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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-07-06, Page 6AsGRICELTURE. Il1ICK$. While they May enjoy it, at the name time itis not strictly mammary that ducks should have a pond of water to play in. they of the good breeds of ducks will thrive 4 k y c n have all the good fresh water they can drink without having a supply to swim and play in. They can, by supplying plenty of feed, be kept growing and if de - aired can be ready for market when not over three,months old, With plenty of feed. and Water, ducks grow very rapidly and can be Old, early. If kept after they are matured the feathers ahonld be picked regularly as the feathers that can be secured are well worth the trouble of feeding and caring for e them. While they eat more than chickens', yet they are great foragers and will manage to pick up a good part of their living if giv- en iven an opportunity. They are muoh hardier than chickens or turkeys and lees liable to disease, and after they get well started to grow they are less trouble than almost any other kind of poultry. While for the table they can not be excelled. REMEDY Pon APPLE Tare BORERS. The entomologist of the Ohio experiment station advises one and the same remedy for both the round headed and fiat beaded borers and bark lice that so injuriously af- fect the trunks of apple trees. The remedy is a wash made by mixing one quart of soft soap or one pound of hard soap with two gallons of boiling hot water and then adding a pint of crude carbolic. This mixture should be applied Iate in May and again three weeks later with a scrub brush to the trunk and larger branehea of the tree. If the bark is rough it ought to be scraped be- fore the wash is applied. No cracks in the bark at the base ot the trunk where the in.. sects can enter should be missed in the ap. plication, as the sole object is to prevent the laying of the eggs from which the grubs are hatched. REMARKABLE SEowINa POE MormoNnoM. The great bulk of the people of Utah are agricalcurists. Their possessions are in lands and horde. The statistics show that 90 per cent, of Mormon families own their own homes. There is no other community on earth which will make a like showing. There is not an almshouse, or the necessity for one, in any of the exclusively Mormon settlements, With the exception of the mines, every other industry in Utah is kept alive by Mormon labor and Mormon patron- age. The Mormons supply the most reliable non -striking class of laborers in the whole intermountain region. NoTES. The Stats of Sonora, Mex., levies a tax of $2 on every baby born within its limits, and charges the farmer 5 cents for every chicken he raises and 50 cents for every sheep. The total exports of apples from the Uni- ted States and Canada for 1887.8 were 608,- 588 barrels, as against 811,410 barrels for 1886-7. About one-half the shipments were made to Liverpool. A farmer in South Carolina is said to bave followed the plow for sixty-eight years. There is something to admire in the humble but useful life of such a man. He never waited for anything to turn up, bat went faithfully and uncomplainingly to work and turned it up himself, and continued to turn it up. In England the silo, in ensilage making, is being dispensed with, and the fodder prop. erly stacked, roofed and weighted or screwed down—after heating—comes out in excellent condition. A common practice, also, is that of alternating the layers of fodder with these of cut strew, the latter absorbing dur- ing fermentation a portion of the fodder .aroma, and thus becoming softened and more digestible. One of the most serious hindrances in onion growing is the onion maggot, the larva of a small fly resembling the house fly, but smaller. No positive remedy is known, but it is a common belief among gardeners that when the maggot becomes troublesome it is a good plan to change the land, which other. wise would not be done, for, unlike cabbage and many other , craps, onions thrive well year after year on the same land. It is always bad policy to crop bearing orchards, and one reason for this is that it generally prevents their pasturing by pigs, which are the best scavengers for destroying wormy -fruit, with its contents. The apples in our markets would be fairer if pigs had the range of apple orchards, and the pigs themselves would be more healthful food. If not ringed, pigs will give an orchard all the ploughing it needs, with no danger or injuryto tree roots. A careful examination of the corn field at various times has convinced Superintendent Graham, of the Kansas Agricultural College, that the burning of cornstalks and weeds to kill chinch bugs is a waste of time. The huge do not hide in the fodder, the corn - stubs or the weeds, but do hide very close to the roots of the grass. Burning the grass does not destroy many of them, because the grass is damp near the surface of the ground and the fire does not reaeh them. The question of the proper disposal of our sur- plus chinch -huge seems yet to remain an open one. Each owner of a garden may have abun- dant raspberries, Cuthbert for red, and Gregg for black, will, in most sections, give entire satisfaction. The descriptions of new varieties read well, and the illustra- tions are captivating, but the largest yield after all is from such as the above. Dig the oil thoroughly, manure freely, and do not crowd the plants. Sot the reds very shallow, and the blacks deep. Partial shade is no detriment, and a slight mulch in hot weather beneficial. Cut away the old panes as soon as the crop isathered. A hori- zontal cheap trellis is better than tying closely to :single stakes. The 'Interim Breeder says: It is poor economy to stint the supply of feed along to- ward spring because your grain is shorn; af. ter being kept in a. thrifty condition all win• ter do not allow thein to run down just be. fore dieing pasture. Sheep-raisore will find a big stem in a patch of rye in which to turn the ewes with lambs, A nip of green grass aids very materially in enabling the ewes in furnishing a full supply of milk, for it fs through the mothers we feed the lambs, Do not make the change from dry to green food too euddenly. The rye patohwlll be found advantageous here. Tarn your stook in for an bour or two a day. As the green food in. creates lessen the amount of dry. A Day in tilOPPas Landing at Joppe, Dr, Gallas begins hip observations at. once, Joppa is one of the eldest cities in the world, and the first possible landing place as one sails northward from Egypt. Yet there is diffiouity .in land- ing. Beefs of rooks defend the shore, the bay is shallow, sharks are not unknown, and the coast is mull exposed. Your vessel anchors half a mile out at eea, and a throng of flattish -bottomed oobtee soon surround the ship. to carry passengers through the opening in the reefs to land, A babel of cries, unintelligible to Western ears, fills the air; but by degrees the motley crowd of deck -passengers, of the moat varied nation- alities:, veiled women, shawl -covered Arabs, black Nubians with their red fezes, brown Levantine, turbaned Syrians, or Egyptians with their flowing robes of all ahadea, all drift by degrees into the boats, and for a time at least, you see the last ot their red or yellow slippers, and hear their noisy jargon no more. Then you, who have shrunk possibly from this rushing crowd of Orien. tals, have your turn, and the skillful and atrong-armed oarsman whisk you through the opening in the reefs across the shallow harbor, and then suddenly, when you are twenty or thirty yards off shore, you are seized, and carried in the bare arms or on the back of a boatman through the shallow water to the tumbled -down old quay built of stone from the ruins of Caesarea, and at last you find yourself treading on the soil of the Holy Land. Not a very dignified entrance, perhaps ; but the boats could not approach closer, and you have fared no worse than the bead -eyed Greeks or the hook -nosed Romans did thous sands of years ago 1 At one period Venice organized a spring and autumn packet -ser, vice (how strangely modern that sounds 1) to Joppa and built a mole to protect the shipping ; but since the reign of the " un- speakable Turk," everything has relapsed into a state of nature. And so from earli- est times li'hcenician and Egyptian, Roman and Crusader, English and American, all have to acknowledge the power of the treacherous waters. Pursuing our way through the street, we find it rough enough. Once paved, the stones have long since risen or sunk above or below their proper level. Dustbins and sewers being apparently alike unknown to the idle Oriental, every kind ok foulness bestrews the way. The buildiM are of stone, with little or no wood anywhere, timber being scarce in Palestine. The aroh is hence universal; as you ramble on you see that no light enters the shops except from the front --that they are in fact some- thing like miniatures of the gloomy holes sometimes made out of railway arches in England. Tables of cakes or sweetmeats line the narrow streets. Rough awning of mats, often sorely dilapidated, or tent -cloths, or loose boards resting on a rickety struc- ture of poles, partially shade the roadway. Now we meet a turbaned water carrier with a hugs skin bottle on his back. This bottle is, in fact, a defunct calf, with water instead of veal within, and without legs, head or tail, and offering a most fcrcible illustration of the reference to the placing new wine in old battles. Farther on we see a bare armed and bare- Iegged individual in ragged skullcap, cotton jacket, and cotton knieker•bockers, chaffer- ing with a roadside huckster for some de- licacy, costing a farthing or two, from some of the mat baskete on a table ; the bearded vendor, also bare-armed and bare-Tegged, sits as he tries to sell, his head swathed in a red and white turban, and his body in pink and white cotton. Of course there is no lounger at his side looking on. Then again we see au Arab in "kefiyeh" or head -shawl, with a band of camel's hair rope, very soft, around his head to keep the flowing gear in its place, and a brown and white striped "abbe" for his outer dress, he is bargaining for a bridle at the saddler's, and trying to cheapen ib; and the saddler sits cross-legged on a counter and under a shady projection of woods and reeds, which gives him much needed shade. And thus we see glimpses ot ordinary every -day life n the old town of Joppa. To Look at Pictures Properly The collector who has seen his choicest prints turned over by unintelligent hands while he has been forced by courtesy to con- ceal his chagrin and to resist the impulse to seize the precious plates and conceal them from unworthy use, will appreciate fully the force of what we say. Most people might almost as well be given the simple views with which comic almanaca aro adorned as set down to examine a portfolio of priceless etchings. Indeed, generally they would be bored. by the latter and entertained by the former. The great mistake made by the majority of persons is to suppose thatno special train- ing is needed to see pictures properly. The reception of any work of art presupposes previous and special training. It is neces- eery to learn the artist's language ; to train one's perceptions to acute and instant sensi- tiveness to the means by which it is sought to produce an impression. If one is to ex- amine photographa with no other end save to decide whether the reeemblance to the original object is exact, perhaps no great amount of special preparation is needed ; but with a picture which is anything more than a graphic diagram, special education is a necessity. How few persons ever take on engraving and sit down deliberately to study it; to endeavor to discover why the artist disposed hiefguures and aceessodes,in a given manner ; why the light and shade aro dispos- ed thus ; why the engraver has used certain lines in reproducing certain parts of the plate, and so on for the rest; and yet every. body, as we told at the start, suppssea he knows how to look at a picture. Protestant 1lfissional'•y Enterprise The Recorder contains a classified catalogue of the missionary enterprises of all the Pro- testant Churches and of the Greek Orthodox Church, to the non-Christian world. Stroh a list has never been before published. It appears that Great Britain and its colonies 'support 114 organizations, as follows s--- Un- denominetiona127, Episcopal 25, Methodist 6, Congregationalist 1, Presbyterian 7 Friends 1, Bible Christian 1, Baptist,$, Ply- mouth Brethren 12, miscellaneous 5, solonial 26; total 114. There are 110 organizations supported fn foreign ceuntriee, as follows ;--- Germany 20, Switzerland 4, Eranoe 1, Den- matk 2, Sweden 8, Norway 8, Russia 2, Netherlands 14, UnitedStates(1 orth Amer- leal} 56; total 110..xy; Y, Evening Pott, WORK OV ARAB SLAVERS, new iVretebe4 Arrleane are now Beton JedJuto Capbtetty,, A [pet of wind the other day upset an Arab slave dhow, and 100 hapless wretohea who were bailing to slavery in Arabia were drowned in eight of the English oruiser which was on the way to resoue them. In the acme week another slaver was oaptared after a hard fight, in which a number of the forty claves on board received bullets intend- ed for their captors. That the export alave trade on the East African coast is still active is attested by the feat that in two years nearly fifty of these slave dhows have been captured; yet the punishment inflicted upon the guilty slave -stealers does not deter others from engagigg in the perilone but profitable business. Recent facts collected by the agents of the Anti -Slavery Society of England show that slaves were never cheaper inlArabia nor more numerous than at present. There has been a great revival of the slave trade in the Soudan, and the followers of the Mandi have sent many hundred of their captives to the coast to be despatched across the Red Sea in the night to markets in Arabia. Even the daughters of wealthy Khartoum merchants have been consigned to this terrible fate. The markets for which the dhows ship their loads of bondsmen at many an unfrequented point along the coasts of the Red sea and the Indian ocean are mainly in Arabia and Turkey. The present Khedive. of Egypt, who owns no slaves, and who pays wages to the bondsmen whom his father left behind him, is apparently powerless to prevent slave shipments from parts of his westerncoast, vehicle .a few years ago he ordered kept clear of slavers. A recent writer in an English review, after picturing the fresh horrors of this re- vived traffic, sees nohope of again stifling the trade without a rigid patrol of some thousands of miles of coasts. This costly expedient could at best accomplish only temporary results. ' The evil must be at- tacked at the sources of the trade, and in the /regions whose demand for slavoa the Arab dealers are willing to gratify at any peril. Some day, when Christendom wakes up to the fact that the export African slave trade is again in full Mast, much needed pressure may be brought to bear upon Tur- key to prevent the importation .of slaves. The evil will never be stamped out until the demand is largely diminished, and until the natives learn through contaetwith civil- izing ivilizing influences to prefer legitimate com- merce to the criminal traffic which the Arabs encourage.—[N.Y. Sun. 'Military Efficiency of France. The military ability of (France, and her system of fortification, are [splendidly de- veloped, especially when one considers the shifting policies of the war department un- der her peculiar administration of republic- anism. It may be said, however, that each new minister, urged on by the national feel- ing, has accelerated rather than abated or suspended improvement. Por five years following the re-establishment of the repub- lic, the national assembly spent much of its time in supplementing .the organic laws of '72, which were copied in the main from those of Prussia. Universal liability to arms, non -substitution, and the abolishment of paid enlistment, are the first features of the modern.military statutes. Liabiliby to service in the actives or reserves, extends from 20 to 40 years. The annual contingent is divided into two categories, the first serv- ing three in active army. Since Boulanger's time in the reserve, and the second only one year in the years with the colors, and two years in the war office—and "the subtle in- spiration of his policy (snow becoming man- ifest—the enlistments have been. localized. In consequence of this concession, thou. sands of trained soldiers, armed for revolu- tion as well as war tare esteemed at their own firesides, which enables them to balance their interest betweensubjects of home poli- tics, and trainings for national defense. In- cluding the Gendarmerie and Garde Repub- licaine, France has at present a peace footing of 525,711 men. Deducting vacancies, ab- sentees, and sick, the total would be about 566,000, The territorial force, officers and mon, is about 590, making the total active 1,155,000. The German authorities narrow the total war force of France to something less then:5,000,000, both Hennebert and Froment, who are perhaps the beat authori- ties on the subject, approximate it at over 4,100,000. Great Heads. "'Seven' being the average size of a man's head as measured by his hat," says a London exchange, "it appears that out of fourteen distinguished personages, two (Lord Chelmsford and Dean Stanley) were below, while other two (Lord Beaconsfield and the Prince of Wales) were exactly up to the average. Of the others, Dickens, Selborne, and Bright required 7*, Earl Russell 7,i,, Lord Macaulay, Gladstone, and Thackeray 71, Louis Philippe 7'1, and the Bishop of York 8 full 1 Of twenty-three distinguished men whose actual brain• weights are known, four, including the late Prof. Hughes Bennett and Hermann, the philologist, were distinctly below the average, showing that a well-conatituted brain of small dimensions may bo capable of doing mush better work than many a larger organ whose internal constitution from one cause or other, defective." Ile Disliked Slang It was at the Inatitute of Technology, a few days before the close of the tent. One of the professors had been troubled by hear- ing one of the etudente indulging in slang. Accordingly, when his class had assembled to hoar his lecture ho gave them' a ten•min- uto discourse on the use of slang ; told thorn how it was corrupting the language, and that its see was, among persons of oulbiva- tion and refinement, a euro sign of ill -breed- ing. Then he went on with his regular lee - taro, and at hs close called the attention of his oleos to the fact that tomo of them had been remiss in their studies and that it be- hooved thorn to make up for lost time or they would fail to pace the approaching err. aminetions. " The feet is," concluding, " you've got to brace up or you'll got Iefb," which shows that preaching and practioe are often wide apart, . Il►isro»xa'ny�e�n�. Country 1Vlinitter---" X am sorry, Mr Wrangle, but as I wail driving from the par nonage before morales I saw your Iittle boy oa Gooesoreek bridge snaring for suckers." Mr. Wrangle--" Ie that so,pparson ? Did ye notion what luck he waw barbs'?" SEVEN MEN 11E14111 YP TRE TRAIN. The Exprees Messenger Surprised—One Man Killed and, Others 'Wounded, The aouth.bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas express was robbed about 9 o'olaek the other night at Verdigris Bridge, I. T. The train had stopped at the bridge to put off some baggage and had just started to pull out when the engineer was covered by a re- votver and the expreee oar was entered, The express messenger was taken by sur. prise, as, it being a very warm night, the aide door was open. Before he could close it two men entered the car and robbed him of $8 and one valuable package. One shot was fired into the mail oar, the bullet passing through the left arm of Charles Colton, the mail agent, Two shots were fired at the front of the smoking car, one going through the right fore -arm of Harry Ryan, the train " butcher." The other struck a passenger named Ben. C. Tarver in the left cheek and, passing back- ward, broke his nook, causing instant death. The wounded and dead were brought to this plane, but the mail agent went south. His was a flesh wound. Deputy Marshal Tyson and posse are preparing to give pursuit as soon aa they can cross the Arkansas River. There were seven men engaged is the robbery, No effort was made to rob the pasaenzors. The dead man's hone was Rosebud, Tex. He was a single man, and was going home from a trip to Chicago. The leader of the robbers gave his name as Capt, Jack. Some of them were masked , POPULAR SCIENCE. Wet rope is only one-third as tensile as when dry, and greased rope is even weaker. Basin slag, the refuse of steelworks, when freed from iron and reduced to powder, proves to be a valuable fertilizer. Medical authority can be found for the theory that it is the early riser who catches miasma if there be any in the air. Florida promises to become a large pro- ducer of opium. Sixteen plants will pro- duce an ounce and an acre of poppies wiII yield $1,000 worth of opium. It has been ascertained by careful experi- ments conducted by M. Roper that poisons lope , one-fifth of their toxic power when takenin to the system by fasting. A Nuremburg inventor has produced a shoe sole composed of wire net overlaid with a substance resembling india-robber. These soles, whioh cost but half the price of leather, have been tested in the German army and found to be twice as durable. A new double -pointed nail is the invention of an ingenious woman. The points turn in opposite directions. They are especially useful fir invisible nailing in wood work. It is simply two nails joined firmly, the sides of the heads being placed together, Dr. Worms, of the Paris Academy of Medicine, has ascertained thatbees, ants and wasps show a marked dislike to the new saccharine. To the human palate there is no difference in the taste between it and sugar. It has been shown, however, that its use disturbs digestion: A physician of Phikdelpbia analyzed a black japanned hat band worn by a patient suffering from the headache and found it contained three grains of one of the lead salts. From this case he concludes that many headaches are often due to the absorp- tion of the lead in the hat band. One ;liiept Alive. The monkish chronicles of the early ages of Christianity wrapped the truths, which they wished to teach, in quaint allegories to attract their heathen readers. One of these fables may interest American boys and girls. It is as true in significance as it was in the days of the Caesars. A flock of birds mysteriously appeared one day in a city out of a clear sky, and sought refuge in all manner of strange hiding -places. One flew into a bare stone cell where it died of starvation; another into the gaping throat of a wild boar, and was stifled by fat; a third was placed by a princess in a beautiful cage. At first she counted the bird as her chief treasure and fed and cherished it. Then she began to decorate the cage with gold and jewels, and forgot its inmate, until one day she found it starved and dead. But another took refuge in the breast of a woman so poor that she had only rags to keep her warm and crusts to eat. The bird was her only happiness. When the winter night same, a call sounded from the sky for the birds to return. There was but one of them yet alive, It flew from the breast of a poor woman who lay frozen to death by the roadside, and heaven opened to take it in, The allegory needs no interpretation. As we walk along the street to -day and look into the faces of the passers-by, we can read the story of the bird from heaven. which was given to each one of thorn at birth, In that man's breast it died of cold ; in this it was stifled by swinish appetites ; that woman's body is a beautiful cage, whish she so loved to adorn that she altogether forgets its holy tenant, But there aro men and women who meet us every day, whose every word and action are fragments of harmony, from the divine dweller in their hearts. A 1Voi'ei. Railway. Mr. 11 Moody Boynton, of Newburyport, Mass., has invented what is known as the bicycle railway, and expects to revolution. ize the entire railway system of the world. A locomotive whioh is unlike any heretofore constructed is beim' built. It is designed specially and solely for service on the new railroad. Tho cardinal prfnciplo of the rail. road is that the traeke are not both laid on the ground as wo commonly see them. Orae is laid on the ground and the other fa laid on the underside of the framework, which is above and directly ever the lower track. The engine and cars have wheels on the bot- tom and double trucks above. In this way the whole is steadier on the rail, and cannot fall over nor off the track, It is expected that great speed will be attained on moonlit of the comparative lightness of the train, and also because ot the loss of friction. The ides is patented fn every country in Europe, as well as in the United ,States and other nations of the Wcetern Hemisphere, The present constitution of human nature caunob bear unlnterrnptad prosperity with• out being oorrupted by ft, WIT AND WYSDip The man who says that he w'. welcome death as a release from. a life • r de up of sor- row generally sends for four dootore when he hap the colica, A negro wedding in. Norfolk closed with the remark by the parson.: — "We will sing that beautiful; hymn, 'Plunged in e, gulf o1 dark despair. "A moment of time is too precious to waste" :particularly when the girl is yretty and there are chances that her father is coma ng around the corner, " A lie grows as it travels." A fisher- man's lie is an exception. It fa the fish tbab grows, and the lie its out, basted and sewed to suit the size of the fish, A, recently published book on etiquette says s—" Endeavor to select your guests with a sense of fitness. " That is, do not in- vite a fat man to eat a slim dinner, A troupe of Russian musioians who play on twenty-four pianos simultaneously is on Re way to London. The probabilities of a great European war are growing imminently more probable. Some really good men at heart do their good deeds in so bad a way as to spoil them. If a Christian cannot be great and gracious too, let him by all means be gracious.•—Chi. cago Standard. "1 never pass that house across the way," remarked Dumley, " that I do not see that pretty little woman on the lawn. She mush spend most of her time there." " Yes," re- plied Brown, "she does; she's a grass widow. ".A text floating in a vast quantity of week soup," is the way in which the Bishop of Carlisle ventures to describe certain ser- mons he has listened to, and he thinks this ecclesiastical broth not particularly .attrac- tive. Tramp—" Won't you give a Iittle some- thing to an old hero of the battlefield ? T have survived four wars ?" Stranger (hand- ing him some money)—"How did you do it ?" Tramp (after pocketing the money)—"Kept out of 'em." Special china seta, for use in country houses, are novelties. Each piece takes the shape of a natural object, so that one finds potatoes in a big cab1 age head and straw- berries in a delicately turned up oak loaf. Our lady gossip says the reason why tall men best succeed in matrimony is because all sensible women favor Hymen. After a heated debate in parliament one of the members turned to Timothy J. Camp- bell, who he had expected would help him, and said, " why didn't you help us out? You never opened your mouth once during the entire debate." " Oh, yes I did," said Tim, " I yawned through your; entire speech. The habit of horses snapping and biting at everything within reach is often that re- sult of teasing and tormenting them. It is a pernicious habit, to say the leapt—one that should be broken up if possible. It is said that a horse may be cured by filling a small bag made of loose cloth full of Cayenne pep- per and letting him chew and bite at it all he pleases. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. -Editor (through speaking -tube to foreman)—Are the forma closed yet?" Foreman—" No, air." Editor —" Lift out the editorial on ' The Curse of Rum ;' Wine, Handlung & Co. have just Gent in an ad." Young Slimlet, experimenting with the phonograph in Mies Hardcash's parlor, is horrified by the following sentence in the voice of old Hardcash : " I never saw such a fool of a dude as young Slimlet who calls on our Jenny." A young woman who wants to test the real depth of a young man's avowed affec- tion has only to ask hum to accompany her for an afternoon while she goes around to do a little shopping. "Now," said the photographer, "are you ready?'' "Yes," replied the customer. " Well, just keep your eyes on this spot," he said, pointing to a motto on the wall which read, "Positively no credit" ---"and look pleasant." Salesman: "Yes, sir. I'll warrant that one of those Tamps will save you at least fifty per cent, in oil in the course ot a year," Longheaded Farmer: " Give`me two on 'em, Mought as well save a hundred per cent, while I'm 'bout it" Young physician (inspecting citizen on the floor of the police station) --This man's con- dition is not due to drink. lie has been drugged. Officer McGinnis—You're right. I drug hien all the way from Casey's saloon, two blocks down the street, Omaha man—" Why don't you go to St. Louis ? I bear the bricklayers are getting $5 a day down there." Bricklayer—" I was there. It don't pay." "Don't pay ?" " No, they dock you fifty cents an hour for time boat by sunstrokes." "What I object to in Maine,' remarked a Pennsylvania man, " is the horrible names you have up there. There's Androeoeggin, for instance," "Yes," replied the Maine man, ," that fs almost as bad as some you have in Pennsylvania — Punxsutawney, Youghiogheny, and the Iiko." Grocer—How is it, Mr. Swartman, that you are so particular to pay the cash nowa- days ? You used to run a weekly hill. Cue. tomer---I know.' did, and you would always give me a cigar when I squared up Saturday night. Grocer—Yee. Customer—Well, it was that clear that impelled me to pay cash She was aitting in the parlor with her beau when the old man came down stairs and opened the front door. " Surely, papa," she said, " you are not Being out at this late hour ?" "Meroly to untie the dog," he replied. "Well, bliss Clara," said the young man, reaching for his hat, "I think f will say good -night," She had promised to bo a sister to him. Ile thanked her oddly, but said that he already had five sisters. "Why, Mr. Sampson," said the girl, "I thought you wore an only child." "I am," lie responded ; " 1. mean that I have five sisters such as you offer to be," and he tottered to the door, A Boston ike aodsdoe t knovr hor age, She had lived with ons family eleven years, and lute always boon twenty.eighb, Ilut not long ago she read irk a newspaper of an old women who had died at the age of one hundred and six. "Mayyhe I'm WI old as that motif," said else. " Indade, 1 can't remember the titre when 1 wasn't alive,"