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OVABBS TIVIt SFORETS,
She Doe Thing'o So Perfectly That
They Qannot Be Imi-
tated,
Thereare., sixty-eight substances
known as elements, They ineltuip41
the metals, such As gold, iron, tin,
an'd lend, ; a nUniber of ',gasee, sue11
L8 the oxygen and nitrogen, which
together -Mahe the air we breathe ;
end \ictriolis other substances, suds
ase arsenic, phosphorus, , and icidine.
All these men has either found nee
tivo iii tho earth or atmosphere, or
has extracted from their ores ; but
in spite of all his beet efforts -no
hymen being ims eyer succeeded ha
inaking• ono of there, earl Lea -
don Answers,
Mau has made sUbstances which
Nature never turned out of laer
laboratory, Mr, Acheson, Is,119 in
vented the eieetrical furnace with
its iutielle imat of 7,000 degrees,
FIRST IdA.DE) OARBORUNDUM,
crystals of charcoal and sand, and
hard enough to cut the very die, -
mond itself. Yet, with all polleible
effort, it seems beyond human- poiyer
to make any of the rarer gems whine
are dug from the depths of the
earth. Diamonds certainly have boon
artificially manufactured, but only
the tiniest crystals. A stone the
size of the Koh-i-noor is beyond tee
ability of man to manufacturelee
can get sufficient heat, but the Pres-
sure is beyond human appliance.
The essence of all life is
protoplasm. The white of an egg is
'almost*, pure protoplasm. By mixing
together in the proper proportioire
four simple cleaner -as the experiment-
er can produce a, substance which is
• ohemically the same es protoplasm.
The same, and yet entirely different,
for the mixture is without life. and
• no amount of warming or electrify-
ing can give it the life which even
a humble shellfish enjoys in suth
perfection. The simplest known form
Of life, tho cunemba, appears to be
nothing but a little blob of proto-
plasm. Yet it has life which tho
cleverest man cannot give to
HIS IMITATION COMPOUND.
You can make artificial blood, but
.you cannot make your product act
in the same way as the blood which
is in the veins of a living et:meters
Tho latter is continually producing
new particles. The artificial blood
cannot be made to do se.
Every substance is composed of
almost inconceivably small bodies
called molecules. They are so tiny
that, were a drop of Water to be
magnified to the size of this earth,
the molecules it contains would even
then appear no larger than cricket -
bane., No ono has eve*' yet succee&
cc' in isolating a molecule. Professor
Rucker recently declared that the
nearest that anyene had got to do-
ing such a thing was when a soap -
bubble, was blown, the film of
• which was only the four -millionth of
an inch in thickness.
A blade 'of grass is quite beyond
the power of ratan to copy. So is
an apple or a plum. We bee°
drawn threads as rine or even finer
than the spider's web; but a ettb-
stance of such strength and elastic-
ity for its thianess we have never
succeeded in manufacturing. At
Greenwieh and other observatories
spiders' Webs are still. employed for
drawing the
"VERY FINES'I` POSSIBLE
straight lines across telescopic
lenses. There. aro several natural
substances which man is constantly
endeavoring to imitate. One, indigo,
has lately been successfully copied
• by a German scientist. His inven-
tion spells ruin to our indigo -grow-
ing industry in India. The tw�. on
which efforts are at present, most
. strongly concentrated are indiarub-
bar and guttapercha Of both these
indispensable materials the natural
supply utterly fells to meet the de-
mand. The world produces less than
230,000 hundredweight of indiarub-
her yearly, and could uso double this
amount. As for guttlapercha, its
properties al a perfect leolator for
electric cablesland as a material for
golf balls have increased the. dernaud
eo "greatly that •its peke has risen
enormously in the past few years.
its cllemical constituents are per-
fectlyeknown as well as those of
indittrubber, but it seems beyond the
power of science to produce an
artificial s ubs ti tu to.
Electric lighting with • or without
wires has reached a point of perfec-
tion far beyond what anyone could
have imagined possible twenty yeers
ago. 'Yet. no scientist care imitate
the heatless ray of the firefly, oe of
the common. glowworm. Phosphorus,
and some other substances will shine
in the dark, but wily for a limited
time. So long, however, as it is
• alive, the glowworm is able to emit
its rays, the nature of which bite
alwaye been a stahding puzzle to
human inquiries.
In mere mechanieat perfection Na-
ture can do many things which puz-
zle man to imitate, The111111outees
alive, working with the moet paefect
material to be obtained,' could make
no lancet so keenly pointed as the'
sting of a bee. And the edge of the
best razor ever set loolcs like a saw
under the microscope compared with
that of an ordinneY blade of grass.'
The polin for absent-mindedness
should be accorded to a learned Gor-
man professor. Ono day he noticed
his wife placing o bunch of flowers
on his desk. "Whet do they moan?"
he asked, "Why," she exclaimed,
"don't you know that this is the an-
niversary of your niaeriage?" "Ah,
indeed; is it?" said the professor,
politely, "Kindly lot me know when
yours comes round, and I will re-
turn your attention in. kind."
'Did you over have the feeletig
that peeiple didn't \mem:stand you?'
"I often have it; 1 Ma tho telephone'
o grette deal,"
"1 was surprised to hoar you
speaking against Irlylitskyle •You
told me soMe tire° ego be' Was your
he Meet Wend." "That's so. Btu
couldn't be any mitten: than he is—
the s.Lingy old beggar!"
TESTING NEW INVENTIONS
Exrzuvxmlwo 'MAT OOST BIG
FOR/NUNES,
Blowing an Clla Xxcerclaa to
• Pieces-- Stibmarines rotty
Years 49.
Thm Ordinary testing of a tWeive,
inch rifled caneen for gee of• our
large ironeleds •costs upWarde 01 WHY XS WOOL SO °HEAP?
$5,000, Not pnly is the cost .of the
poWcier and great Awl projectiles to Brotection Against Adniternted.
Woollens Demanded.
be eonelderea, bet the target is in-
variably of Ilarvetised, or other- ltr. P. P, Bennett •of the Sheli-
were hardened, ermor-plete, Euld 10 in herd's Bulletin, Boston, eifeee., under
Itself frequently worth from $1,000
to $1,500, date of April 25tIst;, 1.902 writes'
The most ekpensive -experiluest ere'
"Tire Pacific Northwe t Wool Growr
ASsociation at its naeeting in
thie kind in recent Mime was tire uso
of the old ironclad as
1201, passed strong resolutiouti
target. On the etarboard side elle the use of adulterants in
writ:dent goods, end again this year
WaO given a six-inch asseeilyed ,se" paseea resoltations against the we
like that lloSeessed by the eruts°r of shoddy." Continuing, he adds,
"Pratte," On the port eide
plate hal a foursandtashafs nahe0ain; 'It is generally conceded that the
wool-growine industry is -suMaring
mour made the eld craft resemble serious injury from ticluiterant pram -
cruiser' of the "Kent" class. The leces in tire manufacture and sale of
cost of this operation I woollen goods inasmuchas such
WAS ABOUT $00,000geode contain 60 per cent. and °VOA
After her preparation as target the more of shoddy, Or other zubetitutes
poor olcl ship tees exposed to a fOr wool,"
storm of steel projectiles. Sixteem Peruvian cotton worth 140 cents is
850 -pound Miens, 180. from the six- used very letgely with wool worth
inch guns„ 360 twelve -pounders, and 40 cents per pound ecoured, which
540 three pounders were poured Up- makes the price of the combination,
on her In eiget and a half minutes if mixed in equal shares, 274 cents,
elad' was -practically destroyed. The being a reduetion in the Price of
cost of the ammunition expended on about 1 cents, The manner of us-
her •was $28,200. The cost of the Ing those adulterauts has been so
whole experiment was nearly $150,-. thoroughly manipulated that the
000. Since then the shettered old quality of the goods until exposed to
hulk has been refitted, and a eimilar , the sun or weather, is almost iden-
experiment estimated to. cost $210,- ideal with that of goods matte of
0e0 will be carried out. 'pure wool; the manufacturers mak-
Teeting new inventions frequently ,ingt wool eubstitutes having inereas-
proves to be as op more costly ellen ed very largely within the last three
constructing them. Not only money, years. We havo seen samples of
but lives, have been lavished • in the woollen goods 00 per cent, substie
teeting of submarine veesels. The tut° or cotton; other samples 50
French submarine "Triton" was re- per cent. cotton, 30 per cent, shod-
cently ordered to dive and remain dY, and 20 per centwool and the
below water for ten hours. Liter a shree, as far as mere apPearance is
time the temperature in the tiny concerned,
craft rose to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, I SHOWED UP VERY WELL.
and, in addition to this appalling I Mt. James MeNaugliton, of New
heat, the air became.suiplatrous from ' York cite, who has had an exten-
the fumes given off by the working sive experience in connection with
engines. Three men were' utterly wool and its uses,.in a recent Qom -
prostrated, and one afterwards died. loutnication to the 'United States
Irranco has Department of Agriculture, says:
A.LREADY SPENT $4,000,000 We all know that the adulteration
of wool is very extensively and SOO-
in submarines, and has not yet bit easefully carried on, and while none
upon a .really satisfactory vessel. oi us approve of the misrepresents,
But Franco has got off cheaply tion as to what the goods are, yet
compared with those who experi- tho fact remains that it is better for
mented with submarines Mrty years somo people to have an article with
ago. In 1863 the Southern States, 150 per cent. or 80 per cent. or even
then' in the midst of their struggle ' 15 per cent, of wool, than not to be
agaiest the North, bulit a submarine ' able to afford an article with any
called the "Devid," and sent .hezi; wool." In an editorial reference to
out in the harbor of Charlestown the Shepherd's Bulletinof July,
for 'trial' As she lay at .her pier I-1900, the writer calls attention to
waves from a passing ineeinet swept the fact that -notiVithStanding
over her. She sane like a stone,' actual and estimated falling off in
droavning her crew ef five. The the output of Australian, South Af-
"David" was raised', Red refitted for :Mean and South American wool,
a second trial trip. She dived, and amounting in the aggregate to 175, -
never came up again. They clredgod 000 bales of wool, there was a tre-
her up and emptied her cf :ler dead, ' attendees decline in prices in the Lon -
and tried a third time. -Torty lives don market, with no certainty that
were lost and $300,000 spent before 'the and was in sight. Tho writer
the "David" was at last rendered adds: "Undoubtedly' a given
navigable. Then she sank the amount of wool goes farther to -day
Housatonic," ono of the enemy's than ever before, by reason of the
ironclads, with a torpedo, and per- growing use of substitutes, particu-
ished with her sinking enemy. 'arty cotton. lf some persons have
At Tunis there recently occurred a' discovered that the statistical pro -
railway collision M which three lives portion of wool is exceptionally
were lost. The driver of one of the strong, the fact can be largely offset
engines was indicted for nmnslaugh-; by the mere assertion that the use
tor, but there was a disagreement as of wool has been tremendously clis-
to how far he was to blame. Anxious placed i** the last few years by cot -
to prove himself in the right, the ton. We do not mean that cotton
man begged that he might be allow- has been used in wool fabrics in
ed- to take a train over the same small amounts; we mean that wool -
line in the preseuce of experts, and len fabrics are i11
so show that the disaster was INNUMERABLE INSTANCES
DUE TO PURE ACCIDENT. now. composed for the larger part
of cotton, if our readers will par -
This was agreed to. The driver don the apparent contradiction of
mounted his engine and started it. teems,"
Ily same extraordinary•mischance the .t think I have, put sufficient infer -
brakes refused to flee, and the train motion before
dashed down a steep incline and was you to prove that, the
adulteration of woollen goods, or
derailed, dothg damage to the extent shall I say the manufacture of spur -
of' about $10,000, tee unfortunate
driver and his fireman being' Jailed
on the spot.
This is not the only time that a
similar experiment has ended in dis-
aster. A new form of traction en-
gine was being, tested in 1897; near
Munich, in Germany. The inventor
of fire -resisting plate -glass, which it
wan resolved to Ionic() trial efi Thin
O match was put to this expensiVe
boefire, it is Plea0aat 10 rOlat0 that
the toot proved entirely succesaul.
Tho temperature rose to 2,500 de
-
greys, but the glass searcely cracked
until water was poured upon it,
'Unluckily, such experiments are
sometimes failures,---Lonflon An»
owers,
ious goods sold as woollen geode, is
a large and growing practice mei
that . it behoves everyone
interested in • the . future
o/ sheep husbandry and the
clothing of the masses of the peo-
ple with holiest. 'woollen garments,
to take up the question thoroughly
had spoilt his entire fortune of about
$85,000 in perfecting the engines and endeavor.to formulaic and carry
a legislative eriactment tvitich shall
and invited a large number oi
giueers and others, to watch it place the business on an honest ba-
sis, and ensure that goods containing
admixtures of shoddy, ntungo, cot -
Min, or other foreign material seall
be sold as such.
ALFRED IIANSELL.
Shrewsbury, Eng.
• BABY'S OWN TABLETS.
Are Nature's Cure for Children's
climb a steep hill near the town,
hauling a heavy load.Half way up
the hill the engine cante to a stop,
and then began to move backwards.
The trucks behind had not been fit-
ted with brake, and the engine's
brakes Ivor° not suincient tohold
them up. Before they could be un-
coupled trucks and engine were
rotating backwards down the hill at
terrible speed. They dashed into a
house near the bottom, and brought
the whele building down, •Icilling a Medicine* containing opiates
woman and ewe children'and doirig should never be given to children. —
damage to theeextent of hundreds of little or big. When you uee Baby's
dollars. The engine itself was utter- Own Tablets for your little ones you
ly wrecked, and its inveator, in de- have a positive guarantee thee they
(pair, committed suicidepontein neither opicao nor harm -
Last , April Gth an experiment, ful drug. They aro good for all
which proved very expensive, tooic children from the smallest, weak -
place at Palaiseau, rem Paris. est infant to the well grown child.
These Tablets qinekly relieve and
Ailments.
• A FLYING, MACHINE,
raodelled on the name or that of
Santos -Dumont, was tried. A. strolls
gale was blowing, but NH. Les -
segue and Thibitet, the inventors,
resolved to go up. The balloon was
inflated, wean a bystander, fearieg
'disaster, attempted to release the
cord of the eseape-Valve. Thibaut
sprang a,,t the 'valve, end attempted
to Stop the deflation. Just then a
terrific gust ' came swooping dowu,
and all the cords Ureic°, Aeronaut,
car, and framework were hurled into
the roadway, and, with a rippleg
and rending sound, the balloon ilo.
self tore loose, and next moment
was a, white speck clisappeatieg 1(1
the clotide.
It is very dile:milt to say how cer-
taia fire -resisting materials Will
stand the actual test pi flames, A
curious eeperimene was made ln tloiS
direetion last summer at St, Helens,
In . Laecteshire. A neat tour -roomed
nositivoly cure all stomach and
bowel troll -fries, simple fevers, trou-
bles with teething, etc. They als
ways eo good, and cae never do the
slightest harm, For very small in-
fants crush tho Teblets to a powder.
Mrs. P, J, leathern, Chatimen Ont„
save: "My baby took very sick, His
finagler was coated, his breath offers,
sive and he could not retain food on
his stomach. He also had War-
thaea for four or flee days and grew
very thin and pale. We gave him
medicine but nothing helped him 1141 -
CI we gave Beby's Own Tab-
lets, After giving him the Best dose
ho began to improve and in three
days he was quite well. lie bowie
to gain flesh, and is now a fat, heel -
thy boy1 are more term pleased
with the Tablets as 1 think they
eaVeci my baby's life."
Baby's Own Tablets' aro sold by
all druggister, will be sent by
matt post peed at 25 coatis a brae
houso wee built and stored with all
kisss of indastamda goods, such as by writing (Urea, to The. Dr, Wil-
liams Medicine 0o., Brookville, or
would be seen, in Ma shop of an oil tssisisssssy, ss 11.
and Color Merchant. Tho top of the techeneetady, N., Ye
building wits roofed With it neW kind
Wii Mado,.
• Plire fielir nal pars yeast do not
necesse.rily mean good ,bread, ft
May he spoihol hi the ,malcitrg, Alat
; Material le not everSthinfe
• Prof. W, ./iodgeon Dills,
Analyst to the Dominion Govern-
ment, after 5 nUmber of analyses, re.
;)orts that 'Sunlight llooP is a ,Ptlrp
and well -made soap," Well made'
means more 'than yen think, Te7
Sunlight Seep—Octagon 'Bar—next
wash dare awl yon eraler
the benefits; Of a "wellimade
soap, andwill see that Prof, Eille is
;eget. No ono iihoula know bettor
than he, 214
GREAT VALUE OF
A SOIL CONIFONEXT OF A wavy
HIGH ORDER.
Bxperiments by Peofespor
of the EXoptetravi
inlasyl, Farm,
Tee importance cannot be
given to tee value of humus in the
growth of crops and i11 the retain-
tename, of fertility, It, is the na,
tural storehouse end keeper of nit-
rogen in the soil, an element which
is the most •expensive of all plant
foods when it becomes noceesary to
pureirase it in commercial fertilizers.
Humus furnishes the food upon
Which the soil miero-organisms liVe,
end whine by their life functions
convert ks organic nitrogen into
nitrable, • ft possesses considerable
amounts of the mineral food eon'
etitunte. These, in the further de-
composition oi the humus—a • pro-
cess' continually- going on in sum-
mer—are liberated in forms avail-
able to growing crops, and from re-
cent experiments and research by
Prof. Shutt, chemist, of the Cen-
teal Experimental Farm, Ottawa,
there is reason to believe thee the
mineral humatos fernish a large
proportion of the potash, lime,and
so on, used by crops. Then humus
serves to increase the absorptive and
retentive power of soils• for moist-
ure. It regulates and protects
against extremes of soil tempera-
ture. It opens up and mellows
heavy soils. It serves to material,
ly diminish the loss of fertilizing
elements by drainage, and thus per-
manently improves light soils in the
best way. Thus it is 'evident :that
humus should, be regardedas a soil
component of very bish order.
The relation of humeri content to
nitrogen present in soils of similar
origin under sireilee meteorologieal
conditions is practically constant.
It lute been noticed, too, that the
amount of eumus present gives an
excellent though not an infallible in-
dication of the amount of organic
nitrogen possessed by the soil. It
has, also, been 'observed that as the
humus disappears the nitrogen goes
with it. Exposing the substance of
the soil to the air, as by our ordin-
etry methods of farming with the
plow, harrow, and so on, tends to
dissipate the humus, and, as a na-
tural consequence, to decrease the
nitrogen. Soils growing grain ex-
clusively every year lose more nitro-
gen by this humus oxidation than is
removed in the crop, and this loss is
groatese in those soils which are
richest in nitrogen, Experiments at
the Minnesota, (U.S.A.) Experiment
Station showed that for every 25
pounds of nitrogen absorbed by the
crop, grain following grain for a
number of years, 146 pounds of nit-
rogen were lost, duo to oxidation of
organic matter.
These are facts that are of the ut-
most import en2e end Worthy of
study by furiners in Canada not
only M the older provinces but also
In those western areas which are
overlaid by phenomenally fine soils.
During the past thirteen years a
great many Canadian soils, both
virgin ancl cultivated, have been ex-
amined in the laboratories of our
Experimental Farms. The soils
thus exam -Med have heen representa-
tive of large areas hi every province
In the Doillinioo. Judged by the
standards accepted by agricultural
chemists nanny soils in Canada
proved fully as rich In plant food as
the most fertile soils of any port of
the world, particularly those soils
in Manitobit. and the Northwest Ter-
ritories; and the analyses by Prof.
Shutt have proved them equal to
the renowned black soil of RUSSla.
In all the other provinces there are
virgin soils of more than average
fertility, comparing most favorably
with those of other countries. ,
Tho ascertained amount of plant
food contained in an a.cre of soil
taken to a. depth of 8 inches, a
quantity that would weigh about
2,500,000 lbs„ Prof. Shutt estim-
ates, from laboratorical experiments
tfic:ble, in our rich soles., from 10,-
000 to 20,000 pounds of nitrogen,
on
15,000 to 25,000 pounds of
potash, and from 5,000 to 10,000,
Pounds of phosphoric acid. Simil-
arly 111 soils of good average fet-
tility he has found from 2,500 to
5,000 pounds of nitrogen, from 5,-
500 to 11,000 pounds of potash, and
from 8,500 -to 6,000 pounds of phos-
Witilo "tidle's° vast stores of plant
food ore truly present, but 0 very
small percenicige of them is imme-
diately available to plants, other-
wise soils might soon become 'ex-
hausted by the leaching of the food
constituents below the reach of
roots, and by the selfish practices of
taralerS W110 would return nothttig
to the soil. One of the thief func-
tions Of mechanical proeesses for
distributing soil is to hasten the
Conversion of inert material into
those more valuable compounds al-
ready reforredto. The principal ob-
ject in applying numures and fer-
tilizers is Lo add to tide *tore of
availeble plant food. The quantity
of soluble 'food eo cackled is insigni-
ficant compared with that already
present in an insoluble state, but
the increased yields resulting fully
doelonstrate that a soil's product-
iveness should be measured by 'the
amounte of its plea' food which aro
more or less available, rather than
by the aliments of 0151 shown by
the extraction by a Method of an-
alysis employing strong: mineral
acids, /Bele view cannot be unduly
emphasized, for it explains in
large •degree the value Of the clover
crop as a fertiliser.
The legumes, of which elover is a
Prominent member, have a source for
their nitrogen other than and 04 -
that Present in the sail.
The careful reeearches Of 110l1riegel.
wilfarth, and other chemists, and
the experianente at the Flxperimental
rm. In at Ottawa, helm Shown that
the legumes ebtain the nitrogen of
the air existing In the intersticee be-
tween the soil particles through the
agency of certain relero-organielee
present in the soil. These beeteria
attach themselves to the roots of
the growing clover or other legume
and iorna thereon nodules or tuber
-
cies, Teese nodules, swarreing with
their eountlese ielmbitents, are to
be found in sizes varying from a
pin's head to a pea, and frequently
scattered in vast numbers over the
roots of the legume. When they are
alma the clover, as regards its
nitrogenous food, ie in the mime
category as other plants, The nit-
rogen elaborated by these microbes
is passed on to the host plant aed
it is there built up into the usual
nitrogenous compounds of the tis-
sues of the roots, stem, and leaves.
These facts represent the most im-
portant discovery in agricultural
science of the nineteenth century.
Experhnental Faxm, Ottawa, Aug,
1902.
(Concluded in our next).
TWO LETTERS.
HAS NOT CHANGED HIS MIND
IN SEVEN YEARS.
This Correspoaadent Tells More
Emphatically Than Perhaps
Anything Could, the Perfect Per.
maneney of Cures Made by
Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Gelert, Ont., Sept. 1.—(Special) -
Mr. Samuel 'Carnahan, of this place.
is a wonderful example of what
Dodd's ;Kidney Pills will do for Mee
and suffering humanity,
Mr. Kernahan had been very ill
indeed so ill that the doctors had
given him up as an incurable. He
had spent a great deal of money in
trying to obtain a cure, but all izi
Vain, until at last a friend sug.
gested Dodd's Kidney Pills. This
wonderful remedy soon made Lem a
well man, and although tbis was
nearly seven years ago, he hoe
scarceleeknown what illness has been
since, and has never had a return oi
hie old trouble, The following let
ters which he addressed to the pro.
Prietors of Dodd's Kidney Pills, toll
the story:
-• • Gelert, Ont., Oct. 12, 1895.
in December, 1893, 1 was taken
sick and Iaid up, unable to work for
14 months. I was comened to nay
house and to my bed. I was attend-
ed at various times during these
months by five different doctors.
Three of them decided that my trou-
ble was floating kidney and incura-
ble. The other two' said that it
was spinal disease, but all of them
peonounced my ease absolutely and
positively incurable. My money was
nearly all gone, for I was not a rich
man. Some one advised me to try
Dodd's Kidney Pills, and aS a last
hope I did so. After I had taken
three boxes I was able to walk
about, but I continued the treatment
until I had taken eighteen boxes,
Now I can say I am entirely cured
and able to do my work as well as
ever.
SAMUEL ICERNAIIAN.
Geiert, April 24, 1902.
I am as sound as / over was and
have not had the slightest return of
my old trouble, since Dodd's Kidney
Pills cured nae away back in '94.
SAMUEL KERNAITAN.
Dodd's Kidney Pills curt to stay
cured,.
DOGS THAT MARE BUTTER.
In many parts of North Wales
sheepdogs are employed, mainly by
small farmers, in milk churning, and
such work is ermeled out in a very
novel way. Tho apparatus eonsists
of a light wooden table, about Oe
feet in diameter, placed at an angle
of 45 degrees fr0h1 the horizom and
revolving on a pivot. To give -the
animal a better foothold, narrow
strips of board are fixed at close in-
tervals across the outer edge of the
table, and by placing a paw against
each of these narrow bisections the
dog works the crude little macbin-
ery with apparent ease. An attempt
was made some little time ago by
menus of legal proceedings, to bring
the case of ono of these churning
dogs to conviction for cruelty, but
there was, as tho magisiecttes point-
ed out, considerable difficulty in ad-
judicating: in the ease, inasmech as
them was no precedent upon the sub-
ject. After seeing the dog in ques-
tion at work, and successfully turn-
ing the milk into butter, the bench
expressed tho opinion that though
churning was not to the dog's in-
stinct yet that of itself did not con-
stitute cruelty. The case was dis-
missed, with the caution that in
such uso of the machine the dog wits
not to be cleaned to the strueture,
as he had beon at Ulnas. Upon the
occasion of tho magisteriel teepee -
tion of the sheepdog's churniug tho
little four -footed dairy worker con-
verted the milk into butter in rather
less than half cra4*hotir.
QUITE A "CARD,"
In Dublin, before the Union, it was
tustomery kr the Meter ]ling -at -
Arms, deemed i11 full heraldic cos-
tume, to wait upo11 every newly -
made peer or baronet, to offer his
congratulations, and receive it Sub-
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On erne occasion a, predecessor of
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In his antique 'Moss, called in the
askatl Way on 0 nOW peer. His lord-
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turn was told that a very etrange
genteel:nazi had called to eee him,
Who was ho ?" asked the noble-
11:1111'Shure, nay lord," saki tile flunkey,.
"E don't know: but he looked- liko
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