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Markdale Standard (Markdale, Ont.1880), 20 Nov 1884, p. 3

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 ^^mmmm^ fOR THE FARM] n. He iftai, •• w^ departare " it »ok It acco«^; to improve atouca reatmenc for ,oai; » well man. saved his life. toA KettU. ne U Yfmaan,** en in body, ;rue 'tia a pity. rue." :ite Prescription" ig tonic for phyttcal Fall Work Witli FMltijri Qo most farms, cbiokens •• • iii He female weAicua4jes iy druggiata. Price I -Li(nbargeroli9e«. isfactlon. E, the new and car- I with satiafaction in 3re ia aouadant rea )erform8 all that a /iline la a never-faii )ama in the aide oil I throat, chilblaina, e is iu fact a ton both internal an cent aample bottle cents, by all drag ilera. BW color. Itrons t BT do it tole people woul e before pilfennj )wded thoroughfan ao. The same dii indicated by the so druggist when tha I'uiNAM'a Painim aaked for. He wi n the moat gentei ng cheap and dange 18 geniune Putnam atch for these gentli other than Putnam Sold by druggis Polaoh Co., Einj sr ia worse taan tiro i Iâ€" Read This. :.T Co., of Mwihal heir celebrated Els id other Elkcibio Ai thirty days, to me d witb nerrooa debi] d all kindred trouble ueuralgia, paralyai sea. Complete reito and manhood gaua sarred aa thirty da; ita them at onoa fi ilery andfincf biBlneM* u ubrsUa reptiriagtnde BERs, Qgh^wa. Ont. )ss For tale- rs -c'a33 wjrkiag wder I ;i3i Also i Saaboa ItJH ANABAKnt 119 Bay Street Tmooh .ER IN lii^y "laeroaghta have their. cilic|eriilM *!:,, tike to treea, abeda, fr takvUt^e 1^a than to the ponltry-honaea. ' aaliBt Zmb it 18 bo8* **»** *•*«? â„¢**^« well .atSio. fonfor their health a ad comfort but m MB a' *^« leaves fall, or the drtrng cdld 'torms of Autnmn sweep tfaroogh the open heds ic '8 time to get thtJn into their wmb' winter tonsea. The firrt it^p' fb- wards prepaii^g to winter the stock, ia to that the poultry-houaea are all perfectly clean. AU impnritiea that utay have mo- cnmnlated dorm? the summer, in cibrnera nests, wben the houee4 are not so mnoh nsed, must be lemoved. The houses ahonid he fumigated with sulphur and tobacco Items, buraed indoors, and wM!e all fjxn- iBf 8 and crevices are tightly stopped. Then jcrat: of whitewash, with a little carbolic acid n it, should be applied to walls and to jll btses, nests, ana everything in the hoafe, and the perches should be treated to jcoat of beiizue ind carbolic acid. AU (hJB is the « c rk ol time but it will pay veil, fcr by ihi se means the f owla will come into hialthful qufcrttra free from vermin. Without such precaution, hen mitea are rare to fiiict the stock. Some people call theee ptbts lice, but they are ot the mite family ^re nccturnal, like bed bugs, leav- ing tue bit da and taking to perches cr woodwork of any kind in day-time. The nt xt thing is to see that the fowla have a dust-bath to keep their lodiea free fiom Hoc- aa these breed and keep on the fowls. Tee only way to keep or get rid of them, is to keep a good bath of aand and ashes â€" wood ashes when they can be pro- cniedâ€" and the birds are only too glad to do their part to cleanse themselves. There are many kinia of lice on fowls, some liv- ing eatirely on the feathers othera on the bodies some keep about the heads others ooly appear when dirt accumulates about the bodies. When a fowl gtta sick, thcae paiasitea accumulate rapidly, principally because the bird relaxes that activity which ie necessary to keep itaalf clean. The dust- bath shcnld be cloae to a low window, ao that the sun will ahine directly uroa it. A box sui k till ita edgea are level with the floor, will tempt the fowls tetter than one on the floor, aa aome fowla will not use it m tha*; position. Early pullets will lay about this time, and it is well to observe which lays the ear- liest and keep it up, ao as to be able to se- lect these as hens for breeding pnrpoaea. A very important thine to attena to ia to aee that no half-grown or stunted, aickly chick- ens are admitted into the bouaea with tLe iDck, or they miy communicate diaeaae to the whole lot better kill off all auch b rds, even if you have to bury them. All broken windows or boles that will let in cold, shonll be pirmptly repaired, so that ven- tilation can be controlled by the pre per ar- rangen-.ents. It is well also to aee that the birds from different roosting places agree Then put together for the first time. Those vho have gone throngh the annoyance of driving in a large flock of chickens to their houses in the fall, can appreoi'ate the trouble. It ia best for a number of persona to surround thtm, drawing closer and closer to the house. The cbickena should see their way, and h am to go in if taken off the treea and carried in, they do not learn their way, and the operation haa to be repeated a number of timea before the birds will learn to go in of their own ac- cord. The Dairyman's Best Way for Enhan- cing Profits. -OOLS, SAW-I )LS. dfll;NGLB-J W3. LATH mUA mentioninx tW* P»P*'-J rORKS, ffliOll pa, All orrl Sp OonsttinptioDf I yapepsia, Scrrfol» aoB-ioD, F»r»l«Ji ' Trial frte. lud permaneat f ^rj of iJioaboT«»«~, rgen a 'rri»l. " TURE-EGAN •RUSS, with a Sfirw n ever in'e^***,.^!; perfect. S:*S,5t5 i 12 adults. HaW»W'„ duringhaidestwortO- i 25 y ;ar" Pâ„¢?S nircular free. A» \ms BY Ml e and small) Christmas */ nda and • •* vrliere. • ««« for this' iKageS areie*" â- ana «he d^^ j previoua y«~V- ale. OuratockMi alike, tt emi»»| ..will mail ^11 worth from »"»] wewillm^'ffe'J four handacro' i Inta we wlU cards, worth ill mail yorif^. diumsiae' ^1 maU yc -, l^oentaeadt^,, â- isome large " maU yOO wUl lekases- «gg ana ^^SSifflSf' I oid«F -^^r Of the various waya through which it la possible fcr. the average dairyman to en- hance his pri fits, the most effectual ia to re- dtce the cost of pioducing hia milk. Thia he caB do in a variety of waya. Onemeana of doing fo liea in the improvement of his milking tt:ck. This ia a certain but slow way, and mast be the work of years. A more rapid way, and one that can be at once made available, conaiata in reducing the cost of keeping hia cows. This he may do m different ways first, by aecurii^ j^reatcr warmjih and more comfort for hia herd in winter. The heavieat item of expense which he incurs consists in the coit of win- tering his cows, aad the more they are ex- posea to the cold, the heavier that item be- nmea. Animals eat more in winter than in nmmer, simply beoauae more heat ia ab- xirbed from their bodies by the colder air, JBst aa a hot iron will cool faster on a cold day than on a waim one. As the animal beat must be kept up to a uniform atand- »d, the extra loaa of warmth must be re- stored by taking in more fuel in the form of feed, and thia increaaea the coat of keeping aid the coat of producing the aeaaon'a milk. Keep the cowa waim, and they will eat no more in winter than in aummer and they will require less and less extra food in win- ter, jujt in proportion aa they are made *arm and comfortable, and by jnat ao much they will turn out milk at a reduced ex- pense. There Is profit in keeping cowa warm in winter. It costs mnch leaa to tone down the cold of our severe climate by providing warm buildinga for the herd onoe in a life- time, than to furnish extra food year after year to restore heat needleaaly lost by ex- posure 10 cold air. I do noS know of a dairyman who could not do aomathing ia ttia direction toward reducing the coat of Ws milk, and I believe it is pcssible for â- Host dairymen to rednce the coat of wint*r ^eep r.ns-third. I have aeon this done by •everal men who thoaght they were treating 1»eir stock pretty well before they began luking a special effort in thia direction. There is bat ono other aouroe of needlf ai expense in the production of milk, which 'Pproximatea in magnitude the waste of dodder fr, m expoaure to cold and that ia, ^elask ot a full and ateady anpply of good "Bilk-produting food through the whole ol 'ne mi k^Dg asason, leas than ten per cent. ' the very iutelli^nt dairy public of New "ork having foresight enough to provide Mainst even a anort midsummer drought. "etween a lack of food in summer and in- efficient p-otection in winter, the coat of is made something like twice aa great " It need be. Let the cows be so well fed Qmmer that there shall b« no ttoinkage ^theirmiik, except from the natar»l de- 'ease due to the time of oomiog in "d ^wee their keep to a miwimnm nycoinfort l^wiater, and there ia mon^ in d«ir$in« L " a better, aa well aa a mor» effisota^l lito u ^bancing profits, tiian by-«nd««*»r- 1^^ ^iBB the price of dair^ prodooti, M i 1" Ouinithea ooununption 1^ imaoMin ' nu joniee with ebâ€"a a riw t ito tâ€" far dairv ^-ej. wych^srsrssTif'i" I??. ^â„¢^*2!" P«dn«*s w«» tooobed. It 18 a good tun* nepr tn^f^dnk of tiua mat- tw before it is to lato to pr«^ tmZ ngwinter.-[Eu«aJNeir^k«r. Skelters tw Shoep. A writer in La 8ttiuu»e» dfi$ Conatnet- «jr., leferred to by the AnuH^ ArdiHeet M the elever 'ardiiteet of tta« beaatt'" diaonaaea the proper way of Iraildins ahel- tera for aheep. The following btiiS anm- T^y cf bu snggertions ia given by the Ar •The first critisiam that he makea npon the ordinary cloae aheda oaed forthepnrpose, la that they are not asfficiently ventilated for the health of the sheep. In Norway, it IS »id, aa well aa in Holland, which baa a much colder climate than France or Eng- land, aheep live cut of doors the year round without inconvenience; but where merino or other aheep of delicate conatitntion are kept, they ahould be provided with a cover to protect them from the heat of the ann in aummsr, and in winter frcm taia and wet aoow, which acak their fleeoea, and often chill thtm fatally. "J he aheda for tl ia parpoae may with advantage be dosed with a wall on the Eorth aide, but left cither entirdy open, or ahel ered with louvre bcarda, on the »outb. If built thua, they can be kept 4?ry and wholeaome throughout the year. The doora of auch buildinga, especially, ahonid be:Kery wide, and ought to open by aliding. "Sheep, in going in or coming out of their honaea, crowd npon each other, all trying to get out at once and in the craab the lamba are sometimea killed, while the aheep near- est the sides o! the doorway are pushed a^ainat the timbera or atonea, and often leave tuft a of their wool on the sharp edgea, or Buffer braiaea. To prevent thui in part, the 'architect of the beaata' reoommenda that the jimba ahould be provided with vertical rjllera to prevent friction and fac- ilitate the movementa of the aheep neareat the aide. "With the as me idea of preventing the cmahing of the animala againat Idle jimbs, a platform, of the aame width as the door, may be placed in on each aide of it, alightly Mcending to the threahold, which la raised. With theae, the crowding in the opening cannot take place, aa the sheep at the edgea of the platform are pnahed off before they reach the door, "In allo^ng apace for homing a flock, it may be useful to rememb.r that the shorter diameter of a sheep, or the apace he occn- piea when eating, tide by side with othera, ia about twenty inchea, while the avesage length ia about five feet. The lack gener- ally naed for feeding measurea about nine- teen inchea in width, lo that twenty inchea by aix feet aeven inches, will b^ the apace required for cash animal while atandingand eating." Wintering f lante in Cellars, Many plants, auch aa agavea (century planta,) ohaadcrd, large cactuses, etc., that have grown too large to be accomodated in the sitting room or conaervatc ry, can be aacceasfuUy wintered in any moderately dry, frjat-proof cellar. After placing theae large planta ia the cell r, it will not be neceaa^ry to give them any water, the objeot being to keep them dormant all winter, which can be cone by keeping the aoil aa. dry as potai- ble, but not ao dry aa to allow the pi inta to ahrlvel, or become withirad. L rge planta of thia kind mentioned, often form oeairable omamenta during the anmmer time. It is impracticalAe, in moat cases, to bring them into the hcmae, |in «iat'r, but they can be kept for yeura bv cellaring throngh the winter aa atated. Large gera- nium aalvia, and heliotrope root«, and even tea-roaea, and carnationa, can be kept mod- erately well in the cellar by trenching them in dry, or moderately moiat sand. Thua many choice sp^cimena of theae planta that we are loth to pull up and throw away when winter approaches' can be ancoeaafully ' ept over till next aeaaon. It ia a needleaa ex- pense to pur j1 a^ie a atock of new planta fcr Che garden every year, when we can winters mary of the old onea in thia simple and in- expenaive manner. The It avea of all de- cidnoua planta ahonid ba removed before they are put away in thia maaner The foliage ahonid rema n on the olcaodera and camationa through the winter^ ^[American Agricnitariat for 0,itober. Tranquility. Piobably nothing tires en? so mnoh as feelmg hurried. When, in the euly morn- ing tt;e day's affaira preaa en ona'a attention beforehand, and there oomea tie wonder how in the world everything ia to be accom- plished â€" whenevery interruption i* received impatiently and the clock is watched in die- treaaas itamonaenta flit past â€" ^tben the mind tires the body. We are wrong to drive oursehea with whip and spur in this way. Etch of ua ia pioniaed atrcugth for the day. and we must not wear oorselvea out If only we can keep cool and calm we ahall be less wearisd wh n we have reached^ the even';ide. The children naay ba fraotiona, the aervanta trying, the friend we love may fail to visit us, the letter we expect niay hot trfivc; but if we can preserve our tianquility of aoul and demeuior we ahall get through everything creditably. -^^' â€" â-  ^â€" ^â€" Life's Discipline. It ia not the beat thingâ€" that is, the things we call bestâ€" that make men. It is not pleaaant thinga it ia not the calm ex- perience of life. It ia liie'a rugged experi- encea, its tempaata, iia trials. The disci- pline of life ia \here good and there evil, here toronble and there joy, here roughness and there smoothneaa, one working with the other and the alterations of the one and the other which neoeesitate adaptiona onatitute a part of that edncatien which /makea man a man in diatinotion from an animal, which has no education. The suc- ceeaful man invariably bcara on his brow the marka of the atruggla whish he haa had to under go. â€" â- , â-  â-  n^ The choleia epidemic in Paris is empty- ing the hotels. Only eighteen families re- main at the Grand, and Amerioan Jutntiuei are preparing to leave at once. The am- bulance seivice ia ineffioiukt and is being enlaigedi and fumigating coirpB a#e being enaiuaed. The weather is mild and toggj. ItlsadStted that. the ir»t« .WP^ with orgaaie matter. Tli« epidemic lam- My I am tha is Antiumy Hnnt. **â€" ^â- "-limdlnilaa Wnrton piairiaa. Than wMB*t a houa ia li^t when I firat moved tboM. my wife and I. and now we have not many nighbors, thoogh those we have an good onea. Ooa day, about ten years ago. I went away from home to aell aoma futf head of cattleâ€" fine creatares as I ev«r saw. I was to buy some grooeriea and dry goods before I came back and above aU a dell for our youngest, D^lly. She had never bad a atore doll of her ownâ€" only rag babies her mother hadmadeher. Dolly could talk nothing elae, aad went down to the very gate to o ril after me to get a big one. Nobody but a parent can nndcr- atand how full my mind was of that toy, and how, when the cattle were aold. the firat thing I hurried off to buy waa DoUy'a doU. I found a large one with eyes that would open and shut when yon pulled a wire, and had it wrapped up in a paper and tucked it under my arm while 1 had the parcela of calico and dehune and tea and angar put up. Then, late as it was, I start- ed for home. It might have been prudent to stay until morning, bnt I felt anziona to get biick and eager-to hear DoUy'a praiaea about her doU. I waa mounted on a ateady going old horae and pretty well loaded. Night eet in before I waa a mile from town, and aettled down as dark as p^h while I waa in the middle of the darkest bit of road I knew of. I ouH have felt my way through, I remem- bered it ao well and when the atorm that had been brewing broke, and pelted the rain in torrfnta, I waa five miles or maybe six miles from home. I rode as fast'aa I could, bat all of a aud- den I heard a little cry like a child'a voice. I stopped short and liatened. I heard it again. I called and it answered me. I couldn't see a thing all was aa dark aa pitch. I got down and feU around in the grass â€" called again, and again waa aaawer- ed. Then I b^an to wcnder. I'm not tim- id, bnt I was known to be a drover and to have money about me. It might be a trap to catch me unawares and rob and murder me. I am not snperatitious, not very, but how could a real child be out on the prairie in auch a night, at s loh au hour 7 It might ba more than human. The bit of a coward that hidea itaelf in most men ahowed itself to me then, bnt once more I heard the cry, and aaid I "If any man'a child ia hereabonta, An- thony Hunt is not the man to let it die." I aearohed again. At laat I bethought me of a hollow under the hill and groped that way. Sure euouKh, I found a little dripp'nj thing that moaned and aobbed a? I took it in my arma. I called my horae and the beaat came to me and I mounted and tncked the little aoaked thing under my coat as well aa I could, promising to take it home to mamma. It aesmed ao tired, and pretty aoon cried itaelf to aleep on my bosom. It bad slept there over an hour when I saw my own wiudowa. There were lights in them, and £ supposed my wife had lit thrm for my sake but when I got into the doorway I saw aomethini; waa the matter, and atood atill with a dread fear of heart five minntea before I 03uld lift the latch. At last I did it, and saw the room full of neighbors, and my wife amid them weep- ing. When ahe taw me ahe hid her face. -Oh, don't tell him," she said. "It will kill him." "What ia it, neighbora " I cried. "Nothing, now, I hope. What's that you have in your arms " • "A poor, lost c'lild," aaid I "I found it on the road. Take it, will yen I've turned faint." And I lifted the aleeping thing and aaw the face of my own child, my DiUy. It waa my own darling, and none othnr, that I picked up on the drenched road. My little child had wandered out to meet papa and the doll, while the mother waa at work, and tbey were lamenting her aa one dead. I thanked Heauen on my kneaa before them. It ia not much of atory, neighbora, bnt I think of it often in the nighta and won- der bow I could bear to live now if I had not atopped when I heard the cry of help upon the road, hardly loader than a aquir- relaohirp. That'a Dolly yonder with her mother in the meadow â€" a girl worth aaving â€" I think (but, then, I'm her father and partial, maybe), the prat4eat aad aweeteat thing thia aide of the Misaiaaippi. â€" ^Philadelphia Newa. Amusing Frintere' Errors* The unlucky poet who wrote: See the pale martyr in hia aheet of flrel muat have been completely cruahed when the line appeared as: Sea the pale martrr In hia ahirt of Are. Wd can sympathize also with the poet who. writing of his love, asserted that he had "kiaaed her under the ailent atara," and found the oompoaitor made him atate that he "kicked her under the cellar stairs." True, it bas been doubted if these two poets ever existed; but others, of less mythologic fame, have anffered ai biMlly at the handa of the printer. BornS, in a oheap edition of his works, is made toaay: Oh, gin mr love were yon red nose, A well-known temperance lecturer waa in- dignant at finding the aentimebt ascribad to bun tliat "drunkenness was joUy," whereas he had declared that it was 'folly." Much surprise was oooasioned by Sir Arohibald AUson, in his "History of Eu- rope,' including among the pwaons present at the fnneral cfthe Doke of Wellington the name of "Sir Peregrine Pickle.' There can M littie doubt that the author had made an nneonsdona slip, intending to name Sir Pt r gr na Actm. Sir niomas Braasey hav- ing referredin a spaach to the "Qolden Treas- ury of Songs and Lyrics," the ecmpoiitor transf.rjoed tlM tiUe into the 'Golden Treasary of Soaps aad Oynics." A rqport in a Manchester .p^er of a recent dnonatic pafor nance mentioned the wall Known haw of "No, 1 Bound the CccBat^ under the amrsjifraad 8ngg**tiTe title of ".^e one Bound the Corner.'â„¢ In the following instance it was no doubt a bachelor compoaitbr whOb in setting up the toast* "Woomn, without her, ihtn weald be asaTagel" got tlie comma in the wmig phbeTaad made the aentenee read, "Wo;; mm.iritl»ntber man. weiddbeaaa«iMer. The depteahle stateoC the pcesa inIWd*a of the Bibkbine cneiEuaiBiag it found toS astomabmeat that the text from iriu'oh ha waa about to preai^ was not m the book I The wen-known**yinegar Bible was publish •d ia 1717, aad btaja8 ita name fi^un the Parable of A» Vineyard being piintsd aa the ParaUeof the Vimegar. (tee of the moat wilful •ItentipiM of the text, aadooe which cost its patpetrafebr hw life, was committed by tfiewidewofa.OennaBp^ter. Otaeaight aniile an edition of A» BOde was b^ig p-iated in Iwr house she t^ek the oppsrtn- nity of altering the word Herriaiii "iNarr." making the verse read, "he lOiallbethy fool." instead |f "he shaU be thy iord." A G.'aegow divine, and a|M rf her Majee- ty'a chaplains in S30tluid,waa lately report- ed as saying tbat "personauy he violated tiie Lord'a Day aa much aa any member of the Court" "Venerated" waa probably the word actnallv employed by the .reverend gentle- man â€" [Chamber's JournaL BdUng MBdFeel8 in .Hew ZeaUa«. The Maoria, with a fait bom of long ex- perience, bring their aorely tried rhenm ttic fricnda from tar and near had well are their pains rewarded, for many who have baen crippled for yeara are here reatored to comparative comfort and heiJth, We aaw one poor lad who literally lived in a mud- pool, jnat likeone of the African mudfiahea. He waa auffcring from an agomizing hip d a- eaae, and hia frienda had carried him from afar to try thia bleaaed remady. He certain- ly obtained great relief frjm lying ia the muddy water for hours, but, in hu weakly atate, he very natnrally fainted on being re- moved, ao his kindred thought the beat thing they c mid do waa to bnUd a hut over the po3l, and keep him in it permanent- ly. So there he haa been for montha and would probably rem un there until he died. Some of the boiliog mudpoola are horribly repulaive. They lie in sraat natural pit' or cratera,uid as ;oi atand on the brink watch- ing the aurfaca of black boiling mud alowly upheave, with a dull gurgla, and then buret in the form of a monatroua bubble, you c .n acaroely repreas a ahudderat the thought of how one irlip of the foot on thaik greuy aoil mli^ht plunge you headlong into that horrible pool, therein to be hopelealy en- gulfed. The very ailenoe with which it work a iaan element of horrjr, contraiting with the noire and energy o! the clear boiling lake a, and the roar of the ateam cicada a they ea- cope frem a thouaand fissures in the rooka and from ohaama all over the moantain- sldea. There ia, however, cue mud-lake in which intereat predominates over horror. It is an expanse of halt- liquid griy mud, from the aurfaca of which rise a multitude of small mud volcanoea â€" ^really mioiaturea, not more than three or four feet in height, but eacn a perfect model cf an ideal conical crater, like Veauvina or any other volcano of grace fnl outline. From each little summet come puffa of white ateam, and then a amall emp tioa of boiling clay, which, trickling down the aurface, gradually bnilda up the tiny mountain. The Maona not only absorb this chemical mud extemalhi, but they take large quanti- tiea internally There are aeveral plaoea where a thick daik mad exndea from fisauraa in the rock, and this they have discovered to be edible, and eat large handsful with the greateat appreciation. One boiling mud- nole is known aa the porridge pot in oonae- quenoe of this peculiarity, and the nativea who visit it awallow enough to satisfy an or- dirary appetite. What with mad- pools and mud volcano aa, and one large volcano of p ire sulphur, and colum a of st»m ris'ng on every aide from the wel*-baked hilla, and from the aurface of the lake â€" what with many colored .boiling pools, and the silvery whiteness of snowy terraces. Eoto Mahana is, in truth, auch a centre o' mirrels aa aeem to belong to aome creation other than the ateaiy-going world on whose solid surface we hve oir common- place lives. The sulphur volcano riaea from the brink of the lake, very nt ar tha ao-ealled "Pmk Terracea," which, in point of fact, are dia- tinguisbed from the "Wbite Terraces" by a moat delicate tinge of pale aalmon oolor,like reflected aunlight on aniw. The sniphnr volcano produces a moat atytling effect; of coloring in csntrast with the vivid blu « of aky and lake. It ia entirely yellowâ€" juat the color ot a bright primroae â€" and the great column of ateam aacending from it ia priinro8e-hued,and all the waternearitia thua tinted, while the peaka far uid near are coat- ed with a depoait of pure aulphnr.â€" [Comhill Magazine, Silent SniTering. Silent anfferiog ia a thing often unknown to the world fur there ia much pan that la quite noiseleaa and vibra'ioia that make human agoniea are oftm mere wb^'oera in the roar of hurrying exiatence. T re are glanc^a of hatred that atab and r a.-e no cry of murder robbniea tbat leav • man and woman^ forever^beggarad of peac and joy, but that are kept aecret by the suff irer â€" committed to no soimds, except of low moana in the night â€" seen in no writing ex- cept that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow tbat has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. Three ef Them Fresh. Gilhooly and Gas Dj Smith entered an Austin restaurant, and sat down at a table "What wiU yon have, gentlemen ' at ked the obaequioua waiter. "I'll take three bjiled eggs," said Gna. "And you, s'r t" "I'll take the aame. but be sure aad have mine fradi," raid Gilhooly. The waiter goes to the speaking tube aad calls out "Six boiled eggs, three of them have got to be fresh." Oar Inflraiitles. It ia often eaaier to bear with tlie in- firmitiea of atrangara than those of friends and kmdred. Too oftta tbe sharp st words which we utter â€" tiioeo which sting the most kc n^y and causa tiia most bitter rep-ntance â€" are addressed to those whom we love best. Trihwd ftwt ought to be afpreoiated, however, fo Oat every one of us may be on his guard. TnnotlibigisttwsniritocQurist saon mme plainly than in tte fittle asts and lustudiad wwds of home life, and no other vietory ev«r aslf is fpeater ttaa wiisft we tejarithsr apaafc xelart to tta'ndctd wocda whidi aooftaa apiagtotlM Spin the •»«»s#^ jmsmkMmsk^ £»(««£ Anew VMaaelal Times. Dr. JnUnaPahlman, a local gadogist ot Niagara Falls, gives a correspondent of the BuffidoCouiner the fcdlowing tJieoij ci how the present cataiaet came into ex- iatenoe: **In tracing the origin of tlii# river," heaaid, '*we most go away back into the pre-glMial times, when the bed of the great lakes was occupied by a great river, aad Tonawanda vauey 'contained a lake 50 miles in length and 16 to 12 miles un width, with a possible maximum depth of 60 feet. The northern hairier of the lake was of limestone formation. Be- ing about 50 feetlower than tihe southern one, the overflow of water was towards the Ontario valley. The outlet found its way into the present channel of the Ni- agara river somewhere neir the upper rapids of the river above the falls. ^»m here the waters met no obstacle, and in their flow predetermined the river gorge between the falls and the whirlpool and continued in a straight course north throngh the side of the whirlpool, and thence through the valley of St. David's in Canada, and onward through the ^On- tario valley. "I have made careful searches and find this track of the river from l^e whirlpool through Canada. By and by t^e Tona- wanda lake hegui to subside, and finally was reduced to a river, with a wide, low valley^ on each side. The course of the river in making its way out of the valley of the ancient lake changed. It flowed in- to the channel of' the present Niagara where the present Tonawanda river enters now. It curved around the southern margin of Grand Island â€"which formed a shallow part of the northern margin of the lake and had risen as a peninsula in thd course of time â€" and then flowed north into the prigipal channel of the out- let, thus determining the two branches of the present river. That branch of the Niagara river which separates the island from the mainland is of quite modem origin, as testified toby sotmdings. Well, the erosion across the thin bed of Niagara limestone naturally cut one or the other parti^of the outlet deeper than the rest, and confining the smaller channels gave birth to a number of larger and smaller islands, known at present as Groat, Bath, Luna, the Slaters, and so forth. "The branchesof the river joined again into one stream as they approached the heavy Niagara limestone at about the site of the new suspension or foot bridge, and rushed north for about three-quarcers of a mile, where they fell over a precipice of about 100 feet. Goat ialand extended northerly in a toiangular prolongation, with its apex somewhere abreast of the northern end of the present American fall. Below this fall of 100 feet, that I have just spoken of, the river descended in rapids over shale until it encountered the Clinton limestone near the railway suspension bridge, where it took anotJ^er leap. From here a short rapid carried it to the entrance of the whirlpool, where another fall was caused by quartzose andstone of the Medina group. Thence there was a rapid current to Ontario basin. The volume of water then was exceedingly small as compare' with the estimated 20,000,000 cubic feet a minute of the present. Now, at the time of the glacial period the movement of the ice sheet was in a north-easterly direction. "The channel of the great river which I remarked about in the beginning was excavated deeply, and the valley of the great lakes was formed. When the Arc- tic climate again changed into a temper- ate one, theice sheet retrefited northward, and in its melting spread over the land all theground up material as well as the rocks which had been caught up and carried un- der, and the valleys of St. David's, Tona- wanda, and others more or leas complete- ly filled v^ with drift The channel of the old Tonawanda river from the whirl- pool was also included in the filling pro- cess. After longages the ice disappeared, and the bed it had occupied became the seat of a chain of great lakes. At this time Lakes Erie and Ontario formed two large bodies of water, and were at the aame, level, that is, their surfaces were even with Lewiston heights. The wateni in the lakes be^tn to subside, and a mud flat appeared between them, extending from Buffalo to Lewiston. An outlet from Lake Erie was formed through this flat, and we have the present Niagara river." A Fadflc Coast Cariosity George W. Fox was over on the coast a few days ago, and has brought back with him quite a curiosity in the shape of a fragment of an abalone shell with an in- fant's foot, shoe and all, incased in aba- lone in the interior of the ahell. The shape is perfect, and indicates a very young child. The sole of the dioe is aeen; the toe is worn, and particles of the stockings may be picked out with a pin or needle. The buttons are covered with abalone, and the button hole where one oiE the buttons is pulled off is seen also the little tassel at the ankle. The body of a drowned infant must have been carried along by the tide and the foot passed into Uie open shell of the shell fish, which was dosed down and the imprisoned foot held until it was severed from the body by dec»j; in the meantime the tiah ooverad the shoe by its secretions. The ankle shows the decay and the rott- ing off of the member, and was not cover- ed over with the shell. It is reported that a woman and her child were drowned off the coast about seven years ago, and it ia supposed that the foot is that of the child.â€" [Redwood Cily (CaL Gazette. A Sprlngfidd oysterman has a featherleaa chitAen. it is 8 months old. It is said that the obickeD,/||fchongh so young, oan't be downed. .^ Ij â-  .» \-i ^iiifiiiiiiiiriirTiiY^iMJiiMiaaaailli

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