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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1896-11-04, Page 3F11--', I : I 1, . I ;1 I 1. h�� p usan's Home - coming. daybreak, and dispelling the illusion of a beaatifaI dream, That the yield of product In pastures "I don't know what a the matter of I..A� mother. I never saw her lake she is (' '"NO Susan I never want your 'hands I this morning- The hot weather 'or ar tfi,•, look like mine, knotty and gnarled, � I tried to has d ger getme of those like the branches of that old apple tree O'Donnell girls, living down in the hol- r yonder." ler this spriatl�r but she wouldn't hear tt► fit, size hired heap was more ' RPh don't you nail me Suzanne, mo- r• aaM bother than they was worth. I'm so ther Ili su: sm is suc" a common old- glad you've come home to help her. tfa$hio¢Ied came. Yo.. know I told you I'm going •to hitch up as quick as I can Dr, " said father when I Dame home that I and go to 13�nonda ,`b' Nwished to be called Suzanne -that was The ahem ppvae�sst upon t How they foroecl thetxtselvas upas the daughter's ;:< the name I went b at Creighton." y r',�e- "It don't like the real name we thoughts as she hurriedlyy put her clothes on and went down to see math- seem <". }' gave you, but if it will please you, child I er, There are times in our lives when the high lights fall on our hearts with _.. I'll try to get broke into saying it, but f sunh a $/ower A radiancy that hless- ;:; 1,11 tell you now you mum't expect fath- Ingo we Mow= heretofore, as it were, ;k`1 er to say It. He's dead set against ' f through a glass darkly, are sudden- 1y thrown out with an illumination of ?.I :folks changing their names, I s'pose as only fixed their beauty that shows thein inesti- "I , you say it's thb same name, bedaide, the sufferer said, didn't ex- t",' up to be a little higher sounding and 'pest this to oome, child. I'm &'most "1 modernfied, but you can't make fath- burnt up with a fever. f s' ore it was have that '�G• or believe that nohow. Besides, you the fever that made me dreadful dream last eight. I thought �, was named for his mother, and he we'd lost ?'on, and father and I was be thought a t of his mother, father hunting all over. We seemed to in way off somewhere'All !l+ did, and be a his duty by her, too." ": some city, at once we spied you setting upon a , The mother was watching her -aught- B high place, all dressed up grand; folks v, er as she stood leaning against the lat- were coming up and bowing and scrap- ', tics at the end of the porch. The young in to you Father and I had a dreadful time ;' girl was putting vaseline on a scratch pushing our way through the crowd. 'f' which the thorn on the roan she had but when we got up in front of you, r. pinned on her gown had given her. you didn't asem to know us. Then I • Her hands, bearing the scratch, were remember we had on bur old farm working clothes'. You was ldnd of „: white and shapelyi The mother sat in ,', ashamed of us, 1 knew but it wa'n't the doorway and her tired hands rest- but a. dream" , .'r_ ed in her lap in her blue -checked apron. "Nothinfy nut a horrid dream, mo- , "The,farm at haying and harvest is full- ther dear," the daughter replied, read- `" flood time," and it had been a day of A Justing with gentle touch, the loved one's pillow. Then she bent over and % extreme heat and extra work. She kissed the dear face, so full of careworn ", looked with eyes of love and pride on furrows, and yet gleaming with the 'r=' ,?her daughter. It was good to have her beautiful rays of love light. "You'll be better dear, then li; 'through school and home again, but soon, and what good times we will have here together in the there was an indefinable s°methin i; g dear old house -you and father and 1-" "And 'd'., about the reunion that brought a dis- we won't have to call you an - , appointed feeling to the mother's heart. other names You'll lust be our loving little girl -,our sweet Susan, as you used ' Well, I guess I'll set In sponge and to be before you went away to. school?" �a+�ir': f. go to bed," she said in a weary tone of "No, no, mother dear -no new name. 1.1 voice" "I feel sort of beat out to -night, I am your own loving little, girl -your 1 Susan- .sbe be- s" and I've {got to get up early in the J" t' own t as, I used to fore 1 -left thue dear old Moe. But you nn �morning. Your father is going to must not talk an mora. i will bathe' ''.'motiv down the north meadow and he's your head now, and perhaps it will i}1. .hired two extra hands to help him and quiet you so you will sleep.,' they'll be here to dinner and supper: During the long and serious illness that followed, it was not this fact that Good night, child. You better not stay �r. the prize had been won for high stand- .out here much longer; there's a heavy ing in scholarship that was the happi- "_` dew a -falling." �a, est thought in that daughter's heart. The daughter sat down in the chair '! • Giver It was the grateful knowledge that the of every good and perfect gift +' liar mother had just vacated, Things I0. had given her the gift of healing min - a? g g !+ seemed so different to her from what istrations and that the Great Teacher 1`i. they did four ,' years ago when she went was ever at her side show her how best to use I.hat gift to soothe and "'away to school., Before she went to comfort and strengthen the overwork- - Creighton there was no place In all the ed, loving, self-sacrificing mother. What ttl'°• world so dear and sweet to her as that a wonderful revelation of gratitude and j" old farimhb nobody in rho whole �°y comes to us when one whom we Iworld so and wise as father and ave seen go down abnost to the gates of death is Igiven back to us agarol ii mother. Of course they were just as How anxiously we listen to hear the r t good now as they were then, but some- Phtnger a say, "The crisis is over; the how she wished they has seen more of past," What blessed words were those the old family doctor said . the outside world, nod lien better ed- to the loyal, loving daughter on that ueated, and were more cultivated. Her ever -to -be -remembered morning: "Your l" eye fell an the diamond ring on her V mother is $slug to get well, and let me tell that has 's finger. Clarence Dinsmore had placed you your good nursing done more to gulag her up again than ':; atathere a few evenings before she left any medicine." �" Creighton. Ha was coming soon to see Mother was rapidly convalescing. She .'; her in her own home., She had been was sitting in the south room tull of ,� happy fin anticipation, but now she sunshine, surrounded by the "Little shrank from having him come in con- things" which make a roam so at- ,tact with the old farm fife and ways- tractive, and which had been -arrang- , j''-She had not told father and mother of ed with an eye to fitness of color by ,having already made a promise to leave the loving hand of Susan, On the .,1.� the old home, and them, before very 'porch the daughter was sitting near the "`long. What would Clarence Dins- south window with the one who loved :. more think of her home and family`s her the best of all the earth and had ?y, There was so much made of one's fam- hoped soon to make her his wife. They ;''lily when matrimonial ventures were were saying their good bye words. ,,.'pending. She wondered if her father "The dear, loving old hearts had been ' Isnd mother could claim descent from waiting and watching for my home- r.any of the notables of the world. She coming so long that I cannot leave u"•lust sight of the fact that in her par- them yet, even though I love you so tentage she had the safeat stronghold much, my dear. Do you not think my >' and dearest pride of an family fa- first duty lies here for the present," ther's unstained, honorable name. The the young girl whispered. round silver moon came up over the :I I hilltop, and the night dews were heavy. "I suppose I ought to say 'Yes' to that question, but it is so hard to.go eThe thin muslin gown was not warm onough for the damp, chill air, and the away without you, my darling. I have young girl went into the house, turn- never loved you so much and never ap reciated your love for me as I do since ,ed the key inthelock of the door and �' have seen you in your Own borne. 1' passed to lie bit to her own room. A91 my life long I have seen so much A8 yolipng gills are not prone ', awake long to ponder vexed questions ;, of the mockeries and vanities of life, so much that is spurious. But hole over in their minds, Susan was soon ;y asleep. Not so her mother. The fa.th- I have found the genuine. Oh, the .peace :er was proving that the sleep of the and quiet and sweetness of this dear odd farm home and the pure, un- '71aboring man was sweet, but the sleep '-Of the laboring woman was longer in selfish love in it. The loyal daughter ^! coming and not sweet when there are will make a loyal wife May the waiting time not be for long, dearestl" ';vexed qusstioms to solve. Notwith .standing the hard to1i1 of the day the When the good bye kisses had been head did not rest easily on the iven, and they two stood hand in In nand at the gate, the loving maiden :, pillow and all because of Susan. w,hisperecL- _ She isn't one bit as she used to be '.before she went awaiv. Father was al- "Dinner be cast do, n, laddie, :: ways talking about what a comfort ', God belles tis do our duty and not shrink, she'd be when she got through school and came back to stay., I don't wanty but Susan hasn't And trust his mese bumbl for the y rest.* to rile father up none, come bac stay; ebs want be con- tented he�o more, She's a far- But as she tcrndxi crack and went in - to the house, the tears would come. But got away loo her eyes and she kept `When it was time ,to carry the mother's beef tea into the south room, the mo- '..them turned Creighton way to- ni,ght. She don't take no interest in t her, looking up to the dlaughtxr's face, ';things here as she used to, I don't sats no trace of them. +''.know but' we ought to expect she'd sort. ".:e*f outgrow us, with all the schooling .we gave her., But I ain't sorry and I RUSSIA'S RULER. — `. know father ain't, that we raked and `:;Scraped to get the money together to lie Is the 11104tt ouspirnous Fltture in ?;' ave her as good a chance as we could. Enro1w To-Day.";It came kind of hard far him to sell The most important personage in Eur - .:,the south meadow lot, but after'twas c� to -day is the young Czar of Russia. '1 ..9me, he never made no words about it. Th'e Nihilists believe they have fright- ,«: Twos different with me. I didn't have ened him already out of his mind, and �,to make much sacrifices. I never get are rejoicing thereat, claiming that he .,time to go anywhere, and I don't need fhxin'si folks suffers from loss of memory It is said ;;anew clothes and all ;;know me at the meeting house and Prof. Mandel, the famous Berlin alien" 1st, was sent for some time ago to see ,;.don't make much account of my wear- him, and (that great secrecy attended ;tying them old-fashioned small sleeves in his movemeaits. An observer at Cop to-meeng dressy Susan :.t.my Sunday -go - ti enhagen thus describes his habits and ^.Ld I'd got to fix it over and put n'llome big in and I s'pose I'll have manners: " been sleeves '2;t* now she's come home. The -Emperor has not, here long, but it is already easy for us to see that 'We wanted her to take painting and his habits are totally different from ''wausic, so she'd bold her own with the t of 'em. Father's jest as proud of those of his father. Alex4nder 111. lov- hunting, His 5',�I .;.'them pictures she painted, that are ;:,,hanging on the parlor walls, as be can ed riding, and walking. successor scarcely ever walks or hunts or rides. In fact, he eschews almost :"be. He's kept the carpet muddled up entirely ever thingg demanding physical itdl summer taking men folks In to see s. _- „ exertion. Ofymedtum heigbt and deli- owl father tells me to put her into wok and let her learn arts,' as he calls, 'emlof 'house - mg.' But he don't know how L store folks set by the bands Anys. There war'n't no ac- t made of hands when I was g, onay to obey the command, ttemver thy hands find to do, do th thy might.' 'Twa'n't no disgrace :elks to know by the look ofyour A you'd been using the rubbing d or the dye ketole. But things lifferemt there days and young folks keep u.p with the times, I s'pose. I do wish Susaul didn't want to go her name, and that she seem- aPpler to get home agaln.' usuml Sd%Ln1" It was the father's t calling the daughter's name at cote constitution, Nicholaa II. will never be chief of an army, or master of any sport. He delights to shut hhmself up in his study to read, to write, to think over state. affairs, and to attend promptly to matters brought him by the daily courtiers from $t. Petersburg. After dinner he smokes a few cigarettes and then generally plays billiards for an hour. At 11 o'clock he retires for the night and sleeps as peacefully as a child until 8 or 030 a.m." THE BOUNTY OF TRIPLETS. Thta sum expended by the Queen in the fore► of bounties to those mothers in the Urtted Kingdom who have given birth) to .rinlets amounts to the large sum of V ,000 during her 60 years' reign. I I I yy,, , Y" T•'. ';,%-1 . 'b J T 1 G RJC W LT A,,,! .C'>w'mARTJ40AN Q RARP. The ground for An orchard should imagine ile well and deeply oultivatfsd, and h1.ULOU FOR PASTURBS, AND MEA- free from weetip, well drained, if the DOWa. soil requires it. and moist soils are That the yield of product In pastures better for draining except sandy or and Meadows can be greatly Increased light gravelly soils with a tight stub- by mulching is now pretty generally -U• such land may not require drain- oonoeded by practical men who have ing, but in every case it should be well glvep the question due consideration, worked and pulverized and enriched, and yet we do not find that much The work of preparation mush be done effort Is put forth as a rule to secure during the a immer• so as to be ready the benefits of mulchingto either pea- forfall or sexing planting. Plantin m the spring is preferred, which will tures or meadows, writes Thos. Shaw enable Vagto take firm hold o1 In Ohio Farmer. the, earth and to resist the frost of The materials for mulching may g next winter; but planting may be done obtained from two sources, viz., the successfully in the autumn by protec- ting the trees so as to prevent the material grown upon the fields in the frost from heaving or misplacing them. autumn, and farm -yard manure. The The Select young, healthy and vigorous trees, and from a reliable nurseryman, former is a specially ttsefyl as a and if possible from a soil similar to for meadows, and the latter for pas- that in which you intend to plant your tures, although protection for both orchard. The different kinds of apples may be obtained from wither source. We can imagine mulch being brought wilthel depend upon your own choice and ate. I the of advise that be miamde from from other sources, as for instance, the old tried and reliable kinds. from muck swamps and marl pits, but The distance apart should not be less usual! the labor of elrawin costs so Usually g than So feet, so as to allow the trees room to spread their branches and to much, that mulching from thesesources form a low and spreading head, Close cannot be praotioed to any great ex- planting has a tendency to force trees tent under existing conditions. to run up, and preventing the flout from obtaining its proper color from The aftermath of meadows forms the the sun, and making it more difficult cheapest and most profitable mulch to $gother the fruit. At the distance that can be given to these. Practical of 30 Peet apart it will require 29 men have noticed that when newly trees to the acre. Before planting the sown meadows are not stored the Pa tree' remove all bruised and broken roots by cutting clean with' a sharpp same season, they are much less likely knife. Lay out your ground in straight to fail the following winter. When lines, so that your trees will be in line they are cropped eipsely, the covering each way and at equal distances, 30 feet which should protect them In winter apart. -William Gray. Is removed, hence the more tender plants perish where the winters are - stern and cold. But even after mea- CARE OF CONSUMPTIVES. dows have become well established, ( __ they are much benefited in winter by the Eogliehl,IteChods Cutttuz lyown mortality partial exclusion of the frost. Of caunse many grasses and clovers will much cold, but if the tempera- Vrom the Disease. The publication of recent vital sta- p ture ture falls below a certain point, and tiatics has called general attention to :f the exposure is sufficiently prolonged a remarkable decrease in the death rate we can easily imagine a degree of ex- pasure before which many varieties will from tuberculosis in Great Britain. This succumb. has been slow but constant for many Bnt the aftermath of meadows is usu- years, and has set conjecture at work ally even more helpful to them after to account for it, they have passed the winter. than While they are passing it, It is help It is conceded Chlor it is in part due ful to them in the moisture which it to the improved sanitation of houses, brings to them. When snow falls the better dietary regimen and general elo- long grass will hold much of it, so that it will drift vation of the condition of life, but at - not away. When the snow thus held melts, it is very helpful tention is called to the fact that there to the meadows, unless in sections has not been a proportionate decrease where the rainfall may be over-abun- in cases and deaths in countries where dant. It is peculiarly helpful in sec- tions of country where the precipita- there has been quite as great advance tion is light, as in some sections of the in these respects, and, by general northwest, and it is also helpful in agreement, t. e greatest benefit is cred- furnishing ,pprotection in winter in ad- ited to the recognition of the infectious theditito tba,V,,.: v ch is furnished by the aftermakll Oben the nature of the disease and the provision rains of spring fall t Won meadows thus made against this danger. Protected, a less' proportion of the European countries are far in advance water escapes, either by running away over ,the surface or by evaporation, of the United States in this matter, hence when the time of dry weather and among them all England stands comes, such meadows have a suffi- pre-eminent. The building of special ciente Sr moisture to continue a vig- I hospitals for patients of this class, be - oro And the growth of early spring will ' gau there more than a century ago, and commence sooner. The self -supplied I there are now eighteen of these, sup - mulch will break the force of the cold I Porte% at public cost, with an aggre- winds of early spring which so much gate of 7000 keds. 'There are seven Simi - retard groiyth. Such protection, com- bined with the greater vigor of the lar institutions in France, a number in plants through the shelter given in Germany and many axe scattered in Yvinter, will give these meadows a los various other Uout.luentai countries. lead in the spring over those which have been eaten bare the previous sea- Wherever they have existed long en - ough to per1AIA of intelligent deduction, son. And all these benefits will equally the good effect has been Marked both apply to pastures, but for reasons, that in the reduction of the death rate from will be apparent, it is not nearly so this cause and the number of cases re - easy to provide a regular covering for Ported. Pastures that will egwally protect all Massachusetts recently appropriated parts of .the field. Animals will not $150,000 for the treatment of her con- leed off a field evenly. They will crop sumptive poor. it is now announced some parts more closely than others, that the public health offtoers of Mich - We can imagine some instances where igan in connection with the State Board a mulch would,, prove a damage to of Health, have begun an agitation for meadows in winter, If the growth has the fcundmg of a State Hospital for con - from any cause been particularly lux- sumptive patients, to have a large capa- uriant in the autumn, and if in the fol- city and to be freely open to all who lowing winter an unusually heavy fall cannot afford to pay for treatment. of snow comes down and lies long, the It is within comparatively few years entire meadow may perish through that the very great importance of pre - smothering of the grasses. When fears venting the Spread of this dreadful dis- are entertained on this score, it may ease by infection has been realised. It be well to pasture off the aftermath was long regarded with a kind of dull before the advent of winter. fatalism, as simply an incurable malady, Meadows may also be protected by usually hereditary, to be accepted as top dressing with farmyard manure. an unavoidable visitation. When the material is available, if the Hereditary it is, in many, and incur - manure can be applied in the early able in the majority of cases, but it autumn, the entire results will be is constantly communicated to those more favorable than if applied at a who are sound in body apd without later period, as when thus applied it tuberculous family historyy only to will first provide winter protection and create new sources or hereditary taint will then greatly stimulate the growth and doom nnborn generations to euf- of the grasses by enriching them. But fering and death, when farmyard manure is applied to The arguments advanced in favor of meadows in the unreduced form there the system of sf,-i-al hospitals is based may be some trouble in raking the upon economical, not sentimental, con - following summer, as portions of un- siderat.ions. Publicists give to hu - decayed manure are liable to be gath- man life a money value, and regard its ered in with the hay. preventable loss as a/ wanton waste. But for pastures manure makes an viewed in this light, the toss represent - excellent mulch. It may be applied ed by the death rate from this cause in the autumn, if on hand. but it is Stands for an appalling sum, and it is usually more convenient to apply it. in urged that the maintenance of hos- winter. It may be drawn fresh frompitals where the tuberculous patient can the stables, and much straw in it is be lsolated from the well is as imppoart- nt no objection. When drawn in winter ant, as much a public duty and a'sclear- It should be spread at once. We can ly an economy as is the suppoa-t of police localities where it could not and fire departments. be thins applied in winter because of While the prevention of disease is put the absence of frost, or because of forward as the first argument, all agree the presence of too much snots. But that there would result a largepereen- by exercising due thoughtfulness op- gage of cures, in casee where the dis- portunity will generally be found to ease is 'taken in the inception. engage in this work with advantage an improved flavor to the fruit. When at certain intervals during t.be winter. thawed out after being frozen solid, oranges will be found to have acquired In plains where there is much snow- THE QUERN'S REIGN. tall it may be well to mark the lino A simple method of thawing out oranges is to place them in cold water as soon of application from day to day by the -"- u.wf1 of stakes. Where this is not Einborale !'reparalloaA to Crlebrnle the done a fresh fall of snow mn.y quite Mlsitelll Analversary-The Frte4 14) Lasl. obliterate the line which divides the a Novlth. manured from the unmanured por- Seeds of the peach, plum, walnut and tions of the field. The Queen is now busily gaB en ed in A mulch thus applied from the barn- fdrawing up t.be programme for the yard in the winter season will be found peculiarly helpful to pastures. f fetes attendant upon 0be celebration With every rain that falls the juices from the I next June of t.be sixtieth anniversary t.be to the throne Her manure will go down into the ground and stimulate the growth of accession of Majesty. The celebration will be con - of the grasses. The manure will also furnish a mulch which will greatly ducted on a grander scale even than add to the degree of the moisture in Was the Queen's ubidee in 1887, and j the ground, and in consequence the besides the presence of the reigning growth of the grasses will be still enhanced. I know of a few sovereigns in any way raiated to thefurther Queen, her Majesty desires that repre- methods of applying manure which sentatives shall attend from all the var- will bring a better return, and when louq colonies of the British Empire. The I speak thus I do so from the stand- I state pageants will last a month. It point of experience. When manure Is is stated that Emperor William and the ibus applied it is no objection though Czar have already accepted the invita- It should be fresh and composed large- tion. As an indication of the scale up- ly of litter, for it its not easy to say ' on which the fetes will be given, her whether the benefits from the man- I are as a mulch or as a fertilizer will i Main deoIin- to be present at Board function, took the be the greater. And it is easy to see that when the manure has much lit- ' the School ground that the deanantds whic8 will be upon her time and in ter it can be apppplied with much more made powers 1897 will preclude Apr attendance at the profit as a mulch while it lisyet ceremony referred to,r bulky and unreduced. In the d motions of thb country the value of Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt, who will manure when thus applied cannot be probably be the leader of the woman's easily overestimated. If men V' live itffrage movement when Miss Anthony In regions where fresh manure will !retires, is a aaod lawyer. 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They and other dairy products, fish, fresh both stand upon the Little square known meats, poultry, game, clams, oysters and as Place d'Armes, where Maisonneuve, other shell. fish, canned or bottled gra the founder of the city, had a hand -to - series, wines, bop and malt liquors, hand fight with the savages and which various mineral waters, medicines and for nearly two centuries was the eolm- liquid drugs which, instead of alcohol, mon burial place of the pioneers. The have water for a base, ink, mucilage Bank of Montreal dates from 1817 and and kindred articles. In shipping any has ever been the first financial institu- of these and similar goods, the point to tion of the country. It has branches be observed is protection from exces- all over the world. sive cold and frost, as welt as extreme The seminary of St, Stilpiee is much heat. Precaution must, be taken to have older, and was founded illi 1641 by Jean in the car a gond circulation of air, in I Jacquez OI2er. The venerable struc- which gases generated by sucb goods ture at present occupied dates from may be carried off. Temperatures at 11657, which the different commodities are and is as quaint an example of liable to damage vary materially with monastic architecture as can be found , the nature of goods. in America north of Peru. Beside it FAVORABLE CONDITIONS stands the church of Notre Dame, which for one article wiil be bad for another, is under the charge of Sulpician monkis, and the condition of all goods when shipped is the most elaborate and perhaps the a matter of much import.- i ante. largest ecclesiastical structure in North Another point to be considered is I America. It will seat 10,000 persons whether the train is to be sent through I without crowding and can accommodate direct from one point to another, or to be sidetracked along the line. Pro- 6,000 more, It has the finest chime of duce like potatoes, for instance, will stand a mush. wer temperature when the oar in whI h they are shipped is in T.n Gros Bourbon, weighing '26,000 pounds. I bbul ^a tbPre are only two motion. When at a standstill the larger in use in the world- The exto- feet of cold is quickly felt. In the West West rior of Notre Mame is pliaui and severe, ears containing perishable goods aro sometimes covered on the north aide but the interior is excessively ornate. The wealth off the 5ulpiclan moinkS with a canvas to protect them from the is variously estimated frum $20,000,000 cold winds which sweep down across the W $50UUU,000, but it is impossible for prairies. any aria outside the or(ler to obtain any Express companies do a large business accurate knowledge on that subject, In the shipping of fish, though, of They employ a man of business to course, much is Sent all about the coup- lock after their financial affairsand col - try by freight. If sent by express, fish lett their rents, and ha requires the is packed in barrels with ice. By assistance of twelve clerks and book - freight, fish is sent packed in boxes keepers. There are only sixty corpor- and casks holding from 500 to 1,000 ate members of the order, and that Pounds. If an entire car load is to be number is never exceeded. If one of shipped, bins are sometimes built in the brothers dies the vacancy is filled the car, and are well supplied with ice, I from among the ordinary brethren by the quantity of ice being about half some proceeding known only to them - the weight of the fish. Experience has selves. It is a very close corporation, shown that the most favorible tem- and the Canadians regard it with mys- perature for shipping fish is about that terious awe. In addiJou to the sem- of melting ice. If properly packed, un- inary for the education of priests, der good conditions, fish may Lie kept the Sulpioians have several other in a marketable state for a month after schools, a hospital, and an asylum in they are caught and boxed in ice. It 'this Montreal, and they have colleges in is by means that passengers on Baltimore and Ellicott Mills, Md. They transatlantic steamers are enabled to be served with good and palatable fish own one of the biggest banks in Can - ada, the finest business property in during an entire voyage. Cities in the West may be supplied in like manner the city of Montreal belongs to them, with fish of various kinds which live and they are said to have very large investments in the United States, be - only in Eastern waters. Shelled oysters, If sent in their own I sides a vast amount of wejl-paying se - curities stacked away in their vaults. liquor, packed in perfectly tight bar- I They are certainly the richest religious rels, will not ba spoiled, even if they order in the world. become frozen. Clams freeze more readily than oysters, and thick shams it and oysters will stand cold better than MOURNING FOR A CHINESE RULER. will the lean ones, there being more I water in the lean kind. Should they I When a Chinese Em ror dies the in - telli.gence is announced by dispatches to Freeze while being shipped in their shells the several provinces, written with pur- it is safeat to allow them to ple ink, the mourning color. All per - THAW OUT GRADUALLY sons of rank are required to take red Silk ornaments, from their caps, with in a moderately cool. place. Clams and the ball or button of rank; all sub - oysters will stand a journey better dur- iects of China, without exception, are Ing a snow storm, than when the weatb- called upon to forbear shaving their er is fair and the wind high. In ex- heads for 100 days, within which per- treme weather, barrels in which these iod none may marry, play upon musical things are shipped are lined with tough instruments or perform any sacrifice. paper. Oysters in their shells, if stored , . in a dark place where they are sprink- I • led occasionally petal re water, andi where the temperature is but little TO CONSUMPTIVES. above freezing, may be kept in good , The nnrlersigned having b -en restored to health condition for 'tt least two months. I by simple mean., afar suffering tar several years In ship,1� lag fruit a uniform tempera- ture of CIOm 10 to 50 degreea is best u-Ittl a movers lung aff,Ttinn, ane that, dread dtaeaeo C'aaxnmpNw• n, k anxi� ug to make km.w•n to his fellow for ken in the fruit in good conditlOn. p g B xoRrrera she meuna lir ril (P.. re, ti uAe Whe dBAlre tt, he will chevrfnlly »eon (free of (:hargel a espy of th t If it is packed with care, and handled prPac,'iptinu used which Ther will find a sureeure for in like manner, fruit may be kept in Cn'Wulaption, Axthlna, C.'afarrh, Brotertnittti» an an excellent state of preservation for all th,oat ""I Lung ,11(ttadiPx. lie hnpeA from twenty ,to thirty day-. It will stand long journeys, too. Oranges, if gin all Anmrers will try his remedy, aA it iA invain- ,hie, ThnAn daairing , he preacriptinn, which will cost slightly frozen, may be placed a them nothing, and may prove a ylesaiug, win pieaae s, cool room to thaw out gradually, a process which makes them sweeter, and add rex Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON, Uruoklyn,New vo,k. this is thought by some people to give an improved flavor to the fruit. When thawed out after being frozen solid, oranges will be found to have acquired George W. Dun, an octogeilarian a flavor which is unpleasantly sweet. naturalist of Califarnia, who has been there since 1849, is making collection A simple method of thawing out oranges is to place them in cold water as soon ,,& of the butterflies of the Pacific elope for Baron de Rothschild, as received, and they will then thaw to be added to the baron's entomological museum in a gradual way. All fruit will stand at Trig, England. 15 degrees more cold if it is wrapped in I ' thick brown paper. Seeds of the peach, plum, walnut and For Over Nftt. y Veers other kinds of trees will germinate and MRA, WI -LOW'S SOOTHING STRur hes been used by sprout better in the spring if they have , been frozen first in the winter. A I milliena of mothers tot tbtir children whiloteethlnq If dietarbed at nitrMand brokrn of yourrest bye sick temperature below Zero does not injure bulbous plants such as hyacinths, lilies, I child suffering and orving viih pain of Cutting Teeth eehr.at once and get a bottle of "Mrs. Window's ao0"" tulips and the like. Cut flowers should ga lip"tnrOhi)droa eethinp, Itwtllrelleve the poor lif"te anfforer �mmedlateJy. Depana upon it, keep well for several days in a tempera- root ars. there to no mi take About it. It oureA Mar• ture a little alcove freezing. i rhes&, regnlatrs the Stomach and Bowels, aures Wind __ - -�- -"-- - Colic, softens the Oums, reduces Inliammstlon and p It is reported that the Sui:gan has i g,vee tone and efierity to the whole system. 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