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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.