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BUDGET OE FUN. HUMOROUS SKKTCHKS FR03I VARIOUS SOURCES. Bounocd — An Ensy Settlement — Tempting—Tit for Tat—A Victim of Ilnbit—Sno Was Posi tive, Etc., Etc. Out of lao ofilco tho man was thrown, And ilowu a couple of flights of stairs ; He had no business of his own. And he wouldn't let others attend to theirs. —New York Press. AN EASY SETTLEMENT. \The la*t tirno I saw Trotter ho wns deeply in love with two girls. How did he t-cttle the matter 0 \ \Oh easy enough—only one would have, him \—Yogr.c. snE WAS POSITIVE. He—' You seem t o be positive that I love you. What makes you so sure?\ She (confidingly)—\It is the only thing on which mamma and papa, have ever agreed.\—Vogue. TEMPTING. Blythe— \If you would say yo u love me I think I should die for joy.\ Miss Dighbo— \Really Mr. Blythe, you have the faculty of putting your plea in a very tempting form.\—Town Topics. AN UNKIND INSINUATION. \ I suppose Plunkins would have a much more extensive library if thero were no such thing as book borrow ing.\ \Doar me, no ! I doubt if he would have any.\—Washington Star. PAST TENSE. ' 'Johnny,\ said a playmate t o tho boy who is always losing things, \is that watch your father gavo you going yet? \ \No replied Johnny, ruefully. \It's gone.\—Washington Star A VICTOI OP HABIT. Ellon—' 'Habits aro hard things to break.\ Maud— ' 'Yes, indeed, there's Minnie Sereleaf, who formed the habit of being twenty-two some years ago and has never broken it yet.\—Chicago Record. mourning, went and committed suicide.\—Kow York Mercury, AMERICAN CITIES. fflS PROFESSION. \You say you are a professional man,\ said the kind-hearted woman tr tho tattered but confident caller. \Yes'm. \ \Dear mo! I don't seo why yoa don't work at your business then.\ \Madam was the dignified reply, \I'm ft professional after-dinner speaker. The only wr.y ter see me work is ter feed me.\—Washington Star. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THEIR INHABITANTS. Sixteen ITnve a Population of 200,- 000—People of Foreign Birth. Found in the Leading Cities oX the Union. CHANCE POI! VENGEANCE. Slimson (angrily)—\I have sent the editor of the Hightoue Magazine forty- two of my poems, and he has returned every one of them.\ Frieud—\Don't send him anymore. Ho might get mad \ \Suppose he should? What could he do ?\\ \He might publish one of them un der vour real name \ — New York Weekly MAN, POOR MAN. Mrs. John P. Cox (irritably)—\Hero I'm dressed and waiting, with a dress on that eot -t you nearly a hundred dol lars, and a hat that eost thirty -five ! I should think you would be anxious t o got out and let people see how well your wife is drej-fed instead of dilly dallying around in this way Y>~hat aro you doing, anyhow 1 \ Mr. Cox (from next room, meekly) — \One moment, dear. I'm trimming m y cuffs.\—Puck. -\The idea of paying big ; prices 1 Why, I made us LIKED nr. Wife—\How do you like rav new hat?\ Husband- prices for— Wife—\Bi< it myself \ Husband—\Urn—yes—er—as I was saying, tho idea of paying big prices for such monstrosities as tho milliners are showing 1 Now, your hat is a work of art. Looks as if it came from Paris. Beautiful, my dear'\—New York Weekly SHE BELIEVE D ITtll . \ I play—aw—entirely by eah, you know,\ said Cholly, as ho sat down to tho piano. And the maiden, after an attentive look at the auricle next to her, said de murely \I should judge you to be well qualified to do so.\—Now i T ork Press. AN OPEN QUESTION. Old Gentleman (who has boon rather gay) — \Hum! Want to marry my daughter, eh? D o you think you are worthy of her?\ Suitor—\Well—er—does sho take after you, or after her mother?\—New York Weekly j A GODDESS OF LIBERTY. I Ambitious Girl—\I am uot satisfied I to be dependent on my father for every cent I need. I with to be independ ent.\ Moth< r—\Should you go to earning your own living, you would have to be the obedient servant of any employer you might have, always at his beck and call, always ready to do the bidding of your superiors, and having not an hour you could call your own.\ \That would be horrid. I want to be independent of pa, but I'll call no man master, and I shall want my own way in everything \ \That's easy. Get married.\—New Y'ork Weekly HE WA S iTEPARED . Old Fru nd (to grief-stricken widow) — \ I hope my dear old friend Junker was fully prepared to go?\ Widow (with her handkerchief to her eyes)—\Fully prepared? Yes, indeed! He *vas insured in half a dozen com panies.\—Yunkeo Blade. A NEW EXPEDIENT. Tramppe Rhodes (entering the drug Atore and speaking with deliberation) — \ I want a cake o' soap—\ T Rhodes (pilfering the till as the clerk faints)—\I knowed they was .some way a honest man could get the price of a meal.\—Chicago Record. I1APPT RETURNS. \ I suppose,\ said tho man who hod just been let out of jail, \tho warden meant to be kind, but ho wasn't ex actly thoughtful.\ \What did he say? \ \H e wished me many happy returns of tho day.\—Washington Star. GETTING HEADY. Stuffcr—\If I tako dinner with you X'VG got t o change my clothes.\ Dashaway—\^Nonsense man. What do you want to chango your clothes for?\ Stuffcr—\I -want to put on a vest with an elastic back.\—Judge. TIT FOR TAT. Married Man—\Why don't you got married, MisB Pea-kins? Yon aro get ting to look like a 'back number'—yon will soon be an old maid.\ Miss Perkins—\If I were as cosy to please as your wifo was, I would have boon married long ago.\—Tit-Bits. A WAKRAXTE D ABTTCIiE. Gontloman (savagely, t o hairdresser) — \You villain! That stuff you war ranted to do away with the bold patches I had has taken every hair off my head.\ Hairdresser—\Well it has dono away with the bald patches, sir. Your head's bald all over now.\—Yankee Blade. A FLATTERER. Guest (who is ontirely bold)—\Here •waiter, tako this soup away. Don't you soo there is a hair in it? \ Waiter—\Pardon mo, sir, but isn't it poasiblo that that is one of your own hairs?\ Guest (aside)—\What an admirable flatterer! Really ho deserves a tip.\ —Fliegondo Blaetter. WH Y H E DEO NOT ATTEND. Sho—\How is it yo u were not at tho D o Goldcoyno's roception?\ He—\I stayed away on account of a personal matter.\ She—\Ma y I ask what it was?\ He—\Will yon promiso to keop it secret?\ She—\Yes. \ He—\Well they failed to send mo Xn invitation.\—Vogue. A MODE L HUSBAND. \I defy yon to find a man who loves dis wifo as dearly as I love mine. To rendor hor happy, I wonld undertake lo go and live alono at tho top of » naountam.\ \ \But you wonld never como up to P^ntolini's uncle, who, when he as- tartaiaed ti&t bia wile looktd beat .in T TSAMP 's SURPRISE. The tramp had a look of determina tion on his dirty face as ho knocked at tho kitchen door of a comfortable house on Foundry Btrcct. \Well what do you want?\ queried the cook, snappishly, for she had been bothered much. \Something to oat, I suppose 9 \ \No ma'am,\ replied the tramp, a9 honestly UB he knew how \Oh you don't,\ sho sneered. \Then yo u want something to drink. Tramps are always ready to drink.\ \No ma'am, I dou t want anything to drink.\ \Mayb e you want an old pair o! pants, or a c6at, or a pair of shoes, or a hat?\ she suggested sarcastically. \No , ma'am, none ofthoso.\ She stared at him hard. \Well what in th« name of good ness do you want?\ she asked. \ I want work,\ he said, simply. \Who—what?\ she gasped, and fell into his arms in a faint. \Confound it,\ he exclaimed, drop ping her and starting for tho gate, \1 might a' knowed better than to spring that on her.\—Detroit Froo Press. Wnlled Cities in Asia. Tho first glimpso wo get of an East ern walled city unfolds at onco memo ries of our childhood doys, which hove perhaps never beon awakened sinco, and the pictures of our childish books, which impressed themselves BO vividly upon our minds, are reproduced in the bright colors of old, when we are brought face to face with the quairrt battleme.nts and the dark gateways, with tho accessories of bright, burning sunshine and turbaned figures and processions of camels and the listless calm of the tropical land. Such old cities are still to be seen in India, still walled in the old fashion and still peopled b y tho figures of tho Biblical picture book. Close akin to them aro those walled towns standing on tho canals of mid- China, passing through which, say at the close of day, when every tower and every roof stands out cloarly cut against the brilliant western sky and wo are challenged by a grotesque > figure, armed with a spear and proba bly wearing armor, the illusion ia complete, and for the moment wo find it hard to realize that we aro traveling at tho end of tho Nineteenth Century. Even in much changed Japan there are old cities which still retain their walls of tho age of feudalism, and in tho very heart of tho capital the im perial palace is surrounded by tho same-quaint fortifications which in old troublous times made it an imperium in imperio, although the walls are crumbling and the gates are novel shut, and tho moats have beon aban doned to the lotus and to carp of nion- trons 6ize and fabulous age. —Chicago Herald. Wiggles Like .1 Snake. A man from Etiwanda, Cal., roports a peculiar case of suako bit.\ near that place. A farner named Whitnoy was bitten two weeks ago by a rattlor. Ho promptly took tho remedies prescribed in such eases, and during tho following week experienced no ill-effeots. On the morning of tho seventh day, how- over, while working in a barn, he ob served a big rattler on the floor, which ho killed. The sight of tho reptile throw him in convulsions, and sinco then ho has acted in a peculiar manner, imitating a snake by dragging hmiself over tho floor and protruding his tongue. He is under medical core, and it is thought by tho doctors that it will be several months before b o can recover.—Ben Francisco Ghroaiol*. T HERE arc .sixteen American cities having more tli^:: 200,- 000 population. Of these six teen Cleveland has the largest proportion of foreign-born inhabit ants. Washington has the smallest. Foroigu-boru n-.-i-.eiits eou-titute '10 per cent, ot the poimlatioii ot Cleve land, 42 5 of New Yorl,, 42 of San Francisco, '11 of Clm.-igo, ID of Detroit, 35.5 of Boston, 35 of Buffalo, 33 of Milwaukee, 32 <.f Krool;i\ n, -J' 1 of Pitts burg, 25 of Phil.uK liilr.a, 2J of Cincin nati and St Louis, 14 of New Orleans 11 of Bnltimor-* and one-eighth of one per cent, of Wnihmi ,MU. There ore more t'ean 1,DOO.OOO Ger mans in the chief cities of the United States. They are most numerous in New Y'ork and Brooklyn ami in the cities of the West They are least nu merous in Boston and Washington. In these two cities, and in Philadelphia and San Francisco, the Irish outaum- ber the Germans. Ia New Y'ork, Chi cago, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, New Orleans, Pittsburg, Detroit and Mil waukee, the Germans outnumber tho Irish. There are 3500 natives of Ire land to 55,000 Germans in Milwaukee. In Boston there arc 10,000 Germans to 71,000 Irish. There are IS,COO Hungarians in the chief Amerienu cities—12.200 of them in New York and 3200 m Cleveland. There are GO, 000 Bohemians in tho chief Americau citiei—25,000 of Ihem in Chicago, 10.000 m Clew laud, 8000 in New York, 2300 m St. Louis aud 1400 each in Milwaukee and St. Louis. There are 081.000 natives of Ireland in the chief cities of the United States, 207,000 natives of England, and 50,000 of Scotland. New York and Phila delphia have the largest proportion of Irish-born inhabitant-,, Baltimore, St. Louis and Cincinnati have the least. There are more Englishmen in Philadelphia th in there are m New York. In proportion to the whole population, there are more l.atnos of England m Pittsburgh tl-.-m then are in New Y'ork. The census returns less than 300 native-, of Scotland in New Orleans. Boston has 1500, Chicago, 9200 and New York, 11 ,000. There are 125,000 Scandinavians (Swedes, Norwegians and Danes) m the chief cities of the Unit-d States—02,- 500 (or just half) of them in Chicago, 10,000 in Brooklyn, 10,000 m New Y'ork, G500 in Kan Francisco, and 4500 in Boston. There are six times as many Norwegians as Swedes in Milwaukee, and four times as many Swcdi s as Nor wegians in Boston. There are 35, 000 inhabitants of the chief Americau cities born in France— 13,000 in New Y'ork and Brooklyn, 5700 m New Orleans, and 4000 in San Francisco. There arc less than 1000 Spaniards, Greeks and Portuguese in any one of the chief cities of the country There arc 1400 Mexicans in San Francisco. There are 2200 Cubans m New Y'ork City, and 1200 in Brooklyn. There are 135,000 Canadians m the chief cities of the United States—38,- 000 of them, mostly French Canadi ans, in Boston, 24,000 m Chicago, 18,- 000, mostly English Canudians, in De troit, 10,000 in Buffalo, nud 8000 in New Y'ork. There aro 7000 Welshmen in tho chief Americau cities—2500 in Pitts burgh, 1G00 in Chicago, 1300 in Cleve land, and 1000 in Now Y'ork and Philadelphia. There are 5S.09T Polos in th'. chiof American cities—24,000 in Chicago, 10,000 in Milwaukee, 9000 in Buffalo, G700 in New York, 2800 in Cleveland, 2700 in Pittsburgh, and 2200 in Phila delphia. Thero are 10,000 Hollanders in the chief cities of the United States—more than half of them, 5500, in Chicago. There aro 77,000 Italians in the chiof citieB of the United States—39,- 000 of them in New York, 5700 in New Orleans, and 4G00 in Sun Francisco. No other large city has more than 2500. There ure less than 500 Italians in Baltimore. There are 85,000 Russians in the chief cities of the United States— 18,000 of them in New York, 7S00 in Philadelphia, 4300 in Boston, 4000 in Baltimore. They don't go West. Th#re are (though the number has jeasod increasing) 2S.000 Chinese in habitants in the chief cities of the United States—21,000 of them in San Francisco and 2000 in New Y'ork. There are 20,000 Swiss residents in the chief cities of the United States— 5000 of them in New Y'ork. They are numerous in St. Louis and San Fran cisco , fow are in Baltimore oud Boston. There are more Swedes, Hollanders, Bohemians, Norwegians, Poles, Danes and Welshmen in Chicngo than there are in New Y'ork. In nil other elements of foreign population New York is ahead of Chicago. There are seventeen more Greeks in New Y'ork than in Chicago.—New Y'ork Sun. A Story or Admiral Gliernrdi. In the navy sailors arc often in the same ship for three or four or even more years. During this time their craft is their home, and they speak of it as such, and with an affection as if it were a living thing. By means of tho ship the men may be wonderfully in fluenced. Bear-Admiral Gliernrdi (then 1 captain) was in command of a remark- ibly fine frigate on the South American station, of which he and his crew were justly proud. The handsome bust on her beautiful figurehead was brightly ?ilt, and great care was taken of it. Che harmony which had generally pro- railed on board was somehow disturbed. But instead of resorting to corporeal punishment, the captain summoned the men aft, and in a simple, manly speech pointed out the impropriety of thoir jonduct, and concluded thus: \So now, toy lads, if this be not put an end to, ind hearty goodwill restored, I'll blacken your figure head and put the iliip in mourning.\ Had a bombshell fallen at their feet the men could not aavo been more astonished. To have lh« r figurehead blackened? No, any thing rather than that, and in this way ardor and harmony wero restored.— N«w York Press, , ^ An Ex-Convict's Story. \No. 15,481\ tells a pitiable story of his difficulties in attempting to obtain a living honestly after undergoing a term of imprisonment. He was sen tenced threo and one-half years ago to two years' imprisonment for forgery. Previously he had been possessed of considerable means, had been brought up in luxury, *but exhausting his for tune had committed forgery to obtain more money. During his imprisonment ho came into contact with many young fellows who had committed similar crimes, and who had not the slightest idea as to how the}' were to gain a living when they got out When he wns released he had a fow pounds, and when this was gono he applied to the Discharged Prison ers' Aid Society. He says. \I was told I could come into the house (and so mix with some of the greatest of criminals), for which I should have to chop wood or do tailor ing, etc , but this 1 objected to do, so was given a note t o take to n tradesman in a certain district of London, who offered me a bituation as traveler on commission (only) for the sale of cart grease, which I politely declined. \It matters not what position a man held in life previous t o his getting into trouble, on release this society offers the sumo means of obtaining an honest livelihood to every one—that is, chop ping and making up bundles of fire wood, working in the tailors' shops, taking on a milk round with a hand truck, traveling on commission for some article which the public in ninety eases out of 100 refuse to look at, much less to purchase. \It is now nearly eighteen months since I was released, during which time I have been living out a wretched ex istence, sometimes going days without food and walking the streets at night, and sometimes I am able to earn a few shillings by addressing postal wrappers. I can assure you, sir, that if the au thorities would allow me inside the prison (without committing another crime) I would return to-day It will ultimately come to my going back or suicide.\—London New s. Bntl Time For a Boy to Laugh. As a matter of fact a boy never should laugh at his father until hi (the boy) is eighteen years of age at least. Earlier than that, according to tho Minueapolss Tribune, it is not safe. A boy over near the university has for several evenings stood up to ent his meals, and all because he neglected the above rule of conduct His father takes great pride in a Hambletoniau colt hp is raising The old man fairly delights in pottering around the stable, and lie can hardly wait until that colt is four years old and trots a mile to harness in 2 05$, ns it surely will. The other morning the pater was fuss ing around in nu old silk hat and an equally venerable greatcoat, jjitch- fork in hand, and while he was work ing about the colt's heels the boy gave the animal its feed. The colt doesn't allow any familiarities while feeding, and when the old man. in a stooping position, backed up against him, the colt lashed out with both lei t. The man stood so near that the kick broke no boues, but'he was shot as from a catapult right through the clapboards on the side of the barn. His head was driven through his tile, and when he extricated himself from the splinters the run of his headgear hung around his neck like a ruff. He regarded the whole business as rough, and delivered an oration through his hat which the boy regarded as amusing. Tho young ster laughed. First he stood and laughed, then ho laid down and laughed, and rolled over and over and hugged himself and still laughed But when that devoted father got clear from the wreckage ho seized the near est stray, and tho boy has not smiled once since. The bo y knows now that he is not big enough to laugh at his father Organs Lost by Disuse, It is a suggestivo fact not always suf ficiently considered that \as soon as any organ or faculty falls into disuse it degenerates and is finally lost alto gether.\ Through all the ages that man has had the power of speech this power has not been fixed in us in any degree whatever by heredity. It is re garded as definitely proved that if a child of civilized parents wero brought up in a desert place and allowed no communication whatever with man, it would never make any attempt at speech. Up to the last century it was not uncommon to find persons living in a wild state in the woods and forests of England, France, Germany and Rus sia, who were utterly incapable of speech, though they could make sounds c of imitation of the cries of wild ani- j mals. Certain parasitic insects have j so completely degenerated that they l possess neither eyes, legs, heads, ( mouths, stomachs nor intestines. Ani mals that burrow and live under ground lose tho power of sight or have eyes that are merely rudimentary. Slave , ants and working ants have lost their ' wings through being kept entirely to a I life on the ground. The masters in i somo colonies of ants in which slaves I are kept have become so hopelessly de- • pendent on their slaves that they not only will not seek food, but aro inca pable of'feeding themselves, aud will starve with food before them * unless a slave is present to place it in their jaws!—Leisure Hour People AVIio Surrircd Scalping. In San Francisco there lives a man ' at the present time named Carroll Bronsou, a pioneer of the Selkirk Mountains, in British Columbia, who was scalped by the Sioux Indians in 186G, and still enjoys comparatively good health, although more than seventy-five years of age. He was quite an Indian fighter in his time and his face is scarred with arrow wounds received in many a hard fought battle. The marking of the scalping is not visiblo except when he lifts his long, white hair from the sido of his head, then it shows a great circular scar ex tending from above his right eye around the right side and back of his head almost to the left ear. Mr. Bronson tells of another man who was scalped at the same time he was. The scalp was torn completely off from tho whole top of his head, so that it had to bo swathod in cotton and olive oil. He lived a year, but, as Mr. Bronson says, \if ever a man knew what suffer ing meant, that man did.\—PittBburf Dispatch. . POULTRY KEEPING FOR THE CHILDREN Poultry keeping is a good thing for boys and girls. With them habits of industry will form, and the care of the money derived from the sale of eggs and fowls gives them an incentive to do well. Such lessons lay the foundation for business principles later on in life. Besides this it keeps boys off the streets and out of bad company, which is itself very desirable.—New York Indepen dent THE BORDEAUX MIXTURE. Tho formula recommended by the Department of Agriculturo for tho Bor deaux mixture to be used in spraying plantB is ns follows In a barrel that will hold forty-five gallons, dissolve six pounds of copper sulphate, using eight or ten gallons of water, or as much as may bo necessary for the purpose. In a tub or half barrel slake four pounds of fresh lime. When completely slaked add enough water to make a creamy whitewash. Pour this slowly into the barrel containing the copper sulphate | t solution, using a coarse gunnj-sack stretched over the head of the barrel for a strainer. Finally, fill the barrel with water, stir thoroughly, and the mixture is ready for use. If tho copper sulphate costs seven cents per pound, and the lime thirty cents por bushel, the cost cf a gallon of this mixture will not exceed one cent. Fresh lime j must be used, and the copper sulphate | will dissolve more readily if powdered. —New York World. THE MOST POPULAR PIGS. There is no breed of pigs that may be said to be the most popular Every variety has its admirers, and there is so little difference between the value of one or another that it is impossible to say which is the bust except for some special purpose. Thus there arc largo and small breeds, as the Poland-China, the large Yorkshire, the Cheshire and tho Duroc among the large, heavy kinds, and the Suffolk, Essex and Dor set of the small kinds, with the Berk shire, Chester White and others of the middle size. Every kind of pig we have now has been so much improved by culture that ono is as good as an other if the feeding is only well done, except so far as pigs may be desired for smaU early pork or for heavy meat. If a general vote were taken it is most probable that tho Berkshire would be chosen as the most popular kind by a majority, as it is good, small or large, and for pork, bacon, hams, or shoulders. —New York Times. HOW AN ABKANSIAN GROWS COW PEAS. The cow pea differs from the Canada pea in tho time of planting, It will not grow until the ground is thorough ly warm, and thrives well in dry hot weather This pea can be grown after a crop of wheat is taken off, bay tho middlo of June. It is a fine soil reno vator, being one of the few plants able to take free nitrogen from the air The cow pea is to the South just what clover is to tho North. I would not recom mend them as a forago plant where clover will do well, for they are no better in my judgment and are much harder to cure properly, owing to the stalks and stems being much coarser. Our way of sowing has been to use an ordinary force feed wheat drill, set ting the fec\d at tho eight pock mark for wheat. The best crop I have ever seen grown was sown with an eight hoe drill, only allowing every third hoe to feed, stopping up tho others. This made tho rows about twonty-f our inches apart, and a small garden cultivator was used for cultivating them, but was only used twice. This crop will pro- duco three or four tons por acre as drawn in from tho field. Ju»t how far north these peas will grow I am not able to say.—Hoard's Dairyman. CARE OF THE MEADOW. The young clover crop should not be grazed very close the first yoar, as it seriously impairs its growth, and special caro should bo taken to avoid trampling of rainy days. Allow no kind of stock on it during tho winter months. A top dressing of plaster of pans, wood ashes, or a salt and lime muck on tho young plants will bo found very beneficial, as it supplies them with a food that nour ishes them into perfect maturity. Tho best food for clover is potash and lime; such a mixturo makes the er»p exceed ingly thirsty and vigorous, and upon ex amination tho clover root •nail be found evenly and closely spread all through tho ground. Roll the meadow in early spring time each year by all means; it not only makes a smooth surface for tho passage of tho mower and tho rake, but it also presses back into the ground the roots of tho plants uplifted by thaws and freezes and thus prevents them from perishing. Burn the stubblo off the young clover, as it not only in sures a clean meadow, but, theoreti cally speaking, it destroys vegetable parasites which too often infest clover fields. Of these parasitic plants the two that seem to be the most injurious aro small broom and tho dodder, the former of which ingratiates itself in the very organization of the plant to sap its vitality, while the latter, with its \papilm or pog-like processes,\ enters tho stalk and, decaying at tho roots, feeds upon the juices. Caro should be exercised to select a day early in tho season to burn the stubble, for if too long delayed tho new growth be comes intertwined with tho old and thero is great danger of having the plants killed by tho heat. Your meadow is now ready to spring up in a broad sea of grass, to wave in billows under the wandering winds, and to glisten under tho genial harvest suns. —Chicago Times. .<-.i :v RAISING STRAWBERRIES. 'Almost any soil will grow this luscious fruit, but'a sandj; or loamy _ . one ii preferable, M it ia easier worked Lkalo sown on good locations. and kept clean from weeds. Whatever soil is used take the placo that grew tho fewest weeds last summer. I pre fer to raise some hoed crop on tho ground the year beforo. I have al ways had the best results with spring setting and would not advise a begin ner to set at any other time, and tho earlier tho plants are put into the soil the less liable aro they to die or dry up. Do not be afraid of getting the soil too rich. Thirty loads of good stablo manure is nono too much por acre, but if your land has been man ured heavily a year or so previous you may not require this amount. I uso stablo manure, but have had good re sults from ground bono and potash, especially where tho land has beon heavily manured a number of years. Flow about tho depth that tho roots of the plants reach, about seven inches, turning under the manuro and with a pulverizer mix tho earth and manure thoroughly, at the same time making the earth fine. Beforo mark ing go over the ground with a smooth ing harrow, leaving the ground level and fine; then mark the raws three and a half feet apart. I prefer tho matted row system. If tho planAs come from a distance give them a good wetting; if not 'ready to set put them in tho cellar or somo cool pla(:e and keep them moist. Always havo tho plants damp when set unless tho ground is wet, and then I would defer the setting until the ground IIBB dried or the water settled. In setting take a plant in tho left hand, run the other hand down the roots to straighten them, then with tho right hand on the mark pull the earth toward you, leaving tho hole. Scatter and firm tho soil about tho roots. The distance to place the plants varies with the variety from ono foot for the less vigorous to one and a half to two feet for the extremely rank growers. For a cultivator I use one made of an old cultivator frame with squaro iron teeth liko harrow teeth driven through the beams, four teeth on each side beam and two on the middlo beam, one in front and one m rear. Keep tho cultivator going ns long as possible or until tho runners between the rows interfere, and occasionally use tho hoe. Turn the runners toward any vacant places. After tho ground has frozen in tho fall cover the rows with straw, coarso hair or anything that is most easily obtained thick enough so that you can hardly see the vines underneath. In the spring rake tho straw between the rows, or if the mulch is thin leave it on and let the vines grow through it. This will make tho crop a httlo later, but the berries are invariably of better size, tho mulch kcoping the ground moist and tho berries out of the dirt. —New England Homestead. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Oats can profitably bo fed to colts- Grind them. Corn or clover may be ensilaged with good results. Good corn meal is the best for mak ing highly flavored butter. When a cow comes to grass she should be in good condition. The moro water cows drink, tho greater tho supply of milk given. Many people prefer tho Guernsey to the Jersey, as being the heavier milker. Swelling of tho logs of a horse in the 6tablo is simply the result of a lack of exercise. It is a mistake to chase a flock of sheep, more than that, it is mean and don't pay. With good healthy conditions in even supply a flock of good sheep will remain so. Thrifty condition is tho watchword for all kinds of stock, and nono moro than sheep. If you don't want any burrs in wool no time should bo lost in destroying the pesky plants. Sheep raisers should study tho reme dies for parasites, and bo exterminating as occasion offers. If you want to mako yonr farm pro ductive keep a flock of productivo sheep and keep them so. Thero is a premium on good horse sense in raising sheep, and tho butcher cashes all such premiums. It is not enough to buy good sheep, turn them out in an old field; thoy niu6t receive due attention. Many a staUion has been ruined be cause the animal was not sufficiently exercised. Give him plenty of work in the road. Even an hour a week spent in culti vating with horse tools a quarter of an acre of ground will insure to a family a good supply of vegetables. t Never feed raw .corn-meal to your chicks. It should always bo cooked first. Tho best way is to bake it intc corn bread and then moisten with milk beforo feeding. Grease closes tho pores of the egg shells and in this way often prevents their hatching. For this reason\ it is not a good plan to grease tho bodies of tho sitting hens. Make up your mind this year that your corn fodder is a valuable crop, and that you will tako as good care of it as the grain. In this way you can mako corn-growing pay hotter than it has in the past. Good cheese is a comparatively scarce article in this country. Our creamer ies pay less attention to securing good cheese makers than to securing butter experts. W e should pay more attention to this branch of dairying. Peas and potatoes do not mind very much being put id cold, wet soil, but for other seeds tho land should be dry enough to pulverizo well under the harrow. Lettuce and early cabbages can bo started and spring spinach, amj .POPULAR SCIENCE. There are thirteen elements in body—five gaseous and eight solid. During tho most violent gales the se»j«$ is disturbed to a depth of 500 feet. ' Vegetarians say it is a popular fal-.V&| lacy that meat is needed for strength, h**\ France has threo dynamite factories j§ which produce over 25,000,000 dyna-'tig mite cartridges a yoar. 'Ip Fulgurites, or lightning tubes, caused, W by tho lightning striking in sandy soil, have been found in Now Mexico thirty;^ feet long. Jl $t It is calculated that on a bright sum- 2|| mer day there aro raised into the air *M by evaporation from tho surface of tHe Mediterranean 5,280,000 tons of water, Cable dispatches are generaUy ro- coived at tho rate of twenty to twenty- .tl five words a minute. An export teleg- fc rapher of a land lino sends about forty f words in that time. § Tho human body contains 150 bonos ' j$ and 500 muscles; the heart beats J seventy times a minute, displacing each ' ; time forty-four grammes of blood. All -, \ tho blood passes through the heart in threo minutes. Scientists havo succeeded in measur ing tho thickness of soapy water in a bubble. When showing the shade of . violet, it was one-fourth the thickness ' of a violet wave of light, that is, about 1-240,000 of an inch. As a result of numerous experiments two German engineers have devised a now miner's safety lamp, which is con structed of aluminum. Tho new illu minator, while naturally light, ia said to bo solidly made. According to the Annales Techniques, a gigantic telescope is being construct ed in Munich for the Chicago Expo sition. It has a magnifying power of . 11,000 diameters, but this can bo in creased t o 10,000 by means of an elec tric light, the imago in this case being thrown on a screen. Attention is drawn to the fact that asphyxiated peoplo may be saved by systematic traction of tho tongue. The movement does not only consist in raising or lowering tho tongue with the fingers (covered with a handker chief), but in using reiterated and, to somo extent, rhythmic movements. Birds with long legs always have short tails. Writers on tho flight oi birds havo shown that the only use oi a bird's tail is to serve as a rudder dur ing tho act of flight. When birds are provided with long legs these are stretched directly behind when the bird is flying, and so act as a sort of rudder. In the open sea the tide is hardly noticeable, the water sometimes rising \ not higher than a foot, but where tha wave is forced up into bays or narrow channels, it iB very conspicuous. A deep bay, opening up into the land_ like a funnel, will converge tho wave,'* as at tho Bay of Fundy, where it rolla in a great roaring wall of water, sixty feet high. In a paper read at a meeting of the biology section of tho British Medical Society, Dr. Boulton gave an account of somo very interesting results of cat erpillar hatching in pill boxes. Th« common puper moth was the insect with which the experiments woro made. He showed that by taking an egg of on« of theso and growing it in a gilded pill box n yellow caterpillar woidd be the result. When a black box was used a ' black caterpillar was brought forth, while a mixed environment would x'ro- duco a muddled animal. el Street Scenes lu Nicaragua. > •« -I ! 1 Pictures are everywhere; women bearing brown burdens on their heads, their draperies blown into action, and their usually strong and beautiful fig ures accentuated by the gentle trade- winds ; bathers or washerwomen on the beach, tho sunlight glancing from their wet, bronzed bodies and coal black hair, relieved against tho deep blue of the Bky, and reflected in the waters ol the lake and the white of the incoming waves, the market places; tho ham mocks full of naked and sleeping babies; the beautiful young girls; the. withered and wrinkled crone sucking her cigarette as she crouches over hei spark of a charcoal fire, surrounded by her pots and pans; the islands of the lake; the volcanoes; the tropical rioh- ncss of the cultivated country, with its- feathery palms and orchids; or tho weird, lonesome, gloomy jungle, with its majestic trees and festooned vines. Here is a. young boy selling pine apples ; he wears nothing but a brech- cloth. Here comes a girl who is a perfect scheme of color, her bronze face, black hair, yellow-white chemise, ^3 red rebozo full of quality, and her. ^ brown skirt and sandils covered with jhS dust. You watch her until she turns 'iM the cornor, aud you have half a mind ,M to follow for ono moro glance; but, '& look in another direction, and behold I something equally lino is beforo you. Maybo it is a young senor, with a mano \§5 of black hair about his forehead and \JS^ sticking out from under his hat brim,- gag his mustaeho twisted into saucy curls, a gay sash about his waist, and a short sword at his side, and his game-cock ^Ss under his arm. Tho soldiers, too, are 'Vvfi picturesque. They aro always expecting '^j a revolution, when life is eventful; but in times of peace, the arresting of stray pigB, goats, etc., is about all they havo $ff to do_. They are smaU men, but look ' like good material, and, I have no doubt, fight bravely. They wear hardly any uniform, and remind one of Fat- staff's men ; but in the larger towns thoy are on their mettle, and are as spruco as can be.—Century. S. •I m America's First Recorded Eclipse. 1 Tho first observations of an eclipse $0$ of tho sun taken by American astron-f'S| omers wero mode on Long Island, Pen- obscot Bay, o n October 27, 1780. On,if|3 that occasion a party from Harvard'-5&$ College, headed by Professor S. \Wii&p| Hollis, LL.D., having obtained theSs consent of the British General who wa?» in command of Castine, landed fl t^^' Bounty Cave and made the house ofJ^wi| one Shubcel Williams their head-J.^^ quarters. Tho totality of .the ecUpsoi||g was visiblo only at Penobscot Bay*and|||K vicinity, a fact which would make suclij^ s an event one of great import even to^OTJ day. It is but justice to add that.-tnejjgl observations made by the HoTvard^^ scientists were very auccessfuli^jroi^^^ withstanding the fact that their inJrtru -'fet^ ments were very crude andcWK<nint«!vs&; -:irw.¥<»k'ftm xmfrim 1
