The New Era, 1884-04-25, Page 3•
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Aprx125 1 884,
The Blookamith.
Clang, clang, clang, is the blacksmith's Ben&
And the aparks fad] fax and wide,
Aa the hammer tied:mods, with his arm so strong
On tbe anvil at hie side.
When the dusty bellows wheeze and blow,
When the fire burns bright and clear,
And.the metal's alwat in the red-hot glint,
Whoa again the song we near.
Of my childhood days I remember well •
The cottage old e.t the foot of the hill,
With its gabled roof and eaves so brown,
Always so ionely and still.
I remember well ite owner, too,.
With'his silvery hair and wrinkled face,
Whose nose was built on so spare a plan
His spectacles hardly could keep their place.
The smithy stood just across the road,
And o'er it the shade of a laroh.treo swung, '
Where, thro' the long. bright suirimer.time,
Wig robins builded their neatsand,sung,
While a brooklet near bang its tinkliog tune
To the buttercups noddipg o'er its brim,
And the anvil rang out it merry chime
'Neath the blows of the blacksmith, old and
grim.
As plainly as eveVI see him now
By his heap of old iron close by the door;
There are plenty of shoes on the pegs in a row,
And the rafters with cobwebs are festooned
o'er.
Be could clinch an argument as well'as a nail;
If blows came in question, no craven 1•94O he;
Whether blows or words, 'twits all the same -
He could hammer them in quite handily.
Batteor a learned chap, you 80e:
• Taught raaby a school in his youthful day,
Wrote a short poem once on a time,
And went through Dart -in the part of a day.
A sort of musical character, too,
Tho' not especially good on a men -
He need to whiatle quite frequently,
But what the tune was we never could tell.
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So he whistled and sang, till one quiet day,
Anon:micas shadow crept taro' tpe
Then bright grew the face with its crown of gray,
And the spiritwas free for evermore,
The anvil is wrapt in Oblivion's gloom,
And passed away are the tree and bird;
Where the smithy stood is the sweet clover
bloom, •
And only the song of the brooklet is heard.
1149.RM ,AND AADEN.
The Care of Trees, Bedding out Plants
° and Chickens.
AN ECONOMICAL FAINT.
. (Compi184 by a Practical Agriculturist)
Tomato Culture and Sunflowers.
I dug out i the early springtime asi
many flat turnip s were meded, and hav-
ing filled the oavit ith earthaplanted two
or three tomato seed in it, selecting the.
best plants, when the were two or three
inches high, to remain, ab pulling up .the
others; and when it was thpe to eet in the
garden, placed the turpip, wi . its contents
undisturbed, in a hole . dee 'enough to
cover it two or three incites. ding out
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in this way, there is" no outtin;tatty of
roots, and need of little water, as thjbait
has not been in the least disturbed,
Malty if aocuetemed - to the air out- 4 -
doors for a week or two baler
being set' in the garden. I have
started tomatoes so early that the plants
were in blossom several days before being
set out, not being at all retarded or decked
in -growth thereby. Cucumbers, melone,
ate., started in the same way, I have had
in bloom when set out, with the. ammo
result. After being put in the ground the
turnip aeon decays, furnishing a little food
for the plant. If the ' turnips. are to be
r.kept long efore setting out, it will be well
to put them in braces, filling the intetetieee
with moss, eand or earth, kept moist. As.
too long exposure to the hot air of a warm
room will 'cause them to wilt, the ,earth
muet be kept moist, •whether the turnip
58 10 ore,out of a box.- •Instead of going to
the trouble of procuring, sharpening and set-
ting deices, and pullieg and taking care, of
them at the endof the season, I started sun -
&met seeds in the same way as described.
To prevent too much -shade I out ,off the
leaves of the sunflowers as far aboye the
tomato plant ae.M necessary to give it- all
the air and sunlight desirable. The Rus-
sian sunflower, because of . ite very tall
growth, is the beat for this purpose. The
sunflower makes the best and most profit-
able of etakes, bemuse it is so easily obs
tained-no loonning in the ground or
breaking of stakes when loaded with fruit ;
and the seeds of the 'flower, winch are
better than corn for poultry; abundantly
pay for. all the time and labor in caring,fer
them. The leaves of the sunflowers' will be
greedily eaten hy bows or pige,•and are.
said to be much better than green men
fodder., The RUSSian autilowers ale° make
an excelltent bean pole, though itis not
necessary' to start- them Bo early as for
tomatoes, aa a growth Of a foot and -a -half
by the first of June (bean planting time) is
all that is needed. ,
Exercise Horses. Dative ,. '
Horses that are to do heavy work at the
plough in !spring should not be permitted to
Mond idle iu the stable for weeke, or per-
haps months, before the soil is ready for
oultivetion, but should have a shorter Or
longer period of exercise every day. There
is considerable clabger, espeoially at the
breaking up of the eleighingt-orlintaing"the
horses idle in the stable without the usual
care and attention which they ordirittraly
receive when at work. This ought hot to
be done, as the horse is thud rendered less
..able to endure heavy work when the warm
days ooMe.
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Grafting Wax. •
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Last aipring, after considerable trouble,
this recipe was obtained for grafting wax,
and as it has proved satiefitotory, it is given
for the beeelit of others : Take 1 lb. ot
rosin a lb. -of beeewax and a little leas
than 4 lb. of tallow. Melt together In a
small iron kettle, and stir thoroughly that
the ingredients may be well mixed. Pour
into a diab of cold water, and wheii cool,
break into three ortfour pieces, and pull
like molasees candy until white and fine-
grained. When the whole is properly
worked, divide into eight pieces, form into
rolls MX inches long, and wrap in oiled
paper. To olean...ahe kettle, rub it while
yet hot with a teaspoonful of lard or tallow,
and wash out with soap and warm water;
repeat this, and rinse, and it will be as
clean as ever. -O. 4. 0. •
Econotheical Paint.
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A paint for floors, whim ennomizeethe
use of oil colors and varnieb, is described at
muoh length in the Builder, as a recent
German invention. For flooring, two and
oneed hs
th emcee of good, clear, joiners'
glue i risked over night in cold water, and,
when tersolved, is added, tvhile being
'mitred, to thickish milk of lime, heated to
the boiling point, and prepared from one
pound of quick lime. Into boiling lithe ie
poured -the stirring being continued -as
much linseed oil as becomea united,by
means of saponifloatiOn, With the lime, and
when the oil no longer mixes there in ne
more poured in. If there happens to be
too muoh oil added, it must be oombined
by the addition Of some fresh lime pada--
about half a pound of oil ter the quantity
of lime just named. After thie white,
thichish foundation paint has cooled, a
color ie added which is not affected by lime,
and, in ease of need, the p8101 18 diluted
with water, or by the addition Of a Mixture
of limo water With some lineeed Oil. The
substitute penetiattei- ink. the wood and
renders it water.reeisting,
. The Wotan et ilaream.
The behavior of cream by the addition
of water is o pubjpet that ebtatld he, WO
understood by the owners of creameries.
It is known that the addition of cold water
to the milk causes the Oradea to rifle with
greater rapidity than it would otherwise do.
But the effect of addliog water to the cream
itself im not gm well underatood. Cream is
lighter than intik, and water is a.hici lighter
than mulk. Time is very little difference
• between the specifio gravities of cream and
water. Indeed very pod cream may be of
precisely the seize apecifio gravity as
water, while very rioh cream will be lighter.
Cream varies very much in its character.
Ot six samples the proportion of water eon-
tained bave been found to vary from 50 to
72.25 per cents while the proportions of
actual fat have varied from 19 to 43 9 per
cent. It is a fad that cream is only exceed.
ingly rich milk, and the milk of the cream
has precisely the specifiegrevity of skimmed
milk that ni free from fat,which is 1.035.
The fat of milk hos a specific' gravity of .9,
so that it is quite easy to calculate how
much fat there is required to make the
oream weigh precisely, the nine as water..
Then water and cream thoroughly mixed
would not eeparate'and a certain propor-
tion of 'water may be mixed with cream,
and if the water is properly thiokened
and colored, ae it us sometimes, with
starch and yellow ' matter, nothing
but a chemioal analysis would detect
the adulteration. As a practical illustra-
tion of the poasibtlity of dishoneet tzeat-
ment of oream we might refer to an
experiment made by Prof. Plumy at the
Iowa College, in which eight parts of
water Were added to two parts of dem,
and two and a quarter hours after the
cream which eeparated was doubled in
quantity, while in 12 hours the cream etill
ehowed an increatted bulk of one part in 20,
or 5 per cent. These fade ehow that the
oreitna gouge and the Milk can are neither
to be depended uron as a teat of deam,
while'. the natural variation in quality,
whioh is so large, must necessarily operate'
to the disadvantage of those 'whose cream
is rioheet in fat, in favor of those whose
oream 18 poor.
Other Farm Notes. '
' Brittany cattle are arciall, silky.skinned,
docile and gentle animals, giving as rich
milk as one osn well deeire. Brittany
butter, delicate and euperior, of which
thousands of tons are smuttily imported
into England, is produced from the milk of
then oows. They are also naturally hardy,
thriving en coarse food, and anotherimpor-
tent chantoteristio is their freedom from
dieetise incident to cattle generally; .
Chickens when first hatchedshould not
be hurried out of the setting neat. For
twenty-four hours, at least, from the time
the earheat commence to show thenaselvos
it is better to leave them under or with the
hen mother. They need no food for from
-a day, to a day aud a half uaually. • When
they get ' strong enough to -verdure from
'beneath their mother's winge it is timo. to
move-the-brooda-
An agrioulthrer writer has found salt
prinkled on a manure heap an excellent
plioation both for summer and winter.
H. says: In warm • weather it attracts
InOtS um and keeps the manure from fiee.
faogin or burning from exceseive ferment-
ation. . winter it keeps the loisap from
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freezing id,and at any petteotait makeo.
the manure ore soluble..
Beddingtpla 'Ur -maybe darted in boxes
kept in the ki •hen to better advantage
than in's, hot -bed. Boxes that bave con-
tained raisins are well, adapted to the
purpose. • They should be -nearly filled
with old manure and soil that is free from
fool ends, . and fastened to a window -sill
where the light will reach them. 'After the
plants have.rnade &Add growth the boxes
may be taken out of door s during ;warm
days. By that means the' ,plants become
gradually fitted for exposure.
Prof. Shelton, of the Kansas Agricultural
College, says a fortune awaits the man
who inven-te a; good, oheap farm -mill. But
he adds that it Roust do more than "merely
creek the grain, •and break cobs into inoh
.equare chunks." He has taken paine to get
the opinions of a large number of .stook
raiserswhb use much ground • and crushed
, feed, and " all agree that the machines now
in vogue are awkward, unreliable and,
easily broken." t , -7 •
Care in the 'setting et trees is profitably
employed.. Do not hustle in the tree as
(pally as possible,thinkingthat the'sooner
us root s are covered the better. Dig a
good-sized hole, and before putting in the
tree spade up the bottom of the hole es
deeply as poesible.: On this well.pulverize4
bottom the tree takes root quickly. Sift in
fine earth about the roots, and when the
hole is filled'peak the earth tightly -about
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the tree. If n a dry place put a mulch of
straw or. old horse manure, well supplied
with litter, about the tree. In dry weather
the mulch May be raised,' a pail of water
applied, tbe match repined, and its effect
will last nearly a Month.
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wrote poetry and Then Died. •
Horace Shim forced open the door of his,
Atatag..Eop,a.at_Attlajoor_,_o ,Monday
evening and found hikwite lying dead on
the floor in a pool of btobd. Her head was
pierced by a bullet, and a revolver lay by
her side on the floor. Pinned to the botioni
of -her dress was a note containing this
doggerel;
I bad to do it ; no friends have I.
Send for Sperry. Good.by; good -by.
Sperry is' the name of the local under.
taker., Mrs. Shaw was an attractive
woman . of 27, and had one child. Her
husband is a anconefdl jeweller, in bud.
neas for -himself. She had been despondent
for Borne time, and lately had been living
with her tether; She -got the key of the
house from her husband at the shop Mon.
day night. '
• The iBeadly Fly. -
According to an Italian scientist the fly,
which we have been taught to regard AB
seavenger of the air, instead of performing
tha t usefol operation is not only an utimiti.
gated annoyance, which he' has alwaye
been, but 10 one of the most active of winged
agents in the diffursion of infectious mala-
dies, epidendoe, and evemparasitio diseases.
Dr, Grassi has shown bymicroscopical ex-
amination of " fly-spets ', the presence of
eggs of a humau parasite, which the flies
had transferred from a plaoe some die-
tanoe away, where the experimentalist had
pined them
In Salt Lake City the sidewalks are 20
feet wade. 11 18 not stated whether they
are built od as to allow a Mormon to take all
his wives out walking at once, or to relieve
a Salt Lake oitizen from the neentsity of
taking the Middle of the road when he goes
home without tho aid of a policeman.
How easy is the thought, in certain
mood!), of the levelled, most unselfieh
devetten. How hard is the doing of the
thought in the faoe of a thousand unlovely
diffieultfes.
" Mr, r, Jude°, of Leinthall, according to the
London Truth, has sold three Hereford
ODwe to an Arderioan breeder for 63,400,
whioh is the highest price ever yet paid
or such stock.
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WO ENIS WORK -AND WADES.
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The 'resitiak et tie Veit' 801 as it it, anil
it Night is.
HOW TO GET ABOUT EARNING A LIVING.
; The .questMn of women at work and
wagee le net to be matted in our generatiou.
Every dare newspaper contains son:1000M.
plaint of itiadequate pay or unfair treat-
ment on the part of employers, with an
zmplied appeal to the humane p.ublie to
right tha wrong. No doubt there is a cer-
tain foundation for the protest. Women
are the weaker side in the controversy,
and the weakest mud go to the twat. But
no close observer ot the feminine habie of
mind oan fail to, haTedeen struck with a
certain air of condeecension which most
women meinteho toward their work, and
which explains, in e degree at least, their
discontent. Men take up their business, be
it hard or easy, pleased or hateful, -with a
matter -of -course determination to worn-
plieh it which ignores its quality altogether.
Women sigh over theirs, lament the hard
rieoessity whioh brings them bit, patronize
it as not quite worthy their attention, and
are always looking over the edge of it
toward a free beyond.
Of dune this mental attitude is 1330Bil
noticeable inthose women who have not
been trained to work, and whose work is
therefore leastvaluable, Of '0011r130, also, it
must and does make them thoroughly
uncomfortable, because it keeps them 00D-
tinually eelfesonecious. If there' be an
infallible -recipe .for LIUMAIS 13318Ory Of a
mean afid pitiable sort, it is probably to be
found in the habitual contrasting of our
worldly fortunes with our merits, and with
the better luok of other people not more
deserving. Every year more and MON)
young women from intelligent and refined
oirclee must earn their uiviiig. That is the
condition of the time; which cannot be
gainsaid. Two concessions on their part
are equallY-neoessary to their material suo-
oess and peace of mind. One is that they
shall be willing to step outaide the
overcrowded! ranko'. of teachers, of
whatever sort, of incompetent 'adhere
aud decioratike artists, of copyists,
ealeswornen, or olerke, and clihragenuely ao-
oept some • vocation where there is still
rooro,.or find a new Place' for themselves.
The other 10 that they ehall abandon the
foolisk. notion that they can be'hoppy only
in one way or under, one set of conditions,
when there are fifty other wayrin which
they may be happy, or at least steadfast
and °het:dill. Undoubtedly, women who
set out to earn their own living do undergo
more annoyances and mortifioations than
men. This is partly because the world is
not yet adjusted to the new necessities
which oompel.them to be . wage-eatners ;
partly beisause bad manners are more dis-
agreeable to them than to men ;•Ohiefly, we
think, ' because their abnormal , aensi-
tiveness • makes tioete see affronts
where none are intended. Feeling
-above their work, they are not willing
to be identified with it, as men expeot to be
identified with tholes. It is not in homan
nature, of course, to love a vocation which
in its nature is tiresome or diaagreeable.
But it is perfedly, possible to ignore tine
disagreeable, to do the work* with one's
whole heart, because oneas•personaldignity
requiree that faithfulness, and to dignify
the labor itself by the manner Of its dis-
charge. It is always the "how" that is
inaportant, seldom the '4 what." A great
•man thought that "work is the great cure
of all the .1s:denies and maladies which
beset mankind: honest work whioh you
intend getting done." If, then, women
would ocingratolate inetead of pitythem-
sabres that they have to work, half of their
fancied disabilities would vaeishin thin air.
The questiop of wages makee no appeal'
to sentiment.: It Is simply one of demand
and eupply. The slop -shop worker gets
25 cents a; day, beeitinanthoneandsof women
oan do her work an .well as she. The
accomplished .n.eisdle-woman, going out by
the day to fit •and sow, • gets. 68 and her
meals, because the demand for her kind of
work is greater than the amount obtain.
able. Intelligent household service is even
rarer, and commands -Proportionately bet-
ter wegee. Neither tears nor rhetoric nor
pangs of suffering oan oha,nge thisdate of
things. Only the reeolve of women to do
the work that pays best, however hard
and hateful, and to do it ea meodo
theirs, without complaint aud with-
out cotideseention will • ' avail. For
the rest, even the world of idleness
and fashion displays instances of very bid
manners, to which its. denizene- have to
close eyes and ears. Its snubs and. insulte
are not more,gracious than those of sordkl
trade, and the neophyte who would find a
high place must !suffer with a smile, and
keep her end steadily in view. Most men
are not gentlemen and most women are not
ladies in this budy country where civiliza-
tion is yet young. The yriee recognize thie
fad, and maintaintheir own superiority,,.
not by complaints of what they stiffer, not
by condeacenision toward the task they must
perforin, but by an undieturbable Propriety
of manner .and conduct, and a moped for
their work so gentiles as to Prove contagious.
--Harper's Bazar.
• em Illientarch. Superstitious?' • •
The Prussian people believia that Bis-
marck is auperstitious. 'They sey that he
is awed by apparitions in uninhabited no -
On, ahritiks • from dining where • thirteen
sit down at table, believes in unlucky days,
and adheres to the ancient belief of the
influence of the rnoon on every living thing.
But, wedding to Dr. Busch, this is all
nonsense, with the exceptionof a single
story which happened at Sehothemeen
(where the Chancellor heard mysterious
footsteps in the ante -chamber of his bed-
room). "The jots about my supersti-
tions, ' he mid a few menthe ago, "aro
nothing but jests, or consideration of the
feelings of others. I will eat at table With
twelve others as often as you like, atisl will
undertake the moat important and serious
,business on a Friday.' ,
For ages, happiness has been represented
as a huge precious stone, imposeiblete'find,
whiohpeople'seek hopelessly. .4It is not so.
Happiness is a mosaic) composed of a thee -
sand little atones, whioh separately and of
themselves have little value but whioh,'
united with art, form a gracefilidesign.
Six girls and a bey were inadvertently
looked in, when a furniture factory in
Boston was closed for the night Monday.'
A policeman discovered their predicament
and tellingly brought a ladder and put it
againat a second story window. But the
girls protested they had rather spend the
night in the factory than descend in that
way, and there they remained.
There is in oireulation 10 Wingharn a
five -dollar Molson Bank bill with the fol
lowing written in a rather shaky though
distinct hand : " This is the last of a ten-
thoheitiod-dollar fortune left me by my
uncle. Beware of wine and WOMOn." The
Writer ame not Biped it, but the story it
conveys may be a true Ode.
11 18 more honorable to the head en well
as to the heart to be misledby our eager.
ness in the pursuit of truth, than to be safe
from,blundering by oontemp of trutja.
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tonntr .1112laniiidattalre.
some Gemara* an leuglisa Gourmand.
If there be any Jae matter in Englond
whioh needs altering, it hi the breakfast
toble. As a rule the first meet ot the
Englishman is abOut-the worst meal in the
world. It consists generally of eggs or
bacon, and though egge and bacon are
realty good in their way, too much eggs and
bonen is calculated to drive away a man's
appetite. More than this, too, our break-
fast fables ere oeldona made to look pretty.
Well-to.do people, we hear, ornament this
primal meal with flowers and plate and
rare china, and because wealth clan do this,
and does it, people neJ so well ofrthink that
they aro shur out from anything of the sort.
This its a very silly view of things. Two
pennyworth of ilowere will make a. break,
fast table look beautiful for a week; and
send "the master" off to hie work with
a gleam of 'color aud beauty of which
he very often thinks during the day.
Breakfast dishes, in epite of the British
predilection tor. the dabstfes Mentioned,
however, are neither few nor far between.
The very best breakfast in the world is
that which commences with -a plate of pore
ridge. Soak over night a little coarse
Scotch oatmeal in water. Net morning
boil this into porridge, and eat with sugar
or salt -both are good-- aed a trifle of milk.
In go and staying power this gives a man,
it is equal to half a pound of steak. A
boiled !smoked haddook, and an egg,, too,
make another fine breakfast Take the
hence out of the haddock (anti 2d.), and the
egg out of the shell (cost id.), miX together
and eat with a fork and epoor. No amount
of flesh food, in moderation, can give quite
ao much bodily support to a hard worker a
a meal like this. A boiled tomato, too, is
capital relish for breakfaat, at a coat; say,
of two simple penniee. Another splendid
Melt for breakfast iti made as follows ; Take
two slices of toast aed steam them. This
makes them nit, end ready for buttering.
Then piece on the toast three or four Rae,'
dines (coat 21), put the other elioe of- toad
on the top and bring to table'.
People who can't fancy ogee- or bacon
will be charmed with tide dish. Cut into
slips with a knife, and nibbled through it
not only makes a man's inteinal provinces
feel comfortable, but may even give Limas --
bit better appetite for anything whioh may
follew. A man'a breakfast, too, it should
be remembered, is hie startler the day; it
enables him to do good work and do it
well. Dinner may be lett to take care of
itself, but wives who do their duty should
take special pains with breakfast. If none
of these receipts are suitable, and if break-
fast, from press ot work .or tack of time,
must be swallowed hurriedly, an eggbeaten
.up in a cup of coffee makes a good meal,
and may be taken standing. Thie i an
especially geed thing for men to *take who
have to wave hoine very early in the morn
ing, and before the kitalien fire is rehted.
A little spirit -lamp will make the caffee in
a trice, and the egg .oan be beaten up with
a fork es quickly. The one poured into
the other completes the dish, and makes a
oheop and nourishing meal,.and one calm.
lated to keep the raw monolog air from a
man's chest. •
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Embarrbieted by
• The young emir -to whom the Khedive
has just restored Darfur, and who will be,
if he over real:thee .his capitel, the Mahdi's
next neighbor -has more than twice as.
many wives, and is not much more than
half the Mahdi's age, says a 'Cairo letter to
the London Tekgraph. Never in thia world.
was there a more etriking contrast than
when Gordon took with him in the train to
Aniout this promising yceing Sultan.
" May I take my Wife with me timidly
inquired the emir the previous night.
"Certainly," replied Gordon; and then
remembering the uxorious specialty of big
travelling companion, added in 9. joke,
" Two or three if you like." Judge of the.
good man's surprise next night at the
Boulao-Dacrom station, when he found the
whole train filled with the emirs wives, so
that hinoself and Col. Stewart could hardly
get a compartment to themselves. ..When
,theytirriv-ed-at Aseiout, and -these trouble-
eome anoumbraneee-I beg pardon, retinue
-had to be Put into a separate diarbiah,
the poor eneir was sadly perplexed, and I
believe that Gordon had te threeten to
leave him and hie wives behind if he 'made
• any more fuss. This onion of Darfur had
oleo given way to drunkenness, and Gorden
was at last glad to be rid of his society.
1When last heard of he was whining -at
Assouan for th'ore money to help him pro-
ceed, and earnestly praying the Egyptian
Government to send on the remainder of
his wives." . '
• How to Cure Weak Littsbe.• • '
In a recent ledure beforeahe New York
County Medical Association, Dr. Detniold
gave, a simple remedy for weak ankles,
knock knees, bowed legs, raised shouldere,
and curved epines. Hie remedy is : " At).
Ply a little common eense to, the sole pf the
boot." When the inner ankle bone pro.
trttaes and camas a weak ankle, remove
the weight from the protruding part. To
do this the sole on the inner side of the
boot must be raised a little. By this
means the inner ankle bone would be
thrown into its pr6per pine and made
strong. To cure, knock knees raiae the
inner sides of the soles of both boots, and
to straighten bowed lege raise the boot soli s
on the outer edges. In case the left
ehoulderis big' her than the right, add a
Oddness of sole leather to the bottom of
the right bootahus lengthening the leg. Cur-
vature of the spine in children and young
'people may be oured in the same way.
Their Little Elatchets.
The newest things in iticubators is one
that htitobeeGOt the little chicks by. the aid
of eleotrioity. The nest or baeket tilled
with fine bay, upon which the eggsare laid.
The cover is o thick layer of soft down,
attaohed to a round box containing mile of
wire. These ate heated by an eleetrio cur-
rent, Whom temperature is regulated by a
thermometer placed on the cover. When
the beat becomes too great the rise of the
Mercury outs the wild out of • eireuit' and
allows them ..to cool. All the attention
required is to aptinkle and turn the eggs
once a day, and this operation may be per.
formed by clockwork.
Brooklyn, N. Y., now debts 800,000
poPulation.
John' Walker was lama 0250 in New
York city for a poor job of plumbing.,
According to the new British Medioal
Directory' the whole Dumber of doctors in
Great Britain is 25,038. Of these 4,417 are
in London, 11,775 on the provinoial. list,
2,206 in Scotland, 2,480 in Ireland, 1717 re.
side abroad, and 2,498 ?are in the army and
navy, the Indian medical serviee, and the
mercantile marine.
"What did you get out -of that ease /"
asked the old lawyer. "1 got my °tient
nut of it," replied the young one. And
Whet did he get out Of it ?" "Satisfaction, I
reckon, I didn't leave anything else for
him to get." "Young mus," said the
senior, proudly," you will never be.a judge.
There is not enough money on the bench
yeti."
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/Attest Ikon' ScotirtiNd.
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1110 said that the vaeantotdoe of 'Imo°,
tor of Constabulary for Boothind will be
oonferred on Mr. Gin. Anderson, M.P. for
Glasgow.
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The estates of Tiawald and TOstlIttrwold,
in Dumfriesehite, whioh holorig to the
Marquia of Queensberry, will skertly be,
gold at auction. They ocesupy an area of
7,000 acres, the free rental being 27,856.
At the nigh Court ot Justiciary, Edin-
burgh, John Smart, plumber, WM nulicted
for the murder of hie wife in January last
by striking her on the head. It was stated
that the prisoner had been drioking when
the crime was committed. Evidence was
adduced in support of the &large of !mur-
der, when the prisoner pl-aded guilty
-culpable homicide, and wee sentenued ta
five years' penal !servitude.
Inquiries made by the authorities in the
Orkney Islands with respect to a boat re-
cently washed !whore on the Island ot, Wall,
have led to theconclusion that it was a
pilot boat whioh left Broadford, in the
West Highlands, on the 26th of January.
,It was lost in the great storm which came
shortly afterwards, the four occupants-
& man named McLean, his two sons, and a
man named Maoltinnon-being drowned.
Mr. Bryce has introduced in Parliament
a Bill with the curious title, "Access to
Mountains " (Scotland). Ito purpose ie te
open to touustssoma of the prettieat
ascents in the Highlands, which home been
closed against them by renters and lettere
of shoOtina ' grounds. Nowadays when
tourists in the Highlands reach passes
famous in story, which their guide books
admonish them not to fail of seeing, they
axe often confronted with a fortifintion of
etrotog fences Jocked gates, insolent) gate-
keepeee and 'the 'terrors of the law, and
their efforts to bribe, blueter or coax a
pohdage are in vain. . ,
- Dr, Allen Thee:neon died at his middle°
ins London the -other -evening. Demand!'
wait the ecnr of Profeseor John, Thomson,
and WAS born at Edinburgh in 1809. He
graduated as doctor of mediotne at Edin-
burgh University id 1830, and for „some
years theredfter delivered extra -mural
lectures in that city on anatomy ,and
'Phiaiology. From 1839 to 1842he was
Pr:Reeser of Anatomy in Mariaohal College,
Aberdeen; from 1842 to 1848, Profaner' of
the Inatitutea of Medicine and Physiolggy
in the Univeraity of Ediuburgh ; and from
1848 to 1877, Profesear of Amami:1y IR the
Univereity of .Glasgow. •
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()pees for neighed Dimeame.
Dr. Alex. De Berra, of -Crystal Springe,
N.Y., write» that, after years of predicts'
test of the milk diet for Bright's disease, he
has a long list of 0Abos in which he has
made perfect cures. Great care le taken to
get absolutely pure ekianned • milk from
healthy and well fed cows, and no • Other
food of any kind ia given after the patient
can bear tive pints of milk e day. tip to
this point, and until the stomach is able to
care of so much, is found to be the
most trying period la this treatment, but
no other medicine ie giveh, and hand and
hair -glove rubbing is daily administered..
Another correspondent takes exception to
the claim made, that nO drug of any thera-
peutic value in' that disease has yeti been
discovered. In Bopped of his assertion he
eenda tut a reoipe which he claims ' has
,effected a cure in Bright'a disease, as well
as iu dropsy, in every one in which it has
been tried during the last . fifteen years.
He recommends thedrinking of an iotheion
of dry pods of the 001nInOn whzte soup bean
or corn bean. When the 'latter ()meet be
readily obtained the pride of the "snap
short" beanwill answer, and even the Lima.
bean, though the latter is of inferior
strength. The recape is as follows: "Take
cadou,ble handrail of the Pods to three quarm
of water; boil slowly for three hours until
it is reduced to three pints. Use no drink
of any kind but this, the Patient drinking
as much as he conveniently can; it may be
taken either hot or cold."
A Butler county, Ky., somnambulist left
• his bed, buckled a saddle upon an pld log
near the house, mounted it and rode for
Iwo hours, and then returned to bed with-
out waking.
The leveed .la Flying Otsego
It may be interesting to the reader to
Know the speed at which Many (bleb fly
down wind:
Mallard, from 45 M 60 miles an hour.
Blachdtiok, from 46 to 60 miles an hour.
Pintail, from Vito 00 miles an hour.
Widgeon, from 65 to 70 znilea ea hour.
Wood duck, frora 56 to 60 miles an hour,
Gadwrill, from 80 to 70 miles an hour.
Redhead, from 80 10 90 miles an hour.
Blue wingtaia from 8010 180 miles an hour.
Green wingtall, from 80 to 100 miles an hour.
from 86to 110 railea an hour.
Canvas baok, from 85 to 120 miles an hour.
Wild geese, from 80 le so miles an hoar.
For the above table 1 am indebted to Ilfri
D. W. Cross, an old duck ebooter, and a
careful etudeot of the habits of water fowl.
I have not the abetted heeitaxicy in
believing him rieht, for this esperience ot
wiluni I hosa end duoks,
coupled with my own, more than eorrobo-
xatea the. assertions. When I have held
ahead of a string of bluebills, say, at leaat
ten feet; and kill the fourth or fifth, duok 121
the !string, I have been strongly impressed
that the speed they were lying was like the
traditional greased lightning, remembering
that the charge of shot left 'my gun (No, 4
shot, say) with an initial velooity_of 1,800
to 2,000 feet per second. It will he seen
that long experience and good judgment are
necessary to know where to hold the gun
in order to become a geed duck shot.
• About Pools. •
'
"Stranger," he began, as be shoved his
hat back on his head and sat down on a
trunk on the platform, "what is this 'ere
about these 'ere railroad pools?"
• a How?"
"-Wall, then, what is a railroad pool?"
"Why, a number of railroad linee put all
their earnings into a bag, BMA° it up and
divide even."
•" What's thie fur ?" •
" So that all can get a whack at busi-
ness.",
"An' its aocordin' to law ?"
a Yee."
• The man pulled his hat down rested his
elbows on his knees for a think " which
lasted three or four minutes; and then sud-
denly arose and said .
• " Stranger, I've bin a tarnal fool I"
" How ?" .•
•
"Why, there a chap livin' nem' doer to
me*at. hum, who has altos worked four
hours to my one • and who earns a
dollar to my quarter, and it has never oc-
curred to me to make him pool our wages
and whack up!"
Death of a ramOuS Horse -thief.
Shop. Tinker, the famous horse -thief,
whose greatest boasta in lite were that he
bitd aided in dealing 400 horses, had been
in eight different penitentiaries and oould-
repeat nearly the whole of Shakspeare,
Milton, Homer and Byrom to dead. 'While
operating down the Ohio he committe&
several daring robberies., and finally dep.
ped the judge of the cdunty on the highway
and robbed him of his money and his
horse. He , Watt unable to escape from the
affix:era who pursued him for this offence,
end il‘n WOO sentenced to ten years in the
•penitentiary. He was pardoned out before
his time expired, arid returned to hiknative
place, where -he made a second effort i0 be
made a justice of the peace. In 1862 he
emended, In gaining the election over one
of the moat prominent men in the town, but
the civil disabilities under 'which he labored
prohibited) him • from holding • the office.
Since then he lived an honest life, but was
always proud ot his career. EM wag in his
75th year. •'
Cisme-liar has itt good deal of the dubiou
honor of the invention of the Getting gun.
The first eix were made there and tested in
.the Mill -creek bottoms. ,Bithard Gordon
Gatttog, the inventor, at one time lived in
Indianapolis, and in 1862 had six gung
made here which were destroyed in the
burning of factory. Afterward he had, .
twelve made, and they were need by Gen.
Butler in the campaign of the James. In
•1865 the gen was improved by him, and
after tests was adopted by the Government. ,
Subsequently it. was 'used in England,
Austria and other countries. Dr. 'Galling,
vim is deecribed as 13. mild and benevolent -
looking old gentleman, now resides at Hart
ford, Conn., and devotes.himeelf to the iroa '•
provement of this already terrible weapon:
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