Show EDITORIAL NOTES duty duly cannot be neglected without harm to those who frac frao practice tlde tide as well to those who bunnen buffen from the neglect that this Is a great country is incidentally ci illustrated by the fact that while three weeks since the ice in the straits of mackinny mackinaw Macki naw was twenty feet thick corn was ten inches high in georgia when the total population of the united states was there were persons engaged in agriculture this was in 1840 enow with a population of the number of offar farmers merb mera is the cleveland herald herold says bays ninety mormon missionaries are said to be laboring in the south in the light of past events the prospect for do decrease crease in the adherents of the polygamous ous sect is very faint just so BO decrease is not the order of our progress pro greeb grees dont look for it the value of a womans comans jaw hab hrs been determined A new york dentist broke one while pulling a tooth and the owner sued him for damages the jury after long and careful deliberation and doubtless mindful that they were to establish a precedent awarded her only 1200 engineers in berlin are making interesting experiments in war balloons photographing the earth from a height sufficient to be out of range good views of the surrounding country have been obtained in spite of the rapid rise ribe of the balloons by the use of electric apparatus that limited the exposure of plates to a i fractional part or of a second A scheme is proposed fo for r lighting Ugh ting the whole of the swiss canton of vaud by electricity the motive force would be derived from turbines of horse honse power at valor vallor beb beg and the water supply being constant and abundant it IS ia believed that gs which is fin very costly to in switzerland may be entirely dispensed with throughout the district A correspondent of a western paper thus gives his plan for cutting limbs from trees cc the direction to baw aw saw off a limb as closely as possible to the stem I 1 consider unwise nature indicates precisely where every limb should be removed on every limb close to the body of the tree can be eben been a collar or ring just outside of this collar Is the place to cut off the limb if cut at a distance from this point the limb will die down to it and in time will slough on off if cut inside of cf it and dobe dose to tho the tree there Is ia danger of a decayed spot resulting to in time and a long iong time will elapse boc before the wound will heal if a limb is cut atthe attha at the point I 1 have indicated and at the proper time which la Is when the sap bap is descending to form a new layer or of wood the wound unless a large one will heal over the first year |