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Show 1 Good for Something! x A man out West has turned a ' snake to good account. He has kept one for years in his corn: crib, and no live mice are' ever seen there. The snake keeps in good health and spirits, so he probably finds 'enough1 game to live on. For my part, if ! went there for corn, I should prefer to encounter the mice, but I suppose the farmer is not troubled with "conscientious "con-scientious scruples," 11 A lady in the "hopper country" has even utilized the grasshopper. She did not exactly regale her family on dried "locusts and wild honey through the winter, but did dry forty -bushels of hoppers for chicken ..feed.' I don't doubt but .that -her. hen think they have "lived in clover all-winter," all-winter," and I am sure they ought v to have given her plenty of eggs. v j People have tried the experiment ; on a small scale, for the- comfort of canary birds during the wintert, and v anybody who has seen the delight -with which the little dear$ pick, thee tender bones of the grasshoppers, ., will not fail to dry a bagful next.. I summer, if you can catch thenij i Now, if snakes, and , grasshopper can be turned to good account, don't despair of even the , most ' lirilllccfy' : folks. Only let the right people' Jjet hold of them, atA you will find out ' that they are good foV something yet. '.-It '.-It is a great art ihU, of finding :'6yX the capabilities of people! o'r'gdbd and'a still better one, that of helping them to develop those1 "capabilities: . 1 . . . '.. 1 1 i. A 'V:j)i 4 |