The west shore., October 01, 1880, Page 267, Image 13

October, 1880.
THE WEST SHORE.
267
TODLOUSE GEESE.
Thinking that tome of our readers might like
to give tome attention to geese u a variety in
their winged stock, we have secured an engrav
ing of the Toulouso geese, which are among the
most famous sorts. The engraving is made
from drawings of birds owned by Benson, Maule
ft Co., of Philadelphia, large poultry breeders.
The Toulouse breed is named after a city in the
south of Franoe, where they are largely raised,
and whence they have been sent to all parts of
the world. They are gray with white bellies
light gray on the body and breast, and dark
gray on nock and wings.- Their bills are dark
flesh color, and legs deep orange. They are ex
tremely large when fattened at maturity, aver
aging 45 to 60 pounds per pair, sometimes ex
ooeding even this weight They grow rapidly
and will fatten readily at any age. At four
weeks they will weigh from six to eight pounds.
They are very hardy, being much stronger
when young than goslings usually are. Thoy
are profitable on acoount of the abundance of
feathers they, produce, which, together with
their extreme hardiness, makes them a desirable
breed to keep. Thoy are very proliiio layers
WHAT SEVEN WOMEN DID.
These women lived in the oonntry, were
housekeepers with large families and small
means j each one did her own work, and was
full of care. To brighten up their monotonous
lives a little during the dull, hard winter, they
proposed to meet onoe in two weeks at each
others' houses, with their knitting or sewing,
but to go home before tea, that it should not
interfere with their regular duties.
One of them proposed that they should read
some book together and talk about it afterward,
thus affording them pleasant and useful subjects
for thought during the intervals of visiting.
One lady suggested that they read Shakspeare.
She had onoe seen the play of Hamlet, and she
wanted to know more of this wonderful book.
This at first seemed to these women of limited
education, and at the ages of from 40 to 60, as
an idea too ambitious for them to oarry out I
but at last they determined to attempt it, al
though for fear of the ridicule of others who
might hear of it, they resolved to keep their
own oounsel.
By dint of economising and oontriving, they
SOLID 8ENSE.
Virtue in its unity demands no extraordinary
powers, no remarkable talents, no superhuman
efforts. It is possible to each and to all the
child may possess it as well as the wisest man,
the unlearned laborer as well as the most pro
found scholar. The outward claims of duty
vary with every varying oiroumstanoe and r.
lation of life, but this inner olaim of oonsoisnoe
to be loyal to them as fast and as far as they
are discovered, is one and the same to every
human being.
The earnings and savings of Industry should
be for a purpose beyond mere savings and earn
Ings. e do not work and strive for ourselves
alone, but for the benefit of those who are de
pendent upon us. Industry must know, too.
how to spend and how to save. The man who
knows, like St, Tsui, how to spare and how to
abonnd, has a great knowledge.
We oan never have muah oonfldenoe In the
uprii(htnees of others until we have discovered
some degree of uprightness In ourselves, We
are apt to suspect everybody, If we ourselves
ought to be suspected, and just as apt to trust
others when we ourselves can be trusted,
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and seldom offer to sit Their eggs usually
hatch remarkably well.
This description shows some variations from
that given by the breeders of the birds shown
in the engraving. They are striking and hand
some in either markings.
To Turr Milk run Wans. A German
chemist furnishes a very simple procedure for
testing the amount of water in milk, which can
be applied by any one. AU that is required is a
small quantity of plaster of Paris, say one ounoe.
This is mixed with the milk to a stiff piste,
and then allowed to stand. With milk of 1,030
specific gravity, and a temperature of 00 K., it
will harden in 10 hours; if !X of wster is
present in two hours; if M'L in one and one
half hours, and with in .10 minutes.
Skimmed milk which has been standing for i!4
hours, and is of 1,033 specific gravity, sets in
four hours; with 50 of water, in one hour,
and with 73, in SO minutes. Heat should
not be applied, ae then the nse of the thermom
eter would be required. This test is certainly
very simple, and not oostly.
TnE FKENCH Oil TOULOUHK (1EKBK.
purchased a oopy of Shakespeare, and with the
aid of a pronouncing dictionary to teat all doubt
ful words, they began with the play of Julius
O'sar. From reading the plays, they were 11
to desire a knowledge of Hhakapeare himself,
his surroundings and his friends, A kind and
oongenial friend, to whom they oontlded their
secret, obtained fur them the needful books.
Notwithstanding the preparatory reeding and
the neoeeaary study for these meetings had to be
done here and there in odd momenta, these
women felt uplifted and refreshed by the
thoughts which thus oame to tbem, and they
wen delighted with the new outlook wnion
opened over and above their weary lives. By
their oareful and strict attention to their studies,
the range of their knowledge was greatly en
larged, and they wore able to write creditable
and thoughtful essays oa subjects which grew
out of their research.
Tut project of securing the Ortal KaMern to
run between London, New Orleans and Galves
ton, to take onr eottoo and other prod note and
bring back emigrants, is in fair way of being
fully established. '
in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will cot
keepi it oanoot lie accumulated! nor have we
to go out of ourselves or into remote pUosa to
gather it sinos it has rained down from heaven
at our very doors, or rather, within them.
One had better sail boldly in almost any dl
reotioo than drift without any direction at all.
One had better aail In the maddest storm that
ever troubled the sea of life, than lie on the sea
and drift with any wind that blows.
Talent and worth are the only lasting grounds
of distinction. To these the Almighty has
tied His everlasting patent of nobility and
these it la which make the bright immortal
names to which all may aspire.
It never yet hapwned to any man since the
beginning of the world, nor ever will, to have
all things aooording to his desire, or to whom
fortune was never opposite nor adverse.
' A cheerful temper Is like a grain of mok It
imparts Its fragranoo to everything that somas
In eonteot with it, yet It always remains the
lame.
It is the easiest thing la the world to disoovsr
all tbs defects in man when we do not like
him.