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Show agriculture Apples Need Cross Pollination. at Diapersion Bales, It has been thought, and it seems to lessons a learn time It ij always to me, not without some foundation, are yhes old established herds that season -- and the individual tree as it is then seen what the has most to do with potency and the jpjdai aim of the Individual breeder or of variehe has chiefly ties. ai been and what type prof. F. A Waugh in an artiAt a dispersion been associated with. cle, "Pollination of Apples, tells of kip purchasers who are forming new covering nineteen blossoms of Ben advised If they ,herds are well Davis to .test the effect of that variethe grouping of various fami- tys pollen on itself. He says that or follow the line nes In the catalogue not a single fruit set and came to g breeding which has chiefly contribu- the conclusion that Ben Davis Is ted In the manufacture of the best These flowers were, probaspecimens in the herd, says Mr. John bly, oa the same tree, and if this be gin, an English authority. The adthe case, it may have been only an invice that can be offered to beginners dividual character and not one true U to go carefully through the herd of all the trees of that variety. Care and mark the best animals of the diffin the present experiment was taken then and out look and go erent ages that the individual characters should tbelr dams. It Is often that the best not spoil the experiment and blosbreeders in a herd are overlooked; soms were covered, on two or more duties their maternal have probably trees. In the case of the Ben Davis, lakes away something of their natural twenty-siof the one hundred blosbloom and wealth of flesh, and tne soms pollinated set fruit, though the unrof these raha priceless matrons is fruits were not so large nor so vigorBuying dla-jerse- y care-not- e self-steril- x ecognized by the novice. The old on the contrary, are on the lands, alert, and pick up the bargains which best breeders usually turn out to be. It does not at all follow that the best looking females are the best ous as those from This statement is generally true of the cross and fruits. It was shown that the fruits showed a greater tendency to fall from the tree before they had obI mean from a showmans tained a breeders size as large as a hazel-nu- t point of view. If it were so, breeding The experiments go to show that some would become a certainty. Like prod- varieties possess more potency in their uces like," is the theory, but unforton 'their pollen than do others,-bot- h unately it is not always carried out own pistils and on the pistils of other it practice. In a Hereford you would varieties. In the following it Is look for a nice feminine character, a shown that a few varieties stand in mild, expressive eye, nicely turned the lead as pollinteers of the orchard. curve Proportion of fruits setting to number horns, rather of an for choice, well sprung ribs, good back of flowers pollinated with, pollen from and lengthy quarters, roomy body, and the variety named : Ben Davis, 25 udder. She may be a per cent; Huntsman, $7 per Cent; trifle small and what some would call Cooper Early, 37 cent; Grimes per In .mean her general appearance, and Golden, 29 per cent; Jonathan 52 per (perhaps somewhat light in the fore cent; Smokehouse, per cent; Misquarter and neck, but, if she is souri Pippin, 33 per cent; Winesap, kindled, you will find that her "touch 30 per cent; Wine, 29 per cent. Of k perfection, that her hide will fill all those tested in this experiment your hand, and that she is covered Jonathan is the best. Cooper Early with an ample coat of hair, or with the second and Huntsman the third. undeniable evidence of having such G. O. Greene. before the winter days require it. If such a cow as this is found in an Tapping Maple Trees. herd, and is also found to A bulletin of the Vermont station be the dam of some of the plums ys: There are some fine points to among the younger animals, the wise be observed even In such a simple man will keep on bidding as long as matter as tapping a sugar maple tree. his purse will permit him. Here are five points, Just for instance: Point 1. Only a sharp bit should ' Experiments in Steer Feeding. be used one that will make a clean-cu- t Prof. H. J. Waters of the Missouri hole. Point 2. The hole need not be experiment station has been carrying on tome very Important experiments more than three Inches deep. The inIn the feeding of steers. These are vestigations of the Vermont Experireported in a recent bulletin of the ment station have shown that hardly Missouri State Board of Agriculture. any sap comes from a greater depth. Cow pea hay showed up well as a ratPoint 3. The hole should be careion. The average dally gain of a fully cleaned of chips, because even steer on the timothy hay ration was a very small quantity of waste matter will clog the spout, obstruct the flow 1.69; on the cow pea hay ration 2.64, and on the clover hay and corn fodof sap, and seriously reduce the yield der ration 1.94. This was the result of sugar. of the first test lasting 119 days. The Point4 A spout should be chosen of such a pattern as will allow the .second test covered 105 days, corn It should interbeing fed with the coarse fodder, as freest flow of sap. In the first test The average dally fere with the wood tissue of the tree as little as possible. The bark, rathgain was with timothy hay 1.97; with cloYer hay 2.84; with cow pea hay er than the wood, should play an im184; with ciover and corn foddei portant part in holding the spout 185; with clover and wheat straw firm. 8.68. Prof. Waters Point 5. The spout should be says that the addition of clover hay or cow pea hay strong enough, and its hold on the to the ration induced better and tree firm enough, so that it will safeThe steers consumily support the sap bucket.- - Moreover Cheeper gains. ng these hays have always gone to the spout should be easy to Insert and market in better finish, with better easy to remove. The various spouts commonly sold at the hardware stores toils and with liner blooms than fed on the other kinds of coarse differ materially in their merits when The fodder. The use of leguminous hay Judged by the foregoing tests. to balance the ration proves to be sugar maker will do well to examine them all carefully before buying his eery satisfactory. supply for the coming season. ani-'ma- ll Alfalfa for Swine Pastures. raising hogs to grass for them. this true of the brood It is essential in have some pasture Especially is lows and the young pigs which need sot only the green feed but the exerc- ise and sunshine out of doors. Alfalfulfills this requirement admirably, ti it makes a forage which is perfectly sate for hogs to pasture, is nutritious, palatable, grows early in the tpring and late In the fall. Alfalfa produces more green forage per acre than any other forage used for hog pasture in the central west Colorado is credited with 799,611 acres of this fa it Is essential to every ranch there mixed farming Is carried on. Alfalfa is grown to sucn an extent In the state that any farmer or stock-(uacrop, n could spare a tew acres for hog putpre. The value of an acre of alfalfa throughout the season for laying on pork has not been reported from ny station, but long experience has tgught practical hog raisers that a llttlp corn or a small amount of other grain, together with gool alfalfa pasture, will give excellent returns. Alfalfa alone seems to supply little more than a maintenance ration, but as such la very valuable. Bulletin 74, Colorado Station. Illinois Swlnebrsedsr Msetlng. rbe fifteenth annual meeting of the Inois Association of Swine Breeders d Expert Judges was held in the - Effect on Plants of Colored Glass. Colored glass may yet be used In the growing of certain plants, especially of those intended for ornamental purposes because of their foliage. In Franoe some quite elaborate experiments have been made to ascertain tha effect on plants of different colors. One experimenter tried growing strawberries under different colored glasses. The largest and greenest plants were obtained wben the yellow glasa was used, but this gain was offset by a decrease in size of the fruit, by a decrease In the aggregate quantity obtained, and by the lateness of the fruit In maturing. Glass without color proved the best when large and early fruit was required. This of course proves that present practice in this matter is correct The largest number of fruits is not obtained under colorless glasa This result was obtained only when violet colored glass was used; but this kind of glass decreased the size of the fruit injured the quality and rendered it later in maturing. It was found that green, red and blue glasses injured the foliage of the planta The natural conclusion Is reached that glasa should be used, except where it is desired to stimulate ths 1 , , growth of foliage. -- Results of Thinning Fruit Pruning by thinning the fruit may have a very Important though Indi- rlcultural building at Champaign, Tuesday and Wednesday, January rect effect In controlling the bearing h and 7th. It was one of the most year of many plants. If an individual ofitable meetings in the history of fruit spur be carefully studied. It will e organization. The program as be seen that there is usually an alteribllsbed in the Review was carried ation in fruit bearing for the reason it With but few exceptions. Only that the demands made by the frnit ree of the speakers failed to relare so great that a fruit hud cannot So In ths oad, Several very interesting pa- develop the same year. leaf-ba- d ns were read and the discussion to develops year, bearing is general and Instructive. Resolu continue ths spur the following year; dus were passed favoring the con and in this following, or barren year, records a fruit bud is developed for the sucflidation of the Poland-Chin- a td lh favor of selling for cash or its ceeding year. Alternate years frnit Wlvalent. The meeting closed with bearing is then largely a question of banquet at the Beardsley Hotel, to food supply. II ws wish to mike a rhich about one hundred guests sat tree bear every year, it la necessary ova. Officers were elected as fol-s- ; either to supply more food material, president, H. O. Minnis of or to remove a portion of the fruit ftlaburg, III.; vice president, O. L. Prof. W. M. Munson. targess of Bement; secretary, Rainey e (filer, Champaign; executive Too often we think that a soli is A. O. Woodbury, Danville; J. worn out and will not produce crops Kelly, Sullivan; J. A. Resenbery, because Its fertility hae been extoodwine. , hausted, when, as a matter of fact, the trouble is that the vegetable matAbout 2,090.000 of London's inha- ter has been taken from the soil and bits get no medical treatment save the physical nature of the soil is such st of charity dispensaries or hospl-- ' that plant food la not available. and It Is said one in four of them to bed The dam in the Nile at Assouan will hungry every night of their fives. throw back water 140 miles. com-ultte- il .1 Perilous Trips Made by Mail Carriers in Winter Present Outbreak of Disease. The present epidemic of contagious disease in New England was first discovered near Boston, where it rapidly spread Into many towns in eastern Massachusetts and into Rhode Island and Vermont The history of Its outbreak In Vermont is aa follows: , Sixteen cows bought at a sale at Acton, Mass., were shipped to Gossetts station in the town of Chester, and received on November 21st whence they were driven to a nearby farm. Thirteen of these cows were sold and driven to Chester station, four miles distant on November 24th, where they were distributed among the farmers who purchased them. These infected cows caused a new outbreak tf the disease at each place where they went, and also infected the highway over which they traveled. Four of them were driven fifteen miles further to a farm In the town of Windham, from which in turn other farms have become infected. November 26, two days later, the original Vermont buyer, becoming alarmed, drove the diseased Massachusetts cows back to his own farm. Before becoming aware of the presence of the disease in his herd, however, he sold two calves to two parties living - near Perkinsville in the town of Weathers-Held- , in whose herds disease now prevails. Two herds in the town of Springfield are quarantined on suspicion because of exposure through these Perkinsville cases. No cases are now known to exist outside of this area. Inasmuch, however, as highways, the feet of animals passing thereon, the shoes ot pedestrians, of visitors to infected farms, etc., may bear the infection, particular watchfulness and care are called for on the ; part of all stock owners, Insect struggles, but when It exhausted they open to catoh " other unwary prey- Occasionally plants make allies o2 their enemies. A tropical acacia thorn," ao known as the bulls-hor- n commodates and provides for an atjar i say of ants, to check the depredations oC And Natures glad heart thrttla. ants. ferocious, TtgBlow, blow my craft where yellow leaves branches bear yellow thorns, whereSwirl vagrant through the air. the ant garrison lives and rears tie And blow me where the rustling sheaves young, Jfeu plant supplies not only bare. stubble Dot fields of lodgiqge, but board as well, in the For I would sail the autumn land f&W of a special honey, which makes While glow Its radiant hues; the garrison a good breakfast, and. With boat end breese at my comroMW, rnpre wonderful still, solid food In the Y&i IU cruise. Down kit its bodies, form of little, yellow, fruit-likFrank Farrington m Lipplncott s. which are developed on the leaflets and do for dinner. When an enemy , The Yucatan Toe. The toes of civilized people, have and supports An army. lost much of their cunning as helpful A Magician! Beal. & members of the body in any work that Mystic and unique is the peat, requires skill. The Maya people of eh Yucatan, however, have kept the in line with the mysterious " -- use of the toes in doing many of the organization 4t hears the kinds of work. It 'is said that the monogram of - Society of American Maya women, who always go bare- Mogleto' of New York. It Is usual- footed, will pick up a pin from the printed in red and white, and is re floor as easily with their toes as Yfitii their fingers. An archeologist ytio markable for the Initials S. A. M.,"" has spent some time among the people in the interest of the Peabody museum of Harvard university, tells the following anecdflte of Us landlady, Hardship and Suifcring Involved in the Route Over Lake Eric Boats Used Are Adapted to Three Method oi Ttaveling One Man's Experience, Tha Land Sailor. Come, till my sails. you wastrel wind. And waft me o'er the fields; The golden fields, rich harveet lined , With all that red earth yields. Come, blow me down the valley way Between the crimson hill. Where hardwoods make the landscape Our troubls began before we had For nerve, endurance and persistence it would be hard to beat the win- gone half a mile. The carriers were stem foreter mail carriers between the Ohio then towing the sledge-boa- t mainland and the four inhabited is- most, being harnessed to it with short lands of the curious little archipelago lines or ropes attached about half way in the Southwestern part of Lake Erie. between the stem and amidships, and Kelleys, the largest island, lies al- passed over their shoulders. I pushed, most due north of Sundusky. The and It took the united strength of all three Basses lie a little further west three to make headway, for the wind and are known as North Bass, Middle was blowing a gale from thq north. west. Bass and South Bass. To the , a heard I is named first the Suddenly Department tracking noise. Both c Wylers yelled and in a minute Isle St George and the last In warm weather the mail reaches wq we're in the waier. As we all hard the islands via Sandusky on regular hands on the boat we Baved ourselves, From Dec. 1 to the carriers without getting much of a daily steamers. March 31 the u inter servicq is in "wetting. I was more clumsy than I operation. they and got pretty damp before Nearly every winfcf there is a brief could scramble Into the boat period during which the ice freezes They made me sit down in the solidly between mainland and islands stern and wrap myself well up to keep and the the carriers drive over their from taking cold. Then they crept route comfortably with a horse and the boat for the next half mile. Creeping Is necessary when the Ice Is too light bob sled. Most of the time, though, the state solid to allow of sailing, poling or rowof the lake is such that the mail must ing and at the same time not strong be carried in a nondescript sort ot enough to bear the weight of a man. Compared with creeping mere tow- at Qtlehealtza; craft which can be used as a sledge, Is childs play, the sledge-boa- t p rowboat pr a sailboat, as occasion in Coming Into the house one day, the American noticed that the pig had been rash enough to trespass upon the domain of the mistress of the house. Tne woman was in close pursuit of the intruder, but piggy would look in any direction other than toward the Post-offic- e Put-In-Ba- h six-inc- h , Legumes. Bulletin 45, Arizona: The legumes constitute a group ot plants of so great importance to the farmer, and Information concerning them is bo much in demand, that a brief statement as to which ones may be grown in southern Arizona la deemed advisable. The great importance of the legumes is due largely to their ability to obtain the nitrogen they need from the air mixed with the soil in which they . are situated. This they do through the agency of minute organisms, called bacteria, growing in large colonies upon their roots, and by irritation producing there the nodules bodies so characteristic or wart-lik- e of them. The group is a very large one, and members of it are found in nearly all parts of the earth. Among the ones best known to us are peas. beanB, clovers, alfalfa, vetches, lupins, locuBt trees, mesqulte, acacia, p&lo ground verde, Ironwood, and the In some parts of the world, nut especially the temperate and warm regions, these plants constitute a considerable part of the native vegetation, and have for ages been adding to the nitrogen of the soil by growing and decaying in it In some regions the legumes are principally annuals. In otherB, perennial herbs, and in still others, shrubs or trees. Soil is Drouth Resistant Keep the soil rich if you wish it to be able to carry Its crops through ths drouth. The farms in ths east that have been robbed of their fertility have also become tha prey ot drouth. The sparse crops on them fall down aaslly under the glare of ths hot sun from a rainless sky. 4 This is the observation of good farmers; it is also the teachings of science. Among the many experiments that bear out the above statements is a recent one imported from Germany. Rye, wheat, barley, peas, beans, potatoes and field beets were given varying quantities of a complete fertilizer application, and ths number of fibrous roots to a depth of about five feet were ascertained. The results indicated that In general a good supply of plant food tends to root produce a strong, system, with roots growing to greater depths than when the supply of plant food is limited. For this reason the heavily fertilized crops are better able to withstand drouth than those having received but light applications. A Fertile " '' worked together in Buch a way that v they are readable upside down or downside up. Another curious feature ot the sea is a pair of serpents In a. circle with their tails in each others-mouththe Egyptian sign of eternity- The watchwordB of the organizations which Is made up of all the magicians! In the country, and holds its meeting on the first Saturday evening of each; month at 493 Sixth avenue, New York' are, Magic Unity Might." The first A Brittle Snake. letters of the three words are an Constable Tadder was out on a pro- acrostic spelling mum, which to tha fessional Jaunt in the woods of Lafay- spirit of the association, the purposes ette township a few days ago when he of the club being to prevent the stepped upon what seemed to be a of their secret methods and the piece of wood about two feet six betraying of the mechanical means of. Inches in length, round, tapering to- the magician to arrive at his surprls-i- ng ward the ends and about 2 Inches ends. thick In the middle. He was interested Cactus Pith Saved His Life. in its peculiar shape and color, and E. Ward of the Klondike John diswas to astounded picking it up cover that it was a frozen blacksnake. whose signature is good for $100,000, Mr. Tadder does not like snakes and was compelled to eat the pith of cacthrew the horrid object away from tus leaves for three days to keep himself from dying of starvation and him. It struck against a rock projectthough he had $2,000 in gold thirst, snow and broke into above the ing coin with him. Ward owns some rich three pieces. The frost had made the on the desert, and tha mines at reptile very brittle. When the snake other dayDale, left San Bemadino with awakes in the spring it will find Itself money to pay off the miners and taka "all broke up after its frigid trance. an option on adjoining property. Bedford (Mass.) Era. He failed to read the railroad time table aright, and reached Palm Springs In Lived Three Centuries. Had stage Mna One of the oldest women in the too late to connect with the e trip ta state of Iowa and probably in the Uni- which makes the eighty-milDale once a week. He then decided ted States, died recently at Dubuque, to make the Journey afoot, and as a Iowa, at the age of 105 years. She was Mrs. Mary Morgan and died of result lost his way, and for two nights and three days tramped the desert, old age. subsisting entirely on s the pith of ths The dead woman retained the full cactus. of her and her faculties, possession When found by prospectors he was mind remained clear and her memory In the first of delirium. His long unimpaired until the end. Her Ill- walk and stages fast had reduced him to SB ness was of short duration and her emaciated condition. He was accomdeath was peaceful. to the railroad, where a freight For the last fifty-fou- r years Mrs. panied was and on this ha reMorgan had been a resident of this train to signaled, San Bernardino. turned Ward is to this country city, having emigrated in her early youth from Ireland, one of the wealthiest men of this oflty. where she was born. She was marCurious Parliamentary Dooumsnt ried In 1818, three years after the batA very curious document has bean tle of Waterloo. She had lived in throe issued from the parliamentary printing centuries. office. It is the bill which has passed Hour Glass. the commons, entitled An act to reBefore the Invention ot clocks use peal certain statutes wnich are sleepwas made of hour glasses and sand ing and not in use, and it is mada clocks, glasses filled with sand or with singular by the fact that in it are repowdered egg shells dried In ovens. capitulated numerous samples of anv These hour glasses were invented cestral wisdom. about 150 or 200 years before the One of the statutes provides that Christian era. They were much used no man shall ride in harness wlthia in churches, and In some old European the realm nor with launcegays. Anchurches they may still be seen fast- - other says: The rates of laboreraT wages shall be assessed and proclaimed by the justice of the pease, and they shall assess the gains of Victuallers, who shall make hone bread, and the weight and price thereof." JL third defines what sort of Irishmen only may come and dwell In England (this has been sleeping for a very lone time), and a fourth Is to prevent a. butcher from slaying any manner ot beasts within the walls of London. ft o h e door. Had she been compelled to stoop and seize the animal with her hand, the outcome of the chase might have been doubtful. Mayan training, however, gave her a great advantage. She reached out her foot as the pig ran by, seized him by the tail between the great toe and the second toe, and with a graceful swing of the leg she landed the pig some yards beyond the threshold. When told by the American that he had never seen the thing done in his own country, the Mayan woman replied that it was as easily done with the toes as with the fingers. h six-inc- h -- .- ' Checking Evaporation. At the Wyoming station experiments were made to determine to what extent the stirring of the soil prevents the evaporation of water. To have all conditions under control twenty-flve-lnccylinders were used, and the water table was kept within twenty-twinches of the surface of the soil. The soil in the various cylinders was then stirred once a week, in one to the depth of two inches. In another to the depth of four inches, and In a third to the depth of six inches. The first retarded the evaporation to the amount of 19 per cent; the second retarded It 23 per cent, and the third 45 per cent This shows the tremendous value of cultivation in a dry year, when 45 per cent increase in the water supply of plants might well make the whole difference between the loss and saving of an entire harvest It is somewhat surprising to learn that the depth is so much more effective than the two-inc-h depth. Doubtless this arises from the shorter time required for the two-incmulch to settle back into a condition where capillary operation is possible. This would differ much with different soils. The natural conclusion Is, however, that a two-incstirring twice a week would be about as valuable as a stirring once a week. leaf-cuttin- g Beginning the Journey to the Basses. demands. There are many trips each The men kneel, one on each side of winter on which the carriers use their the boat, one with his right, the other with his left inside the craft Then queer craft in all three ways. The mail route to Kelleys Island, with the other leg outside each laboreight miles of ice or water without iously walks on the thin Ice with one a break, has Marblehead for its shore foot, thus half pushing, half pulling end. The Bass Island route, part the boat through the rotten, pliable land and part lake, about ten miles in mass of half frozen water. length, leaves the shore at Catawaba Steel muscled though the Bass IsIsland, where the mail is sent from land mail carriers must of necessity Port Clinton. be, a few minutes of creeping is quite The best way to get a true notion enough and after half a mile of it of the work involved in carrying the they are drenched with perspiration mall over this route is to take passage and trembling from fatigue, while their for North Bass with the carriers some muscles ache as if they had been day in midwinter, when the lake is pounded with sledge hammers. One who about half frozen over. a The rotten ice was followed has been such a passenger told this stretch of open water nearly a by mile story of his experiences: wide. If the wind had been right the I left Port Clinton in the middle of carriers would have stepped their ten-fche said, bright January morning, mast in the bow of the boat, driving the nine miles to Catawaba their spritsails and so had a island. There the carriers were wait- spread brief period of rest As It was, all with their sledgboat. ing hands had to take to the oars. They loaned me a pair of long boots How we ever made the remainder and a set of oilskins to keep me from getting too wet if I should go through of the three milesweto South Bass I landed at about the ice, and told me that I would be cant imagine, but our left at South boat dusk, Dock, and to of use one the expected pikes they had In the boat in case poling was were driven two miles across the Island. After that there was a stretch of necessary. The boat is flat bottomed, appar- two miles and a half to Middle Bass ently of the ordinary lake type, is 16 over the ice thank heaven it was feet long, about 20 inches deep and of solid with a second boat beam. There are many such stories to be It is sheathed with gal-- ex-po- sure ot Sailing in an vanized sheet Iron the better to stand the it gets on every trip. On its bottom are two runners four inches high and about five feet long. Before we started, creepers steel spikes on spurs to prevent slipping on the ice were strapped to my hoots and I was cautiond to keep my hand on the boat every minute while walking, so that I could save myself by Jumping Into it if the Ice gave way under me. BIRDS HAVE LITTLE 8ENSE. Mental Powers Not as Well Developed as Those of OU.e: Crt-tur- e. Few species of b.rds are endowed with the acute Instinct that characterizes other members of the animal creation. They are very "set in their ways and seldom move out of their The chirping accustomed groove. sparrows have persisted in building their nests in the roof gutters of the next house, ignoring the fact that rain is not unknown In this climate and that a heavy shower will flood their tenements and drown their offspring. Not only this, but next year and the failBurned or scorched milk may have year after they will do the same, acto how the experience removed taste learn to by by ing its unpleasant to British The saucepan commodate themselves following procees: untainted when off the Jackdaws, carefully weather. taken very be should In the holes In dwell not burned may part Are so that the by civilization, mix with the milk at the top and rocks, but quickly adapt themselves . placed in a pan of cold water until to new circumstances. almost smothThe writer has been the bottom of the saucepan la qutoe which cool. , Then pour the milk carefully ered by smoke esused by a nest ten his the chimney at blocked burned the part completely away, leaving feet from the top. As the chimney bottom. bad been built only a few months, it A clean dairy barn. Is possible truly to obTious that as a site It must have If perfect arrangements are made for taking care of the manure. s v. 8tretch of Water. heard on the Bass Islands. One carrier who was crossing with a horse and sleigh when the ice was solid got lost In a Bnow storm and traveled round and round in a circle for nearly forty hours. It wasnt very cold riif 1 1 Oysters at Home In a Shoe. E. Ross Bell has quite a curiosity in the shape of an old mana shoe, e soles and sides of which twenty-sev- en oysters have attached themselves. The interior, too, to full of and when the shoe was found they were pressing through the hardened leather of the upper. The shoe was pulled from the bottom ot the Potomac river near its mouth by oyster dredgers a lew days ago, and sent to Mr. Bell by one of his friends among the oyster inspectors. It to of the brogan type and a largs six. A spot which indicates where tha too-othe wearer touched it Is now marked by a good-size- d oyster, Baltimore Sun, t) , i f, . v , to-th- though temperatures away below zero are common between the mainland and the Islands or hed have frozen to death. He happened to have a box of crackers along and that kept him from getting hungry. been unfamiliar to the troublesome birds. Now, that time is far distant when first chimneys were Invented and the first Jackdaws descended their blackened depths, yet a long experience, while It has shown the birds the convenience of chimneys for holding their abominable sticks, has not taught them that their promises can-hbe Insured against fire. Perhaps after all, the brains of Jackdaws are sharped than is supposed. The nests are placed in the chimneys Just when the flres are being given up for the summer, so that the Jackdaws the use of the chimneys more tnanenjoy tha man who pays for their erection. f ;? - ot r r ' ' How Ships. Are Named. ... French ships are usually named1 after French provinces or towns, victories, ideas or sentiments, but uo French names, excepting those ot great men In their history, are mada use of. German ships bear the names of German rivers, ports, poets, states ened .o the pulpit There was one till and characters in German literature, All Took Their Hats Off. quite lately ia the Savoy chapel, timed Spanish ships are almost invariably A north Missouri preacher to last twenty minutes. named after their cities or great comadopted the following method of manders, requesting w , m the ladies to remove their hats ia Trsps Lstd by Plants. church. A lady, he said to his con t The pitcher-plan- t attracts animal Peculiarity in Writing. gregation, 'phoned me this life by a sweet liquid. The Insect The writing on a piece of burned, and asked if I would make hermorning remove crawls down the pitcher, but cannot paper can be restored by contact with-her hat if she came to church. I said return, for the passage is barred human flesh. H f that I would and am now ready to ful- recurved hooks. As wonderful as by Write your Initials on your l arm.' any fill the promise. If the lady to here is the American "Venus The with a she can keep her hat on. All others leaves are hinged at the center and on a pen.of Write the same Initials piece paper. Burn It and rub are requested to remove their hats. close rapidly enough to entrap an In- the ashes hard on the flesh. The sect They remain closed while the Initials will reappear. f A fly-tra- |