Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-01-23

Some OF the merchants of Pni'ad",-
phia develop an amount OF buSincS -
enterprise that does much TO acquit tiat
city Of the charge of being behind the
age. A shoe store has had photo
graph gallery fitted up in the top floor,
where every purchaser of pair OF
shoes is entitled to have his photograph
taken. A cigar dealer exposes the
legend, "A ticket for the Munnarohor
Garden and good Havana cigar for
% cents" And n popular dentist at.
tracts custom to himself by giving teeth
on trial,
Among the society women of London
is an old lady eighty-three years of age,
who is quite wonder. She has very
youthful figure, and across = room
would be taken for woman of thirty.
Her complexion is enamcled, and she
always wears in the evening the rcgula-
ton dccollete neck and short sleeves,
dressing in the height of fashion and in
youthful colors. She is an accomplished
equestrienne, sits her horse very grace
fully, and wears 4 tall beaver while rid.
ing. She seems to be in perfect health,
being much better preserved than her
husband, who looks old and feeble
She is great favorite with young peo-
pie, and always has crowd of them
about her,as she is fascinating talkcr
We wish we could impress on the
minds of ten thousands of farmers who
hold but small area, say eighty acres.
that they are not necessarily cut of
from stock-rearing or feeding They
have some advantages over the large
farmers. The care of small number
of animals may come in along with the
other work of the farm without notice.
able increase of expense or of fatigue to
those who do the work. And this means
considerable. Where land is fully used
there is large quantity OF produce on
an eighty-acre farm which can only be
proftably utilized by farm animals.
Some rotation of crops is nearly always
essential to the best farming, and grass
aud clover should have prominent
place in this rotation. These can best
be used on the farm, rather than be
sold. We are coming to learn that in
cornstalks and leaves there are vast
stores of good food which ought to be
made better use of than simply turned
under the surface.
An inventive Mexican has been tell
ing correspondent about the wire
worm, n pest of cattle. The worm is
described as being no thicker than
guitar string, but rs tough as steel,
while in three nights it will grow yards
long Men use them to hang horse
thieves with. Their bodies terminate
in two hooks, one at each end. They
lie in the grass and manage to hook on
to the cattle that are grazing. The mo-
ment they fasten on there is no escape
from them. They work their way up
slowly to the waist of the animal, where
one end hooks on and the other end
travels around slowly and finally con-
meets with itself and pulls tight and
deadly band around the victim. At first
the loop is not very tight, but the in
fernal thing is so constructed that it can
throw out hooks all along its body, and
it begins TO tighten upon them until it
cuts the animal in two. A distressing
sight is a healthy steer drawn in at the
middle so that it can't breathe, and
looking like a walking pillow with
six-inch ring in the center. The worm
can be cut off only with strong shears.