The Brussels Post, 1891-9-4, Page 26
TRE BRUSSELS POST.
SEPT. 4, 1891.
AGRICULTURAL.
Peed the Sheep Well,
A writer in thanes csh see leattsts
that paper that there is ne furm stock ti
will so quickly run down it poorly cared
efte sheep. None requires more care in fee
lag, The stverge ueefelness of eheep
not extend above seven or eitritt years, a
they are at their best when tourist' eix ye
old, Unlees old ewes are sold offe, little
fore they piss their limit they will pet
barren, or their Iambs will leek vigor a
-vitality, In one case only is it ellowable
sell young and vigorous ewes, and that
where the ewe lost her lamb and has beam
too fat for breeding, This does not oft
happen until the ewe bas A full mouth, fo
while the teeth are growing sheep will not
become too fat on ordinary pastnre alone. If
a ewe loses a lamb she shoals' be put in the
poorest feed, and every effort made to keep
her from becoming too rat. But when sheep
get past age put them in a flock by them-
selves and feed a few otasev ery day through
the summer, They will be fat by fall, while
if allowed to remain pork and then be grain
fed, when put on dry feed for winter the
sheep will lose flesh and probably die before
spring, in spite of all that can be done. A
half pound of outs per sheep daily ut pasture
will put on more flesh and fat on old sheep
than any feed can do in winter. Oats are
the best grain for beginning to feed old
sheep. They do not need grinding. If on
this they show a gain, replace stnall part
of the oats with beens or corn, but decrease
the amount in doin,o so until it is seen that
the sheep are not cloyed. Every time a now
feed is given decrease the grain ration for a
week or more. A very lit:tle oft meal mixed
with oats fattens old sheep better than any-
thing else.
the ('11110011('11110011sullen]. will reemee moon re this
subject to enable those of them who enter
upon the profession of tenchlng to pegs their
exan :Mations in ngeleulture mese oregi ably,
81111 ale, to testeli the subjeet tnore effeetive•
t" ly. This instrnetion 1011 have to be sup.
15.1 plied for the further reason that teeehieg it
for In the High Schools will enablepu
the pilo
who enter the ()uteri° Agriculturist Colkge
ow! to pros,,,mte furthet• the study of the subject
"" end te eo mare effectively. Agein, it will
ars
be.
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SOME AMUSING PARODIES.
From the sublm
ie ro the mil le 81 585.
Well constructed parodies are enechy and
nefinctive, their force depending largely
upon their eloee imitation In form of and
wide shifts:Yam in maltose from the origin
lines. The more precipitous the desee
Nein the sublime to tho ridiculous, tl
• more startling the effect. Though son
parodies such " Pluribusto " whieh
hninorons version of Longfellow's '' Hist.
wattle," and which for season ontsold tho
, original work, have b.,en published in pee,
tenth -me volumes, t lel are equally mere
hubbies throwun gm the i,sasi,ttt titreani sf
It wars the pee of the parodist that canto
to the liable: resale end arrested the eon.
!limn:Bon before it, bail completely 0115010,1the nernial literm•y taste of the tenses, I he
happy rest& was nehieved by adding to
verses like the foregoleg linee like the to,.
ing :
al She siniled when I mentimied the eytters,
et :end grinned 01 the eight of a inew,
Vm
le Very' uch its a frolicsome boy stirs
10 When he sloes Ins lirst jaselet of blue,
is
A Clity for Farmors,
Mr, John Bookwalter, of Ohio, has a
scheme for itnproving the condition of the
farmer which may be T:topian, but which
seems feasible enough. He owns a tract of
60,000 acres in Nebraska, and this is what
he proposes doing with it : Ahe t tmil.
road station, near the centre of the tract, .11
is going to establish a village with a public
hall and library. The houses will be small
but comfortable ; the barns large ; every
villager will have a good size gerden plot.
With each of these village houses end lots
will go a farm of from eighty to one hundred
and sixty acres of le.nd, nearer or more re.
mote from the village, 'according to the
purchaeer's preferences and means. The
plan is to have the men go out to their
farms in the morning, returning to the vie
late an night. Mr. Bookeralter's hope is
that it will get rid of the isolation of farm-
house existenee, and be even a greater
advantage to the fartners's wives and the
young people than to the men themselves.
It may be a vinonery scheme," he says,
"but I think enough of it to try it. lentil
I was twenty-threeyears of age my life was
spent on a farm. rho dreariness and lone-
someness of the farm—the abscess° of books
papers, and companionship—tanght me the
secret of the discontent in the farmer'slife."
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A Profitable qoney Plant.
•
One of the moat profiteble honey produc-
ing plants that a farmer can produce is be.
pond all doubt the alsike clover. This not
only is a good and rich honey producing
me
plant, but et the sante tiwill afford an
excellentpasture, is a good forage crop, and
makes good, sweet hey thee is relished by
cows. This plant thrives most profitably
when sown in oar locality in the middle or
March, mixed in the following proportions :
Timothy, red clover and alsike clover, equal
parts of each. By nature the alsike
clover has a tendency to fall or crawl upon
the ground if not supported by some other
growing plants. But when sown as above
mentioned, the Timothy and red clover will
aid to eupport the alsike, and this will Iso
be of benefit'
to the alsike which will grow
as tall as the red clover. For a honey plant
this clover will not do muoh blooming the
first year ; but will make excellent forage
for bees the second and third years.
A. person should sow a peck as above de.
scribed each year; and they will find that
they have en excellent meadow, bee pasture,
ne field for hay, excellent pasture for stook
or a good, green fertilizer a treasure in
once seeding, This plant I consider as
the finest honey plant thet we can pro Mee
with any degree of profit, for it will be seen
that this can be utilized in many ways, and
is not exhaustive to the soil. The honey of
the alsike is sweet and as clear as a crystal
of ice, and almost as transparent when in
the comb ; and in my opinion can not be
excelled by either poplar or linden.
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On the Farm in Denmark,
The horses ars strong, thick -set animals,
short in height, and more like those to be
seen in Suftolk than anywhere else. In
Denmark, however, by far the most import.
ant animal is the cow. In appearance they
are not specially striking. In size, coloring
and quality they are very similar to the
ordinary Shorthorn breed, such 00 one seers
in the North of England, though they are,
if anything, a little smaller. The people
take the greatest possible care of and in-
terest in them, much more than we do in
England. They seemto be watehedby some
one or other constently. As there are no
hedges to separate the fields, the cows and
other animals, including the sheep, are all
tethered, and this custom itself entails, of
coarse, pretty constant attention. If the
wether be at all cold, one may often see the
beests covered with cloths as they graze.
The cows are milked thrice a day, about 6
in the morning, then between 11 and 12, and
again late in the evening. .A register is fre-
quently kept of the amount ofmilk in pounds
given by each cow daily. This is done
without difficulty, and adds greatly to the
interest and success of the dairy work.
Every cow has a name. Sheep are not
reared to any grettt extent, though every
farmer has a few. Sheering takes place
twice a year—in May and toward the end
of September. This work is for the most
part clone by women ; indeed the women
generally work nearly as hard as the men
upon the farms, but they do not neglect
their domestic duties. The houses, which
are invariably thatched and of one story
only, are °leen and tidy; but from the close
proximity of the °outhouse to the dwelling
(a dooe openiug straight from one to the
other), the smell of the boasts is rather too
overpowering for unaccustomed nerves.
The Wife spats ber own wool, and not un.
frequently weaves her own cloth,
AgrioUlture in Our SehOols.
The extenb to which agriculture should be
Sauget, in one rural schools is a matter on
which at present there will bo a wide differ.
of opinion. The teaelter who is not
equipped for teaching in this snbjeet may
prolably &sire to evade teaching it alto-
gethcr. Themissfig link, however,
will soon of necessity have to bo supplied.
It Will have to be Supplied for the reason
that the pnth
pils who 00 00 the High School
after having been grounded is agriculture in
have to 1.e eupplied beenuee or the retsina of
many of those who gratlueto in the High
Schelde to the put•suit of agriculture as a
life.work, since the continued exmlus from
the /swine to other oetilipations cennot hat
forever, lhe relative intim-tame of agrictil.
tore cannot materially, eltange with the pass.
ing ot the years, hence the thee must Leucite
at hand when our young people will cease to
look upon agriculture as tut ignoble pursuit
compared witli many other lilies of life.
Thee the farmers will yet demand that the
tenehing of agriculture shall be made cone
pulsory in our rural sehools is 0settled
conviction in the mind of the writer, as ie
tdso the conclusion that this demand will
soon be made. Indeed we have evidence of
this in the resdution passed by the Central
Fitrniere' Institute last winter, nsking that
the elinister of Education glee this matter
his careful consideration. That the trnstees
fit rural sehools will soon ineiet upon the
introduction of the new texabook into these
schools is a foregone eonelnsion, and that the
teachers who have fitted themselves for
teaching the subject with ellielency, alt
other things beiug equal, will soon get the
preference is equally certain. It is there.
fore of some consequence to the teacher that
the warning note iloW given should receive
some attention, and that he govern himself
accordingly. It is nut enough that the
teacher lie barely able to take the pupil
over the ground covered by the test•book.
Teaching ttfter this fashion is never effective
teaching. To impert instruetion eflectively
the teacher must be a long wny advance
of the ground covered by text•bonks, more
especially those that are introductory,
le here will chose who have teaching in view
as a life work get this information ? They
°outlet get it eesily and 11) beet form until
agrieulture is extensively and efficiently
teught in our High Scheele—Prof. Thomas
Shaw, of the Agricultural College, Guelph.
Horse Talk.
We are asked to recommend a ration for
horses independent of the nutritive ratio of
the German reeding experiments, but tested
by pram foal experience. Nearly equal parts
of corn, rye, and oats ground together make
the beet horse feed, judged by experience.
Of this ten poundm
s, ixed with fourteen
pounde of cut hay, the mw
ixture et and stir-
red well together in a box or trough, an I
fed at three feeds, is the beet ratio known fee
a farm horse at work, or for any kind of
business horse in use, in quantity nrlapted
to age and size, A horse at rest wants but six
pounds of the ground ration or " chop" and
1 fourteen pounils of cut hay, or even good oat
straw if bay is not on hand. The standard
weight per bushel of corn anti rye ie the
seme, viz., 56 pounds, oats 32 pounds, Of
the alleuminoids oats contain 1 20, rye 11n,
corn 100 pounds per 1,000. The average of
the mixture of equal weights of each is 110 per
1,000, or exactly that of rye. Some object to
rye on acconnt of ergot, but observation has
convinced the writet that rye in this coun•
try is much less subject to it than has been
supposed.—Dr.
Kitohen Notions,
IS'ext to a good renge a good clock is of
paramount importance in the kitchen,
Coffee cake should he wrapped, while
warm, in a napkin, and there remain till
cut.
Keep sharp the knives for cutting meat
and bread anti for peeling vegetables.
Folding towel racks set on the wall near
the sink are a, great convenience in drying
dish towels and dish cloths.
Gilding on silver sh ould be rubbed as little
as possible ; wiping it with a soft linen cloth
moistened wth iammoma is all that Is ems-
) same
1 When yell have spilled anything on the
steve, or milk has boiled over and a suffoca-
ting smoke arises, sprinkle the spot, with
salt and it still disappear immediately.
Sometimes the fire will not burn readily
at first, because the air in the chimney m
cold; in that ease, burn a quantity of paper
or shavings before trying to light the other
fuel.
Tin vessels not and ere often worthless
in a few weeks, because, after washing, they
are not set on the stove for a moment or in
the sun, to dry thoroughly before they are
put away. •
Brooms which are hung up keep their first
shape better and sweep more evenly than
those left stending ; if they are dipped in
warm water every day, they will last longer
than if left dry.
Ovens will not bake well unlees the flues
and bottom tire clean. When 011 00011 burns
on the bottom, cover it half an inch with
°leen eand ; if it burns on top, put a layer
of sand or ashes over it.
It is better to have a special pot to cook
onions in, lined with porcelain, 01 01 granite
ware. Iron turns thie vegetable blace, and
it is exceedingly difficult to get the odor of
onions out of thesepots.
The most serviceable house rags are old
flannel or merino underwear or old canton
fiennel. These never show lint and can be
rung out nearly dryfrom hot water with
out losing their moistare and warmth,
Do not fill lamps to the top, and do not
burn them until they are entirely empty,
for fear of an explosion. Do not keep
them on the chitnney-pieee or in a very
warm place, lest the gas expand with heat,
and thus cause explosion.
The best silver.smitlis advise the use of
boiling hot water, °motile soap, a etilf brush
and a chamois leather to clean silver, A
stiff plate brush is said by experts to be
Much better than the soft plate general
use, Silver riot ib use should be kept in
cotton flannel bags.
If e, wick does not move easily in ihe
holder, draw oat one or twa threade from
one side, The wink should be as large it one
ass the holder will reoeive. FM not out it
after the first trimming to make it even,
but pinch off the burned portion every day
with a oloth. The best wicks are -woven sot
and loose. If lamps or burners became sticky
or clogged with dust, boil them in aerie -
water, taking care not, to uee it on gilt
metal, Metal lamps ars safer than those
made of chine or ease ; no opening is need.
ed save !boon° which receives; the vviok-
holder ,i the lamp can he filled through that.
,TheDarby, the wonderful English jumper,
has put some now figures 011 tilt:Islet° at the
Blogwieh Sports on July 20, by performing
the extraordinary feet of 40 ft. 11 ins. iti
throe stand forweid spring jumps, Darby in
his last jump clearing quite six yards,
Darby then made another mord tvith mar-
Amllons ease by clettring a bar six feet high
with his ankles tied.
1 lima thee. Sometimes they " point a mot.
I or adorn ti tato," but oftener their pupa
I is to simply awaken a transient smile an
then to be forgotten, though the parcel
sometimes lives after the original verse h
been forgotten.
Shakespeare's '' To lw or not to be" aed
Tennyeon s Half a leegne" have been vete
mob parephrased. The letter autere:rs;
" Break, Bonk, Break" has been fitted to
scores of topics and here are some of the
lines they have suggested :
Break, break, break,
on the quivering air, high C,
L'ut the muehmeeded rest you have caused
me to lose
Can never come back to me.
Brake, bralte, brake,
Ye brakemen, wherever you be,
But the name of the town you h
so unble
and drown
Is ue'er underetotel by me.
The third is sup meed to have been writ
I peed with enchantment 1111,1 WO1Iller
011 her beautiftil depanese hair,
And squandered my money like thunder
On this wild, wirching intiiilen so
, lut mace s Wits o tp e ion,
a' With stews and hot melee and pies,
• And the supper had reached a completion
"J !root ot her bright hazel eyese
Y Behold, she arose from the table,
as
en ity a young laly at a seaside reser
where there were not enough young men t
o round •
Break, break, break,
At the feet of thy crags, 0 sea,
But oh 1 for the presence of ono youn
111111 1
To come and make love to me 1
There isn't a youth in the trusted King
elom, it is safe to state, but can give th
original of the following :
The boy stood on the bank -yard fence,
Whence all but him had fled,
The flames that lir his father's barn
Shouts just above his ehed.
The bench of crackers in his hand,
Two others in his hat ;
With piteous accents loud lie cried :
" I never LIR/tight of that I"
A bunch of crackers to the tail
Of one sinall slog he'd tied ;
The dog in anguish sought the barn,
And 'mid its ruins died.
The sparks flew wide, and red, and hot,
That lit nnon that brat ;
They fired the crackers in his hand
And eke those in his hat.
Than came a beret of rattling sound—
The boy 1 Whelp was he gone ?
Ask of tlio winds that iar around
Strewed bits of meat and bone.
Ana serape of clothes, and balls, and
tops,
Aud bails, and books, and yarn ;
The relics of the dreadful boy
Who buitned his father's earn.
When Gray wrote his grand " Elegy he
did not dream that he would be responsible
indirectly for many such parodies as these:
Full nany a gem ot purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean beam;
And yet the genuine aro seldom seen,
And most of them are paste which people
wear.
Full many a joke old as the ancient hills
Within the funny papers we eview :
Full man, a chestnut dreseed in modern
inns,
And palmed off on the world as some-
thing new.
Brief poetics,' geotations are frequently
paraphrased, and often without any loss to
the truths they convey :
There's many a slip
'Twixt the cable and grip.
While the gas holds out to burn
The meter will shillings eurn.
You may smash, you may shetter the ease
if you choose to ;
But the scent of the Limburger dills where
it, used to.
Two voices are there : one is of the sea,
One of the mountains; each a mighty
voice—
Both offer you se:n:11er board vociferouslee ;
And both ere bad, and you may take your
choice
"Comin' Throuch the Rye " has been
parodied as often as there are words in the
verses. The following is clever:
GM a body meet a body
Lookin' after rye;
Gin st body treat a body
Need a body cry?
Gin a body has a shilling—
Be it you or 1—.
Do or don't you think he's wtlhing
To put it into rye?
The originals of the following will be
readily suggested :
No one has such an ugly face
I3ut what someone veill in it trace
A charm, and make it known,
And woo it for his own. ,
You must wake and call me early—call me
early, mother dear,
For if you don't the chances are I won't get
up thie year;
Be sure and keep on Whim me—say fifty
fitness or more,
And when I wake Pll growl because I
wasn't called before.
I never had an early flame
To whom 1.410 attention pay,
But what another fellow came
And coolly stole my girl away.
The breaking waves clashed high—
Meshed high with a right good will ;
Dot with all their clash they were not so
high
As the sseaside hotel bill.
Little drops of Bourbon,
Captured by a wink,
Make the Soda seater
Beeler to drink.
While many poems ere so delicate in
thought and expression as to make any kind
of a parody stem like a desecrations there
are other types Rat they cannot harm. In
fact the satirical parodists have it in their
power re render unpopular that whish they
cheese to render SO. While they may hay
done some wrong they are to be credited
with having brongh t about reforms in poetry
for whigh the public feet grateful. Here ifs o,
semple of the "passion poetry" that Lie one
thine threatened to sweep the lend
She torn:dummy cheek and 1 quiver -
1 tremble with exquisite pains ;
She sighs—like an overcharged rivor
My blood rushes on through iny veins.
She smiles and in mad tiger -fashion,
Arts/site tiger fondles her own,
clasped her with fierceness and passion,
And kissed her with shudder and groan,
Aol itecepted the R1111 of another,
Awl ere to puma! 1 01115 able,
tithe hail gone with my strapping big
brother.
CAPITAL !—Lottie—" Whales the matter
with Robert, father ? I liko hint ; and Ids
father held II very high position." Papa—
" Very 1—he was hanged."
While the C'enadian rifle team, 20 strong,
ictute.115111 tot Bioley this yoar,
they ever made at IVimbledon, tWelity
Scutchnien gathered in no less than 11472.-
0 1' an average of :1173.1 2 it. fliel. per
man, D. Nee, of Edinburgh, whiner of
• e
, . , utm-ptiirotl itt a11 11273Corp. IV, Ritchie, iltel Renfrew, handed
.
111 1(1, Thoee figures, it nuest be remembere
• ' 1 • d f I • I I I
TERROR AND (TUBBING.
Jteepot ciosIke Oil 11 83.111'Ill8n 44I id
marritirene--es Least eSe Mattis Or -
co P1.1.12.
The full extent of Tuestlny's calamity at
i4t. Pierre, 'Martinique, commit yet be (tette,
inined, From parts or the inland only vitgne
and indefinite reports have been receive:1,
The mountain reeds in many instamas wore
obstructed by fallen timbers anti other deb,
ris, thus rendering many villages extreme.
ly difficult acmes. Itlyery fresh report
briuge »ew details of the universal home
and devastation wrought be the fury of the
eleme»tit. Tho hurricane struek the island
&bout o'clock Tuesday night. It (motion.
ed to rage till nearly 11. Hardly hail tho
terrific storm died away when a sharp
earthquake shock itchiest to the horror
of the night, el Any superstitious blacks
thought. the end of the world was at
hand. It is inipassilde to convey
au adequate idea of the terror and sniforing
of Tuesday night. People flocked the
open spices,' aud spent hours till tleydight
in sleepless suspense. They know not Ind
that the next moment Olt eart11(1110.1I0 8110011
mitht complete the destruction of their
brou ht little Fenn f r lief 0 11 i
als ady roofless homes. The morning
0 o o . On alt s, es
evidence of destruction greeted anxious
eyes, end as death after death was reported
the awled character of the disaster was
made more end more mutilate Then news
begais to come from other pares of the
islaml. Everywhere the same tale of Bur -
feral 1 s al 1 ti • • t 1 N
08 ( OR. I 11 RS I open, et . o
i;" place on the ieland so far heard from ham
th escaped S011011S lialt/Rge. It is thought that
t • s at least 2o0 persons lost: thou lives.
O badges, crosses. etc., the Scottish score won. ,
It pays to be II crack riflemen when in two '
weeks you me land a matter of $1475. LLO...N. IN OLD SNOBS,
— I —
g The Detest mile run by a railroad tritin . "Pe"t" "1"" """' N"11""' 41.
tacit to Foot -Gear.
le 1 The Chinese value a pair of boots which
have been worn by an upright magistrate,
ng1311 the custom of wishing ie friend a
" happy foot" ie still observed ell theooge
e. Europe. The casual putting on the lertaline
on the right foot, pulling it on usseven or
le cross -wise, bursting the shoe latch or tie,
i /rasing it wrong, and losing a button, are all
0, bad signs.
A Yorkehireman will spit in his right
an shoe before putting it on, when going out on
e, important basinees„ to hring luck, end
a many an English girl has been known to
hong her hoots 0111 of the Will(101V on St.
ValLtine's night for love•luek.
a Professor Black tolls of a singular super-
s, stitiOri existing in England, which insists
se that if the youngest daughter of a family
The fastest mile Made in rowing in a sing
boat toolt 5 mins. and I see.
The fastest mile ever made by a runni
o 'horse was run in 1 mie. fiese secs.
The fastest mile inade 1..>. a man on 0 11
cycld was made in 2 mina. 49 2-5 secs.
The fastest time on snowshoes for a ini
is recorded at 5 mins, 391 sees.
The best time for a mile by a man on
bicycle le recorded AS 2 mins. 16 secs.
The fastest mile ever made by a m
MI mining was done in 20 mins. end 15•2 sec
The initest mile ever eccomplished by
man walking was made in 0 mins. end
"eft; running the fastest mile made by
man was aceomplished in 4 mins, 12j sec
The fastest mile by a trotting horse ws
made in 2 mins. 81 sacs.
The fastest mile by a pacing horse we,
wiggled in 2 mins. Ge secs.
The following interesting story of an ii
1 (enigma csillie el/pears in The etaffordshie Itutppened a few days ago to Mr. Plant fern
Eng, f -Advertiser—'' A serious acuidei
er, of Knoll Wood, who might have suffered
eonsiderably more inconvenience than he
del had he not been stecompanied by his
. collie flog, rut amulet worthy to vie, as fa
f as intelligence goes, with the most gifted o
the camne race. Mr. Plant was leading
young horse along en unfrequented an
. rarely -used by -road, when the animal knock
ed him down and injured him so severe]Y
that he had to remain on tho ground where
he fell, being quite unable to stand or make
his way home, which WRS sense considerable
distance away. There were no other houses
tlear and none \Otos° attention could be
a
tharcted, so Mr, Plant wrote a few words
on to piece of paper end, fastening it to his
dog's neck, told him to take it home, This
the dog did at once and led the relief party
straight where his master lay. The latter,
Nm
hen conveyed hoe and medical aid pro.
ov
ured, WRS found to have received two severe
fractures of the leg, and might have lain
many hours in misery in so lonely a place
had he not possessed it collie of more than
average intelligence,"
• mnrries first hoe itsters must &ewe at her
O wedding without shoes, so as to insure bus-
, bands for themselves
I Old•shoe thee Nellie is done for many par.
poses. In Ireland the eleution of a person
e . to almost any °Thee is concluded by throwing
'act I/Ifi shoe over his head.
The flypsie.s say :-
1 -
" Burk after an old ehoe.
itt be merry what here 1 doe,"
On the Isle of Man an old shoe is alway
thrown after the bride, as well as the groom
f 1 when leaving their homes, and in the elouth
n, the oldest person on the plantation, white
d or black, always throwe an old shoe after
anyone starting cm a long journey.
Itis said that Mine. Pathan d other women
of high standing on the stage preserve inost
carefully the boots they wore at their debut,
which they consider hicky to wear on the
first night of engagements forever after.
Is the soldier cycliet a good killer? The
men of the English Twenty-sixth Cyolist
Corps can thrust their swords through a
suspended lemon while riding at rate of 16
miles an hour. The eafety bicycles are fitted
up to carry the rifle at the side, which can
be taken out in three seconds, a pouch car-
rying 100 rounds of ball eartridges, signal.
ling flags, etc. the whole weight of which is
something under 70 pounds, including
machine. Not the least interesting weapon
°steeled by the cyclists, and used for the
first time at the Easter maalieuvres, is the
Gatlin gun. This particular gun used is
capable of firing at the rate of six shots a
second. It weighs 97 pounds, the eminent -
tion being carried in cases for the purpose.
It to transportee to and fro on a gun car-
riage. composed of four safety machines
coupled to one another and ridden by four
111011. The bicycle eereba is for the purpose
of resisting cavalry, and is formed by some
20 or 30 mechines, which are stacked on to
0110 another, the men getting behind the
cycles and firing et the approaching enemy.
So clover are they at forming these cycling
squares, so to speek, that the whole thing
gen be accomplished in 5 or 0 seconds, In-
deed, taken all round, the military cynlist
is not only a very ingenious: follow, but a
good way ahead of the ordinary infantry;
in fact, he is really an infantryman on tem-
porary wheels.
The way in which blind horses can go
about without getting into more difficulties
than they ordinarily do is very remarkable,
observes the London Live Stock Journal.
They rarely, if ever, hit their heads against
O fence or stone wall. They will elide off
when they come near one, It appears from
careful observation I have made that it is
neither shed° nor shelter which warns them
of danger. 021 an absolute aunlesss and
windleee day their behavior is the same.
Their olfaotory nerves doubtless become
very sensitive, for when driving thews they
will poke their head downward in seareh of
water fifty yards before they come to a
stream crossing the roadway. It cutlet be
an abnormally developed sense of hearing
which leads them to do this, for they will
Net alike, though tho water be to etagrant
pool. Mon who have boon blind for any
groat length of time develop somewhat
similar instincts to blind horses, Someone,
I find from a fugitive paragraph going the
round of mere, aspiring to be of scientific
character, says chat none of the live senses
has anything to do with this strongpereoptive
power, but the impressions are made on the
eltin of the Noe andby it transmitted to the
brain ; and Otto " unreeognieed sense" he
calls "facial perception." Bat possibly tbie
perceptive power may have its origin in
suell conditione as prevail in somnambulism
or in the hypnotic state, Aro all stich phe.
tremens's in Mali and horse as I have
mentioned to be untended for by the two
words " babel percoptio»," if they mean
stnything ? however, speaking of blind
horses, why should they oast their :mete ag
wibter comae on end grow long combs at
thus adventof enamor, and so reverse tho
order which ie the invariable rule in the
Catio of lioness possessed of perfect vision
Growth of the Face.
Boring the past year inveetigations upon
the physical growth of children have been
conducted in the Worcester schools. The
preliminary tables on the growth of the
female 1it00 bring out some facts of consid-
erable interest. There seem to be three
distinot periods, the first ending about the
seventh year, and the third beginning
about the fifteenth year. A striking peen.
liarity is the seemingly abrupt transition
from the types of one period to those of
the succeeding. The sudden disappearance
of the lower widths of face, and the eqnal-
ly sudden appearance of the types of the
succeeding period, e.g., the sudden shooting
up of the widths to almost adult dimensione
at about the age of 8 or 9, offset by the
equally sudden deseppearance of tho dis-
tinctively childish characteristics at the
age of 11. These peculiarities also appear
at the ages of twelve and fourteen respec-
tively in the succeeding period. This
would seem to indicate the very slow growth
of some childree until the ages of about
eight and fourteen respeotively are reached,
and then o very rapid development of each
individual to her proper position in the
series. This Axel Key found rilso to be
true with respect to the total height of the
Sweddish children observed by Mai.
In the second period vdry many of the
forms are already adult, and if not at their
fullest development, have very nearly ap-
proached it. Frotn the fifth to the tenth
year inolusive the growth is somewhat slow,
about 6.5 millimeters in all, but, for the next
leer years, the period of adolescence, the
growth is 6•2 millimeter% From the four.
teenth year on there is very little advance,
the maximum eeeming to be reached at about
128 millfinetere in tlte twentieth year On
comparing this growth with that of the male
fee° some differences are nobiceable. The
male face is,with perhaps a single exception,
larger for the same period of life, ann for
the seem yearsit appears to grow more rapid-
ly and continues to grow later in life. Mas-
sing the oases after twenty; the advance is
seen 10 10 far beyond(the breadth attained at
nineteen, rising to about 130 millimeters.
At about nine years the two types approach
very near, and it its not at all unlikely that,
as found in the case of height by Bowditch
in Boston and Peckham in Milwaukee, the
female face may for a short period become
the broader, Further inveseigatione seill be
required to determine this pointehe present
investigation having been made on not more
than twenty.five hnndrod persons, including
both sexes.
Sending Convicts to America.
A. Sevedish version of what is meant by
the Lana of the Free is furnished from
Stockholm, A happy surprise was pre steed
tho other day for a prisoner in the °yea
penitential. The man Male front Stook.
holm end hes relatives in Americo. Ono of
them sent him a leakee for the far West,
and the prison authorities, using the die.
elation granted them for such oases, set lam
free at one°, though lie had served no more
than throe months of his sentence. A.
steamer was lying ready at Malmo° to sail
thee day, A. Stockholm newspaper says
that the "sun fled tieing had looked upon
him behind the limn leers in a convice's bulb
saw him wlem it set, in the es net, on theme
hie fetters broken, bound for tho Land of
tho 'Erres." A good riddance on both titles,
theta was e:ttisfaction all around, the
prosuottive host no one appears to nave
given a thoughe. Is it much of a wonder
thatfreedoin spells license rvith so many of
our green immigrants?
THROUGH OLD BILLINGSGATE,
Early. Morning' bs tl_le Rome of Unpleasant
langnaal and Strong Odors,
L,tsdosN Gres f. Fish marnet,
Half•past 4 ohilook in the nuebing, and
gray
li,th"Ini381!1.':1:y1ti
tuV
air is Jamey with the odor of fish. There
100 urow,ie 0 UM 8041015 near Billingsgate,
45 bewildering assertillent of wagons and
Minimum of voiees that m'ould deafen the
lri: (;nIllti‘vi'0fll1i1
ty, 1'list°ii11°rsvsa1PTP
tobe6Iaftetltslieftsii:s11ee,
while the cries, the shouts, the itbjurgations
make A confused and denfeeing uprottr.
The clock strikers 501)01 the market opens,
III 11 1110111811t the place SWILI.1118 wilIt IA.
The vessels at•e there hauled up in tiers in
the river, laden with silvery eargoes ; the
porters are there running to and fro between
the ships and the market ; the vailway vans
are there, packed with fish breught from
the railway snakes ; the FIRICS111811 are Otero
la: their stands or benches, and the lsuyers
are there ready to buy and pay.
Little business, however, ie transacted
011111 01)0111, 0 °Vogl:, the intervening hour
being occupied chiefly in the transfereuce
of the consignments ef fish from the vessels
to the market, and putting the different
stalls shipaliape for tho business that will
shortly begin.
It is nearly two centuries ago since Bill-
ingsgate was established. Since then it has
achieved and maintained a world wide no-
toriety, prim:hinny through the bad lan-
guage popularly supposed to be used by the
frequenters thereof, "Billingsgate " how,
ever, is now a myth whatever it may have
been in the days gone by.
A 11005 o STItoNtt SMELLS.
When paying a visit to Billiogsgate mar-
ket it is advisable to don an ol1 suit of
clothing. Not only does the inerket Itself
reek of fish, but so do all the lanes and
streets approaelsing it. At early more these
thoroughfares are crowded with fish :eats for
uelietance of seven:1 hued red yards from LOW-
er Thames Street. There is a never ending
stream of porters,each with a large box of fish
curiously halanced oti his head. Ws always
1::8 to give thm ethe wall, for your Bill-
ingsgate 109)00100vistouritt is 110 reector of per-.
815
The market is a long low edifice, built on
pillars, with a 'mintier of offices twee the
ground floor. On the roof is a figure of
Britannia, pluckily holding on to that ever-
lasting trident, The sculptor )rho carved
the figure had no sense of the fitness of
things, otherwise he would have intele the
statue holding her nose with ner fingerS.
The smell of fish ie stymie ilewn below, but
'what tnust it be ms there? With some ditti•
unity \ye cross the road, which is ankle deep
'Ittfilliktsh.that leittl hem the river to the mar -
This stalwart fellow climbing the ribbed
kat, and bearing on his heed two heavy
askets of fish, is a typical market man.
He \veers 0 num:tuna bat, fitting close to his '
skull, something like a " souwester" and
boastiug a brim of abont nine inches in
width at the rear and which etkis up at the
edge to catch and retain the moisture which
would otherwiee flow dowu his beck from
hie dripping burden.
The outer garment is a greyish white hy-
brid surtont, half jacket, half smock -frock
reaching almost to tee knee; it is open at
the breast and displays a voluminous hand-
kerchief tied in a double knot, the ends
fluttering jauntily in the breeze. His trous-
ers are of any material yon like to imagine,
ns imagination alone ean penetrate the coat-
ih1! etryfe.intul, which is all thee is visible to
While we have been describing his ap-
pearance he has vanished, and a dozen more
of precisely the same mould and similarly
burdened have followed him. On they
come in a continuous steam, rising out of
the darkness below with entitling regular-
ity, rehese men beer themselves with an
itir of high official dignity, and not without
reason, tor they are the " fellowship" por-
ters, who have the sole privilege of landing
the fish from the vessels. They are the
veritable Caryticlos of the commerce of
Billingsgate.
FISH AT AUCTION.
It is 11001 nearly 6 o'clock and the trado
s at its height. A continuous tide of popu-
lation flows in and out of the market,
where the sharp shot of a thousand chaffer-
ing tongues drums upon the ear in an
uninterrupted volley. There is, however,
disorderly riot or quarreling, l'he sales
are so astonishingly rapid as to be scarcely
comprehensible to a stranger. Many lots
are sold upon the heed of the porter, who
et hardly waits a minute in the throng
efore lie (lathes down his burden and is
off.
Under the flaring gaslights are eanged
the sitlesmen's desks. Behind each of these
stands the partner or head assistant and
the auctioneer proper who stands where the
boxes of fish are deposited by the porters.
The auctioneers are waited upon by a
" form" Mitn—a Very Useful fellow if he
knows his business well. This functionary
takes charge of each box as it arrives, and
sees to its delivery when sold.
About 7 o'clock a new class of buyers
oome crowding in, and the whole place 1.5
go filled with them that one has to tight his
way at every step. You find yourself all of
O sudden surrounded by a very undisoiplin.
ed regiment of London " Costerit "—an ex-
tensive and peculiar olass indigenous to the
soil. They .have already heard that this
morning the market is well supplied s ith
fish, anTil they have flocked by handreds
with theie barrows, baskets, handmarts, and
donkey carts in the hope of making a, good
day's work over half a lot of soles. The lot
shillings—nine itncl tevo—nite and sik—nine
and ten—ten bob," from half a dozen tones
lad.
is generally a, couple of„rb, ;:ykrsoent sr 0,
"Eight and six—eight and niee—nine
"Eight shillings for one,” bawls a meter
" What for thie lat?" says one saleiman,
10 :i:nists,atuayntata its. it ettelisler tonwt.101,6
the salesman.
a °cater,
wIlltinolrl,'e
for
'' to clxililoced
Ses the ametioneer:
"Money," and he holds out his hand, The
money ts paid instanter and off pas the
perdu:see to clean the fish preparatory to
trying them about town for the rest of the
tiinn 1 f5 QUM. No wonld imagine
t'Ttus th
Yrite houre go by. At 10 0010011 the
a
that 500 tons of fish had been sold there and
carted away in less than five hours. But
such is the cases and to -day 18 only a fair
sample of every day in the week, As wo
stroll on t of the market, between pyramids
of lohetere sold by tho dozen or score, and of
mighty crabs yot unslain in their baskets,
ooinfortably packed with seaweed ; pabb
huge mounds of shrimps, sacks of oysters,
and unknown spetntittos of mussels and
whelks 1 marvel at the myriad.mouthed
city that eatt daily sten- any such oolossal
quantities of the products of the briny
doop,
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