HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-8-12, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST,
AUGUST 12, 1998.
HINTS FOR
THE FARMER.
OUR UNKNOWN FARMS,
Pew farmers know the farms they
till. They can tell if they receive good.
Drops or bad crops; whether the land
is hard or emy to work, whether the
sail be s relentivo clay or a loose sandy
loam, but this is not knowing the farm. I
The great work at knowing the farm
has just begun, even in ease of the
a
most progressive farmers. It will he
along time before the impulse reaches
to the great mass of farmers, many
of whom ere willing to tread in the old
paths and seek only for the old ways.
In every farm there are wonderful
possibilities, Some of thorn that boar
poor crops now do so for the reas-
on that their owners have never dis-
covered the true condition of affairs,
and could find a crop or amps that
would do excellently. We look for-
ward into the future.
When our science has reached a
high
stage in the years to Dome the manner
of treatment of the farm will bo far
different from teal of the present day.
There will beagoography of the farm
as touch as of the nation. The map
will he not only geographical but geo-
logical. The formations will be as
carefully studied es any other part oe
the science, Ifnow1oa the composition
of every part of the land, It will bet pos-.
aible to find out the needs of each part
and to apply the remedy.
The boys and girls want to and do
get off the unknown farms. If they
really knew tbe farms they would not
be so anxious to forsake them. They
would see iu them not only the possib-
ility but the certainty ofa support and
aretarn for all their labors. But the
knowledge of the farm can not be ob-
knowledge of the farm cane ot be ob-
tained by force or by committing to
memory some or many who sayings.
We must approacn the earthworks of
the enemy. We must first know geo-
logy, chemistry, botany, agrostatics,
bydraulIes, and so forth.
'These are studies that every farmer's
sons and daughters ran undertake.
Tbey will be found full of delight,
With their advent will come a naw Iife
to the farm. and a uew feeling of secur-
ity to the worker. Nature tea bounti-
ful mother if she but be known. We
cannot be expected to know all nature,
but we can know that part of all nature
that is comprised in the little spot we
call the farm, Whether we cultivate
an unknown or a known farm is the dif-
ference between the muscle and the
brain. The man that has an unknown
farm farms by brute force. He that
has a known farm farms by the paver
of his mind.
BEAUTIFYING FARM FlOa3ES.
Let me, a farmer's wife, answer this
question, "Does it pay to make attrac-
tive homes?" Yes. indeed, It does pay a
thousandfold. In what kind of coin? In
the best on earth; happiness and con-
tentment for your wives and families.
There is more or less monotony and
tedious routine in life ou the farm, But
give us beautiful. attractive surround -
Ings and tbeir beauty will be a perpetual
benediction to our lives. Tend to les-
sen corroding care and anxieties, be e
sweet comfort for sorrow and rest
and encourage us, body and soul.
No wise woman will stay all day in-
doors cooking, sewing, scrubbing and
fretting. 12 the work must bo done by
your hands go out under the trees e
few reanimate every hour. Listen to
the sweetest music on earth, gather a
few flowers for your belt and hair and
&bouquet for the table and you will
go bark rested and refreshed. 13y all
means have flowers and flowers. We
all love them and in their care the chil-
dren learn many a valuable lesson of
industry, patience end refinement. Our
men and children always bring me bou-
quets from field or roadside from the
first violet to the goldenrod. It plea-
ses me so much and show's not only
thele• love for the beautiful but their
loving thoughtfulness for another.
Italica croquet ground in the shade
on the nice lawn and "all hands and
the rook" play there together. You
can't think how it will tinkle the young-
sters to beat you.
Of course yeti will have books and
papers galore. A11 the best. purest,
clot -meet literature when you will
all go to read and rest throngb the
long nooning.
Try this and see if it does not pay
principal and large interest on your
investment, Bowl Why by having
your children steady, thoughtful and
intelligeot, and thinking there is no
place on earth so sweet and attractive
as home ; in seeing them growing
mentally and morally, cultured and
refined, and knowing that your
thought.' care and labor has made all
this possible,
We are wonderfully susceptible to
the influence of beauty. Surround us ,
with it, end, we can no more help par-
taking of it than the cbamele on can of
the leaf upon which it lies.
It'salong abide in the right direc-
tion to make our surroundings as at-
tractive as possible, As it back ground
for happiness there is nothing so fit-
ting,
13y having your homes a concentrated
bit of loveliness, remember the living
example of thoughtful kindness, thrift
and go-ehea.daiivnnoss, you are toyaur
children, The influence of soca Alamo
and surroundings are inestimable and.
in no place is it more needed than on
tile farm, --Jane.
• ?GRAFTING PLUMS 'ON PEAoR
Palm -growing is not by any means
as perfect hi this country es it might
bo, antl,wo still have much to learn In
regard to rals'ing these fruits. The es-
•
tablishment of the Japanoae pian trees xlthWateseehWae!AelihNJi eeeeeMMNletefe firyyefh lit is easy t metinge their washing
in this country, say's an le stern ex- es at horua with n little caro. Sumo h
ouse-
chango has givens big impetus to that kenpSes put then
work but flora aro many fai!:uron in � � � >� �'� 01,1) e � ,but if un adv da pair a
1st ge oaucar'ning the trees and fruits, eleMNW4Ve14tYFA le teleete tegayW"MMmeaeat be done et once.
DIUTAD 4R! AS135,
The scraps at the breadbc>x are
'trees, wi,en tbo extra drain of bearing one „bee In runn1,w longs a little somelhing that, viten weighs heavily
f its " d th b '
grafted trees show binding and split- much comfort in relat.lou to the wasp housekeeper. Ir, summer bread soon
plum -growing. In spite of all our know- w t' towards the latter1
b end uL the 'Whir is taken, it Man tell
we must make sumo further etperi-
500nt5 to attain annytbing like oureess.
Many plum art'hards thrive well utrtil
nearly the fruiting seaont, Then the
f.101.leE11O'LD HINTS,
Tito Weep Pest.—Phis is the mom -
weaken,
is impose upon em, begin tot reeentive action will be productive of ell the thoughts of the economical
tvaakun and show cigar et do+feotw lko ' p
ting et the junction of the bud and pest. These belligerent little insects molds, and the serails, if not removed
stack, and. various plum diseases de- have by this time appeared and bocat- at least twice a week from the box
vslop. The bark in plaees dies ane rots ed themselves in their nooks [n the ant] attended lo, soon contaminate the
off, and in time this decay peneerateswhole, ] scuta of brand, even the
t._ the heart of the tree, the east erenees of piazza -railings and atone vet y I
stook for grafting ehoioe buds on leis bou:;e foundations. In oneaf the tenets aviimbs of the bread -boars], may be
beenamatter of grave concern foe
some time. The Myrobolan group of
stocks vita for auto time proclaimed. its
best; then the Marianna stocks suc-
ceeded them in popularity. Both
native and Japan plums have been
grafted on stocks of those two groups.
But with some of our newer chute>
plums, better re,eults are ubtnined by
root -grafting on the peach. One year
p,•aeh seedlings root -grafted veteehoiee
plum stook will invariably produce
plum trees that, Ina few years will be
self-supporting oe then- own roots, In
this union all urk,u•s must be kept
downy, Some plume how such a ten-
dency to send up suckers that they
cannot be suceessiully root -grafted on
tbe peach, soul. as the Wild. Goose and
Chickasaw plums. The stooks that will
show no tendency to send up suckers
will grow in popularity, and will in
time be the ideal ones for commercial
orchards. At present we have no ideal
plum stocks.
A PERMANENT STRAWBERRY BEG.
On many farms the strawberry bed
bas been allowed to run wild and form
a complete sod. As a rule it is best to
plow under such mind and make anew
cue, but sometimes this is the only
available spot for the purpose and with
proper management no crop of ber'r'ies
nese bo lost, Al: any time after the
bearing season in over and before the
ground freezes iu the fail, secure a
good ono -horse breaking plow that will
turn anarrow furrow, eight inches be-
ing sufficient. Ileve the cutter well
sharpened and then set stakes where
you want your rows of strawberries,
and plow the ground between the rows,
throwing the earth away from tbe
rows. Be careful to keep your furrows
straight and plow to within about
three inches of the stakes. Now login
on the opposite side and do the same
and a block of strawberry plants six
Inches wide will be left, standing for
each row.
TO SAVE MOISTU'RJE,
When the days are warm and dry
there is constant loss of moisture by
evaporation. This evaporation ovum,
not only from the plants, which give
off maintain, but also from the surface
of the ground. It has been estimated
that over two-thirds of a pound of wa-
ter per square foot is lost from tbe soil
during dry weather. \Vhen the top
surface is loosened it becomes acover-
ing of dirt, and lessens the loss et mois-
ture. The importance of preventing
the escape of moisture may be shown
by the fact that in order to produce
one Lon of hay on one acre 480 tons
of water are used. equal to nearly four
inches of rainfall. To save moisture
first ptough the Iand tom depth that
may be permitted without throwing
the subsoil to the surface, allow no
weeds, and keep the surface soil always.
loose and find.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
There are at present 260,000 Ln ions
in the United States, distributed un-
evenly throughout twenty-five of the
states and territories, the largest num-
bar, 72,000, living in the Indian Terri-
tory, with 35,000 In Arizona, 18,000 in
South Dakota, 1.3000 in Oklahoma, 12,-
00e in California, 10,000 in Wisconsin,
5,200 in Naw York, and 2,000 in North
Carolina,
The great sequoia trees of the Yose-
mite Valley, Cal.. are aeceoded in sire
by the mammoth gum trees of. Austra-
lia, which are helieted to be the largest
in the world, What is believed to be
the loftiest tree growing is the eu-
calyptus regnum, Ono of these trees
in the Cape Otway range measured,
when felled, 415 feet in length.
The Japanese postofLice department
takes extraordinary trouble to deliver
mail matter. For instance, a Hong
Dong newspaper was sant to Yokohama
on April 15, and was returned to Hong
Kong on May 11, marked "Not found,"
but when returned to the sender it had
seven tags attached to it, each tag
containing a redirection.
All the flags for liriLisb ships of war'
except Lha royal standards, are made
in the government uoclry0.rds, and the
enormous lumbar requeed may be
iudaad Leona the tact that in the color
lof1.at Chatham alone about 18,000 flags
are made in a year.
The marigold is a little weather pro -
phot. If the day is going to be fine
the Cower opens about 8 or 4 o'clock
in the afternoon , bat if wet weather
is in store the marigold does not open
at all.
One of the novel ideas of decorative
effect in Japan is to catch fireflies,
keep them in a cage or box of wire
until guests arrive, and then reloaso
them in the garden.
An eminent Italian doctor has been
experimenting with the inhalation of
petroleum fumes in eases of whooping
cough, and has obtained good :results,
According to the new city directory
Chicago now has a population of 1,-
803,000, This is an increase of 05,300
over the figures tar 1897,
.American forests hare produced dur-
ing the past six years 024,000,000,000
feet of lumber, valued at $25,000,000,000.
No one Nae yet been able to explain
why glow-worms are so murk more
brilliant ,just before a storm then at
any other time.
issued from the Entomological Depart- made useful if they are systematically
meat at Washington, it la advised to saved and dried.
wench when the hole 38 full alt night
of the wandering insects and then pour
generous dose of ehlorotorm into it.
This will exterminate the colony at
one blow.
If a supply of bread is baked seine -
weekly, the breadbox should be cleared
out es soon us the baking is ready to
be put away, and all scraps not large
Temperanoe Cocktails.—The clam enough for toast or for fried bread
coektall is prepared very much as the should be broken up and set on a tin
oyster relish of the same name. The plate in the healing closet to dry. 'the
title of either is u misnomer, so far as entire slices and pieces of a lout which
the use of spirituous liquors is con- are saved for tonal or for other pur-
cerned. Either may be made without systematically
satuld ye kept up themselves ttnd
systematically avast up pace a weak.
such. Half a dozen of the smallest Ie Lbey are not need for toast or fried
bread after standing a few days they
should be broken up and dried in the
heating closet with the smaller scraps.
These scraps to be properly dried
spoonful each of vinegar, tobaseo sauce for crumbs must stand in this pleas
and tomato catsup. etir the cocktail lye- until all 10 g, a cora has loft them. They
fore serving and sena] it to the table are thena Sn a condition to be prepared
for redinfor uses Ln puddings and
for various other purposes of cooking.
Tbero is no purpose of cookery for
which dried bread is not better than
soft. stale bread, except, possibly, for
stuffing for fowls•
There are a great many rooks who
do not know the value of "raspings,"
or coarse breast crumbs fried a golden
brown in butter. The intelligent nook
uses a few of these fried crumbs to
decorate a fried fish or to scatter
through a dish of boiled noodle ar of
Mains are selected, and are serve:] iu
a tall glass. Over them is poured a sort
of same, made of a tablespoonful of
the liquor, a pinrh of cayenne, n tee -
toe -cold. The r.o ktail is eaten with an
oyster -fork, a few sips of the liquor
twine taken afterward'.
Aan'taa Sandwiches.—Banana sand-
wirhrs are sometimes served as a sim-
ple luncheon dessert, or for the chil-
dren's table. The. fruit is sliced and
placed between brown slices of but-
tered bread. 'these am laid in a shal-
lots glass or china dish, and just before
serving a pint of boiled custard is pour- macaroni. \S'hen necessary' to cover un
ed over and around them. Another van- imperfectly browned fish, or anyfried
iation for the children's dessert is a dish, a few raspings fried a golden
wholesome substitute for the eclairs brown may be scattered over, and will
repair all the sirs of poor frying.
of which they are so fond. [lug at the For u$e in puddinge and in any, dish
bakers the long pointed finger rolls, of whteh they are Co form a compon-
ancl after one side has been rut down 1 ant part., brendc'umbs, dried and ettt-
witb a fork, dig out as much at the ed, should be used, and shnailcl ba moist
inside as possible. Have ready a littleened for use with a pint of scalded
boiled custard made in the ordinary
env, except with slight additional
thickness gained either with a little
golattne or by stirring in a tablespoon-
ful of flour, wet in a little cold milk,
This is the proper proportion of a
pint of restart]. The custard serves as
a filling for the rolls. At this season it
is a pleasant variation to add a little
of the strawberry juice, pressed from
fresh strawberries, or u very little
pineapple or banana pulp may also be
used to flavor the filling. Plain whip-
ped crenut or that over which a little
sweet chocolate has been grated Is an,
other welcome variety. It is the pas-
try of the eclair which is especially un-
wholesome for youthful stomachs.
Creamed Corned Beef. --The left -over
old cooked corned hese is cut into
dice and stirred to a sauce before it
1s put into a buttered pudding -dish, the
mixture covered with half a cupful of
craeke,' crumbs or grated bread
crumbs, stirred into a little melted
butter, The dish is then sot in the
oven and baked until the crumbs are
brown. The sauce rs made 1.>y cream-
ing two tablespoonfuls or flour and two
of butter with two cupfuls of bot milk,
into whirll a slice of onion has been put
[luring (be heating process. The 011100.
should he taken out when the sauce
is conked thick, and a. flavoring of cel-
ery salt added.
Ginger Ice Cream.—To a pint of milk
and balf a cupful of sugar heated in
a double boiler, add a quarter of a cup-
ful of cold milk, into which itas been
stirred, a tablespoonful of flour. Cook
all, sttrring constantly for ten min-
utes, To tbe yolks of three eggs,
slightly beaten, add half a cupful of
sugar and a quarter of a teaspoonful
of salt; dilute this with a little of the
hot mixture before pouring all togeth-
er, and stir until it locks cooked. Strain
into the freezer, and add three cupfuls
of thin cream. saslded. When pool, flav-
or with a tablespoonful of orange or
lemon extract and one-third of acup-
ful of ginger syrup; then freeze, Be-
fore it is perfectly stiff, work in half
a pound of preservedginger root, fine-
ly ebopped, then pouuded in a mortar
and pressed through a sieve,
Orange Charlotte.—Orange charlotte
is a delicate dish, and is made from
orange jelly, slightly thickened. Use a
pint of the ,jelly, end after it is Gold
enough to be slightly thick, beat in
e taut of whipped cream with the
whites of two eggs. Line a mold with
lady -fingers, interspersed with a few
slices of orange, and pour in the mix-
ture, Serve cold, with a custard made
from the yelks of the eggs and a pint
of milk;
Coffee Tablets.—Coffee tablets are
one of 1310 latest additions to oondens-
ed foods. One of these dropped into a
eup of hot water produces quickly the
breakfast coffee, and should be useful
for the p30nie basket es well es for
the light 3iousekeeeper, .It is sometimes
necessary to make a cup of ono for
a single person. Take a tablespoonful
of coffee and stir with perhaps the
quarter of the white of an egg. Add
bait a cupful of cold warter, boil, and
milk to a cut, of dried orumhu. After
they have coaled, the mixture should
have additional intik, if necessary ; eggs
and the other ingredients should be
added. Do not at to eaten dried
crumbs with cold milk; it takes too
long,
• DOMESTIC RECIPES.
Lemon Cookies, --Four sups of flour,
0710 cup of butter, two cups of sugar,
juice and grated peel of one lemon,
three eggs beaten very ligbt, When
well mixed add half a teaspoonful of
soda dissolved in a tablespoonful of
milk, Roll out like cookies, bake alight
brown. The dough should be quite
stiff. Use no other wetting.
Soy. --Crush two quarts each of stem-
med currants and raspberries, add
three cups of vinegar, two cups of su-
gar, a teaspoonful esoh of ground mace
allspice, cloves and pepper; bail one
hour, then' bottle and seal.
Spiced Grapes.—Take six pounds of
grapes, pulp them and cook the pulps
until you can remove the seeds by
passing through a sieve; put them with
the skins and cook an nour, Then add
three pounds of wbolo sugar, a tea-
spoonful each of ground cinnamon,
cloves and allsince, and a ball pint of
vinegar, Cook half an hour longer and
seal while bot.
Cheese Balls,—Blend one cake of
Neufchatel cheese with levo table-
spoonfuls of whipped cream, the same
measure of chopped almonds and one
tablespoonful of nninced parsley or
cress, Dip butter paddies into Me -
water and mold the cheese into balls
the size of an ordinary hickory nut.
Serve with the pie.
It is a very common sight, in the
streets of Paris, to see baby carriages
which am propelled by electricity.
A large lake of boiling mud, two
miles in cirrunifer'ence, exists on the
plains of Grobogana, Java. In the cen-
tre, immense columns of steaming mud
are constantly rising and falling, while
on the western edge, are two gigantic
bubbles. which form like bugs bal-
loons, and explode about three Limos a
minute.
A young main in St. Louis thought be
had fallen into extreme good luck
when he married a pretty milliner who
was earning 525 a week, His s,•t1sry is
only $12, and he mentally combined the
two incomes saying, "On 537 a week
we can live in clover." The honeymoon
was barely over when she resigned her
situation ; and this cot so disgusted
him that he became rude, and she has
left him.
The comparative durability of iron
and aluminum horseshoes was reeent13'
tested in the cavalry of Finland. Sever-
al horses were sash shod with one al-
uminum shoe and the other three made
of iron. 1n some oases the aluminum
shoe Was on a fore foot, in others on tt
hind foot. The shoes war's worn for
six weeks, and in every case the alum-
inum shoe was in better condition than
the otlreny,
Same of the delights of a soldier's
Itfe are thus summarized by a tired In-
fantryman who is camped at New Or-
leans: "lily ]rands are full of blisters.
I couldn't oat the stew they gave me,
The bumps in my greensward =Woe,
than add a full cupful of boiling em_ and the bugs that crawl into my care,
Ler, After this is put in, boll two keep me awake all night. Tho mosqut-
minittos, Few nodes are able to oceom- tees have raised, welts on my Taco, acid
p13sh the economical and inflatable 801'- my heels are all sore from drilling in
vine ofa einglo cup of coffee, coarse shoes."
Bainwaier, •-A 0ify Irouselteoper con- Two enterprising and industrious
trives to bays rainsvneer to wash her sisters, Emily and Amelia Westerfield,
blankets before putting them away for aged respectively nineteen and oven -
the summer. She dogs this by tapping i teen, do most of the work on their
taw eaves -pipe, using a large clean bar- fathers farm, in Pine Ridge, Santa
rel to hold the water. It should not' Clara County, Cala For three years
be rust under during a ahawer, but af•' they have been thus employed, and vel -
I amenity left school that they might
ter a 8100(17 rain has washed the soot assist their faille, who could not af-
aad dirt from the roof, and the water, ford toemploy help, Their farm is s
is flowing clean. Nothing is hOiter than model In various, a'ellpeets, end is quite
this hind of water for the blankets, profitable.
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Young Folks.
DOLLY'S LESSON.
e
Come m bare you nigocamusl
I'm 'shamed to have to 'fess
You don't know any letter
'Copt just your cookie S.
Now listen and I'll tell you—
This round hole's name ea 0,
And when you put a tall in
It makes it Q, you know.
And If 11 has a front door
To walk in at, it's 0,
`Ilton make a oat right here
To sit ou, and it's G.
.And Ulla tall letter, dolly,
Is I, and it stands for me;
And when it puts a hat on,
It makes a eup o' T.
And curly 1 is J, dear,
And half of 13 is le,
And 31 without his slippers on
Is only F, you sees
You turn A upside downwards,
And people call it \r;
And if it's twins like this one,
W "twill be,
Now, dolly, when you learn 'em,
You'll know a great big heap—
Most mach's 1-0, dolly 1
T b'lieve you've gone asleep1
THE TORE ON 5711, HAWK,
"There," mamma said fervently. "I do
hope these little fluff balls will have a
chance to grow up before a miserable
hen hawk spies tlrom oat I" She set
one little yellow chick after another
down on the soft clover patch and
brought out old Mother Biddy to take
care of them. But the very best and
carefulest Mother Biddy in the world
can't always save her baby from that
great, terrible, swooping thing that
pounces down on it. all in a flash I
Hen hawks had bothered poor mam-
ma a great deal that season. First ono
little yellow brood and then another
little brown brood had been sadly brok-
en up, until only a few lonesome little
fellows were putting on their feather
coats out in the barnyard, This little
brood was the last one hatched, and
the very, very choicest one. Mamma
said every baby in 11 was worth quite
a lot of money.
"There, scamper away, little chick -a -
bids, and mind you keep your little
weather -eyes out for swooping, pounc-
ing things up in the air 1" said she,
and the minute you see one, run—run—
run for Mother Biddy's feather bed l"
Then mamma went in and Tillie came
out. She was raising chickens too,
only hers didn't grow a bit or shed
their cunning little yellow dresses for
feather coats. Tillie's chickens were
made with wire backbones and legs, and
when you set them down on the clover
patch, .bow they didn't scurry away 1
Tillie set one down now. He was as
big—or as little—and every bit as yel-
low and fluffy as mamma's chickens
and he looked like an own cousin with-
out any "removes!" His first name
was Fltliffy and his last name, the fam-
ily name was Duff,
"Thera, Fluffy Duff, you stay right
straight here an' catch a angle worm
for dinner," commanded Tillie's sweet
little voice, "an' get 'quainted with
mamma's ohickies,"
An hour or two afterward mamma
heard. a squawking and clucking and
hurried to the door just in tirne to
"shoo" a great hawk away from the
clover patch. But before he went,
though he was frightened nearly out
of his wits, mamma "shoo -ed" so loud,
be snatched up a tiny yellow thing and
sailed away with it in his claws.
There's one gone so soon l" groan-
ed poor mamma, running out with Til-
lie at her Noels,
"One, two three,—why, no, they're
all hero. Here's ten." Ilan mamma
counted all over again, There were
ten tiny yellow things left "Oh, oh,
it was Ifluffy Duff—it was Fluffy Duff"
Tillie ar•ied in horror. And it was 23
minutes by mamma's clock before she
could see any joke in it at all. Then
Tillie laughed. "It was a reg'lar joke
on that hen hawk, mamma!" she said.
"It served him 'xautly right; didn't it?
An' I guess when ha's eaten through
Fluffy. Duffy's bones, he'll wish he
hadn't 1"
A WHISTLING LANGUAGE.
The probahillties are that very few
people have beard of tbie curious lan-
guage, whish is in nee by the shep-
herds of Teteriffe, It dates from a
prehistoric period,. although the first
notice of it is made by a French' trav-
eler in 1485, By placing two or three
fingers in the month, it is possible to
snake the whistle carry to a distance
of about three miles, and in these lone-
ly hills even to a much greater dile
tante. The sherherds are enabled in
this manner to carry on a conversation
with their distant fiends, and so pre-
vent any feelinr; ot loneliness,
It may sound curious and paradoxi-
cal, but the whistling 1s In Spanish,
that is to say, the words represented
by the whistling aro of the Spanish
language, Long praotico and heredity
have produced extraordinary skill in
t;he art, for their vocabulary is along
thy one and embraces a code of signals
which convey telegraphically what it
is hard to express in the ordinary man-
nor. The children, as well 08 the adults
are adepts, and it is no unusual thing
to find two sturdy urchins conversing
morose wide ravines and lofty peaks
Without seeing cath other the whole
time.
R.LMPMRrR,
Bad assoelalea and good manners nev-
er, affiliate
A kindness *Mild always be retn0m-
bored, and n eenetdenoe enormity kept,
Punetuali;ty Sn keeping aleeeintments
le a uardintil virtue,
Young people sheulcl be prompt.
Tardiness is truant to the best Inter-
ests of life.
Be careful of your speech as of your
votive.
130 sure to pronounce carreotly and
enunciate distinctly, in a chest voieo,
avoiding shrill notes and nasal tongs.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
real
A hew 1'artigenees YY'hit+ W111 I'l'eve
Worth Beading,
Swimming is taught in some of the
public schools of Boston.
L'loetrieity is used to illuminate
some of Lhe catacombs of Ronne, ant( it
will soon be intr'otlueed in all the pate -
combs of that oily,
The shovel -fish is so called because
it uses its nose to turn over the mud
at the bottom of the sea, in quest of
the worms and small shell -fish ou
which it feeds.
After experimenting for ten years,
Mr. I('otisoff, are amateur Lutanist of
lroronezh, Fbussla, has succeeded in
cultivating roses which are of a pure
black Lint.
The explosion ofa soda tvttter siphon
in a ]Washington, D. C., drug store,
clashed a clerk named George Curtin
against the ceiling, and blew off the
buck of his head,
4110 mass of amber, about five inches
in diameter, ,recently dredged out of
the natio Sea, there was distinctly
visible, in its interior, te little squirrel.
Fur, teeth. and claws could be clear-
ly seen.
Last year the consumption of bear
in the United States amounted to 34,-
423,004 barrels. If the present war
continues a year, the brewers will have
then paid into the Treasury the nice
little sum of 508,846,188.
Only once in their history as a na-
tion have the Spaniards achieved a nav-
al victory. That was at the battle of
Lepanto in 1571, when, with the aid of
Ven°tihine and Genoese, they annihilat-
ed the Turkisk fleet.
A fleet is composed of twelve bettle-
ships; a squadron is composed of less
than twelve battleships, and is some-
times a part of a fleet; a flotilla tit
composed, of !twelve or more men-of-
war, some of which map be battleships,
A medical authority asserts that
drowning is a'arely due to eramps ex-
perienced by a swimmer. It is stated
that in many cases the pressure of the
water causes sudden perforation of
the eardrum, and that vertigo and un-
oonsciousnu s result.
A paper -hanging machine has been
invented by a Lelpsic artisan. The roll
of paper is fixed to a trodat the bobtoth
of the wall, a paste receptacle is at-
tached, and the piper Is automatically
pasted and neatly spread on the wall
by an elastic roller.
Shirks aro numerous in Cuban wat-
ers, and llavana harbor swarms with
there. It is said, that in the latter
case, they are plentiful, because of
the numbers of corpses that have boon
thrown to them, daring the past three
years, from Morro Castle.
Poison -ivy caused the death of Miss
Goorgiana Johnston, ot New Paltz, New
York. She was a graduate of the State
Normal School there, and while inspect-
ing some plants with the botanical
class, the ivy Medea her lips and
caused blood poisoning.
The Czar of Russia has au under-
study, who resembles him very much,
When the Czar is traveling, and does
not wish to disturb himself, the un-
derstudy shows himself at ear windows
and on car platforms. and bows to
the greetings of subjects,
A pail of water can be mode to boil,
without fire, by constantly stirring it
with a wooden paddle. This feat was
recently performed in the physiciai
laboratory at the Jahn Flopkins Univ.:
ersity, and aequired five hour's of un-
ceasing work with the paddle.
Several fashlonalrle and shapely
young men in New York City have
their clothes famished free of expense
by the popular tailors. It is expected
that they will act as perambulating
advortisemeuts, ani to their acquaint-
ances praise the makers of their gar-
ments.
The .multiplicity of Morro Castles in
Spanish harbors have led to confusion.
11 Monro means "beetling or overhang-
ing," and is employed to describe a
rugged, precipitous and overhanging
crag et the entrance of harbor, sur-
mounted by a castle end u,lighthouse.
The Wet grave -digger at Westntinis-
ter Abbey, is 111:1r. George Hedger, who
has been in service there thirty-eight
years. During that time be has dug
the graves of thirty-eight great ,nen,
including Lord Paltnot'ston, Darwin,
ilersehel, Tennyson, Dirkons and Glad-
stene.
A big fish, known as a tuna, was ac-
cidentally booked in the baste by Clef -
ton le, Scudder, of Los Angeles, while
be Wes fishing off Catalina Island, The
fish weighed 130 pounds, and towed
him twenty miles before be mastered
It. 'J'he struggle lasted mealy coven.
hours.
An attack of the grip, in 1808, mused
hlary Ginned, of Elldependence, lianas
to lose her voice ao that elm eautinued
speechless for five years, A fete days
ago, while in her garden, a bug crawled
acrosa her hand. She screamed in ter-
mor, and has eince ]mon able to talk as
well es ever,'
A GROWING STONE.
A 'Street Goiciaboro (Me,) man tells a
queer story about a atone that grows.
It is 0n egg-shaped, flinty -looking
rock, which be-pielred up in a Dove
near his home over 80 years ago. Then
it weighed about 12 peoncls and from
its odd shape was kept in the limo
and on the doorstep as a curiosity, Aa
the years passed, the stone inoreaa-
ed iu size. Six years ago it weighed
ti
pe pounds, and now t 11' , laps the reale
at 05 pounds. The. owner swears It is
the same alone, end tone a likely story
with nuneernns witnesses to back elm
Up.
Saved By a Confederate.
There had been a daring case of
burglary at a farm ]rouse In Cheshire,
Three ,ineu lied tied down alagagged
the termer and his two maic sn
rvunts,
tend had rifled the house et their lei -
There wore two glows. In the atrug-
gle one of the men bad left te button
from his coat behind, nod had aleo'
bad his fano so severely screeched by
ono of the match] that the girl earl
"oho tuns sure she had loft' bur mark
upon him."
Weeks passed without any arrest be-
ing mule, and people began to forget.
the burglary, until Onto day a man
was arrested at Liverpool, He had
with him a bundle containing some of
the plunder of the farmhouse. Ilia
face bore treats of scratching, and, to
Minch the matter, his emit wanted a.
button, and the buttons on it comes-
poncletl exactly with that ploked up at
the scene of the burglary,
His defence was very flimsy. "He,
knew nothing about the burglary, but
had Nought the coat and things very
cheap off a man in the street;' He•
accounted for the scratches by saying.
that he was a sailor, and had in that
capacity much rough work to dc,
There was no defense; the jury
found a verdict of "guilty" without
leaving tee box, and the prisoner was
asked if he bad anything to say.
"Well, cap't," be said, "it's hard to
be convicted for noth'n. I know no
more of this burglary than a baby;
whoa it happened I was fightin' the
slavers on the Gold Coast,"
There was something in the man's
manner that impressed the judge, so
be said, not unkindly:
"But surely, prisoner, ie your story
is true, you must have friends and
comrades wibi1 whom you could he.
communicated? It is too late now."
"ion's right, cap`n; it's , too - lateay.
I couldn't communicate with them any-
how, for I don't anew where they, are.
They may be in America, or, they may
be at the Caps,"
"But," urged the judge, "the court
hes no wish to convict a man sono may
be innocent. Is there no ono who
could speak for you?"
The prisoner looked in a hopeless -
sort of way round the court.
"No." be began; but just then hls
eye lighted on a man iu the court.
"Yes," ho added, pointing to him,
"there is a gentleman who might speak
for me if he would." The judge looped
in the direction of the individual point-
ed at.
"Do yon know the prisaoer3" he ask-
ed
"No, my lord," was the reply. "I
never saw him before in my life."
"Well, Captain Sharpe," said the pri-
soner, "I know you well enough."
"Is your name Captain Sharpe?" ask-
ed .the judge. "Yes, my lord," came
the reply,
"\Stell, the prisoner seems to recog-
nize you, so I will ask you to step tato
the witness boli and be sworn, that
be may ask you questions."
The captain went info the box, and
the. following dialogue ensued:
"Are you Captain Sharpe of the war
ship \'ull,ure?" ask Om prisoner,
"Yes."
"Were you in command of her on
the slave coast this spring 0"
"I was." •
"And wasn't I one of the crew?"
"]lost certainly not,"
"But cap'n don't you remember the
slave ship that was boarded?"
„Y„
"And you yourself led the board-
ers?"
"Oh, yes; but all that is nothing—
you may easily have beard of or read
all about that,"
"Well, but - cap'n, once mora—don't
you remember the l.tig blade slaver who
was almost. cutting you down? Don't
you remember the ono man who stood
between you and death, and what he
got for it? Don't you remember that?"
And, brushing back his hair, the
prisonersideofhis iieadshowed .tt great sear down one
The whole court looked on breath-
less as the captain stared at the Scar
and at the man till his eyes seemed
starting from his head. At length, as
if in a dream, he muttered to himself,
"Good heavens, is it possible?"
Then slowly and deliberately he got
out of the witness box and clambered
into the clack, where he seized Lhe
prisoner's hand, and, turning to the
judge, said: Ma lord, this was the
best man in my crew and be saved
my life. Providence has sent me here
to save him, He is so changed' by ill-
ness that I could not recognize trim.
lint hero is no utistake now', If you
imprison the old bosun of the Vulture
you must take the captain with him,"
Amit] Misers and sobs that no one
cared to suppress the judge briefly di-
rected the jury to reconsider their ver-
dict, whish they at ouee did, finding
a unanimous "Not guilty"
As they left; the town Captain Sharpe
might have been heard addr•ossing his
companion samtnvhat as follows:
"Well, old man. we pulled through
that business pretty well, I think: It
was n. near shave, though,'
"Captain Sharpe," was nothing less
than a confederate and be had as-
sumed the part or captain to save his
companion in cringe,
TA'LIIING WITHOUT Tale TONGUE!.
It has been pr0yed that the tongue
Is not: abscrintely essential to smote,
although it is in regard to the pro.
nunciation of 't' and'd,' A well-known
professor gives an ttacount of ti„ man
whom he examined. Its tongue had
been removed by a surgical operation,
and yet he could melt intelligibly.
Words such as cow and 'kill' wore
pronanncecl clearly, but those contain-
ing an initial oe final an or 't' prove
act too moll for bine. These letters
were pronounced like 'f,' 'p' or'the
thus: Tack' WAS given '2acle,' 'dog'
'fog ;' 'flew,' taw.' 'S' and 'sh',
'1' and 'r' had more or Ioes of it lisp.
Initial 'g's' and 'k's' were good, but
final 'g's' were all more or less gut-
tural,