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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1891-9-25, Page 243 VaTiatIMMIAIOUONIMIN.1.1.2211.WOUI.P AGRICULTURAL. to Another ad vameee the Nest Canadian Probes in England. The following despateh, from invitee, ix 0 general intereet 1—Mr. John Dyke,Camelia Government agent at Liverpoel, Nen& t us eepaitment of Agrioulture some inter ,eeting mfornettion relotive 20 the „ trial with Great Britain, trhiell it svould bo wel for (exportera make eareful note of. 1 1 says that owing to the fuet ef three or fon shipments of lonaffian egg:, luivaog neve( in England recently not 'mope* eekete and corelessly pocked, the demand for then hae somewhat fellen otr, otherwise th prima oll round would have been higher '" The most suocessful teaueelian shipper i Mr. Wilson, ot &Werth. moss ar earefully selected, well peeked [Ind ',roped thipped ; that is, they aro pliteed in a ono pert of the ship, not near the machinery where they are liable te sweet. The col4xe que1100 is that at present Mr. Wilson's egg are fetching 8 shillinge per lone Moving (ten dozen), tvhile for inferior an.1 badly ship ped Canadian eggs prices are clown ns low a 51. Od. The best Irish eggs are to -day Benin vet7s. to 81. ;German, 5s, toes. ; Danish 7s, to 7s. Od., and Russian Os. 2d, to Os Very few French eggs reach the Livorpoo market, but choice selected French eggs are realizing from 7s. to 8s. per 120, The prices are said to be abnormally high for the time of the year. They meetly rise frotn this time until Christmas, but of course they eannot be guaranteed ; they may fall. I he eggs meet he sent its Belgian packing in packages of 1,200 eggs with one division, Mr. Wilson seems to have met the require- ments of this market admirably, I may add that the best grade of Canadian eggs weighs from lee lbs. to 17e lbs. per 120," It will be seen from the foregoing observa- tions that Canadian eggs, properly selected, packed and shipped will command the high- est price in the British m rket. There is not the slightest excuse forslipelitel packing, and it regard be paid to Mr. Dyke's hints and the suggeetion made in the department bulletins, there is no reesen why Ganadieu eggs should not bring the very eigheet prices In the markets of the old land. Mr. Dyke does not write roe). encouragiegly with regard to the shipments of Camden( butter to Britain. He says what is going over is of very poor quality, Some shipments of Americam butter, manufactured on the creamery principle, are also being made to the mother country., but °yea these leave Mue h to be desired. The prices of American creamery at present are 8es. to 00s. per 1 12 pound ; Limerick and Clonmel, lues. ; Dan- ish, 104s. ; whilst French margarine, in it- self superior to ally butter ever shipped from Camade, is selling at 08s. per lle pounds, Unless Canadian butter is made on the fac. tory principle, srtys Mr. Dyke, and some little intelligence is put, into the business, it can never hope to find a place on this market. Mr. Kirkwood, of Oil:Ilia, recently brought here (Liverpool) two or three pack- agesjof speciallyseleetedisomers' butter. ;This was much better than the °millet ship- ments and leas packed in tuiffine tubs. This would realize about 80s. per 112, pounds, In butter for the English nuevlset there must be quality, uniformity, careful salting and great care in packing, A Promising Wheat. 18 tha! vitrietio,, of larger ;tint later 7trow 1 111,), tie plauttel for this purpeee tlmt wi • not fully (item before frost# f n I Dairy Notes, The 5%. 2,...r.tn ilitirtmetin W, Hort., sun • up re.,,:irennuts of n dairy g ie. as n, : lows : 1, ,1 fair yearly proileet ion of mil 1 «alliances 21,51 inninumiwount tealreque e 01 top, a giVellittilottol 3. Co r (111212 ..1.310{111j824.111 k ;I 1011(116k 1 of al -prime. 4, Value ire, I e'er, e. 1 1 Genes, 0: ffiepesitiou mei eeeity. !Lavin 1 these /veleta. in a lettmial ion 1: ' takes it l'or graatal that the (meat. (el chewed( er raise his (evil (env e 8 ! It is well whim any tt intairlitv 1170 . eided to start a. creamery, to then, aseertai 3' 11, a. na ny vows can be 1,0110.1 on for in11 1 Within the proper radius, and in 00 ascertain , the rimulter of coVrs, matte it. a eertaint - ' that the ',wenn( will beeeme patrons, e s mere promise te " take their milk to th 1 factevy " is not as reliable data on which t • base etta calculations as thou';11 the owner TI1R BRUSS.ELS POST, variomi honey pralueing plants, blit 111 11118 : Lot in many other hing,, espy; ta110110 1111ND 11 not been reit:Heal. Still, well Iffial sectione, At ono of the locenuitive manufaeturin 1111fIliteall3L•111I1oi,1•1Y(li0tri(1.1e"TIn1.1120101.1U'll:(1"01(1(m21:112?1,i1111c1. covering an arm of ell; by lee feet —time establishments in l'hiledelphia the sho seeereeseseiteeteteeeetoSeaselanosomeasersacomesesel I SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, lffitees of platinum aro used as civet rates. I elitehinee for (Timing aud (deleting 0011( , have recently been improved by all lintel 7, Mir feeding a pparat um, applied to t foal 111 paid him s 5,01(0. SEpr, 25, 180i. PEOPLE, 11. Tho Emperor of 'Idea Ing: 111(1011101a, Wel I him (.1e English publieliere las1 year 1,111 1. ed leddee have been named "f is to V Rebert 1,01118 '4.111,((le(1111'1111.1,11 il111(..1'.'le‘.1•'1';':'. is a descendent of six t• generot bine ef Prints.se Clementine, daughter of the (1,1 I .ng leo oeneans mend. to beerene to Ig° v "111:11:gurt,zi81111,;(12ifi)eTealYe „, . apron, owl by mentos of wiimit oue mae lend two madden% when being led tei 11 geed priee, One groat ill e vbeck this are ill 011.1.11,01111 WI) immense trerellel veer has been the holmium: et 2 et eo•ealled climes workt ti 1,s eleotrieity, laieg t I ,' I, i • 1 • • " TI , " " " "1 ' " . , : i,( . pan ot wanes ni t ,, 2, oil,i, but on, . . . . 1. genial as favorable to the le ••111011,:a ,d (.1,...,, Oat a the gen weeks itt the ateent 11 ! heney, in lava years the iddtris1 Who 1 in 1Vashingteig. exeelling a, her of these i 1' lives by his busimos lanes( 1 2 dreads t110 1 laiWer. Each of the cranes ie,,f twee .y•elesiti r. . #. hele.g. „iew," ;eel regsnle ii s a ;Great , !yet spita and tilted with two trolleys l'L '''' 1 '' "1 , • . ' ' • 1 'II • p., • t 1 espeetit c. e of lifting lilty tone, Om' 1' ' thiug tie " liency dew," di eine() on the i giving to eaelt #.rone it poWer of 100 tons 11. leaves of "A1011 0 LIS is gen er0117,' supposed. the camel, ()ewer is f itruf,h0,1 11, 1,,, 1021 .'" " It .I'''Y '1"%. " 12 1101 le oduct lid' of nixcets horse power generators, driVirt 1:Y \Vesting (# (anal (creel, s, These ptmet tire the leavrs house compound (melees, II ho shops tine , el plants and mods tho mice, excreting 1 he out eel aveeege of:10o leotenotives a year, me 1' ., 1 1 0 t e. .1 e .. te o num, by mites ot these cream, ea 11 geed, and when put On I Ito market hes the Moat° the entire output, the eeljessmeee 1, 1, 01,1 of injuring the sale of the geunine the coinesbehig Auch that they van be raise, • 1 ' . , , — in on vie; at 77 i so Shoi 1 a 4171014.110e RH a 1,' soil dextitllte Of tbe 1100or and quiditica of lutlf nn inch, met teey can lift one engine I real honey. It is disporgingly called " Deg completely over. onetime In the boiler and ° Olive." \ Ve want nom) of it, All lovers of elect:vie houses tame are Isom sinaller cranes, 0 the genuine Reticle ngt.tie with us, When stationary, with a ettpacity (AO OW pounds ti . , . . ••:!, raw vot ton easier than lc' eial heretofore tend ono. „1 largo amount ci :weds and leaf ix extracted by this di'viev. En/01'111101as lately Made 111 llarten• Cuitu„ shoW that light ono lei seen threug ' elean ent. opening a leo inere liau ono fer . , s tienuemil tit of an Moll. '11his feet was dete , mined by talc ing two thoroughly (la '„ straight algem, planing a pio,/- 1,2per 1 twoen the surfave0 at one end I 01111 being allowed to (mine togc1.1.11u1(:;•1.)1'(''Vl sty/tight olgas being ',laved between ten. ey and a ntrong light a (lark reoin, 4k Weilg f light wee pereei eel from t he elide be Wean .1 which the paper was placed and the op m. site, which were brought, together. 1 he thickness of the paper being known, the distanee a part at the two 0(11;00 of the small end of the wedge of light was cagily Caleula- tad, and the reault %inseams."( as above. . , . run for extracted honey should iminediately , be emptied lo the extvactoe, and their eon. 11, tents be kept sepavate from the pure avt icle, and sold, uot for genuine honey, although ' there limy be considerable of this in the mass, but for what it really is, We prefer not to offer it for sale at all, but te keep it for spring feeding, 11 a say spsing and not fall, intentionally, for tee believe bees will not winter well on it. We would rather risk syrup made fvom granulated sugar (t11017.,t,lie honey from the sacallcd " honey The Destruction of Weeds. At this time in the year when most of the crops have already been harvested, when the gardens of dwellers in viilitges and cities have montly been cleared of all except a few of the laier yeeetables, theve is apt to be a ;retie itleoultnnient of being and Weeding, 'for the reason that the weeds now will not injure the yield of the emps, and unlees the way of gathering will clo no harm. This is a misteken notion, wheel will be apparent te any one who gives the matter a little thonght. The end of vegetable activity and growth is to mature the see which shall perpetuate the plant. Every vital action of Lb plant is directed to the production of seed, awl this being micampliehed, most annual plants, nr rather most herbs, annual or biennial, (lie as soon as the seeds hare been perfected. We cultivate the grains and various vegetablea for Mod, and in order to get good crops we allow nothing else to occupy the ground, except the plaids pro. clueing the desired cent). Anything else growhig in the stone field or plat is a Weed, altheugh it may be of value when grown by itself. The soil everywhere is f ull of the seeds of plants, useful. or worth- less, and it requires much and con• stunt labor to prevent the growth of these plants in gardens and fields. Some garden. ers never allow a weed to grow to the blossoming point ; others eradicate all the big weeds tune pay little or no attention to the small ones. In all oases the principal expenditure of labor in growing garden vegetebles and " hood crops " on the farm is for the destruction of weeds, They are a curse, hut a blessing goes with them, as the effitivation given to the land in keeping it clean from weeds, leeeps tho soil loose and in the best condition for promoting the growth of the crop. Nevertheless few persons tvoulcl be sore), if no weeds were to spriug up in the garden or field. While weeds may be in some mectenre a blessing, there are generally too much of tho good thing, and ehe farmer or gardener is usually to be blam- ed for tho superabundance of week, of which lie so much complaine. He will work hard all summer lighting weeds ceeily and lete, and then just about this time in the year he will cease the fight because his crops are safe from injnry. The consequence is that innumerable weeds spring up, and as if conscious that the time is short before frosts shall cut them down they put forth their blossoms in a few days, not growing to the size usual when, they have 41'05011 un- hindered since spring, and they ripen their seeds and fulfill the named. object of their growth before frost kills them. Their seeds are scettered all about end the farmer or gardener wonders whence came the seeds of so many weeds the next year. The green nmaranth, a weecl called redroot "ln mine places, common in nearly every garden ancl field, usually grows from three to five feet high, if not disturbed, with many large branches. We pulled ono up a cley or two ego, in e garden supposed to have been kept clean, that was just, two inches high, without a, branch, but havieg spike or head full of perfect seeds of full size, There ware over e0 seeds, all sure to grow next spring if al- lowed to fall to the ;emend. This is given merely as an example of the result of °easing tl,e destruction of weeds because the crops are out of the way. There is no thno in the year when the destruction of weeds is of greater beuefit than feom now oe. Two or timee hones' labor weekly in the garden, during the Sall, or in the orchard and field around tho fences, mei in the lanes and along the sides of the highway will save fully as many days' labor in the next and succeeding seasons, by destroying tveeds which are preparing to inceease and multi)). ly beyond ell possible ea:Mutation. It takes a good deal less time to kill one wood now than to kill the hundreds of thottsends which will spving ep from its seeds next year, The rule of the Irishman at Donny. brook fair wits to hit a head when he saw ne ; the rule of the farmer and gardener sIhould be whenever homes 0, wood to destroy it, There is big prolit in it. • bevoine stockholders, if intended to make o g it a sto:k ocaupany, If net email( company , then require a written guarantee that the . will fureish milk from it specified umber o 1 cows in ease a creamery be started, preolun • A very earomiaieg variety of winter wheat j has been brought out in Canada, called the Caratclien 'Velvet Chaff, Cencerning it the l'arntem' Adeocat, says: " This ie indeed a . 'most promisine mileat ;in fact it is now pest the experimental stage ; it does extremely well in all sections of Ontario ; is almost as hardy as rye. The straw is very still testi bright, the head long and square, free from rust, ripens early, and is very produc- tive, tillering freely, On good soil it should not be sown thicker than one and a quarter bushels per acre. Inking the eastern part of the province it is the beat fall wheat now in cultivation, and calculating the area of this wheat harvested it will decidedly yield several bushels per acre more than any other sort now grown in Ontario. It is each year improving in quality and yield. -- Low Heads for Apple Trees, Nearly all old apple trees are tco high headed. II he idea of their planters and early trainers seems to have been that it would not do to let branches bang so low that the largest horse could not plow or cultivate close to them without injm•y. The consequence is the stems mostly run ep seven or eight feet without a limb, and most of the fruit, exposed to winds is blown offend spoiled for marketing. If'not it is extremely difficult and even dangerous to gather it by ladders. The way the bus- iness is managed now is to train low— keep the branches so that when loaded they win touch the ground. Many of the apples thrts grown can be picked. from the graund or by low stepladders set under the trees. These low heads are objected to by some from the inconvenience of driving round in the arch. ard with a team to gather apples ; but when the proper distances in setting the trees are observed, especially between the rows, the objection has less force. -- A Cheap Silo—Mttsrials Required. The clay of costly silos is past and it is this feet alone which enables the rapid ex- tension of this system of storage. A wooden silo keeps its °pacers with less loss than a stone or cement one, ohiefly beeause of the penetration of air through mortar and cement, A silo built independent of the born can he built for 61 per ton of capaeity, if the capacity is above seventyffive tons. If built in the corner of a barn, the cost of labor and material will be about half that tam. .A mil° Oxlex25 feet will hold 100 tons. If built in the oorner of a barn, it will recjuire forty pieces studding 2x8, twenty-five feet long-080feet ; four pieces basement sills 8x8 seventeen foot inng-360 feet ; boards for inside walls, 3,500, The boar& should not be over seven inches wide, planed on ono side, and the inside coarse made to break joints with the outside course. Matehing the boards is useless, Common oovering boards, free from loose knots, aro good enough, and in mamy cases the barn frame and studding Can be partly utilized, and the above quantity of lumber be ma siderably reduced. A cement bottom, though not necessary, is desirable, Among blie advantages, enumerated for the silo are the following : Moro aetual food moterial can be produced from an Imre of omen than from any other of our common farm crops, Three times as much dry sub- stance may be produced from a given area ' of oorn as from a like area of grass. The objection sometimes made that ensilage is too watery is met with the statement 111(1,01 ie not as watery as pasture grass in Juno. The farmer who has a silo is about as in. dependent of the weather as a Man orb71 bes Aside from heavy rains nothing interrupt, this kind of harvesting. Light rain and showers, while making the work disagreea- ble, do not stop it, and when (moo prnperly in the silo, all danger of imperfeat curing is past, The early ditto at which the Mal can he eleared Malta it possible to either seed down to grass or winter grain a month before corn in the shook would be dry enough posing that the new Creamery will pay as much l'or ae at other cretuneries in the same eection of country. 'Virginia, C. Meredith is an accomplished diary Wolnall, and she has sound ideas about the training and education of a heifer, She says Experienee has establiehed the fact the the milltino habit must be induced in th heifer with her first oalf. That niffitime praedee of " breaking the heifer" has be. come obsolete in those claye when comfort is recognized as an essential part of the cow's treatment, and the calf is from birth the ob. ject of attention and solicitude. One is ennietimes tempted to " dry up" the heifer, but the pet xiStent milking habit ie so very valuable that it should. be established et tine time. With reeard to the inalicel eare of the cow she gives the following advice, which is all gelid Medication is to be avoided rather than encoulaged, However, a fe w simple remed- iell should be et heat Carbolic acid, diluted with wattle in the proportion of one to sixty is extremely beneficial for cleansing open wounds atolls always to be preferred to any oily application. An ointment made by disealving 110.11 (tit ounce of gum camphor hi hot ler.1 (11111 afterward adding a scant tableepoouful of laudanum ie most efficacious in reducing the inflammation and soreness of the swollen udder, often so troublesome after ettlying. Tincture of Reunite, in twenty to forty drop duses, until 150 drops have been given—beginning with thirty - minute intervals and constantly lengthening the period, is almost a, speeitle for milk fever, -- A Good Breed. Personni experience has convinced the winter that for general purposes the Hondan is the beet fowl for farmers. A wirter io the Farni Journa, says that few breeds, in or out of standard, can more houestly claim superiority in those most valuable qualities, namely, egg and flesh prod notion. Some may show 'brighter and more gorgeous colors ; snore Named, artistic, and attvactive =th- ings and peneilings, but when we S11111 up for the 'Ionian elegance and sutteliness of carriage, fair size and weight, tlisposition to lay the greater pert of the year very large gooffishapell, white eggs, usually fertile, hardly attempting tn sit, hardy and vigor - cats, comparatively free from disease. mann. ing eerly, and putting on flesh ; quiet, and domestic in habits, we fail to find after eomperison the breed that can excel this for general utility, In conformity with American and Eng- lish tastes and ideas, Houdaus have been much improved of late years. They are now more uniform in plumage imcl their ornb redueeclin size. There is a disposition on the part of fanciers, on both sides of the Atlantic, to breed them darker in plum. age, Cortaiuly that is an improvement of inuoh value to the breed, if for nothing more than improving their looks. Hereto- fore they, have been too light in plumage to excite ndmiretion ; the white appeared in patches, the colors broken and very irregu- lar, and the crest and tail light—almost white. There is nothing to hinder the Houclan breeder from malting his favorite a, very attractive breed. A finely spookied black and white plumage --the black a brilliant jet black, and the white pure white and glossy -1s really handsome and pleasincs. Houdans show tn good advantage on the lawns ; they are good Imagers, and atten• tive to one (mother in their walks, There is a seriaeomic look about the cocks and a, matter-of-fact style aboet the hoes, The °hicks are quite hardy and pretty when young 2 they feather out rapidly, and keep growing from the start. Tho rudimentary crest becomes visible when they are young and it gives them a mile appearance. Full- grown coeke will weigh from seven to eight pounds, (Odle hens vary rom six to seven pounds. The Honey Crop, A noted apiarist writes as fellowa to the Porn/ Jounad in regard to the 18111 honey crop : The apiarist who diligently cares for his bowl at the pvoper time and lute them in such a condition ae to take advantage of the honey flow. will sneceed in amaseing a stir- flusage of heney, let the season be short ov ong. If the pounds of honey aro not so many in a, poor season at in a good one, the dillbronoe prim will more than comport- satefor the loss. But the r °int We make ie tide : that the diligent. and skill. ful apiarist will always have some honey, Another point of similarity between farm- ing and epi•culture lo this, tiled, 81100005 in both depende upon previous preparation and intelligeet anticipation of future wants. In the fell preparation is to be made for spring, A colony that is new gumless, or destitute of supplies, will inevitably perish 'before spring if permitted to go into winter quarters in this canclition, continuotion of drams after these have been doldroyed by abet. 0010111es, is a, sure indication that the colony litteing them lacks the mother bee. It should be remedied at once by giv- ing them a, fertile (peen, if the ooloey has Plenty of ben, or h,v uniting it with an- other, if but few worker bees, remain, A lack of supplies can easily be asocrutined by examination. If this destitution con - billies after the fall fiow of honey neasos, feeding benomes a necesaity 1,011no winter sots in. Bees must he In good. condition in the fall to come out all right in the timing. L ilco other stook, if they winter won and are in good plighe in the spring they will malto their mark in the summer. The honey product of 1 801 IS now gonor. ally known. From. the vedette repute obtained from the different localities,. the year has been an overage ono, distinguished neither for plenty nor scarcity. Many anticipated a bountiful orop from the Label The Little One, The anxirty so often ceused by the wand- oring away of 0, little child from his usual surroundings, or his being separated from hie parente in a crowd, is made unnecessarily distroseing by the feet, that he usually carries with him uo oortain moons of identification, To label hien with his full Immo eat address would be so simple a promotion that ib is surprieing that it is not a univereal practice, We brand our cattle, pueoh cabaliebic characters in tho web feet of our fowls, engrave cloggiollars, and scrupulously. tag umbrellas and bunches of keys, while giving hardly a 'sassing thought to what would happen to our little, speechlese toddlers and ourselves should they stray into unknown streets or meet with 001110 ae0td0111 in the domains of sttangers, In the customary meriting of undergarments with indelible Mlt it, would be but little more trouble to use tho full name inetead of initials, and on outer garments a convenient place could be eelocted—say the heal° tho collseffiand or of the end of the eleove.—whore Ilio full address could bo placed. If every reader would adopt stioll plan, and recommend othere., there Werild he 01 On00 a beginning which aught go far teemed establiehing unifm.m eastern, the usofulnoss of which would seem bo beyond question. To oomploto their growth, tho mills of the loft hand require eight to ten days more them those of the right, each, possessing the sante character SS to 17100 adjuStillen and ready 1'0011011SC 10 1 170 tench of wheel or hirer as the 771000 elaborate on; This arrangement of wheels is simple —tho lowest lowere, the highest lifts, and the eentral fixes. .A. paper on the superior value of cork coverings for s team pipes and as a prate Alen of water service pipes from frrot has recent- ly been published by leveneh engineer. According to this paper, one variety of these coverings which is found to be very efficient consists of pieces of cork, shaped to fit the different sizes of pipes, with radial. joints, similar to the stoves of a. barrel, which are placed areund the pipe and for the time bound to the pipe by strings. After the pipe so covered has been used with steam for some time and the cork been sufficiently dried, the crevices aro filled in and the string replaced by wire—elbows being also covered in the same mrinner—and after the corering is filially fixed, the pores and cre- vices are closed by coat of Niel:, or ffine was11. In another arrangeinent, as proposed, rectangular blecks of cerk, nbout one and a fourth -inch wide, and envying in thickness from ono -falai} of an inch for small pipes to five.eightlis of an inch for pipes from four inches in diameter and upward, and cement. ed to strips of cloth by an India rubber solution, aro esed ; the bands ere litpped spirally around tho pees and elbows, and covered. by another band of wal erproofed canvas lapped in the smite manner, eo tus to cover the yomts of the oork liands, the whole being afterward covered by a thick coating of paint or tar. The assertion is made by. workers in orna- mental wood that yellow pine, hard finished in oils, is the rival in beanty of appearance of any wood that grows, not excepting the costliest of the well-known hard species, it being susceptible of receiving and maintain. ing as high a degree of polish as any known wood, while, when impregnated with oil, it is well nigh indestruutible. In such a con- dition it is found, in fact, to posoess the t•aluable property of heing impervious even to hot grease and other substance that leave an ineffacieablestain Upon Snell a greatvariety of woods,including white .pine, maple, dm The yellow pine characterized by the veld. able quality, referred to is the long -leaf phie, or pines ansintlis in technical classification, and which grows so abundantly in parts of the South ; encl, as trees are foroul in this species having a curled grain somewhat simil. ar to that of " emly maple, ' no other wood it is asserted, is capable of being fashioned into more beautiful work for cabinet pur- poseS, A short time ngo a boiler wes constructed in Manchester, Eng., with a view to testing the practice advized by some, in case of shortness of teeter being discovered, of turn• ing on the feed water—asomewhat stextling method of procedure according to some. In these tests the furnaces were bared of water by opening the blowoff cook and allowing the water to escape while good bright fires were burning, which could not fall to over- heat the plates. Wheil sufficiently heated to melt disks of lead, tin, aud zinc, the food woe suddenly turned on through special pipes, which injected the water directly on to tho heated plates, but in no caee, as is often assumed, Avila this followed by a stub. don generation of steam at an excessive pressure, bnt in one ease actually a reelection of pressure took place. The one mishap wineh took place proved, it seems, to have been due to the feecl not having been turned gh. Again, the hogging upward on soon onou of tho flue tubes, which was acourately as. °ermined by means of rods, was in some oases found to be as nitieli as oneffialf inch. The inadvisability of hurrying fires when reising steam was demonstrated as beyond question. A machine for cutting shingles has been devised, As described, the oedar bolts are steamed five hours, then run through a trimmer, after which they go to the cutting knife, a heavy.knife running 170 strokes a minute, the shingles being cut off with ease at this rate, coming from the machine almost too rapidly, its fact, to be counted, They aro hot and steaming and cut smooth, and aro tuf toilette() tveated thesame as other shingles. It is claimed that the stemming drives out all sap ancl proven ts all liability of warpings, there is also no sawdust, hence no waste, 71he highest mit made in a ton hours' run is stated at ninety•six thousand. Several ot the most, prominent nutuutao- turess of iron in Sheffield, Mug., have been endoovoring to asometain definitely whether, after all, oil hardening and annealing, or somo such process, is really necessary for sleet plates, the result of the Weds thus far made showing that, in respect to compound armor, the n messity is obvious, A nine -Moll plate of stool was fee this purpose manufac- tured end eat into two plates, mob foes foot square, one pima being left untreated and the other oil hardened 011(1 annealed. These wero fired. et by a six-inch gun with Firth steol.projectilos weighing 100 pounds, tho striking energy of the blew upon tho un- treated plate being 2,38ffifoot tons, and tho energy of the blow upon that which had boon treated was 2,37S•foot tons. In the bettor ease the projectile made to indentetion of ten and one-half ino1105, so that light was juse visible through the centre of the bulge bho back of the plate ; the projectile re- bounded, breaking into three liken, and the plata, though cracked through, was whole, nor was itny matevial eplintored either MO° batik or front, In the mem of the non -treated plate, the shot passod throng+, and tho splintoting of the steel. around the hole i71 front of the plate spread over a space of fifteen inches ammo, Tho splintering around tho hole at the book of the plate covered it space of thirty4hroo inches across, and the plata teen). into six pimes, Very satisfactory results aro now being obtained by sorno of the English paper manufaoturers in Mouthing paper by electrieity, the process rondOring 11110 paper perfectly white, without in the least nijur• ing its strongeli. This premiss in question dependS on the uso of a solution of mag. nesnrm chloride, which is decomposed by the action of a strong electric current into ohlorine and oxygen on the ono hand, and into magnesium and hydrogen on the other. Chantoter in Horses, Horse faces are as full of character NS are men's Mem, It is easier, perhape, to read a horse's character in its face than it is to sum Up the hidden traits of It man or women by the facial expression, The hotee's hend is lot correct indication of the character ; th human expression ofitimem is wholly coun• berfeit. " I never ask about a horse's trait," sae a horse buyer the othee clay, '1 All I (vault is a good, squere look at him in the face, Onee In 1 00 times I may mistake the head, but not oftener than that, I believe." It doesn't require an expert to read horses faces, either -1 person who hes never handled a horse can munter deem 12 eity street any nfter 770011 end point out the emod, docile family carriage horse, the biting horse, tho treacherous animal, the one that is likely to kick, or run et any moment, or the peoucl, high spirited horse, that may be (laugerous and yet not vicious in the least. The 01001 imercsting horse is the good natured family horse. He beam ill will toward no otte, aud 11111ans1.the pod will of all who bolt upon lie has but to be seen to become a favor- ite. There are are thousande of families who WOuld as soon part forever with an immediate relative 110 to loae the good eater. al old family horse—the olio that has lived with all the children and often times, it seems, showed as 1110011 care and affection for them as their parent 3. T110 01111111•011 or Won= of the family were always safe when out with hint. If some other horse run away he was al ways sure to get out of the way of all clanger, and he never allowed the carriage he inteled to collide with an obstacle. The biting horse always reminds me of the dyspeptic man—he is always mad, always irritoted. Pedestrians frown at this horse as they pass along the street, and the horse, it may be remarked, never fails to frown baok, and if opportunity affords, Snap lois enemy —ancl everything alive is his enemy—on the back with his big, broad teeth. It must Ise said for the biting horse, however, that he is not always of a dispcsition wholly bad. He may show bad temper when approached by man, woman or child, ancl still be one of the eentlest and most reliable while , doing los daily work. The kickiug horse can nearly always be singled out by the violet's glum in his eyes, which stamps him a, born kicker. Antl, too, the kicker is nearly always a, reckless, inn patient animal, who seems to imagine that hwiisobi.orn right to freedom is being interfered Of all boozes, though, the miserable look. ing horse attracts most ettention. This is tha horse that is persecuted by the use of he check line. Like men and women who wenr shoes a size too small, he shows the outward evidences of misery. Many good natured horses, horsemen say, have been made fretful and vicious by being enslaved by the infameus and cruel check reign. If there are 01100 andwomen who aro over- buedened with strnggles for life, have lost all spirit, have ageeed co take things as they come so there are horses broken clown by harcl and ooutinuous service for man, which showbythe facial expression that they are no t oaring whether this old world continues to go or not. These sad faced animals may be found hitched to the clvays aronncl town, to the rickety waggons of the peddlers and the rag pickers, and occasionally to the wag- ons of the contractors and teconsters, Once, perhaps, they wore full of bouyaney of youth, but constant drudgery has made them only tools, barely animate. Mausoleum 11111,1180111S WaS :King of Caria, ancl, after his death, his widow, Artemisia, erected a magnificent tomb to his memory, Indeed, it watt so wonderful and snrpessecl cull other struotures so much in its appearttnee and grandeur that the name mausoleum came to be the generic term for a costly tomb. It remained standing for 41, number of eon- turies, and then was dostoyed by an earth- quake. In 1404 the Knights of Rhodes built (Ma() from fragments of the mensolenni, and as late as 1850 Mr, Newton, under the auspices of the English Government, found the site of the anctient 1017113 ltnd the funda- mental outlines of the building. According to tradition, Artemisia mingled tho ashes of elitusolus with her wine, 411l) died of grief. Haying. nom the soft dyko•roach crooked and wagon. Coin';e:,.:;::!'he great lond of ranting., seemed SlotHrwcilt,z.u.wn, w1111 hone,y swing and croaky tho cool froshnosx of tho windloss Tho oT00111.,tiroked and stmely, horn to horn, Sharing the reg. aecl toll or night and day, Bond head and nook to Hieing, hilly way, 11y many a sowsoies labor mareed and torn, On tho broad senor dyke lio gatheteng heat. Waves upward from the muse, IVIlerci road Oil SWeerr &Core the tramping or the tsams. 141 while the oxen roes beside the stv toet ow hay, thelort receive( the early toed, with hissing stir among the dusty beam Taking no Risks, Old Seedy--" Oh, sir, Ivill yon hot help a vary needy person? I have 110 work and thirteen children," Olcl Thrif ty—. If I helped all sixth people as you I'cl go into bankruptcy." " Seady—" Bub remember, eir, that, ho who giveth to tho poor lencloth to the Lord," Voty woll ; rob me sea the offiatoral," no All But Told Him What to Make of Backwoods Lovor31)(18''omewhat puzzled et something his best girl hod said)—" I don't ltnow whet to make of von, Matilda." Bost girl ( with her eye( spoaking volumes) .-11 Volt dOn't? Why, Ooorge, / didn't know you Were OD stupid." Thu rand Duke Alexis lute tho gout end is generally euitering front tho effects of high Two- thirds of t Ito itpplIcan GA foe m1011881011 to West Point, and Atinapolle are rejected because ef the cigarette habit tuel its re- sults, Oen. Lew Wallace is 01 Work 011 a, neW story, but na lie 10 an extremely careful and muitentalcing author, it 111 1101 likely to be published fur mime time, The chair ()coupled by Garibaldi in the Italian Legislative Chamber in Rome is hung with a liturel•wreatle Since tile patrioe's death no ono has been allowed to use it. Prof. Illaekie Nays Carlyle wee a giant, and if ha hail used his club with less severity mid more diserintination, he would not have been less a giant, but more of a, man mod a brother, There is no truth in the report that the poet Whittier is deogerously ill. His beelth is as good as 11 has Leen for the lost year or two, I-Ic is now with his friends, the Cart- landa, Newbmwport. James Russell Lowell was 0118 of the first, 1 -froward 11101, to get into trouble by cuttiug morning prayers. He lived to see this sue- vival of P(11,4141,10111 relegated to the limbo of things that teen., nal it must have been a cause of peenlier and pereonal satiefaution to him. BIg Skeleton. The gigantic skeleton of a man, meaeuring 14ght feet six inches in height, was found near the Jordan Itiver, just outside Salt Lake City recently. The (Ind was made by a workman who was digging an irrigating ditch, The akull was uncovered tut tt depth of eight feet from the surfaee ef the greund, and the slceleton was standing bolt upright. Thu workman bad to dig down nine feet In order to exhume it. The bones were mud. decayed and crumbled et the slightest touch. They were got together with greet care, and the skeleton WM forted to measure 8 feet inches in height ; the skull measured. 1 1 inches in diameter, and the feet 1 0 Mello long. A copper chein, to which Was attach- ed three medallions covered with curious hieroglyphics, was a.round the neck of the skeloten, and neav it weee foiled a stone linaniner, some pieces of pottery, an arrow- head tool some copper medals. Arelneologists believe dint the original owner of the skele- ton belonged to the raoe of molted builders Misunderstanding, A great deal of unhappiness in home life comes from misunderstanding the people ono lives with. leach dee is more Or loss affected by the perscmal impreseion of a conversatien incident, or episode. The way it strikes us is very apt to push quite out of sight the way it may strike anether. In consequence we misinterpret inuods or attribute to our I; intl. red metivee which have never omitted to them, The quiet manner is taken to mean irritation when it is simply weariness, or impulsive speech is supposed eo spring from anger, when it may have its origin from embarrassment or in indiscretion. -At all events life would be smoother in many a, home if everybody would endeavor to under- stand his or her neighbor in the home, and if everybody were taken at the best and not at the worst valuation. Good Advice. To use this terse and homely phraze, my friend, lot us mind oar own business. There is enough to decide ill Our own lives ; let ns bo unwind' ul of the affairs of others, except in so fat• as we can be helpful and of real benefit. Let us be charitable in all our conclusions, 111(1111M] of the fact that we so often need the cloak of charity ourselves. As we would wieh to be judged, so lot ris juilge othars—always with a kindly spirit, over with a belief in the better pert of self. Stem a flower where ethers throw a stone. Fill your life so full of m111811108 that evil reports will find no place where you aro. Stop potty scandals by some pretty story of womanly kindness. Make your life a bright spot in this world, and vi hero yen so0 a frown there throw a stnile, and whethee it be morn, dusk or night, let the sunny side of your Datum always be at full meridian. The Briglat Side. Cheerfulness can become a habit, and habits somothnes help us over herd places. A cheerful heart smith cheerfel things. A lady and gentleman were in a lumber yard situated by a foul smelling river. The lady said : "How good the pine boords smell l" "Pine boards I" exclaimed the gentleman. " sleet smell this foul riVer 1" No thank you," tffic lady replied, " I prefer to smell the pine beanie," And she was right, If sho, or we, eau carvy this principle through otir entire lite ing, wo shall have a cheerful Mutt, the 012001.1E11 voice, and elleosful fem. There in some houses an unconscions Mmosphere of domestic and docial ozone which brightens evetybody. Wealth can not give ite nor can poverty take it away, Tho shortest speeoli on reoord—and thot, too, made by lb woman—hi beard of ill In - A woman wallsed seventy miles( to mar tt sermon, and the pastor was ea please ed tut this appreciation that he oalled ttpon her to tell the congregation how she 0a1110 there, Mein slowly, she looked 0001 over with great solemnify and said "1 hoofed it." Then she set (Imo again. From a number of ettreful tests lately Imola to asuertain the preeise strength of moiler bolts sot in Portland cement in the Trditittry way, the facet appeared that the oint was really stronger than a stone. tide demonstration, twaineh iron rods were sob lute the stones some eleven and onedutlf inches, and then subjected to tho tost. The - first rod had a screw thread lo improve the pgovinpuof the (lemma, and the cement began breaking of the stone talc ng Oise at 50,000 to yield at a load of 32,000 pounds, the ds, With it smooth rod, ft, was felled that, the cement, began to yield et load of 3.1,000 pounds, but the rook broke 07,000pounds. Tints, though the streegth of the cement Imint was not developed, it was inferred t6t, suitable setting, the cement ;joint 011 a smooth rod might he made to break tho rod.