River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-16

Most of US are very ready to be capt.
waited by size, though size and the charac-
teristic qualities which make a fruit val
liable are generally inimical. We some
times see strawberries nine and ten inches
in circumference. They are curious and
pretty. They are nice to pick. They are
charming table ornaments. One OF them
is as large as a dozen wild strawberries.
But, just for eating, which had you
rather have2
How Bees Treat Moths.
There is a large moth, commonly
known as the deaths head moth, from its
having curious mark on its back like a
skull and crossbones sculptured on an
old tombstone, which makes very free
with bees honey. 1t flies in the dusk of
the evening when the bees are at rest,
and enters the hole in the hive, pokes its
long suckers through the wax walls
which surround the comb, and draws
much honey into its stomach. Very
often in the long evenings there are
many bees lowering around about the
hive, but it the deaths head alights and
moves toward the door they do not take
much notice; yet one sting would kill it,
and it has no means of hurting the bee
in return. So much troubled are some
hives by these curious visitors, that the
bees erect fiat wall of wax just within
the hive door, allowing small opening
ia exist on either hand. This, as rule,
puzzles the mothe, and it cannot enter.
On the other hand, If moth gets right
into the hive, the bees do not kill it, but
either let it alone or use all their inge-
nuity to stop its honey stealing propen-
sites Whilst the moth is enjoying its
meal, the bees occasionally pull down
some of the honeycomb behind it, and
mould the wax quickly so as to form a
dense wall. When the moth has finish
ed its meal, and turns to get out of the
hive, it finds itself walled up and impris-
ened for life.
Baby Carriages and Baby Killers.
The Providence Journal says: THE
time has come for the inevitable baby
carriage A generation ago these things
were little more than baskets screwed on
to axles without springs. Then came a
protest, originally from physicians,
against trundling the little ones over the
pavements in vans which would rack the
bones and addle the brains of the tough
est man. Ont of this discussion the mod
ern baby carriage was evolved, and, as
at first constructed, was provided with
real springs, and if used with ordinary
care, did not endanger lite. Gradually
the springs have given away to rigid
strips of IRON, initiating springs, leaving
the carriage as unfit and dangerous as a
wheel barrow for the delicate mission OF
| transporting an infant over rough cross
| ings anu along the average sidewalk
| The baby's tissues will not bear much
| jolting. Its brain is &c latinous, and
even It's bones soft. Nature has made its
! bed in the mothers arms and on the
mothers breast. To change this for a
springless cart is almost murder. Let
any man or woman try riding short dis
| lance, on the smoothest road, in wagon
without springs. The jar will be found
! fatiguing and soon become painful. The
| intervention OF cushion or pillow
does nof ease it much. If any parent
| wishes to get baby carriage for child
whose life is worth insuring let him OF
her buy none in which the BODY pressed
/ by the hand does not rise and fall easily
/! on its springs.
P, atecs ON Against Moths.
! We have every spring many modes
offered of protecting furs and wollenS
agains the destructive attacks of the moth
| during warm weather. We have seer
various preparations sold for this purpose
with long accounts appended of their be-
! ing perfect remedies. Red cedar chest;
and closets are recommended, and many
people cumber their houses with them al
considerable expense, only TO find out how
grievousIy they have been disappointed
The best protection we ever tried has
been to tie up in close cotton bags all furs
and woollens at all convenient to be sc
treated, after giving them thorough
shaking and cleansing, and letting then
remain there until they are again wanted
/ These bags can be hung anywhere out o.
the way. If there are no moths in tht
articles when tied up, there certainly can
none get in afterward if the bags are
4 sound. All can see that. But when tn,
clothes or articles are too numerous t.
make this convenient or desirable, hang
up in the wardrobe, after good shaking
and place little bags of camphor all oyel
the wardrobe, laying few in the bottom
Then, about every three weeks, take out
the clothes and shake them up we'll. M
moths will ever disturb them.-Ger. TeJc
graph.
Food For Canary Birds.-People wh'
keep canary birds may grow nearly al
the seed the birds require b.
sowing small patch Of Miilet. Tn
birds will do we'll on this with 3 littl'
hemp and poppy seed for a change. Tn
latter with the Millet are imported ant
are expensive, costing from ten to fifteei
cents pound retail. The aggregate col
sumption in this country amounts t
many tons in a year.