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SODA WATER.
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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\? !
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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. <
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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.
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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
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In 1886 there were three cities in Kan- J
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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."
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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>
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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
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