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- } / \ V TAEM AifD GAEDElf. ' Shelter B«IU and Fear Traea. Additional evidence is continoally com- ing to oar knowledge ol the vktne of timber screens for fmit trees in exposed localities. A two-acre orchard of the Lawresce pear, planted on a modem elope facing the west, was exposed to the strong west winds. A doable line of Korway spruce was planted on the wratiide of the orchard, abont the same tiii^^i^hat the yoangest pear trees •/Beat Ton VpTo-^ay." Ob tell n* wbat'a become of yoa, pretty Nelly Littl-^'tlly Martin, with your golden yellow iair Tba^U^t^Q^ >° the sunshine of tbe bright, an- cloaded morning, ^dwaa blown in Huffy ringlets by tbe wild plum-EC^Dted air, ^ a you stood cbere in your "nighty "â€"it was wanii and nice in May. And sbouted frum your porch to mine : " 1 beat you up today-ay. ay I" lolie a baby saint yoa seem to me as I look back LittTe' NeLT»?i?Un, witb vour wes «> big and | ''J'^«i«* O"^'^' » 'e" ?»•" '«>o°"- T^^^y bine. I anorded an excellent screen to the pe&r To tbe days when hearts were pure and clean trees for eight or ten rods, while more re- ;i„^'?.?.'"o.".\7,^?^,'?!^'?^'',i"ii'';._.>.^.>..„ mote from the screen the trees were much Ana tne ''Uly bit ui rivalry that came t>etween j :i %. 3 , ^ us two I exposed, and showed less vigor m growth. tVas in gtttiug up o morningsâ€" I can almost Strong, healthy trees will withstand disease hear you say. i better than feeble ones, and when the blight "" SLt^oJupt^r":*;?"" °' -°"" â-  \ "wept throogh the country very few of the I pear trees in this orchard perished where 1 wonder wbere Id find you now. httle Nelly ^ they were well sheltered by the screen ; but, of the less vigorocs treep more remote from it thrK fourths perished by the blight. Tfild Mustard. The above weed is becoming very com- mon in many parts of this country. In Ops, near Cunningham s Corners, whole fields are one mass of yellow ; in Emily in places it has a hrm tooting, while few dis- tricts are entire/v freed from it. Martin ' i I wonder if your hair is yet that pretty golden brown ; Is that bahy love of ours bv you, too. unforgot- ten r Mayhap you have your littla ones a-clinging to vour gown. SSut, though yuu be a matro:: and your locks be sprcnt with grav. Ton re still tbe little girl that sung : " I beat you up to-day-ay ay : WATER TKLE3COPE. How to Make an Iiutrument by wblch to See Under %VatM^. Ko doubt a good many of our boys and girls are ignorant of the fact that they can with very little trouble and at almost no expense construct an instrument with which they can plainly see what is going 00 under the water over which they sail their boats. The very idea of such a thing is attractive, and we propose to tell yoa how the thing is done. The water telescope m«y be made of wood or tin. whichever you prefer, and we will describe both. The'tin u better because it is lighter and more easily handled. Its manufacture is very â- imple. Get a tinsmith to make for you a Innnel-shaped tin horn about three' feet long. It should be eight to ten inches in diameter at the bottom and broad enongh at the top for both eyes to look into. In the bottom put a piece of glass cut to tit and make it per- fectly water tight. Leave the top open. The inside shoold be painted black to prevent the reilection of the light upon the â- nrface of the tin. Around the outside of the bottQRi solder on several sinkers to offset the baoysnoy of the air in the water iight horn, and make it easier tosubmerge. If it is not convenient to get a roand ptecs c( glass, have the large end made s<iuare and use square glass. That's all there is of it, and when yea sink the instrument down into the water and pat yoar eyes to tbe small end of it you will be perfectly Mtonished at the plaiitnesswitb wkich yon Me all kinds of tish an.i water animals •wimming around in a state of nature. A wooden water telescope is made of a long, siuare, woollen box ten inches â- qaare at the large end and four or five inches square at the other. Make all tbe seams water tight by means of potty and paint. Pat a pieoe of glass in the large end and leave the small end open to look into, as you do with the tin instru- ment. A great many of yon will go on boating and picnic parties this summer, and you oaa imagine how niaoh such a contrivance would add to your amnsement and iileasure, to say nothing of the instmc tion derived from studying the inhabitants of the vratet at home. Using the principle of the water telescope, a well- known nata- ralist had a Doat mail? with a i;l«s8 in the bottom, through which he conld see every movement of thousand:K of tish as they â- warn along through the clear water. Fishermen in Norway nso the water tele- â- oope at their work with tbe beet results, sometimes discovering n new kind of tish that might otherwise have escaped the notice of man. â€" FhiUtUlihij iinui. Some ^aver Nei;ro >aiueiu negroes of the Haharaa Tbe negroes of the Haharaa Islands dearly delight in fine names, and ransack their memories in order to christen their children with sutlicicntly high sounding ones. The author of " The Land of the Fink Pearl " savs tnat in the Bahama Is- lands there are innumerable " Prince of Waleses." " Prince Alberts "and " Prince Alfreds." There is a man named Tiberius Gracchus, a boy called Thaddeus de War- saw Toot, and a sergeant, Puke of Welling ton. They now have begun ohristening children Randolph (."hiirohill. It is also a ooBimon practice to oall them after the month or day of the week on which they were born or christened, as Maroh. .luly or Honday. Scripture names are very com- mon, as are others desoripiivo of a class, suoh as Evangelist, and 1 have heard of parents who wisheii to have their children christened Iniquity, Misero Lizzie and Sol- omon's Porch. One may also tlnd Brin- bilda, Clotilda. Cassandra. Sarelita. Mai- Tira, Kulalia, Uenisia. Uaphne and a host of others, religious, classical, ordinary and Spanish, but every one of them high sound- ing.â€" Veiit'i'' C '»i;>.iMnni. From a Clluiallr Slxnil point. Everybody, they say. has a mental esti mate of his own of hi-aven and hell. My estimate of the form: r ;»l»co is an October morning on a cliff of golden fnriw that fronts a shining sea, with nothing but a soaring bird between me and the crystal brightness of the sky. and a friend within arm's reach. Of the latiJer place I seek no drearier prototype than to be one of a per- sp«ring crowd o( people not yet oduoati-d up to the bath reform on a day like this in a Chicago West Side street car. For the imp to jwke up the tlanu-s of my torment, let the car be an open one. and let my back to back iiaighbor bo a loat clad in a greasy ooat and last year's uuderalothiiig.â€" " Amhfr" in Ckicuio Jturiuii. The Tliue« .\Biilunt Him. Trampâ€" 1 know it. ma'am ; I'm always ont of work, but it's all ray cussed luck. Woman â€" How i:( that, po r man .' Tramp I'ts this way. ma'am. In the winter 1 feel like mowing Uwiw, and 111 the sammer 1 just sctually crave to shovel snow, and nature coiitinnally balks me llave you siuh a thing «s a l>te in the boase '! __ TIu'ii Come What May. Niagara Falls Landlord (to gnestl-ShslI 1 have >our bill made out, sir '.* Guest .Vli. no. not \ot. rot jet ; lot me have one more look at the falls l" â€" i-.'ptvfc. The farmers should "get up and get ' rid of it in some way, else the record here will be the same as elsewhere â€" a great depreciation both in the annaal crops and in the value of the farm. Let the Farmers' Institutes take up such questions as " How to destroy wild mus- tard," and dabble less with factious politics, and e%ery one will be more benented. Meantime, the appearance of many farms from wild mustard is disgracefal. â€" I'tctortu Wardir. Seldom Lie Down to Sleep. It is a fact not generally known that at least four out of every ten horses do not lie down to sleep- Tbe horse that sleeps in a standing position rests one leg at a time, depending on the other three to sustain tbe weight of his body. The habit is a very dangerous one for the equine as well as the htiman somnambulist. Only last week a fine horse in the stables of a big manufao- laring oonoern in the city went to sleep while standing in his stall and fell heavUy to the iloor. breaking one of his legs. A great many horses are permanently injured as a result of somnambaUsm. and there is no way of caring them of the disease. â€" "A Uonenuin" in the St.Louit ijlobt-Dtm-.- cTllf. Shade for Panllry. Poultry, as well as other kinds of farm stock, retjuire shade in the extremely hot weather. If they are allowed their hberty, as they are upon some farms, they can secure this themselves: but if they are con- lined to yard and henhouse they are liable to suffer from extreme heat. To remedy this it is a good plan to set one or two shade trees in the fowl yard that will furnish the desired shelter from the sun For this purpose the fir tree possesses some peculiar advantages. It is a rapid grower, the lower branches are wide spreading and droop to the ground in such a manner that the tree, though tnmmed to the height of three or four feet, forms a perfectly shaded bower, under which the hens will rest in comfort. Another thing, the tree being green and of thick foliage also affords pro lection from winds in winter, farnishmg 1 lee in the sun. in which fowls will stretch themselves with a great degree of comfort. Value of Womlliuidii. The Pennsylvania Forestry Association, in a recent pat>lioaiion, desires every farmer and every owntr of woodland to know ; That his wood lot contains a valuable crop, which it will pay him not only to cut down and slaughter but to manage and utili/.e judiciously. That it is possible to utilise the old trees in such a manner that a new, valuable crop is produced, instead of the inferior crop which now so often takes the place of the virgin forest after indiscriminate cutti.ig. That, as an intelligent manager and hus- bandman, he would do better to see to a natural reproduction of his wood lot, to cut with regard to the spontaneuus yoang growth, rather than to clear indiscrimin- ately. That the time has come when forest de- strnction must give way to forest manage- ment, for timber is bec<)ming more valu- able esery year as it grows scarcer in the country at large. That in the woodlands in proper propor- tion lie to a large extent the conditions of a favorable ulimate and successful agrisul- tore. That upon forest growth depend health- falness and eijuableness of climate. That the forest breaks the force and tem- pers the fury of the northern and cools and moistens the breath of the southern wind. That by its own cooler and moister atmosphere in snmmei and warmer atmos- phere m winter it tends to equalize tem- perature and humidity over the interven- lag fields. That while the open, treeless, heated prairie prevents the fall of rain, allowing moisture-laden clouds to pass over it uu- draineil, we must thank our forest-clad hills aud moantams for our more fre<iaent, luoro gentle, more useful showers, and, above all That the forest cover of the mountains preserves the even water tlow in our springs, brooks and rivers, while its de- struction or even deterioration increases the danger of floods, washes cit the fertile soil, and then brings down unfertile soil into fei tile valleys, lower« the water level, and, in general, thrsws out of balance the favorable eonditioiis for agriculture. That while we advocate the cutting and using of the wooii crop as wo need it, we must not any lenger, as wo have done, squander and "waste it ; we must not clear where clearing praducea danger to the sur- roaning oountry. Otiier Farm Notes, A correspondent tells of a farmer of hie acquaintance who sows parsley seed with his clover and timothy for buy aud (lasture. His shsep and cattle are very fond of th yarsley. "and be thinks they bt>tter"for eating it. Too much of it will render sheep so fat that they will not breed. It gives an aromatic olor to the hay aud makes it more palatable. A cow shonUl be milked out in ftve to eight minutes. It is hard work on the wrists and mnscUs. but it must be done or the cow will get a habit of dribbling the milk, which is very tiresome. I'o cure thii habit, which has been brought on by slow milking, the milking should be done more quickly, and is time the trouble will disappear. I feed mangels principally to hogs, says a writer in tbe uhio Fa-rmcr, and can win- ter s sow in good enoagh breeding condition on foar qoarts of cat roots, with one pint of meal, twice a day, and when thus fed hogs require no water. Taking one year with another the expense of this ration is about 2f cents a day per hog : and if any one knows of a cheaper food I would be , pleased to hear from him. Professor Maynard, of Amherst, accord- ing to the ilichi'jian l-rrrur, finds that pyrethram applied to trees and vines at the rate of 1 pound to 10<J gallons of water will destroy many small young insects and paralyze the old ones so they will fall from the trees. Canker-wortr:s or other insects which crawl may then be kept from re- torning to tbe trees by bands of tarred paper wrapped around the trtmks. Animals cannot thrive their best on dry food alone, however rich and plentiftxl. Such food cannot keep tbe system clearand in free, wholesome aetioi:. Animals so fed may take on fat very readily. The most clogged and diseased system tends to that excess, as we frequently notice in diseased corn-fed hogs. The rapid taking on of fat is no indication of health and thrift â€" quite he contrary. The farming of the fntnre mast be grad- ually contracted in the nnmber of acres. Higher cultivation, more remunerative crops. Less hard work over broad fields and closer attention to special paying crops on the fields that snrronnd the boose. More pasture, more stock and plenty of en- silige â€" this ensures the porchase of less commercial fertilizers and tbe very best results from the contents of the barn-yard. Several New England cooperative creameries have reduced the cost of butter- making to about 3 cents a poond, and last year returned their patrons an average price of °2o cents a pound. SOME SI:MI1£R DBINKS. ZlDr ^|UlX Go WeU Care sf a Cold. A cold is a departure from health, and should really be attended to at once. Do not let it cnre itself. Gat rid of it soon. Do not feed it. thoagh, bat starve it. One cold after another nearly always ends in thickening of the n.jcoas membrane of the bronchial tabes, and before yoa are aware of it you become the victim of a winter cough. The morning tub (cold, I mean) is a very sure preventive of colds. Never overclothe njr overheat your- self. Tbe neck should be kept cool. Keep away from fires indoors if you are subject to colds. Cough, if not the revolt of simple laryngeal bronchial catarrh, may mean a very serious depar- ture from health, and the sooner one sees a doctor in such a case the better. Do not be afraid to contalt him. Remember, it is only those that delay who suffer in tbe end. I do not adviae you to rush away to a physician witb every triding ailment, bat â€" it is better to be sure than sorry. Many people wovdd benefit much by taking cod-liver oil for a month or" six weeks ateat the changes of the season. Probably the diet would have to be lowered a little and an occa- sional mild aperient taken. Getting thin is another serious departure from health. One ^jenerally does lose weight in winter, and regain it iuBummet; bat a tlow and steady decrease in weyjhl calls aloud for medical interference. 'Vriant of sleep and restless nights ate symptoms which can- not be overlooked. The cause must be found and remo\ed. The trouble may certainly arise from overwork and worry combined, but in most cases the stomach and digestive system are the roots of the evil. Nervous people worry most, but they also work most. Well, tha question one is inclined to ask himself when he feels some- thing wrong with himself is ; " Am I over- working myself .' " I would answer thus : If you really enjoy working it cannot in- jure you very much ; but, on the other hand, if it is force work, and you find little pleasure in it. then it will tell on your con- stitution. But many i-^ople cannot afford rest. Well, but wonders can be done by taking exercise ; by breathing only fresh air night and day, indoors and out, and by careful regulatio"n of the diet. In concla- tion, let me entreat of you. as you value vour happiness, not to neglect i.rst de- jiartures from health. The storv of the reservoir has really a moral for every one of us. â€" CiSfcWf hiivul'i Ifiipii.'iBf. Citric Acid Don't Together. " Wait a moment, doctor : let's have a glass of lemonade." A large crowd was pushing and elbowing its way toward the grand stand at a near- by resort when tbe above remark was made to a tall. ::ne-lookicg man who seemed to be sutTering from the excessive best. His shirt- collar was unbcttcned at tbe throat, his caffs -.vere turned baclk over his wrists, and his app-earanca was that of a man in the last stages of "wilt.' The invitation to partake of lemonade seemed agreeable to him. but be no sooner got to the stand where light beverages were dis- pensed than he gave a gasp and started back, saying : •• None for me. I admit I am thirstj and a glass of lemonade wotild be very refitshing, bat lockâ€" that settlse it." With the htudle of tis palm leaf fac be pointed to the huge lemon 3<pee.:er made of galvanized iron. " Why, 1^', that's all right. They make the drinli to order. That won't go off â€"it's only a lemon squeezer.'' " The law ihould prohibit its ose. Father than drink lemonade made by that machine I would drink the water from yonder horsetrough. That lemon squeezer is made of galvanized iron or iron coated with zinc. Every time a lemoa is equeezed by it the citric acid of the lemon ccruing in cot.tact with the metal dissolves the zinc and forms an unwbQlesome and poisonous salt. Zinc is a metal which is readily attacked by the weakest aade and no article of food or drink gbotild ever be allowed to con-.e in contact with it. Find me a place where they use the old- fashioned wooden squeezer or where the lemon is Ducerated m a procelain or glass vessel and I'll gladly join you in a glass of lemonade, but here, where they nee the desth-dealing zincmachiceâ€" never '. ' â€" .Vfir York iluii and Exfrett. ViST ViRISTT or COLD DEISB-?. " How many kinds of drinks do yoc tell, anyhow .' " asked a reporter cf a drnggist. " 1 can serve you now with ISO difi^erent cold drinks." said tha drnggist, " and 'iO hot drinks, snd won't charge yon over '.'.â-  cents for any." The reporter looked upon this as a skil- fully served hint, and modestly called f cr a pint glass of lemonade â€" '> cents. " Guess how moch of that lemonade I have sold in » day ?" said tbe dr-.ggist. taking a turn at questioning. ' About .100 glassea." " Way off. Why. on a warm day I empty that vessel, well, a dozen times, and it holds 150 glasses. Then orange phosphate comes next, and after that vanilla soda, of which I sell about 100 glasses a day." â€" .Vfu- y.^rl Sun. STOBIES OF PICTURES. Sum« Kxoeedlnsly I>texca>tlns Tbinss ai««u In Europe by Buhop Beckwlth. Among the many beautiful things bron^t from tbe other side of the world Biahou Beekwitb has the photograph of an eld picture in one of tbe art galleries, which rej-resents the "Last Supper." Th-^ original has a history, which is this ; A monk was incarcerated in prison for some grave oSence, and doomed to die upon a certain day. If he could paint the " Last Supper " in a certain length of time he would recei -e hii freedom. If he failed, the following night he would die. The monk worked upon his canvas. patting heart and soul into his work and wasting away as he iid so. until he became weak, nerveless and perfectly prostrated. The day oefcre the expiration of his sentence the canvas was complete with the excep- tion of the face of Judas. Try as he would, no inspiration came to him for that face. In the iame prison was another monk wht hated the artist. On the last day he entered the cell and asked the poor, nerveless, trembling, almost dying man if his pictors was done. No, be cculd find no face for Jacas, he was answered. The monk, exultant because of the artist's failure and tbe certainty that he woold die, turned w.th a look of demoniac exaltation and left the cell. As the artist watched his face he sprang up in ecstatic excitement, rtisbed to the canvas, painted the face of the vanishing monk, and so regained his liberty, and at the same time gave to the world one of its grandest pic- tures. Bishop Beckwith says cue of the finest pictures he e er saw was in one cf the pic- ture galleries in Italy, and was •• Napoleon in Hell.' Napoleon wore the same frown as in life, and the devil, the most con- spicnoas fi^-nre on the canvas, was repre- sented as having the most strikingly beatuiful face imaginable. In the bach- ground were ngurae and faces of women taunting the great emper.r with cavici; bereft them of their loved ones, while he, cowering neath the guilt of uncontrolleil ambition, was suffering ri morse :n the nether regions. â€" Ji.'jnr.i ." u i.;.'. m Tile Honey Eitrsttor. A foreign paper notices the death at ' Venice. Italy, cf Ma;or Von Hruschka, tho inventor of the honey extractor. Be was a retired Austrian officer, and the invention of the honey eitractorVcurrtd in this way : His apiary was in Itlly. and one day when , he was in his apiai^ his little boy oan-.-j there. The boy bad' a small tin pail tied to a string, which he was swinging in a â- â-  Smelt Like a Bar-Room.'* young woman who determined to Klephiintu Pl»ylu( lull. The elephants had their bath and game of ball at the Zoological garden yesterday. Kinpress and Jennie with shrill trnrapet- ings jumped into the big pool and enjoyed themselves like two school boys out for an afternoon swim. Empress was the first in the water and Jennie soon jumped in after her companion. They rolled over and over, climbed on each other's backs and plnngeil together below tbe surface, coming to the top with snorts ol delight and shooting out from their long trunks great streams of water. Keeper Pendergast stimulated the sixirt bv castiag two inflateii bladders into the pool with which the elephants sported for a long time, catching them and throw- ing them at each other's heads. When the keeper thought the fun had continued long enough he prodded the unwilling beasts out with a long ^\e. Then he threw a scere otintlateti bladders on the brick pavement surrounding the jvel which the elephants VWinded with their feet till all of them had besn explcnled. a proceeding iu which they seeme»i to see almost as much sport as in thsir bath.â€" i'Aiiti.i"';"'"'" Rtc»fd. The shame her husband by taking to tippling, M\i SeaVi S'.iite Ga^ef.e, began operations on Wednesday by setting out an exceedingly vulgar, red-la'beiled bottle on the back par- lor table in the most n:!Ostentaticus wa\. .\bont the hour her hasband was exited home she took a good gulp of the Itqaor. and when she heard what she supposed to be bis foot8t«|M an tbe stoop ahe drank another finger of it, and. patting some more in her hand, rubbed it over her lipe. Then she tied np to her room to wait fcr him. She was intensely gratified by the con- sciousness that, as she eiprossed it. she •â-  smelt like a bar-room." To her surprise the door- bell rang, and she went to the head of the stairs and peered over the rail to see who had come la place of her husband. It was her mother, her fa- ther and a oousin or two from tbe oountry. The old lady spied her. and there was no- thing to do bat come straight down and kiss and be kissed ail arouud. She was mortified, for her parents are very straight- laced, pious folks, and could not help bat smell the gin with which she had perfumed herself so liberally. W.^rse still, while she was assisting her father to rid himself of his overcoat the rest of the p;i,rty filed solemnly into the presence cf tbe red- labelled" bottle in the backroom. Nothing was said about the odor of the bottle, and she was too proud to try to explain what looked so badly for her. She told her hue- band, however, and he was so impolite as to throw himself on the bed in convulsions of laughter. She was so angry that she theateiied to leave him. " You can't.' said the monster. â- â€¢ your folks would not receive you. The most they would do would be to put you in the inebriate asylum. ' circle, hclding tbe end of the string in hi* hand. The indulgent father gave thj vouth a small piece of comb r.Ued with honev. patting it into the little pail. Tbe boy after a while began to swing the pail again as before, with the honey in it. A tew moments after he became tired of that amoaeraent and put the pail down to t.i.k. to his father, whotock it up. and. by chanco, noticed that the ho:-.ey had left the comh and settled down into tbe pail, leaving tho comb perf*tly clean that had been on thi outside ol the circle when the boy was swing- ioeitaroand.Themajorwonderedat thecir cnmetanoe, and taming the comb over bad-3 the boy swing it again, when to his groat astonishment the other tide of the comb also became perfectly clean, -ill the honey being extracted and lying at t.;e bottom cl the pail. Ituring the following night Maj. Von Hruschka, after going to bed, com- menced to think the circumstance o\tr. On the morrow he commenced a series of experiments which resulted in bis giviiiij to the world the first hoaey extractor, which by whirling, scmethin,; like his sc>rt wbtrleii'that little liu pail, gave him tha pure liquid honey, extracted by oentrifngal force, leaving the houeycom'o entirely freo from the Uquid sweet, which he gave again to the bi'-es to fill, allowing him the pure honey for making wine, mead and metheglfn or honey cakes as desired, witb- ont employing tbe troublesome and primi- tive method in nse up to that time o( mashing up tbe combs containing th4 honey, pollen, and sometimes brood, toj, to let the honey drain throagh the cloth in which it was placed, giving what w^j formerly known as "strained honey.' Shadow and Substane*. The i^inakers have many habits and cr.s. toms that " worldly " peoule would i^rofit by imitatifig. says /i7 "-e .in.J t\\Wn-. They do nothing unnecessary, and save labor and wear and tear of miad whencvt-r they can. When tools are huug up a^jamst a wall, there the shape of a tool is painted against tho wall, so that when a tool is re moved and not nwurned the silent inonitor remains. . When a hammer, saw or monkey wrench is hung up there its shadow is painted, so that if the real hammer is gone '!?'' I the painttxl hamaier remains ta remind thrive the ; ^^^ g^.ner that the borrowoii tool has nol been returned. m â€" A mow fnr Protei'tloii. Citizen (to leader of a street bftndl- Whv do you plftv that big barn ? lUnd leader "(winking slyly) -Veil you see. dose blavers in niiiie pand ish ferry l>ad. 1 blavs'der pig horn nnd drowns dtr whole caboodle. I'.f it vasnt for dot der beobles would lynch us pooty quick out. knows mine pisiness, ain't it ? CuniHl Caterpillar In the Air. There wss a waterspout over Witenham woods. Porchester, yestetday. A line black clouds kung "about M degrees from the horizon, and depending from it was a funnel-shaped cloud of, the same color about S deKrees in len^ and about i de grees in apparent dianicVer, tapering to a point. Soon the funnel assnuied a wavy form and its diameter at tho top lessened in abovK four minutes it looked more like a curved caterpillar than anything else, with a well defined head at the lower end of what had l^een the funnel, and in length, it straightened, about 10 degrees. Then it fade*!, leaving the head (or a longer tims visible, as a separate speck of blaokntss on ft gray baekgroind. A thunderstorm fol- lowed, which continued thtoughoat the iav.- I.inii,' n ,'>';,ir. A Very Cruel M.in. Judge fto prosecuting witnossiâ€" • Have you any real cause of ccsnplaiut against vour has^s-.id ,' " Wife â€" " Yes, sir. He refuses to buy me a new bonnet, and I haven't had a silk dress for two years." Judge "But 1 thought he came home drunk and beat you over the head with a chair ' " Wifo"Welt, ho did; but I wouKln t count that if 1 could get the dress and the l>onnet." -lit .\ bear was shot np in Uay coi»ty the other night as it wa-s trtiiig to lug off a 200- pound hOi;. and the bod\ of the bear was found to weigh oHly l.'l pounds. It is conoeded that the bear was the biggest beg of the two. In the vicinity of 'Mpntrral the depre- dations committed by the sp.xrrows have ftrrived at .such a pitch tjiat the farmers ct the neighburiiiK municip.<i".-.ties have hnrdcvl tiieuissKts together iiite nn exter- mination society. Too Much rroverb. While the prisoners in the Austin jail were out in the yard a few days ago, twc> of them who were under sentence to tha penitentiary were heard comparing notes about as follows : '• I don't believe in proverbs.' said pri- soner nnmber one ; " it is believing in proverbs that brintis me here. " •• How so "' said cumber two. •â-  Well, you see whsn I was a boy 1 often seen folks pick up pins, and when 1 asked them why they did it they said : If you set» a pin And 1« t ^t lAy You wi'.l ! avo 1>ad 1 :ck all i.-.e day. " Yes, that's so. I've heard that my- self." " 'Well, It don't work. I have picked up a pin. and I've had bad luck ever since, t was arrested the very same day. and row I've got to go to the penitentiary for threo years." •• What has that to do with picking up pins '' asked anmber two " Well, you seethe yan I picked up was a diamond pin worth ?1,"'0. 1 Ivlieved iit the proverb about having good luck, so \ picked up tlio pin in a show case, but they telephoned for a policeman, and here I am,'' and he winked at the jailer, Tha other prisoner thought for a moment and then he said : " When 1 come to think of it. proverbs are what have brought mo into this tix." " How so ?" asked the man who ha.l picked np the pin for good luck. •' Welh I had heard abont horseshi>e3 bringing >ou luck, so I picked up horseshoes. Morseshoes are my weakness. ' n " Thorn horseshoes you went off with were fastened onto another fellow's horse, weren't they ' " queried namjber ouo. " Jess so." •• When 1 get ont I'm not going te tam- per with any more proverbs," remarked number two. " Mo neither." responded number ono. " FaMin. boys." said the ailer. nnd they went back to their oozy retreats on tha inside ct the jaiL \ \1 V Hme. Janauechek's rei ertoire for next peascu will ^x)i(bist of "Mary Sttiart," â- â- Macbotk."' "Ouy Msnntting" and "Mother ar.d Son." ,â- â- *», n. ,!'*'-.'»:,it'^