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The Brussels Post, 1889-5-10, Page 7Mir 1(), 1 x}5!1. FARM, FIELD AND GARDEN. HINTS ON THE CULTIVATION QF SMALL FRUITS. Mew to Oiitaln aha ItestA cerate Prom Straw. berry nitre—Items lama bltonld be iteot fiR itOfl•renee. The principal early erop of fruit is the strawberry. Some fruit•growers object to culbivatn„ the crop in the spring, as they olaim that stirring the ground injures tho roots; but experiments show that where plants have been grown fu single stools (the runners kept down the previous spring) and the soil kept clean and loose, bettor barrio, and strength plants have vaulted, Where the plants are gtown under the matted -row system the ground can only bo cultivated be- tween the rows, and to remove the grass and weedo from among tiro plants requires bend \vert, which le very laborious. To partially ovoid this the rows may bo thinned down on the sides, by removing the surplus 'Amite, until they are very narrow. Tho row will be more plant- food for the plants tett remain, and Snore moisture if the season is dry. Instead of boing injured by cultivation the loose soil protect, the plants and assists thee, to secure more moisture, and for every root that may bo cut off a dozen rootlets will grow. As the mote food near the surface, only alight stir- ring, of the surfacesoil is necessary, but it Amid. be often enough to keep the no;1 loose 'anal to prevent grass anil mode from appear - leg, -int they rob the plants of moisture. Another objection is that tho plants are liable to len otno dirty if the soil is kept loath, lint the rains wilI harden the soil; and orale, had broken away. Another.piece of la oaves will rpreventhulll difficulty y in P1 at ine wood appears to have been fitted into its crop', and it is difficult to imagine anythingg respect if aplied after the fruit approaches phaco and fastened with two stout wooden prottierthan Seale whole costume. It would 1' .t',• c ley sena Um t' entered in- n _ ,ll+it .� t., ilio farm A,1 u.. the grimed should -bo en . tivatod 1i4titly io order to prevent evapura- tien 51 meta that `Ilia loose diet nerve, as u •arc, rig; nod r.hirlds rho earth front the di - out caroms of drying winds and the beet of !ie 814n. THE DRESS 01? CHILDREN. CHANGES'W'HIOH IT HAS UNDERGONE IN A HUNDRED YEARS. ► it'tttreseutoy Attired Youngster% of 18115 A PREHISTORIC CANOE. and 11,61—Homo Ruafnticostuenes Svltl0n i1'err 1vorn by Young Folies, woad'We" H'$awd nl rsr Ages !n a fable al Sitnduu4l,uinves. � The dress of children hos' undergone such A discovery of extreme arciiwolongieal in - tamest thorough change since the beginning ,of torest has been made upon the Barton sac- thus century that It oaimot be °thereto° tion of bbs Manchester Ship Canal: While than interesting toglance bank through rho the =orators woro at work n whab is fashions worn by children in alae last eighty known. as the "Salt Eye" patting, the stonin Years. lav brought to light a prehistoric canoe. ; At the beginning of this century the dross vS g g P of English women possessed at least ono It watt imbedded in e. With sbout twenty- merit, that of simplioity-simplicity of ma. five foot below the surface. With some dilii. rorial, simplicity of form, simplicity of color- oulty tho fango was removed be ul examined. in Msii ing AU those three things combined to ren- viwinity of the engineer's officeand examined. dor ib a most charming costume, exquisite to It was found to consist of a pnrtion of an oak look upon, inspiring for an artist to plaint. this roughly hewn and fashioned. In length And the ohildren's dress was equally simple, this relic of a long past age is 13 feet2feet 0 giving us the rete costumes of which Bate from sad to end, with a width of 2 foot 0 (reel way has made such a charming study moles. Notwithstanding the lapse of con, and which she has so sweetly reproduced in buries the marks of the axe are dioWnetly her almanacs and her books for children. visihe in rho interium• of the aanoe, tho width There is no doubt that the costume ie at of the blade of thoimploment need—whothac once light and graceful, rho only drawback of dint or iron—being apparently alone boing that it is quite unsuited far a Cana - three inches. Unfortunately the verse] sus- tained us• dine, Winter. As far back es 1792 Dr. tainedsome damage in the ruthless grip of the Sought, tried to introduceba wool for under - at "nave'yy,"the bottom having been cut through cluthng, tried iedtopamphlets oltthe sub - at the in. end, while a portion of ono side is joot; but with little effect, and a child was brokmiu. Bub for this mishap the wpm dressed in linen and cambric with not would have been recovered intact. The bow much regard to warmth and comfort, Aleut is souped so ns to leave a pro, evidently block, 1810 an attempt to introduce Turkish thou - the whealabole isdrfvon, evidently for sera for little girls -a very pretty ousteet. the purpose of fastening ft by /cans of a The little girl in the illustration wears rope. At this paint the grain of alto wood worked cambric, trousers, a short tunic teat, indicates that tato ancient tree, workmen had out full embed collar, and white kid gloves and through the Heart of the tragi, and that a slippers. IHerhair isdescribodas "a tufted is easy A/teeie'•. ns. Tho piece itself isgone, t y ' In cultivating blackbc::y vines the old no pass to huger into the holes loft by the wood should bo out out, removed and con. pin. At the onposite end rho canoe has been straightened by rho Axing to it of a ! epodes of gunwale, consisting of the natural- ly bent arm of a tree, also held in position , the branches in order that the ouanos may bo- with pegs or pins of wood. them stooky and throw out laterals. All It is impossible to fix the preciseperiod of that is then needed is to keep the field loose 1 the oanoa, but the cireumstanee that it bears , on the Bedew with the oulbivators. One of no trace of a nail or any ironwork may per. the hest fertilizers for the crop is a bag of haps aid the formation of an opinion upon superphosphate and 500pounds of bard -wood this pont. The wood, particularly of the ashes per acre. bottom, is for the moat part quite sound. A ' Raspberries are treated nearly the same portion of ono side, however, which has ap- ', as blackberries. Currants no subject to parently been at some period more exposed the attack of the currant worm, which is than the reet, has commenced to crack, and destroyed by dusting the plants with white to prevent the spread of this process of do- ! belabors The strawberry is seldom n- nay, now that the relies las been brought timed. by insects, bub the blackberry is at. into contact with the air, measures will at tacked by a parasite, especially the Wilson once be taken. The canoe rested in a heal variety, for which no remedy is known but of sand and leaves, among which hazel -nuts burning of the old canes. Spraying the grape wore found. In the immediate vicinity with a limo and copperas solution is said to several largo trees have been discovered, bo u preventive of rot. The rose bug does leading to the conclusion that the bed of the great damage to several fruits, and can only canal fs being out through what was once a be atteoked by united chert and hand kill- forest.The ultimate disposition of this m- ing tercet -Lug link with the remote past has not decided b t it is ho ed that it slimed by fire, and the ground thoroughly cultivated early in the opting. This being done, the next work is to lop off the ends of 1800. (Adapted to modern requirements.) be a sensible and becoming dress the either light -wool or thin silk, with woollen com- binations worn underneath it, of course worked cambric was then in fashion, and in tits evening nothing but the very thinnest materials were worn. Little boys aro never so much tormented as little girls intim way of costumes, and n those a s lie wore a very been 011)00 • u p d tl y sample dress, ONIONS. will be added to the archteologio treasures o... a .3:.,ery short•svaia ver vest with trou- - in the museum at Owens College, Menthes- sere buttoned up over it, or what is called a A Cserui nut misunderstood -Vegetable ter.—Manchester ling. Guardian. skeleton suit—vest and trousers all. in one 1.100101 Attention. . and quite loose. +i Otto of the healthiest vegetables, if not the surveying the 1 avadiau 50030.tes. healthiest one, grown is the onion, yet, No two maps of the Northwestern portion strange to stay, but few people use it as lib- of the British possessions on this continent orally as they should. 13omled onions used agree in their delineation of the Rocky frequently in a family of children will ward Mountains. Explorers aro familiar with elf many of the diseases to which the little their general trend, a few of then larger ones aro subject. The principal objection . lakes and some of the rivers whioh drain the to the proncfscnouo neo of this vegetable is mountain sides, but it will bo a long time that bite odor exhaled after eating is ao offon- before the vast region of enormous elevations sive. A cup of strong coffee taken immedi- will ho accurately mapped. The work is in atoly after eating is claimed to bo excellent progress, and for two years past Canada has in eountornoting this effect. Although for been pushing the topographical survey of a day or so after eating onions the breath her Northwest. Here and there among may have a disagreeable odor, trot after this these mountains, not far from the Canadian time it will be much sweeter than before. . pacific, are parties of two or three surveyors For croup onion poultices are used with struggling up the mountain aides. It is hard success, providing the child is kept out of work, and each summit overcome means in any drafts, and a sudden obillavoided. The cessant labor for twelve to eighteen houre, poultices are made by warming the onions in heavy laden with instruments. When the goose oil until soft, then putting them on the top la gained, they nest determine their al- hild's feet and chest as home they can be titude and position, take the bearings of ° the net hborm oaks and ranges, and ho - pante. Unless in very obstinate cases, vvhon g g P g P taken in time, the croup readily yields to the tograph their surroundings. Then they onions, This, although an' old-fashioned gather fresh material from some other van - remedy, is a good one,as any mother who tags ground 9,000 to 11,000 fent in the air. has brought up a family of children can at- By such laborious processes are the nbrieate test. features of these mountain regions sosurate]yy Onions are excellent blood purifiers, and grasped and clearly reproduced. The work for eradicating boils or any of rho blood hu- is oftentimes clangorous Several summits mors aro very efficacious. They are good for leave been gained only by nutting steps in the complexion, and a friend who has a the almost precipitous ice mate that crowns wonderfully cloth, fine complexion abtri. them. Two years ago Mount Stephen, butes it to the liberal use of onions as afood, whose top was thought to be inaccessible, People suffering from nervous troubles was sealed by two surveyors who crawled are much benefited by using those vego- along lodges on tiro face of perpendicular tables frequently, either cooked or raw. walls, and for a long distance had to out When troubled with a bar(' cough, if a boles for their tons and fingers. Horses are raw onion is eaten alio phlegm will loosen sometimes ,sod to carry the instruments on almost itnmediately, and can be removed the lower slopes. Mr. McArthur's equine with voty litblo effort A raw onion is assistant slipped from the path one day and /ado nnioh more palatable if when 'hating rolled down over the canon, disappearing a'little salt or peppper is used as a season- over a short prooipioe. • Ho eras found three mg. Those troubled with wakefulness .hundred feet below, stuck fast, head down- ; may insure a good night's sleep often if ward batween two trees, and with the oxcepp- + just before retiring they eat a raw onion. tion of a few bruises ha was not hurt. Ma There aro few aches to whioh children impossible to carry blankets and provisions aro subject' as hard to boar and as painful for a night camp, and every ascent thus far as ear -ache, One of the best remedies wo has been made in a day, ufteuinvolving from know is to tako out the heart of auonion fifteen• to.eighteen hours' work. Not the (a red onion is the best if ib can be had, least among tbo'euriositios of thio elevated 1 although lacking this']cand, any obher can region are the frozen lakes blocking up ice 1 be used) mid roast it.' When soft, so it ocn . gorges through which glacial livors mum Out. bo handled without /ushing, put it into egged, ere' are waterfalls' in abundance. the cheated ear as hot as can be borne. Un One little stream, in a distance of •1,700 feet, loss the close is deeper then ordinarily the passes over a simnel/ion of falls ranging from ' 70 to 300 feet; and on Lookout Mountain will pain ob r eturn tease in a vary short tine and May be tracod,for nearly 3,000 feet elle white A not r A coughsyrup in which onaona'fortn an streak of a•foaming cascade as it dashes important part is made by taking ono sup obraight down the slope. e sup o olasses and one - of vinegar, on f m half cup of cutup onions. Put on the stove and simmer about half an hour, or until the onions aro soft. Then remove and strain. Take a teaspoonful of this froqquontly, when troubled with is cough, and milers very deep seated the cough will not last long.—Boston Budget. ein1Nags,. Ono stone six inches high ina wheel track meth more wear of team and carriage than en additional half mild of smooth rout]. In all my oxporienoe of, upward of forty ears of growing olover 3 cannot point to ono ,, g g . i netmioe on my .farm of failure of a tan Mop when the land Woe previously well sot in clover. --•1. P. Root. Do not try to cultivate onions deep ; if an inob of the ourface is kept mellow, neat no weeds allowed to grow, it is all the eultiva- bion that will be needed. Start the hand cultivator in mmli0ue tho fist dayyou man fico the rows, and use ib 110 ill take a, little over It sv ,feel as necessary. tlti•oe hours to plow out a half nem twice to th'e s0W.- The 'shorter the poach tram is out leek When Planted the stronger and healthier it be after it gabs a start, beep the soil abound young peach trees clean and loose. The thermometer and the barometer sliol4tl be awed bet 411'feereers. After hnvine a e /Mute Sea Metweti. For five 'yenta Hoary Kellogg, of New Haven, Conn., has been at work on e. new substance to be used in the:arts, and he now dolma that he has perfected the invention, or at least hit on the proper kind and pro. portion of ingredients. The substance is termed kelgum, and is calculated to supersede rubber in many uses to which the latter IS pub, ifclgum is especially adapted to tax• tile fabrics, which, when thoroughly satur- ated or impregnated with it, become abso- lutely water -proof, and will not become mildewed and trot. Kolgum is proclused from vegetable oils, which are treated so as to loavo a residuum of a gummy therm:tcr, nob as eleatbo; however,.' as India- rubber gum. Being a product of oil, kelgunt Is not affect- ed by oil, as as the ease with rubber, nor is ib changed by the nation pi host or light, It can be vulcanized the same as rubber, bat Wit, tout rho use of sulphur. Under many conditions ib is more tltnable than rubber; and ie especially adapted to boltings for all kinds of ineohmory, anal coven, awing, tents, mail pouohos, carriage coverings, over - 01100n, trunk thyme, bags, 136011. 00tthea, in- ;aulation for telogreph and olootrao-Tight wire,, aline solea, goaaalnor Waterproofs, ;window sheath, tonal note and seinen, and ,many othaf nate. There is very little odor an the sub/Matto, and. What there is not die. I agreonblc, When perfumed it robe ea the ertifieial odor incichnitoly. VY, 1810. The next illustration represents a little girl from afashion plate of 1820. The freak is still of cambric, but loth skirt and trout sore aro trimmed with bands of blue satin, and a blue sash is tied around the: waist. It needed very little after this to bring about the hideous fashion of 1835. For already the dress bas lost; its siniplioit , The white trousers, brimmed with the blue bands of satin ribbon most have been very ugly ; the dresses beginning to be stunk out with full petticoats, and the arrangement of the blue bands at the side, where there is a pretense of looping up, is full of suggestion, and paves the way for the sham bows and buttons of a later date. The cambric skirt is also worn over blue silk now, and the simplicity of the material is dwindling away. The next little girl is taken fro', a fashion plate of 1835, and we can sea how very little change .has.broaght about the present. fashion. The little girl still wears long 1v!w trousers and a low. 11 ! necked dross, bat the Ayr length of rho ohoul- ff and waist is malt / i. exaggerated; she hes r?' a a - leg-of-mutton sleeves,. and her hair is plaited in stiff little tails un- -der her poke bonnet. 'h her Tho boy with vest with ears fullt �v a vee Sill d aloe £ pntla trouser a, buttoned over the vest, and a high frill round the neck. In the same 1820. year 1835, we have. another little boy drawled in white satin trausors strapped down under his boots, and a blue vest with rows of buttons down the front and puffed sleeves, evidently the germ Of the modern Eton jacket. Thee children Dart. ly seem very meth dressed up.,. No doubt the little boy looked very handsome and a great dandy in his full shirt -frill and smart vest, though the beauty, in any Mir, oumstance, of White satin trousers is doubt- ful. And how thoroughly' uncomfortable this poor oliild must have felt, and how ter- ribly frightened of soiling such wonderful ggarments 1 How he must have hated all tho paraphernalia of fashion 1 In 1851 tho sleeves are no longer puffed, and later on still tho vest takes tin present elope. In. a fashion -plate of ,.551 wo have a very simple and homely, if a somewhat ug fashion ; Those warn Ilio days when dt' little girl had a silk dross to wear when waikj Ise stiff With melena and t i driving w nal r ing or h1 , was very stiff, with plenty of gum to mak' it stick oat aid meth: and topsWvont it fro a hence little Atli r ns "1' °runhin , Tide as o i8 Y blue nal gest. She hes a It in her very 1p as frock, with short loose Bloom, and under those nice full eaullirio groves &ten, ed at the wrist. She soars little OM tronse10 and a pink bohaieb of drawn silk. .tltoanther mho 10 andel anti tidy little nor. (41,_\N1t1:ii 'i'ii \N :11.S� SAMtii,l • 1.011U. son, Little girls were dootucd teen to wear orinolinee, and woes made altogether as much as possible the miniature of the moth: ors. Even now tho,same plea is ptusnod of drowsing girls as mnoh as possible lnko thole mothers after they aro fourteen or fifteen. They still wear Rooks above the ankle, but they aro encased in stays, and even wear busbies --those hideous oxarasoonmmo which, after all, are tolerable only when they are worn to keep the long walking -skirt from drangling against moat pools and catching the mud as one walks. A more rational system of clothing than formerly is pursued with our children, but this is soon oast off when actual childhood it passed. -A',:fi;AN AP.. Is) ills t,urtts5ti8• •cru„ , .0 11.,' foliar 1100005 ....tie 9'oud,&ac ;Jaive and for cam In. tenet ,t 1...pa ..1310 •1'raurp—dDcaib S'renn 181801 at Sent Lord f.unnln10wtto arrived here this week. tuld the hallowing dory of hie journey to a reporter: 1.' left England in Yobruary, 1888, for New Yolk. Oly object Was not to go to the North j'01o, usstatod, but purely toex. plore the islands its the Arctic acral and study the birds end an1mafs to be found there. It wee the middle of Merck before 1 gob to 'h imtipeg. 1 then went to Troy, where 1 hired !aureola and sled:, traveled to Prince Albert, ohs/once of three Hundred miles, the journey occtyingthreo days; then went to Green puke, '870 /time further, cov- ering the whole distance, mainly, through dense forest,' in a week. From tins point I sent bank my servant with ell my luggage, only keeping oleo change of clothes. From that titueI have had no c•humee and have had to use native furs. 1 had 09 clogs and t heli+uv -with, m^. The sr5 wtbor wart sot 0x0, ewmetime; 40` below zero, and in 24 belles 3el above, This nude tr..t•elline ter - able r rible vont. and kept 51 wet f:, 1u morning n; t, night. - (h, that' 7111 we neighed Athabasca take, 175 u;ilee long, attd 1, : t nurreltew two deye in a f�;, 1)ut in^ tl It flute we were unal.ht to sleep on toil anything, ns \1e cutild got no drifts c i ,'rd ,t roine,1 that avowed el. ternate's . ,1 -the thee. Ince the noir 400 miles we 'bed many di1lionitivs, but were never more than four days tat a time with- out food. W st eamo across many Indians dead from etarvation. We reached (relit Slave lake on ,Trro 1, the ire being solid. The next point was Sulphur bay, where aur boat was caught between two bloci.s'of 'ice, 1$ul. and we were kept there for twenty-eight days, Oar Indians were terribly fatigued Boys have never in their worst days had to suffer so much. This little boy in the full tunic and belt overlong trousers is sansi- bly clothed--orwould be'if the trousers were not, as in this instance, of white satin ; and the little lad in brown with his full veate thought he looks very funny hero, is really not bably dressed. Then boys have their sensible crieketin and boating and football cosbumes, excellen for all weathers—warm in Winter, cool Summer ; their light wool cricketing Gaps, and their straw boating hats shading frony the min and allowing froo ventilation to the head. Boys aro doubtless as much the slaves of fashion as girls are, but the masculind costume never assumes such irrational prof portions as does the feminine. and lay down in the boat useless. Finally WO got out to Hay river, where wo saw the most beautiful waterfall in the world, horse• shoo shaped, and having a sheer fall of 500 fact, about one and a half miles wido at the top, and ono andthree•civartors at the hot- tom—far more beautiful scenery than Nia• gars. Block after block of ice, and iceberg after iceberg came whirling over and down into the abyss below. We wont to Peel river in Hudson Bay Company's steamer, and there got a boat and natives and started for the Arctic. In Au- gust we reached Melville island, in latitude 75, which was the farthest point reached north. Our course was then directed from Melville island to Kodiak, Alaelca. So n- ' tense was the cool during the journey from e, there that all but 0.e of the dogs died, and FASHION HINTS. I several of the Iitdiaus nearly frezen to death. l ` e''lu' Large bookies are much sought after. I was obliged to walk fifteen hundred miles 6 e across Alaska, owing to the depth of snow, t'Ayf Sl'eovea continue to be large, and as plat which in some place, was eleven feet, mak- o turesque as possible for slight figures. + ing itimpossiblc for the dogs to drag any - Black is much used in combination with ' thing more than the sleds with their loads of Tho Grecian or walls of Tr..,, pattern is On 10th November liereachadthePueeian argely n all the new goods and trimmings. mission on the Yukon river, and after many 0 Stripes in widths ranging from a thread more difficulties arrived at Katima on the to four or five inches form ,the principal fete • other side of Kodiak, about the lath Feb - burs of the new fabrics. 1 rumy. Owing to the thickness of the ice it Scotch ginglama are particularly beauti• i Kodiak anti ilefor a boat h oat o arrive from ful this year. They come n pais and dark : nearly shades of all the now colors. ca o� CD 7154 other materials in plain colors or stripes. prosnsaus Draperies are simply caught up n one place to display the pettn0Gat of seine dhf) I SHORT AND CRISP. ferent material or color, or the same materi+ al trimmed. There is but little change n the skirt pop tion of dresses. Longi straight lines aril preserved mostly, with little or no attempt at a bouffant effect. The new all -wool imported ashes, nada lovolyand inexpensive gowns for both house rr and street wear ; they come in all the nevi' art shades and n stylish. designs. The now rosewood brown, with dull blue stripes, dark gray, with stripes of wbitd and black, will be worn on the street. Paleq yellow and white or mange and white are very dainty looking. Many of the plaiinmaterials have a Bordet woven on the selvedge edges, ono from sir' to twelve inches wide, to be used en the edge of the gown, and anarrower one oe the opposite side for trimming Waists and alcoves. The girl who carried off the "Beauty Prize" at Vienna has tarried an American gytcnnast. t—,54 e Walker. Blaine is one of the most popular ({.5.4 young men in Washington society. He bas j_) `9 finished and polished manners and is a rt. charming conversationalist. �qy There is no truth in the story that Mary Anderson' is to be married to her anent, Mr. 1-3 Abed. Miss Anderson is, and has ocn, en- gaged to a young mannthe shirt business t on Wood Street, Cheapside, London. CD The other day a New York no,vspapper ! e published a complete list of the marriageable j e.,a rich mon of England. Three days later rho ' 1 same paper announced that "the docks of te5J?r+v µ the outgoing ocean steamships; aro orowded'crg Qnct with American women." t,t A carpenter's college for women has been 1 telt, started in England at the famous university l'e ' town of Cambridge. c'r elnty-Goethe/pled matte are sanitary. The Sanitary News calls attenbiec to the unhsaltbfulness of the customary practice of dealing with the walls of our houses. Allusion is made to the outcry of a few years ago against arsenical wallpapers, and it is emitted that other conditions of aur walls and ceilings aro far more deadly. People are urged not to paper their walls, but if they will do so to remove thheld coats of paper and paeto before applying new coats. It is a well-known fact that flour paste will soon mould; that it is a ready absorbent of moisture and disoaae germs; also, that paperis a very roady absorbent.. They may not be aware, how - that the calorie and bronzes, whioh are pulverized instals, bresew, eta., are only temporarily held upon the face of the paper, with animal matter (glue) that soon decays, and glue is the greatest absorbent of mois- ture ground for altar t nl of natural We g o and t ter ' to hate t suiiici- 1 these t! the germs, and f g g I ah and ant heat while there they will flourish, the rooms'. are sometimes very warms above the lines of the doors and windows' with a moderate fire ; and where repeated coats of this paste, paper and glue aro applied, front whioh outdoor air with its purifying effects aro sxoluded, by the exp(rating pores beingg sealed or strangled, the daugor,if much greater. The glue soon rots sufficiently to allow rho air, or any friction, to remove smell panicles to whioh these goring have attached themselves to float about the room unseen, until they lodge iu tho system o1. some unsuspecting victim, whose plhysica condition is such titab they take oileeb; then they still have, the little parbiclos of fortfliz- er with them to hells give thee, a start on their deadly mission,, The practice of calcimining and panting Walls is atm 'po domned, nls hough it is preferable to paper from asauitary point of vmw. By any method 150015 rho poriaa of the wane the closed, Lein elle purifying process of the ale passing through end 'through them is cant ori'; By this showing it would appear diet ulndocor• etod wane, unsightly as they are, aro the ataly healthy ones bo lii'o,within• I tel. r unnie9'hf dJn.�niuti a ' "Plena give mea penny, air. My mother' is dead and we've got nothing to eat. "How long loas your mother been dead, little girl? 'Site died long 1,0110 1. woe born, eau' "Por child ; hero's a quarto/ for yon." It took 144 horses, 200,000 pounds of hay, i 27,670 pounds of broad and 34 barrels of sp. i plea to fend the animals of the New Fork Zoological Gardens last year. There is nota State east of the Mississippi 1�n River, says tho Philadelphia Press in which there are nob thousands of aores of land that A can bo purchased at a nominal price, nearly ' �.+ all of which can be made n five years as pro- f� elective as the lands of Oklahoma. The Girls Smoke Tkclr Ten Now Smoking tea is the very latest, says a Now York letter, Somebody brought this fad hero about three months ago 'and 'it has spread among the women. Tea,smoking otrcles aro now .quite mono,. At afternoon parties where are social young ladies, after luncheon little Bathers side an totem of blade tea on each aro brought on accompani- ed by cigarette pailers, and the girls go to tea cigarettes. Tito do it all • �in Y 0 workd 1 g ' , they like it: kebohev and Y To a cigar smoker rho Haver is dry, some- what medicinal and woody, and the trouble. in keeping the contents ]leis too much. The effects of smoking tea` is slightly sedative. An immoderate use of the cigarette makes the 5 drinkiug w'illldo the on osamessavo tea e thing A Duke and o Legacy. One of the moat magnificent, and ajl the same time extraordinarylegnot a:ofwhiohItis, tory bears record has rocontl bean paid oiler. The late Duchess do Gallhfdras'bee loftfegt whole fortune to the Empress Tredesdoki The amount paid in ]card cash is 8190,100) 000, and the vale° of the jewels; balonging to the personal estate is in proportion to tit cash. Of pearls alone there aro eighty strings, of a total value of 81,000,000, and so on. The natant why this magnifieett bequest goes to the emprees chowag an'; not to tato son of alto Duchess, is more extra, orclinnary than the Magnitude' of tho legacy] There two twiny £orbuues' nowadays' which ruin up into the huttdrods of'millione; but there are not many people who would rot fuse to inherit ono of sham. The son of the Duchess refuses to inherit hie enecatLLr� wealth or to woar his title as Duke. I�tt Itns adopted socialistiaprinciples and intend to live by them, Ito accordingly lots bid fnrtuee pass irrevocably away free% bite to other bands. The self-impevoriehed daktI'e" Metks prove the shteority Of itis sibgalar faith, CD 0 1.71, omai