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Show HINTS FOR AVOIDING ACCIDENTS WHILE SHOOTING:-1. Never carry your guns under any circumstances with the hammers down on the cap. 2. Never carry it on the full cock, except when expecting game to rise. 3. Never carry it with the barrel in a horizontal position. 4. Never let it be pointed either toward yourself or any other person. 5. In going through a fence always hold it before you as nearly perpendicular as possible, with the muzzle a little above your head. 6. Never load one barrel with the other either on the cap or at full cock. 7. Never take your gun home loaded, except you immediately place it under lock and key. 8. and lastly. Always consider it an instrument that may take away your own or the life of your dearest friend at any time without a moment's warning, and do not handle it as if there was no more harm to be apprehended from it than from your walking-stick or umbrella. HOW TO UTILIZE OLD FRUIT CANS-Perhaps one of the most appropriate uses of an old fruit can that can be devised is to make it contribute to the growth of new fruit to fill new cans. This is done in the following manner. The can is pierced with one or more pin holes and then sunk in the earth near the roots of the strawberry or tomato, or other plants. The pin holes are to be of such size that when the can is filled with water the fluid can only escape into the ground very slowly. Thus a quart can, properly arranged, will extend its irrigation to the plant through a period of several days, the can is then refilled. Practical trials of this method of irrigation leave no doubt of its success. Plants thus watered flourish and yield the most bounteous returns throughout the longest droughts. In all warm localities, where water is scarce, the planting of old fruit cans, as here indicated, will be found profitable as a regular operation.-Scientific American. A SERIOUS LOSS-As the U. S. ship Decatur was passing the harbor of Havana, during a cruise in the West Indies, close hauled, under reefed topsails, and bowling along at about eight knots, the armorer, who was at work in the forechains, by a sudden lurch of the vessel, was tossed overboard. The lookout immediately cried, "man overboard," followed by "cut away the life buoys," "‘bout ship," "lower away second cutters," and similar orders from the officers of the deck. After some delay, the poor fellow was rescued, limp as a rag, but whether life was extinct, we could not tell. We commenced rolling him on barrels, and taking the other remedies usual in such cases, when to our great surprise, he suddenly opened his eyes, and looking around, burst out with, "There by thunder, I've lost my best smoothfaced hammer, and there ain't another like it in the ship!" AN Indian once brought up a young lion and finding him weak and harmless, never attempted to control him. Every day the lion gained in strength and became more unmanageable, until at last, when excited by rage, he fell upon the Indian and tore him to pieces. Our evil habits and passions very much resemble that lion. IT is neither safe, respectable nor wise to bring any youth to manhood without a regular calling. Industry, like idleness, is a matter of habit. No idle boy will make an active and industrious and useful man. |