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' ,Mtmu p'!i,i.i»wavf»'»-' "y- â- w ;-.f!(^ («W" ^mm '« «<)â-  J BUBS THREATEN TROUBLE. CONDITIONS FAVORABLE IHIS YEAR TO INSECT PESTS. â- â€¢vr.al •fThrni Hjivr 4lr<-ady Appeared In lAtrger Xautbrrit Tbaii In i^fTcral Irartâ€" A|i|>le and fUrrrj Tree* AUuckcil â€" Kmuilr* ofitliade Trcu la Clile»â€" Krinr- dic!« In I'Hc. "The meteorological conditions of the peat â- wiBtet seem to have been favor- a;bl© to the moJtiniicutioTj of insect life," aays Prof. J. A. Lintnfr, the 6tat« eotomologiit, "Several of our ccanitnon insect pests have appeared in lajger numbers than in many preced- ing years. "Anumg the eturliest to intrude it- self upon general notice hiaa been the cammon apple-txee tent caterpillar. According to accouints received it has btui not been so abundant in a num.ber of yeara past. Thie foliage of many orchards has lieeo injured to auch an exteait as greatly to iiinKiir tie fruitage vmleee the thousands of caterpiilara- at times from twenty or more nests on a single tree â€" ^hnve been deetroyed While they were yet young. Tbia seri- «WB deetrtiction could have been easily pse^vetnted by cuttijcg off the egg clus- ters from the tipe of the branches while tihe trees vnere leafless, or twisting out *he web neets fr<an the forks of the ^''aaicihee in the morning or evening wlhien the caterpdilara occupy them amd crua(hing theen under foot. "Tihe vhitertDiisked tuesock motb ia • notorious peat of several of our shade occurs in txees in cities 6^)«oially wihere it oo- TWO BROODS EACH YEAR, •s iui tile city oX New Too* and soutb- waxd. If the rennedy is adopted of col- lecting- Ha 8now>-wihite egg clusters from tie trunks of trees, f&ncea. he- •leatii window sUla and wherever the oocoone are placed, wfoile they are leedily seen and beifore they become liscolored with. age. the cootiaued defoliatixm of ouj sib'ad* trees may be largely prevetiteid. "TIhe army wx>nn, wiiicb was more exteneive than usual in its distribution last year throughout the State of New York and neighfeoring localities if past leoords of the ineeet are to be relied npon. will not appear in very destruo- Uve numfcers in the localities then in- teate*! fluruig tie frenemt year. Its |»rajsitic eniames will have kept it in CICeck. The spring canker wortn. whioh for » long time, bas been so destructive in tihe Eastexn States, is multiplying in the Sute of New York. It ia not a difficult insect to control, thj-ough spraying the foliage of iofested trees with Paris green, and water as soon a«i the young caterpillars make their aj>peaxBote. Later the poison is less effective, and a m,ULih/ stronger mix- ture is required to kill tihe nearly ma- ture larvae. "T!he elm-leaf beetle, is ccmtinuing Its Bi^xead wtti rather slow but sU-ady pirogreiis over tiie region in New York where climatic conditions favor its existence. Fur tl:« test twio or three years It bas be«in destructive in Al- bony, having already killed a large nuanbex of our introduced elms, and has extended nortinwurd along the HucUon River VaUt^y. In all probab- ility u will soon be heard frota in the wntral and western counties of the State. Tlhorough. spraying with Paris greeo in water for kUling the larvae when they Sxst appear, and. later, the application of texostne or hot wa- ter wiien the larvae da.scend the trees for pupation, are th» beot means of protection from the ravages of this pest. "Tte aspoxague beetle, which has for a numiber of years past been con- fined to poxtiouis of territory near the sea coast, is now EXTfiNDING IN\V1ARIXLY, and bas recently invaded the more soutiuern and New England States and eight or ten of the western couutiet) of New York. Its multiplication should not be permitted, for it is not diffi- cult to deetxoy it by tihe use o£ air- slacked lime dusted en the young plants, and now allowing tjbe insect to develop upon tlie mature plant. "Sfvexal of tlie wtestera counties of New York have suCfere^l severely dur- ing tie paBt three or four years from tlie ravages of grasshoppers. Very ser- ious lot^sies have. be«n suffered to grass and other irope from the remarkable abundance of tiese creatures. It is tcpetl that they will not appear so de- sUrurt ively in the present year : but sihiould they do bo, tney should l>e met with the beet kflo\vTi renipdies against Uhese injurious pestS: as destroyimg the egg masses by plougihi.ng, spraying the yoUiUg larvae with kerosene emulsion, collecting them with the aid of hoipex- dozexs,' or poisoning t.heim with the bran mo,$h, used for the purpose. , "The chexry tree aphis, has been un- usually abundant tids suring. The curl-' ing of tie leaves sihows its rrespnce, and ' is an intimation that itii excessive mul- tiplication should at onoe be checked, by applying no as to reach the insects on tie under side of the leaves, a spray of kexosene emulsion or strong tobac- co water. "A oomparatively new bark louse has been introducetl from Kurope, probably within the last fifteen yeuirs, whii-h, from its ra^id iimltiplication and ^pxead, threatL'Us to became quite in- jurious to Bevexal of the species of elms tolh native and introduced. It is known as Gossyparia ulsai. and may be recog- nized from its occurrence in clusters im the Io\vex side of the lioibs, and by its dark kiody .about one-tentb of an ^ncTi lojig when attaining it.^ growth, bcins Kuirounded witih a ring of whit- Ub excreted waxy material which cov- ers its outer margin., and also extends tqywaxd to a greater or less degree be- tween tie joints of the body. Its pxe- Bance may often be detected by the •bumdant secxetion of honey dew. which blackens (he sidewalks Tteoeath »s well as tie linubs on wbichi they axe cluebexed. If taketn in hand in time, this new pest may be controlled by spraying with kerosene eauilsion. "Judging from all indications, the present ye^r gives promise of unusual insect depxedations, and calls for in- ixeasexl vigilance and activity on the pari of farmers, fruit growers, and cul- tivators of special crops for prote^'tion from their many insect enemie.>s." J " F M* - A VETERAN IN A POORHOUSE. Joseph Oeakla Say* He 4'bi off an Cneuy'x Head with a Sabrr !«lrake lu India. In the county poorbouse at Onon- daga H'iU, neaj* SyraL-uee, X. Y., is a Doan who boasts of having performed the same feat attriibuited in a recent cable despatch to Col. Mahmoud Bey of the TuxkJBh army, who ia said to have cut oiff with omo stroke of his sabro the head of a Greek officer. The man is Joseph Deakin. Hb is 83 years old, auid has been in the poor- house two years. He was bom in Pont- pool, Monmouithflhire, South Wales, and the early part/ erf his life was spent in the coal mitnes. On June 13, 1842, he enlisted, and, after seeing service in various parts oif the British empire, served through the Crimeaai war. Dur- ing one engagement Deakin suddenly found himself confronted by three stal- wart Russians, who wexe advancing up- oou him with fixed bayonets. Hie par- ried their thrusts for a time, when help came in the» form of Martin Haiey, the fudiny Irishman of the regiment. Haley made a rush' at one of the Russians and pinned h'im slick as a whistle on the end of his bayonet, and Deakin hrmself took caxei of one of the others. The third man ran away. Deakin had three front teeth knocked oat by one of the fellowH, aind a little while alter- ward a bullet struck him in the chest and flce^t him at THJi GRAVE'S EDGE for a couple of weeks. When Se>)aa- topol had been; talcen he went with his regiment to Malta, and thence to Gib- I riUtar. Then came an order to start i for Bengal and join the thoucsands of troops Kngland w-as sen ding out t o quell the Sepoy rebellion. Upon his I arrival in Calcutta a cavalry company ! was wanted, and although Deakin had ' always fought oa foot he offered his 1 services. "We marched to Lucknaw," said I Deakin, "and there we got hold of a. '• lot of old pluKs of horses and began to ] get in shape loT the aitacfe on the re- bels. We started xitpi country in a few days to a town called Capree and struck a> band of (-(W rebels. \Ve waded right into them, an.l when we got through â-  there wasn't enough of them left to tell the story. It was in this fight that 1 cut off a nativo cavalryman '.s head while going at fuill speed. In the front rank of the enemy, just au we wexe getlimg into fighting iioei- ti«n, twx> of the enemy came rushing straight at me, o«ne on each side. I got rid ot the first all right, for he did not quite reacib me. The other I fellow roee iin his saddle a^nd made a 8%vung at my bead. I wasn't very green with my sal>r6, and 1 warded oft hia , blow. His sword took off a piece ot my : eUxxw cap, but I didn't know it at the , tijue. As he was passing me I saw my I chance to get in the great sali-e cut. ! I brought iin my arm bacirward and took him on the neck. I sliced his bead off as neat as a carrot and it rolled 'to the grcumd. I Bwear to you as I am a living man tbat the horse with his headless rider we<nt" for fifty yards l.e- foro the maw's han<ls let go the reins an 1 the body tuimbled to the ground. " At the close of the rebellion Deakin returned to Kngland by way of the Cape of Good (Hope and was dieiharged. «1E RECErVHD IWO JLEDALd : for service in the Crimea, but these he lost one night when he was out for a high old tlmei shortly after his return huuie. Iteolkein si^ys he bas a medal due him for his service in India, but hei does not expect ever to get it. Be shows seven soars of wounds received while in the service. The most seri- ous of these IB an injury to bis kneetap, ' which was smashed by a flying shell. a;n<l has brought on rheumatism that has made him a cripple of late years. Besides this he bas a i^ullet mark on his breast, a 'ehortened funny bone where the sabre of the Indian strui-k hiju on the elbcuw, three front teeth whix.-b are false, and a scar over his eye, the result of a premature explosion of a mine near BalaJilava. Deakin went to the United States in 1863 and fixst) lived at Watertown. Hte went into what was probably the fierc- est IxLttle of hiis life when be picked out a pretty little girl odi 16 at Port Byron and aske<l her to Iw bis wife. H'o w-as 40 years old at that tune. They hj;id five children, but everything did n<.'t run smoothly and they sci>arated. Deakin draws Jti,"> a year |<ensii>n money from the Engli-sh t^ovemment. 'Ihis he received first one year ago. Hb thiioks he is entitled to beck |viy. "if I could get that," said he reflec- tively. "I would have about 82,500, and I w ouid not have to h orry t be rest of my lite and live on other people's charity." AN OFFICIAL RAT-CATCHER. Paris boasts of an official rat-catcher. He has served his town in this capacity for over thirty-five years, and he tells with pride that during that time he has caught unaided by a trap, over 1,- 000,000 rats with his own hands. He is extremely proud of his profession and on his card is eml)la?.onod a cre.st formed ot two rats rampitnt. Now- a-d,-vys the labors of the strange man are not particuJarly remunerative, but duriing the siege the official rat-cat- cher made a small fortuJno ; then not only the cammon folk, l«ut the pur- veyors of the great restaurants wet? only too glad to a pay. a franc for j well-fed rwlent. Indeed, at stiime tim.> = the price of a pluirup rat *ain up t'> â-  tra/ncs, or abouit 60c. The official rat- catcher and his assistant si-arch out their victims inj the famous Parts sew- ers, and he frequently sells his tiny ani- mals to people w ho are fond of turning the creatures together and Letting on their abilities to fight. KOMI'S MK III ilOiCY. iExample# ot lady diplomatists are so few tbat t|ie number may almoat be counted on the fingers. One at xlhe earliest diplomatic missions conducted by a woman was that (of itargarte*, daughter of tbe Emperor Maximilian T, who, in tie yeat- 1308, when Bhe waa widow of Du'ke Pbiilibeirt, of Sa- voy, concluded the well-known league of Cambray. • These negotiations she ap- l>ea<ns to have carried on not imiy in the name of her imperial fathex, but aJao in that of King Feaidinand ot St>ain, whiile CaidinaJ AmbwLsi negoti- ated for the King of France! and the Pojje. By her tact and uleverness Maxgaret succeeded in axranging this treaty, the result of which wiis to 6.1- moBt anniiUate the Republic oif Ven- ice. When Francis I. of France was the priaonei of Chanks V., after the bat- tle of Pavia, bis siaten Harguexite oif France, widow Oif che Due d'AUencon, was eapeoiajly sent toy the King^^ mothex, who held the regency, on a diftdomatic mi^on to the Emperoff in Madrid. The object of this miseion vraa to obtain the itedief erf Franci^^ noar is it imtxnobable that the threat to re- sign the cxown of France, which the French K og moidie. wtas a diplomatic atj:^>k» suggested by the Princess. This threat hrought the Enyieror to reaaon. the treaty ot Madrid, waa signed, and Francis reooverad his liberty. The famous peaoe of Gambray. whiioh waa signed in 15«i9, is known by the name of the "Ladies' Peai.;o," because twxj ladies were the negotiators. Thoie were Margaret of Auatriai, Dutches Dowager oif Savoy, aunt of Charles V., and LouSae, the mother of Francis L They agreed on an intarvLew at Cam- boray, and being lodged in two adjoin- ing houeee, between which a conoxnun- ication was o^ned by means at a dooo-, met togetheff withnut ceremony or ob- a»rvation, and hiaUl daily coniereuces^ to which no person whatevetr waa ad- mitted, "A6 both Iwiere jaofoumdly skilled in butinwas," says (Robertson, "thoroughly acquainted with the se- onets of their respectiive courts and possessed with perfeot confidence in oaci othea- they aooo made great pxo- giroas toward a final a<T:oamiodatiion, anid the embassadors of all the confed- eo-ates Waited in anxious suspense to know their fate, the deiermination of which was entirely in the hands of those illustrious negotiatora." In the xeign of Henry iV. we are Hold France sent an embassaiiress to Con- stantinople. Wicquefort, in his well-known work, "The Embassador and His Functions," mentions the diplomatic misions of Eleanor, Queen ot F'ran.-e, and Miarie, Queen ot Hiungarj-, who. in 1537, con- oluded at Bonnecy a tnree montha' ar>- miatice in the names of Cbaxies V. and Fxancis I., whiist amongst other fe- male plenipotentiajries we may men- tion the DuL-hets of Orleaiia. who nego- tiated the treaty beC^veen Franue and England, whi'h .n Charles 11. 's time die- tjuheil the latter count rv from its ali- liance with HoUamL Biit perhaps the tiwo best exam.des which history fur- nitiheK of embassadresses are those oif Aurora, Couniese o< Konjgsiiuirk, whom Augustus the Strong sent to Charlee XII of Sweden, and La Maj-echale de Guelbriant. emhassadxtss of Louis XIV Marie Aurora von KonigBuiark was bo.rn in 1666 at the Agoiiienljwrg. near Stxade. Thus lady, w'bo waa,renowned for her beauty and wHt, lived for sev- eral years on the most intimate terms w-dLh King Augustus^ but eventually was Domlnatwl aL4)eBs of the innperial foundation c>f Gredllngbnrg. Whilst an inmate of the abijey Augustus wtis harrl pxeesod by the King of Sweden, and was not only unable to opptuse him with an adequate force, but could not even pskj the suiail body of txoo(p8 which he pos- sessed. Upon hearing of the evil times which had fallen u|jon her whilom lover. The counteds haiiteued to Uxeeden, in order, it possible, to rouse the King to action. She found him given over to sloth and iniemiieTance. and so utterly damoral- ized that he seemed unable to lake anv steip tox his own protection. The latly then resolved to go herself to Charles XJI.. and Augustus gave her a set-ret mission to the Swedish King. Charles, however, who waa a woman-hater, and of unpolie-hetl manners, bluntly refused to receive her. Buit the countess was not going to give u(p without a strug- gle. After travelling abouit the town tor several days she contrived to catch I his ilajecsty in cam^. She alighted I from her carriage and dnejivered Ito him an addxviis, to which the King! moKie no re^ily eav-e by bowing aad ' riding on. At length the UlSnister, \ Couiut Pi|jer, obtained permission to | invite the Countess to a court banquet etn invitation whioh the lady acce{/te<d conditionally U4xi.n her having a spe- cial seat at the table» Charles, how- ever, who had. ajlowed hex to be invit- ed only with a view to insulting her, oaxlered tbat she should be placed be- low all the other ladibs, adding, by tbe way of exjplanation, that an px-niistrvss CO Uild claim no better seat. This was- too mtu.'h for the countees, and, bittex- ly disappointed at her failure, she re- turnel home, and from the seorusion of the abbey iKjured forth numerous bitter satires and lamipoous upon King Charless none of w^hich, in all prOwibiJity, did he ever set hiis eyes on. When King Ladislaus IV.. of Poland, lost his fixBt wife. tV-'ilia Renata, of Alustria, in Mari-h, 1644, he selected a DOW i-onsort soon after in the dauglitec of t he deceased Duke of Mantua, Marie de Gouzaga, Ducheefie d» Nevensi the moirrioge coulxact waa signeil by Louis XIV., at t'tmtainebleau, Scptelmbcr 30, 16-tu, and Novemlver 6, in the same year, i the marri.ige ceremony took place at | the Palais Royal, at which the King of { Poland was repreaenteid l^ his envoy. I On the bIrSde's return to Poland Louis' gave her as comuanion La Martvhale de Guelbriant, wlhom he also ekxpre«sl.y I appotinted f» his eml>asaa.di^s8 to King Ladislaus. All wlritera axe a^eod in speaking of her skill and ta<;t in diplo- matic negotiation, and on this mission which she was sent afae had. am^de ocoipe in which to display her ajbilities. It was BB.id that the Prinrees whonn ohe accompanied was one of the loveli- est women of hur age, and scandals hinted tbat i*he lelft several loven-a be- hind her at the French oouxt. The* rlspofftat, no doubt grossly exaggexatad, had. rteached the King of. Poland, aho had alm.06ir madb uv his mmd to rcifuse to accept her as his wife. As an excuse, he pretended that he was too ill to receive hex, and insisted upon bar im- mediate retuxn to Fxance. On this occasion 3£ma. de Guelbriant dicqjiayer her undoubted diplomattio abilities. She managed Co ovetrcome all the difficulties whioh surrounded her at the Polish oouirt, and eujcceeded in imbuing the King's mind with a staunrh oonviction of his consort's vix- tua. Eventually, the King agreed to take her under hia roof, in spite of the many attempts wfiieh wexs mads in in^uential quoxtera to induce him to adhere tp his first intention- The em- bai»ailnEsfi aj^ears, moreover, to have gained rhe frieudaOitp of the King, and he gave oamlefB for her tu be treated at oourt with every honor. That she oonsiideied herself a member of tie corps diplomatique, may be gatherad from her ciauming preoedence of Prince CharleB. the King's brother â€" a claim which Ladislaus decided in her favor; while on her journey through Polaniti all the henorary disfrnctiuna due to embasBariprs were paid to her. Wheth- er, in the future, npw that w^omen are invading the domaiins of men. Minis- ters will open the door of diplomacy to women, and embassies rejoice in emba*«- ATREAT FOE OHDiBEEU. BOW SOME LITTLE ONBS IN EUROPE SPEND THEIH HOLIDAYS. A .Vovel Flaa Adopied - ThMe WeaiT af I'liy Life Har Find Asipic Aoaaaesieat la the«'«auiryâ€" educalloaal Keralla. Philanthropists, and ea{M<ciaily thaa« who are interested in the welfare oC children, will be glad to hear of a imxrtl scheme which is being adopted in £l^ rqpe, the object of which is to providl ample physical comfort as well as iUK teiiecUial entertainment for ohildreo during the most trying season of tli* year. • A Lady, whose nam» has not be«(a divtUged, was the first to broach tl>« idea, and bo waxmly 'wss itt wekomad by the public and the press that she at once formed an organization and soon was enabled to make hundreds oif chil- dren hajjpy. The home is in Denmark, and an account of iiar good work a^reoA so rai>idly that others throughout ^jiaanr dinavia foUoi%vBd her exami>le, and it ia even said that a similar plan ia likely to be ado{Jted in Frame and Ger- many. I This is what she does:â€" jjhe obtain* in each town or city from the parenta or teaohsrs a list ot those cfaildrea wtuj would like to intend their v&oationa sadresBes, female chaxge d'affaires and ' in the country who would he benefit- fiist secretaries it is impossible to pre- dict; but since the death of Mine. Guel- briant, if we except the case of Cheva.- lier d'Eon, who was t.hcjught by many to be a woman, embaaaadors and en- voys have invariaJdy been abosen from the masculine sex. LAST OF THE MAIL COACH GUARDS. •Id llebks Blew the Ham on the Exeter C'mich far Flltj Â¥e«r». The last ot the eld English mail coaoh guards, Moses James Nobbs, has just died. Hie reminiscences ought to prove interesting. He became a post- office goaxd somewhere in the thirties, and when he retired, five or six years ago, waa believed to be the only re- maining one of the forty who were scouring the country when he entered the service. At the end of his poetof- fice career Nobbs was at Paddington Station, and hJs duty wtlb to get off the mails tor the west of England. It was very amusing to hear the old man recall his earliest recollections of the introduction of railways. He was asked if the coach guards were not in a great fright about them when rail- ways fixst came up. "Not a b it, not a bit," said the old fellow. " Didn't care a button for em; we neveir believed they'd come to any- thing. We used to laugh at 'em. and we all believed that oux coaches d run 'em down." He would tell proudly of the great J country are eduoatud as well as enter- achievement of the early part of his j tained. career when he took his mails from | lliey see now famoas buildings, splen- London to Kxeter. a distance of 176 ; did monuments and Sfiucious paxkMi miles, in Iti houirs and 'JU minutes â€" ' which they might nut have seen for an avexage of nearly eleven miles an ' many years, had ihey not obtained this ed by oouatry life. This alone is an ar- duous undertalting, and at fixst sever- al days were ajwnt in obtaining the nai>< eatiary names. Vow; however, the work is so syswanatized that aU tha names are obtained in a day or two. The parents ox teachers know all about this benevolent institution and for- ward the children's names even before they are asked for them. This is ona part of the work, rhe other part ia done in the country and the plan a<kipt> ed is the same as in the cities. (Tha farmers and othar country residenta are asked if they would like to hava their children ^lend their vacations ia the cities. KaturaUy most, if not all, of them r^ly in tjie affirmative. Their children are weaxy of country life and will delight in seeing t4ie great sighta of the cities,. So they consent, and on a given day tlusir little ones go to the cities and the city children go ta tha country. MAi<Y LESSONS LEARNED. There is, bo to ^ealc, an exchange ot children. The faxmers and vUlageia take the city ch..ldrttn into their bouup and a..-.t as Lueir hosts during the wiecJM of vajL-atiua, and in return the little ones from the country find temporary homes with the parents of the city children, in the country the children amuse themselves as country childraa have always amused themselves, and ia the city the children spend a gcod deal of theix time in seeing the notahla sights. Thus the Little ones from tha hour all the way through. The old man's services ran back some years be- fore tlie introdu tiion of the penny post and he remembered very well the (lay.« when all the letters going out of Lon uhance of spending their vacation in tha city. .Vnd many goodly les4:ious ara also learned by the little ones who now .w^ and enjoy the <.-ountry for the first time. The birds, the brooks, the tllcnr- don for Exeter and all the places on ers, the trees, the patient dumestib the road would go in the hind boot ot I animals, teach them n^any things his coach, and th'ree or four bags on ' which they could never'leiixn in tha the top. He used to say that he had I city. many a time set out with only two or , All the children, too, learn to bs- three hundre<t pounds ot letters, and • come indejendent and self-reliant. They he lived to .start out the London mail j journey from th» ir himes alone, being to the west with six o>r seven tons. jwovided with railroad tu-kets, which It was the railways that made the are pinned on their little jackets. The penny post possible, 'Nobbs used to say, [ guards on the trains 'iee that they are and fifty times the old coach service i furnished with every comfort, and of whi<''h he used to be »> jtroud as j they are just ai safe as though they a youn^ man. could not have done the | were attended by a legion of parenta wurk. Nobbs had all sorts of curiou.s ad- ; and teadiens. Their hosts meet them ventures. He would recall the bitter ' at their destination, and qui-kly make nights when he had to pass over Plin- [ them feel at home. When, the holiday limmon in tempesis .so terrible that ; aeiiaon is over, all return to their vaji- they used to open the coach doors to i ou.s homes, refresh«'d in mmd and body le*isen the jjiressure and so prevent the vehicle from being blown clear over. He was often upset, but managed to come oat on top, und though often challenged by highwaymen was always successful in scaring ihem off. A SISITSB'S LOVE. A sistea-'s lonre is one of the very sweetest flowers planted by God in the heaxt of a girl. It is Ixxru of filial sympathy and confidence, and ripens into a spiritual love different from any othex affection. Power 6ul as is the in- fluence -of a mother, thtjre have t)een innumerable cases where the pres- ence of a sister's sweet and tender love, or the memory of a sister's holy affection, has been the saving grace of a. brothex's life. The sister's life in the home often formulates the bro- ther's estimati- of her sex. A sister can have a softening influcncf upon a brother where everything else fails. She raises his opi oion of women by her actions toward him. "THE SMALLEST HUMAN ATOM." Recently the Livexpool Coroner held an inquest on the body of a child nam- ed Cathaxine Elliott, who was alleged to be the smallest living human atom in existence. The child was born in Glasgow. 10 weeks ago, and was be- ing exhibited in Livetrpool, the parents receiving £3 lOs per week. The chifd weighed 20 Minces, was 1;J inches high, and the palm of her band, wivs only the size of a shilling. 'I'he pajents disclaim- ed any desire to limit the growth of the midget, which had been guarded from cold, well nurtured and had nev- er a day's illness before Saturday last, when, according to medical advice, it died suddenly from njtural causes. The jury returned a verdict^ accordingly. A CHOICE OFFERED. Is the boss int he asked of the .book- keeper. Which one do vou wish to see, re- plied the bookkeeper; the office bov or the typewriter I and glad at he.irt tha.t the long weeks of vacation, which otherwise might have bt>en so dull, have been spent ao pleasantly. LIVING ON A DOLLAR A WEEK. TmlntHE ^'kuul Bo>p«' surcrs< wlih Ike AllKlaiin Mvcii. four ot the students uf the local Young Men's Chj'.»(ian .-V.ssotiatioa training school are e.tperimenung in chenp meihods of cooking, sa>-s the Re- publican of Springfielit Mass. .About two months ago Dr. McCurdy. n ona of his talks to the physiology cias^ spoke of the work done by Edward .Vtk- i'nson in experimenting with different kinds of food in order to find out which is the cbea^iest and at the same lime 'the most nouxishing. One oi the class ' became interested and read extensively I on the subject. Not be ng satisfied with i what others s;iid be bought an Aladdim j oven and w th three other fellows began I to experiment co himself, 'the Aladdiui I oven it. an inveniion of Edwuxd .^titin- I *?u, the Well-known economist, whoso : ide.-i was to cover an oven with asbestos ] in order lo keep in the heiit, and in I this way to save fuel, space and time, i Wit.h ttus oven the tour young men !»- 1 gen lie e.iperiment, which t hey now [declare to be the "greatest ths»ig out." I They put whatever ihey want for I break fast into the oven the night be- toxe, regulate the heat according lodir- I ections, and when they get up in the morning breakfaM. is ready. I After breakfast the diiuner is put in- I to the oven, while the sanie is done liifter dinner for I'he supper. Ttus longi 1 and slow method of cooking renders the j cheaper cuts of nie.at tender and pal- atable, so that although they have lived I well, and have eaten even more than i usual their expenses have only Ijeen fl each a week, which not only includes the food, but the fuel ;sind the hixe for 'the oven. One of the members of the faculty and his wife Avere entertained a te'w days ago with fine suci-ess. The guests peiitely promounced the dinner to be the best i-ookni one they had ever I eaten. â- lOti^Mimi^-iL i.Jii.,x A