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The East Huron Gazette, 1892-02-25, Page 6- - „.„ AGRIUULTIJRAL. weentse coarse Fodder. Farmers diCen as to the proper time to feed tot the coarse fodder to their stock. At a recent deiry-school meeting the ques- tion was added, " sheuld farmers feed their coarse or coersest fodder at, the begng tat winter?" Such is usually the practice. But Mr. Powell very sensibly replied : "1 think it is a mistake to do so. My own 0 inirs is we should feed our best food to our cattle and sheep what they first go into the stables in the fall." Mr. Ives addea "That is true of sheep, they are a delicate animal,and the first month of winter is a try- ing and important one with theneespecially .with the lambs. If they must be fed coarse loddem &ive it to them later—January or af- ter." his is common sense and fully in as cord with science In shifting from grass to hay, something like a gradual change should be made and not only good nutri- tious food be fed but silage or roots of some kind be mixed with it. U the food is coarse and innatritons, enough fine and concene rated food should be fed along with it to 'furnish sufficient nutrients to sustain the anirnal system without too much distension of the stomach and bowels, and a due balance should be preserved between the carbonaceous or heating elements and the nitrogenous or muscle aid tissue -producing eh:mama. The colder the weather, if the animal is exposed to it, the more carbon- aceous material is required so keep up the heat of the body. But to get enough of one kind of element, the animal should not be compelled to consume an excess of the other kind, thus clogging the system with what isnot „needed and must be worked off at the expense of the vital energy; nor M1.136 some portions of the organism go without suffi- cient nutriment to repair waste in order to avoid excess of other kinds of nutriment that go to nourish other parts of the organ- ism. A due balance must be preserved to avoid waste and promote the most healthful conditions of the animal. Hence it is all wrong to begin in the fall to feed all corn- stalks, straw and other carbonaceous foods for the purpose of having all clover and other nitrogenous foods to feed in the winter. For in this case both kinds of food are not 'only out of season, but should be mixed so as to give the most carbonaceous elements in the coldest weather, and the greater proportion of nitrogenous elements in the warmer weather—just the reverse of what is the common practice. interesting Notes. Proe. Robertson was in Woodstock Ont.' last week on a flying visit to the Oxford but- ter factories. One object of his visit was in connection with the shipment of the butter to England. Aboat 200 packages, from 5 to 6 tons, will be sent from Woodstock sta- tieu this week. The Mt. Elgin product will be bronght here. The East Oxford factory will be able to run all winter. The make yesterday for the half week was 200 lbs. W. J. Palmer, from the Guelph Agricul- tural College, writes to Hoard's Dairyman an interesting letter on the Oxford experi- mental butter factories under the direection of the Dominion Dairy Commissioner. He says "11 these experimental dairies prove a success as they surely will, and the butter finds favor in England, next winter we may - expect to hear of several cheese factories be- ing tuam,ed into creameries: thus winter dairying will become an established thing among the dairymen of Canada. The best results with swine are obtained when they are kept on grass Good succulent grass keeps them in health, and produces far better pork than grain -fed swine. The large increase in our export of pork should be followed by a tmiversal effort to make better pork. The best pork is the lean, or at least where the lean predominates, and this is not obtained by feeding the animals on rich grain. Grass is the most natural food for swine, and it is also the cheapest. /*text to this, vegetables are the most desir- able, and fruits stand a good third. The corn and grain swine are the dearest to raise and the least desirable. have superiot food producing effects.If horned the stronger animals would injure the weaker, and prevent them from getting a. fair share of food. Consequently, dehorn- . . As regard color, gray horses live longest, roan horses nearly as long. Cream colored horses are deficient in staying power, espec- ially in summer weather. Bays, on an average, are the best. Horses with black hoofs are strouger and tougher than others. -- --There are some points which are valuable in horses of every description. The head should be proportionately large and well set on; the lower jaw bones should he sufficient. den of King's forest on Mount Findus, was ly far apart to enable the head to form an out shooting on the mountain. Being tired, angle with the neck, which gives it free he left the chase of the deer and turned up motion and a graceful carriage, and prevents a path which led, through a steep glen to its.bearin' too heavily on the hand. The some shepherds' rhuts, - where he. hoped to eyeshould be large, a tittle prominent, and drink a cup of the milk of, Pheiltis, milk the eyelid fine and thin. The ear should be which is famed to be the best daily% While small and erect and (pick in motion. The he was walking quietly up the path he heard lop ear indicates dnlness and stubbornness; it rustling in the underwood and stayed to w len too far back there is a disposition to listen. Through the branches he saw an mischief unknown animal moving very quickly in the the same direction as -himself? `.iiktiii-Tnade ready to fire at it, but was stopped bgshonts of the shepherds on the hillside above who A TIGER HUNTING nictiniarr. The Tiger In The Role of Hunter. , mg ts resorted to, and Scotch buyers will pay more for Canadian cattle if dehorned, "Did you ever see a cat play with its m with their own prey before killing it?" asked a gentleman, as they can then place the herds. Mr. Bosomworth thinks it would be the other day, who had hunted big game in almost every land where big game can be well if Canadian farmers should a� the found. "No doubt you have, and you re - Scotch method of feeding, but if they do garded it with nothing more than curiosity. they must dehorn their cattle. Ineship- Perhaps you have also seen her instruct ping homed cattle. either by rail or-Amat, her kittens how to shake and worry it; serious injury is oftenaillictedby the strong- and terror and dread were the things far- er on the weaker. PROFESSOR ROBERTSON'S orgemoN. - To W. A. Elliot, esq., Brownsville, Ont. thest from your mind at the time, as you looked with an amused smile at the clumsi- ness of the kittens when they let the prey get away from them, and the big cat had DEAR have your letter of the 19th to pounce on it and bring it back to them inst. asking for an expression of my opinion , again. Nothing about that to make you concerning the practice of dehorning cattle. tremble, eh? Of course not, but I once saw A few articles in the public press have collie the same thing, and I was sick and faint undermyeyes lately, in which the statements with the horror of it, and I am no coward, either. It took place years ago, but 1 re- member every BLOOD-DITRDEING INCIDENT of it, as if it had happened yesterday, and.I would never forget it, if I lived a thousand years. fed loose in yards, I think the operation of "You don't understand, eh? Well, my dehorning is attended with moat excellent cat was a bigger one than yours. She was results. The prevention of "hooking" and a man-eating tiger and it all came a‘bout in infliction of other injarimi more than com- pensates, from a human point of view, for this way. I was bunting in the jungle tor birds, with one native gun -carrier, and as the pain inflicted during the brief operation of dehorning. The animals are certainl the day eves broiling hot, we halted by a Y little stream, to bathe our heads and hands. quieter afterwards, and will thrive quite as We were not expecting any big game, as well or better with the horns off than with had been seen in the neighborhood for them on. I have it on reliable autherity none that dehorned steers will fetch them 25 to te0 cents per 100 lbs. more money in the Chicago market than similar animals which have been shipped with the horns on. This is due not to any economy of space in the shipment of the animals, but to absence of bruises on the carcasses of the'animals which have been dehorned. Complaint is frequently made, about dehorning have lent themselves quite agreeably to visionary reformation but did not concern themselves with sober statement of facts and sound arguments. I have to state :- 1. In the case of steers which are to be some time; so we laid our guns down on the exposed roots of a tree, and we went perhaps a dozen paces from them to bathe. Suddenly, without a moment's warning, a dreadful- snarl came from behind us and at the seine- meiliente a big ielaca and yellow streakehet from the undetheesh and lit full on thetivek of my ment:e'vihoseood apart from me. that in the ease of steers which are ship- ped with the horns on, there are many bruis- tiger, like a rag, arid she prepared to spring on mo; butl, being, perfectly defenceless, less valuable. Of course the actual pain in- flicted on the animals from such bruising must be considerable. 2. I have never superintended or taken part in the dehorning of any milking cows; but I have discussed the matter with sever- al of my friends who have charge of experi- mental Stations in the United States, where the practice is quite common. I have aeso learned from convers ttion the opinions of prominent dairymen there, who have de - horned as many as 40 or 50 cows in single herds. Probably two per cent. of the animals yield a slightly reduced flow of milk for one or two days. In the case of the otter ani- mals, there does not seem to be any appre- ciable diminution in the quality oe deteria- tion in the quality of the milk which is given. 3. I do not think th operatien to be a cruel one. It is doubtless attended with sonte pain to the animals, but it does not seem to affect their comfort seriously for any proloimed period. If it did, the effect would be shown in the yield of milk or in the weight of the animal. It is not fair to ettempt to describe every operation which is painful as a cruel one. The actual process does not require the use of a saw for one minute upon each horn. We have used Leavitt's dehorning machine upon the hems a arte or e n e re quickty seratebled jet° the beanehes. She did not follow. ' Then I noticed that the big cat was followed by three of her cubs. She took my man by the cloth which was tied about his lions, and carried him, as gingerly as a good, retriever does a bird, without setting a tooth I into him, up the bank of the stream, and set him don before her young. Then she drew alettle way and watched me in the tree,while her cubs smelt at their prey and began to paw him. One of them scratched him, and , , RE RICGAI-YED CONSCIOIIENESS. Facts About the Moou. Of all the heavenly bodies the moon has attracted the most attention among astrono- mers. This is due to the fact that her com- parative nearness to the earth brings her peculiarly within the range of our observa- tion. Group -together a few facts about this wonderful heavenly body, for example, and see how interesting they are: In distance the moon is 240,000 miles away from our earth, around which she gravitates like a satellite. Her diameter is about 2153 miles; she has a solid surface of 14,600,000 mesas, and a solid content of about 10,000 cubic miles. The earth's surface only exceeds the moon's about thirteen and a half times. The moon's surface is fully as large as North and South America without the islands. Yet large as the moon is, it would require 70.000,000 of such bodies to equal the vol- ume of the sun. The moon appears to us as large as the stm because she is 400 times nearer to us than the sun. The time during which the moon goes through her entire circuit of the heavens, from any star till she comes to the same star again, is called a sidereal month, and con- sists of about twenty-seven and a quarter days. T.he time which intervenes between one new moon and another is called a, synod ical month, and consists of nearly twenty- nine and a half days. 1 When the moon is invisible to us it is be- cause her dark hemisphere is turned toward the eareh, and this condition of the moon is called new moon ; but when she has trave e a little further on, and has her bright side full toward us, she is our full moon. A new moon occurs when the sun and moon meet in the same part of the heavens but the sun, as well as the moon, is appar- netly traveling eastward, and nearly at the rate of -one degree a day, and corsequeutly ,during the twenty-seven days while the moon has been going around the earth the sun has been going forward about the same number ofidegrees in the same direction. Hence, when the moon comes around to the -part of the heavens where she passed the sun last, she does not find him there, and must go on more than two days before she come up with him again. The moon has two motions, one of revolution around the earth, another of rotation on itself. These two movements, by a curious coincidence, are made in the same interval of time. We know that there is a new moon when our satellite is invisible both during the day and night. She then occupies a place ery near the sun in the heavens, presenting to us her dark hemisp- here; for this reason, and because she is merged in the splendor of the solar rays she is then invisible to us. About four days elapse between the dis- appearance of the moon in the morning in the east, and her reappearance in the evening in the -west, a little after the set- ting of the sun. Between the first quarter and the full moon seven days elapse, during which the form of the illumineted part approaches nearer and nearer to that of a complete circle ; the moon rises and sets later always turning toward the west the circular portion of her disk. About fifteen tlays after the new moon, the whole of her illuminaMd por- tion is presented to us, and the hour of , her rising is nearly that of the setting of the sun, which in turn rises when the moon sets. It is naidnight when she at- tains the highest part of her course; then the sun itself passes the lower meridian un- der the horizon; that is to say relatively to the earth, the moon is precisely opposite the sun. The light which the moon gives, which we call " moanlight." is given by the sun and is reflected back from her surface, just as it is from Venus and the rest of the pla,n- er.s. The moon is a solid globe like the planets, and she does not shine by any light of her own. The power of the light of the moon is inferior to that of the sun. Dr. Wollaston, by certain photometric methods, compared the light of the sun with that of the full moon, and found that to obtain moonlight as intense in its luster as sunlight it would be necessary that 801.072 full moons should be stationed in the firmament together. When viewed through a good_ telescope, the surface of the moon presents a wonder- ful annect—eetensive valleys, shelving rocks and long ridges of elevated mountains pro- jecting their shadows on the plains below. The mountain scenery equal in grandeur the rugged Alpine heights and the Appen- nines, atter which: some of her mauntains have been named. ---[Mary Proctor m Lad- ies' Home Journal I saw hire throw the whelps aside and spring to his feet. Ina jiffy the old cat was on his back again, and he was down. He seemed to realize the eitteation then, for the flrst time, and he lay still and rolled his eyes about in search of me. I shouted en- couragement to him, and he spied me. He implored me to shoot and not to fear hit ing him. I tald him our guns were all under the tree were we had left them, and that he and the tigers were between me and the firearms. - "He was a 'brave man, an old hunter, so he said no more, but lay very still. And lying still was no easy thing to do, for the cubs had grown more lively and were scratch - of steers. It clips the horns off with one dig hie face and chest and gnawing at his snap, and I think would suit very well for Legs enth their short, and sharp teeth. He animals under two years of age. endured it as long as he could and then he 4. We have dehornel a Vicions bull, which gave one cub a blow with his clenched fist had put the lives of the attennants in jeo- pardy a few times. in that case I had the horns sawn off so close that a small portion of the skin and hair was taken off with the horns. The bull did not lose a thimble full of blood, and has been quite docile and harm less ever since. In the compass of a brief letter it is im- practicable to discuses this question in all its bearings, but, from the observations which I have made, you will understand that under many circumstances I conaider the practice of dehorning to be beneficial in its effects upon the animals, and decidedly merciful and human when considered as preventing the infliction of injuries upon others, by depriving the domesticated ani- mals of the weapons of attack for which they had use oilly in the state of wildness. I am Tiara very truly, JAS. A. ROBERTSON. Ottawa, Jan. 29, 1892. The Wild Boy of Midas. In an Athenian paper a tale comes trom Thessaly of the wild boy on Mount Pindus : " Dernetria,des Worthy -of -honor, the war - Dehorning Cattle. Ths charge agai nst a Middlesex farmer of called to him not to sheet. He then follow - creek/ in dehorning cattle is still being in- ed this strange creature. which had the vemig trod by a be ot elagistra.lesat Lon- form indeed of a matt and was wholly naked • 'doe, 0 it. A large number of witnesses are but ran very fasttiometimes on his feet, but the oollatY 1 of Qtc ford. George R . Thorrip- cote before him. There he found it eagerly being exemined, many of them being from more often all fours, and reached the sheep drinking the buttermilk from a trough into which it had run while the cheeses frem the morning milking were being pressed. When it saw him near, it ran into the wood, and the chief of the shepherds told him ite story. "He is a boy," he said, "a Wallachian, the son ,of a Wallachian, who lived at Oastinia, on Mount Pindus The man went back to Wallachia to seek work, and there he married. He lived there some time,, but afterward come back to Pindus. Six years he was absent, and he brought back four or five children, Then he died and left his five children to the "five roads" (i.e., to fortune). The woman saw no way of keeping her children in Castania, so she distributed them among her neighbors and went back to her own country. But one of them ran away from the person with whom he has lett and has lived in this part Of the forest for four years. ' ' "He lives, even as pan saw him, without ,milk was not affected. The pain was ia his clothes. In summer he lives well, and dFink. s -Opinion only momentary. HI, has found no our buttermilk daily. In winter he hes ill etpuet discharge, only a little mucous. He showed a stump that was just two months froantha time that the cukwasmade till the animal was -butchered. Treatment or cov- ering was not necessary in mild weather un- ,lthe animals were fed inside and chaff lei= 'attach atubstanees get into the cavities. The cattla were more docile and pat on flesh hitter -after the horns were ofE The opera- tion wain neither cruel or unnecessary. The - = still in progr?ss. Rtr.--Wan'Bosoniworth, of Speedle Bros., sheeps and cattle salemen, Glasgow, says ,thatthiapractice of dehorning cattle is not civet -anti greatly enhances the value of the wattle. 'In • -,Sot4rul dehorning is legal, and without theScotchcattle raiser could not - his at** throwny he does. In place of iiptliraeattie daring the winter season, 0044414.:-,theyikr. allowed to •run loose a enclosta,m0te-n which is clainied to _ sonof Ingersoll hs d been a. butcher and hail had a large ex perience with stock. He con- sidatel tee operation unnecessary. - In shipping, the bodies not the horns took up the room. Wm. Stirton of Dereham had never seem any injuries from cows hooking" each other. The operation was cruel- and uneecessary. For the defence, Wm. Hawkins of Browns - :eine was called, and testified that he be- lieved dehorning did not injure the cows, and Inc dairy purposes he believed it a bene- fit. He de need the practice of deheening as the oppoe e of cruelty. Dr. Wm. Brady, V. S., of T nburg, had inspected a num- tber of dehorned cattle. He practiced right in the neighborhood where it was done. Took observations of the herds of Mr. tee- Harris, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Scott. There , as no unesual.change.in the pulse or tem- ' pera re after thisoperation. The animal's ()condition remained normal; and the flow of the eaves, and lives on roots and nuts. He has learned no form of speech, neither has he a name. The forest warden determined not to leave him to endure another winter on the mountain'so he bade the shepherds to catch and biad the boy, and fastened a rope to him and took him back to Trikalm, where he clothed him and has done what he can to civilize him He always keeps him with himself, or under the care of eome one who caa talk, because he seems unable to learn to speak any word, though he imi- tates the voiceaof many wild creatures. :Nor does he learn to uuderstard the names of things. But animal sounds he mimics well, and he has learned to ride. As his real name -isnot known his, guardian has called Seirmii" s' Winnip g is makiegpeagresa. An electric streei railway is the latest boom. on the ear, that sent it rolling over on the ground. QUICK AS A Feastt its mother darted at him and hit him one crack on the arm that made it tall limp and bleeding by his side. Then he lay still again and the whelps resumed worrying him. Pre- sently I noticed a slight movement in his body. He was wriggling little by little away from the old tiger, toward a tree. The cubs did not notice it, as they tumbled over him and over one another, and the old devil did not appear to be aware of it either. " By and by the poor fellow got within ten feet of the tree and, jumping up, made a dash for it. One of the cubs hung to his ankle and he stepped on the little brute and stumbled. The old beast was up by this time, but I made a move as if to come down from my tree and she heets,ted a moment between me and him. That moment gave him time to clamber up the trunk of the tree, about six feet, to the llrst branch. There his wounded arm failed him and he hung, unable for a minute to get higher. Tigers do not climb trees,• but their jumping power and wonderful. The big cat left me anthill two bounds was at the foot of the tree. The third took her right up in the air, and she lit on my poor Ahmed again. They fell from the limb in a heap, and then for the first time the man's courage deserted him and HE Snittgan TO mg for help and to his gods for mercy. Every cry of the doomed wretch went through me like a knife _yet what could I do? She could kill him with One crunch of her jaws or blow of her heavy paw, and the lay me out long before I could reach the gime. " Then followed the most horrible scene 1 ever witnessed. The tiger began to give I her whelps a practicallesson. Sheseatched j that poor fellow by the neck and tossed him about like a cat does a mouse, _while his screams almost broke my heart. She threw him high and let him fall so often, pounced upon him so hard and sank her teeth in him in so many places, that his cries grew weak- er and weaker, and finally ceased altogeth- er. He had fainted or had died, and she lost interest in him at once. Leaving his limp body to the whelps, she came over to my tree and walked around it with her hor- rible old eyes fixed on me, and I expected her to try a jump for -me, so I climbed up higher. She watched Ms for a long time, and then as she was evidently hungry, she took Ahmed by the neck, threw him over her shoulder like an old bag, and walked Off into the jungle to make a meal on him in some hidden spot, turning for a moment to give me one king look that seemed to say . "Follow me if you dare t The whelps trotted along beside her, sniffing at Ahmed's heels as they dragged on the ground. - I was too much unnerved to follow when I had got my guns again. Even when I think of that scene now, I Shudder, and I can see Ahmed's limp body being shaken to and fro, and can hear his strangled yells and cries for help, which I dare not give." A Hulk With a History: An Australian prison hulk called Success is, or presently will be, on its way to Eng- land. The vessel was built in 1790, and has been purchased for exhibition purposes. She contains sixty-eight prison cella, and has been fitted up with waxwork casts of noted prisoners, bushrangers and others, at- tired in their original clothing, manacles and all, among them being the notorious Captain Melville. Although built more than a hundred years ago the hull of the ship is said to be as as strong as ever ie was. She is coming to -England under sail in, charge of Captain Jenkins. The old ship was original- ly employed in the East India merchant service, but was purchased by the Victorian Government in 1953 for use as a ;floating prison. The Strength or the British. The latest returns of the British regular army at home and abroad show that at the close of the year the strength has slightly increased in comparison with what it was at the end of 1890. The increase amounts to about 600 men, there being now a little over 211,600 on the rolls, to compare with 211,000 a year atm. The full establishment would be 216,000, the same as it was twelve months since, and the present total is larger by the 11,600 than that of six years- ago. The cavalry are reckoned at 19,200; the artillery at 35,700; the engineers at 7,400 • the foot guards and line infantry at 139,400 ; the army service corps at 3,500; the medical staff corps at 2,400; the remainder of the enrolled regular troops being made up of small de- partmental corps and special corps raised locally in the Crown colonies. Beyond these there is the great Indian native army and the Colonial Militia and Volunteers; and these, with the home Militia an Volunteers, make up a grand total whose numbers have never been fully ascertained. All the regular troops are now principally confined to the home country, India, an3 the great garrisons in kie Mediterranean and the Crown Colonies; Canada and Australia having no Imperial forces beyond the 1,500 in Nova Scotia, while in South Africa there are little more than 3,000 men. At home there are in England and Wales, 73,000 men; in Ireland, 26,5' 0 and in Scot- land, 4,009; in India, 73,000; at Gibraltar, 5,000; in Malta, 8,000; in Egypt, 3,400; Ceylon'1,400 ; Hong Kong, 1,600 ; the StraitsSettlements, 1,400; the Weat Indies 3,000 and Bermuda, 1,300--a considerable reduction from last year, caused by the re- turn home of the exiled Grenadier Battalion Elsewhere the establishments of British troops are very email. A Simple Method of Testing Flour. There are various methods of testing fietne but this is one of the simplest : Take some flour in the left hand, add a little water, and with the right forefinger mix * rather stiff dough in the hand. Let it stand a few minutes, then knead and work in the hand. If the -fitter is good the dough will become stiffer: and dryer with working and have an elastic, rubbery feeling.. If it is of inferior quality the dough will become soft and sticky under protracted working. Flour that is of a chalky or bluish white Blade, or that feels so:t and salvy, and when bailed together in the hand remains ln a lump should be avoided. Black -Faced Sheep. irlfs treed of hardy sheep is known to have existed, practically as it is now found, centuries in Scotland. Of course when we say that they are now practically the same th-at they ever were, we do not mean to af- firm that no improvement has been made in them. Since the Union of England and Scotland there has been marked improve- ment in Scotch agriculture and all things pertaining to it. BU1G the principa.I distin- guishing features of the animal still exist in it. They are a spiral -horned breed, the rams having very long horns. The face is black and the muzzle thick. The eye has a wild appearance and is very bright • the body is square and compact, with goodquarters and a broad saddle. The muscular development is ver great, and they are as hardy as a pine knot. They live upon the bleak moun- tains, and seem to enjoy the storms and cold, and bid defiance to the many privations which they must necessarily endure under such circumstances. They herd closely together, and are often completely buried in snowdrifts; but they will push the snow away, making a sort of cave, and will thtui live under the snow, feeding upon the scanty herbage that they can find in such circum- scribed limits until they are rescued. They would make a fine sheep for some few men whom we have known in this country, and who have been so shortsighted as to let their flocks shift for themselves. It is said that these sheep will live under the snow in this way for weeks together. Whenever a storm comes the shepherd begins to search for his buried sheep, and releases them as soon as he is able to find them. It needed scarcely be said that a sheep that can stand this sort of treatment wonld esteem even indifferent care as a luxury. The collie, as is well known, is a constant attendant of the Scotch s ,epherd, and, with the help of his dog, he has little trouble in handling a flock of black faced sheep. They are naturally docile, and therefore give but little trouble at most, and as already stat- ed, in the average emergency they are abundantly able to help themselves. Of course they are sheep, and that means that sometimes they have notions of their own, and when they have, their superior activity baffles all usual efforts to control them. If the notion seizes them to run in a certain direction, even the agility of a dog is not sufficient to head them off. They seem to know when a storm is coming, much better indeed than some of our weather prophets do. They will begin to seek the lowest ac- cessible ground for shelter at least three days before a storm comes. The ewes have one special place for camping which they seek out the first time, and always af ter re- turn to it, a sort of attachment to locality which is singularly developed in them. In no other animal, except perhaps the dog. is this feeling of attachment to locality so strong. This sheep has been known t travel 60 miles, steadily continuing its journey night and day, and swimming large rivers to reach its native haunts from which it had been removed. It is related as show- ing this attaelime t and the animal's sagac- ity and activity that a whole flock was on its way back to its native home, and came to a canal wbich must be crossed. They followed an old wether along the banks until they met a canal -boat which was pas- sing in the center of the stream, when the wether sprang on the boat, followed by the entire flock, then jumping from the boat to the ceeposite side of the bank. They do well in very large flocks, some- times numbering several thousand. The ewes are good mothers, taking the best care that they can of their lambs, but the lambs themselves are very hardy and will stand an astonishing degree of cold and hunger. The ewe is so greatly attached to her young that she has been known to remain with the lamb several days after it had met with an untimely death. There rough surroun- Inge certainly have no tendency to blunt their fine instincts, though one would almost suppose that such would be the case. The carcass of the black -faced sheep weighs about 65 pounds, and the fleece averages about three pounds of washed wool. The mutton is said to be of a par- ticularly fine flavor. The breed is said to be of very easy improvement under intelli- gent and careful breeding and management, but there is no reason to suppose that any improvement in it could be made that would make it in any way superior to our well- known breeds. It seems to be the best fitted for just what it is, and there are reg- ions in our country where this sheep would do well.. Regions that require just such a tough, hardy and self-reliant breed. The Raid of a Toothless Alligator. The Jam Peranakan reporte the gallan, rescue of one Chinese brother by another from the jaws of an alligator, the -teeth of the rescuer, the finding of the body etrange- ly uninjured, and the explanation of th- t on the final -capture of the supposed culprit as tollows :—Two Chinese who are brothers went to bathe in the ri trer at Umbai (Mal- acca) when suddenly one of them (the younger one) was eeized by an alligator. On seeing this, the elder brother immediately swam to his rescue, with the result thee his brother was released and he himself caught. On gaining his freedom, the younger broth- er swam ashore and shouted for help. He could then see his brother being taken away. Several people came, but nothing could be done, as both alligator and man had disap- peared under water. On report being made te the stet:on there, a party of police came, headed by the corporsh Four or five men got into the river and searched for the body and three hours afterwards they found it conceal- ed in some grass, life being extinct, just at the spot where deceased had plunged in ; but strange to say, there was not a single injury on the body. An inquest was held and the body buried. The saute day some pawangs (medicine men) -threw a bait to catch the alligator. Just then the alligator rose to the surtace. The corporal shot at it but missed. This somewhat frightened the beast and it did not appear again, though the bait was shifted to several places -but failed to attract it. Or another day, however two women, who had gone out fishing, saw an alligator in the channel of a creek, and shouted for the people in the neighborhood to come. Several came with various kinds of weapons, and by some means they managed to catch the alligator. When taken to the station it measured 11 ft long, and what was most surprising, it was toothless. Everyone, therefore, concluded that it was the alligator which had caught the Chinaman and that it had killed him by gripping him in its jaws. The Heroine of the Telegraph. In the Franco-German war ot 1470 the Uhlans in particular played havoc with the French wires. On arriving at a village they would ride up to the telegraph office, cut the connections, and carry off the apparatus, or else employ it to deceive the enemy. They were outwitted, however, on one occasion, and by a woman. Mlle. Juliette Dada, a girl of eighteen, was director of the tele- graph stationat Pi thiviers, where she lived with her mother, when the Prussians enter- ed the town. They took possession of the station, and, turning out the two women, confined them to their dwelling on a higher floor. It happened that the wire from the office in running to the pole on the roof pass- ed by the door of the girl's room, and sbe conceived the idea of tapping the Prussian messages. She had contrived to keep a tele- graph instrument, and by means of a deriv- ation from the wire was able to carry out her purpose. Important telegrams of the enemy were thus obtained and secretly com- municated to the sub-pretect of the town, who conveyed them across the Prussian lines to the French commander. Mlle. Dodu and her mother were both ar- rested, and the proofs of their guilt were soon discovered. They were brought be- fore a court-martial and speedily condemned to death, but the sentence had to ba con- firmed by the Commander of the Corps d'Armee, Prince Frederick Charles, who, having spoken with Mile. Dodu on several .Occasions, desired her to be produced. Fle umpired her motive in committing so grave a breach of what are called the "laws of war." The girl replied; " Je side Fran - came." (I am a Frenchwoman.) The Prince confirmed the sentence but, happily, before it was executed the news of the armistice arrived and saved her life. In 1878 this telegraphic heroine was in charge of the Post Office at Montreuil, near Vin. cenneetind on the 13th of August she was decorated with the Legion of Honor by Mar- shal MacMahon, President of the Republic. Another View .1 11. Wealthy Parishioner--" Doctor, that ser - 111011 of last Surday from the text, "A zi„ClifMan Shall hardly enter into the king - a tittle tough on us 1*2(1- D%:Perrn.e' a'F'clo:u7; Oily —"Yes, but think W44,90:11:-Th.St pay about $25 for every sermon eleefin tiiiiteatett-tt: ftfrththeei tnet.7 or! ‘Ivrzse tib.olintfcaoriit ,tthaeareeride t°114 twenty-five mats. • . , 11 The l'a-1 You mar talk aeout thc Singing f ro n a You mav tell m L Robins' throat- eir You irty even nraise 10 But to Inc the sweetest Is the cut cut c Cut e.t c C.It cut c Of the ordinary hen ! I have naught against t. Nor the blackbird's I can listen quite encha H the oriole above u 'Gainst the nightingale But 1 claim there's no si Like t he cut Cut cute Cut eut Cut Cut c Of our gallinaceous bi 'TM a Dean and a prom 'Tis an invitation te 'Tis an honest b3ast of And it tells of capit Oh, I praise no fancy bin For to me the 1..,obest fo Is the cut cut Cut cut c Cut cut c Cut cut c Of the common barfly True, 'tis not a cit:tured Like the caged c tna But it often makes a cit For his boyhood bac While he dreams he s again To that most pathetic To the cut u Cut cut Cut cut Cut cute his mother's speck' Too Late I A Yorkeshirema.n, having occasion to go to London, was walking along one of the main thoroughfares of that city when he came &cross a restaurant, at the entrance of which was a placard bearing the inscription: "A good dinner for sixpence." It happened that he had only sixpence in his pocket at the time, so, stepping inside, he asked for a bill of fare. On looking through it he called for rab- bit pie, vegetables and gravy. After that he had tarts, jellies, cheese, &c. Just as he rose te go the waiter asked for payment, whereupon he clapped the sixpence an to the table. The waiter opened his eyes and mouth in amazement, exclaiming: "Why man, vou have had a seven -and -sixpenny dinner 14 "Well, said the countryman, "I've paid my sixpence, and I'm certain I've had a good dinner." The waiter at once called the proprietor, who demanded the reason of his paying six- pence for a seven -and -sixpenny dinner. Tne Yorkshireman then showed him the bill outside, and sail he had a good dinner, and paid for it. The proprietor thereupon pointed out a shop opposite, with a bill at the entrance bearing the same words, and remarked: "If you go in there to -morrow and do the same trick, I will give you half a sover- eign." "Right you are," said the man, and he walked away greatly pleased with his bar- gain. The next day he, went into the shop in question, when the same dishes were called for. .After a lot of quarreling, the proprie- tor was called for, and was shown the bill at the entrance. The proprietor then offer. ed him half a, crown if he would play the same trick on the ma,n on the opposite side. "Nay." said the Yorkshireman, "you're too late; 1 had that fellow yesterday 1" The Heart Misplaced. Dr. J. M. Da Costa of Philadelpha, says in his "Medical Diagnosis" that changes in the situation of the heart produced by dis- ease are manifold. It is tilted upwards and outwards by the left lobe of an enlarged liver. It is displaced by divers affections of the lungs and ribs. it is forced up by a pericardial effusion ; in other words, by fluid entering and accumulating in the membran- ous covering, in which the heert is enclos- ed and to which it is attached, as the result of dropsy, local or general. But there are cases, and not uncommon ones, in which the heart is found beating on the right side of the sternum or breast -bone, though t he per- son was born with the heart on the left side. One recent case was that of a boy abrut twelve years -of age in a Rerlin hospital, who was suffering from a slight inflammation of the windpipe. On being examined it was* found that his heart was not in the left but in the right side of his chest, a fact of which his parents had been in entire ignorance. This deformity did not, however, interfere with the boy's ordinary well-being in any way. Another ease was t at of a young man whose heart was found by the physi- cians at Springfield, Ohio, to be on the right side. When he was a little boy he had been thrown from a farm wammon, the two wheels of which had passed obliquely across his chest. He was ill for some time, and it is believed that the heart was displamed by ete wheels. Walking Through the sewers or Litadow It is quite possible to walk through the main sewers of London, and the walk can extend over a great number of miles. The sewers of the Metropolis are as carefully mapped out as the streets themselves, and the authorities can find their way about in them quite easily. Curiously enough there is little that is unpleasant in a descent to underground London. The passages are egg-shaped, and built of glazee white brick, and quite clean. The swarms of rats are diminishing, and the " toshers," who made a living by scavenging mile after mile of the hidden highways, are no more. The old sewers,built cf soft brickwork, were ter- ribly ineffectual To -day our sewer -men are a healthy -looking body, and rarely suf- fer from the effects of their strange ,jour- neys. The Fleet sewer, which at one time was one of London's natural streams, has, under Farringdon -street a diameter of 12ft. When it reaches Holborn Viaduct it divides into two branches, the dimensions of each of which io.i2ft. by 61 t. These branches rejoin at Ludgate -hill, forming one large sewer whioh discharges into one of the intercepting drains or sewers. Other simi- larly large sewers exist. There are six of the large intercepting sewers - three on the north and three on the south side of the river. Their object is to intercept the efflux from other sewers and to convey it to the ttotputs at Barking Creek and Crobsness. Not long ago in London a preacher in- inlged in a little bit of sarcasm over a small collection and he did it very neatly "When I look at the coneregate. 1" said he, " ask : Where are the e*"." an when 1 look at the ollection I ask where are the riche" Something Ch The question et s often a serious one, ease in the country, t ous and one has beto use of shades tnat the sity, not a luxury. York Ledger tells ho aged when living no from a lemon but a place. At the u things could be pure window, struck Us 80 that we declinedte amount of mesh, es romething like twent building. The timely friend helped as out written to as that sh wrote her the manic about the shades. brought. among ot whi h was duly turne of the family, with th "There my dear ar plies for your winio three dollars and a h The parcel conta rollers with fixtures, white muslin, the pu not at first underatan friend went to work, sawed the rollers, an She then, with a very curteins of exactly th the muslin and faste with the smallest gi also in the parcel. T were finished, the fri put in. The curtains cross beam in the ga convenient place. T sticks in the hems, v driven through at ea middle. l'he cloth with starch, in whic white glue, and weig the rollers. They dry without being to cut by the three... an cloth fell in exactly p curtains dried perfec put up, rolled as easi they very closely res In large cities cur that it is scarcely wo trouble to make the tricts or where goods pays excellently well at, home_ It ie really quiring only careful the cloth and sawie chemical eye to put t Some le )me- made c neatly finished tlia weerid, never iniagi the work of a heavy sheeting, " or even cambric, ma shades if carefitheema other desired finish add greetly to the n fine quality of size m starch and glue, but anplied and permitte dry before using. and hearty dessert. An English tInapApPleP-ip wirh a suet crust—no so mach used by A will our cooks learn t bbtiumga-nyowpdalelr, uppuoffny served to us in du in potpie with our ra, as the crust (and a t makes) ; it returns t with his lightning c our apple -puddings; there sort of an inco 53 E: crust for apple -p iiscuit is a gooi thin trust may pall upon t served in each of fe Slay not a new Tall is, with justice that tied but one crust? tamed with baking -pi tat, soda and cream the beginning and en Rage on this matter An English brae -economical and by far n an apple -pudding. planer of a pound of et it be ice-cold, then enpossible to chop au is cold and hard. otpastry flour to th spoonful of salt. Ra together with the hi thoroughly mixed. grediente with enote make a firm paste, j be easily handled. something less than thick. Butter a gum Boston brown -bread this pastry, leaving ab the edge of the tin. I --a sliced aples. Tart, Amnia tie chosen for t eittle -sugar to the ape -antaneg. Artange a er and put it en. tee it mese the gel