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the other ants came and covered the
wounded part with transparent fluid
secreted in their mouths. If Chin
panzee is wounded it stops the bleeding
by placing its hand on the wound
or dressing it with leaves and grass.
When an animal has wounded leg
or arm hanging on, it completes the am
pntation by means Of its teeth. A dog
being stung on the muzzle by a viper
was observed to plunge its head re-
peatedly for several days into running
water This animal eventually recovered.
A terrier hurt its right eye 1t remained
under counter, avoiding light and heat,
although it habitually kept close to the
fire. 1t adopted general treatment, rest
and abstinence from food The local treat
ment consisted in licking the upper sur
face OF the paw, which it applied to the
wounded eye, again licking the paw when
1t became dry. Animals suffering from
traumatic fever treat themselves by the
continued application Of cold water, which
Nj. Delaunay considers to be more certain
than any of the other methods. In view
of these interesting facts we are, he thinks,
forced to admit that hygiene and thera-
peutics, as proposed by animals, may, in
the interest of psychology, be studied with
advantage. Many physicians have been
the keen observers of animals, their dis
eases and the methods adopted by them in
their wonderful instinct to cure themselves
and have availed themselves of the knowl-
edge obtained in their practice.-New Or
leans Picdyttne.
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NO USE FOR RECEPTIONS.
Senator Coke Tells n Good Story About
His Experience I'm Society.

Senator Coke Tells Good Story About
His Experience I'm Society.
The social phase of public life which so
many find the chief delight of high station,
is not a source Of pleasure to Senator Coke.
He does not feel at home at balls and
receptions. Just prior to the Presidents
New Years reception, when it was social
event agitating Washington people, a
brother Senator remarked to the Texan:
Coke, suppose you are going to the
reception %
swell, don't know" was the reply, ~
haven't made up my mind"
"Ob, you ought to 60" urged the Sem
ator 10 Coke.
"Yes," said the latter, 81 suppose l
ought, but hate those receptions, those
crowds. don't find room enough to get
about, and am always in somebody's way,
or somebody's in my way Now, the last
time was at one of the big receptions I
got off in the corner where | thought
l was out of the way. Pretty soon
along came lady dressed in style, with
one of those dresses that's all bottom and
no top. She commenced to bow and smile
at me, and though i didn't know her /
bowed and smiled back. There she stood
bowling and smiling. and then discovered
that she was pulling at her dress that
trailed over the floor. | noticed a young
fellow standing behind her, and so |
reached over and shaking him by the
shoulder said: why don't you get off the
lady's dress ? Well, she looked straight
at my feet, and, by George, was standing
on her dress myself" Washington Corre-
spondence 81 Louis Globe Democrat.
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Feeding a Big City.

The business of producing and proyid-
ing food for mankind furnishes liveli-
hood to a majority of the race. Generals
IN command of armies of 10000 or $4,000
men have been brought to ienominious
defeat and fight for the lack of power to
supply them with food; and yet popu-
iatlon OF two and one-half million people
IN and around New York is supplied with
food every day and for every meal from
all parts of the world. Ten thousand head
of cattle are slaughtered every week to
provide New York with beef, and that is
not more than one-half of the beef that is
consumed there. Some of the beef comes
IN on foot; the rest comes in refrigerator
cars from the West. Swine are brought
IN dressed; but sheep are all killed in the
city. The greater part of the fresh fish
supply of the city comes in refrigerator
cars from Boston and Gloucester: the rest
come to the markets in fishing boats.
Enough fish is kept ahead in the cold
storehouse to last the city two or three
weeks. The vegetables come from almost
anywhere. Lettuce is mainly brought
from Boston, where one firm ships $4,000
worth of it each year. Enormous amounts
OF celery come from Kalamazoo, Mich. The
South supplies the early vegetables, and
some of them come from Florida. They
come in Refrigerator cars and because
they can be safely shipped and easily kept,
they no longer command fabulous prices.
But the bulk of the green vegetable bus
mess is still done in the old way by farm
ers, who come in from their places five to
thirty and more miles away and sell their
produce from their wagons. Some of them
start In the afternoon and drive all night,
often sleeping on their wagons and only
waking when their trained horses have
brought them to the ferries at one and two
O'Clock at night. The Ganesvoort market
is the only place where they are allowed
to expose their ''truck" for sale in the city,
and there it is sold to dealers. In summer
time as many as 5000 wagons a day are
driven in. The cattle ON thousand hills
daily contribute the milk that New York
consumes the next day. The farmer gets
from one and one-half to two and one-half
cents quart for it and the consumer pays
eight and ten. The difference is OWNED
among the railroads, commission merchants
and peddlers, the latter getting several
cents quart. One Of the curious things
of the provision business is that eggs laid
in Holland and Germany get to New York
in less time than from some Western States
and are actually cheaper than fresh eggs
laid in this country, the reason being they
are rated as "limed Good House
keeping.
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In order to test the merit Of the so-called
Picholine olive, Elwood Cooper, of Santa
Barbara, makes the following propositions
to growers of the tree: "That all those
having trees in bearing pick the olives,
being careful to weigh them from the
piekers every day; then put some loose
straw on the ground and cover with sheets
or canvas, clean and without any smell,
and not near any stable where the odors
could come in contact. Dry them in this
way in the sun, not over two inches deep,
SO that they could not mold or heat
After sufficiently dry to be shipped, send
them by express TO me at Santa Barbara,
giving me the weight of the same when
picked. They should be shipped between
Christmas and the first of January. ought
to have at least two tons, 1900 pounds, or
not less than two thousand pounds. |
will agree to make them into oil, and if
good, will put the same on the market
and sell it, paying each party pro rata the
net proceeds, which will cover all expenses
and more too. l will only charge the
actual cost of putting on the market l
will keep separate tank, made in the
same way for the Mission, and will make
an absolute test. l will take some of both
to the next convention to be tested
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{" It's amusing to hear the excuses that
people make for their failures to do things
expected of them," said the old man.
" A few weeks ago / was sitting here
when young man, with gun in can
vas case, and a beautiful dog, passed
through the car. / noticed his hemlet
cap, and all the other 'fxings' which a
typical hunter is seen to wear in pictures,
and there was freshness about the entire
outfit that led me to speak to the owner
of it."
"'Been hunting?'
e'Yes; up in the Minnesota lake re-
gion'
"'What luck ?"
"' No luck a. all with painful blush.
He felt that that left bad impression, and
was bound to remove it in some way.
After moment of deep thought he re-
marked:
"'Ducks are getting awful scarce
's' How do you account for thatg
Why, up in Canada some place. for
get where, people have gone to manufact-
uring glue or something, don't Just now
remember what, from wild duck eggs. The
business, whatever it is, is so extensive
that hardly young ducks are raised any
more, and the whole tribe will likely be-
come extinct in few years. | tell you,
there ought to be law against this wan
ton destruction of our game birds
"The young fellow went out to Penn
sylvania street car, thinking he had re-
moved any doubts | might have had of his
powers as bold Nirarod." -Iadiaaapa
N,e,rs
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The Corn Pack In 1883.

The packing of sweet corn in tin has be-
come the most prominent feature of the
canned goods trade. From the annual
statement Of the American Grocer it APP
pears that the total pack In 1888 was 81
491, 474 cases of two dozen tins each, an
increase over the pack in 1887 of $780,
$50 cases. This large gain is due to the
multiplication of canning houses in the
leading corn-growing States, Illinois, In
diana and Iowa alone putting up about
1000, 900 cases, or nearly one-third Of the
supply. Maryland and Virginia pro-
duced ,037 ,450 cases: the State of New
York, 563, 46S cases; Maine, 496, 200 cases,
which were 247 1853 cases less than were
packed in 1887, the shrinkage being due
to killing frosts early in September.
Prices Of canned corn show great va
ration, ranging from so cents per dozen
for inferior qGality to 5000 cents for
good corn, and fross 81 10 to 81 So for
extra quality. The present supply is far
above the annual requirements of the
country, bit the low price of the article is
causing a great increase in the consump
ton and sending it into thousands o
places where it has not formerly been al
article of diet in the economy OF the
household. As one remedy for checking
the tendency to production, the Amer
iess Grocer urges upon packers higher
standard of quality, and that less atten
ton be paid to quantity.
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| have just been IN Holland, a most in
teresting country, full of the cleanest
houses and people and dirtiest canals you
ever saw. We went through two Dutch
diaries, an old one and a modern one.
They are marvels Of neatness and cleanli-
ness. Being summer, the cattle were out
side, and the family were living in the
cattle stalls. This was on the old farm, in
which in winter they gave up the best
part of the house to the cattle. The stalls
were quite large, about EIGHT feet square.
One the family used as diuing-room, an
unused were decorated with sand and
shells, with lace curtains over the win
dows. Not the slightest smell was per-
ceptible. The feeding trough and canals
were all glazed tiles, of various colors, and
quite ornamental. The cattle outside
looked fine, and gave beautiful milk,
though, as a general thing, the quantities
were not extravagant. One proprietor
pointed out as his best COW, one giving "a
liters (25 quarts). l forgot to mention
that In the stalls they have a hook, for the
purpose of tying up the cows tail, to pre-
vent it from becoming dirty. The Dutch
milk carts look very attractive-a long,
narrow cart, drawn by dog and man,
containing six or eight highly-polished
brass round tanks of peculiar shape Sub
shutting horse for the dog l think it
might take in America The farmers are
very kind and jovial, round, oily fellows
Everything looks well-to-do; no disorder
or waste; every bit of ground carefully
cultivated. You rarely see hedge or
fence in the country they use canals in
stead. They are happy-looking race,
with the largest women | ever saw. &C j.
r., IN Holstem-Friesiaa Register.
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Why Take Oaensee

Something to drink and a good cigar
are with some men leading essentials to-
ward sociability. Other men have a nat
ural antipathy to both and yet can be So
ciable and polite. The following anecdote
illustrates the way one gentleman took to
teach another that such was the case:
Mr.. Perry was an old Southern gentle
man, exceedingly polite. He would 60
out of his way at any time to avoid offend
ing neighbor or friend. One dav a
nelghbor met him on the street with /:
Halo, Mr.. Perry, | was Just going in to
take drink. Come in and have some
thing
Thank you, Mr.. -, don't care for
anything, was the answer.
But come in and take something, Just
for sociability's sake"
Now, want to be sociable. but | can't
drink with YOU"
AN right, if you don't want to be So
ciable I'll go without driaking," growled
the friend, and he silently walked along
in the direction in which Mr. Perry was
travelling.
Presently the pair drew near a drug
store, when Mr.. Perry broke out with !:
Mr.. -, Pm not feeling at all we'll to-
day, and think I'll go in this drug store
and get some castor oil. Won't you join
meg
What, in dose of castor oil?'
Eyes"
aNaw; l hate the stuff" saying which,
chill went over the man as visible in its
effects to Mr.. Perry as if the ague had
seized him on the street.
but | want you to take glass of oil
with me, just to be sociable, you know"
The friend still refused, when Mr.. Perry
said: Your sociable whisky is Just as dis
tasteful to me as my sociable oil is to you.
Don't you think I've as much reason to be
offended with You as you have me?' The
pair heartily shook hands, the dialogue
was circulated in Covington, and Mr.. Perry
was never invited to drink again.-Ci Tin
ciaRati Star Times.
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his seat and proceeded to hang the boards
over bis shoulder again; at was one day
some months after the events described
that met Scrubby. can't for the life
Of me understand how you came to fall
into that terrible blunder,' he said, 'espe-
cially after the note left for you, telling
how we had all gone down to the theater
on wild-goose chase, only to find that the
piece was postponed until the following
week
." Note Left for me by you ? l eiacu-
lated
:" Yes No now / come to think of it.
| didn't leave the note l wanted to 90
down to the Parthenon to see the new bur
lesqus, but | gave it to a man who said he
would be passing the club and would hand
it IN. Let me see. All have it now
you know him-Loydall, the Olympian
heavy lead Us. Smith, in Outing.
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Planets Visible ia Februsry.

Fcar planets may be- seen in Februafss.
Mereary, Venus and Saturn are evening"
stars Jupiter is morning stan.
Mercury, during she first waek of the
month, is visible to.the naked eye, having
Just passed his nearest approach 10 the
earth, and his period of greatest brilhancy.
Hesets on the Is. about an hour and a
half after the SUP. If the evening be ex-
eeptionally clear an observer Will easily
find this rarsly-beautifal planet, three
quarters of an hour after sunset, in the
southwest, nsarly eighty degrees north of
the sunset point. An opera-glass will be
an aid in ending him, and when found, it
is easy to follow his course with the naked
eve.
Venus is the peerless evening star,
reilming supreme in the southwestern sky
she reaches her greatest distance east from
the sun on the 18th, and then retraces her
steps toward him. Her stay above tbs
horizon after this time will be shorter, hu
her size and brilliancy will constantly in,
| crease as she approaches the earth. Venu.
will be seen in her most charming aspec
during February, March and April. Sh,
| must not be mistaken for the "Star 0
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PAPA, coxE HONE.


AS homeward turn at the close OF the day,
Weary from toll, above measure
VINO sees and runs 10 meet NE half way
But my blue-eyed darling treasure,
SAVING, in baby language true,
Papa. come home l love your
Her playthings are scattered whenever come.
whether a: night or at incoming;
Win ouistretched arms she welcomes me home
Ana softens my heart with her GROOMING
Saying, as only babies can do
Papa, come home, love YOU
And when the evening prayers are said,
And the goodnight kisses given
When baby is tucked in her little bed,
And her keeping left to heaven,
She says, as she twines my neck enew
Papa, stay home l love YOU
Sweet innocence, pure as the heaven above.
seraph art thou from glory.
Sent to win us with unselfsh love,
From sordid gain so transitory.
Oh f! how can my heart after such lucre
roam,
When SO softly thou sayest, Dear papa,
stay heme?"
Methinks that see thy sweet sister once more
Whom the Father took home one evening;
Meetings. she is happy on yonder shore,
And wonders why am grieving.
Perhaps, when Tn weary of life, she'll
come
To meet me aud greet ms with, Papa,
come home"
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Many romance, could be written of
botanists in their self-denying devotion to
plants and flowers. Linnaus's life is one
ceaseless heroism,. in which his love of
certain plants amounted almost to wor-
ship. His falling down on his knees on
Putney heath, London, when he first saw
the goise in bloom, and thanking God for
having created so beautiful flower, is
widely known, and poets have Wed with
each other in setting the incident to fitting
verse OF an earlier botanist the same or
nearly the same story is told; so that we
can only suppose that in this department
of science sentiment of Ger tain, kind as
serts itself mere readily than in some
others. At all events, the records are
alive with instances of perseverance and
devotion such as cannot be surpassed, if
they can be. equaled, in other walks. When
Jussieu, the famous French botanist, for
example, was bringing Seeding of the
Lebanon cedar, from Syria, 10 Marseilles,
the ship, ran so short CT water, that
the passengers were limited to half a
glass a day. Jussieu shared his half with
his plant, and thanks to. his self-denial
and generous enthusiasm II reached Paris
in, safety, and lived to be 100 years cd and
80, feet high.
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The Chill Blast

That sets the naked branches a-quivering
is not felt by the wealthy valetudinarian
indoors, but not all the covering that can
be piled on his warm bed, nor all the fur
mace heat that anthracite can furnish, will
warm his marrow when chills and fever
runs its icy fingers along his spinal column.
Hostettef's Stomach Bitters is the thing 10
infuse new warmth into his chilled and
aguish frsme, TO remedy the fierce fever
and exhausting sweats which alternate
with the chill. Dumb ague, ague cake, bill
;ous remittent-in short, every known
form OF malarial disease is subiugated by
this potent, and at the same time, whole
some and genial medicine. Bilionsness,
constipation, dyspepsia, sick headaches,
loss OF appetite and sleep, kidney trouble,
rheumatism and debility are also remedied
IS it. Use it with persistence to effec. O
thorough cure.
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Bethlehem which has no present exisS.
ence except in the popular imagination.
Saturn is evening star. He is nearest to
earth on the 18th, and in excellent position
for observation during the whole month.
lie may be found on the 9Th in the north
east, rising when the sun sets and remain
ing visible through the entire night. OBJ
servers can easily follow his course. renlem-
bering that he rises four minutes earlier
every night Saturn may be known by
his pale yellow color and serene. steady
light, and also by the bright star Regulus
In the handle of the Sickle, few degrees
southeast of him.
Jupiter Is morning star, rising on the lst
more than two hours before the san, and
on the last OF the month more thar four
hours before the sun. A glance 81 the
southeastern sky after he had arisen will
reveal the presence of the majestic king of
the stars. He cannot be mistaken for any
other, for not star in the vicinity cou,l
pares with him in brightness.
The starlit sky of February reveals
much to interest those who watch the
planets IN their courses. Venus and Mer-
curry shine in the southwest in greater and
lesser glory. Saturn holds his court in the
southeast in the early evening, and Jupiter,
sole representative of the brotherhood in
the MORNINGS sky, reigns without rival
as the sans bright harbinger-Y Youths
Companion;
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The Queen City of tAe rmir..

Sacramento city has name ana fame
peculiarly her own. She has in her earlier
history been ksown as the "City of Fires
and Floods" the "Flooded City, etc
Having been one of the early settlers, and
doing business in Sacramento from 1915 to
1854, when we removed to this city, we
were familiar and did business with the
early pioneer builders of that wonderful
city, and we kept fall records of the most
notable men and the events of that event
full period in that citys history. We are
now collecting from she records many i'm
portant histories of those times, and we
propose to give them to the readers OF the
Farmsg. By giving these sketches of men
and occurrences and times and the business,
of those days, we know some of those
scenes and events will seem like tales of
the Arabian Nights, yetithey are not tales,
of fiction, but actual truths, and will be
recalled by many who will recognize
them.-C California Fdr7aer.
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IF WE COULD KNOW

five o>1ald only always know
The heaa of him we think our foN
What love and pity we had shown.
II we Ind known
The circums, ances OF his life
His good resolves, his inward strifel
How tender then our hearts had grown
II we had known
II we could know that when we psay,
God hears and heeds each word we say.
And pities us and loves US So
II we could know,
o what sweet rest the heart could feel
What sense OF rest would DER Us steal
What loving words from hearts would flow
If We could know
If we had known while OF life's way
With loved one walking DAT by dav.
Deaths shadow lowered round our homS-
If we had known,
How we'd have sheltered that dear head,
-snd unkind word had ne er been said.
How sweet our smile, bow soft our tone,
If we had known
If We could only know to-dar
That loved ones who have gone away
Still care and love on US bsssow-
If we coTfld know
hat those who loved US and have died
Are sometimes standing by our side
Lies journey then with JOY we'd 20,
If we could know.
-Nys d. s Sutaa in Eater Ocean
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For the REcoRD-UN1oN.
ANSWER TO "THERE'LL BE NO ONE
TO WELCOME TREE HOME.

Ihere. II be some one to welcome thee home
~, There'I Il be some one to welcome thee home
boy, p'"ee' NY
No longer in strange lands to roam;
roi i1veo ores are waiting to greet thee, my
-, In the land OF the sunset and gold.
my coming will fill their fond hearts with ioy.
WIN happiness never yet told.
Chorus
Then return; OH return, to thy dear native
~ To the land of the tunset and gold,
That lies by the sea, where well gladly greet
With love that has never grown cold
mother S fond greeting awaits thee, my bow
,,, Sne VIII clasp thee with loving caress,
"niie she ieryently prays that thy wanderings
are DER,
AS her lips to thine own are oft pressed.
An SAD are the years since she babe thee
adieu,
ana she longs for thy presence again
insn return oh RETURN and home-ioys renew
With thy kindred and loved ones remain.
sister is weeping in silence, alone,
as sadly her thoughts turn to thee:
Anu ner heart IN Its anguish, sends forth its sad
moan
For the brother far over the sea-
father fond blessing awaits thee. nv boy.
w, Ihen return to thy dear native shore,
Where loved ones will greet thee with infinite
joy,
10 be parted again never more
49, MRS. NELLIE BLOOM.
west Oakland, January %, 1889.