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A Cow'g Omniverous Appetite. Most people are probably of the opinion that the goat and the ostrich rank highest as omniverous animals. It is not so generally known, however, that a cow takes often very curious things into her stomach. The United States Department of Agriculture haa given space in its exhibit in the Government Building to a collection of various objects which have been taken i J from the stomachs of cattle killed for beef at the stock yards. The most ] amazing of theso objects is the iron tooth of a huge hay rake, such as is drawn by two horses upon the Western prairies. Tins iron tootn is curveu and is four feet eight inches long by j about a quarter of an inch thick. It was taken from th^ stomach of a Texas steer, which was to all external appearances in the best of health when killed. From the stomach of another j Texas steer was taken an iron bolt, ' thirteen and a half iuches^long by five- 1 eights of an inch thick. In a rather 1 small cow were found objects as fol- t lows: ' One Masonic emblem, one dime, one 1 copper cent, two watch rings, one tin- ' ger ring and a number of 6tones. In ' another cow's stomach were found one silver dollar, one silver watch chain, ' one brass hair pin, a door Knoo ana * seven nails or pieces of nails. One of the most curious features of this remarkable collection is a lot of twentythree hair balls. They were all found in the stomach of a Texas cow which was butchered at the stock yards only a short time ago. "When she was killed the animal was in good health, but small. She weighed when dressed for beef 350 pounds. These hair balls are each a perfectly solid, hard, circular mass. The largest one is live inchep in diameter, and the smallest about an inch and a balf. The balls are formed by the animal licking itself. The haiz i comes off and adheres to the tongue. ] ' t It is then swallowed, and once in the j stomach is rolled up and compressed j into the globular mass described.- j Chicago Post. ? j A cow in Adrian County, Missouri, 1 which lately lost her calf, has adopted i and tenderly cares for a small pig. There Is more Catarrh in this section of tho | oountry than all other diseases put together, 1 and until the last few years was supposed to be ( Incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure , with local treat raent, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a oonstitu- ' tional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, 1 Is the only constitutional cure on the market. , It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to m teaspoonful. It actB directly on the blood I and muoous surfaces of the system. They offer | one hundred dollars f -r any case it fails to . care. Send for circulars and testimonials J free. Address ' , F. J. Chjcsky & Co., Toledo, O. . JJF^Sold by Druggists "Sc. We Cure Rupture. No matter of hnw long standing. Write ' for free treatise, testimonials, etc., to 8. J. < ' * , Hollensworth & Co., On-ago, lioga Co., N..Y. , Price $1; byte all.' 81.15. Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup is positively ' onequaled. Try it. ?6 > cnts at dmggists. Beecham's Pills are better than mineral wa ten. Beecham's?no others. 26 cents a box. THE TESTIMONIALS w We publish are not purchased, nor written up in r. A our office, nor from our < " m 1 <i\V 1 TV.?n.ofQ/,tc | 1 i If/ proving that Uoott'n ] 1 IIIBWr 1 Cure*. "ForovertwenI'ral '?Z- Mm I t y years I have suffered with neuralgia, rheuma- i wSnKfowi^ tWu igm an<* dysyepsia. ^SHBkj^ygWr Many times I could not - \vBBgFt turn in ^>e<^- Hood's >zOmKi*?i .Sarsaparilla has done Mrs* Burt. me a vast amount of 1 good. 1 am 72 years old and enjoy good health, i which J attribute to Hood's Sarsapariiia." : Ur& E. M. Burt. W. KendalL, N. Y. 1 fie sure to get HOOD'S I HoodVffi* Cures 1 Hood's Pill* cure nick neadache. 2Sceota. "August | Flower"; I I have been troubled with dyspepsia, but after a fair trial of August 1 r _ .1 r I ; Jf lower, am ireea irom inevcsauuus ! trouble?J. B. Young, Daughters College, Harrodsburg, Ky. I had ; headache one year steady. One bottle of August Flower cured me. It was positively worth one hundred dollars , to me?J. W. Smith, P.M. and Gen. i Merchant, Townsend, Ont. I have used it myself for constipation and dyspepsia and it cured me, It is the j best seller I ever handled?C. Rugh, 'Druggist, Mechanicsburg:, Pa. <S y Y X U?39 BTHE KIND f jj T^^^URES^, I" Cuhoes, K. Y. A MARVEL IN COHOES! ? Kidney and Liver Disease! FOR 16 YEAHS. j| CTTEED BY 3 BOTTLES! m DAKA SARSArARILLA CO.: ? Gentlemen:?Having been restored to good = health by theme of your Rarsapiirilla I feel itB my duty to let others know tlie great benefit J ~ have received. For 15 years I hive been troubled with? everc pill a* In the Ktomueh, alio Kid-? ney ind Liver JDItetine, no badly that for^g weeks at a time I hud to stay in bed. *2 i have used three bottics ol DANA'S I 8ARSAPARILLA | and I feel like a new man. i reeom-gj *vnnf4 it in antT u-ith flifif the Kit!-^Bl Itieyi Vouri retpeettuilv, ? fcohoe*, N. Y. CIIAftLES SIMMONS. ? XLc truth ol the above i? certified to ly JAMES 8. CALKINS, S; Dnijgtirtof Cuhoei, N Y. H, Never purchase of a 5UBSTITUTER, (a penon who trie* to sell you something^ et? when you call for Dana's.) Our bot-B ties are being filled with a COUNTERFEITS, ARTICLE by "Substitutes." Buy of thefl HONEST DEALER who sells you what youE ask for, and if you receive no benefit he|? will return your money. Dana Sartaparllla Co., Belfast, Maine. ? .v AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. CTTLTTRE OX? CELERY. Celery must have moisture and cooliess; thus it is best grown in low jround and the black soil found in ? - - . .* -I i.L ? (ucli land. To add to tne cooiness mu plants are earthed up_as they grow, ind only the top leaves left out in the tir. The plants should stand in the rows so close as to forbid weeds growng, and the rows should be far enough ipart. to permit this earthing up.? tfew York Times. raiswg sunflowers for hens. The necessity for a variety of food tor chickene is generally understood, Dut very few people are aware of the ralue of sunflowers as hen food. They uce very productive of oil, are eaten jreedily and give a peculiar lustre to ;he feathers. I have one-eighth of an icre planted in this crop, and propose ;o bind them into bundles and stow ;hem away for winter use. The heads can be thrown into the ien house, where the chickens will ioon pick out the seeds, thus giving ;hem exercise as well as variety. With plenty of other grain within reach they will eat do more sunflower seeds than ire beneficial to them. The seed can nnr kaprl stores for SI ?w ? per bushel, at which price it ought to be more generally used than it is. I think a great plot of sunflowers, with their great yellow faces turned to the ran, an agreeable sight.?Kansas Farmer. BLACK TEETH IN SWINE. Symptoms of black teeth in swine ire many, writes a correspondent. Loss of appetite with continual squealing and a stunted growth are the first jymptoms with some pigs. I have a pig which had a good appetite, grew fat and didn't squeal, except when hungry, that had black teeth. I detected them by a weakness in his hind legs and an enlargement of the joints. [ have seen heavy hogs with their hind legs nearly mined by having black teeth. We knock or pulled out these teeth; then tho legs soon get Btraight and strong and the hog does well. I once knew a farmer who had at one time five pigs that had lost the use of their hind legs and were stunted in growth. He became disgusted with the bad condition of these pigs and shot them. He afterward learned that black teeth caused the trouble. Black teeth are found on both upper and ioiTT fvStTlf Thoflft t.PPt.h ?TP IV V? CJL jan J J.AVUU* --VMW sometimes brown instead of black. The only remedy that I know of for black teeth is to rid the swine of them, and the sooner the better, as no hog or pig can thrive and do well that has them long. As far as my experience goes black teeth come only once, and with the pigs. ?New York Tribune. BEES AND HONEY. Gleanings in Bee Culture recommends a mixture of white lead and zinc for painting beehives, putting on first a coat of lead as a primer, then mixing lead and zinc finish the painting. This paint will not flake off as either lead or zinc will do if used separately. It requires about 5000 bees to make a pound weight. Some tests are reported by Professor Koons in the Gleanings, in which by careful estimates the number of bees varied from 4141 to 5965. The average of these figures was 4832. Swarms of bees vary from four to nine pounds, but are usually between four and five pounds, or between 20,000 and 25,000 bees. Bees do not rob while honey is plentiful. They will not rob other bees daring a temporary shutdown of work from storm or other cause. They like a "day off" as humans do, but after twenty-four hours they are impatient to go to work. If there is no honey for them to gather there will be liability that they will take to robbing. A correspondent of Gleanings in Bee Culture does not believe that robbing bees permanently retain this bad habit. The saying "once a robber always a robber" has no truth in it. If honey flowers become plentiful the robber bees will go to work again. But it must be added that when robbers once get the notion of attacking a weak hive it had better be destroyed, as it is nearly impossible to keep them from it thereafter. TARE OF CREAM. The following directions for the care of cream are taken from a circular distributed by the Ontario College: The cream should be kept sweet until twenty-four hours before churning by keeping cool either in the creamer box or in a cool cellar. Get a cream vessel (tin is preferable) largo enough to hold the cream for a whole churning. If there is not sufficient for a churning from one skimming, stir the cream thoroughly at every addition of fresh cream. In summer warm the cream to sixtythree or sixty-five degrees twenty-four hours before you wish to churn, and it will be about the right degree of sourness or ripeness in that time, but, a? soon as it becomes slightly thickened and sour, churn it. It is not advisaable to allow the cream to become warmer than sixty-three degrees in warm weather. In winter the ripening temperature will be from sixtylour to seventy degrees. Iu case the cream does not sour properly in twenty-four hours, it is a good plan tf add a small quantity (about two pei cent.) of sour milk or sour cream tc act as a starter. All changes in cream should be ef fected gradually. >>ever add Lot 01 very cold water directly to the cream to warm or cool it. To effect thin, eel the cream vessel in another vessel containing warm or cold water, and stii the cream all the time it is being warmed or cooled. Do not allow the milk or cream to freeze. If the butter is white, a small amount of good butter color may be added to the creair ju6t before commencing to churn. ECONOMIZING WITH MANURE. Th#> richt definition of economv if not, miser like, withholdii^ from use, but rather the right use of everything to make it most beneficial. In thii Bense it is entirely proper for a gooc farmer to economize his manure pile. What shall he nee it with to get the best results? If his only aim were to get the most immediate benefit from it he should use it directly on the crcp that brings him most money. This will be always the crop that requires most labor and skill to produce. But the farmer who owns his farm is concerned quite as much for its future as for its present productiveness. He cannot afford, even under pressure of seeming necessity, to sell the fertility ofjiifi land by the bushel urytil its decreasing productiveness makes fonder cultivation impossible. Thousands have gone this road, and have only found their mistake when too late to retract their eteps; However important immediate results may seem, the careful farmer looks to next year and the year after. It takes exceptional cropB to make the farmer indifferent to the future of his soil. But the true economy consists in combining both immediate and future benefit by applying manures chiefly to clover and other crops which themselves add to soil fertility, and thus make it serve both ends. It is here that grain farmers have an advantage over those who grow hoed crops exclusively. The farmer who grows grain can and should always sow clover with it. Then all the manure he applies to the grain crop serves a double purpose. The hoed crop may make the most money per acre, but,if it is crown vear after year, it de mands the yearly purchase of a large amount of manure. That will take off the profits. The alternation of grain seeded with clover, and then after one or two years growth the clover plowed under as green manure for some hoed crop, secures both the immediate profit and the permanent benefit to the soil which every good farmer seeks.?American Cultivator. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Feed the chickens early in the morning. No stock gives larger profits than hogs. Alfalfa when well seeded lasts for years. Snpflower seed is a good egg-producing food. Young chickens delight in parched, cracked corn. Chickens are as fond of ripe fruit as human beings. Bucks generally lay at night or very early in tne morning. At seven or eight years cows are at their most profitable age. A sick fowl is a nuisance, but many sick fowls are a calamity. The chickens from stolen nests are generally strong and lively. Cows should be milked daily at the same time and by the same person. Dust fowls well with insect powder, to be had at any drug store, to kill lice. A little carbolic acid added to the whitewash will kill the lice in the henhouse. To harvest barley succesefully begin early, while the grain is comparatively greenIt is said that when cows are fed on bran the cream rises slowly and is hard to churn. It is the pampering which pure-bred fowls get that causes lack of eggs and infertility. Exercise, sunshine and abundant fresh air and water are good for pigs of all ages. Keen no with all improvements and f ?J- . do not become so attached to old methods that you cannot abandon them for new ones. Not only onr butter makers but cheese makers are beginning to realize that a salable article cannot be produced from milk from cows that drink stagnant water or are kept in foul barns. Cleanliness and aeration are becoming more and more popular. Persian insect powder is harmless to poultry and may be applied freely to the plumage. Many farmers are feeding their wheat to their stock instead of selling it at present prices. Eggs will spoil if left in the nest during hot weather. Collect them daily and put in a cool place. The mortality among young turkeys is chiefly due to dampness and to% the large lice on their heads. If you have a large flock of fowls confined to a small yard, green food of some sort must be provided daily. If you wish to fatten your fowls feed Indian corn and other grains which contain fattening elements. If general health is desired, feed plenty of oaxs. It is claimed tbat the slug of pear trees and grape leaves may be exterminated with hellebore in weak kerosene emulsion, sprayed on with a fine rose. Stony land that is unfit for anything , else will often raise the best fruit. Do not let such land lie idle, but plant something that will at least keep the weed from growing. The appearance of vegetables, etc., from the farm has much to do with the 1 price which they bring in the market. It pays to have them look neat when 1 they are offered for sale. Atyer the potatoee are dug, throw the old vines in heaps and burn as soon as dry enough. In this way spores 1 of fungus may be destroyed, which would do much damage another year. , Windmille and hydraulic rams will , often supply the place of hired men in , the care of 6tock when the farm man. ager is wise and thoughtful. But one , of the worst uses to which a good stream near the barn can be put is to . make a sewer of it for the waste of the . barnyard manure. l When fruit is being planted for the t market it is bent to have all the treee of the best known varieties. As a general thing it is best never to plant r over two or three kinds. Large firms 5 prefer to handle fruit in large quan tities of the same sort, and the cost of disposing of the crop is less when they ! 4-Vw? onrr?r? Ifinrl I III C U1 b-U.1/ DWiUV Fruit trees that are near an npiarv often bear large crops, while those that are not frequented by bees have 3 very little or no fruit at all. It seems , very clear to us that the bee is the r friend rather than the enemy of th? 5 fruit grower, and think that both the i bees and the fruit would do better ii the hivee were set in the orchard. HOUSEHOLD XATTUUs. DO 'WOMEN KNOW 9 That rubber should be carefully kep away from oil, as oil softens and makt it unfit for use. That as a soothing and cooling appli cation for the skin nothing surpasse a few slices of fresh cucumber rubbei gently over the face. That Russian tea is a most refrepi ing and cooling summer drink. Milk J of course, is omit^d ami sugar adde< to the hot tea, with a slice of lemon That after the juice has been squeeze* from lemons the peels may be utilize! for cleaning brass. Dip them in com mon 6alt and scour with dry brie dust. That a gauze veil is the best protec tion for a sensitive skin during he weather, and on no account should thick veil with large spots be worn. That one doesn't "make calls" an more, but "pays visite" instead. A if it made any difference, only whe one is in Rome one must do as th Romans do. That eld paint and varnish may t removed by an emulsion formed of tw parts of ammonia shaken up with on part of turpentine. It will soften thei so they may easily be scraped off. That Turkish toweling in pure whii is considered the most correct thin for the covering of chairs and couch* in the summer sitting-room. Tl: toweling, while apt to show dirt moi quickly than other fabrics, may y< be sent to the wash tub, its place i the mean time being taken by a fres set of the same, whence it emerges i daintily fresh and attractive as ever.New York Recorder. HOME-MADE CAJCD7. Home-made candy is best for fl children. The following recipes con from the Boston Cooking School: ' Peppermints?Put on to boil 01 and one-half cupfuls of granulat sugar and one-half cupful of watei cooked until it will just gather ti gether in cold water ; it mu6t not I cooked until it can be gathered into soft ball like the fondant. Wh( cooked to the right degree add foi heaping teaspoonfuls of confeotioner sugar; if it seems too stiff to drop pi it directly over the fire and heat it v again. Just before pouring out ad six drops of oil of peppermint. Tui out in shape, using a tunnel and long-handled wooden stopper, liftin the stopper high enough to#allow tl mixture to flow into the right siz Different kinds may be made by usii different flavorings and colorings. Buttercups?Boil two cupfuls < molasses, one cupful of sugar, thre quarters of a cupful of water, 01 heaping tablespoonful of butter, on half teaspoonfnl of cream of tartai without stirring. When done poi on to a buttered platter; when it a be handled pull until light colorei Place on a slightly-floured boarc and stretch out into a long, narrc shape; into the centre fold some Fren< fondant, and roll out and cu Porto Rico molasses of a medium gra< is best for candy. Measure the butt* as rounding as the spoon hollowi measure out an even teaspoonfnl i cream of tartar, and divide length-wi for the half spoonful. The cream i tartar is not added to make the canc white, as many people think, but t keep it from granulating. Nut Nougat.?Melt one pound < sugar in a saucepan, stirring co; stantly to prevent burning, as there no water in it. Add one cupful < hickory nut meat, slightly saltei Pour into buttered pans, and mai into squares. It may be more co: venient for some to measure the sugi in a cup than by weight; in that cas remember that two cupfuls, or 01 pint, of granulated sugar weighs nrmnrl. This rule onlv for cram lated sugar, as it would require larger quantity of powdered sugar 1 weigh the same. Put all the ingred ents into a granite-ware saucepanone that has been used for meltir butter or lard is beet. The flavor < the candy is much improved if a liti salt is sprinkled over the nuts befoi mixing together. The nuts should l heated thoroughly before stirring inl the syrup, and the place on which it-: to be poured should be hot. Whe the candy is poured on the plate, ci into narrow strips or bars quicklj with a thin, sharp knife. Rapid wor is necessary in making nut bar. Man other nuts are used in place c hickory nuts. Peanuts, 6helle< skinned, and chopped fine, are genei ally liked; whole almonds spread ov< the surface of the candy are ver good; English walnuts, castanos, o any other nut, chopped fine, give a excellent flavor. This candy is easil made, and is generally liked. Cream Caramels?Bcil three cuj fuls of sugar, one half cupful of bu ter. one cupful of milk, and on square of sweet chocolate for te minutes. Beat until cold; add on tablespoonful of vanilla. Beat with patent egg-beater until it begins t sugar around the kettle, then pour i in a buttered tin, and cut in squares The sugar for candy of any kind shoul be measured just level in one of th regular measuring cups holding half pint. Pack the butter into the cu] solid. Put all the ingredients excep the chocolate into a granite ware kel tie, and boil for ten minutes withou stirring; and boiling moanB to hav the whole surface of the candy but bling and bursting for the specific time. As small an amount of chocc late as is used in this rule can b scraped fine or grated and put int the sugar dry; if a large amount wer to be used the better way to use i would be to break the cakc in tini pieces and put in a bowl, setting thi in the opening in the tea-kettle, o: over steam in some way, to melt tin chocolate, wnen the tany uat; noei boiled the requisite time remove fron the stove and beat rapidly with th egg beater, watching the hides of th dish carefully to see when the mixtur begins to granulate. Do not put tin vanilla extract in the taffy until tin beating is finished, as extract of an) kin<T tends to form the mixture int< grains. It is rather difficult to bea the candy with an egg-beater, but it ii the only -way to do it thoroughly When the taffy is turned out on tin pan cut into squares quickly -with i thin, sharp knife.?New York Ob server. The tears that come easy go eaay, \ Corkscrews of Stone. Among the recent arrivals at Sa Francisco was Professor T. H. Marsl * land, of the Nebraska State University l?j who has just completed two remarl s Z&tfj A ivtr GIANT DEVIL'S CORESCREW, EIGHT PE 10 HIGH, DISCOVERED AT PINE RIDGE. 0 e able scientific expeditions in search < ai fossils. One was to Pine Ridge, tt famous scene of the recent Sioux I dian outbreak, where he and othe g discovered myriads of a strange ;S curions fossil, called by them devil l0 corkscrtfta. The other was to Philli] e County, Kansas, where Profess* Marshland discovered a wealth < in. rhinoceros, elephant and mastodon r ih mains, of whose existence noboc ih hitherto had dreamed. The cor ? screws are as much as eight feet Ion actual corkscrews in shape, and a flitrht inches throucrh. He est mates that there are 400 square mil of them, yet, strange to say, notwit 16 standing the vast number of scientii 16 expeditions hitherto, none of them h been discovered before. The cor] screws are silicate, and they are foui ld in a siliciouB sandstone. In mai r' places they stick through the sai rock of the hills, the sfcono being wo: )e off by the elements, and the silica a spiral, being harder, having remaine !n It is no trouble, the professor says, Y strip the sand away from them. It 8 Tather soft, and the men can work fa? Some of the strange spirals are coil< LP about a central spire, like a vine abo " a tree. Then at the bottom or root n the spire are curious protuberanc a each way, and rising toward the sr '8 face of the ground at something lil 16 thirty-one degrees. They are oft< e- "quite ae long as the corkscrew spirt 'S "These devil's corkscrews whi stiok out over Pine Ridge and bord " on the Bad Lands," said Profess e" Marshland to a Chronicle man, "a 16 most singular things. Nobody kno' e" what they are or how they were mad P# I A+ firof it. tuoh t.hn-ncrht bv some th 11 the spirals were caused by some so in of a burrowing, the theory being th j some animal had burrowed, rabbi ' like, and that the hole had tilled wi lW silicious sand and hardened. But tl theory wouldn't do, because it a peared that whatever the spirals we *e they were of marine formation, ai er whether animal or vegetable, h 3? grown under the sea. From all i could gather we are inclined to belie 8e the devil'6 corkscrews are a curio i form of the sponge, yet even that is 1 v no means certain. Other remarket ? things were what we found imbedd in them and forming a part. On ?\ we found the^akeleton of a little ai mal like a rat, and at another time i J iV/x nl rt + nTi nf a ciT? O TrC* ' ' lUUliU lliic Vi. ? OUMOV. ^ The corkscrew region extends fro the Niobrara River to Pine Bidge ai "* almost to the Hat Creek Basin. T Q* corkscrews are almost as true as made by a lathe and are right-hand< e? and left-handed indiscriminately. Ti ie great transverse pieces, called rhizom ft or underground stems, project in i 1_ directions out of the banks and bin a like logs. Some are as large as or< ? nary barrels, others as large as hog heads. When half disclosed in t "" bluffs they look like large sawlogs. '8 >f * |e Historic Church. re The honor of being the oldest Met ,0 odist Episcopal Church in China c '? longs to Tien Ang Dong,. or t ie Church of the Peace of Heaven at Po n Chow. It was built in 1856. '* - -x XV * from mat oeginning groat mm T> have come. Scores of Christii chtirche? may now be found with 7 the bounds of the Foo-chow confe ' ence with an aggregate attendance i ' about 6000 member* and probatione r" at their regular Sunday services. Fro !r Foo-Chow went out the men w] y founded Central China and Nor ' " if" e china's oldest m. e. chdbch. a () China M. E. Missions, ana there a ^ now connected with them over 20( Chinese Christians. 'Tien Ang Dor ? at Foo-Chow is the mother of all tl e churches in which these thousands no worship. Foo-Chow is the chief cei t] ter ol Methodist work in South Chini They have there an Anglo-Chinese co e lege, theological school, boys' boar< 0 ing school, girls' boarding schoo e womans' school and womane' liospita f. The numbers of Christians conneete . with these institutions has increased f H that the Chinese edirice will not m r commodate them. Last year u ga 0 lery was added, but even now this j too small. Efforts are now being mac to raise a fund for rebuilding the Tit () Ang Dou? edifice with twice the pre (! ent capacity. ?Mail and Express, o ? " ?? Woiiir-Tifrhi lln/irv. in Wrtrwhln^ The London Gruphic given, anion ' other pictures of the recent Britis ' naval manieuvres, one depicting tl manner in which, by sounding a lion b the signal "Close water-tight door* was given on the Galatea. This ord< c becomes necessary in the presence ( a danger arising from threatening pro: imity to another vessel, or from actui collision, anil discipline and readinej in its execution are of the highest in portance.?Frank Leslie's Weekly. Highest of all in Leavening Power. n ' . ' IB ARtmim Sponging oil Two Continents. In Mediterranean sponge fishing divers are employed, says the Cincin- ^ nati Tribnne. q The diver is carried down by a broad, flat slab of marble of about ? twenty-five pounds weight, which he j ' holds at arm's length in front of him, ^ and which he uses to guide his flight, to protect his head when he first strikes and to keep him down when he walks on the bottom. jfl Fifteen to twenty fathoms is the et average depth, while two minutes is the usual duration of the dive. Each gj ? diver puts the sponge he pulls into a net bag that hangs from his neck. 10 When he is ready to ascend he jerks Q. n" a rope and is quickly pulled to the sur- + r5 face. ly In Florida a sponging crew is divided ^ '9 into twos, eadh pair consisting of a j P8 "sculler" and a "hooker" supplied j( ur with a small yawi Known as a aingy. The former stands in the stern of the ?, e" dingy and scnlls it slowly and steadily j forward, being prepared to stop it and C( I1" 1 hold it exactly in place at a moment's g notice from the "hooker," who, kneel- _ *e ing amidships, with the upper half of ~ ;I* his body projecting over the side, es scans the bottom for suitable sponges. 4 I1* In order to assist in this scanning a J sponge glass is used. It consists of an " 86 ordinary wooden bucket with a glass li" bottom fixed in with putty. The handle is placed around the neck Qy of the "hooker," while the glftss itself is placed flat upon the water, while the j rn "hooker's" head is thrust well down te into the bucket. By this means .he 4 d- can see very small objects at a con- f siderable depth. And he has his ? *B hands free to plunge the hooked pole b 't- down and pierce the sponge, sometimes * 3<* at a depth of thirty-five feet, as soon a as sighted. 1 ?* After landing a catch the sponges t es are beaten to cleanse them; afterward J ir* they are dipped into a weak solution t ?e of lime and seawater, to give them the 311 yellow color so well known in the 0 * 1- markets. I ch ^ er Bicycles Not Available lor War. or re The use of the bicycle for military , W8 purposes, after having developed with !e. great rapidity in France, has suddenly at received a check. General Loizillon, j rt the Minister of War, has, it appears, 1 at little faith in it. He has issued an or- _ it- der that the cyclist corps are only to th be used on prepared ground. lis In time of war, he says, their use, p- even if no account is taken of the liaire bility of the machines to break, is likead ly to cause serious miscalculations,and ad they can only rarely be substituted for we men on horseback. The cyclists henceve forth, therefore, or until some succesus sor to General Loizillon more favorby able to them is appointed, will be ile reserved, by his instructions, for gared rison duty, for the great manoeuvres, ce and in time of war for certain easy ( ii- communications at the rear of the i ire forces.?London News. j ' J A Town Without Deserving Poor. | he There is a town in Ontario, Canada, if of about 4000 inhabitants, which, if it 3d was located in Jersey, would be the he Mecca of tramps. It seems that a big es fair was held there some montns ago, ill and in order to have aD object it was j ffs iecided to devote the proceeds to the " li- Reserving poor. A snug sum was a, ;s- netted, and the committee were inbe etrncte(J how to portion out the money. i< The next thing was to find the deserv- e ing poor, and this proved by far the ,l hardest task the committee had ever tackled. The town was ransacked _ h- from one end to another, but not a m ie- single deserving poor person waR 1 he fonnd. The search was kept up for G >o- some time, but it proved utterly fruit- . less.?Newark Call. I ^ | r ) KNOWLEDGE t Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when q rightly used. 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