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Show it V : , treated in such a manner as to stunt their growth and to prevent them from attaining a hlght of mora than two feet at most Culture of Dwarf Trees. French gardeners are now obtaining the samo results as the Japanese in the production of dwarf trees, which are in great demand, their methods are kept as secret as those used in Japan, where one sees trees two and three hundred years old which have been HESPEIJIDES APPLES. SWEET GOLDEN FRUIT OF A SUNNY CLIME. Fifteen Years Ago the Industry Was a Stranger In Southern California, To-IR- y Her Oranges Hood fcvery Market. Five or six years ago the oranges of the eastern market came from Florida, Cuba, Messina and other European countries. The southern California production was not a prominent feat-ure and hardly a factor in trade. To-day the reverse is the ease, says a very entertaining correspondent of the Chi-cago Herald. The first picking is made about the middle of December in the San Gabriel Valley, and from the first of January, for a month or bo, the gathering con-tinues unabated. A few weeks previ-ous the wholesale shippers go the rounds of the groves. Many of them have arrangements from year to year with the owners, while many producers prefer to make new contracts each sea-son. The agent inspects the grove and offers so much per box or so much for the fruit on the tree, and hore the responsibility of tho owner censes. r The shipper puts on his pickers, the grower receives his check, and anoth-er year is begun. The picking of the orange in large orange centers, such as the San Ga-briel Valley, is announced by an ad-dition to the floating population. Gangs of pickers Mexicans, Chinese, Americans, men and boys gather from far and near, and the groves are filled with gay laughter and song. Everybody is at work, and if the crop in iaij;e, every one ieeis cneenui ana confident. The orange grove of the imagination is a stretch of trees filled with golden fruit, where one can lie in the soft grass and luxuriate in the sight The actual grove, while beau-tiful to the eye, is not a place for lounging, as tho ground is or should be kept plowed continually and irri-gated often by floods of water. But the trees are attractive; ever green, often showing ripe and green fruit and white blossoms at the samo time, they are an engima. At Pasadena and all through the southern country a gang of men under tho head of a leader or overseer takes possession of a grove bright and early in the morning, two or threo men be-ing appointed to a treo, and the pick-ing begins. Tall stepladders enable the pickers to reach the top branches, and each orange is carefully cut from the tree, as if it is pulled and the skin broken it will soon decay. The picker wears a bag into which the fruit is dropped, which, when filled. Is handed to the washer or scrubber. The latter, generally a Chinaman, washes the black stain or rust from the fruit polishing it with a cloth, aftor which it is passed to the assorter. Some-times a simple machine is used, a run-way, so that the oranges of the samo size will all collect together. " This accomplished, each orange "is wrapped in variously colored paper and placed in the box ready for shipment A counter keeps tally of the boxes, as sometimes the owner is paid by the box as well as the picker. The orange pickers are usually a jolly lot, there being something about the business apparently that enlivens the spirits and imparts an air of jollity to the party. The Mexicans and Americans labor in harmony, but an orange-pickin- g team composed of Chinamen and Americans appears to work the reverse. At the orange picking time the coun-try is a marvel to the easterner. While standing among the oranges the picker looks away over grove after grove, fields of flowers acres of golden patches of wild daisies, bluebells and yellow violets and finally his eye rests upon the Sierra Madres, or mother mountains, rising but four or five miles distant the gar-den wall of this modern Hesperides. His nostrils inhale the odor of the orange blossoms, while his eyes greet ' the snow banks of a vigorous winter. The great peaks are capped with snow, and the upland blizzard is raging with unabated fury. From the vantage ground of the orange grove the wind can be seen on Mount San Antonio whirling the snow in gigantic wraiths, tossing it upward in huge clouds that rise hundreds of feet, to be borne away over the lowland and dissipated. With eyes on this arctic scene the observer can scarce believe the facts, scarce real-ize that he can by a single glance encom-pass winter and summer. The orange picker, however, has no time to spend on the aesthetics of the subject; he is picking against time, and an eager East is waiting. FACTS ABOUT FIGURES. SOME OF THE REM ARK A CLE STORIES THEY TELL. Holding Important Flares In All Relig-ious History Number Three liar the Moat Striking Record-M- an la Number One. The whole world is looking out for number one. It is a very important number, and is employed oftener than any other. It is a component part of every odd and even number, and is the root and foundation of all numbers. There is one God and one heaven. We have one heart and one soul, one life and one death. Two is a number of great utility and The Creator kept it in mind in many of his works. He created man and all the beasts in two sexes, and gave the humans two eyes, two ears, two nost rils, two arms, two hands, two legs, two feet and many other double members of utility to the body. Every one knows the value of a pair of jacks in a game of poker. All the passions are in pairs, such as joy and sadness, hopo and fear, love and hate. Health and sickness, living and dying, heat and cold, vice and virtue, knowledge and ignorance, truth and falsehood, and tho like are represented in duplicity. The number three is one of great promi-nence and significance. Shakespearo says: They gay there is divinity in odd num-bers, either in nativity, chance or death. Number three Is tho first odd num-ber, and occurs in all religious writ-ings with striking frequency. God is triune, the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost. There are some who find a trinitv t.tirnnfrhotlt. Tinhiro. as St. Put- - rick did in the shamrock. The triune plan of creation is seen in the earth, sea and air; the fish, birds and beasts; in the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms; in the future, past and present time. There havo been three dispensations of truth tho patri-archal, the jewish, and the christiun. Adam and Noah each had three sons. There were threo great patriarchs, Abraham; Isaac and Jacob. The com-mandments were delivered on the third day. The length of Solomon's temple was three times its breadth. Elijah stretched himself threo times upon the widow's child beforo bringing him to life. David bowed three times beforo Jonathan. Jonah was in the whale's Interior three days. Three wise man came from the East to adore the infant Savior, bringing with them three offerings. The child was found after three days in the temple. Three apostles were with the Savior at the Transfiguration, and three in the Gar-den of Olives. Peter was asked throe times "Lovest thou me?" and denied his master three times. Our Lord found the disciples sleeping three times in the garden. He was nailed to the cross with throe nails, hung on the cross three hours, and rose again on the third day. The number three runs all through the story of the Bible. There are three theological virtues faith, hope and charity. The triangle is of the utmost Importance in mathematics. In every syllogism there are three parts. That three Is a lucky number Is a common saying. Franklin says that throe removes are as bad asTa fire. In our great national game the rule is "three strikes and out" Christopher Columbus sailed In a fleet of three ships when he discovered America. His discovery will be cele-brated by a world's exposition, to be held in a city composed of three sides North, West and South Chicago. The number four was anciently es-teemed the most perfect of all, being the arithmetical mean between one and Beven. Omah, the second caliph, said: "Four things comoth not back the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity." In nature there are four seasons and the four points of the compass. Forty, a multiple of four by ten, is one of the sacred numbers. The probation of our first parents in the Garden of Eden is supposed to have been forty years. The rain fell at the deluge forty days and nights and the water remained on the earth forty days. The days of em-balming the dead were forty. Solomon's temple was forty cubits long. In it were ten lavers. each four cubits long and containing forty baths. Moses was forty years old when he fled into the land of Midian, where he dwelt forty years. He was on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights. The Israelites wandered in the wildernoss forty years. The Savior faste J forty days and nights before entering upon his public life. The same time elapsed between the resurrection and the ascension. Seven is a number of great promin-ence and Rinmilaritv. There are seven planets, seven metals, seven colors and seven tastes. There are seven princi-ple virtues, three divine and four car-dinal. There are seven days in the week and seven ages of man. There are seven windows through which the ordinary senses are exercised; the two eyes, the two ears, the two nostrils and the mouth. The number seven occurs hundreds of times throughout the Bible. So frequent in fact is it em-ployed that to note the Instances where it is used would be to recall the whole 3tory of creation. There aro seven liberal arts, seven sciences and seven notes in music. The seventh son is a wonder and the seventh son of a sev-enth son is simply marvelous in his healing powers. Nine Is the last of the significant digits and expresses the greatest amount that can be indicated by one figure. It is the second square num-ber. It is employed but little In the Scriptures. There aro nine orders of angels. The Grecians taught that there were nine muses. The mystical and significant numbers formed by combin-ations of the digits are almost without ' end and cannot here be mentioned, but a student of numbers will find much in tfeua to interest and instruct HOUSES IN ZULULAND. Tfetjr Look 1.1 k Bla; Heehlves, and Worn. J en Hilllil Them. The Zulu woman is the architect and buijderof the Zulu house, and the style of psrehiteeture is known in the colo-- niot as "wattle and daub." It looks like an exaggerated beehive, for the Zulu mind has this peculiarity, that it cannot grasp tho idea of any-thing that is- - not round or elliptical in form-- There are no squares in nature. To build her house, the woman traces a circle on the ground fourteen feet in diameter, and getting a number of long, limber branches, she sticks them firmly into the ground and then bends them over and ties them with liber ob-tained from the numerous creepers, or "monkey ropes." Then she twines thicker creepers in and out of these sticks, all round the circle of spaces about twelve inches apart, and then taking wattle (a kind of coarse grass or reed), she thatches the edillce, leaving a small hole nt the top for a chimney, and another hole three feet square for a door. In front of this she builds a covered way, ex-tending outward about three feet, and the exterior of the Iioums is finished by a coating of "daub" or mud. She then seeks tho nest of tho white ant, and digging them up, obtains a quantity of white clay, which she beats to powder, dries, and then mixing it with water, kneads it until it is quite smooth. This she spreads all over the ground inside tho hut, and beats it carefully until it is quite hard and free from cracks. This floor a good house-wife will scour twice a day, with smooth stones, until it is like a piece of polished marble. The fireplace is near the door, and is alinnlv ft r- i-n nor n"f l-liia nlur ii" t- ttrt the embers in one place. The other nocessnries found in a hut aro a bundle of spear shafts drying, somo tobacco and several bunches of millet hanging from tho roof. Grouped around tho walls aro the three amasi (a species of sour milk) jars, the native beer jars and open jars holding grain. Of course the dense wood smoke, ris-ing, coats tho roof, millet and tobacco with soot, and long "fingers" of it hang in every direction; but the floor will bo clean enough to eat on, and as long as that is so, the social Mrs. Grundy, of the Zulu, u satisfied. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. VARIOUS RURAL TOPICS AND DOMESTIC HINTS. The Principle of Supply and Demand Sure to Sol re the Froblem of Rait-ing Hog for Profit When the Cow , Meconies 111. Farmer and Their Hog. Owing to alternate surplusagos and shortages, livo stock, like grain and all products, whoiher of the farm or of the factory, are subject in the dominating influence of supply and demand which forces fluctuations in prices. For a series of months, often of years, because of over production, every species of animal food will com-mand only prices for which it cannot be profitably produced, and these prices hold until not only the extra production ceases, but only the sur-plus is exhausted and there comes a demand which cannot be fully sup-plied, when prices begin and continue to advance, stimulating production un-til another surplus Is found to exist. Thus, for several years hogs, cattlo and sheep have been produced so large-ly In excess of market demands as to render the breeding and raising of these animals, except under the most favorable conditions, unprofitable. But tho world's markets are short now, the consumption has overtaken tho volume of production and the prices of hogs and cattle and sheep must tend upwards until a surplus again finds no adequate consumption. In the meantime more money will be made In raising these animals than was lost during the era of depression. Colman's Rural World. nothing but a small orchard, generally at some distance from the house, while the house itself is loft at the mercy of sun and wind, unsheltered and un-adorned by any tree. The fact is that every farm house should be In the midst of a grove of trees, and no house ever looked like a home without some such lovely growth about- - it. Poultry for Profit. A writer for the Orange Judd Farm-er says: "I have bred a large number of breeds and varieties of poultry, and I find that hens with short legs, chunky bodies, short necks and small heads are, as a rule, indifferent layers. Hens the reverse of this description are the good layers, and we certainly can im-prove the laying qualities of a flock by a continued selection of this type. It is in this way thnt certain strains of nearly all the standard bred fowls, noted for their egg production, are produced. I would not, as a rule, pick out the bird scoring tho highest by the standard for the best layer, simply because such birds are too frequently bred for fancy points,' and utility is lost sight of. I believe that latterly, however, nearly all breeders have been selecting types of birds for breeders that combine, as far as possi-ble utility and standard points. For my part I think we should first look after the useful and then tho oruamen' tal. The Poultry Yard. If from any causo any of the chick-ens get stunted tho quicker they are marketed the better. Wire cloth is a good matorial for doors and windows during the summer, when plenty of ventilation Is needed-Eve-n with young chickons there are few materials that are bettor than good cornmeal for fattening; even a few days' feeding of it will be of benefit. liens that are two years old and are not good layers had bettor bo fattened and marketed as soon as possible; they are an expense and return no income. A row or two of sunflowers planted along with the corn will be found profitable to uso in making a good variety of food, especially during the winter. Save tho egg shells, put them into the oven and burn them brown; then mash them up fino and mix with the food. It Is healthy and beneficial to tho fowls. Rroken grain, like cracked wheat or corn, millet sued or something of this kind, is better and healthier for young chickons than cornmeal or wheat middlings. When Coirs Are 111. Unfortunately, it is seldom noticed that a cow is ill until she actually re-fuses to eat by which time she is in great danger, and drastic nioasures must be at once taken for her relief, which sometimes do not succeed in saving her life. When dry chaff is largely used during tho winter season, the owner or his representative should be continually on the alert for this form of disease, easily recognizable in its first stages by the hardness of the droppings and the small quantity. The instant this is observed, a drench consisting of 3 lb. of salts, oz. car-bonate of ammonia, and J 07.. of ginger should bo given, repeating tho dose in a lew hours, when relief of tho bowels will be tho result, and tho danger over. When a case of milk fever oc-curs, eonsthiation is alwavs present and unloss this can bo quickly reliovod death will speedily ensue. Milk fever is, however, such a deadly disease, and runs its fatal course so quickly, that a cure is almost hopeless; Pre-vention is therefore the only course open to the stock-owne- r, who should use every precaution to avoid this dreadful scourge. Rural World. llutter v. Hoef, Many men raise a pound of butter worth twenty-fiv- e cents, at the samo cost and on tho same quantity of land, that other men raise a pound of boef worth two to five cents. Two hundred pounds of butter a year from a cow, at 25 cents, moans $50, whilst the same number of pounds of beef, at 5 cents means only $10. But a good cow will produco 300 lbs. of butter a year, and it takes a good steer to make 200 lbs. of beef. A woll cared for orchard will, after It comes into bearing, bring from fifty to ono hundred dollars an acre. A woll cared for truck patch of ten acres will, if near communica-tions with a large city, produce vastly more money than one hundred acres, managed under the seed farm plan. Thon in the matter of poultry raisings There is no manner of doubt of its be-ing a profitable business, or of the fact that for the money invested, if intelli-gently handled, there is a hotter show of profit than in others to which even more attention is paid. Securing Wo. iitirs for the Harvest. Each bee-keep- ought thoroughly to understand the honey resources of his own locality. Ho should know when to expect a honey flow. When the time comes, the expected harvest may not come, but the bee-keep-should bo in roaiMness for it It is possible to havo a good honey flow and yet secure no surplus, becauso there are not sufficient number of bees to gather it. Bees are valuable when there is honey to gather; at other times they are consumers. Less populous colonies can be more successfully win-tered in the cellar than while by proper protection and care in the spring, such colonies can be brought up to tho requisite strength In time for the honey harvest If by such management we are enabled to so re-duce our colonies in strongth during the time of the year that stores are saved to the amount of from three to five pounds per colony, we are woll paid for our trouble. Farmers Should Study. It is a fact that cannot be disputed that farmers do not exercise their wits sufficiently in considering how they may widen the range of their business. If they confine themselves to raising corn and wheat and pork and beef, their market will always be a narrow one. If they would exercise their in-genuity in the same way that manu-facturers and other business men are constantly doing, in an effort to get up a greater diversity of products, or to put old products up in new ways, they could widen their market almost in-definitely. Cincinnati Times. Trees on the Farm. It is much to be regretted that farm-ers do not take more interest in tree-planti- Any person who has trav-elled extensively over the prairies can-not have failed to notice the extreme baldness of most of the farms. I have seen hundreds which were not adorned with a tree of any kind though the land had been occupied for years, and I know of many more which boast of Uve-Stoi-- k and Farm Notes. Never feod a horse when hot It often pays to grind feed for an old horse. In feeding calves on?y glvo what they will eat up clean. Bad management often causes con-siderable loss with pigs. ' A colt Is the only young domestic animal that shows fear at birth. If you are breeding mules, make it a point to raise and breed good ones. Left out at night sheep will nearly always seek the highest place to sleep. ' Soup-sud- s is one of the best ferti-lizers that can be used in growing celery. So far as it is possible to avoid, the horse should not be groomed while eating. Plaster and lime are good substances to mix thoroughly witn hen manure in composting it Clean, thorough cultivation is as im-portant with fruits as with any other crop grown on the farm. Under ordinary conditions too much milk cannot be given to the poultry. Give them all they will eat or drink. Generally it is poor economy to work a horse hard all day, and then turn him out to pick around all nlirht While matched teams are desirable, so far as appearances are concerned, yet it is of more importance to have them matched In gait and strongth. The smoothness of the meadows will affect to a moro or less extent the crop. In many cases It will pay to roll well after the frost is all out of the ground to level and pack down the soil. Household Hints, To drive nails or screws into hard wood dip the points Into oil or grease. It Is well to varnish an oil cloth twice a year, and if you do, a good one will last you as long as you want it to. Spots of grease may be effectually removed from the most delicate fabrlo by the application of dry buckwheat flour. Indian meal mixed with lemon juice or good cider vinegar is said to be very soothing to hands roughened by cold or labor. Ammonia is a most useful household articlo. For washing windows, brushes, and for performing many other ser-vices, it becomes almost indispensable to the careful housekeeper. The Russian method of restoring the luster to fur sncques or fur gar-.-men-ts of any kind Is to heat rye flour as hot as you can boar your hand in It rub It into the fur and let stand for a little while; then shake or brush it out thoroughly. A very good imitation of ground glass is produced by dissolving three tablespoonfuls of Epsom salts in a pint of warm water and applying it to the glass with a common paint brush. This answers admirably when a sort of screen is wanted. Tho solution must be applied to the side of tho glass which is not exposed to the weather. The beBt way in which to clean hair brushes, says the Popular Science News, is with spirits of ammonia, as its effect is immediate. No rubbing is required and cold water can be used just as successfully as warm. Take a teaspoonful of ammonia in a quart of water; dip the hair part of the brush without wetting the ivory, and in a moment the grease is removed; then rinse in cold water; shake well and dry in the air, but not in the sun. Soda and soap soften the brlst lea and j invariably turn Ivory yellow. HOW CONCRESS ELECTS, supposing No Candidate for President Oets a Majority. There is a popular impression, that In the event of the presidential elec-tion being thrown into the house of representatives, which would follow if no candidate should have a majority of the electoral college, that the pres-ent house, with its ICO Democratic ma-jority, more or less, will have the de-ciding of the question of who shall be president for the next four years. That is a mistake. The matter was fully discussed in Washington at the time of the passage of the now apportionment law. It was decided by the highest legal authority that, under the law as it stood, the house elected conjointly with the presidential electors should have the deciding who was elected in case of no choice by the electoral col-lege. So, if the Farmers' Alliance movement prevents any candidate from getting a majority of the electoral college the Republicans will still have a chance to win if they can elect a majority of the next congress. Rut don't both houses of congress meet in February, 18K3, and open and count the vote and declare the result? Yos; but if no candidate has a major-ity of all the votes cast, no one will be elected; consequently, the election will devolve on the house of representatives not on the house that will then be In session, but on the one succeeding it Rut the new president is supposed to take his seat on March 4. 18113. The congress elected will not meet until tha IWpmW fiillnwinrr Whfl will h president in the meantime? The law provides for the succession. The secretary of .state would act until congress could decide the mr.ttor. Mr. Rlaine as acting president would not be compelled to call congress together right after March 4. If the succeed-ing house should be Democratic he might continue to act until tho com-mencement of the regular session ip December following. WILD HOCS OF LERDO. Roaming In Great Droves Sevonty Allies South of Yuma. Roaming over the lands of tho Lor-d- o colony, 70 miles south of Yuma, aro droves of wild hogs, variously esti-mated at from 1,000 to 3,000 in num-ber. They are descendants of tamo hogs placed on the ranch about thlr- - teen years ago. Alter the owners de-cease tho hogs were turned loose and allowed to go at will over the rich bot-tom lands of the Colorado river. As the wild hog became tame under restraint and kind treatment so tho tamo hogs of Lerdo rapidly became wild when allowed to run at large. A few generations transformed them into savage beasts, who would attack and eat a man if they had an opportunity. They subsist chiefly on the wild potato, a tuber which grows the size of a wal-nut and In great profusion. The pres-ent owner of Lerdo, General Andrade, conceived the idea of having the hogs caught and the meats cured for the use of the colonists. The hogs are caught in a circular cor-ral about thirty feet in diameter, hav-ing a trap door. Plenty of bait in the shape of corn and potatoes is scattered about the entrance, and also burled in the corral. A band of hogs attracted by the bait enter the corral, commence rooting for the buried corn and pota-toes, and when the right spot is struck by them the trap falls and they are prisoners. The hogs are fed awhile before slaughtering. Their moat is of fine quality, and the lard sweet and delicious. Yuma, Ariz., Times. YVliy a Sow Stole Kara of Corn. Like the goose tho pig is a much maligned animal. It Is taken for grant-ed that they are both stupid to the core, and in consoquenco no one will maKe pets oi them, ana endeavor to find whether they really have any sense. Perhaps there is a prejudice against swine because they are bo homely; but that is no reason why they should be slandered. For instance here is the story of a good Samaritan pig: A Pennsylvania farmer missed one of his hogs, and for throo days was un-able to find him. On the third day, the hired man, while feeding the pigs, saw a sow take' an ear of corn in her mouth, trot across tho lot and dis-appear in the thick underbrush. She returned in about an hour, and the man told his employer of the occur-rence, and the sow was closoly watched when the drove was fod again. She ate her dinner, and then took a big ear of corn in her mouth and again started for the underbrush. She was followed quietly to a littl hollow in the wood, where the missing hog was discovered. One of his hind legs was held fast by the stout and springy roots of a hickory tree, be-tween two closely growing forks of which he had stepped, and which had spread under his weight and then closed on his leg like a vise. The ground about was covered with corn cobs, showing how tho sow, which had evidently been present when the accident had occurred, had cared for the prisoner. But for her he certainly would have perished, as he never could have escaped from the trap he was In. Language In Sealing Wax. The language in sealing wax is much practiced in Paris, now that sealing letters is in fashion again. An epistle conveying a proposal of marriage must be sealed with white wax, while accepted lovers may use ruby color. Jealousy is expressed by yellow wax, blue implies constancy, and brown melancholy; green suggests hope, and a paler shade of groen con-veys reproof. A letter of condolence should bear a violet seal in reply to the black wax intimating death, and the ordinary scarlet hue is still used for business. Invitations to dinner display chocolate seals, gushing young ladies fasten their confidences with pink, and gray is the general tint lo letters to ordinary acquaintances. Caught the Wrong Itascals. Writing of gambling, says a Paris correspondent, reminded me of an amusing incident that occurred at Nice some three or four winters back. The members of a certain gambling club, for different reasons, felt suspicious as to the play of one of the visitors. In order to verify their doubts it was agreed to call in an expert Parisian detective. Having duly, for several nights, watched the play, he was at last desired to make report on what he had noticed, and the reply came with startling unexpectedness: The "Mon-sieur" suspect had played throughout quite fairly, but three of the other "Moruieurs" had cheated regularly at all the seances. Tlie"Hnbble-Bubble- ." All typical orientals smoko. The tobacco-pipe- s are of various forms, and this one is called a joseh, because the water reservoir at the bottom is usually a cocoanut, that the Arabs call jouse-el-hin- d (Indian nut). The ordinary pipe of the East is the narghili, or hubble-bubbl- e, such as the barber has in his shop. This is a glass vessel surmounted by a little brass bowl for the tobacco, and pro-Tide- d with a flexible tube four or five feet long. The glass vessel is partly filled with water, a portion of moist tobacco is placed in the brass bowl, a red-h- ot coal is laid on this, and the pipe is ready. The smoke being drawn through the water is cooled and puri-fied, while the sound of the air agitating the water gives the pipe its name of the hubble-bubbl- e. St. Nicholas, WITH THE ELECTRICIANS. It is said that at last a satisfactory arc lamp for use on an incandescent circuit has been designed. An electric locomotive is in successful operation in one of the coal mines at Streator, 111. The mine has a heavy grade 1200 feet long, up which the coal has to be hauled. This is done by the locomotive without difficulty, 10 cars being taken at a time. A method of blasting by electricity hag been tried in Sweden with reported good results. The means consist of a volting arc produced betweon two carbon rods placed parallel. When the arc is moved close to the spot tb be blasted, an intense local heat is created, resulting in expansion that splits the rocks. When electricity is employed to charge a storage battery, only that portion of the current which is transformed into chemical energy ia utilized. The rest is dissipated by a sort of radiation. The battery, then, instead of being a place where electricity is laid away, is a place where chemicals are left by the current, with the expecta-tion that they will produce a current when called upon for such service. There is said to be in Bavaria, Germany, a contrivance for catching moths attracted by the electric light and utilizing them. It is described as follows: An electric ap-paratus supplies a strong light which at-tracts the insects and moths. A suction fan, worked by the electric current, draws them in when they approach the light and carries them into a small mill, also worked by the electric current, where they are ground up and mixed with flour, and thus converted into poultry food of excellent f quality. APHORISMS. fhe worst of slaves is be "whom passion ules. Brooke. The anticipation of evil is the death of happiness. Jane Porter. True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Halifax. The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. Lavater. Love is a blessed wand which wins the waters from the hardness of the heart. George Meredith. To give heartfelt praise to noble actions is, in some measure, making them our own. Rochefoucauld. The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagree-able. Chesterfield. We seldom condemn mankind till they have injured us; and when they have, wa seldom do anything but detest them for the injury. Bulwer. Haste and rashness are storms and tem-pests, breaking and wrecking business, but nimlfenesg is a full, fair wind, blow-ing it with speed to the haven. Fuller. Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true a will be ashamed of them; at least he will never effect to distinguish him-self by whimsical peculiarities. Sir Wil-liam Temple. |