The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-01

the establishments of good health. and even
the most robust can not neglecs them WITH
impunity."
THE FEATHERED IsHMAELs.-Dr. Cross
writes the New York Tribune: English
sparrows having been introduced into the
United States Tor the purpose of clearing a
few hundred shade trees of csterpll
lars. it now seems we are to have
thousands of grain-felds, orchards, and
VINEYARDS devastated by these pirates
of the arr. We are told hat not infre-
auently does an English farmer suffer dam
age 10 his grain fields TO the amount OF sew
eral hundred 0ollars by these sparrows. In
addition thew are persistent fighting CHAR
acters, and all other birds are obliged TO roost
low. This is a matter for our department OF
agriculture to look into and 1T Is time
that Mr.. Watts were doing something. L
suggest that the great agricultural head hire
all the sparrows now unfortunately on the
wing caught and Gagged and shipped TO the
interior of the Rocky Mountain reglon-say
i'm the Bitter Root country-where all the
gr~asshoppers are born and bred, and there
turn them loose. AS there are no other
birds there and no kinds of insects, the
sparrows will live on the grasshoppers, as
they would anyhow, and as they viii be OBJ
liged to, which will make the sparrowS in
GIEaoC dAlN LLC1 ~ 6BLOo0
region, eating all the g~rasshoppers; and
then, after the last ~grasshopper is gone, and
not even an egg is left, the SparrOws Will Ole
for want of something to eat, nor can they
come back, it is so far, and that will be the
end of both kind OF birds.
FARM SIGNAL.-The following, says the
American Agriculturist, will be found a con-
venient method of conveying signals to dis
tant parts of the farm, in place of the old
fashioned tin horn, the usefulness OF which
is confined TO one single unmel0dlous note,
suggestive only of dinner-time. There are
times when messages or instructions are 70
be conveyed, and it is not convenient
to send a messenger. A visitor calls,
or some business needs attention., and
some one has to lose tim to go TO the far
Their end Ofthe farm to convey the lnforma-
ton. All these steps may be saved, and the
time also, by having a little code OF well un
derstOod signals, and a contrivance such as
is here explained fixed to The gable end of
the barn, or the house. A short post Is tas-
tened to the end of tine barn, passing
through the roof. AT the top of this post a
wooden wheel is fixed, having two holes
bored in the edge at opposite sides. and an
arm three feet long projecting Outwards
from the edge. The wheel works upon a
wooden pin driven into the post. A cord is
fastened to each of the holes, aud by pulling
one or the other of these cords the
arm is made to take any position desired. ID
may be held upright, or sideways and
level upon either side, and pointing up
wards or downwsrds upon either side. In
his way seven different signals can be
made. If more are needed there may De
another wheel placed OF the other side OF
the post, and seven more signals may %
given. In this case each set of arms should
be painted different colors. Red is the color
that is most easily seen at a distance, and
black would make a good contrast. In our
own experience we have found that signals
given in some such way are very quickly
noticed, and when it is known that they are
thus given the eye is very frequently cast
in the direction to look out for them.
ABOUT BATHING.-Dr. A. b. Crosby's lee
ture published in the New York Tribune is
so valuable that it is hard to omit any por-
ton of it. But the following must suffice:
AS far as bathing is concerned society is
made up of only two classes-the ducks and
the chickens. The one class habiBually
drown themselves, the other, by far the
larger of the two, have confirmed hydropho-
bia. 1t is greatly to be desired that both
these classes should be induced to adopt in
this matter that happy middle course that
is always the safest. And although an en-
tire neglect of bathing is deleteriOus, yet ex-
cess in the use of water is even more danger
Gus. So that the question, "How often
shall we bathe?" is one of great importance.
In The case of the cold bath, partial bathings
of the surface may be resorted to every day
some persons will endure it over the whole
body as often, and the majority readily
enough every other day. The decision oil
this point as to frequency must depend en-
tirely on the promptness with which the in
dividual reacts under it. If it occurs al
once, accompanied by a free circulation and
glow on the surface, then it may be in
dulged in once a day with ben.
eft, but should never be repeated
oftener than this. OF the warm bath
it may be said that the maxi
mum frequency is once a day, and the mini.
mum once q week. The majority of person;
might take two warm baths a week with de.
eided benefit, and they should as a genera,
rule be employed just before retiring for the
night. This question may perhaps be best
decided by observing the effect of the bath
if it invigorates and refreshes it may be re-
sorted to freely within the limits of the max
imum laid down above. Any sign of debil
ity should warn US to diminish the number
of baths, or to seek the more stimulating eff
| feet of the cold bath.