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SODA WATER. ! ALL ABOUT A REFRESHING SUMMER DRIXK. Making tlie Marble Fountain?Its Interior Construction a Marvel of Ingenuity ?How Soda Water is Made. ' The first step toward b'.iildicg the soda water fountain is to :ut a bloek of fine colored marble?12 feet cube, let us pay ?into slabs, and the manner in which this operation is performed would exciie your astonishment, says a Boston letter to the New Orleans Picaynne. The block is placed on solid Wooden "skids," while a swinging frame ck parallel saws, 15 feet each in length, descends upon the marble mass from above. The frame holding the saws traverses bade and forth, under the action of powerfil machinery, dividiug the great stone by slow degrees into slices, the thicknas of which is regulated by the space between the saws. Thus a rough 10-foot cube is soon transformed into, say, forty smooth slabs of 3-inches thickness. But the cutting, strange to say, is not really done by the saws, but by sand, which, mixed with water, continually flows from overhead upon the marble block. The saws, which are of ' Bteel and toothless, grind the sand into the stone along the lines of cleavage, and | in this manner the slicing is accom- ' plished, two weeks being required to transform into slabs such a block as that described. The slab thus pro- t duced is roughed out according to a design by the " coper," j after which the cutter prepares it , for polishing by smoothing off the edges, etc. Next, after being chafed down by ] steel wheels with wet sand, it is polished , laboriously by hand with whetstones. ] The Onal shine is pufj on with felt, each ? kind of marble re firing some particular j ] kind of assistant ^ the performance of j 3 this last process, suoj. as jewelers' rouge, j < polishers' putty, or <KXalic acid. Circular j j holes are cut in the sflab, if desired, with ', revolving steel s;iv.-s,tihough little ones are ; t made with a small tuilUlar drill, the pierc- j j ing end of which i^set around with a ! ] oirr-lo nrr?'?."1 Qirrarl rli-4r\? ! VMV?V V4. .'V*. WAUVV4 X41l%^UUU&t X II CSC atUUCO ] are not of the precious variety, however, < being black and ="5t useful for orna- ] mental purposes. Buit they cut just the ] same. Beveled and Irounded edges are put on by revolving! steel instruments that do the work an idiotically, and thus j the piece of marbleli* turned out in ] finished shape to be beftttd and cemented j with others into the ^^ci-water fountain i of which it is intend^?1 to form a part, i The marble dust prf^^ce(j incidentally ] to the processes descriB^ by the way, is j mostly sold as an ingre<Kent for asphaltum ? pavement mixture aid to adulterate j putty. ^ | ] The making of the 1 fountain's inside s works is not less laborkoui than the pre- j paration and const ructiin 0f the marble jg exterior. In the fountain, as represented 11 . by its ultimate develop^,ent to-day, the i < most important feature I;s the cooling ap- j t paratus which occupies I the place of a j sort of stomach for thel concern. This ? stomach is in the shape 1 0{ a hig tank, ] taking up nearly all of Uhe room inside ? above the line of sp;gotL unci kept filled f . with ice. In the bottom 0f the tank is \ an intestinal arrangement^ ^ coiled metal c tubes, cylinders and tlungg resembling t blacking-boxcs. Taken together they j represent the utmost aciomp]lshment of ( mechanical science thus. far jn the line ] tAn ThATT 1 vk j Require very 111:tle space, and yet the^?qrj? they do is ]surprising. The t^es, tke cylinders and the blacking-box cells, asjthey are called, lare all connected togethen jn Such a way 'that the stream of soda \vaver coming from j 'the storage receptacle beneath flows (hundreds of feet through an icesurrounded channel beioie passing out ;at the draft-tube into jthe tumbler, where it consequently thrives at about ^freezing point. The odiorage re ceptacle referred to is int)r IUCed under | the fountain and attached inJpv.rposes of .supply until its contents I p| exhausted and another one takes itk- The tubes are made of solid blotai!^ and the cylinders and cells are line^^y, the same ; material also, as well as thapafrrots. This metal is uniformly emplo^j to cover every surface with which rirfRoda water comes into contact, for theKaton that it communicates no poison f0 drink. Pure tin is used even for soldering the cylinders and blacking-box <<e|ls, which are tested to stand a strain c,f -j pounds to the square inch, or abou^ tv ice what an engine boiler is expectec| to enduic. For the storage receptacles1 are charged with gas at an enormous precsure so as to get as much carbonic-dioxj},je int0 the water as possible. And, betide au this, i the man who draws the stuffi raUst know , Vi/-.rr. ti-> if /VI- it ml" ? ' juo? uui. w uU iv, a" ??"i oe uat ana \ unsatisfactory. It is partly on this ac- j count that the soda water at shop is so much better than at anoth er j{ the fountain is not a good one.|or the merchant sparing of his ice, thei reason for ! the poor quality of the producU js not far ( to seek. The soda water itscl f js alwavs 6rst-rate, as it comes original. y from the |1 manufacturers, who supply i ljj retailers ' save only a few who do busin< IS.S jn Sp0tg 1 not readily or cheaply accessib c rail or ' otherwise. 1 < The manufacture of soda waUer \Q such i vast quantities is quite an Hnteresting 1 business. Perhaps, in the first place, it ' would be as well to explain thL the bev- ' erage is simply ordinary wateL charged : with carbonic acid gas, the fi )rmcr tak- ! ing up under pressure somewhat more < than its own volume of the lat tcr. The- ^ gas is obtained from marble du -which ] is ground up and shipped for th g purpose ^ by the thousands of barrels at ? ;ng Sing, ' N. Y., and other points wh?Te white 5 marble of a cheap, crumbly sort ^ not use- < ful for building, is found. No,W) when ^ the earth we live upon was in ajgery and 1 molten state, the rocks which d0mposed it fused and liquified by pluto^0 heat, strange chemical transformations ^gce produced by nature with the internals 1 she had on hand, which even at|this enlightened day are not very weln under- , stood. One of these changes, However, resulted in the formation of marble ^ a . combination of carbonic i cid wi ^ i}qh?. , And so when, millions of years ater? it ' is desired to procure carbonic a< gaSj it is found that the cheapest way to db- J tain it is by separating it from 1 he lijQg jn the marble. This is easily ''one b y using ] sulphuric acid to part the t\.ro. Accordingly the soda water m uiufac- ' turer places in a big brass rccept^(.le> of mjghty strengtn ana tin unea. two barre]g , ,of marble dust and sixty gallons of water> This mixture is kept stirred all th<, 3 by machinery, while from a vessel a^ye drips stowly sulphuric acid into tlw, mar. i ble dust solution, producing so vie ient a chemical combustion that the outs ;^e 0/ the big receptacle alluded to soon becomes uncomfortably hot to the touch. At the same time the reluctant lime is giving up the gas it holds iu volumes, which pass out by an escape pipe and through water, to cleanse the volatile fluid, proceeding thence to a tube, which fastens on to the mouth of the teu gallon tank that is to be chargcd. The tank is previously filled two-thirds full of water, and while the charging is going on rests in a sort of swingiug cradle, which keeps it shaken violently, so that as much as possible of the<jas is taken up. The pressure with which the gas?composed of two parts of oxygen and one 01 carbon?comes through the pipe from the bubbling generator is tremendous, and the tanks have to be made of heavily-hooped steel, to keep them from bursting when loaded. As fast as one tank is charged to the utmost point another is attached to the supply tube, placcd on the shaking-cradle, filled aud corked up ready for shipment. In this simple manner is soda water made. There is one such factory here? the biggest in New England?which was in the business 100 years ago. In those times soda water was sold in wooden cask?, and it was not so good as you can buy nowadays, for the reason that the barrels would not stand a very high pressure. The occupation is regarded as a dangerous one at present,for occasionally a generator will explode and blow a whole building into everlasting smithereens. Nearly all the mineral waters sold are made by combining soda water with solutions prepared by chemical formulae. Chipmunks Charmed by Rattlesnakes. "Those knowing folks who ridicule the idea that a rattlesnake can charm the bird Dr animal it covet3 for its dinner, don't wan't to talk to me, after an experience [ had a few days ago," said Edward Blais3 ell of Hawley, Penn. "I was always a little skeptical myself on the power of the j make to charm, and consequently when [ was taking a walk through the woods 2oar Hawley one day last week, and saw 1 chipmunk sitting on the rock and giving no sign that my near approach to it Hcfiirhpd it. ir> t.hp lfijist. the thought that O r ;he influence of a snake had any- j :hing to do with the indifference of the i little squirrel was the furthest thing from j ny mind, although it struck me as being j singular, the agility with which the chip- ! iiunk makes itself scarce as a person approaches it being well-known to me. "The squirrels side was toward me, md it was as motionless as if it had been 1 part of the rock itself. It was gazing ntently in the direttion of a log that lay i few feet,from the rock. I stopped within less than a rod of the rock, and j watched the chipmunk a moment. I had ny revolver with me and made up my aind I would see what the affect of a shot at the squirrel would be. I fired, not timing to hit the chipmunk, and the bulet furrowed the rock close by it. The squirrel did not move a hair. I fired ignin but the chipmunk paid not the lightest attention to the noise or the vhizz of the bullet that struck the rock lirectly in front of it. I began to think hat the little animal was dead. I stepped i little closer and got directly behind the j iquirrel and fired a bullet close over its ; lead and into the log. The result was ! itartling. Something fell from the log | md began to thresh around among the 1 erns and low bushes. The chipmunk itarted up, ran to and fro on the rock in k dazed manner and then dodged with its jeculiar chirp into its hole off to one side >f the rock. I stepped forward to the og to see what was the cause of the dis- J ;urbance there, and found an enormous ' attlesnake. It had been shot through * * *? -* ?! fll.! J ;ne necK, ana was smi wntumg uuucr ;he effects of the wound. I had been so : ;aken up with the strange conduct of the :hipmunk that I had not seen the snake, vhieh must have been lying on the log unong the moss that covered it in range ; )f my bullet. That the snake held the squirrel under the spell of its fascinating lowers which accounted for the chipnunk's indifference to my presence, there :an be no doubt, the moment my bullet itruck the rattle snake and knocked it 'rom the log the fatal spell was broken, tnd the squirrel, recovering in a few sec- i >nds from its effects, was able to escape 1 nto its hole. "In that same vicinity, some years ago, Solomon Purdy, who lived near Hawley, liscovered a red squirrel on a log, in a :ondition similar to the one in which I liscovered the chipmunk. He knew the labits of rattlesnakes and understood at >ncc what the situation meant. He got lis eye on the snake, which was coiled ! >n the end of the log, his head uplifted, [ md his eyes fairly glittering. He shot j ;he snake's head off. The squirrel | Iropped from the log also. Purdy went ;o the spot where the squirrel had disap- I pearod. He found it lying on the ground j lead, although there was not a mark of j ": ;* ? v?.. v^?7. UJU4J U^IUiX Ifc. ?XTPCV JLVIW Classifications of Postofflces. The first-class postoffices are those the salaries of whose postmasters are $3000 )r over; second-class where the salaries ire ?2000 up to $3000; third-class where ihe salaries are $1000 up to $2000; fourth-class where the salaries are less ;han ?1000. The salary of the postmaster in turn depends upon the annual receipts 5f the office. "Where the annual business is $40,000 to $45,000 the salarv is $3000; where the annual business is ^45,000 to $60,000, $3100; $60,000 to $80,000, ?3200, and so on. In second-class offices xnnual receipts of $8000 to $9000 give a salary of $2000, and so on. In third:lass offices receipts from $1900 to $2000 ariugs a salary of $1000, and so on. Fourth-class postmasters are paid according to the amount of stamps canceled rearly. Where the total cancellation is ^50 or less a year he receives 100 per lent.; for the next $100, 60 per cent.; for the next $200, 50 per cent.; for anything above that, 40 percent.? Chicago Times. A Mystery. What art thou, O thou .strong, mysterious Might! My being's deep That mov'st??that, still, by day and nignt, Yea, e'en in sleep, A.t thine approach 1 tremble, weep and sigh. Say, whence dost wield Such" sovereignty that, though I fain would fly, I yet must yield? :\nd, ah! why art thou so strangely, wildly sweet? And wherefore art [n thine attained bliss, so short, so fleet, To human heart? Say, hast thou learned the whirlwind's secret force, That, over hill \nd dale, sweeps all before it-in its course, And then is still? Say, rather art thou born of that soit power, The gentle breeze, Chat, wooing, bends and thrills the shuddering flower For thouYt a sneeze! ?.Veu; York Tribune. AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. BLASTING LOGS. Select some straws and cut them off between joints. Bend one end to keep the powder from running out, and fill with fine powder for fuses. Bore an inch and a half hole to the heart of the log, and put in some powder. Make a tightfitting plug; cut a groove in the side of the plug for the straw. Lay the straw fuse in the groove, and drive the plug in tight. Place a piece of lighted paper over the end of the straw, and get out of the way. I have blown up hundreds of logs and stumps, and never had one to miss.?Farm and Fireside. AKTLDOTE FOR AXTS. I tried several methods to prevent ants molesting bees, and found the following far the most satisfactory: By use of crowbar make a hole in the middle of the anthill down to the bottom, which is easily found by the more open or less compact earth. Then turn into this hole a gill of bisulphide of carbon, and fill and crowd down with earth. As the liquid is very volatile, and cannot pass out of the now compactly filled hole, it quickly evaporates and kills all the ants. If clay be near, always use this to crowd into the hole, as it is more impervious than is sand, I though by firmly pressing with the foot I the sand can be made to hold the liquid. I Kerosene may be used instead of the cari bon, but it is far less effective. So, too, | of carbolic acid. By means of syrup, so covered by gauze that bees aie excluded, I the ants can be trapped in great numbers i and destroyed. I have often done this, und by adding Paris green have poisoned i the ants.?New York Tribune. A USEFUL PREPARATION. A very useful and simple preparation that I have found beneficial to the plants is made by mixing two peeks of sheep manure, one peck of soot and two quarts of guano in a hogshead of rain -water. Smaller amounts can be made by mixing the ingredients in the same proportion. The mixture should be stirred up thoroughly for a day or two and then a quart of quick-lime thrown in. The mixture will then bo ready for use. Weak and : tender plants should be treated with an application of this manure about once a week during the flowering period. Strong, healthy plants can stand an ap- 1 plication every day or two, but it is usu- i ally safer to dilute it with one-third of ' clear water when such frequent applications are made. Orchids, roses, heaths i and other flowers will show marked im- i provement, both in the growth of the 1 wooded stalks and in the production of < flowers and foliage. As soon as the 1 flowering period is over the applications : should ccase. If kept up the plants will i be unduly stimulated and their growth < retarded in the end. Amateurs always 1 have a tendency to go to extremes in us- < ing such strong solutions.? Washington 1 Star. < i SAVE THE MATUKE SENS. 1 XI/ 15 LUC UUSLUIil UI dUIUU ltlllilVJld ??UV plan to make the most out of their poultry, to sell off the old hens when the hens are fat, through laying and in de- 1 mand at good prices. Thi3 plan is a i commendable one, but care should be taken not to sell the too young old hens, \ if regai d is had for the stock of the next j season. It is none too early to lay the plans for next spring's crop of early birds, j The reason why the young old hens- ( should not be sold off now will be made , apparent by the following from the pen of that poultry authority, P. H. Jacobs. He says: The pullet hatched in spring, say April c or May, will often begin to lay when she 1 is six months old (or sooner if of a small breed), but she will not be fully matured * until she arrives at the age of one year. 1 The consequence is that while she will ( lay she will be growing at the same time, and is therefore not competent to c produce eggs that will give satis- ] factory results when used for in- i cubation. Her powers are doubly taxed, and her offspring will break unless she is f mated with a vigorous, strong and active i cock. Those who have taken pains to s secure fine, healthy pullets, nave been disappointed in raising them on farms where | s incubators are operated, as they lay small ^ eggs, and often begin to lay so early as to produce eggs no larger than those of a ^ pigeon. If eggs are desired for hatching purposes, use hens that are in their second . year (over one year old), and mate them 1 with a cockerel that is at least one year 4 old, and the result will be that a greater c proportion of eggs will hatch, while the 1 chicks therefrom will be strong and easy to raise. It has been said that a heL be- t comes less valuable after she is two years a old, but it is safe to assert'that she will e lay well until she is four years old, and s although she may not lay quite as many as a pullet nearly grown, yet her eggs r will hatch better and a larger number of t chicks be secured from her. But, it may 1 be addejl, do not forget the fact that l pure-bred, strong, vigorous cocks must be ? used in the flock.?Farm, Field and Stockman. j a THE POINTS OP A GOOD BUTTER COW. j "What are the, fine points that make up a a good creamery cow? is a question I am j asked to answer. I presume a butter cow is meant, as the volume of cream y doe3 not determine the butter value. s Cream separated from milk by intense re- p frigeration or by the centrifugal machine s requires about one-third more in volume ^ to make a pound of butter than cream a raised in silo pans at a temperature of sixty-two degrees, and yet either of the , other processes may produce more butter from one hundred pounds of milk than a ^ silo pan. ^ A good butter cow should have a long face, wide between the eyes, the eye alert t and expressive, and placed a long way between the horns. A cow with eyes near the top of the head does not know s any more than a man with eyes so planed. s She should have a large muzzle, a slim a neck and a yellow skin, especially inside t the cars; the breathing should be regular, 11 the back and abdomen strong, the udder a wide where it connects with the body, the teats squarely placed, and the tail t slim. Over and above all these points, f she must have the dairy form. The points I at best are only indications. The desira- t ble dairy form is always seen in the best y types of Jerseys, Guernseys, Ayreshires, ^ and Holsteins. The best beef is f presented in the Shorthorns, Herefords and most of the polled breeds. The intelligei^ dairyman, with a knowl- s edge born of experience, desire aqd capac- e itvjJor the business, never makes the mis- t taHLof choosing his cow with i bee/ I 1 4 o ' * form. Neither will the intelligent beef breeder choose his animal from the dairy form with a cat head and relaxed expression. Physical stnicture and natural adaptability embrace the possibilities, and therefore increase the probabilities oi success with the butter cow. While it is not difficult for a dairyman with a knowledge of his business to sclecl ! a cotf that make ten pounds of butter a week, provided always such a cow is within the drove or herd he is inspecting, cows that will make fourl^en pounds of butter a week are not to be found in the droves that are driven about for sale. I Such cows are seldom for sale except al ; breeder's priccs. A novice might bj chance select a cow that was making ten pounds of butter a week under the righl treatment, yet if he kept her in a cold stable and gave her ice-water to drink and fed her on timothy haj and ground barley and corn meal, all of which are lacking in protein, the cow would soon run down to three and one-half pounds a week and stay there, or make less and , less. Another man who knew his busi- i ness micht have selected the same cow i and kept her in a warm stable, given ' warm water, warm ensilage made from i sweet corn well matured, two or three , pounds of clover hay and a plentiful sup- ; ply of wheat bran or middlings, ground ; oats and peas, or a little oil meal or any i other food containing protein in liberal | proportion, and the cow would probably ] have increased to twelve pounds a week if her limit permitted. Cows have their limit as - sharply defined as a trotting horse. Pasture grass is the only single feed known that contains one part of protein or nitrogenous food to five pounds of starch and sugar (carbhydrates) in its dry matter, and it is .therefore a good food to test an ordinary cow's limit. But just as good a ration as pasture grass can be made from, the article just mentioned, and this ration will be much cheaper than pasture grass on high-priced land. Dairy knowledge that enables a man to make selections of good cows from among poor ones, and shows him how to feed and treat them so that they will do their best, is not a commodity that can be rattled off to a novice like "Widow Bedott's recipe for making potato pudding, but is the slow outcome of natural observation, experience and capacity. Such a man may be accurate in his judgment, and still be unable to make anotner man accurate. A butcher cun judge the weight of a dozen or twenty bullockj within the fraction of a pound, but he cannot instruct a novice to do likewise, any more than the poet Whittier can tell Tupper how to write good poetry. The theory that the young calf reveals the future cow is based on the form and an the heredity of the calf's ancestors. II the calf has the beefy form, and her ancestors were noted foi their beef qualities, it is safe to say that such a calf will iot make a profitable butter cow. But if the three days' calf has the marked dairy form and is descended from a long line of butter cows and sires, she can be developed into a good butter cow. The theory is based on the fundamental principle of all scientific but practical breeding that like begets like?American Agri;idturist. FARM AM) GARDEN NOTES. Air-slacked lime is a sure remedy for the slimy pear slug, and an easy one to ipply. If the little chicks are drooping, look :or lice. You will be apt to find them ibout the chick's head. From observation and experience we ire persuaded that more young chicks ire killed by lice than by skunks gr ninks. In shipping hens and roosters have hem in different coops. Have shipping ;oops high enough so the birds can stand lp in them. * Professor Goff, of the New York Station, finds the really valuable novelty n tomatoes tested the past season in the 1 TTT?rrf n^omninn inan vuaujji/ivu* Ground from which a crop of potatoes )r early cabbage has been taken can be wofitably sowed in July to turnips of the ntermediate or early varieties. When the milk is transported or when or any reason the setting must be deayed, no method of creaming gives as atisfactorv results as the centrifugal. When shipping live poultry to market, ee to it that the coops are in good conlition, for they are sometimes handled oughly, or a slat may come loose and a : owl or two become lost. Are you crowding too many chickens 1 n one roosting place? Are you permit- 1 ing chicks under four months to roost 1 >ther than on floor or cocp? If so, cor- | ' cct at once these mistakes. | 3 If you are sending a mixed lot of hens | 1 o market it will pay you to grade them { a to quality and color, so as to have :ach coop as even as possible. They will ' ell more rapidly and at better priccs. ' : Boxes in the kitchen windows provide irobably the best and most convenient } vay to raise plants from seed for the ] lome garden. Sow seed about six weeks , >efore time to transplant to the open j ground. 5 A veteran peach grower states his be- 1 ief, concurred in by as good authority i is W. C. Barry, that if trees are fed t >retty well with barn yard manure and 1 shea they will not be troubled much with i rellows. 8 In the early fall months some of the 1 regetables that sell well early in tho * eason prove attractive. A market c gardener suggests that lettuce should be 1 own so that the crisp, green leaves will v irove palatable when cool days come * .gain. ( There are three friends of the farmei hat wage inccssant war on the aphides oi >lant lice. These are the lady bird, the yrphus fly and the lace fly, and everj armer should make their acquaintance nd do all in his power to protect hem. For permanent pasture Peter Hender- t on recommends either for fall or spring I owing orchard grass instead of timothj ? 3 the base grsss, wiih other sorts in c heir proper proportion, to give compact- ? icss of sod, a view dilTering from usuallj ccepted practice. I Dame Nature plants her plums in hickets. The "plum thicket" is s a amiliar childhood phrase. Therefore an e llinois horticulturist argues that plum rees should never be planted singly, but * nil do best in clumps, including different a arieties that will aid each other in ? ertilization. _ J t In 1886 there were three cities in Kan- J as, with a population exceeding 15,00C ach. At present. there are six cities u 8 he State, with a population varying from J 5.000 to SO. 000. ? m Which Looks the Happier! {STpi( ?o THIS OXE DOESN'T ADVERTISE. "No, I don't think it pays to advertise. It costs money and I have none to throw away. Besides, I have been in business here so long that everybody knows me. Gracious, how sleepy I am! Say, Johnny (to the boy), I am going to take a nap. If any customers come iD, wake me up." ? 0?') Tmq ONR DOES. "weat Scott! Where do all these folks come from in such hot weather? Been on the dead jump to wait on them ever since dinner and still they come. Do I advertise? Well, I should say so. That's what brings these people to my 6tore. Costs money? Yes, of course, but one dollar's worth of advertising brings me twenty- of trade, so I don't kick. Haven't time to talk now. But don't forget that the live man advertises right along and makes money by it. Good day."?Pittitfield (iY. H.)%Analecta. Treading for Clams. A favorite amusement of many young men who go down to Rockaway Beach, N. Y., is treading for clams. Boats are procured at any one of the-numerous fishing stations along the trestle work crossing Jamaica Bay, and the treaders row out to the numerous sand bars in the bay which are left exposed by the falling tide. These bars are covered to the depth of several inches with seaweed and other species of marine growth. Drawing the boat upon the shelving bars, the clam hunters remove their shoes and stockings and roll their trousers above the knee. Carrying a basket to receive the clams*, they begin walking through the soft ooze, in which their feet sink to a depth of about one foot. The clams are embedded in the mud, and are easily de tccted when the naked flesh comes in contact with them. Half a bushel of these toothsome* bivalves is an ordinary reward for an hour's treading: But this amusement is not unmixed with pain. Now and then the treader's feet come into contact with the shell of an empty razor clam. When this is the case he usually dyes the salt water with some of his blood, for the edge of a razor clam is almost as sharp as its name implies. After a sufficient supply of clams has been gathered the young men retire to a dry spot in the sand and build a fire, in which the clams are roasted.?Nero York Sun. A Harpoon in a Whale's Blubber. There has just been received at the National Museum, in Washington, to be placed in the fisheries section, an interesting souvenir of the Arctic whale fishery which Captain J. W. Collins, the superintendent of that department, greatly prizes. It is an old-fashioned, hand molded swivel harpoon, which has quite a story, as gleaned from the papers accompanying it. While in the Okhotsk Sea last summer, the ship Cape Horn Pigeon, commanded 1? r xr_?i T> uy V^&jJUUil Jul. J^ttlUOU. .Ltugcio, ta^uuivu a whale, in the blubber of which was imbedded a foreign substance. On investigation this proved to be a harpoon, broken off at the junction with the lance, which had been in the whale over thirty years. On the hinge of the harpoon was stamped in plain letters "S. T. D."?ship Thomas Dickerson?and the name of the maker, not so plain, could also be made out. This was the first and oiily messenger from the good ship Dickerson, which Bailed from New Bedford, Mass., in 1856 and was lont the next year in the very waters where the crew of the Cape Horn Pigeon secured the harpoon thirty-two years later.?New York Herald. Birds and the Insects They Destroy. The following birds are to be classcd among the most helpful kinds in the general warfare against insects: Robins (cut, and other earth worms), swallows, night hawks, purple martins (moth catchers); pewees (striped cucumber bugs), wood | thrushes and wrens (cut worms), cat birds (tent caterpillar), meadow larks, wood peckers, crows (wire worms;; uimthroated buntings (canker worms), black, red-winged birds, jays, doves, pigeons and chippies (strawberry pests); quails (chinch bugs, locusts), whip-poor-wills (moths); hawks, all night birds, owls, stc., tanagers and black winged summer, red birds (curculio3); nut crackers, flycatchers, chimney swifts, indigo birds, jhipping and song sparrows, blackbirds, nocking birds, titmouses, vireas, orchard jrioles. The Moods of a River. Flint River, Ga., like a human being, ippears to have its moods. Now it will De all brightness and sunshine, its placid vaters scarce seem to be moving, but in ts quiet, crystal depths the lordly maglolias along its banks are reflected, and ihe wild fowl plume their feathers over ts mirror like suriaca. Again, it looks lark and angry. The water, of a yelowish red color, resembles the complexon of a choleric mau with his bile all itirred up. On it dashes, resistlessly bearng along great waves of foam, where it i las fretted over the rocks, or the limbs | if forest monarclis which it has angrily i iprooted and torn away, as worried by m roi'm VifLH overflowed its >anks and swept all before it.?Atlanta j Constitution. j Our Girl*. , Kittty is witty, Nettie is pretty, < Lntie 1b cute and small; < Irene is a queen, Annette is a pet, Nell is the belle of toe ball; Diantha is wralthy, Bertha is healthy, j And health is the best of all. Perfect healih keeps her rosy and radiant, f teautiful a-.d blooming:, sensible and s-'eet. c t is secured by wholesome habits and the uso J f Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Bertha akes it. and she also "takes the cake." The ( nly guaranteed cure for those distressing ail- , nents peculiar to women. Satisfaction or | our money returned. For Constipation r,r Sick Headache, use Dr. j * 'icrcc's Pellets; Put ely Vegetable. One a dose. Annie Davis, of Mansfield, Ohio, committed i uicide because she didn't take a prize at chooL / What in the world is the use of sitting .round waiting for something to turn np. fou might just as well sit down in the meadow ind wait for the cow to come up to be milked. f ret up and shake yourself and make up your c nind to turn up something. If you have noth- , og definite in your mind, then write to B. F. 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