More wine is used in Paris in three
months than the entire product of the
United States amounts to.
Indications multiply that the gold
fields of Alaska will turn out to be
richer than those of tho Klondike re
e ion -
According to State Engineer Adams's
report, New York's commerce, from
being seventy-eight per cent, of the
country's business, lias fallen to thirty
eeven per cent. This means, get
nearer raw material, interprets the St,
Louis Star.
There can be no doubt that the In
dians who granted the San Carlos
railroad franchise as soon a3 the pro
moters had stocked their tepees with
beef, flour and eofl'ee, are getting
civilized. Some of them will go to
the Legislature yet, predicts the San
Francisco Examiner.
The statement is made by Chief Bon
ner, of New York City, that a recent
fire only confirms theory that there
are no such things as fire-proof build
ings. Considering the number of
these high structures his suggestions
as to what must be done in the way of
preparing for blazes in these giant
piles ought to be attended to at once.
A Chicago paper complains that
$130,000,000 worth of property in
that city is held by absentee laud
lords. And the worst of it is that
many of these absentee landlords
make their home in New York, thus
helping to swell the population of the
latter city. How to keep Chicago
people in Chicago is apparently a live
question in the Western metropolis.
From Sydney cornea a curious story
of the wreck of the brig Minora and
the saving of the captain's life, though
he was the only man on the vessel
who couldn't swim a stroke. The
other five made a gallant struggle for
life, but they went down exhausted,
while he clung to a plank for twenty
four hours and was picked up in an
exhausted condition. His case fur
nishes no argument against the value
of a knowedge of swimming; it simply
serves to show the irony of fate, which
often dooms to death the man who is
the best equipped for saving his life.
I :
That relations between France and
Germany are really becoming much
tetter is unmistakably proved by the
firmly re-established mutual relations
in the art world of the two countries,
writes Wolf von Sehierbrand. "Stars"
from the French and from the Ger
man art firmament are now Hitting to
and fro. Here in Berlin we have had
nearly all the leading names in the
atricals, for instance, and just to men
tion those during the last month there
were, or are, Maurel, the best opera
singer in France; Mme. Richard, of
the Grand Opera; Colonne, the famous
leader; Cocquelin, jeune; Rsjaue, and
now, too, Yvette Guilbert. The latter
receives $750 for half an hour's sing
ing every night, which is an enormous
sum for a German specialty theatre to
pay. But it must be profitable, for
she draws crowded houses ever night,
and when she appeared at the annual
Fresse ball, given for the benefit fund
of superannuated writers and news
paper men, she demonstrated her
quickly acquired popularity by the
amount of attention showu her by her
hosts.
The world's railway mileage at the
present time is equivalent to more
than seventeen times the length of the
equator. In more exact figures, the
world's railway mileage, according to
the latest verified returns, aggregates
433,950 miles, or 38,810 miles more
than in 1891. This enormous mileage
is distributed among the various sub
divisions of the globe in the following
manner: Europe, 155,281 miles;
Asia, 20,890 miles; Africa, 8169 miles;
America, 229,722 miles, and Australia,
13,G59 miles. From the foregoing
table it appears that America not only
heads tho list in the building of rail
ways, but that the mileage represent
ed by the various railway systems on
this side of the globe more than equals
the combined mileage of the various
systems on the other side. But while
America is credited with the greatest
railway mileage, the greatest percent
age of gain belongs to Africa. Since
1891 the railway mileage of the dark
continent has increased 25.2 per cent.
With respect to the other subdivisions
the showing is as follows: Europe,
9.7 per cent.; Asia, 22.1 per cent.;
America, 8 per cent.; Australia, 12.7
per cent. For the entire world the per
centage of gain is 9.8 per cent. Sixty
years ago the world's railway mileage
aggregated barely more than one
thousand miles, and yet to-day tho
globe is interlaced with a perfect net
work of iron rails. What surpassing
wonders has the nineteenth century
.brought to pass!
CHEER UP.
What's the use of looking glum?
Ckeer up;
Brighter days will surely come,
Cheer up;
Tho' the storra-king holds full sway,
Tho' the torrents pour to-day.
Every cloud will clear away;
Clieer up.
No use of shedding Idle tears.
Cheer up;
Don't give way to foolish fears
Cheer up;
•Afnt no use of feeling blue
If the sun don't shine on you,
Bobs and sighs will never do;
Cheer up.
If misfortune be your share;
Cheer up;
Time will lighten every care;
Cheer up;
With the Springtime's gentle rain
Buds the fairest flowers again, ,
Song 9 birds sing a sweeter strain;
Clieer up.
—P. L. McCarty, in Boston Traveler.
03000030330000000000000000
| BROKEN CHINA. |
g BT IIELEX FORBE3T GRAVES. g
oaoaoooooooooooooooooooooo
sn i d Rosabel
JM to want me. No
home seems to
1 anywhere.
When papa died,
he told me Uncle Dallas would be
kind to me, and take his vacant place.
And uncle is kind, after his odd,
abrupt fashion. But Aunt Alicia doesn't
jure for me, and the girls look coldly
on my shabby dress and pale, worn
lace. Evidently lam not a cousin to
be proud of. If I were an heiress,
things would be very different!"
Poor little Rosabel! The world
looked very dark to her as she sat on
the window-sill of the third-story back
roam in tho Dallas mansion,which had
been unanimously voted "good enough
for Rosabel Raymond," and watched
the dull reds and grays of the winter
•unset fading out behind the crowd
ing spires of the city.
How desperately she longed for the
snow-mantled fields, the black, leaf
less woods of the country! She was so
homesick, so solitary, so alone!
"Oh, Rosabel, are you here?"
It was her Cousin Medora's soft,
sweet voice. She disliked Medora more
than either Augusta or Bell, although
she could not tell why, and she was
vexed that Medora should see the
traces of tears on her eyelashes. But
Medora pretended not to notice them.
"We were thinking, mamma and I,"
said Medora, "that you must be ter
ribly dull without anything to do, all
these dismal days."
"It is rather lonesome," sighed Ros
abel, wondering at her cousin's un
usual thoughtfulness.
"And so," added Medora, with the
sweet smile that Rosabel always mis
trusted, "when Miss Armitage told us
of the place in the china-painting and
flower-designing rooms—you always
were an artist, you know, dear—l ex
claimed, in that silly, impulsive way
ol mine. 'The very idea for Rosabel!'
Ton see, Miss Armitage's protege—
Helen Hauvemonde—has gone to Rome
to prosecute her art studies, and there
is a vacancy. And the salary would be
something of an object, of course, be
cause—"
"Of course it would be an object,"
said Rosabel, quickly. "You do not
suppose that I do not feel my depen
d.nce here?"
"And," added Medora, thinking it
Host not to notice this outburst, "Miss
Armitage says you can obtain excel
lent board for four dollars a week
with a widow lady near the Rooms,
and that you would save a good deal
<y* time and no ond of car fares. So,
if you conclude to acoept the position,
perhaps you had better come down
into the drawing-room and seo Miss
Armitage."
If there was anything which Rosa
bel Raymond loved, it was her pencil.
Water-colors were expensive, and
drawing-boards came dear, and Aunt
Alicia thought it vei-y unfeminine for
a woman to set np an easel and a pal
ette, full of oil-oolors, "like a man,"
so that her tendencies had, since her
residence in her uncle's house, been
literally starved. Here, at last, was
the much-longed-for opportunity, and
she rose with alacrity and followed
Medora dewn the stairs.
Mrs. Dallas and the Misses Dallas
were openly exultant when Rosabel
was gone.
"So dispiriting "to have her around
all the time, with her swollen eyelids
and pale face!" said Miss Augusta.
"And so shabby as Bhe looked,
too!" said Mrs. Dallas. "And how on
earth was I to provide her with a
wardrobe, when papa made suoh a
dreadful fuss over every dress that
came home from Madame Fieelle's for
my own girls?"
"Of all things, poor relations are
the most intolerable!" said Medora,
spitefully.
"But what are we to say if Mr.
Ballard asks after her?" blurted out
Bell, the most honest ond least politic
of the family.
"Say? Why, the truth!" declared
Medora. "That she has left us!"
For the secret of Miss Medora Dal
las's anxiety to got rid of her pale lit
tle cousin, whose mourning was so
distressingly becoming, was tho fact
of Mr. Hugh Ballard's admiration of
the white, statuesque face, the deep
larkspur-blue eyes, and the features
which were as perfect as any cameo.
Miss Medora had marked Mr. Ballard
for her own prey, ond declared war
upon any unfortunate pretender who
should come in her way.
"Perhaps," soid Mrs. Dallas, hope
fully, "he'll never inquire about her
at all."
"Don't you believe it," said Bell,
with a significant nod.
Bell was right. The very first even- i
ing that Mr. Ballard called he*in
quired for Miss Raymond. Modora
drooped her long lashes.
"Rosabel had a cold, reserved na
ture," she said. "She never seemed
to become fond of any of us, and she
has gone away."
"Gone where?" Mr. Ballard was
persistent enough to ask.
"She said she would write and send
us tho address," said Medora, draw
ing on imagination; "but she never
did. It quite went to dear mammA'O
heart. Mamma regarded Rosabel AO
a fourth daughter. But Rosabel nev
er was inclined to reciprocate our af
fection."
Mr. Ballard glanced at Medora with
an expression which she could not in
terpret, but it nieaut simply:
"If this girl is lying, she's doing it
very artistically. Appearances are
certainly against Rosabel Raymond;
but it would take more than tho testi
mony of one girl to make me believe
her either cold or ungrateful."
These reflections passed through his
mind as he was politely accepting
Miss Dallas's invitation to accompany
her to Mrs. Whitworth Walkingham's
musical tea, the next day.
"It will be a bore," he said to him -1
self; "but Mrs. Whitworth Walking
ham is a genius, and there will be sure
to be good music there."
There was good music there, and
also delicious tea, in tho tiniest cups,
each painted with a separate wild
flower or bunch of grasses; cake, ices
and white grapes following the bar
carolas and rondolettas—and all went
merry as a marriage bell, until, in
turning to place a chair nearer the
window for Miss Dallas, Mr. Ballard's
unfortunate elbow knocked one of the
priceless cups off the carved shelf of
the Japanese cabinet and broke it into
three pieces.
"Mrs. Whitworth Walkingham will
commit suicide!" cried Medora, clasp
ing her hands with simulated terror.
"I swear you to eternal secrecy!"
said Mr. Ballard, laughing, as he
wrapped the pieces in his pocket
handkerchief and disposed them safe
ly in his pocket. "If there is a store
in New York, Brooklyn or Jersey City
where this precious toy can be matched,
it shaLl not be left uusearched."
For every one, Mr. Ballard includ
ed, knew that Mrs. Whitworth Walk
ingham was almost a monomaniac on
the subject of her china; and he was
really more deeply chagrined than he
appeared to be.
"You can't match it," said Medora
Dallas.
And she proved to be right.
In his despair, Hugh Ballard went
to old Mrs. Megarreau, who was ex
actly like everybody's fairy godmoth
er.
"What am I to do?" he said, blank
"Do?" said Mrs. Megarreau, nod
ding tho diamond butterflies on her
cap. "Why go to tho china painting
and decorating rooms, of course, in
Hammersley Square. Take your sam
ple, and they'll duplicate it for you in
twenty-four hours. Say that Mrs.
Megarreau sent you.
Mr. Ballard devoutly thanked the
old lady, and obeyed without loss of
time.
It was a huge, airy room, with the
windows all glorified with winter sun
shine, and a soft steam-heat modifying
the rigor of the February air, where
half a dozen young women were work
ing at a large table. Mrs. Baker, the
superintendent, who sat at her desk,
took the pieces of Mrs. Whitworth
Walkingham's doomed cup and looked
earnestly at them, with her head on
one side.
"We have that shape in our wares,"
said she; "and I am quite sure that
we can reproduce tho design—blue
iris-buds and marsh-grasses. Miss
Raymond's designs are some of them
even more exquisite than this. Rosa
bel, my dear, come here."
And Rosabel Raymond, pale and
pretty as ever, came forward in her
brown liuen painting-dress, with her
lovely chestnut-brown hair pushed
back from her face. Mrs. Baker was
holding out the bits of fractured china,
whereon were painted tho bluo iris
buds and drooping grasses, but Rosa
bel never looked at them.
"Mr. Ballard!" she cried, her face
brightening with a delight which she
was too unsophisticated to repress,
"what brought you to this place?"
"Miss Raymond," he exclaimed,
"what are you doing here?"
"Earning my own living," said Rosa
bel, with quiet dignity.
"Does Miss Dallas—Medora, I mean
—know whero you are?"
"She ought to know," said Rosabel,
"for it was she who recommended me
to come here. For the Dallases, I
think, were getting tired of me," sho
added, with a sigh. "But I ought to
be very much obliged to her, for I have
acquired a most welcome independ
ence, and tho work here is exceedingly
congenial to my tastes. Ist that the
pattern you wished copied, Mrs. Baker?"
she asked, taking a pieco of china.
"Oh, what an exquisite group of buds!
yet I am bold enough to think I can
imitate it successfully."
"If you can replace that cup," said
Mr. Ballard, dramatically, "I am your
slave for life!"
"I think I can promise to replace it
without any such condition?" said
Rosabel, laughing.
And Mrs. Whitworth Walkingham
never knew that her iris-bud cup was
broken until Hugh Ballard brought
back its exact counterpart.
"You must have some spell out of
the Arabian Nights," said she, enthu
siastically.
"No," he answered, quietly, "no
spell stronger than a woman'* prac
ticed eye and skillful hand."
He came no more to Mrs. Dallas's
Tuesday morning receptions, and Fri
day afternoon teas. Miss Medora
wondered vainly why. But one day
sha met him on Fifth avenue, and
prettily reproached htm with hie re
creant absenteeism.
"I have been fortunate enough to
discover the abiding-place of your
cousin, Miss Rosabel Raymond," said
he, gravely.
Medora looked up, with a deep
color mounting to her cheek.
"Indeed?" said she.
"It was very kind of you to secure
for her such a congenial position as
that," he remarked.
Medora Dallas hung her head, and
was silent.
"But she will not remain there
long," he continued, cheerfully. "I
am happy to tell you that I am en
gaged to her. We are to be married
in a few weeks. Of course you will
receive 'at homo' cards wheu we are
finally settled!"
Medora murmured something about
"congratulations" and "delighted to
hear of it." But Mr. Ballard smiled
to himself wheu she had passed on.
"La belle cousine is not exactly
pleased," he said to himself. "But
what need I care for the frowns or
smiles of other women, so long as I
have won my little Rosabel?"— Satu
rday Night.
The World's Sugar Output.
According to figures which have re
cently been complied by leading statis
ical authorities, the total sugar produc
tion of the world last year aggregated
7,385,000 tons. Of this amount 4,-
925,000 tons were manufactured from
beets and 2,460,000 tons from sugar
cane.
In the manufacture of beet sugar
Germany easily leads the list. The
total output of the empire last year ag
gregated 1,925,000 tons. With re
spect to other countries engaged in the
manufacture of beet sugar; the figures
are as follows;
Countries. Tons.
Germany _ 1,925,000
■Austria-Hungary 825,000
Franco 840,000
Russia 800,000
Belgium 225,000
Holland 120,000
Other countries 190,000
Total 4,925,00
In the manufacture of sugar cane
sugar, Java holds the first place, fol
lowed by the United States. Java
manufactured 560,000 tons of sugar
last year, and the United States 345,-
000 tons. As to the output of the
various countries engaged in this in
dustry the following table gives the
latest figures:
Countries. Tons.
Cuba 200,000
Puerto Blco . CO,OOO
Trinidad 50.000
Barbados 60,000
Martinique 80,000
Guadaloupo 40,000
Demerarn 110,000
Brazil , 180,000
Java 560,000
Philippines 190,000
Mauritius 110,00
Reunion 40,000
Jamaica 85,000
Lesser Antilles , 95,000
United States 345.C00
Peru 65,000
Egypt 100,000
Sandwich Islands 200,000
Total 2,460,00(
During the past year several beet
sugar mills have been erected in vari
ous parts of ;tho country, and there is
every reason to believe that the United
States will soon be as extensively en
gaged in the manufacture of sugar
from beets as sha is now from sugar
cane. With the resources which this
country possesses there is no reason
why we should not manufacture all
the sugar which wo consume.—Atlan
ta Constitution.
The Yukon River.
The mouth of the Yukon is about a
hundred miles broad—that is, from
one side to the other side; but there
is nothing to suggest a river about it—
nothing but small streams, sloughs,
islands, incnmerable and disconcert
ing. It is liko being brought face to
face with a hundred gates, only one of
which opens the way which you are
seeking, while the others lead to de
struction. This is the difficulty in
navigation at the starting point, and
the sort of thing encountered all the
way to Circle City. It is touch and
go, or touch and not go; and you may
get through, or may stick on a bar and
not budge an inch for many weary
days or weeks. Eighteen hundred
and fifty miles of river are before you
on your way up to Dawson; and it
takes about fifteen days, if you meet
with no accidents—days of vast, won
derful and ever-chauging scenery;
nights of sileut grandeur, when you
seem to be all alone, surrounded by an
untrodden wilderness,silent, awesome,
mysterious.—Century.
RusslanlGobi Production.
Russia holds third place among
gold-produciug countries, aooording
to the Philadelphia Record. Gold is
only fouud in large quantities in the
Ural mountains and East and West
Siberia; the very limited output of
washed gold in Finland is not of any
importance. It is only natural that
the Russian Government should do
all iu its power to advance the gold
mining industry. Its plan is to
train up a stall' of milling engineers
and to let these experts visit North
America, South Africa and Austrnlasia.
It is also proposed to attempts second
extraction of gold from some of the
vast quantities of residue, otc., in the
various mining districts. But Rus
sia monopolizes the gold.
The Cycle Stile.
The bicycle stile is a development
of touring amid country fields and
other rarely visited sections. A nar
row section it cut out of the fence,
somewhat il v the shape of a cross.
The spaoe corresponding to the arms
of the cross is for the passage of the
pedals, and the frame and wheels are
pushed through the upright opening.
The handlebar must go over the stile.
A number of these stiles may be seen
in English fields, and a few are to be
found in America.—New York Timet.
Fruit Growlns on Hill Lands.
Some of the best fruit in all sections
j of the country comes from the hill
] districts, where both climatio condi
| tions and soil seem to promote cer
[ tainty of orop and fine quality of
fruit. Hills bordering running water
have rich surface soil, with porous
subsoil resting on lime rooks that are
slowly disintegrating, and a natural
drainage. But location, however
good, is not sufficient. Orcharding
requires diligent, patient work,
knowledge of when, why and how to
spray, and how to secure protection
from enemies. Never allow trees to
bear fully. Thinning is one of the
pest possible practices, thereby get
ting less fruit, but of far better grade.
—L. Gieger, in New England Home
stead.
Three Crops In a Greenhouse. '
Boston greenhouse gardeners often
follow the last crop of lettuce with a
crop of beets and radishes. Good rad
ish seed is important. A favorite va
riety of beets is the Egyptian. The
seed is started in hotbeds and trans
planted into houses about the first of
May. Beets are set four by eight and
radishes one inch npart between the
beet rows. The care of the beets and
radishes is very much the same as if
grown outdoors after the plants are
set. Rows of cucumbers are often set
along the edges of the beet and radish
beds and trained on trellises over
head. The cucumbers do not shade
the other crops much before they are
pulled and out of the way.—American
Agriculturist.
New Corn Product us none Feed.
In some tests made recently at the
Maryland experiment station to de
termine the value of oornstalks from
which the pith had been removed, it
was shown that this fodder fed to
horses as a substitute for hay was
eaten with a relish after the animals
became accustomed to it and was
better digested than timothy hay.
After the pith has been removed from
the cornstalk what remains is ground
flue. The blades and husks may be
included aud they may not. Horses
in the habit of consuming mixed feeds
take more readily to this ration than
those previously receiving nothing but
whole feeds. Horses which ate this
new corn product continuously for
five months consumed more of it at
the end of the time than at the begin
ning. This is satisfactory evidence
that the feed is good for horses aud
can replace hay.
Feed For llreedlnc Ewoi.
Breeding ewes have not only'fto
keep up their own animal heat and ,
energy and provide for the growing
feet us within them,but they have also
to make growth of wool on their own
bodies. That they do not always get
enough of the right kind of food for
all these purposes is shown by the
fact that the wool from ewes is less
valuable than that from an equal
weight of wool from wethers or ewes
that are not bred. Possibly some
weakness of the fiber is inevitable iu
that which is produced while ewes are
dropping their young, when , there is
naturally more or less fever. But the
wool may be made much better if the
ewes are given succulent food to keep
their digestion good and bran mashes,
which are just what are needed, not
only for making the wool, but also to
produce a thrifty and vigorous lamb,
which is also born with more or less
wooly covering when its dam must
furnish from the food given her.
Intonsivo Fanning.
If farmers who delight in owning
and working large areas could see the
crops taken from small plots by the
truckers near New York City, they
would receive an object lesson in in
tensive farming which would be ef
fectual. On Long Island and in New
Jersey especially, there are dozens of
patches, not farms, which, with the
aid of a few hotbeds, are made to pay
high rents and support large families.
The soil is kept to the highest point
of fertility, every inch of it is
thoroughly cultivated and every advan
tage is taken of the lay of the land.
From the first day that the weather
will permit the soil being worked un
til the ground is finally used for celery
blauchipg, it is constantly employed
in crop production; it is no unusual
sight to aeo half a dozen men indus
triously at work on an acre or two of
ground. It is the same principle the
Horist applies to plant and flower
growing. If his benches yield but one
crop of plants or blossoms during the
year, his business is a failure. Every
square foot of it must yield two or
aiore crops for a profitable year's work.
—Orange Judd Farmer.
Use of Humus-Forming Material.
The claim of Southern farmers that
clover, cow-peas, weeds aud other
green manurial plants turned under
dry, rather than green, give better re
sults, is well founded.
Green manuring has been practised
for centuries in Europe and for some
years in our Northern States, and
valuable results have accrued from
such a course. But for the last few
years farmers and scientific men have
differed upon the plans of turning
under these green crops.
Our best Southern farmers r are al
most unanimous in preferring to turn
under the crops when dry thau when
green. Necessity may have at first
brought about the plan, of turning
under the crops after they had beoome
matured or dry, and this necessity
may havo been the means of demon*
strating that it was more profitable
to do.
The mysteries "of"Nature's 'labora.
Tory stored in the soil are hard ,to un
derstand in plnnt life. The same toil
will produce a root that is nutritions
and healthful to man and beast, and
at the same time one that is poisonous
to both. Yon may graft a sour apple
on a sweet stock, and the same tree
will produce both sweet and sour ap
ples. So it is with the changes that
tnke place in the soil in turning under
green and dry substances.
The advocates of turning under our
crops when dry claim that the fermen
tation that takes place when gTeen
crops are turned under is different
from that of the dry substances; that
the green crops sour the land, and un
less lime is used it is an injury and
not a benefit to some.
Then the crops are green in August,
and they claim that lands turned up
and exposed to the hot sun are in
jured, This is true, as a cotton orop
which requires late ploughing and
close culture is more injurious to our
lands than a corn orop. Some of our
best farmers report an actual injury in
yield of crops where cow peas were
turned under green in August.
But all agree that peas sown in land
and turned under late intho fall, when
dry, do benefit the lauds.—B. D.
Lumsden, in Farm, Field and Fire
side.
Origin and Cure of Lice in Stock.
Dr. D. M'lntosh of the University
of •Illinois writes: Both cattle and
horses are liable to be disturbed by
the residence of at least three species
or varieties of what are ordinarily
known as lice. Two of these are in
dividuals of separate families of the
same order, end the third is an acci
dental visitant received by coming in
contact with poultry or from poultry
roosting or frequenting the stable of.
the horse. The lice known as htema
topinus equi and vitula are true blood
suckers, The other, the trichodeotes,
liven among the hair and on the skin,
irritating by its presence, not finding
its food supply from the blood direct,
but in the exuvia of the structures.
The hrematopinus causes much more
irritation than the trichodectes and can
be easily distinguished by its narrow
and distinct chest-bearing three pairs
of legs, and the triangular head armed
with a tubulous haustellum. These
lice are usually found on animals that
are neglected or suffering from pov
erty or disease and want of proper
shelter. Debility seems to bo the
predisposing cause, rendering the ani
mal a proper habitant for the proga
gation and development of these par
asites. While the inroads of the poul
try lice are regulated by the condition
of the poultry house or roosts and
their proximity to the barn, they at
tack all classes of horses, but seem to
have preference for those which are at
work aud in good condition.
Horses and cattle my have a ferv
lice on them for some time and no
great disturbance will be observed.
But as the number of lice increases
the animal will soon show signs of
uneasiness, rub himself and in some
cases will rub off the hair, abrading
the skiu, or the skin itself may under
go a change and vesicular eruptions
appear, no doubt caused by the rub
bing. It is different in the case of
poultry lice. Its commencement is
instantaneous. All at once the horse
is seized with violent itching; so sud
den and irresistible is the desire the
animal possesses to scratch himself
that he is not easy for a moment. He
will rub himself agninst any resisting
body near him, stamp the ground,
kick and bite himself. An eruption
of small vesicles often appears on the
skin, some solitary, others in patches.
There are succeeded by n falling off
of the epidermis and hair, leaving a
small, perfectly circular, bare surface,
from tho size of a pea to that of a
silver quarter. The formation of these
spots goes on rapidly, so that a horse
with a flue shining coat may in a few
days be spotted all over. The trouble
does not seem to interfere with the
animal's health, notwithstanding the
violent itching and excitement whioh
is experienced. But if it is of long
continuance the subjeot will be apt to
fall off in flesh and appetite and grow
thin and lose his condition for work
from gradual wasting of his powers.
In treating either horses or cattle
for lice, the cause should be removed.
If the animal is poor it should be
well fed and sheltered. If it is the
poultry lice which are causing the
trouble, the hen house or roots should
he removed and the stable whitewashed
with fresh lime. There are a number
of remedies recommended for the de
struction of lice. An effectual solu
tion is made by boiling one pint
stavesacre seeds and twenty pints of
water for one hour. Keep it nearly
at a boil for one hour longer, making
up the water to the quantity original
ly used. Such a solution rubbed into
the skin not only kills the lice, but
nlso destroys their eggs. If stave
sacre seeds cannot be obtained, sub
stitute tobacco instead of the seeds.
A simple remedy is equal parts of
coal oil and raw linseed or cotton
seed oil, but this is difficult to remove
from the hair.
The use of a roller in road making
was first suggested by Oessart in
1786, and first adopted by Polin
ceau and Morandiere in 1835. The
first steam roller was oonstruoted by
the Frenoh engineer Ballaison.
CURIOUS FACTS.
Christmas cards first came into
fashion in 1816.
The highest recorded price for an
1 orchid in London is 800 guineas.
More than a third of the French
Crown jewels havo been bought by
Americans.
Diamonds are not dug out of the
ground, but are generally found in
narrow crevices of rocks.
Opium eating has become a habit
with the Kaffirs in South Africa. The
Chinese are the chief purveyors of the
drug.
Alaska has a seacoast of 26,000
miles, exceeding that of the remainder
of the United States two and a half
times.
The finest equestrian statue erected
in Great Britain was that of Charles I.
at Charing Cross, facing Parliament
street, London.
The Chinese dictionary, compiled
by Pa-cut-she, 1,100 years B. C., is
the most ancient of any recorded in
literary history.
Dulwioh, now a populous district of
London, still has a toltgate across
one of its main streets, at which tolls
ore collected regularly.
John H. Stotsenberg of New Albany,
Ind., has one of the finest collections
of Bibles in this country. They range
in years from 1198 to 1790.
England produces annually about
8 1 0 to each acre, Scotland a little less
than 810, but the product of Wales
an ounts to over §2O per acre.
In 1816 the value of a bushel of
wheat in England was equal to that of
a pound of nails. To-day a bushel of
j wheat will buy ten pounds of nails.
The Rev. Edward Allen of Tiverton,
| Devon, who has just celebrated his
J one hundredth birthday, is said to be
the oldest clergyman in the Church of
| England.
While the Bishop of Sodor and Man
was watching the cutting down of one
of his trees receutly, the tree fell
I upon him, knocking him down. It
catching on a railing saved his life.
Swans, shirts, canaries and trousers
were among the personal effects Sir
Robert Peel's creditors auctioned off
at Drayton Manor, England, and the
whole lot brought only a little over
8500.
There is a tree in India and Africa
from which butter is made. The fruit
grows to the size of a pigeon's egg.
Inside the fruit are seeds, whioh are
pressed, aud from the oily substance a
very good butter is manufactured.
1 The office of groom-in-waiting to
the Queen, which recently became
vacant by the death of General Sir
Henry Lynedoch Gardiner, is worth
about $1,670 a year with about six
weeks of annual duty. There are
eight grooms-in-waiting in the House
hold, who were formerly changed with
the Ministry, but now their places are
permanent.
A Lucky Man.
Smith was telling Jones about a ro
mance in his life, Smith having been
a bachelor, aged forty or in excess
thereof, before he had fettered him
self by chains matrimonial. Jones,
on the contrary, had begun young,
and there was much joy and verdure
in his life, aud he did not look at the
world and the meu and women of it
with a cynic's eye.
"And," remarked Jones, in response
to the story Smith was telling, "you
say that you and Brown courted the
same lady for ten years 7"
"Exactly. That is to say, it may
have been a month or six weeks shy
of that, but, to all intents and pur
poses, it was ten years."
"How remarkable!"
"Rather."
"And which was the lucky man?''
"Oh, Brown, of course. If yon
knew me you'd know that I was never
around when the lucky numbers were
being drawn."
"You are to be pitied; really you
are, myjdear Mr. Smith," said Jones,
laying his hand on the o.her man's
shoulder tenderly.
"Thank you, I am sure;" nud Smith
brushed au incipient tear from his
eye.
"I don't want to be inquisitive, or
open any old wounds," continued
Jones, "but may I ask as a friend how
long ago it was that Brown married
the lady?"
"He didn't marry her," said Smith,
with emphasis.
"Didn't marry her?" exclaimed
Jones. "Why, didn't you say that he
was the lucky man?"
"Of course I did. I was the man
who married her." And Smith looked
at the simple-minded and guileless
Jones with an eye that made the
goose-flesh stand out on his bones and
sent the creeps up and down his bock.
—Washington Star.
Oldest Church In Europe.
The oldest churoh in Europe is that
of St. Pudenziana, at Homo. About
the middle of the first oentury a cer
tain Roman senator had a honse on
this spot. He was a Christian con
vert, aud it is said a distant relative
to St. Paul, who lodged with him from
A. D. 41 to 50. For the religious
uses of himself aud guests, he built a
small chapel in this house, and when
he died in 96, and his wife a year
later, his daughter added a baptistery.
A church was afterwards erected on
the site of the original house of Pu
dens, and consecrated in 108 or 145.
Canon Routledge, in his history of St.
Martin's Church, Canterbury, claims
that that venerable edifice is the oldest
church in Christendom. He desoribes
it as occupying the unique position of
being the only existing church that
wrfs originally built as a churoh dur
ing the "first four centuries, and has
remained a ohurch till the present
day. Its font is the very one in which
Ethelbert was baptized by St. Augus
tine, as mentioned by the Venerable
Beds. —Tid-BRs.