Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-04-19
Tree Iyutrhcrsur

There are some who think that ncx;,-. a.,
sects neyer attack tree until they are diseased
Whey regard them as in some sort the scaxsn-
gers OF nature. who calls in their aid 90 hasten
the cath &c rid itself OF what soon would be mo-
credit III thls were true, one might look Tor
the evidence Of this In Philadelphia where the
insects generally prevail 90 a great extent
One thing Is sure that the annual etrimminy"
which these trees get would soon 80 for them AZ
anyrate. There Is no question but this prac-
tice is serious blow 60 the vitality of the tree,
and that tree annually headed-in this way
soon dies out.
1t is remarkable that people cannot learn
wisdom from experiences of this kind. We
have had many notable instances of the injury
OF this practice, and yet people th at we are sc-
cuStomed TO call intelligent still go in IL, il it
were the most approved and honored way
We had ia Germantown once a splendid
avenue of trees in front OF one of our Churches
The good folks went in for trimming. and after
few years the trees sickened, and were taken
out and new ones planted, but last winter
another with similar avenue. went and did
likewise, and we hear that one OF our sharp
tree-m has already set ont a lot to come on
20 sell TO the church by the time the Others
fan III II were merely a question of charity
10 Ind work for men in cold weather then let
them break stones for our highways and NOT
mutilate the tree.-CeI1adEtol0R Telegraph.
DR.. HALL saws those people who are trouh,es
with cold feet at bedtime should bend over and
smartly slap the calves Of their legs for about
hve minutes This struck a young man who
boards on Essex street to be about a. sensible a
piece of advice as he ever heard. So he nut il
to the test after disrobing himself on Saturday
night He bent over and pounded away al
himself. and all the time made a noise with his
mouth. like the hiss of escaping steam. This
noise attracted the attention Of one of the
boarders, and he told the landlady that there
must be a fire in that room. because he could
hear IL siZ, and could hear an alfred snannins
and popping going on in there. The landiady
didn't pause to argue. She caught up a pail
and plunged for the place at once. The boarsier
followed with a gigantic clOthes-brush. Both
of them precipitated themselves into the room
together. The advent WAS sudden that the
boarder who was warming himself had no
chance TO dodge. And there was too much
momentum to the lssndlady and the other board
er TO permit them 20 recover thems elves IN
time. So there was a collision. The landlady
saw il coming and instinctively held the pail in
front OF her. But the disciple of Hall didn't
see il, a his back was to the door and his head
nearly to the floor, and before he could look nm
on hearing the door fly open, the visitors were
on him, and the contents OF the pail over him
and the three, with pail and clothes brush,
came down in crash together. How the land
lady eHtricated hersef and got out of that room
as quick as she did will ALWAYS remain a mys-
terry to the two men who stood there and glsred
at each other for fifteen minutes.-DIpJury
Aei-S.