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Black Teeth In Swine.
It may be considered as somewhat foolish
to refer to the popular errors iii regard
to black teeth in swine were it not
\ that some fraudulent people, to be classed
among the prevalent humbugs, arc going
about inducing farmers to let them
pull out the black teeth from their pig's
jaws as a specific against cliolcra n- 1 all
other diseases of swine for a fee 01 25
cents per head. Black teeth are no indi
cation of any greater or worse disease
than a sour stomach, caused by overfeeding
and consequent indigestion, and due
to the very prevalent habit of gorging
pigs upon sour swill. Along with the
black teeth there is a fetid breath produced
by the same disorder of the stomach,
and the teeth are no more the cause
of this trouble than the moon is of the
crawling on the ground of lima beans.
Humbugs and frauds of all kinds flourish
and thrive upon the ignorance and superstition,
not to mention the dishonesty, of
their victims, and this class of parasites
will probably always fiud abundant prey.
?\New York Times.
The Apple's Enemy.
This, it need hardly be said, is the
codling moth or apple worm. The only
nice thing about it is its entomological
name, carpocapsa pomonella. This moth
makes its appearanco in latter May or
early June, and it is well to be pr ;vred
to meet it when it comes. Traps have
been invented for this insect, and various
means suggested for staying its advances
and preventing its ravages. Professor
Cook asserts, in a late number of
the Rural JVeio Yorker, that Paris Green
and London Purple if mixed with water
and sponged on the trees is sure to kill
this arch enemy of our most valued fruit.
He has found that a wound of the noison
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mixed with 100 gallons of water, and
kept well mixed, is still effective to kill
the larvae as they attempt to enter the
apple. One or two applications of the
poison to the trees, made soon after
blossoms fall, will thin almost to extinction
not only the codling larva; but all
oth .r insects present, as the canker worm,
leaf roller^ and various caterpillars. The
probabilities are that in those localities
where apples were so abundant last season,
there will be few enough at best this
year, and we can't afford to give many
to the worms.
Eni for Hatching.
If the rules given by an authority in
Prance?where poultry matters receive so
much successful attention?were strictly
followed, we should hear less about addled
eggs, chickens coming dead, or too
weak to break out of the shell when
fully developed. Never let the eggs
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and it would be better to pick them up
three or four times a day, or as soon after
being laid as possible. This prevents the
prolonged contact of the heat of each
successive laying hen, which is apt to
creatc a premature development of the
germ in the egg, making it liable to
perish when this heat is withdrawn. Reject
all with soft shell or in any way misshapen,
or surrounded with a circular
ring, or having one end with an uneven
or rough surface. Also those very narrow
or unusually round, or wanting in
size, or too large, or double yolked. The
sooner they are set, the more certainty of
hatching, and the more quickly; eggs
set immediately after being laid often
hatch in nineteen days, instead of in
twenty-one, the general prescribed time.
Eggs will preserve their germinating
powers twenty days; but in order to be
well kept during this time they ought to
"be turned once a day, as is done by the
hen when sitting. This turning has the
effect of keeping the yolk in the centre,
which is important; it being of greater
specific gravity than the white or albumen,
its tendency is to work through to
the side of the shell.?New York Tribune.
Peach Culture.
The conditions of failure in peach
v growing, concisely stated, are:
* 1. A wet soil, or one that from any
cause holds water around the roots of
the tree, whether the land is situated
high or low.
2. Excessive fertility, while the trees
are young, whether it be secured in the
natural condition of the soil or by the ingenuity
of man.
3. Severe cutting back of the young
growth each year, thus dwarfing the tree
and robbing it of^much natural vitality.
4. Allowing the trees to overbear and
thus exhaust their vitality by a single
crop of fruit.
5. By deficient and improper cultivn.
ticn.
On the other hand, the conditions of
success in peach growing are:
1. An elevated location that is not
subject to late frosts in the Spring or
early frosts in the Fall.
2. A warm and moderately fertile soil
that is well drained by nature. Artificial
drainage may prove sussessful, but
its utility has not yet been fully demon-A
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Bwniicu IU nu? region.
3. Thorough cultivation, without m?nure,
until the trees come into bearing,
then combine the two so as to supply all
the depletion produced in the soil by
growth of trees and frtdt.
A. Never let a tree overbear.
0ontlnUocultivation until the close
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of tho dry season, every Summer, eveu if
it contiues until September.?Michigan
Horticulturist.
Sod Jlaklng,
Tho tlire )sseutials for securing a line,
close sod by seeding arc: ?Rich ground
of a suitable character, seed of good
quality, thickly sown and frequent mowing.
In preparing the soil for ths sowing, it
pays to be at a good deal of pains at the
start. Results extending through years
of time will depend chiefly on this part.
with plough or spade tho surface should
be worked over to tho depth of one foot
at least. If it could be three or six
inchcs deeper yet, all the better. Along
with this process some fiuely divided
manure, say at the rate of a gqod twohorse
load to each four square rods of
land, should bo worked into the soil.
As the bed is finished it must be seen
that at least six inchcs of good soil (that
is, not sterile subsoil) is present in all
such lawns as are not to be kept watered
in dry weather :but this is quite as essential
to those made by turfing as any
others. Wherever the surface is broken
by walks, drives,flower beds and the like
the edges next to these should be made
of sod to a width of six or more inches.
This will keep the sowed parts from
breaking away, as it would do if not thus
protected. All stones lying at or near
the general surface must be cleared away,
the area be made even and firm with the
proper implimcnts and the surface be
worked up fine by the use of a rake or
light harrow?the finer the better.
Use good seed and plenty of it, applying
at the rate of one quart and onefourth
per square rod. As for seed, the
followi g is a superior and inexpensive
"mixture":?Two parts june or blue
grass to one part red top or bent- grass.
Sow evonlv: tllin mnv flrwin 1-mt rlnnliln
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sowing. By this we mean to divide the
seed needed for a given area into two
equal lots, sowing one-half of it over the
plot, walking back and forth across it
one way, and then the remainder by
walKng crosswise of the first sowing.
Aftti 1 Ms rake the entire surface lightly,
then roll.
l'raiilnft Currant and (ioostberry Hushes
I notice advice on pruning currants as
follows, writes a New York correspondent.
"Prune out old canes and train up
new shoots." But permit me to give you
a modern Canadian plan of pruning that
has proved very successful, viz.: Cut
back one-half of the new growth on the
top of the bush each year after they are
old enough to bear, and only leave one
or two young shoots each year from the
bottom. By this method the following
advantages are gained:
First?Strong growth in the fruiting
part of the bush, at the top. v ?
Second?Bank foliage that will not
frill off iinfil 4.1 1
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tlie fruit from sun scalding and having to
be picked early in the season to save
them.
Third ? Larger fruit and longer
bunches, because all the small currant3
and short bunches are produced near the
terminal buds, and these being pruned
off give us nothing but the largest fruit,
and as it is the seed that exhausts the
plant, and small currants have just as
many seeds as large, so when they are
disposed of the plant will bear its burden
of fruit each year without exhaustion^
and thus allow a better growth and
thicker, stronger foliage, for it is a settled
fact that any kind of currant can be
exhausted by one or two heavy crops,
and thereby will have to lie idle for a
year or two to recruit, and Often never
refrain it* nrnnnr virrnr
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Fourth?Regular bearing, for a strong,
healthy bush will bear every year unless
it hap grown too much to wood from too
close pruning, in which case one year
without priming back will balance it
again.
Fifth?Bushes pruned in this way
grow year after ycalf and become much
larger than when pruned in the old way,
and where bushes can be grown to a
large size they can be planted, say, six
feet each way and produce more fruit
than the old style, thus a great saving
in plants, and when planted this way
can be cultivated both ways, which is
also a saving of one-half the haud work
and hoeing.
Sixth?By this mode of pruning all
the med'um sized, heavy bearing vari
ties, such as May's Victoria, Versailles,
Baby Castle, red Dulfch and black currants
as well, may be made to produce
fine fruit nearly as .arge as the cherry
currant and longer in the bunch.
Seventh?Bushes last for twenty
years or more pruned in this way, for
the vitality is alwavs kcnfc nr> ?in<l +Vi/.ir
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| are better able to stand the ravages
I of tho currant worm on account
of the rank foliago and abundance of
it.
Eighth?And while we could name
other advantages yet with the above
named, we can say from our own experience
that currants will pay as wo.l, if
not better, than the cultivation of any
other kind of fruit produced for market
at the present time. My .own experience
with one acre, pruned this way has altogether
exceeded my expectations, as
well as others who have tried the same
plan. The above plan will apply quite
well to the cultivation of the gooseberry
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Equal parts of sulphur and pitch mattes
a good stone and iron cement.
Starched shirts will iron easier if you
let them dry after starching, so you will
have to sprinkle them before ironing.
Many persons may not know that
white paint may bo cleaned as well as
windows by using whiting and water.
The wings of turkeys, geese 'and .
chickens are good to wash and clcati ]
windows, as they leave no dust nor lint,
as cloth. ]
To brighten the 'inside of a coffee or | 1
teapot fill with water, add a small piece |:
oi soap ana let it boil about forty-five 1
minutes. 1
Slake three pounds of quick lime in 1
water anil add one pound of pearlasli,
making the whole into the consistence of 1
paint. Lay this over the old work with 1
a brush, and let it remain from twelve to 1
fourteen hours, when the paiut will be 1
easily scraped oil. 1
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Recipes.
Muffins in Tina.?Take one cup of .
sour milk, one egg, a little shortening, a .
tcaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda; if the J 1
milk is not very sonr less soda will do. ,
Make a thick batter, and a little salt,
and bake in a hot oven. If you cannot
obtain sour milk, sweet milk and baking
powder will answer. To a teacup of (
sweet milk allow a heaping tcaspoonful ,
of baking powder. ,
Beets and Butter Sauce.?Take two j
Burmuda beets of medium size. "Wash ;
ana dry tlicm without breaking the skin. \
Boil them for thirty-five minutes in fast (
boiling water, slightly salted, which
must entirely cover them. Then scrape <
oil the skin, cut the beets into slices, and <
the slices into strips. Melt an ounce of butter,
add to it a little salt, pepper aud |
a teaspoonful of vinegar. Pour it over ]
the beets and serve. ]
Rice Cream?One cup of licc boiled 1
soft, but not to a paste; two cups of J
milk, four eggs, a cup of sugar vanilla ]
extract, a cup of whipped cream. Make '
the eggs, milk and sugar into a custard, '
season with vanilla. Scald the milk first, 1
pour upon this the heated egg and sugar, '
and let it get almost cold before you beat <
in the whipped cream. Set to form in a
wet mould on ice. "When you are ready <
for it turn out on a glass dish. 1
Watermelon Cake?One cup of white ;
sugar, one-half cup of butter, one- ^
half cup of sweet milk, whites of four '
eggs, one-half teaspoonful soda, one of
cream of tartar, two scant cups of flour, J
one-fourth cup of sour milk, two-third3 '
cup of pink sugar, onc-fourtlx cup of but- 1
ter, one-half teaspoon of soda, whites of 1
two eggs, one tea cup of raisins, flonr 1
enough to make rather stiff. First and '
second half of recipe to be made up sep- ^
arately, and mixed like marble cako fye- '
fore baking.
Tho Evolution of Nations. g
The following eloquent passage is from (
an article by Dr. Felix L. Oswald in
Popular Science Monthly: Tho doctrino (
of evolution recognizes the fact that tho
development of social and physical or- ^
ganisms is not an unbroken march of progress.
Advancement alternates with ^
pauses, us day with night, or life with j
death; the phenomena of progressive life ]
roll through the cycles of germination,
maturity, and- decay. In the household ^
of Nature every grave is a cradle; the j
mold of every fallen tree furthers tho <
growth of new trees. Grecian colonies ,
flourished on the ruins of Troy, Persian '
provinces on the ruins of Babylon, Mace- ^
donian kingdoms on the grave of the ,
? Persian Empire; Roman legionaries in- ,
herited the wealth and the culture of ]
conquered Greece. The conquerors of ^
Rome were the noblest, stoutest, and f
manliest races of the Caucasian world; ^
freemen, in love with health and Nature,
yet withal with poetry, glory, honor, ^
justice, and honest thrift. They planted ,
their banners in the garden-lands of the
West; and their empires, gilt by the ,
morning light of a new era, were found- j
ed under auspices far happier than those ,
of the Arabian satrapies in the worn-out ,
soil of the East. In less than five hun- ^
dred ycarB dftcr the establishment of ]
their political independence, the civilization
of the Greeks, the Romans, and the {
Arabs, had developed' its fairest flowers? ,
industry, commercial activity, art, lib- (
eral education, flourishing schools of t
philosophy, poetry, and natural science.
Five hundred years after the triumph of
the Gothic conquerors we find their em- ,
pircs groaning under a concentration of
all scourges. The day-star of civilization
had set in utter night; the proud
nations of the West had sunk in poverty,
bigotry, general ignoranoe, cruel abasement
of the lower classes, squalid misery
of domestic life, systematic suppression
of political, personal, and intellectual
liberty.
Learning Farming in Dakota.
The past week an 18-ycar-old young
man, heir to a large English estate, arrived
in the Red river valley, consigned
to a large farmer by his guardian, who
pays the farmer ?50 besides his services
for instruction in Dakota farming for
one year. There are thorough, first-class
farmers in Dakota, but it has not been
supposed that England was without experts
in that line. It is probable that
the considered healthfulness of the climate
was one of the reasons for the con*
signment,?St. Paul (Minn) Qltfu.
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DOWN A~FLUME~
A. Swift Journey Down a
Nevada Mountain.
Rushing Through Spaco at the Bate of
Two Milos a Minute.
A Chicago newspaper man tells in the
Ilcralcl of that city an experience he once
had riding in a Nevada lumber flume*
"Lumber flumes in the Sierra Nevadas,"
lie said, "are all the way from five to
forty miles long. They are built on a
regular engineer's grade. Tho bed of
the flume is made of two-inch planlf in
the form of a V, the sides of the V being
from eighteen to twenty-six inches high.
They arc built on a grade of about sixteen
feet drop to the thousand. They
carry eight inches of water in the ncute
angle, and discharge it at the rate of 400
miner's inches a minute. In other words,
turn in your water at the head of the
fluinc, and it will carry a Jog weighing
100 pounds with a velocity greater than
the fastest engine that was ever made.
The log's displacement just about fills
the V, without any more friction than
occcssary to keep it in place.
"About nine years ago I was up at
Lake Tahoe with E. W. Smallcy and AV.
EI. Patton of the Ma,ckey & Fair Lumber
Company. Patton was showing us the
sights. We had come up from Carson
City, sixteen miles, by stage, and it was
i hot and tedious ride. About sundown
Patton said: 'Boys, we'll go home by
the flume, and we'll get there a little
quicker, I think.'
"TTfi ilirpptnrl n mnn tn Krinrr nut flm
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paclit, as he called it. This was a Vjlxaped
canoe about fourteen feet long,
very shallow, and made to tit the flume !
ind just about fill it with the displacenent
of 600 pounds. The yacht had a
brake?two rubber pads on cither side,
worked with a lever, and so applied
igainst the sides of the V flume that on
pressure it would lift the yacht gradually
md allow the lightning current to pass
jndcr her. She also had two small rubber
wheels, one on cither bow, to keep
:ier nose from grinding the sides of the
lumc as she went by curves.
" 'Now, boys,' said Mr. Patton, 'but:on
up your coats, tic down your hats, |
md hold on. Don't get scared. Trust
four lives to nxe for the next half hour.
I've sailed in this yacht before, and I
\now she's staunch.'
''There were three scats. Patton took
ike front one, to handle the brake.
Smalley took the next one, and I took
Jic rear and worked the tiller. That
ivas rigged just like a ship's rudder, with
1 rubber wheel to ease oil her stern against
;hc side of the flume if she got to yawing.
Patton told his men to put on two inches
more of water, and then, with a wave
>f his hat, we weighed anchor. Great
Scott! how that thing jumped! Sinalley
jot seasick. I jammed my helm hard
lown, but Patton yelled through the air,
'Let her go; I've got her!' And with
)ne hand on his brake, his hat crushed
lown on his head, and his teeth set, he
ooked the incarnation of courage. We
plunged down the mountain with a speed
:hat no steam could give. Trees flew by
jke spectres. Looking ahead down the
narrow thread-like flume it seemed like
i plunge to destruction. Several times
;hc fluinc carried us over a high trestle,
[t seemed like leaping over a precipice.
3malley held his breath, but the little
pacht jumped it through the air apparently
with a swish. Curves would show
iliemsclves ahead. The rudder wheel
would squeak on cither side, and the
;ood ship would round the curve like a
Slash. Sometimes an unevenness in the
Hume would occur, and then, as the craft
sped over it, the spray would rise fifty
feet in the air.
" 'Keep on your hats!' shouted Patton;
theij, as we struck a straight five-mile
stretch, 'Now hold on to your teeth.'
4'I don't exactly know what the next
sensation was, but I tried to peep out
from under the rim of my hat, and, my
soul, it was all a blur?trees, rocks, landscape,
were all mingled in an indistinguishable
mass. It was as if one was
blown through the air from a catapult.
"Well, from the time we weighed anchor
up at Lake Tahoc until Patton put
on his brakes just outside the lumber field
it Carson City it seemed like a minute or
two. We all looked at our watches.
we nna mnuc just sixteen mucs in eignt
minutes and forty seconds. I never in
all my life had such an illustration of the
force of water."
Agreeably Disappointed*
"And are you glad to see me, Bobby?"
asked the bishop, on his semi-annual visit
to the parish.
"Oh, yes;" said Bobby, "because
we always have a good dinner
when you come. Put I didn't expect
you."
"No."
"No. I thought you'd go somewhere
else, 'cause ma said yesterday that it was
about time some other member of the
church oflcrcd to entertain you."?N. T.
Sun.
The city of Mcxico has fifty bakeries
and 1,598 places for the sale of intoxitants,
including 817 shops where tho
popular pulque is sold. This beverago
has about the same potency as lager beer,
and is regarded as a tonic and blood
maker.
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Agrlcultnro In Mexico.
Although tlio main business of tlie
country is agriculture, this branch of industry
is curried on under exceptionally
disadvantageous circumstanccs. One of
its greatest drawbacks is that the whole
country is divided up into emmense haciendas,
or landed estates; small farms
being rarely known; and out of a population
of ten million or more, the title to
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the soil is said to vest in not more than
six thousand persons. Home of these estates
comprise square leagues instead of
square acres in extent, and arc said to
have irrigating ditches from forty to fifty
miles in length. Mor'? of the land of
such estates are uncultivated, and the
water is waistcd upon the remainder in
the most rcckless manner. The titles by
which such properties are held are exceedingly
varied, and probably to a considerable
extent uncertain. Some camc
from the old Spanish Government,
through its viceroys; some from Mexico,
through its governors or political chiefs;
whi.e over a not inconsiderable part of
all the good land of the country, the titles
of the Church, although not recognized
by the Government, are still, to a
certain extent, respccted. Added to all
this, there is a marked indisposition oa
the part of the large owners of real estate
in Mexico to divest themselves of such
property; and this for various roa.ions.
Thus, in the heretofore almost permanently
revolutionary condition of the
country, the tenure of movable or personal
property was the subject to embarrassments
from which real estate, or immovable
property, was exempt. Under the
system of taxation which has long prevailed
in Mexico, land also is very lightly
burdened. And, finally, from what i3
probably an inherited tradition from Old
Spain, the wealthy Mexican seems to bo
prejudiced against investing in co-operative
(stock) or financial enterprises?the
railways, banks, and mines, in both Old
Spain and Mexico, for example, being today
mainly owned and controlled by
English or other foreign capitalists.?
Popular Scicnce Monthly.
Teaching Dcnf Mutes to Read.
Instruction is conveyed to deaf mutes
in most instances by the use of sign language,
or the manual alphabet. The
foundation maxim of the methods used
is "first ideas, then words." The mind
must be roused to activity, and, as the
foundation of knowledge which other
children acquire by the aid of hearing
are here wanting, progress is, of course,
very slow at first. Usually, instruction
is begun by the word method, words being
connected with the object they represent.
For instance, the child is shown
some common object, or a picture of an
animal, and the printed name of the object
or animal is shown him at the same
time. He is thus taught to connect
names with their objects and to recognize
printed words. "When a few words
have been learned, tentences are framed,
and the child is taught to recognize
these as units embodying a complete
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uv?. xub |||1UI.UU lllltl LUC ?)gu Ul|Hlllbcts
arc taught together, aud, when
those are mastered, instruction in spelling
is not difficult. After names of objects,
their obvious properties, with numerals
and verbs of action, are next
taught. The adjectives first brought
forward arc those of size and color, then
prepositions of locality. The simple
tenses are exemplified by calling attention
to a series of actions. Much use is
made of contrast of ideas. A child of
10 or 12 years of age, if possessed of ordinary
intelligence, can usually, at the
end of a year, construct for himself simple
sentences about e very-day affairs.
During the first two ?r three years text
lmnlvft nrrnnrnfl p?ni>piiillir fnr rlnnf.nmtno
are used, after that any text-books will
sdrve.?Inter Ocean.
Place to Pray.
The sudden disposition to stoop low
while seeking to avoid a shower of bullets
is. well understood by those wha
have experienced the sensation. A Western
Colonel, whose regiment at the time
mentioned was well to the front acting
as reserve and support to the picket line,
found one evening upon returning to his
tent his new Chaplain, just come down
, from the North. It being night, and no
other place at hand, the Colonel offered
his guest such hospitalities as his limited
quarters afforded, at the same time informing
him that the position was nol
without danger. The Chaplain accepted.
At early dawn the picket line was driven
in with a rush, the first notice being a
tornado of bullets crashing through and
splintering up things generally in the
tent. The Colonel involuntarilv crawlnd
out, and as ho did so shouted back to hii
reverend officer, "Got down on your
knees, Chaplain I" That gentleman, nol
understanding the protection intended
by this suggestion, answered, "My God,
Colonel, you don't expect mo to pray
here, do you?"
Innocent Childhood.
"Tain't so," triumphantly exclaimed
Bobbie from his perch on top of a chair,
gazing down on Algernon's head.
"What is not true," doubtfully asked
his sister Maud.
Why, you said Algy was so green that
grass was growing from tho top of hit
head, and (determinodly) there ain't anj
there."
IIow Maud explained tho situation ii
unknown.?Detroit Fru Prttt.
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. *
A physician says that if arnica with
which bruised limbs are bathed is
heated its good effects arc perceptible
much sooner than if applied while cold.
A standing antidote for poison by poison
oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handful of
quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand
half an hour, then paint the poisoned
part with it. Three or four applica
biuus, it, is saiu, will cure the most aggravated
cases.
A retired pliisician living in Ohio, and
suffering with diabetes, claims to And
great relief in a diet consisting wholly
of buckwlicat. lie states that when ho
confines himself to a buckwheat diet exclusively,
the disturbance in the stomach
is relieved, as is also the pain in the
eyes, due to the disease from which he
has so long suffered. This remedy is a
very simple one, and well worth trying.
For ordinary nervous system being out
of order or by excessive fatigue, a hot
bath will so soothe the nerves that sleep
will naturally follow, and upon getting
up the patient will feel very much refreshed
and the toothache gone. For
what is known as "jumping" toothache,
hot, dry flannel applied to the face and
neck is very effective. For common
j toothache, which is causcd by indigestion,
or by strong, sweet acid or anything
very hot or cold in a decayed tooth,
a little piece of cotton steeped in strong
camphor or oil of cloves is u good remedy.
Care in tho diet, especially when the
bowels are disordered, is helpful to mitigate
toothache. If the tooth is much decayed,
nothing is better than its extraction.
Tho CJrlzzly Bear.
The grizzly bear is the most formidable
of all the game animals of this country,
and is dreaded by all animals alike,
with, perhaps, the exception of the mountain
lion. It is the largest of the bear
tribe, often attaining the weight of ovci
800 pounds, and a length of nine feet.
Its strength is enormous; with a single
blow it can fell a bullock, breaking its
back, and one has been seen walking of!
carrying a large buck beneath its arms.
Its chief weapons are its long, sharp,
chisel-edged claws, that arc gouge-shaped
also, and terribly effective in tearing or
lacerating a foe. The grizzly is found all
along the range of the Rockies, and, aa
we have seen, in the Sierra Madre, and
as far north as latitude G1 >. In the
north they feed more upon Hush than in
the south; there the deer and bison often
falling victims to its ferocity, and a large
grizzty has been seen to kill a powerful
bison with a single blow of its paw. All
the rest of the bear family flee from man,
but the grizzly attacks the hunter unchallenged
and is a dreaded and respected
opponent. Old hunters attribute
many strange customs to the grizzly#
They say it will never touch a dead animal,
or one that has not fallen by its own
prowess; also that it digs pits for its victims,
and covers them up. It is said that
wounded hunters often take advantage
of the former habit and feign death, and
so escape, the bear rarely molesting
tnem 11 tne ruse is successfully carried
out. The grizzly is dangerous game, for
the reason that it is extremely . tenacious
of life. Thus, if the sportsman waits until
the animal is directly upon him and \
fires into the heart, he cannot always depend
upon the immediate death of the
beast. It may develop energy enough to
do great damage, and many instances
are on record where the body has been
completely riddled with bullets, yet the
animal has killed several men before it
finally succumbed.?San Francisco Call
Hand Organs.
Hand-organs, writes u correspondent
of the Troy Times, are a modern infliction,
and have introduced the monkey,
which is a feature formerly uukown in
mendicant minstrelsy. The monkey, indeed,
is so amusing that one almost forgets
the organ-grinding while watching
his antics. These animals are worth
from $10 to $30, according to their training,
and when an Italian owns his organ
and monkey he is really well-to-do in the
world.
The best hand-organs cost from $100 v
to $150, but those which so commonly
torment the public rarely cost more than
$40. The best are the flute organs, and
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have extra cylinders, which add to their
capacity. The principal factory ia in
Chatham street, this locality being so
near the Italian quarter (Baxter street)
that it is very favorable to trade. There
are some Italians who own a number of
organs, which they rent by tho season at
a large profit and with but little loss.
The grinder having finished his summer
itinerancy, of course comes back for winter
quarters, and thus pays his rent.
Both organ-grinders and boy fiddlers
have their regular routes, which they repeat
year after year, and there seems to
be some general arrangement which prevents
interference. It is said that more
than 800 of these peripatetic minstrels ./
have gone from New York this season,
and yet it will be rare if two men visit
l the same village. When cold weather
sets in the grinders return to Baxter
street, where they pack together?some- '
times nearly a dozen in a small room,
with neither fire nor lights. The Italian
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! can sustain life under extreme privations,
| and he seems content to sloop on tha
floor and live on what ho can pick up.