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Tie time which should elepse between
ancl ehearing tlepends eltogether on
oireurnstatices, From four to six days of
bright, Warm weather is sufficient ; if tiold.
Dr rainy, or cloudy, mare time nmet inter-
vene. Sometimes the wool remains in a
condition unfit for a fortnight after witelli»g.
The rale to be observell in, that the water
should be thoroughly dried out, aml the
natural oil of the wool should so far exude
us to give the wool ttn unctious feeling, 4ind
a lively, glittering look. If it is :sheared
-when dry, like cotton, and before the oil
has exuded, it is very difficult to thrust the
abeam through, and the wool will not keep
ao well for long periods, If it is left un-
til it gets too oily, either the manulatiturer
iseheated, orwhat more frequently happens,
the owner loses on the price.
Shearing, in this country, is always dons
on the threshingffioms of the barns—some•
times upon low platforms, some eighteen or
twenty inches high, but more commonly 0(1
the floor itself. The place where the sheep
remain shauld be well littered down with
straw, and fresh straw thrown on occasion-
ally, to keep the sheep clean while shearing.
No chaff, or other substance which willstick
in the wool should be used for this purpose.
Me shearing should not commence until the
'dew, if any, has dried off froni the sheep.
All loose straws sticking to the wool should
• be picked off, and whatever dung may ad.
here to any of the feet brushed off. The
iloore or stables used should be plaued or
worn perfectly smooth, so that they 'will not
• hold dirt, or catch the wool. They should
. all be thoroughly cleaned, and if necessary,
-washed preparatory to the process. If there
aro any sheep in the pen dirty from purging,
or other causes, they should first be caught
out to prevent them from contaminating
• others.
The manner of shearing Numies with almost
evety district and it is difficult, if not ire-
ossible, to give intelligent practical instruc-
-Mons, which would guide an entire novice '
in skillfully shearing a sheep. Practice is
requisite. The following plan and disco.
tions are as plain, perhaps., as can be made :
The shearer may place the sheep on that
part of the floor assigned to him, resting on
its ruinp, and himself hi a posture with his
stightkinee on a cushion, and the back of the
• anunal resting against his left thigh, He
grasps the shears about half -way from the
point to the bow, resting his thumb aloes,
the blades, which gives him better command
?ofthe 'mints. He may then continence cut -
.ting the wool at the brisket, and proceeding
downward, all upon the sides of the belly to
the extremity of the ribs, the external sides
:of both sides to the edges of the flanks;
then back to the brisket and thence up-
ward, shearing the wool from the breast,
front, and both sides of the neck, but not
Tettheback of it, and also the poll, or fors.
-part and top of the head. Then the "jacket
is opened" of the sheep, and its position as
-well as that of the shearer, is changed by
the animal being turned flat upon its side,
• one knee of the shearer resting on the
=shim, and the othergently pressing the
lore -quarter of the animal to prevent any
struggling. He then resumes cutting upon
the flank and rump, and thence onward to
the head. Thus one side is complete.
The sheep is then turned on the other
side—in doing which great ease is requisite
to prevent the fleeces being torn—and the
sheerer proceeds as upon the other, which
'fini.shes. He must then take the sheep near
to the door through which it is to pass out,
and sleety Mein the legs, leaving not a soli-
tary lock anywhere as a lodging place for
ticks. It is absolutely necessary for him to
' remove from his stand to trim, otherwise
the •useless stuff from the .legs ,becomes in-
termingled with the fleece-wooL In the use
of the shears, the blades shonld be laid as
ffiat to the skin as possible, the points not
lowered too much, nor should more than from
one to two inches be out at a clip, and
freqmently not so much, depending on the
part, andthe compactness of the wool.
The wool should be cut off close as con-
veniently practicable and even. It may,
indeed, be out too close, so that the sheep
can scarcely avoid sun -scald ; but this is
very unusual. If the wool is left in ridges
:and uneven, it betrays a want of workman-
ship very distasteful to the really good
farmer. Great care should be taken not to
nut the wool twice in two, as inexperienced
shearers ars apt to do, since it is a great
d amage to the w001. This results from cut'
'tingtoo far from the point of the shear* and
suffering them to get too elevated. In such
vases every time the shears are pushed for-
ward, the wool before cut off by the points,
say a quarter or three -eights of an inch from
the hide is agained severed. To keep the
fleece entire, which is of great importance to
its good appearance when done up, and,
therefore, to its salableness, it is very essen-
t ial that the sheep be held easily for itself,
so that it will not struggle violently. No
ran can hold it still by main strength, and
shear it well. The pasture of the shearer
iihould be such that the sheep is actually
'confined to its position, so that ibis unable
:to start up sucldenlv and tear the fleece ;
but it should not be eonfined continually
kicking and; struggling. Clumsy, careless
mom, therefore. always complain of getting
the most troublesome sheep, The neck, for
example, may be nonfined to he ,floor by
'placing it between the toe and knee of the
leg on which thashearer kneels ; but the lazy
Dr brutal shearer who suffers his leg to rest
',directly on the neck, soon provokes that
etruggle which the animal is obliged to make
t o free itself from severe pain, and even per-
hape to draw its breath. Shearing is a busi-
ness as well as any other branch of farm-
ing.
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Steel/lug Mover for Ensilage,
In June, 1888, 1 out and stacked one
stack of first crop of clover. The steak was
'built in the field where out and was 12x 1
le,et on the ground, and when finished was
twelve feet high. It was stacked as fast as
cut, or nearly so, for we followed the mower
with rake, one team followilig and hauling
00 etaCk. The third flay after finielting the
stack we plowed four furrows around it and
,shoveled tho earth on the stack aboutfifteen
inches deep.
When the stack was opened, about one
foot oromul the outside was moldy and rot-
ten ; the balance Was fine feed, By the tines
We were ready to open the stack it was not
20000 011010 four feet high the weight having
:settled it down thittmuOis There was more
'Waste at the aornem than at the sides, In
.September of the wino year I cut and put up
a stack of clover and sttibble, weeds, etc. It
wag ciel from wheat stebb'e 01 where wheat
had been out that season. This stack was
built round to avoid tho angles, and was
,twelve feet across, and when finished, about
'fifteen feet high. The outside was tramped
:continually and beaten down with a fork on
. the side* which were kopt as higO, or high-
'rerthan the middle. Some of it was pares) in
the raip, some Ittid in the field rt (ley or two
tin accolint of rain, and tome was put up
, When Water Would 1010 from it For weight
we left two ,•0 three leads •tf the weediest
part tt0 it ler the top. It Was lt40 pretty
ma, and whol opened 'lawyer three iethes
of the top had rotted, end that the cattle
would eat if they meld get to it when turn•
ea out in the yard. Less of the sides of tins
staelt Was Veiled 01111 11 of the earlier eut
0111.
I think one reason for the ablaut perfeet
preservatitnt of the last sttwk wits that the
almost eontinuous rahni that fell did not al.
low it to dry and nionhi, These stacke were
an experiment, The first wns treated es
sot& menage because of there being m11.
siderable sorrel in it, not wiehiug to mole
hay of it and Boater the seed, and thinkimg
the heat would, destroy the Need. The sorrel
was eaten as readily as the elover by the
cowe when fed. In feuding the last stack the
cows me the stubble and 2005(15 00 well as
the clover : and ate all very greedily, refus•
ing fine clover hay ter it. While eating and
staekiog we fed to the 'vows i» the barn some
of the elover stubble and weeds awl they
refused to eat any of it except the clover,
and left some of that, not thinking pettishly.
it were worth sorting out. None was stacked
in the barn exeept twn re. three loads that
were put on oar silos for covering, all of
which Was spoiled, Molded.. I consider it ft
sUccess.
Pear Experience.
Many years ago seine 01 the eminent
pomologists of Boston decided that if they
could have but one variety of the pear it
would be the Vicar of Winkfield. Not on
accuunt of its flavor, for even when the fruit
was finely ,,,e.rown, thinned on the tree, with
e. brown eheek and fully ripeued, the quality
would not compare at all with such delicious
pears se the Sheldon or Belle Lucrative, Inn
the tree was a fine grower, greet beam* and
the fruit, if properly kept, continued te
ripen in successien for two months during
late autumn and early wiuter, This pear
is now almost forgotten by some cultivators.
It was not good enough, and the tree was
rather usually subject to blight. Since that
dav, President Wilder selected the Anion
et very fine pear which Ile introduced) as
the one standing at head of the list, and
which he would choose 10 110 WaS confined to
but one sort. The pear itself is excellent,
handsome in form, smooth in exterior'the
tree a symmetrical grower, and but. little
subject to blight. It was recommended tot
a moderate borrower, which is better for the
frnit than on overerowded branches. We
have lint found this characteristic to hold,
for in an orehard some fifteen years old the
Anjou trees have outgrown any other, the
crop from three contiguous trees being nine
bushels from eaeh, and the pears of full size,
measuzing on an average three inches the
longest diameter. Under ordinary treat.
1110010 they ripen during the last half of
autumn, but they may be kept hi a cool
apartment, all January. They have the ad.
vantage over many other pears of keeping
for several days alter they have become fully
ripened for eating. An experienced com-
mission merchant remarked tha0 if this pear
only had a flue red cheek, it would be the
best of all market varieties.
Sheldon \thee well grown under good
cultivation is scarcely equaled for delicious
flavor and for excellent inching quality. Its
rounded form and dull russet skin do not
make it particularly attrective to one un-
accustomed to its delicious character. The
tree is not so reliable a bearer as some other
varieties, and it is more subject to blight.
If the fruit is not well grown and well
ripened it is poor enough. Fifty years ago
Virgaliett or 'White Doyenne was conspicu-
ously the finest, market pear in western
New•York, and owners of large bearing trees
received handsomestuns of money for the
crop* This was niter the scab and crack-
ing bad destroyed the value of this pear at
Boston where it was known as the Saint
Michael, audthe Butter r ear inPennsylvani a.
In sabsequent years the same trouble came
upon 10 111 western New -York, and it is um
almost forgotten, Yet in some seasons and
in some localities it has been restored to its
fair appearance and fine quality. In MS
we gathered many bushels on our grounds,
and some trees last year bore fine speci-
men* 'But the long -continued wet weather
appeared to have had o fatal effect on some
of the trees, the crops of winch were worth-
less, while other trees notmany rods distant
had fair and excellent pears. Seckle was
nearly destroyed last year by the same dis•
ease, scarcely a single bushel of good sped.
mens being found m an estimated crop of
200 bushels. Some years ago Seckel 111 this
orchard was fine and fair, and was the most
profitable variety in an orchard of the
leading market sorts. And last year some
trees only a few miles distant bore perfectly
fair fruit.
This disease has puzzled'cultivators and
in the experiments we have made Seekel
trees subjected to enriching cultivation,
others growing in grass and those pruned
and unpruned,have been alike affected.
This disease will afford an exeffilent oppor-
tunity for scientists to exhibit their skill in
discovering an effectual euro. Lawrence, a
late•auttuun and early -whiter pear, of fine
quality, but not equal to the best, is only
partially melting, but it has the good quality
of never booming scabby, is always fair,
and the tree holds its feting° late in autumn
until the fruit is well matured. This a good
market variety. Clairgoau is one of the
handsomest of all pears, and when the fruit
has become well colored on the tme tho
whole presents an object, of great beauty.
The pears are large, smooth, and when well
ripened and hetet become soft, they are ex-
cellent in quality. Sometimes they remain
hard till they decay, anti are of no wane.
Experience corroborates the opinion that
young trees more commonly bear fruit which
does not ripen well. Trees fifteen years or
more of age uniformly bear pears of good
quality, and the variety proves one of the
beat for market. Bose ei one of the best of
all autumn pears, but the tree is not a very
rod grower, and is iejered by our severest
wintets. Howell is gradually taking a place
among profitable market pears, the tree be -
leg 011110 grower and very productive, and
the fruit always fair and handsome, A fter
all, the old pear, long known in Englandas
Bonehretien, and in this country After a short tone, he heard a pawn% and
scratching at the door, and recognized the
as 13artlett, stands at the head of pears tor wheii„, of 1118 e„itefel 4„g.
general popularity, and nurserymen 11e0Jf
more 1t511 sell more 1111010008 than of an Ira," he cried, and in a moment
. It is a, greet and m111'0015;1' th° largest flog had broken through tho
other variety
beaver, and sells freely in marlcet.—Country iron door and set his initetet• at liberty.
Genaraisais Then Patti mad to tho timeliest aeimal
"Bring food from tho King's table."
When the dog entered the banquet ball of
the palace the Princess recognized it as be-
loeging to her roseurer, and bogged her
fathes 00send for the owner. Paul soon ap-
peared, end, having told hie story, he showed
the three teeth which he had taken from
the mouth of the dragon.
The wicked eon thumb was then thrown
into prime, and the poor shepherd boy was
given his place in the royal palace. Paul
aid 2100 1101V forget his sister, but, with the
permiesion of the King, he again visited his
native village and returned, bringing 'Helen
with hire, who over afterward had a happy
home in tho palace, and found in the Prin.
The Adventures of Pard.
At the foot, ,,fa high mountaie in 0110 01
the Eastern emnittiles stood a smell tiottage
in white) lived an um thepherd with lue
twe children, Paul mid Mum Although
they were poor, and ha(1 little numey, they
were good end honest, and lived very hap -
pity in their humble home, One time the
shepherd fell very ill, and when it was
certein that he Amnia nut reeover, he called
his son and daughter to him and said 1 " My
dear children, 1. must now lettve you alone
in the world. I have no rlehee for you ; this
little cottage and three slwep are all that I
possess. They are yours do with them as
you think best."
After the ohl shepherd 11(0(1 (110(1, and been
laid at rest in the old '1 illage churchyard,
Paul said to his sister " Now, Helee, you
shall have the eottage and all that is in 11
for yours. 1 shall take the sheep, and go
out, into the world to seex my fortune.
When 1 heve beemue a rich, great man, 1
shall return for you, and we shall leave this
poor little house, and live in some grand.
pelaca"
Bolen had great confidence in her geed,
brave brother, end, although she bade hun
tearful goodly, she firmly believed that lie
would, as he sail, become rich and great,
and then return for her. For many days
Paul traveled over the dusty highways and
through green fields without meeting any
adventures, Tired and discouraged, aud
mit knowing which way to turn, he Mopped
to rest one day under a large tree that stool
at the cross roads. Stuldenly he SW near
him 0 Man with three largo black dogs,
"Good day, -my boy," said the man ; "I
see you have three fine sheep there. What
do you say to giving them to 1110 111 exchange
fur my dogs?"
In spite of his sadness Paul could not help
laughing at this strange proposal.
"Why, he said, "it costs me polling to
keep my sheep, for they feed on the grais by
the roadside. :But how could I buy meat, for
the dogs, when I can scarcely get food enough
tor myself 1"
"My dogs are of a peculiar kind," said the
stranger, "and will furnish you with food,
111500(1(1 of your providing for them ; and they
will bring you great fortune. If you say to
the smallest one, 'bring food' yen will int -
mediately be supplied: If you sty to the
second one, hill rm.& he will at once des-
troy your enemy. And if to the third you
cry,'help me,' he 1011 deliver you in tittle of
trouble.'
Paul was finally persuaded to make the
exchange, and when the stranger had led
away the sheep he said, 'bring food,' and at
once the small dog darted eway, and soon
rethrned carrying a basket of the choicest
food. The boy now lived very comfortably
and grow quite fond of his dogs. Onebright
morning as he waS trudging merrily along he
met a carriage draped bit drawn by
four noble black horses, which hung their
heads and walked slowly, as if consetous of
some sorrow. The coachman wore a Mae:
livery and had bands of crape around his hat
Within the carriage sat a beautiful young
girl, on whose fair face were traces of tears
and great distress. Paul asked the cause of
all this sadness, and learned that in the
Mountains there lived a huge dragon that
threatened to destroy the city and its in-
habitants unless the King's (laughter was
sacrificed to him, and in order to save his
people, the King must give his daughter to
be swallowed by the monster. Therefore,
all the city was in mourning while the young
girl was being carried to the =entail].
Paul had great compassion for the Ring's
daughter, and followed after the cerriage.
When the Princess alighted, and sadly be-
gan her walk up the mountain, the boy
walked beside her, although the coaohman
warned him that he would perisis When
they had gone about half way they heard a
great noise as of thunder, old beheld corn -
mg toward them from the stmunit the drag-
on with its huge mouth open ready to de -
Vous thein.
"Kill him," shouted Paul ; and immediate.
ly the second clog rushed upon the dragon
and soon stretched him lifeless upon the
ground. Paul sprang upon the great body,
and taking three 00 0110 monster's teeth put
them away in his purse as trophies Of his
victory. The Princess shed tears of joy
over her happy escape, and wished her res.
cum? to go with her to her father's palace,
where he would be richly rewarded.
The boy replied : "I wish to travel farther
in the west, but in six months I shall re-
turn."
They now descended the mountain, turd
found the coachman who from below had
been a witness of the scene. As they drove
back to the oity a daring thought came to
the 111111(1 of the coachman, and stopping the
carriage on the middle of a bridge under
which rolled a great river, he said to the
Princess:
"Your rescuer has gone away, and did not
desire your rewards. I am a poor man, mid
it will please me greatly to receive .lienors
from the Ring. Therefore, you mist tell
your father that I saved you from the drag-
on. Unless you do this, and promise me
never to reveal the secret, I shall hurl you
into this foaming river, statuette shall be the
wiser; for they will think that you have been
devoured by tho diugon.
The Princess was compelled to yield to the
wishes of thi, wicked man, and promised to
clechtre hie, her rescuer. There was great
rejoicing is 0110 0113' when the King's &ugh -
ter mitt, reed, The Meek flags were taken
down, aud in their stead waved gay banners,
while elionts of joy and nutsic wore to be
heard in the streets, The King sent forth a
decree that in si10 months a grand festival
should be beide at which time the oottehman
should be crowned the first knight in the
kingdom. The poor Princess hoped for the
return of Paul, but did no0 dare to make
mention of her true rescuer. At last came
the thne for the great festival; and as the
procession was marching through thestreets,
a stranger, leading three dogs, entered the
city. Ho asked the cause of all this rejoic.
ing, and being told, he cried: "It is false;
I saved the King's daughter I"
For his impudence, es 105 pd
eople calle
it, Paul was thrown into a dark prison,
First Society Lady—"Have you hefted
that Mrs. Jones died last night ?" Seeend
Society Lady—"Is that sol N.VIty, the wo-
man ONVOS 1110 a 1
A popular soprano ie mid to have a voice
of fine timbre, a willowy figure, cherry lips,
chestnut hair end hazel eyea. She must hove
been raised 511 the lumber region,
Mr. Gitzzleton (going oute.•--"You needn't,
sit up for mo to•night, Maria," Mrs, flue-
zleton—"No ; I suppose you e4t11 do all the
'setting up' that is needed, yourself." •
Soma one says that the "happiest -looking
man is the ono who is not burdened with cess a kind and loving friend,
wealth." Ho evidently, did rot form his One inerliing, 5(0 Llle brother and eieter
opinion from seeing a friend returning from wore walking in the palace garden, the tin'oe
the races, dogs 0511 toward them and began 00 speak,
JUNE 20, 1890,
They eahl 1 "P011 have made your fortune . DREAMS AND DREAMERS.
now and no longer 1100(1 us," —
Plies. then inteame birds end flew away, 8„1„,, el „,„1,,i. "hip; 11,,po He, E5,0115
and were 11erer again seen. Stemberland,
PAM n,
THE DYING SOLDIER'S REQUEST,
csecedingis slid Incident orate rra aro.
!Prussia n War.
" had just sold my oommission me lieut.
((11141(1 111 the British tinny when the France-
Pruseian wet, opened," said an Englishman
a. few days ago to Home friends, ''1 had still
some pretty strong hankerings after an
active military career, and, tot I had been
disappointed in the bushiest; project that had
induced me to relinquish the hope of seeing
further service with the red -mats, 1 joined
the fereign legion of the French army, end
in the following half yeae any craving I
migl it have had for fighting wee lousily muds
fied. 1 had many adventures, some of thein
startliug enough, but one, to which 110 per-
sonal danger was attached, stands out at
timem with unpleasant dietinethess iu
tummy.
" A few Awoke 'before all 'French hopes of
final success were buried at Sedan a portion
of my corps was detached to engego a party
of Prussians OM had been harassing 801110
villages near Metz. Wo &MM. the 01101)13'
readily emitted), but they had been strongly
re -enforced, and though we drove them lawk
tofter severed hours of very hard fighting we
suffered severely.
" Night had fallen before the firing
ceased, and 1 was sent svith 111 order to an
officer on n distant omit of tho field. The
moon was shitiog as I returned and I was
walking my hams as the (mined was very
tired, when I reined him in quickly, be-
cause a feeble voiee called 00 105.
" Sir," it said, in very good English, '1
recognize you as an officer of the foreign le-
gion. You are an Englishman, 1 think.
Will you do me a very great and is last
favor ?"
"1 dismounted and found a yotmg Froneh
officer lying at my feet. His sword and
pistols were gone and he was desperately
wounded. His oyes were almost closed, the
death damp lay cold and heavy on his fore-
head, and little specks of foam and blood
were on his lips. 011e bullet hed passed
completely through his body, tearing his
lungs in its passage, and he was gashed and
perforated in half a dozen other places.
" 'What can I do for you 5' I asked.
" I am suffering horribly,' Ile gasped,
and I may live for an hour yet. Will you
have the great kindness to blow out my
brains and end my agony?'
" I looked very closely at the poor fellow.
I knew something about gunshot emends
and it was as clear 00 1110(05 is the stm atnoon
that he had no earthly chalice of living until
the dawn.
"'100101000 take your life,' I said, '1010 11
you desire it I tvill lend you my pistol and
turn my head away.'
" Thank you,' he muttered gratefully,
'that will do just as well. I have still enough
strength left to pull the trigger Yon will
find & flask of eau de vie and a bundle of
eigers in the pocket of my cloak. They
are yours, Mon tuni. 'rake them, I entreat
you. Adieu
"Silently I handed him the weapon and
turned away. A sharp report rang out
When I looked again at the Frenchman he
had ceased to suffer. I took the pistol from
his band and rode away quickly.
"I have been condemned for the past I
plasma in this tragedy, but I have never
blamed myself," .
My Than's Birthday.
05,1 wool I lo'e my bonny Jean,
Still blythost o' them o';
1100 her bettor now Vve seen
Her love at fifty-two.
The sunny smiles o' youthfu. days
Reflect spring's golden sheen;
)Sot nought excels the fall -blown bloom
And grace o' bonny Joan.
11100 to see the laverock rise
And chant its morning sang—
Sweetitotes that warble through tho lift,
And thrill the cheerful throng;
.k' nature's loves aro swoet to see,
Aly heart cleaves to them a';
And memotv o' my early love
Is dear at tifty.twa.
The wild flowers dead tho meadow bank
And deck the meadow plain ;
Life's spring renews its living DOWD',
Earth's beauties bloom again;
13ut 5410 11100111 is sae dear 00 1510,
Rae flower sae fair is seen,
As youthfo' grace matured wi' years—
The blythe face o' Joan.
I love to watch the monntain burn
Come 511014105 0(000 th o braes,
45out and in 11 )1111(0 about,
And rippling sWeetly plays.
Thou I recall youth's guileless hems,
Life's ever changing scene
Though constancy links aye my heart
In love to bonny jean,
One Way Out of it.
Mr. Sampson (to Parson Johnson)—
" What am de meaning ob do commandment
dat says somefing 'bout not coveting de
belongings ob yo' neighbors 2"
Person 1 ohnecin--" It means prezactly
what is writ. If yo' neighbor's got some
yeller -clog pullets yo' don't svant for to covet
'ern."
Mr, Sampeon—. But s'posen yer neigh-
bor's got n likesome daughter, am it a sin
to covet dat er gal ?" •
Parson Johnson—" I done tole yo' clat yo'
doesn't want to oovet man' belongm' ta, yo'
neighbors."
" Well, s'posen elat a men lubs his neigh-
bor's daughter so berry much dal he can't help
covethe her, what's a pusson gleam to do to
get ober dat covetous feelin', eh 1"
Parson Johnson—" Marry de gal, ob
course,"
Russia and Turkestan.
Preparations are already being made for
tile celebration this Summar of the twenty-
fifth anniversaryof the conquest of Turkes•
tan by the Russian Artny. In oonnootion
with tho celebration there WO be an exhibi-
tion of the industrial an d &grim] tural products
of the country. The exhbbililonwiil be divi-
ded into two chief seetione, the one histori.
ice] aud oompriaing.the industrial prodects
of 'Turkestan anterior to the Busker' con-
quest, and tho other exhibiting the spend-
tural 011(1 industrial.poduots of Oa:provincn
during itilaSian (1011111110Th
She'd Rad Experience,
Wife (to newly made linsband)—" Now,
Charles, this is our honeymoon and while it
lads we 111000 contrive to extract all the
sweetness We can mit of its We must re-
member lifo is short and honeymoons are
shorter."
Newly' Mello Ituaband (interrupting)—
"My deer, let us hope that happiness will
porch ripen our banner and say there."
Wi f o(lookit gat him pityi1,g14 —"Charles,
is 05 10 your first expertence 111 this lino
while, 315103' tus well confess to. you that it is
my third; and I'm the hotter Judge."
A dull Man is au neer it dead Man 601 110
is hardly to be ranked in the list of the living;
and as he is not to ha hurled whilst ho 15
half alive, so he is as little to be employed
whilst he is half dead,...-Efiavillo.
It is11 well. at tested fact that our dreams aro
sometimes caused by our seneations, It is re-
lated of an English moldier that, so 51150511.
tittle was he to aatlible impressions while
asleep, his comptnions could melte him
dream what Oleg pleased. They gummed them •
delves lly leadmg 111111 in his 1100111115 into
some frightful dillieulty, anti watching his
climes to esteem le himself—sometimes in-
ducing hint to believe that 5 shark was in
close pursuit 00 11(111 ; at others, that lie was
sampeuded intly by a thread from the projec-
ting cliffs of a, fearful percipice 1 and again
that he had given offence to some person and
must light a duel. 1 hus, On ono occasion
they caueed him to go through the whole of
n. duel from the preliminary twrangements to
tho firing of the pistol, whiell they put into
his Inutile, end the report, of which awoke
tins
There are two mettere in respect to which
len). sure I shall never be able to cease from
dreaming while I live. The ono which most
disturbs 111015 thet of panting ; and now/ for
over half a century smee 1(11110 that business,
I May Say, without exaggeration, that hard-
ly a month ham passed in which 1 have not
dreamed about it, 111180111113' Duca 00 When I
am over-fotigued, or when from other cause
1 1011 not fueling well. I should promise
that (lulus about eight years of my boy.
hood, having commenced lousiness before I
was 115, I was the publisher, and for eix
yews' of the time the editor, of a weekly
newspaper. 1 y labor the larger pert of this
time was not only severe, but I encountered
tiolent opposition from a sectien of my 02111
political party, which sought by most unfair
I10e11115 to ernsh mo In spite of all this m
paper was regularly issued, never 01105 fro -
nig to appear on the promised day of publi-
cation. Now, what is also singular about
this dream is that, although not always the
same in its details, (0 15 invariably attended
with more or less of trouble and failure.
Oftener than otherwise my editorials ore not
ready in time ; I am baled in getting the
types set ; in making up the forms they are
t 1rOW11 int0 pi, or there is some other vextt.
tious thing that 0011105 00 disturb me, and
do not remember to have succeeded more
than once or twice in getting my paper off.
Generally I am so inueli harassed that I
awake glad to find it "all 10 dream."
The other matter relates to my life in the
-Postoffice .Department. These dreams are
generally not quite so Unpleasant: but they
have likewise pursued me at frequent inter-
vals ever since, and in fact before, I left that
department. They usually take shape in
fear that when absent on leave I had over.
staid my time, or that iu some other way I
might have fallen short of my whole official
duty.
Carlyle relates that, when "(1 very little
thing," anxious to learn, Jane Welch, who
afterwards became his wife, would sit np half
the night over her lessons. One day she
lual been greatly perplexed by * problem in
Euclid which she could not solve. At last
she went to bed ; and in a dream got up and
(1(1(1 10 and 10e110 to bed again. In the mean-
time she had no consciousness of her dream •
but on looking at her slate, there was 1110
problem solved.
Physiological Objections to Plesh-Eating'
There are a great utunber of objections to
the use of flesh as an article of ordinary diet.
We do not propose to attempt to consider
all of these in this article, but would invite
the reader's attention to one or two points
of significanue 1-
1. Flesh food contains about three per
cent. of extractive matter which consists of
excretory nthstances, auclwhieh would have
been eliminated from the animal through its
organs of excretion if its life had not been
taken. Within the last twenty years, ex-
tensive studies have been made of the nature
of these excretory subetences, and of their
effects upon animals an1 human beings when
separated, and studied each ono by itself.
As the result of these investigations, which
have been carried on in the most exact and
scientificonanner it has been proved. that a
large share of tliem are poisonous in char.
enter, some of thetn inteneely so. Taking
into ()consideration the fact that the system
of most human beings, especially those living
in civilized countries, and more particularly
persons of sedentary habits, are all burdened
with considerable quantities of these poison-
ous substances which are on the way out of
the body, and that life and health depend
Upon the rapid oxidation and exeretion of
these poisons, it is evident that nothing is
to be gained by additions of this ehasacter
from an outside source, even though the
quantity be small.
2. The experiments of 13rieger and others
have shown that in the digestion of animal
fibrins, an extremely poisonous substance is
developed, which has been termed pepto-
toxine. This substance is found to be so
poisonous that a few drops of it in -water,
injected underneath the skin of a frog, pro.
110100(1death in a few minutes, It has been
well known for a long time that in the Cliges•
tion of animal food, certain bitter substances
are formed. That those substances are of a
poisonous nature seems now to be very thor-
oughly estsblished. It is certainly of inter-
est to note that tho bitter principle refevred
to is not formed in the digestion of vegetable
albumens.
• Greyhounds for Canadian 'Wolves,
Ibis officially estimated Batt no fewer then
170,000 wolves are roaming et large in Russia,
and that the inhabitants of the Vologda last
year killed no fewer than 49,000, and of the
Cann district 21,000, In the Canadian
Northwest there are also wolves, but these
aro not, lilte the Buropean ones, of a danger.
ous olutraeter, The coyotes are, however, at
times very troublesome on the plains, °spool -
ally to flocks of sheep. Some time ago Sir
John Lister -Kaye imported a number of 1301-
gian and French wolfhounds and Sooteli
deerhounds for the purpose of hunting clown
these aciyotee, svhile breeds of dogs have also
TELEGRAPRIO BRIEFS,
-^
Rev, J,,Int Oakley, D. D., (luau of Man.
ehenter, th.all.
vh.lent shod; r,f earthquake has oce110.
red in the department id .1 ura, France,
Distress 11110,11(1has been caused by confla••
orations in the mining districts of the Url.
a
o maul ns,
The 'Edinburgh municipal authorities to.
day presented the 000511001 of the city to
Honey Sheehy.
Further examiestion of tho Cit y of 1101110
1000110lade twenty foot long in the plating
covering her foropeak.
As a resnit of the recent crusade 0g011100gambling houses in Chicago, it is stated that
ail of then:Amy° been Limed,
The Legislative Assembly of Victoria 11,111
nilaniMolady 1111])1'00'011 0115 scheme for the
federation of the Australian colonies
The synod 110 1110 Reformed Preebyterian
Church of the United States has voted agaiest
union with the general synod.
Judge Wallace has -mooted and diemiesed
the writ of habeas corpus in William Komm-
lerS3 ease. Therefore Rommler mut& die,
A pima has been discovered growing in
abundance 111 1110 shores of the Caspian sett
.Niiviltleic.11 is likely to poet, a, powerful 1'14'11l of
A Carlo dettpuM
telt saye ajor Wise:mum is
surprised et Stanley's utterancem. Ile says
there its plenty of room in Africa for both
nations.
During the four weeks ending June 7
charters were issued to 00 11021' assembliee of
the Knights of Labor, and 14 locals were re-
organized nod reinateted.
(inc of the men who robbed the Northern
l'acifie train at New Salem on Sunday has
been captured in Dakota. He gives his
1101110 as Charles E. Bailey,
SMILES.
If there is anything which makes 0 waiter
mad it is to loc tipped with nothing but a
wink,
" There is one thing about; it dog's -pants,"
said Ifarkins, ''What's that ?" " They
never bag st the 1111000."'Many men who objects to carrying 10.
bundle home from tho provision store goes
home from the berroom loaded.
" I think," said a disappointed and tbs.
warned actor, " that I would have made
the hit of my life by not being barn,"
The only genuine original package was fill-
ed, not. wi liquor, but with orignal sin. And
10 15 still doing business tho old stand,
Mr. Short --"Mos. Lucre is rich now end
does not recognize us, She passed. without
a glance. What a inegnificent dress she has
on," Mrs. Short, --"1 es, a sort of it cut -by-
es dress,"
Cora—" Miss Fussanfeather's hair usecl to
be black. I see it has turned to a chestnnt.
Flow do yon account for that 2" Clars—"I
believe she has been usingthe so-called funny
papers to do her hair up In,"
Mrs. Lushley—"And. there you were,
when the policeman found you at three in
the morning, hugging a cigar sign. Oh, it's
just awful:" Mr. Lushley—"Mydear, ib
surely is not.possible thj
at you are ealous of
10 cigar sigu.'
"So you .wetio caught, madam," said the
Judge, solemnly, "You deceived your huss
band tual—" "On the contrary, y000 1001100,''
put in the fair respondent ; "my huSbana
deceieed He said Ile was going out of
town and he didn't go."
A gallant named Cobb 'net a maiden named
Webb,
And straightway he sat clown beside 11111',And quickly proposed in a manner so glib
That he won 1150 1L5 soon as he spider,
Athletes all chew Adams' Tutti 10010101Gum ; healthful and beneficial. 5 cents,
One of the funniest thingn about children
is the way, when they have hurt themselves,
they start and run all over the house until
they can find somebody to hear them cry.
Elsaid in tones ot sorrow,
"No friends in need of me
The friends who want to borrow
Are notsthe friends for me."
Beneath a fair exterior
A. rascal often lurks ;
It is true of men and watches :
You may tell them by their works.
Mr. Miffson (a wealthy wielowcr)—"My
little boy is very slow about learning to walk.
I really don't know what to do about it."
Miss Passey—"Why don't you get him a
stepmother ?"
About Pocky.
A girl said to me a few days ago of a
friend of hers "I never in my life knew any-
body who had Such flow of language as
she has, She is never at a loss for a word of
comparison or an appropriate quotation.
How m the world does she do it?" 1Yell, I
asked her, says a writer in the Ladies' Home
Journal, and this iS what the good talker
said
"When I was a very little girl my greab
delight was to reed end study poetry, I
learned poems by heart to recite at school,
to say to my mother and to delight iny bro-
thers with. I have always kept up that
habit, and every day, as I am dressing, I
have en open book on my bureau, and learn
something by heart, even if it is only (005050
of four lines. I have never given drawing
room recitation:3, for I know I shoeld simply
bore people, but nave gotten a greet deal
of pleasure myself from the habit, end be -
Have it has done more to' give me a good
eoinmand of words than anything else,,
'
If you take a bit of advice from me, you
will choose to begin on the shorter poems of
Austin Dobson, of Owen Meredith, or clear
old Tom Hood, or Adelaide Procne* and
biter on, of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and
Rossetti, Yon know the last was the poet
been tried with fair success. By means of who so dearly loved his wife that he buried.
those the number of coyotee has been 11111011 with her the 000nis which he had, weitten
beside her, tun which had never been ptih-
lished, Many years after, his friends insist-
od that these poems should be disinterred,
reduced, as many as seventeen having boon
broeght &nen in single day on the Cochrane
ranch. !he hounds itre, however, warmly
fast; onotigh, and with a view to giving them end a Was found, when the coffin Was open.
greater turn 00 Speed, Mr. Da11 Vordon, the el, Butt hos wonderful blonde hair had
veteriontry surgeon of Ottawa, Canada, has grown teller foot mat formed 101114(00011.that
'wit imported two of the fastest and best-
recl greyhounds over shipped from iungland
—namely, Justinian, and Jetsain.—Lontion,
'1'inzes.
A Thend in Need a Priend Indeed,
Miss Bountiful --"How 18 0)000 John to-
day, Mrs. 'Simmer?"
(sirs, Slrnmor.—"iiLo's powerfol bad, miss.
The doctor says he oat% live moro'n a day
or two longer."
Mies Bounti001—"1 am so very sorry 1
aohn Wafi Snell 0 faithful, good servant.
What can I do to ‚111114 3011 in your distress ?"
Mrs. Sitruner—“Woll, miss, if you really
would liko to help nue, I'd bo inonstrous
thankful if you'd give mo 0 110010 money to
buy a new parlor carpet. Thu ono is to
shabby I'll bo recly ashamed to ast folks
here to his funeral,"
gliSiened like gold thread in the sun over the
bundle of papers, If you do not care f01:
these poets, take auy others you like, hub
do not try to do too 11111011 at once The
little by little ie the very best theory in life
if you want to gain anything.
On Business Bent,
Distinguished Prince (tut foreign watering-
plaeo)—" My dear mem, you are looking so
vigorons.—so ()hamming 1 Finroly you an
no,i'brinTrinetatu,0drh,08—‘No, 50 204000,105,"
This
10 my fifth 18000011 in Europe. I am not hero
for niy health this Witt..."
It improves TAW memory to lend a.
friend IV; but it destroys the memory of'
your friend,
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