The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 12, 1890, Page 6

RS ee cog tO MAKING AN ONION BED. ee Story of How It Is tione by the Darkies in Sanny Bermuda. The making o da onion bed is a work time and ca at about two hundred feet square on the outskirts of Hamilton, enclosed with & high wall, so near the hotel I saw it ev- ery day and had an excellent chance to as a lot watch the operation of cultivating {t. The | soil was dark and rich, smooth and fria- ble, as most of the tillable soil in Ber- mudais. ‘Three men, all colored, went wo work ab tual it uary and be the iminary urd making an onion bed Th ed it off from north to sou measured it with poles, then lay down unde last week in Jan- work east to measuring and res several days. When y the exact size they brought and p! and began to tu soil, one ma he horse holding the inder a tree rn over the The vast amount of ting, and the he e plowing days of w th lot tion of course period — ¢ rest, and | ur the lapse of one day the three men reappeared armed with hoes and rakes and be 1 to “smooth down” the soil. This is work that the Bermuda darky must delight He must first deter- mine where to b nd that requires some hours of deliberation. Then, hav- ing made up his mind, he attacks one corner with a hoe, and strikes several effective blows. <A carriage drives past, and he stops and leans upon the hoe- handle till it is out of sight. Two or three more blows, and he goes slowly off to a distant part of the lot for a drink of water. On his return to work he breaks two or three more clods, finds a stone or a bit of broken glass that attracts his at- tention, picks it up and carries it to one of his fellow-workmen to get his opinion of it. Returns to work, breaks a few more clods, and by this time is so fatigued that he has tostretch out under atree and rest. It is only, of course, while he is under the boss’ eye that he exerts himself in this way. When the boss is absent the darky is asleep under atree. He gets four English shillings a dey for this business, and docs not earnone. Although the Bermuda darky is better educated and generally more civilized than his brother in tho West Indies, he is just as lazy and just as thoroughly worthless. At the ond of two weeks the lot was plowed and raked down to s proper smoothness. Thon followed a period of inactivity, perbaps to let the soil recov- er from its unwonted exertion. After a lapse of three or four days the men ap- peared again and repeated their former pacing off d measuring, alternating this with siestas under the tree, and heated arguments about whether the beds should run lengthwise or across. This important matter took days of de- liberation, and at longth the beds were marked out. Then came putting out the “sets,” for in Bermuda tho onion seed is sown in the open ground and al- lowed to grow until the bulbs are as large as the end of a small finger, the labor labor, was plowed. Such ex demanded =a plants being then transplanted to long beds of six straight rows each, with narrow walks between. It took more than a week to put out the sets, and February was almost gone before the garden was planted. Those three men were at work at it for three weeks, doing what one good American gardener would have done in four days. This was a good example of ‘‘cheap” colored labor: Three men at $1 a day each; twenty-four days, $72, an Ameri- can gardener at $2 a day, 4 days, $8. The owner of that lot would be frightened to pay a laborer $2a day, but he was really paying his men at the rate of $10a day each, considering the work they did. But when the men went home to rest after thoir arduous toil nature be- gan her work—and it is a good thing for Bermuda that nature is not as lazy as the darkies. For two or three days the tops of the little onions were wilted and brown, and it was hard to see that any thing was planted at all. But they began to pick up. There came a warm tain and sunshine, and more warm showers, and at the end of the week the onion beds were as green as they would be with us in a month.—Cor. N. Y. ‘Times A WONDERFUL FAMILY. A Japanese Household in Which Many Generations are Represented. “A thousand years in one household” (tkka sen-nen) is an old Japanese saying, employed with reference to an event which, in respect of extreme rarity, may be classed with the sight of a dead don- key or a tinker’s funeral. The Hochi Shimbun says that an instance may at present be found in the household of a merchant called Mizuma Gensuke, who resides in Kanazawa, in the Saitama district of Sado. The family consists of the following members: Great-great- great-grand-papa Gengo (aged 130), great-groat-great-grand-mamma_ Tomi (aged 132), great-great-grand-papa Gem- bei (aged 101), great-great-grand-mam- ma Miyo (aged 99), great-great-grand- aunt Yoshi (aged 105), great-grandpapa Gensuke (aged 81), great grandmamma Kimt (aged 79), grandpaps Gempschi (aged 61), grandmamma Toyo (aged 60), papa Genkichi (aged 40), mamma Tomo (aged 38), uncle Genroku (aged 35), son Genshichi (aged 14), daughter Toki (aged 5). The united ages of the four- teen amounted, at the close of last year, to 980, and consequently became 924 on | the first day of this year, ac ording to | the Japanese method of Next New Year's Day, suppo: death had not intervened meanwhile, the aggregate ages would be 1,003, and as 994 is nearer 1,000 than 1.008, ily have resolved to celebrate this ulation. where the whole fou tle tot of 5 to the ie ca ag Raa HISTORY OF CLOCKS. An Industry Introduced into England by Three Dutch Mechanics. The introdu into Great Britain to the Dutch. In 1368 i III. granted a license for three mechanics to come over from Delft in Holland, permitting them to | pursue their trade in England, also for the education of mechanics in our own ‘land, whereby they might be initiated in the art by the more skillful aliens. | The oldest k n | one which is fix in a turret at Hampton A of He own clock trumpets, forth from pr : which the Stras 1 as follows: At each hour goes round, there is a cock its wings; again, in door opens, andan angel appears, w 3 the Virgin, then the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descends and alights upon the shoulder of the Virgin. About sixty-five years ago the East India Company presented the the peror of China with two time es, manufactured by Englishartists. They were of the finest workmanship that was ever executed. They were of similar design, and so it is only needful to de- scribe one of them. It was in the form of achariot, which was of solid gold. A lady is seated, in a languishing atti- tude, leaning her right hand on that side of the chariot. In the center of the same side is set the clock itself, with its face outwards, and which is no larger thanasbilling. It strikes and repeats, and, upon being wound up, goes for eight days. A bird, which is almost completely made up of diamonds and rubies, rests upon the lady's finger. At striking time it flutters its wings for several minutes. It is something less than the sixteenth part of an inch from the tip of its bill to the extremity of the tail. Inside its body are contained some of the works which animate it. In ber left band the lady holds s golden tube which is little thicker than a large pin, and upon the topof which is fixed a small round ornament of the sizeof a sixpence. Aslongas the clock continues to go, this ornament Moves round witha regular perpetual motion. The top of the ornament is studded thickly with precious stones, as is the whole chariot. Above the fair occupant’s head is a sort of canopy, un- der which is placeda bell. To the in- quisitive eye the bell reveals no appa- rent connection with the clock save as an ornament. But thereis a secretcom- munication between the two. At the hour, from under the shade of the can- opy there descends a hammer, which strikes smartly and sharply against the mellow-sounding bell. This perform- ance can be repeated at pleasure, simply by touching a catch in the form of a minute diamond button. The chariot can be set in motion by the couching of a spring, and will run in either a circu- lar ora straight direction. Asit moves, there are two birds with appear as if fly- ing in the air.—Chambers’ Journal. session this, a » salut =m- TOOK HOWELLS’ ADVICE. She Said the First Thing That Came In- to Her Head. . Women as a rule do not enjoy Mr. W. D. 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