STRAWBERRIES.
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How Every One Who Has a Garden Maj
Be Supplied With the Delicious Fruit.
Every one having a garden mav
secure delicious fresh strawberries with
very little trouble, if he so wills. One
of the most successful growers for the
market in this country is Mr. Parkei
Earle, who writes as follows: Now to
begin with the beginner at the begin
ning of a strawberry plantation: First.
,take good land if 3-011 can get it; if no!
take poor and enrich it if you can. Il
,you are planting for home use, bo sure
you plant on some kind of laud; if you
can't get good, take poor. You can and
should grow strawberries for j our own
table. If for commercial purposes, it is
desirable that the conditions should be
favorable. Select then the bt soil you
can command such as would grSw
potatoes or corn. Mow well in fall and
spring: good common plowing will do.
Don't fool away money in trenching or
deep sub-soiling unless you like to.
Mant in fall; not in spring or summer.
In setting plants don't follow any
aristocratic directions. Don't dig a hole,
then make a mound in the hole, then
spread the roots equally all around
that mound and then sift in the earth
through a sieve, as some good people
say; 1 say don't do it that way unless
vou greatly enjoy the fun of the thing.
Tliat will do for a dozen plants, but it
is too slow for large quantities, and a
fast, easy way is just as good. Your
ground being well prepared, plowed,
harrowed and rolled, mark off carefully
for rows. Your plants, being well
trimmed, should be dipped in water
and placed in a pail. An active boy
should take the pail of plants and place
them deftly in openings which you
make with a ood spade. Thrust the
spade in before you at an angle ox forty
five degrees, the boy puts in the plants
while you withdraw the spade and press
the earth firmly over the roots of the
plants with your foot. This is easy to
do. and a man and boy can set four
thousand or live thousand plants in a
day in good shape. Cultivate carefully
and thoroughly, but very shallow next to
the plants. l)o this all summer, let no
weeds grow Let as many runners
grow as will make a narrow matted
row, cut the balance; keep the middles
clear. Mulch in the fall heavily be
tween the rows, lightly over the plants.
Don't disturb them in the spring.
If you pick for market, pick everv
day; pat no poor ones in the boxes. If
you eat these berries you will be glad
you planted them. If you st'll tht-m 1
hope 7011 will get well paid- I'ruiri.
Farmer.
DR. EDSON AND THE ROOSTER.
An Amitsinjr Story of the President of the
New York Health ltnarrf.
An amusing storv is told of Dr. Cvms
LMson, of the Health Board, which has
as yet never appeared in print. It was
durin" his service as an undergraduate,
and before his father, ex-Mayor Ed-on.
bad been raised to the chief oflice in
the niunicipalit- that the episode re
ferred to occurred. The family raided
at the time at Fordhani Heights, atid to
a certain extent enjoyed the advantages
of rural living. That is. they would
have enjoyed it had it not been for the,
Iir'ule of the barnyard of a near neigh
bor. This rooster had the ill manners
and bad grace to disturb the matutinal
slumbers of the Edson family every day.
With the first streak of dawn he would
hop down from his perch on an old
soap-box and crow until the very hills
reverberated the sound. Dr. Edson
and other members of the family ex
pended lung-power, old boots, soap
dishes, and other pieces of portable
bedroom furniture in their etlbrts to
silence the feathered firnd until they
were well-nigh exhausted. Then Mayor
Edson tried to buy the precious bird,
but the neighborly neighbor would not
sell him. Finally the young disciple of
..Esculapius determine I that through
him should the family find peace. Ac
cordingly one morning he arose just
before daybreak, and gliding cautiously
down into his nerghbors back-yard, he
succeeded, by the blandishments of voice
and the liberal use f sweet corn, in
getting h's hands on the rooster. This
done the rest was easy. Taking his
dissecting case from his pocket, he se-.
lected u keen-edged scalpel and tweezers,
and holdinjr the bird between his knees.
sought the animal's throat. Taking up
the vocal cords witu the tweezers, it
was but the work of an instant to sever
them and let the rooster ro.
That da- and ever after the sleep of
the Kelsons was undisturbed. Young
Cyrus, however, lost more rest than
formerly. He could not resist the
temptation every morning thereafter of
getting up and watching the disabled
bird us it Hew from its perch to the top
of the fence, and Happing its wings.
tried to crow. For him it was better
than a circus. .y. Y. Mail and Express.
A COUNTRY DOCTOR.
Pen. I'lcturo of a Self-Reliant and Self
Sacriurins Old-Time Worker.
He was an excellent specimen of the
country doctor, self-reliant, self-sacrificing,
working a great deal harder for
his living than most of those who call
themselves the laboring classes as if
none but those whose hands were hard
ened by the use of farming or mechani
cal implements had any work to do.
He had that sagacity without which
learning is a men? incumbrance, and he
had also a fair share of that learning
without which sagacity is like a traveler
with a good horsbut who can not read
the directions on the guide-boards, lie
was not a man to be tae:iin by names.
He well knew that oftentimes very innocent-sounding
words mean very grave
disdrders; that all degrees of disease
and disorder are frequently confounded
under the same term: that "run down''
may stand for a fatigue of mind or body
from which a week or a month of rest
will completely re-tore the overworked
patient, or an advanet d stage of mortal
illness; that ' seedy" may s:gnify the
morning's state of feeling, after an
evening's over-indulgence, which calls
for a giTiss of soda-water and a cup of
coffee, or a dangerous malady which
will pack off the subject of it, at the
shortest notice, to the south of France.
He knew too well that what is spoken
lightly of as a 4 'nervous disturbance"
may imply that the whole machinery of
life is in a deranged condition, and that
every individual a organ would groan
aloud if it had any other language than
the terrible inarticulate one of pain by
which to communicate with the con
sciousness Oliver Wendell Holmes, in
Atlantic Monthlu.
Mr. Gladstone has made but four
change- in his Cabinet since he lirst
formed it, the Duke of Argyll, W. E.
Forster, John Bright and Mr. Dodson
retiring, to be superseded by Lord Car
lingford, Sir Charles Dilke, Earl Derby
and Mr. Trevelyan. respectively.
CHIROGRAPHYOR PHRENOLOGY.
The Texas Man Who Had the Best of
Iteaaona for Doubting That a Person'
Peculiarities Can Be Indicated by Either.
"I tell you it's all humbug about an
expert bJing able to tell all about a per
son's character by his handwriting,"
said Raymond Smythc.
I don't atee with you. The bold
aian writes a b ld, reckless hand. Just
look at the signature of the great Na
poleon. It looks more like a Hash of
lightning than a signature. Hie busi
ness man writes a business hand. The
close, stingy man can be detected in
hU handwriting," replied Andrew
Wells.
That's what these experts all say. I
gave the matter a practical test, and I
am in a condition to .sav that it is a
fraud."
"How did you make the test? '
"For more - than six months I had
been paying serious attention to Miss
Birdie McGinnis, one of the belles of
Austin. As far as I could judge, she
was the right kind of a girl to make an
excellent wife. She was as mild and as
gentle as a lamb whenever I called on
her. I wanted a meek sort of a woman
for, a wife, for I like to have things my
own way. She was, moreover, very in
dustrious, which is a very desirable
habit in a woman nowadays. She
peemod to be very economical, which is
another good thing to have in the fam
ily." "You seem to have found a mo lei
woman."
"That is what I thought, but I had
my doubts, for one day as I was rid ng
past I saw her chase her grandmother
through the yard with a broom-tick,
but I thought th'y were only playing,
although she hit tfie old lady some
pretty solid whaeks.-"'
"What did you do to verify your -us-picions?"
4 .
"Well, just about that time I read in
a New York papjr that Prof. Smith, on
being furnished with a specimen of the
handwriting of a person and six dollars
in advance, would furnish a perfect
analyses of the writer's character. 'I
sent on the six dollars and one of
Birdie's letters, and in a hoi t t'm re
ceived an answer to the effect that the
lady who wrote the lines was a female;
that she was of a demure, quiet dispo
sition, whose character. could be eas ly
molded; that she was economi -al, and
incapable of deceit. On the strength
of this I dism'ssed my doubt. I pro
posed, was accepted, and we were mar
ried." "Your wife turned out just as von ex
pected?" Smythe fixed a stony gaze on Weils,
and then he yelled:
"No, she didn't by a blamed sight.
Shakespeare's shrew was a lamb com
pared to her. She will fight a c oss-cut
saw. She is the raot extravagant
woman I ever saw. She has bank
rupted me. And, as for deceit fuhies-,
she beats the mischief. Everything is
false about her, from her ha r down.
That's how you can t el 1 all about a per
son's character by handwriting."
"Why don't yon put your foot down?
Whv don't vou make hc-r behave her
self V"
"I did try it once. I'd rather go
into a cage full of tigers. "No, sir; this"
finding out all about a person by the
handwriting is a humbug. But Til tell
you how to find all about a person; by
phrenology. 1 had my head examined,
and the professor described my char
acter to a dot."
"What sort of a man did the profes
sor say you were?"
" He said 1 was a man of undoubted
firmness a born ruler of men: that 1
had a will that would break, but not
bend, and that 1 was brave even to
rashness."
"When did 3011 have your head ex
anrned?" ' Shortly after I was married.'"
"That accounts for it. The phrcnol
og'st was deceived as to your character
by the bumps ral-ed on yoi:r head with
the broomstick." Texas Silings.
BREEDING DEAF CATS.
An Observation Having Pathological Bear
ings on the Subject.
Instructive experiments on the rat
at which a deaf breed of animals could
be formed, might be made by breeding
deaf cats, who are by no means h;cl)i-
cient mousers, and who show no sign
of discontent at their lot. I may men
tion an observation of my own as having
some possible pathological bearings. It
was this: During a country walk I
lunched at a roadside inn, where 1 saw
a female cat with blue eyes, and aked
and found that she was quite deaf, but
was told that her kittens heard perfectly.
The only one of them that had been
kept was in the room, and she certainly
noticed ray voice and other noises I
made to attract her attention, just as
readily as other kittens. Then it oc
curred to ire to try her with the shrill
notes of one of my little whistles, which
I had in my pocketbook. She was
absolutely deaf to the-e, and 1 doubt if
she could have heard a note as shrill
even as the chirp of a sparrow. Cats,
as I have c-Newhere observed, are em
inently sensitive to shrill rotes (-o that
the deafness of this kitten was a note
worthy proof that the imperfect stages
of the form of hereditary deafness to
which she was subject consisted in the
degeneration of that part of the audi
tory apparatus which is concerned in
hearing shrill notes. I am told that no
thorough anatomical investigation J: as
yet been made into the-e matters, owing
to insufliciency of subject-. It would
therefore .veem that a breed of deaf cats
might be very accept able to physiolo
gists, and I have no doubt that such a
breed might be easily established on
any small and sparsely inhabited island
from which every heal ing cat had been
removed. Cats will not breed in strict
confinement, and their roving habits at
night make it impossible, under ordi
nary circumstances, to ke -p their breed
pure; but in small islands, under the
Internal despotism of a popular land
ord, this and many analogous experi
ments in breeding varieties of small and
hardy animals and plants, such, I mean,
as would take care of themselves, migiit
be carried out. I have often envied the
facilities attorded to such projects by
the geographical and social condition of
the Scilly Islands. Francis Gallon, in
Nature.
The German Minister of Public In
struction has decided to permit vivisec
tion in the medical schools under cer
tain definite conditions, one of which is
that animals, in all cases, when not in
compatible with the object of the exper
iment, shall.be an.estheticized. This
ollicial recognition of the scientific ne
cessity for these experiments will
doubtless have the effect 'of encourag
ing the practice everywhere
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Thev are cxperimentins: at Statcn
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X. Y. Herald.
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a ...
Young lad:e-; at a certain Western
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" No, my -daughter," said the old
man. "you shan't marry that thar dood
cf I kin help it." "Hut think, father;
think of my happiness, even if you dis
like Algernon Augustus" pleaded the
handsome girl. "Think of the heart
ache " ".Jist fur the world like yer
mammy, girl." said the old man, point
ing to his bald head. "See what her
h'ar-takes have done fur n;c'." Xew
man Independent.
Jock Uu.ss-11 was a farm servant
not far from t'arnwath. Ono day when
Mrs. Brown, the farmer's wife, went
into thr milk-hoii.se she found Jock
down on his knees before a milk boyno
and skimming the cream oil' with his
linger and putting it in his mouth.
"Oh, Jock, Jock!'1' she exclaimed, "1
don't like that" "Ah, wuruan," re
plied Jock, "ye don't know what's gudo
for ye." Glasgow Ercninq Times.
The Happy Plumber.
. the plumber.
The rich old plumber!
Won't he jro in strong next summer!
' llernn sport store-clothe
Anil uliininir collars.
Lay oil' at - pas.
And spend his $ ? S S.
Happy
Happy
ll.tppy old plumber!
To whom a cold winter
Ilriujrs a warm summer.
Whitehall Timo.
Dawny Campbell went to build a
small outhouse of brick. After the
usual fashion of bricklayers he wrought
from the inside, and," having th.L ma
terial close beside him, the walls were
rising fast when dinner-time arrived,
and with it h;s son Jock, who brought
his father's dinner. Wi'h honest pride
in his eye Dawny looked at Joek over
the wall on which he was engaged and
asked: "Hoo d'ye think I'm getlin'
on?" "Famous, tether; but hoo dae ye
get oot? ye've forgot the door." One
look around him .showed Uawny that
his son was right; but, looking kindly at
him, he said: "Man, Jock, you've ;ot
a gran' heid on ye; ye'll be an architect
yet, as shore's 3er faither's a mason."
(Fasgow Evtning litne3.
The Freedmen's Aid Society of the
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tablishment and support, among the
co'ored people, of seven chartered
schools, besides a medical college at
Nashville, a Biblical institute at Balti
more and twenty-three schools not
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AN EVASIVE CUSTOMER.
tnforraatlon Tht Didn't Inform to Any
Very Certain Extent.
"How long have you been living
here?" asked a tourist of an Arkansaw
man.
"Wall, let me think awhile. See that
dog. He wan't nothin' but a pup when
X come here."
"How old is he?"
"Wall, I dun forgit his birth day. He
was a mighty onery pup in the fust
place, an' we didn't think he would live
nohow, so we didn't keep up a keerfu'
record of his age. Putty good dog
though, he growed up to be, but he's
gettin' a little old now."
"So you don't know how long you'vt
been living here?
"Oh, yes, ever since that dog was a
pup.
"When was he a pup?"
Before he was a dog, of course."
"My friend, are there many old set
tlers in this part of the country?"
"Oh, yes."
"How old?"
"Some o' them are a hundred year
old, I reckon."
"You don't t.'ll me so."
"How do you know I don't?"
"I mean that you do not intend to
convev the improi-sion that they are
that old."
"That's what I do?"
"1 would I ke to talk to one of them
and listen to his exj er'e:.ce?"
"So would I."
"Why don't you?"
"They are dead, stra-iger. Been set
tled a long time."
"What time is it?" asked the tourist,
aft r remaining sileut for a few mo
ments. "Gettin' along toward the spring o"
the year."
"I mean what time of day?"
"Don't know, it's cloudy!"
"Haven't you got a time-p'ece in the
l.ov-e?" ' m
"No, but the old woman has."
"Well, can't vuii sic what time it is
by that?"
" "Noah."
"Whv?"
Old woman's too stingy. She 'lows
that the oil machine jut gives enough
fine for her an' fie boys. (Jot a big
fambly an we have to be mighty teer
ful not to waste anything."
"My friend, a on are certainly a very
curious specimen."
"Yes, so is a water-dog.'
"1 am a s ranger in this country, but
1 can not tint! any one interested enough
to irive me anv information. What is
land worth by the acre?''
"Fust one price an' then another."
"Do you want to sell your place?"
"Ain't a hurtin' to sefl it."
"if you were to sell it, what would you
ask for it?"
"Wouldn't ax nothin' fur it if I waster
gel! it. Wouldn't be miue then."
"How many acres have you?"
"Xey.-r ni'-asurt d it."
"Where, iu this direction, does your
line stop?
"Ain't got no line."
"Hasn't the place been surveyed?''
"Yes, but the line was burnt up when
the woods eo'eh alire.'
"I -don't believe you've got good
sense"
An' I know ou hain't"
"How do you know it?"
"'Cause you stop an' talk so long to
a man that you don t believe is got good
sense.
"That's all right Say, how can I
strike the Little Hock Road?"
"With a stick, 1 reckon."
"You are a fool."
"So am I." Arkansaw Traveler.
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La Correspofidencia (the Correspond
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from the universal ty of its perusal, it is
facetiously called the "Spanish night
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have gone to bed without having read
it entirely through. And it must be
read through, for it is the most ex
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drida ever printed as a newspaper. It
is a new-paper rather than paper ol
op'nlou. The staff consists of a dozen
bright reporters and no editor. Tho
reporters scour the capital and pick up
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woman, the illness of the King, the
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bees coming home honey-laden. They
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hastily penciled in memorandum books
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