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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-9-11, Page 3FACTS FOR FARMERS, The NOM E00110My Ptaotieed the Bigger Will be the Profits, • ..... a ill ••• nozKegriNci FOETHE l'AHM. Bot,e0 of Interest and Importance Which ahead be Reed by All. Hoop Down Expenses. The profitaderived is that sum left over facm the gross receipts after all the en- peneea have been deducted, and the more economy practised the smaller the expenses, and consequently there is a Zorreepondingly larger profit. There are seasone of the year when it is difficult to curtail expenses, but farmer sometimes lentil upon themselves expenses that may be avoided by using discretion. To retain that which entails of itself an expense is to add to the expense itself, and to endeavor to do more than the capacity of the farm permite as to add expense by curtailing the productive power of those things that are more largely depended upon to afford a profit. Such is the case when the land is taxed ti perform a service—that of pro. lancing a crop—without being supplied with the proper amount of manure or fertilizer, the expense of labor required to secure a atop from land so treated being sometimes equal to that necessary for the seeming of . abundant yields. Datitig the summer season all expenses are lessened to a certain extent, as the Mock go to the food in the pasture, seek the water required, and need less attention to protect from the weather, while in the winter the food and water must be nip - plied at the barn. This handling of the ood, and the necessary management of took te so math expense that must be in- curred on all farms, but to economize in that direction the farmer should keep only the stock neoestary to consume, and there- by convert into meat, butter and milk the foods which are beat salable in those forms. To retain something that does not produce him a profit is to incur an expense, and to be content with the produce of one-half of the flock or herd, instead of demanding the hall quota from all, or to compel the profit- able stock to support that which is unpro- fitable, which doubles the expense to the termer and also reduces his profits to that extent. As the summer plieseti away and the i gold Reason begins t must be kept in view that each animal must consume a greater proporsion of food, and the reduction of expense must be made by reducing the number of animals, culling out all that do not give prospect of immediate profit. Mapenses may be reduced also by plowing the laud and hauling out manure at such seasons when it can be done advanta- geously, instead of waiting until pressing work is in the wty ; and expenses may be reduced by seeding down unofoupied land with rye, to be plowed under in the spring. There is no economy in dispensing with necessary stock or tools, or omitting labor That should be applied, but everything for whiter may be made ready in advance with a view to have all expenses reduced to a minimum, and in every direction. Now is the Time to Sell. Now lathe best time to dispose of the poorer of your farm animals. They have pre- suanablybeen on good pasture and are ;a good cooffition, and have been put he that con- dition by very cheap food. The pastures have already begun to deteriorate, and from this On more expansive feed only will be available. The chances are that even with a liberal supply of feed the poorest animals will scarcely hold their own ; cer- tainly et will not pay to feed theta from ibis time on, much less to shelter them during the winter. They will net you more elowthem at any other time.When you -mull, cull hard. Assort out not only the worst, but all but the best. Why handle any but the most profitable when there is not any law prohibiting your having the most profitable? Prevention Better Than Cure. It will require twice as much food to re- place a pound of lost flesh as to retain it. Animate too often loose flesh at this sateen, because of the scant pasture or scant drink. If a green fodder crop has not been grown to reinforce the pastures at this time, a serious mistake has been made and it will be better to cut some of the feed zeorn than to allow the animals to lose Beale. An abundant supply of pure, cool water ie needed. Better far dig another well than to allow the animals to want for water, or to drive them a mile through the tot sun to some near stream or spring. Keeping Farm Accounts. I want to suggest to your readers what I believe would lead to a very profitable and interesting result. If a number of farmers wontri each provide himself with a blank book and keep an account expense and pro, duct with each field he cultivates, charging it upon a page of its own, with all cost of cultivation, just of he would charge a man or a stranger, and include interest on the value of the field, and all taxes, cost of ham vesting and preparation for mamma and then upon the opposite page credit the field with the value of its product, and so with each field of hie farm, keeping a true and strict amount, he would soon, at least in a few years, know Mat how ranch it would zest towline a bushel of wheat, cove or oats or ton of hay, and which crop hes the most money in it. The publication of a few of these results would be a very good guide to tether farmers, and a useful mirror for a farmer to examine hie own performance in. —Practical Farmer. No Mortgages. Don't mortgage the farm to borrow money to lend again, expecting to make a few dollars' profit by exorbitant interest, or to buy a carriage'or a fast horse, or a piano, or fine furniture, or to buy more land. But for a pure bred bull to improve the herd, for a portable creamery, to drain the wet pastures, to buy the best haying machinery, to build a comfortable barn, to mecum a supply of pure water, or to add a summer kitchen and a winter wood shed to the house, you may borrow safely, if you will only refrain from spending until the debt is paid. , Better Than Gold. The best wealth is the fertility of the soil. The country that largely imports ertilizers and plant food will Maximo graanelly wealthy, and the time will come when snob country will have more for sale Than she can consume. Fertilizers are mote lasting and permanent than goldt and can be drawn woe tot a return when everything else fails. The same applies to the individual farmer. The richer hie soil The greater hid resorces and the more secure hi is nvestment, Get a Fodder Cutter. No farmer can afford to be without fodder cutter, and where 10 head of stook are kept, a horse power grinding mill would be a good investment. Once upon a, time, where 6 oxen and 4 horses Were fed, the use of a cutter and a milt flayed one.third of the hay and grain the firee winter. TWO waa eqnal to the feeding of oxen and 4 homes fee nothing, Eittolo Wring maketathe difference between profit and lots. Agricultural (otee. CoW0 need salt regularly, particularly in a rainy time. Remove the imam from all trees as they rob the tree0 ot nouriehneent. Neither clover nor gran should be Bat- tered to get too rips before cutting. An old farmer says nine times out of ten it pays beet to wall any crops as soon as ready for market. One advantage of ducks is that they are easily fed, and nothing disagrees with them if it lei sweet. Wheat is one of the best foods or hens to promote laying, as wheat contains a larger per cent. of albumen than any other grain. Grass that is cut by the lawn -mower is excellent for the hens, and may be mired and stored away for winter use for that purpose. 'Charcoal in some form and lime should always be kept convenient where the fowls can help themselves, especially during the spring and summer. An exchange suggests that many insects which are trait pests, or would be another season, can be destroyed by turning thu hogs in the orchard as soon as the insect. stung apples begin to drop off. There are no beets BO good for the table as those intended for that parpcse. Grow- ing the varieties intended for stook, with the view of using them on the table, is a mistake. The large manatees are too coarse and tough. Small, knotty fruit of any kind is a non• paying article It is better to grow a dozen berries to make a pint than to grow fifty. With grape ii, remember that ten bunches weighing fifty pounds will sell better than twenty bunches making the same weight. A dairyman claims that two ounces of salt per day to each cove increased the but- ter product one-fifth, which indicates that a loss may ocour by the failure to supply some inexpensive essential, though the farmer may be feeding liberally -and giving his animals the beat of care otherwise. It is estimated that some grain crops will take up as much as five hundred tons of water in one day on one acre of land. This is an enormous quantity, and teaches the importance of keeping the surface of the ground well cultivated, as a loose top soil prevents loss of moisture by evapora- tion. The roots of plants go down low into the soil and bring the water to the surface. The practice of 'allowing grass and weeds to grow in the corn rows after the ears are formed is nowise. The corn land should be kept clean until the crop is harvested. Every weed that grows robs the corn of just that proportion of plant food and prevents larger ears and heavier grain, as well as distributing the seeds for a crop of weeds next season. As a sheep dip the following is recom- mended by a breeder: Add forty pounds of soft soap to ten gallons of boiling water, and while bailing add one pound of carbolic acid. This may then be thinned down with 100 gallons of cold water. The quantity is sufficient for dipping toventy.five sheep. Nothicg is better to prevent loss of ammonia from the manure heap than soapsuds. Keep the heap well satierated, rine make holes in the heap so tiara soap- suds ecu pass down to the bottom of the heap. Chemical action is facilitated, but there are formations of salts that pre- vent lose. A crop of weeds removes from the soil as much f the elements of fertility as a crop of grain, and exhausts the land just no quickly. Do not grow weeds. Plow them under as soon as they take possession of the land, by which process they are returned to the soil from whence they came. Kerosene is fatal to all kinds of insects, and for that reason it is frequently used as a preventive of damage by the oaf .ge worm. An objection to its use is that the kerosene impregnates the cabbage with its odor. The remedy is am:obnoxious as the work of the. cabbage -worm. Remove all surnins heney me the close of the honey season if intended for market. Comb honey will become solid if left on the hives during the summer. The upper stoliee or surplus chambers should be left on the hives throughout the hot weather and until feeding is done in the fall. Look out for late swarms The bees may be lacking in stores and are liable to swarm out and leave. They must be sup- plied with boney or united with other colonies. Also look out for queenless colonies at this time of the season. If colonies are left queenless any length of time robbers will destroy them, The Shoes of the London3Swell. The exquieites have arrived at a fresh understanding about their. soles. Boots, spats and other covering for the feet have given place to dainty shoes. With his feet encased in a pair of brilliant' patent pumps" the man of taste who, by the bitterness of fate has to remain hi town manages to loll through the sultriness of August in a tolerably cool condition. His shoes are tied with black ribbon in a broad bow and his trousers are so arranged that the bow shall be fully displayed. This is clearly a prelude to the reintroduo- tion of silver buckles. The man of taste will not be content for long to gaze at a merely black bow. He will want a grace- ful buckle and we may yet live to see the boys wearing diamonds on their shoestrings. —London Court Journal. A Sensitive Man. "What's the matter, Bronson? Feel faint ?" "No. Why?" "You leaned back and shut your eyes." "Oh, that's nothing. I hate to see a woman standing in a horse car. That's all." Her Case Not atopeless. Damsel (looking for compliments)—No, lieutenant; I'm not coming to the hop to. morrow night, for Capt. Judson tells me there's to be a pretty pal there from Balti- more, and there will be no chance for poor me. Gallant but Experienced Officer—Oh, do come. I don't like pretty girls. --Life. Getting Assistance. "This is my garden," said Willie, " and that's Tommy's." You shouldn't let the chickens run over yont garden in that way." " Oh, it won't hart much," put in Tommy. " We're raisin' egg -plants." The Princess Marie Leonie, eldest daugh. ter of Prince Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, is about to tnarty a simple lieutenant in, an infantry regiment, of no rank ot for. flue. The Prince of Wales is mid to be a vette good landlord at Sandringham. Although the Prince is note& teetotaler and does not seek to make his dependents Ouch, there is no public house on the estate. The peas. ant's cottages are of a model kind, our, rounded by pretty gardens. A LITTLE GREEN GARD. Row it triceps 14 Watch on Carless Letter Carriers. There 10 a little green card in use by the post -office department that is a terror to some of the more osrelese letter carriers. It is a terror Only when they have once been eaneht. Very seldom, indeed, are they (taught the second time. The carats dropped in a letter box, and on it is marked the time it was pat in and also the time it should be taken out by the carrier. A record is kept by the chief of the oerriers, and if that little oard does not turn up with the other mail with which it is due, it is clearly to be seen that the carrier has not taken the mail from that particular box. The object, of coupe, is to test the re- liability of the oatriers. Where there is any complaint on the part of the citizens about the tardiness of local mails then a little green card is dropped in one or more boxes in the diatriot from which the complaint comes. Sometimes it shows carelessness on the part of the carrier and sometimes it does not. It is, however, not necessary that there should be complaints, for frequently the cards are put in the boxes of the most efficient men. Of course they are happy when they dim cover them. But where a box is missed in which there is a green card, then the carrier is bound to get into trouble, and very serious trouble at that. This card has been in use by the post office department for a good many years in ell parts of the country. They were first used in this country under the administra- tion of Postmaster Huidekoper. They are furnished by requisition upon the depart- ment at Washington.—Philadelphia Times. An American LL.D. A correspondent writes to a contempor- ary: Considerable amusement was created in a Scotch police court when a sweep about to give evidence in a ease of assault, was asked hie name and replied: "Dr. Thomas Macleod." "Doctor !" ejaculated the sheriff, e doctor of what ?" "I dinna ken," the begrimed individual answered, " but I'm what they ca' an LL.D., and that, folks say, is mnakle the same thing." "Well," asked the court, scarcely able to maintain its gravity, "how did you acquire each a distinguished academical honor ?" "Wed, sir, it was like this. A Yankee chid that was agent for yin o' the colleges in his sin country cam tae bide hereaboots wi' his family for the summer. I soopit his three lame thrice, bat dell a bawbee could I get oot o' him. As day I yokit emir at the crater for the tiller, an', says he, 'Weel, Tammas, I'll make an LL.D. a' ye, an' that will pit us even.' I just took him at his offer, as there seemed to be naething else for't. I've gotten my diplomay framed at hams, an' I can tell ye, sir, a bcany picture it mak's."—Kirkcaldy (Scotland) Mail. Great Britain's Silver Coinage. In the silver coinage in Great Britain last year the chief demand was for half- crown pieces to the value of £601,495, and for £451,806 in crowns. No " fourpenny- bits"—ssve &few for the ancient "Maundy" —were struck. The " fourpenny" indeed has been doomed for years, but the "three- penny" is still highly popular—witness the item of over £1,000 supplied in the form of this little coin "to private persons," and that although private applicants for this, coin were up to the end of last year referred to a °amain London bank which held a stock of these coins in excess of its requirements. Crowns and double florine were freely asked for by the larger em- ployers of labor, who find them eonvenient for the payment of wages. The extraor- dinary demand for silver is officially attri- buted to the revival of trade, in the United Kingdom. The coinage of florMs, shillings and sixpences reached the respective totals of £297,356, £351,981, and £218,473, and tbe vale of the threepenny -pieces issued amounted to £57,393. The bronze coinage amounted to 268,474. A New Anwsthetic. I am told that discovery has been made of a new local drog for producing anm3thesia of the skin. The discovery is said to be due to a German medical man, who had intended bringing his investigations and results in connection therewith before the international Medical congress no sitting at Berlin. This, however, was found to be impossible, and some time will yet have to elapse before the profession can be made acquainted with the namelend properties of the new drag. That the introduction of such a drug will be hailed with immense gratification by doctors is conceivable enough. At present there is no preparation the propeitiee of which are such as to render the akin insensible merely by local application, and yet in the performance of minor operations nothing would be more useful.—London Correspondence Manchester Guardian. Slaughter On the Railroads. From the second annual report on the statistics of railroads it appears that in this country one passenger in each 1,523,- 133 was killed, and oae in each 220,024 was injared, while in England the rate was one in each 6,942,336 killed, and one in 527,577 injured. The real burden of fatalities does not, however, rest upon passengers, but upon employees. On American railroads one out c,e each 367 of the latter was killed, and one out of each 35 injured, while among the train meet the ratio was one out of 117 killed, and one out of 12 injured. Surely the day will come when this reck- less we Ste of human life will be checked by an intelligent use of safety appliances. The Longest Word. A word on another subject: An inquiry recently appeared in your columns as to the longest word in the English language. Here it is : '4 Honorificiabilitudinity." The word is given by Nathaniel Bailey in his English dictionary, published about 1721, with the definition "honorableness."—A. D.S. in the New York Sun. The woman teachers of Germany,besides a great pension association, have had an insurance sooiety of their own for the last six years. For a monthly fee of 25 cents a member can' in case of sickness, draw a a2.50 weekfor 13 week, and for the same period again after an interval of six weeks. Over a2,000 has been paid out. Women between 18 and 45 years old who have a doctor's certificate of good health are ad- mitted. The society has a good surplus and is thinking of reducing the fee except when an unusual amount of sickness occurs. Miss Minerva Parker, a Philadelphia architect, has been picked out by the exec). utive committee of the women's depart- ment of the World's Fair to draw plans for the Qaeen Isabella pavilion to be eroded on the grounds of the women's department. The loquacious man is not alway0 stool; he may be talking to keep from hearing other people talk. It is about as absurd for a person to yen. lure MO deep water without knoirring how to swim as it would be to jump off the roof of a house without knowing how to fly. —With clocks Mt every aide watohea are no longer regarded as essential% A WORZem tealtaMietalla -- Iwo Oxegou Panthers Flat to the Death For a Pioneer's Benefit. I leave often wondered what hindered the cougars from being very plentifal. They are naonarehe of the woods, and are very ely, with plenty of game and cattle to live on. This spring I was talking with an old. crawl' (a man who bunts for timber and good land claims), who had followed the business for the test twenty years in Oregon and this State. He never takes a gun, but (tarries only a blanket and a small axe. lie related that one night when he was camping in the bead of a ravine, about dark, he heard a cougar scream on one of the ridges and this one was answered by another on the opposite ridge. They kept working to- ward the head, until finally they came together Battle 300 yards above him in some quaking aspen; and such scow and racket as they made he had never heard before. They rolled down within 100 yards of him; and he says that he was pretty well soared; but he kept up a big fire mid stayed behind that. They quieted down in a cenple of hours, and the next morning, when it was light enough, he went on to the battle geound. He found one of them lying there dead, all out and torn to pieces. It was a very large one. Four days afterward, as he was coming back the same way, some 500 yards from where he had found the first one he had stumbled upon the other one, dead. This, too, was all out and torn as the first had been. At another time, in Oregon, he heard a big fight going on, but did not go to see the results. He was stop- ping one night with an old Indian who had hunted and trapped all his life, and was telling him about the fight when the Indian said that that was the way when two old males met ; one or the other was killed, and very often both; and that whenever the male would find the young ones and the mother absent be would kill the last one of them, but if the mother were with them the would keep him off, That must be the reason that the mother goes with the young until they are nearly two years old. They say that all the cat kind will kill their young. We know that this is so with the domestic oat —Forest and Stream. The Pitiless Barber. One of the perplexing problems of life to the man who cannot handle a razor upon his own face is the unreasonable and aggravating habit which the average barber has of rubbing soap into his victim's chin until the skin is in a state of irritation and the bone aches with the pressure of mus- cular fingers. The barber says that the process renders the hair soft, but at this point science takes issue with him and says that the skin alone is affic led. The victim groans, changes barbers in vain, and finally settles down to the conviclon that be must endure this barbarous massage or let his beard grow. The process seems to be a more tradition, a sort of trade fetich, and no amount of persuasion will induce the opera -Ler to exchange his harsh fingers for the mom gentle brush, unless the victims form an association for the protection of the chin or the amelioration of its suf- ferings. Money Spent for show. Ten thousand carriages in Central Park have a coachman and footman. At leaat 5,000 more have a coachman. Twenty- five thousand people ride there simply to wait on the rich, to minister to the luxury of the opulent. Ten thousand of these people are lackeys. The gorgeous end im- pressive uniforms—tall hats, rosettes, top boots, buttons—of the coachmen and lackeys are furnished by the owners of the carriages. They boy uniforms for the coachmen and lackeys just as they buy harness for the horses, and the cost is shout the same. The uniforms cost about $150 per carriage. For the 5,000 more modest turnouts, with a plain, old-fasbioned coachman, the uniform costs about $30. It costs $1,500,000 to make the coachmen and the lackeys look like monkeys. It costs $150,000 more to dress up the old- fashioned coachmen. The aggregate is $1,650,000.—New York Journal. Men's Corsets. The men who wear corsets and the cor- sets men wear are points of interest to men who don't, and to women, of course. The corset, which is said to be becoming more and more a necessity of the fashionable man's toilet, is about ten inches wide and looks more than anything else like an extra large belt curved for the hips. They are finished in the same material as women's core -eta, but whalebones are need instead of steel. They are laced at the back and fiend in front by eleven small elastiobands. The men who wear corsets are fashionable club naeo, ambitions of being known for their handsome figures; military men and stout men of middle age who find that their waists are getting ahead of their other dimensions. Actors also often wear corsets, the habit in this case being con- tracted from and ministered unto by theatrical costumes. Burt His Dignity. Tramp (refusing some bread)—No, madam, I cannot accept your kind offer. My knowledge of the laws of health com- pels me to drew the line at that bread. Young Matron—The idea! Perhaps it isn't good enough for you. Well, what would the Lord High Duke like to have? Tramp (with dignity)—Madam, I may be a tramp, a loafer, a clead beat, a chicken thief, a scamp, or whatever you will have it; but I would like you to distinctly un- derstand that I am no foreign duke, prince or count. No, Ma'am. "What are you laughing at so ?" he asked, suddenly starting up in bed. The wife checked her laughter at once. " I couldn't help it, John. I dreamt I was a widow." The last report of the work of the" Slum Evangels" in London shows that the number of workers has increased from two to 80. They give their whole time to house-to-house visitations, to nursing the sick, feeding the hungry and doing gospel work. Though they were cooly received at first they have succeeded in winning a welcome from those among whom they labor. In one year more than 100 young women were reecued and 6,000 children were cared for. ODESITY is Da without its advantages under certain eironmetances. On Thursday a New York saloon keeper, weighing NO lbs., fell into the river at Staten Island. Any ordinary sized man, unable to swim, would have sunk and drowned, but IlOt so Schiffer. Elie enormous size and light specific gravity enabled him to float for an hour and a half till a passing boat towed him to a vessere side, when he was hoisted to the deck by means of a tackle trona the davits. A householder who kept strict account of family expenses for a period of 26 years says that the most annoying thing about it is the rapidity with which children wear out shoes. "rot ten years," he says, " has taken on an average one pair of shoes per week for the family (of four children), including myself and wife." vsiE Jew eleaa. TIGE. An tramitigated Nuisance to Unman Be - lugs and to Cattle. These tiny poste hang in swarms on the blades of grass, on the leaves and branches of trees, on the moat graceful ferns'sod en every green thing. The lady who bruthea her skirt against the verdure on the road- side, the planter wine is superiuteuding the work on his estate, equally with the negro laborer in the cane pieces or on the stock farm, are liable to be practically 'covered with ticks et any minute. Of course, people who are able to do so take every precau- tion to keep cleat of their attacks, and this may always be managed with more or less falOOSS8 ; but they are an evempres- ent source of worry and annoyance, and even if whole battalions can be avoided, no Imre can prevent the occasional inroad of single spies. And a tick, though only the size of a pin's head, is no despicable email - ant. He crawls, he bites, he burrows under the skin if he has time and oppor- tunity, and if he and his companions have a fair chance of working their wicked will, the result of the wounds whith they inflict may be very disagreeable, and, in some oases, alramit dangerous inflammation. Independently of the nuisance which they are to human beings, they cause serious mischief on the stock farms. Besides per- vadina and irritating the outer cuticle of each Individual of the herds, the cattle and especially the calves, take them into their mouths while grazing. Then they burrow under the skin of the tongue, palate and air passages, forming lumps and sorts, which, os mune, &stray condition, and, if not carefully attendee to, eventually choke the animal. In some pastures their presence is so marked thew cattle are known to re- fuse to go in willingly to graze, but have to be exceptionally forced to enter feeding grounds where so much pain and disoom- fort await them. It is supposed that ticks first made their way to the island on cattle imported from the Spanish main, bat though they have been long more or 1 -se known, it is only in comparatively recent times that they have thrust themselves into a bad notoriety. The direct Cause of their increase is the gradual disappearance of their natural enemies, which, if they did not exterminate the tiny parasites, rat least kept them within a reasonable limit. The first of these enemies were the bird tribes. To -day one of the ail; things that strikes a visitor is the remarkable absence of the bird Iffe which forms such a distinctive feature in most tropical countries.—Blackwood's Maga- zine. Divine Sanction for Labor Un'ons. Rev. F. W. Tompkins, jun., Christ Church, Hartford, Coon.: Jesus Christ not only established the dignity of labor, He taught the truth that labor is to be unself- ish. There the laborer finds the divine sanction for the principle of all unions and orders. I thank God for them all. Where to -day would workingmen be if they were not standing shoulder to shoulderinnentnal helpfulness and for one another's good? They teach that men are not to be arrayed one against another; that it is not all a push to the front and the devil take the hindmost ; they negative that horrible idea of competition. Lebo'. unions are blest of God because they are ordained of God through Jesus Christ in the idea of the brotherhood of man which He brought into the world. True, they sometimes become dangerous, yet where man combine to help each other they are itotiog, on the law which Christ gave. To Rouse a Tipsy Man. Officer Tom Wilson, of Si. Louis, tells the Globe -Democrat the best way to arouse a drunken man is to pinch him under the arm. " I was initiated into this secret of the trade several years ago, while patrol- ling a beat in the Fourth district. I found a drunken fellow lying across the track at Tenth and Morgan streets late one eight, and it seemed impossible to arouse him. I clubbed him over the soles of his feet and rolled and shook him, bat he lay as limp as a rag. Just then an old gentleman came along and suggested that I pinch him under the arms. The effect was electrical. I had him awake and fighting mad at once. On another occasion Sergeant Pierce tried the same experiment on a sot at the Fourth district station, who was delaying the Black Maria. The man stood it for a while, and then suddenly opened his eyes and dealt the sergeant a blow that would have felled an ox. The treatment is a dead sure thing—fetches them every time." Canadian 'Vital Statistics. While the population of France is prac- tically stationary, and in some parts is actually dwindling, the birth statistics in French Canadc, indicate a totally different condition of things. Among the descend- ants of the French settlers in the Dominion the birth-rate is exceptionally high. In illustration of this a curious circumstance is related in an official report. The Gov- ernment of Quebec recently provided that every father of a family having twelve or more children living should be entitled, tinder certain conditions of settlement, to 100 acres of land. Since the day appointed for receiving claims there have been no less than 547 duly proven applications, and fresh claims are coming in which, it is expected, will raise the total to between 700 and 800. Hot Water for Trees. Here is a pointer from Vick's Magazine to amateur horticulturists : " It is a for- tunate circumstance that a plant will en- dure a scalding heat that is fatal to most of its minute enemies. Water heated to the boiling point, poured copiously over the stem of an enfeebled peach tree, and allowed to stand about its collar, will often have the happiest restorative effects. Trees showing every symptom of the yellows have often been rendered luxuriantly green and thrifty again by this simple means. The heat is presumably too much for the fungus which had invested the vital layers of the tree immediately under the outer bark." HH Last Resort. Judge—Yon admit you have no means and no way of making a living, Bed so you are liable to become a charge on the public Tramp—I see now that there is nothing left for me to do but to marry. A Serious Guestior. Victim of railroad aceiaent—Doctor, do you think I can recover? Doctor—Certainly. Victim (eagerly)—Ilow much? Temperance' advocates are rejoicing over the fact that Blaine ii now a total ab- stainer. It is remarked that the list of public men who have joined the various temperance organizations of late years is a long one. At her wedding Dorothy Tennant were silveraeather shoes with diamond lettoklee. The new silver low shoes with Rhine stone buckles that have just come trom a London firm are known in the trade as the ',Doro- thy Tennant," ItaaataitalItiaterION INVENDISID. The recent edietti of the Rilealitte Gevera, neent against the Jews are exceptionally severe. It is ordered that in the future Jews Obeli teside Only in towns and not itt the country. No Jew will any longer be permitted to own land or even to farm land. To intensify the Severity of thee ediot, and widen its seep, the Government officials have included many hendreds of small towns in the category of couotry and expelled the Jews from those towns. Tees of thousands of souls will be thus rendered handout. Jews are no longer allowed to be in any way connected with mines or mining industry, nor even tO hold themes in any mine, The Jews will henceforth be practically debarred from partaking of any edueatiocal advantages, whether in wheels, gymnasia or waiver" Oita& Hitherte they have been allowed admission subject to the limitation that their number should not exceed 5 per cent. of the total number of students. Secret instructions have already been sent re- quiring the reduction of this small per- centage to still lower limits, and from many of the higher educational institutions all Jewish students have been expelled. The legal profession, in which heretofore a large number of Jews in Russia have achieved great snows, will in future be dosed to Jewish students. Jews are hence- forth prohibited from following the profes- sions of engineer or army doctor, or from filling any Government post, however subordinate. In the days of the Emperor Nicholas it was a subject of reproach to the Russian Jews that they were all traders and not producers. That reproach has since been wiped away, and now an enormous proportion have become skilled artisans, agriculturists, and professional men, all adding largely to the wealth of the empire. But under the new repressive laws all this communal progress is to be reversed, the artisan, the farmer and the professional man are all to be rained, and those who survive the persecution must become traders in the overcrowded towns. It is estimated that the total number of persons who will be expelled from their homes under the new law will not be far from one million. The consequent migra- tion and the congestion of the stoning fugitives in those cities where Jews will still be allowed to dwell will be so danger- ous, and possibra so pestilential in its results, that only one objeot can be con- templated by the instigators of theee per- secutions—namely, the total extermination of the four million Jews of Russia. John L. As An Actor. Actor John L. Sullivan, with his selected company of players, arrived in New York from New Haven on Sunday morning and spent the day rehearsing "Honest Hearts and Willing Hands," at Niblo's. It was dark when he left the theatre, and after a drive through the park the big fellow dined with a party of friends at the Vanderbilt Hotel. The play was discussed at length and John expressed himself as being highly pleased with it. "If we keep on doing the business we did in Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven " said he, " we'll simply have a barrel of wealth at the Mose of the season. Do I like acting? Well, I should say I did like it. Why, acting is simply a picnic alongside of fighting, We've got a fine company and we've put in a new revolving scene in the fourth act, which will knock 'em silly." "Have you replied to Kilrain's challenge of a week ago ?" the champion was asked. "No, anal don't intend to pay any at- tention to his future utterances," John re- plied. " He boasts that he can get back- ing for $10,000, but everybody knows that he couldn't find backing for half that amount in the whole world. Eilrain peed as cherapion once, but he won't do now. His game is played out, and the people have no farther use for him. Joe Lannon, who, in the character of "Fog " O'Brien, is knocked out at every performance, says that John L. is decidedly too natural in , he boxing scene. " He forgets sometimes that our fight is not really on the level, and I'm afraid i'll be put to sleep in dead earnest somenight," said Joe. Bare -Legged Highlanders. Highland soldiers, so famines in Scottish chivalry, are among the most prized of Her Majesty's army. Their uniforms are quaint and striking. The knees and a con- siderable portion of the legs are entirely bare, and they seem tette quite comfortable even when other men are shivering in pantaloons and overcoats. They say that when they are off on furloughs and for decency's sake wear pants they find them very disagreeable and cumbersome. A regiment of these Highlanders now occu- pies Belfast and is frequently seen on the etreets. 1 was told that when it. was first stationed there the Irish boys and girls made fon of the Scotch laddies with bare leas and kilts, but when the riots broxe out they found that the Highlanders were war- riors true and knew how to disperse a mob. —Cor. Pittsburg Press Do you sniffle 2" If not, why not? Everybody else doee. Now that Mr. Keeley's motor has got into a Philadelphia dime museum the pub- lic will have a chance to see how long the thing will run. THE census of the BritisliEmpire will be taken next year. An exchange says: The current caloulation is that at the opening of the year 1890 the population of the Brit- ish Empire was very nearly 328,000,000, of whom 38,125,000 were dwellers in the United Kingdom, 271,180,000 in India, and the remaining 19,000,0001n other posses- sions. Two years ego the Indian Govern- ment estimated the population of British India at 208,793,350, and that of the native States at 60,684,378. Assuming that the various unathertainable elements of native populations in all her possessions foot up 10,000,000, and that the natural rate of increase has been maintained, the British Empire will probably be shown to have not far from 340,000,000 population enure - orated and estimated. Beim and Wagner estimated the population of the world in 1882 at 1,433,837,500 souls, of which Europe has about 328,000,000, or 12,000,000 lege than the expected result of the British census of 1891. We have shadowed the man who stole our umbrella—Dallas News. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale has just presented to the Zoological Gardens the two none which have been sent to him from the Eellyiver rhstriet in India. The members of the Zoolegioal Society no doubt ecu glad enough to receive the present, but the PrineeM friendand at- tendAnts are a good deal more glad that the present should be made. The Prince had a fancy for keeping the monstet s him- self, ala Bernhardt, but feared ridicule. Sir Edwin Arnold can not find a prim chaser for the English rights of his poem "The Light of the World." The price—. $25,000-10 considered too `steep, and the Euglieh ptibliehere do not Oredit the teport that he has receive a that hinount for the Ainerican rights, —Mee Frostigne—I broke nay' the other day and I ean't see myself when dres3ing."