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A WIFE "OF TH Li PLUIOD."
Oh! wou'd I could live where there's nothing
to do—
Nothiug like working the whole year through
No cooking to manage, n' dishes i
u
waah.
No children to see to, and at! that bosh.
No sweeping, no dusting, no making bods,
Nomcudfn^ of garments all worn into Rtireds
No darning old slock ingH, no knitting of r.ew
Such work Is just horrid, the catalogue,
through.
I "would banish all washing and Ironing days,
Their RUds-rceklng air and their steam-chill
ing haze
With scrubbing and churning and baking of
bread
I'd have nothing to do—1 would rather be
dead.
It can't IHJ my duty. I'm sure it is not,
C'uit 'iitmcni to fuel with #0 hateful a let.
With faco that is comely and hands tu.ii arc
White,
To shine in .society—that is my right.
Instead of this drudjfing my time should bo
free.
Just to 'dross' and 'go out,' to bo seen and
to see
To play the piano, lato novels to road.
All! that is tin life for a lady to lead.
Poor fool that 1 was when 1 married for iov -,
Prizing husband and homo other pleasuris
above
I now know that wealth must accompany
these
If a lady, who marries, would live at her ease.
Nest ttmc when 1 marry—it may come some
day
When this dear, good old husband (jots out of
the way
I must, know thero is money enough ana to
spare
To save me this horrible houuekertpin care."
J. I,. Daymiide, in Yankee lUade.
AT THE PATENT OFFICE.
Perpetual Motion Cranks aro Nu
merous Among tho Visitors.
A few weeks ago, a white-headed,
gray-bearded old man appeared at the
'rout-door of tho White llouse, with a
little pine box under his arm. II' ap
proached Colonel Dinsmore, tho giant
like guard who presides over fiie vesti
bule, and asked to see tho President
"What is your name and what do
you want to see him for?" asked the
Colonel.
Whereupon tho old man, pointing to
his box, said that he bad '.i covered the
secret of perpetual motion, and he
wanted to show it to President Harri
son. Colonel Dinsmore told bim that
ho had better take his invention to
tbo Patent Office, and tho old man
started off down Pennsj ivania avenue.
It in estimated that at least ten thou
sand American citizens are experi
menting to-day upon a plan of produc
ing perpetual motion. These ten thou
sand aro scattered throughout the
United States, and several of them find
their way, each week, to tbo Patent
Office at Washington. Some of them
aro insane, others aro full of common
sense on every other subject but this,
and all are disgusted when t-hoy find
that the Patent Office demands a work
ing-model of their machines. 8uch a
model has never been produced, and,
however attractive, tho scheme may ap
pear on paper, all such invention must
necessarily fail when they come to this
test.
Not long ago an Associated Press dis
patch was published in nearly every
daily newspaper in the United States
stating that an Ohio man hud at last
produced such an invention, and a few
weeks ago a furniture-earvor in Balti
more claimed ho had made tho dis
covery. His machine was a set of al
most perfectly-balanced weights con
nected with a leaden ball which, roll
ing up ono gutter and down another,
produced a power which operated the
machine for a time, but which was, of
course, lost as soon as friction began to
act uion it Ilia idea he considered
new, but it is the same that ono of tbo
Brahmins of India conceived three
thousand years ago and described in the
Vedas. It is much tho same as that of
an Italian inventor who in 1078 had a
hollow wheel with weights attached to
it,which fell down as tho wheel passed
a central point and were expected to
close up to the wheel as it went on
around, thus apparently making tho
weight on tho descending side of the
wheel greatly exceed that on tho as
cending. The Marquis of Worcester,
who had much to do with inventing
a steam engine, got up a hollow wheel
fitted with cannon balls and having
curbed spouts. The idea was that the
balls would run to the rim of tho wheel
on tbo falling side, set it in motion and
then run back to the center as it turned
on. A practical model, however, showed
that the greater part of tho balls soon
got to tho outer edge of tho wheel, and
the motion stopped.
About a hundred years ago, a Con
necticut Yankee, named Harris Han
som, asked tho General Assembly of
that Stato for a monopoly of bis discov
ery of the "art or mystery of making
perpetual motion of water, whereby ho
is able and can raise tho water from any
river, pond, spring or fountain to the
height of thirty feet perpendicular, and
convey tho samo to any parks of any
towns or cities, or return the samo to
tho original fountain or head, which
said performance will bo of great ad
vantage, not only to the petitioner, but
to tho public in general, by affording
them at all times good and wholesome
water at a very trifling expenso."
Eight men signed this petition, but as
thero is no perpetual water-machine
running to-day, it is evident that Han
som made nothing out of it
Three years before the Declaration of
Independence, John Shiptoan applied
for a patent on mills to bo run by tho
ebb and flow of the tide, and got a mo
nopoly for forty years to run his tida
mills anywhere in the town of Say
brooK. Benjamin Hauks, of Litchfield,
Conn., claimed that ho had invented a
clock that wound itself up with the mo
tion of tho air, and that would continue
to do so without any other aid or assist
ance until its parts wore worn out This
was generations ago, and if an air-clock
ever existed, we find no record of it to
day. A Mr. Jennings, of Now York, has
constructed moro than ninety models
worked on moro than sixty different
principles in his attempts to invent per
petual motion. Ho has been working
on it for thirty-one years, has spent for
ty thousand dollars, and now thinks ho
has
succeeded. Be
A
tuw
not,
however,
patented hU inve:.' :tn, and 5 leading
examiner of the motor section of tbo
Patent Office believes that there is no
danger that ho ever will.
"We have," said tho examiner, "hun
dreds of application-, for patents, but
these aro based on dtseri prions and
specifications, and not on working
machines. In more than two decades
we have not received any thing like a
model of perpetual motion inventions.
Once I remember a Gorman brought a
bag containing some wheels and bit* of
tin fastened together with strings. He
had no doubt that it would work, bo
cause he had dreamed for live nights in
Kuecrshion that it. would, and as he had
no money to pay for his patent, ho was
sent away sorrowful. At another time,
an attorney brought In a couple of
levers and the picture of a machine of
winch these were a part, which ma
chine, ho said, was actually working in
New York, and he asked us to grant a
patent on the levers. He was told ho
must, give a perfect working model, and
wo have never heard from him since
then. Tho application for perpetual
motion patents an? so many that the de
partment has golien up a blank which
is filled out for all sue!i applicants. On
many other things a winking model is
not required, and we grant the patent
on designs and drawings. To the per
petual motion cranks we send back the
money which they forward with their
application, with one of the3e blanks,
which reads as follows:
'Sin--Your an alleged perpetual mo
tion, has been received with the fee therefor.
'Heforo entering sael on the hooks of
tho oflice, it is thought proper to sidvf,c you. in
order to save you further oxpens and labor,
that the views the office coincide with those
of scientists (n general, in regard to mechan
ic-.1 perpetual motions—that the arc impo s|
bihties. Should your bo the (lr.-it
official action would be the requirement of a
working del the office being aware
that it will h'» impossible for you to comply with
this requirement.
'For the asorn given you, and the
ttccompaiiyiii:.' feart- herewith returned.
"If, liotwitustamiing this notice, you stHi
desire your and the fee to be accepted by
the ofttcc. you may return them and they will
l»: retained. Very respectfully,
«'HAKI. :S K. MrrcHutu
'Commitloner of Patents.'
It will be seen from this that tho
Patent Office promptly advises all ap
plicants for perpetual motion patents
that thero is no liopo of their success,
and that they will only accept then
application and money if they insist
upon it. Many of the would-bo patent
ees get very angry at this notice. They
return the money and insist upon the
patent, but they do not get, «o far as to
make the working model required. Tho
Patent Offieo does not wish to make
money out of enthusiasts. It is run on
a common-sense, business basis, and it
is the best-paying bureau in Uncle
Sam's great governmental machine. It
is ono of the few departments that bring
in more every year than they pay out,
and it has a balance in tho Treasury
to its credit of more than three and one
half million dollars. It made, last year,
ono hundred and eighty-six thousand
dollars more than it spent, and it grant
ed, during that time, more than twenty
one thousand patents. Its officers em
brace some of tho most skilled thinkers
of the country, and it is a big machine,
run on business principles, in the inter
est of the people.—Frank G. Carpenter,
in N. Y. Ledger.
FLATTERING A POET.
Ad Experiment Attrmlivt lijr Vary Oae»-
tlonnble Sufoen.
Not long ago a poet was staying at a
seaside hotel, where ho attracted some
attention as a celebrity. Among the
guests was a woman who wished her
daughter to seem on intimate terms
with literature, and, as far as possible,
with literary people. Accordingly she
sol the girl at jvorlc to learn ono of tho
poet's shorter pieces—which might
have been a Vlever move to gain her
point, but the effect of it was somewhat
injured by tho daughter's carelessness
and ignorance.
On the same page with tho poorn in
question—in a book of selections—-was
one by another and moro famous writer,
and the girl made the mistake of com
mitting this instead of tho ono which
her mother had intended.
At the first opportunity tlieyoungladj
said to tho poet in the presence of sev
eral of the guests:
"It is such a delight to moot one
whose lines 1 have carried in my mind
for years! The poom which 1 love bet
ter than any other In the world is ono
of yours."
"Indeed!" answered the smiling poet.
"I
bad not flattered mvsol* that I had
written any thing worthy of such honor.
What is it?"
With an affected emphasis tho girl
repeated the poem she had learned, tho
company, of course, remaining silent
till she had finished.
"It is lovely!"' murmured one of the
guests, who did not recoguo'.o it
"Yes," said tho poet "It is so good
that I can only regret that Wordsworth
should have taken th- liberty of writ
ing it before I was born. Otherwise
should undoubtedly have written it my
self'
Tho best, of good breeding could not
altogether repress the smiles of the by
standers, and tho poor girl, suddenly
remembering that her mother needed
her, disappeared with much celerity.
"It is a pity," tho poet said, mildly,
when she was out of hearing, "it is a
pity that people can not understand
that we writers, vain though we may be,
aro not so blinded by vanity as to be un
able to toll genuino admiration from
tho poorest of make-believe."—Youth's
Companion.
Vitality of th« Snail.
The snail is blessed with very great
powers of vitality. A case is recorded
of an Egyptian desert snail which came
to life upon being immersed in warm
water after it had passed four years
glued to a card in tho British Mujoum.
Some specimens in the collection of a
naturalist revived after they had appar
ently been dead for fifteen years, and
snails frozen for weeks together in soUd
blocks of ice have recovered on being
thawed out. The eggs of this creature
aro as hard to destroy as himself. They
seem perfectly indifferent to freeing,
and have boon known to prove prod act
ive after having been shrivelled up in
an oven to tho semblance of
sand.—Longman's
grains
of
Magazine.
SLCOND-HAND LOVfc.
A Pernicious CortA That Rule* the Rela
tion* of fnny VOUIIK Me» ami Women.
Mav Rusm'11, after two or three v,-in
ters if beilehood in her native town,
went to visit her cousins in Blankville.
She was not twen'y-one years old, and
was a pretty, sweet-teiiipered vivaciou:
girl. Her friends soon saw that Doctor
Holmes, the physician of the village. njoy(i
meant to win May for his wife, and that
May was ready to be won. For the first k)
time in her life she had found a man
who appealed to her highest nature,
and in whom she could find her own
better self.
Doctor Holmes was an honorable man
of great depth and tenderness of feel
ing, who had been a faithful son and
loval friend, and who would give his
whole heart to his wife.
"He is too gotnl for May." said ber
cousin. Mrs. lJussell, to her husband.
"Thegirl began her flirtations at school.
when she was ten years old. The doc
tor has never before wished to marry
any woman. She is skilled in the con
duet of sham love affairs.''
"The fooling is real with her now,"
replied Mr. Russell.
Doctor Holmes was
a
At last he resolved to hesitato no
longer, and one evening went to the
house determined to ask her to bo his
wife. A young ff.:1 one of May's com
panions, was in the »om with her, and
both were looking amusedly at a large
card, on which were fastened six lucks
of hair, each labelled with a name and
date.
"What have you there?" asked Doc
tor Holmes.
May laughed saucily. "I call them
my scalps- tokens of my victories," she
said. "They are locks of the hair of
men who—shall I confess it—have pro
fessed to be my admirers,"
Doctor Holmes was silent. Her friend
soon afterward loft the room. Then he
said, "Arc you serious? Do you mean
that these int n have been so much in
terested in you and have professed such
regard for you as to give you locks of
their hair, possibly at your request?"
"Yes, indeed," she said laughing. "In
my part of the country a girl would feel
neglected if she had not received some
such tokens of personal regards, per
haps of love, from gentlemen who had
offered her special attention. She never
means l-eallv to marrv them."
"But she allows each man to look upon
her as possibly his future wife, probably
to kiss her?''
"Yes. There does not to me seem to
be any barm in it."
"I think 1 can not agree with you,"
he said, gravely. He loft her and never
returned.
May Russell's rode rules the social re
lations of many young men and women.
They hold familiar intercourse or form
engagements which they Know aro .not
founded upon love or esteem, and which
they never in tend to fulfill. No young
girl can pass through one of these "ex
periences," as they are called, without
degradation and taint. She goes to'her
husband a battered, second-hand thing.
which no art can restore to its first in
nocent purity.
We speak plainly, because the evil
exists, and the danger is great.- Youth's
Companion.
FECUNDITY CF FISH.
What Would If All the Efffi of
I
ho hJ Maturi'ii?
Fish that take much care of their
offspring naturally don't need to pro
duco eggs in the same reckless abun
dance as those dissipated kinds that
leave their spawn exposed on the bare
sandy bottom at the mercy of every
corner who chooses to take a bite at it.
They can afford to lay a smaller numbert
and to make each individual egg much
larger and richer in proportion than
their rivals. This plan, of course, ena
bles the young to begin life far better
provided with muscles and tins than the
tiny little fry which come out of the
eggs of the improvident species.
For example, the codfish lay.* U,000,O K)
odd eggs but anybody who has over
eaten fried cod's roe must needs have
noticed that each individual ovum was
so very small as to be almost indistin
guishable to the, naked eye. Thousands
of these infinitesimal specks are de
voured before they hatch out by pro
daceous fish thousands more of the
young fry are swallowed alive during
their helpless infancy by the enemies
of their species. Imagine tho very
fractional amount of parental affection
which each of tho ',,0 /0,000 must needs
put up with.
On the other band there is a pater
nally-minded group of cat-fish known as
tho genus
Arris,
(,f
Ceylon. Australia
and other tropical parts, the males of
which carry about the ova loose in their
mouths, or rath«r in an enlargement of
the pharynx, somewhat resembling the
pelican's pouch and the spouses of
these very devoted sires lay accordingly
only very few ova, all told, but each al
most as big as a hedge-sparrow's egg—-a
wonderful contrast to the tiny mites of
the codfish. To put it briefly, the greater
tho amount of protection afforded the
eggs, the smaller the number and the
larger the size. And conversely, the
larger the size of the egg to start with,
the better fitted to begin the battlo of
lifo is the young fish when first turned
out on a Cold world upon his own re
sources.
This is a general law, indeed, that
runs through all nature, from London
slums to the deop sea. Wasteful species
produce many young, and take bui little
care of them when once produced.
Economical species produce very few
young, but start each individual well
equipped for its place in lifo, and look
after them closely till they c^n take
care of themselves in the struggle for
existence. And o 1 the average, how
ever many or however few the offspring
to start with, just enough to attain
maturity in the long run replace
their parents in the next generation.
Were it otherwise, the sea would soon
become one solid mass of herring, cod
and mackerel.—Corn hill Magazine.
SOME STRANGE CASto.
II.m Chlnfttnan Took
an
tbtth
€rk I'ollcw Coin '.
The police courts of th!5 "ity furnish
more amusement in one day, than the
average theater does in a week. A day
spent at tbo Tombs, the principal polico
court in this city, where one can sit and
the ir ()l!
s throng that continu-
in amlol)l l)f
Ji|U pn ly lh(i many
grave, quiet
man. The step he was going to take
was for lifo he would not allow himself
to be rash. Yet surely ho could make
no mistake in taking this apparently in
nocent, artless, swuet-naturcd girl into
his heart and home forever?
interesting dialogues
n iu inj
rrich with accent,
amply repays a person for his time. It
will give you lots and lots of opportu
nity to see the ups anddownsof life and
furnish your brain sufficient matter to
feed upon for months. Mrange sights
although sometimes sickening ones, aro
seen daily, and thev tend to instruct a
person in the vagaries of human life.
The mode of swearing of the different
prisoner-! and wi,.leases who are brought
before the magistrate are sometimes
very amusing. Ninety-nine out of a
hundred witnesses and prisoners in &
police court are satisfied with laking
the usual oath, holding up the. right
hand while the justice repeats tho oath
and then pressing the lips against the
cover of the well-worn Bible, but once
in a while an obj.'clor against this mod,"
of oath-taking will turn tip. Recently
a case, involving an assault on a China
man by a gang of Mulberry street hood
lums. was brought before Justice Smith
in the Tombs. Several witnesses, in
cluding the a*
K
aul'ed Chinaman, and an
Italian bootblack, who had seen tho
assault, were sworn in the usual man
ner, when a witness was encountered
that proved rather obstinate. He was a
Chinaman, with a fair kno.vledcre of
Knglish. and dressed in very rich ap
parel. He was somewhat above the
ordinary New York celestial, both
in appearance and manners, and
when he took his seat in the
inclosure set aside for witnesses, every
eye in the court room was upon him.
The clerk handed him the Bible, but the
Chinaman took it not. He knocked the
clerk silly by requesting to bo sworn in
accordance with the ancient custom of
his country by the ceremony of lii'.r.ieg
a fire, placing it on a saucer, and then
breaking the saucer to pieces: bt the
ditliculty was that the requisite article
was not at, hand. The clerk toil the
Chinaman that such a thing could not
be done. The Chinaman persisted and
the clerk expostulated. Finally Jus'ice
Smith thought that ho would settle both
the Chinaman and the question by re
marking, "Let him take the usual oath."
"Very well," answeted the Chinaman,
"give me your book: or ask me que,,
tions and trust me." Neither of the al
ternatives was accepted: but the witness
persisted that it was no business of hi-,
to provide a saucer, though ho suggested
that a saucer could he obtained from a
near-by crockery store, and. diving his
hand down into the inside pocket of his
silken blouse, he brought out a well
tilled pocketbook, selected a dime, and,
by permission of the court., sen' a police
man out to procure the required article.
The policeman, no doubt anxious to see
the fun, v\as not long in obtaining the
saucer, and when he hrousrht it into the
court room, and placed it on the desk
before the justice, every neck in the
court room was craned toward the desk.
Several sheets of paper were placed on
the saucer, a lighted march applied, the
burning paper reduced to ashes, the
saucer broken into fragments and the
following oath administered by another
Chinaman: "Duly, in the reign of
Quong Sue, in the sixteenth year, second
month and seventh day. I arrived in this
court to be s.vorn to tell the truth, ami
to tell every word of it. If I tell a false
hood my soul will be extinguished like
this incense." Thus the testimony was
obtained. —Onco a Week,
CLEVER DIAMOND THfEF.
Probably the .lewder l» WMtliift for the
Brother Y. t,
A Qfirriage drew up in front of a jew
elry store in Vienna, a lady dressed in
black alighted and asked to be shewn
an assortment of diamond rintjs, from
which she sol ecti one worth seventy
five florins. An hour later a stylish
looking gentleman called at the sumo
shop and asKed to see the proprietor,
whom be addressed as follows:
"Sir, my namo is Baron Von S
and I have come on a delicato errand.
An hour ago a young lady dressed in
mourning purchased a diamond rin
from you, but at tin- same time she pur
loined another valuable ring."
1 he jeweler started in amazement,
and the voung gentleman produced the
ring from his pocket, saying:
"Allow me to ret,urn it to you, with
tho request that you will keep the mat
ter to yourself. The lady is mv sisior.
and since the death of her husband she
has been suffering from mental aberra
tion. At every shop she goes to she
tries to pocket unobserved any small
article that takes her fancy, sutler
mortal agony whenever she contrives
to leave tho house. In conclusion, I
would entreat you in caso she conies
again and attempts to take any thin"
not to frighten the poor creature. wifl
make good the damage."
The jeweler promised ontire secrecy.
Two days afterward tho lady in black
called again and asked to see a ntnnber
of diamond rings, but did not make any
purchase this time. Tho jeweler kept, a
sharp watch on his far customer, but
did not perceive any Uiing unusual.
However, when she had gon,- a diamond
cross of very great value was found to
be missing. The jeweler waited iu vain
for the Biron to make his appearance
and return tho stolen property. No
wonder a Baron of that name never
existed.—Illustrirtes Kxcrablatt,
The Way Sho Put If.
15. is a self-made man, has good
Hit 1 AUMIM^WUKLU.
ANOTHER POTATO SORTER.
i Thai Is l7~H.lv ide «n«l Which
WurU-i Weil.
In the llural of July I noticed il
lustrations of two potato sorters, and
•hat vou would like to have drawings of
home
,he room, and
-made articles sent in. I do not
Know that there has been any special
.i em
and iu th s region for such an aiU
•lc but I immediately thought how I
would go to work to make one, and 1
send vou two rude drawings -see fig
ures 1 and rl-from which the artist may
he al.de to see what 1 mean.
have two wire-covered cylinders, one monov out of it, see if he dtl»s
HOMF-M I
lge of the dirt. By the .vi '. 'ion of
mother cylindc»« another o-'ing of
potatoes could be m'^e
The inside cvlin. -aould extend
iboiit four inches fav.' v than tho out
lde one, so as to makc a more conven
ient lit ting lor tho boxes through which
the potatoes would slide. I think s.ich
in ai'r,ing"ment would be much better
than either of the, sorters illustrated.
It would be belter than the Hoover sorl
hecause tho dirt would bo separated
from the small potatoes, and two sort
ings could be made if needed. One ad
vantage it would have over the Collins
sorter would be th it there would bo
more certainty of separating the soli
from the small tubers. I should sup
pose that in the Collins sorter, if the
potatoes were thrown in too fast. the.
*mail one, wi)»id fa 1 i o ,' bevon I the
lower vreen and tuinhie to t:.'-
gr.
.hiiLT:
-U»E Vlt'.W.
FIG
E TOMATO WORM.
It Has Parasitic I'lmniy Tliat
of a little parasitic tlv. an enemy of tho
ome tine summer day when the to
mato worm is enjoying'his meal of the
leaves of the fruit, of the tomato, a
small, black, four-winged fly alights
upon his back and deposits beneath his
skin by me
:ins 0 a
the,
U|
Any ones can get tin
flies by inclosing some of
nn
ners and is a favorite with the Lid in.
When he was courting his wife some
one said to her:
"Is it possible, Miss Stubbing that a
girl with your expectations and of a
family such as yours cay condescend to
entertain kLe advances of tbat common
fellow?"
"Well," replied the heiress, "I prefer
marrying a man without a name rather
than a name without a man."—.1 udpe
sa
—"Well. Doctor, how do you flnd our
beefsteak?" "Very small for its age."
Fliegende Blatter,
DA I Y O S
Dn.rrr. your cream with
weight of water, and you can
the cream a few hours win,
use of ice.
DUOPPIN dead stock term.,,
will cnlve in "coupleot nionihs
weekly yield of butter
strong market.
the other. The inside one better cows than you do see if
that
within
,hould he of a larger mesh
nothing but earth and small potatoes
rould |mss 'hrough. and the outside one
j{ such mesh s 10 allow only tbo puss-
Make*
will
[it you have a boy vv)I0
cows this hot weather he ..,,,
s
for the city on the ne\t train
to make a lawyer
kind of him.
'netbing
Ik you fail to make dairying.
1 would .vour neighbor manages to'-rab
ni! ihu,ll|
worm, and they originate as follows: gravel substituted, says Vick'.s
fine summer dav when tlx.
The plants are propagated by
of the root and require to bee'
lifted, and replanted twice a yeas
plantings and removals should
in successions during May and J'
affording supplies of salad is A
and during September, October a
vember for affording.Supplici int
lung needle-like in
strument called the overpositor, great
numbers of minute, eggs. in a few
weeks these eggs hatch into little lee-.
less grubs which absorb the juices of
the worm and develop at his expend.
In a few weeks the tomato worm slops I
feeding its body being literally full of
the grubs. When full
grubs bore holes in the back of their
host and crawl through tho skin and
escape. As soon as ihoy
grown these i
by the para-
tho attacks of a still smaller parasite
which destroys them as they destroy
heir nosts. These secondary parasite/
as they are called, are quite diff-n-nt
from the primary ones, differing both'
n form and color. This species of
primary pavasilo which at'acks the
to-nato worm is-all,.d by enlomob.g.s
W
tho secondary species
s
do not see *-liV
*ay Of pre,e
o parasite
the cocoons
a box or oiher receptacle
The liirtls and Fruit.
Sometimes the hint« t„i,
orrnnt Asanj! ,^
well afford to give them what 'fruu\ W
^11 eat.
in
payment for their
destroying insects i,„ in
is the friend of tho Z Tl
Uh
j,lari W(
New ork fruit glower av 1 I
0111 mended. He covered his
w ith mosquito n
tied at the result.
'nut in a sort of wholesale
lS
,\s Uat the cove rin"
years, and whil,
pay so far as grown,
Btince—for th
n
not some secret about feedin*
you have not "caught on to
if there is not something in [tjSn
ment that you might make
pr
by adopting.
It is the duty of every
w
patron to deliver good iriilk'ing(
dition, says Mirror and Karii^
should keep his cows heuli'riy
good flesh, see that thev hn
wholesome and good miik-pr,
food, that the milk is draw
handled in a cleanly ttvannpr, an
erly aired so that it will not tair
Tiistrii-: is no sickness or dUc,
cow which does not affect ito mi
Practical Farmer, and the row
from many dangers by reason
escape through the milk of ir
matter eaten. Hence the food
cow, and the water especially
be carefully scrurini/.'d and'*
and the animal s
best of health.
he kept
Ok I'll samples
the chemist of t:
Food Commission
the North western
enty-nine per cent.
l-te a
nMj
ite Dai.
Minnesut
A„':ieulUiris
were pure,
two below the standard, sevens
and foil- watered. Those bel
standard and the skimmed and 1
constituted twenty-one per cent
sampies analyzed.
SoMitriMKS mil', -..i a "cow
and the cause is 1 ndrito
Country tientL-iiia' 1. t•« drii:
quantities of water, and nut ha
passes off through the kidneys,
in health and the skin ci- HU It
largest p\rt finds an outlet throi
pores of the skin and take, aim
it. effete
und.
ma'ter
and 1 !T'"!siv(
which arc thrown off through
capillaries with (he per-piraMon
action of the skin is as n'-ee-is
the purification of the hi i,d its
healthy action of tho lntvs.
milk has a "cowy" ode-
1
that the.skin is not wor
lowing the impurities :y.
back into the blood, whence s
them find their way into thf
making it smell o{ the cow T!
gests that to have pure am
butter the skin must be kepicle
free from s.-urf. which tills -. th
e easier
cows do not give "cowy
In the device have attempted de
scribe. an arrangement might be n eie
v\hereby one end of tii^.' cylinder could i frequent grooming
he raised or lowered, making it more or Clean cows do
less slanting. If tne dirt clung to the For the same reason most pec
potatoes, it would be rolled off if the flic ted with diabetes aro those vv
r-ylmder were nearly level, and if it did lect personal cleanliness. In
not cling the potatoes would pass cases of ihi, malad v can s-uneti
thioughinuch more quickly if the cy- jI remedied by judicious bathing,
litider were quite slanting. -Kurai New can offensive odors of tho person
Yorker.
WATER CRESS.
I
Som ,,hln,r A
0,,t
It* l,,fe a UnrUtui. li«*l Suitable for Tliwir (irom'
I ant frequently asked, says Entomolo- l»1 o*es most su.tabic for a
gist Clare lion M. Weed, in American
i
the backs of tomato worms. These
not eggs, however, but are the
wat,
Oarden, concerning the origin of the
peculiar egg-like objects oft n seen on
Their nlture-
1
cress are generally flow in
wi,h v
elly or ch.iiky hotto
w t!l fr,,m at
"l oiie-!.!ilf to
tivo
inches depth of wat- f. ani
n,,
"ld.y bottomed rills are avails''
be removed from tb
The plants should be set, ii
commencing as near as possible
sources of the stream: and
ally full of i
s
'iould be about eighteen inches-
in
ar on (|lf ()UN
side they begin -spinning white silken.
cocoons, which arc the objects frequent-
ly mistaken for eggs. Within 1 the youngest: and best rooted
cocoons they change to tho pupa state-
and in about a fortnight emerge as four, r"lu,'ried into the stream
winged flies like the original egir.]av(,r' in its proper place with
omato worms affected hv
sites seldom livr
shallow rills, and from eir
inches to seven feet in deeper on
In every process of cleaning s
newal, all weeds, mud and n
should be cleared away and in
mn ,:in
ying process of repl.uitir
H'l(J"'d
be selected for
1 ur n
to change to their i
[it.tlc» parasites do not always i
ant
ti re
STOBO
winter crops in even the
nv,s
p'upa state, and never, so far a, known ''""ing as to impede the currt
omplete their transformations. j{u^ a sufficient degree to maintain
streams should bo so maiUi
of
Wilvs
s
TO""- *t is black, uh.le
mav
he either
1
four or five inches
ia\e things entirely to their own lik- Gatherings from the plants shot
'ng. for they are thomselves subiecj to (1I11':l'1
by cutting, arid n»v
breaking and. in a favorable -0U1
with a good set of plants, may b®
as often as once a week.
The cuttings should be very clo
summer ami after the plants have
cut about three times, tlie.v beg
stock, and may thenceforth be cull
and often.
For Forty i'«w
This house is suitable for 4" be
in each room. It is 5i(Jxb aD'
rooms ara 10x1(1 ft- The nests can
reached from tho halls, and the
can be used for sitters or bree--1
J(*
&
it
cherry trees
11 and fee
This
grati-
"bagging"j
wSy-
He I
will last two I
«ven then it may not
berries—fo- i
rirttiftM-Xn?"1-
n
i
xirrr
1 wul ,,av an:
u V lf W n
Western
Li^L
Lu,m us
i bens. About 3,000 feet of cheap
and 2.000 shingles will complex
The cuts explain it in fuli.-~*«
in the
Homo.
rm