Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-06-15
Remedy for Currant Worms.

grow so luxuriantly and produce such
a mass of large leaves that it is an
easy matter to prevent the currant
caterpillacs from doing any serious
damage. The true remedy is pow
dered white hellebore, to be had from
druggists
On about 10000 bushes last year
we used forty pounds of hellebore.
This is at the rate of abou: an ounc'
to thirty-two bushes. Every bn b
had little hellebore, but if there was
no sign of worms only the slightest
shake of the box was given 10 pass
ing. Some of the bushes where the
caterpillars had commenced their
work of destruction were carefully
busted all over. This takes more
time and more hellebore, but the cost
is nothing as compared with the ben
eft. For dusting on the hellebore
we use an old baking powder tin box,
Punch holes in the top large enor gl
to let the powder come through freely
say about the size of pins head.
One of our neighbors, who has one
thousand bushes. mixes two pouads
of -four with pound of heliebore,
and be kept his bushes last year free
from caterpillars with less than
pound of hellebore. 1t is better to
dust the bushes on still morning
while the dew is on the leaves. But
the point of greatest Importance is to
dust the bushes the first moment
there are any signs of the worms.
And the next thing is to keep
close watch, and if any worms have
escaped or new ones hatched out, go
over the bushes again, and stick to it
till they are absolutely free from the
pest. AgrtcuIturist.
The Detroit Free Press has es-
timated the number of men employed
at the iron mining in the Lake Su-
perior basin at 10000. Wages were
reduced from 5 to 10 per cent. on
February l. Miners get $l.65 day.
Says the Omaha Herald: "Whiie
a Chicago man about town was
standing in cigar store recently, an
acquaintance approached him from
behind, cut off his ear, put the men,
Der in his pocket aud walked calmly
awav with it. This rather unusual
proceeding was due. it is said, to the
fact that the man thus summarily de-
prived of his Ger had been too init
mate with the wife of the man who
did the cutting If the habit of thus
branding individuals indiscreet in the
manner charged shall become common
the number OF one cared men will be
startling
The Philadelphia Telegraph re-
marks: "The girl who compels her
young man to sign over all his prop
erty to her as a guarantee of good
faith before she will consent to elope
with him, may be regarded as able to
take care of herself, and is not entitled
to much sympathy if matters do not
turn out with her in the most advaE-
tageous way. But think what havoc
this sort of thing will make with the
writer's Of society novels if it becomes
common! Fancy Juliet with a bond
of indemnity in her hand on the bs'-
cony before she begins her sweet
talk"
The longest tunnel in the world
is the one at Schemnitz, Hungary. 1t
has length of 1927 miles-l mile
longer than the ST. Gothard, and .
miles more than the Mont Gents tun-
mel. When the contract was made,
in 1872, the work was let at about
$35 yard, but for some years before
it's ipish, little while ago, the cost
was about $ll0 yard.
1t bas been claimed that the two
whales which were brought from
Australia in 1873 at the instance of
James Wickham, Of England, and
placed in the Great Salt Lake, Utah,
have grown from thirty five feet to
about sixty feet il length, and have
a progeny of several hundred, which
follow them About twenty tons OF
oil comes from good sized whale.
The Minneapolis (Mlnn.) sewing
girls who struck were receiving 81 5
and cents for shirts, s and 8 cents
for Jean trousers; Is cents for three
stitch jean trousers; cashmere trous-
ers, IA cents; California overalls,
cents; bib overalls, 5 cents, and for
double seam overalls, 80 cents doz-
en-. The average pay of $50 of the
girls was $4.5l week.
Another glass factory will be To-
Gated at Findlay, o. This makes
eleven since natural gas was struck.
The new place will employ 100 men.
A specially of the firm will be lamp
chimneys.
One of the Baku, Russia, oil
wells recently produced about 55,-
900, 600 gallons in 1l5 days. The
greater portion was lost, because
there was no apparatus to control the
output which flowed away into the
river.
"A figure of all eagle which was
placed on New Orleans building
some days ago is said to be the larg-
est in the world Its weight is 24O0
pounds, the distance from tip to tip
of wings is II feet, and its height is 7
feet.
The Bricklayers' Union, of Toron-
to, Can, has held public meeting at
which the practice of overcfowding
the market by importing English
bricklayers and masons was strongly
condemned. Other trades report
similar importations in their occu-
pations.
Italy is growing to a great ex-
tent About 10000 miles of railroad
are a recent addition which indicates
great growth. Despite the great
number who have emigrated Gully
100000 to the States and about
100000 to South America there
is still population of 30,000,O00.
Twenty employees in the
Louisville Office of New York life
insurance company went over to an
other company the other day because
the firm sent men from New York to