The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 15, 1884, Page 6

acter by the handwriting said that the it is the nails affect ee handw long, “ almond-shay >uy port to the midd ides the pen. Onec person with 8 which are co strc Be 3 holy. An n among ‘hey are and Th bitter. and illegible hand. may be good-natured critics, men w versatility of compre They would have gms bu haped nails, and th 1andwriting would be netra- of a somewhat a tion and musician a althou them. , of course, tol no sometimes The great sloping handwri handw aren musicians witnessed in that of Beethoven. tinger-nails of mathew to be square, not be 1e handwriting of st persons shows 2 lines quict mov it of the pen. are straight with the p strokes and th while the gular. Di hand, and slender fing writing of to be clear; snake gliding clear, gigar The the fine cu y and expan: nd impenet exible natures express tl both by fir handwriting—both are blunt termined. The Chinese have such long finger-nails that one might almost write with the ends of them. The tenacity of the Chinese nail, which does not break, shows that they have more lime in their bones than we of a different . At one ne, when good Queen Anne bit her -nails, It was the fashion for al English istocracy to bite the those ys the AS not what it is now. Fashion exerts a powerful influence on man, savage or civilized. ‘The Botecudes of Brazil and the Hydalls of Queen Charlotte’s Is- land insert 2 wooden or ivory plug under the lip of their women, causing a hideous deformity that resembles a shelf overhanging the nin. The fashionable women of to-day wear a bustle, which is almost as deforming. — ee r Bazar. —— + Bill Nye on Phrenology. An erroneous phrenologist once told me that I would shine as a revivalist, and said that I ought to marry a tall blonde, with a nervous sanguinary temperament, | Then he said: ‘One dollar please,” and Isaid: ‘All right, gentle scientist with a tawny mane, I will give you the dollar and marry the tall blonde with a bank account and bilious temperament when you give me a chart showing me how to dispose of a brown-eyed brunette with 2 thoughtful cast of countenance, who married me in an unguarded moment two years ago.” He looked at me in a reproachful kind of way, struck at me with a chair in an absent minded manner and stole away.—The Eye. A Story of Irving. Many years ago—in fact, back in the thirties—Dr. Grant, of Enfield, whose reputation as a physician in Connecti- cut, is still in memory of the first rank after years of retirement from prac- tice, was traveling in Georgia, his na- tive state, going by stage from Savan- nah to Augusta, At a certain stopping place it was found that there were more passengers than the stage could carry, and an extra was ordered for the ac- commodation of five passengers. Thess passengers were John Forsyth, of Georgia, John Branch, secretary of the navy, George McDuflie, of South Caro- lina, Dr. Gran and an unknown gen- tleman. : The party soon became talkative, and by degrees all know who each one was, with the exception of the one si- lent stranger. As the stage creaked along, the attention of Dr. Grant, who was ‘a lad atthatdaie, was attracted by a little dog following the stage, vhich rem minded him of the one de- scribed by V ngton Irving rigs toria,” which he had just been ing. He was laughing quietly to i self, when one of the’ gentlemen sisted that he should ‘tell them t cause of his usement i might j join in the fun. “Phat l tle dog re the unknown must be for no one the other, ‘ 2 ington Irving hin truth, are you self?”’ confes steadily hman thinks than ks i fruit tree d kero! <s of borer: h mUuc rmple to its fruit. Pyrethrum is flavo well spoken of as an insect powder. It is cheap, said to be poisonous only to insects, and very effectual. At the experiment station Amherst, they mix a tablespconful of the insect powder in a pailful of equal parts of water and buttermilk, i and sprinkle it on currants, potatoes, or other ed with bugs or worins. Ik makes the powder stick to the plant, and in about a half an hour the insects get a mouth- ful of it, curl, drop to the ground and die. A correspondent of the New England Farmer says that a New York farmer observed that some of his trees that had been dressed with unbleached wood ashes bore apples which kept all Winter without rotting, while the rest of the fruit rotted badly. His trees were infested with apple blight. He finally applied wood ashes, at the rate of 200 bushels to the acre, to his or- chard, and washed the bodies of the trees with lye. The orchard recovered from the blight, and the apples would then keep well in an ordinary cellar all Winter. An Illinois correspondent of the Bos- ton Globe writes: **Last Summer I was induced to try packing eggs ior Winter use. Ihad in seasons previous limed them, but s limed egg is not altogether to my taste. Last Summer I took sweet, clean kegs, set them in a cool, dry piace, with a barrel of powdered dried earth near at hand. In the kegs I pissed alsyerof this earth, then a ayer of eggs, small end down, then a layer of earth, and so on until the kegs are filled. These kegs were quite good six months after packing down. By placing the small end down the yolk is prevented from dropping down on the end and settling on the Shell while the dry, fine earth keeps them from the air. I suppose that ashes or bran or any other fine, dry substance is as good as the baked earth, but I write “only of what I have actually experimented with” d Matinee. Let me tell you of a series of msati- nees 1 attended this summer, which were given at three o'clock in the morn- in, The windows of my bedroom opened toward the south on a beautiful Iswn, bordered with elms. Year after year ; comes the golden, or Baltimore, oriole, i } | is the li net, jfor a —most delightful of singers. He loves best the sway nches of the loft- iest elm for his home, that old Dame Nature may rock the little ones tosieep with every breeze. Robin-Redbreast and Jenny Wr wii er homes in more acces hen there who years ago forsook us southern clime, perhaps alarmed by the no: returned to her northern |} were of | How the Chines: 2 stopped, the cat, saw a in the large pilot snake lying about six feet distant. ‘The doubting the fact that the ca ing on the snake, and it was equaily pliin that the sn knew it and v ready for the attack. At first Bel ht he would kill the snake at but he changed his mind and to see what the result of the impending nt would be. ‘he cat crept to within a foot of the , Which was ready to strike at the proper time. The cat stopped, and raising her left fore paw cautiously held out toward the pilot. Like a flash the latter struck at the paw, but the eat was quicker still, and bringing her right paw into play dealt the snake a blow on the side of the head that knocked it back a foot or more. The reptile, evidently greatly surprised and e the cat's attack, returned gain the cat presented her left fore paw, and again the pilot struck viciously atit, only to again miss and to receive the violent right- hander alongside the head. This was repeated four times, when the snake, weakened and thoroughly dispirited, turned and tried to drag “itself away. Instantly the cat sprang upon the re- treating reptile, and with two or three strokes of her sharp claws tore it to pieces. She carried the remains of the dead snake to a distant part of the yard where she dug 2 hole and buried it, Bellas went on toarocky hill not far away, thinking the kittens might be there. He saw a crevice in the rocks which looked like a snug hiding-place for them, and he thrust his hand into it. Instantly he felt a sharp, stinging pain in his finger, and it quickly shot up his arm to the shoulder. A rattle- snake had sunk its fangs into his fore finger, and retained its hold with such tenacity that Bellas conld scarcely shake it off. He killed the snake and hurried home. An old woman named Bailey sucked the wound, while Bellas drank plentifully of whisky. After pes the bite thoroughlv Mrs. Bailey d table-salt to it This and the tup, and after twenty- Tous hours Bellas, who had passed into delirum, was restored to consciousness. At the end of tire nounced out of da The old since the ¢ She nev that cir her killed several snakes »pearance of her kittens. ed snakes before. From is believed that ten by t rs he was pro- { “in delightiul harmony. In some d tricts infested i i houses t walls, been admiri no | ate tho | ther in Scot- ut, some 2 off son. If he attempts to pick up ag ending r endin’s, —that he gives them all up in despa and lets the g’s slide off one by one, dotting the background of his speech atintervwals like potatoes laid on the ground for a potato race. But he will never win the race; he will never gath- er them up into the basket. This is no trifling matter. It is un- fortunate to leva child grow up with habits of speech that will submit him to the sensation of inferiority when he is with cultivated people. Attwo year’: s y to say going goin’. as been used for twen year: feoing” sounds to such aspeak- ard “and formal, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred it will never be acquired. Parents are responsible for this slipshod pronunciation, and they alone can find the missing g.— Boston Christian Register. The Deeeption he Microscope. _Abundred microscopes of different and manufacture were rang a line around the hall. Many v looked through them with great ‘curi- osity. Under one of the gis ses was a beautiful gold bug that looked like a mountain of shining gold. A postage stamp under another lense was as large as the State of Texas. Adrop of ink looked like the Black Sea. 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