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" Laugh at those who grumble,
And be merry as you can."
" We must travel through life, but why make
a dead march of it.'"'
Oh, the melancholy croaker,
With his croak, croak, croak,
He can always tell a funeral.
But never tell a joke;
He, in his ready coffin,
Can drive a nail, no doubt;
But with a smiling visage
He never draws one out.
Oh, the poor, unhappy croaker,
Like a revolving vane,
He antidates the weather.
Is sure it's going to rain;
Hi- knows the crops arc ruined,
His memory he jogs
To prove that now the country
Is g' ing to tiie dogs.
Tlic dreary, weary croaker
Will have to die some day,
Perhaps he'll go to Heaven
And walk the golden way;
But when the shining pavements
His gloomy eyes behold,
Hc'l! shake his head and mutter,
' 1?d-o-ift be-lieve?they're?gold."
?Detroit Free I'rcss.
A BABY'S FLAG.
Grizzled and errav, dazed and indolent,
looking as if he hail missed the train in
the progress of tins life; as if the world
had gone on and left hint hopelessly behind?no
Christinas turkey for him this
year; not for twenty years past, I reckon
?the old Confederate soldier (who limped
about awkwardly, for he had a lot of
icad to carry) told me the story, the other
day, in the Shenandoah. If it is untrue,
or dull, blame him, not inc. I only give
it as I got it. General " Jeb" Stuart
was hanging on the Federal flank. His
midnight camp was pitched on the
hillside. Up the hill a little way
lay a farm house; two or three
haystacks hung upon the hillside. The
worn-out horses fed there and nod led
their drowsy heads to the hay. All
around on the ground under the trees in
camp the troopers lay?black men, white
men, brown men, men who were gray
and old, little lads, boys who had seen
dozens of battles and hardly yet as many
years, a mixed and motley lot; ragged,
wretched, hungry. They lay befere the
tire, munching roasted corn, gnawing it
off the cob greedily, husking it, roasting
it. rolliuir it in the ashes on the coals,
s singeing it in the blazing tire of old Virf
ginia fence rails. Now and then a shot
rang out in the clear, still night, away
where the pickets met too closely for
j peace, and now and then better disposed
y , men on the picket lines, or more favoied
f. 1 and fortunate, met together and reached
- / cac^ other on their bayonets tobacco,
and old, ragged newspapers, in a sort of
J exchange of prisoners of war. The moon
rode high and white in the great blue
sen above, and all the stars of he:iven
looked down in pity and in peace.
r Then a song burst out. The black men
were singing louder, sweeter, with more
pathos and memories of home than the
white men. It was a sad, grotesque,
weird and unique picture. Suddenly
Stuart stood in the midst of the ragged
and uproarious lot.
"Discipline! Look here, Sergeant
Zeb, I want discipline or death. Dis
cipnne, i say. wo you wane me to
fight battles and win victories with a
howling mob like this and the eneuy
right here waiting to recoil on us the
moment we give him a chance! Discipline.
I say. Ilang your blacks, and
6hoot your whites; or have discipline!"
Silcncc in a second! And the long,
lean men, and the sleeping lads pulled
themselves together and tried to look
and act like soldiers, while the blacks,
at the suggestion of their being hung up,
melted back from the fitful embers into
the night, as if they were a part of it.
Then the weary, bearded chief threw
himself on a heap of saddles at hand
: nd forgot his sternness, as he looked
about over the wretched group of poor
ft llows gathered for a little rest under
the oaks.
"Boys. I'm hungry; hungry as a 1
wolf; what have you got to eat?"
A '-Ifr/en mr?n snrnnnr im <1 hfl'f dozen
young, beardless troopers rushed for- 1
ward, and from out of the night, back
under the trees, there came many black
forms. And each and every one, black :
and white men, old men and little boys, 1
reached up and thrust into the chieftain's 1
hands, with generous alacrity, an ear of
roasted corn. Some of these ears of corn I
had only a few teeth-marks in them, be- '
ing almost entirely intact. Others again ]
were pretty well gnawed down to the '
cob. But they were all alike offered 1
with prompt generosity.
''Corn!" and the Confederate chief '
shook his head with a grim and sickly '
smile, as he mutierod to himself: "Corn! '
biled corn, roasted corn, raw corn, white corn,
red corn, ali kinds of corn. No,
no, boys, I'm hungry, but I can't eat
corn any more to-night." The men
incited back in respectful silencs into a j
broad circle. And there, suddenly,
somehow, in the centre of the circle.
stood a child, a little boy, who had i
been aroused from his sleep on the pile
of saddles in the commotion that attended
the chieftain's coming. And i
now, wide awake, with a little tov flag
in one hand and a red apple in the other,
this little boy stood there in the midst of
these wild and ragged men, with checks
as rosy as the apple he held in his
dimpled little hand.
"If ycr hungry, mister, captain, general,
here's my yed apple," and with
this the little boy toddled right up and
stood almost between the booted legs of
the surprised soldier.
"Sergeant Zeb, where in all Jericho
did this child come from? Is it yours?
I won't have children around me here. 1
left my babies home; didn't you do the
same?"
"'Tain t my poor utile cmcKie, ^euer.il
Stuart."
"Then take it to it's mother," thuntiered
the chief.
' It's mother is dead, general."
"To its father, then."
"It's father is dead, too, general."
"Dead?"
"Dead. Killed 111 the battle yesterday
when you led over that stone fence
by the farm house 011 the hill,sah.
The Confederate general bit his lips.
Then,muttering to himself as he rose up
and turned half away: "Killed at the
farm house where I led. Some poor
farmer defending his home and little
ones. I can't stand this!"
"Please, sir, Mister General,won't you
take my ved apple? Papa growed it in
his orchard. And he buyed me thar,
Here the child reached its little flag,
trying hard to make friends with the
seemingly nam man, who was turning
away as if to avoid it.
"Sergeant Zeb, where did that Hag
come from?"
" Had it in his hand when I found it,
sah: it won't give it up, sah; says its
father gave it to it for the Fourth of
July, sah."
" FofI of July," piped the little waif,
waving the little stars and stripes overhead,
there in the midst of the dark and
gathering circle of soldiers . under the
oaks. The general turned, stooped and
caught the child in his arms.
" Keep your pretty little flag, and
wave it when and where you like. Here,
Zeb, take care of this kid. Boys, we
killed its father by chance, yesterday.
Let us take care of it. We can't do less;
and, maybe, it will bring us luck. What
do you say, boys?"
The wild shout that shook the leaves
of the oaks overhead startled the advocate
for discipline, and. turning to Zeb,
as he strode away into the night for another
part of his camp, he shouted:
"Silence! and Zeb, discipline, discipline!
Dash it, discipline or death, I
say!" and he was gone. They gathered
about the wild cyed, rosy-faced orphan
with its little flair and red aimle. and
many a black and white and'not overclean
hand reachcd out to toy with and
stroke the hair of gold that hung heavy
as corn silk in summer time over the
lad's shoulders.
" I found it in the fence corner," said
Zcb, "all a shiverin', and its daddy and
its mammy dead, shot down by stray
bullets when we stormed the place."
"Yes, and dar war a rabbit right
\ aside ub him," said a black face back in
the dark, over another man's shoulder.
"An" golly, we kotched and eat der
rabbit," chuckled another black man.
"Wal, we'll keep the kid; keep 'im
till the cows come home." And with a
grunt of universal approval from all as
they gradually melted away, old Zeb
hoisted the little one high up on his colossal
shoulders, and turned suddenly to
look and to listen, for there was a shout
down the hill atd a sudden sharp volley
of shots above, beyond the hay
stacks. It began to look as if this little
sfjuad of raiders had got into a bite.
Shouts of the enemy down the hill; shots
of the enemy up the hill beyond the hay
stacks. Which way should the surprised
and panic stricken soldiers fly? The co
lo6sol old Virginia sergeant, with the
jrV'
child on his massive shoulders, was the
only officer in charge. The blacks were
hiding about behind trees, behind each
other, under saddles, blankets, anywhere.
The shouts of the advancing enemy came
loud and clear from below and very near.
The camp-tire, the song of the soldiers,
had done the mischief. This little squad
of ragged, panic-stricken night raiders
was doomed. The leaves began to fall
like autumn time over old Zeb, the tall
and angular old sergeant.
What a plight for a soldier! A battle
on hand and a babe in his arms. The
old sergeant came near throwing it away
with the heap of negroes, hiding away
under the saddles. Where was Stuart?
The sergeant put his hand to his car and
leaned to listen as best lie could between
the sharp volleys from below that were
ruining tnc prospects of the next year's
acorn crop in the trees overhead, lie
could hear the clatter of iron hoofs on
the high ridge to the west. The moon
was setting large and round and low.
Over the bare crest of this hill and
against the moon he could see the Confederate
cavalry pouring in impetuous
flight. Stuart, the cautious and wary
leader, had escaped.
"Come men' We must follow our general
on foot?any way to get out of this.
Come! Up by the haystacks and over
the rid<rc."
The strong man started up the stony
hid to pass the hay stacks. The child,
as if it was afraid it might fall, wound
its left arm affectionately about the great
gray shock of hair. And that little act
saved it: that accidental show of affection
won the old fellow's heart entirely.
Why, he would not now have pitched it
aside .with the terrilied negroes for gold.
l*p the hill he led swiftly, the men
following iu groups, knots, singly.
armed, unarmed, limping,
leaning, erect in all manners of ways,
only so as to escape the Federals, charging
up the hill from below. They could
see the points of shirin? bayonets entering
their camp, by the light of the burning
fence rails, as they lied out of it, and
the black color had nearly all faded from
the flyiug Confederates as they ncarcd
the haystacks.
Here the gray-headed old sergeant,
with the child on his shoulder, paused
for a moment right under the haystacks
to get his bearings. The moon had
fallen down behind the crest of the hill.
It was nearly dark now. The Federal
bayonets were only a few steps in the
rear. The rajrffed Confederates huddled
close and helpless up and after the tall
and grizzled old giant, who stood there
looking out which way to lead them,
with the child on his shoulder, its little
left arm hugging the great shaggy head,
its right one holding the flag.
The tall, gray soldier threw up his
great, heavy hand to his brow and looked
out under his broad palm to try and see
which way to lead. Suddenly the haystacks
blazed out before him, and the
whole scene was bright as day. The
Federals had been waiting for the Confederates
to come. And now as they
stood there, huddled together and helpless
as sheep, they found the haystacks
in their path of retreat, and stood there
behind them, before them, around them,
to shoot them down in the light they had
kindled.
It was a matchless and magnificent
sight! No scene so bright, no sunlight
brighter! It pleased the child, excited
and delighted it. What could it care
for the long lineof gleaming guns leveled
a few rods away in the rear? What did
it know of the death hiding down in
every gleaming gun-barrel ol that compact
mass of uniformed men just before?
Nothing at all. Its little heart leapt with
wonder delight at the beautiful uniforms,
the discipline, the quick action :n which
every gun was brought instantly to the
shoulder. The bayonets were beautiful
?the gleaming bayonets all in the bright
liirht. "
The child seemed to think this a part
of the celebration, and in the fulness of
its delight, just as the Federal ofHcer
drew his sword and was giving the word
"Fire!" the child, holding tight on to
the great grizzly head with its left hand,
and, as if to contribute its part to the
oelebration, waved its little Hag there in
the glare and light. And in tnat awful
stillness which comes always before any
dreadful catastrophe, piped out in its
shrill, little voice, as it raised itself higher
for the occasion:
"Foil of July.''
Put it upon record in gold and red
that the Federal officer lowere:! the point
of his sword. The heavy breeches of the
Ljuns struck the stony ground witha thud,
the line of blue divided, and the old
jray Confederate, with his little charge
sn his shoulder still waving the little Hag,
massed on through the line, while cheer
ifter cheer shook the bullet-riddled leaves
jf the oaks overhead.
And this is the story of the old ('onFederate
soldier of the Shenandoah, who
lad missed the train on the line of Progress,
down in old Virginia. ?Jowjuin
Miller.
Increased Length or Human Life.
The stage to which we have at present
lttaiucd may be stated thus: Compared
with the period 1838?'>4 (the earliest for
which there are trustworthy records) the
average duration of a man's life is now ,
41.1) years instead of 39.1), and of a ;
woman's 4>.3 instead of 41.'J years, an
uddition of eight per cent, to the female
life and five per cent to the male. Of
each thousand males born at the present
day, fourty-four more will attain the agfe :
of thirty-five than used to be the case
previous to 1871. For the whole of life ;
the estimate now is that of 1,000 persons
(one-half males and one half females)
thirty-five survive at the age of fortyfive,
twenty-six at fifty-five, nine at sixtyfive,
three at seventy-five and one at
eighty-five. To put the case in another
way, every 1,000 persons born since 1870
will live about 2,700 years longer than
before. In other words, the life of 1,000
persons is now equal in duration to that
of 1,070 persons previously; and 1,000
births will now keep up the growth of
our population as well as 1,070 births
used to do. This is equivalent in
tu.ciilf In an inorr?oc/? nf nur nnnn.
tw-u.v ivy ~ ?
lution, and in the best form?viz., not
by more births but by fewer deaths,
which means fewer maladies and better
health. What is more, nearly seventy
percent, of this increase of life takes
place for is lived) in the ''useful period"
?namely, between the ages of twenty
and sixty. Thus of the 2.700 additional
years lived by each thousand ot onr population
seventy per cent., or l.S',10 years,
will be a direct addition to the working
power of our people. It is to be remembered
that there might be a great addition
to the births in a country with
little addition to the national working
power?nay, with an actual reduction of
the national wealth and prosperity?
seeing that, regarded as "economic
agents," children are simply a source
of expense, and so also are a majority of
the elderly who have passed the age of
three score. On the other hand, as
already said, only one-quarter of the
longer or additional life now enjoyed
by our people is passed in the useless
periods of childhood and old age, and
more than one-third of it is lived at ages
when life is in its highest vigor, and
most productive alike of wealth and of
enjoyment.? Coru/iill Mayuzine.
Palovzean Funeral Customs.
In the graveyards of the Palovzcs, in
the counties of Borsod and Ilcves, may
be seen here and there pyramidal monuments
of stone, with niches in their sides
for images of the saints. They are a
survival from the ancient heathen altars
of these people, the Rumanians of old,
which were erected in honor of the sungod;
and to this day also may be seen
on many of the houses of the Palovz.es
the symbol of the pyramid with Rial's
eye, the use of which has come down
from generation to generation, without
the peasants knowing what it means.
Children who die still-born, or without
having received baptism, are buried as
near as possiuie 10 me pyrumiuui mumr
ments. It is a part of the folk-lore of
the Palovzes that the little ones who arc
laid to rest near these Baal-pillars will at
the end of seven years come out from
their graves, when, if some good soul
will come near them and utter the baptismal
formula, they will immediately
become little angels and go to heaven;
but, if the baptism is not given, they
will have to wait seven years longer for
another opportunity to be released.
Many other reminiscences of Baal-worship
survive among these people. The
mother who has lost a young child wraps
her head, as a sign of mourning, in a
fiery red cloth. The former prevalence
of cremation is radicated in the custom
of burning the clothes which the deceased
wore last. The tcar-jugs of the
ancients may still be found in the houses,
of exactly the old form and size, but
destined to a quite different purpose.
Another peculiar custom at the funeral
feast is t o lay a plate with salt and bread
upon the table, for the use of the soul of
the departed one, if it should appear in
the circle of friends.?I'opuUw Scicncc
Monthly.
A cobbler's wife call him "Breath,''
because 'he lasts for the living.
COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD.
AH IHTEBESTIHG DESCBXPTIOH OP
HOW HATS ABE MADE.
A Curious I'ritfi'ssmid Olio Tiint Call*
For lirrat Labor?Various Stages
ot Jikinc.
In the first place the whole material of
which a good felt hat is made?with the
exception of the bands, binding and lining?is
fur. For this purpose the furs
of the beaver, the Russian hare, the rabbit,
the French coney and the South
American rutriu arc used. Every reader
will be familiar with all but the lastnamed
animal, which is a soft-coated,
beautifully marked rodent, about as large
as a cat. Several of these furs arc mixed
t<> make the felt, and the mixtures for
fine hats are secrets carefully guarded by
the men who have discovered the right
proportions for the constituents.
The forming process is a most curious
one. It consists of a copper cone six
inches broad across the top, about twelve
bread access the bottom and three feet
high. This cone is full of holes; in fact,
it is a sieve. A workman takes it and
dampens it. Then he sets it so that the
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round groove of a wooden plate. This ,
plate is raised a foot above the floor in
the center of a semi-circular wooden fence
rising six feet above the floor. Oil one
side of this particular inclosure and
rising above it arc the rollers of a big
machine, at which a boy is standing. The
boy sets the machine going and it begins
to fill the air above it with hair. The
man with the cone has also started some
machinery, apparently, for the cone is
rapidly revolving horizontally, and something
beneath it which cannot be seen is
buzzing busily. Then the man takes the
two doors which arc folded back from
the sides of the semi-rircular fence and
closes them. They form another complete
semi circle and the cone is thereupon shut
up in a kind of wooden well six feet in
diameter. Hair is raining down all this
time from the machine above this well.
Hefore a minute is over the machine has
tossed all the fur for one hat into the air.
The boy rings a bell, the machine stops,
the man opens the doors of the well, the
cone is stopped, and then the visitor
looks at what seems a miracle. All the
fur which has been seen lately falling
softly like rain iuto the wooden well is
lying evenly distributed upon the topaud
sides of the cone.
This loose fur covering of the copper
cone is the felt hat as it first begins to
take shape. The man who is attending
to it throws wet cloths about it and car"nnn
nnil nil nAvnv to a tnnk. where
lie plunges it in boiling water. Then he
carries the cone to a table and carefully
strips the hat form off it. It needs an
experienced hand to do this; a tyro at
the business would break the loose lyini;
form all to bits. The man performs the
operation with ease, though, and turns
it over and over, looking for flaws and
weak parts. Whenever he perceives one
lie takes some wet fur and sticks it there.
"When he has patched the form before
him he wraps a wet cloth about it and
carefully wrings it out. "When the
wringing process is complete he rolls it
with a wooden rolling pin, just as a woman
rolls pastry. He rolls it from the top
downward and its height diminishes
every minute. At first it was about
three feet high and the same in other
dimensions as the cone, but in a little
while it is contracted, with the rolling
pin and continued dipping in hot water,
to two feet high, about. Then it is taken
to what is callcd the sizing shop. In
this placc are round tables, the centers
of which are low. while the boards slope
up to the outer edges; in the low, central
part boiling water is bubbling. A
man stands at each of these tables and
beside him lies a pile of hat forms. He
takes one and beats it and dips it in the
boiling water and rolls it from the top
downward till it becomes not more than
nine inches high.
When it has reached the required size
for this process the hat is "shaved" by a
man who takes it on his knee and goes
over its surface rapidly with a very sharp
knife. Then it is "second sized" or rolled
again to make it smaller, and after
that stiffened with shellac dissolved in
alcohol, laid oti/With a brush, thcu it is
cleared, the surface being washed with a
solution of soda. The next process is
dyeine, which is very carefully done, the
exact proportions of dyewood to water
being preserved and the hats kept continually
stirred as, if they were allowed
to rest on each other, there would be
some very extraordinary coloring effects
produced.
After being dyed the hat goes to the
"blocker out." This man?who is one
of many?has a hand on him like a
horse s hoof; the palm is one great callous
as white as a water blister and as
bard as sole leather, and the palm side of
his finger and thumb show similar callousness.
These arc produced by the
man's work, which is especially hard,
lie has bv strenirthand considerable skill
mil much perseverance to pull the hat
into the shape of the block. There are
no artificial aids. He dips the hat into
boiling water, pulls it out again, dips his
hand into a cask of cold water which
stands by his side, and then grasping
some portion of the hat between his
hand he braces himself and pulls.
When the "blocker out'" has got
through with it the hat is ready for finishing.
A man now pulls it over a block
and irons it into the final shape. Then
smooth sand paper is used to pounce or
smooth it. After being thoroughly
pounced the hat is then greased with hot,
crude oil to make the color even; then it
is rounded and the brim cut to any desired
width. After this cutting, which
is done with a gauged hand-machine,
the hat g->es away to the curlers, who
curl the brim. These men must be very
skillful and have good eyes for size and
shape. They take a curved iron blade
witli a wooden handle and turn up the
sides of the brim a little at a time till
they get it to the required shape. One
of these men frequently makes as much
as $7.> per week, and one week he made
:?110. After the hats have passed through
the curlers' hands they go to the trimmers,
who ?re all girls. These put on
the silk binding and the sweat bands and
sew in the lining, and the hats are then
taken awav to the packing room, where
each hat is carefully nested in a com- j
partment of the wooden box in which it j
is to travel to its destination. Such is i
the method of making still felt hats. |
The soft felt articles are turned out in |
much the same way save that the stiffening
is omitted and the brim is flanged I
over an iron block.
To make the silk stovepipe hats a
large square of muslin is dipped in shellac,
wrung out and then stretched over
a wooden frame to dry. After drying it
is cut up into sizes and shapes suitable
for the various parts of the hat. Some
pieces arc cut on the bias for the crowns
of hats, others are stiffened particularly
for the brims, while the muslin for Ihe
central cylinders, which arc to be the
sides, is cut out in oblong squares. The
material for a dozen of these hats is then
given to a workman, who draws the
frame of the hat together around a block
and fastens it by means of a hot iron.
The shell of the hat, as it is called, is
li/.n nnd lrmkinrr it still"
and then the silk plush is put on, a man j
ironing it to the shellac covered shell and i
sponging it with water at every stroke of j
the iron, (iiils sew in the crown and i
the brim after the sides of the shell have
been fastened, and then the seams are
yone over with a hot iron, which conceals
all traces of them. The brim is j
then curled as in the case of the felt ar- i
tide, and the hat then goes away to the j
luering machine, where the polish brushes,
revolving rapidly, give it a high polish.
From the luering machine it goes to the
hands of a girl who trims it and puts in
the lining.
Opera hats arc made of steel springs
imported from France and covered here
with either merino or black satin.?
Brooklyn Kmjle.
A Hoy Who is Unable to Perspire.
There is a boy in Putnam county, a
son of Jefferson Lee, ten years of age,
who, owing to the peculiar nature of his
skin, has never been known to sweat a
Ma tifn An.
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other phenomenal feature connected :
with the boy is that he has only four i
teeth, and he had these when born, having
neither cut nor shed any since his
birth. lie is very much affected by the
seasons. In the summer he gets exceedingly
warm and is compelled, in
order to live at all, to keep his head
and body wet with cold water, and falls
off to almost a skeleton, but when winter
comes and cold weather sets in he is
enabled to dispense with his bath and
grows fat. lie is said to be a sprightly
bov, with plenty of sense.?Nuxhcille
World.
"So, you have finally made up your
mind you won't have me?'' he asked.
" Yes, firmly," sh? replied. " I sup|>oso
you take me for a fool for proposing to
you so often.'' "No, sir; I don't take j
you for a fool. I wouldn't have you for
a gift."?Detroit Free Tress.
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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
A Piece of Advice.
We advise every farmer to select this
fall a small plot of warm, mellow, welldrained
soil, to dig it up thoroughly and
to add a little manure, and then to plant
apple seeds on it. Select seeds from
good and hardy sorts of fruit and from
good apples. Plant in rows, a seed every
foot or less, and cover a half-inch deep.
Over the row place a narrow board, to
keep hens oil, and to prevent washing or
heaving of the soil. Make the rows four
feet apart. In the Spring remove the
boards. If the seeds all germinate, some
of the young seedlings should be transplanted.
Cultivate well next Summer.
If green lice attack the tender seedlings,
apply a weak Paris green mixture. A
year from next Spring graft the seedlings.
These will be ready to plant a
year after grafting, if they do well, or if
they remain longer in the rows. They
will till vacancies in the old orchard, or
supply stock for a new one, and some
will be wanted by neighbors.?American
Cultivator.
Black Teeth in Pip,
All pigs have the little black teeth in
the middle of their jaws, which worrypeople
so much. These are the teeth in
the males which make the tusks and in
the females which keep the rope from
slipping oil of the jaw when they are
caught to be rung. When the pigs are
young these teeth arc very small, but
sometimes so sharp that they lacerate
their tongues or cheeks so that they cannot
eat well and then they ''do miserably."
When a pig shows these symptoms
these teeth should be broken off smoothly
with a pair of pincers. Taking the pig
between the knees and putting a small
cord with a slipping noose around the
upper jaw will cause it to open its mouth
and at the same time it can be held
firmly. Sometimes these teeth turn outward
and make trouble on this account.
I have had a Victoria boar, nine years
old, whose tusks were six inches longseme
" black teeth." In another boar
about as old 1 had to saw them off as
they took a turn into the flesh. In sows
they grow from a half-inch to an inch in
length. Out of 100 pigs this year,
mostly Duroc-Jersey, there has been but
one ailing, and this was a case of "black
teeth," by which I mean, the incipient
tusks made his mouth sore, and after
thcv were broken off the piir thrived as
well as any?F. B Curtis.
Care of Geranium*.
It is altogether useless to expect that
geranium plants, which have flowered
all summer in the open air, will, if taken
up and potted, continue to bloom equally
well during the winter season. If geraniums
are wanted for winter flowering,
they must be specially grown during
summer, although it is not yet too late
to prepare a few plants for that purpose.
If plants have not been specially reserved,
a few should be taken up immediately
and potted, care being taken
to select the most compact and perfectlyformed
specimens.
In potting, select porous or soft-baked
pots, proportionate to the size of the
plant, and place in the bottom of each
at least an inch of broken pots in order
to insure perfect drainage. Keep the
plants in the center of the pots, and firm
the soil well around their roots. "When
the plants are potted, water thoroughly,
and place in a shady situation for a
week or ten days, after which time
they should be exposed to the sun.
Have them well supplied with water, and
remove all flower-buds until it is time to
bring them inside, which will be on the
approach of cool weather. Give them a
light, sunny situation, and an average
temperature of fifty-five degrees. Do
not crowd the plants, and turn them occasionally,
so as to develop an even, sym
metrical shape.
The most suitable compost for geraniums
is a mixture of two-thirds well-rottcd
sod from an old pasture; one third
well-decayed manure, and a fair sprinkling
of bone-dust, thoroughly mixed and
pulverized before using. Water should
be given as often as necessary, care being
taken to give an ample supply, and when
the pots become filled with roots, liquid
manure water should be given twice a
week. One ounce of guano, dissolved
in two gallons of water, will be a proper
proportion for this purpose.
"When iarge specimens arc desired the
plants should be repotted as often as the
pots become filled with roots, or until
they have reached the desired size,
when they can be treated as above advised.?
Garden.
Farm and Garden Note*.
Small flowers arc often more desirable
tlmn large ones. They have a delicate
beauty and a modesty seldom found in a
large flower.
The best way to combat the blackberry
blight is to plant a new patch ever}' two
or three years on a new spot. When the
old bushes are destroyed, burn them.
We would discourage the practice of
pruning fruit trees in the fall or early
winter. Early spring, or else in June,
appear to be better seasons for pruning.
? Uultittitor.
Double tuberoses often degenerate.
Just why they do so has not been clearly
demonstrated. The single ones have the
advantage of flowerine nearly two weeks
earlier than the double ones.
Try a handful of nitrate of soda on
two hills of late sweet corn. Spread it
on evenly and rake it in. You will see
a diflerencc in the color of the leaves in
two days after the first shower if your
land needs nitrogen.
If green trees are cut while in leaf,
they will dry sufKciently to be reasonably
good fuel by the middle of winter. It
is not necessary or advisable to cut them
up now; only sever them from the root,
that the work of seasoning may commence
at once.
A good way of utilizing the bed and
banks of streams is to sprinkle a little
watercress there. It will flourish for
countless years,and near a city-is a profitable
crop to market. This is. one of
the earliest salads in spring, and the demand
of it is increasing.
Kerosene oil and milk, in the proportion
of one quart of the former to live
quarts of the latter, makes a wash which
will destroy the apple-tree bark louse. It
will also kill the striped cucumber and
squash bug, and many other pests. It
can be applied with a large syringe.
A great deal of butter is injured in
quality before the milk is brought from
the barn or stable. If poor butter is the
result the housewife or dairymaid is not
the one to hold responsible. If cows are
well bedded, and the milker uses due
care, there will be much fewer complaints
of ill-flavored butter.
Fields that have bcou newly seeded
should have the stones gathered in heaps
before the cold weather for removal. The
rcmovai may be done when the ground
is frozen if those fast in the ground arc
placed in heaps. The roller in the
spring will press into the soft earth the
stones too small to be easily picked up.
It should be remembered that fur winter
grain the best, use of the roller is to
compact the seed bed before putting in
the grain. The rough surface left in
drilling is rather an advantage, as u protects
the grain from the severity of winter.
There are. however, seasons and
places in which after-seeding is advisable.
The fall is probably the best time to
top dress grass as the rains now due make
a growth which prevents the coarser particles
from washing away. The winter
snows and rains carry the valuable portions
of the manure among the grass
roots which will be responded to by an
earlier and more vigorous growth in the
sprint:.
Every fall there is a great deal of refuse
gathered around the fields, which |
should be piled up and burned. Much
of it will consist of weeds, whose final
cutting has not entirely prevented seeding.
If left till spring these seeds will
fall to the ground, and burning the refuse
will then miss one of its most important
objects.
The gizzard of fowls is admirably
adapted for grinding the hardest grains,
and it is well 1o give it something of
this to do. Feeding fouls with meal
and water or soaking grain for them is a
waste of labor. Even young chickens
thrive better on whole wheat or screenings
than on meal mixed with water.
The drink needed is better given separately.
The fall is the best time to deepen and
clean open ditches. The grass and
weeds that grow on their sides should all
be removed, so as to leave a free course
of water. Especially if billows have got
a foothold on "the banks, they should be
pulled up by the roots. It is impossible
to keep an open ditch in good working
condition where its banks arc infested (
by willows.
It is generally supposed that no I
animal will eat bean fodder excepting !
sheep. It may be important to know j
that, after a little use of them, cows be- j
come very fond of beanstalks and will
V ?
eat them in preference to good hay.
Refuse beans may be boiled and fed to
fattening hogs, mixing at' first with
other grains until the animals become
used to the new diet.
Fuchsias arc raised from seed by florists
who wish to obtain new varieties.
The plants are brought into bloom in
about a year. Tin; millions of plants
yearly raised arc produced from cuttings.
Pinching in the ends of the shoots of a
fuchsia probably retards its blooming
somewhat, but it causes numerous
branches to form, and improves the shape
of the plant and makes possible the pro
duction of a greater number of flowers.
The fine. dust from much traveled
roads has considerable manuring propertics.
Some farmers have used it as a
divisoc to more evenly distribute phosphate
in drilling grain. It is excellent
to covcr hen droppings, as it absorbs
the ammonia which would otherwise escape.
In cities the street scrapings consist
very largely of the droppings from
horses, and are readily appropriated by
market gardeners and farmers living
within a few miles.
Dr. Sturtevant has been counting the
heads afTcctcd by smut in a plat of oats
of different varieties, . apparently not
much injured, lie found that 6 1-2 per
cent, were destroyed. Contrary to the
belief of many farmers, it was shown
that the oats growing on poor, thin sod
were worse smutted than that which
grew stronger. This indicates that deficient
vigor predisposes to the diseaso,
and suggests liberal manuring, especially
with mineral fetilizers, as a possible
remedy.
Ilounchold Hint* nml Itccipc*.
Delicious pudding sauce is made of
mixed fruits, choppcd fine, and cooked
until soft. Thin properly with water,
sweeten, and lastly add a well-beaten
egg. Serve cold or hot.
To remove ink stains from printed
books, etc., take a little oxalic acid,
which dissolve in a small quantity of
warm water, then slightly wet the stain
with it, when it will disappear, leaving
the text uninjured.
Flowers may be kept very fresh over
night if they arc excluded entirely from
the air. To do this, wet them thoroughly,
put in a damp box, and cover with
wet raw cotton or wet newspaper; then
place in a cool spot.
An entree of small new carrots is made
by first making some rich, well-seasoned
stock, then boil the carrots until tender
in salted water. When done slice them
tViin nml rlrrm thorn into a sauce nan con
taining the stock, Let them just come
to a boil, then serve.
A receipt for tomato pie is as follows:
Peel and slice enough green tomatoes to
fill one pic; to this allow four tablespoonfuls
of vinegar, one of butter, and
three and a half of sugar, flavor with
nutmeg, bake with two- crusts very
slowly. If you choose you may stew the
tomatoes first, and then there is no
danger of the pie being too juicy.
An excellent dish for a plain home
dinner is made by stewing some veal
until it is tender, thicken the gravy with
flour, and season with pepper and salt,
and put in enough butter to flavor it;
then make a nice crust like biscuit
dough, have it when baked an inch and
a half thick. Put the veal and gravy
into an earthen pudding dish and cover
the dish with the crust. Bake and serve
h< t.
To clean stained woodwork which is
also varnished, an old housewife recommends
the saving of tea leaves from the"
teapot for a few days. Drain them, and
when you have a sufficient quantity put
them in clean, soft water; let them simmer
for half an hour. When almost
cold, strain them out, and dipping a
flahnel cloth in the water, wipe off the
point, drying it with another flannel
cloth. One cup of tea leaves to one
quart of water is the due allowance.
/ A Wonderfnl Pass.
Some people think that the engineers
of the Mexican Central traced their line
through the Xochistongo pass, merely
obeying a professional pride that impelled
them to overcome great difficulties.
This pass is famous. It is a huge
artificial canal made to drain the Mexican
valley and lead the waters of its
salty Lake Tcxcoco to Lake Tula. It
was cut by order of the Marquis of
Salinis, Louis de Yelasco. viceroy of
Mexico, in 1G08, and under the supervision
of the Jesuit, Juan Sanchez. It
measures nine kilometres?nearly six
miles. Xo curve of the road is less
than two hundred metres in length, and
the steepest declivity is less than four
miles and about one and one-half per
cent, in dip. The rails of the Central
are steel, with a weight of twenty-seven
kilograms per linear metre. The crampirons
arc fastened with four bolts. The
sleepers are oak, two metres and five
hundred and fourteen milimctrcs in
length. The ballast of the road is the
limestone formation of the pass, that
insures its stability. An accident or
derailment there could scarcely occur
on account of poor condition of rails or
roadbed.
"Washing away tracks is amply guarded
against by great culverts to lead off
the water that may come down oil the
tracks, while the possibility ol land
slides is guarded against, as the center
of gravity lalls inside of the base sustaining
the road-bed. Retaining walls
occur where sutiicicnt slope could not be
given to the bank. The cliffs above the
road where landslides were possible have
been cut away till dangers from that
source has been nullified. Though the
.-oil is loose and washes easily, conduits
and culverts clear the tracks. The inclines
of the bauks above and below
the track are forty-five degrees,and careful
investigation shows them to be as
substantial as granite walls. The Central
company also employs two watchmcn,
who patrol the pass all the time.
At the slightest indication of danger they
would signal trains. Passenger trains
are allowed to go through the pass in
fifteen minutes and freights in twenty,
the former being supplied with airbrakes
that the latter do not possess.
Never has an accident occurred in the
pass, nor on the entire road has a single
passenger ever stained with blood
its history. Men have died in its const
ruction as they do on any road, yet
only twenty lives of laborers have been
sacrificed on its iron altars. The company
is not unmindful of the safety of
passengers, and even if it was it would
instantly withdraw its trains, were there
any danger, 011 the ground of policy, for
its engines cost $10,000 each, and the
princely Pullmans much more, all of
which would be dashed into kindlingwnnrl
in tht! evnnt of nn accident. ? C'itu
of Mexico Jtq>ublkan.
Grandeur of ft Glacier.
A correspondent'of the Pittsburg Dispatch
writing from Glacier J3:iy, Alaska,
thus describes Mtiir glacier: We went
into Glacier bay, among the icebergs,
early in the day, and anchored within
half a mile of the face of the glacier.
All our party then went on shore, spending
the entire day on this stupendous
river of ice. As we gazed upon it our
mouths were closed and our tongues were
silent, for we were dumb with astonishment,
while that great ice slide dragged
slowly on its dreary way, at the probable
rate of a quarter of a mile per year.
At the face or front it presents a perpendicular
wall of ice ")00 feet thick and
varies from three to ten miles in width,
extending bac k to the north probably
1."?() miles. Hundreds of tons of ice are
falling olf the face of this great glacicr
every few minutes into the bay, splashing
the water more than fifty feet high
and rolling up waves that tossed our ship
like a small toy boat. As the great icebergs
fall off into the water below,
which is twenty-live fathoms deep, sharp
reports like the discharge of heavy artillery
are constantly heard. This is
caused by the splitting up of the enormous
ice fields above.
The appearance of the ice, the most
pure in the world, is dazzling to the eye.
all the tints of blue, from the most delicate
to the deepest indigo, being rep
resented. 1 "C top sunace uuuuuws mm
little hillocks and miniature mountains
of ice. Great areas of earth, gravel and
large rocks the size of a house are carried
on the top of the ice fields from
place to place as this great tloe. more
than a thousand feet deep, of solid ice,
wends its weary way.
This brief description does not half
tell the story, and yet this is only one of
the many glaciers we saw. Our party,
manv of them old tourists, unite in saying
that Lake George, Hudson river,
Niagara falls, Yellowstone park, and all
the rest of the American scenery together
is put into the shade in comparison
with that of Alaska.
Every man in his own life has follies
enough?in his own mind troubles
enough?in the performance of his own
duties deficiencies enough?in his fortunes
evils enough?without mindinir
other peoples business.
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INCENTIVES TO LAUGHTER
AMUSING YABUS roUSD XV OUE
EXCHANGES.
Too Slender?Very I,ike One?Polar
Expedition*?A Very Venerable
Steed, Etc.
Maud?"Oh, pa, I don't see how you
can object to dear Augustus."
Pa?"I don't want any such youth for
my son-in-law, and you will please be
kind enough to remember it."
"But only last week you said you admired
healthy, well-built young men, as
the probability was that they would not
die young and leave their families to be
supported."
"True."
"Well, you know, Augustus is not at
all slender."
"No, but his salary is."
Very Like One.
Husband?It looks like rain, my dear.
Don't you think we had better take an
umbrella.
Wife?Oh, no? we don't want to be
bothered with it.
Husband?You take great chances, my
love.
Wife ?I know I do. If I were a man,
I would be a bold speculator. I would
never be content, like you, to do an ordinary,
humdrum business that would
just bring me a living.
[An hour later, tha couple standing in
a narrow doorway with the rain beating
fiercely in. ]
Wife?How do I look?
Husband?Very much like a speculator?sharer
of my joys and sorrows.?
Iiost/jn Budget.
Polar Expedition*.
Speaking about winter resorts, a military
friend of mine writes me that he
wouldn't ask anything better than a
commission to make a trip in search of
the open Polar Sea. He invites me to go.
I thanked him for the invitation and
asked him when he wanted his men
picked, before or after the trip.
While 1 would like well enough to
catch a few pickerel in the open Polar
sea and breathe the crisp, pure air of no
degrees and no minutes longitude due
west of a given point, I am almost positive
that I will dig the clinkers out of a
large base burner this winter and write
foamy, frothy, sunny, sootSful poems for
a dying world.
While no one would more cheerfully
enter into the giddy whirl of Esquimaux
society, or load his stomach with codliver
oil and old harness and saddles with
vinegar, in order that he might gratify a
morbid curiosity as to whether the North
Pole had a hot box or not, yet I shall not
avail myself of the opportunity to go this
winter.
While few could more joyously contemplate
a life where it would take a
ninety-day note a lifetime to mature, I
am free to say that I would rather, at
present, climb a tall tree until the payee
gets by.?Bill Nye.
A Very Venerable Steed.
Mr. Shaw (Josh Billings) tells this
story of a young mau who had just
graduated from college, and whose
father was a minister. The old man
said, " Now, you've been to a heap of
trouble, and it's cost a good deal of
money and time, what ye goin' to do?''
"I am going to be a veterinary surgeon."A
what?" said the father.
"A veterinary surgeon?a horse-doctor.
The horse is one of the noblest animals
in the world, father, and he hasn't many
friends. I am going to study him, and
see if I can't help him. I believe it is
as good a business as any.''
So, in spite of all his father's talking,
the boy studied up all the old horses he
could find; read up on each Case; pracj
tised what he could, and in a year was
| quite an adept. Then the parish made
I fniliAw o Txxnoartf nf o r\rcn Tho tvir_
1 ilia nuiiui a (Mbacuu ui it uvi^u. ^><1
| son was greatly delighted. The people
had paid a good price for the horse, and
the old gentleman was anxious to have
the judgment of his son on the animal.
Taking him into the stable, he asked his
boy to look him over, which lie did
carefully, shaking his head at every examinaton.
At last he said, "Father,
the poor horse doesn't amount to anyI
thing."
"Why, my son, the old horse i6 quite
as good an animal as the one on which
our Master rode when on earth."
As he said this, the boy had just
finished examining the horse's mouth in
order to determine his age. The old
man repeated his sentence, "Just as
good a horse as the one our Master rode
into Jerusalem."
"Father," said the boy, "it's the
same one!"
Stock Definition*.
What is a bull?
A bull is a person who talks much of
the prosperity of the country, the vast
earning capacities of the railroads, the
big crops out West, and then cats a tencent
sandwich for dinner.
What is a bear?
A bear is a person who talks much
of the depressed condition, too many
railroads, and that everything must go
to smash. In the evening he occupies a
front seat in the crack theatre of the
town.
What is a broker?
A broker is one who, in consideration
of a certain commission, properly sees to
it that you "go broke."
' What is a put?
A put is an instrument in writing
which secures to you the right of putting
your money where you will never see it
again.
What is a call ?
A call is an instrument of torture
benevolently issued by a capitalist. The
profits you thought you would make
generally begin after it has expired.
Brokers sometimes accept them as
a margin.
What is a margin?
A margin is a sum of money put* up
on your deal. It has a patent right for
always growing smaller, and is related
by marriage to a stop order.
What is a stop order?
A stop order is an electric machine
used in firing you out of the market.?
1 VuU Street S'eim.
War on the Sparrow.
War has again been declared against
the English sparrow. The hardy and
aggressive bird's enemies are moblizing
with the determination to make a more
vigorous attack upon him than he ever
before experienced. The lenders in the
movement arc ornithologists and sportsmen.
They have prepared a circular
petition, that has been widely distributed
and extensively signed, asking
that some conccrtcd action be taken to
exterminate the ''foreigner." The bird
is spoken of as an "intolerable pest,"
and, beside being put down as a general
nuisance, he is charged with ruthlessly
murdering or driving away " our own
sweet-voiced songsters." The petitions
are to be sent to the Ornithological
union of New York, and the society will
take some action regarding them.
" 1 think the sparrow is a nuisance,"
said a sportsman who is taking part in
the movement, yesterday. ' He is ail
ugly little thing, with a voice like the
sound made by a door swinging on rusty
hinges. His habits are very disagreeable,
and he is the most avaricious and
bellicose creature in the whole bird
world, lie fights like a professional
pugilist, and there is not a nice, ?|iiiet
genteel bird that can stand up against
him. A whole brood of 'em have taken
possession of an ivy-vine that covers one
of the walls of my house. They bulldozed
all the other birds that used to
come there so much that they have the
whole vine to themselves now. They
make such a noise that I can hardly
sleep after daylight. The only way I
can begin to get square is by popping
over a dozen or two of them before
breakfast every other morning. The
sport amuses me, but it doesn't seem to
make any diminution in the number of
the birds. There must be millions of
'em. Hut I'm agin 'etn all the same?
I'm agin 'em to the death. '
The caretakers of several public
squares said that the sparrows have
taken almost entire possession of the
trees and shrubs in the urban parks, and
if any other bird strays in ho is pretty j
sure to be set upon by the brownfeathered
" toughs" and beaten off.?
P/iil'idtljifiia Times.
Too Good a Report.
Insurance Agent?''It's all right. The !
doctor says you arc the lx?st risk he ever j
examined." .
Citizen?"The beat risk?"
' Yes; soundest constitution and perfect
health, you know."
"Did he say that?"
"Vcs, indeed. No trouble about your !
case. He sai 1 there was nothing to pre- j
vent you from living a hundred years."
"Vou don't mean it!"
"Honest truth. Come riirht around to
n.y oflice and I'll tix up the papers at j
once."
"No. thank vou; it won't pay. I'm j
I too healthy."? Call. i
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valley and peak.
The Valley said to the Peak,
" Oh, Peak, I fain would arise
And be great like you; I would seek
Your remote and sacred skies.
Although I lie so low
At your feet, I aspire to sharo
The mysteries that you know
In your cloud-roofed house of air."
The Peak to the Valley said,
" Oh, Valley, be content,
Since for you my veins have bled,
And for you my breath is spent.
Alone, for your sake, I live
In the cold and cloudy blue,
Great only by what I give
Out of unreached heavens to you."
?Lucy Larconu
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
lie is a philosopher who can find music
in ft fat man's snore.
A man with a cast in his eye?A trout
fisherman.? Te.au Si/tings.
Earthquakes cause quite a movement
in real estate.?New York Dial.
Practical jokes?Those that are published
anrl mid for.?Np.ui York Mail.
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The only bar that tramps are unfamiliar
with?Crowbar.?New York Telegram.
A Boston agricultural editor says that
the best way to preserve peaches is to
keep a bulldog in the orchard.?CourierJournal.
A society exchange says: "Ladies' bonnets
this season will be felt." Yes, and
the one to feel it most will be the husband.?Ronton
Post.
"Why is a harmonious husband and
wife like eight cubic feet?" asked Flattery,
and before I could reply the answer
came: "Because they are both in accord."
?Boston Times.
A fashion paper, in describing a belle's
attire recently, said she wore carbuncles,
and now that poor girl gets U00 dilfcr-'
ent recipes for the cure of boils in every
mail.? Washington Hatchet.
Orange peel is now sairl to be collected,
dried in ovens and sold for kindling
fires.- It burns readily and with great
fierceness and is safer than kerosene.
Now cannot some useful avocation be
found for the treacherous banana peel.?
Philacletphii Call.
" I hear that your wife creatcs quite a
sensation," said one Burlington man to
another who bad recently been married.
" Well, I guess she does." replied the
other dubiously, feeling of the bumps on
his head. '-But the sensations arc not
altogether so pleasant as might be
wished.?Burlington Free Press.
"You must be sick to hire a horse in
the daytime," said an impecunious young
man to a companion. "Why so?" was
the inquiry. "Are they any cheaper at
night?" "Guess they are! All you've got
to do is to eat a five-cent slice of mince
pie and you can have a mare all night
that wouid beat Maud S. to flinders."?
Burlington Free Press.
REASSURED.
"Oh, youth, with smooth sand-papered pate
The night is dark, the hour is late,
Why do you linger on my gatef'
' I stay to help your daughter hold
This gate upon its hinges old;
Go in, old man, you're catching cold!"
The old man sought his little bed,
And pillowed there his tranquil head;
"I guess the gate is safe," he said.
?Luther 0. Riyrjs.
"Landlord!" cried an irritated traveler
who had been eating dried-apple pie at
a railroad hinch-house, as ho held one
+ aKoWvir/i/1 tow onri rvrn/1ii/>nr]
uaau t\j 1110 ouuvitiwu J?H umu JV*VV*UW?
a gimlet with the other. "Look at this
confounded gimlet I've found in your
pie and broke half the teeth in my head
out on!" "Well, I declare!" said the
landlord. "I wanted to use that yesterday
and hunted all over for it. Much
obliged, stranger."?New York Star.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The lastest discoveries render insulation
so perfect that to-day there is less
loss of electrical force between the United
States and England than there was formerly
between New York and Brooklyn.
A tricycle postal delivery system is to
be tried by the postmaster-general of
Victoria at Portland, Sale and Ararat,
with the view of extending it, if it proves
successful, to other districts of the colony.
The making of large lenses is a matter
of many difficulties, aa may be inferred
from the fact that there have been nineteen
failures to cast the thirty-six inch
glass for the great Lick telescope to be
mounted in California.
Bronze is a mixture of copper and tin,
aud sometimes lead, the proportions of
which vary somewhat, but are usually
nine to one. It is often adulterated with
zinc, but when this is the case the surface
honeycombs on exposure.
Paper bottles are now made on a large
scale in Germany and Austria. The fol
lowing is said to be a good recipe for tlie
paper: Ten parts of rags, forty of straw,
fifty of brown wood pulp. The paper is
impregnated or coated on both sides with
sixty parts of defibrinated fresh blood,
thirty-five parts of lime powder, live
parts of sulphate of alumina. After drying
ten or twelve rolled leaves are coated
again, placed over each other and then
placed in heated molds. The albumen
in the blood forms a combination on
pressure with the lime which is perfectly
proof against spirits, etc. The bottles
are made in two parts, which are joined
afterward.
Uncle Esek's Wisdom
There is no rule for beauty; this enables
every man to have a little better
looking wife than any of his neighbors.
I don't expect to please everybody. I
don't know as I would if I could, for I
don't tl\ink anybody but a fool could
do it.
The last thing a man doubts is his
judgment, when it ought to be the first
thing he is suspicious of.
When the devil turns moralist look
out for breakers; no one can tell where
he is going to hit next: he can't even
tell himself.
The world is all agog just now; everybody
wants to talk, and nobody wants
to listen?the fool-killer will be around
soon, and put a stop to these things.
I believe in moral suasion?as a collateral.
Ignorance is the principal ingredient
in bigotry?obstinacy and a general cussedness
complete the job.
It ain't so much the ignorance of mankind
that makes them ridiculous, as the
knowing so much that ain't so.
Jokes weren't made to cast before
swine, any more than pearls were; and
the man who can make them shouldn't
throw them around too loose.
The man who can, in a few words, tell
all lie knows, on any subject, at a minute's
notice, is a hard one to tangle.
It is the brains of the devil that make ,
him terrible; a fool-devil is the lowest
order of cranks.? Century.
His First Case.
" I lost ray lirst case to a miserable
little jiettifogging lawyer named Johnny
Wood," said General Sharp, at Chicago.
"I was a graduate of Harvard Law
school, iintl liaU a good (leal 01 conceit, i
beside a perfectly good ^asc. When
in)' senior warned me that I should have
to meet Johnny Wood, I laughed at ! |
him. The suit was before a justice of i
the peace. We made out our case, and |
Wood's client, the plaintiff, made out ,
none worth speaking of at all. When
Johnny Wood arose to speak lie rehearsed
the evidence impartially, and
then, taking up a book read the law?
such law as I had never heard of, but
which fitted his case to a nicety. When
he got through, I said, 4 Mr. Wood, will
you allow me to see that statute, please?"
14 4 Certainly, sir," he replied, handing
me the book closed.
414 Aii, thank you; but what page is it
on?'
44 'What page?' lie cried, indignant.
4 Don't expect me to coach you, young
man. Find vour own law?you. I I
iounu mine.
"Of course I couldn't find it, but
Johnny had the laugh, and the court |
with him, and I lost my case, according !
to the law which that scoundrel Wood
had made out of his head just as he i
spun it out."
Had Traveled a Great Deal.
Mr. B. P. Shillaber, in his charactcris* j
tic way, relates that when old Jerry
Noble, of Portsmouth, X. II., was once
on the witness stand,he spoke so hu gely, i
and at the same time so vaguely about ;
the extent of the world he had seen,that
the judge remarked: "Mr. Noble, you
have travelled much." " Yes, sir,"' said
Jerry. * I have traveled a great deal, but
rincipaliy in Rockingham county."
I
Handel, the composer, wa< a great
eater. He would often order a dinner ;
for three, and then frighten the waiters j
half to death by calmly eating the triple i
dinner himself.
How the Chinese Aim. ,
When the French troops made their <
first and unsuccessful advance against '
Scntay, some importance was attached j
by the special correspondents of the Eng- ]
lish papers to the circumstance that the 1
Black Flags apparently fired low. It was <
pointed out that most of the bullet- j
wounds received by the French soldiers ]
were found in the legs and lower parts j
of their bodies. Of course, tho practice <
of firing low is one strongly urged upon '
tho troops,, a shower of bullets being
much more effective if fired low, even if 1
it strikes the ground in front ef the advancing
hostile forces, than it would if
sent into the air over the heads of the j
approaching enemy. But a rather inter- ]
esting explanation is given of the reason
why the Black Flags and their allies fire
low by one who has had a great
amount of experience with Chinese
troops. He says that the bulk of the
Chinese had no idea of the use of the
sights on the rifles, and it is almost useless
to attempt to teach them the use of 1
such contrivances. Thus, a Chinese soldier
armed with a modern rifle would
never think of raising the sight of his
weapon when he was called upon to use
it, especially in the face of an enemy.
He would fire at an object six hundred
yards of! with the sight down, the consequence
being that the muzzle of the
rifle not receiving the necessary elevation
to carry the bullet over a long distance,
the ball would strike or descend very
close to the ground before it reaches its
destination. It was also asserted that
some of the Chinese soldiers actually
knocked the sights off their rifles being
entirely useless.
A Press Association Rifle.
The annual rifle shoot of the Lowell,
trass., Press association recently took
place in that city. A special prize of a
Winchester repeating rifle to be known as
Hood's Sarsaparilla rifle was contested for.
Fly stings have caused the deaths of
three persons at &t. Petersburg, recently.
It is supposed the insects had previously
settled on cattle infected with the
rinderpest.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
strengthens the stomach and kidneys, and
aids digestion, is equally good for both sexes.
More drunken women than men, it is said,
van be seen in the streets of London.
Desplne Not the Day of Small Things,
T.iftlo f.Kinmi m?v Holn u man ricA?.1
bent pin in an easy chair for instance, Dr.
Pierce's "Pleasnnt Purgative Pellets" are
small things, pleasant to take, and they cure
sick-headaches, relieve torpid livers and do
wonders Being purely vegetable they cannot
harm any one. All druggists.
The Congo region, Stanley declares, is one
af the most fertile on the globe.
A Remnrlcitblo Tribute.
Sidney Ourchundro, of Pittsburg, Fenn.,
Writes: "I have used Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam
for the Lungs many years with the most
gratifying results. The relieving influence
of Hall's Balsam is wonderful. The pain and
rack of the body, incidental to a tight cough,
soon disappear by the use of a spoonful according
to directions. My wife frequently
sends for Hall's Balsam instead of a physician,
and health is speedily restored by its
use."
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Nature's great remedy, Kidney-Wort, has
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Kidney-Wort acts at the same time as a
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state of the affected organs. James F. Moy6r,
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case of piles which for years had refused to
yield to any other remedy.
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would run. and at night I could hardly
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witness cf its efficacy. Peter Bruce, farmer,
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It is a well known fact! In the Diamond
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Physicians declare it superior to all other oils.
Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough
skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by
Caswell, Hazard & Co., hew York.
Otirbo-llnca.
Sorrow and gloom the soul may meet.
Yet love wrings triumph from defeat;
And the coarsest hair can still be fine
By using Magic C'orboline.
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"Itongli on Itch."
"Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions,
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A balloon* that will carry 100 soldiers is a
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Tired All Over
Tula is the way many peopls ei press that terrible
feeling of languor, debility and lasaitude which U often
the forerunner of terious disease. It iboold be overcome
at all hazard, and Hood's Sarsaparilla if the best
medicine for the purpose. It throws off the tired feeling
and fire* new vigor to the while body.
"I become more and more impressed with the effeo.
tnal qualities of Hood's Sarsaparilla, I n?e it constant)?
in mr family, and believe that the health we
constantly enjojr is due to its tisx It la pleasant to
take, and makes one feel like a new man."?E. B.
Dhom, Editor Westvilie ilnd.) Indicator.
"I was all run down, had no appetite, my food would
not digest, and I was troubled with nerrons debility.
On taking Hood's Sarsaparilla I commenced to feel the
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can Bay I feel like a new man."?J, E. McOaLL,
Rochester, N, Y.
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