Rock Island daily Argus., 1892-06-06

Congress" will shed many bitter tear
before they get through with it. Last
evening read aloud to my family and
to titled nobleman from Kinnie Kin
nick, Wis, who is visiting us this sum
mer while waiting for an opening in DR.
Fletcher's lanyard at this place, chap
ter on Frosted Comb and Wattles,"
also one entitled Inducements for
Hen to Sit" This part of the volume is
of interest only to those who feel an
interest in such things.
Mr.. Howells would like the realism
which the author introduces into the de-
scription of how to deal with hen in
trying to get her to sit and remain seated
long enough to become parent. The
author states that warm stove lid
when showed under the average hen will
almost Immediately induce her to sit
down and take her things off.
To ascertain whether the hen really
feels tendency 10 sit one should watch
her closely, and especially observe her
temperature. Induce the hen to take
about eight inches Of physicians glass
thermometer into her throat for two to
five minutes. Do not say anything
funny to her while thus arranged, for
she might laugh and thus break the
thermometer with her teeth.
Feel the pulse Of the hen at the same
time. If the pulse-which you will find
just over the instep-iS rapid or irregu-
lar, coupled with 4 leaden eye, coldness
of the bridge of the nose, moth patches,
together with acidity of the crop on ris-
inc II, +ba fra+f,1pacs II,
ness or sudden flashes of heat and cold,
there is tendency toward a sedentary
life. Purchase sitting of most any ex-
pensive eggs. The Indian Game have
found to be good general purpose fowl,
furnishing an afternoons amusement on
rainy day and chicken pie for dinner
at the same prise. The Indian Game at
twelve weeks of age weighs three to four
pounds, which is mostly breast and fore
arm. One gets good results in a short
| time, and unless rearing fowls for
boarding house the Indian Game, aside
| from being fearless and brave fowl, is
excellent for all around entertainment
both before and after death.
Some like the Derbyshire Redcaps,
some the Black Minorcas- Others like
the Cochins, the Marshal Mel and the
Early Rose, but the Indian Game, as l
say, for general purpose hen, seems "to
meet my demands" as a quick grower,
prompt and careful layer, good mother
and the nucleus of as fine gravy as l
ever laid lip over. Her husband is a
quiet but manly fowl, with shoulders
well thrown back, dark, flashing eyes, is
| good half back, and in death, with his
broad, tender bosom padded with sum-
mer sayory and dash of onion, he
makes those who cluster about him
almost forget the sorrowful circum-
stances under which they are met to-
gether.
The hen of this species is also obliging
and CHEEKY in the matter of laying.
While some hens hang back and require
! a good deal of coaxing, claiming that
they have come away and forgotten their
notes and that they did not expect to be
called upon. the Indian Game hen cheer
lily asks what sort of an egg you want,
and while you are getting your sherry
ready she makes the arrangements for
| the egg.
Sherry and egg, or egg flip, may be
made by a very slight effort, and either
will be found nutritious to a remarkable
degree. Physicians unite in the opinion
that this wonderful co-operation-hen
cooperation, as one may say of man and
the hen-to make soothing, nutritious
and easily digested food for the invalid
is one of the most wonderful of natures
great phenomena.
The hen differs from man largely in
her failure to grow teeth. Man succeeds
in raising from two to five crops of teeth
by natural means, and Mr.. Foster, a
friend of mine who has handled teeth all
his life, tells me that in the realm of
artificial teeth there are 1900 different
molds of teeth to fit and match the
mouths of those who have outlived their
original teeth. There are twenty-five
standard shades Of artificial teeth and
5000 variations in constant use by the
oldest and most reliable dental house in
America
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