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Grape-roots and Rones

Grape-roots have a special liking for
bones and seem almost to know where to
go to find them, says Matthew Crawford. Of
Cuyahoga Falls, .. A Delaware vine sent
roots some distance to hole in which bone
had been buried, and then it branched and
nearly surrounded every bone with roots.
The owner priced the vine, and would not
have injured it willingly, but in spading
he accidently cut the root leading to the
hole. The vine died, and he ascertained
that it had drawn nearly all its food
through that one root.
Eight or nine years ago, when the LADY
grape was introduced, obtained one and
planted it as follows: I dug hole four
feet In diameter and two feet deep, and
nearly filled it with cows heads from
the slaughter-house. | then filled in
among the bones some good soil
and planted the vine, and then
sodded it over. The turf has never
been removed since, and the vine has done
well from the first, although | have no
doubt but that the roots of the Concord
and Worden near by are trying to get the
bones away from the Lady.
1t is very important that the roots Of
no other plant occupy the soil near a
newly-planted vine. Its roots will stand
poor chance among those of an es-
tablished tree or vine. Neither should
strong growing varieties be planted
near weak ones. Many grape of
real merit has been condemned
as poor grower because such gross feeders
as the Concord has robbed it. l have an
Isabella vine that has struggled between
two Concords nine years, and has made
but little Roadway, while they are increas-
ing its strength.-S. +. Merchant
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FAIR AMERICANS FIGURE.
The Lines of Perfect Form in Woman
"A Secret Worth Knowing.

Good sense and good taste in dress mat
tiers dwell with PAmericaine or they dwell
nowhere. The temptation to a pinched
waist has overtaken us through our ma
tional sienderness as compared with the
women of Europe, VINO are lower in stat
ure and stouter, except that the French,
whose youthful figures are perfect, but
who, besides not having the average hight
of American women, are fated to early en-
bonpoint and entire loss of fashionable
grace. An error quite as serious from
either a physiological or an artistic point
of view, SAYS WiueS and Daughters, is to
carry the waist down to abnormal length,
which is reported to be the coming craze.
Doubtless the modiste would tell us she
aims but to meet therequirements of certain
customers in this particular. In fact, have
known little women to insist on being
close-htted the utmost length, so extending
the waist more and more, unconscious that
every particle gained on the natural waist
line told against good proportion of the
tgure entire, perhaps to the extent of
converting woman into funny waddling
duck. Our daughters need to be carefully
instructed that for all such silly reShaping
and misshaping offended nature will have
her revenge Dress reformers are apt to
go to the opposite extreme, which is the
reason their attempts do not succeed with
the masses. The woman universal is not
going to make gny of herself She knows
there is no occasion for it. Meantime there
are reforms in the air that may prove
worthy to adopt. |, for one, have faith in
our wives and daughters that they do and
will avoid the abuse of corsets generally.
But here is a secret for women troubled
with obesity which we anticipate will carry
some weight, namely, that bodies exposed
constantly to the sun "gain such activity
of the blood forces as to prevent any ex-
cessive formation of adipose matter" 1t
must not, however, be supposed that, on
the other hand, plenty of sunlight is con-
ducive to leanness. Not so, for the really
healthful condition is neither fat nor lean,
but shapeiy and plump, and the suns rays
quicken the nutriant functions, producing
a beautiful and elastic roundness of form;
indeed, the constant action of the sun
upon the human body is like the effect
upon plant, vitalizing and strengthening
to every part.-DreSS.
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USES OF MACHINERY.
Edison on the Keller Motor and Labor
Question

2hCsliOu.
Thomas Edison, the electrician, when
asked by newspaper interviewer what he
thought of the Keely motor, replied: Il
have never seen it, so | have no opinion
about 1t. But all the results he is said to
have obtained can be got from compressed
air. All the air in this room can be can
densed into liquid that could be carried
In tilbert shell. and its explosive force
would be tremendous. Skillfully released
and reconstructed it would move great
machine" In reply to the question
When motive power comes to get four
times as cheap as it is, Mr.. Edison, what
will become of the laboring man ?' ale
will be enriched by it. Machinery will be
his slave. See how machinery has multi
piled in the last fifty years. As direct
result, workingmen get double the wages
they did then, and the necessities of life
cost only half as much. In other words, a
hand-worker can to-day buy four times as
much with ten hours work as his father
could fifty years ago. For the first time
In the worlds history, skilled mechanic
can buy barrel of -four with single
days work. The machinery in the United
States represents the labor of thousand
million men, or fifty times as much labor
as that of all the men in the country.
When motive power is still further
cheapened-say in another generation-I
believe that the unskilled laborer, if so6er
and industrious, can have house of his
own and horse and carriage and library
and piano. 1t is terrible stupidity
that leads some laboring men to suppose
that machinery is their foe II ic tho
thNg that gives them independence and
freedom. Without machinery society
would drift into the condition of master
and slave. The multiplication of ma
chinery means for every worker more
food, better clothes, better house, less work.
In fact | believe that the indefinite in
crease of machinery is going to solve what
folks call the labor question that is, the
desire of hand workers to get bigger
slice of the margin of profit"
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A Western paper asks the impertinent
question why Western hogs should be
sailed with taxed salt when salt is free for
New England Goldfish. Why, indeed? 1t
costs the Western farmer great deal OF
labor to raise hogs, while the New Eng
lander simply raises Goldfish out of the
ocean but in adjusting taxes the Eastern
Congressman have seen to it that their peo-
pie should pay as few taxes as possible,
and, with Western Congressman, have
legislated to make the people in the West
pay as many as possible. The Eastern
fellows seek exemption for themselves and
to tax everybody else for their benefit.
Hence it is easy to see why the tariff al
lows free salt to cure Eastern Goldfish end
taxes salt used to cure Western pork. The
distinction has no foundation in Justice {;
but as productive tariff is founded upon
the idea of giving in one place and taking
in another, justice is an unknown element
in it. In playing the tariff game for the
past twenty-five years the Yankees have
taken nine-tenths of the tricks, and free
salt for Goldfish is one of them. 1t is
amusing, under the circumstances, to note
the assertion that the tariff on salt is a
benefit to American consumers.-Jackson
(Mich.) Patriot
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JOTTINGS FOR WOMEN.

The Princess of Wales is compelled to
use an ear trumpet.
Baltimore boasts of having wealthy So
ciety young man who can bake bread and
cook a delicious meal.
A Michigan woman who wears false
teeth has lost faith in Christian science be-
cause it failed to restore to her natural
set of grinders.
A leap-year party in Kansas had among
its guests a gay bachelor of II, escorted by
giddy maiden of So. They were the
liveliest of the throng.
As letter of coincidence, the following
has been offered for model: IL have
heard of your great grief, and | send you a
simple pressure of the hand"
Miss Florence Marryat on her return to
England charged American ladies with
padding with canary seed The seed moves
about and gives lively and natural APP
pearance.
A New Orleans woman was awakened BY
the heavy breathing of her babe and upon
looking discovered large weazel on the
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An Actress Playing Corpse.

1t is not easy for good actor to play a
corpse. Miss Annie Russell had an ex-
perience the other evening that illustrates
scarce suspected difficulty, yet one that
might easily turn sad scene into ride
ulous farce. In the last act, for fully fif-
teen minutes, the lady maid of Astolat is
seen by the audience stretched out upon
her bed that has been lain upon the barge,
her limbs rigid, her features firm and one
hand visible, stihened in death. A white
light is thrown upon her. A feeling OF
sadness prevailed the audience as they
watched the pale countenance. Not a
single person in the theatre knew what
vas passing through the mind of the
corpse. Miss Russell was in perfect agony.
She felt that her rigidity of limb and
pensiveness of feature were sadly imperile,l.
Her nose twitched, and she felt that she
was about to sneeze. Horrors Farewell,
smooth, placid features locked in death /;
farewell, tears standing in many eyes, and,
horrors laughter, convulsive laughter
Fortunately she did not sneeze.
But, oh my if had," she said plain
lively, would it not have been perfectly
awful ?D-Neu York Herald.
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The Result Of Merit.

When anything stands a test of fifty
years among a discriminating people, it is
pretty good evidence that there is merit
somewhere. Few, if any, medicines have
met with such continued success and pop
ularity as has marked the progress of
Brandreth's Pills, which after trial of
over fifty years, are conceded to be the
safest and most efiectual blood purifier
tonic and Alternative ever introduced to the
public
That this is the result of merit, and
that Brandreth's Pills perform all that
is claimed for them, is conclusively proved
by the fact that those who regard them
with the greatest favor are those who have
used them the longest
Brandreth's Pills are sold in every
drug and medicine store, either plain or
sugar-coated. S&w1t
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EASY TO GRow.-The olive is much
harder tree than the orange, bearing with
impunity heavy frosts. 1t even ripens its
fruits in many parts of England when
planted on the south side of the wall. 1t
is said to flourish best in the departments
of Tuscany, Florence, and Lucea, in Italy.
From Ludovico Gaddi, who has charge OF
the olive orchard on the Quito farm, the
Herald learns that snow sometimes falls to
the depth of two feet and often to the
depth of three or inches. The olive
will endure frozen ground and quite low
temperature. Sleet or rain freezing on
the tree destroys the bark, ruptures the
sap-vessels of the smaller twigs, and is fatal.
Two hundred and eighty-seven years ago a
severe freeze killed all the trees to the
ground. The roots, however, threw up new
shoots, and now the trees are as healthy as
any in the world, the trunks being now
two feet in diameter.
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How TO CLEAN THE FAcE.-Haye a
big bowl full of hot water-when l say hot,
mean hot, | don't mean tepid; put in
both hands, and lave the face thoroughly
with this hot water until it is as red as
the proverbial lobster. The hands are the
proper things to wash the face with, be-
cause they are cloths with intelligence
added to them. Do not dry the face, but
just as quickly as possible give it another
LAYING with very cold water. The warm
water cleanses the skin, the cold water
gives vigor to it, makes the flesh firm and
prevents one from catching cold | hope
you will spread this news, and that there
will be more clean-faced women in New
York than ever before, and they certainly
will have good skins, and Brighten off the
wrinkles if they follow my advice-Bar-
bara, in Net York Star.
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How Men Die.

If we know all the methods of approach
adopted by an enemy we are the better en-
abled to ward off the danger and postpone
the moment when surrender becomes in
evitable. In many instances the inherent
strength of the body suffices to enable it to
oppose the tendency toward death. MANY,
however, have lost these forces to such an
extent that there is little or no help. In
other cases little aid to the weakened
lungs will make all the difference between
sudden death and many years of useful
life. Upon the first symptoms of a cough,
cold or any trouble of the throat or lungs,
give that old and well-known remedy
Boschee's German Syrup-a careful trial.
1t will prove what thousands say of it to
be, the ''benefactor of any home"
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Electricity for Street Railways.

There are few people who know that the
number of horses required to work a tram
way is twelve per car. My figures are
taken from Manchester, where there is one
of the best-worked systems of tramways
that we have in this country. There
every car requires twelve horses to work
it; the life of car horse on those tram
ways is only four years. Working tram
ways in the north, wherever there are
heavy gradients, is really cruelty to ami
mails. We know that horse can only do
a horses work; there are some men who
can do good deal more than an ordinary
mans work, but we rarely should expect
any man to do more than five or six mems
work. But these tramway horses are abb
solutely frequently called upon to do eight
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AN ENGRAVING MACHINE
That VIII Copy on Ivory, Metals and
Glass.


With the invention of the pantograph
many easy methods of drawing and repro
ducing line work became possible, and a
new adoption is in the form of an engrav-
ing machine capable of copying on metals
ivory and glass, whether they be fiat, bev.
eled or cylindrical surfaces.
In this machine the style is guided by
the right hand of the operator, while the
left hand regulates the depth of the cut
by means of milled nut, which enables
the operator to guage the depth or light
ness of the cut, or keep it constant at will
The cutter runs at a high speed, and the
section of the cut may be of any form
nodded, semi-circular, beveled, rectangular
or even dove-tailed.
For purposes of engraving or finishing
brass work, simple flat doubled-edged
drill gives a clean, brilliant cut, free from
burr, which may be left either bright OF
colored by suitable solutions as wanted
When it is desired to fill the cut with wax
long pointed drill is used, which gives a
cut with deep sides and leaves the bottom
of the cut sufficiently rough to hold the
wax. Lines are worked by simple point
tool in the cutter spindle, the style being
moved along fixed straight guides, and ali
lettering may be done at the same setting
of the machine.
The machine was originally invented by
firm In Leicester, England, for engraving
figures and letters and lenses and other
scientific instruments, but its undoubted
capacity has been adapted to great vari-
ETY. of work, including name-plate engrav.
ing, enclosing seals, dies and molds, mark
ing and numbering instruments and tools
dividing and engraving dials, scales for
gauges and measuring instruments.
The machine is also equal to the per-
Torrance of engine turning and profile
work, and by the use of suitable milling
tools in conjunction with the dividing ap,
paratus, wheel cutting and similar work
may be executed. The engraving, OF
course, is not of the same size as the pat
tern, and the drawing may be varied from
one-fourth to one-sixteenth of that of the
copy.-iStdtioner and Printer.
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gown is simply cut and fitted in much
the same style as that of the upper and
outer garment of masculine wear. 1t is
ordinarily made of much the same sort of
material as is used for mems coats, and is
extremely plain and devoid of ornament,
either in the way of external attachments
or color. The tailor-made garment for
women is the outgrowth of an attempt to
initiate the masculine costume inplainneSs,
without, however, even the remotest sug-
gestlon of anything unrefined or unwomanIy
and 1t comes up for remark only in respect
to mere questions Of TASTE
The beauty of woman is like that of
flower, of nature so delicate and depend
ing on conditions so varied that it is de-
prived of much of its charm to envelop 1t
in dull, neutral tints unrelieved by colors
or draping. The beauty of almost any
flower is enhanced by combination with
others in a boquet. Indeed, single bios
som on a long stem devoid of foliage is un-
calmly and ungraceful to degree which
not even the rose or camellia, most per-
feet of flowers can endure without having
its beauty marred. In the same wav wo-
men, however beautiful, lose an infinite
charm when they wrap themselves severely
IN tight-ftting CARDS of dull colors. So
dressed they are not even statuesque, be-
cause a statue must be white or of an ex-
tremely fair hue to secure all the best eff
fects of light and shade, which are wholly
lost in dark colors. Even bronze is wholly
unsuited for proper effects in statuary un-
less exposed under the open sky to the full
blaze of the sunlight. As long as female
beauty is a source of such supreme delight
to the other sex women owe it as Il duty TO
preserve and present their charms in the
highest state Of perfection, and no fashion
which mars or masks them should be coun-
tenanced.
1t seems to be an English tad to give
women in dress and manners a sort of
roughness and masculinity. No woman
can become an athlete without altering her
form, and it cannot be beautiful to develop
upon the rounded relieve and delicate
corners Of her limbs the knots and cords
of muscle which belong to men, "Her-
cules in petticoats" is a most revolving
suggestion. There is another circumstance,
however, in the effort to masculine wo-
men. This is that when the fair sex in
vades the domain of manners and morals
which is supposed to belong to the stronger
it is because the men are degenerating into
efieminacy. There is no effect without
cause, and the degeneracy of manners is
the result of serious decay in morals. 1t
is not likely that under our free institu-
tons society can ever reach the condition
of moral decomposition so severely
scourged in the celebrated satires of fierce
old Juvenal, but any decadence is to be
earnestly deprecated.
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breast of the child, who was nearly dead
from suffocation.

breast of the child, who was nearly dead
from sufocation.
Various valuable objects are reported to
have disappeared from the exhibition at
the Vatican, among which are chalice
worth $4,000, many gold snuff-boxes and
several pairs of slippers.
Husband (groaning) -"The rheumatism
in my leg is coming again" Wife with
sympathy Oh, Pm so sorry, John.
wanted to do some shopping to-day, and
that is sure sign of rain." -Hayper's.
Miss Wabash" Didn't Mr.. Waldo say
to you as | entered the parlor last night
Clara, is that the beautiful Miss Wa
bash T' Clara" Yes, DEAR with the ac-
cent on the that."-Scribner's Magazine.
Mrs. Cleveland has a most delicate APP
probation of the fitness of things" as the
expression goes. When asked by drug
gist at Jacksonville, Fla, what favoring
she would have in her soda water, she said,
Orange, please"
A New York school teacher received the
following note excusing a pupils absence
" Miss -: 1t is not neseter for INV darter
to come to scule, for she don't learn nuthin'
thiS ID iilS SlA Scule she mas Den 10 she
miteswell stay to home"
a New York Judge in marrying a
couple asked the bride if she promised to
obey ner husband in all things" right and
reasonable" to which she responded
promptly: 81 do" "May your last DAYS
on this earth be your happiest, and may
you love and cherish each other alwavs.o
was the parting benediction of the magis-
trate.
An Englishman has invented a machine
by the use Of which a servant can clean a
window in safety. 1t is adapted to the
outside of the ordinary sash window and
worked from within by moving a piece of
betting backward and forward The ma
chine consists of a horizontal piece, which
rests on the sill, the sash being shut down
upon 1t during use, and an upright on
which the cleaner proper an attachment
Of brush or rubber-is run up and down
outside by the motion given inside and
carried round the corner by the betting,
which is carried round rollers. A water
spray is fixed on to the travelling cleaner
so as to play on the glass just above it,
when fed by rubber pipe, which ends in
bucket within the room. The water is
driven up at will by squeezing a ball,
which may be done with one hand, while
the other works the betting.
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Worshiping with Paper yyads

Another way Ito worship Buddha, in the
Temple at Kioto) is to chew the prayer
paper, and when soft throw it in the form
of pellet at the god through a wire
screen. If it goes through and sticks on
the god, the prayer will be answered. If it
hits on the screen, it is no good. Some of
the gods are thickly plastered with this
school-boy missile When 1 saw this it
suddenly came to me why did the same
thing when boy at school, using another
boy as a god. 1t was the outburst and
overlooking of a devotional spirit The
other boy did not always see it in that
light, and sometimes made irreligious re-
marks about it, but that was owing to his
Ignorance of my simple form of Buddhist
worship, that's all.-Joaqtin Miller, in
Hartford Courant.
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For the REcoRD-UNIoN.I
TO A STRANDED HULL.

on sands where softly breaks the wave,
IN loan as light as cygnets down,
Her sides the ripping waters lave,
Snort distance from the noisy town.
The storm tossed hull last nloorings finds
On ground which holds her irm and fast
Though now no fiuke of anchor binds
Nor cable strains nor groans lall mast.
Gone are her spars and sprung her decks,
And through the gaping seams which lea
In hold OF bleached ana rotting wreck
The llmpets coy play hide and seek.
No tread of crew disturbs them now,
Nor frights them SON rous stroke OF bell
Through rent in side and hole in bow
Washes the abelone shell.
The chains on which the leadsnan stood
And deity heaved the sounding line
Now nouriSh scores of oysters brood
Cast hither by the tickle brine.
No click of windlass greets the ear,
No stars and stripes from halyards fly,
Where once her cloths rose tier on tier,
Through empty space the winds now sigh.
Dispersed her crew, her charters DER,
She never more shall pennant dip,
a wave-blanched bark on foreign shore,
Deserted lies the dreamy ship.
Fast wedged in sand, old hull, thou'lt ride
Ulysses sea and Biscay's wave
No more; grim oceans cast-off bride
On barren beach shall make thy grave
Folsom, March 7, 1883
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THE TAILOR.MADE WOMAN.
Her Costume Criticised from the Stand
point of Good Health.

A writer in the New Orleans Picayune
philosophers as follows:
A tailor-made" woman is by no means
the artificial creature the term would i'm
ply. Far from it. There is perhaps less
room in the premises for artificial condi-
tons than in other methods of costuming
the softer sex. The expression is used to
classify a masculine style OF female dress
which has within year or two past grown
into certain vogue. The tailor-made