ODDITIES. J I: HERE AND THERE.
A celebrated English physician say
PU M km mound that warta may be
mm eel by revaccinatlon. He revaeci-
rated a girt of IS who had ninety-tout
svartt i on hand, and seven weeka
tier taw operation the warta had all
l-sappeared. Many other remedies had
Men tried in vain.
It tm the tow In Maine that the bounty
ID boar must be paid when the anl
aal'a bom I shown, white in New
lsmpahtra the money la forthcoming
pon exhibition of the ears. Some en.
let pitta sportsmen who live near the
pCKndary collect double bounty show
rf the noaas in Main and the ears In
w Haaapahlre.
Until s few days ago Brown county.
BMtaaa, bad neither railway, teletraph
for telephone facilities anywhere with
it' lu bordera. It is still minus the
two first mentioned neceaaitlea of life,
but telephone line has Invaded Nash-
tile, coming from Columbus, In an ad
mins; county.
A Connecticut manufacturer has re
cently finished a new state carriage for
ho government of Ecuador at a cost of
10,000. It la modeled after the car
tages of the pope and the khedlve, but
Kks the solid gold ornaments of the
brtner and the gems of the latter.
Christmas trees are already being cut
town in Washington county, Maine, and
the season a output from that section
till amount to 400 carloads, with 3W
ilnchea to a car. Each bunch consists
It irom two to six trees. The trees
re sent to New York and Boston.where
(hey wfll retail for about ten times as
aiuch as they are worth on board the
sirs in Maine.
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, cannot
pe approached by rail or by wagon
road. In two years it Is expected that
k New Tone syndicate will have com
tieted a rauruau lu ih tnui. Ilsrses
nd muiea aad thousands of men and
women are engaged In bearing burdens
to Quito and other towns. It takes six
teen Indiana about thirty days to con
rey a piano to Ecuador's capital from
the nearest point
The teat congress appropriated tt.000
Id erect the clock at Sioux City aad the
secretary ol the treasury let a contract
or a time piece costing but SLUO. It is
to have no striking attachment and no
Illuminated dial and Is not at all satis
tectorjr. It seems now the dtisens will
follow the example of St. Joseph, Mo.,
where the same kind of a deal was at
tempted. A protest sent to Washington
taoeed the "village" clock to be ordered
token to Wilmington. N. C. (or servlcs
" CM aaVvp-to-date one substituted at St.
loseph.
" 1M total Oftst of the Pan-American
asrposSUoe. to be held In Buffalo next
fear at estimated at lll.00s.iaa, and
: loan If. Boateherd. who is chairman of
he executive committee, says that the
fesoqscee now in sight amount to about
IVM.IM- Proa row on the work of con
strortisa la proceeding rapidly, nearly
ftOW workmen now being employed. The
mMaray at the exposition will cost
RSSg.OwO. The exposition grounds will
halt a mile wide and a mile and a
uartar long, and wlU comprise SWI
acre. It will open May L 190L
Never In the memory of the oldest In
habitant of the anthracite region of
- PotiwM T aiHa has there been so serious
a drought as that which now prevails
and which affects at Undustries. The tn
tiabitants of Shamokln and the Shenan
doah valley, including Oirardville, are
allowed water only three hours a day.
The oeillsrtea operated by the Philadel
phia Beading Coal and Iron company
and the Lehigh Valley Coal company
will be compelled to shut down all oper
ations nnlOM rain shall fall within the
Rent weak, as the purified sulphur water
row belag used by them for tha gener
ation of steam Is destructive to the
feoUere. Aa Mahanoy Place and as far
aoTamaeaa the Philadelphia A Reading
KaUwar company Is compelled to haul
water for locomotives ana tne noistmg
taaae engine at Mahanoy Plane from
' the sutsjaahanna river, a distance of
forty-oae miles, tn Mahanoy Plane, and
fcfty-etght mil as to Tamaqua.
MAKING IT PLEASANT
"or theTelephone Girls During the
Wee Sma" Hours.
An Ingenious rabbiteer in 'Wtara disk
Plays the algn: "Belgian Harem."
Prince Tuan has been degraded again,
Same old Tuan, with different words.
The latest fad of women in London
is to have deiiaote little paintlnga on
the shoulders when in evening dress.
The Washington Post advises shoot
ing on the spot of the msn that at
tempts to reopen the end-of-the-century
discussion.
The coin that is most extensively
counterfeited nowadays is not the silver
and nickel pieces, but the copper 1
cent pieces.
Germsn silver Is not silver at all. but
an alloy of various of the baser metals,
which was Invented in China, and used
there for centuries.
A member of the Berlin town council
has been hauled up for refusing to give
inree cneers ror the kaiser. If this
Isn't treason, what is treason?
An American navy officer who In
spected the British Indian troops at
Shanghai says they do not compare in
physique with the American negro.
The Chicago woman who reports ti
the detective a loss of a railway coach
which was last seen In Oklahoma, must
be contemplating a dramatic career.
When the elevator was first Invented
at Schoenbrunn, in 1700, and placed in
the summer residence of the Austrian
emperor, it was called the "flying
chair."
It is part of the Mohammedan creed
to smash the noses of all the Idols they
may come across. When they Invaded
India they defaced in this way every
Hindoo god.
Mr. Munsey objects to the yellow
jcurni! because or !!? iinsurhed habit
of exaggeration. "It presents the truth
so hysterically," he says, "that it looks
like a lie."
It Is very curious that the number of
union soldiers who died In confederate
prisons was 30.1&6, and the number of
confederates who died as prisoners in
the north was 39,152.
In the Jennie Boschiter murder mys
tery in New York the police are look
ing for the negro valet of one of the
accused. Probably he is still kaaplng
dark.
During the coming winter General
Wheeler will deliver a course of lec
tures on the great battles of the world
before the department of history of the
University of Chicago.
Frederick MacMonnles. the Brooklyn
Bousa, Strauss, lime. Patti. Jean de
Resske they and a lot of other mu
sicians have already been making the
dreary last hours of the telephone girls
on the night watch fly as they do for
their more fortunate sisters who spend
their evenings at the opera or the the.
ater instead of In a room in an office
building, high up, lonely, cut off from
every enjoyment except what may be
bad in work.
There are telephone girls whose
hours are from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m. they
are the lucky ones; others who work
from I p. m. to 1 In the morning, and
I still others who start in then and who
I keep the exchanges open until the lucky
girls come back at 7 a. tn.
I Those who get away at 1 o'clock In
the raornlg have several hours after
the rush of business In the earlier part
of the evening when time hangs heavy
It always hangs heavy for the girls
who work from 1 to 7 a. m.; but that's
another story, as Kipling says.
Some of the girls sew, others reao
or study, others play simple games
all the timo with the receivers up to
their ears, waiting for an Impatient or
belated subscriber. But it is hard work
passing the time when calls get In
frequent, and many glances are cast
longingly at the clock.
Two or three week3 ago the operator
In one of the down town exchanges wa
striving to keep awake, when there
came a ring at the telephone.
"Hello?" she said.
"This Is Tompkinsville Tompklns
ville, I said; keep your ears open!"
"I wasn't asleep!" angrily retorted
the operator. "You neean t gel huffy."
"Nothing the matter with me," re
plied Tompklnsville. "Ring off If you
don't want to hear the concert."
"Concert?" was the eager rejoinder.
"Keep your ears open," was Tomp
fclnsvillc's rep! yagaln.
Before the astonished operator could
ask any particulars she heard coming
over the ?.lre the sound of one of
Sou&a's most thrilling marches. Then
followed a Strauss waltz my. It was
almost as good as being at the annual
tall of the Lady Killers' Clam Chow
der and Pleasure club. Then followed
In rapid succession songs, recitations,
more dance music and Anally "Home
FREAK MARRIAGES.
e- a -
: FEOSQilAL NOTES. :
nMvBttva
Is mourning over the pros-
of one of Its four congress
the new apportionment.
letters of Bismarck to his wife
) beset collected. Between 1M7 and
he WMte about SOf of these epistles.
sculptor, will receive the gold medal of I geet Home.
nonor ror bis exnioit at tne ran ex- ,, ..... .,. u j
position, which consists of seven pieces. I 11 " 0 e,ock' COTiCtrt had
teen going on. wun interruption wnerj
Tht election commissioners have be- I ... .. . . . .
gun the count of the fifteen tons of i .
i ne young woman vni nau inus oeei,
entertained told about it last night ovei
tb'.- wire.
"Xou sec, the American Phonograph
Company has its factory at Tompklns
vlllc," she said. "They are working at
Eight now. The operator down there
has friends in the phonograph works,
and late at night they hang the re
ceiver of a telephone near a phono
graph so h! can hear the music.
"He call. me up and switches tne on
f tame wire; then I switch some oth-
nn that before we through a
dc5sen of the girls can. hear the mimic.
"What did they play tonight? Oh.
Ion of fire pieces 'Au Revoir.' "The
tjs.st lioso of Summer' (that's a sonsr.
y,(i know), Oilmorc's Rand (I don't
know what it wan they playedt. 'Sweet
Little l.ady' (haven't you heard that?
It goer like this (humming).
"The irrt? Well, the 'Charge or tn
Rough Riders' wan just fine you could
hear the words of command, the men
r'ikliirg forward, the bugle calls, the
i-hoollnf:, the cheers, and then came
','h. Star Srangled Banner and 'Van
r. Utoille' oh, it was greal!
"But 1 guess I liked "When Thy Ixv
ii!g Kyes Meet Min:' best of all."
Dwarfs and Giants w-io Have
Joined In Wedlook.
The marlage whlch took place re
cently at Bolton, England, of Charles
Morris, a dwarf of barely three feet
known as General 8malL to Sophia
Ooddard, whose height did not exceed
that of her husband, was made mach ol
by the British press, but many slmllai
and more remarkable weddings are oa
record.
Tom Thumb, who was hardly thirty
Inches high, married In 1813, Levins
Warren, who topped him by a bar
inch. A child was born to them three
years later, but It died while yet an In
fant. Tom Thumb himself died In 1880,
and his widow some years later mar.
rled another dwarf, with whom, and
troupe of pygmies she appeared last
summer. Her sister, Minnie Warren,
who had been bridesmaid at the flrsl
wedding, likewise espoused one of het
own stature In the person of Commo
dore Nutt, the best man on the sams
auspicious occasion.
Two remarkable dwarfs the smaller!
human beings. Indeed, on record wert
exhibited at a hail In Piccadilly. Then
names were Lucia Lorate and General
Mite. The former, when 17, stood 21
inches in height, and weighed under
five pounds, while the latter waa an
inch taller, and four pounds heavier.
These mites, who were a prodigious at
traction, and received the distin
guished honor of being exhibited to the
queen, were married before an Immense
throng of people at St. Martin's church.
To pass to the opposite extreme one
may record the marriage of Mis Anna
Swan to Captain Martin Van Huren
Bates, which was solemnized some
twenty yestrs since, uates, who was
for a giant, a remarkably well-made
man, stood about 7 feet 8 inches and
weighed 278 pounds, while the bridO
was some two inches and 64 pounds
less. To there two was born a child,
which, however, only survived Its birth
a few days. It certainly give promise
to rival Its parents' giant proportions.
for when it came into the world It
measured considerably over two feet ltj
length.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
HONBT AS A MOMBT CROP.
ballots used In Chicago. They will
count for three weeks.
Mr. Quay says the next legislature
will elect him senator. Mr. Clark of
Montana is equally confident. This In
sures a continuation of prosperity In
at least two states.
A dressmaker at El Dorado. Kan t is
'so popular that she has engagements
six months ahead." A local paper wants
to know why she doesn't get an en
gagement close by and marry the man.
Near Birmingham. N". T.. farmers are
digging baked potatoes from the field.
Th farmi In niieatlnn arilnln a n,ar
bog. and the peat runs hack under thn r,
land. Kecentiy tne oog too nre rrom
some source and has been burning ever
since. In places the nre has worked
back under the potato patches and th
potatoes have been nicely roasted under
the ground.
The Jewish World of London notei
that a proportionately greater number
of suicides occur among the Jews in
England and in America than tn th
--! I
SMth of Atlanta has alven
IsewstlSW Mbrartea to fourteen counties
tn Ossjgin. The books intended for
jonaof oieldren. are to make a circuit
if Use aeawoia
WsnrllK the ohur-.hes throughout
sUsts of Moil tana held memorial ser
ai the hour of Marcos Dali's
fSnsraj. Boshim sof nesrly every kind
ra mm
. T1n president has sent his photograph
Jtfi a Mote blind girl at Carlisle, Pa .
. ' Who, aa He had barned, hsd expressed
,: dsMefc delight at his re-election. She
ismsjr ms the gift, but she Is very
ucti pleased.
countries in w-rmm mi .ts
the harshest treatment. This is said tn
be due to the fact that the orthodox
Jews of European countries look onon
self-destruction as a crime no lees ab
horrent than murder, whilst many An
glicised Jews are more lax In their ad
herence to the teachings of their fath
ers. A prize of 1.000 francs (1113) will be
given the Inventor who shall produce a
gove that can be used by electrical
workmen to safeguard them from acrt
rlent. The premium is offered by the
French "Aclcdents to Workmen As
surance association." The condition?
are that the gloves rnuir cover the fore
arm as wel las the hands; that thy
must be light and leave the utmot lib
erty to the wearer. If none of the de
vices submitted comes up to the re
quired standard, the prise will be di
vided smong those Inventor who mofl
nearly accomplish It
George Dolby, who was Charles Dick
ens' secretary and manager during the
last reading tour In the United Blstes. i
died recently in the alcohol ward of a '
London hospital. Drink had msde him
a tramp and be had been turned out
of his lsst lodging on account of his
dirty habits. He wrote a book of rem.
Inlscences of Dickens with the title.
"The Chief ss I Knew Him." His sister
was the once famous Kngllrh conlra'to,
Mme. Salnton-Dolby.
STARSKAMS.
?: Tt WW swrvrlse some resders to lean.
smsV he. Obaaa Doyle wss bora In d
Boatload. His parents were
Off djsaceat and his father was one
f iar BSlttM Mh at arhniw illatin.
t Jfcstf htSASStf.
JtlssfjMOmt Oolooel William Henry
: ' r u tmr anim muni r k anarr.
t I n s,ioTsnu, woo nas just neen
.1 Cftejgfc the operation of the sg
liriK In three wars and In many
Allen of Mississippi 1
the matter of cot tea, to
given mach study in lels
and to the eaftlvotion o(
s ratsnds to devote himself on
MtadOM fro pontics next
gosaa ceert Mi PhUadel-
I Use eoastltstiooaltly
f srlMnns afoalMtmg the
r acverusing naMDtiM and
( It te stmts ec the city and
A pa" aad yards nf
. Jmm IDay are likely to be
, kr saMaent Into the streeta
' f tat Cmaa mission tn
J ' Sa ft lam
- ff f w sssa
. ' ulhM
4
h ... ,,
v r-v t Jmm forward with
rorarn of Dr. The.
the Oeraan asa-
' ser isMiislsg froisj a
v Dr. ve HeUehea to
- of the dl-
t -mm msm ac the
'-.. " i are rM tm
V) acy
ii tMriCam
t4-it ,C-d stgty
to
Invective cn be made too sharp
be palatable.
Platonic love has been likened to s
dinner at which there Is nothing but
dishes.
"How ephemeral Is happiness." wall
ed the Boston child s Its mother up
lifted the chastising slipper.
Tammany was originally formed tc
oppose the aristocratic organisation
known as the Society or Cincinnati.
"On aocoant of the mortgage amend
ment.." said Oie Crafty Husband, "we
shaH have to watt another year for
that sealskin sacqne."
This Is the way a Georgia philosopher
puts It: "Well, the republican earth
quake shook the house down, but thank
God, the land Is left us."
The story that Hearst of the New
Tork Journal wilt not let his must aches
grow because they are yellow lck
verisimilitude, so to speak.
It la said' that the great HsU Ik
of Utah is but a rasatnt of a vastly
greater sheet of fresh water, which nm t
seat a river to the Paclflc.
There It a girl tn Kansas CHv wh'
ssys that hoys are til right until they
are It. but from that age to M they
Ottght to be banished or penned ,up.
"1 have bean trying my new -might-aot-to-',"
ex stained the Chlrago youth
K. aararnai fiess the lahvestde drive
wHft a great deal ef hie gliding knocked
attest to rata weather her
M sjivesj tsort
r a m
Fearful Prediction.
"Down in the Kentucky mountains,"
nU an old surveyor, "the gaunt .na
tives who had never seen the 'tsteam
kyars' were very much interested in
the building of the Cincinnati South
em railway, and came in from miles
around to Inspect the work. Some of
the theories and speculations pro
pounded were worthy of record.
"At one point the line crossed a river
directly Into a tunnel through a high
mountain. The material for the btidge
had been delayed, but the other work
ae pushed vigorously on, the tunnel
completed mi the track finished up
to tbe river bank on the opposite side,
leaving a yawning basin a hundred
fl deep between.
"While the work we. lis (hie condi
tion a parly nf moonshiners a: rived
one day irutpected thu neiv wonder
with awe-struck faces. A) UkI ono
old nioiintaiiier. carefully removing a
chew of tobacco from his right cheek
to hi left, voiced the general sentiment
when h gravely suld:
" 'Wall, thsl cuHteil thing may hit
thut hole all right for -a while, but
foir.e o' thee days she'll mls. an
the whole duin :hing will fall In the
river. "
.... - .
Worth Millions.
Thcie is a 17-year-old boy working lit
a York piinting ofnee who, this
pt week. fll hsir to t.t.000.000, and
yet he kept right on "carrying copy,"
answering the telephone and inuring
errand, juht us if nothing had hup
pened. There are v;iy few buys of hix Hge
who woulil at so fenslbly. His grat
urii le, l-'iank A. Mouritcm, one of the
wealthiest men in California, and own
er of vast states in Denmark, recently
died, and left all his properly to this
young lad, and now Willis ni Wsrrer
Morrixon, w Im a few days ska was
K,nr and woiklng for t a week. Is
worth msriy million dollars, bat Is nol
yet spoiled. A r porter went amuad to
see him about It, but hie employer wss
just sending him out with a letter, and
he would A stop to is ft long.
Orang Outang.
"Hello, Mike, d'you want some ale?"
asked the third officer of the British
steamer Merlonetshlre, that arrived In
New York recently from Java. The
words were spoken to w hat appeared to
be a little man with an enormous
paunch, dressed in a brown suit of
clothes', and with a cap on his held,
who was sitting In a commodious cre.
"L'gh, ugh!" came the answer, as
Mike pulled off his cap, revealing a
pair of umbrella-like ears standing at
right angles from his head. Then again
donning his cap, Mike took a cup from
a shelf and thrust it out to bis master.
The officer poured in some beer, and
Mike quaffed It slowly, puckering up
his lips and nose, and then wlpej
his mouth with his coat sleeve.
The ofllccr said that he had secured
tbe orang outang in Java, together
with Ms mate. The two simians learn
ed tricks very easily, but the female
caught cold and died during the voyage.'
Then the ship'a tailor made a suit for
the male, and the animal almost Im
mediately took a fancy to clothes. He
made great friends with the sailors,
but had a bad habit of climbing upon
their shouldors and seating himself
there like Sinbad's old man of the sea.'
No sailor could work with Mike cling
ing to hiui In that fashion, and so the
ship's carpenter made a cage tor him.
Stilt Dancing,
The Chinese, In the interior dittrirts.
where fetichiern is still the prevailing
rellgon. celebrate all ther festival days
by dancing on stilts. The entire pop
ulation, from the child just able to
toddle to the gray-haired gran'ther.
mount on long poles and parade around
the town, shouting, singing and throw--Ing
flowers. No one can be excused, as
the unbelkveis arc mercilessly pun
ished. Some French and English tourists re
cently came upon a crowd of this kind
near the village f Newchwaung. In
the extreme southwestern portion of
the empire. Their arrival was unex
pected by the Orientals, who took It as
very rude on the part of the Europeans
to Intrude on such a hotf day. A tur
bulent mot, of perhaps 500 therefore
rufhed on the Caucasians, who num
bered but a sore, to do them mlsohlef.
It was impossible lo distinguish set's.
a ll wore rude masks made of straw
mats. Si tliu travelers quietly knocked
the stick from under a fow dozen of
the (oioniost, and, (.funrlng on them ss
they plumped to the ground, adinlnls
(cid a sound beating. The rest rtnsl
ly made i,rf. Had the Celestials been
on foot. tn! affair might have resulted
seriously. As II was, by Hie time the
majority could g-'t their feet untied
from tho nwkward stilt, the unsaiictl.
Med Intruders were far awsy.
Saved Kitty.
A minister once had two pets-a pug
di snd an Angora cat. The crea
tures did not at llrsl take kindly to
each other, but It was not long before
lljy became fast fi lends, f me bit
terly cold winter's nlrhf the dog's bark
ing caught the ear of the minister,
who left his mom lo tn;e what wss
wrong. To his eye all soomed right,
and In- whs about tn re I urn to his Il
ium v. MaKter I'ug. however, knew
Imttcr than his master, and kept on
barking and running toward the 'hah
door. Then the minister hisrd a plain
tlv mewing. Opening tho door si once,
pti'sy rrept in from the snow, benumb
ed ni.d cold. Rut for tbe vigilant friend
the dog -the cat might hare perished,
' The exports of American honey to
foreign countries, which were of tbe
value of Xtt.tM for the fiscal year end
ing July L 1T7. amounted to llM.Mt.
or four times aa much for the Bscs I
year ending July, 1SSS, and there Is a
steady Increase the business done in
this article of commerce which hereto'
fore has been generally In the form of
Imports Into the United States of honey
from foreign countries. In the fiscal
year of 117 the amount of honey Im
ported Into this country wat twice as
great as the amount exported, but from
present Indications the disparity will
hereafter be on the other side.
From a report recently published In
the Westminster Gazette In England it
appear that the present home supply
of English honey Is Inadequate. Ev
ery year the English have to Import
2,200,000 pounds, of which the declared
value is lir,0,00O. Among the countries
engaged In supplying their markets
with this product the principal ones
are the United States, Chill and Peru.
No statistics of the quantity of honey
produced In the United Kingdom are
obtainable, though every other coun
try of Kurope hns figures on these
points. France produces in a year 7.000
tons of honey, which Is equivalent to
14.000,000 pounds, and a ennsiderabk
n mount of the honey used in England
Is imported from Ireland, but how much
is not known, as it does not enter into
the Hem of foreign commerce. The
American facilities for furnishing not
only England but other countries aa
weii wilii oncy ar; great and increas
ing. Thirty years ugo the product of
Ameiiean honey ' was 15.000,000 pounds
for all the States. Twenty years ago
the product was 25,000,000 pounds, and
ten years ago It had risen to Sj.OOO.CKjO
pounds.
There has been a wonderful advance
ment In the honey produced during the
last ten years. In 187S only twelve
rttatfes produced more than l.OOHOOO
pounds of honey pitch, and only two
more than 2.000,000. Now Iowa pro
duces nearly 9.000,000 pounds, and llli
nois, Cslifoir.ia.Mlssouri end New Tork
In the oritr named, produce above
4,000,000 pounds. ' The agricultural re
port show the Increase In honey pro
d t to be steadily continuing, and the
product to be sufficient for home con
sumption and to kave a balance for
export One stale in which the honey
supply Is rapidly Increasing, which Is
geographically well placed for the ex
portation of honey, Is California. It ls
estimated that a hive of S.000 bes pro
due about fifty pounds of honey an
nually and multiplies ten-fold in five
years. All tne wertern states nave necn
seeking in recent yenrs to develop thel
honey product, but they appear to have
no monopoly of It. for a strong com
petltor. well situated for the purpos
of foreign exportatln. Is Texaa. and
still another is Oregon. The honey pro
duct of New York is considerable in
amount and Increasing, and the fncili
ties for 119 shipment ute, of course, ex
(client.
One difficulty which American dealcri
in honey have had In the pt to mee
has been the inferior knowlHle which
many of them have had of apiary
culture as a eer"ate science In farm
matters. They iv ! bee rais
ing as an Incident of agriculture, with
the result that until a few years ago the
average production of honey to the hlv
aas about one-half as much in the Unit
ed States as in those countries In which
lee culture Is carried on aclenlillcally.
With greater familiarity with the mat
ter, a larger fund of general knowl
edge, and the use of new appliances
and progressive methods, the Ameri
can bee culturlsls have been col"8
ahead rapidly of late years, until they
now lank with those of other countries
In which the care of bees has been al
most a matter of tradition, and their
excellence, In this particular. Is shown
by the marked Incresf which there has
been In the American product ot honey.
portance. Of these U9.0M horses ate
in London, and the still alrger number
In the rest of the Island. 44,177 were tm.
ported during UN. Canada aad the
United States furnishing H.TfJ of them.
It takes some time for the Imported
horses to recover from the effects ot
the sea voyage, aad doubtteM prices
would be higher If that Urn were al
lowed to elapM before tbe horses were
put up for sale. There woatd. how
ever, be tome expense attached to It,
the buyers considering an addition of
about 110 to the price of the horse a
fair estimate of the expense require
to get him in condition for work.
The Ptllo-Iler dreM Is awfully low.
The IV tu - lluf It came high, (hough.
HOUSES FOR EUS1NIS PURPOSE,
Of Hie M.600 horses exported from the
United tates In SMT in U' about l.00
were exported to :elzlum, l.OOO to
France, Germany and Holland, and
20.000 to Great Britain. It Is evident
from tills that the business is pretty
well established in Or cat Britain, Tht
trade should be upheld nud foitered
while efforts are being made to rain
entrance or establish a firm foothold in
Other countries. The most Important
and effective efforts to advance this
trade must be made by the horse
breedeis of the t'niU'd Htates by a syf.
terns tic attempt to produce such kind
of horses ss those markets demand,
for If the particular kind of horns de.
plied are not to be hud no nmounf of
energy or push on the part of dealers
can Increase or nven maintain thf
' present export figures.
I Of course, much may he done to Im
prove Hie condition of ibe hor.-s on
arrival in Europe, by securing Improv
ed snd proper scronimodatlorui on Die
gteamris csrrj ing tho aninislf. anil the
sslsbllrhrnenl of an Inspection at the
port of shipment similar to that em
ployed with cntrle, so that no home at
fected with any disease, contagious or
el her !'-, shall be allowed to depart
from our shores to Injure the reputation
ef our slock. About 750.000 homes are
In dally ur in London, their avers"
term of iisefulnefi. depending upon the
nature of their employment, being from
three lo seven years; thus on an aver
age ot five years' service K,0,000 new
horses snnually are required for the
London business world. Whmi It is te-
cttled that only about lOO.Oot horses
peat through our largist horse market
(Obleagol each year, this London dc-
aa It teen In Us proponios Jin-
WHAT WE MAT EXPECT
The hen of our forefathers, the ola
tlme struts, foraged for her II vine
roosted on the topmoet branches of ap
ple trees, Ifved beyond the recollec
tion of the oldest man and laid about
100 eggs a year. She was small, hardy
and unattractive such waa the hen
at the dawn of the pure-bred or fancy
poultry era.
Note the change that has taken place
since that time. The old-time fowl has
almost entirely disappeared, and In her
place there stands the beautiful and
useful thoroughbred of today.
Breeders have gone steadily forward.
perfecting breed after breed, combining
the useful and ornamental until wi
now have over 100 recognized standHrd
varieties of pure-bred fowls, each dis
tinct In type and characteristic colors.
From a class that produced 100 or lens
eggs, we now have several classes that
lay as high as 210 eggs each, and that
mostly during the fall and winter
months, a thing unknown to our an
cient fowls.
This state of things, this charge for
wic titter, wMi being made possible by
the breeder, has been accompllsheir
principally by a scientific application
of the natural surroundings that tend
to produce eggs regardless of the sea
son or climatic conditions.
The cold, dreary days of winter have
teen converted into springtime, as It
were, by supplying food such as Is to be
had at that time, and by furnishing
comfortable houses for both night and
day. When the limit will be reached
no man can foretell. Doubtless within
a few years It will be possible to find
flocks that will produce not test thao
2C0 eggs etch.
It Is possible, Indeed most probable,'
that such will be the case, and even
then the limit may not have beca
reached. j
The knowledge of fancy poultry is
lust In Ita infancy, each succeeding year
serving but to show the shortcomings
of Ihe pact, snd wide-awake poultry
men are rapidly learning that the prof
Its from poultry depend not alone on
the minimum cost of keeping the fowls.
but rather the maximum supply of eggs
produced at seasons when the highest
prices are available.
I't us look forward to the day when
the SW-egg hen will make her appear
ance, and endeavor. If possible, to as
sist those who are now striving to ac
complish this apparently difficult task.
rOULTUT NOTES.
Sweet milk Is good for chicks of any
age.
Juurd ngalust tats among the young
chicks.
Weak or deformed chicks should bs
killed at once.
lU-move and burn all nesls aa soon
as brood is hauled.
Oee.se and ducks should never be kept
in the poultry house.
Adult ducks do better is allowed a
pond or creek to swim In.
Io not put kerosene on the roosts dur.
Ing the hatching sesson.
Chicks do not require any food for the
first twenty-four hours.
Nice, clcsn wheat draw makes the
best nc-sts for layers or setters.
To not grease the hen when chirks
are first hatched at this season.
When chicks arc hatched b sure to
kcev them In a warm, dry coop.
Ducks can be tulsed where there is
only sufficient water for drinking.
Chick should not be fed for at least
twenty-four hours tfter hutching.
Do not try to raise fifty fowls where
there is room for only twenty-five.
tYkln ducks have about supplanted
all other breeds for market purposes.
Do not put moth bells In the nest of
setter. IlesulU are always disastrous.
Keep tho coops snd yard clean and
avoid gapes, which are sure to follow
filth.
Dust the setting hens well twice with
Persian insect powder during the three
wecki".
Nents should be renewed every few
aeekj. as the hens ecm to appreciate a
clean, new lieft.
SE.VSB OF DIRECTION IN BIRDS.
My story nUis to a paradise duck
w lih h had become domesticated, and
lived at a sheep station twenty-one
miles from Tlmani, In the provincial
district of t'onlerbury. It belonged to
ihe housekeeper, who had clipped lis
wlruis, and It spent It life between
the homestead and a small pond close
by. In course of lime Its mistress left
for Ihe neighborhood of Clirlstchurch,
and she carried the duck with hr In a
basket. Ilr Journey was by train
twenty-one miles to Tlmuru, then by
liainring lo u not her train for ninety.
five mil's, and finally by coach or rsrt
for about ten miles. By and by the
dirk disappeared from Its new home
and as looked upon as lost. Then Its
mlxiros returned to her previous dom
icile some time after how long I have
not dlM-nveredsnri lo ber Intense vur.
IHise found the duck had revisited the
nut haunt snd wss settled on the pond
hs before. It could not fly. and no one
was known to have untied It. so the
only remaining hypothesis Is that It
walked for lit? miles, threadlna Its hi
by many crossroad, nvsr bridges, tnd
scriss sttvsms, through a country
whrh prevents a greet variety of can
tour In hill, vallty and rlver.-J. M.
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