The Brussels Post, 1890-3-28, Page 22
AGRICULTURAL.
Inese go 131manants.
When, 17 experiment, the former limb: that
every portioe of the stalk will b aten if
out and seesoued with gnitM, he will give
noire attention to the period of (tutting the
corn and sturtng it in the burn lusheel of 1
A Montreol ern:respondent writes: Foltater the fields. The corn for eusilage is e M at
4WD FARM reaciere are meetly aWare that period when the atalk l Wh in feediu
t hroughout,Canailit, and espt,eially in Mauf• eleineute, and before it is completely dry
t,obs, and the North-west territories, during 'Admit plan may be adepted by those wh
the poet, ten Y014 S r,t,11,,,ilerabl2 2! V1111011 has grow cern for /odder under the lirill 1 0
'been paid to the bre, ling on a large :wale listing ymtem, But evea if corn IS gruwi
for the grain only there le no reason why i
elmeht not hu cut before the leaves tun
ortolk, 'nutty typesti spteenems of sffilhous yellow, so as to have the stalk in the bos
421 11(050 (1(516 harin4 noun imported, frion einulition, and if carried to the barn, wher
Orem: Britaim 011 1 he ranehee particularly the ears con be pulka na teeny as in, til
large numbers of teams ith stallions are fl1l the fod•ler will be i11 fine condition al
War, bred, and 1,0re long there will be a winter. 11 1.. no rooln 111 the baro
surpTus over tied aisom tee meal demande te cheap shelte-• , mild be arranged fur non
; • •
'superior horses, wllieh will seek au eastern teeting the fodder from exposure, 11 hen
-or perhaps o blurePean rend". passed through the cutter, a, little grain,
IMO tnares with the:might:re:I stallions a sat nava to semion the mees, all ChISSeS
• For instanee, 1 lie Quven renelt intperted • :Laded by sprinkling, mid a small quantity
of the hest quality, beedee ,,s many more .01 etoek will acetate the food, and that
froin Montana. Tht, High 13 1' horse ninth :which 18 usualle- crumpled in the barnyard '
beam 400 mare:, breeding to thoroughbred jean be milived, thereby etffieting 0 saving of
and hackney 11,,15',The North-nost Cattle ;hay mei other more valuable foods,
Company have eeveral hundreds of mare* and
are using titroughl Ted and hackney fires.
The Bow rivet, horse mud: have over MO
mores breeding to throughbred sires. The
Wistannil rattell have ,wer elle Ontario and
THB BRUSSELS POST;'
YOUNG FOLKS.
A Shell If eoklaoe,
„ mamme., what kept you so long ? it
like a hundred hours mince you wont
e, seems
down steam, I do thiuk this la the inenuest,
4 mis'ableet birthday ever I had In my life."
•
'o , too , p itt nwas 0.
✓ Mins 1 Mother's j1181 as sorry for Iwo baby
t as she eau ho. lint yeti know, darling, .1;
t have eo stay with my company ---"
t "Yes, nod 131118 going to have company,
t too, if these horrid old measles Mullet etene
e just at the worse time, to epoil all my hell
„ and keep all the children away from
y the luinve And now the grown folks bail
come an ceep you KM fly 0111 , an
haven't a soul to speak to, ana fluapi't
read or use my eyes anyway, and I'm pest
so lonesome, and my head aehns so—"
The trembling, petulant votee broke into
a sob, and Elcue's mother bent over the lite
t e us led ace.
"I know, I know," she said, with coax -
Mg tenderness, "and 11 18 vety, very hard.
But you've been so good nor patent loll
through the Avorst of it, and you are get-
ting over it nicely, PR tell you whatill
do : tIm aunt» and uncles can take care of
themselves n little whilea—they know I've
go a pom little sic eir e up s atm —am
mother'll stay with you for a wide half-
hour and read to you out of ono of youv
pretty birthday books, There, does that,
Comfort you ? Well, then, let me get a
fresh handkerchief first, and dry these poor
little feverish eyes"
She moved. toward her dressing table,
and Elsie strayed after her, a queent littlo
figure in her flowered double -gown, and
the Greenaway cop into which- her mass
of yellow curie Wa8 tneked.
"I have eome soft old linen handkerchiefs
somewhere here," said her mother, putting
her hand awoy et the back of the drawer,
"Oh, what is this, mamma, this ommiug
little box ? I nevet, saw it before," cried
f casket, aitiled o'cilored straw, that.
Of imported horses particularly the orosees
b the thuroughlwed, the C3,1e, Shire and
GH111,11t.,11, FAUX No'rlIS,
The question of fostering and encouraging
the fast wallon;, horses, so as to gradually
province of Oithee bred Cly,le mares, tieing : preduce a breed'of thee elites, is tieing ago •
emporte•1 Chale itn,1 Shire stellions. ',4ir d. itated.
Lister-Kaye`e company has 500 Ontario -bred I
Soapsuds should he added to'the manure
draught tont general purpom mares, 318101) beep. Never waste stieh. 'Later in the sea.
imp:need SIM., (Vac ana throughbreil 8,101' 81331 sells may be ay/plied to asparagus and
lions. The Wbeler ranch lffie mares, besides 3 eelei,y with Loyal, taw,.
I
many others, with bawls rangiug from 50 to
I Although the weather limy not be cold,
150 mares. When Manitoba is considered
; the water is too cold for stock and milch
along with Ontario and Quebee, where con -
cows • should be sully/lied with 'tepid water
siderable numbers of. execilent horses are
, throUgh the whole 'mason.
raised, but fm. went of a centred market I
'with proper feeilities awl outsideconnec t hats, 1 The asparagus: bed is the place to apply ,
they ere gee it pryee, far 11ow their value, 'plenty of manure now, which should be fork -
and ustedly at a 1,•ss to the producer. In ed in. After ee doing give the bed a libeled
application of woodmehes. I
fact, we are 110W ill the emne relation to .
home breolimg as we were to tattle : The average duration of the cow's servic
bree•ling 111 tsanada previeus to the open• ' as m milker le estimated at eight years Willene,
-log op of the Britieh markets for (tattle ; the well-managed dairiee, hat individual
and it is 10'011 known Grit le wse brio/ling ges . cows eften milk well until aged. '
a whole, at preeent e,,st and. price,' obtain- i Manure is Wore valuable when the liquids .
a,1,1,,, is not a,A profitable as 113 hould be.
and solids have been saved together. Neither '
- Following on the projected large stock ia a complete fertilizer alone, but together
;yards and shuntiug groneds ef the they stupply all the demands of crops. t
.at Outremont. is suberb just bordeeing on ; , „
A y ermunt fruit grower sue/soots that as
the Montreel city limits, Dr. .Megittelwan '
lute purchased Se acres ef land for the .fht,.. wire nettieg 111 13,11 smelly it might pne• to cov- j
or cherry trees and other fruit trees that have
/Atn, of ereetine an establishment, the olgeet
their fruit eaten by birds inclosed with such
of which is to develop an outside -market in
Britain and other Rio -mean countries,I
ity of Canadiandired horses It is proposed
es wire.
many farmers do not cultivate a plot for a
lhe garden is neglected on the farm, and
well as the United States, tw the best qual- I
to have experienecel men to handle and train ,Larden. The hmuries of farming can only
obtained by those farmers who grow vege-
those requiring further training, to have 0.3
italtles and fruits as svell as stable crops of ;
course and every regifirmnent for conducting
a large hone, exportation and importation .firz‘in 1'-nd grass,
business, end thus supply a niucioneeded
want that is beginning to make itself felt.
Ir Sea/mows Arm 0Nrn,Likek,
Ono of the best locations for a garden is
to turn under a clover sod; now apply
thirty bushels of air -slacked lime per acre
tor proportionately), and then croes-plow
the land in the spring. The ground olust
be well harrowed and made fine before
S.33150 time ago 0 Canadian 'Frenchman .planting the seed, hosvever.
told 1111311)011'he had eaueht a let of Englieh
There is no advantage in having a cow
gperrows, which might be a gond way of
that gives a small quantity of very rich milk.
colloid/Mg if not exterminating thou in
thi, country. This time of the year, when The cow that yields a pound of butter and
a large quantity of milk to produce it
most of our native birds axe ill the South, is •F`v°5
is more valuable as a dairy 0081 than the
.-v good one for destroying the fox Ostlers.
one giving the same amount of butter from
His method was as follows Take some dry
stale bread or ern:town crackers 0h1 one•half the quantity of milk produced by
e„se. wen; 81131 the ether.
core would prohal,ly
Those who take pains, work hard, and
stok theta in whisky. Then put them out en
s
the ground whet e the eparrowe are in thetruggle to secure certain crops that others
will not grow, owing to the difficulties in
habit of feeding. They will eat the whithy-
eoaked bait and will soon beeome so drink the stoy, are nearly always sure to secure
good prices for the same, It is the work
as to be unable to ay away ; they can be
that pays and the most profitable crops twe
poked up then with liut little trouble, He
those that require attention and good
told me that he used to emelt then: this way
cal then make them into sparrow pies 1 eg(1 management,
as he Mel quite a fotelnees for whisky hino I Thu liberal use of land plaster iu the
self I euppeie t •li.•1 not 1111130 1(1))' ,thibrenee 'stables, in the manure heap, and 8(611 011 the
to him luny lunch ,t,as in the sparrows. There grass land, wily be found one of the cheapest
is one advantege in using thee over the more and best modes of saving manure and themes -
deadly poisons.—if any valuable domeetie ing the yield of crops Plaster is slightly
Animals sheuld pertuke of the bait they soluble in svater, and envie lime for plants
w ould get over their drunk after 033011110, as 0501)3,13 as applied to the crops, It is also
did the old woman's turkeye that ate the an exeellent absorbent and deodorizer.
emu cherries, to,•1 the sparrows would not ; Those erho make a specialty. of —grcenV7iii
131 )1)113011 to other animals that should find early potatoes elaim that it is better to
and eat theta when seat Lured around Gm hand mok the beetles when they first ap-
premises pear, instead of dusting the young leaves
gwith plaster end Parte green, a process
GnEAT whioh should be deferred until the necessity
'arises for so doing. Bygoieg over the plants
A flock of turkeys reared by Mrs. B. 'daily the beetles will not have 10 opporttmity
sColly, of Duelwee county, /sew York, oi laying mony cue.
averaging twenty.= pounds dressed meat
per pair 15-11811 SOld Gus faiL tierne brood
turkeys are need until three years old, but Dawn.
the majority of the birds suld are younn .„
.1 :'l'he eager light ot morning 1 A clear blush
ones. As theegge are laid they are placed
211 Dees with the small ends down, al d oo mg e a es
Of clout/land snow—then raffling the dim
covered with cloth, being kept in a warm lakes
-dry place. Whet' the turkey is ready to '
;From starlit silver th a dimpled flush
Sit, a barrel 111 placed on its side in some Of rosy water, Now the slumbrous hush
Rhady nook and the nest made of dry hay,
Yields at the breath of breezes; morning
or 811a with a geuerous addition of
onion skine as a preventive against lies breaks,
And carolling of lark and throstle wakes
After the poults are hatched, they are
A world to labour. When the herb is lush
renewed to remain in the 1)001 115 long as they
On !sheltered morel, the level gleilanS of light
will stay there. When rellinVed, the hard
'Per -made the daisies to a wider round
substance en the end of each of their beaks
is re01 strata/ling petals, Morn I the stir, the
moved, and the top of the head anoint. tnight,
811313a little oil to destroy the 'rennin,
'The evonder of young being, with sweet
They aro find fed custard, made from four ;
01)1)8 11(511 three geode of milk. The loosesound
Of eoestinices os the oldigvogenheght
8611 16 swept away, an't they are fed uponthe
wound, never from a board. If the '1(1(11)31Of ileaven dawns (cud earth is summer-
• roop thew ends are chimed, Tine is believed
C!. A, Dawsox.
to allow bone and. muscle to develop fasten
While grotying they. are given plenty of •
binned lime, pulverized, and a little red.. Badly Twisted,
pepper mixed in the food. As they inereme Customer (rushing into hardware store,
in op they are fed with put cheese, Irish - -' I've test got thew to catch a train. (live
oatmeal soaked over night, dry bread soaked 0.1;13011)..,,,
in milk, and wheat mi,ffilings scalded, and Eaeetious -Dealer—. Don't you mean a
till later on, treated to cracked corn, r,
"'(05, a cop-porner. Jittery up."
"Don't you mean a pe11•e0oer ?"
" Hang it (excitedly), I said porn -copper."
didn't 15"
(Also excited), you said pen-eopper."
"1 said oorp-ponner."
"You said petit -connote"
I didn't."
" You did."
" Yon lie."
You're another."
"Take that,"
"And that"
Cos.:s44T.s_Lit11 Fon Cows.
There is an enerniolui loss of food that
could be utilized end saved be, proper pre-
paration. Pr lessor Henry, of Wisconsin,
-who has given this matter hie attention and
observation, Motes that by feeding corn
'dance to cows, (hot cutting the stalks, a Hav-
ing of front 9 10 40 per cent, can be effect.
ed. As con,, :stalks are eonsiderod of but
little volue on :some toms, the percentage
mentioned represente 0 tom of food annual.
ly much greater than OM Wally be estima- (Five dollar:: or thirty days next morn -
ted, and it is a loes 11115( 130 farmer can afford ing.)
to boar. The silo enables the fanner to
avoid this loss, but as the Kilo is not iu gen-
eral URC only a pOrtion of the farmers are Not Mad Enough for That
locnefitted by its capacity to atore the corn Angry/ subscriber—I am mad 011 the way
odder, and keen it in oondition for stock, through, an' I want 10)3 1)111)01' 'gapped.
t is the fodder cutter that offeets the Editor—Yes, sir ; do yott want to mug
• saving, and eve11 with the use of the silo what you owe 9
the cutter must be brought Mtn operation. Angry subeeriber--No ; 1 ain't mad enough
tis the preparation for the anailago, be• for that,
lore being plaoed in the ailo, that rendere
it palatable to stock as touch as its mem- it rata Draught
10(11 condition, and tho farmer who 1)105 o
as n
Silo Mtn at, least perform the necessary les Woman—"t gave my husband a taste of
bor of cutting the corn fodder, mid thereby the broomstick half an hour ago and he
assisting the stock to more readily at and went out swearing he would kill some one,
digest it, owing to its finer ooncli Mon, 133 Has he been here 1"
labor of cutting the food is a faotor in the Se,loon.keeper—"Yes, ma'am ; John was
.exponse to be considered, but where there in here."
.are a number of eows to be fed the cutter Wornaii—"Did he kill anybody ?"
should in, opdratod with steam or horse. Saloon-keeper—"Oh, nth Ilo twit two
powor, so es to economise tho cost. drinks of 0)10 10081 whisky and then. left,"
Ati the corn fodder is woolly left exposed Woman—"Poor John 1 I didn't Mean to
the weather, a portion of its value is lost, drive him10 suicide.
Elsie, pickine a tiny olcl-fashioned sort
;ell forward as Mrs. Glover drew out the
handkerchiefs.
"
That? 011 that is the box which holds
my shell necklace. Didn't I eyer slime you
that ?"
" Why, no, you never did I Show it to
1110 11013', mamma."
The little girl's tone was still rather querul-
mire but her mother felt too sorry for her to
notice it, and opene,l the box as requested.
011, t that pretty ailed Lime, as
long string of any shells, exquisitely Gated,
aanfahnost as soft mud pun as pearl.% lay re-
vealed, linked together with gold, and lying
in gleaming coils upon the faded lining,
" But so odd-looking, and old -time -y.
Did you ever Wear it, mamma ? Let me take
it out, Won't you, p ease .
I Mrs, Glover indulgently permitted the
eager little fingers to twine themselves
round with th soft, gloaming strands, and
. to fasten the clasps of old red goid.
;"013, yes! 11 have worn them many a
I time," she replied,
I "When you tvere a little girl? And where
; ditlyou get them, mamma? Who gave them
' to you?"
' Mrs. Glover smiled and hesitated. "Oh,
'
you little Miss Inquisitive 1" she said,
"Come, put the shells away. Don't you
know your half-hour is passing, 0,ncl 1
hoven't even begun to read yet?"
3 "Never mind," rejoined Elsie in n, decided
tone. "I don't want you to begin. There's a
story, 1113110330, about that neek-lacie ; I know
by the tvay 3011 10(316 and epeake—something
that happened tvhen you were e little girl;
and I'd rather hear about when y'ott were a
little girl, mamma, than all the books that
ever were voitteu. Now, just sit down,
i please, right here, tend begin, else yon won't
have time, and I just must hear about those
shells 1"
; "But, Elsie—"
I "The half hour is going, mamma?"
I And the tears '10035 001111111), and a hotter
flush rose to the poor little red -spotted face,
and Mrs. Glover hadn't the heart to rebuke
1 the impatience, and thought to herself per-
' haps the story of the shells would do as well.
So she seated herself in the big rocker in
. front of the ,glowing fire, cuddling her little
ailing ,laughter up in her lop, and began.
I "P110 necklace wasn't elways mine, yon
' know, dear. There was a little girl, my par-
ticular chum, that we ueed to call Binwhy,
because she was such a plump, roly-poly
little thing."
" What was her real name?" Elsie asked,
but her mother went on, not noticing.
" We lived very near each other in a, pret-
ty, oldefashionotl village, which was very
quiet, but where we gilds and boys used to
inanage to have a good many moo times.
One of the nicest of these times was at Miss
Melinda Ball's Islay -party. leliss Melinda
was a middle-aged ineaden lady who lived in
the great house 01 1115 village, a wide iambi.
ing, old mansion in the midst of beautiful
1 grounds, which We thonght was grand
enough for the President, and was as proud
01 1111 invitation from Miss Melinda as 11 11
I came from the White House itself."
I •' Miss Melinda, was whot wo children
call 'awful nice' to us, and had given us
I More than one entertainment ender her
, spreading horse -chestnut trees ; and one
I year, when 111005 about twelve, it came into
• her kind old heart to give us a reguler old.
time May -party, with a May -pole to dance
round, flowers, a queen, and all the rest of
it, Of course '1300 116(0 all delighted, eepociel•
ly as the spring was so mild that year,
April ahnost like dune. /hit lo end behold 1
w len the clay arriVed, a, regular Mtsy-storin
arrived with it, a 'steady downpour that—"
1 " There I isn't that just always the way ?"
Elsie broke in vehemently. " Poor mamma!
Whet did you an ,"
I " Well, I felt pretty blue, until about ton
O'0100113 whenMiss Melinda% old man servant
came round under a big blue umbrella and
; presented 'his missus'respeets, an' she ehould'
1 speet de 001)11) 11)' all do 0023131 10 de obenin '.' "
I " Well, that was better than poor me,"
said lilsie.
1 " Yee, Mcleod," said her mother, with a
• sympathizing put,; " and We started off early,
(111 high spirits, not minding the lain a bit in
' oar waterproofs and overshoes, and bent on
I having a merry thne,"
I " When we were in the dressing -room
taking off our wraps, the gods; gathered
nrontal Bunchy>, making axelernatioes, ' Why
Benehy, \Gust to the world did you wear,
, that chees for ? Why, how funny 1( 101,138
for a party.'
"Now Bunehy, poor .thild, \yes troubled
with a vory dolmate throat, and her mother
had insisted upon her wearing her winter
dress, 0 high-in:eked and tome -sleeved eaarlet
merino, instead of the low -out tvhite 113135111(0that ail the rest of us hod on. I hastened be
; aay, 'Write you know abed hor throat ; and
1 I think her dress makes Ouch a, pretty spo
of color tonongst tat Om white I' but they still
stared critically, 13)111 0110 tall black-eyed 1)161
tossed hoe head, and snail out; loud, 'Well,
I'd have alayed 03 1101110 rather t1mo 0(11(10 1(1
studs a rig l'
'Just at that nument, Miss Malincle, come
in, bringing tt largo tray, whiell was heaped
up evith the loveliest flowers—such quanti•
ties of them 1 Slut could n tie help hearing
whet 3130,8 Said and Boeing how poor Bun.
ohy's cheeks wore almost to rocl os her dress
with mortificatton, and it brought a kali of
annoyance to her 1)151) kind cheek ; but she • THE LATEST SOICES,
did not appear to take any notleo. She oniitrho yaileios war; 313,11)03,t Living Cree*
y
miutorr 28, 1890.
IT OW THEY EAT,
eet her tra? down upon a table, and
Wonwit are invariably elothei4 observer:I of
t
ures 13)310 their steed,
in her old• ashimed courteous way 'Young
when the skies promised us 3305101'.
1111)3 hie weather for our little enter-,
t1(111111011)., I pleased myself with gathering
all (in: 1)0860(08 of 11)3' 511011011 tool getout.
house, and twining them 101' you into May•
'lay garlawho You west weer them all ehe
mune, and lot them bring the spirit of the
tley ;mom, us LA en bhngitt 0101 c
sound 11)1110re like November,'
111011)11-30111 10111111 111') 0.8 8110
spoke, and poor ihmeley's dress was forgot-
ton in the excitement freer the lovely 1311,318.
01(15 fragranee already tilled the
mown, I here 81(15 11 11011001efeet uherns of 010-
elitilintions. '0, Miss Melinda, 11011, humid,
ful of you ! And may I have 11115 One
du lore lilieS-of.the-Valley 011 1' 4(1)11 11 these
forget-me-nots 1'And I the 1)1008105 '1
'And1 the violet1' until each girl W410 pro-
Vulva \nth 13111 exquisite wreath, and 011 wore
crowding np 111 front of the mirrors to ar.
range them most, becomingly, All 0,,COOpt,
Bunchy, that 1141 5110 81115 rather a retiring
child, and 1,0511100the had not yet gotten
over the embarasement (151100(1 1101 17 the
comments upon her dress. So she stood
quietly aside until all had helped themselves, 1
and now there remained but 0110 wreath
upon the tray. This/ was, of eouree the I
least pretty of thorn all, and was not likely
to be at all 182,01131135to poor Bunchy's rose,
cheeks and yellow curls. It was made of
bright, full-blown deffoffils, foul Bunchy
looked at the large and staring flowers in
dismay as Miss Malincla beckoned her to I
00)3)0 and put 11 01) What a, fright 8118
would be with those clumsy yellow blossoms
stioking out around her 0131-133 head above
he vivid Re/islet of her dress 1
The old lady went to a bureau '
011,1took out 11 littki 1,0X 11'0111 the Upper
I draw?r. This she opened and drew out
len 80X.
I thithe ere it good deal like brokers. They
111e 011 inurgles,
Love may be blind, but he Icnows when the ,
parlor lamp ie too high.
What the world wants, says somebody, is
11 1101? religion, We donbt it. Scone people
'are not willieg to pay for whist they're got.
31215 eow.
Ponson17—"Do you think Moly married
for blood 6' liquiggit -"No, hut I reckon his
wife did. They say Nhe has the temper and
elates of a vide"
The seasoo now is close 05 1)811(1
When the umpire with hie gall
Will (11160 1)011111,11)011111,1 the eatelier 81,5,1,1.And then ery out "Play ball 1"
O'Flynn (rea(3ing 0 desalt notice). -"Poor
(11131 1 1). eays he left, a Wife awl 1(810 children."
0.1,13,1111- -"Oa ye might, knew that
Ho Wen the 11101011 14) 13(31' take them anywhere
'Avid him."
Failure is not such 11021 1111,11), 1111101' a1
10 acknowledged to lie a profitable thin
to fitil 111 bllsilless, and We kll 01V 801110 num
W110(('(811 forty times a day that they ha
failed in love.
Mrs, Pigg—"Is Mr. Peck al, the lodge (111
evening ';" Mrs. N. Peck- -"No ; ho's down
town getting drunk, I alwaye lot him hey
this day for hie enjoyment, It's our weddin
anniversary, you know."
The present riding habit for ladies is now
boom/Mg Gum that for gentlemen," says a
exchange Well, we would jest say so
The geutlemen's riding habit, wo believe, i
to it the holies stand up.
"Look hero, those eggs you sold me th
other day were all had," "Well, it itin't 311)
fault." "Whose fault is it?" "'Atoned if I
know. How &weld I kilete 10101'8((151115
'eni. I'm no mind reader."
Young Mr. O'Donovan (native horn, (0 )11
"Tho shffi necklace 1" cried Eleie in
excitement,
" The 81)1.11 (100131(100 its very milt 'Come
here, dear,'she said, drowing'Bunehy to her
in the kindest way, ' I just can't let you go
down with that enbecoming wreath. Doffed -
ills are lovely, but they are not meant for a
head-deees, that it:plain, Here, let me twine
these pl'etty shells amongst your curls ; they
ore meant for the neck, but they will make
a beautiful chaplet as well. Moe, now, what
a different effeot 1 And your evreath will last
altretys, my clear. Keep it in remembrance
that our old friend SW that you Wore
already the ornament of a mock and quiet:
spirit, end loved you for it 1"
"Well, you oan imagine how overcome
Nor Bunchy was 1 To have 811010 0. beauti-
ffil ornament given her, and above all, such
tender words. Why, the tears came to hor
eyes, and she could hardly steepen' out her
thisnics—"
"Yes, and where wore you all this limo,
Miss Mamma, please r suddenly duinanded
ElSie in a suspicious tome "Don't you
think you've fooled me one ; 11 have
known all the time that 'bunchy' WM just
your own Belt, only you didn't mean to let
me know 11081 16)12011 better you took things
than I do, and how you were praised and
rewarded, But I know 11081, Illy pre-
cious mamma, and rin going to take the
lesson. Just let me has -e the shells the rest
of the afternoon, end you'll see if I sha'n't
be patient and good. And you sholl go
down to your company right 11015', and not
worry a bit---"
"Bless my poor little sick girl!" said her
mother, kissing her fondly. "Keep tho shells
always, dear,'
"To remind me to be good like you,
inamma,--" '
"Not like me, clear, lmt like Him whose
birthday we keep on Chrletinas," whispered
her mother, with another kiss as she rose to
go,
And somehow, Avhether the necklace was
a talisman or not, Bisbee birthdey ceased
front that hour to be such a enis'able one,
Queer Feats and Happenings.
Minnie Morris ot lititchmson, rean., was
at the altar prepared to marry Isaac Smith,
bat before she would allow the ceremony to
proceed she demanded the bander of his
bank account to her name and the deed of a
farm 01 1(30 acres. Isom refused, and 'Minnie
remains single.
The Empress of 13raei1 was a, patron ot
Senora X,, a 3430(115)3 1)158(0088 woman of Rio,
whose sign 11081 reads 1 "1(811130(8 X., corset
maker to the Republic of Brazil."
Winter Frost, Jack Frost, White Frost,
Cold Frost, Reedy Frost, and Snow Frost
are the manes of she brothers in Kansas City,
A. Newport, Ky., widower forfeits an inher-
itance of 175,000 by marrying again. It was
his first wife's property, willed to him ott
condition thet he remained single.
A sycamore tree chopped down by James
Collins of Galesburg, Ill,, split open as it fell.
showing ts deposit of honey weighing over
1,100 pounds The bees would have filled a
barrel.
Nettie White of Sturgeon, Mo., had two
lovers, and calling them and her hinds to-
gether made tho two draw strews to see who
elimild :hove her. Thist, WM about a year
ago. She is now divorced from the man who
drew the longest straw awl about to marry ;
the ()thee, who really was hor heart's °holm '
at the time of the lottery.
The wife of a Mitysville farmer found he
had inortgesged thole home to pay a whiskey
bill. She collected seven cletermined 'wo-
men, mot 1)010300 81102(1081(1 nearly every saloon
in the t08111 WaS 0 wreak.
Forty -ono years 04(0 1). Longfellow, 0111135.
gist at Machias, Me; inserted au 04(011150
3)0311 of his business in the first time of the
local proper. It has appeared it every
iseue sumo, and Longfellow has been prosper -
0110.
T. W. Martin of Elizabeth, Pa., loet
it very heavy plain gold ring. A. weak
afterward his home became lame, end in
examining its foot the lost ring Netla fetald
anugly fitted around mie of the calks of the
1101800 shoe,
In five minutes it woman ow clean up ts
nean'e room in such te way that it will take
him five weeks to find evhere she put things.
1
Expeoting Too Muoh of The Condnotor
Old gentleman -1 shall report you, young
man. N'Ylly didn't you stop your ear before'!',
Here 1 have been running after your car ;
more than a block.
Conifuotor---All right, guy nets I in sorry,
but I ain't like a pertatel. With eyes all over.
That peculiar sellInoiti, the sea tirylifu,
has hive teeth live jaws—one 131 earl) Jew—
ell tile live iinniediately surrounding the
stomaell, The PAWL have a peculiar central.
iZtal 11100011, 1011 turning inward and down-
ward, :to that they also act as feeders,
' 1111s'e teeth 00 their long Wei 111111.
drude of them, hut, as if Owe) were not
stinnaeli
• The enttle- tellieh 010005 008881.00,00
111110, alwitye walke with its head down-
ward, doee not eliew its food et all, bat,
masticates with itt, gizzard, Si, do geese,
fowls, (Melts, and indeed all nlodern 1311310,
Seizing their food in their beaks, they ewe],
low it whole, if grain 01. Seed, and In
large pieves 11 11 be fruit or bread. Li thist
condition it goes into the gizzard, a power-
ful inusele with L1 Very tough, horny lining,
. , g
powerful to pulverizo moot:eked corn, To
assist in the milling process all grainwating
birds swallow little pieces of gravel, gloss
enough, Koine have them itleo in their
g ernekery, mot:slake., the horny interior of
1 the gizzord being MI flleiontly tough to escape
' cutting by these materials, le lo because
I of tine feet 11,111. 1130 otterith has acquired llis
8reputatioof enjoying a ferruginous diet.
.; n Even when they had teeth birds only used
e them to take their food, depending upon the
g 1)1100111 101' mitstielstion then ite 11011%
FiSheS end reptiles use their teeth for the
e " same purpose, that of taking their food, but,
n like the birdie they gulp down their foodun.
w'
cheed and eel/velum if possible.
1 •
ffitere are, however, exceptions, The ray,
• 0( 0131(10, for instance, has a moo th set trans-
yeemt.ly across its head, tile jawS working
e with a rolling motion like two baud:: sot back
, to hack, In the 1a810 are three roWS 01 11,11
tooth ,ect like a wraith -pavement, and between
f these rolling jaws the Ash 01104105 oysters
and 3,3 11311' mollusks like so many nuts.
a "the eisrp's teeth are set book on the phar
father, of foreign extmetion)---"Don't yer go
deceivin' yerself 17 (112013(0'e1)3111
libretto
cause yer licked nie, for ain't. I'm all up-
set at bein' struck by a furriner, an not Le-
in' able to strike back 3"
The Rev. Mr. Wilgue—" Von should Ito
complain 00, Brother *Egg, Why not be
content with what you have ?"
I'm perfectly satiefied with what I have—so
far as it goes, It's what I haven't got that I
mu doing all nor kiekinr, about."
A church choir in a neighboring town a
few Sundays ago were einging, " Charge
to Keep I Have" to the mum of the Prima
Donna:waltz. Alady, observhlg theta straeg-
er in her pew had no hymn book, politely
handed him one. " Thanks," said the gentle
1110.11, fl I' great suavity, ''Belden]. use a
•
yux, 00 11112(1 111111133 1'o litelIlIly seed to masa-
, cote its food in ite throat. The carp, too, ie
:shout tho only (eel -chewing fish, the coarsely
' ewisliewed food being forced up to these
, throat teeth for complete mastication,
1,1Sm
oe (181308are absolu(ely' I)0,(11110)04,L
11110 tee sucker and lamprey 1 ethere again
have hundreds fled Imudreds of teeth, 110111e.
thile8 80 many that they eoVer all parts of
the mouth.
I The great Greenland whale has no
teeth, its baleen pletee, or whalebone, taking
their place. Along the eentre of the palate
runs a strong ridge, and on each si•le of
this there is a wide deprocelon along which
the plates are ineerted. These are long end
. fiat, hinging free, and are placed trantiveree-
ly--that is, acrose tho mouth, with theie
eitles parallel end near each other. The
base and outer edge of the platem Hem of
801111 whalebone, but the inner edges are
fringed, filling up the interior •,f the inouth
and aeting as a etmieer for the toil, which
e011818t8 of the 81100 1 swimming melltieks and.
medusa., or jelly fishes. 'Chili whale rare-
ly, if ever, swallows auything larger than a
herring, shoals of them :mall creatures being
entangled in the 1113re314 of the baleen., the
water which does not escape from the
month being expelled 17 the blew holes.
Though the cavity of thie whale's mouth
is big eneugh to contain 0 ship's long boat,
the gullet Is not larger than a mau's list.
The hover jaw has neither baleen nor
teeth, but has large, fleetly lips within
which the upper is received wheu the
month is closed,
While the Greenland whale has no teeth,
the sperm whale has them in great :mantis
Gee on the lower jaw, and twee them, WO,
when occasion requires. On the other hand,
the narwhal,/ very seldom develope more
than one, the left upper canine. It makes
up for the lack of number 1 7 the extmordin-
ary growth attained by title one tooth. It
grows out and right forward, on 14 11110 With
the body, 1101)1 13 becomes a veritable tusk,
sometimes reaching the length of ten feet.
Apropos of tuske, tho clephant'S are its un-
duly developed upper meteors ; those of the
walrus are its upper amines, and so are
those of the wild hog,
Man is the only animal that has tooth -10.
018008, canines, and molars—of an equal
height. Mau, the ape, and nearly 011 rum.
Manes, have thirty. -two teeth. The hog,
however is better oft than this, and has forty.
four. So have the oposeton and 111010. The
river dolphhi of South America lays far he
yond this, however, hieving no los: slo
th,ictnnill:
teeth. Teeth are not part of b
but belong to the appendages, like skin and
hair.
A young minister, not long shwa'supplied
a pulpit for one Sabbath in e thriving mann-
featuring town eaft of the Hudson, He was
the guest of 11,10(10013, and as they walked to-
gether after the morning service, the demon
said : " Perhaps you do not know that you
Preached to eighteen millions of dollars to-
day 1" " No," said the minister, " not
but you will go to hull, all the same, unless
you repent."
His Experience at a Spelling Contest,
I was travelling for a Toronto schoolbook
concern and one night I brought up in a
fiouvishing little town in Muskoka. I had
never hem there before, but I soon made
friends with the landlord of thethotel, and
when I asked him US to possible manic of
amusement for the eemning he odd : " Well,
stronger, I can't say as there's much going
001,11315 you might go to the se/Lain' contest."
And I went.
When I reached the building it was reaeon-
ably well filled. Great strapping youths in
jeans or homespun offset girls, many of them
very pretty, in Ilene:spun or calm. The
only man m the building, myself excepted,
who Were a white shirt and "store clothes",
was the lanky schoolmaster, six feet and a
couple of Mehes tall at least tend graceful as a
ten -months' old calf.
Mind, 11103056 knew how serious a matter
"spelling down" ie, and ev11en4they asked me I
to go in I simply went in, sure that there
could be no clanger that any of the rustle
crowd could spell Inc down. The work be-
gan and boys ancl girls, right and loft, sot
down on words of three syllables. Soon
there were only twenty of the originalforty
contestonte ; then only fifteen ; then only
ten ; 131 last only five. 'The wordsgrow hard-
er and harder, I saw obvious signs of dis-
content. The girls did not like to be spell-
ed down or the bops to hem the girls defeat-
ed. The worth: grew still harder. One, two,
three, of the five spoilers fell by the wayside
and at last only two of ns stood—the pret-
tiest girl in ell the 'home and I. At last the
schoolmaster called out to me "Iiippopotes
11108. " 11( 1608 as eaSy aS falling from a log
until 1 1 elt a hot breath at iny ear isnd a vela,
hissed :
'Spell it with one 'p' mister 'Mose you
weeder got licked, That ther's my girl ; spell
her clown if you dare."
I spelled with ono "p" and sat, down.
Too Unfashionable to Steal,
A. lady acquaintance lost a valuable shawl.
A short time after the shawl had been missed,
11 little girl, evidencing an anucegral poverty
witheut the "respeetable" oceompaniment,
rounded to in the preeenee of the owner of
the iniesing shawl, cool thostolen garment',
W�5 at mime recoguized,
"Little girl," maid the lady, "where (-au
you ,get that shawl r
"My tether bought it for me," was the
ready reply.
Said the lady :"I will go withyou to your
father and ask him where ho bought that
ehawl."
The littlemie objected to this proposition.
Party of tho first part was imyielding in the
desire to see the nude pesetas Every strata-
gon; peculiar to inventive genius was visinly
resorted to, when the youngster, in tho dos-
pemtmose of hor 1080, 1)1111011 the stolen gar.
7nent .13001 her shoulders, and throwing it at
the lady's feet said :
"J0161 yonr dirto, old ehawl ; ills ool.; 11
fashionable ono, anyway."
He Took No Foolish Chances.
Mother (to her Bart Bey) --If you'll behave
all day trodny, 1111 givo you :something to-
.
Subsequently Bad Boy asks his Hider—
What'll the give mo—do you lower? Will,
it pay for tho trouble of bohaving myself
--
Doubtless Warned by Experience,
Dianriy Wianwet,--" Mrs Little, I havo
just ono qnestion to ask yon. Will yo(1 a
marry 048 9"
Blaorly Widow—" Mr, Biggs, X hove just
ono queston to isek you before / eau answer, 1
Do 35411 833060 1"
A Leyel-Beaded
They stood together side hy Side,
The youth and charming MISS,
.And act he said good night," he tried
Her roey lips to kiss,
She from his arm withdrew her waist,
And back bor head did fling:
"Not till you've on my finger plaoecl,
an engagement rine'
The sturgeon is toothless and draws in its
food by suction, but the shark liao hundreds
of teeth 001(31 00(18 net somothnes ber te».
Lobsters and crabs mastinate their food
with their horny (owe, but they havo aleo
teethin their stomachs, where they complete
tho Work of allowing. But theoe 18 0110 pecu-
liar kind of crab, called the kingor horseshoe
crab, which chows its food with its legs.
This is an actual fact, the little animal grind.
ing morsels between its thighs bolero it
passes them oVer tO
The jelly fish absorbs its food by wrapping
iteelf around the object mthieh it eooks to
make its own. The starfish Is oven more
accommodating,. Fastening itself to the body
it wishes to feed on, it turns its stomach
inside out and enwraps Its prey with this
useljoulr
gs0eegatzTtheir food with their jaws, eats
with their feet, and so do moilkeys, some of
thein proofing their proheesilo tails into Ser-
vice. The squirrel 08013 its patvs to carry its
food to its mouth, the elephant its Gunk,
the giraffe, enteater, and toad their tongues.
Spidere chow their food with horny jaws,
which are sharp enough to give quite o nip.
I Grasehoppers and locusts aro very wall
provided with the umeseary machinery for
eating much told often. '17hey have eaw-like
jaws and gizzordsstoo, the latter being fitted
out with horny teeth.
The caterpillar feeds with tevo saw -edged
jusvs, working transversely, and twos them
to snob good advantago that 1)0 0011)4 three or
fear times his own weIght every day,
Toads, tortoises, turtles, e,nA most lizards
have no teeth. Frogs have tooth in their up-
per jaw only. Anteaters, sloths, and mina-
, a11'11501ffne ino0icitcttlehiiger' and, indeed, most op
1 of the carnivore, do notgrind their feed,
using their jaws oely up aud 11.0005, the
owlets oeting like ohopping knives, or rather
'scissois, 7 r mouths, 1/1 faeleare a veritable
I 11"11 11; t ter II y pumps nectar into itself
through 15 tube, end bees and flies suck tip
their food with 01085.tongua or a proboseis.
affeir. It has fangs ter holding its prey, nuts -
The spider's mouth is quite 0, compliceted
tioatoly origami for bruisin its solid food and
0. SUO lug apparatus for trt ing up the fluids.
Quite as complicated is the mouth of 1116 151)8.
quito, 'which consists of the lances, the saws
and tho pumping tubes,
Tito leech has 111600 588104 with which (1
does good nervice it the phlebotomy line.
The woodpecker
1)0.5 ,1 throe...barbed to»gue
111(5 )3 Fijian's linear, with which it draws out
the worm ',Aid it has excited hy its tapping,
The elate tootle with a siphon and the
'
0)38181 811513 its board.
0
Why Ito Stole,
Judge : "11 33010 know of any mitigating
irouinsts,nee you are at liberty to state
Prisoner : "I don't, know of any egoopt, that
took to steeling boeausc 1 didn't want to
oaf around the street oorners and be talt..n
or a detective