Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-03
HYPNOTIC POWEY.

How the Suake aud the Tiger Benumb
Their Victims senses.
ne power attributed to the snake
and feline families of charming their
victims seems to me past dispute, says
a writer in the Minneapolis Tribune.
1t IS merely a sort Of ]hypnorism. Liy-
ingstoue tells us that when at one
time seized by q tiger he felt neither
terror nor pain; all his lenses seemed
10 be benumbed. Bates in his NAT
Urllist on the Amazon states that
one day Ia the woods a small pet dog
few Mt Il large r~attlesnake. The snake
uNod his eyes on the dog, erected his
tail, and shook his rattle; it seemed in
no haste to seize the dog, but as if
waiting to put the dog into a o
suitable condition for being seized. As
to the dog. il neither continued the at
tack nor retredted, could not or would
not move when called, and was with
difficulty dragged away by his master.
/ have seen one case Of a snake
charming a bird. but I hid a better op-
portunity to study a cat charming q
bird, and probably the process is much
alike IN both, The cat placed itself on
the outside sill OF my window, near to
@ pine tree. A bird presently lit ON
the pine tree, no doubt not observing
the cat. The eat fixed it's attention
ON the bird. The cats eyes We're wide
iy 0pened and shOne with a peculiar
Brightness; its head was raised and in
tent, the fur on its neck and about it's
face slowly stood up MS If electrified.
Except for this rising of the fur and
a certain intensity of life in the whole
attitude of the beast it was as still rs
If cut from stone. The bird culver d,
trembled. looked fixedly at the cat,
and finally with a feeble shake of the
wngs fell toward the cat, which bound
ed tosseize it.
A lady tells me that she does not
believe cats can charm birds because
she has seen a cat trying 10 charm a
parrot, aud the bird, greatly alarmed,
scolded loudly" This proves nothing.
Tie parR0t in general, or. more probab-
ly, that particular parrot, did not prove
o GOOD subject for the mesHneric power.
have seen people who cannot be hyp-
Noticed: they resent the effort and ner-
Fous action becomes intensified.
Orchard PIHntiae.
Mr. Jabez Webster of Centralia, H.,
well known as a practical fruit grower,
gives the following timely and very
valuable suggestions in the Kansas
Farmer. We are once firmly fixed 81
'he belief that elevated. rolling land
was the only suitable place to locate
an orchard, We are not sure but such
locations We're preferable thirty years
ago. Three decades have wrought
great changes. To-day we prefer for
an apple orchard any prairie or timber
p susceptible Of surface drainage.
FOR q peach orchard we still prefer
me high ground. no matter If too poor
l2 gToW q crop Of cora. For cherries
or pears we prefer rolling, rich land,
ana would stop cultivated crops after
.1ree OF four years. The q thing TO
na avoided. especially for an apple
orchard, is too rapid surface drainage,
me washing away and imp0verishing
u the soil. Level lands, when barely
susceptible Of surface drainage, do not
10 average seasons contain any more
Moisture than is necessary under good
eAnvation to produce healthy trees
WA perfect apples. Lack Of moisture
always follows slack cultivation during
ne Summer and causes starvation and
aSasfer to the bearing orchard at other
tines.
4 work necessary win depend very
.lleh on the preceding crop. We pre-
'Fr making preparations In October.