The Brussels Post, 1893-1-27, Page 7erAlluary 27, 1893
AGRICULTURAL.
Expel'iMentc in Foedlne `steers.
Bulletin 1O of the Central 1':xpel'inlenlal
Farm C011 1111110 the remelts latish :oil by t10,
eontfunlnue during last. w'hler of the ex.
perinlcnls ineuglu'tlted during the winter
of 18(1(1.1)1, tette!) the leets Inside proved that
steers fell on corn ensilage lend meal gaiucd
in weight on the. average 3:11bs. per head
more and mot 7.33 cents per Lead less per
day for feed consumed than those, fed on
hey, roots, and ureal, and that tato saute
atocra gained Ole lbs. per )read more, and
oost3,118 cants per head leen per Clay for feed
than those fed on hay, loots, and morn ensi•
lege and meal, Loot winter the plant
of tate experiment was further extended
to discover the onmparative values of
feed consumed per 100 lbs. of fnor01114E in
live weight by three-year- old ste010,
two -year -ole '9te8113, one -year-old and aleif
steers respectively, The conclusions ar-
rived at in the ew0•year•old test were
that the steers fed on lawn ensilage and
meal gained on the average 55.4 Iles. per hes 1
more and cost 3.75 cents per head less per
day for feed than those fed on hay,
roots, and steal, and that they gained
ou the at'O1'age 3(1 lbs, per head more and
cost 3,81 coma per head lege per day for
feed than those fel ou hay, roots, corn en-
silage, and meal ; while the cost per 1110lba,
of increase to weight was 0.2.05 per cent.
greater o; tee hay, rents, and meal ration,
and 48.32 per cent. greater on the hay, ronts,.
corn ensilage, and meal ration, than it was
ou that composed onl,yof ensilage and meal.
In the case of the calf -steers, while those
fed o) corn ensilage and steal cost '2.87
cents pot' head less per day for feed
than those fed on hay, roots, and meal,
yet they, gained in weight 10 lbs.
per head less during the feeding period of
eighteen weeks, and the curt on the hay,
routs, and meal ratio] was 27.0 per day
greater than on that of ensilage and meal
alone.
The following table has been arranged to
present a comparison of the results in cum
veniont form. Tho lots which are conpe•ed
were fed from Dec, 1 to April 5 upon
Ration No. 3, tin. :
Corn ensilage .50 lbs.
Straw (cut) 5 "
Oil cake 2 '"
Peas(groend) 2 "
Batley (ground) 2 "
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Conclusions.—From this one series of ex•
poriments, it appears that ;
(1) The cost for feed consumed per 100
lbs. of increase in live weight was lowest
In the case of calf -steers, viz., $4.89 per 100
lbs.
(2) The cost for feed consumed per 100
lbs. of increase in live weight was 84.83 per
client. the greater by the three-year-old steers
than by two•year•old steers.
(3) The original weight of the two•year-
old steers was enhanced in value per lb.
quite as molt by the feeding for 18 weeks
as was the original weight of the three-year-
. old steers.
(4) Tho original weight of the one•year-
old steers and calf -steers was not enhanced
in value per Ib. to any appreciable extent
by the feeding for 18 weeks.
All About Butter,
""A farmer's wife" writes a—If, as 'lark
Twain says, "There comes a time in every
boy's life when he has a raging desire to go
somewhere and dig for hidden treasure,"
there must surely be a time in every man's
life when he is seized with an uncontroll-
able desire to write about butter -making.
We have gob so tired of newspaper butter
snaking that we juot skip it as wo do the
patent medicine column. If WO miss sone -
thing worth reading once in a while we also
miss a groats deal ehab is not, We read, for
instance in the columns of papers such
things as these—that the best way to make
butter is to keep the milk at the sane torn.
pe@4tnre as when drawn from the cow until
churned. 7 hat a good plan is to tie the
Dream up in a cloth and bury it in the earth
and leave it until the butter oonie8. One
man wanted his butter to cut downsmooth
and hard like marble, That somewhere
they tic up milt in a skin and fasten it to
tho pommel of a saddle with a long rope—
put the saddle on a horse and a boy on the
saddle and let him ride and the skin bump
along on the rough ground until the butter
cohnes, Even the bleak pepsin found more
then one credulous enough to prove it' a
failure. Having never tried any of these
plans ]: amulet say anything about them,
but some things that aro printed for feet I
know are not so. We are told 01'01' ant
Over again in the papers that we have only
to make good butter to command a good
price for 1t, Now any one who ever sold
butter knows better. 7b is tltc mare Mentor
who takes his bettor and drema the city
for customers who gots the good pt'ioe. If
he sends it in to a grocer of 00nnn)5.
01011 merchant they 4(110 hits the market
prion, and lie Inas to pay all ex enles out of
it, leaving abort fifteen Dente for his butte',
Another mlalako is to suppose that wo get
twolityoda cents for our butter by sending
our mills to a factory, If the hatter is sold
for twenty 011(1 conte wo get a trifle under
seventeen by the time the money reneh,rs
es, and then wo aro fully satisfied that ner
r getting o
worthy rote is not, Gtr t dolt G
proprietor r t
fast. Now,p about three ]c ver•olrg.lted pro
tluctirn that eve road so much about;. Ao
llmg as nineteen out of twenty Ince thea'
butler well salted, why not give it to them
festuad of trying to ediosate t11e111 to eat it
half althea? l'i'nt tltoy are so fold of doing
little mime 111 n,'1t1111m1i,1 like thin. if yea
have a herd of t amity move and by ex. ra
feed and alter.' ion (9111 get 11141f 14 pound of
hewer umre frog, each row a clay, (10 x
70 Ilia, whiuh, et thirty edits a pound,
make *21 a4 week from yuot' herd of t wenty
11,111'0 0x61.6• It entices us long to go have ahonldered, my liver out of order, (mil the
to ()ilt' grandmothers' day when they made slightnse eeart.iou hakes ole tremble and
their batter without heeding any one's - perepll'e, 'rho real wonder is that ( 61111101
hsbbioc, \Visiu11 of ms remember herdeit'y? fe rho bone yam. k,
Cool, clean, whilewashud, with the °meth "\Vity fluor, yon se1m to be perfectly
TEE BRTTSSlLS 'OST,
M. AND MRS. BOWSER. " sell you the whole outfit for e1 5,
which ,Io'en't begin to be half price, Let
"'1 think," said Mr.l;owcoratbre:,lcfilvl, I've got, so ihealt.hy and strong that unthing
the other m"rufug, "taut 1 will came 1111,0 '11n hold me now. A month ego 1 111148 a
tide sifters:eon 141111 0101411 net that 1114 mole dying Ina', Lank at tee now : liy (leorge,
in the Attie." 1 but tlterc'a nothing like it !"
" ilul, what for? " a ked ,llra. Bowser in
surprise•
"' Post my health. 1 Vs no wonder, W11011
WO 111111113 to 111)1111 about i1, thaI,1 am rolled
fur a floor, eerlheu dishes for her milk, and!
a dash churn, l:xperieuoo and common
Renee were her only teachers, She went by
the rule of tu0nh and a finger t erntomutac,
and always got her bettor good, 111110 and
yellow, sold it at llixpenee a pound and was
satslied.
I like the plan of the dairy school tory
well. Theo must bo something to learn
there for x11310110 having 14 lilting for the
business. Ac to anything olsc, wo ell kllow
all that can be said about it. Keep ev0ry'
thing clean, eltiin at the right time, let the
('oarn all steed and ripen together, churn
ae the right tolnpi'ata'e, wash and work
the butter just enough to work the salt, in
without streaking it, le the sunt and sub-
stance of all that can be Reed of it.
The Poultry Yard,
See that your poultry 11911800 and chicken
coops are well ventilated, without exposing
the occupants to the danger of sleeping in
draughts of air.
A successful poultryman finds buck-
wheat nu exoellcr,t food for fowls ; ho as•
aribos hie profit to its use, in addition to
keeping the poultry well fed and oared for.
It is not well to feed grown-up fowls
with too much soft food. It tends to snake
then] daypept!o. The crop becomes die -
tended, and the food pusses into rho gizzard
in larger gtrautities than is required. Bch•
ter feed then more on whole, dry grain.
Do not try to raise your chicks on the
manure pile. One reason why broilers lire
of stall 11110 flavor is 1111 account of the feed
they get. Pure grains and meat give the
desired effect.
Geese are profitable, and can be raised
with only the same water supply thee you
need for other poultry. Coalinga, to
succeed well, should be hatched as early as
possible. Their food is largely grime, and
if they can avail themselves of it while the
grass is young and tender, they can bo
grown with vary little expanse, indeed.
In making the chicken louse ready for
winter, it is not dash able to havo it vary
warm. A temperat tire of 50 doerees is better
and healthier that anything higher, but try
and maintain it evenly, and have good vein
tila1ion without draughts.
Whole wheat is better for fowls than
corn. It does not make then so het, and,
considering the greater number of eggs there
can be procured by using it, is altogether
a more economical food.
Savo alt the fowl house manure. There is
none better for melon and early garden
vegetables. Here ere some goodsuggestions
about saving it t In one corner of the fowl
house have an empty box or barrel, end in
another it barrel of land plaster. Next to the
floor spriuklo a thin layer of plaster, and et
regular set time times take a scraper and
scrape up droppings and plaster tggether
and place in the empty vessel. Another good
plan, whore land plaster is not convenient,
is to keep a pile of rioh, dry soil convenient
for use, instead of land plaster.
NEMESIS,
A\en 00110 0110061II One Opertl Performs
611601 OM IIe Anothrn'.
A singular story is that of the skeleton
which was used in " Der Freisehutz" up to
the hour when the old opera house was de-
stroyed, Long years ago, when Berlioz was
8 metlicalstudent, he went to the opera, with
fellow -student, afterward the eelehrat•
ed Dr. D--. While they neve listening
with delight to the exquisite strains of
Agatha's prayer, a grocer's boy near them
began to hiss With all his might. Berlioz
and his friend took possession of the irrev
event, thrashed him soundly, and pot hint
out of the door. Some years passed ; Ber-
lioz had given himself up to the study of
music, his friend had been installed physi•
oian, and the grocer had died in a hospital.
By chance the poor fellow's corpse was
brought for dieseetion to Ur. D--, who
recognized at once his ancient grocer ad-
versary. After itis anatomical investiga•
tions were ended, he caused the skeleton
to be prepared and mooted. and placed it
in his office as a memento of the joyous
d.tys of the Latin Quarter. Fifteen years
more passed away, and Berlioz was charged
by the director of the opera with the task
of writing recitatives for"Der lfreischutz,"
It was also agreed upon that Berlioz should
superintend the whole stage -setting of the
work. He was anxious that the phantoms
of the second act should bo worthy of the
opora and produce a striking effect. He
wet seeking, therefore, some new and orig-
inal idea, when chance caused him to meet:
his old friend D--, to whom ho confided
his anxieties.
" iron Want ghosts?" asked the doctor.
" I think I have at hone something in that
style. Do you remember a hisser whom
wo thrashed when we were students?"
" Perfectly. I always thought that fol•
low would eine to no good end"
" Well, lie died of gastrin fever, years
ago. But I Moto his skeleton, which is very
111(10)1 141 your service."
Berlioz accepted thisalmost too original
offer. The poor skeleton was transported
to the opera house, and thus, for his sin, ho
who had hissed Agatha's song, made his de -
bub on the stage fn"Der 1?reisohutz."
A Powerful Smithy.
A country boy, who had been brought up
in a rennets distriob of Scotland, had occ8-
sion to accompany his father to It village,
near which a branch lino of railway passer,
The morning after his arrival, when
sauntering in the garden behind the house
r1, whioh they were staying, ho beheld with
wondering oyes a train go by.
For a moment he stood staring at it with
aetoniehment, and then, rushing into the
house, he said r " Feitbor 1—faither ! come
ecu; there's a 0middy ran MT wi' m rate 0'
1100000, an' it's awe' Boon by the back o' the
toon !"
Just Beeped,
Young Lady—" I suppose you have had
some narrow escapes, Lieutenant Dash.
away ?"
Lieutenant ])aehaway--'" Ya•a-.», Atvinl•
ly narrow esoapo once, balk dove."
Young Lady (breaLhlassiy)—" In what
way ?"
Lieutenant DBe1tawn -- Vr vyeviet 1,t
•
•
(111,110[1(111,110[1 011 nr1i vo sorvlco(inn't•che• aneN .
The wet' tame to aan end, before we cn>it,i lt•
ed,"
healthy and ILrong,"
" Well, what, I seem to be and rattily 0111
are two dlll'('Ont things. I have Kept quiet
be1181100 I didn't want to worry yon, lost 11001
the Lima has come when I must do some-
thing or go to the w1411."
" But what can you do—take liver pills
and 11 tonic?"
" Liver pill) ho hanged ! " ho growled.
"I've got to have exercise—make mt10010
—got my blood to eiroulat(ng, I've Cot t0
rig up 11gymnasium and practice an hour a
day."\Ir. Bowser, you—you don't moan that
you aro going to buy it lot more truck to
throw away?" she Raked,
" Truck ! When did I over buy any truck?
I mean that I am going to buy a rowing
ma06ino, some dumbbells, a few Indian
clubs, and perhaps a lifting machine, 1f I
can save my life by expending a few dollars
in that direction it might boa good invest -
merit."
" Who put that ileainto your head ? "
"Are you 111 a hurry to get hold of my
life insurance?" ho stonily dsmetded as he
held lila fork posed in the air,
" Of course not."
" Then drop this subject. Some wives
are the first to discover Lhat their beloved
husbands are awlftly passing t0 tun grave-
yard, while others are as blind as bats. I
propose to (it up a gymnasium. I propose
to exercise. 1 propose to r0000I'e tate shat-
tered system to something like a fair state
of health. Pass that sugar over !"
\Ir». l3owsor said no more, and that after.
noon Mr. Boweer's health outfit acme up
and was put it: place. He broke three panes
of glass, knocked off asquare yard of plaster
in the roam below, and let a trunk full of
bedding roll down -stairs, but ldrs, dowse'
considered she was gettingoff easy compar-
ed to other occasions.
"I feel better already," ho chuckled as
his work wile finished and he stood survey-
ing R. " Mrs. Bowser, I predict, that in a
month you won't know I'm the seine man."
" 1 hope it may improve you," she answer-
ed ,n a tone betraying doubt, "butt if any-
thing happens I waist you to remember that
1 was opposed to all this,"
"Anything happen; What can hap•
pen?"
I don't know,"
" Nor anybody else, except that I will
be a Hercules in about a month iron> now
and feel lice a boy again. You can go
downstairs now, as I want all the room.
I'm ageing to take my first lesson in row.
iuMr. Bowser's face woro a broad grin of
satisfaction ae he sat down in the machine
and grasped the handles of an imaginary
pair of oma.
" Ah ! Doesn't that work up those ohl
cords and muscles in the shoulders though 1"
he chuckled as be worked away. " Strength-
ens the back, expande the ohect,and--"
One of his hands slipped off, and ler.
Bowser 1vi1l never be quite sure whether it
was a cold-blooded attempt to aesassinato
him or only a <iendish conspiracy to cripple
him for life. As soon as he could disen-
tangle himself he rolled out on thefloor and
sat up to exclaim 1
" sow by the great hornspoon—but if 1
had the ax up here I'd do murder ! 1've
wrenched my back till I won't get over it
in--"
"Mr. Bowser, ere you there?" asked
Mrs. Bowser as the knooke I at the door.
"Of course I ale !" ho growled.
"IVas it you who yelled out when
something jarred the hoose?"
"There has been no yelling and no jar•
ring, and you go dowstaire and see to your
work !"
"I'll begin with the clubs," he said as
the sounds of her footsteps died away. " I
see I have got to go slow with this thing till
1 get the hang of it. The man who invented
ally such machine as that ought to bo kick-
ed. \Ve'll limber up our arms a little."
He had once seen aprofessional swing the
clubs, and he stood in the middle of the
room and began to swing them around.
All of a sudden something landed on his
chin. His first thought was that a brick
house lied broken looso and was flying
around the country, but after a little re-
flection he decided that his chin had "met
up" with 0110 of the clubs. He dropped
thein with a great bang and hung on to tato
retneinder of his chin to save it. He was
executing a contortion act when Mrs. Row-
se rknocked on the door and inquired:
" Mr. 13owser, did you drop anything?"
" Nota blamed thing !" he shouted in re-
ply.
y" Oh, I thought I heard something fall,
and I didn't know but what you had over-
exerted yourself. Do you think you feel
better?"
" 01 course I do, and I'll thank you to
leave me alone for about ton minutes 1 It's
mighty funny thab I can't do n little exor-
oiting up here without everybody meting
as;if the House was afire !"
She went away, and he smoothed down
his oltin and inspected the club which came
in contact with it, and finally decided to
try the health lift,
' 'Good to straighten n hump -backed man
and brace up a pair of bow legs, they say,"
ho muttetad as Ito spat on his hands and
gripped the handle. "' I'm off my feed just
at present, but if I can't life four hon--"
'Ile laid out all his strength for a grand
effort), but, as the handles had not yet been
eonneetcd MI'. Bowser sat down on the floor
with a jar which jumped the nook in the
kitchen tat foot high, and•wheu the book of
tie head followed he lay very qui01 and wits
tinily conscious that Ivo was suspended in
midair by a piece of clothesline, and that
1,11 sorts of pinwheels, fiery serpents,
Roman candles, and sky'oalcots were dart.
'ng around Mtn. ]3y and by he recognized
the odor of oainphor, and ho heard a voice
strangely familiar and felt a soft hand rub.
blrtg his temples. He opened his eyes and
Mrs. Bowser wet there.
" Mr, Bowser, do you think that this has
tolpod your liver trouble and 001 yo 0(01002
to ru'culeting ?" she kindly asked.
Ho sat up and lookbd ab her. Then he
groggily got upon hie feet and looked at
her some more. She was shaking tihe
camphor bottle and about to hold it, under
tis nose when he pointed to the door alt<l
hoarsely whispered a
" .''his is the and 1 I'll never forgive you
15 1 litre a 1111111011 years 1 It's all plain to
no now, and you needn't say a word—not
a iv0r11 I Go --library --iawyor—divoroc—
alinintiy--•your mother !"
But next dray lie had alrpafeetly roster•
d his normal ennditio suta n '
0 t, aid a ho 1vo tap
stairs with it 50ratlgee Mrs. Bowser heard
tint saying 1
HORRORS OF HYPNOTISM.
'Pbe Anther ern (3131 for 1(1 euppreemi on
lY4lees or Iris menses•
Brief mention was made in these ills.
blatches a short time ago of a bill introdu011,1
y Senator Mitchell in the United Stater)
Senate htta0hing unusually heavy penalties
to the exmvise of hypnotism, maguetiem
mud other ocmule iulinenooe upon others.
The bill is one of the strangest ever offered
in Oongroos. It was introduced by 101'. M1t-
ehell at the request of a lawyer now living
in Washington, who is the son of ono of the
early Chief Juocieosof California, and who
Inas made the study of the Inyeterious forces
of nature his litre's work. IIe is thoroughly
7
ODDS AND END
('lase fs taught ill \'ionise pelf 1' eeheole.
in the British l'arlia ant (.1111.0 al's
ighlr,•u brewers.
The town of Forsythe, 3ie, i; nifty years
old and never bail a cl,uteb..
Abultt ten thonen,u,1 gran el pens are
prudneed from 14 1011 of steel.
Sarkis are 111,111' main that will weigh the
flame of a candle or the snu1111 ' etra'1 of
hair .pluoko I from the eyebrow.
'Pao Uredos of ten goats and tee work of
several num for half 14 year 111"I regnired to
make 11:omelet) cashmere shawl 11 yard and
a•half will,,
Probably the heaviest rudder 11'1 record is
that imide for the torpedo boat Vulcan. It
W141/ forged in single pieces alit weigher
twenty two tote,
A drying house for lumber hart boon erect.
ed rtt Ottawa in which electricity le the
heating power. This is the first eetabli0h-
mout et the kind in the world,
Champagne owes its equality to soil, a
convilncod that a groat number of method. mixture of ohelk, silioa, light Met, and, 0x-
0'10 m'in'es aro committed by irrosp'nsille ide of iron, and the great 0,4110 14101 delicate
persons who aro but rho helpleae agents of manipulation to mannfanture.
another who exercises hypnotic influences Telephotography ie at present interesting
over them. IIe thinko that there are Many , Parietal: experimenters and 011110es the
persons who have by natural endowment Figaro to predict that "90011 may be seen
and by the cultivation of the electro mag- in Paris the imago of a tartan smoking in 81,
natio, mesmeric, or hypnotic powers, the Petersburg."
ability to influence wham they please to their It 10 asserted that weterpptoof sheets or
own ends for good or for evil, and that, limper, gunnnedandhydraulieai!ycompress-
possessing these powers, they prey upon rho ed, melee a material as durable ae leather
rest of mankind. He thinks that some per- for the soles of shoes. It else Incites sor-
row poisoning these powers exercise then', viceable horseshoes.
unconsciously mtueining others to do things The con -.Mon snail is said to have 130
against their will, Those whom the rows of stout serrated teeth. The whole
author of the ',ill wishes to bring palate) contains about 21,000 teeth, ie is
within the paver of the law are claimed, while a full-grown slug has over
persons who, ho says, either organ- 20,000 of these silielone spikes.
ized into a sort of brotherhood or acting
by themselves, deliberately prey upon their
fellow mets, depriving them of their free
will malting then' but tools and agents or
slaves. Ho thinks that there aro many
from whose myeterieus powers no rattan or
woman is sate, Perseus possessing those
hypnotic powers, he slays, aro conceived
under conditions purposely designed to give
them the powers and are raised by their
parents from their birth with the view of
malting hypnotists or mesmerists of them,
and that the,. aro afterward used to exercise
their canny influence over other persons.
Acconipauyiug the bull is a, document pre-
sentiug the ('0880110 for the act, which shows
a wonderful accumulation of all sorts of in•
formation on the subject of mesmerism and
the like. The anther quotes numberless au-
thorities on eleotro•nmgnotism and hypno-
tism end enters deeply into the occult, The
knowledge of these arts, the writer says, is
possessed to a high degree by certain per-
sons in some parts of the world, and that,
by reason of their knowledge or pourers,
they dominate all thnee about then, and
can do all sorts of mysterious and terrible
things, which itis not to the interest of
their follow•men that they should do. He
says that the Mormons practice those arts,
and that certain means, which he describes,
are used to covey to children the powers to
be used After they have grown up to domin-
ate and ccntrol others.
THE PROPER HAND SHARE.
One 7do Longer Mnisce One's Arm, Don'l
Yon Know.
" No, that's no longer the style," said one
girl to another, as her friend raised her arm
until the immense puff of her velvet sleeve
10100 011 a level with her hoed, " we don't
shake hands in the air any more. At pres-
ent this ceremony is performed very low
down ; the arm is held rather stiff and the
)lands meet as near the knees 05 possible.
The clasp is the sane, as is also the shake.
Wait until we reach home and I'll give you
an objcet lesson 1n the way of kissing," she
continued.
"I learned it at school, but not from a
book, however; our principal taught us,
and alto forbade the girls to salute each oth•
er exoept in the prescribed manner—that
Is, a kiss on either cheek. While your lips
aro touching your friend's right cheek, hers
are taking the powder off your left,and vice
versa.
It's very pretty, very foreign and digni-
fied and requires time and practice in order
to accomplish gracefully; besides, it's more
satisfying than a hit or mien salutation that
alight) sometimes on the chin, sometimes on
the tip of the nosebut which was meant to
reaol the mouth.'
The Fatal Camel.
The popular conception of the name
makes him out to be an ugly, an unamiablc,
but on the whole a useful ore10tnre. A
paper which Mr. L. A. Floyer, Inspector -
General of Egyptian Telegraphs, lies pub-
lished in the gem Bulletin, will go far to
remove this impression. The country be.
tweet tho Nile and the Rod Sea is well
known to be now-a'days a dreary desert; it
is egn8113' well known that less than 2,000
years ago it was able to support large troops
of roving cavalry, who pioked up theft living
on spots that would now starve a lizard
In the sante way Palestine, where wo read -
of thousands of °harlots and horsemen mov-
ing about in Biblical times, is now in great
part a barren waste. Ae far as the ligyp-
tten desert is concerned, Mr, Fioyer be.
lieves thnt it is the camel and his Arab
owner that 11ro in fault. Originally the
valleys ntnsllhe ve abounded with trees ; in-
deed, their Arable names still testify to this.
A0 long as the Arabs were confined to these
valleys, they took oars of the trees for feecl.
ing the camels). Bub by degrees they got a
footing in the Nile Valley ; they hired their
camels out to farmers, and when they re-
turned for brief visits to their home valleys,
they let the camels gorge their till on the
leaves and young shoots that in former years
Wer," carefully protected. Your camel ie a
greedy brute, and, says Mr, Moyer, your
Arab is not numb better. Not content with
letting his camel eat the edible portion of
the Hees, he proceodod to out down the
remainder and convert itinto charcoal for
sale to the farmers. Thus the land was
gradually cleared ; and in natural segnonce
it sank into the waterless desert that it i0
now. And the camel eau hardly bo celled
the Ship of the Desert so rightly as the
Creator of it.
Music, of all the liberal arts, 11110 tho
greeted inllueuoe over the passions, and is
that to whioh the legislator ought to give
the greatest oneo ragetnolt.—[Napoleon.
The "Death Notieos" published ill the
Sootoll newspapers afford curiously interest.
ing testimony of the ohignity of the Soot.
It is an oft-uoteci foot that wherever the
foot of roan may wander there scaly will
the Sootclunau bo fontel, established and
prospering, and usually running things gen:
orally. y In a single recent (site of the lidin-
burgh ,Srelsman, are natieeu of the clrath of
Suntehmen, presumably all late residents of
Palinberglh, at Gibraltar, lavello, hely;
'rarkastad, Smith Afriet4 ; Jefferson, Wis.
Petrie, cousin' La 11413114 South America • 11113314,
eco Indira •Valparaiso.Ban-poem 'Bongeded t
Staten 151011, Mre,'Idia, and Molbonno,
AMU etch.
At Minorca the fisherman simply dives
to a depth of seventy feet with a weight in
ono hand to carry him down. R ith the
other hand he picks 11p as many oysters as
he eau carry and brings them up to tlto
boat.
A new marled light which will soon be in
place near I{avre will be the most powerful
sit the world. It will be visible at sea n
distance of from twenty-two to tiity-two
utiles, according to the condition of the
weather.
London requires some women to eat as
sanitary inspectors, in the opinion of Dr.
Corner, 'nodical officer for Popular. With
the help of e(iicientwonen working among
the poor he thinks epidemics might be nip -
pal in the bud. Glasgow already has six
women inspectors, who are doing an admir•
ehle work,
A Shower of Biaok, Poisonous Rain.
The meteorological records of the world
chronicle several incontestable Memnon of
black rainfalls, to say nothing of the more
startling phenomena of "showers of blood,
blue snows," etc. Prof. Barker, in April,
1545, laid before the Royal Society of
Dublin some observations on a shower of
black rain which fell around Carlaw and
Kilkenny, extending altogether over an area
of about 400 square miles.
During the course of his lecture Prof.
Barker exhibited to the society a specimen
of this uncanny shower whioh had been
sent hint by a friend. The specimen shown
in the vial was of a uniform blank color,
much resembling common black writing
fluid, Dr. Barker found, however, that rafter
allowing it to stand for a short period the
black coloring platter separated from the
water with which it had mixed, rendering.
the color of the rainwater tench lighter,
but still dark enough to be called "black
rain." The shower, whioh was in broad
daylight, was preceded by a darkness so
dense as to make it impossible for one to
read without the aid of a candle. After
this darkness had continued for some time
a ]tail storm set in, attendee with vivid
lightning, but without the least semblance
of thunder. When this hailstorm was over
the blank rain began to fall.
On examination cif the rain immediately
after the storm was over it wee found to
have an extremely fetid smell, as well as a
very disagreeable taste. All light-colored
animals and all artioles of clothing exposed
bore dark 0pote and stains, and oattle re.
fused to drink the water or eat the grass
until after a shower of "real rain " had
washed oft the blank, poisonous matter.
How the Romans Ate -
The Romans in the time of Cicero and
Augustus took an early breakfast, from
3 to 4 o'clock in the morning, a luncheon at
12 to I, and at about 3 o'clock the coena, or
principal meal of the day, corresponding
with our dtnner. A Roman dinner at the
house of a wealthy mat ronsieted chiefly of
three courses. All sorts of stimulants to
the appetite were first served up, and eggs
were indispensable to the first course.
Among the various dishes were the guinea
hen, pheasant, nightingale, and the thrush.
The Roman gourmands held peacocks in
great estimation, especially their tongues.
Msorobius states that they warn rirst eaten
by Hartensius, the orator, and acquired
slush repute that a single peacock was sold
for 50 denarii—the denarius being equal to
about 17 eonts of our money.
A Story of Riley.
A now story of James Whitcomb Riley fs
told by a Western paper. It is generally
known that the poet 10100 a sign painter by
trade, and some interesting atones of his
early exploits, in whioh his painting abili•
ties figured in helping him out of tight plane?
have been told. This story is that one
time, while the pont was still solving his
wild oats, he travelled through Indiana as
"the celebrated blind sign painter." A
companion, who acted as his manager, would
exhibit Mr. Riley before a plato•glass win-
dow, handing his bruehea to hen as needed.
Riley would meager° off the glass °mentally
with his hands, and after much preliminary
"business" dash off re sigh, while the 000n -
try people stared with amazement. Riley's
eyes, the story says, were very light in col-
or and had an odd look, and the triclt terns
worked for a long time withon: detection
Let Her Be.
A mercantile gentleman; who was travel-
ling eastward a short time since, went to
the olerk of oto of the Ontario heats to be
shown his room. The olerlt handed the
spplicant a key, at the same time point -
nil to a door at some little disttmoo marked 13."
Our friend went in the direction indicat-
ed, but opened by mistake the door next to
his own, narked "A," whore he discovered
a lady passenger staking her toilet, who,
upon the stranger's appearance, uttered a
low scr0an 1 Oo itway—go away l" screamed the
udy.
' Letter ' 111"' 3101(0,1 the clerk.
" I ant not tom:king her 1'' shouted the
indignant nherchant,
h. of niv f us f uab a r '' e,
]tis cc n 1 h o f9 tat bride,
g ,
instead of the bridegroom, to make press nt.0
to the bridesmaids,
QATI'LE DYING IN AFRLUA•
ltEllflo(s or etea44 1.'nerlell 0131 bl' Gere
Renate,
Wi01111 theIlwtyear und a half a terril le
epidemic hal demi eyed ulillious of the eat.
tale of Africa end ielli,;ted a crushing blow'
upon the pastoral tribes. The plague of
1 hirty.ti+ o years ago worked great if esthete
tion, but it cannot be compared with the
present allliotiem. It would he of meal-
cuiab10 benefit 1.0 tlo0 natives if Rosie 1130ana
were found to arrest the progress of this
virulent disease. 'Thousands of lives 0100113
the pastoral tribes would be saved if the
dostruotion whirl, is carrying off their eat -
tie were stopped. No uompoteet pereoo
has yet reported upon the nature of the
plague and its remedy, The symptoms aro
dehilfty, raphe wasting away, and refusal of
NU food. The plague has also practical-
ly exterminated all the buffaloes in regions
where they once roamed in great herds,
The resides of the epidemic have been
mootdisastrous in all the oattle-raising
countries of the Soudan, from the regions
100nt11 of the big northern bend of the Niger
Ibiver for 2,000 miles east almost to the In-
dian Ocean. The first news concerning the
plaque Dame in a letter written by Capt.
Menton at Kano, on Jan. 0, last year. He.
said ho first observed the plague in the dis-
trict of Liptak°, west of the Niger /liver,
and that he could say without exaggera-
Lion that not one animal in a tbousand for
500 miles along his route to Sokoto escaped.
He lost his baggage animate, and for a time
was hardly able to advance.
Capt. Lngarrl, who Inas recently returned
to England, reports that the ,settle -raising
tribes between the Albert Nyanza and the
Indian Ocean have suffered greatly from
the plague. The Waniylca, north of the
Usambera ;flonntains, within two or three
days' march of the east coast, have lost all
their cattle. Flocks of gouts note form
their only wealth. On the great Masai.
plateau, igniter west, 0,11111, feet above the
level of 1110 sea, the warlike Masai, who
have lured upon the milk and fl0011 of their
herds, have lest their cattle. This mfefor-
tune, Capt. Lugard says, has greatly rained
their arrogance.
ilsoga, no,th of Victoria Nyanza, former-
ly coatained great herds of cattle, bet 110W
all are gone, rho 1\'alumna, a people .1411.00 of
Usage.. were exclusively paototal, living
like the Masai upon their heals. Now that
their cattle have been wholly wiped nut the
people have diol in great numbers, and
those who are left are dependent upon Lee
tillers of the soil near then for a scanty
substance, "'L'hey are 0 emselves learning
slowly to cultivate the fields," says Capt.
Lugard, " Lut vegetable food is unnatural
to then, and their gaunt and half-starved
frames, almost invariably covered with.
skin disease, attest the hardships they are
undergoing.
Most of theast v little
p oral tribes have
knowledge of agriculture, and their herds
are almost their sole source of wealth. A
greater misfortune than the loss of their
cattle could scarcely befall then. It is cer-
tain that since explorers began to visit in-
ner tropical Africa no affliction has ever
cone upon the waives so calamitous and
widespread in its results as the present
cattle plague. The epidemic is reported to
be still spreading north and south of its
main route across the continent.
Increase of the British Amy .Reserve.
The condition of the Army Reserve at the.
end of 1302, by returns jnet made to the
Alar Office, is shown to be much better than
it was a year ago, there having been an ad-
ditionof T000unen during the twelve months,
which brings up the total reserve of all
kinds to over 74,000. Less than 300 of these
belonging to the second•olaes reserve—oon-
silting of the ISSO and 1807 men and the
enrolled pensioners—a class which is rapid-
ly disappoa ing as time goes on, and which
cannot be regarded as of any fighting value..
The first-class reserve total of well-trained
men, of prime soldiering age, very nearly
approaches the 74,000 mentioned, much the
larger portion being infantry men and num-
bering 55,000, including the Foot Guards,
whose ordinary service with the colours i0
loss than that of men of the line regiments.
The cavalry have a reserve of 5300, the Ar-
tillery of 7800, the Engineers of 1800, the
Army Service Corps of 2400, the Medical
Stall Corps of 1100 ; and the remainder is
scattered over the smaller departmental
corps of the army. The Scots Gre30, the
only Scottish cavalry regiment, have about
130 men to call up for service if required ;
the Royal Scots, 850 ; the Royal Scots Pa
siliers, 620; the Ring's Own Scottish Bor-
ders, 800 ; rho Cameronians, 630 ; the Black
Watch, 770 ; the Seaforth ldighlanders, 050;
the Gordon Highlanders, 000 ; the Camer-
on Highlanders, 5(101 the Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders, 800; and tho
Soots Gnarls, 1250. In all the eleven Scot-
tish regiments have about 7800 reserve men
who can be called up for eervtae if requir-
ed.
Horses is the British Army.
The latest return of the number of horses,
both ridiugand draught, and mules, used in.
the British army shows the total to be
slightly in excess of the number provided
for in the estimates, and very nearly 20,000'
in all, of which about 15,000 are on the
British establishment and the remainder
on the Indian, the mounts used by the
native Indian cavalry regiments, however,
not being inohded in the 25,871 voted by
Parliament. The British regular cavalry,
inelthding the Household regiments, take
the larger portion of the horses, they hav-
ing a little over 12,0110 to mount 19,000
non•ootnmissioned officers and men (the
onions providing their own horses), and
those totals shote that the men are more
than 50 per cent. in excess of the mounts.
The artillery have over 11,000 horses and
males, a very large proportion of the form-
er being used for teaming the 100 batteries
horse and field guns, 3000 being need for
riding purposes, and there are 150 pack
mules in tho mountain batteries. Tho
garrison companies need but few horses,
and 120 covers their roquiremouts. The
Foot Guards and infantry have 700 animals
for ordinary transport and ammunition
eupply in the field, the Army Service Corps
1300, and the hooyal Engineers 400.
To Married Ladles Only 1
"'So you are married at beet," said J'eok.'.
0ou to Ifs old friend, Belton, the other day.
" Allow me to oongratnlate yon, for I hear
you have en excellent and accomplished
wife."
I have," was the reply, " and she is in-
deed aeeotnplished. She 10 perfectly at houoo
in literature, at home in music, at home in
art, at home in oelonce—Id short, at Rome
everywhere except—. -"
" Iexeept. what ?"
" hlxcept at home."
A new toy in Pau•is is "the diver." When
placrrl in water it Oinks, but ensues 111 the
surface at the wish of the o ra rato'r who
a
Ronda alit' into '111 from
a» nvlarnbber hall
connected with "tie
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ti t u dr.ter" by n tube.