Show CHICAGO BEEF TINS T tatt het giromo conlo objects of terror to thor hungry there is nothing much moro more useless les to tile eyo eye of housekeepers than a chicago beef tin lin after it ha haa been belled and a 1 made in the other end of it in order that tho the mass of muscle anil and fat may slide out in such wise that it can call be lie hawn wn more or less roughly into slices tile the banks of old father Z nile nil were for months in the w inter of 1881 1884 5 sit ean with these tins tills 0 of capacities c varying from two to aix six pounds As tile the river fell tb they ey even became it a danger banmer for lying halt half or more mor 0 than tb a i n b halt 1 if hidden in the slime alimo and ooze on which as lia has 3 told us tho the scatters his grain 9 a in and shortly comes to hal harvest vest their jagged 01 edges cs cut many a naked fool above wady haifa however he careless ethiopian ethiopia for so the prophet ezekiel describes the people of the land caring for only one thing his crops soon found a use for tile the old beef tins this lie would take one and it if there tharo were not already a hole in its smaller end ho c would make it then ile he would tide take some soma palm fiber and a piece of tile tho midrib of a palm branch and knot then until lie he had the tin suspended now lie he would find a long pebble and with a finer piece of palm fiber lie he would tie tic the iho stone in ili the middle and fix it about halfway halfway up in the can call then lie he would take a great palm leaf and strip it of its leaflets the larger end he ha would fix firmly in the L ground around about the middle of his hia ridge of grain and from tile the smaller end lie would bans ban p the th a chicago chic 1 tin th 1 tile the weight whereof would head bend the palm stem liko like a bass rod when a aie pouncey is on the hook the slightest breath of air air would move ali the 0 c ca a ito i to ill and I 1 d fro tile the stone would act as a clapper against against c tile the metal sides and there was a complete scarecrow scare seare crow a something it the hideous noise ind and suspicious appearance of which no bir would face but tins this was not the iho only end or service of the device yield field nice and vermin generally would alii it a wide berth and it was also found that more damaging ji tt ian k animals a still were kept away by it A hippopotamus landing on the cultivated bank eats a groat great deal cal and destroys a hundred times as much as lie he cats but no hippopotamus q h leaving any respect for himself was ever found tp to venture into a patch do dc fen femley ded ly by a i chicago can the monotonous dionot changur 0 of which as it swayed in ill the prevalent northerly breeze might well have affrighted a crocodile himself him selfA K Y times |