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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-05-18, Page 3=flower seeds are good for fowls �' A field well ploughed is a crop half de, " Cabbage need lime," nays an experieno- bd gardner. Never keep honey in a (sellar, A dry room is the place for it. Datnp roosting places for poultry aro the principal cause of roup and moat other di- seases. Prof. DeMuth says that hay fed to cows between meals is worse than wasted, as it interferes with the digestion of the regular ration. In no way can a farmer with less trouble enrich a poor field with scanty herbage than by feeding sheep on it, so affirms an English sheep farmer. .Assistant Commissioner Taloot, of Ohio, deolares that he la " confident from his official investigation, that bogus butter ought to be forbidden entirely on sanitary grounds," A bulletin from the Michigan Agricultural College makes this suggestion that the state botanist be employed to examine farm seed, especially those of grasses and clover before they are purchased by farmers. Plenty of whitewash should be used now, not only for the brighter appearance but also as a disinfectant. Hot whitewash on the inside of barns, stables, poultry houses and big quarters will aid in preventing vermin and insects. Horticulture is taught in the common schools in Germany. The pupils are requir- ed to bud, graft, transplant, plant sends, etc., and they are given instructions on the subject of plant growth, adaptation of varie- ties to soil, climate, etc. The man who ploughed his ground last fall and put what manure on it in,the winter could be spared, can soon drag in his oats and have this work all done before his neigh- bors have ploughed. And :,his process brings the best kind of a crop, too. When the early plants shall have begun to come up in the hotbeds, the potato beetle will attack them. Tomato plants must be watched, or they will all be destroyed in a few hours. The beetle comes out early in the season, before potato plants make their appearance, and they will readily devour any green substance if they cannot find po- tato leaves to consume. For beets the soil should be rich, mellow and deep. Plant in drills, about two inches deep and the rows about 12 or 15 inches apart. For field culture the rows should be wide enough to admit the horse cultivator and the roots not nearer than one foot in the rows. The mangel wurzel beets grow to a very large size, are course, and wonder- fully productive, making excellent feed for cattle. • A Colorado farmer is said to have South- down lambs six months old that weigh 140 pounds each, and it has been estimated that they will clip at least twelve pounds of wool each when they shall be fourteen months old. As extra mutton now sells at eight cents per pound for sheep in lots, each of the above is worth $11.20. This shows what can be done -with well-bred sheep without paying any attention to the value of the wool. ever yet rejected an egg in someuise. It is nutriment in the most portable form and in the moat concentrated shape, Whole nations of mankind rarely touch any other animal food. Hinge eat them plain as readily as do the humble tribes men. After the victory of Muhldorf, when the Kaiser Ludwig sat at meat with Lis burg - grass and great captains, he determined on a piece of luxury—"one egg to every man, and two to the excellently val''ut Sohwep• perman." Far more thanfieh---for its watery diet—eggs are the scholar's fare. They con- tain phosphorus, which is brain food, and sulphur, which performs a variety of fun°. tions in the economy. And they are the best of nutriment for children, for, in a oompaot form, they oontaln everything that is necessary for the growth of the youthful frame. Eggs aro, however, not only food— they are medicine also. The white is the most efficacious of remedies for burns, and the oil extraotable from the yolk is regard- ed by the Russians as an almost miraculous salve for outs, bruises and scratches. A raw egg, if swallowed in time, will effectually detach a fish bone in the throat, and the white of two eggs wilt render the deadly corrosive sublimate as harmless as a dose of calomel. They strengthen the con- sumptive, invigorate the feeble and render the most susceptible all but proof against jaundice in its more malignant phase. They can also be drunk in the shape of that " egg flip " which sustains the oratorical efforts of a modern statesman. The merits of eggs do not end even here. In France alone the wine clarifiers use more than 80,001,000 a year, and the Alsatians con- sume finny 3S,000,000 in calico printing and for dressing the leather used in making the finest of French kid gloves. Finally, not to mention various other employments for eggs in the arts, they may, of course, almost without trouble on the farmers part, be con- verted into fowls, which in any shape aro profitable to the buyer. Even shells are valuable, for allopath and homeopath alike agree in regarding them as the purest of oar• bonate of lime. TOE DOCTOR'S SUADOW. An Incident of the Cholera Outbreak. During the outbreak of cholera in Naples, three years ago, the hostility of the loser classes towards the doctors was violent. They insisted that the spread, if not the origin, of the disease was due to them, and galled them poisoners and murderers.. Phy- sicians who made visits atinight to the poor's quarters carried revolvers, or were accom- panied by policemen, A French physician, who had volunteered his aid, used to go about' unarmed and with- out a guard, at all hours of the night, for, as he said to a friend, "Don Salvatore Trap. anese was watching over him," Wherever he went, at night, a man, with a long cloak thrown over hie shoulder, oarry. ing a stink in his,hand, followed him, as a detective follows the man he is "shadowing." Even in the heart of the thieves' quarter this physician was as safe as in the public square at midday. For theman was one of the chief thieves, and his business was to see that no harm came to the doctor. Ithappened in this way. Late ono after- noon the doctor happened to be in a church frequented by the poor of the city, The doors were about to bo closed, as a man en- tered and fell upon his knees, His lips moved hastily, and repeatedly be struck the ground with his forehead. As the sexton came up to lock the door, the man threw his cloak over his shoulder and hurriedly left the church. As the dootor passed the spot where the man had knelt, his foot stumbled against a long Calabrian dagger which lay upon the floor. Catching up with the man outside, the doctor handed him the knife, and notic- ed his pale face and agitated manner. " I feel sorry for you," said the doctor. " Cholera in the house," the man mutter- ed through his olenched teeth. The doctor announced himself a physician from Paris, and offered his services. The man shook his head, walked away, and then returned. " Are you a stranger ?" said he, curtly. " Yes." " You have nothing to do with the muni- cipal authorities ?'' °i Nothing at all." " Will you come with me?" They went down into a narrow street, walked a long way in the darkness, through a vaulted passage, into a narrow alley, and halted before a tumble-down house. A man came out, and all three went down a pitch-dark passage, crossed a yard, and stopped before a miserable hovel. The man who had come from the house, raised a lantern and scrutinized the doctor's face, and then they entered the hovel. A mother lay upon the floor wringing her hands in despair. Three women were on their knees praying. A old woman, a crip- ple, sat all in a heap before the fire, mutter- ing to herself. On the bed was a little girl, half cold and unconscious. No one stood beside the bed, for the lowest class Neapolitans are afraid to touch a dying person. Surreptitiously, under the blanket, the doctor administered an ether -injection. She rallied, opened her eyes and moaned softly, thereby softening the suspicious eyes around the physician. The mother rose from the floor and began helping the physician rub the girl with the blanket. The rubbing was useless ; the child was sinking f ast. The doctor prepared to give an intraven- ous injection. As he cut open the vein all the women shrieked. The child collapsed; the mother cried : " She is dying 1 she is dying 1" The doctor held the child in his arms. Savage eyes followed his movements, and amid prayers to the Virgin and threats hurled at him, the night wore on. A reaction set in toward morning, and• warmth returned to the body. She moan- ed, "Mamma ! mamma 1" The mother's faced glowed with hops. The child was re- turning to life. When the doctor lett the house he was guided through the labyrinth of lanes and alleys by the father, whose look of gratitude more than compensated the physician for the sleepless night. Several nights, for they preferred to re- ceive his visits after dark, the doctor visited the hovel. On the night of the last visit, the mother stood on the doorstep, as the', doctor departed, praying, "May the peace'' which you desire be granted unto you 1" As the dootor took leave of the father he asked his name- "Salvatore Trapanese,' the man answered, and added, "If ever you want mo, excellency, my life and my knife will be at your disposal.' Pointing to where a ragged old cobbler was seated repairing a boot, he said, "Ad- dress yourself to that man if you want me." For months the physician did not see Sal- vatore. The papers teemed with accounts of nightly attacks, and the dreadful Camorra —the association of thieves and beggars which once ruled half of Naples—appeared to be renewing its sway. But whenever the doctor went out at night, he saw that he was followed by a suspicious-Iooking charms. ter. Subsequently the doctor found out that the man overshadowing him was Salva- tore's brother, who had been ordered by the Camorra to watch over him. The doctor lost a valuable dog. Be in- formed the old cobbler. That night a man called, whose appearance was not'euoh as to beget a sense of security. He came as a friend of Salvatore. "You shall have the dog back to -morrow evening, if he be not deal 1" said the man. The next night the dog rushed into the room dragging Salvatore after him. The doctor thanked him and shook kim by the hand. I am a bad man," said Salvatore looking confused, "and not worthy of touching your hand." The doctor handed the reward he had promised for the dog's return, two hundred francs. The man put it back on the table, saying : " You saved the little girl. I found the dog—it is all right now." POULTRY NOTES. There is always a home market for fresh eggs. Eggs may be cheap and plentiful, but it is difficult to always obtain them strictly fresh. Those who have made a specialty of supplying only fresh eggs have found a ready sale near home at prices fully equal to those paid elsewhere. If the Rwal New Yorker's poultry inves- tigation have determined one thing more valuable than others, it isitheluse of kerosene and spraying bellows for exterminating lice in the easiest and oheapest way. A poultry house ten feet square can be thoroughly kerosened in a minute, the fine spray pene- trating every crack and crevice. There is no need whatever of whitewash or the use of any other material for this purpose. The kerosene vapor is effectual. It is estimated that a poultry house seven- teen by thirteen will accommodate forty hens in the winter, and that twenty pounds of coal per day, at a Dost of less than five cents, will keep the temperature at about 40 degrees. With this sort of a hon -house you may look for eggs in the coleest months, and the combs will never he treated. It is growing harder and harder to get good milkers on farms where but few cows are kept. Milking seems to be getting more and more the work of a specialist. Good milkers on dairy farms are generally sure of the best wages. They get more milk than careless or indifferent hands would, conse- quently they represent so much cash saved to their employers. Some men are naturally good milkers. They have a firm yet gentle hand, and a way of getting the cow's best confidence. No man can be a good milker until he does get the cow's confidence. Such men• naturally work towards the large dairies where there skill will be meet appre- ciated. On farms where few cows are kept the milking is too frequently regarded as an unpleasant chore -to be gotten rid of as quickly as possible. Where the milking is regarded as a job to be dodged if possible, it is no wonder that we find bungling or unskillful work. Tho refreshing, delightful vapory coolness of the foliage of a tree top in hot, dry days of summer is very familiar—observed and welcomed by all. Fruits freshly plucked from a tree have the same fresh coolness, while those that have fallen are unpleasant- ly and unretreeeingly warm. Few think of the cause of the constant coolness of leaves and fruit while on the tree. It seems as great a mystery of nature as the constant unvarying warmth of animals. It is the crude, watery, sap absorbed by the roots in the cool soil and carried so rapidly to the trunk and then up the trunk and out along the branches and into the leaves, all so rapid- ly that it still retains its coolness when ex- haled from the stomates of the leaves, suf- fusing the air with its agreeable refrigera- tion. The great wonder is how the sap reaches the tops of tall trees so rapidly as this evidence proves it to do. It must traverse millions of separate cells on its way, and it seems to ascend against gravity even more freely than it extends along horizontal branohes. No satisfactory solution to this problem has yet been given. People who purchase fowls in market seem to prefer those that have a rich yellow skin with yellow legs, and thetefore poultry-grow- rs should endeavor to accommodate them ; but in reality the dark -legged fouls are the best for the table, being finer grained, hav- ing a delicate flesh and thin skin. Royal Iuterivarrlages. A grave national crisis seemed about to arise recently in Germany as the result of a proposed marriage between a daughter of the reigning Emperor and ,Prince Alexander of .Battenberg. Alexander was formerly Prince of Bulgaria, and while occupying that throne gave such offence to the Russian Czar that be was abducted, and was afterward forced to give up his Bulgarian throne. Obnoxious, therefore, as Alexander is to the Czar, Prince .Bismarck declared that his marriage into the Emperor's family was like- ly to bring about unpleasant relationa—and perhaps worse—between Germany and Rua - sot, and therefore Bismarck strenuously re- sisted the arrangement which was dear to the heart both of the young princess herself and of her mother, the Empress Victoria. This occurrence strikingly illustrates the fact that marriages among the European reigning families may still have a large influ- ence upon the course of political events. It is quite true that such ties de not pre- vent, and never have prevented, the differ- ent nations from quarrelling with and fight- ing eaoh other. Royal fathers-in-law and brothers-in-law have often, all through Eu- ropean history, confronted each other on the battlefield, and allied themselves with each other's enemies. Napolean the First warred upon Francis of Austria, his father-in-law, and a few years ago England and Russia were on the very point of coming to blows, though the second son of Queen Victoria was the husband of the Cz tr's sister. Yet the reigning families, or their minis- ters, have always arranged marriages be- tween their members for "dynastic" and po- litical reasons, and not seldom the fact that marriage ties existed between them has turn• ed the scale in favor of or against wars and other important political events. Inthe monarchies, indeed, either absolute law or immemorial custom has established the rule that royalty can only wed royalty, and that if the heir, near or remote to a throne, marries beneath the royal rank, ho shall forfeit his right of nuc Cession. Prince Oscar of Sweden, by marrying re- cently Miss Munck, one of the maids of ho- nor at the Swedish court, was obliged to abandon all right to succeed to the throne, and to give up his rank as a royal prince. In order to avoid such results, the princes of many European states are permitted to contract what are called "morganatic" mar- riages, with women not of royal blood. But the ohildren of such marriages are not recog- nized as their father's heirs, or as being of the blood royal; nor does a morganatic mar- riage prevent the prince who makes it from also legally wedding a princess of royal blood. Royal marriages for dynastic or political reasons often have two opposite results. They often unite in wedlock a prince and princess who know little of each other, and who do not love each other. On the other band, the rule of dynastic marriages some times keeps apart a prince and princess whc do love each other. The latter is said to be the case with the Prince Alexander and the Princess Victoria. Sometimes, however, it happens that affec- tion and political exigencies harmonize, and produce happy marriages. Of such a char- acter, undoubtedly, were the marriages of Queen Victoria with Prince Albert; of her son, the Prince of Wales, with the Danish Princess Alexandria; of the present German Emperor with his Empress, and of the pre - Statistics of S"clsness and Death. Some years ago the Statistical Congress at London, England, deduced from the tables of Drs. Farr and Edmunds, the fol- lowing interesting facts respecting sickness and death, which preach important sanitary sermons without the aid of comment :— " Of one thousand persons at the age of thirty, it is probable that ten will die in the current year ; that there will be ten perma- nent invalids, and an average of twenty sick for the year. " Of one thousand persons at the age of seventy, it is probable that a hundred will die during the year, and three hundred will be sick or become chronic invalids. " It is estimated that of every thousand of population there will be seventy-seven sick, on an average, for the year, in Eng- land and Scotland ; fifty-three in Ireland ; sixty-seven in France ; seventy-six in Ger- many; ninety-four in Austria; eighty-nine in Italy and Spain; seventy-one in Holland; fifty-seven in Denmark; and fifty-five in the United States. " The most salubrious of these countries is Ireland. " The average number of days of sickness per adult inhabitant in the principal civiliz- ed countries of the globe, is fourteen and two-tenths. In the United States it is ten and five -tenths. " The average loss per cent. of income from sickness in the United States is two and nine -tenths ; in England, three ; in France, three and five -tenths; in Germany, three and nine -tenths; and in Russia, five - tenths." A ,MINE or WEALTIL The discourse on eggs which Mr. Sim monde has just delivered before the Society of Arts is well worthy of the most careful consideration. Eggs, acoording to the lec- turer, constitute a neglected mine of wealth. They aro the one article of agrioultural pro- duce for which the demand is unlimited, and perhaps the only one in which we might, did we choose, defy foreign competition. They not only mean money, but they tom• mand prices that admit of profit compared with which beef and mutton are of little amount, and wheat barely worth mention- ing. Hens, for these who know how to utilize them, lay eggs which, if not made of gold, are quite capable of being turned into that metal, when they are ratifiable all the year round, one month with another, at something not mum short of a penny apiece, while the eggs of ducks will bring! a still more remunerative price. Eggs are a meal in themselves. - Every element necessary to the support of man is centaited within the balite of anegg-shell, in the best proportions and in the moot palatable form. Plain belled, they are wholesome, The masters of ] tenoh cookery, however, affirm that it is easy to dress them in more than 500 different ways, eaoh 'method not only utary in ha.i, tlaccree.o N honest tnical but laplretite DO YOU BANK? Reckon neither Sunday nor legal holidays. Individual or firm printed checks are the safest. Always indorse checks you send by mail. a able, State to whose order they are p y The law says that in all losses from fla- grant carelessness the careless one shall be the loser. If ordinary caution in banking is displayed and your oheck is raised or forged the bank suffers the loss. The holder of a note oroheek may give no- tice of protest either to all the previous in- dorsers or only to the last indorser. In purchasing a bank draft make it out to Our own order. Then indorse on the back " pay to " receiver, whoever he may be, or " order. "If the draft is lost in the mails you can obtain a duplicate. If °hooks do not returnto you within a rea- sonable time and you get no receipt for same front supposed receivers, notify the bank on which it is drawn of the number of the check and party to whom it was made outto. Thanksgiving is good, thanks living ;is better. The time for Otte to strike—Sixty minutes after 12. The wayof every man is declarative of the end of every men,•tOooll. sent C with the Princess Dammar n Czar wi So long -continued has been the custom of intermarriages between royal people, that the present reigning families of Europa are all more or less nearly related to each other; and, in many instances, are related to each other by numerous tins of blood and inherit- ance. It cannot be said, however, that this fact materially lessens the probability of war. Indeed, as the case of Prince Alexander and the German Princess shows, adherence to the custom may bring the prospect of dissen- sion and war nearer, rather than more re- mote. His Wife Saw the Point. Jones had married the prettiest woman in town and Brown had married the homeliest and thought she was beautiful. One even- ing they were talking about their respective better halves, and Brown remarked "I say, Jones, I think you and I married the two prettlett women in town." Jones looked at hfnr in surprise a moment, but he saw he was serious. "Well," he replied,_oautigply, and with pro fell I70guess e. ,r'►°' •fight, Brown didn't see his wife.—CW int R1J$SIA'S PETROLEUM( GEY. SIRS. Wells that Alone Produce More 0111100A au Entire Awerloan Field. Statistics of the oil business in Russia have just reached this country, and American oil men are studying them with a great deal ofanx- ioty. They throw a new light on the business in Russia, and;hhowtooplainlythattheBaku districts are a moot dangerous rival of the American fields, The output of many of the Russian 'voile is prodigious, and far Wipes anything ever beard of in this mull. tiy, American oil producers have claimed to have no fears of Russian competition, but with the new information on the industry they are taking another view of it. There is no better way to bring this fact to them than by a few comparisona. Take a well at Baku called the '' Wet Nurse," It has;been yielding oil for twelve years, And in that time has averaged 32,000 gallons a day, These figures are amazing to an Amertoan oil producer. They mean that the wellhas produced 140,000,000, gallons of oil, or over 3,000,000 barrels. These figures are startling to the people of this section when they turn to the statistics of their own industry and find that this one well has produced three times as much as Pithole in a year of its wonderful business. It lacks less than 400,000 barrels of produo. ing as much eel the famous 011 Creek district produced in 1869, its most prolific year. The Washington district, among the richest ever discovered in America. in 1887, its ban- ner year, produ::ed but 3,500,000 barrels. This is but 500,000 barrels more than the output of this one well in Russia, The wonderful Thorn Creek pool, in Butler coun- ty, produced in its best twelve months bet 268,000 barrels more than this one Russian gusher. Suoh astounding facts as these bring the danger of Russian competition home to the people of the Pennsylvanian fields. This does not stand alone in this enormous pro- duction. The yearly output is given of a number of wells, many of them nearly as large as this one. The "Mirzoeff No. 5," also at Baku, has for six years produced 40,000 gallons a day. This is above 2,000 barrels, and the production of Cogley, Tar - kill, and Red Valley, three prolific Venango county pools, produced but 1,965,000 bar- rels in 1886, their best year. The record is given of a well drilled, by the Nobel Brothers, called the " Droop. well." It cost $7 500 to drill. The record of the well is thus stated : This well spouted for 115 days, the yield being 3,400 tons for thirty, and 600 tons for eleven rays. The well was then plugged and the supply kept under ground for fur- ther wants. The amount of oil spouted by this well, according to the lowest estimate, was 22,000 tons, or 55,000,000 gallons : ac- cording to the highest estimate, 500,000 tons or 125,000,000 gallons." The spray from one of these geysers was blown through the air for eight miles. With those figures before them, coming as they do from official sources, American oil men realize that Russian petroleum deposits are too great for computation. Five hun- dred wells have been sunk in the Baku dis- tricts, 200 of which, irrespective of the enormous fountains, are now producing 560,- 000,000 gallons of oil every year. It is the opinion of American operators now in that field that this flow " could be increased ten- fold or a hundredfold." A very significant fact to oil men is the interest which the Rothschilds have taken in the Russian field, controlling, as they do, a large percentage of the producing and refining business. Torn in Pieces by a Panther. Hugh Williams had a thrilling adventure the other night while driving from Hot Springs to his country home. When half a mile from his house his horses evinced con- siderable uneasiness, as though they were afraid to advance further in the direction they were going. The farmer, becoming uneasy, whistled to his large and trusty bulldog, which was but,a short distance in advance of him. Just as the dog started to return, in obedience to the alarm, Mr. Williams heard a noise in the branches of a tree which stood near the roadside, and when the dog got within twenty five yards of the waggon he was pounded upon by a huge panther, which leaped from the tree upon him. A terrible fight ensued. The farmer's team became frightened and ran home with him. As soon as he reached his home Mr. Williams teth- ered his team, ran into the house, picked up bis Winchester rifle, and returned to the spot to take a band in the battle. He found his faithful dog torn to pieces, but no signs of the "varmint " was visible. Advice to Young 'Writers. A letter published in SE. Nicholas contains some advice once given by Miss Alcott to young writers. It says :—" Write and print if you can : if not, still write and im- prove as you go on. Read the best books and they will improve your style. See and hear good speakers and wise people, and learn of them. Work for twenty years and then you may some day find that you have a style and place of your own, and can command good pay for the same things no one would take when you were unknown. Do you fancy that any one can be really happy who is selfish? It is impossible- The Stiffish never have realfriends; tney are always grasping something more, whether they need it or not, and, as no one can ever satisfy his own desires if really selfish, they are disappointed and become peevish and irritable, To try to help others; to be made happy by seeking to make them happy is the best prescription for good spirits ever made. Sudden joys are apt to be followed by moments of weakness. In the reaotion from the delight aceasloned by the freedom from flood this year, a Montreal paper says " Spring „poomn are in order in ,Montreal at present, the season having behaved so well. Ask any level-headed business Man of Mon• Weal, even with a warehouse near the river, and he would welcome +► flood to esoaps the Stat ration in London. Oae of the most active charities in Lon- don is that which provides food for the un- employed, and also for laborers who are not allowed to leave the docks, where they are busy, during working hours, and who can pay only the smallest possible sum for what they eat. Those who have work are expect- ed to give one penny for an amount of food which the unemployed can obtain for a half- penny, and it is estimated that the first sum covers the actual cost of the bawl of nour- ishing soup of which a dock -dinner consists. This is supplemented by a slice of pudding when the applicant can afford an extra half- penny. A visitor at the place where the food is distributed says, that on a cold spring day nine hundred and sixty men were served from the food trucks in less than an hour. This took place after the worst distress of winter was over, Said the attendant in charge, "We are daily implored to give food to men who have had none for twenty- four or forty-eight hours." " Please, I've no money to -day," said one poor fellow. "I know you don't give the food quite, because there'd be such a lot of us if you did ; but will you take my matches, and let me have a little for them ?" In the midst of such bitter want, a great deal of brotherly kindness is shown by men who feel that a starving comrade's need is greater than their own. A poorly dressers man one day gave as penny to two others, telling them to buy soup and pudding for themselves. One of them came to the truck, and asked for two slices of pudding. "Why didn't you get some soup, instead of two pieces of pudding ?" asked the one to whom he had been indebted. " was the answer, as he handed one slice to another man, "Here's a chum of mine who cau get along with a piece of this." And the man who was thus helped was seen, a few minutes after, dividing his share with a neighbour more needy than himself. Last October an elderly man, looking very white and thin, stood for three days outside the gate, watohing the others as they ate their hot stew. Oa the first day a friend. lent him a penny, but on the second no one could afford to repeat the loan, and on the third the man fell to the ground exhausted. He had been reduced by starvation to the lowest point of human onduranoe, and actu- ally died on the spot where he hoped to be fed. Punctually at noon two wretched -looking cats appear, and wait until some one takes pity on them. Some of the men leave a lit- tle food in their basins for the poor animals„ besides breaking off a bit o pudding for anit- iously watching children. One day the attendant was, as usual, ode letting two basins of scrapings, one for the black eat, and one for the white, when he Mot a lean, starved human creature peering at him through the railings. The two cats finished t.teir meal and retired, andtbenthe wateher, springing toward the basin, raven- ously devoured the rest of the food, The amount of good done by this tystiom of food distribution it almost inor,lwntSia