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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-8-30, Page 3AGRIVVIJITR Air.. Tui RIPEN G OF Cnoataa. A tthe late (Winter) meeting of the. New York Dairymen's Association, Prof. L, B, Arnold pronounced the proper ripening of cream ae essential to the making of perfect butter, In explaining the two keds of ehangea which go on in cream when ripening, and which are induced by two distinct causes, the change most readily noted is the development of acidity, which is the result of fermentation pure and. simple, and is brought about by the growth of organic genets wheeever the cream ra warns enouth to allow them to sprout and grow. The only direct effect of the fermentation, is to change the milk sugar in the cream into an acid, The acid, when formed, coagulates the al- bnmiOoue metteraa in the cream, separating them into a solid curd and serum. This fa- cilitates churning, but has no effect what- ever upon the fatty parts of the cream until the acid becoreee et o g enough .ts begia to Gut the batter flavor, which is thereby re - (laced, to the injury of the butter: It is generally supposed that souring de- velopes butter-davor, No greater amanita could be made. It bas eto anaesence epee flavor at all until it becomes strong enough to commence injuring it. Batter -flavor is ie. ereaffel while the cretins as ripening, but ie be effected by the aetion of the air open the fat ie the cream, and ?sot at ail by ferment tion, If a sample of weet creenn is divided. and both parts are kept, at a favorable tempera, turn tor ripeoleg, and the aids excluded from enema a free exposure given to the other, both will emir at the same time, but flexes Will only 12e tuerrawll in the tame ex- prrseed t4 the air, Curniug let two rata will *hoer #,iiia. The free oxygen of tine air under favor• able eondlitdona avidins alp lent some per - time et the milk fats, with the result of derelopingbetter Hever. Oxidation is meat effective while the create is sweet and at the claurehig temperature, of about 60 degrees, Whet is weeded, therefore, for highest fiever, ie to give the sweet atrearn the longest anti 'fulleat expeetwe to the Air at a prosper temperature.. Those hater -melon who acid sons' msl'k or buttermilk to buten the souring ceunot have butter whieb, reaches the hiehest per• feetion iu flavor. The aaoouer the minds of dairymen are dieelbueed of the ides that the ripening of cream and the development of high flavor in batter ate only inthe soorw,g of the crenae the better it will be. The impertanze sal at noapberbb defluertr"e la the xipeuiag of the cream ;feast be reeoeuized by thcie whet with to finance the finest rpeality of teeter. The moat eavauceii laetter read exa melte tstn the perfect exclnrion of the low voted milk and cream froth the air. Whenever waren air er air eaaeperatively* Warta enmea in insert with ealeier aspilk o. crawl or water, or *my ether livid. the warm stir, teucbie,g the crated liquid, is ceudesiseal, and delmatit* iweietore in the fangs of dew on the eurfac° of the cad, liquid. With the dew thus deposited go at the impurities the air maty c. entitle. In the ca*o of milk and creme, these dcpoeita impair, in a marls• ed degree, the Osier mind beeping quality of the butter atede from them. It is note caaeotial that air should bo excluded from milk until Roe temperaturefall* to the tem- erature of the wereoundiog air, but when it drops to that point, exclusion from ale is impporteut. Chemin ahould be done et the first, aap• pentane of Acidity. Da not wait until the cream gets intensely *our end stale. In churning, the butter should iso gratmiateel In the churn, Instead of beteg gtithered into a lump. It should be cleansed of butter- milk by writhing and not by working. After lightly eating, it meet be worked into a solid condition with the *lightest a% workiop that will effect that end, Niuety.anx vatietiea of grapes were Alantol six years ago in the grounds of the Ontario Experiment Farm. Tho ]ovation is 1,200 feet abovesealovel, The following aro now ret•' ommended in the Report of tho Fruit Grow. era' Aetoeistionof Ontario, as the best; hard. ineaa, yield and flavor considered : Black: Wilder, Warden' hlooro's Early Concord, Tarry. Red :Delaware, Brighton, Lindley, Agawam. White : Niagara, Lidy, Martha. 'The largest Cala of cattle ever made in Kentucky by enema was made on July 13, by C. Alexander, cashier of the Northern Beak. Ple ao]d from his 22,000 acre farm 559 bead of fat cattle to M. Kahn, et Ohio, for M. Goldsmith of New York. They will be shipped to London, England. TEsr os a *Unsex Cow. A.D. Baker, in an intereatiog letterto the " Country G =dement" says :—As I have be- come quite interested in Jersey cattle, I will report a test I have been making with Jua of $pringbrook, No. 36170. She camein the 25th of April, and the bast of May I tested her for seven milkhngs. She made 9 lbs. of unsalted batter. Her feed was grass and 4 quarte of corn, oats and brat, equal parts, in two feeds night and morning. I tested her again, commencing June 21, for levet milkinga. She made nibs. of unsalted but. ter, and it was drained dry. She had no grain since Jane 8th. I think without grain is the true teat of the batter capacity of a cow. .In her last teat I forgot to mention she gave 1101be. of milk. Thoweatherwas excessively hot, so much so that the cows ate but little in the day time. I think she could be forced up to 25 or 30 lbs. per week, but I do not wish to do it, for she is a good breeder, having had all heifer calves. I think the Jersey breeders should have a standard registry the same as the trotting horse has, and let the atandard start at 14 lb. without grain. Then when one wished to 1 purchase a good cow they would know where to find it. I think of coupling Jua with one of Exile's sons, and if she continues to have heifer calves I will soon have a herd of cows worth caring for. I wish that breeders would test their cows and report through your valuable paper. PRESERVATION OE EGGS. lime to replace any that may become car- bonated. The vessels containing the egge. sh,uld, be kept in a cool, well ventilated place. A very sucoeasfUI variation in the process consists in, imbedding new -laid eggs, waren from the nest, in a. thick paste of lime and water. Eggs thus prepared, for six months could hardly be distinguished from those newly Laid. The contents of eggs evaporate rather rapidly through the shell ; and the object of the preserver must he to prevent. thee evaporation, and at the same time to allow for the expansion and contraction of the natural air -apace in the egg, due to chaggoe of temperature. The plan of coating the shells with wax or molted paratiae fails In the latter particular. Strong brine fails because the contents of eggs preserved ass it become ntneb reduced in bulk.—lAmeriean St ckman, SUEEI Sus41 z O t .Ol1NE.. An Australian correspondent tells how a gentlecman,who owns a sheep station near Murrnrandi, in New South. Wales, hal now in operation, in his shed, a ,Sheep -Shearing implement which is driven by compressed air. " It resembles a pair of ordinary horse- olippera, and can, be comfortably hell in the heed. The :motive power causes a small piston in the beau of the handle of the ma. chine to work beekwards and forwards with extreme rapidity. Tata ;Aston setaan'netion a bar, which, working aeon a pivot, cxwsee die eating teeth of the mach tte to os:tilate very rapidly over the rigid teeth of the comb below. The cutting action is nue precily the same ae with horse clippers'. ,A rigid medial pipe runs along the length et the shed, eati each tneobane is eomaee-ed to... it by a flexible incite rubber tube. The air .le tun - eel on, and the upper teeth of the implement work rapidly over the eeetb; lila opereter aeirhe his ehea sand. appplitai the nmacbtee. Aar the teeth of the come run through the weed elm to the akin the cutter* cover the abnegate evenly, wad the whole fleece seems to peel effete if ey reegie. Tber'e hue chalet of trio animal hedng 'cut, es with theses. The #testes is =eh mere cioaely, as w°l1 as evenly, taken oft than by the old method, aged leas nettle to be broken and. the latter havalred ia' much lent." 1'avt,TRa�: None. Is there 4 better cross for the table titan the Indian Gagne and the Plymeetb P. tele? Stephen Beale reeemeaenda a Dar".tiug Geek with .gown -Red Gator bens. Bggai ere not end methe fain house as much as they ought to be. This is doe largely to the want et 'variety in ceo'•siutr there. There era many other Ways of pee paring eggal beeidea Uw; end toiling them, When eggs Are cheap rdea'a glue tine xuaxket with them but use them roar elf. Now Is the time to kill sand at spring chicken. This is the nowt. of herd work en the farad and the farmer and hie family ahead has the beat of food, Chickens no longer cenentead a fancy price, and now tai the time to sat them. Tbey are inn more expensive than nest or corned beef bred aro vawtly Letter food at tide seatou. We have two adjoiulo yards, outs co t.tfning ordinary barn -yard n, fowls, made up of Brahma*, Plymoatk Rueka and Cochin* ; the other of thoroughbred Wyaudotter,. The (roes-breds or tenths prodaee nearly a third morn chicks and eggs than the others anti do not reeehve nearly so much attention. Tho Wystadottes ars probably Inbred too much, and this Is probe ly the trouble with the breed. There are few it any bettor table fowls than the Wyandotte', anti they are excellent layers. They are, un however, verydelicate, and often deformed and . hethy. At the London Dairy and at the Birming• ham Fat Stock Show, during the last two years, prizes have been offered for the best preserved eggs, says an exchange. These, as well as many private tests, have shown that the lime water system is, all things considered, the best. A pound online should be stirred with a gallon of water, and the eggs, perfectly fresh, immersed therein in barrels or jars. This excludes air and any germs that might cause mildew or mould, and prevents evaporation, so that the con- tents of the egg are not reduced in bulk. It is important to have a considerable camas of News. It is not too late to drill tome ewest corn for fodder. If yen got your early potatoes dugin Jay, barrow the ground thoroughly anplait your corn. You will be certain to get some forage, unless winter sats in early in Clotober, It is said that tile enoufih has been raid in Illinois to molt three tenon around the globe, costing between 1;10,040,000 and $15,003.000; and the experiments of the State University profeesora go to show that the beat crops aro found in the bost•deaiued axil. Nearly all strawberry growers agree that good mood aahea can bo applied to the sbrawborry plants with benefit. One hue. dred bushels on be applied to the acre with prr.fit, under ordinary circumstances. They should be thoroughly incorporated with the soil on the surface. No country home is what it ought to be without good gardens, both vegetable and flower. The beat hart of the family living comes from the kitchen garden, and the amount of enjoyment that the whole family derives from well kept beds of flowers, is not to be reckoned in dollars and cents. State Geologist Thompson, of Indiana, in- sists that farmers should protect their birds In every possible way. Everybody knows, he declares, that we have 100 %sleets berm - Jul to our fruit trees, vines, vegetables and cereals to where we had one thirty or forty years ago. Why? Ltrgely because the birds are one-tenth part as numerous as they mere then. You cannot have a Leaithy apple orchard without plenty of birds. The same may bo said of cherry orchards and the whole catalogue of fruit treea, vines and vegetables as well as of the stable cereals. Ra'ph Allen sage: " D airy farming fur- nishes a constant source of income. It en- riches the land more rapidly than any other branch of animal hnsbendry. It may be carried on with small capital without dang- er of being smothered by larger establish- ments. It is profitable on high-priced lands, where other cattle would not more than make a good rent. In short, dairy farming, like every other branch of agriculture, has advantages peculiar to Itself, which make it in many planes and under many circum- stances a desirable and remunerative em- ployment. J. A, Dawson, of Picton, N. S., was re- ported at a meeting of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' association, by the Secretary, as having tried with entire success the ap- plication of salt water to the bark of apple trees for destroying the bark louse. One pint of salt is dissolved in two gallons of water. A single application is m ,de about June 10, with a stiff paintbrush. Care is taken not to wet the leaven, as the salt will destroy them. It has the merit of being very easily tried. It is obviously import- ant to apply it at the right time or early in Tune when the eggs are hatching. FIGHTS WITH(. PIRATES. Cleaning Out a Couple of Big Fxee•boottug Gunge That inletted the Chinese Seas. Erom the year 1852 to 1854 the Ciaieese sea, from Shanghai in the north to Singapore in the eolith, was infested with pirate orate, says a writer in the New York bun, As for that matter, the sea had been the creleing- ground of pirates fora score of years previ- ously, but I mention these two yearn for particular reasons. One was that 1 was en. gaged in a vigorous warfare against them, and the other these the close of 1854 witueaeed the death of the leading spirits and brake up piraey as a trade. In 'hosefeat) .ok days eenzparatively node ing was known of Coiaa outside of afew sea,. ports. Treaties were of tittle aoo0unt, eenauid were few and far between. Every merchant hip was expected to defend herself and the eaptain of every man ot•war had authority to bombard any town which refused to rent w his water and provklene. All intim were trading with China, bat (+side from a few seaports all China, hate 1 all other people. At. the deeks at Hong Koog I could drink tea withtbeChinese meechauts. Half amileawey the people would have cutmo to pieces, Wh 15 the country wanted to sell its prot'uata it bated the men who boughs them, While it wanted the goods anther conntriea i; den- pised the makers and shippers. There is rsa doubt that the Cf►bneee government tacitly encouraged ptraoy and, could the greet gruel el the population Have bad its say, not atin- gle fereiguerweal hare ever bean allowed o .land en the coat In the year '51 there wee an association at Canton Galled "The Foreign Traders." i It weecoanpoaed of nater ;aus,Bagfiabeeen, (=;rtaaua, Frenchmen, Spauint(3a, tined Rus *1ans4 and nutnberad over s;xty repreaettta- tivee, The capitol represented *remelted to millions, and the objeetwas threefold. We bad more power with the Chinese govern. meat than any foreign nsielater. We hal rales and reguiatiotus regnxdtng the tee trade. We eoald tarry a pofut by protest$ and threats, Every pound el tea from a district five hundred mike squere lied to pen thee hell ear hands. We filed many protests agatuat the pirates and the laxity of the govern. melte In hautsag them down, and were dewily .M4elly lntermed that we were at liberty to take any steps we deemed beet in the wetter. Teat meant we could fit tat;; w orate and go for the rascals right and left headed. We bed hem anticipetingOW, aodheti aeraft ready et Hong Eong. She was an Amerlean schooner of exeelteut model and large apread of naile and we item that the could outeadl enythIng, rsativs or fereigu, we herd ever saen itt those waters. We armed her with a len tone sad four. 2I p nudere, bnciog bought the salvage of a Fteueh msu•of war. Then we picked e a crew of fifty semen—all er foreigns ane ,sore -gaud whey we `reset stet of Hong Kens] wo were prepared to give the pintos Hail Columbia. I was 'terser of tbea:baeaer, whish WAS eMei the Ra stege And her csptain was an E°g]isbmn Pained Wetherbee, who had swerved as a eomaaoinion• tad efMcer in the neuter service, The first lieutenant was an Auoorloete and the other ntllcere were divided up among.the other nationalities. flow the as/meration ling, and, while we had liberty to go for pirates, wo were learned that any mistakes wouldbe made to coat us dearly. The two tons pirate, of that data were Shaug•Wong and Chin -Lung. The first Wel a fleet of coven or eight craft, and haunted the see from. Spingaporo north to the Toog.KIu island*. Tho aeaond cruised from thence as far north as Shanghai, hav log itis headgnartera at Forman island. lie was reported to haven Hen arsine eraft. Thee both were monsters we bad a hundred proofs, a si that both lend grown rich and. powerful It ens esay to show by the long list of mining noels hanging in the head. quartera rMee. While we had kept our movements as secret as possible, we had no doubt that government ofll:tale had given us away, and that the pirates would be on the watch for. as. To deceive them as Inc es possible, we ran to the south for three day!, and spoke and reported to four Philips bound:for Canton. Than wo ran toward the Philippine Iolanda until we had a good offing, when wo headed up for Formosa to get acquainted with old Chiu•Lung. During the next throe days wo did not sight a sail of any sort. Then early ono morning we fell in with a lot of wraakage which aborted us that a trader had been overheu'o 1 and burned, We were now to tho met of Formosa, and fifty miles c6' the coast. hien were set to work to give the schooner the appearance of a vessel in dia. tress, and under alight breeze. we made slow headway towards the inland. It was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon before anything ap- proached us, although we saw a number of native craft at a duatance. Then a small junk came out from a bay about five miles off and headed directly for us. Everything aboard of ns seemed to be at sixes and sev- ens. A man was lashed to the mainmast, to represent the captain, everything aloft was askew, and the seven or eight men on deck were seemingly drunk and having a high old time. We had a man aloft to play a part, knowing that he would be hailed in English. Both of the boss pirates had Americans and. Englishmen with them—rascals who had deserted their shins and voluntarily adopted the life of a pirate—and one of thorn was always put forward to hail a Bhip. The junk came steadily forward to within hail- ing distance before she came up into the wind. This was proof, whether she was honest or not, that our appearance had de ceived her. The men on deck yelled and shook their fists as drunken men might do, but at the first opportunity a voice hailed us. "'Schooner ahoy! What schooner is that?" " The Revenge, Capt. Thatcher, bound to Shanghai," answered the man aloft. " What's the matter aboar3 ?" "Crew in a state of mutiny for the last three days. They have lashed the captain to the mast and driven me aloft." " What's your oargo ?" " General merchandise 2" "Any arms aboard?" " Only a few muskets." There were a dozen men aboard the junk, but they dared not attempt to board• They chattered away among themselves for a while. and then the spokesman dalled out: " Very well, we will bring youhhelp." With chat the junk headed book for the bay, accompanied by the yells and curses of the apparently drunken crew. ' We had a native aboard called Shin Lee. He had been in headquarters office for several years, and could be depended upon. He gave it as his opinion that the junk was a spy boat sent out by the piriates, who never attacked a vessel by daylight without taking all due precautions. He said we would see the pir- ate fleet some out incase no sell appeared on the horir.on, and, his words were speedily verified. We had been gradually edging in - there, and were not over five mites from tee )and, when we caught .sight of Ave junks "earning out after us. There was a good working breeze, and now, as was only na- ture!, we began to claw en. By seeming to want to get away very badly, but be care- fully manipulating the .hello, we were seven tnilea oft' the land before the fleet reached us, We were eatiafiet of their intentions long enough before. It was not to help a vessel in distress, but to take advantsge of one almostheip:ens. The junks kept pretty well together, and vehen within ri4eshot each one reeked Cnin- I,ung',. aag and uttered a. cheer, Basks bad a couple of howi'z re, with whish they open. ed fire span the sebooaer, but no hares bad been deem when, we were ready to epriog the trap. At the word of command every man was on deck, the gun crew* jumped to their stations, and things aloft were ship $,saps ea a moment, Toes we were round to get be !. tweeze thepiiratea and the bay and opened fire. ACeinese junkie a mere shell. One aolidshot went tbroagh them as if they had been paper. The poor dev"ls were uemnerv- eal AS 8000 as they saw the trap luta which they had fallen, and devoted all their ener- gee to getting away. We could outssil any of the j maks, but it was (patch work with faun of them. Tbey were Cent to tbo bat - OM are after another, and as we enure up with the fifth we ran her down. Oar stern *track her full ore the sterkoard broedeide and int her alurostin two. She hada leant thirty Caen aboard, and there was one long, despairing shriek as they went down to wat- ery g;avec. A few same up to elutob at the wreckage and lsrg to be taieen aboard, but trot one of them would the captain lend a Ioend to. Sack as the *harks did not get hold of drifted out to sea wick, the tide. 1t ! was a fearful retribution, hot these meta were mouatere, Ioaids of thirty miuutee from the the we opened fire the ll:et was et the batter and at levet a buadred pinto had veld the malty of their erica, Uar mange was lameuting the fust that ho had 31(4 1444 up one or two in order to enure Tufo nation. when there was a_ Tory forward, and it was =teemed that a pirate had been found hanging to the chains. When brought oft he was ready to do any.' thizzg to nave bis life, l fa name was Mueg- #Tang, anal Imbed good cause to believ,s that we would revere° it0. Ile was the eaptainof ' the leek we had rna down, and was ready to tell its ell about old Chin—Lug, Toe bay was Isla renaleevotas, but his plunder was hidden an the coast near Foe Chow, Tbere wereberreeks for main up the bay, and thirty or forty mea there at that mu - meat. They lull c pturel it. I euel% brlj several days befee, and elm was then at anther in the bay waling for Chin lames return, who wag then tap ozouug Liao 1e;tog handy with tone jnttl;s to capture p larbe ehzp wineb shad drafted auto steel wager, but ween nae A/Imbued. If woweatld ap+arc hie life' Le would pilot um anywhere and prove Ws gratitude te any way. Shia -Lee took hien in land far a few minutes and then me nouuced that we .,cold depnul epee him. We ran tato the bay, brought up alongale the brig, and dont forty men ashore to clean out rho plain. Net a pirate was to be seen, all having bolteri for the woods. Every• thh*gwhichwould burn was set on fire, and a prize crew was put aboard the brig to navigate her to hong Kong. She reached tho part safely and our salvage money went far to reimburse the company for its outlay, When wo sailed out of the bay It was to look for the bots pirate. Ile was nearer than wo thought for.. At S e'oloek next n:.o •nr ng we saw his fleet deal ahead, on its way beck to Formosa empty handed. and by 10 we had the junks nada fire. These were a braver lot of men, Snowing that they could not outsell us, and scenting to nutpoet that wo were an enemy, they closed right in for a fight. It did not last long, however. We had one man killed by the fall of a block from aloft and three or four wounded by the betide from their ancient firearms, and in return not a man of them escaped. In less than an hour's fighting al- together no sent nine junks and two hundred mon to destruction. Ilstehery, was it ? Well, call It so ; but remember that in the previous twelve months the fleet of thief old pirate had captured uo leas than ton foreign craft and nix traders, and that every man, woman, and child aboard had been murdered. Thera was no sentiment about Chin -Lung. Ho thought of nothing but blood and plunder, and ho would cut a child's throat with a smile on his face. We were now ready to sail in search of Shung-Wong, who had less power, but was just as great a villain. These two leaders had divided up the territory and compelled all lesser pirates to join them and coma under their control. So, then, wo had only two men to strike at to down the whole lot. At the close of the third day, after heading for the south, wo came upon the track of the piratical fleet. A trader in woods and dyestuffs had been overhauled about a hundred miles north of the northern group of Philippines, called the Little Philippines. The crew consisted of three men and a boy, and the vessel had only part of a osrgo. Shung Wong had boarded her himself, and although the crew wore native Chinese, he couldnot restrain hi s bloo dy hand. Ile demanded a sum equal to $300 inAmeri- can money. There was only about $20 aboard, and he personally cub the captain's throat, had the others flogged, and went on his way to the bay of Luzon, which is on the vest side of the island of that name. We spoke the trader, and received from her terrified crew the incidents above narrated, and then shaped our course for the bay. As luck would have it, an American ship called the Joseph Taylor was ahead of us, and as she passed down the coast was attacked by the fleet about seven miles off shore. We heard the rumpus about an hour before daylight. There was little breeze, and though greatly outnum- bered, the Drew of the Taylor beat the pir- ates off. At daylight the wind freshened, and we slid in between the junks and the shore just as they were preparing for a se- cond attack. We were no sooner within range than we opened on them, and, seeing escape cut off, the fellows tried hard to lay us aboard. In thirty minutes from the open- ing of the fight wo had run or sunk or run down every junk and disposed of every pir- ate, and only had four men wounded in doing it. Our work had been done so promptly and well that it struck terror to the hearts of all evildoers in those seas, and it was several years before another act of piracy was com- mitted. The Chinese government returned its thanks to the association, ship -owners sent in 'contributions of money to express their gratitude, and when we carne to sell the schooner to the Chinese government as e cruiser, the company was financially ahead. It was probably the briefest cruise" and at. tended with :the greatest rosette recorded of an armed vestel.•...4Chieago Tt2ai1. rag AND Anon' WOIEN8 OISEEN IX Naw OWNS. A fashion writer la the New Fork 'Nail and ,Expresx says :—The great prevalence of the color green in the oosenmee title sweeter in Landon and Paris is remarkable, It le in. traduced on white dresses,. Either in velvet or moire, as, collars and cuffs, anti occasion. ally a ante is added, It playa a ahnilar pert on black dresses, and" these to the popular • biseuit color bane often finishing touches is green. This latter combination is meta the rr est trying to the ordinary complexion that ocaid ere devised. It Igl-aga out all the la. tent yellow tri the cheeks, and makes even a pteethly geed whip lexi0nleek muddy. Only tare clearest and freshest coloring is nnia- jared by the proximity; but when the could piexfon is realty treeepereot and s-ofdy tints with cream and rose, the effect is excellent, Ecglish worsen do not neem to coneider the coloring than ie likely to snit their fares, nor do FFemit women set thein a geed ex - envie. in the neater. Ote often sees a 1reekled.face loeskirg atotose aback because the has or hoz sect is trimmed with bright Mee er pullet... Some setter, swb-ter shade cf colo: weal, en the other hand, tette down. the derhents of the freckles and bring cue alt the pick that underII e% thein in the girlish face, The shades of Wee that ere ended golxlle et poreeiaie are exeelleme in able way ; eto are the shot cibbane in thio e a. bright tint is pertly eteatral$zed by a deeper one. Con- tent' bloe.la two libelee ie Avery asfe union to plan tear a doubtful casmplexion„ The Lender ?eller of the paler blossom ie ata Raft that it gannet injuriously afrvet the slim by m kieg it look decker, mai the decision. of the deeper blue helps to give value to the fight oris, Ruts' €.sr.atlt lCa;ts;a r::. Tieo uiiforum malates upas tear irornen by these who direst gy lets mem exercises is the only asfe appropreite ter heutewor'k, SA Inc as the undergarments are eonverned. No corsets, loose sande, *el the weigh; of the skirt weepended from the bhartlders, .it the only forrnu0* fur zk etenfortehle narking dress for woai.ai that ewer has or ever can be giv. eaa. We hear, in fancy, the eze;lemetioo, uttered by au everw1*e ming, Oriente of fetal- rzine voices : "No cones 1 Glee up ear euppaerters 1' eel we MAO no repay save, "Try leu Kitchen aapeano. glevea and capes to be tirc,rawhen aweepie , duerang and neaee ling to time, are esseaatial to ebc. autneee nud esfe heu;lna. (. Ob. T eses't tether with glove* 1' es;l&n;s eeoorae one. Ifats Inuit tri table and time are neseaaary to the slipjiug so of >< pair of lease ghver, .kept in a co:wenient pleee 1 itnt1 now amply repaid is enactor the trelleireasimal amount of both involved when she takes up her sewing. C molder, ton, how meth more soothing the touch of *ate Maude to the Tittle once and iavrdUs than the: of hart palmy and rough, eracked fisgere. -- WOMEN'S Wear_, A lady, engaged by n (iicsge paper to enquire into the pay nud, treatsaent of wo. num employed iia the shops of that city, nrlopted the method of goiog to the different faetoties in the chcraeter et a needy working girl. Her day'* experience at au cstrblish• merit where jerseys aro manufeeturod is given in aulastsnee as Moen ; I.y noon mho had finiehed four jerseys, esbieli were count. ed as worth 2.5 cents by the forewomau. Thera were about 1_0 woriem at work in the shop, and when they stoppedat noon the reporter conntea 3i girls with a lunch of dry bread, 15 with sandwiches, and 10 who ate cold pancakes, Te enty three girls were without any lunch whatever. The air in the shop was bad, but at no•an the elevator stopped running curl pore of the girls left the building. Many of than maned into the toilet room, wl ich had one faucet olrnn• nine water. " Here," soya the writer, "the girls crowded like so many cattle, each with her bit of soap and grimy cotton towel, to wash. Drees waists were loosened and necks, faces, arms ani hands lathered with soap and rinsed as chance permitted. Set up against the wall in the inclosnre, with the faucet run through the partition, was a barrel of ice water inscribed in big letters : ' Two cents will be collected every Satur.iay for ice water.' Besides this lux- ury every hand pays 12 cents for the use of the machine,' fn the afternoon the report- er got some more work, and nothing oc- curred until a girl was found asleep in one of the rooms. She was very sick, she ext plained, on being awakened. The girla said that, with her sister, ahe had begun work at the jersey factory that morning. Between them they had earned 27 cents and were ut- terly disgusted. By this time the reporter had raised her earninga to 41 cents. She tried to get the money, but was put off to the 20th of the month. Oa leaving the building she stopped in the salesroom to buy a jersey. She says : ' One of the firm waited on me. His magnanimity was sub- lime. The identical black jersey that I had received 5 cents for finishing was offered to me at $2. I declined. By way of interest, 100 dozen garments are turned out of the factory every day in the year. As near as I could learn the salaries average $4 a week, but plenty of grown women are not allowed to earn over 28 cents a day." As telescope power is increased we still find stars of fainter and fainter light. But the number cannot go on increasing forever in the same ratio as ith the brighter mag- nitudes, because if it did the whole sky would be a blaze of starlight. This much is certain, that in special regions of the sky which have been searchingly examined by various telescopes of successively increasing apertures the number of new stare found is by no means in proportion to the inoreesed instrumental power. If this is found to be true elsewhere, the conclusion,maylbe that, after all, the stellar system can he experi- mentally shown to he of finite extent, and to contain only a finite number of stars. In the whole sky an eye of average power will see about 6,000 stars, as I have just said. With a telescope this number is greatly in- creased, and the most powerful telescope of modern times will show more than 60,000,- 000 stars.