April, 1879.
THE WEST SHORE.
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W. C. L Drew write aa (ollowi to the PacU
Rural Prtu: There ii not perhaps an
other maimer flowering bulb no protty, io fra
gnnt, or 10 universally admired a the tuberose ;
its beautiful, pure white, wax-like flowers,
emitting inoh a iweet and delicate perfume,
and borne in such long and stately spikes,
always attract attention and admiration her
ever cultivated. It alio thrives well, is adapted
to our climate and endures much negleot
Possessing mob rare qualities It would aeem
atrange that they are o sparingly cultivated.
But the whole secret lie in the keeping of tho
bulbe during the winter. They require to be
kept in a warm, dry room, in onler to preserve
the germ of the flower stalk. Nurserymen
mostly store them above the flue in the green
house, but amateurs can keep them in the
sitting-room, where an even temeratura ia pre
served. Again nurserymen are not always sue
ceasfnl in keeping them, and not unfrequently
sell bulbs that will not flower. This greatly
disoouragea the amateur, who ii not able to dis
criminate between the Dowering bulbs and
those that are impaired. To enable the ama
teur to form a judgment in regard to flowering
and non-flowering bulbs, we will lay down a
few rule. The bulbs that bloom are always of
good size, and the top or germ will be perfect,
and in a growing oondition. The impaired
bulb has an abrupt or short top. and if you ex
amine it you will find a dark or decayed oavity
extending down into it at the center. By
observing these rules the amateur oan usually
select the bull) which will furnish blooms and
those winch will not
Many amateurs have to get their bulb by
mail. To lie aafe in getting them in this man
ner it will be well to order only of reliable jiar
ties, and ones who understand the nature of
the bulb. Around the bulbs when removed
from the ground in the fall will be found a
number of small tuber. The are removod
from the bulb before offering for aala, and
Slanted in the spring to make bulbe for future
owering. It takes two years' cultivation be
fore three become large enough to bloom. Th
largest bulb produoe th largest and llneat
spikes, and also the earliest; in purchasing
therefor always procure the largest size to be
had. We mention tins fact as dealers gener
ally wholesale dealer always offer them in
two or mora grade, according to si, th lint
grade being the largest and always oommand
wg th highest price, frequently nearly double
that of the aaoond grade; but then it ia the
moat remunerative plan to invest in them, even
though you can afford only half the quantity.
After a bulb baa oooe bloomed it will not
bloom again, but other may b raised from the
offsets which surround it, We have the tube
raw in doable and single variety, the doable
being by far the moat popular, although soma
prefer the single.
Th tuUrnee is a native of th Kst Indie
and of South America. From th former ooaa-
Sit waa transferred to Italy, from wbenoe it
ea its nam of Italian tuberoae. It belonp
to that wouderful and beautiful order A nvu
ryliUarnr -the Amatyllu family. It botani
cal nam is 'oyiaAau tubmnm.
Th Haaoariia Turn Its nam aloe. Oreo
stanaav Caloruiea. ia almost enough to give oa
a headache; bat if you rub its leaves for a short
time over your fac and hand yua will get a
header he. surely ; and if you happen to have a
in-IiT--. why, the aaase rubbing will drive it
away, at least, SO th natives say. This oblig
ing ire ia a fine looking evergreen, with a
strong spscy smell, and I'm told that it ia foaod
la California. SkMoLu or Hon.
A WARSIHG TO rU'SlLEES AND THEIR
l'ATRONS.
Diphtheria, scarlet fevar and pneumonia have
been particularly active in certain parta of
New York and Brooklyn during the past year,
and the cause i criminal carelessness, official
stupidity, and extraordinary recklessness 011
the part of property owners, and of builders
and plumbers. Although the life of a peraon
in ordinary circumstance is of aa much vain
aa the life of a millionaire, it is quite natural
that the latter, dying in a costly mansion where
money has been lavished 011 devices for protoc.
tion and comfort, should attract the greater at
trillion, eiecially if it were a reasonable infer
ence that sewer-gas waa in any degree a predis
poaing cause. Fortunately the death of the
late Mr. Itookwull, in Brooklyn, was brought to
notice of tho authorities, anil the result of an
official investigation is moat surprising.
When Mr. Rockwell's family began to die,
and one after the other was carried to tlreen
wood, public attention was attraoted to the
several possible causes of this extraordinary
fatality, but no one dreamed that the death
trap waa the trap in the millionaire's costly hut
worse than useleaa plumbing.
The Sanitary Superintendent of Brooklyn
examined the pipes and general plumbing, as
sisted by an expert. Among other things they
found that some of th main lines of soilpiic
that are continued to the roof do double duty
carrying off the sewer-gee and acting a rain
leader. One of the piie receive tho water
from 1,200 square feet, and during heavy rains
is so Idled with water as to empty every trap
connected with it. The water cloeet in the
liath room was found attached to this pipe, and
its trap was so nearly emptied of water that il
oil, led no obstruction to the entrance of sewer
gaa. Mr. Rockwell hail wash basins in his
sleeping rooms and nursery, but the trap do
not hold water, an of course the ga hail no
difficulty in gaining entrance. In fact, if the
builder hail dwired to turn his house into a
hospital and furnish his own patient, be oould
not have devised a better system of defective
plumbing.
Anr. Kat Pi ..n i Hiai.thy. Why ar fat
people always complaining? asks some on who
entertains the popular though erroneous notion
that health i synonymous with fat Kat
people oumplain because they are diaraaed.
Obesity ia an abnormal condition of th system,
in which th aaochariu and oleaginous elements
of th food are aaaimilaled to the partial exelu,
ion of the muscle-forming and brain producing
elements. In proof uf this, it is only, necessary
to assert the well-known fact that excessively
fat people are never strong, and eldum distin
guiahed for mental powers or activity. lUside
they are the aaay pray of acute and epidemic
diseases, and they are the frequent victim of
gout, heart diaeaae and apoplexy.
Milk aa A Horouirtr. - - According to the
I'karmarirt, it 1 a frequent practice in the New
York Aaylam for Inebriates to administer to
the patient at bed time a glass of milk, to pro
duos sleep, and th mult is often found satis
factory without the use of medicine Medicine
is there sometimes prescribed la milk. It has
been recently stated ia medical journals that
lactic acid baa the effect of proroutieg sleep by
acting aa a sedative, awl this acid may he pro
duoed in the alimentary canal after the Inge
Hon of milk.
Haystack Kism Wast Ikiksmakiks
The frequent mytnou banting of haystacks
and farmers' buildings has led to lb discovery
that they are usually set oa fire by wasps' neela,
ad that the Beet are Ignited by spnalaaeous
coerdrtistioa. This la produced by the uhswkal
actum of the was ia contact with th paper Ilk
sobstanr of which the neat is composes!, a ouav
peralitely small aeoee ef oxygen being sumei.nl
to make it buret forth la a 'daae.
KBVY IXYavKTldsSa.
W puldiah descriptions of th following new
invTOtiouaobtaiued, through , Dewey ft Co.
.Wining mt AVsreljaV 1'ivti Patent Agon. , au
Kranciaooi
Waiion Bun ,1, K. Ditaworth. Austin,
lndr Co., Nv. Dated, March IHth. Thia
unproved wagon brake consists in attaching to
the rod oonuesting the brake bar with the
roller, a caae containing a spiral spring, through
which the connecting rod paeeee. A nut on the
rod under the ease bears against th spiing.
when th brake i thrown 011, so that bj ease a
wheol is not Hirfrctly round and the high place
on the wheel strikes the brake shoe when the
brake ia on tight, there is no danger of breaking
the rials or of I... km U10 wheel in mi. place no
aa to wear out the tin at one point. Suitable
nut are planed 111 the connecting rod for regiilal
ing the tension of the spring, and also for pre
venting the rod coming too far back in eaae the
spring is broken or liecomea too UIM. With
an ordinary brake, the bar la connected to the
roller by a solid connecting rial running to the
hort arm in the roller, lit caae the wheela are
not pci 1. . 1 lt round when the brake la on tight
lid the hluh lilaca lit II,., .L
11 .s.Tr ; 7,, -sssasa mm
block, the wheel will stop rotating and the irt
of the tire on the ground will b subje, t.,1 to
unnecessary wear. The tire will, therefore,
auon become woru through at that n,i Again
when the wheel alrikea the brake In the high
place, it oauaaa a Jar on the brake frequently
causing the brake to give way. Vsry many of
the accidents from brakes giving wsy have beau
H . sinned by this defect u, ,, mi(
brak. when the high plao in th wheel strikes
the brake blocks, the spring in th ess attached
l the brake liar will give euough tu w (,
high place to pass ths Idoeka without causing
the wheel lo drag, saving the tires from wear
and causing no jar to the brake rods W hen
th brake ia mddenly thrown on, and whihi lis
action is just aa effective, it comes up with an
easy motion awl uo jar. This in.th.al of eon
uecting the lirake bar with the levere leuda
alao to keep the winds round, aa wherever
tbar 1 a tendency lo bulge, tb- re, a greater
pie. sin. is alerted. The apring being en
chased in a shell Is out uf the way of the dust
and dirt, but la easily arceaaihle for repair or
replacement, by asperating the two sides uf Ike
hell.
Canriaok HraiKn Orrin ft. Carvill. Dated
March I Nth. This Invention relates to a novel
impruvsnieul iu the construction of epnaga and
gear for carriages awl other vehicle, awl 11
consist 01111 1 y in the combination with the
wooden aid Urs of s buggy of a central long,
tudinal supilemenul sUef spring, so arranged
and rnueelrl with the side hsrs that II will
take a considerable oortloa of the strain when
a heavy load is brought upon it, sod by it as
Is tame to the wooden aide Urs greatly ailds
to Ibe elasticity of h. buggy , ,,,,, m
iste in lbs employment ,,( . peeullar , hi, he
which th aide Urs an attached lo h hnkur
and the rear ail. bed, and try which they have
a free end independent motion anon their i.itnu
of attachment, and the ail bed or bolster Bill
act he rocked hark and forward by in. vertical
movemenls of the snl. Urs awl spring.
A Uses Mivbkai Mr Kdwsrd iildsmilh
eshilatssl, at a Isle meeting of the I'uile.Ulphia
ArwUmy if Hrieneee. a Spesimsa of asphalt,,,,,
fottwl l feet Ulow the sarfan in a bed of ere
taeeotui marl near Viaceaitsywa. N. J. In u
same had awl within a few 1. . t of ti aaphsltun,
was found a yellow mineral reem of the nature
of kranUiU iflrat de nM by ll.rg.mao as ue
....... ig, oermaav), a lain of
amUr, awl naglainlag small white eryslala, U
tarred to U lurciaelliHtU. This is Iks Ant
time that either of Ihee minerals haa U.
foawl in New Jarwjr,