0 GENERAL INTEREST."
It ig said thnt ono woman out of
three all ovor Utah drinks whlskv and
gets drunk about so often. Thoy claim
they do it to keop olT malaria.
Hasc-ball is going up in tho world.
An American sculptor has a statuo un
der that title in the Pari Salon, repre
sontlng a young man in tho not ol
throwing a ball.
The Atlanta Journal, suggesting
tho bloom of tho cotton plant for the
National flower, says: "Is there any
other flower of tho country whose
product is so essential to tho thrift ol l
millions of its people, which is in every
way so well fitted for Uncle Sam to
woar in his buttonhole?"
Ten years ngo there were twenty
two railroads which could not inter- j
change cars owing to tho gauge. Now
all aro alike and cars owned in Maino
arc seen slipping over tho rails in
Texa. The railroad system of tho
United States is declared to bo as per
fect as a system can be made.
The Governor of Wyoming lately
pardoned a man sentenced to a tormol
years for a murderous assault on the
condition that if tho convict ever
drinks another drop of liquor ho shall
forfeit his liberty and bo sent back to
prison. A simllnr pardon was granted
in Mississippi a few years ngo.
During 1888 there were 525.0111
immigrants landod in this country.
From Germany there were 100,975;
from England. 76.040; from Ireland.
71.9G6; from Sweden, 48.815; from
Italy. 47,424. and from Russia, 35.504.
Tho lowest recorded was 1 from Malta,
and tho nox tlowest 21 from Portugal.
Recently an old lady died at Beth
lehem, leaving an estate of $2,000.
which foil to a near relative. The
heir secured a Bethlehem attornoy,
who in turn secured another attorney.
When flnnl sottlemont was made tho
lawyor deduced $1,250 from the estato
for his sorvicos, and tho near rolativo
got tho balance.
Among tho curiosities dovoloped
in tho hunt for relics of Washington is
a contract .with his gardener, in which
stipulation i9 mado that tho gardoner
shall keep sober all tho year, excopt
that ho is to have four dollars at
Christmas with which to bo drunk
four days, and two dollars at Easter
and Whitsuntido to bo drunk twe
days. Fancy such a contract being
made with tho President of the United
States in 1889.
"Tho hair of the board in grow
ing, raises little hills of flesh around
each root," says a barber, "and in
shaving a man smoothly tho razor cut
these off. leaving tho blood vessels
exposed. Under tho microscope these
bleeding vessols can be distinctly seen,
and tho flesh is seen to be entirely
without tho covering of skin it should
have. Tho natural result is that the
close shaver Is always troubled with
colds and affections of tho throat."
Tho great plate-glass windows
that adorn largo store fronts have
their origin in the vanity of women.
A woman like to see horsolf as others
nee her. She can do that in a mirror.
When she is on tho street tho show
windows serve as mirrors to tell her
how pretty or bad she appears, if her
hat is on crooked, her back hair down
or her new-fangled bustle awry. Then
they aro attracted to the goods in the
windows and go into tho storos to in
spect and buy. Tradesmen who ob
served tho manner in which thoy
looked in tho windows urged tho glass
manufacturers to make large panes.
Thoy gradually mado them larger and
lamer until now thoy till tho entiro
front.
WORN-OUT FOOT-GEAR.
now It lit Uttll7.l ill tho Manufacture ol
Sluxlily Slums.
"Old clo" and "old shoo" merchants
never pass an ash can without inspect
ing for old shoes. If any is found it
soon linds a hiding place in tho capa
cious bag carried for tho purpose.
Each day's labor is taken to tho homo
of tho "old shoe man." whore it is
sorted ovor. Shoes that aro not past
a fow days of usefulness go undor tho
resuscitating enro of an Itnlian cob
blor. Ho gives tho old shoo a now
lease of life by endowing it with a
now solo and other repairs. These go
to some Bocond-hand shoo store, of
which there are a goodly number in
this city.
Tho shoes that are past repair aro
taken to tho old junk dealers, who in
turn ship them to the shoddy factories.
There they aro pulled to pieces in or
der to remove the steel shank piece, if
there bo any, and then ground to a
fine dust. This leather dust is then
mixed with about forty per cent, ol
rubber, which has been gathered in
the same way. The mixture of rub
ber and leather dust is spread in
sheots about two foot square, and sub
jected to a pressuro of 6,000 to 10.000
per square foot. Tho substance is
thon colored, and sold at prices some
fifty per cent bolow that of loathor.
This manufactured loathor is used
by tho manufacturers of cheap shoes
mostly for inner soles. As it is wholly
wanting in fiber, it is manifestly a
very poor substitute. Shoes with
thoso shoddy innor soles aro to bo
found in largo quantities strung on
polos and bearing tho legend, "All
leather. $1."
Tho industry of making shoddy
shoes has greatly Improved. At first
atraw board was used for inner-sole
counters, and somotlraes for out soles
by pasting over with a thin veneer of
jolo loather. Next leather scraps and
old shoes woro ground up and mixed
with tho straw paper. This guve a
little better Hubstance. Now shoddy
;ontaiiiH leather dust and rubber. N.
Y. Sun.
WHALES OF ALL SORTS
Their UablU and Modes of Life and War.
fare.
The London Telegraph, alluding tc
an exhibition of different kinds of
whales shortly to be given in the
Natural History Museum of London,
says:
How such a spectacle as this changes
the ordinary ideas about the life that is
lived under the sea. It is seen almost
at a glance that that grievous division
of terrestrial existence into-the eaters
and the eaten holds good in marine
communities also. On tho one side
are the toothless whales, prodigious In
bulk, but virtually defenceless aga'nst
attack; soft-bodieil, and comparatively
unwieldy. On the other are the fierce
'toothed whales, smaller in dimen
sion, but in proportion swifter, fierce as
tigers, and as cruel. Here is the
enormous lin-whale, i-ome seventy feet
in length, with its great helples paws,
for they are little oim', which it uses as
paddles, hanging idly down, anil its
immen.-c jaws which, fringed with
whalebone, served it well enough as a
trap for diminutive crustaceans anil
cuttle-li-h. but are no weapon against
.1.- I!1 . . I. . 11
Hie CrOCOUIlC-MlUUI. Ill IIS Mll.llll-l
enemies. rcxt to it is "the
killer," Orca Gladiator, the wolf
of the sea, which looks upon tho
Leviathan as ordinary - beasts of prey
regard flocks and herds, and which
does not hesitate, with its hundred
weight of bulk to its victim's ton, to
attack it. Sometimes they will hunt in
packs, and, surrounding one monster,
will ferociously tear the living thing to
pieces, mouthful by mouthful. At oth
ers they chase the dolphin add the por
poise, or kill the seal and tho narwhal.
Except that they do not haunt the har
bors of busy ports, follow ships, and
otherwise "seek human prey, the
"killers," whales though they are, are
far more terrible creatures than tho
sharks. There have been writers who
have spoken of life under tho ocean
wave as placidly, monotonously dull,
without any decided interests or excite
ments. Yet, looking round this whale
yault, with its fierce armature of fang
and tusk and horn, it is difficult, in
deed impossible, to believe that sub
aqueous existence is really uninterest
ing. On the contrary, when we survey,
iorms so active and "powerful in out
line, so pugnacious n expression,
so dreadfully I'.nnol for battle
with natural weapons, and a fero
cious rapidity of speed, we
see at once how awful must
be the tragedies enacted in the impen
etrable depths of the sea. and what
conflicts of race and for empire must
be continually waged. For mere ex
istence alone the carnage passes beyond
human calculation. Look at that tin
ner whale there, with a mouth in which
a tea party could be given. Imagine it
wide open and going ahead full speed
through a dense shoal of shrimps, a
porridge of small fry of all kinds.
Then think of those jaws suddenly
closing upon a good substantial mouth
ful .substantial, that is ro say, in pro
portion to the mouth and after the
water has filtered out through the
whalebone fringes into the sea again,
fancy the whale swallowing all its cap
tives at a snap, and then opening its
mouth for more. Compared to this the
hecatomb was a mere trilling with
sacrifice, a holocaust, pure child s play.
Lives by the million, .swirled gulp by
gulp down tiie monster's maw; and
next day the same monster, torn into
shreds by the gladiator "orca," lay
scattered' over acres of the sea as food
for as many millions more; and what
combats the tisli must see! How Ihe
lobster must twiddle his long an
tenna! with excitement, or the
octopus on the rock look up with con
sternation at the prodigious duels
of tiie rorquals, the leviathan encoun
ters of the cachalots! What a .scat
tering of smaller folk there mu-t be
when the lighting whales come up.
and in close battalion charge with their
ponderous heads! Over what spacious
battle-fields the bijttle must range, and
how indescribably terrific tho shock of
giants meeting in tho green silence!
The conflict might be a nightmare, a
phantom struggle, but that the sea i
being dyed a deeper and deeper red
round the enormous combatants, ami
that the furious impact of the great
bodies sends responsivo vibration,-,
through the sensitive depths, telling
the dwellers on the sea-bed and in
the crannied rocks that the giants
aro at war. Or change the scene to
tine weather with a summer horizon
unclouded, and pence everywhere
what a liberal education it must be to
a sprat or a dish of whitebait to see
these Lords of the sea ranging tran
quilly among their peers, and rolling
through unmeasured fathoms in care
less ease! To live under the water
and watch tho whales " at home "
would be almost enough to reconcile
one to being a fish.
GENERAL.
The symptoms of malarial poison
ing have been produced in animals by
the subcutaneous injection of watery
extracts from marshy soil. CMcayo
Herald.
Among the frauds that alllict the
poople is the form of indictment pre
pared in many States. Tho thief es
capes through the silly mass of ver
biage. Current.
The little hand-bags so generally
carried by Arncr.oan women must go.
The only Parisians who use them are
the pedicures and manicures, who carry
their tools about with them in those re
ceptacles. -A'. 1'. 0 rapine.
Judge Fane, of Salt Lake, has
.ruled that a plural wife has no rights
of inheritance, anil can not attain Mich
right by long continuance in the illegal
relations; that she is no wife in law,
and can not, therefore, be a widow.
Denver Tribune.
Tuesday wns an eventful day in
the life of a Leavenworth (Kan.) man
who had previously borne a good repu
tation. At nine in tho morning ho wan
recognized as an ox-convict Just after
dinner he slipped and fell into a tank
of boiling water. At three o'clock,
when he was hovering between life and
death from his terrible scalds, a Sheriff
arrived with a warrant for his arrest at
a highway robbor. He did t nun
down. t'h icago Tribu nr..
MISCELLANEOUS. j
It was when tho Into Prof. Proctor
was an English school examiner that a
little girl donned the dlffercnco be
tween n man nnd a bruto as follows:
"A bruto is an imported beast; man is
a perfect boast."
John Swift, a Connecticut man,
lived to tho ago of eighty-eight with
out being sick ono hour in his whole
life. Ho never had mumps, measles,
headache nor toothache, and when ho
died it was more because a tree fell
upon him than from any fault of his
own.
Forty years aero tho United States
stood sixth in point of population
among civilized nations of tho globe
nnd twenty years ago it stood fifth.
Twenty years hence it will stand first.
St. Louis Globo Democrat-
An Indiana man who has attained
tho sobriquet of "Lawsuit John," hav
ing been continually engaged in some
lawsuit for tho past twenty years, was
lately sentenced to a year in the peni
tentiary. This will give him a vaca
tion and plenty of time to plan now
lawsuits for the next decade.
Newark contributed over $25,000
for the relief of tho Johnstown suffer
ers. Jersey City contributed less than
one-bulf of that amount. As Jersey
City according to tho consus is tho
largest city in Now Jersey, wo must
account for this discrepancy by reasons
not novel. Jersey City people go ovor
to Now York to contribute to the relief
fund, just as they go there to die, bo
born and bo married. Newark Advertiser.
In 1816 it took just ono bushel of
corn to buy ono pound of nails, now
one bushel of corn will buy ton
pounds of nails. Then it roquircd
sixty-four bushels of barley to buy
ono yard of broadcloth; now tho samo
amount of barley will pay for twenty
yards of broadcloth. It thon roquirod
tho prico of ono bushel of wheat to pay
for one yard of calico, now ono bushel
of wheat will buy twenty ynrds of
calico.
At a touchers' examintion in Jones
County, la., in nnswor to tho question,
"What is hygiono?" a young lndy np
pllcant for a certificate to teach school
answered: "It is tho soft spot on tho
top of a baby's head which gradually
becomes harder as tho baby growi
older." Tho board of directors re
jected her application, ovidontly be
lieving that tho "hygicno" on top of
tho young lady's head had not suf
ficiently hftrdoned to qualify her for
the stern duties of a teacher. Norris-
town Herald.
Tho attention of visitors to Mount
Reposo Cemetery, at Havorstraw, N,
Y., is attracted by a novel grave in a
secluded spot. It is the gaava of a pot
canary bird which belonged to a
wealthy family in Brooklyn. The pot
a short time ago became quite ill and
was attended by persons skilled in bird
doctoring. All their treatment was
useless, however, and tho bird died
So strong was tho attachmont of tho
family for the bird that it was given
an aristocratic burial, with all tho
honors that could bo bestowed.
A Maine villago housewifo, koon
of wit and thrifty, not long ago issuod
cards for an afternoon party at her
house, terming it a "whang." Tho
ladies invited were puzzled by tho
word, and iidn't know how to dress.
but finally appeared in their most
stunning toilets. "When they arrived at
the hour named, ono p. m., thoy found
tho houso in disorder, and everybody
scrubbing for dear life. A "whang"
is a house-cleaning party, and somo of
tho ladies i. s sorry they didn't dross
accordingly
Thoro i an ablo romancor out
West somdwhere who is keeping tho
East supplied with excellent "items of
interest." Here are a couple of them:
"Lightning plnyed a queer caper on a
ranch nenr Buffalo, Wy., Tor., recently.
It struck a barb wire fence, and for a
distance of four hundred yards melted
tho barb without injuring tho strands,
and pulled ono end of tho staplos hold
ing tho wires to tho posts. Tho ex
tracted ends were neatly turned into
corkscrews and nicklo plated." "Jim
Blovlns, living near Whito Rock, Tex.,
killed a very largo chicken snako a
few days ago, and noticing tho snake's
body was unusually largo and Ill
shaped, mndo an incision and found it
to contain a largo cow horn and in tho
horn a prairie rat. It is supposed that
that the snako chased tho rat into tho
horn, and to secure tho rat swallowed
the horn."
Names of Post-Offices.
Postmaster General Wanamakor
would accomplish a beneficent reform
If he would overhaul tho list of the
68,000 post-offices of this country, and
compol a chango in somo of tho ridicu
lous appellations that now belong to
them. There is no particular objection
to Aqunshlcola, Wnpwallopon, Passa
dumkeag, Punxsutawnoy, Wytopitlock,
Daguscahonda, Mattnwumkeag, Kisha
coquillas, Wanopashemot, Quijotoa,
Sknneatolos, Qushochontnug, Agua
Calicnto or Tajlque, providing they
mean anything in this particular. And
there may bo some excuse for Bluo
Eyes, Dow Drop, Baby Head, Early
Dawn, Sweet Lips, Bridal Voll, Roso
Bud, Daisy Dell, Sweet Homo, Doll Do
light, Keop Tryst, Prairie Queen, and
so on. But when it comes to calling a
post-office Big Shnnty, Burnt Cork,
Dry Bones, Happy Jock, Hanging
Dog, Hat Off, Horse Gall, Hump Back,
Little Chucky, Mouso Tall, Negro
Foot, Parch Corn. Pay Up, Pink Bed,
Quid Nunc, Rabbit Hash, Rough and
Heady, Rye Patch, Sal Soda, Scalp
Level, Shoo Fly and Short, there
seems to be room for reform. Boston
I
SEA-COAST BATTERIES.
How the Cadet Manage the Ills flunt at
Writ I'olnt. I
At five o'clock tho northern hillside
was allvo with spectators, Including
many ladles, young and less young,
beautiful and less beautiful, as well as
all tho cadets off duty (that is, otT
military duty), to witness the sea
coast battery drill by the second class
with section leaders taken from tho
first, under tho direction of tho in
structor of aitlllery tactics, Lieuten
ant Gulbralth. Tho battery consists
of two 15-inch smooth-bore guns.
throwing a solid shot of 450 pounds
with n charge of forty pounds of pow
der, three 8-inch rifled guns (convert
ed from 10-inch columbinds by the In
sertion of rifled steel tubes) carrying
a solid shot of 180 pounds with a
charge of twenty-live pounds of pow
der, and ono l!l-inch mortar, throwing
a shell of 216 pounds, with a nine
pound firing charge and a bursting
charge just sufficient to blow out the
fuse. The guns aro mounted on iron
sea-coast carriages, and the whole
battery is arranged liko an ordinary
water battery, as. for instance, for tho
defense of West Point against a hos
tile fleet, no matter whose, coming
down tho river, no matter how. Tho
heavy projectiles for tho larger guns,
It is hardly 'necessary to say,
have to bo bundled by mechanical
means. Tho popular interest in
a drill liko this seems to center in tho
noiso of tho big guns nnd tho distant
crash and dust of tho big projectiles
as thoy hit. or do not hit, tho whito
target on tho mountain side, just
undor and in front of Crow's Nest; yet
thero is nothing more instructive in
the whole rnngo of tnctlcs. It is all
hard work and "means business. " Tho
cadots handle tho big guns with easo.
as thoy do ovory thing, loading and
tiring them first by piece and then by
section, wing, and finally by battery;
tho last a tremendous salvo, trying
tho ear-drums, but practically as well
timed as a volley of musketry. Tho
practice too, wns good, considering
tho range, winch was 2,100 yards.
many shots striking tho target and
all scorning to como somownoro near
it. Tho five solid shot of tho final
volley appeared to hit tho targot
simultaneously, though, of courso, at
that distance no ono but tho observer
at the telescope could distinguish tho
effect with any accuracy. In revenge
for so much porfect'on, porhaps, ono
sholl from the mortar seemed to have
gono ovor the mountain and oxplodcd.
But this is a way that mortars have.
N. Y. Tribune.
MOTHERS, SPEAK LOW.
I) Not Tench Your Children to Become
N'uUy M i'ii unit Women.
I know some houses, well built and
handsomely furnNhed, whore It is not
pleasant to bo oven a visitor. Sharp,
angry tones resound through them
from morning till night, nnd the in
flueneo is as contagious as measles,
and much more to bo dreaded in a
household. Tho children catch it, and
It lasts for life an inourablo dlsoaso.
A friend has such a neighbor within
hearing of her house when doors and
windows are open, and oven Poll Par
rot has caught tho tune, and delights
in sereaming and scolding, until she
has boon sent into tho country to im
provo her habits. Children catch
cros3 tones quicker than parrots.
Where mother sots tho oxnmplo you
will scarcely hear a pleasant word
among tho children in their plays
with each other. Yet tho discipline
of such a family Is always weak and
irrogular. Tho children expect just
so much scolding before they do any
thing thoy aro bid, whilo in many a
homo, whoro the low, firm tone of tho
mother or a decided look of her steady
oyo is law. they never think of disobe
dience, either in or out of hor sight.
Oh, mothers, it is worth a great
deal to cultivate that "excollont thing
in a woman," a low, sweet voice. If
you aro ever so much tried by the mis
chievous or willful pranks of tho lit
tle ones, speak low. It will bo a groat
help to you to oven try to bo patient
and cheerful, if you can not wholly
sucoeed. Anger makes you wretched,
and your children also. Impatient,
angry tones novor did tho hoart good,
but. plonty of ovll. You can not havo
tho ox'cuso for them that thoy lighten
your burdens; thoy make thorn only
ton times heavier. For your own, as
woll as your children's sako, learn to
speak low. Thoy will remombor that
tone when your bond is undor tho wil
lows. So, too. would they remombor n
harsh and angry voico. Which legacy
will you leavo to your chlldrenP
Kindergarten.
The Law of Child Life.
Indulgence of tho child is tho ruin
of tho man. Restraint and control
mark tho path of safety and eminence.
"Tho rod and reproof give wisdom; but
a child loft to himself bringeth his
mother to shnmo," is tiie wisdom of
Solomon, which, though somewhat
discounted in our age, stands woll tho
test of experience. Authority, with a
firm spinal column, must shape the
lifo of the child. The child is not yet
competent to judge. Of tho pitfalls
about his path he sees not tho danger,
but is attracted by tho glaro of many
false lights to his ruin. Tho judg
ment of another must beguldo for him
past the places of danger, and until
Ills own faculties become competent
to deal with the difficulty. Blessed
are those children favored with kind
and generous, but at tho same time
firm and straightforward, parental
Zlon's Herald.
-Quite a paradox that In a land of
the trvp so many covet bond"
TREATMENT OF HOGS.
They Need Cleanliness Every lilt as Maoft
a a Human ncLn.
I often wonder why it is thnt peopla
aro so careless with their stock, es
pecially with tholr hogs. Thero is
moro money realized from hogs, and
in less time, than from any other stock
fed for market, and yet thoy aro less
cared for. It scorns to mo thnt farm
ers should bo ashamed to treat tho
poor creaturos as thoy do. Of cour.-o
thero arc exceptions, but very many
farmers aro certainly too careless of
tholr swine, so much so that thoy
suffer great loss by it ovory ear.
If thero was more caro taken of hogs
thoro would certainly be less disease.
Many farmers havo ponds for watering
places for tholr stock, and give tholr
hogs access to them, let them wallow
and drop thoir excrement in the pond
until it becomes too foul and filthy fo
frogs to inhabit. Yet the stock must
drink this water as long ns it is thin
enough to swallow. Thoy aro often fed ,
In a manure pile, and havo to sleep In .
a fence corner with the top rail for n
storm shelter. If this class of farmers
buy a thoroughbred boar ana his pigs
do not do well and make thrco hundred-pound
hogs at nlnoto ten months
old, under tho above conditions, thoy
denounce tho thoroughbreds a failure.
Just lot thoso men try drinking filthy
water and eating ono kind of food for
twelve months and sco if thoy thrivo.
I toll you a hog needs cleaullnoss as
woll as a human being does. Thoy re
quire pure water, good dry slooplng
quarters and a chango of food, and
they must havo thoso. It Is my opin
ion that if all hog raisers would bo
enreful in tho treatment of hogs tho
lossos would not bo but a fraction of
what thoy aro to-day by contagious
nnd other diseases. It will cost but a
very llttlo to mako comfortnblo quar
ters for hogs, and thoso who pay out a
llttlo monoy and tr.ko a llttlo time to
provido such quarters will Boon got It
nil back with interest. Not only this,
but when you butcher your hogs you
would rolish your pork hotter if you
knew that your hog? had not been
rnisod in filth, tho meat would taste
hotter to yon, and tho pig would not
bo squealing in your stomach. Cor.
Western Swineherd.
Wax Mado By Insects. NB
Tho "insoct wax" of Chinn is an
exudation from certain troes, formed
in consequenco of tho puncture of the
branches by a species of Coccus. These
insocts aro whito when first dovoloped,
but, when thoy yield tholr wax, are
red. and attached closoly to tho
branches of the trees. At first thoy
aro about the size of a grain of rico;
but, nftor tho wax is produced the ac
cumulation is as largo as a hen's ogg.
Tho insoct commences to socroto tho
viscous substanco in tho spring, this
taking tho form of a silky down, which
thickons and hardens. In August or
Soptombor tho balls hang like grapes,
which aro gatltorod by detaching them
with the fingers; and, after being dried
in tho sun, they aro purified and re
fined. This wax is in general uso in
China and Japan, whoro largo tracts
of land aro planted with tho treos re
ferred to, upon which tho insects uro
roared. Tho insect is propagated by
means of its eggs, which aro collected
in clusters In the sholls of tho balls.
As mot with in commorco tho wax is
nearly pure, and molts at 190 degrees
Fahr. It Is sold in cakos of a circular
form, and of different sizes. It dis
solves easily in naphtha, and contains
eighty-two per cent, of carbon, four
teen per cent, of hydrogen and four of
oxygen. It is usod liko beeswax in
making candles, and for othor similar
purposes, whoro its high molting tem
poraturo is an advantage. Tho light
of thoso candles is of great brilliancy.
Nature.
Apoplexy Among Fowls.
A fowl taken at first with lamoneBS
and which in tho courso of a day or
two will stagger about, mako a rush
for tho food and stumblo ovor It, with
an nppetlte always good, is troubled
with apoplexy. Blooding, by opening
a voin undor tho wing and feeding on
light food will ho helpful, and in somo
cases may effect n euro. It Is possi
ble, howovor, that this may bo ono of
tho rosults of a long courso of inbrood
lnf?i hy which tho constitutional vigor
has been impuirod. Somo fanciers, in
their desire to Improvo thoir stock,
persistently inbreod until thoy destroy
Choir fowls. Possibly too much moat
has boon given, or tho lions may bo too
fat, and if a warm breakfast glvoi placo
to a diet of oats and whoat in equal
parts, or hotter still, barley, tho
chances are that thero will bo a
marked improvement. If tho result
be ono whlqh follows inbreeding, tho
wisest courso will bo to chango tho
stock and get somo fowls thnt nro not
so closely related. Tho causes of
apoploxy vary. Fat fowls, oven whon
not inbred, aro llablo to troublo pro
ducing the symptoms. 11. S. Babcock,
in Farm and Homo.
A circiiK man filled thousands of
people with wonder by catching in his
tooth a cannon ball, fired from a
cannon, without injury to his molars.
Tholr wonder increasod n few days
lator whon they learned that tho samo
man, in a heated discussion with his
wife, had caught a flat-iron in his
teeth with disastrous results. Five
molars were knocked down his throat,
and he was laid up for a week.
In polite circles out In Arizona
they never speak of a gentleman as hav
ing run away to escape hanging. Thoy
simply say that "Mr. So-und-so has
gono away In search of a cllmato for
the benefit of his throat." Boston
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ENGAGEMENT RINGS.
A Jeweler ChaU About the Kind of
tern Engraved In Them.
"What kind of mottoes aro on,-
graved in engagement rings? Well, ,
Usually ancient ones, sometimes In old.
jhigllsh letters. You boo tho fashion,
of having mottoes, or 'posies' as they
woro called, in rings is vory old. It
was quite common in tbo sixteenth and.
seventeenth centuries, both for be
trothed nnd wedding rings, nnd just
now is being revived. An English
firm of jewolers has published a llttlo
pamphlet on tho subject, giving ex
amples of 'posies' found in rings which
liave belonged to colcbrated people,
tonio of them in English, othors In
Latin, French and Gorman. Ono. In
the ring with which Bishop Bull wed
ded his wife, runs: 'Bono parero pa
rcro parare del mlhi Deus' 'God mako
mo u good mother and an obedient
housewife.' I don't Imagine thero will
bo many orders given for that motto,
nowadays.
"Tho posies woro either double op
single tho double onos bolng usually
serious, and tho single Ugh tor in tone.
A favorite in tho seventeenth contury
was:
" "God our love continue ever.
Thnt we In Heaven ni.eT dwell togethor.
"And another:
"'I.othlra never take a wife,
Who wilt not love her as his llfo.
"A sixteenth contury gcntloman folt
confidence in his futuro happlnoss
whon ho had Inscribed In his wlfo'a
wedding ring:
"I did, then, commit no folly,
When I marrlod my sweet Molly.'
"And another justified his matrU..
monial plungo by:
""Tls fit men should not be atone,
Whloh made Tom to marry Jone.'
"Single posies aro moro popular now,
as not many modorn rings aro large
enough to admit of two linos. Somo
of tho old slnglo posies which aro boiDf
used are:
'"God above tend poaeo and love."
"'God and thee my comfort bo.'
" 'Love rae little, love mo long.
" -I btd adieu to all but you.'
"'This and my hoart.'
"'Love mo and leave mo not.'
"Sometimes wo hnvo an ordor to en
grave a fow words from Browning.
Tho last lino of 'Lono Among tha
Ruins,' scorns to b a favorite, and aliO
sovoral quotations from Mrs. Brown
ing's 'Sonnets from tho Portuguoso."
Occasionally sonic ono comos in and
orders an inscription in which thora
nocms no oarthly sonso, but It's Intolll
glblo enough, I supposo, to tho pnr
ticulur financeo for whom it Is in
tended. u-
"Solitalro rings aro not fashionable
...... ..................... ii. .if i.
nro considered tho nroner thlm? now.
. 1---- o
olthor ono row of stones or two, liko
this ono, with diamonds and rubles.
Burned topaz is coming in once moro.
It was vory much worn about forty
years ago, and people who havo
jowolry of that dato will find It usofuL
Tho prettiest bracolot wo havo in tho
placo has two rows of burned topaz,
each stone inclosed in a ring of small
diamonds." Chicago Nows.
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS.
Fourteen of Them Higher Than Uin
Famous Mount Washington.
If you ask almost any ono which is
tho highest mountain in tho United
States, cast of tho Rocky Mountains,
tho reply will bo "Mount Washington,
in Now Hampshire." but this Is not
true. By reforrlng to a map of North
Carolina you will notlco on Its western
boundary tho groat Appalachian chain
of mountains, which form tho dividing
lino between that State and Tennessee.
Tho avorago height of this chain ox
cecds 5.000 foot. This part of It is a.
bold frowning barrior, nearly 175
miles in length. It continues north
ward as far as tho Stnto of Pennsyl
vania, but its highest peaks and.
roughest, wildest sconory nro to bo
eoen in Nortli Carolina.
Tho famous Mount Washington, mon
arch of tho Whito Mountains, is 6,285.
feet above tho lovol of tho sea, but in
tho "Land of tho Sky" thoro aro four
toon mountains of groater altitude
than this. Their names and hoighta
are as follows: Mount Mltcholl 6,717
foot; Guoyt's Peak, or Balsam Cone,
6,671; Cllngman's llomo, 6,000; Sandy
Knob, 6,612; Hairy Bear, 6.567; Cat
Tail Peak, 6,595; Glbbo's Peak, 6.586;
Mount Alexundor, 6,477; Sugar Loaf.
6,401; Potato Top, 6,893; Black Knob,
6,537; Mount Henry, 6,378; Bowler'a
Pyramid, 6,346; Iloan Mountain, 6.318.
Those nro tho measurements of Pro
fessors Guyot and Mltcholl, with the
latest corrections by J. A. Holmes, of
tho Stnto Geological Department.
It will be notlcod that tho highest
mountain In tho list Is Mount Mitchell;
It Is 432 feet higher than Mount Wash
ington, and every additional foot
makes a difference in altitudes. This
is ono of tho spurs of tho Bluo ltldge,
situated west of tho main chain, In
Yancoy County; it was named after
Prof. Ellsha Mitchell, a natlvo of Con
notlcut, and a graduate of Yalo College.
Prof. Mitchell accepted a call from
tho University of North Carolina, and
tho "Land of tho Sky" becamo his
adopted homo. Ho demonstrated, as
fur back as 1835, that this mountain
was the highest oast of tho Kooky
Mountains. American Agriculturist.
It is told of a pious, well-moaning'
man here that upon ono occasion la
Sunday school ho prayed: "And hies
tho superintendent of thls.Bohoo), who
has led such n long, tedious, Christiia
llfo." Even tho superintendent could
not suppress a smile." Kingston Free
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Wot grass Is injurious to youajf
chicks oven In tho summer. Do sat.
turn tbo hen aud her brood out until
1 tha sun U woU up.