The Brussels Post, 1892-10-21, Page 66
THE BRUSSELS POST.
OCT, 21, 1892,
A.GRIOULTURAL.
ilhurning By 11 o1iinery.
Where the churning of the cream is done
by hand it entails a most arduous tush npel]
801141 member of the farm household, and
in many oases it falls to the lot of the house.
wife. Duriug the summer, where from
three to five Iowa are kept, there is half
.an hour of Rife heavy work every day. There
int often a large dug watching the operators
of °herniug that 110 may obtain his usual
fill of buttermilk. A treadmill Call W014111/10
ed tor a few do1lae. and the dog mode to
do the work, and you may watch the
operation or devote your time to other
household duties, With the improved, or
even the comma powers, a dog, weighing
fifty pounds, can do the churning of the
oream from five unw0, and not injure bin]•
self. l uoh work in hot weather should bo
(lone early 111 the meriting while it 1'a cool.
The butler churned then will
be firmer. If
the dog is treated klu lly, and petted, Le
will gladly do the work and he ready at the
tall, or appear as soon as prepositions are
observed for the operation. Calves, sheep,
and goats are often used in treadmills, 1,04
the nog is the most cleanly and is best
adapted to the work. human life is too
abort to spend lulled of it manipale Lug tho
churn dasher, especially when other power
18 se plentiful. Au att0.11l11lent can he
placed on the windmill, but embus interfere.
Proper Care of Carriages.
Attention to little details in the care of
carriage will touch prolong its days of use.
fulness. The wearing p04tie110 of the ax10s
should be well and irotlueutly oiled. In a
new wagon the axles should be oiled after
every twenty -mile run, Wipe orf the skeins
with -a woolen cloth, also remove all oil
and dirt front each end of the hub. For
light vehtcles, use castor oil. For heavy
wagons, the prepared axle grease is far sur
pe4ior to soft grease. _Never allow a wagon
to be used until so dry that it creaks, as the
vehicle then Leeds inersasedpower to move
it,tttnd there is damage to the axle and hub
in the rapid wear.
Ill all light wagons use leather washers to
.take up the wear on the ends of the hubs.
If the fifth wheel has been properly con• 1
stracteti, no oil will bo needed on it. The l
,hill coupling should bo kept in good re -
pate and dose fitting. 111 bolts should be 1
kept in place, and, rattling of any per -1
tion thereby mei Led, Do nut allow land
to remain long oh the painted surface, A
few pails of water dashed on the wagon, ,
when the mud is damp, will u5e011y rinse '
off most of th:, dirt, and by the use of the I
small hand spraying pump it can be left in I
a presentablo et nditon with but little or no,
nil use of the sponge. If end is allowed to dry
on the carriages it soon deadens the luster
of theva:nish and renders the paint less
durable.
If possible, all wagons should stand upon
an earth surface when not in use. The
moisture in the soil prevents shrinkage of
the woodwork of the wheel, and the tire is
thus kept close fitting for a longer time
than when standing upon a wooden floor.
Paint first wears off from the side of the
felloes, and on wagons much used this por-
tion should be painted or oiled at least every
spring.
Rearing Early Lambs.
The most profit is made from thequick-
est sale of any product, and especially of
such as must be fed expensively. And
there is no quicker product and none ether
that is so pofltable as the early iamb. One
sells for as much in May as two in Novem-
ber, and the farmer not only gets a better
price but he saves twice and even four tinges
the seeding. Any large town or city fur.
018)180 the market for teem, and the early
sale makes it possible to fatten the ewes
after the lambs aro sold and market them
-out of the way for anther flock in the fall.
The kind of lamb however, is to be thought
of. The best 0f all as a cross of a Sinop.
.511110 ram on Il:ttive ewes—that is, consider-
ing the profit, for the prate lamb is to he pre-
ferred before the cross, were it n!ot that the
pure eaves are too costly to be Made into
mutton as with the cowmen 01ee. And the
disposal of the ewes, and the less first post
matte the larger profit. The ewes should
be purchased early in September so that the
lambs may come tut later than in Febru-
ary, and if the flock is gathered in Augnat
so much the better, for the earlier they are
in the market the more they bring. In this
,busfnese one has three dividends, and the
first 00st returned within a year ; the lambs,
the fleece, the profit on the ewes and the
first west returned. This is a prohteble
business,
Apples for Stook -road.
Apples are not a strong fool( for live
stock, and the lack of "strength " may be
shown by a short table of comparisons, The
leading compounds for which a fodder• is
valued are the albuminoids and carhohy
drates. The former contains the substance
for the making of the vital juices, muscle,
etc., while the latter are to do the work of
the 8mimal machines, the fuel for the engine,
so to speak. Of these groups of food elements
the following familiar food stuffs contain
the averages as given atter each:
Albuminoids, Carbohydrates,
Potatoes, ..8..54"% 84.211%
Turnips 9.40°° 09.54
Pumpkin, ....17.33', 5(3,02 s'
Bents (field), .,8.90°' 45,7.,5
Apples (fresh)„1.4:1''; (11 51 le
Pomace, 4 '30” 76,30„
;7,Thus far we have said nothing as to the
relative values of the albuminoids and ear.
holtydrates, but wlteu It is understood duet
the former are the much more important,
therefore expensive, it follows that fresh
apples are a weak food. The pomace 1,0
much better boos iso there has been a con-
densation of the albuminoids. But as the
albuntiuoida are mostly in the skin and
seeds and these are the least digestible, the
actual feoding valno is not What the table
would otherwise represent. .Apples ere a
poor food unless "wormy" and the W11311 10
to destroy those insects by fending them,
Use Good Judgment.
rainy ora dronthy spell will alarm some
men and drive away their good judgment,
and they will plant or sow or harvest before
the proper time. Grain cut 1.00 early may
mold. Hay out trio early is loss in quality,
Ground plowed too wet is cloddy, the
animal weaned or bred too early is stunted.
Keep a Record of Newly -Set T4'eee'
It is not good policy to trust wholly to
memory or labels for the record of newly
set trees. In setting a now orchard or fill -
leg in an old one, et setting various .kinds
of trees about the house, matte a record of
it in a hoolt kept for the purpose and placed
whore it will bo accessible at alt time, Tho
same applies to shall fruits. This t'eeorcl
will not only bean aid to tho oto who planta
thorn, but to those who may taloa iris place.
.A.100 note the date of planting, and how old
11\sy were when net ti trees and vines
need to be trimmed Po o a iagrd diiforcut•
ly from others, to obtain the 1004 1138111 10,
and to know just where they tire 100at41 is
a good thing. Plants and shrubbery with
long, difficult names 01,011ld also be recorded
in the hook, with both the .oinnio 1 and
butals'al nm1ue. Reeol'el the 0e0011 01
bloom 1 and if any special care of cultiva-
tion is recununendeti, write it out, 111, what
le butter, paste in tiro printed directions
with your notes.
Farm Notes.
1f yon expect the land to fend you, the
lana must bo well fed first,
To !make the winter dairy profitable, you
must begin by tilling n good tag 8110.
It is poor (arming to eel( the bust hay anti
leave your own steak only tile refuse.
Full ridge eau be bol from the feeding
crops only by feeding theta under novo',
1t is a hard 111144(131' l0 100.' money grow-
ing clover, because it has se matey flood
uses,
There 11 no elit in owning 0 single acre
of land more than you can thoroughl • culti-
vate, y y
Snrphie earnings 1811104 be invested in
anything that will pay emelt better than 0
good barn,
You cannot afford to buy all your Leen
supplies, no matter hoe• big crops you (41014'
lo sell,
Chotoe fruit ie never had fr'otn trees that
are permitted to bear more than they can
properly nourish.
Bogs 00111104 be fed off too soon after cold
weather comes, if you mean to get the
ntaxinmm profit.
NI farmer cal Word to ley manure until
he has first :nada use of every pound pro-
duced at memo,
lIow• can you expect to know it pays to
feed stook, unless you know the cost of the.
feed they eat?
!f yon really want the creamery started,
take some interest in it yourself, itisto'x. of
waiting for your neighbors to do all rite
work.
You cannot afford to get the impression
that you know ail about fanning ; and you
cannot afford to farm at all, unless you do
know a good deal about it.
Those who have decided to give stock
good feud and good oath this winter should
look them over now, says en exchange, anti
see how many there are that will •not be
likely to pay for it. Almost every yard has
some " scallawags " in it that ought to be
gilled out, (Good etock deserves good care,
and good care deserves good stock, too.
The secretary of the Indiana Horticultur-
al Society ,'elates the experience of a farm- I
or who took advantage of some warm
weather in February to commence plowing
a pieoe of clover sot. Tho return of cold
weather stopped his work when the held
was about two-thirds plowed, and he had.
to finish in April. On the two thirds first
plowed there was a flue stand and good crop,
and that on the rest was almost destroyed
by cutworms.
Do not save scabby potatoes for seed, and
plan not to plant potatoes next year upon
the land where they grew scabby this
year. And do not feed scabby potatoes to
the animalo wjthont 1)181 boiling 111101(1, The
scab has been decided to be fungus growth,
whioh may live in the soil, or he introduced
there from scabby seed, and may even have
vitality enough to live through the prooess
of indigestion, but it yields to boiling.
A writer in the Breeders' (,a: tt0 says
that he has tested his "sernb" horse, weigh-
ing 1,200 pounds, by the si le of Rho best
Percheron he ever raised, weighing 1,700
pounds, drawing his grain to the elevator,
and found that " the little horse was 100
much for the big one on all of the hills,"
and after drawing 3,000 bushels the little
horse looked as well as when he began, and
the big one did not look near so well, al-
though he was given two quarts of oats per
day more.
A LAKE W!TL' IN A GLACIER.
The ('arse or the Alpine Itisastrr Width
Overwhelmed a Part or .4t. Gert -ate,
The geologists who have investigated the
0(4088 of the great 1111140101 which oven
wllelmed a part of St. Gervais, Switzerland,
with ice and letter from. the lower part of
the Bion0ssy glacier, have solved the mys•
terse Up the side of the mountain, at the
foot of the steep glacial wall whose lower
part broke away, thuexplorers found in the
ice an oval cavern about 130 feet in width
and Zi feet in height. In the interim. of the
cavern was a corridor covered with blocks
of ice and leading into a gigantic basin with
perpendicular walls of ice. It was 45 feet
long, 300 feet wide, and 140 foot high. In
this great cavity Hoare had been an intra-
glaoial lake of whose existence no one had
been aware. The condition of the walls
proved that the cavity had been full of water
reoently,
The existence of this great reservoir of
unfrozen water enclosed on all sides explains
the nature of the immense avalanche that
overwhelmed the valley below. The exces-
sive heat of the days before the disa for
had probably increased the quantity of
water to the natural reservoir, and the
greater pressure broke the front wall, crack-
ing away the lower part of the glacier, and
permitting the immense volume of water to
pour down the mountain into the valley be.
low, carrying with it the broken foot of the
glacier, The water and ice fell a distance
of 2,000 feet down an inclined plane two
miles long, and a pert of Sia Gervais had
been overwhelmed almost before any one
heard tho roar of the approaching deluge.
This is the only accident due to such a
remarkable cense ever known in the Alps.
It has been followed, however, by n some-
what similar accident at the Misrule glacier
near Pottreeine, A considerable part of
this short, stoop glacier fell, and, although
there was no loss of life, the =Admit draws
atteution to the foot that all over the Alps
climbers (hese recently noticed a swolliugof
the upper 01(0138 whiah feed the glaciers.
'(.'hey report that not el few of the gleaners
have been impassable without great risk
this season, and that the upper edges of the
great 010450se8 have overhung in a remark-
able manner, These facts point to an ex-
pansion of the upper snow field by groat
heat, and before tine past season was morn
than half over climbers were warned of this
fact, which was doubtless the cause of many
avalanches.
A fall of hoe from one of the glaciers in
the Valley of Visp partly destroyed 1110
village of Teach, near Zermatt, It carried
away nearly a quarter of a mild of the high-
way, The waters of the Viege torrent,
swollen by melting snow from the moun-
tain0, attacked the stone heel of the Viego•
Zermatt Railroad and destroyed a large see-
thin
eathin of the line, For a number of days
tourists going to Zermatt were transported
on mules around the break.
Tho men who hnv most powerfLilly influ-
enoed Lite world have not been se molt moil
of 80111110 as men of Strong convictions and
enduring capacity for work,
"She is inconsolable for the loss of her
lntsbau', T believe?" "She is. Since him
death oho had four olfers of marriage and
c,l . , efneed them all but ono."
A IVIARYELLOU8 OLD AGE! cocand l0oplcinn, two of the ether el gem
1 I of the
e Deelaralion of lndimendence. Among
other cel(hritiee whom lie remembers were
Chief Jueti08 John Marshall, Piokitt, Car-
' rington anti Ambler, fn early times there
was (1011 friendly feeling between the
white and entered people, but Gabriel's
attempted 181 41bon in 11100, followed by the
revolt under Nat 'Turner, caused a bitter
feeling among the whites against the colored
people. 11r. 'Linsley 11'00 a 111011 0101111001
d0 years of ago when the first railway 1400
101114 1010 kUcluuond in lend, lle remembers
the event With all the greater clearness be.
cause he made the doors for the railway
station. Prior to the building of the road
some inventor or prolnolee had exhibited a
model locomotive et work on a miniature
Rath.
The Colored Patriarch of Toronto Quietly
Passes Away.
1pe ('etlsed .t tel lye 'Worn nt ne 11411 I,liell lo -
66811 nearly ee years.
Old ,IohuTinsley, the celebrated patriarch
of the colored hnnuuunity of Tot'mlt0, and a
man Nhoee interesting exptrienoe.a and high
character had won him friends among all
classes and in tunny ()flies, pa000) away the
other morning at the remarkable age 01 1(10,
he having entered the tenth year of the
00emnd century of his existence of the 4th.
of J my last. A press representative called
at 1119 (late teen l once, 81 Agtles 06ILL t, and
WAS 115100,1 by the grandson of the (locoweed
father, " You would think he was asleep,"
ho said : " there is 110 sign of loath about
hint." It. 111140 true, The old patriarch lay
14'46 n 1. halm, nnlvru 1 I 1
and untroubled. An att'h:at:m to pride
Aem' int tho ayes of his grandson 0,5 he 0/114,
' He looks Ir.,ppy, /10001,'1 110? " nml the
1111 1011/0111,1 oily agree with hint, A. third
person joined the two as they stood by the
old 11111'0 ,,edit 1)11,1 looked sorrowfully at
the ltfeleas holy,
:11'1! yon his grandson, ton? " asked tho
report 131.
" No," he replied ; " I ant no relation at
all, but Mr. Tinsley adopted me wh'n 1
was six years old. I used to live on a plan•
tattoo in Louisiana next to that 011 341)1011
ale..finsley's sister lived. IIe came to pay
her a visit once—about fifty years ago —
and while ho was staying there my father,
who was n Scotehnlan, arranged to go on a
trip to the old country, fly 111041104' W113
dead, and he did not know what to do with
ms 11ur1mg his absence. I was five o1' six
years old only. 114'. Tinsley volunteered to
take charge of me till he returned. ldy
father wa0 only too glad, and I went off
north with lir. Tinsley, fly father was
drowned at sen, and 1 continued to live
with Mr. Tinsley, who treated me always
as if I waa his owe olti:d, .1 came with hint
when he moved to Toronto, and lived with
hint till 1 married."
CHAT WITH AN OLD FRI1SNn.
'l''he grandson then took the reporter into
the barber shop of 1Ir, Ii1(aha Edmunds, at
the corner of Aerates and Yongo areas.
'"There's a gentleman," he said introduc-
ing
ntroduc-
ing the writer to the reporter, " that knows
,more of my grandfather than anybody else
iu Toronto,'
' That is quite tree," said Mr. Edmtmds. •
"cI was born 111 (110 00(80 0)13' with hint, and
110 was 0110 of the first customers. I shaved
him away hack in 18211 in Richmond, Va.,
Air. Tinsley was very highly thought of
there and was one of the moat eminent melt
in his trade in Richmond. He was a car-
penter.
Yes," coutinued 160 old barber, with a
sigh. "I shall miss Mr. Tinsley very mull
We have had a good deal of intercourse dur-
ing tiro last 50 years. You can't speak too
highly of him. He was a fine old gentle-
man.
" You must have begat business very
young, Mr. Edmuude, to have shaved Mr.
Tinsley in 1S25 ?"
"Not so very young ; I am 78 years old.",
" Anal you have a steady hand yet?"
" Try it," said the hale old gentleman,
picking up his razor.
But instead, the reporter sat and chat-
ted a while longer about, the barber's old
friend.
OUTLINE 01' x108 013(0108.
From the conversation and froth animas
previously printed in the Globe and else-
where, a very fair biographical 8140601/ has
been obtained.
The d000ased was born in Richmond,
Va., on 4111 ,duly, 1733. Iied he made his
0ppea•nn00 in this world a very few years
sooner he could have claimed to be as old
to the very city as the assumption of inde-
pendence by the UnitodStates. But though
not quite contemporary with Jolforson's im-
mortal writing, Mr. Tinsley is really as old
to the very year as the United Stator, for it
3/110 not until 1743 that the treaty of Paris
established the new nation among the politi-
cal divisions of the world. The utero men•
Hon of a date does not convey to the busy
readier the true idea, of the length of lifo of
this patriarchal citizen of Toronto ; only a
comparison with such events as aro named
above can do that, Whets he came into the
world a few people werebeginn int; to see that
the work of a certain scientist and meoban•
feian, one James Watt, in perfecting the
steam engine, was preparing the way for a
revolution In productive industry, There
were whispers of wonderfully daring spirite
who thought of applying this new motor to
thepropulsion of a vessel. At the same
time there 8/118 a curly-patod two year•old
boy, the son of a poor English collier, who
was destined to grow up and become the
inventor of the locomotive and pioneer of
the modern railway, and thus to inscribe
his name—George Stephenson—imperish-
ably upon the troll of fano. The french
revolution and Napoleon had yet to appear
iu history. Burns had yet to publish his
first volume of poetry. In America the set-
tlements stretched along the Atlantic coast
1iue. Only as years progressed did one ter-
ritory after 0.11011101• ill up and assume the
title of State, Canada consisted of Quebec
and A, entreat, withagroat"hoolk oo111try"
to which seine hardy pioneers had made
then' way and in which one point had been
rescued from the wilderness—Niagara,
Not until eleven years later did Gov. Sim00o
start out to fund on Toronto Bay the site for
the now capital of the new Penmen of Up-
per Canada, Those facts give 801110 idea of
whet it moans to bo 100 years old,
Tinaley's father 8/00 froth the north of
Ireland, Samuel Tinsley. He bora arms in
the revolution, having the honorable rank
of captain in the devoted band who claimed
Washington 110 their general and leader.
The mother was a mulatto, There were at
least two others in the family, girls, who
died in Now Orleans a few years ago al-
most as old as their brother John, A broth•
e1' of Samuel Tinsley, lir. Peter Tinsley,
was for years clerk of the Chanee'y Court
at Riohmotd, Va., and claimed among his
subordinates Henry Clay, the great states-
man and orn1ar, who su >oec(uontiy ran for
the Peeedeney against the urv.nelble Jack.
5011.
Jahn 11. Tinsley, now deceased, was
brought up to the trade of carpenter and
millwright, At the age of '28 he married a
free colored woman, who bore him Dight
children. She died in 1844, ane.( 1111110 of
her children now survive. Deceased, how-
ever, leas seven grandchildrensixteen
groat•grandohildren, and nulneroas great.
groat•grandchildren now living, some fu
Aust.raba, but most of thorn in Canada and
the United States, Ono of his sons, Janne,
was a musician and ashorthand writer, enc(
Was 1084 nn the steamer City of Glasgow on
the wn4y fl'ottr England 32 year:. ago.
1410 0419 t1'(8111NfrrON.
Mr, '1'ineley rernenbo'ed having seen Gem.
Washington when hn passed O),tnulrh Rich•
mend on 0810 000031011, Ile also ,n,r flan•
A Tnl8ATnr: PANI(1 TN 1811.
Among his expertennes was thrilling one
of a thoatro panic. Ito hall gone with he
Wife and throe 0iat0re to the old IIicl,mend
Theatre on the evening of 23130 l,r,',mbet•,
1811. 'Thi' play 14'00 "The Road to Ruin"
—tlmt sounds al'ehaie enough, for this nuts.
torpiec0'1 11,1/1uft's was published in 1792
—but before the play was flnished lire
started ltelth,1 the curtian and made its way
to the 110.11' of the hall, calming a fe:u'f111
pant•, Many people were crushed e1' burn•
o,l to death, but 11,- Tinsley maanateed to
emeap0 in safety with all his party, Sir,
'.Tinsley carne le ('.41,11114 to visit triend0 on
one occasion, and as he lilted the country
11e removed to It and settled in 'Toronto in
1842.
Deceased ceased active work at his trade
about twenty years ago, when he 140.8 fu
the neighborhood of 90. Before that time
he had do0o a great dual of work in the
city tae builder and contractor. He wins a
member of the Baptist Church at Queen and
Victoria streets, cul was highly respected
there by the members and pastor. He was
converted when he was living in Cincinnati
about 70 years ago, and ever since he be-
came known in Toronto, a period covering
rattler over half 14 century he led a most
exemplary Christian life. He was not a
teetotaler, but drank even as a young man
very little strong drink, and abandoned
emoking rafter trying it once 90 odd years
ago. He ceased taking snuff in 1835. He
began (rearing spectacles ten years ago.
His sight lately was poor and his hearing
somewhat dull. He took to his bei two
weeps ago, brit suffered no pain, He was
conscious to the last, and conversed freely
with his relatives. Ile was fund of a laugh
and a story, and as late as Jlotlday last his
grandson says he was able to oracle a ,joke.
Deceased 11110 a man of medium height,
1ve11 and compactly built. His hair and
board for years before his death wore pure
white, hut 111(18(111 11e ohoW01 abundant evi•
donee of great age he had the vigor and the
faculties of a lean 59 years his junior.
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
A century plant ie coming into bloom in
the greenhouse of a London florist.
the Laplander sloops in a big reindeer
skin, to keep hint warm, The Past Indian
also sleeps in a bag ; but it is not 0ir•tight,
and is only intended to protect him from
mosquitoes.
Naturalists assert that a healthy wal-
low will devour 6,000 flies every day.
In a London auction room recently a pair
of bellows of Italian workmanship—and de-
signed, it is supposed, by Benvennto Gel-
lint—was sold for 470 guineas. No such
price has ever been fetched before by any
article of the kind.
In 1861 1110 famous Languedoc canal was
completed. This gave France an artificial
waterway 148 1ni10s in length, with a sum•
mit level of 600 feet above the sea, and in.
eluding upward of 100 locks mud 6tty aque-
ducts.
In the south of Europe the rosemary has
long had magic ptoportlos ascribed to it.
The Spanish ladies 00011 11 wear it as an
antidote agndn0t the ovi1 eye, and the Pon
tugue0e called it the 011)1 plant, and del -
LI laud it to the fairies.
Swedish weinen often work as farm labour-
ers. Theo that have babies carry them on
their hacks in a leather bag, as squaws
carry their young. Thio plan pernlit8 the
mother to use both .hands at her farm
work.
A Chinese official, high in authority,
states that it is customary 10 preserve dead
bodies by inotosiug thein In boxes of tea.
This tea is afterwards collected and shipped
to and sold in foreign countries. Tho vas•
sell containing it aro distinguished by a
Nemeth mark known only to the natives.
The largest species of rootless plants are
the " sea weeds of the Atlantic, Pacific
and Indian Oceans. In plants of the seaweed
kind the strneture'varies considerably, some
being merely microscopic vesicles, while
others have vines and stents as large as the
average forest trees,
The Australian jungle fowl (liegapodius
Tumulus) makes its nests in the ahapo of
earth mounds of prodigious size, one of
which measured 13 feet in peependioular
height, and having a circumference bf 150
feet, Those heaps are pieced under shelter,
and often eo enveloped in foliage that, in
spite of their great size, they can scarcely
be discovered,
The general notion seems to bo that gide
of from sixteen to twenty form the mein
audience of the novelist. But we are in-
clined to think, that the real 1011ie1100 con -
slew of young Married W011100, sitting at
home in the first year of their marriage.
They 60d themselves with ontany constraint
upon their trending ; they choose what they
will, and they road incessantly,
The insignia of the Order of the Garter
are n—.14 gold medallion of St, George and
the Dragon, suspended from a blue ribbon ;
the garter itself, of dark bino velvet ; a
bum velvet mantle Hued with taffeta, w16h
the star of Rho Order embroidered on the
loft breast 1 a hood and 01110011/, of crimson
velvet and 0 hat of black velvet ; a collar
of golf weighing 30 01111005 ; and the star
with the cross of St. George iu the centre,
encircled by the garter,
In ancient times Greece possessed Home -
thing like 7,500,000 acres of dense forest,
and Oho was oomparutivoly rich in Grebe.
until half a century ego. Many forests
have now disappeared, and the result is soul
both in the scarcity of the water supply cul
in various iujnriotte climatic effects.
Some lady jam+nalists recently were de-
sirous of finding out 3ho1h00 the people who
0ang in the streets made good living.
They, therefore, adopted a oufiieieet
guise, and taping a guitar welt forth to try
their fortunes, After singing and playing
For an hour and a half they had colloctad
70, 4jd,
3010111(1 tiro length of the permanent ways
of the surface of the globe at nearly sixty
thousand geographical 110110s, with a daily
average of ton trains, it is estimated that
the total loss by wear and tear finlfere. each
day by the motulli0 riffle of the earth ie
about eix hundred tons, The six lintel,m3
tone are loft in the form of a title powder,
and I1,11 c00i,,,1 letek to the earth ill the
:lope of soluble iron mats,
HEALTH.
The Hygienio Treatmout of Piles.
An English phyeiolan gives seine pr'aeti•
cal s0ggeetioms on the 1•auomd tr1Wanent of
that very cont,00n disorder, hemorrhoids or
piles, as follows ;
Once itis established that a patient 11100
piles very incl, twit, be done to live relief
without operation in a considerable proper•
lion al oases 1 in miry, to °deet a euro.
Diet and exercise arc of first Impurtanee,
Stint latto should be avoided—the mere
nonhplotoly the better—and fruit eaten free.
ly. Brown or whole meal bread assists
notion of the bowels in Anne petients, while
others are relieved by oatmeal pore (Igo et
breakfast with e1' without molasses. 1f the
bowels ao,tinuo ohslinate, u done of one of
the na(10(01 aperient waters, 01 0 teaspoon-
ful of castor oil, or two teaspoonfuls of gly.
cerine may be taken in the morning oaely ;
the mime end may he gained by a wine -glass.
fill of a 11,1600111' eontamiug front one to two
dr while of sulphate of magnoaia, two to
tirlro grainy of 'ptinino, a (eV alrops of
11/111 10 01111111111'10 acid, and syrup (1 taste,
Homo person:: are relieved by drinking :,
° a sol 1 of cid ••Iter, 011 •s 00140 (4,00,10
water or warm milk in early monies.
Those hailing, an enema of halt 11 pint of
00111 or lapid water, with the addition of a
little soap or glycerine, may fulfil the de-
sired
o-sired '013110) promoting easy actor,
1loruing ablutions, cold or tepid, no.
cording to activity of miction, are very
aaefnl in bracing the system, and ex-
citing peristaltic action by reflux stimu-
lation. 'lids ofleet is oncloanecd by rub-
bing or brushing the loins and abdomen
with trough 4ow01s or flesh brushes. The
exercise, ineeparable from those maneuvers,
is of great use in oveecominq intestinal
teepee, haoh ease mast be 010100ge1 accord-
ing to the constitution and circumstances
of the pp -Weider patient. As a rube, relief
is peoporticnote to the strict ob8orvmueo of
hygienic directions and to the small amount
of medicine taken—that little should he
mild, neve drastic.
The time for promoting action of the
bowels is important ; when practicable, be.
fore the morning bath and the attendant
toilet ism good time. lint not many persona
are ready for action so early. When the
piles are rather large, and have a ennslder-
able tendency to protrude, the patient is
comforted by resting in tho horizontal
position after stool. Sometimes itis well
to cultivate the (habit of relieving the
bowels just before retiring to bel at night,
Cold spon;i,g the fundament, m,nledialcly
after ilefeoation, is Ia very useful practice—
the part being afterward thoroughly dried,
by mapping not rubbing, with a pieeo of
absorbent tissue, or soft 1nr11i8), toweling, cr
of old linen—not paper. The imperfect re.
'novel of impurities, in the 1181111 method
of cleansing conduces to irritation, targe -
seance, and spasm, which in its turn 0000nnes
a provocation to further nervous and vas-
cular excitation. To restore the local civ
°elation within physiological limits, and
secure nerve rest, should be the surgeon's
aim, as the stwest means of arresting local
pathological changes, and restoring bodily
health, 111 the event of protrusion, light
continuous pressure with the cold sponge
assists reduction, orh0zeline nifty beapplied
to the mucous membrane if it bo very ir-
ritable or bleed readily.
A very useful p110tic8, on completion 0.
the local toilet, is to place a piece of
dry absorbent gauze and cotton tissue
between the buttocks, the manna con-
traction of widish is quite equal to keep-
ing the small pad in its place ; the elas-
tic pressure is soothing, and conduces
to shrinkage, and the parts are comfortable
in proportion as they aro kept dry. It is
very remarkab'o what formidable looking
piles may bo benefited—nay, ourod—by
these simple meneures, long pe•seveeel in.
But when the piles aro of old standing, and
blued, e1' protrude meth, when external
piles fern, a solid ring in which the protrud-
ing inner ones are apt to become semi.
strangulated, an operation is the readiest
and most lasting method of relief.
Neuralgia,
Of the many complaints u'hkit affeot Rho
nervous system there is ono which is par•
ti0,01ar1y unpleasant, insomuch that it is
extremely painful. Tide is neuralgia, a
disease, or bet.1ee an affliction, to which
women are especially liable. The checks
of a woman are ordinarily covered daring
inclement weather by e veil, and she is so
regardful of iter complexion that she carries
an tnnbrella, or something of that sort, to
protect herself (tool external influences
which might aggravate the ravages of Gine.
However, her skin 18, as a rtile, thinner than
that of a elan, even though she may show
more plumpness of fade and throat, says the
Now York World.
While ne0ralgia may affect a nerve in any
part of the body, for the term merely means
a painful neevo, 10 seems to have a species
of friendship for the nerves which take their
course through Rho face proper, that is be-
neath the skin 1)01011 the cheeks and up
over the cheeks to the eye, whiell it does
not con for on any other set of nerves.
Thu peculiar and distressing symptoms
which accompany neuralgia are simply those
of pain—pain of the most acute character,
and both shooting and incessant, It is both
localized and general, but affects blpartiou•
lar the fade, and carries with it an exhaust-
ing and depressing headache, It affects the
eyes, the ears and. the tenth, and in general
makes 1310 miserable.
Neuralgia opines from exposure to cold,
from a hereditary predisposition to nervous
disorders whish find fuel in theirsnrround-
mgs and free oa1010ssness in the way of
keeping the body ata proper and oven tem.
potato's), ,Vet and wetly weather favors
it, while sunlight and dryness are its most
potent 0118110100. at little precaution will
prevent it most effectually, and by it little
precaution are meant hate, shoes, ander•
wear and outer clothing absolutely suited to
the day mild not to the 0oilmen,
•Nourelgies will fled it to their advantage
closely to observe the publiebed weatltot' 1,1-
dteatien 0111) to wear their clothing in
weight, in consonance with the predictions
of the weather prophet. The facie should
never be exposed to severe draghbs of wind
or to any influenoo 14111011 might tend to.
ward discomfort, Besides this, the teeth
should ho kept in perfect order, as the
facial pain not infrequently comps from d(e•
caybng teeth,
Provention of Diphtheria.
At a roach diecus0ion at the New York
Academy of Medicine upon the value of
preventive 11100001400 and disinfection, with
m ooial reference to diphtheria, many valet -
able, practical suggestions 11'er0 offered.
A great part of the measures recommend•
ed for purposes of disinfection, after the
occurrence of a 0100 of the disease in a
hotl0cltold, would apply equally well to other
011000800 of an infectious diameter, or to
those definitely known to bo bacterial in
their origin, 811011 m0a81troe r• lnnot 1>o too
familiar to beetle of lions:)(' -l'
The value placed upon !+,, ,0'llation of
children atteeked by diphtheria is 8holym by
the feet that it was t'eoouunondod that the
mmnielpal authorities ehould ostablioh sta.
lions, u1' buildings, for the reception of the
,Jl e,ohildrot of families alluded u ed with this
disease,
1411110 10008111'05 of value ill iuf:atiens
11 imam generally t,ve recommended, On
going out of it 0)0.1•rue111, ,1temdante should
change their uuler olothing. Al1inexpensive
materials venting in 0011180t with the body
of the si 1 p e' 01
f a c p tx > should he burned.
l'illows, =darters and like 0rtinlo0 used
in the siak-room should he thorough lybeaten
on the roof, and exposed for many oonso0(1'
live hours to the sunlight and fresh ale be.
fore further 11130, 1' o (lee's and ooilings of
Rha occupied rooms sleet') be seethed with a
watery 0ohttion of cert'ooivo sublimate—one
part of oublimutto 60 a thonsau9 parts of
water. 1'11)18181) walls should be wiped down
with breed -cruets, which thoroughly remove
dust and germs without sea610111 g them or
feinting the paper,
The praeti00, common in Europe, of
holding it glass pinto between the physician
end his patient while exaeining the 110100t
was reeeneeeteled. By Ode me11n5 the
lodgment of particles of the 0ecrntion 00ngb-
od from the throat upon the face, heard or
person of the physt0utn, which ,night be a
00111oo of danger 10 the 101101', 01' be convoy.
Lel to other patients, is 0101,1 1.
Sick children are sometimes over -fed 0nc1
over-xtimnl0ted, 1103(1, Leel juice, mutton
broth, wine whey, oatmeal and barley
gruels tumidly furnish 0 0101110iettly varied
noun, and are more likely to agree with
the stomach that Leo cream or W1110 jollies.
A soft rubber tube passed through the nose
into the esophagus, or gullet, end attached
to a funnel, forms a good method of forced
feeding who( that becomes necessary.
Emphasis was laid upon the neoessity of
watching 010001y for the first fluttering of
the pulse in diphtheria, Much a fluttering
predicts dangerous heart'foilore.
gholera-
The world was never so emelt as it is to-
day, 11ems of rapid transit aro bringing
all qusrters of the globe closet' and closer
together. This result has its dangers as
well as i1a 0dylunta(00. The recent outbreak
of cholera in European ltussla, of whose
daily ad Vanes we aru male aware by cable,
warns ns that we have delivers to tear from
a ton clone international relationship.
The gra'8 responsibility of keeping from
0110' land the dreaded emu rgo of cholera rests
upon the sanitary inspectors of our port
titles, for it is Duly through a few great
gates of 40lnnlere0 111111 we have reaa0n to
fear its intt'odtuaion.
Recent exporlalleeo With typhus fever in
the port of Now York have shown that
there are w00111: points in our quarantine de-
fenees which should be remedied, When
once these bulwarks are passed, the labor
of disinfection is increased a thotsaud-fold.
It should be the duty of the authorities
to prepare beforehand for thorough invite -
tion of all arriving vessels and for complete
disinfection of all suspected freight and pas.
singers.
The usually easy-going American should
not allow his good nature to mortify the
stringency of Ids maritime sanitary regula-
tions, European officials are to be commend-
ed for their increasing vigilance in this re-
spect,for it is by their efforts that the disease
may be kept from shipping ports, whence it
might bo distributed by commerce.
Tho disease called oholer'ine, which has
lately been prevalent in and about Paris, has
boon watched with anxiety by the authori-
ties, but there is every reason to believe
that it lain no way connected with the genu.
ine cholera.
Probably cholera will never again ravage
Europe as it has done in past. Repent acieu-
tilio investigations, tvhidt have given us a
closer knowledge of its nature and of the
conditions latvornblo and unfavorable to its
development, have contributed powerfully
to render ellicacious the °abets made to pro -
vent its spread.
Universal 010anline50, with good water
and good drainage, would invisibly banish
cholera from the earth : but under existing
eirenmsuances, when it has once teamed on
Re travels it requires tic newt stringent
regulations to check its prestress,
While European ports aro free from this
disease, the limited antes ran hardly bo
said to be menaced on her atlantic coast,
Nevertheless, prudence bids us Make prep-
arations to guard both our Pacific and At-
lantic ports against such an insidious disease
before the danger from it, becomes immL-
neut,
The Uses of Honey.
A writer in to Horticultural Times 0x.
proses surprise that honey is so seldom seen
on the tables of the people of this country.
Honey is at onoe a valuable medicine and
food. Poul air, improper ventilation, sudden
changes of weather, the exposure of lungs
and temoat to a damp atmosphere, are the
source of no end of 11110(at bronchial troubles.
A free, regular and constant use of honey is
probably the boat 111001301118 for throat
trontblea there is. It is a most wholesome
and economical substitute for butter being,
vs a rule, half the price of that article.
Honey is of more. service in our cooking
than Most people imagine, Those who in-
dulge in aglass of grog end hot water on
cold winter nights, should try the effects of
a spoonful of hone' instead of sugar. The
change w111 surprise then,. Honey may,
indeed replace sugar as an ingredieut in the
cooking of almost any article of food, In
rice puddings tut writer invariably uses
honey instead of sugar ; the 90100 is 1nnolt
more delicious: For preserving nlo0t kinds
of fruits, honey is far preferable to sugar,
as it has the quality of preserving for a long
time in a fresh state anything that natty be
laid in It or mixed with it, and preventing
its corruption in a far superior Manner t0
Began. For many medical purposes honey
is invaluable. To town residents who may
be jaded and look careworn after the ex-
citement of late hours, when the skin be.
conies dry, red, and harsh -looking, try the
effects of rubbing gently a thin coating of
honey on Rho face before going to bed. Ie
is one of the fittest cosmetics in the world,
Music -Loving' Spider.
Mr. W. 3'. '1), Leavitt, writing of hie ex-
perio eee in playing the groat organ form'
Orly in Music Hall, Boston, tells a pretty
story of his most regular listener—w spider
which had taken up its abode in 1110 01(1011
case over the performer's hoard. 1t ronain-
od there for about a year, lir. Leavitt says,
It was a musical little fellow, and when I
began to play it Would spin clown almost to
a level with my loft shoulder and. gently
swing to and fro and listen. When I had
finished( a piece it would draw itself op to
Rs nest and when I began another down
it would 00010 again and resume its position
130 an interested llstoner,
ft had six legs Two it put out in the
air ea a balance pole, two it handled Rho
wolf with, and the third pair it meed inpiull-
ing itself up hand over hand, no 0ai101's.
climb 0 repo,
1001110 at last to wattth for the follow,
and it was elwaye faithful, mo Hutt :1 was
snare of et 10031 0110 attentive clad npprooia.
tivo boa.rer,