho advent ot foreigners in Japan the Mikado lived in absolute se clusion. Russia and tho Unitod States send the greatest number of visitors to tho Holy Land. Of all tho Nations of tho earth the women of ancient Sparta proved them selves the most heroic. Three farmers in Fort Fairfield, Me., are going to build a starch fac tory to work up their potatoes at home. A Seneca Falls (N. Y.) iceman has placed beneath a thousand tons of ico i roast of boef, which ho expects to Bat in July. Thero is a specimen of tho Mission grapevine ot Carpenteria, Cul., which has a girth of six feet four inches ut tho baso and is still growing. A new set of postngo stamps has been issued by tho Clnueso Customs Postoffice to commemorate tho sixtieth birthday of tho Empress Dowager. "The Wild Man from Madagascar" is dead. He was born in Green County, Indiana. Ho left SIO,OOO. It evidently pays to bo a "wild man." At tho outbreak of tho war seven men wero boarding at tho Uerndon House, Omaha, Nob. Each of tho soven aftewardbecamo a United States Senator. The Chineso believe that tho water from melted hail stones is poisonous, and that tho rain which falls on cer tain feast days is a sure cure for ague and malurial fever. Queen Victoria's father, tho Dnko of Ke nt, lived for some years in Horel, Quebec, Canada. A clock supposed to havo belonged to him there is now owned in Phillips, Me. Miss Ellen Tickle, of Ilcno, Butler County, Ohio, is said to bo tho small est full devolopod woman now living. She is thirty-one years old and weighs but twenty-eight pounds. Five years ago C. C. Chadwell, col cred, removed from Virginia to Madi son County, Kentucky, and located on i farm. Ho was a total stranger, and was so poor that ho was compelled to subsist ou bread and water the first year. His property is now assessed at bout $2500 An eccentric peddler recently died it Louisa, Ky. Ho had represented himself as a foreigner speaking Eng lish imperfectly, but was identified iftcr his doath us an American and a graduate, with honors, of Harvard. He was disappointed in lovo thirty years ago, whereupon ho fled from homo and became a peddler in Louisa. A United States War Vessel. Captain It. D. Evans has forwar 10l in official report to tho Navy Depart ment concerning tho performance of the New York on her recent trip from New York to Hampton Koads. Tho average speed of the vessel under nat ural draft is given as eighteen knots, with a maximum of 19.0 knots. On her official trial in May, 1833, tho horse power developed was 7401. On the 12th inst. it averaged 7170.78 for the main engines and 7212.73 as tho collective horse power for tho main engines, air aul circulating pumps. During the trip the auxiliaries in use, in addition to the air and circulating pumps, were ono electric light engine, ono iee machine, four ventilating en gines, one flushing pump, three main feed pumps, four engine room bilgo pumps, one auxiliary condenser aud one steering engine. The coal used was bituminous aud tho average amount burned per hour was 7.85 tons. Regarding tho averago speed as eighteen knots, tho speod per ton of coal was 2.29 knots. Captain Evans adds: "The coal used caused consid erable clinker, and after four hours it was found impossible to roiuovo the clinker from the back of the furnace, as tho slice bars would slike up over it. With Pocahontas coal and similar conditions I believe tho New York could maintain an averago speed of nineteen knots under natural draft and probably twenty-two knots under forced drnft." Rear Admiral Meade's indorsement on the report reads: "Approved and forwarded, except that Ido not quite agree with Cap tain Evans as to the ship's probable speed of twenty-two kuot3. I thiuk twenty-one knots tho very outside limit, and with tho ship's present foroo that oonld not bo maintained for many hours." Blessing the Fishing Baals. At the little Breton town of Paimpol the quaint ceremony of blessing the Iceland fishing fleet took place a fort night ago. It was auuo'iucud by the clamor of tho belfries, and after ves pers tho procossion, with sailors at tho head, traversed tho principal streets, which were decked for the oc casion. On the breakwater the cure of St. Savior's preached to the 1310 hardy mariners in frout of the fifty six stout boats that wore to carry thorn to the far North. T'liou, precedod by the cross, tho canon blessed each ves sel separately, the (lag of oach dipping in response.—Chicago Times-Humid. "The l'oot ol Family Lllr." Jonas Lie, tho Norwegian author, is known to his countrymen as "The Poet of Family Life." When ho cele brated his sixtieth birthday recently, the streets of Christiansand, his homo, were deoked with flags and bunting ; the mnsioal societies combined and sang odes composed in his honor. In the oapital itself a grand banquet was held to express the admiration of Nor way's cultured society for their great fellow-countryman. —Now York Sun.
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