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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-9-6, Page 3Jiggle JLTURAL. DAIRYING IN SWEDEN. Itothe j'urnal of the British Dairy Far- mers' Aasucta tion, lately issued, .k'rof. John Natko. tat of $ eaten, gives some interesting particulars ae'to dairy education in Seveden• He says that in the year 1S51 the Swedish government appointed two travelling dairy teachers for the whole c f Sweden, paying there at the rate of $1 000 a year. and eta givine them free tickets and $1.30 ver day when travelling about. If a dairy maid de- sires to improve her practice, the teacher will go to the farm, staying as long e.s he is wanted, in order to instruct her in either batter or Cheese molting, and at the setae time he will advise the farmer how to feed the cattle so as to produce the largest quan- tity of rich milt, and the.best butter.. -When. these teachers reach i iety.ivo years of age they are pensioned off, In commotion with the two Royal Agri- cultural Colleges at Alnarp and ijntuna, the government started in the year 1883 two dairy 00100e. giving a grant to eaott. Here pupate are admitted either as in•atudents Or out -students., and all provision i, made for their accommodation., This covers the greater extent of the tuition, lane in addition, the government pays every year 82 girls $41.30 each for learning butter and chew - malting on good dairy farms. Tae govern- ment travelling teachers hispect these farms two or threo times in the year. The .girls must do ad the work la the dairy, and also milk the cows and feelthe calves, The farmer with whom these girls are placed Murat instruct them in dairy management, arithmetic, writing, reading, spelling, book keeping for dairy purposes, &e. For his teaching be receives $27.50 from each girl, they paying for their beard with their work, In the North, where there are no good dairy faunas, ,the oawedssli geverumone bee started two dairy aohaols for girls, et smell of settee six are being educated, but theme leave been established iso recently that their results are scarcely apparent. Whenwe turn to the tables which ac,:ompeny this artielo, the in, licence of this' education is mean. Ira 1801 the export of butter from Sweden was 20,. 57e kilos., and the import 1,110,181 .kilos', In 1885 the export was 11,440,189 kilai., Awl the imports 2,844.699, FEAT AS AN 4xiaAVS1"IYE CROP. In the Obio Valley there is objection to flax on the score of injury to the soil, "It is hard cu the land," is a common remark of eorres .ondeute. Such ii the first greeting of the Statistielan of the Department of Agriculture, l).icember,188i , to the Asx an, dustry of the United States --an industry which produced 12,/00,000 hesitate (et Clan %wee average price, $l3 500,(Q0} of teed the last year, Its several menulaoturiug planta in the West are valued at $ti.000.000, with en annual output of .515,000,000. The right of discovery of the true character of the ilex plant awarded to the Ohio Valley (in other words, State) Is not quite carred. All intelligent writer, on agriculture from the days of Pliny and Virgil -eel' cultivators of the plant from the date (1629) of the legal forged pleuting on Masasohnisets' sterile shores to the utilizing of its appetite for mineral =unreal in subduing the frosh•turn od soil of Dstkota-- have conceded its soil, exhausting -capabilities. There scam a. lack of wisdom ire political economy that force° the farmer to export the raw produeta of the farm, freighted as they are with the Yalu/this manurial eon,tituenta of the soil, or e nnioa the Western pioneer farmer to westo his ownmoat valuable fibre (eatimated at 102,500 tons), while to bind his sheaves he buys (estimated at 20,000 tons) twine made from the interior fibers of India. Or INTEREST TO DAIR'k1.t1i . 1,'y an act panted by the New York leg• islature and approved by the governor, the dairy eommiesioner is directed to employ expert butter and °Iteose makers, not ex- ceeding five in number , whose duty ib shall be, under his direction, to examine and in- spect batter and cheese factories and the methods employed therein, and attend to such agrioulturatfairs, institutes, meetings conventions within the state as shall be designated by the commissioner, to impart thereat information as to the boat methods of snaking butter and aheese. Flve thousand dollars have been appropriated for the pur- pose. Oa or before Dee. 15 next tee oom- miasioner must report the number of experts employed under the aot, together with their compensation and expenses, and must in - *lade the whole in his annual report. An- other appropriation of $2,500 has been made. to the State Dairy association to be expend- ed in holding a number of dairy conferences in various parte of the state to illustrate butter and cheese making. To Kerr Crtixca Bins mar A Cowl -mere A great many remedies and preventives against ohinoh bugs have been auggeated and published from time to time, the most of them emanating from good authorities, but very generally so difficult and impracti- cable in their application as to be of little general use, In their migration from one field to another, at thetime they firat appear on the side of a field of oorn and before they have entered it, cut five or rix rows of the corn and clean the ground, then plow a strip of land eight or ten feet wide, leaving a deep farrow in the center of the strip, with the perpendicular side of the furrow toward the field to be protested. Into this the hugs will fall, where draw may be thrown o them burned. Or the furrow may be covered with some of the stalks that have. been cut while they were green, by laying across it, when the bags will crawl ander them into the farrow and remain there in the shade long enough for the stalks to dry and 'be burned. A STABLE PsEOAIITION. ,The following we know from Iong exper- ience to be an excellent plan for tying up horses in such a way that they cannot get entangled in the halter Go to the wood- shed and select a round piece of beech, oak, chestnut, or other bard wood, about three inches and a half in diameter ; cut off pieces say threeto four inches long, and shape off the corners with a knife, so as to make the pieces .as nearly round as possible. Next, either bore a seven -eight inch auger bole through the piece or drive in a staple and ring. Take the pieces of woodto the stable, and, instead of tying your horses' halters to the mangers, run the halter' strap through the hole in, the manger, from the insidesso that the end comes' out in front of the trough, and fasten the halter strap through the block or the ring yell may have put in it. This is g great improvement :on the fixed fashion of tying. It always keeps the halter strap tante and thus the horse cannot throw himself by getting hie leg over the slack of the strap, but yet,, when he wants to lie down,. bas "rope" enough tor comfort, without danger.. Ten Wook TASTE IIr Mmreoi. C. g, Clay, of Kentucky, writingon the very cornrows belief that when sheep etre ]gilled for mutton with the fleeces on them the mutton to rendered unpalatable on ao- count of the wool taste, says it h all non. Bangle about the wool affecting the teat) of she meat. Re explains that " the bad taste. is canned by the excretions of the bowels going into the circulation when the sheep ere allied that gives the wool the • Amor. The intestines must be taken out asquickly as possible ; then you may wrap it ite wool and lay it on foe for daye, and if there lousy wool taste I will eat the sheep,: akin, wool and all." Indiana Fernier, commenting on the above. says that if mutton is treated as Me. Clay adsuses there need be no eonoern as to the wool taste R sesame INC Pomo Domaneh. .I should, like to have the opinion of your readers as to the oheapeet and beet proper*, tion to put en oak or chestnut poste, so as to make them last the longest, with the method, of putting it on. I do cot mean to dress the whole post, but merely the part that is in the round,.—d'. C, reyneheurg, Fa.. (A number of applications have been tried .for this pure a , but Many years are usually required ter the completion ot the experi- ments, and as 'various external infiuencea have operated is opposite directions, farmers who have made the trials have conflicting opinions. Probably ono of the best is the anode given several years ago in. the Country Oontlennsn, of applying petro lenni by .bor- lug a slanting hole ill the peat downwards near the ground and occasionally failing it with the oil and keeping it plugged.] TAIza SiivsrYOECANAnA. No fewer than 850 live sheep will leave Liverpool to•norrow for Canada in the steatner Oxenholnne. This oonaigunent is the largeat ever taken front England by ono vowel, and the animals include *greet Many of the finest ahoy le the country. Nearly all of them are show animals, And in many eames the sheep have boon exhibited at the Royal Agricultural Show held at Notting, have a f, w ,nays ago, at widely some of thein were prize sinners. The Oxcnholine will convey rho sheep to Montreal, from which place they will be drafted to various farms m Canada acid ithe Western Stators. Tho sheep are mostly of the Shropshire- dawn Chum, and scilla of there ere excelatieualiy valuable, ,(M aacheeater (Bog.) Examiner, July 23. Rear Roar. Very few are awaaro of the facts that hay is very beneficial to hogs ; but it is true nevertheless. Hoge heed rough food as well as horses, oattlo, or the human race. To prepare It you should have a outting.box (or hay cutter), and the greener the hay the better. Cub the hey short and mix with bran, ehorte or middlings, and, feed as other food. Hoge soon .learn to lute 1t, and if soaked in swill or other clopp food, it is high. ly reliaahed by them. In winter use for hogs the memo hay you feed to your horses sad. you will find that, while it saves bran abode, or other food, it put* on flesh as rapidly as anything that oan be given them. Boos AS 1'g0»TTi iiRs QFhfANUitic. Oao hog, kept to the age of ono year, if furnished with suitable material, will cone. vert a cartload per month lata a fertilizer which will produce a good crop of corn, Two loads per year multiplied bye the nutnberof hogs usually kept by our farmers would make sufficient fertilizing 'substance to grow the corn used by them; or, in other words, the hog would pay in manure its keep- ing. In this way we can afford to make pork at low prices; but in no other way can it be dpno without lea to the farmer. NOTES. I have found in my praotioo'that ono pound of Paris green to 200 pounds of plas- ter does all that could he asked for, kills the potato bug without injury to the vine. A knowledge of this fact has saved me many dollars. Stock farming must be the ,foundation of all long continued, successful farming. Any other system is one of slow exhaustion and ultimate sterility, Ignore the sheep, the hog and the cow, and the land Will grow poor inevitably. The anion between scion and stook takes place by the inner bark and nob by the out. surface of the wood; consequently the skill of the grafter is exercised to bring the inner bark of the scion in close contact with the suer bark of stock. American orchardists must soon meet the competition in English markets, of apple growers in Australia and Tasmania. The Imports of choice apples from these latter points has already increased to such an ex- tent as to affect British fruit growers. The bulletin of the Ohio Experimental Station for May reports that trees dusted with air -slaked lime in Michigan have yielded abundant fruit. It can be mixed with water and sprayed, or applied by means of a flat paddle from a barrel in a waggon which is driven along the rows of trees on the side toward the wind. INszor FnIENDs,—Californis fruit growers have recently imported some Anataiian parasites warranted to kill fruit peat'. These little bugs,. no larger than flies, feed on insect paste and rapidly destroy them. Congress will be asked to sanction the im- portation of these parasites, in order to clear Calafornia orchards from insect pests that are increasing every year. Vaseline makes a very clean, odorless ap- plication for light harness, riding bridles, saddles, eto. After giving it a chance to dry in, go all over the surface with • a rag. dipped' in the white of an egg. This gives it a waterproof coating that will last for some time and prevents the oil from stain- ing the hands or clothing. Have the leath- er perfectly olein before oiling. An exobange says that the Hollanders could teach Americans something about dairy terming. Good Dutch sows are held at $160 each, ' and are kept on land which often bridgs a larger yearly rental than would buy good improved American farms outright, and yet these Hollanderspay rent and make money besides. They area thrifty people, and know a good oow when they see her. THE GREATEST LIBEL SOT. 'flee ran Mall Gazette es,jects. The Pali Mali Mall Gazttte, oommenting on the action of Mr. Parnell in bringing grit agniust The London Times in the Scot- iah Courte, says:—"Mr. Parnell', trick seems to please his supporters and has dis- quieted his foes, but it resembles playing fast and loose, and we doubt whether it will do ite contrivers any good. If Mr. Parnell has discovered the forger who planned the letters published by The Times, then it len° trick but the execution of a determination long avowed. But his admin. era' ground for a plaase is on the trick whish will bedevil the Commission of In, quiry entirely. If the is Mr. P.a}rnells object it is a false move, and Mr. Parnell -has .changed front in the face of the eneniiy, which is, dangerous. The tardy adoption of a course which he refused to take when ittwould_havebeen weird to his F'eglieh allies will nob be understood. The commission will proceed with thee work and Mr. Parnell cannot arrest it.. if he refuses to testify before It, he will harm nobody so muoh as himself. Astor. Parnell's case. stands 11e has no motive to hold hie Magee but to chA tinge inquiry." %W> Liens erFCIFlsri. The Tribune's cable letter has the follow- ing ; h'#r, Peen saes The Times on the lettere and on The Times' artiolea relating to them. Nothing is alleged, and it will be certe.i sly doffs :alt for The Times to go mate other °bargee against Mr. Parnell. The libels ceinplaaned of are, first, The Tinea' assertion that he said Mr. Burke, when murdered in Phoenix Perk, k, got no more than his deserts ; second, that he urged Mr. Egan to murder 3i'r. Foster; third, that he gave Franck Byrne money to escape to Preece. The Tinraes, both yesterday avd to -day, writes; in a tone which indtcatoa surprise end vexation that the action should have been brought ire Scotland and brought, ill this form, 1# yea were going to sue The Timoa why did you not sue beforeI' say Mr. Permit's opponents, whom he donna net take the trouble to answer. There are Liberal friends of hie, who say that if he meant to take this .step he ;night have given these ew hint. Many ef them argued .se the Rouse Qf C4mtnons that he coeld not do what he has now donne. One or two Liiberel papers object rather etrougly to bis proudpra emu.* These points, however, are not the Main paints, except so for es they relate to the commiasion and to Mr. Parnell's sup. posed intention of,asking the commission to delay action became of the Scotch atilt. There was, es I long since said, a elute when he might have prevented the appoint. recut of a coanmiasien byy. brining an actions. It is oat at all likely tinct the action wilt now have any influence whatever is the pproceeding before the throe judges, Sir damns Hann, 1 beers dislikes the teak before him, but will go through, le to the end and precisely as if politics had nothing to do with the matter. Sham Antiques. Now that the thane is aPpcosching when the mummer resorts of Ilritanny and N'or. mandy will be patronized by sleeken after fresh sir, it is well, the Perim correspondent of the London Telegr'aplt remake, to draw attention onto Ipore to an old subject. Among the Fugiisb, am well as Wrench, vial. tore to ouch platen every year there are nu. morons entiquarlane, co leo'ora of ceramiee, and those whom the Ant iiotan hnmorbia facetiously called "` 424,1, '" Now the =imitate or rather i ` to ors, sof the "Black Band" are as numerous as ever in Primo, and they still take *diabolical and profoesional delight IA ontrapping unwary antiquarian tourists by offering sham curio,, artielos of vertu, pottery, coins, and mediate for eele, These people cunningly distribute reputed antique bedateade, chairs, ballets, medallions, and pottery -wart is old farm houses neer watering places. The guides, hotel touts, villagers, and 'similar folk are told to sound the praieca of these things in the ear of the tourist, who is flattered and delighted at the prospect of being able to pick up a hit of genuine old' china, .a rococo cabinet, a jar of "Old Gant? and perhaps a buckler of javolin owned bykone of Cream's ligionaries. Tho diplomatic guide or tont is never gushing about the eatiquitioa; but he generally ;insinuates inan offhanded, distant kind of way that he, knows or has heard. of some old woman liting leagues off who had kept anoh things it her family for years. Tae amateur anti uarian goes to the bonne Mere, who showsim her celiac - tion and narrates their Mary; how tbey were heirlooms from her mother, who had been in the chateau of a local magnate. mad had hidden them at the time of the nook - tion, and soon. Of comae,' the Lonna -mitre could not, on any account; part with the things ; but, as monsieur is so pressing she has no objection to letting him have some of them at a fair price. The amateur then goes on to bid for the articles, and finally departs with half a dozen od platea, a cou- ple of jugs, or a rusty jevelip, deeming him- self lucky to have found his curios himself. Next day the bric•a brac delaler from Paris receives notice of the sueceif ul sale, and he at once proceeds to pocket the pelf, to pay the usual percentage to all hie confederates, and to replace the curiosities sold to the in- nocent and unsophisticated stranger by others. Thus the trade in the sham an- tique, pee on from year to year, and, des- pite exposures, there are still numerous vic- tims annually. "Men usually marry their opposites," said Cholly, reflectively. "That is true," said the old man, a little surprised at Cholly a un- usual brilliancy. "All the married mean I know have married members of the opposite sex." " I mean," said Cholly, " that a tall man is apt to marry a short woman, and vice versa ; I wonder what kind of a woman I will marry 1" And the old man opined that he would marry a girl with some sense. Not only do French milliners perfume their artificial flowers, bat the custom among fashion Ieaders of adopting one particular flower and, using its corresponding perfume, has lost none otitis prestige. French flowers are still perfumed with.theodor of the blos- soms they so wonderfully and perfectly Pine tate, and this season the delicate and exquis- itely fragrant trailing arbutus is used as a corsage bouquet, the artificial flowers being most minutely copied from nature's early herald of spring. These ,pink -tinted blos- soms are perftimod with the subtle and dainty odor which belongs to the natural flower. FOB Aldi/ AB$1UT WOMEN.. Carl He' Sams Can your boy awint No 1 Then do not trust him in any sort of boat untli he boa learned the art, and feels as much ot ,home in the water as upon dry land, Yon might just as well end hien out alone into acrowd- ed street before he has learned to Walk. Ile might possibly creep *log all right, and race* home alive, or somebody might .pick him up and care for him, but the chances would not be in his favor. So in boating; the boy who cannot swim tray gget along very comfortably for a while, and not gutter from thipdefect in his education, but that/me will assuredly come when he will have cause to bitterly regret it, It le one of the ramp. lest things is the world, too, and can be learned in, three or four ioteliigeptly direct- ed lessons, sash as can be had in any city swimming murder from the experts iii any country village. By ell means talk swim to yourboy before you talk boat, and stipulate a, erre of the conditions of his having *boat, that be 'hall first be able to swim a quarter of a mile without resting, Weems Wtio Nnvax Rise. tc undeestand what rest—real rest -..means, To throw ones self dorm with a newspaper or a book is not rest; it is only a change of occupatien. To sit down end keep the Angora flying over some sore of fancy wort, As 1f one were pursued by a demon of wariest, 18 certainly not .reit, fiat to lie at loll length oa a bard endue, amen extended at the aides, head back, with rant pillow, eraclosed, all urea and worries diamisased --tbisis reet;thiawill smooth away wrinkles ha face sad in temper; to, will gine aaia air of repoee ie the tired, aulsioua. norvouaa WORM; thin vrllt take away messy era mho anal wtraighten oast rowtded *boulder* awed craned out nuke. l:uglisb girls who are famous walkers are taught to lie shwa for a few seeonda when- ever they coarse In frown their tramps. If Canadians would lure the value of lying dowel frequently. say two or Three timeis a day, they would have as Inert go alacad and peter to go ahead as they are now femme for. The ll[Qtrket. for Cat► ta* Pre' ducts. A great change, however, hers amerce in the proportiee, taken by 'soh country. In 1868 we exported to the Vetted Sates) 61 per cent., stud to Great Britain at. per cent. Ily 18.8.7 the ewe countries had, on, tirelly charged phots as•buye a of oar feria produo a, ' Great Britain taking 60 per vent, and the United States 35, per cent.. Thin change is the more remarkable from the fent that in Petal; ,articles our exports to the Hutted States show a marked tucreaeo, es, for assume, in e,;ge, which increased Erose, $206.009 is 186$ to $1,822,C00 in 1887. .00 in horses, wbioh inoreased from $0,8,a, 658 1868 to ,$2,214.000 in 1887. lodged, ,gat. wathstondlug the high duties imposed by the United States with a view to abselutely "*- chiding nearly every desarigtioon pf Camelfaa fermproduota,thepeopleof the iIoitedStetes, have been .obliged to bay the whale rum of anal prodtzetaa 28 per oeut. more frorn Cana- da is 1881 than they slid twenty years, butthfs i, a i gtetle ae compared with the . crease of agar ferip exports to Great Britain. Every.thing we ofd 1n the Es $14.h . goes in team Of duty, sad here the increa,e of purchea►es of car Perm products is the twenty years ihaa been 200 parent, Wetter* timers Baa,greatAs theittcresse of perohasee Stets,* by the United StatGreat B*nomnow bey* 2s.1 milli:cm of dollars' worth a year , the Visited States only 154 million dollar, wcrth. Daring the twenty yea* of Co1r= federation Great Britain; has purchased trent Canada 8341,00.0.003 worth ef form pees ducts, the. Waited States $ f,400,0QO worth. This g t icemen of solea to Brits eines rendered more noteworthy by the fact that fn the idMO five aura of the twenty temUnited States besight 85e neilliorts worth more than Great l',rkale,sue . concha. aivoly the veer inporrasn:s et cherish the. Britiath market in purforence to ali others. A Tiny LASS in Court. • There is a mut quarrel in Detroit as 10 who shall be galardiaa of little Mery3fiddls. top. i'resnn uably elle lams a fortune, tact the Detroit papers haven't suforinnod us on that point, Sara .the "Journal";-- The case WAS up again berm judge Bre. volt thhL (I,'haredey) sow. "The evi- d nes is contradictory and bewildering,"sadd, the Judge. "and I will justly conclude the unhappy dalesuma in which I are placed by learning whom the child favour* as : guar, dian. Little Mary WAS brought up for the Judge, and as he stroked her hair with his hand he, earned hes whether else desired #a go wttlb her etepaatather or her graandaeether. " Well, I don't bum," else repUad. "gl I Icvea my msxn:naaa I love. ilio baby, sad I leaves grana ma. " But doni'tyeu know which onoycotwant to go with?„ asked the lodge. " l went to live with metems,ranggtssa'aaa,. and the baby bath," replied 'Use amt freed little out, "D3 you mind reStO nut" "Not always," 1be replied, "but I Mee to, and feel tray it I tlou't, Bat I fardels. ssonuetlmes. I love manna, graan'ma and the baby.. Oat wanta ria to go wit tier, and the w other ants mo too. 1 don't know what to do." And she looked perplexed,. replloa put Judie Brevoort in* greet- er gaudery titan beim. Bale mush ca of the child and are peots of odesfor her. Judge Brevoort will Betide later Many women paver reel , They aunt not THE PRINCESS OF Weirs`.'°APii. The Princess of England whose complex- ion fe not only the daunt, but who leas best stood the wear and tear of time, takes her morning plunge regularly, and in water fairly colas but else fB partieutarly careful ter promptly make use of the tleeh brush, eying gloves of moderate raugghereat rapidly over the surface of the body, and, dually, the rough towel in a quick, gemmed nth, weepy. beg both for the beds and this massa, if one may eall it such, twenty amnutee ill all. At night the .Scram lady's bath iia prepared tepid and el distilled water, the admirable advantage of which is net properly wessr• stood. liverypa cle et foreign matter i, ,emceed tram distilled. wxter, so that it la absolutely pure, It coats about twelve cents per gallas, and (Ms be used, a quant at a bate, for quick gouge bath, with ad. suitable effect, eepeaially wizen combined with a little glycerine and rose water. INFERIORITY ON THE STERNER SEX. "A woman will take the smallest draw- ls). a baron for her own prirato use, and will store us it dafsty fragaaenta of ribbon, scraps of lace, foamy ruffles, velvet tbiega for the nook, bundles of old love -letters, pieces of jewellery, handkerchiefs, fans, and things that no man known the name; all sorts ot fresk•booking, bright little ar- ticles that you could not catelogu . column ; and at any time elm can go tot m drawer and pick up Anything else. Inerso as a man, having the liigl'eat, deepest, aria widest drawer aasigueed to him, will put ice to it a couple of tooka, a collglar-box, an old necktie, two handkerchiefs, a pipe and a pair of asnspenders, and to save his life he cant shut the drawer without keying more ends sticking out than there me pieces in. st," Such are the sober, wine reflections of our esteemed contemporary the Strouds. burg "Times." SOUND Runes J?aiz A WO11A:n'8 LINE A New Hampshire woman, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday, having' pre- pared every article of foodwith hor own hands, upon being asked how she had kept beraeif so vigorous, replied a...+* Be never Allowing myself to freb over things I cannot help; by taking a nap, sometimes two, every day of my life ; by never taking my washing, ironing, and baking to bed with' me, and by oiling all the various wheels of a bray life with an implicit faith that there' is a brain and heart to this great universe, and that I could truer them both.' Sounder rules could not be framed. Many a woman would be happier and live logger through adopting them. The Telephone Sharpens the Bearing. "The idea that a person's hearing is im- paired by the constant use of the telephone is ridiculous," said General Manager Plush, of the Bell C., yesterday. "I see a profes- sor inBerlin has laid claim to having discov- ered what he calls 'telephone deafness,' but it is my candid opinion that be is looking for public notoriety. Come upstairs and talk to the uirls yourself." The reporter walked up a flight of atairs and passed into a room where a score of girls were sitting in front of switchboards and operating tables. What the manager said wee fully concurred in by several of the young ladies who were spoken to. "I have been working in this office for three years," said one girl, "and I feel quite sure that my hearing has improved since I came here. I can distinguish the faintest sound on the wire, or anywhere else, and I have a great deal of fun sometimes listen- ing to the conversations of people who think I am not within hearing distance. I have never had any trouble with my ears, and'a doctor who was treating me a short time ago said the gentle current of electricity that passed into the ear was highly bene- ficial." An eminent specialist in diseases of the eye and ear told the reporter that a gentle current of electricity couli not fail to be of benefit to any of the human func- tions. It is good for rheumatism, and when applied to the ear it makes the tym- panum more acute, and has a tendency to put greater life and vigor into the brain. �� Small boy—Say, pa 1 teacher said to. day Study hard, boys, time flies." Father— Very true my son. Small boy—Well, and a little while after he said, "time leaves footprints." Now, pa, how can " Time" leave footprints if it flies Y Coffee Among the Arabs. The great event of the visit is the coffee. The host has a kind of brazen -*hovel brought, is which he route the bean,; theca he takes a peetle attd mortar of the ask of Ba°ban, and with hie own buds he paueds it to powder, making the bard oak ring fortis a among of weleomo to the guest. Many of these pestles and mortara am heirlooms, and aro risibly ornamented and beautlfuailjr black and polished by age and use; sea h was the one in question. Raving drunk cafes (far the honored guest the cup la filled three times), you are quite safe in the hand, of the moat murdoraua. So far do they carry this sapsrathion tbat a map who had murdered another fled to the dead man's father, and before he know what had happened drank coffee. Presently friends came so, end, as they were relating the news to the bereaved father, recognized the murderer crouched beside the fire. They instantly demanded vengeance. "No," said the father, it cannot be; he bee drunk coffee. ani ha, thus become to mow myaon." Had las not. drank coffee tho father world never have resteduntilhe had dyed his hands in his blood. As it was, itis said he further gave him biz' daughter to wife. The Cobden Club. So multi* written about the Cobden Club and ite baleful influence upon American poli- tica, says the New York "Herald," that it Is well to remember tnat James A. Garfield and other conspicuous Republicans were members The Cobden Club fa devoted to free trade. et dines annually, and has a small publication fund to supply tracts and broadsides. This represents its motorial existence. So far as providing money to subsidise American newspapers is concerned, we take it that its managers have about as much as they oan do to taise the money for their annual dinner. The Cobden Club al- ways seemed to us to be a kind of withal admiration society, composed of leg neatens people, free of access to foreignerswhowauld pay entrance fee. And this is probably the reason why Garfield, who was an easy going fellow, and his fellow -Republicans joined. His Excuse. There are often wise and true sermons in• the utterances of children, and there is e great truth for us all in the fallowing excuse written by a little colored boy who had been absent from sohooI for a day "DEAR AMOTIONATELY TxAO$BR.—I'se sorry 1 couldn't come to school on Friday, but I couldn't 'cause it rain, and dat's de way it go in dis world. If ee Lord shot de door, no man can open de door. If de Lord say, 'Open de door,' no man :can shut de door. If de Lord say, 'It rain,' no man oan stop it rain. But de Lord, Ie do all things well. And you oughtn't to growl about it." Mrs. Wiggins (in edulously)-And do you mean to say that although you've been married a year your husband has never once alluded to bis mother's cooking t Mrs. Yonngwife—Never, Charlie's folks at.. ways lived at hotels, you know.