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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-8-2, Page 6-416111tItrULTURAIL. nuM NOTES. Voed the plant and the plaot will feed you. Moss in meadows means Wet, poor soil anOtn-netith. Breed, weed and feed are the three neetie of Mock ;Aide&• When to lerge dower pota are med. there /A11 her Vlore foliage than. iimers; 1Ceep all gross and rubbiett at least two feet away Item the elan ef tire tree,. Sante inmere are all bras and others elbow -grease, and neither artomed. Theugh the season be late nething hi gain. ed by plaoting i poorly prepared greend, No animel-kePt on the term will produce monefeetility Offei better fee the feed thee A State law in Illinois requIreu hedeee to be trimmed annually on or 13efore the letla of May. Sateen' la the remedy mod for the m Celiforoie Tmesitrde with great enema., Fruit should be elerveil u aome invitieg manner on the Wooer% table every day an tbe year. The potato crop for Dakota will cut a Jager figure than 'anal in the acreage atatie- 'We this year. One day !dation./ n harrowing will Or big wawa in harvest time- Yee, and in buithing time, too. There IA An apparent defieleAcy of over MAO baa of foreign medittin hems before the uew crop /* reedy ter market, A men who bale correctly and /Melt igen", ly witi ove from 10 to 20 per ceut over * men wile follower only 4 baphezerd teethed. Tee thorned eollarse worth of hUalble bete have been ordered front Ey-Mucky by Antralin to help in the growing of Teti lover. Orem con:thee appeared ler lirntedquen. titiee on toile to the nmeketa. It wee grown in Louisiana, and ehipped from NOW Orleans by rail. The farm givee the Root opportunity for reading the great hook of Nature as the see - eon tarns ita leaves and exposes each day 4 erew page. The crape in Seuthern Kamen have Tare - le looked eo well. The se= is belt waist Ingle wheat le reedy to cut and fruit exceet rectos is plenty. Cut your salt hesoel in half, aod pOt in peatore with mit in it. Tali aillaaVe *IMO mad enable ever e'en to help thettnely whenever they liee. Do not wait till eold. weigher. before you provide proteetion for your datry cows and young stuck. Give *ern good Wane (Inert - era and you will reep the beneet. A eool, helfeearkeered dieing room makea eats more agreeable and therefore more digestible in hot weather. That ia, if it eau be darkened without noludieg too rauell sir. The Poland (Wine) Creautety, making 1,000 pounds of butter atreek, reports throe and one-fourth Sente AA the net per poured for labor, Including the collectiou of cream from petrona. An exchange Says Swede turnips, if fel whole and separately will flavor milk, but if sliced and mixed with an equal quantity of rangeles, or pulped mad mixed, with hay will not impext a bad teat, The California grain orop will be rather below than above the average, although some localitlea report that land which was believed & month ago to be not worth bee - vesting will yield a fair mop. The question of tbe hour in Prance is the extreme depression which has fallen upon agricultural intereets, and the steadily in - mewling embarassmeets evbich now weigh upon proprietors and cultivators of the aoil. The orop of lambs in Colorado this pros- ent SeanOtt will reath near onto a quarter of a million. Eighty-five per cent. at all of the ewe floalca Will rain lambs It has been the most favorable season for this crop the coun- try has ever had. The farmer who works energetically all day long, unavoidably gathers on the entire terrace of his body a complete wall of dust and a gummy perspiration, and when his day's work is done, he needs more than anything else, not only a washibut a good, luscious, fall bath to fit him for a clean bed and a refreshing sleep. It has at last been understood that it is difficult to furnish a high-ceiled room so that it shall look cozy and inviting. So the fashion has (lensed that rooms with very high ceilings shall haves false ceiling of can- vas, put about nine feet from the floor. The canvas is then tinted, or painted or paneled, or finished with light gold work as thepwner desires. A Dakota farmer says, the egg product from 35 chicks from Nov. 15, 1887, to Feb. 1, 1888, has been on an average of 15 eggs per day, and since Feb. 1, 20 eggs per day. The chicks are always healthy, and have red combs and look well. I dispose of all roy old and young hatched males every two years and get new blood. With a large number of hens I have not done as well, as during the winter of '84. and '85, I got an average of only 22 eggs per day from 100 hens, kept in the same quarters, and also the same number in the winter of '85 and '86. Since I reduced my flock 1 have done better. Clover contains more of the necessary ele- ments for egg production than the grains. All the lime for the shells can be procured. by a liberal supply of clover, as there is a large amount of lime in its composition, and it is also rich in nitrogen, so important for the use of the hen in providing the albumen of the egg. True, it is not as concentrated as wheat or corn, but the hens can eat a larger quantity of it, as it quickly digests. It will also serve to keep the hens in good laying condition, as it does not fatten theta so readily as will grain. We think clover 'chopped fine one of the best and cheapest foods that can be used in the poultry yard. If only 100 cabbages are grown and stow- ed away for winter, it will provide 3ne head a day for over three months, and will be amply sufficient for a flock of thirty hens. Wheve grass is not plentiful, turnips, kale or radish may be sown, and the tops used for green tood. It is not necessary for such orops to naature ; they may be used when the tops are only a few inches high, and are given by choppinwthem into short lengths. In this manner quite a large amount of green food may be grown. An excellent crop, one that may be cut when young and tender, sod which will grow outageie ar; fast as Mt: is Hungarian grew. and a small plot will answer for splits a large emir. TriA0 Ur Valgae,gaBuaGas. The tying up of the leaves of early Cab- bagee, says Oardeizing Illustra4-ed in moth practiced by the London ;whet-go:mere, and is to be monneeded. The operation is seize. ple one, defiler, in feet, to that adopt. e4 no the one of Cos lettuce. The nit outer -leaves are folded carefully aroma the heart or enter of the plant, and the whole is bound firmly with a. vothe Or piece et bate. There 40several fond remons eivn by market -growers for thee pentice. The center being preteeted from the weather, the cabbages bemt sooner hy two or three. weeka than they ethereilee world eicoe and they are mere amity handled itt gathering and packing for market. The plan is eue that is iteldoeo adepted M private gardens, but there can be no doubt that it is one to be recommended, Inasmuch as there is a gain of a week or two as regerda cutting, and compact little cabbages ore alwAya pret- erable to loose ones, which, moreover, nee apt to .get broken, a otherwise lejmeel itt gathering. WHY PEACHES AND Berms Roe. A "Veteran fruitegrewer" writes that peechee with delicate or thie Wes are more easily effected tban the dowey thiek.ekinneel and gond varieties, although there are genie exceptions. Wet weather teede to produce rotturg. When the :moderatos grow an eon - tan with each other the water from rain lodgee between them and peodeeeer the nen nit. The fruit le moreapt to dew wheat the treed At4114 ia oteitered pleete, where e breeze* clienlet every off the rpoleture read.iJy from the fruit mad ton. Uremelly the meet common crow ef rotting is the ture of the crenate and will entre be und that the tremtdre'first beeios mend thea penacturea. The tame cane*, more or lege, episode with plume The preetime res needier; are; eleratieg where there will be eonebreven ; thinneug the young fralt when rily grow A ; killing the entoulio ; eed ne, leettp etich varieties at hAVA prayed lent eifeetecl. The Waohingtou plum ered the itueselee and ether early pembee are Mere liable to rot than the other mode. The tater. of tee tail bas little or ear, influene Efietti etbeiett the noon. ew week* ago an importent addreaa 'en in Lenden by Sir leohert 1LeM mor Bagel of Irelaml, About t num to made lemma the neltesion of ettrommera es mposettee, ivs enemata eon- , and. the probebilety of It* being in. btted. ton mann neighbor in tbe gaoler aye - tem, the Keno meet **eye be an. object of peculiar batmen eml et ardent inverelgetiore to tbe dwellera upou the earth. So Irma nearer is it tine tether of the planets filet we cm leen more about it, and. observe Ito physicist features more minutely. We know that the moon's diameter is only one-fourth of filet of our globe; tbat It ra only two hundred and forty thousand mike distant from us ; thetif the mon should disappear from its orbit so our Wellies, a moat impertaut physical change on the earth, the gantlets of tidal, would take place; mad that in bulk the moon is eighey times len heavy than the eerth. WO can discern, through powerful Whoopee the general formation of Oust ball of the memo's umber) which Is turned toward ea. We aro told that there are visible two entera of volcanoes sexty relies wide; another, ten thoeseed, fen deep ; that one mighty peak rises to a beight of of tiventrfour tbousmad Leat; and that a vast bonito is visible seventeen thausend feet deep and over fifty miles wide. Ith ea long been 4 warmly debated mention among astronomers weather it is pouible that the moon could support vegetation and anima and humeri life. But a general agreement has now been reached by thorn that the moon it mun older than the earth ; that it is "se dead as a dootonail ;" that has neither atmosphere, air or water; that, in short, it is " nothing oleo but a ballot ex- tinot volcertio matter, lighted only by the rays of the distant sun." Reform ever issue from the great voleanee which are apparent on its surface tho huge, hollowed -out craters emit no smoke. A vast and eternal silence reigns through all the dreary, toe -less, lifeless expanse. The moon, indeed, "le apparently aband- oned to death, nourishing no inhabitants, producing nothing reeembling trod. flowers, or beautiful thinga of any kind— useless, in short, except as a masa of extinct volcanic rubbish, which drop the sea ioto tides, and reflects the annbeama in moonlight; but whirl, like a corpse in cerements of silver -cloth and black velvet, round and round the earth." The astronomers have carefully construct- ed a geography of the moon, and beve mapped out ita regicns, and given natnes to its various features. For instance, they have called some of the mountains of the moon "Copernicus," Posidouius," " Clavias," after earthly philosophers; others they have christened by the names of the famous peaks of the earth; and the dreary valleys and waterless bays and lakes have received fanciful but inappoeite names, such as the "Bay,of Clouds," tbe" Lake of ' Nectar " and the ' Gulf of Reinbowe." It is doubtful, according to Sir Rebert „Ball, if any increase of the magnifying power of telescopes will add any further definite knowledge to that which has already been acquired about the moon. He believes that when the moon is brought by great lenses to within fifty (inetead of, as now, two hundred and fifty) miles of the end*, as it probably will be in the near future, the result of this improved observa- tion will be mainly valuable as confirming the conclusions already arrived at.—Youth Companion. When the late Emperor of Germany was in London last year he made frequent calls on Sir Morell Mackenzie, and often drove to the Harley street dice in a hansom cab. One day his hansom cab was stopped in the Park by a policeman in pursuance of the rule which forbids any hired vehicle entering the precincts devoted to the equipages of fashion, The Crown Prince, as he then was, gave his name to the dicer, but was laughed at ftir his pains. The Londoil bobby could nbi believe that a sontitvlaW of Queen Victoria would ride in a hansom, so the future Enl- peror was obliged to tarn :back. He was fond of relating this anecdote afterwards. An Expensive Taman'. The (mat Of reenieg the White Reese is a steal affair compered with -the met of the inetitution at the other end of the avenue kDOWA. AA the Congress of thaVnitecl States. That is where the bee items of expememake their appearance. Listen to these twe little ParagraPho as the clerk of the /louse reads the bill « "For compensation of senators, 000r For compensation of members Of the Renee, $1,604,400," or a toted of ever $2,400,004.e. year, inst fax eateries of "nem- bera of Congress. Then there are 04 1241141 - AI another of ether expenses attending the relining of Congress. Fer instance there is about 0150,000 mileage of members of Con - groom Thee there is the mug little item of $684,- 000 for the pay of ofticent and elerhe and messengers and aide to the levemakere There are 440 members of the Reese of See - ate, emd to wait epee them and nen errands and hold open toe doom as they pate in and out and carry the ends of their callers and take core of the thousands of bills they put they heve employed about 40() people, who are paid tbe snug little sure of 86$4,000 for doing ao. Every menther has an Average of aboet oao employee, Med for tbe ser- vice of the same *ere is paid an average of about $1,A00 to each. 'ro roe Coogrfe3 and the capitol nets le ealaelea alone, about 33,000,900 4 YeAr. Wbe4 you go Imo tbe details of this thilev they are partitively atmelliele Think of an elVeohateen olt47,000for the stationary for members and officers of the hoarse alone during one Benin, of Congress. Think of 652,009,for reportieg the debater; ofCongren, whether the awing he %ogee short. Think of over *I50.009 a year for committee duke, who pet loprobehly ette dere time a week Da their legitheete duties AN Werke to Com - mese, 4tAt the nenteleller of their time as ccaks to the Alen wbo aPpOintOd them. Think ef needy $.4„000,000a yeer to pay for the oallectiee of internal revenue, And us taliCh Mere fax cellecting the outtome It is, however, when yoe ginee at the figures AV the end of the bill thet you get the meet lea enslave view of the alga of ehe government, For tlairebitl alone, the !optative, judicial and executive expanse the tetel expende turn are over 52000,000. Then the bill for the mandrel eiviL expenses will be at reueh more, for it has not Men below $20,. 09,0,000 ier this decade ; army mad eavy, $40,000.000 ; riven Ata harbors, e20,000,00e and so on, mail the grand total of eppropri. AtiOU billet for MIAOW the daily expellees of the government, including the peet-eface depertmeot. Amount te 5259,000,001) fee the yew. "INWHIMITIMITIO,NIM1110.14.AMMMIVIII,•••••• Escaped from Elait. A woman given her earn es Elizebeth Tetrefinal Butter, formerly from Eegliand, was picked up he the etreeta of Chicago !ap- parently fainting from hunger. She cisme eel to hive bed nothing to eat ou A four dare trip from Ogden, on tier way to Egg- leed, She told the atery of her terrible ex- pertenee among the 2400410n. her son, oho stated, had been induced, against the wiah ot his percale, to join a pewee of entigrauts organlzed by Mormon missionaries he Eng. land. Not hearing from him it WA* learned be had been prevented by the elders from writing. The father, (reutle with euxiety, followed to Teeth, he found employment with a hforinon fanner named Joseph hob bette but well unable to nye enough to cen- time the nude until preteneing to join the Churn, when Butler got money sad rent some to his wife, but all hie totters, telling of the condition of affairs in liteh, wore in- tercepted and others substituted, elegies bar to come to Utah witb the retained**. She obeyed, and the states the women in the party were oubjeeted to fearful irrdigne tin en route by the elders. Butler was murdered soon after *he eoined him. he bad inadvertently given a young woman an inkling of his plans to find Me boy and eseepe. The Mormons asserted that But- lerer deiath was Accidental. The woman wee defrauded out of her hturbende swans, but fleeing to Ogden alio earned enough money by working in a hotel to pey bee penage borne. Tim amount of raelrosei fare wee larger than she expected, but sooner than delay longer, she deprived herself of food on the 3ourney to Chicago. Sawdust Turning Into Soli. Did Any of the 'Sorbet/non readers make a study of sewduat turning into soil? Doubt - loss many have, in soma reassure, given the idea a patsbag thought, but kayo -not watch. ea the action of Eaten iu resolving back again into ita original elements the capital she had lent out over a thousand years ago, to build up.the stook -in -trade of a pine tree. The study is one of engroteeng interest, and its results are well worthy of & brief notice in these columns. Twenty-five years ago East Saginaw, Mich., was a scattering ham- let built here and there atnong aud along the edges of swamps and %you; bordering the Saginaw river. The sawdust and debris of the mills were used fill to up the inequalities, more for the purpose of getting rid of the annoying accumulations, than for any well-defined knowledge of the value of such material, or its possible use as a future soil. From year' jo year the work went on. The swamps and bayous were filled tip, and soil was spread on top of the sawdust of variable thieknese from sixteen inches to two feet. Strange as it may seem, there was no settling of the ground, and heavy buildings were erected on the soil thus made. These buildings are the best in thecity, and show no crackedwalls. Sewers 'are dug through what was formerly a bed of sawdust. and while traces of the original material oan yet be found, still there is a clear evidence of the transformation process going on, beheld in each shovel of matter thrown out. It would be difficult to fully and clearly explain this process. It looks as though the exudations rising from beneath the over -lying debris are continually acting as distilling elements, by which the granules of sawdust gather to themselves earth • incrustations, and finally become it home- geneotte conglomeration of original soil without undergoing the action of decomposi- tion. This hypotheses may not be any clearer than mud, but it is certain that one of the finest and most substantial cities in Michigan rests secured to day on a bed of sawdust, which latter has resolved itself back into its orignal elements within a quarter of a century. Can any one account for this? An officer attended by twenty policemen entered Queen Natalie's villa at Wiesbaden yesterday and seized the young Crown Prime, who Was at Unea 'Sent by **Ain to Belgrave. The Queen has been advised to leave Guinan territory within twently.four hours, and is terribly prostrated, SEA MONSTERS. Denizen* or the Sea as wet usonsevno— mange itevieusent. A few. yeare ago a tee monster, corres. pending m appearance to the famed sea fier, pent as often described (which is not saying that the creature woe a terpeet), wits teen hy Capt. Austin Cooper, and the Officers; and crew of the Corliele Castle, then bonne for4Irurne.Adcripodeiraonted.seeteiof tbeaterapparerihl Oe September 11, at 14.30 a. te„ the third, offieer ef theBeitieh eteemshiplieetor, then in the 144149c4 ftaitet anneuneed a nose. Surpelaed to awl a neat in anoh • well,knewn track, Capt. Webster )sratehed the object and founel that it was in motion, keeping up the reseed of the alp and retaining about the same distance as when first seen. The shape et the creature," aged the eeptain lin an affidevit before Donate Spence, rooting Law Secretary to the Dehish Supreme Conrt at Shelighai), "I would COMPare tO 0114 91 a gigantic frog, etre bead ot a pale, yellewise CrOlOri was 40014 twelve feet in length, and eix feet of the erowewee alteve'ehe water. I tried in vainto make out the mouth,' he Pro- eeeds, "hut the mouth may beve been be. lew water, The head was immediately emo Anted with the bedy without any indication of a mole The body was about forty -Ave n fifty feet long awl of an oval thape, arm- feetly smooth, but there may have been a, slight ridge aloeg the entne. The back rose some five feet above the surface. An im- ntensa tail, fully 1e0 feet le Image'', nee a, few inhom above the water. Titts tOU X It3W dietionly from its juntien with the bed teita matremity. It mend cyliudrfcai wtth t. very silightteper anti I eetimete bs altimeter at four feet,' TI:se body earl tall were marked with elterneteleande or stripers, black and pale yellow tenter, The Menne were dintinet to the very extremity of the tail. I nutlet my whether the tail termin- ated iln or not, The creature pewee 04 One Or PacItilee BO fftr an we eould per- ceive. I meant aay if it had lege, It ap- peeredto peogreeo hy raceme ef an eedule- tory motion of the hill in vertical Plum," It may be remembered that feelga 4 THOTis 'trouts euttlefiele was =neutered by two fithermentio,Ceeeeptioo bay, Newfouudtand. When atteeked, the creetere threw its bog Arran acreae the akherMelee boat, which it appeared to regard an 4 veritable objeee of prey; but one of tbe AeiHroleu out eff the tente410 With AA awe, on whin the cephele- podwitherew eppereettlyregeedingtbeneenei actlen asWARW. This tentacle Waa 21; feet intategth; anderethefiehenneeconoidendthat it WAA QM off fully ten feet from the body, the matire Ingth of the tverteele mint have been *bon 33 feet. They Intimate tbe body AA 60 feet in Ingth Rod five feet lei dime Wr. In 1861 the iktoeh war ptomains Aleetor 0 A maeneter mettle at see about ortlenst el Terneriffe. The mew end tbeleady, but wafeetuese the tail, welch it pulled eigbt of this little bit of tbe et cued to be over 49 penile, it wat fad that the body was 50 feet long end the weight not len then 4,000 pond& The moat remarkable account of a. sea mender of tide Mod wav thee given by the captain and °Metre of the Paulluee It wm sworn to on oath by George Drover, the captain- horatle Thompson, chlef mate; John I'audelle, second mate, and by the atoweral And A leAtnali. On July 8 wo observed three large operra wbales, on of WWI% WAS gripped round the body by two tunas of whive appeared to bes, huge serpeut. The head and mil appeared to hen a leugthboyontrOthe cone of about 30 feet, end a girth of eight or nine feet. ThO creature whirled the wheleround mad round for about fifteen minter% and then auddenly dragged ikto the bottom heed Erse Pave days later the same creature, or a sitnilar one*Was seen about two hundred yards (ram tbe ship, darting along the tow- line, heed, and smolt ban, out of the water. Only Captein Drover and An ordinery see - :nen sew thie But a few minutes biter the captain, firat mete and two neaten BMW the monster rase its 'nook and head above the water to a height Which they estimated at alxty feet. Some ten yeare ago Commandent Villen- euve and the till:ors of tbe lore.noh mamof- war the Landro sew 4 creature correspond- ing in appearance with the sea serpent travelling rapidly along, the head slightly raised above the water, and with a sort of mane streaming backward, while the back of a long body could be seen under the water. A creature exactly answering to thia deeoription was seen by Major James HardingOthert an officer in the King of Vigils' arm, passing within a few yards of his canoe, and swimming toward a email Wand outaide Suvabay, known as the home of the Big Snake. Captain the Hon. GeorgePlope, of the Britieh ship Fly, when in. the Gulf of California, the sea being minimally calm and transparent, saw at the bottom a large ma- rine animal with the head and general figure of an alligator, but the neck much longer, and with four large paddles instead of legs. My own belief is that some, at any rate, of the stories relating to supposed sem ser- pents are to be explained by the theory that there atilt exist creatures such as Captain Hope described—long-necked reptilian forms akin to the Dolichodeiros of fortner ages. Such creatures would present all the charac- teristics recognized in the so-called sea ser- pents. Their paddles would enable them to advance rapidly without perceptible undu- lation (which the sen serpent has been ob- served to do, and which no actual terpentine creature could do.) The great objection to this view has been that we find no fossil ple- siosaurs in tertiary atrata. But this object - tion loses its force when we notethat the chimera (a connecting link betWeen the sharks and the sturgeons) is closely related to forms existing in the secondary era, while no trace of any of those forms has been found in, the intermediate strata down to our own time. The chimera certainly exists, for it has been seen captured. It is exceedingly rare, however, and up to the beginning of the present century all the objections urged against the sea serpent might have been urged against the chimera.. A lake in the grounds of the country mat of the Emperor of Austria near Vienna is used as a skating park. One day last winter a Vleneese went skating there with an ink - bottle attached to the back of his Skate, the neok adjusted so as to allow the ink to ftow out in a regular stream. With that writing apparatus he sketched the name of the Crown Princess on the ice in lines that a writing -master might envy. Take Care or Tour Eyes. "It israre theta specialist finds a per - feet eye," he mid. In nearly every no - stance tome defect is found. l'he moat cora- mon complaints are reoppirt and hypernly• trpoict, or near and far-eightedness, as they are commonly called. The former is ht- ereattieg. but the letter is not, although the latter is far more prevalent jeat at present. The eve of the eyes it far mon importane tban moat men realize, The improper 1180 Of eyeo whicb are weak reaults in a variety of complaints. It often caueea headaches, depreerslon and itometimea oervom proetre- tioh, These cam generally be remedied, if eot cured by the uee of glasses. In the pur- chase of ghee -see the sufferer cannot be teo careful, The use of glasees that are bee properly Adjusted to the eye it oftentimes more injueloue throe helpful. Anther CM - moo complaint ia called ostipietisni, which eonalete of the irregular curvature et the cornea. In ituch emelt one part ot the eye iney.be myopic while the other is hypereay- oomo. To aid this, glosses meet be used with lensea speeially ground for the per, 0, ow "ow 011044 thaeYee be taken catec of 1" le That depends entirely upon circumstan- ces!. Each maree epee differ from these of his fellow. ZIO tWO pales are alike, here are a few simple directions hi caeca of aeold- ent whiolo it woreld be well te follow. When a cinder or any foreign eubetence gets into the eye, never ruh the eye. Wait a mom - sant, then gently open and clam the lid; the team Main follow deist operatica will oattal- ly wash en the intruding eubetaucee. how- ever, ehould it referee to go, turn up the lid ender which Gee Sehetailee is, and, remove it With a salt handkerchief, If the itoh* ;Once blcenlen OnAloOdded in the canter or erebell, go to a Origin Imunelletely. in betbleg the oyes; et 1:441104 no materiel differ- ence, at it him been Alleged, whether the are rubbed towerel the nose or from it, it biluelieleue, however, to Allem water to enter the eye, at thia Act may eugseader die. eraie, it ehould never be Allowed exeept reader okilled rolviee. DO not nee the eye* after they are tired, They eheelel be zoned, if only for 4 Moment, Avoid the use of the eye; whilo trawling fa reilwey terriage or in a poor light. Do not week with the bend bent low, tree a eloplog deek when. writing. Never allow the light to obine ha your eyes, while work- ing, let it come over the left sleoulder, if pmeible. If thie cannot be accompliehed weer e sieede. Avoid the rue of colored gleesea uolma maim compoteet advice, except where exposed. to bright light, seeh at the glare of the true upon UMW or water. Tian they may be end with greet benefit. Lewin wreaked Wenn, or blue, me the ouly colon that should, he worn under tbees circus:patentee*. Avoid Walnut A book, when reeding, too near the eye, in the nearer it le held the greeter the strain. Qa Atte other baud, do mat bold It tee far *may, 04 then tho etrein is APIA greeter. Corea:glen 1* the meet fertile Mein of the a-pread at exter- nisi diseases, opeolally granular 114. Thio Is meet genendly the ease In publie inetitutiere, where ebildren live and sleep together, rand often wash themselvee in the IMO water. limitation is the rally tomes% method for preventive the spread of tele demure. 4. normal eye should be perfeetty strong entl not become eatily tired. It thread net require the me of gleam until the age of 40 or 45 has been reeebed. By the uso of proper glance tbey should remain strong indefinitely. A far-sighted man re - ;mire* olasees for reveling :mob earlier than a men who it nearerighteal. When a person don not meal elutes for reading at 50 yeara of ago it prone conclusively that ht must have been nearefighted itt bis youth. PASSING NOTES. The iraterinfeetion of diphtheria between reert and Varlaile lower animels, from pig°. one and fowls to cat; barns and oheep, hem been pretty well eatabliabodby Dr. Geooge Turner, who reports the reeulta of his investigations to the British Local Gov- ornment Board. lie found that the "gapeo" in chickens wile frequently complicated, with diphtheretio membraneouegrowth. Mr. Beetheee death has occationee the re- vival of many pleasant things amid and done by bim. Among thorn is bie witty nom to a question asked him in conneetion with his Yale tenures on preaching. "Mr. Beech- er, how is it, in your opinion, that there are so many abort pastorates in these days'?" "Largely of the divine mercy," was the in- stant reply. This is one of the 11101.8 whin every one enjoya because of the delightful uncertainty of its application. It leaves. each to find out for himself whether the di- vine mercy favors the church or the depart. ing pastor. The great ourae of India, and One of the - greatest sources of danger to English in - limner, and English power, is the meolent, arrogant air which the English, as a rule, aeaume to Indiana of all classes. They look upon them as an inferior race, and even when they are not intolerably insolent they are in danger of being pityingly patronising and calmly and arrogantly condemnatory at once of the native religious beliefs and of the natives' daily conduct. As a class the missionaries do not fall into this grievous mistake, though sometimee they may not. conceal their conviction thet they are speaking to and treating with an inferior - and somewhat degraded people. It has been discovered that the flea uses . only one eye at a time, and that he dies the hardest of any inflect m nature. A writer 'in The Century tells of a piece of' good fortune coming from the somnambulis- tic habit. A young woman, troubled and anxious about aprize for which she was to compete, involving the writing of an essay, arose from her bed in sleep and wrote a paper upon a subject upon which she had not intended to write when awake, and this essay secured for her the prize. The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition has - cost the colony at least a quarter of a mil- lion before any returns are received. Had not the exhibition building erected in 1880 been available for the present occasion, the ' outlay would have been doubled, In this, the main building, Great Britain will occupy 11,520 feet of floor space, the largest amount allotted to any country except Victoria, which slightly exceeds it. Prance receives . about 9,000 feet, Germany MOO the United States 3,000. Vast temporary annexes have been found necessary. In these Great Britain will occupy 112,000 feet, Victoria, . 217,009, New South Wales 83,000 and. many 7 other countries smaller allotments.