HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-11-13, Page 7THE FARM.
Timely and Practical.
DIE ADVANCE IN WOOL .—An authority
says there seems no doubt that the advance
in the prioe of wool will bo sustained, The
demand for goods is native, and manufao•
turers have large contracts for future de-
livery that must be filled. Some of the
large mills have a six months' stook on
hand, but have orders for goods for about
the same period. Some of the small mills
have contracts ahead, but have only a few
weeks' stook on hand, and will bo compelled
to go to market often, and purchase from
week to week.
FEEDING TILE FOWLS, —Keep the fowls
well at this season, says an experienced
poultry fancier. If you expeot to get eggs
from your hone in December, they must be
amply fed with egg -producing provender.
Give them bones in granulated form ;
have plenty of lime and clean gravel with-
in the houses, to which they may have full
access ; twice a week give them cooked,
coarse meat, chopped up ; and don't forget
the occasional allo wane° of green food—cab-
bages, turnips, eto.—while they are housed
in confinement.
CUTTING SEED,—As the season for feed-
atock is again at hand, it is in order to re-
mind our readers that there is great advan-
tage in having a hay -cutter in the barn, By
its use straw and other coarse fodder can be
so mixed with meal that stock will eat all
readily ; and thus the capacity of the
farm to keep stock and make manure
may bo largely increased. The stubs of
coarse Dorn -stalks will not be eaten unless
steamed ; but it is worth while to cut them
up, if only for the advantage of having fine
manure to be evenly spread during the Win-
ter and Spring.
KEEP FENCES lir FEPAIR.—Some one
mattes the timely remark that fences should
not be allowed to get out of repair In the
Fall season, and the stook permitted to jump
and become breachy in oonsequnece. A good
many farmers repair their fences in the
Spring, and then pay no more attention to
them during the year. In the meantime,
many rails, etc., become displaced, and
make low places in the fenoe for the stook
to break into grain fields or into neighbors'
premises. It is always the beat plan to look
alter the fences every little while, and es-
pecially after a wind storm.
SALT AND WATER raR SR REP.—According
to a London agricultural journal, Mr. Rus-
sell, of Hotton, England, provides salt as
well as fresh water for his sheep so that
they may havo access to it whether the
weather be wet or dry. If this were done
generally, those wholeeale losses which are
now suffered would not be experienced.
Salt acts es a eondimert, and ie no doubt
an appetizer ; but it also does something
more in quickening the action of the inter-
nal organic system, and prevents the gener-
ation of internal parasites. '
BARB •WIRE FENCES,—The farmers in con-
vention assembled recently Medea complaint
against the use of barb wire for fences as
cruel to animals and injurious to the skins
that are sent to be tanned. Comm nting
upon which the Indiana Farmer says it
would indicate that cattle frequently
get caught in the wires, or are driven
against them with such force as to tear
their skins. And it adde that a strip of
board, three inches wide, nailed under the
top wire would prevent this in most oases ;
and some such safeguard ought always to be
used where the berb•wire fence is made use
of toenolose cattle.
RAT PROOF CRIBS,—As a matter of econ-
omy and good management, says the Rural
Messenger, be sure to heve a rat -proof
crib. This oan be done at very little trouble
or expense. Build the house of skinned
poles or lattice work plank ; let the sills
rest on small blocks, four feet high, oapped
with sheets of tin or large tin pans inverted,
and be careful to leave nothing, leaning
against the the house but a step -ladder; and
this must be kept under the house except
when in use to get to get out corn, This
being done, you will no longer be pestered
with the filth and waste of rate and mice.
This is the year to have a cheap rat -proof
orib, and help to save your corn prop,
T n GAYER.—It is asserted that every
species of bird, large and small is subject to
the gapes. The young of the robin are
often greatly troubled with them. It is
also believed that many chinks thus ,effected
die from starvation; on account of their in-
ability to swallow. This parasitic disease
is occasioned by a number of small worms
in the throat, producing inflammation.
The fowl is oftentimes relieved by a stiff
horaehair, or a quill etriped of its feathers
within an inch of the end, which, when
carefully used, willremove some of the
worms. Care and proper attention to fowls
will ward off the disease, Pure water,
wholesome food, and aufficient room for
exercise will seldom fail in preventing its
appearance.
CAArr IN AN ANIMALS EYE.—Prof. Low
nye the best method of removing chaff from
the eye of an animal is to pick it off with a
pair of pinchers, the head being held steadi-
ly by an aesietent having hold of the nose,
and the eyelid being held open by the op:
posit° hand. 'In the absence of pincers or
forceps, cover a pin with a single layer of
a soft handkeroheaf, and scrape off the chaff,
with the head of the pin so protected, The
eye will suffer much moro from the continued
presence of the chaff than from pretty ac-
tive scraping. Keep a rag, wet in cold wa-
ter, over the eye for a day or two after re-
moval: then touch it daily with afoather
dipped in a solution of lunar caustic, five
grains to the ounce of distilled water.
CHARCOAL FOR TuRf{EYs,—A California
paper
commends charcoal for fattening
and eve that it should be pulver-
izod and mixed with mashed potatoes and
corn meal, as well as fod to them in small
lumps. Io mentions that, in two lots of
four, each treated alike, and one lot given
thio mixture and the other not, there was
an average gain in the weight of the fleet of
a pound and a hall eaoh. In com-
menting upon this another writer says :
"While we condemn the practice of mixing
the pulverized charcoal with other food for
turkeys, compelling them to eat it whether
they want to or not, we havein nno doubt of
the excellent effects of aup1 ithem char-
coal broken into small bits, modally when
I attening for market,"
HERB B ND THERE
A great deal of land around Winchester,
England, may be leased for 25 cents an
acre.
A+naturalist, who has just returned from
Spain, says that the natives keep locusts in
cages for the sake of their "music."
The Countess De Roohefouoauld and the
Countess do Bethune appear on the real es-
tate assessment rolls in New Orleans for over
$100,000.
There are between 300,000 and 400,000
cyclists in England, and the ancient oity of
Coventry is the chief seat of the oyole-mak-
ing industry.
Tho Sultan Is as devoted to Wagner as
the King of Bavaria. Muoh of hie time is
passed at the piano, and two of his ecus are
acoomplished musicians.
The other day there died at Turin
Padre Giacomo, the confessor of Count Cav-
our. It was to Padre Giacomo that Cavour
addressed his dying words, "Father, a free
Church in a free State."
Holloway jail seems to suit Mrs. Weldon,
the eminent London litigant, far better than
it suited Mr. Yatea. There she has remain-
ed all Bummer without making any plaint to
the world without.
Since 1852 $373,000,000 has been laid out
in rebuilding and embelliehing Patio. fhe
ntw Town 11.11 Dost about $60,000;000, and
$40,000 000 has been spent on the four parks
—the Bois de B.tulogne, Bois de Vincennes,
Pace Monceaux and Montaouris.
A growing demolition in Episcopalians to
call in question the utility of Sunday schools
is discet ned by the Church Press, which
does not share in these misgivings and ob-
jections, and sees no ream n why the school
ehould be discontinued or deoried.
Ten physicians, who have had an oppor-
tunity for personal, observation, report di-
versely as to the deadliness of leprosy. Four
feel certain that it is absolutely incurable,
three are in doubt, end three believe that
ohaulmoogra oil may prove a specific, as they
have seen remarkable results from its use.
No class in Eogland has in the past thirty
years seen mush an improvement in its con•
dition as the army. The modern barracks
have admirable sanitary arrangements,
bathe, libraqes, five courts, an 1 gymnasi-
ums ; in faot, are so comfortable that many
of the men do not go outside for days to-
gether.
In the garden of a residence whose lawn
elopes down to the bank of the Delaware,
near Cheater, a ship's yawl has been set up-
right, painted red, and turned into a flower
holder. Living blosaome and foliage plants
fill it from stem to stern, and flowering plants
clini'b ite one mast and twine about the
stays.
When the late Lord Shaftesbury was
L 'rd Ashley, by whish title be was longer i-
minent, there were some 400 peers, and pro-
bably 200 had grown. up sons ; and yet, out
of thia large body of men, he is about the
only name standing out as that of a noble-
man who gave his time, energy,, money,
and the prestige of leis position to the cans e
of benevolence.
The Jews of the world numbered 6 377,602
last June, according to the statistics gather-
ed by the Geographical Society of IVI treeilles
and were distributed as follows : Europe,
5,407,602 ; Asia, 245,000 ; Africa, 413,000 ;
America, 300 000 ; Australia, 12 000. Near-
ly a third of the European Jews live in Rus-
sia. Austria and Hungary Dome next. In
the three Scandinavian kingdoms, Denmark
Sweden and Norway, there are 7,000 Israel-
ites all told,
A heavily loaded street car in Phildadel-
phia was stopped last week by the falling
of one of its horses from exhaustion, The
poor beast was lifted to his feet, and was
about to be reharneased, though his should-
ers were raw ; but no one protested until a
young lady vehemently warned the driver
that stye would procure his immediate ar-
zest if he persisted in trying to drive the
horse. The driver sneered and swore, but
took the hint, and the horse was Bent away.
If the corners of the mouth are habituelly
drawn down in a frown and the brows
wrinkled in perplexity, those features will
gradually assume an aspect of repellent ser-
iousness. On the other hand, the man who
smiles a great deal will acquire a pleasant
expression. A Yankee has invented an ap-
paratus to be worn at night, which he fan-
cies will not only lend an agreeable exprea•
sion to a face that has not yet become set,
but will obliterate and rearrange the un-
pleasant lines that time and circumstances
have established.
A Birmingham (England) paper says :
"Not long ago the wife of a prominen t gen-
tleman in this town called at a leading shop
and noticed a beautiful cement hair shawl.
She inquired the price and was informed £40
She admired the shawl very much, and,
upon being solicited to buy it, said that her
husband would never consent to pay £40
for it, `but,' she continued, a bright idea
striking her, 'I will pay you £20 on it, and
the next time you see my husband passing
show him the shawl and tell him it is only
£20, and I am sue he will buy it.' The pro-
prietor readily assented, and a few days
afterward the iksband, on passing the shop
was called in, saw the shawl, and in a little
while consented to give £20. A few days
later, while walking in the street, his wife
observed the identical shawl upon the
shoulders of a woman for whom she long
suspcotod herhusband entertained more than
a neighborly regard,
Dr. Ferran, the Spanish inoculator for
cholera, has hadthe fullest measure of praise
followed Lia deluge of abuse which the facts
do not seem to justify. Reports as to the ef-
ficacy of inoculation have now been received
from seven Spanish towns, containing an ag.
gregato of 41,641 inhabitants. Of these 20,•
382 were inooulated, leaving 21,259 not so
treated. Of the latter 7,45 por cent, were
attacked with cholera, and of these 52,02
per cont. died, Of the 20,382 inoculated
1.13 per cent, were attacked, and of these
32,33 per cent. died. Some of the medical
writers consider this a remarkable showing
in Ferran'° favor. They say that ho ooneid•
°red two inoculations, a "mild" and a "mase
'sive" ono, necessary to assure success, and
these could not always be given in the con-
fusion attending the onset of cholera in the
towns specified. Again, the pressure upon
Mtn was so severe that he could not always
ascertain whether his inoculations had tak-
en or not.
HOW PATIENTS ARE TREATED,
Terrible Revelatiena oEgne or the Sutl'erers
Su St, Roches Hospital,
Facto concerning the treatment and ex-
perience of the patients in St Rooh's hos-
pital, Montreal, which have just come to
light, are revolting in the extreme. Mrs.
Borlands the daughter-in-law of the Rev,
John Borland, well known in this city, who
entered the hospital on Sept, 29 last, says
when she was sent to the hospital she was
placed on a bed in whioh was one sheet to lie
on and then a ragged, dirty blanket for a
covering, For the first few days she suffer-
, ed from the cold owing to the window just
above her head being partially open and a
too noanty supply of olothivg. While she
was still suffering from cold, at, were several
others, a man of the hospital was applied to
for additional covering, when he brought up
several ragged blankets, which he distrib-
uted, saying as he did ao not to let the nuns
know, or " they would play hell with him."
Dr. Nolin gave no medical attendance, aim- .
ply looking at the Dards over the beds in the
morning, dropping here and there an occa-
sional remark, and thus passing along and
out. Mra. Borland and Mrs, r.' opkins. who
were both patients, declared that Dr. Nolin
gave them no professional attention until
in Mrs. Borland's case she asked for some
aperient medicine, when he gave a dose of
wbat he called mineral water, the effect of
which for four days was that the most pain-
ful diarnceei was experienced, whioh was
followed for five consecutive days by hem-
orrhage, which was so profuse as to run
through the bed on to the floor of the ward.
Dr. Nolin then gave her a powder, which,
while it stopped the hemorrhage, neverthe-
less gave her a pain in her aide which she
experiences to the present day. There was
no attendance given by the regular nurses,
that being principally done by convalescent
patients. Cries of the pat ents for a glass of
water were heartrending, to be met by the
response : " Shut up, you." The at(ench of
the plane was most revolting, and anything
in the way of deodorizing or dieinfc sting was
never thought of. The heartleseneea, they
said, with which patients are treated in the
St. Rooh'e hospital was remarkable. In the
case of a Miss Norris, to relieve a ohokiog
sensation, application was made to Dr. No -
lin. After muoh entreaty he made his ap-
pearance and gave her some relief. This
was about 10 o'clock at night, and nothing
more was done or attempted. The following
day she was removed to the black smallpox
ward, and without any further attention
was allowed to die a couple of days after-
wards, No attention was paid to anybody
the moment they entered the black small-
pox ward, and the cries that came from that
awful place were heartrending. After the
first night of Mrs, Borland's stay in the hos-
pital a poor woman after her death was roll-
ed out of the bed on which she had died and
allowed to fill like a log of wood on the floor.
The first eveniog Mrs. Borland spent in the
hospital a woman, who bad been a cook of
the Rev. Mr. Wood, died under terrible
circumstances. For hours previous to her
death, and as long as she could speak even
in a whisper, she Dried, " For God's sake
give me water," but the only attention giv-
en her was to tell her to shut up, She died
during the night. Previous to her death
she writhed in her agony and fell out of bed.
Two men were called, who lifted, and throw-
ing her into bed, said: "Now sit on her and
keep her down '' When dead a sheet was
placed on the floor and she was rolled on to
it like a log, Then they pinned up the sheet
around her and two men dragged her down
stairs. Her body thumping on the stairs
could be heard in the ward. On throwing
the oorpse'of this woman down off her bed
her bowels burst open and the contents were
spilled all over the floor, which were allowed
to remain there for several days, the stench
being abominable. A number of similar
cases could be given. There was only one
nun to four wards and with eight in each
ward, the patients could not be attended to.
The food was often not fit to eat.
MECHANIOAL IPEMS,
A forge hammer driven by gas instead of
steam was recently invented in England.
A London boot and shoe paper is indignant
that an American firm should presume to
ship fine boots for Londoners to wear.
It is said the coming roofretwill be of terra-
cotta tiles, The terra-cotta manufacturers
are adapting their wares to a variety of
purposes.
Mainsprings of watches break most fre-
quently in the fall cf the year, and watch-
makers aro said to put in more new springs
in two fall months than in all the rest of the
year.
Brick makers have heard of a brink -mak-
ing machine that has a pressure of from
5,000 to 300,000 pounds, and which can turn
out from 8,000 to 20,000 bricks per day.
Tool makers will be interested in know-
ing that a process has been discovered and
perfected by which old,raila, at a coat of $17
per ton, can be turned into goodedged
tools, 4
Not ten y "e havo elapsed -since the first
aper mill w • reed in Japai., with the
latest a lice uropear and American
machinery, and now we are told that there
are a dozen mills in operation in that country
several of them making good dividends, It
may be put down to the credit of Japan that
she was a few hundred years in advance of
the United States in making papers from
wood fiber.
S idles conect ning the new American
postal card are now in order. The material
used is twenty-five per cent. wood pulp and
seventy-five por cont. fine rags. It takes
about twelve hours to convert the raw ma-
terial into the cards, and between 1,000,000
and 1,500,000 of them are turned out daily,
giving employment to about 130 women and
girls. They come from the press in sheets
of forty cards each. It costa $100 a month
for the little paper Banda that aro planed
about the bunches of twenty-five each. Tho
new card has a watermark that will aid in
the detection of counterfeits. Even with a
million -turned out daily the demand le
greater than the supply.
Editors in Madrid place their desks on
trapdoors, so that when a government ins-
pector enters with a subpccna they can drop
into the collar, Caricaturists climb up the
chimney,
OVER THF OCEAN.
Ozone baths are a specialty at Eastbourne,
England. The bath is filled with lopg, green
seaweed, steeped for an hdur before use in
boiling water, The bather remains in about
twenty minutes, and the bath is thought
very invigorating.
A Sootollman is suffering from a painful
disease of the hand and wrist, brought on
by the pressure against the palm of a round -
knobbed cane. The surgeons say that the
thing to carry is a stick with a plain, smooth,
cylindrical handle.
The proprietors of London restaurants and
hotels aro taking to music At the Holborn
restaurant sweet musio has been discoursed
during dinner hours for some time past, and
quite a number of hotels and reetaurants
have now applied for a license.
The London police have received orders
not to take into custody a person about to
commit suicide, but to apply for a warrant
to apprehend him on a charge of misde-
meanor. The medical journals call this
" looking up the stable after the horse la
stolen."
It seems almost useless to warn people not
to take overdoses of opium and its alkaloide.
An English clergyman, who had been accus-
tomed to take morphia pills forsleepleseness,
continued the habit against his physician's
express instructions, and one night took a
number of them equal to a grain and a half '
of the drug. He went to sleep and never
awoke.
• Asia possesses the most powerfully equip-
ped hornets. The Indian Medical Gazette
tells of a man who was bitten on the neck
by one of them. Within ten minutes he be-
came cold, pulseless, and unconeeious. He
was a robust man, but the use of active rem-
edies only brought him to after a couple of
hours. The hornet was of medium size,
bright yellow and striped with blank.
The immense gun constructed at Eiswick
for the British government has a total weight
of 200 tons, being considerably in exmss of
previous undertakings. Its length. is stated
at some forty-four feet, though with an ex-
treme diameter at the breech of but five feet
six inches, a very elongated chase or barrel
tapering down to twenty-eight inches, with
a slight swelling at the muzzle, •
A ourious public house is among the latest
attractions in Paris. It is called La Ta-
verne du Bagne, The walls are hung with
paintingsrepresenting•the horrors of convict
life, interspersed with portraits of notorious
Communists. All the waiters are dressed
in convict uniform, and wear the chains and
bouiets of the regular forced. The landlord
is Citoyen Maxims Liebonne, one of the lead-
ers of the insurrection of 1871.
Sir James Paget hsa been traomg the
course in life of one thousand medical stu-
dents, taken at random from an English in-
stitute. He found that 23 out of t be 1,000
achieved distinguished success ; 66 ad con-
siderable success ; 507 made a living ; 124
hada very limited success, not having made
a fair practice within 15 years after gradua-
tion, and 56 failed utterly. Nearly 10 per
cent. (26) of the whole number left the pro•
feseion after beginning either study or prac-
tice; 87 died after entering practice, and 41
died when students.
The merry little mosquito has arrived in
Dublin. The interesting tourist ro on,
side had already turned up in Lend i
evidently with the notion of staying. He s
reported at opposite outskirts. Ever since
the memorial day, some seven years since,
when the first intruder of his race waylaid
an Irish M. P. in Piccadilly, the bloodthirsty
insect has not only lurked around Lon-
don, but has considerably increased and
multiplied, though it is doubted whether he
will ever prove formidable. His develop-
ment there promises to form a curious
chapter of natural history.
In about the oentre of the Island of Trin-
idad, a dot in the Carribbean sea, just off
the coast of Venezuela, there is an asphalt
lake. It is said to cover about 100 acres,
and is apparently inexhaustible. It is a
black sand substance and is believed to be
crude rotten petroleum. A singular feature
of the substance is that, although about 30,-
000 tons are taken out of this lake annually,
it constantly fills up so there is no lessening
of the supply. This singular lake of paving
material is owned by the Venezuelan
government, but is leased to a :company in
Washington.
The special correspondent of the London
Times says of the Italian army : The Italian
soldier always seems contented, cheerful,
and willing, while, as to his conduct, it is
remarkably good. I have not, during the
more than a fortnight I have been living in
the midst of the troops, aeon or heard of a
single drunken soldier, nor have I -been
told of misconduct of any sort. The Italian,
indeed, as was proved by Napoleon, makes
a good soldier, though he is not quite so
military in his style, bearing and talk as
the Frenchman ; and the army has been a
great civilizer of the more uncouth portions
of the population, as well as a great fuser
of the different races which inhabit the
peninsula and the islands.
The imperial meeting at Kremsier, whioh
lasted twenty hours, Dost the Austrian Court
Treasury upwards of $300,000. It is a
proof of the morbid state of terror and ap-
prehension in which the Czar exists that,
on arriving at Kremsier, ho refused to oc-
cupy the splendidly furnished apartments
which had been prepared for him, and in-
stalled himself in a couple of rooms at the
other end of the palace, which had been des-
tined for some other members of the suite.
There nivat have been frightful wast°, or
else the whole company must have indulged
in a great orgie, for 1,000 bottles of Rhine
Cabinet wines, 3,000 of champagne, 2,500 of
claret, 300 of liqueurs, and 300 of brandy
were consumed by 800 persons at two meals.
One morning twenty-nine years ;rage, the
body of Mr. John Sadlier, a celebrated Irish
financier and speculator twee found lying
stark and cold near Jackstraws Castle, on
tho Hampstead Heath and near it the little
vial containing prussic acid with which, in
the depth of his despair, he had rid liimsolf
of life. An inquest was held, and the medi-
cal witness on the occasion was Dr. Edward
Staunton. About ten days ago again an-
other body was found, stark awl cold on
nearly tho same spot, and the fingers still
gripped a small bottle which had contained
prussic acid, i t was taken up and recog•
nized as that of thoisame Dr. Edward Staun-
ton, whore the weary passage of twenty-nine
years had brought to the Fume end,
FALL TOLLTES.
Note shavers use soft soap entirely.
Music of the spheres—The grindstone.
' An aeoessery before the aot—Tbe mimeo
tra.
A lie has no lege. Neither has a cheesti,
Some cheeses are living lies.
When the prisoner heard his sentence, kt
was visibly moved—by two policemen.
Bronze is a very fashionable hue nova
days, but brace has not entirely gone out.
Society is a fraction whose numerator fie
clothes and whose denominator is cash,
They have patented an aut metic milk
stool at last. Shuts up when the cow kicks.
Jumbo will get a monument before Grant
does. This is the advantage of being widely
known,
" Mother Hubbardville" is the name of a
new town in Georgia, .It must be a loot*
place,
An exchange arks, "Why do people have
poor teeth ?" Probably because they can't
afford to buy good ones.
A farmer wants to have his body burned,'
He has only to get upon hie haymow and
light Ws pipe.
Maine's potato crop is said to las worth
$8 000 000 this year. Wnat heapa of back-
ache there must be in that crop.
If the height of a fi11 bonnet was propor-
tionate to its price the roofs of theaters
would have to be raised.
The world may owe a man a living, but
it is always beet for him to go out and col-
lect it by a little hard work.
'Bridgeport has a church that has opera,
chairs instead of pews. The "dropeurtain"
has not yet been painted,
Italy is now sending canned oysters ter
Canada. If it were not so mean we might
retaliate by sending some organ -grinders to
Italy.
An exchange heads one of its columns,,
"Men and Things." The women ought to
rise in arms in indign.ction at bniog called
by such a tame.
Siberian cats are the newest agony in
pets. A Siberi in oat has a cold and search-
ing voice, and is a valuable addition to the
backyard orchestra,
A new novel just issued is said to have
been written between the hours of 2 and fs
o'clock in the morning. The evils of late
hours seem to be accumulating,
Scientists are interested in the discovery
that extreme cold converts tin into a semi -
crystalline mass containing large cavities,
Now when a man looks for "tin" in hie
pockets and finds only ' large cavity he
can attributs it to extrema cold—which in-
fletee coal and plumbing bills.
"Hu'h, Johnny," admonished the mother
as the scion of the family grew clamorous
for something to eat, " You must remem-
ber that older people take preceience at
the ts,ble." " Let 'em take .proceedins ; I
want some of the mafiias,"Shouted Johnny.
"You are charged with kissing this young
lady in the dark," said the jute to the
prisoner, agreed looking young man. "Mer-
ciful heavens," he gasped. "Is that the
young lady ?" " It is. " Then I plead not
guilty, your honor' " Not guilty ?" "Yes t;
and I desire to enter replea of insanity."
Doctor—Have von, sir, tried the sea-
shore ? Invalid—Yes. I tried it once, but
it's two hard work. Dressing and undress-
ing is very tiresome. Doctor—I don't quite
understand. Invalid—Well, you see, the
doctor I had there said I mu •t take a teddy
after each bath. " Yee ; but suppose he
did ?" " It kept me in bathing all the
time."
Tae Soup.
A coachman suddenly raised to the poet
of waiter at a dinner party, when a sudden
resignation ha -i left the place vacent within
an hour of the assembling of the guests, was
delighted. The hot was delighted to Fed
that an old dress coat and vest would fit the
coachman, and ten minutes was spent in ac-
quainting the servant with the usages of
polite society at a dinner. Among other
things, the host told the coachman that ha
was on no account to ask any of the guests
to be helped a second time to soup. The
guests took their places at table, and the
soup was quite credibly served. The coach-,
man observed that one gentlman pushed his
plate of soup away from him. The servant
leaned over and drew the plate ba^.k again
in front of the gentleman. who in turn push-
ed it from him again. This diepleteed the
coachman. He thought he saw a breach of
decorum in action. "Ate your soup, eorr 1"
said he, in trumpet tones, "yez 11 get ne
more."
Graeshoppera are so numerous and large
in Mexico that farmers go gunning for
them, Enormous damage has been done
to the crops, but the farmers have lots of
fun.
One crank's hobby is to induce the wealthy
residents of cities to open their spacious„
ventilated homes during their own simmer
absence as lodgings for the poor. He arguer
that it is wicked in the millionaires to let
thousands of innocent children die unneces-
in tenements.
Thsarilyree fourths of the grazing land to the
west of the Colorado river in Texas is eaten
bare and about 100 000 cattle are without
anything to feel on. Toe;' are kept out of
New Mexico and Arizona by alleged quar-
antine restrictions. There is plenty of grant
across the border and the Texas cowboys
are getting ready to appeal to the rifle and
the revels er,
The question as to the origin of the enc
tom of sewing two but one on the bast- me
a gentlemen's coat, Though these button'
have now outlived their usefulness, they,
must havo been sewed on at first with a por'
pose. The two buttons aro generally sup•
posed to be a relic of the days when every
gentleman wore a sword. Thebuttons were
used to support the sword belt.
The one cheap thing in Japan is the wash-
ing, which is well and beautifully done at
the laundries in every foreign settlement at
the moderato rate of 2.50 for 100 pleaoe,
Tho skirt or sir &apiece of the moat elaborate
frilled and puckered dress is count el in et
2e centa, as well as a single handkerchief,
anti the smallness of tho laundry bills is a
perpetual surprise and the greatest comfort
in life,