The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-04-28

ashes have q very beneficial effect is
shown by the fact that, on all virgin
soils recently burned over, we get the
fairest fruits and the best vegetables.
Salt, as manure for orchards, has no
beneficial effect on land near the ocean,
where the atmosphere is constantly
saturated with salt, and it should be
sparingly used on all soils, especially
those disposed to be low and wet.
q citizen who had thoughts of buy
ing few hens for his table, was con.
sulting colored man as to what breed
he had better purchase. "Well, sab. dat
depends. IF you am gwine to have
your hen-house on de roof of your resi-
dence, wild about fo' men to guard it.
white Leghorn hens am de best to buy !;
but If you am gwine to have it in de
back yard, an run your chances, you'd
better buy cast-iron roosters, and fill
each one with gunpowder and grape
shotl lie been in de hen bizness nv:
sell, an knows dat muffin will ooze
away quicker in a dark night dan good
fat pullets!''
CoNTAGIoN AND DRHTHER1A. - DR..
Mackenzie, of the London Hospital for
Throat and Chest Diseases, is of the
opinion that the exciting cause of d1ph-
liberia is specific contagion, and those
cases which appear to originate de qaovo
probably always arise from the virus
+ often long dormant and forgotten-of
previous cases. He considers that the
whole tendency of sanitary science is
opposed to the doctrine of the sponta-
neous origin Of specific diseases, though
he admits that cases do occur. he does
not accept the rule, so strongly laid
down by Oertel and some others, that a
minute fungus is the essential conta-
GUM of the disease; he thinks, rather,
that the observations of those who ad-
vocate such theory are not sufficiently
conclusive to warrant belief that the
essence Of the disease has yet been dis
covered. ..->
How TO MAKE Comparative
~ few know what really good toast is.
A hasty SINCE of one or both sides does
not make toast, nor do thin slices of
bread dried through. Cut slices of
uniform thickness, a plump half-inch
or fve-eighths of an inch move around
over brisk fire, to have all parts toast
ed alike; keep only so near the Goals
that the pieces will be heated through
when both sides are well Drowned. If
the slightest point is blackened or
charred, scrape it of, or it will spoil
the flavor of the whole. If covered
with an earthen bowl it will keep warm
and moist. A clean towel or MAJ bin will
answer if it is to 60 at once to the table.
But nobody can make good toast out of
poor bread. Stale bread may be used
for milk toast; sour bread may be i'm
proved by toasting it through; heavy
bread makes poor toast. Sweet, light
bread, only a day old, or less, makes
the best toast.
EXPERIMENTS WITH OP1UM-SMoK1NG
One Herr Maclay, in the course of a
stay at Hong Kong, has made an ex-
pertinent upon his own body which
would appear to be pretty conclusive as
TO the effect Of opium-smoking After
fasting eighteen hours he smoked TWEEN
ty-seven pipes, holding in all 1O7 grains
Of the opium used by the Chinese It
lis interesting to know that after the
third pipe he ceased to be hungry, and
the fifth pipe left him unable to walk
about comfortably; the seventh brought
his pulse down from eighty-six to sew
enty; the twelfth caused singing in his
ears, and the thirteenth heavy fit OF
laughter. Twenty-Five pipes affected
his hearing, but, within an hour after
the trial, which had only lasted about
100 minutes, he was able to 20 home
and go to bed, where he slept so soun1ly
as to wake up fairly fresh and hungry
the next morning. During the whole
experiment he had no dreams or hallu-
citations of any sort whatever.
The HUMAN Ear Imagine two
harps in room, with the same number
of strings, and each string perfectly at
tuned to a corresponding string in the
other. Touch string in one, and the
corresponding string in the other will
give out the same sound. Try another
string, and it's corresponding tone will
be sounded. So with all the strings.
So with any combination ct the strings.
It would not matter how you played
the one harp, the other would respond
No doubt the response would be weak
er. That is what one would expect;
but the response, as regards pitch and
quality, would be almost perfect. Now
substitute for one harp human ear,
and the conditions would, according to
theory, be the same, except that the re-
sponsive mechanism of the ear is much
smaller than that of the responsive harp.
In the ear there are minute cords,
rods or something, in such a state of
tension as to be tuned to tones of vari-
GUS pitch; sound tone, it's correspond
ing rod or cord in the ear will respond,
perhaps feebly, but still with energy
sufficient to excite the nerve flament
connected with it.; the result is nerv-
GUS current to the brain, and sensa.
ton of tone of a particular pitch
Good Words.
Bears as Pets.
Although young bears are playful
and good-natured, they are not to be
trusted when full grown; hence it savors
Of foolhardiness to adopt them as pets.
A story is told Of planter in Louisi-
ana who once picked M a vOnnp cnh