Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 20, 1900, Page 7

ah) It Looked Suspiciou: “Isn't your neighbor, Blinkinoff, a drinking man?” “I wouldn’t like to give an expert opinion on the subject. I'll admit, however that I saw him, the other night, trying to drive a spigot into an ash barrel, thinking it was cider.”—- Cleveland Plain Dealer. Reliable Help Wanted ‘Either sex.) The Humanitarian Home and Sanitar- ium for Invallds and Health Seekers, incorporated. Send 12c in stamps for rull information. Address J. 11. Teitiebaumm, Treasurer, East Las Vegas, N. M. Where It Was Kept. It was in one of the big department stores. “What do you wish to-day, madam?” Kked the courteous floor-walker. othing. I— “Sixteenth floor. Take the elevator. We have nething there in large and varied ass ring the bell for the lady THE GRIP CURE THAT DOES CURE. Laxative Bromo Quinine Table the cause that produces La Grippe Grove’s signature is on each box. Her Fleeting Regret. “Don't bother, Henr; won't ry you,” said . are just as good fish in the sea as ever were caught.” “Better,” said he, shortl to depart. And for on e wished she had consented to marry him, sc that «s might make him suffer for his horrid remark. —Harper’s Bazar. as he rose Piso’s Cure for Consumption is the only icine used in my house.—D, C. Albright, Mifflinburz, Pa., Dec. 11, ’95. Nearing the Limit. I think it 1 every time I Well, at the pace your're going now there will soon be for improvement.— The Largest in the World. Raker & Co. Ltd., Dorehe: {rs. of Cocoa and Chocolate in thi Mi Circumstances Alter Cases. -ton—My wife never has the rly—That’s How do it? strange. rial bottle and e. Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Holding Bim of. Doctor (casually)—Well, Mr. Brown, how 4 you to-day Mr. Brown (defensively)—Oh, I’m all right, doctor. Ther.’s nothing the mat- ter with me that would be worth $2 to you.—Chicago Record. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces fn- flammation, ellays pai dow draperies at the <quisite enough to be ptious debutante. few wild beasts more to na talking man having Swift. The ne Bellevue the ball frock ‘There are und surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. —Demosthenes. Past 80 and Not a Gray Hair “T haye used Ayer’s Hair Vigor for a great many years, and although I am past eighty years of age, yet I have not a gray B hair in my head.” — Geo, Yel- E lott, Towson, Md., Aug. 3, 1899. Fate You Lost It? We mean all that rich, dark color your hair used to have. But there is no need of mourn- ing over it, for you can find it again. Ayert's Hair Vigor always re- stores color to gray hair. We know exactly what we are say- ing when we use that word “always.” It makes the heir grow heavy and long, too: takes out every bit of dandruff, and stops fall- ing of the hair. Kee it on your dressing table and use it every day. $1.60 a bottic. All druggists. Write the Doctor If you do not obtain all the benefits you desire from the use of the Vigor, write the Doctor about it, He will tell you just the right thing to do, and will send ‘you his book on the Hair and Scalp if you request it. Address, Dr. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. || Most talked of potato on earth! Our, Catalog tells—so also about Sal- zer's Harliest Six Weeks’ Potato. I haven't any wife.—Chi- | ures Wind Colic. '25¢a bottle. | | lands, with mutual profit to both the FARM AND GARDEN, MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Some Up-to-Date Hints About Cul- tivation of the Soll and Yiclas Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture and Floricultare. Vhe Grain Farmer and Sheep Feeder. A bulletin of the South Dakota Ex- periment Station says: It is a de- plorable fact, and one that does not speak well for the enterprise or in- telligence of either our sheep-raisers or our rarmers, that of the small num- ber of sheep which are annualiy raised a large percentage is shipped east in an “unfinished” condition. At the same time hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain are annually sold at a price that entails an actual loss to the producer. In the past, and to a large extent at present, our cheap rangé sheep and our cheap grains are freighted east at great expense and there fed at a handsome profit. We are glad to note, however, that some of the more progressive farmers in this state are availing themselves of these favorable conditions and are thereby realizing handsome profits. We would not be understood as advising all sheep men to go to raising grain, nor that all grain farmers should go into the sheep business. Neither do we believe that all the successful sheep-raisers are fitted by taste, experience, en vi- ronment or business ability to become successful feeders. But we do believe that many of them are so fitted and that there are a sufficient number of ‘such in every neighborhood to “feed to a finish’ not only as many sheep as are now produced annually, but enough more to consume all of the coarse grains and fodder produced. | We believe that all coarse grains and fodder produced should be fed within our state, and that no “feeders” should be shipped out until all such food- stuffs are consumed. We believe that the farmers and the sheep men are “too far apart,” not only geograph- ically, but also in their way of looking at this important problem. Geograph- ically they might be brought much | closer together if all the rough, stony, hilly or unoccupied lands, of which | every country has more or less, were utilized for sheep ranges. On many farms both grain farming and sheep raising can be profitably | conducted, but when this does not seem advisable the two industries can be carried on upon closely adjoining farmer and the sheep man. If the grain farmer would take into consid- eration the value he would derive from having a sheep man for a neighbor, | who would buy aud consume his sur- plus grain product and also render him an even greater service by keep- ing the stubble lands. fallow fields and waste places free from weeds; and if the sheep man would appreciate the advantage of being able to buy cheap grain of his neighbor in order to finish his sheep, we believe they would find it mutually beneficial. In order to aid in bringing about this order of things a series of feeding experiments was begun during the past season, and it is hoped that the work may be con- tinued for some years to come. A Destructive Birch Tree Borer. In a report of the Division of En- tomology of the Department of Agri- culture, Pref. F. H. Chittenden, regard- ing the birch tree ,borer, Agrilus anxius, says it was noticed that the birch trees in Buffala were being de- stroyed, and an investigation showed that the above named borer was tun- neling under the bark of the trees. The belief is expressed that unless something is done at once to stop the Frio 16. SFoek of Agritue anzive op trunk of whice bined, bart removed to ebow larval gauleries—somowhat reduced (orighta). ravages of this borer, all the birch trees in the city will be destroyed. One of our cuts herewith given shows the work of this borer. The galleries run so closely together and cross and recross in such confusion that it is impossible to trace any in- dividual burrow. Injury can be detected in the trunk by a reddish discoloration from one- quarter of an inch to one inch in width, this being caused by the ex- udation of sap and the ejectment of excrement. Another indication of the insect’s presence is the dying cf the trees at their tops. The insect appears to attack the tree at first among the larger branches at a considerable height, causing the tree to die at the top, while the remaining lower branches keep green. Its presence is also manifested by the uneven, wavy appearance of the bark, which shows more or less regular spiral ridges on the smaller branches, The larva, as a rule, enters the wood in the fall of the year and there con- structs a cavity, which probably serves the purpose of a pupal cell, in which it passes its ultimate transformations in late spriag or early summer. With- in this cell the larva passes the winter. We illustrate the mature and larval form of the insect. The beetle 1s bronze in color, There are only two methods of control known at pres- ent. One is to use such clean cultural methods that the insects will find no harboring places. Prof. Chit- tenden believes that the trees cannot be saved after being once attacked, and that the only safe thing to do is to cut down and burn infested trees. This work should be done before the beetles emerge in May and June. Unattacked trees may be protected by using va- rious mixtures as washes, among them being a mixture of linseed ‘oil and resin. Some have even recommended whitewash poisoned with a small quantity of some arsenite such as ar- senite of lead. There is danger in the application of strong arsenites to young trees, but old trees will not be injured. A measure of utmost value for the protection of trees irom the attacks of borers consists in keeping them in the best possible condition, free from fungi, moss, or abuormal growth, from loose bark, and keeping the trunks as ,. Flo. 17.—Agrilus anziner a "female beetle; b, first abdominal segments of male from below; ¢, larva from above—al} eplarged | about 33 times (original) clean as possible. In some cases the use of a fertilizer might assist the trees to withstand borer attacks. Turkestan Alfalfa. Turkestan alfalfa promises to be come one of our most important plants, as it seems specially adapted to stand great variations of heat and cold. The first importations were brought to this country by a special agent of the Department of Agricul- ture, who followed the northward growth of alfalfa in Asia till he reached lands where it was every win- ter subject to cold as severe as 40 de- grees below zero. As the same coun- try is subject to intense drouth, it follows that this plant must have rare staying powers to endure such changes. The variety of alfalfa now being grown in this country (lucerne) came originally from Central Asia, having been first heard of in Media. It was taken to Greece in the times of Darius and was afterward cultivated along the shores of the Mediterranean by the Romans, French and Spanish. Thus for at least 2,000 years before being imported into this country it was grown in warm countries and has largely become a warm country plant. Very likely in its origin it occupied a region south of that now called Turke- stan alfalfa. This would account for its freezing out so badly last winter in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming. One year’s experience with Turkestan alfalfa indicates great hardiness. Last winter was‘one of the coldest ones we have ever experienced, but Turkestan alfalfa was uinjured in the very states where lucerne froze out badly. At the Wyoming Experiment Station a plat of Turkestan alfalfa was exposed for two weeks without injury to a daily temperature of 35 degrees below zero, and on some of the days the temperature went as low as 45 degrees below. In California it was subjected without damage to a drouth that seriously injured ordinary alfalfa. Agricultural Notes, With a proper amount of stock on the ranges the grasses would not have been pulled out; for the root systems would have been so deep that the hold of the soil would have been complete. Permitting the top of the grass plant to be kept always short results in- evitably in shortening the grass roots. The latter finally become shortened till little more than the base of the plant remains in the soil, and in that condi- tion the plant is easily pulled out by any grazing animal that comes along. Not only are these plants pulled out by animals but the frost is constantly heaving them out, which would not be possible with well developed grasses. The American farmer needs to be im- pressed with the necessity of protect- ing his grass land. Keep the pas- tures in good shape and it will not be necegsary to pasture them. The short conditions of the pastures is what too often influences the farmer to turn the stock into his meadows. Under a proper system our pastures would pro- duce four times the amount of forage they do at the present time. Thus on many of our paStures the feed per acre for the entire feeding season would not equal half a ton if dried. The full crop obtained from the feeding ground should equal two tons, if dried. It ap- pears plain that the grazing problem is one of the most serious of all the problems confronting us. ; pS een 4 Iron and alumina (Redonda) phos- phate in its raw or natural condition, even when finely ground, is generally considered of little agricultural value, and is looked upon in Europe as a dan- gerous aduiterant of other phosphates. The best soil for celery is muck. ‘der and assist or carry them to SCIENTIFIC TOPICS CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. Private Mail Boxes—New Fire-Escape Truck—A Novel Voting Machine— Wuhl Make the Blind See and the Deaf Hear. Will Make the Blind See. The kussian electrician, Paul Stiens, is now in London, exhibiting an inven- tion by which he claims he can restore sight to the blind, and even to those who were born blind. Stien’s idea is to supply a substitute for the lens of the eye by the aid of electricity. “Im- mediately the apparatus is brought into contact with the body of the individual operated upon,” said he,” as in tke camera, it focuses the rays of light from the object to the brain, and sight is given. Objects are clearly seen. They are not inverted, but appear in their proper form. My apparatus sim- ply constitutes a substitute for the lens of the eye.” Experiments seem to bear out Stien’s statements. He claims also that his invention will enable the deaf to hear perfectly. You know,” he said, “that even though the drum or tym- panic membrane is at fault, if the small bones called the incus malleus and stapes are present, a man is enabied to hear by means of a plug which is put in his right ear. In fact, such a plug is called a false drum. Now, with the aid of my apparatus, when the mem- brane and bones are at fault, hearing is given by application of my apparatus to the surface of the body. The body is a good conductor of the electric cur- rent, and when the apparatus is in use a man wishing to talk to the deaf per- som speaks into the apparatu The voice vibrations are carried through it to the person spoken to, thence by his nerves to the resonating chambers and along the eustachian tubes to the aud- itory nerves, which convey the sound | to the center of hearing in the brain.” Asked what happened when the audi- tory nerve was at fault, Mr. Stiens said another nerve would gradually be edu- cated to take its place. The West Indies Hurricane. The United States hydrographic of- fice has tracked out the late destructive West Indian hurricane. It was first en- countered on August 3 at a point near lattitude 12 degrees north, further east than any tropical storm hitherto re- ported to the hydrographic office. The center of the storm reached Porto Rico on the 8th, Hayti on the 9th, Bahamas on the 12th, and Jupiter, Fla., on the 13th, It then continued parallel to the United States coast, where hurricanes were reported by vessels until the 19th. When last reported, on the 21st, it was near latitude 40 degrees north and lon- gitude 60 degrees west, much weakened in character. The life of this hurricane is stated to have been longer than any hitherto reported to the hydrographic office. New Fire-Escape Trucs. No great improvement in fire ladders has been made for some time, the hook and ladder truck having retained its present character for many years. In a new and apparently practicable pat- ented improvement in _ fire-escape trucks the famiiiar ladder is replaced by a telescoping extensible steel shaft which is pneumatically extended, re- sembling when extended an elongated pole with many sections. At the top of this steel column is a bracket arm from which swings a basket supported on ropes, in which the fire-bound vic- tims make their descent to the ground. Provision is also made for tilting the steel shaft so as to throw the basket directly in front of the windows where it is required. With a fireproof basket and a rope it is possible for women and children to make their escape from the upper stories of blazing buildings un- der circumstances where it would be necessary for a fireman to go up a lad- the ground. Furthermore, this arrange- ment can be operated as readily and with as great speed and be made with as great a reach as the longest lad- ders. Photographing the Rainbow. MM. Antonaldi and Mathiew of the National Agronomical institute, Paris, publishes in Knowledge a well-illus- trated article on clouus. The applica- tion of photography to the study of meteorology enabled them to study the form and height of clouds, waterspouts, rainbows, halos, coronae, etc., and to record the “fugitive sinuosities” of lightning. A photograph of a rainbow, taken June 2, shows that the inner space of the bow is much brighter than the outer, an appearance which is not always noticeable to the naked eye. This difference is due to the existence of secondary rainbows, or “super- numerary bows,” unexplained by Des- cartes and Newton, but to which Young applied his discovery of the law cf in- terference of light. Private Mail Boxes, The postoffice department has or- dered that in all cities and towns hav- ing free delivery the postal system shall be extended to include house-to- house collections, and the system is also extended to all rural free delivery routes. One of the requirements, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which the citizen must observe is to supply his own mail box. Postmasters are in- structed to give information about the boxes and encourage householders to put them up. The government has made special recommendation of a cer- tain kind of mail box represented in the accompanying cut. This box is a unique contrivance fitted with auto- matic signal flags so that the passing carrier can see at a glance if there is any mail deposited in it for him to col- lect. It is also a receptacle for deliv- ered mail, and a different colored flag apprises the householder when the car- rier leaves any mail in the box. One of the flags is white and the other red. The box is to be affixed to a post near int (\ ayy the street convenient for the carrier. It is fitted with perfect locks, and when the carrier drops mail into the box the white flag immediately comes up, which indicates that there is mail for the people in the house. Dropping a letter to be mailed into the box raises the red flag, which is the signal to the passing carrier. It is large enough for the largest-sized letter, and has sepa- rate spaces for papers and packages. It is the intention of the postoflice de- partment to introduce the house-to- house collection system as soon as pos: sible. A Novel Voting Machine. A novel voting machine was tested the other day at the government print- ing office in Rome. It is the work of Dr. G. Trespioli, a well-known scient- ist, and his brother Faustus. A voter goes to the polling booth and the offi- cial in charge cancels his name on the register and puts in its place a stamp bearing the number of the ward, and }a progressive number, which he ob- tains by consulting and setting the ma- chine in operation. Until this number is obtained the voter can do nothing, for the machine would not act. . When he learns his number all he has to do is to step on the pedal of the machine and press on the ticket bearing the name of the candidate he prefers. Then, after he has removed his foot from the pedal, he sees under a plate of glass his ticket go directly into the ballot box, and thus his duty is done. The machine is in the form of a box, and it contains scrolls of cardboard on which are printed the names of the va- rious candidates. Atter each voter has maue his selection a ticket is cut from ; one of the scrolls, and passes into the ballot box, which is constantly revolv- jing. When the day’s work is over the ballot box is opened and the votes are counted in the usual manner. Graveyard Studies. In his opening address on “Geolog- ical Time” to the geology section of the British association, Sir Archibald Geikie urged upon town geologists and those in the country who have no op- portunities of venturing far afield, that they may do good service by carefully scrutinizing ancient buildings and monuments. In the churchyards they will find much to occupy and interest them, not, however, like Old Mortality, in repairing the tombstones, but in tracing the ravages of the weather upon them and in obtaining definite measures of the rate of their decay. Sir Archibald himself, twenty years ago, studied in the graveyards and cem- eteries of Edinburgh the rate at which marble gives way in such a moist cli- mate as that of Scotland. Recent Inventions. An improved snow-melting machine has an air compressor operated by the motion of the machine, to drive air intc contact with a gas flame and combine the two for increasing the heat in the melting chamber, the gas being formed from gasoline. Time of each collection from a mail box is indicated in rotation by a new apparatus having an endless chain 01 card holders, rotated by the action of opening the box at each collection, thus throwing a new card in front of the indicator slot. To enable a person to float in the water in an upright position a Massa- chusetts man has designed an appar- atus composed of a belt to be inflated and placed around the waist, with a weighted rod attached to each leg to keep the floater verticle. An electric band has been patented for use in giving treatment to patients, comprising two semicircular pieces ot metal, one being zinc and ‘the other copper, hinged together at the back, with an adjustable fastening in front which grips the band around the waist. The fewer superlatives you inject into your conversation the more at- tention people will pay to what you say. * MURDEROUS MICROBES Breeding and Feeding in Human Intestines. A New Powerful Germ Destroyer Discow- ered—How Microbes Are Killed While You Sleep. Millions of microbes, bacteria, pte- maines, disease-germs of every kind live and breed and feed in the stomach and bowels. For their propagation it ts only neces- sary for the liver and intestines to be- come lazy and operate irregularly. Modern science has been at work to find’ a means of killing microbes, and the most successful germ destroyer of all is Cas— carets Candy Cathartic. They slaughter bacteria wherever they find them, are an tiseptic, stop sour stomach, make tbe liver lively, the blood pure, the bowels regular, everything as it should be. Go buy and try Cascarets to-day. It’s what they do, not what we say they’l de, that proves their merit. All druggists, 10c, 25c, or 50c, or mailed for price. Sem for booklet and free sample. Address, The Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago; Montreal, Can.; or New York. This is the CASCARET tab- let. Every tablet of the only genuine Cascarets bears the magic letters “CC C. Leok at the tablet before you buy, and beware of frauds, imita- tions and substitutes. Revised Version, “Well, that’s enough to try the pa- tience of Job,” exclaimed the village minister, as he threw aside the loca? paper. “Why what's the matter, Gear?” I preached from the Therefore Steadfast,’ ” an- ut the printer There for Break- text, ‘Be ye red the good m kes it read, ‘Be Her Sudden Belief. “George.” she said, and her brilliant sought the glowing embers, “3 't believe you love me as you used * he exclaimed, slip- {ping on his dragon-emproidere@ slip- pers, “you are my idol!’ “But you don’t show it; you dons hip me a tiny bi and his voice rang with ail al, “only the wicked wor~ Chicago News. that is er ship idols tionizecorn growing, yielding to 99, in Minnesota, 400 bus. per sere. } 7 BIG FOUR OATS yields 250 bus. per acre, aud you oan beat that! SPEL 80 bus. per acre. and BAR BE Yields 121 bus. in N, APE 25c. A TON Gives rich, green food for eatbe, }| sheep, swine, poultry, etc., ata. aton, We sell nit Farm Seeds in the world. 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