The Exeter Advocate, 1898-9-30, Page 6r �r
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MEM rON
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Jurisprudence by Dr. Bourion, taker]
upon the retina of the eye of a woman
who had been murdered the 14th of
June, 1868, represents the moment
when the assar-siu, after having struck
the mother, kills the infaut, and the dog
belonging to the house leaps toward the
unfortuuate little victim to save it."
1 Then,, studying turn by tutu the pho-
' J'Y LE5 CLA ETF1' tograph yellowed by time and the article
which described it, Bernardet satisfied
eped<t e r. 1597
a P Fel- Nog: ac' himself and learned the history by
heart.
"To find au occasion to make me M. Gallard, general secretary of the
speak? But I kuow nothing, I suspect society, after leaving carefully hidden
nothing, I shall say nothing." the back part of the photograph, had cir-
"Do you believe that it is the work culated it about among the members
of a thief or revenge:" with this note: "An enigma of medical
"I am certain that it was no thief. jurisprudence." And no one bad solved Two bank notes, one autheutio, the otle-
Nothing in the apartment was touched. the tragic enigma. Even when he had er a forgery, were placed side by side truth'
the signature of certain accused affected
with nervous disorders, parts of bodies
and of bones, and, in fact, everything
in any way connected with the crime.
It was said that be asked too much.
Did he expect judges to make photo-
graphs? Today everything that Veruois
demanded in 1860 has been done, and
in truth the instantaneous photograph
has almost superseded the minutes of
IW investigatiou.
"We photograph a spurious bank
note. It is magnified, and by the ab-
sence of a ' eny dot the proof of the al-
teration is found. On account of the
lack of a dot the forger is detected. The
savant Helmholtz was the discoverer oi:
this method of detecting these faults.
ing beside M.. Rovere in front of the
open safe. Paul Rodier in his sketch
scarcely referred to the fact that justice
had a clew important enough to pene-
trate the Inystery of the crime and in
the eud arrest the murderer, and the
readers while awaiting developments
asked what mystery was hidden in this
murder. Monicbe at times wore a fright-
ened, yet inilaortant air. He felt that he.
was an object of curiosity to many, the
center of prejudices. The porter and his
wife possessed a terrible secret. They
were raised in their own estimation.
"We sha.:l appear at the trial," said
Moniche, seeing himself already before
the red robes and holdiug up his hand
to swear that he would tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
And as the sat together in their lit -
As for the rest, who knuwss" explained 1,10 one could ,see In. the photo- in a stereoscope of strong magnifying y b
"M. Bernardet," laughingly said the graph what Dr. Bourion saw there. power, when the faults were at once .de- tle lodge they talked the matter over
reporter as he walked along by the Some were able on esamiuing that j tested. Heelmholtz's experiment probe- and over and brought up every incident
officer's side, "yon do not wish to stlauge picture to see in the bleeds and lily seemed fautastio to the forger cou• In M. Reveres life which might have a
bearing on the case.
"Do you remember the young man
who came one day and insisted on eee-
ing M. le Consul,
[TO BE cONTECEED.)
spear,." white haze souse figures as singular and
"What that do?" Bernardet dissimilar as dame which the amiable
replio'1, also , lglai:a ly. "It will not Polonius perceived in the clouds under
r^_.
prevent you from publishing an inter- the suggestion of Hamlet. result?
view,'* Dr. Veruois, appointed to write a re- "Instruments have been highly per-
u tbinls so. Aix revoir! 1 urea port on Dr. Bourion's communication, fected since the time when Dr. Bourion
hurry and, nt ZkO my c:+py. Anti ecu?" seised lain] then how the operation, had made his err eriments, and if the law
"I? A h t ,, ,., a " 1 conducted, and Dr. Bourien had a *c' changed
I. ph, ...,a„p,e, been con aut.c of human physiology has not change
They srl.:tr ..cel, and Bernardet ea- 6 given him these details which Der- the seekers of invisible causesmust have
tercel his hvuae. His dau;:=.t.-r, bad E nardet was now reading and studying: rapidly advanced in their mysterious
gri;:.•aal ever his sudden departure on 4 The aseas.inaticn bad taken place on pursuits, Who kuows whether at the
.. , : - , his fete t.v^.� Sunav 1 n naon aad o .ac
i
tt a the lesth agonythat the dying
Stith joyoue eiseuts whoa les a peartd The extractiou of the eyes from their person does not put all the intensity of
Iorbits hail neer ]teen made undid the fol. life into the retina, giving a hundred -
lowing clay oat 6 o'clock in, the eveniul..
The experiment on the eyes, these,
fold power to. that last supreme look?„
f h'. dead At this point of Iris reelections Ber-
could -be nettle e4 hours earlier than
that other experiment. The image—if
there was any image—ought to be in
cousequonee more clearly defined than
iii Dr. Bourion's esperhneut.
"About b o'clock in the evening,"
thought De nardtt, "and the photo
graphic light \a'aS Flailieielat,"
lar,
Bourion had taken pictures of
both of the child's eyes as well as loth
of the mother's eyes, The child's eyes
showed milting but hazy clouds, les
the mother's eyeswero differs::t. t,'pon
the left eye, next to a circular section
betels of the iris, a delicately marked
image of a dog's head appeared; on the
same section of the right • e another
picture—oue could see the a as=in rais-
ing his arse to strike and the dog leap-
ing to protect his little charge.
"With much good will, it must be
confessed." thought Bernardet, looking
again and again at the photcgraull,
"and with Hauch ineaginatit.0 too. But
it was Letweeli 30 and �w hours after
the murder that the proof was taken,
while tbis time it will be while the
body is still warm that the experiment
will be tried."
Seventeen times already had Dr. V er-
nais experiuseuted on nuisuals—so'ne-
times just attar he had straugled them,
again when they had died from pruesie,
acid. Ile had held in front of their eyk s
a simple object which could be easily
recognized. He land taken out the eyes
and hurried with them to the photog-
rapher. He bad, in order to better ex-
pose the retina to photographic action,
made a sort of Maltese cross by making
four incisions on the edge of the sclerot-
ic. He removed the vitreous humor,
fixed it on a piece of card with four pins
and submitted the retina as quickly as
possible to the camera.
In rereading the learned man's report
Bernardet studied, pored over, carefully
scrutinized the text, investigated the
dozen proofs submitted to the Society
of Medical Jurisprudence by Dr. Vernois:
Retina of a cat's eye killed by prussic
acid. Vernois bad held the animal in
front of the bars of the cage in which
it was confined. No result.
Retina of a strangled dog's eye. A
watch was held in front of its eyes. No
result.
Retina of a dog killed by strangula-
tion. A bunch of shining keys was held
in front of his eyes. No result.
Retina of a strangled dog. An eye-
glass held in front of its eyes. Photo-
graph made two hours after death.
Nothing. In all Dr. Vernois' experi-
ments—nothing, nothing!
Bernardet repeated the word angrily.
Still he kept on. He read page after
page. But all this was 26 years ago—
photography has made great strides
since then. What wonderful results
have been obtained! The skeleton of the
human body seen through the flesh, the
instantaneous photograph, the kineto-
scopic views, man's voice registered for
eternity in the phonograph, the mysteri-
ous dragged forth into the light of day,
many hitherto unknown secrets become
common property, the invisible—even
the invisible—the occult, placed before
our eyes as a spectacle!
"One does not know all that may be
done with a kodak," murmured Bernar-
det.
As he ascertained in rereading Dr.
Vernois' report on "Tbe Application of
Photography to Medical Jurispru-
dence," the savant himself, even while
denying the results of which Dr. Bon-
rion spoke in his communication, devot-
ed himself to the general consideration
upon the role which photography ought
to play in medical jurisprudence. Yes,
in 1869 he asked that in the researches
on poisonous substances, where the mi-
croscope alone had been used, photogra-
phy should be applied. He advocated
what in our day is so common, the pho-
tographing of the features of criminals,
their deformities, their scars, their tat-
tooings. He demanded that pictures
should be taken of an accused person in
many ways, without wigs and with
them, with and without beards, in di-
vers costumes.
"These propositions," thought Ber-
nardet, "seem hardly new. It' is 26
years, since they were discovered, and
now they seem as natuaal as that two
and two make.four. In 26 years from
will have
now who knows what sciencew
done?
"Vernois demanded that wounds.be
reproduced, `their size, the instruments
with which the crime was committed,
the leaves of plants in certain cases of
poisoning, the shape of the victims'
demned by a stereoscope. Oh, well, to-
day ought not a like experiment on the
retina of a dead Iran's eye give a like
} terribly 'ak k n�an eyes 0 this k k 1t man,
nardet experienced some hesitation.
While he was not thoroughly acquaint-
ed with physiology and philosophy,
he had seeu so much so many things;
had known so manly sToxige oecurreuces
and had studied many men, Ile knew—
for be had closely questioned wretches
who bad been saved from drowning at
the very last possible moment, some of
whom had attempted suicide, others
who bad been almost drowned through
accident, and each one had told bion
that his wbole from bis earliest
recollectiou, had flashed through bis
mind in the instant of mortal agony—
yes, A wbole lifetime in one instant of
cerebral exeiteuieut.
Had savants been able to solve this
Wonderful mystery? The resume of an
existence in one vibration! Was it pos-
sible? Yet.-Bernardet still used the
word.
And why, iu an analogous sensation,
could not the look of a dyiug man be
seized in an intensity lasting an instant,
as memory brought in a single hash so
many diverse remembrances?
"I know, since it is the imagination,
and that the dead cannot see, while the
image on the retina is a fact, a facr con-
tradicted by wi.er men than I." Ber-
nardet thought on theseinysteries until
his head bep:na to ache.
"I shall make myself ill over it," bo
thought, "And there is something to
be done,"
Then in his dusty little room, his
brain overexcited, ho became enthused
with one idea. His surroundings fell
away from him; he saw nothing—every-
thing disappeared—the books, the pa-
pers, the walls, the visible objects, as
did also the objections, the denials, the
demonstrative impossibilities. And ab-
solute conviction seized him to the ex-
clusion of all extraneous surroundings.
This conviction was absolute, instinc-
tive, irresistible, powerful, filling him
with entire faith.
"This unknown thing I will find.
What is to be done I will do," he de-
clared to himself.
He threw the pamphlet on the table,
arose from his chair and descended to
the dining room, wbere his wife and
children were -waiting for him. He
rubbed his hands with glee, and his
face looked joyous.
"Didst thou discover the trail'?"
Mme. Bernardet asked very simply as a
working woman would ask her husband
if he had had a good day. The eldest of
the little girls rushed toward him.
"Papal My dear little papal"
"My darling!"
Tho child asked her father in a sweet
voice, "Art thou satisfied with thy
crime, papa?"
"We will not talk about that," Ber-
nardet replied. "To table. After dinner
I will develop the pictures which I have
taken with my kodak, but let us amuse
ourselves now. It is my fete day. I wish
to forget all about business. Let ns dine
now and be as happy as possible."
it
atttdti1ng turn Lp turn the photograph
and the article 2cllich described it.
end threw themselves upon slim. "Pa-
pa! Here is papa :"
Mme. Bernardet was also happy.
They could go then to the garden and
finish the picture. But their joy subsid-
ed; night had fallen, and Bernardet,
preoccupied, wished to shut himself up
so that he alight retie et on all that had
happened, and perhaps to work a little,
even today.
"It is thy fete day, Bernardet. Wilt
thou not rest today?"
"I cou rest at dinner, dear. Until
then I must use the time reading over a
mass of evidence."
"Then thou wilt need a lamp?" asked
14fine. Bernardet.
"Yes, my dear. Light the lamp."
. Nest to their bedchamber M. Ber-
nardet bad fitted up a little room for
his private use, It was a tiny den, in
which was a mahogany table loaded
with books and papers, and at which he
worked when he had time, reading, an-
notating, copying from the papers and
collecting extracts for hours at a time.
irTo ono was allowed to enter this room,
filled with old papers, Mine. Bernardet
well called it "a nest of microbes."
Bernardet found pleasure in this sporad-
ic place, which in summer was sti-
lling. In winter he worked without a
are.
Mme. Bernardet was unhappy as she
saw that their holiday was spoiled. But
she very well knew that when her hus-
band was devoured with curiosity, car-
ried away by a desire to elucidate a
pneele, there was nothing to be said.
8e listened to no remonstrances, and
the daughters knew that when they ask-
ed if their father was not coining to re-
new his games with them they were
obliged to content themselves with the
excuse which they knew so well from
having heard it so often, "Papa is
studying out a crime."
' Bernardet was anxious to read over
psis notes, the verification of his hopes,
of those so called certainties of today.
That is why he wished to be alone. As
soon as he had closed the door he at
once, from among the enormous piles of
dust laden books and files of old news-
papers, with the unerring instinct of
the habitual searcher who rummages
through bookstalls, drew forth a gray
covered pamphlet in which he had read,
'with feverish astonishment, the experi-
ments and report of Dr. Vernois upon
the application of photography in crim-
inal researches. He quickly seated him-
self, and with trembling fingers eagerly
'turned over the leaves of the book so
•often read and studied and came to the
°deport of the member of the Academy
of Medicine. He compared it with the
proof submitted by Dr. Bourion of the
Medical society, in which it was stated
that the most learned savants had seen
nothing.
"Seen nothing or wished to see noth-
ing perhaps," he murmured.
The light fell upon the photograph
which bad been sent a long time before
to the society, and Bernardet set him-
self to study out the old crime with the
most careful attention, with the passion
of a paleographer deciphering a palimp-
sest. This poor devil of a police officer,
in his ardent desire to solve the vexing,
problem, brought to it the same ardor
and the same faith as a bibliophile. He
event over and over with the method
of an examining magistrate all that old
forgotten affair, and in the solitude and
silence of his little room, the last reflec-
tiozis of the setting sun falling on his.
pers and making pale the light of his
E,
nip, he set himself the task of solving,
ea mathematical fear robsem, t
hat u
es-
• *ion which he had studied, but which
he wished to know from the very be -
'ginning, without any dou ts, before
seeing M. Ginory again at the morgue
beside the'body of M. Rovere. He took
then his pamphlet and read: "The pho- garments, the prints of their hands and.d whom the ortress had seen sane-
rapra h sent to the §ooiety 9-f34g1 1 feet. the interior view of their"rooms.
One divided by Naught,
Four men sitting together were con*
anima to one another their general ig-
norance of the matter contained in text-
books. One said be bad studied algebra
for three years, but be would find it
b
impossible to solve tion simplest pea.•
lens by au algebraic process. Another
said belled been counted a good student
in geology, and yet bo doubted if he
could name the principal periods in
their proper order.
"Now let's see how much you de
know," said one of the risen. "How
ranch is one divided by naught se
uothin?"
"Ono divided by nothing?" repeated
the man at his right. "Why, that':
coo, If one isn't divided by anything,
it remail; One."
"I think the auswer is nothing,".
said anether. "One divided by nothing
is—nothing. Sure, that's right."
"You're the worst I ever heard,"
said the rnan who bad given the prob.
lean. "One divided by nothing—that
means how malty times is nothing eon-
taiued in one, It is eoutained ail infinite
number of times, and the correct au-
swer is—infinity."
Then he bad to talk to them for five
minutes in, order to couvince them. --
Chicago Record.
The heliograph.
With all its superiority in distance;
the heliograph is too uucertaiu for sole
reliance. A passing cloud is sufficient
to interrupt the clearest signals, per.
haps in the critical moment of a battle,
or a sun haze may reuder invisible the
rays from the largest mirror, so that at
any time without a clear atmosphere
the system is useless.
It is not known that the heliographic
system has ever been in use 011 ship.
board, and the sea service bus nothing
for daylight signaling that approaches
its accomplishment in dry atmospheres.
For night service at sea the flashlight
appears to be the best system of signal-
ing in all weathers, though on rare o0
casions the long beam of the electric
searchlight thrown up on the sky hat
proved effective for communicatier
when it was possible by no other means.
An instance of such use was reported a
few years ago by two British ships,
which while on opposite sides of a high
promontory nine miles in width opened
communication with each other by
means of dot and dash flashes on the
sky from their searchlights.—Lippin-
oott'e.
CHAPTER VII.
The murder of M. Rovere, committed
in broad daylight in a quarter of Paris
filled with life and movement, caused a
widespread sensation. There was so
much mystery mixed in the affair.
What oould be ascertained about the
dead man's life was very dramatically
written up by Paul Rodier in a sketch,
and this, republished everywhere and
enlarged upon, soon gave to the crime
of the Boulevard de Clichy the interest
of a judicial romance. All that there
was of vulgar curiosity in man awoke
as atavistic bestiality at the smell of
blood.
What was this M. Rovere, former
consul to Buenos Ayres or Havana, am-
ateur collector of objects of vertu, mem-
ber of the Society of Bibliophiles, where
be had not been seen for a long time?
What enemy had entered his room for
the purpose of cutting his throat? Might
he not have been assassinated by some
thief who knew that his rooms contained
a collection of works of art? The :ate at
Montmartre was often in full blast in
fxout of the house where the murder
had been committed, and among tho
crowd of ex -prison birds and malefactors
who are alwaye .tttehdunt upon foreign
kirmesses might not some one of then]
hav'ereturned and committed the crime?
The papers took advantage of the occa-
sion to moralize upon permittingthese
fetes to be held in the outlying boule-
vards,'where vice and crime seemed to
spring spontaneously Prolix the soil.
But no one, not one journal—perhaps
by order -spoke of that unknown visitor
whom Moniche called the .individual
APPLE ORCHARDS,
Important Work of Thinning Out the
Older Trees—li'ow to Do It,
An inspection of the older apple
orchards will in many instances cou-
vines the investigator that the trees.
were planted much too close for best re-
sults. The branches of adjoining trees
have frequently grown into cue auothe ,
the harvesting is impeded, and the fruit
aaase
nay
\rotten'
IMPORTANCE OF TILLAGE.
The Flow Point as a Cheap Source of(
Plant Food.
"New' England farming is unique in
its restricted area in tillage crops, hav-
ing a lower ratio than any civilized na-
tion, farming with little capital, labor
and manures, and in this sense a low
type of agriculture. Less, than 12 per
cent of its tillable area is under the
plow, while in the west 88 per cent is
in, more than quadrupling the ratio of
the area tilled in this section." Thus
writes a New Hampshire coutributor to
Country Gentleman, He has abaudoned
the old dogmas of New England farm-
ing and laid out a system that requires
the tillage of an unusually large area.
Following are additional extracts from
his letter:
I have acted in part on the belief tbat
the insoluble sources of plant food will
be much more heavily drawn upon than
when under grass. This crop closes the
soil and between its stenos holds air
nearly motionless, acting as a noncon-
ductor. Our coarse granite coils in the
far north, where the seasons are short,
require the freest access of frosts and
the air with its decomposing agents.
Yet, strangely, the reverse poliey pre-
vails, A fat soil kept continuously open
is tillage ran load and not the kind ad-
vocated.
3rRrx-r`lNG arab ol:cllx ws. .It is believed that the plow pellet is
thus sovtr,aa
ea ocf
use tocolor
u1w
ell
on,e of tboChea estsouteeso
hsutfeed
Tile time
bas come for cutting a portiona
at COn
]noo]. ti
uiiCi
ent distinction is
of the trees down, and Field and ]gird- not usually made between the plow and
side tells bow to do it;
In, many orchards the removal of one,
half the trees would just leave roam
enough for the remitting half during
the next 10 or 12 years, The iliustratiou
shows bow the thiuniug should be done.
Simply cut out every other tree in every]
row, but alternating in the rows across,
or, in ather words, remove every other
row diagonally, This will leave the ea
mauling trees again equidistant fromii
one another, but the rows running ding
oually to the original rows.
This procedure, if followed generally,
would give needed relief in several di-
rections. It would dispose of many treee!
that are not needed, give to those re•'.
malting a better chance to produce fine'
and nicely eblored fruit, and to the
owner better opportunities for eultivat
hag, spraying, picking, etc. This ie
about the roost important work to be
dorso in our apple orchards alter thk:
crop is taken care of,
Gladstone's Doings and lindoings.
Mr. Gladstone began as the defender
of the Irish church; he ended by de-
molishing it. No one ever opposed more
vehemently the extension of British in.
fluence in Egypt, but it was ruder his
government we bombarded the Alexan
drian forts, fought the battle of Tel -el.
I{ebir and reduced Egypt to the cor"i-
tion of a British satrapy. He was the
most conspicuous advocate of peace
with Russia when Lord Beaconsfield
was in office, until Constantinople was
in danger. Five years later he left
office, after having brought ns to the
very verge of war with Russia for the
sake of Penjdeh One year he clapped
Mr. Parnell into prison, the next he
proposed to make over to him the gov-
ernment of Ireland, and then again he
deposed him from the leadership. Yet
he was always consistent and anxious
for his consistency. Clircumstances alter
oases, and Mr. Gladstone was not above
being taught by events. --W. T. Stead
in Review of Reviews.
the harrow. The :tenon of auy Imple-
tnent that merely pulverizes is ?meta,
°allyvalueless so far as it bears relation
to soil food. As a divisor of individual
particles of soil its aetioo would be in-
fiuitely slower mad less effective than
the usills of the'goda. It is the plow
that is to be eped, for it admits the
more rapid circulation of air in the soil
laden with earbouio acid and other
agents of roil decomposition. Its intim.
er100 in stimulating the action of mi-
crobio life in the roil that causes fer-
mentation anal decomposition of its ors
genie matters is one of its most inapt*,
that fuuetiens,
The inetlaed of plowing should differ
with the soil. Sandy soils deficient in
mettle matter and already open should
certainly receive a ditferentfurrow from
a compact clay. The former should
have a close and closed furrow or flat
furrow, while the latter requires tae
lap furrow, Such a furrow loses noth-
iug itt breaking longitudinally and
crosswise in the act of turning, As
well furrows plow harder, their advo-
cacy is of doubtful propriety, forwo are
in the age of effective after tillage tools
in the cutaway types of barrows. No
harrow with a tendency to pack the soil,
like the old spike tooth class whose teeth
act es weeps, should be used. As bo -
fore stated, no Marrow should bo used
for the purpose of pulverization and of
soil decomposition that does not open
the soil more freely to the sur then be-
fore its use.
Chrysanthemums.
Each year sees a difference in the
leading chrysanthemums exhibited at
the shows, says T'lbo Rural New Yorker.
The favorites of one season are often
pushed aside by the debutantes of the
next. Two years ago the great prize
winning white was tho Queen. It is not
a very lasting flower anti has it habit of
showing its center—a serious defect
but its many good qualities as a elm,
bloom gave it decided vogue. Lastyear,
however, ib was thrust aside by Meer -
fl ewer
aeyflower and Mrs, Henry Robinson, the lat-
ter taking high rank among early whites.
Gretchen Buettner, introduced this year,
is another of the now varieties likely to
possess permanent value. There is such
a long list of the Japanese whites now
that variety must possess distinct ober-
actor or it is soon discarded.
In pink year after year the well known
Vivian -Morel appears to lead all the
others as a show bloom, Tho color is
often uneven and streaky, but size,
graceful shape and good constitution
make it almost indispensable. Last year
a very favorable impression was mane
by Mrs. Perrin, a new variety. The
clear color, a regular rose pink, fine
shapeaud foliage gave promise of a val-
uable sort for trade use. It must be re-
membered that, as a rule, the florists
look at a variety from one standpcint
ouly—that of its value for out flowers
—and, while the varieties they indorse
certainly represent the cream of the list,
comparatively few of them are useful
outside. At the present time the two
great points the raisers of new chrysan-
themums look for are dwarf, stooky
growth and distinct color. They are also
experimenting for the encouragement of
early blooming, and assuredly this will
give us the garden chrysanthemums we
want. Among the novelties exhibited
this fall, but not yet introduced, we find
one which seems to meet these require-
ments—the Midge. It is a very early
white, blooming at the same time as
Mme. F. Bergmann (our earliest white),
very dwarf, clothed with abundant foli-
age right up to the Sower. This im-
presses us as a good thiug for garden or
window, for we don't want giraffe
necked chrysanthemums in the house
garden.
True to Principles.
A New South Wales country school
teacher recently gave a boy a questiou
in compound proportion for home worti
which happened to include the circum•
stance of "men working ten hours a
day in order to complete a certain
work." Next morning the unsuspecting
teaoher in looking over the Iirtle pack
of exercises found Jim's sum anat•
tempted and the following latter in
closed in the page:
Sur—I refuse to let Jim do his sum you give
give him last nite has it looks to me to be s
slur at 8 hour sistum enny sum not more than
b hours he is welcum to do but not more.
Yours truely, Anxenl BLANK, Senr.
Could Be Used Often.
The following auecdote illustrates
Donizetti's susceptibility and quick wit.
During his long stay at St. Petersburg
he played by command before the Ozal
Nicholas, who entered into conversation
with a bystander in the course of the
piece. Donizetti at once broke off the
performance.
"Why have you stopped?" asked the
autocrat.
"Sire," was the reply, "when the
honed
.over hod
czar is speaking everybody else a
be silent."
A Soft ]stark.
"Dobkins is a sort of a 'good thing,'
isn't he?"
"I should say so. Why, a baldhead-
ed barber sold him two bottles of hair
rastorer the other day. ".—Yale. Record.
Electric Licht and Flowers.
Florists abroad have come to the con-
clusion that the electric light will rev-
olutionize flower growing, for they have
discovered that its influence upon the
color and production of blossoms is
nothing less than extraordinary. For
instance, tulips that have been exposed
to the electric light have deeper and
richer tints, they flower more freely and
develop longer stems and bigger leaves
than those grown in the ordinary way.
Fuchsias, too, under like conditions,
bloom much earlier, as do petunias also,
growing taller and much more slender.
In some greenhouses the use of ;electric
light is already being tried with a view
to forcing flowers.
An. Excellent Grindstone.
Do you want a grindstone which one
man can turn and grind with compara-
tive ease? If so, road what au Ohio cor-
respondent tells Rural Now Yorker
about his machine.
I planned a machine at small cost
that will do the work. The device L
Floral Brevities.
A common error is to cover half hardy
plants too early in the season.
Douglas golden juniper is classed
among desirable hardy evergreens.
It is claimed that the Himalayan rho-
dodendrons are tender sorts requiri-
cool greenhouse treatment, but then.
of extraordinary beauty and not at
hard to grew.
.
w
g
Pink Ivory obrysanthemum, as seen
at the autumn exhibition in New York,
was indeed a beauty.
Cacti need plenty of light and but lit-
tle water.
Sow pansy seed now in the greenhouse
for plants to set outof doors next sprang. 1 Trenton, Jan. 18-18. 1
HOMEMADE, BUT EFFICIENT.
shown in the out. To make one take the
small sprocket wheels and chain from
an old worn binder or other farm ma-
chinery and gear it two to one—that is,
the lower, or crank, shaft wheel must
have twice as many cogs as the one on
the stone shaft. lase a stone 20 or more
inches in diameter and be sure to get a
good one. If geared higher than two to
one, it will run hard, and much less
gear would not turn fast enough. It is
the fast motion that outs. One may find
an excellent pair of cranks from some
old bicycle. A friend gave me mine.
One can grind anything. I use it more
for grinding mowing machine knives.
than anything else.
Shellacking Squashes.
A correspondent writing to Amerioan
Agriculturist says: Squashes seldom
keep later than February in my cellar
without decaying and pumpkins are not
fit for use by Christmas. An acquaint-
ance tells me he has kept squashes until
April by shellacking every part of their
shell. I am testing the method. The
children have shellacked a dozen large
Hubbards and two nine pumpkins, add-
ing another coat a week later, hoping
thus to make the rind airtight and to
prevent decay.
Odd Mention.
There is a plant hospital at the New
Jersey station.
Myriads of noxious insects and weed
seeds may be destroyed by firing tee
rubbish piles now. -
It has beeu a canker worm year in
the apple orchards of New England and
many parts of the middle states. The
remedy for this and most other insect
and fungus pits of the apple is spray-
ing with the arsenites and horde xi.z
mixture.
A Vermont farmer gives his plan in
an eastern exchange for killing wood-
chucks: Go quickly, before the grouna
freezes, and tramp earth tight in all the
holes, and Mr. Woodchuck will slowly
smother during his winter nap and be
dead and buried in the sprint withoi tl
the help of drugs.
The twenty-fourth annual meeting of
the New Jersey state board of agricul-
ture will be held • at the stateboaaas
n