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JDJNE 21, 1889,
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AI RIOULTURAL.
REMEDIES Fog GOT WORMS.
Iuquirtes aro being oonatantly received for
romedioe for out worms, Tbo Now York
Stabo Museum of Natural History have cont
out a balloon which contains much maulinformation upon thio oubjoot. The Farm
and Home has condensed thio, and preoented
It to their readers in tide shape :
Many farmers agree in recommending the
applioation of sane—about one tablespoonful
sprinkled on the hill of Dorn or other planted
crop'—as a remedy for out worms, wire
worms, etc. It ie said that the diosolved
salt is taken up by the young roots of the
crop and that, though Dalt itself will not
injure out worms, they will nob eat young
corn if there is a little salt in its sap. Soak.
ng the seed corn in a strong brine twenty
four hours before planting is oleo mentioned,
and may be quite ae effectual se the applioo•
bion upon the ground, Another farmer now•
od 250 pounds of salt to the acre the day
after the corn was planted on a fisld that
was alive with hali•grown cutworm, and
nob a tingle hill was out by ,the worms,
Soaking corn or other seed In a solution of
half a pound of copperas in three or four
paile of water is reported as effloacioue. A
weak solution of saltpeter poured about the
roots of plante infested with oub worms le
very frequently mentioned, killing the pests
and at the some time furnishing a nitroge-
nous fertilizer whiohjadde to the thrift of the
planta and enables them to resist abtaoe.
A pound of common white hellebore die•
solved in forty or fifty quarts of water is a
solution in which, if tobacco, strawberry
and other plants are dipped before being set
out, will probed; them perfectly against cut
worms. The testimony en this point is
quite conclusive. On plante already set the
powder may be sifted from a muslin bag or
may be sown broadcast, Sand thbronghly
moistened with koreeeno oil and ecattoaod
about the plants to bo protected is another
remedy. It is claimed that where land is
not allowed to lie in sod tor over two years
at a time ant worms will not accumulate in
it. Planting more seed than io needed for
maturity has frequently been found of sea
vioe, but this is nob good policy, the relief
obtained being only temporary, for the nu-
merous progeny of the worms the extra
plants help to mature may the following
season eat up every bit of the crop, The
efficacy of tato plowing in autumn or winter,
if,followed by a hard froze, has been much
recommended as certain deotruotion to out
worms. Late plowing in the spring, just
before a late planting, is advocated by some
for infeated sod land, upon bhe theory that
the out worms will have fed to maturity
upon the sod, leaving the Dorn or other Drops
to spring up untouc'ed and with a more
vigorous and healthful growth in the warm-
er soil,'ond temperature of the advanced
season
For protecting mingle planta, ouch as toma-
to, etc., a band about the planb sunk into the
soil two or three inehea ie a common method.
For this purpose old tin eons, paper frames
or even think paper will do. A burdock
leaf or other large leaf is sometimes used
instead of the paper, being wrapped around
the stalks as the plauts are set in the ground.
Allowing theca bands to project a little
above the ground will eiroumvenb surface
feeding insect'. Trapping the cub worms
with a bed of fresh plover that has been
thoroughly wet with Paris Green water is
much used. The clover is !eyed ab intervals
between the rows in loosely tied masses or
balsa which serve to prolong the freedmen of
the bed and afford a lure for shelter. Cab.
bags or turnip leaves dipped in a mixture
of a teaspoonful of Paris green to a bucket
of water are also used in the same way, or
the side of such leavao that are planed next
to the ground are sprinkled with a mixture
of one part of Paris green to twenty of flour.
Such leaves are plaoed at from fifteen to
twenty feet apart throughout the field to be
protected. Two applications of this char
actor three or four days apart, especially in
cloudy weather, are natally auoceoefnl in
ridding the field of the pest.
An old way is to make several holes a few
inches deep about the hills with a tapering
stick to preoethe earth at the sides, into
which the worms fall and are unable to
orawl out. 01 course bhe beet remedy of all
ie to dig out the worms about the roots of
the plante. This to laborious, but on smooth
areas can be done quite rapidly. Ib should
be known than every worm killed moans the
prevention of the developtnoot of a moth
containing within its abdomen more than
200 eggo each of wbioh would produoe a out
worm. Many formers who think ib wouldn't
pay to dig out the cub worms would be sur
prised to •see how quiokly the work can be
done. Ssoretary Armstrong, of the Elmira
farmers' club writes :
There is really bub one way to cave the
orop after the 1
ants aro once atta+ked by
out worms—that is, to dig out the worms
and kill them. It ie not a diffieulb task, not
is it very costly. I presume that a fourth
part cf the loss sustained would bo a full
equivalent of all the labor Pt would cost.
The worm doom the mischief at night, and
before morning burrows in the ground near
the spot where its depredations have beer
committed. A practiced eye will readily
discern the entrance to the hiding place into
whioh the worm has passed and lies conceal-
ed. The way to bring the pest up is to
thrust a pointed knife, down near the hole
and lith out the earth to the depth of two or
three inohes, when the malefactor will lie
exposed to view, and oan be instantly de,
strayed. I have known largo fields to be
cleared by this prooeae at a cost of labor so
alight as to bear no comparision with the
loos that would otherwise have resulted.
Especial emphasis is given to the salt, and
also to the copperas remedy. Prof. Latter
says theme remedies oan be relied upon for
generel neo, and quotes much experience
among practical farmers to demonstrate the
effi they of these remedies as above desoribed.
The seed oorn, after being soaked in the
oopperae solution, can be dried oil with
planter so as not to clog a planter,
DESTROYING CDT WORMS.
As the great enemy of many gardens jus
now is bhe out worm, we feel Justified in
giving P
one more ]an of
getting ettin rid of it :
A writer in Orchard and Gordon gives the
following plan for destroying them : In
early spring, when vegetation first starts,
we mush begin to look for out worms, Tho
parents of these out worms usually lay their
eggs in late oummer around succulent plants,
but the wormo being small oat comparatively
little and aro nob noticed. When oold
weather domes on they go down into the
ground, whets they remain in a torpid state
until the warmth of spring resuscitate,
them, t nd now with sharpened appetites
after their long fast they will cab any green
thin g thab comes in their way. In a veg.
e garden a oan circumvent them
stab] w
6 by
one ortwo long rows o o
planting g w f a sue Mont
perennial plant. Or have in our garden on
either aide of the walk—whioh le tomo two
hundred feet in lentglt--towel of hollyhocks.
In eauguat there groat clamp of fresh look
ing groan attract the parent moths to lay
their ogga under the eholtor of their broad
leave', 'o in the fallowing spring it is corn
T$E BRUSSELS POST.
paratively an easy matter to capture the
worms, I have oometimoe gathered a pint
of wormy ab one time along ouch rows of
plante. By following bhia plan I fiad they
trouble the reob of the garden very little.
Jolla JOTTINGS.
Wounds made by pruning heal gainkly in
Juno, Therefore, If any large stubs have
been lcfb from the spring pruning now is the
time to oub them off closely to the trunk of
the tree and they will heal over rapidly and
Maly. Etamine the trees that were plant.
od in the spring and see that they do not
loosen; koop the soil firm around them, In
very dry weather It may be necessary to
water young treea. Do so by drawing the
the soil away from the Dollar so as to form a
basin and after watering "thoroughly," re-
place the soil and cover with a mulch of some
kind. The notes on Orchard care given in
May number apply equally to June and
especially those reforing to the borer and
other insect enemies.
The plum ouroulio will begin to get in bio
work in Juno and the trees should bo syring-
ed with Paris green or Landon purple mix.
tures in the same manner as for the codling
moth on the apple tree or treated with the
jarring process,
Enrolee care in the use of these aroenites
and do nob fail to have all the p..ile and other
utensils uaedfor Periegreen or Landon purple
plainly marked Poison in largo letters. The
best antidote for Paris green is the hydraten
seequt•oxide of iron, token immediately.
Every fruit -grower and farmer using thee°
poisooe should keep ib on hand ready for
instant nee in case of poisoning. Ib ie
quite cheap and may be had from any drug•
Oa o.
SCORPIONS.
Where They Are Plentiful as Flies, and
Sociable and Venomous.
"If ever you should happen to go down
into lower Mexico," said L. T. Stanley, the
electrician, "and should notice that your
bed was set up on inverted tin pane, as you
have seen the four corners of corn cribs fix-
ed to keep out thereto, and that the bed
!lad a sheet stretched above it, running to a
peak at the toplike the roof of a house, don't
say a word, bat get right in and go to sleep.
If you shouldn't go to sleep as soon ae you
get in, and should hear something drop on
the oheet roof above you, and roll down and
tumble on the floor ab the side of the bed,
lie atilt. 13y and by you will hear the same
drop and roll and tumble, and it won't be
long before it'llbe drop, drop, drop, and roll,
roll, roll, and plink, plink, plink on the floor.
Don't gating ; if you do you might think
you were
MIME BY LIGHTNING
al soon as you put your foot on the floor,
for the chances are thab you would step
on a eoorpion the fireb thing, and the eoorpion
has a stinger that be carries for instant aad
effeotive tee. Scorpions are just about ae
plenty there as flies aro up home. They hide
by day and attend to business at night. Tne
scorpion is a arab with a snake's tail, with a
spur on the end of it. It ]Ikea to get in bad
with folks, and if it wasn't for the tin pane
on the bedposts it would climb up and get in
with you tbab way, and if the bed wasn't
roofed with the sbecb ib would drop on you
from the ceiling. When you get up in the
morning you will be apt to fit d a few quarts
of dead scorpionalying on the floor in front
of the bed. -Phey all committed nnioide.
After trying to geb into bed with you a few
times, and being tumbled off the sheet every
time, or stopped by the tin pans, they got
mad, and stuck their stingers in their heads
and killed themselves. A scorpion commits
suioide on the slightest provocation. Ib has
a temper as hot and aa quiok as kerosene on
a kitchen fire. If one ocorpion ie planing by
another one and happens to touch it, there's
and two dead ecorpioua are the result. Pat
%hundred scorpions in an enclosure, and
throw a little stick or piece of dire among
them, and the naorpion that is nearest to
where the ebiok or dirt (ally will turn and dip
his spur into his nearest neighbor, and in less
than two soconde the entire hundred will be,
mixed up in the fight. The way their sting-
ers and claws and lege will fly is a eight to
see. As long as there is one scorpion alive
the fight goes on, for if one happens to sur-
vive the other ninety-nine he will pitch in
and have it sub with himself, and the first
thing he knowe he is dead..
"It ie a foot that scorpions, or Mama, as
the Mexioaas call, them, are at certain
season of the year as numerous almost as
flies. They are within the cracks of the
walls, between the bricks of the tiles on the
floor, hiding inside your garments. darting
everywherswith incoacoiveble rapidity, their
tails, which hold the sting, ready to fly up
with dangerous effect upon the slightest
provocation, Turn a corner of a rug or
table
°proud and you disturb a fl mrishing colony of
then]. Shake your shoes in the morning and
out they flap, Throw your bath sponge into
the water and half a dc of them dart out
of its cool depths, into which they had lain
themselves away during the night. It ie not
often that you see one of the
MAlI000NY IIDED REPTILES
that is more than two inches long, but they
sometimes show up with the formidable pro-
portions of a five -inch length, and all that
it implies. There is a smaller variety than
the mahogany scorpion. This one Is danger-
ous . It is ab midday that the bite or sting of
these venomous littio pasta is moat feared,
as the natives say it is then the most poison..
out. The deserted"old mines of Durango are
simply naorpion hives, they having bred and
in.rearied there undisturbed for centuries.
A few years ago the Government took official
notice of their deadly presents° and placed a
bounty on them, which is paid on the pro -
natation of a aoorpion'o tail and sting at the
office of the Government agent. Many na-
tives oarry a brass tube, and in case of
a bite from a eoorpion ib is pressed over the
wound, on which it note like the bleeding
cup of the surgeon, and draws bhe poisoned
blood oub. A hollow key has been teed
successfully in the same way. Victims of
the yellow scorpion's bete have been known
to lie for days In convulsions, foaming at the
mouth, and with stomach and limbs swollen
as in dropsy, Odeon suffer no worse cone -
guanaco than they might from an ordinary
bee sting. Brandy taken until atupofaotion
follows le a favorite remedy for scorpion
bites in Mexico, and ammonia is also given
with good reoulte. There is nothing the
Mexican or Texan fears more than the yellow
or blaok eoorpion of Durango except the
bloating ratbleeealte of the Soaked Plains,
and that is probably the most deadly reptile
of the American continent.'
A queer out of
in the brain.
When you order young treoe one of the
most ' b points to observe is not to
im urban
P
allow the rooto exposed osed
to the nun or
wind. A few minutes' exposure may do
irreparable injury. If you oannob plant
them immediately on arrival heel thein
Its until you aro ready, and before beginning';
the work lot the holes bo dug and all
preparations made to avoid delay.
the coat represent' a creche
A ltasoon,
"Ways are not scarce nor chances low
For those who long God's work to do."
Said ono unto himself : I would
That I might wield some power for good ;
That I some wondrous tongue could learn
To speak the thought' and words that burn ;
That I could marvellous colors mix,
Wherewith on snored walls bo fix
The glimpse of heaven, the holy dream,
That should from sin meta' thoughto redeem ;
And 0 that eomo rare gem were mine
Whereon to carve bhe fees divine.
Another took took tho soli"came words
Wo use each day,
The words wherewith we chicle or bless,
Wo curse or pray,
And with them Jiang a song, that through
The wide world tinge,
Aad slumbering souls that hear it wake
To nobler things.
Another, with no pigments rare,
With naught but wood charred in the flame,
Drew sconce that softly oall to prayer
And mutely glorify God's name.
Within a vat cathedral, stands
An imago carved by loving hands,
An image of The Crucified.
Rich treasures decked the holy pile,
Bub they who tread ire shadowy aisle,
From all these splendor' turn aside,
And time and time again retrace
Their steps, to gaze upon the face.
Which from the marble crone looks down.
And yet this atone thab melte to tears
The eye that looha on it, for years
Lay 'neath the feet of all the town.
"For those who long God's work to do,
Ways are not wane nor ohances few."
Under the Violets.
OLIVER WENDELL HOL9008,
Her hands are cold, her fade is white ;
No more her pulses Dome and go ;
Her eyes are shut to life and light ;
Fold the light vesture, snow on snow.
And lay her where bhe violets blew.
But not beneath a graven atone,
To plead for tears with alien eyes :
A Blender ones of wood alone
Shall nay that hear a maiden lies
In peace beneath the peaceful skies.
And gray old trees of hugest limb
Shall wheel their oiroling shadows round,
To make the scorching sunlight dim
That drinks the greenneea from the ground,
And drop their dead leaves on the mound,
For her the morning ohoir will sing
Ite matins from the branohes high,
And every minstrel voice of spring
That thrills beneath the April sky,
Shall greet her with its earliest ory.
At lash the rootlets of the trees
Shall find the prison where she lies,
And bear the buried dust they seize
In leaves and blossoms to the skies :
So may the soul that warms it rise.
If any, born of kindlier blood,
Should ask ; "What maiden lies below ?"
Say only this : "A tender bud
That tried to blossom in the snow
Dies withered where the violate blow."
(Animal Teaching.
Oar AnimalFriends : Long years before
bit eAmerican Rarey's name was heard as a
"horse tamer," a saareo existed, as a family
heirloom, among a branch of the 0 Selli•
vans in the south of Ireland. This family
was known as "Tho Whisperers," and they
panned the power cf rendering as quiet se
a lamb the most stubborn and uumanage•
able horse. Whether they did anything more
to a horse than breathe into his nostrils we
know not, but by doing this, and by kind,
aaobhing words, and other ways known to
themeolvee, they effected their' purpose and
retained their fame. But Doming to the
point of pure and unadulberated dementia, -
don and teaching, perhaps there was no per -
Ion inmodern time who achieved so much
anoaeee in animal teaching as S. Bissett,
Thio man was an bumble shoemaker. He
was born in Sootland, 1721, but he efterwarde
removed to London, where ne married a
woman who brought 'him some property,
Teen, turning to a broker, he accumulated
money .untfl aha year 1750.•whon tele attention
Was hutted `to the training of animals, birds
and 'flame. He was led intotbis new study
on reading an account of a remarkable horse
shown ab a fair at Se. Germaine, Bissett
bought a horse and a dog and succeeded be.
gond bis expeatationo in teaching them to
perform various feat'. Ho nexb purchased
taught two monksY, a
which he aght to donee and
tumble on n raps, and one would hold a can-
dle in ono paw and tern the barrel organ
with the other, while lois companion danced,
He next taught three oats to do a great
many wonderful things, to sit before muoia
books and to equal' notes pibohsd to differ•
ent keys. He advertised a " oats' opera" in
the Haymarket, and suoceoofully parried out
his programme, the cats accurately fulfilling
all their parts. He next taughb a leveret
and several species of birds to spell the name
of any person to the company, and to dis-
tinguish the hour of the day or night.. Five
turkeys were nexb rendered amenable to a
country dance, and after six months' teach-
ing he trained a turtle to fetch and oarry
like a dog, and having ohalked the floor and
blackened its claws, be taught it to trace
the name of any given poraon in the com-
pany.
Old Bank Notes.
The oldest bank notes are the "flying
money,' or convenient money," first leaned
in China 2097 B. C. Originally these note
were issued by the Treasury, but experi-
ence dictated a change to the bathe under
Government inapeotion and control. A
writer in a provincial paper soya that the
early Chinese bills were in all essentials
similar to the modern bank notes, bearing
the name of the bank, date of issue, the
number of the note, the signature of the
official issuing it, iodioatious of he value
in figures, in words, and in the piotorial
representation in coin or heaps of wins
equal in amount to iso taco value, and a
notice of the pane and Penalties of count-
erfeiting, Over and above all was a lawn-
io exhortation of imtuetry and thrift:
"Produce all you can; spend with econ-
omy." The notes were printed in blue ink
on paper made from the fibro of the mul-
berry tree. One Jested in 1339 B. 0. is
still carefully preserved in the Asiatic Ides•
eum at Sb. Petersburg.
Dakota Indians have a dueled eye to a
bargaincin evident1y.
W
]ontbo
know
them-
rels
poesesoed of what other people very
strongly want they have wit enough to pub
a price on it, They hold a big pow.woW
rebel01y, and decided Doe to sign the treaty
waiving their reservation rights for less
than $i1,000,C00. Daubtt000 they will and
by accepting perhaps a fourth of that sum,
HOW HORSEd ACT IN BATTLE.
Their Splendid Dlsoipllue and Bove of
War.
"Ib is remarkable how quiokly horses
adapt tbomeelyee to the military service,"
said a cavalry ((]leer. "Every artillery
man knows that they learn the bugle palls
and the evolutions quicker than the men, as
a rule. For one thing, they soon acquire
a uniform gait, which is %bone the same as
the 'route step' or the natal rnarobinq step
as the horses did not acquirethe same garb,
If the Infantry, there would bo varying die•
tanaes between the different arms of the ear
vice—that is, between the infantry and the
oevolry, artillery, and the oommandere and
their eaoorto.
" In the drilla in the artillery service the
horses will thomaelvee preserve their align.
ment aa well ao the infantry. I shall a'waya
remember ono Illustration of this trait, which
I notioed ab an ixaiting and critical period
of a battle. In order to save eoma of our
infantry from being surrounded and captur-
ed, I quickly mountedjbhe 000000eera on the
guns, and pub the whole battery ab a dead
oami o wide, morose
wasstch of meadow quite accustomed to such
eights, bot when we were halfway 'orowe
the field I noticed the array, and for a mo•
menb I was loot in admiration of
THE MAGNIFICENT PIGTDRE.
Every driver was plying whip and spur, the
great guns were rocking and thundering
over the ground, and every horse, reeking
with foam and full of animation and excite•
meat, was straining every muscle as he
galloped forward ; yet 1t 'teemed to me that
a srraight line drawn along in front would
have touched the heads of the lead horses in
front of the six gave. That wee an artillery
charge, one of the moat thrilling eights in the
evolution of war,
"it is eurprisiag bow quickly they learn
the bugle calls. After we had been in
nervine some time my Bret sergeant asked
me what call that was, as the bugle blew
some command. "That's a pretty question
to ask," I said. "How in thunder do you
know how to march 7•' "I don't know," he
said "bat my or se knows." Let the first
note of the fee her water call be blown, and
there will be ate rrible stamping, kiokiug,
and neighing.' Onoe in a terrible storm,
our horses and these cf several other bat
terioe broke loose, and there was a wild
rush among the artillerymen to get horses
in the morning. All was excitement, and
the boraes were bard to get, but wbea
ordered the bugler to mount a stump and
BLOW THE FEED CALL
the horses all made such o mad rush for
our battery that the men ootid hardly get
out of the way quickly enough.
"When ib comas to a battle a horse seems
to know everything that fa going on ; but he
does hie duty nobly, and seems to be in his
element. He enters into the battle like a
human being. He shows no fear of death,
and it is singular that if his mate is shot
down he will stop to look at him and seem
pleased. A horse in my battery was once
obruok by a pieoe of :hell, which rp'it his
skull, so that one aide was loose. The
driver turned him loose, but he walked up
by the aide of the gun sect watched the
ring, and when a shot was fired would look
away in the direotion of the enemy, as if to
see the effect of the :hob. When a shall
would burst near by be would calmly turn
and look at it. When he saw his own
team going back for ammunition he ran
back to his own place and galloped back to
the caisson with the rest. When the lieuten-
ant pushed him aside to pub in another horse
he looked ab the other one sorrowfully
while he wao being harnessed up, and when
he seemed to realize that there was no further
nee for him he lay down and died. The
lieutenant strongly assorted thab be died of a
broken heart.
LanrY Bridgeman Dead.
Laura Bridgeman, the famous blind and
deaf mute, died abthePerkine Institution for
the Blind in Boston on the 24th of May, after
a short sickness. For more than fifty years
she has been a living example of what could
be done in the way of inatrnoting those thus
deprived of their physical senses. She was
an object of deep interest to philanthropiots
and scientists.
She was born at Hanover, N. H., Deana
her 31st, 1829 When she was 2 years old
severe illness deprived her of sight and hear-
ing, and consequently of epeeoh. Her sense
of emelt wail also destroyed and that of taste
much impaired. She was taken to Boston
when she was 8 yearn old and piaoed in the
Perkins Institution for the Blind, The late
Samuel' G. Howo, who was then Superintend
cab of the school, took a great interest in
the child and undertook the diflioult task of
inatructing her.
He began his work by giving her the
word "knife," printed on raised lettere on a
stip of paper. Then she was given the knife
so that the could feel the label on it and the
sign indicating likeness, wbioh was made
by placing aide by aide the fore fingers of
each band, was oonveyed to her. By repeat-
ing this prooeso with other articles she was
lad to undoratand that the words represent-
ed the object' to which they were affixed,
and she showed great pleasure at mastering
her first looson. Then the operation was re
versed, and the labels having been given
her she would search for the article and
designate it by this mane.
She acquired the alphabet in less than
three days, and within a few months she
bad command of a hundred common nouns
and had some facility in the use of verba
and adjtotivls. She began writing in the
aoutae of tho second year, and she was
slower in this, yet she showed much skill
in it, She ab the came time became an ex-
pert in talking with her fingers, and only
persons accustomed to this language could
follow their rapid motiono with the eye.
She had attained even more remarkable
facility in understanding the finger motions
of ethers whose hands she grasped in ani•
mated converaatinn. In walking through a
passageway, with her hands spread before
her, she knew every one she met and gave
them a paaeing sign of recognition, but ohe
embraced affectionately her favorites and ex-
pressed the varied laugang(' of the emotions
by the lips as wall as by the fiogera.
The processes of addition and subtraction
in small numbers had oleo become familiar.
to her,
he could octet and
conceive
object' and a up to 100 in numbers. She knew
the day' of the week, and divided the day
by the beginning and end of Bobool, by the
reoeooeo, and by the arrival of meal times,
Her acouraoy in measuring time wan such
that she could distinguish between a half
note and a whole note in mnsio, striking
notes in angle meaauren on the pianoforte
quite oorrectly.
Jan. 29, 1842, Laura was visited by
Charles Dickens, who woe so much interest.
ed in her that he remained several hour'.
A remarkable faculty was her ability to
toad character, and this she did literally ab
u htful of
a the
' and She woo b her fingers' thoughtful s
g
Ab the
her Mende and liked to aid the poor.
time of the famine in Ireland she bought, with
money which ohe had earned by her work,
a barrel of flour, Which wee sent to:the
eaflorero, She was baptised and joined the
Ohnrch in 1852 The feats of her life have
been refected to by theologians, Phil.
osopbers and medical men all over bbe
world, and her physical and mental condi.
Hon aroused the greater: !merest until the
hour of her death.
Erysipelas was the canoe of death, and
Oho Was °enagion° to the last, not realising
hat loath wao at hand.
GENERbL
A Canadian was granted a private oudi.
once by Queen Vlotoria a few days ago. The
Canadian thus accorded an especial honor
was Mioa Hermine de Salaberry, a grand.
daughter of the Hero of Chateauguay, who
fought for the British aauoo eo successfully
in 1813. Mise do Salaberry was presented
to the Queen by the 'Princess Lanfae, The
Chateauguay conqueror was a friend of the
Dake of Kent, the Queen s father,
Prof. Wiggins thinks that ooldneee, in
the meteorolog is a oaodition ice] sense, dna
to oompreseion canoed by planetary aquae.
tion, and that as one planet is oonatantly re-
ceding from the ann, Ike temperature will
become milder as the attraction decreases.
" 1n time—many minimal of years, itis
true—" he says, " bheoo snowy regions of
Canada will bloom in perpetual summer
and forever bud and blossom as the rose,"
The Professor, however, has chosen an nn-
fortunete time for the promulgation of his
theory. Just at present we have good reason
to believe that in something leas than a
million yearn Canada will bo a solid ohnnk
of ice.—Ex.
New York State not only has a law pro-
hibiting the use of bhe oar•atovo by railway
companies, but evidently intends to enforce
it strictly, One of its courts has jjcab given
judgment ordering the New York, New
Haven, and Hartford Company to pay $7,•
000 by way of psnalties for violation of the
law. The statute applies to railroads not
lees than fifty miles in length, and the com-
pany sought to escape from its provision° by
pleading that it had only bwenby-four miles
of road in rhe State. The court held, h,w-
ever, that it was liable, even though the
greater portion of iia line was in a ueigh•
bouring State. Itis to bo hoped that the
days of the deadly oar -stove are numbered.
Its contributions to the horrors of railroad
accidents have been appalling ones.
I.s the diahorning of cattle cruel ? Wel.,
Chief Jnatioe Coleridge, in a j adioial decioion
just rendered by him, soya it is " detestably
brutal," and Mr. J intim Hawkins, who tried
a teat ease with him, pronounces the prao-
tios "' a revolting operation," Mr, Wiley, a
Norfolk farmer, was brought before a bench
of magiotratee by the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals for " having
unlawfully tortured 32 bullocha by diehorn-
ing them.' Mr. Wiley freely admitted the
charge. He planed every convenience in the
way of the magistrates acquiring evidesoe
as to how the operation was performed.
The defence wan that dishornitg greatly in-
creased the value of hie cattle and was ne-
oeesary.
The Queen's birthday was celebrated at
Newfoundland "wibh a unanimity and
spontaneity never before witnessed here,"
say our Newfoundland exchanges. Even
the unsettled state of the "French shore
question," which is represented to be a pop
ular grievance, could not restrain the
Loyalty of the people. The Governor's levee
was attended by the officer commanding the
French warship Bioson, then in port. He
expressed his pleasure at being permitted to -
attend dnringthe observance of her Majesty's
birthday "to be able to show the cordial
feelings wb'ob antra its my country towards
her Majesty and the Eaglish Government,
aa well as to the people of the colony,
relations whiob, I assure you, I that do my
best to cultivate."
Public Internet is renewed in Captain
Stirling, the lady Salvationist, who waa
prisoaed in Switzerland for the high prime
and misdemeanor of singing hymn on the
streets. Her sentence was imprisonment
For 100 days in Chilton Castle. She served
53 of them and was then let oub on bail of
1,000 francs pending appeal to the Federal
Council. The appeal has gone against her
and the has returned to complete her term,
In disregarding the advice of some friends,
who counselled her to stay in England and
allow the trifling bail to be forfeited, 0ap•
Cain Stirling acted honestly, bravely and
wisely, and while bhe new prieoner of Chil-
on will win honor, Switzerland will be deep•
ty disoredited by the prominence given to
its odious law.
It is proposed in Montreal that each alder•
man wear a badge in order that he may be
distinguished from the ordinary ratepayer,
and that he may receive from policemen,
fireman, and the publio generally the defer-
ence due to muniofpal rank. The idea le
novel and not at all bad.. In olden timesan
alderman was distinguished from common
0 cellona. But
' massive r
his mortals byP
P
lately the electors have been voting in muni-
cipal contests, regardloes, altogether of the
aim and weight of the candidates. The re-
sult now -a days io that one may pass an
alderman on the street withnnb knowing it.
If a tag be attached to each City Fatherthis
sort of thing will not occur again. Ib io not.
proposed that there be a number on the
badge. The intention la to have a plain label
informing the public that tho wearer is an
alderman.
A New York hotelkeeper is diepenaing
charity on a princely reale. Some yearn ago
he gave a complimentary dinner bo his pa•
trona ab a cost of $2,000. It then 000urred
to bim that the people who ate those dinners
were the fat and prosperous, and he began
to give Christmas dinners to the poor, A
further development of charity came with
the thought that poor people want dinners
at other times than holidays, and he had this
'announcement posted on his hotel :—" Any
pardon, man, woman or child, who is hungry
and lacks money, will be cheerfully served
with good wholesome food, free of charge,
in the rem/ of this hotel." It is curious to
Dote that, although the food ie given without
any questioning or condition, only fifty poo•
pie a day have been fed einoo Obriabmas,
and, as the weather grown warmer, the num-
ber deoreaees,
Father Damien's work in the Hawaiian
leper settlement, though a very distinguish-
ed instance of missionary heroism, is not a
Year Beek
The Missionary r
solitary Dna TU y Y
for 1889, published by the Religious Trach
Society, shows that the 135,000 lepere of
India have had their ministrants, chiefly
from Scotland and Ireland, for the last
fifteen years. The work of the misoionsriea
oaten& to planes which even ambition and
greed fail to find. Among these io Terra
del Fuego, whose inhabitants had ne ar-
ticulate language, and were described as
inotpabloof being Chrietianited or civil.
iced, Missionary after missionary was
butchered before a fading was obtained,
and now the miasionaria have contrived to
find an articulate language for them, and
theta are 'ohoole, orphanages, ane ee
,
mobhero
meetings, and all the machinery of an Eng.
lisp pariah in Terra del teenage.
HINTS AS TO SHAVING.
Never fall to well wash your beard
with soap and cold water, and to rub it dry,
imtnedietely before you apply the lather,
of which the more you pee, and the thicker
it is the easier you will shave,
Never use warm water which snakes the
fade (of shavers) tender.
In cold weather place your razor (:lased
of course,) in your pocket or under your
arm to warm
The moment you leave your bed or (bath)
is the beet time to theme.
Always wipe your razor cleat, and strop
it before putting it away, mud always pub
your shaving brush away with the lather on
it,
The razor. as yea know, being only,
a fine saw, should be moved in a eloping or
sewing direction and held nearly flab to
your face, care being taken to draw the,
skin as tight as possible with the lett hand,.
eo as to the present an even surface and to
throw out the beard.
The practice of pressing on the edge of the
razor in ebropping it soon retede it ; the pros.
sure should be direoted to the back, which
should never be raised from the strop. If
you shave from heel to point of razor, strop
it from point to heel ; but if you begin with
the point in shaving, then strop it from heel,
to point.
If you only onoe put away your razor with-
out stropping it, or otherwise perfectly elean.
Mg the edge, you must no longer expect Sb
shave well and easy, the soap, anddamp soon
suet the fine teeth and edge.
A piece of soft plate leather should always
be kept with razors to wipe them with.
Round.
That tireless ioveatigotor of Russian life,
George Kennan, visited. in the course of his
wanderings. the Grand Loma of the Tram: -
Baikal, in Eastern Siberia, and in his ac-
count of that dignitary, given in the "Cen-
tury,' says that it seemed very strange to
fiad an educated man and high ecclesiasti-
cal dignitary who never even heard of
America, and who did not feel at all Imre
that the world is round, The Grand Lima
was ouch e man. "You have been in many
countries, be said to Mr. Kennan, and have
telked with the wise men of the west. What
is your opinion with regard to the ahapo of
the earth?"
"I think," I replied, "that ib is shaped
like a great ball."
"I have beard so before,' the Grand Lama
replied, looking thoughtfully away into
vacancy. "The Ration offi,era whom]
have met told me that the world is round,
Such a belief is contrary to the teachings of
our old Thibetan books, but I have observed
that the Rneeian wise me.. predict eolipaea
accurately, and if they can tell beforehand
when the sun and moon are to be darkened,
they probably know something about the
shape of the earth. Why do you think the
earth is round 7'
I have many reasons for thinking so,"
I answered, "hut perhaps the best and
strongest reason ie that I have been round.
ib."
This statement seemed to give the Grand
Lama a Bort of mental ehcok.
"How hare you been round it?'' he inquir-
ed. "How do you know you have been
round it?"
I turned my back upon my home," I
replied, "and travelled many months in the
course taken by the sun. 1 aroused wide
continents and great oceans. Every night
the sen sot before my face, and every morn-
ing it rose behind my back. The earth
always Beamed flat, but I could not find any-
where an end or an edge ; and at last, when
I had travelled more than thirty thousand
vests, I found myself in my own country,
and returned to my home from a direction.
exactly opposite to that which I had taken.,
in leaving it. If the world was flat, do you
you think I Goold have done this'?"
'It is very strange 1" said the Grand
r oma after a mhoughttul pause. "Where is
your country? Haw far is it beyond St,
Petersburg?"
"My country is farther from St. Peteraburee
than St. Petersburg is from here. It flee.
almoeb exactly under oar feet, and if we
could go directly through the earth, that,
would be the shortest way to reach it."
"Aro your countrymen walking ar,und
down there, heads downward, under our
Leet?" asked the Grand Elmo, with evidonb
interest and surprise.
After a long talk, during wbioh we dis-
cussed the spherlail.y of earth .from every
possible point of view, the Gtsnd Loma
seemed to be partly or wholly convinced of
the truth of the dootrine, and said, with a
sigh, "Ib it is not in accordance with the
teachings of our book, but the Russians
must be right.'
It is a remarkable fact that in1828 Doctor
Erman, the only foreigner who has seen
this lamasery, previous to our visit, had an
almost identical conversation with the man
who was then Grand Lama, It io not im-
probable that, sixty years hence, some
traveller from the Western world may be
asked by eomefuture Grant Lams to give
his re aeons for believing the world to bo a
sphere.
The Most Enterprising Crow on Record,
Farmer Crowder had fioiebed planting his
corn, bat hie heart was heavy. Ho knew
the orowe wore whetting their Mlle to pull up
the oorn as soon as it appeared above the
surface.
"I can tell you how to get away with the
crows," said Neighbor Stokes.
"How 7"
"Gob you a gallon of mean whisky and
soak some corn in ib till it vets full of the
stuff, and then scatter it broadcast in the
field. The black rascals will cat it and get
drunk, and then you an catch 'em and pull
their heads off. That beats pizen or shoot,
In a few days Farmer Crowder met his
friend Stokes.
Well, how's preps?" queried Stokes.
" My corn's boduoiously-ruint," replied
Crowder, dolefully. "1 tried that'er scheme
o' yours, and We a humbug. I soaked
the corn and ooattered it ane day, and next
mornin' I went to the new gloat' to see how
it'd worked."
ed
u
em drunk, , oh t'
"Found nubbin'. 1 heart to devil of afuss
down nigh the branch, and went to tree
what it was ; th ere was a dad -blasted ofd
crow what had gathered up all the whisky
oorn an' had it on h stump, an' he was re-
tailfu' it oub to the othete, Mein' 'em one
grain o' that sort fur three paha o' my
planted corn, and dinged of they had'nt
clawed up that field by sections,"—(Atlanta
Journal.
Mon may bond to virtue, bub virtue oan
not bend to men,1—Dr. W. D. Lonergan.
William R. Campbell, an old•fasbioned
�.
Democrat who has been I cot n aatter In a
Vermont town -for tour yearn, has just step•
pod out, and hie wife, a "staunch *puha.
nen, has been given the commission, while
The di(l.renoebetween ahobv and an over , William becomes Assistant ?animator,
coat is : Dao you waif, and the other yru Talcs it all in all, it as nfoo a little arrange,
Wean mono as the tines have turned up,