A NEW KIND OF BERRY.
Ob That I New to the Credalona
d Contllln Only, and
t Fraud.
The newest thing in small fruits is
the "Arctic" berry. In parU of the
tvett enterprising a fronts have been
about aHion the farmers exhib
iting attractive-looking berries pre
served in alcohol. They are about
three times the sie of a strawberry
and with the color of an orange.
"Very delicious." says the agent,
who claims that it is a brand-new fruit
jf extraordinary merit. He explains
that it was obtained by crossing the
strawberry and the wild cherry, the
iiuekleberry and various other berries.
In response to orders he is willing to
deliver a limited number of plants.
Naturally, says the Detroit Free
Press, orders in plenty have been
forthcoming. But it turns out on in
vestigation that the new and won
cierful berry is nothing more nor less
than the white mulberry, long fa
miliar and not greatly esteemed. In
other words, the whole business is a
fraud, and the exasperation of the vic
tims is rendered more intense by the
fact that all the plants, which they
had set out so carefully, are killed by
the first frost.
The Band Indispensable.
Nightcaps and cotton ear wads are
provided by the proprietor of a hotel
at Vyitra, Hungary, for those of his
guests who retire early and do no
wish to be kept awake by a gypsy
land which plays nightly at the hotel.
.FOLLY WORRIED THt NURSE.
tamcl to Cry Just Like the Baby
Did.
A nurse at Brooinhill complains that
has a dhliculty with a parrot, says
,'k- Weekly Telegraph. Polly's cage is
'hi the nursery and she has learned to
.'u.'tr.re I aby's voice when crying with
".-.Muleri'ul accuracy. One ofternoon
1-tviJ.tly the baby's mother came run
; ; 'wio I'.u1 nurse rj because she
V.rnrd the wnilintr cry. not cf one. but
'o two babies. Baby was crying as
. .!'iOi:g-h his heart voi;M break, and
J'oJJ v, on her erch in the cage, w as sob-
Y":ng a doleful accompaniment, while
i.uise alternately soothed th one and
ec.ided the other.
"It's that dratted parrot, ma'am,"
s-he said. "She's that nggravatin'.
-lust because I won't give her a lump
f sugar she sttrfs crying like a child
und that sets baby off, so that they
i'alr worrit rv life out between them."
"dive me the child," said the mistress,
..carce able to repress a smile at nurse's
eVrst ress, and as she went along the
yassagv she heard the girl say:
"Oh, you are an aggravatin insect if
there ever was. Give over crying, can't
you?" And in reply Polly sobbed loud
er than ever, so that the cage was
whnVn ith the. vinltne of )ip
A CLOSE TRADE.
An Instance of "Nearness" That Is Hard
to Beat.
The close-fisted and the absent-minded
serve a similar use they amuse
their neighbors. The New York Sun
quotes a man from the rural districts
;as telling a story of a Mr. Putterby, an
old-time townsman of his, whose repu
tation for "nearness" was evidently
well deserved. Locally he was thought
to be almost a prodigy in this respect,
Lut no story of this kind is so good but
that another can be found to beat it.
One of the coins current in those
lovs was the oM Spanish silver-piece,
- vr itli passed for twelve and a half
ov-rts, and was variously called "nine-pence,-"
"York shilling" and "bit." It
'ajis the existence of this coin that en
vibioil Mr. l'uUcrby to achieve his
crowning triumph in the way of a close
trade-
A. firrTvbnr "rime along one day with
load of pumpkins, which he was ped-
TLoff about the village at a cent
::ij.vfce. Mr. Putterby looked at them,
Co?' eluded to buy, but wanted only
D-jaif a pumpkiu.
".But a whole one is only a cent,"
said the boy. "How are you going to
pay me for half a one?''
-"Easiest tiling in the world," said
Mr. Tutterby.
Th? pumpkin was cut, he took one
'lu'ii under his arm, and handed the boy
. i ib-ii lin .
"i'civ .give me the twelve cents
vikangt,"' he said; and taking the
Twelve coppers from the astonished
7qy, he walked away with his pur
chase. Baked Peaehee.
This li a nic way to serve peaches
when they are a little too gren and
hard for eating uncooked: Cut them
in halves, pare and remove the stones,
place them in layers with smooth side
np In a deep earthen pie dish, with the
ootiom of the dish just covered with
-vter; sprinkle sugar over the peaches
nnd cover and bake in the oven until
tender, but not soft enough to break.
These may he served hot or cold with
whlpted cream or meringue. People's
Home Journal.
Blackberry Sfomgm.
.Soak half a package of gelatine In
rxM water for half an hour, and then
pour over it a pint of boiling water;
add five tablespoonfuls of sugar, and
then dissolve, pour Into a cup and a
third of hot, rich blackberry Juice;
strain and chill on Ice; when cold, but
cat stiff, add the well-beaten whites
of three eggs and beat until thick and
light, then turn Into a mold and set
in a cold place. Washington Star.
Hat They Sever Snw the Cat an.
"Were on Another Floor of
the llouae.
"I have observed recently a rather
curious thing with respect to the rela
tionship between eats and rats, and it
has led to a rather interesting reac
tion," said a man who takes much inter
est in animal life, to a New Orleans
rimes-Democrat reporter. "Forawhii-:
the rats overran uiy place. At night
there was no such thing as qukt around
the house. They would scamper across
the floor, bump up and down the steps
and cut all kinds of capers. We se
cured a cat, and from the very time the
cat appeared on the place the rats be
gan to get scarce.
"There is nothing curious about this
fact in itself. But to my personal
knowledge the rat6 have never seen the
cat. The cat has remained on one floor
and the rats on another. There has been
no chasing and no conflict between them.
Now, I want to know how the rats know
the cat is on the place.
"The inquiry ,as caused me to indulge
the more inter. stiug reflection: How
far can a rat c'.stect the presence-of a
cat by the sencc of smell? Evidently at
considerable distance. Else the vats at
my place would not have known of the
cat's presence under the circumstances.
I'm quite sure that they have never seen
the cat. But they know he is there just
the same, and they have been awfully
cautious since his arrival."
PURE WATER CORRODES IRON.
Use or Lime in Boilers Will Prevent Fur
ther Action.
The corrosive power cf j.uix- water on
new or unsealed boilers was well illus
tiated in the city of Cb.r:", vVr. v.
new v.-ntor supply was inn ;!'?.;! f i cm
Loch Katrine, one of the u.i wurs
n the world which are r.vr.'lal !.- foi
jity consumption. The farmer supply
:iad been poor and ca-leai coiu;, and ok!
:oilers were much coated with linn
cale. To the dismay of the users, thoso
-, ho had put in new boilers or new
uIk's found them rapidly corroding,
vhile the old settled and coated boil' i.s
e ma I ned as before; those, too, vlu had
emoved every possible trace of incri:.-:-ation
from their old boilers by nr -iunieal
or chemical means, intending
bus to get, as they expected, the full
ineiit of the pure water, were also
acily troubled by corrosion; and even
lie old l.-oilers, as; the s.-ale was qir.d
"ally removed by the unvarying soft
md pure wat?r from the lake, were
"icre or less corroded when no means
. ore taken to prevent it. It was found,
irjwever, in this ens-?, that introducing
: little lime from time to time enough
o give the boilers a slight calcareous
anting usually prevented the corrosive
ction of t!v water-; then, again, in the
i;r:'o of time, the elfeet producr-d win
hat the lime, organic matter, and iron
side skin, united in forming a protr
ive oxidized surface which prevented
"urther corrosion.
Race Saleidc In Neiv Zealnd.
In New South Wales the cLVdren
mder five years old are actually less in
number than they were ten years ago,
vhile in some states there are fewer
under ten years than in 1891. In New
Zealand complaint is made that there,
ire not enough children to fill the
schools. Mr. Coghlan notes that th?
Emigration of young married women
has fallen off In recent years, yet in
iSS7 there were in New South Wales
! 12,247 married women under 45 years,
.vhile in 1801 there were I4'.t,47; still
the number of children born was about
the same in each year, and in Australia
and New Zealand there are now annu
ally 20,000 fewer births than would
take place had the rate of ten year;
ago been maintained. N. Y. Tribune.
Jacic Old Yi'eathcr Talk.
"What did you and Algernon find to
talk about?' asked the chaperon.
"The weather," was tlje demure re
ply. "I said it looked as if it were go
ing to rain, and he said he had an um
brella and he would like that he m'ght
shield me from all the storms of life
and that Florida would be a lovely
place for a wedding trip. We didn't
talk about anything but the weather
for half an hour. "Washington Star.
As a result of a series of experi
ments by the students of the Rhode Is
land college of agriculture at Kingston
and of the opening of the breachway
at Point Judith, clams are now being
dug on the shores of Point Judith pond
in the South county, In places where
they have never before been found,
says the Providence Journal. They are
more or less abundant also and the
residents of the adjoining country have
been taking advantage of their oppor
tunity recently lince the presence of
the clam beds was discovered. It all
came from a series of experiments un
dertaken to demonstrate by the class
and for the class the feasibility of
transplanting and propagating the
clams.
Some time ago one of the classes
took up this study and planted some
young clams alons the shores of this
body of water. Not long afro It was
found that the clams had grown and
multiplied until the digging Is fairly
good In the beds where the "colic tie"
clams were planted. All of which froes
to show that there are several kinds of
agriculture, and that It is easily possi
ble to farm the sea as to farm the
land.
Heppcer Gaxette Week! Orcgoclan.
INDIA RUBBER.
rrocoaa of Tnnplng the Tree and
Preparing the Sap.
India rubber, or caoutchouc, is a dry,
coagulated, milky Juice, the sap of
trees and shrubs indigenous to the
most unhealthy and Inaccessible re
gions In the equatorial countries of
South America, In certain areas of
west Africa and the Uganda protec-.
torate. The luortality among the na
tives in the quest for rubber Is enor
mous. The natives are equipped for
their hunts by the brokers and venture
to the haunts of the caoutchouc trees
in boats and by inarches through miles
of thick forests. But the climate car
ries off the rubber hunters like flies,
and the percentage of those who re
turn from the expedition Is very low.
Many properties of a vegetable emul
sion are possessed by the sap, which
contains the caoutchouc In the form of
myriads of minute globules. The proc
ess of tapping the trees for the sap Is
closely akin to the method of extract
ing sirup from the maple trees In
North America. The sap is collected
in large vats. The Juice Is then sub
mitted to a heat and smoke treatment.
A lire of palm nuts Is made, and a pole
is inserted in the vat containing the
viscid fluid. When withdrawn from
the vessel the end of the pole la be
smeared with the sticky substance.
The rubber Is then held in the smoke
issuing from the palm nut Are until
the sap coagulates. The treatment In
the peculiar smoke effects the curing
of tho rubber.
When the operation Is completed the
pole with its charge is once more Im
mersed in the vat of raw caoutchouc
and the smoke and heat process re
peated and so on several times until
there is a large knob or accumulation
of rubber upon the end of the pole con
stituted of hundreds of thin layers of
rubber. The end of the pole Is then
cut out of the rubber, and the spherical
mass is duly examined by the broker
and labeled according to its quality.
uenrus ot a Convict.
With nothing but a Jackknife to
work with, one of the convicts at the
prison at Wethersfield, Conn., has re
cently finished two wooden models of
locomotives. Thes models are each
about eighteen Inches long, including
the tender, and perfect in every detail.
Nothing except wood is used in the
models, yet they may be operated ty
turning a crank under tho engine. The
wheels go around, the pistons slide
bf-.ck and forth, the cab windows may
b moved, the bell rung and the en
gine and tender uncoupled. The con
vict had nothing to work by except his
own men:
Call at the Qasette office and learn of
our clubbing offsr with the Weekly Ore-
A Creeping Death.
Blood poison creeps up towards the
h'art, cam-in death. J. E. Stearns,
Ee le Plaine, Minn., writes that a friend
dreadfully ii.jr.red Lis Lanl, ir-'
swe'led ud like Mood pois miag. Ls..e.i.
l9D'a Arnico H dv drew out the oimn,
healed the wou.d, tnl eavtd bin life.
Beat in the wi.ilJ for burns hud sutej.
53c at Sloeum Drug Co.'s drug store.
An Kit'ir' Dpl'uan of tljo Koyal
(morge.
Edvth Tozier eatnerreu, ii u-.
... . ... . , i : .
scribing a m-en' trip ever the IViivw
& Uio Grande Iiailroad, says in "Tho
Exposition":
"At last the soal of the ambition of
years ha9 been reached marvelous,
wondeiful, grr.r.d and inspiring Itoyal
Gorge is on either band. The only dis
appointing ihing i you only have one
pair of eyes, while the train darts in and
out of the ttemendous chasm. If any
who h .ve npyer seen it are wondering
bow it looks just go and see. Thous
ands have trif d to describe it, yet every
Utempt falls short A giving the subject
ustice."
If you contemplate a tm Eai-t, wrie
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Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he U ienior
partner of the firru of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business In the city of Toleda, county and state
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the lum
nf ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each aud
every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by
the use of Halt's Catarrh Cure.
Frajjk J.Chenev,
Sworn to Id-fore me and ubscrlbed in my
presence this 6th day of December, A. D. 166,
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