The Brussels Post, 1898-2-4, Page 6TEE 1311IISSELS FOST„ Fn. 4,1B9
YOUNG FOLKS.
WTEA,T TITH LEAVES SAID.
evoe't steel Alice's sticks of %Linda;
I went call Robert ajaele-a-dendy;
1 won't squeak my pencil on my slate;
I won't lie in bed every day and he
late;
I Won't make faces et Timothy Mak;
, bank.
nalatle Ma turn them, so and sol
The good eaten come and the bad
shell go.
I won't make fun behind any one's
I won't tear "barn doors" in all my
!reales;
I won't put zny toes through all TaY
souks;
I won't be greedy at dinner-table—
Oat least—I think 1 wonit—it I'm ablel
will not pinch nor poke nor tease,
I will not sputter nor cough nor
sneeze,
I will not grumble nor fret nor scold.
I will do exactly whatever I'm tt'ld.
Rustle and turn them so and so,
The good shall come and the baib
shall go.
"PUSSY."
Pussy is e, pretty, fat bay pony, who
makes her home on Clover 1E11, and
has no occupation on earth only to
merry the children on her bruad back
for a ride occasionally, or to help ber.
master drive cattle, which she seems
to understaan all about, whirling and
heading them off, nipping some slow-
poke in the honk, and standing perfect-
ly still when left alone, until her mas-
ter conies for ber again. Re does not
use her very often, su the most of her
time is spent eating grass. until she
is really top fat for coinfort. Some-
times when the children have com-
pany they put the eaddle on Pussy and
ride ine and down across the meadow
field near the house, or me her to
bring home the cows from the pasture;
so, of course when she starts into Es
field. wbero the COWS are, those COWS
are coming home or there vill Le trou-
ble.
One evening the milking had Leen
done and the cows turned Lack into
the meadow, when some temente Lang
at the house, Nellie concludeil
to show them what a nese saddle pony
she had. Puss, for some reason, did
not fancy having the saddle strapped
on, !tut after she was ready seemed
all right, and Nellie told her friend
to mount and take a ride up the road
through the field. Pussy saw the cows
and seethed to pay any attention to
the jerks at the bridle to draw her
back to the read, but tossed her inane
and cantered off after the owns. Her
eider did not know that was what she
wanted, so after quite a struggle, com-
pelled her to tarn and mime hack with -
put them. This was too much for
Puss, who began cutting all sorts of
capers, finally dashing for 'lime, to
the delight of the friend and the dis-
gust of Nellie, who said that Pussy
could and should go, straight up the
road, and started in a cowboy race up
the road. Puss jumping sideways, cross-
ways. and every other way, until Nel-
lie, having made a circuit a the field,
returned to the starting point flush-
ed and triumphant but not caring to
ask any one to ride her again, at least
in the same- fielcl with a :o
One of the cows is a great favorite
of Pussy's. Horses sometimes like to
have their backs scratched, same as
little folks, and sometimes Pussy goes
to this cow, and, lying down, makes
ber understand that the wishes to I e
Licked; whereupon "Cherry," the cove,
commences and licks her front head
to heels, Pussy holding her n .ed out
streight. so Cleary can reacts her neck.
When one side is finished she goes to
the other, and if Pussy, in her enjoy-
ment, leans over too oloaely, Cherry
gives ber a gentle "biff" with her
head—she has no lawns—and Puss
straigbtens up again. This is fun
for the children who call Pussy "Cher-
ry's calf," and she looks funny for a
little while, too, with her glossy hair
lying sleek in every direction.
Pussy is a very knowing little horse.
She opens the yard gate, walks in
and eats all the grass she WalltS, then
walks up to the gate, opens it and
goes away to the stable for a while.
Sometimes the eats too much, and is
in pain, judging from the sighs and
groom; she gives. So her master said
she must not come in the yard and
a rope was tied around the post and
slapped over the gate. aloe watched
the proceeding with great; interest
and, when we went in the house, took
the rope between ber teeth, lifted. it
off, gave the gate a tees with her nose
then walked through. the gat' siring -
Mg shut after her, 'hen the rope
was slipped. under a nail, and as yet
he dem not know how that is fixed.
_gee_
JUST A BTT OF FUN.
Because a girt puts on long dresses
she should not thilik it necessary to
give up fun—real. rollicking fun. Of
eourse, she cannot indulge in the
pranks she enjoyed as a ciold. but she
should never ;lass an opportunity for
te good hearty laugb. Someone has
said that fan is Nature's tonic. Surely
everyone knows the exhilarating er-
feet of a good laugh. It drives away
so many little ills and dispels gloom-
iness like magic. it does not pay to
become too old to enjoy even the small
pleasantries or life. Certainly, with
the cares and worries that eeme with
bedded years one cannot nor has one
this time to indulge in fun with the
elia,ndonment of earlier years; yet the
young wotnan need net give up all
Unlike her brothers she will, as a,
rule, have something to do after her
work is dune. The boys meet and
mend a jolly hour or Levu violably in
some athletics games, going to bed
healthfully tired. their tninds as well
iq their horlies in wit a condition
that they can lode forwent" to their
meet day.'s work with pleathre. Net
eti the young woman, hhe will be
found spending her evening over ts
hook, doing embroidery, or mending
• her teethes, and she goes to bed worn
out and depressed in mind. Fun is
necessary to keep up the spirits. Ala
hones diet and amusement with
friends ;Mane Muth to the woman
who is at tome and, around the house
ceestribtly. • The old saying that a wig
'Menai work Is /levee' donee is generally
quite true, but for that matter she
raLeLLS for her own good, to bave cheer-
ful thoughts and indulge in genuine
fun and laughter as often as rho op-
portunity is presented, without of
warm neglecting important duties.
Remember that fun Is truly Nature's
tonic for maw little ills of both mind
and body.
---
HINTS FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN.
Every toy over fifteen should be
taught the use of u gun, and how
to care for It Many an excident hes
happened because the boy was not al-
lowed to go out with some older, tare -
Ail sportsman, iv's° would teachthere.
oughly the proper method ut handling
a gun in the field or woods, for it is
the "pinked -up" knowledge that
breeds the carelessuess so aeon fatal
to self or companions.
A. single -barreled hammer brew's -
loader is lest for a beginner, and you
can get one for very little money. With
this you will nut necorne confused at
o critival moment and iu goingthrough
brush you hare but ono .trigger to
eta eh whom wo wou elle you some
trouble and might prove a source of
danger to your companion When you;
huge selected a gun that fits your
shoulder and comes up naturally so
tint your eye glaneing down the bar-
rel catches the sight without looking
for it practice with it unloaded, aim-
ing quickly at small °Naas' about you
until your sieht swings onto them al-
most inetnwievely. Now go into the
field and try ono or two shots at
marks. If you flineh, load a few
shells lightly with powder only, and
use these until you can shoot with-
out blinking. Then inerease the
charges.
Hunt first in the open until you ire
thoroughly accustomed to handling the
gun, and then you can seek the woods.
Wherever yon are, always hear in mind
these points:
Never keep your gun melted unless
in the immediate vicinity of genie.
Never climb a fence under any cir-
cumstances with it cocked,
Always keep the muzzle pointed, to-
ward the ground when hunting with
companions.
Never shoot until you can see dis-
tinctly at what you. ars shooting.
Never point te gun, loaded or unload-
ed at another person.
Never get into a wagon with a load-
ed gun.
Never drag a loaded gun by the
muzzle through thick underbrush.
Don't keep a gun cocked longer than
is necessary when in a boat,
Always draw your load lefore en-
tering town, or it you. live ou s farm,
Wore reaching the house.
Always clean your gun thoroughly
inside and out as soon as you return
from a trip. Ruh the barrel with oil
before starting on a wet day. Carry
an oiled rag in your pocket, it you are
tit the seashore.
Never shoot quail on the ground.
°ley all game laws to the letter. Never
hunt for nearkete that is what is Mak-
ing game scarce.
Don't be a hog when you have
companions with pea. Always keep
your wits about you and do not al-
low a minute's carelessness either
on your part or the part of your
friends while there is a. gun in the
Party
SOME GOOD RULES.
These rules, handed down by some-
body's grandmother, are good ones for
our boys and girls to remember:
Always look at the person to whom
you. speak. When you are addressed,
look streleht at the person. who speaks
to you. Do not forget taus.
Speak your words plainly;, do not
mutter or mumble. If words are
worth saying, they are worth pro-
nounring distinctly and clearly.
Do not say disagreeable things If
you have nothing pleasant to say, keep
silent.
A fourth is—and oh, children, remem-
ber it all your lives—think three times
before you sheat once.
Have you something to do that you
find hard and would prefer not to do?
Then listen to wise old grandmother.
Do the hard things first and get it
over with. If you have done wrong,
go and oonfess it. If your lesson is
tough, master it. If the, garden its to
1e weeded, weed it first, and play after-
ward. Do first the things you don't
like to do, and then, with a clear con-
science, try the rest.
PEARLS OF TRUTH.
Lairning makes a man fit company
for himselt.—Young.
The true art of memory is the art er
a ttenCion.—Johnson.
It a num be endued with 0. generous
mind. this Is the best kind of nobility
You will never find time for any-
thing. If you want time you must
make it.—Charles Buxton.
It is not what be has, or even What
be does which expresses the worth of
a man, bu1 wig, be ie.—Amiel.
Of all virtues magnanimity is the
rarst; there are a hundred persons of
merit for one Nebo willingly tecknovv-
ledges ii in another.—Hazlith.
There is to deporteneut which suits
tha figure and talents of each persnn;
it is always lost when we quit it to
assume that of another.—Roneseau.
The one who will be found in trial
capable or great mete of love is ever
1 the one who is always doing consider-
, ate email ones. -10. W. Robertson.
Some of the best lessons WIL ever learn
we learn from nur mistakes and fail -
erre. The errors of the past is the wis-
dom and SltiLCONS of the future.—Tryon
Edwards.
%HAT WAS STIFFICTENT,
Jatikee'rhat is my fineneee over there
In the tomer. Jen% she a beauty
irom—She certainly is; but you must
remember that beauty is only skin.
deepk
Jaek—Well, what do you think I tem
eatonifte.11
A MATTER OF CONJECTURE.
She-- Sias feels hurt bemuse- she
him hefted that you said ehet was /10
I
lie—Oh, 1 'wonder if the average
young lady would consider it a com-
pliment to be called to ehieken.
PRACTICAL /ARMING.
-
WINTER FEEDING.
Winter feeding Is now the problem,
and this winter is unlike others„ as it
find,s more young pigs of summer and
fall breeding in the lianas of farmers
than usuel, due to the cold, wet, spring,
%Math calmed a shortage of the usual
crop. There are many things to consider
now, says a writer, esi enially with
the lo,e price for hogs, and, notwith-
standing the low price of corn, leh
figures hut little in growing the pig.
Shorts, loran, and tilluwal have so ad-
vanced that it may be a question in
plaees if they can be fed at a profit.
For those that in the anticipation of
higher prices for hogs, bred and raised
a large number of summer and tall riga
and have not a surplus of feed, it'
would be far more emnomietil to sell:
a part of them to feeders at present
market priees, than to half starve
them through the \sinter. and injure
the next .eeesonei cro a pigs besides.
Many who are in poseession of good
feeding stuff in aLundante for
feeding and growing pigs, either wil-
lully neglect or seem to have an aver-
sion to making themselves acquainted
with the relative quantity and qual-
ity of each required for suetaining tbs
pig's grew th, or for fettening. A
want of this knowledge or its appli-
cation causes failure to Increa ea growth
and weight, losales lemairing the
health of the llama An eeperlence
of many years ae toe erougntetwhee
us that a mixed ration Lest suits the
constitution of the erowing pig, es-
pecially if it can lie fed warm in cold
weather. We get many inquiries
about "what ails my pigs?" like this:
"I fed my pigs on corn, Int have chang-
ed of late to herley and corn or rye,"
when changes of feed should always
he made gradually. Or, "1 have been
feedingmilk with little or no meal,"
forgetting that, however good. a feed
milk is, it alone is too bulky for a
sole diet, it distends the digestive or-
gans and they have to get' rid of so
much surplus water. If corn or bar-
ley meal bas been added ta the milk,
from a few ounces to a quart for the
smallest pigs, up to twenty-five or thir-
tn pounds to each hundrect pounds) of
milk for the growing pigs of more ade
winced age, the result would bave been
satisfactory. Another persists in feed-
ing ground oats chiefly, knowing it to
be a. growing food, but forgetting that
the oat hulls become a serious disturb-
er to the digestive tract. And the
number of feeders who say that corn
LS good enough, is by fee too great,
and very often all these and other er-
rors ars persisted in Lor want of know-
ledge that is easily obtained, and gen-
erally because it is "only a hog We
are feedimgl" We seer farmers mak-
ing some of these errors last summer,
who were living in the shadow of
mills that were selling short for four
dollars to five dollars per tonl Those
that have eteamers or feed cookers
and clover hay, by adding a bushel of
blossoms and leaves, or fine cut clover
to a barred of water, and steaming it
before adding the grain, have a bulky
ration for brood sows and growing
pigs that is ranch relished and very
Mangels, intatoes, beets,
ruttilages, cooked or raw, make an ex-
cellent change in winter and supply
a place hard to fill with( grain, if in-
deed it Pan be filled by it. Regularity
in feeding is also very important if
one reale one, two three, or four times
a day let it be alt the same hour, let
no Lae think that be is a good and
literal feeder because he fills the
trough brimful, for sooner or later he
will come to the conclusion that he
was merely a wasteful Rieder. No
more than will be eaten should be
given at a, time, and this should is
a, fixed rule, nor should the feed he de-
posited in one end of the trough, where
the stronger will get the lion'sshare
of the solids of the ration. If milk
is to be given, add it just before feed-
ing, so the waren food. will raise the
temperature to blcod heat. Cold, icy
milk is an ahominable food, because a
pig or hog loves milk and, will drink
it in spite of the cold, only to chill
Lim to a point that stops digestion
for a time. Some feeders think it an
advantage to bane the feed mixed
thin enou,gh so tibat. It is I oth food
and drink, not thinking that the ani-
mal is thereby animated to eat what
it does not want or aerie in order to
get what drink it wants. On he may
want the food and not drink, and will
fish out the solids and leave the rest
to freeze anti waste, But where there
are a number at the trough some are
compelled to eat the slush until their
bellies atiek out, so that we think they
have plenty of good food. If corn on
the cob is fed, the observant feeder will
see by the droppings, filled with un-
masticated kernels that grinding
would more than pay the toll, not be-
cause of bus dire -ib loss of corn, but of
the return for food consumed, rn the
&ammo of charcoal and a:hes, of
MUM salt should never be absent.
Sods dug in the fall and kept where
they will not freeze, and occasionally
thrown in tie pen, help to keep the in-
ternal machinery in a healthy condi-
tion If one thinks lie knows all about
pig feeding tale winter, Ise will be as-
tonished to find booty mouth he must
learn next winter. But if in a void,
dirty, damp led, where the air is fill-
ed with carbonic gas, or where the
ebilly winds freeze their hocks while
they are cooking below, or if (hay nev-
er see sunlight, breathe fresh air, nor
have. healthy exertise, much of the
feed will he wasted, no matter what
it is.
THE PAWNOR'S lifille.
The farmer's hen is very apt to he a
twinserel fowl, end in truth the care
whith she receives would put. one of fin.
Or breeding to shame, le it not a
rant that on the majority of farms the
poultry ere treated with lees rstiten.
Lion thnu any other living thing alma
the plates? The average hon -house is, a
disgrace to the farm and to its 4:occu-
pants. it is filthy, illaightied and ven-
tilated, and swarming with inseet
life. Is it :My wonder that hens de-
sert it In summer, anci take to the
trees, the farm impleinents, or the
fences?
Very Many farmers declare (het
liens are a imistuare, and at: cominoe.
ly kept there is no doubt; that this is
true. They say with emphasis that
they do not get eggs enough to pay
for half what the 1111s est, and this
14 also tree, Yet the hens ought not
to he blamed for the misnianagement
width brines Knoll pow remit:. If
nu,' -half the eare and istleentitin which
tney deserve were given these much
maligned Moths, there m (mid be no
more eomplaint in tale dire, hon. Pro-
perly treated, there is no eater money
producer aloof the farm than the
hen She will glee to greater profit
pro rata than a cow.
Theging is the titnelei legin bus-
ril;
Hums, we would Imve aocm
elmaterial
to wor with the fallowing winter.
If egg -probation is the deeitlerat am
select one of the laying brew's, and
&tale eggs for Botching as early in
.
l 01 -
ten lay during winter. 1,0 it is the
pullets whirl, amt. lee the main depend-
ent* for eagle If hatched early and
carefully tended, they will begin lay-
ing early. In order to get hest re-
sults, corn meal should. not lof fed as
a steady diet to growing clacks. Wheat
ie excellent, as is also brim, eligibly
innistened. Ground oats are goo I fed
in the same way, but avoid feeding LUIS
firearle% t115110,11%,pn.s the sharp ends may
Chicks should le fed regularly and
in a cleanly manner. Avoid wet
ground, if you would not invite disease.
Clive milk either sweet or mous Chicks
are partieularly fond of cottage cheese,
or "Dutch" cheese, as it, ie. gilled, and
it is a perfectly safe food; for Lhem.
The trouble is to supply the demand.
Drinking vessels should be kept
serupulousLy clean. Wash them out
frequently, and 011 with fresh water
daily, Fowls are very fond of water,
and often suffer from an in-
sufficient supply, Water 18 the first
thing they want in the morning,
andi7htili.hay will take a drink of it the
lastthing before going to roost at
n
If you would have a garden. keep it
fenced, or else keep the fowls conained,
It is useless to expect the two to thrive
(Ahern ise. Ilene will seratole and they
delight in digging around growing
plants and vines. A two -foot width
of wire netting will be sufficient to
keep them out of the garden, if it is
eeeurely fastened and staked tostand
erect. They will rarely attempt to fly
over it, but will creep underneetla if
there is a chance to do so, A flock of
fifty Leghorn bens, rightly managed
will keep an average family int gro-
ceries, besides supplying the table with
eggs. It is not necessary to take gro-
cery -store prires for eggs, Among the
residents of any town may Le found
those who are anxious to impure, guar-
anteed eggs, and willing to pay an ex-
tra price for them, Weknow of farm-
er's wives who ol tnin from three to five
cents a dozen over market price for
all their eggs in this way,
TWO WAYS OF UNLOADING HAY.
To unload rapidly on the stack: Take
a, long rope, three-quarters inch thick,
tie the ends to the back part of the
rack, just over the sides of the bed,
take it over the rack to the front end
of the stick, hitch the team to the rope
and pull the load out of the rack. By
taking the stack in short sections you
can put it up ready for topping.
To stack hay in the field with a "go -
devil:" Take a "go -devil," that slides
OIL the ground, put a horse at each
end on a rope or chain, about seven
feet long; make the inside checks on
your lines long enough by putting very
thin rope to them. Pull all you can
into the stank, then take four 12x12
planks twelve feet long and place them
011 the en'l of the slack, side, by side,
one end resting on the ground. Bring
your load of hay, on the "go -devil," to
the end or the planks; then drop.) the
inside checks and let a man take each
Meese and turn him around and pull
out the go -devil. Now lead the horses
up aside of the hay and with the hank
of the go -devil, push it up onto the
-stack. .By huiltiictg tae stack iu sec-
tions you can rapidly put up feed in
the field, and it will save many a
hard days pitching of serghtun. or mil-
let. Stack ean bo put up as high as
the horses can pull without choking—
say seven feet. Then top out trim
wagen.
LEAP YEAR ALL THE TIMIL
If there are any emung people who
object to getting married let them
keep away from Argentina. The Gov-
ernment alarmed at the steady de-
crease in populaLion, has passed a law
which in effect, taxes unmarried peoe
ple. The law reads as follows:
People of marriageable ago of either
sex who refuse to wed ivithout rea-
sons which are considered valid in
law shall not be permitted to marry
thereafter without the permission of
the Government. They shall, more.
over pay an indemnity sum of not more
than ali00 to the person offer
they have refused "
Young men and women under twen-
ty years old ere exempt from this law
and can marry as they ptsase; but from
twenty to twenty-eight the law, If they
are not married at twenty, takes them
in hand, and the men are obliged to
pay a heavy tax if they remain
li Argentina women propose as well
as men; ao an 'unmarried young man
between twenty ana twenty-eight years
old in that reentry has a troublemonge
Hine. Not only is he made to pay a
tax for tieing a bachelor, but if he
refuses a proposal he has to pay the
proposer a fine. It would seam as IP
a Person might make quite a fair sum
in Argentina by making a few judi-
110115 proposals 1,0 persons one knew
didn't want to Marry.
This law lute been in operation and
already quite a few persons Whn pre-
ferred single blessedness have had to
pay for the privilege.
A TOUGH LAtM,
Old althea—Waiter, you clon't mean
to say that this is Spring lamb?
Waiter—Indeed, it is, mite
Old Gruff—Hen' Whet year?
TILE BEAUTY'S EXCUSE,
Ignorance of blob law excuses no
Mali.
flow about It woman 1
Same thing, Nothing but good looke
Will (Meso e
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A. Pew Items 'Willett ;WHY Prim, W"411
'tending.
Tbe swiftest raver in the world, is the
&ahoy in India. At one part of It there
is a descent at 12,000 feet in 108 gales.
Mr. and Mrs, Jetta) Hiller, of Elkton,
Math- have been married eighty-eight
Years. ars age is 108, and the Is one:
year younger.
,Purses made of the ski" o1 the " j, rng
are in great favor with P0114101 Itsdi
This kind of leather is extremely titito i
yet very durable,
A liquor dealer in Birmingham, Mae
mixed wood alcohol with cheap whiskey
and mkt it to his patrons. Ten ofthan
died within three days.
A Texas judge encouraged the lausbe
end a a flirting wife with this oe
in -
05 : "Flirting is me pretext for a div-
orce, but it is a good. 03:CASA tor a fun -
elate"
A judicial decision recently annoiinc-
ed in Kentucky prohibits building (god
loan associations charging their mein-
bers more than six per cent, for the
use of money.
R. Freeman, Justice a the Peaee,
of Winartme, Ind., has married 2,807
couples, His age. is 94, and he chal-
lenges any man of his years to a wrest-
ling or jumping mettle
The heaviest bicycle rider in the
world is Jute W. Grienee, of Augusta.,
Ga.. lE1 Is six feet four inches in height
and weighs 824 1-24 pounds. He meas-
ures 03 inches around the weist
In Bieletield, Germany, there is a col-
ony of epileptics, numbering about
1,000. The colony was established in
1868, and patients from all perts of the
world go there for trealment,
Rats abound on the Scilly Islands,
near the seashore. At low tide crabs
drift into the underground avenues
leading to the rat -holes, and the rata
gnaw off their legs to prevent their
escape.
The first -book printed in 'New Ha.ven,
Conn., was that which contained the
laws of Yale College. It was issued in
1748, and was all in Latin. The laws
were afterwards printed in English, in
1772.
The bass -drum is one of the instruxn-
ants of bands attending regiments of
the &avian army, It is fixed on a two -
wheeled cart, which is drawn by a large
trained dog. The drummer walks be-
hind the cart.
The Sultan of Lahore, India, would
be worth stealing if be could be kid-
napped on some state °evasion, when
be is decked with his full array of ;jew-
els. At such times the gems in his
crown and worn on his person are val-
ued at 012,000,000
It is much to the credit of the clergy-
men of New Orleans that during the
recent yellow fever terror in that city
not one of them deserted his post of
duty. Yet their congregations :Junin-
isbed alarmingly, and in some wises en-
tirely disappeared.
A London "prophet" has chemeged bis
reputation by two inconsistent perform-
aueest A. week after positively predict-
ing the end of the world in 1900, he
paid a large sus to &mare a fifteen -
year lease of a house wherein he carries
on a ;mercantile business.
A Chicago clergyman paused in bis
sermon to welcome three or four late
comers, and warmly thanked there for
their opportune arrival, saying they
had aroused some of bis sleeping eon-
gregation, Then be proceeded with his
sermon,
and the tardy MKS blushed
with sbaens.
To win a bet, Eli Fabrney, of Funks -
town, Pa., tried to skin a squirrel in
two minutes, With the squirrel en his
knee, be waited for the tall of "Time!"
Then with a,hesty flourish ot his knife,
be plunged it downward, missed the
squirrel, and inflicted a 'dangerous
wound in his leg.
Within ts few days the Rev. Mr. Gil-
ham, of Mintonville, Hy,, bas changed
his theological opinions on a, certain
subject, He preached that there is no
devil. Hie congregation do not agree
with him in this matter, and they not
only ejected him from the church, but
fired twenty pistol shots after ban. Now
ha thinks there are amoral devils.
Frank Ritter, a seiciou-keeper of St,
Louis is gradually turning into chalk.
Rio legs have become like those of a
statue of ehalk, destitute of feeling, Al-
ready the doctors have found it neces-
sary to remove his left lag, which they
took oft ab different times, in eight
chalky sections. The disease is caused
by the accumulation of lime in the sys-
tete),
.A. French lad neaned Tremonillet, at
the age of eighteen, was venture(' by
Algerian piretes in the year 1789, cud
carried to the, town or Orae. There,
four years later he married. an Arab
woman, and has remained in the place
ever since.. . For forty -throe years he
has been a health officer of the port,
;Wad is Still vigorous and dignified at
the wonderful age of 128,
A package conleinieg a lightecolortel
powdery substance was found In a clos•
et, she was deeming, In Mrs. Phoebe
ja Wilton, of Long Ridge, Conn, and
she threw it into the kitchen Stove, in-
stantly there VMS a terrific explosion,
the stews was Sluatt'rea, incl Mrs. Wil-
son and her daughter -it -law were bad-
ly burned. , The package contained
white gunpoevder.
NOT TRUE TO Niauto,
Mr 'Upton, reading—A prominent ar-
tist mealy painted some reliwebs on
bis ceiling so realistic that the servant'
girl Was ovetcome with an atiaele of
nervone prostration in trying to tiweep
tbeen down,
Mrs, (Ipton—I don't believe, there is
0. word of truth in that arldele.
Mr .1110ton--Why not, dear 1 There
are any nuonlwr of artists temable or
meet:toting work like tits. t.
Mrs, Upton—That may be true, but
there never was each a servant girl,
GR,F,ENWICH OBSERVATORY.
The observatory oe (lreenwiell was
The 01 tiervatory of Greene-1th sons
Sounded in 1871
TO PLEASE A MAY
\-
There M some where in exist mime leg-
end to the effort that a woman's firsb
lost and greatest delight should he to
please her Inieband. How far this is
lived top to, let the condition of the
homes you visit testify.
But in conversing with different men
at different tame, 1. have elicited some
facts with regard to the numeeline view
of the matter which aseure MS that
in ordet to please Iter "Marin(' a wom-
an most be as neer perfection as it Is
possible for any mortal to be In this low-
er world, and Ina stand in danger of hav-
ing her wings sprout out and carry
her away to "mansions 1;1 the skies.'
She must be always cheerful, A man
doesn't went to meet ma looks, and
watery, eyes, when he comes home from
Itis arduous business of riding Ills
wheel to beat the century recora, and
perhaps, In business hairs dictating to
his pretty typewriter; no, indeed! It
M a. woinan's business to look sweet.
What if her heal does abs? Heads
bave ached ever since the flood, and no-
body ever yet died of the headathe.
Women must expect to have hea.laelies,
and they ought to learn to bear them
with calmness, No need of going to
bed with every little lienelatthe, 11 is
childish,. And It is just the sane with
lathathe. Tee man will tell yoti that
his mother, and Itis grandmother, and
likely enough his gettat grandmother,
all ha'l headaches and backaches. most.
,ortii.e time, and lived to be ninety.
or ninto
ety-five,and brought up eight
or ten children, and did all their house-
vork
What a WOUtall ought to do when she
dursn't feel up to the enrage Is to
fly around lively, and think of some-
thing, and somebody, besidt herself, and
ten to one she'll be all right in a lit-
tle
Then it isn't necessary for a woman
to he deseribing her aches and pains
all the time. lt is utter weariness to
the soul of man to be eternally bear-
ing ghoul the awful darling mare of
neuralg,a, and the knobby, sore and
distressing pangs of rheumatism. And
unpleasant rendiniscences—that; is ari-
otber subject that should be avoided
by the woman who would please her
husband. Tfeaven deliver the man
whose wife is always recalling the un-
pleasant occurrences which have mar-
red her pasbl What if poor Aunt Jam -
Lunt did die a raving minima? She is
deed, and let us hope, at rest—and no-
body m ants her for breakfast, or Lor
dinner either.
The woman who would please her hus-
band must never tot the part of a mar-
tyr. Oh, these domestic martyrs are
terrible -I They are worse than a north-
east rainstorm with a house where the
chimney smokes and the roolleaks. The
domestic martyr generally lias faded
blue eyes, 0,13(1 a emetic:lout and bed-
raggled appearance. She looks as if she
had hung out on the elothe,s line
through a rainy winter. You couldn't
put stiffening enough in the skirt of
a dress for her to make it stand. out
flaring, anyway, It Mad. draw in to-
ward her heels by the force of her WUBS,
by the time she had worn it WV days.
She is always comparing her lot with
that of some other woman vvhom she
knows.
"Yes. I am so confined," she says,
when any one asks her if she has seen
away during the summer. "Housework
M very confining, anyway, but it does
seem as if there never was a woman
so tied up to it as I arn. larnnehoev,,my
fteraily never can seem to get along
u minute without m.o. NO. i Curious,
isn't it ? IVhy, James couldn't get into
a clean shirt without my help, and as
for the children—good 1,011 they can't
so much as Wath their foxes without
me to find the soon for 'eml Yes, I
s'pose the beach would do me good,. but
there's nothing or the kind for inel No,
Well, I try to 118 resigned to the Lord's
will, but sometimes it is hard. Yos,
pour Mrs. Dingley died awful sudden;
end they say that Dingley is abouL
crazy. He always thought so mach of
her, .Why, he used to go upstairs and
bring clown her gloves and bonnet when
they were going to meeting, I've heard
it said, Landsake I I wonder how long
it would be before anybody %Nat.
Upstairs and brought down my, bonnet
for me'? And 1 wonder who'd go crazy
if 1 should die 1 Bumph 1 tamest any
man would he looking ont for a emend
wife—a younger one, too, Men are
such forgetful creetaires. \tstll 1 s'pose
I'd ought to try and be resigned," and
she heaves a sigh like a tocommive
blowing off steam and subsides into sil-
ence.
To please her husband., a woman
ahould be careful to conk the dishes he
likes. It doesen't matter whether she
likes them or not—s, woman isn't sue -
posed to have any special eppetites.
Those thinge are pre-eminently mascu-
line, It is not quite genteel fon ammo: -
au to give her mind malt to such vulg-
fir affairs as beefsteak anti MUMS—only
as she -toes it to plresse her husland,
.11' he I ikes .thilfish let him Mtge codfish,
If he wants liver, let him feast on, liver.
If he sighs for "mother's becad," get
bis mother to cane and make hie breact
for to inontla and very likely he'll igi
glad to go lima: to baker's broad by
that time, The. glamor of the past gen-
erally hangs neamt Lhat bread that mo-
ther inatM.
The wife who would please •her husb-
and, must be able to sit quietly and
calmly serene while he reale lbs (Well-
ing paper, and keel* the whole to him-
self, though she is dying to get hold
of it, and she must thy to look intense-
ly delighted when he reads to her the
entertaining news of how wheat has
advaneed 0 point in the markets, and
Consols have dropped seven-fiftietbs of
o Oechl,11."
110sre are weans of things co
woman can do to please her husband,
anti all young ladies who are contem-
plating marriage, would do wall to look
them up, awl filo them tor -future refer-
ence.—Kete Thorn.
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
1 think there IOU he in:Tensed
iteffering tc, the K taillike this 'sin.
ter,
W boy/
Well. they say that OVOry 410.50
party of gal seekers that arrives
brings to fresh bath of Mullett,
0011g9
WHAT IS GOING ON IN TIE. rGiella
CORNERS OF 'THE GLOBE.
0$d and New World Benito ot Interest Gluon..
Icled BrIells—intercetInu atiet minas el
Recent Dote.
Mgr. Algernon Stanlay, brother of
Lord Stanley ti Alderley and forraer-
ly en Anglican clergy man, lies been
made 4 PrOthettiul a ry Apostolic by the
Pove.
Sethi, who recently completed his
sixey-fourth public fast in Rome, has
abstained arara food in his perfor-
mances for 2.607 days et his life—nearly
Riven years.
Addington Park for a century and
WI lately the official country
palace at the Arehlasirem of Canter-
bury, has been sold for $375,030 to a
neiv millionaire from Johannesburg.
For half an hour 91,9 knots was the
rate of speed of the Star, is new 88 -
knot torpedo -Loeb destroyer built by
the Tbe average for the
three-hour triel WILS 80 111 keels.
Edwin Arnoad's Japanese bride
aecording to the Japanese newspapers
'ILLS °nee a Geisha named Tama, with
whom the elderly poet 1,(L.U41.13
itolab-
uated during bis last visit to Japan.
M. Camille Flanamegion has unda-
ted:en to cinematograph the sky. Ile
Lakes 3 000 photographs a night \OULU
it is L:10ar. and expects to thew realis-
tic pieturee of the movements of mooto
and stars.
Brussels being obliged to bays an
elevated railroad to connect the sta.-
Gone at opposite ends of tie city, ir
going to build 11 180 feet from the
amend on ornamental pillars, with a
glass roof beneath to prolate; the
streets lelcnv.
A polar Lear and s. sloth bear from
India got into a tight in an English
menagerie recently, and after a quar-
ter of an Image Struggle daring
which the keepers were unable to get
them apart, the sloth Lear killed its
antagonist.
Theodor MOrrllSell, who has always
been a. radical in velitics, refused the
title of "Excellency" uttered him by
tbe Kaiser on the occasion of his eigh-
tieth birthday, just as he refused the
title of "Geheieura.th "a few years
ago.
ea driver an the Auteuil -Madeleine
omnibus lino in Paris has drawn the
100,030 frano pri2L3 in the city bond lot-
tery. He declines to give up his job
however, as the interest un the money
is not enough to enable him to live
in Paris.
Queen Victoria has accepted as a ju-
biles gift from a private person the
engraved signet ring of Queen Mary
IL, \vire of William III. The same col -
teeter gave her Majesty the diamond
signet ring of Henrietta Maria, King
Charles I.'s queen, ten years ago.
An Englishman belonging to the So-
elaty for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, who had two coachmen at Na-
ples fined for ill using their horses,
was beaten nearly to death afterward
by the two men in front of his hotel.
Mr. Leonard. Courtney, M.P., intro-
duced an innovation in teetering 'A-
fore the Statist' al Sudety recently.
Being unable to read his paper on ace.
count of bad eyeeight, he spoke it, be-
ing prompted at frequent Intervals by
a young man wbo sat near him hold-
ing the manuscript.
Greenwich Observatory aumplains
that it has little clear weather. Sun
and stars are wholly invisible every
other day in winter, one day in roue
in fall, one in eight in spring, and
one in sixteen in summer. In the twen-
ty years ending with. 1806 there were
only eight instances of sunlight for
fourteen continuous bours.
Abyssinia is likely to be conquered
peacefully by Italy, as over 4,000 sol-
diers taken prisoners by Menelek are
said to have settled in the country,
reaming to go borne. Meanet hits their
families are petitioning the Govern-
ment either to get hack the men who
disappeared after Adana or to declare
them dead officially, so that their af-
fairs in Italy may be settled.
Professional delicacy has forced the
Sicilian brigand oboist Candino to write
to the Palermo newspapers, explaining
that one manlier of his band has been
expelled for "discourteous condact in
his dealings with the inflate" Candino
himself notifies the relatives of his
captive% that a ransom is due by send-
ing them fingers, handand ears as
preliminary hints or the captive's fate.
Archduchess Elizabeth of Austria the
dauigliter of the tete Crown Prince Ru -
dolt, is now fifteen years of age. She
will inherit the greater portion of
iloer grandfather's private e.state. Apart
from the ravings of fifty years from
his yearly allowanee of 0,000000 flor-
in% Emperor arenas Joseph inherit-
ed 200,000,000 florins worth of property,
from his mole and preclece,ssor, Em.
tearer Ferdinand '1.
The Marl of illoaelyn, whose skill as
4.1.7) areateer ballet, claimer has delight-
ed seleet audiences in Great Britain
and the colonies, is now in the Hank -
repine. Court, and, it as seal, will stem
appear as to protonsinual In a neer /fay
liy Mr. Pinero, In the mven years
'gime his coiningter [sec he bas added
0450,000 to the innumbranees on his
eetalies, and hes run up unseeured
date to the nennunt of 850,0041, the
money ging, an he elates on oath ' in
money imidorla In 101(111, gambling,
loom raving and other ex tie:wagonette.
Tliere aro no assets whatever.
T1N1 LOSS THAT COUNTED.
1 hear that burglars got into your
house the other night and Stoic jem ai-
ry wept') Ken said Collingwood.
That, %vestal the worst of it, either,
eeplied Cannwrdown.
Whet ale was Mere?
Well, they lighted the go all over the
house, a ncl lett it bumble; onlil 053,100
beteg from the thetttor moil rls tittguielk.