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AT THE POLLS. PICTURESQU;E ELECTION SIGHITS IN THl GIRiEAT MIETRUPOLIS. To a Largo Class of People This Is the One Great Day of the Year --flow New York Votes. Duties of "Workers." B. ERNEST INGERSOLL has written for the Century a paper on "Election Day in New YorIi." Mr. In.er sell, after spenl;ing of those who take advantaeo of the holiday to flock out of town, says: Another cnlass rejoice in tbis holiday as an oaportunit " to sit at home en joying domestic comfort, reading in olippered ease the po tponed book, o:r fondling the pet hobby. The "people" call them "silk stockings," and have no fear of their bea:utifully modulated expressions of censure, because they rarely back it up by a vote. Down at the polls they cannot understand this frame of mind. A certain number of citizens, to be sure, come, deposit their votes as quickly as possible, and go away with an atti tudeo of having performed a disagree able duty. But to the many who are more or less visible there all day this is the most important occasion of the year, and there is hardly anything they would not rather do than mias it. To be sure, it may be worth a few dollars to them, directly or indirectly: but plainly they look further than this, and have a hazsy sense of the dignity of the act, comparable to the fetish-worshiper's notion of religion. They are not ig norant, foreign, dollar-a-day men la ,borers, stupid and besotted with liquor, but men earning wages enough to enable them to pay their footing in the bar-room club, and having snffi cient brains to make then serviceable to their "captain." Alert with the keenness of the street, knowing every body, and 'feeling above none, they are wholly devoted to "the cause" as long as thby get fair treatment. It is these men who make the voting places picturesque. In rough garb and with lordly swagger, they sand witch themselves between neat and dignified lawyers, meurchants and clergymen, proudly sensible of .their equality at the polls. Sometimes the motley line reae4f s out of do.rs and down the street. As soon as one has voted he joins the loiterers outside, nad pompously lights a cigar, scorn i leof the black pipe more familiar to hip teeth. In the afternoon the brisk captain, who has been dodging all day from poll to poll, obtains an approximate list of those of his side who have not yet voted, and despatchas workers to "bring them out." They search their haunts, and presently return with re cruits. Some of these delinquents have simply been tardy, .other. are sick or lame or blind, and are gently conducted to the polly, perhaps in a carriage, placed in the line, and care fully assisted to the ballot-box. The attention he gets on Election Day is a genuine comfort to many a poor fel low kioked about all the rest of the year. Now and then a henehman seizes a captain and whispers porten tously in his ear. A moment later he hurries off, looking very important, and toon reappears with a companion, who is sent on alone, while he himself stays back at the corner. This means that some voter has been ascertained to be out of town or sick abed, and that a willing and thrifty stranger has come to vote (illegally) in his name. This is only one of many tricks eleo tion officers and watchers must guard against toward the end of the day, and sometimes at a cost to the latter of no small courage; for whisky em boldens the roughest workers to try to "sEtand on his head" any one who in terfers with them. The day wear on-Sunlay without 4ho churches, a gray day in every sunse of the word. In the lower wards, whcre folks are close enough togecther to feel one another's warmth, and \vhcro it really matters whether M1ike O'Farron or 13arney Cadigan is to be Alderman or Corouor, each cross road has an excited crowd; but uptown the 5ide, streets. ;ro deserted, and even Br..dway and I"Fflth avenue are dead. The first to breal: tie silence are the boys crying the afternoon p,':ers; but there is nothing in them except clever guesswork, unless the tension factions at some polling place, or the wild foolishness of a tipsy worker, has brought on a fight ol two. Election Day rows are now remarkably rare in New York. Loiterers increase about the polling places and voters crowd forward, fear ful lest they be too late. The weary inspectors and clerks must now work h3ardet than ever, and the watchers watch their very bet. This is the time when thile schemer gathers results -gets in his fine work as he would tell you. Men present themselves with specious claims, politicians bulldoze, and it is only the most determined guardian of thel purity of the ballot who in this time can wlthstan:l the pressure. It happened in several dis tricts in A83!, when the voter was eallcl nu:un to fold and select from twentny-three ballots, that there wa; not,tine enough in the day for all thoao entitled to the franchise to reach the hallot-l:o:, and voting twice in o:e nh'o was out of the question. Kidl Every Tenth Child, Azim, on the African gold coast, rust ]hnave ,a very lar!ae population. "tie natives have the pleasant custom •'pting to death the tenth child in very family. T'he local authorities usert thot thousands of children are .stroyed on account of this super atitious practice, but that the influ ence of the feltich priests is so great S'tat only stringent legislation can stop Ae slaaughter. iQueer lailstone9. Humboldt,the great scientist andtan undisputed authority on atmospheric as well as other natural phenomena, tells of a hail storm which passed over Tuscany on March 14, 1813, every ics globule of the entire fall being of a beautiful orange color. Five years prior to that extraordinary event Carniola, Germany, was treated to a fall of live feet of blood-red snow. This was followed by a fall of blue hail, which is said to have given "the whole face of nature an exceedingly curious aspect." Red hailstones fell at Amsterdam in 1726, atLondon in 1663 (during the time of the great plague), and at di vers places in Ireland and France during the early part of the present century. In 1823 a monstrous hailstone fell at Munson, Mass. It is described in the Waltham "lRegister" of July 15th of that year as follows: "Extremes four feet long, three feet wide and two feet thick. After the rough part of the body had been removed there remained a clear, solid block of ice two feet three inches long', one foot and six inches wide and one foot and three inches thick." The most extraordinary hailstorm of history, as far as the queer shapes of the hailstones were ccneerned, was that which occurred on the Wadi oasis in the Desert of Sahara in 1851. The individual ice chunks were of all imaginable forms. There were wheels with four, six and eight spokes, dumb bells, large and small; triangles, cyl inders, both solid and hollow; some of the solid ones being as much as six inches in length and not larger in di ameter than a lead pencil. The com mon round hailstones congealed to gether in their descent, forming into fantastic pyramids, like the old pic tures of the piled-up cannon balls. Some took upon themselves the forms of gigantic bunches of grapes, and other masses "fell in the shape of necklaces, crowns, crosses, etc." In a hail storm in Wisconsin in 1886 the individual "stones" were of many odd shapes and forms. Sfome were shaped like ginger snaps, others like watches, loaves of bread, etc. Plhotograhliiun a Splash. Professor Worthington has been studying a curious phenomenon for twenty years, says Knowledge. The splash of a drop occurs in the twink ling of an eye, yet it is an exquisitely regulated phenomenon and one that very happily illustrates some of the fundamental properties of the fluid. The problem that Professor Worth ington has succeeded in solving is to let a drop of definite size fall from a fixed height in comparative darkness on to a surface and to illuminate it by a flash of exceedingly short duration at any desired stage, so as to etclude all the stages previous and subsequent to those thus selected. The many il lustrations in his volume testify to the accuracy and beauty of his work. The curious results of a splash of a drop of mercury from a height of three inches upon a smooth glass plate are particularly interesting. Very soon after the first minute rays are shot out in all directions on the sir face with marvelous regularity. From the ends of the rays droplets of liquid split off. The liquid subsides in the middle and soon afterward flows into the ring. The ring then divides in such a manner as to join up the rays in pairs. Thereafter the whole con tracts t'ill the liquid rises in the ceo tre, so as to form the rebound of the drop from the plate. Molasses as a Fertilizer. The Louisiana sugar planters have not yet been able to solve the riddle of the bestowal of their surplus molasses. It is now proposed to use it as a fer tihaer. It is found that molasses can be charred by waste heat in sugar manufacture, and much reduced in weight, and free from liability to offensive or troublesome fermentation, be easily added to the soil as are com mercial fertilizers. When in this state it is devoid of stickiness, easy to handle and con tains a largo p:art of, the mineral fer tilizers taken by the cane from the soil, as well ns the lime used in clarify ing. A temperaturo of 350 degrees Fahrenheit is eutilcient to destroy the objectional gumminess, to expel nearly all the water and to so char the molasses that it is fit to return to the soil. ]t is suggested that the sugr manufacturers can easily place a large pipe in the waste heatoftheir rurnaces, for the charring of the molasses, filter press cakes, etc. The mass would be removed by a chain scraper passing slowly through the pipe, and charred and.dry and pal verized, it would be ready for instant and effective use as a fertilizer. Queer Sights. A young friend says he saw some queer things os the streets the other day. He sawa watch spring, a horse fly, a match box, a peanut stand and a cat fish. While watching them he saw scmq alligator's hide shoes, and un other fellow came along and said that while out in the country he heard the bark of a tree-actually saw the tree bark--esaw it hollow and commence to leave. He also saw a farmer seize the truns of another tree for board. Thes, things sound strange, but are not harder to believe than the story of a member of the Guards, who said he saw a uniform smi!e.--iainbridge (Ga.) Democrat. The Kaiser in Ia Merry 3ood.] While Kaiser Wilehnlm was celebrat ing the b;rthday of his litile daughter, Victoria, recent Iy by a children's party at Potsdam, the children wanted to dance. It being inconvenient to call in a military band, the Kr.i~cer sent out into the street for an Italian organ grinder, and niter the dancing was. over he gave him (u7. POPrUAR 1ECICE. Prince Krapotkin says that there is both water and vegetation on the moon. An eminent ecculist asserts that coera M!asses hired in theatres often Spread eye diseases. Immense deposits of asbcstos have been discovered in the Ferris flango of mountains in Carbon County, Wyoming. Over 500 fossil elephant teeth have been dredged from the tea at Molea sea, on the coast of the Mediterran ean, since 1870. A teleplhone exchange has been er tablished in Kioto, Japan, and is said to have proved a great success. It is under Government control. A company for the manufacture of cycles is being promoted in Japan. The capital is to be 200,000 yen, and it is intended to export the wheels. A telegram has been received from the Lowell Observatory, at Flagstaif. Arizona, announcing that the canals of Mars, known as Phison and En phrates, have been observed again to be double. A new German lamp chimney has the bulb in the upper instead of the bottom part, and the upper part is cut obliquely. It is claimed that this shape makes it safer to blow out the light, while the flame is improved by being made taller and steadier. Professor Villard, of the Ecole Nor male in Paris, has succeeded in mak ing the newly discovered and obdur ate gas, argon, combine with water; it required a pressure of 200 atmospheres to coerce it into this combination. The compound is colorless and crystalizes very prettily when kept cool. Among the proposals made at the recent meteorological congress. in Paris was one for establishing a sta tion on the coast of Finland, which would issue reports of the breaking up of the ice, the movements of the icebergs, marine currents and the prospects of fisheries. Many ship wrecks, it was urged, might be thus prevented. Professor W. H. Morse, of West field, N. J., has made a little discovery which, he says, will materially de crease the weight of a bicycle. He inflales the tire with hydrogen gas. By this means he finds the weight to be reduced by eight pounds, and clains that with an aluminum frame the entire machine need not weigh more than ten pounds. Some inven tive genius will be coming forward next with a project to light the head light with gas, fed from the machine itself. D;stance Covered in an flour's Walk. Have you over thought of the dis tance you travel while you are out for an hour's stroll? Possibly you :walk three miles within the hour, but that dues not by any means represent the distance you travel. The earth turns on its axis every twenty-four hours. For the sake of sound figures we will call the earth's circumference 21,000 miles, and so you must have traveled during your hour's stroll one thou sand miles in the axial turn'of the earth. But this is by no rceans all. The earth makes a journey around the sun every year, and a long, but rapid trip it is. The distance of our planet from the sun we will put at 92,000,0100 miles. This is the radius of the earth's orbit-half the diameter ol the circle, as we call it. The whole diameter, therefore, is 184,(000,000 miles, and the circumference, being the diameter multiplied by 3.1410, is about 587, 000,000 miles. This amazing distance the earth travels in its yearly journeyS and di' viding it by 3C5, we find the daily speed to be about 1,584,000 miles. Then to get the distance you rode around the sun during your hour's walk, divide again by 24, and the re sult is about 6,.030 miles. But this is not the end of your hour's trip. Tie ansun, with its entire brood of planets, is moving in space at the rate of 16;, 000,000) miles in a year. This is ant the rate cf a little more than 451,000 miles a day, or 18,000 miles an hour. So, adding your three miles of leg travel to the hour's axial movement of the earth, this to the earth'. orbital journey, and that again to the earth's excursion with the sun, and you will have traveled in the hour 85,'.03 miles. A DAg Who Kntws a Thling or T¶wo. A physician who resides in a neigh boring town has a dog whichho claims can beat the canine world for agility, intelligence, and all-round usefnlness. SThe animal is a massive black fellow, and has never been known to enter a gate to reach a place if he can attain his ends by jumping a fence. He acts as mail carrierfor the doctor, and when he gets a letter from the postman, I whom he always meets upon the pave mont, he will clear the high iron rail uing in front of the house, and make I for the front door knob, which Iong rl practice has enabled him to turn with Si dextrous twist of his paw. He will Snever deliver a letter to any one but Sthe physician, who: thinks so much of him that he almost believes the-do. Smight be taught to compound pills. Elm:ra (N. Y.) Advertiser. (rowing Fg. in Texas. Bipe figs have been plentifnl on our strcets this week, and cheap. They were mostly brought in by the darkl.~s of Caney. The crop is ,tblundant nu l the quality of the Iruit if line. Thj ftig seems to be as nat~rally adiapted :,o this country as the cotton: l''it anl the darkey. There is a, region down in the vicinity of New Orleans ~iere hie eniture ls an extensive and plrofitab;o Ibusiness, where the fruit is put up fcir Sthe markets of the world, an.l we be 1 lieve that Matagorda County can excl y the New Orleans dim;!rict i~ ni ,!o a bunesia,--RBay City (Texas) i.reEcze. CURIOUS FAC$S. The room in which Napoleon died is now used as a stable. Daniel Campbell and his wiie, of Walton County, Florida, are said to be respectively 117 and 118 years old. Trees which grow on the northern side of a hill make more durable lum ber than those which grow on the southern side. Previous to the sixteenth century it was customary for every physician in Europe to wear a ring on his finger, as an indication of his profession. A newsdealer near the Long Island ferry, New York, bids for busincss with this sigh, which hangs above his stand: "Notice-I am the only totally blind man in East Thirty-fourth street," A new and less destructive method of getting rubber has been discovered. Heretofore the trees have been cut down, but it has been found that the leaves yield a purer and more abund ant article. The splendid botanical garden at Buitenzorg, Java, has the :inest col lection of palms in the world. There are three hundred determined species, besides about one hundred which ap pear distinct. During the reign of James I. Eng land's first newspaper was born May, 1622, being the first issue of the Weekly News. Notwithstanding that it was ill received, its editor, Nathaniel But ter, lived by the buiiness for eighteen years. A great many people object to hiring or buying residences on the west side ot streets which run north and south. The reason for their objection is, that more dust and snow seem to accumu late on the west than on the east side of such streets. Julia F. Williams has been keeper of the Santa Barbara (Cal.) lighthouse for thirty-one years. During that period she has climbed the tower and attended to the light herself every night, with the exception of three weeks, twenty years ago. Ini Austria,when a woman is convict ed of crime she is sent, not to a gen eral prison, but a convent where she is placed in charge of a man who sees the prisoner does not escape, but who imposes no punishment beyond con finement to convent limits. A Swedish mile in the longpst mile in the world. A traveler in Sweden when told that he is only about a mile from a desired point would better hire a horse, for the distance he will have to walk, if lie chose in his ignorance to adopt that mode of travel, is exactly 11,700 yards. How the Common Phi is Nade,. To complete a pin it has to go through many hands. It is a very delicate article to handle, and the cost of building the machines to make it is the greatest outlay. The wire from which pins are manufactured is speci ally prepared, and comes to the factory on large reels very muchl)ike gigantle cotton spools. The wire is first turned through eight or ten little copper roll ers. This is to get all the bend and kink ont of it; in other words, to straighten it perfectly. After this operation it is once more wound on a very large reel, which is attacheld to the machine that makes the pins. One of these machines makes 8000 pins an hour, and some large factories will often have thirty or forty machines at work at one time. After the pins are released from the grip of this machine they are given a bath of sulphuric acid. This removes all the grease and the dirt from them. They are then 'placed in a tub or barrel of sawdust. Pins and sawdust are next taken together from the bar rel and allowed to fall in a steady stream through a strong air blast, which selparates the sawdust from the pins. But as et they are pointless, and pins without points would not b& of much use. J.I order to point them they are carried on am: endless grooved belt, which passes a set of rapidly moving files. This points them roughly, and after being passed be tween two grinding wheels and forced against a rapidly moving band faced with emery cloth they are dipped in a polishing tub of oil. The latter is a large, slowly revolving copper lined tub, which is tilted at an angle of forty-five degrees. As this revolves the points keep sliding down the smooth copper to the lowor side, and owing to the constant frictin against the copper and each other receive a brilliant polish and finish. They go next to the sticker, where they fall from a hopper on an inclined plane, in which are a number of slits. The pins catch in these slits, and hang ing by their heads, slide down to on apparatus which inserts them in the paper. 'ihis maciline is perhaps the most ingenious, of all the beautiful I and complicated contrivances that help to make and manipulate the pin. . It does all this at the zate of 100,000 pina an hour, and yet a single bent or (anm aged pinulwill cnuse it to stop feeding nati the attendant removes the otfen. der.-Dry Goods Economist. The Ilorse and thl:e 0yter. Speaking of oysters reminds Mar shall P. Wilder of Dixey'sstory of the man who entered a colluntry store on a colll dlay. A groulp of loungers were hludledc about the stove, and tihe itr::nger couhld not tcf e :ar cuonuh to eei'p warm. "'Go't any o.sers? l he ak;ed tLe proprietor, aul rceiving .:i aHIirnIative: reply said: "Jfake s G:ozeu on the half irueli out to rmy horse." All hands crowded to the door to seo, theo Liroe at oyti-, and t.he t,:riangtr scnred the muot coilnorka i., sut. .'ho ..)"r hie)tor returned on :mn.l said ti-'` or.e re uased to te:t tuo shell li-h.'" ":'et, give 'era jo mlie, thcl" s:tidl thie foEy viiior, sE. care lu his irestimi i,~ce.--Xe- :York iloo irni.l, . . '·4 Ri _s" ý .re, ,,. c - = .i ý ý ýý j ý ýat,. ~ FOPR STORING FRIUIT. The apple ha.rvest brings up the sub ject of the proper disposal of the fruit when gathered from the trees. The apple crop will be large in many sec tions of the country this year, and prices will be likely to rule low-for the first part of the winter, at least. Miuch fruit will undoubtedly be stored in the hope of a better price later on. It is important, therefore, to adopt such a plan of storage as will kdep the apples sound and plump, and in pos session of the best possible flavor. A cellar just moist enough to keep the IDEAL APPLE TIRAYT. fruit from evaporating any of its own juices, and capable of being held at a low temperature--iust above the chill ing point-.is an almost ideal place for the storing of apples. Bat the loca tion is not all. Large quantities should not be heaped together, nor should apples be kept in barrels, bins or boxes where the air cannot circulate freely through them. Auy tendency toward decay is sure to be augmented under such circumstances. The accompanying illustration is presented as alffording an economical and exceedingly practi cal method of storing fruit. Trays with slat bottoms, each three feet square, are supported, one above an other, upon brackets that are nailed to pieces of upright studding. A suc cession of this studding with brackets can extend along the whole side of the cellar, or upon two sides, if desired. The trays can be made as deep as de sired, and the fruit can be heaped up a little. In this way but a small quan tity of fruit is kept in a mass, and the air can circulate about each and every apple. Each tray can be removed to a table if it is desired to look the fruit over for the detection of incipient de cay, or when getting ready to pack for nmarket. Such trays will last for a score of years, and can easily be made in the home workshop on rainy days. -New York Tribune. SWEET POTATOES. In this I include, says J. M. IUce, of Oklahoma, the sugary, juicy varie ties grown in the, South, which are perhaps more properly designated yams, and I shall more especially refer to the methods of raising in the drier Southwest. The people of the North have an ob jection, or, perhaps, as with myself, it was only a prejudice, against the sugary, juicy varieties. For myself and family, after becoming accustamed to them, we very much prefer them, but this is, of course. a matter of taste, for both are good. Our plan for a dry country is to have the ground deeply plowed in the winter, and then, after a rain and be fore planting time, to throw four fur rows togelther, but aiqping to overturn all the soil, so it is in wicith but three furrows of our fourteen or sixteen inch plows. These are gone over with hoe and rake, leveling the top a little and smo3thing the sidcs. A light rain is preferred planting time, but we do not always wait for it. The roots of the plants being well dampened, they are firmly set in the firm, loose soil, and a little basin, holding a half-pinl, left around each ulant. Water is poured in, filling tlhe basin, and when soaked away dry soil is drawn around the plants. A little surface hand cul tivation is given, then such cultiva tion with the horse cultivator between the ridges as is needed, and plowing once with a stirring plow, throwing the sides of the ridges to the centre, then back again. Fr'or part of our ground we thus last year filled the trenches with damp, chafly straw, tramping it in well, and, while all were good, those' from the mulehed ground were a little more even in size, showing that the dry spells had not affected the growth of a part. Plants with heavy foliage and large roots do best in a dry climate, so the large sweet pctatoes or yams succeed best here. THE CEOCUS AS A LAWS FLOWER. Prett.y in any place, the crocus is particularly attractive grown in the lawn, when they do not appear as hviing been planted there but as just liippeiing to come up by chance. Of c-urseit would beuseiessto planterocus in a lawn that is cut very early with a lawn mow vr;,hut farmers' yards are not generally kept in this way,,ours isn't, and it is a splendid place on the south side of the house for thbCo very early andl cheery blossoms. The grass hoii,m l t undisturbWd until the usual time to mnake hny, the crocuses have a chtance to grow their leaves and ripeon tie biulb ic, so they go on and do well for manv years. 'iJ hbso i wibs can be planted any time in the iall heftre the ground is ftozen hird, but the earlier ibis work is done the better, as then the bulbs hreo a chance to grow some roots ing frozen in for the winter;, them directrly under the s4 ,. ten advised, I have never fo successful. I prefer to c.ntm, into the turf with a sbarpt little larger than the crod', about three inches deep, pulli bulb and fill up the hole ° good garden soil.' Somti ger place is made and severilb out, leaving a little sp3' a l each bulb, but the single} lt best usually, I think. A el bulb will have eight or ten hi and make a fine bit of cold, grass just beginning to gro " When the dead grass is veryl the spring, the crocuses wills " better advantage, if much oftbh grass is pulled off, taking tread on the points of the coming up. The nexts pri planting, the little holes grass will show somewhati soon fill up, they. look b they are, in the winter. If t is kept nicely mown, oroeua as described will bloom wBl°, spring after planting, but vei ingly after that. Cuttinge;' green leaves injures them; ti however, well worth putting oel year.--American Agriculturis3a FE.TI .DS. The greatest saving on, th: in the ability tot buy fertili ""` are best adapted to thosoil. , farnms are alike, and for the no formula can be placed' farmers that will prove Pa to all. As the majority ofi~ know but little of chemistry,iti ficult to explain the actionoft: cals in the soils, and their relatij the growth of plants. 'ItYt' ha but a short period since the was made that the changies; p were duo to the work of bacteria, and that they aie oif: kinds, operating under et'. u-i ditions which best condueted efficiency as natural agentsfor verting the inert substance con in the soils into plant foods, ii.d their work is best performd the influences of sunlight,'.i moisture, according to the worli performed and the kind of 'plait which they naturally provide.i. year-the farmers are brought tact with new theories whic the old, and which they muste knowledge proving of incaloul vantage in enabling them to' tilizers judiciously, snil to s best results at the lowest costL lperiments show that fe abounding in nitrogen proth growth of plants which have and large foliage, giving that green tinge so noticeable in and healthy plants, but nitroge. be reinforced by a proportion ply of potash in the soil. P.l plants which produce seeds"'in"' dance require more phoslhoe than that of potash, while .oot such as turnips, potatoes, beets rots and parsnips are liebeIl potash. It isimportant, hQ the farmer to know somethingj soil, as it may contain an i~il ply of potash or phosphbriefai in such eases he will .requiroRo trogen than mineral matter, Il which are fertile contain r' which the farmer need not' and he can effect a saving :jt 7 only such as his soil may regqariF nitrogen is needed if't iliAni' beaen in c!over, but the sol will benefited by applicatiohn~f pih~ rio acid and potash. " The fall is the season,whenelo be most profitably used, and in: portion to its cost it gives bett sults on mot flarms han aof 4~: substance. It should alivys be where a crop or sod is' tarnadld as it not only containswithid important substance htilimsd plants, but assists in ellectiing'2 chemical changes in the soil byW plant food is liberated from the substances which otherwise: Oo= be rendered solub'ole. Lime heS dency to go downwards, and he is only necessary to brodetit: the surface of the soil. ,Itias acknowledgedl by scientists and menters that where lime has and assisted by manure and fer the soil has given satisfactory, with all kinds of crops, dadP to an alkaline condition o.tei ing more favoraple to the bacteria in changing the'u existing in the soil into pla In applying fertilizerainthef ever, the phosphates anqdp should be used, reserviflh genous compounds for app the spring,--Farmera' Frieand lat App!les Before EiLlri3 Everybody ought to llknow very best thing he camadoi apples just before going to B apple has remarlkably medicinal properties. Ihy .ent brain. food, because it phosphoric acid .in easilYt shape than other frouits' the action of the liver,prm andt hea!thy sleep, and h disinfecty the month. Ith lii kiduev secretions and provte culous growths, white it rie gestion and is one of the t tives known for diseases of'the No harm can come to even a system by the eaiting of ripea apples before retiring for thiG Bulletin of Pharmacy./