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% | iSfilGQLTDRAL ] %fff fC??? ? C t6 ^ Catching Crow* and Hawks. It is most easily doue with the eomfcion steel trap used for woodchucks. etc. Watch for some particular spot where crows arc frequenting for something they like in the way of food, and as quietly as possible place one. or more if you have theui, of the traps, somewhat concealed by a little earth, securely anchored by a strong chain or rope. Sprinkle n few kernels of com about for bait. Then retire a little way and watcn the result. An oc tlio liiivltf rntnrn x-/xii will atire. ly get one or more. Hang on a pole at any point you wish to protect and you will not sec any crows about there the rest of the season. Hawks are not so easily caught, but with a little trouble some may bo obt.Fix a little platform upon a pesi : et firmly in the ground and place a w.re box with a few chickens in it on top. Place the traps around the wire cage, and if the birds are plentiful and hungry some will be caught. Hawks have the habit of alighting upon objects near what they .wish to devour, and an extra post a little way from the chicken cage with a trap ingeniously fixed at the top so the bird will not suspect danger might be the means of securing some.?A. A. Southwiek, in New Lngland Homestead. A Strong Hay Derrick. The base of this derrick should be made of 0x12 stuff, fourteen feet long, the centre crossplece of 3x8 and the outside crossplece of 2x8. nil mortised in as show in cut and securely bolted, one bolt at each corner passing through foot of brace, which should be made of 4x4 stuff. The post (e) may be either round or square (if square SxS is none too large), and should be nine or ten feet high. The pole (a) should be thirty-five or forty feet long, depending upon the size of stack or rick to De maae, ana >2^1" THE DEBBICK COMPLETED. " should be of good stiff timber. White oak Is good, aud seasoned elm first class. Slab off butt end to save handling unnecessary weight. Have your blacksmith make a fork (b), and fit In old buggy spindle on top of post for fork to work in. The piece (c) is made of straight grained 2x5, hinged to post aud bolted to pole. The two hooks for pulleys are made as illustrated to bolt through pole and short end to enter shallow hole to prevent pulley jumping off. The derick should be set to the windward of the Stack, and if it docs not swing over stack when load is clear of ground tilt the far corner a little by putting block under it. If properly made and used it will be a valuable addition to the haying machinery for those who stack their hay In the meadow. The writer stacked ten acres of good clover last year In a little over half a day, with no one else on the stack from beginning to finish. You would never dream there was so much hay in the stack, it was so well well packed by the dropping of the heavy loads.?Orange Judd Farmer. Thinning Fruit to Kill Insects. In thinning out the fruit in the orchard during summer growth the fo nage ana mm ten on xne tree? are cot only benefited, but the general health of the trees also. In my own experience I have found that this practice when judiciously followed has a distinct benefit upon the health of the trees, and hence enables theni to withstand the ravages from insects. This is a point that has not been em phasized much, hut if you go into any orchard whore thinning out is practiced you will iind tliut insects are less destructive than in another where the let-alone method is adopted. The insects are destroyed by this process in two ways. When you make trees grow vigorously and thriftily you make them less susceptible to disease. Thus the yellows will rarely attack a peach tree in good condition, nor the blight and rot appear on apple and cherry trees that have an iron-like constitution. One way recommended for combating fruit tree diseases is to fertilize aud cultivate the trees so they will be strong and healthy. The more important effect that thinning out fruits has upon the tree diseases and insects is In the destruction of the larvae of the insects in the wormy and immature fruit. Now the larvae of the codling motli produces the wormy fruit on apple trees, and if these deformed apples are pulled off in the thinning out process scores of would-lte codling moths will be killed. The plum curculio produces the wormy plums and cherries, and by destroying this immature fruit we kill them. mere are many orner injurious worms and insects that are killed in this immature fruit, and thus the season's crop of destructive insects is limited by just that number. Usually this Immature fruit never amounts to much, but eventually drops on the ground and dries up. The insects and worms then emerge forth and breed a new crop. In thinning out the fruit from any trees all the undersized, worm-eaten, deformed and unshapely fruits should first be selected when very joung. They should all be destroyed by fire or some other way so that the larvae of the insects will not escape. Throw my; mini iJ u liui > JII^ I nviu ill?I XZly gives tho insects another ohnnee to grow and mature. It is only after the poo:* fruit Ins been destroyed that the thinning process should be extended to the better class. Usual.y it is better to thin only a little at a. time, for sometimes the fruit with worms in them do not show any defect until quite large. If the tliinaibg out is all done cne does not feel like pulling off more fruit toward the end. By leavon time m.\ro fmif Son 111^ UII mtr uuvr iiiuin muiv nuic you intend to let mature you have a chance to "destroy those in which defects appear very late in the season.? S. W. Chambers, in American Cultivator. THE CELESTIAL TIME SYSTEM. Odd Thine* About the Chinese Calendar. Many perplexing problems were presented to Americans in the messages from Minister Conger recently forwnrded hv the Chinese officials to the administration in Washington, but none is a greater Chinese puzzle to the average system than the problem of determining time according to the Celestial system. The Chinese have no use for the generally accepted calendar. This resulted in the to us odd expression which appears in the message sent by the Tsung-li-Yamen to Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister in Washington. This message began: "Your telegram of the fifteenth day of this moon." Experts in the use of the Chinese calendar readily understood what was meant by the "fifteenth day of this moon," but they could become Anlv nftop Inne nnrl p.nrnpst. CAJ/Cl lO Vi-?J U^fcV4 IVug v. ?v. - ? study. The Chinese month is the lunar month, consisting of twenty-nine or thirty days. A year may have twelve months, and consist of 354 or 355 days, or it may have thirteen months and consist of 383 or 3S4 days. To bring the calendar year into accord with the solar year, the Chinese provide for an extra month every second or third year. This they call the "second third month" or the "second sixth month," as the case may he. With them an hour consists of 120 minutes. They have no weeks and are content to divide the months into thirds. Thus, where the more modern nations lind weeks very convenient In the division of time, ihe Celestials are satisfied if they can keep within a third of a month of the actual time of any given event. That there should be many odd features of tlio Chinese calendar is not siirprlstiip: when one rememners xnai the yellow race still adheres to the system adopted in the year 2300 B. C. Yoa. who was counted a wise ruler by his race, revised the calendar in that year, decreeing that thereafter time should be measured by the moon. In order to make the calendar accurate he further provided that there should be seven extra months in the course of every nineteen years. As a result Chinese time varies little more than an hour every nineteen years from the true time. In a general way. time is counted in China by two methods?first, by cycles of sixty years each. and. second, by the reigns of the successive Emperors. A Chinaman, in giving his age, may report that he was born on the tenth day of the third month, in the fifth year of Hien Fung, or in the fiftysecond year of the cycle. That year corresponds to our own year 1855. As the third lunar month in that year bepan on April 10. the English equivalent for the tenth day of that month was April 25. 1S55. Another illustration of the oddity of the Chinese calendar is broupht out in the despatch from the Tsunp-liYamen. By our calculation the day to which he referred as "the fifteenth day of this moon" was the eleventh day of the month. Chinese Comfort For Hot 'Weather. There are no pillows in Chinese beds. They have instead hollow square frames of rattan or bamboo or blocks of wood fashioned so that they tit the nape of the neck and support the head when lying on the side. People who have used these substitutes for pillows say they are much more comfortable than soft, hot feather or hair pillows, especially in warm weather. POPULAR SCIENCE. Among some remarkable lunar photographs made by Messrs. Loewy and Puiseaux. of the University of Paris, is a stereoscopic image of the whole | hemisphere of the moon, the direction of light giving relief and showing rery strikingly the details of craters and mountainous regions. The picture was obtained by taking a plate of the moon at ton days and another at twenty days, enlarging these sixty times, and carefully placing side by side. The atmosphere is divided into sharply marked layers, generally two, sometimes three, between the ground and 10,000 feet elevation, the upper layer potentially warmer than the lower. Two borders of these layers are marked by sudden changes in temperature and moisture (absolute as well as relative!, and in wind direction; they also indicate the places of maximum wind velocity, and are generally recognized by cloud formation. Tho Austro-Italian system of cannon firing for preventing hail was recently put to a severe test, with results ttyat exceeded expectations. Threatening clouds collected in the neighborhood: of Rogeno, in the province of Como, three times in succession on one afternoon, and each time they were bombarded by fourteen special cannon. The clouds were scattered, only n little sleet falling. In the vicinity of Alessandria great damage was done by hail, which in some places piled up to a depth of twenty inches. In low-pressure areas the air of the upper layer is cold and very dry, while over high-pressure areas it is always wnrm ?ml fnnernllv moist. In one of the cyclones recently observed there were three different systems, of wind circulation. The surface cyclone had a height of but 2G00 feet, over which was a cyclone with a warm centre G500 feet high, accompanied by clouds and rain, and above this another moving about an area of low pressure with a cold centre. When the wind in the middle cyclone was north that in tho upper was south. ^ It has been seriously asserted by manv neonle that we are naturally lighter after a meal, and they have even gone the length of explaining this by the amount of gas that Is developed from the food. Average observations, however, show that we lose three pounds six ounces between night and morning; that we gain one pound twelve ounces by breakfast; that we again lose about fourteen ounces before lunch; that lunch puts on an av erage 01 one puuuu, iuui. u6m-a lose du-mg the afternoon an average of ten ounces, hut that an ordinary dinner to healthy persons adds two pounds two ounces to their weight La Nature reports the following curious origin of an epidemic of tuberculosis at Karkow, a city in Russia; an unusual number of cases of cja sumption were noticed among tho municipal officers and clerks. S:m;c accidental suggestion finally led to a bacteriological examination of the library where the city records were kept. It was found that the departmental archives were literally covered With tubercle uaciin. runner rnvesuRation traced them to a consumptive employe, whose work led him to consult the archives very frequently, and who had the common habit of wetting his lingers with saliva to facilitate the turning of the pages, on each one of which lie thus deposited a colony of bacilli. Elopers at the Barge Office. "Of runaways there are scores every year at the Barge Office. Id seems that whenever a married man has deserted a wife and children for | a comely young girl, or a married woman iorsaKeu an eiueriy uuauuuu for a younger lover, they make straightway for New York, as if it were the universal haven of refuge. In most eases the officials of the Barge Office manage to get at the exacl truth, for, having no marriage papers, 'husband' and *wlfe* are separately questioned as to the time and the place the ceremony was solemnized. As both are lying, their stories frequently do not agree. It is usually the man who Is first to confess to the runaway. This is because the woman has everything to lose and the man everything to gain, for he can desert her at will, even as he deserted wife and children abroad, and with even less compunction of conscience. The woman. and sometimes the man, suffer deportation. If the later has money, he is allowed to remain, since there is 110 law to prevent him, unless, of course, the wife across the water has caused her husband's arrest through the foreign Consul here. There is usually a property as well as a personal crime in these runaway events."?AInslec's Magazine. Cause of Lessened Mortality of Late Wars The lessened mortality in recent wars is due especially to the "first-aid" package with which the combatants are supplied. Without this, the results now would be practically the same as during the times before the packet was used.?Toledo Medical and Surgical Reporter. - - - ' ? - r '-'. -JLi Late English criminal statistics sbo\i 1 >.1.-4. <11. \ f .inniAllf ll i. I UKll UlilUlUleill't iutu .'luiiuiuuin, i? the blackest county in the island fot the number of crimes in proportion tc the population. The drunkards' may shows Glamorgan in a bad light atso. Northumberland is much the worst county for drunkenness. London and Lancashire have hardly half the proportion of inebriety found in Northumberland. BUELL & ROBERTS' CJ&SH nnw nnnnn mnnr UK! IMI5 5IUKL ?Ye continue offering inducements to close out our Summer Goods. We can mention only a few of the oiauy goods deduced: Ladies' 8c Uudervests for 5c. 10c Ties and Bows for 3o. 25c 'i ics and Bows f. r 15c. Initial Handkerchiefs, H. S., embroidered, 3 in alios, for 19o;25cgoods. 15o Men's Black initial bi.k Handkerchiefs for 10c. Men's large White Figured, Drawn-Stitch, Japonet Handkerchief for 15c; worth 25c. Six Large White Fine H. S. Handkerchiefs for 00c. in fancy b< x; cheap at 75c. Three large White Fine H. 8. Handkerchiefs, in fancy box, for4i)o* worth 5oc. Black-bordered Linen Haadkercbiofs torI2c; cheap at 15c. Good Mourning Handkerchiefs for 4c. Handkerchiefs for lc. Handkerchiefs for 2 l-2c. Handkerchiefs for Sc. 33-inch Madras for 7 l-2o; worth lOo. 36-in h Madras for 6 l-2c; worth 8c. LAWNS AND ORGANDIES FOB LESS THAN COST. Shirt Waists for much less than it coat to make them. BIG REDUCTION ON SKIRTS. 40c Pique Skirts for 25a. 98c Crash Skirts for 81c. All Summer Goods are being sold at r?? duced price?. NEW GOODS. One case Lonecloth 5o; no starch. Fine Black Henrietta at 50c. TINSEL DliAPERY SILK ALINE, BALL FRINGE. Black Duck at 8 and 10c. FURNITURE DEPARTMENT. in n<?r>A Walnut Suits ?76 to ?100. 10 piece Solid Oak suits 9 18, 922, 925, 930, 935. 940. 950. 9:6. 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The office of the Supervisor of Registration Will be opened on the first Afrvnilaw in ftprv m?nth for tho Dur poee of the registering of aDy person who is qualified as follows: WJio shall have been a rcgdent of tho State for two years, and of the county one year and of the polling preciut in which the elector offers to vote four mouths bofore theday otelect on,and shall have paid,six months before any poll tax thea due and payable, and who can both rend and write any section of tho Constitution of 1895 submitted to him by the snperviscrs, of registration, or can show that he owns, end has paid ull t xes collectable during the present year on property in this .Statu sss-ssed at three hundred dollars or ruore. J. ). 13ADDY, Cleik of Board. GOOD for all work, xj BETTER for some, BEST for everybody. I Send for Your Neighbor's Endorsement. I 'J1TURHER. GENL SOUACENZ 18 WALL ST. 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