HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-6-9, Page 3AGRICULTURAL.
, Spraying Mixtures.
ineecas ere already at work on trees and
cultireetd' crops and it is time to begin to
.esghli or deseroy them. A recent °uvular
is:Rica by the Agricultural Department
with respect to the application of insecti-
cides gives the following as alormula to be
used against tree bugs, plant lice and scale
insect% Kerosene two gallons, water one
goalie% oilmen soap or whale -oil soap one
half pound. For the treatment of the ap-
ple scab it recommends the following to be
applied jest as the flowers are opening,
then 12 or 14 days later, and then twice
more at similar intervals : Dissolve four
pounds of copper sulphete in 10 or .12 gal-
lons of water and stir in five pounds of
washing or sal soda; then add three pints
of strong aqua, ammonia; dilute to 45 gal-
lons. The circular advises that for the
curculio on the plane, cherry, peach, etc.,
two or three applications be rna.de during the
latter part of May for the purpose of de-
seroyine the adults before they lay their
eggs. Tinder -leaved plants such as melons
and. cucumbers, are injured repeated ap-
plications of poison ; while plants vtith
smoother and firmer leaves, such as the
orange, are little affected. Root plants,
such as beets, turnips, radishes, etc., are
but little injured ; whereas foliage plants
show what injury there is at once, and
holey -bees are liable to be killed by the
poison if applied when the plants are in
bloom, The poison in all cases should be
iiighly diluted, and following a rain another
tpplioation should not be made for several
aye. On the whole, the Department be -
/ova; from its investigation that insecti-
eldes are not severely injurious to vegetable
tie, and it recommends their use in
otoderate quantities and with discretion.
They Give Great Satiefieetien.
Taking Clydesdales end cart horses to
einglend seems very much like taking coals
to Newcastle. The London Graphic, of
.APril 28, coutains several illustrations of
Canadian carriage horses sold at auetion for
good prices, and speaks most favorably of
their appearance. A consignment of heavy
horses was sold at the Barbican repository.
Judging from the following remarks of the
Londoo Sporting Life they gave every satis-
faction
"Tho very large attendance at the Bar-
bican repository yesterday (Friday) was
eoubtless in a great measure duo to the fact
',bat a number of good class cart and van
horsee were to be °timed for sale. A. large
piantity of contractors' stook was advertis-
ed to be sold without reserve, and. the horses,
;arts and harems found new owners at goad
prices, but undoubtedly the great attraotion
Pas the consignment of ,Shire -bred and
Clydesdale horses from Canada, which ar-
rived in London only on Saturday last, and
in consequence were not in what might be
termed sale condition, but it was very evi-
dent that there were many good judges
present, who saw promising materiel in the
43 young cart and van horses which were
lisposed of without reserve. Under Mr.
3.ymell's hammer there was keen competi-
aon for them, and from OS guineas to 35
theyfotiod ready purchasers. The aecond
consignment now en route will be sold on
May 13, as will be seen by advertisementin
our columns, and as they are spoken of as
superior to the horses just sold, there will
doubtless be a large attendance at Barbican
on the second Friday in May. The large
quantity of miscellaneous properties wore
tot gli disposed of until past 8 o'clock, and
tihe Prices throughout the day must be con-
eidered good." i
There s little doubt that a great future is
4 store for the Canadian horse trade.
About the Silo.
In answer to the inquiry of a young far-
mer on certain points relative to the silo,
John Vould states that if a man can raise
en acre of silage corn for 89, and produce
from it 18 tons of feed, ho can easily put it
in a mile for $4 more. This would make the
total cost 75 eta a,ton. The question of the
silo,as has been repeated thousands of times,
is only a matter of storing the corn iodder
in the meat succulent and easily digested
conditien. Herein lies its great economy.
The silo can add nothing. The situation is
the same as with the canning of green corn.
Our snothers used to cut the corn from the
cob and dry ie just as we cut up the corn
foddee and dry itt for the cow. When the
proems of canning came, preserving all of its
aatural jaices in a fresh succulent state,
everybody said it tasted better and was
oetter. The cow gives the sante verdict
bout good ensilage as against dry corn fod-
der.
There are thousands of dairy farmers who
have been halting between two opinions for
yetus, full of doubt whether a silo would
really pay. From our observation last win-
ter in a tour of two months among New
York and New England daieymen, we
judged that there was much less progress in
the East on this silo question than in Wis-
consin. It would seem as if the larger ex-
pense of cattle foods in the East would
make the silo a favorite there more
than in the West. The situation shows,
however, the great value there is to any
community of farmers in agitation. In
Wisconsin, through the missionary work
of John Gould in the Farm Institutes, Prof.
Henry at the Experimental Station, and the
strenuous efforts of Hoard's Dairyman and
the agricultural press, an immense amount
of silo nformation has been projected into
the meds of our farmers. It has borne
fruit in the way we have indicated. In
many townships in this state a majority of
elle dairy farmers have provided themselves
with a silo. They have not yet come to
operate the same to its largest economy, for
if they did, they would provide for ensilage
to feed during the dry pastorage in summer.
i
Serious loss n the shrinkage of milk just as
it is just beginning to increase in profit,
would be avoided if they would do this.
Then again, the majority run out of ensilage
too early in the spring. The sharp little
object lesson we gave last week, showing
.he rapid shrinkage of milk in the dairy of
adr. Whiting of this eacinity, when his en-
iilage gave out, told the story in dollars
mid cents. The wise dairyman should cal-
culate to provide if possible at least seven
tons of ensilage per cow. That will usually
give a surplus that can be used in summer.
But that surplus, if designed for :Jammer
use, should be put in a silo by itself and not
neened imtil it can be steadily fed down. It
Is easy to calculate the necessary amount
per COW by the following rule : Five tons
of ensilage will provide sufficient ensilage
for 200 days, which is about the length of
the foddering season in these northern lati-
• tudes. This will require a storage capacity
of 200 square feet. Multiply the number
• of tows te 'et:wintered by 200 audit will give
the storage necessary for winter use. Then
• provide ia a meparate silo 80 square feet per
• cow, for soiling during drouth in summer.
If itLend required it will be just as good
for the eee7ting *enter.
The pulation (A else world is nearly
1,500 %Oa
Farmer Tompkins and the Cyolopredia.
A. feller came out here to -day 'n' showed a
book to me;
Ono 'at rd Bluely oughter have -twelve parts,
'nd one was free,
He said ez how 'twos sure to tell me an I'd
wanter know,
called the thing a Cyolopee -or sutilin'
kinder so.
It seemed a putty fine -old book -a reglar sort
o' prize-
Ontil I ast him question, when, I seen ho'd
tole ine lies.
"Tells ev'ything! " says L "That's good -in
fee', sir, that's the best
Kind of a book I over seed, but think rd like a
test
Before I buy her. Lernme see 1 What does
the volume say
About the prospects of the cond,u' year for oats
'n'hayl"
I thought he'd flop for laughin' when 1 ast the
feller that.
'N' when I ast him "What's the joke 1" be look
ed almighty flat;
"It don't prognosticate," says he. "That ain't
tho pent! ' saysi.
"What I'm a-astin' you is will the blame thing
prophesy ?"
'N' then he turned the pages quick, 'xi' showed
me lots o' stuft
About Egyptians, and u•squib about an Earl
named Buff.
But when I ast him if it told a cure for tater
bugs.
Ile said it didn't, but it bad a history of rugs!.
be dernod if that there book ho said
would tell so much,
Ero.a auything on any page I'd ever care to
touch;
'X' then -haw! haw !-I chucked that pert
young swindler from the place
So quick ho hadn't time to take his smile down
off his taco ;
'Nd after him I threw his bag 'xi' twolve-part
Cycle's:le-
afy groat -grandfathers almanac's still good
enough for met
-(Harper's Magazine.
Fair Hands.
13Y a W. SEWN TT.
Long time ago -it matters not bow long;
Love keeps no iecord et tho. days or years,
or ceres to ask why youth's exultant song
Should move the sun to gladness or to tears -
We wore together at that dreamy hour,
When hearts mow fond and tender,
And with a glad surroucier
Wo yielded, willing captives to its power.
'Tams than you placed your tiny hand in nine.
Soft as a downy feather there it lay,
/gazed upon it as a thing divine.
'Which might take sudden wing and fly
away.
But soft it nestled like a timid. dove,
/n my broad. brawney palm.
The while a brooding calm
Stilled the tumultuous current of my love,
Tho spoil thus vvronght in passion'sfever heat,
Bath held its sway through all these change-
ful years.
As petent as when kneeling at your foot
Lovett o'orwrought frenzy molted into tears.
Mold your hands, not fair as once they wore,
But dearer than ot old -
Oh yes, 4 thousand fold,
Each lino a record in love's calendar.
Tho hieroglyphics whieh to other eyes
May seem the random touches time hath
made,
Tomo reveal life's deepest mysteries, '
Illumined salamis which can never fade.
Romance so vainly sought Sn printed pages,
My spirit hero discerns;
And truer wisdom learns,
Than over stored the brain of seers or sages,
Oh, lot those hallowed fingers closer twine,
I cannot see through tears that little palm,
But while I bold it closely clasped in mine,
My spirit fools dgain that brooding calm,
Which w omen's love in grief or gladness
brings
Frain the first rapturous hour
When conscious of her power,
She touches manhood in its purest springs.
-Wow York Homo Journal.
Igoe 4 stretch of shining aky
Like some fair ocean sunsotait,
Peaceful and wide its spaces Ho,
And purple shores encomi
pass t.
A little slender silver boat
Upon his bosom is afloat.
This craft. unstayod by winds or tidos,
Slins out across the twilight bar;
Through rosy ripples, soft she glides,
Led by a single pilot star ;
With shadowy sails and fairy crow.
Sho drifts along the summer blue.
She's Illiod from stem to stern with flowers,
And Love, and Hope, and Happiness,
Willought of what she brings bo ours1
Ali mel if we could only guess!
She rides elusive and remote,
This little slender silver boat,.
Fnassois
Kathleen Mavommeen-
(From the Indianapolis journal.)
Kathleen afavourneen I The song is still ring-
ing
As fresh and as clear as the trill of the birds;
In world-weary hearts it id sobbing and sing-
ing
In pathos too sweet for the tenderest words,
0 have we forgotten the ono who first breath
cd it.
0 'have NVO forgotten hisrapturous art.
Our weed to the master, whose genius bo
quoathoditi
0 why art thou silent thou 'voice of the
heart!
Kathleen Mayourneen ! Thy lover still lin.
gers
The long night is waning the stars pale and
few
Tho sad serenades:, with tremulous fingers,
Is bowed withhis tears as the lily with dew;
The old harpstrings quaver, the old voice is
shaking.
In sighs and in sobs moans the yearning re-
frain
The old vision dims and tho old heart is break-
ing
Kathleen Mavourneen, inspire us again!
IAALES WRITCOAID RILEY.
Not Surprised.
A good story is told of an innocent old
lady who never before had ridden in a
train.
She was a passenger on one of the Eng-
lish Midland railways at the time of a recent
collision, wben a goods train ran into a
passenger train, smashing one of the cars,
shaking the passengers, and upsetting
things generally. As soon as he could re-
cover his scattered senses, the guard went
in search of the venerable dame, whom he
found sitting solitary and alone in the car
(the other passengers having poeght terra
firma), with a very placid expression upon
her countenance, notwithstanding she had
made a complete somersault over the seat
in front, and her bandbox and bundle had
gone unceremoniously out of the window.
"Are you hurt?" inquired the guard,
"Hurt I Why ?" said the old lady.
"We have just been run into by a lug-
gage train; and many of the passengers
are shaken," said the guard.
"La, me I I didn't know but that was
the way you always stopped," was the old
lady's remark.
Whey is IntoxioatinR.
• EXPLOSION ON A SHIP.
When aastSeeanettrroeVmessItaltus Shaken
2wut
despetchfrorn San • Francisco, says. -
Tho steamer Willamette Valley arrived here
to -day with the crew of the ship Se, Charles,
coal laden, for San Francisco froxn Nasstaimo,
and which was wrecked off the Oregon coast
on May 17, by an explosion. On the morn-
ing of the explosion Michael Flynn, the
second mato, and a sailor, named Leuberg
went to the fore hatch to get some potatoes.
They had hardly disappeared through the
hatch when the explosion took place. Flynn
and Lenberg were thrown some distance in
the air, and fell on the deck. Both were
badly injured and burned. The ship was
generally wrecked by the force of the ex-
plosion. The rigging was set on fire and
the pumps would not work. Capt Chap-
inan was found in his cabin pinned to the
floor under the furniture. His spine woo
broken. The men hastened to lower the
three boats that belonged to the ship, and
abandoned her in a short time.
When last seen the mainsail was on fire,
and the ship was going down gradually.
At the time the vessel was 200 miles from
land. The crew, nineteen men in all, suc-
ceeded in making Cape Foulweather itt
safety. The Captain died. Flynn and Len -
berg were taken to Newport, Ore. Flynn
is not expected to live.
Expenses of a Society Girl
Sochity admits that a girl eau live fairly
on $6,000 a year, but to live as most of her
friends do she needs at least 815,000, says
the New York Morning Journal. That sum
will permit of her entertaining in a small
way, of giving an occasiouve theater or
luncheon party, of keeping her brougham or
hansom, or of dressing well. That is, if she
lives at home ; otherwise it cannot be done,
Miss Flora Davis spends that sum without
taking into consideration her carriage, and
Grace Wilson, the pretty sister of Mrs. Og-
den Geoid, disposes of a similar sum withs
out any difficulty. Miss Mae, Knowlton,
the Brooklyn beauty and heiress of $3,000-
000, spends nothing like her income ; still
few girls are more generous or lavish intheir
expenditures. The Turnure girls aro also
good dispensers of money, Jeanne spending
quite a snug competence upon her tailor-
made gowes alone. Miss Helen Gould is
sparing in her expense, once remarking not
many years ago at wheel to the writer, that
she was not even allowed to have a seat in
church. At that time she attended Dr. Pax -
ton's church, but Mr. Gould had not become
one of its shining lights, Miss Helen Phelpe
Stokes also manages to get away with what
ordinary mortals would be pleased to con-
sider a fair income.
How is it done? .As °qv as -well, as
it is to spend mouey. First of all, the fair
lady mustliave a maid. A Maid more than
pays her own wages by her care of her tide -
tress' clothes -the brushing, Cleaning, and
rnendmg of them. The little rents in the
gloves aro concealed by her deft fiugers,
making thorn answer instead of a now pair,
and by "treeing "mademoiselle's boots
every night they are made to last twice as
long. Annette receives $25 a month -000
per year. Mademoiselle's brougham will
cost her, including the stabling for three
horses, coachman, groom; shoeing, and
various expenses, 82,500 a year. Two saddle
horses, her own and one of her groom, call
for $75 a month. A yearly trip to Europe,
spending six weeks in London, two in Paris,
and two at Aixsles-Bains, or some equally
fashionable cure, cannot be taken with her
maid for less than 83,500, for, of course, she
must have the best cabin on the most ex-
pensive steamer and put up at the meet
extravagant hotel. A week must be spent
at Lake wood or some mild resort during
Lent, for which put down 8100, and a fort-
night may be spent at Tuxedo during the
season for $150. She must run on to Wash,
iugton several times during the winter to
attend seine of its sweet functions -an item
of 8150. Two hundred dollars for shoes
will be the least possible sum she can spend,
which would include among other items,
six paha of -walking boots at $14 a pair, four
pairs of low shoes at 0 u pair, find twelve
pairs of dancing slippers at $7, leaving only
it margin of 88 for riding boots and dressing
slippers, an insufficient amount. A similar
sum should be devoted to her gloves, ane
8100 to hairpins, pins, toilet articles, per-
fumes. etc.
We have touched already the $ 8,000
mark, and her gowns have not been men-
tioned. Three tailor suits, ono for au-
tumn, another for winter, and a third for
spring, cost 8150 each. One dozen dancing .
dresses at the same figure (very low, by the
way), $1800. Four better ones for occasions
like the Patriarch's ball, or the New Year's
at $250 each. Four dinner gowns at $150
add 000 more to the sum. The opera
cloaks aro 5500. Three calling gowns are
$125 each. Three outside garments at $150
apiece bring the sum up to $13,175. A
thousane dollars is not too much to anew
for her lingerie, sauts-de-lits, peignoirs, etc.
Three hundred dollars is the outside limit
for her millinery. One hundred dol-
lars for odds and ends, and charity
$25 makes a hole in $14,700 in her
$15,000 a year, leaving her the triffino sum
of $300 for gifts and entertaining. It is
evident that but for mamma's box at the
opera and her frequent dinner companies
fair Belinda could ,tot, in worldly parlance,
"make a decent show" for less than twice
$15,000.
RECAPITULATION.
$ 300
MalBroudg h am • • ••
2,500
Flying visits to Washington
Lakewood visit
Fortnight at Tuxed150
o 3,30 102 080 103
150
Two saddle horses
European trip
Boots, shoos, and slippers
Hairpins aud toilet articles 200
Tailor-made suits 45Q
Twelve dancing gowns 1.800
Four ball dresses 1,000
Four dinner gowns 600
Two opera cloaks 500
Three calling go wns 375
Throe outside garments 450
Gloves
Lingerie, etc 1,300000 100
Millinery
Charity
• 25
Odds and ends 1 0
Gifts and ontertaiaing 30J
Total $757, -0 0- (1.
Prof. Robertson, Dairy Commissioner,
Canada, says that he once saw 70 hogs drunk,
made so by the alcoholic fermentation of
whey upon which they were being fed. They
acted about the same as the nobler animal
might act under the condition some being
funny, some quarrelsome and Others stupid.
He did not think it a good plan to allow the
whey to ferment, and he cautioned his hear-
ers against the swill barrel, which is made a
receptacle of all the house waste, and is
never quite cleaned out. By fermentation it
bee:ernes dangerous to feed after Mantling
long.
Willie's R9ly.
The teacher, who had just. given a lesson
on wool, having told the class that wool
comes off the sheep, and ismade into blank-
ets., clothing, &c., to keep us warm in cold
weather, proceeded to question little Willie
who had been rather inattentive during the
lesson,
"Now, Willits," said the teacher,
"where does wool come from I"
"Off the sheep's back, teacher," replied
Willie.
"And what then ?" inquired the teach-
er.
Willie could not answer.
" What were these made item 'I" asked
the teacher, touching Willie's 'snickers with
the cane. • .
a‘ Uncle John's old awe." Willie' :marbly
replied. •
Rot Knowing.
1 knownot what will befallree:
God hangs a mist o'er my eyes:
And o'er each step of my onward path
He makesnew scenes to arise,
Ana
every joy he sends mo comes
As sweet and glad. muerte°.
I see not a step before me
As I tread the day e of the year,
But the past instill in God's keeping,
The future his mercy shall clear,
And what looks dark in the diatance
May brighten as I draw near.
For perhaps the dreaded future
Is less bitter than I think;
The Lord may sweeten the water
Before I stoop to drink:
Or it Womb must be Maul.
He will stand beside the brink.
It May be there is waiting
For tile conning of my feet
Some gift of such rare blessedness,
Some joy so strangely sweet.
That my lips can only tremble
With tho thanks I cannot speak.
0 restful, blissful ignorance!
'T is blessed not to know;
It keeps me quiet in those arms
Which will not let nie go,
And hushes my tired soul Wrest
On the bosom that loves me so.
So I go on, not knowing,
I would not if I might z
I would rather walk itt the dark with God
Than go alone in the light;
I would rather walk with him by faith
Then walk alone by sight.
My heart shrinks back from the trials
Which the future may disclose,
Yet I never had a sorrow
But what the clear Lord chose
So I send the coming tears back,'
With the whispered words, "lie knows.
Golden Thoughts for Every Day.
Monday
Thou art the Brerlasting Word,
The Fat her's only Son;
God manifestly seen and heard
And heaven s beloved One;
Worthy, 0 Lamb of God, art Thai,
That every knee to Thee should. bow.
In Theo most perfectly exprost
The Father's glories shiee;
Of the full Deity possesa
Eternally Divine;
Worthy's° Lainb of God. art Thou,
That 01.017 knee to Thee :twee bow,
-Vesiali Condor,
Tuesday -Penitence is o'f prinetty impor-
tance in the experience of religion. Repent -
mice toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus
Christ aro first' prineiples of the gospel,
Prevenient, soliciting, energizing grace se-
ouree the "place" and "power"of both,
but the use of opporteunty and the exercise
of power are our own responeible acts ants-
cedent to the justification and the sanctifi-
cation of life Repentence is not faith, A French liver reports that the micro -
They are concurrent but dietbact exercises. Phone has been auceessfully used in St.
Repentance is retrospective, introspective, Petereburg in a case of suspended anima- The Gila Monster, Ectoderm% Pforeidum
and sed -sees Sinai, self, coltish). Fatal de. , tion, where the patient was given up for is the only species of known poisonous nos
nies self, takes up the cross and follows
dead. As huit reeort the physieiau op- ard in the world. It is a native of the Gila
Jesus. Repentance ispreparetion for Chriet, plied 4 microphone to the MEM of tlie 2 River in. Arizona, and IRIS seldom or never
andfaith eaters the kingdoms reeeiseaChriete heart, and was enabled by this instrument ; been seen at any great distance from that
Repehtence is the ending of the law, and to hear a faint beating, which proved that stream. This :amigo creature is filugghilie
loarnr
itliteisbtrhiengbseugsintnocinghria,theoltt1eiagostterbri
pel.Tnhges life was not extinct. Everything W4S done I hien, well armored with a tough, defensive
f
Christ to us. -11). Tompkine. afterwards recovered eansciousness.
to resuscitate the patient, who shortiy ; and feeds on birds' eggs and insects.
We.dnes.day-So a fool is ono that hath The new Winkler storage battery consists It is with difficulty that it can be aroused
lost his wisdom and right notion of God and of V-ehaped troughs of celluloid, having a to the hgliting pitch, but when it once takes
hold no bulldog could be more tenacious.
ELEOT.EtIOAL ntontss BRIEF.
It is reported that Mr. Sims is engaged
in adapting the Sims -Edison electric Motes
and propeller to life boats, to furnish not
only power, but a search light.
It is stated that M. Faure has recently
invented a process of producing aluminum,
by which he hopes to reduce the price of
theemetal to 16 or 18 cents a pound.
A recent catalogue of electrical books in
the Boston Public Library gives nearly
1,000 titles of books on electrical subjects,
exelusive of the telegraph and telephone.
The Road Car Company of London, Eng-
land, has fitted up a number of its vehioles
with electric lamps, fixed to the middle of
the roof, -an improvement highly appreci-
ated by the passengers.
.A.prize is offered by the Industrial As-
sociation of Berlin of a gold medal, value
£150, to the author of the best work upon
the magnetism of iron, to be sent in before
the 15th of November, 1803.
Mr. John Messenger of Cincinnati, 0.,
claims to have found a.process by which be
is able to electroplate Iron, steel and cop-
per with aluminum. The deposit is said to
he as harti as niekel, never tarnishes, and
does not fuse readily.
A. citizen of Cambridge, Mass., protects
his ears from cat concerts and his fruit and
flowers from juvenile thieves, by means of
a strip of zinc running along on the top of
his garden fence, and connected with the
eeleetrie wires in his house, Neither the
cats nor the boys are injured thereley,except
bona their own wild jumps when they toueli
the zinc.
Schuckert, the Numemberg electrician,
showed at the Frankfort electrical exhibi-
tion a six-foot electric :search light, having
the power of 20,000 candles. It could be
plainly seen at Bingen on the Rhine, forty
miles away. Ile Is now at work on a larger
oleo for the Columbian Vair, which'. will
Measure seven and one-half feet, and be of
at leaet 25,000-c.p. He expects the light to
be visible sixty miles.
The railway ear known as "Placer Conn -
ter on Wheels" (a traveling combination in-
tended itrimaxiley to advertise the is
fruit region of Northern Cali(ornia) ls light-
ed interiorly and externally by sixty-ffve
inceudeseent /amps, whieh aro operat-
ed by a complete lighting plant la a
corner of the car. The service is so
satisfactory that Mr. Leak, the owner, is
uow littering for the equipmeut of an entire
train with similar apparatus.
For winds to waft ni:rUonStill' y way.
Taro: blowititisegaisatd, oTblroYweiitt svs asith
The wind. that blow% that wind %ea&
Which ever way the wind doth NOV.
My little craft sails uot alone;
A thousand ileetsfrom every zone
Art thou upou a thousand seas ;
And whetter me wore favoring breeze
Might dash. another, with the book
Of doom, upon some hidden rock.
And so I do net dare to praY
But leave it to a higher will
To stay or speed nee, trusting still
That all is well, and. suretbat Ite
Who launched my bark will sail wlth me
Through storm and calm, and will not tell,
1Vhatever breezes may prevatl,
To land me, every.peril past,
Withia his sheltering heaven at leitt,
Then, whatsoever wind cloth blow,
My heart is glad to have it Bo :
And, blow it east or blow it west.
The wind that blows, that wind is best.
The Proper Way to Sit.
A proper sitting positien requiree that the
spine shall be kept straight, and that the
support needed for the upper part of the
body shall be felt in the eight place. There-
fore, sit as far back aspossible the ehair,
so that the lower end of the vine shall le;
braced against the back of the seat. If tide
back is straight the shouldere will also rese
against it; if not, they will have no point of
support, and it will be found that they do
not. need it. This poeition makes no strain,
upon the ligaments ot the spine. It allows
a, proper position of the shoulders, conse-
quently of the chest, eonsequently of the
lungs, stomach and every other organ of the
body.
Their work is carried ma naturally and
comfortably, as is also the circulation. of the
blood, winch in a wrong sitting position is
seriously interfered, with. With the feet
resting squarely upon the floor, the haaela
resting caeily upon the lap, perfect equilib-
rium, and eoriseg uently p.erfect rest of the.
body, is Bemired. There Is no strain upon'
any part of the body; no muscle or mean
is required to do more than its legitimate
amount of work. The arms abould never
be fielded ; for that position not only enures
a strain upon the spume, and all the ether
evils already referred to, but, he addition,
places the weight of the arms upon the stom-
ach and the diaphragm, thereby blues*,
ing tho labor of digestion and reapiration.
Placing the hands behind the back, if pos-
sible, is a good attitude to take occasional-
ly, giving, os it does, the fullest capitulate
of the whole upper part of the bod,y.
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The Gila Monster -
divine things which were communicated to metalic conductor lying along the bottom,
man by creation ; one dead in sin, yet one the trough being filled in with peroxide
not so much void of rational funnies as of paste. It is claimed that the conductor can
grace in these faculties, not ono that wants be made of autlieient cure iug capacity to
reason, but abuses his reeson. In Scripture Idispense with lead frames altogether. The
tho word signifies Icolish.--(Philip Char- electrolyte may be liquid, or semasolid for
nook.
portable uses. The weight of cell, it is stet t-
Thursday -
Tru Imago of the Infinite,
Whose essence is concealed;
Brightness of unereaten light;
'Inc heart of God revealed:
Worthy, 0 Lamb of God, art Thou,
That every knee to Theo should bow.
But the high mysteries of Thy name
An angel's grasp transcend,
The Father only-glorioua claim!
The San can comprehend:
Worthy, 0 lemnb of 000, art Thou,
That every knee to Theo should bow.
Yet, loving Thee on whom His love
Ineffable dot)* rest.
Thy glorious wershippers abort) vehieles and pedestrians. It rests on itl
AS ono with Theeare blest:
Worthy, 0 Lamb of God, art Then, foundations seven feet only from the water;
That every kneo to Theo should bow. but, to allow shifts to pass, it can be elevat-
Throughout the unisex:to of bliss, ed 133 feet,-boulg so nicely balanced be -
The center Thou, and Sun. tween towers 100 Met high that from 20 to
The eternal theme of praise Is this 30-h.p. 'will suffice to lift :it and lower it
To heaven's beloved Ono: within five minutes. It is to be operatedby
Worthy. 0 Lamb of000, art Thou, electricity.
That every knee to Theo should bow.
-Posiall Condor. Prof. R. A. Rowland of John Hopkins
University, says: " It is a well-known
Friday -Again, be specially on the wetch
against those little tricks by which the rame, principle that an electrical discharge will die -
man seeks to bringround the conversation sipate a fog, and no patent could be obtain -
to himself and gam . the praise or notice ed on the mere application of the principle.
It is a very cominon laboratory experiment
which his thirsty ears drink in so greedily.
to make a fog or mist in a glass vessel, and,
Even if praise comes unsought, it is well,
by sending eleetricity from a point into it,
while men are uttering it, to guard yourself
to dissipate the mist. As soon as the elec-
trical discharge strikes into the fog, the
glass instantly clears." He has not seen
any attempt to dissipate a thick marine fog,
and doubts its practicability. Mr. M. E.
Johnson of Pittsburg, however, designs air? -
plying for a phtent on a process for this
purpose, 'men made several saccessful
experiments.
ed, is reduced 40 or 50 per cent. of that ot
lead plate accumulators.
A new storage battery is being outplayed
on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad far use
in connection with 'electric lighting of its
cars. Twenty-four cells are placed under
each car, and they supply eight sixteen
candle-power lamps on the round trip from
Cincinnati to Washington.
The new bridge across the ship canal at
Duluth, an Lake Superior, is to be 250 feet
in length, and is deelened to carry eleetrie
cars, and trains of them, as well as horse
by thinking of some secret cause for hum-
blingyourselfinwardly to God, thinking unto
what these pleasant accents would be chang-
ed if all that is known to God, and oven to
yourself, stood revealed to man. -(Bishop
Wilberforce.
Saturday -The ornament of a house is the
friends who frequent it. There is no event
greater in life than the appearance of new
persons about our hearth, except it be the
progress of the character which draws them.
It has been finely added by Lander to his
definition of the great man, "It is he who
can call together the most select company
when it pleases him." • • • In the ',re-
gress of each man's character he will have
earned the lesson of life who is skillful in
the ethics of friendship. --(R. W. Emerson.
Date of the Exodus.
What was the precise date of the Exodus
from Egypt? A German astronomer, ac-
cording to one of our contemporaries, has
solved this knotty problem. Jewish tradi-
tion gives the date as the 1st Nisan, 1312
B. C. In order to test this our astronomer
has assumed that the Egyptian darkness
which immediately preceded the Exodus was
an eclipse. Hehas, consequently, calculated
alltheeclipsesofthethirteenth and fourteen-
th centuries B.C.,and,having selected those
which took place iu the spring, has then
chosen from them those which come nearest
to the date given by the Jewish tradition.
The eclipse he finally selected was one which
took place on March 13, 1336 B. C. ]tis
curious to note that this date agrees with
Jewish tradition, so far as the month and
the Ay are concerned. The year is, how-
ever, twenty three years out. The astron-
omer declares that this is a mistake of the
Jewish historians, since no eclipse occurred
in the year 1322 B. 0. He seems to forget
thee the alleged darkness is described in the
Scriptures as having been a miracle. How-
ever, the result of Ins calculations is to show
that the Exodus took place on March, 27,
1335-a discovery which will be appreciat-
ed when our iconoclastic reformers ley
violent hands on the Jewish °slender.
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Theatrical Advertising.
Advance Agent': "Hi, there! What are
you doing with that pistol ?"
Discouraged Dude; "Going to kill my
self."
Aclvance Agent : " Well, holcl on a min -
Christmas Treesin Ohina.
The Christmas tree in Europe which,
like the yule log, is a survival from the
from
of the revival of the sun
after the winter solstice, finds its counter-
part in China as elsewhere in the world.
Dr. Schelgel has recently pointed out the
historical references to this subject. Ac-
corlimg to the "Antiquities of Tsin " an
old principality which lasted until 217 B.
0., the tree with a hundred flowers and
lamps, was placed, on New Year's day,
between the three steps leading to the
audience felicitation hall. The lady Han-
Kwoh, the celebrated Princess Yang, the
all powerful favorite of Ming-tuvang,
Emperor of the Tang clynastry (A. D. 7)3-
755) caused a "hundred 'tulip trees," 80
feet high, to be erected upon a high moun-
tain ; it was lighted during the New Year's
night, and its shine was seen for a hundred
miles, totally eclipsing the light of the
moon. Dr. Schelgel states that as far as he
is aware the Christmas candle -tree is now
no longer lighted ill China, it being replaced
by the enormous quantities of candles which
are lighted everywhere.
Advertising le the Sky.
The newest horror is not Deeming nor the
Paris Anarchists. It is considerably worse
than either. An esteemed scientific contem-
porary says that genuine sky -signs can now
be installed for the enterprising advertiser.
By a simple arrangement of mirrors, reflec-
ting glasses, and lights, a sort of gigantic
magic lantern can be set up, by which
images can be thrown -upon the cicuds.
You will be able to cievertise your wares,
in letters 100 feet long, on the skies, so that
they will be visible over a dozen counties.
As if this truly awful prospect were not
enough, we are told that these sky signs can
be made luminous, so that they will blaze
all night I Heine, in one of his rhapsodies,
'said that he would like to.sitatcb a burning
pine from its Norway Inountains :Intl write.
with it the name of "e Agnes " in letters of
fire on the skies. But be would probably
Average spemmens are about 26 inches long,
Mit some 'writers mention unusualrepreeen-
tatives the length of which was mine lees
than three feet. The 1ndiaus of Arizona
believe that the spittle or saliva, and even
the breath of the animal to be deadly pois-
onous. The odor of its exhalation:, is said.
to be exactly like that of magnolia buds.
Te Minister's Haply.
A minister in -the North NVO.S at a small
party one evening. After they had gone
through severe" games, an old dame asked
him if he would say yes to every question.
put to him.
" will," he replied.
Then and there the young ladies com-
menced to try and comer him, but so far
they were unsuccessful. At last one of
them, more bold than the rest, got down on
her knees before him and said, 1‘Will you
marry me?"
o?"
Oh, yea; but where is the bridegroom?
was the answer.
Birfames the Horse Likes.
There are sOmo perfumes that axe very
grateful to horses, however litble credit it
horse may commonly receive for possessing
delicaoy of scent. Horse trainers are aware
of the fact and make u e of their knowledge
in training stubborn and apparently intract-
able animals. Many trainers have favorite
periumes, the composition of which they
keep a secret, and it is the possession of
this means of appealing to the horseis esthet-
icism that enables so many of them to ate
complish suck wonderful results.
ute. " If you're bound to do it, won t you .not have cared to adorn the firmanent with
be good enough to leave a note saying you a blazing 'descriptiott of somebody's patent
lo it for the love of Miss Starr, the bectatie trouser stretcher, or e glowing picture of a
ful actress. it's a dull reason, and every lady wearing tile latest thing in hygiene
little helps." corsets.
S'a
It Puzzles the Jewellers.
Imitation gold is a new compound which
was recently discovered, and which puzzlet.
the best jewellers to detect. Its weight is
that of gold and the acid tests are the same,
except that the acid boils a trifle when ap-
plied to it, although when it is wiped off no
spot is left. It is cheap and it is easily
worked. Its chief factoris aluminium come
posit°, from 5 to 8 per cent.
The Electric Shook.
Bride (throwing her arms about his neck) :
"You are my prisoner for life."
Groom "It's uot imprisonment for life e
love ; it's capital punishment."
Orders To Masoh.
A littlefellow was taken into his mother
chamber to see for the first time a baby
brother. The three-year-old looked the
infant over with a calmly critical regard,
and then, turning to the maid who accom-
panied him, he said, very decidedly:
"Jane,you can keep thatin the kitchen."
A Regular Dilemma.
A. -I on in a hideous pickle.
B. -How so?
A. -I have not got anything to eat, and
the only thing Pee got to pawn is my false
teeth, and If 1 pawn them and buy some-
thing to eat then I can't eat it. I never was
in sueh a hideous fix in all my life.
Female Friendship.
"I have such em indulgent husband," said
little Mrs. Murray Hill.
"Yes, so George says," responded Mrs.
Uppercrust quietly. " Sometimes he in-
dulges too much, doesn't he?"
They no longer speak to mt. to/her.
Caiirdicteiy Evidrice.
The Rev. Texte "There were apparent-
ly nopoor people in the congseptfoli this
morning, Deacon Ottshly
Deacon Cashly (who is also treseseer) ;
"11 you had seen the collection eau would:
have thought just the contrary,"
Among English people dark Llowo hair -
is more than ti,viou est common an PaW e any
other shade.