flATCHtttt OUT SHAD. FABM AND GAEDEJT. wrought-iron armor at close quarters, Decaying branches break off sooner or HAMMOND'S GBEAT LEAP. Feeding an Army. and prove too much"for twenty-seven later some distance from the trunk. Capt. Peetmeier, of the Fish-Hawk, Preparing" For many years prior to the Mexican One Hundred and Hfty-flre Feet Down from a Practical Suggestions on the Time and Manaer When this happens, nature at once waT writes a New York correspondent s-for Next Season's Fishery. Cliff into the Rio Grande. of a thousand yards. Still morepower- I Alban* Journal, a purchasing of Pruning Trees Intended for Tim- begins to work' by closing in the Bark The to ful, but not in the same ratio ofincrease When the news of Prof. Odium's "We are here in the interests of the at the base of the branch, which is berMinor Topics. will be the 110-ton guns now being commissary for the United States army fatal leap from the parapet of Jhe United States fishing commission," finally forced off when the bark meets, Pruning Timber Trees. manufactured forH. M. S. Benbow. was stationed at New York city. Ine Brooklyn bridge reached here, writes said Capt. Peetmeier, of the United. if not before. In vigorous trees decay Pruning, in its legitimate sense in a San Antonio, Tex., correspondent to There are three of the g^ins ordered, i extent of the depot and tne amount ot States gunboat Fish-Hawk, now lying in such a case rarely extends farther the culture of forests, wiites a correspondent there obtained were very The Philadelphia Times, we were talking one of which will be surrendered for I supplies Hf.? WA verv at anchor off Gloucester. "We are than the base of the branch, because of The Garden, denotes limitedsmallsomee for time in consequence over the affair in the "Gold room." hatching shad eggs. The process is a the purpose of scientific experiment, the projecting pieces afford protection of the siz of the army. It was only the removal of unsightly excrescences 1 Sam Graham, ex-sergeant of rangers, simple one. Come this way and I will while the other two are sent on board trom moisture until the wound is healed or superfluous parts of trees called attention to a parallel incident not until the commencement of the show you." ship, where, however, they will not be over, a3 is often very well shown i with the view of making the bole grow rebellion in 1861 that the labors of this which attracted a great deal of attention He led the way to the fore part of wanted until the mid-summer of 1886. in the burried knots of sawn-up trees. straitrhter, higher, and more regular. 1 depot reached increased magnitude on the frontier at the time, and, the gun deck, which was cleared of The projectile will be 16 inch diameter, I had a ramble through a broad belt This, I know, is still a disputed subject, and greatf proportionsfield Wito bover suba gave the name of "Hammond's Leap" all implements of war for the reception and weigh 1,800 or 2,000 pounds. of woodland the other day, which, I million men in the some strongly advocating its necessity 1 to a lofty canyon wall on the bank of of some of the most scientific machinery The powder charge will be the enormous am assured, the "pruning-hook" has and utility, while others deprecate sisted, a very great quantity of the the Rio Grande, about six miles west of peace. In the center of the one of 900 ponuds, or half the never entered, and was impressed by it as useless and injurious. articles of the rationmeats, flour, from where the Alkaline waters of the deck stood a large copper tank, containing weight of the projectile, supposing the fact that it had never apparently The truth probably lies between the hard bread, sugar, coffee, teas, sait* Pecos empty into it. The track of the water constantly changing this to be 1,800 pounds,' on which been missed. The trees are rather two extremes, for much may no doubt etc.necessary for many of them, Southern Pacific railroad runs close to 1 from the river, but capable ot being suppbsition the velocity may be reckon crowded, having been planted for be done in assisting nature to rectify were obtained'in this city. Not unusally the river here, and as you whirl by the stopped when at sea. On on,e side ot edat 2,050 feet seconds, and its power sheltering purposes, but, with the exception defects and to correct deformities, and, cargo after cargo of coffee was purchased trainmen point out the spot where this tank stood twelve zinc cones, of penetrating armor at 31J inches of those at the margin of the in adding to the general health, beauty for the troops. At several times Robert Hammond made a sheer leap about three feet in height, with the near the muzzle, or 2 inches less at belt are remarkably straight and and vigor of the tree. On the other during the war special purchases of this of 155 feet to the muddy waters of the conical ends downward. A multiplicity 1,000 yards. The new guns will be cleanalthough they are all deciduousshowing side, it is not less true that many trees article were obtained abroad, as it Rio Grande below. The leap was of pipes, tubes, valves, and stopcocks vastly superior to the Italian 100-ton that the shape of timber are irreparably injured and whole could be so procured more economically made in the early summer of 1882, showed that the cones were in guns, which are at present at the trees depend more upon thinning than plantations rendered useless by unskillful for the army. Under the management when tne railroad was in process ,of connection. head of all the naval artillery in the prunning. The wind has little power and indiscriminate pruning of then "colonel, afterward construction. The painted red men, world, and they are to the like extent to do injury to such a plantation, but "This is were we do the hatching," and wholesale mutilation. Brig. Gen. A. B. Eaton, commissary from a safe hiding-place on the Mexican in advance of the 100-ton guns many ot the lower branches decay and said Capt. Peetmeier. "These cones Many authorities agree that pruning general of subsistance, United States side, watched the ousy scene with which are doing duty for England on fall off naturally before they get are supplied with water from below is beneficial and essential in promoting army, the purchases were very extensive. wide-opened eyes, heard the "big thunder" the fortifications ot Malta and Gibraltar, strong, and hence' leave no mark on by tubes from the tank. The supply the profitable growth of most Col. Eaton had a corps of of the blasts with loud-beating although these are larger in the the trunk, because the knots soon heal is" regulated by a stop-cock at the top hardwood trees, but this may be rendered experts, well trained,some of the hearts, and stole back to the Santa bore by li inches. The substitution over. If this were not the case, such and the surplus water escapes though less necessary in certain situations best merchants in the city,as inspectors Rosas. The only animate beings that of steel for wrought iron admits of a thing as a clean pine or fir-tree this zine net-work which surrounds by thick planting and judicious and adjustors, and secured tor the did not seem to mind the noise and heavier charges of powder, and this would never be seen* in plantations, the top of each ot the conical tanks. timely thinning. Pruning should government the best articles which tumult were those pestiferous little faat makes all the difference. for, as a rule, these are subjected to Thus we have running water all the commence when the trees are three or could be purchased at the lowest varmints, the vinegaroan, the devil no other pruning than nature affords, time. If we are in a river we allow four years old, and should be continued prices. A rigid fulfillment of all contracts horse, the tarrantula, the centipede, and which consists in the shedding of the surplus to go overboard, but when "if necessary during the after Hide and Seek. was exacted and made under the stinging lizard, and the rattlesnake. so many branches annually. Within at sea, it being impossible to get the growth ot the tree. No general rules the safeguards his experienced foresight They remained and disputed Of all the good old games of childhood the past few years there have been cut fresh water necessary for hatching the Seek-' in can, however, be laid down on this had placed around him. the ground inch by inch with the invaders. give me "Hide and here large tracts of as fine larcn, perhaps, eggs, we allow the water to run back point which shall equally apply to all They caused a great deal of grandpa's old barn, with the rain pattering To the purchase of the soldiers' rations, as cpuld be seen, every tree bare into the main tank, and so it keeps on circumstances and situations. There trouble and the na^ vies teared and respected down outside and all nice and some 3 ears since, was added the of branches to near the top, from nature's running over and over again. When is no doubt that much of the success them. It was a stinging lizard dry inside. In dry weather we boys procuiement of over one hundred pruning. There was not an unsound the seine up is drawn we take the female of pruning depends on 1 he manner in or scorpion that caused Hammond's and girls used to play it around the articles tor his comfort and convenience trunk among tnem from deca\ ed fish with roes and force them to which it is performed. Branches leap. Hammond was a navvy, house and sheds. Someone would begin and that of the officers of the branches. The same thing happens discharge the ova by squeezing them. which are to be amputated should be born in England, and at the time he to count, "Monkey, monkev, Dottle army ana their families at military with deciduous trees under similar Then we take the "males and b\ the cut off clean, smooth, and close, making made the leap ahout 26 jears of age. of beer. How many monkeys are I post, all disposed of to them at first conditions. If the trees are judiciously same process of squeezing force them f.l the stroke upward, and with a He was of rather slender build, but there here? One, two, three! Out cost. There are tew posts in the army, thinned, the lower branches decay to impregnate the ova. The massithen sharp bill, in order that the bough wiry and muscular, and Jack Harris, goes he'" untill all but one were in any locahtv, that will not show and fall off before they grow large, counted, or rather measured, and maj not splinter and carry away with the contractor for whom he worked, counted out. The one left would shut some supplies procured by the subsistence i and the marks of them disappear in a put into one of these cones and the it portions of the bark from the bole, considered him his best churn-driller. his eyes, lean up against a shed or officer in New York city, and short time. water allowed to run." which is both dangerous and unsightly. Harris' camp was at the head of a post and. begin to count one hundred. some of them many of the important Although it is generally agreed "How do jou count the eggs for 1 Minor Topics. deep canyon, about one mile south of The whole crowd would then scatter articles which those stationed there that one leading shoot should be preserved, see you have 160,000 eggs in this cone Vinegaroan. He was engaged in making like scared sheep and hide. Aftei Plenty ot grass should be given receive. Under a recent act of congress, it is an erroneous practice to "It is done by measure so nianv a fill and two wide cuts, and counting one hundred the seekei fowls confinement, in order 10 keep all supplies must be advertised cut awaj all the side branches at once, eggs to an ounce,a fluid ounce, I worked gangs day and night. would remark"A bushel of whpat, them in good healthy condition. for, except in very extreme emergency and the removal ot large boughs mean: say 10,000. Well, there are A bushel of ryeAll who am't reudy cases. This opened competition To all, The sheep business, comprising both Hammond worked in the day gang, should be avoided as far as possible. thirty-two fluid ounces to a quart, hollerl." And then he would poke and upon the purchasing officers is imposed the wool and mutton produce, is one and the big wall tent he shared with Although hardwood trees generally therefore there must be within one or around as near the goal as possible, the duty of selecting from the of the greatest industries in the United six or eight others was about three derive benefit from pruning, coniferous two of 320,000 eggs. We use an ordinarv and look in rat holes, behind sheds, numerous bidders and their samples States. hundred ards from the edge of the trees do not admit of being pruned at graduated glass druggist quart fences and bushes, and walk on his theand articles conditione at th lowest pricequalitjr It is claimed that if milk is brought lofty wall, against whose base the all, unless under special circumstances, measure. It takes from one to three considered. An ex toes and twist his mouth ever} time iust to the boiling point, then poured "great river" dashed and tumbled. and then only with gre-it care and days for the eggs to hatch. Then we he gave a squint. tensile knowledge of all such articles immediately into cans and sealed airtight, At this particular point the river is i judgment. The pruning of timber keep the young fish two or three days should be possessed by officers of the it will keep for an indefinite quite deep. One night the sleeping One day we bo}s and girls were trees has had many warm ad\ocates, more and then consign them to their subsistence department, and many period. occupants cf Harris' camp were aroused playing, and I was looking tor a new especially in Scotland, and no one native element. To put them in the have from long ex]erienc and association by a series of startling yells which place to hide in. I found it. An old. In hot weather all the unconsumed perhaps has explained the real or river requires considerable care. We with the soldier knowing his came from Hammond's tent. Before blue rain barrel, full of water a month food should be frequently swept away imaginary advantages of the S) stern gather them into a bucket then lower wantsclose observation and study, they could collect their senses and old and wirh an odor about ten pounds from the chicken coops, ^as it soon better than Mr. Cree. He says "To the bucket into the water and allow qualified themselves tor these trying settle in their minds whether or not to the square inch, stod at the corner sours and acts like poison if taken into manage woods in a proper manner, the little fellows to swim out. and responsible positions. Some have the camp had been attacked by Indians, of the house. A bright idea struck me the crop. young trees should be examined well Now let mee show apieceuof yo some took glass a specialty of certain articles, and are Hammond dashed from the and in halt a minute I had all my egzs.'', the third 3 ear after they are planted, of the Potash on grape vines has been tried well and thoroughly skilled therein. tent, and, although held by his companions, clothes off and was standing up to my and if more than one leading shoot is tube and pushed it'into one of the conical with great success, especially on light tore himself awaj, and, yelling chin in rain water and wigglers. Upon the receipt of the order for found to exist the best should be selected tanks and, bringing it out, closed soils. It is said to promote "the thrift at every jump, made giant bounds After dropping my pants, hat and supplies, pub'ic proposals are sent out, and the other's shortened to onehalf each end with a finger. It was full of the vines and largely increase the toward the river. The drillers and waist outside, 1 carefully pulled the if the stock held on hand by the depot the lengtn of the selected shoot. of small transparent globular substances, yield of the crop. blasters in the cut stopped their work coyer over my head. The water began officer will not permit the order to be i I all moving about in the tube Scotch farmers hold that cut straw 'J "This practice of examining the and ran up on the bank to see what to smell out loud and the wigglers filled from it Such quanties are accepted and somewhat difficult to see at first. is better for the dairy when newly trees should be continued every year was the matter. They saw Hammond waked up. I wanted fresh air, but as are required, after a threshed, and therefore they thresh until they are about liiteen feet "If you look carefully at them you as he dashed toward theni and heard the girl was now wandering around thorough comparison with the sample each day enough fodder for the next height. These shortenings, however, will see joung fish inside. Mostot his agonized yells. A cry of horror near me, seeking whom she might spy. submitted. These articles are transferred day's consumption. must not be confined to superfluous them are nearly ready to come ouL burst~from their lips as the yelling After awhile all the others were to the quartermaster's department leading shoots, but extend to any \l There are also some of the joung fiat At the annual sheep shearing in man reached the brink of the precipice caught. Then they all looked for me for transportation to the posts branch which is gaining a disoroportionate Do you see that tin]*- in this tube, Vermont the heaviest ram's fleece was and without a second's hesitation a tew moments, but gave me up and desiring them. All bids are required ascendency over other branches to each of them? That globe hanging twenty-eight pounds thirteen ounces, leaped out and shot down like a plummet yelled "Come in free." I didn't come. to be carefully abstracted, and even of the same year's growth. At first, sac. The oung fish is the umbilical and the heaviest ewe's fleece twentyone to the boiling flood 155 feet below. Then they \elled"Oh, ye needn't be' the envelopes in which they are received and for some time previous to this feeds upon that up* to a certain age pounds eight ounces. They heard the loud splash made by afraid! We'll let ye in free!" I sent with them to the subsistence stage of the growth ot the plant, the and finally absorbs it altogether. You his body when he struck the water, politely, but silently, declined the invitation It is said that the originator of the bureau in Washington, D. shortenings should be more carefully may see the same thing attached to and then, with blanched faces and because all were standing Corcord grape has raised over 20,000 for examination and supervision. No performed than is necessary afterward. the fish still in the eggs. Do you notice hushed "voices, hurried down to the within ten feet of my lair. I wasn't seedlings in the past 35 years without act of the most uuimportent character The process ot examining a how the eyes of the young fish are river level to search for the poor fellow's dressed for a party anjwa}wigglers finding his ideal grape, and only 21 can be done without a thorough knowledge tree is a simple one it is done in a sparkling. That is because" they are mangled bodv. What was their and rain water didn't suit"me and the had desirable qualities. of it by the revising authorities. moment by the pruner casting his eye sick. They have no air in this tube." surprise to meet the supposed dead barrel didn't lit. It was too big. At the end ot each month every article A mistake is frequently made in over the whole tree and detecting the soon "Do they leel the want of it so man alive, uninjured. He was shivering purchased, its mode of procurement, over-feeding after lambing and then branches which require to be short"ened. Then all began to look for me again. as that?" with cold, however, and the muddy its price, quaintity obtained, name of reducing the supply, whereas the As a general rule, where it is In a few moments one boy camp back "O }es. There, I will put them' water dripped trom his clothing. seller and amount is reported to the lambs need more milk as they grow found that any branch has a greater and got up on the barrel and sat down back in their cone perhaps they may Washington authorities. A monthly larger, and this should be provided growth upon it than the leading shoot, to rest I took a mouthful of wigglers "What was the matter?" cried the recover. The eggs, you observe, all report is also made of every cent received, for. it should be shortened by cutting to as I dodged. Then he noticed group of searchers in chorus. my remain at the bottom of the tanks, paid out, and every pound or Plants watered with water a few degrees about half the length ot the leader. clothes behind the "One of them infernal stinging lizards barrel, jumped unless I turn the water on hard. That pint purchased or on hand must be warmer than the temperature of Writers differ much regarding the best got in my ear and nearly drove down, picked them up, carried them drives them to the top but it is not satisfactorily accounted for by complete the atmosphere will make a far more way of cutting off the branches. Bv me crazy," answeied Hammond, but to the goal, then hung them on a peg good for them, for it halches them too and explicit vouchers, setting vigorous growth, all other conditions some it has been recommended to leave he popped out when I struck the water. and said "One, two, three for Harr} quickly. Since we have been on the forth also the authority for purchases being equal, than those to which cold snagsthat is, to allow a few inches By the way, boj s, what do you Then he sat down and laughed as if river, some weeks now, we hatched when made. Whilst the labor of purchasing, water is applied. to remain between the stem and the think of that jump?"" his heart would break. I didn't smile several millions of eggs, which would inspecting, and shipping army place where the branch is cut off. This Some fruitgrowers claim that alternate "It ought to have killed you," said didn't see an\ thing funny. Then have been lost Of course a vast number supplies is complete and accurate, ts a bad system. Even granting that rows ot pine and fruit trees prevent one man. he came back and *sat on me again are hatched by the process of nature there is no less completeness in the trees suffer much by bleeding when the moth and other destructive "It aidn't though," cried Hammond, and said, "Keep dark, I won't tell on in the river. But these that we careful and unj ielding exactions of cut close to the stem, that bleeding insects from injuring the fruit. The with a laugh. I'll make it again for yer!" have produced artificially will o-o a accountability which the government will soon be prevented by the wound strong odor of the pine is obnoxious to a 10 bill." "I want to come out." long way toward stocking the fisherv, requires by reports and returns ot its becoming healed. There are two evils a great many kinds of insects. The next morning Jack Harris had "Well, why don't eeome out then?" and would have been cooked and eaten ami) agents. attending the practice of leaving the distance measured, and the tapeline, "Please get my pants lor me. Say, Spreading the manure or fertilizer or otherwise destroyed if we had not snags. In the elm and many other The large, varied, and unlimited held close to the cliff edge, marked get off the barrel, it smells bad In over the ground broadcast is much stepped in and saved them. We have trees of considerable size an effort is market in this city is for the purchase 155 feet and a few inches when the here!" better than placing it in hills or rows, other tanks lor hatching the eo--s made by the tree to cover the snag of subsistence supplies not only the other end touched the water. Hammond "Get yer pants yerself. Smells bad, as the roots of plants spread out in smaller glass onesbut they are^only long before its growth is sufficient to verj* best but the most important in did not appear to suffer from does it? He, he! Kinder wet in there, everj direction, and thereby utilize used when we are ver\ busy. We reach the amputated part, and the the country. The subsi3tence department his terrible flight through the air. He ain't it? What kind of dress have yer the manure to greater advantage. keep the water running through them consequence is that a large knot in the has always tried to select for worked for Harris until the latter's got on, S'mother Hubbard, ain't it?" by an arrangement of siphons, all Earlv lambs are the most profitable. wood is formed, thus defeating one ot its purchasing officer here one of its contract was finished, and then went Then I was mad and pushed up the leading to a large aquarium. I don't A cross of the Cotswold and Southdown the principal objects which it is the most experienced members, whose into Mexico to work on the Mexican lid with all m\ might, upset my tormentor know how long we will remain here, i lately produced a lamb that business of the pruner to accomplish. main object is advancing, protecting, Central. He was in his underclothes and climbed out, just as the but I suppose as long as we can ob-S dressed twenty-tour pounds at two But another e\il consequent upon this and securing the public interest. that night, and his feet were protected boj's and girls came around the house. tain ova to work upon.''Philadelj luM months old. which sold for twenty-two practice, where no effort is made by There has never been a defalcation at only by thin socks. He struck the My dander was up and I was mad cents a pounds, a total sum of 5*28. Tunes. the tree to cover it until the annual this depot since its establishment, water teet first, and described the sensation as a hornet. I spit out cuss words Lime and salt, mixed with a soft increase of the alburnum circles shall nor have the duties required to be experienced as similar to and wigglers. The girls yelled and Exempt trom Taxation. food, is one of the cholera remedies havi done so, is that the snag, in performed here failed to meet all demands. that if the teet had been smartly slapped exeunted. I stood my ground, shook There is in New York Gity 8265,694,- for poultry, but the method generally resinous trees in particular, is always with a broad strap. While in the off rain water, bad smell and wigglers 060 worth of real estate exempt taxa adopted as the most efficacious is to liab'e to bleed until it is healed, or air he felt no difficulty in breathing, and wanted to fight the whole crow d, tion. Of this S178 SU4.060 is cit\ property, give each sick fowl a heaping teaspoonful when the snag has lost its vitality it How We Judge a Xovel. and the increased velocity, as his body The boys yelled and laughed and told 12.640,000 is United States of hyposulphite of soda in soon becomes liable to rot. From Nearly all the stories printed to-day neared the water, was not perceptible. me to wipe oft my chin and pull down property.S40.211.500 is church proper enough water to slightly moisten it. this latter circumstance arises the danger have in them an attempt at something my vest. [This last remark was certainly ty, and 33,948,500 comes under thi of finding large trees, apparently Plantain, dandelion and other weeds beyond the mere telling of a tale with England's Great Guns. a slur!] I went and took down head of miscellaneous, belonging to sound when cut*down, rotten in the in a lawn my be destroyed by placing trappings of scenery and puppets to my clothes, got inside and then said, schools,libranes, and char.ties. At 2 interior. This is frequently the case a little sulphuric acid with a stick in The Woolwich correspondent of bear out the illusion. But we do not "One, two, three for we.'" per centand the taxrate in New York with snags, even in middle sized trees. the crown of each plant. The acid Tlie London News writes: The new examine this scenery to know if it is During the next two weeks I had to City is usually higher than thatthe exempt When large branches, too, are amputated should be carried in an open-mouthed guns which have been designed to real, or stick pins in these puppets to lick five boys for calling me "Wigglers" church and miscellaneous property from old trees before the growth bottle with a long handle, so that fingers maintain the naval supremacy of learn it they are merely stutted dolls and "Old Rain Water," and would pay nearly $1.5 JO,000 a vear of the tree can cover the part it has and clothes are protected. Great Britain are in an advanced state, to play upon our fancy. In this we do the girls would smile and look innocent toward the expenses of government. become rotted, and by explosure to but they have to undergo a course of ourselves an injustice,' both losing the The killing of sheep by dogs is usually when I came around. The next time anc1 As it does not pav it, others must, the atmosphere moisture is carried experiments to settle the range tables fine flavor of a good nove) and tailinc done during the night. To guard I hide in a barrel of ancient rain water, in this way secular realtv is made down the pith of the tree, which commences and other particulars, and it will probably to penetrate the tinsel and stage effects against dogs the sheep should be induced I will first spill it, and then hide pay, by force, $1,500,000 a year for th the work of decomposition, be the beginning of next year before of a poor one, in much the same to come up every evening to be in a box.H. Hamill, in Peck's Sun. support of churches, etc. This is spreading to other parts of the wood." they are ready for sea. This will, way as a befuddled drinker swallows fed inside of a high inclosure made of pushing the excemption doctring pre-' Another writer says: The physiology however, be earfier than the ships Ve. Cliquot and champagne cider with palings or wire, with an open shed in ty far. The same rule prevails, in Rather Previous. of pruning trees requires" looking which are to carry them can be completed, the same approval Then, too, in order the center for protection to the sheep preportiouate measure, throughout the into. The woodman in pruning cuts and there will be ample time to catch a page or two of "conversation" against storms. "Were you acquainted with the murdered country. And that it does prevail, the branch clean off near the trunk, available for a full and leisurely study or "action" that is valued only man?" asked the prosecuting A gentleman at German town, Pa., and with little or no protest, is a striking leaving the concentric rings which of their requirements and capabilities. as it carries forward the plot, we are attorney of a witness for the defense who was greatly annoyed by the flocking proof of the tolerant and kindh usually form round the base of a The first ot the four 63 ton steel breech prone to run hastily over descriptive in a murder case. The willingness of of sparrows in large numbers to an feeling of the Amarican public toward branch. As growth progresses, the loaders for her majesty's ship Rodnev writing that paints a vivid bit of landscape the witness to say all that he could in ivy which covers one side of his house, religious and educational enterprises bark gradually grows over the wound will be shortly finished, and will be with cameo fidelity and beauty. behalf of the prisoner was very apparnt, got rid of them by sifting half a pound of all sorts. till it is quite covered, and it is then used as an experimental gun, care Or a chapter filled with life and color by the way. of red pepper down through the vine. supposed to be healed. The time required being taken not to damage it in the is voted dreary and slow because only "I know'd him he was de honestest, The birds at once left in disgust and We, Us & Co. for this depends on the size of process by any of the surgical operations indirectly it aids in tangling the best have not returned. It is always best to be careful and the branches, but in good-sized branches to which experimental guns are. threads of the romance. It is the "Never mind about his honesty. Cleanliness is absolutely indispensable precise in given directions to servants. it takes years. Meanwhile, the exposed occasionally subjected. Although amount of "thrill" in the concluding You say you knew him." in the dairy. Wash in tepid Col. Yerger told his colored servant wound is very apt to collect seventeen tons lighter than the 80-ton chapters and the agreement in.doc" '"Yes, sah, an' I's proud ter say I water every dish, implement or utensil Sam: moisture, and from' that and other muzzleloader on board the Inflexible, trine and sentiment of the writer with nebber know'd sich a noble that comes in contact with milk or causes the tissue rots back into the "Go and get us a couple of tickets the 63-ton gun is expected to surpass the reader's personal beliefs and tastes "Nobody a*ked you about that. its products, then scald in boiling water trunk, leaving a hole which may in for the performance to-night." the older "weanon in its destructive that settles the novel as good, bad or i What was'the condition of his health? or steam, rinse in cold water and expose the end destroy the tree, and always power. It will probably throw a \Z\ Sam came back and onlv brou indifferent.The Curi-ent. Was he "not in robust health?" to the airand sunshine if possibleuntil injure it more or less. Paint will prevent one ticket. inch shot of 1,250 pounds weight, with "No, sah he was de feeblest niggah wanted for use. decay, but unless it is 'applied a powder charge of about 580 pounds, "Where is the other tieket?" I ebber seed." In an essay on the "Poor Man," Burdette frequently it wears off, the face of the All kinds of grain may be fed to and the estimated velocity at the muzzle "1 has done disposed ob hit." makes the following Shakspearian remark: "He was killed by the accused, was wound cracks, water gets in, anfJ decay fowls with benefit, as variety seems to is to be 2,100 feet per second. i "What do you mean?" ''!he father of Shakspeare couldn't spell and he not?" 4go and et ttc follows. I have examined many be an advantage. A single kind of The 80-ton projectile weighs 1,700 "Bo3s, you tole me, couldn't write Lis own nameneither can "I can't say so, sah. My idee am tree wounds from artificial pruning, grain, with the necessary animal and pounds, but the cartridge is but 450 two tickets.' Bar's vour ticket,~and i you even bis illustrious son couldn't spell it dat he was in sich bad health dat, vegetable accompaniment, will secure and found this to be the result in numerous pouni s, and the muzzle velocity recorded done guv my ticket "to a eullud ladv 1 twice alike." eben if he hadn't been killed when he instances. Nature prunes in profit, especially if that grain be is 1,600 foot seconds. Should metonde street. She will bedar, was, he would have died anyhow at Ferd. Ward* is not yet the v, ar of New York 1 .another way and with different results. wheat, less so if it be corn, put a variety the new gun realize expectations it Boss. You bet she will be aaf. Dar'no *^iilM^3-'%&^ least two days previous, sah.''Ttzas state, nor likely to see the wards of Sing Smg r^/ $#* of seed is still more profitable. will penetrate twenty-nine inches of danger ob de ticket bein' los' 01 Sittings. for some time. wasted."Texas Sittings.* JB*" $?& "J it 6 M- *tK *efci