Nebraska Newspapers

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George Augustas Sal, who know
all about cooking, Just as he knows all
about balloons and everything else,
maintains that all your public schools of
cookery . are so much moonshine and
amiable lunacy. The way to learn to
cook i9 not to make an exhibition of one's
self in public, but to descend Into one's
own kitchen, there to learn the process
of roasting, boiling, baking, frying and
stewing, and to study the mysteries of
peeling potatoes, of slicing carrots and
turnips, of rolling pie-crust, of whip
ping cream and eggs, and of scrubbing
lots and pans. There may be nothing
" nice," nothing titillating and nothing
piquant about this schooling, but it's the
way, nevertheless, says George Augustus.
We have been shown a design for an
upholstered front gate, which seems des
tined to become very popular. The foot
board is cushioned, and there is a warm
soap-tstone on each side ; the inside step
being adjustable bo that a short girl can
bring her lips to the line of any given
mustache without trouble. If the gate
is occupied at 10:30 p. m. an iron band
extends from one gate-post, takes the
young man by the left ear, turns him
around, and he is at once started home
by a steel foot. The girl can if she likes
set this part a later hour than 10:30.
Home Sentinel.
A writer in the New York World pro
poses that Congress shall take some ac
tion to stop the desecration, and often
entire destruction, of tumuli (archaeolog
ical mounds), which lie scattered all
over the Western States, and which are
supposed to have locked up in their re
cesses secrets which, if explained, might
throw light on the mystery of the ancient
inhabitants of this part of the world.
The writer suggests that a Bureau of
Archieoloey be organized, and that the
vast field'of mounds be thoroughly ex
plored and examined by competent men.
The intuition of the Treasury girls
serves thein well in the counterfeit busi
ness; and Gen. Spinner, who has had
twelve years' epenence in the work, says
they are worth ten times as much as the
men for such business. " A man always
lias a reason for a counterfeit," says the
General ; " lorty, maybe, but he is wrong
half the time. A woman never has a
reason. Hhe says 'tis counterfeit because
it counterfeit, and she's always right
though she couldn't tell how she found
out if she were to be hung for it."
Ladies owning lap-dogs will please
take notice: The Michigan Southern
Itoad has decided that only a lap-dog " in
the armsot its mistress" will be admitted
into the passenger coaches. All other
dogs must travel in the baggage-car at.
the rate of twenty-five cents for the first
100 miles and ten cents for each subse
quent 100. Baby-wagons are charged
the same price as dogs.
Girls should be warned of the dan
ger they run in marrying railroad brake
men. An enthusiastic member of that
fraternity on being awakened the other
night from a dream of an impending
crash by a train found himself sitting up
in bed holding his wife by the ears, hav
ing nearly twisted her head off in his
frantic efforts to "down brakes."
An agentof the Massachusetts Board
of Health is traveling on the railroads
of that State testing the air in the cars,
more particularly in the smoking-cars.
He carries a pair of bellows and m small
vial, partly filled with a fluid, into which
the air is forced with the bellows, and
subsequently it is analyzed and the im
purities separated.
If you say to yourself, "To-day I
mean to be happy," it is a rash promise,
a hasty project. But if we say, "To
morrow I mean to give some one pleas
ure," it is an amiable intention which
will rarely deceive your hopes. Such
conduct is generous and delicate in the
extreme and cannot fail to bear good
fruit.
Julia Ward Howe informs us that
" the financial incompetence of men in
general is becoming every day more evi
dent to the world at large." It is espe
cially evident in the morning, when their
wives have "gone through" their pockets
over night.
It has recently been discovered, says
an exchange, that the rattan exudes a
dangerous poison. Any schoolboy who
has had his pants warmed in a conscien
tious, business-like way, by his peda
gogue, could have told you that long
ago.
According to Kepsey, surgeon to the
Austrian Polar expedition, chocolate, as
h beverage, proved most valuable to all;
the preserved meat and vegetables In
tins being also of the greatest service in
sustaining the strength and spirits.
A Milwaukee man is bent on going
to sea. He has been reading the Enoch
Arden class of stories till his soul is fired
with an ambition to be wrecked and
ome home and find his wife married to
some other fellow.
The Missouri River is, from all re
ports, the " healthiest" stream in the
world, for it is the only one that is not
confined to its bed. The course it shall
pursue is one of the things not yet de
termined upon.
There are 115,023 soldiers' widows in
the United States who receive pensions
from the Government. Strange, strange,
that young men continue to marry girls
without a cent. Milwaukee Newt
If your 6tove is a coal gas-burner,
allow a basin or urn of water to be set
on constantly. Without it the air will
le co dry that neither your plants nor
yourself can be healthy.
It is very fantastical and contra
dictory in human nature that men should
love themselves above all the rest of the
world, and yet never endure to be with
themselves alone.
Respectability is all very well for
folks who can have it for ready money ;
but to be obliged to run in debt for it is
enough to break the heart of an angel.
It is wonderful what an amount of
struggling and red-facedness will be
gone through by a person wrestling into
a new pair of shoes " a size too large."
Benjamin Franklin used to spell
soap "s o-p-e," and yet there isn't a day
but that some one holds him up as a
great philosopher and a good man.
A Grand Jury down in Texas has re
ported Grand Juries in general to be a
humbug and a nuisance, and wants to
have them abolished.
In the Hawaiian language every
vowel is sounded. That would make it
Kal-a-ka-u-a five syllables. However,
don't let's fight about it.
A gentleman who has been struck by
a young lady's beauty has determined to
follow the injunction and " kiss the rod
that smote him."
Another man to be hanged in Penn
sylvania. No State can stand this drain
on its population.
Deserved a Better Master.
Rail wat carriers charge heavily foi
transporting a dog: but a man who cares
so little for his four-footed pet as to
grudge him the price of a ten-mile ride
ought to go afoot himself. Says the Cin
cinnati Gazette-, rather sarcastically:
" Next to his wife and gun, the genu
ine huntsman is said to love his dog,
and a striking illustration of the latter
was presented a day or two ago. A man
who had been engaged in shooting at
the pigeon match near Carthage, to re
turn home by the train arriving in Cin
cinnati at four a. m., hailed it at the
Fair-ground crossing. In response to an
inquiry, he was told that his dog could
only ride in the baggage-car, and that it
would cost twenty-five cents. The hun
ter took the animal by the collar and led
him to the rear platform of the last car.
' ' Take him in on the forward end,
said the brakeman. But the man didn't
take him on at either end. He merely
ubbed the dog's nose np to his legs and
boots, got on the rear platform alone, ani
whistled to the dog to follow as the train
started.
"The poor fellow stretched every
nerve and muscle to keep np, but in half
a minute was visible only as a white
speck jumping on the track, next was en
tirely out of Bight, while his master rode
contentedly Into the city.
"An hour or so afterward the dog
passed Wmton Place, above five miles
from where he started, still at a full gal
lop, but panting, his tongue hanging far ;
out, and nis gait unsteady. Entirely
deaf to expressions of sympathy from
those who saw him at Spring Grove, he
continued his locomotion to Cummins
ville, and may, possibly, toward night,
have reached the city in safety. But it
must have taught the animal to dodge a
dozen railway trains to and from the city
and to hop over the planks of a half a
dozen trestle bridges; and it showed in
telligence as great as his love for the un
deserving master."
If that man loved his dog almost as
well as he did "his wife and his gun," we
pity the wife and the gun, too. Youth'
Companion.
Crow Sagacity.
The crows had kept up a racket since
dawn. Trees and palmetto scrub were
black with them. They alighted in camp
within ten feet of us and stole the pro
visions the instant our backs were
turned. Incessantly did they scold us. It
was plain that they were anxious for us
to break camp so that they might pick
up what was left. "Talk about crows,"
said Moore while pulling his morning
pipe,' they're the most knowing bird in
Florida, i hey can tell a negro from a
white man a mile off, and they know a
shot-gun from a rifle. They know that
they are of no account. Nobody hankers
after crow-meat and no hunter wastes
powder and shot on them. Why, I've
been hunting and had the crows follow
me and point out the game. They were
willing to take their share of the work,
too, and were satisfied with the leavings.
If a man only knows how to take him a
crow's just as good as a dog. When I've
been jumping a bear or a deer I've had
the crow s light on the trees above 'era
and Eing out: 'Here he is, old man,
down below here! Go for him!' and if I
shot and missed those crows would actu
ally get disgusted. I could hear them
talking to one another and saying, " Oh,
he's an old hombre he don't know how
to shoot.' But if I brought down the
game they'd scream and bounce from the
trees and sail in for their divvy.
" But the greatest case ot cagacity in
a crow that 1 ever saw,' continued
Moore, "was on the ocean beach, just
across the lower end of the lake. Last
year me and a fellow named Crowell
were down there catching turtle. We
used to clean 'em on a big beam of ma
hogany that had drifted ashore. There
were thousands of crows on hand a pick
ing up the entrails and a scooping out
the shells. They were so noisy that we
had to holler to understand one another.
You never see such a raft of crows.
They were pretty shy along in the begin
ning, but -they kept getting bolder and
bolder, and by and by they walked right
up to. the mahogany beam and stole the
choice steaks that we were saving for
ourselves. Well, when Crowell see that
he began to get mad. He swore he
couldn't stand it, and he hauled up and
f ave the crows two barrels of duck-shot,
le had in a thunderin' charge a pailful
of shot in each barrel. You never see
such a sight. If it had been raining
crows the beach couldn't have been
blacker. You see, this was in the morn
ing. Well, for several hours the crows
were mighty shy again, but along in the
afternoon they took their chanCes once
more and were around thicker than ever.
They fought among themselves for The
shells and the entrails, but they gave the
steaks a wide berth. They were smart
enough to know what the shooting was
for.
" Well, among the flock we noticed a
lame crow with a sickly kind of caw.
He had come out from under Crowell's
battery with one leg gone. He was a
hard sight. When we first saw him his
wing was a drooping, and he was a limp
ing along and a skirmishing around
for something to eat with the rest of
them. We felt sorry for him. If you'd
seen him you couldn't help but feel sorry
too. You see the other crows didn't give
him a living show. He would have
starved to death if we hadn't sympa
thized with him and seen that he got his
share. We fed him the nicest chunks of
turtle, and he got so tame that he'd limp
up within two or three feet and almost
eat out ot our hands. We used to call
him Santa Anna because, you see, he had
lost his leg.
" Well," continued Moore, "for some
time Santa Anna turned up regularly for
bis rations. He seemed to be growing
weak in spite of all the building up we
gave him. One day we missed him.
Crowell felt mighty bad. He almost
cried. Poor Santa Anna,' says he,
'couldn't roost any place but on the
ground. Some snake has got him and
that's the last of him.' You see the
bird had got to be a great favorite. I
felt as bad about it as Crowell, and no
mistake. Down here in the wilderness,
where you don't ee a white man once in
years, a fellow gets mightily attached to
a crow when he's social like and puts
confidence in you. Well, all that day the
crows kept a coming in and a ripping
away at the lights and livers, but poor
Santa never turned up. I reckon if we
talked about him once we talked about
him a hundred times.
"The next forenoon while we were
dressing a big turtle we heard a feeble
kind of a caw and Crowell sung out,
' Here's Santa Anna again, as sure as
you're born!' and sure enough there was
the little black cuss a -hopping along on
one foot" over the sand. He cocked his
head on one side and seemed mighty
glad to see us. We picked out the rich
est part of the turtle and fed him. Well,
you'd ought to have seen that crow eat.
He stuffed himself so full that he
couldn't holler. You could see him
swell out like a rubber ball. The other
crows stood off about twenty feet watch
ing him. The little hombre got all he
wanted and then started off. He limped
awfully for about fifteen feet and I heard
Crowell say, 'Poor little devil! I'm
afraid he'll never get well.' Just then
the crow stopped and hind a shook ud
his wing. Then as I'm alive and a
sinner he dropped another little black
foot and walked off on two legs as sound
as a dollar. The other crows set up a
mighty cawing and all of them flew away
together."
"Well," inquired Hammond, "how
did he get his leg fixed?"
" It wasn't Santa Ann at all," Moore
replied. Some other crow had played
Santa Anna on us. Our crow had been
eaten up by a 'possum. We found the
feathers afterward. And," continued
Moore, turning tome, "you won't believe
me, but that story's just as true as the
Gospel every word of it." Florida Cor.
New York Sun.
Thought He Had Lost Ills Money.
A New York traveling agent who was
stopping at a hotel in this city rushed
down into the office at an early hour yes
terday morning, telling the clerk that
some one had entered his room during
the night and stole his pocket-book, con
taining about $100 and several valuable
papers, his gold watch and chain and a
diamond pin. The man was fairly fran
tic at his supposed loss and began a
tirade of abuse against the proprietor,
clerk, servants and porters, accusing
them all of having been implicated in
the robbery. The proprietor endeavored
to calm bis heated guest by promising to
do everything in his power to ferret out
the mystery and discover the thief and
the missing property. But all his efforts
to quiet the man were unavailing, and it
was finally resolved to engage a detect
ive and put the matter in his hands.
Before taking this step, however, the
proprietor of the hotel resolved to per
sonally investigate the mystery. Taking
the clerk and the agent into the room
occupied by the latter they first made
diligent search in the drawers of the
washstand, in the wardrobe and under
the bed, but without success. The clerk
finally threw the pillows off the bed and
tearing away the sheet he found the
pocket-book, watch and chain just where
the forgetful agent had left them the
night before. The pin was inclosed in
the pocket-book. The agent was profuse
in his apologies and went away rejoicing.
Forty Kentuckiana rode tw days to
kill a fox worth sixty cent.
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.
The Weeds we Eat. Alexander
Hyde writes in the New York Timet on
:hc weed question in this clever style t
Many of the weeds that have never been
modified in their nature by cultivation,
ind which persist in growine in spite
of all opposition, still serve a useful
purpose, or can be made to do so. Even
the much-abused " pursley," which Mr.
Warner has immortalized in "A Summer
in My Garden," makes first-rate "greens."
Nothing can be more tender and succu
lent than purslain, and we are by no
means certain thnt it will not one day be
cultivated in our gardens as a pot herb.
It certainly makes delicious greens and
is exceedingly nutritious. We have
never seen an analysis of this weed, but
that there is nutrition in it is manifest
from the fact that it never grows in poor
soil and from the further evidence that
pigs thrive upon it. Milk weed is an
other plant which can and should be
utilized. Even in its wild state it is no
roor substitute, when young, for aspara
gus, and when old it is by no means as
tough and woody as old asparagus. If
ai ilk weed were cultivated in our gardens
for a series of years, and propagated only
from the seeds of the best plants, it
might be made to double or quadruple
its size, and we have no doubt would be
a more nutritious if not more luscious
vegetable than asparagus.
When a dealer in farm produce re
ceives shipments in good order and of
first quality, he takes full as much pride
in showing them as the farmer did in
sending them; and he does not hesitate
to ask from 10 to 20 per cent, extra', be
cause he knows he can get it. Besides,
it is really to his advantage to have such
produce, because it helps him to secure
the be.pt customers and thereby to build
up his business. This is plain enough.
The same advantage accrues also to the
farmer. For assorting potatoes or ap
ples, for neatly dressing and packing
poultry, for sending only choice butter
and large, fresh eggs, time and care are
required, and that which is kept at home
may seem to be a loss ; but in doing in
this wise additional care will be taken
afterward to provide against having any
thing that is not salable, so that a real
money value comes from being a better
farmer. The farmer who has a right
idea of his calling will aim to supply
only such customers as are particular
and who are willing to pay extra prices
for extra products. There are plenty of
such customers, and the demands they
make are far in excess of what farmers
are likely soon to supply. Country Gen
tleman. An experienced dairyman says that,
after trying several plans of preventing
turnips when fed to milch cows from im
parting an unpleasant taste to milk and
butier, he at last succeeded perfectly by
cutting a good slice off the top and an
other off the bottom of the bulb, taking
care to remove all roots by the last slice.
The center of the turnip is given to the
cows, sliced as usual. If this plan is
strictly followed, both milk ana butter
will be perfectly sweet. He says that,
soon after adopting this plan, he could
not obtain butter without a taint until
he had discharged three or four men who
attended to the feeding of his cattle and
replaced them by others who carried out
the plan without deviation. In this way
one of the most serious objections to
feeding milch cows on turnips can be
easily removed. Of course the slices
taken off are not allowed to go to waste,
being given to stock of one kind or an
other. Way to Hoe Understandlngly.
Let us study the course of that in
telligent young farmer to whom farming
is an art. He examines critically his
tool before purchasing; for the quality
of the steel he requires the label of some
respectable firms; for the rest he is his
own judge. His selection is an imple
ment not over wide, having fine and
tharp angles, and so mounted on the
handle as to require as little stooping as
possible. He selects a handle of hard
wood (the momentum gained by which
being more than an offset to the extra
weight), straight grained and rather
longer than the average. The handle
having been well oiled to prevent its
cracking, our farmer is ready for the field.
Now study him at work. With many,
hoeing is merely a rising and falling of
the implement, or what may be called a
chopping stroke, with force sufficient to
cut up weeds. Our farmer has not only
an up-and-down stroke, but a swinging,
half circular stroke, that from its effect
may be called a cutting or knife stroke;
and, moreover, his chopping strokes are
made at an angle varying with the kind
and size of the weeds.
Here is a capital axiom that he has
adopted that weed hoeing has two
ends in view, viz., to kill the weeds
then growing and to do this in such a
manner as to prevent, so far as can be,
the seed in tne ground from germinat
ing. "All tillage soil," he says, "has
the seed of weeds scattered through it as
deep as it is tilled, say for a foot in
depth ; some of them retain their vege
tating powers many years some only
one year. Now, my object in weed hoe
iug should be while destroying the
weeds on the present surface, not to
make a new surface from which a new
crop may start."
He therefore disturbs the surface
only enough to kill the weeds; his work
presents none of the roughness of the
bungler, who wastes vast amounts of
strength in rough chopping that takes
up weeds by the roots in front of him,
but to leave them replanted in the rear
of him, while he so disturbs the under
soil that the seeds therein are brought
sufficiently near the surface to germi
nate. If some one should ask. Is not one
great object to loosen the soil? he re
plies: " Certainly, at times; but we are
now discussing hoeing as a mere weed
ing process." Agricola, in New York Her
ald. Pruning Apple Orchards.
Tuosk fond of abstract discussions are
writing out their views for the newspa
pers in regard to pruning orchard trees.
The most contradictory opinions are ad
vanced, not only as to the proper manner
of pruning, but as to whether trees
should be pruned at all. It is quite cer
tain that any one who has had long ex
perience in the management of orchard
trees knows that he could no more do
without the pruning-knite, nay, even the
saw and the hatchet, than he could eat
his dinner without a knife and fork. It
could be done, of course. As the chil
dren say, fingers were made before forks,
and so nature gave us fruit trees long be
fore we found out aught about culture.
One can get along without ever cutting
an orchard tree. There are some that
can be named that never had a knife on
them; but it is just as true that the best
fruit and best trees generally will be
where the pruning implements are regu
larly and judiciously used. One can, of
course, take his ladder and hatchet and
saw, and go into his orchard and cut
away, to the great injury of the tree; but
this is not the judicious trimming that
sensible people recommend, but a sense
less practice worse than letting them
alone. If there is to be a choice between
a murderous practice like this and prune
not at all, as advocated by some, better
by all means join the anti-pruning party
There are, again, some who say
if trees are properly seen to
when young, no pruning is re
quired in after life. This is not in ac
cord with experience. No matter how
well cared for there is always something
to be done as the trees grow. But so far
as this argument is concerned it does
not amount to much, as not one tree in a
thousand in our average orchards get any
special treatment when young; so that
the plea on the ground of being early in
clined holds good too seldom to weigh
much in general rules for practice.
At this season of the year, then, it will
be well to see that a good pruning saw
has its teeth well sharpened and set, a
handy little hatchet ground, and the
pruning-knife honed up to a keen and
yet strong edge. Whenever an oppor
tunity occurs through the winter, go
through the orchard and see what is to
be done. One thing to be seen to is that
every leading branch bat fall room to
develop all Us bnmchlcts perfectly. If
two of these go along together there
will be a struggle for life between them,
in which both will lose something. Cut
one away. If this has not leen going on
for more than a year or so, the knife will
do all that is required, but if the strug
gle is of many years' standing saw away
at the worst one without hesitation.
Such sawing ought to be' made close to
the main trunk, and the exposed part
painted so as to prevent decay until the
new bark grows over it. Then again
large branches will often in time get
decrepid through overbearing. The
growth will, perhaps, not be more than
an inch or two, and the fruit small and
6ickly. In such cases there will often
be tolerably vigorous branches down
toward the main branch or trunk. In
such cases cut away the weakened por
tions, leaving the healthier ones to cotue
on and take their places. Sometimes in
trees which have been bearing for some
years there will be a general decline in
vigor of the whole tree. In this case
cut away most of the bearing branches
all over the head, leaving some of the
younger sprouts to come on and form a
head. This usually brings about a great
revival, chiefly through the rest from
bearing which the tree receives. Some
people think they renovate old trees by
cutting back and regraf ting with other
kinds. But it is the rest, not the re
grafting, and a mere cutting back does
just the same thing.
Where not much of this severe work is
necessary, that is, where all the main
branches are about where they ought to
be. and nowhere else, there will still be
numerous young sprouts coming out at
various places through the head, up in
through the interior of the tree. These
are competitors with the main or fruit
bearing branches and should be ruth
lessly cut away.
These are but general hints, to be sure.
One's judgment must be called in as to
how little or how much is to be done ;
but it will be seen from what has been
that the apple orchard will find em-aids
ployment for many a leisure day during
the winter season. Maryland f armer.
Hints to Amateur Florists.
There are many who are investing in
plants who have had little or no ex
perience, and to such a few hints may
not come amiss.
1. Plants taken from the warm, moist
air of a propagating house should be
wrapped in thin, soft paper, left open at
the top until they have become accli
mated to the change. The leaves should
be sprinkled on the under and upper sides
with awisp broom, studiously avoiding
cold draughts of air.
2. The best time for watering plants is
toward evening, as in the summer time
the evaporation is not so rapid during
the night ; whereas if watered only in the
morning they so soon dry off that they
do not get the full benefit of the evap
oration process which supplies the place
of dew, and they will look more fresh
and vigorous.
3. The idea entertained by almost
every amateur flower giower that a large
amount of earth is required for the
heal h and vigor of the plant is very er
roneous, and is called by experienced
florists over-potting, and is laden many
times with serious results to plant life;
fcr the soil in pots, boxes, tubs, etc., does
not have the action of the element to
neutralize the acid or equalize the chem
ical compounds that are used up or gen
erated to excess when thus confined,
as the soil often becomes sour
and sodden, and necessitates the
speedy removal of the plant into
fresh soil, to prevent decay of the roots.
Soil best adapted to nearly every plant
grown in pots is good sandy loam. Good
garden soil that has been enriched until
it is soft -nd mellow will answer every
purpose; but if neither of these can be
obtained, p.-ocure leaf-mold from the
woods, swamp muck and sand, equal
darts thoroughly mixed, and this will
make a most desirable compost. The
addition of a small quantity of wood
ashes or lime will destroy and prevent
worms.
4. In repotting, care should be taken
not to injure the roots. To prevent this,
set the pan into a pot of water until the
ball of earth around the roots is saturated ;
then place the hand over the top of the
pot, turn bottom upward, rap the rim
of the pot on the bench or stand, and the
whole will fall out. Have ready another
pot, one or two sizes larger, and turn into
it the plant, supplying sufficient soil to
till up again, carefully shaking so that
the roots next to the sides of the pot will
be supplied. This process only needs
repeating from once to twice a year; but
if you want flowers you must keep your
plants root-bound in a measure. This
your judgment must decide.
5. Plants kept in a sitting-room where
frequent sweeping has to be done should
be covered until the dust has settled, as
dust upon the foliage injures the plant
by retarding its growth and bloom, as
leaves are to plant life what lungs are to
animal life.
6. Where scale or red spider have ac
cumulated, as they will in warm, dry at
mosphere or in dark situations, whale
oil soap suds showered over the leaves,
and sponged off on the under side, or
turning the bottom up and dipping the
whole down into the decoction, will re
move the pests. Where plants are
crowded into too small space, they will
generate the aphis or green fly, and the
thrip and mealy bug. Suioking or wash
ing the plants thoroughly will destroy
these also.
7. Above all give your plants plenty
of fresh air and all the sunshine possible.
But few plants will grow in the shade,
and this class, is mostly confined to the
Begonia family and a few varieties of
vines; among them are the smilax and
common ivy. Cor. 7 he Farmer (En
gland). The Mutual Dependence of Bees and
Flowers.
Tiie bees, Mr. Darwin says, have
solved a difficult problem. They have
made their cells of a proper shape to
hold the greatest possible .amount of
honey with the least possible consump
tion of precious wax in their construe
tion. No human workman is skillful
enough to do what a crowd of bees can
do, working in a dark hive make cells
of wax of the true form. The number of
bumble bees in the country will depend
upon the number of cats. How can that
be? Because the number of bees is de
pendent upon the number of field mice,
which eat the bees. Hence the more
cats the fewer mice, and the fewer mice
the more bees. If the whole genus of
bumble bees became extinct, or very
rare, the heart's ease and red clover
would become rare or would disappear.
How is that? Because bees promote the
growth of those flowers. The visits of
bees are necessary to the fertilization of
some kinds of clover and almost
indispensable to the fertilization of
the heart's ease. In a word no bees, no
seed; no seed, no increase of the flowers.
The more visits from the bees, the more
seed from the flower; the more seeds
from the flower, the more flowers from
the seeds. Nearly all our orchidaceous
plants absolutely require the visits of in
sects to remove their pollen masses, and
thus to fertilize them. Twenty heads o
unprotected Dutch clover yielded 2,000
seeds. The same number protected from
bees produced not one seed ; 100 heads
of unprotected clover yielded 27,000, ana
the same number protected from bees,
not a seed.
To Boll a Ham.
Take a ham weighing about eight or
ten pounds, soak it for twelve or twenty
four hours in cold water, then cover it
with boiling water, add one pint of vine
gar, two or three bay leaves, a little
bunch of thyme and parsley (the dried
and sifted will do, or even the seeds of
parsley may be used if the fresh cannot
be procured ; boil very slowly two hours
ana a half, take it out, skim it, remove
all the fat, except a layer about half an
inch thick cut off with a sharp knife all
the black-looking outside put the ham
into your dripping-pan, fat 6lde upper
most, grate bread crust over it and
sprinkle a teaspoonf ul of powdered sugar
over it; put in the oven for half an hour
until it U a beautiful brown.
Eat cold 5 cut the nicest portion In
slices; the ragged and little odds and
ends can be chopped fine and used for
sandwiches; or by adding three eegs to
one pint of the chopped ham and frying
brown you have a delicious omelet for
breakfast or lunch. The bone should be
put into the soup kettle. The rind and
fat should be rendered and strained for
frying potatoes or crullers. A ham pre
pared in this way will " go" twice as far
as when cooked and carved in the ordi
nary manner, besides the conviction it
gives the housekeeper of being economi
cal, and at the same time placing nate
and palatable dishes before her family.
Rural New Yorker.
Care of the Eur.
The Scientific American thinks that the
ear is quite as liable to injury from drafts
of air as from cold water. The modern
style of cutting the hair in men and of
arranging the hair of women is much to
be deprecated, because it was intended
by nature that the hair should fall over
the ear and form thus a protection to it.
But as we cannot throw down so great a
goddess as fashion, we must use care and
artificial means for the preservation of
this delicate organ.
If sitting in a draft is unavoidable, the
handkerchief should be applied to the
ear exposed or a pledget of cotton in
serted within it. The ordinary manner
of washing the face does no harm to the
ear because the canal leading to the drum
of the ear is partially protected by wax
and water does not penetrate far; but all
the swabbing of the ear, whether with
dry cloth or lint moistened with hot or
cold water, or other fluid, is by no means
to be advised, as it removes the wax, the
necessary safeguard to the internal ear.
A Remarkable Dog.
" Talklxo about dogs as is sagacious,"
remarked Mr. Gammon as he leaned
back in his chair, threw one leg over a
pile of exchanges and ran his lingers
through his gray hair "talking about
smart dogs, I raised a dog once which
was just considerably the pertesl animal
I ever saw or read of. Never knew
what breed he was. Kind of peculiar
seemed to have all the best pints of the
whole species. He came to me in a sin
gular manner too when he was no
more'n three months old. Heard a
scratchin' at the door one cold winter
mornin' as I was makin' a fire. Opened
the door and in walked that pup. The
fir.it thing he done was to wipe his feet
on the mat. Then he pushed a stool up
to the stove and sat down on it and held
his paws up to warm. After he got
comfortable he asked me to adopt him
into the family.
" I am teliiu' the truth now, and of
course 1 don't pretend to say that pup
actually addressed me in the English
language, but his looks, his manner, his
what d'ye call it? pantomime, was so
Ferfect that I knew just what he wanted,
never went much on dogs as a general
thing but I couldn't go back on one of
such extraordinary promise as this. I
kept him, and we named him liassler.
He was as imitative as a Chinaman.
Picked up things faster'n a child. He
took to the children right away liked
them a9 well as though they had been
his own brothers and sisters and they
come to consider him as one of the fam
ily, lie learned all that wa9 possible
from the limited facilities afforded on
the farm. Before he was a year old he
could ride horses, tend the baby, pick
up chips and do a thousand other useful
and amusing things.
"Olla, my oldest boy, had learned him
to whistle, and it would done you good
to ha' seen liassler utilize that accom
plishment. You know a rabbit w ill stop
if you whistle to it. Well, when he got
after a rabbit and it was about to get
away from him he'd stop and whistle.
The fool rabbit would stop to listen and
liassler would have him by the neck in
less'n a minute.
" We never had to take an ax along
when we went coon-hunting with that
dog. No need to cut down any trees.
He would just skin up a tree like a squir
rel and shake a coon or a 'possum out in
a jiffy. One of his favorite pastimes was
to take a small pail and go out in the
meadow and drown out groundhogs,
gettln' the water from a pond near by.
" Once I took Rassler to town with me,
and it was election day. I allowed my
self to get rather more liquor aboard
than I could conveniently carry. About
three o'clock in the afternoon I started
home, taking the railroad track. I hadn't
gone far before the whisky made me
stupid, and I laid right down on the
track and went dead drunk, liassler
tried every way to get me off to the side of
the road, but I was heavy and senseless,
and he couldn't budge me. A train was
comin', and in ten minutes more I would
have been run over. Now, gentlemen,
what do you think that dog done? Ex
cuse me, but I can't repress the rising
tear when I think how that faithful ani
mal saved my life. He grabbed the red
bandauna handkerchief from my pocket,
ran toward the train and signaled it, and,
by George, stopped it and saved me. Yes,
sir.
"But in his death he exhibited a
greater degree of gratitude and intelli
gence than he had ever dne before.
The boys had learned him to smoke, and
he became such a slave of tobacco that
I feared it would impair his mental facul
ties. I tried to break him of the habit
by whipping him, but it did no good.
He'd steal off some place and smoke in
spite of all I could do. Well, one night
he went to sleep in the cellar with a pipe
in his mouth, and the fire fell out on
some 6traw and soon the whole place
was in a blaze. liassler waked up in
time to arouse the family and get them
all out, but we couldn't save anything.
While we were standin' around lookin'
at the burnin' house all of a sudden
liassler gave a bark and rushed through
the flames. In five minutes after he ap
peared in the library window on the sec
ond floor with something in his mouth.
The flames had cut off his retreat. He
sprang from the window and fell lifeless
at our feet. And now, gentlemen, what
do you think that dog had in his mouth
that he had given his life to save? It
was the insurance policy on my house!"
And the old man wept at the remem
brance of Rassler's fidelity. Brunswicktr.
The Spider.
A comtosition by JOIIXXY.
This is a insek that cetches flies in a
net like a fish-net, but not in the water.
The net is called a web, and when it
cetches dust insted of flies it is a cob
web. The spider knoes he is ugly, so
he stays a good deal to home; but ugly
wimmen goes to church and walks in the
streets more than pretty; but they are
both in the same business, which is
trappin. In Californy they has spiders
that scorns to spin webs, but goes out
and cetches game like other beasts of
pray. They are about the size of a girl
baby, and a lot pizener. They is tar
antulers. When an injin has bit hisself
with a tar antuler he fills his skin with
whisky and steals a blanket to wrap his
sclf in, and hunts a place ware his body
will be most in the way. Then he lies
down, and if the pizen don't work all to
once he sings the death song of the
brave, and that knocks him. We was
told this to our house by a traveler, who
said he guessed he knew a tarnel site
about injins and tar antulers though he
hadn't never been to college. But Uncle
Ned he says it is best to get a good edu
cation first, and then thro' in injins and
tar antelers accordin to taste. National
Republican.
A favorite sewing circle beverage
Extract of cossipium
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