Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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w fc^?gg P V. ( V> *'iiy ' cvjlts rax im KV?\ la pkataj; trees pax ia one peek of L late at tie roots before fil.oag is tie to iiK Ttor will draar xcoistare for the toots an til tie tree has started to I P1"*f cm racc^i T*rs nys. Not 3osur *50 a faraer resnried tbat to ?iii sot see ranch airaxtape is barlag er? that bred rnixx lie extra toh to remarked, took part of the food seeded for oae after the second week, asi eaxsed both to be second aiaas, and perhaps no; worth more than one ia pr:r# condition. No 4o?M this estimate was correct so fax t M Jus experience wai, bat it aap> bowed thai the farmer was not ah re to the opportaaiUes which twin lambs gave hua. Ail lambs shomld be fed ?thing besides their mother's milk after they are two weeks old. In the esse oi twin lambs this ia especially megsct. At first the feed should be ml the simplest character and not of a kind to tempt the appetite. A small wasp of twwr bar. all the better if oi aacoad-growth cio?r, is enough to begin w;:h. When this is eaten greedOr, as it probably will be, and after a few daws a gill of whole oats per day, given half at morning and half at night. To this mar be added after awhile a teaspoon fa. and nltisatelr a tobla fooibJ of oil aeil per day. When this is eaten withoot injnry add to the clever hay ration all the lamb will eat clean. In this way, with the aridities of its mother's milk. two lambs from a ewe can be grown with hotter rosnhsthan one lamb can which depends only on its mother's milk and what bar it can pick ap while running ?a n*v.? i f tkts immJ mill ai*ke ttrifty fcwp, tsi mill be good feeders ill their lives because et aotiae k? their digmtria been xnjared by being tarred or stinted in their food. xzunxtiL If bomt is to he asie from cows it ie >w untie! that they be sulked it Kg tar boars morning or evening, an the ffctron's Bilktia, sad the nearer the feme ta divided aqnaliv the better ilia It is etao advwebta to milk them in the tame order every time; it prevents thorn from fretting. Personal.t I have Jband no mtahetotT malt aniens 1 ? mmtftd to make friends rnith the W com. or, if yon please, icdae*d her to look epos me as an "adopted eaif P: While pare lood and m-aaer are eseeaf tml to the prodncfeon of perfect sulk, it hat been proven that many of the taints-nkieh are thought mere introtaeed in the milk mhile it is elaborated " ia the eo* are dae to direct eoatamiaataea from the umst cf dried mnne ad excrements es well as of the fodder ittaf in the stable. When the eom emtverts the food into blood and then into milk, most, if not all, of the imI ?"I ill t W I Ufeer?the bdafT?-ai tie ijeras are Imd aot in the milk Vat in the arice aad esoeants. A beth^j eow fed alma ud letlthr fodder and water v33 thnri prodaee perfect milk. We km beet fooled, as, for instance, by tk* fact tbt milk from ecvs fed oa taraips hoi a taraipr fl*Ter, bat care* fal experiments have tkont thai this flavor via prodieed by a bacteria* bud oa the turnips and ia the exeremeata aad introduced ia the milk directly by dast falling into it while i milking ia a stable where tamipe were fad while milkiag or abortly after, or i ikmi the exeremeat* had a chance to I dry and float aa dast ia the air. These bets make it clear that ae 1 Y thoali aot feed the cows whOe milk-j s ag, aad choald sot clean the stable fast before milking, as the dast then raised mar drop ia the milk. Nor flkoald we keep a stock of sack fodder ia the stable. Of coarse there are certain weeds, each asleeks, rag-weed, etc., which liB taiat the milk as proiawd in the 90V, tad too aact ct certain food will dee: the silk m nroa? vara. Thus am then two ponnds of linseed seal par eov -arill make the batter soft and to will rape-seed and peanat meal, while acre than two or three posh ateattoa-Mfi seal will sake it hard ud like stearire ooxstx^iixs or son xoismx ^ la *he disenedcn of sahsoilaj, the datt^at has often been made that porous sandy- land is injared sore , than benefited by deep stirring, writes * hohuiti J. L. Raid, Iowa. Ibis is ndonbtedhr trae, bnt the best soils tor horbealtaral oses in the prairie I dates are those with a large sixtare of sftej, which pack readihr wader the pnaare of the plow and the tread of the hotaet ia the farrow. A well de- j bed canst ia formed as the bottom of j the farrow, which holds the water of | heavy rains, forming little rrraiets that not only carry- off the momtare 1 ^ test tons oi the very hsest and best mu ptfUcin. tree the Itrorei Loess - sotfct of Ion too a iko* this crust anier the pio*. A peculiarity of western e&mate is a I?-araj; of orchard and gardes yield hy a shortage of earth moisture when the crop is maturing. Daring the part Soar years premature dropping ni npeaisg of app3es tm the resah of t< j Stile water is the lower levels; ?bei by the feeding roots. As laihsnl filit 1 i b I mi high Ian is. with ?ore or loss slope for the drainagaw the loos from surface drainage of water la more apparent than on those pftaeas nearly leveL In a doses places w w- ~ r * ocsiing urier the obserrutior, crops of fruit uai cruirs h?re cro*ra dariag the pust fosT touts oa hillr scopes, part of the !aai beins scbsoiled and part gtrea coiuaoa piowta$. Oa tic sab#oi?c\i part aot a traoe of water gullying eoa'd bo foaai, aor was aay loss cf fire earth particles i>. *ki< riurt tie fruit was -M"~ i . larger. caoot&tt, liter :a as raring and act sabject to premature dropping. la cora, oats and other crops, the gain ia quantity and quality ns equally apparent. Ia the common plowing by iu side, after every rapid falling shower, little gullies were everywhere seen, carry iag off water which the subsoil needed aad also the richest pert of the soil At harms! the lessening in size sad. yield of frait sad grain ?*$ easily apparent. In the aarsery daring the sane period, root grafts of the apple, pear, cherry and plum planted ia deeply anbaoiled trenches grew into healthy trees, with moisture ever present anier the dust malch of cultivation. Oa the other hand, root grafts planted with the dibble or common plowing showed a poor stand, slow growth and more than the usual amount of leaf carl and blight. This trenching nader the rows seems in practice to give qaite as favorable results in breaking the eras* over the entire surface, j In preparing for orchard p-*-"**-^ . harrow the field smoothly, ran-the lifter or sabsoiler where the row- is to be as! and to a distance of four feel on each side. This gives a Bellow bed bo the deoth of nsaal planting, ic:o viudi ue water from rains will flow to tbe rahsoii ani by teepws j the whole orchard nr'iw. Era oa } relatively ?u land, where it is re gained best to nice ap tie rows for sarface draisacet nbwiliag in the lines of tbe rows is far better than to dig bills into tbe compact earth, la ! 5elds smhsoihng for strawberry planting or for air small fraita, it is best to harrow smootnlv and then ran tbe nhmler from tbe snrftce down a) least fourteen inches ander tbe roe j and at intervals of eighteen it cdec , apart over tne whole earface. ruxr tot* rasas n arrncc 111 frait trees, except tbe peach and all the small fraita except the bitchcap raspberry are best planted in ths jaatamn, and the earlier after the leaves fell, the better. The advantages of fall planting may be rammed ap as follows: L Narserraen have faller and bet' ter stocks of trees in the aatamn . when the rales begin. Tbe best arc jo'J ltd, and later orders are filled with the material which remains oa kasi SitBwtiaa it is impossible to bare an order for certain varieties filled in the spring, all of thit stock being sold. There is frequently observed s marked superiority in stock received in tbe fslL i If trees are properly pasted in the curly utann almost every one is sore to live sad thrive the next reason, white of those planted in the spring a considerable per cent, will die the first year. The explanation is that daring the warm days of am tuna jhe trwsttfiwif nfabla^si in jbo-.r sew locations. Having no leaves they do not need moisture as they do in the spring. The earth becomes compacted about the roots, which form ralfumcs over the cut and torn ends, and even begin to emit small xrotiets before the winter sets in, ao that on the earliest warm days of spring the vouag orchard is ready to start off to make a full growth.. 3. Another reason for fall planting ?that the nurserymen then have more time to dig and pack the trees, and there is less liability of errors, which are very provoking when discovered after the lapse of eight or tea years when the tree begins to fruit The planter, too, has more time to properly do the work of planting, so that all orchards planted in the autumn hare a better chance of succeeding. StrictiT first-class tress and visas should alwavs be purchased. Other qualities civ lire, bat they will generally coa* to bearing so far behind first-class stock that a ore will be lost than :s gained. To illustrate this: Some years ago the writer purchased a thousand third-ela* currant bashes. They nearly all grew, but failed to fruit the second and third years with inT degree of pro?t, so that the loss was considerable, i o with pear and apple trees of the second-class more will die and tike remainder will be longer in coming into bearing. Nurserymen often advocate the planting of very young trees. This will do if the trees are to hare garden culture, bat where trees are to be planted in an orchard and trill receive only ordinary care the larger tree, three or fonr yean old, will stand much the better chance of bring and early fruiting. Always order straight, thrifty, elesn and bealthr stock from the nursery, and insist that it be guaranteed free from all insect and fungus diseases. 4 six 'rrvs are nlaated x>all the earth np arooni each oae to rapport it against the winter i-his. La excep&oaailj windr places it maj be advisable to stake each tree, bat orchards should aot be planted in snch locations, for the fruit mill stand bet little cnaaoe of remaining opon the trees to maturitr.?New York Trihnne. Parisian ragpickers earn $?900,000 a vear. > - &&. .1 V .... t THE FIELDOF AHVENTTRE.' THSTLIAXG rXCIDXXTS AXD DA "5- ' 1X3 DEEDS OX LAXD AXD SEA. j Carry Oft a ChiU-PawnfJ j by Bf?r? - A Mountain I Jon Attacks aa Eatitm. Ktc. THE Xortbexc Pacific Kailn^r Coaput'i o5<n? ia Helena. Mont* Till wa be oraaf_ sweated with t*o of as fine specimens of the American eac.e family i$ are in existence. The birds aw the property of E, T. Barrett. Northera Paeiie mineral land examiner, | who obtained them sometime ago j while in Fiatfcesl County. Mr. Barsett tells an interesting story of how he case bj the big hird*. He was on the upper Kootenai Jurer. in the northwestern part of the State, baring charge of a party examining a large tract of .'and on the rirex. The country there is almost primitive in its ! condition, there being little evidence of eini nation about. It is a wilder news of forest and mountains and is a favorite hunting place for roving. bands of Indiana. Near where llr. Barsett and party | were at work was a camp of Indians. The lodges were scattered about pro miscnoualy in Indian fashion near the river's edge. There was little activity about the camp. The bocks were for j the most part oat hunting and the wo-j men kept inside the lodges, it being a particularly warm day. At the edge of l the camp was a group of dirty, naked j ' little Indian children, romping on the j grass together. ' All -vf m *** 3 #Wa J*wftial A? 4K.I . camp tis brakes by the sudden intro. ducccn of :ro great <acl?s whieh swooped down apon the crcap of children. Apparently sol frightened in the least by their cres, one of the eagles fastened its tenons into the botch of the smallest child end then, after a mighty sweep of its wings, lilted it into the air. The fnghteoed little papoose relied with all its might, bat the eagle dragged it up the blaf forty i or fifty feet and then dropped it, ap patently becoming exhausted. Then the other eagie grabbed the boy and started with him up the bank, which ) at that place arose almost perpendicular 400 or 500 feet. * All that happened in a moment! The camp which had been so quiet be| fore was immediately turned into a . place of confusion. The oquaws, kear| ing the cries of the children, came nesin* nnt rtf thi Win*. WkM | they av what ni the nutter they ! rushed cp the blat at ttrl as they ' eoold go. Bat even then the eagles did aot vi&t to give ap their prey. I! They vera aot frightened by the none aal kept dragging the poor little Indian bor farther and farther ap the , bin* Mr. Barsett, attracted by the cries, took in the sitaatioa at a glance and ran for the bhff vith bis rifle, which be happened to bare with bin. Before be reached the child an Indian , back bad eoae tp with the eagle ; I baring the boy in bis talons and killed it with a elnh. Mr. Barnett bad been afraid to sboot for fear of bitting the child, the mark being a moving one. j He shot the other eagle, however, jest as it commenced to soar avay. Strange i to say, the little boy was not serionalj ; in j wed, although nearir frightened to : death.?Omaha Bee. * Psrt ied by Black Bears. Elmer Dxtrnbnf, a mining man of | Granite, Or., arrived at bis home, J after banag a moat exciting trip aerxns j the moonbuns on snovshoea and nari rovly ?spng being food for a eonple I of fierce and hangry bears. Thornbarg is interested in mining gxonnd away down in n region known as "TWk'ttinii " in tH? !nv?r Vnrtlt Park I country, aad one dij noenllj he eon; evaded it would be wiaiom on Iiis part j to take a trip down to tee bow the camp was prospering and take the United Stoles mail and extra* in to the < . boys. Tie journey to within a boat I fonr mi lee of the camp was made with| oat difficulty by Tharnburg, mounted npon a pair of snow-shoes, but at that distance the snow was all gone,, and he : had to abandon his snow-shoes and J take to walking. This, with his pack on his back, was no picnic. When within about two miles of camp be ait down on the sonny side of a log to , rest. Xo sooner had Thornburg settled himself comfortably than he was dis- j turbed by aereral grants and a lot ofj clawing and scratching beneath the log. He was unarmed. In a minute * there appeared from beneath the log two black tannic*, followed by the bodies of two full-grown, ferocious, ; red-jawed, black bears, with bristlest erect as they came from their comfortable burrow. Thorn burg jumped to his feet and : started down the trail on a ran. The heavy pack on his back impeded his progress, however. The hunitrv bears , qoieklv took^gpp the Meet, tai were after him. \Hien he saw that the race would he an uneven ore, he dropped his burden at the foot of a young black piae tree and climbed tip among the branches aa nimble aa a chipmonk. The bears broke open hia discarded bundle and ate all the bacon and other good things. Then they turned their > attention to Thorn bars- Fierce with hanger, their ssrsge appetites jus* whetted good, the bears pat their huge pew* around the slender tree trunk j and endeavored to reach him. 1 Breaking eff a branch of t*> tree, ' Thornburg rapped smartly each black nose that came within reach, and brain } would go a war growling, only to retorn when the pain had ceased. This was the beat and only defense the parsued man coald a rail himself of. In the meantime he began to yell at the top of his voice in the hopes that his cries might reach camp. They finally did, and It. Dickison and Ed Flaherty came oat with their trusty j tides and toads possible for the un - i < *.-^at5te&Sm? uemk .... I > > Varmed and nnh armed za.va to descend from his perch. Thornbarg will not make any more trips. on snowshoes across the moaala:ns without his gun. ? Portland Telegram. Fought the Bear with Klre. An English toarist, recently returned from Xeraia, tells how he narrowly escaped from the clutches of si bear, fie had scrambled to the top o:: a large bowlder and the bear, wounded in one of its legs, began scratching in the groan d at the foot of the bowlder., says the Weekly Telegraph. "Sadden :y.~ he says, "I felt the t?wlder on which I stood shake and give a sadden downward larch. It then dawned upon me that the bear was undermining mr tiv.iT.-h,-*!J sad within a few minutes it would topple ever an i I be delivered over to his tender raercy. In this emergency I bethought mtaelf of a bottle of hrandy which I carried in my pocket. Thinking that by pouring its contents over the gxcnnd the bear would desist from his undermining operations I emptied half of it, bat be seemed to be all the more refreshed by the smell and worked away more rigorously than erer. 'There was bat half of the brandy left aai things sere beginning to look serious, when I tried, as a last chance, the extreme remedy of emptying the remainder of the dark onto the back of the bear and throwing a lighted match to the brandy. The dames immediately enveloped the animal, and, with shrieks and yells of pain he, skedaddled to my great relief. "I was presently rejoined by my companions, and with loaded guns we followed np the bear, whom we soon discovered licking ha burnt sides, on - - - *? : a d.i *ue& very urate ior nwuwiL *? lasso vmt i.'ler hi* adventure at the bowlder that ? had no difficulty in dispatching him. " EixUetr Attacked by a Lisa. To battle with a huge m our tain lion, seven feet in length, and 255 pounds in weight.on a trestle at night, is the thrilling exjaerieaoe that has just befallen Edward C Dejvew, an engineer on the Great Northern Bailroad, near Lowell, Vash "At the time of the adventure,* says Engineer Depow, "I was palling I the overland piacoger train going east, and as we were a few minatea late are were?lrying to make ap*a little time. After we hi id left Lowell, and almost two miles east oi there, about half way across a long beetle, my fireman, George Lawrence, jumped down off his sent box and cume q sickly to my side ol the engine. I noticed n 1 startled look in his face, and, looking | ahead, saw through the darkness u , black object on the track. "Mj first thought was of 9omn ob> j structios on the trunk. For n second the thought of jumping flawed through my mind, but I banished ik Nothing j m\?M Vm itaia Wa wmo toe eloua to ' the dugcr, id the fright had the same effect oa Be that it had oa Lev- j reaoe. It took ever my poiret of; speech. La ?tiactr rely I cnrlel oat 1 of my ceb oe to tlw aide of the eagiae. ; "Ili train dashed oa. In an iutut | I sev a Boaster's eyes fashing throvgh ' the ihrkeea. green end jeUov by | tarns. "ii the train approached the lion I coali see it prepare to spring. Finally, j vhea the kep r^i made, the si matron was so dramatic as to Ifte abaost theat-' rical in effect. *'Ihe force of the jump ns astoar d- ! iag. The body of the beast crashed 1 into the edge of the engine front To ] jaap then vas certain death, Ifbr are were right in the centre of the trestle. ' Yet, aa the lion Made its leap, I eoald ? almost feel its hott breath on ay threat, l "1 learned efttTverd that theuoagar, I after ve had strack it, lodge: in the j cross ties of the trestle "I'M MM! *U sun 1UTO woea mk men of Xo>. WS dixorend it, but its kind kp were cat oC Pore nun John ; C. Wng^it would not go near it until; be had oaptied a couple o! chambers of his revolver into it. Tlus they futeosd the body to tke eow catcher and took it to Skykoaisb." Aa lajtrfd Minerva Xfrre. A fear days ago at Quartsburg, in Baker county, Theodore Eby, a miner, was working alone in a slope in tke GiSori mine when a huge rock fell j from the banging wall and struck his leg, breaking it about half way be- j tween the knee and hip and pinioning the unfortunate man fast Within arm's length of where he stood was a pick. With this instrument he pried the rack iroa his leg and extricated ! himself. There was no aosistasoe nearer than Ifr. Giford's house, just below the dump of the tuaneL and the only person there was lira GifTord, her husband being absent. There was only one thing lor Eby j to do, and that was to get himself out the best way possible. The journey ' ahead of him required almost superH? bad ta m down on * ladder in a sixty-foot ahalt from the . stope to the tinsel, which *u 3.X) feet from the entrance. He let him* self down the dull by hi* bunds. and in ranching the tu:xnel crawled oat, all the time suffering the meet intense pain. On reaching the damp he called , for help, and ]itr?. 1 jifford came to his assistance and helped him to the house mi to his bed. Luter Mr. Gifford returned home and p wsreJ; a physician to attend Mr. Eby, who a; last account* ras getting along as well a* could be ucpeeted.?Morning Owgcnian. A Minnesota I-git.* tor introduced a sill providing for the appointment of j i State phrenologist, at a salary oi jwO*W a year, with a $1500 assistant, and an expense fox d ci $StXW % year at their disposal; the x business to be the Examination of "not less than dOOC heads s year." Confessing a fault makes hall amends. -denying ona doubles iu j " I / f . '?-J' * a .n,Jaaitfi< Dl~!i*S TRADE REVIEW. ' Slodrti Improvements !:? Most of th? Gmit Industries. R G. F an Jfc C<x'} W?klr R<Ti?* of Tmde, endiaj? April. 5? says: In spite of coder? ie ic pre recent ia cost of the preat industries. hasisess is disappoiatia^r. Er: notations of the speedy end of war ia Earope, through Tarkish ri..t-'i'T V?r? V^'rwk^ t?-? denress rraia. IV umads of Austria aad Chin haee exports of {dt.SM.OiV goM merchnrlis* imports ire grannr increase*.. and final notion of Congress oa the reeiecue question feexs more remote. The exports of gv4d would not have much .njiucnce if there were not an extraoniiuiiT increase in merchandise imports nai some decerns* in export^ from Xer York, Irpe for the Inst week, and fixe per cent, for April. Imports hare increased about &'? per cent, oxer Inst jeer for the week, nnd for four weeks Iiaxebeen 30 per oentgreater. At Boston imports haxe been extraordinary nnd nt Philadelphia ther have amounted for the month to $1,-; ?7i\CVX\. The thought tknt this abnormal increase may continue ns long ns notion oa the revenue bill is deferred tends to affect exchange, but the mnin iz.iz.ez.ct at present is im eiocpuoav demand for reconstruction of the Austrian monetary system and far Japan. * ! Of the great industries the iron and steel manufacture is *Jot in advancing no-v as it eras much the quicker in the winter. Partly because the increase in production in pig arms then too rapid, . partly because enormous contracts taken when the different pools broke ; doarn arent mainly to the larger con- ) f ceras. and perhaps even more because I possibilities of near development re< main, there is great hesitation noar in placing orders, Beports of pending negctiiitions betareen the Illinois stew ana M innesota iron companies point to an important change as possible. j Prices of Meaaba ore hare not i ret been established, though ere , better than Fayal has been sold at $145 to $150, and pig is weaker: Bessemer at $9.50. arith one sale of . 2,OCO tens for $3.25 at Pittsburg. and ! grey forge at $8.50. Xails are about 5 I cents per keg loarer and tin plates 5 cents per box. and Eastern quotations are frequently shaded to secure busi' cess. A heavy sale of lake copper is i reported at 11 Wats and lead is a trifle I areaker. Tberi is mote business in cot- I , ton and aroolea good's and a little bets ter tone in prices, aoae cotton and some I aroolea good* baring slightly ad- j < ranee J without general change. ' i The mills are rather better em- i ployed, and the demand is apparent- ? lj increasing, thnngh not enough in arool to induce manufacturers to pordnae. Bat imports hers been euortaoaa, if current reports ere not in error, more than 100,000,000 pounds in April alone. Philadelphia having received over 8,000,000 pounds in four *?li Near York over *4,080,000 and Bostm appsrently over 19,000,000 mpda. Sales for tbapast fowmoaus hat* bean l8Q.ttt.ISB. including**. 343.W domestie, and for tba wool rear 331.tt2.801, including S18.tS2.8ll aoe?eatk, bat in lfise-B sales were 308, ?<*,855 ]ioud&. Failures for tbe week bare beaa 23? in tbe United States against 238 last year, and 40 in Canada against 31 last JMT. I THE SOITH'S INDUSTRIES,. A Large Sale of Railroad Bonds lamtarats la New Ptaata. The Manufacturers' Record announces tbis week tbe completion at tbe sale of f4.f00.000 of bonds of tbe Mobile Jr Ohio Railroad, to build a 300- , cD-; brand* from Columbus. Miss., j to Montgomery. Ala. Tbe number of new enterprises announced during tbe reel; was ti editable, tbe most important of them being tbe following: #10.\,00 telephone factory. 7,000 bursepower electric plant, in Alabama Cotton compress, city electric light plant, cannery. 13,000"ton pbospbaU plant doubling capacity, big sash and blind factory, in (ieorgia. a gi<uvw cumpress uJ warehouse company to erect i.0W bale press. $30,000 fro it grove company, big (agar mil, in Lommml Water writs, dtr electric lights and Titer plants in ?f:snssifpL Wood-working fa t oit. lumber company in North 0a> oii&a. Imjdement works. drag compa?y, #10.400 lumber company, $900,t*V real estate company $33,000 teleeptoM company in Yiniiia. A mobfr of near, large buildings mere also announced to be batik among them being a #11.000 court house at8rlyania, Ga., and a $3, 000 jail at Griffn, Ga. Agreeing to Terms of Peace. Paris. France, May L?(By CWslal? Dispatches received' here state tliat M. j Balli. the new Premier of Greece, has 1 intimated his willingness to hure the ( powers m ediate in tha contest bitween ' Greece and Turkey. It is further stared *W Turkey has 'signified her willingness to accept a war indemnity guaranteed by* a temporary surrender of the Greek fieet. All the powers, including Germany and Austria, have agreed that the moment is opportune to in terrene between Greece and Turkay. Thar are now discussing tha conditions of 'such intervention. and appear about to reach an understanding. T?e Cotton Yield. Regarding the probable effect on cotton of the overflow of the Mississippi, the New Orleans Times-Democrat says that the estimate of 1.300.000 bales lest on account of the flood is a wild ezag- 1 geration Even if tha entire Taaao delta 1 was orei-flowed and not a pound of ootton raised there, the total loss would not exceed a quarter of those figures. V small acreage is likely to hare a far better effect on prices than the over flow. From Old Ireland. The steamship Majestic, which arrived at New York April 29th. brought j -- '? ,l? IrdiTtBBin. mostly i QU ICSC ? ? , voaiig. There vere * fev old *cuc? j who v<re sect br their sons; a fev . wire? traveling rrith their husbands and their families of bright children, and a fev vires coming to join their ' knsbacia. The mnaifration bcr^as at | Ellis Island cxjwte a larger atraber of Iriak BUMgiBti this rear than asaaL rOPTLlK SCIE5CE. .'1 As coasts near the san their Telocity leers increases. Glowworms ere raoeh more brilliant when a storm is coming th*n at otto To aid in filing aw teeth straight a sew fileholder has a frame wits two n.i ?V^i 4>i'olt tka 41b iwiaci guiuc;, ?.. is fastened to make it ru true. Under forced draught the new British first-c2as battleship Jupiter aih an average of 18L4 knot* in her fourboor trial, nearly a knot more than the contract speed. Microscopical investigation as mad to prove that the porea of vood invite the passage of moisture in the direction of the timber's growth, but repel it in the opposite direction. Xewton calculated the velocity of the ooniet of I860 to be 980,000 nil? an how. Brjdoane rated the speed of the eoset he av in 1770 at tse and a half millions of miles an hour. A thermometer was left near a stove in a sleeping room at Dosseldorf recently and the fumes from the mer 4 ^!y9 cury poisoned two children so that their Lives were saved with diftosdty. So says the British Medical Journal. _?3 Odd or bismuth is extracted from ,"J ?ri.iM nintfil mixtures bv miM lead in the process of two Swedish metallurgists. Oim aad Loftmad, utd this method is cla med to bo so effao tire tint eren very poor ores are mads to yiald s proSt Peretral Lowell a sa interestiag popes oa "Taisiatke light of Be- i emit Discoveries," show how has oh serrations st Flagstaff Arixona, hns led to the eosdmos that the frtaaet Venus always presents the seam alio 1 i to the sua, sad is, therefore, lifeless. I Some iroa tomks of ths phsrmar, ? oopoeia are useless, others are harmfmL It has been suggested that the iroa should be obtaiaed ia aa ssrimfUhk form from vegetables, aad the aloe has aow ben extended by s Freaoh : ^ chemist, 1L Gabriel Vised, who proposes to feed the vegetables with iroa toprspara them serially for isgilshies ' ' ."j hiring say required proportaoa of _? inn. | The red elorar, wbea iatrodaaad ia-' i to Australia, grew moot lanriaatfo aad flowered, hot prodaoed aa eoad. The reasoa for this was the abeeaoe of j bumble bees?the bumble bee bai^ ^ : the oae that does the fcrtiliziag, at most exclusively, ia the red mover. Bees were iatrodaced, aadthu doom Exaetly the nme was the eeve with tU . ? j - |3 IV Way la 8tape . sg Where practicable the bed afeoali be plaoodoaa lae teitkiad w<b with the head toward the aortb. This umgoMBt plaoae tbe deeper M * | hanaoay with tbe eleotrioel em rule eeeee I by the rotatioa of tbe eaftee *0 aad^meetiwee itSIh eaaoMeV xaecb e ceded net a ao otbar eey. Bedroom shoald, where prjceflihwhaee a aoathern apoaie, tbat have tbe _J windows oa tbe eoatb or tbe eeanebt side of tbe baa. Tbe bead Vibe north will keep tbe bnc* ?1?? tory organs away from any pnaahla draaghts, and tbe room wmahKb tain that iadtyaaMa Rfuatt an St*3M health?plenty of sunlight through the sihle to obtain those ooafttiow it houses where there as rery little an* light that cau enter the1iaifiuom.and ^ where window and doorway* make It iapowble to piaoe the heed of tho '.j bed toward the north, hot hate there it a choice of room those that ofcr these conditions for comfort end health should be ehoteu for the hod- I Better sleep oaa be obtained with a -Jg low than with a high pillow. Tolanan the work of the axtariee tint propel the blood to every portion n* the organism sboold be the ein of twj one, so that the posters that note | nearly places the body * hotmontel Jjj position is the moat to he dented Bolstering np the heed ii ehrayeto he condemned, whether in eioknen or in - jjj health, unless bodily is j alias r on dot the perfectly recambent position on- ' possible. It is not well to lie always en the beck; by this practice thespineand the nerves that there aosptgih are ^ kept too hot, and a finetiih aknp ie apt to be the result. The right aide is the best to recline on, for than the heart and the larger arteries are re- v? liered from ondoe promnre. Ooendenally one tests well lying oti the itooseh. As e general role eight boors is eznple for a person in health; more produces a dull, heavy feeling on arising; leas,an unsatisfied anhg for more. And there is also no ream for doabt that the two home in* j mediately preceding the midnight boor are the moet favorable for eujoyisg the "beauty sleep" of the eight. IB A Kemartahle fee. A remarkable story vu told lav Cleveland (Ohio) eoart by Mb Gilbert, the wife a prominent pbysiema of that city. She says that Wr father-in-lav, who does not lib her and boa tried to have his son divocee her, filled her month with vet poster of peris and allowed the staff to harden, so that aha eoald not talk. A hammer had to be need to break the plaster in her month before it eoald be removed. She now saea her father-in-law far $20,000 for this asssn.lt, end for $30^OW for endeavoring to alienate her husband's affections. ?Detroit Free Press. ??' Tbiwagh a Small He!?. A female burglar, tveaiy-.ma yean of age, recently sent ;ail in London, was proved to nare worked her raj through an openingniae and eneinmrter inches square, end on e prerioos occasion had vrifgied through a hole eight inches equate.