THE CHIMES.
Hark., O, bark ' kotr toft ud clear
hit v obi mi 114 on qj mx,
hell uf iiud they teii
Jay U nil iwad
ftiU)g fa I Ho, on to eu
Wtwn u a tbf r e J ing clear
I -a. 5 i or-1- J 1 is don,
HMt euoiea wit a the totting iuo.
Kwtr, awsetsr, still they rin
And a benedict ion fiing
Oiforevof I iuail hear
In my hart tbos oiee dfar.
ja) ufu mrft. fewwt lullaby.
Heard ta dayi loug since gone by,
Wben jreswd 10 a booai wbita.
Mother' auiguig hu wheal at quits.
fca, I drop my wearv noad.
Car aud troubit bolb ar tit-d,
Al d 011 suaiitl sweet an tbCfa
liifi t wrd iliidt of repot,
Kiiuo fttli-icitf too tight doth go
Od tiioMi a em to and fro ;
B1U ot 1 timber, bells of iep,
1 axa lukiug in lbdtp,
fitill ! hear you--o er and o er
And nhaiJ bar foreier uiurtt.
Through tuy brain your atx-enti doal.
Each boit. peoeuating note
F-utber. (aimer, fajutr still,
Kinking, ruing, winking till
All mv uui. thnilwi with d-iignt.
ift-eani uX tnuic through the mgbt.
LITTLE FKUTilNE-
For nearly a month now every one ;
passing a .Parisian hairdresser's shop j
iu the Quarter of the .Madeleine had
aeen oehind the glass of the great !
window a beautiful blonde head j
coiffed with a little blue capuchon.
An adorable head it wa , with ten- :
drilly tresses of shining gold, lan
guishing eyes and half-parted litis,
seeming to need and to await but a
kiss to warm them to ardent life.
It was the uoveity of the season in
the Advertising line, and the trade of
the coiffeur so much increased there
by that it really looked as if the po
lice would b needed to keep the
street free.
All I aris as one sheep follows an
other over the fence, till the whole
tlcick has parsed was occupied now
with the pretty figurine of the Mad.
le.ee quarter.
But the eagerness of the city
changed nothing in the habits of the
hairdresser's shop; the pretty figurine,
in her coquettish capuchin, faced
with vieux-rose, showed herself
neither more nor less often in her
velvet and crystal caging, and worse
than all for the itnportunat? and curi
ous ones, when thev entered the shop
and demanded of the majestic dame
de comptoir a nearer view of the
wonderful wax image, she answered.
urmiy auu aiwavs, mat me Key was ',
not iu ner pose-siou, ana oianaiy j
pointi-a to trie siae or the room, im
penetrably closed to the ceiling be
hind stout wooden paneling.
Marcel made up his mind one
morning and entered the shop deter
mined to acouire the beautiful ob
ject of his desires, no matter at what
cost, rue stately saleswoman met I
him and sought to sell him every
thing iu the world but that which he
bad come to purchase.
"Jv'o," said he. "it is the head
that J want that is to say, the head
that last evening was in the window,
for the window at present is empty."
With many hems and haws the
saleswoman Anally declared that she
had no authority to negotiate such
an affair.
"To whom then," persisted Marcel,
"shall I address myself, madam?"
"To the patron, monsieur, though
I warn you that it will be entirely
useless, for nothing in the world
would induce the patron to part with
it."
"That is my atfair, madam. And
when can the patron be seen? I
wish to settle the matter as s:on as
practicable."
"Impossible to say, monsieur: the
patron goes out every morning not to
return sometimes till exceedingly
late."
i
urged ;
"His home address, then?
Marcel, stubbornly.
'Out of the question, mons eur; It
is forbidd a todisclo-e it."
Marcel was not to be stopped by
trifles. He took up his stand in a
cafe opposite the hairdresser's shop
and waited.
About 12 o'clock he saw a little
becurled, pomaded and ter:umed le
ing enter the place and begin to :
strut aroun t wnn trie air oi tne mas
ter. He quickly crossed and stated
his busyness. He was badly received
truly.
if such outrageous, such Indis
creet steps loatinue," fumed the
artistic coiffeur. "I shall close up rny
shop immediately, m'sieur. Jvever
before, and I have dwelt in every
capital in Kurope with with my
head in'sieur never, never, I re
peat, have I suffered before a perse
cution that equals this."
!
Marcel, j
a very ;
"But, monsieur," said
"you look at this matter in
strange manner,
of explanat on.
Allow me a word i
You are a merchant !
nd possess an object that 1 And to
my taste and which 1 offer to buy
from you. What could be simpler,
particularly as I am willing to pay
whatever pric you choose to ask?"
"And 1 tell you, m'sieur," returned
the enraged little man, stamping
around liKe one Dossessed, "no mat
ter what price you off r, my my ob
ject is not for sale Anything else
that you please in my shop paints, j
powders, perukes, capuchons, trink
et -anything, anything I gay, but !
but the tlgurine in uiy window." J
The case was hopeless. Marcel de- j
parted, defeated and furious. (
She was regularly in her pi ce for I
perhftps a week more, when the
window wasom; ty. and, queerer than :
U else, tbe window remained empty.
Ooate Cm ton Leopold, too, bad I
v dlunnmrarf and was tn lift I
vt MlttMr doum, clcb, opera,
tf otnr nlace that once bad
kM5& Mar el Inquired for him
iaaMt$ besieged tbe servant
J T lt Part Terr
5c , 'S J- 'without
f .rt or hew
ra ooe
tssl i
f I
figurine brought up tlie subject again.
'but she there no more, you
know," sadly declared litiie Frist.ie
Eh? WLat? Gone for good, the
pretty little figuri-ie?"
"So it seems. "
And so eventually it proved: the
window was rearranged arid filled
with a mis-eb'aneous collection of all
sorts of things apropos of women's
r u . I 7 l"'""D'
brushes, pads and In.-keN -annninir
so much as one golden curl of the ;
little figurine's trett.v bead.
"But she wasn't there aiwjvg at
first. Kribie, you know," cried a
voi e at the back, "only occasionally;
perhaps we miss h r "
'io, she comes no more, I l ell you.
I've watched and waited: it is a total
eclipse. Deuced hard on me, tiesides,
for that pretty little Uguriue was a
genuine mascot to me. When I
stopped to look at her and she smib d
upon me lu k was alwavs. as now it
is the reverse, in my favi.r."
"And as for me." said another, j
"when she gave me a look " :
This was too much: disturb d in ;
his ruhlier the old Comie l anneviile ,
brought the chatter to au end w th a j
sharp rap on the table. A coiffeur's ,
llgurine smiling and gairig at pass-en-by?
I'ooliT What rubbish' Net '
) to be tolerated a moment in a -erious '
i game of piquet!
Marcel alone remained thoughtful
an I next morning, breakfast over, he j
! betook himself hurriedly to ttie cate ;
that once l fore s Tied him as an
j observatory
j The window opposite was still ;
j minus of a tlgurine, and appeared
I even not to expect one: the place ,
once graced by the beautiful head
was otherwise occupied
! VVatching and ruminat ing over the
strange turn of affairs Marcel sud
denly saw coming and going in the
shop the artislic coiff. ur: but,
i heavens: was it really he or only hi
! shadow?
j The littl" man had aged full
j twenty years. He was neither pow
dered, painted, pomatummed nor
curled. His costume even betrayed
a complete forgetf ulncss of self, and
the majestic dame de comptoir.
working in a corner, watched him
out of the corner of her eye like a i
terrified beetle.. !
Marcel, moved by curiosity, croWd ;
the way. The coiffeur recognized !
njm instantly
would
like to speak with you
privately, monsieur," legan Marcel,
ovmy, "it you can spare me a
menL"
IUO-
I
' A 1.ypn ri, . tniiieu r " t tt ei ffpur t
mournfully replied, promptly lead
ing the way into a sort of back cud ly,
lighted by gas only and walled to the
top with "bang-," "switches," and
boxes of hair.
j "Excuse nie, monsi-ur," said h;
I "for bringing you here, but I do not
wish to te seen from out sid"
; "Cmne, speak, monsieur, what is
! that you wish to say to me?"
j "A very simple thing. From what
I you have said and from your win
j dow I take it that you have been
I robbed; that the head once in your
.' possession has hem stolen from you.
j Well, I'm a downright man and go
' straight to the point You w ill have
' to replace her and I wish you to or
' der two instead of one."
The coiffeur stare like one bewii-
d'-red.
"What is that you say, monsieur?
i Two instead of one? You know
: nothing, then? You have riot di
i vincd? You have, therefore, not ap
; preciated the extent of my loss?"
"On the contrary, my good fellow."
Marcel responded cheerfully, "I have
appreciated it fully, and icspect all
sorrows: but really since you have
once been able to tlnd one you will U-
able to find others "
i "Monsieur, monsieur, you do not
I understand .' I found her, you kno.
at V ienna. She was then only Ki
! years old: we loved each other; she
! made rov fortune! I was jealous
land she she adored to be well
; coiffed, well appareled, and to show
herseif.' She saw that she ravished
all eyes and I permitted her to show
herself with all mv new mo .es. It
i pleased her so much to be admired
; that she would have passed ail her
j life without moving had I allowed
her, but at the. end of an hour I made
! her come in.
J "How she did it is incouiprehensi
j ble there, without speaking, with
j out stirring, through a great thick
I glass! Ilow'was it po-sible to ar
J range, to concert an elo'tement? One
1 night instead of getting into the car-
rlage that came every evening to lake
us to our dwelling, she sprang into
another standing beside it and s t off
at a gallon!"
Marcel began to nut two and two
together; trie utile ngurine gone
Corate Gaston Leopold gone, too;
both of them gone, at one and the
same time, and gone for tbe same
length of fine, also! The little
figurine that had looked atone, thta
had smiled at another; the soft
human-like colfTeur's figurine of wax.
"Monsieur." said Marcel yt last,
slowly and impressively, "which or
us has lost his senses? What have
you been talking about? Who was
the figurine of your window?"
The coiffeur threw up his hands
to Heaven with a gesture of resign d
despair.
"What! You don't kuow yet,
Monsieur," said he, "though I've
told you clearly? The tlgurine of
my window, 1 repeat, was was my
wife, Elsie!" From tbe French.
lraf bat, lohte.
Ad exchange credit a witty amen
ity to a person who bad just taken
sway an umbrella from tbe pedes
trian Id front of him. ' 'Permit me, "
he aald. "to return your umbrella. I
found It In my eye."
Hr i happy whose circumstance
nit hi tamper, bat be It more ei-
cat lent who can suit bit tamper to
ary clrcutttoUDc
TOOK OFF HER STOCKINGS.
But It Waa Xo Wonder fcba IH.ln t 1 Bdrr
land Why She Hut To.
The chiropodist had just moved
into his new parlors Before hi ar
rival thy had been occupied bv a
dentist. Though as et iio marl.le
foot upon the pavement informed the
uninitiated that within dwelt an
ooerator upon corns and (.unions at a
aH,nb!e rat. vct 6Uch was ie
case. A rusning business had (jeen
in progress all the morning. At noon
) the chirojxKjist, a rather timid and
i youthful-appearing man, started to
J go out to his !uu' h, when the door
j 0.eiied and a young girl iu tuired if
the I)ctor was in. Mie was about
! lo vears old. and with her was a
j young woman about 1'ti, evidently her
i ma d,
"loctor," said the child, 'you
, helped me so much six nifinlhs ago
j that mamma suggested that 1 bring
I Nora down here Hie is in very great
j paiu."
j TheIoctordid not ijuite recall what
t work be ba l done lor the child, but
)olitely re(uested Nora ft walk infi
! the operating rK.!ii and get ready.
iThis, m the language of the chi
1 roodist, means to remove the sbfe
: and stocking. The child watexl her
seit in the outer arlor, and the chi-.
' ro.od is'. alter waiting the usual time,
walked into the little room where
Nora was awaiting him Ther she
sat, 1- aiiing back in a big chair with
a nervous expression on her face, but
without any change h; her attire.
The loctor was a trille surprised, but
! be supposed this wa- a new experience
to his patient
I "Just remove your shoe arid stck
i ing please." he saiil as he walked over
, to the window.
Nora atoluteiy grew pale with
j fright, but complied with his request,
. taking off Imth shoes and si.ckings.
I Mie was a very unhappy-look ng
I vuung woman a she sat there in the
i high ojx-ratmg chair, w th Uth bare
j feet dang ing Ju-t atKive the floor.
! "Now. where do you feel tliegreat
I est pain?" asked the iJoctor.
i Nora threw her head back, opened
I her expansive mouth very wide and,
pointing with one of her red fingers
j to a wisdom tooth in her uper jaw.
j exclaimed: There, Igctir, Oh! it
is something awful:'
A "I'erfret I,lltle Beauty.'
An ludianapolis girl who spent last
I winter abroad studying music relates
i un amfiaintr fnctrfpnt nf hpr PYrrlinfB
7 " ,
with one of the teachers. He was a
young
Italian musician who also
plaved in the orchestra and with
! whose charms all the girls affected to
; be terribly smitten. They called him
Homeo behind his back an;1 declared
that with his jet-black e.veJ.md curly
hair he would be a perfect Apollo If
he were only taller; as it was. he was
"a perfect little beauty. " It was a
day or two before the Christmas holi
days and our young lady had just
il nishea a lesson with him. Their
conversation had always been very
limited, as he knew but little En
glish and never seemed disposed to
! air that: so, blushing at her boldness,
she turned at the door and said: "1
wish you a merry Christmas."
He looked at her for a moment as
if he tho ght her crazy and then,
i bowing deeply, said: "It is a great
honor you do. but I cannot marry you
Christmas: no, no. do not ask it"
the poor gin was areadruny em
barrassed and repeated whatsh' had
said several times with an einnhasis
, that caused Homeo to Income more
alarmed and decided in his refusal.
"1 do not want to marry you Christ
mas or ever." he protested
When his now thoroughly indig
nant punil at length made him un
derstand that she meant "happy
Christmas" he was greatly distressed
at his mistake and was profuse in his
lows and apologies. Indianapolis
Journal.
The MlmlPttx'.
The mistletoe, otherwise known as
the "true lover's vine," so long and
so closely connected with tbe Christ
mas season, and its secular festivities,
is one of the most remarkable para
sitic plants in tbe world. In ancient
times, when found upon the oak,
which was seldom, it was an object
of sui erstitlous regard among the
iiruids It grows in the tops of trees,
sh:otiiig out from the branches like
a scion from one tree grafted into
another. It is attached ui most of
the deciduous trees of the South, but
most frequently the chestnut and
sweet gum. The mistletoe itself is
an evergreeti, and presents, in winter
the strange appearance of a branch
covered with leaves of a brilliant
green on a tree that is otherwise de
nuded of foliage. The bark is of a
deep green and the wood exceedingly
brittle. It. is generally believed that
the mistletoe springs from wed con
veyed by birdsor the wind and lodged
in a crevice or notch in the bark.
When it sprouts, the rootlets insinu
ate themselves into tbe live wood,
and receive their sustenance from tbe
sap of the tree, after the manner of
a graft or bud inserted in a fruit tree.
The ancient Druids credited this
plant with wonderful magical
powers and tbe old legends of Brit
taioy are full of allusions to It
Him Over Two Million Volume.
The general inventory of the fa
mous 1! bliothe iue Rationale Na
tional LI wary at Paris was begun
in 175. It has just been finished
under the direction of M. Marchal,
assistant librarian. This inventory
shows that the Bibllotheque Na
tional, which Is to France what the
British Museum. is to Kngland, con
tains In It collection 2,150,000 vol
umes, without mentioning the pro.
rlncial newspapers of France, which
ara not yet in bound form. New
York Tribune
Tmk beat marksmen are usually
those with Rimy or bloe eyes.
" STEAMBOATINQ Ott THE OHO.
It Wm st tfca HKt sf II.
MaJf s Cmmtmrj Afm.
It was from 1840 to 1855 that
stearaboating wa at IU height For
tunes were made in Ui(e days by
men who owned and ran liuats.
There were Jots of steamers on the
river then. The embryo industries
of that period depended on tbe river
entirely, for railroads had ooiy been
proposed, not built About one
hundred steamloats were built at
Pittsburgh annually to run on the
Ohio and Mississjippi rivers. This
city was noted for tbe trim crafts it
placed on the water, as some of the
b ggest and best runniog steamers
were built at the headwaters of the
Ohio
TbeU.atsof the early steainboat
ing days were all side-wheeler. It
was not until late that the advent of
the stern-wheel lKat occurred and
when it did they were not looked upon
with favor by the denizens of the
side-wheel crafts. The river men re
garded them as an inferior kind of
boat on whose decks it was beneath
the dignity of a tlrst-c:ass steamboat
man to tread.
The packets were of good size and
stoutly built They were not sup
plied with swinging stages and steam
capstans, and their engines were of
sure but not so graceful movement as
tfrigines now, ana electric lights for
stearnfoats were not even dreamed
if. But they served their purpose in
m ak prig big money for their owners.
There wasbut oneorganied packet
company running boats down the
river from Pittsburgh. It was the old
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati packet
line, and it owned about twenty-flve
steamboats some of which left the
Pittsburgh wharf daily. Among
them were the Buckeye Slate, the
HitrfTnia, Pittsburgh, Crystal Palace,
and Pennsylvania. These Uiats were
ail stoutly built and especially
adapted for fast running. The laws
relating to racing were not so string
ent then as now, and exciting con
tests of speed on the river occurred
daily.
One of the swiftest of the packets
was the Pennsylvania. She was the
largest of the Cincinnati boats and
made some splendid records on the
Ohio. She was lo feet long aid
thirty-one feet team. Another fast
steamer was t he Allegheny. She was
not sn large as the Pennsylvania, but
was almost as speedy. .Some of these
old Cincinnati packet line boats were
sunk, a few burned and the ethers
wore out in tbe river service.
Besides the Cincinnati Company's
packets there we e several steamers,
most of them owned by Pittsburghers,
which ran down the river and which
bad no regular trades, but made trips
whenever and wherever there was
occasion for their services. They
were chieily to St Louis and New
Orleans, tho trip to the last named
point being completed in about
tweuty days. There were a few boats
running up the Monongahela and
Allegheny rivers. Brownsville was as
far up as the slackwater improve
ments extended on the Monongahela
and Franklin was the head of navi
gation on the Allegheny.
The men running on the early
steamboats were well jald for their
work, teing paid usually a stated
sum per trip. They were not very
thrifty as a class, and but few of
them saved much from their fre
uuently large earnings. Gambling
formed a part of the excitement of
the river man's life, and a pilot or
captain's first night after landing ia
New Orleans was usually spent In
the magniflc nt gamblings hails for
which the Crescent City was famous
at that time. Faro and pok- r had a
peculiar fascination for the steam.
toat man. and he gratified it to Its
fullest limits. Pittsburgh Post
A inc-mak Iiir Monkeys.
The London Daily News reports
some Incredible but interesting
stories alKiut a wonderful t ribe of
monkeys which are said to inhabit
the mountain region of the Great
wall of China. The stories In Ques
tion are brought from China, we are
teld by Iioctor Macgowan, who has
lately returned rrom Tientsin.
These Matiehurian monkeys are
said to know how to make pottery,
and furthermore to have made extra
ordinary progress in the art of mak
ing wine!
A recent addition of the official
history of Yungping says that lately
a large body of migrating monkeys
passed a certain village in crossing
from one mountain to another. The
boys of the village clapped their
hands and shouted at the spectacle,
and the frightened monkeys took
their young in their arms, and thus
encumbered in their flight let fall a
number of earthen vessels, some of
which would hold a t.uart
On being opened they were found
to contain two kinds of wine, a pink
and a green, that had been made
from mountain berries. It is affirmed
we are not told by whom that the
monkeys store this liquor for use in
the w nter when the water is all
frozen.
Doctor Macgowan cites other and
independent testimonies to similar
facts, including a Chinese account of
monkeys in Cheklang who pound
fruit in stone mortars to make it into
wine, and he asks, "Is ft likely that
ail these statements are pure inven
tions?". ,
A eI roller.
An Englishwoman has invented a
tool for killing obnoxious weeds In
gardens. It I in tbe form of a hollow
plererr, through wbicb poison Is con
veyed to Uie very beart of tbe root
of a stubborn weed, causing It to
brlvel up In a very short time
Ths beat Investment I know ov It
charity; yu alt your principal I mm.
Slly, and a dividend avary time va
lak or it Josh Killing.
TOME AND THE FARM.
A DEPARTMENT MADE UP
OUn RURAL FRIENDS.
FOB
Th. I'r f lllttr of Huro. -Foul Au
la Woll-mablM ( alr Htrmw StM k
Am Inpnotwd Vapor Hath Hint to
Th Gnl Fowl
The domestic guinea fowl under
ordinary circumstances can harjly be
considered profitable poultry,
their character, nevert eles
ben considerably belied. Among
other ob ections raised against it are.
f.rst its dispositi'-n to straying pro -
clivities: second, its disposition to lay
away, by wh.cb many eggs are lost: ,
and third, its pugnacious habit of j
beating other arietles of poultry, j
We have it on authority of Mr. Lew-1
Is Wright that but for this latter j
babit the guinea fowl would long
since have been naturalized as a
game bird, having been turned into
roi rt with perfect success; bcl it
was soon found out that the guinea
fowls drove away other descriptions
of game to such an extent that the
b rds bad to be destroyed on that ac
count As a domestic bird, however,
these bad qualitiesare susceptible of j
much amelioration, Mr, Wright tells
us. provided the treatment be kind j
and good, Itis.be admits, almost ;
hopeless to commence a stock with
adult bird-; directly they are left at !
lilrty they are "off," and probably!
never return, isut oy setting eggs
un !er common hens and rearing them
at home they grow up tame and will
flock around the person who feeds
them, and even allow themselves to
be taken up and petted like other
poultry. When reared thus kindly,
and secluded nests are provided, they
will generally lay In the house, and
if p. rches are placed high for them,
and they are regularly fed every
night will roost at home also So
far domesticated they will pay to
rear, in places where they can have
ample range. The hens lay from
sixty to one hundred eggs per annum,
the eggs being rather small, very
pointed at tbe end and of a dark
cream color. These eggs are of a
beautiful flavor, aud there is consider
able demand for them in London,
where ws have often seen them ex
posed for sale In little baskets lined
with green moss. Fancier's Journal.
An Ulrovld Vt P ir llUl-
Fet a red hot brick on end in a can,
small bath or other suitable vessel;
place the latter under a chair, on the
seat of which a piece of flannel is
spread. The atient, undressed, sits
on this flannel, and he and the chair
are well wrapped in blankets
elude the air: his bead is to
to ex-
be uu-
covered. O, en the blankets a little
at the bottom and carefully pour
about, a pint of boiling water over
the brick, and keep up the steam by
occasionally repeating this. Tbe
patient remains in the bath until re
lieved by persplratloa To make a
vapor bath in bed with hot water
bottles, fill about six oval-shaped
bait-gallon stone bottles with boiling
water; cork well and fold each in hot
wet flanneL Lay over the bed a
water-proof sheet and blanket; place
the pafJeui on these, cover him w th
a blanket and distribute the hot bot
tles about him --one to each side, to
the calf of each leg, and to the sole
of each foot Wrap up well with
extra blankets and tuck in to retain
the heat For tha spirit lamp bath,
place a damp towel over the seat and
before the front of a cane-bottom
chair, tinder which a spirit lamp Is
lighted, and over the lamp a tin
vessel with boiling water lo it. The
patieDt, enveloped (except the head)
in four or more blankets,' sits on the
t hair until free perspiratlcn occurs.
Hall's Journal of Health.
Kattottff f r llurtM-B.
proper feeding of horses Is a
The
very important Deration to
farmer. E. M. Shelton. of the
the
Aus-
tralian Station at Brisbane, reports
the exticriment of a transfer com
pany, as to the practical lesults of
the value of cut hay in comparison
with uncut In the experiment,
3,000 horses were fed a daily ration
consistlngof sixteen pounds of ground
oats, and seven and one-nIf pounds
of cut straw. A second lot of ."i,0i)0
horses were fed nineteen pounds of
oats not ground, and thirteen pounds
of hay not cut It was found that
the horses that ate the twenty-six
pounds of ground oats and cut straw
and cut hay, kept in equal condition
and did tbe same work as those that
had thirty-two pounds of uncut hay
and whole grain. It was calculated
that the grain for f.ouo horses using
tut feed would have amounted to 5
cents a day for each horse, or f 'ioo per
day for tbe entire stable. In these
large atebles every detail was scien
tifically and systematii a iy per
formed and the most carefui economy
practiced. In ordinary practice, the
coat of cutting the hay aud grinding
the grain would be much greater, and
Dcaarlly tbe individual gam would
thereby be much lessened.
foul Air in m Wall.
i aw, says a writer in the Globe
Dcaaoerat, a method used the other
day to Illinois to take the foul air out
at a welL The well was to be cleaned
bat tbe man that took the job was
afraid to go down until he had ascer-
the quality of air at the hot
He let down a lighted candle,
ani when It descended to shout six
favt of Um bottom it went out as
ii it oao ueen ex
Unwashed by a whiff of a'r. That
was all be wanted to know. He was
Uat the well bad poison-
ta ft, and took a small am-
a string to the handle
It open Into tbe well,
tat It go nearly to the hot-
BBB I, fit. a! faaH at laaa
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feet from tbe well and upset it He
repeated this operation twenty uh
thirty times, with all the bysUnderf
laughing at him. then lowered tbe
light which burned clear and bright
even at the bottom. He then con
descended to explain that the gas In,
the well was carbonic acid gas which
is heavier than air, and therefore
could be brought up in an umbrella
,'ust as though it was so much water.
It was a simple trick, yet perfectly
effective.
C'qi uttitx-rs I ntt.r OIam.
Yarnum Frost of Arlington, gives
but j the following as his method of raw
has i ing cucumbers in his house of forced
I vegetables: The plants are set two
J in a bill, and finally thinned to one.
1 The bills arc two feet apart About
three cords of horse manure are
placed in four trenches, 1 feet deep
r.i.n iitA M,nnln,i thn lanatAVv
of a house iwl feet long. The mjf
mire is covered with about seven
inches of soil. Cucumbers are picked
in seventy davs from the sowing of
the seed. Mr. Frost's forcing house
is 5xl !4 feet Each year he raises
therein two crops of lettuce, one crop
of cucurulcrs and one crop of French
breakfast radishes e own with cu
cumbers. The following are the ap
proximate croris: Lettuce "00 down
each crop, cucumbers, I'.OOO, rad
ishes Uw bunches. He uses steam
heat. Plams raised from selected
seed are so started as to time that
one crop follows another without in
termission. MmIiIc i mlrr Straw Sta.'kt.
1'rovided the stack is held up by
j strong wooden suprts. a stable un
! der the stack makes one of the best
' cheapest and warmest winter shei-
ters for any kind of stK'k. It should
j be built so that animals cannot eat
away the stacks where it has no sup
ports, as they will often do when
forced to get their living from a
stack. In olden times stacks of hay
were often left to be caf en away bv
young stock, with the result of
walsting a good deal of the hay and
toward spring having an overturned
stack, killing calves and sheep im
prisoned under it. There is little of
this kind of wastefulness among
farmers now. Tho wonder is that
such management could ever have
been so common as it undoubtedlj.
was. A
llint to If ouat-ke.fMTt.
Ls case the oven becomes too hot a
pan of water put in It will lessen tbe
boat perceptibly.
Oilcloth when soiled should be
washed with a soft cloth in lukewarm
water, without soap, but it should
never lie scruhled.
Thk buffalo bug Is to be eradicated
only by benzine or naphth'i. Appar-
ently nothing else will
have tbe
slightest effect on him.
Tub sunflower is probably the
coarsest and rankest of garden weds
.yet in Russia the oil of its seedsTs""
used on -alads, and its stalks are good
as fuel.
A (MK.i) way to test ham is to stick
a knife under the bona If the knife
comes out clean and with a sweet
smeli the ham is pure and whole
some. If not, not
A riw e of chamois skin cut to (It
the inside of the shoe will not only
prove very comfortable in cold weather
and to tender feet but It will save
the stockings from wear.
A (K)i) net of carpenter's tools are
among the most va'uabie articles lo
have around the hou-e, and they
should always be kept in a box by
themselves where they cao always
be found.
Nirnn.vo should be cooked io iron
vessels that can cooked in earth
enware. The heat is more uniform,
the flavor is better preserved and
there Is less liability to burn in tbe
earthenware vessel than in the iron.
Tn it k woolen nigs are the only
ones to be used in front of a Are, If
any should be there at a!L Io such
rugs, if they are very thick, even a
slight (lame may lie real ily smothered,
while cotton rugs are very Inflamma
ble
Thkkk Is a liability of disease
germs in the dust and dirt that ad
here to the ordinary wear of any rer
son during the day, and it is wise
therefore always to brush your cloth
ing every time you change it after a
day's use of it.
An easy and effective way to cover
over scratches on dark wood furniture
Is to rub them well with walnut or
butternut juice. This, at least, bides
them, as the oil Is of the same color,
and that Is the best that can be dona
with such defects.
The Circus as a I'olitieal Agent, "
"Perhaps the most brilliant ruse
ever attempted was practiced down
In North Carolina a number of year
ago," said a politician yesterday.
"At the time there was a possibility
of the Kepubl leans carrying the
State and they worked bard for suc
cess. According to the law the poll
taxes were required to be paid al
most a year before the registration
took place. Ttie liepublicans, In
order to secure their votes, paid tbe
poll tax of each colored citizen, pre
senting him a receipt The Demo
crats heard this with dismay. It wa
a move that seemed hart lo beat
Tbe tax receipts were io the hand
of the colored people and it looked '
as though every one of them would
register. The Democrats met the
uiiuvuii, uuwuver. xuey naa John
liobinson's circus go through aba
State and advertise that poll-ut, re
ceipt' would be taken as admlasiaa
tkkets to the show. 1 doubt ir a
ZrL , pfc .reu,,Ma ,n
n Pon by the time ft
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r.f"rre? ?
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CkK.i.ma th nrM
omnot be depended on to wsti a
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