HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-2-10, Page 7FEB, 10 1893.
AGRICULTURAL.
1Tamworth wine.
lvlr. John Bell, of Amber, Ont., writes a
follows to the dl'ar.ne'a' j tiwooate I—H0.vin
boon an owner of Tatnworths fur over thre
yoare, and having scow thorn in all the dif
forent stagoa of life, also /having seen the
under ver y indifferent treatment, 1 frank)
say, more 'J tnworths. I was limit Induce(
to try them through perusing the column
of rho l.ngBell Live StockJournal, with tit
intention of buying. I oorrosponded will
John Norman, jr., Esq., Tamworth, Eng
land, and eventually purchased a pair
which landed in this country the last o
August, 1889. Never having soon a Tanaworth pig before, I was diseneted with my
venture, 1 never have soon a man that
liked them on first sight, and I have yet to
see the man that don't like them after giv-
ing thema fair trial Men who made the
most sport of them were the first to oono
and buy. In a short time the unsightly
appearance whioh they presented 01, first
disappeared ; day by day they gained favor
in my sight, lo a shore time after arriving
here the sow gave birth to a litter of pitte—
strong, vigorous fellows—that grew at an
amazing rate. I had a litter of improved
Berkshires, two weeks older than the Tam -
worths, I let them all run together from
time of weaning ; by the let of April I was
convinced that there were some good quali-
ties in the red shins, anti since then 1 have
bred nothing but pure Tamworths. I find
the demand foe them for breeding purposes
gaining rapidly. I do not hold that the pure•
bred is as good for general use as the half -
bred, owing to the Tamworth having
the power of transmitting their superior
qualities to their offspring. When match -
cd with other breeds tho pigs come remark-
ably strong and growthy—exactly what, the
pork packer wants at the present time—deep
lengthy fellows, with plenty of side and bam.
In the County of York there isa great num
her of small, white sows, bred from almos
all the different breeds available; they resent
ble somewhat the Middle Y001{911100. Thee°
sows orated with the Tamworth boar never
foil to produce the very best of pigs. I do
not wish my reactors to think that I value
those white Howe more highly than other
breeds. I do not, but there isa great num•
bei of then in the county, and they seem to
be just what is required to mate with the
Tamworth boar. Wherever pigs bred in this
way have boon raised along with other
breeds, they have never failed to show their
superior qualities. In the fall of 1891 I
had a youngboarstray away ; be was lust
for six weeks ; during the time he served a
great many sows, a number of which were
those small whites. During the last Mw
months I have frequently been old that
that boar straying through tho neighborhood
was the best advertisement the Tamworth
pigs ever had. Fanners bring their SOWS
several miles to my boars When once tried
in a neighborhood they aro sure to be the
means of Inducing others to try them, as the
man that has crossbred Tamworths is sure
to have better pigs than his neighbors, whioh
bcos a long way towards advertising the
reed, as there aro sure to be throe or fenr
neighbors together at killing time. Tha
flesh is superior to that of any other breed,
the oarcaoe containing 11larger proportion of
loan meat. Some writers say that pork
packers are trying to lend the farmer by the
nose. On this point I ask, What is the use
of breeding and feuding aorta not wanted ?
You might just as well take peas
to the malt house to try to sell,
as take the little Mt, chunky pigs we
formerly bred to the packing house. The
demand calla for leaner pork, and the paok•
er mast have it. Those writers must give
up their old ideas, and not be like the Inas
that curried water uphill all his life because
his forefathers did it. The packer wants a
lengthy hog, with the rear end the heaviest
—not one-third wider at the shoulder than
at the ham. It is said that we aheadbrood a pig that can be driven to market.
If there Is any argument in that, we cer-
tainly require a good, flinty, hard animal,
and one with activity, combined with size
and quality. In the Tamworth and their
crosses we get all this. If the breeders of
purebred swine would endeavor to breed
the pig the demand requires, and encourage
rho farmer to do so, by giving useful hints
as to fending, breeding, management, eto.,
the swine industry could be made a source
of great profit. The Tamworth has a little
uphill work to contend with in this locality,
owing to being so near Toronto market.
The pork butohers of Toronto require
great number of pigs to supply the trade,
and as they want email, light hogs, with
as little bone as possible and a good pro.
portion of fat, the Tamworth and other
large breeds cin not altogether suit their de.
mend.; but as soon as the pork -eater gets abeam,• taste of the fashionable ben, the pork
butcher will have to change his views, or
loose the trade. I have not tested the
Tamworth to know how long they would
live without food, nor on how little they
would subsist ; but this I do know, that
they will thrive where others will not.
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More Hogs Wanted.
Mr, Wm. Davies, the great pork packer
of Toronto, says :—On every hand we hear
of the depresetou of agriculture, and rho
farmer, turn witch way he will, is met by
distressingly low prices, Hae he two or
three hundred bushels of wheat in kis gran.
ary ? Ile finds if ho teams it to Toronto
he can get 60 to 66 cents ; this will not pay
him for the seed sown and the labour ex.
pended. 1f 110 wishes to realize on barley,
which ought to hate brought a good price
last fall, unless it is a very bright and
plump sample the will have to take about 32
cents, which makes him wish he had let the
land lie fallow. But surely, though wheat
and barley are non-roluunorative, oats will
do well ; but no, they also are very low.
1t is true potatoes are dear, but of this orop
very fete farmers have any.
We now turn to ,live stock, beginning
with horses, but the honest yeoman who has
these can hardly give them away. Cattle
and sheep are disappointing also, but hogs
are higher than for many years, and are
likely to keep up, as they are seam allover
the world. Itis strange that with grain so
low, that there aro not twine as n.any hogs
(actin Ontario and Manitoba.
4Vs are nowpuyleg 6 cents live weight,
and/ ()anent got half enough for our 1'equieo-
meets, This branch ot farming is only lin
its Infancy, and'wo believe that the farmer
who goes into' it with intelligence, courage
and enterprise, will reap a rich remitted, Tho
foregoing applies with gteaber force to the
farmos of Manitoba, as we road 10 the Trade
Bulletin that bailey only nets the farmers,
there 9 aunts per bushel. Many (armors
appear to have almost as great a dislike to
hogs as the Hebrews, They food a lot of
useless horses, that no one wants at any
price, which are; eating thole beetle off; and
in the fall many Savo a lot of steers, two.
year-old, Inc which they got about 2 cents
per pound ;• but sorry a brood sow do you
fine/, though site Wothld bring two litters a
year, whioh could be said, at six months old
fee from $8 to $10 each, The Dominion
0011 Ontario governments have fesned
i lletile,giving
ies sue of experiments
lroe
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proving di;0rly that, by (coding mania grain
to ptge it W111 net the farmer it much highs
price. They 0130 3110W that t0 make tit
most of hops they should bo fatted and soli
young, Every intelligent farmer will ale
ace the advantage of koe ling the hnanur
on hie faun,
There is a prospect of another large ox.
port bacon factory etarting in London, and
doubteas ethers will follow if the promoters
emu be assured of a steady and onfficien
supply of the raw material. If the stats
melts that have recently appeared in tho
press aro true, regarding the rogniremonte
of the new establishment in Landon, 20,000
live hogs per week will. bo wanted in
Ontario and l 'iebeo next sensor. Now is
the time for farmers to make preparations
to meet this demand.
Sheep and Cows. •
An ex-daityman who changed to ghee
husbandry, trays that Ole 12 cows product°
1711 pounds ot butter each, making 2,10
pounds. This was sold at an average of 20
dints a pound, coming to 9120• He sold the
ewe for $35 each and invested tho money
in 100 owes, costing 94.20 each, The etvne
raised 83 lambs, which he sold for $4.3350011
or $368.05. The wool of the owes sold for
41.60 a hood, or 4100, Adding the two
makes his income from the sheep 95.28.02,
which is 9108.05 more than his income from
1 he cows. It cost jut abort the same to
maintain the cows that it di(1 the ewes. But
there should be charged against the cheep
the valve of the scrim milk fed to the pigs
and pasturage of the lambs, boot of which
would not equal the excess of income from
the sheep.
But what shall be charged against the
notes for having to milk them twice a day
for 300 days? Itis oertainly worth a cent
to milk a cow oec0, Hire were 7.200 milk -
inert; that, would be 978, Than what was
it worth to eloanso the milk vessels twice a
day, skim the milk and churn for 300 days?
Let the hardworked hon'ewifo answer that
question. And then how many tines door
the dairyman have to go to market with the
butter? That must be worth something.
Thee 10 only $15 to be chargedagainst the
sheep for " fussing" with them—$5 for wash.
105 and $10 for shearing. The lambs walk
to market and the wool is taken at one load
when the farmer has to go to town for some.
thing else. This is 0 fair comparison of
dairying and sheep farming as generally
conduotel.—(Praotieal Farmer.
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ABANDONED MINING CAMPS.
ABowling Wilderness Where Once Were
20,00 People,
Western mining camps yearly give strik-
ing evidences of the rise and fall of great.
nem, but perhaps no more remarkable in.
stance is at hand than that of the queer old
town of Pierce City, in Idaho. Its event.
fill history begins in 1860, when gold was
discovered on Oro Fitts Creek. A year had
scarcely passed after the discovery when
20,000 rootless souls were swarming along
the meek, and the richness of digging soon
made Oro Fine among the famous camps of
the golden 44 est, Gold was so plentiful
that it seemed to lose its relue, and men
seemed rather in quest of the excitement
attending the discovery of new .fields than
of the yellow metal. They spent their dust
with a lavishness never witnessed before or
since. Two years later Bohm Basin eleetri•
fled the civilized world with its marvelous
richness, and with its rise began the decline
of Oro Fino. Men with blankets on their
backs started over the hills to the new Ll
Dorado. But Oro Fino nod Pierce City re-
mained good camps for years, declining
gradually 00 the ground was worked out.
Tlhirtytwo years have passed. Not
a sign is left to indicate where
once the booming Damp of Oro Vino
stood, while Pierce City is simply a repo
of what was onus the glory of Idaho; a
remindeito the young men of the West
who have come upon the scene that while
they wore being rocked in the ormdlein their
Easterih homes, and before many of them
had seen the light of day, a stern and rug.
ged elate of mon—the noblest type of Amer.
lean manhood—were climbing high moue
tains, exploring deep gorges, blaziug Grails,
fighting savage men and beasts, wresting
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the golden treasure from e mountains and
preparing the way for housekeepers tut ning
westward from the crowded East. Pierce
City to -day stands on a little bench over.
lathing Oro Fine Creek, which winds
„hrough the open canon, so wide that; it
might be called a valley. A row of lug
houses 0ur1 shacks made of whipsawed lure
bar stands on either side of the single
street. Tho population consists of six or
seven white men, about 100 Chinamen, and
four Chinawomen. 1t is in fact a Chinese
town. The oldest planus are worked and
reworked by the Mongolians, who manage
to Snake from 30 cents to $1 a day. There
is some good ground still held by white
men, but there is little work going on
except by Chinamen. No less than $7,000, •
000 in gold has been taken from the camp.
WHEAT IIP AGAIN. /
ThI4/1 of the Woods stilling Co. 4lnlses 0
Two Cents Per ttus11e1.
A Winnipeg telegram says :—Wheat
prices again advanced at all points throagh•
out Manitoba this morniug two cents.
This movement was due to local competi-
tion and the action of theLake of the Woods
Milling Company, the manager of whioh,
when asked for an explanation, said : " A
drop at Clioago and other points does not
frighten us at all. Wo aro convinced that
Manitoba wheat is superior to all wheat
offered on the trading markets of the world.
We will take all °Weringoatthese advanced
prices, and are oouteuted to take all chances
of losing? money."
Several attempts have been lately made
top rocure pass -hooks from(han ks for dishon.
est purposes. The method adopted is this:
A gentlemanly -looking man sends into a
particular bank it boy who asks for Mr.
—'a pass -hook. If it is delivered, the
person outside investigates the state of the
aocountaud drawscheques according to the
holmium available, ho having first sent for a
new ebeque•book. In one ease, at least, in.
guides have been made and the pass -book
refused when the nies0otgcr reported that
he had been sunt by " a gentleman in the
street." Of course the gentleman was not
in the street when he was looked for. Bank
Morita should be on their guard.
The Beautiful Language of Romance.
Fond Mamma--" Mabel, my dear, havo
you any reason to tiiuk--pardon me, my
daughter, but it 1s to ate a matter of high.
set coueertl—stave you any reason t0 thunk
that Algernon Swaolchaunner, the wealthy
awl highly connected young profosstonai
10411, regards you with more than ordinary
interest?"
Queenly Dau htet' (with a yawn)—" Yes,
mm, I've gob a dead 011(ah on Min 1f I want
Ism," ---
In rnalritrg olutmpagno the grapes aro
(maned six times, each pressure making
Wine of a different quality.
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THE BRUSSELS POST,
THE TOBOGGANING CRAZE
Unclog on the Mountains ns of SwItzorinnA,
Canadian "tobogganing" has been often
described and its jolly scenes are well
known,
There le, however, among tiro wino
health resects of the Gllaous 111 Puas(8),
Switzerland, in these High Alpine valleys
lying et the top of the world, quite a dif
forent kind of tobogganing, and this is as
yet but little known beyond rho partiol•
pants.
Mr. Addington Symonds inhere to th1s
Swine tobogganing in ills now book, " Our
Life in the Swieo highlands, His Baugh
ter is an enthusiastic tobogganist, and It
the book Net named Isa graphio account of
her tobogganing experiences on the glacier
of the Silveretta, a well known mountain of
Granbunden,
These Swiss I•IIghlnnds in winter aro
thronged with both health mrd pleasure
seekers. At St. Moritz hotels are open the
entire winter, mit well ailed.
Davos, in a neighboring valley to the En-
gadine, is the most popular of these high
winter resorts, Tho altitude is 6,060 feat,
It is full every winter of visitors from all
parte of the world.
life little high valley among the lofty Al.
pine p0mlca is sheltered from the wind, and
covered all winter with indeeoribably
boautltttl snow. Above it, seeming to rest
on the icy peake, is the bluest of skies, and
weak after week the unclouded 0011 pours
into it with such genial rays as to briog le
to requisition straw hats and parasols, yet
leaving the snow and loo intact ; this is
owingto the peculiar dryness of the air,
the sortnees of the days, and the groat
cold of the long nights.
Under these conditions out-of-dooreports
aro the rage. More than all the other et.
tractions—even those of the daily open-air
eonoan or the free rink—tobogganing takes
hold of tete gleets of ail nationalities, es.
pecially. the English.
Step into any of the numerous hotels and
you will see the corridors lined several
rows deep with toboggans, many of them
gay with crimson velvet upholstery and
brilliant rugs.
Everybody seems infected with the
craze—mon, women, and children ; no one
is too old or too dignified to yield to the in.
toxication.
As I have said, this Alpine sport is not at
all the orthodox Canadian tobogganin ,
with its precipitous elide. It is simply
" coasting with the ordinary Swiss sled,
which is much like the old-style Canadian
sled, with seats on upright supports. The
coaster sits upright and steers and propels
the sled with "pegs" ; these " pegs" are
short sticks with iron sikes and he piles
them with his hands, with sharp, rapid
strokes in the snow.
Thu slide or " run" is sometimes the high.
way. More frequently it is wide pathway
along the mountain declivities ; the snow is
dug away in some plaaos and well embank-
ed in others, in order to secure safety, es-
pecially at the curves,
" The Buol" Is the most popular of the
"runs" at Davos. It is constructed along the
sides of the Schatz Alp, beginning a short
distance up the mountain and winding down
in long sweeping (serves to the bottom, a
distance of about a mile. Another favorite
"eon" is tie '• Klosters ;" this fa two and
a half miles in length.
There have been gloriouo races on both of
these " runs." Of the feet time made at the
" regular" races I have no records at hand ;
but a casual list shows the winning time
made by a gentleman on the Klostus run in
a handicap race to have been sdx minutes.
That of a ladies' handicap is 6:22.
A "handicap" is where all start together
instead of at regular intervals and trust to
luck or skill to get in ahead and win the
race. It is in high favor because of its
frolicsome possibilities. In the first men.
tioned race appear the names of oeveral
ladies, some titled foreigners and an English
general.
These races are always much enjoyed by
spectators sitting or standing in the brill-
iant sunshine at different points along the
"run."
When it is time for the start one hears
ringing out on the still mountain air, away
up at the top of the run, the warning ory,
throe -times repeated I d re you ready 7 Ann
YOU 008,1501? ARE YOU READY? Then,
like a gong, tine final Oo 1
The cheery "rlr/Mito," German for "at-
tention I" runs down along the line. A
moment later a sled and its rider whirls by
with lightning velocity and speeds on down
the course. Another and still another, tn-
til all the competitors pass you. Down at
the cad of each course the flag drops, and
the time is rioted.
Then spectators and tobaggganors gather
in front of a ,hotel, and the prizes aro
awarded amid groat merriment.
OON(10 HORSES AND CATTLE
Bloch Ih,lsing• Init bend Where It was
Th1u;411t tele :hvnerfrnent mould Fan, -
When the idea of raising stook en the
r + Congo was breeched severe/ years ago moat
1 people believed the experiment would fail.
the experiment t was made, however, and it
hills fait' to be very successful, It is one of
the most interesting entorpelaos on the
Congo and is mune,ged by the Company of
Oong0 Produote. Three years ago the come
pally decided to try to raise cattle and.
horses. They seleoted for their experiment
the large Islam/ of 1•Ia'eba, about fifty mites
up the river, They first shipped 300 cattle
from South Africa and Angola to the island,
and the lower Congo stations have been sup-
plied ever ainoe with a great deal of fresh
meet from Matebe, The herd on the island
now numbers 1,700 head, The euppliee of
fresh meat have been a great boon to white
men along the river, A few years ago they
were almost entirely dependent for their
food upon canned gaols, whish they brought
from Europe, One reason why there is now
much leas mortality among them is because
they aro living largely upon adequate animal
and vegetable food which comes to thorn
fresh from (11e neighborhood of their
stations. Cattle from Ilatoba have been
taken up the river no far es Leopoldville,
though cattle raising on the upper river is
still in its infancy,
The experiment of horse raising on the
Conga is still More interesting. The Com-
pany of Congo Prodnots began their drove
of horses with two stallions and eight mares
of Spanish stock imported from the Canary
Islands, A few animals of mixed American
and Arab stock ware soon added to the
drove. All these shoals were intended
for saddle horses, Itis hoped to use cattle
as draught animals, and the company in.
tends the horses it Is raising chiefly for rid-
ing purposes.
Sone of the horses drooped and died un.
der the changed climatic conditions, but the
company is, on the whole, very well antis.
fled with the success It is attaining. It ns
found that the haves take kindly to the
pat tera'0 afforded by til 1 island. The grass
hs nourishing, and is supplemented by a
small daily ration of corn meal. The grave
stem is very tough and the animals content
themselves with nipping off the blades.
Every morning,as soon as the dew is off
the grass, the hoses aro turned out of their
yards and are at liberty to range over a
pasture about eight square miles in extent.
they are guarded by black boys, who do
not permit them to go down to the river to
quench their thirst on anoonnt of the croco-
diles, that like nothing better than to see an
imprudent horse approaching the stream.
4Vhen-a ar000dile seas a horse at the river
brink it at once swims towards him under
the water, knocks him over, if it can, with
a blow of its tail, and drags him below the
surfs. 0. The horses can drink without dan-
ger only in the ponds, which are quite nu-
merous all over the island.
About noon the boys rennet tip the animals
for the midday rest in the shaded yards.
Trio is the time when tho daily ration of
corn is served, and, moreover, at this hour
the sun's rays beat down so severely that
the animals would he jeoparded were they
left in the open. They are, therefore, gath-
ered together in the shade. Two hours later
they are permitted 0o range over the pas.
tures again, and do not return to the yards
until. evening.
The natives consider thohorsesas fetiches
of great potency, and they never approach
them without the greatest caution, being
particularly afraid of their heels and teeth.
There are now about 300 horses in the
drove, and before long. the Company of
Congo Products will be able to supply all
the horses required for the Gango Govern-
ment and explorers.
A New Milking Maohine•
Americans are generally credited with
having shown phenomenal ingenuity in the
invention of milking machines, but the
latest candidate for honors in this branch
of.eciene° fs a Norwegian. In the machine
wbleh he has produced the mechanical milk-
er has been devised to closely imitate the
sucking function of a calf's mouth, without
oausing iritation to the cow. All four teats
are milked simultaneously by two pairs of
elastic and feathering roller segmenta,
whioh have suitable rocking, approaching
and receding movements. The teats are
squeezed from thu upper ends down to the
bottom. The operator turns the handle and
the machine does the rest. The milk flown
through a funnel into the milk can, and tllo
operator can thus see when the crowis milk-
ed Olean ; that is to say when no more milk
flows. It is claimed that cows like the
predates, and keep perfectly quiet c'twit%the
operation. It is also said that even in the
case of cows with sore teats that the animate
stand more quietly than when milked by
hand, as the mechanical pressure 15 more
even and softer, and throws less scram on
the milking organs. It is obviously, too, an
advantage, that the objeotmtal habit of
dipping the hand into the milk, 3.11(1 the
consequent liability to contaminate the
milk, 1s dispensed with entirely in the new
mincer.
Holding'the Reins.
Tile night, was clear, the sleighing good,
The cutter alae ,lob Wide,
She snuggled close beneath the robe
To her tend lover's side.
The horse was spirited, and jumped
11rit11 frequent tugs and strains,
Until sho in80000tly said/,
"Do lot me hold the reins 1
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They're married now, perhaps because
She was so helpful 111011 1
She loves him well, and ho loves her—
Well, in rho way of men 1
And yob in all their sweet delight
Ono sad thought makes him wieee 1
She held the roius that whtter's night,
She's hold them over 511100,
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Denmark allows every snbjeol, malt or
ovale, Who 10 sixty years of age, a mall
°melee, Jltly criminals are excepted.
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HINDOO TRADITIONS 01' THE FLOOD
One That Agrees in the )lain Details With
Our ItUHtehl Account.
It may be said without fear of contradie•
boll that at least two-thirds of the nations
and races of the globe have some tradition
(in many cases very faint) of what we call
the Deluge or Flood ot Noah. In India
these inythsor semi -sacred legends appear
in many forms, one at least, that contained
in the Hindoo dlahabharata, agtoeing with
our biblical 000011110 in all of its main details.
Brahma did not "speak with a voice of
thunder from a 0100)1," but appeared to
Manu, the Hfudoo's Noah, in the form of a
fish, this on the River Wirini. Frotn thence
he was transferred to the Ganges, having
grown too large for the Wirini, and after
an astonishing increase of bulk from disport-
ing in the sacred rive he was transferred
to the Indian Ocean. But even hero Mann
(Noah) teas within speaking (ltstens)°, and
it was from that onean's depths that Brah-
ma gave orders for the builds^u of a great
life-saving vessel (ark). Matsu did as
Brahma direoted, and on the approach of
the great flood took good care to stow away
seed of all kluds as well as the living crea-
tures of the earth. Last of all be provided
quarters for the seven Rishic or holy beings
which were to outride the storm. Then the
flood came, much in the 0141110 way that that
of Noah did, but the account does not say
in as many words that "tile fountains of
the great deep were broken up and the win.
(lows of heaven were opened." When the
flood was "well on," and "the whole sur -
Come of the earth was covered in water to a
depth of 150 oubits," Brahma appeared to
Manu in the form of great fish swimming
alongside the vessel. This Brahma fish was
an enormous creature with a gigantic horn,
and to this horn Manu lashed his vessel
with a stout rope of vigin's hair. Then be.
gan a series of wanderings that threw Ulys-
ses and the "Flying.Oatohmau's" feats in to
the shade. .For years the great vessel
plunged hither and thither, now on this
side of the globe and then on that, but al-
ways at the mercy of the god(ish, tine horn,
and the hair rope, After an age of aimless
plunging over the great sphere of water
the outlook at last catches a glimpse of
land, or more properly, rook, for it was t115
very apex of Mount Ilfnharat (probably
monning highest peak of the Himalayas),
and to that point the fish pilot steered the
groat craft. God now appears on the scene
and gives orders for the hair rope to be re-
mover/ froin the Brahma fish's horn 010(1 its
traneforethoo t0 a solid column of atone on
the mountain pease. God also conhnhand•
ed that the mountain would over miter be
known as 114nuut Naubsndltana, whioh
moans " ship -bin ling," After the enbsid-
once of the waters the powers of God, Brah-
ma, sold Mann (Noah) scent to have been
strangely interwoven ; for, we aro told,
"after the flood, by favor of Brahma, Menu
created a now race of people, which from
that time forward ver° known as ltfanullella
or people born of Mann,"
A very pretty girl named Annie ode.
Tagus, aged nineteen, of Wmuuonasa,N,J•„
was fondling a pet horse, when tho animal
suddenly snapped at the girl's face and bit
her nese, almost tearing it off, Sbo will bo
disfigured for life. --
liELECTRIC NOTES.
It is estimated that 15,000,0(10 feet
nonlut0rl wird will be required to abet til
distribution of current for lighting the 112
000 electric Monte which aro to be used i
the buildings and gratinda of the World
Columbian 1(1050800100,
1 Ieetriaity has been sucossfully applie
iu 0;rirultural operations at the f'olyteoh
1110 11,00(01115 at Alebaina, at whist!' place
motor has been at wont since last spring
thrashing oats, wheat, rye, and barley, cut
Ling (menage, griuding corn and ginning til
preeaing cotton. And this is going on in
State whorl) less than fifty years ago, so
enrding to the Engineering Magazine, Sun
deeds of milds of telegraph wires were de
strayed by a mob of (armors because tit
where were supposed to have superinduc
ed a dietrossiug drought which oeuerre
licitly after their erection.The electrical fakir 10 05018 abroad in the
land, and 050111 the electrical grass mania
warning to the over -credulous inventor tvh
f0 apt to /1011,/ his money over to abacuses
'(11001)0cr imst
poors, Ordinary intelligence
which generally keeps a man from believing
titan tots units of power 0011 b0 deriver/
from 0110, seems to forsake many 0s soot, 0a
electricity is Introduced into the problem,
Classic Beaton, according to report, 110 now
pouring money Into the c'oh'ere of 0 geeing
in thio line, and a visit from the foolklller
ie badly needed.
In view ofthefontthat many Fire Inspec•
tors report liras they cannot 000010)10 for ne
duo to electricity, the Electrical World has
worked out the following argument for
them to base their opinion upon : " Elec•
tricity is something 0110 exact nature of
which is uukrown. The cause of the ver -
ago fire is eometlting the exact nrt.ure of
which i0 unknown. therefore, as things
equal to the same thing are equal to each
ether, the mate of the average lire is elec.
tricity."
Probably the first electrical publication
in the Japanese language is the Journal of
the Electrical Society of Toltio, which has
recently been issued. English mathenatiaal
formnito and characters are used, and these
aro strung up and down the pages in per -
perpendicular fashion to correspond with
the rest of Lilo type. The symbol used to
signify a dynamo machine closely resembles
a music stand such as is need in a theatreorchestra,
The manufacture of aluminium by an
electrolytic process is to be gone into quiteextensively at Forges, France. The false of
the Praz River, giving 2,000 -horse power,
are to be utilized and a plaut erected soon.
A remunerative positie0 for a competent
expert would be travelling arwand doctor-
ing up small electric plants. It 18 reported
that a great many of the older electric light-
ing installations in country towns, owmg
to bad management, ignorant engineers andother causes, have deteriorated considerably
and in coma cases so much so that they are
not able to do the work they aro called
upon to perform. An electric light plant,
like other wonderful growths, needs con-
tinuous and competent ears.
One of the unsolved problems of electrI-
cal engineering seems to be the designing
of a successful lightning arrester for trolley
roads. Marry -electricians have worked on
t,but notwithstanding their eff its thunder•
storms continue to burn out armature, and
thea paralyze the heart of the system.
Spring lightning is coming soon, and here
is a chance for budding electrical genius to
display itself.
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Since the introduction of the trolley sys-
tem in Philadelphia the buzzing and squall-
ing of the motor cora and the purring of the
trolley wires after a car has passed has so
troubled the mind of a woraer on the
Philadelphia Record that ha has written
the following: "The trolley line along
Bainbridge and Catharine streets is re-
sponsible for a new race of eats whioh is
being reared in the neighborhood through
which the electric line passes. They are
large, fat and frisky and can only be com-
pared to other cats as a full grown New.
foundland dog can be compared to a
waddling pup, The great physical vigor
and wonderfnl development Is due to a
course of electrical treatment to which they
subject themselves. There Is just enough
electricity in the rail to answer theirpurpose
and first they lick the rail fondly. Then
they roll on the rail and wallow in the
electricity fluid and act ill every way as if
they were under the influence of a catnip
dissipation, After a few minutes of this
they get ap and dance around like /tappets
on a string. These exhibitions are of
nightly occurrence and the windows of the
throughfares are °roteded with eager
spectators."
The Outlook in Russia.
Advices received at St. Petersburg and
Odessa from many districts of Russia indi•
oath that the fanzine will be worse this year
then it VAS blab. As the winter advencos
the sufferings from want and disease in the
famine stricken districts are becoming in-
describable. A foreign Consul at Odessa,
who has visited some of these dietriote
says " the people are dying off like flips at
the end of summer." The commercial out.
look in southern Russia is described as more
dismal than ever known, and the Govern-
ment is very uneasy over the threatened
bankruptcy of a great many of the largest
business houses. Count Babrineky, Mar-
shal of the Russian nobility, has written to
St, Petersburg from Bogotdisk, in the Gov-
ernment of Tula, saying that the herve0t
last summer was even worse than that of
the previous year. Rye failed to yield the
met of sowing, and oats and hay failed en•
treely in many parte. These causes nom•
pletely ruined the inhabitants the previous
year, and tbis winter the outlook is hope.
less. " We find ourselves," he says, "Moe
to (nee with a bad harvest under much
worse circumstances than last year." The
Government loons began in September, but
are utterly insufficient, He aonoludes with
this terrible picture of the condition of
affairs in the province: "Apart from their
need of daily bread, fuel le likewise required
by the distressed population. There is a
dearth of straw, of coal, and of wood, and
the shivering inmates tear down the thatch.
ed roofs of their hate or break up their
carts iwd other useful domestic appliances
to provide Inc). To ornwm all, typhus and
epidemics among children are appearing.
The inane presented on a walk through any
patter the district isgghastly in the extreme,
heartrending spectacles mooting enols gaze
at every turn—cold, damp louts, with
mouldy walls, the snow falling through the
apertures of the roof (the thatolt having
been used 00 fuel), the flooring coated with
nod, while on the trop of the spniaons stove
lie huddledl together live or six (individuals
in the paroxysms of ty htlsfovei',unatt.ended
and witlnut even bread and milk, and
several numbs of winter weather still be.
fore ns,"
At The Bank.
Depositor 1 " Is the cashier in 1"
The Porter : " Ile is, ma'am, for ten
years, Perhaps tit' assistant cashier'11 do,
ma'am, "—[I'narsol's Weekly,
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UNDERNEATH OHIOAGO.
How 'Illigy alike JAM fn the 50e,'td'* Pair
Nuys the (Alcamo flutes: ---Disease germs'
lurk in every cubic inch of the material
which is being 110011 to fill in Wiest Harrison
Memel, between California and Homan even.
008. Jamie McGrath, one of the reaidontto
of the district, and several of ifs neighbors
deckled to take concerted 00ti00 in the
matter. It was dark night before last, and
It was oold, Armed with pickax and spade
James McGrath, 1'. If. Utley, and J. F.
Sheehan mot et 9 o'clock -at West Harrison,
etroet and Holman avenue. As 811, Utley,
was the heaviest roan in the party to Idle
wile spree the honor of striking the first
blow fn the interest of reform. Icor two,
hours the men worked, casting aside what-
ever material they encountered which they
did not think made good pavement. When
they couuted the result showedthey had
unearthed 1
Seven rats.
One section of Maltese eat to which heal!
Was attache//.
Ono png clog,
Ono amnion of Angora cat to which tail.
was attached.
Two "yallor" doge (mongrel).
Gee and onehalf rabbits
One goat.
One wire hustle.
One hind quarter of bay horse (badly
preterverlthough frozen).
BRITISH LEGATION MO 3BED,
r0 onto et Aa -amnia Wat•.4 tta0 at De
elded it, Serious .tenee<. .
A Panama despatch says :--A dospatulo
from Guatemala says that a snob had at-
tacked the Britfell legation and had beaten •
Minister Gosling's oldest son so severely
that he may die. Minister Gosling's young-
est sen shot one of the mob dead, The
British warship llethonene is at San .lose,
and her commander has cabled fur the War -
!pito and Nymph to acme and assist him in
blockading the port, so that reparation may
Ise obtained without the bombardment of
the port. President Barrios is said to have
refused so far the British demands for repar-
ation. Ho protests that he is powerless to
do so, as any attempt on his part to atone
for the outrages would 001100 an Indian up-
rising, if not e. general revolution. He
begged the British Minister and commander•
to wait until popular fury has subsided be-•
fore they act. The immediate cause of the
riot 1s not mentioned in the de'natoh,
Scientific Sport With bold.
The experiments of the chemist when
they relate to the preoious metal, gold, pos-
sess a poeuliar interest, which recalls the:
mad search of the alchemists fit some mesng..
of turning baser metals into the mage yel-
low one. The nhentist of testily does not
waste his nights upon any such bootless
labor, but the results he attains are some-
times, from a scientific point of view, an
interesting almost as would hat been the
success of the alchemist of old,
Recently a curious compound of gold and
cadmium has been obtained in England.
actinism, it will be remembered, is a rare.
metal found in zinc ores, and chemically .
closely resembling zinc. When heated in
the air it takes fire, and is reduced to a.
brown powder, or oxide.
To produce the compound mentioned,
gold and cadmium are placed in a tube frons
which the air has been exhaested. The
cadmium is three or four times that of gold
When the two are heated and then shaken
together as they molt, there comes a rapid
change. The gold suddenly glows brilliant-
ly, and the combination of the metals is at.
that moment effected.
The beating is continued for several
hours, until all the surplus of cadmium has• -
distilled off. The final result lea compound
metallic mass, about two-thirds of which ie•
gold.
It ie light silver•gray in color, and breaks
easily with 0 crystalline. fracture. When
hot nitres or hydrochloric acid is poured
upon it the gold resumes its original state
and purity, while the eadnlfum passes into
solution in the acid.
Itis this protean readiness to change-
their
hangetheir color, their attributer and their rela-
tions under proper conditions, and to re-
sume their own character with tna5(001 sod-
denness when the nouditious are altered -
again, that makes the chemical elements so•
ceaselessly interesting to every inquiring
mind. And it has frequent:3, happened
that experiments of this kind, whose results
were simply curious, have led top to others
of great practical importance to mankind..
Paulette Astronomical Events In 1892
Tho discovery of the fifth satellite of
Jupiter, ranks first on the list. Mr. Ber-
nard, observing the planet with the great
Lick telescope on September tenth, found a
tiny moon between the so•enlled first satel-
lite and the body of the planet,thus win-
ning fame for himself,and proving that the
Lick telescope is worthy of fta size and 8,3e.
position.
The discovery ranks third in importance,
during the nineteenth century, the discov-
ery of Neptune, in 1846, taking the first
place, and that of the moon of Mara, in.
1877, the second place.
The opposition of Mars on August fourth'
was the second great event of the past year.
On that occasion observers enjoyed the
rare privilege of behsldi"g Mars brighter
than Ile has been for fifteen years, or will
be again for seventeen years to come, The
ruddy planet was superb in his fiery glow,.
and flnpreesive in his unusual size.
Popular expectation was raised to tiler
high001 notch, and was doomed to disap-
pointment, for nothing new was learned
while the red planet madeua hisneighborly
call, though observations of great impor-
tance wereaoaumulated,ta be laid aside un-
til 1900, when the next grand olposition -
occurs.
The third event of the astronomical year
was the perihelion of Jupiter on July 24th.
This event odours 01100 in twelve years,—
the time of the planet's revolution rotted
the sun,—when he is forty-two million
miles nearer the sun than when in aphe-
lion.
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His apposiuon n erre 1 on
October•
twolth, about two menthe after perihelion,
when his nearness to the sun branght him
nearer to the earth. 13e was also tlion,and
is still, in northern declination, which
lengthens. his stay above the horizon and
favors observation, Tnese two conditions.
made 11 easier for the greatest telescope in
the world to explore itis vast domain, and
doubtless wore the means of bringing rho
the; eatellito to view. The uaxt perihelion'
of ,lupiter o0onrs in 11104,
A new standard for recruits Inc the
British army has been set in regulations -
nit lusted, A recruit will be accepted if loo
stands five feet roar inches 111 line stockings,
moasnres thirty-three incites round do
(host, and wei51(0 1:10 pounds. If any
candidate does not reach this standard, but
appears otherwise promising to the recruit-
ing 0111ocr, he may be 0,100500d,